...the use of fragments of a fossilized skeleton, while I admit can be useful, seems tenuous at best. Certianly I dislike the idea that such flimsy evidence is used to envision not only an entire animal's musculature, but the fact that it is recordbreaking as well. It has the flavor of pseudoscience, to me (but then of course, I'm not a paleontologist.)
You have some good points, but a lot of your post is filled with this kind of nonsense (like the Greatest Hits argument - you know MS has followed this kind of strategy with Platinum Hits from a very early date, right?).
I didn't, actually. I do confess more than a bit of ignorance when it comes to the XBox in general. I didn't buy one, because, like I said, it doesn't have the games I want. (anime-style games and Final Fantasy(and similar RPGs)).
PacificT's graphing calculator (the full version of the old one you got with the Mac OS) is $100. $30 extra for all the OTHER great features you get with Tiger seems well worth it to me.
Especially Grapher. One of the most annoying limitations of the previous graphing calculator was the inability to graph multiple functions at the same time. I was holding off on Tiger, but I may buy it just for that.
The problem with Microsoft, with the XBox especially, is that they didn't cater to the Japanese market. While I will certianly grant that there are good games coming out of the U.S. houses, now moreso than ever, the majority of console games are still translations of Japanese titles.
As long as Microsoft doesn't cater to the Japanese market, they will suffer the "less titles" fate, and possibly relive the one-trick horse lifestyle it had for a long time with Halo. Certianly there were other games for XBox (and even other excellent titles), but for the longest time, everyone only knew the XBox for Halo.
A good strategy for Microsoft could be partnering with anime production companies. Anime is not only a staple of Japanese entertainment, but extremely hot in the U.S. right now. DBZ aside, there is more demand for anime-based games then there are games in the U.S., and this is a niche market that Microsoft could clean up in on both sides of the Pacific.
Microsoft has to also accept the idea of the throwaway title, something very hard for them to swallow. Because the business model for the XBox was making money on the software, the price of games always remained relatively high. Some PS2 games, by contrast, shot down quickly in price. (Look at the Greatest Hits series.) Furthermore, lots of Japanese titles cater to niche markets, and if Microsoft wants to be a success in Japan (a HUGE gaming market) they need to embrace these niche developers. These companies make games like "Super Kanji Quiz 2000" and "Makoto-chan's Wonder Kitchen" that like 10000 people buy, yet the companies that make them are small enough that they still turn a profit.
Mist Walker and Sega are powerful additions to the XBox lineup...I'm especially excited to see what Mist Walker will come up with (and how Square Enix will fare without Hironobu Sakaguchi's creative direction.)
I think in the end it really does come down to the games and not the hardware. There are games for the Super NES/Super Famicom that are still incredibly fun to play. Has there really been a better puzzle game than Tetris? (I've heard Lumines for the PSP comes close.) And there have been games with great graphics and absolutely atrocious gameplay for modern consoles. For many people, the decision to buy a game console will be based on "does it have the games I want to play?"
and how about America invest in educating our youth at the primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels, all of which are either horribly underfunded or horribly expensive? I guess the ROI isn't good enough, eh?
Joking aside, is this just 1.0+ downloads, or all downloads ever?
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Graah! Why is the solution to everyone's problem with academia "fire the professor"? Your analogy to robbing a bank is a false one; nothing was actuallly stolen in this project. I think you, and a lot of other people, are overreacting.
That people would be a little more mature about this; viruses and other malicious software can (and often do) get sent from friends' email addresses (how many viruses are there that read someone's Outlook Address Book?) I think people are being a little naive.
Really made me want to run out and buy something (but then, I'm not a professional photographer.) It seems to me, though, that what a photographer might really want is a CAMERA with a nice big screen to see the pictures that have just been taken, and with a BUILT-IN hard drive to take lots of high-quality pictures. These products all seem like just boondoggles.
Well, I'd have to say that Secret of Mana is a different TYPE of RPG (the action-RPG, which is probably more well "defined" by Legend of Zelda). Final Fantasy VI, on the other hand, didn't really define the console RPG (if you want to go that route, quite possibly Final Fantasy I.) It REDEFINED the genre.
1) People have enough problems with Windows without worrying about an upgrade that they've heard countless times will BREAK existing applications.
2) Some percentage of the population is simply pirating Windows and is afraid they'll get "caught" if they try to upgrade.
3) SP2 is seen as the first step in Microsoft's "Trusted Computing" initiative.
4) It breaks Halo. C'mon.
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"Who keeps Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the time travel under wraps? We do..."
...the use of fragments of a fossilized skeleton, while I admit can be useful, seems tenuous at best. Certianly I dislike the idea that such flimsy evidence is used to envision not only an entire animal's musculature, but the fact that it is recordbreaking as well. It has the flavor of pseudoscience, to me (but then of course, I'm not a paleontologist.)
For the record, English is not the only language like this, Japanese is the same.
This is Gamespot's rumor section. "probably" is a defining word.
The U.S. Government? Using Open Source Software? Umm...maybe you don't follow U.S. corpolitics?
You have some good points, but a lot of your post is filled with this kind of nonsense (like the Greatest Hits argument - you know MS has followed this kind of strategy with Platinum Hits from a very early date, right?). I didn't, actually. I do confess more than a bit of ignorance when it comes to the XBox in general. I didn't buy one, because, like I said, it doesn't have the games I want. (anime-style games and Final Fantasy(and similar RPGs)).
PacificT's graphing calculator (the full version of the old one you got with the Mac OS) is $100. $30 extra for all the OTHER great features you get with Tiger seems well worth it to me.
I'd have to agree. This is utterly ridiculous; independent nations have the right to make their own laws.
Especially Grapher. One of the most annoying limitations of the previous graphing calculator was the inability to graph multiple functions at the same time. I was holding off on Tiger, but I may buy it just for that.
The problem with Microsoft, with the XBox especially, is that they didn't cater to the Japanese market. While I will certianly grant that there are good games coming out of the U.S. houses, now moreso than ever, the majority of console games are still translations of Japanese titles. As long as Microsoft doesn't cater to the Japanese market, they will suffer the "less titles" fate, and possibly relive the one-trick horse lifestyle it had for a long time with Halo. Certianly there were other games for XBox (and even other excellent titles), but for the longest time, everyone only knew the XBox for Halo. A good strategy for Microsoft could be partnering with anime production companies. Anime is not only a staple of Japanese entertainment, but extremely hot in the U.S. right now. DBZ aside, there is more demand for anime-based games then there are games in the U.S., and this is a niche market that Microsoft could clean up in on both sides of the Pacific. Microsoft has to also accept the idea of the throwaway title, something very hard for them to swallow. Because the business model for the XBox was making money on the software, the price of games always remained relatively high. Some PS2 games, by contrast, shot down quickly in price. (Look at the Greatest Hits series.) Furthermore, lots of Japanese titles cater to niche markets, and if Microsoft wants to be a success in Japan (a HUGE gaming market) they need to embrace these niche developers. These companies make games like "Super Kanji Quiz 2000" and "Makoto-chan's Wonder Kitchen" that like 10000 people buy, yet the companies that make them are small enough that they still turn a profit. Mist Walker and Sega are powerful additions to the XBox lineup...I'm especially excited to see what Mist Walker will come up with (and how Square Enix will fare without Hironobu Sakaguchi's creative direction.) I think in the end it really does come down to the games and not the hardware. There are games for the Super NES/Super Famicom that are still incredibly fun to play. Has there really been a better puzzle game than Tetris? (I've heard Lumines for the PSP comes close.) And there have been games with great graphics and absolutely atrocious gameplay for modern consoles. For many people, the decision to buy a game console will be based on "does it have the games I want to play?"
"buy high, sell low" school of market investment?
You're putting a lot of faith in the unfounded belief that the Xbox 360 controller is a decent one, aren't you?
Well, ideally, a fixed, funded system would be nice. However, the article's lesson seems to be, rather than that, that the market is simply fickle.
and how about America invest in educating our youth at the primary, secondary, and post-secondary levels, all of which are either horribly underfunded or horribly expensive? I guess the ROI isn't good enough, eh?
I think you're off by a factor of 2^x.
Joking aside, is this just 1.0+ downloads, or all downloads ever?
Graah! Why is the solution to everyone's problem with academia "fire the professor"? Your analogy to robbing a bank is a false one; nothing was actuallly stolen in this project. I think you, and a lot of other people, are overreacting.
That people would be a little more mature about this; viruses and other malicious software can (and often do) get sent from friends' email addresses (how many viruses are there that read someone's Outlook Address Book?) I think people are being a little naive.
I'm actually more concerned about the creation of virtual pairs myself...
Actually, this is one of the few cases where the joke actually does work correctly: In soviet NASA, satellite finds you!
Really made me want to run out and buy something (but then, I'm not a professional photographer.) It seems to me, though, that what a photographer might really want is a CAMERA with a nice big screen to see the pictures that have just been taken, and with a BUILT-IN hard drive to take lots of high-quality pictures. These products all seem like just boondoggles.
Troll much? Geez...
It DEFINED the super-cutesy Korean anime-based MMORPG!
Well, I'd have to say that Secret of Mana is a different TYPE of RPG (the action-RPG, which is probably more well "defined" by Legend of Zelda). Final Fantasy VI, on the other hand, didn't really define the console RPG (if you want to go that route, quite possibly Final Fantasy I.) It REDEFINED the genre.
1) People have enough problems with Windows without worrying about an upgrade that they've heard countless times will BREAK existing applications. 2) Some percentage of the population is simply pirating Windows and is afraid they'll get "caught" if they try to upgrade. 3) SP2 is seen as the first step in Microsoft's "Trusted Computing" initiative. 4) It breaks Halo. C'mon.