like I said (or I think I said it anyway) - I understand that this is one of the best things about consoles, you dont have to worry about drivers, meeting hardware specs and crap like that - which is one of the reasons I'm not a fanboy to just PCs - that and consoles have lots of great content (games) like rpgs such as the Final Fantasy series (so far only 2 of em are PC - 8 and 11) - which is IMO damned hard to come by a single player rpg as good as FFX on pc.
but what I was trying to say was that even if it is for some low end niche market, PCs are pretty much infitely upgradable (up to the point of compatible parts - you obviously have to get a whole new system if you are currently using AGP and want a new shiny PCIX card)
reprogrammable - so that you can fairly easily upgrade and patch software, whereas theres only one or 2 console games (well, PS2 anyway, I never had or wanted an xbox) - Killzone and I think SOCOM 2 let you download maps (I guess Halo 2 does also, yes?)
and have a HUGE library of devices you can connect to em - be it mainstream stuff like drives, video cards, etc or anything from joysticks to serial modems for connecting to memory storage for the code to run a robot
I can see how consoles make it easy with plug n play to the tv, turn it on, put a disc (whatever media) in, and play - it just works, you dont have to worry if your specs are good enough or if your drivers are up to date and whatnot (hell, I loved my PS2 before it crapped out, and I plan on getting a PS3 after the price dies down a bit and people stop selling em on ebay for $1k).
but to counter that, anybody with enough technical knowlege can make peripherals and whatnot for PCs (hell, even *nix systems) - in other words aside from Nintendo's patent on the controller, another company could easilly enough make a PC gamepad just like it. not to mention that new hardware comes out every few months, letting game devs work using the latest and greatest and not be limited by hardware released 2 years ago...
and as for the thing with her hogging your DS, why not have gotten her a tablet pc instead? (sure its not mac, but at the least you could get it a bit closer to mac with some odd distro of linux out there)
Sony is NOT that damned stupid to make the launch price so high as that - my bet is they'll announce a "sudden launch price drop" anywhere from a few weeks to a month before the actual in-store launch of the console - that way, people will think "Oh its not that expensive, maybe now I'll buy one" since any mention of lowering prices will make joe sixpack think they are getting a good deal, and the people that woulda bought one anyway will be extra sure to buy one since they have more than the launch cost saved up - it sounds expensive when you dont have the money, but if you have more than enough saved up, it becomes more tempting...
part of it could also be that the company it security are control freaks and uses spyware to track employees - they're just pissed cuz firefox and opera are actually secure (actually secure or just compared to ie) and that their spyware trackers and keyloggers cant tell em exactly what firefox (or opera) is doing
iirc, didn't one of the video card companies the thing with cards alternating on rendering frames? didnt they call it sli back then also except it stood for something else and that was the only way it speed things up (alternating frames)?
"Wii" for the sound people make playing it, swinging those controllers around mid-air, smacking each other in the face - I smell lawsuits due to Nintendo not putting warnings on the controllers that people could get smacked by each other...
hrmm... loooks like something else somebody said about M$ purposely delaying a firefox "workaround" for this windows live thing - they'll initially come without pop/smtp, and then a year into it, they'll "suddenly make a breakthrough" with it and you can subscribe to the "groundbreakingly new advanced features" of pop/smtp...
I know I only go to the local shitty community college, but even so, most of the people going there are too damn dumb to know there's much of anything else out there besides regular hotmail, yahoo, and aol - and its not some hick town either, more like one of the suburbs (one of the nicer ones, might I add) around Phoenix, AZ - afaik one of the biggest growing cities in the US...
I think Lenovo is starting to sell a lot of finger-print-biometric-scanner notebooks now, it seems to be one of their big selling points for business buyers - not sure if it would work under Linux, but if its something where you have to scan your finger before it gets through with BIOS it oughta be something embedded into CMOS or some other part of the motherboard, in which case I would think it would still work whether you run Windows or Linux on it...
and that you dont share it with the dipshits that are going to visit half the porn sites on the net (who knows, maybe that would be fine if the system got so overloaded with spyware?)
"What is more important is getting lots of those consoles out there. They want everyone to own one."
By the time they get enough produced to have a steady supply of em on the shelves, the PS3 will be out, and keep in mind that many of the people that *did* buy 360's will still go and buy a PS3 - not that they want a PS3 to supplement their 360, but that the 360 was to tide them over until the release of the PS3
sure, if you want the thing to be dead within days - what about virtual memory, paging files, etc? the same type of arguement had been made about putting a "portable" slimmed down version of Firefox (iirc) on something like an iRiver in a/. comment quite a while ago...
for one, the summary said "30% UNTIL the PS3 comes out" - second, IMAO, the only reason M$ is backing HD-DVD is as simple as to be a thorn in Sony's side...
saw the rss link on my Google portal for Cnet/news.com, which linked to ABC's dupe/copy-paste of the PCMag article
the damn thing wasn't even about making OSX OSS, it just babbled on about how (in Dvorak's psychotic mind, anyway) Apple is really using the Boot Camp thing as a marketing test for deciding if Apple should give Windows just a little bit more favor
just more shit from Dvorak to get hits on his stuff
Yes, teacher, today you taught us that no matter who makes innovations such as tabbed browsing by Firefox and Opera, M$ will just come along and make their barely computer literate users think *they* (M$) were the ones to bring about innovation - thus the people actaully working to the net a better experience get no recognition at all!"
that and when people dont get so uptight about a guy falling over into some lady's boobs, it just might be that less people find it (sexually) arousing... or maybe its people dont find it arousing with the result that control-freak relious people//++ soccer moms dont freak out about it (like they do here in the US)
if anything, these are the types of things that gaming and anime effect society in Japan the most - everything has to be some hello-kitty-ish animation or printed sign - from what I hear even the military signs are hello-kitty-ish... just goes to show how violent they could get if they really wanted - in other words, a helluva lot... would you trust somebody that has a cute furry little animal with an assault rifle telling you not to enter a nuclear power plant?
And Steve Jobs said to the Boot-Camp users finding they like Windows for the number of programs made for it: "Oh ye unfaithful! Your punishment is to not be able to boot back to OS X!"
is that DNF cant be displayed on conventional screens. All the faqs and articles forgot to mention that you'll have to wait 50 years till it comes out when M$ releases Vista (or maybe even later with Cairo - I remember somebody on/. posting about how Cairo was the M$ Windows Forever os where people ask if Windows will ever have such and such features and M$ replies "Ya, sure, in Cairo"), and holographic displays get invented - not only can you email yourself from ingame, you can do it from a 3d holo-display!
something like "Stop waiting for DNF to come out and get a life, or at least play HL2, FEAR - as old as the DNF project is, go play HL1! And oh ya, we forgot to mention - ZOMG!11 P0N135 LOLZ1!!"
first off, if its only shiny graphics, how many people will really care.
second, wasn't there an article on/. or somewhere a while ago about turning off Aero did nothing to boost performance?
third, personally, I'm a gamer - whether I have a top of the line system or not (though I don't think nice as they are Athlon 3400 with 1.5 gigs of ram, and a builtin ATI radeon 200xpress counts as top of the line, so I would think it applies more to me than people with top of the line systems) - I dont think I'd want (at first anyway, but my eyes could get used to a purty desktop) an extra feature like a shiny desktop if its gonna suck performance from FEAR or whatnot...
you're paying $80 USD for a gig of sd? I bought a 1gig sd card over the weekend at frys electronics (in-store, not from outpost, but thats the cheap brand that I bought) - the cheap brand I bought was about 30 bucks, the respectable brands such as pqi, patriot, and corsair were priced around $50usd
based on the difference between what I paid, and what you are looking at, I'd say either you looked at prices a few months ago or your retailer is ripping you off...
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but what I was trying to say was that even if it is for some low end niche market, PCs are pretty much infitely upgradable (up to the point of compatible parts - you obviously have to get a whole new system if you are currently using AGP and want a new shiny PCIX card)
reprogrammable - so that you can fairly easily upgrade and patch software, whereas theres only one or 2 console games (well, PS2 anyway, I never had or wanted an xbox) - Killzone and I think SOCOM 2 let you download maps (I guess Halo 2 does also, yes?)
and have a HUGE library of devices you can connect to em - be it mainstream stuff like drives, video cards, etc or anything from joysticks to serial modems for connecting to memory storage for the code to run a robot
but to counter that, anybody with enough technical knowlege can make peripherals and whatnot for PCs (hell, even *nix systems) - in other words aside from Nintendo's patent on the controller, another company could easilly enough make a PC gamepad just like it. not to mention that new hardware comes out every few months, letting game devs work using the latest and greatest and not be limited by hardware released 2 years ago...
and as for the thing with her hogging your DS, why not have gotten her a tablet pc instead? (sure its not mac, but at the least you could get it a bit closer to mac with some odd distro of linux out there)
Sony is NOT that damned stupid to make the launch price so high as that - my bet is they'll announce a "sudden launch price drop" anywhere from a few weeks to a month before the actual in-store launch of the console - that way, people will think "Oh its not that expensive, maybe now I'll buy one" since any mention of lowering prices will make joe sixpack think they are getting a good deal, and the people that woulda bought one anyway will be extra sure to buy one since they have more than the launch cost saved up - it sounds expensive when you dont have the money, but if you have more than enough saved up, it becomes more tempting...
how could we hear him the first time though if the second arrived first?
part of it could also be that the company it security are control freaks and uses spyware to track employees - they're just pissed cuz firefox and opera are actually secure (actually secure or just compared to ie) and that their spyware trackers and keyloggers cant tell em exactly what firefox (or opera) is doing
ya, thats the one I was thinking of...
iirc, didn't one of the video card companies the thing with cards alternating on rendering frames? didnt they call it sli back then also except it stood for something else and that was the only way it speed things up (alternating frames)?
"Wii" for the sound people make playing it, swinging those controllers around mid-air, smacking each other in the face - I smell lawsuits due to Nintendo not putting warnings on the controllers that people could get smacked by each other...
hrmm... loooks like something else somebody said about M$ purposely delaying a firefox "workaround" for this windows live thing - they'll initially come without pop/smtp, and then a year into it, they'll "suddenly make a breakthrough" with it and you can subscribe to the "groundbreakingly new advanced features" of pop/smtp...
I know I only go to the local shitty community college, but even so, most of the people going there are too damn dumb to know there's much of anything else out there besides regular hotmail, yahoo, and aol - and its not some hick town either, more like one of the suburbs (one of the nicer ones, might I add) around Phoenix, AZ - afaik one of the biggest growing cities in the US...
I think Lenovo is starting to sell a lot of finger-print-biometric-scanner notebooks now, it seems to be one of their big selling points for business buyers - not sure if it would work under Linux, but if its something where you have to scan your finger before it gets through with BIOS it oughta be something embedded into CMOS or some other part of the motherboard, in which case I would think it would still work whether you run Windows or Linux on it...
and that you dont share it with the dipshits that are going to visit half the porn sites on the net (who knows, maybe that would be fine if the system got so overloaded with spyware?)
"What is more important is getting lots of those consoles out there. They want everyone to own one." By the time they get enough produced to have a steady supply of em on the shelves, the PS3 will be out, and keep in mind that many of the people that *did* buy 360's will still go and buy a PS3 - not that they want a PS3 to supplement their 360, but that the 360 was to tide them over until the release of the PS3
sure, if you want the thing to be dead within days - what about virtual memory, paging files, etc? the same type of arguement had been made about putting a "portable" slimmed down version of Firefox (iirc) on something like an iRiver in a /. comment quite a while ago...
for one, the summary said "30% UNTIL the PS3 comes out" - second, IMAO, the only reason M$ is backing HD-DVD is as simple as to be a thorn in Sony's side...
the damn thing wasn't even about making OSX OSS, it just babbled on about how (in Dvorak's psychotic mind, anyway) Apple is really using the Boot Camp thing as a marketing test for deciding if Apple should give Windows just a little bit more favor
just more shit from Dvorak to get hits on his stuff
Yes, teacher, today you taught us that no matter who makes innovations such as tabbed browsing by Firefox and Opera, M$ will just come along and make their barely computer literate users think *they* (M$) were the ones to bring about innovation - thus the people actaully working to the net a better experience get no recognition at all!"
that and when people dont get so uptight about a guy falling over into some lady's boobs, it just might be that less people find it (sexually) arousing... or maybe its people dont find it arousing with the result that control-freak relious people //++ soccer moms dont freak out about it (like they do here in the US)
if anything, these are the types of things that gaming and anime effect society in Japan the most - everything has to be some hello-kitty-ish animation or printed sign - from what I hear even the military signs are hello-kitty-ish... just goes to show how violent they could get if they really wanted - in other words, a helluva lot... would you trust somebody that has a cute furry little animal with an assault rifle telling you not to enter a nuclear power plant?
And Steve Jobs said to the Boot-Camp users finding they like Windows for the number of programs made for it: "Oh ye unfaithful! Your punishment is to not be able to boot back to OS X!"
is that DNF cant be displayed on conventional screens. All the faqs and articles forgot to mention that you'll have to wait 50 years till it comes out when M$ releases Vista (or maybe even later with Cairo - I remember somebody on /. posting about how Cairo was the M$ Windows Forever os where people ask if Windows will ever have such and such features and M$ replies "Ya, sure, in Cairo"), and holographic displays get invented - not only can you email yourself from ingame, you can do it from a 3d holo-display!
something like "Stop waiting for DNF to come out and get a life, or at least play HL2, FEAR - as old as the DNF project is, go play HL1! And oh ya, we forgot to mention - ZOMG!11 P0N135 LOLZ1!!"
second, wasn't there an article on
third, personally, I'm a gamer - whether I have a top of the line system or not (though I don't think nice as they are Athlon 3400 with 1.5 gigs of ram, and a builtin ATI radeon 200xpress counts as top of the line, so I would think it applies more to me than people with top of the line systems) - I dont think I'd want (at first anyway, but my eyes could get used to a purty desktop) an extra feature like a shiny desktop if its gonna suck performance from FEAR or whatnot...
based on the difference between what I paid, and what you are looking at, I'd say either you looked at prices a few months ago or your retailer is ripping you off...
what about Ace Combat 5's (by Namco) SOLG (Strategic Orbital Linear Gun)? ---- one letter off from being the same...