I totaly agree with you you tell a guy you use 2k, and they think you're crazy. It's my office machine, how is it going to get infected? I don't use the typical buisiness hemoginised program-set so an attack on an Outlook vulnerability or Office Script isn't going to hurt me. I don't run random executables that show up in my inbox. I have an antivirus program, just like a comperable XP install would. Again I don't have a real firewall just a simple NAT router, so it's just a NAT firewall. My system is very stable, I have never had a virus on it, I don't have spyware on it. I whole heartedly admit that if I was an inexperienced user playing around on my 2k box installing every whizbang popup IE threw in my face I would be in real trouble.
2K is a good OS, just as good as XP, and performance-wise it's superior.
Look I don't know what to say, I'm sure *nix OS's are great. I'm just saying that I have a 2k pro machine that has been sitting in a back room for 5 years now, and has only been turned off maybe 3 times a year for hurricanes, and 1-0 time for patches... I haven't patched it in like 2 years now. I repeat it has never gone down, ever. Call me a liar, what do I care?
I didn't say a *nix box couldn't do that... I don't know how *nix even came up. My post was adressesing a blind attack on someone elses character because he set-up his clients workstations using 2K pro.
Let's be honest that's just MS FUD. You're telling me MS actualy "supports" its software? Dell actualy "supports" MS's software? They're going to have to get support from some 3rd party anyway. I can't think of an IT guy worth his salt that could get around XP, and then get lost working on 2k... They're 99% the same OS. 2K just requires less memory HD space, and processor cycles, by no small amount I might add. Window dressing != new, and better OS.
I'm working on a 2k machine right now that's up 24/7 and when I do the math on up time, it's 9 9's. Our security is nothing extravagant just a NAT firewall, and antivirus software. Our server is a 2k pro machine too, just simple file serving, openVPN, and VNC for maintenance. Outside of shutting it down for hurricanes it has been up continuously for 5 years straight. I mean literally 0 minutes of unscheduled downtime. 2k pro is a rock solid OS. If you install "weatherbug" yes you're going to get spyware, but that goes for XP as well. He's talking business machines here I see absolutely nothing wrong, morally or ethically with what he did. Why sling mud at a guy you know nothing about? That's just rude.
This sounds like a great way to inform the general public on why DRM blows. Look at all the cool functionality in there, imagine the awesome potential! Now... here's how we castrated it. How long till they crack it and get OSS running on it? Will there be wifi drivers for the hardware?
Your right in terms of sensors maybe... but do you need billions of touch, taste, warm, cold, scalding/freezing, smell, and pheromone sensors to get a masters degree? Yeah all those things are great for us, and make life a hell of a lot more fun, but creating a robot/computer that can learn on its own, is what he said. The learning on its own while it's monitoring 1 billion distractions is moot. Not to mention the brain doesn't seem to work on a
For x=1 to 1,000,000,000
State(x) = sensor.getstate x
Select Case State(x)
Case "Fire"
Response.Panic
Case....
End Select Next
it's more of an interrupt based system where the nerve detects scalding heat, and then sends an interrupt request to the brain. Therefore your not distracted by a metric a#@load of unimportant info.
FTA he said that they'd make "human equivalent" robots soon (I think he said 2015-2020)but without all the human senses like smell for instance?
Just over 10 years ago a PC game with literally 300 T&L polys/frame on a screen and 150,000 pixels to blit would bring any PC to its knees. Now we're talking budgets of 30,000 T&L Polys/Frame, and blitting 30,720,000 pixels. It's crazy 10 years out who knows? I'd say the real challenge to human AI isn't the processing power behind it, but the amount of memory at its disposal, and software it's running. I get the impression that the software side of the equation is a huge hold up to good AI, and as more time, and more people go into the field I think that's when we're really going to see huge AI improvements.
I don't see 10-15 years as that crazy of an estimate. 10 years ago the fastest processor on the consumer market was a single core 200/233 MHz Pentium with 32 MB of RAM. Compare that to a 2,930 MHz Dual core Core 2 Extreme with 1024 MB of RAM. A processor that can do way more work per each clock cycle of each processor than that 233 MHz Pentium, and it's running over 10 times as many of those clock cycles.
Is he right? How should I know? But I'd say it seems at least plausable.
"You Microsoft guys have no idea how complicated is getting software for Windows if you are a newbie. You just think it's easy because you are so familiar with the whole thing. Getting winamp or nero or whatever application you want is very easy if you know which app you need and where to get it. But show me where is the centralized application install function in XP, like Adept or Synaptic in Linux."
And where's the central repository of knowledge that tells me what's the best text editor of the 9,000 available for Linux? The best media player, the best burning software? How do I know how stable they are? Will they have the functions I need? These aren't hits against Linux at all, but it's a lot easier for me to ask the guy next to me what he uses to burn CD's rather than look it up online. And while Linux continues to hold a very small part of the market, Finding what apps to use in Windows will be an easier thing.
Installing in Windows just as easy as installing something on Linux. Frequently it's a heck of a lot easier to set up due to gui set up, rather than having to use config files.
I've used Ubuntu, and tried to get it up and running on various computers with various levels of success. Even with its package manager I had to trudge through the forums to find out what program does what. Not to mention the fact that in order to replace my Windows setup I need to add repositories that aren't in there by default. I know why there no there to begin with, but it's a pain to add them for every install, and every tutorial I've seen just uses the command line anyway. I know you see it as easier, but I personally don't. I've had plenty of times where I install software with the package manager, and it either doesn't install right, or completely. Resulting in an hour + spent finding out what went wrong. How to fix it, ect.
I love the idea of open source software. I use FireFox, OO.o, InkScape, OpenVPN, VNC, all terrific programs, but using Linux as a desktop OS just is not there yet. I've been following it for only 5 years now, and I admit it's come a LONG way in just 5 short years, and I honestly believe that sooner rather than later Linux will become my OS of choice, for myself, and the friends, and family I help pro-bono. But as it stands right now it still has a very critical last 10%-15% to go.
I wish it could have been rip-roaring to go in time for Vista, but it looks like that won't be the case... I'm looking at Vista as a large black cloud looming menacingly off in the distance. I wish Linux, was there to replace XP as my OS of choice.
I thought Qui-Gonn was an interesting character. Darth Maul was very good."
OK I know that's your opinion and I can appreciate that but I have a different opinion on Maul. I'm not saying I'm right, and you're wrong I'm just sharing my opinion with you.
I liked Qui-Gonn, I wouldn't call him good he was basically Obi-Wan 1.2.
"Darth Maul was very good."
I have to respectfully disagree. "Very good" based on what grounds? He wore threatening make-up? I mean that's the only way I could tell he was bad. He had practically 0 dialog and his character was puddle shallow. Yeah he looked menacing... and that was it.
OK guy's act 1 scene 3 Maul you're a menace, look menacing and you know just generally menace... ? What? No, no, no you don't need to do anything really we're going to let the makeup do most of that for you... ? What? No it's not lame trust me I'm George Lucas I created Darth Vader.
He was a cheap cop-out, he's any random guy off the street with demon makeup on... wow... how original, and threatening too! It was lame. I think they spent more time designing Jar-Jar than they did Darth Maul... clearly time well spent.
Every review I've read about the console prts of BF2 say that it's not anything like the PC version, and that the similarity is in name mostly. That and it sucks.
the general consensus was PC games would dominate the market and console systems were doomed."What changed?"
Um a decent video card costs as much as an entire console... PC games with a few notable exceptions, have gone from being able to play them on almost any PC, to now only being truely playable on top of the line machines. Once you reach the pint where The point of entry for a PC game is 1GB of RAM, and a $200 video card it becomes hard to compete with a $200 - $300 console.
Blizzard has done one thing very well, WoW for example, and that's make sure their titles run on fairly low end hardware. I've heard of people playing it and enjoying it on integrated graphics. Part of it is the game itself doesn't require a ton of eyecandy, or 60fps for people to enjoy it. I'm a PC gamer myself "Battlefeild 2" fan to be specific. At this moment in time consoles still don't have anything to rival it, but I see them coming closer and closer every year. the last console I owned was an n64 and I think I played it about a month before I gave it away.
I've started playing party games something the PC just doesn't lend itself well to, so I am planning on picking up a Wii only for party games. I'm sure that once it's in my apt. I'll probably pick up games in genres that I used to play only on my PC though.
Mod parent up!!! I'm still working on a 2k machine. 2k = XP. The only difference between the two is on 2k you don't have to tell MS's search program to turn off the animated claymation character off first time you use it.
I'm literally miffed with MS's release of Vista. I use windows for one reason, and one reason only and that's to play games. My office suite - OO.o, graphics - gimp/inkscape, VPN openVPN, remote desktop - VNC. The only Windows specific programs I use are games. I feel MS is forcing Vista on the public, and hardware vendors are on board because Vista will require an upgrade to run, and a lot of new programs will be released as Vista exclusives. Any game MS makes will be vista only, just like they tried to prevent Windows 2k users from playing Age of Empires 3. Claiming that it was incompatible with 2k... there's a workaround that simply tells the game your 2k OS is XP, and low and behold the game runs fine, better even! As 2k requires a less resources than XP. Vista feel like MS is saying we will sh*t in a box and you will pay for it weather you like it or not. If for whatever reason we feel we want to make more money at any given time we will release a newer "better" OS and make your old OS obsolete, not by making our new OS superior, but by simply "turning off" your old one.
Are they literally turning off XP? No. But why do you think they're making developers make games like "Crysis" Vista exclusive titles? They've got the world by the balls, and they're not bashful about it. They know all they need to do to get what the want, is squeeze and twist.
The PS3 absolutely can't take 3rd like the game cube because even at $600 Sony is selling it at a loss. Nintendo makes a profit on every console they sell. This is why they're still around, after taking the (comparative) hammering's they did on the N64, and GC. as long as they keep stock from piling up on the shelves they make money. There's no need to sell 30 million units so they can make make up their losses, with royalties and profits off of game sales. they already made money off of the NES/SNES/N64/GC/Wii sitting under your TV. If you never buy anything from them again they've already recouped the cost of the system, and made a modest profit off of it.
Sony, and MS do not have this luxury. Sony made huge sums of money off of the PS1, and PS2 because they were both absolutely smashing successes. Compared to the SPS2 era MS, and N were a bad jokes in terms of units sold and game sales. The XB1, and the GC sold about the same number of units. However the XB1 resulted in a loss for MS, where the GC resulted in a tidy profit for N. If the rumors of Sony's financial troubles are true, then coming in 3rd, or tied for a distant 2nd isn't an option for them.
I can see where you're coming from, and I understand that a lot of people here agree with your mentality. I think some people, myself included, don't get the same enjoyment out of these games that other people here do. I see MMORPG's as time spent away from dating, friends, and family. I'd much rather catch a game with the guys, spend $25-$100 on a good date, or $200 to fly home to see my family, than play an MMORPG free for a year. Does that make me right? Obviously not, but for me paying $15/month to play a MMORPG seems a waste.
My gameplay experience of choice is sitting on the couch with 10 or so friends playing some sort of "party game" Mario Cart/Smash Bros. ect. Taking turns handing off the remote, drinking beers, and chatting it up in between turns. That's what's fun for me.
Call me old fashioned but I personally find people are a hell of a lot more fun to be around than video games, TV, or movies. When I do any of those 3 things It's generally with friends. WoW, and those games seem to inhibit the kind of fun I like to have rather than enhance/encourage it.
Am I old fashioned?... I guess, a good portion of my time is spent talking to people I know about "How I'm worried about the way kids are growing up today." I heard that they were going to start putting TV's in shopping carts so ma's&pa's wouldn't have to talk to their kids while the shopped, and I was appalled at the idea... so maybe I am old/old fashioned... Maybe you're right maybe all games will be subscription based. I hope not though.
1. It's not clean running. just because it's electric does not mean it's "clean" there's a smokestack/nuclear plant/mam somewhere charging its batteries. And it is SIGNIFICANTLY less clean that walking.
2. The biggest issue I have though is why encourage people to get less exercise than they get already? This has bugged me since I read the first over-hyped preview of the Segue. People should be encouraged to walk. Not to drop 5g's so every form of exercise they can possibly get should be removed from their life. My sister used to live in Atlanta and she told me it was the most obese city in the US. They say it's because you need to drive to get anywhere in the city. She put on 15lbs. in a year when she lived there. She moved to NYC and she dropped that 15lbs. and then some. Even with the Atlanta she had a fairly slender frame, after she had lived in NYC for about a year though she was the lightest I've ever seen her.
3. and this one is very big a Segue takes up a lot more space than a person. Mostly because it's shape is static. I used to have a lot of house parties, and the place would get PACKED I'm not a small man in any sense of the word at the time I was playing rugby, lifting and was 6'4" and 240lbs and despite everyone being packed so tight it was a struggle to stretch you nose I could still get from one end of the house to the other. replace pedestrians with Segues, and you'll just end up with segue gridlock.
The thing is doomed to a niche always was always will. It's not a mass market idea.
I HATE, and I mean HATE the fact that I have to "install" programs on my computer. I would much prefer the old DOS way of putting a binary, ann all the neccesary files into 1 directory, and just finding the binary needed to run it. If I want to uninstall a program I just delete it. No need to worry about my registry, programs leaving parts of themselves all over my computer ect.
Dude! What the heck is up with calling him and his wife "F"-Bomb idiots? Take a deep breath. Put together a search party, and go find your shit. Apparently you've lost it, and over nothing I might add.
The literal interpretation doesn't just go against the scientific community, but also the beliefs of other Christians like Roman Catholics
Sorry dude. The RCs don't have a conflict with the teaching of evolution and the Vatican has said that officially.
I though I made it clear, but maybe not... I think you're arguing the same point that I am. A literal interpretation of the bible goes against both the Roman Catholic, and the scientific communities respective stances on evolution.
Fundamentalist = Literal reading ie: God "formed man of the dust of the ground", and aint no way apes is related to me!
Roman Catholic = Interpreted reading ie: yes God created humans, but we don't know the means by which he did it. "dust of the ground" terribly vague, and could easily leave room for evolution. Therefore Darwin won't rot in Hell for blasphemy.
The thing that cheeses me off the most is that this is a theological issue. It's the age old argument of literal vs. interpreted reading of the bible. It's a theological argument that has been going on between sects of Christianity for centuries. Yet they have managed to make it into a political argument some how. The literal interpretation doesn't just go against the scientific community, but also the beliefs of other Christians like Roman Catholics. It simply doesn't belong on the political stage.
Right, and the more money they make off of the DVD the more likely they are to go back to them, and the more money my friends can ask for in return. You're telling me it's OK to steal this stuff because they pay sallary, and contract workers a pre-negotiated amount? I don't see how that makes pirating a DVD OK. I'm talking the guy on the street selling physical DVD's for $2 each not the kid on Kazzaa. I still object to "sharing" (I still call it stealing) copywrighted material. But I see this as a salvo fired at "phsical-copy" pirates more-so than "file-sharing" pirates.
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At .2 billion, I can't blame them.
I read that whole stiry man. At the bottom of the page it said something about an action that should be taken. what is it?
I totaly agree with you you tell a guy you use 2k, and they think you're crazy. It's my office machine, how is it going to get infected? I don't use the typical buisiness hemoginised program-set so an attack on an Outlook vulnerability or Office Script isn't going to hurt me. I don't run random executables that show up in my inbox. I have an antivirus program, just like a comperable XP install would. Again I don't have a real firewall just a simple NAT router, so it's just a NAT firewall. My system is very stable, I have never had a virus on it, I don't have spyware on it. I whole heartedly admit that if I was an inexperienced user playing around on my 2k box installing every whizbang popup IE threw in my face I would be in real trouble.
2K is a good OS, just as good as XP, and performance-wise it's superior.
Look I don't know what to say, I'm sure *nix OS's are great. I'm just saying that I have a 2k pro machine that has been sitting in a back room for 5 years now, and has only been turned off maybe 3 times a year for hurricanes, and 1-0 time for patches... I haven't patched it in like 2 years now. I repeat it has never gone down, ever. Call me a liar, what do I care?
I didn't say a *nix box couldn't do that... I don't know how *nix even came up. My post was adressesing a blind attack on someone elses character because he set-up his clients workstations using 2K pro.
Let's be honest that's just MS FUD. You're telling me MS actualy "supports" its software? Dell actualy "supports" MS's software? They're going to have to get support from some 3rd party anyway. I can't think of an IT guy worth his salt that could get around XP, and then get lost working on 2k... They're 99% the same OS. 2K just requires less memory HD space, and processor cycles, by no small amount I might add. Window dressing != new, and better OS.
I'm working on a 2k machine right now that's up 24/7 and when I do the math on up time, it's 9 9's. Our security is nothing extravagant just a NAT firewall, and antivirus software. Our server is a 2k pro machine too, just simple file serving, openVPN, and VNC for maintenance. Outside of shutting it down for hurricanes it has been up continuously for 5 years straight. I mean literally 0 minutes of unscheduled downtime. 2k pro is a rock solid OS. If you install "weatherbug" yes you're going to get spyware, but that goes for XP as well. He's talking business machines here I see absolutely nothing wrong, morally or ethically with what he did. Why sling mud at a guy you know nothing about? That's just rude.
This sounds like a great way to inform the general public on why DRM blows. Look at all the cool functionality in there, imagine the awesome potential! Now... here's how we castrated it. How long till they crack it and get OSS running on it? Will there be wifi drivers for the hardware?
Your right in terms of sensors maybe... but do you need billions of touch, taste, warm, cold, scalding/freezing, smell, and pheromone sensors to get a masters degree?
Yeah all those things are great for us, and make life a hell of a lot more fun, but creating a robot/computer that can learn on its own, is what he said. The learning on its own while it's monitoring 1 billion distractions is moot. Not to mention the brain doesn't seem to work on a
For x=1 to 1,000,000,000
State(x) = sensor.getstate x
Select Case State(x)
Case "Fire"
Response.Panic
Case....
End Select
Next
it's more of an interrupt based system where the nerve detects scalding heat, and then sends an interrupt request to the brain. Therefore your not distracted by a metric a#@load of unimportant info.
FTA he said that they'd make "human equivalent" robots soon (I think he said 2015-2020)but without all the human senses like smell for instance?
Just over 10 years ago a PC game with literally 300 T&L polys/frame on a screen and 150,000 pixels to blit would bring any PC to its knees. Now we're talking budgets of 30,000 T&L Polys/Frame, and blitting 30,720,000 pixels. It's crazy 10 years out who knows? I'd say the real challenge to human AI isn't the processing power behind it, but the amount of memory at its disposal, and software it's running. I get the impression that the software side of the equation is a huge hold up to good AI, and as more time, and more people go into the field I think that's when we're really going to see huge AI improvements.
I don't see 10-15 years as that crazy of an estimate. 10 years ago the fastest processor on the consumer market was a single core 200/233 MHz Pentium with 32 MB of RAM. Compare that to a 2,930 MHz Dual core Core 2 Extreme with 1024 MB of RAM. A processor that can do way more work per each clock cycle of each processor than that 233 MHz Pentium, and it's running over 10 times as many of those clock cycles.
Is he right? How should I know? But I'd say it seems at least plausable.
-manno
"You Microsoft guys have no idea how complicated is getting software for Windows if you are a newbie. You just think it's easy because you are so familiar with the whole thing. Getting winamp or nero or whatever application you want is very easy if you know which app you need and where to get it. But show me where is the centralized application install function in XP, like Adept or Synaptic in Linux."
And where's the central repository of knowledge that tells me what's the best text editor of the 9,000 available for Linux? The best media player, the best burning software? How do I know how stable they are? Will they have the functions I need? These aren't hits against Linux at all, but it's a lot easier for me to ask the guy next to me what he uses to burn CD's rather than look it up online. And while Linux continues to hold a very small part of the market, Finding what apps to use in Windows will be an easier thing.
Installing in Windows just as easy as installing something on Linux. Frequently it's a heck of a lot easier to set up due to gui set up, rather than having to use config files.
I've used Ubuntu, and tried to get it up and running on various computers with various levels of success. Even with its package manager I had to trudge through the forums to find out what program does what. Not to mention the fact that in order to replace my Windows setup I need to add repositories that aren't in there by default. I know why there no there to begin with, but it's a pain to add them for every install, and every tutorial I've seen just uses the command line anyway. I know you see it as easier, but I personally don't. I've had plenty of times where I install software with the package manager, and it either doesn't install right, or completely. Resulting in an hour + spent finding out what went wrong. How to fix it, ect.
I love the idea of open source software. I use FireFox, OO.o, InkScape, OpenVPN, VNC, all terrific programs, but using Linux as a desktop OS just is not there yet. I've been following it for only 5 years now, and I admit it's come a LONG way in just 5 short years, and I honestly believe that sooner rather than later Linux will become my OS of choice, for myself, and the friends, and family I help pro-bono. But as it stands right now it still has a very critical last 10%-15% to go.
I wish it could have been rip-roaring to go in time for Vista, but it looks like that won't be the case... I'm looking at Vista as a large black cloud looming menacingly off in the distance. I wish Linux, was there to replace XP as my OS of choice.
I thought Qui-Gonn was an interesting character. Darth Maul was very good."
OK I know that's your opinion and I can appreciate that but I have a different opinion on Maul. I'm not saying I'm right, and you're wrong I'm just sharing my opinion with you.
I liked Qui-Gonn, I wouldn't call him good he was basically Obi-Wan 1.2.
"Darth Maul was very good."
I have to respectfully disagree. "Very good" based on what grounds? He wore threatening make-up? I mean that's the only way I could tell he was bad. He had practically 0 dialog and his character was puddle shallow. Yeah he looked menacing... and that was it.
OK guy's act 1 scene 3 Maul you're a menace, look menacing and you know just generally menace...
?
What? No, no, no you don't need to do anything really we're going to let the makeup do most of that for you...
?
What? No it's not lame trust me I'm George Lucas I created Darth Vader.
He was a cheap cop-out, he's any random guy off the street with demon makeup on... wow... how original, and threatening too! It was lame. I think they spent more time designing Jar-Jar than they did Darth Maul... clearly time well spent.
Every review I've read about the console prts of BF2 say that it's not anything like the PC version, and that the similarity is in name mostly. That and it sucks.
the general consensus was PC games would dominate the market and console systems were doomed."What changed?"
Um a decent video card costs as much as an entire console... PC games with a few notable exceptions, have gone from being able to play them on almost any PC, to now only being truely playable on top of the line machines. Once you reach the pint where The point of entry for a PC game is 1GB of RAM, and a $200 video card it becomes hard to compete with a $200 - $300 console.
Blizzard has done one thing very well, WoW for example, and that's make sure their titles run on fairly low end hardware. I've heard of people playing it and enjoying it on integrated graphics. Part of it is the game itself doesn't require a ton of eyecandy, or 60fps for people to enjoy it. I'm a PC gamer myself "Battlefeild 2" fan to be specific. At this moment in time consoles still don't have anything to rival it, but I see them coming closer and closer every year. the last console I owned was an n64 and I think I played it about a month before I gave it away.
I've started playing party games something the PC just doesn't lend itself well to, so I am planning on picking up a Wii only for party games. I'm sure that once it's in my apt. I'll probably pick up games in genres that I used to play only on my PC though.
-manno
Mod parent up!!! I'm still working on a 2k machine. 2k = XP. The only difference between the two is on 2k you don't have to tell MS's search program to turn off the animated claymation character off first time you use it.
I'm literally miffed with MS's release of Vista. I use windows for one reason, and one reason only and that's to play games. My office suite - OO.o, graphics - gimp/inkscape, VPN openVPN, remote desktop - VNC. The only Windows specific programs I use are games. I feel MS is forcing Vista on the public, and hardware vendors are on board because Vista will require an upgrade to run, and a lot of new programs will be released as Vista exclusives. Any game MS makes will be vista only, just like they tried to prevent Windows 2k users from playing Age of Empires 3. Claiming that it was incompatible with 2k... there's a workaround that simply tells the game your 2k OS is XP, and low and behold the game runs fine, better even! As 2k requires a less resources than XP. Vista feel like MS is saying we will sh*t in a box and you will pay for it weather you like it or not. If for whatever reason we feel we want to make more money at any given time we will release a newer "better" OS and make your old OS obsolete, not by making our new OS superior, but by simply "turning off" your old one.
Are they literally turning off XP? No. But why do you think they're making developers make games like "Crysis" Vista exclusive titles? They've got the world by the balls, and they're not bashful about it. They know all they need to do to get what the want, is squeeze and twist.
-manno
Hysterical.
The PS3 absolutely can't take 3rd like the game cube because even at $600 Sony is selling it at a loss. Nintendo makes a profit on every console they sell. This is why they're still around, after taking the (comparative) hammering's they did on the N64, and GC. as long as they keep stock from piling up on the shelves they make money. There's no need to sell 30 million units so they can make make up their losses, with royalties and profits off of game sales. they already made money off of the NES/SNES/N64/GC/Wii sitting under your TV. If you never buy anything from them again they've already recouped the cost of the system, and made a modest profit off of it.
Sony, and MS do not have this luxury. Sony made huge sums of money off of the PS1, and PS2 because they were both absolutely smashing successes. Compared to the SPS2 era MS, and N were a bad jokes in terms of units sold and game sales. The XB1, and the GC sold about the same number of units. However the XB1 resulted in a loss for MS, where the GC resulted in a tidy profit for N. If the rumors of Sony's financial troubles are true, then coming in 3rd, or tied for a distant 2nd isn't an option for them.
That makes sense.
I can see where you're coming from, and I understand that a lot of people here agree with your mentality. I think some people, myself included, don't get the same enjoyment out of these games that other people here do. I see MMORPG's as time spent away from dating, friends, and family. I'd much rather catch a game with the guys, spend $25-$100 on a good date, or $200 to fly home to see my family, than play an MMORPG free for a year. Does that make me right? Obviously not, but for me paying $15/month to play a MMORPG seems a waste.
My gameplay experience of choice is sitting on the couch with 10 or so friends playing some sort of "party game" Mario Cart/Smash Bros. ect. Taking turns handing off the remote, drinking beers, and chatting it up in between turns. That's what's fun for me.
Call me old fashioned but I personally find people are a hell of a lot more fun to be around than video games, TV, or movies. When I do any of those 3 things It's generally with friends. WoW, and those games seem to inhibit the kind of fun I like to have rather than enhance/encourage it.
Am I old fashioned?... I guess, a good portion of my time is spent talking to people I know about "How I'm worried about the way kids are growing up today." I heard that they were going to start putting TV's in shopping carts so ma's&pa's wouldn't have to talk to their kids while the shopped, and I was appalled at the idea... so maybe I am old/old fashioned... Maybe you're right maybe all games will be subscription based. I hope not though.
-manno
Modding parent flaimbat is kind of messed up. It's just a joke. At leat that's how I took it, and it's my sister he's talking about.
1. It's not clean running. just because it's electric does not mean it's "clean" there's a smokestack/nuclear plant/mam somewhere charging its batteries. And it is SIGNIFICANTLY less clean that walking.
2. The biggest issue I have though is why encourage people to get less exercise than they get already? This has bugged me since I read the first over-hyped preview of the Segue. People should be encouraged to walk. Not to drop 5g's so every form of exercise they can possibly get should be removed from their life. My sister used to live in Atlanta and she told me it was the most obese city in the US. They say it's because you need to drive to get anywhere in the city. She put on 15lbs. in a year when she lived there. She moved to NYC and she dropped that 15lbs. and then some. Even with the Atlanta she had a fairly slender frame, after she had lived in NYC for about a year though she was the lightest I've ever seen her.
3. and this one is very big a Segue takes up a lot more space than a person. Mostly because it's shape is static. I used to have a lot of house parties, and the place would get PACKED I'm not a small man in any sense of the word at the time I was playing rugby, lifting and was 6'4" and 240lbs and despite everyone being packed so tight it was a struggle to stretch you nose I could still get from one end of the house to the other. replace pedestrians with Segues, and you'll just end up with segue gridlock.
The thing is doomed to a niche always was always will. It's not a mass market idea.
You beat me to it I was going to ask the same thing.
I HATE, and I mean HATE the fact that I have to "install" programs on my computer. I would much prefer the old DOS way of putting a binary, ann all the neccesary files into 1 directory, and just finding the binary needed to run it. If I want to uninstall a program I just delete it. No need to worry about my registry, programs leaving parts of themselves all over my computer ect.
Dude! What the heck is up with calling him and his wife "F"-Bomb idiots? Take a deep breath. Put together a search party, and go find your shit. Apparently you've lost it, and over nothing I might add.
Peace,
-manno
mod parent up
The literal interpretation doesn't just go against the scientific community, but also the beliefs of other Christians like Roman Catholics
Sorry dude. The RCs don't have a conflict with the teaching of evolution and the Vatican has said that officially.
I though I made it clear, but maybe not... I think you're arguing the same point that I am. A literal interpretation of the bible goes against both the Roman Catholic, and the scientific communities respective stances on evolution.
Fundamentalist = Literal reading ie: God "formed man of the dust of the ground", and aint no way apes is related to me!
Roman Catholic = Interpreted reading ie: yes God created humans, but we don't know the means by which he did it. "dust of the ground" terribly vague, and could easily leave room for evolution. Therefore Darwin won't rot in Hell for blasphemy.
Peace,
-manno
The thing that cheeses me off the most is that this is a theological issue. It's the age old argument of literal vs. interpreted reading of the bible. It's a theological argument that has been going on between sects of Christianity for centuries. Yet they have managed to make it into a political argument some how. The literal interpretation doesn't just go against the scientific community, but also the beliefs of other Christians like Roman Catholics. It simply doesn't belong on the political stage.
Right, and the more money they make off of the DVD the more likely they are to go back to them, and the more money my friends can ask for in return. You're telling me it's OK to steal this stuff because they pay sallary, and contract workers a pre-negotiated amount? I don't see how that makes pirating a DVD OK. I'm talking the guy on the street selling physical DVD's for $2 each not the kid on Kazzaa. I still object to "sharing" (I still call it stealing) copywrighted material. But I see this as a salvo fired at "phsical-copy" pirates more-so than "file-sharing" pirates.
peace,
-manno