Nothing nothing nothing replaces the real thing. Don't get me wrong - MAME is fun when I'm flying or stuck on the train, but then again I can only play keyboard-friendly games. Even with this console, the gameplay is radically different for any game that doesn't conform to (basically) the JAMMA standard.
When people *sit down* in my star wars machine, hold the *controller* and watch the vector graphics on a *low-resolution* 25" wells-gardner monitor, they see why MAME is LAME (don't take that the wrong way - you know what I mean;) People that play in my arcade never feel quite the same about playing MAME versions of the game afterwards.
In my opinion people tend to fall into two camps - either they are into games and want to collect them and will play MAME on their PC (because it just wouldn't make sense to have a MAME arcade machine) or they are 100% MAME-based and don't want to get into the business of having a bunch of 250 lb. room-stealing boxes sitting around. The problem seems to be that once you get one game, you get the itch and fall into the former camp - thus giving you no reason to buy a product like this. I hope the people behind this product are doing it just for the love of gaming and not for profit as the market just isn't there... But that's just my opinion.
You're trolling right? I'll bite seeing as how someone modded this as "Interesting".
In the marketplace, unions would only inhibit the ability for companies to adapt to rapidly changing market conditions. Unions are little more than paid protection, keeping the weaker workers (you know that idiot working three cubes down from you without a clue) from getting fired while keeping you (the hard worker with real innovation) from being promoted. After all, we can't be doing anything to differentiate ourselves and show value otherwise we'll make the other members' feelings.
To your point "If there were a union, this company would be shut down right now." Well, you're right - and that's no good for the union people either. If the company is out of business, so are the workers.
Does anyone get the concept that companies are built by people with dreams, hopes and aspirations just like everyone else. These people generally do a lot of work to build a company from scratch. When a company hires a person, they want to see what differentiates someone from the next guy - what the "value add" of the person is. With unions you never know what you're going to get. They're supposed to have some minimum set of requirements, but what good is that? The whole point of a free market is so that you show your talent, and let the companies compete over you. That doesn't happen when you're in a union. An lest you forget, companies create - read that - CREATE jobs. When was the last time a union did that? I think that unions had a place back in the early 1900's and we've moved beyond that today.
ObOnTopicPart: The.com I was working at did the layoff thing about 6 times and morale did go down the tubes. There were a lot of great people that stayed 'till the end (September 1, just before 9/11). The thing that is most interesting to me is that the people who were there until the end found jobs almost immediately while those who had been looking for a while were still looking. It comes down to talent - either you have it or you don't. If you have a clue and have some savings (which implies you have a clue) you'll never worry about a company going belly up. What I'd be doing if I were an employee of the company mandating a pay cut, here's what I'd do: Talk to my boss, tell her that I'm an asset, here's why, etc... Then ask for a raise that meets or exceeds the cut. If I'm really that valuable, someone somewhere in the company will find a way to make it happen. If you can't make it happen, then leave. Don't complain to anyone but yourself if you think you're getting screwed.
This is a great link to relive the Starcade memories. Between Starcade and Silver Spoons it's no wonder I have a housefull of classic video games (including the top 25!).
Why is this modded up to 3, interesting? It didn't work for me nor several others. In fact nobody experienced the desired results as far as I can see. How many moderators actually tried this before modding? Sheesh.
Great, so this probably sounds like a troll (moderators sure don't like those with a counter opinion), but tell me how this is different from this scenario:
In other words when our local bank is being robbed, we should send *every police officer in the entire city* over to the bank to help ensure that our robbers are caught and don't escape.
No, this doesn't work because we all know that another group of Bad Guys (tm) will be working on other banks around town, or maybe breaking into homes or even pirating software.
Stealing is stealing and I'm sure that the people who spent the last several years tracking down people like this wanted to finish their work. If the FBI was crying for more agents to work on terrorism, then I'd agree that it is rediculous to be working on something that (I agree) is trivial in comparison. However, as long as the FBI is comfortable with the coverage on the terrorism front, we need to keep working on other cases.
Seriously, I've seen a number of "try and/. that" and "let's see if it can hold up to the slashdot effect"
Well don't forget that a fast network is only part of the equation. If (by the love of a higher power) I had OC-192 laid down right up to my home webserver, my little P3-450 still wouldn't handle the/. effect (and that machine is running apache, not IIS;)
Yes, it's true that Liberty Alliance is touting decentralized authentication. However, I don't think anyone has noted that Microsoft announced in September that they are going to support Kerberos and has abandoned the idea of holding all user information and will instead give merchants the ability to store data. This too would be standarized, decentralized authentication.
Ultimately either system that lives up to its promises would be a good one. I can't imagine having to get an ATM card with a different PIN number for every brand of cash machine I use. I expect to be able to use my brand-x card at any ATM. I'm not sure if someone has a stranglehold on that information or if it is shared, but either way it makes my life better.
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Nothing nothing nothing replaces the real thing. Don't get me wrong - MAME is fun when I'm flying or stuck on the train, but then again I can only play keyboard-friendly games. Even with this console, the gameplay is radically different for any game that doesn't conform to (basically) the JAMMA standard.
;) People that play in my arcade never feel quite the same about playing MAME versions of the game afterwards.
When people *sit down* in my star wars machine, hold the *controller* and watch the vector graphics on a *low-resolution* 25" wells-gardner monitor, they see why MAME is LAME (don't take that the wrong way - you know what I mean
In my opinion people tend to fall into two camps - either they are into games and want to collect them and will play MAME on their PC (because it just wouldn't make sense to have a MAME arcade machine) or they are 100% MAME-based and don't want to get into the business of having a bunch of 250 lb. room-stealing boxes sitting around. The problem seems to be that once you get one game, you get the itch and fall into the former camp - thus giving you no reason to buy a product like this. I hope the people behind this product are doing it just for the love of gaming and not for profit as the market just isn't there... But that's just my opinion.
You're trolling right? I'll bite seeing as how someone modded this as "Interesting".
.com I was working at did the layoff thing about 6 times and morale did go down the tubes. There were a lot of great people that stayed 'till the end (September 1, just before 9/11). The thing that is most interesting to me is that the people who were there until the end found jobs almost immediately while those who had been looking for a while were still looking. It comes down to talent - either you have it or you don't. If you have a clue and have some savings (which implies you have a clue) you'll never worry about a company going belly up. What I'd be doing if I were an employee of the company mandating a pay cut, here's what I'd do: Talk to my boss, tell her that I'm an asset, here's why, etc... Then ask for a raise that meets or exceeds the cut. If I'm really that valuable, someone somewhere in the company will find a way to make it happen. If you can't make it happen, then leave. Don't complain to anyone but yourself if you think you're getting screwed.
In the marketplace, unions would only inhibit the ability for companies to adapt to rapidly changing market conditions. Unions are little more than paid protection, keeping the weaker workers (you know that idiot working three cubes down from you without a clue) from getting fired while keeping you (the hard worker with real innovation) from being promoted. After all, we can't be doing anything to differentiate ourselves and show value otherwise we'll make the other members' feelings.
To your point "If there were a union, this company would be shut down right now." Well, you're right - and that's no good for the union people either. If the company is out of business, so are the workers.
Does anyone get the concept that companies are built by people with dreams, hopes and aspirations just like everyone else. These people generally do a lot of work to build a company from scratch. When a company hires a person, they want to see what differentiates someone from the next guy - what the "value add" of the person is. With unions you never know what you're going to get. They're supposed to have some minimum set of requirements, but what good is that? The whole point of a free market is so that you show your talent, and let the companies compete over you. That doesn't happen when you're in a union. An lest you forget, companies create - read that - CREATE jobs. When was the last time a union did that? I think that unions had a place back in the early 1900's and we've moved beyond that today.
ObOnTopicPart: The
This is a great link to relive the Starcade memories. Between Starcade and Silver Spoons it's no wonder I have a housefull of classic video games (including the top 25!).
Why is this modded up to 3, interesting? It didn't work for me nor several others. In fact nobody experienced the desired results as far as I can see. How many moderators actually tried this before modding? Sheesh.
Great, so this probably sounds like a troll (moderators sure don't like those with a counter opinion), but tell me how this is different from this scenario:
In other words when our local bank is being robbed, we should send *every police officer in the entire city* over to the bank to help ensure that our robbers are caught and don't escape.
No, this doesn't work because we all know that another group of Bad Guys (tm) will be working on other banks around town, or maybe breaking into homes or even pirating software.
Stealing is stealing and I'm sure that the people who spent the last several years tracking down people like this wanted to finish their work. If the FBI was crying for more agents to work on terrorism, then I'd agree that it is rediculous to be working on something that (I agree) is trivial in comparison. However, as long as the FBI is comfortable with the coverage on the terrorism front, we need to keep working on other cases.
Seriously, I've seen a number of "try and /. that" and "let's see if it can hold up to the slashdot effect"
/. effect (and that machine is running apache, not IIS ;)
Well don't forget that a fast network is only part of the equation. If (by the love of a higher power) I had OC-192 laid down right up to my home webserver, my little P3-450 still wouldn't handle the
Yes, it's true that Liberty Alliance is touting decentralized authentication. However, I don't think anyone has noted that Microsoft announced in September that they are going to support Kerberos and has abandoned the idea of holding all user information and will instead give merchants the ability to store data. This too would be standarized, decentralized authentication.
Ultimately either system that lives up to its promises would be a good one. I can't imagine having to get an ATM card with a different PIN number for every brand of cash machine I use. I expect to be able to use my brand-x card at any ATM. I'm not sure if someone has a stranglehold on that information or if it is shared, but either way it makes my life better.
But imagine how funny *they* (Japan, China, et. al) will think it is when Shantner becomes subtitled and is speaking Japanese!
I'd be thrilled to watch that series, and I'm a hardcore Iron Chef fan.