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...
All consoles are sold at a loss at the start regardless of what's in it. The Cell architecture was notoriously difficult to code for. I bet this move (if it does happen,) save Sony money and assure devs that coding for their console will be relatively easy and produce shorter dev cycles.
Keep in mind that Blizzard has employees all over the world. Just within the past few months the have lost millions of subscribers from their 12M mark. Sure it may look big to most people on paper, but when you look at the bigger it really isn't.
This isn't anything new. There's software and specialized scanners that do this already. Just be careful because they're going to use your receipts for fun and profit.
Oh forgot to mention, Slingmedia doesn't seem to have that problem, they charge about $30 for their app which is a glorified streaming client, which is an addon to the slingbox. The thing it's it's another $30 each if you want to put it on your iphone, ipad, android phone, android tablet, kindle...
I believe this is the link Steve was looking for:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19882_3-57384178-250/were-not-paying-enough-for-apps/
Anyway, I believe the fart app developers would say otherwise.
So let me get this straight. These workers were already getting paid above minimum wage, which was the highest in China, are now getting paid even more because there are entitled U.S. americans that didn't want to feel guilty about how a foreign worker that built their luxury item was treated...
It all depends on how you plan on controlling the HTPC remotely. What you can do is hook up either the rca out or the component out from the receiver to the slingbox. You will need to aim one of the IR blasters to the receiver so you can tell the receiver to switch between outputs.
This is...
To quote Herman Caine:
"Nein! Nein! Nein!"
With Germany having one of the strictest privacy laws in the world I am surprised that they allowed this to happen.