Actually it's a situation of "dark side" and the "less dark side". The less dark side is "Blu-ray will cost less because HDCP controls our content", the dark side is "blu-ray dvds still cost 30 dollars". Similar to how a knife and a pin can prick you. A knife just has a chance to cut you open as well.
No this isn't an issue because it's like the law if you drive a car you need a driver's license. Except for this you don't need a long test. This is pretty simple. Don't want to be labeled lobbyist don't take money trying to influence laws because that's textbook example of what lobbyists do.
Come on Slashdot, I'm getting sick of the way I'm being lead around by my nose. At the very least this is a knee jerk reactionary piece of drek, at best it's a forebearing to a law that isn't even out yet and has been misproven multiple times in this comment section already (read the law is the simple key).
Next time you want to bitch about a law LINK THE LAW not what some idiots have on a website.
Finally would someone explain why idiots who want to do grassroots style work doesn't want to be labeled as a lobbyst. HINT THEY ARNT JAILING THEM! THEY ARE TELLING THEM TO BE LISTED AS A LOBBYST IF THEY ARE PAID FOR THEIR BLOGGING WORK AND HAVE MORE THEN 500 READERS! IF THEY DONT AND KNOW THEY SHOULD BE LISTED THEN THEY ARE JAILED.
Being a lobbyst doesn't mean you're guilty of a crime, except maybe lying to your public. At least it'll prove who is being paid and who is actually doing the work they actually support, which is perhaps the only reason this is being met by so much resistance because they are afraid they'll be found out to not be so alturistic as they claim to be.
You are trying to fight rational with realism and doing it on slashdot of all places. Realize that the comment is a section for teenagers to blow off steam and try to sound like they can make a coherent argument even if it is mind boggling incorrect.
You can argue isohunt is similar to a search engine in it doesn't host files, but it's prime purpose is providing a centralized torrent hub. On the other hand there's no checks to make sure that unlawful files don't get uploaded or people in countries that shouldn't have access to the files don't have access, or a million other hard to implement if not impractical request are implemented.
However before we go down a path of debating legality versus morality and so on the point I'm making is let the kid have his rant, just because it has no practical application or no basis to stand on doesn't make it any less valid on slashdot apparently.
At least those people are getting news from something PRETENDING to be a news show (the people watching Colbert report are exempt from the following line as well). What I really hate is the idiots who watch the late show, here the newest one liner from Dave or Jay, people who really shouldn't even be on the air. Or SNL's weekend update (see comment about Dave and Jay) and then act like they are informed.
There was a serious problem of these "intelligentsia" running around during the Clinton sex scandal that made an semi complicated thing overly complicated by diverting the attention of the fact that a politician lied under oath into a problem with sex. The original problem was perjury, but after the comedians got done with it the story was all about the affair....
The good news is most of these people are so apathetic that they won't go out and vote, but the place where they get their information is scary.
I'm not talking about the comments, they always were opinions (duh) but I'm talking about the articles. There's about 10 articles on net neutrality, and then another ten on some database that someone thinks is another sign of "big brother" which people attack like crazy, and of course let's not forget articles on politics which tend to attack anyone trying to regulate... well anything, toss in a few articles on people expecting people visiting america to be documented (heaven forbid we try to actually stop undocumented aliens, or even criminals from entering our country) and stir for 12 minutes and serve over the course of 2 monthes.
I don't know whether it's all the mods or just specific ones but it seems I'm seeing more and more agenda pieces and most of them are agendas I really don't give a fuck about. Net Neutrality I really can't care about, I've decided what I want to do with it, but that's it. Govermental Databases I'm actually for some of the times because the stories on here just reeks of people who read 1984 a few to many times and think goverment is bad. Anti-MPAA stuff I'm for most of the time (though there's some nut jobs out there) but at the same time acting like it's our right to pirate movies seems odd, personally I just boycott their asses and enjoy the free TV I get at home (the 50 inch tv really makes it easy). Even the stuff against the people against the violence in video games seems to be promoting them as it villifies them. If we ignored Jack Thompson we'd probably never have to deal with his jackassery now.
Even at the same time I don't remember too many storys about Mr. Nifong and how easy it was for him to ruin 3 student's lives, a college's reputation and a sports history. Is it just that I'm changing my opinion and interests or is it slashdot that is becoming so leftist/rightist/socialist/capitalist/centralist that it's become something I don't even recognize any more?
Yeah because you're who they want to sell it for. Oh wait no you're not.
For one thing I have half a terabyte on my computer, and it's always filled up. I work at a company who works on 360 games (full scale ones, we have one out now that's doing reasonably well) and our projects are easily 20 gigs + Builds. So we might not need a full terabyte each. However our server could use it, anything that controls data or source, has daily backups can easily use it. Financial systems record keeping easily eats up space as does a number of other major business. Just because YOU the little programmer can't fathom a use, there's easily uses for more space. You act like people have stopped caring about it, but you talk about 100 gigs like it's nothing. A couple years ago 100 gigs was a lot of space. One day you'll be acting like 1 TB is normal for a computer. Why? Because we keep pushing it up subtly. There was a time when 100 megs was an enormous drive, and Doom taking up 20 megs for data was considered criminal (though worth it). But we wouldn't need bigger drives then would we?
Why do we need a gig for gmail? (because we don't want to ever have to delete anything if we want).
This doesn't even go into video and visual artists who can eat up hard drive space extremely fast.
Pushing their programs on people just because they bought one of their programs.... oh wait.
Seriously though, Firefox/mozilla and all are great programs but if there's one complain I have its Firefox and Thunderbird have 0 interconnectivity. Who would make two important internet interfacing tools and NOT have them connect except through predetermined protocols?
The reason I bring this up is simple. Why should we care what Firefox says because he did something I don't agree with. Obviously people do but the point stands that even though he did create Firefox he's not a genius, he has given us an alternative, but people believe he's made mistakes, whether it be slow program initalization, lack of mandatory add ons, or non existant interopability. But at the very core of these issues, they are trade offs not mistakes. Similar to how Google likely trades off revenues for putting their tools first. But the simple fact is that's how Google runs their business. When Firefox has a document editor, spreadsheet viewer, picture organizer, and a little tool that scratches my back when I'm too drunk or tired to do it that I can call Brenda we'll talk about which way is "right".
Simply put though Google has the goods that I use. I'm not going to stop using them because of something like this. If they are giving me the best options second or third and the google branded option first that's pretty much the exact same thing every company has done.
Btw there's a critical difference between google and Microsoft. I'm not paying out the ass to use Google's products, I've yet to send google a dime, so if they want first place in advertising that's fine as long as it's a free product. If anyone should be pissed it's the advertisers but guess what? I'm not one of them, if google can't hold advertisers they are in trouble (and they know that) but only time will tell what they do.
Why is there a need to turn a article on Microsoft into a political debate. To even hint that China is better then america is laughable, but there was little reason to bring it up. China might understand the consumer needs, but it doesn't have to fill them, that's why there's starving people, a limit on children, and an overpopulation problem. Btw I hope you enjoy piracy too, and I hope you don't mind anything you do gets ripped and sold there for pennies, devaluing your work to some, and losing your profit.
Oh wait this is a magazine, so they don't care about China, but when it comes to economics they must have it going on.
I'm not going to defend Microsoft because honestly Vista is crap, however Just because Microsoft is rolling out a shit box software package does not mean Microsoft as a whole are assholes (they might be though), nor does it mean America is bowing to them. If we were there'd be laws that allowed them to stop people from using XP, and just utterly force us to a dictatorship run by Corporations.
I'm fine with articles like this reaching realistic parallels, (and that's what they did) however I really hate it when people like the the writer and parent have to twist any article into a "Fuck america" idea which really doesn't make sense.
Here's a hint, the Chinese, don't license the formats or the players, as well as having low quality standards in the "Cheap" style of players I've seen, and if they do they don't pay the same as america. That's fine for the consumers, but why should I create a new format for media playback if in a week someone in china could steal my format sell it at a bare profit, and not even pay the creator a proper fee (not saying what hollywood is expecting is fair, but you have to realize that a blu-ray player is based on technology someone created. Pay what is due to them.)
It's funny that the people who talk about buying Chinese products because they are cheap are likely the same type who bitch when jobs are shipped overseas or they lose a job because outsourcing is cheaper. It's funny because it's the same thing.
First off, my response is in no means authroritve. I only know 10 designers, and know their feelings, I also work at a studio of over 100 people in the game industry. That being said my "research" is more valid then Ernest Adams for a couple reasons. The main one is that most of the people I've discussed this with don't give a simple answer like "PS3 will win because it's more powerful" which is a flat out cop out. Or assumes you believe that buyers are morons who don't notice a 200 dollar price tag differential with out a 200 dollar perfomance differential. Only a few people bought the Neo Geo, and remember that was over "4" times more powerful then the other systems (at 3 times the cost) Hint. The Corvette, isn't oversold by Lamborgini Diablos.... Why?
The prevalant view is that no one is going to lose this round. At least not drop out. If someone does it's Sony, pure and simple. They are not turning a profit, don't have a good starting position, their company is in ruins and looking to cut a lot of budget, and the system is asking for more commitment at both ends then the other two. In addition their "Entertainment center" idea is just flat going to fuck them, because unless people constantly buy games, they would have been better off just selling Blu-ray. That being said, they will sell a LOT of systems, the problem is how many games will the sell. No Xbox Live, and other Microsoft developer helpers hurts them. The motion controller is also difficult to work with and their processor is crap for a developer. It's full potential won't be reached not because it's so powerful but because it's layed out in such a poor style. A 360 can get full potential by any programmer who knows about multithreading, GPU vs. CPU, and simple optimization. You might not get direct control of the hardware but in these days no one really wants it. Why does renderware sell? Because it controlled the hardware, not the programmer.
The 360 does a lot to help the programmer, and that's a big step, from match making, to networking code, to Directx, the programmer is put at ease. Porting a game to the 360 is a lot easier then to the PS3. That being said, what's important is sales and not developer's feelings. The point I'm bringing up here, is that the 360 is developer friendly, and with the big inroads that Blue dragon has made in a certain foreign market, Sony might have some issues. But this only talks about games. So let's look at current system sells.
Ps3s will sell in Japan of course, but the fact I've walked into 3 stores in the last 3 days, and seen PS3s in them isn't speaking highly of what sony has done. The fact that people are returning ps3 mainly because they can't sell them on Ebay speaks of intent to buy versus intent to resell. Yes those systems might not last long, but Wiis are selling out instantly with over four times the quanities already hitting stores.
Again is this important? No, This is just discussing what the trends to today is. So what's the prime goal. Well I'll explain who "Wins" The winner is the one who makes the most money and the most units. Note that this is NOT the same person, but the true winner the one you should care about but don't is the one who makes the most money. They will definatly continue to the next round.
The 360 has almost 10 million units out there right now. That's a shit load of units, but in reality it is far from insurmountable for Sony to come back from. The extra year has given Microsoft a good lead. Great. On the other hand Sony is having trouble breaking 1 million, and Wii is probably going to get 2-4 in the next 3 monthes. The 360 has exclusive titles, as does the Wii. Sony has "announced" certain titles, but dates are getting fuzzy, and exclusiviness is being called into question. Sony has lost a couple. However They still claim to have the big 2 (MGS, and Final Fantasy) and after FFXII's big launch, that's good however looking at the other exclusives they've had one can notice I didn't meantion stuff like Assassin'
The funny thing is the PS3 "drought" is less than the Wii drought. I know a couple people who would start a bidding war if I had a second Wii. But ps3 are starting to sit on shelves. Not for days exactly, but when you consider that they have sold around a fifth as many PS3 as Wiis, and the Wiis sales are still going strong? It's an impressive system.
As for the story however CVG has three problems. A. They are in Europe, not America. B. They have no real proof they just claim to have an insider. C. "drought"? you mean a drought because it's a launch system and there might be "only" 1-2 nintendo brand games a month? There's a LOT of games coming to the wii, yet they are holding back on release dates. I wouldn't be suprised if we have 5-6 good to great games by March (in 2007 only) and double that before august. We know about Sonic, and Mortal Kombat Armegeddon, Wario Ware, and Wii play. Plus realize that if there's slow monthes or weeks, they have stated they will release some of the best games for the VC at that time.
"Drought" Not bloody likely. More like "sunny days with out a chance of rain".
Sadly I really had no time. But the mystery is there, and even though I know what's in the Blue glowing box, I'm still excited about getting home and "unwrapping" it myself.
If anyone tries to work with idiotic lawyers like this (no matter for money or for hatred of Nintendo) I'll lose all respect for them. Not that I have much for them in the first place for releasing the controller but that's another story.
Hell the class action suit makes no sense. "As instructed by the material that accompanied the Wii console" funny the book that says numerous times to use the controller but put on the wrist strap? Or did I miss a page where it says "release the controller, it's fun". Nope guess not. Especially the part of the strap breaking is causing the controller to fly out of your hands. That's pure BS, tasty too.
Hell Nintendo is replacing the straps for free, not even calling for a mandatory recall, but the court case doesn't even meantion the tvs that are damaged. Personally that's what I'd care about, not the remote that probably still works, but the 3 inch hole in the wall from the impact of the remote.
Why is it when ever there's some news story about a defect (or retards in this case). There's always a second group of retards (normally called lawyers) who tries to get "rich" off of it? Simple solution. Stop supporting frivilious lawsuits. It'd be one thing if Nintendo told you to release the controller, or Nintendo did something neglegent, but there's no sign of that.
I got up late this morning. I was so pissed. I am rushing around collecting a PSP for music (about all I use it for) and a charger because a copy to the memory stick took too long last night. Got everything ready. I'm late I'm late. Quick "what am I missing" and I notice a blue light. A Glowing blue light. It's the wii.
Don't ask me why, but the wii flashing a blue glowing light is an amazing thing. It looks friendly, and personally I'm happy to see that. It just has a visual appeal that beats anything I've seen in other consoles.
Very cool. Nintendo has taken the "Lunchbox" of Gamecube, and made it into a stylish Wii product.
But it makes sense. If it is true it answers a lot of questions but raises one last one. Why the fuck do American news media keeping posting their scores? It really does sound like a hype rag.
Personally Famitsu has had decent ratings for a lot of games, however they tend to have higher then normal ratings, which means higher then IGN, which is higher then gamespot (though gamespot has little basis so it's not as good as IGN according to me) which is higher then.... you get my point. Over inflated ratings doesn't exactly inspire confidence in my book.
Personally I'd like to see someone back up the (original) post but then again it's a forum post so who knows, especially when the guy talks about his cred being because he "eats" with the guy? But it is some very damning information and personally one of the reasons I think I'll start passing when the topic of famitsu scores come up.
Though I hope this information starts getting main stream attention because it's very interesting if nothing else.
That's fine and note worthy, but it's not man of the year. As another reply says there's little proof Youtube even helped in distributing the video, it was reported on before the video was posted.
The internet is a MAJOR tool for campaign, that's not news, People have known that for years.
Man of the year requires something bigger, something that changes everyone's perception, not just a few people. Bono, bill gates (for philanthropy ), Enron, The FBI scandal, Guliani, Bush, Clinton, Starr.
These are all people who changed America, love or hate them you can't deny they were people of the year that really dominated the world's attention or America's attention.
Now tell me again who this other guy is. The answer is you have to explain it. The whistleblower choices for 2002 were hard to swallow, but the fact is they really changed everyone's perceptions after the fact. We don't know their names, but we know what happened because of what they did. I just believe person of the year needs a suitable candidate, and neither Salon or Time have chosen proper people for it.
Personally I sat on my ass for half the year, but if they want to give me the award for Person of the year, I have a speech prepared.
So salon chose one person who videotaped a random senator, gave it to the other senator's team and won him an election.
Funny to me that's not that important for three reasons.
A. I have not seen the video, have no need to, and really don't care about George Allen.
B. It is localized to one area of the country
C. The whole article blows his importance out of proportion, and makes it sound like this guy is a major racist. However the term was directed at him, who was basically videotaping and spying on Allen for just this thing.
To be honest, he's important to Virgina, but hardly "man of the year".
That being said Time also sucks with their choice. Which pretty much illustrates that even though the democrats won the senate, nothing really happened this year. BORING!
Yes. Good examples, except one thing. I didn't buy Google, I didn't pay for the servers google is running on, I don't expect Google to bend to my will or help me work (though it does at times). An OS is supposed to be an operating system. Not a Media center / word processing / DRM providing / internet browsing magical box. I have programs that do all of that, I don't use Windows Media Center, Word Pad, IE, for them.
As computer users we have slowly been giving up more and more of our computer to Microsoft and other OSes (even Mac is starting to expand). I think it's time we start saying "Fuck you" to people who over charge us so they can take our computer and run rampant on our hardware. I don't think it's time for Linux if you don't already run it. But it's time for us to remain on Windows XP. It's time to demand that DirectX 10 get ported to XP if you need it. It's time to basically stop taking shit from OSes and start demanding a better OS. Dos could give you a disk operating system for 640k, All I want a simple GUI, that all the programs now run on. Why am I sacrificing 2 gigs of memory just to my OS when it's something that should only require a couple megs if done properly. If we want to clog our systems it's our option.
That's my opinion. But i believe it's anyone else who is sick of being forced to upgrade every 3-5 years to an OS that takes at least double the processing power. Moore's law? Didn't know Moore's first name was Peter.
If you read TFA that you tell me to. Number 15 meantions windows. I don't have OSX so I can't tell you for sure if any of the critcism of that is valid but when he refers to windows I can damm well tell you if it's BS, and this one is an obvious one.
I don't know or care about number 14-1 really, they do have some good points but the reason I don't care is number 15 is flat wrong.
If given enough space Windows will display the date and time and day of the week. I use a sidebar style start menu and it's always displayed that, if it hasn't on the writers screen, well maybe he needs a better monitor so he can use a start bar that isn't the absolute acceptable minimum?
If that is wrong, what else could he have wrong? The answer is probably a lot.
I was kinda hopeful they compiled every musical piece, and some group gave it away. Technically they can just give away music for free if they want. It'd be like open source music. Not a bad idea actually.
It would be great to see a repository one day of free classical music, every mozart piece, every Beethoven symphony, every Pachelbel song. Well hopefully one day, though I don't find Mozart's music that interesting, he has some wonderful songs but nothing that really speaks to me.
First off, no. Microsoft offers three price plans for games developers they are 400, 800, 1200, no game will go out of that range with out permission from Microsoft. Add ons are a different story. This is the only prices full games will cost currently. Microsoft and developers both confirmed this.
Now re-read the opening paragraph , Microsoft has full control of the market, if they think a price is unfair they don't allow that seller. This is an extreme move but if Microsoft feels strongly they can do it. Nintendo has very strict policies on this as well, I'm sure Sony does too.
And finally no, the size limitation is in place again it's a known quantity. Again no game is above the size of a standard memory card, it's a rule because Microsoft makes developers support people with out Hard drives (a mistake). So there's a limit, it's around 50 megs, but some games are slightly bigger as memory cards are 52 megs. However remember save data and a gamertag probably needs to be saved on a single memory card as well as the game.
Requirements to wikipedia reference = Failure of reference.
From the little I read of his article it's not "stop you in the tracks" visualization, it's "I know what I'm talking about, figure it out, you uneducated peon" type of bullcrap that the "elite" use all the time. Of course ask them about it and you can usually expect more belittling. (not saying he'd do it, but most of the people who try this imagery do).
On the other hand it's indicitive of a problem so many people have (and likely why he might be "leaving", personally just from one article I'd like to think he's being fired, but then again I am not a huge wired fan in the first place so I don't know) If you only use imagery of books you'd agree or disagree with, the only person who gets the imagery is people who hold similar ideas as you (or the exact opposite). So it's basically like preaching to the quoir. Except this is preaching to the preachers. \
Check your numbers again. Lumines was 1200 points for the "base" (full game). Which is 15 american dollars. 600 for advance is around 8 dollars. There's talks of at least 2 if not 3 more packs (Vs. CPU, Puzzle/Mission, artist pack) which has rumored prices of around 600-1200 points (depending on the source).
All three packs that I meantioned that arn't out, have been announced by Microsoft and confirmed by others.
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Actually it's a situation of "dark side" and the "less dark side". The less dark side is "Blu-ray will cost less because HDCP controls our content", the dark side is "blu-ray dvds still cost 30 dollars". Similar to how a knife and a pin can prick you. A knife just has a chance to cut you open as well.
No this isn't an issue because it's like the law if you drive a car you need a driver's license. Except for this you don't need a long test. This is pretty simple. Don't want to be labeled lobbyist don't take money trying to influence laws because that's textbook example of what lobbyists do.
Come on Slashdot, I'm getting sick of the way I'm being lead around by my nose. At the very least this is a knee jerk reactionary piece of drek, at best it's a forebearing to a law that isn't even out yet and has been misproven multiple times in this comment section already (read the law is the simple key).
Next time you want to bitch about a law LINK THE LAW not what some idiots have on a website.
Finally would someone explain why idiots who want to do grassroots style work doesn't want to be labeled as a lobbyst. HINT THEY ARNT JAILING THEM! THEY ARE TELLING THEM TO BE LISTED AS A LOBBYST IF THEY ARE PAID FOR THEIR BLOGGING WORK AND HAVE MORE THEN 500 READERS! IF THEY DONT AND KNOW THEY SHOULD BE LISTED THEN THEY ARE JAILED.
Being a lobbyst doesn't mean you're guilty of a crime, except maybe lying to your public. At least it'll prove who is being paid and who is actually doing the work they actually support, which is perhaps the only reason this is being met by so much resistance because they are afraid they'll be found out to not be so alturistic as they claim to be.
You are trying to fight rational with realism and doing it on slashdot of all places. Realize that the comment is a section for teenagers to blow off steam and try to sound like they can make a coherent argument even if it is mind boggling incorrect.
You can argue isohunt is similar to a search engine in it doesn't host files, but it's prime purpose is providing a centralized torrent hub. On the other hand there's no checks to make sure that unlawful files don't get uploaded or people in countries that shouldn't have access to the files don't have access, or a million other hard to implement if not impractical request are implemented.
However before we go down a path of debating legality versus morality and so on the point I'm making is let the kid have his rant, just because it has no practical application or no basis to stand on doesn't make it any less valid on slashdot apparently.
At least those people are getting news from something PRETENDING to be a news show (the people watching Colbert report are exempt from the following line as well). What I really hate is the idiots who watch the late show, here the newest one liner from Dave or Jay, people who really shouldn't even be on the air. Or SNL's weekend update (see comment about Dave and Jay) and then act like they are informed.
There was a serious problem of these "intelligentsia" running around during the Clinton sex scandal that made an semi complicated thing overly complicated by diverting the attention of the fact that a politician lied under oath into a problem with sex. The original problem was perjury, but after the comedians got done with it the story was all about the affair....
The good news is most of these people are so apathetic that they won't go out and vote, but the place where they get their information is scary.
I'm not talking about the comments, they always were opinions (duh) but I'm talking about the articles. There's about 10 articles on net neutrality, and then another ten on some database that someone thinks is another sign of "big brother" which people attack like crazy, and of course let's not forget articles on politics which tend to attack anyone trying to regulate... well anything, toss in a few articles on people expecting people visiting america to be documented (heaven forbid we try to actually stop undocumented aliens, or even criminals from entering our country) and stir for 12 minutes and serve over the course of 2 monthes.
I don't know whether it's all the mods or just specific ones but it seems I'm seeing more and more agenda pieces and most of them are agendas I really don't give a fuck about. Net Neutrality I really can't care about, I've decided what I want to do with it, but that's it. Govermental Databases I'm actually for some of the times because the stories on here just reeks of people who read 1984 a few to many times and think goverment is bad. Anti-MPAA stuff I'm for most of the time (though there's some nut jobs out there) but at the same time acting like it's our right to pirate movies seems odd, personally I just boycott their asses and enjoy the free TV I get at home (the 50 inch tv really makes it easy). Even the stuff against the people against the violence in video games seems to be promoting them as it villifies them. If we ignored Jack Thompson we'd probably never have to deal with his jackassery now.
Even at the same time I don't remember too many storys about Mr. Nifong and how easy it was for him to ruin 3 student's lives, a college's reputation and a sports history. Is it just that I'm changing my opinion and interests or is it slashdot that is becoming so leftist/rightist/socialist/capitalist/centralist that it's become something I don't even recognize any more?
Yeah because you're who they want to sell it for. Oh wait no you're not.
For one thing I have half a terabyte on my computer, and it's always filled up. I work at a company who works on 360 games (full scale ones, we have one out now that's doing reasonably well) and our projects are easily 20 gigs + Builds. So we might not need a full terabyte each. However our server could use it, anything that controls data or source, has daily backups can easily use it. Financial systems record keeping easily eats up space as does a number of other major business. Just because YOU the little programmer can't fathom a use, there's easily uses for more space. You act like people have stopped caring about it, but you talk about 100 gigs like it's nothing. A couple years ago 100 gigs was a lot of space. One day you'll be acting like 1 TB is normal for a computer. Why? Because we keep pushing it up subtly. There was a time when 100 megs was an enormous drive, and Doom taking up 20 megs for data was considered criminal (though worth it). But we wouldn't need bigger drives then would we?
Why do we need a gig for gmail? (because we don't want to ever have to delete anything if we want).
This doesn't even go into video and visual artists who can eat up hard drive space extremely fast.
Pushing their programs on people just because they bought one of their programs.... oh wait.
Seriously though, Firefox/mozilla and all are great programs but if there's one complain I have its Firefox and Thunderbird have 0 interconnectivity. Who would make two important internet interfacing tools and NOT have them connect except through predetermined protocols?
The reason I bring this up is simple. Why should we care what Firefox says because he did something I don't agree with. Obviously people do but the point stands that even though he did create Firefox he's not a genius, he has given us an alternative, but people believe he's made mistakes, whether it be slow program initalization, lack of mandatory add ons, or non existant interopability. But at the very core of these issues, they are trade offs not mistakes. Similar to how Google likely trades off revenues for putting their tools first. But the simple fact is that's how Google runs their business. When Firefox has a document editor, spreadsheet viewer, picture organizer, and a little tool that scratches my back when I'm too drunk or tired to do it that I can call Brenda we'll talk about which way is "right".
Simply put though Google has the goods that I use. I'm not going to stop using them because of something like this. If they are giving me the best options second or third and the google branded option first that's pretty much the exact same thing every company has done.
Btw there's a critical difference between google and Microsoft. I'm not paying out the ass to use Google's products, I've yet to send google a dime, so if they want first place in advertising that's fine as long as it's a free product. If anyone should be pissed it's the advertisers but guess what? I'm not one of them, if google can't hold advertisers they are in trouble (and they know that) but only time will tell what they do.
Why is there a need to turn a article on Microsoft into a political debate. To even hint that China is better then america is laughable, but there was little reason to bring it up. China might understand the consumer needs, but it doesn't have to fill them, that's why there's starving people, a limit on children, and an overpopulation problem. Btw I hope you enjoy piracy too, and I hope you don't mind anything you do gets ripped and sold there for pennies, devaluing your work to some, and losing your profit.
Oh wait this is a magazine, so they don't care about China, but when it comes to economics they must have it going on.
I'm not going to defend Microsoft because honestly Vista is crap, however Just because Microsoft is rolling out a shit box software package does not mean Microsoft as a whole are assholes (they might be though), nor does it mean America is bowing to them. If we were there'd be laws that allowed them to stop people from using XP, and just utterly force us to a dictatorship run by Corporations.
I'm fine with articles like this reaching realistic parallels, (and that's what they did) however I really hate it when people like the the writer and parent have to twist any article into a "Fuck america" idea which really doesn't make sense.
Here's a hint, the Chinese, don't license the formats or the players, as well as having low quality standards in the "Cheap" style of players I've seen, and if they do they don't pay the same as america. That's fine for the consumers, but why should I create a new format for media playback if in a week someone in china could steal my format sell it at a bare profit, and not even pay the creator a proper fee (not saying what hollywood is expecting is fair, but you have to realize that a blu-ray player is based on technology someone created. Pay what is due to them.)
It's funny that the people who talk about buying Chinese products because they are cheap are likely the same type who bitch when jobs are shipped overseas or they lose a job because outsourcing is cheaper. It's funny because it's the same thing.
First off, my response is in no means authroritve. I only know 10 designers, and know their feelings, I also work at a studio of over 100 people in the game industry. That being said my "research" is more valid then Ernest Adams for a couple reasons. The main one is that most of the people I've discussed this with don't give a simple answer like "PS3 will win because it's more powerful" which is a flat out cop out. Or assumes you believe that buyers are morons who don't notice a 200 dollar price tag differential with out a 200 dollar perfomance differential. Only a few people bought the Neo Geo, and remember that was over "4" times more powerful then the other systems (at 3 times the cost) Hint. The Corvette, isn't oversold by Lamborgini Diablos.... Why?
The prevalant view is that no one is going to lose this round. At least not drop out. If someone does it's Sony, pure and simple. They are not turning a profit, don't have a good starting position, their company is in ruins and looking to cut a lot of budget, and the system is asking for more commitment at both ends then the other two. In addition their "Entertainment center" idea is just flat going to fuck them, because unless people constantly buy games, they would have been better off just selling Blu-ray. That being said, they will sell a LOT of systems, the problem is how many games will the sell. No Xbox Live, and other Microsoft developer helpers hurts them. The motion controller is also difficult to work with and their processor is crap for a developer. It's full potential won't be reached not because it's so powerful but because it's layed out in such a poor style. A 360 can get full potential by any programmer who knows about multithreading, GPU vs. CPU, and simple optimization. You might not get direct control of the hardware but in these days no one really wants it. Why does renderware sell? Because it controlled the hardware, not the programmer.
The 360 does a lot to help the programmer, and that's a big step, from match making, to networking code, to Directx, the programmer is put at ease. Porting a game to the 360 is a lot easier then to the PS3. That being said, what's important is sales and not developer's feelings. The point I'm bringing up here, is that the 360 is developer friendly, and with the big inroads that Blue dragon has made in a certain foreign market, Sony might have some issues. But this only talks about games. So let's look at current system sells.
Ps3s will sell in Japan of course, but the fact I've walked into 3 stores in the last 3 days, and seen PS3s in them isn't speaking highly of what sony has done. The fact that people are returning ps3 mainly because they can't sell them on Ebay speaks of intent to buy versus intent to resell. Yes those systems might not last long, but Wiis are selling out instantly with over four times the quanities already hitting stores.
Again is this important? No, This is just discussing what the trends to today is. So what's the prime goal. Well I'll explain who "Wins" The winner is the one who makes the most money and the most units. Note that this is NOT the same person, but the true winner the one you should care about but don't is the one who makes the most money. They will definatly continue to the next round.
The 360 has almost 10 million units out there right now. That's a shit load of units, but in reality it is far from insurmountable for Sony to come back from. The extra year has given Microsoft a good lead. Great. On the other hand Sony is having trouble breaking 1 million, and Wii is probably going to get 2-4 in the next 3 monthes. The 360 has exclusive titles, as does the Wii. Sony has "announced" certain titles, but dates are getting fuzzy, and exclusiviness is being called into question. Sony has lost a couple. However They still claim to have the big 2 (MGS, and Final Fantasy) and after FFXII's big launch, that's good however looking at the other exclusives they've had one can notice I didn't meantion stuff like Assassin'
The funny thing is the PS3 "drought" is less than the Wii drought. I know a couple people who would start a bidding war if I had a second Wii. But ps3 are starting to sit on shelves. Not for days exactly, but when you consider that they have sold around a fifth as many PS3 as Wiis, and the Wiis sales are still going strong? It's an impressive system.
As for the story however CVG has three problems. A. They are in Europe, not America. B. They have no real proof they just claim to have an insider. C. "drought"? you mean a drought because it's a launch system and there might be "only" 1-2 nintendo brand games a month? There's a LOT of games coming to the wii, yet they are holding back on release dates. I wouldn't be suprised if we have 5-6 good to great games by March (in 2007 only) and double that before august. We know about Sonic, and Mortal Kombat Armegeddon, Wario Ware, and Wii play. Plus realize that if there's slow monthes or weeks, they have stated they will release some of the best games for the VC at that time.
"Drought" Not bloody likely. More like "sunny days with out a chance of rain".
If this was anywhere else I'd say beer could have been involved.
Seeing as this was college, I'd say beer was DEFINATLY involved.
Sadly I really had no time. But the mystery is there, and even though I know what's in the Blue glowing box, I'm still excited about getting home and "unwrapping" it myself.
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Wii goodness, Wii Gods. Nice choice of words
If anyone tries to work with idiotic lawyers like this (no matter for money or for hatred of Nintendo) I'll lose all respect for them. Not that I have much for them in the first place for releasing the controller but that's another story.
Hell the class action suit makes no sense. "As instructed by the material that accompanied the Wii console" funny the book that says numerous times to use the controller but put on the wrist strap? Or did I miss a page where it says "release the controller, it's fun". Nope guess not. Especially the part of the strap breaking is causing the controller to fly out of your hands. That's pure BS, tasty too.
Hell Nintendo is replacing the straps for free, not even calling for a mandatory recall, but the court case doesn't even meantion the tvs that are damaged. Personally that's what I'd care about, not the remote that probably still works, but the 3 inch hole in the wall from the impact of the remote.
Why is it when ever there's some news story about a defect (or retards in this case). There's always a second group of retards (normally called lawyers) who tries to get "rich" off of it? Simple solution. Stop supporting frivilious lawsuits. It'd be one thing if Nintendo told you to release the controller, or Nintendo did something neglegent, but there's no sign of that.
I got up late this morning. I was so pissed. I am rushing around collecting a PSP for music (about all I use it for) and a charger because a copy to the memory stick took too long last night. Got everything ready. I'm late I'm late. Quick "what am I missing" and I notice a blue light. A Glowing blue light. It's the wii.
Don't ask me why, but the wii flashing a blue glowing light is an amazing thing. It looks friendly, and personally I'm happy to see that. It just has a visual appeal that beats anything I've seen in other consoles.
Very cool. Nintendo has taken the "Lunchbox" of Gamecube, and made it into a stylish Wii product.
But it makes sense. If it is true it answers a lot of questions but raises one last one. Why the fuck do American news media keeping posting their scores? It really does sound like a hype rag.
.... you get my point. Over inflated ratings doesn't exactly inspire confidence in my book.
Personally Famitsu has had decent ratings for a lot of games, however they tend to have higher then normal ratings, which means higher then IGN, which is higher then gamespot (though gamespot has little basis so it's not as good as IGN according to me) which is higher then
Personally I'd like to see someone back up the (original) post but then again it's a forum post so who knows, especially when the guy talks about his cred being because he "eats" with the guy? But it is some very damning information and personally one of the reasons I think I'll start passing when the topic of famitsu scores come up.
Though I hope this information starts getting main stream attention because it's very interesting if nothing else.
That's fine and note worthy, but it's not man of the year. As another reply says there's little proof Youtube even helped in distributing the video, it was reported on before the video was posted.
The internet is a MAJOR tool for campaign, that's not news, People have known that for years.
Man of the year requires something bigger, something that changes everyone's perception, not just a few people. Bono, bill gates (for philanthropy ), Enron, The FBI scandal, Guliani, Bush, Clinton, Starr.
These are all people who changed America, love or hate them you can't deny they were people of the year that really dominated the world's attention or America's attention.
Now tell me again who this other guy is. The answer is you have to explain it. The whistleblower choices for 2002 were hard to swallow, but the fact is they really changed everyone's perceptions after the fact. We don't know their names, but we know what happened because of what they did. I just believe person of the year needs a suitable candidate, and neither Salon or Time have chosen proper people for it.
Personally I sat on my ass for half the year, but if they want to give me the award for Person of the year, I have a speech prepared.
So salon chose one person who videotaped a random senator, gave it to the other senator's team and won him an election.
Funny to me that's not that important for three reasons.
A. I have not seen the video, have no need to, and really don't care about George Allen.
B. It is localized to one area of the country
C. The whole article blows his importance out of proportion, and makes it sound like this guy is a major racist. However the term was directed at him, who was basically videotaping and spying on Allen for just this thing.
To be honest, he's important to Virgina, but hardly "man of the year".
That being said Time also sucks with their choice. Which pretty much illustrates that even though the democrats won the senate, nothing really happened this year. BORING!
Yes. Good examples, except one thing. I didn't buy Google, I didn't pay for the servers google is running on, I don't expect Google to bend to my will or help me work (though it does at times). An OS is supposed to be an operating system. Not a Media center / word processing / DRM providing / internet browsing magical box. I have programs that do all of that, I don't use Windows Media Center, Word Pad, IE, for them.
As computer users we have slowly been giving up more and more of our computer to Microsoft and other OSes (even Mac is starting to expand). I think it's time we start saying "Fuck you" to people who over charge us so they can take our computer and run rampant on our hardware. I don't think it's time for Linux if you don't already run it. But it's time for us to remain on Windows XP. It's time to demand that DirectX 10 get ported to XP if you need it. It's time to basically stop taking shit from OSes and start demanding a better OS. Dos could give you a disk operating system for 640k, All I want a simple GUI, that all the programs now run on. Why am I sacrificing 2 gigs of memory just to my OS when it's something that should only require a couple megs if done properly. If we want to clog our systems it's our option.
That's my opinion. But i believe it's anyone else who is sick of being forced to upgrade every 3-5 years to an OS that takes at least double the processing power. Moore's law? Didn't know Moore's first name was Peter.
If you read TFA that you tell me to. Number 15 meantions windows. I don't have OSX so I can't tell you for sure if any of the critcism of that is valid but when he refers to windows I can damm well tell you if it's BS, and this one is an obvious one.
I don't know or care about number 14-1 really, they do have some good points but the reason I don't care is number 15 is flat wrong.
If given enough space Windows will display the date and time and day of the week. I use a sidebar style start menu and it's always displayed that, if it hasn't on the writers screen, well maybe he needs a better monitor so he can use a start bar that isn't the absolute acceptable minimum?
If that is wrong, what else could he have wrong? The answer is probably a lot.
I was kinda hopeful they compiled every musical piece, and some group gave it away. Technically they can just give away music for free if they want. It'd be like open source music. Not a bad idea actually.
It would be great to see a repository one day of free classical music, every mozart piece, every Beethoven symphony, every Pachelbel song. Well hopefully one day, though I don't find Mozart's music that interesting, he has some wonderful songs but nothing that really speaks to me.
First off, no. Microsoft offers three price plans for games developers they are 400, 800, 1200, no game will go out of that range with out permission from Microsoft. Add ons are a different story. This is the only prices full games will cost currently. Microsoft and developers both confirmed this.
Now re-read the opening paragraph , Microsoft has full control of the market, if they think a price is unfair they don't allow that seller. This is an extreme move but if Microsoft feels strongly they can do it. Nintendo has very strict policies on this as well, I'm sure Sony does too.
And finally no, the size limitation is in place again it's a known quantity. Again no game is above the size of a standard memory card, it's a rule because Microsoft makes developers support people with out Hard drives (a mistake). So there's a limit, it's around 50 megs, but some games are slightly bigger as memory cards are 52 megs. However remember save data and a gamertag probably needs to be saved on a single memory card as well as the game.
Requirements to wikipedia reference = Failure of reference.
From the little I read of his article it's not "stop you in the tracks" visualization, it's "I know what I'm talking about, figure it out, you uneducated peon" type of bullcrap that the "elite" use all the time. Of course ask them about it and you can usually expect more belittling. (not saying he'd do it, but most of the people who try this imagery do).
On the other hand it's indicitive of a problem so many people have (and likely why he might be "leaving", personally just from one article I'd like to think he's being fired, but then again I am not a huge wired fan in the first place so I don't know) If you only use imagery of books you'd agree or disagree with, the only person who gets the imagery is people who hold similar ideas as you (or the exact opposite). So it's basically like preaching to the quoir. Except this is preaching to the preachers. \
Check your numbers again. Lumines was 1200 points for the "base" (full game). Which is 15 american dollars. 600 for advance is around 8 dollars. There's talks of at least 2 if not 3 more packs (Vs. CPU, Puzzle/Mission, artist pack) which has rumored prices of around 600-1200 points (depending on the source).
All three packs that I meantioned that arn't out, have been announced by Microsoft and confirmed by others.