Oh, wait, no, just lots of stuff that I don't need to be paying extra money for.
Nevermind.
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Actually, Nintendo will be making a profit from each console sold, while Sony and Microsoft continue to lose money with theirs.
Is there sunk capital in the fabs? Of course. But they still make a profit from both their consoles and their games.
In a perfect world, noone would ever build anything, because it would take effort and cost capital. Luckily, we don't live in such an artificial reality.
Returning the favor? Then why are they suing Honda? They weren't responsible for the lawsuit against California.
Because, Honda also sells trucks and SUVs that get bad gas mileage too.
Sure, they sell more vehicles that have fewer emissions. But not all of their vehicles are Global Warming Emissions reduction-friendly.
Sometimes, you get out a mallet. You swat the flies. Some places have lots of flies (Ford). Some places have few flies (Toyota, Honda). But you swat at the flies.
Eventually the flies either leave the room or die. If a certain group is too dependent on flies, it dies too.
That's what capitalism is all about. Too many flies and you die.
What you may not be aware of is that there are 12 other US states that have either joined in on California's Global Warming Emissions law or will once their legislatures meet. We represent about 50 percent of the US economy, and California is just leading the charge.
The beauty of capitalism is that when the manufacturers don't comply with what the market wants, giant groups of consumers (e.g. California) can force them to stop being resistant.
That or crush them beneath the Invisible Hand of the Market Economy.
Same end result, of course. Adapt or die.
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Nintendo always runs a profit on both the game consoles and the games.
And, since they're third-place worldwide, it's hard not to go up when Sony still doesn't get it that their console is overpriced.
I wouldn't hold my breath. Most people not only don't have 1080p, they won't even have HDTV until 2010. Until the price drops quite a lot, to where the average joe can spend less than a Nintendo Wii for an HDTV, it's a case of the tail chasing the dog. The dog is still sitting lazily in front of the fire, and will stay there until prices drop.
everyone loves having all their Internet records made available to Commissar for spying on our personal lives, because we are all in loving with our Comrade Bush and his Politburo and know they would never lie to us!
If we gave each voter their income tax refund $100 (ok, borrowed from SS reserves, whatever) in cash at the ballot box, you'd quickly see ballot machine security become very very important.
Throw some money into the equation and change the end result.
and raise my mini-bar key to them in salute at their wise choice of voting via an optically-scanned verifiable paper ballot as is common with all absentee ballots, including the all-mail-in elections common to most Western states.
But I don't hold out much hope for the rest of you who voted for/A/l//G/o/r/e Neil Bush.
I thought the GameCube controller can also be used? I've got about three of those.
So just because it only comes with one Wiimote control set (paddle plus wand), you should still be able to play Animal Crossing until the new one comes out.
My question is which game to buy it with? I think Mario Galaxy looks the most Wiimote using, and I'm sure other people will buy Red Steel so I can trade with them for a day or two.
Last time I tried to buy Japanese games they wouldn't take a non-Japan credit card - is there any way to buy them now with the new region-free Wii coming out? I don't mean the mini-games, the actual Wii console games that are from Japan?
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The next gen race is between Nintendo and Sony. Both will certainly sellout through the holidays, but this pricing blunder and the huge negative reaction from Nintendo fans is a serious problem for the Wii.
Except I'm one of those Wii fans - and I'm psyched! I could easily buy a Wii, an xBox360, and a PS3 each month, plus games. But now I just have to buy a Wii and since I work at an international university (UW) I can swap games with the students here hot from Japan and - they work!
Quite frankly, this obsession with Sports and FPS games really bores me. I spent seven years in the Army, don't want to spend more FPS time, but the idea of doing sword fights, fencing, and jumping from planet to planet - now THAT gets me interested!
Plus, I know Spore will be on the Wii in 2007, about three months after it comes out for the PC.
I ain't buying HDTV till the price drops to $300 for a nice big one anyway - that's 2009.
250 bucks, region free, and lots of games!
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I don't know about you, but now that we know the release date, I'm planning on buying one the first weekend they come out.
FPS and Sports might be nice for some, but I find them ultra-boring. Probably because both were so much a part of my life, having spent so many years in the Army and playing sports since I was a kid.
Game consoles are so you can get away from what you know.
This raises some interesting applications for something like Animal Crossing on the Wii. In the gamecube version, you recieved playable versions of some old NES titles as gifts from other characters in the game. If Nintendo plays their cards right, they may be able to link something like this to their online content delivery system, allowing users to receive any title offered for Nintendo's virtual console for free, simply by unlocking it in another game.
Remember, in the Wii version of Animal Crossing, we'll all have friend codes so we can use the wireless/net to swap with our friends. Remember how using a Gameboy would let you unlock the island? One of the better ways to do this would be to let you download the mini-games onto a Nintendo DS.
Letting your kid outside to play with his friends is un-workable in dangerous, urban environments.
Yeah, sure. I grew up on tree farms and in rural areas until I was 13, and probably did more dangerous stuff in a day back then than my son who's now 15 has done growing up in Seattle. He's gone out to play with neighbor kids lots.
Back in the 70s, they tried to scare our parents into avoiding dangerous things like Colecovision, TI, and Commodore 64. I ended up buying my own Apple II+, but built S100 bus home computers at school with friends. They were convinced it would ruin us.
Now, you did raise a good point about too many parents driving their kids everywhere - I taught my son how to use a scooter (got one too), and we frequently walked to and from his school and the Boys & Girls Club. Unless you live in some freaky city, this is more the sedentary nature of Americans than of almost anyone living in the EU (they walk a lot more there).
Not really. It's just when they're too old, I burn up all their aspiration points and shuffle them off to a retirement home - note that this fries out Permanent Platinum, but since I don't intend them to live long, it's ok by me.
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Oh, wait, no, just lots of stuff that I don't need to be paying extra money for.
Nevermind.
Actually, Nintendo will be making a profit from each console sold, while Sony and Microsoft continue to lose money with theirs.
Is there sunk capital in the fabs? Of course. But they still make a profit from both their consoles and their games.
In a perfect world, noone would ever build anything, because it would take effort and cost capital. Luckily, we don't live in such an artificial reality.
Returning the favor? Then why are they suing Honda? They weren't responsible for the lawsuit against California.
Because, Honda also sells trucks and SUVs that get bad gas mileage too.
Sure, they sell more vehicles that have fewer emissions. But not all of their vehicles are Global Warming Emissions reduction-friendly.
Sometimes, you get out a mallet. You swat the flies. Some places have lots of flies (Ford). Some places have few flies (Toyota, Honda). But you swat at the flies.
Eventually the flies either leave the room or die. If a certain group is too dependent on flies, it dies too.
That's what capitalism is all about. Too many flies and you die.
that's what California is doing by this suit.
What you may not be aware of is that there are 12 other US states that have either joined in on California's Global Warming Emissions law or will once their legislatures meet. We represent about 50 percent of the US economy, and California is just leading the charge.
The beauty of capitalism is that when the manufacturers don't comply with what the market wants, giant groups of consumers (e.g. California) can force them to stop being resistant.
That or crush them beneath the Invisible Hand of the Market Economy.
Same end result, of course. Adapt or die.
Nintendo always runs a profit on both the game consoles and the games.
And, since they're third-place worldwide, it's hard not to go up when Sony still doesn't get it that their console is overpriced.
I wouldn't hold my breath. Most people not only don't have 1080p, they won't even have HDTV until 2010. Until the price drops quite a lot, to where the average joe can spend less than a Nintendo Wii for an HDTV, it's a case of the tail chasing the dog. The dog is still sitting lazily in front of the fire, and will stay there until prices drop.
I thought this was Dilbert, not Orwell ... OK, except for the lack of PHBs ...
Only those who distrust the Party need to have Privacy, comrade!
Are you questioning the God Emperor?
everyone loves having all their Internet records made available to Commissar for spying on our personal lives, because we are all in loving with our Comrade Bush and his Politburo and know they would never lie to us!
The only thing I can think of that would be fun in a in-game-ad FPS would be blasting large chunks in the game ads themselves.
If that's a feature, sign me up.
If we gave each voter their income tax refund $100 (ok, borrowed from SS reserves, whatever) in cash at the ballot box, you'd quickly see ballot machine security become very very important.
Throw some money into the equation and change the end result.
and raise my mini-bar key to them in salute at their wise choice of voting via an optically-scanned verifiable paper ballot as is common with all absentee ballots, including the all-mail-in elections common to most Western states.
/A/l/ /G/o/r/e Neil Bush.
But I don't hold out much hope for the rest of you who voted for
But since they're not, they're totally insecure.
I thought the GameCube controller can also be used? I've got about three of those.
So just because it only comes with one Wiimote control set (paddle plus wand), you should still be able to play Animal Crossing until the new one comes out.
My question is which game to buy it with? I think Mario Galaxy looks the most Wiimote using, and I'm sure other people will buy Red Steel so I can trade with them for a day or two.
Last time I tried to buy Japanese games they wouldn't take a non-Japan credit card - is there any way to buy them now with the new region-free Wii coming out? I don't mean the mini-games, the actual Wii console games that are from Japan?
The next gen race is between Nintendo and Sony. Both will certainly sellout through the holidays, but this pricing blunder and the huge negative reaction from Nintendo fans is a serious problem for the Wii.
Except I'm one of those Wii fans - and I'm psyched! I could easily buy a Wii, an xBox360, and a PS3 each month, plus games. But now I just have to buy a Wii and since I work at an international university (UW) I can swap games with the students here hot from Japan and - they work!
Quite frankly, this obsession with Sports and FPS games really bores me. I spent seven years in the Army, don't want to spend more FPS time, but the idea of doing sword fights, fencing, and jumping from planet to planet - now THAT gets me interested!
Plus, I know Spore will be on the Wii in 2007, about three months after it comes out for the PC.
I ain't buying HDTV till the price drops to $300 for a nice big one anyway - that's 2009.
I don't know about you, but now that we know the release date, I'm planning on buying one the first weekend they come out.
FPS and Sports might be nice for some, but I find them ultra-boring. Probably because both were so much a part of my life, having spent so many years in the Army and playing sports since I was a kid.
Game consoles are so you can get away from what you know.
oh, wait, they still cost thousands of dollars and the PS3 still costs much more than a Wii or xBox360 does ...
never mind - gonna use that to pay for the gas on my H3.
For one thing, it's not incredibly big and requires that I memorize long strings and remapped control sequences.
Secondly, it's intuitive and fun.
Thirdly, it's white. I mean, white is death in Japan, right?
OK, maybe they'll sell it in hot pink or pikachu electric yellow, but right now it's white.
So, give me those incredibly complicated controllers that I have to keep being told "No, the left button, not the left toggle!" by my son.
Oh, and don't throw me into that briar patch either!
That's why I didn't remove it, just the shortcuts. Since I don't use such programs/controls/etc, such worries never occur.
Ch-ch-ch-changes! Turn and face the strange changes ....
I knew Bill Gates was a David Bowie fan, but this is taking it too far!
1. Remove all shortcuts to IE ...
2. Install Firefox and/or Opera (I like both, Opera for email, Firefox for everything else)
3.
4. Profit!
This raises some interesting applications for something like Animal Crossing on the Wii. In the gamecube version, you recieved playable versions of some old NES titles as gifts from other characters in the game. If Nintendo plays their cards right, they may be able to link something like this to their online content delivery system, allowing users to receive any title offered for Nintendo's virtual console for free, simply by unlocking it in another game.
Remember, in the Wii version of Animal Crossing, we'll all have friend codes so we can use the wireless/net to swap with our friends. Remember how using a Gameboy would let you unlock the island? One of the better ways to do this would be to let you download the mini-games onto a Nintendo DS.
Letting your kid outside to play with his friends is un-workable in dangerous, urban environments.
Yeah, sure. I grew up on tree farms and in rural areas until I was 13, and probably did more dangerous stuff in a day back then than my son who's now 15 has done growing up in Seattle. He's gone out to play with neighbor kids lots.
Back in the 70s, they tried to scare our parents into avoiding dangerous things like Colecovision, TI, and Commodore 64. I ended up buying my own Apple II+, but built S100 bus home computers at school with friends. They were convinced it would ruin us.
Now, you did raise a good point about too many parents driving their kids everywhere - I taught my son how to use a scooter (got one too), and we frequently walked to and from his school and the Boys & Girls Club. Unless you live in some freaky city, this is more the sedentary nature of Americans than of almost anyone living in the EU (they walk a lot more there).
Not really. It's just when they're too old, I burn up all their aspiration points and shuffle them off to a retirement home - note that this fries out Permanent Platinum, but since I don't intend them to live long, it's ok by me.