It doesn't really matter if they've been about it, they have it. They have it among a great many shoppers. As far as slitting the throat of supplier X for cheaper stuff from supplier Y; Yeah, so what? given the number of consumers they already have, most people apparently don't care..
Ah, but there is something that Northgate doesn't have... Massive name brand recognition and an installed consumer base of several million people already in place ^_^
Beyond the neato effect that ebombs will scour away the enemies technology base, a lot of us seem to be forgetting the more unplesant aspects of this "friendly" weapon-- You still have to go in and take the land from people intent on keeping it, who will still have their AK47s, grenades, morters and such to oppose you. Taking the Gulf War II for instance, all these weapons would have done is make it easier to kill the opposing force. Zapping their lights would have made them only marginally less inclined to oppose you. These are not "friendly" weapons as seems to be the popular opinion. They are support devices intended to facilitate the destruction of the enemy by limiting their oppertunity to strike back on the same technological plain. In the end, you still have to deal with people behind the gun.
So we're basically talking $300 nice cellphone and another $3700 just for encryption? I know we're overpricing in the name of security, but doesn't that strike anybody else here as a tad extortionary??? Hard telling who their customer base will be with that sort of price tag...
I have absolutely no problem with the labels making money by other means off of products we're recieving- and don't forget it -for free. In fact, I'd wager that the more money they make through these secondary revenue sources, the less likely they're apt to turn around and bite the hand that feeds em. We're breaking down the Berlin wall here, folks. Of course, I'm sure what they do make isn't anywhere close to $15 a CD, but it's a step in the right direction towards weening them off an archaic sales model.
Sure they're hypocritical. So is communism until it eventially fails because of all the capitalism playing behind the scenes. It might take time, but they'll wisen up. Eventially. Hopefully.
Now I'm not one that thinks chess is the end-all-be-all of society, but some might consider it brilliant that he was able to absolutely dumbfound the pinnical of chess technology. Yeah he made use of the other guy's mistakes... That's called "winning". Since the computer is brute forcing it's way through the chess match by trying to calculate ever possible senario per move, I consider it brilliant that he found a way to neutralize that huge advantage, even if the games was rather one-sided. Now to continue to win using the same motis operandi is cheesy simply exploitng a blindspot, but to find that blindspot [i]is[/i] brilliance in and of itself.
Lets go over this one last time-- YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BUY WINDOWS. MICROSOFT CAN INCLUDE ANY FEATURES IT DAMN WELL SEES FIT IN ITS OWN PRODUCT. Yes, yes... We know they were engaged in anti-competitive practices, but that really doesn't have a thing to do with this. Exactly which media alternative have they been supressing with this one? I know, winamp, right?
"I have all my consoles at home, and I have a very powerful PC that plays lots of games and can be upgraded simply by installing new hardware myself. Why would I want to buy a Phantom?"
Rob's answer? "Well then you aren't really part of the Phantom's core user base."
Well, it's nice to know console and PC gamers aren't their target audience. I mean, God forbid you'd want to tap that user base.
As long as we're going after ISP's, lets sue Google! After all, they directly help in providing access to pirated software, illegal MP3s and movies to boot! But screw the minor offenses. Let's get some of that child porn action going!
I mean really, how screwy is this? Last I saw, police ticketed the lawbreakers on the roadway, not the roadway itself or the owners of the roadway. Now wouldn't that be great? "Well Govenor, since we caught people speeding on the state roadway, we're going to fine you, not them." Riiiiiiigt. But since we're fining the owners of the roadway, wouldn't it be even more logical to bust the people who put the huge signs up that say "CRACK HOUSE HERE! TWO FOR ONE SALE!" or "HALF PRICE JOINT SALE NEXT RIGHT"???
While we're sueing the ISP's and Search Engines, lets sue the makers of the monitors you're using now! That's right, they should be preventing you from even seing that stuff. And does your computer have a NIC? They're facilitating a crime right there, baby! Illegal transfer of files! AND DAMN MAXTOR for allowing those files to reside on your harddrive! Screw personal responsibility! I'VE GOT A CASE! I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!!!
Oh, you mean the OK solution as part of somebody else's utility and not really MAME itself? Dude, my entire point (which you obviously missed) is native GUI support, NOT writing your own/3rd party front end.
Yes, go ahead and lable Bush weasle of the year. It's fine with me just as long as you remember that for every lie you acredit Bush, it was found at the UN's doorstep FIRST.
WMDs? Why, the UN publishedfigures to the effect that Nearly four tons of VX nerve agents, Growth media for 20,000 litres of biological warfare agents, 15,000 shells for use in biological warfare and 6,000 chemical warfare bombs were unaccounted for.
"Recognizing the threat Iraq's non-compliance with Council resolutions and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles poses to international peace and security. Deploring the fact that Iraq has not provided an accurate, full, final, and complete disclosure...as well as all other nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to nuclear-weapons-usable material. Deploring further that Iraq repeatedly obstructed immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access to sites designated by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM)...and ultimately ceased all cooperation with UNSCOM and the IAEA in 1998,...in spite of the Council's repeated demands that Iraq provide immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access to the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), Deploring also that the Government of Iraq has failed to comply with its commitments pursuant to resolution 687 (1991) with regard to terrorism...to end repression of its civilian population... Determined to ensure full and immediate compliance by Iraq without conditions or restrictions... Determined to secure full compliance with its decisions..."
And also said...
"1. Decides that Iraq has been and remains in material breach of its obligations under relevant resolutions... 2. Decides, while acknowledging paragraph 1 above, to afford Iraq, by this resolution, a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations under relevant resolutions of the Council; 3. Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations...the Government of Iraq shall provide a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft,...and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material; 7. UNMOVIC and the IAEA shall have the right to be provided by Iraq the names of all personnel currently and formerly associated with Iraq?s chemical, biological, nuclear, and ballistic missile programmes and the associated research, development, and production facilities 13. Recalls, in that context, that the Council has repeatedly warned Iraq that it will face serious consequences as a result of its continued violations of its obligations."
Did I mention that 1441 was ratified unanimously by every permanent
The only exception I can currently think of to the storage rule is for the GP32 (noted by somebody else a few posts down) where space can be a premium. Otherwise it's a non-issue.
I appreciate the info point #2 provided. Cripes, I'm sick of "OK".
Be that as it may, portability is a sorry excuse these days not to include a GUI, especially when the average ROM library is far from portable, when the media of choice is CD and when harddrives regularly come in multi-gigabyte flavors. We're not exactly dealing with 1.44mb floppies here anymore. My Rom Library takes up at least 5 CDs. I don't think another meg or two on MAME for a spiffy user interface and enhanced ROM management is going make a difference on way or the other.
But hey, it's free, right? You get what you pay for and I guess it really is too much to ask.
It's a simple request. Really. How hard is it to move beyond a command line interphase without having to add the 3rd party GUI mouse driven front end seperately (ie MAME32)? It's the 21st century already, so here's a swell idea-- LETS ADD NATIVE POINT AND CLICK SUPPORT. And for cryin' out loud, I'm sick and tired of actually typing out "OK" 500 times everytime MAME finds something to prompt. A "been there, done that" option or checkbox would be really really really REALLY appreciated.
I like MAME, I really do, but the stoneage look, feel and functionality of it has no place in gaming these days. It's really time to move on.
"Once you prepare for war, you've already started the war."
Seeing as you're just full of these pearls of wisdom, where's the one that talks about the people who weren't prepared?
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"...what military threat does China possess?"
That's incredibly short-sighted. We're talking about a country that can put over a billion people towards a war time effort that is aggressively updating it's military. We're also talking about the country that led the invasions of Korea and Vietnam and the country with an outstandingly bad human rights record for the better half of a century.
I know the strategy is to introduce capitalism by trade, eventially destabilizing a communistic system, but I'm not so sure it's working entirely as planned in this case... At anyrate, discounting china as a threat is a mistake of epic porportions given their past record and current actions.
"Well, given that S. Jobs just officially anounced iTunes for Windows, stability issues for Napster are moot for all those windows users out there."
Hate to break it to yas, but it was a moot point so long ago that it wasn't even a point, let alone iTunes being an issue. if there was a moot point anywhere here at all, I think it was the assumption that windows users will care about iTunes.
"However, Polygon reports that an Xbox conversion of the game is still in doubt..."
Personnally, I don't think this bodes well for the XBox. Sega has now had ample opportunity to see what will stick in terms of sales on the XBox, and now they're shying away from putting more hits that would undoubtably sell on the console. While there is no question they will sell, Sega evidentally doesn't think it'll sell enough to make it worth their time or trouble anymore. Wonder who else is seeing things in the same light...
Seems like MS is destined to take the hard road until they realize the NEED the Japanese market, at least for the forseeable foture.
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Totally off-topic, but:
"You can't beat an army with a stronger
will and with greater numbers. It's why
the US lost in Vietnam..."
You missed the 70s, didn't you? I'll watch as your bad analogy and the distinct lack of will of the American people in Vietnam bites you on the ass.
"The main purpose of the documentary 'Modern Day Gamer 2' is to ask whether we will ever see gaming become a mainstream spectator sport."
Ahem, JAPAN.
Heck, we'll even throw S.Korea in there.
It doesn't really matter if they've been about it, they have it. They have it among a great many shoppers. As far as slitting the throat of supplier X for cheaper stuff from supplier Y; Yeah, so what? given the number of consumers they already have, most people apparently don't care..
Ah, but there is something that Northgate doesn't have... Massive name brand recognition and an installed consumer base of several million people already in place ^_^
Beyond the neato effect that ebombs will scour away the enemies technology base, a lot of us seem to be forgetting the more unplesant aspects of this "friendly" weapon-- You still have to go in and take the land from people intent on keeping it, who will still have their AK47s, grenades, morters and such to oppose you. Taking the Gulf War II for instance, all these weapons would have done is make it easier to kill the opposing force. Zapping their lights would have made them only marginally less inclined to oppose you. These are not "friendly" weapons as seems to be the popular opinion. They are support devices intended to facilitate the destruction of the enemy by limiting their oppertunity to strike back on the same technological plain. In the end, you still have to deal with people behind the gun.
So we're basically talking $300 nice cellphone and another $3700 just for encryption? I know we're overpricing in the name of security, but doesn't that strike anybody else here as a tad extortionary??? Hard telling who their customer base will be with that sort of price tag...
I have absolutely no problem with the labels making money by other means off of products we're recieving- and don't forget it -for free. In fact, I'd wager that the more money they make through these secondary revenue sources, the less likely they're apt to turn around and bite the hand that feeds em. We're breaking down the Berlin wall here, folks. Of course, I'm sure what they do make isn't anywhere close to $15 a CD, but it's a step in the right direction towards weening them off an archaic sales model.
Sure they're hypocritical. So is communism until it eventially fails because of all the capitalism playing behind the scenes. It might take time, but they'll wisen up. Eventially. Hopefully.
Now I'm not one that thinks chess is the end-all-be-all of society, but some might consider it brilliant that he was able to absolutely dumbfound the pinnical of chess technology. Yeah he made use of the other guy's mistakes... That's called "winning". Since the computer is brute forcing it's way through the chess match by trying to calculate ever possible senario per move, I consider it brilliant that he found a way to neutralize that huge advantage, even if the games was rather one-sided. Now to continue to win using the same motis operandi is cheesy simply exploitng a blindspot, but to find that blindspot [i]is[/i] brilliance in and of itself.
Lets go over this one last time-- YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BUY WINDOWS. MICROSOFT CAN INCLUDE ANY FEATURES IT DAMN WELL SEES FIT IN ITS OWN PRODUCT. Yes, yes... We know they were engaged in anti-competitive practices, but that really doesn't have a thing to do with this. Exactly which media alternative have they been supressing with this one? I know, winamp, right?
No, lets look at it from a different angle. Such as this one.
Linux!!!!
Feel free to mod me up now.
Of course, most people aren't quite that anal and knew exactly what he was saying.
Next year MS will release a XP service pack that enables IE to block pop-up ads. Only a few years late.
Cry me a fucking river. Even when MS finally does something right you can't admit, let alone applaud them for it. Flame on.
"I have all my consoles at home, and I have a very powerful PC that plays lots of games and can be upgraded simply by installing new hardware myself. Why would I want to buy a Phantom?"
Rob's answer? "Well then you aren't really part of the Phantom's core user base."
Well, it's nice to know console and PC gamers aren't their target audience. I mean, God forbid you'd want to tap that user base.
As long as we're going after ISP's, lets sue Google! After all, they directly help in providing access to pirated software, illegal MP3s and movies to boot! But screw the minor offenses. Let's get some of that child porn action going!
I mean really, how screwy is this? Last I saw, police ticketed the lawbreakers on the roadway, not the roadway itself or the owners of the roadway. Now wouldn't that be great? "Well Govenor, since we caught people speeding on the state roadway, we're going to fine you, not them." Riiiiiiigt. But since we're fining the owners of the roadway, wouldn't it be even more logical to bust the people who put the huge signs up that say "CRACK HOUSE HERE! TWO FOR ONE SALE!" or "HALF PRICE JOINT SALE NEXT RIGHT"???
While we're sueing the ISP's and Search Engines, lets sue the makers of the monitors you're using now! That's right, they should be preventing you from even seing that stuff. And does your computer have a NIC? They're facilitating a crime right there, baby! Illegal transfer of files! AND DAMN MAXTOR for allowing those files to reside on your harddrive! Screw personal responsibility! I'VE GOT A CASE! I'LL TAKE YOU ALL ON!!!
Or not.
Oh, you mean the OK solution as part of somebody else's utility and not really MAME itself? Dude, my entire point (which you obviously missed) is native GUI support, NOT writing your own/3rd party front end.
"shrug"
Yes, go ahead and lable Bush weasle of the year. It's fine with me just as long as you remember that for every lie you acredit Bush, it was found at the UN's doorstep FIRST.
...as well as all other nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to nuclear-weapons-usable material. Deploring further that Iraq repeatedly obstructed immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access to sites designated by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) ...and ultimately ceased all cooperation with UNSCOM and the IAEA in 1998, ...in spite of the Council's repeated demands that Iraq provide immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access to the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), Deploring also that the Government of Iraq has failed to comply with its commitments pursuant to resolution 687 (1991) with regard to terrorism ...to end repression of its civilian population... Determined to ensure full and immediate compliance by Iraq without conditions or restrictions... Determined to secure full compliance with its decisions..."
...the Government of Iraq shall provide a currently accurate, full, and complete declaration of all aspects of its programmes to develop chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems such as unmanned aerial vehicles and dispersal systems designed for use on aircraft, ...and nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to weapon production or material; 7. UNMOVIC and the IAEA shall have the right to be provided by Iraq the names of all personnel currently and formerly associated with Iraq?s chemical, biological, nuclear, and ballistic missile programmes and the associated research, development, and production facilities
WMDs? Why, the UN published figures to the effect that Nearly four tons of VX nerve agents, Growth media for 20,000 litres of biological warfare agents, 15,000 shells for use in biological warfare and 6,000 chemical warfare bombs were unaccounted for.
A threat to world peace? Looks like the UN whole heartedly agreed with President Clinton when he said, "Saddam (Hussein) must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons." I don't recall the UN batting an eye, do you? I don't seem to remember France, Germany China or Russia losing too much sleep over Operation Desert Fox either.
And lets not forget Resolution 1441 that clearly states:
"Recognizing the threat Iraq's non-compliance with Council resolutions and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles poses to international peace and security. Deploring the fact that Iraq has not provided an accurate, full, final, and complete disclosure
And also said...
"1. Decides that Iraq has been and remains in material breach of its obligations under relevant resolutions... 2. Decides, while acknowledging paragraph 1 above, to afford Iraq, by this resolution, a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations under relevant resolutions of the Council; 3. Decides that, in order to begin to comply with its disarmament obligations
13. Recalls, in that context, that the Council has repeatedly warned Iraq that it will face serious consequences as a result of its continued violations of its obligations."
Did I mention that 1441 was ratified unanimously by every permanent
The only exception I can currently think of to the storage rule is for the GP32 (noted by somebody else a few posts down) where space can be a premium. Otherwise it's a non-issue.
All I'm asking for is something nice to handle those retro games, but point taken :p
I appreciate the info point #2 provided. Cripes, I'm sick of "OK".
Be that as it may, portability is a sorry excuse these days not to include a GUI, especially when the average ROM library is far from portable, when the media of choice is CD and when harddrives regularly come in multi-gigabyte flavors. We're not exactly dealing with 1.44mb floppies here anymore. My Rom Library takes up at least 5 CDs. I don't think another meg or two on MAME for a spiffy user interface and enhanced ROM management is going make a difference on way or the other.
But hey, it's free, right? You get what you pay for and I guess it really is too much to ask.
It's a simple request. Really. How hard is it to move beyond a command line interphase without having to add the 3rd party GUI mouse driven front end seperately (ie MAME32)? It's the 21st century already, so here's a swell idea-- LETS ADD NATIVE POINT AND CLICK SUPPORT. And for cryin' out loud, I'm sick and tired of actually typing out "OK" 500 times everytime MAME finds something to prompt. A "been there, done that" option or checkbox would be really really really REALLY appreciated.
I like MAME, I really do, but the stoneage look, feel and functionality of it has no place in gaming these days. It's really time to move on.
"Once you prepare for war, you've already started the war."
Seeing as you're just full of these pearls of wisdom, where's the one that talks about the people who weren't prepared?
"...what military threat does China possess?"
That's incredibly short-sighted. We're talking about a country that can put over a billion people towards a war time effort that is aggressively updating it's military. We're also talking about the country that led the invasions of Korea and Vietnam and the country with an outstandingly bad human rights record for the better half of a century.
I know the strategy is to introduce capitalism by trade, eventially destabilizing a communistic system, but I'm not so sure it's working entirely as planned in this case... At anyrate, discounting china as a threat is a mistake of epic porportions given their past record and current actions.
"Well, given that S. Jobs just officially anounced iTunes for Windows, stability issues for Napster are moot for all those windows users out there."
Hate to break it to yas, but it was a moot point so long ago that it wasn't even a point, let alone iTunes being an issue. if there was a moot point anywhere here at all, I think it was the assumption that windows users will care about iTunes.
I saw the commercial for this... And it reminded me of South Park... but with Lightsabers...
"However, Polygon reports that an Xbox conversion of the game is still in doubt..."
Personnally, I don't think this bodes well for the XBox. Sega has now had ample opportunity to see what will stick in terms of sales on the XBox, and now they're shying away from putting more hits that would undoubtably sell on the console. While there is no question they will sell, Sega evidentally doesn't think it'll sell enough to make it worth their time or trouble anymore. Wonder who else is seeing things in the same light...
Seems like MS is destined to take the hard road until they realize the NEED the Japanese market, at least for the forseeable foture.