Sounds pretty preumptious for Microsoft. The reason why discs work so well is that discs are the cheapest way to distribute data offline. For those without a high speed internet connection are they gonna have game kiosks ala the old Nintendo FDS system to distribute games? Also What happens when...
If you get past the really bad wording the guy used, this doesn't seem like a bad start. I think people are getting to hung up on the "phases" of this plan. Basically it breaks down like this.
Phase 1:
Bring in your dvd to a store to do the digital conversion.
They wil give you back a...
Now all those yuppie hipsters can rejoice, use their iCrap guilt free, and say that they've won now that they got rid of the "inhumane" work conditions at Foxconn. I guess it's back to subsistence farming for all those displaced workers.
It shows that there is a larger issue with PC Gaming. In that it's not ready for the mainstream. I wouldn't make fun of them though, well unless you want to be ridiculed at for not knowing how to sew or something.
That's pretty impressive if you get the internet and <redacted> service for free.
While using Sickbeard and Sabnzbd on it's own are legal, there's a good chance that the content being acquired isn't.
Consoles were always underpowered compared to the specs of a "gaming" PC at the time.
The whole point of consoles staying the same over time is that the price price of the hardware comes down so that the manufacturer can recoup cost. For the most part consoles were sold at a big loss so that...
In real simple terms the patent system was supposed to force people to think up of differentways to skin a cat. If someone patented skinning a cat with a knife, the next person would patent a way of skinning a cat with a spoon.
The whole using off the shelf parts for a "console" has been done already
http://system16.com/hardware.php?id=903&page=1
The only thing this console will do is alienate the high end pc gamers because theyir rigs are unable to outperform a cheaper "console." It will also add to the...