all the MSNBC article looks at is games for the current systems. Go back to the last generation of systems, specifically the playstation, you will find a multitude of games that are far worse than any stated there. Most of this would be due to development time, and also price, users would be less likely to buy something bad for a system that cost them an arm and 3 legs (ie. xbox) than they would for their trusty psx. When you read this don't just nod your head, have a look at your own collection of psx games, if you don't have a ratio of 1 good game to every 3-5 bad ones you've never been to indonesia and had 50c games at your fingertips.
I think its more to do with the fact that there are no countless millions of people out there that don't know what they want. Thus portals such as AOL, Micro$oft and Yahoo get lots of peoples time, because they claim to have taken all the leg work out of finding interesting things to do with your new $$$ toy (ie. the computer).
Most/.ers miss the point, we're not the general public when it comes to browsing, Joe Bloggs and his wife who're struggling through page 2 of "How to use your mouse (that cute clicky thing) for dummies" is. Its like Popular music, we men (and women) of fine taste hate it (this progably explains napster getting so many clicks) but its Pop because the general public likes it.
-Nut
ps. can anyone remeber which uni had thier coke machine hooked up to the net so you could find out the number of cans in it at any time?
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all the MSNBC article looks at is games for the current systems. Go back to the last generation of systems, specifically the playstation, you will find a multitude of games that are far worse than any stated there. Most of this would be due to development time, and also price, users would be less likely to buy something bad for a system that cost them an arm and 3 legs (ie. xbox) than they would for their trusty psx. When you read this don't just nod your head, have a look at your own collection of psx games, if you don't have a ratio of 1 good game to every 3-5 bad ones you've never been to indonesia and had 50c games at your fingertips.
I think its more to do with the fact that there are no countless millions of people out there that don't know what they want. Thus portals such as AOL, Micro$oft and Yahoo get lots of peoples time, because they claim to have taken all the leg work out of finding interesting things to do with your new $$$ toy (ie. the computer).
/.ers miss the point, we're not the general public when it comes to browsing, Joe Bloggs and his wife who're struggling through page 2 of "How to use your mouse (that cute clicky thing) for dummies" is. Its like Popular music, we men (and women) of fine taste hate it (this progably explains napster getting so many clicks) but its Pop because the general public likes it.
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-Nut
ps. can anyone remeber which uni had thier coke machine hooked up to the net so you could find out the number of cans in it at any time?
i didn't see anything along this line in the threads http://babelfish.altavista.com does a nifty translation of urls