Not even. All it takes is time and the younger generations will be older. My grandparents get together with others to play bridge. When we're that old we'll probably still be playing LAN parties while the young-uns make fun of us for not embracing some crazy new form of video game where you use your mind... or something.
Of course the radio to TV analogy does apply well here. We'll probably be seeing more of the middle-aged crowd enjoying video games at some point before we become them.
Just Firefox alone and nothing else has blocked out all my bad popups, at the same time intuitively knowing which pop-ups to allow. Other people's mileage may vary depending on the sites they go to I guess.
The only exception was what must have been a slick piece of programming by the Chapman Bros. I don't get it; the biggest Internet advertising companies can't find a way past Firefox's built in blocker, yet some people who run a web cartoon figured it out? I must be missing something...
Now, if you're talking about IE... yeah a couple (million) popups make it here and there, even after installing SP2. I like Firefox much, much more than IE. The popup blocking, the add ins, the options menu, the way it doesn't pretend to be loading a page when it's not, the fact that it holds toolbar buttons, the web address bar, and a search bar all on the same row, and anything else I forgot about. Sometimes, just seeing that big blue E pisses me off for some reason. (Keep in mind that I use quite a few Microsoft products... well, Windows and MSN anyway.)
And about college freshies with no tech skills... they will remind you why Microsoft is doing so well and why spyware companies can convince millions of people to actually want to download their product for some emoticon toolbar, or because they saw a popup that said "Your computer is in danger! Download this right away!!!". It makes me a bit sick thinking about it, yet they're always so good at using MSN.
Yeah, I see a pattern. The bigger the company, the less risks they take with innovation, or maybe the other way around... taking less risks makes your company more successful
That really sucks because it teaches companies to avoid innovating, and... that's bad.
Interestingly enough, the name "Mario" was taken from some landlord that someone from Nintendo knew. The landlord looked similar to Jumpman because of the mustache (and that was only added to make him easier to draw). So I guess he's a landlord too...
Anyway, if there's one thing common with most Mario games, it's the abundance of pipes, not to mention the overly fashionable overalls. So, he's a plumber.
Plus that... er... wonderful movie billed him as a plumber, so that clinches it.
I love the story of how the Playstation came to be. It was going to be a peripheral for the Super NES, but... if you keep reading the story, Nintendo gave up on it due to to costs, Sony wanted to revenge, and now it has most of the market share.
And about the PSP, it's too much like a console to be portable. Why watch FMV clips on a handheld? I want a simple game and this is too fancy. The DSs capabilities are just right IMO, though I'm not keen to two screens (and that ryhmes).
"Why, if both have the exact same outcome? Are you hoping that if we try really hard we will get a gold star for effort?"
It won't be the exact same. It will be slightly different. I think "small effort" also implies a "small change".
No, because by effectively ruining the economy it will only ruin any chance we will be able to develop new technologies that will actually do something to help the problem.
It won't neccessarily ruin the economy. Since there will be fines on corporations for bad environmental practices, they would hire scientists to find more efficient (and therefore less expensive, which is the bottom line for the company) ways to use more environmental techniques. This means that the jobs lost from the Kyoto agreement could come back in the form of environmental research jobs, representing another shift towards more high-tech jobs that we've been seeing in the last 100 or so years.
I agree. I have used BitTorrent for many legal purposes. I think that Suprnova will eventually fall and be replaced by something else, but BitTorrent (or something very similar completely based on BitTorrent) will last forever.
"the faceless dude in a space suit wouldn't be recognised by many people outside of gaming circles"
I dunno, both covers of Halo have him on the front. Maybe people outside of gaming circles don't know him by name, but... I mean, take this for instance: some people will pay $3500 for Master Chief armor. Not as popular as Mario, but this is only two games and he's probably more popular than Samus, who has had (I think) 6 games + 2 cameos.
But yes, outside of gaming circles he will probably never be popular.
Thanks for bringing that up. Now, I didn't see the big "controversy" in this... what I did see is that Acclaim was wasting money on total BS that no one in their right mind would buy the game for, when they were supposed to be making games
"Hey look, some company put the name of a game on a tombstone. Let's buy it!" Did anyone have this reaction? I would guess few people did.
I wouldn't mind either, but they are making more than any other company in the entire video game industry. I respect EA to an extent but they do annoy me (especially their sports games. Some people like simulation sports games, I don't like 'em at all)
Their decision not to create new games on the Gamecube was a sign that they were in financial trouble. Even if Acclaim games don't sell well on the GC, the cost of porting a game must be much lower than the money you get in return. They were just too poor in the short run to even afford porting games.
What caused them to go bankrupt? Well, maybe this is a sign that gamer's tastes are evolving and that the audience is getting less casual. Less people are buying games because "the box looks cool" and that is encouraging. Then again, even Acclaim's boxes sucked. How'd they last so long?
Oh, did you do the same thing as me when you saw that they went bankrupt? You know, just smiled, sat back, and felt once again that there was justice in the world. Then said aloud "Yes! I have waited years for this day, but now finally the tables have turned, and you will burn for your sins! Hell hath wrath for you Acclaim, for now we see you as you truly are!"
ok, maybe that kind of reaction isn't for everyone. (And was greatly exaggerated... maybe)
"Future wars will be in space... or possibly on top of a very high mountain... and fought by small robots. As soldiers, your duty is clear; to build and maintain those robots."
So Netscape ends up concluding "We seem to be hitting it big in Schenectady". They pass the info onto AOL, which goes on to assume that a whole lot of people must use the Internet there for some reason. Then everyone in the 12345 area is carpet bombed with AOL disks.
A group of community members think of the throne made out of AOL disks and decide that this would be an affordable way to make a daycare. 3 weeks later, the daycare collapses, and 100 children are dead with many more seriously injured. And all because some people thought it would be cool to give out fake zip codes... I hope you're all happy:'(
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I didn't see any complaining in the post you're replying to, simply a list of Nintendo failures.
I think Guppy06 was taking about this:
3. Hell, all of the evil empire crap surrounding the NES and even the Gameboy. (Too cut-throat)
4. Delaying the release of the SNES, allowing Sega to get a few breathes of air. (Not cut-throat enough)
Oh come now, she's the top "T" search on Google Suggest
:)
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Don't worry, it has a strong tendency to put stuff in alphabetical order
Oh, and as for my opinion, I assumed the VGAs sucked this year since the first 10 minutes of last year's sucked. Thanks for verifying
Not even. All it takes is time and the younger generations will be older. My grandparents get together with others to play bridge. When we're that old we'll probably still be playing LAN parties while the young-uns make fun of us for not embracing some crazy new form of video game where you use your mind... or something.
Of course the radio to TV analogy does apply well here. We'll probably be seeing more of the middle-aged crowd enjoying video games at some point before we become them.
Just Firefox alone and nothing else has blocked out all my bad popups, at the same time intuitively knowing which pop-ups to allow. Other people's mileage may vary depending on the sites they go to I guess.
The only exception was what must have been a slick piece of programming by the Chapman Bros. I don't get it; the biggest Internet advertising companies can't find a way past Firefox's built in blocker, yet some people who run a web cartoon figured it out? I must be missing something...
Now, if you're talking about IE... yeah a couple (million) popups make it here and there, even after installing SP2. I like Firefox much, much more than IE. The popup blocking, the add ins, the options menu, the way it doesn't pretend to be loading a page when it's not, the fact that it holds toolbar buttons, the web address bar, and a search bar all on the same row, and anything else I forgot about. Sometimes, just seeing that big blue E pisses me off for some reason. (Keep in mind that I use quite a few Microsoft products... well, Windows and MSN anyway.)
And about college freshies with no tech skills... they will remind you why Microsoft is doing so well and why spyware companies can convince millions of people to actually want to download their product for some emoticon toolbar, or because they saw a popup that said "Your computer is in danger! Download this right away!!!". It makes me a bit sick thinking about it, yet they're always so good at using MSN.
Yeah, I see a pattern. The bigger the company, the less risks they take with innovation, or maybe the other way around... taking less risks makes your company more successful
That really sucks because it teaches companies to avoid innovating, and... that's bad.
That explains Paris Hilton, Tara Reid and MapQuest.
booooo --> boooooobs
What the hell?
In Korea, only old people build IM clients out of lego.
:) )
(That joke's dead, isn't it? Oh well, funny while it lasted
Interestingly enough, the name "Mario" was taken from some landlord that someone from Nintendo knew. The landlord looked similar to Jumpman because of the mustache (and that was only added to make him easier to draw). So I guess he's a landlord too...
Anyway, if there's one thing common with most Mario games, it's the abundance of pipes, not to mention the overly fashionable overalls. So, he's a plumber.
Plus that... er... wonderful movie billed him as a plumber, so that clinches it.
I love the story of how the Playstation came to be. It was going to be a peripheral for the Super NES, but... if you keep reading the story, Nintendo gave up on it due to to costs, Sony wanted to revenge, and now it has most of the market share.
And about the PSP, it's too much like a console to be portable. Why watch FMV clips on a handheld? I want a simple game and this is too fancy. The DSs capabilities are just right IMO, though I'm not keen to two screens (and that ryhmes).
Battery life is 4-6 hours for games... not good.
"Why, if both have the exact same outcome? Are you hoping that if we try really hard we will get a gold star for effort?"
It won't be the exact same. It will be slightly different. I think "small effort" also implies a "small change".
No, because by effectively ruining the economy it will only ruin any chance we will be able to develop new technologies that will actually do something to help the problem.
It won't neccessarily ruin the economy. Since there will be fines on corporations for bad environmental practices, they would hire scientists to find more efficient (and therefore less expensive, which is the bottom line for the company) ways to use more environmental techniques. This means that the jobs lost from the Kyoto agreement could come back in the form of environmental research jobs, representing another shift towards more high-tech jobs that we've been seeing in the last 100 or so years.
I agree. I have used BitTorrent for many legal purposes. I think that Suprnova will eventually fall and be replaced by something else, but BitTorrent (or something very similar completely based on BitTorrent) will last forever.
"the faceless dude in a space suit wouldn't be recognised by many people outside of gaming circles" I dunno, both covers of Halo have him on the front. Maybe people outside of gaming circles don't know him by name, but... I mean, take this for instance: some people will pay $3500 for Master Chief armor. Not as popular as Mario, but this is only two games and he's probably more popular than Samus, who has had (I think) 6 games + 2 cameos.
But yes, outside of gaming circles he will probably never be popular.
Master Chief - Halo
I knew about that Two days ago. Cool to see it on Slashdot though :)
Indeed, it would be interesting if the movies were about (and I quote) "Japanese Poetry" instead of games.
Thanks for bringing that up. Now, I didn't see the big "controversy" in this... what I did see is that Acclaim was wasting money on total BS that no one in their right mind would buy the game for, when they were supposed to be making games
"Hey look, some company put the name of a game on a tombstone. Let's buy it!" Did anyone have this reaction? I would guess few people did.
I wouldn't mind either, but they are making more than any other company in the entire video game industry. I respect EA to an extent but they do annoy me (especially their sports games. Some people like simulation sports games, I don't like 'em at all)
Hands down, my favourite was Aggresive Inline.
Their decision not to create new games on the Gamecube was a sign that they were in financial trouble. Even if Acclaim games don't sell well on the GC, the cost of porting a game must be much lower than the money you get in return. They were just too poor in the short run to even afford porting games.
What caused them to go bankrupt? Well, maybe this is a sign that gamer's tastes are evolving and that the audience is getting less casual. Less people are buying games because "the box looks cool" and that is encouraging. Then again, even Acclaim's boxes sucked. How'd they last so long?
God, I hated Acclaim
Oh, did you do the same thing as me when you saw that they went bankrupt? You know, just smiled, sat back, and felt once again that there was justice in the world. Then said aloud "Yes! I have waited years for this day, but now finally the tables have turned, and you will burn for your sins! Hell hath wrath for you Acclaim, for now we see you as you truly are!"
ok, maybe that kind of reaction isn't for everyone. (And was greatly exaggerated... maybe)
"Future wars will be in space... or possibly on top of a very high mountain... and fought by small robots. As soldiers, your duty is clear; to build and maintain those robots."
Wow, The Simpsons is right about everything!
I think it's both.
My question is: what happens if there's one object bound by FCC rules that is interfered by another that also bound by FCC rules?
So Netscape ends up concluding "We seem to be hitting it big in Schenectady". They pass the info onto AOL, which goes on to assume that a whole lot of people must use the Internet there for some reason. Then everyone in the 12345 area is carpet bombed with AOL disks.
:'(
A group of community members think of the throne made out of AOL disks and decide that this would be an affordable way to make a daycare. 3 weeks later, the daycare collapses, and 100 children are dead with many more seriously injured. And all because some people thought it would be cool to give out fake zip codes... I hope you're all happy
Yeah, but it is only looking for articles that have the words "Microsoft", "Slashdot", and "credible" are somewhere in the article...
:D
Do a google search for " Headcase is awesome" and you'll get 4940 hits. The numbers don't lie
Ok, good. Because seeing how much some people hate H2, it'd be pretty hard to convince them to allow scientists to perfect H3.
(Sorry)
All this talk about reversing polarities is giving me a hankering to play Ikaruga (which is incidentally on the GC) :)
Anyway, I can back up the last guy. It's clockwise, "the correct, American way" (End SimpsonsQuote)