Will any of these cards even work in DirectX 10? Tomorrows games will all require it, so unless you want to replace your card again this time next year, why bother?
What cards currently support DX10, anyways?
Yeah, really, I don't understand that. OSX users are a rare breed compared to Windows users. Perhaps he's just a disgruntled Linux user who was hoping his OS of choice would sit in the spotlight OSX is currently getting. No such luck.
I spent a lot of money investing in a second gen HDTV set. It only does 1080i via component. Yet all these players will only allow some 3rd and most 4th gen and beyond HDTVs to view content via HDMI. Most sets out there today are still 1st-3rd gen, which makes a lot of the consumers who helped fund the move to HD content are going to be screwed unless we buy entirely new sets to view the content at 1080i.
I wont be buying into either format until they support component output.
And yeah, I know players will be released with "backdoor" codes that will allow me to do this, but that defeats the point.
Sure, we have seen Japan release over a dozen Final Fantasy games, six plus Zelda games, five or so Metroid games, etc etc. That was your point, that its all being rehashed, right? How many of those are actually rehashes? Oh yeah, that's right, not many. The difference here is we may see twelve Final Fantasy game releases, but they are all so vastly DIFFERENT that I think it would even be a disservice to even call it a "rehash". Take a look at the Zelda games, or all the Mario ones. They are all ENTIRELY DIFFERENT. Now, take a look at Halo, Medal of Honor, PGR, and every other western game. They are the SAME. They all play the same, they look the same, and frankly, they could all be mistaken for any game in the series.
There is a huge difference between cultures here. Japan likes to make their sequels new and unique, while everywhere else seems to repackage the same damn game over and over.
And yeah, Spore look amazing. But do we really need another Halo, PGR, MoH, Elder Scrolls game etc etc etc to get to one lousy decent and unique game?
If this was so, why were their competitor (Echostar) unable to bring this "obvious" technology to their device to begin with? They didn't. Their first device couldn't do this. They could, once they saw Tivos machine, though. And this was their downfall.
Again, your entire arguement is invalid, because if it *were* obvious, Echostar would have done it from the start.
And yeah, your arguement with 2 VCRs is just as stupid. Coulda, woulda, shoulda.
Go patent Mayostard or Mustardayonnaise or something.
Usually its always replacing a chip somewhere to allow this to happen. The cool thing here is that drive firmware can be rewritten. Once someone figures out how to run unsigned code, you'll see an ISO that will update your drives firmware without needing to put a hacked firmware chip in making it even less painful.
Either way, 360 devs are shitting themselves right about now. When this happened with the Dreamcast, developer support disappeared and went to the PS2.
I have a feeling a lot of current XBox360 projects are about to be turned into PS3 projects.
They tell you to burn the music into audio CD format after you purchase it. iTunes even does the burning for you. What this does is make a 100% DRM free audio CD. You can then rip that CD to any device you want, as many times as you want, for the rest of your life completely, and 100% DRM free. The only thing that is restricted is being able to pass around that original file, which sits on my hard drive just long enough to burn to audio CD and rerip and it's gone forever.
I have an LG 1300 with Cingular and whenever I go near speakers, they start to crackle and go 'blip blip blip'. It does it even if im not on the phone. But usually I have to be within 2-3 feet of the speakers. Sometimes it can happen across the room. From what i've gathered it's just the phone monitoring its reception and this causes static to whatever speakers are near.
And yeah, when I go on flights I double and triple check to make sure its off. The last thing I want to do is die because my cell phone lost a bar of reception.
Apple specifically tells you to back your songs up the moment you purchase them by burning them onto an audio CD with the iTunes software itself! At which point you not only have a hard copy of the music you just bought from iTunes, but it is now DRM FREE. You can rerip that CD as many times as you want with NO DRM on the actual files. You can even do this with iTunes itself!
Your whole point about CDs costing less than iTunes is also bunk. Nearly every album on iTunes that can be bought as an album costs quite a bit LESS than any copy I can find in the stores on CD unless they are clearencing them out.
Seriously, why bother posting a long rant of why you dont want to browse the web and whatnot. So just dont buy it. It's like saying "Why are they releasing a new mario game, I DONT WANT A NEW MARIO GAME!". Dumb.
The upper screen is a zoomed in view, while the lower is a zoomed out view that you can scroll around the zoom view with the stylus. It may not be the best way to browse if you have other means, but I think this is going to be more than excellent for people stuck at airports and hotels who dont want to lug around all these crazy 17" widescreen 20 pound desktops...I mean laptops that seem to be all the rage these days.
It looks like a nice step up from cell phone browsers in both the fact that you gain more screen area, an actually decent input device, and the fact that you're not getting charged for every byte sent over the line (Depending, usually airport wifi access is free).
I'm looking forward to it. Especially now that Google Chat is integrated into their gmail, I can have full IM access with my DS on the go as well. Slick.
Most OS vendors dont make their own Anti-Virus software to begin with. How do we honestly know Microsoft wont put backdoors in their own operating system for the sole purpose to sell their own anti-virus software? Unless we have people auditing them and their source code, I really dont see how this is anything but a conflict of interest by selling this. It should be integrated into the OS, and I have a feeling they might be forced to do just that after a few large mistakes take advantage of Vista that only Microsoft seems to know how to fix.
You might want to do some research. In a year, most of their profit has been from computer sales. IPod sales are huge. But the desktop and laptop sales are even bigger. Especially since everyone wants one because they love their IPods so much.
They wont release it yet because Apple hasn't come up with any final Intel platforms to actually run it on yet. Things may change at the last minute, etc.
Right now they want something out for people to try and play with so they dont go and blow their wad on Aperature. Which happens to be their only competition right now, which is also probably why you haven't seen a Windows version. (Though, they claim they are putting extra work in for Vista, but we all know it'll be years and two service packs before most of us even think about upgrading.)
The subscription data compared to your Cox DVR is heads and tails above it. I suppose some people might not care for all the extra details that Tivo provides in their guide data, but this is the major selling point for me from Tivo. I have paid well over double the lifetime fee it would have cost me on both my Tivos, but I keep the subscriptions going simply because I appreciate their guide data being so well done. And i'll keep doing such in the future.
Tivo hasn't enabled the "Tivo-imposed advertisement superimposed on my fastforward thru another advertisement that I also didn't want to see in the first place." yet, and no one knows if they even will.
And how often does your power blip out? Just punch in the code and your back with your commercial skip.
The most Nintendo buyers were stated to be 17-35 for the Gamecube. I would suspect that for the DS it may be a bit on the lower end simply because of the price of the system and the games themselves. I've seen coworkers buy them without hesitation for their kids because the prices are simply reasonable. You look at the PSP and the games all run $50, and the movies are more expensive than their DVD counterparts somehow.
I do know a lot of people in their 30s who also own a DS, and they bought it from word of mouth and actually having played one. Hopefully the way the DS is selling is a preview of what is to come with the Revolution. I look at the PSP and XBox360 and I just am not excited. Sure, they have some amazing hardware. Blazing processors, awesome widescreen goodness. But the games... The gameplay.. It's just the same thing in a newer package. With the DS i'm drawing jumps for Kirby to launch off of to finish the level! I'm drawing spirals to have him avoid being hit! I haven't had this much fun since the 2600.
I dont understand this. Tivo right now, works perfect. It is the iPod of DVRs. The only way this will be replaced by Apple is if Apple releases a machine that can do CableCard HDTV recordings - And do it as simple and elegantly as Tivo can. We have a problem here, for this sort of recording, people will be wanting 500 gig or so of space. I hardly think you're going to be sticking this much space in a Mac Mini.
I just dont think Apple is going to make a DVR to actually compete with Tivo. Let alone "defeat it in one fell swoop!!#!11111!!!".
Might they make DVR software for say, college kids and such? With a little dongle for cable input? Sure. But this would hardly make any waves in the DVR market.
This is just as ignorant and the religious right saying we're all going to burn in hell for our sins. None of us know anything about what happens when we die. Not you, not them, not anyone. Before you go forcing your views down peoples throats, step back and realise that all of this effort is just useless until it actually happens.
If they aired BSG on network TV, they would have been hit with so many fines. Too much sexual content, which is a primary plot device for her being able to subvert humans to do their bidding. Baltar getting caught masturbating, etc. There are countless episodes where a fine would have been slapped on them, and the producer knows it.
You forgot to mention that when you buy that music off iTunes, the first thing it mentions is to burn it to Audio CD. iTunes lets you burn any of your purchased music onto an AUDIO CD right from within the program. I believe it allows you to do this 6 times per song. From there you can rip it into any format you want for your so called "future players". I dont understand how you even got rated "Insightful". Maybe you simply dont have a $15 CD burner or something? Who knows.
Or perhaps you have never used iTunes, or even an iPod. Live and learn, I guess.
Consoles are expected to be running on the carpet, in stuffy cramped spaces, in excessive heat and cold. They have always been running this way, this is what they do. Car manufacturers can't simply build a car with an engine with no coolant and simply put a line in the manual that says 'Dont drive the car in weather over 30F due to overheating.'. Buyers have a reasonable expectation of these devices working as they should.
Aperature was designed for managing literally thousands and thousands of photos dumped into the program at a single time. When photographers are doing a photoshoot of a model for a day they might end up with close to 10,000 images that they'll have to sort through. This is where Aperature comes into play. A $300 camera has software that comes along with it that is probably more than it will ever need.
Anyways, the point being is that you're not going to get the amount of images from a $300 camera that this software was used for.
It was very hard, even for Microsoft to figure out how to remove the damn thing without disabling the CD/DVD drive entirely. The first anti-virus patches that thought they fixed this was actually disabling peoples drives without knowing it. Microsoft had to work with Sony to figure out what the hell they had actually done. It really sucks.
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Will any of these cards even work in DirectX 10? Tomorrows games will all require it, so unless you want to replace your card again this time next year, why bother? What cards currently support DX10, anyways?
Jealously is a pretty funny thing.
I wont be buying into either format until they support component output.
And yeah, I know players will be released with "backdoor" codes that will allow me to do this, but that defeats the point.
I bought into this, now I want the content.
There is a huge difference between cultures here. Japan likes to make their sequels new and unique, while everywhere else seems to repackage the same damn game over and over.
And yeah, Spore look amazing. But do we really need another Halo, PGR, MoH, Elder Scrolls game etc etc etc to get to one lousy decent and unique game?
Again, your entire arguement is invalid, because if it *were* obvious, Echostar would have done it from the start.
And yeah, your arguement with 2 VCRs is just as stupid. Coulda, woulda, shoulda.
Go patent Mayostard or Mustardayonnaise or something.
Either way, 360 devs are shitting themselves right about now. When this happened with the Dreamcast, developer support disappeared and went to the PS2.
I have a feeling a lot of current XBox360 projects are about to be turned into PS3 projects.
They tell you to burn the music into audio CD format after you purchase it. iTunes even does the burning for you. What this does is make a 100% DRM free audio CD. You can then rip that CD to any device you want, as many times as you want, for the rest of your life completely, and 100% DRM free. The only thing that is restricted is being able to pass around that original file, which sits on my hard drive just long enough to burn to audio CD and rerip and it's gone forever.
I have an LG 1300 with Cingular and whenever I go near speakers, they start to crackle and go 'blip blip blip'. It does it even if im not on the phone. But usually I have to be within 2-3 feet of the speakers. Sometimes it can happen across the room. From what i've gathered it's just the phone monitoring its reception and this causes static to whatever speakers are near. And yeah, when I go on flights I double and triple check to make sure its off. The last thing I want to do is die because my cell phone lost a bar of reception.
Your whole point about CDs costing less than iTunes is also bunk. Nearly every album on iTunes that can be bought as an album costs quite a bit LESS than any copy I can find in the stores on CD unless they are clearencing them out.
Your DRM tin foil hat theory is disturbing.
Seriously, why bother posting a long rant of why you dont want to browse the web and whatnot. So just dont buy it. It's like saying "Why are they releasing a new mario game, I DONT WANT A NEW MARIO GAME!". Dumb.
It looks like a nice step up from cell phone browsers in both the fact that you gain more screen area, an actually decent input device, and the fact that you're not getting charged for every byte sent over the line (Depending, usually airport wifi access is free).
I'm looking forward to it. Especially now that Google Chat is integrated into their gmail, I can have full IM access with my DS on the go as well. Slick.
Most OS vendors dont make their own Anti-Virus software to begin with. How do we honestly know Microsoft wont put backdoors in their own operating system for the sole purpose to sell their own anti-virus software? Unless we have people auditing them and their source code, I really dont see how this is anything but a conflict of interest by selling this. It should be integrated into the OS, and I have a feeling they might be forced to do just that after a few large mistakes take advantage of Vista that only Microsoft seems to know how to fix.
You might want to do some research. In a year, most of their profit has been from computer sales. IPod sales are huge. But the desktop and laptop sales are even bigger. Especially since everyone wants one because they love their IPods so much.
They wont release it yet because Apple hasn't come up with any final Intel platforms to actually run it on yet. Things may change at the last minute, etc. Right now they want something out for people to try and play with so they dont go and blow their wad on Aperature. Which happens to be their only competition right now, which is also probably why you haven't seen a Windows version. (Though, they claim they are putting extra work in for Vista, but we all know it'll be years and two service packs before most of us even think about upgrading.)
The subscription data compared to your Cox DVR is heads and tails above it. I suppose some people might not care for all the extra details that Tivo provides in their guide data, but this is the major selling point for me from Tivo. I have paid well over double the lifetime fee it would have cost me on both my Tivos, but I keep the subscriptions going simply because I appreciate their guide data being so well done. And i'll keep doing such in the future.
And how often does your power blip out? Just punch in the code and your back with your commercial skip.
The only people who will want to buy these devices are early adopters.
Can you see what i'm getting at? For $500, it better come with component out or it wont get very far.
I do know a lot of people in their 30s who also own a DS, and they bought it from word of mouth and actually having played one. Hopefully the way the DS is selling is a preview of what is to come with the Revolution. I look at the PSP and XBox360 and I just am not excited. Sure, they have some amazing hardware. Blazing processors, awesome widescreen goodness. But the games... The gameplay.. It's just the same thing in a newer package. With the DS i'm drawing jumps for Kirby to launch off of to finish the level! I'm drawing spirals to have him avoid being hit! I haven't had this much fun since the 2600.
I just dont think Apple is going to make a DVR to actually compete with Tivo. Let alone "defeat it in one fell swoop!!#!11111!!!".
Might they make DVR software for say, college kids and such? With a little dongle for cable input? Sure. But this would hardly make any waves in the DVR market.
This is just as ignorant and the religious right saying we're all going to burn in hell for our sins. None of us know anything about what happens when we die. Not you, not them, not anyone. Before you go forcing your views down peoples throats, step back and realise that all of this effort is just useless until it actually happens.
If they aired BSG on network TV, they would have been hit with so many fines. Too much sexual content, which is a primary plot device for her being able to subvert humans to do their bidding. Baltar getting caught masturbating, etc. There are countless episodes where a fine would have been slapped on them, and the producer knows it.
Or perhaps you have never used iTunes, or even an iPod. Live and learn, I guess.
Anyways, the point being is that you're not going to get the amount of images from a $300 camera that this software was used for.
It was very hard, even for Microsoft to figure out how to remove the damn thing without disabling the CD/DVD drive entirely. The first anti-virus patches that thought they fixed this was actually disabling peoples drives without knowing it. Microsoft had to work with Sony to figure out what the hell they had actually done. It really sucks.