Health insurance companies should merge with fast food companies and cigarette companies. Then they can make a lot of money from tempting people and then make more money when they have problems.
The concept of combined receivers isn't all that unusual. There are receivers out there, primarily used in aerospace, that combine GLOSNASS and GPS to render a more accurate position.
I'm not sure how they can compare these. It's WB's fault for not releasing the Matrix movies separately. The numbers would probably be heavier on the HD-DVD side if that were the case. On a side note, I bought the Matrix Trilogy. I did not buy any Pirates of the Caribbean Blu-ray discs.
I'm a tea drinker now, but when I used to be a heavy coffee drinker, I'd grind my own beans from a local roaster and use it in an aeropress. it's basically a giant syringe with a small coffee filter at the end instead of a needle. you take the rubber stopper out of one side, pour grounds and hot water in like a french press, but the rubber stopper forces the water through the filter at the bottom with pressure and all you're left with is a puck of moist grounds and some intense espresso below. coffee, made by diluting the espresso, tastes exceptionally smooth but maintaining its potency. seriously, i used to get really loaded using that. good stuff.
I bought a DS fat when it came out (I sold it a few months later, and I just recently picked up a DS lite). As an early adopter, I know I'm getting things before they're refined. Also, I know I might be getting a raw deal because of its newness. The main reason I do buy things before they're proven is to play with brand new stuff. I bought a PS3 shortly after its release knowing about all the issues they've had, just to check it out... and I had to have it sent in for servicing after it died. I also bought a 360 on the day of its release. I'm stuck with a 360 that sounds like an airplane taking off, but *shrugs*. I don't mind being an early adopter, but at the same time I don't expect a brand-spanking-new product to be as polished and as good as the same product a year or two after its initial release.
Isn't this another way of announcing a price drop? That's happened before. Probably sweetens the deal and improves their positioning against the Wii and PS3.
I don't think it would happen. There are groups of people who like the stability of consoles while there are also people who like the cutting edge graphics of PCs. One thing that might change is the way games are written by 3rd party game producers to help cope with porting games across platforms, so maybe they could write it in one language and have special compilers specific to the platform where the code wouldn't have to be hardware-specific. Not really like Java since there could be any number number of platform-specific compiled versions rather than machine-agnostic code running through a VM. But besides that, I don't think there will be a unified gaming concept. The only time I can foresee something like that happening is if we move away from PC's and stand-alone consoles into mass consumer mainframes where the network bandwidth to the house/phone/computer is fast enough to let the mainframe render the graphics and let the consumer play it on any thin-client. Computing/gaming power could then be commoditized.
I think comparing consoles to pc gaming rigs might be similar in some ways to comparing Macs to PC's. Mac's handle backwards compatibility with emulators like what we're seeing now with consoles. Mac's are proprietary hardware (except when they cloned them for a brief time). If Mac folds and allows their hardware to become PC's and PCs to run Mac software, then I think the PC model for consoles could work, enabling the PC-esque realization of one console.
I think what he meant was about how consoles, may become cloned and become like PC's, but basically dedicated gaming computers. He was saying there's so many 3rd party developers developing for all three platforms compared to 1st party developers, there may be a time when a 3rd party developer may just need to make one release and have it work on all consoles. Here's one possibility, standardized PC gaming rigs. Perhaps multiple hardware vendors could standardize the hardware API and driver interfaces - like DirectX or something of that sort. If the engine needs to be updated then the hardware vendor can send patches to update their game interpreter. I think PC's are nice because of customization, but there might be a day when an xbox is on a desk with a kb+mouse, running a dedicated gaming OS.
I always thought the tank was sweet in Blaster Master - one of my fav. NES games. Ultima Underworld was fun, but I guess Oblivion/Morrowind have the same basic interface. I liked the idea of characters who get thirsty or hungry and having to eat. I think you also had to sleep...
I thought Syndicate was a fun one - I only played the original and non of the subsequent sequels. I wouldn't mind picking up an updated version of that.
I liked the old games, too... at the time Carmageddon 2 was a little too demanding for the rig I had at the time, but yeah. Loved the granite car powerup and then crush the other cars. That and the thing where you can stop instantly (grippy tires or something?). I would ram a car stop and watch the car just fly away.
If we removed all levels of efficiency and legality and boiled it down to basic human behavior and manners, yeah, you should be nice to everyone and send personalized responses to what the needs were and how the applicant didn't meet them. As an applicant, if I don't get a response and it's a position I am hyped about, I try to reach them until I do get a response, good or bad. The only time I told an applicant specific reasons why they weren't hired was when a friend applied but didn't make the cut.
On a side note, I think it's kinda sad that you can't always be polite because of legal reasons.
Ditto. When I got my Wii, my parents tried it out. It was the first time anyone in the older generation in my family was having fun and excited about playing a video game. In the race to produce mind-blowing graphics, the most important part of the game was neglected - the game. Games should first be a good game with aesthetics coming second. I think Nintendo really got their priorities straight by returning to basics and pushing game play and a intuitive control system. It would seem the DS was the first step towards their revolution, and I personally think we're witnessing a Nintendo renaissance.
You could wear ear protection used in gun firing ranges and then put something inside them like earbuds or whatever else. I'm sure those work tons better for sound isolation, which would help the music sound tons better
I think buying a console on the first day is more for novelty than anything else. Chances are people who get the PS3 on the release day will be playing Gears of War a lot until the PS3 gets some good games out. I waited a while in line and bought my xbox 360 the day of its release. To be honest, in retrospect I wouldn't do it again. After I got it, I hardly played it because there weren't any real titles I liked. Now I'm stuck with an early revision of the 360 which sounds like a hair-dryer. Generally, launch titles suck because developers are pushed by the console manufacturer to release and they're not familiar with new hardware and may not be able to make full use of its abilities.
I have to admit, the Wii looks interesting though. The only reason I would buy it is because of the new Zelda game.
Big question is if the unit you were looking at was a production model and not a debugging test unit. If you were looking at a debug unit, the public release version of the PS3 may have some stability issues resolved. Hardware issues may also be resolved if they're made at a different facility with stricter tolerances and drive selection... Or you could be dead on and there are no differences and Sony's in for some scathing reviews.
I got a 360 on the day of its release and it sounds like a hair-dryer. Apparently the newer ones are much quieter. Maybe annoying hardware is typical of early console revisions.
Cheap BluRay players would definitely be noticed. The DVD market is huge, and if Sony could produce a cheap player that would target the Walmarts, Sony would be set. The main issue is the processing power required to decode the amount of data that's required for HD, but that processor cost will diminish over time. The current HD media players are basically desktop machines stuffed into a theater component case.
Sony's pushing for the same thing Microsoft is. To have the PS3/xbox be *the* entertainment hub for a house. Also, I don't know the exact numbers on the costs of manufacturing the existing Blu-Ray players, but the HD-DVD HDA1 is selling at a loss. Since the HD-DVD player is $500 and the BR players are over $1000, perhaps it may be cheaper to use the cell processor rather than other types of hardware. I think the Cell processor may be a bigger part of their technology strategy. As soon as manufacturing ramps up and cost-per-unit goes down, the processor may be even more viable in the long run.
This will be *the* cheapest Blu-Ray player out there and is priced to go head-to-head with the Toshiba HDA1 HD-DVD player. I think a lot of people will be buying it, and I'm wondering out of those people, how many are buying it for Hi-Def movies. The PS3 might do well if they also try courting non-gaming theater buffs. The inclusion of the Blu-Ray drive may be a huge factor in making the PS3 viable and marketable, while also bolstering their Blu-Ray efforts.
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It could be a downed satellite - maybe some hydrazine or something is causing the illness.
Health insurance companies should merge with fast food companies and cigarette companies. Then they can make a lot of money from tempting people and then make more money when they have problems.
This might be good for poison control as an emetic with no side-effects. Combined with activated charcoal, this could save lives.
I wonder what the scoop is.
The concept of combined receivers isn't all that unusual. There are receivers out there, primarily used in aerospace, that combine GLOSNASS and GPS to render a more accurate position.
Some friends of mine already bought more than a month ago. I'm in Phoenix,` AZ.
I'm not sure how they can compare these. It's WB's fault for not releasing the Matrix movies separately. The numbers would probably be heavier on the HD-DVD side if that were the case. On a side note, I bought the Matrix Trilogy. I did not buy any Pirates of the Caribbean Blu-ray discs.
I'm a tea drinker now, but when I used to be a heavy coffee drinker, I'd grind my own beans from a local roaster and use it in an aeropress. it's basically a giant syringe with a small coffee filter at the end instead of a needle. you take the rubber stopper out of one side, pour grounds and hot water in like a french press, but the rubber stopper forces the water through the filter at the bottom with pressure and all you're left with is a puck of moist grounds and some intense espresso below. coffee, made by diluting the espresso, tastes exceptionally smooth but maintaining its potency. seriously, i used to get really loaded using that. good stuff.
I bought a DS fat when it came out (I sold it a few months later, and I just recently picked up a DS lite). As an early adopter, I know I'm getting things before they're refined. Also, I know I might be getting a raw deal because of its newness. The main reason I do buy things before they're proven is to play with brand new stuff. I bought a PS3 shortly after its release knowing about all the issues they've had, just to check it out... and I had to have it sent in for servicing after it died. I also bought a 360 on the day of its release. I'm stuck with a 360 that sounds like an airplane taking off, but *shrugs*. I don't mind being an early adopter, but at the same time I don't expect a brand-spanking-new product to be as polished and as good as the same product a year or two after its initial release.
Isn't this another way of announcing a price drop? That's happened before. Probably sweetens the deal and improves their positioning against the Wii and PS3.
I don't think it would happen. There are groups of people who like the stability of consoles while there are also people who like the cutting edge graphics of PCs. One thing that might change is the way games are written by 3rd party game producers to help cope with porting games across platforms, so maybe they could write it in one language and have special compilers specific to the platform where the code wouldn't have to be hardware-specific. Not really like Java since there could be any number number of platform-specific compiled versions rather than machine-agnostic code running through a VM. But besides that, I don't think there will be a unified gaming concept. The only time I can foresee something like that happening is if we move away from PC's and stand-alone consoles into mass consumer mainframes where the network bandwidth to the house/phone/computer is fast enough to let the mainframe render the graphics and let the consumer play it on any thin-client. Computing/gaming power could then be commoditized.
I think comparing consoles to pc gaming rigs might be similar in some ways to comparing Macs to PC's. Mac's handle backwards compatibility with emulators like what we're seeing now with consoles. Mac's are proprietary hardware (except when they cloned them for a brief time). If Mac folds and allows their hardware to become PC's and PCs to run Mac software, then I think the PC model for consoles could work, enabling the PC-esque realization of one console.
I think what he meant was about how consoles, may become cloned and become like PC's, but basically dedicated gaming computers. He was saying there's so many 3rd party developers developing for all three platforms compared to 1st party developers, there may be a time when a 3rd party developer may just need to make one release and have it work on all consoles. Here's one possibility, standardized PC gaming rigs. Perhaps multiple hardware vendors could standardize the hardware API and driver interfaces - like DirectX or something of that sort. If the engine needs to be updated then the hardware vendor can send patches to update their game interpreter. I think PC's are nice because of customization, but there might be a day when an xbox is on a desk with a kb+mouse, running a dedicated gaming OS.
I always thought the tank was sweet in Blaster Master - one of my fav. NES games. Ultima Underworld was fun, but I guess Oblivion/Morrowind have the same basic interface. I liked the idea of characters who get thirsty or hungry and having to eat. I think you also had to sleep...
I thought Syndicate was a fun one - I only played the original and non of the subsequent sequels. I wouldn't mind picking up an updated version of that.
I liked the old games, too... at the time Carmageddon 2 was a little too demanding for the rig I had at the time, but yeah. Loved the granite car powerup and then crush the other cars. That and the thing where you can stop instantly (grippy tires or something?). I would ram a car stop and watch the car just fly away.
That was one of my favorite games, but I wish there was a newer one...
If we removed all levels of efficiency and legality and boiled it down to basic human behavior and manners, yeah, you should be nice to everyone and send personalized responses to what the needs were and how the applicant didn't meet them. As an applicant, if I don't get a response and it's a position I am hyped about, I try to reach them until I do get a response, good or bad. The only time I told an applicant specific reasons why they weren't hired was when a friend applied but didn't make the cut. On a side note, I think it's kinda sad that you can't always be polite because of legal reasons.
Ditto. When I got my Wii, my parents tried it out. It was the first time anyone in the older generation in my family was having fun and excited about playing a video game. In the race to produce mind-blowing graphics, the most important part of the game was neglected - the game. Games should first be a good game with aesthetics coming second. I think Nintendo really got their priorities straight by returning to basics and pushing game play and a intuitive control system. It would seem the DS was the first step towards their revolution, and I personally think we're witnessing a Nintendo renaissance.
You could wear ear protection used in gun firing ranges and then put something inside them like earbuds or whatever else. I'm sure those work tons better for sound isolation, which would help the music sound tons better
I think buying a console on the first day is more for novelty than anything else. Chances are people who get the PS3 on the release day will be playing Gears of War a lot until the PS3 gets some good games out. I waited a while in line and bought my xbox 360 the day of its release. To be honest, in retrospect I wouldn't do it again. After I got it, I hardly played it because there weren't any real titles I liked. Now I'm stuck with an early revision of the 360 which sounds like a hair-dryer. Generally, launch titles suck because developers are pushed by the console manufacturer to release and they're not familiar with new hardware and may not be able to make full use of its abilities. I have to admit, the Wii looks interesting though. The only reason I would buy it is because of the new Zelda game.
Big question is if the unit you were looking at was a production model and not a debugging test unit. If you were looking at a debug unit, the public release version of the PS3 may have some stability issues resolved. Hardware issues may also be resolved if they're made at a different facility with stricter tolerances and drive selection... Or you could be dead on and there are no differences and Sony's in for some scathing reviews. I got a 360 on the day of its release and it sounds like a hair-dryer. Apparently the newer ones are much quieter. Maybe annoying hardware is typical of early console revisions.
Cheap BluRay players would definitely be noticed. The DVD market is huge, and if Sony could produce a cheap player that would target the Walmarts, Sony would be set. The main issue is the processing power required to decode the amount of data that's required for HD, but that processor cost will diminish over time. The current HD media players are basically desktop machines stuffed into a theater component case.
Sony's pushing for the same thing Microsoft is. To have the PS3/xbox be *the* entertainment hub for a house. Also, I don't know the exact numbers on the costs of manufacturing the existing Blu-Ray players, but the HD-DVD HDA1 is selling at a loss. Since the HD-DVD player is $500 and the BR players are over $1000, perhaps it may be cheaper to use the cell processor rather than other types of hardware. I think the Cell processor may be a bigger part of their technology strategy. As soon as manufacturing ramps up and cost-per-unit goes down, the processor may be even more viable in the long run.
This will be *the* cheapest Blu-Ray player out there and is priced to go head-to-head with the Toshiba HDA1 HD-DVD player. I think a lot of people will be buying it, and I'm wondering out of those people, how many are buying it for Hi-Def movies. The PS3 might do well if they also try courting non-gaming theater buffs. The inclusion of the Blu-Ray drive may be a huge factor in making the PS3 viable and marketable, while also bolstering their Blu-Ray efforts.