The cost of a new player and replacing your HD copies by actually purchasing the blu-ray version easily gets dwarfed by the suggested 'conversion' process.
You can't base emulation on older, largely proprietary systems like the SNES. Whether they include emulation or not will strictly be a marketing decision. You have to realize that these are by and large windows PCs, so backwards compatibility should be a technical no-brainer.
Besides that, PlayStation set the standard (actually, technically the GBA did) that any console maker would be remiss NOT to include.
Yeah, I've got that on mine too, but I've come across clerks who flip the card for a nano-second and swipe it. It's pretty clear that is say check ID on it, big bold print, but I guess they don't get paid enough to give a rats ass.
Ah, but by your own example, shouldn't their billions of dollars in research and development caught the hundreds of secuirty flaws in IE, windows, outlook, you name it?
I'm a developer in my own right too, and my applications have their flaws and I'm willing to admit that my coding skills pale in comparison to the house that Gates built, but by the same token 6 billion should by a little bit of reliability, shouldn't it?!?!
I'm curious, how much money was spent on research and development of Firefox...
Like say.... almost 2 years perhaps? This is fun, yer turn!
Seriously though, I figure the 1 in 10k number could mean a couple things including that that percentage relates to the number that were produced using that particular method or from one particular plant. I think we can agree that there's a lotta truth out there we'll never know.
Well, they knew a lot longer than just recently anyway. Judging by the manuafcaturer dates they posted, I'd say they recognized a flaw and changed their manufacturing process late 2003 and hoped for the best...then lawsuits started.
As far as the suits themeselves, my sources said that several cases of minor burns, furniture scorching and carpet singing occured, so a few property damage suits, minor injury, etc...
Didn't we collectively have this conversation about 6 years ago, Netscape being the Firefox of the 90s and IE being the IE of the 90's?
I'm a firefox man now, but being a dev, I need to look at all browsers and sadly, though there is an official standard, no one but IT professionals and computer geeks pay any attention to it. God knows we aint the majority folks.
I'm not gonna aim this at slashdot, but rather at these IGN sites it links to. Granted, theres a decent likelyhood that we'll see something on at least one of the new systems at E3, but neither of these articles offer up ANY proof of these "announcements". How bout a little journalistic integrity. Some guy says someone else was on a conference call and they mentioned their nex-gen is gonna appear.
I did some quick homework and this far none of the corp sites for either company have any press releases confirming these claims.
Slashdot Mirror
The cost of a new player and replacing your HD copies by actually purchasing the blu-ray version easily gets dwarfed by the suggested 'conversion' process.
Maybe I've been a teency bit out of it for some time, but when were game reviews valid content for SlashDot?
No no no...Snap, Crackle and SplaahdoW!
You can't base emulation on older, largely proprietary systems like the SNES. Whether they include emulation or not will strictly be a marketing decision. You have to realize that these are by and large windows PCs, so backwards compatibility should be a technical no-brainer. Besides that, PlayStation set the standard (actually, technically the GBA did) that any console maker would be remiss NOT to include.
Yeah, its a pathetic plug for my own site, but the images are original (as is the commentary) http://media-geeks.com/?content=showarticle&articl eID=854
If a measley Slashdotting is gonna kill their bandwidth, how can they possibly expect to server media files to a couple million people?
Yeah, I've got that on mine too, but I've come across clerks who flip the card for a nano-second and swipe it. It's pretty clear that is say check ID on it, big bold print, but I guess they don't get paid enough to give a rats ass.
Ah, but by your own example, shouldn't their billions of dollars in research and development caught the hundreds of secuirty flaws in IE, windows, outlook, you name it?
I'm a developer in my own right too, and my applications have their flaws and I'm willing to admit that my coding skills pale in comparison to the house that Gates built, but by the same token 6 billion should by a little bit of reliability, shouldn't it?!?!
I'm curious, how much money was spent on research and development of Firefox...
Microsoft Researchers = Oxymoron?
Like say.... almost 2 years perhaps? This is fun, yer turn! Seriously though, I figure the 1 in 10k number could mean a couple things including that that percentage relates to the number that were produced using that particular method or from one particular plant. I think we can agree that there's a lotta truth out there we'll never know.
Okay, but you can admit, it COULD be that they discovered a flaw.
Well, they knew a lot longer than just recently anyway. Judging by the manuafcaturer dates they posted, I'd say they recognized a flaw and changed their manufacturing process late 2003 and hoped for the best...then lawsuits started. As far as the suits themeselves, my sources said that several cases of minor burns, furniture scorching and carpet singing occured, so a few property damage suits, minor injury, etc...
Didn't we collectively have this conversation about 6 years ago, Netscape being the Firefox of the 90s and IE being the IE of the 90's?
I'm a firefox man now, but being a dev, I need to look at all browsers and sadly, though there is an official standard, no one but IT professionals and computer geeks pay any attention to it. God knows we aint the majority folks.
only if yer single and playing Everquest
Don't forget MMORPG players, masturbation addicts and D&D fans...
I'm not gonna aim this at slashdot, but rather at these IGN sites it links to. Granted, theres a decent likelyhood that we'll see something on at least one of the new systems at E3, but neither of these articles offer up ANY proof of these "announcements". How bout a little journalistic integrity. Some guy says someone else was on a conference call and they mentioned their nex-gen is gonna appear. I did some quick homework and this far none of the corp sites for either company have any press releases confirming these claims.