"The company credited 3 million-plus-selling multiplatform titles as the primary boosters of the year's bottom line: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (1.7 million copies), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2.4 million), and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 (2.2 million)."
Since when is 2.4 million copies sold not good sales??? Why would they make a sequel to a game that sold poorly?
This is what has confounded me. They had a successful game but decided to radically change the sequel because...why?
So if I'm making a game, it's fair for everyone to assume anything they like about it and then get pissed off when their imaginary features aren't in the game?
I'm going to assume that Half-Life 2 will bake me cookies! I sure hope I'm not disappointed!
It's true that they aren't fixed things, but you can reproduce identical results if you seed the random number generator the same across machines.
In fact, Bungie did this in a different situation with the original Marathon game. You could place enemy AIs into the multiplayer games. You could then save multiplayer match replays -- the resulting files were very, very small because only player inputs were recorded. When you played them back, everything (AI decisions, etc) was re-created by the computer because you are providing identical input (user controls and random number seed).
So, I'm not saying it would be quick or easy, but it can certainly be done. After all, Doom III for Xbox has online co-op as a listed feature.
I don't get it, Bungie never said they'd have online or LAN co-op, just the same type of co-op that the original had. There was a lot of speculation but never a word from Bungie promising this (or even mentioning it, as far as I know). Why is this such big news?
As others have said, you're information is bad. The real data does not support your assertion that a baby is more likely to choke while on its back than suffocate (or whatever you want to term SIDS) while on its stomach.
Regarding interaction and development: I don't think a baby does much interaction at all while sleeping, so sleeping on the back should be fine in that regard. Yes, you should put the child on its stomach while you're playing or supervising it so that it can push up with it's hands, raise its head, etc, thereby strengthing its arm, chest, and neck muscles.
Umm. No. Jason Jones was and is the main guy behind Bungie and he's still there. He's the driving force behind the story of many (all?) of thier games. Most the original Bungie guys are still there. I can think of one high-profile dude that left to form his own company, but don't feel like digging up the details right now. Should be easy enough to find.
You may not like MS, but don't take it out on Bungie, they are some damn good developers.
They were in a compromising spot some years back where they just could not effectively develop AND publish AND distribute their games -- too many big publishers were doing a better job than they ever could because they had the name recognition and the people and infastructure in place to do so. Bungie was too small. So they decided to merge with a big developer/publisher so they could focus on development instead of having to worry about calling up EB and Gamespot and the rest and trying to convince them to carry their games.
"Hello, this is Bungie and we've got an awesome new game we'd like you to sell." "Who?" "Bungie." "Who?"
compared to
"Hello, this is Microsoft and we have an awesome new game that you will sell. May I put you down for a million copies?" "Yes, sir! May I have another!"
If someone does not vote, they probably have not educated themselves about the issues and have little interest in the outcome. I would not encourage people that are ignorant of the issues into voting.
...more dangerous isotopes, iodine-131 and iodine-133, which have half-lifes of 8.02 days and 21 hours respectively, making them very active and dangerous substances.
I'm not disagreeing with the statement, but just wanted to point out that iodine-131 saved my wife's life:
There's OTC and then there's OTCBB. Different beasts. All the NASDAQ stocks are OTC. An OTC stock just means that it's not Listed. Listed stocks are traded on the NYSE.
Technically, NASDAQ is not an exchange, so NASDAQ stocks are unlisted. AAPL, DELL, SUNW, etc are all OTC stocks. The NASD oversees trading of both OTC and OTCBB stocks.
HDD? Case? Custom cooling? Way custom MB (Bluetooth, etc)? You're leaving some stuff out.
Price up a system based around the latest Shuttle case/mobo/cooling and that'll put you in the ballpark, I think. From my pricings over the past few months, that shuttle system will be $500 to $700 with a mid-range CPU, 512MB DDR, a cheap to middling vid card, and NO optical drive (I was planning on recycling an old one) -- so add a DVD+/-RW to the price ($75). And you still have to add a nice flat screen.
You are confusing ACC and Fairplay. ACC is a compression format and is open and available for anyone to use. Fairplay is Apple's DRM and is basically proprietary, just like the grandparent poster stated.
Anyone can put make an ACC file and have it play on the iPod. What anyone cannot do is develop or sell a DRM format other than Fairplay and have the iPod understand and play it.
Or reuse a single CD-RW for everything. No need to add that 10c. But yes, it would be a hassle. Of course, it's no hassle to find good quality songs on the p2p networks, right?
Untrue. Although I'm sure YMMV from department to department: my apartment was broken into in 1997 and the guy took about $1000 worth of stuff -- not a big deal to the police, but they still came out to file a report and dust pretty much everything the thief touched for fingerprints.
You're data is old. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but to really bolster you're point you need to take about more than pre-orders. Pre-orders don't mean a whole lot.
Talk about which _recent_ Japanese games have sold more in Japan than GTA, GTA:VC, Madden, Halo, etc have sold in the US.
Talk total software units sold. Hint: more are sold in the US than Japan. Europe is second. Japan is now third.
Talk total hardware units sold.
Japan may have used to be the biggest consumer of videogames, but they lost that crown some time ago. I have no idea why you're saying that market is still 2-3 times bigger than the US market.
I'm no PHP expert, but there are several ways to embed PHP code. The ?php method is called XML style, but you can also just use ? (called SGML style). Sounds like you're having a conflict with that latter style. The machine's admin can turn it off in the php.ini file.
IMO, no one should use anything but ?php for portability reasons.
Peter Parker is indeed a High School student in the comics when he first becomes Spider-man, and creates the web-shooters at that time. Later on, he goes to college and so forth.
However, the fact that he interviewed a woman who son later died in the war isn't as much of a coincidence. It's quite possible that he interviewed her. ----- I'm not sure I'd chalk it up to deception.
Well, it sounds like you were fooled. So what does that say?
If napster were better, we'd like it. But it's not. Slimmer selection, inferior encoding, and they don't play on our iPods. That last one's a killer for three million of us.
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So you:
a) downloaded ISOs
b) couldn't get wifi working for a bit
c) couldn't get 3d graphics working
d) got your system usable (sans #3) after 48 hours
And you call that easy and non-technical? As easy as OS X which will have your wifi and 3d and everything else working in much less than 48 hours?
My god, someone says this every time. It is not the National Enquirer you bozo, it's The Inquirer -- a legitimate source of tech news.
There is this myth that PoP:SoT didn't sell well. It's true that it was slow to sell at first, but it really picked up on word-of-mouth.
From: Ubisoft posts solid year-end numbers
"The company credited 3 million-plus-selling multiplatform titles as the primary boosters of the year's bottom line: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (1.7 million copies), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2.4 million), and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3 (2.2 million)."
Since when is 2.4 million copies sold not good sales??? Why would they make a sequel to a game that sold poorly?
This is what has confounded me. They had a successful game but decided to radically change the sequel because...why?
So if I'm making a game, it's fair for everyone to assume anything they like about it and then get pissed off when their imaginary features aren't in the game?
I'm going to assume that Half-Life 2 will bake me cookies! I sure hope I'm not disappointed!
It's true that they aren't fixed things, but you can reproduce identical results if you seed the random number generator the same across machines.
In fact, Bungie did this in a different situation with the original Marathon game. You could place enemy AIs into the multiplayer games. You could then save multiplayer match replays -- the resulting files were very, very small because only player inputs were recorded. When you played them back, everything (AI decisions, etc) was re-created by the computer because you are providing identical input (user controls and random number seed).
So, I'm not saying it would be quick or easy, but it can certainly be done. After all, Doom III for Xbox has online co-op as a listed feature.
And you can with offline co-op or online team play.
I don't get it, Bungie never said they'd have online or LAN co-op, just the same type of co-op that the original had. There was a lot of speculation but never a word from Bungie promising this (or even mentioning it, as far as I know). Why is this such big news?
Err...yeah. That's what "push up" means -- release sooner. If they were going to delay it, that would be called "push back".
As others have said, you're information is bad. The real data does not support your assertion that a baby is more likely to choke while on its back than suffocate (or whatever you want to term SIDS) while on its stomach.
Regarding interaction and development: I don't think a baby does much interaction at all while sleeping, so sleeping on the back should be fine in that regard. Yes, you should put the child on its stomach while you're playing or supervising it so that it can push up with it's hands, raise its head, etc, thereby strengthing its arm, chest, and neck muscles.
Yes, here it is: ilovebees.com.
Umm. No. Jason Jones was and is the main guy behind Bungie and he's still there. He's the driving force behind the story of many (all?) of thier games. Most the original Bungie guys are still there. I can think of one high-profile dude that left to form his own company, but don't feel like digging up the details right now. Should be easy enough to find.
You may not like MS, but don't take it out on Bungie, they are some damn good developers.
They were in a compromising spot some years back where they just could not effectively develop AND publish AND distribute their games -- too many big publishers were doing a better job than they ever could because they had the name recognition and the people and infastructure in place to do so. Bungie was too small. So they decided to merge with a big developer/publisher so they could focus on development instead of having to worry about calling up EB and Gamespot and the rest and trying to convince them to carry their games.
"Hello, this is Bungie and we've got an awesome new game we'd like you to sell."
"Who?"
"Bungie."
"Who?"
compared to
"Hello, this is Microsoft and we have an awesome new game that you will sell. May I put you down for a million copies?"
"Yes, sir! May I have another!"
Check it: http://www.health.discovery.com/encyclopedias/946. html
"A fever greater than 106 degrees Fahrenheit can result in brain damage and death in some cases."
Guess what the coversion from 106 F is to C?
It's pretty clever, I guess. And I don't think Bush had anything to do with this film, BTW.
If someone does not vote, they probably have not educated themselves about the issues and have little interest in the outcome. I would not encourage people that are ignorant of the issues into voting.
...more dangerous isotopes, iodine-131 and iodine-133, which have half-lifes of 8.02 days and 21 hours respectively, making them very active and dangerous substances.
I'm not disagreeing with the statement, but just wanted to point out that iodine-131 saved my wife's life:
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/thyroid/RAI.html
There's OTC and then there's OTCBB. Different beasts. All the NASDAQ stocks are OTC. An OTC stock just means that it's not Listed. Listed stocks are traded on the NYSE.
Technically, NASDAQ is not an exchange, so NASDAQ stocks are unlisted. AAPL, DELL, SUNW, etc are all OTC stocks. The NASD oversees trading of both OTC and OTCBB stocks.
HDD? Case? Custom cooling? Way custom MB (Bluetooth, etc)? You're leaving some stuff out.
Price up a system based around the latest Shuttle case/mobo/cooling and that'll put you in the ballpark, I think. From my pricings over the past few months, that shuttle system will be $500 to $700 with a mid-range CPU, 512MB DDR, a cheap to middling vid card, and NO optical drive (I was planning on recycling an old one) -- so add a DVD+/-RW to the price ($75). And you still have to add a nice flat screen.
Wow, how'd you get to know Al so well? I'd love to hang out and watch interviews with him too! :)
You are confusing ACC and Fairplay. ACC is a compression format and is open and available for anyone to use. Fairplay is Apple's DRM and is basically proprietary, just like the grandparent poster stated.
Anyone can put make an ACC file and have it play on the iPod. What anyone cannot do is develop or sell a DRM format other than Fairplay and have the iPod understand and play it.
Apple has no control over ACC or who uses it.
Or reuse a single CD-RW for everything. No need to add that 10c. But yes, it would be a hassle. Of course, it's no hassle to find good quality songs on the p2p networks, right?
Untrue. Although I'm sure YMMV from department to department: my apartment was broken into in 1997 and the guy took about $1000 worth of stuff -- not a big deal to the police, but they still came out to file a report and dust pretty much everything the thief touched for fingerprints.
Of course, we were left to clean up the dust...
You're data is old. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but to really bolster you're point you need to take about more than pre-orders. Pre-orders don't mean a whole lot.
Talk about which _recent_ Japanese games have sold more in Japan than GTA, GTA:VC, Madden, Halo, etc have sold in the US.
Talk total software units sold. Hint: more are sold in the US than Japan. Europe is second. Japan is now third.
Talk total hardware units sold.
Japan may have used to be the biggest consumer of videogames, but they lost that crown some time ago. I have no idea why you're saying that market is still 2-3 times bigger than the US market.
I'm no PHP expert, but there are several ways to embed PHP code. The ?php method is called XML style, but you can also just use ? (called SGML style). Sounds like you're having a conflict with that latter style. The machine's admin can turn it off in the php.ini file.
IMO, no one should use anything but ?php for portability reasons.
Peter Parker is indeed a High School student in the comics when he first becomes Spider-man, and creates the web-shooters at that time. Later on, he goes to college and so forth.
However, the fact that he interviewed a woman who son later died in the war isn't as much of a coincidence. It's quite possible that he interviewed her.
-----
I'm not sure I'd chalk it up to deception.
Well, it sounds like you were fooled. So what does that say?
If napster were better, we'd like it. But it's not. Slimmer selection, inferior encoding, and they don't play on our iPods. That last one's a killer for three million of us.