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Constipated Rat
OH no, not another mis interpreter.
Spot on mate!!, just like I said, the pc wont go anywhere, and will always have a use... BUT tablets will make the most common things pc's are used for alot easier in future- like all internet stuff.. browsing/emailing/social networking/youtube..possibly downloading/torrenting etc.. Not to mention listening to Music, watching movies, looking at pics, light gaming etc, etc... OH yeah and being able to take it almost anywhere, so things like GPS, 3G, etc come into play too.
"Where is the versatility in tablets".. if thats not versatility, then I dont know what your definition of versatility is......I suppose you are content sitting at a pc doing all this stuff for the next 10 or years then.
I said Tablets, smart phones, internet TVs will make the pc less usefull.. like I mention above... and stop all you guys saying "what about KB/mouse".. there is a KB's for some tablets and mice may come too. PC 's will be more for video editing or more servere program use only, in future. *I think*.. and superior consoles will strip it of its crown in for best gaming eperience.
All these will have a detrimental effect on the pc and it will become more of a background item, only used vaguely.
Nope. Computers will still outshine tablets. Laptops as they are are more portable than desktops and desktops are still better. Another factor is reliability. Smaller and more portable is not always better. Also computer screens are easier to see than tablets and videos are in better quality. You can also hook computers to tv screens just as tablets may. Also a small keyboard wouldn't beat a fully fledged computer keyboard. Touch controls suck compared to a mouse and even if a mouse was invented for it, it would kind of ruin the point. Frankly all I see tablets going is for when someone doesn't have computer access.
Games on tablets also suck without buttons and are mostly relegated to fart apps and minigames. That may be well and all for car trips, but I think I would rather play games on something with a bigger screen and buttons of some sort.
So I am assuming your tablet will have a 1 TB drive for all of that downloading torrents and the tablet will be compatible with other forms of media such as external hard drives, dvd burners, sd cards. And I just bet you it will play music better than computers and do all of that while surfing the web and editing a photo. And assuming it can do all of that can it run them without hiccuping or will it crash upon loading. What if I want to use firefox and instead have to use a crappy minimal webbrowser. I like to make sure my browser isn't hijacked so if I can't use firefox, it's like being asked for spam and viruses (which would definitely be something to look for if tablets will be as popular as you say. Also as you have to have your apps approved by tablet companies to be released on their app store, then there is a huge blow to versatility unless you jailbreak it.
ffs!.. I mean proper hacking, to play backups "piracy".. I know hacking a system is something to do, but doing it with the intent to let people run backups of originals is what I'm taling about. The mod chips just bypass security and let it boot the disc, but it wont boot any disc, only what it is made to boot.
That is what a hacker looks at first. A means to boot a backup.. should it be burning it to a supported format or memory card booting it.-"incentives"
If you can eradicate incentives for a way to run burnt games, and leave only possible ways to run homebrew stuff... then piracy doesnt really come into play, does it?.. look at the snes for example, believe it or not it was hackable, but expensive to do so. All you need was a Dremel tool to cut the cartridge open, then desoslder the rom chip, read it on a pc making a copy, then get an eeprom chip, program it with whatever rom images youve dumped, put it into the cartridge and run a game.... so is that worth doing?..NO!!!.. see, incentives are relevant.. it was just too much of a big deal back then to do that. But now flash carts with SD memory and redesigned PCBs make those systems now hackable for that reason. That was the "incentive" behind the guy who decided to make the flashcart.
And as years go by it will be even cheaper to hack. A lot of piracy erupts from the homebrew community. You have to install homebrew channel before you even think about playing backups on a wii. HBC's creator happens to be against homebrew. Geohot released the private keys that enabled 3.55 CFW and homebrew. You have to be on a cfw to play backups. Geohot was against piracy. I'm not too privy on the xbox scene, but JTAG is one of the ways to run backups and it probably started as a way to run homebrew as well. Flashcarts were started to run homebrew and eventually were able to run backups. I'm sure that officially the flashcart makers are also against piracy. Also cartridges aren't feasible for consoles anymore because they were much more expensive to produce for game companies anyway. Games in general were also still expensive even though the technology was older.
Well ,I believe, hackers can be beaten physically. We all know software has loopholes, but making something estremely hard to get at to see how it works can be a big help. Look at the CPS3 system, it was tamperproof for years, and that was 15 yrs ago. They couldn't get their teeth into itto see how it all communcated with itself to then emulate. As it just killed itself, rendering it useless and non readable... but some guy with an incentive - good skill and all the right equipment finally sussed it. But remember it did its job.
So if a console is locked to a proprietary disk format and has no means of memory inputs and has some sort of security screws that cut trips security sensors when removed, so console cant be opened.... just where does the incentive to decide to hack it come from?.. are you gonna get a dremel and cut it open to try to interface the disk drive..what if it fails(tamperproof)..buy another, start again??.. ok lets say you finally get a game dump, then what?..How are you gonna run it?.. replace the disk drive?? ..what if the system is made to reject it... what if the image is too big to run on any other disk format.... and this is before you even talk about the disk-hole counter measures that I mentioned.
Would that not put some hackers off?... it did for the CPS3 and cartridge based systems back in the day.
Dreamcast games were dumped from the dreamcast itself using a network adapter and they were on a proprietary disc Most companies wouldn't use tamper proof protection. Sure by breaking into my system I may be breaking ToS, but I see no legal problem of opening my system therefore if by opening it it ruined it I may have grounds for a lawsuit. Because the console was my property and tamper proof protection is an aggression against my property.
Yeah, you're right it is just another way to get the game back into the top ten for that christmas etc.... they bring out the new game with updated season rosters. But remember, some people actually like it this way believe it or not.
Also, if say someone bought FIFA 03, but 8 years later someone who wants to get into FIFA walks into a game shop and asks"where is FIFA 03?".. that would be stupid. It would be off the shelves years ago for all the right reasons. The yearly updates aren't all that bad when you think about. You dont have to buy it yearly if you dont want too. But Alot of people who may not have played it before or not in years, WILL buy it.
And that is what Pro evo soccer did for a long while on the ps2, they only brought out a new one every few years, up until about 2008, that is when they seen that it can be done yearly, and works to bring in money.
If you can see through this, then just dont buy into it.
or they could make sure there were stock each year and when stock was required press the new rosters with the disc. It would be no different than making pressed discs for new games and they wouldn't have to waste money making the same game again. And the game years could be changed to versions so the newest version was always sold.
That is just fucking crazy right there. We aren't talking a priceless statue that gets its photo taken then copied/made out of clay by some sculpturer and then sold for much less. We are talking the product of a company here- You seem to have a real weird outlook of software., even with your "ones and zeros" comment.
The point is, games are like movies. A bunch of people work hard to make the game what it is, and obviously were paid whilst doing so, which is all funded for, sometimes up to 100 million, for games like GTA4. So does this not have significance?
They obviously want to atleast make the funded cash back, and then as much profit on top of that possible, as to make the whole purpose worth while and to make a business out of it, which then brings about more games, spin off companies,failing companies/studios being bought out/over etc, etc...
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