"If you are looking for "morons", they aren't on Wall Street. Some of those people may be arrogant assholes, but "morons" they aren't."
So, let me get this straight. you're saying that passing out "funny" loans to a bunch of people you're pretty sure aren't going to be able to pay them back, IS NOT a moronic thing to do?
They WERE/ARE morons if they thought they could do stupid crap like that "until the cows come home" and not have it come back and slap them in the face.
"If your total data usage in any billing cycle is more than 1GB, your data throughput for the remainder of that cycle may be reduced to 50 kbps or less."
The civil was no more about slavery than the current Iraq war was about Saddam Husssein being a "bad person". Nine times out of ten, any given war is really about the things that have been nearest and dearest to the hearts of men since the beginning of history: STUFF.
Money. Resources. Land. That sort of thing. The North "gave it" to the South because the South wanted to leave the party with all "the cool stuff" and the North wasn't having it. They weren't about to let anyone mess up their "paper", so they went at at it.
And in case you didn't know, there were quite a few more slaves in the North than you might believe. The North was not the slave free refuge that we were taught in elementary school. They just didn't have as much of a practical need for it as the people in the South. So they were more likely to feel guilty about treating other human beings like cattle.
In fact, one of the richest men in the country lived in New England and was one of the biggest slave traffickers in the US. He made so much money, and was so well connected, that he was able to get the President of the United States to appoint a "friendly" harbor master who just happened to always "miss" the boats that came in with slaves on board. He did this despite the fact that importing slaves was illegal here in the US at the time.
Cool. I haven't been to http://www.kuro5hin.org/ for a while. Nice to see you've brought it here to Slashdot.
Seriously, aren't there enough dicks on the internet already?
How can we expect to continue to get respectable, intelligent people willing to answer questions for Slashdot interviews if the site starts getting filled with "LOLWUT" nonsense like this?
What purpose does this serve? I never would have heard of the guy if it weren't for this posting. If the book is so bad, why are you promoting it?
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
And on top of all that, now I need to teach my Feed reader to ignore "idle" submissions.
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No disrespect, but considering the fact that:
-You quoted a Coolio song -Coolio has never been considered "hot in the streets" -Coolio hasn't even really appeared on Billboard charts since the 90's -Coolio has never been (and probably never will be) considered a top talent in Hip-Hop
I'm thinking you might not be the foremost authority on Hip-Hop as a cultural phenomenon.
However, I can't say that I disagree with your assertion about black folks mocking themselves in the context of Rap music. In fact, these guys seem to feel the same way, and it's the theme of one of their albums:
"Continuing to secure them like they're bloody fort knox is ridiculous. If the only reason we're worried about it is the potential for loss of human life... we're wasting our time."
Which is why they're not wasting their time at all.
Think about it. The people at the top (politicians, big money executives, etc) are not stupid. Otherwise, they wouldn't have gotten to where they are today. Since we know that they actually DO know what they're doing, the only other alternative is:
They've never been worried about protecting the people. They're ONLY worried about protecting the AIRPLANES.
Knowing that helps you understand alot of what's been going on for the last 7 years.
If you go against the constitution, then, quite frankly, "Yes".
We're talking about the constitution here, not some obscure federal regulation. Even eleven year old children know what the Constitution says about our freedoms.
"the original XBox which did unexpectedly well especially considering the fierce competition of Sony and Nintendo."
-Fair enough, they DID do pretty well considering they were the "new kid".
"However before the XBox was Microsoft's work on the Dreamcast which did not do so well and sank Sega's hardware business."
-I really don't believe that's completely accurate. Sega shot themselves in the foot, and did a thorough job at that. As I recall, only a portion of the Dreamcast's software ran on their Windows CE mismash. The rest of it was written more directly on top of the hardware. -Additionally, the failure of the Dreamcast can be attributed in no small part to the HORRENDOUS failure that was the Sega Saturn, which caused EA to not port to the Dreamcast, which caused other development houses to take pause, which resulted in an inconsistent game library. Oddly enough, they actually had a very strong opening with the Dreamcast but they weren't able to keep up their momentum. MS has done alot of things, but I don't think they killed Sega as a hardware company.
"Before the Dreamcast was Microsoft's PC gaming division which only had a handful of real hits to its credit. Microsoft did what smaller companies could not do, fail repeatedly until they managed to get something working right. They were able to buy out game studios like Bungie and Rare in order to get some heavy hitting first party titles developed for their console."
-With the exception of MS Flight Simulator, I'd have to agree. But that's hardly a "pure" gaming title anyway.
"The XBox 360 is a good console because Microsoft has spent more than a decade struggling with a gaming business. XBox Live has a similar story, they bought out "The Village" which got rebranded Internet Gaming Zone which eventually became the MSN Gaming Zone and served as the conceptual basis for XBox Live. Again because of their size and money they could throw resources at a lackluster product and eventually make it stick. Other companies don't have that same luxury, look at Sega. Two successive market failures and it was lights out for their hardware division."
-Very true. It astonishes me to this day that, RROD issues with the 360 aside, the 360, as a PLATFORM (Console + Network) is DAMN GOOD and actually a little innovative in key ways. It's amazing how much of a mountain you really can move with enough money and real effort.
"Although I can't say from experience, I wonder if this means being good at chess isn't a little like being good at sparring."
I think you're absolutely correct about fighting, but in my experience, chess is the complete opposite. If you DON'T think ahead and over analyze your moves in chess, you're invariably going to lose. That's been my experience at least. I'm not "good" at thinking ahead strategically so I tend to lose most of the time. On the other hand, during fights, and other "emergencies" I tend to be able to float through with "situational awareness" alone.
As a side note, I wonder if the Wu-Tang Clan were involved with this in any way;)
"New democracies like the US don't allow the buying and selling of votes..."
I LOL'd in RL.
Do a google search for things like "ear marks" and "lobbyists". We've got ~34,000 lobbyists in Washington D.C. and only like 500 some-odd members of Congress.
Don't allow buying and selling...HA!
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Let's have some fun with what you said:
That's because 40 years ago, black people who started pitching a violent and/or profane fit in close quarters where other white people had paid for a service (like watching a movie or traveling for a few hours) could reasonably expect a sound thumping from someone white willing to shut them up.
Wow. Look at THAT. Cool, huh?
Ah yes, the "good old days" argument. That always comes up, doesn't it. Well, to quote part of a Billy Joel song, "The good old days weren't always good". Just because YOU think things were, generally speaking, "better" "back in the day", that doesn't mean that everyone feels the way you do. Personally, I think things are alot better now as a whole.
I disagree with you assertions about a "coddling culture". We've just got way more, self-interested, arrogant assholes running around than we used to. (Think liberals with their "No Smoking" laws and Conservatives with their Christian, "Family Values" bullshit.)
Now that I think about it, we DO coddle a bit to much, but it's because we're all too busy coddling ourselves (I DESERVE to have what I want because I'm more important than everyone else!) to look at the big picture. Good call.
P.S. - John Wayne was a bigot.
"We can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership to irresponsible people."
That's a bad analogy. A more appropriate analogy would be you going into a store, purchasing a bottle of wine, and then having to contact the store every time you wanted to open the bottle of wine that you paid for already.
-Do I call you every time I want to pour myself a glass? -Do I have to setup a "dinnertime window" so that I can open my bottle as many times as I want during that timeframe? -Do I have to check-in periodically to make suer that my bottle of wine doesn't lock itself? -What happens when I can't get in touch with you? -What happens to my wine bottle when you go out of business?
It's inconvenient and doesn't really solve the problem of people pirating games. I'm willing to bet that it will STILL be just as easy to get a bootlegged copy of the game with all the copy protection bits hacked out in assembler or whatever.
This is just a half-hearted, half-assed and insincere gesture. Pirates will still distribute the game. People with pirated copies will still be able to play the game.
I don't think my reply proves anything other than that I disagree with your assertion that the actions taken by a mega corporation can ever stand on their own merit. I believe that to be a fundamentally unnatural behavior for a mega-corp.
-Stereotype party! Apparently now, it's OK to fight stereotypes with stereotypes. Cool!
"because male techs tend to have limited interests and are difficult to work with when you're female" In MY experience, women in IT WANT to be treated differently. They think ovaries make them special. I guess personal experience can vary, huh? Let's not even get into the abuses of playing the "sexual harrassment" card...
"It's the atmosphere." In MY experience, it really IS the atmosphere. If some of the women I've worked with weren't able to "play" in the gossipy, catty, back-biting, in-fighting environments they enjoy, then they don't want to play at all.
Goody! Goody! That was fun. Now let's do stereotypes about blacks and jews. You go first...
As a google employee, I'd ask how "self interested" are you? I'm sure you know what side your bread is buttered on.
All for-profit corporations are created to MAKE MONEY. That's their primary purpose. How can anything said by a mega corporation be seen as anything but "self interested propoganda"? Or is google a not-for-profit now?
As for your assertions that google has just as much of a right to an opinion on public matters, I call "BS". If google gets into deep, major, legal trouble, all "google" has to do is shuffle their assets around, disolve the company, and start over again as "groogle" or "hoogle" or some other nonsense. If I get into deep legal trouble, I can look forward to spending my golden years in a state/federal penitentariary. Because corps get many of the legal benefits of citizenship without most of the hard, real disadvantages of being a "real citizen" (prison, capital punishment, etc), I think google, and any other big corporation should keep their mouth shut. Quite frankly.
And that doesn't even get into the whole "Yeah, we know we're helping keep Chinese people oppressed by their government, but we're doing it in a nice way!" circus. More bullshit!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not singling out google really. I just disagree with your assertion that somehow, google is any different from any other MULTI BILLION DOLLAR corporation.
You forgot to mention the starving children in Africa. No guilt trip is complete without that one.
A shit job is a shit job. So tell me this. Which is worse:
-Being a farm monkey and destroying your body from years of physical abuse
-Being an office monkey and destroying your body from years of gastro-intestinal abuse (twinkies, ho-hos, etc)
In my opinion, they both suck because you end up half dead in a wheelchair, but the "typical American" is much more likely to suffer from the second one REGARDLESS of where they work.
I had a shitty job and traded it in for a little less pay and a lot less shit. It improved my life 100 fold. Maybe this guy can do the same, but I don't think a guilt trip will make things better.
You sound completely even headed and rational. Thank god we're in such good hands. It would suck to have jurors who heard broad generalizations and internalized them. That might promote angry knee-jerk responses.
Out of curiosity, if his/hers is "liberal ranting", then I'm curious to know how you'd classify YOUR ranting?
Additionally, your use of the phrase "These people" leads me to believe that you aren't "one of them" so then the other question I have is: How can you be so familiar with another person's culture that you feel it's acceptable to speak on their behalf?
Assuming that you're a "white guy" (I know I could be wrong...), I'd say that many of "us black folks" speak of and about "white people" in ways that you will probably never be aware of because, well, you're not "one of us". I would think it very likely to be the same for these people.
I agree with you whole heartedly, but this generation of consoles has taught me a few things:
1) "Next Gen" consoles are substantially expensive ($500 - $600. I just upgraded my rig for $900 and that includes mobo, 8GB RAM, quad core proc, and 8800GT video)
2) you frequently have software/os problems with consoles (I've had to "reboot" my 360 because it was frozen on the dashboard more times than I'd like to admit)
3) a number of PC games are launched in a rather buggy state ("Bully" "Orange Box" for the PS3)
4) the overall performance level of consoles has improved a lot in the latest generation This is very true, but from what I can tell, my 8800GT can kick my 360's butt in terms of visual quality. Granted, I know it's apples and oranges, but still. That card will be $99 before the 360 will reach that price point.
What sucks now is that they seem to be adding the bad parts of PC Gaming (instability, lack of unified hardware platform) without giving us the good parts (user generated content on the 360).
I'm a "dedicated gamer", so I'll stick with both platforms, but I can't really say I'm happy with the direction that either one of them (consoles or PCs) are headed.
I did the same type of analysis, and initially came to the same conclusion, but after a year or so, I noticed a few things:
-Media Cost: Xbox 360 titles are regularly at least $10US more than their PC counterpart.
-Noise/Heat - Oddly, my Xbox 360 generates way more heat than my gaming PC. It's noticeably louder too.
-OS: I thought I'd avoid goofy OS issues like freezing menus and having to reboot my gaming machine. Sadly, I was expecting too much from the 360. It doesn't happen alot, but it still happens.
-Reliability/upkeep: DirectX, driver versions, game patches. PC gaming is annoying. I've also had one or two issues with having difficulty downloading large game console patches.
Also, I've never had my gaming PC conk out on me in the middle of playing a game, and I wouldn't have to send my Gaming PC to Texas for a week so that they could "fix it". They actually replaced it instead and now, all the Live games I purchased from the arcade service can't be played on my console without connecting to the internet to verify that I own them. Supposedly I can call and have them give me a code or something to download them again on my console, under a different name, but, I bought a console because I wanted to avoid all this foolishness. *Sigh*...
Long story short: I really do still love my 360, but I'm afraid to play it much lest it melt itself or whatever again, and I learned the hard way that console gaming might be a little bit easier, but it is still FAR from trouble free. You just have DIFFERENT problems to deal with. That's kind of hard to put a monetary value on sometimes.
Welcome to the gamer points club! Those things can get addicting:)
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"That's where most people fall down, and it means that people without kids are often MORE insightful than those with them."
My anecdotal experience tells me that your anecdotal experience is completely wrong.
"If you are looking for "morons", they aren't on Wall Street. Some of those people may be arrogant assholes, but "morons" they aren't."
So, let me get this straight. you're saying that passing out "funny" loans to a bunch of people you're pretty sure aren't going to be able to pay them back, IS NOT a moronic thing to do?
They WERE/ARE morons if they thought they could do stupid crap like that "until the cows come home" and not have it come back and slap them in the face.
"If your total data usage in any billing cycle is more than 1GB, your data throughput for the remainder of that cycle may be reduced to 50 kbps or less."
http://www.t-mobileg1.com/3g.aspx
The civil was no more about slavery than the current Iraq war was about Saddam Husssein being a "bad person". Nine times out of ten, any given war is really about the things that have been nearest and dearest to the hearts of men since the beginning of history: STUFF.
Money. Resources. Land. That sort of thing. The North "gave it" to the South because the South wanted to leave the party with all "the cool stuff" and the North wasn't having it. They weren't about to let anyone mess up their "paper", so they went at at it.
And in case you didn't know, there were quite a few more slaves in the North than you might believe. The North was not the slave free refuge that we were taught in elementary school. They just didn't have as much of a practical need for it as the people in the South. So they were more likely to feel guilty about treating other human beings like cattle.
In fact, one of the richest men in the country lived in New England and was one of the biggest slave traffickers in the US. He made so much money, and was so well connected, that he was able to get the President of the United States to appoint a "friendly" harbor master who just happened to always "miss" the boats that came in with slaves on board. He did this despite the fact that importing slaves was illegal here in the US at the time.
Check it out: http://www.tracesofthetrade.org/synopsis/
Cool. I haven't been to http://www.kuro5hin.org/ for a while. Nice to see you've brought it here to Slashdot.
Seriously, aren't there enough dicks on the internet already?
How can we expect to continue to get respectable, intelligent people willing to answer questions for Slashdot interviews if the site starts getting filled with "LOLWUT" nonsense like this?
What purpose does this serve? I never would have heard of the guy if it weren't for this posting. If the book is so bad, why are you promoting it?
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
And on top of all that, now I need to teach my Feed reader to ignore "idle" submissions.
No disrespect, but considering the fact that:
-You quoted a Coolio song
-Coolio has never been considered "hot in the streets"
-Coolio hasn't even really appeared on Billboard charts since the 90's
-Coolio has never been (and probably never will be) considered a top talent in Hip-Hop
I'm thinking you might not be the foremost authority on Hip-Hop as a cultural phenomenon.
However, I can't say that I disagree with your assertion about black folks mocking themselves in the context of Rap music. In fact, these guys seem to feel the same way, and it's the theme of one of their albums:
http://bad.eserver.org/reviews/2007/littlebrother.htm
One of my favorite albums of all time.
"Continuing to secure them like they're bloody fort knox is ridiculous. If the only reason we're worried about it is the potential for loss of human life... we're wasting our time."
Which is why they're not wasting their time at all.
Think about it. The people at the top (politicians, big money executives, etc) are not stupid. Otherwise, they wouldn't have gotten to where they are today. Since we know that they actually DO know what they're doing, the only other alternative is:
They've never been worried about protecting the people. They're ONLY worried about protecting the AIRPLANES.
Knowing that helps you understand alot of what's been going on for the last 7 years.
Then they can get a REAL job like the rest of us. The less opportunities they have to make me want to stab my eyes out, the better.
So this is illegal then, simply because I didn't get their explicit permission?
/l %%i in (1,1,30) do echo Launching WoW in %%i seconds
@echo off
for
c:\games\wow\wow.exe
What about when I launch WoW from my Steam client?
What about Wine??
"But to you I am a traitor?"
If you go against the constitution, then, quite frankly, "Yes".
We're talking about the constitution here, not some obscure federal regulation. Even eleven year old children know what the Constitution says about our freedoms.
"the original XBox which did unexpectedly well especially considering the fierce competition of Sony and Nintendo."
-Fair enough, they DID do pretty well considering they were the "new kid".
"However before the XBox was Microsoft's work on the Dreamcast which did not do so well and sank Sega's hardware business."
-I really don't believe that's completely accurate. Sega shot themselves in the foot, and did a thorough job at that. As I recall, only a portion of the Dreamcast's software ran on their Windows CE mismash. The rest of it was written more directly on top of the hardware.
-Additionally, the failure of the Dreamcast can be attributed in no small part to the HORRENDOUS failure that was the Sega Saturn, which caused EA to not port to the Dreamcast, which caused other development houses to take pause, which resulted in an inconsistent game library. Oddly enough, they actually had a very strong opening with the Dreamcast but they weren't able to keep up their momentum. MS has done alot of things, but I don't think they killed Sega as a hardware company.
"Before the Dreamcast was Microsoft's PC gaming division which only had a handful of real hits to its credit. Microsoft did what smaller companies could not do, fail repeatedly until they managed to get something working right. They were able to buy out game studios like Bungie and Rare in order to get some heavy hitting first party titles developed for their console."
-With the exception of MS Flight Simulator, I'd have to agree. But that's hardly a "pure" gaming title anyway.
"The XBox 360 is a good console because Microsoft has spent more than a decade struggling with a gaming business. XBox Live has a similar story, they bought out "The Village" which got rebranded Internet Gaming Zone which eventually became the MSN Gaming Zone and served as the conceptual basis for XBox Live. Again because of their size and money they could throw resources at a lackluster product and eventually make it stick. Other companies don't have that same luxury, look at Sega. Two successive market failures and it was lights out for their hardware division."
-Very true. It astonishes me to this day that, RROD issues with the 360 aside, the 360, as a PLATFORM (Console + Network) is DAMN GOOD and actually a little innovative in key ways. It's amazing how much of a mountain you really can move with enough money and real effort.
"Although I can't say from experience, I wonder if this means being good at chess isn't a little like being good at sparring."
I think you're absolutely correct about fighting, but in my experience, chess is the complete opposite. If you DON'T think ahead and over analyze your moves in chess, you're invariably going to lose. That's been my experience at least. I'm not "good" at thinking ahead strategically so I tend to lose most of the time. On the other hand, during fights, and other "emergencies" I tend to be able to float through with "situational awareness" alone.
As a side note, I wonder if the Wu-Tang Clan were involved with this in any way ;)
"New democracies like the US don't allow the buying and selling of votes..."
I LOL'd in RL.
Do a google search for things like "ear marks" and "lobbyists". We've got ~34,000 lobbyists in Washington D.C. and only like 500 some-odd members of Congress.
Don't allow buying and selling...HA!
Wow. Look at THAT. Cool, huh?
Ah yes, the "good old days" argument. That always comes up, doesn't it. Well, to quote part of a Billy Joel song, "The good old days weren't always good". Just because YOU think things were, generally speaking, "better" "back in the day", that doesn't mean that everyone feels the way you do. Personally, I think things are alot better now as a whole.
I disagree with you assertions about a "coddling culture". We've just got way more, self-interested, arrogant assholes running around than we used to. (Think liberals with their "No Smoking" laws and Conservatives with their Christian, "Family Values" bullshit.)
Now that I think about it, we DO coddle a bit to much, but it's because we're all too busy coddling ourselves (I DESERVE to have what I want because I'm more important than everyone else!) to look at the big picture. Good call.
P.S. - John Wayne was a bigot. "We can't all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership to irresponsible people."
That's a bad analogy. A more appropriate analogy would be you going into a store, purchasing a bottle of wine, and then having to contact the store every time you wanted to open the bottle of wine that you paid for already.
-Do I call you every time I want to pour myself a glass?
-Do I have to setup a "dinnertime window" so that I can open my bottle as many times as I want during that timeframe?
-Do I have to check-in periodically to make suer that my bottle of wine doesn't lock itself?
-What happens when I can't get in touch with you?
-What happens to my wine bottle when you go out of business?
It's inconvenient and doesn't really solve the problem of people pirating games. I'm willing to bet that it will STILL be just as easy to get a bootlegged copy of the game with all the copy protection bits hacked out in assembler or whatever.
This is just a half-hearted, half-assed and insincere gesture. Pirates will still distribute the game. People with pirated copies will still be able to play the game.
I don't think my reply proves anything other than that I disagree with your assertion that the actions taken by a mega corporation can ever stand on their own merit. I believe that to be a fundamentally unnatural behavior for a mega-corp.
-Stereotype party! Apparently now, it's OK to fight stereotypes with stereotypes. Cool!
"because male techs tend to have limited interests and are difficult to work with when you're female"
In MY experience, women in IT WANT to be treated differently. They think ovaries make them special. I guess personal experience can vary, huh? Let's not even get into the abuses of playing the "sexual harrassment" card...
"It's the atmosphere."
In MY experience, it really IS the atmosphere. If some of the women I've worked with weren't able to "play" in the gossipy, catty, back-biting, in-fighting environments they enjoy, then they don't want to play at all.
Goody! Goody! That was fun. Now let's do stereotypes about blacks and jews. You go first...
As a google employee, I'd ask how "self interested" are you? I'm sure you know what side your bread is buttered on. All for-profit corporations are created to MAKE MONEY. That's their primary purpose. How can anything said by a mega corporation be seen as anything but "self interested propoganda"? Or is google a not-for-profit now? As for your assertions that google has just as much of a right to an opinion on public matters, I call "BS". If google gets into deep, major, legal trouble, all "google" has to do is shuffle their assets around, disolve the company, and start over again as "groogle" or "hoogle" or some other nonsense. If I get into deep legal trouble, I can look forward to spending my golden years in a state/federal penitentariary. Because corps get many of the legal benefits of citizenship without most of the hard, real disadvantages of being a "real citizen" (prison, capital punishment, etc), I think google, and any other big corporation should keep their mouth shut. Quite frankly. And that doesn't even get into the whole "Yeah, we know we're helping keep Chinese people oppressed by their government, but we're doing it in a nice way!" circus. More bullshit! Don't get me wrong, I'm not singling out google really. I just disagree with your assertion that somehow, google is any different from any other MULTI BILLION DOLLAR corporation.
You forgot to mention the starving children in Africa. No guilt trip is complete without that one.
A shit job is a shit job. So tell me this. Which is worse:
-Being a farm monkey and destroying your body from years of physical abuse
-Being an office monkey and destroying your body from years of gastro-intestinal abuse (twinkies, ho-hos, etc)
In my opinion, they both suck because you end up half dead in a wheelchair, but the "typical American" is much more likely to suffer from the second one REGARDLESS of where they work.
I had a shitty job and traded it in for a little less pay and a lot less shit. It improved my life 100 fold. Maybe this guy can do the same, but I don't think a guilt trip will make things better.
No, we just thought you didn't really like Black People.
;)
Go Arizona!
You sound completely even headed and rational. Thank god we're in such good hands. It would suck to have jurors who heard broad generalizations and internalized them. That might promote angry knee-jerk responses.
Phew!
Out of curiosity, if his/hers is "liberal ranting", then I'm curious to know how you'd classify YOUR ranting?
Additionally, your use of the phrase "These people" leads me to believe that you aren't "one of them" so then the other question I have is: How can you be so familiar with another person's culture that you feel it's acceptable to speak on their behalf?
Assuming that you're a "white guy" (I know I could be wrong...), I'd say that many of "us black folks" speak of and about "white people" in ways that you will probably never be aware of because, well, you're not "one of us". I would think it very likely to be the same for these people.
I agree with you whole heartedly, but this generation of consoles has taught me a few things:
1) "Next Gen" consoles are substantially expensive ($500 - $600. I just upgraded my rig for $900 and that includes mobo, 8GB RAM, quad core proc, and 8800GT video)
2) you frequently have software/os problems with consoles (I've had to "reboot" my 360 because it was frozen on the dashboard more times than I'd like to admit)
3) a number of PC games are launched in a rather buggy state ("Bully" "Orange Box" for the PS3)
4) the overall performance level of consoles has improved a lot in the latest generation
This is very true, but from what I can tell, my 8800GT can kick my 360's butt in terms of visual quality. Granted, I know it's apples and oranges, but still. That card will be $99 before the 360 will reach that price point.
What sucks now is that they seem to be adding the bad parts of PC Gaming (instability, lack of unified hardware platform) without giving us the good parts (user generated content on the 360).
I'm a "dedicated gamer", so I'll stick with both platforms, but I can't really say I'm happy with the direction that either one of them (consoles or PCs) are headed.
LOL
Touche!
I did the same type of analysis, and initially came to the same conclusion, but after a year or so, I noticed a few things:
:)
-Media Cost: Xbox 360 titles are regularly at least $10US more than their PC counterpart.
-Noise/Heat - Oddly, my Xbox 360 generates way more heat than my gaming PC. It's noticeably louder too.
-OS: I thought I'd avoid goofy OS issues like freezing menus and having to reboot my gaming machine. Sadly, I was expecting too much from the 360. It doesn't happen alot, but it still happens.
-Reliability/upkeep: DirectX, driver versions, game patches. PC gaming is annoying. I've also had one or two issues with having difficulty downloading large game console patches.
Also, I've never had my gaming PC conk out on me in the middle of playing a game, and I wouldn't have to send my Gaming PC to Texas for a week so that they could "fix it". They actually replaced it instead and now, all the Live games I purchased from the arcade service can't be played on my console without connecting to the internet to verify that I own them. Supposedly I can call and have them give me a code or something to download them again on my console, under a different name, but, I bought a console because I wanted to avoid all this foolishness. *Sigh*...
Long story short: I really do still love my 360, but I'm afraid to play it much lest it melt itself or whatever again, and I learned the hard way that console gaming might be a little bit easier, but it is still FAR from trouble free. You just have DIFFERENT problems to deal with. That's kind of hard to put a monetary value on sometimes.
Welcome to the gamer points club! Those things can get addicting