Uhh...Sony never made anything off the PS2. They lost money on the PS2. I guess you could say they lost less than Microsoft and therefore "made" more money than Microsoft, but, they have yet to make a dime off the PS2. Now if you wanted to talk about Nintendo. Theres a company that "blew the doors off." They were in the black shortly after the Gamecube came out. Oh yeah...the gross ammount of $$$ in the videogame buisness is only around 10billion (total...includeing cellphones & PCs). No one of the 3 companies can even come close to captureing over 1/10th of that. You gaw damn fanboys are as another poster put it: "the grabage littering the console world."
The memory in the cart is actually very viable. It's partialy why Nintendo has stuck with carts on the handheld. Opera shouldn't be very big and Nintendo has been known to include "upgrades" on carts with previous systems.
PDA phones generaly have an airplane mode of some sort. My Treo 650 does that and I know that most any new Windoze PDA phone can switch off the phone options.
Perhaps thier higtened attention to what would be considered honor and what those around them whom are equally honorable think of them. In Western countries we don't have that issue partially due to the fact that just about everyone is more than happy to stab you in the back at the first sign of an extra buck being in thier bank account at the end of the day. We are individualistic, self destructive, egotistical and in general horrible people in how most in the "civilized west" act. In Asian countries and especially Japan people generaly tend to be close to more of a huge community that while everyone has thier wants they try to keep it less destructive (name me one Japanese Enron).
Imagine for instance instead of everyone in your country being less like faceless individuals that you could give two shits about as you flip them off for cutting you off. It's closer to a country full of very close family & friends. Now imagine you did something very stupid to those friends & family you really like (like lost 50 grand or bankrupted a buisness and ruined a few lives). You'd feel a few flavors of shit and probably try to avoid those people again. Problem is the Japanese can't just avoid the people as a whole. Something like honor & reputation really mean allot there and if you don't have it your not worth much.
This isn't really news. This is just an extension of what Microsoft said when the SCO V Linux suit was sparking up & they said the same thing about users running thier OS.
I used to work for one of the companies EA ate. The reason the OS version isn't on the box, but it works is because they don't want to have to deal with the various versions of windows. If it works for you? Great! If it doesn't? Well your not going to get much help with the companies tech support. Especialy since 99% of the time people emailing/calling for tech support need to buy one less iPod this year and hire a real tech to make thier computer work right. People love to buy a game then expect the company to help them clean the spyware & other crap off thier "minimum requirements" PC so they can play the game for a few hours.
I never said that. You're batting fairly low with baseless attacks & now putting words in my mouth now. I do actually work to help try to solve such problem which is a bit more than I can say for others. Like say those that have such a dim & narrow view on such things as eBay because they can't seem to see let alone think outside of the itty-bitty microclasim that amounts to the excuse that is their life. Outside of an armed revolution, "Status Quos" are just as slow to change as the Status Quo moves.
Yeah, but unlike your examples buyer beware remains and will continue to stand. Ever try to buy a used car like...ever? There's a perfect example right there. The moment the limited warranty you get from a dealership runs out or if you buy the car from a personal party it's on your head once you hand the money over. This world can not function on 30-day money back guarantees. Just contracts. Too many people exploit such things. Hell I know how to make those 5 year warranties work for me (I don't buy something unless it's going to get used extensively), but generally you lose out on those.
I love your baseless attacks on a group of people though. If you knew fuck all about how such things like eBay works (for instance) you'd know I actually make part of my living off of Ebay "Bid Sniping," bidding on improperly listed items, consignments, and selling on Ebay (Police & Estate Auctions rock). The only repeated problem I've ever had with buyers (and sellers to some extent) is complete lack of ability to show a little bit of intelligence and read something that is a contract. It's amazing no matter how many times you put something is used in a description people can get the idea that something is shrink-wrapped new.
It's a good thing the whole slavery and big guys beating up on the big guys thing was taken care of though. At least the conscious action of it. People may think such things are dead, but they've just taken a new form. Slavery is just in the form of paper money and a if your not a good drone your supply will be taken away or lessened and the people with the whip just make more when they run low (and "real" slavery still does exist in every country still it's not kicking you in the balls like it used to. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it doesn't exist). Oh and the big guy beating up on the little guy. Yeah that never happens. Bosses shit on their employees all the time, big companies take people with less money to court (doesn't matter if they have a case), and bigger people still beat smaller people.
Such inefficiencies of society never go away. They just change shape until people become complacent with them or manage to, "get on the other side of the fence."
Partially because the whole hybrid thing is what you'd call "an emrging technology." As more people purchase them: prices go down, manufacturers who are attempting to do some good get some of thier investment back to better, cheaper, more efficient models, competition ensues (which there isn't really much atm with hybrids) and everyone benifits. Oh wait...nevermind...I forgot I was living in the USA still.
Yeah once you break the encryption you just swipe a blank RFID and put the same code on it. RFID is nice, but it's just as open for attack as UPC codes.
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You've never been to a swap meet (or similar markets) have you? Oh nevermind...you like shrink-wrapping and think something that's like that should be priced like it's used. Wake up and smell the last milenia. You aren't going to get a 5 year Best Buy warranty (30 day money back!) with that eBay purchase. The world has been built on "as-is" and it's buyer beware. If you can't be on your toes when purchaseing something from eBay it's your own fsking fault when you get scammed with an as-is item. Check feedback, find out if the seller deals in the stuff they are selling that you want, if so have people been happy with it, if so GET THE DAMN $2 INSURANCE. If you don't do any part of that process your a dumbass and need to go sit in the corner until you learn your lesson. I'm not defending eBay, but theres a point where you have to either suck it up and wake up to reality or take your ball and go home where only your parents will listen to you because you did something stupid.
Ummm...you do know you can disable the store too right? Plus if your like me and you like to search for music allot the iTunes store is quite good for that. iTunes always runs on my machine so when I'm either just browsing for music I don't goto some chaotic online database of music "users" made, but the one that apple made and then go directly to isohunt with band name & album in hand. Works as long as the music is just a little bit mainstream though. Indie stuff I have my record store friends for.
Calm down...the GP appears to be the moron that sees everything as either lineart or rastered images. Amazeing how smart a person can be asking a question yet show how big of a dumbass they are awnsering questions (not to mention questions no one ever asked them to awnser).
I'm not an apologist or even attempting to defend Ebay, but they have NEVER attempted to deal with fraud. Hell in the early days of Ebay fraud was amazingly high. I got amazing deals back then, but I got defrauded a bit too (the scales tipped in my favor so I call it a win and learned from my losses). For the most part it's up to the end user to make sure they don't get screwed. Read the fucking listing over and over and then read it again, check feedback (if the # is not in the mid triple digits and positive feedback is below 98% don't bother), check that the seller normally sells what your buying (check feedback for other users who have bought "similar" from them and was happy), personally try to buy within neighboring states (I scared a scammer shitless and got my MO back because I had been in the area where he lives and could easily "reach out and touch him"), and when you pay please do make sure you pay the extra $2 for insurance and ask questions before impulsively clicking "buy it now."
Its "buyer beware" and if the buyer can't be bothered to exercise good purchasing etiquette it's their own damn fault when things go to hell.
Well C&C: Generals was not done by real Westwood Employees (Las Vegas), but the Irvine office EA got when they bought Westwood from Virgin (they were Virgin Interactive...theres some bad blood there). Westwood Las Vegas died and the Irvine office got to do Generals. They also did Red Alert: 2 and Yuris Revenge, but they did a good job on those though. If your looking for some more of that beautiful Westwood quality RTS look no further than Petroglyph Studios (Ex-WW Las Vegas Employees) who are doing Star Wars: Empire at War and damn is it beautiful.
http://www.petroglyphgames.com/games/starwars.php
It was a short lived space MMORPG Bret Sperry wanted to do partialy because of his addiction to Everquest at the time (the man had 4 PCs he played the Evercrack on that I heard about during the 15 year aniversary party). I however know of NO connection to the C&C Universe & Earth & Beyond and I worked at Westwood up till a few months near "The End." Wiki below...
In the videogame market Sony bullshits and over-hypes more than anyone else. Microsoft did it a little bit with thier Xbox, but they delivered the strongest console and a superb online service. Nintendo has rarely ever hyped something they didn't deliver (hell they usualy overdeliver). Hell the now defunt Sega as a console manufacturer didn't even over-hype like Sony. They just delivered. By what Sony promised on the PS2 we shoulda have been playing games that looked like Toy Story right now with insaine AI, games useing HDs (I think I can count all of the games in the US with HD support on one hand), and good online play. Instead with the PS3 were being promised the exact same kind of thing and the graphics are good that they are showing, but the most impressive stuff they show is typical Sony prerendered over-hype (Killzone at E3?) and the AI in games will still be the same given how they are crippleing the architecture of the console for graphics. As I said before...some here don't have the memory of a goldfish and are actually involved in the industry as more than just consumers.
You must be new here right? Rootkits, failing to deliver on hype time and time again (some here don't have the memory of gold-fish), more and more hardware the fails faster and faster with each new generation (all of thier electronics and not just thier consoles, but have you bought a slim PS2 lately? Go lasers that burnout quickly unless you mod in a hardware fix). The list goes on. Sony earned every bit of venom that the GP has for them and more.
Yeah and wait till you find your SysAdmin playing Metroid Prime 2 in the server room and suddenly you have to have a SOHO router in every IT office for some reason.
The Chinanet & India problem would be eaisily solved by IPv6 themselves and NAT between them and the IPv4 users. There is little reason for them to be useing IPv4 when it's them that are by and large the big new players that will be the primary cause for the # of IPs finally running out. For the most part the Asian reluctance so far of switching thier own systems to IPv6 wreaks of them wanting to wait for someone to make a solution for them that will cost less and be less risky than creating and implimenting it themselves.
And I never claimed IPv4 can scale up. It's just fact it won't scale past a certain point. Maybe IP space will run out in 2009 or 2011. Maybe it wont, but we wont know for certain until we either cross that bridge, do something about it to buy more time (NATing), and fix the problem (IPv6 or other protocal) or we get onto another protocal like IPv6 that can handle the high numbers and never get to fully see the problem.
And I never claimed NAT was needed "just" for cellphones (please do read before posting and don't make assumptions). I've worked with quite a few groups too where we just NAT everyone internaly to one external IP. As for US ISPs NATing thier users thats an idea we just don't need need getting into thier heads. They allready have enough going on blocking ports like 25 & 80 while chargeing you a "premium service" price just to use ports a few years ago it was just normal. Sure it might work, but also the US & other countries did earn a large majority of that IP space whith the whole getting the whole thing up and going in the first place (You know what happens when your in a decenly sized family and late to dinner right? Well it's kind of your own fault) and get that thought that I'm some psyco-patriotic asshat (Hell I hope to never see US soil again in a year. Viva Japan Baby!).
It's partially due to the fact that the professors are more pressed for being published and thus have to keep writeing papers (to prove they keep "up to date" and in the know) instead of being useful and writeing thier own manuals/books for the classes. The schools could charge more for the class that way and circumvent the publishers entirely. You can really guage how good a Uni is when it's professors don't even use the books students are supposed to buy (or barely touch them) or if the professor provides you with thier own materials. My Japanese teacher is actually getting to the point finally that shes finally going to create her own manual. Partialy because the book is about 50% useful, but mostly because the book & workbook just cost too damn much anymore (used to be $70 for both and still are online, but at the school it's $130 & keeps going up).
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4GB? WTF? The 650 can only handle the first 2GB on the card unless you've got some janky software hack I haven't heard of.
Uhh...Sony never made anything off the PS2. They lost money on the PS2. I guess you could say they lost less than Microsoft and therefore "made" more money than Microsoft, but, they have yet to make a dime off the PS2. Now if you wanted to talk about Nintendo. Theres a company that "blew the doors off." They were in the black shortly after the Gamecube came out. Oh yeah...the gross ammount of $$$ in the videogame buisness is only around 10billion (total...includeing cellphones & PCs). No one of the 3 companies can even come close to captureing over 1/10th of that. You gaw damn fanboys are as another poster put it: "the grabage littering the console world."
The memory in the cart is actually very viable. It's partialy why Nintendo has stuck with carts on the handheld. Opera shouldn't be very big and Nintendo has been known to include "upgrades" on carts with previous systems.
Tiananmen Square...yeah...China would loved to have kept that one "private."
PDA phones generaly have an airplane mode of some sort. My Treo 650 does that and I know that most any new Windoze PDA phone can switch off the phone options.
Perhaps thier higtened attention to what would be considered honor and what those around them whom are equally honorable think of them. In Western countries we don't have that issue partially due to the fact that just about everyone is more than happy to stab you in the back at the first sign of an extra buck being in thier bank account at the end of the day. We are individualistic, self destructive, egotistical and in general horrible people in how most in the "civilized west" act. In Asian countries and especially Japan people generaly tend to be close to more of a huge community that while everyone has thier wants they try to keep it less destructive (name me one Japanese Enron).
Imagine for instance instead of everyone in your country being less like faceless individuals that you could give two shits about as you flip them off for cutting you off. It's closer to a country full of very close family & friends. Now imagine you did something very stupid to those friends & family you really like (like lost 50 grand or bankrupted a buisness and ruined a few lives). You'd feel a few flavors of shit and probably try to avoid those people again. Problem is the Japanese can't just avoid the people as a whole. Something like honor & reputation really mean allot there and if you don't have it your not worth much.
This isn't really news. This is just an extension of what Microsoft said when the SCO V Linux suit was sparking up & they said the same thing about users running thier OS.
I used to work for one of the companies EA ate. The reason the OS version isn't on the box, but it works is because they don't want to have to deal with the various versions of windows. If it works for you? Great! If it doesn't? Well your not going to get much help with the companies tech support. Especialy since 99% of the time people emailing/calling for tech support need to buy one less iPod this year and hire a real tech to make thier computer work right. People love to buy a game then expect the company to help them clean the spyware & other crap off thier "minimum requirements" PC so they can play the game for a few hours.
I never said that. You're batting fairly low with baseless attacks & now putting words in my mouth now. I do actually work to help try to solve such problem which is a bit more than I can say for others. Like say those that have such a dim & narrow view on such things as eBay because they can't seem to see let alone think outside of the itty-bitty microclasim that amounts to the excuse that is their life. Outside of an armed revolution, "Status Quos" are just as slow to change as the Status Quo moves.
Would you be so kind as to tell me what TV this is you have? :-)
Yeah, but unlike your examples buyer beware remains and will continue to stand. Ever try to buy a used car like...ever? There's a perfect example right there. The moment the limited warranty you get from a dealership runs out or if you buy the car from a personal party it's on your head once you hand the money over. This world can not function on 30-day money back guarantees. Just contracts. Too many people exploit such things. Hell I know how to make those 5 year warranties work for me (I don't buy something unless it's going to get used extensively), but generally you lose out on those.
I love your baseless attacks on a group of people though. If you knew fuck all about how such things like eBay works (for instance) you'd know I actually make part of my living off of Ebay "Bid Sniping," bidding on improperly listed items, consignments, and selling on Ebay (Police & Estate Auctions rock). The only repeated problem I've ever had with buyers (and sellers to some extent) is complete lack of ability to show a little bit of intelligence and read something that is a contract. It's amazing no matter how many times you put something is used in a description people can get the idea that something is shrink-wrapped new.
It's a good thing the whole slavery and big guys beating up on the big guys thing was taken care of though. At least the conscious action of it. People may think such things are dead, but they've just taken a new form. Slavery is just in the form of paper money and a if your not a good drone your supply will be taken away or lessened and the people with the whip just make more when they run low (and "real" slavery still does exist in every country still it's not kicking you in the balls like it used to. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it doesn't exist). Oh and the big guy beating up on the little guy. Yeah that never happens. Bosses shit on their employees all the time, big companies take people with less money to court (doesn't matter if they have a case), and bigger people still beat smaller people.
Such inefficiencies of society never go away. They just change shape until people become complacent with them or manage to, "get on the other side of the fence."
Partially because the whole hybrid thing is what you'd call "an emrging technology." As more people purchase them: prices go down, manufacturers who are attempting to do some good get some of thier investment back to better, cheaper, more efficient models, competition ensues (which there isn't really much atm with hybrids) and everyone benifits. Oh wait...nevermind...I forgot I was living in the USA still.
Yeah once you break the encryption you just swipe a blank RFID and put the same code on it. RFID is nice, but it's just as open for attack as UPC codes.
You've never been to a swap meet (or similar markets) have you? Oh nevermind...you like shrink-wrapping and think something that's like that should be priced like it's used. Wake up and smell the last milenia. You aren't going to get a 5 year Best Buy warranty (30 day money back!) with that eBay purchase. The world has been built on "as-is" and it's buyer beware. If you can't be on your toes when purchaseing something from eBay it's your own fsking fault when you get scammed with an as-is item. Check feedback, find out if the seller deals in the stuff they are selling that you want, if so have people been happy with it, if so GET THE DAMN $2 INSURANCE. If you don't do any part of that process your a dumbass and need to go sit in the corner until you learn your lesson. I'm not defending eBay, but theres a point where you have to either suck it up and wake up to reality or take your ball and go home where only your parents will listen to you because you did something stupid.
Ummm...you do know you can disable the store too right? Plus if your like me and you like to search for music allot the iTunes store is quite good for that. iTunes always runs on my machine so when I'm either just browsing for music I don't goto some chaotic online database of music "users" made, but the one that apple made and then go directly to isohunt with band name & album in hand. Works as long as the music is just a little bit mainstream though. Indie stuff I have my record store friends for.
Calm down...the GP appears to be the moron that sees everything as either lineart or rastered images. Amazeing how smart a person can be asking a question yet show how big of a dumbass they are awnsering questions (not to mention questions no one ever asked them to awnser).
I'm not an apologist or even attempting to defend Ebay, but they have NEVER attempted to deal with fraud. Hell in the early days of Ebay fraud was amazingly high. I got amazing deals back then, but I got defrauded a bit too (the scales tipped in my favor so I call it a win and learned from my losses). For the most part it's up to the end user to make sure they don't get screwed. Read the fucking listing over and over and then read it again, check feedback (if the # is not in the mid triple digits and positive feedback is below 98% don't bother), check that the seller normally sells what your buying (check feedback for other users who have bought "similar" from them and was happy), personally try to buy within neighboring states (I scared a scammer shitless and got my MO back because I had been in the area where he lives and could easily "reach out and touch him"), and when you pay please do make sure you pay the extra $2 for insurance and ask questions before impulsively clicking "buy it now."
Its "buyer beware" and if the buyer can't be bothered to exercise good purchasing etiquette it's their own damn fault when things go to hell.
Well C&C: Generals was not done by real Westwood Employees (Las Vegas), but the Irvine office EA got when they bought Westwood from Virgin (they were Virgin Interactive...theres some bad blood there). Westwood Las Vegas died and the Irvine office got to do Generals. They also did Red Alert: 2 and Yuris Revenge, but they did a good job on those though. If your looking for some more of that beautiful Westwood quality RTS look no further than Petroglyph Studios (Ex-WW Las Vegas Employees) who are doing Star Wars: Empire at War and damn is it beautiful. http://www.petroglyphgames.com/games/starwars.php
It was a short lived space MMORPG Bret Sperry wanted to do partialy because of his addiction to Everquest at the time (the man had 4 PCs he played the Evercrack on that I heard about during the 15 year aniversary party). I however know of NO connection to the C&C Universe & Earth & Beyond and I worked at Westwood up till a few months near "The End." Wiki below...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_%26_Beyond
In the videogame market Sony bullshits and over-hypes more than anyone else. Microsoft did it a little bit with thier Xbox, but they delivered the strongest console and a superb online service. Nintendo has rarely ever hyped something they didn't deliver (hell they usualy overdeliver). Hell the now defunt Sega as a console manufacturer didn't even over-hype like Sony. They just delivered. By what Sony promised on the PS2 we shoulda have been playing games that looked like Toy Story right now with insaine AI, games useing HDs (I think I can count all of the games in the US with HD support on one hand), and good online play. Instead with the PS3 were being promised the exact same kind of thing and the graphics are good that they are showing, but the most impressive stuff they show is typical Sony prerendered over-hype (Killzone at E3?) and the AI in games will still be the same given how they are crippleing the architecture of the console for graphics. As I said before...some here don't have the memory of a goldfish and are actually involved in the industry as more than just consumers.
You must be new here right? Rootkits, failing to deliver on hype time and time again (some here don't have the memory of gold-fish), more and more hardware the fails faster and faster with each new generation (all of thier electronics and not just thier consoles, but have you bought a slim PS2 lately? Go lasers that burnout quickly unless you mod in a hardware fix). The list goes on. Sony earned every bit of venom that the GP has for them and more.
Yeah and wait till you find your SysAdmin playing Metroid Prime 2 in the server room and suddenly you have to have a SOHO router in every IT office for some reason.
The Chinanet & India problem would be eaisily solved by IPv6 themselves and NAT between them and the IPv4 users. There is little reason for them to be useing IPv4 when it's them that are by and large the big new players that will be the primary cause for the # of IPs finally running out. For the most part the Asian reluctance so far of switching thier own systems to IPv6 wreaks of them wanting to wait for someone to make a solution for them that will cost less and be less risky than creating and implimenting it themselves.
And I never claimed IPv4 can scale up. It's just fact it won't scale past a certain point. Maybe IP space will run out in 2009 or 2011. Maybe it wont, but we wont know for certain until we either cross that bridge, do something about it to buy more time (NATing), and fix the problem (IPv6 or other protocal) or we get onto another protocal like IPv6 that can handle the high numbers and never get to fully see the problem.
And I never claimed NAT was needed "just" for cellphones (please do read before posting and don't make assumptions). I've worked with quite a few groups too where we just NAT everyone internaly to one external IP. As for US ISPs NATing thier users thats an idea we just don't need need getting into thier heads. They allready have enough going on blocking ports like 25 & 80 while chargeing you a "premium service" price just to use ports a few years ago it was just normal. Sure it might work, but also the US & other countries did earn a large majority of that IP space whith the whole getting the whole thing up and going in the first place (You know what happens when your in a decenly sized family and late to dinner right? Well it's kind of your own fault) and get that thought that I'm some psyco-patriotic asshat (Hell I hope to never see US soil again in a year. Viva Japan Baby!).
It's partially due to the fact that the professors are more pressed for being published and thus have to keep writeing papers (to prove they keep "up to date" and in the know) instead of being useful and writeing thier own manuals/books for the classes. The schools could charge more for the class that way and circumvent the publishers entirely. You can really guage how good a Uni is when it's professors don't even use the books students are supposed to buy (or barely touch them) or if the professor provides you with thier own materials. My Japanese teacher is actually getting to the point finally that shes finally going to create her own manual. Partialy because the book is about 50% useful, but mostly because the book & workbook just cost too damn much anymore (used to be $70 for both and still are online, but at the school it's $130 & keeps going up).