stankDawg is baaack...
and i'd just like to say it's good to have you back. and i also wanna say thanks to blackRatchet and strom carlson for keeping binrev radio going this whole time.
they've got a good community at binary revolution. if you've never been there, you should check it out.
and (on a side note) there's now a ddp blawg.
anyway, that's it--shouts where they belong (you know who you are)...
--cid
sony, sony, sony...
you've done it again--i'm simultaneously amazed by your technical prowess and your overwhelming lack of touch with your customer base.
there was a time, when the only thing that worried me about the ps3 was the funny looking boomerang controller.
the cell processor has shown itself to be more than sufficient for truly crunching some numbers. integrated wireless. the blu-ray next gen storage promised plenty of storage, plus the nifty (supposedly screwdriver-tested scratch-proof) coating that tdk makes for them.
it all looked so good.
and then the prices were announced. i don't know who sony thinks they are, but i think that's outrageous. i would be willing to put up with all their silly drm-loving proprietary (you've-gotta-buy-it-from-us) attitude only so far. and five or six hundo is a bit too far, methinks.
is it gonna be cool? prolly.
am i gonna find out? prolly.
am i gonna drop half a grand to hop on the next gen wave? ahh...no.
playstation and me are gonna be buddies no more.
i've got no doubt that the hardware's gonna be impressive, and the games will almost certainly be sweet, but there's no way i'm doing the retail thing at that price. used--a price drop--whatever, but i think sony's been a little more pretentious than usual with this one.
i guess we'll see.
--cid
p.s. pardon the rant, but it's been building awhile and it hadda come out somewhere.
the subpeona's have started. google, among others, have had their records subpeonaed (however you spell that) by 'federal investigators'--whatever that means.
these mysterious investigators have claimed the info they're after isn't anything personal, but this just underscores the potential for abuse of subpeonas (or illegitimate access to the massive databases that google and other massive info warehouses maintain).
if we let this happen, we'll be opening the door for more invasive uses of technology that we might end up regretting....
i've gotta give 'em shouts for refusing to comply with the order (which is cool) but it's like the eff said--if search companies (and other dataminers) keep keeping all this info, the government (and criminals) are gonna keep trying to get at it.
if you don't understand why this is a problem, go read nineteen eighty-four again.
interesting times we're living in...
--cid
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