I rented Sonic Heroes and was pretty impressed. It was 3D and fast and a little different. But yes I hated the other characters. I liked Sonic, tails and knuckles. But would never want to use all 3 at once.
I would like to see them get rid of anonymous edits. And also make the registration process effort consuming. Only people with accounts should be able to edit, set the minimum age to 21. Hells, why not link it up to the drivers license numbers. Cut the vandalism in half and you'll save alot of good wikipedians time.
Fuck EA, I haven't bought a single EA title since they bribed the NFL license. I think less of the NFL too for cooperating with them. They shot themselves in the PR foot by proving they cannot compete head on.
Madden's lackluster is an understatement. I still consider Sega's 2k5 NFL game to be the greatest football game of all time. What's worse is that consumers now have less choices. I mean..... only 1 choice.
I have taken a trip there one time too, and the view we have of China is a bit misleading. I like to think of all of China as a "big company" where no matter how hard you work, nobody notice you. On the contrary US would feel like a "small company" where you can achieve and be noticed. So wikipedia gives them something different.
As far as information blockage goes, I think it is seriously overrated. Slashdot always pick out these stories of chinese locals ending up in jail over innocently stupid shit. And then we are supposed to think like we are more free and more righteous. There has been plenty innocently jailed under the Bush administration, and before that the Clinton administration and so on so on. Only difference is that when we jail somebody, it's automatically assumed that the government did the right thing. Read up on CIA books and you will find in tiny small prints showing we are not that much better off. US keeps an unbelievably good lid on subjects like this.
I know. Don't blame the Mac and PC makers for their products. Blame the government for 40% tax and the colleges that require $100,000 a year tuition from every student to function. Cars, health and insane insurance drain the middle and lower class dry.
Processing power is expensive in a datacenter and windows 2000 IMHO was the last version that did a decent job of not sucking all of it up. Vista just sounds like another processor/ram hog like 2003.
I'd be impressed if they ever came out with another OS the speed of windows 95 to tell you the truth.
I once used an anonymous mail program some "many" years ago and got busted by a sys admin. But I didn't go through the mail server, and to this day I don't know how I got caught. Is Mailinator any better? I did it as a prank to a friend and it backfired on me the worst way and haven't tried this stuff ever since.
You will know by mid 2008 the status of the console war. Right now it is a lame supply-and-demand game. IMHO PS3/Wii haven't even officially threw a punch.
Hollywood never had many original ideas to begin with. They take alot of shit from Japanese animes, who flatout do sci-fi, horror and anything fantasy better than us. I am a firm believer that we make better documentaries and blow'em up special effects that's it. Once you take these two away, we are left with zero creativity.
But look at the people's responses. A ton of people are saying it was a lie. There never was any Xbox systems at that price to begin with. It was a fake promotion? Evil Amazon??
Forget about the school for a minute. It comes down to the students!
From all my personal experiences with meeting up with German/Europeans, Japanese/Asians and American kids. I will say that American kids flatout don't give a flying fuck by a large percentage. You want to know how to fix this?
Split the kids up into 2 group. "I care" and "I don't care". It's ok to mix kids of different intelligence as long as they both care. And watch the group that care excel like you wouldn't believe. For the group that don't care, I want to decrease their tax dollar spending to the absolute minimum.
No, this is strictly good public relations timing. Publicizing this 1 bug right when IE7 is released is smart for M$ to regain market share. If people actually follow bug reports regularly, these bugs are common as sin. Depending on which technical angle you're looking at, you can interpret the vulnerabilities many ways. And there were FAR more password leaks in IE6.
1st is to wait for the real estate industry to tank to the bottom. Too many IT folks have gone that route and are permanently too afraid to come back.
2nd is to avoid college CS/IT degrees altogether. Can you imagine going to a certification class and someone said it would cost you 4 years and $110,000. That is what college essentially is, except there is no corporate backing and the material is always outdated. Now if you were going to college for networking, fine.
I know people who are veterans in assembly lines and manufacturing industries, and they will tell you that the environment has never been an issue. If they tell you keeping planet earth green is involved, it's fancy public relations and BS. No company in US and Japan care until something is hazardous and could cause them millions in lawsuits.
If someone came out with a way to perfectly compress a HD quality movie into 10MB the way mp3s squeezed a 70MB wav file into 5MB, the industry will change overnight.
Having been a "US" highschool student in the past, I can honestly say that our budget and programs are some of the weakest in the world. There was no effective computer course taught at my public school. There still isn't today. So to talk about software dev cycle is crazy. College is a different story. When you are paying, I am not sure you should want to sit there and talk about this cycles anyways. Wouldn't you want to do some hardcore coding while you have a professor to grille? Cause most workplace don't have much coding assistance that I have seen.
Sell out is damn right! You can't put a pricetag on loyalty. The reason why linux is where it is today.... is because at least 1 company (cough... redhat) didn't sell out during the 90s.
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I rented Sonic Heroes and was pretty impressed. It was 3D and fast and a little different. But yes I hated the other characters. I liked Sonic, tails and knuckles. But would never want to use all 3 at once.
I would like to see them get rid of anonymous edits. And also make the registration process effort consuming. Only people with accounts should be able to edit, set the minimum age to 21. Hells, why not link it up to the drivers license numbers. Cut the vandalism in half and you'll save alot of good wikipedians time.
This is most true. It's hard to entirely hate a company for their games. It's easy to hate them for evil business practices.
Fuck EA, I haven't bought a single EA title since they bribed the NFL license. I think less of the NFL too for cooperating with them. They shot themselves in the PR foot by proving they cannot compete head on.
Madden's lackluster is an understatement. I still consider Sega's 2k5 NFL game to be the greatest football game of all time. What's worse is that consumers now have less choices. I mean..... only 1 choice.
I have taken a trip there one time too, and the view we have of China is a bit misleading. I like to think of all of China as a "big company" where no matter how hard you work, nobody notice you. On the contrary US would feel like a "small company" where you can achieve and be noticed. So wikipedia gives them something different.
As far as information blockage goes, I think it is seriously overrated. Slashdot always pick out these stories of chinese locals ending up in jail over innocently stupid shit. And then we are supposed to think like we are more free and more righteous. There has been plenty innocently jailed under the Bush administration, and before that the Clinton administration and so on so on. Only difference is that when we jail somebody, it's automatically assumed that the government did the right thing. Read up on CIA books and you will find in tiny small prints showing we are not that much better off. US keeps an unbelievably good lid on subjects like this.
Can Sony figure out how to make a 1080p upversion addon adapter? It will end all discussions with Bluray and PS3 limitations.
I know. Don't blame the Mac and PC makers for their products. Blame the government for 40% tax and the colleges that require $100,000 a year tuition from every student to function. Cars, health and insane insurance drain the middle and lower class dry.
Processing power is expensive in a datacenter and windows 2000 IMHO was the last version that did a decent job of not sucking all of it up. Vista just sounds like another processor/ram hog like 2003.
I'd be impressed if they ever came out with another OS the speed of windows 95 to tell you the truth.
If iPod came out with the WiFi feature with the local radio reception, Zune is done.
I once used an anonymous mail program some "many" years ago and got busted by a sys admin. But I didn't go through the mail server, and to this day I don't know how I got caught. Is Mailinator any better? I did it as a prank to a friend and it backfired on me the worst way and haven't tried this stuff ever since.
You will know by mid 2008 the status of the console war. Right now it is a lame supply-and-demand game. IMHO PS3/Wii haven't even officially threw a punch.
Hollywood never had many original ideas to begin with. They take alot of shit from Japanese animes, who flatout do sci-fi, horror and anything fantasy better than us. I am a firm believer that we make better documentaries and blow'em up special effects that's it. Once you take these two away, we are left with zero creativity.
But look at the people's responses. A ton of people are saying it was a lie. There never was any Xbox systems at that price to begin with. It was a fake promotion? Evil Amazon??
Forget about the school for a minute. It comes down to the students!
From all my personal experiences with meeting up with German/Europeans, Japanese/Asians and American kids. I will say that American kids flatout don't give a flying fuck by a large percentage. You want to know how to fix this?
Split the kids up into 2 group. "I care" and "I don't care". It's ok to mix kids of different intelligence as long as they both care. And watch the group that care excel like you wouldn't believe. For the group that don't care, I want to decrease their tax dollar spending to the absolute minimum.
No, this is strictly good public relations timing. Publicizing this 1 bug right when IE7 is released is smart for M$ to regain market share. If people actually follow bug reports regularly, these bugs are common as sin. Depending on which technical angle you're looking at, you can interpret the vulnerabilities many ways. And there were FAR more password leaks in IE6.
There is actually 2 "solutions".
1st is to wait for the real estate industry to tank to the bottom. Too many IT folks have gone that route and are permanently too afraid to come back.
2nd is to avoid college CS/IT degrees altogether. Can you imagine going to a certification class and someone said it would cost you 4 years and $110,000. That is what college essentially is, except there is no corporate backing and the material is always outdated. Now if you were going to college for networking, fine.
If you absolutely despise the game in this many ways yet give it a 8 out of 10, this game must be spectacular.
I know people who are veterans in assembly lines and manufacturing industries, and they will tell you that the environment has never been an issue. If they tell you keeping planet earth green is involved, it's fancy public relations and BS. No company in US and Japan care until something is hazardous and could cause them millions in lawsuits.
If someone came out with a way to perfectly compress a HD quality movie into 10MB the way mp3s squeezed a 70MB wav file into 5MB, the industry will change overnight.
Is ok to start a series called "Bum Fights" in the U.S and have some exec make millions on it.
Is NOT ok for a foreign person to hire a homeless guy to wait in line for a PS3.
I feel sick right about now.
Having been a "US" highschool student in the past, I can honestly say that our budget and programs are some of the weakest in the world. There was no effective computer course taught at my public school. There still isn't today. So to talk about software dev cycle is crazy. College is a different story. When you are paying, I am not sure you should want to sit there and talk about this cycles anyways. Wouldn't you want to do some hardcore coding while you have a professor to grille? Cause most workplace don't have much coding assistance that I have seen.
You must have forgotten the original Xbox set the record for most number of hardware problems on release. They still sold fine. It doesn't matter.
Sell out is damn right! You can't put a pricetag on loyalty. The reason why linux is where it is today.... is because at least 1 company (cough... redhat) didn't sell out during the 90s.
320Mbps over coax!
319Mbps download and 1Mbps upload for $99.99 per month.
You know there is something very wrong with the administration when I misread "six stormy years" as "six horny years", and didn't even blink.