The iconic green logo has changed. The ring now displays all red and their first batch issue will deal with "That damn red, white, and blue ring of death" on their consoles.
Movie: released in theaters, moderate success.
Sequel: Straight to video, parlayed into a successful series.
Series: Enjoys a 10 year run
Movies 2 & 3: Released BACK into theaters
Wow, you can't even hope for a rollercoaster with so many twists and turns. It's like M. Night Shyamalan put the Stargate franchise in a movie of itself.
It may be the start, but why can't it offer what you state...now?
If it's supposed to be "revolutionary", then why does everyone state "by gen 2"? Not everyone wants to wait for revolutionary, or else everyone just gets tired. So it comes out with 3G and iChat in gen 2 next year. Who's gonna buy it? Everyone that has the iPhone is already in a contract, and everyone else is going to be wary since Apple's motto is "hold features and sprinkle them year after year".
No one's going to buy it. If they're shooting for a more Asian and Euro market of swapping phones every few years, then they need to sell it out of contract (which won't happen since the deal with AT&T is exclusive and includes selling it with contract) or wait more than a year to redesign it with just a new feature or 2.
Honestly with the issues I had with IE6 I moved to FF 1.5. Then when IE7 came out I upgraded, but found it almost as loose as IE6, just with tabs. Not to mention IE7 doesn't have extentions. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have half of the extensiosn I have for FF. I'm not even mentiioning the portable version I carry with all of my extensions on it.
Firefox 2 has ben extremely stable except with a few quirks, which stems from my computer being slow as hell. I look forward to what Firefox 3 bring to the table.
Initial release is nothing but the adrenaline rush. It's now up to developers to make quality games that take proper advantage of the hardware and for the hardware people to keep up production quality.
To that effect, if the Wii doesn't get unique games (instead of the same games on other systems with enhanced controlling schemes), the Wii might end up being the loser. Waving a remote might sound awesome for the next few months, but then people will realize that other games treat the Wii as a gimmick instead of a real console.
Microsoft has to ensure proper Live maintenance, and try to bring the price down. If either the PS3 or Wii picks up online steam, people will question their $50 a year charge just to play online. MS might just try to float with just Halo 3 as it's flagship, but there might just be a point and time when FPS gets tiring. Then what's left?
Sony has their work cut out for them. Thankfully, I don't hear about consoles keeling over, so they got 1 thing right this launch with no consoles just dying. Now they just need to work on their online segemnt, especially if their deal with xfire leads to a centralized friends list like xbox live:http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/316.html. All of the perks of Live witht he fee of free might just have people eat the $500-$600 price tag. Now it's just getting developers to make awesome games for the PS3.
i think we're seeing the death of mass 3rd party console exclusives. Some companies (Capcom) might stay exclusive for a few franchises, but I thnk alot of developers will be multiplatform publishers. The real winner in this generation? Us. Anytime there's heated competition there's been great games (SNESGenesis, PS2Xbox)
Apple's DRM doesn't wonderously restrict files. You can still burn them and rerip them.
YES! We know there's a small reduction in quality.
Even though they have DRM, they aren't doing it totally for the RIAA. They have a business model that kind of works:.99 for a song, do almost what you want with it. They mostly have DRM so they can segway that iPod purchase into some iTunes purchases, and they can only offer that type of DRM. That is why the French fought to try and force Apple to disclose their DRM method. Apple is doing it more for a business model rather than legality according to distributing music. So it's going to be a tougher fight for them to either disclose their DRM method or to be totally non-DRM.
In reality, it's still the record labels that are in the biggest way of DRM and their legal rabbit the RIAA. The recent russian site that closed did send royalty checks to RIAA, but they never cashed them.
Systems are in place, but it's the industry that holds it back.
It wasn't kept under wraps. We knew about it more than a year ago, we just didn;t know whay it looked like or who was involved. We didn't know any more about this product before it was revealed than we knew about the iPod, Zune, Macbooks, a new cell phone, or any other tech product before their releases.
C'mon congress, learn from history. The second internet companies are allowed to make tiered internet is the day internet and porn dies. Do you want to be on the receiving end of THAT backlash?
This is a step to limit the internet companies from rippnig the money from my wallet, but letting AT&T regain itself from a century of being split was a mistake. The evil has respawned, and threatens my porn.
Because they want the perks without the work. That, and they expect it to be as caveman-like as windows is.
They don't want to have to learn how to do command line and compiling stuff. Not that you need to be well versed in both of these thigns to use linux, but it's like not running disk defrag or Anti Virus in Windows, you just don't do it.
More like meta data. DRM would hinder actual play of video files on players, btu it will encode it for iPod and PSP use, so calling it DRM isn't correct.
If anything, this is the proper way I'd like to see content distributed with protection.
"We'll give you free reign, but we're marking it."
Especially if the rate of charge is standard. The applpications are limitless:
- No more travel chargers. Just throw your bluetooth headset and your phone on a pad and be done with it
- Something needs to be charged in a car? Toss it on there.
- Mp3 players would be able to charged while not being plugged into a USB or a separate charger.
Then if microwaves become reality....ooooo.
Imagine a world not dependent on batteries (or that batteries are officially for backup). A world where technology is ran without any wires. It runs on the energy in the air, it syns with radio waves, and it broadcasts wirelessly.
My great grantkids will be so lucky. When I was their age we had to plug in our headphones and plug our music players in to charge. And we only had 60 GB of storage space, not 500TB!
More like "Seaplatform". though it doesn't have that ring to it.
If anyone is interested in it, move along. Not only is it in the middle of nowhere, you face invasion by several post - industrialized nations. You're better off buying an island in the keys. At least then you're lucky to have something called coconuts and White Sandy beaches.
Arcade scores of yore. Even if you finished time Crisis, you played through it again to get that number 1 spot. That's one thing I'm glad MS bought to the table with the 360.
I makes people actually play though the game for bragging rights.
Thank you Hitachi, for now I no longer have to worry about never having enough porn. With enough of these drives I should just be able to backup the internet.
* Within the next three years, everyone from AT& T to Sony to your cable company will offer on-line dating, electronic gambling, video on demand, and role-playing games via a set-top box. That's the Information Superhighway everyone wants!
* In five years, prices on those set-top boxes will drop dramatically as vendors learn that their services are way too expensive and that people don't like getting information from their TVs. Ever heard of VideoTex? No? My point exactly.
* In five-and-a-half years, when people still aren't buying set-top boxes, vendors will realize that it wasn't because of high prices, rather that people don't want to gamble, date, or watch videos "on demand."
* The Information Superhighway as delivered via set-top boxes will die forever; a good idea gone awry (gone the way of Betamax); unless someone figures out what people really want, such as the ability to search reference works, participate in distance learning, search the holdings at the local library, and practice electronic democracy.
* None of the set-top cable services will ever replace the Internet.
Wow. If only the wroter forsaw 14 year old girls, youtube, and social networking. just goes to show how much can change in 13 years.
Sadly, the illegal path provides the best way to QUALITY movie downloads. Encoded in xviD and around 700 Mb per movie. Sometimes sites will have a hanheld category with the same movies optimized for portable video players like the PSP and the ipod. Then there's torrents of either full DVD isos or re-encoded video with extras.
Sadly, when these video services started their first plan was to create a DRM system that was "maybe possibly sometimes not able to be broken". they shot themselves int eh foot from the start. I think in the early days CinemaNow had player compatability problems:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/06/cinemanow-claim s-94-of-download-to-burn-dvds-work/
If you're going to offer movies offer content, not some haphazard way to hinder my purchase. there will always be the perosn who gets it for free, no matter what. Hindering legal online purchases leads people to get the stuff for free. I don't think Mr. Johnson, with his 4 kids, plans on selling a movie he purchased over the internet to Mr. Willowby across the street and not let the MPAA in on theri greedy share. Chances are Mr. Willowby will buy a different movie and *gasp* they'll share the movies, which has been going on since the invention of VHS.
In short, torrents are the best way to get DVD quality movies from the tubes to your....tube. Anythign else is a system built on maybes and is slaved by people makig hand over fist. If you feel really bad buy the DVD later or send the studio itself a check for $15.
If I'm reading an article about the peleponesiam war, I sure would like some other books that are about the war or related articles.
There's no reason to fear adverts....just yet. Maybe it'll work like amazon's recommendations: based on what you searched it will show relevant ads. If it notices you searching for medical related terms about breast feeding, it might show books related to the social impact of breast feeding in public, the nutritional benefits, and other materials.
3 S's, and the main reason why i didn't stand out in the farking cold. Kudos to those people who stand out in the cold like that. Whether you're reselling it for profit or playing in your pajamas, those people either have no lives or are dedicated to playing the newest first.
Otherwise, i still think the PS3 is a great buy if you're into the whole high def DVD thing: by the time you buy a 360 and the HD-DVD add on you're better off buying a PS3 if you want high def.
Personally, I'm waiting for 2 reasons:
1) First batch hardware from Sony is almost always shoddy.
2) Metal Gear Solid.
When the system actually has over 1 million units produced and the bugs are worked out, then the real battle starts. Not having as many exclusives (Assassins Creed, Grand Theft Auto) might bring the PS3 to a real head on fight with X360.
Of course I couldn't live without the PS3 and call myself a gamer, so I will own one exentually. It's just a matter of getting quality releases.
I've enjoyed this LOLer coaster of a ride: Hirai's and Kutaragi's comments, shortages, BD v. Hd disc battles, lack of rumble. *sniff* I'm so sad to see it go.
Alwell, it's on to the PS4, Xbox 720, and the Nintendo Ballz!
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The iconic green logo has changed. The ring now displays all red and their first batch issue will deal with "That damn red, white, and blue ring of death" on their consoles.
Movie: released in theaters, moderate success. Sequel: Straight to video, parlayed into a successful series. Series: Enjoys a 10 year run Movies 2 & 3: Released BACK into theaters
Wow, you can't even hope for a rollercoaster with so many twists and turns. It's like M. Night Shyamalan put the Stargate franchise in a movie of itself.
What a twist!
It may be the start, but why can't it offer what you state...now?
If it's supposed to be "revolutionary", then why does everyone state "by gen 2"? Not everyone wants to wait for revolutionary, or else everyone just gets tired. So it comes out with 3G and iChat in gen 2 next year. Who's gonna buy it? Everyone that has the iPhone is already in a contract, and everyone else is going to be wary since Apple's motto is "hold features and sprinkle them year after year".
No one's going to buy it. If they're shooting for a more Asian and Euro market of swapping phones every few years, then they need to sell it out of contract (which won't happen since the deal with AT&T is exclusive and includes selling it with contract) or wait more than a year to redesign it with just a new feature or 2.
Honestly with the issues I had with IE6 I moved to FF 1.5. Then when IE7 came out I upgraded, but found it almost as loose as IE6, just with tabs. Not to mention IE7 doesn't have extentions. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have half of the extensiosn I have for FF. I'm not even mentiioning the portable version I carry with all of my extensions on it.
Firefox 2 has ben extremely stable except with a few quirks, which stems from my computer being slow as hell. I look forward to what Firefox 3 bring to the table.
Initial release is nothing but the adrenaline rush. It's now up to developers to make quality games that take proper advantage of the hardware and for the hardware people to keep up production quality.
To that effect, if the Wii doesn't get unique games (instead of the same games on other systems with enhanced controlling schemes), the Wii might end up being the loser. Waving a remote might sound awesome for the next few months, but then people will realize that other games treat the Wii as a gimmick instead of a real console.
Microsoft has to ensure proper Live maintenance, and try to bring the price down. If either the PS3 or Wii picks up online steam, people will question their $50 a year charge just to play online. MS might just try to float with just Halo 3 as it's flagship, but there might just be a point and time when FPS gets tiring. Then what's left?
Sony has their work cut out for them. Thankfully, I don't hear about consoles keeling over, so they got 1 thing right this launch with no consoles just dying. Now they just need to work on their online segemnt, especially if their deal with xfire leads to a centralized friends list like xbox live:http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/316.html. All of the perks of Live witht he fee of free might just have people eat the $500-$600 price tag. Now it's just getting developers to make awesome games for the PS3.
i think we're seeing the death of mass 3rd party console exclusives. Some companies (Capcom) might stay exclusive for a few franchises, but I thnk alot of developers will be multiplatform publishers. The real winner in this generation? Us. Anytime there's heated competition there's been great games (SNESGenesis, PS2Xbox)
Apple's DRM doesn't wonderously restrict files. You can still burn them and rerip them.
.99 for a song, do almost what you want with it. They mostly have DRM so they can segway that iPod purchase into some iTunes purchases, and they can only offer that type of DRM. That is why the French fought to try and force Apple to disclose their DRM method. Apple is doing it more for a business model rather than legality according to distributing music. So it's going to be a tougher fight for them to either disclose their DRM method or to be totally non-DRM.
YES! We know there's a small reduction in quality.
Even though they have DRM, they aren't doing it totally for the RIAA. They have a business model that kind of works:
In reality, it's still the record labels that are in the biggest way of DRM and their legal rabbit the RIAA. The recent russian site that closed did send royalty checks to RIAA, but they never cashed them.
Systems are in place, but it's the industry that holds it back.
iPwned.
It wasn't kept under wraps. We knew about it more than a year ago, we just didn;t know whay it looked like or who was involved. We didn't know any more about this product before it was revealed than we knew about the iPod, Zune, Macbooks, a new cell phone, or any other tech product before their releases.
C'mon congress, learn from history. The second internet companies are allowed to make tiered internet is the day internet and porn dies. Do you want to be on the receiving end of THAT backlash?
This is a step to limit the internet companies from rippnig the money from my wallet, but letting AT&T regain itself from a century of being split was a mistake. The evil has respawned, and threatens my porn.
Because they want the perks without the work. That, and they expect it to be as caveman-like as windows is.
They don't want to have to learn how to do command line and compiling stuff. Not that you need to be well versed in both of these thigns to use linux, but it's like not running disk defrag or Anti Virus in Windows, you just don't do it.
I assume medical diagnosing, business presentations,
and the one 20-something intern that plugs in his game system to play some video games.
More like meta data. DRM would hinder actual play of video files on players, btu it will encode it for iPod and PSP use, so calling it DRM isn't correct.
If anything, this is the proper way I'd like to see content distributed with protection.
"We'll give you free reign, but we're marking it."
Especially if the rate of charge is standard. The applpications are limitless:
- No more travel chargers. Just throw your bluetooth headset and your phone on a pad and be done with it
- Something needs to be charged in a car? Toss it on there.
- Mp3 players would be able to charged while not being plugged into a USB or a separate charger.
Then if microwaves become reality....ooooo.
Imagine a world not dependent on batteries (or that batteries are officially for backup). A world where technology is ran without any wires. It runs on the energy in the air, it syns with radio waves, and it broadcasts wirelessly.
My great grantkids will be so lucky. When I was their age we had to plug in our headphones and plug our music players in to charge. And we only had 60 GB of storage space, not 500TB!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sealand_fortres s.jpg
More like "Seaplatform". though it doesn't have that ring to it.
If anyone is interested in it, move along. Not only is it in the middle of nowhere, you face invasion by several post - industrialized nations. You're better off buying an island in the keys. At least then you're lucky to have something called coconuts and White Sandy beaches.
Same crap, now with rounded edges and fading effects.
Arcade scores of yore. Even if you finished time Crisis, you played through it again to get that number 1 spot. That's one thing I'm glad MS bought to the table with the 360. I makes people actually play though the game for bragging rights.
Thank you Hitachi, for now I no longer have to worry about never having enough porn. With enough of these drives I should just be able to backup the internet.
There will always be porn on the internet.
Sadly, the illegal path provides the best way to QUALITY movie downloads. Encoded in xviD and around 700 Mb per movie. Sometimes sites will have a hanheld category with the same movies optimized for portable video players like the PSP and the ipod. Then there's torrents of either full DVD isos or re-encoded video with extras. Sadly, when these video services started their first plan was to create a DRM system that was "maybe possibly sometimes not able to be broken". they shot themselves int eh foot from the start. I think in the early days CinemaNow had player compatability problems: http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/06/cinemanow-claim s-94-of-download-to-burn-dvds-work/
If you're going to offer movies offer content, not some haphazard way to hinder my purchase. there will always be the perosn who gets it for free, no matter what. Hindering legal online purchases leads people to get the stuff for free. I don't think Mr. Johnson, with his 4 kids, plans on selling a movie he purchased over the internet to Mr. Willowby across the street and not let the MPAA in on theri greedy share. Chances are Mr. Willowby will buy a different movie and *gasp* they'll share the movies, which has been going on since the invention of VHS.
In short, torrents are the best way to get DVD quality movies from the tubes to your....tube. Anythign else is a system built on maybes and is slaved by people makig hand over fist. If you feel really bad buy the DVD later or send the studio itself a check for $15.
If I'm reading an article about the peleponesiam war, I sure would like some other books that are about the war or related articles. There's no reason to fear adverts....just yet. Maybe it'll work like amazon's recommendations: based on what you searched it will show relevant ads. If it notices you searching for medical related terms about breast feeding, it might show books related to the social impact of breast feeding in public, the nutritional benefits, and other materials.
Get pregnant, then that little piece of spam will have to provide child support for 18 years.
3 S's, and the main reason why i didn't stand out in the farking cold. Kudos to those people who stand out in the cold like that. Whether you're reselling it for profit or playing in your pajamas, those people either have no lives or are dedicated to playing the newest first.
Otherwise, i still think the PS3 is a great buy if you're into the whole high def DVD thing: by the time you buy a 360 and the HD-DVD add on you're better off buying a PS3 if you want high def.
Personally, I'm waiting for 2 reasons:
1) First batch hardware from Sony is almost always shoddy.
2) Metal Gear Solid.
When the system actually has over 1 million units produced and the bugs are worked out, then the real battle starts. Not having as many exclusives (Assassins Creed, Grand Theft Auto) might bring the PS3 to a real head on fight with X360.
Of course I couldn't live without the PS3 and call myself a gamer, so I will own one exentually. It's just a matter of getting quality releases.
I've enjoyed this LOLer coaster of a ride: Hirai's and Kutaragi's comments, shortages, BD v. Hd disc battles, lack of rumble. *sniff* I'm so sad to see it go.
Alwell, it's on to the PS4, Xbox 720, and the Nintendo Ballz!
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40% Useless meme and trivia
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