"Brazilian people do indeed speak Portuguese, not Spanish"
Yes, I know. I was trying to make the point that there are more of my felly citizens that think Brazil speaks Spanish (or whatever you wish to call it) than those who know the truth, let alone actually speak Portuguese, meaning there's a pretty big language gap.
"Brazil and Portugal are different countries. The former is in South America, the latter in Southern Europe."
Again, yes, I know. I was trying to point out that, while Portuguese Slashdotters may be making plans to retire in Brazil, most Slashdotters are in the US and as such probably aren't thinking along those lines.
"we just have a slight prejudice when it comes to the average American's intelligence and culture."
It's still something that will have to be put up with by anybody moving to Brazil after having been born and raised in the US, such as being held responsible by locals for the actions of other people half a world away. Personally, that doesn't sound like much of an ideal retirement.
In the US, Spanish is still a minority langauge, the number of fluent speakers dwarfed by the number of Americans who think that it's what Brazilians speak.* The language barrier, coupled with the generally bad feelings most South Americans have against yanquis (except for the teenagers who feel compelled to practice their English on me in IM), probably doesn't place Brazil all that high on a list of places for us to retire to.
Slashdotters in Lisbon? Sure, but I doubt there are many of them.
* Was I the only one that almost hurt themselves laughing at the end of the last episode of Sealab 2021?
And why would they have access to cable service if they can't even get a telephone line? After all, telephone lines have been around for far longer than coaxial cables.
When they said "television," they mean broadcast television. Out there, it's either that or Cband.
Nor are you a backbone. Did you ever consider.us or.ca or whatever country you're from? I hear the state-specific TLDs are feeling lonely, with even state governments rushing off to.com and.gov.
"What's the difference in hardware between it and the regular GBA?"
One is selling better than the other. It probably runs fine on the ordinary GBA, they probably just threw in the "SP" part because they could.
The only way this wouldn't work on a GBA is if it required a dongle that plugged into the SP's and DS's multi-port (power, sound, and whatever the hell else that port can do).
Because we're all pirates over here (arrr). We're talking about mpeg files, not FairPlay or Windows Media, and we can't have a big-name electronics distributer selling products that don't respect DRM!
"as far as I know they use linux to code ps2 games didnt you knew that?"
First off, when did Linux become a programming language?
Secondly, what's the point of using open source software when you need to sell your soul to get the SDK? I've tinkered with a lot of homebrewed PS2 software and none of it involved getting Sony's SDK or even "Linux (for PlayStation 2)" as far as I can tell.
"and every geek I know has a soft spot for cool electronics and thats what sony is all about,"
Then I'm correct in assuming you own an HDTV? Either I'm not a geek, or geeks are more interested in fun toys more than they are in "cool electronics." The people who go after "cool electronics" seem to be the ones who slap stickers all over their Honda Civics.
"No offense guys but Nintendo is the Walt Disney of the videogames world"
If Nintendo were Disney, there would be no new games featuring these characters. Instead, they'd be locked in a vault somewhere with Nintendo sueing the crap out of anybody who even mentions their trademarked propeties, and their main source of profit would be from producing games with stories that rip off the public domain. The reason Mario is more recognizable than Mickey Mouse is because Mickey hasn't done anything for the past 50 years or so.
No, in reality we have people complaining that Nintendo is using their old characters in too many new games. Square Enix is the company that wants us to buy Final Fantasy Origins again barely 18 months later. That's Hollywood thinking.
"(in case you didnt knew family games are the ones who make the most money!)"
Which is why the GameCube is trouncing the PlayStation 2 in sales...
" you can even compare them and their business practices to MS at some point."
Which is why the GameCube is trouncing the PlayStation 2 in sales...
Heck, if Nintendo were so similar to MIcrosoft there'd be no point in Gates wanting to buy them. Why "embrace and extend" when you're already there?
"You cringed all over when MS tried to make all windows users pay an annual fee,"
How long ago did the GCN come out? Or the SP?
Again, Sony is the company that seems to be looking for annual fees. Want a PS2 that you can turn off with the remote? Buy a new PS2. Progressive-scan DVD playback? Buy a new PS2. A four-player adapter that works in both PS and PS2 games? Buy a new PS2. It's getting to the point where buying a second PS2 is less a luxury and more an upgrade.
"but you just smiled when Nintendo forced everyone to buy 4 gameboys for a four player game"
Nintendo didn't force anybody to buy four Game Boys because everbody could bring their own, and everybody already owns their own Game Boy.
"when they could have made a cool multiplayer online game instead,"
Instead we got a game with a plot and a storyline, a game without camping, without internet fuckwads, without monthly subscriptions and a game we'll still be able to play in five years. Damn you, Nintendo!
"geek is cool"
War is peace! Freedom is slavery!
Geek is not cool, geek is liking what you like without thinking about whether or not it's cool. Game awards shows on Spike are cool, because they followed all the coolness rules.
"Just to beat some sense to you consider this the DS is a double screened gameboy with a nintendo 64 chip in it. the second screen is a cheap touchscreen from a palm, at the end you are just getting a cheap palm."
On the one hand, you say I'm getting a handheld version of a system I still love. On the other, you say I'm saving money compared to what Palm would be charging for a platform with far fewer games I'd be interested in. Where exactly is the downside in that?
"Why they didnt made a portable gamecube with a mi
"Error-proned front loading NES when Japanese version was top-loading."
The original Famicom looks like a toy, something that wouldn't sell stateside. Making it look more "grown up" (loading like a VCR) was part of the same strategy that avoided the use of the phrase "video game" at all costs (NES instead of NVGS). We're talking about the '80's gaming crash, for cryin' out loud!
If you want to complain about poor design choices, complain about the NES-101 RF-only output, while the A/V Famicom was... well, A/V.
"All of the evil empire crap surrounding Tetris at the time of the NES."
Think of all the Slashdotters that weren't even born yet. Things got straightened out one way or another and the puzzle game fad fizzled out a long time ago.
"Delaying the release of the SNES, allowing Sega to get a few breathes of air."
If it were possible to sell hardware superior to the Genny's at the same time the Genny came out, why didn't the Genny have any of it? In many ways, comparing the Genny hardware to the SNES is like comparing the Dreamcast to the PS2: sure, they're the same generation, but it's pretty clear who has the more capable hardware. And when all was said and done, SNES was ahead in the race by the time the new 32-bit consoles started to come out, which were also outsold by the SNES until Nintendo started pushing the N64.
"No blood in the first SNES Mortal Kombat, which further allowed the Genesis a little more legitimacy."
OK, are we bashing Nintendo here, or Sega? Two lines back you complain about Nintendo being too cut-throat, and now you're unhappy they weren't cut-throat enough?
"Virtual Boy: gimmic is not innovation."
If you want to complain about the Virtual Boy, complain that Mario Clash wasn't the game it was supposed to be. Personally, I think that game alone probably could have kept the system afloat.
"Make it color the next time around please."
Why would there be a next time when there are so many people like you who still complain about the first? Somebody needs to learn about carrot vs. stick.
"Losing Square to Sony."
Nintendo didn't suck up enough? Gave too much favor to Enix? Whatever. It's beginning to seem that Sony has now lost Square Enix to Nintendo nowadays, anyway, now that Squaresoft got that whole prima donna phase out of their system ("We're Squaresoft! We can sell anything we put our names on! Go buy Chocobo's Dungeon and Saga Frontier!")
"Most stuff related to the N64. A few good games is not enough."
Nintendo's continued existence in the hardware wars suggest otherwise.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe, but I prefer the brunette standing next to her.
"But these "game industry is bigger than Hollywood" claims always leave out the rental and DVD sales market."
That's because rentals and DVD sales make no money. Everybody knows that P2P networks have killed those two off!
"You ought to have to pass a test to be a legislator, judge, or even a damn dog catcher."
Ah, but who writes the test?
"When we start marking certain sent data as objectionable and unsolicited"
"Objectionable" is a matter of personal judgment, but "unsolicited" is not. It's a simple yes-or-no answer to "Did you ask to receive this?"
"instead of the administrator setting up some barriers, they will simply sue the other companies out of business."
That's the whole point of having a legal system to begin with. You can take the guy to court instead of having to break his kneecaps.
Tell me, are you wearing your gun right now?
I'm sorry, but you all deserve the abuse you get.
"Brazilian people do indeed speak Portuguese, not Spanish"
Yes, I know. I was trying to make the point that there are more of my felly citizens that think Brazil speaks Spanish (or whatever you wish to call it) than those who know the truth, let alone actually speak Portuguese, meaning there's a pretty big language gap.
"Brazil and Portugal are different countries. The former is in South America, the latter in Southern Europe."
Again, yes, I know. I was trying to point out that, while Portuguese Slashdotters may be making plans to retire in Brazil, most Slashdotters are in the US and as such probably aren't thinking along those lines.
"we just have a slight prejudice when it comes to the average American's intelligence and culture."
It's still something that will have to be put up with by anybody moving to Brazil after having been born and raised in the US, such as being held responsible by locals for the actions of other people half a world away. Personally, that doesn't sound like much of an ideal retirement.
"Have you ever thought about retiring in Brazil?"
In the US, Spanish is still a minority langauge, the number of fluent speakers dwarfed by the number of Americans who think that it's what Brazilians speak.* The language barrier, coupled with the generally bad feelings most South Americans have against yanquis (except for the teenagers who feel compelled to practice their English on me in IM), probably doesn't place Brazil all that high on a list of places for us to retire to.
Slashdotters in Lisbon? Sure, but I doubt there are many of them.
* Was I the only one that almost hurt themselves laughing at the end of the last episode of Sealab 2021?
"Cable is about to explode with services."
And why would they have access to cable service if they can't even get a telephone line? After all, telephone lines have been around for far longer than coaxial cables.
When they said "television," they mean broadcast television. Out there, it's either that or Cband.
Look, I own a freakin' Virtual Boy and I still don't have any desire to get an Ngage.
",everyone here complains about how closely aligned ICANN is with the US gov't... 1/3 the price of a cup of coffee"
Hey! That's "a quarter-litre of coffee," you insensitive American clod!
"I am not a company, just an individual."
.us or .ca or whatever country you're from? I hear the state-specific TLDs are feeling lonely, with even state governments rushing off to .com and .gov.
Nor are you a backbone. Did you ever consider
"It's like the income tax. The gov't said it would be temporary"
Where's the expiration clause in the Sixteenth Amendment?
Who's going to buy an iPod phone when we've all already gone out and bought Ngages?
"What's the difference in hardware between it and the regular GBA?"
One is selling better than the other. It probably runs fine on the ordinary GBA, they probably just threw in the "SP" part because they could.
The only way this wouldn't work on a GBA is if it required a dongle that plugged into the SP's and DS's multi-port (power, sound, and whatever the hell else that port can do).
Because we're all pirates over here (arrr). We're talking about mpeg files, not FairPlay or Windows Media, and we can't have a big-name electronics distributer selling products that don't respect DRM!
"The kiosks don't accept cash ..."
But the vending machines usually not six feet away from the kiosks do. But nobody likes those since they give out change in dollar coins.
How? How often do you mail things to yourself?
"No. Because they aren't interested in Science Fiction. They want the tech-fantasy crap."
Wait, are we talking about SciFi Channel or Discovery?
"'failed to launch due to an unknown anomaly'
What kind of engineering is this?"
The realistic kind. If they had known what kind of anomaly it was going to be, they would have prevented it from happening.
From the looks of things, you forgot to properly enclose your text within tags, and somebody took you at face value.
"as far as I know they use linux to code ps2 games didnt you knew that?"
First off, when did Linux become a programming language?
Secondly, what's the point of using open source software when you need to sell your soul to get the SDK? I've tinkered with a lot of homebrewed PS2 software and none of it involved getting Sony's SDK or even "Linux (for PlayStation 2)" as far as I can tell.
"and every geek I know has a soft spot for cool electronics and thats what sony is all about,"
Then I'm correct in assuming you own an HDTV? Either I'm not a geek, or geeks are more interested in fun toys more than they are in "cool electronics." The people who go after "cool electronics" seem to be the ones who slap stickers all over their Honda Civics.
"No offense guys but Nintendo is the Walt Disney of the videogames world"
If Nintendo were Disney, there would be no new games featuring these characters. Instead, they'd be locked in a vault somewhere with Nintendo sueing the crap out of anybody who even mentions their trademarked propeties, and their main source of profit would be from producing games with stories that rip off the public domain. The reason Mario is more recognizable than Mickey Mouse is because Mickey hasn't done anything for the past 50 years or so.
No, in reality we have people complaining that Nintendo is using their old characters in too many new games. Square Enix is the company that wants us to buy Final Fantasy Origins again barely 18 months later. That's Hollywood thinking.
"(in case you didnt knew family games are the ones who make the most money!)"
Which is why the GameCube is trouncing the PlayStation 2 in sales...
" you can even compare them and their business practices to MS at some point."
Which is why the GameCube is trouncing the PlayStation 2 in sales...
Heck, if Nintendo were so similar to MIcrosoft there'd be no point in Gates wanting to buy them. Why "embrace and extend" when you're already there?
"You cringed all over when MS tried to make all windows users pay an annual fee,"
How long ago did the GCN come out? Or the SP?
Again, Sony is the company that seems to be looking for annual fees. Want a PS2 that you can turn off with the remote? Buy a new PS2. Progressive-scan DVD playback? Buy a new PS2. A four-player adapter that works in both PS and PS2 games? Buy a new PS2. It's getting to the point where buying a second PS2 is less a luxury and more an upgrade.
"but you just smiled when Nintendo forced everyone to buy 4 gameboys for a four player game"
Sounds familiar...
Nintendo didn't force anybody to buy four Game Boys because everbody could bring their own, and everybody already owns their own Game Boy.
"when they could have made a cool multiplayer online game instead,"
Instead we got a game with a plot and a storyline, a game without camping, without internet fuckwads, without monthly subscriptions and a game we'll still be able to play in five years. Damn you, Nintendo!
"geek is cool"
War is peace! Freedom is slavery!
Geek is not cool, geek is liking what you like without thinking about whether or not it's cool. Game awards shows on Spike are cool, because they followed all the coolness rules.
"Just to beat some sense to you consider this the DS is a double screened gameboy with a nintendo 64 chip in it. the second screen is a cheap touchscreen from a palm, at the end you are just getting a cheap palm."
On the one hand, you say I'm getting a handheld version of a system I still love. On the other, you say I'm saving money compared to what Palm would be charging for a platform with far fewer games I'd be interested in. Where exactly is the downside in that?
"Why they didnt made a portable gamecube with a mi
Dear Europe:
Got any old Terranigma carts you're willing to part with?
--North America
"but sony? other than evercrack what harm have they done to the geek open source community?"
I have eight letters to answer that question with:
MPAA
RIAA
"Except that game sucked and should have been censored,"
Ah yes, somebody arbitrarily deciding what games should be altered for content and what games shouldn't be. I believe that's called "censorship."
"Censorship is bad unless I agree with it" is still censorhsip (as well as hypocrisy).
"Error-proned front loading NES when Japanese version was top-loading."
The original Famicom looks like a toy, something that wouldn't sell stateside. Making it look more "grown up" (loading like a VCR) was part of the same strategy that avoided the use of the phrase "video game" at all costs (NES instead of NVGS). We're talking about the '80's gaming crash, for cryin' out loud!
If you want to complain about poor design choices, complain about the NES-101 RF-only output, while the A/V Famicom was... well, A/V.
"All of the evil empire crap surrounding Tetris at the time of the NES."
Think of all the Slashdotters that weren't even born yet. Things got straightened out one way or another and the puzzle game fad fizzled out a long time ago.
"Delaying the release of the SNES, allowing Sega to get a few breathes of air."
If it were possible to sell hardware superior to the Genny's at the same time the Genny came out, why didn't the Genny have any of it? In many ways, comparing the Genny hardware to the SNES is like comparing the Dreamcast to the PS2: sure, they're the same generation, but it's pretty clear who has the more capable hardware. And when all was said and done, SNES was ahead in the race by the time the new 32-bit consoles started to come out, which were also outsold by the SNES until Nintendo started pushing the N64.
"No blood in the first SNES Mortal Kombat, which further allowed the Genesis a little more legitimacy."
OK, are we bashing Nintendo here, or Sega? Two lines back you complain about Nintendo being too cut-throat, and now you're unhappy they weren't cut-throat enough?
"Virtual Boy: gimmic is not innovation."
If you want to complain about the Virtual Boy, complain that Mario Clash wasn't the game it was supposed to be. Personally, I think that game alone probably could have kept the system afloat.
"Make it color the next time around please."
Why would there be a next time when there are so many people like you who still complain about the first? Somebody needs to learn about carrot vs. stick.
"Losing Square to Sony."
Nintendo didn't suck up enough? Gave too much favor to Enix? Whatever. It's beginning to seem that Sony has now lost Square Enix to Nintendo nowadays, anyway, now that Squaresoft got that whole prima donna phase out of their system ("We're Squaresoft! We can sell anything we put our names on! Go buy Chocobo's Dungeon and Saga Frontier!")
"Most stuff related to the N64. A few good games is not enough."
Nintendo's continued existence in the hardware wars suggest otherwise.