It's no surprise people got confused. I read somewhere that SoJ ordered SoA to design an add-on to the Genesis - that is, the 32X - and the people SoA actually thought it was going to be their next generation console, not a simple placeholder.
The 32X seriously harmed Sega's image: prone to malfunction, very few games, released just a few months before the far more powerful Saturn. If I had wasted my money on a 32X back then, I probably would never trust Sega again - which, of course, would mean I would have missed the wonderful Dreamcast.
The article also claims that "illegal downloading" costs the industry $5.4 billion per year. Not sure where the MPAA comes up with these figures."
Maybe that's some solid math there, a proportion: how much they spend producing an album (studio + advertising + etc.), and how much they sell, or expect to sell, compared to how much it cost back in the pre-internet days and how much they sold back then.
Of course, they do not take in account that, back in the day, many artists actually had whole albums worth listening (especially concept albums), whereas most pop shit bands now have one-hit-plus-filler... which is why people are more inclined to get the hit from p2p or the iTMS rather than wasting their money on filler.
Or maybe they just pull the numbers out of their asses. Most likely.
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*puts pinky finger on corner of mouth*...ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!
A difficult distribution problem? Pixar is hot! Anyone out there would love to sign a deal with them. On the other hand, what recent Disney animated movie was not a flop?
Apple's mouses are ergonomic hell! Sure, they look stylish, but just don't feel as comfortable as the old "teardrop" ADB Mouse. Their newer keyboards (anything USB) suck too, since they no longer use mechanical keyswitches.
The sooner it is released in south america, the sooner modchips will appear. Here (south america) you can't get original games.
In a way, that is correct; here in Brazil, the cheapest (new, sealed) Gamecube games go for around the equivalent to U$ 60, and newer titles may cost over U$ 100. Blame our insanely high import fees and business taxes.
Look at how long it took us to get OpenOffice.org able to read and write back *.doc files decently.
The format must be really hard to understand, since even they don't get it right. A Windows-using friend just asked me to print a.doc on my Mac because her printer is broken; and the formatting was completely fucked up, even though we both used MS-Word.
If someone gives their 7-year-old a copy of GTA3, despite the very obvious MATURE rating in the corner of the box, don't blame the ratings, blame the clueless parents.
Origin project director Stephen Beeman recalls, "Origin's cardinal virtue was its commitment to do whatever it took to ship the director's vision. We had a motto for it: 'A game's only late until it ships, but it sucks forever.'
Reminds me of:
"A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever." - attributed to Shigeru Miyamoto
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No, the headline says: the patents are chilling the effect on science. Whatever the fuck that means...
It's no surprise people got confused. I read somewhere that SoJ ordered SoA to design an add-on to the Genesis - that is, the 32X - and the people SoA actually thought it was going to be their next generation console, not a simple placeholder.
The 32X seriously harmed Sega's image: prone to malfunction, very few games, released just a few months before the far more powerful Saturn. If I had wasted my money on a 32X back then, I probably would never trust Sega again - which, of course, would mean I would have missed the wonderful Dreamcast.
Wooooosh!
Tim Berners-Lee invented the web, which is a part of the net. Sure, the part that made it interesting, easy to use, popular - but still, a part.
How about this one?
Of course, they do not take in account that, back in the day, many artists actually had whole albums worth listening (especially concept albums), whereas most pop shit bands now have one-hit-plus-filler... which is why people are more inclined to get the hit from p2p or the iTMS rather than wasting their money on filler.
Or maybe they just pull the numbers out of their asses. Most likely.
*puts pinky finger on corner of mouth* ...ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!
But consider the recent rumors of PS3 prototypes literally melting... let us hope they are true!
A difficult distribution problem? Pixar is hot! Anyone out there would love to sign a deal with them. On the other hand, what recent Disney animated movie was not a flop?
Apple's mouses are ergonomic hell! Sure, they look stylish, but just don't feel as comfortable as the old "teardrop" ADB Mouse. Their newer keyboards (anything USB) suck too, since they no longer use mechanical keyswitches.
You forgot the Dreamcast, you insensitive clod!
Not exactelly... P2P is about sharing files, BitTorrent is about sharing bandwidth.
If someone gives their 7-year-old a copy of GTA3, despite the very obvious MATURE rating in the corner of the box, don't blame the ratings, blame the clueless parents.
And I thought 4Kids sucked!
Then again, maybe just as well, people will spread uncensored bootlegs instead.
Yes, it is a joke. But that does not mean it is not real.
"As an affect of global warming"?
And the science is not very solid either.