But, you have to ask, why did Nintendo launch without the one golden game that everyone would buy? My guess is, it launched early to avoid clashing with the next bunch of Androids, iPads and the NGP - even after all these decades of launching hardware, companies still find it impossible to get a launch "right".
New handhelds are cheaper to create, make and market than a full home console (but its not without risk as Nintendo just found out - http://bit.ly/eW7nOC) . I'll be surprised if Xbox3 doesn't turn up in late 2013 - or later - but am starting to think it'll be the last true home console because by the time Xbox4 is due, your TV set will have all the hardware (and more importantly - the connectivity) in it for whatever level of gaming we're at... of course Microsoft will be making its own TVs by then anyhow.
Please a company can use the word lifetime to mean anything it likes... there is no firm definition its the same as full-flavor or low-fat, it just means TiVo goes from being a good-guy company to another corporate-drone-type company in the view of its users
http://goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/2011/02/virgin-tivos-causing-ruckus.html
this is like Microsoft withdrawing support for Windows 98 or Internet Explorer 5 for home users... these things are a decade old and while they were unique back then, there are FreeSAT, Freeview, PVRs and other options now if the S1 owners aren't in Virgin areas.
Most of the forum posters have said or suspected this was coming... no tea cups were rattled by this announcement - especially as most users have workarounds planned.
Fine, so none of the early commenters here want to play good looking games on the go.
Well, I'll have some of that and I'll pay reasonable money to do so. Also, every portable console EVER has had proprietary storage - why should this one be different?
Some sensible PSP2 news, thoughts and reaction for people actually interested and not starting a typical sdt bitchfest - http://bit.ly/hXdAUi
Go watch the Ong Bak trilogy where the stunts are all real. Or watch Alien where all the ships and systems looked like they could be from the future but were just parts of Vulcan bombers and other stuff lumped together. Human imagination is being made lazy by cheap fx.
Hopefully we'll see a backlash against FX and see directors building some great sets and models again.
If I recall Bill Hicks correctly, we'll soon be sending in the terminally ill as stuntmen to make death scenes more realistic. "Chuck Norris just kicked my grandma's head clean off!" - I'd pay to see that.
"... you're nicked slaaag!"
A more senior police officer added. "We'll stitch you up like a kipper!"
While the Met Commander finished with "You're goin' down, you grass!"
What if you're a low-ranking Japanese mafioso who has screwed up a few times and are missing a digit or two. Or a fisherman who's had a harsh life at sea, or a particularly clumsy ex-chef. There are a lot of people missing digits (I know two, one boat accident and one animal-related).
http://goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/2010/11/psp2-reverse-touchpad-to-annoy-stumpy.html
Facebook isn't in the privacy business, its in the business business and until told to stop it, in court, via a socking great fine, it will carry on regardless.
Jeez!
So, according to the collective "wisdom" of Slashdot:
No company should release anything, ever.
Nor should they try anything new, ever.
Nor should they be allowed to learn from their mistakes.
Nor should they spot a weakness in their DNA and get another company on-board to help address it.
Oh, and everything, every company has ever done has also been shit!
Cheers commenters one and all (apologies to anyone who made a positive contribution here).
My PSP has provided years of fun on trains, planes and those odd snippets of downtime and I'd like something with deeper-than-five-minute games on a phone, so why not. No one is forcing people to buy it?
Glad we've got that cleared up, I'll head off to my cave with my Colecovision now.
I bet they forgot to tick the "don't let our government gift more of our cool sh!t to America" box at the bottom either.
One day you're going to find our Queen left in a cardboard box on the steps of the Whitehouse with a note saying "sorry, we can't afford her any more, please take care of her - one lump of suger in her tea, etc."
Its because we can't afford a decent police service, or at least enough bobbies on the beat (boots on the ground, whatever). So they (councils, government, private firms) just shove in more cameras hoping to deter criminals. This doesn't work (thanks to the invention of "the hoodie"), but it doesn't seem to stop the rise in cameras and ignores the fact we don't have enough people monitoring them.
All a bit of a waste of time really.
Of course, if someone eventually comes up with a decent "suspicious activity" algorithm, then things will work out fine in the end as we bow to our digital overlords (with no right of appeal)
Indeed,
Airplanes are generally found at, um, airports! Once terrorists realize this and an American government memo tells them that "the lower and slower they fly the easier they are to hit," all hell won't break loose.
If they could, I'm pretty sure every terrorist (of any religious or ethnic background) would have been doing this for years.
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But, you have to ask, why did Nintendo launch without the one golden game that everyone would buy? My guess is, it launched early to avoid clashing with the next bunch of Androids, iPads and the NGP - even after all these decades of launching hardware, companies still find it impossible to get a launch "right".
New handhelds are cheaper to create, make and market than a full home console (but its not without risk as Nintendo just found out - http://bit.ly/eW7nOC) . I'll be surprised if Xbox3 doesn't turn up in late 2013 - or later - but am starting to think it'll be the last true home console because by the time Xbox4 is due, your TV set will have all the hardware (and more importantly - the connectivity) in it for whatever level of gaming we're at... of course Microsoft will be making its own TVs by then anyhow.
Roads? Where they're going they don't need roads... Let's face it this has to be a sneaky time travel experiment
This is the MOD we're talking about, by the time this deal is finished it'll have cost $100 million and the lives of every pilot's pet dog.
... try reading anything from the ensuing dust.
Please a company can use the word lifetime to mean anything it likes... there is no firm definition its the same as full-flavor or low-fat, it just means TiVo goes from being a good-guy company to another corporate-drone-type company in the view of its users http://goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/2011/02/virgin-tivos-causing-ruckus.html
this is like Microsoft withdrawing support for Windows 98 or Internet Explorer 5 for home users... these things are a decade old and while they were unique back then, there are FreeSAT, Freeview, PVRs and other options now if the S1 owners aren't in Virgin areas. Most of the forum posters have said or suspected this was coming... no tea cups were rattled by this announcement - especially as most users have workarounds planned.
Its just a marketing man, you can't expect them to have actual brains
Fine, so none of the early commenters here want to play good looking games on the go.
Well, I'll have some of that and I'll pay reasonable money to do so. Also, every portable console EVER has had proprietary storage - why should this one be different?
Some sensible PSP2 news, thoughts and reaction for people actually interested and not starting a typical sdt bitchfest - http://bit.ly/hXdAUi
Go watch the Ong Bak trilogy where the stunts are all real. Or watch Alien where all the ships and systems looked like they could be from the future but were just parts of Vulcan bombers and other stuff lumped together. Human imagination is being made lazy by cheap fx.
Hopefully we'll see a backlash against FX and see directors building some great sets and models again.
If I recall Bill Hicks correctly, we'll soon be sending in the terminally ill as stuntmen to make death scenes more realistic. "Chuck Norris just kicked my grandma's head clean off!" - I'd pay to see that.
"... you're nicked slaaag!" A more senior police officer added. "We'll stitch you up like a kipper!" While the Met Commander finished with "You're goin' down, you grass!"
What if you're a low-ranking Japanese mafioso who has screwed up a few times and are missing a digit or two. Or a fisherman who's had a harsh life at sea, or a particularly clumsy ex-chef. There are a lot of people missing digits (I know two, one boat accident and one animal-related). http://goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/2010/11/psp2-reverse-touchpad-to-annoy-stumpy.html
Caught it on BBC's iPlayer (UK-only suckers) a couple of weeks ago, still amazing after all these years... http://goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/2010/11/films-for-free-just-found-blade-runner.html
And he wrote it 14 years ago... shows how on the ball he was
The novel by the great, late Michael Crichton, explains all of this in enjoyable detail....
Nah, I think the coders/devs/IT depts will see a world of money in upgrading all these old apps (think of it as the Millennium Bug Lite)
Plus, think of all the machine upgrades they can get away with in the name of system requirements and so on, its going to be a right old cake fest
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/coming-windows-7-update-heralds-death-of-ie6-finally-009013.php
Facebook isn't in the privacy business, its in the business business and until told to stop it, in court, via a socking great fine, it will carry on regardless.
I, for one, welcome the upcoming iPhone game; "Badger Grave Fury"
Nope, that was a cross between a Sega Megadrive and a Nokia 1998-era phone. Things have moved on since then.
Jeez! So, according to the collective "wisdom" of Slashdot:
No company should release anything, ever.
Nor should they try anything new, ever.
Nor should they be allowed to learn from their mistakes.
Nor should they spot a weakness in their DNA and get another company on-board to help address it.
Oh, and everything, every company has ever done has also been shit!
Cheers commenters one and all (apologies to anyone who made a positive contribution here). My PSP has provided years of fun on trains, planes and those odd snippets of downtime and I'd like something with deeper-than-five-minute games on a phone, so why not. No one is forcing people to buy it?
Glad we've got that cleared up, I'll head off to my cave with my Colecovision now.
Don't worry, the way I read it, they shut down the 800 people too - harsh!
I bet they forgot to tick the "don't let our government gift more of our cool sh!t to America" box at the bottom either. One day you're going to find our Queen left in a cardboard box on the steps of the Whitehouse with a note saying "sorry, we can't afford her any more, please take care of her - one lump of suger in her tea, etc."
Its because we can't afford a decent police service, or at least enough bobbies on the beat (boots on the ground, whatever). So they (councils, government, private firms) just shove in more cameras hoping to deter criminals. This doesn't work (thanks to the invention of "the hoodie"), but it doesn't seem to stop the rise in cameras and ignores the fact we don't have enough people monitoring them. All a bit of a waste of time really. Of course, if someone eventually comes up with a decent "suspicious activity" algorithm, then things will work out fine in the end as we bow to our digital overlords (with no right of appeal)
Indeed, Airplanes are generally found at, um, airports! Once terrorists realize this and an American government memo tells them that "the lower and slower they fly the easier they are to hit," all hell won't break loose. If they could, I'm pretty sure every terrorist (of any religious or ethnic background) would have been doing this for years.
IP Bounty Hunters - the more villainous and scummy the better