This is the big statistic that is missing. Because doubling from 1 to 2 is nothing. Doubling from 100,000 to 200,000 is huge for profits. So yes, the numbers are very important. If a company tells you that their system is twice as fast as it was previously, wouldn't you want to know how fast it was previously? Because it could have gone from 33mhz to 66mhz and not 2ghz to 4ghz.
I'm not sure whether you're talking about the guy who posted he carries a gun while running or the imagined people he will fend off when he is attacked while running.
This country is so steeped in paranoia it makes me crazy.
Thanks for your post, I've been trying to argue the same for years and you are spot on.
I also include the "cannot involving judging" in my definition of a sport, hence figure skating is NOT a sport but ice racing is. Once you involve judging (which is different from reffing) you change the sport to a game or activity, but not a sport.
Most gymnastics, while challenging (and I did it as a kid) is judged which means someone who is the best gymnast in the world can come in last due to politics or personal opinion. Just because the refs hate you in basketball, you can still score more than the other team. As far as golf and bowling... activities but certainly not sports (good luck breaking a sweat).
I think this is abotu the best argument I've heard. He didn't just lose to a competant and electable dead man, he lost to his wife, who, as you state, had no previous elected experience.
I think we can all agree Missouri had the goods on Ashcroft... the man is a nut. I'd prefer a dead guy, or his widowed wife, any day. Preferably Jimmy Stewart.
As a long time fan of Woo, I can say: "expect the worst."
I was never into Metroid, but take a walk with me down woo lane (post HK era):
Hard Target (1993) - Okay, not too bad.
Broken Arrow (1996) - Upon a second viewing pretty bad. At the time, cool.
Once a Thief (1996) (TV) - A really bad TV version of my favorite Woo film, Once a Thief (but only the Chinese version)
Face/Off (1997) - I still like this movie. Entertaining at the very least.
Blackjack (1998) (TV) - Wow. Bad. Not much more to say.
Mission: Impossible II (2000) - Dear lord, what is happening to John Woo? This is like a self-parody!
Windtalkers (2002) - No, God, no! Horrible writing, acting, and pretty bad directing and editing.
The John Woo of 2004 is not the same Woo we've all come to love. America has not been kind to him. He has become a caricature of himself. Just watch the old Woo films and pretend he never came to America (In fact, same goes for Chow Yun-Fat).
But this isn't controversial in content or idealogy.
Great point. Games can be fun diversions. A game about Chernobyl could be fun. But what does holding the press conference at Chernobyl mean? It's tasteless. I can understand making Medal Of Honor, but they're not promoting it at Normandy or Pearl Harbor or at a Concentration Camp.
Making the game is one thing, doing a controversial PR session just to be edging is, frankly, annoying.
Looking at the visuals and reading the article it sounds like it could be a really neat game with really, really good graphics.
Unfortunately, this press event sounds like it is in really bad taste. The actual Chernobyl disaster was horrible. Making a game out of it is one thing, as it is sure to be fictionalized and live in a world separate from our own.
When THQ "wheeled one of the men responsible for the tragedy" out, that's just terrible. The lines of reality and fiction are being crossed and in a horrible way. For GTA4, I suggest they bring out real car-jackers to show the folks a good time.
Wow, really funny you mention this. I always had trouble between snarf and snurf. Snurf was my dads term for what to call a queebie, but actually the action of biting the bubbles, ie to snurf. Snarf, as I know it, is also a verb (He snarfed yesterday and will likely today, that pervert).
If you hadn't put that in, I would have thought you were my brother posting!
"In my mind, yes. But I won't use the Rez name because that belongs to Sega."
Does anyone else hear Sega's lawyers ears perking up? He's basically saying he's going to circumvent copyright/trademark law (no, I'm not a lawyer) because they own the name but he wants to do a sequel. Good for him, but I certainly wouldn't speak about it in public.
It would be like the producers of a movie saying "we wanted to make a James Bond movie but couldn't get the rights from MGM so we just made a slightly different one." Remember the Goldmember controversy?
The problem with that analogy is that the DC wasn't that much of an improvement over the PS1. It was still CD-driven, it didn't have that much more horsepower, and it didn't have must-have titles.
The PS2 on the other hand was promising dual functionality of dvd playback, must-have titles, and noticeably more horsepower than the DC.
I'm sorry, but that is just completely wrong, and you're buying into Sony's hype machine. I'm curious if you've ever compared the three:
The PSone (or playstation):
Has a 33 MHz, 32 bit processor, with 2MB of RAM.
The dreamcast: Has a 128-bit, 200 MHz main processor, with 16 megs of system RAM, 8 megs of dedicated video RAM and 2 megs of audio RAM.
The ps2: Has a 128-bit, 294 MHz main processor, with 32 megs of system RAM and 4 megs of video RAM.
According to the specs, the PS2 has a faster clock (though different processor) and more RAM. Unfortunately, it has far less video RAM, which is very important. Want to see great graphics? Take a look at the DC Soul Calibur.
The DC kicked the pants off of the PS1 and was very competitive with (besides DVD playback many would say better than) the PS2. Play a DC and PS1 game back to back and you'll see (because you would have never said they were comparable if you've ever used a Dreamcast). Play a DC and PS2 game side-by-side and I think you'll be hard pressed to tell the difference. The dreamcast was ahead of its time.
Yes, and if only there were a pattern to the underregulation of accounting firms perhaps we'd learn something.
Look at the new privatized British train system - it's doing horribly. Did the government take over AmTrak, Rite-Aide and At&t or did I miss something?
Look, I know this will piss off a lot of GameCube fans. As a disclaimer, I don't own any nextgen console.
I do, however, own a dreamcast. Which is looking more and more like the cousin of the GameCube.
People have bought Nintendo's marketing hype ("The reason you can't find a gamecube is they're so popular") and assumed that hey, the GameCube is doing well!
Yes, it may be doing better than the Xbox, but all the signs are there: 3rd parties dropping support, not being able to find games or accessories on the shelf. In fact, many people are having a hard time finding the GameCube in stores. And yet, fanboys take this knowledge and think: the Cube is doing fantastically!
Look, I wanted to think the same about the dreamcast as well, but it didn't happen. Nintendo will survive, of course, but it looks like the PS2 simply has a death grip on the current market. The cube's games may be better, the system may be cheaper, but its not winning over developers or consumers. Which is sad, because competition is always good and nintendo seems to produce quality games.
Good point. My recollection is they were also going to add a coloring option, so you could change your face to one of the shades of skin color in the game as well as do hair color and eye color. I remember seeing this previewed and their was a tiny face program with coloring capability.
Let me get this straight, Apple won't license Fairplay to anyone, yet somehow all the new DVDs are going to come out with Fairplay DRM encoding. Exactly how is that going to happen, the magic Fairplay elves hiding out in the duplication plant?
No, it's the sheer power that Apple wields with less than 7% of the marketshare. 7%! Can you fathom that? Of course everything will be tied to Apple. (Now shutting off the sarcasm).
I think the "logic is so simple it's astounding, I'm surprised nobody else is seeing it" guy perhaps doesn't understand economics.
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Woah, the Xbox emulates the N64? Hot damn!
And somehow this emulation of one of the N64's best games (goldeneye) allows you to install Linux? I am so confused!
This is the big statistic that is missing. Because doubling from 1 to 2 is nothing. Doubling from 100,000 to 200,000 is huge for profits. So yes, the numbers are very important. If a company tells you that their system is twice as fast as it was previously, wouldn't you want to know how fast it was previously? Because it could have gone from 33mhz to 66mhz and not 2ghz to 4ghz.
This country is so steeped in paranoia it makes me crazy.
Get a whistle or mace for dogs. Dear lord, why are you carrying a gun while running? Maybe you're joking?
Thanks for your post, I've been trying to argue the same for years and you are spot on.
I also include the "cannot involving judging" in my definition of a sport, hence figure skating is NOT a sport but ice racing is. Once you involve judging (which is different from reffing) you change the sport to a game or activity, but not a sport.
Most gymnastics, while challenging (and I did it as a kid) is judged which means someone who is the best gymnast in the world can come in last due to politics or personal opinion. Just because the refs hate you in basketball, you can still score more than the other team. As far as golf and bowling... activities but certainly not sports (good luck breaking a sweat).
I think we can all agree Missouri had the goods on Ashcroft... the man is a nut. I'd prefer a dead guy, or his widowed wife, any day. Preferably Jimmy Stewart.
-In a world where wars are settled on a rudimentary tennis court, one man must struggle to beat right paddle.
Tom Cruise is left paddle.
"Right paddle, you are going down!"
Nicholas Cage is right paddle.
"Paddle... ball, I feel crazy here!"
And Uma Thurman is ball.
Pong: A John Woo film.
I was never into Metroid, but take a walk with me down woo lane (post HK era):
Hard Target (1993) - Okay, not too bad.
Broken Arrow (1996) - Upon a second viewing pretty bad. At the time, cool.
Once a Thief (1996) (TV) - A really bad TV version of my favorite Woo film, Once a Thief (but only the Chinese version)
Face/Off (1997) - I still like this movie. Entertaining at the very least.
Blackjack (1998) (TV) - Wow. Bad. Not much more to say.
Mission: Impossible II (2000) - Dear lord, what is happening to John Woo? This is like a self-parody!
Windtalkers (2002) - No, God, no! Horrible writing, acting, and pretty bad directing and editing.
The John Woo of 2004 is not the same Woo we've all come to love. America has not been kind to him. He has become a caricature of himself. Just watch the old Woo films and pretend he never came to America (In fact, same goes for Chow Yun-Fat).
But this isn't controversial in content or idealogy.
Great point. Games can be fun diversions. A game about Chernobyl could be fun. But what does holding the press conference at Chernobyl mean? It's tasteless. I can understand making Medal Of Honor, but they're not promoting it at Normandy or Pearl Harbor or at a Concentration Camp.
Making the game is one thing, doing a controversial PR session just to be edging is, frankly, annoying.
Unfortunately, this press event sounds like it is in really bad taste. The actual Chernobyl disaster was horrible. Making a game out of it is one thing, as it is sure to be fictionalized and live in a world separate from our own.
When THQ "wheeled one of the men responsible for the tragedy" out, that's just terrible. The lines of reality and fiction are being crossed and in a horrible way. For GTA4, I suggest they bring out real car-jackers to show the folks a good time.
Slahsdot: Make fun of the X-box, get modded up. Make fun of the Gamecube, get modded down.
I second the "lame" charge.
To quote Tom Hanks from Catch Me If You Can: Knock, knock.
He grew up in Oregon and went to college at MIT. I think he heard it at MIT, so it may be an MIT thing.
If you hadn't put that in, I would have thought you were my brother posting!
Looks like that whoring didn't work! But, good attempt, brains!
You've obviously never been mugged. It's not something to look forward to.
Does anyone else hear Sega's lawyers ears perking up? He's basically saying he's going to circumvent copyright/trademark law (no, I'm not a lawyer) because they own the name but he wants to do a sequel. Good for him, but I certainly wouldn't speak about it in public.
It would be like the producers of a movie saying "we wanted to make a James Bond movie but couldn't get the rights from MGM so we just made a slightly different one." Remember the Goldmember controversy?
I'm sorry, but that is just completely wrong, and you're buying into Sony's hype machine. I'm curious if you've ever compared the three:
The PSone (or playstation):
Has a 33 MHz, 32 bit processor, with 2MB of RAM.
The dreamcast:
Has a 128-bit, 200 MHz main processor, with 16 megs of system RAM, 8 megs of dedicated video RAM and 2 megs of audio RAM.
The ps2:
Has a 128-bit, 294 MHz main processor, with 32 megs of system RAM and 4 megs of video RAM.
According to the specs, the PS2 has a faster clock (though different processor) and more RAM. Unfortunately, it has far less video RAM, which is very important. Want to see great graphics? Take a look at the DC Soul Calibur.
The DC kicked the pants off of the PS1 and was very competitive with (besides DVD playback many would say better than) the PS2. Play a DC and PS1 game back to back and you'll see (because you would have never said they were comparable if you've ever used a Dreamcast). Play a DC and PS2 game side-by-side and I think you'll be hard pressed to tell the difference. The dreamcast was ahead of its time.
Look at the new privatized British train system - it's doing horribly. Did the government take over AmTrak, Rite-Aide and At&t or did I miss something?
I do, however, own a dreamcast. Which is looking more and more like the cousin of the GameCube.
People have bought Nintendo's marketing hype ("The reason you can't find a gamecube is they're so popular") and assumed that hey, the GameCube is doing well!
Yes, it may be doing better than the Xbox, but all the signs are there: 3rd parties dropping support, not being able to find games or accessories on the shelf. In fact, many people are having a hard time finding the GameCube in stores. And yet, fanboys take this knowledge and think: the Cube is doing fantastically!
Look, I wanted to think the same about the dreamcast as well, but it didn't happen. Nintendo will survive, of course, but it looks like the PS2 simply has a death grip on the current market. The cube's games may be better, the system may be cheaper, but its not winning over developers or consumers. Which is sad, because competition is always good and nintendo seems to produce quality games.
Oh, and Walmart.com is run by morons.
Good point. My recollection is they were also going to add a coloring option, so you could change your face to one of the shades of skin color in the game as well as do hair color and eye color. I remember seeing this previewed and their was a tiny face program with coloring capability.
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No, it's the sheer power that Apple wields with less than 7% of the marketshare. 7%! Can you fathom that? Of course everything will be tied to Apple. (Now shutting off the sarcasm).
I think the "logic is so simple it's astounding, I'm surprised nobody else is seeing it" guy perhaps doesn't understand economics.