Granted, the Utah liquor laws are a joke, but I doubt that's the only/main reason.
A) No one really knows about it who hasn't lived there (I did for college).
B) Dallas has some seriously funky liquor laws as well but I doubt that's ever stopped anyone from moving there.
I think it's way more about the Mormons and their rep. I liked SLC but there's a seriously them or us attitude with Mormons that gets really tiresome after a while.
Point A) Nintendo's next console has been announced. with the power of their franchises (mario, zelda, et. al.) they'll sell a lot of gamecubes.
the gameboy advance has like, zero competition. they will rake in so much dough off it they could probably afford to support a loss-making console business.
Point B) Sony is...well...Sony. the company's name is synonymous with quality consumer electronics. the word Playstation is on it's way to becoming another Kleenex or Saranwrap. PC people think of Microsoft as an unstopable Goliath but they're about to jump into a market that Sony basically owns. one where they have almost no reputation.
yes blame marketing. right as the dreamcast was launched Sony announced the PS2 and said it would be backwards compatible with all PS1 titles (which of course it isn't). people who had ps1's didn't upgrade to a dreamcast because they thought they'd just wait for PS2 and save their software investment.
people who didn't have consoles decided to wait for the PS2 because Sony out marketed Sega
too bad. it was a nice little machine. of course, Sony announcing the PS2 right after it was released slaughtered it.
i got my money's worth out of it. some of the games released for it are amazing.
At least they'll still be doing software. Sega makes great games and i was going to buy a PS2 (and an X-Box and a Gamecube cause i'm a junkie like that) anyways.
No-Ships were an offshoot of the No-Room. They appeared first in Heretics of Dune. The first No-Room was invented in God Emperor as a reaction to Leto's powers.
I'm a huge Frank Herbert fan. Besides the Dune books I loved his other stuff, especially Dosadi & Whipping Star. After hearing how bad House Atreides was I stayed away for a long while. I really needed a fix though so I picked up the paperback last week.
It is absurdly bad.
I'm staggered by the enormity of it's badness. Horrible character development, weak dialog, predictable plot. It stinks.
But what I found most offensive of all was the number of times it out and out contradicted the original Dune books. I mean Jesus, I hadn't reread them in a few years and I was spotting inaccuracies and contradictions left and right. If you're going to base your work of the work of another, at least get your info right.
I'm rereading the whole Dune series in an attempt to cleanse myself of the taint. Just got through with Dune Messiah and, surprise, even more contradictions popped up.I really hope by the time I get halfway through God Emperor again I'm just enjoying how brilliant it is instead of spending half my time thinking, "well there's another thing that Herb got wrong."
I'm sure it's been said at least 5 times already but you should ask people in your area. I have AT&T (gets paid for by work). I get shite reception in my area (NYC) (well, actually things have improved a lot lately but it used to suck. I still lose my calls anytime I cross Broadway for some reason). On the other hand, whenever I'm in LA (family) my reception is awesome. I get calls everywhere.
Talk to people who live where you live because service is all about transponder location and it changes from city to city from company to company.
As for national, I almost never end up roaming. The Digital One Rate plans are a little more priceyt han Sprints I think but otber than patchy service in NYC (which everyone except Verizon has but I'm not giving them a penny after my DSL fiasco), AT&T's been pretty good to me.
A) That better be a Dreamcube 256
B) God can you imagine those 2 trying to come up with a name for a merged company?
On a more serious note, it's just a JV, not a merger. I always thought that if S & N could ever get over their mutual hatred of each other, they'd make an AWESOME merger.
God, the games they'd produce!
No, their contract says they can only buy the same chips from IBM if Motorola cannot supply them. That mattered when IBM and Motorola were both producing basically the same G3. Apple could simply do a deal with IBM for the Power4 (which Motorola has zilch to do with) and kiss Motorola's ass goodbye.
Of course, there are plenty of other reasons this will never ever happen which I don't feel like typing yet again but it's not the contract.
i'm sure it's been said before but...
the likelyhood of these puppies ever landing in a colorful case with a fruit on it is like, nil.
a) does IBM even sell these for other companies use in their boxes? i think no.
b) apple would have to redesign like everything to put one of these in a workstation/server at which point their whole unified motherboard architecture plan goes out the window
c) they require a fan and you know how steve feels about fans
d) even if IBM would sell Apple the chips, can you imagine the price? you think a mac's expensive now?
and lastly, just for the obnoxious value, can you imagine an Appleseed cluster of these?! sweet!
Halo does look good. How many more can you name? It takes many many many games to make a console a success.
Oh, and Halo's been confirmed for the Mac at least.
Einstein would have come on an O (exceptional ability - 3 year max by infinitely extendable) , not an H (specialty worker - 3 years + 3 year max extension). plus i believe Einstein came by claiming asylum (much easier when you're a nobel laureate) didn't he?
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Granted, the Utah liquor laws are a joke, but I doubt that's the only /main reason.
A) No one really knows about it who hasn't lived there (I did for college).
B) Dallas has some seriously funky liquor laws as well but I doubt that's ever stopped anyone from moving there.
I think it's way more about the Mormons and their rep. I liked SLC but there's a seriously them or us attitude with Mormons that gets really tiresome after a while.
dude, while i agree that citing IGN as a source is rather strange, the news has been everywhere. including sega's site.
wow. never saw that before. that's just absurd.
i knew Nintendo raked cash but jesus.
Don't forget the Indrema! Specs of the X-Box, runs on Linux, has no committed developers and no recognizable brand name!
Point A) Nintendo's next console has been announced. with the power of their franchises (mario, zelda, et. al.) they'll sell a lot of gamecubes.
the gameboy advance has like, zero competition. they will rake in so much dough off it they could probably afford to support a loss-making console business.
Point B) Sony is...well...Sony. the company's name is synonymous with quality consumer electronics. the word Playstation is on it's way to becoming another Kleenex or Saranwrap. PC people think of Microsoft as an unstopable Goliath but they're about to jump into a market that Sony basically owns. one where they have almost no reputation.
this is going to be a great fight to watch.
yes blame marketing. right as the dreamcast was launched Sony announced the PS2 and said it would be backwards compatible with all PS1 titles (which of course it isn't). people who had ps1's didn't upgrade to a dreamcast because they thought they'd just wait for PS2 and save their software investment.
people who didn't have consoles decided to wait for the PS2 because Sony out marketed Sega
too bad. it was a nice little machine. of course, Sony announcing the PS2 right after it was released slaughtered it.
i got my money's worth out of it. some of the games released for it are amazing.
At least they'll still be doing software. Sega makes great games and i was going to buy a PS2 (and an X-Box and a Gamecube cause i'm a junkie like that) anyways.
when 747's start dropping from the skies becauses Win2K crashes.
really? i didn't know AMD made systems. i'm sure that Duron looks really cool just sitting there on you desk but is it really functional?
thanks pal, your comment just made my whole day's slashdot reading worthwhile.
"crufty" is my new favorite word.
multi-processor products plus very very probable chip shortage (500Mhz G4 anyone?) = twice as many angry customers.
No-Ships were an offshoot of the No-Room. They appeared first in Heretics of Dune. The first No-Room was invented in God Emperor as a reaction to Leto's powers.
I'm a huge Frank Herbert fan. Besides the Dune books I loved his other stuff, especially Dosadi & Whipping Star. After hearing how bad House Atreides was I stayed away for a long while. I really needed a fix though so I picked up the paperback last week.
It is absurdly bad.
I'm staggered by the enormity of it's badness. Horrible character development, weak dialog, predictable plot. It stinks.
But what I found most offensive of all was the number of times it out and out contradicted the original Dune books. I mean Jesus, I hadn't reread them in a few years and I was spotting inaccuracies and contradictions left and right. If you're going to base your work of the work of another, at least get your info right.
I'm rereading the whole Dune series in an attempt to cleanse myself of the taint. Just got through with Dune Messiah and, surprise, even more contradictions popped up.I really hope by the time I get halfway through God Emperor again I'm just enjoying how brilliant it is instead of spending half my time thinking, "well there's another thing that Herb got wrong."
I'm sure it's been said at least 5 times already but you should ask people in your area. I have AT&T (gets paid for by work). I get shite reception in my area (NYC) (well, actually things have improved a lot lately but it used to suck. I still lose my calls anytime I cross Broadway for some reason). On the other hand, whenever I'm in LA (family) my reception is awesome. I get calls everywhere.
Talk to people who live where you live because service is all about transponder location and it changes from city to city from company to company.
As for national, I almost never end up roaming. The Digital One Rate plans are a little more priceyt han Sprints I think but otber than patchy service in NYC (which everyone except Verizon has but I'm not giving them a penny after my DSL fiasco), AT&T's been pretty good to me.
A) That better be a Dreamcube 256
B) God can you imagine those 2 trying to come up with a name for a merged company?
On a more serious note, it's just a JV, not a merger. I always thought that if S & N could ever get over their mutual hatred of each other, they'd make an AWESOME merger.
God, the games they'd produce!
actually they've since said they're working on a sequel to the dreamcast.
*snicker*
baby if you're going to correct peoples' spelling, you really ought to double-check your own.
No, their contract says they can only buy the same chips from IBM if Motorola cannot supply them. That mattered when IBM and Motorola were both producing basically the same G3. Apple could simply do a deal with IBM for the Power4 (which Motorola has zilch to do with) and kiss Motorola's ass goodbye.
Of course, there are plenty of other reasons this will never ever happen which I don't feel like typing yet again but it's not the contract.
i'm sure it's been said before but...
the likelyhood of these puppies ever landing in a colorful case with a fruit on it is like, nil.
a) does IBM even sell these for other companies use in their boxes? i think no.
b) apple would have to redesign like everything to put one of these in a workstation/server at which point their whole unified motherboard architecture plan goes out the window
c) they require a fan and you know how steve feels about fans
d) even if IBM would sell Apple the chips, can you imagine the price? you think a mac's expensive now?
and lastly, just for the obnoxious value, can you imagine an Appleseed cluster of these?! sweet!
like, deja vu to the third power even.
all of these deja vu experiences are getting a little disturbing. i guess it's time to pull out the Jung again.
no
Um....nothing runs on Aqua. Aqua's just the name of a theme. A very deep, well integrated theme, but a theme nonetheless.
Halo does look good. How many more can you name? It takes many many many games to make a console a success.
Oh, and Halo's been confirmed for the Mac at least.
Einstein would have come on an O (exceptional ability - 3 year max by infinitely extendable) , not an H (specialty worker - 3 years + 3 year max extension). plus i believe Einstein came by claiming asylum (much easier when you're a nobel laureate) didn't he?