If you think of sexual behaviour, you could classify it into homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual behaviour. Which of these is deviant?
In excess? All of the above.
In moderation? None of the above.
Just like with introverts/extroverts.
As long as you're not making your life and the lives of those around you miserable with your behavior, there's not problem. Many introverts ruin their own lives with shyness. I'd hardly call that a "smart" way to live. Likewise, many extroverts find themselves shunned as they are socially uncomfortable to be around. Either way, it's a costly mal-adjustment of behavior, and such people could probably gain from a little therapy or religion or whatever it takes to rattle their cages and see their own dysfunction for what it is.
Seriously, modded "Informative" for writing (almost) seven words, and being 100% wrong?
Look moderators, if you don't know the "fact" being said is true, don't mod it up as Informative. You're not helping.
Microsoft does commonly allow home use of their corporate licenses, even on a second computer, so long as their software is not in use on your computer when you are also using it at work.
Any BOFH worth his salt will tell you that... if you bring him beer and skittles and do not provoke his wrath.
I seriously doubt this, at least not for slashdot readers. According to a 15 page intelligence and personality report I paid for, I am smarter than 98 percent of the populous.
If you ever paid hard-earned cash for a "15 page intelligence and personality report" about yourself, you are probably far dumber than most people.
Well-educated, perhaps, but dumb as a sack of hammers.
Actually, the ones who go out and do shit are extroverts, by definition.
Introverts have higher brainwave activity due to constant daydreaming and naval-gazing. It doesn't mean they are smarter nor does it mean they are more deliberate. In many cases, it could just mean they have attention deficit disorder.
Nothing more sad than seeing people trying to rationalize their dysfunctional behavior by pretending there's something better about it. Introverts are deviants just like extroverts are. If they weren't, we wouldn't have a word for it.
Golias, for the hacker, it is ALWAYS more about the journey, than the destination.
Then why follow their cookie cutter recipie? What are you in it for? The journey or the destination?
My way is faster, cheaper, and works better, with almost none of their sweat and toil. I guess it depends on what your goal is: To tinker with computers or to have some anime viewing boxen for an upcoming convention.
We're not talking about beautiful hand-crafted oak vs. chairs from Ikea. We're talking about cobbled together mini-ATX systems with a homebrew UI trying to do the work of a smaller, quieter, cheaper machine which does it better.
It makes about as much sense as insisting on building your own motorcycle using parts tooled in your own metal shop, vs. simply buying a Harley and getting out on the highway. It's only the best way to go if you think building a bike is more fun than riding one.
I've been on campus again recently because of a night class I'm taking. Here's what I've noticed:
For a lot of college kids these days, the laptop is their only computer. If a game doesn't run on a laptop, they don't play it. They are more likely to own a handheld console than a desktop PC.
As far as I can tell, Quake III and City of Heroes were made strictly for the VH-1 demographic (and their children.) Young adults are mostly giving the PC game scene a pass.
The one exception seems to be World of Warcraft, which actually plays pretty well on low-end laptops. (I've played it on an iBook myself, and found that it worked quite well.)
Considering that the project here is run by computer geeks who had to search the net for hours in order to get everything working, what are the odds that this will actually become a consumer device?
3 days of anime fansubs at bitrate 2000 kbps (normally it actually is like 1000 kbps, but let's not underestimate) makes almost 62 gigabytes of data => a laptop with 80 GB drive.
Exactly what I was thinking.
"The primary goal of the video keg was to build a reliable video box that was easy to transport with enough space to store 3 days worth of Anime fan-subs."
Buy a 12" iBook. Done.
The secondary goal of the video keg was to make a home PVR system for video playback and time-shifting, along with a video arcade and perhaps a web browser.
Buy an EyeTV 200 for analog or an EyeTV 500 for HDTV. Plug it in to the iBook. Done.
The tertiary goal of the video keg was to find an affordable hardware platform so that we could buy 4 of them immmediately to service the primary goal's need for 4 separate video rooms. For a PVR, the machine neeed to be small, quiet, low-heat, and still fast enough to run the software video player and arcade games.
Pfft!
Come to think of it, you don't even need the iBook if you are just going to be plugging it into other screens. A Mac mini covers everything you just said. Small, quiet, cheap, fast enough to play videos or simple games. Done.
Some people like to make life a little tougher than it is.
Secondly, the article in question was written by Ed Lin, not Steve Forbes. It's a safe bet that Steve Forbes has never been a console gamer of any sort. He's from the generation that thought of the 2600 as something to buy the kids for Christmas.
Load up a computer today with a basic set of applications software, and there will be a de facto Microsoft tax on that computer. Add roughly $100- for the Windows XP operating systems and $350- for Microsoft office, and you have a significant initial financial outlay.
Is there anybody out there who actually pays full retail price for XP and Office????
If you have it on your work computer, you can legally use the same SN for one computer at home. If you don't, you can still buy a computer from any screwdriver shop with Windows and Office pre-installed at OEM prices.
The only people compelled to pay full price for MS shit are box-building gamers with no other license they can piggyback on, and the vast majority of those folks are going to use a bootleg... besides, Linux won't suit their purposes very well anyway.
I miss the good old days when Linux was understood to be a terrific way to learn *nix server admin skills and was gaining a foothold in the enterprise market, but... no... come to think of it there were nutjobs out there back then who thought it was a viable non-geek desktop solution too. Not that much has really changed much... including KDE and Gnome.
And just who is this "Linux" company which Microsoft seems to be competing so well against?
The thing I know of called "Linux" is a free operating system (which behaves a lot like UNIX), sold by dozens of different companies as a server environment, and also available for free. If there's some company out there called "Linux" who is just selling to the IT server market, it is no wonder MS is outselling them, as they must be very obscure.
Seriously. We need a "1up" category, so we can filter them out if we want. It seems like Zonk accepts a link "story" to every goddamn thing they put out there.
I saw the episode last night, and to say that it was anti-gamer is total BS.
The CSI shows always have a range of psycopaths, sociopaths, mobs and generally not-nice people on it. So, what do you expect when the plot "hook" is video games? Mother Teresa playng Pac Man?
BDSM freaks objected just as loudly to the CSI episode with the dominatrix suspect.
It's all just harmless entertainment until it's your ox being gored.
Great, now I've gone and pissed off fans of bull-fighting!
They're not making profit on the razor and they're not making profit on the blades.
Actually, they are making profit on the blades, it just hasn't been enough profit to cover the loss, because the first X-Box was a commercial failure. Had they sold enough units to spur the kind of third-party interest which Sony currently enjoys, it would have covered their costs easilly.
Again, failing to eventually make money off a loss-leader is not the same thing as predatory pricing.
I pretty much take it as a given that the majority of pro-MS comments on a forum like Slashdot are more than likely being made by shills. Everybody I've ever meet in person who was a "fan" of Microsoft turned out to owe their living to Microsoft in one way or another.
However, if you read my comment a little more closely, you can see that it's not a pro-MS post. It's a "we don't know what the fuck is going on yet, so let's chill out and see" post.
I don't have a 360, and I'm not likely to buy one anytime soon. I have a Mac to run my media room, and I'm very happy with it.
"Lose money on the razor, make it back on the blades" doesn't get re-defined as "predatory" just because it didn't work very well on the first attempt.
To be predatory, they would have to sell the X-Box cheaply enough that almost nobody would want to buy anything else. That's clearly not what they are doing here.
apparently team xbox started a poll. Very small sample but 15% of xbox 360's are freezing. It will be interesting to see what happens to the percentage as the sample grows.
Dude, if I had an X-Box and it was working properly, why would I be answering polls on some "team X-Box" site??? I'd be spending every waking hour (outside of work) playing Call of Duty 2 or something.
Frankly, I'm stunned that their number isn't far closer to 100%.
The real number of X-Boxes with problems is something we won't know for a couple weeks yet. It could be everybody, it could be a handful of loudmouths (or Sony astroturfers) trying to turn their bad experience into the next big consumer "crisis", a la the iPod battery "issues." Let's not get ahead of ourselves. If they screwed up the launch, we'll have plenty of time for MS-bashing fun when the dust settles.
A handful? So, in a small-ish hotel with 50 rooms, let's say 10 are watching PPV movies.
At $4.99* that works out to fifty bucks. The company providing the service probably takes most of that, let's say 80%.
[sarcasm] Wow, ten extra dollars a night. I can see how they would fight tooth an nail, blatantly and openly screwing over their own customers if need be, in order to protect that precious revenue stream! [/sarcasm]
*Disclaimer: I have no idea if PPV shows are $4.99. I travel with an iBook, and usually hack it in to the hotel TV to watch my own movies. If they cost more or less, adjust the math accordingly, but it still doesn't change my point much. I simply find it hard to believe that the hotel PPV industry makes enough for the individual hotels for them to actually give a shit about it at all, beyond the fact that some of their guests want to have access to it.
Yeah, right up to the point where some demagogue convinces them to give up their rights "for Christ". Sheep are sheep, no matter what their color.
I know enough Fundamentalists to know that this is not true. Fundamentalist Christianity is far more robust against that sort of thing that you would think.
Fundamentalist Christians have the Bible, and a very strong oral tradition of how it is to be interpreted. Any preacher who strays from that rather narrow interpretation in order to attempt to provoke some alternative way of thinking is quickly defined by such people as outside the fold. Changing the viewpoint of Fundamentalists something that takes not years, but generations.
For example, many fundamentalists leaders are currently trying to push this "Intelligent Design" concept as a way to make creationism more palatable in academic circles. The think about "ID" that you don't often hear is that the actual creationists out there are having none of it. As far as they are concerned, this "middle ground" notion that God set events in motion which looked a bit like evolution is pure heresy. God made man of clay, and woman of man, and it only took him six days to make light, darkness, the world, and everything on it. Billions of years? Humbug!
The reason it takes a long time to shift fundamentalist views is because the current generation is simply not going to change their minds, and the following generation is probably only prepared to deviate slightly from the previous.
And much this current crop is convinced that any "mutilation" of your body (short of maybe women, and only women, who choose to pierce their ears) is an ungodly thing to do. Getting a tattoo is a small step from outright devil-worship in their view.
Furthermore, decades of end-times dogma preachers have been telling them that anything they put on their bodies which even remotely resembles a numeric concept is likely to be The Mark of the Beast, which will keep them out of Heaven, there is pretty much zero chance these folks will ever even favor allowing people to voluntarily use such a technology, let alone accept the mandatory marking of people.
Nothing anybody says is likely to change their minds on the subject. Anybody who tries will simply be rejected as a false teacher, and therefore Part Of The Problem.
Personally I find it sad that far too much attention is paid to fan films and music mixes instead of the the truly inspiring original works...
An easy sentiment to applaud, but if said original works were so darn inspiring, wouldn't they manage to, oh I don't know, inspire more attention?
The flash-based Strongbad letters on homestarrunner.com managed to carve a niche mostly through word of mouth, as have various on-line comics such as Penny Arcade, Megatokyo, and Order of the Stick.
Now, the vast majority of people doing that sort of thing don't really manage to make any money (though Piro managed to quit his day job and live of t-shirt sales and book deals), but if something deserves attention in this content-starved age, it usually gets it.
Besides, spoof, fan-fiction, "shipper" stories, doujinshi, etc., are an art form in and of themselves. Some would argue that they are a more pure art from than the stories they are derived from, since they were motivated entirely by love of the subject matter and the desire to create, rather than to meet some TV station's shooting deadline and get a paycheck.
I'm not saying I'd rather read an erotic "Spuffy" fan fic than watch the final episode of Season 6, I'm just saying that there's really nothing that makes such a composition any better or worse, culturally speaking, than some starving writer's attempt at a first novel.
You seem to have already forgotten your own words, so here's a reminder:
Son. (or Daughter) Lemme tell ya, I've been around this market for over 25 years. Nothing, NOTHING lasts more than 2 years. The Atari VCS was probably the closest anything came to lasting and what a sorry thing that was compared to those consoles which came along and buried it.
The Playstation: Six years from it's release until the release of the PS2, ten years of games being released for it and new consoles still being sold. (Not to mention the PS1 chip still embedded in every PS2 console.)
The Playstation 2: It's been five years (so far) since release, and new games are still coming out for it.
The X-Box: Halo 2 recently became a top-selling game, outselling many major PC titles, in spite of the X-Box already being about five years old at the time.
The Game Cube: Came out five years ago, still very popular.
The Sega Saturn: 1994 - 1999
The NES: 1985 - 1991
The Atari 2600: 1977 - 1990
(That's right, they were still making new 2600 systems 13 years later. In fact, hobbyists are still home-brewing them today!)
To put it simply, you are completely wrong and obviously misinformed. Everything in the console industry lasts longer than two years, or it is considered a total failure.
I guess everyone is supposed to follow all aspects of every console at all times so that everyone that ever reads that post would know for sure that it was not intended to be taken seriously. Ass
Oh, come on! The guy was posting that the ability to play the likes of SuperMario Brothers and Bad Street Brawler was all gamers in their 20s and 30s need to be choose the Revolution over the PS3 or the new X-Box. Read his post again, the whole thing is hilarious!
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If you think of sexual behaviour, you could classify it into homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual behaviour. Which of these is deviant?
In excess? All of the above.
In moderation? None of the above.
Just like with introverts/extroverts.
As long as you're not making your life and the lives of those around you miserable with your behavior, there's not problem. Many introverts ruin their own lives with shyness. I'd hardly call that a "smart" way to live. Likewise, many extroverts find themselves shunned as they are socially uncomfortable to be around. Either way, it's a costly mal-adjustment of behavior, and such people could probably gain from a little therapy or religion or whatever it takes to rattle their cages and see their own dysfunction for what it is.
Seriously, modded "Informative" for writing (almost) seven words, and being 100% wrong?
Look moderators, if you don't know the "fact" being said is true, don't mod it up as Informative. You're not helping.
Microsoft does commonly allow home use of their corporate licenses, even on a second computer, so long as their software is not in use on your computer when you are also using it at work.
Any BOFH worth his salt will tell you that... if you bring him beer and skittles and do not provoke his wrath.
"All jocks ever think about is sports - all nerds ever think about is sex."
The difference being that jocks get invited to sports.
I keed! I keed! I joke-a with yooooooou!
I seriously doubt this, at least not for slashdot readers. According to a 15 page intelligence and personality report I paid for, I am smarter than 98 percent of the populous.
If you ever paid hard-earned cash for a "15 page intelligence and personality report" about yourself, you are probably far dumber than most people.
Well-educated, perhaps, but dumb as a sack of hammers.
Actually, the ones who go out and do shit are extroverts, by definition.
Introverts have higher brainwave activity due to constant daydreaming and naval-gazing. It doesn't mean they are smarter nor does it mean they are more deliberate. In many cases, it could just mean they have attention deficit disorder.
Nothing more sad than seeing people trying to rationalize their dysfunctional behavior by pretending there's something better about it. Introverts are deviants just like extroverts are. If they weren't, we wouldn't have a word for it.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Golias, for the hacker, it is ALWAYS more about the journey, than the destination.
Then why follow their cookie cutter recipie? What are you in it for? The journey or the destination?
My way is faster, cheaper, and works better, with almost none of their sweat and toil. I guess it depends on what your goal is: To tinker with computers or to have some anime viewing boxen for an upcoming convention.
We're not talking about beautiful hand-crafted oak vs. chairs from Ikea. We're talking about cobbled together mini-ATX systems with a homebrew UI trying to do the work of a smaller, quieter, cheaper machine which does it better.
It makes about as much sense as insisting on building your own motorcycle using parts tooled in your own metal shop, vs. simply buying a Harley and getting out on the highway. It's only the best way to go if you think building a bike is more fun than riding one.
I've been on campus again recently because of a night class I'm taking. Here's what I've noticed:
For a lot of college kids these days, the laptop is their only computer. If a game doesn't run on a laptop, they don't play it. They are more likely to own a handheld console than a desktop PC.
As far as I can tell, Quake III and City of Heroes were made strictly for the VH-1 demographic (and their children.) Young adults are mostly giving the PC game scene a pass.
The one exception seems to be World of Warcraft, which actually plays pretty well on low-end laptops. (I've played it on an iBook myself, and found that it worked quite well.)
Considering that the project here is run by computer geeks who had to search the net for hours in order to get everything working, what are the odds that this will actually become a consumer device?
As a matter of fact.
Pretty good.
3 days of anime fansubs at bitrate 2000 kbps (normally it actually is like 1000 kbps, but let's not underestimate) makes almost 62 gigabytes of data => a laptop with 80 GB drive.
Exactly what I was thinking.
"The primary goal of the video keg was to build a reliable video box that was easy to transport with enough space to store 3 days worth of Anime fan-subs."
Buy a 12" iBook. Done.
The secondary goal of the video keg was to make a home PVR system for video playback and time-shifting, along with a video arcade and perhaps a web browser.
Buy an EyeTV 200 for analog or an EyeTV 500 for HDTV. Plug it in to the iBook. Done.
The tertiary goal of the video keg was to find an affordable hardware platform so that we could buy 4 of them immmediately to service the primary goal's need for 4 separate video rooms. For a PVR, the machine neeed to be small, quiet, low-heat, and still fast enough to run the software video player and arcade games.
Pfft!
Come to think of it, you don't even need the iBook if you are just going to be plugging it into other screens. A Mac mini covers everything you just said. Small, quiet, cheap, fast enough to play videos or simple games. Done.
Some people like to make life a little tougher than it is.
First of all, the name is "Forbes" not "Forbe."
Secondly, the article in question was written by Ed Lin, not Steve Forbes. It's a safe bet that Steve Forbes has never been a console gamer of any sort. He's from the generation that thought of the 2600 as something to buy the kids for Christmas.
Load up a computer today with a basic set of applications software, and there will be a de facto Microsoft tax on that computer. Add roughly $100- for the Windows XP operating systems and $350- for Microsoft office, and you have a significant initial financial outlay.
Is there anybody out there who actually pays full retail price for XP and Office????
If you have it on your work computer, you can legally use the same SN for one computer at home. If you don't, you can still buy a computer from any screwdriver shop with Windows and Office pre-installed at OEM prices.
The only people compelled to pay full price for MS shit are box-building gamers with no other license they can piggyback on, and the vast majority of those folks are going to use a bootleg... besides, Linux won't suit their purposes very well anyway.
I miss the good old days when Linux was understood to be a terrific way to learn *nix server admin skills and was gaining a foothold in the enterprise market, but... no... come to think of it there were nutjobs out there back then who thought it was a viable non-geek desktop solution too. Not that much has really changed much... including KDE and Gnome.
And just who is this "Linux" company which Microsoft seems to be competing so well against?
The thing I know of called "Linux" is a free operating system (which behaves a lot like UNIX), sold by dozens of different companies as a server environment, and also available for free. If there's some company out there called "Linux" who is just selling to the IT server market, it is no wonder MS is outselling them, as they must be very obscure.
Seriously. We need a "1up" category, so we can filter them out if we want. It seems like Zonk accepts a link "story" to every goddamn thing they put out there.
I saw the episode last night, and to say that it was anti-gamer is total BS.
The CSI shows always have a range of psycopaths, sociopaths, mobs and generally not-nice people on it. So, what do you expect when the plot "hook" is video games? Mother Teresa playng Pac Man?
BDSM freaks objected just as loudly to the CSI episode with the dominatrix suspect.
It's all just harmless entertainment until it's your ox being gored.
Great, now I've gone and pissed off fans of bull-fighting!
They're not making profit on the razor and they're not making profit on the blades.
Actually, they are making profit on the blades, it just hasn't been enough profit to cover the loss, because the first X-Box was a commercial failure. Had they sold enough units to spur the kind of third-party interest which Sony currently enjoys, it would have covered their costs easilly.
Again, failing to eventually make money off a loss-leader is not the same thing as predatory pricing.
I pretty much take it as a given that the majority of pro-MS comments on a forum like Slashdot are more than likely being made by shills. Everybody I've ever meet in person who was a "fan" of Microsoft turned out to owe their living to Microsoft in one way or another.
However, if you read my comment a little more closely, you can see that it's not a pro-MS post. It's a "we don't know what the fuck is going on yet, so let's chill out and see" post.
I don't have a 360, and I'm not likely to buy one anytime soon. I have a Mac to run my media room, and I'm very happy with it.
Yes, but all of these products have revenue streams that make up for the initial loss in revenue.
So does the X-Box 360. It's just that it remains unproven whether these revenue streams will SUCCEED at making up for the initial loss.
"Lose money on the razor, make it back on the blades" doesn't get re-defined as "predatory" just because it didn't work very well on the first attempt.
To be predatory, they would have to sell the X-Box cheaply enough that almost nobody would want to buy anything else. That's clearly not what they are doing here.
apparently team xbox started a poll. Very small sample but 15% of xbox 360's are freezing. It will be interesting to see what happens to the percentage as the sample grows.
Dude, if I had an X-Box and it was working properly, why would I be answering polls on some "team X-Box" site??? I'd be spending every waking hour (outside of work) playing Call of Duty 2 or something.
Frankly, I'm stunned that their number isn't far closer to 100%.
The real number of X-Boxes with problems is something we won't know for a couple weeks yet. It could be everybody, it could be a handful of loudmouths (or Sony astroturfers) trying to turn their bad experience into the next big consumer "crisis", a la the iPod battery "issues." Let's not get ahead of ourselves. If they screwed up the launch, we'll have plenty of time for MS-bashing fun when the dust settles.
A handful? So, in a small-ish hotel with 50 rooms, let's say 10 are watching PPV movies.
At $4.99* that works out to fifty bucks. The company providing the service probably takes most of that, let's say 80%.
[sarcasm] Wow, ten extra dollars a night. I can see how they would fight tooth an nail, blatantly and openly screwing over their own customers if need be, in order to protect that precious revenue stream! [/sarcasm]
*Disclaimer: I have no idea if PPV shows are $4.99. I travel with an iBook, and usually hack it in to the hotel TV to watch my own movies. If they cost more or less, adjust the math accordingly, but it still doesn't change my point much. I simply find it hard to believe that the hotel PPV industry makes enough for the individual hotels for them to actually give a shit about it at all, beyond the fact that some of their guests want to have access to it.
Yeah, right up to the point where some demagogue convinces them to give up their rights "for Christ". Sheep are sheep, no matter what their color.
I know enough Fundamentalists to know that this is not true. Fundamentalist Christianity is far more robust against that sort of thing that you would think.
Fundamentalist Christians have the Bible, and a very strong oral tradition of how it is to be interpreted. Any preacher who strays from that rather narrow interpretation in order to attempt to provoke some alternative way of thinking is quickly defined by such people as outside the fold. Changing the viewpoint of Fundamentalists something that takes not years, but generations.
For example, many fundamentalists leaders are currently trying to push this "Intelligent Design" concept as a way to make creationism more palatable in academic circles. The think about "ID" that you don't often hear is that the actual creationists out there are having none of it. As far as they are concerned, this "middle ground" notion that God set events in motion which looked a bit like evolution is pure heresy. God made man of clay, and woman of man, and it only took him six days to make light, darkness, the world, and everything on it. Billions of years? Humbug!
The reason it takes a long time to shift fundamentalist views is because the current generation is simply not going to change their minds, and the following generation is probably only prepared to deviate slightly from the previous.
And much this current crop is convinced that any "mutilation" of your body (short of maybe women, and only women, who choose to pierce their ears) is an ungodly thing to do. Getting a tattoo is a small step from outright devil-worship in their view.
Furthermore, decades of end-times dogma preachers have been telling them that anything they put on their bodies which even remotely resembles a numeric concept is likely to be The Mark of the Beast, which will keep them out of Heaven, there is pretty much zero chance these folks will ever even favor allowing people to voluntarily use such a technology, let alone accept the mandatory marking of people.
Nothing anybody says is likely to change their minds on the subject. Anybody who tries will simply be rejected as a false teacher, and therefore Part Of The Problem.
Personally I find it sad that far too much attention is paid to fan films and music mixes instead of the the truly inspiring original works...
An easy sentiment to applaud, but if said original works were so darn inspiring, wouldn't they manage to, oh I don't know, inspire more attention?
The flash-based Strongbad letters on homestarrunner.com managed to carve a niche mostly through word of mouth, as have various on-line comics such as Penny Arcade, Megatokyo, and Order of the Stick.
Now, the vast majority of people doing that sort of thing don't really manage to make any money (though Piro managed to quit his day job and live of t-shirt sales and book deals), but if something deserves attention in this content-starved age, it usually gets it.
Besides, spoof, fan-fiction, "shipper" stories, doujinshi, etc., are an art form in and of themselves. Some would argue that they are a more pure art from than the stories they are derived from, since they were motivated entirely by love of the subject matter and the desire to create, rather than to meet some TV station's shooting deadline and get a paycheck.
I'm not saying I'd rather read an erotic "Spuffy" fan fic than watch the final episode of Season 6, I'm just saying that there's really nothing that makes such a composition any better or worse, culturally speaking, than some starving writer's attempt at a first novel.
So Sony is being boycotted by some guy who doesn't like any of their products anyway. I can hear the cries from the boardroom now.
"Oh nos! Not that!"
You seem to have already forgotten your own words, so here's a reminder:
Son. (or Daughter) Lemme tell ya, I've been around this market for over 25 years. Nothing, NOTHING lasts more than 2 years. The Atari VCS was probably the closest anything came to lasting and what a sorry thing that was compared to those consoles which came along and buried it.
The Playstation: Six years from it's release until the release of the PS2, ten years of games being released for it and new consoles still being sold. (Not to mention the PS1 chip still embedded in every PS2 console.)
The Playstation 2: It's been five years (so far) since release, and new games are still coming out for it.
The X-Box: Halo 2 recently became a top-selling game, outselling many major PC titles, in spite of the X-Box already being about five years old at the time.
The Game Cube: Came out five years ago, still very popular.
The Sega Saturn: 1994 - 1999
The NES: 1985 - 1991
The Atari 2600: 1977 - 1990
(That's right, they were still making new 2600 systems 13 years later. In fact, hobbyists are still home-brewing them today!)
To put it simply, you are completely wrong and obviously misinformed. Everything in the console industry lasts longer than two years, or it is considered a total failure.
I guess everyone is supposed to follow all aspects of every console at all times so that everyone that ever reads that post would know for sure that it was not intended to be taken seriously. Ass
Oh, come on! The guy was posting that the ability to play the likes of SuperMario Brothers and Bad Street Brawler was all gamers in their 20s and 30s need to be choose the Revolution over the PS3 or the new X-Box. Read his post again, the whole thing is hilarious!