Microsoft is coming out with an HD-DVD accessory for HD movies as an add-on only a year after they launched: that is exactly the kind of thing we don't want to do.
Stupid Microsoft, having to come out with an accessory just an year after they launched.
When Microsoft or Nintendo release a new console, Sony will have to anyway. People will move to the newer consoles because they'll have the impression that Sony isn't going with the times.
My firm belief is what Sony's CEO meant by "long PS3 shelf life" is that Sony's filing for bankrupt after the PS3 release.
Reminds of me of their E3 press conference, where they've spent 90% of the time mumbling stuff like: "But moooom... high resolution and more polygons also matters for gameplay. See? It's 1080p, that's cool, right? Come on:(".
XBOX 360 has pretty short shelf life: when they put it on the shelf, someone comes immediately and buys it (well, except Japan... yet). That will happen with the Wii too. That sucks for them having so short shelf life.
I'd love to have all of my A/V electronics connected wirelessly. I don't care if it would only work within one room for now cause all of my stuff's in one room, probably like most people.
Go on do it. Reminds me of the inventors of X-Rays. They wanted to scan everything and make X-Ray movies from it, since it's so neat to see inside of a living creature: mice, cats, dogs... themselves too. There's hours and hours of movie material of them trying it when their wear rings, watches and all sort of non-sense.
UWB technology has been specifically talked about and designed to replace wired USB connections for over a year. Due to its high bandwidth, it's also been considered as an A/V cable replacement.
Yea, yea, yea... That sounds so desperately trying to hype it up. Just a month ago we were discussing that current digital A/V *cables* can't handle high enough resolutions for some larger (resolution) monitors out there, which requires two or even four DVI cables.
We've discussed also how the new standard introduced, is just as bad (despite claims to "scale indefinitely", in theory, with other equipment and all that..).
Now this is of course gonna replace everything, including food and water in one year. Therefore buy our shares and give us venture capital. Screw it.
The problem is that UWB radio performance degrades precipitously, effectively confining it to a single room. Until now, that is. Startup TZero says its UWB implementation provides high throughput through walls. Will this be an effective competitor to 802.11n?
I don't get it: we have enough problems with people logging into our wifi networks because it passes through walls already (even if it's password protected and so on, it can be hacked into), and now they found a way to do the same with UWB? I kinda like it in my room only, neighbours will have to buy theirs.
We've heard our fans and understood the correct way to our mutual benefits: large income for us and our artists, and affordable music with great quality, on any device - for you.
Well, maybe not for artists, but, I mean, come on, we're doing everything 'round here.
Not for any device, but, you could just buy a PlaysForSure player (damn you iPod!).
Ok, not for a great price, we kinda exaggerated: no free lunch you know. In fact, you can't buy it at all, it's a monthly fee.
The quality may suck a little, it's a low bitrate lossy format, it's mathematicians and programmers fault. With new algorithms, we'll have it by 2045.
There's also a list of known issues, like we're collecting privacy info, tracking what you play and other minor things, that, since you don't know it, why you should care about it.
Well, wish us and you plenty of luck with our newfound image of customer care and friendly relationships!
PS: Oh and we might still need to sue 12-year old girls from time to time, you know how it is.. Come on..
nstead of obsessing about how unlockable features prevents you from having you your fun try thinking of them as spreading the fun over a longer period of time.
Think outside the box. The reason that unlocking everything at once reduces fun is because the content is not THAT much.
Games are expensive as hell to produce nowadays, this goes a long way to explain why you don't have 200 car models & 100 tracks in your average racing game. But just adding more of the same isn't fun either.
What the guys want are more gaming, less complexity. Compare a modern game with a NES game. With a cartridge of 200 classic NES games you can easily spend a whole year of fun playing all kinds of games, without having to unlock something. You just select a game and play it.
File size, polygon counts and texture size do not necessarily provide more fun hours. Some of the brand new Wii franchises demonstrate that. They actually will launch two games that are in fact just many-small-games-in-one-package. Like Wii-sports, which is I think at least 10 totally different sports games inside. Or how about that other one (sorry forgot the title), which actually has over 200 (!!!) mini games inside it, readily available to be immediately started with no unlocking and earning.
Bottom line: unlocking can work, but it'll be nice if the gaming industry learn from its past (or learn from Nintendo's present..?) and be a little more than one-trick pony. I for one am tired of the cliche WW II, criminal, and shooting-aliens cliche games, aren't you?
Let's just say it. Player generated content is great, but when given too much control, people just start putting all sorts of low-quality nonsense and you have to put with it.
Not to add SL really missed the last few advancements in 3D technology and looks like a bunch of polygonal edgy constructions with blurry textures on it.
I don't know why or how, but their whole site and promotional material looks like created by wannabe's (player content again?).
Their idea is great, but they should really jump into 21-st century I believe.
If people from the 1920s suddenly landed in the here and now, they'd probably find modern technology a bit weird. Take digital cameras for instance. Nobody would have predicted that most people would now take pictures by holding the camera out in front of them and look at the preview screen to frame a shot.
They won't be confused by the color image and ability to shoot video with a box smaller than your fist, or ability to send pictures via air to your home and the other boxes.
They'll be surprised that people keep the cameras at an arm distance! That's far more shocking!
Way to go Dvorak. Why didn't you do some research. In 1920 there was no even television.
Nobody would have predicted that most people would now take pictures by holding the camera out in front of them and look at the preview screen to frame a shot.
If Dvorak was born in 1920-s I bet he would've predicted it.
By the way, we found it crazy that people talk "to themselves" on the street (actually to their cell phones) on the street and we though this makes you look insane. This wasn't 1920, it was 1995. So, things change.
One thing Dvorak is wrong about though:
Whatever the case, it appears as if we are now stuck with these new archetypes.
We're all but stuck with anything. In just 20 years we'll discuss how having rotating mini satelite dish on your head would've looked strange to someone from 2006.
But things change so fast, you just become accustomed to seeing odd stuff at home and on the streets. We no longer see strange as strange.
For cleaning out malware, unless I was packing software with me, I'd do a scan with housecall.trendmicro.com [trendmicro.com].
If I start listing all DLL-s, INI, DAT, OCX and so on files TrendMicro's web scan scatters around your disk and startup files, you'll cry for the very thought you tried it.
It's like malware: once installed, you can't remove it. You may think you've removed it, but it keep living forever until you reinstall Windows, OR painstakingly find a full list of the (over 30?) binary and data files scattered around your windows folder, erase them, and patch the registry so Windows won't complain on startup.
Other than that, yea, TrendMicro is nice. Would be nice not to throw out "OMG TEH END Of THE WORLD IS HERE" messages when it finds... a cookie in your browser.
If the submitter had bothered to RTFA (I know, I know, "You must be new here") he would see that these articles are about local networks being brought down by lots of users trying to stream World Cup footage at the same, not an "Internet meltdown". Whether such a meltdown is even possible is another question entirely
Let's think logically.
First, I doubt Internet is capable of "meltdown", but apaprently it's capable of "blowing concerns out of proportions" on various popular blogs and news sites.
If a pipe gets over-saturated, it may start delaying and dropping packets. Dropping packets is not gonna cause an apocalypse, it actually happens all the time.
What will happen is your stream will be unstable and interrupt from time to time or stop completely, and you'll gotta watch it on TV. Internet problems happen everyday. Also it's more likely that the pipes of the streaming servers will get clogged first before those of the local networks.
I doubt the sum of all local networks have less bandwidth than a single source of data (even with all the mirror servers that will be setup to handle it).
With some ISP-s, crappy connection is the norm. Noone is talking of meltdown there.
1. If you see a big bright mushroom of smoke rise outside your window, stop immediately streaming video. 2. If it doesn't work, stop also downloading pr0n and war3z through p2p. 3. If it still doesn't work, duck a-a-and cover. 4. Don't forget to turn on your pr0n and war3z downloads as soon as its over, or severe health and brain damage effects might manifestate.
In everybody's mind the initial paradigm of "Write once, run everywhere" has shifted to "Write once, debug everywhere". In short, thanks to microsoft for bringing a subtlely incompatible "enhanced" Java, the whole Java platform was broken.
Thanks to Microsoft. Ok. This won't explain why Sun's official release has so many inconsistencies, is so huge, and is so slow to start.
I've seen fast Java apps, Java has gone a long way, I'm sure it's capable, but it's WAY too bloated for a browser application engine.
Well, "privacy" does not really exist on the 'web and what you did have is vanishing... but not because of MySpace. Because too many companies are posting your private data on the 'web and allowing anyone with the money to search through it.
That certainly puts a twist on the "Information wants to be free" slogan that the various freedom, oss, piracy and so on communities try to imprint on us.
Turns out, not just mp3-s and movie rips want to be free. Your private info wants to be free too.
Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.
I wouldn't be quick to call "Cell" broken. Don't forget the architecture is pretty different than what a normal PC is. Just like you wouldn't compare the MHz of Cell to a Intel processor, don't be quick to jump on the statistics before you see what the machine can really do.
The E3 game demos, as unimpressive from gameplay standpoint, showed significant amount of CPU power involved: physics, high count polygon transforms, morphs, AI and so on.
That won't change the fact I'm bored with it and looking forward to Wii instead (360 is also a pretty decent choice, wanna get 'em both).
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Microsoft is coming out with an HD-DVD accessory for HD movies as an add-on only a year after they launched: that is exactly the kind of thing we don't want to do.
Stupid Microsoft, having to come out with an accessory just an year after they launched.
Do as Sony does: they've not even launched yet.
When Microsoft or Nintendo release a new console, Sony will have to anyway. People will move to the newer consoles because they'll have the impression that Sony isn't going with the times.
:(".
My firm belief is what Sony's CEO meant by "long PS3 shelf life" is that Sony's filing for bankrupt after the PS3 release.
Reminds of me of their E3 press conference, where they've spent 90% of the time mumbling stuff like: "But moooom... high resolution and more polygons also matters for gameplay. See? It's 1080p, that's cool, right? Come on
SCEA President Hypes PS3 Shelf Life Over 360
XBOX 360 has pretty short shelf life: when they put it on the shelf, someone comes immediately and buys it (well, except Japan... yet). That will happen with the Wii too. That sucks for them having so short shelf life.
But PS3 will have a great shelf life...
I'd love to have all of my A/V electronics connected wirelessly. I don't care if it would only work within one room for now cause all of my stuff's in one room, probably like most people.
Go on do it. Reminds me of the inventors of X-Rays. They wanted to scan everything and make X-Ray movies from it, since it's so neat to see inside of a living creature: mice, cats, dogs... themselves too. There's hours and hours of movie material of them trying it when their wear rings, watches and all sort of non-sense.
Most of them of course died of cancer later.
UWB technology has been specifically talked about and designed to replace wired USB connections for over a year. Due to its high bandwidth, it's also been considered as an A/V cable replacement.
Yea, yea, yea... That sounds so desperately trying to hype it up. Just a month ago we were discussing that current digital A/V *cables* can't handle high enough resolutions for some larger (resolution) monitors out there, which requires two or even four DVI cables.
We've discussed also how the new standard introduced, is just as bad (despite claims to "scale indefinitely", in theory, with other equipment and all that..).
Now this is of course gonna replace everything, including food and water in one year. Therefore buy our shares and give us venture capital. Screw it.
The problem is that UWB radio performance degrades precipitously, effectively confining it to a single room. Until now, that is. Startup TZero says its UWB implementation provides high throughput through walls. Will this be an effective competitor to 802.11n?
I don't get it: we have enough problems with people logging into our wifi networks because it passes through walls already (even if it's password protected and so on, it can be hacked into), and now they found a way to do the same with UWB? I kinda like it in my room only, neighbours will have to buy theirs.
FTA: Now, currently we have been able to make breast tissue...
Sure, of course, we could use it to cure paralized patients and cancer, but boob jobs and growing longer eye-lids would do.
Intel Core Duo dual core CPU
You forgot to mention it's from Intel. Again.
We've heard our fans and understood the correct way to our mutual benefits: large income for us and our artists, and affordable music with great quality, on any device - for you.
Well, maybe not for artists, but, I mean, come on, we're doing everything 'round here.
Not for any device, but, you could just buy a PlaysForSure player (damn you iPod!).
Ok, not for a great price, we kinda exaggerated: no free lunch you know. In fact, you can't buy it at all, it's a monthly fee.
The quality may suck a little, it's a low bitrate lossy format, it's mathematicians and programmers fault. With new algorithms, we'll have it by 2045.
There's also a list of known issues, like we're collecting privacy info, tracking what you play and other minor things, that, since you don't know it, why you should care about it.
Well, wish us and you plenty of luck with our newfound image of customer care and friendly relationships!
PS: Oh and we might still need to sue 12-year old girls from time to time, you know how it is.. Come on..
Noone seems to talk about that. Are we like those guys we're mocking that put their hands on their ears and shout "LALALALA" ?
The site is not available from several locations I've tried just a day after the "piratebay is back" articles, and was offline ever since.
Info?
nstead of obsessing about how unlockable features prevents you from having you your fun try thinking of them as spreading the fun over a longer period of time.
Think outside the box. The reason that unlocking everything at once reduces fun is because the content is not THAT much.
Games are expensive as hell to produce nowadays, this goes a long way to explain why you don't have 200 car models & 100 tracks in your average racing game. But just adding more of the same isn't fun either.
What the guys want are more gaming, less complexity. Compare a modern game with a NES game. With a cartridge of 200 classic NES games you can easily spend a whole year of fun playing all kinds of games, without having to unlock something. You just select a game and play it.
File size, polygon counts and texture size do not necessarily provide more fun hours. Some of the brand new Wii franchises demonstrate that. They actually will launch two games that are in fact just many-small-games-in-one-package. Like Wii-sports, which is I think at least 10 totally different sports games inside. Or how about that other one (sorry forgot the title), which actually has over 200 (!!!) mini games inside it, readily available to be immediately started with no unlocking and earning.
Bottom line: unlocking can work, but it'll be nice if the gaming industry learn from its past (or learn from Nintendo's present..?) and be a little more than one-trick pony. I for one am tired of the cliche WW II, criminal, and shooting-aliens cliche games, aren't you?
DRM, our last defence against information control?
It's not a current gen, it's a filler between last gen and next gen.
And their marketing and branding sucks. I still have no clue which Core Duo chip is supposed to be fastest or whatever. So I just don't buy.
Way to go Intel.
Let's just say it. Player generated content is great, but when given too much control, people just start putting all sorts of low-quality nonsense and you have to put with it.
Not to add SL really missed the last few advancements in 3D technology and looks like a bunch of polygonal edgy constructions with blurry textures on it.
I don't know why or how, but their whole site and promotional material looks like created by wannabe's (player content again?).
Their idea is great, but they should really jump into 21-st century I believe.
If people from the 1920s suddenly landed in the here and now, they'd probably find modern technology a bit weird. Take digital cameras for instance. Nobody would have predicted that most people would now take pictures by holding the camera out in front of them and look at the preview screen to frame a shot.
They won't be confused by the color image and ability to shoot video with a box smaller than your fist, or ability to send pictures via air to your home and the other boxes.
They'll be surprised that people keep the cameras at an arm distance! That's far more shocking!
Way to go Dvorak. Why didn't you do some research. In 1920 there was no even television.
Nobody would have predicted that most people would now take pictures by holding the camera out in front of them and look at the preview screen to frame a shot.
If Dvorak was born in 1920-s I bet he would've predicted it.
By the way, we found it crazy that people talk "to themselves" on the street (actually to their cell phones) on the street and we though this makes you look insane. This wasn't 1920, it was 1995. So, things change.
One thing Dvorak is wrong about though:
Whatever the case, it appears as if we are now stuck with these new archetypes.
We're all but stuck with anything. In just 20 years we'll discuss how having rotating mini satelite dish on your head would've looked strange to someone from 2006.
But things change so fast, you just become accustomed to seeing odd stuff at home and on the streets. We no longer see strange as strange.
For cleaning out malware, unless I was packing software with me, I'd do a scan with housecall.trendmicro.com [trendmicro.com].
If I start listing all DLL-s, INI, DAT, OCX and so on files TrendMicro's web scan scatters around your disk and startup files, you'll cry for the very thought you tried it.
It's like malware: once installed, you can't remove it. You may think you've removed it, but it keep living forever until you reinstall Windows, OR painstakingly find a full list of the (over 30?) binary and data files scattered around your windows folder, erase them, and patch the registry so Windows won't complain on startup.
Other than that, yea, TrendMicro is nice. Would be nice not to throw out "OMG TEH END Of THE WORLD IS HERE" messages when it finds... a cookie in your browser.
If the submitter had bothered to RTFA (I know, I know, "You must be new here") he would see that these articles are about local networks being brought down by lots of users trying to stream World Cup footage at the same, not an "Internet meltdown". Whether such a meltdown is even possible is another question entirely
Let's think logically.
First, I doubt Internet is capable of "meltdown", but apaprently it's capable of "blowing concerns out of proportions" on various popular blogs and news sites.
If a pipe gets over-saturated, it may start delaying and dropping packets. Dropping packets is not gonna cause an apocalypse, it actually happens all the time.
What will happen is your stream will be unstable and interrupt from time to time or stop completely, and you'll gotta watch it on TV. Internet problems happen everyday. Also it's more likely that the pipes of the streaming servers will get clogged first before those of the local networks.
I doubt the sum of all local networks have less bandwidth than a single source of data (even with all the mirror servers that will be setup to handle it).
With some ISP-s, crappy connection is the norm. Noone is talking of meltdown there.
1. If you see a big bright mushroom of smoke rise outside your window, stop immediately streaming video.
2. If it doesn't work, stop also downloading pr0n and war3z through p2p.
3. If it still doesn't work, duck a-a-and cover.
4. Don't forget to turn on your pr0n and war3z downloads as soon as its over, or severe health and brain damage effects might manifestate.
Summary of article: malware authors may try to take advantage of disasters. That's not exactly cutting edge reporting.
Sad part is, it doesn't need to be cutting edge reporting. They got on Slashdot, cashed in the banner impressions, job well done.
It's a variation of the same issue that people create site and contents for search engines and not for people.
Actually, Appleberries exist already [bigpond.net.au] - I've got one growing on my front fence.
That's ok, just don't eat it.
Or touch it.
Or go near it.
In everybody's mind the initial paradigm of "Write once, run everywhere" has shifted to "Write once, debug everywhere". In short, thanks to microsoft for bringing a subtlely incompatible "enhanced" Java, the whole Java platform was broken.
Thanks to Microsoft. Ok. This won't explain why Sun's official release has so many inconsistencies, is so huge, and is so slow to start.
I've seen fast Java apps, Java has gone a long way, I'm sure it's capable, but it's WAY too bloated for a browser application engine.
It's not accidental Flash replaced it.
Well, "privacy" does not really exist on the 'web and what you did have is vanishing ... but not because of MySpace. Because too many companies are posting your private data on the 'web and allowing anyone with the money to search through it.
That certainly puts a twist on the "Information wants to be free" slogan that the various freedom, oss, piracy and so on communities try to imprint on us.
Turns out, not just mp3-s and movie rips want to be free. Your private info wants to be free too.
Should we welcome DRM on our info?
The predicted result? The AppleBerry.
Keep in mind genetically modified food may be dangerous for your health.
Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360.
I wouldn't be quick to call "Cell" broken. Don't forget the architecture is pretty different than what a normal PC is. Just like you
wouldn't compare the MHz of Cell to a Intel processor, don't be quick to jump on the statistics before you see what the machine can really do.
The E3 game demos, as unimpressive from gameplay standpoint, showed significant amount of CPU power involved: physics, high count polygon transforms, morphs, AI and so on.
That won't change the fact I'm bored with it and looking forward to Wii instead (360 is also a pretty decent choice, wanna get 'em both).
Now've the full package: a 4x4 car, a 4x4 AMD chipset and a 4x4 SLI video card.
Someone shoot me.