You have to pay for the priviledge of being contacted.
You know what, at first I thought, "Yeah, that does suck." But then I began thinking some more, and then realized that paying for incoming calls is to OUR ADVANTAGE.
Why? Because it's a way to prevent phone spam. I don't get telemarketers *because* I'm paying for the time. If caller pays, you'd bet we'll get telemarketing calls 24x7 on our cel phones. Sorry, but I'd prefer to pay up than take those calls.
Should have known it was Acclaim. These are the same guys that brought you such marketing gems as having people officially change their name to Turok as a contest...
Oh let's not forget BMXXX, where girl bikers get topless. Ugh.
So yeah, painting poor birds is definitely not out of character for these guys.
Ah, but don't forget, from the AP article it mentions that Senator Hatch earned $18,000 last year alone for music royalties! So he's coming from a different perspective than us music consumers, because he's a music composer too (or was).
Mr. Jobs doesn't like it because it's not "iSegway". It needs to have nice shapely plastic bumpers that are see-through, so you can see the nice engine doing it's thing. And the gyros need to light up when they work. When the iSegway stops it also needs to play a very warm "DING" tune, something that's fuzzy and nice like "You've Got Mail", but maybe more like "You've just stopped".
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You know what, at first I thought, "Yeah, that does suck." But then I began thinking some more, and then realized that paying for incoming calls is to OUR ADVANTAGE.
Why? Because it's a way to prevent phone spam. I don't get telemarketers *because* I'm paying for the time. If caller pays, you'd bet we'll get telemarketing calls 24x7 on our cel phones. Sorry, but I'd prefer to pay up than take those calls.
Should have known it was Acclaim. These are the same guys that brought you such marketing gems as having people officially change their name to Turok as a contest...
Oh let's not forget BMXXX, where girl bikers get topless. Ugh.
So yeah, painting poor birds is definitely not out of character for these guys.
Ah, but don't forget, from the AP article it mentions that Senator Hatch earned $18,000 last year alone for music royalties! So he's coming from a different perspective than us music consumers, because he's a music composer too (or was).
Mr. Jobs doesn't like it because it's not "iSegway". It needs to have nice shapely plastic bumpers that are see-through, so you can see the nice engine doing it's thing. And the gyros need to light up when they work. When the iSegway stops it also needs to play a very warm "DING" tune, something that's fuzzy and nice like "You've Got Mail", but maybe more like "You've just stopped".
It's all about looks, people.
One thing I was disappointed about FFT for GBA (after seeing it at E3) was the inability to rotate the map! I sorely miss that in FFT for PS1...
Having said that I'm hope I'm wrong, as I only spent oh, 3 minutes looking at it at E3. Just too many games there (sensory overload, anyone?)
But I'll buy it anyway, just because it's FFT. Release date is 9/8/03 btw.
Plus, I want a spellchecker with that.
A few shows on widescreen: Crossing Jordan Enterprise Jay Leno (might not count; that's HDTV) Prob a few more, but since I don't watch TV much...
As with the case for any new media (TV, VHS, DVD, Internet), the driving killer app is: pr0n.
Bring on the boobies!