and bought a PS2 cheap to last until the Wii comes out this fall.
Face it, day late and a dollar short, even if Sony suddenly "decided" to sell PS3 at $299, they've already lost mind share and many game developers have already added Wii support (not originally planned) and are shorting the number of game units they're planning to ship for PS3, according to the news reports in the print edition of the Wall Street Journal...
I have a question, if you're a Canadian citizen living abroad, should you attempt to fill out the census online? I mean, technically, I'm a Canadian, but I live in Seattle right now.
well, it's just the facts, as stated in print in the Wall Street Journal.
To me, that's a very very high rate of avoidance and non-adoption, and implies many corporations will be doing a wipe and XP install until they are certain all the bug releases are finished.
There's no killer ap there, so it's not like it matters.
have absolutely no plans to install Windows Vista within six months of it's "release date".
Not 5 percent.
Not 10 percent.
But 50 percent.
So, slipping the release date won't really matter, as most corporations are wise enough, according to the Wall Street Journal (print edition), to put off upgrading as long as is reasonable.
I mean, think of the full body recognition, with a wand attachment for on-screen verification, and how many ubergeeks will suddenly learn really cool dance moves that will wow all the babes who will think they're super hot.
Oh, yeah, for the standard geek in high school, this is going to be a lifesaver!
How many games for the EA Kings under the mountains?
Or are they Mortal Combat men doomed to spew out mostly sports and FPS games we could get on any console, admittedly with cool Wii wand effects that make them much more fun to play?
With Spore on the Wii by Thanksgiving 2007
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you know that I love the Wii!
Seriously, if you look at the Nintendo Wii game announcement page you see such a wide variety of gaming genres, designed to appeal to people who don't just want sports and FPS games, but also casual gamers, women and girls, and a heck of a lot of cross-releases of games that are normallly only available in Japan and China, but are now available for English (US/UK/EU) players as well.
What's not to love about the Wii?
Plus, it doesn't have that annoying choice of do I get Blu-Ray or HD-DVD so that I can wait until 2008 when I actually end up buying a $300 HDTV set and decide for myself which player I'll get for $100.
Well, the Mac versions of Will Wright's other games, such as the Sims, Sims 2, and SimCity, etc are usually 3-6 months later than the PC versions, so we can extrapolate and figure if PC release is June 2007, then Mac release should be September-November 2007, just in time for the Christmas rush!
If we remember other Will Wright console releases
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such as the Sims and Sims 2 console versions, we'll see that he normally allows a smaller subset of images (such as clothing styles, hair styles, body platforms) than in the PC versions, and that they're less modifiable.
My guess, based on his other console versions, would be that the version of Spore on a console may or may not have an online component (based on platform, most likely) but it will have a standard stock set of planet types and creature parts, which may not be quite as rich and adaptable as the PC version will be, but will have a stronger story element, with pre-scripted stories you have to follow to "unlock" additional components for later game play.
Given the wide range of features (eg hard disk storage on PS3 and xBox360 and even Wii addon versions), it may have further limitations as well.
One would definitely hope they'll delay the console release until about 3 months after PC release to:
a. maximize PC game sales; b. hype console sales when they happen due to buzz and "being after the console launch" when fewer games are being simultaneously released; and c. fix bugs and problems found in the PC version, since a console version tends to be a frozen code set, unless online patch updates are integrated - note while the Wii, xBox360, and PS3 all have online capability (or can add it), there is no guarantee a player will have a high-speed net connection needed for such upgrades, so it needs to work out of the box.
But seriously, I loved the bit about "ok, how do we do the hard part in the mansion? ok, let's put it behind a wall, then we don't have to animate it".
Telling stories by games is how I got into game designing originally. If there's no story, I tend to lose interest fast. Additionally, as the interviewer notes, games with stories in them tend to appeal to women and casual gamers.
By saying "I spent $500 extra for an OS I don't need that does nothing better than other modern OS choices".
So, I'd like mine to look like it's bleeding money.
Literally, bleeding.
Oh, and I'd like a Big Brother Eye, so I'd know that by using it, I am signing away (thanks, DCMA!) my personal privacy.
And, last but not least, I'd like The Green Screen Of Death - I know they got rid of the Blue Screen, this time maybe it will be a Green Screen. And throw in some bling that looks like virus or worms eating away at my insecure box.
Yeah, that's my Vista PC! Shout it out to the WORLD!
We could have gone to electronic forms with laptops, but there are a number of reasons we don't.
The primary one is user-readability, and verification of intent.
The second one is programming limitations on error checking - what is a permissable response? When dealing with human subjects - and likewise, human voters, one notices they don't always do what you want, but what they want.
Should we have electronic voting machines? Yes. For handicapped people, definitely. But, naturally, those should have a paper audit trail.
But most voting machines would do fine with optically-scanned human-readable paper ballots. In fact, what they don't want you to know is they are just as accurate as the electronic ones, in actual practice.
Now, does this mean the vote is accurate? No, because we're humans. Some people insist on voting for two candidates, or write in Donald Duck. Some people change their minds part way through.
Heck, when I vote, I sometimes decide at the polling place, as I'm voting.
sigh. but absentee also involves coercion and vote-buying, as a church can "suggest" everyone votes their family's ballots at the church, using the official guide, and they mail them from there. Also, the "patriarch" (father) can take all the ballots, fill them out, and then have them sign them.
Good point. However, for most US voters, the only choices they get under most states' systems are:
1. Diebold and other easily hacked electronic voting machines, which are easily fixed to swing an election; or 2. Vote absentee by mail.
Option 2 is better than option 1.
Best is a human-readable optical ballot with a printed dual receipt - one for the voter and one for the polling place - with the date/time imprint, a sequence number, and the voter id not using human readable, but a numeric sequence that can be deencrypted if needed from the info on the voter receipt.
But most states don't give you a CHOICE of machines.
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for anything.
And it's sometimes used as a bargaining wedge to be "bought out" and rewarded with cash for a case that has no merits.
and bought a PS2 cheap to last until the Wii comes out this fall.
...
Face it, day late and a dollar short, even if Sony suddenly "decided" to sell PS3 at $299, they've already lost mind share and many game developers have already added Wii support (not originally planned) and are shorting the number of game units they're planning to ship for PS3, according to the news reports in the print edition of the Wall Street Journal
je m'excuse, j'ai oublie' comment on doit utiliser le "spell-check".
Je voudrais dire "Canadian", pas "Candadian" au parent.
I have a question, if you're a Canadian citizen living abroad, should you attempt to fill out the census online? I mean, technically, I'm a Canadian, but I live in Seattle right now.
And - if not - why not?
only someone who's not that good would bother attacking a beta before it ships installed on a massive scale.
well, it's just the facts, as stated in print in the Wall Street Journal.
To me, that's a very very high rate of avoidance and non-adoption, and implies many corporations will be doing a wipe and XP install until they are certain all the bug releases are finished.
There's no killer ap there, so it's not like it matters.
They live in fairly small rooms, everything has to be put away to use something else, so you don't really want them to stick out.
The confusing thing is the xBox360, but maybe they thought changing the box would increase usage in Japan - won't work though.
So which is more difficult for XP users to switch to? Linux or Vista?
Based on everything I've been seeing, it's looking like switching to Linux will be easier than "upgrading" to Vista.
have absolutely no plans to install Windows Vista within six months of it's "release date".
Not 5 percent.
Not 10 percent.
But 50 percent.
So, slipping the release date won't really matter, as most corporations are wise enough, according to the Wall Street Journal (print edition), to put off upgrading as long as is reasonable.
When you buy Vista, just realize you're really going to need the .01 or .1 upgrade that ships within a few months.
It won't really be an upgrade, more of a bug fix so it will actually function.
It hurts.
ah, so those are the lyrics.
I mean, think of the full body recognition, with a wand attachment for on-screen verification, and how many ubergeeks will suddenly learn really cool dance moves that will wow all the babes who will think they're super hot.
Oh, yeah, for the standard geek in high school, this is going to be a lifesaver!
How many games for the EA Kings under the mountains?
Or are they Mortal Combat men doomed to spew out mostly sports and FPS games we could get on any console, admittedly with cool Wii wand effects that make them much more fun to play?
you know that I love the Wii!
Seriously, if you look at the Nintendo Wii game announcement page you see such a wide variety of gaming genres, designed to appeal to people who don't just want sports and FPS games, but also casual gamers, women and girls, and a heck of a lot of cross-releases of games that are normallly only available in Japan and China, but are now available for English (US/UK/EU) players as well.
What's not to love about the Wii?
Plus, it doesn't have that annoying choice of do I get Blu-Ray or HD-DVD so that I can wait until 2008 when I actually end up buying a $300 HDTV set and decide for myself which player I'll get for $100.
Well, the Mac versions of Will Wright's other games, such as the Sims, Sims 2, and SimCity, etc are usually 3-6 months later than the PC versions, so we can extrapolate and figure if PC release is June 2007, then Mac release should be September-November 2007, just in time for the Christmas rush!
such as the Sims and Sims 2 console versions, we'll see that he normally allows a smaller subset of images (such as clothing styles, hair styles, body platforms) than in the PC versions, and that they're less modifiable.
My guess, based on his other console versions, would be that the version of Spore on a console may or may not have an online component (based on platform, most likely) but it will have a standard stock set of planet types and creature parts, which may not be quite as rich and adaptable as the PC version will be, but will have a stronger story element, with pre-scripted stories you have to follow to "unlock" additional components for later game play.
Given the wide range of features (eg hard disk storage on PS3 and xBox360 and even Wii addon versions), it may have further limitations as well.
One would definitely hope they'll delay the console release until about 3 months after PC release to:
a. maximize PC game sales;
b. hype console sales when they happen due to buzz and "being after the console launch" when fewer games are being simultaneously released; and
c. fix bugs and problems found in the PC version, since a console version tends to be a frozen code set, unless online patch updates are integrated - note while the Wii, xBox360, and PS3 all have online capability (or can add it), there is no guarantee a player will have a high-speed net connection needed for such upgrades, so it needs to work out of the box.
But seriously, I loved the bit about "ok, how do we do the hard part in the mansion? ok, let's put it behind a wall, then we don't have to animate it".
Telling stories by games is how I got into game designing originally. If there's no story, I tend to lose interest fast. Additionally, as the interviewer notes, games with stories in them tend to appeal to women and casual gamers.
In the Dell Corprate HQ.... "Mike, we want you to make Dells look pretty so people won't notice Vista as much"
Hmm. How about putting flame insignia on them?
By saying "I spent $500 extra for an OS I don't need that does nothing better than other modern OS choices".
So, I'd like mine to look like it's bleeding money.
Literally, bleeding.
Oh, and I'd like a Big Brother Eye, so I'd know that by using it, I am signing away (thanks, DCMA!) my personal privacy.
And, last but not least, I'd like The Green Screen Of Death - I know they got rid of the Blue Screen, this time maybe it will be a Green Screen. And throw in some bling that looks like virus or worms eating away at my insecure box.
Yeah, that's my Vista PC! Shout it out to the WORLD!
I'm a data manager in disease research.
We use paper.
We could have gone to electronic forms with laptops, but there are a number of reasons we don't.
The primary one is user-readability, and verification of intent.
The second one is programming limitations on error checking - what is a permissable response? When dealing with human subjects - and likewise, human voters, one notices they don't always do what you want, but what they want.
Should we have electronic voting machines? Yes. For handicapped people, definitely. But, naturally, those should have a paper audit trail.
But most voting machines would do fine with optically-scanned human-readable paper ballots. In fact, what they don't want you to know is they are just as accurate as the electronic ones, in actual practice.
Now, does this mean the vote is accurate? No, because we're humans. Some people insist on voting for two candidates, or write in Donald Duck. Some people change their minds part way through.
Heck, when I vote, I sometimes decide at the polling place, as I'm voting.
sigh. but absentee also involves coercion and vote-buying, as a church can "suggest" everyone votes their family's ballots at the church, using the official guide, and they mail them from there. Also, the "patriarch" (father) can take all the ballots, fill them out, and then have them sign them.
Which will happen.
Good point. However, for most US voters, the only choices they get under most states' systems are:
1. Diebold and other easily hacked electronic voting machines, which are easily fixed to swing an election; or
2. Vote absentee by mail.
Option 2 is better than option 1.
Best is a human-readable optical ballot with a printed dual receipt - one for the voter and one for the polling place - with the date/time imprint, a sequence number, and the voter id not using human readable, but a numeric sequence that can be deencrypted if needed from the info on the voter receipt.
But most states don't give you a CHOICE of machines.
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What if I want every person's vote to be counted properly, not just mine?
Then you should move to a state where everyone votes by permanent absentee ballot or by mail.
An example being Oregon.
Most of Washington state votes by mail now, with the exception of my county (which is about 80 percent permanent absentee voting).