I just bought a Dell XPSm1330, the one thing almost every review mentions is that the trackpad is too small. Well guess what I never have these accidental trackpad accidents. Oh the irony.
The thing that is keeping the ps2 alive is not that the hardware is awesome, but rather that developers are still writing games for it.
Consider that XNA just pushed the cost of creating XBox 360 titles (especially LiveArcade titles) down to only requiring a PC & talented people, not special dev hardware that you needed to be an approved developer to get.
Consider that MS is pimping the XBox360 out as a Media Center Extender too.
I can see this thing hanging around for some time... because of the software and services being pushed over it. Hardware is just a decoy for competitors to worry about.
I'm fairly certain something like this must already be happening. At least at my work. Its the only plausible explaination for people to constantly make the same bad decisions over & over again.
reminds me a little of some dialog from the movie 'The Peacemaker'
Clooney: so first you build the bombs to destroy the whole world & now you want to save it. What's it going to be? Kidman: well I beleive this week we're saving it.
I'm sure people have had problems... but I pre-ordered my 360 & have been playing it pretty intensely every since with no issues. Maybe I'm just lucky or maybe its just a matter of time. Personally I think the scope of the problem is overblown as a result of the number of units that have been sold.
Once upon a time there were 20 hour FPS games & in times of yore even longer single player campaigns. Now a 10 hour single player campaign....
So how long is it going to be before there are no single player FPS's at all? I've never been thrilled by Halo multiplayer, TeamFortress2 looks interesting but I do like my single player, my 'stories' as it were.
I guess I was fooling myself that Halo3 was going to be anything but a multiplayer game with a campaign tacked on as an after thought.
"When you get right down to it, having everyone in the world know the greatness of your company is entirely due to one man who is not you has got to suck:)"
If that statement is true then you shouldn't be in management. Especially not in a technical field.
its 7.15am, I'v seen the news, I had the credit card out... and then... 16Gig? huh?
If it had been 80Gig then sold. Or even 60Gig. A little thicker/heavier I could understand & live with.
I have 16Gig of movies, 8 gig of music, 12 gig of TV plus a few dozen megs of podcasts at any given time. And this is slowly growing. (from my own purchased DVD's & iTunes content BTW;-) )
I call conspiracy. Why would Slashdot editors even allow such a story? It paints us as complete idiots. Maybe someone from MS drove a dumptrunk of money up to their house?
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This just in. Stupid arrogant litigation-happy people play games too.
I just bought a Dell XPSm1330, the one thing almost every review mentions is that the trackpad is too small. Well guess what I never have these accidental trackpad accidents. Oh the irony.
Just so long as they are willing to open the pod bay doors, I'm all for it.
The thing that is keeping the ps2 alive is not that the hardware is awesome, but rather that developers are still writing games for it.
Consider that XNA just pushed the cost of creating XBox 360 titles (especially LiveArcade titles) down to only requiring a PC & talented people, not special dev hardware that you needed to be an approved developer to get.
Consider that MS is pimping the XBox360 out as a Media Center Extender too.
I can see this thing hanging around for some time... because of the software and services being pushed over it. Hardware is just a decoy for competitors to worry about.
I'm fairly certain something like this must already be happening. At least at my work. Its the only plausible explaination for people to constantly make the same bad decisions over & over again.
Who gives a toss? If only they would be able to get some quality content onto their circular medium on choice.
I think your example could be called value adding.
"what the sun decides to do "
Please stop anthromorphising astonomical bodies. It just makes them angry.
reminds me a little of some dialog from the movie 'The Peacemaker'
Clooney: so first you build the bombs to destroy the whole world & now you want to save it. What's it going to be?
Kidman: well I beleive this week we're saving it.
I'm sure people have had problems... but I pre-ordered my 360 & have been playing it pretty intensely every since with no issues. Maybe I'm just lucky or maybe its just a matter of time. Personally I think the scope of the problem is overblown as a result of the number of units that have been sold.
are you disagreeing with me or agreeing ?
Once upon a time there were 20 hour FPS games & in times of yore even longer single player campaigns. Now a 10 hour single player campaign....
So how long is it going to be before there are no single player FPS's at all? I've never been thrilled by Halo multiplayer, TeamFortress2 looks interesting but I do like my single player, my 'stories' as it were.
I guess I was fooling myself that Halo3 was going to be anything but a multiplayer game with a campaign tacked on as an after thought.
judging from the article artwork I'd say the author ranks boob-wooble simulations much higher.
all of my cats decision trees end with 'bite owner'
"When you get right down to it, having everyone in the world know the greatness of your company is entirely due to one man who is not you has got to suck :)"
If that statement is true then you shouldn't be in management. Especially not in a technical field.
Ah, in that case he isn't a theif, but rather a business person.
The gun is a capital investment.
Capitalism after all is about the exploitation of the working class. Consider yourself exploited.
Tasteless I know, but I couldn't help myself.
"with all that money flowing to them?"
You just answered your own question
We used to have something similar... until people realised their *own* lives were more interesting
its 7.15am, I'v seen the news, I had the credit card out... and then... 16Gig? huh?
;-) )
If it had been 80Gig then sold. Or even 60Gig. A little thicker/heavier I could understand & live with.
I have 16Gig of movies, 8 gig of music, 12 gig of TV plus a few dozen megs of podcasts at any given time. And this is slowly growing. (from my own purchased DVD's & iTunes content BTW
*sigh* have to wait til next year & hope I guess
Vista is to XPsp2 as WinME is to Win98SE
oh rly?
You are going to give an iPhone to your 12 year old to play Pokemon with?
and doesn't require an internet connection
after a year still noone is running linux on it
I call conspiracy. Why would Slashdot editors even allow such a story? It paints us as complete idiots. Maybe someone from MS drove a dumptrunk of money up to their house?
Where's my datacenter ?