This strategy of bundling this and that together is NOT going to work in the future. This worked so well in 1998-2000 because there were still plenty of people foreign to install.exe. So they use whatever comes out of the box.
Kids and their grandmothers are more tech-literate now. They will consider installing something else when the spyware and pornware gets out of hand.
OMG that is the funniest line I have ever seen on slashdot. LOL4ever. I bursted out laughing so hard at work, people in my surrounding cubes thought I was on crack and beyond.
1.) Macs does graphics apps better. 2.) Macs aren't easy to contaminate with viruses. 3.) Macs don't really have spyware and adware.
If the above is true, that's only 3 things Macs are superior than windows. Games, corporate apps, freeware choices, price.... unfortunately M$ still has the advantage.
If Joe Schmoe wasn't going to buy your software to begin with. It's not a loss whether he uses it illegally or not. These statistics are screwed up beyond all hell.
And if he really did use it illegally, consider it spreading your market share.
Not to be pesimistic, I don't see the starbucks mugs and toys flying off the shelf. People go there for coffee and cream. While they might sell a few songs, they're not bringing down Apple anytime soon.
Of course they are going to overcharge. Nintendo's last good console was SNES in the early 90s. They only have 1 GBA revenue stream to capitalize on nowadays. And don't be a Nintendo Fanboy and tell me they make their money from Cruisin USA arcades etc. Nintendo is on it's last leg... GBA.
Screw namco. They have got to figure out how to put all the Tekken characters in every sequel without losing a few and gaining a few.
Imagine buying a sports game, for every team you put in you lose a team. Fuck it. If the characters are not worthy enough to keep coming back, there must be something wrong with the character development.
The fact that the game always forces the enemy side to be terrorists should be enough reason to ban this game.
I can understand American Army vs. American Army from beginning to end. That's fine. WTF kind of properganda is that to make the enemy terrorists automatically. Boycott it. That's like making all enemies in Doom III republicans.
I am convinced Japanese markets are grudged up against Americans for the nuclear bombing of WWII. Every good thing from Japan will be purposely delayed to piss Americans off.
Flamebait me go ahead. You can't tell me Japan being the hardest working country on the planet can build a video game from scratch in 1 year. Yet somehow managed to take 2 years to make it available to the U.S.
Have you folks ever tried looking at houses? Prices are thru the roof. Not to mention houses are built left and right, and the quality is far from great considering how fast and easy they are build nowadays. Especially here in MA. A $400,000 house will need a decent amount of repair. So many money pits, no other industry is as evil to American consumers.
SnapStream has a software that allows any PC to cheaply record Tivo style. Isn't that the most affordable solution assuming you have enough hard drive space?
Look at the title, "DARPA Funds Game To Teach Arabic To Army". What is U.S. becoming?
Ever since Bush became the head, the body has been leaning toward middle eastern interests in every direction. Ok, where are the next generation Iraq M*A*S*H and Gulf War vet A-Team shows. We got video games teaching Arabic. Hello, aren't we supposed to be out of the middle east by now.
You people are all fooled by M$. They'd like you to believe that a monthly subscription is NECESSARY to maintain online gaming for any particular games. I am sorry but just cause Evercrack succeeded in the process, doesn't mean M$ has to follow it.
If you tell me $10 a month is needed so developers can maintain a server with new monsters monthly, then you're not giving me the option to play without paying. So many games like Enemy Territory has gone forever with hardly even a patch. Sports games especially. If I pay $10 a month, will M$ update my roster so I don't have to buy football games every year. Pffff... no.
Ok you must not know what non-geeks collect for fun. They travel around the world and spend $$$$$ on jade budha statues and other lame artifacts to prove they are hmmm.... worldly.
People are so hyped up about Gmail. Did you know that www.hotmail.com is NOT effectively backed up as of 2002 (cough, inside source, hmm).
Knowing how long hotmail and M$ has been around, and still failed to backup hotmail with their infinite windows license. What makes you think your 1 Gig will be backed up by Google.
It's patents like this that destroy competition. Every joe is going to hire the most expensive lawyer they can afford, and bend the rules. If you can patent taskbar anything, why not just patent whites lines no roads.
If the Sony PSP lives up to the hype. It will be able to play movies and a whole lot more.
I don't think any company apple, dell, M$ has ever come close to the success Sony has had with handheld devices. All the way back from the walkman in the 80s. Sony dominated.
If someone showed me wolfenstein enemy territory back in 1980, I'd think the game has an unacceptably difficult learning curve. Basically only very extreme geeks could understand it enough to play it.
If someone showed me wolfenstein enemy territory in 2000, I'd think it's no complex than any other game in the market.
What does that say? Alot about the complexity of games in general in the market going up and up.
You can teach kids how to use a gun, but you cannot make them mature over night. That's why it's better off NOT teaching kids how to use a gun. I don't care if they are A students, kids are kids, they do stupid things. Even if they have an IQ of 1000, it's no different.
Ok I used to be one of the lucky ones to have tried and seen 3Dfx voodoo2 SLI in it's peak days. I was beyond impressed, though the performance was no where close to 77 percent.
To publish a number like 77 percent, do people realize how insane that number is. I'd have to get rid of my frequently overheated ATI 9800radeon pro card now.
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This strategy of bundling this and that together is NOT going to work in the future. This worked so well in 1998-2000 because there were still plenty of people foreign to install.exe. So they use whatever comes out of the box.
Kids and their grandmothers are more tech-literate now. They will consider installing something else when the spyware and pornware gets out of hand.
Nerd 3: Adjusting Penis Size to Maximum Density!
OMG that is the funniest line I have ever seen on slashdot. LOL4ever. I bursted out laughing so hard at work, people in my surrounding cubes thought I was on crack and beyond.
1.) Macs does graphics apps better.
2.) Macs aren't easy to contaminate with viruses.
3.) Macs don't really have spyware and adware.
If the above is true, that's only 3 things Macs are superior than windows. Games, corporate apps, freeware choices, price.... unfortunately M$ still has the advantage.
I am surprised Microsoft didn't go to PS2 online games and make PS2 users change names for a free xbox game.
Who cares if they all have the same name. Give them a freaking unique ID. Hello? Database 101.
If Joe Schmoe wasn't going to buy your software to begin with. It's not a loss whether he uses it illegally or not. These statistics are screwed up beyond all hell.
And if he really did use it illegally, consider it spreading your market share.
Not to be pesimistic, I don't see the starbucks mugs and toys flying off the shelf. People go there for coffee and cream. While they might sell a few songs, they're not bringing down Apple anytime soon.
Of course they are going to overcharge. Nintendo's last good console was SNES in the early 90s. They only have 1 GBA revenue stream to capitalize on nowadays. And don't be a Nintendo Fanboy and tell me they make their money from Cruisin USA arcades etc. Nintendo is on it's last leg... GBA.
Screw namco. They have got to figure out how to put all the Tekken characters in every sequel without losing a few and gaining a few.
Imagine buying a sports game, for every team you put in you lose a team. Fuck it. If the characters are not worthy enough to keep coming back, there must be something wrong with the character development.
The fact that the game always forces the enemy side to be terrorists should be enough reason to ban this game.
I can understand American Army vs. American Army from beginning to end. That's fine. WTF kind of properganda is that to make the enemy terrorists automatically. Boycott it. That's like making all enemies in Doom III republicans.
I am convinced Japanese markets are grudged up against Americans for the nuclear bombing of WWII. Every good thing from Japan will be purposely delayed to piss Americans off.
Flamebait me go ahead. You can't tell me Japan being the hardest working country on the planet can build a video game from scratch in 1 year. Yet somehow managed to take 2 years to make it available to the U.S.
Have you folks ever tried looking at houses? Prices are thru the roof. Not to mention houses are built left and right, and the quality is far from great considering how fast and easy they are build nowadays. Especially here in MA. A $400,000 house will need a decent amount of repair. So many money pits, no other industry is as evil to American consumers.
SnapStream has a software that allows any PC to cheaply record Tivo style. Isn't that the most affordable solution assuming you have enough hard drive space?
Look at the title, "DARPA Funds Game To Teach Arabic To Army". What is U.S. becoming?
Ever since Bush became the head, the body has been leaning toward middle eastern interests in every direction. Ok, where are the next generation Iraq M*A*S*H and Gulf War vet A-Team shows. We got video games teaching Arabic. Hello, aren't we supposed to be out of the middle east by now.
You people are all fooled by M$. They'd like you to believe that a monthly subscription is NECESSARY to maintain online gaming for any particular games. I am sorry but just cause Evercrack succeeded in the process, doesn't mean M$ has to follow it.
If you tell me $10 a month is needed so developers can maintain a server with new monsters monthly, then you're not giving me the option to play without paying. So many games like Enemy Territory has gone forever with hardly even a patch. Sports games especially. If I pay $10 a month, will M$ update my roster so I don't have to buy football games every year. Pffff... no.
Ok you must not know what non-geeks collect for fun. They travel around the world and spend $$$$$ on jade budha statues and other lame artifacts to prove they are hmmm.... worldly.
People are so hyped up about Gmail. Did you know that www.hotmail.com is NOT effectively backed up as of 2002 (cough, inside source, hmm).
Knowing how long hotmail and M$ has been around, and still failed to backup hotmail with their infinite windows license. What makes you think your 1 Gig will be backed up by Google.
One comment from the defense folks is doing more damage to IE than netscape did in 10 years.
I think the term "Internet Cafe" is extremely diluted. So it makes it hard to count certain cafes as Internet or not.
You can hook up your own laptop, but limited access, does that count?
They have a custom computer, but you can't access your own email, does that count?
etc
etc
etc
It goes on and on.
It's patents like this that destroy competition. Every joe is going to hire the most expensive lawyer they can afford, and bend the rules. If you can patent taskbar anything, why not just patent whites lines no roads.
That might be the single most unique and lol-worthy article I have ever read. I feel bad for the girls in one way.
But then WHY?? They got to spend the day, if not with video games, with thousands of guys in a room.
If the Sony PSP lives up to the hype. It will be able to play movies and a whole lot more.
I don't think any company apple, dell, M$ has ever come close to the success Sony has had with handheld devices. All the way back from the walkman in the 80s. Sony dominated.
If linux can beat windows in this arena. Windows would be history.
If someone showed me wolfenstein enemy territory back in 1980, I'd think the game has an unacceptably difficult learning curve. Basically only very extreme geeks could understand it enough to play it.
If someone showed me wolfenstein enemy territory in 2000, I'd think it's no complex than any other game in the market.
What does that say? Alot about the complexity of games in general in the market going up and up.
You can teach kids how to use a gun, but you cannot make them mature over night. That's why it's better off NOT teaching kids how to use a gun. I don't care if they are A students, kids are kids, they do stupid things. Even if they have an IQ of 1000, it's no different.
Ok I used to be one of the lucky ones to have tried and seen 3Dfx voodoo2 SLI in it's peak days. I was beyond impressed, though the performance was no where close to 77 percent.
To publish a number like 77 percent, do people realize how insane that number is. I'd have to get rid of my frequently overheated ATI 9800radeon pro card now.