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well, what sort of fun does that give us?

I am seriously considering building a piece of desk-like furniture with all the phase-change cooling equipment in-built in the base ...

... And when he says boom, he means Baddabing! Baddabang! Buddaboom!

Yes! the stories would write themselves ... just write a basic programme to spit out adjective, noun, verb, subordinate adjectival clause made up of adjective and noun; draw the words from a list of dirty vocabulary, and Bob's your xenogenic half-brother-fianc

My Wings are like a Shield of Steel.

No. World of Wonder! Or even: World of Wonderwomen!

I think it is a reasonable expectation, considering where the publishers are trying to herd digital rights management towards: the various formats could be unlocked from the Blu-Ray disc, with perhaps a discount for multiple purchases. The publishers would be interested in it because it brings down the variable cost of production, with a small increase in fixed cost. Better for marketing (regression analyses, sales predictions, etc).

Whatever bonds your dentures. I think the cases are an eyesore, but then again I am not in the tweenie target demographic.

Mellifluous

I think this perspective is an easy one to take because we cannot see the perspective of the big business. The effectiveness of copyprotection goes far beyond the "well it gets cracked anyways" argument, and is pretty much a guess for anyone because any numbers that get shown from the corporation or copyprotectors is automatically dismissed, and AFAIK no "impartial" study has ever really been done. There's schools of thought based on theory, but the theory is typically only supported anecdotally. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There were a shedload of copy-protection systems used for the Apple ][, I remember. Ironically one of the toughest was used for the Locksmith programme (diskcopy utility: wouldn't copy itself but would copy a disk bit by binary bit from one drive to another). There must be some actual hard figures out there, because there were people who sold software sans-protection as well as some pretty draconian methods (like the dongle used by AutoCAD).

So, Sony is entering the dating game? Move over friends-reunited!

Is that a PM you accidentally published in my thread? <_<

Saves shaving. I hate shaving. I heard an apocraphal story about a gneder-reassignment candidate who was asked what was worse, the monthly cycle or shaving. S/he said shaving was worse.

When the tiger is less hungry.

the original is a GREAT film ... because it doesn't have an artificial chase mechanism and it has Lord Richard Attenborough and Jimmy Stewart giving some absolutely delicious character acting (the point of the story in general). Just watched Apollo 13. Love it. Going to watch the digitally remastered Spartacus next.

What about beard-trimmers? Right now I must have a beard-trimmer. Years ago an electric razor was mandatory for me to get to work on time. Now I just have a permanent designer stubble. :cool:

Hmmm ... *thinks* this might actually be a viable revenue stream ... a way to make money out of weird fetishistic behaviours, by providing literature of questionable taste, whilst excusing it as a "harmless" rehabilitation and method for recidivism prevention ... and these losers will pay TOP DOLLAR for their brand of smut ...!

Yah! Targeted adverts to my own very special Sony® Handle!

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 15, @07:16PM from the whole-new-levels-of-addiction dept. Wired News is running a story about a new approach to crossover working and gaming turning your coding into a MUD-style adventure. Playsh is a "narrative-driven 'object navigation' client, operating primarily on the semantic level, casting your hacking environment as a high-level, shell-based, social prototyping laboratory, a playground for recombinant network toys." Great, now they are combining two of the most horrible addictions in my life.

So we see the two behemoths sizing each other up to try to snatch the PVR market place. PS3 - Lateness With Linux? Posted by Zonk on Wednesday March 15, @04:15PM from the world-turns-upside-down dept. ZombieRoboNinja writes "The New York Times is reporting that Sony's press conference has confirmed the delay of the PS3, which is now slated to come out in November. More interestingly, the article claims that PS3 will ship with a 60-gig hard drive, built-in network card, and Linux!" Serious stuff here, with Sony's shares falling on the delay confirmation. There was a lot more news handed out at the conference than just the delay. Next Generation has details from Ken Kutaragi's 10 Point Breakdown. From the NYT article: "'We were discussing selling it in September, and some even said put it out in July,' Mr. Kutaragi said. Some analysts were immediately skeptical of this explanation, saying Sony needed to get the console out as soon as possible to combat Microsoft's head start, and the expected release this year of Nintendo's next game console, Revolution. They said Sony may be trying to buy time to bring down the production cost of key components, particularly untested technologies like Blu-ray and Cell. While Mr. Kutaragi did not reveal a price on Wednesday, analysts say Sony will likely try to sell PlayStation 3 for about $500." Please see related links and commentary below for more coverage. Related Stories Offsite: PlayStation 3 to launch worldwide in November Offsite: Can Sony manage a global PS3 roll-out? Offsite: Sony Meeting: November Global Launch Offsite: PS3 Conference Report - Date and More!

Meh, Alienware are overpriced toys for scriptkiddies. Much better to make your own. And if you can't build your own, then ask a geek! Support your local geek!

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 15, @03:22PM from the now-only-one-marketing-dept-will-ignore-my-emails dept. An anonymous reader writes "Well, looks like rumors are flying, and Dell may have bought Alienware according to an article on cnet. It really would fit Dell well. They are the last big manufacturer not to use AMD, and this would fill that void. Acquiring this company would also help them grow their business to where they want it to be ($80 billion anually). One can only hope that Alienware support and hardware won't be ill effected by this acquisition." Edit: added link to blog post.

You are still looking at the console market in one dimension: it's not about games! The XBox 360, for example, is a much better PVR than anything else on the market: that's M$'s beachhead strategy to pwn the living room. Sony is betting on the Blu-Ray loss-leader to establish a bigger, more unassailable beachhead in the living room: good games are a secondary consideration, and precisely why Ninty has no way of pwning the console gaming market because they just make good games consoles that do nothing else but play good games. <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

But ... don't all US tourists pretend to be Canadian whilst they are overseas oot-'n'a-boot? "