As many previous posts have already stated, SONY has been trying to introduce their own standards for years now - betamax, minidisk, the sony-only stereo systems, etc., etc. What makes the PS3 and Blu-Ray any different to those cases?
SONY has done dumb stuff and lost many battles in the past and they are still an incredibly strong company... I see no reason why they are ready to "self-destruct". In fact if SONY do manage to pull this off they will be in an incredibly strong position... if they don't then I'm sure they will just keep trucking on like they always have.
Also in New Zealand the Playstation consoles have massive support - i know people who work at games stores and all of them have been recommending customers not to buy 360's and to wait for the PS3 to come out - I'm sure their managers wouldn't be too happy about it but they do it anyway. As for Nintendo - gameboys still have a bit of support but the N64 wasn't that popular, and the gamecube was removed from most stores soon after its release because noone was buying it.
I do love Nintendo games and am glad to see Nintendo fighting hard, but my money is still on the PS3.
If you had a device that "attached" to a handset - then couldnt you encrypt/scramble your voice using a set cipher within the device and then have whoever you are calling have a similar device with the same cipher key that decodes your voice?
From what I know (which isn't much) no-one should be able to break the cipher at all unless they physically get hold of one of the handset devices... because the cipher is simply randomly encrypting your voice there is no mathmatical way to break it...
Of course this would only really work if both people had the device etc etc and is therefore not a very practical solution to phone encryption.
If as you say the majority of chinese citizens are as happy and as pro-communism as you, then why on earth is it necessary for the government to be censoring any information coming into the country?
"In a society as large as China, there are always pockets where the seeds of discord can grow into a tree that could serve to disrupt the harmony."
Again if everyone is so happy then how could these "seeds of discord" persuade anyone to join their "tree of disharmony".
And Harmony!? Really? I Can't say anyone that I know who has visited china described the experience as "harmonious".
"...and educational successes as some indication that the system works."
While there are many different views on education and how/what should be taught, there does seem to be a general consensus that the education system should attempt to give its students a wide, mostly unbiased, and as accurate as possible view of the world... I doubt that this is the case in china... BTW have you ever heard of tiananmen square?
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As many previous posts have already stated, SONY has been trying to introduce their own standards for years now - betamax, minidisk, the sony-only stereo systems, etc., etc. What makes the PS3 and Blu-Ray any different to those cases?
SONY has done dumb stuff and lost many battles in the past and they are still an incredibly strong company... I see no reason why they are ready to "self-destruct". In fact if SONY do manage to pull this off they will be in an incredibly strong position... if they don't then I'm sure they will just keep trucking on like they always have.
Also in New Zealand the Playstation consoles have massive support - i know people who work at games stores and all of them have been recommending customers not to buy 360's and to wait for the PS3 to come out - I'm sure their managers wouldn't be too happy about it but they do it anyway. As for Nintendo - gameboys still have a bit of support but the N64 wasn't that popular, and the gamecube was removed from most stores soon after its release because noone was buying it.
I do love Nintendo games and am glad to see Nintendo fighting hard, but my money is still on the PS3.
I probably dont know what im talking about but -
If you had a device that "attached" to a handset - then couldnt you encrypt/scramble your voice using a set cipher within the device and then have whoever you are calling have a similar device with the same cipher key that decodes your voice?
From what I know (which isn't much) no-one should be able to break the cipher at all unless they physically get hold of one of the handset devices... because the cipher is simply randomly encrypting your voice there is no mathmatical way to break it...
Of course this would only really work if both people had the device etc etc and is therefore not a very practical solution to phone encryption.
If as you say the majority of chinese citizens are as happy and as pro-communism as you, then why on earth is it necessary for the government to be censoring any information coming into the country?
"In a society as large as China, there are always pockets where the seeds of discord can grow into a tree that could serve to disrupt the harmony."
Again if everyone is so happy then how could these "seeds of discord" persuade anyone to join their "tree of disharmony".
And Harmony!? Really? I Can't say anyone that I know who has visited china described the experience as "harmonious".
"...and educational successes as some indication that the system works."
While there are many different views on education and how/what should be taught, there does seem to be a general consensus that the education system should attempt to give its students a wide, mostly unbiased, and as accurate as possible view of the world... I doubt that this is the case in china... BTW have you ever heard of tiananmen square?