Easy. I'm no Sony lover but there is definitely ONE good decsion SCEA made since the price announcement that I wish Nintendo had also made, since I own a Wii.
I don't get this. Chances are anyone with a huge library of PS2 games will still have the PS2 they played them on. Is it really that necessary to "consolidate" your consoles?
WiiConnect24 is the name of the internet connection (like Wi-Fi network was for DS). It doesn't actually mean that it's connected 24 hours a day. You can turn that particular feature on or off with the "Standby Connection" option. Enabling WiiConnect24 just allows the Wii to connect to the Internet.
So to answer your question, you can access news and weather without having your Wii connected to the Internet 24 hours, just turn standby connection off.
of course, the big problem with this is that the new cheaper PS3 wouldn't be able to play any games, since all the games are all on blu-ray disks (to reduce piracy) and of course, you need a hdd for downloadable content.
how was this modded informative? these are US numbers, not Japanese numbers.
everything is still continuing to outsell the 360 in Japan. (if this continues we might even have multiple winners over different territories for the first time.
Novell walks away with... well... what did they get out of the deal again?
A cool $200 million? The blessing of Microsoft (which means a lot to many corporate people)
I also think people are underestimating the other side of the deal that is rarely mentioned, MS has paid for licenses to use Novell's patents. Perhaps they know of a few patent violations and were only trying to cover themselves?
I know there is all this hooplah about a new version of Windows, but it just makes me realize what a shame it is that it wasn't programmed right the first time around.
0-day exploits are released before, or on the same day the vulnerability -- and, sometimes, the vendor patch -- are released to the public. The term derives from the number of days between the public advisory and the release of the exploit.
the zero day you're referring to is 0 day warez, that is, warez that are released before the actual product. A 0-day exploit means that the exploit is in the wild before the vendor knows about it.
interestingly, in Japan, this doesn't happen as much. The PS2 is being outsold by the PS3 (which isn't selling that much anyway) and the GBA is essentially dead (it's sold even less than the xbox360) linky: http://www.vgcharts.org/japyearlysum.php
it's interesting to see the difference in culture, it would seem to me that price is less of an issue to the japanese as the americans (for gamers anyway) since they seem to completely ignore the older systems for their (backwards compatible) successors almost as soon as they're released. The venerable PS2 is selling but it didn't even sell twice as much as the Wii last year.
I thought the same thing, but there's one thing that makes VC much better than emulation: multiplayer games.
you can't (easily) get four people around a PC playing mario kart or whatever. And if you do, it's just not as good as having them sitting around the couch yelling and having some room. For most single player games it's probably no better than emulation, but for multiplayer the VC can't be beat.
not necessarily. At home we have five computers (running a variety of operating systems) behind a NAT firewall. Therefore those five systems are only counting as one. There's then a loss of 4 computers in this particular case (well, none of them run fedora, but it's just an example.
Microsoft doesn't have their own anti-virus program.
actually Windows one-care contains anti-virus software. so that's not true.
the rest of your comment is true however, but I find it interesting that defender did block 16% of viruses... I think the problem is the idiot who ran this test didn't know the difference between a virus and other malware (rather than knowing the difference and just thought defender was an anti-virus program)
openSUSE YaST2 and control center actually manage to configure pretty much anything that you would need with the desktop without any issues (well, except for the fact that it's damn slow)
it's a shame no other distro has come up with anything nearly as good.
that's what I first thought reading the comment. but after re-reading I realised that it clearly states that castlevania was definitely not more fundamental to gaming than mario, zelda, metroid, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
sorry incorrect. Try reading any of these articles.
well the games are either stored on the hard disk or a lu-ray disk. without both of them, you can't play games.
Easy. I'm no Sony lover but there is definitely ONE good decsion SCEA made since the price announcement that I wish Nintendo had also made, since I own a Wii.
PS3 games are completely region free.
and you still don't learn your lesson...
I don't get this. Chances are anyone with a huge library of PS2 games will still have the PS2 they played them on. Is it really that necessary to "consolidate" your consoles?
WiiConnect24 is the name of the internet connection (like Wi-Fi network was for DS). It doesn't actually mean that it's connected 24 hours a day. You can turn that particular feature on or off with the "Standby Connection" option. Enabling WiiConnect24 just allows the Wii to connect to the Internet.
So to answer your question, you can access news and weather without having your Wii connected to the Internet 24 hours, just turn standby connection off.
name one market where the PS2 is outselling the Wii
that's right, you can't. Because the only regions with reliable numbers for january show the Wii outselling everything except the DS.
well you just stuffed that one up...
of course, the big problem with this is that the new cheaper PS3 wouldn't be able to play any games, since all the games are all on blu-ray disks (to reduce piracy) and of course, you need a hdd for downloadable content.
What you would end up with is a $300 DVD player.
how was this modded informative? these are US numbers, not Japanese numbers.
everything is still continuing to outsell the 360 in Japan. (if this continues we might even have multiple winners over different territories for the first time.
you can't use the windows license for VMware use any more unless you buy Vista Ultimate
A cool $200 million? The blessing of Microsoft (which means a lot to many corporate people)
I also think people are underestimating the other side of the deal that is rarely mentioned, MS has paid for licenses to use Novell's patents. Perhaps they know of a few patent violations and were only trying to cover themselves?
I know there is all this hooplah about a new version of Windows, but it just makes me realize what a shame it is that it wasn't programmed right the first time around.
sorry... couldn't resist...
it's actually just an ext2 driver. So no journaling support from Windows.
interestingly, in Japan, this doesn't happen as much. The PS2 is being outsold by the PS3 (which isn't selling that much anyway) and the GBA is essentially dead (it's sold even less than the xbox360) linky: http://www.vgcharts.org/japyearlysum.php
it's interesting to see the difference in culture, it would seem to me that price is less of an issue to the japanese as the americans (for gamers anyway) since they seem to completely ignore the older systems for their (backwards compatible) successors almost as soon as they're released. The venerable PS2 is selling but it didn't even sell twice as much as the Wii last year.
I thought the same thing, but there's one thing that makes VC much better than emulation: multiplayer games.
you can't (easily) get four people around a PC playing mario kart or whatever. And if you do, it's just not as good as having them sitting around the couch yelling and having some room. For most single player games it's probably no better than emulation, but for multiplayer the VC can't be beat.
not necessarily. At home we have five computers (running a variety of operating systems) behind a NAT firewall. Therefore those five systems are only counting as one. There's then a loss of 4 computers in this particular case (well, none of them run fedora, but it's just an example.
the rest of your comment is true however, but I find it interesting that defender did block 16% of viruses... I think the problem is the idiot who ran this test didn't know the difference between a virus and other malware (rather than knowing the difference and just thought defender was an anti-virus program)
openSUSE YaST2 and control center actually manage to configure pretty much anything that you would need with the desktop without any issues (well, except for the fact that it's damn slow)
it's a shame no other distro has come up with anything nearly as good.
Sony won it for 2006
errr... this is an overview of THIS MONTH in DS homebrew
that's what I first thought reading the comment. but after re-reading I realised that it clearly states that castlevania was definitely not more fundamental to gaming than mario, zelda, metroid, etc.
no
maybe you should try looking up...