"Read it, think on it, then stop trying to compare the PSP price with the gameboy."
The gameboy is the niche leader; you cannot help *but* compare the prices of the two. I'd be much more hesitant of buying a PSP if it were in the $200-300 range - what happens if I drop it or leave it somewhere? That's a huge amount of money to invest in a portable gaming system. If I lost my GBA SP I could scrape together the $100 to buy another one.
Also, parents would be just as hesitant to purchase such a system for their kids when the GBA SP is cheaper and has more games available. Parents would buy a PS2 no problem, but a portable PS2? Have you been around kids:) The point I'm trying to make about the under-18 market is that the larger the fan base, the more likely that (good) games are going to be made for it. Less customers means higher chance that the console will fold (i.e. Dreamcast, despite superior hardware).
Finally, I can't imagine PS2-level quality on a tiny screen - what's the point? Instead of hitting gangsters in GTA 3 you're going to be knocking over pixels and shooting at vertical blue lines.
Maybe I'm overdramatising the case, but I really don't think the PSP is going to go anywhere, given the above. Your post doesn't make much sense - you say that the PSP is the level of a PS2, but since it's portable it'll cost more money. Yes, this is true, but that doesn't explain *why* more people would want to buy a PSP over a GBA SP *unless* the PSP has backwards compatibility, but in all likelihood it's not going to use full-sized CDs, so that's out the window too.
We'll see when the PSP is lauched and after a year, however.
-it has a price range that can come close to the SP (sub-$150),
-it has battery life more than 4 hours (which goes contrary to the specs that were released last October? November), and
-it has tons of games from day one *or* it's backwards compatible with PS1 games (not going to happen).
The Gameboy has a gaming library that's some 15 years old, not to mention perfectly good GBA games for the past 3 years. PSP might last because it's made by Sony, but I hardly think it'll debut at #1 and stay there.
" Combine that with a good color printer, and you've got your own photo lab right there."
You mean *amateur* photo lab. How long are those prints going to last? Film devs have *expensive* printers and very specific paper - can you duplicate this at home with a colour printer? Probably not. If you want archival quality, you need to pay for archival quality. In other words, you're saving money now, but in 30 years when your photos are no longer viewable, you'll probably be sorry.
Unless, of course, you have a $5,000 colour laser printer (yep, they exist) and Kodak paper, in which case I take it all back.
1) This is *KODAK*. Kodak film cameras are pretty rare as it is (35mm at least, dunno about medium format); this announcement does't change very much. Now, if this announcement were from Nikon or Canon, we might have a bit of a problem (but see #2), but as it is, this is not a big deal. It's like Interplay announcing that they're getting out of the PC gaming business:)
2) Even if big guys like Nikon, Canon and Minolta announced that they would no longer manufacture film cameras, there would still be a huge quantity of cameras left to sell, *AND* you can bet that film manufacturers and developers would still be in business for a loooong time.
I guess I just don't like online games. What am I paying for? The pleasure of gaming against another human? I can do that already with MTG or yu-gi-oh, and at no additional cost.
When I play comp games I want to play against a kickass AI - my schedule is crazy and sometimes I only have 5, 10 minutes to play before I'm out and about again. I suspect that a lot of people are like me too.
"I don't know what church you belong to, but it is an accepted idea that baptism is the sign of a covenant between God replacing Jewish circumscision."
DISCLAIMER: IMHO applies to entire comment:) This must be a difference between the Orthodox church and Protestantism. When a Protestant becomes a Christian, they enter into a covenant with God in much the same way that circumcision marked the covenant between a Jew and YHWH. Baptism is good, but it's not a sacrament as it is in the Orthodox church; baptism is an outward symbol of faith. While we're on the subject, communion/Eucharist is an inward symbol of faith, and so I would argue that, while it is good to partake of the Eucharist, it is not an essential element of Christianity.
Romans 10.9-10: "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." I really believe that Christianity is as simple as that - a simple verbal confession and the profound belief in Christ as Saviour. Again, IMHO.
How long is a piece of string? You can get "pay as you go" phones that cost a lot upfront (upwards $200) with no monthly fees, or sign up for a free phone and get a plan for $20-30/mo (plus taxes, surcharges --> $45/mo) for 1-2 years. It all depends.
Couldn't disagree more, but I HATE the concept of having to buy cards in order to play. If it were a standalone game with built-in cards (a la MTG comp games, or yu-gi-oh for consoles) and cost $30-40, AND had a decent single player component, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. MUCH freaking better than MOO3.
"When Jesus came around, the new way to enter into the covenant with God was baptism (both Jewish circumcision and Orthodox baptisms are generally done to infants)."
This isn't true. Baptism is a public confirmation that you are a Christian. Jesus was baptised by John when he began his public ministry.
Paul refers to "spiritual circumcision" as the new "covenant"; in the OT/Hebrew bible, circumcision was the sign of the covenant (see Moses), but in the NT, Jesus' death is the final sacrifice for believers.
"In short, circumcisions are for the Jews, not Christians."
Paul distinctly says that circumcision is a non-issue in Christianity; it doesn't matter whether you're snipped or not.
"I am still waiting for an apology regarding the filthy lie you told about me."
Not going to happen, sweetheart. And as for "mature conversation," read my first response to your first post. That was serious. Once you threw sarcasm into the mix, I'm not going to take anything seriously you say after that. Including this delusion that somehow I owe you an apology. You weren't logged in, I could have been talking to *anybody*, I don't owe you anything and you know it.
Give it up, man - you're not going to win this one.
"Your original lodge at me of being a ***racist*** came when I was still not using an anonymous post method."
In the referenced post, I noted the following points of your personality:
-liberal basher
-welfare people shouldn't vote
-elitist
-you like ad hominem attacks
-think you're older than me
-like bush's war
-don't think people who agree with you should have freedom
-you're a troll
-try to get people to flame you
I'm sorry, don't see racist there. Am I using small enough words? Do you understand? Yeah, didn't think so.
"Cyrix did and AMD does with the performance rating."
Problem with Cyrix is that they picked a number at random and suckered customers into believing that it was an equivalent speed. My Cyrix 366 (at 250mhz) did *not* run as fast as a P2 at 366MHz; boy was I choked about that one!
The problem with your statement is you're comparing iPods to actual computers. I know people who love their iPods but would never dream of using an Apple computer (non-techie types).
It doesn't matter when Longhorn shows up, nor who makes the fastest computer, nor how good OS X is. The 15-20% you're talking about are going to come from mom and pop types, not hardcore users of either Wintel or PPC, and these mom and pop users are still using Wintel - why would they switch when the hardware and software is more expensive?
Besides, the people who care about GHz are not going to go over to Apple when they see that Apple has a marginal speed advantage over an Athlon or P4; wrong crowd.
Not negating the quality of Mac products (aside from their notebooks they're fantastic, IMHO), but even quality isn't going to get you more market share.
...how bout storing the data on a few HDs and take them to your bank for a safety deposit box? Make it convenient and choose the bank where they/you are doing business. Cost is minimal and security is high and (in most cases) insured in case of theft - but this is a freaking bank we're talking about.
I know, it's not online, but if you're more concerned about security than anything else, you might want to consider it.
...I would heartily recommend insoles. Even the cheap ones from Dr. Scholls help a *lot* with uncomfortable shoes, although they tend to only last for 1-2 months (normal wear).
Also, if you're on your feet so much, you might want to look into an expensive pair of specialty shoes from a shoe cobbler (yep, they still exist!) This way, if you take the rubber off of a shoe but the shoe's still good, they can re-sole the shoe for much cheaper than a new pair. Good luck!
"I"? A fine thing to say from a person unwilling to use his real handle. You haven't won anything, buddy, especially if you're not willing to lay karma down on the line for it. I haven't insulted anybody but an Anonymous Coward, so I haven't slandered anybody's "good name." Can you prove otherwise, bitch? Yeah, that's what I thought.
What, are you joking? Of course not! I don't have any idea who you are; I couldn't care less about you. In light of this, this response will be the my last to you; this thread is completely unproductive and quite frankly a waste of my time. In the future, if you will do me the courtesy of not responding to anything I have written, I will return the favour. Have a wonderful life.
My comments record for/. only goes back 24 entries... in this thread: charges of being childish, "Typical liberal disinformation" and sarcastic remarks in regards to the n-gage come to mind.
"Why would you call me a racist? I think that is a rather low blow."
Ahh, are your feelings hurt? Lemme get you a tissue.
"Can you even cite one instance where I have lied about who you are?"
Sure. I'm not a liberal. Look buddy, you seemed to be okay with personal attacks earlier, so I don't know why you're crying about them now. The tone of *all* of your posts (not just the ones to me) are incredibly elitist and are pretty disgusting too.
I know that you're an American and you believe that somebody is either liberal or conservative, but in other places of the world this is not necessarily the case.
As to the tone of *my* posts and the "I've done nothing to you": you've never responded to any of my posts in a logical, consistent, cool tone, you're incredibly quick to insult and judge, and you have little tolerance for views that are not your own. Why should I bother restraining myself? I haven't even read one post from you that doesn't contain one insult. Need I say more?
Don't worry, we both know what you meant. Now, don't you have some zionist conspirators to ferret out? A klan rally to attend? And why are you posting anon?
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The gameboy is the niche leader; you cannot help *but* compare the prices of the two. I'd be much more hesitant of buying a PSP if it were in the $200-300 range - what happens if I drop it or leave it somewhere? That's a huge amount of money to invest in a portable gaming system. If I lost my GBA SP I could scrape together the $100 to buy another one.
Also, parents would be just as hesitant to purchase such a system for their kids when the GBA SP is cheaper and has more games available. Parents would buy a PS2 no problem, but a portable PS2? Have you been around kids :) The point I'm trying to make about the under-18 market is that the larger the fan base, the more likely that (good) games are going to be made for it. Less customers means higher chance that the console will fold (i.e. Dreamcast, despite superior hardware).
Finally, I can't imagine PS2-level quality on a tiny screen - what's the point? Instead of hitting gangsters in GTA 3 you're going to be knocking over pixels and shooting at vertical blue lines.
Maybe I'm overdramatising the case, but I really don't think the PSP is going to go anywhere, given the above. Your post doesn't make much sense - you say that the PSP is the level of a PS2, but since it's portable it'll cost more money. Yes, this is true, but that doesn't explain *why* more people would want to buy a PSP over a GBA SP *unless* the PSP has backwards compatibility, but in all likelihood it's not going to use full-sized CDs, so that's out the window too.
We'll see when the PSP is lauched and after a year, however.
-it has a price range that can come close to the SP (sub-$150),
-it has battery life more than 4 hours (which goes contrary to the specs that were released last October? November), and
-it has tons of games from day one *or* it's backwards compatible with PS1 games (not going to happen).
The Gameboy has a gaming library that's some 15 years old, not to mention perfectly good GBA games for the past 3 years. PSP might last because it's made by Sony, but I hardly think it'll debut at #1 and stay there.
You mean *amateur* photo lab. How long are those prints going to last? Film devs have *expensive* printers and very specific paper - can you duplicate this at home with a colour printer? Probably not. If you want archival quality, you need to pay for archival quality. In other words, you're saving money now, but in 30 years when your photos are no longer viewable, you'll probably be sorry.
Unless, of course, you have a $5,000 colour laser printer (yep, they exist) and Kodak paper, in which case I take it all back.
2) Even if big guys like Nikon, Canon and Minolta announced that they would no longer manufacture film cameras, there would still be a huge quantity of cameras left to sell, *AND* you can bet that film manufacturers and developers would still be in business for a loooong time.
When I play comp games I want to play against a kickass AI - my schedule is crazy and sometimes I only have 5, 10 minutes to play before I'm out and about again. I suspect that a lot of people are like me too.
Y'know what? You have faith in God. I have faith in God. That's good enough for me :) It was nice to meet you; I hope to run into you again someday ;)
DISCLAIMER: IMHO applies to entire comment :) This must be a difference between the Orthodox church and Protestantism. When a Protestant becomes a Christian, they enter into a covenant with God in much the same way that circumcision marked the covenant between a Jew and YHWH. Baptism is good, but it's not a sacrament as it is in the Orthodox church; baptism is an outward symbol of faith. While we're on the subject, communion/Eucharist is an inward symbol of faith, and so I would argue that, while it is good to partake of the Eucharist, it is not an essential element of Christianity.
Romans 10.9-10: "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." I really believe that Christianity is as simple as that - a simple verbal confession and the profound belief in Christ as Saviour. Again, IMHO.
How long is a piece of string? You can get "pay as you go" phones that cost a lot upfront (upwards $200) with no monthly fees, or sign up for a free phone and get a plan for $20-30/mo (plus taxes, surcharges --> $45/mo) for 1-2 years. It all depends.
Couldn't disagree more, but I HATE the concept of having to buy cards in order to play. If it were a standalone game with built-in cards (a la MTG comp games, or yu-gi-oh for consoles) and cost $30-40, AND had a decent single player component, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. MUCH freaking better than MOO3.
This isn't true. Baptism is a public confirmation that you are a Christian. Jesus was baptised by John when he began his public ministry.
Paul refers to "spiritual circumcision" as the new "covenant"; in the OT/Hebrew bible, circumcision was the sign of the covenant (see Moses), but in the NT, Jesus' death is the final sacrifice for believers.
"In short, circumcisions are for the Jews, not Christians."
Paul distinctly says that circumcision is a non-issue in Christianity; it doesn't matter whether you're snipped or not.
Not going to happen, sweetheart. And as for "mature conversation," read my first response to your first post. That was serious. Once you threw sarcasm into the mix, I'm not going to take anything seriously you say after that. Including this delusion that somehow I owe you an apology. You weren't logged in, I could have been talking to *anybody*, I don't owe you anything and you know it.
Give it up, man - you're not going to win this one.
In the referenced post, I noted the following points of your personality:
-liberal basher
-welfare people shouldn't vote
-elitist
-you like ad hominem attacks
-think you're older than me
-like bush's war
-don't think people who agree with you should have freedom
-you're a troll
-try to get people to flame you
I'm sorry, don't see racist there. Am I using small enough words? Do you understand? Yeah, didn't think so.
Problem with Cyrix is that they picked a number at random and suckered customers into believing that it was an equivalent speed. My Cyrix 366 (at 250mhz) did *not* run as fast as a P2 at 366MHz; boy was I choked about that one!
Great minds think alike :) :)
It doesn't matter when Longhorn shows up, nor who makes the fastest computer, nor how good OS X is. The 15-20% you're talking about are going to come from mom and pop types, not hardcore users of either Wintel or PPC, and these mom and pop users are still using Wintel - why would they switch when the hardware and software is more expensive?
Besides, the people who care about GHz are not going to go over to Apple when they see that Apple has a marginal speed advantage over an Athlon or P4; wrong crowd.
Not negating the quality of Mac products (aside from their notebooks they're fantastic, IMHO), but even quality isn't going to get you more market share.
The poster says that "Security is more important than cost"; these solutions have little to no security.
I know, it's not online, but if you're more concerned about security than anything else, you might want to consider it.
Also, if you're on your feet so much, you might want to look into an expensive pair of specialty shoes from a shoe cobbler (yep, they still exist!) This way, if you take the rubber off of a shoe but the shoe's still good, they can re-sole the shoe for much cheaper than a new pair. Good luck!
My response:
Your response, again anon
Oooh, it hurts, don't it?
"I"? A fine thing to say from a person unwilling to use his real handle. You haven't won anything, buddy, especially if you're not willing to lay karma down on the line for it. I haven't insulted anybody but an Anonymous Coward, so I haven't slandered anybody's "good name." Can you prove otherwise, bitch? Yeah, that's what I thought.
What, are you joking? Of course not! I don't have any idea who you are; I couldn't care less about you. In light of this, this response will be the my last to you; this thread is completely unproductive and quite frankly a waste of my time. In the future, if you will do me the courtesy of not responding to anything I have written, I will return the favour. Have a wonderful life.
"Why would you call me a racist? I think that is a rather low blow."
Ahh, are your feelings hurt? Lemme get you a tissue.
Sure. I'm not a liberal. Look buddy, you seemed to be okay with personal attacks earlier, so I don't know why you're crying about them now. The tone of *all* of your posts (not just the ones to me) are incredibly elitist and are pretty disgusting too.
I know that you're an American and you believe that somebody is either liberal or conservative, but in other places of the world this is not necessarily the case.
As to the tone of *my* posts and the "I've done nothing to you": you've never responded to any of my posts in a logical, consistent, cool tone, you're incredibly quick to insult and judge, and you have little tolerance for views that are not your own. Why should I bother restraining myself? I haven't even read one post from you that doesn't contain one insult. Need I say more?
Sasktel in Saskatchewan: $45.99 CAD per month for 1.5/128, or $59.99 CAD per month for 3.0/256.
Don't worry, we both know what you meant. Now, don't you have some zionist conspirators to ferret out? A klan rally to attend? And why are you posting anon?