While on the topic of grammar... This is a pet peve of mine. The correct phrase is, "take the bad with the good." And yes, it matters. The former implies that taking the "good" is a burden, while the latter implies, correctly, that taking the "bad" is the burden.:)
O'Reilly is one of the worst aspects of Fox. Sure, he develops his ideas on his own, but he's a blithering idiot, so it hardly matters. He's one of the foremost pushers of this inane idea of the "Culture Wars." Even worse, he doesn't understand the conflict. It's apparent in his verbage. He consistantly puts "traditionalists" on one side of the argument (his side) and "secularists" on the other side. This is both a false comparison and disingenuous. He Purposefully uses the term "traditionilst" to keep himself from being labeled a "Theist," which would tarnish his "objectivism." A proper comparison would be "traditionalists" vs. "progressives" or "theists" vs. "secularists." There are plenty of secular "traditionalists." I happen to be one of them. He also continuously misrepresents the goal of secularists as being one of removing all discussion of religion from the pubilc arena. This is patently false. Most secularists are simply after a return to the traditional, Constitutional idea that government and religion should be seperate. I, and most secularists, couldn't care less what people say in public. Heck, I encourage people to say whatever they want to say in public. The more ideas, the merrier. Just don't push a religious agenda as a representative of our government.
After O'Reilly's comments about Sony on the Radio Factor yesterday, more unsubstianted, sensationalist crap, I'd say he might have some more legal trouble coming down the line, too. O'Reilly doesn't base everything he says on fact. He's every bit as much a blowhard as the other people on Fox that you despise for doing the same thing. He simply couches it in a more believable verneer of impartiality than, say, Sean Hannity, who is as transparent as that new-fangled "High-Definition Glass."
It looks to me as though your definition of liberal is the one that's skewed. Socialized healthcare is... erm... Socialist, an extreme form of liberalism. It's quite possible to be a liberal and not agree with Socialism. The fact that Socialism runs counter to the ideals upon which the country was founded every bit as much as certain "rightist" elements of the PATRIOT act, should give you an idea of why American Liberals aren't totally on board with the idea. As it should be.
Sadly, you'll discover that whatever party has 51% of the vote is not likely to vote to change the rules, since it tends to limit their power.
And that's why it's not so strange. But you missed something. Whichever party is in the minority is unlikely to change things as well. They know (hope) that eventually they'll be in the majority again one day and don't want to limit their powers either. The reason this stuff goes on and will continue to go on is that there is absolutely ZERO motivation on either side of the aisle to change it. And it's doubtful that there ever will be.
Wouldn't help. Apparently most of our elected representatives miss most of the meetings anyway. Hell, most of them didn't even read the PATRIOT act before signing it.
I for one think that archive.org should turn into some UN effort, with a mission to chronical and store daily/timely snapshots of the internet and the culture at the time, preserving it for future generations. What a tool for future historians!
I can see the "Storage For Food Scandal" headlines now.:)
The tickets, including the surcharge for ordering online, cost about the same as the monthly cable bill.
Movies are $7.50 here. Cable's a LOT more than that.
A medium popcorn is five dollars; the smallest bottled water is three.
I used to work at a theatre so I burned out on popcorn a long while back. Besides, I usually get dinner before I see a film. And water is also at the fountain for free.
The show begins with twenty minutes of commercials, spots promoting the theatre chain, and previews for movies coming out next Memorial Day, sometimes a year from next Memorial Day.
We usually get one ad at the beginning of the movie. At most 3. Three is too many, but still not intollerable. I consider previews part of the movie-going experience. I hate it when I miss them. Regardless of the release date of the film being previewed.
The feature includes any combination of the following: wizards; slinky women of few words; men of few words who can expertly drive anything, spectacularly wreck anything, and leap safely from the top of anything; characters from comic books, sixth-grade world-history textbooks, or "Bulfinch's Mythology"; explosions; phenomena unknown to science; a computer whiz with attitude; a brand-name soft drink, running shoe, or candy bar; an incarnation of pure evil; more explosions; and the voice of Robin Williams.
It figures that this would come from the New Yorker. What's wrong with "wizards; slinky women of few words; men of few words who can expertly drive anything, spectacularly wreck anything, and leap safely from the top of anything; characters from comic books, sixth-grade world-history textbooks, or "Bulfinch's Mythology";?" Not everything has to be Remains of the Day, Madame Bovary, or Pride and Prejudice. I enjoy "high brow" entertainment on occasion, but I'd never be such a snob to consider popular entertainment beneath me, either. Intellectual snobbery is one of the most off-putting character flaws imaginable. It's like these peoples' imaginations have been cut off. It's sad, really.
The movie feels about twenty minutes too long; the reviews are mixed; nobody really loves it; and it grosses several hundred million dollars.
And boring British "dramas" that often lack any perceptable drama DON'T feel too long. Riiiight. And if a movie grosses several hundred million dollars, then apparently, SOMEONE has been entertained. And that's what it's all about.
I had some issues with 10.1, but 10.2 has been running flawlessly for a couple of weeks now. I attributed the issues with 10.1 to the fact that I did an upgrade install (9.x -> 10.0 -> 10.1), so I did a fresh install of 10.2.
I've given Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) a whirl, but wasn't too comfortable with the permissions setup of the distro. It's probably not as big a deal as I made it out to be, but having no real root user, but giving a standard user root permissions just didn't seem like a good idea to me.:)
I have one client that's been running one version or another of SBS since SBS 4. While it's an interesting product, it isn't without its issues. Really the only reason I recommended them upgrade to the latest SBS when they were upgrading their server was that the cost of Server 2k3 and Exchange by itself was higher than SBS. If that wasn't the case, I'd have had them go with 2k3 and Exchange. They really don't use all the other stuff that comes with SBS, so there's no other reason for them to have it. In fact, after getting it up and running for a while, they decided they wanted to tie a satellite office into the main office and only then did I discover that you can't have more than two remote connections to an SBS 2k3 server concurrently. Lame.
I've always found it interesting that SBS comes with all of those server products (Exchange, SQL, etc...) running on the same system while officially, Microsoft recommends against running more than one major server service on a single server.
I respect your opinion and your decision to wait, but it's a little baffling to me that you consider the stable of games on the PS2 not worth anything yet bought an X-Box at launch. Unless you're a FPS fan (Halo), the PS2 library has always had a better selection of games overall than the X-Box. It's only been in the last nine months or so that the X-Box has started to build a compelling library of exclusive titles and it's been a slow process, at that. I think once you plunk down the cash for a PS2, you'll find plenty of games to keep you occupied. Personally, I've put off getting an X-Box until there are more than two or three games that pique my interest that I can't get for the PC. So far, Ninja Gaiden is the only one. I picked up Halo for the PC and will get Halo 2 for the PC when it invariably gets released. Good gaming to ya!:)
...about how the data was lost. It's a little bit difficult to get angry about a lost package in the shipping process. It happens. It's always going to happen. It's rare, though. I'd be a little pissed off if this was due to a network breach at Ameritrade. As it is, I'm not too concerned. So, yeah, it DOES matter how the data was lost.
I know this may sound strange, but you might consider targeting AmigaAnywhere. It'll allow you flexibility to run on many different platforms (WinCE, PocketPC, SmartPhone, Linux, etc...) without having to rewrite code. The AmigaAnywhere platform is based on the Tao Group's virtual processor so it's write once, run anywhere. I'm not deeply familiar with how it all works, but I've heard good things. Something to consider at least.
I agree wholeheartedly with everything you posted except for hoping that FreeHand gets sold off to Corel. I, too, was trained on Illustrator in college and after using FreeHand for a very short period of time switched because my productivity in FreeHand is easily 80% better than in Illustrator.
BUT - I also worked somewhere that used Corel exclusivley (eventually, I did MY work in FreeHand and exported it to CorelDRAW! when necessary). CorelDRAW! is, has always been, and appears as if it always WILL be a steaming load. DRAW! is aimed at... well, I'm not exactly sure WHO it's aimed at. It's not professional enough for serious use and it's entirely too complicated for casual users.
Here's a CorelDRAW! story for you that'll solidify the probable horror show that would be CorelFreeHand(!). Around once every couple of months, while I was working at the place that used CorelDRAW!, one of our designers would lose a piece of artwork. This was work that took between a few weeks to a month and a half easily per piece. All of a sudden a random piece of work would simply not open. Ignoring the backup policies of the company as those weren't Corel's fault obviously, what followed after the loss of a file was what pushed me over the edge about Corel as a company and DRAW! as a "serious" application. I was generally the person responsible for contacting tech support as I was the most computer literate. Every time we lost a file to this random corruption, I'd call Corel and talk to their tech support goons. After about the third corrupt file, I pretty much had the procedure down. Call support goon, explain what happened, go through the list of useless troubleshooting tips, still have a corrupt, unusable file. Talk to support goon's "superior." Go through same procedure. Eventually, and WITHOUT FAIL, the final conclusion was that we were just shit out of luck. There was clearly a bug in the software - they had a procedure to "fix" it. It didn't work at all and as far as I know, it was never dealt with. This was around CorelDRAW! 9, IIRC. And I know that the problem lasted at least a year and a half.
The tech support at Corel is horrid and their inclination to produce decent code or FIX bad code is nil. Putting FreeHand in Corel's hands would be a travesty. Aside from the fact that they'd have no more desire to keep it alive than does Adobe, if, by some miracle, they DID decide to keep it alive, they'd only screw it up. The best thing that could happen to FreeHand would be to go to a totally different company. Not Adobe and certainly not Corel. I'm not sure what that company would be, but I know it ain't either of those companies.
If you're doing gaming and VPN stuff, don't count on Satellite to do the job for you. The latency is too great for gaming and only barely usable for VPN. In fact, on DirecPC, unless you get a specific plan, it's nigh impossible to do a VPN. And they don't come close to supporting it. DSL would definitely be the path for you considering your needs.
...damaged the reputation of Linux, then there's little chance they ever will. Linux adoption has increased every year for at least the last five years and the rabid voices were loudest in the early days. I don't see how they can halt the momentum at this point.
it cannot be trusted to do the right thing unless the right thing also happens to be the profitable thing
Considering that it is the SOLE purpose of business to make a profit, this makes total sense. If you're running a "business" that puts the "right" thing ahead of profits, you're no longer running a business, you're running a charity. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just don't expect businesses to operate by the same motives. If something can't be operated at a profit and it is in the overwhelming good interest of the public, then let the government operate it, but make no mistake, government will not do so as efficiently as the private sector could.
However, I'm also a non-Christian and I resent the enforcement of hardline Christian morality, such as the ban on gay marriage, that the Republican Party advocates.
A true Libertarian would tell government to just get the hell out of the marriage business completely. There's no reason for government to be sanctioning any types of marriage. Let the Government recognize some sort of civil union for whatever tax and legal purposes they need to. Let the churches define marriage - or the lawyers. What I'd like to see is for marriage to turn into a legal contract much like any other legally binding agreement. If Steve and Bill want to enter into this agreement, draw up a "marriage" contract and have them both sign it. Same with Bill and Hillary or Bill, Hillary, AND Steve. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms as long as minors or incest isn't involved. Doesn't affect me in the least.
What responsibility do game producers have for content that is likely to end up being played by kids? How about the responsibility of parents? And the responibility of your kid's friend's parents? ('cause just because you don't allow it in your house, doesn't mean that Billy doesn't have it.) I think there needs to be more discussion along these points and less finger pointing of who's to blame.
So, there needs to be more discussion about who's to blame rather than finger pointing who's to blame. Gotcha.
Couldn't agree more. I voted Libertarian for president this past election and it felt good. Even better, the man I voted for in the SC Governor's race was possibly the first person I've voted "FOR" as opposed to voting against other candidates in as long as I can remember. I wish there were more candidates that I could vote "for."
What year did MS introduce the grammar checker in Word? I ask because Excellence! on the Amiga had a grammar checker in 1988. Just curious if MS beat them to the punch. I used to hate that grammar checker. Apparently I'm unable to form sentences in anything but a passive voice.:)
A better question to ask would be, "How have the ones available sold?" If their sales figures aren't that great, you probably won't see too many of them in the future.
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People asked the same things when Sony announced the original Playstation. Give them a shot, it's not like they're totally out of touch with the gaming community.
I only buy consoles if a game will be on that console that I absolutely must own.
So, you really want SCIII, but won't buy it for the PS2 is it's not available for the GC, yet you just said that if you really wanted a game, then, and only then, you'd buy the console that it's available on. Isn't that contradictory?
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And, yeah, I misspelled "peeve."
but you have to take the good with the bad.
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While on the topic of grammar... This is a pet peve of mine. The correct phrase is, "take the bad with the good." And yes, it matters. The former implies that taking the "good" is a burden, while the latter implies, correctly, that taking the "bad" is the burden.
O'Reilly is one of the worst aspects of Fox. Sure, he develops his ideas on his own, but he's a blithering idiot, so it hardly matters. He's one of the foremost pushers of this inane idea of the "Culture Wars." Even worse, he doesn't understand the conflict. It's apparent in his verbage. He consistantly puts "traditionalists" on one side of the argument (his side) and "secularists" on the other side. This is both a false comparison and disingenuous. He Purposefully uses the term "traditionilst" to keep himself from being labeled a "Theist," which would tarnish his "objectivism." A proper comparison would be "traditionalists" vs. "progressives" or "theists" vs. "secularists." There are plenty of secular "traditionalists." I happen to be one of them. He also continuously misrepresents the goal of secularists as being one of removing all discussion of religion from the pubilc arena. This is patently false. Most secularists are simply after a return to the traditional, Constitutional idea that government and religion should be seperate. I, and most secularists, couldn't care less what people say in public. Heck, I encourage people to say whatever they want to say in public. The more ideas, the merrier. Just don't push a religious agenda as a representative of our government.
After O'Reilly's comments about Sony on the Radio Factor yesterday, more unsubstianted, sensationalist crap, I'd say he might have some more legal trouble coming down the line, too. O'Reilly doesn't base everything he says on fact. He's every bit as much a blowhard as the other people on Fox that you despise for doing the same thing. He simply couches it in a more believable verneer of impartiality than, say, Sean Hannity, who is as transparent as that new-fangled "High-Definition Glass."
It looks to me as though your definition of liberal is the one that's skewed. Socialized healthcare is... erm... Socialist, an extreme form of liberalism. It's quite possible to be a liberal and not agree with Socialism. The fact that Socialism runs counter to the ideals upon which the country was founded every bit as much as certain "rightist" elements of the PATRIOT act, should give you an idea of why American Liberals aren't totally on board with the idea. As it should be.
The US Congressional procedures are very strange.
Actually, they're not that strange at all.
Sadly, you'll discover that whatever party has 51% of the vote is not likely to vote to change the rules, since it tends to limit their power.
And that's why it's not so strange. But you missed something. Whichever party is in the minority is unlikely to change things as well. They know (hope) that eventually they'll be in the majority again one day and don't want to limit their powers either. The reason this stuff goes on and will continue to go on is that there is absolutely ZERO motivation on either side of the aisle to change it. And it's doubtful that there ever will be.
Wouldn't help. Apparently most of our elected representatives miss most of the meetings anyway. Hell, most of them didn't even read the PATRIOT act before signing it.
I for one think that archive.org should turn into some UN effort, with a mission to chronical and store daily/timely snapshots of the internet and the culture at the time, preserving it for future generations. What a tool for future historians!
:)
I can see the "Storage For Food Scandal" headlines now.
The tickets, including the surcharge for ordering online, cost about the same as the monthly cable bill.
Movies are $7.50 here. Cable's a LOT more than that.
A medium popcorn is five dollars; the smallest bottled water is three.
I used to work at a theatre so I burned out on popcorn a long while back. Besides, I usually get dinner before I see a film. And water is also at the fountain for free.
The show begins with twenty minutes of commercials, spots promoting the theatre chain, and previews for movies coming out next Memorial Day, sometimes a year from next Memorial Day.
We usually get one ad at the beginning of the movie. At most 3. Three is too many, but still not intollerable. I consider previews part of the movie-going experience. I hate it when I miss them. Regardless of the release date of the film being previewed.
The feature includes any combination of the following: wizards; slinky women of few words; men of few words who can expertly drive anything, spectacularly wreck anything, and leap safely from the top of anything; characters from comic books, sixth-grade world-history textbooks, or "Bulfinch's Mythology"; explosions; phenomena unknown to science; a computer whiz with attitude; a brand-name soft drink, running shoe, or candy bar; an incarnation of pure evil; more explosions; and the voice of Robin Williams.
It figures that this would come from the New Yorker. What's wrong with "wizards; slinky women of few words; men of few words who can expertly drive anything, spectacularly wreck anything, and leap safely from the top of anything; characters from comic books, sixth-grade world-history textbooks, or "Bulfinch's Mythology";?" Not everything has to be Remains of the Day, Madame Bovary, or Pride and Prejudice. I enjoy "high brow" entertainment on occasion, but I'd never be such a snob to consider popular entertainment beneath me, either. Intellectual snobbery is one of the most off-putting character flaws imaginable. It's like these peoples' imaginations have been cut off. It's sad, really.
The movie feels about twenty minutes too long; the reviews are mixed; nobody really loves it; and it grosses several hundred million dollars.
And boring British "dramas" that often lack any perceptable drama DON'T feel too long. Riiiight. And if a movie grosses several hundred million dollars, then apparently, SOMEONE has been entertained. And that's what it's all about.
I had some issues with 10.1, but 10.2 has been running flawlessly for a couple of weeks now. I attributed the issues with 10.1 to the fact that I did an upgrade install (9.x -> 10.0 -> 10.1), so I did a fresh install of 10.2.
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I've given Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) a whirl, but wasn't too comfortable with the permissions setup of the distro. It's probably not as big a deal as I made it out to be, but having no real root user, but giving a standard user root permissions just didn't seem like a good idea to me.
I have one client that's been running one version or another of SBS since SBS 4. While it's an interesting product, it isn't without its issues. Really the only reason I recommended them upgrade to the latest SBS when they were upgrading their server was that the cost of Server 2k3 and Exchange by itself was higher than SBS. If that wasn't the case, I'd have had them go with 2k3 and Exchange. They really don't use all the other stuff that comes with SBS, so there's no other reason for them to have it. In fact, after getting it up and running for a while, they decided they wanted to tie a satellite office into the main office and only then did I discover that you can't have more than two remote connections to an SBS 2k3 server concurrently. Lame.
I've always found it interesting that SBS comes with all of those server products (Exchange, SQL, etc...) running on the same system while officially, Microsoft recommends against running more than one major server service on a single server.
I respect your opinion and your decision to wait, but it's a little baffling to me that you consider the stable of games on the PS2 not worth anything yet bought an X-Box at launch. Unless you're a FPS fan (Halo), the PS2 library has always had a better selection of games overall than the X-Box. It's only been in the last nine months or so that the X-Box has started to build a compelling library of exclusive titles and it's been a slow process, at that. I think once you plunk down the cash for a PS2, you'll find plenty of games to keep you occupied. Personally, I've put off getting an X-Box until there are more than two or three games that pique my interest that I can't get for the PC. So far, Ninja Gaiden is the only one. I picked up Halo for the PC and will get Halo 2 for the PC when it invariably gets released. Good gaming to ya! :)
...about how the data was lost. It's a little bit difficult to get angry about a lost package in the shipping process. It happens. It's always going to happen. It's rare, though. I'd be a little pissed off if this was due to a network breach at Ameritrade. As it is, I'm not too concerned. So, yeah, it DOES matter how the data was lost.
I know this may sound strange, but you might consider targeting AmigaAnywhere. It'll allow you flexibility to run on many different platforms (WinCE, PocketPC, SmartPhone, Linux, etc...) without having to rewrite code. The AmigaAnywhere platform is based on the Tao Group's virtual processor so it's write once, run anywhere. I'm not deeply familiar with how it all works, but I've heard good things. Something to consider at least.
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I agree wholeheartedly with everything you posted except for hoping that FreeHand gets sold off to Corel. I, too, was trained on Illustrator in college and after using FreeHand for a very short period of time switched because my productivity in FreeHand is easily 80% better than in Illustrator.
BUT - I also worked somewhere that used Corel exclusivley (eventually, I did MY work in FreeHand and exported it to CorelDRAW! when necessary). CorelDRAW! is, has always been, and appears as if it always WILL be a steaming load. DRAW! is aimed at... well, I'm not exactly sure WHO it's aimed at. It's not professional enough for serious use and it's entirely too complicated for casual users.
Here's a CorelDRAW! story for you that'll solidify the probable horror show that would be CorelFreeHand(!). Around once every couple of months, while I was working at the place that used CorelDRAW!, one of our designers would lose a piece of artwork. This was work that took between a few weeks to a month and a half easily per piece. All of a sudden a random piece of work would simply not open. Ignoring the backup policies of the company as those weren't Corel's fault obviously, what followed after the loss of a file was what pushed me over the edge about Corel as a company and DRAW! as a "serious" application. I was generally the person responsible for contacting tech support as I was the most computer literate. Every time we lost a file to this random corruption, I'd call Corel and talk to their tech support goons. After about the third corrupt file, I pretty much had the procedure down. Call support goon, explain what happened, go through the list of useless troubleshooting tips, still have a corrupt, unusable file. Talk to support goon's "superior." Go through same procedure. Eventually, and WITHOUT FAIL, the final conclusion was that we were just shit out of luck. There was clearly a bug in the software - they had a procedure to "fix" it. It didn't work at all and as far as I know, it was never dealt with. This was around CorelDRAW! 9, IIRC. And I know that the problem lasted at least a year and a half.
The tech support at Corel is horrid and their inclination to produce decent code or FIX bad code is nil. Putting FreeHand in Corel's hands would be a travesty. Aside from the fact that they'd have no more desire to keep it alive than does Adobe, if, by some miracle, they DID decide to keep it alive, they'd only screw it up. The best thing that could happen to FreeHand would be to go to a totally different company. Not Adobe and certainly not Corel. I'm not sure what that company would be, but I know it ain't either of those companies.
If you're doing gaming and VPN stuff, don't count on Satellite to do the job for you. The latency is too great for gaming and only barely usable for VPN. In fact, on DirecPC, unless you get a specific plan, it's nigh impossible to do a VPN. And they don't come close to supporting it. DSL would definitely be the path for you considering your needs.
...damaged the reputation of Linux, then there's little chance they ever will. Linux adoption has increased every year for at least the last five years and the rabid voices were loudest in the early days. I don't see how they can halt the momentum at this point.
it cannot be trusted to do the right thing unless the right thing also happens to be the profitable thing
Considering that it is the SOLE purpose of business to make a profit, this makes total sense. If you're running a "business" that puts the "right" thing ahead of profits, you're no longer running a business, you're running a charity. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just don't expect businesses to operate by the same motives. If something can't be operated at a profit and it is in the overwhelming good interest of the public, then let the government operate it, but make no mistake, government will not do so as efficiently as the private sector could.
However, I'm also a non-Christian and I resent the enforcement of hardline Christian morality, such as the ban on gay marriage, that the Republican Party advocates.
A true Libertarian would tell government to just get the hell out of the marriage business completely. There's no reason for government to be sanctioning any types of marriage. Let the Government recognize some sort of civil union for whatever tax and legal purposes they need to. Let the churches define marriage - or the lawyers. What I'd like to see is for marriage to turn into a legal contract much like any other legally binding agreement. If Steve and Bill want to enter into this agreement, draw up a "marriage" contract and have them both sign it. Same with Bill and Hillary or Bill, Hillary, AND Steve. I don't care what people do in their bedrooms as long as minors or incest isn't involved. Doesn't affect me in the least.
What responsibility do game producers have for content that is likely to end up being played by kids? How about the responsibility of parents? And the responibility of your kid's friend's parents? ('cause just because you don't allow it in your house, doesn't mean that Billy doesn't have it.) I think there needs to be more discussion along these points and less finger pointing of who's to blame.
So, there needs to be more discussion about who's to blame rather than finger pointing who's to blame. Gotcha.
Couldn't agree more. I voted Libertarian for president this past election and it felt good. Even better, the man I voted for in the SC Governor's race was possibly the first person I've voted "FOR" as opposed to voting against other candidates in as long as I can remember. I wish there were more candidates that I could vote "for."
What year did MS introduce the grammar checker in Word? I ask because Excellence! on the Amiga had a grammar checker in 1988. Just curious if MS beat them to the punch. I used to hate that grammar checker. Apparently I'm unable to form sentences in anything but a passive voice. :)
They screwed TechTV, so screw them.
Soul Caliber III PS2 Only?
And the original article only got around 80 replies.
A better question to ask would be, "How have the ones available sold?" If their sales figures aren't that great, you probably won't see too many of them in the future.
People asked the same things when Sony announced the original Playstation. Give them a shot, it's not like they're totally out of touch with the gaming community.
I only buy consoles if a game will be on that console that I absolutely must own.
So, you really want SCIII, but won't buy it for the PS2 is it's not available for the GC, yet you just said that if you really wanted a game, then, and only then, you'd buy the console that it's available on. Isn't that contradictory?