They managed to not have a huge power brick sitting outside of the console and they managed to fit PS1 and PS2 full backwards compatability. I smell a Final Fantasy marathon!
Otherwise, it looks like a well built console. Hopefully the reports of blu ray lasers deaths and disk read errors are slim to none.
I'm getting a Vision M. Cheaper, more video files support, and not as trendy as an iPod.
Maybe in a couple of years when the Zune shrinks and gets more diversity in file support I'll look into it.
In other news, why is it so hard for companies to make a portable audio/video player that supports tons of codecs and is USB mass storage?
Aside from the big releases, I like not having tons of tech dropped like a blizzard. The Wii and the (lack of) PS3 is enough. The unicorn of a true video iPod can wait until January when the kids have their money and need somethign trendy.
Personally, I'm hoping for some Zen Vision action and I'm buying a Sansa e250 for a friend. Other than that, it's candles for the chicks and gift certs.
GO CORPORATE CHRISTMAS AMERICA!
This will suck for MS. I already have my own personal copy of XP Professional I'd like to install on a fresh lappy, and I wish they were sold without added software and an OS. This will kill most of MS's profits, since people will just say "I already own XP, why can't I just put it on another computer?" THEN people will start to see how convoluted the MS EULA really is. They won't switch to Unix like some people would hope, but there will be more "pirates" that install the same OS on different computer's they own. Of course I don't read the EULA like most people and it probably allows you to install a copy of XP on computers that you own.
I, a college student, have next to no use for the EVDO provided by Verizon. Even if I had a use for it, I have to buy a separate (and expensive) data plan, a cell phone that supports DUN or an EVDO card. It's a wet dream to be on the internet at any given moment, but we're still some ways off from DSL-like speed on the pooper or on a train to Odessa (or both).
The market for cellular internet is small right now, catering to the business professional or the extreme geek. Maybe in a few years I'll be able to walk from a wifi spot and my laptop will switch from wifi to 3G.
Last I heard it works in conjunction with Napster (so if you have Napster it works while mobile). So, it took the "mobile music library" idea Zone would ahve had and went with it. Golf clap where it's due.
But phones have, at most, 2 Gigs of storage space (on external cards). So this really isn't effective for the mass music lovers with gigs of music. A nice little feature for anyone that uses Cingular and Napster.
That being said, I wished they focused more on what counts: phone service. I CAN PLAY DRM'D MP3'S BUT YOU WON'T GIVE ME MY 3G NETWORK!?
It isn't piracy that's killing your record store, it's your music selection. There isn't an influx of people that will murder other people to buy that hot hot disc of "Jesus LOVE!" that was released. And no one pirates christian music anyway.
To go further, your solution is wholly facist and useless. Drug dealers aren't discriminated against. If you banned EVERYONE that shared a file at anytime, no one would be buying CD's. And it isn't just piracy; there's legit downloading service like iTMS, Napster, Rhapsody, etc. You're losing business because no one may want to buy a complete CD.
And your kids are suffering because you run a Christian music store? I feel bad for them alreay, but since you SOMEHOW can afford internet access I assume you are still pretty well off. Either that or little Cindy Lou Who went without her MMR booster so daddy could post as an anonymous Coward on/.
*sniff* *sniff* Smell that? I think you're RIAA. Either that, or Dawinian laws need to be slapped across your face. Sell your record store and get a job you hippy.
I'm buying my Mom an iMac, for the sole reason it's SEXY. It's slim, compact, and doesn't make alot of noise. Better tha the dell portable desktop they just made.
Macs are like computing with a built in safety net. You can almost never break it. The only people I know that hate windows are the poor souls that manage to still run AOL, download weather bug, and install every piece of software that wants to install itself.
I run windows XP, with firewall and firefox, and I watch what I download. My virus infection rate? 0. People need to LEARN how to surf, instead of just going out there all willynilly.
WoW doesn't wreck lives, people wreck their own lives. If you have an addictive personality and can't set prorities, then you shouldn't play WoW. I know people who play MMO's all the time who lead productive lives. If you aren't one of those people, take responsibility for your own actions instead of blaming them on what you're using.
iPod helped to overhaul the DAP industry. If it hadn't come out, we would have ended up with hard drive based media players anyway, but the iPod helped to say that the time was now. And to start the "useless accessories" business model. Does anyone really need 50 different covers and cases for the iPod?
As for myself, I still use my 512MB Sandisk DAP and an in the market for a new player. The iPod looks like the best for my buck now until I get to my local tech store to man handle some other players.
The fact that college students were moved to do soemthign not involve with drinking, fornicating, or sleeping. When has anyone ever seen such a sweeping movement done by a group? Atilla the Hun? Napoleon?
I didn't find anything wrong with it either. I think it's a great exampe of how peopel want to be out there, but don't "want to be out there". I joined the "don't like it? quit" train of thought. So someone knows I put my relationship status as "single" and I commented on someone's profile that "I think you should jerk me off at the party next week".
Anyone can read those comments. The mini feed just summarized my browsing.
Ultimate proof o fthe double standard: People want to know everythign about someone else without anyone knowing anythign about them.
A rig vs. a console.
Consoles are easier to set up. They plug in the socket, plug in the video and audio cords, buy a game and presto, you're there. Then there's the emergence of FPS on the consoles. Though not as nimble as a keyboard and mouse, it makes it alot easier to setup a game pad than a keyboard and mouse. The only genre that the computer still has is MMORPG. When you buy a game for the 360, you know once you get it home it's going to work. And later down the road in a year you're not looking to see if your specs match up. For someone to start gaming on a computer they need to invest in a computer, setup windows, buy the game, and set it up and make sure it's patched (if it needs to be).
Most people looking for games will see the acessibility of consoles and go with those.
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They managed to not have a huge power brick sitting outside of the console and they managed to fit PS1 and PS2 full backwards compatability. I smell a Final Fantasy marathon!
Otherwise, it looks like a well built console. Hopefully the reports of blu ray lasers deaths and disk read errors are slim to none.
They might get screwed in the Monkey Hole.
I'm getting a Vision M. Cheaper, more video files support, and not as trendy as an iPod. Maybe in a couple of years when the Zune shrinks and gets more diversity in file support I'll look into it. In other news, why is it so hard for companies to make a portable audio/video player that supports tons of codecs and is USB mass storage?
Giant sea monsters populate places where no one visited?
OMG AMERICA IS SNAKES!
0% - Randy Wooten 30% - Person 1 20% - Person 2 505 - George Bush
The metal gear project. I mean, honestly, the DARPA chief isn't going to be jailed in the secret arctic base for the ultimat language translator.
Aside from the big releases, I like not having tons of tech dropped like a blizzard. The Wii and the (lack of) PS3 is enough. The unicorn of a true video iPod can wait until January when the kids have their money and need somethign trendy. Personally, I'm hoping for some Zen Vision action and I'm buying a Sansa e250 for a friend. Other than that, it's candles for the chicks and gift certs. GO CORPORATE CHRISTMAS AMERICA!
This will suck for MS. I already have my own personal copy of XP Professional I'd like to install on a fresh lappy, and I wish they were sold without added software and an OS. This will kill most of MS's profits, since people will just say "I already own XP, why can't I just put it on another computer?" THEN people will start to see how convoluted the MS EULA really is. They won't switch to Unix like some people would hope, but there will be more "pirates" that install the same OS on different computer's they own. Of course I don't read the EULA like most people and it probably allows you to install a copy of XP on computers that you own.
Uh...obligatory "DOWN WITH MICRO$OFT!" comment.
I, a college student, have next to no use for the EVDO provided by Verizon. Even if I had a use for it, I have to buy a separate (and expensive) data plan, a cell phone that supports DUN or an EVDO card. It's a wet dream to be on the internet at any given moment, but we're still some ways off from DSL-like speed on the pooper or on a train to Odessa (or both).
The market for cellular internet is small right now, catering to the business professional or the extreme geek. Maybe in a few years I'll be able to walk from a wifi spot and my laptop will switch from wifi to 3G.
Last I heard it works in conjunction with Napster (so if you have Napster it works while mobile). So, it took the "mobile music library" idea Zone would ahve had and went with it. Golf clap where it's due. But phones have, at most, 2 Gigs of storage space (on external cards). So this really isn't effective for the mass music lovers with gigs of music. A nice little feature for anyone that uses Cingular and Napster. That being said, I wished they focused more on what counts: phone service. I CAN PLAY DRM'D MP3'S BUT YOU WON'T GIVE ME MY 3G NETWORK!?
It isn't piracy that's killing your record store, it's your music selection. There isn't an influx of people that will murder other people to buy that hot hot disc of "Jesus LOVE!" that was released. And no one pirates christian music anyway. To go further, your solution is wholly facist and useless. Drug dealers aren't discriminated against. If you banned EVERYONE that shared a file at anytime, no one would be buying CD's. And it isn't just piracy; there's legit downloading service like iTMS, Napster, Rhapsody, etc. You're losing business because no one may want to buy a complete CD. And your kids are suffering because you run a Christian music store? I feel bad for them alreay, but since you SOMEHOW can afford internet access I assume you are still pretty well off. Either that or little Cindy Lou Who went without her MMR booster so daddy could post as an anonymous Coward on /.
*sniff* *sniff* Smell that? I think you're RIAA. Either that, or Dawinian laws need to be slapped across your face. Sell your record store and get a job you hippy.
I'm buying my Mom an iMac, for the sole reason it's SEXY. It's slim, compact, and doesn't make alot of noise. Better tha the dell portable desktop they just made. Macs are like computing with a built in safety net. You can almost never break it. The only people I know that hate windows are the poor souls that manage to still run AOL, download weather bug, and install every piece of software that wants to install itself. I run windows XP, with firewall and firefox, and I watch what I download. My virus infection rate? 0. People need to LEARN how to surf, instead of just going out there all willynilly.
WoW doesn't wreck lives, people wreck their own lives. If you have an addictive personality and can't set prorities, then you shouldn't play WoW. I know people who play MMO's all the time who lead productive lives. If you aren't one of those people, take responsibility for your own actions instead of blaming them on what you're using.
iPod helped to overhaul the DAP industry. If it hadn't come out, we would have ended up with hard drive based media players anyway, but the iPod helped to say that the time was now. And to start the "useless accessories" business model. Does anyone really need 50 different covers and cases for the iPod? As for myself, I still use my 512MB Sandisk DAP and an in the market for a new player. The iPod looks like the best for my buck now until I get to my local tech store to man handle some other players.
Zune the security companies audio files of what they missed.
The fact that college students were moved to do soemthign not involve with drinking, fornicating, or sleeping. When has anyone ever seen such a sweeping movement done by a group? Atilla the Hun? Napoleon? I didn't find anything wrong with it either. I think it's a great exampe of how peopel want to be out there, but don't "want to be out there". I joined the "don't like it? quit" train of thought. So someone knows I put my relationship status as "single" and I commented on someone's profile that "I think you should jerk me off at the party next week". Anyone can read those comments. The mini feed just summarized my browsing. Ultimate proof o fthe double standard: People want to know everythign about someone else without anyone knowing anythign about them.
A rig vs. a console. Consoles are easier to set up. They plug in the socket, plug in the video and audio cords, buy a game and presto, you're there. Then there's the emergence of FPS on the consoles. Though not as nimble as a keyboard and mouse, it makes it alot easier to setup a game pad than a keyboard and mouse. The only genre that the computer still has is MMORPG. When you buy a game for the 360, you know once you get it home it's going to work. And later down the road in a year you're not looking to see if your specs match up. For someone to start gaming on a computer they need to invest in a computer, setup windows, buy the game, and set it up and make sure it's patched (if it needs to be). Most people looking for games will see the acessibility of consoles and go with those.