Wow I really didn't expect a line by line refutation of my diatribe. In any case, I am justifiably mad because Nintendo has sold out in the past few generations to the casual gamers, abandoning those who like to play more traditional games. They didn't even bother to ship the Wii with a proper controller, making their intentions incredibly clear.
Exactly what justification is there for not even supporting HD. How does this simple feature prevent your ability to innovate? I am justifiably mad that Nintendo refused to make their product produce a good picture by modern standards.
I am not a hardcore gamer, I am just a traditional gamer, and Nintendo has abandoned me to the likes of Microsoft and Sony. I'm not complaining that I have to buy a Wii, I am complaining that I have to buy a 360. I am not a hater either; I'm a Nintendo fan. I'm just a fan of the old Nintendo and not what it's become.
Remember when Nintendo used to have FF games? Hopefully those days aren't gone forever, and I can go back to Nintendo.
Okay from now on when I'm bitching and moaning I will qualify my requests for innovation with a request the innovative games actually be fun. Now Mario Bros., that shit was hard. What do I get now, Wii bowling?
Also models that look like a drawing by a retarded 4th grader are not innovation. Has anyone noticed that nearly everyone has an HDTV now? Don't bullshit me with statistics either -- I know the kind of people who buy games and I have been to they and their parents' houses.
On topic though, Nintendo left the hard core behind when chose to make a GameCube console with a new controller. Nintendo has not made a good console since the Super Nintendo. Good luck selling games to my Grandpa, douchebags.
I like (some parts of) Monkey Ball, though -- especially golf.
How is that shady? Anyone who looked at the differences between the models would know this already. If they didn't, then who's fault is that? What's wrong with giving your customers and upgrade path?
Well, gee, 676 people so far managed to answer my question without flaming, and their answers are hardly uniform. As for it hitting the front page, you'll have to blame Zonk.
Oblivion aside, the 360 doesn't have any decent RPGs yet, unless a few came out while I wasn't looking. If you want RPGs you should definitely buy/replace/stick with your PS2. Also, many PS2 models are easily mod'able and can run Linux, if you're into that.
You have a bunch of boxes running HP-UX? That's your problem. I really can't comment on its distant past, but it is a dog nowadays. Even HP doesn't use it any more.
Really good sales people are worth their weight in gold As are really good engineers... but, as pointed out above, it's hard to prove. I think we lose too many of the really good ones to higher paying positions in sales and management. Of course, some with business sense go on to be entrepreneurs, making the really big bucks, and they sometimes even manage to do some high level engineering in that position. Most, however sell (I didn't say sell out) and start more businesses. It seems some of the big shops these days are really more like aggregations of successful, smaller businesses mashed together to create top-to-bottom solutions and mitigate risk to keep the shareholders happy. There's something crazily efficient about it, even though the transition usually manages to piss off the customers and the developers alike.
How is what Clinton did sexual harassment? I think there has to be a victim for that, and I don't recall that particular woman ever coming forward as such. In any case, they both committed the same crime, Clinton to cover his ass and Libby to cover his ass and possibly others' as well.
One key difference is that as "the President" it is much harder to convict him. Libby was convicted by a court, whereas Clinton was not. I don't think the President should be letting Libby get away with it. What kind of logic is this: a lie for a lie, here?
Go meta-moderate then. I do it often, and it is very rare that I see a blatantly politically motivated and unfair downmod. They never last long anyways, so who cares?
Sure thing. I'll be by in 3 months to purchase your astroglide chairs and pinball machines for pennies on the dollar at your bankruptcy auction. Dude, I don't know much about chairs, but astroglide is lube. The kind for people, not cars.
I'd just like to point out that a lot of things are worth more than gold per gram, including plain old water, in its purest (nanotech-quality) form of course. High-quality marijuana also comes to mind, although the recent rises in gold prices may have made that obsolete information. How about U-235?
Yes, let's not feed the trolls. Gas is to car as ink is to printer... No analogy is perfect, but I got it. Now let's just hope that ink remains readily available outside the middle east.
My opinion of these kinds of lock-ins has always been that their just trying to alienate their own customer base, and the more you try to force people into an artificial business model the more incentive they have to find alternate solutions.
So I say to manufacturers: the game is over. Sell your printers at cost, please, and let ink be just ink. We'll all be better off in the end. Or you can just let Canon own you... whatever.
people without insurance go without care unless ones life is in immediate danger Correction, poor/irresponsible/both people go without care. Nobody who can pay is turned away. As for the rest, the hospital is already taking a beating paying for their care when they finally do get critical. I'm not saying it's right, but you have to make tough choices in this world. If I have cancer and no insurance, and it's going to take $100,000 to treat me, but I can't beg, borrow, or steal the money, then society has determined that my whole life is not worth $100,000. Tough. Better luck next time.
I want health insurance with a $5000 deductible. Of course I want to pay much less for it.
You have to do a few horrible things to people with no health insurance or else there'd be no incentive. The reason HMOs were created, however, is to convince the healthy to subsidize the sick. Group policies are the product of retarded tax laws.
You are allowed to obtain reasonable amounts of Cuban products (2 cases for cigars IIRC) and import them on your person. You just aren't allowed to get them from Cuba.
In my experience regret on buying expensive toys is just part of the enjoyment. Theres value in having something you really like, even if you dont use it!
That said I believe that price floors are, in general, anti-competitive, although apparently the litigants were able to prove that they are, some cases at least, not. There's still the freedom aspect, though. You (and your retailer) should be free to do what you will with what you've bought fair and square. To me the "free"dom to enter into a contract that limits your freedom is not much freedom at all. I think contracts should be able to regulate only the transaction between the signing parties, not some other future transaction. A lot of people will disagree with me now, but wait till the topic is non-competes again. I'll be sure to post.
pharmaceutical companies (the latter being one of the most morally bankrupt industries in existence As long as you have exclusive patents, drug companies are going to charge whatever they want. It's also an incredibly risky business to be in, and the investors want a premium in payoff for taking those risks. Doctors have to share the blame too, prescribing patients patented drug mixes that cost orders of magnitude as much when 2 generics would do the trick. Sure, the patient doesn't care, but in the long run this sort of behavior is costing him insurance money.
I think you hit it there. Vista is genuinely more secure, mainly do to UAC and UMIE (User Mode Internet Explorer(tm)). People will notice when they don't get popups, ant their computers run roughly the same speed forever.
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Wow I really didn't expect a line by line refutation of my diatribe. In any case, I am justifiably mad because Nintendo has sold out in the past few generations to the casual gamers, abandoning those who like to play more traditional games. They didn't even bother to ship the Wii with a proper controller, making their intentions incredibly clear.
Exactly what justification is there for not even supporting HD. How does this simple feature prevent your ability to innovate? I am justifiably mad that Nintendo refused to make their product produce a good picture by modern standards.
I am not a hardcore gamer, I am just a traditional gamer, and Nintendo has abandoned me to the likes of Microsoft and Sony. I'm not complaining that I have to buy a Wii, I am complaining that I have to buy a 360. I am not a hater either; I'm a Nintendo fan. I'm just a fan of the old Nintendo and not what it's become.
Remember when Nintendo used to have FF games? Hopefully those days aren't gone forever, and I can go back to Nintendo.
You do realize that there probably aren't a billion people in the the world that could afford this machine.
Also, at the rate they're going, Nintendo will produce it's billionth Wii about the time the Xbox 1080 comes out.
Okay from now on when I'm bitching and moaning I will qualify my requests for innovation with a request the innovative games actually be fun. Now Mario Bros., that shit was hard. What do I get now, Wii bowling?
Also models that look like a drawing by a retarded 4th grader are not innovation.
Has anyone noticed that nearly everyone has an HDTV now? Don't bullshit me with statistics either -- I know the kind of people who buy games and I have been to they and their parents' houses.
On topic though, Nintendo left the hard core behind when chose to make a GameCube console with a new controller. Nintendo has not made a good console since the Super Nintendo. Good luck selling games to my Grandpa, douchebags.
I like (some parts of) Monkey Ball, though -- especially golf.
When AC trolling/flaming, you really don't have to apologize.
Yes, because Nintendo invented bluetooth and motion sensing.
How is that shady? Anyone who looked at the differences between the models would know this already. If they didn't, then who's fault is that? What's wrong with giving your customers and upgrade path?
Well, gee, 676 people so far managed to answer my question without flaming, and their answers are hardly uniform. As for it hitting the front page, you'll have to blame Zonk.
Oblivion aside, the 360 doesn't have any decent RPGs yet, unless a few came out while I wasn't looking. If you want RPGs you should definitely buy/replace/stick with your PS2. Also, many PS2 models are easily mod'able and can run Linux, if you're into that.
You have a bunch of boxes running HP-UX? That's your problem. I really can't comment on its distant past, but it is a dog nowadays. Even HP doesn't use it any more.
No cuz then MS will figure out that you opened the fucker, and they won't repair it. OTOH, they regularly replace overheated Xboxes.
Money is a sign of support. He's also quite popular in the polls, and the money is not causing that by itself.
This is just a sign of the news with nothing better to talk about. Once the votes start coming in, they'll have more important things to say.
How is what Clinton did sexual harassment? I think there has to be a victim for that, and I don't recall that particular woman ever coming forward as such. In any case, they both committed the same crime, Clinton to cover his ass and Libby to cover his ass and possibly others' as well.
One key difference is that as "the President" it is much harder to convict him. Libby was convicted by a court, whereas Clinton was not. I don't think the President should be letting Libby get away with it. What kind of logic is this: a lie for a lie, here?
Go meta-moderate then. I do it often, and it is very rare that I see a blatantly politically motivated and unfair downmod. They never last long anyways, so who cares?
I'd just like to point out that a lot of things are worth more than gold per gram, including plain old water, in its purest (nanotech-quality) form of course. High-quality marijuana also comes to mind, although the recent rises in gold prices may have made that obsolete information. How about U-235?
Yes, let's not feed the trolls. Gas is to car as ink is to printer... No analogy is perfect, but I got it. Now let's just hope that ink remains readily available outside the middle east.
My opinion of these kinds of lock-ins has always been that their just trying to alienate their own customer base, and the more you try to force people into an artificial business model the more incentive they have to find alternate solutions.
So I say to manufacturers: the game is over. Sell your printers at cost, please, and let ink be just ink. We'll all be better off in the end. Or you can just let Canon own you... whatever.
I want health insurance with a $5000 deductible. Of course I want to pay much less for it.
You have to do a few horrible things to people with no health insurance or else there'd be no incentive. The reason HMOs were created, however, is to convince the healthy to subsidize the sick. Group policies are the product of retarded tax laws.
You are allowed to obtain reasonable amounts of Cuban products (2 cases for cigars IIRC) and import them on your person. You just aren't allowed to get them from Cuba.
In my experience regret on buying expensive toys is just part of the enjoyment. Theres value in having something you really like, even if you dont use it!
That said I believe that price floors are, in general, anti-competitive, although apparently the litigants were able to prove that they are, some cases at least, not. There's still the freedom aspect, though. You (and your retailer) should be free to do what you will with what you've bought fair and square. To me the "free"dom to enter into a contract that limits your freedom is not much freedom at all. I think contracts should be able to regulate only the transaction between the signing parties, not some other future transaction. A lot of people will disagree with me now, but wait till the topic is non-competes again. I'll be sure to post.
Quarter acre? You'd be lucky to get a backyard here.
I think you hit it there. Vista is genuinely more secure, mainly do to UAC and UMIE (User Mode Internet Explorer(tm)). People will notice when they don't get popups, ant their computers run roughly the same speed forever.