I just included those (more or less randomly) because they were mentioned as factors affecting how soon games made it back into the secondhand market.
I was making an 'ironical' comment on Fred's post.
I guess there wasn't enough fart and poop jokes. Good thing we still have broad-based family fare like the Chipmunks and Cat in the Hat...
My 2 daughters loved Wall-E (3 and 7)
And now you spend all day surfing and posting on Slashdot, so what happened?;-)
Just kidding. My background has been a mix of marketing and technical, so I can appreciate having a good understanding of both sides.
A marketing person can obviously benefit from a good technical background, or even just an *appreciation* and interest in the technical side of things. And vice versa- a technical person who has some appreciation of end user perspective will probably produce better products as well.
Arnold already taught us that this is wrong in The Sixth Day. One day you're taking the dog to the mall to get cloned, next thing you wake up in a daze, watching a clone of yourself hugging your kids and screwing your wife.
(BTW I thought that movie was underrated.)
If that's a 32" HDTV, then it will look better, but going from good to great (DVD to Blu-Ray) isn't as big a step from crappy to good (regular broadcast TV to DVD.)
I have a 32" Sony tube HDTV, and it's quite easy to tell when I'm watching regular broadcast cable vs. DVD vs. HD cable.
But yeah, DVD's look more than good enough for me. Now that the war seems to have finally tilted, I'll pick up a Blu-Ray player when they're $100, or I can get a PS3 for $200...
But part of our specific evolutionary fitness involves technology and manipulating our environment to our needs (leaving out whether this is good or bad because evolution is amoral.)
Thus, if we have the ability to control our environment to assure our survival, it in no way hanpers with natural evolution. It's still survival of the fittest, and we won- (or maybe the bugs did, there's more of them...)
Also, this discussion seems to be about all-or-nothing, either a job you LOVE or a job you HATE...
If you really hate, hate, HATE your job and can't stand to be there, then you should probably look something you can find some enjoyment doing, if not LOVE.
Then you can also pursue your interests away from work, and who knows what can happen down the road...I mean not everyone gets to be a best-selling author, but John Grisham and JK Rowling wrote their first novels while pushing day jobs. They had to really struggle for a long time, but imagine if they had given up because others told them their dreams were not realistic.
LOL, I mean to actually say that as long as your whole village isn't wasted (as in slaughtered by Anakin Skywalker in a fit of rage), your oral traditions will live on.
Just pass down your legacy in stories at the campfire. Everyone hears them and remembers. As long as your whole village is wasted, your data will live on...
Because the console war is largely won out by word of mouth, hype, and positive/negative publicity. If a relatively lackluster amount of XBox360 consoles and titles are sold in 2005, Sony has a chance to turn the XBox into the next Dreamcast.
I'm not saying it has to be an outright smash hit, it would seriously help Microsoft's chances if it were.
Sony is going to probably going to start a huge media push right around the XBox 360 launch, in an attempt to convince consumers to at least wait a few months before deciding on a console.
They are finding customers, but what is actually left from the old Napster besides the (still marketable) brand name? It's not P2P, it's an online music store.
For sure, online downloading is a legitimate distribution channel for music (as new Napster, Yahoo Unlimited, and most notably iTunes has shown.) But it's hard to imagine how the old Napster and legitimate music sales could've meshed.
Napster was not popular because it had a clever name or cool Gen-X logo. It was popular because people could download music for free. Had Napster switched to some sort of paid service, everyone would have migrated to other programs, just as they ended up doing anyways when Napster was shut down.
It's like a bank robber telling the banks, "Instead of me continuing to rip you off, let's work together! Don't worry about other bank robbers, I'm the most successful one so the others will go away!"
Also, the way Fanning describes how Napster would provide a great outlet for new artists seems completely contrary to how people used Napster. I never fired up Napster and entered a search for "new rap music" or whatever, I searched for specific songs and artists, or even specific misspellings of songs and artists (after RIAA started watching.)
His revisionist history was not quite complete, let me fill in the rest:
"Napster started out as a free download tool for college students [to illegally download music.] Later the goal was to make it a real business in partnership with the record labels, [after it became evident that we would be shut down with our current model.]"
I don't have any problems with Napster or Shawn Fanning, but he sounds like a drug lord attempting to euphemize his trade by describing his drugs as "product". I guess he must be trying to get VC money for a new legitimate venture.
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Barrels, gallons...metrics schmetrics. All I know is that's one large milkshake!
It's the size of Texas sir.
When will I be able to buy a bunch of stuff at their liquidation sale for 80% off?
All I know about these WORM tapes and T1000 backup stuff is that the backups work best if you don't first delete all the emails to be backed up.
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I just included those (more or less randomly) because they were mentioned as factors affecting how soon games made it back into the secondhand market. I was making an 'ironical' comment on Fred's post.
They have figured it out. But it's easier to implement DRM than to develop a good game that delivers great replay value or play length.
I guess there wasn't enough fart and poop jokes. Good thing we still have broad-based family fare like the Chipmunks and Cat in the Hat... My 2 daughters loved Wall-E (3 and 7)
And now you spend all day surfing and posting on Slashdot, so what happened? ;-)
Just kidding. My background has been a mix of marketing and technical, so I can appreciate having a good understanding of both sides.
A marketing person can obviously benefit from a good technical background, or even just an *appreciation* and interest in the technical side of things. And vice versa- a technical person who has some appreciation of end user perspective will probably produce better products as well.
Well, someone's gotta counteract Paul Thurrot ;-)
Arnold already taught us that this is wrong in The Sixth Day. One day you're taking the dog to the mall to get cloned, next thing you wake up in a daze, watching a clone of yourself hugging your kids and screwing your wife. (BTW I thought that movie was underrated.)
I think he was trying to leverage cross-functional organizational synergies in order to boldy smash existing paradigms.
If that's a 32" HDTV, then it will look better, but going from good to great (DVD to Blu-Ray) isn't as big a step from crappy to good (regular broadcast TV to DVD.) I have a 32" Sony tube HDTV, and it's quite easy to tell when I'm watching regular broadcast cable vs. DVD vs. HD cable. But yeah, DVD's look more than good enough for me. Now that the war seems to have finally tilted, I'll pick up a Blu-Ray player when they're $100, or I can get a PS3 for $200...
>...a marketing effort that was in a desperate hurry to play catch-up.
;)
Wait, are you talking about Urge or Zune? Never mind...
He checked it out, and gave it his stamp of approval before George and Dick decided to roll with it.
But part of our specific evolutionary fitness involves technology and manipulating our environment to our needs (leaving out whether this is good or bad because evolution is amoral.)
Thus, if we have the ability to control our environment to assure our survival, it in no way hanpers with natural evolution. It's still survival of the fittest, and we won- (or maybe the bugs did, there's more of them...)
If you really hate, hate, HATE your job and can't stand to be there, then you should probably look something you can find some enjoyment doing, if not LOVE.
Then you can also pursue your interests away from work, and who knows what can happen down the road...I mean not everyone gets to be a best-selling author, but John Grisham and JK Rowling wrote their first novels while pushing day jobs. They had to really struggle for a long time, but imagine if they had given up because others told them their dreams were not realistic.
I like your way better too, actually. There's a good 'History of the World' spoof there, with a drunk Moses...
LOL, I mean to actually say that as long as your whole village isn't wasted (as in slaughtered by Anakin Skywalker in a fit of rage), your oral traditions will live on.
Just pass down your legacy in stories at the campfire. Everyone hears them and remembers. As long as your whole village is wasted, your data will live on...
I'm not saying it has to be an outright smash hit, it would seriously help Microsoft's chances if it were.
Sony is going to probably going to start a huge media push right around the XBox 360 launch, in an attempt to convince consumers to at least wait a few months before deciding on a console.
For sure, online downloading is a legitimate distribution channel for music (as new Napster, Yahoo Unlimited, and most notably iTunes has shown.) But it's hard to imagine how the old Napster and legitimate music sales could've meshed.
Which is why he comes across as so business-like and full of big ideas and new paradigms. I should have know it wasn't Fanning...
It's like a bank robber telling the banks, "Instead of me continuing to rip you off, let's work together! Don't worry about other bank robbers, I'm the most successful one so the others will go away!"
Also, the way Fanning describes how Napster would provide a great outlet for new artists seems completely contrary to how people used Napster. I never fired up Napster and entered a search for "new rap music" or whatever, I searched for specific songs and artists, or even specific misspellings of songs and artists (after RIAA started watching.)
His revisionist history was not quite complete, let me fill in the rest:
"Napster started out as a free download tool for college students [to illegally download music.] Later the goal was to make it a real business in partnership with the record labels, [after it became evident that we would be shut down with our current model.]"
I don't have any problems with Napster or Shawn Fanning, but he sounds like a drug lord attempting to euphemize his trade by describing his drugs as "product". I guess he must be trying to get VC money for a new legitimate venture.