Sometimes "feedback" is more than just e-mails to the technical staff. There was so much (righteous) negativity towards the shoddy GameCube port of BG:DA that they are not even releasing the followup on the GameCube, citing that "not enough money was made on the GameCube version for the first port". So BG:DA2 was cancelled for the GameCube because it didn't sell.
However they misunderstood the feedback -- they assumed that the reason nobody was buying the GameCube version was because nobody was interested, when the real reason was that the port was shoddy and so much later than the PS2 release that most interested parties had already bought and played the game, and the other interested parties were capable of reading a review.
So BG:DA2 is on the incredibly inferior PS2 and not on the GameCube at all. The strange thing is that this "lesson" is being repeated by many gaming companies of late: release a late, shoddy port of "game X" on the GameCube, it doesn't sell, and then halt development for the GameCube. It's strange that the companies don't learn from "Soul Calibur II" that all consoles given equal footing, the GameCube version sold incredibly well.
Even games as recent as UbiSoft's XIII suffer from substandard GameCube ports -- XIII for example doesn't offer LAN play for the GameCube, so obviously people would prefer the XBox and PS2 versions which have that feature. The sad thing is, Ubi will probably assume that there just isn't any interest for the GameCube version and not release the sequel on the GameCube, or something ridiculous like that, when what they should be doing is apologising to the GameCube owners and releasing a version with LAN play and watch it sell like hotcakes. Are you kidding? A $99 console, and we can get 4 players on each of 4 boxes, for 16-person LAN shooter madess? How freaking insane would that be. But no, they put LAN play on the $200, 100-pound (ok the weight is an exaggeration) XBox and the $200, 8-bit-graphics (ok that is another exaggeration) PS2. And on top of that, how about using the GBA-link feature to use the GBA as a radar device, or for guided weapons, etc, some feature which would actually make the GameCube version even more appealing? And each of the other consoles has something "exclusive" like a multiplayer mode, why not an exclusive multiplayer mode for GameCube such as "Reverse Tag", etc? Although this is just another stupid gimmick -- these "console-specific" feature-wars are just stupid, stupid, stupid and don't seem to have any technical basis whatsoever.
Bottom line: the GameCube just outsold the PS2 for the insanity that was Black Friday and Thanksgiving week. When are developers going to stop misunderstanding the "feedback" when their games do not sell on GameCube?
One of my favorite characters was cursed with a geas (accidentally) at birth which compels him to always tell the truth. This has come in quite handy for the guards who ask my party what our business is:)
"Uh, yeah, we're here to kill the king, and run off with the queen. And some of his jewels. Oh, and maybe burn the castle down, I dunno, if we feel like it."
This title has been in development for a while, and a GameSpot preview reveals more, but what other genres will get tarred by the massively multiplayer brush before long?
Please let it be Hockey! And soon! for GameCube? (ok I'm dreaming again... it's great being a fan of the #4 major sport and the #3 online console, I can tell you what...)
They aren't just "accused" of sex crimes. They have been convicted. This is part of their punishment, their anonymity is a freedom they have given up by committing a heinous act. One might be tempted to say that they have "served their time" and should then return to society, but their crimes truly do warrant this kind of scrutiny.
From the article on the Warthog: actually reminds this writer of the buggy from the start of Star Trek: Nemesis (which was even more clearly a Warthog rip-off!)
Star Trek Nemesis probably had those buggies built long before anyone on the team had played Halo. Nemesis released at the end of 2002, Halo released at the end of 2001. I would bet that Star Trek was filming before Halo was released.
You know you've married the right girl when you're playing chess, and you make a good move, and she says: "Trick-sy!" in her best Theodore Gottlieb voice.
Firstly, please provide links w.r.t Gen. Clark's involvement at Waco. I have an open mind and comprehend facts fairly well. Thus far he's the candidate I would choose, but all facts are good to know.
Secondly...
Vernon Howell (he later changed his name to David Koresh because he believed he was the second Messiah) was a lunatic who believed that the world was coming to and end and that the scene set forth in "Revelations" had already begun. (Now several years later, 2/3 of the world has not been consumed by fire and/or earthquake, and so we must assume that he was wrong about this).
For people familiar with what happened at the Jonestown massacre, it appeared that for all intents and purposes, Howell (Koresh) was about to order the execution of all the women, children, and men in the compound, much as was orchestrated by the "Reverend" Jim Jones (born . The fact that the attempted break into the compound was a complete disaster and ended with the deaths of nearly everyone inside the compound does not change the fact that Howell was a fugitive who had just been involved in a firefight with government officials.
If alternative #1 is allowing Howell (Koresh) to murder everyone inside the compound in a repeat of the Jonestown massacre, and alternative #2 is a risky assault on the compound in an attempt to save the people inside, and someone I cared about was inside the building, I would choose alternative #2.
From The 100 Year Vision by Wesley Clark: "And even more importantly, we will assure in meeting the near term challenges of the day - whether they be terrorism or something else - that, we don't compromise the freedoms and rights which are the very essence of the America we are protecting."
Oh, and about your "without consent" comment, we grant our representatives the power to consent on our behalf, that is the point of a representative government. The real question is not "how laws like this get passwed without consent" -- it should be "how do representatives like this get elected and stay elected".
Did you know that Windows users are more likely to run over little old ladies with their cars, hit widdle cutesy bunny rabbits with baseball bats, and put infants in the microwave on full power?
Actually, a correct statement would be something like: "A person who runs over little old ladies with their cars is more likely to run Windows than Linux."
Of course, this is simply because there are scores of Windows users per Linux user...
Sigh. I'm aware of all of that -- I've seen the movies a zillion times and am a pretty hard-core geek about them.
But to me, characters don't just "participate", "narrate", or even "lead". The point of a character is to develop. 3PO and R2 do not develop in any sense -- they are exactly the same "characters" througout the trilogy. We don't learn anything about their feelings or motivations -- because they don't have any! They are programmed machines!
One correction: The USA Today article is incorrect in saying that 'Clone Wars marks the first animated series to involve any of the saga's leading characters.' That distinction goes to Nelvana's Droids, which followed the adventures of R2D2 and C3PO.
Uh... not point out your droid fetish but, uh... aren't those guys 'robots' and while I'll admit humorous and alternatively heroic and comic, not exactly "leading characters".
I did both. However the behavior warranted some public ranting, and so I'm fully prepared to do that. When/if they correct the situation, I'll publicly post that as well. All's fair in love and credit card fraud.
I signed up early to be "notified" when Napster was released, being promised 5 "free downloads". I got my email, followed its link and directions, and downloaded my 5 songs.
And noticed a nice credit card charge for the songs appeared in my statement.
The power usage (think cooling the room) for a similarly-performing Athlon cluster would likely more than make up for what phantom price difference you are talking about.
People seem to think that I didn't want the iBook. On the contrary, I wanted her to get the iBook. The "thank you Mr. Jobs" was indeed sarcastic, but in a different way than people seem to have taken it. I'd rather support a new iBook than some new x86 laptop with Windows on it.
She doesn't use the start menu, she places shortcuts to the applications she uses on the desktop.
And it's not the jukebox software, she's been missing song downloads since Napster went under. She liked LimeWire but the RIAA successfully scared us away from using P2P software.
I actually had my wife considering an iBook for her next laptop, because she wanted iTunes. But now that she's got iTunes on her existing (Windows) laptop, there will be no iminent iBook purchase.
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Remember, you can please some people all the time, but you can never please everyone.
:)
Wrong. You can please everyone some of the time. You just can't please everyone all of the time.
Sometimes "feedback" is more than just e-mails to the technical staff. There was so much (righteous) negativity towards the shoddy GameCube port of BG:DA that they are not even releasing the followup on the GameCube, citing that "not enough money was made on the GameCube version for the first port". So BG:DA2 was cancelled for the GameCube because it didn't sell.
However they misunderstood the feedback -- they assumed that the reason nobody was buying the GameCube version was because nobody was interested, when the real reason was that the port was shoddy and so much later than the PS2 release that most interested parties had already bought and played the game, and the other interested parties were capable of reading a review.
So BG:DA2 is on the incredibly inferior PS2 and not on the GameCube at all. The strange thing is that this "lesson" is being repeated by many gaming companies of late: release a late, shoddy port of "game X" on the GameCube, it doesn't sell, and then halt development for the GameCube. It's strange that the companies don't learn from "Soul Calibur II" that all consoles given equal footing, the GameCube version sold incredibly well.
Even games as recent as UbiSoft's XIII suffer from substandard GameCube ports -- XIII for example doesn't offer LAN play for the GameCube, so obviously people would prefer the XBox and PS2 versions which have that feature. The sad thing is, Ubi will probably assume that there just isn't any interest for the GameCube version and not release the sequel on the GameCube, or something ridiculous like that, when what they should be doing is apologising to the GameCube owners and releasing a version with LAN play and watch it sell like hotcakes. Are you kidding? A $99 console, and we can get 4 players on each of 4 boxes, for 16-person LAN shooter madess? How freaking insane would that be. But no, they put LAN play on the $200, 100-pound (ok the weight is an exaggeration) XBox and the $200, 8-bit-graphics (ok that is another exaggeration) PS2. And on top of that, how about using the GBA-link feature to use the GBA as a radar device, or for guided weapons, etc, some feature which would actually make the GameCube version even more appealing? And each of the other consoles has something "exclusive" like a multiplayer mode, why not an exclusive multiplayer mode for GameCube such as "Reverse Tag", etc? Although this is just another stupid gimmick -- these "console-specific" feature-wars are just stupid, stupid, stupid and don't seem to have any technical basis whatsoever.
Bottom line: the GameCube just outsold the PS2 for the insanity that was Black Friday and Thanksgiving week. When are developers going to stop misunderstanding the "feedback" when their games do not sell on GameCube?
One of my favorite characters was cursed with a geas (accidentally) at birth which compels him to always tell the truth. This has come in quite handy for the guards who ask my party what our business is :)
"Uh, yeah, we're here to kill the king, and run off with the queen. And some of his jewels. Oh, and maybe burn the castle down, I dunno, if we feel like it."
This title has been in development for a while, and a GameSpot preview reveals more, but what other genres will get tarred by the massively multiplayer brush before long?
Please let it be Hockey! And soon! for GameCube? (ok I'm dreaming again... it's great being a fan of the #4 major sport and the #3 online console, I can tell you what...)
They aren't just "accused" of sex crimes. They have been convicted. This is part of their punishment, their anonymity is a freedom they have given up by committing a heinous act. One might be tempted to say that they have "served their time" and should then return to society, but their crimes truly do warrant this kind of scrutiny.
From the article on the Warthog: actually reminds this writer of the buggy from the start of Star Trek: Nemesis (which was even more clearly a Warthog rip-off!)
Star Trek Nemesis probably had those buggies built long before anyone on the team had played Halo. Nemesis released at the end of 2002, Halo released at the end of 2001. I would bet that Star Trek was filming before Halo was released.
You know you've married the right girl when you're playing chess, and you make a good move, and she says: "Trick-sy!" in her best Theodore Gottlieb voice.
Britney Spears' "Slave 4 U"? Is that banned now too? (If it made it this far...)
Firstly, please provide links w.r.t Gen. Clark's involvement at Waco. I have an open mind and comprehend facts fairly well. Thus far he's the candidate I would choose, but all facts are good to know.
Secondly...
Vernon Howell (he later changed his name to David Koresh because he believed he was the second Messiah) was a lunatic who believed that the world was coming to and end and that the scene set forth in "Revelations" had already begun. (Now several years later, 2/3 of the world has not been consumed by fire and/or earthquake, and so we must assume that he was wrong about this).
For people familiar with what happened at the Jonestown massacre, it appeared that for all intents and purposes, Howell (Koresh) was about to order the execution of all the women, children, and men in the compound, much as was orchestrated by the "Reverend" Jim Jones (born . The fact that the attempted break into the compound was a complete disaster and ended with the deaths of nearly everyone inside the compound does not change the fact that Howell was a fugitive who had just been involved in a firefight with government officials.
If alternative #1 is allowing Howell (Koresh) to murder everyone inside the compound in a repeat of the Jonestown massacre, and alternative #2 is a risky assault on the compound in an attempt to save the people inside, and someone I cared about was inside the building, I would choose alternative #2.
From The 100 Year Vision by Wesley Clark: "And even more importantly, we will assure in meeting the near term challenges of the day - whether they be terrorism or something else - that, we don't compromise the freedoms and rights which are the very essence of the America we are protecting."
Oh, and about your "without consent" comment, we grant our representatives the power to consent on our behalf, that is the point of a representative government. The real question is not "how laws like this get passwed without consent" -- it should be "how do representatives like this get elected and stay elected".
OK I hereby nominate the parent as the root of a bunch of "yo mama so fat" jokes.
Did you know that Windows users are more likely to run over little old ladies with their cars, hit widdle cutesy bunny rabbits with baseball bats, and put infants in the microwave on full power?
Actually, a correct statement would be something like: "A person who runs over little old ladies with their cars is more likely to run Windows than Linux."
Of course, this is simply because there are scores of Windows users per Linux user...
First off, you're wrong, as many other posters have been quick to tell you.
Secondly, everybody seems to be missing the point that IBM has had this technology for over 6 years. So your prior art has to be older than that.
Sigh. I'm aware of all of that -- I've seen the movies a zillion times and am a pretty hard-core geek about them.
But to me, characters don't just "participate", "narrate", or even "lead". The point of a character is to develop. 3PO and R2 do not develop in any sense -- they are exactly the same "characters" througout the trilogy. We don't learn anything about their feelings or motivations -- because they don't have any! They are programmed machines!
One correction: The USA Today article is incorrect in saying that 'Clone Wars marks the first animated series to involve any of the saga's leading characters.' That distinction goes to Nelvana's Droids, which followed the adventures of R2D2 and C3PO.
Uh... not point out your droid fetish but, uh... aren't those guys 'robots' and while I'll admit humorous and alternatively heroic and comic, not exactly "leading characters".
Oh man, I'm gonna get toasted over this one...
Sign up the good people down at the FTC to as many SPAMmers as you can. Watch those SPAM shops get closed down in a hurry?
I was always told that "Windows NT" (WMT) was just a one-off from "VMS", much like the IBM=>HAL thing, VMS=>WNT.
I did both. However the behavior warranted some public ranting, and so I'm fully prepared to do that. When/if they correct the situation, I'll publicly post that as well. All's fair in love and credit card fraud.
I signed up early to be "notified" when Napster was released, being promised 5 "free downloads". I got my email, followed its link and directions, and downloaded my 5 songs.
And noticed a nice credit card charge for the songs appeared in my statement.
Thanks, Napster. Goodbye, Napster.
The power usage (think cooling the room) for a similarly-performing Athlon cluster would likely more than make up for what phantom price difference you are talking about.
OK you need to visit Dynamism.com.
The Sony U101. 1.9 lbs, 7.1" TFT, 7.04 x 1.34 x 5.49 inches. Integrated WiFi. Celeron 600A processor, firewire, USB 2.0, tons of battery life...
People seem to think that I didn't want the iBook. On the contrary, I wanted her to get the iBook. The "thank you Mr. Jobs" was indeed sarcastic, but in a different way than people seem to have taken it. I'd rather support a new iBook than some new x86 laptop with Windows on it.
First bill was $1.98 for the 2 songs downloaded.
She doesn't use the start menu, she places shortcuts to the applications she uses on the desktop.
And it's not the jukebox software, she's been missing song downloads since Napster went under. She liked LimeWire but the RIAA successfully scared us away from using P2P software.
I actually had my wife considering an iBook for her next laptop, because she wanted iTunes. But now that she's got iTunes on her existing (Windows) laptop, there will be no iminent iBook purchase.
Thanks Mr. Jobs.