actually what i would think would happen would be that slashdot would compile a list of neat toys and cool widgets that the warring parties would use. Rate them upon their "neat" factor, divide by their actual usefullness, and take the integral of the number of units total. This would give us the "cool" factor, the sum of all of these "cool" factors would determine who should win.
The downfall of sega has very little to do with bad marketing and even the saturn (althought that was a bomb to be sure.) The dreamcast had nearly everything, in some cases it was better than the PS2 (dont kill me please) it had working internet and a wide variety of games that cost less than 50 dollars a pop. The one thing that sega didnt have that was more or less out of there control was the cross compatibility with old games the same way the PS2 did with the original PS. It is true that a product called "Bleem" was released to allow that, but THAT was very poorely marketed, very few consumers knew about it.
actually i think that if RIAA succeds completely, in the years to come we will move more and more towards the idea of "megacorps" as big biz conglomerations and groups gain momentum with their wins. Today its napster..whats next?
as a worker of the best buy co...some of you may have heard of us. We not only dont sell cassingles, or even cassetes, but I hear that we are working on a company policy to tar and feather customers who ask for the.
The industry doesnt care if their numbers are hurting, it doesnt care if napster gives them money. I doubt the real motivation IS money, napster is a threat to most commercial establishments. I see this situation analagous to the russo-japanese war. If one monarchy could be defeated (eg music industry) then what would stop some back water establishment from destroying other large monarchies (eg movie industry, books, ALL games etc.)
its not as if (gasp) its not already happening
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actually what i would think would happen would be that slashdot would compile a list of neat toys and cool widgets that the warring parties would use. Rate them upon their "neat" factor, divide by their actual usefullness, and take the integral of the number of units total. This would give us the "cool" factor, the sum of all of these "cool" factors would determine who should win.
The downfall of sega has very little to do with bad marketing and even the saturn (althought that was a bomb to be sure.) The dreamcast had nearly everything, in some cases it was better than the PS2 (dont kill me please) it had working internet and a wide variety of games that cost less than 50 dollars a pop. The one thing that sega didnt have that was more or less out of there control was the cross compatibility with old games the same way the PS2 did with the original PS. It is true that a product called "Bleem" was released to allow that, but THAT was very poorely marketed, very few consumers knew about it.
actually i think that if RIAA succeds completely, in the years to come we will move more and more towards the idea of "megacorps" as big biz conglomerations and groups gain momentum with their wins. Today its napster..whats next?
as a worker of the best buy co...some of you may have heard of us. We not only dont sell cassingles, or even cassetes, but I hear that we are working on a company policy to tar and feather customers who ask for the.
The industry doesnt care if their numbers are hurting, it doesnt care if napster gives them money. I doubt the real motivation IS money, napster is a threat to most commercial establishments. I see this situation analagous to the russo-japanese war. If one monarchy could be defeated (eg music industry) then what would stop some back water establishment from destroying other large monarchies (eg movie industry, books, ALL games etc.) its not as if (gasp) its not already happening