Well, backwards compatibility between Blu-ray and DVD isn't so hot, the price of the drive is significantly higher than even a combo DVD/HD-DVD drive, which is still higher than the cost of a DVD drive. The cost of an XBOX360 is already around twice the reasonable price for a game console, so anything else added on top of that would be completely ridiculous.
Then again they should have thought about things like this in advance and added the ability to add your own drives to the unit. The thing is damn near big enough...
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Problem is, it's not really an RPG. The descriptions peg it more as a massively multiplayer action or hack-and-slash.
Indeed it is. You play games on it, so it's a toy. A PSP is a toy too. So is an XBOX. And so are the apparently majority of home PCs. So are cars, to some extent.;-)
Not to mention you get the added bonus of transmission losses during distribution which just doesn't exist for the gasoline (at least not more so than coal or natural gas is subject to).
Hmm... I guess petrol must be cheaper than mains power then, since it's more efficient. Right?
Lower profits, sure, but every extra PSP user is one more towards Sony's statistics, and we all know that they need these statistics to battle the evil reign of the Nintendo DS.;-)
I don't work for sun, but I think that the mobile phone makes a pretty good store for passwords encrypted by a master password.
The PC is obviously out of the question if you use different operating systems... for instance, my home PC is primarily a KDE desktop, so its wallet app is used for storing all passwords. But I have no simple way to access that wallet from the Winblows machine I have to use at work.
Phones, however, usually have this "code memo" feature these days, which lets you wrap any information you want in crypto, and seems to be quite useful for password storage.
Of course, the same master password problems apply... if you lose that one password, you lose them all. And if someone steals that one password (and the phone) they steal all your passwords. But it's better than a simple text file on disk somewhere, and much better than the post-it notes.
I still don't see why Sony throwing support behind a standard they invented themselves, is such a big deal. It would be a pretty big deal if they didn't...
Users supplement the bought software with pirated commercial software as well as (or often, instead of) FOSS. Bought copies of Windows are reasonably common... a lot of people are forced into buying at least one copy, but you'll find that one disk often gets installed on all PCs in the same person's home as if it's their right to do it. You'll also frequently find pirated copies of Office, Photoshop and Nero (for burning their copies of Office and Photoshop.;-))
Granted, in the business world, it's different. But I can't honestly say that every computer in this office has an allocated, paid-for licence for Windows. I can say that every computer we currently use does... but if we went and turned them all on, we'd probably be using an illegal copy somewhere.
As for XBOX... mod chips aren't exclusively used for piracy. If they were, they would have been banned in Australia like the PS2 ones were.
On the other hand, the only place you really want drag and drop in a mail client is when you're attaching a file to your message. But for all I know, DHTML can probably access files dropped onto the web page by now anyway.
Not to complain about your view because I agree, but I just thought it was worth saying that technically, the term "paedophilia" doesn't apply to teenagers anyway.
Any commentary on the initial cost of the XBOX is deliberately misleading. Even if you think it was $323 back in 2002 (which I highly doubt in the first place... a lot of the articles which said that the XBOX was sold below cost price were released by Microsoft themselves), do you think it would still cost $323 in 2005?
It doesn't have to be as hard as transmitting OpenGL anyway.
Basically, you run your Quake server at home, and connect to it from a phone which happens to support 1600x1200x24 graphics @ 76Hz.:-)
The only difference is, you'd start doing this for every game. And there would be a time when you move all the resources and texture generation code over to the phone so that it doesn't need any of the bulky data transmitted over the wire.
Of course, this means having phones with several gigabytes of space on them... but we're already headed that way.
It's a fact that the parts and manufacturing effort required to build an XBOX cost less than the XBOX is sold for. The XBOX, then, is not sold for a loss. But what you are probably referring to is that the initial R&D time takes a long time to recover, and they partially use the cost of the games to cover that cost. Once the R&D is all paid off, I can guarantee that the console is no longer sold at a loss.
It could be worse. Looks like almost all those errors are from some nonexistent "nobr" element which every comment seems to have on it. One small fix, and there may be only a few bugs left. It's still much better than it was.:-)
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Well, backwards compatibility between Blu-ray and DVD isn't so hot, the price of the drive is significantly higher than even a combo DVD/HD-DVD drive, which is still higher than the cost of a DVD drive. The cost of an XBOX360 is already around twice the reasonable price for a game console, so anything else added on top of that would be completely ridiculous.
Then again they should have thought about things like this in advance and added the ability to add your own drives to the unit. The thing is damn near big enough...
Problem is, it's not really an RPG. The descriptions peg it more as a massively multiplayer action or hack-and-slash.
Indeed it is. You play games on it, so it's a toy. A PSP is a toy too. So is an XBOX. And so are the apparently majority of home PCs. So are cars, to some extent. ;-)
Hmm... the last four banks I have been with (still with two of those four) worked fine on Firefox.
These days, it seems like Firefox works for anything, and Konqueror (which I'd rather use) has the rendering flaws.
Although... I did see that the new Konqueror passes the Acid2 test, so maybe that will go some way to solving the problems.
Not to mention you get the added bonus of transmission losses during distribution which just doesn't exist for the gasoline (at least not more so than coal or natural gas is subject to).
Hmm... I guess petrol must be cheaper than mains power then, since it's more efficient. Right?
I guess you had to be there. :-)
Yes, I did read the article, and I actually use Gentoo myself and love it. :-)
Maybe they should try a distro other than Gentoo.
Lower profits, sure, but every extra PSP user is one more towards Sony's statistics, and we all know that they need these statistics to battle the evil reign of the Nintendo DS. ;-)
I don't work for sun, but I think that the mobile phone makes a pretty good store for passwords encrypted by a master password.
The PC is obviously out of the question if you use different operating systems... for instance, my home PC is primarily a KDE desktop, so its wallet app is used for storing all passwords. But I have no simple way to access that wallet from the Winblows machine I have to use at work.
Phones, however, usually have this "code memo" feature these days, which lets you wrap any information you want in crypto, and seems to be quite useful for password storage.
Of course, the same master password problems apply... if you lose that one password, you lose them all. And if someone steals that one password (and the phone) they steal all your passwords. But it's better than a simple text file on disk somewhere, and much better than the post-it notes.
I guess the same applies to you, though. *shrug*
Hmm... I'd be fine with that, I'll invoice them appropriately. :-)
That definitely happens, but the fact stands that if you work, you should be paid, and not lose sick leave.
I still don't see why Sony throwing support behind a standard they invented themselves, is such a big deal. It would be a pretty big deal if they didn't...
Users supplement the bought software with pirated commercial software as well as (or often, instead of) FOSS. Bought copies of Windows are reasonably common... a lot of people are forced into buying at least one copy, but you'll find that one disk often gets installed on all PCs in the same person's home as if it's their right to do it. You'll also frequently find pirated copies of Office, Photoshop and Nero (for burning their copies of Office and Photoshop. ;-))
Granted, in the business world, it's different. But I can't honestly say that every computer in this office has an allocated, paid-for licence for Windows. I can say that every computer we currently use does... but if we went and turned them all on, we'd probably be using an illegal copy somewhere.
As for XBOX... mod chips aren't exclusively used for piracy. If they were, they would have been banned in Australia like the PS2 ones were.
That's a pretty big difference though.
On the other hand, the only place you really want drag and drop in a mail client is when you're attaching a file to your message. But for all I know, DHTML can probably access files dropped onto the web page by now anyway.
Not to complain about your view because I agree, but I just thought it was worth saying that technically, the term "paedophilia" doesn't apply to teenagers anyway.
See Wikipedia.
Worse? Or... better?
Amputation? Haven't you heard of leeches? Get with the time, man!
Any commentary on the initial cost of the XBOX is deliberately misleading. Even if you think it was $323 back in 2002 (which I highly doubt in the first place... a lot of the articles which said that the XBOX was sold below cost price were released by Microsoft themselves), do you think it would still cost $323 in 2005?
It doesn't have to be as hard as transmitting OpenGL anyway.
Basically, you run your Quake server at home, and connect to it from a phone which happens to support 1600x1200x24 graphics @ 76Hz. :-)
The only difference is, you'd start doing this for every game. And there would be a time when you move all the resources and texture generation code over to the phone so that it doesn't need any of the bulky data transmitted over the wire.
Of course, this means having phones with several gigabytes of space on them... but we're already headed that way.
It's a fact that the parts and manufacturing effort required to build an XBOX cost less than the XBOX is sold for. The XBOX, then, is not sold for a loss. But what you are probably referring to is that the initial R&D time takes a long time to recover, and they partially use the cost of the games to cover that cost. Once the R&D is all paid off, I can guarantee that the console is no longer sold at a loss.
It could be worse. Looks like almost all those errors are from some nonexistent "nobr" element which every comment seems to have on it. One small fix, and there may be only a few bugs left. It's still much better than it was. :-)
Nice... AdBlock seems to work somewhat more efficiently now. :-)