Hey, at a certain point, I forgot Dvorak even existed. Now, thanks to Slashdot, he's a front page name again. I don't know, but I think his strategy is working pretty well.:)
Can I mod you down -1 for lack of originality in your troll? That would be for using ^H as an indication that you're somehow flexing a kind of geek muscle while coming up with your useless non-contribution.
Here's a couple of thoughts for you. One, if you don't like reading about speculation and rumor, don't read Slashdot. Anyone who's been here long enough will know that is what we see on here a lot. Second, just because you don't like it, doesn't mean the rest of us want to read about you not liking it.
This from Dell, who's CEO was quoted in the Wired Top 40 Companies talking about Apple, saying "Is it innovation if nobody buys it?" I guess now that it's getting some mind/marketshare, Dell's interested.
You could in fact make a whole lot of assumptions based on forums, but here are a few that usually serve me well:
Not everyone uses forums
Not everyone who likes/disikes a game speaks out on the forums
Cancellations aren't advertised by developers, and infrequently advertised by players in the forums
Those alone are usually enough to make the educated guess that official forums are the worst way to assess how well a game is actually doing. That being said, I find there's usually a certain percentage of players who end up knowing the ins and outs of a game more than the developers do, simply because they play so much and track the numbers. Those players usually have opinions that are worth listening to, as opposed to the ones that whine because their characters are more important than anyone else's.
... but this might be a good thing for MxO. I've played several Sony MMOs, and MxO, and I have to say that MxO is just terrible. People may bash Sony for their games, but that's nothing like what's been done by Monolith.
Sony might actually be able to look at what's been there and revamp the game so it actually includes things like fun gameplay and content. There's a LOT of potential in what's already there in MxO, but I think it needs a more experienced hand to guide it to being something great.
If you'd bothered to check, you'd find I've been on Slashdot for a long time now. But that's besides the point.
You made your statement as a statement of fact, when in fact we know it's NOT fact, it's just a guess. Which is what most statistics are, but statistics are usually gained by going out and actually taking polls, or counting heads, whatever. You probably DID pull that number out of your ass. And it's not based on years of experience with a game that's only been out less than a year.
Now back to the topic, I can only speak for my own experience and that of quite a few friends who have all played WoW since launch, and there's about two of them left playing the game. The rest of since found WoW to NOT be "amazing" as you put it. It's fun, for a while, but the gloss tended to wear off quite rapidly with the people I know of.
Admittedly, around 10-15 people is not a wide statistical sample by any means, but when 8-10 of which find a game to be the antithesis of amazing, it's possible to look at that as more accurate than 1 in 10000.
This is just the first step in making high-speed wireless networking available to the entire world.
Great, I'm sure the starving people of Africa will appreciate being able to get access to their corporate email everywhere, all the time, on their Treos.
Description: Focused on the reimplementation of most of the existing Perl based site on the.NET Framework. Some features, however, were left as Perl implementations.
I'm curious, which features, and why? And are they still Perl, or have they been subsequently ported to.NET? If not, why not?
Nope, Apple wouldn't need to be in the loop. Want to know how many songs Sony Music sold? Ask Sony Music. Apple reports sales stats back to the labels.
The Internet Explorer development cycle has always interested me. It usually ends coming and going like waves hitting a shore. Someone else (Netscape before, Mozilla now) creates a browser that's got an edge up on everyone else. Then IE comes along and makes an almost identical browser with a few enhancements over the other guys, frequently "borrowing" feature ideas from them. Then it goes away for years, stagnating, becoming more and more insecure and featureless compared to everyone else. Rinse, and repeat.
I'm wondering when they will get a clue that you have to keep on enhancing a product like web browsers, after unleashing it to the hordes.
From what I gathered from those keynote notes, this "universal binary" doesn't make applications useless to either platform. My Mac that I bought a few months ago will be as useful to me in a year as it is for me now.
I'm curious how the performance compares between the two platforms though. Will a high end Intel-based Mac perform better or worse? I'm betting most people won't notice much of a difference at all. Most of the prettiness of OS X is GPU based anyway. Unless you're doing some serious number crunching, packing a top of the line CPU in there won't speed up reading emails.
I bought mine a few days ago, it's insane how many features they've managed to pack in there. The place I got it from (Best Buy) had only one non-demo model left. The sales guy said they don't often keep a stock of them, so one can assume that (at least where I live) the PSP is doing pretty well. Several friends of mine waited on the DS until the PSP came out, I think once they get a look at it they'll be out there picking one up.:)
I agree with a lot of the points the article poses. E3 nowadays is more about the glitz of the upcoming deluge than the deluge itself. Booth Babes (and hey admittedly I check out the pics just like most guys do) are entirely superfluous. It's like if I took a bunch of cheerleaders to a shortlist presentation.
Yet, I can't blame the developers from being picky about letting in some grassroots media types, such as bloggers, from the insider information. In this day and age, it's tough for the industry to keep trade secrets until the time they choose to reveal them. It's all nice to be in there getting the info on a new piece of hardware, but when you surreptiously photoblog something you shouldn't, expect next year's security to be a bit tighter.
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Hey, at a certain point, I forgot Dvorak even existed. Now, thanks to Slashdot, he's a front page name again. I don't know, but I think his strategy is working pretty well. :)
After watching her video, there's not a lot of surprises left as far as she's concerned. :)
We don't, people who win lawsuits based on precedents allowed by stupid laws love them.
Can I mod you down -1 for lack of originality in your troll? That would be for using ^H as an indication that you're somehow flexing a kind of geek muscle while coming up with your useless non-contribution.
Here's a couple of thoughts for you. One, if you don't like reading about speculation and rumor, don't read Slashdot. Anyone who's been here long enough will know that is what we see on here a lot. Second, just because you don't like it, doesn't mean the rest of us want to read about you not liking it.
This from Dell, who's CEO was quoted in the Wired Top 40 Companies talking about Apple, saying "Is it innovation if nobody buys it?" I guess now that it's getting some mind/marketshare, Dell's interested.
Those alone are usually enough to make the educated guess that official forums are the worst way to assess how well a game is actually doing. That being said, I find there's usually a certain percentage of players who end up knowing the ins and outs of a game more than the developers do, simply because they play so much and track the numbers. Those players usually have opinions that are worth listening to, as opposed to the ones that whine because their characters are more important than anyone else's.
... but this might be a good thing for MxO. I've played several Sony MMOs, and MxO, and I have to say that MxO is just terrible. People may bash Sony for their games, but that's nothing like what's been done by Monolith.
Sony might actually be able to look at what's been there and revamp the game so it actually includes things like fun gameplay and content. There's a LOT of potential in what's already there in MxO, but I think it needs a more experienced hand to guide it to being something great.
If you'd bothered to check, you'd find I've been on Slashdot for a long time now. But that's besides the point.
You made your statement as a statement of fact, when in fact we know it's NOT fact, it's just a guess. Which is what most statistics are, but statistics are usually gained by going out and actually taking polls, or counting heads, whatever. You probably DID pull that number out of your ass. And it's not based on years of experience with a game that's only been out less than a year.
Now back to the topic, I can only speak for my own experience and that of quite a few friends who have all played WoW since launch, and there's about two of them left playing the game. The rest of since found WoW to NOT be "amazing" as you put it. It's fun, for a while, but the gloss tended to wear off quite rapidly with the people I know of.
Admittedly, around 10-15 people is not a wide statistical sample by any means, but when 8-10 of which find a game to be the antithesis of amazing, it's possible to look at that as more accurate than 1 in 10000.
... for every unhappy customer, I'm sure there's 10,000 happy ones - myself included
What exactly are you basing that statistic on?
This is just the first step in making high-speed wireless networking available to the entire world.
Great, I'm sure the starving people of Africa will appreciate being able to get access to their corporate email everywhere, all the time, on their Treos.
And PSP games, and movies on UMD, and look at photos, and play music... etc.
Description: Focused on the reimplementation of most of the existing Perl based site on the .NET Framework. Some features, however, were left as Perl implementations.
.NET? If not, why not?
I'm curious, which features, and why? And are they still Perl, or have they been subsequently ported to
You said it, Chewie.
Has to be one of the worst designed sites on the net right now, insanely slow scrolling performance in Firefox.
That's probably why the word "current" was used.
Nope, Apple wouldn't need to be in the loop. Want to know how many songs Sony Music sold? Ask Sony Music. Apple reports sales stats back to the labels.
Wow, check out the XBOX fanboys marking every PS3 supporter as flamebait.
The Internet Explorer development cycle has always interested me. It usually ends coming and going like waves hitting a shore. Someone else (Netscape before, Mozilla now) creates a browser that's got an edge up on everyone else. Then IE comes along and makes an almost identical browser with a few enhancements over the other guys, frequently "borrowing" feature ideas from them. Then it goes away for years, stagnating, becoming more and more insecure and featureless compared to everyone else. Rinse, and repeat.
I'm wondering when they will get a clue that you have to keep on enhancing a product like web browsers, after unleashing it to the hordes.
If you're going to get all Gungan about it, wouldn't it be Ze Moony eesa Bombad Boomer?
At least Sony wasn't stupid enough to brag about not meeting demand *before* the Playstation2 came out.
it was done decades ago by philo farnsworth (who also invented the television)
That figures. Someone invents cold fusion and the tv, and which one does humanity cling to dearly?
Oh yeah, that was cool, where he made enough power to run the Stargate just long enough to get the team home? Damn that guy's smart.
From what I gathered from those keynote notes, this "universal binary" doesn't make applications useless to either platform. My Mac that I bought a few months ago will be as useful to me in a year as it is for me now.
I'm curious how the performance compares between the two platforms though. Will a high end Intel-based Mac perform better or worse? I'm betting most people won't notice much of a difference at all. Most of the prettiness of OS X is GPU based anyway. Unless you're doing some serious number crunching, packing a top of the line CPU in there won't speed up reading emails.
Does nobody see the value in this??
I would like to, but the site's probably melted down by now from the Slashdot effect
I bought mine a few days ago, it's insane how many features they've managed to pack in there. The place I got it from (Best Buy) had only one non-demo model left. The sales guy said they don't often keep a stock of them, so one can assume that (at least where I live) the PSP is doing pretty well. Several friends of mine waited on the DS until the PSP came out, I think once they get a look at it they'll be out there picking one up. :)
I agree with a lot of the points the article poses. E3 nowadays is more about the glitz of the upcoming deluge than the deluge itself. Booth Babes (and hey admittedly I check out the pics just like most guys do) are entirely superfluous. It's like if I took a bunch of cheerleaders to a shortlist presentation.
Yet, I can't blame the developers from being picky about letting in some grassroots media types, such as bloggers, from the insider information. In this day and age, it's tough for the industry to keep trade secrets until the time they choose to reveal them. It's all nice to be in there getting the info on a new piece of hardware, but when you surreptiously photoblog something you shouldn't, expect next year's security to be a bit tighter.