That means it's being developed for the Playstation 4 and the Xbox 720, and perhaps the Wii 2.0, unless by "next generation" they mean the devices that came out 3-4 years ago.
I hoped somebody would post a link to that. One of my favorite videos on youtube. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline of this story.
The government didn't talk publicly about the U2 Spy Plane until the SR-71 was in operation (which the public didn't know about).
The government didn't talk publicly about the SR-71 Spy Plane until...well, there's something else out there, which we won't know about until it's replaced by something else.
Yeah, according to the BBC report, censorship is spreading. According to my state-run newspaper, everything is just fine, and, wait a second, it says here I should just move right along.
As much as we all like to see companies and people stand up to the MPAA and RIAA, this may not be a good idea.
At its heart this is about a company profiting off of the removal of DRM and re-extending fair use to a product that really shouldn't have DRM on it (or so sayeth most slashdotters). What if this is discovered to be the next business model? Cripple things with DRM, and then for additional money they'll take them off?
Shutter...If only Circuit City were doing this for free.
Have you ever heard of the grace period? I've been using credit cards for about 7 years now (I'm only 26), but I've never EVER paid a single penny to the credit card companies beyond my purchases, and the credit card companies have now sent me over $700 in cash back payments.
Credit card companies became trillion dollar companies by charging the stores 3% of the purchase price (to compete to get into your wallet, some offer 1/3 of that back to you in the form of 1% cash back).
Smart people pay everything they can with a credit card and make the payment in full on the next billing cycle.
How Representative Stevens' lawyer would ask the judge for his fees to be compensated (if he were the defendent's lawyer in this particular case):
Lawyer: You see, Judge, when I go to the local branch of my bank, I can't just drive up with a pile of cash on the bed of my truck. You see, they've got these TUBES, and the money has to fit in them, and , and, it's - well they're TUBES!
Judge: I could give you a direct deposit.
Lawyer: Well, here's the thing, Judge. I got a direct deposit sent by my staff person last Friday, and it didn't show up in my account until this morning. WHY?
Judge: Banks are closed on weekends.
And for you Simpsons fans (which would be everybody here, right?):
Judge: This court fines you 1 million dollars
Burns: Smithers, my wallet is in my back pocket. Oh, and I'll take that statue of justice, too.
Didn't you see the slashdot story graphic? This is about your rights online and it affects us all dearly.
I can only hope that in this particular case, Google sends its lobbyists to Congress to change laws affecting how the FAA administers leans against aircraft so that all of us slashdotters with our own 767-200's don't have to worry about the judicial system screwing us over once again. This is about all of our ONLINE RIGHTS!
I read the original report a few days ago and it's been milling around in my head for some time. I've come to the conclusion that the study is flawed because of the Hawthorne Effect.
If a subject knows it is being studied, the outcome is affected. If there is a God, he/she/it outght to be aware of the study being performed if he/she/it has the power to heal somebody. Therefore, the study is fundamentally flawed and the results should be discredited by any real scientists.
I understand a decimal place, when applied to millions of units, equals hundreds of thousands. That doesn't diminish the principle that the analyst numbers are garbage. You're applying a decimal to a 3 digit number, which means you're forecasting a number with more accuracy than a percentage point. It's no more accurate than a fart in the wind.
By my calculations, it's 121.6 (they must have forgotten to take into account leap year, tax increases, etc).
How can somebody make predictions on the sale of a new piece of technology, projecting 6 years into the future, and to be so arrogant that they use the tenth's decimal place to make their forecast? Whatever...
5/month - I know a few have mentioned that's a bit steep. Well, to bring in a valid comparison to just how steep this is - it's CHEAPER to buy the show on DVD than to pay for this service that allows you to tivo DRM'ed television.
On another note, I applaud people who have the audacity to turn off their tv and go out to a party thus living their life, but if the end result is that we're now spending more money to help us make sure we don't miss our tv programming, society has still taken a step backwards.
If any more signs of the apocolypse start happening, I'm going to say 'screw it' and eat all the bacon I want!
No, it's not an exaggerated look at the cost of blu-ray. When DVD players first became available in the consumer market around 1995, the players all cost over $1k. Sure, the drive is $30 now, but not back in the day. I remember in 1997 when the first DVD-R drive was made, it was marketed to the military and retailed for $16k. $350 for blu-ray is the truth, not a marketing ploy.
Consolidate the whole world into the Extended USA. Then legalize everything: gambling, drugs, prostitutes, ripping CD's into MP3's (just kidding, that should always be illegal). Then tax the hell out of the whole thing, and reduce us all to serfs working and toiling for "the man", which is now a single ruling body over everything.
Everybody will work towards Friday under oppression, then celebrate the weekend by gambling, doing drugs and girls, and then listening to illgotten music (just kidding about that one). Problems solved.
Ahh, gambling. The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
I went to NYC a few years ago and, being my first time, decided to go to Time Square that evening. When I got there I thought I'd made a great choice, because the streets were teaming with people and it was packed. "Wow, this must be the place to go". As I slowly made my way around, and I mean very slowly because the crowd was just a lingering zombie akin to an early Chaplin movie about the worker, I began to realize that nobody was doing anything at all. Rather, it was just a crowd of people wandering around in a slow circle. But the impression left is that Time Square must be a place to hang out at night, because there's so many people there. And the cycle repeats itself ad naseum. Crowds beget crowds.
FTA: Microsoft's Home and Entertainment division, which overall includes the Microsoft Xbox video game console system, PC games, the Home Products Division, and TV platform products for the interactive television industry, saw revenue of $1.56 billion in the 3 months to the end of December and a significant loss of $293 million, compared to $1.37 billion revenues and a small profit of $55 million in the same period last year.
Grrr, the headline made it sound like revenue for the game division was down, but it was up, too. Please keep the headlines accurate for those of us who don't want to read the synopsis, let alone the actual article!
Slashdot Mirror
Queue Godwin's Law.
That means it's being developed for the Playstation 4 and the Xbox 720, and perhaps the Wii 2.0, unless by "next generation" they mean the devices that came out 3-4 years ago.
I hoped somebody would post a link to that. One of my favorite videos on youtube. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline of this story.
He died from complications to his kidneys. He'd been ill for some time.
Yeah, the lawyers will tell you the last step is profit, but the small print will read (for the lawyers).
Sure, I checked with Netcraft and they confirmed it!
The government didn't talk publicly about the SR-71 Spy Plane until...well, there's something else out there, which we won't know about until it's replaced by something else.
Yeah, according to the BBC report, censorship is spreading. According to my state-run newspaper, everything is just fine, and, wait a second, it says here I should just move right along.
Yeah, I guess you haven't heard of "unbox" either. No problem, most of the rest of the world has, too and it should hopefully go away soon.
If you don't want to RTFA, you can follow the link to Google's policy here:
www.goatse.ru
As much as we all like to see companies and people stand up to the MPAA and RIAA, this may not be a good idea.
At its heart this is about a company profiting off of the removal of DRM and re-extending fair use to a product that really shouldn't have DRM on it (or so sayeth most slashdotters). What if this is discovered to be the next business model? Cripple things with DRM, and then for additional money they'll take them off?
Shutter...If only Circuit City were doing this for free.
Have you ever heard of the grace period? I've been using credit cards for about 7 years now (I'm only 26), but I've never EVER paid a single penny to the credit card companies beyond my purchases, and the credit card companies have now sent me over $700 in cash back payments.
Credit card companies became trillion dollar companies by charging the stores 3% of the purchase price (to compete to get into your wallet, some offer 1/3 of that back to you in the form of 1% cash back).
Smart people pay everything they can with a credit card and make the payment in full on the next billing cycle.
Hopefully her lawyer wasn't Rep. Stevens' Lawyer.
How Representative Stevens' lawyer would ask the judge for his fees to be compensated (if he were the defendent's lawyer in this particular case):
Lawyer: You see, Judge, when I go to the local branch of my bank, I can't just drive up with a pile of cash on the bed of my truck. You see, they've got these TUBES, and the money has to fit in them, and , and, it's - well they're TUBES!
Judge: I could give you a direct deposit.
Lawyer: Well, here's the thing, Judge. I got a direct deposit sent by my staff person last Friday, and it didn't show up in my account until this morning. WHY?
Judge: Banks are closed on weekends.
And for you Simpsons fans (which would be everybody here, right?):
Judge: This court fines you 1 million dollars
Burns: Smithers, my wallet is in my back pocket. Oh, and I'll take that statue of justice, too.
Judge (slamming gavel on podium): SOLD!
Didn't you see the slashdot story graphic? This is about your rights online and it affects us all dearly.
I can only hope that in this particular case, Google sends its lobbyists to Congress to change laws affecting how the FAA administers leans against aircraft so that all of us slashdotters with our own 767-200's don't have to worry about the judicial system screwing us over once again. This is about all of our ONLINE RIGHTS!
I read the original report a few days ago and it's been milling around in my head for some time. I've come to the conclusion that the study is flawed because of the Hawthorne Effect.
If a subject knows it is being studied, the outcome is affected. If there is a God, he/she/it outght to be aware of the study being performed if he/she/it has the power to heal somebody. Therefore, the study is fundamentally flawed and the results should be discredited by any real scientists.
I understand a decimal place, when applied to millions of units, equals hundreds of thousands. That doesn't diminish the principle that the analyst numbers are garbage. You're applying a decimal to a 3 digit number, which means you're forecasting a number with more accuracy than a percentage point. It's no more accurate than a fart in the wind.
Those analyst forecasts are way off.
By my calculations, it's 121.6 (they must have forgotten to take into account leap year, tax increases, etc).
How can somebody make predictions on the sale of a new piece of technology, projecting 6 years into the future, and to be so arrogant that they use the tenth's decimal place to make their forecast? Whatever...
5/month - I know a few have mentioned that's a bit steep. Well, to bring in a valid comparison to just how steep this is - it's CHEAPER to buy the show on DVD than to pay for this service that allows you to tivo DRM'ed television.
On another note, I applaud people who have the audacity to turn off their tv and go out to a party thus living their life, but if the end result is that we're now spending more money to help us make sure we don't miss our tv programming, society has still taken a step backwards.
If any more signs of the apocolypse start happening, I'm going to say 'screw it' and eat all the bacon I want!
No, it's not an exaggerated look at the cost of blu-ray. When DVD players first became available in the consumer market around 1995, the players all cost over $1k. Sure, the drive is $30 now, but not back in the day. I remember in 1997 when the first DVD-R drive was made, it was marketed to the military and retailed for $16k. $350 for blu-ray is the truth, not a marketing ploy.
Consolidate the whole world into the Extended USA. Then legalize everything: gambling, drugs, prostitutes, ripping CD's into MP3's (just kidding, that should always be illegal). Then tax the hell out of the whole thing, and reduce us all to serfs working and toiling for "the man", which is now a single ruling body over everything.
Everybody will work towards Friday under oppression, then celebrate the weekend by gambling, doing drugs and girls, and then listening to illgotten music (just kidding about that one). Problems solved.
Ahh, gambling. The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
I went to NYC a few years ago and, being my first time, decided to go to Time Square that evening. When I got there I thought I'd made a great choice, because the streets were teaming with people and it was packed. "Wow, this must be the place to go". As I slowly made my way around, and I mean very slowly because the crowd was just a lingering zombie akin to an early Chaplin movie about the worker, I began to realize that nobody was doing anything at all. Rather, it was just a crowd of people wandering around in a slow circle. But the impression left is that Time Square must be a place to hang out at night, because there's so many people there. And the cycle repeats itself ad naseum. Crowds beget crowds.
Oh great, here's another way us geeks can be left out of the social circle, and in our own backyard.
...except for game division?
FTA: Microsoft's Home and Entertainment division, which overall includes the Microsoft Xbox video game console system, PC games, the Home Products Division, and TV platform products for the interactive television industry, saw revenue of $1.56 billion in the 3 months to the end of December and a significant loss of $293 million, compared to $1.37 billion revenues and a small profit of $55 million in the same period last year.
Grrr, the headline made it sound like revenue for the game division was down, but it was up, too. Please keep the headlines accurate for those of us who don't want to read the synopsis, let alone the actual article!
Sounds like we're being a little loose with the word "triumphiant".
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