I think that we should form a tax exclusively for the purpose of improving internet access within the US and territories. Taking the money to improve internet access here would go a long way towards putting the United States on the top of the internet game. This way, no money grubbing politicians can use the money for other purposes, and we could cut some of the costs currently associated with internet expansion.
Typical of Microsoft praising thier ability to develop crap machines that scratch our discs, and void our warranty if we repair this defect. Oh and not only that they can raid the house of the person who sells a piece that fixes this defect.
I've always made copies of every music CD I bought along with every Game I bought. More often than not I've taken it a step farther and gotten the no CD crack. It's extremly annoying having to stuff your noisy CD drive when you play a game.
I bought a mod chip for my xbox so I could copy my games and play them on the road off the hard drive rather than swapping CD's.
I pay for it, I should be able to use it in the matter thats consistent with my comforts.
If it weren't for a non disclosure agreement I could show you an excel file that shows every single console in the retail stores replaced at least once since launch. Some stores have had it replace 5 times or more.
Granted though, its retail, more dust, more problems. Though the number one problem is still the same as the first generation. Dirty disc reader.
Friggin windows calculator...
I pressed wrong calculation and it came out to 17.66 percent. But my point still stands. That the power supply size alone wouldn't cause the difference in power consumption.
the difference between 500 and 600 is about 17 percent. But I don't think it would make much difference on a modern power supply. Most of them nowdays have energy effeciency built into them. So it shouldn't make any difference. Other than maybe if they used a cheap 600w that had less effeciency to it.
The easiest way for Microsoft to regain xbox consoles on the market.
Go back to to the design board with a third party contractor and tell them to come up with 10 different solutions to the current problems with the xbox 360. Cover all warranty costs with the design improvement added in. Drop the cost of the console by 100 bucks across the board.
Also, for a limited time after fixes are done they should sell a Halo 3 limited edition xbox 360. Design it with colors, ect. Release it with Halo3 in the box and sell it for the current pricing structure.
I'd also opt for a giveaway of free halo 3 to all Xbox field reps 1 day before launch. Who is it you think has to deal with the problems on a day to day basis. Bill Brunelle certainly doesn't.
To be nice, Vista was built with the idea of adding 20 million features to it then trying to make it stable. Which at the moment it really doesn't. Most business customers (Whom BTW account for a vast majority of Microsoft revenues) Want something that that is fast, extremely stable, and consistent. So if it always crashes when you press A 4 and 5 in a sequence it crashes but everything else works perfect. We can work with that. It's stable its easy to predict and easy to fix.
Most people in business barely even use those functions in the current windows product. Most companies use a form of exchange server and outlook, word, excel, powerpoint, half a dozen network drives and a dozen or so other 3rd party apps specific to thier field like autocad, Photoshop, testing, etc. All of which slows down when you add in more resource hogging windows functions. The most useful new windows tool I've seen added to date has probably been remote desktop, built in zip functions, run command on the start menu. But even then it has its limits. I'd much rather have a faster way to switch between spreadsheets when I've got 6 open at once, A hotkey wizard for excel and word. A easy hit task manager that functions like the old autoexec.bat file did back in day where all I had to do is just simply take the one I wanted to run doom with and rename it while the old one automatically got named to.bak so I can easily rename it back for other users using other programs.
I'd like something that just keeps track of what programs I am or am not using then highlights the ones I'm not using so I can quickly shut them down for more memory. Or even better. A memory saving profile that I can run just the basics when I'm doing work related stuff on the network access to the net.
I'm not saying I can make an operating system out of my closet(maybe a computer). But as an end user who looks at a machine for 8-12 hours at a time I know what I want.
Speaking as someone who once worked for microsoft before leaving for a job with an international office supply retailer. I say YAY!!! Learn from this and make a better OS Micro$oft.
So... let me get this straight.
Big blue sells computers to a defunct district, District defaults, IBM keeps it on thier accounts payable for 10 years!!! interest free!!!!, probably cost IBM already 5 million on accounting records and man hour alone dealing with it. Then, legislators try to pressure them into forgiving the loan. Even as a private person I know a greedy public service person when I see one. Make it stick IBM, stick it to them.
I think it should be known that tractor trailor vehicles may have much higher requirements for them as far as licensing, driving, and standards. But at the same time they have maybe about 1/4 of the saftey features that a modern car does. If a truck driver gets into an serious accident. He's only got about a 20 percent chance of living. Trucks are made to haul as much crap as they can, while still being under the 80k weight limit.
Statiscally speaking, I drive better while on the phone than not. Sure I remember in the early days when you'd make it all the way home and not even remember the drive because you were on a call. But when you drive 40k a year that half of your life you spend on the phone and drive are one in the same.
In other news the controversial creationism musuem in Kentucky has closed due to lack of interest. While being replaced with a new evolution museum paid for by scientists around the country. Due to open in the fall of 08.:)
Like Halo, Gears of war, Forza, Doom, and limitless other games. I think games should have levels of difficulty that let the user start from the bottom and work themselves up to insane levels. I prefer a challenging game that takes eons to learn how to play right than one which takes two hours to become an expert at.
It was just hitting its stride among the mainstream gamer at the 150 dollar pricepoint.
Though, you are right, Nvidia and Intel had them by the balls. They wouldn't back down on price so Microsoft left. I figured that Microsoft had raised the prices up to 180 bucks to breakeven on the rest of the consoles at which they still continued to sell and sell very well. Even the used ones still sell out in a day. Microsoft could have easily raked in another 10 million console sales had they kept the original around even at the 179 dollar price point.
There is absolutely no reason to think anything like this will happen. Why not? How much do these other systems cost? One of the reasonings behind a 360 is that if you added up all the functions it does seperately you'd end up spending more money than you would just buying a 360.
Huh. I don't even know what this is supposed to mean. Sony keeps expanding third-party apps? Huh? Sony ports third-party apps to the PS3?
It means that linux applications move over to the system so that its able to be used effectively with 3rd party apps. Think about it. You could create a large plethora of home user system software using the cell ability combined with Linux. Its better than using Windows for the express reason that its better to buy an Apple. Because you are dealing with a single setup closed system that isn't going to change from machine to machine. So any Q&A you need to do is done quickly and effeciently. Reliability is higher too. Sure the cell is a pain to program for but once optimized you could easily use it for a number of other tasks and you only have to program it once for one system and not over 1000 different configurations of a Modern PC hardware setup.
No reason for this to happen. In fact, sales are decreasing, which means 3rd-party-support will decrease, which means even less sales.
Sales of 360 decreased significantly last summer when there was a large slump in the number of good games coming out. It wasn't until the gears of war Release that they started to pickup again. Once more titles come out sales will pickup.
Except that it's not. Where did you get that idea?
The PS3 has a mediocre graphics card, and the Cell chip simply can't keep up with modern multicore PCs.
Why is it producing far more units in the medical field for computation for total CPU time than the average CPU. The only thing currently faster is a high end GPU. Modern CPU's are being held back by legacy crap because no one wants to make something based on new tech because it won't be compatable with old tech. PS3 so far has also been far more reliable than the 360. Sure they freeze up in the display due to poor cooling. But they restart and work every time which is a lot more than you can say for the xbox 360s which primary issues tend to center around the disc reader getting dirty. But they do also have plenty of the Red Ring of lights. If I wanted to dig up the data I probably would find that 99 percent of 360s in retailers have been replaced at least 1.5 times since release. As for the PS3's I think the number in comparison to the 360 is far far lower.
The PS3 uses a fully complain verision of HDMI. The 360 uses an older version(though I've heard rumors of them testing an HDMI 2.0)
Also, as for Blu-ray winning its easy to see. Go to your nearest Circuit City store or Best Buy even. Look at the blu-ray section. (well merchandised, well organized) Look at the HD-DVD section( Massive Clutter) It's all about the merchandising. Customer is going to go with the one thats easier to browse through and find the titles they want. Store is going to push the one that pleases them to.
Ah, and that explains your cognitive dissonance. You're financially invested in Sony's success. Good luck with that.
Economics, dictates that. Sony Stock is at what? A 3 year high. So is Microsoft's at the moment which I did ride from 21 out to 30 and sold laughing as it sank back down to 27 and I invested into Nintendo and Sony making another 20 percent on both.
The 360 may very well win this round in total sales numbers. But I'm willing to bet that sony will create profit out of the PS3 before it's all said and done.
Actually, I'm not a fanboy of the PS3. I don't even own one. I work in the gaming industry, I own 4 Xbox consoles a ps2 and a Wii. I've just been working with the industry long enough to see trends and patterns. I predicted the price of the PS3 the moment they announced thier features at E3 that year. I predicted the lackluster sales starts of the PS3 and the great sales starts of the Wii and the 360. I've worked with the industry on the retail side so long that can I see direction of it intuitively and predict directions and trends pretty quickly.
I just think its not going to be till around the end of 2008 that the PS3 starts to take some names and do well. It just takes two years for good games to be out for the system. Xbox 360 of course took that long to really build a fanbase of games to get out there. I think personally they killed the V1 system just as it was hitting its stride and they easily could have sold it at the 150 pricepoint for another year and kept the ps2 from taking over.
You are correct on B. I doubt Microsoft or Nintendo would allow a price drop go unanswered. But, that is only one part of a mulipart strategy. The PS3 is multifunctional. It can be programmed to do so many things that it's only just a matter of adding enough market to it so it sells. At that point the PS3 basically becomes what the 360 was shooting for. A mulifunction system that does everything you want it to. Movies, Music, Games, Security, Answering Machine, Email Server, Etc.
Because, wishful thinking or not it's a rather logical order.
Most likely order of events that I envision.
A) Sony releases exclusive (God of war, Grand Tourismo, Etc. ) A.2) Third party releases of say a home or business control center system using a PS3 as the center hub for Media, computer, security, IPTV, gaming. (remember the cell can be used for many many things other than just games. When sony figures that out they can expand the living daylights out of thier market to do a lot more than just games which would also increase sales dramatically) B) Sony Drops price of PS3 using manufacture of scale (IBM continues selling Cell Chips) B.2) Sony keeps price keeps the quality high and continues expanding third party apps for PS3 cell abilities. The system is powerful enough to run the electronics behind a theme park for 1/4 of the price of a customized system. C) sales increase quickly D) BlueRay takes off E) Sony profit climbs
This is just a pattern of events. If you follow sony you can easily see where its going I don't think there is anything that could really stop it from happening really. Unless Microsoft can come out with a ton of really great games by next year along with a new virtual reality type control scheme and wider product scenario for the xbox 360.
This is something I can see intuitively. Thus the reason I invested in SNE stock and will just watch it double double double for the next 5-6 years.
Also, there are a million different ways it can pan out. But if you just open up your thinking a bit. Imagine it if Sony did all things right or even just a few things right where would they go?
A couple of other things to add into the mix. The system is probably 2 or 3 times more powerful than a high end gaming computer. Its compatable with Linux which is the most modifyable operating system on earth. Its able to even be daisy linked to other systems. It's already on a closed hardware platform thats not likely to change for the next 8 years which means a program can be written for it with the expectation that it won't need to be updated for a long long time.
Sorry if my grammar sucks. Public School Education combined with ADHD kills me.
Thats the thing, it's so easy to pay someone else to do the writing. You can even upload your own writings and get paid for them. I think the smartest thing a teacher can do in this day and age is upload all thier own work and get paid for it while they continue to flunk students for cheating.
While I've never cheated. It's hard enough being an honest college student nowdays. Searching the web for research on topics and having that constant reminder pop up in your face. You can bypass 30 hours of research and writing with 20 bucks. Pisses me off to no end.
I admire the business plan behind it even when they make my life hell with thier grade curve changing essays. They must make a fortune.
I've come to the conclusion that the PS3 will start catching up around 2008. Because by then any combination of factors below will come to light.
A) they will have thier act together and build a equal to Microsofts XNA tools for developers
B) Enough Games will have caught onto the system that people will actually want to buy it.
C) Sony might release the lockdown access to the video for linux so that games can be made for the linux portion of the PS3
D) Sony will have figured out the right addons to the system in order to enhance the gameplay. Powerglove equivalent and Virtual reality tech come to mind. As well as thier new virtual home setup with trophies and online buyable content.
E) Will be about the point where just about every home has an HDTV able to take advantage of the higher quality graphics at 1080p. It will also likely be about the point that the xbox 360 maxes out its abilities.
F) Pricedrops- this being the key most important part.
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I think that we should form a tax exclusively for the purpose of improving internet access within the US and territories. Taking the money to improve internet access here would go a long way towards putting the United States on the top of the internet game. This way, no money grubbing politicians can use the money for other purposes, and we could cut some of the costs currently associated with internet expansion.
Would order pictures of his brain and keep one on his desk in a frame.
:-D
I'm such a dork, because I kinda want one too.
Typical of Microsoft praising thier ability to develop crap machines that scratch our discs, and void our warranty if we repair this defect. Oh and not only that they can raid the house of the person who sells a piece that fixes this defect. I've always made copies of every music CD I bought along with every Game I bought. More often than not I've taken it a step farther and gotten the no CD crack. It's extremly annoying having to stuff your noisy CD drive when you play a game. I bought a mod chip for my xbox so I could copy my games and play them on the road off the hard drive rather than swapping CD's. I pay for it, I should be able to use it in the matter thats consistent with my comforts.
If it weren't for a non disclosure agreement I could show you an excel file that shows every single console in the retail stores replaced at least once since launch. Some stores have had it replace 5 times or more.
Granted though, its retail, more dust, more problems. Though the number one problem is still the same as the first generation. Dirty disc reader.
Friggin windows calculator... I pressed wrong calculation and it came out to 17.66 percent. But my point still stands. That the power supply size alone wouldn't cause the difference in power consumption.
the difference between 500 and 600 is about 17 percent. But I don't think it would make much difference on a modern power supply. Most of them nowdays have energy effeciency built into them. So it shouldn't make any difference. Other than maybe if they used a cheap 600w that had less effeciency to it.
The easiest way for Microsoft to regain xbox consoles on the market. Go back to to the design board with a third party contractor and tell them to come up with 10 different solutions to the current problems with the xbox 360. Cover all warranty costs with the design improvement added in. Drop the cost of the console by 100 bucks across the board. Also, for a limited time after fixes are done they should sell a Halo 3 limited edition xbox 360. Design it with colors, ect. Release it with Halo3 in the box and sell it for the current pricing structure. I'd also opt for a giveaway of free halo 3 to all Xbox field reps 1 day before launch. Who is it you think has to deal with the problems on a day to day basis. Bill Brunelle certainly doesn't.
I keep it for the exclusive use of playing old space simulator games like tie fighter and X-wing. I gave up trying to make it all work in XP/vista.
Gawd those were great games.
To be nice, Vista was built with the idea of adding 20 million features to it then trying to make it stable. Which at the moment it really doesn't. Most business customers (Whom BTW account for a vast majority of Microsoft revenues) Want something that that is fast, extremely stable, and consistent. So if it always crashes when you press A 4 and 5 in a sequence it crashes but everything else works perfect. We can work with that. It's stable its easy to predict and easy to fix. Most people in business barely even use those functions in the current windows product. Most companies use a form of exchange server and outlook, word, excel, powerpoint, half a dozen network drives and a dozen or so other 3rd party apps specific to thier field like autocad, Photoshop, testing, etc. All of which slows down when you add in more resource hogging windows functions. The most useful new windows tool I've seen added to date has probably been remote desktop, built in zip functions, run command on the start menu. But even then it has its limits. I'd much rather have a faster way to switch between spreadsheets when I've got 6 open at once, A hotkey wizard for excel and word. A easy hit task manager that functions like the old autoexec.bat file did back in day where all I had to do is just simply take the one I wanted to run doom with and rename it while the old one automatically got named to .bak so I can easily rename it back for other users using other programs.
I'd like something that just keeps track of what programs I am or am not using then highlights the ones I'm not using so I can quickly shut them down for more memory. Or even better. A memory saving profile that I can run just the basics when I'm doing work related stuff on the network access to the net.
I'm not saying I can make an operating system out of my closet(maybe a computer). But as an end user who looks at a machine for 8-12 hours at a time I know what I want.
Speaking as someone who once worked for microsoft before leaving for a job with an international office supply retailer. I say YAY!!! Learn from this and make a better OS Micro$oft.
So... let me get this straight. Big blue sells computers to a defunct district, District defaults, IBM keeps it on thier accounts payable for 10 years!!! interest free!!!!, probably cost IBM already 5 million on accounting records and man hour alone dealing with it. Then, legislators try to pressure them into forgiving the loan. Even as a private person I know a greedy public service person when I see one. Make it stick IBM, stick it to them.
I think it should be known that tractor trailor vehicles may have much higher requirements for them as far as licensing, driving, and standards. But at the same time they have maybe about 1/4 of the saftey features that a modern car does. If a truck driver gets into an serious accident. He's only got about a 20 percent chance of living. Trucks are made to haul as much crap as they can, while still being under the 80k weight limit.
Viken K
Statiscally speaking, I drive better while on the phone than not. Sure I remember in the early days when you'd make it all the way home and not even remember the drive because you were on a call. But when you drive 40k a year that half of your life you spend on the phone and drive are one in the same.
In other news the controversial creationism musuem in Kentucky has closed due to lack of interest. While being replaced with a new evolution museum paid for by scientists around the country. Due to open in the fall of 08. :)
Like Halo, Gears of war, Forza, Doom, and limitless other games. I think games should have levels of difficulty that let the user start from the bottom and work themselves up to insane levels. I prefer a challenging game that takes eons to learn how to play right than one which takes two hours to become an expert at.
It was just hitting its stride among the mainstream gamer at the 150 dollar pricepoint. Though, you are right, Nvidia and Intel had them by the balls. They wouldn't back down on price so Microsoft left. I figured that Microsoft had raised the prices up to 180 bucks to breakeven on the rest of the consoles at which they still continued to sell and sell very well. Even the used ones still sell out in a day. Microsoft could have easily raked in another 10 million console sales had they kept the original around even at the 179 dollar price point.
Actually, I'm not a fanboy of the PS3. I don't even own one. I work in the gaming industry, I own 4 Xbox consoles a ps2 and a Wii. I've just been working with the industry long enough to see trends and patterns. I predicted the price of the PS3 the moment they announced thier features at E3 that year. I predicted the lackluster sales starts of the PS3 and the great sales starts of the Wii and the 360. I've worked with the industry on the retail side so long that can I see direction of it intuitively and predict directions and trends pretty quickly. I just think its not going to be till around the end of 2008 that the PS3 starts to take some names and do well. It just takes two years for good games to be out for the system. Xbox 360 of course took that long to really build a fanbase of games to get out there. I think personally they killed the V1 system just as it was hitting its stride and they easily could have sold it at the 150 pricepoint for another year and kept the ps2 from taking over.
You are correct on B. I doubt Microsoft or Nintendo would allow a price drop go unanswered. But, that is only one part of a mulipart strategy. The PS3 is multifunctional. It can be programmed to do so many things that it's only just a matter of adding enough market to it so it sells. At that point the PS3 basically becomes what the 360 was shooting for. A mulifunction system that does everything you want it to. Movies, Music, Games, Security, Answering Machine, Email Server, Etc.
Oh yea, great inquiry skills.
Because, wishful thinking or not it's a rather logical order.
Most likely order of events that I envision.
A) Sony releases exclusive (God of war, Grand Tourismo, Etc. )
A.2) Third party releases of say a home or business control center system using a PS3 as the center hub for Media, computer, security, IPTV, gaming. (remember the cell can be used for many many things other than just games. When sony figures that out they can expand the living daylights out of thier market to do a lot more than just games which would also increase sales dramatically)
B) Sony Drops price of PS3 using manufacture of scale (IBM continues selling Cell Chips)
B.2) Sony keeps price keeps the quality high and continues expanding third party apps for PS3 cell abilities. The system is powerful enough to run the electronics behind a theme park for 1/4 of the price of a customized system.
C) sales increase quickly
D) BlueRay takes off
E) Sony profit climbs
This is just a pattern of events. If you follow sony you can easily see where its going I don't think there is anything that could really stop it from happening really. Unless Microsoft can come out with a ton of really great games by next year along with a new virtual reality type control scheme and wider product scenario for the xbox 360.
This is something I can see intuitively. Thus the reason I invested in SNE stock and will just watch it double double double for the next 5-6 years.
Also, there are a million different ways it can pan out. But if you just open up your thinking a bit. Imagine it if Sony did all things right or even just a few things right where would they go?
A couple of other things to add into the mix. The system is probably 2 or 3 times more powerful than a high end gaming computer. Its compatable with Linux which is the most modifyable operating system on earth. Its able to even be daisy linked to other systems. It's already on a closed hardware platform thats not likely to change for the next 8 years which means a program can be written for it with the expectation that it won't need to be updated for a long long time.
Sorry if my grammar sucks. Public School Education combined with ADHD kills me.
Thats the thing, it's so easy to pay someone else to do the writing. You can even upload your own writings and get paid for them. I think the smartest thing a teacher can do in this day and age is upload all thier own work and get paid for it while they continue to flunk students for cheating.
While I've never cheated. It's hard enough being an honest college student nowdays. Searching the web for research on topics and having that constant reminder pop up in your face. You can bypass 30 hours of research and writing with 20 bucks. Pisses me off to no end.
I admire the business plan behind it even when they make my life hell with thier grade curve changing essays. They must make a fortune.
I've come to the conclusion that the PS3 will start catching up around 2008. Because by then any combination of factors below will come to light. A) they will have thier act together and build a equal to Microsofts XNA tools for developers B) Enough Games will have caught onto the system that people will actually want to buy it. C) Sony might release the lockdown access to the video for linux so that games can be made for the linux portion of the PS3 D) Sony will have figured out the right addons to the system in order to enhance the gameplay. Powerglove equivalent and Virtual reality tech come to mind. As well as thier new virtual home setup with trophies and online buyable content. E) Will be about the point where just about every home has an HDTV able to take advantage of the higher quality graphics at 1080p. It will also likely be about the point that the xbox 360 maxes out its abilities. F) Pricedrops- this being the key most important part.
I wonder if I can get spare parts for it at my local West Marine store. ;) http://www.westmarine.com/