"and now lack of solid warranty is going to hurt XBox 360"
What are you talking about? MS just extended the warranty on the 360 to 3 years.
"This war was largely waged through video rental shops."
And this one is not waged there, at all. When the studios moved away from the old model of releasing video tapes to rental stores first (at $70+ per tape) and then to the consumer market, and to the DVDs straight to consumers, the market shifted. This battle is going to be waged at Walmart and Best Buy. The video store is a moot point.
Your counting is mistaken. The count is of people who use Linux. If we were saying that two years ago, the count was at 5 then you could chime in and say, "I stopped using Linux" and then the count could now be assumed to be 4. But 2 people have posted that they use Linux. The fact that you don't use Linux is meaningless.
Use your head and think a little before you pipe in. Or did you just want to tell everyone how great you think Apple is? If that was the case, I apologize to myself for wasting my time on you.
"So, you are not going to call the police if I follow you everywhere you go in public, along with writing down and posting everything you do to the internet?"
Many people make money doing just that. Have you started a campaign to get newspapers who employ such journalists shut down as a criminal enterprise?
That doesn't make any sense. Further proof that you are stupid.
Look, it's great that you've got a crush on me and everything but piss off. You're worthless and I will not be seeing any further comments from you. You missed the boat, moron. We will not be running off and getting married. You are shit. You are nothing.
No, I was not "trolling". I was responding to your stupidity. It's pretty clear that you can't understand the nesting system of Slashdot. Stay the fuck away.
"How do we prepare our youth for their adult lives when they see society's role models, government officials, sports superstars, members of the church, etc... committing breaches of ethics on a daily basis?"
By giving them proper role models. Just because someone has a position does not mean they are automatically a role model. If you teach your children to respect people for their actions, instead of their titles corruption by some privileged should not be a problem. Do you need me to raise your kids for you?
"Copyright infringement is not theft. Someone has to lose something for it to be theft. Copying data is pretty much the opposite of theft."
Wouldn't the opposite of theft involve giving someone something? When a theft occurs, the thief has gained something and the thieved has lost something without their consent. The opposite should involve the thief losing something with his consent and the thieved gaining something.
To say copying data is the opposite just confuses the issue. Copying data is not related to theft, in any way. Thieves in Bizarro World do not copy data. They give things to people. And then Bizarro Superman busts them for it.
You said, "a) "nothing but play mp3s" is a stupid comparison, since the PS3 does almost everything you'd expect it to be able to do with its hardware". This is a moronic statement for two reasons:
1) You're a moron and therefore most things that come out of your mouth are bound to be moronic.
2) You missed the idea that the customer isn't evaluating the fucking PS3 based on what hardware is inside the box but is instead evaluating it based on the games versus other games that are available.
You missed the fucking analogy and have proven that you're a fucking child that can't form a cohesive thought. In conclusion, I hope you get diarrhea tonight and that you never breed. Although, given your pathetic life and your inability to act like a fucking human being, I don't think I need to worry about the breeding part. So fuck off and die.
"But it's got a way better chance to help Sony than that the HD-DVD drive add-on for 360 will help microsoft."
Yes, you did say that. I wasn't disagreeing with that point. I'm sorry if it appeared I was. My point was that there is a larger risk for Sony with the route they've taken in regards to HD movies versus what MS has done. I think that considering the 1 year headstart MS has had and my belief that there is not a real big push for consumers to replace their DVDs yet (it'll come, just not too soon) and (sorry, this is running on) the fact that in the console business, snowball effects are very prevalent and difficult to combat, Sony should have cut Blu-Ray out.
"but it definitely has a better chance of giving Sony a boost than microsoft with their HD-DVD drive,"
Or it has a chance to cripple the PS3 as being overpriced. I believe that the majority of potential customers in the North American market are not clamoring for HD and that DVD is "good enough"; so, by including a Blu-Ray drive that is not driving sales but merely inflating the price, Sony is hurting the chances of the PS3.
"I agreed with your point implicitly -- and customers get to do nearly everything they'd expect to be able to do with the hardware in question."
My point was that the vast majority of potential customers for Sony aren't defining the value of the PS3 in terms of the hardware. They are defining the value of the PS3 based on the games. The current PS3 library does not add outshine the 360. Therefore, the 360 is a better deal - even if the PS3 has better hardware [however you want to define better]. The mp3 device was a good analogy. If you've got one mp3 player that can play mp3s and also do X, Y, Z [where X, Y, and Z are tertiary functions unrelated to playing mp3s] for $600 and another mp3 player that plays mp3s and does X for $400, the second one is the better value.
I think it's rather rude to call someone's analogy "stupid" as well. That type of statement isn't going to advance the discussion any and wasn't that the point of your post? To discuss the issue?
"a) "nothing but play mp3s" is a stupid comparison, since the PS3 does almost everything you'd expect it to be able to do with its hardware"
You completely missed his point. The fact is that if you define the value of the PS3 by the components inside then it is a great value. But no one defines value like that. The potential customer defines the value of the PS3 based on what they can do with it - not the cost of the components inside. It was not a stupid comparison, you just missed the point.
"Oh yea, brilliant. If you can arrange that only people who buy CD-s get sick. And the more CD-s they bought, the worse the illness."
Instead of nay-saying, which is a better solution? Let's see - on the one hand, "Manifacturers (sic)/retailers/importers get back the money" and the customer sees none of it OR the customer may or may not benefit from better funded health care. In one case, the original customer is certainly not going to benefit. In the other, the customer may or may not benefit.
Stop being so snide. You're not as smart as you think you are.
I am pushing a personal agenda; not propaganda. Propaganda implies that I am presenting lies as facts. I challenge you to point out anything I have said that is not correct. Sony has acted so irresponsibly as a company that I simply couldn't make up worse things to say about them.
And why not be up front about my personal agenda? I am not trying to hide the fact that I hate Sony. What benefit is there in picking a name to hide that? I am being honest, unlike the corporate masters at Sony - who are known to lie.
"And if you can afford to own a car, you can afford to own a PS3."
Just because I can afford to buy a PS3 doesn't mean I am going to buy one over a Wii. I love my Wii and if it cost the same amount as a PS3, I'd still buy a Wii over it.
I own a Wii and a 360. Last generation, I owned a Gamecube and a PS2. If we go by that limited evidence, I'm a Nintendo fanboy. I find Sony's corporate behavior terrible. Don't you?
Great reply! Most people are all too interested in telling others what is crap and why what they listen to is so much better than everyone else; rather than just enjoying whatever fucking music they happen to like.
"It sounds cooler, it's not a jumble of letters that mean nothing to most people."
Gee, people have HD sets. They see "Blu-Ray" and they see "HD-DVD" [nice job trying to leave out the hyphen to help your argument]. They know what a DVD is and they know that HD is what their new television is. Also, why do you think your personal experiences have any statistical significance in this discussion? Do you not know a thing about statistics? Anecdotal evidence is not evidence at all.
"Go to any place that sells movies and see how many people know that DVD stands for "Digital Video/Versatile Disc""
You were so close to understanding why you don't make any sense with this statement. In spite of people not understanding what DVD means, DVD is the current entertainment medium. Thus, your argument that HD-DVD fails because people don't know what HD-DVD means flies in the face of what you mention in your very own post.
Seems like Sony is the one with the history of fake viral campaigns at moving product - not MS. [See their PSP garbage from this past Christmas, coward.] I own a Wii and a 360. Why should I buy a PS3 when it costs more and offers no new gaming experience that I cannot get on a Wii or 360 at a higher price? If one of you Sony shills would answer that, I'll gladly consider a PS3. Without that question answered, I've got to fall back on the fact that Sony sued lik-sang.com in 12 different jurisdictions with predatory and bullshit lawsuits and they installed rootkits on the computers of their own customers. Yeah, I don't trust those scumbags.
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Use your head and think a little before you pipe in. Or did you just want to tell everyone how great you think Apple is? If that was the case, I apologize to myself for wasting my time on you.
Look, it's great that you've got a crush on me and everything but piss off. You're worthless and I will not be seeing any further comments from you. You missed the boat, moron. We will not be running off and getting married. You are shit. You are nothing.
No, I was not "trolling". I was responding to your stupidity. It's pretty clear that you can't understand the nesting system of Slashdot. Stay the fuck away.
He wasn't fucking replying to you moron! You're the dumbest asshole on Slashdot. Stop fucking posting. Nothing you have posted is intelligent.
I didn't fucking say that so what the fuck is your point?
To say copying data is the opposite just confuses the issue. Copying data is not related to theft, in any way. Thieves in Bizarro World do not copy data. They give things to people. And then Bizarro Superman busts them for it.
You said, "a) "nothing but play mp3s" is a stupid comparison, since the PS3 does almost everything you'd expect it to be able to do with its hardware". This is a moronic statement for two reasons:
1) You're a moron and therefore most things that come out of your mouth are bound to be moronic.
2) You missed the idea that the customer isn't evaluating the fucking PS3 based on what hardware is inside the box but is instead evaluating it based on the games versus other games that are available.
You missed the fucking analogy and have proven that you're a fucking child that can't form a cohesive thought. In conclusion, I hope you get diarrhea tonight and that you never breed. Although, given your pathetic life and your inability to act like a fucking human being, I don't think I need to worry about the breeding part. So fuck off and die.
I think it's rather rude to call someone's analogy "stupid" as well. That type of statement isn't going to advance the discussion any and wasn't that the point of your post? To discuss the issue?
Also - where did I claim I was making unbiased commentary?
Stop being so snide. You're not as smart as you think you are.
And why not be up front about my personal agenda? I am not trying to hide the fact that I hate Sony. What benefit is there in picking a name to hide that? I am being honest, unlike the corporate masters at Sony - who are known to lie.
I own a Wii and a 360. Last generation, I owned a Gamecube and a PS2. If we go by that limited evidence, I'm a Nintendo fanboy. I find Sony's corporate behavior terrible. Don't you?
Live and let live; to each their own; all that.
Seems like Sony is the one with the history of fake viral campaigns at moving product - not MS. [See their PSP garbage from this past Christmas, coward.] I own a Wii and a 360. Why should I buy a PS3 when it costs more and offers no new gaming experience that I cannot get on a Wii or 360 at a higher price? If one of you Sony shills would answer that, I'll gladly consider a PS3. Without that question answered, I've got to fall back on the fact that Sony sued lik-sang.com in 12 different jurisdictions with predatory and bullshit lawsuits and they installed rootkits on the computers of their own customers. Yeah, I don't trust those scumbags.