actually my comment is very correct. IF you dont know who the head of the 360 is, why would you care about what he was saying about the Wii or the PS3.
The fact stands that if you dont know who he is, then you are clueless into the industry as a whole and thus have a lot more reading up to do before you even begin to understand what was posted. Main problem being you would have no clue and thus would be easily swayed by what he said because your a idiot to the facts.
Its the main problem with Journalism today too. Too much of somebodys opinion, not enough facts.
First of all, your a idiot if you think Judges are highly educated and trained. It doesnt take much to become a judge, many are in fact political appointees and have no law experience at all. Its actually kinda sad to be honest.
Now next part is this whole "Nation of Laws" BS. Where is the law? Our own government has broken just about every right guaranteed to us by the constitution under the fictional guise of security when evidence proves we are no safer than we where on 9/11 and a lot of the law breaking is being used to keep government whistleblowers quiet and to get rid of "threats" to the current government in charge. Their own people leaked the identity of a CIA agent to get her either kicked out of the CIA or killed and they are getting away with it, jus because her husband flat out said Iraq doesnt have WMD which SURPRISE IT DIDNT. We have no laws if our own elected officials dont follow them. You have no rights atm and people FAIL to realize this because they listen to the bullshit spread by the media.
This ISNT legal, Im sorry if you think 3 lawyers and a lawschool kid (all who where consulted about this) constitutes legal right but it doesnt. There has been nothing in this war that WAS legal. And your a idiot and a traitor to this country and its founding principles and freedoms if you think it was.
The one neat feature on the Macbook that the pro doesnt have and not one person has mentioned it. You can remove the Macbooks hard drive through the battery bay and replace it with whatever size you want by just simply removing 3 screws. No more cracking open the case to replace the hard drive on them.
K maybe I like those types of neat little nuances.
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Um they DID. The iPod is doing so well Creative can't compete. First they tried to blackmail them into paying them royalties for a patent Apple knew Creative couldnt back up, then they fired at Apple to force Apple to pay them for something that in all honesty should not have been patentable BY Creative (there is prior art out the ass on it)
Apple is simply firing back at them for it. The truth is all that would happen if Creative won would be Creative would leave the market all together and live off the money Apple paid them for royalties. The other outcome though would be Creative would lose and likely leave the market having exhausted all their money on suing Apple. With Apple doing this Creative will just likely settle realizing that Apple has them beat.
yes they do. The problem is the patent office IT'S SELF needs reform. Currently you have a bunch of government appointed people with no thumb on the heartbeat of technology granting patents left and right without actually investigating them to see if they are legit. Companies are abusing this by just releasing patents with "on a computer" and such tacked on and getting them sent through. The fact is if the government spent more money of getting qualified people, and in turning away patents that are obvious bullshit (like this creative one is), people would spend LESS money going to court.
But Patent law is not all that important in Americans eyes. HELL its not all that important in companies eyes unless its working against them.
it has already, just not in games yet. Their shortsidedness that being king means you can do whatever you want is what cost them the portable player market. Its also cost them their car stereo market and their desktop computer market (which is why they got out of it entirely and put out laptops now)
This is EXACTLY what happened to kill the walkman and make the iPod king now. Sony hit the top, decided they would release a extremely expensive technology that while innovative was also unaffordable to most common people thanks to outrageous licensing agreements and sheer cost of the recording equipment (minidisk and the godawful expensive media it was on.) And watched as the market flew by going for something else that was cheaper generally cheaper.
thats generally bullshit. The PS2 and the PS1 had absolutely NO third party support when they first came out. Infact I bought a PS2 without even buying a PS2 game because there where 6 games that launched with it, one being a shitty Square rushjob, and the others being sports titles.
Not to mention at that time Sony had NO first party games.
It was Sonys lower licensing pricing in comparison to Nintendo at that time, that got the third partys, something thats completely different this time around with the Wii being extremely cheap to license and develop for and the PS3 costing over 20,000 dollars just to get one dev machine and every one of the dev houses saying the PS3 is the hardest thing they have ever had to code in their lives.
no I feel the same way there too. Its not stifling research its preventing exploits from happening before they are ready to patch them. All releasing these things does is cause a exploit to happen much faster than a patch can be made to fix it.
Now if the SAME people coded a patch AND released the exploit, then I wouldnt feel the way I do. But they arnt, they are just feeling smug in proving something doesnt work while not helping in any wya to address it.
Ferris told InfoWorld he is considering releasing the details of the unpatched holes on May 14 on his Web site.
I.E Im a giant penis and I would rather expose vulnerabilites that could potentially damage systems rather than wait for the coders at Apple to make sure everything is accounted for and put into a patch that wont effect other things that I didnt forsee.
Its one thing to find holes and tell Apple and people you did, and send the info to Apple. But I am so sick of these people who feel that if said company doesnt respond NOW they are then in the right to exploit said holes and make everyones life misserable.
agreed I worked for Apple, and then worked with Apple as Apple support in a school district, I was NEVER forced to sell anything beyond Applecare, which everyone was pretty much pushed to do and you where stupd not to take it cause it really was a great deal, I learned the hard way on that one.
Maybe you had a shitty manager but I can tell you right now it was NOT corperate policy to do that. Techs are NOT sales people.
On the PS3... YES. In reality no. But Sony said that you WONT be able to use its blu-ray content WITHOUT the HDMI. While this doesnt say other RIAA companys will do that, it also is pretty much a givin that they will also limit it. You will be able to game yes, but what is the point with having a blu-ray drive in it, if for most of the content that will be played on that dive, you WONT be able to use it if you dont have HDMI.
Thats why it seems weird its on the 360, it was never ment for it, it WAS ment for the Xbox but Microsoft and SE couldnt iron out their deal with Xbox LIVE in time. People like to bash Playonline here but the fact was, Playonline is the Japanese version of Xbox LIVE, its been running a bunch of games in Japan for years now, and is still the portal for Everquest II, Fantasy Earth, online play for Dirge of Cerberus and others in Japan. SE didnt want to remove that from Final Fantasy XI because thats actually what your paying for when you pay to play, the Playonline service NOT FFXI (FFXI in reality only costs a dollar a character) Only when Microsoft gave up the reigns on its system a little was SE able to keep their current model.
As for graphically, yeah its showing its age in some spots, (in the new areas though I think its mindblowing, even on the PS2) but I think we have no farther than to look at Nintendo to see that finally people are seeing that graphics doesnt mean everything, and that if a game is enjoyable to people, they wont mind the graphics. Honestly having played WoW and FFXI I like the graphics of FFXI better than the cartoony nature of WoW, but thats me personally.
its not even that, they also took out the HDMI hookup, which is the whole POINT of the system. Without it all that system is is a PS2 with a more expensive untried possessor and a more expensive and untried Blu-ray drive that you CANT EVEN USE since Blu-Ray requires you have HDMI output.
whats worse is the developers are saying the PS3 is incredibly hard to code for, Sony hasn't given them the tools to help them make the best use of the cell possessor, and as such the games shown looked no better than 360 games which are on a system 200 dollars LESS for the top system, and didnt require you to spend the extra money on a HD-DVD drive since it didnt ship with it in the first place.
Sony isnt in a bind for money, its they thought that being top dog they could continue to be it even if what they asked from the players in financial payment was ridiculous. What Sony forgot was when it comes to new systems, you start fresh and new and you have to get EVERYONE back, even the fanboys. Nintendo didnt forget this because they have been on both ends that of the top dog and that of fighting for teh win. Microsoft didnt forget this because this is what they where praying for after the disaster that was the original Xbox launch. They knew that new system = fresh start.
Sony and its executives in particular got very cocky, a problem that has plagued their company since day one (can you say Walkman)
Um no. A lot of radiation just disipates to nothing over time. Only when exposed to extreme amounts can your body not disipate the radiation as fast as your being exposed to it, overpowering your organs in particular the thyroid.
well thats a bit of a exaduration on your part. The 2 gig Nano costs about 130 dollars to make which could easily tack on another 20 bucks for development. But thats all asumption. 99% of the time peoples estimates on these things are horrably under the real world cost.
They do, Nintendo never sells anything for a loss, not even thier systems. The gamecube probably costs 60-70 dollars to make and they are still selling it for 99.
who cares, you shouldnt even be there. Its a industry event not a I want to play before everyone else so i can feel cool so i managed to sneak into it event.
course I have a feeling your just a fucking troll who wasn't even at E3 but whatever.
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My thumbs had a nice case of Nintendo-itis the day after I got it.
The fact stands that if you dont know who he is, then you are clueless into the industry as a whole and thus have a lot more reading up to do before you even begin to understand what was posted. Main problem being you would have no clue and thus would be easily swayed by what he said because your a idiot to the facts.
Its the main problem with Journalism today too. Too much of somebodys opinion, not enough facts.
He's a VP for Microsoft and is pretty much the go to guy for the 36nd Microsofts opinion on the gaming marketplace.
Now next part is this whole "Nation of Laws" BS. Where is the law? Our own government has broken just about every right guaranteed to us by the constitution under the fictional guise of security when evidence proves we are no safer than we where on 9/11 and a lot of the law breaking is being used to keep government whistleblowers quiet and to get rid of "threats" to the current government in charge. Their own people leaked the identity of a CIA agent to get her either kicked out of the CIA or killed and they are getting away with it, jus because her husband flat out said Iraq doesnt have WMD which SURPRISE IT DIDNT. We have no laws if our own elected officials dont follow them. You have no rights atm and people FAIL to realize this because they listen to the bullshit spread by the media.
This ISNT legal, Im sorry if you think 3 lawyers and a lawschool kid (all who where consulted about this) constitutes legal right but it doesnt. There has been nothing in this war that WAS legal. And your a idiot and a traitor to this country and its founding principles and freedoms if you think it was.
Welcome to 1984.
K maybe I like those types of neat little nuances.
Um they DID. The iPod is doing so well Creative can't compete. First they tried to blackmail them into paying them royalties for a patent Apple knew Creative couldnt back up, then they fired at Apple to force Apple to pay them for something that in all honesty should not have been patentable BY Creative (there is prior art out the ass on it) Apple is simply firing back at them for it. The truth is all that would happen if Creative won would be Creative would leave the market all together and live off the money Apple paid them for royalties. The other outcome though would be Creative would lose and likely leave the market having exhausted all their money on suing Apple. With Apple doing this Creative will just likely settle realizing that Apple has them beat.
where are modpoints when I need them. Well least you have the balls to troll with a username.
But Patent law is not all that important in Americans eyes. HELL its not all that important in companies eyes unless its working against them.
This is EXACTLY what happened to kill the walkman and make the iPod king now. Sony hit the top, decided they would release a extremely expensive technology that while innovative was also unaffordable to most common people thanks to outrageous licensing agreements and sheer cost of the recording equipment (minidisk and the godawful expensive media it was on.) And watched as the market flew by going for something else that was cheaper generally cheaper.
Not to mention at that time Sony had NO first party games.
It was Sonys lower licensing pricing in comparison to Nintendo at that time, that got the third partys, something thats completely different this time around with the Wii being extremely cheap to license and develop for and the PS3 costing over 20,000 dollars just to get one dev machine and every one of the dev houses saying the PS3 is the hardest thing they have ever had to code in their lives.
The fact is, the Sony of the 80's is NOT the Sony of the 90's-00's. They lost touch with reality.
What it boils down to is management, not the size of the business.
Now if the SAME people coded a patch AND released the exploit, then I wouldnt feel the way I do. But they arnt, they are just feeling smug in proving something doesnt work while not helping in any wya to address it.
I.E Im a giant penis and I would rather expose vulnerabilites that could potentially damage systems rather than wait for the coders at Apple to make sure everything is accounted for and put into a patch that wont effect other things that I didnt forsee.
Its one thing to find holes and tell Apple and people you did, and send the info to Apple. But I am so sick of these people who feel that if said company doesnt respond NOW they are then in the right to exploit said holes and make everyones life misserable.
Maybe you had a shitty manager but I can tell you right now it was NOT corperate policy to do that. Techs are NOT sales people.
probably would have thrown a chair.
On the PS3... YES. In reality no. But Sony said that you WONT be able to use its blu-ray content WITHOUT the HDMI. While this doesnt say other RIAA companys will do that, it also is pretty much a givin that they will also limit it. You will be able to game yes, but what is the point with having a blu-ray drive in it, if for most of the content that will be played on that dive, you WONT be able to use it if you dont have HDMI.
Thats why it seems weird its on the 360, it was never ment for it, it WAS ment for the Xbox but Microsoft and SE couldnt iron out their deal with Xbox LIVE in time. People like to bash Playonline here but the fact was, Playonline is the Japanese version of Xbox LIVE, its been running a bunch of games in Japan for years now, and is still the portal for Everquest II, Fantasy Earth, online play for Dirge of Cerberus and others in Japan. SE didnt want to remove that from Final Fantasy XI because thats actually what your paying for when you pay to play, the Playonline service NOT FFXI (FFXI in reality only costs a dollar a character) Only when Microsoft gave up the reigns on its system a little was SE able to keep their current model.
As for graphically, yeah its showing its age in some spots, (in the new areas though I think its mindblowing, even on the PS2) but I think we have no farther than to look at Nintendo to see that finally people are seeing that graphics doesnt mean everything, and that if a game is enjoyable to people, they wont mind the graphics. Honestly having played WoW and FFXI I like the graphics of FFXI better than the cartoony nature of WoW, but thats me personally.
whats worse is the developers are saying the PS3 is incredibly hard to code for, Sony hasn't given them the tools to help them make the best use of the cell possessor, and as such the games shown looked no better than 360 games which are on a system 200 dollars LESS for the top system, and didnt require you to spend the extra money on a HD-DVD drive since it didnt ship with it in the first place.
Sony isnt in a bind for money, its they thought that being top dog they could continue to be it even if what they asked from the players in financial payment was ridiculous. What Sony forgot was when it comes to new systems, you start fresh and new and you have to get EVERYONE back, even the fanboys. Nintendo didnt forget this because they have been on both ends that of the top dog and that of fighting for teh win. Microsoft didnt forget this because this is what they where praying for after the disaster that was the original Xbox launch. They knew that new system = fresh start.
Sony and its executives in particular got very cocky, a problem that has plagued their company since day one (can you say Walkman)
Um no. A lot of radiation just disipates to nothing over time. Only when exposed to extreme amounts can your body not disipate the radiation as fast as your being exposed to it, overpowering your organs in particular the thyroid.
well thats a bit of a exaduration on your part. The 2 gig Nano costs about 130 dollars to make which could easily tack on another 20 bucks for development. But thats all asumption. 99% of the time peoples estimates on these things are horrably under the real world cost.
They do, Nintendo never sells anything for a loss, not even thier systems. The gamecube probably costs 60-70 dollars to make and they are still selling it for 99.
course I have a feeling your just a fucking troll who wasn't even at E3 but whatever.