Like Apple, if you say ill of nintendo, you can predict hearing a lot of flack. That's just how some people are, I guess. Tell me, what's the best looking game on the PS2? FF12? GT4? MGS3? What is the best looking game on the wii? Is it really better than PS2 quality? I say it isn't. As every wii fan used to say, it's all about the games.
Also, how am I being a fanboy exactly? I probably like the 360 more than the other systems for having great games, but I don't think you could tell from my above comments, and I don't think my preference is strong. I provided arguments for my views. I got a lost of insults and moaning in response, but nobody has bothered to explain their argument that I'm wrong. Just internet bravado. No thinking required.
It's not clear why many wii games look worse than PS2 games (even the games that appear on both systems often look significantly better on the PS2), but that's just the facts. And the problems go much farther than content. Zelda was missing most of the normal sidequests and felt empty and extremely easy to finish. Games like Red Steel are farces, and often the controller is too twitchy for my tastes. And like I said above, if you have the taste that value the Wii's controller, it's worth the content shortage and lame graphics problems. But you shouldn't have to pay so steep a price as, it's clear that the wii is not getting well made games yet. I'm not really anti-wii so much as I am ready to see some good games instead of worship of the age old Mario and Zelda games. I get it, people like that stuff. But if these exact games had new characters and were on the PS3, people would admit most of this stuff is rubbish. With Zelda, you can't even pretend this is a next gen game... as it's a lastgen gamecube game with advanced controls. Nothing wrong with that, but it proves my point. Nintendo is using Gamecube quality games (which should look better than PS2 games but often do not) and adding motion control. The wii is set to get a ton of great games eventually, most say. So my complaints are the sorts of productive thoughts that you should be happy to hear. Whether you admit it or not, you wish the games looked a hell of a lot better than Metroid and you realize they can. If everyone pretends there's no problem, do you think the problem will be solved?
And of course the wii is getting good reviews... good reviews are pretty damn easy to get these days. The wii is novel, fun and very fashionable, like the iphone. It's good business to promote this system. But come on, man... weren't you disappointed with Metriod? I'm not comparing it with Resistance or Gears or anything like that, I'm comparing it with Red Faction and Halo 2. Hell, it reminds me of Quake on my Pentium 2. If you love that motion control, realize that this isn't in conflict with my assertion (which is obvious, not ridiculous).
And though I like my PS3 too, if you don't admit that Sony has badly dropped the ball over and over again with getting games out on time, then you're not paying attention. Warhawk was never finished and we got the tiny multiplayer section. MGS4 was supposed to be out a long time ago. Home as well. GT5 as well. As a PS3 owner, I find that annoying, and there's obviously a consistent problem... that could be described as fumbling. You call this ridiculous... is that your entire argument?
The PS3 is flopping in getting good games to the market. You didn't understand what I meant?
PS3 is selling pretty much as well as the wii is (except in the states, where wise companies are not marketing heavily until the dollar is worth more), but there aren't any good games for the PS3. So many great games like home and MGS4 and GT5 have not been brought to market.
That's obviously what I meant. Now I'm not at all surprised that Nintendo fans modded me a troll instead of explaining that they disagree with me. Nothing I said was biased or provocative, but some people really really really love nintendo too much to admit that the games on the Wii are actually not good, and probably inferior to those ont he PS3 and certainly far worse than what the 360 offers.
Nintendo is like Apple: there's an element of fans that aren't sensible and willing to accept criticism. No big deal.
But my post wasn't misguided. Your inability to see that I was criticizing Sony is telling. That's right, there are people who think the Wii is lame and Sony is crazy for not getting enough great games out yet. Some people actually don't give a crap which console fares better. You have to twist my comment to a ridiculous degree to assure yourself that I am a Sony fanboy, because it's just not possible to think Wii games are primitive and boring otherwise.
Hey, you're free to think that if you like. I guarantee you that Nintendo agrees with me and is working hard to make some decent games to fix this huge problem with their system.
Those wii games are called fantastic above, but they only seem fantastic in comparison to other wii games. My kid has a wii, and I play Zelda because Ocarina was such a great game. This Zelda is only slightly more advanced and is missing so many sidequests. It's not a finsihed game. Metroid would look bad on my ps2.
And that's not the most valid criticism, since I'm overlooking the controller. If you love that controller it makes up for the games. But the games themselves are just not very good. I believe that if Zelda and Metroid 3 were PS3 games, the Sony haters would rightfully roast Sony for such poor offerings.
The wii is a novel idea but it's all about the games. The 360 and the PS2 are the best places to find games. The PS3 is flopping horribly in this department for reasons I cannot fathom. The wii is neat and well hyped, like the ipodm and describing those games as fantastic really proves my point.
You can deny the facts if you want. Fact is that neocon is used frequently by neonazis to describe Jews. I don't care to link, but follow Ron Paul links around and you're bound to run into stormfront and other Ron Paul affiliates that use neocon to describe jews for white supremacist purposes.
You may not. You might be much more reasonable and be talking about Israel's political ambitions. You'd still be an idiot, I'm afraid, since neo-con has nothing to do with Israel, zionists, or jews. A person can support Israel and not be a neocon. Many neocons do not support Israel.
And I wonder if you're right about th 70 Palestinians. Who killed them? Palestinians? Why aren't they allowed to protest their government without being killed? Why aren't women allowed the same rights as men? Why is a culture like that supposed to have any sovereignty or rights? It's not fair to consider Israel, for all her sins, next to Palestine and the like. One is simply not rooted in justice. Israel is in a stupid location, but it's there as the result of war and obviously has the ability to maintain its borders as well as any nation. So Israel's claim to its territory is the same as England, France, Russia, the USA, Brazil, Mexico. Why is it that Israel doesn't get to keep it's land but all the other nations that warred and took their land do? What makes Israel so different?
Some would say it's paranoid to assume that the very strange treatment Israel receives is do to racism against Jews. Those people are out of touch with the feelings in Europes and certainly throughout Africa and the Middle East. Jews are still hated. They have a right to Israel because the world let millions of them die. It was payback and protection. It seems that Israel's rights are actually very well founded, even if there are people who have an original claim to that land (as spurious as their claims are to me). There is no like nation in the area, where Jews and democracy and republic style society exist. There's plenty of Palestine-like nations in the area. Why the focus on Israel when villages of other Arabic groups have chased each other out for centuries? Because Jews did the displacment this time, and Jews aren't given fair play in the world.
But my main point is that neocon is code for jew by many, and you can see that if you're fair about your view of the world. This is phenomena that has been documented time and again from the Wall Street Journal's dismay to Stormfront's joy. Jewish hate is a real problem.
I don't disagree with you very much, but do you understand what a neocon is? It's a fusion of liberalism and conservatism.
Like you seem to understand, the far right is very much like the far left (look at Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich). Absolute liberty and extreme isolationism, for some reason lead to similar conclusions from the opposite point of view. Socialism in practice sometimes works through fascism.
Anyway, a neocon is similarly blended, but in an attempt to be moderate. It's not really all about israel, that's just a misunderstanding used by demogogues.
Whether we're on the same page or not, you're right to be skeptical of the paranoia above. The fundamentalist christians have less power now than they did yesterday. Their ability to control will never reach what it once was, and just as the GOP is going to nominate a pro-choice neocon with the pathetic blessing of Pat Robertson, the ability of the overly religious in america to exert power is weakening... it may swing back at times int he future, but never back to where it was in the early 90s. They had their chance to dominate, and they couldn't then and certainly won't in the future.
But that's not true everywhere.
The internet, liike many things that were invented decades ago, is an American thing used by the entire world. That's not to the detrimant of the rest of the world, as its productivity seems to be eclipsing the US quite a bit, but we made this internet, and it's fair that we have more control over it. Until we do such a bad job that there is enough incentive to make a new network, we ought to keep what's ours. It's not like we're any more evil than the UN... quite less actually.
If this is about waving dicks around by each nation, then ok. If it's about fairness and justice, then we have the better case.
It was no wash, my friend. It was unnecessarily expensive to the tune of several billions. MS could have figured out a way to do it cheaper, but instead went with the idea of makeing the supreme.
The supreme, in technology, is always a loser. It's far too expensive and not that much better than a cheap alternative (the ps2). Sony somehow emulated the xbox instead of the PS2... MS did not simply pay the price of entry with the XBOX, they screwed up in several ways.
I agree that battefront on PSP is terrible, but the renegade squadron title is actually pretty damn great. It's still more or less an expanded port, but it's a high quality game.
In my view, no, it's not a matter of your culture's consensus. Either you positively own yourself or you do not. I asserted that you do, and I'm right. The cultures you are talking about are wrong. Your society only has a right to your help insofar as you join society and benefit from its laws and goods. If you want out, that's equitable.
And even if you're right, there is no fair comparison from suicide to murder, as even in those cultures that you reference, you still are the primary victim of your own death, and to murder is simply morally worse than to kill yourself, on the basis of damages.
Pal, it's cool that most women want a family and are willing to sacrifice for it, but it's up to the chick to do that on her own.
This is the opposite case, where the woman wanted to have a nice profession herself, obviously worked her ass off to earn one, and then was forced out to serve her lord husband's interest.
Note: your girl might change her mind. PEople get married young, hoping to have kids, and the girl will do ANYTHING for that family ideal. A few years of college can make her more interested in saving the world or something. When your girl considers that option (and if she doesn't even consider it, she's a moron), are you going to tell her to stick with the original deal? It's hard not to. I know. I wanted my wife to raise the kids so I could take my career whereve I wanted. It's hard, but ultimately, it's about sharing the burdens and choices equally. And if she's willing to sacrifice hers for yours, then she better get something valuable out of the deal (raising kids and changing daipers is not what I have in mind).
We're not talking about laws. We're talking about morality. Sure, for insurance purposes and others, it's good for the laws to disincentivize suicide. But it ain't as bad as murder, and if that's not self evident to someone, that person is psychotic (seriously, they would have to be mentally ill).
You own yourself. You don't own other people. Therefore, whatever is wrong with ending your own life is totally different from destroying someone else.
Turing is a genius, and often geniuses are tortured. And probably suffering from an illness. It's even possible to say Turin did not kill himself, but rather died of insanity. That is why he is still loved.
exactly. It's not that it's possible for there to be a third party wiimote. It just looks like exactly like one.
And I suppose you're right. Nintendo really isn't at risk of selling less stuff as a result of this infringment. But it's still too confusing. This is a trademark violation.
This is true, WalMart has not made small business owners richer, at least the many of them whose business cannot compete against WalMArt.
I know this personally, having been involved is a specialty store in a town that got a super walmart. We just couldn't sell goods as cheaply. We got a small number of customers, upt o the last day, that would commend us for attempting to survive near walmart. We even tried to beat them on price a couple of times. But it's not possible. They can get their goods cheaper, partly though awful service and crappy quality, but also through their distribution network. Thus, the price for everything went down. Profits became leaner, but also the businesses that survived developed similarly effecient distro modela. They get their stuff cheaper now too.
Even the high quality items are cheaper, and therefore everyone (even me to some extent) is richer.
But I hate walmart anyway. It's an awful company, and they leave those empty stores and have those praking lots of hell. Nothing but ugliness all around. But their effect is remarkable.
I would think this was a wiimote if I saw it in a store without labelling. It's clearly supposed to look like a wiimote. I even bet that it IS a third party wiimote, just that the company couldn't get licensing or good tech or something, and retools to make this crap.
I mean, come on man. The button placement, the fake speaker, the color and shape, etc. It's a motion control game thingy. Like I said, I can tell this isn't nintendo's wiimote, but it could easily be logitech's or madcatz's. No doubt at all this is what even a nintendo employee would think at first glance.
I've got friends who work at Wally world, and I mean no disrespect, but a lot of walmart employees are complete idiots.
And yeah, this is a dinky toy that is meant to knock off a great toy. Kinda sad, but the market will correct. IN fact, it has. For many people, walmart ain't worth the trouble of sandals melting my feet off or lead filled vampire teeth toys. Sure, walmart is doing fine, but only for those who really don't care about reliability. If you don't give a crap about reliability, walmart presents a great bargain for you.
Walmart isn't ruining anything. It's just another lame component of our world. Provides context for all the nice things. It has revolutionized distribution processes and greatly reduced the number of retail ripoffs, and thus has made virtually every american richer. Sounds crazy, but it's true.
granted, the wii pretty much sells as many as can be made, so nothing is possibly affecting it sales negatively, but I assure you, the PS2 has reduced demand for every console out there.
If you have an SDTV, and want a lot of great games, why not the PS2? The wii is pretty neat, but it's all about the games, and nothing touches the PS2.
But if anything this is great news for Sony. They are still the king of video games. 120 million installed base. Home was supposed to be a PS2 idea (and was discussed for the PSone). If they had any brains they would incorporate the PS2 into their new innovations as much as possible. It would be great advertising for the PS3. That PS2 probably costs $50 bucks to make, and imagine the royalties Sony is getting from games. The insane thing is that the PS3 is bad enough that Sony is actually losing money on gaming. I cannot believe how much things have changed.
Apple does not have 30 billion lying around, and Adobe's value would skyrocket if Apple wanted to buy.
Apples stock value has virtually no relationship with how much money apple has. When you buy Apple stock, your money goes to the guy who now doesn't own the stock.. not to apple. Apple only got money for the original shares.
If Apple even has 3 billion in cash I would be surprised. If they have 30 in cash someone belongs in prison for breach as fiduciary.
I can't believe Word Perfect isn't still a player. I used to love Word Perfect 5.1 (and still use the blue background and white text on Word 2003).
But I think what happened was that in high schools all the kids were using Office in high school typing and computer classes. (it was clarisworks for a while, but that ended pretty quickly I think).
is there a logical reason why everyone knows Word and not Word Perfect or whatever? Not really, Word is not that much more intuitive. But that attitudes out there (yeah, even from me), form a huge barrier for competitors.
you're right, most of the reasons for sticking with Word are a bunch of baloney. But the baloney is believed, and that's what counts.
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Like Apple, if you say ill of nintendo, you can predict hearing a lot of flack. That's just how some people are, I guess. Tell me, what's the best looking game on the PS2? FF12? GT4? MGS3? What is the best looking game on the wii? Is it really better than PS2 quality? I say it isn't. As every wii fan used to say, it's all about the games.
Also, how am I being a fanboy exactly? I probably like the 360 more than the other systems for having great games, but I don't think you could tell from my above comments, and I don't think my preference is strong. I provided arguments for my views. I got a lost of insults and moaning in response, but nobody has bothered to explain their argument that I'm wrong. Just internet bravado. No thinking required.
It's not clear why many wii games look worse than PS2 games (even the games that appear on both systems often look significantly better on the PS2), but that's just the facts. And the problems go much farther than content. Zelda was missing most of the normal sidequests and felt empty and extremely easy to finish. Games like Red Steel are farces, and often the controller is too twitchy for my tastes. And like I said above, if you have the taste that value the Wii's controller, it's worth the content shortage and lame graphics problems. But you shouldn't have to pay so steep a price as, it's clear that the wii is not getting well made games yet. I'm not really anti-wii so much as I am ready to see some good games instead of worship of the age old Mario and Zelda games. I get it, people like that stuff. But if these exact games had new characters and were on the PS3, people would admit most of this stuff is rubbish. With Zelda, you can't even pretend this is a next gen game... as it's a lastgen gamecube game with advanced controls. Nothing wrong with that, but it proves my point. Nintendo is using Gamecube quality games (which should look better than PS2 games but often do not) and adding motion control. The wii is set to get a ton of great games eventually, most say. So my complaints are the sorts of productive thoughts that you should be happy to hear. Whether you admit it or not, you wish the games looked a hell of a lot better than Metroid and you realize they can. If everyone pretends there's no problem, do you think the problem will be solved?
And of course the wii is getting good reviews... good reviews are pretty damn easy to get these days. The wii is novel, fun and very fashionable, like the iphone. It's good business to promote this system. But come on, man... weren't you disappointed with Metriod? I'm not comparing it with Resistance or Gears or anything like that, I'm comparing it with Red Faction and Halo 2. Hell, it reminds me of Quake on my Pentium 2. If you love that motion control, realize that this isn't in conflict with my assertion (which is obvious, not ridiculous).
And though I like my PS3 too, if you don't admit that Sony has badly dropped the ball over and over again with getting games out on time, then you're not paying attention. Warhawk was never finished and we got the tiny multiplayer section. MGS4 was supposed to be out a long time ago. Home as well. GT5 as well. As a PS3 owner, I find that annoying, and there's obviously a consistent problem... that could be described as fumbling. You call this ridiculous... is that your entire argument?
Don't you admit that Microsoft puts DRM in many of its products? What is Vista if not a DRM effort?
Is the Zune drm free because MS wanted it to be or because the writing's on the wall?
The PS3 is flopping in getting good games to the market. You didn't understand what I meant?
PS3 is selling pretty much as well as the wii is (except in the states, where wise companies are not marketing heavily until the dollar is worth more), but there aren't any good games for the PS3. So many great games like home and MGS4 and GT5 have not been brought to market.
That's obviously what I meant. Now I'm not at all surprised that Nintendo fans modded me a troll instead of explaining that they disagree with me. Nothing I said was biased or provocative, but some people really really really love nintendo too much to admit that the games on the Wii are actually not good, and probably inferior to those ont he PS3 and certainly far worse than what the 360 offers.
Nintendo is like Apple: there's an element of fans that aren't sensible and willing to accept criticism. No big deal.
But my post wasn't misguided. Your inability to see that I was criticizing Sony is telling. That's right, there are people who think the Wii is lame and Sony is crazy for not getting enough great games out yet. Some people actually don't give a crap which console fares better. You have to twist my comment to a ridiculous degree to assure yourself that I am a Sony fanboy, because it's just not possible to think Wii games are primitive and boring otherwise.
Hey, you're free to think that if you like. I guarantee you that Nintendo agrees with me and is working hard to make some decent games to fix this huge problem with their system.
Those wii games are called fantastic above, but they only seem fantastic in comparison to other wii games. My kid has a wii, and I play Zelda because Ocarina was such a great game. This Zelda is only slightly more advanced and is missing so many sidequests. It's not a finsihed game. Metroid would look bad on my ps2.
And that's not the most valid criticism, since I'm overlooking the controller. If you love that controller it makes up for the games. But the games themselves are just not very good. I believe that if Zelda and Metroid 3 were PS3 games, the Sony haters would rightfully roast Sony for such poor offerings.
The wii is a novel idea but it's all about the games. The 360 and the PS2 are the best places to find games. The PS3 is flopping horribly in this department for reasons I cannot fathom. The wii is neat and well hyped, like the ipodm and describing those games as fantastic really proves my point.
If there's only one screenshot, it's never a truly accurate screenshot.
If they had enough game to give actual screenshots, they'd show more than one.
You can deny the facts if you want. Fact is that neocon is used frequently by neonazis to describe Jews. I don't care to link, but follow Ron Paul links around and you're bound to run into stormfront and other Ron Paul affiliates that use neocon to describe jews for white supremacist purposes.
You may not. You might be much more reasonable and be talking about Israel's political ambitions. You'd still be an idiot, I'm afraid, since neo-con has nothing to do with Israel, zionists, or jews. A person can support Israel and not be a neocon. Many neocons do not support Israel.
And I wonder if you're right about th 70 Palestinians. Who killed them? Palestinians? Why aren't they allowed to protest their government without being killed? Why aren't women allowed the same rights as men? Why is a culture like that supposed to have any sovereignty or rights? It's not fair to consider Israel, for all her sins, next to Palestine and the like. One is simply not rooted in justice. Israel is in a stupid location, but it's there as the result of war and obviously has the ability to maintain its borders as well as any nation. So Israel's claim to its territory is the same as England, France, Russia, the USA, Brazil, Mexico. Why is it that Israel doesn't get to keep it's land but all the other nations that warred and took their land do? What makes Israel so different?
Some would say it's paranoid to assume that the very strange treatment Israel receives is do to racism against Jews. Those people are out of touch with the feelings in Europes and certainly throughout Africa and the Middle East. Jews are still hated. They have a right to Israel because the world let millions of them die. It was payback and protection. It seems that Israel's rights are actually very well founded, even if there are people who have an original claim to that land (as spurious as their claims are to me). There is no like nation in the area, where Jews and democracy and republic style society exist. There's plenty of Palestine-like nations in the area. Why the focus on Israel when villages of other Arabic groups have chased each other out for centuries? Because Jews did the displacment this time, and Jews aren't given fair play in the world.
But my main point is that neocon is code for jew by many, and you can see that if you're fair about your view of the world. This is phenomena that has been documented time and again from the Wall Street Journal's dismay to Stormfront's joy. Jewish hate is a real problem.
I seem to remember people doing this on bbs services and usenet forums.
It is odd to cling to tradition like that, but that's human nature. Is this why you sign your posts? Cause you always did back in the day?
I don't think it's surprising that the top article on slashdot is getting the most traffic.
It might be odd that a server is overrun quickly, but if it's going to get slashdotted, it's going to happen when it's a newer story.
He is saying that the helmet is intimidating, so the Army joke means he is going away from the helmet.
ha!
Well, you have to admit she's acting like one.
I don't disagree with you very much, but do you understand what a neocon is? It's a fusion of liberalism and conservatism.
Like you seem to understand, the far right is very much like the far left (look at Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich). Absolute liberty and extreme isolationism, for some reason lead to similar conclusions from the opposite point of view. Socialism in practice sometimes works through fascism.
Anyway, a neocon is similarly blended, but in an attempt to be moderate. It's not really all about israel, that's just a misunderstanding used by demogogues.
Whether we're on the same page or not, you're right to be skeptical of the paranoia above. The fundamentalist christians have less power now than they did yesterday. Their ability to control will never reach what it once was, and just as the GOP is going to nominate a pro-choice neocon with the pathetic blessing of Pat Robertson, the ability of the overly religious in america to exert power is weakening... it may swing back at times int he future, but never back to where it was in the early 90s. They had their chance to dominate, and they couldn't then and certainly won't in the future.
But that's not true everywhere.
The internet, liike many things that were invented decades ago, is an American thing used by the entire world. That's not to the detrimant of the rest of the world, as its productivity seems to be eclipsing the US quite a bit, but we made this internet, and it's fair that we have more control over it. Until we do such a bad job that there is enough incentive to make a new network, we ought to keep what's ours. It's not like we're any more evil than the UN... quite less actually.
If this is about waving dicks around by each nation, then ok. If it's about fairness and justice, then we have the better case.
It was no wash, my friend. It was unnecessarily expensive to the tune of several billions. MS could have figured out a way to do it cheaper, but instead went with the idea of makeing the supreme.
The supreme, in technology, is always a loser. It's far too expensive and not that much better than a cheap alternative (the ps2). Sony somehow emulated the xbox instead of the PS2... MS did not simply pay the price of entry with the XBOX, they screwed up in several ways.
I agree that battefront on PSP is terrible, but the renegade squadron title is actually pretty damn great. It's still more or less an expanded port, but it's a high quality game.
In my view, no, it's not a matter of your culture's consensus. Either you positively own yourself or you do not. I asserted that you do, and I'm right. The cultures you are talking about are wrong. Your society only has a right to your help insofar as you join society and benefit from its laws and goods. If you want out, that's equitable.
And even if you're right, there is no fair comparison from suicide to murder, as even in those cultures that you reference, you still are the primary victim of your own death, and to murder is simply morally worse than to kill yourself, on the basis of damages.
Pal, it's cool that most women want a family and are willing to sacrifice for it, but it's up to the chick to do that on her own.
This is the opposite case, where the woman wanted to have a nice profession herself, obviously worked her ass off to earn one, and then was forced out to serve her lord husband's interest.
Note: your girl might change her mind. PEople get married young, hoping to have kids, and the girl will do ANYTHING for that family ideal. A few years of college can make her more interested in saving the world or something. When your girl considers that option (and if she doesn't even consider it, she's a moron), are you going to tell her to stick with the original deal? It's hard not to. I know. I wanted my wife to raise the kids so I could take my career whereve I wanted. It's hard, but ultimately, it's about sharing the burdens and choices equally. And if she's willing to sacrifice hers for yours, then she better get something valuable out of the deal (raising kids and changing daipers is not what I have in mind).
We're not talking about laws. We're talking about morality. Sure, for insurance purposes and others, it's good for the laws to disincentivize suicide. But it ain't as bad as murder, and if that's not self evident to someone, that person is psychotic (seriously, they would have to be mentally ill).
You own yourself. You don't own other people. Therefore, whatever is wrong with ending your own life is totally different from destroying someone else.
Turing is a genius, and often geniuses are tortured. And probably suffering from an illness. It's even possible to say Turin did not kill himself, but rather died of insanity. That is why he is still loved.
Reiser (if this story is true) is a bastard.
exactly. It's not that it's possible for there to be a third party wiimote. It just looks like exactly like one.
And I suppose you're right. Nintendo really isn't at risk of selling less stuff as a result of this infringment. But it's still too confusing. This is a trademark violation.
This is true, WalMart has not made small business owners richer, at least the many of them whose business cannot compete against WalMArt.
I know this personally, having been involved is a specialty store in a town that got a super walmart. We just couldn't sell goods as cheaply. We got a small number of customers, upt o the last day, that would commend us for attempting to survive near walmart. We even tried to beat them on price a couple of times. But it's not possible. They can get their goods cheaper, partly though awful service and crappy quality, but also through their distribution network. Thus, the price for everything went down. Profits became leaner, but also the businesses that survived developed similarly effecient distro modela. They get their stuff cheaper now too.
Even the high quality items are cheaper, and therefore everyone (even me to some extent) is richer.
But I hate walmart anyway. It's an awful company, and they leave those empty stores and have those praking lots of hell. Nothing but ugliness all around. But their effect is remarkable.
I would think this was a wiimote if I saw it in a store without labelling. It's clearly supposed to look like a wiimote. I even bet that it IS a third party wiimote, just that the company couldn't get licensing or good tech or something, and retools to make this crap.
I mean, come on man. The button placement, the fake speaker, the color and shape, etc. It's a motion control game thingy. Like I said, I can tell this isn't nintendo's wiimote, but it could easily be logitech's or madcatz's. No doubt at all this is what even a nintendo employee would think at first glance.
I've got friends who work at Wally world, and I mean no disrespect, but a lot of walmart employees are complete idiots.
And yeah, this is a dinky toy that is meant to knock off a great toy. Kinda sad, but the market will correct. IN fact, it has. For many people, walmart ain't worth the trouble of sandals melting my feet off or lead filled vampire teeth toys. Sure, walmart is doing fine, but only for those who really don't care about reliability. If you don't give a crap about reliability, walmart presents a great bargain for you.
Walmart isn't ruining anything. It's just another lame component of our world. Provides context for all the nice things. It has revolutionized distribution processes and greatly reduced the number of retail ripoffs, and thus has made virtually every american richer. Sounds crazy, but it's true.
granted, the wii pretty much sells as many as can be made, so nothing is possibly affecting it sales negatively, but I assure you, the PS2 has reduced demand for every console out there.
If you have an SDTV, and want a lot of great games, why not the PS2? The wii is pretty neat, but it's all about the games, and nothing touches the PS2.
But if anything this is great news for Sony. They are still the king of video games. 120 million installed base. Home was supposed to be a PS2 idea (and was discussed for the PSone). If they had any brains they would incorporate the PS2 into their new innovations as much as possible. It would be great advertising for the PS3. That PS2 probably costs $50 bucks to make, and imagine the royalties Sony is getting from games. The insane thing is that the PS3 is bad enough that Sony is actually losing money on gaming. I cannot believe how much things have changed.
well shit.
I guess I'm wrong. They obviously need to give me that money.
either that or the language has changed and the people who think they can decide what the english language is are being stubborn.
Language isn't something you find in a book.
That's terrible reasoning.
Apple does not have 30 billion lying around, and Adobe's value would skyrocket if Apple wanted to buy.
Apples stock value has virtually no relationship with how much money apple has. When you buy Apple stock, your money goes to the guy who now doesn't own the stock.. not to apple. Apple only got money for the original shares.
If Apple even has 3 billion in cash I would be surprised. If they have 30 in cash someone belongs in prison for breach as fiduciary.
I can't believe Word Perfect isn't still a player. I used to love Word Perfect 5.1 (and still use the blue background and white text on Word 2003).
But I think what happened was that in high schools all the kids were using Office in high school typing and computer classes. (it was clarisworks for a while, but that ended pretty quickly I think).
is there a logical reason why everyone knows Word and not Word Perfect or whatever? Not really, Word is not that much more intuitive. But that attitudes out there (yeah, even from me), form a huge barrier for competitors.
you're right, most of the reasons for sticking with Word are a bunch of baloney. But the baloney is believed, and that's what counts.