MS is beyond the point where you debate and criticize their moves: it's considered evil and that's it (rightly so, by the way!). Sony, apparently, hasn't reached that position yet.
The Pirate Bay case was about the Pirate Bay admins, who are not - in this context - file sharers but - possibly - do make money from running the site. File sharers are those who put files in their shared folders in p2p apps, keep their torrents seeding after downloading them, and so on.
Disclaimer: I'm a reader of Kotaku, Destructoid and, occasionally, Joystiq. This said, I think the study should have been performed on proper gaming sites like IGN, Gamestop and GamesRadar, not those sellout ex-blogs whose main concern is now selling ads, forwarding marketing and PR emails and "going big".
You buy Apple, you know what you get. You publish on their platform, same thing. Continuing these behaviours despite Apple's obvious faults is only going to strengthen the company and their anti-user practises.
Like others said, you don't really need to visit the Google homepage to use its services. Personally I disable javascript on google.com - Google Images breaks but everything else works better.
What can Apple, Cydia and the like do when the application is already on the devices? If there's no thorough, pre-emptive analysis performed, the March Madness is released. And (fortunately!) not all environments are as controlled and centralized as Apple's App Store.
I can think of many games I might have enjoyed, hadn't they been ridden with bullet time, time bending weapons, gravity controlling devices and the like. I understand that "keeping it real" is a huge constraint, but on the other hand a fantasy or sci-fi setting doesn't mean you can't just have a fantasy or sci-fi version of guns, shotguns and grenades. Also, like the post says, these gimmicks highlight the limits of alterable environments.
Even the excellent Red Dead Redemption, which I just completed and absolutely enjoyed, would have been even more enjoyable to me had Rockstar been able to keep it fun, balanced and challenging without their version of bullet time.
What I don't know is how many people actually enjoy such gimmicks.
Exactly. But in a pleasant episode of karmic justice, the 360 had a very early firmware hack and is now torn apart with the JTAG hack, while the PS3 is - at least practically - still unhackable.
In TFA, they asked Heck whether the 16GB limit is a technological limitation of file systems or a deliberate choice.
It seems pretty obvious to me that it's artificial and meant to protect their disk drive market. Considering that USB devices will, unlike now, be trusted storage where one can write DLC, XBLA games and even full game installs and GOD, there's no reason why one would use an externally powered USB drive instead of a small pendrive. That would mean 100$ for a 1TB drive, going in the drive maker's pockets, instead of 100$ for a 120GB drive, going in MS's pockets.
And why would you do something Microsoft suggests? I am a gamer myself and have a 360 but it was clear to me from day one that MS and their stuff were an obstacle, not a friend and a service.
I don't know about you all, but struggling to watch a 1080p video on a 10 inch, 1024x600 screen is not exactly a priority, nor it seems to make much sense to me. SD is just fine for netbooks.
I understand Slashdot has lowered its standards, but such a post is embarassing. Twitter wasn't taken down. It was a case of local DNS servers poisoning. Bit of a difference.
Honestly, the 360 is not that bad as a standalone media center. It can play the most common video and audio formats, either locally from disc or USB or streaming from a PC (even Linux-based). Sure, it's not homebrew-friendly, you're basically limited to what you're officially allowed to (hacking on the 360 only went as far playing burned games), but it's not true that it's only meant to be an extension for a Windows-based Media Center PC. Also, there's Netflix if you're willing to pay.
All in all, when obtained for free it's not a bad deal for a Media Center (forget Web browsing, of course).
I find the article pretty weak and the connection between politics in games and the expansion of co-op seems non-existent to me. However, the topic is interesting. I was thinking the other day about Rocksteady Studios, the makers of Batman: Arkham Asylum. I don't think I need to explain Batman; what's interesting is that their (only) previous game was Urban Chaos: Riot Response. A game where you control a cop fighting rioting gangs, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. Maybe I shouldn't read into this, but... a Neo-Con studio perhaps?
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...why would their want to put their home systems at risk?
Excellent post, especially considering the Kinect issue you mentioned, which was completely absurd.
1 Check the price of an average netbook. 2 Compare its features to the ones of a tablet. 3 Answer yourself.
Map design? The problem was the shooting, period.
Yeah, but "MPAA related" should include IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon... down to the most obscure movie-freak blog. That would be fun.
MS is beyond the point where you debate and criticize their moves: it's considered evil and that's it (rightly so, by the way!). Sony, apparently, hasn't reached that position yet.
The Pirate Bay case was about the Pirate Bay admins, who are not - in this context - file sharers but - possibly - do make money from running the site. File sharers are those who put files in their shared folders in p2p apps, keep their torrents seeding after downloading them, and so on.
Disclaimer: I'm a reader of Kotaku, Destructoid and, occasionally, Joystiq. This said, I think the study should have been performed on proper gaming sites like IGN, Gamestop and GamesRadar, not those sellout ex-blogs whose main concern is now selling ads, forwarding marketing and PR emails and "going big".
You buy Apple, you know what you get. You publish on their platform, same thing. Continuing these behaviours despite Apple's obvious faults is only going to strengthen the company and their anti-user practises.
Hmm... I like my AwesomeBar to only suggest entries from history and bookmarks, without dynamic search results.
...it strikes me as yet another reason to disable Javascript on Google.
Like others said, you don't really need to visit the Google homepage to use its services. Personally I disable javascript on google.com - Google Images breaks but everything else works better.
I tend to agree. If the correct answer is not B, she's damn good at disguising herself: http://this.is/birgitta/me/I.html
Good job, Langley kids.
What can Apple, Cydia and the like do when the application is already on the devices? If there's no thorough, pre-emptive analysis performed, the March Madness is released. And (fortunately!) not all environments are as controlled and centralized as Apple's App Store.
So there is a software bug, but it's fixed by gripping the phone in a certain way. Interesting.
I can think of many games I might have enjoyed, hadn't they been ridden with bullet time, time bending weapons, gravity controlling devices and the like. I understand that "keeping it real" is a huge constraint, but on the other hand a fantasy or sci-fi setting doesn't mean you can't just have a fantasy or sci-fi version of guns, shotguns and grenades. Also, like the post says, these gimmicks highlight the limits of alterable environments. Even the excellent Red Dead Redemption, which I just completed and absolutely enjoyed, would have been even more enjoyable to me had Rockstar been able to keep it fun, balanced and challenging without their version of bullet time. What I don't know is how many people actually enjoy such gimmicks.
Exactly. But in a pleasant episode of karmic justice, the 360 had a very early firmware hack and is now torn apart with the JTAG hack, while the PS3 is - at least practically - still unhackable.
In TFA, they asked Heck whether the 16GB limit is a technological limitation of file systems or a deliberate choice. It seems pretty obvious to me that it's artificial and meant to protect their disk drive market. Considering that USB devices will, unlike now, be trusted storage where one can write DLC, XBLA games and even full game installs and GOD, there's no reason why one would use an externally powered USB drive instead of a small pendrive. That would mean 100$ for a 1TB drive, going in the drive maker's pockets, instead of 100$ for a 120GB drive, going in MS's pockets.
And why would you do something Microsoft suggests? I am a gamer myself and have a 360 but it was clear to me from day one that MS and their stuff were an obstacle, not a friend and a service.
I don't know about you all, but struggling to watch a 1080p video on a 10 inch, 1024x600 screen is not exactly a priority, nor it seems to make much sense to me. SD is just fine for netbooks.
I understand Slashdot has lowered its standards, but such a post is embarassing. Twitter wasn't taken down. It was a case of local DNS servers poisoning. Bit of a difference.
That'll teach you for believing in the system! Next time, you'll think twice about being a dutiful consumer-bot!
Fixed.
Honestly, the 360 is not that bad as a standalone media center. It can play the most common video and audio formats, either locally from disc or USB or streaming from a PC (even Linux-based). Sure, it's not homebrew-friendly, you're basically limited to what you're officially allowed to (hacking on the 360 only went as far playing burned games), but it's not true that it's only meant to be an extension for a Windows-based Media Center PC. Also, there's Netflix if you're willing to pay. All in all, when obtained for free it's not a bad deal for a Media Center (forget Web browsing, of course).
I find the article pretty weak and the connection between politics in games and the expansion of co-op seems non-existent to me. However, the topic is interesting. I was thinking the other day about Rocksteady Studios, the makers of Batman: Arkham Asylum. I don't think I need to explain Batman; what's interesting is that their (only) previous game was Urban Chaos: Riot Response. A game where you control a cop fighting rioting gangs, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack. Maybe I shouldn't read into this, but... a Neo-Con studio perhaps?