Windows outsells Linux because a) it comes pre-installed on 99% of all PCs and b) people think they have no choice because they need Office or some other Windows-only app. I don't see how this compares to the Wii. People buy Windows because they (think they) have to. People buy the Wii because they want to.
I can see why you don't understand why people buy the Wii. That doesn't mean they are stupid for finding the Wii a better option than the PS2, the PS3 or the 360.
Nintendo fans are like Apple fans. They assume that their favorite company comes up with every concept they market.
Nintendo fans are like Apple fans in that they always get accused of being stupid, senseless fanboys spouting company lines. And no, Nintendo did not come up with every concept they market, but they clearly are the most innovative console hardware manufacturer.
For instance, people who think that the browser on the iPhone is something wonderful and new have never seen Opera Mini.
Huh? I use Opera Mini. It's nice, but really, there's no comparison to Safari on the iPhone.
Personally, the reason I don't get any nintendo machines these days is because of the endless Mario and Zelda remakes
What remakes? I'd love to get some Mario or Zelda remakes, but since Mario All Stars on the SNES, I have seen none.
If you mean to say that all Mario and Zelda games are alike, well, there's usually more difference between two Mario games than there is between to FPS from different franchises, so I don't understand the complaint. Apart from the main character and the fact that you can jump on stuff, there's no a whole lot of similarities between Super Mario Bros. and Mario Sunshine - and in those cases where Nintendo did go back to the roots with a new game (New Super Mario Bros, for exmple), it was very well received by gamers. If anything, Nintendo is not doing enough "retro games" in the vein of New Super Mario Bros.
Finally, I can't see how games like Zelda or Super Paper Mario would be better if they featured characters other than Link and Mario. Who cares? They're awesome games.
Nintendo's strategy, with the exception of the poorly-received GameCube, has been to change. This is nothing new, they are, in fact, returning to their roots just as everyone is screaming at them for not sticking with them.
Exactly! If you go back in time to when Nintendo started making consoles, you'll see that the Nintendo of NES times was very similar to the Nintendo of now. They always tried to go for innovative/children/family/adult stuff (with things like Rob, the Zapper or their dance mat thing), while their competition went for the hardcore/adolescent market (first Sega, later Sony).
Nintendo hasn't changed, they've just remembered what made them big in the first place.
(By the way, the Power Glove was not from Nintendo, it was from Mattel.)
Zelda isn't exactly feeling it's roots lately either
I would argue the opposite. After Wind Waker, which many hardcore gamers seem to dislike, Nintendo has actually gone back to its roots. Twilight Princess feels like an absolute fanservice in comparison. It's basically Ocarina of Time with a new main quest and better graphics.
I find it fascinating that people think that importing highly qualified workers is a bad thing. Other countries are struggling with brain drain, yet you want to keep indian programmers out? It's probably better if they work in your country than if their jobs go to their country, no?
Are you sure? In my country, there's something that's roughly translated to English as "unlawful enrichment." If somebody accidentially gives you money and you don't give it back, you may be doing something illegal, at least in some countries. I have no clue about the USA, though.
If you put $1 in the machine and got a $10 credit, I should think that the user would figure out that there's more going on than them just being "lucky".
In my experience, gamblers are often extremely superstitious, thinking they can influence the end result by doing certain things. If their superstition coincides with the software's fault (which is not unlikely, since there's a positive feedback loop), they might not realize that they are exploiting an actual software flaw, instead just thinking that their lucky numbers are finally working or something.
I guess I'm the anomaly if I don't really associate a cellular phone with "fun"
That's precisely my point. Your phone sucks. There's no reason why using a phone has to be a soul crushing experience.
(Also, I know you were trying to flamebait me. Not sure why you felt the need to do that (maybe for fun, hah), but I would like to add that my notion of fun is not limited. By definition, it is your notion of fun that is more limited than mine if yours does not include using a cell phone while mine does)
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Governments have proven time and time again that that they are horrible at providing services or products.
That's just bullshit. Government services are often hit or miss, but when they miss, they usually at least aren't bad, just expensive. In my country, we have a working, cheap, fast postal system; a consistent, well-developed cellphone system; affordable, regular, timely public transport; universal healthcare (private, but heavily regulated; and it actually was cheaper when it was not private) and so on.
Claiming that the government is always evil is just as stupid as blaming globalization and the free market for all problems.
Only if Apple can convince everybody that their own late entry into the smartphone market is now somehow the standard for comparison.
They don't need to convince anyone anymore. The iPhone already has convinced enough people.
Even if you don't like the iPhone, you should be glad it exists. It sets a new standard for a phone UI. For the first time, there's a phone that whose UI is universally liked; a phone that does not only look good and not only has a neat list of features, but is also fun to use. This is good for everyone, because it forces the other phone manufacturers to do what they should have been doing for the last decade: Start making phones aimed at users instead of at carriers.
Could this be the Long Anticipated iPhone Killer?
it has a nice feature list.....
To be an iPhone killer, it doesn't need a nice feature list. It needs an amazing user interface that makes the features it actually has usable and fun.
(Yeah, yeah, a good UI could be thought of as a feature, but it's not something you'll usually see in a feature list)
Yeah, I need a second processor just to run that damn "idle" task. It eats up 90% of my CPU! Seriously though, most of these tasks barely use any CPU at all.
On the flip side, it does seem weird that SK could even get themselves in this situation. If the engine sucked as much as they claim, why develop against an unstable engine for so long?
Seems they claim they started with the unstable version 3 because Epic promised them to have a workable version on the 360 soon, and then didn't deliver. Who knows what really happened, but those of us working in software programming know how these thing can go. Once you've made an investment into something, you're awfully quick to make all kinds of stupid decisions rationalising that investment. In hindsight, a lot of these thing look obviously stupid, but at the moment they happen, not so much.
Fullscreen Support actually was in the QuickTime Player for quite some time before they took it out a few years ago. QuickTime itself has pretty much always had fullscreen support, even when Player did not support it.
Hell, the Mac still is stuck with it's one menu windowing environment that hearkens back to the days of only being able to have one active application at a time. Pathetic!
Dude. Are you intentionally trying to look stupid? It's called Fitt's law. Look it up.
So, id software is going to get a lot of business in the coming years, huh?
To me, this sounds like a typical software development fuckup. Epic probably underestimated what it would take to get GoW out. So they decided to take development resources away from the engine to the game. Then, they fixed the engine specifically for the game, because that is easier than fixing it in a generic fashion - but this leads to a kind of merging of the two code bases. Obviously, they didn't want to give out the code for GoW, so they ended up with a crappy version of the engine - which they did give out - and a good version of the engine married to the code of GoW - which they didn't want to give out (at first).
I have absolutely no insider information, but I could easily see something like this happening. As always, Hanlon's Razor applies: "Never ascribe to malice, that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
I think you could make a very good case that Apple is currently holding a monopoly on cell phones that are not hated by their owners. Hopefully, they'll get some competition soon.
You do not, I repeat loudly, DO NOT have to move and flail and point and swing like you see in the commercials, nor do you have to move like you're really swinging a tennis racket, etc.
Actually, you do not have to do that, but really, you want to do it.
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Windows outsells Linux because a) it comes pre-installed on 99% of all PCs and b) people think they have no choice because they need Office or some other Windows-only app. I don't see how this compares to the Wii. People buy Windows because they (think they) have to. People buy the Wii because they want to.
I can see why you don't understand why people buy the Wii. That doesn't mean they are stupid for finding the Wii a better option than the PS2, the PS3 or the 360.
Nintendo fans are like Apple fans in that they always get accused of being stupid, senseless fanboys spouting company lines. And no, Nintendo did not come up with every concept they market, but they clearly are the most innovative console hardware manufacturer.
Huh? I use Opera Mini. It's nice, but really, there's no comparison to Safari on the iPhone.
What remakes? I'd love to get some Mario or Zelda remakes, but since Mario All Stars on the SNES, I have seen none.
If you mean to say that all Mario and Zelda games are alike, well, there's usually more difference between two Mario games than there is between to FPS from different franchises, so I don't understand the complaint. Apart from the main character and the fact that you can jump on stuff, there's no a whole lot of similarities between Super Mario Bros. and Mario Sunshine - and in those cases where Nintendo did go back to the roots with a new game (New Super Mario Bros, for exmple), it was very well received by gamers. If anything, Nintendo is not doing enough "retro games" in the vein of New Super Mario Bros.
Finally, I can't see how games like Zelda or Super Paper Mario would be better if they featured characters other than Link and Mario. Who cares? They're awesome games.
Exactly! If you go back in time to when Nintendo started making consoles, you'll see that the Nintendo of NES times was very similar to the Nintendo of now. They always tried to go for innovative/children/family/adult stuff (with things like Rob, the Zapper or their dance mat thing), while their competition went for the hardcore/adolescent market (first Sega, later Sony).
Nintendo hasn't changed, they've just remembered what made them big in the first place.
(By the way, the Power Glove was not from Nintendo, it was from Mattel.)
I would argue the opposite. After Wind Waker, which many hardcore gamers seem to dislike, Nintendo has actually gone back to its roots. Twilight Princess feels like an absolute fanservice in comparison. It's basically Ocarina of Time with a new main quest and better graphics.
Dude. Obviously, using a cell phone will not crush your soul. It's a hyperbole. Why are you trying to flamebait me?
I find it fascinating that people think that importing highly qualified workers is a bad thing. Other countries are struggling with brain drain, yet you want to keep indian programmers out? It's probably better if they work in your country than if their jobs go to their country, no?
Are you sure? In my country, there's something that's roughly translated to English as "unlawful enrichment." If somebody accidentially gives you money and you don't give it back, you may be doing something illegal, at least in some countries. I have no clue about the USA, though.
In my experience, gamblers are often extremely superstitious, thinking they can influence the end result by doing certain things. If their superstition coincides with the software's fault (which is not unlikely, since there's a positive feedback loop), they might not realize that they are exploiting an actual software flaw, instead just thinking that their lucky numbers are finally working or something.
Since they now seem to have gone back to writing their own engines, I doubt they care :-)
That's precisely my point. Your phone sucks. There's no reason why using a phone has to be a soul crushing experience.
(Also, I know you were trying to flamebait me. Not sure why you felt the need to do that (maybe for fun, hah), but I would like to add that my notion of fun is not limited. By definition, it is your notion of fun that is more limited than mine if yours does not include using a cell phone while mine does)
That's just bullshit. Government services are often hit or miss, but when they miss, they usually at least aren't bad, just expensive. In my country, we have a working, cheap, fast postal system; a consistent, well-developed cellphone system; affordable, regular, timely public transport; universal healthcare (private, but heavily regulated; and it actually was cheaper when it was not private) and so on.
Claiming that the government is always evil is just as stupid as blaming globalization and the free market for all problems.
They don't need to convince anyone anymore. The iPhone already has convinced enough people.
Even if you don't like the iPhone, you should be glad it exists. It sets a new standard for a phone UI. For the first time, there's a phone that whose UI is universally liked; a phone that does not only look good and not only has a neat list of features, but is also fun to use. This is good for everyone, because it forces the other phone manufacturers to do what they should have been doing for the last decade: Start making phones aimed at users instead of at carriers.
it has a nice feature list.....
To be an iPhone killer, it doesn't need a nice feature list. It needs an amazing user interface that makes the features it actually has usable and fun.
(Yeah, yeah, a good UI could be thought of as a feature, but it's not something you'll usually see in a feature list)
Is the Zune adding profit, or is it just adding revenue?
Most people read 1.89 as "1.8something," so 1.9 is closer to reality. It's like all those things that cost 9.99.
Actually, you can smoke pot with a pipe. Uhm... I mean... at least so I heard.
Yeah, I need a second processor just to run that damn "idle" task. It eats up 90% of my CPU! Seriously though, most of these tasks barely use any CPU at all.
Seems they claim they started with the unstable version 3 because Epic promised them to have a workable version on the 360 soon, and then didn't deliver. Who knows what really happened, but those of us working in software programming know how these thing can go. Once you've made an investment into something, you're awfully quick to make all kinds of stupid decisions rationalising that investment. In hindsight, a lot of these thing look obviously stupid, but at the moment they happen, not so much.
SK claims that they did not get the updates they were promised.
As I said, I have no insider information, so I don't know what really happened.
Fullscreen Support actually was in the QuickTime Player for quite some time before they took it out a few years ago. QuickTime itself has pretty much always had fullscreen support, even when Player did not support it.
Dude. Are you intentionally trying to look stupid? It's called Fitt's law. Look it up.
So, id software is going to get a lot of business in the coming years, huh?
To me, this sounds like a typical software development fuckup. Epic probably underestimated what it would take to get GoW out. So they decided to take development resources away from the engine to the game. Then, they fixed the engine specifically for the game, because that is easier than fixing it in a generic fashion - but this leads to a kind of merging of the two code bases. Obviously, they didn't want to give out the code for GoW, so they ended up with a crappy version of the engine - which they did give out - and a good version of the engine married to the code of GoW - which they didn't want to give out (at first).
I have absolutely no insider information, but I could easily see something like this happening. As always, Hanlon's Razor applies: "Never ascribe to malice, that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
I think you could make a very good case that Apple is currently holding a monopoly on cell phones that are not hated by their owners. Hopefully, they'll get some competition soon.
Actually, you do not have to do that, but really, you want to do it.
You can play that way. But it makes you a fucking toolbox.