My personal hate-example if from the Matrix: "as much power as a 120V battery".
I hate this too, but for different reasons. Even if humans were efficient energy generators, one would be left with the question of how are you feeding them? The movie's explination of feeding the dead to the living completely ignores several laws of physics and just how much food a person consumes in their lifetime.
Of course, all of this stupidity about using humans as power generators could have been avoided if not for the equally stupid background info that humanity permanently blackened the sky to stop the machines.
The Wii simply isn't powerful enough to do everything that big game developers want to do.
The big game developers just want to do one thing - make money. If they determine that the best way to do that is to make games on the Wii, then they will make games on the Wii. Game developers never really wanted to produce super-pretty games (they are very expensive to make after all), but they have been producing graphics intense games because it was seen as the only way to make a top seller; that may be about to change.
there won't be any shifting of resources beyond what was done nearly a year ago when the Wii's sales surprised everyone.
I suppose it depends how you define shifting of resources. Will projects be suddenly moved to the Wii? Probably not. When existing projects are finished will staff be put on to new projects that are for the Wii? Count on it; even if some of those are just mini-game collections.
It's too bad that Sony didn't do this. They might have had a better response if they had.
Yah, but to position it as anything but a game console would have required dropping the Playstation name; adding extra words wouldn't do it, the general public knows that playstations play video games, and would assume that anything with the word playstation was a game player. (PSP is case in point) And I think it goes without saying that the word Playstation has way too much brand recognition for Sony to not use it.
Makes me wish I was a lawyer, but law school would be too long and expensive for me:/
For some reason your comment reminds me of something I read awhile back, how some doctors and lawyers who aren't so happy with their career paths feel trapped because they have invested so much time and money to get in that they feel they can't afford to leave.
I guess that 99.99% of all of the people in this country doesn't give a fuck about road safety
I would guess its more likely that 99.99% of the people can't do a little math and physics, and as such have no concept of how linear increases in speed give diminishing returns with regards to travel time, but expotentionally increase their stopping distance in an emergency.
When my wife and I got married we came up with a clever email address to share that was a play on our names; it seemed like a cool idea, but was utterly useless. I get about one or two (personal) emails a day at most. My wife gets one hundred emails on a slow day. Sharing an account just wasn't feasable (for me).
About two years ago we started a blog "together" and by together I mean I have a blog that she technically has admin rights to. Even when she wants to add something to it, she just prefers to tell me what she wants rather than do it herself.
Tivo is a relatively new thing in our lives, but I can see trouble brewing; when I record something I like to watch it soon after, then erase it. My wife like to record things, but hates to take the time to watch them; she also does not want anything she's recorded to be deleted till she's watched it. Our drive is filling up fast with shows that no one will ever watch.
One final thing we have had an interesting time of is game consoles. Although I have been happy with both our Gamecube and Wii, it has seemed very odd to me that someone who spends at most one hour a month gaming, and then only one game (Mario Party), should have as strong an opinion as my wife has had on our console choices.
Although it's interesting that girls would pick boys dumber than they are to have sex
Just a guess, but what you are seeing on the charts is likely not a result of girls seeking dumber boys, but because of girls seeking older boys. It just looks that way on the chart because the chart shows a single age.
You must live in fantasy land where shipping a console both ways and paying someone by the hour to fix something, all of this at the cost of Microsoft, doesn't cost a thing.
I don't have any knowledge of this situation, but I think I can be pretty sure if the costs you mentioned exceded what it costs Microsoft to build an XBox, they wouldn't repair a single unit; failures would just result in replacements.
Maybe if companies put their EULA/Policies/whatever legal crap they have in PLAIN ENGLISH instead of super complicated legalese then people might actually read the crap.
People are both too stupid and too greedy for this to ever work; if you have ever worked in any kind of customer complaints department you would know this.
I'm sorry but as for terms of sale, anything beyond 'I give you cash, you give me a machine' is complete and utter bullshit.
I for one am quite happy that many of the more expensive items I have bought came with warranties. I take it you have never had anything break down outside of the return period.
Oh and that arbitration thing, its so that they cant get class action lawsuits against them for shit like say... oh I dont know... say an exploding dell laptop.
Man, you either have a horrible memory, or just like to twist everything into anti-Dell. The exploding batteries were made by Sony, and practically every laptop manufacturer on the planet had units out there with them. Dell was the first one to recall the batteries. Bad press for them at the time, but in retrospect more responsible than the companies that waited much, much longer to recall them.
*Please let Jack Thompson call up and start ranting*
*Please let Jack Thompson call up and start ranting*
*Please let Jack Thompson call up and start ranting*
If you think that would be so funny, why don't you call in pretending to be him?
Ironically this deal and others like it have gotten an enormous amount of bad press in Alberta - you'd think we'd be happy to export this crap, but the local media can only see the $$$ lost in not refining it ourselves.
why not mention that it's a ps3 in the headline? is this yet another lame attempt from the powers that be to get more clicks by having misleading/badly writen headlines?
While clearer headlines are nice, come on, the 60GB ps3 has been talked to death here lately
While your point is valid - entertainment dollars are split more ways today than ever, I must disagree with some of you specific examples:
2. Valid when talking about the steady decline of movie goers, but since you are talking about music, I think this likely is a money savings; seeing movies cost people per viewing 30 years ago.
4. On average gasoline prices have not kept pace with inflation
6. Really just a new version of the record player.
...people will still be bitching about "fake CGI" and wishing they could return to the flawless, joyful days of stop-motion, when special effects were indistinguishable from reality!
No they won't, they will have moved on to some other complaint, just as those who complained about the addition of sound or the addition of color eventually went away.
The press conference ended with Reggie Fils-Aimee revealing Nintendo's goal to make videogaming one of the pre-eminent forms of entertainment, across all age groups.
Revealing? They said the same thing last year (and I think they said it two years ago too), but I suspect the number of people who are taking them seriously has increased a hundred fold.
Regardless of the legitimacy of the study, MS most certainly is not hearing anything bad from their customers.
There are some conversations that are just not worth having, and telling a saleperson that you don't plan on renewing your contract because you haven't received the expected value from it is definately one of them. Depending on how big of a client you are, telling MS that they just aren't worth it could mean hundreds or even thousands of hours of them calling to explain again why the only way you will have your computing needs met is through them.
Why is it considered a given that Nintendo will not enter into this price war? As the one company that we know for sure makes a profit on each console, it seems they could most afford to. While some might argue they are already the cheapest, the margin by which they hold that title may soon be eroded. I predict a good size price drop by Nintendo in time for the holidays.
Then send the kid to play outside, with... toy guns and weapons...
When I was a kid my mother wouldn't let me have any toy guns (she actually sent several gifts over the years back to the giver) because she thought this was the magic key to raising an upstanding member of society. Of course, this didn't stop me from playing guns - it just meant that I was known in the neighborhood as the loser who either borrowed a gun from someone else or pretended his hockey stick was gun.
In short: call comcast, ask them to look into it. They've almost always been helpful, through all the various company changes: MediaOne, RoadRunner, etc.
As someone who used to work for Comcast allow me to say rotflmao. Either you are one lucky sob or you are lying.
Just as a matter of example (one among many) during the entire nine months I worked for Comcast the entire state of Illinois never left the outage board. That isn't to say that no one in Illinois ever had a connection, but many people had little or no connection and we were under instruction to do absolutely nothing for anyone from Illinois - just keep BSing them till they gave up.
Earlier this year cbc had a "seven wonders of Canada" contest which produced a list that had one, perhaps two good entries if you were looking for natural wonders and five winners that can only make one go huh?
Mind you, if the commercials cbc was running were any indication of the quality of the entries they received, these may well have been the best entries; I remember one woman in a commercial explaining that the bay of fundy should be on the list for "having the nicest people she'd ever met". (btw if one is doing natural wonders the bay of fundy most certainly is one of the wonders of Canada but that has nothing to do with how nice the people are)
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Then clearly you are not a fan of Futurama. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ure ctum
I hate this too, but for different reasons. Even if humans were efficient energy generators, one would be left with the question of how are you feeding them? The movie's explination of feeding the dead to the living completely ignores several laws of physics and just how much food a person consumes in their lifetime.
Of course, all of this stupidity about using humans as power generators could have been avoided if not for the equally stupid background info that humanity permanently blackened the sky to stop the machines.
I know these ads really bugged me. http://www.nintendolife.com/games/wii/wii_sports/s creenshots/455303ecdbb01
And I don't even know what they're for. ;)
The big game developers just want to do one thing - make money. If they determine that the best way to do that is to make games on the Wii, then they will make games on the Wii. Game developers never really wanted to produce super-pretty games (they are very expensive to make after all), but they have been producing graphics intense games because it was seen as the only way to make a top seller; that may be about to change.
there won't be any shifting of resources beyond what was done nearly a year ago when the Wii's sales surprised everyone.I suppose it depends how you define shifting of resources. Will projects be suddenly moved to the Wii? Probably not. When existing projects are finished will staff be put on to new projects that are for the Wii? Count on it; even if some of those are just mini-game collections.
Yah, but to position it as anything but a game console would have required dropping the Playstation name; adding extra words wouldn't do it, the general public knows that playstations play video games, and would assume that anything with the word playstation was a game player. (PSP is case in point) And I think it goes without saying that the word Playstation has way too much brand recognition for Sony to not use it.
For some reason your comment reminds me of something I read awhile back, how some doctors and lawyers who aren't so happy with their career paths feel trapped because they have invested so much time and money to get in that they feel they can't afford to leave.
I would guess its more likely that 99.99% of the people can't do a little math and physics, and as such have no concept of how linear increases in speed give diminishing returns with regards to travel time, but expotentionally increase their stopping distance in an emergency.
When my wife and I got married we came up with a clever email address to share that was a play on our names; it seemed like a cool idea, but was utterly useless. I get about one or two (personal) emails a day at most. My wife gets one hundred emails on a slow day. Sharing an account just wasn't feasable (for me).
About two years ago we started a blog "together" and by together I mean I have a blog that she technically has admin rights to. Even when she wants to add something to it, she just prefers to tell me what she wants rather than do it herself.
Tivo is a relatively new thing in our lives, but I can see trouble brewing; when I record something I like to watch it soon after, then erase it. My wife like to record things, but hates to take the time to watch them; she also does not want anything she's recorded to be deleted till she's watched it. Our drive is filling up fast with shows that no one will ever watch.
One final thing we have had an interesting time of is game consoles. Although I have been happy with both our Gamecube and Wii, it has seemed very odd to me that someone who spends at most one hour a month gaming, and then only one game (Mario Party), should have as strong an opinion as my wife has had on our console choices.
I love my trackball, but have had to put it into temporary retirement; my two year old likes stealing the ball a little too much.
Just a guess, but what you are seeing on the charts is likely not a result of girls seeking dumber boys, but because of girls seeking older boys. It just looks that way on the chart because the chart shows a single age.
I don't have any knowledge of this situation, but I think I can be pretty sure if the costs you mentioned exceded what it costs Microsoft to build an XBox, they wouldn't repair a single unit; failures would just result in replacements.
People are both too stupid and too greedy for this to ever work; if you have ever worked in any kind of customer complaints department you would know this.
I'm sorry but as for terms of sale, anything beyond 'I give you cash, you give me a machine' is complete and utter bullshit.I for one am quite happy that many of the more expensive items I have bought came with warranties. I take it you have never had anything break down outside of the return period.
Oh and that arbitration thing, its so that they cant get class action lawsuits against them for shit like say... oh I dont know... say an exploding dell laptop.Man, you either have a horrible memory, or just like to twist everything into anti-Dell. The exploding batteries were made by Sony, and practically every laptop manufacturer on the planet had units out there with them. Dell was the first one to recall the batteries. Bad press for them at the time, but in retrospect more responsible than the companies that waited much, much longer to recall them.
Nope. They would just wonder who that guy is getting out of the limo and into the helicopter.
If you think that would be so funny, why don't you call in pretending to be him?
Ironically this deal and others like it have gotten an enormous amount of bad press in Alberta - you'd think we'd be happy to export this crap, but the local media can only see the $$$ lost in not refining it ourselves.
While clearer headlines are nice, come on, the 60GB ps3 has been talked to death here lately
While your point is valid - entertainment dollars are split more ways today than ever, I must disagree with some of you specific examples:
2. Valid when talking about the steady decline of movie goers, but since you are talking about music, I think this likely is a money savings; seeing movies cost people per viewing 30 years ago.
4. On average gasoline prices have not kept pace with inflation
6. Really just a new version of the record player.
8. Film cameras cost more in the long run
11. Might be new to you, but not new to society
...people will still be bitching about "fake CGI" and wishing they could return to the flawless, joyful days of stop-motion, when special effects were indistinguishable from reality!No they won't, they will have moved on to some other complaint, just as those who complained about the addition of sound or the addition of color eventually went away.
Revealing? They said the same thing last year (and I think they said it two years ago too), but I suspect the number of people who are taking them seriously has increased a hundred fold.
Regardless of the legitimacy of the study, MS most certainly is not hearing anything bad from their customers.
There are some conversations that are just not worth having, and telling a saleperson that you don't plan on renewing your contract because you haven't received the expected value from it is definately one of them. Depending on how big of a client you are, telling MS that they just aren't worth it could mean hundreds or even thousands of hours of them calling to explain again why the only way you will have your computing needs met is through them.
Why is it considered a given that Nintendo will not enter into this price war? As the one company that we know for sure makes a profit on each console, it seems they could most afford to. While some might argue they are already the cheapest, the margin by which they hold that title may soon be eroded. I predict a good size price drop by Nintendo in time for the holidays.
When I was a kid my mother wouldn't let me have any toy guns (she actually sent several gifts over the years back to the giver) because she thought this was the magic key to raising an upstanding member of society. Of course, this didn't stop me from playing guns - it just meant that I was known in the neighborhood as the loser who either borrowed a gun from someone else or pretended his hockey stick was gun.
As someone who used to work for Comcast allow me to say rotflmao. Either you are one lucky sob or you are lying.
Just as a matter of example (one among many) during the entire nine months I worked for Comcast the entire state of Illinois never left the outage board. That isn't to say that no one in Illinois ever had a connection, but many people had little or no connection and we were under instruction to do absolutely nothing for anyone from Illinois - just keep BSing them till they gave up.
True, but the environment isn't the only reason to develop renewable power.
Earlier this year cbc had a "seven wonders of Canada" contest which produced a list that had one, perhaps two good entries if you were looking for natural wonders and five winners that can only make one go huh?
Mind you, if the commercials cbc was running were any indication of the quality of the entries they received, these may well have been the best entries; I remember one woman in a commercial explaining that the bay of fundy should be on the list for "having the nicest people she'd ever met". (btw if one is doing natural wonders the bay of fundy most certainly is one of the wonders of Canada but that has nothing to do with how nice the people are)