I fail to see where I said the problems were limited to the 360. I also fail to see where I said the summary shouldn't have said anything negative about the PS3. I merely said it should tell the whole story if it's going to tell half the story.
A multi-platform game isn't the cornerstone of anybodies holiday season. If the game is the same on both platforms it shouldn't help sales of one any more than the other.
However in the case of GTA IV, there's Xbox exclusive content, but no PS3 exclusive content. If anything it would have helped Xbox sales, not PS3 sales. A delay of GTA hurts MS more than Sony, but it really doesn't hurt either of them much at all relative to each other.
Why doesn't the summary mention that Microsoft is considering allowing games which require the hard drive, possibly in response to these issues with GTA IV? Instead it just trash-talks the PS3. Lovely.
I would consider investing in a Second Life bank as riskier than putting your whole savings into junk bonds or giving it to some random person on a street corner to invest for you.
I agree. It's stupid.
But putting a tiny amount of money into a high risk "investment" scheme is riskier than putting your whole savings into junk bonds? Come on. This type of high risk investment can be perfectly reasonable as long as your overall position is well diversified.
There's only one correct interpretation, so there was no need for them to clarify any further. Increasing 113% means (Sales = (LastMonthSales * 2.13)). LastMonthSales * 1 is no increase. So clearly there is only one way to interpret the numbers.
When you average out the ideas of the general public, it's easy to see how you could come to that mistaken conclusion.
In reality some of our population thinks they deserve to realize 1000% of their payments, and some are happy with 0%, as long as it's 0% of a very tiny amount. Yet other people are up in arms about the first group, and rightfully so.
The best part is that none of those three things are "insurance".
I don't know... It seems to me that statement could just as easily be interpreted to mean they're going to get the compatibility issues sorted out as quickly as possible in order to devote those resources elsewhere.
The compatibility is certainly much much better than many blogs and forum posts would have you believe. I just can't imagine they would have to do much more to it to get the compatibility level to a place where it's satisfactory for the vast majority of users.
I defy you to show me where the Wii sell-through numbers are anything like the 360's, though
Really, who cares? The Wii makes a profit with zero sellthrough, and the Xbox requires at least seven game and accessory purchases to break even. So one company is selling lots of stuff at a loss, and the other company is selling a little bit less stuff at a huge profit. Which one is the "winner"?
Personally I don't see how most machines can run for that long unless you ignore security
If you chose the right OS, and perhaps a firewall, remote kernel exploits are practically non-existent, so you don't need to re-boot (or even bring your site down) to install patches.
Apartment doors are steel fire doors mounted in steel frames, and walls are reinforced concrete. Those things will resist a battering ram.
Let me assure you that while the door and frame may resist the ram (with serious denting), the lock hardware won't. Two whacks and the swat team is in.
Yes. Ironically, it won't stop an actual drunk, who will probably shift with a glove, or a napkin from the glove box. Alcohol helps you do stupid things, but it doesn't actually make you stupid.
I'm imagining a bunch of "guides" searching Google for you instead of letting you do it yourself.
Seriously though, who knows? Maybe enough people suck at searching to make this service worthwhile, but I don't see how it could ever be profitable. Unless they somehow think they can get away without paying anybody.
So why didn't they make them into.debs, or wrap their installation in debian post-inst scripts, and distribute a script to add their repository to sources.list? Why did they need this atrocity of a program?
Why not just, you know.... Delete the shows as you watch them?
It's a time shifting device, not an archival tool. (But the bigger hard drive is still a "must".)
I don't understand people who have the pack-rat mentality when it comes to their Tivo. With everybody I know who does that, 90% of the time the show re-airs before the person re-watches. Like a particular show? Tell it to keep 5... Or 10... You'll always be able to sit down and watch your favorite show, and you'll have room for new shows too.
Except that the full featured handset doesn't even exist yet, and the half-baked one you can actually get doesn't work (at least according to their own website):
"Currently it is not suitable for users. The state of the software at the moment is pre-alpha. If you order a Neo1973, DO NOT expect to be able to use it as an everyday phone."
Seriously, there is good enough to get the job done, and then there is digital penis envy.
Of course you're going to think yours is big enough if you don't know how to use it...
Faster broadband, both upstream and down (especially up) would have an enormous societal impact. Think of all the travel that could be avoided (jet fuel not burned) if video conferencing didn't suck. Think of all the commuting that wouldn't have to be done if VPN access were equivalent to sitting on the corporate LAN. Some of us with fiber-optic connections are already seeing the benefits. $0.99 Amazon movie rentals that only take 12 minutes to download, for example. You can literally start watching in seconds. The whole thing is done transferring in less time than it would have taken to drive to Blockbuster and back... Remote desktops are actually usable for non-graphical apps, and even for some CAD applications...
Faster internet access really would provide better quality of life for many people.
I thought the point was to guarantee access to documents without them being held for ransom by the company that owns the format...
Yeah, Microsoft has a free reader, but they don't give away the platform you need to run it... Plus you can save documents in a way that is OOXML compliant, but can't be rendered using the information from the spec alone. That means, neither of the reasons that either of us gave are filled by Microsoft's format.
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There. Fixed that for you.
The sentence doesn't mean what you intended it to mean without the comma.
I think you need to look up the definition of "Order of Magnitude"...
Unless "about twice as many" and "ten times as many" became the same thing while I wasn't looking...
I fail to see where I said the problems were limited to the 360. I also fail to see where I said the summary shouldn't have said anything negative about the PS3. I merely said it should tell the whole story if it's going to tell half the story.
You see what you wanted to see though apparently.
A multi-platform game isn't the cornerstone of anybodies holiday season. If the game is the same on both platforms it shouldn't help sales of one any more than the other.
However in the case of GTA IV, there's Xbox exclusive content, but no PS3 exclusive content. If anything it would have helped Xbox sales, not PS3 sales. A delay of GTA hurts MS more than Sony, but it really doesn't hurt either of them much at all relative to each other.
So some random analyst assumes the PS3 is the problem, and it ends up in the flamebait summary even though a VP at Rockstar says they haven't figured out how to deal with the lack of hard drive in the Xbox 360?
Why doesn't the summary mention that Microsoft is considering allowing games which require the hard drive, possibly in response to these issues with GTA IV? Instead it just trash-talks the PS3. Lovely.
Disable the submit button on all forms unless all "input" fields pass spell check.
It's like a new tag that crashes your existing browser......
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Isn't it ironic?
I agree. It's stupid.
But putting a tiny amount of money into a high risk "investment" scheme is riskier than putting your whole savings into junk bonds? Come on. This type of high risk investment can be perfectly reasonable as long as your overall position is well diversified.
There's only one correct interpretation, so there was no need for them to clarify any further. Increasing 113% means (Sales = (LastMonthSales * 2.13)). LastMonthSales * 1 is no increase. So clearly there is only one way to interpret the numbers.
When you average out the ideas of the general public, it's easy to see how you could come to that mistaken conclusion.
In reality some of our population thinks they deserve to realize 1000% of their payments, and some are happy with 0%, as long as it's 0% of a very tiny amount. Yet other people are up in arms about the first group, and rightfully so.
The best part is that none of those three things are "insurance".
I don't know... It seems to me that statement could just as easily be interpreted to mean they're going to get the compatibility issues sorted out as quickly as possible in order to devote those resources elsewhere.
The compatibility is certainly much much better than many blogs and forum posts would have you believe. I just can't imagine they would have to do much more to it to get the compatibility level to a place where it's satisfactory for the vast majority of users.
Really, who cares? The Wii makes a profit with zero sellthrough, and the Xbox requires at least seven game and accessory purchases to break even. So one company is selling lots of stuff at a loss, and the other company is selling a little bit less stuff at a huge profit. Which one is the "winner"?
I'll take the profit any day.
Do you have a source for that?
If you chose the right OS, and perhaps a firewall, remote kernel exploits are practically non-existent, so you don't need to re-boot (or even bring your site down) to install patches.
Let me assure you that while the door and frame may resist the ram (with serious denting), the lock hardware won't. Two whacks and the swat team is in.
Yes. Ironically, it won't stop an actual drunk, who will probably shift with a glove, or a napkin from the glove box. Alcohol helps you do stupid things, but it doesn't actually make you stupid.
I'm imagining a bunch of "guides" searching Google for you instead of letting you do it yourself.
Seriously though, who knows? Maybe enough people suck at searching to make this service worthwhile, but I don't see how it could ever be profitable. Unless they somehow think they can get away without paying anybody.
So why didn't they make them into .debs, or wrap their installation in debian post-inst scripts, and distribute a script to add their repository to sources.list? Why did they need this atrocity of a program?
Why not just, you know.... Delete the shows as you watch them?
It's a time shifting device, not an archival tool. (But the bigger hard drive is still a "must".)
I don't understand people who have the pack-rat mentality when it comes to their Tivo. With everybody I know who does that, 90% of the time the show re-airs before the person re-watches. Like a particular show? Tell it to keep 5... Or 10... You'll always be able to sit down and watch your favorite show, and you'll have room for new shows too.
What isn't hackable again?
And what did I "favor"... Yeah, I said something negative about one device, but that's it.... I didn't hold some other device on high...
Except that the full featured handset doesn't even exist yet, and the half-baked one you can actually get doesn't work (at least according to their own website):
"Currently it is not suitable for users. The state of the software at the moment is pre-alpha. If you order a Neo1973, DO NOT expect to be able to use it as an everyday phone."
Nice "phone" you've got there.
Of course you're going to think yours is big enough if you don't know how to use it...
Faster broadband, both upstream and down (especially up) would have an enormous societal impact. Think of all the travel that could be avoided (jet fuel not burned) if video conferencing didn't suck. Think of all the commuting that wouldn't have to be done if VPN access were equivalent to sitting on the corporate LAN. Some of us with fiber-optic connections are already seeing the benefits. $0.99 Amazon movie rentals that only take 12 minutes to download, for example. You can literally start watching in seconds. The whole thing is done transferring in less time than it would have taken to drive to Blockbuster and back... Remote desktops are actually usable for non-graphical apps, and even for some CAD applications...
Faster internet access really would provide better quality of life for many people.
I thought the point was to guarantee access to documents without them being held for ransom by the company that owns the format...
Yeah, Microsoft has a free reader, but they don't give away the platform you need to run it... Plus you can save documents in a way that is OOXML compliant, but can't be rendered using the information from the spec alone. That means, neither of the reasons that either of us gave are filled by Microsoft's format.
I think you're confused... AO is "more adult" than M, not less.... AO means "Not available for sale anywhere".
No, it takes "cojones" to stand up and say why they're really slipping the release. "For Quality" is the default cop-out.