Wow, don't know why I didn't see this sooner. Right on the money.

Definitely going back to my PC roots this generation. Absolutely none of the new consoles are wooing me. Too much shit that has nothing to do with games and zero backwards compatibility so there is just zero incentive.. So fuck them all.

PC games and Star Citizen FTW

I was certain the Xbone was going to be backwards compatible. I thought that question was settled last generation. People want backward compatibility.

So fuck them. I was loving the 360, but now I'm back to being PC-centric.

This idea of having to collect all the consoles so you can play the games you want to play is ridiculously stupid. And they wonder why people develop emulators so they can play everything on the PC

Yeah, but on Steam, you'll keep your games library going foward to a new PC or a new OS. Maybe the next Xbox (Xbox "Two" or whatever) will be backward compatible but I won't take that chance, based on their track record about BC...

It's just a bad deal. Too much control.

Although, they (MS) showed great games! Too bad.

For me, this generation will be PC-Steam first, then PS4 and maybe I'll buy a Xbox One if they change their policy.

This video is wrong about the new Xbox!

It can't play Halo 3, because it's not backwards compatible.

>> ^moodonia:

I bought a SATA3 SSD recently for my OS/programs/couple of games and its well worth it. Power on to usable desktop in Windows 7 in less than 10 seconds. Still keep a RAID array of conventional disks for mass storage.
It really is a good upgrade for old computers, anything with a SATA port should show a big improvement over a HDD even if the SATA controller is only SATA1. In my experience they are backward compatible, they should just run at the lower speed of the controller .
Nice to see OAG making some squids out of her internet fame, she seems to be making the most of it, good for her.
Youre experience may vary, check with your PC manufacturer


Try RAIDing a bunch of SSDs. The time dilation effects are a bit nauseating though.

I bought a SATA3 SSD recently for my OS/programs/couple of games and its well worth it. Power on to usable desktop in Windows 7 in less than 10 seconds. Still keep a RAID array of conventional disks for mass storage.

It really is a good upgrade for old computers, anything with a SATA port should show a big improvement over a HDD even if the SATA controller is only SATA1. In my experience they are backward compatible, they should just run at the lower speed of the controller*.

Nice to see OAG making some squids out of her internet fame, she seems to be making the most of it, good for her.

*Youre experience may vary, check with your PC manufacturer

Ah, my favourite horror movie. I just love this movie to death, and Kurt Russell? The icing on the awesome-cake.

I remember the game, it was really cool initially... but kind of fell apart by the end. Still enjoyed it though. It's backwards compatible with the 360, if i find an Xbox copy of the game, I'll have to play through it again

>> ^deathcow:

I'm not saying 10 TB of video. Several TB of astronomical images, etc. Stuff that takes a long time to move around. USB2 is not up to modern requirements for speed.


You are still not answering the question. What is there to get excited about???

Hard drives (SATA 3.0) are topping out at 6Gbps, which means that a typical PC can't get anywhere near the max Thunderbolt speed. USB 3.0 (available right now) peaks at 5Gbps, which is more than most hard drives can handle. PLUS USB 3.0 is backward compatible. In the real world, there will be no noticeable difference between USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt unless you have multiple RAID arrays in close proximity, and are pushing your systems to the limit on a daily basis. It would be about a thousand times more useful to have that kind of speed on your network connections, and 10G ethernet has been around for years!

Thunderbolt is nothing but a small incremental improvement over USB 3.0 that most people will not be able to notice, except for the fact that all their old peripherals won't be compatible.

If you're just geeking out about the new shiny, that's cool. But please just say so.

The chances of this technology catching on is somewhat unlikely for several reasons, most of which have already been pointed out. First off, there's the cost of the technology. The cables alone cost around $50 apiece, and that price is unlikely to drop considering the hardware inside the cable alone. Secondly, because of the licensing, there isn't a lot of third party support. If you recall, this is one of the major reasons firewire never caught on as big as USB, even though it had some nice features that made it more ideal for large amounts of data transfer. then there are also the insecurities, backwards compatibility, etc.
I suspect that in the end it will be more of a niche product, much as firewire is. (And considering Apple's attitude about any technology they've had a hand in developing, I think I'm rather glad of that.)

And all those PS3's are PS2 backwards compatible, which makes them 10x more valuable.

Fingerprint tech has been so easily broken so many times now, even by the Mythbuster team. I would definitely not want anything to do with it, unless it has somehow gotten A LOT better.

This tech is a decent expansion of something that isn't too big a change from the current setup and is backward compatible, which is what makes it viable. I'm sure people have thought of many far safer methods but how are you going to get that out to the hundreds of millions of card readers in use today. Things need to happen gradually.

What would be useful is if you could actively disable/enable the cards number, so it is only usable exactly when you need to make a purchase and attempts at using it while it is disabled are rejected. It won't do much for physical theft but that would be great for online theft.

>> ^HugeJerk:

Some decent ideas that work with the current systems. At some point, I'd prefer something about the size of a USB thumbdrive or keychain that uses a fingerprint to unlock, is wireless, and universal.

I really like the "styled" look of quoted text, I just have a lot of complaints about the implementation.

First, I don't like that it forces quoted text to the bottom of a comment. Quoted text should appear where it is in the submit window, and if the commenter wants to move it around, they should be able to.

Second, people need to be able to quote multiple snippets of text from someone else's post, which is impossible with the current method.

Third, we need to deprecate the original quote code, otherwise we're just painting ourselves into a corner. Make a special parser for backwards compatibility for the old style (that defaults text to the location within the post it's found in!), and then create a more streamlined way of tagging quotes going forward.

Something like this would be pure awesome:

<quote user="gwiz665" src="http://videosift.com/poll/Regarding-the-comment-quoting-system-that-debuted-in-VS4?loadcomm=1#comment-966227">Too many bugs with it right now. It's annoying as hell.</quote>

Especially if you made src and user optional attributes, with a naked <quote> just putting a box around the text inside.

Fourth, we probably should alter the current style of nested quotes, and literally put the quote boxes inside one another to make it easier to work out who said what to whom. Aesthetically it'd be less attractive, but the current style is pretty much unusable past 1 level of nesting.

>> ^dag:

Are you sure it will support Blu-Ray? I don't think so. Regardless, it won't play commercial BD movies currently, so I doubt it will in the future - with XP it can easily be scaled to play BD movies because the OS doesn't interfere.

And where did you read about the $29 price tag for playing BD movies? Is that an enhancement feature you have to purchase? Haven't seen that on any blog.

If you don't have an intel mac, you can't install Snow Leopard anyhow. Backwards compatibility, baby.

Hey, I can dis. I've been using Apple products for a long, long time.

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It's true, they do release more often- but on the plus side, they work hard on backward compatibility. I just installed Leopard on my wife's 5 year old iBook, and it works beautifully.

WRT Bluray, Snow Leopard supports it, I believe and is only $29

I'll stick with my 60GB fully backwards compatible PS3 Thank you very much. Big and clunky or not. At least it doesn't RROD on me.