Microsoft likes having the computer world all fucked up; makes for cheaper hardware to promote Windows on, and allows them to act as the broker between mismatched hardware, via HALs and DirectX and what not.
Remember also that Microsoft *does* lead ATI and Nvidia around by the nose, now that DirectX is the defacto platform for PC gaming. Remember how they fucked over Nvidia by changing the DirectX 9.0 spec (or was it the pixel shader spec) after Nvidia had started producing hardware to the original version, while ATI got slipped a reach-around?
See, I find that interesting, because the last time I was in England (coincidentally, the first time I was in England) myself and my cohorts were actually accused of being Americans in disguise, as we were prominantly displaying Canadian flags, having heard about anti-American sentiment.
You're right, it isn't. So it's a good thing the joke isn't about Alzheimers, it's about Regan spending three days telling Congress 'I don't recall' during the Iran Contra scandal.
Microsoft tried the Live service with Windows; DirectPlay and the Zone. Developers didn't go for it, for various reasons; one of the hallmarks of the PC world has always been 'do it your way.'
But with the console, it just makes sense. You slap in your disc, it plays. You don't need to configure the sound drivers, select OpenGL or DirectX, you just slap it in and play. Well, extend that to online. Click the 'online' button and your done.
None of this 'buy the addons, figure out if the game works over the dial up or the broadband modem, does this game use a headset, does that one, do I pay for this one, do I subscribe for that one, how do I find a game to join, blah blah blah. With Live, it just works.
Or, put another way, in many ways, the Xbox is more 'consoly' than the Playstation 2....
Just going from my own shelf: Buffy, Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive 3, Dead or Alive Volleyball, Brute Force, Robotech: Battlecry, Crimson Sea, Toejam and Earl 3...
* Fire Lets you see naked cave girls at night. * Stone tools Lets you skin that mammoth faster so you can get back to the sex. * Agriculture Less time scavenging, more time fucking. * Shelter Nothing spoils the mood like trying to fuck in a torrential downpour. * Roads Lets you get to the orgy faster. * Wheels See above. Also lets you build 'chick magnet' cars. * Sailing/Navigation Foreign pooty. * Metallurgy Lets you build all sorts of porn-useful technology. * Firearms Lets you defend your own porn, and take their porn. * Plumbing Don't have to run out to the outhouse; more time for sex and porn. * Steam power Oh, so many possibilities, but how about faster transportation of porn by mail? * Electricity Again, the entire porn industry makes use of electricity; everthing from the batteries in your Vibrating Butt Plug 2000 to the cam corders recording them.... * Radio Broadcast porn. * Television Oh, come on.... * Cotton 'gin Costumes and fetishes. * Typewriters Harlequin 'Romance' novels. * Airplanes Mile high club, baby! * Automobiles Please. * Submarines Increased sales of porn to horny sailors cooped up on a sub for sixty days at a time... * Rocketry/Space exploration Yup, nothing porn related about great big, long, hard tubes thrusting up into the sky before releasing their payloads into the great black depths... * Nuclear power See electricity, above. * Teflon crockery If you can't see the porn applications of teflon... * Septic tanks See plumbing, above. * Letter openers... Opening your porn mail faster.
So yes, as you can see, every conceivable invention in the history of man exists solely for the improvement of porn, in one way or another.
In one of the great ironies of modern history, the President appointed Hitler as Chancellor in a bid to preserve democracy
He then proceeded to commission a 'grand army of the Republic' and promise to hold onto emergency executive powers only until the crisis was abated....
Nintendo only licensed to people who could pay their exhorbant fees for producing carts. They also limited you to something like five titles per year; I believe Tengen was trying to get around that clause.
Sure, the nail that sticks up gets hammered down sometimes. The same is true in American companies. Sure, you can't talk smack about your boss to his face and expect work to go smoothly.
Sure, but in America, they're as likely to say 'the squeaky wheel gets the grease;' in other words, the exact opposite concept.
And yes, you're right; America is moving towards 'nail' status, and Japan is moving towards 'squeaky wheel' status.
There is no competition between students, except in the case of high school entrance and college entrance exams. I fail to see what is cutthroat.
You're right, the competition isn't between students. The high-school exams, however, affect which college/university/whatever you wind up in, which will wind up affecting your carrier options, your social standing, and a bunch of other things. They call it 'exam hell' and have a high suicide rate for a reason.
Since forever. Hell, I've seen Japanese managers tell it to gaijin workers simply as friendly advice.
Unruly during set hours? Since when?
Since forever. During the working day, you keep your head down and you do as your told. Then, after hours, you go out for drinks with the boss, and you're officially allowed to get 'drunk,' say bad things about them, and make an asshole of yourself. The next day, nothing will be said of it.
How many times did we see Prince Adam running from back-right to front-left of the screen in He-Man, after all?
How many times did we see the canned 'bionics on!' sequence in Bionic Six?
Low budget animation is low budget animation. At least with something like Lodoss War TV, even though you're seeing a static face with an animated mouth for half an episode, you're getting a decent (or even just 'a') plot, ongoing storyline, character development, and all that.
Or, watch.hack//sign; the entire thing is people standing around talking. But, for me at least, it works. Then, go watch.hack//Legend of the Twilight, which has, in the first five or so minutes, more combat than the entire.hack//sign series. And some boobie jokes.
Yes, but by the time the airbags inflate, things are already out of your hands.
If, however, somebody, say, t-bones you around your back wheel, or you hit some ice and start spinning, or your hit from behind, a seatbelt is going to hold you in front of the wheel, or, if you're a passenger, prevent you from crashing into something/somebody.
And if it were Microsoft,/.ers everywhere would be accusing them of crippling the original versions, and taking out new versions, or complaining that they should have done whatever optimizations right the first time, blah blah blah.
And you're right, it is curious as to why it's not bundled into the Windows Update facility, but Microsoft is notorious for suffering from 'left hand/right hand' syndrome; they're not the monolithic hive mind that people make them out to be.
Remember, Windows 3 gained 32 bit protected mode basically on a dare, for example.
Ah, but in the case of Nanking, what the soldiers did *was* what the commanders told them to do. This was not a case of a few guys wigging out under the stress of combat.
And if they didn't have automatic update checking, people would be whining and complaining that it doesn't auto update, so when a Media Player exploit goes around, thousands and thousands of Joe Sixpacks, who never update manually, will be infectable, and Microsoft should just build AuToMaTiC UpDaTeS into the damn thing....
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Microsoft likes having the computer world all fucked up; makes for cheaper hardware to promote Windows on, and allows them to act as the broker between mismatched hardware, via HALs and DirectX and what not.
Remember also that Microsoft *does* lead ATI and Nvidia around by the nose, now that DirectX is the defacto platform for PC gaming. Remember how they fucked over Nvidia by changing the DirectX 9.0 spec (or was it the pixel shader spec) after Nvidia had started producing hardware to the original version, while ATI got slipped a reach-around?
(The above should be taken as a Billy Wilson-ism)
See, I find that interesting, because the last time I was in England (coincidentally, the first time I was in England) myself and my cohorts were actually accused of being Americans in disguise, as we were prominantly displaying Canadian flags, having heard about anti-American sentiment.
You're right, it isn't. So it's a good thing the joke isn't about Alzheimers, it's about Regan spending three days telling Congress 'I don't recall' during the Iran Contra scandal.
If a ten second file is ten megabytes big, you have a average bitrate of 1 meg/second.
So how can somebody claim to have a ten second/ten meg file with an average bitrate of 1.5 megs/second?
Microsoft tried the Live service with Windows; DirectPlay and the Zone. Developers didn't go for it, for various reasons; one of the hallmarks of the PC world has always been 'do it your way.'
But with the console, it just makes sense. You slap in your disc, it plays. You don't need to configure the sound drivers, select OpenGL or DirectX, you just slap it in and play. Well, extend that to online. Click the 'online' button and your done.
None of this 'buy the addons, figure out if the game works over the dial up or the broadband modem, does this game use a headset, does that one, do I pay for this one, do I subscribe for that one, how do I find a game to join, blah blah blah. With Live, it just works.
Or, put another way, in many ways, the Xbox is more 'consoly' than the Playstation 2....
Just going from my own shelf: Buffy, Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive 3, Dead or Alive Volleyball, Brute Force, Robotech: Battlecry, Crimson Sea, Toejam and Earl 3...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't America engineer the removal of the Shah and bring about rule by the Ayatollahs?
Operative phrase here being 'can be.'
I'd say this is worth checking into.
He then proceeded to commission a 'grand army of the Republic' and promise to hold onto emergency executive powers only until the crisis was abated....
As with so many Windows exploits, the patch predates the exploit by at least a month....
Nintendo only licensed to people who could pay their exhorbant fees for producing carts. They also limited you to something like five titles per year; I believe Tengen was trying to get around that clause.
Actually, the original Nintendo included a lockout chip; Tengen, I believe, was sued for circumventing it.
Did your test script look up the same hostname 10,000 times? Did it look up different hostnames from 350 different domains? Or any different domains?
Sure, but in America, they're as likely to say 'the squeaky wheel gets the grease;' in other words, the exact opposite concept.
And yes, you're right; America is moving towards 'nail' status, and Japan is moving towards 'squeaky wheel' status.
You're right, the competition isn't between students. The high-school exams, however, affect which college/university/whatever you wind up in, which will wind up affecting your carrier options, your social standing, and a bunch of other things. They call it 'exam hell' and have a high suicide rate for a reason.
Since forever. Hell, I've seen Japanese managers tell it to gaijin workers simply as friendly advice.
Since forever. During the working day, you keep your head down and you do as your told. Then, after hours, you go out for drinks with the boss, and you're officially allowed to get 'drunk,' say bad things about them, and make an asshole of yourself. The next day, nothing will be said of it.
This, I have no knowledge of.
Living in Japan is different from living Japan.
How many times did we see Prince Adam running from back-right to front-left of the screen in He-Man, after all?
How many times did we see the canned 'bionics on!' sequence in Bionic Six?
Low budget animation is low budget animation. At least with something like Lodoss War TV, even though you're seeing a static face with an animated mouth for half an episode, you're getting a decent (or even just 'a') plot, ongoing storyline, character development, and all that.
Or, watch .hack//sign; the entire thing is people standing around talking. But, for me at least, it works. Then, go watch .hack//Legend of the Twilight, which has, in the first five or so minutes, more combat than the entire .hack//sign series. And some boobie jokes.
Am I the only person seeing all of these references to Mythica, and TFL or TFLO and thinking 'Myth: The Fallen Lords for Xbox? Sweet!'?
Yes, but by the time the airbags inflate, things are already out of your hands.
If, however, somebody, say, t-bones you around your back wheel, or you hit some ice and start spinning, or your hit from behind, a seatbelt is going to hold you in front of the wheel, or, if you're a passenger, prevent you from crashing into something/somebody.
And if it were Microsoft, /.ers everywhere would be accusing them of crippling the original versions, and taking out new versions, or complaining that they should have done whatever optimizations right the first time, blah blah blah.
MP updates it's codecs and what not.
And you're right, it is curious as to why it's not bundled into the Windows Update facility, but Microsoft is notorious for suffering from 'left hand/right hand' syndrome; they're not the monolithic hive mind that people make them out to be.
Remember, Windows 3 gained 32 bit protected mode basically on a dare, for example.
Ah, but in the case of Nanking, what the soldiers did *was* what the commanders told them to do. This was not a case of a few guys wigging out under the stress of combat.
And if they didn't have automatic update checking, people would be whining and complaining that it doesn't auto update, so when a Media Player exploit goes around, thousands and thousands of Joe Sixpacks, who never update manually, will be infectable, and Microsoft should just build AuToMaTiC UpDaTeS into the damn thing....
I've never tried it, but XP does have a 'transfer files and settings' utility; accessories/system tools/transfer files and settings wizard, I believe.