The Hubble telescope can't really take pictures of Earth because it is moving too fast. I could be wrong, but maybe the Hubble can't take pictures of the moon for the same reason.
What about those that run OpenBSD/sparc4 and Linux/PPC?
That's easy. Open source the trojan. If the problem is the platform, it's just a simple recompile. If the problem is the OS, then the community will port it for you.
A few years ago I was working in IT for a university. One of the professors didn't like the buttons by the touchpad because he would bump it with his palms while typing and end focus would change to some other app. So instead of disabling the touchpad, he just broke the buttons off. That was fun to explain to the Dell rep when he had some other hardware problems that needed to be replaced.
The PS2 is still selling strong and is actually one of the PS3s biggest competitors. Not that Sony cares as they get money either way. If people were really waiting for the release of all next-gen consoles then you would see a large spike in sales once people saw what was there to be offered. We see that. It's called the Wii. However, the Wii hasn't been a part of this thread and I've purposefully ignored it.
And getting back to the original point, the PS3 is selling quite well. You don't seem to be able to grasp that. It's not selling like the PS2 did or the Wii has been or the 360 did during the BioShock/Halo 3 releases, but it is no where near the "no one bought a PS3 in the first place" stage. That's what you don't seem to grasp. I'm done.
You're right that it is different. And to anyone with half a brain it is obvious that the Xbox360 competing alone would be at an advantage. That is why MS did it. Therefore, if thing A has an advantage over thing B, but thing B is still selling at the same rate, then obviously thing B cannot be said to be not selling. Let's not lose sight over the point of this thread.
As for where I work: Why does it bother you so much? There have been several articles since I wrote my original post to this one that I could have written about vgchartz.com but haven't. There were many before this one that I could have done the same but didn't. Are you paranoid that perhaps I'm not revealing some bias. I get the feeling that you aren't replying (or even caring) about the discussion. Are you just dying for me to say that I work for them just so you can dismiss what I've said based on some ludicrous idea that I can't be trusted simply because of where I work? I don't work for them. It was only in the last 6 months or so that I even knew they existed. Previous to that I had to wait for NPD to release their information, someone to pay for that information and release it, and even then it wouldn't be in a nice graph form that I could look at in various ways. They provide a service. I like that service and I have said previously to now that if I found a more accurate or better site, I would love to hear about it.
I'll say it one more time in case you didn't catch it earlier. I don't work for, nor do I gain any kind of benefit from mentioning, vgchartz.com. I work for a game developer. vgchartz.com does not develop video games. They track the sales of consoles and games. I do not track the sales of consoles and games. I develop video games.
As of now, you have only given cursory arguments for what I originally posted about, and it seems you have only done so as a facade for finding out who I work for. If that is all you have to offer to the discussion, then this discussion is a waste of my time. If you would like to talk about whether or not the PS3 is or is not actually selling at the same rate as the 360 then I would gladly debate that idea given the information that I have access to and I would do it to the best of my ability.
Unfortunately, since I posted that link, vgchartz has removed the functionality that the link actually pointed to. The link (when I wrote it) sent you to a graph that showed cumulative sales for all consoles lined up as if they started selling at the same time. Now it just shows weekly sales for the last year. The closest thing they have to what that link originally pointed is this and you will just have to mentally move the Wii and PS3 lines to the left to align with the 360, and from that you'll see that the PS3 line lines up nearly perfectly with the 360 line.
First off, if you don't want to believe me, then nothing short of having you look over my shoulder while I type this at work is going to change that. Here is a link to my profile on vgchartz. I'm not going to tell you what company I work for simply because I already told you I am working on games for the Xbox360 and Wii. I don't know why it's so important to you either. Let's pretend I not only work for vgchartz, but even own, created, and am the sole runner of the site. What does that prove to you? Like I said in a previous post, I'm not sure where you are finding out that I post to it a lot since in my history there is this thread and one other one where I link to it.
No, it doesn't sound like he is talking about last Saturday but that is not how you presented it.
You are the one who said that people are talking about "last Saturday" when clearly they are not. Also, you have to understand that the 360 had an entire year without next-gen competition and had anticipated games for it both available and forthcoming that would entice people to buy the system. Comparatively, the PS3 has faced competition from both the 360 and the Wii since its release and has not yet had the same type of anticipation for any of its games, and yet it still sells as well as the 360 did during its first year. Trends. We are talking trends. In other words, if we follow the same trends, then the PS3 will always be a year behind, but only a year behind, and as this generation of consoles gets older, a one year difference isn't going to mean much. For example, both are selling ~6 million per year. So 4 years after the release of the PS3 (which would be 5 years after the release of the 360) the PS3 will have sold 24 million and the 360 will have sold 30 million. That really isn't that much of a difference. While there is clearly a winner between those 2 consoles (we're not talking about the Wii here), from a developer's point of view, there isn't that much of a difference.
Look at this list (I don't work for Wikipedia either, even though I have linked to them a lot as well). The top selling non-bundled non-handheld console game of all time is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which sold 20 million copies. The above projection of current trends would be able to support that kind of sales, but it's a rather moot point since the GTA series is now on both the 360 and the PS3, so certainly sales like that could be supported.
Now do you see why I bring it up. It's nice to use current trends for future prediction. But I try to do it intelligently. For example, if I didn't try at all, and just used a couple of recent weeks, I would see the 360 on a huge decline and the PS3 on an upswing. Which would predict that the 360 will be selling 0 consoles each week in just a few months, but the PS3 would be outselling even the DS in a few months time. But that would be ignoring the facts that the PS3 is rising in sales due to a price cut, and the 360 is just coming off of a sales boost due to the release of Halo 3. The Holidays are also coming up and sales for all consoles are going to rise. There are anticipated games for all the consoles on the horizon, and the PS3 has the benefit of also having lots of Bluray titles on the horizon as well (I realize there are HD-DVD movies coming out, but with the HD-DVD add on for the 360 that doesn't come with the system). This holiday will be important for each console in terms of the trends that they set. If the PS3 can come out on top of the 360 (in terms of weekly/monthly sales) in the next few months, then it will have set a nice trend for itself. That doesn't preclude the 360 from setting a decent trend for itself as well. On the other hand, it's possible that the 360 will walk over the PS3 this holiday season and Sony will have to wait till next generation to get b
Sorry, I got so caught up in your first and last statement that I didn't even respond to the rest of your comment. The poster that I originally responded to in this thread said "no one bought a ps3 in the first place." That doesn't sound like he's talking about "last Saturday." Looking through my limited comment history, a poster was talking about "last Saturday" type sales, but my pointing to vgchartz again was only to show that even though Wii's are hard to find, the Halo sales splurge didn't help it beat out the Wii for too long.
Other than the thread we're in, I don't see any other comments I made (again, a limited history) where I referenced vgchartz. How long have you been tracking me?
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (which came with the system and I've played 10 minutes of it)
I won't tell you what company I work for, but I've worked -- and am currently working on -- titles for the 360 and the Wii, and doing a mod for Half-Life 2 on the side. I have no vested interest in the PS3's success. For that matter, I have no interest in any console selling anymore than any other console, personally. I don't know what posts of mine you've seen that make you think I'm a PS3 shill. I do have my biases, however. If you want them, here they are:
I don't like some of Microsoft's business practices
Sony's management and PR people are complete windbags
The Wii has finally gotten my elderly parent's to play video games
All of my posts to vgchartz are to correct people who have incorrect information about sales. For example, people often say that the Xbox360 is tearing the PS3 apart in sales. But if you look at the first year of sales for the 360 and compare it to the PS3, then to say the PS3 isn't selling well, is to say the Xbox360 isn't selling well.
I don't work for them and I don't think I've ever posted on their forums. NPD numbers are obviously more accurate, but vgchartz is usually pretty close, plus they have nice graphs and charts and histories for console sales. Plus, they come out with their data weekly, and it's free. If there is another site that does the same with NPD numbers then I'd be glad to see it.
Like I said before, I prefer PC games and don't really care about consoles in general. I just find it interesting to watch the sales charts, and vgchartz is the best site I've found that allows me to do that.
While I'm really a PC gamer, I do like to watch console sales. It just so happens I can clear up any confusion you have in this regard. I'm going to say this once and make it clear: The PS3 is selling just as well as the Xbox360. Remember, the Xbox360 had a full year ahead of the PS3 where it did NOT have to compete against other next gen consoles. The Xbox360 had Halo fanboys expecting Halo 3. The Xbox360 had Gears of War right after launch. I'm not sure what is driving most of the sales of the PS3 (could it really be Bluray?) but it is selling just as well as the 360. Ergo, if no one is buying the PS3, then we can conclude that no one was buying the 360 either.
I'm not implying or inferring that you are an Xbox fanboy. I have no idea, and it very well could be that you won't play anything but board games, and have said the same thing about the Xbox elsewhere. I just wanted to clear this up in case anyone else saw this.
Not that it really matters anyway. Seriously, I was looking at vgchartz.com and according to their numbers, the Xbox360 outsold the Wii for only two weeks. During that two weeks, it sold about 25,000 more units than the Wii. However, the first week after the Wii regained it's weekly sales lead, it outsold the 360 by 16,000 units, and the week before it lost its weekly sales lead it outsold the 360 by over 45,000 units. Seriously, those two weeks that the 360 outsold the Wii are irrelevant. MS has had it's day (or two weeks I suppose), but when the fastest selling game can't get your console above a "number two console", then you have to start eating some humble pie. I guess that's why he left.
Is it possible for you to bring up a court case claiming that you violated the copyright's of others? I mean, could I file a copyright violation case against myself with Dozier as the plaintiff and then argue that they can't do what they're doing, then win, and then we can end this nonsense right now?
I think making it easier for victims to go after the companies/organizations/government that held the data that was stolen would also be appropriate. Rather than mandating what a company has to do to keep your data secure, if you make it easy for a victim of identity theft to sue an organization for leaking that data then we'll see good data protection policies. For example, if you mandate that a company has to use encryption for personal data, then they will use it, but if the data is leaked anyway for whatever reason, they can say "We used encryption" and be absolved of the matter. However, if you make it easy for a victim to go after the leaky org, they will be much more likely to delete personal information that isn't absolutely critical. You can't leak data you don't have. But if they deem that data important enough they will be doing a lot more to prevent data leaks. Perhaps they'll use stronger keys, not allow the data to be on laptops, take the data off the internet if possible, not share that data with their "affiliates," etc.
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The Hubble telescope can't really take pictures of Earth because it is moving too fast. I could be wrong, but maybe the Hubble can't take pictures of the moon for the same reason.
A few years ago I was working in IT for a university. One of the professors didn't like the buttons by the touchpad because he would bump it with his palms while typing and end focus would change to some other app. So instead of disabling the touchpad, he just broke the buttons off. That was fun to explain to the Dell rep when he had some other hardware problems that needed to be replaced.
The PS2 is still selling strong and is actually one of the PS3s biggest competitors. Not that Sony cares as they get money either way. If people were really waiting for the release of all next-gen consoles then you would see a large spike in sales once people saw what was there to be offered. We see that. It's called the Wii. However, the Wii hasn't been a part of this thread and I've purposefully ignored it.
And getting back to the original point, the PS3 is selling quite well. You don't seem to be able to grasp that. It's not selling like the PS2 did or the Wii has been or the 360 did during the BioShock/Halo 3 releases, but it is no where near the "no one bought a PS3 in the first place" stage. That's what you don't seem to grasp. I'm done.
You're right that it is different. And to anyone with half a brain it is obvious that the Xbox360 competing alone would be at an advantage. That is why MS did it. Therefore, if thing A has an advantage over thing B, but thing B is still selling at the same rate, then obviously thing B cannot be said to be not selling. Let's not lose sight over the point of this thread.
As for where I work: Why does it bother you so much? There have been several articles since I wrote my original post to this one that I could have written about vgchartz.com but haven't. There were many before this one that I could have done the same but didn't. Are you paranoid that perhaps I'm not revealing some bias. I get the feeling that you aren't replying (or even caring) about the discussion. Are you just dying for me to say that I work for them just so you can dismiss what I've said based on some ludicrous idea that I can't be trusted simply because of where I work? I don't work for them. It was only in the last 6 months or so that I even knew they existed. Previous to that I had to wait for NPD to release their information, someone to pay for that information and release it, and even then it wouldn't be in a nice graph form that I could look at in various ways. They provide a service. I like that service and I have said previously to now that if I found a more accurate or better site, I would love to hear about it.
I'll say it one more time in case you didn't catch it earlier. I don't work for, nor do I gain any kind of benefit from mentioning, vgchartz.com. I work for a game developer. vgchartz.com does not develop video games. They track the sales of consoles and games. I do not track the sales of consoles and games. I develop video games.
As of now, you have only given cursory arguments for what I originally posted about, and it seems you have only done so as a facade for finding out who I work for. If that is all you have to offer to the discussion, then this discussion is a waste of my time. If you would like to talk about whether or not the PS3 is or is not actually selling at the same rate as the 360 then I would gladly debate that idea given the information that I have access to and I would do it to the best of my ability.
It might not be bigger picture type thinking, but I'm going to spend my time in a mall.
Unfortunately, since I posted that link, vgchartz has removed the functionality that the link actually pointed to. The link (when I wrote it) sent you to a graph that showed cumulative sales for all consoles lined up as if they started selling at the same time. Now it just shows weekly sales for the last year. The closest thing they have to what that link originally pointed is this and you will just have to mentally move the Wii and PS3 lines to the left to align with the 360, and from that you'll see that the PS3 line lines up nearly perfectly with the 360 line.
You are the one who said that people are talking about "last Saturday" when clearly they are not. Also, you have to understand that the 360 had an entire year without next-gen competition and had anticipated games for it both available and forthcoming that would entice people to buy the system. Comparatively, the PS3 has faced competition from both the 360 and the Wii since its release and has not yet had the same type of anticipation for any of its games, and yet it still sells as well as the 360 did during its first year. Trends. We are talking trends. In other words, if we follow the same trends, then the PS3 will always be a year behind, but only a year behind, and as this generation of consoles gets older, a one year difference isn't going to mean much. For example, both are selling ~6 million per year. So 4 years after the release of the PS3 (which would be 5 years after the release of the 360) the PS3 will have sold 24 million and the 360 will have sold 30 million. That really isn't that much of a difference. While there is clearly a winner between those 2 consoles (we're not talking about the Wii here), from a developer's point of view, there isn't that much of a difference. Look at this list (I don't work for Wikipedia either, even though I have linked to them a lot as well). The top selling non-bundled non-handheld console game of all time is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which sold 20 million copies. The above projection of current trends would be able to support that kind of sales, but it's a rather moot point since the GTA series is now on both the 360 and the PS3, so certainly sales like that could be supported.
Now do you see why I bring it up. It's nice to use current trends for future prediction. But I try to do it intelligently. For example, if I didn't try at all, and just used a couple of recent weeks, I would see the 360 on a huge decline and the PS3 on an upswing. Which would predict that the 360 will be selling 0 consoles each week in just a few months, but the PS3 would be outselling even the DS in a few months time. But that would be ignoring the facts that the PS3 is rising in sales due to a price cut, and the 360 is just coming off of a sales boost due to the release of Halo 3. The Holidays are also coming up and sales for all consoles are going to rise. There are anticipated games for all the consoles on the horizon, and the PS3 has the benefit of also having lots of Bluray titles on the horizon as well (I realize there are HD-DVD movies coming out, but with the HD-DVD add on for the 360 that doesn't come with the system). This holiday will be important for each console in terms of the trends that they set. If the PS3 can come out on top of the 360 (in terms of weekly/monthly sales) in the next few months, then it will have set a nice trend for itself. That doesn't preclude the 360 from setting a decent trend for itself as well. On the other hand, it's possible that the 360 will walk over the PS3 this holiday season and Sony will have to wait till next generation to get b
Of course its not new, Hans Pfaal was doing this stuff in the early 1800s.
Sorry, I got so caught up in your first and last statement that I didn't even respond to the rest of your comment. The poster that I originally responded to in this thread said "no one bought a ps3 in the first place." That doesn't sound like he's talking about "last Saturday." Looking through my limited comment history, a poster was talking about "last Saturday" type sales, but my pointing to vgchartz again was only to show that even though Wii's are hard to find, the Halo sales splurge didn't help it beat out the Wii for too long.
Other than the thread we're in, I don't see any other comments I made (again, a limited history) where I referenced vgchartz. How long have you been tracking me?
- Gamecube
Now I will tell you what games I own for it- Super Smash Bros.
- Wind Waker
- Lego Star Wars
- Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (which came with the system and I've played 10 minutes of it)
I won't tell you what company I work for, but I've worked -- and am currently working on -- titles for the 360 and the Wii, and doing a mod for Half-Life 2 on the side. I have no vested interest in the PS3's success. For that matter, I have no interest in any console selling anymore than any other console, personally. I don't know what posts of mine you've seen that make you think I'm a PS3 shill. I do have my biases, however. If you want them, here they are:- I don't like some of Microsoft's business practices
- Sony's management and PR people are complete windbags
- The Wii has finally gotten my elderly parent's to play video games
- Fanboys make me sick
There you go, full disclosure.All of my posts to vgchartz are to correct people who have incorrect information about sales. For example, people often say that the Xbox360 is tearing the PS3 apart in sales. But if you look at the first year of sales for the 360 and compare it to the PS3, then to say the PS3 isn't selling well, is to say the Xbox360 isn't selling well.
I don't work for them and I don't think I've ever posted on their forums. NPD numbers are obviously more accurate, but vgchartz is usually pretty close, plus they have nice graphs and charts and histories for console sales. Plus, they come out with their data weekly, and it's free. If there is another site that does the same with NPD numbers then I'd be glad to see it.
Like I said before, I prefer PC games and don't really care about consoles in general. I just find it interesting to watch the sales charts, and vgchartz is the best site I've found that allows me to do that.
I think I need some psychological help. After you said that, the first thing I thought of was dead musicians touring with Gallagher.
That decision is actually fairly easy to do. Just don't put it online. If you don't want people to know about it, don't make it publicly accessible.
For the benefit of all of us, are you talking about vgchartz.com or vgcharts.com, which are two different websites.
While I'm really a PC gamer, I do like to watch console sales. It just so happens I can clear up any confusion you have in this regard. I'm going to say this once and make it clear: The PS3 is selling just as well as the Xbox360. Remember, the Xbox360 had a full year ahead of the PS3 where it did NOT have to compete against other next gen consoles. The Xbox360 had Halo fanboys expecting Halo 3. The Xbox360 had Gears of War right after launch. I'm not sure what is driving most of the sales of the PS3 (could it really be Bluray?) but it is selling just as well as the 360. Ergo, if no one is buying the PS3, then we can conclude that no one was buying the 360 either.
I'm not implying or inferring that you are an Xbox fanboy. I have no idea, and it very well could be that you won't play anything but board games, and have said the same thing about the Xbox elsewhere. I just wanted to clear this up in case anyone else saw this.
Not that it really matters anyway. Seriously, I was looking at vgchartz.com and according to their numbers, the Xbox360 outsold the Wii for only two weeks. During that two weeks, it sold about 25,000 more units than the Wii. However, the first week after the Wii regained it's weekly sales lead, it outsold the 360 by 16,000 units, and the week before it lost its weekly sales lead it outsold the 360 by over 45,000 units. Seriously, those two weeks that the 360 outsold the Wii are irrelevant. MS has had it's day (or two weeks I suppose), but when the fastest selling game can't get your console above a "number two console", then you have to start eating some humble pie. I guess that's why he left.
Is it possible for you to bring up a court case claiming that you violated the copyright's of others? I mean, could I file a copyright violation case against myself with Dozier as the plaintiff and then argue that they can't do what they're doing, then win, and then we can end this nonsense right now?
I swear MS and Sony are paying LucasArts boat loads of money to keep lightsabers off the Wii as much as possible.
I think making it easier for victims to go after the companies/organizations/government that held the data that was stolen would also be appropriate. Rather than mandating what a company has to do to keep your data secure, if you make it easy for a victim of identity theft to sue an organization for leaking that data then we'll see good data protection policies. For example, if you mandate that a company has to use encryption for personal data, then they will use it, but if the data is leaked anyway for whatever reason, they can say "We used encryption" and be absolved of the matter. However, if you make it easy for a victim to go after the leaky org, they will be much more likely to delete personal information that isn't absolutely critical. You can't leak data you don't have. But if they deem that data important enough they will be doing a lot more to prevent data leaks. Perhaps they'll use stronger keys, not allow the data to be on laptops, take the data off the internet if possible, not share that data with their "affiliates," etc.
I'm color blind you insensitive clod!
Here's a site for his statement.
You could say that this isn't a grammar nazi post due the fact that I linked you both to a site, and by doing so, a cite as well.
The last time I took my daughter in for vaccinations it came out to be nearly $750 for all the shots.