From the perspective of an atypical slashdot-college student (very very casual gamer). The only system I ever really hear
talked about on campus was Playstation 2 and now Playstation 3. I know you all hate Sony and are convinced that Wii will be
a better system (and I have no idea, it'll probably be a long while before I ever play it). You'd be amazed at how many
people use PS2 only in order to play Madden. These kids don't want innovative new controls, they like to challenge each
other where they don't have a learning curve. They want to have the cool system, and that's been Playstation. Nintendo has a
stigma I'd say as being nerdy and childish. No one even cares really about xBox or Wii around here, they just accept that
"playing videogames" probably means sports games Playstation. You guys may focus on the casual gamers, but the real focus
should be on the ultra-casual gamer, the Madden/Jock crowd of college students and young graduates. Most of these people
just buy the next PS and don't even question it. Little kids will ask for PS3 because their older pbrothers say they
should. In short, you guys vastly underestimate Sony's branding I think. That's really the most important aspect of a
consoles success. People griped about PS2 being difficult to devolop for in the begining, and look how it did- it just rode
PS1's coatails. Look at Corona, the beer sucks...but people buy it because of the branding and how it is marketed as exotic.
It's gained a reputation for being good and now people treat it like it is good.
Open or not, what's the difference? 5 minutes searching on google will show you how to break into pretty much any WEP secured WAP, 64 bit or 128 bit. That's probably 2/3 of the people who have secured internet in the first place. From there, most people leave the router's login (192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1) as admin/blank or blank/admin or admin/admin. Even the people who think they are secured are a joke really. Unless you have a strong password and WPA you are pretty much ripe for the picking.
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From the perspective of an atypical slashdot-college student (very very casual gamer). The only system I ever really hear talked about on campus was Playstation 2 and now Playstation 3. I know you all hate Sony and are convinced that Wii will be a better system (and I have no idea, it'll probably be a long while before I ever play it). You'd be amazed at how many people use PS2 only in order to play Madden. These kids don't want innovative new controls, they like to challenge each other where they don't have a learning curve. They want to have the cool system, and that's been Playstation. Nintendo has a stigma I'd say as being nerdy and childish. No one even cares really about xBox or Wii around here, they just accept that "playing videogames" probably means sports games Playstation. You guys may focus on the casual gamers, but the real focus should be on the ultra-casual gamer, the Madden/Jock crowd of college students and young graduates. Most of these people just buy the next PS and don't even question it. Little kids will ask for PS3 because their older pbrothers say they should. In short, you guys vastly underestimate Sony's branding I think. That's really the most important aspect of a consoles success. People griped about PS2 being difficult to devolop for in the begining, and look how it did- it just rode PS1's coatails. Look at Corona, the beer sucks...but people buy it because of the branding and how it is marketed as exotic. It's gained a reputation for being good and now people treat it like it is good.
Open or not, what's the difference? 5 minutes searching on google will show you how to break into pretty much any WEP secured WAP, 64 bit or 128 bit. That's probably 2/3 of the people who have secured internet in the first place. From there, most people leave the router's login (192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1) as admin/blank or blank/admin or admin/admin. Even the people who think they are secured are a joke really. Unless you have a strong password and WPA you are pretty much ripe for the picking.
check out the sony erricson w800i. you can get flash cards up to 2 GB and eventually up to 4gb. it's interface is already years ahead of the rokr.