You are correct, Nintendo is profiting from console sales with the Wii, as they have since at least 2006. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20061215092033.html But that's a bonus to them and only a very small portion of their corporate sales, and that bonus only comes from decades of understanding the industry.
"Just a bonus" to them, eh? That's why they are the only ones making money this generation, while PS3 and 360, which follow your philosophy of making little or no money on the hardware, are inflicting multi-million dollar losses on their parent companies. Show me some evidence that hardware sales on the Wii and DS are "just a bonus." I'll be eagerly waiting.
The OED says I may do so, as it defines subscription as "A contribution of money for a specified object."
You must have subscribed to some really good weed if you think that tortured definition of "subscription" would be recognized by a native English speaker, no matter what the hoary old OED says. I'm going to go get a subscription for groceries and I'll be waiting, if I don't decide to go down to the bar and renew my subscription to beer.
To me, the $300 slim is not the same product as the 60Gb fat that had a hardware emotion engine, and the $300 model is the lowest spec'ed model they currently produce.
I don't understand your arbitrary distinctions. Before, you said they were removing features without lowering the price, which is clearly untrue (larger HDD, lower power consumption, ability to bitstream HD audio are added features). Lower power consumption is not a feature because you don't care about it? How solipsistic of you!
Video game console manufacturers are not in the business to profit off of console sales. Their profits come from software licensing, direct software sales and content subscriptions. Nintendo understands this concept
Utter garbage. Nintendo is the only console manufacturer that insists on profiting on the hardware from day one. That is one of the reasons why their stuff is so underpowered compared to their competitors. "Content subscriptions"...on a Nintendo console? No, you must be thinking of World of Warcraft. If you're thinking at all, which I kinda doubt after reading your dreck.
Since then they have continued to make their product worse without bringing the price down.
No, the price has gone down. That $300 Slim PS3 can't play SACDs, PS2 games, or run OtherOS. In every other way, it is the same or better than the $600 fat PS3. Lower power consumption and support for bitstreaming HD audio are 2 features that have been added.
Pre has great exchange support-it can even handle multiple accounts, so yes, I would say it's a good organizer. And WebOS doesn't crash so bad that it requires a wipe and reinstall every other week so I'd say it's got your Windows Mobile phone beaten.
The software itself is an inconsistent mess. Pressing the wrong button at the wrong time can lead to hours of wasted work. It chews through floppies and it also fails spectacularly. So no, the fact that it's running an OS old enough to rent a car is not in and of itself troublesome, but it's just badly written software overall and I would like something more modern.
I know we buy them at my lab-they are necessary for controlling the software of our scintillation counter. That thing (no joke) is running DOS 2.0 under the hood! I'm sure there's lots of industrial equipment in small/noncompetitive markets that has never felt pressured to update. It's the same reason why we have so much $500,000 equipment running unbelievably crappy software.
The 360 has a scaler chip and renders most of its games in 720p or less before scaling up to whatever output is specified by the user. PCs have more advanced graphics cards-no shit, Sherlock. Consoles more than make up for it with tightly optimized programming-with the result that the graphics actually get better over the life of the console, as opposed to PC where it starts out smooth and then gradually gets slower and sloooower until you fork out another $300 for another GFX card and/or CPU/mainboard combo. Don't know about you, but I hate that feeling, although I love everything else about PC games (free online play, mods, etc).
So long as the game is fun, who needs long-winded discussions about art? Also, many aspects of video games are recognized as gaming, such as pinball art, arcade marquee art, box art, penises drawn in Mario Paint, etc. The game itself doesn't need to be art to be worthy of serious scholarship.
Once the government holds a majority of the stock they control the company. And as far as Obama care goes, well, the bill is written so that the government will have to take control of many parts of the health care industry. The predicted costs of the bill are estimated at an ~21% cut in existing medicare/medicaid payments, with no allowances for increases in funding for the next decade.
That's the way Medicare is supposed to work. Payment amount is supposed to be tied to the economy. The only reason payments haven't been cut already is because it might piss off old people. And they vote.
In general, there are two kinds of defendants. Those who are guilty as charged, and those who while not guilty of the particular crime they are charged with were nonetheless a) up to something shifty that got them arrested and b) guilty of plenty of other related crimes for which they could not be charged due to an absence of evidence.
Really? I guess you are (probably willfully) ignorant of the numerous scandals due to contaminated DNA evidence. The City of Houston police department had to close down its entire lab for months and fire nearly everyone involved because of the abuse of the system. Additionally, district attorneys are immune from maliciously prosecuting people they know to be innocent. Do you honestly think there is no abuse of that system? You poor naive fool.
. They were happy with it when they had a heated battle to fight, but now that they've won they'd like to undo all those sales they made that were instrumental to their victory.
Yeah, I'm sure those 10 guys who bought a PS3 to fuck around with a crippled version of Linux really made the difference in the format war! Also, any scientific researchers dumb enough to buy PS3s for supercomputing are SOL now anyway. The Slim, which has been out 8 months, doesn't support OtherOS. "Fat" PS3s will be increasingly difficult to find.
Super Audio CD was a niche format. In 2010, it would be more accurate to call it a dead format. SACD support on the PS3 was lousy anyway (no analog multichannel out or lossless digital multichannel out). I would be shocked if 1% of PS3 owners knew or cared about that feature. Comparing that to a mass-appeal format like Bluray is asinine.
Once a document has been seen by someone without the proper clearance that document is no longer considered to have its classification level. .
After being corrected, you replied, seemingly agreeing with your corrector:
Until the security of the document can be ensured, it is considered to be classified but insecure. If the document is widle leaked then for all intents and purpolses, it is no longer classified, despite the official classification
And then you topped it off with I'll leave you with this: go fuck yourself, shit for brains." after ironically accusing your corrector of having the intellectual capacity of a 12-year-old. You're not exactly making a good impression.
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You are correct, Nintendo is profiting from console sales with the Wii, as they have since at least 2006. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20061215092033.html But that's a bonus to them and only a very small portion of their corporate sales, and that bonus only comes from decades of understanding the industry.
"Just a bonus" to them, eh? That's why they are the only ones making money this generation, while PS3 and 360, which follow your philosophy of making little or no money on the hardware, are inflicting multi-million dollar losses on their parent companies. Show me some evidence that hardware sales on the Wii and DS are "just a bonus." I'll be eagerly waiting.
The OED says I may do so, as it defines subscription as "A contribution of money for a specified object."
You must have subscribed to some really good weed if you think that tortured definition of "subscription" would be recognized by a native English speaker, no matter what the hoary old OED says. I'm going to go get a subscription for groceries and I'll be waiting, if I don't decide to go down to the bar and renew my subscription to beer.
To me, the $300 slim is not the same product as the 60Gb fat that had a hardware emotion engine, and the $300 model is the lowest spec'ed model they currently produce.
I don't understand your arbitrary distinctions. Before, you said they were removing features without lowering the price, which is clearly untrue (larger HDD, lower power consumption, ability to bitstream HD audio are added features). Lower power consumption is not a feature because you don't care about it? How solipsistic of you!
Video game console manufacturers are not in the business to profit off of console sales. Their profits come from software licensing, direct software sales and content subscriptions. Nintendo understands this concept
Utter garbage. Nintendo is the only console manufacturer that insists on profiting on the hardware from day one. That is one of the reasons why their stuff is so underpowered compared to their competitors. "Content subscriptions"...on a Nintendo console? No, you must be thinking of World of Warcraft. If you're thinking at all, which I kinda doubt after reading your dreck.
Since then they have continued to make their product worse without bringing the price down.
No, the price has gone down. That $300 Slim PS3 can't play SACDs, PS2 games, or run OtherOS. In every other way, it is the same or better than the $600 fat PS3. Lower power consumption and support for bitstreaming HD audio are 2 features that have been added.
Pre has great exchange support-it can even handle multiple accounts, so yes, I would say it's a good organizer. And WebOS doesn't crash so bad that it requires a wipe and reinstall every other week so I'd say it's got your Windows Mobile phone beaten.
The software itself is an inconsistent mess. Pressing the wrong button at the wrong time can lead to hours of wasted work. It chews through floppies and it also fails spectacularly. So no, the fact that it's running an OS old enough to rent a car is not in and of itself troublesome, but it's just badly written software overall and I would like something more modern.
You can't see the tape stretch and the bleeding chroma on SVHS? Man, I wish I had your eyes. Well, actually I don't.
I know we buy them at my lab-they are necessary for controlling the software of our scintillation counter. That thing (no joke) is running DOS 2.0 under the hood! I'm sure there's lots of industrial equipment in small/noncompetitive markets that has never felt pressured to update. It's the same reason why we have so much $500,000 equipment running unbelievably crappy software.
Not you, though! You're better than all those sad-sacks out there. You're DIFFERENT!
The 360 has a scaler chip and renders most of its games in 720p or less before scaling up to whatever output is specified by the user. PCs have more advanced graphics cards-no shit, Sherlock. Consoles more than make up for it with tightly optimized programming-with the result that the graphics actually get better over the life of the console, as opposed to PC where it starts out smooth and then gradually gets slower and sloooower until you fork out another $300 for another GFX card and/or CPU/mainboard combo. Don't know about you, but I hate that feeling, although I love everything else about PC games (free online play, mods, etc).
Steve, buddy! Thanks for the recommendations, I'm a huge fan of pr0n. Could you also recommend pr0n-friendly restaurants, hotels, bakeries etc?
It's a goddamned conspiracy! Drunken engineers leaving phones in bars-now that's how you do PR! We're THROUGH THE RABBIT HOLE, people!
whoops, I meant "many aspects of video games are recognized as art", not "recognized as gaming"
So long as the game is fun, who needs long-winded discussions about art? Also, many aspects of video games are recognized as gaming, such as pinball art, arcade marquee art, box art, penises drawn in Mario Paint, etc. The game itself doesn't need to be art to be worthy of serious scholarship.
Once the government holds a majority of the stock they control the company. And as far as Obama care goes, well, the bill is written so that the government will have to take control of many parts of the health care industry. The predicted costs of the bill are estimated at an ~21% cut in existing medicare/medicaid payments, with no allowances for increases in funding for the next decade.
That's the way Medicare is supposed to work. Payment amount is supposed to be tied to the economy. The only reason payments haven't been cut already is because it might piss off old people. And they vote.
Yeah, you're right, Bluray would have never beaten HD-DVD without OtherOS. What the fuck was I thinking?
In general, there are two kinds of defendants. Those who are guilty as charged, and those who while not guilty of the particular crime they are charged with were nonetheless a) up to something shifty that got them arrested and b) guilty of plenty of other related crimes for which they could not be charged due to an absence of evidence.
Really? I guess you are (probably willfully) ignorant of the numerous scandals due to contaminated DNA evidence. The City of Houston police department had to close down its entire lab for months and fire nearly everyone involved because of the abuse of the system. Additionally, district attorneys are immune from maliciously prosecuting people they know to be innocent. Do you honestly think there is no abuse of that system? You poor naive fool.
From my teenager years and until now I've always loved cute and nice girls
Really? You're a degenerate freak! All the rest of us only love ugly bitches!
. They were happy with it when they had a heated battle to fight, but now that they've won they'd like to undo all those sales they made that were instrumental to their victory.
Yeah, I'm sure those 10 guys who bought a PS3 to fuck around with a crippled version of Linux really made the difference in the format war! Also, any scientific researchers dumb enough to buy PS3s for supercomputing are SOL now anyway. The Slim, which has been out 8 months, doesn't support OtherOS. "Fat" PS3s will be increasingly difficult to find.
Yes, competing directly against Microsoft in the desktop space is a great idea. Signed, DR-DOS, OS/2, BeOS, etc.
Wow. That site breaks the lame-o-meter.
Super Audio CD was a niche format. In 2010, it would be more accurate to call it a dead format. SACD support on the PS3 was lousy anyway (no analog multichannel out or lossless digital multichannel out). I would be shocked if 1% of PS3 owners knew or cared about that feature. Comparing that to a mass-appeal format like Bluray is asinine.
1960's: Walking on the moon
2000's: Walking on the moon in underwear that will tweet whenever the astronaut voids his bladder!
We've made so much progress!
Well, kernels are generally derived from corn, I'll give you that...but I don't know what the Colonel would think of that!
Once a document has been seen by someone without the proper clearance that document is no longer considered to have its classification level. .
After being corrected, you replied, seemingly agreeing with your corrector:
Until the security of the document can be ensured, it is considered to be classified but insecure. If the document is widle leaked then for all intents and purpolses, it is no longer classified, despite the official classification
And then you topped it off with I'll leave you with this: go fuck yourself, shit for brains." after ironically accusing your corrector of having the intellectual capacity of a 12-year-old. You're not exactly making a good impression.
I don't remember that. Link?