Why would anyone want to play a PS3 game via the use of a PSP as a remote as opposed to just playing it on the PS3? Is there some added functionality here that I'm missing, or is this just geeks at Sony wasting effort?
Will the cable companies step up before Verizon's FiOS becomes the face of broadband in America?
Clearly you've never been a Verizon customer. If it wasn't for competition from the cable companies, Americans would still be begging for 768kpbs DSL lines.
"Mr Rove is one of the chief architects of the Republican Revolution."
The Republican revolution happened in 1994. At that time Karl Rove was busy making George Bush the governor of Texas. Rove was in no way an architect of the Republican revolution, and at best rode on its coattails in 2000.
My sentiments exactly. Right now DRM-free music is only popping up at prices equal to or greater than those of CDs. So why is the sound quality inferior? All I want from music companies is what I get from the Pirate Bay: digital files of pristine quality, and I want to savings created by the lower-overhead business model passed on to me.
$500 is better than $600, but it will still buy me ten games for my Wii, or even more for my DS.
Of course, if they actually start releasing GOOD movies on Blu-Ray, instead of crappy back-catalog bombs, then I might actually buy one to watch movies. But as long as The Criterion Collection stays on DVD-ROM, no PS3 for me!
Given that the current touchpads already have limited capabilities to sense the placement of multiple fingertips, Apple could probably implement some of the technology in Leopard and only release it in the final build. It would certainly be a great way to get a lot of free press.
In GTA:SA, it was a gripping story-line, highly skilled voice actors, an immersive, continuous, free-roaming environment, intuitive controls, decent graphics (very good considering the hardware limitations), and a few dozen other things. But, if you've played GTA:SA (and I assume you have, or your comment would be devoid of the background necessary to elevate it above the prattling of zealots and trolls), you already know all that. I was referring to the Manhunt series, not the GTA series. I admit that I have not played Manhunt 2, but if it's anything like the first, it's just pornography for people who like torture. Given that the first Manhunt game was just a sick torture simulator with a pathetic skeleton of a story tacked on, I see no reason to believe that the Adults-Only sequel is any different.
Someone has to be the first to put out high quality AO content.
Exactly what makes a game that exists only to sell itself by generating publicity over its intensly violent content "high-quality?" That's like calling Friday the Thirteenth Part 9 a cinematic masterpiece.
Apple gunning for the OSS browser market is a great thing. Mozilla spent years going nowhere before the Firefox developers finally made something sane out of it. Now the Firefox developers are busy playing with the interface, piling on features, and rambling about web standards while the browser is still not able to pass Acid2.
What Apple brings to the table is competition. Opera gave up on Windows and is busy in the embedded market. Konqueror is great, going nowhere in the Windows world. IE 7 showed the world that the IE team still have their heads up their butts, so without another great browser on Windows there's no serious competition for the Firefox team, and thus nothing to keep them from going the way of Mozilla. Now that Firefox actually has a decent browser with a big name behind it to compete with, maybe we'll see Firefox development focus on fixing bugs quickly, becoming Acid2 compliant, etc.
Some guys remember that special gym teacher, who taught them to act like big lugnuts. Others remember screaming drill sergeants. A few even remember the crazy wino who would buy them a six pack of beer in exchange for one of the cans. Lots of people have made men out of boys.
The entire user interface for Adobe Acrobat (the full version, not the free reader) is a nightmare. I have used thousands of GUI programs and never found anything that comes close to sucking so much. How a company that has produced so many other great interfaces managed to push that turd out confounds me every time I have to use that awful program.
I think the real problem is that online games are almost exclusively about aggression. I used to spend a lot of time playing fighting games online and I was surprised that they players almost never insult each other--or speak at all, for that matter. One player was known for spewing garbage, but was essentially a pariah. And I've seen a tremendous amount of violent, racist, homophobic, etc. speach online in games that were only mildly violent, as well as in chat and forum settings that feature NO violence. So I really don't see any connection between violence in the games and players acting like idiots. To me the online gaming world is just a place where teenage guys, and men who act like them, spew whatever crap comes into their heads because the service providers don't usually mind, and anyone who doesn't like it just goes somewhere else.
Firefox went big and bloated a long time ago; I really don't mind. The most pathetic computer I interact with on a regular basis has 768 megs of RAM, my preferred machine has two gigs. I can handle a bloated browser as long as the features are useful. In Firefox I find the the majority, if not all, features come in handy on at least a semi-regular basis. I can't say the same for IE, which has been crammed full of useless crap for a long, long time. When I really want a lean browser I go to Safari; but Safari is lacking and I usually find myself back with Firefox before the day is out.
"The US house of representatives today passed a bill outlawing illegal domestic wiretapping by the government. Now government agencies are only allowed to access your private communications under terms of FISA.
The House of Representatives passing this bill does NOT mean that government agencies are only allowed to access your private communications under terms of FISA. Before that happens, the bill has to pass the Senate and not get vetoed by the President. That is not going to happen any time before January 20, 2009.
... why would the democrats even consider this? Because right a lot of state legislatures and governors in the USA have decided that states with early primaries get too much attention, and they're all moving their primaries up to get attention. The old early primary states are preparing to move their primaries up even further, if need be into 2007. If the part does not stop the race to have the first primary candidates will not be able to spend much time campaigning in individual states, at which point the only way to campaign will be running as much advertising as possible. Running all those advertisements will be expensive, and require any politician who wants to get elected, or stay in office, to cater only to the interests of big donors/fund-raisers and boil all his or her messages down to thirty-second commercial sound bites.
If you think the Democracy we have now is stupid and corrupt, just wait and see what we end up with when the entire presidential primary season is crammed into two or three months of relentless commercial bombardments. That notion has a lot of concerned politicos scared, and they're looking to put the brakes on this stupid early primary race to avert a future political disaster.
This is exactly why I'd expect the RIAA to pull out of iTunes if they allow this. No matter what, they don't want an efficient market - not when they're selling artificial scarcity.
You need to stop buying in to the idea that the RIAA being made up of, and mostly representing, the big labels. The majority of the RIAA's members are small record companies, and there are even some independent musicians in the list. Even if all the big four record companies all pulled out of iTunes, almost all of the RIAA already part of iTunes would still be a part of iTunes.
Hopefully Apple will eventually allow labels to set their own prices. There are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of old songs languishing at barely measurable sales numbers-I think that a hell of a lot of those could sell pretty well at $.25 or $.50. We could see back-catalog price wars! It would also allow smaller labels labels and independent musicians to compete by leveraging their lower overheads--one can sell for less when a album was self-produced in a week with no advance and no A&R guys to feed.
The complaint was filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center along with the Center for Digital Democracy and the US Public Interest Research Group, all of which are involved in online privacy issues.
Wow, I'm sure that hearing from those groups will rile up Congress. How about a moratorium on stories about this until someone who is not a tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoid or working for Microsoft files a legitimate gripe?
The truth is that the Core Duo's architecture has been in the pipeline for a long time at Intel, and their years of work are paying off now. Well, that was my point. I didn't claim that intel pulled off Core Duo overnight--just that in response to AMD steadily gaining market share over the last half-decade+, intel started to rely more on producing better chips than better advertising.
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Why would anyone want to play a PS3 game via the use of a PSP as a remote as opposed to just playing it on the PS3? Is there some added functionality here that I'm missing, or is this just geeks at Sony wasting effort?
"...this performance trade-off is necessary to simply play an MP3."
That's funny, the last time I remember any OS taking any significant hit to play an MP3 I was running on a 166 mhz Pentium II.
Will the cable companies step up before Verizon's FiOS becomes the face of broadband in America?
Clearly you've never been a Verizon customer. If it wasn't for competition from the cable companies, Americans would still be begging for 768kpbs DSL lines.
"Mr Rove is one of the chief architects of the Republican Revolution."
The Republican revolution happened in 1994. At that time Karl Rove was busy making George Bush the governor of Texas. Rove was in no way an architect of the Republican revolution, and at best rode on its coattails in 2000.
My sentiments exactly. Right now DRM-free music is only popping up at prices equal to or greater than those of CDs. So why is the sound quality inferior? All I want from music companies is what I get from the Pirate Bay: digital files of pristine quality, and I want to savings created by the lower-overhead business model passed on to me.
"It comes with linux by default, yet its keyboard has the regular "windows flag" key...Wouldn't it make more sense to print a penguin on it instead?"
It will be a lot easier for Linux to embrace the masses if it doesn't confuse them.
He is building a better game. Garriot gave up a comfy job and huge salary at EA to go and develop a better game. That's one of the big point of TFA.
$500 is better than $600, but it will still buy me ten games for my Wii, or even more for my DS.
Of course, if they actually start releasing GOOD movies on Blu-Ray, instead of crappy back-catalog bombs, then I might actually buy one to watch movies. But as long as The Criterion Collection stays on DVD-ROM, no PS3 for me!
Given that the current touchpads already have limited capabilities to sense the placement of multiple fingertips, Apple could probably implement some of the technology in Leopard and only release it in the final build. It would certainly be a great way to get a lot of free press.
Someone has to be the first to put out high quality AO content.
Exactly what makes a game that exists only to sell itself by generating publicity over its intensly violent content "high-quality?" That's like calling Friday the Thirteenth Part 9 a cinematic masterpiece.
Apple gunning for the OSS browser market is a great thing. Mozilla spent years going nowhere before the Firefox developers finally made something sane out of it. Now the Firefox developers are busy playing with the interface, piling on features, and rambling about web standards while the browser is still not able to pass Acid2.
What Apple brings to the table is competition. Opera gave up on Windows and is busy in the embedded market. Konqueror is great, going nowhere in the Windows world. IE 7 showed the world that the IE team still have their heads up their butts, so without another great browser on Windows there's no serious competition for the Firefox team, and thus nothing to keep them from going the way of Mozilla. Now that Firefox actually has a decent browser with a big name behind it to compete with, maybe we'll see Firefox development focus on fixing bugs quickly, becoming Acid2 compliant, etc.
Some guys remember that special gym teacher, who taught them to act like big lugnuts.
Others remember screaming drill sergeants.
A few even remember the crazy wino who would buy them a six pack of beer in exchange for one of the cans.
Lots of people have made men out of boys.
But it was Mr. Wizard who made us nerds.
He is sorely missed.
Call me when they have the Heisenberg compensator working.
The entire user interface for Adobe Acrobat (the full version, not the free reader) is a nightmare. I have used thousands of GUI programs and never found anything that comes close to sucking so much. How a company that has produced so many other great interfaces managed to push that turd out confounds me every time I have to use that awful program.
Firefox went big and bloated a long time ago; I really don't mind. The most pathetic computer I interact with on a regular basis has 768 megs of RAM, my preferred machine has two gigs. I can handle a bloated browser as long as the features are useful. In Firefox I find the the majority, if not all, features come in handy on at least a semi-regular basis. I can't say the same for IE, which has been crammed full of useless crap for a long, long time. When I really want a lean browser I go to Safari; but Safari is lacking and I usually find myself back with Firefox before the day is out.
So flambaiting trolls can ask idiotic questions like the OP did.
The House of Representatives passing this bill does NOT mean that government agencies are only allowed to access your private communications under terms of FISA. Before that happens, the bill has to pass the Senate and not get vetoed by the President. That is not going to happen any time before January 20, 2009.
... why would the democrats even consider this? Because right a lot of state legislatures and governors in the USA have decided that states with early primaries get too much attention, and they're all moving their primaries up to get attention. The old early primary states are preparing to move their primaries up even further, if need be into 2007. If the part does not stop the race to have the first primary candidates will not be able to spend much time campaigning in individual states, at which point the only way to campaign will be running as much advertising as possible. Running all those advertisements will be expensive, and require any politician who wants to get elected, or stay in office, to cater only to the interests of big donors/fund-raisers and boil all his or her messages down to thirty-second commercial sound bites.If you think the Democracy we have now is stupid and corrupt, just wait and see what we end up with when the entire presidential primary season is crammed into two or three months of relentless commercial bombardments. That notion has a lot of concerned politicos scared, and they're looking to put the brakes on this stupid early primary race to avert a future political disaster.
This is exactly why I'd expect the RIAA to pull out of iTunes if they allow this. No matter what, they don't want an efficient market - not when they're selling artificial scarcity.
You need to stop buying in to the idea that the RIAA being made up of, and mostly representing, the big labels. The majority of the RIAA's members are small record companies, and there are even some independent musicians in the list. Even if all the big four record companies all pulled out of iTunes, almost all of the RIAA already part of iTunes would still be a part of iTunes.
If they do this... they open the Pandora's box of also making new songs higher priced.
So what if they do? It's just new music; nobody needs it to survive, and nobody is being forced to buy it.
Hopefully Apple will eventually allow labels to set their own prices. There are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of old songs languishing at barely measurable sales numbers-I think that a hell of a lot of those could sell pretty well at $.25 or $.50. We could see back-catalog price wars! It would also allow smaller labels labels and independent musicians to compete by leveraging their lower overheads--one can sell for less when a album was self-produced in a week with no advance and no A&R guys to feed.
The complaint was filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center along with the Center for Digital Democracy and the US Public Interest Research Group, all of which are involved in online privacy issues.
Wow, I'm sure that hearing from those groups will rile up Congress. How about a moratorium on stories about this until someone who is not a tinfoil-hat-wearing paranoid or working for Microsoft files a legitimate gripe?