Effective, that is, until people figure out that you are bending the truth to promote your "message", at which point your reputation as alarmists damages the very issue that you are trying to promote.
All bands signed to labels have things called "contracts" that specify exactly how much they owe the record companies for the publicity generated by the label.
Maybe. What drove me to console gaming was being fucking sick and tired of getting new video cards every year, dealing with DRM that refused to work with my CD drive, and games that crash without the latest of 15 patches. I got fucking sick and tired of deciding to sit down for a half hour of Diablo II or Counterstrike or Unreal Tournement only to be told "Sorry...you don't get to play without an our long upgrade process!" It wasn't price that drove me to consoles. It was knowing that if I go to Best Buy and by a game that has my console's name on it, it is 99% likely to work without any frustration.
Either the "open standard" will be extremely flexible, in which case you'll have all the problems you have with PC gaming, what with random problems with devices and confusing requirements, that drives people to consoles in the first place, or the "open standard" will be inflexible, in which case, forget expecting any innovative features like the Wiimote.
Don't get your hopes up. They won't put those shows up. They might put up topical shows like "The Daily Show" because they are essentially worthless a week or so after air. You will never see "The Daily Show" DVDs or year old "The Daily Show" reruns on late night TV because no one would buy/watch. Episodic television, on the other hand, are worth money decades after release.
Since you could go to the site, put "0" in the box, download the album and then delete everything but one song, how are they forcing you to pay for a whole album?
You guys are saying two different things. That the PS3 isn't the most popular gaming platform is demonstratebly true. This is not at all the same as saying that the people who have them aren't using them. I know I'm certainly using mine all the time.
It is a shame IBM and/or Sony haven't released a box that is essentially a PS3 without the pretty case, blue-ray, the graphics chip, PS2 emulation chip, game DRM, the game OS and with lots of RAM.
I don't think I've ever worked for a company that discouraged profanity. One place I worked a decade back, the installation of a new cluster was routinely referred to as "the clusterfuck project".
And honestly, the rating system is just broken. Something like "Flags of Our Fathers" would be actively good for a teenager to watch. "Kill Bill"...not so much. The trouble is that the ratings mindlessly apply rules about levels of sex/language/violence without considering the *why* behind it.
Halo, at least as a multiplayer game, is really more like a sport than anything. It is "violent" in the sense that football is violent. Even in the game context, no one really "dies" so much as they are forced to respawn with no good weapons.
Unfortunately, the current ratings system (like the movie ratings system) doesn't differentiate between cartoonish violence like Halo (which I personally don't think is a big deal for most kids) from realistic, morally suspect violence as in Manhunt, which definitely should be limited to adults and/or only very mature teenagers. In my mind, it's not the realism so much as the intent. Stuff that glorifies criminal violence is not for kids.
My experience with Diablo 2 was almost identical to yours. I've since abandoned PC gaming for consoles as while consoles still use DRM, they at least always run the games that claim to run.
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You forgot the biggest con of PC gaming:
Con: games are generally less stable.
Having a console game that crashes, or needs a patch, is rare. Having a PC game that crashes, or needs a patch, is the common case.
The first multi-touch screen in a consumer device isn't revolutionary?
Ever try to use an LCD screen in bright sunlight? Ever get annoyed at your PDA running out of batteries?
Effective, that is, until people figure out that you are bending the truth to promote your "message", at which point your reputation as alarmists damages the very issue that you are trying to promote.
You'd base a console on a bytecode interpreter!?
Wow! I hadn't realized the IRS took over the UK!
All bands signed to labels have things called "contracts" that specify exactly how much they owe the record companies for the publicity generated by the label.
Maybe. What drove me to console gaming was being fucking sick and tired of getting new video cards every year, dealing with DRM that refused to work with my CD drive, and games that crash without the latest of 15 patches. I got fucking sick and tired of deciding to sit down for a half hour of Diablo II or Counterstrike or Unreal Tournement only to be told "Sorry...you don't get to play without an our long upgrade process!" It wasn't price that drove me to consoles. It was knowing that if I go to Best Buy and by a game that has my console's name on it, it is 99% likely to work without any frustration.
Either the "open standard" will be extremely flexible, in which case you'll have all the problems you have with PC gaming, what with random problems with devices and confusing requirements, that drives people to consoles in the first place, or the "open standard" will be inflexible, in which case, forget expecting any innovative features like the Wiimote.
Don't get your hopes up. They won't put those shows up. They might put up topical shows like "The Daily Show" because they are essentially worthless a week or so after air. You will never see "The Daily Show" DVDs or year old "The Daily Show" reruns on late night TV because no one would buy/watch. Episodic television, on the other hand, are worth money decades after release.
1) Buy a 500 GB USB drive for $109.
2) Plug it into the PS3's USB port.
3) Profit!
I understand the humor, but the post I was replying to claimed it was "impossible". "Ten minutes" is a far cry from "impossible".
Since you could go to the site, put "0" in the box, download the album and then delete everything but one song, how are they forcing you to pay for a whole album?
Not true. I purchased the album at around 9:30 am PST on October 10th. The site was slow, but it only took me about ten minutes of reloading.
You guys are saying two different things. That the PS3 isn't the most popular gaming platform is demonstratebly true. This is not at all the same as saying that the people who have them aren't using them. I know I'm certainly using mine all the time.
It is a shame IBM and/or Sony haven't released a box that is essentially a PS3 without the pretty case, blue-ray, the graphics chip, PS2 emulation chip, game DRM, the game OS and with lots of RAM.
I don't think I've ever worked for a company that discouraged profanity. One place I worked a decade back, the installation of a new cluster was routinely referred to as "the clusterfuck project".
And honestly, the rating system is just broken. Something like "Flags of Our Fathers" would be actively good for a teenager to watch. "Kill Bill"...not so much. The trouble is that the ratings mindlessly apply rules about levels of sex/language/violence without considering the *why* behind it.
Halo, at least as a multiplayer game, is really more like a sport than anything. It is "violent" in the sense that football is violent. Even in the game context, no one really "dies" so much as they are forced to respawn with no good weapons.
Unfortunately, the current ratings system (like the movie ratings system) doesn't differentiate between cartoonish violence like Halo (which I personally don't think is a big deal for most kids) from realistic, morally suspect violence as in Manhunt, which definitely should be limited to adults and/or only very mature teenagers. In my mind, it's not the realism so much as the intent. Stuff that glorifies criminal violence is not for kids.
My experience with Diablo 2 was almost identical to yours. I've since abandoned PC gaming for consoles as while consoles still use DRM, they at least always run the games that claim to run.
Yeah, it's not like Carter helped broker a peace treaty between Egypt and Isreal that has lasted to this day.
Unless the president is a figurehead, the only thing the VICE PRESIDENT can do is break tie votes in the senate.
I prefer having a living being who loves me that I can have sex with without getting arrested.
In my experience, if you want your wife to stop bugging you about computer problems, buy her a Mac.