...gamers who want HD have been using their PCs as their primary platform with a phat 20"+ LCD attached that can do 1680x1050 or more widescreen. The only thing the next gen consoles promise different from this are console experiences (gamepads, Xbox Live, etc.) and higher poly counts - which we get every 8-12 months when the next generation of video cards come out. But come on, I ran Red Alert 2 at 1280x1024 5 years ago - isn't that technically HD? Running at high res is not going to be some grand new thing to the majority of hardcore gamers.
If you zoom out to the northern Pacific regional map, there was also a seismic event of about 3.6 magnitude in the past 24 hours somewhere off the Aleutians - does Alaska now have the bomb too?!
So I'm not a parent yet, but having had parents who did a kick ass job raising my sister and myself, what if parents just, you know, talked to their kids once in a while? A parent that genuinely listens and cares about their children is going to be much better received - and far more trusted - by their kids than one who tries to become the FBI and wiretap everything their kids do. It just seems like common sense to me.
I know, I know, think of the children, blah blah blah. I hate election years.
GWB heard that a King of England decreed a whole week or so out of the month of September when England switch from Julian to Gregorian calendars, and thought he should do the same as we switch from nuclear time to nuculear time.
Eh, it's Friday. I'm not thinking too hard. That's the best I could come up with.
I can teleconference in and get real work done at the same time.
I've been on those sorts of teleconferences. I think the key is to mute your speaker phone and listen only for your name in the conversation - you'll get tons of real work done that way.
I like that. Peercasting. Not quite the "coolness" of podcasting, but not being a huge fan of "podcasts" in general, it'd be nice to throw the buzzwords for a loop for a while. One problem though - it sounds an awful lot like "beercasting," and I can just picture the really bad YouTube videos already.
Sony has announced it is going after the words "walk" and "man," though a couple decades late.
Come on, had to make this into an anti-Sony argument. Just wouldn't feel right...
Interesting. But I guess from more of a philosophical look, I (and many others) have always seen Nintendo as the match for Apple. Sony has recently been the sort of stylish sort of cool kid in the room, but rarely with the cult-like following or true iconic status that Apple has had (in the past decade, at least, Walkman aside... and no, Playstation fanboys have nothing on Nintendo or Apple fanboys). Apple + Nintendo just seems better matched - both used to totally dominate the market, tried to work with someone else, cut that deal in arrogance/stupidity, saw that someone else rise to dominate the market, and then came up with something totally off the wall and got everyone's attention again.
But of course, as TFA points out, Sony has seen a ton of western investment, something Nintendo doesn't have. Buying Nintendo would be extremely hard no matter what the price.
In an Apple PlayStation world, though, does Apple go back to IBM and use Cells/PPCs in Macs? Or does Intel try to get back into the console business? That's the biggest problem I see with Apple taking over SCE.
First, TFA suggests that MS could take over Sony's video game arm, not the whole company. Second, it pretty much assumes that MS would want it. Why exactly would MS need/want it? If Sony goes that in the hole over the PS3, meaning not only did they lose a ton of cash on the loss per sale, but also didn't make hardly anything in third-party licensing deals (something TFA seems to forget is the largest revenue driver for consoles these days), that would mean that the Wii60 combination dominated the market - all this after the PS3 sold 6 million units (see the faulty logic yet?). Both Sony and MS lost tons on sales of consoles with the Xbox and PS2, but more than made it up with first-party games, third-party licensing, and the like.
Stranger things have happened, but I don't see it. Microsoft itself is a prime takeover target with almost zero debt and huge cash reserves, but it's too big for an LBO (at least we think it is).
Wal-Mart is a monopsony, not a monopoly. It's theoretically not supposed to ever happen, unlike monopolies, which can exist quite readily in industries that have high costs to entry, are rapidly emerging markets, etc.
Monopsonies are when one buyer has all or an unusually high portion of the market. Monopolies refer to one seller having all or an unusually high portion of the market.
In theory, a monopsony shouldn't be able to exist for long, because in a free and efficient market, there will always be someone willing to pay just a little bit more for your product until there are a great number of them buying, thus ending the monopsony. Wal-Mart has found a hole in the market, and has been exploiting it for a long, long time. Their distribution channel efficiencies and unreal growth rate, coupled with the poor management of traditional department stores and other discounters (like KSearsMart), allowed them to build a ridiculous number of stores in areas where there is little to no other competition. It's remarkable when you think about how many large markets (i.e., big cities, like Chicago, New York, LA, San Fran, etc.) that Wal-Mart hasn't been able to get into, while Target and others have, yet they still command the market position from an almost all-rural and suburban penetration.
Is what they do right? Maybe not. Will it eventually bring down the lower ends of economy? If let go, quite possibly - artificially or dramatically and unilaterally dropping consumer good prices and payrolls can have negative effects just like inflation. But would have they been able to get into this position had everyone else done their jobs, cut out such obviously inefficient distribution methods and such? Very unlikely.
If the US had been in a different economic standing in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Wal-Mart was charging, a quick LBO of Kmart or one of the mega-department store chains could have easily fixed this. Kinda reminds of another area with obvious inefficiencies where one economic swing could bring an LBO on - though in the case of Microsoft, leveraging that much would be earth-shattering.
True, but you just described every radar system outside of NATO, Israel, Russia, and a few select other places. US military-grade radar is ridiculously high-tech and accurate.
Is this yet another sign of the 'greying gamer' phenomenon, or simply evidence indicating the marketers have had it wrong all along?
Probably the latter. Figuring out the age of gamers (the real age, not the "im 11" you get in chat) is about as easy as finding out if high school students are honest when taking a survey asking what illegal substances they've used.
Editors? You must be new here.:) Either that, or you're like me, and you're eternally optimistic, no matter how stupid a position that may be at times.
Yeah that whoosh sound should have been a dead giveaway, but apparently not. Thanks for clarifying my post though. I too thought someone with a.be address should have known that Belgian is not a language, but alas...
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Interesting for sure. My main worry would be about signal degradation -reflection is never perfect, so there would always be some loss.
...gamers who want HD have been using their PCs as their primary platform with a phat 20"+ LCD attached that can do 1680x1050 or more widescreen. The only thing the next gen consoles promise different from this are console experiences (gamepads, Xbox Live, etc.) and higher poly counts - which we get every 8-12 months when the next generation of video cards come out. But come on, I ran Red Alert 2 at 1280x1024 5 years ago - isn't that technically HD? Running at high res is not going to be some grand new thing to the majority of hardcore gamers.
If you zoom out to the northern Pacific regional map, there was also a seismic event of about 3.6 magnitude in the past 24 hours somewhere off the Aleutians - does Alaska now have the bomb too?!
'I can make 50-60 two hour movies' that are 'pay-per-view and downloadable.'
But...
Notably, he does not plan on distributing movies online, calling online distribution a 'rathole.'"
I haven't been more confused since, well, about five minutes into Episode 1.
Do I waste space on Alfred Nobel's story, and his reason for creating the prize in the first?
Nah. Go Wiki it. It'll make the parent statement seem even more ridiculously stupid and uninformed.
So all 4 Nobel winners this year so far have been Americans. Brain drain?! Bah!
Of course, the true test will be to see if we can keep it up in a few years.
[Mister Ed voice] Whoa Wiibre! [/Mister Ed voice]
So I'm not a parent yet, but having had parents who did a kick ass job raising my sister and myself, what if parents just, you know, talked to their kids once in a while? A parent that genuinely listens and cares about their children is going to be much better received - and far more trusted - by their kids than one who tries to become the FBI and wiretap everything their kids do. It just seems like common sense to me.
I know, I know, think of the children, blah blah blah. I hate election years.
Well it can't be that bad - TFS did say "one of Brin's girlfriends"...
Wish I lived on a private island so I could complain about the satellite reception... :(
GWB heard that a King of England decreed a whole week or so out of the month of September when England switch from Julian to Gregorian calendars, and thought he should do the same as we switch from nuclear time to nuculear time.
Eh, it's Friday. I'm not thinking too hard. That's the best I could come up with.
As much as I love Family Guy, I think the Bush Administration has that term trademarked.
I can teleconference in and get real work done at the same time.
I've been on those sorts of teleconferences. I think the key is to mute your speaker phone and listen only for your name in the conversation - you'll get tons of real work done that way.
I like that. Peercasting. Not quite the "coolness" of podcasting, but not being a huge fan of "podcasts" in general, it'd be nice to throw the buzzwords for a loop for a while. One problem though - it sounds an awful lot like "beercasting," and I can just picture the really bad YouTube videos already.
Sony has announced it is going after the words "walk" and "man," though a couple decades late. Come on, had to make this into an anti-Sony argument. Just wouldn't feel right...
Interesting. But I guess from more of a philosophical look, I (and many others) have always seen Nintendo as the match for Apple. Sony has recently been the sort of stylish sort of cool kid in the room, but rarely with the cult-like following or true iconic status that Apple has had (in the past decade, at least, Walkman aside ... and no, Playstation fanboys have nothing on Nintendo or Apple fanboys). Apple + Nintendo just seems better matched - both used to totally dominate the market, tried to work with someone else, cut that deal in arrogance/stupidity, saw that someone else rise to dominate the market, and then came up with something totally off the wall and got everyone's attention again.
But of course, as TFA points out, Sony has seen a ton of western investment, something Nintendo doesn't have. Buying Nintendo would be extremely hard no matter what the price.
In an Apple PlayStation world, though, does Apple go back to IBM and use Cells/PPCs in Macs? Or does Intel try to get back into the console business? That's the biggest problem I see with Apple taking over SCE.
First, TFA suggests that MS could take over Sony's video game arm, not the whole company. Second, it pretty much assumes that MS would want it. Why exactly would MS need/want it? If Sony goes that in the hole over the PS3, meaning not only did they lose a ton of cash on the loss per sale, but also didn't make hardly anything in third-party licensing deals (something TFA seems to forget is the largest revenue driver for consoles these days), that would mean that the Wii60 combination dominated the market - all this after the PS3 sold 6 million units (see the faulty logic yet?). Both Sony and MS lost tons on sales of consoles with the Xbox and PS2, but more than made it up with first-party games, third-party licensing, and the like.
Stranger things have happened, but I don't see it. Microsoft itself is a prime takeover target with almost zero debt and huge cash reserves, but it's too big for an LBO (at least we think it is).
Wal-Mart is a monopsony, not a monopoly. It's theoretically not supposed to ever happen, unlike monopolies, which can exist quite readily in industries that have high costs to entry, are rapidly emerging markets, etc.
Monopsonies are when one buyer has all or an unusually high portion of the market. Monopolies refer to one seller having all or an unusually high portion of the market.
In theory, a monopsony shouldn't be able to exist for long, because in a free and efficient market, there will always be someone willing to pay just a little bit more for your product until there are a great number of them buying, thus ending the monopsony. Wal-Mart has found a hole in the market, and has been exploiting it for a long, long time. Their distribution channel efficiencies and unreal growth rate, coupled with the poor management of traditional department stores and other discounters (like KSearsMart), allowed them to build a ridiculous number of stores in areas where there is little to no other competition. It's remarkable when you think about how many large markets (i.e., big cities, like Chicago, New York, LA, San Fran, etc.) that Wal-Mart hasn't been able to get into, while Target and others have, yet they still command the market position from an almost all-rural and suburban penetration.
Is what they do right? Maybe not. Will it eventually bring down the lower ends of economy? If let go, quite possibly - artificially or dramatically and unilaterally dropping consumer good prices and payrolls can have negative effects just like inflation. But would have they been able to get into this position had everyone else done their jobs, cut out such obviously inefficient distribution methods and such? Very unlikely.
If the US had been in a different economic standing in the 1980s and early 1990s, when Wal-Mart was charging, a quick LBO of Kmart or one of the mega-department store chains could have easily fixed this. Kinda reminds of another area with obvious inefficiencies where one economic swing could bring an LBO on - though in the case of Microsoft, leveraging that much would be earth-shattering.
from the damnit-i-like-it-that-guitar-hero-plays-music dept.
Well, Punk'd Hero has potential... but Cribs Hero is going to suck.
a very inferior radar compared to the US version
True, but you just described every radar system outside of NATO, Israel, Russia, and a few select other places. US military-grade radar is ridiculously high-tech and accurate.
It's Patchtime. (R)
I was talking about chat in CS:S and WoW...
Is this yet another sign of the 'greying gamer' phenomenon, or simply evidence indicating the marketers have had it wrong all along?
Probably the latter. Figuring out the age of gamers (the real age, not the "im 11" you get in chat) is about as easy as finding out if high school students are honest when taking a survey asking what illegal substances they've used.
Editors? You must be new here. :) Either that, or you're like me, and you're eternally optimistic, no matter how stupid a position that may be at times.
Yeah that whoosh sound should have been a dead giveaway, but apparently not. Thanks for clarifying my post though. I too thought someone with a .be address should have known that Belgian is not a language, but alas...