Among all the hype with all 3 consoles, I hope as much attention is being paid to game playability and fun factor.
The Genesis, NES, and TurboGraphx16 werent online (well, the Genesis was with XBand eventually), and some of the most innovative, playable games were released on those 3 platforms.
Super Mario Bros 3, Earthworm Jim, the original Metal Gear, Final Fantasy - a long laundry list of original titles.
Here we are now in the wireless age and I cant count how many shooter titles are on the Xbox, or generic RPG titles are available on the PS2. The GC clearly still holds rank with gameplay innovation, but interestingly they sit 3rd overall in the worldwide console battle.
Its kind of sad, really. The market seems to be more concerned with whether or not I can get on the net with yet ANOTHER device, instead of making games compelling enough for me to WANT to get online with it.
Since when did being (or not being, as the case is with the PS3) a WiFi device/router become the primary criteria by which a gaming console is judged?
Youre already ready to drop the PS3 into 3rd in the console wars because it wont do what an already existing, inexpensive piece of hardware you can pick up just about anywhere can do?
Call me crazy, but I thought graphic capability and its games "fun factor" were meant to be more important.
Perhaps now with the cash saved PS3 could TRULY revolutionize console gaming and include a friggin second controller out of the box.
Why the hell did the interviewer decide to turn it into a "how did/does/will Java work with MS technologies" diatribe?
I mean, theyre so disparate in ideaology, while I can understand some of the relationships, why on earth bring them up with the creator of a language that MS has deliberately shunned when they couldnt get it to work "their way"?
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that humanity managed to go nearly 2000 years without email, yet we still managed to invent:
Fire
the wheel
the printing press
electricity
the telegraph
the microprocessor
any of the myriad other major innovations of the past 20 centuries
Frankly, I dont know how Gutenberg got any work done without being able to email, text message, IM, or phone his associates back in the printing press office.
South Florida. Premium theaters (Muvico, Loews) around here charge astronomical prices because thats what the market (Palm Beach County) will bear. I dont quite fall in with the same tax bracket as the Trumps, Michael Jackson, or the Williams tennis sisters, but they screw up the curve for all us "little people".
Would you want your entire game library immediately rendered obsolete when you purchased your new console?
Sony heard its customers, they made BC happen for PS2. In the end it means more revenue for them, less PS1 game inventories on the shelves, and people are STILL buying PS2 games. Its win/win.
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Why is easy bad?
This is a common misconception. If Firefox expects to make any serious inroads, then they must address the casual user. Word of mouth is powerful, but not that powerful. Saying it would mean everything would have to be too easy is, to me, a copout.
Strictly speaking this has little to do with security. It has to do with prevention of scripts and executables being launched without user permission. This is one of the many things FF does well. IE does not. All a casual user has to do is install FF - default settings work fine for 99% of their surfing requirements. Cant get much easier than that.
Which got me thinking - I wonder if its possible to push more marketing toward the older generation who are too afraid to switch from "tried and true" MSIE/Outlook?
A lot of the older generation has no idea what ActiveX is, how harmful it can be... it would be swell to see Firefox maybe try to get the attention of more casual, not-so-savvy PC users.
Boca Raton, FL (which is near where I'm from) has been unofficially crowned king of spam.
Given the area's high retiree population, this doesnt surprise me. After all, they can pick up their V1agra and c1alis practically right around the corner once the email hits their account!
At the risk of going OT, try Halo 2 on Legendary. It makes Legendary on Halo look like Pac-Man (do I get topic recovery points?)
First Game I ever played...
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and still one of the most addicting, followed closely by Super Mario Bros.
I am thankful that the article did not mention the atrocity that was the 2600 port, the brutal Saturday morning cartoon, or Pac-Man's bland sequel, Pac-Man Jr.
Cashing in on the craze nearly ruined the franchise then (its partially responsible for ruining Atari and top 40 radio as we know it), but it gave me endless arcade fun back in "the day".
is how their situation is different from any other major or minor corporation/business in any country where capitalism is the prevailing economic model.
After all, in ANY business, wouldnt lack of innovation/creativity be seen as fatal?
Unless you are either an attorney for CSUSA or a poster on the forum, neither you nor I are in position to determine just how "truthful" the accusations are.
See anything in there mentioning that you're allowed to lie about a company in order to defame it and damage its business?
Given the fact that truths tend to be overblown and exaggerated as they are circulated among groups, damaging the business is precisely the point of criticism.
If you go to Bobs Store and Bob rips you off by falsely advertising a product that you bought, you would want to tell everyone you knew that Bob was a scam artist. The result - either people would believe you and not go to Bobs store anymore (hurting his business), or they would not believe you and choose to go. Your goal is to make sure Bob gets "his" because he broke the implicit trust you had in him when you bought something from him.
That having been said, the people who decide to believe you dont know you from Adam. But they tend to side with you because after all youre just the average joe, like they are.
Interesting. If this works out to Gateway Charter's benefit, I'm going to be swimming in cash from all the lawsuits I will be filing every time I am critized.
Tort reform anyone? Sigh.
starting a big brother campaign against people without applying the required resources to fact-checking.
Since when is protection of a company's intellectual property considered a start of a "big brother campaign"?
Anyways, its their right to hunt, just as its your right to installed copies borrowed from your buddy and deal with not having your own copy.
Cant really be considered big brother anything if you dont initiate a complaint.
"So... the proper comparison is OS X would be to purchase XP Professional with bits of Windows 2003 Server (total cost, mucho dinero!)."
This is comparing apples to oranges. Why do you need to run WinServer 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, or otherwise) on the same network that you need to provide your kids with their "desktop bubblegum"? Its the wrong tool for the problem. But lets just say for sake of argument that you are (or do need to).
Knowing the average intelligence of the average user is below average, how feasible is it for this user to "pick and choose" what services they want out of your utopian single OS solution?
You can "choose" to run any OS software implementations (Postgres, MySQL, Apache, etc) on your barebones Win2K3 server if you so choose. Or dont buy any of it and pick a Linux flavor. There's your choice!
If you really want your kids to run IIS 5.1 on the same box their using to chat up AOL chatrooms then go ahead and spend the extra 50 bucks on XP Pro, but seriously, besides that - do you need to sit there and puzzle over the "myriad of differences" between Home and XP?
Oh wait, but maybe you want to run a DNS server off your kid's XP Pro box. Thats a fun project.
yet another/. inconsistency - MS provides me with too many choices and generalizations! MS doesnt give me enough options!
I know those other programs are on the list. I listed them.
It is good to know that you are still using WP (and kudos to the other lawyers and lawyer-types who are as well). But youve gone off the deep end if you think that my poke at WP somehow meant you should, as you say "throw in the towel yada yada yada" and suddenly use MS products. I challenge you to point out where in my post I say this.
But as far as all the other software listed (or not listed), it simply is not possible for everyone to be happy.
You missed the entire point of my post. Someone in an earlier post put up this list. I replied with the list as humor (in my opinion anywa) - realistically, what percentage of the corporate workstations (this article references admins, presumably ones that work for a "company") actually have Windows-Eyes installed?
You will actually be forced to install it someday.
But anyway, I just wanted to clear it up. The original reply somehow hosed my intent. Meh.
Lets take a look at some of these apps that admins are afraid will cease working (again, this is only from the perspective of a systems administrator, not the average John/Jane Doe)
How many of these are really going to be on company workstations?
2 items in the list are video games
- A "real" graphics designer would use Adobe Photoshop CS on a Mac
Japanese Roboword Pro - 'nuff said
WordPerfect Office - seriouly. Does anyone use this anymore? Anyone? Bueller?
Windows-Eyes - It cant be broken if you cant see it
A myriad of mediocre B-list virus detection software
BootSkin? How do you expect me to work if I cant see my picture of Mr. Peepers the Cat when I start my computer?
Encyclopedia Brittanica Deluxe 2000???? Wheres my ISO discs, this is the last straw
My point is many of the programs on this list will not be encountered by the average admin. Admittedly, BlackICE, Nortons, Adobe, these would certainly make me pause before upgrading if they were installed enterprise wide... But the rest of this list is crap, and to use it to illustrate a point doesnt really work.
I find it hilarious, though, that VirtualPC doesnt work
Absolutely the best use of the Internet since........*thinking*....... oh criminy - since EVER!
Theres something about a dino with a quest for an explanation of his existence that is just hilarious.
Not to mention the merchandise. I'm getting my lil wifey those cute little panties!
http://www.cafeshops.com/qwantz.4686722?zoom=yes#z oom
"Panties and dinosaurs - together at last!"
5. The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover (awesome British joint with Tim Roth. Gautier costumes. Weird and fascinating)
4. Eraserhead (and everything else by David Lynch)
3. Requiem For a Dream (Darren Aronofsky at his most disturbing. Packs a serious wallop to say the least)
2. Ninja Scroll ('nuff said)
and my vote for number 1:
Pi (Darren A's first movie. I have it on in the background of all night coding sessions or calculus study sessions. Flimsy dialogue, but a brilliant premise to go with stellar cinematography)
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The Genesis, NES, and TurboGraphx16 werent online (well, the Genesis was with XBand eventually), and some of the most innovative, playable games were released on those 3 platforms.
Super Mario Bros 3, Earthworm Jim, the original Metal Gear, Final Fantasy - a long laundry list of original titles.
Here we are now in the wireless age and I cant count how many shooter titles are on the Xbox, or generic RPG titles are available on the PS2. The GC clearly still holds rank with gameplay innovation, but interestingly they sit 3rd overall in the worldwide console battle.
Its kind of sad, really. The market seems to be more concerned with whether or not I can get on the net with yet ANOTHER device, instead of making games compelling enough for me to WANT to get online with it.
Youre already ready to drop the PS3 into 3rd in the console wars because it wont do what an already existing, inexpensive piece of hardware you can pick up just about anywhere can do?
Call me crazy, but I thought graphic capability and its games "fun factor" were meant to be more important.
Perhaps now with the cash saved PS3 could TRULY revolutionize console gaming and include a friggin second controller out of the box.
Why the hell did the interviewer decide to turn it into a "how did/does/will Java work with MS technologies" diatribe?
I mean, theyre so disparate in ideaology, while I can understand some of the relationships, why on earth bring them up with the creator of a language that MS has deliberately shunned when they couldnt get it to work "their way"?
Very puzzling. Poor journalism in my opinion.
If revenue were any real indicator of whether or not a company "knows" how to do things right, then no one would have a reason to point at MS.
Tons of cash, good revenue stream, mediocre product.
- Fire
- the wheel
- the printing press
- electricity
- the telegraph
- the microprocessor
- any of the myriad other major innovations of the past 20 centuries
Frankly, I dont know how Gutenberg got any work done without being able to email, text message, IM, or phone his associates back in the printing press office.Humanity is truly amazing indeed
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Hopefully (we dont have children yet), I'll have a healthy boy or girl, who will take great care of me AND my source code in my very old age.
South Florida. Premium theaters (Muvico, Loews) around here charge astronomical prices because thats what the market (Palm Beach County) will bear. I dont quite fall in with the same tax bracket as the Trumps, Michael Jackson, or the Williams tennis sisters, but they screw up the curve for all us "little people".
But then again, I'd probably worry a little more about what was making the floor so sticky in the 7 dollar theater.
Would you want your entire game library immediately rendered obsolete when you purchased your new console? Sony heard its customers, they made BC happen for PS2. In the end it means more revenue for them, less PS1 game inventories on the shelves, and people are STILL buying PS2 games. Its win/win.
This is a common misconception. If Firefox expects to make any serious inroads, then they must address the casual user. Word of mouth is powerful, but not that powerful. Saying it would mean everything would have to be too easy is, to me, a copout.
Strictly speaking this has little to do with security. It has to do with prevention of scripts and executables being launched without user permission. This is one of the many things FF does well. IE does not. All a casual user has to do is install FF - default settings work fine for 99% of their surfing requirements. Cant get much easier than that.
A lot of the older generation has no idea what ActiveX is, how harmful it can be... it would be swell to see Firefox maybe try to get the attention of more casual, not-so-savvy PC users.
Given the area's high retiree population, this doesnt surprise me. After all, they can pick up their V1agra and c1alis practically right around the corner once the email hits their account!
Read more about it at the Sun Sentinel.
Between tracking sex offenders, fighting for Terri Schiavo, and getting slot machines taxed, theres little room for this on the legislative agenda.
UGeek
At the risk of going OT, try Halo 2 on Legendary. It makes Legendary on Halo look like Pac-Man (do I get topic recovery points?)
and still one of the most addicting, followed closely by Super Mario Bros.
I am thankful that the article did not mention the atrocity that was the 2600 port, the brutal Saturday morning cartoon, or Pac-Man's bland sequel, Pac-Man Jr.
Cashing in on the craze nearly ruined the franchise then (its partially responsible for ruining Atari and top 40 radio as we know it), but it gave me endless arcade fun back in "the day".
After all, in ANY business, wouldnt lack of innovation/creativity be seen as fatal?
See anything in there mentioning that you're allowed to lie about a company in order to defame it and damage its business?
Given the fact that truths tend to be overblown and exaggerated as they are circulated among groups, damaging the business is precisely the point of criticism.If you go to Bobs Store and Bob rips you off by falsely advertising a product that you bought, you would want to tell everyone you knew that Bob was a scam artist. The result - either people would believe you and not go to Bobs store anymore (hurting his business), or they would not believe you and choose to go. Your goal is to make sure Bob gets "his" because he broke the implicit trust you had in him when you bought something from him.
That having been said, the people who decide to believe you dont know you from Adam. But they tend to side with you because after all youre just the average joe, like they are.
So should Bob be allowed to sue you?Interesting. If this works out to Gateway Charter's benefit, I'm going to be swimming in cash from all the lawsuits I will be filing every time I am critized.
Tort reform anyone? Sigh.
Since when is protection of a company's intellectual property considered a start of a "big brother campaign"?
Anyways, its their right to hunt, just as its your right to installed copies borrowed from your buddy and deal with not having your own copy.
Cant really be considered big brother anything if you dont initiate a complaint.
"So... the proper comparison is OS X would be to purchase XP Professional with bits of Windows 2003 Server (total cost, mucho dinero!)."
/. inconsistency - MS provides me with too many choices and generalizations! MS doesnt give me enough options!
This is comparing apples to oranges. Why do you need to run WinServer 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, or otherwise) on the same network that you need to provide your kids with their "desktop bubblegum"? Its the wrong tool for the problem.
But lets just say for sake of argument that you are (or do need to).
Knowing the average intelligence of the average user is below average, how feasible is it for this user to "pick and choose" what services they want out of your utopian single OS solution?
You can "choose" to run any OS software implementations (Postgres, MySQL, Apache, etc) on your barebones Win2K3 server if you so choose. Or dont buy any of it and pick a Linux flavor. There's your choice!
If you really want your kids to run IIS 5.1 on the same box their using to chat up AOL chatrooms then go ahead and spend the extra 50 bucks on XP Pro, but seriously, besides that - do you need to sit there and puzzle over the "myriad of differences" between Home and XP?
Oh wait, but maybe you want to run a DNS server off your kid's XP Pro box. Thats a fun project.
yet another
I know those other programs are on the list. I listed them.
It is good to know that you are still using WP (and kudos to the other lawyers and lawyer-types who are as well). But youve gone off the deep end if you think that my poke at WP somehow meant you should, as you say "throw in the towel yada yada yada" and suddenly use MS products. I challenge you to point out where in my post I say this.
But as far as all the other software listed (or not listed), it simply is not possible for everyone to be happy.
You missed the entire point of my post. Someone in an earlier post put up this list. I replied with the list as humor (in my opinion anywa) - realistically, what percentage of the corporate workstations (this article references admins, presumably ones that work for a "company") actually have Windows-Eyes installed?
You will actually be forced to install it someday.
But anyway, I just wanted to clear it up. The original reply somehow hosed my intent. Meh.
How many of these are really going to be on company workstations?
- AOL Toolbar: grow up and get a real toolbar
- 2 items in the list are video games
- A "real" graphics designer would use Adobe Photoshop CS on a Mac
- Japanese Roboword Pro - 'nuff said
- WordPerfect Office - seriouly. Does anyone use this anymore? Anyone? Bueller?
- Windows-Eyes - It cant be broken if you cant see it
- A myriad of mediocre B-list virus detection software
- BootSkin? How do you expect me to work if I cant see my picture of Mr. Peepers the Cat when I start my computer?
- Encyclopedia Brittanica Deluxe 2000???? Wheres my ISO discs, this is the last straw
My point is many of the programs on this list will not be encountered by the average admin. Admittedly, BlackICE, Nortons, Adobe, these would certainly make me pause before upgrading if they were installed enterprise wide... But the rest of this list is crap, and to use it to illustrate a point doesnt really work. I find it hilarious, though, that VirtualPC doesnt workAbsolutely the best use of the Internet since........*thinking*....... oh criminy - since EVER! Theres something about a dino with a quest for an explanation of his existence that is just hilarious. Not to mention the merchandise. I'm getting my lil wifey those cute little panties! http://www.cafeshops.com/qwantz.4686722?zoom=yes#z oom
"Panties and dinosaurs - together at last!"
5. The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover (awesome British joint with Tim Roth. Gautier costumes. Weird and fascinating) .02
4. Eraserhead (and everything else by David Lynch)
3. Requiem For a Dream (Darren Aronofsky at his most disturbing. Packs a serious wallop to say the least)
2. Ninja Scroll ('nuff said) and my vote for number 1: Pi (Darren A's first movie. I have it on in the background of all night coding sessions or calculus study sessions. Flimsy dialogue, but a brilliant premise to go with stellar cinematography)
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