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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12535 |  dbb970s (170) Oct 03, 2006 - 06:46 pm
| | Do I get to backup the authentication server which is necessary for the game to run too. Also, when you buy digital downloads (if you're able to backup your files in the first place) and backup your files; you do realize that a stamped disc is a bit more archival quality than your $0.25 DVD recordable disc right? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12537 | dbb970s (170) Oct 03, 2006 - 12:58 pm
| | Wow! They're taking a lesson from the old Intel. Make a CPU that's slower than what the competition is making and then make a new motherboard requirement for each revision of the same basic CPU architecture. Too bad they don't have enough market share to force OEMs to use their chips exclusively by offering deep discounts on their products. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12535 | dbb970s (170) Oct 03, 2006 - 12:53 pm
| | Loosing hundreds of dollars of games when the company you bought them from goes bankrupt and the authentication servers go dark, having to phone home to big brother every single time you launch a game (even a single player one...here's to you HL2), yet another password to remember for each company's game download service, waiting for days to get the chance to play your new purchase because millions of fans are trying to pull the same file from the same location, and paying full price (or more since the effects of competition are null for purely digitally distributed content...e.g. Sin on Steam for Full price while Best Buy and Circuit City have it for half what it costs Online) for information that comes sans backup solution and printed instruction manual. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12444 | dbb970s (170) Sep 27, 2006 - 11:29 am
| | Because we don't live in a world that thinks fair use rights are worth anything. Why do you think people continue to put up with this DRM BS? IMO the fair use rights of owners (not licensees...I didn't license my money to the content holders after all) should trump the DMCA when it comes to a legal contest. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=12156 | dbb970s (170) Sep 08, 2006 - 08:42 am
| | Seriously, I think the EU commission ought to have to put their stamp of approval on Vista before Microsoft ships it. I really wish MS would pull all their products out of Europe and let them see where the free market takes them. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11659 | dbb970s (170) Aug 11, 2006 - 11:00 am
| and therein lies the problem...
Also, the DS Lite is $100 or more less than a PSP and has a significant backlog of great games, not to mention some really hot current releases. PSP games need to come down in price as well. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11325 | dbb970s (170) Jul 25, 2006 - 09:59 am » Edited on Jul 25, 2006 - 10:01 am
| » My prediction.
AMD goes ahead and releases next gen ATI parts as planned and profits. AMD integrates ATI's mobile platform and chipset assets into its own product offerings and sells off a bunch of graphics card IP to nVidia to help cover that 2.5B dollar loan. nVidia is left as an effective monopoly for the mid to high-end graphics sector and progress stagnates in the graphics sector. nVidia is finally able to get Intel to support SLI in their chipsets because Intel doesn't have any other choice for high-end graphics.
My thoughts and I hope I'm totally wrong.
Edit: I hope I'm not wrong about SLI on Intel chipsets. This would actually make me quite happy as long as AMD was still competing in the graphics arena. It would still suck that one has to choose ATI/AMD or Intel/nVidia though. Can't we just all get along? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=11110 | dbb970s (170) Jul 13, 2006 - 06:49 am
| | Hmm, $60 or one can get a Sandisk model for $40 (sometimes cheaper after MIRs). New medium, same price, and same old proprietary Sony story. When will they learn to just let us rip DVDs to UMD format and play them? All the while they could sell the stuffing out of Memory sticks and PSPs, but I'm sure they're still too short sighted to come up with that business model. Sony's way or the highway...happy road trips everyone. Flag this | Edit this post |
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