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Quote: Originally Posted by bigpics To me that translates to "elaborate time wasters" vs. "casual time wasters." I'm sooo glad I was born a bit early for the electronic gaming generation, which has claimed so much of so many lives running around…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage Back in 2005, the Playstation brand was seen as bulletproof. Now not so much. If anything, the games industry is less tolerant of platforms which don't provide a secure way of making money. I'm not sure a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Whozown This article is a joke, Sony is just that scared kid on the play ground teaming up with the other nerds in an attempt to fight the big dog on campus. My money is still on Apple. I hope the PSP and DS don't d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage I thought this stuff was well known. You can look on Wikipedia to compare unit sales of top-selling PSP vs. PS3 titles. Sony's game division has been losing money for a few years (2006,2007,2008,2009) …
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Nice design. Looks like HyperCard. Of course, by the time HyperCard came out, patents on the Rolodex had long since expired...
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So, Steam blows, it's like malware, it starts up unbidden, tries to phone home, drives me nuts, etc., etc.; BUT..... You can play the PC games you bought on Steam on the Mac without having to re-purchase them?!!!!! That is awesome!! This is…
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Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater No what Apple needs to start doing is using what everyone else uses and stop trying to be different for the sake of being different. They need to add HDMI to everything and simply use USB 3.0 which is wha…
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I expect the reason why Kanex's box is useful (and expensive) is that it is compatible with HDCP, the High-Definition Content (aka Copy) Protection scheme which is mandated by Blu-Ray. Kanex's box speaks HDCP, and basically decrypts and strips HDCP …
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I just have to say: that is a beautiful and informative diagram! You might also consider Blue Box in Rhapsody - and Classic in OS X - to be at least spiritual descendants of Apple's (forgotten, but rather interesting) Macintosh Application Envir…
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I was just at Best Buy last night, and I checked out the Apple kiosk. They still don't really sell any Mac software. They do sell CrossOver and Parallels, so perhaps they figure you'll use those products to run the Windows software they actually do …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Since Apple does not account for sales of the touch-screen media player through subscription accounting like it does the iPhone, touch users will have to pay an initial fee just to update their devices to …
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Come to think of it, I wish that the Apple stores would bring back the Mac software sections that they used to have!! (Those sections now hold iPod/iPhone junk, while Mac software has been relegated to a tiny set of shelves in the back.) Apple's Com…
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Best Buy's Mac software selection seems to be limited to MS Office and a few pieces of Apple software. Who is going to buy a Mac at Best Buy when 99% of the software they sell is Windows-only? When Mac software is limited to 10 titles or less? …
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Best Buy is unlikely to be an effective Mac vendor for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that they don't currently sell Mac software!! If you've been to CompUSA, you know what a problem this is - they have multiple aisles o…