With the internet available, we no longer need 20 trade shows. All we need is 1 person reviewing for gamespot or tomshardware etc, and everybody else get the news.
The US video game industry is practicing capitalism to the extreme. The Japanese video game industry was already a culture in itself. That's why Europe will always be #3.
Anyhow, there is an invisible marketing wall still. They need to get rid of NTSC/PAL and all this zone bullshit and just make games for EVERYBODY, and market it to EVERYBODY.
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Well all of us americans have to suffer thru this overly complicated tax process every year. It doesn't make any sense.
If the US government is smart enough to deduct from our paycheck, why don't they deduct everywhere they see fit. All this hassle is a bullshit. Is not like we ever get away with not paying tax.
The law came out of the 60s. It lasted through the 80s "tronic-age", the 90s ".com-age". Which in itself is pretty impressive. Like or hate Intel, they have done a fairly good job reaching the limit.
I bought an AMD K7 classic chip way back at its prime. It had by far the shortest life span ever. Years later I found out my Abit motherboard had used bad transistors that causes the processors to go bad.
Abit lost the law suit, and sent everyone with a previous RMA a compensation rembursement. Too late, by then I have already bought a Pentium 4 replacement.
EA always manufacture like 1 or 2 non-sport titles and resell the rest as EA titles after some kind of corporate buy-outs. It'll be interesting to see where the company ends up once it pwns the industry.
And the original Battlefield 1942 sucked. Operation flashpoint was better in every way except marketing. Hardly anyone even knew OF existed.
I don't think they clock CPUs down on purpose. As explained to me from someone who worked at Intel, and I don't know if this applies anymore today....
All CPUs are manufactured from the same assembly lines. They never really know what speeds they exactly come out to. The ones that come out slow, they remodify the slot/socket and call it Celeron.
I am not saying Halo is not fun or doesn't deserve to be top 10. I am saying all the worshipping from xbox users is becoming annoying.
You just mentioned "Ghost Recon, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, TOCA Race Driver 2". All of these are available on other platforms.
Also you should compare xbox install base with PC-gamers install base. If you count PC install base in general, that will count corporate users with no intention of gaming. And like it or not, 6 million people buying Halo2 is no surprising coming out of the #1 marketing company in the world, M$.
I am really starting to wonder if the Halo-fan crowd has ever seen a good first person shooters. Halo2 was fun, but it would be just another shooter lost in the mix if it was released on PC.
Why all this unnecessary hype. Is like celebrating the release of tetris on Nokia because it is such a dry platform. Xbox library is riding literally on about 10 top games.
Pfff don't worry. Didn't you know the Bush administration sided with Greenspan to tank the interest rates, sending real estate prices to all time highs. No illegal immigrant will find a home.
This is really not about sports. It has to do with "VIDEO GAMES", and that's the problem!
No congress man or supreme court is going to give a flying fuck defending video game rights. To even bring up this subject would be committing political suicide. Hence the name "GAMES"... it's assumed to be unimportant.
Take-Two should have the right to use the licenses. They don't. It's a clear monopoly, and no one would step in. EA is owning the licenses like SLAVERY. It's simply wrong.
Are you crazy. You are judging the OS based on one tool "DTrace". Solaris 10 is where it should have been years ago. It's playing catchup to aix, linux, hpux now.
People are falling for the M$ marketing bait again. When M$ claims they will continue release games until 2007, you need to look at their history.
Their history saids M$ had lied way too many times about when the end support. win98, winME, winNT4... the list is a mile long. They have never EVER claim a end-of-life date, and stuck to it. Why would they do it for xbox?!
I just don't see the same level or interest going to NASA's website as google or slashdot. It may attract visitors once, but what will keep them coming back and again?
Please..... Power5 is dominating the market because most server apps are written already for the Power5 from ages ago. The optimized server apps development for Opteron and other x86-64 processors hasn't even started.
Not quite. If their million dollar budget Internet Explorer won't hold up in a spyware-adware packed environment, the childporn busterXP professional probably would be no better.
I am actually hoping for games that will never reach consoles. For example GBA has the best sidescrolling 2D Castlevania games. You just can't buy them on console anymore. Maybe PSP will pick those games up.
If you want to get healthy and save time, just get on a treadmill. There is no exercise harder than running 30 minutes straight. DDR doesn't remotely compare.
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I was looking thru Nielson site to see where Firefox really stand next to IE. I can't find squat.
More importantly I want to know if Firefox has officially surpassed Netscape to become the #2 browser.
With the internet available, we no longer need 20 trade shows. All we need is 1 person reviewing for gamespot or tomshardware etc, and everybody else get the news.
The US video game industry is practicing capitalism to the extreme. The Japanese video game industry was already a culture in itself. That's why Europe will always be #3.
Anyhow, there is an invisible marketing wall still. They need to get rid of NTSC/PAL and all this zone bullshit and just make games for EVERYBODY, and market it to EVERYBODY.
Well all of us americans have to suffer thru this overly complicated tax process every year. It doesn't make any sense.
If the US government is smart enough to deduct from our paycheck, why don't they deduct everywhere they see fit. All this hassle is a bullshit. Is not like we ever get away with not paying tax.
It's simple, the premiere shell would have...
-tab completions
-color code
-long ass history list
Yeah I bought my PS2 literally 2 years after launch.
It's crazy that people actually want/have a shuffle. There are plenty of better low end non-Apple players with a display screen.
Hard to classify HTTP as a standard. It's more of a protocol. Even html has 8 million different syntaxes. Some suits Netscape, some IE etc.
The law came out of the 60s. It lasted through the 80s "tronic-age", the 90s ".com-age". Which in itself is pretty impressive. Like or hate Intel, they have done a fairly good job reaching the limit.
I bought an AMD K7 classic chip way back at its prime. It had by far the shortest life span ever. Years later I found out my Abit motherboard had used bad transistors that causes the processors to go bad.
Abit lost the law suit, and sent everyone with a previous RMA a compensation rembursement. Too late, by then I have already bought a Pentium 4 replacement.
EA always manufacture like 1 or 2 non-sport titles and resell the rest as EA titles after some kind of corporate buy-outs. It'll be interesting to see where the company ends up once it pwns the industry.
And the original Battlefield 1942 sucked. Operation flashpoint was better in every way except marketing. Hardly anyone even knew OF existed.
I don't think they clock CPUs down on purpose. As explained to me from someone who worked at Intel, and I don't know if this applies anymore today....
All CPUs are manufactured from the same assembly lines. They never really know what speeds they exactly come out to. The ones that come out slow, they remodify the slot/socket and call it Celeron.
I am not saying Halo is not fun or doesn't deserve to be top 10. I am saying all the worshipping from xbox users is becoming annoying.
You just mentioned "Ghost Recon, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, TOCA Race Driver 2". All of these are available on other platforms.
Also you should compare xbox install base with PC-gamers install base. If you count PC install base in general, that will count corporate users with no intention of gaming. And like it or not, 6 million people buying Halo2 is no surprising coming out of the #1 marketing company in the world, M$.
I am really starting to wonder if the Halo-fan crowd has ever seen a good first person shooters. Halo2 was fun, but it would be just another shooter lost in the mix if it was released on PC.
Why all this unnecessary hype. Is like celebrating the release of tetris on Nokia because it is such a dry platform. Xbox library is riding literally on about 10 top games.
Pfff don't worry. Didn't you know the Bush administration sided with Greenspan to tank the interest rates, sending real estate prices to all time highs. No illegal immigrant will find a home.
Hmm... I don't understand. Matrox already came out with multiple monitor support for PCs years ago. What's the big fuss, cause it has an Apple logo?
You can technically do that on windows having 2 present day video cards, running non-SLI in a ultra high resolution display.
This is really not about sports. It has to do with "VIDEO GAMES", and that's the problem!
No congress man or supreme court is going to give a flying fuck defending video game rights. To even bring up this subject would be committing political suicide. Hence the name "GAMES"... it's assumed to be unimportant.
Take-Two should have the right to use the licenses. They don't. It's a clear monopoly, and no one would step in. EA is owning the licenses like SLAVERY. It's simply wrong.
Are you crazy. You are judging the OS based on one tool "DTrace". Solaris 10 is where it should have been years ago. It's playing catchup to aix, linux, hpux now.
People are falling for the M$ marketing bait again. When M$ claims they will continue release games until 2007, you need to look at their history.
Their history saids M$ had lied way too many times about when the end support. win98, winME, winNT4... the list is a mile long. They have never EVER claim a end-of-life date, and stuck to it. Why would they do it for xbox?!
I just don't see the same level or interest going to NASA's website as google or slashdot. It may attract visitors once, but what will keep them coming back and again?
Don't blame windows or microsoft for that battlefield admin rights problem. Blame EA.
Please..... Power5 is dominating the market because most server apps are written already for the Power5 from ages ago. The optimized server apps development for Opteron and other x86-64 processors hasn't even started.
Not quite. If their million dollar budget Internet Explorer won't hold up in a spyware-adware packed environment, the childporn busterXP professional probably would be no better.
Without the $300 video card to play today's game. You mind as well spend that money on something else.
I am actually hoping for games that will never reach consoles. For example GBA has the best sidescrolling 2D Castlevania games. You just can't buy them on console anymore. Maybe PSP will pick those games up.
If you want to get healthy and save time, just get on a treadmill. There is no exercise harder than running 30 minutes straight. DDR doesn't remotely compare.