I thought the crazy costs for EA was changing their sports title year from $CURRENTYEAR to + $CURRENTYEAR+1, adding a few players to the database, changing the box graphic, and sending 'er out.
That must be an expensive graphic design company they have for their box covers. You know, going into the text edit tool changing a digit and all that.//sarcasm.
I can attest to this. Comcast's OnDemand has virtually nothing I want to watch for free/paid content. Yet, I've been watching MST3K episodes non-stop for the last 3 weeks on YouTube, and even a few on Google Video.
I am reminded of the SNL skit with Tom Hanks called "Sabra Price is Right" where Tom's this sleazy game show host. He "sells" knockoff electronics and keeps saying "it's got Sony guts!"
Then you realize a lot of the digital camera brands have the same Sanyo(or is it Samsung) guts in them.:)
They took out the "load images from the originating site only". That was the only safe way I could surf fark.com at work, since forum posters just LOVE to post not-work-safe images. That, and I worry about someone posting an image from a porn site, and the firewall logs would be on me.
I played Motorstorm at the Target kiosk. The framerate was nothing to write home about. The gameplay was slow and sluggish, and frustrating. When you hit anything, you blow up. A little bit off in steering? That's a cliff-fallin'. The oh-so-high end graphics of your truck exploding added nothing to game play. I walked away from the kiosk unimpressed. Yes, I have an HDTV at home. Watching/playing motorstorm looked like a LOW-end PC title with the resolution.
Checking craigslist(Minneapolis), the average Wii console sale price(typically + 1 game) is around $400-450. yes, the jacked-up prices for a Wii are LESS than the street price for the premium PS3.
Strange, no?
My favorite sales pitch on craigslist was the person who said they "needed" to unload their PS3, for $1500. Perhaps they shouldn't have bought it 2 days prior for $700, no? I also saw one ad who wanted to sell their PS3 for college books, tuition,etc. Of course, it was for a 4-figure amount. But if you are a broke college student, you shoulnd't be shelling out $700 for a get rich quick scheme.
For example, if Walmart has only 20 PS3s for sale, do they have only no more than 30 copies of Ridge Racer(or any other available launch title) available?
If I was a retailer that had only X PS3s for sale, but X+Y # of copies given to me for the same game, I'd be a little ticked. Those extra titles would be gathering dust as there's no sold PS3s to play it on(at least to that store). And with the holiday season, shelf space is going to be quite important.
Takes me back to the Atari corporate muckety-muck who thought people would buy 2 of the same game for their Atari 2600. One for their home, and another for their ski resort. Yes, let's make more copies of a game than sold consoles.
1-4 players. Each player takes a turn driving a car into busy traffic and causing the most damage. No multitap needed, as you just hand the controller over to the other player.
The last competition I heard of form Mark Cuban was going up against The Apprentice with his own show. Needless to say, it bombed. Trump himself said "I killed him", and he(Trump) also beat out Branson's similar show.
I heard about this one guy who threw his hard drive in a lake from his high-rise apartment. The hard drive sat in the lake there for a while. The guy was later incarcerated, and then broke out a while later. The FBI then fished his hard drive out and were able to recover some data from it.:)
IIRC later revisions of the TI-99/4A couldn't run non-TI made cartridges. Because, you know, why would you want the computer to make have a larger software library? I mean like, really?!?
A wonderful boneheaded decision, and TI exited the home computer biz in '83.
Raise your hand if you haven't heard of Amanda Congdon until now. If she's been seen by 211K people, I guess I'm not one of them. 211K people is a small # of tv viewers, and even smaller segment of web surfers. I think more people would recognize the Star Wars Kid, or that Numa Numa dork. Or, I could be completely wrong.
"Internet celebrity", uh, yeah... Just what we need, more Paris Hiltons and people who are famous for something trivial, or even nothing.
All I know is I wish I could view youtube clips on my TV without any file conversion(making it look worse), or hooking up my ipod, etc. I watch YouTube clips 100 times more often than Comcast's skimpy "On Demand" programming. I wonder if some day people will say "watch youtube" instead of "Watch tv".
Can you convince the school board to sell them, like a bake sale or something, cheap and get some $ out of it? That would sound better than having to spend money to get them hauled away.
Just sell them next to the lemon bars & rice crispie treats. Offer a discount or first crack at students who don't have one at home.
I personally hate the Slashdot lameness filter. It punishes fast typists who want to get their point across, without being verbose. Not all replies have to be several paragraphs long. I wish the user's karma/posting history would lessen the grip of the lameness filter. I assure you I'm not abusing the comment system. Don't tell me to slowdown, and I'm not a cowboy.
Everyone's aware of the excessive spamming on myspace. Hell, I almost think the powers at be at myspace are getting a kickback with the incredible abuse.
But just yesterday I got a 419 email(but with French context, instead of Nigerian) on my Youtube messaging system. He/she even wrote back, regardless of the fact I posted a comment on the account saying "best 419 scammer ever!", that everyone can see.
I'll be expecting facebook spam sometime soon. Er, maybe not.
1. get a legit PS3 box 2. Stuff it full of computer parts(small ones). Go into store. 3. Walk out of a busy Best Buy or WalMart or Target and yell out loud "hey I got a PS3!" while holding it over your head 5. Accidentally drop it 6. pretend to be sad and open the box as onlookers watch & pull parts out.
If you do this, have a friend videotape it and post it to youtube. If it doesn't work, put it all back into the box and try another store.
If there's enough onlookers, or better yet, PS3 campers, it might be fun.
With 20+ years of games under its belt(and then some), I was hoping for a much larger virtual console launch list. Sure, 90% of the NES games are side-scrolling run & jump games, but it would have been nice to have them there. I understand there was licensing issues and such for 3rd party titles, but still. Why no Sega Master System games? heck, offer them for $1.00 for people to get a taste of the fun of virtual console.
Heck, hire a MAME developer, and license some arcade titles over too.
Sure, these "launch titles" are old games, but having a lot of them can outdo Sony's # of launch titles.
Lolz. Last winter I went there in the evening and after I bought my goods, I decided to stand outside and have a cigarette. I noticed 2 teenagers there sitting on chairs. They mistakened me for being fellow Xbox 360 campers. Might be a good photo opportunity for your blogger, considering it's near the heardquarters.
IIRC hell.com had that introduction that came off to me as the snottiest website I have ever visited. It mentioned about being invited to some exclusive content from the website, or links ot other websites.
Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? You had to click through it sentence by sentence while it berates you for bothering to visit it.
Yeah, gimme the domain name to a website with THAT reputation. {david spade voice} Ooh look we hopped on a cool domain name! {/david spade voice}
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Were you trying to simulate a bittorrent-based multi-stream download, or a RealPlayer stream? :)
I thought the crazy costs for EA was changing their sports title year from $CURRENTYEAR to + $CURRENTYEAR+1, adding a few players to the database, changing the box graphic, and sending 'er out.
//sarcasm.
That must be an expensive graphic design company they have for their box covers. You know, going into the text edit tool changing a digit and all that.
I can attest to this. Comcast's OnDemand has virtually nothing I want to watch for free/paid content. Yet, I've been watching MST3K episodes non-stop for the last 3 weeks on YouTube, and even a few on Google Video.
I am reminded of the SNL skit with Tom Hanks called "Sabra Price is Right" where Tom's this sleazy game show host. He "sells" knockoff electronics and keeps saying "it's got Sony guts!"
:)
Then you realize a lot of the digital camera brands have the same Sanyo(or is it Samsung) guts in them.
They took out the "load images from the originating site only". That was the only safe way I could surf fark.com at work, since forum posters just LOVE to post not-work-safe images. That, and I worry about someone posting an image from a porn site, and the firewall logs would be on me.
I played Motorstorm at the Target kiosk. The framerate was nothing to write home about. The gameplay was slow and sluggish, and frustrating. When you hit anything, you blow up. A little bit off in steering? That's a cliff-fallin'. The oh-so-high end graphics of your truck exploding added nothing to game play. I walked away from the kiosk unimpressed. Yes, I have an HDTV at home. Watching/playing motorstorm looked like a LOW-end PC title with the resolution.
Checking craigslist(Minneapolis), the average Wii console sale price(typically + 1 game) is around $400-450. yes, the jacked-up prices for a Wii are LESS than the street price for the premium PS3.
Strange, no?
My favorite sales pitch on craigslist was the person who said they "needed" to unload their PS3, for $1500. Perhaps they shouldn't have bought it 2 days prior for $700, no? I also saw one ad who wanted to sell their PS3 for college books, tuition,etc. Of course, it was for a 4-figure amount. But if you are a broke college student, you shoulnd't be shelling out $700 for a get rich quick scheme.
For example, if Walmart has only 20 PS3s for sale, do they have only no more than 30 copies of Ridge Racer(or any other available launch title) available?
If I was a retailer that had only X PS3s for sale, but X+Y # of copies given to me for the same game, I'd be a little ticked. Those extra titles would be gathering dust as there's no sold PS3s to play it on(at least to that store). And with the holiday season, shelf space is going to be quite important.
Takes me back to the Atari corporate muckety-muck who thought people would buy 2 of the same game for their Atari 2600. One for their home, and another for their ski resort. Yes, let's make more copies of a game than sold consoles.
1-4 players. Each player takes a turn driving a car into busy traffic and causing the most damage. No multitap needed, as you just hand the controller over to the other player.
The last competition I heard of form Mark Cuban was going up against The Apprentice with his own show. Needless to say, it bombed. Trump himself said "I killed him", and he(Trump) also beat out Branson's similar show.
I heard about this one guy who threw his hard drive in a lake from his high-rise apartment. The hard drive sat in the lake there for a while. The guy was later incarcerated, and then broke out a while later. The FBI then fished his hard drive out and were able to recover some data from it. :)
IIRC later revisions of the TI-99/4A couldn't run non-TI made cartridges. Because, you know, why would you want the computer to make have a larger software library? I mean like, really?!?
A wonderful boneheaded decision, and TI exited the home computer biz in '83.
..had they ported Burnout for it.
:)
Considering how an Enzo got do its own little "Crash Party" but didn't get the Crashbreaker.
Raise your hand if you haven't heard of Amanda Congdon until now. If she's been seen by 211K people, I guess I'm not one of them. 211K people is a small # of tv viewers, and even smaller segment of web surfers. I think more people would recognize the Star Wars Kid, or that Numa Numa dork. Or, I could be completely wrong.
"Internet celebrity", uh, yeah... Just what we need, more Paris Hiltons and people who are famous for something trivial, or even nothing.
All I know is I wish I could view youtube clips on my TV without any file conversion(making it look worse), or hooking up my ipod, etc. I watch YouTube clips 100 times more often than Comcast's skimpy "On Demand" programming. I wonder if some day people will say "watch youtube" instead of "Watch tv".
We'd be better off with RS-232, frankly.
If I had mod points, I would have modded your post Funny.
Can you convince the school board to sell them, like a bake sale or something, cheap and get some $ out of it? That would sound better than having to spend money to get them hauled away.
Just sell them next to the lemon bars & rice crispie treats. Offer a discount or first crack at students who don't have one at home.
Triumph & a camera crew should get out to the lines. He could heckle them good, just like he did at the lines of the Star Wars premiere.
I personally hate the Slashdot lameness filter. It punishes fast typists who want to get their point across, without being verbose. Not all replies have to be several paragraphs long. I wish the user's karma/posting history would lessen the grip of the lameness filter. I assure you I'm not abusing the comment system. Don't tell me to slowdown, and I'm not a cowboy.
Everyone's aware of the excessive spamming on myspace. Hell, I almost think the powers at be at myspace are getting a kickback with the incredible abuse.
But just yesterday I got a 419 email(but with French context, instead of Nigerian) on my Youtube messaging system. He/she even wrote back, regardless of the fact I posted a comment on the account saying "best 419 scammer ever!", that everyone can see.
I'll be expecting facebook spam sometime soon. Er, maybe not.
I postd this to the ps2 newsgroup..
1. get a legit PS3 box
2. Stuff it full of computer parts(small ones). Go into store.
3. Walk out of a busy Best Buy or WalMart or Target and yell out loud
"hey I got a PS3!" while holding it over your head
5. Accidentally drop it
6. pretend to be sad and open the box as onlookers watch & pull parts out.
If you do this, have a friend videotape it and post it to youtube. If
it doesn't work, put it all back into the box and try another store.
If there's enough onlookers, or better yet, PS3 campers, it might be
fun.
I thought Ben Stiller's spoof of Yakof Smirnoff to be hilarious and sums up his act nicely.
WTF = What the fuck, for those who didn't get the OTHER acronym.
(we could play this game all day on Slashdot)
With 20+ years of games under its belt(and then some), I was hoping for a much larger virtual console launch list. Sure, 90% of the NES games are side-scrolling run & jump games, but it would have been nice to have them there. I understand there was licensing issues and such for 3rd party titles, but still. Why no Sega Master System games? heck, offer them for $1.00 for people to get a taste of the fun of virtual console.
Heck, hire a MAME developer, and license some arcade titles over too.
Sure, these "launch titles" are old games, but having a lot of them can outdo Sony's # of launch titles.
Lolz. Last winter I went there in the evening and after I bought my goods, I decided to stand outside and have a cigarette. I noticed 2 teenagers there sitting on chairs. They mistakened me for being fellow Xbox 360 campers. Might be a good photo opportunity for your blogger, considering it's near the heardquarters.
IIRC hell.com had that introduction that came off to me as the snottiest website I have ever visited. It mentioned about being invited to some exclusive content from the website, or links ot other websites.
Does anyone remember what I'm talking about? You had to click through it sentence by sentence while it berates you for bothering to visit it.
Yeah, gimme the domain name to a website with THAT reputation. {david spade voice} Ooh look we hopped on a cool domain name! {/david spade voice}