I'm willing to take bets that the PS3 can sellout at a $700 pricetag. Gates isn't the slightest bit worried about the "profit draining" effect on the Xbox, as he could hardly expect the console to be anything but a drain on the software developer's bottom line. Microsoft expects to make more profits from the Live service than licensing, manufacturing, et al. It's a marketing move to get microsoft in your living room, and to expand their potential to integrate into your daily lives, which in the long run will be astronomically more profitable than selling office software.
Finally, someone has the right idea. This isn't about what we use today, this is about what we will potentially use in the next 5 years. Consoles are released as often, and as on schedule, as Microsoft releases operating systems.
In 2Q 2006, Blue-ray might not seem like much of an advantage.. but in 2009?
Sony has already announced that it will quit manufacturing CRT televisions.. there's not enough demand to make a profit on them. I don't think people are going to be buying anything less than HDTV in 2007, years before the next generation consoles are released.
So 1080i is an essential movement in the console system.. as far as modern households are concerned. the Blue-ray IMHO will do wonders for Sony, and the PS3 will take back a piece of the marketshare hte PS2 lost to the original Xbox.
With all the sales of computer systems over $4,000 aimed explicitly at gamers, do you really think $1,000 is an excessive price point? Get with the times, noone expects to pay a quarter for a soda anymore. We have alot more money to spend today then we did in 1981.
I consider myself a 'real' gamer, having owned many exotic consoles during their prime. The ti-99, intellivision, amiga, turbografx 16, neo geo, dreamcast.. the most conspicious thing about my consoles is what is missing. Every nintendo machine since the original.
While I played supernintendo at my friend's house, it just never made it on my 'to do' list. The nintendo 64 was ass compared to it's competitors. While churning out a non-stop collection of consoles for 8 year olds, Nintendo never "got it" when it came to the gaming industry, and alas, their "killer" titles, are the same titles from the 80s. Zelda, Mario, nd Metroid.
We all know what happened the last time Nintendo tried to "revolutionize" gaming with a controller that responded to motion. Does anyone remember the Power Glove? I remember wasting like $80 on that piece of shit after seeing it in that movie and swearing I would never own a nintendo anything again.
So Xbox and Sony are going to be defeated by the 'revolution' of controllers you wave around and remakes of games you got tired of playing 20 years ago? IMHO, I don't think it will take much effort from the multi-billion dollar coffers of Sony and Microsoft to crush this rebellion. Expect to find the Revolution overstocked on the shelves of 'Toy's R Us' in no time. That is.. if Nintendo even plans on manufacturing more than a few hundred thousand of them.
These are some good points. You can also try looking away from the screen during loads, and defocusing slightly when spinning in first person perspective.
The consumer should have the right to take apart, improvise, improve, destroy or otherwise misuse anything they buy, physical or intellectual. This should be the basic principle of all intellectual property laws. I don't have the right to use my property to commit a crime, but if I want to rip DVDs to DiVX format, and load them on my Xbox running XBMC, there's no reason the RIAA should be able to tell me, "I can't use my dvds like that" or Microsoft can tell me, 'That's not what my xbox was intended for.."
It's interesting to hear this thing is actually a TOAD killer. I wouldn't have imagined. I also can't imagine Oracle releasing a product that didn't have a uber-bloated $40,000 licensing price tag on it... so I guess this is a new shift. I wonder how long it will remain free.
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Fourteen centuries ago, God sent down the Qur'an as a guide to all humanity.
At the time the Arab society was in a state of complete degeneration, chaos and ignorance. They were a barbarous people who worshipped idols of their own making, believed warfare and bloodshed to be virtuous and were even capable of killing their own children. They had little interest in intellectual matters, let alone a scientific outlook to the natural world.
What's the word to describe this? Not irony.. but?
Christians don't seem to have a clue for the most part about any of the texts of the Torah.. if they did, they would have a hard time believing Christ was the Messiah.
Muslims also don't have much of a grasp of their history either. Islam's idea that they are descended from Avraham is equally ridiculous. Islam is descended from the pagan idolatry of the arabs.
Mohammed borrowed the idea of monotheism from the Jews, and then twisted the ideas of judaism to try to reduce or eliminate it's pervasive influence in the region during his time. The muslims don't read the Torah. Their religious texts is the writings of Mohammed.
Much like the Christians borrowed many of the pagan holidays and replaced them with Christian holidays.. to reduce or eliminate the pervasive influence of pagan worship in their midst.
Muslims actually originally worshipped 360 gods. Their god Sin aka Hubul, was the god of the moon. Was later called al-ilah, or the one god. That is why atop the minarettes of muslim temples, there is a crescent moon. Read more about the pagan history of islam.
The idea that islam had anything to do with judiasm before mohammed is complete ignorance or insanity. Not that islam or christianity re bad relgions, but attempting to legitimize their beliefs by twisted the history of judiasm is foolishness. Let them stand on their own merit.
I'm pretty happy with my PSP as well. I've got about half a dozen games for it, but I only play it leisurely.. like when I travel. Going to be sitting around at the airport? Grab my PSP with Tiger Woods or Need for Speed Underground and I'm set. I was an avid PC gamer up until the age of the DMCA, and I drifted away until the Xbox. Microsoft really brought me back to gaming, with that homebrew hardware setup:D
What I'm looking forward to is the PSP's integration with the PS3 to rejuvinate developer interest, as it has pretty much fizzled along with the consumer. The movie capability is also nice, but screw UMD. I rip my DVDs and convert them onto the memory stick. If they ever got rid of my ability to put my own content onto the PSP I would stick it in a drawer.
"...as long as their players look remotely like iPods."
That's one thing I like about Sony's Bean player. The ergonomic design is amazing once you get used to it. I just wished they would up the sapacity to 4GB, or better, include support for a sony stick. Between my PSP, T7 digi cam, and history of purchasing Sony portable electronics.. I'm amassing quite a collection of these sticks. Not to mention a quick pop into my card reader of my laptop is alot easier than digging out usb cables and connecting the device.
So I think the Sony Bean would have a shot against the iPod if Sony:
1. Bumped up the internal memory
2. Included support for their removable media
I'm not a big fan of the ultra-large, hold an entire year's worth of music storage capacity with the spinning disks nd large form factor.. but 4 GBs is not only within Sony's current ability, but near an ideal capacity. I think 8GB would be perfect, and possible if they supported the removable memory cards as well.
I have a subscription to Rush Limbugh (He gives them away for free to service members deployed in Iraq). The irony is however, you can't access his streaming webcasts or mp3s, they're blocked by websense.
"Crocs just float into the water until their prey happens to come along: doesn't matter what really, then they eat it."
That's a pretty simplistic view really isn't it? For example, doesn't the crocodile use river banks to lay their eggs? Don't you think over 100 million years, there must have been a point where natural selection would have evolved the ability to lay their eggs underwater to avoid prey or harsh climates?
I mean if we're talking a hundred million years, there's got to be at least a few deficiencies in a cold-blooded reptile that could be tweaked or improved, given the chaotic changes the Earth has undertook in the last 100 million years.
What the hell happened to the spy agency? CIA Agents now chat away on unsecure cell phones, check into foreign hotels using GSAs (US gov't issued credit cards), and leak every other intelligence briefing to the press. They might as well start a group on MySpace and issue bumper stickers and T shirts.
The fact that Google can catch sensitive information means these guys have failed the test of keeping our government's secrets secure.
Price and performance are the problem not the medium. I, for one, think digital will suck infinately more than celluloid.. The quality of digital projection resolutions just aren't good enough to match 70mm. This is a cost cutting measure by the studios to reduce distribution costs and increase profits. They are feeling the pinch of lower revenues, and think cutting costs will compensate for lacking talent. People go to movies to see performances, not technology showcases. Maybe if Ben Assface had some acting lessons, and broke-back mountain starred Heather Graham and Jennifer Aniston.. your box office sales would do better.
Hollywood is so obsessed with "social messages" that like, a few thousand people want to hear. Then cry when their box office sales tank. I couldn't imagine a more out of touch industry. It's not the digital projectors that will boost your sales figures, either ship shitty movies with cheap tickets or make a movie someone is willing to pay $45 to go see.
I think the nagging assumption behind this question is, if the carbon dating is in fact accurate, then why hasn't this species evolved in the last 11 million years? Survival of the fittest certainly has eliminated a large majority of their population, and if the current species had no significant variation from an 11,000,000 year old fossil.. It doesn't seem the two theories co-habitate well in this situation.
RAID5 is not a backup strategy, it's disk redundancy. What happens when your powersupply goes apeshit and that box dissapears in a puff of smoke? Or Mr. Pimpletech is rolling across his new Dell 4way on a dolly and smashes the corner of your box and crashes three disk heads corrupting the entire array?
Mr. CEO shouts, "I thought you were backing up our finance server!"
You try to explain, "Well I had RAID, so the disks backed each other up. It was more convenient than popping a tape in and out on a daily basis."
Guess what data is going to be missing from finance next?
Your payroll info.
"I don't see how the bandwidth hit is worth it "
This is like the third comment I've seen on this subject. What bandwidth hit? We're talking internal traffic, like I've got 3 tv channel broadcasts going out to whoever wants to watch TV at thier desk.. I don't see how people mirroring their spreadsheets everytime they click save into a central server is going to bring the house down.
I mean shit, even if you had a workstation downloading porn as fast as it could from usenet... their available internal bandwidth should trump their available external bandwidth a hundred fold.
That's because the xbox 360 wasn't really an Xbox 2.0, it was an Xbox with a new video card and cpu for incentive to buy, with the horrible security system of the original xbox fixed. It was like a Microsoft "do over" for the original xbox.
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Yeah, I'd rather have a Dreamcast than a Nintendo Revolution anyday.
I'm willing to take bets that the PS3 can sellout at a $700 pricetag. Gates isn't the slightest bit worried about the "profit draining" effect on the Xbox, as he could hardly expect the console to be anything but a drain on the software developer's bottom line. Microsoft expects to make more profits from the Live service than licensing, manufacturing, et al. It's a marketing move to get microsoft in your living room, and to expand their potential to integrate into your daily lives, which in the long run will be astronomically more profitable than selling office software.
In 2Q 2006, Blue-ray might not seem like much of an advantage.. but in 2009?
Sony has already announced that it will quit manufacturing CRT televisions.. there's not enough demand to make a profit on them. I don't think people are going to be buying anything less than HDTV in 2007, years before the next generation consoles are released.
So 1080i is an essential movement in the console system.. as far as modern households are concerned. the Blue-ray IMHO will do wonders for Sony, and the PS3 will take back a piece of the marketshare hte PS2 lost to the original Xbox.
With all the sales of computer systems over $4,000 aimed explicitly at gamers, do you really think $1,000 is an excessive price point? Get with the times, noone expects to pay a quarter for a soda anymore. We have alot more money to spend today then we did in 1981.
While I played supernintendo at my friend's house, it just never made it on my 'to do' list. The nintendo 64 was ass compared to it's competitors. While churning out a non-stop collection of consoles for 8 year olds, Nintendo never "got it" when it came to the gaming industry, and alas, their "killer" titles, are the same titles from the 80s. Zelda, Mario, nd Metroid.
We all know what happened the last time Nintendo tried to "revolutionize" gaming with a controller that responded to motion. Does anyone remember the Power Glove? I remember wasting like $80 on that piece of shit after seeing it in that movie and swearing I would never own a nintendo anything again.
So Xbox and Sony are going to be defeated by the 'revolution' of controllers you wave around and remakes of games you got tired of playing 20 years ago? IMHO, I don't think it will take much effort from the multi-billion dollar coffers of Sony and Microsoft to crush this rebellion. Expect to find the Revolution overstocked on the shelves of 'Toy's R Us' in no time. That is.. if Nintendo even plans on manufacturing more than a few hundred thousand of them.
These are some good points. You can also try looking away from the screen during loads, and defocusing slightly when spinning in first person perspective.
The consumer should have the right to take apart, improvise, improve, destroy or otherwise misuse anything they buy, physical or intellectual. This should be the basic principle of all intellectual property laws. I don't have the right to use my property to commit a crime, but if I want to rip DVDs to DiVX format, and load them on my Xbox running XBMC, there's no reason the RIAA should be able to tell me, "I can't use my dvds like that" or Microsoft can tell me, 'That's not what my xbox was intended for.."
It's interesting to hear this thing is actually a TOAD killer. I wouldn't have imagined. I also can't imagine Oracle releasing a product that didn't have a uber-bloated $40,000 licensing price tag on it... so I guess this is a new shift. I wonder how long it will remain free.
What's the word to describe this? Not irony.. but?
Muslims also don't have much of a grasp of their history either. Islam's idea that they are descended from Avraham is equally ridiculous. Islam is descended from the pagan idolatry of the arabs.
Mohammed borrowed the idea of monotheism from the Jews, and then twisted the ideas of judaism to try to reduce or eliminate it's pervasive influence in the region during his time. The muslims don't read the Torah. Their religious texts is the writings of Mohammed.
Much like the Christians borrowed many of the pagan holidays and replaced them with Christian holidays.. to reduce or eliminate the pervasive influence of pagan worship in their midst.
Muslims actually originally worshipped 360 gods. Their god Sin aka Hubul, was the god of the moon. Was later called al-ilah, or the one god. That is why atop the minarettes of muslim temples, there is a crescent moon. Read more about the pagan history of islam.
The idea that islam had anything to do with judiasm before mohammed is complete ignorance or insanity. Not that islam or christianity re bad relgions, but attempting to legitimize their beliefs by twisted the history of judiasm is foolishness. Let them stand on their own merit.
What I'm looking forward to is the PSP's integration with the PS3 to rejuvinate developer interest, as it has pretty much fizzled along with the consumer. The movie capability is also nice, but screw UMD. I rip my DVDs and convert them onto the memory stick. If they ever got rid of my ability to put my own content onto the PSP I would stick it in a drawer.
That's one thing I like about Sony's Bean player. The ergonomic design is amazing once you get used to it. I just wished they would up the sapacity to 4GB, or better, include support for a sony stick. Between my PSP, T7 digi cam, and history of purchasing Sony portable electronics.. I'm amassing quite a collection of these sticks. Not to mention a quick pop into my card reader of my laptop is alot easier than digging out usb cables and connecting the device.
So I think the Sony Bean would have a shot against the iPod if Sony:
1. Bumped up the internal memory
2. Included support for their removable media
I'm not a big fan of the ultra-large, hold an entire year's worth of music storage capacity with the spinning disks nd large form factor.. but 4 GBs is not only within Sony's current ability, but near an ideal capacity. I think 8GB would be perfect, and possible if they supported the removable memory cards as well.
I have a subscription to Rush Limbugh (He gives them away for free to service members deployed in Iraq). The irony is however, you can't access his streaming webcasts or mp3s, they're blocked by websense.
That's a pretty simplistic view really isn't it? For example, doesn't the crocodile use river banks to lay their eggs? Don't you think over 100 million years, there must have been a point where natural selection would have evolved the ability to lay their eggs underwater to avoid prey or harsh climates?
I mean if we're talking a hundred million years, there's got to be at least a few deficiencies in a cold-blooded reptile that could be tweaked or improved, given the chaotic changes the Earth has undertook in the last 100 million years.
What the hell happened to the spy agency? CIA Agents now chat away on unsecure cell phones, check into foreign hotels using GSAs (US gov't issued credit cards), and leak every other intelligence briefing to the press. They might as well start a group on MySpace and issue bumper stickers and T shirts. The fact that Google can catch sensitive information means these guys have failed the test of keeping our government's secrets secure.
Price and performance are the problem not the medium. I, for one, think digital will suck infinately more than celluloid.. The quality of digital projection resolutions just aren't good enough to match 70mm. This is a cost cutting measure by the studios to reduce distribution costs and increase profits. They are feeling the pinch of lower revenues, and think cutting costs will compensate for lacking talent. People go to movies to see performances, not technology showcases. Maybe if Ben Assface had some acting lessons, and broke-back mountain starred Heather Graham and Jennifer Aniston.. your box office sales would do better.
Hollywood is so obsessed with "social messages" that like, a few thousand people want to hear. Then cry when their box office sales tank. I couldn't imagine a more out of touch industry. It's not the digital projectors that will boost your sales figures, either ship shitty movies with cheap tickets or make a movie someone is willing to pay $45 to go see.
what's the hurry?
Every week they delay their product, they are losing tons of money! Oh wait.. nevermind.
I think the nagging assumption behind this question is, if the carbon dating is in fact accurate, then why hasn't this species evolved in the last 11 million years? Survival of the fittest certainly has eliminated a large majority of their population, and if the current species had no significant variation from an 11,000,000 year old fossil.. It doesn't seem the two theories co-habitate well in this situation.
I'll 'casually slaughter' all the rats I damn well please.
Mr. CEO shouts, "I thought you were backing up our finance server!"
You try to explain, "Well I had RAID, so the disks backed each other up. It was more convenient than popping a tape in and out on a daily basis."
Guess what data is going to be missing from finance next?
Your payroll info.
"I don't see how the bandwidth hit is worth it " This is like the third comment I've seen on this subject. What bandwidth hit? We're talking internal traffic, like I've got 3 tv channel broadcasts going out to whoever wants to watch TV at thier desk.. I don't see how people mirroring their spreadsheets everytime they click save into a central server is going to bring the house down.
I mean shit, even if you had a workstation downloading porn as fast as it could from usenet... their available internal bandwidth should trump their available external bandwidth a hundred fold.
But hasn't Sun been doing this with Solaris for at least 3 years?
Don't sell small business short.
If there's no heating, then is it really a sweat shop?
That's because the xbox 360 wasn't really an Xbox 2.0, it was an Xbox with a new video card and cpu for incentive to buy, with the horrible security system of the original xbox fixed. It was like a Microsoft "do over" for the original xbox.