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| | | Ads in Our Games | | John Gatt's Babblings
| By John Gatt onThursday, October 09, 2008 1:40 PM | |
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So, Google aren’t happy with plastering ads all over the websites we read (not that I’m complaining about ad revenue!!) but now they want to attack us with advertising during our gaming experience. I can see it now … you’re just about to blow some dude’s head off with a sniper rifle and you see an ad for Coke and you think, hang on, I’m thirsty … mate stay right there and I’ll be right back! This has been attempted a few times in the past and there’s always been backlash from the gaming community. I remember Sony releasing a beta version of its MMO Star Wars Galaxies that had advertising billboards plastered around the auction areas in the game. I can see it now, you’re walking through Tatooine and you see a ... |  | | Comments (0) | More... |
| | BD-Live Was Always Slow | | John Gatt's Babblings
| By John Gatt onWednesday, October 08, 2008 1:37 PM | |
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With the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray this week, many residents in the US got to experience BD-Live for the first time. This is one of the first truly hot titles to come out both on Bu-ray and to also have BD-Live. Unfortunately, most people’s first taste of BD-Live was lag heaven. The BD-Live website came to a grinding halt as they were bombarded with data requests – or were they? The BD-Live site was reported to be extremely slow, with extensive download times for trailers (etc). But I experienced this same problem last month. The high demand for Iron Man’s BD-Live content is a marketing bull crap excuse to cover up the fact that their server’s suck and download speeds from their server’s sucked long before hundreds of people tried to access it at once. They had to make up some excuse for the lack of foresi ... | | | Comments (0) | More... |
| | Home Servers: A Thing of the Future | | Fiona's Ramblings
| By fiona on10/8/2008 3:25 AM | |
| I have been noticing some product news and reviews lately about home servers and it occurred to me that no manufacturer as yet has really properly targeted that market. Some clever manufacturer could come up with a small silent terabyte holding box and give it a snazzy name that would then become a household name, synonymous with file storage in the home. Everyone these days has thousands of digital photos, probably video as well, plus MP3s and maybe even entertainment video (as opposed to home movies) as well. So why don’t we all have a snazzy home server?
Part of the problem I think is that a home server is essentially just another PC, unless you use a NAS, which scares off the average home user. Households are far more likely to buy a new PC and pass on the old one to another family member than they are to spend their money just on storage.
Hard drives are also really cheap now. You can get 750GB for under US$100, so why go out and get a whole server when you c ... | | |
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