My main argument here is that he could try it if he wanted to before charging it with sucking. It's an extremely uninformed and prejudiced opinion. While the PS2 may have had problems, this is not the PS2, it is the PS3 and if you wanted to see whether or not the Bluray player was any good, you could go try it out or read something. But it appears he decided it was pointless to actually form an opinion based on anything other than the past. If this was October 2006, I could understand, but the PS3 has been out for about 4 months now so there's really no excuse for that. So yeah, maybe I didn't need to call him a fanboy, but I'm sick of seeing people karma whore and bash PS3 with no real reasoning behind it other than Sony sucks. Sony DOES suck, but that doesn't mean everything they make is shitty.
If you actually bothered to use the PS3 or read about the reviews before you went spouting off your Wii/360 fanboy rant, you would have seen that the Bluray player in the PS3 is actually very nice. I know a few people with a PS3 and they love the player itself. I'm not a Sony fanboy, but I'm not an XBOX fanboy either. Don't just spout crap off like that as fact when you have no idea what you're talking about, it just makes me not even want to read the rest of what you said. Saying, "I don't trust Sony to make a good bluray player blah blah blah," when you could actually see for yourself is just a pointless sentiment.
Thank you for that. That is what I see with every idiot that refuses to just type Microsoft and elects to say M$ or Micro$oft. Same goes for the idiot above that insists upon saying Windoze. LOL UR COOL GUY!! U BASH MICROSOFT LOLOLOLOL. Grow up. If you have an argument against it, go for it, but don't throw in your stupid ass anti-microsoft bullshit all over the place in it; that makes you look like a jackass. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, but I can at least type the fucking word correctly.
Games have costed relatively the same since the NES. To say this generation is more of a jump than any other, frankly, is bullshit.
The companies are simply using this Next Gen hype bullshit to try and make more money. Now inflation I MAY understand a little, but even that is bullshit when being applied to intellectual properties.
I.E. Windows and Microsoft Office. The most annoying activation schemes I've ever encountered. I laughed at my friend's dad trying to get Office to work on his computer and told him that my pirated version worked so much easier.
Well if your fax/modem doesn't have any drivers, this is all a rather moot argument isn't it? If you can't install the hardware, it doesn't matter if Windows won't let you use it's software. Basically, you're either looking at driver support from the vendor with software or no driver support.
Are you retarded? Seriously? Have you actually played on the same XBOX live we all have? Dedicated servers ARE needed, because P2P relies on the shittiest uploads speeds that home users have. No, the max of 1mbit up (which is generous) that most users have is nowhere near enough to have a real online match. You're paying Microsoft to manage your friends list.
If you're honestly trying to say XBOX live runs fine, then I can say pretty confidently you don't actually use it.
Had it ever occurred to any of you that maybe some people actually LIKE Windows. I know it's crazy that someone could possibly not like Linux more, but you know...not everyone hates Windows as much as you do. For a majority of people, it gets the job done. I haven't had any REAL problems with Windows myself, honestly, since Windows 2000 came out. 2000 and XP are good systems. No, they are by no means perfect, but you know what? Neither is Linux. Yes, Windows has DRM but I'd rather just hack that than put together a workable Linux system to do what my Windows system does. Even then, I STILL can't play games.
I get that Windows has problems, but it's nowhere near as bad as some of you drama queens make it out to be. Seriously, just give it a rest.
I just wanted to let you know I laughed at that. All the bitching the guy did because he can't do it and it's because he sucks. If I had mod point, etc. etc.
That is an absolutely terrible argument. Terrible. Should the people that make BitTorrent have to police every torrent site ever made? They are providing a means for people to get copyrighted material.
In response to the rest of you, they can't enforce something like this upon Google beacuse it would apply to everyone else. Then every site on the internet would be responsible for what it's users post and that is ridiculous. That will have a chilling effect on the internet, and you know it. To rule in favor of making Google be held completely responsible for stuff would be a terrible thing for the internet.
That's actually really cool. I didn't think they'd ever do that considering how afraid they are to even let people have a proper friend's list system. Make fun all you want, but I'm probably going to be buying this Pokemon game (haven't played once since Yellow) and I will definitely enjoy using this feature with my friends.
No you see, they're going to make a complete 360! They're going to add all kinds of stuff to the internet and when they're done, they'll be right back where they started, just like the XBOX 360!! Yeah!!!112
Not to rain all over your parade of doom, but I doubt the erruption is going to kill us all...it's just going to send ash and shit all over the palce, not explode cities.:p Well...at least that's what I understand.
I'm sorry, but that's a crock of shit, honestly. YouTube and Google aren't stealing anything. When they are asked to take stuff down, they do. Beyond that, they have no obligations to police the shit out of the site. If the copyright holders want to bitch about it, then they can do so in the form of a takedown notice or shut the hell up. I can't even understand why anyone thinks that Viacom is in the right. Again, YouTube is powered by users, not Google. Pull your head out of your ass.
Thank god they let me know in time! I will stop my file sharing immediately or it could result in the destruction of the free world! Jesus Christ, how could I be such an insensitive clod?!
I can't wait for this. I'm fairly confident that Google has been waiting for this and will most undoubtedly bury Viacom. This should be fun to watch.:)
Idiots. The more they push people away with their DRM bullshit, the more people are going to pirate shit off the internet. I can absolutely guarantee the MOMENT any of this is implemented, I will not be watching any of the TV shows that use it. I will simply download ALL my TV shows (instead of just some of them) and the TV people can kiss my ass.:)
I'm not seeing what part of this is Symantec's fault. Yes it's hard..boo hoo...so is finding video card drivers for Linux...but people still do it. I abhor Symantec's products quite a bit, but this is 100% user error (ID107 Error). If there is a patch out for as big of an exploit as this for SEVERAL months, you'd damn well better get around to updating it. The best part was that this was not even the first time. Yeah, Symantec makes shitty software, but that doesn't excuse the security people from being retards.
I think the more pertinent thing here though is that they have to put the time and resources into getting the server running and then more resources to keep it running (i.e. maintainence). It's a real pain in the ass for something like that if you're in a REAL corporate environment and have 100's or even thousands of machines running Vista, and I know if I was the system admin I wouldn't want to dick with it...I'd stick with XP and tell them to shove Vista up their asses if that was the case...and I'm not even one of the tinfoil hat anti-MS crowd...I just think that is a ridiculous waste of time.
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Yeah seriously. I don't think the people that would buy Vista for DX10 are going to sit around for 5 years while Wine works on DX10. Wine is great and all, but that's really just not going to cut it. Like it or not, you are going to need Vista for DirectX10...there's no doubt about that.
Actually, that would be like having a speed limit and putting speed inhibitors on everyone's car to force them to do that speed. Having the rules there and busting people when they don't follow them is exactly how things have been done for the past 200 or so years. Since when did it become necessary to prevent people from doing illegal things by limiting what they can do? You're free to break the law if you please, but you WILL be punished. The punishment in itself is a deterrent, beyond that you can do what you want, but you will pay when you get caught. DRM does not prevent people from stealing music, because they will do it no matter what you do; DRM prevents legitimate customers from using their music the way that they please.
Just a thought, but if you're living in the UK...the games you are trying to play with backwards compatibility will be games from the UK, will they not? Kind of makes it pointless to buy the US version, doesn't it?
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My main argument here is that he could try it if he wanted to before charging it with sucking. It's an extremely uninformed and prejudiced opinion. While the PS2 may have had problems, this is not the PS2, it is the PS3 and if you wanted to see whether or not the Bluray player was any good, you could go try it out or read something. But it appears he decided it was pointless to actually form an opinion based on anything other than the past. If this was October 2006, I could understand, but the PS3 has been out for about 4 months now so there's really no excuse for that. So yeah, maybe I didn't need to call him a fanboy, but I'm sick of seeing people karma whore and bash PS3 with no real reasoning behind it other than Sony sucks. Sony DOES suck, but that doesn't mean everything they make is shitty.
If you actually bothered to use the PS3 or read about the reviews before you went spouting off your Wii/360 fanboy rant, you would have seen that the Bluray player in the PS3 is actually very nice. I know a few people with a PS3 and they love the player itself. I'm not a Sony fanboy, but I'm not an XBOX fanboy either. Don't just spout crap off like that as fact when you have no idea what you're talking about, it just makes me not even want to read the rest of what you said. Saying, "I don't trust Sony to make a good bluray player blah blah blah," when you could actually see for yourself is just a pointless sentiment.
Thank you for that. That is what I see with every idiot that refuses to just type Microsoft and elects to say M$ or Micro$oft. Same goes for the idiot above that insists upon saying Windoze. LOL UR COOL GUY!! U BASH MICROSOFT LOLOLOLOL. Grow up. If you have an argument against it, go for it, but don't throw in your stupid ass anti-microsoft bullshit all over the place in it; that makes you look like a jackass. I'm not a Microsoft fanboy, but I can at least type the fucking word correctly.
Wow. What bank do you have? o_O
Games have costed relatively the same since the NES. To say this generation is more of a jump than any other, frankly, is bullshit.
The companies are simply using this Next Gen hype bullshit to try and make more money. Now inflation I MAY understand a little, but even that is bullshit when being applied to intellectual properties.
I.E. Windows and Microsoft Office. The most annoying activation schemes I've ever encountered. I laughed at my friend's dad trying to get Office to work on his computer and told him that my pirated version worked so much easier.
Well if your fax/modem doesn't have any drivers, this is all a rather moot argument isn't it? If you can't install the hardware, it doesn't matter if Windows won't let you use it's software. Basically, you're either looking at driver support from the vendor with software or no driver support.
Of course the man has to pray...have you watched him talk before? He's certainly not going to win that case by being a good lawyer.
Are you retarded? Seriously? Have you actually played on the same XBOX live we all have? Dedicated servers ARE needed, because P2P relies on the shittiest uploads speeds that home users have. No, the max of 1mbit up (which is generous) that most users have is nowhere near enough to have a real online match. You're paying Microsoft to manage your friends list.
If you're honestly trying to say XBOX live runs fine, then I can say pretty confidently you don't actually use it.
Had it ever occurred to any of you that maybe some people actually LIKE Windows. I know it's crazy that someone could possibly not like Linux more, but you know...not everyone hates Windows as much as you do. For a majority of people, it gets the job done. I haven't had any REAL problems with Windows myself, honestly, since Windows 2000 came out. 2000 and XP are good systems. No, they are by no means perfect, but you know what? Neither is Linux. Yes, Windows has DRM but I'd rather just hack that than put together a workable Linux system to do what my Windows system does. Even then, I STILL can't play games.
I get that Windows has problems, but it's nowhere near as bad as some of you drama queens make it out to be. Seriously, just give it a rest.
I just wanted to let you know I laughed at that. All the bitching the guy did because he can't do it and it's because he sucks. If I had mod point, etc. etc.
That is an absolutely terrible argument. Terrible. Should the people that make BitTorrent have to police every torrent site ever made? They are providing a means for people to get copyrighted material.
In response to the rest of you, they can't enforce something like this upon Google beacuse it would apply to everyone else. Then every site on the internet would be responsible for what it's users post and that is ridiculous. That will have a chilling effect on the internet, and you know it. To rule in favor of making Google be held completely responsible for stuff would be a terrible thing for the internet.
That's actually really cool. I didn't think they'd ever do that considering how afraid they are to even let people have a proper friend's list system. Make fun all you want, but I'm probably going to be buying this Pokemon game (haven't played once since Yellow) and I will definitely enjoy using this feature with my friends.
No you see, they're going to make a complete 360! They're going to add all kinds of stuff to the internet and when they're done, they'll be right back where they started, just like the XBOX 360!! Yeah!!!112
Not to rain all over your parade of doom, but I doubt the erruption is going to kill us all...it's just going to send ash and shit all over the palce, not explode cities. :p Well...at least that's what I understand.
I'm sorry, but that's a crock of shit, honestly. YouTube and Google aren't stealing anything. When they are asked to take stuff down, they do. Beyond that, they have no obligations to police the shit out of the site. If the copyright holders want to bitch about it, then they can do so in the form of a takedown notice or shut the hell up. I can't even understand why anyone thinks that Viacom is in the right. Again, YouTube is powered by users, not Google. Pull your head out of your ass.
Thank god they let me know in time! I will stop my file sharing immediately or it could result in the destruction of the free world! Jesus Christ, how could I be such an insensitive clod?!
I can't wait for this. I'm fairly confident that Google has been waiting for this and will most undoubtedly bury Viacom. This should be fun to watch. :)
Idiots. The more they push people away with their DRM bullshit, the more people are going to pirate shit off the internet. I can absolutely guarantee the MOMENT any of this is implemented, I will not be watching any of the TV shows that use it. I will simply download ALL my TV shows (instead of just some of them) and the TV people can kiss my ass. :)
I'm not seeing what part of this is Symantec's fault. Yes it's hard..boo hoo...so is finding video card drivers for Linux...but people still do it. I abhor Symantec's products quite a bit, but this is 100% user error (ID107 Error). If there is a patch out for as big of an exploit as this for SEVERAL months, you'd damn well better get around to updating it. The best part was that this was not even the first time. Yeah, Symantec makes shitty software, but that doesn't excuse the security people from being retards.
I think the more pertinent thing here though is that they have to put the time and resources into getting the server running and then more resources to keep it running (i.e. maintainence). It's a real pain in the ass for something like that if you're in a REAL corporate environment and have 100's or even thousands of machines running Vista, and I know if I was the system admin I wouldn't want to dick with it...I'd stick with XP and tell them to shove Vista up their asses if that was the case...and I'm not even one of the tinfoil hat anti-MS crowd...I just think that is a ridiculous waste of time.
Yeah seriously. I don't think the people that would buy Vista for DX10 are going to sit around for 5 years while Wine works on DX10. Wine is great and all, but that's really just not going to cut it. Like it or not, you are going to need Vista for DirectX10...there's no doubt about that.
Actually, that would be like having a speed limit and putting speed inhibitors on everyone's car to force them to do that speed. Having the rules there and busting people when they don't follow them is exactly how things have been done for the past 200 or so years. Since when did it become necessary to prevent people from doing illegal things by limiting what they can do? You're free to break the law if you please, but you WILL be punished. The punishment in itself is a deterrent, beyond that you can do what you want, but you will pay when you get caught. DRM does not prevent people from stealing music, because they will do it no matter what you do; DRM prevents legitimate customers from using their music the way that they please.
Just a thought, but if you're living in the UK...the games you are trying to play with backwards compatibility will be games from the UK, will they not? Kind of makes it pointless to buy the US version, doesn't it?
Amusingly enough though, it costs less now. Buying the norm way back when cost a hell of a lot more...computers are cheap as hell now.