Hey, you watched a car racing movie. Here's some other car racing movies you might like to watch. Well, I *know* that you moron. I'm into car racing movies. Get it?
I agree. The reason I've never gotten use of systems like this is that they often make recommendations that are too obvious. If you listen to a particular style of music, you get all of the major bands from that style recommended to you. Not helpful. A balance needs to be reached between just recommending things that are too obviously related to what you are already into and recommending things that are completely unrelated.
This isn't about culture. No one would be complaining if they were putting internet cafes in their villages for the people to use. The point is that sites of natural beauty should be left pure. People would be equally upset if national parks in the US were being filled with internet cafes.
This is no longer really true. Windows gives each user their own directory in which to save their files called "My Documents". You should save things there and start looking there, just like you would with your home directory under unix.
If I remember correctly, Super Mario 64 shipped when the N64 shipped
Yes, but the N64 took a long time to ship, and I believe that it was because the software for it wasn't ready. The fact that Nintendo released it so late meant that it was never able to catch up to Playstation in terms of units sold, but many of us truly appreciated that they took the time to make it (and Mario 64) so great, rather than rushing it out the door like another company would have done.
Personally, I think it would be best to have *two* such buttons; one that has stack behavior (current "back" button), and another that has the proposed temporal behavior
The linked article claims that one of these was much more efficient for some things, and the other much more efficient for others, so providing both buttons is the obvious solution. OTOH, this would require users to understand both buttons and figure out which one they want when, which could be very confusing. Therefore, it seems unlikely that this will become the dominant way most people browse the web, or that it will become the default setup on a mainstream browser. Still, there's no harm in providing both buttons as options (and letting you turn on both if you want).
MicroSoft has walked into a virtual minefield without looking at marketing demographics first... You can see why Sony and Nintendo are taking their time. Leave it to Microsoft to boldly blunder into a market area it is entirely unfamiliar with and die, then work out a program that actually *works*.
For those who aren't familiar with it, this strategy is generally known as "innovating". Yeah, it's tough to be first rather than copying everyone else, but I'm glad a company is taking the iniative to do it. Apparently, not everyone agrees with your assessment that people who own a good PC and thus are used to playing PC games online will be less likely to want to (and be willing to pay to) play their favorite console games online. Neither do I.
Unreal Championship, Mech Assault and Splinter Cell will have downloadable content, maps, addons and fixes. You won't see that on any other console.
Good. I'm glad that companies making games for my gamecube will be forced to ship them as finished products, that are playable on the day they are released, rather than being able to plan to give me a broken, unfinished piece of crap that will only turn into an actual game after months of them slowly trickling out patches, like PC games. If the price I pay for this is not being able to update a roster in a football game, so be it.
Addictions are incredibly fun, right up to the point at which they spiral out of control
Right, up until the point where you're addicted. Which was my point. Getting high is fun. Everquest is fun (at least let's suppose it is for the sake of argument; I've never played it). Getting high every day can be fun. Playing Everquest all day can be fun. Being addicted to getting high is not fun. Nor is being addicted to Everquest. So getting angry at Sony for not making it fun to be addicted to their product is silly.
As far as i can tell, the story being discussed was not meant to blame Sony for creating an addictive game, it was to blame Sony for creating a poor addiction.
Which is, of course, silly, since real addictions are never fun.
I used the xmms "+DIR" button to add the entire directory of 2808 songs
What does this have to do with anything? He was saying that KDE is very slow when displaying a directory full of mp3's. Your objection-- that xmms, an entirely different program from kde, isn't slow while doing this-- is completely offtopic. The point is that most people are going to use kde as their desktop environment, and it shouldn't freeze up while browsing through directories. Telling them that they should solve this by instead browsing the contents of the directory by opening up xmms and adding it there will not convince anyone that they should be using linux.
I agree. This is what happened in the comic book market, when previously expensive books starting being dirt cheap. I think the same thing happened with Beanie Babies (I might be wrong). These prices don't stay high forever. Sell while you can.
turning away half your potential business is commercial suicide
No, it doesn't. It gives you very large captive market (the other half). What's commercial suicide is catering to the same market everyone else is, rather than keeping the market you have secured entirely for yourself.
I think it would be easier if we used tickets sold as our primary measure of a movie's success rather than money, inflation-adjusted or otherwise. After all, albums go gold based on how many units they sell, and people are much more likely to talk about what the best-selling album of all time is, rather than the most profitable. Similarly, when we talk about a TV show's ratings, we discuss how many people watched it, not how much it pulled in in advertising revenue. Why are movies different?
So why is Hollywood so obsessed with churning out Action flicks, Comedies and Horror???
Because they're more reliable. There are some action movies and comedies that the studio knows are almost guaranteed to turn a profit, even if they have no chance of being one of the most profitable movies of all time. Would you turn down guaranteed money?
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I agree. The reason I've never gotten use of systems like this is that they often make recommendations that are too obvious. If you listen to a particular style of music, you get all of the major bands from that style recommended to you. Not helpful. A balance needs to be reached between just recommending things that are too obviously related to what you are already into and recommending things that are completely unrelated.
This isn't about culture. No one would be complaining if they were putting internet cafes in their villages for the people to use. The point is that sites of natural beauty should be left pure. People would be equally upset if national parks in the US were being filled with internet cafes.
This is no longer really true. Windows gives each user their own directory in which to save their files called "My Documents". You should save things there and start looking there, just like you would with your home directory under unix.
I don't know if microsoft would freak out that much. After all, they survived years of many schools running entirely on Macs too much harm.
Yes, but the N64 took a long time to ship, and I believe that it was because the software for it wasn't ready. The fact that Nintendo released it so late meant that it was never able to catch up to Playstation in terms of units sold, but many of us truly appreciated that they took the time to make it (and Mario 64) so great, rather than rushing it out the door like another company would have done.
Why?
The linked article claims that one of these was much more efficient for some things, and the other much more efficient for others, so providing both buttons is the obvious solution. OTOH, this would require users to understand both buttons and figure out which one they want when, which could be very confusing. Therefore, it seems unlikely that this will become the dominant way most people browse the web, or that it will become the default setup on a mainstream browser. Still, there's no harm in providing both buttons as options (and letting you turn on both if you want).
For those who aren't familiar with it, this strategy is generally known as "innovating". Yeah, it's tough to be first rather than copying everyone else, but I'm glad a company is taking the iniative to do it. Apparently, not everyone agrees with your assessment that people who own a good PC and thus are used to playing PC games online will be less likely to want to (and be willing to pay to) play their favorite console games online. Neither do I.
But it will be in the future, if microsoft is endorsing a shell and a scripting system. That's why this is good news.
Good. I'm glad that companies making games for my gamecube will be forced to ship them as finished products, that are playable on the day they are released, rather than being able to plan to give me a broken, unfinished piece of crap that will only turn into an actual game after months of them slowly trickling out patches, like PC games. If the price I pay for this is not being able to update a roster in a football game, so be it.
You have no idea how wrong you are.
Right, up until the point where you're addicted. Which was my point. Getting high is fun. Everquest is fun (at least let's suppose it is for the sake of argument; I've never played it). Getting high every day can be fun. Playing Everquest all day can be fun. Being addicted to getting high is not fun. Nor is being addicted to Everquest. So getting angry at Sony for not making it fun to be addicted to their product is silly.
Thanks. And wow, beating Star Fox in 15 minutes sounds pretty tough!
Which is, of course, silly, since real addictions are never fun.
I didn't think their was a Kevin of lesser value.
What does this have to do with anything? He was saying that KDE is very slow when displaying a directory full of mp3's. Your objection-- that xmms, an entirely different program from kde, isn't slow while doing this-- is completely offtopic. The point is that most people are going to use kde as their desktop environment, and it shouldn't freeze up while browsing through directories. Telling them that they should solve this by instead browsing the contents of the directory by opening up xmms and adding it there will not convince anyone that they should be using linux.
I'm going to the NYE show. Also, I'm going to see them in massachusettes in a few months.
I agree. This is what happened in the comic book market, when previously expensive books starting being dirt cheap. I think the same thing happened with Beanie Babies (I might be wrong). These prices don't stay high forever. Sell while you can.
Huh? What's this about a timer?
No, it doesn't. It gives you very large captive market (the other half). What's commercial suicide is catering to the same market everyone else is, rather than keeping the market you have secured entirely for yourself.
I don't completely agree with that. It depends on the game. Some games on the gamecube have a lot of loadtime, and some on the ps2 have very little.
Insane Clown Posse isn't considered offensive content?!
They're not nameless. Their name is Zipcar. Geez, pay attention. They're not very big either, I don't think.
What about the young? Don't you think little kids might get themselves injured or killed a lot?
I think it would be easier if we used tickets sold as our primary measure of a movie's success rather than money, inflation-adjusted or otherwise. After all, albums go gold based on how many units they sell, and people are much more likely to talk about what the best-selling album of all time is, rather than the most profitable. Similarly, when we talk about a TV show's ratings, we discuss how many people watched it, not how much it pulled in in advertising revenue. Why are movies different?
Because they're more reliable. There are some action movies and comedies that the studio knows are almost guaranteed to turn a profit, even if they have no chance of being one of the most profitable movies of all time. Would you turn down guaranteed money?