Comment Re:Flawed Premise (Score 1) 501
A very large percentage of the Japanese population uses their cell phones in ways that would put iPhone users to shame.
Porn? Video games? Or a combination of the two?
A very large percentage of the Japanese population uses their cell phones in ways that would put iPhone users to shame.
Porn? Video games? Or a combination of the two?
You raise a good point Sony's BetaMax system drown in a haze of pathetic VHS Consortium clones... By any reasonable measure it was a superior platform.... save one very important measure.... ubiquity...
YMMV
More and more games are using newer DRM (e.g. newer versions of Securom) that lock the game to your hardware instead of requiring the CD (e.g. Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 has such DRM).
The benefit to the publisher with this is that they can produce one version of the game for both digital sale and retail stores and from there only one set of patches.
Among the toughest questions posed to the Chicago bid team this week in Copenhagen was one that raised the issue of what kind of welcome foreigners would get from airport officials when they arrived in this country to attend the Games. Syed Shahid Ali, an I.O.C. member from Pakistan, in the question-and-answer session following Chicagoâ(TM)s official presentation, pointed out that entering the United States can be "a rather harrowing experience."
... The exchange underscores what tourism officials here have been saying for years about the sometimes rigorous entry process for foreigners, which they see as a deterrent to tourism.
The BBC News site has an article about this:
Murdoch attack on 'dominant' BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8227915.stm
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