Drak, you should start following E3 more closely. Nintendo's been getting their ass handed to them. Nintendo's big stories out of E3:
Try harder to force the GBA-GC connector down people's throats.
Yay, we paid EA not to abandon the GC!
We're working on a successor to the GC which will be out in 2005, but really, we're still focused on the GC. Seriously.
You're not gonna see Mario shooting hookers, but hey, we're not a kiddie console!
Sure, other consoles besides the GameCube might be getting MGS *3*, but screw that, wouldn't you rather play a remake of the MGS 1?
And if you're still itching for a remake after RE and MGS1, we're also gonna remake...wait for it...PAC-MAN!!
We've got a brand new game based on Star Wars eps. 4-6!
I've got a Cube of my own, and I'm seriously looking forward to F-Zero, Super Monkey Ball 3, and yes, even Mario Kart (tho' it should be online, dammit), but I'm not the only person who's looked at Nintendo's performance so far at this year's E3 and thought, "Worst of Show, by far."
So basically you're some dumb little snot who doesn't know jack shit about the world. Oh well, have fun telling people to fuck off, it just confirms the lack of seriousness on your side. See, someone might actually listen to you when you have something to say. When you get older and learn about the world you'll have a good laugh about how naive and stupid you were. Count on it.
You can live as freaky as you like -- just don't strap bombs to yourself and blow up civilians, don't fly civilian planes into buildings, etc. And if you're a head of state, don't willingly harbor people who do. Otherwise, you might wanna think twice about whether that Tivo lifetime subscription is going to be such a great bargain for you after all.
Ahem, that phrase is referring to states that willingly harbor and support terrorists. It has nothing at all to do with actually helping to fight the war in Iraq, how you vote in the UN, or whether or not you choose to protest against the war.
This is why people don't take your side seriously, because of all the kneejerk intellectually dishonest sludge coming from it. If it seemed for a second that most of the protesters were truly anti-war rather than typically anti-US or anti-Bush, you wouldn't be ignored so readily. We saw your true colors when you didn't make a peep about Kosovo and Rwanda, or hell -- getting any relief for the Iraqi people.
Nobody here would believe the results of a study put together by Steve Ballmer casting Windows in a positive light, so why should anyone believe the results put together by one of the main rabidly anti-Windows voices which casts Windows in a negative light? Not too objective, there...
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - techno-social writer Jon Katz was found dead in his Boston home this morning. There weren't any more details yet. I'm sure we'll all miss him, even if you weren't a fan of his work there's no denying his contribution to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Oh c'mon, don't be so harsh. What kind of nerd would he be if he didn't totally fuck up some ordinary word in an effort to sound like some tiresome know-it-all. See: boxen, virii.
Um, weren't these guys one of the original hypemongers of the "new economy," telling us that the way dotcommers ran their business would become The Way? Yeah, I'll be sure to take their business suggestions real seriously. Now, why the hell should an employer have to pay for an employee doing personal things for "a few minutes or hours" (Hours?! Jesus.) when they're supposed to be helping improve the company?
That and the second part about employees doing more work at home than goofing of at work all boil down to one thing: Learn how to manage your friggin' time properly and you won't have to worry about that.
Damn, some of you guys are really knee-jerking morons. Look, Vivendi's got money problems and has been looking to sell its games unit for a while. *Somebody*'s going to buy it. It's good business for Microsoft that they're the one who buys it rather than let Sony buy it and stop production on its Xbox games. Of course, I'm sure you wouldn't open your stupid fucking mouth if Sony ends up buying them instead, though.
What a bunch of twaddle. Your examples of Passport insecurity are people stealing info from over other peoples' shoulders, and people picking poor passwords. Then you say this supposed insecurity is why people should switch away from MS, completely ignoring the fact that these things would be problems under any other system, too. Unskilled users are the only people who would leave themselves open to such holes, so why suggest that they switch and have to learn a whole new system only to find out that the exact same holes are there?
That and they simply don't have the vision that Microsoft has to get it done, either. Basically Microsoft announces something, then the usual suspects scramble around and announce something of their own just so they can be against Microsoft, not because they have any idea of their own about how they envision the given service. It's funny really, and actually reminds me of Canada's knee-jerk reaction to basically oppose any of them there *gasp!* Americanized ideas. Just like the anti-Microsoft crew, they're getting left in the dust.
Time to update your figures, bucko. Xbox has outsold the GameCube by 570,000 units in the US, and by 70,000 just in the last month. The Xbox's Japanese sales might be very shitty, but it has at least outsold the PS One there this year (267,800 to 201,900).
Sales of Xbox hardware (239,000 units) were up 38% month over month, as the Sega bundle clearly had a positive impact on sales. GameCube hardware sales (169,000 units) were disappointing, flat from September, as new Nintendo Software (
StarFox, Mario Party 4) did not spur consumers to buy hardware. Game Boy Advance hardware (315,000 units) grew 12% month over month and 8% year over year. Probably offsetting GBA is the fact that PlayStation One sales continue to be inexplicably strong. The system, which sells for $50, saw its hardware unit sales increase 43% to 134,000 units in October. Year-to-date, PlayStation One sales are actually ahead of GameCube (1.45 million versus 1.26 million).
Yeah, that great marketing must explain why the GameCube is trailing the PS One in US sales this year. And to think they used to be number 1 over here...
Cool, somebody at Slashdot who actually gets it. It's just like with the Office XP activation stuff. A million imbeciles at Slashdot scream like it's some great accomplishment when people figure out workarounds, even though Microsoft never claimed that people wouldn't be able to get around it. What it does do, and has been successfully, is raise the bar over either the ability or desire of the casual copier. Sure, some loser who lives their life on a hacker board will keep on top of that info -- the other 99% of users will rather go the legit route and never worry about whether Office XP SP1 will work, which Xbox version they have and the corresponding mod chip they need and attaching it and flashing the bios, etc.
Since Apple's "Switch" campaign has been underway, there have been three different market analyses to claim that Apple's market share is even lower than it had been before. Giga Information Group says that Apple sunk to a new low of a mere 2.6 percent market share, while RedSheriff and OneState.com put it even lower, at 2.2 and 1.43 percent, respectively.
Apple, those Switch commercials are quaint, especially with the quirky music and all, but it's your own users that you're portraying as idiots. Your rejection by the marketplace reflects this. Better come up with a new ad campaign before those numbers drop to zero...
Give #Develop a try (www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp). It's pretty nice, even though they took auto-complete out of the latest release. You could get the one prior to 0.89 if you're really needing auto-complete now. Otherwise, it's just a temporary removal while they work to implement a better auto-complete system -- I didn't think the old one was all that bad, but I think they wanted a more extensible system. It's GPL'd, which I think is dumb, but I realize that a lot of people here think it's a good thing. Give it a try sometime.
Couldn't have been Steve Gibson, UNLESS! Unless someone has DEVIOUSLY edited his post and STOLE all his capitalized words. The REAL Steve Gibson would NEVER have made such an unexciting post. HUZZAH!
regardless of that, it's certainly a horrible, abominable thing when the government says "if you do this, you'll go to jail, unless you are a big corporation." this is the most grevious, heinous example of how much the US govt. is controlled by corporate interests.
That's nice, but I've done it before, I'm not a big corporation, and I didn't go to jail. Not necessarily talking about you, but there are too many people around here who like to make up these stupid persecution fantasies in their head and come up with the most absurd way that the government's going to take them away in shackles. Those people need to grow up and get out of their parents' basement and figure out what the world's really like and that everyone's not out to get them.
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I've got a Cube of my own, and I'm seriously looking forward to F-Zero, Super Monkey Ball 3, and yes, even Mario Kart (tho' it should be online, dammit), but I'm not the only person who's looked at Nintendo's performance so far at this year's E3 and thought, "Worst of Show, by far."
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virii...People who say this one especially need to die.
You didn't bother to read the article, did you? Go ahead, admit it: you're a fucking moron.
Hysteria and hot air...Oh, the irony!
So basically you're some dumb little snot who doesn't know jack shit about the world. Oh well, have fun telling people to fuck off, it just confirms the lack of seriousness on your side. See, someone might actually listen to you when you have something to say. When you get older and learn about the world you'll have a good laugh about how naive and stupid you were. Count on it.
You can live as freaky as you like -- just don't strap bombs to yourself and blow up civilians, don't fly civilian planes into buildings, etc. And if you're a head of state, don't willingly harbor people who do. Otherwise, you might wanna think twice about whether that Tivo lifetime subscription is going to be such a great bargain for you after all.
Ahem, that phrase is referring to states that willingly harbor and support terrorists. It has nothing at all to do with actually helping to fight the war in Iraq, how you vote in the UN, or whether or not you choose to protest against the war.
This is why people don't take your side seriously, because of all the kneejerk intellectually dishonest sludge coming from it. If it seemed for a second that most of the protesters were truly anti-war rather than typically anti-US or anti-Bush, you wouldn't be ignored so readily. We saw your true colors when you didn't make a peep about Kosovo and Rwanda, or hell -- getting any relief for the Iraqi people.
Nobody here would believe the results of a study put together by Steve Ballmer casting Windows in a positive light, so why should anyone believe the results put together by one of the main rabidly anti-Windows voices which casts Windows in a negative light? Not too objective, there...
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - techno-social writer Jon Katz was found dead in his Boston home this morning. There weren't any more details yet. I'm sure we'll all miss him, even if you weren't a fan of his work there's no denying his contribution to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Oh c'mon, don't be so harsh. What kind of nerd would he be if he didn't totally fuck up some ordinary word in an effort to sound like some tiresome know-it-all. See: boxen, virii.
Um, weren't these guys one of the original hypemongers of the "new economy," telling us that the way dotcommers ran their business would become The Way? Yeah, I'll be sure to take their business suggestions real seriously. Now, why the hell should an employer have to pay for an employee doing personal things for "a few minutes or hours" (Hours?! Jesus.) when they're supposed to be helping improve the company?
That and the second part about employees doing more work at home than goofing of at work all boil down to one thing: Learn how to manage your friggin' time properly and you won't have to worry about that.
Erm, your little mom-and-pop store there just got fined for about 150 million dollars in Europe less than three months ago for antitrust violations.
Damn, some of you guys are really knee-jerking morons. Look, Vivendi's got money problems and has been looking to sell its games unit for a while. *Somebody*'s going to buy it. It's good business for Microsoft that they're the one who buys it rather than let Sony buy it and stop production on its Xbox games. Of course, I'm sure you wouldn't open your stupid fucking mouth if Sony ends up buying them instead, though.
They'll probably be released right around the same time that we're all wearing those Java rings that Chompers McNealy always used to talk about.
What a bunch of twaddle. Your examples of Passport insecurity are people stealing info from over other peoples' shoulders, and people picking poor passwords. Then you say this supposed insecurity is why people should switch away from MS, completely ignoring the fact that these things would be problems under any other system, too. Unskilled users are the only people who would leave themselves open to such holes, so why suggest that they switch and have to learn a whole new system only to find out that the exact same holes are there?
That and they simply don't have the vision that Microsoft has to get it done, either. Basically Microsoft announces something, then the usual suspects scramble around and announce something of their own just so they can be against Microsoft, not because they have any idea of their own about how they envision the given service. It's funny really, and actually reminds me of Canada's knee-jerk reaction to basically oppose any of them there *gasp!* Americanized ideas. Just like the anti-Microsoft crew, they're getting left in the dust.
Time to update your figures, bucko. Xbox has outsold the GameCube by 570,000 units in the US, and by 70,000 just in the last month. The Xbox's Japanese sales might be very shitty, but it has at least outsold the PS One there this year (267,800 to 201,900).
From NPD's October US numbers at http://mail.chartermi.net/~spartan85/NPD_UBS.pdf:
You were saying?
Yeah, that great marketing must explain why the GameCube is trailing the PS One in US sales this year. And to think they used to be number 1 over here...
Anybody who wouldn't rather be sent to Siberia rather than have to live with these insufferable loons?
All 10 of you? That's cute, you actually think you matter.
Cool, somebody at Slashdot who actually gets it. It's just like with the Office XP activation stuff. A million imbeciles at Slashdot scream like it's some great accomplishment when people figure out workarounds, even though Microsoft never claimed that people wouldn't be able to get around it. What it does do, and has been successfully, is raise the bar over either the ability or desire of the casual copier. Sure, some loser who lives their life on a hacker board will keep on top of that info -- the other 99% of users will rather go the legit route and never worry about whether Office XP SP1 will work, which Xbox version they have and the corresponding mod chip they need and attaching it and flashing the bios, etc.
Since Apple's "Switch" campaign has been underway, there have been three different market analyses to claim that Apple's market share is even lower than it had been before. Giga Information Group says that Apple sunk to a new low of a mere 2.6 percent market share, while RedSheriff and OneState.com put it even lower, at 2.2 and 1.43 percent, respectively.
Apple, those Switch commercials are quaint, especially with the quirky music and all, but it's your own users that you're portraying as idiots. Your rejection by the marketplace reflects this. Better come up with a new ad campaign before those numbers drop to zero...
What, you mean this book isn't about VA Linux stockholders?
Give #Develop a try (www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/default.asp). It's pretty nice, even though they took auto-complete out of the latest release. You could get the one prior to 0.89 if you're really needing auto-complete now. Otherwise, it's just a temporary removal while they work to implement a better auto-complete system -- I didn't think the old one was all that bad, but I think they wanted a more extensible system. It's GPL'd, which I think is dumb, but I realize that a lot of people here think it's a good thing. Give it a try sometime.
Couldn't have been Steve Gibson, UNLESS! Unless someone has DEVIOUSLY edited his post and STOLE all his capitalized words. The REAL Steve Gibson would NEVER have made such an unexciting post. HUZZAH!
regardless of that, it's certainly a horrible, abominable thing when the government says "if you do this, you'll go to jail, unless you are a big corporation." this is the most grevious, heinous example of how much the US govt. is controlled by corporate interests.
That's nice, but I've done it before, I'm not a big corporation, and I didn't go to jail. Not necessarily talking about you, but there are too many people around here who like to make up these stupid persecution fantasies in their head and come up with the most absurd way that the government's going to take them away in shackles. Those people need to grow up and get out of their parents' basement and figure out what the world's really like and that everyone's not out to get them.