In addition to the fact that Nintendo is rolling in more money that you realize... What makes you think a rich company hammering out new products every few minutes is something that would actually take away sales from a company that sticks to their products? Microsoft is being criticized by many for releasing their new product so soon after the previous one, already. Long product cycles are a good thing.
Sometimes the quality of your people is far more important than the quantity or equipment.
It wasn't a non-response, it was a short and direct one. Or did you not notice that the longest responses (By both Kerry and Bush, not so much Nader) tended to more completely fail to answer the posed question, and were filled with padding to hide that fact?
The point of competiton in business is not to 'win.' It's not a match with a score. Nintendo did in fact 'win' with the Gamecube, in business terms -- they made money. Anyway, the point is to do as well as you can.
You cannot pick your competitors. Apple can't just say, "Well, we don't want to compete with Microsoft anymore, because it's too hard." (Unless they completely change their product line, of course!) Nintendo is competing with Sony. They are competing with Microsoft. I assure you, they would rather not compete with either! But it's not something they can decide.
The point is not to sell the most in the world, it's to sell as many as possible, at the highest profit. This means getting people to buy your product, obviously, and the most efficient way to do that is to target large groups -- like Playstation users. Their target is not Sony, but Sony's fanbase.
Well, here's what's been implied. It will be more powerful than the Gamecube. It will probably not quite match up to the PS2 and XBox2, because innovation is far more important, especially now that graphics have reached such an incredible level. (Worded the way they might word it, though I do agree.)
There have been reports of backwards compatibility, but assuming those are true then it may simply be able to use either mini or full-size discs in one drive, or even simply have more than one place to stick the media, like the DS does. I would expect them to stick with the minis, myself, they've worked very well.
And the actual 'features' part is where we're all still in the dark, waiting for the revolution...when's E3 again? In a couple weeks? No? Damn.
It's not really MS's responsibility to educate users. Do car manufacturers give defensive driving courses? No, even though their design flaws can (and do, very frequently) get people killed. If you're upset about MS, you must be really upset about those car companies! And then there's cigarette manufacturers...
Anyway, this virus IS purely user stupidity. There's no hole being exploited here, just programs working as they should.
I've seen both of the movies, and you're right, the intro isn't anything special. Without the outro, however, the game simply kicks you back to the menu the second you deal the final blow at the end of the game, and that's no good. Talk about anticlimax.
I didn't catch any spin there. Not only are most MMORPG's shipped incomplete in some regard, one could argue that Blizzard games are generally shipped...unfinished. They certainly work, yes, but there are always features that they'd hoped to get in that didn't make it.
Of course, unlike most companies, they do eventually get around to implementing most of them, even in their non-MMO games.
There's no need to buy an X-Box to play a lot of those games. That's the problem being referred to -- a lack of good exclusive titles. Apart from NG, I think the actualy exclusives you mentioned were the worst of the bunch. KOTOR, PoP, Beyond Good and Evil -- I can click three times and be playing any of them right here.
Sony's 6-10 hour battery projection was ONLY for simple music. For gaming and movies, the estimate they stated was two hours. Yes, that's their hype estimate -- two hours.
The fact that they didn't design the system in a way to allow for backwards compatibility is their own fault. The DS has an entirely different slot for old games. Something may be difficult to achieve but that doesn't change its usefulness.
And have fun getting those MP3s on there. You'll need some extra hardware to do it.
One other thing. This may just be me, I don't really know, but if one were to take the two screens and fuse them, side-by-side or top-by-bottom, I can guarantee that I would have trouble focusing on either of them. It would take a good long while for my eyes to adjust to that. If there was a game like Hunters, with the map on half the screen all the time, I would barely be able to play it. Physically seperate the screens just a tad though, and I have no problem.
Blizzard games never do much in the way on innovation. I'm up there among the most rabid Blizzard fans, and I still acknowledge this. For their games, the polish itself is what makes their games unique, not the features. And hell, I like it that way.
Legality is extremely questionable, not clear-cut at all. And that version is exactly the same as the real thing, minus the intro and outro movies -- not exactly 'butchered.'
This is the open beta. You don't have to worry about not getting accepted. You will. It's open. This has been planned since before the beta schedule started, and, I repeat, 'open' means everybody gets in.
I played SS2 the first time with headphones, in total darkness except for the monitor, in one sitting. I did not stop to go to the bathroom, or eat or drink.
All the machines I set up are quite secure, and yet I don't think I'm nearly qualified enough to actually be a sysadmin -- on the topic of security, or anything else. But the machines I deal with never have any problems, and the ones sysadmins set up for others do?
You'll have to show me numbers on that. Not 'two' and 'several' and no prices. The more expensive system had better have a longer turnover time! (In this case, you also have to consider the differences in purchasing large quantities of business-related machines, as I think you save more money on that with Dell than with Apple.)
My XP desktop looks far prettier than that screenshot, by the way. I even have a very thin top menu (Currently set to have windows maximize over it, but that's configurable) and an auto-hiding sidebar with some tools on it, in addition to a slimmed down (by just a few pixels) version of the standard Windows taskbar, with the addition of a box where I can type in a number of text commands. All this in a beautiful sky-blue color -- far more attractive than plain white and grey. Also, I want to point out that particular screenshot is a terrible example of usability -- that bar on the right is a usability nightmare with the way it's set up t contain about two million icons.
Not that I don't like Macs. I don't prefer them for my own use, but I can certainly see their many notable strengths and every once and I while I recommend an Apple machine to a friend. I do not think business use is one of them, however, and a lot of the arguments people use in Apple's favor are incredibly weak. I mean, you just posted a link to a desktop screen capture. Weak.
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In addition to the fact that Nintendo is rolling in more money that you realize...
What makes you think a rich company hammering out new products every few minutes is something that would actually take away sales from a company that sticks to their products? Microsoft is being criticized by many for releasing their new product so soon after the previous one, already. Long product cycles are a good thing.
Sometimes the quality of your people is far more important than the quantity or equipment.
'Longer' does not mean 'well-thought-out.'
It's a big pile of obfuscation if you ask me.
I got the feeling that the Kerry ones were, too, buddy. Just because they're short doesn't mean they're genuine.
It wasn't a non-response, it was a short and direct one. Or did you not notice that the longest responses (By both Kerry and Bush, not so much Nader) tended to more completely fail to answer the posed question, and were filled with padding to hide that fact?
Except that as a cleric, you do lots of complex things. As a guard, what, you press 'up'?
The point of competiton in business is not to 'win.' It's not a match with a score. Nintendo did in fact 'win' with the Gamecube, in business terms -- they made money. Anyway, the point is to do as well as you can.
You cannot pick your competitors. Apple can't just say, "Well, we don't want to compete with Microsoft anymore, because it's too hard." (Unless they completely change their product line, of course!) Nintendo is competing with Sony. They are competing with Microsoft. I assure you, they would rather not compete with either! But it's not something they can decide.
The point is not to sell the most in the world, it's to sell as many as possible, at the highest profit. This means getting people to buy your product, obviously, and the most efficient way to do that is to target large groups -- like Playstation users. Their target is not Sony, but Sony's fanbase.
Well, here's what's been implied. It will be more powerful than the Gamecube. It will probably not quite match up to the PS2 and XBox2, because innovation is far more important, especially now that graphics have reached such an incredible level. (Worded the way they might word it, though I do agree.)
There have been reports of backwards compatibility, but assuming those are true then it may simply be able to use either mini or full-size discs in one drive, or even simply have more than one place to stick the media, like the DS does. I would expect them to stick with the minis, myself, they've worked very well.
And the actual 'features' part is where we're all still in the dark, waiting for the revolution...when's E3 again? In a couple weeks? No? Damn.
It's not really MS's responsibility to educate users. Do car manufacturers give defensive driving courses? No, even though their design flaws can (and do, very frequently) get people killed. If you're upset about MS, you must be really upset about those car companies! And then there's cigarette manufacturers...
Anyway, this virus IS purely user stupidity. There's no hole being exploited here, just programs working as they should.
I've seen both of the movies, and you're right, the intro isn't anything special. Without the outro, however, the game simply kicks you back to the menu the second you deal the final blow at the end of the game, and that's no good. Talk about anticlimax.
I didn't catch any spin there. Not only are most MMORPG's shipped incomplete in some regard, one could argue that Blizzard games are generally shipped...unfinished. They certainly work, yes, but there are always features that they'd hoped to get in that didn't make it.
Of course, unlike most companies, they do eventually get around to implementing most of them, even in their non-MMO games.
Actually, the case could be made that it was a factual accusation. He didn't say that the guy wasn't too bright, he said that he wasn't sentient.
- looks cool
Europeans are weird. Seriously. I'd look into getting one of these, if I was in the market for a spaceship.
There's no need to buy an X-Box to play a lot of those games. That's the problem being referred to -- a lack of good exclusive titles. Apart from NG, I think the actualy exclusives you mentioned were the worst of the bunch. KOTOR, PoP, Beyond Good and Evil -- I can click three times and be playing any of them right here.
Sony's 6-10 hour battery projection was ONLY for simple music. For gaming and movies, the estimate they stated was two hours. Yes, that's their hype estimate -- two hours.
The fact that they didn't design the system in a way to allow for backwards compatibility is their own fault. The DS has an entirely different slot for old games. Something may be difficult to achieve but that doesn't change its usefulness.
And have fun getting those MP3s on there. You'll need some extra hardware to do it.
One other thing. This may just be me, I don't really know, but if one were to take the two screens and fuse them, side-by-side or top-by-bottom, I can guarantee that I would have trouble focusing on either of them. It would take a good long while for my eyes to adjust to that. If there was a game like Hunters, with the map on half the screen all the time, I would barely be able to play it. Physically seperate the screens just a tad though, and I have no problem.
Except that that's how Blizzard has been defining Closed. Apart from the very unfair 'first-come, first-served' thing.
Blizzard games never do much in the way on innovation. I'm up there among the most rabid Blizzard fans, and I still acknowledge this. For their games, the polish itself is what makes their games unique, not the features. And hell, I like it that way.
Legality is extremely questionable, not clear-cut at all. And that version is exactly the same as the real thing, minus the intro and outro movies -- not exactly 'butchered.'
The character just seemed a little too floaty, like the gravity was low.
Well, it WAS on a spaceship.
This is the open beta. You don't have to worry about not getting accepted. You will. It's open. This has been planned since before the beta schedule started, and, I repeat, 'open' means everybody gets in.
I played SS2 the first time with headphones, in total darkness except for the monitor, in one sitting. I did not stop to go to the bathroom, or eat or drink.
Don't talk to me about 'much more creepy!'
I was thinking this too. But it doesn't push people in either direction. Unless, of course the programming is like:
Vote! VOTE FOR KERRY or maybe bush.
Oh, it clearly sucks. If you compare old and new MTV, new is always worse. And I'm not old, unless 19 is old.
All the machines I set up are quite secure, and yet I don't think I'm nearly qualified enough to actually be a sysadmin -- on the topic of security, or anything else. But the machines I deal with never have any problems, and the ones sysadmins set up for others do?
You'll have to show me numbers on that. Not 'two' and 'several' and no prices. The more expensive system had better have a longer turnover time! (In this case, you also have to consider the differences in purchasing large quantities of business-related machines, as I think you save more money on that with Dell than with Apple.)
My XP desktop looks far prettier than that screenshot, by the way. I even have a very thin top menu (Currently set to have windows maximize over it, but that's configurable) and an auto-hiding sidebar with some tools on it, in addition to a slimmed down (by just a few pixels) version of the standard Windows taskbar, with the addition of a box where I can type in a number of text commands. All this in a beautiful sky-blue color -- far more attractive than plain white and grey. Also, I want to point out that particular screenshot is a terrible example of usability -- that bar on the right is a usability nightmare with the way it's set up t contain about two million icons.
Not that I don't like Macs. I don't prefer them for my own use, but I can certainly see their many notable strengths and every once and I while I recommend an Apple machine to a friend. I do not think business use is one of them, however, and a lot of the arguments people use in Apple's favor are incredibly weak. I mean, you just posted a link to a desktop screen capture. Weak.