Seconded. I have no idea where to look for numbers, outside of the occasional articles at one site or another (that, strangely, don't seem to be regular at any given site...)
Yeah, other than my *original* Gameboy and NES(es, plural), all of my Nintendo consoles still work sparkingly well. The only problem with the NES(es): On my first, the plug in for the ac adapter came "loose" on the inside and doesn't connect. This was after over a decade and a kind of rough life for the system that included a few falls. The second I bought used and the connectors wore out and I didn't want to fix it (this was in like 1999 -- the NES was way old by this point).
When I said people hearing about it, I meant people who don't own a 360 already -- and thus, they hear it has issues and don't buy it, and MS loses a sale. All of this so they could save some money during R&D. (Seriously, whoever made that call needs to lose their job.)
No no no, don't take "suck" from what I said. I just meant the graphics were inferior to now, thus, graphics aren't that important. It probably didn't come off as well as I intended (I couldn't resist the bit/shit rhyme), though. Zelda: LttP is still my favorite Zelda, Twilight Princess is just my favorite *since*. And I don't think anything tops Mario World as far as its sequels go.
And I've yet to come across RPGs that I've enjoyed as much as Chrono Trigger or the goofy Earthbound.
I meant for my graphics point to be that Nintendo didn't need to break out the OMFGMOREPOLYGONSPRETTY! to be good.
My imagination is better than any graphics card.
Then again, I play nethack, so I'm clearly not the target of the graphical wave.
Federal Universal Service Charge Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge 911 Training Fee State Sales Tax 911 Service Fee
The biggest one is state sales tax, followed by the FUSC, then 911 Service Fee. The Regulatory Cost and 911 Training are $0.25 -- the 911 bit is $0.05. I pay about $6 a month in fees, overall.
Honestly, I'm not interested in anything you mentioned except Fable 2.
I did find the FF13 360 announcement... well, hilarious, though. That was one of the constant cries of Sony fanboys. "We get FF13 and the 360 won't!" Then Sqeenix remembered they like money.
Nintendo is brilliant for turning their backs on the gamers that supported them for decades and designing games for grandma.
They owe no loyalty to anyone. They're a company and they exist to make money. As it stands, they're doing that. Also, I'd say it's not really that they've turned their backs -- the games aren't much different from the goofy stuff from the N64 or GC days. They just lost a lot of third party support after the GC took such a beating by the PS2, and haven't regained that. Their inhouse games -- Mario, Zelda, Metroid -- are still good. (Actually, I liked this generation Zelda *more* than I liked any since the SNES.)
They're also brilliant for releasing a "next gen" console with last gen hardware specs for 250.
Yeah, how *dare* they not be just like their competitors and offer something different and affordable.
And it works great because grandma and grandpa have no clue about how graphics or processing power can improve their gaming experience.
Yeah because games *sucked* until this generation. Just out of curiosity -- how old are you? Anyone who has been a Nintendo fan "for decades" remembers 8-bit shit graphics.
Means they make raw profit on every machine sold
They don't have a choice. They're not part of a massive conglomerate that can subsidize their gaming unit until it comes out of the red -- they have to make money on hardware sales.
Hell, even of the more regular gamers I know, they have wii's for two games only. Mario and Smash.
Metroid, Zelda, Mario Kart? Basically the other three in the five series' that have been Nintendo staples (and some of the only games worth playing that were exclusive to Nintendo) since the N64 days? (Okay, so no Metroid then... but the other four, yes.)
So, for third party developers, it's still better to make titles for a PS3 or 360.
Yeah, ignoring the leader by miles -- great strategy. They should make PSP games, too, and not DS games -- right? So what if it wins?
The reason the Wii isn't doing well with third party? They lost a lot of support over the previous two generations -- their fault, given the way they behaved toward developers in the past -- and nobody had anything big planned for the Wii. Then it took off and developers are either pushing out crap or working on something decent, or quietly praying the other two catch up.
It has been for a few months. It'll take a while before it catches the 360 at this point, but unless Microsoft does something really impressive... the PS3 will catch it. I say this as a 360 owner who has a ton of problems with Sony.
Honestly, while I haven't had the problem myself, the RROD is probably hurting Microsoft's new sales -- people hear about it and don't want to deal with the hassle. MS claims it's fixed, yeah, but bad publicity is still bad publicity.
I'm saying you can't check certain screensavers to work in random mode -- you can in xscreensaver. In Gnome Screensaver, it's all or nothing. I don't like that approach. I gave it a chance on this box after installing Ubuntu 8.04, and it had no checkboxes for individual screensavers -- the only way to disable a screensaver in random that I could find was to delete it. That, and the inability to find an easy way to change the font size in Phosphor or the number of cows in bouncing cows, etc, just ended up causing me to switch to xss.
And, it's just something about his attitude at the start of that thread and elsewhere (or maybe it wasn't him elsewhere) that just irked me. It's partly because of the Gnome "hide the features" attitude lately. I agree this particular thing isn't important -- but sometimes someone just rubs you wrong, y'know? It's especially irrelevant with a monitor set to go off after X amount of time (which I do), but it's one of those things that just bugs me.
The discussion is three years old. In three years, it hasn't improved, and I still have to gut Gnomescreensaver and replace it with Xscreensaver. I'm a Gnome user through and through, but this particular arrogance on William Jon McCann's part infuriates me.
In his defense, however, KScreensaver is just as bad.
How hard is the Xscreensaver "checkbox to allow screensaver in random mode" to implement, anyway? I mean, the code is *right there*...
My Wii came with a Wiimote + nunchuk, and Wii Sports. This was $250. Another Wiimote and Nunchuk would set me back $60 or so, and a game another $50. Now we're up to $360. The PS3, using your figure, starts at $400, so it's *already* more. Add a game, PS3 games cost $10 more than Wii games -- the difference is $100, without that second controller. Yeah, you can do more, so of course it costs more......Which is why the Wiimote/Nunchuk combination costs more. It's more technology than the PS3 controller is.
I bought a 360 for about $350, with one controller and no game -- so it cost another $60 just to get to the level of the Wii -- but I accepted this because I knew the 360 had more power to it (that game, btw, was BioShock -- a 360 + BioShock was cheaper than getting a PC that could play it). Sort of like how I accepted the PS2 cost more than the Gamecube when I got a PS2. (Can't recall the PS1/N64 prices or Sega Genesis/SNES prices to continue this comparison...)
Also, I don't know what hype I'm supposed to be believing that you got from the question "What?" I know the PS3 price is coming down, and the Wii price isn't. I wasn't trying to attack the PS3 with the question -- don't be so defensive.
Wait, just what did SCO win? If I remember right, they lost the case determining copyright, which was pretty much the linchpin of the entire slew of lawsuits.
No, but/. comments aren't long enough for a rant against all 100 of them.;)
Honestly, I wonder how many people here from the US can name both of their senators, much less 89/100. I bet it's higher than the general population... but not even close to 100%. I can name mine, and a few high profile other Senators... but nowhere near 89, much less 100.
Aw c'mon, there are far more than these two for us geeks to hate.
I'd make a list, but most of them also have a fair number of geeky fanboys and the last thing I need is to be hunted down by a Sony/Apple/etc fanboy and have to dodge soggy pocket-protectors...
Seriously, I didn't even think they gave you a slashdot account without hating at least five corporations and 89/100 US Senators.
Not even advertisers? I haven't read the Youtube TOS or privacy policy, but I'm fairly certain it contains the standard bs "we will sell your info to advertisers to make a buck" clause.
The point is that Viacom can find out that "the same person that viewed video X that infringes our copyright also viewed fifteen other videos that infringe our copyright; and he only looked at two that do not".
I find it hilarious that they're going to pay someone to look at all these lines.
I imagine it won't be a geek or someone with knowledge of the culture. And I can imagine the following moment.
The guy/girl sets down a sheet of paper, rubs the bridge of their nose, and says, out loud: "Jesus Christ, when did Rick Astly get so popular?"
Especially when one of the ones that pulled back on it has been all about change and when you consider some of the things the Dems said to win in 2006 about fixing corruption -- on which they've done... well...
Pretty much the same on everything else they claimed they'd do.
No, I agree. My original point wasn't to slight Linux users (as I am one) but to sarcastically chide OP for implying people would give money to charity if they didn't buy an OS.
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My mouse cost me a total of like, $7.
My monitor cost me over $200.
If I was going to touch one with greasy fingers, it'd be the mouse.
Cleaning a monitor can damage it, too, if not done properly. Damaging a mouse while cleaning it would be a bit of an accomplishment.
The 360 has around 19.1-.3 or sold worldwide.
The PS3 is around 15 million now.
Citation needed.
Seconded. I have no idea where to look for numbers, outside of the occasional articles at one site or another (that, strangely, don't seem to be regular at any given site...)
Yeah, other than my *original* Gameboy and NES(es, plural), all of my Nintendo consoles still work sparkingly well. The only problem with the NES(es): On my first, the plug in for the ac adapter came "loose" on the inside and doesn't connect. This was after over a decade and a kind of rough life for the system that included a few falls. The second I bought used and the connectors wore out and I didn't want to fix it (this was in like 1999 -- the NES was way old by this point).
When I said people hearing about it, I meant people who don't own a 360 already -- and thus, they hear it has issues and don't buy it, and MS loses a sale. All of this so they could save some money during R&D. (Seriously, whoever made that call needs to lose their job.)
No no no, don't take "suck" from what I said. I just meant the graphics were inferior to now, thus, graphics aren't that important. It probably didn't come off as well as I intended (I couldn't resist the bit/shit rhyme), though. Zelda: LttP is still my favorite Zelda, Twilight Princess is just my favorite *since*. And I don't think anything tops Mario World as far as its sequels go.
And I've yet to come across RPGs that I've enjoyed as much as Chrono Trigger or the goofy Earthbound.
I meant for my graphics point to be that Nintendo didn't need to break out the OMFGMOREPOLYGONSPRETTY! to be good.
My imagination is better than any graphics card.
Then again, I play nethack, so I'm clearly not the target of the graphical wave.
On my (ATT but not iphone) bill, I pay:
Federal Universal Service Charge
Regulatory Cost Recovery Charge
911 Training Fee
State Sales Tax
911 Service Fee
The biggest one is state sales tax, followed by the FUSC, then 911 Service Fee. The Regulatory Cost and 911 Training are $0.25 -- the 911 bit is $0.05. I pay about $6 a month in fees, overall.
Honestly, I'm not interested in anything you mentioned except Fable 2.
I did find the FF13 360 announcement... well, hilarious, though. That was one of the constant cries of Sony fanboys. "We get FF13 and the 360 won't!" Then Sqeenix remembered they like money.
Nintendo is brilliant for turning their backs on the gamers that supported them for decades and designing games for grandma.
They owe no loyalty to anyone. They're a company and they exist to make money. As it stands, they're doing that. Also, I'd say it's not really that they've turned their backs -- the games aren't much different from the goofy stuff from the N64 or GC days. They just lost a lot of third party support after the GC took such a beating by the PS2, and haven't regained that. Their inhouse games -- Mario, Zelda, Metroid -- are still good. (Actually, I liked this generation Zelda *more* than I liked any since the SNES.)
They're also brilliant for releasing a "next gen" console with last gen hardware specs for 250.
Yeah, how *dare* they not be just like their competitors and offer something different and affordable.
And it works great because grandma and grandpa have no clue about how graphics or processing power can improve their gaming experience.
Yeah because games *sucked* until this generation. Just out of curiosity -- how old are you? Anyone who has been a Nintendo fan "for decades" remembers 8-bit shit graphics.
Means they make raw profit on every machine sold
They don't have a choice. They're not part of a massive conglomerate that can subsidize their gaming unit until it comes out of the red -- they have to make money on hardware sales.
Hell, even of the more regular gamers I know, they have wii's for two games only. Mario and Smash.
Metroid, Zelda, Mario Kart? Basically the other three in the five series' that have been Nintendo staples (and some of the only games worth playing that were exclusive to Nintendo) since the N64 days? (Okay, so no Metroid then... but the other four, yes.)
So, for third party developers, it's still better to make titles for a PS3 or 360.
Yeah, ignoring the leader by miles -- great strategy. They should make PSP games, too, and not DS games -- right? So what if it wins?
The reason the Wii isn't doing well with third party? They lost a lot of support over the previous two generations -- their fault, given the way they behaved toward developers in the past -- and nobody had anything big planned for the Wii. Then it took off and developers are either pushing out crap or working on something decent, or quietly praying the other two catch up.
It has been for a few months. It'll take a while before it catches the 360 at this point, but unless Microsoft does something really impressive... the PS3 will catch it. I say this as a 360 owner who has a ton of problems with Sony.
Honestly, while I haven't had the problem myself, the RROD is probably hurting Microsoft's new sales -- people hear about it and don't want to deal with the hassle. MS claims it's fixed, yeah, but bad publicity is still bad publicity.
I'm saying you can't check certain screensavers to work in random mode -- you can in xscreensaver. In Gnome Screensaver, it's all or nothing. I don't like that approach. I gave it a chance on this box after installing Ubuntu 8.04, and it had no checkboxes for individual screensavers -- the only way to disable a screensaver in random that I could find was to delete it. That, and the inability to find an easy way to change the font size in Phosphor or the number of cows in bouncing cows, etc, just ended up causing me to switch to xss.
And, it's just something about his attitude at the start of that thread and elsewhere (or maybe it wasn't him elsewhere) that just irked me. It's partly because of the Gnome "hide the features" attitude lately. I agree this particular thing isn't important -- but sometimes someone just rubs you wrong, y'know? It's especially irrelevant with a monitor set to go off after X amount of time (which I do), but it's one of those things that just bugs me.
The discussion is three years old. In three years, it hasn't improved, and I still have to gut Gnomescreensaver and replace it with Xscreensaver. I'm a Gnome user through and through, but this particular arrogance on William Jon McCann's part infuriates me.
In his defense, however, KScreensaver is just as bad.
How hard is the Xscreensaver "checkbox to allow screensaver in random mode" to implement, anyway? I mean, the code is *right there*...
Do your own homework.
I was asking for a clarification of the sentence.
My Wii came with a Wiimote + nunchuk, and Wii Sports. This was $250. Another Wiimote and Nunchuk would set me back $60 or so, and a game another $50. Now we're up to $360. The PS3, using your figure, starts at $400, so it's *already* more. Add a game, PS3 games cost $10 more than Wii games -- the difference is $100, without that second controller. Yeah, you can do more, so of course it costs more... ...Which is why the Wiimote/Nunchuk combination costs more. It's more technology than the PS3 controller is.
I bought a 360 for about $350, with one controller and no game -- so it cost another $60 just to get to the level of the Wii -- but I accepted this because I knew the 360 had more power to it (that game, btw, was BioShock -- a 360 + BioShock was cheaper than getting a PC that could play it). Sort of like how I accepted the PS2 cost more than the Gamecube when I got a PS2. (Can't recall the PS1/N64 prices or Sega Genesis/SNES prices to continue this comparison...)
Also, I don't know what hype I'm supposed to be believing that you got from the question "What?" I know the PS3 price is coming down, and the Wii price isn't. I wasn't trying to attack the PS3 with the question -- don't be so defensive.
Wait, just what did SCO win? If I remember right, they lost the case determining copyright, which was pretty much the linchpin of the entire slew of lawsuits.
Same here, though recently, people seem to be swapping to using gchat. Typically the more Comp Sci types.
No, but /. comments aren't long enough for a rant against all 100 of them. ;)
Honestly, I wonder how many people here from the US can name both of their senators, much less 89/100. I bet it's higher than the general population... but not even close to 100%. I can name mine, and a few high profile other Senators... but nowhere near 89, much less 100.
Aw c'mon, there are far more than these two for us geeks to hate.
I'd make a list, but most of them also have a fair number of geeky fanboys and the last thing I need is to be hunted down by a Sony/Apple/etc fanboy and have to dodge soggy pocket-protectors...
Seriously, I didn't even think they gave you a slashdot account without hating at least five corporations and 89/100 US Senators.
Not even advertisers? I haven't read the Youtube TOS or privacy policy, but I'm fairly certain it contains the standard bs "we will sell your info to advertisers to make a buck" clause.
The point is that Viacom can find out that "the same person that viewed video X that infringes our copyright also viewed fifteen other videos that infringe our copyright; and he only looked at two that do not".
I find it hilarious that they're going to pay someone to look at all these lines.
I imagine it won't be a geek or someone with knowledge of the culture. And I can imagine the following moment.
The guy/girl sets down a sheet of paper, rubs the bridge of their nose, and says, out loud: "Jesus Christ, when did Rick Astly get so popular?"
The PS3 is not expensive, percentage-wise its now very competitive with the Wii (not just with the 360).
Um, what?
This is coming out almost two years after the console was released; maybe there's a reason it didn't come with it in the first place.
As for the N64, I think by the time the RAM upgrade was being used, the life of the system was almost out. I ended up with one game that needed it.
Especially when one of the ones that pulled back on it has been all about change and when you consider some of the things the Dems said to win in 2006 about fixing corruption -- on which they've done... well...
Pretty much the same on everything else they claimed they'd do.
Obama, Reid, and Pelosi are useless.
If the bigots at Stormfront can have a website, I'm pretty certain anyone can find a way to host their stuff legally.
You just have to look for a host that specializes in whatever you want to have on your website, and a registrar as well -- and they do exist.
And now a lot of people here have to admit that the police and the jury were right.
I have a feeling that a great many people won't step forth and own up to being wrong; it's just not in human nature.
Me, I never followed the case closely, but with what I did read, figured either he did it or he was a big idiot. Now I know the answer is "both."
What the hell else would you call lying and telling people you have something you don't?
No, I agree. My original point wasn't to slight Linux users (as I am one) but to sarcastically chide OP for implying people would give money to charity if they didn't buy an OS.