i was in an elevator with a woman with one ofthese ear pieces on, and it was blinking with aa blue LED, so i told her "resistence is futile, you will be assimilated"....she didn't know the refrence, but it was funny anyway.
See, startrek is catching up.
the original ST gave us phlip phones, the NG gave us Borg like ear pieces.
Isn't that evil? Microsoft selling anti-virus software that is. i mean they are the company that is supposed to build an OS that is not vulnerable to begin with. Seems like a huge conflict of interest for MS to also be selling anti-virus software, since it means that they actually make money from the lusy software (OS) that they themselves create with swiss cheese size holes.
who in their right mind would sell a cup that could last?
Consumerism is about...well...comsuming, and if stuff stopped breaking you woulden't have much insentive to consume now would you? It's a cool thing, but I doubt it will ever see the light of day.
the fact that someone modded only shows that someone disagreed with me, it says nothing about the merits of my argument.
Now look at the facts.
Nintendo used to rule the roost as recently as 1995, yet ever since the N64 the company has been stumbling, and it's market-share shrinking (Im talking just consoles, not portables).
if you want numbers, just look at how many games have been released for each of the last 3 Nintendo systems in comparison to the competition. Now you may say, quality over quanitity, and you would be right. nintendo makes some of the best games on the planet. I bought a gamecube because i wanted to play Zelda and Resident Evil, and yet, after 4 years of ownership I can count on my fingers how many games i have actually bought for this machine, and I am not the only one who is disappointed. Nintendo abandoned 3rd party support, and focused on in house production, and it's hurt them. resident Evil 4 which was supposed to be an exclusive was released for the PS2 in part no doubt because Capcom was less then thrilled by the sales on the gamcube. if you look at how many new gamecube games were released within the last 3 months, we are practically in single digits, and none are really quality games that would be fun to plya for anyone over the age of 14.
nintendo used to be THE videogame maker, and yet within 2 generations it has dropped from number 2, to now number 3.
now maybe the fact that the 360 and the PS3 are so high priced will be a reprieve for Nintendo if they focus on the low end market, but i doubt it. With little to no 3rd party support Nintendo will wither and die just as the dreamcast did in 2000-2001. Like Nintendo, Sega released a lot of high quality games and supported their system as much as they could (and they actually tried to get 3rd party support), but in the end it was not enough. My guess is, Nintendo will suffer the same fate.
any Chineese can bypass the censorship anyway, so why even bother making this an issue.
i think google made a mistake by censoring, but on the other hand i don't think it will matter in the long run anyway. The chineese government is not even communist anymore, give it another decade and it will be completely unrecognizable from it's current form. like it or not, change is happening in china, and no amount of censorship is going to make that change stop.
the idiot politicans want to make it SEEM like they are doing something about violence in young people, but since they havent a clue as to what they could do to actually prevent violence, they go for the nearest scapegoat, so when it comes time for re-relection they can claim that they are trying to prevent youth violence. it's the same BS that the death penalty is based on. Support the death penalty, and then you ca claim that you are hard on crime and that this somehow equates to safer streets, the fact that it does no such ting never even enters the equation.
Nintendo doing well???
Um...if you are taling about their consoles, then you may be living on another planet. The gamcube is dead in the water, and their next console (revolution) is probably going to be the last Nintendo console.
Nintendo has lost market share with every singleconsole it's made since the SNES, and gamecube is just the latest disapointment. By concentrating on kids Nintendo sunk it's own ship, and now it cant compete at all since it's having to deal with ginats like Sony and Microsoft. My prediction is Nintendo will be dead just like Sega within the next generation of consoles.
but their portables will probably live on, at least until SONY makes PSP more competitive.
Agreed.
when DVD's were introduced there was a big advantage to switching:
1) no rewind
2) much higher resolution on older TVs
3) no wear and tear
4) no tinkering with broken tape that went off its hinges
5) all the extras that USED to be included in DVDs.
But today, what they are offering is simply a marginal increase in resolution, and one that is only available if you spend a couple-thousand dollars on a new HDTV. That hardly seems like a bargain, especially when you consider that all the would be early adopters (like me) are heavily invested in the current generation of disks. I bought one of the very first DVD players on the market, and my DVD collection is probably somewhere in the vacinity of 900 disks, there is not way that i am about to switch to a new, more expensive format and spend thousands of dollars all over again for the SAME movies just to get a few more pixels out of the newer format.
Poor Sony.
They try so hard, but keep making all the wrong choices. Why would they build a machine (PS3) that costs $900 to manufacture? It will take them years and years to recoup the cost, which is why Sony is now sayng that they expect PS3 to last 10 years as opposed to the regular 5-6 lifespan of past consoles. of course the reason for this is abvious, Sony will only break even 5 years down the road on the hardware, so it really needs the system to last that long in order for Sony to make any profit at all. but if you look at what Microsoft has been doing, it's actually moving in the opposite dirrection. Microsofts Xbox 360 was released 4 years after the original Xbox. Microsoft is intentionally decreasing the development of the news systems so it can leapfrog to greater market share with it's new hardware. So yes the 360 is not as powerful as PS3, but it costthem half what it cost Sony to produce their machine, and who wants to bet that in another 4 years Microsoft will release another system (Xbox 720?) that will leapfrog PS3, just as the PS3 is finally becoming profitable for Sony.
I think Sony has become a bit complacent...technological change accelerates, yes Sony seems to be moving in the opposite dirrection with their production cycles as the hardware gets more and more expensive. The problem is, Sony is not competing with the likes of Sega or Nintendo anymore. It's competing with a company that has billions of dollars in cash to spend at a whim (microsoft). That's a whole different ballpark, and Sony is going to have to be a lot more competitive if it wants to stay on top...saying that the PS3 is going to last 10 years is just not the way to do it whenyour competitor is actually moving the other way, and reducing production cycles.
the gov't is spending more money on propaganda then on the actual reconstruction. Gee, I wonder what speaks louder, an article that says that the US is rebuilding Iraq and things are getting better, or the crazy terrorist who is blowing up religious shrines and killing people.
Maybe if Rummy actually tried to fix the problems he and his boss created he would have better luck.
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i was in an elevator with a woman with one ofthese ear pieces on, and it was blinking with aa blue LED, so i told her "resistence is futile, you will be assimilated"....she didn't know the refrence, but it was funny anyway. See, startrek is catching up. the original ST gave us phlip phones, the NG gave us Borg like ear pieces.
Isn't that evil? Microsoft selling anti-virus software that is. i mean they are the company that is supposed to build an OS that is not vulnerable to begin with. Seems like a huge conflict of interest for MS to also be selling anti-virus software, since it means that they actually make money from the lusy software (OS) that they themselves create with swiss cheese size holes.
who in their right mind would sell a cup that could last? Consumerism is about...well...comsuming, and if stuff stopped breaking you woulden't have much insentive to consume now would you? It's a cool thing, but I doubt it will ever see the light of day.
the fact that someone modded only shows that someone disagreed with me, it says nothing about the merits of my argument. Now look at the facts. Nintendo used to rule the roost as recently as 1995, yet ever since the N64 the company has been stumbling, and it's market-share shrinking (Im talking just consoles, not portables). if you want numbers, just look at how many games have been released for each of the last 3 Nintendo systems in comparison to the competition. Now you may say, quality over quanitity, and you would be right. nintendo makes some of the best games on the planet. I bought a gamecube because i wanted to play Zelda and Resident Evil, and yet, after 4 years of ownership I can count on my fingers how many games i have actually bought for this machine, and I am not the only one who is disappointed. Nintendo abandoned 3rd party support, and focused on in house production, and it's hurt them. resident Evil 4 which was supposed to be an exclusive was released for the PS2 in part no doubt because Capcom was less then thrilled by the sales on the gamcube. if you look at how many new gamecube games were released within the last 3 months, we are practically in single digits, and none are really quality games that would be fun to plya for anyone over the age of 14. nintendo used to be THE videogame maker, and yet within 2 generations it has dropped from number 2, to now number 3. now maybe the fact that the 360 and the PS3 are so high priced will be a reprieve for Nintendo if they focus on the low end market, but i doubt it. With little to no 3rd party support Nintendo will wither and die just as the dreamcast did in 2000-2001. Like Nintendo, Sega released a lot of high quality games and supported their system as much as they could (and they actually tried to get 3rd party support), but in the end it was not enough. My guess is, Nintendo will suffer the same fate.
any Chineese can bypass the censorship anyway, so why even bother making this an issue. i think google made a mistake by censoring, but on the other hand i don't think it will matter in the long run anyway. The chineese government is not even communist anymore, give it another decade and it will be completely unrecognizable from it's current form. like it or not, change is happening in china, and no amount of censorship is going to make that change stop.
come now, everyone knows that the Bible is the literal truth right? If god did it it has to be good right?
the idiot politicans want to make it SEEM like they are doing something about violence in young people, but since they havent a clue as to what they could do to actually prevent violence, they go for the nearest scapegoat, so when it comes time for re-relection they can claim that they are trying to prevent youth violence. it's the same BS that the death penalty is based on. Support the death penalty, and then you ca claim that you are hard on crime and that this somehow equates to safer streets, the fact that it does no such ting never even enters the equation.
Nintendo doing well??? Um...if you are taling about their consoles, then you may be living on another planet. The gamcube is dead in the water, and their next console (revolution) is probably going to be the last Nintendo console. Nintendo has lost market share with every singleconsole it's made since the SNES, and gamecube is just the latest disapointment. By concentrating on kids Nintendo sunk it's own ship, and now it cant compete at all since it's having to deal with ginats like Sony and Microsoft. My prediction is Nintendo will be dead just like Sega within the next generation of consoles. but their portables will probably live on, at least until SONY makes PSP more competitive.
Agreed. when DVD's were introduced there was a big advantage to switching: 1) no rewind 2) much higher resolution on older TVs 3) no wear and tear 4) no tinkering with broken tape that went off its hinges 5) all the extras that USED to be included in DVDs. But today, what they are offering is simply a marginal increase in resolution, and one that is only available if you spend a couple-thousand dollars on a new HDTV. That hardly seems like a bargain, especially when you consider that all the would be early adopters (like me) are heavily invested in the current generation of disks. I bought one of the very first DVD players on the market, and my DVD collection is probably somewhere in the vacinity of 900 disks, there is not way that i am about to switch to a new, more expensive format and spend thousands of dollars all over again for the SAME movies just to get a few more pixels out of the newer format.
Poor Sony. They try so hard, but keep making all the wrong choices. Why would they build a machine (PS3) that costs $900 to manufacture? It will take them years and years to recoup the cost, which is why Sony is now sayng that they expect PS3 to last 10 years as opposed to the regular 5-6 lifespan of past consoles. of course the reason for this is abvious, Sony will only break even 5 years down the road on the hardware, so it really needs the system to last that long in order for Sony to make any profit at all. but if you look at what Microsoft has been doing, it's actually moving in the opposite dirrection. Microsofts Xbox 360 was released 4 years after the original Xbox. Microsoft is intentionally decreasing the development of the news systems so it can leapfrog to greater market share with it's new hardware. So yes the 360 is not as powerful as PS3, but it costthem half what it cost Sony to produce their machine, and who wants to bet that in another 4 years Microsoft will release another system (Xbox 720?) that will leapfrog PS3, just as the PS3 is finally becoming profitable for Sony. I think Sony has become a bit complacent...technological change accelerates, yes Sony seems to be moving in the opposite dirrection with their production cycles as the hardware gets more and more expensive. The problem is, Sony is not competing with the likes of Sega or Nintendo anymore. It's competing with a company that has billions of dollars in cash to spend at a whim (microsoft). That's a whole different ballpark, and Sony is going to have to be a lot more competitive if it wants to stay on top...saying that the PS3 is going to last 10 years is just not the way to do it whenyour competitor is actually moving the other way, and reducing production cycles.
the gov't is spending more money on propaganda then on the actual reconstruction. Gee, I wonder what speaks louder, an article that says that the US is rebuilding Iraq and things are getting better, or the crazy terrorist who is blowing up religious shrines and killing people. Maybe if Rummy actually tried to fix the problems he and his boss created he would have better luck.