Dude you've got it all wrong. It's much easier for the Chinese government to inject contraceptives while you sleep than it is to sneak a condom on you every time you have sex.
The price differential between the 360 and the PS3 was so great when the PS3 came out, the 360 was bound to gain traction. Parents and gamers chose the cheaper machine and developers found they could address a wider audience in less time by going 360 only - as it's easier to program for than the PS3. Better games catalogue = even more customers.
For the OP and me, the 360 is a dreadful product. I couldn't live with a 360 in the same way that I wouldn't tolerate the shortcomings of a typical budget laptop. I like my PS3 and I like my $3000 laptop. But I also recognise that I care way too much about these things and should probably get a life.
My XBMC box is a 750MHz PIII and it streams high-def fullscreen video
Video encoding is a balance of quality, disk size and computational requirements. Your PIII might play your own encodes, but content providers, professional or otherwise, target theirs toward current hardware.
The only thing that's reall changed in the last 10 years is that the tools have changed in appearance.
What the average user expects from web browsing is considerably different to what it was 10 years ago. If you showed me Hulu in HD in 1999 I think I'd have passed out - you can do that in a browser? My Mum and Grandfather have both just bought new computers because their old ones couldn't do BBC iPlayer SD in high quality, let alone the new iPlayer HD content.
The personal computing industry owes a lot to YouTube, Hulu, iPlayer and the like: outside gaming, these are the only mainstream killer apps that actually require 21st century hardware.
An unconfirmed rumor also developed this weekend of an OS that is so carefully and explicitly restricted that consumers interaction with it is limited to attempting to install it
Agreed. The clientele is like this too, either that or whining children. 20 years ago I was one of the whining children in the game store, so I feel their pain, but that doesn't make it any more pleasant.
I'm a casual gamer who bought a PS3 mainly for Blu-Ray. There are two ways I buy games:
I hear about a game, watch YouTube videos, watch trailer on Amazon, buy it on Amazon.
I peruse the Playstation Store and buy a cheap game that catches my eye. Instant gratification without worrying too much about losing the game if the console dies.
Although the main reasons I don't shop at game stores are price, convenience and practicality - I do my research online, so why not buy online - I also hate the following things about game stores:
Nobody sells genuine accessories. I only want genuine accessories.
Unfortunately, Super Awesome Broadband would be Super Slow Narrowband where I live - i.e. in a city, but unable to see the telephone exchange from my bedroom window.
After a year of struggling over the ethics of switching to a monopolistic, Phorm-supporting, bandwidth-throttling FTTC cablesupplier instead of my morally superior DSL connection, I finally gave in. Goodbye 800Kbit/s, hello 20Mbit/s.
Now I do have trouble sleeping at night, but I can just stream HD video to wile away the time.
I'm starting a pool on how soon devices that show you the nearest cops will be sold on eBay. Who needs radar detectors if you have a live map with all cops clearly marked??
Energy/fuel market fluctuations and the state of local market pricing are two of the most important factors in HVAC system selection. In my area, electricity is 10x more expensive than natural gas, so nobody uses electric water heaters. In the same area 40 years ago, people installed paraffin heaters because that was cheapest for a while.
I can understand how tapping into (groan) a constant supply of cold mains water could, in some areas, be cheaper than traditional closed-circuit A/C. It does seem terribly wasteful, though, especially in areas prone to drought. I guess I feel more guilty about wasting water than coal/oil/uranium... gives me something to think about!
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Dude you've got it all wrong. It's much easier for the Chinese government to inject contraceptives while you sleep than it is to sneak a condom on you every time you have sex.
The price differential between the 360 and the PS3 was so great when the PS3 came out, the 360 was bound to gain traction. Parents and gamers chose the cheaper machine and developers found they could address a wider audience in less time by going 360 only - as it's easier to program for than the PS3. Better games catalogue = even more customers.
For the OP and me, the 360 is a dreadful product. I couldn't live with a 360 in the same way that I wouldn't tolerate the shortcomings of a typical budget laptop. I like my PS3 and I like my $3000 laptop. But I also recognise that I care way too much about these things and should probably get a life.
such as the UK (where they actually have some shell of freedom of speech)
Clearly you haven't visited us recently :(
Peer review: the beauty of open source :)
*disk size = file/movie size
My XBMC box is a 750MHz PIII and it streams high-def fullscreen video
Video encoding is a balance of quality, disk size and computational requirements. Your PIII might play your own encodes, but content providers, professional or otherwise, target theirs toward current hardware.
1999, my family had a Pentium 166 Mhz
Your processor was three years old and a lot had happened in between - 1999 was the year of Pentium III at 450-600MHz and 64-128MB RAM was typical.
We were running a 486 DX2/66 at the time :)
The only thing that's reall changed in the last 10 years
is that the tools have changed in appearance.
What the average user expects from web browsing is considerably different to what it was 10 years ago. If you showed me Hulu in HD in 1999 I think I'd have passed out - you can do that in a browser? My Mum and Grandfather have both just bought new computers because their old ones couldn't do BBC iPlayer SD in high quality, let alone the new iPlayer HD content.
The personal computing industry owes a lot to YouTube, Hulu, iPlayer and the like: outside gaming, these are the only mainstream killer apps that actually require 21st century hardware.
Windows 7 has a horrible exploit that crashes it every time you shoot the PC with a shot gun.
Try that with a BSD box. The shards would ricochet off the case and hit you in the face!
Because you are troll hating Microsoft
The only answer is to encrypt the data. Nothing else could POSSIBLY keep someone from getting at your data
What about an anti-tamper explosive device inside the case? Anything is possible if you put your mind to it :)
That's not Tetris. You just ordered air support to bomb your location...
Mod parent up. Love it!
An unconfirmed rumor also developed this weekend of an OS that is so carefully and explicitly restricted that consumers interaction with it is limited to attempting to install it
Your article is way out of date!
Agreed. The clientele is like this too, either that or whining children. 20 years ago I was one of the whining children in the game store, so I feel their pain, but that doesn't make it any more pleasant.
I'm a casual gamer who bought a PS3 mainly for Blu-Ray. There are two ways I buy games:
Although the main reasons I don't shop at game stores are price, convenience and practicality - I do my research online, so why not buy online - I also hate the following things about game stores:
Just build two commodity servers - obtain reliability through redundancy and you'll get the specs you want without ridiculous cost.
Here are some tips.
Unless anyone knows differently.
It's called VMware...
Couldn't resist!
Unfortunately, Super Awesome Broadband would be Super Slow Narrowband where I live - i.e. in a city, but unable to see the telephone exchange from my bedroom window.
After a year of struggling over the ethics of switching to a monopolistic, Phorm-supporting, bandwidth-throttling FTTC cable supplier instead of my morally superior DSL connection, I finally gave in. Goodbye 800Kbit/s, hello 20Mbit/s.
Now I do have trouble sleeping at night, but I can just stream HD video to wile away the time.
[end pedantry]
I wish I could...
Research indicates it more likely to be hormonal.
You bastard!
Sup dawg, I heard u like vmware, so I put a virtual machine in ur virtual machine so u can virtually virtualise virtualisation.
I'm starting a pool on how soon devices that show you the nearest cops will be sold on eBay.
Who needs radar detectors if you have a live map with all cops clearly marked??
I'm already working on the iPhone app...
Energy/fuel market fluctuations and the state of local market pricing are two of the most important factors in HVAC system selection. In my area, electricity is 10x more expensive than natural gas, so nobody uses electric water heaters. In the same area 40 years ago, people installed paraffin heaters because that was cheapest for a while.
I can understand how tapping into (groan) a constant supply of cold mains water could, in some areas, be cheaper than traditional closed-circuit A/C. It does seem terribly wasteful, though, especially in areas prone to drought. I guess I feel more guilty about wasting water than coal/oil/uranium... gives me something to think about!
I love the solar panels in the foreground of this picture. Talk about greenwashing!