The western connotations, pronounciation and displeasing phonetics of the name override the semantics of "wii"
the name itself is becoming a stigma because of the plethora of derogatory associations of that word with other words and meanings used here in the west.
i don't think nintendo did their research for the western market. i don't think the "Wii" is just offensive to the hardcore video game populace,
because if you put the name "Wii" in the context of say the car industry, the general public would still laugh at the ridiculousness of the name and make a plethora of jokes about it, just like what is hapening now to nintendo.
Right now nintendo has become the laughing stock of all marketing divisions around the world, except nintendo's.
not if its negative marketing! this is like everyone knowing how small your wii wii is and laughing at it at lunchtime all month long at school. ya you just became spoken about alot, but you haven't become "popular" in any successful sense of the word.
this name is going to create an even worse social stigma, it's bad enough when girls find out you're still playing video games, it's worse when they laugh at you because you own a nintendo wee.
for xist sakes, nintendo! change the awful name!
nintendo should be ashamed of themselves, we should all send emails to nintendo to get them to change the stupid name.
I agree, I think the decline and the negative publicity helps to weed out the people who got into CS or IT or whatnot type of computing career simply because they wanted the money, but they didn't give a rats ass about the field itself.
Those people did the worst to our field and our perception, and probably contributed to the dot com bust.
I think that a real university degree from a highly rated university should be required before allowing someone behind the wheel to do any sort of coding. After all you wouldn't hire a shoddy doctor with no real medical education to fix "you" , would you?
I agree, it was too cheap. Beacuse the ebay market price was around $800 for the premium. Where as the retail price for the premium was only $400. So lucky sellers were cashing in on massive profit margins.
Also not even considering the price set by a market such as ebay, the what you get factor is huge. 3x3.2ghz PowerPC cores, the best ATI graphics card, wireless controllers, all that for 400 bux! APPLE COULDN'T DO THAT!:) (you could get a ipod)
this article is still a very poor waste of brain power. the same conclusion can be had by one's own local observations and use of common sense and simple logic.
what kind of self serving edifice to self glorification is this? i live in ny, and because i picked a good place to stay i commute 10 mins to work without headaches.
everyone's got to learn their own local gridlock times and chose the best time to leave their house. who cares about one person's self study and proclamation of intelligence. someone needs to just use common sense.
Because that's what happens. Everyone in our corporation was touting management skills over technical skills. Then one day we had way more management than front line workers. Then at that point big layoffs came, and still come, and if you're just a useless middle management person, you got cut.
Also most of the people who want to get into management in IT, are the ones that have poor technical skills, but got into IT because they saw money there. So they end up asking their boss to move them up the management chain and away from the technical work. And I can tell you, those are the worst type of managers to work for, because all they care about is money and they couldn't give a crap about your technical work.
Also MBA's are almost getting to the point where they are a dime a dozen. Who cares now if you have an MBA, are you really -useful-?
DHS got in trouble for using taxpayer money to buy lawnmowers and having lawnmower races. What a waste of our tax money. They're probably slack on fixing their computer security so that they can ask the president for more tax payer money and he'll probably say yes, and then they'll go spend some more money buying more lawnmowers for more lawnmower races. What kinda homeland security is this?
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i've played it, and it's not as bad as reviewers make it out to be. the first 1 and 1/2 stages are pretty boring and uninspiring BUT! it gets much better.
i have to say i love playing some of the latter stages over and over again because sometimes some games create great classic fun scenarios that you find yourself wanting to play that part over and over again. black definately has those stages.
while black's graphics may be great to look at they truly add to the experience, there's a stage where u hide from a sniper behind gravestones and suddenly the gravestones are shattered by the bullet from the sniper! now you find yourself running and ducking for cover as gravestones shatter around you from sniper fire.
two words: mine field, you'll come across mine fields more than once in the game, and it is abundantly fun.
also have you ever wanted to take a heavy machine gun and just stand up like rambo and unload on an entire building, several cars, dozens of enemeies in front of you and have the whole screen explode and go insane for 15 minutes? well black can give you that.
for those types of scenarios, it's a fantasy well lived.
Always go back to what the wise teacher says: use the right tool for the job. Visual Basic is a good language to use in the business programming world where IT needs to develop internal applications for the business.
VB was developed to help developers develop applications for the business quickly, when programming internal web or fat client apps for the business, most of the time it is over kill to worry about memory management and assembler optimizations.
If you are developing a realtime missle guidance system you wouldn't use VB. If you are writing a custom app to help customer service track orders or enter orders, VB is ideal.
To learn how to program I would not use VB, because it is for a particular purpose, business apps.
To learn languages, computer science problems, and the root and core of programming, it is best to start out with a language that is like C but not as difficult to get hung up on. Alot of people can get hung up on the compiling, linking and other intracacies of an environment with no garbage collection.
I dont offer one answer for a language to start out at but I wanted to narrow down the choices to what made sense. I hope whatever you choose makes sense.
rfid may not be "the" mark, but it definately is a step towards it.
have you ever wondered why the mark would be centered around trading and commerce? isn't that weird, weird that they would have guessed that a controlled, convienent, consolidated system of buying/selling was the mark?
does that mean the mark came about because there was something that was difficult about buying/selling? does the world come to a point where it was able to conterfeit/clone anything including legal tender?
the rfid technology of current day may not be "the" mark, but you can easily see how it can evolve a progression of technology such that something down the line will be it.
after programmers master the cell we will see the ps3 pull ahead of the xbox 360. also the bluray drive is definately necessary for a win, because developers for the xbox360 already complain about running out of space on its traditional dvd drive.
the bluray disc will allow much more content for the developers plus the sony media machine will definately use bluray to its advantage in capturing the high end home theater movie market.
when microsoft realizes this, they will release their hd-dvd, but who wants to have to buy an additional drive to plug into the already expensive xbox360? no an addon disc drive to a console has ever popularly succeeded, it most likely will signal the end of that console's life.
It sounds like more and more people are starting to evaluate evidence and realize that something has gone horrifically wrong with our country. I only hope more and more people start waking up and doing their own research as well.
The ones that don't wake up chose not to, because for some reason they are too ashamed of admiting they were wrong, which is kinda like that certain monkey everyone knows.
I find that the breaches of national security to spy on u.s. citizens is disturbing. It is only one of many steps that is being slowly and subtly put into our country in order to make it a fascist regime.
From a website, these are some aspects of fascism and they are hauntingly close to what our country is becoming all because of terrorism:
Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
Controlled Mass Media
Obsession with National Security
Religion and Government are Intertwined
Corporate Power is Protected
Labor Power is Suppressed
Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fraudulent Elections
--- I think our forefathers would be proud if we citizens stood up to our government and said hey wait a second things are starting to get out of hand, and we need to step back and take a close look at things before we all just agree to whatever the president wants just because of terrorism.
If any of you have ever watched the film "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam, you will see how the government uses constant terrorism to enforce its rule upon its citizens.
as an engineer, the complex yet powerful architecture of sony's equipment can make developing games a real geekfest research and scientific project that makes you explore new ways of developing games
however from the microsoft point of view, they looked at it from a corporate how do we do just shove more games out the pipeline faster, which was what led to them using common hardware and directx on xbox 1.
interestingly they have gone a bit more complex with the triple PowerPC cores on xbox360, but still it isn't anything like what the geekfest would be to do research and develop new games for the ps3's cell.
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the fact that they have to "defend" the name and spend time explaining the meaning behind it shows that the name is bad.
kinda like eating your mom's cooking with a fake smile when it tastes bad and you just have to lie not to get smacked in the head.
if the name was good, there wouldn't be any need to "defend" it or try and "convince" people what it means.
The western connotations, pronounciation and displeasing phonetics of the name override the semantics of "wii"
the name itself is becoming a stigma because of the plethora of derogatory associations of that word with other words and meanings used here in the west.
How about Nintendo Gay Boy?
i don't think nintendo did their research for the western market. i don't think the "Wii" is just offensive to the hardcore video game populace,
because if you put the name "Wii" in the context of say the car industry, the general public would still laugh at the ridiculousness of the name and make a plethora of jokes about it, just like what is hapening now to nintendo.
Right now nintendo has become the laughing stock of all marketing divisions around the world, except nintendo's.
are u supporting that Wii is actually a good name? !
not if its negative marketing! this is like everyone knowing how small your wii wii is and laughing at it at lunchtime all month long at school. ya you just became spoken about alot, but you haven't become "popular" in any successful sense of the word.
this name is going to create an even worse social stigma, it's bad enough when girls find out you're still playing video games, it's worse when they laugh at you because you own a nintendo wee.
for xist sakes, nintendo! change the awful name!
nintendo should be ashamed of themselves, we should all send emails to nintendo to get them to change the stupid name.
Based on the horriblly contrived masterpiece of convoluted naming, I think the folks at nintendo have contracted George Lucas Syndrome.
What will wii do now?
I agree, I think the decline and the negative publicity helps to weed out the people who got into CS or IT or whatnot type of computing career simply because they wanted the money, but they didn't give a rats ass about the field itself.
Those people did the worst to our field and our perception, and probably contributed to the dot com bust.
I think that a real university degree from a highly rated university should be required before allowing someone behind the wheel to do any sort of coding. After all you wouldn't hire a shoddy doctor with no real medical education to fix "you" , would you?
I agree, it was too cheap. Beacuse the ebay market price was around $800 for the premium. Where as the retail price for the premium was only $400. So lucky sellers were cashing in on massive profit margins.
:) (you could get a ipod)
Also not even considering the price set by a market such as ebay, the what you get factor is huge. 3x3.2ghz PowerPC cores, the best ATI graphics card, wireless controllers, all that for 400 bux! APPLE COULDN'T DO THAT!
this article is still a very poor waste of brain power. the same conclusion can be had by one's own local observations and use of common sense and simple logic.
what kind of self serving edifice to self glorification is this? i live in ny, and because i picked a good place to stay i commute 10 mins to work without headaches.
everyone's got to learn their own local gridlock times and chose the best time to leave their house. who cares about one person's self study and proclamation of intelligence. someone needs to just use common sense.
The majority of people in the states still do not have a HDTV. The majority of content via cable/satellite/air is still standard definition.
Both formats are disadvantaged to the mass populace until HDTV's *themselves* become commonplace.
Because that's what happens. Everyone in our corporation was touting management skills over technical skills. Then one day we had way more management than front line workers. Then at that point big layoffs came, and still come, and if you're just a useless middle management person, you got cut.
Also most of the people who want to get into management in IT, are the ones that have poor technical skills, but got into IT because they saw money there. So they end up asking their boss to move them up the management chain and away from the technical work. And I can tell you, those are the worst type of managers to work for, because all they care about is money and they couldn't give a crap about your technical work.
Also MBA's are almost getting to the point where they are a dime a dozen. Who cares now if you have an MBA, are you really -useful-?
they're generating so much revenue from warcraft online subscriptions that they can sit around and twiddle their thumbs.
DHS got in trouble for using taxpayer money to buy lawnmowers and having lawnmower races. What a waste of our tax money. They're probably slack on fixing their computer security so that they can ask the president for more tax payer money and he'll probably say yes, and then they'll go spend some more money buying more lawnmowers for more lawnmower races. What kinda homeland security is this?
i've played it, and it's not as bad as reviewers make it out to be. the first 1 and 1/2 stages are pretty boring and uninspiring BUT! it gets much better.
i have to say i love playing some of the latter stages over and over again because sometimes some games create great classic fun scenarios that you find yourself wanting to play that part over and over again. black definately has those stages.
while black's graphics may be great to look at they truly add to the experience, there's a stage where u hide from a sniper behind gravestones and suddenly the gravestones are shattered by the bullet from the sniper! now you find yourself running and ducking for cover as gravestones shatter around you from sniper fire.
two words: mine field, you'll come across mine fields more than once in the game, and it is abundantly fun.
also have you ever wanted to take a heavy machine gun and just stand up like rambo and unload on an entire building, several cars, dozens of enemeies in front of you and have the whole screen explode and go insane for 15 minutes? well black can give you that.
for those types of scenarios, it's a fantasy well lived.
Always go back to what the wise teacher says: use the right tool for the job. Visual Basic is a good language to use in the business programming world where IT needs to develop internal applications for the business.
VB was developed to help developers develop applications for the business quickly, when programming internal web or fat client apps for the business, most of the time it is over kill to worry about memory management and assembler optimizations.
If you are developing a realtime missle guidance system you wouldn't use VB. If you are writing a custom app to help customer service track orders or enter orders, VB is ideal.
To learn how to program I would not use VB, because it is for a particular purpose, business apps.
To learn languages, computer science problems, and the root and core of programming, it is best to start out with a language that is like C but not as difficult to get hung up on. Alot of people can get hung up on the compiling, linking and other intracacies of an environment with no garbage collection.
I dont offer one answer for a language to start out at but I wanted to narrow down the choices to what made sense. I hope whatever you choose makes sense.
didn't you know they're doing this to make it easier for the echelon wiretapping computer for homeland security?
rfid may not be "the" mark, but it definately is a step towards it.
have you ever wondered why the mark would be centered around trading and commerce? isn't that weird, weird that they would have guessed that a controlled, convienent, consolidated system of buying/selling was the mark?
does that mean the mark came about because there was something that was difficult about buying/selling? does the world come to a point where it was able to conterfeit/clone anything including legal tender?
the rfid technology of current day may not be "the" mark, but you can easily see how it can evolve a progression of technology such that something down the line will be it.
Please read the book 1984, and watch the movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam.
It is too easy to inflict fear upon your constiuents in order to get them to relinquish their rights and freedoms.
after programmers master the cell we will see the ps3 pull ahead of the xbox 360. also the bluray drive is definately necessary for a win, because developers for the xbox360 already complain about running out of space on its traditional dvd drive.
the bluray disc will allow much more content for the developers plus the sony media machine will definately use bluray to its advantage in capturing the high end home theater movie market.
when microsoft realizes this, they will release their hd-dvd, but who wants to have to buy an additional drive to plug into the already expensive xbox360? no an addon disc drive to a console has ever popularly succeeded, it most likely will signal the end of that console's life.
It sounds like more and more people are starting to evaluate evidence and realize that something has gone horrifically wrong with our country. I only hope more and more people start waking up and doing their own research as well.
The ones that don't wake up chose not to, because for some reason they are too ashamed of admiting they were wrong, which is kinda like that certain monkey everyone knows.
I find that the breaches of national security to spy on u.s. citizens is disturbing. It is only one of many steps that is being slowly and subtly put into our country in order to make it a fascist regime.
From a website, these are some aspects of fascism and they are hauntingly close to what our country is becoming all because of terrorism:
Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
Controlled Mass Media
Obsession with National Security
Religion and Government are Intertwined
Corporate Power is Protected
Labor Power is Suppressed
Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
Fraudulent Elections
---
I think our forefathers would be proud if we citizens stood up to our government and said hey wait a second things are starting to get out of hand, and we need to step back and take a close look at things before we all just agree to whatever the president wants just because of terrorism.
If any of you have ever watched the film "Brazil" by Terry Gilliam, you will see how the government uses constant terrorism to enforce its rule upon its citizens.
even after the xbox, ms wasn't successful.
as an engineer, the complex yet powerful architecture of sony's equipment can make developing games a real geekfest research and scientific project that makes you explore new ways of developing games
however from the microsoft point of view, they looked at it from a corporate how do we do just shove more games out the pipeline faster, which was what led to them using common hardware and directx on xbox 1.
interestingly they have gone a bit more complex with the triple PowerPC cores on xbox360, but still it isn't anything like what the geekfest would be to do research and develop new games for the ps3's cell.