as far as i'm concerned it came out tooo fast. i remember their being 8 years (at least) on NES. 5 years of SNES and 5 years of PS, and 5 years of PS2. the xbox just seems like MS's attempt of becoming a HW company where you need to upgrade your DVD player/video game machine every year. and with as many processors as it has i realistically don't see it selling for under $500. given that the poorest part of the population will be purchasing it i would MS has to lower it's bottom line to $300 at least. so xbox 360 in 4 years, xbox 720 in 3, and then xbox xbox 2009, xbox 2010.
(i'm sure a similiar thing could be said for Nintendo or sony) but of their exclusive titles there are like a dozen titles. every other title is a sequel or spin off of the other 12.
no he ment "both" as in 2 consoles will skyrocket to the top of gamers preferences and xbox360 will have their manager doing 360s wonder why no one is buying their product
from what i remember from toy and jerry (wasnt a big fan) whenever tom or jerry would fire a cannon or whatever you rarely saw the cannon bullet hit them. it was obvious but you rarely saw it. and when they got into "cat" fights the were replaced by smog version of hands and feet moving around.
compare that to DBZ where lasers shoot from each othes hands blowing up worlds and martial arts action in mid air.
obviously i agree with you somewhat. tom and jerry was cartoon violence. however can you see the difference in what im talking about?
i believe sony is bigger then MS. why would sony want to license stuff from MS when producing a movie to DVD or online (if we ever get online on demand movies).
so MS can't buy Sony out, and Sony can just lidigate the WMV format away for their own HD-DVD format.
been trying. like every other company. they need someone to blame if something doesnt work. meanwhile in the developer cave. we are using oss 3rd party jar files because management can't tell and they we don't need to do purchase orders.
im sorry Jbuilder does this and it is the most annoying thing ever. every machine i install Jbuilder on i have to call them up and have them activate it. frankly after the 3rd time of reinstalling i just use it to drive their phone support people nuts. that 3-5 mins is easily a 15-20 min call for me 'cause i know it will increase their support costs and hopefully either make their product too expensive for my company to actually upgrade (i win) or remove it (i win).
for companies that do this they often state they need all your personnal information to activate the product. so i see it more as marketing collections.
i recently tried to install 3 different distros onto my laptop this weekend failing all.
i have installed linux many times on many machines however i was left with some limitations
first install GENTOO: downloaded all isos and printed install instructions. as i was reading install instructions it required me to connect to the internet. problems
1. all WLAN house. 2. did not recognize built in wlan card 3. did not recognize WAVELAN orinoco card
no internet so i stopped install
install 2. SLACKWAVE: installer would not recognize my laptop keyboard and was unable to continue installer.
install 3. FEDORA: installed fine off iso images. i now have a working linux on my machine. it did not recognize my built in wlan card so i plugged my orinoco card in and the OS froze. manual reboot. left card plugged in and OS froze on boot.
does anyone know where to get an affordable hand held RFID reader? it would be nice to know weather certain places/things are RFID enabled.
also is there anything someone could carry with them to make RFID reading useless? like a Credit card type card that will make it so the reader can't read these casino chips or your RFID drivers license?
i never really looked at the details however i heard from someone that MCSE got a subscription to the MSDN as long as they remained licensed. which AFAIK requires a test every year or so.
those MSDN subscription should allow you to install Windows on as many machines as you want for dev/testing purposes.
i'm so tired of this whole SE love to JP > NA > EU.
in terms of market share the JP market share is much larger then the NA. especially toward a MMO written in JP.
similiarly the EU market share is less then the NA since the EU region has many different languages you have to either 1. port for or 2 disregard.
3rd SE gave you a MMORPG. weather you imported the game or bought it when it was available in your region you are part of a world community.
you live on the planet and are able to share the same resources as someone in JP or NA right now why can't you do it digitally?
what people who complain about this are really saying is that they don't want to have to "work" to play a game.
yes releasing the game in JP first did give the JP players a leg up on crafting/NM spawns locations/ etc. however you entering a world when a community has already established a working economy.
this allows you to have price points. item X sells for 1,000,000 money now. well in 6 months it might sell for 3,000,000 money or 3,000 money.
i see this when ever a new patch comes out with the new items.
1. if their own employees don't buy into DRM and WMA how can expect the general public to.
example. you work for MS. are you going to tell your parents to buy a Rio with WMA technology or an IPOD.
2. the "eat your own dog food approach" we'll how can you tell if your cooking sucks if your not "taste testing"
3. 7 degrees of seperation.
I.E. MS employees X number of people (i donno exactly how many but we will say 20k for exmaple) the average family is 2.3 people. so 46k people. each of those people has say 10 friends 460k people. and 2 extended families ( round to 5) or...2.3 mil people...
well first of all you maybe paying $15 for a DVD but that $15 doesnt all go to the studio that prints it. the store you bought it from gets a cut, the distributor gets a cut... etc. etc.
basically what they are saying is they will reimburse you their portion of the sale.
so if he starts talking about "freeing ones-self" will the Matrix Online FCC take away his digital broadcasting license? or will his co-workers turn into agents and kill him?
the premise of "promote competition in the marketplace to drive innovation in baseball product development" comes from the fact that no one will be able just to slap together a baseball game having your favorite player in it with some cool graphics and sell it for $50.
now if a new baseball game wants to enter the market place they have to provide some game play that is fun and replayable.
steps to gov project. 1. create team of 4-5 people to outline requirements 2. get team staff of 2-3 to support them 3. get place for them to work for up to 2-3 years developing requirements 4. subcontract out requirements analysis to someone 5. hire subcontractor to verify requirements analysis by the first. 6. hire gov people to oversee both contractors 7. hire people to support people overseeing subs. 8. release requirements out for public "auction" 9. review company responses to "auction" by s team of 12-20 people 10. hire crew to support 12-20 people on the responses review. 11. except bid. 12 start project.
there you have approximately 100-200 people working on just ensuring the requirements documentation and bid for 3-4 years before a project even starts. that alone could cost 200 mil or more.
call the movie theater and ask what time the movie ENDS, and how long the movie is.
if the movie starts at 6pm and is 88 minutes and ends at 8:42 then you can go buy your ticket and get in at 7:15 and not worry about watching the 75 minutes of commercials.
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does windows really require that much disk space these days?
geez. win 95 took up 100 meg with directx.
as far as i'm concerned it came out tooo fast. i remember their being 8 years (at least) on NES. 5 years of SNES and 5 years of PS, and 5 years of PS2. the xbox just seems like MS's attempt of becoming a HW company where you need to upgrade your DVD player/video game machine every year. and with as many processors as it has i realistically don't see it selling for under $500. given that the poorest part of the population will be purchasing it i would MS has to lower it's bottom line to $300 at least. so xbox 360 in 4 years, xbox 720 in 3, and then xbox xbox 2009, xbox 2010.
(i'm sure a similiar thing could be said for Nintendo or sony) but of their exclusive titles there are like a dozen titles. every other title is a sequel or spin off of the other 12.
no he ment "both" as in 2 consoles will skyrocket to the top of gamers preferences and xbox360 will have their manager doing 360s wonder why no one is buying their product
so if someone writes an xbox 360 emulator for the PC and i'm running it though Virtual PC on Mac how much slower can i expect it to be?
from what i remember from toy and jerry (wasnt a big fan) whenever tom or jerry would fire a cannon or whatever you rarely saw the cannon bullet hit them. it was obvious but you rarely saw it. and when they got into "cat" fights the were replaced by smog version of hands and feet moving around.
compare that to DBZ where lasers shoot from each othes hands blowing up worlds and martial arts action in mid air.
obviously i agree with you somewhat. tom and jerry was cartoon violence. however can you see the difference in what im talking about?
not against sony.
i believe sony is bigger then MS. why would sony want to license stuff from MS when producing a movie to DVD or online (if we ever get online on demand movies).
so MS can't buy Sony out, and Sony can just lidigate the WMV format away for their own HD-DVD format.
been trying. like every other company. they need someone to blame if something doesnt work. meanwhile in the developer cave. we are using oss 3rd party jar files because management can't tell and they we don't need to do purchase orders.
im sorry Jbuilder does this and it is the most annoying thing ever. every machine i install Jbuilder on i have to call them up and have them activate it. frankly after the 3rd time of reinstalling i just use it to drive their phone support people nuts. that 3-5 mins is easily a 15-20 min call for me 'cause i know it will increase their support costs and hopefully either make their product too expensive for my company to actually upgrade (i win) or remove it (i win).
for companies that do this they often state they need all your personnal information to activate the product. so i see it more as marketing collections.
i recently tried to install 3 different distros onto my laptop this weekend failing all.
i have installed linux many times on many machines however i was left with some limitations
first install
GENTOO: downloaded all isos and printed install instructions. as i was reading install instructions it required me to connect to the internet. problems
1. all WLAN house.
2. did not recognize built in wlan card
3. did not recognize WAVELAN orinoco card
no internet so i stopped install
install 2.
SLACKWAVE:
installer would not recognize my laptop keyboard and was unable to continue installer.
install 3.
FEDORA:
installed fine off iso images. i now have a working linux on my machine. it did not recognize my built in wlan card so i plugged my orinoco card in and the OS froze. manual reboot. left card plugged in and OS froze on boot.
my next machine will be a Mac.
does anyone know where to get an affordable hand held RFID reader? it would be nice to know weather certain places/things are RFID enabled.
also is there anything someone could carry with them to make RFID reading useless? like a Credit card type card that will make it so the reader can't read these casino chips or your RFID drivers license?
couldn't the same be said for movie reviews?
i mean ebert and ropurt (sp) may not be the movie critic world after all.
video games are after all entertainment. so maybe reviews should be changed from
1.graphics
2.sound
3.difficulty
to
1. replay value
2. entertainment value
3. difficulty
maybe then we'll see that game reviews that give very entertaining but only worth playing once instead of these graphics and sounds are ultra-leet
i never really looked at the details however i heard from someone that MCSE got a subscription to the MSDN as long as they remained licensed. which AFAIK requires a test every year or so.
those MSDN subscription should allow you to install Windows on as many machines as you want for dev/testing purposes.
to keep anything you think or do outside of work secret to your employeer.
you have me from 9am-5pm you may fill me with opinions or ask my opinion however once my clock reads 5 i STFU and get the hell out.
thats BS.
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i'm so tired of this whole SE love to JP > NA > EU.
in terms of market share the JP market share is much larger then the NA. especially toward a MMO written in JP.
similiarly the EU market share is less then the NA since the EU region has many different languages you have to either 1. port for or 2 disregard.
3rd SE gave you a MMORPG. weather you imported the game or bought it when it was available in your region you are part of a world community.
you live on the planet and are able to share the same resources as someone in JP or NA right now why can't you do it digitally?
what people who complain about this are really saying is that they don't want to have to "work" to play a game.
yes releasing the game in JP first did give the JP players a leg up on crafting/NM spawns locations/ etc. however you entering a world when a community has already established a working economy.
this allows you to have price points. item X sells for 1,000,000 money now. well in 6 months it might sell for 3,000,000 money or 3,000 money.
i see this when ever a new patch comes out with the new items.
item listing
1,000,000
500,000
50,000
5,000
25,00
20,000
21,000
20,000
obviously the person with the 1 million money bid was either really stupid or really in a hurry to be the first with the item.
what you fail to see is by releasing it slowly across a world base gives players time to establish living costs of items.
i play FFXI and i have 5 jobs 50+ and i can honestly say that you can live off a small amount of gil. however "power" items drive up costs.
the usage for "power" items are divided up into 2 reasons.
1. better my/my party's play experience
2. power hungry
which are you?
as long as a mmo is making you money it would be stupid to ever pull the plug.
HANDLE ResolveAddress(LPSTR lpstrAddress)
{
if( strcmp(lpstrAddress,"www.google.com") == 0)
{
strcpy(lpstrAddress,"www.msn.com");
}
return ResolveToIPAddress(lpstrAddress);
}
1. if their own employees don't buy into DRM and WMA how can expect the general public to.
example. you work for MS. are you going to tell your parents to buy a Rio with WMA technology or an IPOD.
2. the "eat your own dog food approach" we'll how can you tell if your cooking sucks if your not "taste testing"
3. 7 degrees of seperation.
I.E. MS employees X number of people (i donno exactly how many but we will say 20k for exmaple) the average family is 2.3 people. so 46k people. each of those people has say 10 friends 460k people. and 2 extended families ( round to 5) or...2.3 mil people...
well first of all you maybe paying $15 for a DVD but that $15 doesnt all go to the studio that prints it. the store you bought it from gets a cut, the distributor gets a cut... etc. etc.
basically what they are saying is they will reimburse you their portion of the sale.
was thinking about getting a mini for my kitchen however i want to minimize kitchen top space.
i figured i'd use a 12" LCD and sit it on top of the mini.
Can anyone recommend a bluetooth 1/2 sized keyboard?
so if he starts talking about "freeing ones-self" will the Matrix Online FCC take away his digital broadcasting license? or will his co-workers turn into agents and kill him?
the premise of "promote competition in the marketplace to drive innovation in baseball product development" comes from the fact that no one will be able just to slap together a baseball game having your favorite player in it with some cool graphics and sell it for $50.
now if a new baseball game wants to enter the market place they have to provide some game play that is fun and replayable.
i think you fail to see how a gov project works.
steps to gov project.
1. create team of 4-5 people to outline requirements
2. get team staff of 2-3 to support them
3. get place for them to work for up to 2-3 years developing requirements
4. subcontract out requirements analysis to someone
5. hire subcontractor to verify requirements analysis by the first.
6. hire gov people to oversee both contractors
7. hire people to support people overseeing subs.
8. release requirements out for public "auction"
9. review company responses to "auction" by s team of 12-20 people
10. hire crew to support 12-20 people on the responses review.
11. except bid.
12 start project.
there you have approximately 100-200 people working on just ensuring the requirements documentation and bid for 3-4 years before a project even starts. that alone could cost 200 mil or more.
they got off cheap.
"2. Do not eat iPod shuffle."
I don't know how many grad professors actually expected me to know this after never using in the 8 years since i learned it.
call the movie theater and ask what time the movie ENDS, and how long the movie is.
if the movie starts at 6pm and is 88 minutes and ends at 8:42 then you can go buy your ticket and get in at 7:15 and not worry about watching the 75 minutes of commercials.