People like to say that "Mario kart sells because of its franchise" and it's partly true. But not because we're attached to driving around as mario. It's because nintendo actually cares about its franchises. Not the chracters, they get passed around. But the games don't. There's been no lousy mario kart game, ever. Same for official mario bros games. Same for zelda, and Metroid. They're always excellent quality. Polished, top shelf games. You don't have to read reviews or have a test drive when theres a new mario bros game, or mario kart. You know what to expect, and you're never disappointed.
God dammit, that's not why. The answer is simple. The e-book is a dumb idea. There's nothing wrong with books. People like books. They feel good, they need zero power, they look nice on the shelf, you can read them by the pool / on the shitter / in the bath / in bed with one hand / out in the sun. There's nothing ebooks have to offer 99% of the book _BUYING_ market. For tech nerds, they can get a pda that will serve the ebook need as well as let them play doom / do data entry / whatever.
There's no compelling business case or demand for ebooks. It's a solution in search of a problem. For them to ever compete with real books, we need about another 15-20 years tech development in power storage, weight reduction, and display technology. At least.
Of course there'll be some PS3 Info, and it'll be something Sony can spin as "Huge" because they'll want to steal Nintendo's thunder, that's how Sony operate.
Sorry to rain on your parade mate, but the rest of the world has drugs without that problem, it's the US government's crazed once-racist-now-moral-always-hopeless prutianical anti-drug crusade where you get 3 times the sentence for selling a couple grams of weed than you do for robbing a house to pay for it.
Here's a quick tip: western society is desperately short of tradesmen. It's a shitty job for 3 years, then you're earning fuckloads more than your mates who've been in university for the same time (unless they're lawyers / investment bankers). People who don't work but sit around on the dole and stealing / dealing for drug money do it coz they want to, or it's cool, or it's "the way it's always been round here in macquarie fields", not coz there's no choice. Of course they tell different when there's a camera around, but that don't make it so.
Hehehe.... We (.au) may be treated like second-class citizens by your media companies, but lordy these discussions amaze me at the lousy service you guys get from your cell carriers. When Telstra messes with your phone before you buy it, they just put a faggy logo somewhere, add some sms-based services like sports score requests, and point the homepage to their wap server. You can download ringtones and games from anywhere you like, you just pay by the kb. Of course you've gotta buy games if you don't wanna pirate them (yar!), but damn...
Just to injerject, that's coz you know Excel and not Photoshop. I assure you as a designer I'd have a hard time picking from Excel what's missing in OOo:-)
Except that the waste you speak of isn't (mainly) generated by "nuclear power" it's generated by ineffiecient nuclear power because America is under the incorrect assumptions that:
a)They're the only ones with the right to the bomb b)Nations reprocessing their own fuel == bomb goes to the bad guys c)The bad guys can be stopped from getting the bomb in the long run.
It obviously just a choice they've made. Money gets you a 6 month exclusive on GTA which sells consoles, and they've got enough money to buy it if they wanted to. But I think i's clear that they don't wanna play that game. It's a shame, because americans are obsessed with having "the most popular" version of anything, and it means there's games I can't get on my cube, but such is life. I've got a gamecube for games, and a playstation for GTA. But it's a second hand playstation at least:)
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about nuclear power, but how do you think we get uranium if not by digging it up out of the ground instead of coal? Miners will still be dying. Probably a few less, as we'd be using less tonnage, but not a fuckload less, since we're not allowed to use breeders untill around 2050 when all the bad-guys(tm) have the bomb and then we can stop pretending that proliferation can be avoided.
Of course, if you don't go out with your cow-workers and complain about the boss, they'll complain that you're "not part of the team" and you'll end up getting the ass.
Nintendo is interested in selling games to adults. And kids. And girls.
The only people who are worried about only playing "mature adult games" are 17 year old boys. Now the 17 year old boy market isn't going to disappear, as there'll always be more of them. But they're all going to grow up, and some of them are even going to get married and have kids. Then they'll be shopping for games one day at the age of 25, and realise "Madden 2008" and "Super dethkill 7" are kinda... boring. And they'll pick up a Revolution. Nintendo will make a profit on every one sold, Joe six-pack will get games he can play with his family, and he'll have an extra $200 to spend on beer / his kids / buying his missus the $50 present once a year on valentine's day for a little play.
Sony and Microsoft will continue to "have the most successful consoles", and be super-1337, and losing money hand-over-fist. Who cares?
Don't worry about it. Microsoft and Nintendo (and an assload of consumers) seem to think there's some life yet in this whole "pen" thing. Coz you know, people like interacting with devices, and they like big screens, without fingerprints on them. The _only_ answer is touch screen.
Erm, no. Because global warming isn't the threat. Climate change is the threat. We're just as fucked if it drops 5 degrees as we are if it climbs 5 degrees.
I don't get the confusion... Windows will move stuff it thinks you're going to use into spare space on USB devices, because they're faster than your hard disk. I'm sure it only works on FAT flash drives and just moves stuff into "unused" sectors, I'm sure it's encrypted, and I'm sure they test to see if you have some $2 POS USB 1.0 key from 1998 that's slow as molasses. Do really you think that you can think up these problems (and I solutions) in 5 minutes but the whole Vista team can't in 2 years?
Oh, another cool thing about openSuSE: If it sees a program still using you CD drive and you try to button-push eject, it refuses just like umount does, rather than eject and then flip out that it no longer has access to the CD like Windows *still* does...
That's not a feature, it's a bug. I own my computer, including my CDROM drive. I don't want some (possibly crashed) program telling me I can't open my drive. If it causes the application to crash instead of fail gracefully, so be it. There's nothing I hate more than my PC telling me I can't open a drive, or remove a USB device, or something else that's none of its business.
If I played music constructed of only three chords and the endless whining brought on by a distaste for my middle-class parents, would I be sued by Green Day?
Nah, it'll be a class-action brought by Green Day, Avril Lavigne, Blink 187, hell.. the whole "punk" section of your local teenie-bopper record store:)
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Erm, because when you're trying to sleep you don't want to hear the dryer or your housemates fucking?
People like to say that "Mario kart sells because of its franchise" and it's partly true. But not because we're attached to driving around as mario. It's because nintendo actually cares about its franchises. Not the chracters, they get passed around. But the games don't. There's been no lousy mario kart game, ever. Same for official mario bros games. Same for zelda, and Metroid. They're always excellent quality. Polished, top shelf games. You don't have to read reviews or have a test drive when theres a new mario bros game, or mario kart. You know what to expect, and you're never disappointed.
God dammit, that's not why. The answer is simple. The e-book is a dumb idea. There's nothing wrong with books. People like books. They feel good, they need zero power, they look nice on the shelf, you can read them by the pool / on the shitter / in the bath / in bed with one hand / out in the sun. There's nothing ebooks have to offer 99% of the book _BUYING_ market. For tech nerds, they can get a pda that will serve the ebook need as well as let them play doom / do data entry / whatever.
There's no compelling business case or demand for ebooks. It's a solution in search of a problem. For them to ever compete with real books, we need about another 15-20 years tech development in power storage, weight reduction, and display technology. At least.
Dilbert, Office Space is good.... but uf? Man I vote time-travel, kill the cube-guy. We won't miss Dilber that much.
Of course there'll be some PS3 Info, and it'll be something Sony can spin as "Huge" because they'll want to steal Nintendo's thunder, that's how Sony operate.
Sorry to rain on your parade mate, but the rest of the world has drugs without that problem, it's the US government's crazed once-racist-now-moral-always-hopeless prutianical anti-drug crusade where you get 3 times the sentence for selling a couple grams of weed than you do for robbing a house to pay for it.
Here's a quick tip: western society is desperately short of tradesmen. It's a shitty job for 3 years, then you're earning fuckloads more than your mates who've been in university for the same time (unless they're lawyers / investment bankers). People who don't work but sit around on the dole and stealing / dealing for drug money do it coz they want to, or it's cool, or it's "the way it's always been round here in macquarie fields", not coz there's no choice. Of course they tell different when there's a camera around, but that don't make it so.
Of course, robots are also far less likely to distory (not to mention shit on) the green.
Hehehe.... We (.au) may be treated like second-class citizens by your media companies, but lordy these discussions amaze me at the lousy service you guys get from your cell carriers. When Telstra messes with your phone before you buy it, they just put a faggy logo somewhere, add some sms-based services like sports score requests, and point the homepage to their wap server. You can download ringtones and games from anywhere you like, you just pay by the kb. Of course you've gotta buy games if you don't wanna pirate them (yar!), but damn...
:)
My sympathies
Just to injerject, that's coz you know Excel and not Photoshop. I assure you as a designer I'd have a hard time picking from Excel what's missing in OOo :-)
Except that the waste you speak of isn't (mainly) generated by "nuclear power" it's generated by ineffiecient nuclear power because America is under the incorrect assumptions that:
a)They're the only ones with the right to the bomb
b)Nations reprocessing their own fuel == bomb goes to the bad guys
c)The bad guys can be stopped from getting the bomb in the long run.
most are young, heathly, and willing to sacrifice the old for their 'moral' quest.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
It obviously just a choice they've made. Money gets you a 6 month exclusive on GTA which sells consoles, and they've got enough money to buy it if they wanted to. But I think i's clear that they don't wanna play that game. It's a shame, because americans are obsessed with having "the most popular" version of anything, and it means there's games I can't get on my cube, but such is life. I've got a gamecube for games, and a playstation for GTA. But it's a second hand playstation at least :)
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about nuclear power, but how do you think we get uranium if not by digging it up out of the ground instead of coal? Miners will still be dying. Probably a few less, as we'd be using less tonnage, but not a fuckload less, since we're not allowed to use breeders untill around 2050 when all the bad-guys(tm) have the bomb and then we can stop pretending that proliferation can be avoided.
Of course, if you don't go out with your cow-workers and complain about the boss, they'll complain that you're "not part of the team" and you'll end up getting the ass.
Nintendo is interested in selling games to adults. And kids. And girls.
The only people who are worried about only playing "mature adult games" are 17 year old boys. Now the 17 year old boy market isn't going to disappear, as there'll always be more of them. But they're all going to grow up, and some of them are even going to get married and have kids. Then they'll be shopping for games one day at the age of 25, and realise "Madden 2008" and "Super dethkill 7" are kinda... boring. And they'll pick up a Revolution. Nintendo will make a profit on every one sold, Joe six-pack will get games he can play with his family, and he'll have an extra $200 to spend on beer / his kids / buying his missus the $50 present once a year on valentine's day for a little play.
Sony and Microsoft will continue to "have the most successful consoles", and be super-1337, and losing money hand-over-fist. Who cares?
I'll be at home playing Zelda.
What choice is there in today's culture of closed software from which you can't extract your data?
This ain't over...
Most people here have enough trouble getting a two-way dude, don't mess with their heads.
Sorry kiddo, this is Bronson, Missouri.
Hey ma, how about some cookies?
Don't worry about it. Microsoft and Nintendo (and an assload of consumers) seem to think there's some life yet in this whole "pen" thing. Coz you know, people like interacting with devices, and they like big screens, without fingerprints on them. The _only_ answer is touch screen.
Erm, no. Because global warming isn't the threat. Climate change is the threat. We're just as fucked if it drops 5 degrees as we are if it climbs 5 degrees.
I don't get the confusion... Windows will move stuff it thinks you're going to use into spare space on USB devices, because they're faster than your hard disk. I'm sure it only works on FAT flash drives and just moves stuff into "unused" sectors, I'm sure it's encrypted, and I'm sure they test to see if you have some $2 POS USB 1.0 key from 1998 that's slow as molasses. Do really you think that you can think up these problems (and I solutions) in 5 minutes but the whole Vista team can't in 2 years?
Oh, another cool thing about openSuSE: If it sees a program still using you CD drive and you try to button-push eject, it refuses just like umount does, rather than eject and then flip out that it no longer has access to the CD like Windows *still* does...
That's not a feature, it's a bug. I own my computer, including my CDROM drive. I don't want some (possibly crashed) program telling me I can't open my drive. If it causes the application to crash instead of fail gracefully, so be it. There's nothing I hate more than my PC telling me I can't open a drive, or remove a USB device, or something else that's none of its business.
If I played music constructed of only three chords and the endless whining brought on by a distaste for my middle-class parents, would I be sued by Green Day?
:)
Nah, it'll be a class-action brought by Green Day, Avril Lavigne, Blink 187, hell.. the whole "punk" section of your local teenie-bopper record store