Remember when Radiohead did that pay-what-you-want scheme?
The one where I paid a fair price in order to support a worthy idea, only to discover that I'd purchased a low bit-rate version of the files that sounded like crap? The one where I didn't even get any album artwork with my purchase? The one where Thom Yorke said afterwards that this was just an experiment, the "proper" version of the album was the CD, because people liked to own a physical product?
Well spotted. In answer to your question, yes, I looked at the article I cited, but my brain glossed over the fact that the figures were entirely meaningless. More fool me for assuming that even Wikipedia wouldn't present quite such worthless data.
Anyhow, thanks for the link to a far more relevant source. But I still can't quite believe that you're arguing that sales figures of 23m, against 33m for the market leader and 14m for the next closest competitor, make the XBox 360 a "failure".
The XBox 360 is currently the most popular console for "hardcore" (i.e. non-casual) gamers. The PS3 will probably begin to catch up, now that it's getting some interesting exclusive titles. Personally, I'd much rather be playing games on PC anyway. But none of this makes the XBox 360 a failure, in the way that so many current Microsoft products are.
The XBox 360 is the most common of the three major consoles in the United States, and the second most common worldwide, by sales figures (source).
Besides, I was merely refuting GPP's assertion that Microsoft is "losing momentum in gaming". I'd hardly call producing the second-most popular console in the world failure.
Of course the XBox doesn't make any profit. Consoles don't, they're sold as a loss-leader. The low prices are intended to lock people into the hardware, while the games and secondary purchases will pull in the dollars later on.
Also, I'd like to see some kind of citation for your claim that "developers are starting to move away". As far as I can tell, the XBox 360 is still by far the most popular hardcore gaming console (much though I prefer to play on a PC personally). Developers aren't known for moving away from where the money is.
Having said that, I've no objection whatsoever to watching Microsoft die, in fact I can't think of a nicer way to spend an afternoon.
Sprinkle in losing momentum in telephony, smartphones, gaming, search, and everything else they got their fingers on.
Whilst I enjoy hating on Microsoft as much as the next guy, and completely agree with the majority of your points, I don't think that having the best-selling games console in the US (second-best worldwide) can be counted as "losing momentum in gaming".
You put forward a well-argued case, but seem to miss the important point that this is the first indication that any type of 3D technology can have an adverse health effect.That makes the findings of far greater general interest, since it suggests that further research into other types of 3D technologies is warranted, to discover what proportion (if any) of them cause similar effects.
Agreed. I don't even use LinkedIn, but I do use SlashDot, and some moron there just had to copy a LinkedIn post from one of his friends saying "taking the kids to [some event]". Who cares?
Factor in the Zombie Intelligence Factor (Z) and the proportion of their time that zombies spend searching for lovely, juicy brains (B), and the revised equations turn out to be: -
Zombie hours: 18XZ x (1 - B)
Man hours: 16X
Even taking highly generous values for these constants, say Z=0.5 and B=0.25, and we're left with: -
Zombie hours: 18X x 0.5 x 0.75 = 6.75X
Man hours: 16X
Clearly the zombies achieve only just over a third as much work as the humans. QED.
No, he said there's "little to add", meaning he has nothing to add to the article to which he posted a link, and then posted the text of the article too except (oddly) missing out the first paragraph.
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Remember when Radiohead did that pay-what-you-want scheme?
The one where I paid a fair price in order to support a worthy idea, only to discover that I'd purchased a low bit-rate version of the files that sounded like crap? The one where I didn't even get any album artwork with my purchase? The one where Thom Yorke said afterwards that this was just an experiment, the "proper" version of the album was the CD, because people liked to own a physical product?
Yeah, I remember that.
He said an amateur, not a woman.
(waits for the flames to fly...)
Oh wait, this is Slashdot!
You only see it if you're logged in. Duh.
Microsoft couldn't get basic speech to text to work reliably
It works fine for me, heaving they let's set so double the killer delete select all. Ah, duck it.
I don't know, that sounds like it could be the next big thing to me.
And the ones stupid enough to accept the crap ACTA will feed on their throat
Damned intellectual property vampires.
Well spotted. In answer to your question, yes, I looked at the article I cited, but my brain glossed over the fact that the figures were entirely meaningless. More fool me for assuming that even Wikipedia wouldn't present quite such worthless data.
Anyhow, thanks for the link to a far more relevant source. But I still can't quite believe that you're arguing that sales figures of 23m, against 33m for the market leader and 14m for the next closest competitor, make the XBox 360 a "failure".
The XBox 360 is currently the most popular console for "hardcore" (i.e. non-casual) gamers. The PS3 will probably begin to catch up, now that it's getting some interesting exclusive titles. Personally, I'd much rather be playing games on PC anyway. But none of this makes the XBox 360 a failure, in the way that so many current Microsoft products are.
The XBox 360 is the most common of the three major consoles in the United States, and the second most common worldwide, by sales figures (source).
Besides, I was merely refuting GPP's assertion that Microsoft is "losing momentum in gaming". I'd hardly call producing the second-most popular console in the world failure.
Pixel Qi + Cortex + Android + MeeGo + Open-Source Hardware + XO Laptop + Arduino
Oh god, I thought you were describing an actual device for a minute there. I think I just had a nerdgasm.
Of course the XBox doesn't make any profit. Consoles don't, they're sold as a loss-leader. The low prices are intended to lock people into the hardware, while the games and secondary purchases will pull in the dollars later on.
Also, I'd like to see some kind of citation for your claim that "developers are starting to move away". As far as I can tell, the XBox 360 is still by far the most popular hardcore gaming console (much though I prefer to play on a PC personally). Developers aren't known for moving away from where the money is.
Having said that, I've no objection whatsoever to watching Microsoft die, in fact I can't think of a nicer way to spend an afternoon.
Sprinkle in losing momentum in telephony, smartphones, gaming, search, and everything else they got their fingers on.
Whilst I enjoy hating on Microsoft as much as the next guy, and completely agree with the majority of your points, I don't think that having the best-selling games console in the US (second-best worldwide) can be counted as "losing momentum in gaming".
If your IDE is defecating at all, I think that's a good sign you need to look around for a new one.
Yeah, they should pay my wife to do it, she's a perfect candidate. One time she asked me if I had, "Turned off the Internet."
And had you? I remember having some problems with it a few weeks back, I wondered whose fault that was.
You put forward a well-argued case, but seem to miss the important point that this is the first indication that any type of 3D technology can have an adverse health effect.That makes the findings of far greater general interest, since it suggests that further research into other types of 3D technologies is warranted, to discover what proportion (if any) of them cause similar effects.
Was "APB: All Points Bulletin" named by "DRGN: The Department of Redundant Game Naming"?
Damn, now I'm not sure whereabouts in your post you stop being serious and start joking.
The Internet is this magazine.
Really? Good lord, I don't remember Byte having this much midget porn.
Would anybody have used those words, even back then?
Agreed. I don't even use LinkedIn, but I do use SlashDot, and some moron there just had to copy a LinkedIn post from one of his friends saying "taking the kids to [some event]". Who cares?
You don't have to be an idiot to get caught by this sort of thing. Just look at Cory Doctorow on Twitter... oh, wait.
Still, it's hardly brain surgery.
Factor in the Zombie Intelligence Factor (Z) and the proportion of their time that zombies spend searching for lovely, juicy brains (B), and the revised equations turn out to be: -
Zombie hours: 18XZ x (1 - B)
Man hours: 16X
Even taking highly generous values for these constants, say Z=0.5 and B=0.25, and we're left with: -
Zombie hours: 18X x 0.5 x 0.75 = 6.75X
Man hours: 16X
Clearly the zombies achieve only just over a third as much work as the humans. QED.
No, he said there's "little to add", meaning he has nothing to add to the article to which he posted a link, and then posted the text of the article too except (oddly) missing out the first paragraph.
Thank heavens - my acid effete matters have been giving me terrible trouble lately, darlings.