Your wrong. There's some great touch screens and light pen systems that just put everything shame. You probably use one for Point of Sale units when you use credit cards.
The one flaw is those touch screens usually cost a good deal of money, Elections are govermental domain so they likely went with the lowest trustworthy bidder. Cheap touch screens are worse than a blindfolded chimp with a gun (at least the chimp might hit the target).
What's next? 12 year old NES light gun technology for the next election? Hint, if you don't check your ballot, you deserve to vote for the wrong person. If your unsure of something, ASK, they pay people to work the election places, if you have a real problem and they can't help you, ask for a paper ballot, complain THEN, not after the election, look for a paper ballot, even with the new fangled machines! Don't be a mindless drone and assume everything will be ok.
If he was misquoted then why doesn't he say "oh no my game won't actually have that, I was talking about a wish" Because simply he doesn't know when he's said to much. Are you doing a technical investigation? Don't talk about it. Are you building a prototype, don't talk about it. Stop acting like a Game god, and become a good manager first. It's apparent that he's the type of manager who everyone hates, he over promises, under delivers, and then blames the programmers or tools.
I think you miss the point, windows is USER friendly. Not programmer, hacker, sys admin happy, but user happy.
What's shocking is people constantly switch and then act like it's a crime that everyone should switch even though 90 percent of the computer market still only supports Windows. Then they'll end up quoting emulation as the savior. Emulation should be used when the alternative is not an option, most linux boxes run on systems fully capable of running windows.
Linux needs to be more "user-friendly". You might enjoy hunting for new drivers, kernel updates, drivers for new kernel, program updates, program tweaks, and programs but gamers arn't looking for that. Personally I hate having to download new drivers every time I want run a new game or updates to the game itself. If I get annoyed by updating two devices, why would I want to add more complexity to the arguement. Why run 2 programs to play Flight Simulator, when instead I can just run flight simulator?
Windows isn't perfect, but Linux has flaws too, acting like it doesn't won't help the community. Btw this is the same position that Mac gamers were in five years ago, now they are almost extinct, realize it's time figure out if this is solvable or just an area Linux will wither in.
And all of this is becoming moot for me. I've become a console gamer. I am sick of ALL drivers, I'm sick of ALL updates, I want to play games, not make my machine ready to play games and many people are agreeing with that, not to meantion people don't want to make PC based games because they see it as a hot bed of piracy.
There are some poor choices for ads, but there's some great ones.
The point I was making was Sony is advertising something they will sell out of. Assume Audi makes 200,000 cars of a new ST type (Stylish touring). They then sell all 200,000 of the initial run. Would it be smart for them to run adds for the ST? Not really. Now if they are going to make more, it might be smart so people might hold off on buying another car and see if they can get an ST
However in Sony's case their ads have been completely ineffectual because they don't say "don't by a Xbox 360, wait for a PS3" They say "creepy baby will stab you in the eye if you don't buy a Ps3", which is probably actually pretty effectual, but it's probably not exactly what they were trying to say, I may have read too much into it. They claim to have better graphics, they claim to have better controls, yet instead of showing what their system CAN do, they are showing odd advertising. It's not called viral advertising, when people only talk about how bad your ads are.
Actually people are already a little suspicious of the console.
Let's start with the PSX? The first YEAR of console production had overheating issues. This isn't one batch, most of the early consoles had issues with this. But at least the console didn't break of get destroyed (though a couple discs got scratched).
Then the PS2, was a lot better, less overheating (though some), but after a couple years we got DREs, Disk read errors to those who don't know. PS1 games no longer were read, some PS2 games didn't work. Sony allowed people to send in their consoles and fixed them if they were under warranty (or you pretended they were).
Microsoft's track record isn't perfect but the Sony's is a lot more to be fearful of. Let's look at what they are giving us. Blu-ray, HDMI, Cell processors, Motion controlled controllers... If nothing fails over 3 years, it's a miracle. I'll be impressed if they have no real failures at launch, but I'll be even more impressed if after 1 year they don't have more problems the then the 360 has right now.
We aren't going to ship 4 Million, we're going ship 2 by the end of the year We aren't going to ship to Europe until March. We are dropping the lower priced system's price by 10000 yen(or so) in japan but we're not scared We aren't going to be able to make the launch numbers.
Jesus, could they be any stupider? Now they are running advertisements for the PS3 on TV. what? Do they think they are going to get more interest with a doll in the ad rather then showing game play? The simple fact is they want people killing each other to get the system, and it's just not happening. They can't sell more than they are shipping, and that's already low, but they need people to drool so much they aren't picking up a 360 instead. What's worse, those guys who preorder or who will go the distance, probably have a 360 at home so while they gain market share, they aren't getting the 1 system families.
The PS3 has been a huge mistake every step of the way, and just when you think it is over.... it's not.
Hell I wouldn't be surprised if the systems don't boot up or immediately don't work, Sony's track record wasn't great, but the PS3 makes me think there was a mandatory lobotomy of all Sony management.
And this doesn't get into the fact that Sony's advertising diversion is.... well if Management got lobotomies, they got headectomies. Their advertising isn't just weak, it's ineffectual.
The sad thing is you make those who sound like they are feeding misinformation to the press as evil bastards who live in another country calling for terrorism. You couldn't be more wrong.
America is in a battle to embarrass Bush, and the easiest way is to embarrass the military which Bush has helped and promoted. There's a variety of news outlets that delight in talking about how bad the war is, there's a variety of politicians who love to bring it up because there's no one to defend Bush in the publications they choose. I'm surprised that they haven't done this years ago. It's good their eye is focused on correcting news, rather then making it. I'd much rather find out when reports are erroneous then hearing more propaganda.
But of course what does it matter, this is slash dot, let's continue to poke fun at the government because we are nerds who like sci-fi more than finding out what really is going on. To us 1984 is a book, and we'll quote it every time because it's funnier and easier than thinking about what actually is going on.
The Dashboard is a good system for me, I don't use it for playback and rarely streaming, but when I use it, it works. The 360 isn't the greatest thing ever but it's definatly a worthy system(something I can't say about the original Xbox), I'm still waiting on the Wii, but the 360 will remain promenently in front of my main tv.
I forgot at work I have a development kit and we do get early versions of many things, this being one. All I can say is it really is lightning fast.
Claiming to have two systems should be the first clue, claiming neither was modded is the second, A quick look at http://www.top360tag.com/ shows how someone COULD get over 80K points ( one trick is to play non american games, apparently Rance6 (the top tag holder) has played 106 games)
Honestly, it sounds like he's a liar and a cheater, and he was skirting close to the morality law (if not over it).
Good for Microsoft if they nailed him, and it sounds like they did. One good trick for Microsoft could be to "leak" a version of a Microsoft game that had a identifiable flaw in the game that sends out a single packet, if they see one from your Xbox 360, immediatly lock that Xbox down, and make it identifiable so even if you're offline the minute you log on the system knows and shuts you down.
But you're right, any of the little flags that go off in my head when I read his story makes me think "Well maybe...." Except that after the third flag (77K points, 2 xboxs, both won't work) should make everyone distrustful at best.
It probably stores a list and only retabulates it once in a while.
I have to admit this is so painfully slow at times, that this is the one feature I care about. Sad really, but it is important.
If this improves marketplace speeds I'll be very excited as well (though I sorta just wish companies would put stuff like free keys in one major download pack.)
BTW, another cool addition I've heard about (from Microsoft) is the ability to download new Xbox Live Arcade Demos immediatly, with out having to queue them up. If it does that, it'll be a good upgrade, basically turn on your system and get demos. I'm happy they are updating their dashboard, it keeps it new and fresh. They arn't going to give away Divx encodes but they will at least make it work better, rather then stagnating because they can't do anything or nobody wants them to.
I hope this month (november) or next we'll see a nice BC update as well (maybe PGR? Conker? mayhaps).
What you must do is realize what is compelling. If it's something you've never done before, that's compelling to you, however if I program games (which I do) and I always work on AI, a new company who want's to hire me for AI isn't going to be new or interesting to me. Finding someone who's great but wants to break into that field you're approaching is probably going to work better than someone who is already in that field. The person in that field needs a reason to come to you, the person looking for the break into that area is already willing to work for you.
One big problem is SourceForge is associated with Open source, which is associated in some people's mines with low or no money, that doesn't mean you are giving a pitance, but in people's minds that is what happens. You name MAY hurt you in this situation.
Location matters a lot to people as well, I don't know your location but compare your salary to people around you, not national standards, and if you're in a city like Boston you're going to pay a lot. 46K in NJ, is like 60 in Boston just because of higher costs of living, and rents. If you're in a small city, realize that you might get away with paying less, but you have to get people willing to move close to your city. Pay better than those around you always work too.
I think the big thing is the dot com boom happened, all the highly skilled people got great jobs they wanted, the crash happened and all the low skilled people got layed off, the highly skilled people still have jobs, but it flooded the market with people who everyone is unsure of, it's now starting to bubble up a bit, but not like before.
Second life might be an incredible simulation, but it's far from a game. It is interesting though.
3d Weather simulation though? I'm sure we've had that in multiple places. a large scale version is Flight simulator X which can now pull live weather data every 15 minutes from Jensen.com (A major flight tool provider). And even better with Flight Sim you see exactly how that works in real life.
Though how they present it in Second life might be interesting, I'm finding that now it's even less of a game (not that it was before) and new way to advertise. Though I have to admit it sounds like an interesting idea. Maybe after everything calms down they can do a cyber E3, miniture version. It'd cost them a lot less then those huge booths last year, and even though players think they should be there, they shouldn't but at least they can see a idea of what it used to be like.
People have to make up their mind. This is a great tool at times, and no president is just going to remove it. Yes it sounds dangerous but unlike what those who can't stand bush (yet still live in America after threatening to leave... go figure) say, he's not the tyrant everyone is pretending he is. This rule will likely never be used except for emergencies. What's the alternative? Wait til there's a need to use this type of law and blame the president because he couldn't declare martial law?
Want to know why the shit hit the fan in Louisiana? Simple, because the governor and Mayor screwed it up. There's checks and balances, and it's fucked over people twice. But of course we'll just blame Bush for that right? If we want to blame the president then give him the power you say he has. Don't completely revamp an organization so it's not ready for the next year's problems.
Bush isn't going to abuse this, Bush is trying to make America safer, and isn't helped by everyone trying to second guess his intentions. If he uses this against the public interest then you have something, but if he uses this when there's the next major disaster that's he's about to be blamed for, or instead does it before the hurricane (rather then waiting for the mayor and governors permission, and watching as they make enormous mistakes according the the plans set forth) maybe more life might be saved.
Everyone is so afraid of Bush, but when you look at what he does, it's not the sign of a dictator, it's the sign of a president trying to protect the American people and solve problems ignored by his predecessors. Dear god, he cares about Americans more than his legacy or chasing a intern around the Oval Office, but let's crucify him because he's a republican, or because we disagree with his policy, or because we're so paranoid that we think we're the ones being watched.
except almost NO TVs that are even reasonably price supports "true" 1080p over HDMI, because you need 2 HDMI-ins. So if more then half the HD sets out there doesn't support it, what's the use? PS3 might have HDMI, but the 50 inch tv my family got last year doesn't have it, so what? are we supposed to run out and buy another? The tv they owned before this one was 5-10 years old and always worked, making us buy new TVs ever couple years isn't a win for the consumer it's a win for the seller.
Either 500 or 600 compared to the comparable 360, you're still paying 200 dollars more.
The 500 dollar ps3 has said they will be missing a couple of the features that the 600 dollar will, and will NOT be upgradable. There was reports that these missing features are stuff like memory card slots and high def output. If you're buying the system according to what the article is talking about (backwards compatibility) that memory card slot abscene means you will no longer be able to import old save games, so that's another 40 hours into every RPG just to get back to the same boss battle if you want to replay them.
If you want to go save 100 bucks by buying a nerfed console, go ahead, but most people wouldn't. However the numbers still don't change. You're talking about the core system that's 300 vs. 500. A big difference.
Perhaps RTFA would help you. Their arguement is people will buy the PS3 because it's backwards compatible. That is only useful if someone wants a system they haven't owned before, or wants to get rid of an old system for the newer mode. However it doesn't work here, because you have to want the newer system first.
You can play PS2 and PS1 games on your PS2 still, why go out and buy a 600 dollar system that does the same thing.
Sony isn't going to win this round on name recognition, they COULD have, if it was a 400 dollar console, and would have at 300, but going to 600 dollars makes it less likely.
Sony needs to win this round, and they might pull it off if Microsoft still can't break Japanese markets after Christmas next year (give them time). If Blue Dragon doesn't make a huge in-road for the 360, Sony will not have to worry.
However sony is already running scared, dropping the price of the 20 gig model in Japan, low numbers (now saying they might not make 2 million consoles by the end of the year), a almost constant hype session, at least one a day. And all for one reason. The 360 is already here, and already getting better and better.
Will the 360 be perfect? no. But the PS3 is looking worse as the launch window comes up, they'll sell out, but the 360 has 6 MILLION consoles out there. The PS3 has 2 million at the end of the year if they are lucky. Developers know this, and know the score.
Which will win though? Who knows, it all rests on Japan right now, and even there people arn't thrilled with Sony.
EA started this with a pay per view of the developers playing Madden. Microsoft is following the idea.
To my knowledge they haven't made anyone buy gold unless they want to play online. It's true they now require gold for one trailer, but the way fanboys are salivating after it. I have a gold account, but I use it once in a while with my buddy, it's not required, but it'll be nice with GOW. I just hope more games do Co-op with it.
Microsoft needs to be careful and keep gold as a feature, not a necessity. Silver accounts are really good, but Gold should be multiplayer only if possible.
Are you kidding? Gears of war selling 4 million consoles? It'll be lucky if it sells 2 million games.
10 Million is ridiculious of Microsoft to say, but I'll assume they mean by this time next year. The only chance microsoft has of hitting that is Blue Dragon and Japan. Other then that it's not going to jump.
That being said there's a shot with Blue Dragon, we'll see.
I have a feeling the master, James Carvelle was somewhere involved. I have to admit if there's is one guy you need to have perfect spin, he's the guy. He might look completely insane but he makes bullshit believable.
While reading I had a feeling either he's the master of spin, or someone else was spinning the ball, because all of these are hugely beneficial to Microsoft, even when there's no right answer.
It seems the only people who don't understand the rating systems are sitting in Washington.
The rating system is pretty solid except for the mindless parent. The problem is the mindless parent will NEVER understand, they don't care enough about their kid to learn about the stuff they play with.
I saw a parent in a store one day carrying Spongebob, and Rocket power, and GTA:San Andreas, so I'm reaching the counter at the same time, so I kindly ask "you do know that's a mature game" and the guy laughs and says "yeah, Those games are for the kids, but this is for after the kids go to sleep". People know this stuff already, most stores display this stuff pretty promentently already. I think it's time to stop relying on goverment to force stuff that is already done, and to ask parents to properly monitor the kids.
Over the last 15 years, it seems everything has been "who's fault is it?" when ever someone does something wrong, even 9/11. It's the person who commits the crime. The guys who hijacked the plane, the kids that shot up the school, the man who kidnapped the girls into the house in the amish town. They commited the crime. In the same vein, stop looking for influences from everywhere. It's not the games, it's the parents who allow kids to play games like this. It's the parents who don't ever talk to their kids to see they are disturbed, it's the parents who just basically assume everyone else is going to raise their kids. Hillary Clinton wrote "it takes a village". I'm saying BULLSHIT. They can help but it takes a parent, pure and simple.
Except why pay for something twice, than just keep the good format that you have now. If you're force to pay full price for an incremental improvement would you? You don't pay 60 bucks for an expansion normally? You wouldn't expect to pay 30 bucks for a patch that allows your game to have hi res models? Why are we allowing it here?
In addition Digital TV will change that, except the cable company is squeezing digital TV as hard as they can to make everyone pay every little cent more to get it. All these companies should tell cable to start making this available for lower costs. I'm not paying more money per channel I want in HD. I thought every channel was going to be digital five years ago, three years ago and last year. The only reason they arn't is because cable companies want to charge more for it and no one is going to agree to that if there's no other option.
HD formats might be better, but there's no reason to run out and get them, especially when everyone seems to think they need a premium. If I could buy HD movies for 10-20 bucks I might think about it, but currently they are more, and currently they can come with less features then DVDs. For shame. I'll just keep buying DVDs, because they are cheaper, and better. If they started putting TV shows on blu-ray I'd be thrilled. Imagine a whole season of a show on one disc? I'm down with that.
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Your wrong. There's some great touch screens and light pen systems that just put everything shame. You probably use one for Point of Sale units when you use credit cards.
The one flaw is those touch screens usually cost a good deal of money, Elections are govermental domain so they likely went with the lowest trustworthy bidder. Cheap touch screens are worse than a blindfolded chimp with a gun (at least the chimp might hit the target).
What's next? 12 year old NES light gun technology for the next election? Hint, if you don't check your ballot, you deserve to vote for the wrong person. If your unsure of something, ASK, they pay people to work the election places, if you have a real problem and they can't help you, ask for a paper ballot, complain THEN, not after the election, look for a paper ballot, even with the new fangled machines! Don't be a mindless drone and assume everything will be ok.
They don't have emulation for the CD titles.... yet
But if they do then they can always release bigger memory modules.
If he was misquoted then why doesn't he say "oh no my game won't actually have that, I was talking about a wish" Because simply he doesn't know when he's said to much. Are you doing a technical investigation? Don't talk about it. Are you building a prototype, don't talk about it. Stop acting like a Game god, and become a good manager first. It's apparent that he's the type of manager who everyone hates, he over promises, under delivers, and then blames the programmers or tools.
I think you miss the point, windows is USER friendly. Not programmer, hacker, sys admin happy, but user happy.
What's shocking is people constantly switch and then act like it's a crime that everyone should switch even though 90 percent of the computer market still only supports Windows. Then they'll end up quoting emulation as the savior. Emulation should be used when the alternative is not an option, most linux boxes run on systems fully capable of running windows.
Linux needs to be more "user-friendly". You might enjoy hunting for new drivers, kernel updates, drivers for new kernel, program updates, program tweaks, and programs but gamers arn't looking for that. Personally I hate having to download new drivers every time I want run a new game or updates to the game itself. If I get annoyed by updating two devices, why would I want to add more complexity to the arguement. Why run 2 programs to play Flight Simulator, when instead I can just run flight simulator?
Windows isn't perfect, but Linux has flaws too, acting like it doesn't won't help the community. Btw this is the same position that Mac gamers were in five years ago, now they are almost extinct, realize it's time figure out if this is solvable or just an area Linux will wither in.
And all of this is becoming moot for me. I've become a console gamer. I am sick of ALL drivers, I'm sick of ALL updates, I want to play games, not make my machine ready to play games and many people are agreeing with that, not to meantion people don't want to make PC based games because they see it as a hot bed of piracy.
There are some poor choices for ads, but there's some great ones.
The point I was making was Sony is advertising something they will sell out of. Assume Audi makes 200,000 cars of a new ST type (Stylish touring). They then sell all 200,000 of the initial run. Would it be smart for them to run adds for the ST? Not really. Now if they are going to make more, it might be smart so people might hold off on buying another car and see if they can get an ST
However in Sony's case their ads have been completely ineffectual because they don't say "don't by a Xbox 360, wait for a PS3" They say "creepy baby will stab you in the eye if you don't buy a Ps3", which is probably actually pretty effectual, but it's probably not exactly what they were trying to say, I may have read too much into it. They claim to have better graphics, they claim to have better controls, yet instead of showing what their system CAN do, they are showing odd advertising. It's not called viral advertising, when people only talk about how bad your ads are.
Actually people are already a little suspicious of the console.
Let's start with the PSX? The first YEAR of console production had overheating issues. This isn't one batch, most of the early consoles had issues with this. But at least the console didn't break of get destroyed (though a couple discs got scratched).
Then the PS2, was a lot better, less overheating (though some), but after a couple years we got DREs, Disk read errors to those who don't know. PS1 games no longer were read, some PS2 games didn't work. Sony allowed people to send in their consoles and fixed them if they were under warranty (or you pretended they were).
Microsoft's track record isn't perfect but the Sony's is a lot more to be fearful of. Let's look at what they are giving us. Blu-ray, HDMI, Cell processors, Motion controlled controllers... If nothing fails over 3 years, it's a miracle. I'll be impressed if they have no real failures at launch, but I'll be even more impressed if after 1 year they don't have more problems the then the 360 has right now.
We aren't going to ship 4 Million, we're going ship 2 by the end of the year
We aren't going to ship to Europe until March.
We are dropping the lower priced system's price by 10000 yen(or so) in japan but we're not scared
We aren't going to be able to make the launch numbers.
Jesus, could they be any stupider? Now they are running advertisements for the PS3 on TV. what? Do they think they are going to get more interest with a doll in the ad rather then showing game play? The simple fact is they want people killing each other to get the system, and it's just not happening. They can't sell more than they are shipping, and that's already low, but they need people to drool so much they aren't picking up a 360 instead. What's worse, those guys who preorder or who will go the distance, probably have a 360 at home so while they gain market share, they aren't getting the 1 system families.
The PS3 has been a huge mistake every step of the way, and just when you think it is over.... it's not.
Hell I wouldn't be surprised if the systems don't boot up or immediately don't work, Sony's track record wasn't great, but the PS3 makes me think there was a mandatory lobotomy of all Sony management.
And this doesn't get into the fact that Sony's advertising diversion is.... well if Management got lobotomies, they got headectomies. Their advertising isn't just weak, it's ineffectual.
The sad thing is you make those who sound like they are feeding misinformation to the press as evil bastards who live in another country calling for terrorism. You couldn't be more wrong.
America is in a battle to embarrass Bush, and the easiest way is to embarrass the military which Bush has helped and promoted. There's a variety of news outlets that delight in talking about how bad the war is, there's a variety of politicians who love to bring it up because there's no one to defend Bush in the publications they choose. I'm surprised that they haven't done this years ago. It's good their eye is focused on correcting news, rather then making it. I'd much rather find out when reports are erroneous then hearing more propaganda.
But of course what does it matter, this is slash dot, let's continue to poke fun at the government because we are nerds who like sci-fi more than finding out what really is going on. To us 1984 is a book, and we'll quote it every time because it's funnier and easier than thinking about what actually is going on.
The Dashboard is a good system for me, I don't use it for playback and rarely streaming, but when I use it, it works. The 360 isn't the greatest thing ever but it's definatly a worthy system(something I can't say about the original Xbox), I'm still waiting on the Wii, but the 360 will remain promenently in front of my main tv.
I forgot at work I have a development kit and we do get early versions of many things, this being one. All I can say is it really is lightning fast.
Claiming to have two systems should be the first clue, claiming neither was modded is the second, A quick look at http://www.top360tag.com/ shows how someone COULD get over 80K points ( one trick is to play non american games, apparently Rance6 (the top tag holder) has played 106 games)
Honestly, it sounds like he's a liar and a cheater, and he was skirting close to the morality law (if not over it).
Good for Microsoft if they nailed him, and it sounds like they did. One good trick for Microsoft could be to "leak" a version of a Microsoft game that had a identifiable flaw in the game that sends out a single packet, if they see one from your Xbox 360, immediatly lock that Xbox down, and make it identifiable so even if you're offline the minute you log on the system knows and shuts you down.
But you're right, any of the little flags that go off in my head when I read his story makes me think "Well maybe...." Except that after the third flag (77K points, 2 xboxs, both won't work) should make everyone distrustful at best.
It probably stores a list and only retabulates it once in a while.
I have to admit this is so painfully slow at times, that this is the one feature I care about. Sad really, but it is important.
If this improves marketplace speeds I'll be very excited as well (though I sorta just wish companies would put stuff like free keys in one major download pack.)
BTW, another cool addition I've heard about (from Microsoft) is the ability to download new Xbox Live Arcade Demos immediatly, with out having to queue them up. If it does that, it'll be a good upgrade, basically turn on your system and get demos. I'm happy they are updating their dashboard, it keeps it new and fresh. They arn't going to give away Divx encodes but they will at least make it work better, rather then stagnating because they can't do anything or nobody wants them to.
I hope this month (november) or next we'll see a nice BC update as well (maybe PGR? Conker? mayhaps).
What you must do is realize what is compelling. If it's something you've never done before, that's compelling to you, however if I program games (which I do) and I always work on AI, a new company who want's to hire me for AI isn't going to be new or interesting to me. Finding someone who's great but wants to break into that field you're approaching is probably going to work better than someone who is already in that field. The person in that field needs a reason to come to you, the person looking for the break into that area is already willing to work for you.
One big problem is SourceForge is associated with Open source, which is associated in some people's mines with low or no money, that doesn't mean you are giving a pitance, but in people's minds that is what happens. You name MAY hurt you in this situation.
Location matters a lot to people as well, I don't know your location but compare your salary to people around you, not national standards, and if you're in a city like Boston you're going to pay a lot. 46K in NJ, is like 60 in Boston just because of higher costs of living, and rents. If you're in a small city, realize that you might get away with paying less, but you have to get people willing to move close to your city. Pay better than those around you always work too.
I think the big thing is the dot com boom happened, all the highly skilled people got great jobs they wanted, the crash happened and all the low skilled people got layed off, the highly skilled people still have jobs, but it flooded the market with people who everyone is unsure of, it's now starting to bubble up a bit, but not like before.
I guess I spoke to soon. it's now game news *Shakes head*
Second life might be an incredible simulation, but it's far from a game. It is interesting though.
3d Weather simulation though? I'm sure we've had that in multiple places. a large scale version is Flight simulator X which can now pull live weather data every 15 minutes from Jensen.com (A major flight tool provider). And even better with Flight Sim you see exactly how that works in real life.
Though how they present it in Second life might be interesting, I'm finding that now it's even less of a game (not that it was before) and new way to advertise. Though I have to admit it sounds like an interesting idea. Maybe after everything calms down they can do a cyber E3, miniture version. It'd cost them a lot less then those huge booths last year, and even though players think they should be there, they shouldn't but at least they can see a idea of what it used to be like.
People have to make up their mind. This is a great tool at times, and no president is just going to remove it. Yes it sounds dangerous but unlike what those who can't stand bush (yet still live in America after threatening to leave... go figure) say, he's not the tyrant everyone is pretending he is. This rule will likely never be used except for emergencies. What's the alternative? Wait til there's a need to use this type of law and blame the president because he couldn't declare martial law?
Want to know why the shit hit the fan in Louisiana? Simple, because the governor and Mayor screwed it up. There's checks and balances, and it's fucked over people twice. But of course we'll just blame Bush for that right? If we want to blame the president then give him the power you say he has. Don't completely revamp an organization so it's not ready for the next year's problems.
Bush isn't going to abuse this, Bush is trying to make America safer, and isn't helped by everyone trying to second guess his intentions. If he uses this against the public interest then you have something, but if he uses this when there's the next major disaster that's he's about to be blamed for, or instead does it before the hurricane (rather then waiting for the mayor and governors permission, and watching as they make enormous mistakes according the the plans set forth) maybe more life might be saved.
Everyone is so afraid of Bush, but when you look at what he does, it's not the sign of a dictator, it's the sign of a president trying to protect the American people and solve problems ignored by his predecessors. Dear god, he cares about Americans more than his legacy or chasing a intern around the Oval Office, but let's crucify him because he's a republican, or because we disagree with his policy, or because we're so paranoid that we think we're the ones being watched.
except almost NO TVs that are even reasonably price supports "true" 1080p over HDMI, because you need 2 HDMI-ins. So if more then half the HD sets out there doesn't support it, what's the use? PS3 might have HDMI, but the 50 inch tv my family got last year doesn't have it, so what? are we supposed to run out and buy another? The tv they owned before this one was 5-10 years old and always worked, making us buy new TVs ever couple years isn't a win for the consumer it's a win for the seller.
Either 500 or 600 compared to the comparable 360, you're still paying 200 dollars more.
The 500 dollar ps3 has said they will be missing a couple of the features that the 600 dollar will, and will NOT be upgradable. There was reports that these missing features are stuff like memory card slots and high def output. If you're buying the system according to what the article is talking about (backwards compatibility) that memory card slot abscene means you will no longer be able to import old save games, so that's another 40 hours into every RPG just to get back to the same boss battle if you want to replay them.
If you want to go save 100 bucks by buying a nerfed console, go ahead, but most people wouldn't. However the numbers still don't change. You're talking about the core system that's 300 vs. 500. A big difference.
Or perhaps he's the only one who understands it? Amazing!
Perhaps RTFA would help you. Their arguement is people will buy the PS3 because it's backwards compatible. That is only useful if someone wants a system they haven't owned before, or wants to get rid of an old system for the newer mode. However it doesn't work here, because you have to want the newer system first.
You can play PS2 and PS1 games on your PS2 still, why go out and buy a 600 dollar system that does the same thing.
Sony isn't going to win this round on name recognition, they COULD have, if it was a 400 dollar console, and would have at 300, but going to 600 dollars makes it less likely.
Sony needs to win this round, and they might pull it off if Microsoft still can't break Japanese markets after Christmas next year (give them time). If Blue Dragon doesn't make a huge in-road for the 360, Sony will not have to worry.
However sony is already running scared, dropping the price of the 20 gig model in Japan, low numbers (now saying they might not make 2 million consoles by the end of the year), a almost constant hype session, at least one a day. And all for one reason. The 360 is already here, and already getting better and better.
Will the 360 be perfect? no. But the PS3 is looking worse as the launch window comes up, they'll sell out, but the 360 has 6 MILLION consoles out there. The PS3 has 2 million at the end of the year if they are lucky. Developers know this, and know the score.
Which will win though? Who knows, it all rests on Japan right now, and even there people arn't thrilled with Sony.
EA started this with a pay per view of the developers playing Madden. Microsoft is following the idea.
To my knowledge they haven't made anyone buy gold unless they want to play online. It's true they now require gold for one trailer, but the way fanboys are salivating after it. I have a gold account, but I use it once in a while with my buddy, it's not required, but it'll be nice with GOW. I just hope more games do Co-op with it.
Microsoft needs to be careful and keep gold as a feature, not a necessity. Silver accounts are really good, but Gold should be multiplayer only if possible.
Are you kidding? Gears of war selling 4 million consoles? It'll be lucky if it sells 2 million games.
10 Million is ridiculious of Microsoft to say, but I'll assume they mean by this time next year. The only chance microsoft has of hitting that is Blue Dragon and Japan. Other then that it's not going to jump.
That being said there's a shot with Blue Dragon, we'll see.
I have a feeling the master, James Carvelle was somewhere involved. I have to admit if there's is one guy you need to have perfect spin, he's the guy. He might look completely insane but he makes bullshit believable.
While reading I had a feeling either he's the master of spin, or someone else was spinning the ball, because all of these are hugely beneficial to Microsoft, even when there's no right answer.
It seems the only people who don't understand the rating systems are sitting in Washington.
The rating system is pretty solid except for the mindless parent. The problem is the mindless parent will NEVER understand, they don't care enough about their kid to learn about the stuff they play with.
I saw a parent in a store one day carrying Spongebob, and Rocket power, and GTA:San Andreas, so I'm reaching the counter at the same time, so I kindly ask "you do know that's a mature game" and the guy laughs and says "yeah, Those games are for the kids, but this is for after the kids go to sleep". People know this stuff already, most stores display this stuff pretty promentently already. I think it's time to stop relying on goverment to force stuff that is already done, and to ask parents to properly monitor the kids.
Over the last 15 years, it seems everything has been "who's fault is it?" when ever someone does something wrong, even 9/11. It's the person who commits the crime. The guys who hijacked the plane, the kids that shot up the school, the man who kidnapped the girls into the house in the amish town. They commited the crime. In the same vein, stop looking for influences from everywhere. It's not the games, it's the parents who allow kids to play games like this. It's the parents who don't ever talk to their kids to see they are disturbed, it's the parents who just basically assume everyone else is going to raise their kids. Hillary Clinton wrote "it takes a village". I'm saying BULLSHIT. They can help but it takes a parent, pure and simple.
Except why pay for something twice, than just keep the good format that you have now. If you're force to pay full price for an incremental improvement would you? You don't pay 60 bucks for an expansion normally? You wouldn't expect to pay 30 bucks for a patch that allows your game to have hi res models? Why are we allowing it here?
In addition Digital TV will change that, except the cable company is squeezing digital TV as hard as they can to make everyone pay every little cent more to get it. All these companies should tell cable to start making this available for lower costs. I'm not paying more money per channel I want in HD. I thought every channel was going to be digital five years ago, three years ago and last year. The only reason they arn't is because cable companies want to charge more for it and no one is going to agree to that if there's no other option.
HD formats might be better, but there's no reason to run out and get them, especially when everyone seems to think they need a premium. If I could buy HD movies for 10-20 bucks I might think about it, but currently they are more, and currently they can come with less features then DVDs. For shame. I'll just keep buying DVDs, because they are cheaper, and better. If they started putting TV shows on blu-ray I'd be thrilled. Imagine a whole season of a show on one disc? I'm down with that.