I've downloaded FFVII:AC and watched it multiple times. However, you can be damn sure I'll be first in line when this gets released in the US. Hell, it might even be my first UMD movie (only if packaged with the DVD).
Granted, it might be useful in the Asian countries, but in the US? Maybe the European version will have more useful langauges for the US culture: Hindi
As for making them writeable, why? That's why they have a thing called a memory stick slot.
Cost effective high volume storage. $100 a flash stick isn't exactly cost effective, nor is it high volume (1 or 2g is nothing when you think in movie terms).
I'd love to watch my movies on a PSP, on the go, but having to rebuy any one of my 300 DVDs isn't exactly something I'm willing to do.
These two guys were true innovations in AI. It's amazing what these two robots can do. This is truely a hard hit against robotic innovation and the growth of interactive AI.
ha, I was even hoping to get an Aibo, soon, to torment my two cats. (Didn't even know Qrio hit the consumer line!)
It's a slippery slope. Advertising in games will only work if gamers continue to play the games. I know plenty of gamers that will refuse to pay for a game with ads as well as refuse to play a game where ads distract you...*cough*...That IS the purpose of an ad; to grab your attention.
Personally...I'm not throwing my support behind any game that puts in ingame ads. I'll stick with console games if I have to.
I have to agree 100% with that, too. I'm one of them!
I tried downloading songs, but found such a hassle getting anything of good quality. I'd have 24 songs, 18 of which were just horriable. I gave up on downloading. The iPod/iTunes just makes things easier. You can always get a short 30 second preview and you're always guarenteed to have a full song with no "beeps", "scratches" or anything ruining a good song.
Paying for songs have never been a concern of mine---the raise in prices IS. I remember the promise CD prices would drop ("once they became mainstream"), but have only raised.
Not exactly similar. In that case the tendent messed up and the people getting the gas could mistake it. In this story the buyer intentionally altered the price.
A monopoly over.com and.net domains? Damn it, guess I need to inform my website they don't control my domains, VeriSign still does!
I guess my webhost must also be paying the added $20/year to VeriSign for my domain registration. Oh, make that $30 for one of my domains since my host registers it for me for free.
One often-overlooked element that the Microsoft games group brings to the party is its unique GUIs that are unlike the folder/desktop metaphor that Xerox and Apple developed.
I love how they felt the need to jab at Apple/Xerox by comparing a desktop OS with a Gaming console. Shouldn't they have at least used Windows instead? After all, it is Microsoft's Xbox and 95, 98, 2k, XP and Windows Vista are all about the folder/desktop metaphors.
If Amazon dropped his listing, authors may or may not start worrying that if they complain about bad reviews (something lots of authors have to deal with) then Amazon might drop them instead of solving their issues.
I don't think that'll be an issue. The difference in this case is Jack is threatening Amazon. Most of your average authors won't. They'll just send a kind letter to Amazon asking for some reviews to be removed. If their point is valid, I'm sure Amazon would comply. However, in Jack's case, he's using a big bully tactic in attempts to get bad, even though well written, reviews removed.
What's the best way to deal with a bully? Ignore them and drop all support for them
I'm suprised nobody's suggested the possibility of it not fitting correctly on the cover. There's only limited room before you smack right into the Apple logo.
Free Windows. We all know the security in Windows isn't all that great. I suspect if they went this route, the ad schema would be cracked and removeable almost immediately.
Hmm, I got a good laugh from the first sentence of their blog: The core of my team's job is to make IE7 and Windows Vista so compelling so that people choose our products.
What a concept. It makes you wonder what their original concept really was...
Actually, I expected to see one a bit faster. I was surpised to see it was a WoW crack that came out before viruses. But, like you and everybody else say; we saw it coming from over 1000 miles away.
Besides, who wants to be deprived of all its documentation every time DSL is down?
When my Cable/DSL goes down, I pretty much lost my computer. There's nothing I do anymore that doesn't require online access. All my games are online only. Offline games are on my consoles. I can't work on websites, can't check my email, can't IM buddies, can't surf forums. No Internet access == no use for my PC these days.
Buy giving these interlopers the right to enforce a patent on a device people have already invested money in is just one more example of how intellectual property laws in the US are screwed up royally.
I couldn't agree more
I will loose all respective I once had in Creative Labs if they attempt to use this to attack Apple and their iPods
NO company should *ever* be allowed to patent *any* uniquely existing product they did *not* own themselves.
*unqiue keyword added to emphisis Creative should not be allowed to patent something they *and* Apple current use and have used for several years.
Oh, a know a few myself, too. But that doesn't make a person with a cert any less experienced.
I have a cert, in a programming language. I use that language daily, hard code text, no WYSIWIG editors or anything of that nature.
Any me *ANYTHING* within that language, and I can answer the question. Sure, I might have to hit the docs a couple times, but that's mostly cause this language has more built in functions than LosVegas has hookers.
It depends on the cert, always had and always will. And the only way to understand the quality of the certs is to speak with everybody that's passed the tests. Then judging out of X people, how many actually truely don't know s*.
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I've downloaded FFVII:AC and watched it multiple times. However, you can be damn sure I'll be first in line when this gets released in the US. Hell, it might even be my first UMD movie (only if packaged with the DVD).
Granted, it might be useful in the Asian countries, but in the US? Maybe the European version will have more useful langauges for the US culture: Hindi
While watching a movie. Average DVD player playtime: 2hrs. Average PSP playtime: 8hrs.
;)
Small difference.
As for making them writeable, why? That's why they have a thing called a memory stick slot.
Cost effective high volume storage. $100 a flash stick isn't exactly cost effective, nor is it high volume (1 or 2g is nothing when you think in movie terms).
I'd love to watch my movies on a PSP, on the go, but having to rebuy any one of my 300 DVDs isn't exactly something I'm willing to do.
Make them writeable. Then UMD's will have my 110% support. Until then, they are just a crappy propritary format.
At least with all other camara cards, you can freely write/delete from them using your home PC.
These two guys were true innovations in AI. It's amazing what these two robots can do. This is truely a hard hit against robotic innovation and the growth of interactive AI.
ha, I was even hoping to get an Aibo, soon, to torment my two cats.
(Didn't even know Qrio hit the consumer line!)
It's a slippery slope. Advertising in games will only work if gamers continue to play the games. I know plenty of gamers that will refuse to pay for a game with ads as well as refuse to play a game where ads distract you...*cough*...That IS the purpose of an ad; to grab your attention.
Personally...I'm not throwing my support behind any game that puts in ingame ads. I'll stick with console games if I have to.
I have to agree 100% with that, too. I'm one of them!
I tried downloading songs, but found such a hassle getting anything of good quality. I'd have 24 songs, 18 of which were just horriable. I gave up on downloading. The iPod/iTunes just makes things easier. You can always get a short 30 second preview and you're always guarenteed to have a full song with no "beeps", "scratches" or anything ruining a good song.
Paying for songs have never been a concern of mine---the raise in prices IS. I remember the promise CD prices would drop ("once they became mainstream"), but have only raised.
I distinctly remember it being dubbed that multiple DVD standards would be BAD for the consumer. How is this going to be good for the consumer?
Not exactly similar. In that case the tendent messed up and the people getting the gas could mistake it. In this story the buyer intentionally altered the price.
A monopoly over .com and .net domains? Damn it, guess I need to inform my website they don't control my domains, VeriSign still does!
I guess my webhost must also be paying the added $20/year to VeriSign for my domain registration. Oh, make that $30 for one of my domains since my host registers it for me for free.
One often-overlooked element that the Microsoft games group brings to the party is its unique GUIs that are unlike the folder/desktop metaphor that Xerox and Apple developed.
I love how they felt the need to jab at Apple/Xerox by comparing a desktop OS with a Gaming console. Shouldn't they have at least used Windows instead? After all, it is Microsoft's Xbox and 95, 98, 2k, XP and Windows Vista are all about the folder/desktop metaphors.
If Amazon dropped his listing, authors may or may not start worrying that if they complain about bad reviews (something lots of authors have to deal with) then Amazon might drop them instead of solving their issues.
I don't think that'll be an issue. The difference in this case is Jack is threatening Amazon. Most of your average authors won't. They'll just send a kind letter to Amazon asking for some reviews to be removed. If their point is valid, I'm sure Amazon would comply. However, in Jack's case, he's using a big bully tactic in attempts to get bad, even though well written, reviews removed.
What's the best way to deal with a bully? Ignore them and drop all support for them
I'm suprised nobody's suggested the possibility of it not fitting correctly on the cover. There's only limited room before you smack right into the Apple logo.
Free Windows. We all know the security in Windows isn't all that great. I suspect if they went this route, the ad schema would be cracked and removeable almost immediately.
Hmm, I got a good laugh from the first sentence of their blog: The core of my team's job is to make IE7 and Windows Vista so compelling so that people choose our products.
What a concept. It makes you wonder what their original concept really was...
Hogposh! OpenOffice takes under a second to load, with the 50meg memspace QuickStarter opened up! (/ducks)
Wow, thanks! That actually works. Took it from 30 seconds to under 5 when opening w/out the Quickstart initially opened.
Acrobat Reader loads in a flash for me. It just takes a bit of Liposuction (Plug-in requirements slightly different for Acrobat7, but not by much).
Actually, I expected to see one a bit faster. I was surpised to see it was a WoW crack that came out before viruses. But, like you and everybody else say; we saw it coming from over 1000 miles away.
When my Cable/DSL goes down, I pretty much lost my computer. There's nothing I do anymore that doesn't require online access. All my games are online only. Offline games are on my consoles. I can't work on websites, can't check my email, can't IM buddies, can't surf forums. No Internet access == no use for my PC these days.
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that her last name is Anderson?
Buy giving these interlopers the right to enforce a patent on a device people have already invested money in is just one more example of how intellectual property laws in the US are screwed up royally.
I couldn't agree more
I will loose all respective I once had in Creative Labs if they attempt to use this to attack Apple and their iPods
NO company should *ever* be allowed to patent *any* uniquely existing product they did *not* own themselves.
*unqiue keyword added to emphisis Creative should not be allowed to patent something they *and* Apple current use and have used for several years.
Oh, a know a few myself, too. But that doesn't make a person with a cert any less experienced. I have a cert, in a programming language. I use that language daily, hard code text, no WYSIWIG editors or anything of that nature. Any me *ANYTHING* within that language, and I can answer the question. Sure, I might have to hit the docs a couple times, but that's mostly cause this language has more built in functions than LosVegas has hookers. It depends on the cert, always had and always will. And the only way to understand the quality of the certs is to speak with everybody that's passed the tests. Then judging out of X people, how many actually truely don't know s*.
I liked the trailor. Although I do wish it was in English. I had problems keeping up with the fast pase subtitles. :(