Yeah, and that even seams like fairly blatent trademark infringemeant if the game name was trademarked.
It is not a parody and clearly is trying to cash in on the first one. That is why trade mark law exists, of course Xenogears may not be trade marked, in which case there is some wiggle room, but depending on how the story is intertwined it still may not work (I know nothing about the games).
Actaully what you are supposed to do is put up a "Dog on Premises" sign. That way noboby can clain they did not know there was a dog, but you are not admitting to the dog being dangerous.
so even a non technical male will want to know details and pretend they know what they mean (generalization). A woman is much more likly to just want at good solution.
This is my expierience selling computers/printers at office max. The women would want to know the best printer to buy, which tended to be a middle of the line HP. The men wanted to know the highest dpi printer that was cheap. Which was a God awful middle of the line Lexmark. The actauly image quality meant very little.
Same thing with computers. We would often have an anomoly where an old pentium III was less or about the same cost as a celeron that was new (clearence and all that). The men just wanted the Megahertz and the women would listen. So yes they were treated differently, the women would get honest help while the men were just pointed in the direction of what they already wanted.
The first time I saw it I was so bothered by the "futuristic atmosphere" I almost left the theatre (I have never actually left a movie). I watched it on HBO later and actually got kind of into it. And it wasn't because I was too stupid to understand it or anything. It was the damn 3-d interfacing. The imposible to see anything on clear displays, and the highway system in general that bothered me.
Other stupid little things too (like how can his eyes still be authorized to the top secret area when he is most wanted). But I can get over the minor (and even major) nits, the vision of the future as a whole was incredibly frustrating though.
I can't have a phone that looks like that and take myself seriously. How can others be expected to do the same.
If they had a fairly good gaming setup and it looked like a proffessional phone. I would have baught one. But I am not holding a red taco up to my ear while wearing a suit. No way in hell.
But with huge fast hard drives I imagine space is less of a premium then speed.
On a pentium one you had either 33 or 66 Mb/second transfer and about 2-4 GB of space.
now you get 133 Mb/s transfer (SATA is that speed I believe) and 80GB of space. so you have a ten times increase of space and a 4 times increase of speed (drives are probably MB/s I can't remember)
space efficiency is less important with a huge fast drive. I woul be more concerned witht the question of why can't the file be more efficient so that it loads off the disk quicker and the program has less to prossess.
that simple 100MB file (if true, I doubt it though) probably loaded a lot slower then the first revision of that presentation of the same length.
I my area it happened twice in the last 18 months.
the first was when an 8 foot fissure was found in the support holding up the big 8 lane bridge over the city. The closed dow 2 of the 4 lanes in that direction. The first day it was a total suprise. Also for non-regular commuters it was good to know weeks later too.
The other was when scheduled construction dug up a live explosive attached to a bolder it was supposed to destroy. Lazy previous crew did not actually blow up and remove the bolder apperently. This cloased a major highway for a long time and I was able to take an alternate because of the sign.
Or it could get an original open office (or was it star) type license where non-compatible versions must be open source but if it is 100% compatible it can be closed.
I guess the space elavator is comin soon then. Otherwise these are going to be some really expensive darts. And you better know which bunker you are busting because if you get the wrong one you justwasted millions if not billions of dollors.
So I guess the female console market would have been more accurate.
I am not saying their stradegy will win or fail. Just that they see that fighting the big guy head on is not a winning stradegy. It is capturing the growth. Much like Linux is not replacing Microsoft so much (well it is starting to) but it was that new servers were more likly to be Linux.
The sims is one game. If the market is that desperate for a game they enjoy that a single game gets such huge penatration all Nintendo needs is a game or two to rocket their next console into a very respectable standing.
It may or may not work. But it is the new market that is much easier won then fighting in an already saturated one. Since arguably Sony already meets all of the traditional markets needs (though not mine of only costing 99 dollors so I have a game cube).
Sony had the huge advantage of capturing the expanding market.
Where about 1/2 of my friends with Super Nintendos got N64s (all the non Final fantasy types) Play station was the first system for a lot of people. I don't know any non SNES owning person that went for anything but the PlayStation. I know a lot of older people who wern't gamers that then went and baught a PS2 (though Xbax did well in that segment too from what I can tell).
If Nintendo can generate and crack teh female gaming market they could easily come out on top. But Sony so far has just been dominating in new markets like it is nothing.
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Actually it assumes that they did not invent anything. If all their patents were true inventions then there would likley not be an outcry.
Yeah, and that even seams like fairly blatent trademark infringemeant if the game name was trademarked.
It is not a parody and clearly is trying to cash in on the first one. That is why trade mark law exists, of course Xenogears may not be trade marked, in which case there is some wiggle room, but depending on how the story is intertwined it still may not work (I know nothing about the games).
Or THC producing Cannibus and Opiate producing Poppys.
I call bullshit on the projector comment.
every laptop I have seen sends a signal out the VGA in the back by pushing function-Fx
where the F key varies by model/brand
granted this is on a small selection of dells/compaqs but still, I have never neaded to reboot of install anything.
God you reply to old stories.
Actaully what you are supposed to do is put up a
"Dog on Premises" sign. That way noboby can clain they did not know there was a dog, but you are not admitting to the dog being dangerous.
Also, men like bragging rights.
so even a non technical male will want to know details and pretend they know what they mean (generalization). A woman is much more likly to just want at good solution.
This is my expierience selling computers/printers at office max. The women would want to know the best printer to buy, which tended to be a middle of the line HP. The men wanted to know the highest dpi printer that was cheap. Which was a God awful middle of the line Lexmark. The actauly image quality meant very little.
Same thing with computers. We would often have an anomoly where an old pentium III was less or about the same cost as a celeron that was new (clearence and all that). The men just wanted the Megahertz and the women would listen. So yes they were treated differently, the women would get honest help while the men were just pointed in the direction of what they already wanted.
Funny, I thought the oppisite.
The first time I saw it I was so bothered by the "futuristic atmosphere" I almost left the theatre (I have never actually left a movie). I watched it on HBO later and actually got kind of into it. And it wasn't because I was too stupid to understand it or anything. It was the damn 3-d interfacing. The imposible to see anything on clear displays, and the highway system in general that bothered me.
Other stupid little things too (like how can his eyes still be authorized to the top secret area when he is most wanted). But I can get over the minor (and even major) nits, the vision of the future as a whole was incredibly frustrating though.
All of you who finished college.
What killed the N-gage is the look.
I can't have a phone that looks like that and take myself seriously. How can others be expected to do the same.
If they had a fairly good gaming setup and it looked like a proffessional phone. I would have baught one. But I am not holding a red taco up to my ear while wearing a suit. No way in hell.
Why not just install office on a Windows system (outlook and IE should do the rest).
We Americans are just too full of ourselves to notice "subtle differences".
I agree though. the cultures are quite different. But so are regions in our own country. So that does not say much.
duh. not finished though and still informative, yay slashdot.
.8 like the grandparent.
I am using firefox
wouldn'thave been a useful comparison otherwise.
it is nice to know that Mozilla is about par with Opera now, except the better ram cash in Opera.
I have 6 windows open.
slashdot, penny arcade, FX networks flash monstrosity, and 3 random mozilla.org pages (just to add windows)
I am using only 38 MB
with one widnow it was 18 MB only slashdot (wich did seem high, but not anywhere near 64MB).
well 100MB is huge I won'targue there.
But with huge fast hard drives I imagine space is less of a premium then speed.
On a pentium one you had either 33 or 66 Mb/second transfer and about 2-4 GB of space.
now you get 133 Mb/s transfer (SATA is that speed I believe) and 80GB of space. so you have a ten times increase of space and a 4 times increase of speed (drives are probably MB/s I can't remember)
space efficiency is less important with a huge fast drive. I woul be more concerned witht the question of why can't the file be more efficient so that it loads off the disk quicker and the program has less to prossess.
that simple 100MB file (if true, I doubt it though) probably loaded a lot slower then the first revision of that presentation of the same length.
But you could still make it faster and use less memmory possibly.
And sell it as a closed implementation.
I my area it happened twice in the last 18 months.
the first was when an 8 foot fissure was found in the support holding up the big 8 lane bridge over the city. The closed dow 2 of the 4 lanes in that direction. The first day it was a total suprise. Also for non-regular commuters it was good to know weeks later too.
The other was when scheduled construction dug up a live explosive attached to a bolder it was supposed to destroy. Lazy previous crew did not actually blow up and remove the bolder apperently. This cloased a major highway for a long time and I was able to take an alternate because of the sign.
Or it could get an original open office (or was it star) type license where non-compatible versions must be open source but if it is 100% compatible it can be closed.
I guess the space elavator is comin soon then. Otherwise these are going to be some really expensive darts. And you better know which bunker you are busting because if you get the wrong one you justwasted millions if not billions of dollors.
DC like most razors and toothbrushes?
so as long as I don't put the engine of the hairdryer next to my head I am safe, right?
What they should do is have nominations.
Anyone can nomnate anything
and then you get random pairin to vote on. if one game spanks consistantly drop the other one.
It would be a lot more interstin then.
Yeah, the same one that bans StarWars defense.
I don't know this physics stuff very well, but is this unique to AC?
because my razor has a battery in it (as do most I think) so it is not 60hz AC.
Also I see no mention of new fangled toothbrushs. I use one of them inside my scull everymorning.
I am too stupid to figure out how to read more then the blurb. Maybe it is the toothbrush's fault.
So I guess the female console market would have been more accurate.
I am not saying their stradegy will win or fail. Just that they see that fighting the big guy head on is not a winning stradegy. It is capturing the growth. Much like Linux is not replacing Microsoft so much (well it is starting to) but it was that new servers were more likly to be Linux.
The sims is one game. If the market is that desperate for a game they enjoy that a single game gets such huge penatration all Nintendo needs is a game or two to rocket their next console into a very respectable standing.
It may or may not work. But it is the new market that is much easier won then fighting in an already saturated one. Since arguably Sony already meets all of the traditional markets needs (though not mine of only costing 99 dollors so I have a game cube).
Sony had the huge advantage of capturing the expanding market.
Where about 1/2 of my friends with Super Nintendos got N64s (all the non Final fantasy types) Play station was the first system for a lot of people. I don't know any non SNES owning person that went for anything but the PlayStation. I know a lot of older people who wern't gamers that then went and baught a PS2 (though Xbax did well in that segment too from what I can tell).
If Nintendo can generate and crack teh female gaming market they could easily come out on top. But Sony so far has just been dominating in new markets like it is nothing.