The people complaining are always the wealthy land owners thinking their property values will drop, which has been proved false. I live and fish on Lake Erie. Lake Erie is very shallow and is a perfect place for a wind farm. The structures would create reefs that would support aquatic life and would improve sport fishing. The fishermen, DNR, and environmentalists were all for the wind farm. Idiots over in Cleveland tied to electric utilities protested a wind farm would lower property values and destroy aquatic life. It's always the people with the most money can make their opinion loudest and drowned out the truth.
I was blown away when I when to ATDHE.net the other day. The funny thing is though I saw the ICE URL, noScript blocked it. I guess the ICE banner isn't very safe. This is totally political lobbied by corps, because Veetle and Freedocast are still running.
The 1st job of IT/IS is lobbying management. How many times was the project reviewed by State IT/IS professionals? How professional can they be if they can't even review a project for the most basic needs? How professional can Northrop Grumman be if they don't even notice a missing basic need in there analysis? This is just another example of the expense of outsourcing and no one being responsible for any IT/IS function. With the unemployment rate and 500,000 IT/IS professionals out of work, the US needs to start hiring in IT/IS to save money to offset their losses from outsourcing. I taught a lot of IT/IS security and none have info security jobs. With all the data stolen in the US, no one hires security.
I also agree. Aren't tennis, baseball, bowling, and boxing adult type entertainment? My opinion is that the M rated titles for the Wii are more teen oriented entertainment. This goes back to the: "Who are hardcore gamers?", question. I think that the sales numbers show that Nintendo hit the market on the head, as they should as the only one of the 3 that make video games as a business, not OS or electronics. Nintendo nailed the major purchasers: adults. They buy consoles for their children to pay kid's games and games for adults to play and left the teen "hardcore" gamers, a smaller market share, to the other 2. Nintendo won because they understood their customers better.
Remember MS stole AD from Novell and destroyed WordPerfect with nasty marketing lies. Novell knows MS can not be trusted in any way. SUSE has only made Novell stronger. MS can never open up their huge bundled DOS or pay their taxes. If MS sent 4 engineers, then they're going to have to hire because that over half of their staff. Remember Ballmer told the EU that MS only has 500 employees and almost all of them are salesmen or attorneys. Novell knows exactly what is going on and like most collaborations with MS today, they will take what they can get and give nothing. Can you really fit 16 engineers in cubicals and the racks in a quarter of a 7-11? Sounds like Intel Research Centers, only larger with more engineers. Someone has to answer the phone. With that number of servers, we're talking a ton of blade centers. If it's a trap, knowing MS, it's a fire death trap to kill of a couple Novell engineers without have to pay for anti-freeze.
Anyone got links to user discussions or reviews on 4.7GHz Power6 since they've been out for 2 months? I've read all the IBM, Oracle, Data Center promo stuff.
I can't speak for Sony, but MS's history is full of the biggest marketing blunders in history (i.e. linux, tablet, SPOT, MS TV...) However, when you look back over Nintendo's history you find some of the most intelligent, successful marketing campaigns in business history. Using the DS to market the idea of a different control interface paved the way for the Wii's success. In my opinion, Nintendo's franchise games have gotten more hard core (i.e. Windwaker vs Twilight Princess) with more need for walkthrus and guides. I think much of this is a paid media push against Metroid's release and having it in retail stores next to the other 2's content making buyers question HD.
I live in an area that is completely monopolized. The guy who owns the Toledo Blade, a monopoly, John Block, owns Buckeye Cable System who owns all the lain cable(standard 65 station TV no box & ISP: $90) and refuses to even negotiate allowing anyone to lease lines. A 1.5 hour from where I live, they have total choice, which makes it kind of weird for the Best Buy and Circuit City guys who display all the choices then ask you first if you live 50-60 miles away. Neighbors on 2 sides went Direct DSL and the guys across the street At&t POTS DSL. Both my wife and I are internet workers, 3 online students, and the metal shelve of servers (the dp farm), so we need up/dn bandwidth. When I was teaching a decade ago, the state had been working on a very high speed 1600 mile fiber backbone since '79, and by '95 90% 669 school districts were using it. 2007 is the Ohio Supercomuter Centers 20th anniversary, but I've been out of teaching for 6 years.
There's a reason why everyone listens when Miyamoto talks. This is in response to Metroid which is about to be released and it will be in Gamestops next to the other 2 consoles. No mater how pointed the question, he gives an honest straight forward answer. I was in Gamestop the other day and a customer came in looking for a PS3 game. After inquiring about 5-6 games, and being told they were of poor quality, both the clerks behind the counter said that the PS3 has no quality new titles to purchase. When asked to compare that to the 360 by the shopper, the clerks admitted that the 360 has no new quality titles either. The customer went on to purchase one of the better newer titles, I think Fantastic 4, but it was obviously not what he was looking for by his suggestions. I think that what the media considers the mainstream game audience has been looking away due to the content being released. Meanwhile, no story on Nintendo's 2007 2nd quarter financials yet, which not only say that sales tripled and are up 160%, but positive revisions to future quarters as well.
Slashdot has been duping MS/Intel/Cisco/Dell/Sony stories over and over for more than a year. As a 24 year veteran of IT, I worked for WordPerfect, Lotus, Aston Tate, Fox Software, Novell, IBM, At&t... I'm guessing you are young to take the position that MS hasn't acted illegally for the last 3 decades. I'd just like MS to pay the taxes they owe American's for those 3 decades and not in vouchers. The most important thing the FOSS movement can do it not believe a word you say and not spend time reading it. MS never could open their code because it proves all the IP they stole and the courtroom lies. You only care about destroying everything not MS. If you study a little bit of business, you will see that MS marketing has been some of the worse in world history. MS has only succeeded due to using illegal tactics like bundle'n'dump (i.e. IE). 3 decades later they are still fighting FREE SOFTWARE which NO ONE makes money on. Stealing is ok as long as it's MS/Intel/Cisco/Dell/Sony. IT is at an all time low led by MS. Overseas outsourcing was led by MS. Making CS degrees useless was led by MS. Buying developers to put coders out of work was led by MS. Loss of language standards was led by MS. Why does MS have to fight against FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE volunteer projects which holds no economic threat to MS? And why do you think that anyone who has any idea of what IT has been through for the last 3 decades would believe anything you have to say?
When Nintendo announced at 2004 E3 the "Revolution", EA was right by their side giving full support. Each Christmas and tradeshow since EA has said that they were fully behind the Wii. I count at least a dozen times EA has announced they are fully behind the Wii. Spike (Drangonball Z Bug Island), Square Enix (Dragon Quest, FF, Sponge Bob), Konami (Elebits, Wing Island, Winning 11, DDR, Dewy), Hudson (Mario Party, Bomberman, Pilot Wings), Ubisoft (Rayman Raving Rabbits, Red Steel, Far Cry) , Ntreev (Pangya), Sega (Super Monkey Ball, Bleach, Ghost squad, Golden Compass, Mario Olympics, Puyo, Sonic, Alien Syndrome)... there are hundreds of 3rd party developers, many small developing titles EA would never touch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games Comparing the 3 consoles titles, the other 2 are creating sequels of previous products much more often than Nintendo. The other 2 dislike retailers having the multi-console titles (i.e. Tiger Woods, Madden) running next to each other because they look and run exactly alike.
What DEC did best was service. They made IBM and HP look bad. 24/7 2 hour uptime guaranteed. DEC was totally into the PC market. The Micro-Vax sold like hotcakes. They were not into Intel and Microsoft. For those of you that were around back then, look through the list and see how many good ideas died because of lies from Intel and Microsoft. WordPerfect didn't die because of the sale to Novell or the Microsoft claims of buggy version. What made WP great was perfect-script which allowed WP, much like Excel or AutoCAD, to be modified into a data input front end. I bet anyone can go through the list and mark every death with a lie campaign by Microsoft or Intel. But we wouldn't waste our time on those two.
Novell released a desktop version on linux and the media said everyone hated the idea. I like smaller linux (dsl), but know that there needs to be different versions to match purposes. I read this as Microsoft marketing genius (meaning exceptionally stupid) response to pyro desktop. I'm just glad to see that there are more comments on linux desktop than the Microsoft related story.
My read is that once you sign with Microsoft, Microsoft is free to attack you. Or Novell is doing better than Redhat. Or Redhat doesn't have to sign because they are partners with Microsoft in Microsoft's linux. But who cares, this is Microsoft's stupid marketing because... Novell Content Exchange ('00), IBM Workplace ('04), Zenworks 7 Management ('00), Extend Director 4 ('03)... Novell users simply don't use Alfresco. Not before signing or after.
I am one who is still installing W2K on new IBM and HP desktops purchased with no OS for users needing MS for W2K3 AD. W2K('00) and XP('01) launched a little over a year apart. After testing XP, I said in '02 that W2K was the end of the line for MS OS. XP and Vista were released to sell, MS's partner, Intel products and, in turn, to keep Dell afloat. The higher hardware requirements set in the OS slow down productivity and decrease value. Most businesses still want their line users highly productive and proper use of IT budgeting is an important issue. I can't understand why anyone still believe anything MS has to say since MS must keep their market value high to pay employees who manage the extremal developers of MS products in options. Most businesses still evaluate for value and HR is finding that IT employees whose skill is loyalty to MS/Intel/Dell are not in as high a demand as they were over the last decade.
Are any projects going to bundle or supporting download of pyro desktop? I wait until I here one does that way it will run fine with the project. Anyone who has been using python had to know this was coming from other similar type current projects. MS can only keep program developers out of work for so long.
This rings of IE. Microsoft used it's game division to put all small designers out of business, as they planned. So don't expect anything out of XBox for the next 6 years.
I just read an article that said that hardcore gamers were crying that the 40-50 hours of Twilight Princess was too long. It blamed their attention spans. At the same time they complained about lack of "replay value" due to lack of online multi-player on the Wii. As Miyamoto said at E3, why would anyone, especially game designers, listen to anything these hardcore fan boys have to say. I doubt there are any gamers saying these things, just Sony and MS marketing execs trying to cover up that they were wrong.
And who are they? Isn't the engine for GTA4 used in a ping pong game? So is Sony ping pong hardcore and Nintendo ping pong casual? Or are hardcore gamers easily fooled? If games are created using placeholders, what does it say about someone who proclaims themselves a hardcore gamer based on the artwork of a chainsaw and blood spatter compared to a spatula and omelet? Are people proclaiming themselves to be hardcore the casual, just not smart enough to know? The Wii Fit is a technological advancement of the game pad. A huge detriment of the game pad is that it is only focused on pressing the 4 button set. In order to interactively control a character there needed to be more control. By measuring things like weight and center of gravity, the Wii Fit is much more capable of controlling interactive action than we have seen. When combined with the Wii mote an amazing amount of control can be created. I have a feeling that we have been kept in the dark as a marketing move by Nintendo to release the content slowly but that internally at many developers levels of control in games is far ahead of what we are seeing from the other 2.
Not only the PS3, but also the PSP price drop. But the PSP price drop is more like the PS2 to slim PS2 because they took away features. Ports are features. But I disagree that people will run out and buy up the old stock. This is just a marketing ploy by the Sony supported media. Content sells consoles. If Sony and MS only produce sequels to content then they will only attract gamers who already attracted to the original content. Fans of Sony and MS exclusives have already bought. There is very little that you can believe coming from Sony and MS these days. Further rant: Nintendo ended up doing very similar to what I projected they would do at E3. A new catch phase "Games are for everyone", is very similar to "Games are for children" from 2 years ago. While my guesses at the new controllers they would release were incorrect, they did release new controllers. And while I didn't predict a remake of the zapper, I did say that Time Crisis 4 (which comes with a gun) for the Wii would be a huge winner because of the Wii mote and Nun-chaca. Nintendo marketing Wii to Moms at conferences where mothers attend, pre-schools and retirement homes is my "genius move" by Nintendo of '06. The "collection of mini-games" (i.e. Brain Age, Wii Play, Flash Focus) will pan out as huge winners in '07.
27 years in IT. Hired before finishing 1st degree to manage mini-main systems. Novell certified and did many installs since '88. MSCE and TCP/IP proficient '94. Many large infrastructures CAT/Fiber I pulled and installed the racks. About 6 years ago, when I started to have trouble getting work to the newly degreed, I went back to school for a "new" CS. I have continued my graduate education in IT security. I haven't worked in 6 years since At&t sold Broadband (previous @Home) to Comcast. I have little choice but to show on my resume that I have done it all. 23 of the 24 companies I worked for in the '90s went out of business within 6 months of my leaving. I know of at least 3 situations where outside vendors have lied about me to get me removed to sell their products to the companies. The one that is still in business told my employer that I am an ax murder to get me removed and literally only replaced the IBM CASES with Gateway CASES and said that with the new CASES would mean the company no longer needed ANY IT staff. It cost the company over 1 million and 6 months downtime to repair and the company today still has over $500,000 in costs per year due to the incident. So, I think their are a many situations on my resume that when or if contacted, my leaving caused the end or great loss of the business as well as a number of lies from murder to leader of a drug cartel. I am a member of a number of UGs and am well known throughout the industry, but seem to be blackballed because of loyalty to the companies I worked for, not vendors. As a jack of all trades in IT, I will have to accept the fact that I am un-hire-able for the present time. I am a great interviewer, but it is inevitable that the department heads end up realizing that I am much more knowledgeable that they are in a number of areas and that their programs are wrong and vendor oriented. It turns out that being able to program, admin, sysop, manage, install... are a detriment to working in IT. Luckily, I'm a kind of smart guy. I realized in '84 that data was worth money, not software or hardware. I started a data processing company that 23 year later is still considered the "great one" amongst the smaller DP firms. We had always been a "east coast" company, but 6 months ago we dropped all out east coast accounts and started working "west coast" It was a great decision and we are more profitable and management is much easier. I have missed out on a number of opportunities over the last 27 years, but have caught the wave on others. One of my biggest detriments in IT is that I am honest. When MS said that Office was better than WP, I said it was a lie, and worked for WP. When they said that AD was better than NW, I said it was a lie, and supported Novell (still do today). When linux 1st got hot in the late '90s, I said it was great and wouldn't "disappear". I am part of a major LUG today and considered among many in the movement an expert on linux projects. I came out strongly against outsourcing and still today as the recent 2 year report states that outsourcing is much more expensive and the only money made in outsourcing is by the manager. I worked for ComputerWorld and made a ton of money on PC sales when the PC was introduced. I made a ton of money installing Novell in the late '80s. I made good money working for Fox Software and later for DB programming companies. Since I'd sysop'ed unix mains for 8 years, I made good money setting up network administration in IT departments in the early '90s. When cable moved into ISPs, I was responsible for 80% of the area installs with NT servers and routers. I made a number of web sites in '94-5, but after that the companies that were requesting web sites did not need them and were going to lose a lot of money, so those willing to lie to them telling them they'd get rich made sites for them. I taught CS for 6 years at a major institution. When the startups (i.e. @Home) started to get eaten up by the big boys with thousands of cisco routers, I made money. Showing that you know a lo
I had an Atari, and a TI99-4a (4) before NES (24) (is number of games). 3DO (58), SNES (32), Gamegear (18), Saturn (48), GB, (22), GBA (28), N64 (23), PS(64), Dreamcast (32) paying $50 for a console and averaging about 20 games per year in approximate order of purchase. The GC (68), and PS2 (48) cost $80 and $120 but came bundled with Sunshine and Kingdom Hearts. I plan on buying an XBox soon but $90 is still too expensive for the value. I've always followed game ratings and bought games over a 7 on the Gamespot rating system. I've had 3 kids since the NES who grew up with at least 3 consoles in use in the house. I would say the 3DO, Saturn and Dreamcast had the best content so far.
But I never bought a GTA or RE. Memorable purchases were Super Mario Bros(NES), Gex(3DO), Incredible Machine(3DO), Mario Kart(SNES), Echo(Gg), Nights(Sat), Warcraft(Sat), Mario/Starfox/Kart64(64), Ocrina(64), Worms(DC), Crash, Spyro(PS),... I'm not going to keep making you read. The last 2 months Double Dash, Twilight Princess and Soul Caliper for GC and FFXII and Kinetic for PS2 have been played a lot. As I look over the catalog of games we own many are "casual games" by definition. Many "casual games" often appear to be multi-player or "party" games.
Have I been a casual gamer for the last 30 years or are we hardcore? Wish I could write more but I gotta go.
Nintendo is making 25% margin on every unit sold. Sony and MS are losing over $150 on every unit sold. If Sony and MS weren't protected from anti-dumping laws by this Justice Dept, they would have to sell their systems for at least $150 more. Their pricing is not temporary like a loss leader sale. Nintendo is the only one who attempts to follow the law, where Sony and MS steal IP and use it until they are stopped by an injunction. Nintendo always makes money on their products. Nintendo thought they might have a winner and needed to use chips in high present supply in order to fill the demand.
60% of HDTV owners have no idea how to get HD display from their TVs. Nintendo knew of these statistics and knew that most consumers would not be able to see any difference between the wii and the others. That's why until the wii and PS3 came out, 360s in video game stores were displayed in 480i. Not only do you need a HD display, converter and cables that all will pass the HD signal, but you also need a HD source that will not get converted. Just using a blue-ray or HDDVD drive does not mean that the source disk is encoded to display HD or you're just getting 480 up converted. Nintendo's poll of developers discovered that few were capable of producing full HD versions of projects. Developers want to decrease their project development time and Nintendo worked toward that. Now that the wii is selling so well, most of the major developers have announced that they will shift a major portion of their projects over to developing for the wii.
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The people complaining are always the wealthy land owners thinking their property values will drop, which has been proved false. I live and fish on Lake Erie. Lake Erie is very shallow and is a perfect place for a wind farm. The structures would create reefs that would support aquatic life and would improve sport fishing. The fishermen, DNR, and environmentalists were all for the wind farm. Idiots over in Cleveland tied to electric utilities protested a wind farm would lower property values and destroy aquatic life. It's always the people with the most money can make their opinion loudest and drowned out the truth.
I was blown away when I when to ATDHE.net the other day. The funny thing is though I saw the ICE URL, noScript blocked it. I guess the ICE banner isn't very safe. This is totally political lobbied by corps, because Veetle and Freedocast are still running.
The 1st job of IT/IS is lobbying management. How many times was the project reviewed by State IT/IS professionals? How professional can they be if they can't even review a project for the most basic needs? How professional can Northrop Grumman be if they don't even notice a missing basic need in there analysis? This is just another example of the expense of outsourcing and no one being responsible for any IT/IS function. With the unemployment rate and 500,000 IT/IS professionals out of work, the US needs to start hiring in IT/IS to save money to offset their losses from outsourcing. I taught a lot of IT/IS security and none have info security jobs. With all the data stolen in the US, no one hires security.
I also agree. Aren't tennis, baseball, bowling, and boxing adult type entertainment? My opinion is that the M rated titles for the Wii are more teen oriented entertainment. This goes back to the: "Who are hardcore gamers?", question. I think that the sales numbers show that Nintendo hit the market on the head, as they should as the only one of the 3 that make video games as a business, not OS or electronics. Nintendo nailed the major purchasers: adults. They buy consoles for their children to pay kid's games and games for adults to play and left the teen "hardcore" gamers, a smaller market share, to the other 2. Nintendo won because they understood their customers better.
Remember MS stole AD from Novell and destroyed WordPerfect with nasty marketing lies. Novell knows MS can not be trusted in any way.
SUSE has only made Novell stronger. MS can never open up their huge bundled DOS or pay their taxes. If MS sent 4 engineers, then they're going to have to hire because that over half of their staff. Remember Ballmer told the EU that MS only has 500 employees and almost all of them are salesmen or attorneys.
Novell knows exactly what is going on and like most collaborations with MS today, they will take what they can get and give nothing. Can you really fit 16 engineers in cubicals and the racks in a quarter of a 7-11? Sounds like Intel Research Centers, only larger with more engineers. Someone has to answer the phone. With that number of servers, we're talking a ton of blade centers.
If it's a trap, knowing MS, it's a fire death trap to kill of a couple Novell engineers without have to pay for anti-freeze.
Anyone got links to user discussions or reviews on 4.7GHz Power6 since they've been out for 2 months? I've read all the IBM, Oracle, Data Center promo stuff.
I can't speak for Sony, but MS's history is full of the biggest marketing blunders in history (i.e. linux, tablet, SPOT, MS TV ...)
However, when you look back over Nintendo's history you find some of the most intelligent, successful marketing campaigns in business history. Using the DS to market the idea of a different control interface paved the way for the Wii's success. In my opinion, Nintendo's franchise games have gotten more hard core (i.e. Windwaker vs Twilight Princess) with more need for walkthrus and guides.
I think much of this is a paid media push against Metroid's release and having it in retail stores next to the other 2's content making buyers question HD.
I live in an area that is completely monopolized. The guy who owns the Toledo Blade, a monopoly, John Block, owns Buckeye Cable System who owns all the lain cable(standard 65 station TV no box & ISP: $90) and refuses to even negotiate allowing anyone to lease lines. A 1.5 hour from where I live, they have total choice, which makes it kind of weird for the Best Buy and Circuit City guys who display all the choices then ask you first if you live 50-60 miles away. Neighbors on 2 sides went Direct DSL and the guys across the street At&t POTS DSL. Both my wife and I are internet workers, 3 online students, and the metal shelve of servers (the dp farm), so we need up/dn bandwidth. When I was teaching a decade ago, the state had been working on a very high speed 1600 mile fiber backbone since '79, and by '95 90% 669 school districts were using it. 2007 is the Ohio Supercomuter Centers 20th anniversary, but I've been out of teaching for 6 years.
There's a reason why everyone listens when Miyamoto talks. This is in response to Metroid which is about to be released and it will be in Gamestops next to the other 2 consoles. No mater how pointed the question, he gives an honest straight forward answer.
I was in Gamestop the other day and a customer came in looking for a PS3 game. After inquiring about 5-6 games, and being told they were of poor quality, both the clerks behind the counter said that the PS3 has no quality new titles to purchase. When asked to compare that to the 360 by the shopper, the clerks admitted that the 360 has no new quality titles either. The customer went on to purchase one of the better newer titles, I think Fantastic 4, but it was obviously not what he was looking for by his suggestions.
I think that what the media considers the mainstream game audience has been looking away due to the content being released. Meanwhile, no story on Nintendo's 2007 2nd quarter financials yet, which not only say that sales tripled and are up 160%, but positive revisions to future quarters as well.
I've heard Microsoft FUD before and this sounds more like MS is "doing nothing". MS usually says a lot (i.e. .NET) when they are doing nothing.
Slashdot has been duping MS/Intel/Cisco/Dell/Sony stories over and over for more than a year. As a 24 year veteran of IT, I worked for WordPerfect, Lotus, Aston Tate, Fox Software, Novell, IBM, At&t ... I'm guessing you are young to take the position that MS hasn't acted illegally for the last 3 decades. I'd just like MS to pay the taxes they owe American's for those 3 decades and not in vouchers.
The most important thing the FOSS movement can do it not believe a word you say and not spend time reading it. MS never could open their code because it proves all the IP they stole and the courtroom lies. You only care about destroying everything not MS. If you study a little bit of business, you will see that MS marketing has been some of the worse in world history. MS has only succeeded due to using illegal tactics like bundle'n'dump (i.e. IE). 3 decades later they are still fighting FREE SOFTWARE which NO ONE makes money on. Stealing is ok as long as it's MS/Intel/Cisco/Dell/Sony.
IT is at an all time low led by MS. Overseas outsourcing was led by MS. Making CS degrees useless was led by MS. Buying developers to put coders out of work was led by MS. Loss of language standards was led by MS. Why does MS have to fight against FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE volunteer projects which holds no economic threat to MS? And why do you think that anyone who has any idea of what IT has been through for the last 3 decades would believe anything you have to say?
When Nintendo announced at 2004 E3 the "Revolution", EA was right by their side giving full support. Each Christmas and tradeshow since EA has said that they were fully behind the Wii. I count at least a dozen times EA has announced they are fully behind the Wii. ... there are hundreds of 3rd party developers, many small developing titles EA would never touch.
Spike (Drangonball Z Bug Island), Square Enix (Dragon Quest, FF, Sponge Bob), Konami
(Elebits, Wing Island, Winning 11, DDR, Dewy), Hudson (Mario Party, Bomberman, Pilot Wings), Ubisoft (Rayman Raving Rabbits, Red Steel, Far Cry) , Ntreev (Pangya), Sega (Super Monkey Ball, Bleach, Ghost squad, Golden Compass, Mario Olympics, Puyo, Sonic, Alien Syndrome)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games
Comparing the 3 consoles titles, the other 2 are creating sequels of previous products much more often than Nintendo. The other 2 dislike retailers having the multi-console titles (i.e. Tiger Woods, Madden) running next to each other because they look and run exactly alike.
What DEC did best was service. They made IBM and HP look bad. 24/7 2 hour uptime guaranteed.
DEC was totally into the PC market. The Micro-Vax sold like hotcakes. They were not into Intel and Microsoft. For those of you that were around back then, look through the list and see how many good ideas died because of lies from Intel and Microsoft. WordPerfect didn't die because of the sale to Novell or the Microsoft claims of buggy version. What made WP great was perfect-script which allowed WP, much like Excel or AutoCAD, to be modified into a data input front end.
I bet anyone can go through the list and mark every death with a lie campaign by Microsoft or Intel. But we wouldn't waste our time on those two.
Novell released a desktop version on linux and the media said everyone hated the idea. I like smaller linux (dsl), but know that there needs to be different versions to match purposes. I read this as Microsoft marketing genius (meaning exceptionally stupid) response to pyro desktop. I'm just glad to see that there are more comments on linux desktop than the Microsoft related story.
My read is that once you sign with Microsoft, Microsoft is free to attack you. Or Novell is doing better than Redhat. Or Redhat doesn't have to sign because they are partners with Microsoft in Microsoft's linux. ... Novell Content Exchange ('00), IBM Workplace ('04), Zenworks 7 Management ('00), Extend Director 4 ('03) ... Novell users simply don't use Alfresco. Not before signing or after.
But who cares, this is Microsoft's stupid marketing because
I am one who is still installing W2K on new IBM and HP desktops purchased with no OS for users needing MS for W2K3 AD. W2K('00) and XP('01) launched a little over a year apart. After testing XP, I said in '02 that W2K was the end of the line for MS OS. XP and Vista were released to sell, MS's partner, Intel products and, in turn, to keep Dell afloat. The higher hardware requirements set in the OS slow down productivity and decrease value. Most businesses still want their line users highly productive and proper use of IT budgeting is an important issue. I can't understand why anyone still believe anything MS has to say since MS must keep their market value high to pay employees who manage the extremal developers of MS products in options. Most businesses still evaluate for value and HR is finding that IT employees whose skill is loyalty to MS/Intel/Dell are not in as high a demand as they were over the last decade.
Are any projects going to bundle or supporting download of pyro desktop? I wait until I here one does that way it will run fine with the project. Anyone who has been using python had to know this was coming from other similar type current projects.
MS can only keep program developers out of work for so long.
This rings of IE. Microsoft used it's game division to put all small designers out of business, as they planned. So don't expect anything out of XBox for the next 6 years.
I just read an article that said that hardcore gamers were crying that the 40-50 hours of Twilight Princess was too long. It blamed their attention spans. At the same time they complained about lack of "replay value" due to lack of online multi-player on the Wii. As Miyamoto said at E3, why would anyone, especially game designers, listen to anything these hardcore fan boys have to say. I doubt there are any gamers saying these things, just Sony and MS marketing execs trying to cover up that they were wrong.
You'll do as Microsoft says.
And who are they? Isn't the engine for GTA4 used in a ping pong game? So is Sony ping pong hardcore and Nintendo ping pong casual? Or are hardcore gamers easily fooled? If games are created using placeholders, what does it say about someone who proclaims themselves a hardcore gamer based on the artwork of a chainsaw and blood spatter compared to a spatula and omelet? Are people proclaiming themselves to be hardcore the casual, just not smart enough to know?
The Wii Fit is a technological advancement of the game pad. A huge detriment of the game pad is that it is only focused on pressing the 4 button set. In order to interactively control a character there needed to be more control. By measuring things like weight and center of gravity, the Wii Fit is much more capable of controlling interactive action than we have seen. When combined with the Wii mote an amazing amount of control can be created. I have a feeling that we have been kept in the dark as a marketing move by Nintendo to release the content slowly but that internally at many developers levels of control in games is far ahead of what we are seeing from the other 2.
Not only the PS3, but also the PSP price drop. But the PSP price drop is more like the PS2 to slim PS2 because they took away features. Ports are features.
But I disagree that people will run out and buy up the old stock. This is just a marketing ploy by the Sony supported media. Content sells consoles. If Sony and MS only produce sequels to content then they will only attract gamers who already attracted to the original content. Fans of Sony and MS exclusives have already bought.
There is very little that you can believe coming from Sony and MS these days.
Further rant: Nintendo ended up doing very similar to what I projected they would do at E3. A new catch phase "Games are for everyone", is very similar to "Games are for children" from 2 years ago. While my guesses at the new controllers they would release were incorrect, they did release new controllers. And while I didn't predict a remake of the zapper, I did say that Time Crisis 4 (which comes with a gun) for the Wii would be a huge winner because of the Wii mote and Nun-chaca. Nintendo marketing Wii to Moms at conferences where mothers attend, pre-schools and retirement homes is my "genius move" by Nintendo of '06. The "collection of mini-games" (i.e. Brain Age, Wii Play, Flash Focus) will pan out as huge winners in '07.
27 years in IT. Hired before finishing 1st degree to manage mini-main systems. Novell certified and did many installs since '88. MSCE and TCP/IP proficient '94. Many large infrastructures CAT/Fiber I pulled and installed the racks. ... are a detriment to working in IT.
About 6 years ago, when I started to have trouble getting work to the newly degreed, I went back to school for a "new" CS. I have continued my graduate education in IT security.
I haven't worked in 6 years since At&t sold Broadband (previous @Home) to Comcast. I have little choice but to show on my resume that I have done it all. 23 of the 24 companies I worked for in the '90s went out of business within 6 months of my leaving. I know of at least 3 situations where outside vendors have lied about me to get me removed to sell their products to the companies. The one that is still in business told my employer that I am an ax murder to get me removed and literally only replaced the IBM CASES with Gateway CASES and said that with the new CASES would mean the company no longer needed ANY IT staff. It cost the company over 1 million and 6 months downtime to repair and the company today still has over $500,000 in costs per year due to the incident. So, I think their are a many situations on my resume that when or if contacted, my leaving caused the end or great loss of the business as well as a number of lies from murder to leader of a drug cartel.
I am a member of a number of UGs and am well known throughout the industry, but seem to be blackballed because of loyalty to the companies I worked for, not vendors. As a jack of all trades in IT, I will have to accept the fact that I am un-hire-able for the present time. I am a great interviewer, but it is inevitable that the department heads end up realizing that I am much more knowledgeable that they are in a number of areas and that their programs are wrong and vendor oriented. It turns out that being able to program, admin, sysop, manage, install
Luckily, I'm a kind of smart guy. I realized in '84 that data was worth money, not software or hardware. I started a data processing company that 23 year later is still considered the "great one" amongst the smaller DP firms. We had always been a "east coast" company, but 6 months ago we dropped all out east coast accounts and started working "west coast" It was a great decision and we are more profitable and management is much easier.
I have missed out on a number of opportunities over the last 27 years, but have caught the wave on others. One of my biggest detriments in IT is that I am honest. When MS said that Office was better than WP, I said it was a lie, and worked for WP. When they said that AD was better than NW, I said it was a lie, and supported Novell (still do today). When linux 1st got hot in the late '90s, I said it was great and wouldn't "disappear". I am part of a major LUG today and considered among many in the movement an expert on linux projects. I came out strongly against outsourcing and still today as the recent 2 year report states that outsourcing is much more expensive and the only money made in outsourcing is by the manager. I worked for ComputerWorld and made a ton of money on PC sales when the PC was introduced. I made a ton of money installing Novell in the late '80s. I made good money working for Fox Software and later for DB programming companies. Since I'd sysop'ed unix mains for 8 years, I made good money setting up network administration in IT departments in the early '90s. When cable moved into ISPs, I was responsible for 80% of the area installs with NT servers and routers. I made a number of web sites in '94-5, but after that the companies that were requesting web sites did not need them and were going to lose a lot of money, so those willing to lie to them telling them they'd get rich made sites for them. I taught CS for 6 years at a major institution. When the startups (i.e. @Home) started to get eaten up by the big boys with thousands of cisco routers, I made money.
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I had an Atari, and a TI99-4a (4) before NES (24) (is number of games). 3DO (58), SNES (32), Gamegear (18), Saturn (48), GB, (22), GBA (28), N64 (23), PS(64), Dreamcast (32) paying $50 for a console and averaging about 20 games per year in approximate order of purchase. The GC (68), and PS2 (48) cost $80 and $120 but came bundled with Sunshine and Kingdom Hearts. I plan on buying an XBox soon but $90 is still too expensive for the value. I've always followed game ratings and bought games over a 7 on the Gamespot rating system. I've had 3 kids since the NES who grew up with at least 3 consoles in use in the house. I would say the 3DO, Saturn and Dreamcast had the best content so far. But I never bought a GTA or RE. Memorable purchases were Super Mario Bros(NES), Gex(3DO), Incredible Machine(3DO), Mario Kart(SNES), Echo(Gg), Nights(Sat), Warcraft(Sat), Mario/Starfox/Kart64(64), Ocrina(64), Worms(DC), Crash, Spyro(PS), ... I'm not going to keep making you read. The last 2 months Double Dash, Twilight Princess and Soul Caliper for GC and FFXII and Kinetic for PS2 have been played a lot. As I look over the catalog of games we own many are "casual games" by definition. Many "casual games" often appear to be multi-player or "party" games.
Have I been a casual gamer for the last 30 years or are we hardcore? Wish I could write more but I gotta go.
Nintendo is making 25% margin on every unit sold. Sony and MS are losing over $150 on every unit sold. If Sony and MS weren't protected from anti-dumping laws by this Justice Dept, they would have to sell their systems for at least $150 more. Their pricing is not temporary like a loss leader sale. Nintendo is the only one who attempts to follow the law, where Sony and MS steal IP and use it until they are stopped by an injunction. Nintendo always makes money on their products. Nintendo thought they might have a winner and needed to use chips in high present supply in order to fill the demand. 60% of HDTV owners have no idea how to get HD display from their TVs. Nintendo knew of these statistics and knew that most consumers would not be able to see any difference between the wii and the others. That's why until the wii and PS3 came out, 360s in video game stores were displayed in 480i. Not only do you need a HD display, converter and cables that all will pass the HD signal, but you also need a HD source that will not get converted. Just using a blue-ray or HDDVD drive does not mean that the source disk is encoded to display HD or you're just getting 480 up converted. Nintendo's poll of developers discovered that few were capable of producing full HD versions of projects. Developers want to decrease their project development time and Nintendo worked toward that. Now that the wii is selling so well, most of the major developers have announced that they will shift a major portion of their projects over to developing for the wii.