With square supporting nintendo and the gamecube once again, maybe sony is realizing that they can't rely on third-party blockbusters alone to sell their systems.
You've gotta remember that an mp3 player with that much storage is going to appeal mostly to someone who has a huge amount of tracks. More computer-savy people are going to be likely the ones who have that many tracks...and since they are more adept than the general population they would be more likely to have either a firewire card, a firewire enabled sound card or something of that sort.
It makes no sense to have so much storage but no way to transfer it all in less than a couple of hours.
Your comparisons of game systems, especially the Saturn/PSX comparsion is crazy. While their hardware may be _slightly_ simular, that's where it ends.
The saturn was notoriously hard to code for, which greatly hurt it's game base. Also, when saturn came out, Sega was in a bit of financial trouble and was not able to put a huge sum of money into development.
Lastly, the PS2 and GAMECUBE are not very simular at all. One is a home entertainment system, while the other is a thoroughbred game system. They have totally different hardware and the games on each system will have their own distinct look.
huh?
Firstly, Sony doesn't produce FF...Square does. Square says when the game comes out and for what systems. Sony does not have an exclusivity agreement with Square, as is evidenced by the fact that FFX and beyond will most likely show up on the game cube...and be a hell of a lot better than the PS2 version.
You should really read the news a bit more, because there is far more to the gaming world than just Sony. Much, much more.
The game gear is almost ten years old! If, after ten years, Nintendo has not devised a way to improve on the old halogen bulb backlight strategy, they should start pouring a little bit more money into R&D!
You've got to consider though, that all of that money is going into a single project. The chip is only going to be used in the PS3...not sold to hundreds of PC manufacturers.
why is cattering to the young audience a bad thing? I think that that sort of business tactic is a good one because kids are the ones with all of the disposable income, not older teenagers or adults. Sony has their adult titles and a few younger kid titles, while nintendo has their younger kid titles and a few adult titles. It's all just a business plan, one that i don't see any flaws in.
I created a new email adress on my domain name, and tested to see whether or not i would still get spam to it, even though i hadn't advertised or provided the address to anyone. Low and behold, a couple of weeks later, i was getting spam!!! I must be cursed, the gods of mail are frowning upon me!
Imagine if you will... the leader of the fifth invader force speaking to
the commander in chief...
"They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of
the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way
through. They're completely meat."
"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the
stars."
"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them.
The signals come from machines."
"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."
"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made
the machines."
"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to
believe in sentient meat."
"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only
sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat."
"Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence
that goes through a meat stage."
"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several
of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea
the life span of meat?"
"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the
Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."
"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the
Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way
through."
"No brain?"
"Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of
meat!"
"So... what does the thinking?"
"You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The
meat."
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The
meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"
"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
"Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to
get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."
"So what does the meat have in mind?"
"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the
universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The
usual."
"We're supposed to talk to meat?"
"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio.
'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing."
"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
"I thought you just told me they used radio."
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know
how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping
their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through
their meat."
"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you
advise?"
"Officially or unofficially?"
"Both."
"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all
sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear,
or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget
the whole thing."
"I was hoping you would say that."
"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact
with meat?"
"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's
it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with
here?"
"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers,
but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C
space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility
of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."
"So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe."
"That's it."
"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones
who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure
they won't remember?"
"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads
and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."
"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's
dream."
"And we can mark this sector unoccupied."
"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others?
Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"
"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a
class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago,
wants to be friendly again."
"They always come around."
"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe
would be if one were all alone."
After we had purchased all of the neccessary equipment, we still had about $20 000 left, so we bought a colour laser printer and two alienware DV Video Editing machines...just because we could!
I'am currently going to high school in Canada and the school i attend recently received a $700 000 grant to make our school one of the most wired school's in Canada.
The entire grant was sought after by students, the buying of the computer equipment was done by the students and the networking was done by the students. We added 117 computers to our already 149 computer-strong network...all done by students. It has been probably the most enriching and meaningfull "lesson" i've ever been taught in school. From learning Solaris on our Sun boxes to mandrake on our custom boxes to win98/me/nt/2000 on our Dell and Alienware boxes and MacOS on the Imac's i have learned more than i ever thought i would. All because some students were willing to take some initiative and were willing to put the time and effort into it.
Now, how this relates to the article. After we received all of our new machines we had a huge amount of old 133's gathering dust. Some local elementary schools were wanting to get some free computers so we said we would give them what we had...on one condition...we hold "computer camps" to get the kids oriented on Linux. That's right...grade 6,7 and 8 kids working on linux. It's truly amazing how quickly these kids picked it up...much quicker than anyone at our school!
Anyways...i'am not sure where i'am going with this but i thought it was a cool story to share.
When are they going to port over some good games?! I've been dieing to play a little DOOM II action..but no...stupid ID making me go back to Windows just to slay some imps! GGRR...
Damnit...why won't anyone ever listen to my ideas?! DOOM + Linux = Dinux! HA!
l8r
I have yet to see a post that actually deals with the seriousness of this story! The company is punishing people because of something they cannot control. It almost seems like genetic racism. If this has already started, in five years, the only people who are allowed to have jobs, drivers license, health insurance, cable t.v and access to free porn are those who have the perfect genetic sequence. I really hope a big astroid hits us before then.
We will never have total privacy because as a human race we are total snoops and gossips which in themselves are a invasion of privacy. Unless we can convince everyone that no one other then themselves are important we will never have total privacy.
We must first gain privacy in our personnal lives before we gain privacy in our informational lives.
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With square supporting nintendo and the gamecube once again, maybe sony is realizing that they can't rely on third-party blockbusters alone to sell their systems.
You've gotta remember that an mp3 player with that much storage is going to appeal mostly to someone who has a huge amount of tracks. More computer-savy people are going to be likely the ones who have that many tracks...and since they are more adept than the general population they would be more likely to have either a firewire card, a firewire enabled sound card or something of that sort.
It makes no sense to have so much storage but no way to transfer it all in less than a couple of hours.
You've also got to remember that 3D0 was NO Nintendo! I don't think they would license out their baby if they weren't absolutely sure it would help.
Also, you've gotta remember that the original 3D0 was $700 back in 1995!
Your comparisons of game systems, especially the Saturn/PSX comparsion is crazy. While their hardware may be _slightly_ simular, that's where it ends. The saturn was notoriously hard to code for, which greatly hurt it's game base. Also, when saturn came out, Sega was in a bit of financial trouble and was not able to put a huge sum of money into development. Lastly, the PS2 and GAMECUBE are not very simular at all. One is a home entertainment system, while the other is a thoroughbred game system. They have totally different hardware and the games on each system will have their own distinct look.
huh? Firstly, Sony doesn't produce FF...Square does. Square says when the game comes out and for what systems. Sony does not have an exclusivity agreement with Square, as is evidenced by the fact that FFX and beyond will most likely show up on the game cube...and be a hell of a lot better than the PS2 version. You should really read the news a bit more, because there is far more to the gaming world than just Sony. Much, much more.
The game gear is almost ten years old! If, after ten years, Nintendo has not devised a way to improve on the old halogen bulb backlight strategy, they should start pouring a little bit more money into R&D!
You've got to consider though, that all of that money is going into a single project. The chip is only going to be used in the PS3...not sold to hundreds of PC manufacturers.
same place you learned your grammar ;-)
This gives a whole new meaning to saying "This job sucks!"
why is cattering to the young audience a bad thing? I think that that sort of business tactic is a good one because kids are the ones with all of the disposable income, not older teenagers or adults. Sony has their adult titles and a few younger kid titles, while nintendo has their younger kid titles and a few adult titles. It's all just a business plan, one that i don't see any flaws in.
I created a new email adress on my domain name, and tested to see whether or not i would still get spam to it, even though i hadn't advertised or provided the address to anyone. Low and behold, a couple of weeks later, i was getting spam!!! I must be cursed, the gods of mail are frowning upon me!
"They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"There's no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."
"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars."
"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."
"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."
"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."
"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."
"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in the sector and they're made out of meat."
"Maybe they're like the Orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."
"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take too long. Do you have any idea the life span of meat?"
"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."
"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through." "No brain?"
"Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"
"So... what does the thinking?"
"You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"
"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
"Finally, Yes. They are indeed made out meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."
"So what does the meat have in mind?" "First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the universe, contact other sentients, swap ideas and information. The usual."
"We're supposed to talk to meat?"
"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there? Anyone home?' That sort of thing."
"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
"I thought you just told me they used radio."
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"
"Officially or unofficially?"
"Both."
"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome, and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in the quadrant, without prejudice, fear, or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."
"I was hoping you would say that."
"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"
"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say?" `Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"
"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."
"So we just pretend there's no one home in the universe."
"That's it."
"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you have probed? You're sure they won't remember?"
"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."
"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream."
"And we can mark this sector unoccupied."
"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"
"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again."
"They always come around."
"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the universe would be if one were all alone."
After we had purchased all of the neccessary equipment, we still had about $20 000 left, so we bought a colour laser printer and two alienware DV Video Editing machines...just because we could!
I'am currently going to high school in Canada and the school i attend recently received a $700 000 grant to make our school one of the most wired school's in Canada. The entire grant was sought after by students, the buying of the computer equipment was done by the students and the networking was done by the students. We added 117 computers to our already 149 computer-strong network...all done by students. It has been probably the most enriching and meaningfull "lesson" i've ever been taught in school. From learning Solaris on our Sun boxes to mandrake on our custom boxes to win98/me/nt/2000 on our Dell and Alienware boxes and MacOS on the Imac's i have learned more than i ever thought i would. All because some students were willing to take some initiative and were willing to put the time and effort into it. Now, how this relates to the article. After we received all of our new machines we had a huge amount of old 133's gathering dust. Some local elementary schools were wanting to get some free computers so we said we would give them what we had...on one condition...we hold "computer camps" to get the kids oriented on Linux. That's right...grade 6,7 and 8 kids working on linux. It's truly amazing how quickly these kids picked it up...much quicker than anyone at our school! Anyways...i'am not sure where i'am going with this but i thought it was a cool story to share.
When are they going to port over some good games?! I've been dieing to play a little DOOM II action..but no...stupid ID making me go back to Windows just to slay some imps! GGRR... Damnit...why won't anyone ever listen to my ideas?! DOOM + Linux = Dinux! HA! l8r
I have yet to see a post that actually deals with the seriousness of this story! The company is punishing people because of something they cannot control. It almost seems like genetic racism. If this has already started, in five years, the only people who are allowed to have jobs, drivers license, health insurance, cable t.v and access to free porn are those who have the perfect genetic sequence. I really hope a big astroid hits us before then.
We will never have total privacy because as a human race we are total snoops and gossips which in themselves are a invasion of privacy. Unless we can convince everyone that no one other then themselves are important we will never have total privacy. We must first gain privacy in our personnal lives before we gain privacy in our informational lives.