It doesn't support HDTV. I think this will be their fatal flaw for next gen console rave. With lifespan of 5 years, it will start showing its age in 2 or 3 years as HDTV become the norm. Really think this was bad decision on nintendo's part, what would it costs to upgrade the video chip and corresponding bandwidth to support 720p? Even the ps2 supported 1080i output as seen with the grand turismo.
Maybe open source guys should get off their behind and create a decent competitor to directx. Open GL is an ok solution, you have write extensions to do anything fancy and there's directx which has everything there for you.
OSX.Leap.A came out in january. I wonder what would happen if microsofts new music play came with it installed. Would people blame apple's security? Or blame microsoft?
If they consider selling wow accounts as capital gains, you could factor in costs per month. So if i sold a level 60 character for $300 but it took you a year to create him and factoring $20 month charge. Your taxes would be on 300 - $20 * 12= $60. Oh wait we are talking about the US tax code, you'll pay taxes $300 because the gamer community doesn't have enough money to bribe the politicians.
Win NT was crashed? Ummm. Yeah. Pass me what your smoking. I count on one hand all the times i've seen NT 4.0, win2k and 2003 crashed on one hand. And thats dozens of servers of the course of 7 years.
Spend $300 for a cert from a trust authority? Oh noes. I gotta spend money.:( Next thing you know internet explorer will require SSL certs issued from trust authority requiring me to pay cash to have ssl on my website. Damn that ms!
The smart ones can recognize the fact that all this power that has been asserted by the executive branch,
will sooner or later be handed over wholesale to an incoming administration with differing partisanship
Luckily the new illegal combat bill will allow the residing president to arrest opposing candidates and toss them in jail indefiently without access to the courts,lawyers,etc.
Wouldn't you blame nintendo for picking opera over say over firefox or konquer? They picked the browser. Its not like wii is underpowered and couldn't support a full browser. 512 megs of ram, powerpc chip. I have feeling nintendo didn't want the eat the development costs of getting a browser onto the wii so they just gave to opera and allowed them to charge after 6 months.
If you hardcore gamer, then tell me what type of video card you have in your system. Thats my arguement against yours. Why do hard core pc gamers have the fastest video cards, oc'ed computers and top of the line equipment. Sure i could turn off aa, anstropic(sp?) or whatever video goodness and go with a lower grade card.
Try playing wow at 1600x1200 on a mid line card while running any of the 40 many instances or bgs. I bought a new video card just for wow because my 9600 wasn't cutting it. And i'm not hardcore. I'm a casual.
Sales figures go against this. GTA theft auto was most popular series on the psx2 even with innovate games like Katamari Damacy which cater to the casuals non gamers. Low sales of game cube also proves this because nintendo always catered to the casuals with good titles like mario bros, smash brothers, and zelda is pretty casual with its cell shaded game play. Gamers today don't want tetris or mario brothers. They want half life, gta, grand turismo or insert sports game here. Latest release of madden football was the best selling even though its exactly same game that was released a few years ago with minor tweaks per year. If nintendo forgets about the who the majority gamers are, they'll lose again. Too win they need sports, driving and action to get the masses which then attracts the game development.
uh huh. Limited sample bias. Complete bull, apple is slipping because they switched to intel. Lot of life time apple users jumped ship, my dad being one of them. He has used an apple since the mac plus but explained to me that since apple sold out to intel, he won't buy a mac with intel chip in it. Lot of long term mac users hated intel due to their business policies and how they used their size to smack around amd much like microsoft smacked everyone around in OS market. For everyone who claims the intel was the better choice, it isn't about whats better, its about whats right and whats wrong. As my dad stated best, he wouldn't use micrsoft's next os even if it was the best product on the market because it came from a microsoft.
Security Centor isn't a virus detector its just simple a control panel that shows if you have a virus detector installed, whether automatic updates are on, and if you have the status of the firewall. Its suppose to be a one stop area to access the configurations for everything and microsoft publishes the API for 3rd parties to add their products to it. Its not required for any virus program to use just makes it easier for users to access all the settings.
You're comparing cheating to twinking? Cheating involves breaking the rules, twinking involves playing within the rules to gain the best advantage. What next? Ferrari F1 team is cheating because they have a better car than the Williams-Coswort team?
There's no way MS allows you to share anything you want. RIAA would hit them with lawsuit so fast. Only music purchased from microsoft which they negotiated in the agreement with record companies about sharing will be allowed to be shared though i expected to see firmware hacks to get around this restriction.
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This looks like a great way for Microsoft to report to the RIAA what people are sharing and to create an audit trail of what people have in their libraries. That way, when the RIAA shows up at your house, you have to come up with CDs for what you've been sharing, or go to jail.
From reading their usenet group, spews seems to be a bunch of kids who when you threaten their fragile little ego they will just ban you for life. Does anyone actually use them besides hobbyists?
Wow they put a web browser on a set top device. Who the fuck cares? Its already be done with webtv and it failed. And that came with a keyboard. Do you know what a pain in the ass its going to be to type in a text(say for a search engine textbox) with a controller? About as fun typing it with a cell phone. Sony and nintendo need to work on games. Not browsing the web on you tv. If i wanted to browse the web, i'd buy a $350 laptop from dell. Or $250 desktop. Sigh. I'm going to get modded down by nintendo fan boys even though i'd say samething in a sony article and get modded up.
Its nintendo we are talking about. They can do no wrong. There's obviously a mechanism in there for regions but fanboys see that 1st party titles won't be region encoded therefore wii is region free. Its like the trickery that sony used for its blu-ray and secure output requirement, they claim they won't require it for their first hidef movies but its still there ready to be used by in a later date obsoleting my hdtv since it doesn't support HDCP DRM crap.
For price fixing. Its much like how the pharmaceuticals operate in the US. You can't legally reimport the exact same drug allowing the companies to charge higher in the US then say Canada. Region encoding is protected by the DMCA and can't be cracked every though it has nothing to do with copyrights and everything to do about fixing the price by a region. Companies claim license issues but its all BS.
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It doesn't support HDTV. I think this will be their fatal flaw for next gen console rave. With lifespan of 5 years, it will start showing its age in 2 or 3 years as HDTV become the norm. Really think this was bad decision on nintendo's part, what would it costs to upgrade the video chip and corresponding bandwidth to support 720p? Even the ps2 supported 1080i output as seen with the grand turismo.
Maybe open source guys should get off their behind and create a decent competitor to directx. Open GL is an ok solution, you have write extensions to do anything fancy and there's directx which has everything there for you.
If flash gets faster we'll have instant on computers. Turning on a computer will be like turning on a tv.
OSX.Leap.A came out in january. I wonder what would happen if microsofts new music play came with it installed. Would people blame apple's security? Or blame microsoft?
Don't worry i'm making up for your lost share. MMMM steaks.
If they consider selling wow accounts as capital gains, you could factor in costs per month. So if i sold a level 60 character for $300 but it took you a year to create him and factoring $20 month charge. Your taxes would be on 300 - $20 * 12= $60. Oh wait we are talking about the US tax code, you'll pay taxes $300 because the gamer community doesn't have enough money to bribe the politicians.
Win NT was crashed? Ummm. Yeah. Pass me what your smoking. I count on one hand all the times i've seen NT 4.0, win2k and 2003 crashed on one hand. And thats dozens of servers of the course of 7 years.
You forgot about people watching dvds on their laptop.
Spend $300 for a cert from a trust authority? Oh noes. I gotta spend money. :( Next thing you know internet explorer will require SSL certs issued from trust authority requiring me to pay cash to have ssl on my website. Damn that ms!
Luckily the new illegal combat bill will allow the residing president to arrest opposing candidates and toss them in jail indefiently without access to the courts,lawyers,etc.
Thats the point of driving a jeep 50 miles an hour. No mic is going to pick it up with the wind noise.
Wouldn't you blame nintendo for picking opera over say over firefox or konquer? They picked the browser. Its not like wii is underpowered and couldn't support a full browser. 512 megs of ram, powerpc chip. I have feeling nintendo didn't want the eat the development costs of getting a browser onto the wii so they just gave to opera and allowed them to charge after 6 months.
Perfect Dark requires rumble. When you pick a lock, you slow turn the analog controller in a circle till you feel the slight click of the lock pin.
Try playing wow at 1600x1200 on a mid line card while running any of the 40 many instances or bgs. I bought a new video card just for wow because my 9600 wasn't cutting it. And i'm not hardcore. I'm a casual.
Sales figures go against this. GTA theft auto was most popular series on the psx2 even with innovate games like Katamari Damacy which cater to the casuals non gamers. Low sales of game cube also proves this because nintendo always catered to the casuals with good titles like mario bros, smash brothers, and zelda is pretty casual with its cell shaded game play. Gamers today don't want tetris or mario brothers. They want half life, gta, grand turismo or insert sports game here. Latest release of madden football was the best selling even though its exactly same game that was released a few years ago with minor tweaks per year. If nintendo forgets about the who the majority gamers are, they'll lose again. Too win they need sports, driving and action to get the masses which then attracts the game development.
Video PCI was before AGP and wasn't asymetrical in bandwidth. :P
uh huh. Limited sample bias. Complete bull, apple is slipping because they switched to intel. Lot of life time apple users jumped ship, my dad being one of them. He has used an apple since the mac plus but explained to me that since apple sold out to intel, he won't buy a mac with intel chip in it. Lot of long term mac users hated intel due to their business policies and how they used their size to smack around amd much like microsoft smacked everyone around in OS market. For everyone who claims the intel was the better choice, it isn't about whats better, its about whats right and whats wrong. As my dad stated best, he wouldn't use micrsoft's next os even if it was the best product on the market because it came from a microsoft.
Security Centor isn't a virus detector its just simple a control panel that shows if you have a virus detector installed, whether automatic updates are on, and if you have the status of the firewall. Its suppose to be a one stop area to access the configurations for everything and microsoft publishes the API for 3rd parties to add their products to it. Its not required for any virus program to use just makes it easier for users to access all the settings.
You're comparing cheating to twinking? Cheating involves breaking the rules, twinking involves playing within the rules to gain the best advantage. What next? Ferrari F1 team is cheating because they have a better car than the Williams-Coswort team?
There's no way MS allows you to share anything you want. RIAA would hit them with lawsuit so fast. Only music purchased from microsoft which they negotiated in the agreement with record companies about sharing will be allowed to be shared though i expected to see firmware hacks to get around this restriction. p
You need tinfoil for your hat?
From reading their usenet group, spews seems to be a bunch of kids who when you threaten their fragile little ego they will just ban you for life. Does anyone actually use them besides hobbyists?
Wow they put a web browser on a set top device. Who the fuck cares? Its already be done with webtv and it failed. And that came with a keyboard. Do you know what a pain in the ass its going to be to type in a text(say for a search engine textbox) with a controller? About as fun typing it with a cell phone. Sony and nintendo need to work on games. Not browsing the web on you tv. If i wanted to browse the web, i'd buy a $350 laptop from dell. Or $250 desktop. Sigh. I'm going to get modded down by nintendo fan boys even though i'd say samething in a sony article and get modded up.
Its nintendo we are talking about. They can do no wrong. There's obviously a mechanism in there for regions but fanboys see that 1st party titles won't be region encoded therefore wii is region free. Its like the trickery that sony used for its blu-ray and secure output requirement, they claim they won't require it for their first hidef movies but its still there ready to be used by in a later date obsoleting my hdtv since it doesn't support HDCP DRM crap.
For price fixing. Its much like how the pharmaceuticals operate in the US. You can't legally reimport the exact same drug allowing the companies to charge higher in the US then say Canada. Region encoding is protected by the DMCA and can't be cracked every though it has nothing to do with copyrights and everything to do about fixing the price by a region. Companies claim license issues but its all BS.