If I'm using an external mouse, keyboard and monitor, why am I bothering with a laptop in the first place?
Because you can pick it up and take it somewhere else and all's ready to go. That's how I work from home instead of staying at the office all hours of the night.
I hear a lot more from you guys that babble about what religious people would say than I do from the people you're talking about. There's not one mention of religion in the summary or article, but there's over 50 out of 65 comments about that severely beaten topic. Way to be super cool, guys. Love your priorities.
The article is 100% incorrect. I have the Incredible and they're stored on the external SD card. The article is a load of FUD from Boy Genius.
Given that these phones have to deal with having both internal and external memory, what's preventing you both from being right depending on the configuration?
A Paramount exec said, 'Those people who want to rent are going to figure out ways to rent, and us restricting them from renting isn't going to turn it into a purchase.'
That statement just kills me. In recent years, phrases like 'the customer is always right' seem like out-of-style-like-full-service-gas-stations concepts. If I were to go back in time like 15 years and talk about how these places lowered the value of the products to the people who pay for them to increase sales from those who didn't, they'd think I was concocting some silly sci-fi story.
Very true. The only system that feels dated is the Wii, which could use a better GPU.
Maybe. But I have to admit, the games at E3 for the Wii looked nice. Stylized, but nice. I noticed several other games for XBOX and PS3 were trying to mimic the style.
I have never in my life uploaded a song to 150,000 people. My radio on demonoid hovers around 3.0, so the most they can *logically* claim against me is that I illegally made 3 copies of their the song. So $1 times 3 times however many songs they can prove I infringed (say 20) == $60 fine plus the record company's associated court costs.
I wouldn't even call that logical. If somebody else shares the song, they're the one infringing, not you. Theoretically the same individual song transfer could rack up a huge pile of fines from different people.
Why buy a dedicated handheld gaming device, when you can get smart phone, pda, or tablet like the iPhone/iTouch/iPad, Zune/WM7, Android, or WebOS device that is just as portable, will do a decent job playing games, plus let you surf the net, do your e-mail, and hold your media (music, videos, etc.)?
As an owner of an iPhone, a DS, and a PSP, I can tell you it's because the iPhone isn't so hot at playing games. You'll notice nobody's running around replacing controllers with touch screens. Buttons make a huge difference. Incidentally this didn't help the PSP.
If I was in charge of Nintendo, I would put a big chunk of flash in the 3DS, and include a browser, e-mail client, and media player. And also make a smart phone version as well.
With all due respect, do you really think you can tell Nintendo how to make more money?
Do they really think that people want to carry a separate portable gaming device, media player, and pda or smart phone in this day and age?
This was a bigger concern 5 years ago when anybody needed all those devices. Today my phone is a pda, smart phone, and media player. I have more pocket space available in the last year than I've ever had. Really, this is the silliest reason to think it wouldn't be successful. It'll succeed or fail based on how much fun per buck it is. We didn't hit some age in civilization that'll suddenly kill portable systems.
Remember they bought Netscape for 4 BILLION! Then they did nothing with it... nothing!
I dunno if they broke even, but they did better than 'nothing'. They got nearly a billion from Microsoft in the anti-trust settlement and the Netscape.com web page/portal has been a high traffic site all this time. Again, I dunno if they ever got to 4 billion with it, but they didn't do 'nothing'.
No matter what the onlive reps say, they are not going to be able to get your input lag to a playable 50ms.
I'd just like to point out that if they're getting close to launch, they've already tested this. Maybe they adjusted the games to account for it. Maybe the latency sounds worse as a number than it does when you actually use it. Maybe the latency is reduced at another end of the pipe, possibly making up for it. Who knows until you use it?
It's fun to have academic discussions about it, but I'm not making up my mind until I'm actually sitting here playing the game. I've learned this lesson too many times.
Lastly: Who would want to print their newspaper in the morning?
If the advertising meant free ink for me, I'd consider it.
Of course, I'm thinking in the mindset of how web-services like GMail work. I doubt reality would work that way and I didn't bother reading the article.:D
If you're cheating on your wife, don't post that fact on the Internet.
Huh. And I thought this was the interesting bit of the summary: "Many of the providers of services say in their privacy policies they will give up the data in cases where it is subpoenaed. That isn't always from law enforcement; sometimes the data can be used in civil lawsuits such as divorce cases."
If the appliances in my house refused to work with food that didn't come from Whole Foods then I would be complaining about their limited selection and arbitrary standards. And more so about the appliances.
Really? Because I don't see you posting in the video game console threads.
If you believe that - then argue the point, seriously!
I didn't really feel the need to, the point had already been made.
I just really question the logic there.
Okay, fine, I'll tell you the bit you need to hear again: "So I take it you have never seen Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 & 3, Super Mario Land, Super Mario World, Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Galaxy 2?" Seriously, that's the winning phrase. The only thing I'd add to his point is to suggest you play the first 3 Sonic games then play the first three Mario games. Heck, play Mario 64, then Mario Galaxy, then play GTA3, then GTA4. The Mario games are similar only on a superficial level. You're always going to be confused about that until you sit down and play the games.
So I take it you have never seen Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 & 3, Super Mario Land, Super Mario World, Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Galaxy 2?
Aren't those just all more examples of how they're (supposedly) afraid to do something new?
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If I'm using an external mouse, keyboard and monitor, why am I bothering with a laptop in the first place?
Because you can pick it up and take it somewhere else and all's ready to go. That's how I work from home instead of staying at the office all hours of the night.
I cant imagine how you can picture using a file manager to delete a file as difficult, obtuse or obscure?
How hard, obtuse, or obscure is going down into the cellar with your torch, especially after you find it's down there now?
By "go down into the cellar" you mean either mount the SD card and delete the files or install a file browser and delete the files./quote.
The funny thing is that you're phrasing that like it's a correction even though it's really supportive of my point.
I hear a lot more from you guys that babble about what religious people would say than I do from the people you're talking about. There's not one mention of religion in the summary or article, but there's over 50 out of 65 comments about that severely beaten topic. Way to be super cool, guys. Love your priorities.
Since when does clicking a file and pressing delete qualify as "not easily deleted"?
Since you have to go down into the cellar with a torch to find them.
The article is 100% incorrect. I have the Incredible and they're stored on the external SD card. The article is a load of FUD from Boy Genius.
Given that these phones have to deal with having both internal and external memory, what's preventing you both from being right depending on the configuration?
You need the Flash 10.2 beta which accelerates pallophotophone files.
That's why I will only buy an Android phone!
A Paramount exec said, 'Those people who want to rent are going to figure out ways to rent, and us restricting them from renting isn't going to turn it into a purchase.'
That statement just kills me. In recent years, phrases like 'the customer is always right' seem like out-of-style-like-full-service-gas-stations concepts. If I were to go back in time like 15 years and talk about how these places lowered the value of the products to the people who pay for them to increase sales from those who didn't, they'd think I was concocting some silly sci-fi story.
I sometimes wonder if xkcd doesn't actually have a home page and that it just uses Slashdot comments as an index.
But this time, this guys scared the fuck out of me.
Then Slashdot succeeded in fulfilling its agenda.
Very true. The only system that feels dated is the Wii, which could use a better GPU.
Maybe. But I have to admit, the games at E3 for the Wii looked nice. Stylized, but nice. I noticed several other games for XBOX and PS3 were trying to mimic the style.
That was poor communication on my part. I was replying to yours but also reading "(99 cents per song * 150K downloaders, perhaps)".
It was intended to support your point but I didn't do enough to make that clear, my bad.
I have never in my life uploaded a song to 150,000 people. My radio on demonoid hovers around 3.0, so the most they can *logically* claim against me is that I illegally made 3 copies of their the song. So $1 times 3 times however many songs they can prove I infringed (say 20) == $60 fine plus the record company's associated court costs.
I wouldn't even call that logical. If somebody else shares the song, they're the one infringing, not you. Theoretically the same individual song transfer could rack up a huge pile of fines from different people.
Why buy a dedicated handheld gaming device, when you can get smart phone, pda, or tablet like the iPhone/iTouch/iPad, Zune/WM7, Android, or WebOS device that is just as portable, will do a decent job playing games, plus let you surf the net, do your e-mail, and hold your media (music, videos, etc.)?
As an owner of an iPhone, a DS, and a PSP, I can tell you it's because the iPhone isn't so hot at playing games. You'll notice nobody's running around replacing controllers with touch screens. Buttons make a huge difference. Incidentally this didn't help the PSP.
If I was in charge of Nintendo, I would put a big chunk of flash in the 3DS, and include a browser, e-mail client, and media player. And also make a smart phone version as well.
With all due respect, do you really think you can tell Nintendo how to make more money?
Do they really think that people want to carry a separate portable gaming device, media player, and pda or smart phone in this day and age?
This was a bigger concern 5 years ago when anybody needed all those devices. Today my phone is a pda, smart phone, and media player. I have more pocket space available in the last year than I've ever had. Really, this is the silliest reason to think it wouldn't be successful. It'll succeed or fail based on how much fun per buck it is. We didn't hit some age in civilization that'll suddenly kill portable systems.
Remember they bought Netscape for 4 BILLION! Then they did nothing with it ... nothing!
I dunno if they broke even, but they did better than 'nothing'. They got nearly a billion from Microsoft in the anti-trust settlement and the Netscape.com web page/portal has been a high traffic site all this time. Again, I dunno if they ever got to 4 billion with it, but they didn't do 'nothing'.
No matter what the onlive reps say, they are not going to be able to get your input lag to a playable 50ms.
I'd just like to point out that if they're getting close to launch, they've already tested this. Maybe they adjusted the games to account for it. Maybe the latency sounds worse as a number than it does when you actually use it. Maybe the latency is reduced at another end of the pipe, possibly making up for it. Who knows until you use it?
It's fun to have academic discussions about it, but I'm not making up my mind until I'm actually sitting here playing the game. I've learned this lesson too many times.
Lastly: Who would want to print their newspaper in the morning?
If the advertising meant free ink for me, I'd consider it.
Of course, I'm thinking in the mindset of how web-services like GMail work. I doubt reality would work that way and I didn't bother reading the article. :D
If you're cheating on your wife, don't post that fact on the Internet.
Huh. And I thought this was the interesting bit of the summary: "Many of the providers of services say in their privacy policies they will give up the data in cases where it is subpoenaed. That isn't always from law enforcement; sometimes the data can be used in civil lawsuits such as divorce cases."
If the appliances in my house refused to work with food that didn't come from Whole Foods then I would be complaining about their limited selection and arbitrary standards. And more so about the appliances.
Really? Because I don't see you posting in the video game console threads.
I re-read my post and I think I come off as being snide/hostile. It's not intentional, I'm sorry man.
If you believe that - then argue the point, seriously!
I didn't really feel the need to, the point had already been made.
I just really question the logic there.
Okay, fine, I'll tell you the bit you need to hear again: "So I take it you have never seen Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 & 3, Super Mario Land, Super Mario World, Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Galaxy 2?" Seriously, that's the winning phrase. The only thing I'd add to his point is to suggest you play the first 3 Sonic games then play the first three Mario games. Heck, play Mario 64, then Mario Galaxy, then play GTA3, then GTA4. The Mario games are similar only on a superficial level. You're always going to be confused about that until you sit down and play the games.
It's called Battle Chess and we stopped playing that several years ago when some overly hairy guy 'won' by ripping his opponent's arm from its socket.
So I take it you have never seen Super Mario Bros. 1, 2 & 3, Super Mario Land, Super Mario World, Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Galaxy 2?
Aren't those just all more examples of how they're (supposedly) afraid to do something new?
No.
No need to turn it off, just change the channel to a real sport.
Heh what do Slashdotters consider a real sport? Pod Races?
My TV already has a digital filter. Its called the off switch.
So when you get angry, do you flip it off?