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• Could you please do the test again with remote play enabled? I imagine it'll be substantially higher. In reply to: "PS3's standby and off modes, (virtually) separated at birth"

  June 11, 2009

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• Um....to everyone babbling about Paint....
  
  all you have to do is click the Paint icon twice. It opens the app again, you can cut and paste between them...and it has two open at once. It isn't hard. Tabs not required.
  
  And further, I agree...if this is your measure of an OS...you aren't looking hard enough. It took me 10 minutes to figure out how to resize the resolution of a photo in iPhoto the other day...turns out you cant do it till you export...which is pretty stupid. So cut your crap. In reply to: "Windows 7 could change our perception of PCs"

  April 24, 2009

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• Actually, Phrozunsun, you fail on almost every point. Just because you hate something doesn't make you right.
  
  1. Take a look at current US broadband infrastructure. Around 70% of people have broadband according to the FCC, but broadband is only described at 328 kb/s or higher. We've all seen how pushed to the limit the current backbone is. Imagine everyone downloading their movies all the time. The current structure can't handle it. Will downloads eventually take over? Yes. In the next 10 years? No. And that's all Blu-ray needs.
  
  2. You obviously didn't understand the unified comment. While Blu-ray plays on any blu-ray player (since standardization), there's a cornucopia of movie download services, none of which have the same films, requirements, or installations. Consumers don't want to sign up at 50 different services....they want one simple method they can learn and understand. Blu-ray gives them this.
  
  3. The author was simply showing that the format doesn't have to contend with this issue. For awhile I was curious about the chinese-made discs, but that doesn't appear to be catching on.
  
  4. HDTVs help Blu-ray more than any other format because 100% of Blu-rays require HD. Other formats don't. As people buy HDTVs they're going to notice how the other formats (be it stream, VHS, DVD) don't look nearly as good on their HDTV. For some people, it'll be good enough, but as prices drop, Blu-ray will be the logical progression. Download is the only possible contender here, and no major service is doing downloads, just streams.
  
  5. Yep, and I commend you for accepting it. I also agree about sales, one can never really be sure.
  
  6. They are notably higher, but if you're looking for deals, you can find them. Amazon frequently runs $10 and $15 sales on Blu-ray. Stuff always starts higher at early adoption for the videophiles and then it comes down. I agree people won't repurchase their DVD collection, at least not immediately. But with each player sold, people will have the choice with each new movie they buy...and the transition will start. Already has if you look at sales figures.
  
  7. Blu-ray isn't adversely affected by the PS3 selling fewer than Xbox or Wii. It's not a logical comparison. We're looking at Blu-ray adoption. Since the other two systems don't have an HD movie format (Xbox it could be argued, however), the PS3 isn't really competing with the other consoles in this market. Every PS3 sold, regardless of why the person bought it, has added to Sony's Blu-ray coffers.
  
  8. Again, illogical comparison. With the exception of Betamax, Sony hasn't invested nearly as much into the other proprietary formats. This really is more make or break. Considering in this case they no longer have a direct competitor the way HD DVD was, the mass majority of people who still want solid media alone will help Blu-ray skate through. Sony makes alot of crap proprietary formats, but this isn't one of them. People had a choice.
  
  9. I can't defend 9. HD DVD was a better name. While I'm a techie, and think Blu-ray sounds cool...your common consumer doesn't know what it is. HD DVD is pretty self-explanatory. In reply to: "9 reasons why Blu-ray will succeed"

  January 20, 2009

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• Don's usual swing and a miss.
  
  The beauty of Facebook is that people don't have to deal with buggy, tawdry crap like MySpace. You arent inundated with crap music, or flashing colors. There's not much in the way of fake user spam either.
  
  The other sites are far too specialized. People like Facebook because it provides services the majority of people want without causing issues.
  
  Don, seriously, get a new job. Almost every article you write is crap. In reply to: "Facebook could learn a thing or two"

  December 12, 2008

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• It's not just journalists. It seems like the internet punditry as a whole are just waiting to tear Windows 7 apart.
  
  I for one am excited to see what Microsoft does when backed into a proverbial corner. I'm hoping they come up with their own 'Cadillac CTS' so to speak. In reply to: "Windows 7's biggest threat: Journalists"

  November 12, 2008

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• obligatory "Can it run Crysis?" comment
  
  Seriously though, imagine the cooling system on the roof dealing with all that... In reply to: "At CERN, computers to tackle the Big Bang"

  October 16, 2008

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• Explain why an OS (OSX or Windows) should have built-in support for a 3rd party application like Firefox.
  
  Don't be daft. In reply to: "Foxmarks syncs your passwords across PCs"

  October 16, 2008

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• Don't mind Don...he's just a biased moron who wouldn't know proper journalism if Edward R. Murrow kicked him in the ass. In reply to: "It's time for Sony to downsize"

  September 9, 2008

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• China filters their internet.
  
  Pass. In reply to: "Comcast appeals FCC traffic-blocking ruling"

  September 5, 2008

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• This comment makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
  
  People aren't buying TV shows to the point they aren't buying cable...besides the fact your example is network over the air anyway.
  
  And besides, bandwidth for internet is different than for HD content. If they did that, it'd be anticompetitive to the point of no return. In reply to: "Comcast appeals FCC traffic-blocking ruling"

  September 5, 2008

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