I read sometime around June that Sony et al were having problems with dual layer discs, in that they couldn't get any of the production model Blu-ray players to read dual layer discs.
Has that been solved? Is that the reason for the delay? I am not trying to spread FUD, but other than a quick blurb four months ago I've heard nothing else about the problem.
How can Massport claim that Wifi networks interfere with communications if they themselves operate a Wifi network? That's the baseline argument. I don't care if they can turn it off in a second, it either interferes with communication or it doesn't. If it does then why install it in the first place? It's a bullshit argument and the FCC called them on it. End of story and no guessing involved.
1. Buy kneepads. 2. Felate nearest game company executive/PR drone. 3. Publish article in game magazine word for word from press release. 4. Congratulatory phone call from game company on job well done. 5. Repeat step one.
Massport's argument that free wireless internet could impede emergency communications and the like, if true, would also preclude their pay wireless Internet, or did they have some bullshit argument on that one too? If the FCC wanted to be a real bunch of assholes they should have come back and said, "Oh, you're right. WIFI services could interfere with airport communications. Better shut all those services down, including your $8 a day wireless. Better safe than sorry, right?"
Massport's blatant cash grab is so pathetic and transparent as to be comical.
My friend has a 52" Sony WEGA that I drool over. Buying a 360 or PS3 in his case makes absolute sense, but for the rest of us the cost of a new machine on an SDTV seems a bit silly.
The Gamecube could produce some stunning visuals and the Wii is even better, but both machines are optimized for 480p. There is no justification or reason to push performance when Nintendo is still firmly in the SD resolution department. Once Nintendo commits to HD, when or if that ever happens, well, obviously they're going to have to make a more powerful machine.
While I absolutely love the visuals from the 360 and PS3, given the still relatively paltry penetration of HDTV sets in North America, the new machines are a bit like driving a Ferrari or F1 race car on a dirt road.
I'd get loads of friends together and form teams. Of course, we'd have to wear uniforms so as to not confuse one another while playing and for the really long throws it would help if we took the Xbox outside on the field near my house. And it would just make sense to invite all my other friends that wanted to watch to sit in the stands. That could get expensive though, so I would have to sell refreshments and charge for entry, but it would be so cool to play sports on my Xbox like that!
Everything I've ever read about the power of the 360 versus the PS3 says they are essentially equally powered. Yes, the PS3 might have a slight advantage with the Cell processor, but the 360 evens the score with a slightly more powerful graphics chip. In the end, a wash. And that certainly is reflected in the games as side by side there will be absolutely no difference between the same game running on a 360 or on a PS3.
God I hate the mouse acceleration on my Mac Mini. Either you set the acceleration high so you don't need, you know, the entire desk to move the mouse a reasonable distance at the loss of fine movements, or you set the acceleration low so that you gain precision at the cost of having to drag and drop the mouse a few dozen times to get the cursor across the desktop. Windows doesn't have this problem. If you move the mouse a tiny amount your cursor moves in tandem; move it a lot and so does the cursor. Wow. Why can't my Mac do that? It's so retarted.
Don't get me wrong here, I love my Mac, but the mouse thing drives me nuts.
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They tried to ban baseball at my elementary school in the early 80s because of the risk of injury from the relatively hard baseball. Of course we just ignored the ban because there was only one teacher on the field observing during recess and lunch. Then they announced that we could no longer play British Bulldog or Red Rover, and again we just ingnored it and went on our merry way.
The conspiracy theorist in me suggests that this was not "accidental" and is simply Apple's way of grandstanding on the topic of Windows security.
While I realize this was just an accident, there are probably conspiracy theorist wack jobs out there that are formulating a hypothesis that the second gunman in the grassy knoll was programed to kill JFK through a virus implanted on his iPod that induces hypnontic suggestion and time travel.
The glorius courts of the Motherland have done their work and examined the game in question and approved it for the new communist man. In response, the Central Committee has increased the vodka ration to two bottles a month in celebration of this great triumph! Once again the Motherland supports your right to freedom by ensuring that only the best books, magazines, movies and games are available to the mindless sheep tireless workers of the revolution.
I have Sirius in my car as well as a home kit for use with my home stereo. I travel fairly often all over Western Canada so having satellite radio is sort of a must as I don't like to take scads of CDs with me. Sirus fits the bill perfectly and I have access to programs that I wouldn't normally on terrestrial radio, like Fox and CNN radio as well as the World Radio Network.
Now, satellite radio in the car is one thing, but PAYING for the same content strictly for use in the home makes no sense. If you have the Internet you already have access to free, high quality radio stations playing a wide variety of music, never mind that all the cable and satellite companies include commercial free music stations as part of their basic digital service.
I understand the need for Sirius to broaden their income base as they have yet to make money, but even the most novice Internet user is aware of free alternatives that offer essentially the same or better content.
Last time I checked the First Amendment was still in the constitution. How is a video game a public nuisance, whatever that means, and subject to extraordinary examination that would never pass constitutional muster if applied to a book or movie?
but it is more impressive that Opportunity is still working years after its original mission was expected to end. I know both rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, are showing their age, but still to continue to function two and half years past their "warranty" as NASA calls is so cool. In the time since they landed on Mars I've moved three times, changed cities, broke up with two girlfriends, changed jobs and done time for molesting a goat.
When I saw that CDs were around $30 Canadian I thought the shop we were in was just expensive. After a few days of shopping I soon realized that CDs, DVDs and games just cost more in Japan, but as you say, people also make more. Overall, I would say that buying power was about equal to what we have in North America, but there were some crazy deals like the top of the line Sony MD player I bought that was easily half the price of what it sold for in Canada (back when MD was still cool).
$75 game is about right for the Japanese market, and actually that seems a bit cheap compared to the C$70 price that PS3 games are going to sell for here in Canada.
They can travel under it. That would have helped the Titanic quite a bit. The U.S. Navy regularly traverses the Arctic in submarines as part of program to improve operational readyness in the Arctic. It's one thing for a nuclear submarine to travel UNDER the ice using sonar and internal navigation (ice does not permit access to GPS telemetry), but quite another for a cargo or container ship to traverse the Arctic. If you think that commercial shipping is just going to skip along the high seas of the pole through ice, storms and fog you're being incredibly naive.
Your argument that the British Navy kept the Soviet Union supplied in World War II is somewhat misleading in that the convoys were not traveling through pack ice to the North Pole. Quite a difference navigationally.
The North Atlantic Ocean can be a dangerous place, as anyone who can recall the fate of the Titanic will know, and the North Atlantic is thousands of miles from the pole. Just because the sea ice has broken up to the point that there are open stretches of water to the pole, does not mean that those waters are in any way navigable by your typical container or cargo vessels as icebergs and submerged ice litter the area. Perhaps in a few more decades the ice will have retreated enough to permit safe passage, but if anyone thinks Richard Branson could just whistle his yatch up the open waters to the pole needs a reality check.
I have a Sony KDF-E50A10 TV with a native resolution of 1280 x 720, so I don't care about 1080i/p because my TV can't display anything 1080 natively. But for others with higher resolution HDTvs, is it even possible to accept a 1080p signal over a component connection? It was my understanding that 1080p is only offically supported on TVs with an HDMI connection, and even then only on TVs that support HDMI 1.2. Before everyone jizzes in their pants over 1080p, is it even possible for their TV to accept a 1080p signal?
OK, I read the article and still have no idea how this will deter copying. If I place an RFID enabled movie into the DVD burner on my computer, rip the movie and then burn the result to DVD-R, how will the RFID player have any idea that I am playing a copied movie? Are they suggesting that future DVD players equipped with this technology will only play discs that contain an RFID chip, meaning all of my legacy DVD movies or burned home videos on DVD would be useless on such a player? Such a player would be next to useless and would be immediately returned to the store after the consumer returns home and pops the first legacy DVD into the player that won't play.
If that is not the case and the RFID enabled players will play legacy/burned DVD movies just fine, then the entire RFID protection system is useless.
The logic of how this would work utterly escapes me.
If memory serves, networking gear manufacturers did the same thing with 802.11g by releasing "802.11g ready" routers and wireless network cards before the standard was even finalized. I remember this because I bought a "g ready" Linksys wirelss card that worked with my 802.11b router, but never worked with the D-Link "true" 802.11g router I upgraded to, so I tossed the card and had to buy another.
Isn't this a lesson we should have learned by now?
You should see the tizzy industry types have got themselves into over at www.powercordworld.com. It was just announced that shipments on Wii power cords are right on schedule and production is going strong.
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I read sometime around June that Sony et al were having problems with dual layer discs, in that they couldn't get any of the production model Blu-ray players to read dual layer discs.
Has that been solved? Is that the reason for the delay? I am not trying to spread FUD, but other than a quick blurb four months ago I've heard nothing else about the problem.
How can Massport claim that Wifi networks interfere with communications if they themselves operate a Wifi network? That's the baseline argument. I don't care if they can turn it off in a second, it either interferes with communication or it doesn't. If it does then why install it in the first place? It's a bullshit argument and the FCC called them on it. End of story and no guessing involved.
1. Buy kneepads.
2. Felate nearest game company executive/PR drone.
3. Publish article in game magazine word for word from press release.
4. Congratulatory phone call from game company on job well done.
5. Repeat step one.
Massport's argument that free wireless internet could impede emergency communications and the like, if true, would also preclude their pay wireless Internet, or did they have some bullshit argument on that one too? If the FCC wanted to be a real bunch of assholes they should have come back and said, "Oh, you're right. WIFI services could interfere with airport communications. Better shut all those services down, including your $8 a day wireless. Better safe than sorry, right?"
Massport's blatant cash grab is so pathetic and transparent as to be comical.
My friend has a 52" Sony WEGA that I drool over. Buying a 360 or PS3 in his case makes absolute sense, but for the rest of us the cost of a new machine on an SDTV seems a bit silly.
The Gamecube could produce some stunning visuals and the Wii is even better, but both machines are optimized for 480p. There is no justification or reason to push performance when Nintendo is still firmly in the SD resolution department. Once Nintendo commits to HD, when or if that ever happens, well, obviously they're going to have to make a more powerful machine.
While I absolutely love the visuals from the 360 and PS3, given the still relatively paltry penetration of HDTV sets in North America, the new machines are a bit like driving a Ferrari or F1 race car on a dirt road.
I'd get loads of friends together and form teams. Of course, we'd have to wear uniforms so as to not confuse one another while playing and for the really long throws it would help if we took the Xbox outside on the field near my house. And it would just make sense to invite all my other friends that wanted to watch to sit in the stands. That could get expensive though, so I would have to sell refreshments and charge for entry, but it would be so cool to play sports on my Xbox like that!
Everything I've ever read about the power of the 360 versus the PS3 says they are essentially equally powered. Yes, the PS3 might have a slight advantage with the Cell processor, but the 360 evens the score with a slightly more powerful graphics chip. In the end, a wash. And that certainly is reflected in the games as side by side there will be absolutely no difference between the same game running on a 360 or on a PS3.
6,000 years is a long time.
God I hate the mouse acceleration on my Mac Mini. Either you set the acceleration high so you don't need, you know, the entire desk to move the mouse a reasonable distance at the loss of fine movements, or you set the acceleration low so that you gain precision at the cost of having to drag and drop the mouse a few dozen times to get the cursor across the desktop. Windows doesn't have this problem. If you move the mouse a tiny amount your cursor moves in tandem; move it a lot and so does the cursor. Wow. Why can't my Mac do that? It's so retarted.
Don't get me wrong here, I love my Mac, but the mouse thing drives me nuts.
They tried to ban baseball at my elementary school in the early 80s because of the risk of injury from the relatively hard baseball. Of course we just ignored the ban because there was only one teacher on the field observing during recess and lunch. Then they announced that we could no longer play British Bulldog or Red Rover, and again we just ingnored it and went on our merry way.
The conspiracy theorist in me suggests that this was not "accidental" and is simply Apple's way of grandstanding on the topic of Windows security.
While I realize this was just an accident, there are probably conspiracy theorist wack jobs out there that are formulating a hypothesis that the second gunman in the grassy knoll was programed to kill JFK through a virus implanted on his iPod that induces hypnontic suggestion and time travel.
The glorius courts of the Motherland have done their work and examined the game in question and approved it for the new communist man. In response, the Central Committee has increased the vodka ration to two bottles a month in celebration of this great triumph! Once again the Motherland supports your right to freedom by ensuring that only the best books, magazines, movies and games are available to the mindless sheep tireless workers of the revolution.
I have Sirius in my car as well as a home kit for use with my home stereo. I travel fairly often all over Western Canada so having satellite radio is sort of a must as I don't like to take scads of CDs with me. Sirus fits the bill perfectly and I have access to programs that I wouldn't normally on terrestrial radio, like Fox and CNN radio as well as the World Radio Network.
Now, satellite radio in the car is one thing, but PAYING for the same content strictly for use in the home makes no sense. If you have the Internet you already have access to free, high quality radio stations playing a wide variety of music, never mind that all the cable and satellite companies include commercial free music stations as part of their basic digital service.
I understand the need for Sirius to broaden their income base as they have yet to make money, but even the most novice Internet user is aware of free alternatives that offer essentially the same or better content.
Last time I checked the First Amendment was still in the constitution. How is a video game a public nuisance, whatever that means, and subject to extraordinary examination that would never pass constitutional muster if applied to a book or movie?
but it is more impressive that Opportunity is still working years after its original mission was expected to end. I know both rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, are showing their age, but still to continue to function two and half years past their "warranty" as NASA calls is so cool. In the time since they landed on Mars I've moved three times, changed cities, broke up with two girlfriends, changed jobs and done time for molesting a goat.
"Why do we prefer sequels?"
November 7th! Oh well, another election down the toilet.
When I saw that CDs were around $30 Canadian I thought the shop we were in was just expensive. After a few days of shopping I soon realized that CDs, DVDs and games just cost more in Japan, but as you say, people also make more. Overall, I would say that buying power was about equal to what we have in North America, but there were some crazy deals like the top of the line Sony MD player I bought that was easily half the price of what it sold for in Canada (back when MD was still cool).
$75 game is about right for the Japanese market, and actually that seems a bit cheap compared to the C$70 price that PS3 games are going to sell for here in Canada.
They can travel under it. That would have helped the Titanic quite a bit. The U.S. Navy regularly traverses the Arctic in submarines as part of program to improve operational readyness in the Arctic. It's one thing for a nuclear submarine to travel UNDER the ice using sonar and internal navigation (ice does not permit access to GPS telemetry), but quite another for a cargo or container ship to traverse the Arctic. If you think that commercial shipping is just going to skip along the high seas of the pole through ice, storms and fog you're being incredibly naive.
Your argument that the British Navy kept the Soviet Union supplied in World War II is somewhat misleading in that the convoys were not traveling through pack ice to the North Pole. Quite a difference navigationally.
The North Atlantic Ocean can be a dangerous place, as anyone who can recall the fate of the Titanic will know, and the North Atlantic is thousands of miles from the pole. Just because the sea ice has broken up to the point that there are open stretches of water to the pole, does not mean that those waters are in any way navigable by your typical container or cargo vessels as icebergs and submerged ice litter the area. Perhaps in a few more decades the ice will have retreated enough to permit safe passage, but if anyone thinks Richard Branson could just whistle his yatch up the open waters to the pole needs a reality check.
I have a Sony KDF-E50A10 TV with a native resolution of 1280 x 720, so I don't care about 1080i/p because my TV can't display anything 1080 natively. But for others with higher resolution HDTvs, is it even possible to accept a 1080p signal over a component connection? It was my understanding that 1080p is only offically supported on TVs with an HDMI connection, and even then only on TVs that support HDMI 1.2. Before everyone jizzes in their pants over 1080p, is it even possible for their TV to accept a 1080p signal?
OK, I read the article and still have no idea how this will deter copying. If I place an RFID enabled movie into the DVD burner on my computer, rip the movie and then burn the result to DVD-R, how will the RFID player have any idea that I am playing a copied movie? Are they suggesting that future DVD players equipped with this technology will only play discs that contain an RFID chip, meaning all of my legacy DVD movies or burned home videos on DVD would be useless on such a player? Such a player would be next to useless and would be immediately returned to the store after the consumer returns home and pops the first legacy DVD into the player that won't play.
If that is not the case and the RFID enabled players will play legacy/burned DVD movies just fine, then the entire RFID protection system is useless.
The logic of how this would work utterly escapes me.
If memory serves, networking gear manufacturers did the same thing with 802.11g by releasing "802.11g ready" routers and wireless network cards before the standard was even finalized. I remember this because I bought a "g ready" Linksys wirelss card that worked with my 802.11b router, but never worked with the D-Link "true" 802.11g router I upgraded to, so I tossed the card and had to buy another.
Isn't this a lesson we should have learned by now?
You should see the tizzy industry types have got themselves into over at www.powercordworld.com. It was just announced that shipments on Wii power cords are right on schedule and production is going strong.