Jeez... didn't your parents teach you proper hygiene?
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The End of E3?
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Actually, the way I see it, E3 can provide valuable feedback on games that are still in development.
Look at Red Steel for the Wii: Nearly everyone who played it was quite vocal about the game's flaws, so they went back to the drawing board to re-work it.
The E3 organizers' PR team are in damage control mode right now. They're gonna leave their website exactly as it is until they have some sort of official announcement to make.
This is standard operating practice in EVERY industry. Even e-commerce sites will keep selling stuff right up until they officially shut down.
McDonald's may be the biggest chain of burger joints in the world, but they're hardly the best.
I tried a 30 day trial of Kaspersky last year because McAfee was driving me NUTS. (Even its update engine is bloated, and uses an unnecessary level of CPU power.)
I ended up paying for a subscription because I was very impressed with it.
note that the name is Dreamfactory with a subtitle of Doki Doki Panic
Actually, the Japanese tend to do it in reverse when it comes to "subtitles". I refer to them as "surtitles". In the western way of writing, the title would be "Doki Doki Panic: Dreamfactory".
Think of titles like "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "Mobile Suit Gundam", and countless other series. Evangelion and Gundam are the proper titles, with the other bits as "surtitles".
There are, or were, bootleg cartridges available of SMB2.
Back when I was a kid, WELL before SMB3 was released outside of Japan, the asshole at the local video rental place told me they had an imported "Super Mario 3" in. I was extremely excited, and rented it right away. I got home, turned it on, and wondered "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" (It was, in fact, the Japanese SMB2.)
My mom convinced him to give me a refund.
A few days later, my friend rented and imported "Super Mario 5" from them, which finally turned out to be (the much sought-after) SMB3. We were as happy as you could possibly be.
To this day, I still wonder what the "Super Mario 4" cartridge was.
I've always found it funny how people bitch and moan when version 2 of a popular game is "just new levels".
If you loved the game in the first place, what's wrong with new levels?
Not that I dislike true, upgraded sequels, but sometimes it would be nice to get new levels to games I already like, between major releases. For example, I'd kill for some new "We Love Katamari" levels. (But the guy who did those games has officially buried the series.)
Hopefully integrated internet distribution will make it more common.
Talking about alphabets, I wish the eth and thorn were still part of the english alphabet. "TH" looks nothing like it sounds.
That, and I wish it weren't so painful to write accents on QWERTY keyboards. (I use the US-Int Alt-Gr key setup, but sometimes it mysteriously stops working... and makes using quotes and apostrophes a pain.) The standard US keyboard layout was fine in the days before international communications through the internet, when everyone was isolated, but now it needs a serious redesign in order to make special characters more easly accessable.
As much as it would be great for them to release a totally new OS, and as much as it would make sense for them not to call it "Windows"... it would flop, just because it's not "Windows".
People have a love-hate relationship with Windows. Just like feuding couples won't easily split-up if they have kids, the market will stick with Windows.
First of all, this was the '50s. Personal flight of the kind you're thinking of was something in sci-fi novels and Popular Science. It still is. People are bad drivers, and I imagine they would be even WORSE flyers. (Collisions on the road massively suck, but mid-air collisions are even less fun.)
The interstates weren't just about getting from one city to another. One of the primary reasons behind the interstate system was to promote settlement in the vast expanses of "the middle of nowhere" that made up the US. They put in the roads, and the private sector put in service stations and restaurants where they were needed. Small towns that were previously virtually inaccessable all of a sudden had major roadways running through them, and boomed.
It was the laying down of a massive infrastructure that would take decades to meet its intended goal. A HUGE investment, with no immediate return.
But also, think of it this way: A private road system would be like a bunch of AOLs and Compuserves. The public system is like the internet.
People are always so harsh on the government's ability to do things, and are quick to promote private industry as the better alternative, but this is one of the major public sector success stories.
I think in cases like this, private industry just would not have the resources and coordination to pull it off. Nor the motivation.
But in any case, NOBODY, public or private, wants to do mega-projects anymore. Complacency is the word of the day.
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I've got an iSCSI killer.
It's called soap.
Jeez... didn't your parents teach you proper hygiene?
Actually, the way I see it, E3 can provide valuable feedback on games that are still in development.
Look at Red Steel for the Wii: Nearly everyone who played it was quite vocal about the game's flaws, so they went back to the drawing board to re-work it.
The E3 organizers' PR team are in damage control mode right now. They're gonna leave their website exactly as it is until they have some sort of official announcement to make.
This is standard operating practice in EVERY industry. Even e-commerce sites will keep selling stuff right up until they officially shut down.
That's not news. At EVERY E3, at the main exit, they have a big banner with the date of the next year's event.
Sooner or later americans are gonna own EVERYTHING up here.
Not only that, they kill everything they touch. (Just ask everyone I know whose companies were bought by americans.)
From the wikipedia article:
"The exact time period of this explosion is not known, but will likely occur within the next 100,000 years."
So you'd have some pretty long-living great-grandkids.
The second step is bolting the chairs to the floor.
McDonald's may be the biggest chain of burger joints in the world, but they're hardly the best.
I tried a 30 day trial of Kaspersky last year because McAfee was driving me NUTS. (Even its update engine is bloated, and uses an unnecessary level of CPU power.)
I ended up paying for a subscription because I was very impressed with it.
There's a definite pronunciation problem there.
The average person wouldn't know to pronounce it that. "Missy?" "Meesy?"
It goes even further than that:
Creative: Zen
Microsoft: Zune
Apple must be somewhat pleased, as I imagine this will take Creative's army of lawyer's focus off them.
To come up with a bad name, all you need to do is sit down and brainstorm for a few minutes.
To come up with a really horrbile name, you need to give a million dollars to a marketing firm.
note that the name is Dreamfactory with a subtitle of Doki Doki Panic
Actually, the Japanese tend to do it in reverse when it comes to "subtitles". I refer to them as "surtitles". In the western way of writing, the title would be "Doki Doki Panic: Dreamfactory".
Think of titles like "Neon Genesis Evangelion", "Mobile Suit Gundam", and countless other series. Evangelion and Gundam are the proper titles, with the other bits as "surtitles".
There are, or were, bootleg cartridges available of SMB2.
Back when I was a kid, WELL before SMB3 was released outside of Japan, the asshole at the local video rental place told me they had an imported "Super Mario 3" in. I was extremely excited, and rented it right away. I got home, turned it on, and wondered "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" (It was, in fact, the Japanese SMB2.)
My mom convinced him to give me a refund.
A few days later, my friend rented and imported "Super Mario 5" from them, which finally turned out to be (the much sought-after) SMB3. We were as happy as you could possibly be.
To this day, I still wonder what the "Super Mario 4" cartridge was.
What a knob...
I've always found it funny how people bitch and moan when version 2 of a popular game is "just new levels".
If you loved the game in the first place, what's wrong with new levels?
Not that I dislike true, upgraded sequels, but sometimes it would be nice to get new levels to games I already like, between major releases. For example, I'd kill for some new "We Love Katamari" levels. (But the guy who did those games has officially buried the series.)
Hopefully integrated internet distribution will make it more common.
If they have to port it to every OS people "prefer", they have a whole shitload of driver writing on their hands. More than is really feasible.
It's not as if I don't understand "th", I just don't see how those two distinct letters combine to represent that sound.
Talking about alphabets, I wish the eth and thorn were still part of the english alphabet. "TH" looks nothing like it sounds.
That, and I wish it weren't so painful to write accents on QWERTY keyboards. (I use the US-Int Alt-Gr key setup, but sometimes it mysteriously stops working... and makes using quotes and apostrophes a pain.) The standard US keyboard layout was fine in the days before international communications through the internet, when everyone was isolated, but now it needs a serious redesign in order to make special characters more easly accessable.
That's what I was thinking.
Who the hell is gonna want to buy XP when Vista is supposedly only a few months away?
Then the flipside, who the hell is gonna want to buy Vista when they just bought XP?
As much as it would be great for them to release a totally new OS, and as much as it would make sense for them not to call it "Windows"... it would flop, just because it's not "Windows".
People have a love-hate relationship with Windows. Just like feuding couples won't easily split-up if they have kids, the market will stick with Windows.
In most big cities, these are your two choices now:
Sympatico (and all its DSL subletters): Get spied on.
Rogers: Deal with bullshit "traffic shaping".
Damn.
For me, the ultimate replacement for the floppy was the pocket USB flash drive. (Whatever you want to call it.)
First of all, this was the '50s. Personal flight of the kind you're thinking of was something in sci-fi novels and Popular Science. It still is. People are bad drivers, and I imagine they would be even WORSE flyers. (Collisions on the road massively suck, but mid-air collisions are even less fun.)
The interstates weren't just about getting from one city to another. One of the primary reasons behind the interstate system was to promote settlement in the vast expanses of "the middle of nowhere" that made up the US. They put in the roads, and the private sector put in service stations and restaurants where they were needed. Small towns that were previously virtually inaccessable all of a sudden had major roadways running through them, and boomed.
It was the laying down of a massive infrastructure that would take decades to meet its intended goal. A HUGE investment, with no immediate return.
But also, think of it this way: A private road system would be like a bunch of AOLs and Compuserves. The public system is like the internet.
If you're so smart, maybe you can reprogram it to *suck*.
So when's Rob gonna roll with his crew and bust some caps in Business 2.0?
YOU GOT SERVED, bitch.
People are always so harsh on the government's ability to do things, and are quick to promote private industry as the better alternative, but this is one of the major public sector success stories.
I think in cases like this, private industry just would not have the resources and coordination to pull it off. Nor the motivation.
But in any case, NOBODY, public or private, wants to do mega-projects anymore. Complacency is the word of the day.