The Wall Street Journal article still managed to screw it up. Antennas known as rabbit ears were for receiving UHF channels. The antennas that pick up network broadcasts were never called that.
I don't know who really can make that claim but Intelecom Data Systems in Rhode Island was offering dialup Internet access to the public in 1987, including SLIP (and later PPP.)
IAdvertising is incredibly expensive, so much so that only big companies can afford to do it
Why pay for advertising when you can get your game on slashdot and watch the hits come rolling in? He's certainly going to get some sales out of it which is not bad for a game that's a couple of years old and arguably vastly overpriced.
Backwards compatibility is important, but mainly in the first six months to a year after a console launches. You have to get people to buy in and them not having to keep around another console to play older games is one of the ways to do that. However, the longer the console is around the less important it becomes. People typically play less older games as time goes on. Obviously there are going to be a handful of, "classic" games that people love and will continue to play for years, but the vast PS2 library is largely relegated to history as more new games are released.
Frankly Sony's biggest single problem with the PS3 is its cost. No matter what you get for the money, it's more money than many people are willing to pay and that keeps PS3s out of homes. Anything they can do to reduce costs is going to help them at this point, and removing some of the components that they are removing is doing just that. Yes they already have software emulation of the Emotion Engine, but supposedly there were still some other hardware components that were used solely for PS2 emulation. (I don't have any hard links, so if that is incorrect I apologize. I had read it previously.)
I find the GameCube controller to be the single worst controller in modern console history. The Jaguar controller was worse because it just had too much crap, but the GC controller loses because of its design. I hated the many different shaped buttons, I hated the placement of them, I couldn't use it without my hands hurting.
It is the biggest single reason that I never bought a GameCube game that was available on any other system.
One of those cardio sessions every week is actually done on a stationary bike while playing video games.
It works fantastically...I find that I will stay on that bike for a MUCH longer time (roughly 30 minutes longer) if I am actively engaged with something other than my legs moving I do the same thing. In fact I was coming to quote the comment in the OP about playing Pokemon because that's exactly what I do. And I end up going a lot longer than if I were listening to music or watching television like I used to where I'd still find myself glancing at the clock. Instead I just want to catch one more...
Considering certain patterns of falling boulders, as found on some mountains, for example, have the ability to bring death and people the suffer from Epilepsy (sic!). it makes sanse that certain patterns of falling boulders would also be able to reverse that effect. Obviously. It's already been proven in cartoons time and time again that if something falling on your head causes amnesia or a personality change that additional impact to your head will cure it. In the case of personality change you may need to apply such force several times as you may simply trigger alternate personalities instead, but you can repeat until satisfied.
The thing I'd expect the least is Steve Jobs (whose company makes the most DRM-fucked up mp3 player in the world) fighting against DRM. Talk is cheap and I will not believe a word, unless I see the results. People need to stop spouting this nonsense. The iPod is not DRM laiden. The iPod does not create DRM. The iPod does not do anything but play the files YOU give it. If you do not purchase music files that have DRM then you do not have to play music files with DRM. You can put any MP3s you want on the iPod, they won't magically become something different than they were before you put them on there.
Complain about the iTunes music store all you want, but direct your complaints where they belong.
And that, is why virtual currency is bullshit. Being bullshit doesn't make it have any less value. Something is worth what people are willing to pay, that is how Capitalism works. It doesn't matter what the item for sale is, or isn't, if it has value to someone it is worth something.
I think part of WoW's success (part, not the biggest reason) is its built in framework for allowing users to customize the UI and create addons. It was a brilliant move to simply base a lot of the UI around previously existing script technology (Lua) and allow users to customize that. They have had to make some changes along the way to lock specific things down, but it is far better than any other MMOGs before, if I were forced to I wouldn't play with the default UI anymore.
That is why Second Life is so important, it will probably never amount to much on its own but the idea of allowing that next level of user created content will be integrated into other games. Second Life will influence games in the future as people borrow those ideas.
I think World of Warcraft has at least another two years of dominance before anyone else even has a remote chance of pulling away some of its player base, but I also think that any game that does will need to have a modifiable UI and robust scripting system in order to do it.
I was in the same boat with my PSP, it was collecting dust for months. Until I installed custom firmware on it that allows you to take the games you own, put them on a memory card, and never have to lug around UMDs again. Plus of course NES/SNES/etc. ROMs, but that enters into a whole other world of questionable legality that I have no interest in debating, but at least it is out there.
You can also take the DVDs you already own, convert them and throw them on a memory stick and watch to your heart's content without having to buy the same movie multiple times. AND I've been able to take my own original PS1 games, rip those to a memory stick, and play them on the PSP. I have a box full of my old Playstation games that have been collecting dust for years that I'm having fun playing again. Being able to put multiple games on memory stick has also gotten me buying games for it again and using my PSP more in the last month than I did in the whole time I've had it.
Sony may say whatever they want but allowing me to use the PSP how I want to (which does *not* include piracy) has directly caused me to purchase games for it that I never would have again.
Or just get a PSP and you can play all of your original Playstation games natively!
As excited as I am about having SotN again on my TV I would be even more excited if I weren't playing through it again on my PSP right now.
Of course I'm also one of the lucky ones who actually has a copy of the original.
This is only new because eBay is apparently taking the initiative instead of waiting for a company to tell them to do it. Sony Online Entertainment has long made sure that EverQuest auctions were taken down, and although there are always some that get through it was the fact that they did it in the first place that created alternative places to buy characters, gold, items, etc.
The really large operations are already off of eBay so it won't have any effect on the individual games themselves, people who want to buy virtual goods are still going to do it, all eBay will do is force off some of the individuals.
It is still silly, virtual sales help drive the success of MMOGs which is part of the reason why I think more companies haven't gone after these auctions on eBay. They still thrive elsewhere, and help keep customers paying their monthly subscription fees.
I think one of the major problems is that commercial vendors like e.g. Coverity offer free service at least to major open-source projects
And even when they don't offer free service, they get free advertising on slashdot.
It was an interesting article and I agree with almost everything the author said, but it was also a multipage advertisement for a commercial application directly hitting the target demographic.
For crying out loud people, stop modding everyone up who says, "But mean people won't use the tag and you'll be fooled! It's a failure!" It isn't *meant* for malicious or even apathetic posters, it's mean for the people who today voluntarily tell you that a link they're posting is NSFW out of common courtesy.
The people who post links so that you'll get embarrassed or even in trouble at work don't even enter into it, they have absolutely nothing at all to do with why this idea is proposed.
That being said I still think it's a niche idea with positive intentions that would never get widespread adoption, I don't think every potential problem should be solved with technology, some things still need human interpretation.
...their VCR has died recently, and they haven't bothered to replace it! That is the problem with this survey, it asks people if they own a VCR, not if they've actually used the thing in years. Having one in the house doesn't prove anything, I own a VCR and it hasn't been even plugged in in at least four years, probably a lot more. I just haven't bothered getting rid of it through sheer laziness.
- The potential of the cell processor architecture is significant. Potential means, "hasn't done anything yet." I have no doubt that the PS3 will be a very competitive force in the marketplace, but it doesn't get handed anything until it proves it. So far all Sony has proven with the PS3 is that a high price and low supply do not create great selling points. Until the substance is there, which is the games, the PS3 doesn't have anything going for it but hope for the future. That's a lot of money to hang on the idea that some day you'll get good games to play. If there were full PS2 compatibility that would at least be something, but I for one couldn't even buy a PS3 today and play some of the PS2 games that I have that I *do* actually still play.
She and her family won't buy a new console for at least the first six months that it's out because they want to see what actually comes out for it, what others think, how many bugs it has, etc.
I agree with this and do the same myself, usually. I don't think that I have ever owned a console within six months of its launch, except maybe the original Gameboy. However when it came to the Wii there are already sufficiently fun games out right now to have made it worth the purchase for me. Not necessarily for everyone else, but for me there was no reason to adopt a wait and see approach to the Wii when I played games and enjoyed them from day 1, and there were at least 3 games that I enjoyed.
I waited seven or eight months before deciding there were enough Xbox 360 games to make it worth the purchase for me, and I'll wait the same before evaluating the PS3 titles. But the Wii is a winner from day one, for me at least.
Now I'll wait until the strongly rumored January price drop and their appearance in stores.
There is no strongly rumored January price drop, there isn't even a weakly rumored January price drop. There is only a, "one guy said on Slashdot that he thinks there will be a January" price drop.
There will be no price drop. There is no reason for a price drop. Demand still outweighs supply, why on Earth would anyone even consider a price drop?
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The Wall Street Journal article still managed to screw it up. Antennas known as rabbit ears were for receiving UHF channels. The antennas that pick up network broadcasts were never called that.
I don't know who really can make that claim but Intelecom Data Systems in Rhode Island was offering dialup Internet access to the public in 1987, including SLIP (and later PPP.)
IAdvertising is incredibly expensive, so much so that only big companies can afford to do it
Why pay for advertising when you can get your game on slashdot and watch the hits come rolling in? He's certainly going to get some sales out of it which is not bad for a game that's a couple of years old and arguably vastly overpriced.
Backwards compatibility is important, but mainly in the first six months to a year after a console launches. You have to get people to buy in and them not having to keep around another console to play older games is one of the ways to do that. However, the longer the console is around the less important it becomes. People typically play less older games as time goes on. Obviously there are going to be a handful of, "classic" games that people love and will continue to play for years, but the vast PS2 library is largely relegated to history as more new games are released.
Frankly Sony's biggest single problem with the PS3 is its cost. No matter what you get for the money, it's more money than many people are willing to pay and that keeps PS3s out of homes. Anything they can do to reduce costs is going to help them at this point, and removing some of the components that they are removing is doing just that. Yes they already have software emulation of the Emotion Engine, but supposedly there were still some other hardware components that were used solely for PS2 emulation. (I don't have any hard links, so if that is incorrect I apologize. I had read it previously.)
I find the GameCube controller to be the single worst controller in modern console history. The Jaguar controller was worse because it just had too much crap, but the GC controller loses because of its design. I hated the many different shaped buttons, I hated the placement of them, I couldn't use it without my hands hurting.
It is the biggest single reason that I never bought a GameCube game that was available on any other system.
It works fantastically...I find that I will stay on that bike for a MUCH longer time (roughly 30 minutes longer) if I am actively engaged with something other than my legs moving I do the same thing. In fact I was coming to quote the comment in the OP about playing Pokemon because that's exactly what I do. And I end up going a lot longer than if I were listening to music or watching television like I used to where I'd still find myself glancing at the clock. Instead I just want to catch one more...
Obviously. It's already been proven in cartoons time and time again that if something falling on your head causes amnesia or a personality change that additional impact to your head will cure it. In the case of personality change you may need to apply such force several times as you may simply trigger alternate personalities instead, but you can repeat until satisfied.
No f'in crap. People really have no sense of history.
Try Herzog Zwei, released in 1989. The true grand daddy of the RTS genre, years before Dune 2.
Complain about the iTunes music store all you want, but direct your complaints where they belong.
I think part of WoW's success (part, not the biggest reason) is its built in framework for allowing users to customize the UI and create addons. It was a brilliant move to simply base a lot of the UI around previously existing script technology (Lua) and allow users to customize that. They have had to make some changes along the way to lock specific things down, but it is far better than any other MMOGs before, if I were forced to I wouldn't play with the default UI anymore.
That is why Second Life is so important, it will probably never amount to much on its own but the idea of allowing that next level of user created content will be integrated into other games. Second Life will influence games in the future as people borrow those ideas.
I think World of Warcraft has at least another two years of dominance before anyone else even has a remote chance of pulling away some of its player base, but I also think that any game that does will need to have a modifiable UI and robust scripting system in order to do it.
There is an organization out there that works hard every day to fight this!
http://thepiratebay.org/
I was in the same boat with my PSP, it was collecting dust for months. Until I installed custom firmware on it that allows you to take the games you own, put them on a memory card, and never have to lug around UMDs again. Plus of course NES/SNES/etc. ROMs, but that enters into a whole other world of questionable legality that I have no interest in debating, but at least it is out there.
You can also take the DVDs you already own, convert them and throw them on a memory stick and watch to your heart's content without having to buy the same movie multiple times. AND I've been able to take my own original PS1 games, rip those to a memory stick, and play them on the PSP. I have a box full of my old Playstation games that have been collecting dust for years that I'm having fun playing again. Being able to put multiple games on memory stick has also gotten me buying games for it again and using my PSP more in the last month than I did in the whole time I've had it.
Sony may say whatever they want but allowing me to use the PSP how I want to (which does *not* include piracy) has directly caused me to purchase games for it that I never would have again.
True. I think they should remake it for the DS :-)
Or just get a PSP and you can play all of your original Playstation games natively!As excited as I am about having SotN again on my TV I would be even more excited if I weren't playing through it again on my PSP right now.
Of course I'm also one of the lucky ones who actually has a copy of the original.
You couldn't have scripted that sequence better.
This is only new because eBay is apparently taking the initiative instead of waiting for a company to tell them to do it. Sony Online Entertainment has long made sure that EverQuest auctions were taken down, and although there are always some that get through it was the fact that they did it in the first place that created alternative places to buy characters, gold, items, etc.
The really large operations are already off of eBay so it won't have any effect on the individual games themselves, people who want to buy virtual goods are still going to do it, all eBay will do is force off some of the individuals.
It is still silly, virtual sales help drive the success of MMOGs which is part of the reason why I think more companies haven't gone after these auctions on eBay. They still thrive elsewhere, and help keep customers paying their monthly subscription fees.
It was an interesting article and I agree with almost everything the author said, but it was also a multipage advertisement for a commercial application directly hitting the target demographic.
That's hard to buy, and Fortify got it free!
For crying out loud people, stop modding everyone up who says, "But mean people won't use the tag and you'll be fooled! It's a failure!" It isn't *meant* for malicious or even apathetic posters, it's mean for the people who today voluntarily tell you that a link they're posting is NSFW out of common courtesy.
The people who post links so that you'll get embarrassed or even in trouble at work don't even enter into it, they have absolutely nothing at all to do with why this idea is proposed.
That being said I still think it's a niche idea with positive intentions that would never get widespread adoption, I don't think every potential problem should be solved with technology, some things still need human interpretation.
...their VCR has died recently, and they haven't bothered to replace it! That is the problem with this survey, it asks people if they own a VCR, not if they've actually used the thing in years. Having one in the house doesn't prove anything, I own a VCR and it hasn't been even plugged in in at least four years, probably a lot more. I just haven't bothered getting rid of it through sheer laziness.I agree with this and do the same myself, usually. I don't think that I have ever owned a console within six months of its launch, except maybe the original Gameboy. However when it came to the Wii there are already sufficiently fun games out right now to have made it worth the purchase for me. Not necessarily for everyone else, but for me there was no reason to adopt a wait and see approach to the Wii when I played games and enjoyed them from day 1, and there were at least 3 games that I enjoyed.
I waited seven or eight months before deciding there were enough Xbox 360 games to make it worth the purchase for me, and I'll wait the same before evaluating the PS3 titles. But the Wii is a winner from day one, for me at least.
Now I'll wait until the strongly rumored January price drop and their appearance in stores.
There is no strongly rumored January price drop, there isn't even a weakly rumored January price drop. There is only a, "one guy said on Slashdot that he thinks there will be a January" price drop.
There will be no price drop. There is no reason for a price drop. Demand still outweighs supply, why on Earth would anyone even consider a price drop?
If you want to show the systems that really drove the home PC adoption market you have to get a TI99/4a and a Commodore 64, and I'd say an Apple 2e.