These devices all cost a hell of a lot more than they should?
Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't they essentially a HDD, Audio Output and (sometimes) a little screen?
Surely one could be made for a fraction of the cost, sure it won't look like a Fisher Pr^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Sleek bit of plastic, but wouldn't the functionality be the same?
Unfortunately most people in the world do these daily grinds, because it's what makes the bigger cogs turn round and round.
Repetitive stuff needs doing, I work in a crappy repetitive job. We can't all be web designers or artists, you still need the people at the bottom to keep the world going.
Remember, in a fascist oligarchy there is no true capitalist supply and demand. It makes no sense to even bother to try to figure out what is going on in that distorted economy.
Maybe Sony has finally made a fatal mis-step. Obviously they haven't learned from history yet.
Obviously they have, because the average schmuck (read: person who will buy a games console) doesn't give a shit about DRM, look at the success of iTunes as a nice example. Not everyone who plays games is a hardcore hippy FLOSS nerd.
I completely agree, call it what it damn well is. At most it's an audio weekly, it's a downloaded file. Sure the term would be valid if it was automagically beamed to your iPod regularly, whenever you were near an internet access point.
It's a fucking figure of speech. When I say "I could murder a curry" or "I'm gonna kill her when I see her", I am not actually talking about shooting a vindaloo or stabbing my sister.
Wow, someone's forgetting that the XBOX is essentially a PC stuffed in a plastic box.
The Commodore/Amiga computers were games machines, at the time that's the only possible reason such graphical and audio capabilities would have been built into them.
When people are doing nothing much more than saying "sup?", "k" and "lol" to each other, I don't think security is such a big issue...
Sure, us geeks like to have everything just so and want to know what's going on, but everyone else doesn't care as long as they can watch their cousins craaaaazy cat on the webcam via MSN.
It's not just an "account name", it's the way Jabber works.
You could have a whinypants@boobs.com account, but you'd have to be running a Jabber server at boobs.com.
It works in a very similar way to email, it sends all messages to the domain part of the address, and the server at that domain deals with the message in whatever way it needs to.
Well you could, with some effort, kill someone with a turnip, but I don't consider turnips lethal. Blanket statements are perfectly fine if the exceptions are rare...
We could have stopped the abuse more easily by simply closing out the account, but she flatly refused to do that, on general principles (she was a very stubborn woman)
I haven't read that book in a while, but it took the three experts to code a cross-browser re-implementation that looked the same across the platforms.
The problem is not CSS itself, but the various implementations of it.
A two column layout is piss-easy in theory, but getting it to look the same in mozilla/MSIE/Opera and friends is another matter altogether.
Your interpretation of "original" may be vastly different than someone elses, the advantage of a vast library is not to have a lot of games that you want, but to have a lot of games that a lot of different people will want.
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These devices all cost a hell of a lot more than they should?
Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't they essentially a HDD, Audio Output and (sometimes) a little screen?
Surely one could be made for a fraction of the cost, sure it won't look like a Fisher Pr^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Sleek bit of plastic, but wouldn't the functionality be the same?
about Steam?
Steam-like systems will be extremely helpful for developers on the new consoles due to their ability to provide updates and new content.
Isn't it just a glorified download interface?
"...rather than just one daily grind task."
Unfortunately most people in the world do these daily grinds, because it's what makes the bigger cogs turn round and round.
Repetitive stuff needs doing, I work in a crappy repetitive job. We can't all be web designers or artists, you still need the people at the bottom to keep the world going.
Lazy.
Remember, in a fascist oligarchy there is no true capitalist supply and demand. It makes no sense to even bother to try to figure out what is going on in that distorted economy.
I thought we were talking about China?
*ducks*
Maybe Sony has finally made a fatal mis-step. Obviously they haven't learned from history yet.
Obviously they have, because the average schmuck (read: person who will buy a games console) doesn't give a shit about DRM, look at the success of iTunes as a nice example. Not everyone who plays games is a hardcore hippy FLOSS nerd.
disclaimer: I am a hippy FLOSS nerd
I completely agree, call it what it damn well is. At most it's an audio weekly, it's a downloaded file. Sure the term would be valid if it was automagically beamed to your iPod regularly, whenever you were near an internet access point.
Until we have that, stop calling it this, kthx.
It's a fucking figure of speech. When I say "I could murder a curry" or "I'm gonna kill her when I see her", I am not actually talking about shooting a vindaloo or stabbing my sister.
Sheesh...
If Ballmer is going to do his wonderful "Developers, Developers, Developers!" Song?
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I have blocked Zonk's stories from appearing on my Slashdot page because his stories are really dumb.
Apparently not...
Battle.net allows you to password "private" games where no-one else can join but you and your bumchums...
Maybe, we are reaching the point where there simply aren't any more new ideas to do.
I wonder how many times that has been said throughout history?
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OS X - Ive upped my standards, up yours!
heheh, so why are you extolling Windows-esque loveliness?
Wow, someone's forgetting that the XBOX is essentially a PC stuffed in a plastic box.
The Commodore/Amiga computers were games machines, at the time that's the only possible reason such graphical and audio capabilities would have been built into them.
When people are doing nothing much more than saying "sup?", "k" and "lol" to each other, I don't think security is such a big issue...
Sure, us geeks like to have everything just so and want to know what's going on, but everyone else doesn't care as long as they can watch their cousins craaaaazy cat on the webcam via MSN.
It's not just an "account name", it's the way Jabber works.
You could have a whinypants@boobs.com account, but you'd have to be running a Jabber server at boobs.com.
It works in a very similar way to email, it sends all messages to the domain part of the address, and the server at that domain deals with the message in whatever way it needs to.
Well you could, with some effort, kill someone with a turnip, but I don't consider turnips lethal. Blanket statements are perfectly fine if the exceptions are rare...
A Podcast is downloaded and saved to the subscriber's disk for playback at a later time.
So, in fact, it's downloading files, another term that existed long before the bloggers got hold of it...
Where exactly does the casting come into it?
Why invent anything while you can steal it.
That's the American Spirit!
We could have stopped the abuse more easily by simply closing out the account, but she flatly refused to do that, on general principles (she was a very stubborn woman)
;)
That "stubborn" is redundant!
I haven't read that book in a while, but it took the three experts to code a cross-browser re-implementation that looked the same across the platforms.
The problem is not CSS itself, but the various implementations of it.
A two column layout is piss-easy in theory, but getting it to look the same in mozilla/MSIE/Opera and friends is another matter altogether.
The submitter's sarcasm detector looks like it's woefully inadequate.
from the a-little-snark-with-your-breakfast dept.
It looks like your reading skills are woefully inadequate.
I hate this "War on Terror."
I second that, and propose that we all use the abbreviation that is so fitting:
TWAT
Your interpretation of "original" may be vastly different than someone elses, the advantage of a vast library is not to have a lot of games that you want, but to have a lot of games that a lot of different people will want.