Look, we all know that you and many others on this site like Sony a lot, and you like to tout that Sony is ahead of the game in all aspects, but please go over this stuff in your head before you post...
Do you realise what you're saying? You're saying that in a few year's time, Bluray will be defunct, and Sony will have a new format that the PS4 will use? Then I guess the Bluray victory celebration will be pretty short-lived. We all gotta prepare for Sony's new BlueishPurple...
1. Please give a reference to your MS+MySQL connection...
2. C++ was the dominant language used for probably more than a decade, and is still used to a good extent. Java was developed much later, and is in many aspects a move forward in the evolution of computer programming. Computer programming has tended to evolve to higher-level programming (historic: C,asm,etc. | modern: Java,C#,Python,etc.) It is really no wonder that the industry would evolve too, and newer languages wou...
"MS released Visual C++ which is just a rendition of C++ but JAVA is platform independent . V C++ is not.
C ----i never liked that so i dont use it."
--What's your argument... C++ (which you mentioned first, not VC++) is just as platform independent, was developed 20+ years ago, and NOT by MS
"MySQL obtained support from MS and caused DBMS errors in big corporations who have now abandoned it completely."
--NOT Microsoft's...
Well, one indicator is that people have been successfully modding their 360 cases since launch. I remember reading about a real slick liquid-cooled + acrylic window mod from a long while back.
Another indicator is that if such a sensor did exist, the hardware hackers would have found it by now.
The only type of logging that I've heard of in regard to the 360 is a table of average startup times for games. Pirated (burned) games generally start up faster than norm...
What a crock... why on Earth do they need to mention that he is a gamer? It has NOTHING to do with the fact that he was trying to build an illegal nuclear reactor. They should also mention that he was an avid drinker-of-water, and I also heard that he liked to drive a car sometimes. Ooooh ooooh, plus he also used teh google.
Non. Issues.
A mod like this is undetectable. Granted, you'll have voided your warranty by making the mod, but MS and XBL would be none the wiser.
Thank you for a reasoned response :)
So you think HD-DVD owners should just throw away their movie purchases then? Don't bother trying to play movies they bought already? That is probably going to be the main reason for buying one of these combo players.
Well, you're speaking in absolutes. That will all depend on future trends in DRM, and it will also vary by media-company and download service. Right now, it seems that the trend is the demand for non-DRMed content, so in a few years' time your point could be moot.
Also, on the other hand, future DRM implementations within the optical media market could be ratcheted down to much tighter restrictions.
So, I'd say it's too soon to make blanket DRM statements about...
RAID. HDD prices are low enough that it is pretty trivial to have decent data redundancy to protect your library.
You're right, THAT kind of restrictive DRM will spell the failure of whatever DD/DLC service one is using, but I highly doubt that when it becomes mainstream that it will be that way. It is likely that DRM will not go away completely, but media companies are realising that there is demand for DRM-free content. Look at EMI's catalog on iTunes. DRM has been an experiment by the major media companies, and overall it is failing.
You do realise that HDD prices are low, have been low, and continue to drop, right? If you don't like what this guy is saying, then refute the point he made, don't discredit his company/industry with made-up points.
What do you think all this AACS/BD+ talk has been about in the last two years?
I don't think Sony look too favorably at downloadable content in general. Sony is a hardware company, and also a media company (Sony BMG, Sony Pictures). DLC is all about software, and it's use would negate a lot of Sony's viability within the market (e.g. Bluray players, Bluray discs, also say within standards bodies for current or new hardware technologies). I suspect if Sony had their way, use of DLC would be punishable by death.
Microsoft on the other hand, makes an opera...
My dad called me yesterday while he was at Circuit City. He was looking to get a DVD player to hook up to his new flat panel on the wall in his bedroom. He said, though, that the player MUST be able to stand vertically, so as to take up the least amount of space where he will hide it away behind a dresser or something. He said that there were no such players that he could find, but that the PS3 would do the trick quite nicely.
He's right about that. A PS3 would do what he des...
Eh, I disagree: I am of the opinion that overuse of camping/sniping in Halo goes against how it ought to be played. I often wonder if an entire team of campers even have fun with those tactics. I would be bored as hell. I have fun by shooting through maps grouped with my team and armed with the standard machine gun. You know, "playing the game" a little.
I played a match on Isolation the other day. It was three-on-three, and ALL THREE from the other team spent 90%+ of...
Both have DRM capabilities. You're thinking of Region encoding perhaps?
This is one thing that doesn't make sense to me in the Bluray spec. I know region encoding's main purpose is for tighter control of disc sales/movement, but in the DVD days, it at least made more sense given that there were different television signal standards (NTSC,PAL,SECAM). In the HDTV world, there are no regional standards.
To get back to the discussion, doing this is LESS consumer-fr...
Well sure, that is just common sense, but my argument is against the notion that an average consumer will actually understand or care about the audio differences between the two.
Let's look at an analogy: There might be some kind of difference in the quality of clothing offered by very high-priced stores at the mall (thread count, stitching, whatever). I cannot tell the difference between that and the clothes that I can buy at Kohls for a fraction of the cost. So, quality is ...
Fanboy?: Totally, but, can you honestly say that I'm wrong? Do you think that if they did a thorough, double-blind test of HD-DVD and Bluray audio, that any portion of the test base would be able to discern one from the other?
In all honesty, with FULL KNOWLEDGE of Bluray's capacity for uncompressed audio channels, I don't think such a test, as I described above, would yield anything more than a 50:50 split of those who preferred Sample-A versus Sample-B.
It would be so lame if the gaming industry turned into a clone of the Music/Movie industry where these companies feel that the world owes them. You're right, this industry isn't hurting at all.
"Used games are costing us 1 billion dollars a year"
"People who don't play games are costing us 10 billion dollars a year, we should have their money too"
"We should tax the population because we deserve money, let's lobby Congress....