takes a bit longer to say then then blog. And honestly, I think most people would define blog more narrowly then you did. Most would include a journal aspect of a blog.
If those numbers are right, that list is amazing, it says so much...
Of course the number of units is going to be higher for the DS then everything else, thats no big surprise. It's Cheap.
Whats amazing is that roughly 65% more was spent on the DS then the PSP(based of of USD$130 vs USD$250) but the total for the year isn't nearly as unbalanced. For the year the psp has a WAY higher total. I would love to know what the break down is for the last 6 months, when the DS really started to outsell the psp. To me, with a number of good DS games being able to have 8 people play off of one cartage, the more DS there are the worse it gets for the PSP.
AS for the poor xbox, yup MS screwed the pooch when it came to the japanese market. People have spent about the same on the xbox for the whole year as they spent on the GBASP this past week. wooooT for the xbox!
It's funny because looking at a number of the comment regarding escalation, it is obvious (to me) that in the very near future,5 or 10 years at most, that you can have automated systems that will be equal to or out perform most people on most tests.
If (When?) that happens all of these tests will be worse then useless. There must be another, better answer established that will allow for anonymous verification of people. I don't know what that better method is but more of the same is not going to do it.
The real issue is that it is VERY obvious to many people that there is a lack of balance systemically for senior execs in this country. In the last 40 years the average CEO has gone from making 50 times the common man to 500. Currently a CEO in Europe only get paid 2 or 3 times a normal employee.
It is this simple: When you have people dictating their own salaires it is going to rise. In today's corporate environment, you have persona A setting person B salary and person B setting person A. That simply doesn't work.
And thus you prove the purpose of trolls. Without trolls we could not get you post and it has been a wile since I have seen such a tactful ridicule here on/.
You must be right - Your post proves it! your two main points become 3!! No windoze user could be that smart.
Firstly, your third point is less then useless as a point. Even if true, which is highly doubtful, it doesn't speak to the usability of the OS. I am certain that Solaris users are generally smarter then OSX users, does that mean it is better?
Secondly, while you might love that OSX has no legacy issues that advantage does come at a price - choice of hardware and software. You might be able to find all of your needs meet but then again some people have windows installed for years without ever getting an infection of any sort. To each his own.
As for single user mode, unless the OS is booting from a ROM, you still have the same problem: trying to fix an infected system within an infected system. Yes it maybe more powerful then safe mode and yes there maybe not be a current exploit that is still active even in single user mode but that is just a matter of time.
The fact is that mac's, just like firefox, don't offer an effective platform for infection. If/when macs have more then 30% of the market, thats when OSX will truly begin to deal with virus, worms and the like. It might be harder, even alot harder then windows boxes, it will happen and likely spread fast and hard (at first) when the first ones hit because arrogance will ensure that OSX admins aren't ready for it.
What i find funny is that you think that porn isn't going to be a major player in this market. There have been a couple of articles recently about how porn may end up choosing the winner. Here is one article of many.
More directly though, more space is ALWAYS a good thing. 25 hours seems like too much? what about 5 or 6? You obviously have never bought an 8 hour porn video. Ahem.
And i find it amazing that after just saying that dvd was adapted for better picture quality you then say hd-dvd/blu-ray won't be for the same reason!! By that logic people would rather watch dvds then go to the movies because film gives you too much detail. There are many reasons why people can prefer dvds over film but lack of quality isn't one of them.
VERY true. "Dumb" people are going to be confused by EITHER method. Frankly I don't know which is better, prolly servers being smart but that is going to take a bit longer because of all the bad/lazy admins in the world.....
Hell, for that matter if the user does just put in Disney you could have them check the.mobi domain first, then.com, then.org...etc....
I have never understood people having a problem with extra domains. Since the domains don't mean nearly as much as they used to, go hog wild and create as many TLD as you want - we'll make more.
So I am not sure how i feel about the whole thing (seems kinda stupid all around) BUT look at it from a different perspective:
people are dumb.
I mean, at least when it comes to computers. I deal with so many people that don't know the difference between the address bar and a search bar that it scares me.
People being able to see, to guess, that if they go to disney.mobi and they will be able to use their mobile phone may truly help people, regardless of how stupid it seems to the rest of us.
there is no flaw, that is the same notion as if bob buys a psp instead of a ds. Sometimes that will happen, but that doesn't mean their market share is automagically reduced.
Maybe someone buys both systems and then alternates between buying DS and PSP games. Yes, the buying habits aren't only for the DS but the market is larger so that doesn't mean their share has been reduced. It might be that this person spend more on gaming total now or just less on the DS.
There are lots of ways it can break down. The point was that just because the PSP exists doesnt mean that Nintendo has a small market share.
as someone else pointed out, and that year is for the nipple! hevean help us, save our 17 year old "child" from seeing a nipple while he is smashing someones head with a baseball bat!!
This is the first post I have seen with this argument here on slashdot. This argument, and one about leveling treadmills, are the best examples of why a mmorpg is geared against casual players.
It does seem though that both are being tackled by the current crop and more to come. Guild Wars has a low level cap (currently) and some other game (which i can't think of) is suppose to make travel time nearly nothing. WoW is better at both these then most from what I understand. (i am not currently playing any mmorpgs)
Things will get better if for no other reason than companies want to make money. The only issue i have is when people saying that charging money every month is a poor idea, unfair, stupid, blah blah blah.. Monthly fees can work for everybody, even people who are casual gamers. The practice in and of itself is not an anathema to the casual gamer, just the way it has been executed thus far.
So, I found that unlikely so I went and looked for some more info....(this time i was smart and found some)
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.php
Says that on all the servers there are 2.5 million chacters that have been played in the last 30 days. I somehow doubt that each person is playing 25 characters each...my guess is that the real nmber is prolly 4 or 5, on adverage, per person. Which would put the totalat 500,000 players or more. There are prolly better stats somewhere else.....
Well, I have no idea how much it costs you for the whole package but here in the US it cost $50 for the game, one month included, and then $15 each month after.
As for a minimum signup time, they have basically built that into the price for anyone who might care about that. If you spend $50 dollars on a game, esp a mmorpg, you are very likely to play for more then just 16 hours for one month. If you assume that you are going to play for just 16 hours a month for 4 months, that brings the total cost to 95 dollars for 64 hours of play or about $1.50 and hour. Honestly, not that bad. If you keep it for 8 months the price drops to about $1.20 an hour.
And remember, if you ever stop being a "casual" gamer and spend some serious time playing it becomes cheap on a per hour basis. I know many people that spend way more then a 100 hours a month, at that rate the price becomes almost nothing.
Yes, you are paying money for some time on their servers and in the end have nothing that is "yours" other then the memory of the time you spent to playing the game. So?
Do you feel like insurance companies steal from you unless you get into an accident? When you see a movie, do you feel like you should be able to take the print home with you? When you buy food, do you feel cheated because you only keep a very small portion of it within your body?? When you buy tickets to a concert do you feel as if you should be able to see that performer when ever you want, for the rest of you life?
The mistake is thinking you bought a game. If they instead said, "Your first month costs you 50 dollars, every month after only costs 15." would that be better? Would you still be "buying" the game or would it be a service? If it then becomes a service, does that change anything?
The funny thing is that once you are no longer a "casual" gamer the price becomes dirt cheap. I mean, I know LOTS of people that play well over 100 hours a MONTH. Those people are paying 15 dollars a month to do something they enjoy for 100 hours ever month. You might not want to look at that as paying $0.15 for a hour of fun but I can't understand for the life of me why not.
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takes a bit longer to say then then blog. And honestly, I think most people would define blog more narrowly then you did. Most would include a journal aspect of a blog.
If those numbers are right, that list is amazing, it says so much...
Of course the number of units is going to be higher for the DS then everything else, thats no big surprise. It's Cheap.
Whats amazing is that roughly 65% more was spent on the DS then the PSP(based of of USD$130 vs USD$250) but the total for the year isn't nearly as unbalanced. For the year the psp has a WAY higher total. I would love to know what the break down is for the last 6 months, when the DS really started to outsell the psp. To me, with a number of good DS games being able to have 8 people play off of one cartage, the more DS there are the worse it gets for the PSP.
AS for the poor xbox, yup MS screwed the pooch when it came to the japanese market. People have spent about the same on the xbox for the whole year as they spent on the GBASP this past week. wooooT for the xbox!
I would much rather have swedish meatballs anyways.
(great spu reference!)
I think what is really funny is that i like th sound of THAT game more then most i see coming out these days....
that is soooooo disappointing! mint was so much...tastier!!
It's funny because looking at a number of the comment regarding escalation, it is obvious (to me) that in the very near future,5 or 10 years at most, that you can have automated systems that will be equal to or out perform most people on most tests.
If (When?) that happens all of these tests will be worse then useless. There must be another, better answer established that will allow for anonymous verification of people. I don't know what that better method is but more of the same is not going to do it.
A everyone knows, the oclor of the universe in mint...
o r.cosmos/
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/01/10/col
The real issue is that it is VERY obvious to many people that there is a lack of balance systemically for senior execs in this country. In the last 40 years the average CEO has gone from making 50 times the common man to 500. Currently a CEO in Europe only get paid 2 or 3 times a normal employee.
It is this simple: When you have people dictating their own salaires it is going to rise. In today's corporate environment, you have persona A setting person B salary and person B setting person A. That simply doesn't work.
but hey may not alreay own a wife beater - and having to buy anew shirt is such a hassle!
that is what my right arm tells me anyways.....all that heavy lifting....
And thus you prove the purpose of trolls. Without trolls we could not get you post and it has been a wile since I have seen such a tactful ridicule here on /.
Thank you.
Hey! panty house has never kept my legs warm! Sometimes they have gotten me hot thou....
You must be right - Your post proves it! your two main points become 3!! No windoze user could be that smart.
Firstly, your third point is less then useless as a point. Even if true, which is highly doubtful, it doesn't speak to the usability of the OS. I am certain that Solaris users are generally smarter then OSX users, does that mean it is better?
Secondly, while you might love that OSX has no legacy issues that advantage does come at a price - choice of hardware and software. You might be able to find all of your needs meet but then again some people have windows installed for years without ever getting an infection of any sort. To each his own.
As for single user mode, unless the OS is booting from a ROM, you still have the same problem: trying to fix an infected system within an infected system. Yes it maybe more powerful then safe mode and yes there maybe not be a current exploit that is still active even in single user mode but that is just a matter of time.
The fact is that mac's, just like firefox, don't offer an effective platform for infection. If/when macs have more then 30% of the market, thats when OSX will truly begin to deal with virus, worms and the like. It might be harder, even alot harder then windows boxes, it will happen and likely spread fast and hard (at first) when the first ones hit because arrogance will ensure that OSX admins aren't ready for it.
just so you know, i found it funny.....
What i find funny is that you think that porn isn't going to be a major player in this market. There have been a couple of articles recently about how porn may end up choosing the winner. Here is one article of many.
More directly though, more space is ALWAYS a good thing. 25 hours seems like too much? what about 5 or 6? You obviously have never bought an 8 hour porn video. Ahem.
And i find it amazing that after just saying that dvd was adapted for better picture quality you then say hd-dvd/blu-ray won't be for the same reason!! By that logic people would rather watch dvds then go to the movies because film gives you too much detail. There are many reasons why people can prefer dvds over film but lack of quality isn't one of them.
i think he showed that despite what you might think, he can't. :)
VERY true. "Dumb" people are going to be confused by EITHER method. Frankly I don't know which is better, prolly servers being smart but that is going to take a bit longer because of all the bad/lazy admins in the world.....
.mobi domain first, then .com, then .org...etc....
Hell, for that matter if the user does just put in Disney you could have them check the
I have never understood people having a problem with extra domains. Since the domains don't mean nearly as much as they used to, go hog wild and create as many TLD as you want - we'll make more.
So I am not sure how i feel about the whole thing (seems kinda stupid all around) BUT look at it from a different perspective:
people are dumb.
I mean, at least when it comes to computers. I deal with so many people that don't know the difference between the address bar and a search bar that it scares me.
People being able to see, to guess, that if they go to disney.mobi and they will be able to use their mobile phone may truly help people, regardless of how stupid it seems to the rest of us.
Talking about beautiful, brilliant women should ALWAYS be on topic here at /.
there is no flaw, that is the same notion as if bob buys a psp instead of a ds. Sometimes that will happen, but that doesn't mean their market share is automagically reduced.
Maybe someone buys both systems and then alternates between buying DS and PSP games. Yes, the buying habits aren't only for the DS but the market is larger so that doesn't mean their share has been reduced. It might be that this person spend more on gaming total now or just less on the DS.
There are lots of ways it can break down. The point was that just because the PSP exists doesnt mean that Nintendo has a small market share.
as someone else pointed out, and that year is for the nipple! hevean help us, save our 17 year old "child" from seeing a nipple while he is smashing someones head with a baseball bat!!
This is the first post I have seen with this argument here on slashdot. This argument, and one about leveling treadmills, are the best examples of why a mmorpg is geared against casual players.
It does seem though that both are being tackled by the current crop and more to come. Guild Wars has a low level cap (currently) and some other game (which i can't think of) is suppose to make travel time nearly nothing. WoW is better at both these then most from what I understand. (i am not currently playing any mmorpgs)
Things will get better if for no other reason than companies want to make money. The only issue i have is when people saying that charging money every month is a poor idea, unfair, stupid, blah blah blah.. Monthly fees can work for everybody, even people who are casual gamers. The practice in and of itself is not an anathema to the casual gamer, just the way it has been executed thus far.
So, I found that unlikely so I went and looked for some more info....(this time i was smart and found some)
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.php
Says that on all the servers there are 2.5 million chacters that have been played in the last 30 days. I somehow doubt that each person is playing 25 characters each...my guess is that the real nmber is prolly 4 or 5, on adverage, per person. Which would put the totalat 500,000 players or more. There are prolly better stats somewhere else.....
Well, I have no idea how much it costs you for the whole package but here in the US it cost $50 for the game, one month included, and then $15 each month after.
As for a minimum signup time, they have basically built that into the price for anyone who might care about that. If you spend $50 dollars on a game, esp a mmorpg, you are very likely to play for more then just 16 hours for one month. If you assume that you are going to play for just 16 hours a month for 4 months, that brings the total cost to 95 dollars for 64 hours of play or about $1.50 and hour. Honestly, not that bad. If you keep it for 8 months the price drops to about $1.20 an hour.
And remember, if you ever stop being a "casual" gamer and spend some serious time playing it becomes cheap on a per hour basis. I know many people that spend way more then a 100 hours a month, at that rate the price becomes almost nothing.
Yes, you are paying money for some time on their servers and in the end have nothing that is "yours" other then the memory of the time you spent to playing the game. So?
Do you feel like insurance companies steal from you unless you get into an accident? When you see a movie, do you feel like you should be able to take the print home with you? When you buy food, do you feel cheated because you only keep a very small portion of it within your body?? When you buy tickets to a concert do you feel as if you should be able to see that performer when ever you want, for the rest of you life?
The mistake is thinking you bought a game. If they instead said, "Your first month costs you 50 dollars, every month after only costs 15." would that be better? Would you still be "buying" the game or would it be a service? If it then becomes a service, does that change anything?
The funny thing is that once you are no longer a "casual" gamer the price becomes dirt cheap. I mean, I know LOTS of people that play well over 100 hours a MONTH. Those people are paying 15 dollars a month to do something they enjoy for 100 hours ever month. You might not want to look at that as paying $0.15 for a hour of fun but I can't understand for the life of me why not.