I don't think the title is so much of a 'look how many more games 360 will have' than it is a 'here's what we've got to look forward to this year as gamers'.
I was with you all the way up until CoolEdit is actually more powerful than ProTools. Apparently you've never worked in a pro studio before. The fact that you even put them in the same universe makes your lack of recording knowledge blatantly obvious. You just made a comparison equivalent to iMovie vs. Avid. Take a trip over to digidesign.com sometime.
"To all you Linux-is-not-ready-for-the-desktop whiners, stfu. Don't tell me what I should like"
You're missing the point with this. If you like linux and you're comfortable with it, then fine. But for the AVERAGE JOE, it won't cut it. Try working in tech support for about one day. *Most* users can barely log in or print, much less even try to configure a printer in windows, much much less configure a linux machine. 'Not ready for the desktop' excludes us. That phrase is meant for your average joe sixpack.
Just flat wrong. how can you speculate something like this when you have NO IDEA how the systems work.
You think a CT scan consists of some 1024x768 jpeg? One freakin CT study can be a couple hundred megs itself. They run that machine almost 24x7. And that's just one example.
You think that ever bit of info is super-optimized in some packed database? Wrong. Hospitals usually have entirely different systems for each department. Each having their own proprietary databases.
we have a full Citrix system where anybody can log in remotely from our website. (if you've never used citrix, its a remote terminal server app. think of it as a vnc session to any windows 2000 machine at the hospital.) Any hospital empoloyee can pull up to starbucks with a powerbook and pull up anything from patient records to x-rays, CT scans, patient billing... (thats assuming they have access in the hospital anyway)
Being in IT at a major hospital, i can tell you this would be a nightmare for us legally.
However, in the real world, the majority of this info would be totally useless to someone who stole it out of a car. Its mainly database files for completely propietary systems used on a contract basis. we have separate systems for radiology, cardio, you name it.
with the hipaa privacy laws and such, i can tell you right now the big thing they watch for: Any information (especially non-proprietary files like Excel or whatnot) containing lists of people who have HIV/AIDS. If that gets out, it's a nightmare.
But we're also talking about handling physical bills. You're uber-rich don't carry millions in cash. It's mostly electronic or witch checks. Almost everybody uses regular bills here and there.
But still, the amount of time it takes for to pop up has little to do with an increase in processor power. If you want to give comparisons like that to lay-persons, thats fine. Its just that this one in particular doesn't prove anything one way or the other, and the fact that he even cites it proves his lack of any real technical prowess (therefore killing any authority he has in the first place).
Why does everyone in a country other than america get so upset in a discussion just because america is not like ?
news flash: football and track are the two most popular american highschool sports here, and it just so happens that american schools are what we're talking about. period.
Hate to break it to you, but over here almost nobody cares about soccer. If you think that just because soccer is popular internationally that americans will give up football, then don't get it. Apparently you've never watched american college football. It's followed on a militant religious scale here.
My girlfriend only plays three games (two i expected, the other not so much): Burnout 3 on Xbox , Ninja Turtles on Gamecube, and of course DDR.
Ninja turtles I expected. It makes sense for somebody who's by no means a 'gamer'. Pretty easy with tight, fluid, and (most importantly) simple control. You can play with a friend and just march through a map beating up ninjas with the A button.
Burnout I didn't expect so much. She's been addicted to that game for months. But not the races, just the crash mode. I guess each crash is pretty simple, and you get rewarded each time with a huge amount of money to add to your score...
Wow, i'll be happy if i never even see the word 'MASM' again. I can't stand assembly...
They made the assembly class at my university extremely difficult on purpose, making that class one of the several meant to 'weed out' students that weren't serious. Of course it didn't matter that a class like this won't actually leave you with any useful knowledge... They can MOV AX, KISS MY @$$.
But I came to realize one important thing. When TiVO and the like first came out, I thought "Dang, thats for people who watch way too much tv and care way too much." But it's really not. Its really for the people who DON'T watch alot of TV, and don't give a crap about 99% of whats on.
I never just sit down and watch tv. Thats because chances are there's nothing that interests me right then. But i can scan through the listings in Sage and queue up a crap-load of movies that will play over the course of the month. Not to mention your regular Family Guy, Futurama, and all that. The other big thing? Music. I love when the *actually* play music videos on MTV and the like, but it hardly ever happens. Now I can queue up and record all the hard rock music videos over the entire month. How about stand-up comedy? I can keep a constant look-out for Eddie Izzard and Dane Cook.
But then again, I can get everything i want out of the PVR i built, and its only a single-tuner, 900mhz Athlon with a Radeon 9500 pro. Spare parts. I think 11 tuners goes back to that whole 'people who watch WAY too much tv and care WAY too much' thing.
Did anybody else have the Wipeout for the original Playstation? There were Red Bull ads everywhere. At the time, I don't think anybody knew what the heck Red Bull even was... What was that, like 1996 or 97?
I think you're right, but it can go either way really.
Its the games that have *both* that are the ones everybody has to have. Think Halo, Metal Gear Solid, etc. Those are the games that are all around well-built, and that includes the story.
The obvious exception is online multiplayer modes. Like UT or Quake. Even Command and Conquer. Playing against other people IS the point, so you don't care about the story.
But then again, you've got WoW and the like, where the story is actually important again....
Same thing is happening with satellite radio. The point of a subscription service was to pay for radio outright instead of paying indirectly through listening to commercials. Now you're paying, and you still get advertisments in there every once in a while.
it happened to cable tv years ago. now it has just as much advertisement as anything else, and by this point, everybody's fine with it.
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I don't think the title is so much of a 'look how many more games 360 will have' than it is a 'here's what we've got to look forward to this year as gamers'.
Even better, who needs screensavers when you've got 16 servers per KVM switch?
I was with you all the way up until CoolEdit is actually more powerful than ProTools. Apparently you've never worked in a pro studio before. The fact that you even put them in the same universe makes your lack of recording knowledge blatantly obvious. You just made a comparison equivalent to iMovie vs. Avid. Take a trip over to digidesign.com sometime.
We all laugh, but that actually has happened before... Sometimes you can never underestimate people enough.
"To all you Linux-is-not-ready-for-the-desktop whiners, stfu. Don't tell me what I should like"
You're missing the point with this. If you like linux and you're comfortable with it, then fine. But for the AVERAGE JOE, it won't cut it. Try working in tech support for about one day. *Most* users can barely log in or print, much less even try to configure a printer in windows, much much less configure a linux machine. 'Not ready for the desktop' excludes us. That phrase is meant for your average joe sixpack.
"Why curtail the perfectly reasonable and legal second-hand market if they're making money hand-over-fist with the current situation?"
When have you *ever* heard a company say "Eh, thats fine. No thanks. I think we're plenty good..." on the subject of profits?
Oh ok. thanks you guys. I can't actually RTFA at work because of our firewall. All i can get is *.org or *.edu
There was 'drama' with the NES version of tetris? Did I miss something?
Well, I was probably 10 at the time anyway...
Just flat wrong. how can you speculate something like this when you have NO IDEA how the systems work.
You think a CT scan consists of some 1024x768 jpeg? One freakin CT study can be a couple hundred megs itself. They run that machine almost 24x7. And that's just one example.
You think that ever bit of info is super-optimized in some packed database? Wrong. Hospitals usually have entirely different systems for each department. Each having their own proprietary databases.
Not really. I'm in IT at a major hospital.
we have a full Citrix system where anybody can log in remotely from our website. (if you've never used citrix, its a remote terminal server app. think of it as a vnc session to any windows 2000 machine at the hospital.) Any hospital empoloyee can pull up to starbucks with a powerbook and pull up anything from patient records to x-rays, CT scans, patient billing... (thats assuming they have access in the hospital anyway)
same thing as bringing it home basically.
Being in IT at a major hospital, i can tell you this would be a nightmare for us legally.
However, in the real world, the majority of this info would be totally useless to someone who stole it out of a car. Its mainly database files for completely propietary systems used on a contract basis. we have separate systems for radiology, cardio, you name it.
with the hipaa privacy laws and such, i can tell you right now the big thing they watch for: Any information (especially non-proprietary files like Excel or whatnot) containing lists of people who have HIV/AIDS. If that gets out, it's a nightmare.
But we're also talking about handling physical bills. You're uber-rich don't carry millions in cash. It's mostly electronic or witch checks. Almost everybody uses regular bills here and there.
Granted.
But still, the amount of time it takes for to pop up has little to do with an increase in processor power. If you want to give comparisons like that to lay-persons, thats fine. Its just that this one in particular doesn't prove anything one way or the other, and the fact that he even cites it proves his lack of any real technical prowess (therefore killing any authority he has in the first place).
IntelliMac? No way. Sounds to Microsofty.
Like IntelliSense, IntelliMouse, or whatever else they have. 'Intelli-' as a prefix has already been decidedly Microsoft for a while.
Agreed. Ultimate Frisbee is easily the most popular rec sport here at LSU.
Why does everyone in a country other than america get so upset in a discussion just because america is not like ?
news flash: football and track are the two most popular american highschool sports here, and it just so happens that american schools are what we're talking about. period.
Hate to break it to you, but over here almost nobody cares about soccer. If you think that just because soccer is popular internationally that americans will give up football, then don't get it. Apparently you've never watched american college football. It's followed on a militant religious scale here.
It's amazing how people struggle to make a joke as soon as a story comes out...
My girlfriend only plays three games (two i expected, the other not so much): Burnout 3 on Xbox , Ninja Turtles on Gamecube, and of course DDR.
Ninja turtles I expected. It makes sense for somebody who's by no means a 'gamer'. Pretty easy with tight, fluid, and (most importantly) simple control. You can play with a friend and just march through a map beating up ninjas with the A button.
Burnout I didn't expect so much. She's been addicted to that game for months. But not the races, just the crash mode. I guess each crash is pretty simple, and you get rewarded each time with a huge amount of money to add to your score...
Wow, i'll be happy if i never even see the word 'MASM' again. I can't stand assembly...
They made the assembly class at my university extremely difficult on purpose, making that class one of the several meant to 'weed out' students that weren't serious. Of course it didn't matter that a class like this won't actually leave you with any useful knowledge... They can MOV AX, KISS MY @$$.
Congrats on being the only sane person on this thread.
Mod parent up!
Somewhat true.
But I came to realize one important thing. When TiVO and the like first came out, I thought "Dang, thats for people who watch way too much tv and care way too much." But it's really not. Its really for the people who DON'T watch alot of TV, and don't give a crap about 99% of whats on.
I never just sit down and watch tv. Thats because chances are there's nothing that interests me right then. But i can scan through the listings in Sage and queue up a crap-load of movies that will play over the course of the month. Not to mention your regular Family Guy, Futurama, and all that. The other big thing? Music. I love when the *actually* play music videos on MTV and the like, but it hardly ever happens. Now I can queue up and record all the hard rock music videos over the entire month. How about stand-up comedy? I can keep a constant look-out for Eddie Izzard and Dane Cook.
But then again, I can get everything i want out of the PVR i built, and its only a single-tuner, 900mhz Athlon with a Radeon 9500 pro. Spare parts. I think 11 tuners goes back to that whole 'people who watch WAY too much tv and care WAY too much' thing.
Did anybody else have the Wipeout for the original Playstation? There were Red Bull ads everywhere. At the time, I don't think anybody knew what the heck Red Bull even was... What was that, like 1996 or 97?
Yup. done that before. I just made a habit of just using two BR tags.
I think you're right, but it can go either way really.
Its the games that have *both* that are the ones everybody has to have. Think Halo, Metal Gear Solid, etc. Those are the games that are all around well-built, and that includes the story.
The obvious exception is online multiplayer modes. Like UT or Quake. Even Command and Conquer. Playing against other people IS the point, so you don't care about the story.
But then again, you've got WoW and the like, where the story is actually important again....
Same thing is happening with satellite radio. The point of a subscription service was to pay for radio outright instead of paying indirectly through listening to commercials. Now you're paying, and you still get advertisments in there every once in a while.
it happened to cable tv years ago. now it has just as much advertisement as anything else, and by this point, everybody's fine with it.