The GameCube's chip is designed and manufactured by IBM. Sure, it's a partnership between IBM, Nintendo, and Panasonic, and they'll use the "Nintendo" name for marketing purposes, but they have a hold in that market (the same way Sony had a hold with the SNES before going larger scale...).
Well, I can't speak for the masses, but I certainly can speak for myself. So...it's time for (initiate the blinking "nobody cares" sign)
A Breif History of metroid composite On The Web
When I was growing up, I was one of those "Nintendo fanboys", and hence the first place I went to was www.nintendo.com (which fits perfectly into your theory). And also a little known Metroid Database (MDb).
It's from the MDb that I first got linked to IGN. Nintendo's information was considerably behind the rumors of IGN (now privatized) and Dailyradar (now closed). Both these sites updated daily, which fed my addiction to the web.
Sites, however, can't keep up with the update pace of message boards, and I soon found my way to GameFAQs message boards. From there it was a gradual move over several years from small specific metroid boards, to boards on varios systems to large general talk boards (where I got links to Slashdot among other things) and somewhere in the interm I started using Linux and got wrapped up in an ongoing group web project.
Short version: Yes, people start by going to those sites (in my case Nintendo.com). However, between Google and word of mouth that's not where they end up.
Most of these people probably do not use the Internet for something truly worthwhile. By that I claim that instead of doing research or reading various news sources to gain an unbiased perspective on the world around us, people mostly are just forwarding silly emails, chatting mindlessly with their peers, searching for pornography, and downloading crappy quality pirated music files.
And? This is still an example of how the open source nature of the internet makes more things possible, and more effective than before.
Case in point: mindless chatting. Frankly this is just more convenient than the telephone because you always know when your friends are online, you can ignore it and get down to work, you can talk to ten people at once (without a silly phone adaptor).
Next case: pirated music. A lot of this is out of print or hard to get these days, and there are certainly downloads which are not poor quality.
I will agree, however, that internet pornography is a sad state of affairs. It's even worse than popular magazines for photoshopping [not porn] unrealistic human beings, and manages to distort some people's perspective of reality.
Going through the games I enjoyed. 7.6, 9.5, 8.9, 7.0, 8.8, 7.5, 9.2, 9.4
Going over some games I thought were mediocre...6.4, 7.3, 8.6 (tasteless losers), 7.2, 7.1 (For Hoshigami o_O! How is this above 5?), 7.1
Given that I don't play that many games each year (it's gone up to five...maybe) and I struggle to find any game I've seen enough to not block from my memory that's below 6.4...I'm going to avoid Daikatana. Perhaps not as much as Hydlide (which seems to be the consensus winner for "worst console RPG") but avoid it I nonetheless will.
Glancing through the topic, I don't think anybody posted a link to this priceless picture of the victory screen yet.
Other than that, I've heard that the video review on GameSpot is priceless, but you do have to be a member to view that. Oh well, I'll settle for the wonderful sarcasm in the reader reviews:)
To be fair, this is the beta testing. You want people who know what they're doing to test it out, as they'll have a better chance to identify problems.
Now, when it comes to the official release, yes I agree one of those buttons is just what the doctor ordered.
People stick with the service they're used to. I don't see any other search engine replacing Google as the leader anytime soon. I don't see any instant messaging program outdoing AIM (which is significant because it means most of the people I know use AIM). I don't see any free email service being larger than Hotmail anytime soon (despite how yahoomail may try).
Call me cynical I guess...
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Oh, I do know all that; I've taken my history. That said, my older sister (in a PhD program in Physics no less) talked me into looking at the Mars Rover videos on NASA. While we both agreed that the entire project seemed like a waste of money, and questioned the motives, and agreed that we wouldn't ever want to do such work, it was still...well cool. Apparently I'm Not the only one who takes notice, but part of the interest stems from an illusion of important scientific discovery, which is quite different from the furthering of one country. Though, I'll admit I've had trouble rallying behind the army of a forein country (i.e. USA) ever since the cold war ended.
At the same time, I can see how this may have been inevitable. Funding for scientific research only lasts so long.
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I mean I know I can remember growing up as a kid, and thinking how cool it would be to go discover new things on the moon, or go make friends with aliens. I mean has anybody here not dreamed of being an Astronaught someday?
Now compare that with launching missile pads up into space. It's just not the same. I mean if I wanted to do Military stuff, I'd want to fly a fighter jet, or something...not monitor space weapons we'll never use from the ground.
And the interesting part is that I'm straight, but I always found it funny that Luigi had a hot-pink outfit in Smash Brothers. All speculation is tossed right out the window with Mario and Luigi where Luigi and the unbelievably bishounen Prince flirt with each other and exchange tokens of affection. It's done in such a comical way (and doesn't seem remotely out of character for Luigi) and done in such a way that Nintendo can deny everything. Classic.
Who says that just because men aren't "buying" more electronics that they're not getting the same amount? And don't kid yourself that Linux still has a primarily male usership; most women I know aren't so much worried about performance speed and stability as they are in software that does something interesting. Heck, that's (paraphrased) a proposed motto of a feminist programming group I worked alongside. (Though, I'm not sure it ever got beyond a printout taped to the wall).
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Nifty. While lacking in the number of details like R2D2 and laser cannons, the workload would be small enough that I might actually try this.
...Of course, being a grad student with no car could prove to be a setback.
It's the same every time. Xerox machines produced significant legal issues; I believe were the first major threat to copyrighted materials. Since then we've gotten casette tapes, VCRs, ROMs, and p2p filesharing. Do you see RIAA trying to shut down Sony for making blank casette tapes? No, because that issue was lost a long time ago. It's only the forefront of innovation which gets attacked.
I will agree to this. Space travel, to say nothing of colonization, is economically unfeasible at the moment. We're a lot closer to getting something useful out of Quantum Computing or comercialized Nanotechnology (for all that Nanotechnology is, as near as I can tell, just a pretty name for cutting edge Physical Chemistry...just "Chemistry" sounds so 19th century). Both Quantum Computing and comercial Nanotechnology would have immediate results all over the world.
Space travel is merely an easier concept to understand for most people. I mean the original Star Trek looks so low tech these days, despite being "500 years in the future".
Jar Jar's role in Episode 2 was perfectly fine. They didn't deny his existance, or outrage his 10 year old fans by putting him through a meat grinder, but they did put him into a role with very few lines, and made him a politican to boot! (Yay, we have more excuses to throw tomatoes! We can always hope he'll be a lawyer in the next film!)
And Yoda the posessed leprichaun is cool! Just about everyone I talked to after seeing Episode 2 loved the scene, and it will go down as one of the most memorable movie moments of all time (despite protests of the more hardcore geeks). No, the problem with Episode 2 is that Anakin got the worst acting job I've ever seen in a movie. Granted, some of that can be chalked up to his lines, though Amidala's acting job seemed passable to me, so it's clearly possible for an actor to cope with Lucas' script.
Not if it would lead a reasonable person to believe that they are a police officer.
If they represented themselves as police officers then they are guilty of a criminal offense.
What reasonable person believes that police officers would have RIAA written on their shirts? There's no "PD" in that acronym, for starters, even if you don't keep up with internet news.
Now, if someone is confused, asks them "are you Police" and they respond "yes" then certainly they'd be in trouble.
Everyone knows Nukes hurt stuff. Nobody fires nukes these days, and for all we know they could be replaced in ten years by Nanotechnological weapons. It's also not that hard to build up nukes in a hurry if you feel the sudden need to become a superpower.
The world is getting increasingly driven by economy over military. Notice that Japan is a key leader in electronics and cars, but until very recently had no standing army at all. If America had no standing army and completely restricted the ownership of guns...it would still have an amazing amount of world influence due to the economy. Of course, there would be no invading Iraq or Afganistan, but then Sadam was placed into power by the Republicans, and Bin Laden was trained by the CIA to kill Russians, so maybe those invasions wouldn't be needed in the first place. But I digress...
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-- Clueless Mozilla user.
Well...the version of Mozilla that comes with Mandrake 9.2 and Red Hats 7.5 and 9 don't do that by default at least.
That said, blocking all popups can be inconvenient. Invisionfree forums uses popups for its private messages, for instance, which actually matters since a few people I know have gotten very jaded with email of late.
While I agree that the Gnome OS itself is not ideal, and tend to stick to KDE, I certainly care about Gnome programs. Gaim, Gimp, and Gnumeric are all key on my launcher list, and Ghaleon is a second Mozilla more or less (and having an alternate web browser in case something goes wrong is always a good plan).
Sure, you'll get a few hardcore fans into it, but notice how, for example, the GBA sells better than fancier products. Bigger and more expensive find small niches at best.
*Peripherals tend to sell much lower; 1/10 of what the system sells for upgrades to the system and what not.
*Uninformed users will link this to plugging into their brain. This frightens the general public.
*It's unlikely to be perfectly in time with the screen, as distance from the screen will change the required electrical output.
*You have to hook yourself up every time. Remember the NES Power Glove?...yeah....
*After unhooking yourself you may feel unbalanced. Based on things I've gone through at hospitals, this may last an hour or two.
*Long term side effects won't be known off the front, but will certainly be feared.
GBA was claiming 20 going in, and the amount I abuse/reuse rechargable batteries, it's more like 6. So that means 1-2 hours...when it takes about 5 hours to regarge batteries on the puny little recharger I own.
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The GameCube's chip is designed and manufactured by IBM. Sure, it's a partnership between IBM, Nintendo, and Panasonic, and they'll use the "Nintendo" name for marketing purposes, but they have a hold in that market (the same way Sony had a hold with the SNES before going larger scale...).
Short version: Yes, people start by going to those sites (in my case Nintendo.com). However, between Google and word of mouth that's not where they end up.
Or Linux for the Indrema! Oh...wait, that already runs Linux.
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And? This is still an example of how the open source nature of the internet makes more things possible, and more effective than before.
Case in point: mindless chatting. Frankly this is just more convenient than the telephone because you always know when your friends are online, you can ignore it and get down to work, you can talk to ten people at once (without a silly phone adaptor).
Next case: pirated music. A lot of this is out of print or hard to get these days, and there are certainly downloads which are not poor quality.
I will agree, however, that internet pornography is a sad state of affairs. It's even worse than popular magazines for photoshopping [not porn] unrealistic human beings, and manages to distort some people's perspective of reality.
Going through the games I enjoyed. 7.6, 9.5, 8.9, 7.0, 8.8, 7.5, 9.2, 9.4
Going over some games I thought were mediocre...6.4, 7.3, 8.6 (tasteless losers), 7.2, 7.1 (For Hoshigami o_O! How is this above 5?), 7.1
Given that I don't play that many games each year (it's gone up to five...maybe) and I struggle to find any game I've seen enough to not block from my memory that's below 6.4...I'm going to avoid Daikatana. Perhaps not as much as Hydlide (which seems to be the consensus winner for "worst console RPG") but avoid it I nonetheless will.
Other than that, I've heard that the video review on GameSpot is priceless, but you do have to be a member to view that. Oh well, I'll settle for the wonderful sarcasm in the reader reviews :)
Now, when it comes to the official release, yes I agree one of those buttons is just what the doctor ordered.
Call me cynical I guess...
At the same time, I can see how this may have been inevitable. Funding for scientific research only lasts so long.
Now compare that with launching missile pads up into space. It's just not the same. I mean if I wanted to do Military stuff, I'd want to fly a fighter jet, or something...not monitor space weapons we'll never use from the ground.
NASA's recruiting potential --;
And the interesting part is that I'm straight, but I always found it funny that Luigi had a hot-pink outfit in Smash Brothers. All speculation is tossed right out the window with Mario and Luigi where Luigi and the unbelievably bishounen Prince flirt with each other and exchange tokens of affection. It's done in such a comical way (and doesn't seem remotely out of character for Luigi) and done in such a way that Nintendo can deny everything. Classic.
Who says that just because men aren't "buying" more electronics that they're not getting the same amount? And don't kid yourself that Linux still has a primarily male usership; most women I know aren't so much worried about performance speed and stability as they are in software that does something interesting. Heck, that's (paraphrased) a proposed motto of a feminist programming group I worked alongside. (Though, I'm not sure it ever got beyond a printout taped to the wall).
It's the same every time. Xerox machines produced significant legal issues; I believe were the first major threat to copyrighted materials. Since then we've gotten casette tapes, VCRs, ROMs, and p2p filesharing. Do you see RIAA trying to shut down Sony for making blank casette tapes? No, because that issue was lost a long time ago. It's only the forefront of innovation which gets attacked.
Space travel is merely an easier concept to understand for most people. I mean the original Star Trek looks so low tech these days, despite being "500 years in the future".
Though, I can't say I'm objecting to reading it again :)
And Yoda the posessed leprichaun is cool! Just about everyone I talked to after seeing Episode 2 loved the scene, and it will go down as one of the most memorable movie moments of all time (despite protests of the more hardcore geeks). No, the problem with Episode 2 is that Anakin got the worst acting job I've ever seen in a movie. Granted, some of that can be chalked up to his lines, though Amidala's acting job seemed passable to me, so it's clearly possible for an actor to cope with Lucas' script.
What about Mandrake? Installation of that seemed easy enough. Though, I'll admit the menus weren't as well organized as Red Hat 9.
Now, if someone is confused, asks them "are you Police" and they respond "yes" then certainly they'd be in trouble.
The world is getting increasingly driven by economy over military. Notice that Japan is a key leader in electronics and cars, but until very recently had no standing army at all. If America had no standing army and completely restricted the ownership of guns...it would still have an amazing amount of world influence due to the economy. Of course, there would be no invading Iraq or Afganistan, but then Sadam was placed into power by the Republicans, and Bin Laden was trained by the CIA to kill Russians, so maybe those invasions wouldn't be needed in the first place. But I digress...
That said, blocking all popups can be inconvenient. Invisionfree forums uses popups for its private messages, for instance, which actually matters since a few people I know have gotten very jaded with email of late.
While I agree that the Gnome OS itself is not ideal, and tend to stick to KDE, I certainly care about Gnome programs. Gaim, Gimp, and Gnumeric are all key on my launcher list, and Ghaleon is a second Mozilla more or less (and having an alternate web browser in case something goes wrong is always a good plan).
*Peripherals tend to sell much lower; 1/10 of what the system sells for upgrades to the system and what not.
*Uninformed users will link this to plugging into their brain. This frightens the general public.
*It's unlikely to be perfectly in time with the screen, as distance from the screen will change the required electrical output.
*You have to hook yourself up every time. Remember the NES Power Glove? ...yeah....
*After unhooking yourself you may feel unbalanced. Based on things I've gone through at hospitals, this may last an hour or two.
*Long term side effects won't be known off the front, but will certainly be feared.
Though, for all I know the numbers could be true, but it is still first and foremost publicity.
GBA was claiming 20 going in, and the amount I abuse/reuse rechargable batteries, it's more like 6. So that means 1-2 hours...when it takes about 5 hours to regarge batteries on the puny little recharger I own.