Yes you are correct. Most of the posters on that list are very prolific posters. It's relatively easy to get karma if you spend 10 hours on HN and immediately submit the latest breaking news or post 50 posts a day.
A top list of average karma per post would be a better metric(assuming it doesn't count karma for articles).
There is quite a large difference between a new car vs. a used car to the buyer. New cars have the new car look and smell and status, and typically have better features, mileage, safety, size and design compared to an old one. Not the same as a game which is the exact bits and pixels. And a car is not usually a thing that people get bored with and sell, many people need it to even make a living. Meanwhile, game devs lose a lot of revenue after the first few weeks because of used games.
Microsoft is advertising the Xbox on the 360 dashboard with the preorder pointing to Microsoft Store, same with the emails they sent to every Xbox Live user, while the PS3 is primarily bought on Amazon, so it is hard to make predictions now.
The same company also created a console that wasn't hacked like its biggest rival for 8 years and still counting. Not to mention highly secure phone OS and tablet OS.
If you think a general purpose OS can prevent rootkits, you're mistaken. There exist full featured rootkits for OS X and Linux too.
Secure boot was a step in a good direction to prevent some rootkits, but alas, that gets shot down by internet rage too.
How is the Kinect different from every smartphone, tablet with microphones and cameras that we all always carry around even to bathrooms, bedrooms and confidential meetings?
> $100 more expensive than PS4.
You get the easy to use Kinect voice control and things like fitness games that can help you be in your target heart rate zone.
Reposting my earlier comment on the other thread that went off front page:
They should rename the Xbox One to the Xbox 180, it would be a perfect name!
On a more serious note, I don't like this rollback. It only goes to show how the witchhunt and echo chamber on Reddit worked. Even before the reveal, Microsoft was falsely accused of trying to game Reddit and everyone flew off the handle over someone pretty much lying to be a troll. Say the word "DRM" and you get bucketloads of Reddit karma and posts pointing out the facts(forget about posts taking the opposing view or opinion) were downvoted into oblivion by the angry mob.
And then there was the bad timing on the NSA leaks, which didn't help at all. Everyone has smartphones, laptops and tablets with cameras and mics which could be watching and listening and Apple/Google were part of the leak, but it was Microsoft that was singled out for proposing a device that could turn on itself, and had numerous safeguards to configure privacy if you wanted to.
All this doesn't excuse the fact that Microsoft utterly and totally failed in communicating their message in a proper manner in E3 and handed Sony an easy victory on a silver platter. For example, they failed to highlight how it fixes the problem of scratched and lost discs and how inconvenient it is to change discs to switch between games. I know a lot of people with huge DVD collections who watch the same movie on Netflix because they can't be bothered to put in a disc into the player.
They were touting the ability to play another game while waiting for people to join another multiplayer game, now that will be inconvenient with having to switch disks.
I guess it was easy to roll this back because it was not Microsoft but publishers and game developers that were going to reap the benefits of diskless gaming because Gamestop etc. skim off the value of older games and leave publishers with not much value. Once the public failed to see the advantages and blamed Microsoft for a power grab that was not going to really benefit them all that much, it was game over.
>If he or she wants to play it without the disc then they need to buy a new code.
From who? A used game code? Or a new one? How is that any different from the rules announced at E3 with no used games?
>Person B plays the game as much as they want then lends the game to Person C. Person B can no longer play the game because they don't have the disc, but Person C can play the game as much as they want.
So the disc is required to play? Like in the new rules?
>Just put a code into the game case that allows for discless play, and require an online connection to install the game to the hd and unlock it for discless play. Not rocket science
It is rocket science apparently
Person A does what you said and goes on a cruise ship playing the game before giving the disc to Person B.
Person B takes his disc, installs the game with an online connection. The server has no way of telling that Person A is still playing the game on his cruise.
Person B finishes installing, goes to a camping trip before giving the disc to Person C....
Person C installs the game, unplugs the network from the Xbox and gives the disc to Person D...
They should rename the Xbox One to the Xbox 180, it would be very apt.
On a more serious note, I don't like this rollback. It only goes to show how the witchhunt and echo chamber on Reddit worked. Even before the reveal, Microsoft was falsely accused of trying to game Reddit and everyone flew off the handle over someone pretty much lying to be a troll. Say the word "DRM" and you get bucketloads of Reddit karma and posts pointing out the facts(forget about posts taking the opposing view or opinion) were downvoted into oblivion by the angry mob.
And then there was the bad timing on the NSA leaks, which didn't help at all. Everyone has smartphones, laptops and tablets with cameras and mics which could be watching and listening and Apple/Google were part of the leak, but it was Microsoft that was singled out for proposing a device that could turn on itself, and had numerous safeguards to configure privacy if you wanted to.
All this doesn't excuse the fact that Microsoft utterly and totally failed in communicating their message in a proper manner in E3 and handed Sony an easy victory on a silver platter.
I guess it was easy to roll this back because it was not Microsoft but publishers and game developers that were going to reap the benefits of diskless gaming because Gamestop etc. skim off the value of older games and leave publishers with not much value. Once the public failed to see the advantages and blamed Microsoft for a power grab that was not going to really benefit them all that much, it was game over.
Microsoft didn't kill Silverlight, the iPad killed Silverlight. As for VB6, I think many here would agree that it was better off killed. You can still run VB6 apps on even Windows 8 though.
A top list of average karma per post would be a better metric(assuming it doesn't count karma for articles).