The journalistic quality of these supposed news sites. All it is, is a bunch of news sites such as IGN, Computer and Video Games (Registration may be required) and Gamespot shifting about a whole bunch of rumours and maybees.
Purhaps they should do what real journalists do and actually search out for the truth by contacting Valve or Vivendi Universal, rather than trying to connect the dots or use sources like "An Industry Insider". That way they don't sound like trashy womens magazines that get their sources from "Close Friends" and the like.
Maybe the MPAA needs to start basing their takedown notices on actual or proven infringement of copyright rather than just their current reign of circumstantial and claimed legal Gestapoing.
Including the 744 from Wednesday, the RIAA has sued nearly 4,700 people since last September in its efforts to combat piracy, which the music industry has blamed for a multiyear decline in CD sales. Some music fans have countered that bad music, and not piracy, was to blame for the decline.
I would blame the standover tactics and rip off merchants of the recording industry for the decline in CD sales more than anything else.
It seems almost every day that there's an article posted here on/. about US politicians bringing up new bills and laws that anybody with some kind of intelligence would just dismiss as ridiculous. Basic freedoms of information and technology being clamped down by archaic/draconian laws.
For the country that's supposed to be the "Land of the Free" and the supposed defender of democracy and open government, there certainly doesn't seem to be much of that sort of thing going on at the moment.
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For something like this to take off it would take a computer game with a large audience to buy/build this sort of thing. That and having a 3D mouse giving a discting advantage over it's 2D cousins.
I seriously can't see it happening any time soon though.
It'll be interesting to see what effect this has on the average power of personal computers out there.
It's been widely acknowledged that because of Counter-Strike and The Sims, that people have been reluctant to upgrade their machines since they can still play these two games on a relatively low powered system (by today's standards anyway).
So with Counter-Strike: Source and The Sims 2 most likely requiring a lot more grunt under the hood, will we see an explosion in new home PC purchases for these two releases?
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The question remains as to whether or not it will be worth having to fork out the extra dollars just for a bit of an extra performance bonus, and the fact that you'll be able to just say that you have two video cards running in SLI in your machine.
For the average consumer, it isn't really going to make much of a difference.
For the bleeding edge gamer... we'll just have to wait and see.
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So the guy gets a cash settlement in the 10s of millions. How much has Sony made from the portable music market?
Purhaps they should do what real journalists do and actually search out for the truth by contacting Valve or Vivendi Universal, rather than trying to connect the dots or use sources like "An Industry Insider". That way they don't sound like trashy womens magazines that get their sources from "Close Friends" and the like.
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1GB is still bigger than 250mb.
Unless of course your living in a reality distortion field.
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Damn Apple temperature Nazi corporation types.
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I would blame the standover tactics and rip off merchants of the recording industry for the decline in CD sales more than anything else.
For the country that's supposed to be the "Land of the Free" and the supposed defender of democracy and open government, there certainly doesn't seem to be much of that sort of thing going on at the moment.
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I seriously can't see it happening any time soon though.
It'll be interesting to see what effect this has on the average power of personal computers out there.
It's been widely acknowledged that because of Counter-Strike and The Sims, that people have been reluctant to upgrade their machines since they can still play these two games on a relatively low powered system (by today's standards anyway).
So with Counter-Strike: Source and The Sims 2 most likely requiring a lot more grunt under the hood, will we see an explosion in new home PC purchases for these two releases?
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But you have to remember that they put it into a Volvo.
It think that's a more telling factor.
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The question remains as to whether or not it will be worth having to fork out the extra dollars just for a bit of an extra performance bonus, and the fact that you'll be able to just say that you have two video cards running in SLI in your machine. For the average consumer, it isn't really going to make much of a difference. For the bleeding edge gamer... we'll just have to wait and see.