Do they need to demand a certain level of latency, lack of jitter, vocal quality (i.e. mandate a specific codec or bit rate).
I hope they impose better levels of quality than they demand with Dialup. Telcos are only required to maintain a 9600bps connection speed over dialup. At least, that's what I seem to remember reading.
Those unnecessary conversions would really kill your speed. All the extra introduced noise would probably force to you to fall back to 33k.
Hell. 33k would be awesome. I do good to connect at 28.8k or 31.2k because my telephone company doesn't give enough of a damn to fix the malfunctioning phone lines.
This controller doesn't seem to get there either. I mean, it's closer than the Wii controller, but if you watch the videos, the kid can't hit a ball with a racket, has trouble shooting a giant sword lying on the floor with a gun, and has trouble aiming the bow when asked to shoot a specific enemy
It was a tech demo. It's still close to a year away from release. Plenty of time for them to tweak it.
Sony's solution requires not just the wand but also an eyetoy.
Nintendo's solution requires not just the controller but also a sensor bar.
Frankly, the tech demo blew me away. I can't wait to see where they go with it. People keep making a big deal about how Sony and Microsoft are "playing catch-up". *shrug* It really doesn't bother me. Especially since they've improved it well beyond what Nintendo came up with.
Just my opinion, though.
Because I truly doubt that the WoW style subscription model is going to work out long term
Considering that subscription-based MMOs have been out for, what? Fifteen years now? (When was UO released?) EverQuest celebrated its ten-year anniversary recently. WoW has been out for almost five years now. I'd say the subscription-based model is already working "long term".
*shrug* Maybe I'm just easily amused but I've never played a Final Fantasy game I hated. The closest would have been X-2. But even that game had a pretty good battle system, IMO. You just had to get past the horrible music and story. I suppose I can understand the common beef with FFVIII but I still loved it. As far as FFXII goes, I thought the battle system was great. And IMO the story was a great step forward. There weren't an over-abundance of angst-ridden characters and there was no love-triangle/romance subplot. I thought it showed a maturation of the Final Fantasy series.
I'm on dial-up because I CAN'T get anything else. I live in a rural area where the population is so low that neither the phone company nor the cable company feel it's worth the cost to upgrade the equipment to allow us to get broadband.
I work in the electronics department at our local retail store. There are a few mp3 players that use the radial button scheme. But the vast majority are shaped more like USB flash drives (in fact, one Samsung model we carried at one point in time actually dubbed AS a flash drive). Granted we don't exactly have a vast selection of mp3 players... From my experience, I have seen nothing special about the iPod. At least, nothing to justify the higher price. Unless the customer wants 4GB of storage or more, or wants video/picture playback, I usually recommend one of the many cheaper media players we stock.
As far as simplicity goes, I've never seen an mp3 player with a complex user interface. *shrugs*
The iPod IS just another mp3 player. What was so revolutionary about the user interface? The click wheel? If it was so revolutionary, then other manufacturers would have copied it a long time ago. And from what I've seen, nobody has.
THANK YOU! I've been waiting and waiting for someone to say that. I identify myself as being Christian but I have very little trouble incorporating my religion and science.
Still having trouble? We'll create an actually useful LFG system, and tie entry into the LFG channel to registering with it (to avoid it looking like Trade - City)
It WOULD be useful if people would actually use it. you ever try to use the LFG system? There's nobody using it. People are still mindlessly cluttering up the trade channels. And if you suggest to them that they use the LFG system, they say "durr n00b! nobody uses it!"
So let's get this straight...... You don't use it....because nobody uses it....and nobody uses it....because nobody uses it.
People don't seem to get it that they actually have to use it in order for it to be useful. Did they think that Blizzard would pre-populate the LFG tool?
It's like a vicious, retarded cycle.
Nevermind the fact that the skill system is way too tedious.
"Oh, you want to go to the bathroom? well, you need the BATHROOM OPERATION skill. And that requires the following skills:
Toilet Operation (Level 5) (6 Days to Learn),
Toilet Flush Handle Operation (Level 2) (12 Hours to Learn),
TP Roll Dispenser Operation (Level 10) (1.2 Weeks to Learn),
Bathroom Door Operation (Level 8) (9 Hours to Learn),
Doorhandle Operation (Level 10) (8 Days to Learn),
Sink Operation (Level 9) (Fifteen Hours to Learn),
Pant Zipper Operation (Level 2) (3 Days to Learn),
Quantum Engineering (Level 20) (8.4 Months to Learn)"
That all depends. If people can't find the movies they want at Target, they'll look elsewhere. If it happens enough, Target will cease to be the first place they check when they need a movie. They'll go to whoever has the best selection.
Target might have to reconsider the amount of shelf space allocated for movies if studios undercut the wholesale price of DVDs by giving online services a better deal on digital offerings.
And consumers might have to reconsider the amount of capital allocated for purchasing movies at Target.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't "Episode IV" ALWAYS in the title? Seems to me I can remember being a small child (I'm twenty-two now) watching A New Hope and wondering why they numbered it IV instead of I.
I don't see what the big deal is. How many people actually HAVE HDMI-ready televisions? THREE? I'd actually be more angry that they're not shipping with component cables, because more people have component-ready televisions. But, I can also see why they're only shipping with composite. It's got the highest market penetration. So you can rest assured that if someone buys a PS3, they're going to be able to hook it up because they'll almost definitely have composite jacks. Then, if they have better video inputs, let them make up their own mind to go get the cable. Odds are, if they've had the TV for any length of time, they might already have a cable or two lying about anyway. *shrug* that's just my $0.02.
That is why Dungeons & Dragons has so little source material.
Yes, I can understand why you would think that. I mean, I would think that too if I deliberately ignored the hundreds of Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms books.
I'd still buy a PSP (if I ever had need of a portable gaming device, which I don't), I just wouldn't buy any movies. I wouldn't mind buying games on UMD... But I'm not going to buy any movies that I ALREADY own on DVD just to be able to play them on the PSP.
Personally, I don't understand why they didn't just use the Mini-DVDs as media. I'm pretty sure the storage capacity is pretty much the same. Then, at least, we'd be able to burn our own discs.
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Do they need to demand a certain level of latency, lack of jitter, vocal quality (i.e. mandate a specific codec or bit rate).
I hope they impose better levels of quality than they demand with Dialup. Telcos are only required to maintain a 9600bps connection speed over dialup. At least, that's what I seem to remember reading.
Those unnecessary conversions would really kill your speed. All the extra introduced noise would probably force to you to fall back to 33k.
Hell. 33k would be awesome. I do good to connect at 28.8k or 31.2k because my telephone company doesn't give enough of a damn to fix the malfunctioning phone lines.
Let's just hope there's not a rose growing in a vacant lot in NYC...
That's exactly what I thought of when I read the article.
This controller doesn't seem to get there either. I mean, it's closer than the Wii controller, but if you watch the videos, the kid can't hit a ball with a racket, has trouble shooting a giant sword lying on the floor with a gun, and has trouble aiming the bow when asked to shoot a specific enemy
It was a tech demo. It's still close to a year away from release. Plenty of time for them to tweak it.
Sony's solution requires not just the wand but also an eyetoy.
Nintendo's solution requires not just the controller but also a sensor bar. Frankly, the tech demo blew me away. I can't wait to see where they go with it. People keep making a big deal about how Sony and Microsoft are "playing catch-up". *shrug* It really doesn't bother me. Especially since they've improved it well beyond what Nintendo came up with. Just my opinion, though.
Because I truly doubt that the WoW style subscription model is going to work out long term
Considering that subscription-based MMOs have been out for, what? Fifteen years now? (When was UO released?) EverQuest celebrated its ten-year anniversary recently. WoW has been out for almost five years now. I'd say the subscription-based model is already working "long term".
*shrug* Maybe I'm just easily amused but I've never played a Final Fantasy game I hated. The closest would have been X-2. But even that game had a pretty good battle system, IMO. You just had to get past the horrible music and story. I suppose I can understand the common beef with FFVIII but I still loved it. As far as FFXII goes, I thought the battle system was great. And IMO the story was a great step forward. There weren't an over-abundance of angst-ridden characters and there was no love-triangle/romance subplot. I thought it showed a maturation of the Final Fantasy series.
I'm on dial-up because I CAN'T get anything else. I live in a rural area where the population is so low that neither the phone company nor the cable company feel it's worth the cost to upgrade the equipment to allow us to get broadband.
I work in the electronics department at our local retail store. There are a few mp3 players that use the radial button scheme. But the vast majority are shaped more like USB flash drives (in fact, one Samsung model we carried at one point in time actually dubbed AS a flash drive). Granted we don't exactly have a vast selection of mp3 players... From my experience, I have seen nothing special about the iPod. At least, nothing to justify the higher price. Unless the customer wants 4GB of storage or more, or wants video/picture playback, I usually recommend one of the many cheaper media players we stock.
As far as simplicity goes, I've never seen an mp3 player with a complex user interface. *shrugs*
The iPod IS just another mp3 player. What was so revolutionary about the user interface? The click wheel? If it was so revolutionary, then other manufacturers would have copied it a long time ago. And from what I've seen, nobody has.
THANK YOU! I've been waiting and waiting for someone to say that. I identify myself as being Christian but I have very little trouble incorporating my religion and science.
Nevermind the fact that the skill system is way too tedious.
"Oh, you want to go to the bathroom? well, you need the BATHROOM OPERATION skill. And that requires the following skills: Toilet Operation (Level 5) (6 Days to Learn), Toilet Flush Handle Operation (Level 2) (12 Hours to Learn), TP Roll Dispenser Operation (Level 10) (1.2 Weeks to Learn), Bathroom Door Operation (Level 8) (9 Hours to Learn), Doorhandle Operation (Level 10) (8 Days to Learn), Sink Operation (Level 9) (Fifteen Hours to Learn), Pant Zipper Operation (Level 2) (3 Days to Learn), Quantum Engineering (Level 20) (8.4 Months to Learn)"
Ah. Cool.
*Takes off his Spelling Nazi helmet*
Sorry. Couldn't help it.
Don't stop.
Seriously.
The most common advice given to those who are developing arthritis is to not stop physical activity.
YMMV IANADr
That all depends. If people can't find the movies they want at Target, they'll look elsewhere. If it happens enough, Target will cease to be the first place they check when they need a movie. They'll go to whoever has the best selection.
I don't see what the big deal is. How many people actually HAVE HDMI-ready televisions? THREE? I'd actually be more angry that they're not shipping with component cables, because more people have component-ready televisions. But, I can also see why they're only shipping with composite. It's got the highest market penetration. So you can rest assured that if someone buys a PS3, they're going to be able to hook it up because they'll almost definitely have composite jacks. Then, if they have better video inputs, let them make up their own mind to go get the cable. Odds are, if they've had the TV for any length of time, they might already have a cable or two lying about anyway. *shrug* that's just my $0.02.
Wait a minute. Were you just being sarcastic about the geeks not liking story bit? If so, then I retract my other statement.
I'd still buy a PSP (if I ever had need of a portable gaming device, which I don't), I just wouldn't buy any movies. I wouldn't mind buying games on UMD... But I'm not going to buy any movies that I ALREADY own on DVD just to be able to play them on the PSP. Personally, I don't understand why they didn't just use the Mini-DVDs as media. I'm pretty sure the storage capacity is pretty much the same. Then, at least, we'd be able to burn our own discs.