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The PS2 Experience
rubyred writes: "With all the fuss surrounding the launch, SEGames has some PS2 coverage by several of the editors who had vastly different experiences on the launch night ranging from actually getting a PS2 to standing outside of a Wal-Mart in the pouring rain with a blow-up Shark and not getting one. Other features include "the first 24 hours with it""
Hey, to each man his own, but still..... Are you that impatient/needy to get it that soon? I find it kinda funny too, that people in other nations are oppressed and not getting food, in ours, we have whiners about not getting a $300 gaming system the first night it comes out.... I don't know.. give it some thought.
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I love my PS2 model 60 with 10mhz 286, 40 meg harddrive and microchannel architecture. Runs DOS 3.3 like a dream!!!!
I'm getting really tired of all this hype about the P2. ESPECIALY from slashdot. You know, the same slashdot that posts many stories about how Rambus is evil for suing eveyone and their mother who even though about DDR SDRam. Or Sony who is part of both the evil RIAA and MPAA. And what happens? We get articles upon articles about the SONY playstation 2 run on RAMBUS RDram. So what is it...we scream about how evil something is until they give us something we want, then we shut up? Our our morals bought that easily? If you are that concerned about your rights being stripped away, don't support the companies that are doing it!
No offense, man. I like video games as much as the next geek, but this is stupid. Ya'll sound like a bunch of 13 year old girls trying to get tickets to an N'Sync concert.
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Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Also, since Loki is developing UT for Linux, the game could start having a presence here on Slashdot. Better get that story icon ready for the "unreal" topic, Rob.
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
I think Sega is the one hording them... maybe they can actually make some money on a console!
Color does indeed have quite an effect on the moods and disposition of its observer. Research by 3M in the 60s showed that the color beige was the most 'productive' color - workers in a beige environment were able to do more work than workers surrounded by other colors. Thus the bland shades of beige that adorn all office equipment up until recently.
Another ground breaking study demonstrated that dark green & grey caused people to 'de-intellectualize'. Their IQs would lower by an average of 10 points, and their reactions would be purely emotional. A group of stanford student volunteers subjected to 5 days in a room colored only dark green & grey reverted to their pure animal instincts, flinging their warm cereal and snack meat lunch against the walls in an attempt from the maddening colors. They acted out against each other until the researchers broke the experiment up on moral grounds. This research lead to the YHBT color model that is gaining favor in psychology today.
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Why does it keep seeming like every time I visit Slashdot recently I think I accidentally went and started reading Sony press releases? You know, the ones put out by the same Sony that's part of the MPAA and RIAA and which slashdot constantly criticizes? I can see maybe one announcements, but come on, two or three per day? This is getting ridiculous.
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Man, you sound like the racist here. You automatically assume that everyone buying a PS2 is white. Well, I'm getting one and I'm Asian. I friend of mine already got his and he's Hispanic.
That had better have been a joke (albeit a tasteless one) because I'm sick and tired of hearing this BS about how everybody owes African Americans all this stuff. It happened a long time ago, I personally did not have anything to do with what happened back then (neither did anyone else here) and everyone is equal nowadays (unless you're ignorant, apathetic or just lazy).
How do they get screenshots for these consoles? Do they sit there with a camera and take pictures of the TV set like we did when we were 8 and got a high score on an activision game and were trying to get our "Pitfall Harry's Adventure Troop" patch or whatever it is? Or do they run the console output into a video card? My experience has always been that you can get decidedly mixed results when trying to take screenshots of things that use overlay buffers for output (like most PC-TV thingys...). Anyone know?
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After taking a semester of beginning microeconomics, I feel that I can comment intelligently on some of this stuff.
But what happens when supply doesn't outstrip demand, and yet prices still rise? You can see it happen with monopolies.
Monopolies maximize profit by limiting the supply (thus causing a shortage) to an optimal point. I know it seems counter-intuitive, but this is actually the way a true monopoly would maximize profit. The math is a little complicated, and I'd have to pull out my notes, so I won't explain it here--you'll just have to trust me.
This tendency for true monopolies to actually cause a shortage is good for no one except the monopoly. That is why they are illegal.
Of course, not all monopolies are illegal.
Also, think about local cable-internet access companies. Most of them have monopolies in the area they operate.
Certain types of services are legal monopolies because of their unique nature. Electric and cable companies (among others) are usually granted a monopoly for a specific area. The reason is that it would be extremely inefficient on the whole to have more than one company running cables to every house and more than one company running electric lines to every house so that these companies could compete with each other and each household could choose among them. Considering this, it is easy to see why certain types of services are best as monopolies. Usually, however, the government regulates these companies so that they can't take advantage of their monopoly.
The PS2 situation is not an example of a monopoly; it is simply an example of a shortage (not enough supply to meet the demand) which invariably will drive the price up.
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ok. just in case any of you are wondering if this guy actually was joking, the answer is no. take a look at his user info and his previous posts.
No offense bro, but if you're looking for racism, you'll find it in the mirror when you're brushing your teeth in the morning.
The fact of the matter is this. Slashdot is news for nerds, stuff that matters. Being that the PS2 is/was the most anticipated console release in the past 3 years, it's no wonder that there have been a plethora of posts about it. If minorities can't afford it...so what. Most uppity white people i know can't afford a PS2. It's mostly not a question of cash, it's a question of priorities.
Whatever, you're probably the old guy that yells at people in a Wendy's every time they throw away the really crunchy french fry cause "there are children starving in africa." Let me tell you this, Bub....i offered an Etheopian kid that crunchy fry, he told me to go fuck myself.
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After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
Yeah, I know BAs in CS exist. I have never seen them get any respect though, at least not in the tech world that alienated this guy.
Mind you, I run a Mac- but that means I get a really clear view of just how Windows PC-oriented most gaming really is. Microsoft are not going to give that up, you know. They are not going to lose lots of money out of the goodness of their hearts in order to replace Windows PCs with some console. All the X-Box is, is a mirage- when it fades out, the developers will shrug, realise they've been developing for a Windows platform all along, and it'll be more of the same.