Guess what--the type of people who are competitive enough to become billionaires are going to choose the second option more often than the first. I suppose you're basing that assumption on the many billionnaires you know in real life and not on what you read about them in rags. I doubt that if Bill really cared about the total amount of money he had and wanted to stay on top he would give it away so much.
Why couldn't they name the list "Most popular games of all time"?
Then nobody would be nitpicking about the choices of words. When asked, what was your favorite game of all time, the game that comes on top is pretty much the most popular game of all time.
Tough some might argue that it's not the most popular, only the "favoritest".
A LAW? I mean come on! First people complain because the government wants to regulate game sales by making it illegal to sell an M-rated game to a minor and people are throwing fits. Now you're asking for a law that asks game makers to advertise (bad pun intended) the fact that their game uses in game advertising?
# create a new offence for the manufacture or distribution of circumvention devices for commercial gain Nowhere does it say I can't hack something for personnal usage.
# create a new criminal offence for manufacturing, reproducing, importing, distributing, and selling counterfeit goods So if I keep it to myself, I'm not illegal.
From what I understand, the DMCA doesn't even allow those two things.
To be fair, I think the 360 is doing okay in Europe. And the PS3 is dead everywhere.
Sales wise it's doing slightly better, at least in North America. Go here and check it out for yourself.
As for bleeding cash faster, I haven't been following this. Losses-wise, don't confuse the Entertainment division losses with 360 losses. They're reported 400 million losses in the last quarter IIRC, but not all 400 were because of the 360. There's IPTV stuff in there, Zune and others.
You've drunk the anti-ms cool-aid a bit too much I think.
Nothing new here. I sent a GBA for repair once and a DS twice and everytime I got refurbrished items. Worse, I sent a DS for repair to Nintendo because of a dead pixel and they sent me another unit back with another dead pixel.
As for my 360, mine died after little over a year.
Well... last time I looked, the planet wasn't too crowded with dinosaurs. Who knows? The conditions could be so bad that nobody would survive. We'd simply become extinct over many hundred years, not in one single swoop.
but when you're talking that sort of timescale, I really don't see how you can use the word "impossible." We, as a species, will probably not be around anymore by that time. We'll either have moved away from Earth a looooooooooooooooong time before a million years, or we're going to have been victim of all the doomsday scenarios we've been hearing about : shortage of oil, coal, recession, global warming, polar ice caps melting, energy crysis, superflu and dozen of others we may have even not heard of yet.
At work I work on an application that pretty much scales over the number of cores. One core, 1X, 2 cores, 2X, 4 cores, roughly 4X, 8 cores is about 7X. So it somewhat scales linearly.
As long as you're not stuck swapping too much data from memory to the harddisk (we work on image processing algorithms for a tile-based architecture) because of memory limitations, you're fine. 512 megs per core seems fine.
The problem is, FSB speeds and memory speeds are not getting the performance increase CPUs are getting by going dual or quad-core. Very soon we'll end up in a situation where we are waiting for memory too long to get any usefull work done. Right now that latency can be hidden by doing some pixel processing while waiting for the next bunch of pixels from RAM, but at some point there's going to be a limit of the FSB will truly hamper performance.
I work at a company where we sell turn-key solutions based on Linux at 100K$ a pop and you can bet the legal department went over everything and there is nothing to be scared of. Just don't use librairies that don't allow binary only distribution.
"The second is that private meetings, foreign pressures and lobbyist drafted bills is how law gets made in Canada" To which Bush added : "Canada is now officially part of North America"
rse if MS is shipping out refurbished units to customers who sent their console in for repair they should ensure that they're not sending out modified consoles. I bet there are little stickers inside the 360 that tells you if the Xbox was opened before being sent for repair. Since you have to open the 360 in order to mod it, it's pretty safe to say that Microsoft probably didn't even fix the console since the sticker protection was broken, so there's no risk of them sending a modded console to another person.
Enchanted Arms was a nice turn-based JRPG from From Software on the 360 (it was also released recently on the PS3). Eternal Sonata is turn based too, but there's no release date yet outside Japan, except that it will be released. Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey (once again, turn based) look really cool and are almost here (August for BD, LO in December).
So, considering Lair (3rd person dragon riding), Warhawk (3rd person shooter), Heavenly Sword (3rd person brawler) and Ninja Gaiden (3rd person brawler) are exclusives (tough 360 owners can get the Xbox version of that last one), all those other games are also available on the 360 right now or will be at the same time as the PS3 version.
And those are 360 exclusives coming soon, Blue Dragon (RPG), Forza 2 (racing), Halo 3(FPS) (sigh... I must be one of the rare 360 user who doesn't care about this one) and Bioshock (FPS, on the PC too).
It's really going to be a battle of the exclusives. And in this case, the 360 actually seems to have the better hand.
I work in a company in which produces special effects software. We've pretty much always agreed on a shipping date months in advance, but R&D chooses what features would go in the product and what would have to be cut early on. We've had 4 releases in the past two years and the most we've slipped is 1 week and the software is getting more and more stable. Nothing important ever gets cut. No rough edges. Good management makes a WORLD of difference. The videogame business should not be taken as an example of the software development industry.
Well, to be fair, the show used to have that, back when Baltar was half crazy. The scenes with him being distracted by Number 6 while talking to other Galactica members was pretty much priceless.
I also remember one scene I really like. I think it was Laura, Lee and his father cleaning the dishes after an eating with Tigh and his wife and I think Laura said something like "I think this one is not right for him. She makes him drink all the time and is miserable. I think he'd be better off without her." And then everybody stops cleaning the dishes for a few seconds, realizing he was exactly like that before he got back with her. And then resumed. That was laugh out loud funny.
I can't recall exactly when the show stopped being funny. I think it's around the time they when they went in a cave on a earth-like planet that Roslin guided them to and saw the earth's sky, confirming the prophecy.
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Guess what--the type of people who are competitive enough to become billionaires are going to choose the second option more often than the first.
I suppose you're basing that assumption on the many billionnaires you know in real life and not on what you read about them in rags. I doubt that if Bill really cared about the total amount of money he had and wanted to stay on top he would give it away so much.
Why couldn't they name the list "Most popular games of all time"?
Then nobody would be nitpicking about the choices of words. When asked, what was your favorite game of all time, the game that comes on top is pretty much the most popular game of all time.
Tough some might argue that it's not the most popular, only the "favoritest".
Interresting??? What the hell?
A LAW? I mean come on! First people complain because the government wants to regulate game sales by making it illegal to sell an M-rated game to a minor and people are throwing fits. Now you're asking for a law that asks game makers to advertise (bad pun intended) the fact that their game uses in game advertising?
Make up your mind people!
The article says
# create a new offence for the manufacture or distribution of circumvention devices for commercial gain
Nowhere does it say I can't hack something for personnal usage.
# create a new criminal offence for manufacturing, reproducing, importing, distributing, and selling counterfeit goods
So if I keep it to myself, I'm not illegal.
From what I understand, the DMCA doesn't even allow those two things.
Oh yeah, I forgot, she kept insisting that I "give her my Ironforge"
I was having sex with this girl last night and she was always talking "give it to me, oh yeah, big brute, I love it, yeah, harder, bad boy"
So I stopped. Too much talking is like too little.
Oh wait, we're talking internet chat...
Oh yeah.
:)
Crap.
To be fair, I think the 360 is doing okay in Europe. And the PS3 is dead everywhere.
Sales wise it's doing slightly better, at least in North America. Go here and check it out for yourself.
As for bleeding cash faster, I haven't been following this. Losses-wise, don't confuse the Entertainment division losses with 360 losses. They're reported 400 million losses in the last quarter IIRC, but not all 400 were because of the 360. There's IPTV stuff in there, Zune and others.
You've drunk the anti-ms cool-aid a bit too much I think.
Nothing new here. I sent a GBA for repair once and a DS twice and everytime I got refurbrished items.
Worse, I sent a DS for repair to Nintendo because of a dead pixel and they sent me another unit back with another dead pixel.
As for my 360, mine died after little over a year.
Well... last time I looked, the planet wasn't too crowded with dinosaurs. Who knows? The conditions could be so bad that nobody would survive. We'd simply become extinct over many hundred years, not in one single swoop.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't already replied in this thread. This is exactly what I was going to respond.
What makes us what we are is the combination of senses and experiences we can have through them.
but when you're talking that sort of timescale, I really don't see how you can use the word "impossible."
We, as a species, will probably not be around anymore by that time. We'll either have moved away from Earth a looooooooooooooooong time before a million years, or we're going to have been victim of all the doomsday scenarios we've been hearing about : shortage of oil, coal, recession, global warming, polar ice caps melting, energy crysis, superflu and dozen of others we may have even not heard of yet.
At work I work on an application that pretty much scales over the number of cores. One core, 1X, 2 cores, 2X, 4 cores, roughly 4X, 8 cores is about 7X. So it somewhat scales linearly.
As long as you're not stuck swapping too much data from memory to the harddisk (we work on image processing algorithms for a tile-based architecture) because of memory limitations, you're fine. 512 megs per core seems fine.
The problem is, FSB speeds and memory speeds are not getting the performance increase CPUs are getting by going dual or quad-core. Very soon we'll end up in a situation where we are waiting for memory too long to get any usefull work done. Right now that latency can be hidden by doing some pixel processing while waiting for the next bunch of pixels from RAM, but at some point there's going to be a limit of the FSB will truly hamper performance.
I work at a company where we sell turn-key solutions based on Linux at 100K$ a pop and you can bet the legal department went over everything and there is nothing to be scared of. Just don't use librairies that don't allow binary only distribution.
"The second is that private meetings, foreign pressures and lobbyist drafted bills is how law gets made in Canada"
To which Bush added : "Canada is now officially part of North America"
Just wondering, what's your take on the two SKU strategy for the 360?
Your point being? ;)
Finally a good reason to upgrade my computer! :)
rse if MS is shipping out refurbished units to customers who sent their console in for repair they should ensure that they're not sending out modified consoles.
I bet there are little stickers inside the 360 that tells you if the Xbox was opened before being sent for repair. Since you have to open the 360 in order to mod it, it's pretty safe to say that Microsoft probably didn't even fix the console since the sticker protection was broken, so there's no risk of them sending a modded console to another person.
Enchanted Arms was a nice turn-based JRPG from From Software on the 360 (it was also released recently on the PS3). Eternal Sonata is turn based too, but there's no release date yet outside Japan, except that it will be released. Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey (once again, turn based) look really cool and are almost here (August for BD, LO in December).
Well, to be fair, they considered calling it "Chess 2", but they were scared they would be sued by India.
So, considering Lair (3rd person dragon riding), Warhawk (3rd person shooter), Heavenly Sword (3rd person brawler) and Ninja Gaiden (3rd person brawler) are exclusives (tough 360 owners can get the Xbox version of that last one), all those other games are also available on the 360 right now or will be at the same time as the PS3 version.
And those are 360 exclusives coming soon, Blue Dragon (RPG), Forza 2 (racing), Halo 3(FPS) (sigh... I must be one of the rare 360 user who doesn't care about this one) and Bioshock (FPS, on the PC too).
It's really going to be a battle of the exclusives. And in this case, the 360 actually seems to have the better hand.
I work in a company in which produces special effects software. We've pretty much always agreed on a shipping date months in advance, but R&D chooses what features would go in the product and what would have to be cut early on. We've had 4 releases in the past two years and the most we've slipped is 1 week and the software is getting more and more stable. Nothing important ever gets cut. No rough edges. Good management makes a WORLD of difference. The videogame business should not be taken as an example of the software development industry.
Well, to be fair, the show used to have that, back when Baltar was half crazy. The scenes with him being distracted by Number 6 while talking to other Galactica members was pretty much priceless.
I also remember one scene I really like. I think it was Laura, Lee and his father cleaning the dishes after an eating with Tigh and his wife and I think Laura said something like "I think this one is not right for him. She makes him drink all the time and is miserable. I think he'd be better off without her." And then everybody stops cleaning the dishes for a few seconds, realizing he was exactly like that before he got back with her. And then resumed. That was laugh out loud funny.
I can't recall exactly when the show stopped being funny. I think it's around the time they when they went in a cave on a earth-like planet that Roslin guided them to and saw the earth's sky, confirming the prophecy.
Are people making money without selling things?
Bank robbers come to mind.