Well, they're right. He did outsider jokes. So outsiders, such as ourselves, ate it up while the insiders squirmed uncomfortably in their seats. He basically stood up there and told everyone in the room that they suck at their jobs, and then proved it by providing more insight in 10 minutes of comededic monologue than most of the people in that room have given us in their entire careers.
Pick your own snark: A) How do you think UFOs work? B) Ironically, any substance that blocks gravitons would be so dense that it, itself, would be a source of gravitons. C) Could God create a source of gravity so strong that even God could not escape it?
toilet seats are cleaner the most other surfaces in a house
and in an office (desk, phone, etc). This was a very diggsian story in that it repeats 10-20 year old information as if it were brand new. The mystery isn't that everything else is so dirty, it's that toilet seats are so clean! And would the results be different if they tested the average Slashdotter's toilet that only gets cleaned twice a year?
I thought you were replying to the Star Wars thread above and read that in a Jabba the Hutt voice: "ANJA-nappa, MUNI-swamappa, CHEW-bacca. Ho, ho, ho."
That Gameboy is on display at the Nintendo World store in New York, along with a lot of other Nintendo history (including a pack of cards made by the company before they went into video games).
The current market surely won't support such an expensive 20GB MP3 player.
That sounds suspiciously like that famous slashdot quote about the original ipod. $500 for 20GB of flash in an ultrathin iPod with 24+ hours of battery life and bragging rights? Priceless. The terminally poor (like me) will have to wait for prices to drop, but we'll be content to drool over them in the meantime. Apple better make those cases waterproof.
What will happen if someone knocks at Joe 6P's door and tells him:
[BLAH BLAH...]
and ask for his bank account number and other personal info.
A lot of people would fall for it. You think con-artistry didn't exist before email? It's just more efficient now. Once you had to knock on 1000 doors to find someone so gullible, now you let them come to you. Some people are just [trusting/greedy/desperate] like that.
I've fiddled with Linux, and I'll certainly give it another look next time in the market for a new computer. I use Win2k at home but have no desire to "upgrade" to XP or (eventually) Vista. In the meantime, my mother will be getting an iBook on my recommendation, so I have to teach myself OSX in the next few weeks so I can teach it to her. If that goes well, then my next computer will probably be a Mac.
Extortion? There's no way they're making a profit on that. Don't expect the price to drop for at least a year. The PS3, from what we've heard, will cost at least $400 at launch, so there's absolutely no pressure on Microsoft to do so. The Revolution will probably cost $200-$250 (and be profitable!), but Nintendo and Microsoft are aiming at totally different market segments, so that's not really competition.
Umm, the things that were "blown out of proportion" were things that people didn't want. Solid state mouse buttons with no tactile feedback would be awful, and a speaker would be annoying. You know they'd get all clever and make it go "moof" instead of "click". And then some third party would start selling "click tones" featuring Crazy Frog! No thank you.
You realize that means that PS2 games on Blu-Ray discs will blow Xbox360 games out of the water in terms of graphics and features, right? I'm sure Sony will make sure something really stunning is available at launch just to make Xbox owners cry.
Hilarious. MS is shooting themselves in the foot on features, Sony is shooting themselves in the foot on price, and Nintendo suddenly looks like the little engine that could, or the tortoise racing two hares.
Grr. So I went and read TFA. Talk about burying the lead! The story here isn't that Nintendo profits are down 80%, it's that Nintendo is PROFITABLE while their competitors are not.
The points I made above still stand, with the added note that Nintendo runs the tightest ship in the industry and never sells anything for a loss. Still, it's anyone's guess how long they can go on bleeding market share and still make money. Like I said, perception is reality. Headlines like this probably do more to hurt Nintendo than any questionable business move they may make because it scares people away from buying their products.
Because perception is reality in their industry. Gamers are extremely image-conscious, and Nintendo was never able to shed their "kiddie" image. Some people think the kiddie thing isn't so bad because Nintendy is building brand loyalty in the most impressionable audience there is. What those people fail to take into account is that little boys worship their big brothers. That's why commercials for toys use kids a few years older than the intended audience.
The more people believed Nintendo was for kids, the more it became true. 3rd parties stopped releasing "mature" games for the GC because the audience wasn't there. Think: When was the last time you saw a commercial for a video game that showed a Game Cube logo next to "available for these systems"? It's usually some combination of PS2, XBox and *PC*! Game makers look at non-console options before they look at Game Cube!
I think Nintendo's only chance with the next gen is to substantially sweeten their licensing deals. Even if they make zero profit from Rockstar games, it's better than not having any Rockstar games because their mere availability will sell consoles and peripherals.
GMail is supposedly beta and almost everyone I know is on it. Google "betas" are less buggy and more widely deployed that most companies' final products. It may be their way of limiting liability (just in case) or just to let you know that the features are subject to change without notice. So far, thankfully, the changes have been to our benefit (sattelite images, sattelite/map hybrids, and "infinitely increasing" storage on Gmail).
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Well, they're right. He did outsider jokes. So outsiders, such as ourselves, ate it up while the insiders squirmed uncomfortably in their seats. He basically stood up there and told everyone in the room that they suck at their jobs, and then proved it by providing more insight in 10 minutes of comededic monologue than most of the people in that room have given us in their entire careers.
Pick your own snark:
A) How do you think UFOs work?
B) Ironically, any substance that blocks gravitons would be so dense that it, itself, would be a source of gravitons.
C) Could God create a source of gravity so strong that even God could not escape it?
toilet seats are cleaner the most other surfaces in a house
and in an office (desk, phone, etc). This was a very diggsian story in that it repeats 10-20 year old information as if it were brand new. The mystery isn't that everything else is so dirty, it's that toilet seats are so clean! And would the results be different if they tested the average Slashdotter's toilet that only gets cleaned twice a year?
What's worse, they refuse to acknowledge my theory of Intelligent Disemboweling.
Some people think they can filibuster the apocolypse.
I thought you were replying to the Star Wars thread above and read that in a Jabba the Hutt voice: "ANJA-nappa, MUNI-swamappa, CHEW-bacca. Ho, ho, ho."
That Gameboy is on display at the Nintendo World store in New York, along with a lot of other Nintendo history (including a pack of cards made by the company before they went into video games).
I don't know about the article, but that's the same summary that's accompanied every RFID story for the past 3 years.
The current market surely won't support such an expensive 20GB MP3 player.
That sounds suspiciously like that famous slashdot quote about the original ipod. $500 for 20GB of flash in an ultrathin iPod with 24+ hours of battery life and bragging rights? Priceless. The terminally poor (like me) will have to wait for prices to drop, but we'll be content to drool over them in the meantime. Apple better make those cases waterproof.
Yeah, I was just wondering how these "researchers" went about "collecting" PIN mailers for their experiment.
It's practically a pre-requisite. You're being modded "Funny" because there's no "Damn, he's right".
What will happen if someone knocks at Joe 6P's door and tells him:
[BLAH BLAH...]
and ask for his bank account number and other personal info.
A lot of people would fall for it. You think con-artistry didn't exist before email? It's just more efficient now. Once you had to knock on 1000 doors to find someone so gullible, now you let them come to you. Some people are just [trusting/greedy/desperate] like that.
Hey, aren't you the "You Stole My Fucking Cloudsong!!!" guy?
I've fiddled with Linux, and I'll certainly give it another look next time in the market for a new computer. I use Win2k at home but have no desire to "upgrade" to XP or (eventually) Vista. In the meantime, my mother will be getting an iBook on my recommendation, so I have to teach myself OSX in the next few weeks so I can teach it to her. If that goes well, then my next computer will probably be a Mac.
Oh that's easy, it's red meat for the Slashdot crowd. Almost as good as a debate on Intelligent Design. Watch the comment count skyrocket.
This isn't an "article," it's a blog entry. And a really bad one at that. I say this as someone who uses Windows almost exclusively.
Extortion? There's no way they're making a profit on that. Don't expect the price to drop for at least a year. The PS3, from what we've heard, will cost at least $400 at launch, so there's absolutely no pressure on Microsoft to do so. The Revolution will probably cost $200-$250 (and be profitable!), but Nintendo and Microsoft are aiming at totally different market segments, so that's not really competition.
Umm, the things that were "blown out of proportion" were things that people didn't want. Solid state mouse buttons with no tactile feedback would be awful, and a speaker would be annoying. You know they'd get all clever and make it go "moof" instead of "click". And then some third party would start selling "click tones" featuring Crazy Frog! No thank you.
I for one welcome our tired, rehashed overlords.
You realize that means that PS2 games on Blu-Ray discs will blow Xbox360 games out of the water in terms of graphics and features, right? I'm sure Sony will make sure something really stunning is available at launch just to make Xbox owners cry.
Hilarious. MS is shooting themselves in the foot on features, Sony is shooting themselves in the foot on price, and Nintendo suddenly looks like the little engine that could, or the tortoise racing two hares.
Grr. So I went and read TFA. Talk about burying the lead! The story here isn't that Nintendo profits are down 80%, it's that Nintendo is PROFITABLE while their competitors are not.
The points I made above still stand, with the added note that Nintendo runs the tightest ship in the industry and never sells anything for a loss. Still, it's anyone's guess how long they can go on bleeding market share and still make money. Like I said, perception is reality. Headlines like this probably do more to hurt Nintendo than any questionable business move they may make because it scares people away from buying their products.
I don't know why GC isn't more popular.
Because perception is reality in their industry. Gamers are extremely image-conscious, and Nintendo was never able to shed their "kiddie" image. Some people think the kiddie thing isn't so bad because Nintendy is building brand loyalty in the most impressionable audience there is. What those people fail to take into account is that little boys worship their big brothers. That's why commercials for toys use kids a few years older than the intended audience.
The more people believed Nintendo was for kids, the more it became true. 3rd parties stopped releasing "mature" games for the GC because the audience wasn't there. Think: When was the last time you saw a commercial for a video game that showed a Game Cube logo next to "available for these systems"? It's usually some combination of PS2, XBox and *PC*! Game makers look at non-console options before they look at Game Cube!
I think Nintendo's only chance with the next gen is to substantially sweeten their licensing deals. Even if they make zero profit from Rockstar games, it's better than not having any Rockstar games because their mere availability will sell consoles and peripherals.
That's not a joke.
GMail is supposedly beta and almost everyone I know is on it. Google "betas" are less buggy and more widely deployed that most companies' final products. It may be their way of limiting liability (just in case) or just to let you know that the features are subject to change without notice. So far, thankfully, the changes have been to our benefit (sattelite images, sattelite/map hybrids, and "infinitely increasing" storage on Gmail).
don't you mean ... peaflops?