Sounds like autocad R14 or whatever the one right before autocad2000 was.
Mine came with a little red hardware key.
'Course it came in a pack of software I had to buy, including mathematica, matlab, msoffice, and some others, for $500, so that was well below retail price.
My chemistry teacher last semester pulled this one:
He had a couple of gasses in class, one of which was helium, and the other was a heavier-than-air gas, bromide something, I believe. To show us both how vibration worked, and something about gas laws, he sucked down first some helium, which we've all done, and know that it makes your voice very high. Then he sucked down some heavier-than-air gas, and his voice became very low. Then he had a girl in the class do the same thing.
We at least remember what it was like to have to *buy* a cd!
Slashdot lame reply response (TM) almost kicked in here. I was about to say "Hey, I still buy CD's. In fact, I've bought CD's of bands I've found through P2P networks!", but then I realized, No. No I haven't. The last CD I bought was Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up!, which came out late last summer. I buy about a CD every 6 months.
Yeah, I don't buy CD's anymore, unless they're from a band at a show - Now that's something I have done - gone to a show of a band I found on P2P. But, you know, fuck the RIAA.
My girlfriend likes the following games: The Sims, Alpha Centuari, Civ II, Neverwinter Nights, Final Fantasy 9. There may be others, but this is what I know.
As far as I can tell, The Sims is really popular with girls. But then, those chicks don't have huge boobs. Mabey there's something to be said about the fact that in The Sims, you play as a mother figure who takes the trash out and cooks dinner, while getting people up for work/school. 'Course, then again, in Alleyway, you play as a platform you move around the bottom of the screen to bounce the ball... Sometimes a cigar..
In his situation, I think it would have been cool for him to just pull the plug, stand there wearing a metallica shirt, with his middle digit in the air, and give a big "ef you" to the world.
I mean, if he went to the music industry and said "Fine. It's shut off. But I started a revolution. Try and stop it now." he'd be a hero.
Of course, he would still be broke as a joke.
Think about it, though. There have been people to change music. Buddy Holly, Jimi Hindrix, Bach, Heinrich Hertz, Alexandar Grahm Bell... And then Shawn Fanning. Who in the last 10 years has changed the way we think about music more? We now have more choice at lower cost. I've found plenty of bands online that i've bought their CD and wouldn't have if not for file sharing.
2002-09-30 14:53:50 RedHat 8.0 is publicly available (articles,redhat) (rejected)
And I'm sure I'm one of thousands. Hey, let's not post the release until we have downloaded and tried it out! Don't want to slashdot ourselves off of ftp.dulug.duke.edu!
Well, I used to know where it was. Somewhere on microsoft.com, there was a list of key terms related to the web, and the "slashdot effect" was a key term. Yep, on Microsoft's webpage, it mentioned that the slashdot effect was when a page gets a lot of hits shortly after being posted on a popular news site. The term was thought to have come from a news site slashdot.org, or something...
The two towers were Orthanc and Minas Morgoul. I don't have the book with me to check spelling, but they are NOT, repeat NOT Orthanc and Barad-dur, as a previous trailer had stated.
The events of the 3rd and 4th books in the 2nd volume in the six book long novel entitled the lord of the rings deal with the dealings with sarumon the white, his orcs, his seige of Helm's Deep, Gandalf's confrontation with him, and the recovering of mary and pippen (3rd book) and the trials of Frodo and Sam as they pass into the land of mordor, via the pass of Cirith Ungol, in the tower of Minas Morgual, which used to be minas anor? I believe, which is one of the two remaining strongholds of the city of Osgalith, the other (directly across the river, with osgalith in between) being Minas Tirith (4th book).
It's hard to argue that something sucks when it's free and being compared to something that's not free.
However, I'd use photoshop anyday over gimp, based on the interface alone, without even going into the capabilities. The photoshop palette windows (or whatever they're called) are fantastic, easy to use, useful. The menu system isn't convoluted. It looks like the rest of the operating system. It looks like one app, with a common workspace. Gimp - it looks like a bad port of a worse linux interface. Come on, use windows menus and styles. It doesn't seem like one application, with all of the different windows, most of which are useless. Don't tell me it's a Linux app, if you want it to be better than photoshop, we have to go with the app that uses the same OS as photoshop.
Then there's the text editing capabilities. You can do so much more in PS 6 with text than in Gimp - balloon, scrunch, drop shadow with a click, outline, gradient overlay, pattern overlay, inner shadow, etc. In gimp, well, you can resize text.
And don't display articles about professionals using gimp over photoshop that are from sourceforge and gnomedesktop. That's equivilant to a link to a slashdot editorial proclaiming how popular linux is. Go out and buy a graphics art design magazine at borders. They talk about photoshop and nothing else, because it is the industry standard. There is nothing in the graphics art world that needs doing that photoshop does not do that gimp does. Gimp has a selection of the features that make photoshop great, implemented poorly.
Gimp is not, and never was intended to be a photoshop replacement. I'm not saying it's a bad program. Actually, for being free, it's very nice. But don't compare it to photoshop. If you think gimp is better than photoshop, you've never done any graphics art design.
1.) Students pay for network access with a technology fee.
2.) You can't get outside private ISP's, or at least, you couldn't in my dorm. There were digital phone lines (no DSL or modem - plug up your computer and it's hosed), and you couldn't get cable modem (Cable contracted from one company, no way to turn on individual cable connections per room, cable done as one big loop - if anyone ordered payperview, everyone on campus got it).
Once, i made the mistake of suggesting to a listserv that deals with campus bandwidth that instead of limiting the on campus people plus modem pool people (~11,000 people) to 45% of the T-3 line, they should just buy more bandwidth. Boy did I get flamed by the network admins. They don't / can't get more bandwidth, but they are unwilling to concede that at 7pm on campus, it takes a couple of minutes to load any page online, and that some file downloading / uploading is legal. It's how I got UT2003-demo, for example.
Suggesting an admin spend money on bandwidth instead of some wacky packet shaper or totalitarian ruleset is apt to get you screamed at. But these people have a monopoly on internet connection. I say that, and it's not a bad price (ethernet for like $46/semester), but the rules are completely whacko.
So i read most of the chick site, and that guy is really off the deep end.
What's amazing to me is: http://www.chick.com/catalog/books/0179.asp This book, which appears to be a rebuttal of wicca, casting it as a satanic ritual. Of course, the source for this is a man who, through 16 years of wicca, came to it's higher levels. Guy's name is Bill Schnoebelen.
Now, that in it's self isn't amazing. What's amazing is that this same guy, Bill Schnoebelen, somehow, in the same lifetime, managed to make it to the 32nd level of masonry. See for yourself here... http://www.chick.com/catalog/books/0193.a sp Now, it says on both accounts that he came out of each religion to awaken to the love of Jesus Christ. Well, I don't think you can have it both ways. I mean, if he left one for jesus, woudn't he have to renounce jesus in order to become the next religion, and then be able to leave it for jesus? Or, was he both Wiccan and Masonic at the same time?
Seems more likely that he doesn't exist. Or, if he does exist, why trust religious persuasions from a guy who has been both a 16 year wiccan priest and a 32nd level mason, before becomming a christian?
Mathematics is an exact science. Mathematics and Mathematical logic and truth is never wrong.
Math is a language. Math only makes sense in terms of it's self. Truth is for philosophers, not mathemeticians. Math deals in facts, which can only be useful in terms of other math situations.
I think attending school now was the best decision I've made, because now I want to be here, and I know what I want to study.
I agree completely. This is one of the best posts I've ever read on slashdot.
I started to become dissalusioned with High School (public school) my senior year. A.P. Computer Science was a joke, so I stopped caring. I made a 4 on the AP test with out ever looking at the case study. My grades in the class: AAB B(exam), then CDD F(exam). I didn't care. I was ready to be out of school. I was one of the smartest kids in school. I wanted to get to college, to get on with life.
So I go to college, start working on an electrical engineering degree. Freshman year. All of a sudden, I'm not the smart kid anymore. I realize, hey, I've got to study. Then, I started studying. I realized what I'm doing sucks. I hate it. I don't want to be an enginner for the rest of my life! Where's the creativity? Where's the fun? Is it all deadlines and straight lines? Do I really have to write my letters 3/4 of one square high, in "small caps" on engineering graph paper? So I stopped going to class. I failed most things, or didn't do very well.
After my first year, I was on Academic Suspension, with my 1.67 GPA. No school for a year for me. So I went home. I became fiercely independant, swearing up and down that college was useless, and I was going to do for myself. I got an apartment that was costing me $365 a month in rent (my part), sharing it with a guy who I barely knew, and paying for everything myself. I went back to my old job full time, working at Best Buy. I was making $10.50/hr. This is good money for someone in central Virginia who is 19. Then the bottom fell out. My girlfriend dumped me cause I had no ambition. My roommate started growing Marijuana. I moved out cause I didn't want any part of it, but I was still responsible for my part of the rent. I moved back in with my parents. I began to hate my job. I hated working nights, working ALL weekends, closing friday night until 1:30 AM, and then being back at 7AM sat. I HATED retail. I hated lying to people to make them buy useless shit.
So I went back to college, with no plan of study in mind. I was lost, but I wanted something. I needed a degree. Then I really found something that I loved. I just figured, I watch enough of the History channel, why not major in History? So that's what I'm doing, and I plan to be a high school history teacher. I'm having so much fun, I have new friends and a new girlfriend, life is great. I'm tracking to go to education gradschool after I get my history undergrad. I'm facinated by everything I'm doing.
Now, my job here is Unix network administration. I like the job. But I certainly don't want to do it all my life. This is something that I think slashdot kids need to think about. Just cause you're the computer whiz doesn't mean you're going to have to do computer stuff when you "grow up". I've been thinking of ways I can use computers to help me teaching. But... find something that makes you happy. Don't do computers "because". Because is the worst reason to spend thousands of dollars and 4-5 years of your life.
See, my boss is in his 2nd return trip to college, while at the same time owning the small webhosting company I work for. He's taking 21 hours this semester, while somehow also working for the school on some research project involving satelites or something.
His solution? Just don't work. Let the other 4 employees do it.
~Will
Re:WotC could lay off because the project is done.
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hrm, i haven't played with it much, but it seems in the single player game that you can have small rooms, like little cells and bedrooms... mabey there's a way, or... I don't know. I've just been very impressed with the single player thus far...
Come on. Do you expect windows 95 to know what that soundblaster live is? Then get a current linux distro. Red Hat 7.3 autodetects all that stuff. And the tulip driver? That and the 8139 are the most common drivers i've seen. The 8139 works for almost everything the tulip doesn't. And both are included with almost all linux distro's today.
If you're still living with XF86Config, you need to upgrade versions. Some great things have been going on. links -source http://go-gnome.org |bash - linux is doing a lot of stuff on it's own, and some of them have good GUI control panels now.
Yes, but Sony makes a lot more on the hardware than Microsoft ever hoped to. Think about the origional PSX - sold in one itteration for, what, 8 years? 1 in 4 American households has one. I have 3, I've worn out the lasers on two of them. Microsoft, last I heard, was still selling X-Box under cost, expecting to make it up in games royalties, which appearantly are much higher than any other system, cause the developers don't have to work as hard to produce games (windows ce ports).
With sony, I think that they take a much smaller chunk of royalty for PS and PS2 games than Microsoft takes for X-box games. But, also, sony has a much higher stake in movies than in games. The same people that buy an operating system every 3 years, and a game every other month, will buy 2 or 3 DVD's per month.
I'm not saying they don't care about the money. I'm just saying they have their priorities in order. Sony seems to be a well run company, on the track to make good profit for quite a while, and in the meantime, still produce a good product.
Plus, when you sell as many copies of games as sony does, you can afford a little attrition: How many Tekken Tags or Final Fantasy X's or GTA 3's were sold? It's a lot, I can tell you that, more than X-Box games.
And also, I hate the X-box. Because of the reason microsoft got into the market: only to cash in, not to make quality games. Because of the lack of good games for it. Because of the controllers.
~Will
~Will
Re:Preserve the genre? Is my old copy of Chainmail
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An RPG is nothing but a set of rules, a framework, around which a campaign is built. The rules have already been published. If people wish to play D&D they will continue to play D&D no matter what the hell happens at or to WotC.
I agree, but what about Magic: The Gathering? I'm much more fond of not buying a new set of cards every 3 months, but some people are. The rules for magic are set out, but they keep adapting them and adding things to them, at the same time adding new concept cards and series.
Is magic affected? I assume it's their cash cow, but...
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Sounds like autocad R14 or whatever the one right before autocad2000 was.
Mine came with a little red hardware key.
'Course it came in a pack of software I had to buy, including mathematica, matlab, msoffice, and some others, for $500, so that was well below retail price.
~Will
My chemistry teacher last semester pulled this one:
He had a couple of gasses in class, one of which was helium, and the other was a heavier-than-air gas, bromide something, I believe. To show us both how vibration worked, and something about gas laws, he sucked down first some helium, which we've all done, and know that it makes your voice very high. Then he sucked down some heavier-than-air gas, and his voice became very low. Then he had a girl in the class do the same thing.
Interesting.
We at least remember what it was like to have to *buy* a cd!
Slashdot lame reply response (TM) almost kicked in here. I was about to say "Hey, I still buy CD's. In fact, I've bought CD's of bands I've found through P2P networks!", but then I realized, No. No I haven't. The last CD I bought was Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up!, which came out late last summer. I buy about a CD every 6 months.
Yeah, I don't buy CD's anymore, unless they're from a band at a show - Now that's something I have done - gone to a show of a band I found on P2P. But, you know, fuck the RIAA.
~Will
My girlfriend likes the following games:
The Sims, Alpha Centuari, Civ II, Neverwinter Nights, Final Fantasy 9. There may be others, but this is what I know.
As far as I can tell, The Sims is really popular with girls. But then, those chicks don't have huge boobs. Mabey there's something to be said about the fact that in The Sims, you play as a mother figure who takes the trash out and cooks dinner, while getting people up for work/school. 'Course, then again, in Alleyway, you play as a platform you move around the bottom of the screen to bounce the ball... Sometimes a cigar..
~Will
1.) Sell Perl Journal Subscriptions
2.) ?????
3.) Profit!
No, seriously, I can't blame you. "It's not much money" arguements don't hold water with me, they add up too quick.
~wx
In his situation, I think it would have been cool for him to just pull the plug, stand there wearing a metallica shirt, with his middle digit in the air, and give a big "ef you" to the world.
I mean, if he went to the music industry and said "Fine. It's shut off. But I started a revolution. Try and stop it now." he'd be a hero.
Of course, he would still be broke as a joke.
Think about it, though. There have been people to change music. Buddy Holly, Jimi Hindrix, Bach, Heinrich Hertz, Alexandar Grahm Bell... And then Shawn Fanning. Who in the last 10 years has changed the way we think about music more? We now have more choice at lower cost. I've found plenty of bands online that i've bought their CD and wouldn't have if not for file sharing.
~Will
2002-09-30 14:53:50 RedHat 8.0 is publicly available (articles,redhat) (rejected)
And I'm sure I'm one of thousands. Hey, let's not post the release until we have downloaded and tried it out! Don't want to slashdot ourselves off of ftp.dulug.duke.edu!
~w
Well, I used to know where it was. Somewhere on microsoft.com, there was a list of key terms related to the web, and the "slashdot effect" was a key term. Yep, on Microsoft's webpage, it mentioned that the slashdot effect was when a page gets a lot of hits shortly after being posted on a popular news site. The term was thought to have come from a news site slashdot.org, or something...
~WIll
happy birthday!
~Will
Also, note to film makers:
The two towers were Orthanc and Minas Morgoul. I don't have the book with me to check spelling, but they are NOT, repeat NOT Orthanc and Barad-dur, as a previous trailer had stated.
The events of the 3rd and 4th books in the 2nd volume in the six book long novel entitled the lord of the rings deal with the dealings with sarumon the white, his orcs, his seige of Helm's Deep, Gandalf's confrontation with him, and the recovering of mary and pippen (3rd book) and the trials of Frodo and Sam as they pass into the land of mordor, via the pass of Cirith Ungol, in the tower of Minas Morgual, which used to be minas anor? I believe, which is one of the two remaining strongholds of the city of Osgalith, the other (directly across the river, with osgalith in between) being Minas Tirith (4th book).
Silly movie.
Yes, and no.
It's hard to argue that something sucks when it's free and being compared to something that's not free.
However, I'd use photoshop anyday over gimp, based on the interface alone, without even going into the capabilities.
The photoshop palette windows (or whatever they're called) are fantastic, easy to use, useful. The menu system isn't convoluted. It looks like the rest of the operating system. It looks like one app, with a common workspace.
Gimp - it looks like a bad port of a worse linux interface. Come on, use windows menus and styles. It doesn't seem like one application, with all of the different windows, most of which are useless. Don't tell me it's a Linux app, if you want it to be better than photoshop, we have to go with the app that uses the same OS as photoshop.
Then there's the text editing capabilities. You can do so much more in PS 6 with text than in Gimp - balloon, scrunch, drop shadow with a click, outline, gradient overlay, pattern overlay, inner shadow, etc. In gimp, well, you can resize text.
And don't display articles about professionals using gimp over photoshop that are from sourceforge and gnomedesktop. That's equivilant to a link to a slashdot editorial proclaiming how popular linux is. Go out and buy a graphics art design magazine at borders. They talk about photoshop and nothing else, because it is the industry standard. There is nothing in the graphics art world that needs doing that photoshop does not do that gimp does. Gimp has a selection of the features that make photoshop great, implemented poorly.
Here are some links to professionals that use photoshop (and I trust these people more than some dude on gnomedesktop): popular photography imaging insider Mac World Mag Fortune Magazine Fotophile.
Gimp is not, and never was intended to be a photoshop replacement. I'm not saying it's a bad program. Actually, for being free, it's very nice. But don't compare it to photoshop. If you think gimp is better than photoshop, you've never done any graphics art design.
~Will
This was covered on fark yesterday. As are most things that aren't about some gadget or a linux kernel, but that are actual things in the news.
You're a brave soul. CNS is going to come after you when you peg their campus-side part of the T-3.
I salute you. I also am thinking about grabbing my laptop and heading over to torgerson to get it locally....
~Will
how about more fun with final fantasy 3 than final fantasy 10? Better story too.
~Will
What linux needs is a device manager.
I want to install a wireless network card and connect to a W-lan. How?
Windows: Insert card, insert drivers CD, click install file, Click yes, reboot.
Linux: Find driver. Check kernel for driver support. Insert module into kernel. Recompile kernel. Burn Incense. Reboot. Hope new kernel works. Edit config files. Reload xinetd. Hope you're magically online.
When linux handles drivers like this, it will be used by government.
~Will
1.) Students pay for network access with a technology fee.
2.) You can't get outside private ISP's, or at least, you couldn't in my dorm. There were digital phone lines (no DSL or modem - plug up your computer and it's hosed), and you couldn't get cable modem (Cable contracted from one company, no way to turn on individual cable connections per room, cable done as one big loop - if anyone ordered payperview, everyone on campus got it).
Once, i made the mistake of suggesting to a listserv that deals with campus bandwidth that instead of limiting the on campus people plus modem pool people (~11,000 people) to 45% of the T-3 line, they should just buy more bandwidth. Boy did I get flamed by the network admins. They don't / can't get more bandwidth, but they are unwilling to concede that at 7pm on campus, it takes a couple of minutes to load any page online, and that some file downloading / uploading is legal. It's how I got UT2003-demo, for example.
Suggesting an admin spend money on bandwidth instead of some wacky packet shaper or totalitarian ruleset is apt to get you screamed at. But these people have a monopoly on internet connection. I say that, and it's not a bad price (ethernet for like $46/semester), but the rules are completely whacko.
~Will
So i read most of the chick site, and that guy is really off the deep end.
This book, which appears to be a rebuttal of wicca, casting it as a satanic ritual. Of course, the source for this is a man who, through 16 years of wicca, came to it's higher levels. Guy's name is Bill Schnoebelen.
a sp
What's amazing to me is:
http://www.chick.com/catalog/books/0179.asp
Now, that in it's self isn't amazing. What's amazing is that this same guy, Bill Schnoebelen, somehow, in the same lifetime, managed to make it to the 32nd level of masonry. See for yourself here...
http://www.chick.com/catalog/books/0193.
Now, it says on both accounts that he came out of each religion to awaken to the love of Jesus Christ. Well, I don't think you can have it both ways. I mean, if he left one for jesus, woudn't he have to renounce jesus in order to become the next religion, and then be able to leave it for jesus? Or, was he both Wiccan and Masonic at the same time?
Seems more likely that he doesn't exist. Or, if he does exist, why trust religious persuasions from a guy who has been both a 16 year wiccan priest and a 32nd level mason, before becomming a christian?
Mathematics is an exact science. Mathematics and Mathematical logic and truth is never wrong.
Math is a language. Math only makes sense in terms of it's self. Truth is for philosophers, not mathemeticians. Math deals in facts, which can only be useful in terms of other math situations.
~Will
I think attending school now was the best decision I've made, because now I want to be here, and I know what I want to study.
... find something that makes you happy. Don't do computers "because". Because is the worst reason to spend thousands of dollars and 4-5 years of your life.
I agree completely. This is one of the best posts I've ever read on slashdot.
I started to become dissalusioned with High School (public school) my senior year. A.P. Computer Science was a joke, so I stopped caring. I made a 4 on the AP test with out ever looking at the case study. My grades in the class: AAB B(exam), then CDD F(exam). I didn't care. I was ready to be out of school. I was one of the smartest kids in school. I wanted to get to college, to get on with life.
So I go to college, start working on an electrical engineering degree. Freshman year. All of a sudden, I'm not the smart kid anymore. I realize, hey, I've got to study. Then, I started studying. I realized what I'm doing sucks. I hate it. I don't want to be an enginner for the rest of my life! Where's the creativity? Where's the fun? Is it all deadlines and straight lines? Do I really have to write my letters 3/4 of one square high, in "small caps" on engineering graph paper? So I stopped going to class. I failed most things, or didn't do very well.
After my first year, I was on Academic Suspension, with my 1.67 GPA. No school for a year for me. So I went home. I became fiercely independant, swearing up and down that college was useless, and I was going to do for myself. I got an apartment that was costing me $365 a month in rent (my part), sharing it with a guy who I barely knew, and paying for everything myself. I went back to my old job full time, working at Best Buy. I was making $10.50/hr. This is good money for someone in central Virginia who is 19. Then the bottom fell out. My girlfriend dumped me cause I had no ambition. My roommate started growing Marijuana. I moved out cause I didn't want any part of it, but I was still responsible for my part of the rent. I moved back in with my parents. I began to hate my job. I hated working nights, working ALL weekends, closing friday night until 1:30 AM, and then being back at 7AM sat. I HATED retail. I hated lying to people to make them buy useless shit.
So I went back to college, with no plan of study in mind. I was lost, but I wanted something. I needed a degree. Then I really found something that I loved. I just figured, I watch enough of the History channel, why not major in History? So that's what I'm doing, and I plan to be a high school history teacher. I'm having so much fun, I have new friends and a new girlfriend, life is great. I'm tracking to go to education gradschool after I get my history undergrad. I'm facinated by everything I'm doing.
Now, my job here is Unix network administration. I like the job. But I certainly don't want to do it all my life. This is something that I think slashdot kids need to think about. Just cause you're the computer whiz doesn't mean you're going to have to do computer stuff when you "grow up". I've been thinking of ways I can use computers to help me teaching. But
~Will
See, my boss is in his 2nd return trip to college, while at the same time owning the small webhosting company I work for. He's taking 21 hours this semester, while somehow also working for the school on some research project involving satelites or something.
His solution? Just don't work. Let the other 4 employees do it.
~Will
hrm, i haven't played with it much, but it seems in the single player game that you can have small rooms, like little cells and bedrooms... mabey there's a way, or ... I don't know. I've just been very impressed with the single player thus far...
~Will
or if they steal to obtain data, there's always the CD Boot into single user mode.
Come on. Do you expect windows 95 to know what that soundblaster live is? Then get a current linux distro. Red Hat 7.3 autodetects all that stuff. And the tulip driver? That and the 8139 are the most common drivers i've seen. The 8139 works for almost everything the tulip doesn't. And both are included with almost all linux distro's today.
If you're still living with XF86Config, you need to upgrade versions. Some great things have been going on. links -source http://go-gnome.org |bash - linux is doing a lot of stuff on it's own, and some of them have good GUI control panels now.
We're getting there
Yes, but Sony makes a lot more on the hardware than Microsoft ever hoped to. Think about the origional PSX - sold in one itteration for, what, 8 years? 1 in 4 American households has one. I have 3, I've worn out the lasers on two of them. Microsoft, last I heard, was still selling X-Box under cost, expecting to make it up in games royalties, which appearantly are much higher than any other system, cause the developers don't have to work as hard to produce games (windows ce ports).
With sony, I think that they take a much smaller chunk of royalty for PS and PS2 games than Microsoft takes for X-box games. But, also, sony has a much higher stake in movies than in games. The same people that buy an operating system every 3 years, and a game every other month, will buy 2 or 3 DVD's per month.
I'm not saying they don't care about the money. I'm just saying they have their priorities in order. Sony seems to be a well run company, on the track to make good profit for quite a while, and in the meantime, still produce a good product.
Plus, when you sell as many copies of games as sony does, you can afford a little attrition: How many Tekken Tags or Final Fantasy X's or GTA 3's were sold? It's a lot, I can tell you that, more than X-Box games.
And also, I hate the X-box. Because of the reason microsoft got into the market: only to cash in, not to make quality games. Because of the lack of good games for it. Because of the controllers.
~Will
~Will
An RPG is nothing but a set of rules, a framework, around which a campaign is built. The rules have already been published. If people wish to play D&D they will continue to play D&D no matter what the hell happens at or to WotC.
I agree, but what about Magic: The Gathering? I'm much more fond of not buying a new set of cards every 3 months, but some people are. The rules for magic are set out, but they keep adapting them and adding things to them, at the same time adding new concept cards and series.
Is magic affected? I assume it's their cash cow, but...
~Will