The closest thing would be Simon. While you did have to press specific buttons at specific times in Dragon's Lair, it wasn't tied to music, and it was just one button (or direction) that you had to press each time, as opposed to long strings of button presses in these games. I remember there being an old game (Atari 2600?) where you were a little guy who would have to copy the dance moves of another little guy by pressing the right direction (up, down, left, right). It was simon, but with dancing.
The first "modern" rhythm game I remember ever seeing was PaRappa.
I wouldn't consider Dragon's Lair a rhythm game because there was no rhythm involved, at all. However, it was the first quick-time event game. There are many names for it, but I mean the cinematic in Shenmue (where you would suddenly have to press a button). They also had these kind of things in God of War and many other games lately (they seem to have been rediscovered recently, perhaps as a way of making cinematic more interesting).
Why doesn't ever car have a continuously-variable-transmission (or CVT)? They are more efficient than any manual or automatic transmission because the engine is always operating at peak efficiency. They are simpler than a automatic transmission (have you ever LOOKED at how one of those works?). And you can do 0-60 about 25% faster than with a normal gearbox because you don't need the gear changes and such. Plus, you could probably make 'em smaller than a normal transmission. Lighter too.
Smaller, better gas, more efficient, lighter. So what if they cost a little more right now. What would something like an automatic transmission cost if we didn't have the economies of scale we do for them.
Or just do it like a diesel locomotive. The engine runs all the time at 2000 RPM (or whatever it's ideal spot is). It runs a generator, and that generator powers electric motors that run the wheels. It's more efficient (add in a battery to make things better), it is based on current technology, it removes the need for a transmission (put little motors on each wheel, not one motor to drive everything).
There is a lot we can do. Detroit is too lazy. Why do you think Hybrid cars came out of Japan?
And the Ford Escape Hybrid doesn't count, because they bought the technology from Toyota (or was it Honda?). As far as I know there is no Detroit designed and built hybrid engine on the market. Compare that to 6 years or so of hybrids from Toyota and Honda.
I've become a big music game nut. PaRappa got me hooked.
I agree with the list for the most part. My personal favorite would be Amplitude, I'd love to see another sequel. I got Guitar Hero right before Christmas it was fantastic. However, the game got hard for me (the difficulty REALLY shot up fast for me at a specific part). I basically can't play on hard mode (5 buttons) past the few two or three songs. I'll practice more when I get more time.
I'd love a sequel to Guitar Hero too.
And, I have to give a BIG nod to Guitaroo Man. That game is also amazing. It's hard to find, but it's worth it. Not only is it a blast, but it has about the weirdest storyline you'll ever see (With the possible exception of a Bobobo-bo-bobo-bo game).
It seems to me this is probably based off of the same idea with books.
If I copy a book verbatim, it is not my book. It is the original author's.
But what if I take various short stores that I like from all over and put it in a book (we'll assume I got permission). I have now made a new book that didn't exist before.
While I didn't produce any of the content, I did produce a new book. This is my understanding of the decision.
Of course, in classic/. style, I have not read the decision to see if that is the argument the court used. But that would be my interpretation.
OK, I'll probably get modded to hell for this, but your post is FREAKING SCARY.
FIRST, the verdict is NOT crap. I think it is a GOOD verdict. He produced something with child pornography on it. Child porn is illegal, thus he produced something illegal, thus he did something illegal. A=B=C. Not it's the same as creating child porn, but if you stick to that definition then people could make all the child porn they want out in international waters in or 3rd world countries where they don't care, then they could e-mail the files to the US where they could be distributed and sold. Under your interpretation, that would be perfectly legal.
PS: Possession of any child porn is illegal. So this isn't a question of "is he innocent or is he guilty", this is a question of "is he guilty of X or is he guilty of X and Y".
SECOND, why isn't he a *scumbag*? Are you comparing him to the nice pedophiles who give little kids candy and show them their puppies? You point out that it is illegal to act on the desire for children. It has been PROVEN that possessing child porn significantly increases the chances of someone committing a crime because the fantasy stops being enough and they want to do the real thing. Same for violent rape porn.
Anyone who looks at child porn is a scumbag in my book. They are free to choose NOT to look at it. They don't have to.
THIRD, laws against pedophiles are not counterproductive, they prevent things from getting worse than they are now. Of course it is illegal to make computer generated images of sex with children. See my second point. The fact that image was not taken with a camera doesn't make it any less harmful.
If they do it with fake images and it relieves the pressure, good for them. Nice idea. Until it doesn't relieve the pressure and they can only get it up with children. But the images don't do it, so they start sitting in the park watching children. Or they offer to "babysit" someone. Or they just get the nerve up to abduct a child.
You're right though. Our laws are based on a common morality. Like the common idea that I can't grab any women I see and force her to have sex. That's a terrible thing. "Common Morality" is clearly stepping on my rights. What a twisted idea that I can't force people to have sex with me.
Again, I find a post like your TERRIFYING. Let me just ask you a simple question. Do you believe in evil? That's all I'll say.
The thing I'm hoping those 8 cores will be used for is to fix those things I hate most. If you have that much extra power, spend some of it on the little things.
You can make good ripples on water, and do other geometry things. Make the trees have REAL leaves (like that great Cell demo). Make more individual blades of grass and such. Just little things that act correct so the world looks more "real" and less "here is a random bush so you don't notice there are no bushes".
Hair, clothes, weapons. Make them act more realistically when walking, etc. Why is it every game seems to have a walk cycle or some such where parts of a character's model (weapon, hair, clothes, etc) move in and out of another part (intersecting). With your free CPU time, you can test this and make sure the weapon doesn't SLICE MY CHARACTER'S THIGH as I walk.
Other little things like this. Add more rabbits, ants, birds, squirrels, whatever around the world. Make more NPCs who walk around town. Whatever. Just make things more alive.
It is too bad you can't use OmniGraffle (Mac only, it seems). It is a very nice program. The diagrams look better, they are easier to make (you don't spend all your time "fighting" the program), and the program launches in just a few seconds (why does Visio seem to take a full minute to launch on a recent 2.4 GHz Windows PC? And even then it still seems slow to respond).
It's a great program. If you ever see a Mac, give it a try (the non-professional version, which lacks Visio import/export, was included on my PowerBook when I bought it).
Most of that list doesn't surprise me too much. I thought Photoshop would be first, but Quickbooks does make sense, as does Autocad. I'm a bit surprised to see Act! on the list (I haven't heard about that software in years).
That said, I don't think you'd ever see iTunes for Linux (and I was amazed it was on the list, I would have never guessed it).
And then there is Visio. That will never be ported either. If Visio is there, why isn't Office? That said, I've never met someone who liked Visio in the two years or so I've been exposed to it. What Visio needs first is a good Windows port. OmniGraffle is much better. How about a Linux port of that?
That is Nintendo's way. If you remember Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Zelda: Oracle of Seasons for the GBC, if you put them into the GBA (which was out or very close to out at that time) you could get access to a special store that was closed when you played with a GBC. They've done stuff like that a few times now.
Bluetooth 2.0+EDR (which is on Macs, I don't know about other computers) is 3.0 Mbps. Faster, but still not there.
But like the grandparent post said, the real point is that most things aren't available in Bluetooth. You want to plug in your external hard drive by Bluetooth? You can't buy one that would let you do that. Is your digital camera designed to use Bluetooth to connect to your computer? Your drawing tablet? Your PDA? Your cell phone? Your printer? Your DVD-RW drive?
Some of these things may be available in Bluetooth, but if they were and if your computer supported Bluetooth you probably would be using it already. This is a solution for things that must be USB (or you don't want to fork out to buy the Bluetooth version), and I can see it being quite handy. It would be nice to have a little collection of USB stuff that I could plug into my laptop with one little adapter so I'm still cordless instead of the wire running over to the hub. And with a HTPC (as someone else mentioned) you could use this to plug USB stuff in by the couch where you are (game pads, memory sticks, etc) instead of having to reach behind your collection of AV equiptment where the PC is.
Buy a Macintosh. You won't be a target for most of the threats out there, but you can still have dial-up. Same logic.
I agree with everyone else here. That may be technically true, but it's stupid. All you need is a firewall and a little common sense and you are practically invulnerable to most of the attacks out there.
That's a great idea. The Wikipedia article on Z-RAM mentions this.
Because Z-RAM can scale much better than DRAM, they should be able to make it much smaller/faster. Also, because it is made of one transistor and not one transistor and one capacitor, it takes up half as much space. So you could double the density of your DRAM products.
But more interesting, if this can replace SRAM that means that it doesn't require refreshing like DRAM does. This would be a MAJOR benefit if it replaced DRAM for system RAM. Without the capacitors you could get much higher speeds too (which is a big problem with system RAM these days, processors have to wait HUNDREDS of cycles to get something from memory).
If this stuff works (which I think it must if AMD is buying it) this could be big.
If the secondary market is killing you, kill the secondary market in a way that is good for consumers.
You have two options. First is requiring activation, thus making the secondary copy useless. Other posters have pointed this out. This is terrible.
Or you could take another route. Nintendo is doing this in some ways. Sell the games to people cheaper than used. Sell electronic copies. Make it in my interest to go buy a game for $30 from you, instead of $25 from the game retailer. Most games, after an initial period, sell next to nothing. So why leave the game on the shelves at $50 and let retails sell 'em used for $25 when you could sell them on-demand for $25. Basically, Live Arcade for more recent (and bigger) games. This is where the future is. We all know it. It is just a question of when we get there.
That's true. But it can't get much worse than it is now, and I think the ability to attract all the casual gamers with the unique interface will draw in many game companies. Nintendo has proven with the DS that they can get casual gamers with their unique interfaces (example: Nintendogs). The ability to make a game that will be easy to use and attract gamer who aren't the "gamers" everyone else is targeting would be huge. And having a price point where an adult could buy the system (say $200 or $250, as opposed to $400+ for the others) without having to miss a car payment. I've seen people who bought a DS for Nintendogs.
How many non-"gamers" will plunk down $400 + game + tax if they find something they like on the 360. How many other games do they think they will find on the 360 they like?
This should be interesting to see what happens. I'm hoping the Big-N takes first in the next-gen race (a bit unlikely). But I wouldn't be surprised if they were much more competitive, perhaps taking 2nd place by a small margin.
I agree with the author that Nintendo is in a good position. You mention the possibility that Ninteno will be seen a cheap, but I don' think that is the case.
This is Nintendo. Nintendo isn't the synonym for video games it used to be (that job is now taken over in popular culture by Playstation or X-Box). But they are still a MAJOR brand. Everyone knows about the GameBoy. They had a very successful system in the GameCube, the N64, the SNES, the NES, and the DS. They weren't always the leaders of the generation (that stopped in home consoles with the SNES), but they have good solid stuff.
Besides, this is Nintendo. That means Mario. Mario Party. Super Smash Brothers. Zelda. Mario Kart. Plus tons of other great little games that will come out like Pikmin. Was there anything even CLOSE to Pikmin on any other system?
Nintendo may not be the post powerful console out there. That's fine with me. As I have said in previous posts, it's not like we are hurting for better graphics with the current generation (and the Rev is supposed to be 4x as powerful as the system that showed us Resident Evil 4). But I know there will be great games. Even if theys system is not the most popular (which could happen this time around, if Nintendo's bets pay off) it will have great games.
Even the Virtual Boy which failed in the market (which I loved) had great games. Mario Crash, Mairo Tennis (about the best tennis game I've played), Wario Land, and more.
The games will keep the afloat if they get stuck as an "also-ran". But I think they will be more successful than there were this generation.
I agree. That is the one thing that bugged me when I bought my Mac about a year ago. It is a great computer. But here I laid down $x000 to buy a new top of the line Mac. I got OS X. I got iLife. I got tons of other software.
And a demo for QuickTime, which would have cost $30.
I wouldn't have cared if they gave me a full version and upped the price of the computer by $30. And I bought a top of the line PowerBook too. I understand on an iMac or Mac Mini or something. But I bought something in their professional line. I should have gotten QuickTime with my computer.
Is it just me, or does this need to be on a T-Shirt? Put the picture of a backhoe in a yellow diamond caution sign with the phrase below it.
This is defiantly true though. Living in a fairly recent subdivision, back when the construction was closer to my house this would happen all the time. The phone. The cable. The internet. Even the power once.
I think it's clear what we need to do: go kill all the backhoes.
I saw numbers somewhere (Kotaku? Gizmodo?) about how many units various consoles had sold 4 months after their launches (which is where we are on the 360).
The 360 has sold 600k. The DS sold 1,200k. The Dreamcast sold 1,800k.
Launch numbers aren't great.
Yeah, this is probably due to shortages. Just something I thought I'd point out as I found it interesting and I figured you guys would too.
There is a tiny applescript that you can use to make QuickTime Player go fullscreen. You just launch your file, hit pause, then run the script. It works just fine.
tell application "QuickTime Player"
present front movie scale screen
end tell
I agree completely. If they didn't have my console on launch day and that was when they told me they would have it, I would almost certainly ask for my money back. At most, I would give them a week to produce my console. At that point, I would get my money back. They didn't hold up their end of the bargain.
They are holding your money, making interest on it, not giving you the benefit of that interest, and not giving you your console.
Take the money, and go look at Costco, Target, Wal*Mart, Toys R Us, EB Games (that haven't become Gamestop's yet), Babbages (owned by GameStop), Radio Shack, ANYWHERE. But the console where you can find it, and keep checking until you find one. If GameStop is the first to get it in and let you buy it, then they can have your money.
But don't let them hold your money for free.
I like my local GameStop, but I wouldn't put up with this. I didn't back when Chips & Bits gave me the runaround about the Virtual Boy I ordered, and I would now.
I agree. A company's basic premise is to make a product and keep doing that, perhaps to make a better world, etc. This is easily summed (and somewhat incorrectly) into "A company's job is to make money".
That is true. And an organism's job is to breed.
But it is not supposed to be "at any cost". Sure, I could increase my chances of breeding by killing every other male I see. If I take out a large chunk of the local male population, then my changes of breeding HAVE TO go up. But that doesn't make it a smart move, or the right move.
Companies need to act the same way. With business ethics. The stockholder is not cart blanch to do anything that will make you money.
Perhaps we should have a law like we have on bribery. American corporations doing business overseas can NOT bribe the foreign officials even if that is the standard practice and what you have to do to get contracts there. Now some companies will argue that makes them unable to compete, but I don't see a problem with that because they are maintaining standards (and I think many people would agree with me).
I think it would be a good idea if Congress, in these hearings, were to make a similar law that American companies can not help foreign states censor things like China and some other countries try to do. So the company could either not do business, or perhaps leave hooks in so that any censorship would have to be made by the government and installed and run by them.
We are a free country. We are committed to showing others the virtues of freedom. You shouldn't go around selling anti-freedom software to other governments to use on their people.
But that last part is just my opinion. It's business ethics. Something we don't see enough of.
I agree, I find that a bit dissapointing. But when it comes time to replace the G5 towers, they will HAVE to go with something with x86-64. After all, 64-bit computing was one of their big selling points for moving to the G5 processor.
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The closest thing would be Simon. While you did have to press specific buttons at specific times in Dragon's Lair, it wasn't tied to music, and it was just one button (or direction) that you had to press each time, as opposed to long strings of button presses in these games. I remember there being an old game (Atari 2600?) where you were a little guy who would have to copy the dance moves of another little guy by pressing the right direction (up, down, left, right). It was simon, but with dancing.
The first "modern" rhythm game I remember ever seeing was PaRappa.
I wouldn't consider Dragon's Lair a rhythm game because there was no rhythm involved, at all. However, it was the first quick-time event game. There are many names for it, but I mean the cinematic in Shenmue (where you would suddenly have to press a button). They also had these kind of things in God of War and many other games lately (they seem to have been rediscovered recently, perhaps as a way of making cinematic more interesting).
Why doesn't ever car have a continuously-variable-transmission (or CVT)? They are more efficient than any manual or automatic transmission because the engine is always operating at peak efficiency. They are simpler than a automatic transmission (have you ever LOOKED at how one of those works?). And you can do 0-60 about 25% faster than with a normal gearbox because you don't need the gear changes and such. Plus, you could probably make 'em smaller than a normal transmission. Lighter too.
Smaller, better gas, more efficient, lighter. So what if they cost a little more right now. What would something like an automatic transmission cost if we didn't have the economies of scale we do for them.
Or just do it like a diesel locomotive. The engine runs all the time at 2000 RPM (or whatever it's ideal spot is). It runs a generator, and that generator powers electric motors that run the wheels. It's more efficient (add in a battery to make things better), it is based on current technology, it removes the need for a transmission (put little motors on each wheel, not one motor to drive everything).
There is a lot we can do. Detroit is too lazy. Why do you think Hybrid cars came out of Japan?
And the Ford Escape Hybrid doesn't count, because they bought the technology from Toyota (or was it Honda?). As far as I know there is no Detroit designed and built hybrid engine on the market. Compare that to 6 years or so of hybrids from Toyota and Honda.
I agree with the list for the most part. My personal favorite would be Amplitude, I'd love to see another sequel. I got Guitar Hero right before Christmas it was fantastic. However, the game got hard for me (the difficulty REALLY shot up fast for me at a specific part). I basically can't play on hard mode (5 buttons) past the few two or three songs. I'll practice more when I get more time.
I'd love a sequel to Guitar Hero too.
And, I have to give a BIG nod to Guitaroo Man. That game is also amazing. It's hard to find, but it's worth it. Not only is it a blast, but it has about the weirdest storyline you'll ever see (With the possible exception of a Bobobo-bo-bobo-bo game).
If I copy a book verbatim, it is not my book. It is the original author's.
But what if I take various short stores that I like from all over and put it in a book (we'll assume I got permission). I have now made a new book that didn't exist before.
While I didn't produce any of the content, I did produce a new book. This is my understanding of the decision.
Of course, in classic /. style, I have not read the decision to see if that is the argument the court used. But that would be my interpretation.
FIRST, the verdict is NOT crap. I think it is a GOOD verdict. He produced something with child pornography on it. Child porn is illegal, thus he produced something illegal, thus he did something illegal. A=B=C. Not it's the same as creating child porn, but if you stick to that definition then people could make all the child porn they want out in international waters in or 3rd world countries where they don't care, then they could e-mail the files to the US where they could be distributed and sold. Under your interpretation, that would be perfectly legal.
PS: Possession of any child porn is illegal. So this isn't a question of "is he innocent or is he guilty", this is a question of "is he guilty of X or is he guilty of X and Y".
SECOND, why isn't he a *scumbag*? Are you comparing him to the nice pedophiles who give little kids candy and show them their puppies? You point out that it is illegal to act on the desire for children. It has been PROVEN that possessing child porn significantly increases the chances of someone committing a crime because the fantasy stops being enough and they want to do the real thing. Same for violent rape porn.
Anyone who looks at child porn is a scumbag in my book. They are free to choose NOT to look at it. They don't have to.
THIRD, laws against pedophiles are not counterproductive, they prevent things from getting worse than they are now. Of course it is illegal to make computer generated images of sex with children. See my second point. The fact that image was not taken with a camera doesn't make it any less harmful.
If they do it with fake images and it relieves the pressure, good for them. Nice idea. Until it doesn't relieve the pressure and they can only get it up with children. But the images don't do it, so they start sitting in the park watching children. Or they offer to "babysit" someone. Or they just get the nerve up to abduct a child.
You're right though. Our laws are based on a common morality. Like the common idea that I can't grab any women I see and force her to have sex. That's a terrible thing. "Common Morality" is clearly stepping on my rights. What a twisted idea that I can't force people to have sex with me.
Again, I find a post like your TERRIFYING. Let me just ask you a simple question. Do you believe in evil? That's all I'll say.
You can make good ripples on water, and do other geometry things. Make the trees have REAL leaves (like that great Cell demo). Make more individual blades of grass and such. Just little things that act correct so the world looks more "real" and less "here is a random bush so you don't notice there are no bushes".
Hair, clothes, weapons. Make them act more realistically when walking, etc. Why is it every game seems to have a walk cycle or some such where parts of a character's model (weapon, hair, clothes, etc) move in and out of another part (intersecting). With your free CPU time, you can test this and make sure the weapon doesn't SLICE MY CHARACTER'S THIGH as I walk.
Other little things like this. Add more rabbits, ants, birds, squirrels, whatever around the world. Make more NPCs who walk around town. Whatever. Just make things more alive.
It's a great program. If you ever see a Mac, give it a try (the non-professional version, which lacks Visio import/export, was included on my PowerBook when I bought it).
That said, I don't think you'd ever see iTunes for Linux (and I was amazed it was on the list, I would have never guessed it).
And then there is Visio. That will never be ported either. If Visio is there, why isn't Office? That said, I've never met someone who liked Visio in the two years or so I've been exposed to it. What Visio needs first is a good Windows port. OmniGraffle is much better. How about a Linux port of that?
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That is Nintendo's way. If you remember Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Zelda: Oracle of Seasons for the GBC, if you put them into the GBA (which was out or very close to out at that time) you could get access to a special store that was closed when you played with a GBC. They've done stuff like that a few times now.
But like the grandparent post said, the real point is that most things aren't available in Bluetooth. You want to plug in your external hard drive by Bluetooth? You can't buy one that would let you do that. Is your digital camera designed to use Bluetooth to connect to your computer? Your drawing tablet? Your PDA? Your cell phone? Your printer? Your DVD-RW drive?
Some of these things may be available in Bluetooth, but if they were and if your computer supported Bluetooth you probably would be using it already. This is a solution for things that must be USB (or you don't want to fork out to buy the Bluetooth version), and I can see it being quite handy. It would be nice to have a little collection of USB stuff that I could plug into my laptop with one little adapter so I'm still cordless instead of the wire running over to the hub. And with a HTPC (as someone else mentioned) you could use this to plug USB stuff in by the couch where you are (game pads, memory sticks, etc) instead of having to reach behind your collection of AV equiptment where the PC is.
Sorry, that should read "...but you can still have broadband".
I agree with everyone else here. That may be technically true, but it's stupid. All you need is a firewall and a little common sense and you are practically invulnerable to most of the attacks out there.
Get broadband. Get a firewall. Enjoy.
Because Z-RAM can scale much better than DRAM, they should be able to make it much smaller/faster. Also, because it is made of one transistor and not one transistor and one capacitor, it takes up half as much space. So you could double the density of your DRAM products.
But more interesting, if this can replace SRAM that means that it doesn't require refreshing like DRAM does. This would be a MAJOR benefit if it replaced DRAM for system RAM. Without the capacitors you could get much higher speeds too (which is a big problem with system RAM these days, processors have to wait HUNDREDS of cycles to get something from memory).
If this stuff works (which I think it must if AMD is buying it) this could be big.
You have two options. First is requiring activation, thus making the secondary copy useless. Other posters have pointed this out. This is terrible.
Or you could take another route. Nintendo is doing this in some ways. Sell the games to people cheaper than used. Sell electronic copies. Make it in my interest to go buy a game for $30 from you, instead of $25 from the game retailer. Most games, after an initial period, sell next to nothing. So why leave the game on the shelves at $50 and let retails sell 'em used for $25 when you could sell them on-demand for $25. Basically, Live Arcade for more recent (and bigger) games. This is where the future is. We all know it. It is just a question of when we get there.
How many non-"gamers" will plunk down $400 + game + tax if they find something they like on the 360. How many other games do they think they will find on the 360 they like?
This should be interesting to see what happens. I'm hoping the Big-N takes first in the next-gen race (a bit unlikely). But I wouldn't be surprised if they were much more competitive, perhaps taking 2nd place by a small margin.
This is Nintendo. Nintendo isn't the synonym for video games it used to be (that job is now taken over in popular culture by Playstation or X-Box). But they are still a MAJOR brand. Everyone knows about the GameBoy. They had a very successful system in the GameCube, the N64, the SNES, the NES, and the DS. They weren't always the leaders of the generation (that stopped in home consoles with the SNES), but they have good solid stuff.
Besides, this is Nintendo. That means Mario. Mario Party. Super Smash Brothers. Zelda. Mario Kart. Plus tons of other great little games that will come out like Pikmin. Was there anything even CLOSE to Pikmin on any other system?
Nintendo may not be the post powerful console out there. That's fine with me. As I have said in previous posts, it's not like we are hurting for better graphics with the current generation (and the Rev is supposed to be 4x as powerful as the system that showed us Resident Evil 4). But I know there will be great games. Even if theys system is not the most popular (which could happen this time around, if Nintendo's bets pay off) it will have great games.
Even the Virtual Boy which failed in the market (which I loved) had great games. Mario Crash, Mairo Tennis (about the best tennis game I've played), Wario Land, and more.
The games will keep the afloat if they get stuck as an "also-ran". But I think they will be more successful than there were this generation.
And a demo for QuickTime, which would have cost $30.
I wouldn't have cared if they gave me a full version and upped the price of the computer by $30. And I bought a top of the line PowerBook too. I understand on an iMac or Mac Mini or something. But I bought something in their professional line. I should have gotten QuickTime with my computer.
This is defiantly true though. Living in a fairly recent subdivision, back when the construction was closer to my house this would happen all the time. The phone. The cable. The internet. Even the power once.
I think it's clear what we need to do: go kill all the backhoes.
Save the internet!
The 360 has sold 600k. The DS sold 1,200k. The Dreamcast sold 1,800k.
Launch numbers aren't great.
Yeah, this is probably due to shortages. Just something I thought I'd point out as I found it interesting and I figured you guys would too.
tell application "QuickTime Player"
present front movie scale screen
end tell
(Normally that second line would be indented)
They are holding your money, making interest on it, not giving you the benefit of that interest, and not giving you your console.
Take the money, and go look at Costco, Target, Wal*Mart, Toys R Us, EB Games (that haven't become Gamestop's yet), Babbages (owned by GameStop), Radio Shack, ANYWHERE. But the console where you can find it, and keep checking until you find one. If GameStop is the first to get it in and let you buy it, then they can have your money.
But don't let them hold your money for free.
I like my local GameStop, but I wouldn't put up with this. I didn't back when Chips & Bits gave me the runaround about the Virtual Boy I ordered, and I would now.
That is true. And an organism's job is to breed.
But it is not supposed to be "at any cost". Sure, I could increase my chances of breeding by killing every other male I see. If I take out a large chunk of the local male population, then my changes of breeding HAVE TO go up. But that doesn't make it a smart move, or the right move.
Companies need to act the same way. With business ethics. The stockholder is not cart blanch to do anything that will make you money.
I think it would be a good idea if Congress, in these hearings, were to make a similar law that American companies can not help foreign states censor things like China and some other countries try to do. So the company could either not do business, or perhaps leave hooks in so that any censorship would have to be made by the government and installed and run by them.
We are a free country. We are committed to showing others the virtues of freedom. You shouldn't go around selling anti-freedom software to other governments to use on their people.
But that last part is just my opinion. It's business ethics. Something we don't see enough of.
I agree, I find that a bit dissapointing. But when it comes time to replace the G5 towers, they will HAVE to go with something with x86-64. After all, 64-bit computing was one of their big selling points for moving to the G5 processor.