The name was picked on purpose. I'm presuming this is someone's second or third account. It exists to point out the obvious to people who should know better. It exists so someone can be sarcastic and rude without harming their other accounts.
I don't see why the submitter needs to be told to google for "cool laptop", because that's just really friggin obvious.
Toshiba thinks it will be shortly. Originally it was supposed to go in before Christmas (though it has slipped now). Chinese players are supposed to come out soon as well.
So Microsoft probably knew there weren't going to be millions of quality drives available in time for Christmas. And waiting until after Christmas means exactly that in terms of sales, free publicity from "hot for christmas" articles, and making their launch that much closer to Sony's. Not to mention that if the launch was set for February instead, I'd expect Sony to move their launch up to February even if it meant fewer launch titles on the PS3. There goes the early-launch benefit.
And there are so many differences between the Dreamcast and this situation. I had a related discussion a few days ago. The key points are that Sega couldn't afford to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. Sega also didn't have the confidence of key developers that they could launch a console after the Saturn. They also couldn't afford to pay developers for exclusive games.
Not all 360 games are going to need more than 8.5GB. The RPGs probably will, but I don't think any of those are going to be available for a while. As for developers leaving content out, multi-CD games were commonplace, still are on PCs, and there will be multi-DVD releases. And if 2 DVD's cost the same as 1 Blu-ray, what's the big difference?
As for developers complaining, don't you think Microsoft spent hundreds of person-hours talking to the devs about their storage needs and weighing the pros and cons?
And yeah, submitter, stop being an idiot and think for a moment. Just pointing a small fan at your laptop will make a difference, letting air flow underneath will help more.
The devs will mostly make do with 7.9GiB, which at 512MiB per level, is enough for 15 levels. If they need more, they'll go dual-disc. I wonder what the cost difference is for manufacturing 2 DVDs compared to 1 Blu-ray? At least for a few years, probably about the same.
I don't have to wonder why MS didn't wait. 1. The technology isn't ready yet for massive, cheap manufacturing. 2. A very small percentage of the potential market actually cares about HD-DVD. 3. HD-DVD movies will take time to come out. 4. Getting out first and stealing Sony's thunder in critical, because releasing at the same time as Sony is just handing them the victory for the next 5 years.
The last one is the most important. Releasing early is a gamble, but waiting is almost an assured loss.
What if you get thrown off it's back, or maybe it topples to the ground and it's 300 pounds land on you? What if the skin is tougher than you realize and it's hard to choke it or get a grip since the neck is wider than a humans?
But does better accuracy always make a game more fun? What about when the Nintendo Revolution arrives with shooters that involve aiming a gun-shaped controller? Which control scheme makes for a better game if it turns out most people are faster and more accurate with a mouse, but it's more fun to aim the plastic gun?
You say it yourself that companies buy shelf space in larger department stores, and you say that Sega was financially vulnerable. It would seem then not unreasonable to think Sony could pay for K-Mart to stock more Playstation stuff at the expense of the weakly-selling Saturn products. Although you say that isn't how it's done.
Frankly I'm having trouble finding a source online to back up my recollections. But you say it's provably untrue. How can you prove this negative?
Now I didn't say this earlier, but I only meant retailers pulling advertising when the Saturn could still have sold better was one of the nails in it's coffin. I'm not suggesting MS could buy all the shelf space in EB without buying the company outright for less money.
Yeah Sega as a company misread the market, and it's essentially all Sega's fault. By one source I found, 1996 was the last year Sega had a profitable quarter until I lately I suppose. So they were operating at a loss while seeing the Dreamcast through. Meanwhile if it weren't for MS's willingness to lose a billion+ dollars in round 1, they'd have given up on the xbox.
As for games being all-important, that's only true if gamers know about them and the good reviews or recommendations reach them. Repeatedly. Sega turned out many amazing games for the DC that got excellent reviews. But they still didn't save the system. When ported to the other consoles, they were mild hits. But frankly the biggest profit-makers seem to be sequels with good-though-flawed gameplay, and good-to-great looking graphics. Sequels come with more mindshare despite usually being just more of the same. Flawed gameplay is cheaper to develop. Flashy graphics are cheaper to do than months of additional coding and testing, and make for easy advertising, demos, and boost the reviews.
So do you support the death penalty? Sure there are abuses and innocent people being put to death, but in the majority of cases the system works effectively and is a benefit to society.
Good lord, what the fuck is wrong with you? Why are you jumping to conclusions so easily? I didn't waste my $200 because there were still many great games for the DC that I fully enjoyed.
Do you really think I just made stuff up to "hear" myself talk on the internet or pick an argument with you?
I never said that the games weren't the most important deficit. I just felt a few lesser known facts needed to be pointed out. It's pretty obvious developers went to the PS2 in part because it was a safer bet, even though it's still harder to program for, has only half the texture memory of the DC, and also doesn't have texture compression. And Sony paid several companies for exclusive games. Sega did manage to put up a good fight, and sold almost five million units, which they said was the threshold for continuing to support the console. It's unfortunate that Sega didn't have other divisions with deep pockets like MS or Sony to draw money from. After all, it's hard to compete when others are willing to spend whatever it takes no matter how high the losses. I would guess Nintendo wouldn't have been able to do so many in-house games without Gameboy profits keeping the company going.
Even more words: Sony fucked Sega by paying retailers to pull Saturn advertising and shelf-space. Then with the Dreamcast, Sony promised the stars with the PS2 and hyped it so much that people held off on buying Sega's machine. It wasn't until release that people found out DOA 2 looked as good or better on the DC because of the better textures and reduced jaggies.
Because the Nazi's did that? Or you're just talking out your ass? If we the people decided our politicians had to be completely open with us about their investments and potential conflicts of interests, then that would be our decision to insist happen. Then people who didn't want to reveal their finances wouldn't go into politics. Just like we don't let 70-year-olds pilot airliners. It's just the rules.
Do city-owned water and power utilities count as government? Because some of them have cheaper rates than the private companies that supply surrounding cities.
Perhaps the mismanagement wouldn't be any more wasteful than the amount of profit Insurance companies and their executives are already raking in at the expense of everyone else.
Perhaps people who were working or looking for work would get first dibs. Similar to welfare checks, in that people have to be looking for work and ways to be productive in order to get health care.
Just because it's been talked up, doesn't mean you should get to go. Talking it up makes the event more important though so you'll care more about their coverage.
And the image processing software also knows that the reflection of sky on water is moving too slowly compared to the surrounding terrain, so that's another clue it is water.
So it needs clusters of CPUs working together. There would be stereo color cameras to work with the laser to determine depth at 60fps, along with the gyro sensors for orientation. That would handle the canyon situation. It would of course be combined with GPS and topo maps to have a general idea of the height change in terrain. Additionally, it should know where the sun is and based on the intensity of colors and shadows if a cloud was blocking the sun. Then it would adjust what its been programmed to expect water or foliage to look like in terms of colors. And since the terrain on either side of a puddle reflects the laser, it would see that the ground is dipping on either side of the blank spot, and combine that with the color camera data, seeing a flat surface, to guess it is water, and guess it's depth based on the surrounding topography.
If there is sooo much more to learn for that engineering degree, then either it should be spread out over 5 years, or the liberal arts curriculum should be compressed into 3. Why should someone be excluded from engineering just because they can't function on 6 hours of sleep five days in a row?
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While you've got a point about a Feb lauch with quality games, hopefully there are enough titles that will be "good enough" by November.
How about not. I like good tactile feedback, but I'd rather the keyboard be silent.
The name was picked on purpose. I'm presuming this is someone's second or third account. It exists to point out the obvious to people who should know better. It exists so someone can be sarcastic and rude without harming their other accounts.
I don't see why the submitter needs to be told to google for "cool laptop", because that's just really friggin obvious.
Toshiba thinks it will be shortly. Originally it was supposed to go in before Christmas (though it has slipped now). Chinese players are supposed to come out soon as well.
So Microsoft probably knew there weren't going to be millions of quality drives available in time for Christmas. And waiting until after Christmas means exactly that in terms of sales, free publicity from "hot for christmas" articles, and making their launch that much closer to Sony's. Not to mention that if the launch was set for February instead, I'd expect Sony to move their launch up to February even if it meant fewer launch titles on the PS3. There goes the early-launch benefit.
And there are so many differences between the Dreamcast and this situation. I had a related discussion a few days ago. The key points are that Sega couldn't afford to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. Sega also didn't have the confidence of key developers that they could launch a console after the Saturn. They also couldn't afford to pay developers for exclusive games.
Not all 360 games are going to need more than 8.5GB. The RPGs probably will, but I don't think any of those are going to be available for a while. As for developers leaving content out, multi-CD games were commonplace, still are on PCs, and there will be multi-DVD releases. And if 2 DVD's cost the same as 1 Blu-ray, what's the big difference?
As for developers complaining, don't you think Microsoft spent hundreds of person-hours talking to the devs about their storage needs and weighing the pros and cons?
Nice account name.
And yeah, submitter, stop being an idiot and think for a moment. Just pointing a small fan at your laptop will make a difference, letting air flow underneath will help more.
The devs will mostly make do with 7.9GiB, which at 512MiB per level, is enough for 15 levels. If they need more, they'll go dual-disc. I wonder what the cost difference is for manufacturing 2 DVDs compared to 1 Blu-ray? At least for a few years, probably about the same.
I don't have to wonder why MS didn't wait.
1. The technology isn't ready yet for massive, cheap manufacturing.
2. A very small percentage of the potential market actually cares about HD-DVD.
3. HD-DVD movies will take time to come out.
4. Getting out first and stealing Sony's thunder in critical, because releasing at the same time as Sony is just handing them the victory for the next 5 years.
The last one is the most important. Releasing early is a gamble, but waiting is almost an assured loss.
What if you get thrown off it's back, or maybe it topples to the ground and it's 300 pounds land on you? What if the skin is tougher than you realize and it's hard to choke it or get a grip since the neck is wider than a humans?
But does better accuracy always make a game more fun? What about when the Nintendo Revolution arrives with shooters that involve aiming a gun-shaped controller? Which control scheme makes for a better game if it turns out most people are faster and more accurate with a mouse, but it's more fun to aim the plastic gun?
What do the Brits call the small lumps of dough or batter that bake up into what USians call biscuits?
You say it yourself that companies buy shelf space in larger department stores, and you say that Sega was financially vulnerable. It would seem then not unreasonable to think Sony could pay for K-Mart to stock more Playstation stuff at the expense of the weakly-selling Saturn products. Although you say that isn't how it's done.
Frankly I'm having trouble finding a source online to back up my recollections. But you say it's provably untrue. How can you prove this negative?
Now I didn't say this earlier, but I only meant retailers pulling advertising when the Saturn could still have sold better was one of the nails in it's coffin. I'm not suggesting MS could buy all the shelf space in EB without buying the company outright for less money.
Yeah Sega as a company misread the market, and it's essentially all Sega's fault. By one source I found, 1996 was the last year Sega had a profitable quarter until I lately I suppose. So they were operating at a loss while seeing the Dreamcast through. Meanwhile if it weren't for MS's willingness to lose a billion+ dollars in round 1, they'd have given up on the xbox.
As for games being all-important, that's only true if gamers know about them and the good reviews or recommendations reach them. Repeatedly. Sega turned out many amazing games for the DC that got excellent reviews. But they still didn't save the system. When ported to the other consoles, they were mild hits. But frankly the biggest profit-makers seem to be sequels with good-though-flawed gameplay, and good-to-great looking graphics. Sequels come with more mindshare despite usually being just more of the same. Flawed gameplay is cheaper to develop. Flashy graphics are cheaper to do than months of additional coding and testing, and make for easy advertising, demos, and boost the reviews.
So do you support the death penalty? Sure there are abuses and innocent people being put to death, but in the majority of cases the system works effectively and is a benefit to society.
Good lord, what the fuck is wrong with you? Why are you jumping to conclusions so easily? I didn't waste my $200 because there were still many great games for the DC that I fully enjoyed.
Do you really think I just made stuff up to "hear" myself talk on the internet or pick an argument with you?
I never said that the games weren't the most important deficit. I just felt a few lesser known facts needed to be pointed out. It's pretty obvious developers went to the PS2 in part because it was a safer bet, even though it's still harder to program for, has only half the texture memory of the DC, and also doesn't have texture compression. And Sony paid several companies for exclusive games. Sega did manage to put up a good fight, and sold almost five million units, which they said was the threshold for continuing to support the console. It's unfortunate that Sega didn't have other divisions with deep pockets like MS or Sony to draw money from. After all, it's hard to compete when others are willing to spend whatever it takes no matter how high the losses. I would guess Nintendo wouldn't have been able to do so many in-house games without Gameboy profits keeping the company going.
Even more words: Sony fucked Sega by paying retailers to pull Saturn advertising and shelf-space. Then with the Dreamcast, Sony promised the stars with the PS2 and hyped it so much that people held off on buying Sega's machine. It wasn't until release that people found out DOA 2 looked as good or better on the DC because of the better textures and reduced jaggies.
Because the Nazi's did that? Or you're just talking out your ass? If we the people decided our politicians had to be completely open with us about their investments and potential conflicts of interests, then that would be our decision to insist happen. Then people who didn't want to reveal their finances wouldn't go into politics. Just like we don't let 70-year-olds pilot airliners. It's just the rules.
Do city-owned water and power utilities count as government? Because some of them have cheaper rates than the private companies that supply surrounding cities.
Perhaps the mismanagement wouldn't be any more wasteful than the amount of profit Insurance companies and their executives are already raking in at the expense of everyone else.
Perhaps people who were working or looking for work would get first dibs. Similar to welfare checks, in that people have to be looking for work and ways to be productive in order to get health care.
If her life sucks that bad she should just kick the bucket and stop spending his inheritance.
Just because it's been talked up, doesn't mean you should get to go. Talking it up makes the event more important though so you'll care more about their coverage.
Without bourbon what is there to live for?
sex?
It's sony's fault for integrating region enforcement into the same chip that also prevents burned copies of games from playing.
My hip bones don't rub the armrests in coach. I'm also a healthy weight.
Are blank 50GB discs actually available for sale in Japan, or just 25GB?
And the image processing software also knows that the reflection of sky on water is moving too slowly compared to the surrounding terrain, so that's another clue it is water.
So it needs clusters of CPUs working together. There would be stereo color cameras to work with the laser to determine depth at 60fps, along with the gyro sensors for orientation. That would handle the canyon situation. It would of course be combined with GPS and topo maps to have a general idea of the height change in terrain. Additionally, it should know where the sun is and based on the intensity of colors and shadows if a cloud was blocking the sun. Then it would adjust what its been programmed to expect water or foliage to look like in terms of colors. And since the terrain on either side of a puddle reflects the laser, it would see that the ground is dipping on either side of the blank spot, and combine that with the color camera data, seeing a flat surface, to guess it is water, and guess it's depth based on the surrounding topography.
If there is sooo much more to learn for that engineering degree, then either it should be spread out over 5 years, or the liberal arts curriculum should be compressed into 3. Why should someone be excluded from engineering just because they can't function on 6 hours of sleep five days in a row?