You _really_ need to read about the outside world sometime. Companies _are_ doing this - and the law is at this very moment getting harsher in a lot of places because of it. The market is _huge_.
3000.. and of those, not that many were American. Compared to that, more innocent Afghan peasants who haven't got a clue as to who bin Laden is, or even that he was in their country, have been killed by american forces.
Why should I care about sales in the US more than worldwide sales? (I'm not from the US)
The Gamecube is not doing poorly, and it's interesting to see you think it is just because it's slightly behind the Xbox in the US. The world does not revolve around the US, I promise you..
Nintendo are making heaploads of money on the GC and their first party games, thus, neither Nintendo nor the GC is doing "poorly". Now, what part of that have _you_ problems understanding?
You're really clueless. The 80000 figure was an error from the reporting agency, Nintendo corrected it to 800000 days after. Maybe you should only talk about things you know?
Nintendo had sold 9.55M Gamecubes end of March 2003. Microsoft had sold 9.4 Xboxes at the end of June 2003. Those are official numbers from Nintendo and Microsoft - available from their respective websites.
It seems others have done a good job at refuting you already, I'll just add two quick things:
Ikaruga and Viewtiful Joe are two hard-core games for "real gamers" (as opposed to casual gamers). Ikaruga is a port from the Dreamcast, but is only available on the Gamecube today. Viewtiful Joe is Gamecube exclusive.
Regarding $99... that has been planned since when the Dolphin project started. Check the web - you can even find hints at it in interviews with NOA's _former_ boss. Nintendo doesn't do things in panic - they're doing all to well for that. The Gamecube hardware was meant to be cheap - and now, at $99, they're killing the competition.
(Nintendo doesn't sell things at a loss, so, manufacturing costs had to come down before they could lower the price. You can actually find interviews with them regarding the cut to $99 where they said that had wanted to do this already in spring but the manufacturing cost wasn't low enough then)
Really. If you want to claim I'm clueless - wear some big bad boots...:)
The games-part of Sony is about just the only one supplying them with money. Nintendo has 8 billion dollars in the bank and have a positive cashflow. Their first ever loss was due to the weak dollar - since that's now adjusted for they'll keep on making money.
Hanging by a thread? Really - why post when you don't know what you're talking about. Guess why they were voted one of Japan's most successful companies ever... ?
Now consider Microsoft - losing money on the Xbox, only making money on Office and Windows. If there's any one company of these three that's going to stop making consoles it's Microsoft.
1) Nintendo has sold more Gamecubes than Microsoft has sold Xboxes. Official numbers are available from Nintendo and Microsoft.
2) The top selling games for the GC are outselling the top selling games for Xbox. There's nothing to do about PS2 and GBA.
3) Several multiplatform games sold better on the Gamecube than other consoles, and for a hard core gamer there are several exclusive non-Nintendo titles not found on Xbox or PS2.
4) In Europe, the average buyer of a Gamecube at launch was 23 years old. Mature games like Resident Evil sold above Capcom's expectations.
I can back up everything above, it's easier if you just admit to being clueless and posted what you _thought_ was true.
Yep I'm Swedish. In technical situations of course geosync is what you say - but quite often in litterature directed towards laymen Clarke is mentioned and "Clarke orbit" is used.
Everyone borrows from everyone, there's seldom any inventions done that doesn't rely upon earlier work.
I wrote: You can search Freenet _exactly_ in the same way you can search the World Wide Web.... that's spidered indexes. It does seem like people here don't even know that that's how www search engines work.
I think TFE and YoYo are good enough for the FProxy frontpage - you can reach spidered indexes through them.
When you install Freenet and go to your local gateway-page there are not one but two search engines linked. That's how you search WWW - that's how you search Freenet.
Or do you know of a way to search the World Wide Web that does not include using servers which have spidered the content? Please let me know.
Jon Johansen did not break CSS, and it's not a hard crypto. He wrote the gui for an application using a normal decryption key. CSS _has_ been broken cryptogaphically, and has about 2^16 complexity. It's not even worth being called a crypto.
You can search Freenet _exactly_ in the same way you can search the World Wide Web. If you use a messageboard/filesharing application on top of Freenet (like Frost) you can search with a nice little search box per board or in all of them.
But please, why not post uninformed opinions on Slashdot and get modded up as Insightful:)
The only consoles ever to have been sold at a loss are the Dreamcast, Saturn and Xbox.
Congratulations, you've fallen for a myth. Guess why the Gamecube is so "simple" to manufacture (come on, open it up)? So it can sell at $99 without Nintendo taking a hit...
Microsoft on the other hand, pay big dollars to nVidia and Intel on each and every Xbox.
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Because the US is a threat to the free world.
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I'm neo-liberal btw, but according to ignorant US citizens I guess everyone not in the US is a "commie"
The above sounds totally fabricated. FINAL SOLUTION is a giveaway ...
You _really_ need to read about the outside world sometime. Companies _are_ doing this - and the law is at this very moment getting harsher in a lot of places because of it. The market is _huge_.
What's wrong with FProxy for that part, Frost for the other part and ...
What you just wrote was equivalent to: "Except for the fact that TCP/IP has no GUI..."
no one's going to make a business of selling people kits to solder into their settops
Why not, considering it was a huge market for DVD players (mine's chipped) and has been and definitely is when it comes to games consoles.
In short, you're wrong.
Digital services have been hacked for a very long time in Europe, I don't see what would be different across the atlantic.
You know, rewriting smartcard content can get you really far - and there's nog such thing as a bug free program/smartcard.
All those issues are already solved.
Freenet
3000 .. and of those, not that many were American. Compared to that, more innocent Afghan peasants who haven't got a clue as to who bin Laden is, or even that he was in their country, have been killed by american forces.
Wee. War heroes. Cheer.
Why should I care about sales in the US more than worldwide sales? (I'm not from the US)
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The Gamecube is not doing poorly, and it's interesting to see you think it is just because it's slightly behind the Xbox in the US. The world does not revolve around the US, I promise you
Nintendo are making heaploads of money on the GC and their first party games, thus, neither Nintendo nor the GC is doing "poorly". Now, what part of that have _you_ problems understanding?
US pilots scouted for Saddam when he gassed the Kurds.
Learn history _before_ attacking those who do already.
You're really clueless. The 80000 figure was an error from the reporting agency, Nintendo corrected it to 800000 days after. Maybe you should only talk about things you know?
Nintendo had sold 9.55M Gamecubes end of March 2003. Microsoft had sold 9.4 Xboxes at the end of June 2003. Those are official numbers from Nintendo and Microsoft - available from their respective websites.
Now go hide under a rock, really.
It seems others have done a good job at refuting you already, I'll just add two quick things:
... that has been planned since when the Dolphin project started. Check the web - you can even find hints at it in interviews with NOA's _former_ boss. Nintendo doesn't do things in panic - they're doing all to well for that. The Gamecube hardware was meant to be cheap - and now, at $99, they're killing the competition.
... :)
Ikaruga and Viewtiful Joe are two hard-core games for "real gamers" (as opposed to casual gamers). Ikaruga is a port from the Dreamcast, but is only available on the Gamecube today. Viewtiful Joe is Gamecube exclusive.
Regarding $99
(Nintendo doesn't sell things at a loss, so, manufacturing costs had to come down before they could lower the price. You can actually find interviews with them regarding the cut to $99 where they said that had wanted to do this already in spring but the manufacturing cost wasn't low enough then)
Really. If you want to claim I'm clueless - wear some big bad boots
Now go Google.
The games-part of Sony is about just the only one supplying them with money. Nintendo has 8 billion dollars in the bank and have a positive cashflow. Their first ever loss was due to the weak dollar - since that's now adjusted for they'll keep on making money.
... ?
Hanging by a thread? Really - why post when you don't know what you're talking about. Guess why they were voted one of Japan's most successful companies ever
Now consider Microsoft - losing money on the Xbox, only making money on Office and Windows. If there's any one company of these three that's going to stop making consoles it's Microsoft.
1) Nintendo has sold more Gamecubes than Microsoft has sold Xboxes. Official numbers are available from Nintendo and Microsoft.
2) The top selling games for the GC are outselling the top selling games for Xbox. There's nothing to do about PS2 and GBA.
3) Several multiplatform games sold better on the Gamecube than other consoles, and for a hard core gamer there are several exclusive non-Nintendo titles not found on Xbox or PS2.
4) In Europe, the average buyer of a Gamecube at launch was 23 years old. Mature games like Resident Evil sold above Capcom's expectations.
I can back up everything above, it's easier if you just admit to being clueless and posted what you _thought_ was true.
Built in compression maybe? I agree that 64Mbit (8 Megabyte) is a bit small. Zelda : Ocarina of Time is 32 Megabyte (256 Mbit)
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Translations between Megabyte and Mbit not meant for you Tom - I know you know the difference
The largest N64 game is 512-megabit (64MBs) -- titles like Resident Evil 2 and Silicon Knights' forthcoming Eternal Darkness put that baby to use.
http://ign64.ign.com/mail/2000-10-09.html
Maybe it's a 64 _Megabyte_ flash?
Nintendo's shaky position in the console game
Nintendo's position in the console game is extremely strong. They're collecting heaploads of money on the GBA and on games for the GC.
Yep I'm Swedish. In technical situations of course geosync is what you say - but quite often in litterature directed towards laymen Clarke is mentioned and "Clarke orbit" is used.
Everyone borrows from everyone, there's seldom any inventions done that doesn't rely upon earlier work.
Actually its nickname _is_ "Clarke orbit" and has been for as long as I can remember.
I wrote: You can search Freenet _exactly_ in the same way you can search the World Wide Web. ... that's spidered indexes. It does seem like people here don't even know that that's how www search engines work.
I think TFE and YoYo are good enough for the FProxy frontpage - you can reach spidered indexes through them.
When you install Freenet and go to your local gateway-page there are not one but two search engines linked. That's how you search WWW - that's how you search Freenet.
Or do you know of a way to search the World Wide Web that does not include using servers which have spidered the content? Please let me know.
Jon Johansen did not break CSS, and it's not a hard crypto. He wrote the gui for an application using a normal decryption key. CSS _has_ been broken cryptogaphically, and has about 2^16 complexity. It's not even worth being called a crypto.
... another uninformed person getting modded as Insightful.
... and there are others.
Pray tell - how do you search the regular World Wide Web?
Via som sort of service that knows webcontent since it spidered it - right?
Guess what Dolphin's Freenet Index is
So, no - I know perfectly well what I'm talking about. Freenet is just as searchable as the World Wide Web. Exactly.
You can search Freenet _exactly_ in the same way you can search the World Wide Web. If you use a messageboard/filesharing application on top of Freenet (like Frost) you can search with a nice little search box per board or in all of them.
:)
But please, why not post uninformed opinions on Slashdot and get modded up as Insightful
The only consoles ever to have been sold at a loss are the Dreamcast, Saturn and Xbox.
...
Congratulations, you've fallen for a myth. Guess why the Gamecube is so "simple" to manufacture (come on, open it up)? So it can sell at $99 without Nintendo taking a hit
Microsoft on the other hand, pay big dollars to nVidia and Intel on each and every Xbox.