People need to really read up on how Nielson conduct surveys, where and when. Their tactics is often very low tech against a small demographics. They are finding it hard to change with the times.
That is very true. When I traveled to Japan once, the superstar idols have a status that is almost presidential. Here our superstars just collapse financially or physically after a few years. Very few actually last longer than a decade.
I am trying to figure out how much M$ is paying slashdot to advertise xbox 360. This is like the 20th xbox article posted in a week. The sad truth is that less than 5% of us will actually own one at launch date. It's all for nothing.
If they illegalized video games and made it a black market thing. And someone kill and steal to get money to buy games, then that person is probably addicted.
For the rest of us, 8hrs straight is not an addiction. I don't think 12hrs is either. There are plenty of retired folks watching 12hrs of TV all day long. I don't see any study done on them.
In these scenarios where the compensation is too high, Sony would buddy up with the lawyer who will be the collective representative for ALL those who suffered from this fiasco. The lawyer will walk out with $10 million. Sony will be happy to pay 1 representative. The rest of the people will get a free bumper sticker.
And if anyone complain about the bumper sticker, the lawyer will call you from his new million-dollar mansion and say the case is already settled. Go home.
I still think people are buying the iBooks for the coolness, because it is the far better looking than your boring corporate compaq/dell laptops. However for those who don't mind spending the money, nothing beats the custom color beefed up Hypersonic laptop line. http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/
Oh I'd been saying this for the longest time. All you people buying Madden football have no idea what your money is fueling.
You are giving EA more money to buy BIGGER HANDCUFFS to slap on the video game industry. Soon they'll have license to every war, every gun, every car. And every game will have to be published under EA.
Why don't companies hire a bunch of people just to lose online. I want to play online and have a close game but eventually win. What keeps people coming back is winning.
What is the sense of paying 20 really good players in a competition in some LAN party. I am not sure the masses would be convinced to buy the game.
"As they attempt to increase business capabilities over time, customers are telling us that they are hitting a wall with Linux" said Martin Taylor, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft.
I am sorry but this is the most sorry ass downhill marketing I have ever seen. It is like Pepsi hiring a guy to wear a Coca-Cola Tshirt and purposely choking. This guy changed title 3 times in a year. Just a couple months ago he was Microsoft's very own Linux strategist.
If you run HA in any production site, the company better be willing to hire and pay $$$. Any engineer knows that HA means you have a lot to lose. Otherwise why else would you run it.
The term bubble implies that when the bubble explode, shit happens. What's the worst possible scenario, 200 distros gets decommissioned and we are left with 10 other free distros?
Is it me or does it seem like Google is average 1 new service/product every 2 months or so. This is a scary pace. The part I am most amazed by is that ALL their services scale very well.
The archiving of the packets and such will have to add thousands of jobs to the economy. This is too huge to take on a national scale. Database or a ludicrous amount of log files.
Lol it's probably no coincidence that the top 3 news anchormen all disappeared from top news networks between end of 2004 and beginning of 2005.
1 - Tom Brokaw 2 - Peter Jennings 3 - Dan Rathers
Want some good material for your next conspiracy book? Maybe they want to tell the truth, but they'd be damn if they tried. Maybe nostradamas was trying to tell us something with MABUS being the antichrist. A combo of osaMA BUSh?
There is always pandemic fear. I swear this is the biggest media stunt as the Republican parties are trying hard to convince you they are doing something good out of the ordinary. When in reality these warnings/vaccine productions happen all the time anyways. They just don't make headlines. \\
So yes it's a cover for war on Iraq, Mike Brown, and every other bad political decision made this presidential term.
I'll throw my comments out for the older systems launch as I lived thru every single one of them.
NES - (5 Stars) The commercials were way ahead of time. The gold zelda cartridges was unbelievable.
Gameboy - (2 Stars) The black and white screens were difficult to market. They were smart to advertise against those tiger electronics handheld systems that played 1 game only like pinball or race cars.
Turbografx-16 - (5 Stars) They marketed the hell out of the 1st generation of games. That was the problem. Their 2nd and 3rd generations seem pale in comparison.
Sega Genesis - (3 Stars) Everyone wanted Golden Axe. Phantasy Star 2 ruled the RPG world for like 2 years. The 2nd wave of marketing "Genesis Does" was very effective.
SNES - (3 Stars) Scaling and rotation was marketed to be the greatest hardware addition of all time. Genesis couldn't do it, and SNES destroyed them.
Sega Saturn - (1 Star) Shortest marketing life span I have ever seen. Their marketing guys went to lunch and never came back.
Atari Lynx - (1 Star) I had a friend with this handheld and he did more marketing for Atari than they did for themselves. That sums up their shitty strategy.
Sega Game Gear - (1 Stars) Did they even market outside of video game magazines?
Atari Jaguar - (2 Stars) I too will give 1 more star than Lynx. But fuck, this thing had an aliens game and that was it.
Neo Geo - (2 Stars) They stuck one in every arcade. But why pay $800 when you can play it for 25 cents. Dig your own grave.
I'd been screaming all along that Sony BMG has GOT TO SPLIT up with Sony Electronics. The BMG division are all lawyers, unnecessary executives and DRM fanatics. They are destroying the company's reputation. Split now before too late.
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ROFLMAO. This should be the standard automated first post response for all M$ related articles.
People need to really read up on how Nielson conduct surveys, where and when. Their tactics is often very low tech against a small demographics. They are finding it hard to change with the times.
That is very true. When I traveled to Japan once, the superstar idols have a status that is almost presidential. Here our superstars just collapse financially or physically after a few years. Very few actually last longer than a decade.
I am trying to figure out how much M$ is paying slashdot to advertise xbox 360. This is like the 20th xbox article posted in a week. The sad truth is that less than 5% of us will actually own one at launch date. It's all for nothing.
If they illegalized video games and made it a black market thing. And someone kill and steal to get money to buy games, then that person is probably addicted.
For the rest of us, 8hrs straight is not an addiction. I don't think 12hrs is either. There are plenty of retired folks watching 12hrs of TV all day long. I don't see any study done on them.
In these scenarios where the compensation is too high, Sony would buddy up with the lawyer who will be the collective representative for ALL those who suffered from this fiasco. The lawyer will walk out with $10 million. Sony will be happy to pay 1 representative. The rest of the people will get a free bumper sticker.
And if anyone complain about the bumper sticker, the lawyer will call you from his new million-dollar mansion and say the case is already settled. Go home.
I still think people are buying the iBooks for the coolness, because it is the far better looking than your boring corporate compaq/dell laptops. However for those who don't mind spending the money, nothing beats the custom color beefed up Hypersonic laptop line. http://www.hypersonic-pc.com/
Well said. Well said.
Oh I'd been saying this for the longest time. All you people buying Madden football have no idea what your money is fueling.
You are giving EA more money to buy BIGGER HANDCUFFS to slap on the video game industry. Soon they'll have license to every war, every gun, every car. And every game will have to be published under EA.
Why don't companies hire a bunch of people just to lose online. I want to play online and have a close game but eventually win. What keeps people coming back is winning.
What is the sense of paying 20 really good players in a competition in some LAN party. I am not sure the masses would be convinced to buy the game.
"As they attempt to increase business capabilities over time, customers are telling us that they are hitting a wall with Linux" said Martin Taylor, general manager of platform strategy at Microsoft.
I am sorry but this is the most sorry ass downhill marketing I have ever seen. It is like Pepsi hiring a guy to wear a Coca-Cola Tshirt and purposely choking. This guy changed title 3 times in a year. Just a couple months ago he was Microsoft's very own Linux strategist.
Why don't we just narrow down to the magazine with the least Ads.
Dude I think you summed it up best.
People are debating this book too seriously. This stuff is all theoretical with no real right or wrong answers.
If you run HA in any production site, the company better be willing to hire and pay $$$. Any engineer knows that HA means you have a lot to lose. Otherwise why else would you run it.
The term bubble implies that when the bubble explode, shit happens. What's the worst possible scenario, 200 distros gets decommissioned and we are left with 10 other free distros?
Is it me or does it seem like Google is average 1 new service/product every 2 months or so. This is a scary pace. The part I am most amazed by is that ALL their services scale very well.
Games by gamers for gamers is not the way the industry works currently. It is already too mainstream with very dry ideas.
Somewhere in the 90s the industry grew in capital and decided to sell the same shit sequel every year.
The archiving of the packets and such will have to add thousands of jobs to the economy. This is too huge to take on a national scale. Database or a ludicrous amount of log files.
Lol it's probably no coincidence that the top 3 news anchormen all disappeared from top news networks between end of 2004 and beginning of 2005.
1 - Tom Brokaw
2 - Peter Jennings
3 - Dan Rathers
Want some good material for your next conspiracy book? Maybe they want to tell the truth, but they'd be damn if they tried. Maybe nostradamas was trying to tell us something with MABUS being the antichrist. A combo of osaMA BUSh?
There is always pandemic fear. I swear this is the biggest media stunt as the Republican parties are trying hard to convince you they are doing something good out of the ordinary. When in reality these warnings/vaccine productions happen all the time anyways. They just don't make headlines. \\
So yes it's a cover for war on Iraq, Mike Brown, and every other bad political decision made this presidential term.
I'll throw my comments out for the older systems launch as I lived thru every single one of them.
NES - (5 Stars)
The commercials were way ahead of time. The gold zelda cartridges was unbelievable.
Gameboy - (2 Stars)
The black and white screens were difficult to market. They were smart to advertise against those tiger electronics handheld systems that played 1 game only like pinball or race cars.
Turbografx-16 - (5 Stars)
They marketed the hell out of the 1st generation of games. That was the problem. Their 2nd and 3rd generations seem pale in comparison.
Sega Genesis - (3 Stars)
Everyone wanted Golden Axe. Phantasy Star 2 ruled the RPG world for like 2 years. The 2nd wave of marketing "Genesis Does" was very effective.
SNES - (3 Stars)
Scaling and rotation was marketed to be the greatest hardware addition of all time. Genesis couldn't do it, and SNES destroyed them.
Sega Saturn - (1 Star)
Shortest marketing life span I have ever seen. Their marketing guys went to lunch and never came back.
Atari Lynx - (1 Star)
I had a friend with this handheld and he did more marketing for Atari than they did for themselves. That sums up their shitty strategy.
Sega Game Gear - (1 Stars)
Did they even market outside of video game magazines?
Atari Jaguar - (2 Stars)
I too will give 1 more star than Lynx. But fuck, this thing had an aliens game and that was it.
Neo Geo - (2 Stars)
They stuck one in every arcade. But why pay $800 when you can play it for 25 cents. Dig your own grave.
I'd been screaming all along that Sony BMG has GOT TO SPLIT up with Sony Electronics. The BMG division are all lawyers, unnecessary executives and DRM fanatics. They are destroying the company's reputation. Split now before too late.
The backward compatibility was never a problem for Genesis. The Master System cartridge converter was like $20.
I got a giant list of PS2 games lined up to buy this holiday from the bargin bin and Greatest hits collection.