I got access to the Shop on launch day easily. I visit it plenty though I've only bought one thing (Bomberman '93), and no probs with that download. It does take about 15-30 seconds to enter the shop though.
Long story short, the online service has always "been working", if you're fortunate enough to have a fully-working system to go with it.
Maybe this/. story could do with 4 or 5 less FAs. Everyone knows that us/.ers have the sterotype of having too busy a social life to read through this many articles:)
He says it's just one more thing that developers can force on you. Imagine the current PS2 controller with another stick added (and you with an additional thumb), that's the idea he's conveying.
I think it can only help, though. Now less button combinations are needed for the same amount of controls (ie what used to be, say "hold R1 then tap R2" can now just be "tilt forward", which simplifies matters for some"), and the tilting mechanic might be more intuitive or practical in some controls (play Warioware Twisted... it just wouldn't work without the gyroscope).
It doesn't even approach the Wii's level of control, but it can only help, as long as developers aren't stupid (which is a pretty big assumption).
is why are there TV ads in the first place? There's obviously going to be a shortage of PS3s, the last thing Sony should be doing it creating more demand until they can catch up in terms of supply.
Sure, you can argue that in theory PS3 commercials may make people who were going to buy a 360 or Wii this holiday hold off for for a PS3. Is there really any substance to that idea?
The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you for instance how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you
avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations whilst you are actually travelling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own father or mother...
To resume:
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary
ventures in the entire history of catering.
It is built on the fragmented remains of an eventually ruined planet which
is (wioll haven be) enclosed in a vast time bubble and projected forward in
time to the precise moment of the End of the Universe.
This is, many would say, impossible.
In it, guests take (willan on-take) their places at table and eat (willan oneat)
sumptuous meals whilst watching (willing watchen) the whole of
creation explode around them.
This is, many would say, equally impossible.
You can arrive (mayan arivan on-when) for any sitting you like without
prior (late fore-when) reservation because you can book retrospectively, as
it were when you return to your own time. (you can have on-book haventa
forewhen presooning returningwenta retrohome.)
This is, many would now insist, absolutely impossible.
At the Restaurant you can meet and dine with (mayan meetan con with
dinan on when) a fascinating cross-section of the entire population of
space and time.
This, it can be explained patiently, is also impossible.
You can visit it as many times as you like (mayan on-visit re-onvisiting...
and so on-for further tense-corrections consult Dr. Streetmentioner's book)
and be sure of never meeting yourself, because of the embarrassment this
usually causes. This, even if the rest were true, which it isn't, is patently impossible, say
the doubters.
I disagree. I enjoy reading tags that don't really help categorize the article because it's kind of like looking into the general/. consensus of the issue without diving into the comments, and they're occasionally funny as well.
Besides, it's not like the "yes" tag could ever be used to categorize an article, so it's not really "wasting" any of the tagging system's potential, if you search for, say, "Halo" articles, the "no" tag applied to "Was Halo 2 Great?" isn't going to stop it from showing up in your search (sorry for the flamebaitish example, I know a lot of people like it). IMO Proper tags and "opinion" tags can co-exist peacefully.
And I hope tagging is applied to the comment moderation system soon.
But didn't US citizens have the right to know that Rumsfeld was getting canned? Hardly sounds like a threat to US security to me. It's like asking a politician "if you're elected will you pass x law?" "no" and then he/she gets elected in and passes x law and says "well you didn't have the right to know whether I would pass it or not."
Aside from that you make a fascinating argument. Can't say how much of it I agree with. It's giving me something to chew on though. I don't know where I would draw the line but I'm sure it would be before the Rumsfeld case.
I submitted that article yesterday but it wasn't accepted--must be my crummy authoring skills.
That's ok. You probably just need to bash Microsoft less ashamedly next time.
Seriously though,/. gets a lot of story submissions. Your submission was probably received by a different editor who didn't think it was newsworthy, or didn't fit the omelette for that day, or something.
Whoops. I hate walls of text so let me do this again.
End of 2009, in terms of number of consoles sold:
360 = 40% (has already built up momentum on both customer and developer sides)
Wii = 35% (I think it will explode out of the gate)
PS3 = 25% (Will have momentum issues (shortages guarantee this), but IMO will not age as quickly as the other consoles later on)
Like the article, no definite winner. But there is significantly more $ spent on 360s than the other two.
You're right,/., I should indeed have clicked the preview button:( . . . but I don't see a reason to slow down at this point;)
Allow me to post my 4-month old predictions so I can try to find and reference this post if I'm right and sweep it under the carpet if I'm wrong.
End of 2009, in terms of number of consoles sold:
360 = 40% (has already built up momentum on both customer and developer sides)
Wii = 35% (I think it will explode out of the gate)
PS3 = 25% (Will have momentum issues (shortages guarantee this), but IMO will not age as quickly as the other consoles later on)
Like the article, no definite winner. But there is significantly more $ spent on 360s than the other two.
I certainly like Google but that's bullshit. Eric is tactful with his words; surely all of this data portability stuff has an additional purpose, like, say, helping bringing valuable data in to Google's services? MS Office is the incumbent here, so of course Google wants to make it easy to transfer data between MS Office and Google Docs & Spreadsheets, for example.
Not saying it's a bad thing, not saying Google isn't a great company, but I wouldn't take any claims made by x about how great x is at face value.
Even if some of these make the transition... online, they'll lack the spectacle of their TV equivalent."
Wrong. On the Internet, you generally have the option of avoiding video ads. Any video ad on the Internet will therefore have to be more spectacular than ever to make people actually choose to watch it and tell their friends about it.
"John Nelson at Birmingham University stated of RHIC that 'it is astonishingly unlikely that there is any risk - but I could not prove it.'"
:O That'd make one sweet disaster movie.
Didn't these scientists learn anything from Spiderman 2? Chances are one of these scientists will go psychotic from a certain ancient virus that was brought back to life (which also gives him supernatural powers), and build an Extra Large Hadron Collider and destroy us all.
Honestly, this kind of propaganda is so transparently bullshit that sometimes I think that the US gov't wants its citizens to take drugs
I don't know what the grand scheme would be behind that, but c'mon, either that's the case or the US gov't must think its citizenry as pretty low on the intelligence scale.
"When we gave soldiers free opium in huge doses in a practically mandatory manner, people got addicted to it, therefore the recreational, voluntarily, moderate use of certain drugs of our choosing should be banned"
The really sad part is that if you live in the US, you're paying to have this page created and maintained, as if spending thousands of dollars each on the war on Iraq isn't enough, you have to pay for this bullshit?
It's a good thing I wasn't born in the US; the financial cost of moving out of there and the emotional cost of leaving all my friends and family behind would have been a lot to bear, but it would be worth it.
Slashdot Mirror
The Johnny Turbo Story has all of these newsletters beat.
I got access to the Shop on launch day easily. I visit it plenty though I've only bought one thing (Bomberman '93), and no probs with that download. It does take about 15-30 seconds to enter the shop though.
Long story short, the online service has always "been working", if you're fortunate enough to have a fully-working system to go with it.
Good for stuntships that only go on one un-manned mission to explode into a sun. As long as you don't mind everything being completely black.
Maybe this /. story could do with 4 or 5 less FAs. Everyone knows that us /.ers have the sterotype of having too busy a social life to read through this many articles :)
He says it's just one more thing that developers can force on you. Imagine the current PS2 controller with another stick added (and you with an additional thumb), that's the idea he's conveying.
I think it can only help, though. Now less button combinations are needed for the same amount of controls (ie what used to be, say "hold R1 then tap R2" can now just be "tilt forward", which simplifies matters for some"), and the tilting mechanic might be more intuitive or practical in some controls (play Warioware Twisted... it just wouldn't work without the gyroscope).
It doesn't even approach the Wii's level of control, but it can only help, as long as developers aren't stupid (which is a pretty big assumption).
Well, in that case, if your partner asks you to explain what you were trying to do, that's certainly not a good sign.
is why are there TV ads in the first place? There's obviously going to be a shortage of PS3s, the last thing Sony should be doing it creating more demand until they can catch up in terms of supply.
Sure, you can argue that in theory PS3 commercials may make people who were going to buy a 360 or Wii this holiday hold off for for a PS3. Is there really any substance to that idea?
The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you for instance how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations whilst you are actually travelling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own father or mother...
To resume: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is one of the most extraordinary ventures in the entire history of catering. It is built on the fragmented remains of an eventually ruined planet which is (wioll haven be) enclosed in a vast time bubble and projected forward in time to the precise moment of the End of the Universe. This is, many would say, impossible.
In it, guests take (willan on-take) their places at table and eat (willan oneat) sumptuous meals whilst watching (willing watchen) the whole of creation explode around them. This is, many would say, equally impossible.
You can arrive (mayan arivan on-when) for any sitting you like without prior (late fore-when) reservation because you can book retrospectively, as it were when you return to your own time. (you can have on-book haventa forewhen presooning returningwenta retrohome.) This is, many would now insist, absolutely impossible.
At the Restaurant you can meet and dine with (mayan meetan con with dinan on when) a fascinating cross-section of the entire population of space and time. This, it can be explained patiently, is also impossible.
You can visit it as many times as you like (mayan on-visit re-onvisiting... and so on-for further tense-corrections consult Dr. Streetmentioner's book) and be sure of never meeting yourself, because of the embarrassment this usually causes. This, even if the rest were true, which it isn't, is patently impossible, say the doubters.
I disagree. I enjoy reading tags that don't really help categorize the article because it's kind of like looking into the general /. consensus of the issue without diving into the comments, and they're occasionally funny as well.
Besides, it's not like the "yes" tag could ever be used to categorize an article, so it's not really "wasting" any of the tagging system's potential, if you search for, say, "Halo" articles, the "no" tag applied to "Was Halo 2 Great?" isn't going to stop it from showing up in your search (sorry for the flamebaitish example, I know a lot of people like it). IMO Proper tags and "opinion" tags can co-exist peacefully.
And I hope tagging is applied to the comment moderation system soon.
But didn't US citizens have the right to know that Rumsfeld was getting canned? Hardly sounds like a threat to US security to me. It's like asking a politician "if you're elected will you pass x law?" "no" and then he/she gets elected in and passes x law and says "well you didn't have the right to know whether I would pass it or not."
Aside from that you make a fascinating argument. Can't say how much of it I agree with. It's giving me something to chew on though. I don't know where I would draw the line but I'm sure it would be before the Rumsfeld case.
I totally agree with that sentiment. Any separation of church and state is good in my book.
Kang: "Go ahead, throw your vote away"
(Seriously, we all need a real voting system like this. Good luck getting the Dems or GOP to push for it though.)
Seriously though,
The OS keeps the hardware so busy it doesn't have time to run any viruses. (Or anything else for that matter).
Whoops. I hate walls of text so let me do this again.
/., I should indeed have clicked the preview button :( . . . but I don't see a reason to slow down at this point ;)
End of 2009, in terms of number of consoles sold:
360 = 40% (has already built up momentum on both customer and developer sides)
Wii = 35% (I think it will explode out of the gate)
PS3 = 25% (Will have momentum issues (shortages guarantee this), but IMO will not age as quickly as the other consoles later on)
Like the article, no definite winner. But there is significantly more $ spent on 360s than the other two.
You're right,
Allow me to post my 4-month old predictions so I can try to find and reference this post if I'm right and sweep it under the carpet if I'm wrong. End of 2009, in terms of number of consoles sold: 360 = 40% (has already built up momentum on both customer and developer sides) Wii = 35% (I think it will explode out of the gate) PS3 = 25% (Will have momentum issues (shortages guarantee this), but IMO will not age as quickly as the other consoles later on) Like the article, no definite winner. But there is significantly more $ spent on 360s than the other two.
The good news is that about 100 games will be out at launch.
The bad news is that they're all Genji.
I certainly like Google but that's bullshit. Eric is tactful with his words; surely all of this data portability stuff has an additional purpose, like, say, helping bringing valuable data in to Google's services? MS Office is the incumbent here, so of course Google wants to make it easy to transfer data between MS Office and Google Docs & Spreadsheets, for example.
Not saying it's a bad thing, not saying Google isn't a great company, but I wouldn't take any claims made by x about how great x is at face value.
Didn't these scientists learn anything from Spiderman 2? Chances are one of these scientists will go psychotic from a certain ancient virus that was brought back to life (which also gives him supernatural powers), and build an Extra Large Hadron Collider and destroy us all.
I dunno if the Tetris games can go on the virtual console without sorting out some licensing issues first. I wouldn't take it for granted.
Worst case scenario, they could rename Tetris Attack to its Japanese name, Panel de Pon, or release Pokemon Puzzle League instead.
Wouldn't mind an pre-infinite rotation version of Tetris on the VC though.
My two cents:
Mario Bros: Boring
Super Mario All-Stars SMB3 Battle Game with up-to-4-player online play, multiple maps, and an option to remove coins: Virtual Console Gold
Visual representation!
They need to tack another A onto their name to make it more clear that we are supposed to hate them.
Honestly, this kind of propaganda is so transparently bullshit that sometimes I think that the US gov't wants its citizens to take drugs
I don't know what the grand scheme would be behind that, but c'mon, either that's the case or the US gov't must think its citizenry as pretty low on the intelligence scale.
"When we gave soldiers free opium in huge doses in a practically mandatory manner, people got addicted to it, therefore the recreational, voluntarily, moderate use of certain drugs of our choosing should be banned"
The really sad part is that if you live in the US, you're paying to have this page created and maintained, as if spending thousands of dollars each on the war on Iraq isn't enough, you have to pay for this bullshit?
It's a good thing I wasn't born in the US; the financial cost of moving out of there and the emotional cost of leaving all my friends and family behind would have been a lot to bear, but it would be worth it.