Where the hell is Steve Jobs in this mess? I want to see how well his gun interfaces work: "No, no, no. The trigger should be on the top of the gun, that way it's easier to get to. Paint it blue too. With slowy pulsating lights."
I also hope the GNU weapons evolve to fit the situation.
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Nintendo will likely use the cash for their current developer seeding project. Giving large grants of a couple of million to small groups with good ideas and skills. They'll likely end up with 2 or 3 Rare-like developers out of this (depending on whether they make the right choices. Though Nintendo isn't stupid).
Cool idea, I can't wait to play Super Balmio Stageshine!
Think about it, rather than having to shoot water from a backpack, Super Balmer needs only to raise his arms and shoot poisonous sweat particles from the horrid depths of his armpits!
And instead of saying "woop, woop, YAHOO!" when he does a triple jump, he'll be all like "WOOO, WOOOO, I LOVE THIS COMPANY!"
What a lot of people don't realise is Microsoft is third in the current generation. Third. Nintendo is pulling away fast and though the GameCube will probably never catch the PS2 in terms of the number of consoles sold, it will do quite well overall.
People tend to disregard Nintendo too. They're not a small company, they're huge. Nintendo have made the most money out of all gaming companies year after year for the last decade. The GameBoy Advance has a monopolistic grip on the handheld market that'd make Microsoft jealous.
So people, when you're talking about the PS2 vs the Xbox, remember there's a tiny purple cube in the middle and it's kicking some pretty serious arse.
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No. Selling 100,000 copies would garner $5million gross at the retail level. When you buy a $50 game, the money does not get put in the shop's till and then given directly to MS next time their rep comes in.
I believe the game companies make between $5 and $10 on each $50 game. In order for MS to make $5million, they need to sell more than 700,000 copies (that is, of course, disregarding the loss they incure with every sale of an Xbox). In order to make the $375 million Rare cost them, they must sell somewhere in the order of 60 million games (this is still disregarding the loss on every Xbox). Rare cost Microsoft way too much.
That's the only reason Marilyn Manson made it. If that bunch of christians who wanted to burn him at the stake had just kept their mouths shut, we wouldn't have had to suffer through any of "his" awful, awful "music".
Well, my Athlon 650 (512MB RAM, GeForce 4 MMX 440) runs Warcraft III at 1280x1024 as smooth as silk, but UT2003 is choppy at any resolution, so it's CPU upgrade time in the next few months.
Or I may just hold off until Doom3 comes out and do a mobo/cpu/ram/gpu upgrade. I can wait...... I think.
And I'm not lazy. As I said, it's one of the few American definitions I agree with. I still spell colour with a "u", night with a "ight" and I know the difference between "then" and "than".
I'm not sure which New Zealand YOU live in, but the New Zealand standard for 1 billion is 1*10^9 not 1*10^12
This is one of the rare occasions where I agree with the American definition, since it's useful. Who the hell would want to say 1 thousound million when they can just say 1 billion?
True on the out of the box thing. I agreed that Linux needs to "just work" for a wider adoption to take place, however OS X works wonderfully (I've used my room mate's iMac quite a bit), and there's no huge uptake of it. Perhaps if it were released for x86? : )
On another note, I must say that my experience with being an IT staff member IS limited to a single company, and today was not a particulary good day in terms of management earning IT's respect. There's an abundance of mutual respect between our developers and IT, though, mainly due to each party taking the time to listen to one another.
It's amazing how much good shutting your mouth can do. I just wish more people gave it a go.
Woah. Did you actually read my post or just assume you knew what I was on about?
Please read this section again: a grasp on which ever language you happen to be speaking.
I love language, and though my spelling is often sub-par, I would never judge anyone by the language they used, unless they're completely bastardising a perfectly reasonably language in order to gain attention or look "cool".
Prince did not write in a manner that demanded my respect. He failed in convincing me, through his writing, that his opinion or views where well thought out or accurate, because he intentionally wrote in bad English. Sorry, no sale.
The reason people are focusing on his "spelling", is because to garner any sort of respect amoung regular geeks, you must have, or at least appear to have, a grasp on which ever language you happen to be speaking.
The article truly hurts to read. I can't take it seriously, it looks like a 12 year old wrote it whilst trying ever so hard to be "cool".
This is not as suprising as you may expect, since this is the same government that jailed those English plane spotters for being spies (yeah right).
A Cnet article regarding the story explains that "The blanket ban was decided in February after the government admitted it was incapable of distinguishing innocuous video games from illegal gambling machines.", so since Greek authorities are too stupid to tell the difference between Teris and a Poker machine, no one gets to play anything?
The stupidity involved in this law is beyond comprehension.
As has been said by many others so far, sign me the hell up.
Hell yeah, death to lancets and those Softclix bastards. Gimme ink!
I know it's likely to be nothing more than a dot of polymer, but if you could get a pattern, what would you get? I'd lean towards a tux tatoo - that'd be cool.
I've been a type 1 (insulin dependant) diabetic for 19 years (since I was 3) and no matter what anyone tells you, it still hurts. You do get used to it, but it's pain I'd rather avoid, all the same.
The case here in New Zealand is you must get a prescription, but after that, the test strips are effectively free. I've been dreaming of a watch that'd constantly tell me my blood sugar since I was a boy.
Don't dispare, there's some interesting treatment in development here in New Zealand that's cured a few Type 1 diabetics (like me), by using pig isolete cells encased in polymer tubes that are implanted in the abdominal area.
Really great stuff, but New Zealand's government is full of crack pots who think that such implants could introduce a retro virus - so the recipiants of the implants have been in Mexico and the Cook Islands so far (they're actually curing people).
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If you'd like a Googlebar in Mozilla, try googlebar @ mozdev.org. I haven't personally used it, but it seems to be what you're looking for.
I also hope the GNU weapons evolve to fit the situation.
Nintendo will likely use the cash for their current developer seeding project. Giving large grants of a couple of million to small groups with good ideas and skills. They'll likely end up with 2 or 3 Rare-like developers out of this (depending on whether they make the right choices. Though Nintendo isn't stupid).
Think about it, rather than having to shoot water from a backpack, Super Balmer needs only to raise his arms and shoot poisonous sweat particles from the horrid depths of his armpits!
And instead of saying "woop, woop, YAHOO!" when he does a triple jump, he'll be all like "WOOO, WOOOO, I LOVE THIS COMPANY!"
What a lot of people don't realise is Microsoft is third in the current generation. Third. Nintendo is pulling away fast and though the GameCube will probably never catch the PS2 in terms of the number of consoles sold, it will do quite well overall.
People tend to disregard Nintendo too. They're not a small company, they're huge. Nintendo have made the most money out of all gaming companies year after year for the last decade. The GameBoy Advance has a monopolistic grip on the handheld market that'd make Microsoft jealous.
So people, when you're talking about the PS2 vs the Xbox, remember there's a tiny purple cube in the middle and it's kicking some pretty serious arse.
I believe the game companies make between $5 and $10 on each $50 game. In order for MS to make $5million, they need to sell more than 700,000 copies (that is, of course, disregarding the loss they incure with every sale of an Xbox). In order to make the $375 million Rare cost them, they must sell somewhere in the order of 60 million games (this is still disregarding the loss on every Xbox). Rare cost Microsoft way too much.
Good one Nintendo. You pulled a fast one.
That's the only reason Marilyn Manson made it. If that bunch of christians who wanted to burn him at the stake had just kept their mouths shut, we wouldn't have had to suffer through any of "his" awful, awful "music".
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I'd pay them $15K to drop a Greyhound bus packed with 40 people I don't like. Sounds like a great idea.
Or I may just hold off until Doom3 comes out and do a mobo/cpu/ram/gpu upgrade. I can wait...... I think.
And I'm not lazy. As I said, it's one of the few American definitions I agree with. I still spell colour with a "u", night with a "ight" and I know the difference between "then" and "than".
I'm not sure which New Zealand YOU live in, but the New Zealand standard for 1 billion is 1*10^9 not 1*10^12
This is one of the rare occasions where I agree with the American definition, since it's useful. Who the hell would want to say 1 thousound million when they can just say 1 billion?
On another note, I must say that my experience with being an IT staff member IS limited to a single company, and today was not a particulary good day in terms of management earning IT's respect. There's an abundance of mutual respect between our developers and IT, though, mainly due to each party taking the time to listen to one another.
It's amazing how much good shutting your mouth can do. I just wish more people gave it a go.
The people who don't know their arses from their elbows are the god damned managers. The morons who ignore IT and think they know best.
Also, I'd think twice before speaking for all Geeks. Yeah I tinker, but I mostly get work done on Linux. It's the only OS I use.
A "pokie" is the New Zealand/Aussie term for a poker machine.
Please read this section again: a grasp on which ever language you happen to be speaking.
I love language, and though my spelling is often sub-par, I would never judge anyone by the language they used, unless they're completely bastardising a perfectly reasonably language in order to gain attention or look "cool".
Prince did not write in a manner that demanded my respect. He failed in convincing me, through his writing, that his opinion or views where well thought out or accurate, because he intentionally wrote in bad English. Sorry, no sale.
The article truly hurts to read. I can't take it seriously, it looks like a 12 year old wrote it whilst trying ever so hard to be "cool".
Honestly, which fool did he hire as his PR manager?
A Cnet article regarding the story explains that "The blanket ban was decided in February after the government admitted it was incapable of distinguishing innocuous video games from illegal gambling machines.", so since Greek authorities are too stupid to tell the difference between Teris and a Poker machine, no one gets to play anything?
The stupidity involved in this law is beyond comprehension.
Then you, sir, are drunk. : )
Hell yeah, death to lancets and those Softclix bastards. Gimme ink!
I know it's likely to be nothing more than a dot of polymer, but if you could get a pattern, what would you get? I'd lean towards a tux tatoo - that'd be cool.
I've been a type 1 (insulin dependant) diabetic for 19 years (since I was 3) and no matter what anyone tells you, it still hurts. You do get used to it, but it's pain I'd rather avoid, all the same.
Don't dispare, there's some interesting treatment in development here in New Zealand that's cured a few Type 1 diabetics (like me), by using pig isolete cells encased in polymer tubes that are implanted in the abdominal area.
Really great stuff, but New Zealand's government is full of crack pots who think that such implants could introduce a retro virus - so the recipiants of the implants have been in Mexico and the Cook Islands so far (they're actually curing people).