"For starters, blue ray will NOT cost $300/drive. That's insane. Sony owns the license agreements for it, and will be fabbing it themselves. No royalties and no middle man = the blue ray drive will cost next to nothing"
You don't know what you're talking about.
This game has hit the headlines. Been waiting for further news on this title for over a year now. Really is an awesome prospect.
FTR, EA has very little to do with the game... they're just publishing it AFAIK.
Why would Microsoft NOT be researching this? It's like in Rome: Total War, when you've set up your army and you move the camera away to look at your setup from the outside, see if you can spot holes. Microsoft do tons of research on computer security not just for their operating system but for all systems architectures that their software could be running on. It's just good sense.
The P.C. I used was my dad's. He'd got it from his dad after he had died. It was an 286 and it didn't even have a hard drive 'cause the one in there had broken. We had to load MS-DOS from a diskette, and then load any program we wanted to use from a diskette. I knew no different though, so when we got an old 386 from a friend of my dad's, I was so happy I didn't have to fiddle around with disks.
I'm 18, and my friends never understand why I "come from the days of DOS". They all had GUIs on their first computers.
I disagree. I play a lot of video games and I'm never sleep-deprived, malnourished, or buried in fast-food boxes. I wouldn't know about the lack of vitamin D (sunlight) but the amount of walking to uni I do four days a week suffices.
For the Pure Pwnage-style gamer, however, then yeah I would probably agree. But you can be a serious gamer and avoid all of those things.
I disagree. That would be a nice, working analogy if the Chinese government was asking Google to seed their own misinformation sources at the top of results, but they're not. It's either this way, with Google saying "This search was censored", or it's some Chinese fascist search engine that doesn't tell them it's being censored and seeds government misinformation sources at the top of the search results.
I'd rather have Google with their foot in the door than not.
"Wow, that story is wrong.
Blackcomb is the server counterpart to Vista.
And why would you want to use a server OS to game?"
That would be valid if you weren't so egregiously wrong.
Although I too have no idea what holographic RAID is meant to be o_O
That's absolutely true. More and more machines on the Internet are being taken over as hosts for virus reproduction and distribution, and the sheer amount of malicious data being flung about the 'Net as a result is huge. This is one of the reasons it was hypothesised that the Internet would break down or go into a 'meltdown' state. So much crap... so little space.
Thank you for making that point. Too many people are all too willing to jump on the 'blame microsoft' bandwagon over security. Fact is that at the moment, crackers and other malicious computer users move faster than computer security does, so they're always at least half a step ahead of the game. When the Romans invented the pilum, they didn't make the tip break on impact straight away so it couldn't be thrown back, it took the barbarians to throw it back first before it became necessary.
I've been using free (and I mean legitimately free) antivirus software for years now, and Windows for all of those years. I have only ever had a virus on my computer once, and that was when I had to go online to get the anti-virus software. A Windows PC, properly maintained, is every bit as secure as a Linux/IRIX/Solaris/BSD/Mac/etc. system - it takes a special kind of ignorance to haphazardly open up your computer to malicious files so much.
That statement wasn't saying network-aware worms vs. network-unaware worms - it was comparing twenty year old viruses spread by floppy disks with modern network-aware equivalents... worms. Nothing wrong with how the phrased was structured, althought I personally would have single-quoted the word worms to clarify.
Hardware is much harder to 'beta' test than software. Software usually simulates/automates a real-world process or task, and the developer can know almost exactly what sort of situations his program is going to be in. He knows how data will flow around his system and where the faults will be, usually.
Hardware is a different story. It *IS* in the real world, and the situations are limitless. I wouldn't be surprised if a great many of these crashing 360s have their power supplies in stupid hot places. Fact is, it's very hard to anticipate hardware problems that have external origins. Suing over this is totally unnecessary. Aside from the Gestapo, the sue-happy culture of the United States is one of the reasons I don't ever want to find myself there.
If he wins, the assclown nation will rejoice and the cries of "omfg BSOD wtf!!?!?!?!111onehundredandeleven giv me mein money!!" will echo around many an empty skull.
Al Capone waited in a theatre for the police to come and arrest him. I wouldn't say the IRS 'took him down'. They did get him on tax evasion when he was in court though. That must have been gutting.
... it will be America's version of Manga. As with every other popular phenomenon, America has taken it in, made their own lesser versions, and crapped them out the other side. Look at how many American cartoons are around today that use the anime art style. The same thing is going on with Manga.
I presume you mean to say MS don't make money on the individual console sale. Both Microsoft and Sony lose money on each sale of their current top console, but make all their losses back and much more through games, etc. Nintendo is the only one of the Big Three currently making money from each individual sale of its console.
Next time round it will be different, apparently.
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You just ruined Tron for me... thanks. :P
"For starters, blue ray will NOT cost $300/drive. That's insane. Sony owns the license agreements for it, and will be fabbing it themselves. No royalties and no middle man = the blue ray drive will cost next to nothing" You don't know what you're talking about.
This game has hit the headlines. Been waiting for further news on this title for over a year now. Really is an awesome prospect. FTR, EA has very little to do with the game... they're just publishing it AFAIK.
Why would Microsoft NOT be researching this? It's like in Rome: Total War, when you've set up your army and you move the camera away to look at your setup from the outside, see if you can spot holes. Microsoft do tons of research on computer security not just for their operating system but for all systems architectures that their software could be running on. It's just good sense.
No no no. The freed Smith was a VM rootkit for the Matrix. Neo needed to flash the BIOS, you see?
The P.C. I used was my dad's. He'd got it from his dad after he had died. It was an 286 and it didn't even have a hard drive 'cause the one in there had broken. We had to load MS-DOS from a diskette, and then load any program we wanted to use from a diskette. I knew no different though, so when we got an old 386 from a friend of my dad's, I was so happy I didn't have to fiddle around with disks. I'm 18, and my friends never understand why I "come from the days of DOS". They all had GUIs on their first computers.
I disagree. I play a lot of video games and I'm never sleep-deprived, malnourished, or buried in fast-food boxes. I wouldn't know about the lack of vitamin D (sunlight) but the amount of walking to uni I do four days a week suffices. For the Pure Pwnage-style gamer, however, then yeah I would probably agree. But you can be a serious gamer and avoid all of those things.
The hell are you even talking about? "Black", oh that's PC for "white".
... what an incredibly indirect method to limit free speech - close off the largest access point for dissenting voices.
I disagree. That would be a nice, working analogy if the Chinese government was asking Google to seed their own misinformation sources at the top of results, but they're not. It's either this way, with Google saying "This search was censored", or it's some Chinese fascist search engine that doesn't tell them it's being censored and seeds government misinformation sources at the top of the search results. I'd rather have Google with their foot in the door than not.
I'm quite sure he was referring to Orwell's 1984, not Reagan's.
NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
"Wow, that story is wrong. Blackcomb is the server counterpart to Vista. And why would you want to use a server OS to game?" That would be valid if you weren't so egregiously wrong. Although I too have no idea what holographic RAID is meant to be o_O
.... RIAA lawyers kill a kitten.
That's absolutely true. More and more machines on the Internet are being taken over as hosts for virus reproduction and distribution, and the sheer amount of malicious data being flung about the 'Net as a result is huge. This is one of the reasons it was hypothesised that the Internet would break down or go into a 'meltdown' state. So much crap... so little space.
Thank you for making that point. Too many people are all too willing to jump on the 'blame microsoft' bandwagon over security. Fact is that at the moment, crackers and other malicious computer users move faster than computer security does, so they're always at least half a step ahead of the game. When the Romans invented the pilum, they didn't make the tip break on impact straight away so it couldn't be thrown back, it took the barbarians to throw it back first before it became necessary. I've been using free (and I mean legitimately free) antivirus software for years now, and Windows for all of those years. I have only ever had a virus on my computer once, and that was when I had to go online to get the anti-virus software. A Windows PC, properly maintained, is every bit as secure as a Linux/IRIX/Solaris/BSD/Mac/etc. system - it takes a special kind of ignorance to haphazardly open up your computer to malicious files so much.
Oh, come on! This is the 21st century, man. That joke is sooo 1999
That statement wasn't saying network-aware worms vs. network-unaware worms - it was comparing twenty year old viruses spread by floppy disks with modern network-aware equivalents... worms. Nothing wrong with how the phrased was structured, althought I personally would have single-quoted the word worms to clarify.
Hardware is much harder to 'beta' test than software. Software usually simulates/automates a real-world process or task, and the developer can know almost exactly what sort of situations his program is going to be in. He knows how data will flow around his system and where the faults will be, usually. Hardware is a different story. It *IS* in the real world, and the situations are limitless. I wouldn't be surprised if a great many of these crashing 360s have their power supplies in stupid hot places. Fact is, it's very hard to anticipate hardware problems that have external origins. Suing over this is totally unnecessary. Aside from the Gestapo, the sue-happy culture of the United States is one of the reasons I don't ever want to find myself there. If he wins, the assclown nation will rejoice and the cries of "omfg BSOD wtf!!?!?!?!111onehundredandeleven giv me mein money!!" will echo around many an empty skull.
Al Capone waited in a theatre for the police to come and arrest him. I wouldn't say the IRS 'took him down'. They did get him on tax evasion when he was in court though. That must have been gutting.
... when his name was Josef and he was General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
Yeah and if you really want to, you can use an up-to-date link that has the U.S. in its actual place. 44th.
I totally agree with this. It doesn't invade privacy, and it ought to do something about the sheer volume of idiots driving about these days. Bonus.
... it will be America's version of Manga. As with every other popular phenomenon, America has taken it in, made their own lesser versions, and crapped them out the other side. Look at how many American cartoons are around today that use the anime art style. The same thing is going on with Manga.
I presume you mean to say MS don't make money on the individual console sale. Both Microsoft and Sony lose money on each sale of their current top console, but make all their losses back and much more through games, etc. Nintendo is the only one of the Big Three currently making money from each individual sale of its console. Next time round it will be different, apparently.