I rather doubt it's paid advertising. I base that on the review summation...
While the XFPS is a good idea, the lack of mouse sensitivity and necessity of setting up a rig specifically to use the peripheral makes it a device whose potential outstrips its usefulness.
Looks to be just an honest review. I don't think there should be an onus on reviews that don't occur at the time of release. Sometimes I find later reviews to be less biased, both for and against, and more informative because they are removed from all the marketing hype.
Well, I'm reading a lot of subjective opinion based on your personal preference. Just because you feel that way, doesn't make it so for "the rest of us".
What I am saying (not suggesting, btw) is that EA locks-in the ESPN crowd with this deal. In no way did I say it would bring in "the rest of us".
For the record (and to include my subjective opinion), I spent $50 and purchased NFL Fever first. I didn't like certain qualities of the game, so I decided to give the ESPN 2K5 a try since it was only another $20. I always skipped over the in-game content of NFL Fever as it was extremely repetitious. I find myself actually watching much of the in-game content on ESPN 2K5, it is very well done. ESPN didn't influence me to purchase the 2K5 game first, but it sure as hell will influence my decision when I go to purchase next years football product.
Now, this is my opinion as much as your post was your opinion. But I promise I won't make the ridiculous mistake to suggest that "the rest of us" are on my side.
That occured to me right after posting... "Hmm, Disney owns ESPN... *shudder*".
Yeah, I'd agree with your assessment that Disney looked to take advantage of the world series win. Hey, it worked.
Also OT: Disney changed the name from California Angels to Anaheim Angels... now the new owner wants to change it to the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim". I'm sure the singing cowboy is turning in his grave.
So EA can brand their games with ESPN. Woohoo. Big f***ing deal. I don't see how this is of any real importance (unless I'm missing something?
You are missing something, but that's because you aren't a fan of ESPN. There is a very real and devoted group out there who love ESPN. They love SportsCenter, their commercials ("This is SportsCenter"), and their personalities (Dan Patrick, Boomer, Dick Vitale, etc.). ESPN has garnered an MTV-like (and I mean 1980's MTV) aura and devotion to it.
Combined with the NFL exclusive deal, this is one hell of a shot across the bow of all of EA's competitors.
When CNN reported to me, if we needed more money for Kosovo or Baghdad, we'd find it. If we had to bust the budget, we busted the budget. We put journalism first, and that's how we built CNN into something the world wanted to watch. I had the power to make these budget decisions because they were my companies. I was an independent entrepreneur who controlled the majority of the votes and could run my company for the long term. Top managers in these huge media conglomerates run their companies for the short term. After we sold Turner Broadcasting to Time Warner, we came under such earnings pressure that we had to cut our promotion budget every year at CNN to make our numbers. Media mega-mergers inevitably lead to an overemphasis on short-term earnings.
I don't understand how your comment is deemed Insightful when you've made up stuff about the parent post.
He said having it in the shop half the time sucked. He also made the point that Toshiba tech support was, in his opinion, superior to other experiences he's had. At no point did the parent say Toshibas sucked.
Further, what's with the slap about the parent not understanding statistics? Please show me where he misused statistics. For that matter, please show me where he used statistics at all.
Savage-Rabbit advised against buying a Toshiba, then related his own experience. You act like he made a declaration that all Toshibas suck and further declared no one should buy them. Troll, Flamebait, or Overrated you may be; but Insightful you are not.
You bring up an excellent point, but you're looking at the wrong target.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist will be replaced during President Bush's second term in office. It is certain that Associate Justice Clarence Thomas will be nominated for Chief Justice. This is the one they'll hope to get in once the Dems are done fighting against the nomination of Ashcroft. He's the one who'll lead the charge to repeal much of what was accomplished during the previous four decades.
I don't get it?!? The Karl Rove link didn't prove you wrong, slinky. It actually proved your dinner-time conversation was correct. Reading beyond the headlines, it discusses the Navy requested the banner, and that they had just completed a 10-month mission.
Don't give in just because some Slashdotters are relentless. Relentless does not equal being correct.
$5 million of their tuition probably landed several hundred million dollars worth of research grants. Paying tuition does not entitle you to everything a university does with the money. And that's even if the assumption is correct that it was tuition money in the first place.
Can anyone shed light on where the $5 million actually came from?
I believe it stands a great chance of succeeding. Zemeckis is the same director who directed "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". Another project which could have been an unmitigated disaster in lesser hands.
One response which came to my mind is the difference in the way Jobs will leave the company. The first time, he was ousted and had zero input towards his successor. The same people who thought he wasn't worth the trouble, also picked "safe, conservative" executives to run Apple. That didn't work out. You can't be conservative in an industry where your ideas may be obsolete by next year. Well, not unless you use your monopoly illegally.
This time around, when he decides to hang it up, he'll have input in the decision of who'll replace him. It could make all the difference in the world between what happened from the mid-80s until the mid-90s, and what will happen when he leaves/retires/dies this time.
Why is the assumption that the "standardized" DRM will be someone else's DRM. What if the industry decides they want Apple's Fairplay DRM as the standard?
I've read TFA, and not once does it say the labels want everything standardized on Window's DRM, or someone else's DRM. Just that they want it standardized. Well, the logical thing would be to standardize on the DRM which has appealed the most to consumers. Even Slashdotters who "feel dirty" about using Apple's Fairplay DRM, usually admit it's better than any of the other DRM schemes out there. Clearly, Sony fell flat on their face with ATRAC... and who really trusts Microsoft?
I scanned through all the 2003 and 2004 PRs, and there's no further mention of.Mac subscriber numbers.
I did find a more recent (June 01, 2004) mention of a "boast" of 250,000 subscibers, but I couldn't determine if they are talking about total subscribers or just UK subscribers.
I figure there are two reasons for the lack of an official Apple PR since October 2002. One, the numbers haven't increased dramatically since then, so there's little to report. Two, iLife was announced shortly after the October 2002 PR, then followed by the iTMS announcement in early 2003. Quite a number of Apple's PRs have been about those two items, which are, admittedly, better PR eye-candy.
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What I am saying (not suggesting, btw) is that EA locks-in the ESPN crowd with this deal. In no way did I say it would bring in "the rest of us".
For the record (and to include my subjective opinion), I spent $50 and purchased NFL Fever first. I didn't like certain qualities of the game, so I decided to give the ESPN 2K5 a try since it was only another $20. I always skipped over the in-game content of NFL Fever as it was extremely repetitious. I find myself actually watching much of the in-game content on ESPN 2K5, it is very well done. ESPN didn't influence me to purchase the 2K5 game first, but it sure as hell will influence my decision when I go to purchase next years football product.
Now, this is my opinion as much as your post was your opinion. But I promise I won't make the ridiculous mistake to suggest that "the rest of us" are on my side.
Yeah, I'd agree with your assessment that Disney looked to take advantage of the world series win. Hey, it worked.
Also OT: Disney changed the name from California Angels to Anaheim Angels ... now the new owner wants to change it to the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim". I'm sure the singing cowboy is turning in his grave.
Combined with the NFL exclusive deal, this is one hell of a shot across the bow of all of EA's competitors.
EA 2, Customers 0
Afterall, they have this exclusive ESPN deal to go with their earlier exclusive NFL deal.
Here's Ted's own recent editorial.
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He said having it in the shop half the time sucked. He also made the point that Toshiba tech support was, in his opinion, superior to other experiences he's had. At no point did the parent say Toshibas sucked.
Further, what's with the slap about the parent not understanding statistics? Please show me where he misused statistics. For that matter, please show me where he used statistics at all.
Savage-Rabbit advised against buying a Toshiba, then related his own experience. You act like he made a declaration that all Toshibas suck and further declared no one should buy them. Troll, Flamebait, or Overrated you may be; but Insightful you are not.
LOL! No doubt I should be looking for a new residence about now ... is that Vienna calling?
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist will be replaced during President Bush's second term in office. It is certain that Associate Justice Clarence Thomas will be nominated for Chief Justice. This is the one they'll hope to get in once the Dems are done fighting against the nomination of Ashcroft. He's the one who'll lead the charge to repeal much of what was accomplished during the previous four decades.
Here's the Drudge Report on this, and here's the Google search for more articles about this topic.
Don't give in just because some Slashdotters are relentless. Relentless does not equal being correct.
Not only is no one doing it. But this nobody certainly doesn't expect to duplicate the success of the Virginia Tech Big Mac.
Can anyone shed light on where the $5 million actually came from?
I believe it stands a great chance of succeeding. Zemeckis is the same director who directed "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". Another project which could have been an unmitigated disaster in lesser hands.
Yes ... no one wants a computer you'd be tempted to lick ... yum!
One response which came to my mind is the difference in the way Jobs will leave the company. The first time, he was ousted and had zero input towards his successor. The same people who thought he wasn't worth the trouble, also picked "safe, conservative" executives to run Apple. That didn't work out. You can't be conservative in an industry where your ideas may be obsolete by next year. Well, not unless you use your monopoly illegally.
This time around, when he decides to hang it up, he'll have input in the decision of who'll replace him. It could make all the difference in the world between what happened from the mid-80s until the mid-90s, and what will happen when he leaves/retires/dies this time.
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I've read TFA, and not once does it say the labels want everything standardized on Window's DRM, or someone else's DRM. Just that they want it standardized. Well, the logical thing would be to standardize on the DRM which has appealed the most to consumers. Even Slashdotters who "feel dirty" about using Apple's Fairplay DRM, usually admit it's better than any of the other DRM schemes out there. Clearly, Sony fell flat on their face with ATRAC ... and who really trusts Microsoft?
Of course it would help if I correctly identified it as Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. **blushes** Some fanboy I make, LOL!
Keep in mind that with a Mac, you're still locked in to a single vendor.
I didn't realize I could buy a Dell from HP or IBM?
... I wish I'd thought of it first.
I scanned through all the 2003 and 2004 PRs, and there's no further mention of .Mac subscriber numbers.
I did find a more recent (June 01, 2004) mention of a "boast" of 250,000 subscibers, but I couldn't determine if they are talking about total subscribers or just UK subscribers.
I figure there are two reasons for the lack of an official Apple PR since October 2002. One, the numbers haven't increased dramatically since then, so there's little to report. Two, iLife was announced shortly after the October 2002 PR, then followed by the iTMS announcement in early 2003. Quite a number of Apple's PRs have been about those two items, which are, admittedly, better PR eye-candy.
"Ralf" could be good too. Personally, I just thought calling him "SOB" was a bit harsh ... ;-)
He could be called "Reflux".
A direct line to God.