No, not like the DC controls (which I kinda like). I want the same sony controller, scaled up 20-40%. I have big hands, and find them small. (Just to give you an idea, i wouldn't beable to use an N64 controller if the knuckly of my index finger on my left hand hadn't been crushed. As it is, my hand fits snug when I use my N64.)
Just how short a life do you expect it to have? Let's say they start selling them end of June, 01. That's ~9 months after the NAm release, ~15 after the Japanese. I'll assume you're considering the Japanese release, which means a life of about 2 1/2 years. That seems short to me. The original's into its 5th (4th?) year now, and there's still alot of games coming out, making money, and comparing well with Dreamcast games. What do you consider to be the useful cycle?
That's the revenue model for all consoles. Lost money on the decks, make a little bit off of every game sold. Sony licenses every game that gets made for Playstation, same as every console manufacturer has since the Atari days (don't know about Coleco/Intellivision). That's why Atari had naked rape games and modern consoles don't. Alot of developers wen't away when Nintendo stayed with cartridges while Sony went with super-cheap-mass-produce CDs. Sony's also a lot easier to get approval from than Nintendo. (still, more games is better, even if a larger percentage are crap)
I seem to remember another console that was supposed to be manufactured by all the different electronics companies... can you say 3DO?
I'm sure this will generate far more interest with manufacturers than 3DO ever did, both because the market is much larger (and no longer 'niche'), and because the product's going to be successful, regardless of a particular manufacturer trying for a piece of the market. I wonder what different manufacturers will do to try to differentiate their version though? Maybe someone will offer a deck with four controller ports? Or maybe larger controllers... (please please please)
Yeah, but if you switch away from the brick&mortar, you get much cheaper banking. MBanx (backed by BoMontreal) or PC (backed by CIBC) gives you all the good ABM & telephone banking options, and there aren't any service charges. I'm so incedibly happy with PC. Hell, they gave me a $200 overdraft on my account after a couple months, without my having to beg & plead for it. (I don't keep an accurate record, just a pretty good idea, of my balance, so I occasionally go a little past empty.)
You may not see it as such, but that is what it's meaning is. Kinda like the masses considering the word "ignorant" to mean "rude" rather than "lacking in knowledge". Someone who doesn't worship any gods in agnostic. I feel perfectly justified in saying the Christian God (I don't feel like being beligerant and insulting large numbers of people, so I'll actually spell the word properly) does not exist as well, presumably for the same reasons that you don't believe in invisible pink unicorns. However, I am not at all certain that there is no higher power of any sort; thus, I am agnostic, and not an atheist. Mainly because Creationism is the only other idea on the origins of man that I'm personally aware of. And I do believe that animals evolve, its the big leaps that I have doubts about.
all you need is specially designed furniture. A lot of stores build a space in the counter that holds monitors, with glass to allow them to be seen. (I've seen this at EB, for example) There are desks similar to this that place the monitor at an angle under the desktop facing towards the user's (assumed) head location.
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or, they could just write down the four extra numbers on the back when you hand it them at the restaurant...
Wasn't T-Rex gone before raptors came to be? That really bugged me about JP, they had all these species that (mostly?) never coexisted, from vastly different times, and different parts of the world too.
Hah! I live in Edmonton. (and I've experienced -50 more than once) Real Canadians (Calgarians, Vancouverites, and Torontonians don't count) know that cold is defined by -30 or lower. Anyone wearing a winter coat at a mere 0 or -5 is weak.
I enjoyed the political debate. Seems to me that we should consider that there will be such concerns if we ever are capable of terraforming Mars. (and I kind of symapthized with the Reds. I've got a weakness for the old)
Leaving the country en masse? Don't be silly, it'll take at least a month to process each application for exit visas. Seriously, as long as the process is gradual, most people will not notice, or care about a decent into facism.
You don't see a difference between not knowing (and often not caring) and being certain of the negative case? I personally am agnostic, because I don't have any way of knowing, and science is far from complete. (Evolution in particular, does in fact have some pretty big holes)
The internet could become the most democratizing force in human history. But it won't. You, me, and most of the rest of the/. types will actually use the 'net to gain unbiased information, but let's be realistic here. The masses are not like us. They wan't recipes and fancy applets that let them know if someone's trying to call them while they're connected (anyone else notice how quickly Telus's ad came out after Sprint's?). At best, we might beable to get some of them to read general news sights that aren't owned by the same people who own the TV news. Most people go to pages whose URL's they've marked down off TV or advertisments, which means that they never, ever see anything that isn't created by some company or another.
The reason that models say that bees shouldn't fly is basically that we haven't been able to model a lift surface (wings) that aren't ridgid. Bees wings flex as the flap. Presumably a sufficiently accurate model would show us that they can fly (since they actually do).
I think you're giving the masses too much credit. People consider third parties a wasted vote because they believe that no one else is going to vote for the non-Rep/non-Dem candidate, so they shouldn't either. It's similar to the prisoner's dilemma.
And, no, third party candidates wouldn't be any better. The one's who aren't half (or more) nuts, are too naive to play at politics. They won't even try to deal for at least some of what they want, and will end up with nothing. (Hey, look, more game theory!)
I never can figure out why people can't understand the religous nature of atheism. Atheists believe that there is no god or other supernatural entity of any kind, much as Christians believe that there is a god that has some degree of supernatural influence on reality. Agnosticism is the lack of religion, not Atheism people.
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heh. no karma loss for you, just for me. Too bad I don't care anymore...
No, not like the DC controls (which I kinda like). I want the same sony controller, scaled up 20-40%. I have big hands, and find them small. (Just to give you an idea, i wouldn't beable to use an N64 controller if the knuckly of my index finger on my left hand hadn't been crushed. As it is, my hand fits snug when I use my N64.)
Just how short a life do you expect it to have? Let's say they start selling them end of June, 01. That's ~9 months after the NAm release, ~15 after the Japanese. I'll assume you're considering the Japanese release, which means a life of about 2 1/2 years. That seems short to me. The original's into its 5th (4th?) year now, and there's still alot of games coming out, making money, and comparing well with Dreamcast games. What do you consider to be the useful cycle?
That's the revenue model for all consoles. Lost money on the decks, make a little bit off of every game sold. Sony licenses every game that gets made for Playstation, same as every console manufacturer has since the Atari days (don't know about Coleco/Intellivision). That's why Atari had naked rape games and modern consoles don't. Alot of developers wen't away when Nintendo stayed with cartridges while Sony went with super-cheap-mass-produce CDs. Sony's also a lot easier to get approval from than Nintendo. (still, more games is better, even if a larger percentage are crap)
I seem to remember another console that was supposed to be manufactured by all the different electronics companies... can you say 3DO?
I'm sure this will generate far more interest with manufacturers than 3DO ever did, both because the market is much larger (and no longer 'niche'), and because the product's going to be successful, regardless of a particular manufacturer trying for a piece of the market. I wonder what different manufacturers will do to try to differentiate their version though? Maybe someone will offer a deck with four controller ports? Or maybe larger controllers... (please please please)
Only if you got it inside. Didn't you see Armageddon? There kinda like firecrackers see...
Yeah, but if you switch away from the brick&mortar, you get much cheaper banking. MBanx (backed by BoMontreal) or PC (backed by CIBC) gives you all the good ABM & telephone banking options, and there aren't any service charges. I'm so incedibly happy with PC. Hell, they gave me a $200 overdraft on my account after a couple months, without my having to beg & plead for it. (I don't keep an accurate record, just a pretty good idea, of my balance, so I occasionally go a little past empty.)
150% unstable? Please explain...
(Wouldn't 100% unstable mean that it is destroyed at the same time it is created?)
You may not see it as such, but that is what it's meaning is. Kinda like the masses considering the word "ignorant" to mean "rude" rather than "lacking in knowledge". Someone who doesn't worship any gods in agnostic. I feel perfectly justified in saying the Christian God (I don't feel like being beligerant and insulting large numbers of people, so I'll actually spell the word properly) does not exist as well, presumably for the same reasons that you don't believe in invisible pink unicorns. However, I am not at all certain that there is no higher power of any sort; thus, I am agnostic, and not an atheist. Mainly because Creationism is the only other idea on the origins of man that I'm personally aware of. And I do believe that animals evolve, its the big leaps that I have doubts about.
Only by the polite. I call them crap.
all you need is specially designed furniture. A lot of stores build a space in the counter that holds monitors, with glass to allow them to be seen. (I've seen this at EB, for example) There are desks similar to this that place the monitor at an angle under the desktop facing towards the user's (assumed) head location.
or, they could just write down the four extra numbers on the back when you hand it them at the restaurant...
Wasn't T-Rex gone before raptors came to be? That really bugged me about JP, they had all these species that (mostly?) never coexisted, from vastly different times, and different parts of the world too.
Hah! I live in Edmonton. (and I've experienced -50 more than once) Real Canadians (Calgarians, Vancouverites, and Torontonians don't count) know that cold is defined by -30 or lower. Anyone wearing a winter coat at a mere 0 or -5 is weak.
I enjoyed the political debate. Seems to me that we should consider that there will be such concerns if we ever are capable of terraforming Mars. (and I kind of symapthized with the Reds. I've got a weakness for the old)
Leaving the country en masse? Don't be silly, it'll take at least a month to process each application for exit visas. Seriously, as long as the process is gradual, most people will not notice, or care about a decent into facism.
You don't see a difference between not knowing (and often not caring) and being certain of the negative case? I personally am agnostic, because I don't have any way of knowing, and science is far from complete. (Evolution in particular, does in fact have some pretty big holes)
I do. Hot weather sucks. I'd rather grab a sweater or blanket than turn on an air conditioner any day.
The internet could become the most democratizing force in human history. But it won't. You, me, and most of the rest of the /. types will actually use the 'net to gain unbiased information, but let's be realistic here. The masses are not like us. They wan't recipes and fancy applets that let them know if someone's trying to call them while they're connected (anyone else notice how quickly Telus's ad came out after Sprint's?). At best, we might beable to get some of them to read general news sights that aren't owned by the same people who own the TV news. Most people go to pages whose URL's they've marked down off TV or advertisments, which means that they never, ever see anything that isn't created by some company or another.
...but don't we need a few other components to make usable air? Doesn't seem as exciting if we still have to haul Nitrogen along.
The reason that models say that bees shouldn't fly is basically that we haven't been able to model a lift surface (wings) that aren't ridgid. Bees wings flex as the flap. Presumably a sufficiently accurate model would show us that they can fly (since they actually do).
I think you're giving the masses too much credit. People consider third parties a wasted vote because they believe that no one else is going to vote for the non-Rep/non-Dem candidate, so they shouldn't either. It's similar to the prisoner's dilemma.
And, no, third party candidates wouldn't be any better. The one's who aren't half (or more) nuts, are too naive to play at politics. They won't even try to deal for at least some of what they want, and will end up with nothing. (Hey, look, more game theory!)
I never can figure out why people can't understand the religous nature of atheism. Atheists believe that there is no god or other supernatural entity of any kind, much as Christians believe that there is a god that has some degree of supernatural influence on reality. Agnosticism is the lack of religion, not Atheism people.
Bah. Irony is lost on you AC's isn't it?
Journalistic ethic seems to have died with Perry White (of Superman fame).
Did it ever exist anywhere outside comics and similar idealistic fiction?