You obviously cant get official keyboards or mouse for 360 because it would give you too much advantage. You can use such for web browsing and everything else, but not to actually control the game. You can also get some unofficial products, but since the games aren't designed to be played with keyboards and mouses, they are quite much useless.
Which basically says nothing about the games or the gamers. The "deal" is keyboards have a lot more buttons to hit allowing instant control. And the mouse makes even the lowliest gamer able to instantly point-n-kill. Put these input devices onto a PS3 or 360 game, and run the experiment again. Result? A tie. Slobbing on the sofa with a beer? Console Win. Having to sit in front of a PC, console win. More than one player, console win.
You're only talking about FPS. What about, for example, strategy games or serious simulators? I am sure PC players would pwn console gamers in those.
In fact, you can already put mouse and keyboards for 360, but they still don't seem to compare.
Besides, how is it harder to have a beer while playing on your PC? I would say it's even easier since you have a table right in front of you, so no need to move around to get it from the table.
Only thing where console wins is when you're playing with friends who are physically there on your sofa. But then you also lose a lot of from the game, because for example with FPS and strategy games you know where everyone else is and what they are doing.
It's not really surprising. There are some console players good with a gamepad, but it really doesn't work as well as a mouse and keyboard combo. With FPS games you cannot turn your character as fast and precisely as you want to, and don't even get me started on how real-time strategy games work with consoles. Keyboards also have a lot more keys available.
There is also significant amount of more intelligent gamers on PC who play strategy games, old games like nethack and adom, simulation games... They have a strategit intelligence. Consoles on the other hand are quite much just racing games, fighting games and some badly controlled FPS games.
PC gamers are also more active in modding community, programming and everything else since it's an open platform.
Encouraging Clicks
Publishers may not ask others to click their ads or use deceptive implementation methods to obtain clicks. This includes, but is not limited to, offering compensation to users for viewing ads or performing searches, promising to raise money for third parties for such behavior or placing images next to individual ads.
Yes, it can be counted as fraud, especially when there's money involved. It's only a matter of at what point (how much money is involved) it makes sense for Google and other ad networks to go after the people frauding them. If someone happens to report him to Google, he will get his account disabled and the income lost. If it was a lot of money, he might even get sued by Google.
Also, since he is now using ads he is also commercially benefiting from copyrighted material (bootlegs) he has no right to. That gives even more serious jail time than the casual piracy happening over p2p networks.
He's encouraging people to only click on the links so he gets money. Since it's Google ads, advertisers pay for clicks that are completely useless and only costs them high amount of money. It's also against Google's Terms of Services and hence fraud.
There is this thing called fair use. When you quote a part of an article to make comments about it, that is fair use. You are also allowed to take a part of video clip and make a comment about it, so that your viewers can see what you are talking about. That is also fair use.
Separate cases don't matter, I was just pointing out that the guys site is otherwise illegal too and he doesn't seem to care about any of that. Also, click fraud can be generally charged as fraud.
Slashdot just summarizes the stories and provides links to the source articles. That is fair use. The guy was just copying the whole articles.
The owned of acdc-bootlegs.com site mentioned in the summary isn't exactly innocent either.
To begin with, the site is devoted to offer downloads of bootlegs, which according to current copyright laws is illegal. Even if you don't think it's a big deal, you have to go by laws.
What the current lawsuit is about is the use of copyrighted content from news sites (and not in fair use manner), again a copyright infringement.
Then he is also doing click fraud:
One thing you can do is click on the Google ads on the left side of all of the pages on this site. I make a few cents from each click, which will go directly to paying the settlement. So the more you click, the more you help. And it's free to you! You do not need to fill out any forms or submit your personal information; just click on the link, let the page load and go from there.
The way the
For months, the computer system had been locking up, producing what the crew deemed the 'blue screen of death. 'It would just turn blue,' he said.
So they didn't have proper computer administration in place? If my own computer started BSOD'ing often and for months, I would do something about it. I would especially do something about it if it was an important system, irrelevant to if it was Windows, Linux or any other OS.
It's not like it BSOD'd once and caused it. It was BSOD'ing for months.
The fact that there are a large number of people who love their Apple i%DEVICE% is very telling. I meet damn few people who feel that way about MS products.
Obviously, because Apple is targeting niche market and also labels themselves to the hardware (and pay Intel etc so they can remove their logos).
In the normal PC world the cpu is from different manufacturer, the memory is, everything in the hardware is. People most likely just remembers something along the lines of their computer being a Dell-computer, because that's what the combination is sold at. Why would casual people be so interested about the single parts that make it? They just want to do their thing, that's it.
Future for Intel will be Microsoft's largest business area, desktop computers, just like now. I very much doubt that Microsoft is planning to change to ARM with Windows.
It also doesn't make much sense for Microsoft to change the xbox architecture that much, since it has always been basically a PC and it has all the same systems like DirectX,
It would however make perfect sense for Windows Mobile.
Exactly, and it's only like 30 seconds of quality advertisements. I doubt Apple will put just any crap in there. Are you really so busy that you can't relax for 30 seconds?
I wouldn't see this as a bad thing. It lets Apple improve their OS. If you have played World of Warcraft, you know Blizzard uses the subscription income to constantly create new content and features.
Besides, who can't take a 30 second break from computer every once in a while? Knowing Apple, the ads will be good and interesting to the viewer. This is really a non-issue. You will get to see interesting software or services (most likely tailored for you) and Apple can keep developing their OS.
Sign me up!
Ah, slashdot, the place where people will jump in and start talking about their experience with a glossy screen in a dark room after a submitter says glossy screen doesn't work for them because of sunshine.
Don't panic.
