I'm late to the party here and I'm terribly sorry if what I'm about to say has already been said... I just need to say this.
Goddamn, analysts are dumb!
"Nintendo has not only increased the size of the market, but it has also re-segmented it in its own favor, in our view," Mitchell wrote. "Nintendo is dominating software sales on its popular hardware platforms, leaving the publishers with a smaller slice of an only somewhat incrementally larger pie."
So, apparently Nintendo is not only adding new people to the market, but they are killing all the old ones
Also, it is apparently Nintendo's fault that 3rd parties refuse to do something original, rather than slapping Wii controls onto a PS2 port and calling it good. Next I suppose it will be Nintendo's fault that publishers do heap piles and piles of shovelware onto the DS and Wii in the hopes of making a quick buck. Absolutely ridiculous.
You have to hand it to the RIAA. That is a brilliant business model. By claiming these royalties and "holding on to them" until the artist pays a fee to receive what is rightfully theirs, the RIAA is essentially getting an interest free loan from every artist that gets net radio play. ON TOP OF THAT, the artists have to PAY the RIAA in order to be compensated for the loan (on which the artists collect no interest)! That my friends, is the best money making scheme I have ever seen. Ever. Just beautiful. From a businessman's point of view, it brings a tear to my eye.
I always thought it was fascinating how nature has been able to "grow" super computers (our closest analog to brains) and we have been unable to build anything even close to emulating their capabilities. Perhaps, there is a limitation to a mind's ability to understand how itself works. I think that if a person were to have absolute knowledge of how his or her own mind worked, it may just drive that person to madness when he or she realizes the mechanics of it reduce his or her thoughts and actions to meaninglessness (that is, thought may just be a huge if/then/else process, completely mathematically predictable).
"It uses a programmed pattern of rapid plasma events to create a sort of wall of bright lights and reports (bangs) over the coverage area," says Keith Braun of the US Army's Advanced Energy Armaments Systems Division at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, US, where the system is being tested.
So.... they've invented fireworks, then. Finally. I mean, the Chinese military has had access to fireworks technology since the freakin' Han Dynasty! Glad to see our boys in blue are getting with the times!
A. Flies do not "happily" buzz around inside running microwaves. Not for long anyways.
B. Do not lump "vegans" in with "deluded hippies." It is not our fault PETA paid some assclown to burn down animal testing facilities and spray paint VEGAN POWER on the ashes. The majority of vegans are not stupid protest mongering hippies.
I don't know what I hate more... People who take advantage of eye-catching events in order to push their own agenda without bothering to research and check facts....
I'll be all over this when the drive sizes start approaching 100GB. Seems perfect for a laptop. Maybe I'm just hard on my stuff, but my laptop drives are always, always fucking up.
Actually it's because misinformed soccer moms and their ilk treat him like he is relevant. He doesn't get on to CNN because they think it'll be a big draw from the gaming crowd.
When a moron like Jack Thompson is allowed to toss frivolous lawsuits at every man woman and child that says or does something he doesn't like. I'd think all this horse-shit he keeps pulling would bite him in the ass, but it never does.
Recycling adds more steps. Paper must be collected, cleaned, shredded and treated chemically before it can then be turned into a paper that is generally of lesser quality than the original whence it came. The treatment of paper to be turned into more paper uses more chemical processing than the original paper did, and on top of that it actually costs more to recycle paper than to make new stuff.
Trees are good. That's hard to dispute. I like trees. Most paper, though, doesn't come from the majestic oaks and redwoods. You won't see clearcutting of virgin timber to make greeting cards. Paper is generally made from pulpwood. Pulp comes from softer wood trees like the pine. These trees grow relatively quickly. Longleaf pines grow quickly and easily enough that they are actually farmed. Land is set aside for the growing of pine trees. These trees grow, are cut down for goods, and then more are grown in their place.
Waste paper... not all of it is burned in incinerators. In fact, a good deal of waste paper winds up in landfills which, despite their bad rap, actually aren't so bad these days either. A good deal of them produce natural gas, for instance. Any paper that is burned... well... Any carbon and oxygen that is in that paper was captured from the tree the paper was made from. Thus when you burn it, there is neither a net gain or loss of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Actually... The process of recycling paper is worse for the environment than simply "harvesting" new paper is. On top of that, creating more demand for new paper creates more demand for... you guessed it, trees! The majority of trees cut down to make paper are replaced by new trees (via reforestation, or tree farming).
What is going to happen when distributed computing applications "flood the market" and PS3 owners have several organizations vying for their machine's idle time? How many people, confounded by so many choices, will simply choose to donate no computing time at all?
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I'm late to the party here and I'm terribly sorry if what I'm about to say has already been said... I just need to say this.
Goddamn, analysts are dumb!
"Nintendo has not only increased the size of the market, but it has also re-segmented it in its own favor, in our view," Mitchell wrote. "Nintendo is dominating software sales on its popular hardware platforms, leaving the publishers with a smaller slice of an only somewhat incrementally larger pie."So, apparently Nintendo is not only adding new people to the market, but they are killing all the old ones
Also, it is apparently Nintendo's fault that 3rd parties refuse to do something original, rather than slapping Wii controls onto a PS2 port and calling it good. Next I suppose it will be Nintendo's fault that publishers do heap piles and piles of shovelware onto the DS and Wii in the hopes of making a quick buck. Absolutely ridiculous.
You have to hand it to the RIAA. That is a brilliant business model. By claiming these royalties and "holding on to them" until the artist pays a fee to receive what is rightfully theirs, the RIAA is essentially getting an interest free loan from every artist that gets net radio play. ON TOP OF THAT, the artists have to PAY the RIAA in order to be compensated for the loan (on which the artists collect no interest)! That my friends, is the best money making scheme I have ever seen. Ever. Just beautiful. From a businessman's point of view, it brings a tear to my eye.
I always thought it was fascinating how nature has been able to "grow" super computers (our closest analog to brains) and we have been unable to build anything even close to emulating their capabilities. Perhaps, there is a limitation to a mind's ability to understand how itself works. I think that if a person were to have absolute knowledge of how his or her own mind worked, it may just drive that person to madness when he or she realizes the mechanics of it reduce his or her thoughts and actions to meaninglessness (that is, thought may just be a huge if/then/else process, completely mathematically predictable).
That mission collected samples from the Solar Wind. It didn't even go to the sun, much less retrieve samples of Solar Atmosphere.
Too bad we can't just fly up to the sun and take a sample, eh?
Whoops. Boys in Blue is police, isn't it? My bad.
So.... they've invented fireworks, then. Finally. I mean, the Chinese military has had access to fireworks technology since the freakin' Han Dynasty! Glad to see our boys in blue are getting with the times!
If this were true... Shouldn't we see some black holes spitting out extradimensional spaghetti noodles?
I would like to draw your attention to this highly relevant graph on Global Warming.
A. Flies do not "happily" buzz around inside running microwaves. Not for long anyways.
B. Do not lump "vegans" in with "deluded hippies." It is not our fault PETA paid some assclown to burn down animal testing facilities and spray paint VEGAN POWER on the ashes. The majority of vegans are not stupid protest mongering hippies.
I don't know what I hate more... People who take advantage of eye-catching events in order to push their own agenda without bothering to research and check facts....
Or bees.
It was software; in cyberspace. There was no system core; it could not be shutdown. The attack began at 6:18 PM, just as he said it would...
I'll be all over this when the drive sizes start approaching 100GB. Seems perfect for a laptop. Maybe I'm just hard on my stuff, but my laptop drives are always, always fucking up.
Oh man... that makes me wonder what kind of sneaky stuff Sony might be planning with this video service.
The Bush Administration is having a hard time damming up that anti-war river, huh? :P
When I first heard they were bucking World War II with Call of Duty 4, I assumed that meant the new setting was Hoth.
Glad to see I was wrong!
This is not the first time Kaz has replaced Ken. Remember, remember, the 30th of November
Actually it's because misinformed soccer moms and their ilk treat him like he is relevant. He doesn't get on to CNN because they think it'll be a big draw from the gaming crowd.
When a moron like Jack Thompson is allowed to toss frivolous lawsuits at every man woman and child that says or does something he doesn't like. I'd think all this horse-shit he keeps pulling would bite him in the ass, but it never does.
Recycling adds more steps. Paper must be collected, cleaned, shredded and treated chemically before it can then be turned into a paper that is generally of lesser quality than the original whence it came. The treatment of paper to be turned into more paper uses more chemical processing than the original paper did, and on top of that it actually costs more to recycle paper than to make new stuff.
Trees are good. That's hard to dispute. I like trees. Most paper, though, doesn't come from the majestic oaks and redwoods. You won't see clearcutting of virgin timber to make greeting cards. Paper is generally made from pulpwood. Pulp comes from softer wood trees like the pine. These trees grow relatively quickly. Longleaf pines grow quickly and easily enough that they are actually farmed. Land is set aside for the growing of pine trees. These trees grow, are cut down for goods, and then more are grown in their place.
Waste paper... not all of it is burned in incinerators. In fact, a good deal of waste paper winds up in landfills which, despite their bad rap, actually aren't so bad these days either. A good deal of them produce natural gas, for instance. Any paper that is burned... well... Any carbon and oxygen that is in that paper was captured from the tree the paper was made from. Thus when you burn it, there is neither a net gain or loss of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Actually... The process of recycling paper is worse for the environment than simply "harvesting" new paper is. On top of that, creating more demand for new paper creates more demand for... you guessed it, trees! The majority of trees cut down to make paper are replaced by new trees (via reforestation, or tree farming).
Do you think people will ever get tired of hearing/saying that?
British Board of Film Classification confirms what gamers have known for years! More at 11.
What is going to happen when distributed computing applications "flood the market" and PS3 owners have several organizations vying for their machine's idle time? How many people, confounded by so many choices, will simply choose to donate no computing time at all?
Really? Because I bought one. And I'm 22. And I love it.