covering ears and chanting, "la la la la I'm not listening!" does not excuse the fact that Sony is turning a bling eye toward game development companies who develop PS2 games. Allowing this many to be released in such a short amount of time almost guarantees that few will ever earn a profit.
"Sony also says that there will be 120 new Playstation 2 games with online compatibility by the end of the year. That equates to thirty games per month or about one game per day for the rest of 2004."
Would his next words happen to be?:
"We don't seriously expect most of these games to make any money. We are just using our marketshare to push X-box and Gamecube out of the market."
Seriously, 120 games!?! What ever happened to quality over quantity?
The best thing that could happen to Sun is for them to go under and IBM buy the assets. The last thing the industry is for the same people that ruined Sun to ruin IBM as well.
One could argue that there are PC apps that have the same purpose as these apps, but some are merely adequate while others are near offensive.
(Shake would be included too, if it weren't for the fact it was a Linux app before it ever was a Mac OSX app. Still, the Linux version likely won't see updates anymore.)
I'm starting to find these new types of storage as solutions to non-existant problems.
At what point does it become too much information recorded? Too many old tv shows that no one has time to watch? Too many blogs that do mothing but waste time and bandwidth? Perhaps we'll reach a point where the efficiency and usefullness of the info outweighs the urge to record it.
The story doesn't say MS was interested in buying Nintendo; it says Gates is.
Despite what the zealots around here might say, there is a difference. Gates already owns several companies outside of Microsoft. Of course that never gets mention around here or people just assume Gates == Microsoft.
This is funny especially since Ballmer really runs the company.
Interesting. Now that 321 is out of business. DVD X-Copy is now considered fair use under the "software created by company no longer in existance" revision they added.
I encourage those who haven't already, check out the GDC. This conference has the surprises that E3 used to have, but not the booth babes.:(
Next week is SIGGRAPH its even in the same place as E3 was this year. It also has some of the surprises you used to see in these trade shows such as Comdex and E3.
You are being naive. The fact is: IBM is as large as its ever been. The difference between now and the 1980's is that IBM learned the google rule: "Don't be evil." They are otherwise, larger, stronger, and have more influence on technology than anyone, even Microsoft.
If you don't believe me, take a look at you Hitachi hard drive, any of the three next generation consoles, PPC 970 (a.k.a. G5), any patent on quantum computing, the next generation RAM replacement, the list goes on...
the CAVE(tm) is virtual reaity implementation where its walls and/or floor and ceiling are projection surface to allow the user to see a virtual environment.
Umm... have you heard of this thing called Darwin?
I _HATE_ it when people bring up Darwin as if its equivalent to Mac OSX. Using Darwin is _not_ like using Mac OSX, and that is what is important to the user.
You want people to switch to Linux??? Make gnome work as well as Aqua and you're half-way there.
actually the OS wars are helpful. I'm on a project where it has to be able to compile on Mac, Linux, and Windows. I'm the Windows guy, one other is the Mac guy, and a few others are on Linux.
We end up finding a lot of each other's coding errors as a result of getting the project to work on all three platforms. Use this thinking: If the app won't crash in Windows, it won't crash in anything! Not always true, but its helpful.
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covering ears and chanting, "la la la la I'm not listening!" does not excuse the fact that Sony is turning a bling eye toward game development companies who develop PS2 games. Allowing this many to be released in such a short amount of time almost guarantees that few will ever earn a profit.
:-\
Bad times for the game industry ahead...
"Sony also says that there will be 120 new Playstation 2 games with online compatibility by the end of the year. That equates to thirty games per month or about one game per day for the rest of 2004."
Would his next words happen to be?:
"We don't seriously expect most of these games to make any money. We are just using our marketshare to push X-box and Gamecube out of the market."
Seriously, 120 games!?! What ever happened to quality over quantity?
The best thing that could happen to Sun is for them to go under and IBM buy the assets. The last thing the industry is for the same people that ruined Sun to ruin IBM as well.
Was anyone else's first thought: "Isn't this how .Net got created?"
Just Curious.
Why do customers want to upgrade to Longhorn? I seem to keep losing reasons, or never had them in some cases.
-b
Thank you for the info. I stand corrected. :)
-b
If its so obvious you should be glad I brought it up and broke the ice then... ;)
-b
Motion, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, etc...
One could argue that there are PC apps that have the same purpose as these apps, but some are merely adequate while others are near offensive.
(Shake would be included too, if it weren't for the fact it was a Linux app before it ever was a Mac OSX app. Still, the Linux version likely won't see updates anymore.)
How about a way to run Max OSX apps in Linux???
I'm serious. It would be only fair since Wine is written to run Windows apps on an OS that Microsoft didn't intend.
-b
I agree. I *was* at that Renderman User's Group Meeting. Yes there were hands raised when he mentioned Windows, including my own. :-\
ONe one Mac OSX user raised his had. Most of those for Linux worked for Pixar.
-b
I'm starting to find these new types of storage as solutions to non-existant problems.
At what point does it become too much information recorded? Too many old tv shows that no one has time to watch? Too many blogs that do mothing but waste time and bandwidth? Perhaps we'll reach a point where the efficiency and usefullness of the info outweighs the urge to record it.
The story doesn't say MS was interested in buying Nintendo; it says Gates is.
Despite what the zealots around here might say, there is a difference. Gates already owns several companies outside of Microsoft. Of course that never gets mention around here or people just assume Gates == Microsoft.
This is funny especially since Ballmer really runs the company.
I was being serious!!! :p
Interesting. Now that 321 is out of business. DVD X-Copy is now considered fair use under the "software created by company no longer in existance" revision they added.
I encourage those who haven't already, check out the GDC. This conference has the surprises that E3 used to have, but not the booth babes. :(
Next week is SIGGRAPH its even in the same place as E3 was this year. It also has some of the surprises you used to see in these trade shows such as Comdex and E3.
He has no pulse sir.
He's the undead! SHOOT IT! SHOOT IT!!!!!!
FYI: Time Warner kicked Turner out. That's why he is suddonly so 'anti-conglomerate'.
Hypocrite. >:(
-B
Shhhh..... Don't wake up the amiga trolls...
Nowadays IBM is on the rebound,
You are being naive. The fact is: IBM is as large as its ever been. The difference between now and the 1980's is that IBM learned the google rule: "Don't be evil." They are otherwise, larger, stronger, and have more influence on technology than anyone, even Microsoft.
If you don't believe me, take a look at you Hitachi hard drive, any of the three next generation consoles, PPC 970 (a.k.a. G5), any patent on quantum computing, the next generation RAM replacement, the list goes on...
the CAVE(tm) is virtual reaity implementation where its walls and/or floor and ceiling are projection surface to allow the user to see a virtual environment.
More info:
-B
CCTV cameras (at the moment) aren't facially recognising people as they walk around.
Maybe, and I will say maybe because I do not know and I doubt you do either. The point of my statement is: "What's stopping them?"
People never seem to realize what they have until they lose it.
-B
They hardly track my every move - they're primarily used after the fact to identify people or to follow people attempting to evade the police.
:-\
They're all in public places, I have no expectation of privacy in a public place and I'm not committing any offences, it really doesn't bother me.
So, in the UK its ok for the government not to know where you are... as long as you never leave the house!?!
All I'm doing is using the Parent Post's logic...
-B
Umm... have you heard of this thing called Darwin?
I _HATE_ it when people bring up Darwin as if its equivalent to Mac OSX. Using Darwin is _not_ like using Mac OSX, and that is what is important to the user.
You want people to switch to Linux??? Make gnome work as well as Aqua and you're half-way there.
-B
1. They bought 3dfx's assets, not 3dfx.
2. brute force worked for Intel.
-B
actually the OS wars are helpful. I'm on a project where it has to be able to compile on Mac, Linux, and Windows. I'm the Windows guy, one other is the Mac guy, and a few others are on Linux.
We end up finding a lot of each other's coding errors as a result of getting the project to work on all three platforms. Use this thinking: If the app won't crash in Windows, it won't crash in anything! Not always true, but its helpful.
-B