Yeah, but corps buy Crays to run at 99%; home PCs, on the other hand, typically *do* run at 1%. Don't you think that hardware manufacturers know this when they build home Athlons/Pentiums?
You're completely missing the point. Instead of adding all these features to the original cart for free, you hafta have another GBA, a reader, and e-cards. If I only have access to one GBA, then why should I bother paying for SMB3 again? The bottom line is that I won't. I'm not complaining that Nintendo is a horrible company, bo ho ho; rather, I think that they're going to lose money on this decision from older gamers.
Gaming on a GBA is not a social event. If I wanted to party with friends, I would get a Gamecube.
I like the fact that SMB3 is back. I love the conversions of the games so far. However, this e-reader crap and connectivity requiring to GBA's just ticks me off (not to mention that an e-reader costs more than SMB3!) In Final Fantasy TA, for example, if you want to get certain special items, you need to frequently link up with another GBA (and another copy of FFTA). No biggie if you don't, of course, but you're still missing out on cool stuff. Same with SMB3 -- the e-reader adds new levels and such, but you need two GBA's.
Why couldn't they have added these extra features onto the original GBA cartridge? This game has already made Nintendo rich! The more and more I think about it, the harder it is to justify paying $30USD for a 10-year old game.
From what I've read, comments seem to fall under three categories:
1) The poster's personal views on religion and politics are ambiguous, and see no harm in leaving the pledge in.
2) The poster is a diehard athiest, and refuses to have anything to do with religion.
3) The poster is a diehard American patriot, and refuses to see this phrase removed from the pledge.
The thing is, most of the posters have said, "Ya, I hate/love the pledge, but it didn't really affect me as a child." I can't believe that two words are going to have a serious impact on a child's life; they certainly aren't going to turn them to religion any more than would saying the Lord's Prayer every morning.
Here's the point: are there really eight year old athiests out there so adamantly against religion that they would squirm if forced to recite the pledge? Or is this an argument by parents/patriots for parents/patriots? Are we really thinking about the kids?
And yet, for every person screaming for the removal of legacy code, you'll have two wondering why their older software won't work. Legacy compatibility, both on the software and hardware side of things, is one of the key reasons that MS is still used today. If they dumped their user base every time they moved from one OS verson to the next, how many people would still be using MS?
Everything you're talking about can be done with Windows XP, a good firewall, and a properly configured NTFS system. Maybe (gasp!) the problem isn't MS, but the end user? (disclaimer: i hate MS like I hate my crack dealer, and yet I need them both)
Why would they bother with using a P4 chip when Centrino is here and *way* better? IMHO, if you're going to buy a $3000USD notebook, then it better come with the latest and greatest hardware. 512MB of RAM is a good start, but what about wireless connectivity? MobileMark performance? And don't talk to me about gamers wanting to buy this laptop -- any respectable gamer would take that $3000 USD and buy a tricked out desktop system with a projector!
I contacted my Imax theatre in Regina, SK earlier this year, and they said that they were not equipped for feature-length IMAX films. How frustrating is that!?!
However, if one of the IMAXs in Calgary decided to show all three in a marathon, I'd be there in a heartbeat...
Even their lower-end pens are terrific. I've been using a Pelikan Technixx for about a year and a half now for about two or three hours a day, and I absolutely love the pen. It's not a drinker (i.e. fillable with a pump), but has ink cartridges that are nearly impossible to find in North America. Ah well. I wanted to get a Souveran 800, but it was definitely out of my price range. The Technixx was about $100 CAD, and I guarantee you I'll be using it for at least another five years.
Whoops... heh heh, I suppose now's not the time to mention that I e-mailed Bill with this proposal two years ago in exchange for a cut of the proceeds...
This comment reminds me of the infamous (yet misquoted) "Nobody will need more than 640k of RAM." Technology grows, and games grow with it. When Doom was released, who could have envisioned Quake?
Besides, I think your three points are somewhat invalid (high res video, better audio, better networking). What we'll be seeing is more *complex* graphics, which will require a higher processor/vid card to render.
People who complain about snipers are idiots. FPS's are loosely based on real combat -- granted, I haven't been to an Unreal Tournament game lately, but you get the picture. In real life, snipers kill the enemy, and the only way to stop them is to kill them. Why is this such a difficult concept?
Because in real life, the people who get killed by a sniper *stay* killed. I can just imagine some Afghan troops respwaning and shouting at an American sniper during an engagement: "Hey yoo freeking American jerkwad, pack the tent and get in the game!"
Very interesting stuff... only on/. would you get an insider's opinion on the group scene:)
You're right in saying that the MPAA has less to lose than the RIAA, mainly because "pop" movies are way better than pop music. People still go to movie theatres for the "experience," whereas the experience of listening to a CD can be easily duplicated whether the CD is legit or pirated.
However, I'm getting really ticked off at those "Stop Piracy" ads at the beginning of movies lately. I've paid my cash, so why am I being told not to pirate!?! Every time I see it, I usually loudly whisper, "Okay, that's done, now let's get this video camera set up!" It usually cracks up the people sitting around me.
How am I cheating Canada Customs? I've never had to pay a brokerage fee -- I ordered a camera from B&H, for example, that would have cost close to $600 CAD, but I was able to get it for $500 CAD. How? Shipped it UPS ($35), which automatically paid the brokerage fee (up to $100). No sales tax, which would have been about $27 CAD.
Unless I'm completely mistaken, it seems as if I really did pay $100 CAD less. If there were a Canadian camera dealer who was willing to match the American seller's price (and I asked!), then I would have bought here in Canada.
I don't think I'm screwing Canada; I think that Canada's screwing me. I don't give a damn about nationality. If it's cheaper in Iraq, I'll buy it from there.
But hey, feel free to continue to pay usur... I mean "taxes" to our wonderful government -- I won't stop you.
As a Canadian, I can only view your post with amusement. I've been ordering things from the States for *years* because it's cheaper (usually textbooks, but sometimes hard-to-get DVDs and books), and let me tell you, sometimes it's *ridiculously* so.
Say a product (DVD set, books, whatever) is the same price in the US and here in Saskatchewan. If the cost of the product is over $60-70 CAD (can't remember right now), and shipping's free, it's actually cheaper to order it from the states than it is to go to Futureshop to buy it. Why? Provincial sales tax doesn't apply to out-of-province purchases.
Does this make any sense? It's cheaper to buy something from the US, Ontario or England because there's less tax on it.
But, in the future, I would suggest that all your American friends order DVDs and books from Canada. A new DVD here is about $25 CAD ($18 USD); you wouldn't have to pay any taxes, not to mention that if you order in bulk you can get it shipped to you for free.
I always thought that employers had to have a clear reason as to why they were firing you, including three reprimands/write-ups before they could do so. Firing an employee without cause costs them money in severance, and AFAIK leaves the company open to legal action. Just out of curiousity, are you an employer or an employee? Your views would seem to indicate the former...
I really wish they'd make a nice light desktop for Windows XP. Yes, I know, we all hate M$ here, but some of us really don't mind it. Anyway, Fluxbox and Gentoo almost made me switch about a year ago -- maybe it's time to give it another shot...
WTF? VeriSign is now branding itself on the minds of those who mistype a URL. People who do this quite a bit are going to think that, somehow, VeriSign is in charge of the whole bloody thing. They came in and instituted this policy (read: free advertising) without consulting anybody, and when somebody asks them to cease what they're doing, they tell them to shove it.
Then, some guy comes along and says that the biggest problem is that non-English speakers are going to get a 404 in English. I point this out, he gets moderated as insightful, I get modded as a troll.
The biggest problem is *NOT* an English 404 -- the problem is the fact that VeriSign did this without consulting with *ANYBODY*, so who knows what else they're going to be doing! How about VeriSign ads at the bottom of every page of the entire Internet? How about an obligatory five-second page pre-load ad? How about surcharges for searching time on VeriSign servers when somebody misspells a URL? These are problems. An English 404 is *not* a problem.
The biggest concern? Puhleeze. If some guy in Russia goes to check his e-mail and mistypes the domain, he's not going to say, "Whoops! I guess mail.ru decided to go English. Ah well, might as well brush up on the ol' grammar!" Of course not! He's going to re-type "mail.ru" and get to where he originally intended to go.
"A 404 in any other language still implies bad typping skils."
"...if the policy on returns is too liberal, game stores will turn into free game rental outlets for people who don't want to pay for software..."
I dunno about the rest of you, but it's way easier to download a game than it is to purchase a game, go home and make a backup, go back to the store and try to convince the game retailer that it's defective, and get your money back.
People who use stores like EB as game rental outlets obviously don't have broadband -- if they did, they wouldn't bother with going to game stores at all. It's partially the retailer's fault for lack of sales, too!
"...such a strategy might protect local companies and markets in the short term, [but] it would make it more difficult for Asian companies to participate in world markets..."
Um, yeah, I don't think that the purpose of the Dragon chip is to participate in world markets, mmkay?
How do you explain, then, that you can ONLY get this file from Kazaa, and not Kazaa K++, Lite, or any of the other variations? It's because you're downloading from Kazaa servers -- believe it or not, they exist!
One of the reasons that Neogeo and Sega's handhelds failed was because of battery power. Not lack of games, not lack of graphics (because both looked sweet), but lack of battery power. Hasn't Sony learned anything? 3-6 hours (read: 1-2 hours) is absolutely nothing. They've gotta do better than this if they want to compete with the gameboy.
I'm absolutely thrilled with low-quality commercials. When's the last time any of us has actually bought a video game based on a fricking TV commercial? I'd rather the devs spend the money either 1) addding extra content to the game, or 2) lowering the price of the game instead of spending millions of dollars on a TV advert.
...p2p is going to flourish. The US, like it or not, is only about 3% of the world's population. The nice thing about p2p is that status or citizenship means *nothing* -- I can get a part of a movie or a game equally well from a guy in Estonia as I can from somebody in NY. If p2p goes down in the States, it's not going to kill the app, trust me.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not trying to be flamebait here, but most of the comments I've read on this article are very US-centric. I'm just trying to state the facts, not be insulting.
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Yeah, but corps buy Crays to run at 99%; home PCs, on the other hand, typically *do* run at 1%. Don't you think that hardware manufacturers know this when they build home Athlons/Pentiums?
Gaming on a GBA is not a social event. If I wanted to party with friends, I would get a Gamecube.
Why couldn't they have added these extra features onto the original GBA cartridge? This game has already made Nintendo rich! The more and more I think about it, the harder it is to justify paying $30USD for a 10-year old game.
1) The poster's personal views on religion and politics are ambiguous, and see no harm in leaving the pledge in.
2) The poster is a diehard athiest, and refuses to have anything to do with religion.
3) The poster is a diehard American patriot, and refuses to see this phrase removed from the pledge.
The thing is, most of the posters have said, "Ya, I hate/love the pledge, but it didn't really affect me as a child." I can't believe that two words are going to have a serious impact on a child's life; they certainly aren't going to turn them to religion any more than would saying the Lord's Prayer every morning.
Here's the point: are there really eight year old athiests out there so adamantly against religion that they would squirm if forced to recite the pledge? Or is this an argument by parents/patriots for parents/patriots? Are we really thinking about the kids?
Everything you're talking about can be done with Windows XP, a good firewall, and a properly configured NTFS system. Maybe (gasp!) the problem isn't MS, but the end user? (disclaimer: i hate MS like I hate my crack dealer, and yet I need them both)
Why would they bother with using a P4 chip when Centrino is here and *way* better? IMHO, if you're going to buy a $3000USD notebook, then it better come with the latest and greatest hardware. 512MB of RAM is a good start, but what about wireless connectivity? MobileMark performance? And don't talk to me about gamers wanting to buy this laptop -- any respectable gamer would take that $3000 USD and buy a tricked out desktop system with a projector!
And we wonder why the Machines will rise up to enslave us!
However, if one of the IMAXs in Calgary decided to show all three in a marathon, I'd be there in a heartbeat...
Even their lower-end pens are terrific. I've been using a Pelikan Technixx for about a year and a half now for about two or three hours a day, and I absolutely love the pen. It's not a drinker (i.e. fillable with a pump), but has ink cartridges that are nearly impossible to find in North America. Ah well. I wanted to get a Souveran 800, but it was definitely out of my price range. The Technixx was about $100 CAD, and I guarantee you I'll be using it for at least another five years.
Whoops... heh heh, I suppose now's not the time to mention that I e-mailed Bill with this proposal two years ago in exchange for a cut of the proceeds...
Besides, I think your three points are somewhat invalid (high res video, better audio, better networking). What we'll be seeing is more *complex* graphics, which will require a higher processor/vid card to render.
Because in real life, the people who get killed by a sniper *stay* killed. I can just imagine some Afghan troops respwaning and shouting at an American sniper during an engagement: "Hey yoo freeking American jerkwad, pack the tent and get in the game!"
You're right in saying that the MPAA has less to lose than the RIAA, mainly because "pop" movies are way better than pop music. People still go to movie theatres for the "experience," whereas the experience of listening to a CD can be easily duplicated whether the CD is legit or pirated.
However, I'm getting really ticked off at those "Stop Piracy" ads at the beginning of movies lately. I've paid my cash, so why am I being told not to pirate!?! Every time I see it, I usually loudly whisper, "Okay, that's done, now let's get this video camera set up!" It usually cracks up the people sitting around me.
Unless I'm completely mistaken, it seems as if I really did pay $100 CAD less. If there were a Canadian camera dealer who was willing to match the American seller's price (and I asked!), then I would have bought here in Canada.
I don't think I'm screwing Canada; I think that Canada's screwing me. I don't give a damn about nationality. If it's cheaper in Iraq, I'll buy it from there.
But hey, feel free to continue to pay usur... I mean "taxes" to our wonderful government -- I won't stop you.
Say a product (DVD set, books, whatever) is the same price in the US and here in Saskatchewan. If the cost of the product is over $60-70 CAD (can't remember right now), and shipping's free, it's actually cheaper to order it from the states than it is to go to Futureshop to buy it. Why? Provincial sales tax doesn't apply to out-of-province purchases.
Does this make any sense? It's cheaper to buy something from the US, Ontario or England because there's less tax on it.
But, in the future, I would suggest that all your American friends order DVDs and books from Canada. A new DVD here is about $25 CAD ($18 USD); you wouldn't have to pay any taxes, not to mention that if you order in bulk you can get it shipped to you for free.
I always thought that employers had to have a clear reason as to why they were firing you, including three reprimands/write-ups before they could do so. Firing an employee without cause costs them money in severance, and AFAIK leaves the company open to legal action. Just out of curiousity, are you an employer or an employee? Your views would seem to indicate the former...
I really wish they'd make a nice light desktop for Windows XP. Yes, I know, we all hate M$ here, but some of us really don't mind it. Anyway, Fluxbox and Gentoo almost made me switch about a year ago -- maybe it's time to give it another shot...
Then, some guy comes along and says that the biggest problem is that non-English speakers are going to get a 404 in English. I point this out, he gets moderated as insightful, I get modded as a troll.
The biggest problem is *NOT* an English 404 -- the problem is the fact that VeriSign did this without consulting with *ANYBODY*, so who knows what else they're going to be doing! How about VeriSign ads at the bottom of every page of the entire Internet? How about an obligatory five-second page pre-load ad? How about surcharges for searching time on VeriSign servers when somebody misspells a URL? These are problems. An English 404 is *not* a problem.
"A 404 in any other language still implies bad typping skils."
I dunno about the rest of you, but it's way easier to download a game than it is to purchase a game, go home and make a backup, go back to the store and try to convince the game retailer that it's defective, and get your money back.
People who use stores like EB as game rental outlets obviously don't have broadband -- if they did, they wouldn't bother with going to game stores at all. It's partially the retailer's fault for lack of sales, too!
Um, yeah, I don't think that the purpose of the Dragon chip is to participate in world markets, mmkay?
How do you explain, then, that you can ONLY get this file from Kazaa, and not Kazaa K++, Lite, or any of the other variations? It's because you're downloading from Kazaa servers -- believe it or not, they exist!
One of the reasons that Neogeo and Sega's handhelds failed was because of battery power. Not lack of games, not lack of graphics (because both looked sweet), but lack of battery power. Hasn't Sony learned anything? 3-6 hours (read: 1-2 hours) is absolutely nothing. They've gotta do better than this if they want to compete with the gameboy.
I'm absolutely thrilled with low-quality commercials. When's the last time any of us has actually bought a video game based on a fricking TV commercial? I'd rather the devs spend the money either 1) addding extra content to the game, or 2) lowering the price of the game instead of spending millions of dollars on a TV advert.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not trying to be flamebait here, but most of the comments I've read on this article are very US-centric. I'm just trying to state the facts, not be insulting.