The only competing factor that Intel has right now is the possibility to keep their prices low enough to attract those with strict budget...
I disagree, and I say that as someone who hasn't built an Intel machine in years. There are a lot of regular Joe consumers out there who are barely even familiar with AMD, primarily due to Intel's aggressive marketing (ding-ding-ding-DONG) and their partner relationship with major manufacturers (cf. Dell).
Good marketing will keep inferior products afloat for quite some time.
Even Old Testament folks were getting down with Firefox:
"And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing Corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives."
"Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire." (Judges 15:1-6 KJV)
I can't say I've done any gaming in a movie theatre. But I have on several occasions played first person shooters over at my buddy's house using his LCD projector. The screen measures 120 inches or so, and I find it only takes an hour before I start to get queasy. I never have this problem playing games on my TV or computer.
I had pretty much the same response. When Jimmy says:
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
I think this is a terribly naive thing to say.
The very nature of Wikis leaves them open to exploit by sociopaths. Combine that with the anonymity provided by the Internet itself, and you have quite a problem on your hands as Wikis become more popular. At some point it becomes an arms race to keep the sociopaths out, and eventually Wiki either becomes useless or it's no longer truly Wiki anymore.
I remember back in '94 when I tried to run Doom on my college roommates' old 386. I had to frantically mash the minus key to reduce the screen size so I could play at all.
10 years later, I have an aging 1.2 GHz box and GeForce 3 Ti200 video card. It appears little has changed. =)
Minor nitpick: NFL Street is an EA Big title, but NFL blitz is produced by Midway.
And don't forget the GC and PC Madden versions - that would bump the total up even higher.
My home office is my sanctuary, in no small part due to the white noise generated by my computer. It's where I go to escape barking dogs, revving engines, and dumbasses who think I want to hear the bass from their car inside my house.
If anything, I should probably install more fans in my CPU case, and not because it needs the extra cooling.
If you're a canine or feline currently residing in the UK, you could try this link... but other than jelly beans and British pet food pickins are slim.
They're just trying too hard, and it's painfully obvious. I had noticed that over the past couple of years, in EGM in particular, the innuendo level was rising steadily in not only the pictures of scantily clad women, but the content of the articles.
Two things finally did it for me. One was a half page feature a few months back on "lines from Star Wars that sound dirty but really aren't". Unfunny, lame, and came across as almost desparate. The other was a condescending editorial from Shoe to a parent about how EGM is "a magazine for adults", etc. Uh huh.
Personally, I'd like to read a game review without a weak attempt at sexual humor in every other paragraph, but that's just me. Although I doubt I'm the only one.
You should be embarrassed. If you find those "8 years of correlation... hard to put aside" then I suggest you brush up on your critical thinking skills.
Can online cheating ever be totally eliminated, from either the PC or console realms? No.
BUT.
Game companies could put together a EULA for online games that works something like this:
"We reserve the right to revoke your [CD-key/Xbox gamer tag] if we find that you are using third party cheating programs. That means we ban your ass and you are out $50. Remember, you were warned, so no whining."
Then, release patches periodically to update code/detect cheats and ban the losers. There are several benefits here:
Reduced resource drain on servers due to less cheaters
Happier legit players. Plus, a reputation for being tough on cheating will spread to other potential customers.
Some of the less intelligent cheaters will probably buy your game again (multiple revenue from a single source).
Of course the major con here is the threat of a lawsuit, but if the EULA is strict enough, that might be mitigated somewhat.
(I realize that Blizzard has taken baby steps down this road, but IMO that have not gone nearly far enough).
Am I being too idealistic, or this approach a possibility at all?
Punch Out was the first game I thought of as well. If the design for the unit is indeed two stacked screens, Nintendo would be crazy not to release a (updated?) version of Punch Out as a launch game for this system. The nostalgia factor alone would move a lot of units I bet.
...and downgraded from Standard cable (just about everything except premium channels) to Basic cable (local channels). The only things I ever watch are college football, The Simpsons, and occasionally Seinfeld. Since football season is over, why pay the extra $35 a month? That just about pays for a new game - which, carefully selected, I'll enjoy a lot more anyway.
My wife isn't as thrilled about it - she's an avid HGTV and TLC fan, mostly for the home improvement shows - but we just couldn't justify paying so much for channels we never actually watched. If we could get selected channels a la carte, we'd probably pay for them, but cable companies don't seem to be going down that route anytime soon.
Instead of TV, I'll just be content to play Morrowind GotY this month, which I picked recently for cheap. It's not for everybody, but lots of fun for me, and best of all - no frickin advertisements!
Why bother with real, human actors in Episodes 7-9 when Lucas can just CGI all the main characters? I mean, come on, digital Jar-Jar, digital ewoks, digital Chewbacca... it's the wave of the future! - albeit a future from long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
with the attitudes of the day, you can make the case that had the blizzard of 1888 not happened, new york city to this day might resemble a rat's nest of wires like shanghai is now
Highly doubtful. It's not as if New York hasn't experienced severalstrongstorms before, and those are just within the past 30 years. If New York hadn't cleaned up its act in 1888, it was going to happen anyway very shortly thereafter, purely out of necessity.
Interesting story, except for the questionable leap in logic there at the end.
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Yeah, except for the part where he spent so much time lovingly crafting his strawman just to knock it over again.
Raise your standards. Grandparent is completely off-topic.
I disagree, and I say that as someone who hasn't built an Intel machine in years. There are a lot of regular Joe consumers out there who are barely even familiar with AMD, primarily due to Intel's aggressive marketing (ding-ding-ding-DONG) and their partner relationship with major manufacturers (cf. Dell).
Good marketing will keep inferior products afloat for quite some time.
Even Old Testament folks were getting down with Firefox: "And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing Corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives." "Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire." (Judges 15:1-6 KJV)
Not to mention, how in the world is this front page material? This is slashdot, not 1up.com. (Right?)
These guys better get the barf buckets ready.
The Transformed Man is dead! Long live the Has Been!
People are not fundamentally bad. It only takes the smallest of correctives to take care of that tiny minority that wants to disrupt the community.
I think this is a terribly naive thing to say.
The very nature of Wikis leaves them open to exploit by sociopaths. Combine that with the anonymity provided by the Internet itself, and you have quite a problem on your hands as Wikis become more popular. At some point it becomes an arms race to keep the sociopaths out, and eventually Wiki either becomes useless or it's no longer truly Wiki anymore.
10 years later, I have an aging 1.2 GHz box and GeForce 3 Ti200 video card. It appears little has changed. =)
I can't believe Adblock isn't listed. It even works with Firefox 0.9, despite rumblings I've heard to the contrary.
Alas, poor Acclaim! I knew them, SubZero: fellows of infinite bugs, of most craptastic entertainment...
Minor nitpick: NFL Street is an EA Big title, but NFL blitz is produced by Midway. And don't forget the GC and PC Madden versions - that would bump the total up even higher.
Maybe not, but you can be pretty sure that most of the mods will be.
If anything, I should probably install more fans in my CPU case, and not because it needs the extra cooling.
If you're a canine or feline currently residing in the UK, you could try this link... but other than jelly beans and British pet food pickins are slim.
Two things finally did it for me. One was a half page feature a few months back on "lines from Star Wars that sound dirty but really aren't". Unfunny, lame, and came across as almost desparate. The other was a condescending editorial from Shoe to a parent about how EGM is "a magazine for adults", etc. Uh huh.
Personally, I'd like to read a game review without a weak attempt at sexual humor in every other paragraph, but that's just me. Although I doubt I'm the only one.
Well, of course. That kind of goes without saying.
Won't somebody please think of the children?
Apples != Oranges.
BUT.
Game companies could put together a EULA for online games that works something like this:
"We reserve the right to revoke your [CD-key/Xbox gamer tag] if we find that you are using third party cheating programs. That means we ban your ass and you are out $50. Remember, you were warned, so no whining."
Then, release patches periodically to update code/detect cheats and ban the losers. There are several benefits here:
Reduced resource drain on servers due to less cheaters
Happier legit players. Plus, a reputation for being tough on cheating will spread to other potential customers.
Some of the less intelligent cheaters will probably buy your game again (multiple revenue from a single source).
Of course the major con here is the threat of a lawsuit, but if the EULA is strict enough, that might be mitigated somewhat.
(I realize that Blizzard has taken baby steps down this road, but IMO that have not gone nearly far enough).
Am I being too idealistic, or this approach a possibility at all?
Punch Out was the first game I thought of as well. If the design for the unit is indeed two stacked screens, Nintendo would be crazy not to release a (updated?) version of Punch Out as a launch game for this system. The nostalgia factor alone would move a lot of units I bet.
My wife isn't as thrilled about it - she's an avid HGTV and TLC fan, mostly for the home improvement shows - but we just couldn't justify paying so much for channels we never actually watched. If we could get selected channels a la carte, we'd probably pay for them, but cable companies don't seem to be going down that route anytime soon.
Instead of TV, I'll just be content to play Morrowind GotY this month, which I picked recently for cheap. It's not for everybody, but lots of fun for me, and best of all - no frickin advertisements!
Why bother with real, human actors in Episodes 7-9 when Lucas can just CGI all the main characters? I mean, come on, digital Jar-Jar, digital ewoks, digital Chewbacca... it's the wave of the future! - albeit a future from long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
Highly doubtful. It's not as if New York hasn't experienced several strong storms before, and those are just within the past 30 years. If New York hadn't cleaned up its act in 1888, it was going to happen anyway very shortly thereafter, purely out of necessity.
Interesting story, except for the questionable leap in logic there at the end.
I'm all for musical games, but the DK Rap makes me want to smash my head against the wall (rhythmically, of course).
If he would just go the Paul Newman route and start a line of salad dressing products, we could continue to ignore him, and all would be well...
But now the guy wants to screw up video games too? This time it's personal.