"The question remains, as Kotaku points out, whether the Wii's audience will persist after the other systems match its casual-gaming capabilities."
People act like Nintendo can't make a more powerful version of the Wii. They got a good market share by providing a fun and unique gaming experience at a price that most people can afford. Releasing another version of the console that has the power of a PS3 is easy to do and if that's what it takes to compete, I'm sure they will.
Comparing VHS and cassettes is a much better analysis. 8 track was never a popular medium for home recording like cassettes and VHS. Even today, a substantial portion of portable radios still come with cassette players. I say that VCRs will last until all forms of physical media are made extinct by on demand services.
I'm going to stay away from any service that will keep track of all my online purchases. I know that my state income tax always wants me to file all my internet purchases so that I can pay them sales tax. I can just see this as the next big government pressure to use internet companies to snoop into our business.
Amazingly I average about 3 hours a day (not counting work) on the internet and I've never purchased anything through that medium. As long as I stay away from services like this, it will stay that way.
It would be bigger. You would have to put up with a huge page willed with pictures and multi tiered adds. Part of what makes Google so great is their efficient user interface. For over a decade now, Microsoft has been relying on computers to get faster and bigger as they make their applications and development tools more bloated. Google understands efficiency at both the user interface and execution and that's why Microsoft may become "bigger", but never better.
You have to wonder about a crucial part of the equation: why would internet users share their bandwidth to benefit media companies?
I would share my bandwidth for a discount off the download. Everyone pays the price for the download, but then gets a discount for every chunk that they share out. Some research would need to be done on the pricing, but I would take a 50% discount on the download for allowing the company to use my machine to distribute a full copy of the content.
Hard core gamers will never give up the keyboard and mouse for a limited function controler. The playability of the games is much better on a PC, because you can customize the controls to a much higher degree. Having a high level a precision moving a mouse quickly across the screen will never be replaced with any type of console controler. Yes, I'm aware that adapters exists from some consoles to allow a keyboard and mouse to be used instead of the standard game controler, but it's still not the same. Go into Half-Life2 options and see all the functions that you can bind to keys. A console version of the game will be severly stripped down.
There's more freedom to playing games on the net from a computer. You can use 3rd party software (GameSpy) to find servers instead of using what the game has built in. You can run 3rd party chat software, so you don't have to worry about muting out out the annoying kids who won't shut up and are only using voice because it has been made idiot proof in the game.
As far as the price goes, Gamers tend to build their own PCs anyway. You can keep your hard drive, OS in tact and double the speed of your computer by replacing your motherboard and processor for $300 (or less depending if your memory is compatable between boards) every other year. I buy a new video card every 3 years for less than $200. You don't need the latest and greatest card to get equivalent or better graphics than the consoles.
Sure I hate spam and it pee's me off, but 25 years in jail?
25 years is a bargain considering how much it has driven up the cost of hosting a mail server. Spam is a contributor for costs of goods and services to go up. Every business has to pay for its employees to spend time deleting spam out of their inbox so that they can get to the emails they need to do their job.
How can 3 years in jail be justified by sharing a single copy of a pre-release movie.
It is a crime to violate copyrights and a bigger crime to distribute copyrighted material. Without protection from theft, production companies will loose the monitary incentive to invest money if films and music.
If you didn't pay for it, and you have a copy of it without the consent of the author, you stole it. Don't do the crime if you can't pay the time.
An operating system is only as secure as the user who runs it. An email containing a virus sent to a someone who opens an attachment on a unix machine can be just a deadly as one sent to a Windows user.
Any OS that allows a user to write to memory or to storage is unsecure. If more people had Macs or Linux, then there would be more virus writers comprimising those systems. Right now, it just doesn't pay to focus on those systems because the majority of machine in the internet are using the Windows OS.
I haven't had a virus in years. I have made certain registry keys that are commonly targeted by virus and spyware programs read only to EVERYONE except a specific user that I don't use regularly. If I want to install a new piece of software on my machine, I have to log on as the more priveldged and install the software from there. It's not quite running "su -" and typing in roots password, but it's close.
Easy work around for steam connection problem
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Disable your network connection. Open CS:Source. Choose the option to load steam in offline mode. After CS comes up, enable your network connection. You won't be able to refresh your server list, but you will be able to join games via the history tab. It's not perfect, but at least you can play.
I have a replay and it uses an all black screen to mark the beginning of a commercial block and another all black screen to mark the end. I know this because sometimes it will automatically skip when it's not supposed to due a man with a black jacket walking close enough to the camera to eclipse the entire screen.
SHHH. Don't tell anyone, but my replay still does automatic commercial skip.:)
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"The question remains, as Kotaku points out, whether the Wii's audience will persist after the other systems match its casual-gaming capabilities."
People act like Nintendo can't make a more powerful version of the Wii. They got a good market share by providing a fun and unique gaming experience at a price that most people can afford. Releasing another version of the console that has the power of a PS3 is easy to do and if that's what it takes to compete, I'm sure they will.
Comparing VHS and cassettes is a much better analysis. 8 track was never a popular medium for home recording like cassettes and VHS. Even today, a substantial portion of portable radios still come with cassette players. I say that VCRs will last until all forms of physical media are made extinct by on demand services.
I'm going to stay away from any service that will keep track of all my online purchases. I know that my state income tax always wants me to file all my internet purchases so that I can pay them sales tax. I can just see this as the next big government pressure to use internet companies to snoop into our business.
Amazingly I average about 3 hours a day (not counting work) on the internet and I've never purchased anything through that medium. As long as I stay away from services like this, it will stay that way.
"ignore facts. Just go with what feels true." - What, is this Fox News now?
It would be bigger. You would have to put up with a huge page willed with pictures and multi tiered adds. Part of what makes Google so great is their efficient user interface. For over a decade now, Microsoft has been relying on computers to get faster and bigger as they make their applications and development tools more bloated. Google understands efficiency at both the user interface and execution and that's why Microsoft may become "bigger", but never better.
You have to wonder about a crucial part of the equation: why would internet users share their bandwidth to benefit media companies?
I would share my bandwidth for a discount off the download. Everyone pays the price for the download, but then gets a discount for every chunk that they share out. Some research would need to be done on the pricing, but I would take a 50% discount on the download for allowing the company to use my machine to distribute a full copy of the content.
Hard core gamers will never give up the keyboard and mouse for a limited function controler. The playability of the games is much better on a PC, because you can customize the controls to a much higher degree. Having a high level a precision moving a mouse quickly across the screen will never be replaced with any type of console controler. Yes, I'm aware that adapters exists from some consoles to allow a keyboard and mouse to be used instead of the standard game controler, but it's still not the same. Go into Half-Life2 options and see all the functions that you can bind to keys. A console version of the game will be severly stripped down.
There's more freedom to playing games on the net from a computer. You can use 3rd party software (GameSpy) to find servers instead of using what the game has built in. You can run 3rd party chat software, so you don't have to worry about muting out out the annoying kids who won't shut up and are only using voice because it has been made idiot proof in the game.
As far as the price goes, Gamers tend to build their own PCs anyway. You can keep your hard drive, OS in tact and double the speed of your computer by replacing your motherboard and processor for $300 (or less depending if your memory is compatable between boards) every other year. I buy a new video card every 3 years for less than $200. You don't need the latest and greatest card to get equivalent or better graphics than the consoles.
Long live PC games!!!!
Sure I hate spam and it pee's me off, but 25 years in jail?
25 years is a bargain considering how much it has driven up the cost of hosting a mail server. Spam is a contributor for costs of goods and services to go up. Every business has to pay for its employees to spend time deleting spam out of their inbox so that they can get to the emails they need to do their job.
How can 3 years in jail be justified by sharing a single copy of a pre-release movie.
It is a crime to violate copyrights and a bigger crime to distribute copyrighted material. Without protection from theft, production companies will loose the monitary incentive to invest money if films and music.
If you didn't pay for it, and you have a copy of it without the consent of the author, you stole it. Don't do the crime if you can't pay the time.
I've had a Treo 600 for a year and half, and have built a library of PDA friendly sites. Most of the big sites offer an alternative view through either a mobile. prefix on the domain or a /pda suffix to the main site.
Here are my most used sites from my phone:
http://www.mapquest.com/pda/maps.adp
http://wap.espn.com/
http://wap.oa.yahoo.com/
http://mobile.wunderground.com/
An operating system is only as secure as the user who runs it. An email containing a virus sent to a someone who opens an attachment on a unix machine can be just a deadly as one sent to a Windows user. Any OS that allows a user to write to memory or to storage is unsecure. If more people had Macs or Linux, then there would be more virus writers comprimising those systems. Right now, it just doesn't pay to focus on those systems because the majority of machine in the internet are using the Windows OS. I haven't had a virus in years. I have made certain registry keys that are commonly targeted by virus and spyware programs read only to EVERYONE except a specific user that I don't use regularly. If I want to install a new piece of software on my machine, I have to log on as the more priveldged and install the software from there. It's not quite running "su -" and typing in roots password, but it's close.
Disable your network connection. Open CS:Source. Choose the option to load steam in offline mode. After CS comes up, enable your network connection. You won't be able to refresh your server list, but you will be able to join games via the history tab. It's not perfect, but at least you can play.
Is that like Pigs in Space?
I have a replay and it uses an all black screen to mark the beginning of a commercial block and another all black screen to mark the end. I know this because sometimes it will automatically skip when it's not supposed to due a man with a black jacket walking close enough to the camera to eclipse the entire screen.
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SHHH. Don't tell anyone, but my replay still does automatic commercial skip.
"It is nice to see people making an effort to expand the reach of the Internet to a broader audience"
Forget that. I need all the bandwith I can get for my pr0n, PS2, and MP3 P2P.