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The price of the console is the same as the video card needed to play the game effectivly on the PC! Here the Xbox is slowly nearing it's end of life cycle and it can play current game engines like Doom 3 engine in full detail on it's dated hardware. There is a lot to be said for optimization, and the console boxes can say it.
I will have a next gen console before I buy an upgrade to my GeForce 6800 GT. That's for sure.
Sony is one of the DVD-Rom license patent royalty holders. By stamping DVD on the GameCube, Nintendo would have to fork over (an you can correct me on this) about $25 for a license agreement, per GameCube. Microsoft was clever in this, and didn't say that the Xbox could play DVD's. But they sold a remote control that "Enabled" this feature. This way they didn't end up paying the competitor. But Microsoft had a second agenda in the game wars, they wanted to also become major name brand tied further into the home than just the PC alone. Nintendo didn't have the grand media center plans, and didn't want to pad Sony's deep pockets. Nintendo made the right choice.
Nintendo also targeted the GameCube to a very young audience. This meant that these extra features would be valueless. It's my opinion that only a mature audience would want a DVD player, MP3 player, or broadband network connection.
While their hardware sales are slumping, I truly hope Nintendo can focus on the area that they really shine, and that is in software. They fell behind when users demanded CD-Rom's instead of carts. Now DVD-Rom's are necessary (for the most part) to hold game titles, again Nintendo is off-guard and failing to meet the customers' needs. They are especially poor at judging the future of gamers needs and bringing those design requirements in their products. But their games are fantastic! And should Nintendo decide to port the titles to PlayStation or Xbox, they might stand to make a fortune.
Your right, but I think it has more to do with the person hiring. I've seen it often where the person who does the hiring wants someone like themselves, and matches their background. So people with a degree are likely to be hired by people with degrees. And people without, hired by people without. Etc...
I would only add the phone numbers to other call centers. Then the Telemarketers will call other telemarketers. The company with the best sales script wins.
Why bother hiring someone to call me? Just send your product to me for free. If I like it, I'll tell someone about it. And maybe they will buy one. I'll spread the word for those things truly useful. But if your product sucks, I wasn't going to buy it when you call me and invade my privacy any way. Companies will save thousands on call lists and employee costs. And if their products are truly useful, they'll get the word out from convinced users, and not from some scripted telemarketer message.
Won't work. The game will not launch. The executable will give you an error. If you get details on the error, it will take you to SecuROM's web site that explains that any type of CD / DVD Emulation software must be disabled in order to run the game.
I wonder how much of this is people trying to find ways around the CD required to launch the game. I bet they are trying to use a Steam version's key-code to launch their retail version game.
I agree. For 4 inches, I'll go with the less expensive Sony tube. My entertainment room is 15 feet x 25 feet, I'm not exactly hurting for 4 inches here. But, perhaps this product is for relase only in Japan, where they love to snap up smaller electronics with even greater prices.
Yes. I tried DAEMON Tools, and the game would not launch. I wanted to leave the game safely stored in it's little case, and be able to play at work too. (On lunch break. Etc.) But the SecuROM protection discovred that the game was not in the actual CD So I guess I have to bring the CD around with me to play at home or work. Minor inconvience. But eventually I'm going to damage the disk, and I know how sensitive DVD's are. So I'm not 100% happy with this solution.
I read somewhere at Steam, or maybe in the *gulp* users manual, that you need to connect to the Internet to register. And if you click the little box on the Steam login window that reads "Remember my password" then you can use Steam in an off-line mode and play your games disconnected from the Internet.
This is all theory, I haven't actually tried it yet.
Great! More storage capacity. But why announce it now, when I'll have to wait several years before it's ready? By then, holographic storage, flourescent media, and God knows what other types of storage will compete directly with this.
But it's a Recomended Update, and not a Critical Update if I recall correctly. So peoples have to look for it.
You have to teach the monkey how to push those buttons! This is a huge education curve, and not a natural skill for the average Joe who only knows how to check his Email. And, counting AOL users alone, there is several Million of these people who will be vexxed in Windows Update...
It's like it was said in the movie The Fifth Element when Mr. Zorg smashed his drinking glass. And busy little robots came out to clean up the mess. Each robot was built by a man, who earned money to feed his family. Etc...
Virus's earn income for anti-virus companies. If you have free anti-viruses running around cleaning up the viruses, the anti-virus companies would be out of work. Hrmph.
...Windows Critical Update Notification Utility needs to be installed on most Windows OS. Such Windows 2000 pre SP3 and Windows 98. Not everyone has Windows XP!
If your system is a mission critical one, you should be running a firewall and anti-virus to begin with. You should also stay on top of software updates. This is standard computing in my book.
There is no excuse for Corporate security exploits. Unless the corporation just doesn't care about it's computing.
For those Windows users who are clueless that they are even infected with a virus, there is no alterntative; beyond the ISP detecting infections and blocking the infected computer from the network.
WhiteHat viruses are benificial and necessary. But they need to be smarter than Nachi, move slower and more methodically, and put up a red flag that remains until the user fixes the problem. I think it's okay that they clean off the previous infection(s). And perhaps they should block all ports other than POP and HTTP.
If I take my family to the movies, it's $5.50 x 2, plus $6.50 x 2 = $24.00 to see one movie. (Child and Adult matinee prices locally.) Now, those movies need to be PG rated or lower, or I can't take my kids. Otherwise it will cost me slightly more to hire a baby sitter and buy dinner for them to eat. Naturally, I end up going to see a movie after the matenee times when I hire a baby sitter, so I also tend to pay another $4.00 more for my two tickets than I normally would have. Whaa!
Also, theaters only take 20% of the box office the first few weeks a movie opens. So they hike the price of consession stand items to compensate. Which, is good business, but not very friendly to patrons. Not to mention their stands take on average of 10 minutes to clear your way through. So, you better be extra early if you want to buy that tub 'o pop-corn. Which isn't fun. And I can't pause the movie when I have to pee after drinking their 32oz of pop. (Which I'm suspicious about them lacing their drinks with pee enducing chemicals just to get me to come back to see the parts I missed!) And I can't tape it with my camcorder to re-watch it. If the sound is messed up, the screen is dirty, the idiots who bring their screaming babies are in force, I can't get a pass to re-watch the movie. One ticket, one admittance... I can't even bring my own food in if I wanted to have taco's while sitting for two hours. Bummer on convience.
So, now I've got a nice 50" screen at home, a nice set of 5.1 THX Certified speakers & Amp, and a DVD player. I can watch DVD movies at night, bring my own food - which costs far less, send the kids to another room to watch their own DVD movies, and pause the movie when I have to pee. All this for $9.99 - $19.99 which is the cost of a DVD. Or, better yet, for $3.95 - the cost of renting a DVD. And I only have to wait 6 months or less to see the film. Plus I get more content on the DVD.
The way I see it, DVD's are a better deal. There isn't a good reason for me to keep paying a premium at the box office. Especially if they are going to offer me less than what I get at home.
It's possible that they will go the way of the 5 1/4" Floppy Disk. Yeilding to the superior size of a DVD disc. But they are still useful for music recording. At least, until consumers start to place demands on SCD or DVD-Audio...
And for that to happen, someone's going to need to fix the audio imaging from my car stereo!
It's quite clear that someone (Microsoft) needs to author a peer-to-peer styled patching system. (But you and I will call it the "Windows Update Virus!") And the goal of this system is to update any and all security holes with approved code from MS. Meanwhile, it changes the desktop background to read "Take this computer back to the store, you're too stupid to own it."
Some anonymous coward (at Microsoft) needs to release a virus that will sit on unpatched Microsoft computers. Then it should first patch the computer - reboot it, change the desktop to "Take this computer back to the store, you're too stupid to own it." and then activly scan for more unpatched computers.
California Schools all ready get free copies of Windows 2000 for donated computer equipemnt. As long as the equipment is less than a Pentium III and better than a Pentium 1. (Which is a fine computer for learning how to type on.)
They also get deep discounts for Microsoft products. That's why none of the schools were elegible for this refund. They pay (approx) $45 for a full version of Microsoft Office 2003 Pro. And $52 for a full copy of Windows XP...
What more can Microsoft do for the schools, that isn't all ready amazing?!
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The price of the console is the same as the video card needed to play the game effectivly on the PC! Here the Xbox is slowly nearing it's end of life cycle and it can play current game engines like Doom 3 engine in full detail on it's dated hardware. There is a lot to be said for optimization, and the console boxes can say it.
I will have a next gen console before I buy an upgrade to my GeForce 6800 GT. That's for sure.
Sony is one of the DVD-Rom license patent royalty holders. By stamping DVD on the GameCube, Nintendo would have to fork over (an you can correct me on this) about $25 for a license agreement, per GameCube. Microsoft was clever in this, and didn't say that the Xbox could play DVD's. But they sold a remote control that "Enabled" this feature. This way they didn't end up paying the competitor. But Microsoft had a second agenda in the game wars, they wanted to also become major name brand tied further into the home than just the PC alone. Nintendo didn't have the grand media center plans, and didn't want to pad Sony's deep pockets. Nintendo made the right choice.
Nintendo also targeted the GameCube to a very young audience. This meant that these extra features would be valueless. It's my opinion that only a mature audience would want a DVD player, MP3 player, or broadband network connection.
While their hardware sales are slumping, I truly hope Nintendo can focus on the area that they really shine, and that is in software. They fell behind when users demanded CD-Rom's instead of carts. Now DVD-Rom's are necessary (for the most part) to hold game titles, again Nintendo is off-guard and failing to meet the customers' needs. They are especially poor at judging the future of gamers needs and bringing those design requirements in their products. But their games are fantastic! And should Nintendo decide to port the titles to PlayStation or Xbox, they might stand to make a fortune.
Your right, but I think it has more to do with the person hiring. I've seen it often where the person who does the hiring wants someone like themselves, and matches their background. So people with a degree are likely to be hired by people with degrees. And people without, hired by people without. Etc...
Good idea! But it can be made even better.
I would only add the phone numbers to other call centers. Then the Telemarketers will call other telemarketers. The company with the best sales script wins.
Why bother hiring someone to call me? Just send your product to me for free. If I like it, I'll tell someone about it. And maybe they will buy one. I'll spread the word for those things truly useful. But if your product sucks, I wasn't going to buy it when you call me and invade my privacy any way. Companies will save thousands on call lists and employee costs. And if their products are truly useful, they'll get the word out from convinced users, and not from some scripted telemarketer message.
Won't work. The game will not launch. The executable will give you an error. If you get details on the error, it will take you to SecuROM's web site that explains that any type of CD / DVD Emulation software must be disabled in order to run the game.
I wonder how much of this is people trying to find ways around the CD required to launch the game. I bet they are trying to use a Steam version's key-code to launch their retail version game.
I agree. For 4 inches, I'll go with the less expensive Sony tube. My entertainment room is 15 feet x 25 feet, I'm not exactly hurting for 4 inches here. But, perhaps this product is for relase only in Japan, where they love to snap up smaller electronics with even greater prices.
My brother-in-law bought a 37" JVC TV. Printed on the side of the box was "37 inches diagonal, 34 inches in USA"
Apparently, the United States even has a more screwed up system of measurements than I once thought.
Yes. I tried DAEMON Tools, and the game would not launch. I wanted to leave the game safely stored in it's little case, and be able to play at work too. (On lunch break. Etc.) But the SecuROM protection discovred that the game was not in the actual CD So I guess I have to bring the CD around with me to play at home or work. Minor inconvience. But eventually I'm going to damage the disk, and I know how sensitive DVD's are. So I'm not 100% happy with this solution.
I read somewhere at Steam, or maybe in the *gulp* users manual, that you need to connect to the Internet to register. And if you click the little box on the Steam login window that reads "Remember my password" then you can use Steam in an off-line mode and play your games disconnected from the Internet.
This is all theory, I haven't actually tried it yet.
Great! More storage capacity. But why announce it now, when I'll have to wait several years before it's ready? By then, holographic storage, flourescent media, and God knows what other types of storage will compete directly with this.
I like that! There is a whole community of houses that one could market such a device to. "Got a single-wide, but wanted the look of a double?"
Yup! You're right.
But it's a Recomended Update, and not a Critical Update if I recall correctly. So peoples have to look for it.
You have to teach the monkey how to push those buttons! This is a huge education curve, and not a natural skill for the average Joe who only knows how to check his Email. And, counting AOL users alone, there is several Million of these people who will be vexxed in Windows Update...
You would put a lot of people out of work!
It's like it was said in the movie The Fifth Element when Mr. Zorg smashed his drinking glass. And busy little robots came out to clean up the mess. Each robot was built by a man, who earned money to feed his family. Etc...
Virus's earn income for anti-virus companies. If you have free anti-viruses running around cleaning up the viruses, the anti-virus companies would be out of work. Hrmph.
...Windows Critical Update Notification Utility needs to be installed on most Windows OS. Such Windows 2000 pre SP3 and Windows 98. Not everyone has Windows XP!
If your system is a mission critical one, you should be running a firewall and anti-virus to begin with. You should also stay on top of software updates. This is standard computing in my book.
There is no excuse for Corporate security exploits. Unless the corporation just doesn't care about it's computing.
Quote: " ...Followed by: an automatic licence checker. "
They have those, it's called Steam.
For those Windows users who are clueless that they are even infected with a virus, there is no alterntative; beyond the ISP detecting infections and blocking the infected computer from the network.
WhiteHat viruses are benificial and necessary. But they need to be smarter than Nachi, move slower and more methodically, and put up a red flag that remains until the user fixes the problem. I think it's okay that they clean off the previous infection(s). And perhaps they should block all ports other than POP and HTTP.
2 Hours sounds good. But 54 minutes sounds better!
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If I take my family to the movies, it's $5.50 x 2, plus $6.50 x 2 = $24.00 to see one movie. (Child and Adult matinee prices locally.) Now, those movies need to be PG rated or lower, or I can't take my kids. Otherwise it will cost me slightly more to hire a baby sitter and buy dinner for them to eat. Naturally, I end up going to see a movie after the matenee times when I hire a baby sitter, so I also tend to pay another $4.00 more for my two tickets than I normally would have. Whaa!
Also, theaters only take 20% of the box office the first few weeks a movie opens. So they hike the price of consession stand items to compensate. Which, is good business, but not very friendly to patrons. Not to mention their stands take on average of 10 minutes to clear your way through. So, you better be extra early if you want to buy that tub 'o pop-corn. Which isn't fun. And I can't pause the movie when I have to pee after drinking their 32oz of pop. (Which I'm suspicious about them lacing their drinks with pee enducing chemicals just to get me to come back to see the parts I missed!) And I can't tape it with my camcorder to re-watch it. If the sound is messed up, the screen is dirty, the idiots who bring their screaming babies are in force, I can't get a pass to re-watch the movie. One ticket, one admittance... I can't even bring my own food in if I wanted to have taco's while sitting for two hours. Bummer on convience.
So, now I've got a nice 50" screen at home, a nice set of 5.1 THX Certified speakers & Amp, and a DVD player. I can watch DVD movies at night, bring my own food - which costs far less, send the kids to another room to watch their own DVD movies, and pause the movie when I have to pee. All this for $9.99 - $19.99 which is the cost of a DVD. Or, better yet, for $3.95 - the cost of renting a DVD. And I only have to wait 6 months or less to see the film. Plus I get more content on the DVD.
The way I see it, DVD's are a better deal. There isn't a good reason for me to keep paying a premium at the box office. Especially if they are going to offer me less than what I get at home.
It's possible that they will go the way of the 5 1/4" Floppy Disk. Yeilding to the superior size of a DVD disc. But they are still useful for music recording. At least, until consumers start to place demands on SCD or DVD-Audio...
And for that to happen, someone's going to need to fix the audio imaging from my car stereo!
Prices on DVD blanks need to come down too...
Thank-you!
That's exactly what needs to happen.
It's quite clear that someone (Microsoft) needs to author a peer-to-peer styled patching system. (But you and I will call it the "Windows Update Virus!") And the goal of this system is to update any and all security holes with approved code from MS. Meanwhile, it changes the desktop background to read "Take this computer back to the store, you're too stupid to own it."
Some anonymous coward (at Microsoft) needs to release a virus that will sit on unpatched Microsoft computers. Then it should first patch the computer - reboot it, change the desktop to "Take this computer back to the store, you're too stupid to own it." and then activly scan for more unpatched computers.
Rinse, wash, repeat.
California Schools all ready get free copies of Windows 2000 for donated computer equipemnt. As long as the equipment is less than a Pentium III and better than a Pentium 1. (Which is a fine computer for learning how to type on.)
They also get deep discounts for Microsoft products. That's why none of the schools were elegible for this refund. They pay (approx) $45 for a full version of Microsoft Office 2003 Pro. And $52 for a full copy of Windows XP...
What more can Microsoft do for the schools, that isn't all ready amazing?!