Every technology has its niche market. Betamax (and v2000 with it) died because it failed to produce tapes longer than 1 hour in the early days, making it unsuitable for movie rental purposes.
My point was just that PHP was a great technology when it was just released (like betamax was), but has long since been replaced by both better implementations of the same idea, and completely new approaches. People who still use it usually do so either because of legacy, or because they haven't investigated the alternatives.
ps: pepper this comment with imho and smilies until you consider it an opinion instead of flamebait
utter nonsense, this machine isn't marketed as a portable game station, it's a media player first and foremost. And a pretty cheap one at that. The fact that it can be used as a portable multi-emulator is just an aside in the marketing scheme. It's simply not the intention of gp holdings to dominate the portable gaming market.
Please note that this law hasn't been passed yet, and, I can quite garuantee you guys this, will never be passed. The people that are proposing this law are a bunch of music industry funded lobbyists, not a political party. Our politicians are stupid, but not _that_ stupid:)
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Every technology has its niche market. Betamax (and v2000 with it) died because it failed to produce tapes longer than 1 hour in the early days, making it unsuitable for movie rental purposes. My point was just that PHP was a great technology when it was just released (like betamax was), but has long since been replaced by both better implementations of the same idea, and completely new approaches. People who still use it usually do so either because of legacy, or because they haven't investigated the alternatives. ps: pepper this comment with imho and smilies until you consider it an opinion instead of flamebait
PHP, isn't that like the betamax of scripting languages?
they are telling us october, might be a bit optimistic though :)
utter nonsense, this machine isn't marketed as a portable game station, it's a media player first and foremost. And a pretty cheap one at that. The fact that it can be used as a portable multi-emulator is just an aside in the marketing scheme. It's simply not the intention of gp holdings to dominate the portable gaming market.
Please note that this law hasn't been passed yet, and, I can quite garuantee you guys this, will never be passed. The people that are proposing this law are a bunch of music industry funded lobbyists, not a political party. Our politicians are stupid, but not _that_ stupid :)