>>Microsoft's strategy here is just to bleed its competitors over the next few years to make them very unprofitable.>So, it may cost Microsoft a few billion dollars in losses to crack this nut... who cares?
So where did he get the idea to review these specific games?
The four games were on a tape of excerpts submitted by the county of St. Louis(which passed the law). So it's likely all redeeming elements were excised so as to make the games appear as horrible as possible.
I think it's highly questionable he "reviewed" or briefly played the games at all. He couldn't even get the names of the games correctly. "Resident of Evil Creek"? It'd almost be laughable if this wasn't such an important issue.
Stores, like movies theatres, may deny access to minors. However, laws cannot mandate that they do so.
Unfortunately, we're living in Amerikkka these days. Computer games? They're just funny pictures on a screen!
And the judge's choice of games is particularly laughable. It's like judging the artistic content of the entire movie industry by the "standards" of Payback, Debbie Does Dallas and Armageddon.
Iran/Contra was not a crime. And once again, the Democrat brings up something from a quarter of a century ago.
If it wasn't a crime, then why did President Bush have to pardon a slew of white house officials facing(or about to face) criminal charges just before he left office?
It was on Christmas Day, 1992 so you may have not noticed it. And unlike the heavily criticized Clinton pardons, these were done primarily to protect Bush himself from criminal charges. Pardon all the witnesses and they can't turn state's evidence on you, as Casper Weinberger, IIRC, was preparing to do.
BTW, the Iran Contra hearings were 15 years ago, not 25.
The Sims is less a "life simulator" and more a computerized doll house.
Instead of Ken and Barbie and their bright pink dreamhouse, it's naked representations of your co-workers walled up in the outhouse while the popular and beloved sim-you parties in an extravagent mansion.
I'm betting Morrowind will turn out to be as "Free-form" as its predecessor, Daggerfall. As in "free of form." Daggerfall was a souless, monotonous, not to mention bug-ridden, piece of junk.
Sure, there were a few masichists who enjoyed the repetitive, thinly-veiled FedEx quests... the cornucopia of completely useless character skills... the game-killing bugs that were so bad that Bethseda, instead of correcting them, included and encouraged the use of cheats to get around them... the huge, random, recycled-texture-laden dungeons used for every two-bit quest... the complete lack of meaningful NPC interaction...
But they were idiots.
I have every expectation Morrowind will be just as bad, if prettier, at least. I wish it were otherwise but I have no confidence in that company.
is that it's not^H^H^H easily noticed. But my bloodstream could NOT be chock full of nanoprobes right now, subtley altering me, possibly even changing my thoughts and what I'm NOT typing right now, without me even NOT realizing it. It could NOT lead to some kind of cognitive dissonance where people are being told one thing but they DON'T believe they heard something completely different.
The future of nanotech is a HAPPPY HAPPY scary world.
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My problem wasn't that MS was bundling IE with Windows. That's the media's gross oversimplification of the problem.
The problem was Microsoft leveraging their near-OS monopoly to bully OEMs and competitors. The bundling of IE was just part of that attack strategy.
Apple, of course, doesn't have any OEMs to bully nor a desktop monopoly to leverage. That's the difference.
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I don't believe in free will. However, since we are only able to travel forward in time at the "normal" pace, we experience an illusion of free will that is indistinguishable from the real thing.
As long as you have no knowledge of the future(from your current position in time), as far as you are concerned, you have "free will".
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Yes, quite irresponsible. After all, when has the RIAA ever done anything malicious to innocent computer users' systems?
Now add labour to assemble all of this.
Now add margin for all the middlemen that MS *does* have to deal with.
Now add margin for the retailers that have to sell it.
And, as you mention, add in all the marketing and development.
So, you are saying that the XBox will be dead within a year - even though there are over 100 titles currently being written for it.
There were 100 titles being written for the Dreamcast when it was cancelled.
Don't forget that over 200 games are in development for the XBox.
IIRC, the Dreamcast had "100 games in development" when it was *cancelled*.
>>Microsoft's strategy here is just to bleed its competitors over the next few years to make them very unprofitable.>So, it may cost Microsoft a few billion dollars in losses to crack this nut... who cares?
Their shareholders.
I imagine they're not saying anything because, right now, the only company being hurt by Microsoft's hardware dumping is... Microsoft.
What are Sony and Nintendo going to complain about? "We're not making enough money"?
Suicide might be illegal, but that doesn't mean Sony and Nintendo are going to keep Microsoft from hanging itself.
>>I think it was on 1500 more screens (if I remember correctly).
You don't. It was only about 500 more and Spiderman *still* had a better per-screen average.
>> within a minute of pulling in, I pull out with my groceries... never left the car!
In that case, why not just stay at home while your car drives itself?
>>Since they're so cheap, you could (perhaps) install BSD/Linux and use them as a web farm.
Then MS could sue you under the DMCA for circumventing their profit protection technology.
... unless you buy a copy of Halo for each and every XBox.
>>I'd like a cheap console to play some quick, fun, and social games with friends.
Get Smash Bros Melee and Super Monkey Ball.
God(tm) is just vapourware anyways.
So where did he get the idea to review these specific games?
The four games were on a tape of excerpts submitted by the county of St. Louis(which passed the law). So it's likely all redeeming elements were excised so as to make the games appear as horrible as possible.
I think it's highly questionable he "reviewed" or briefly played the games at all. He couldn't even get the names of the games correctly. "Resident of Evil Creek"? It'd almost be laughable if this wasn't such an important issue.
Stores, like movies theatres, may deny access to minors. However, laws cannot mandate that they do so.
Unfortunately, we're living in Amerikkka these days. Computer games? They're just funny pictures on a screen!
And the judge's choice of games is particularly laughable. It's like judging the artistic content of the entire movie industry by the "standards" of Payback, Debbie Does Dallas and Armageddon.
Iran/Contra was not a crime. And once again, the Democrat brings up something from a quarter of a century ago.
If it wasn't a crime, then why did President Bush have to pardon a slew of white house officials facing(or about to face) criminal charges just before he left office?
It was on Christmas Day, 1992 so you may have not noticed it. And unlike the heavily criticized Clinton pardons, these were done primarily to protect Bush himself from criminal charges. Pardon all the witnesses and they can't turn state's evidence on you, as Casper Weinberger, IIRC, was preparing to do.
BTW, the Iran Contra hearings were 15 years ago, not 25.
Rotten Tomato has Spiderman cleaning up good reviews.
The Sims is less a "life simulator" and more a computerized doll house.
Instead of Ken and Barbie and their bright pink dreamhouse, it's naked representations of your co-workers walled up in the outhouse while the popular and beloved sim-you parties in an extravagent mansion.
What do Americans teach their kids at school, if not that the Earth goes around the Sun once a year?
That the Earth revolves around America.
I'm betting Morrowind will turn out to be as "Free-form" as its predecessor, Daggerfall. As in "free of form." Daggerfall was a souless, monotonous, not to mention bug-ridden, piece of junk.
Sure, there were a few masichists who enjoyed the repetitive, thinly-veiled FedEx quests... the cornucopia of completely useless character skills... the game-killing bugs that were so bad that Bethseda, instead of correcting them, included and encouraged the use of cheats to get around them... the huge, random, recycled-texture-laden dungeons used for every two-bit quest... the complete lack of meaningful NPC interaction...
But they were idiots.
I have every expectation Morrowind will be just as bad, if prettier, at least. I wish it were otherwise but I have no confidence in that company.
is that it's not^H^H^H easily noticed. But my bloodstream could NOT be chock full of nanoprobes right now, subtley altering me, possibly even changing my thoughts and what I'm NOT typing right now, without me even NOT realizing it. It could NOT lead to some kind of cognitive dissonance where people are being told one thing but they DON'T believe they heard something completely different.
The future of nanotech is a HAPPPY HAPPY scary world.
The campaign checkbox doesn't add or subtract any money from your taxes. If you check the box, two dollars from the taxes you pay gets diverted to the presidential campaign fund.
Whether you check the box or not, you pay the exact same amount in taxes.
One day she'll get the emmy awards she deserves, but for now, a Hugo will do nicely.
>>what to do with the waste.
Hopefully it'll be better than Hanford. Mmmmmm Radioactive plumes going towards the Columbia River.
My problem wasn't that MS was bundling IE with Windows. That's the media's gross oversimplification of the problem.
The problem was Microsoft leveraging their near-OS monopoly to bully OEMs and competitors. The bundling of IE was just part of that attack strategy.
Apple, of course, doesn't have any OEMs to bully nor a desktop monopoly to leverage. That's the difference.
I don't believe in free will. However, since we are only able to travel forward in time at the "normal" pace, we experience an illusion of free will that is indistinguishable from the real thing.
As long as you have no knowledge of the future(from your current position in time), as far as you are concerned, you have "free will".
There's not much excuse for not being able to record phone calls as evidence.
Aside from it being illegal most places in the United States.