2. why would anyone ditch their xBox for an xBox360 when it runs so many fewer games? why not just wait until the price drops?
3. this assumes people aren't waiting until the PS3 and NR come out - which they are. I have an xBox, and I'm not planning on buying an xBox360 and see no reason to change my decision, unless I compare all three consoles and decide the games I want are only on the 360. but that's not looking likely right now.
You can project all you like, but if your lightbulb is burnt out in the projector, it won't matter.
Sting is the singer of the chorus of the Dire Straights song.
It's an obscure musical reference.
That said, it sounds like I'll just have to go back to hooking up my speakers and putting a high-end microphone in front of them again, if we let DRM do what it says it will do.
But... once it's ripped to MP3, it's pretty easy to transfer it digitally, if it's music, but code is another thing. Even though MP3 is a German licensed technology.
True, and even if they do come out with GTA: Eido or some Japanese version, or even GTA: Emerald City (since Seattle is hot in Japan), I doubt we'll be seeing a Gamecube or GBA version, so maybe that is why Mario has the lead.
On the other hand, we're looking at raw numbers, so it is slightly surprising to find out that Mario titles are the most popular.
They only just released Sims 2 on the xBox (have it), PS2, and Gamecube, and there are also new Sims2 releases for GBA, PSP, etc.
Took me a while to even find the Game cheats books for them.
My guess would be that a lot of people who bought Sims and Sims: The Urbz will be picking those up this year, so I wouldn't expect them to stay in the bottom tier of the pack.
Now, if we were talking PC, then the Sims 2: Nightlife, Sims 2: University, and Sims 2: Open For Business sidelines would probably push the whole category way over the top, but none of those exist for the consoles to date.
Look at that coder, trying to use GPL He's got the source code, and he pubs for free Look at that coder, he wants the money So he imposes DRM on me
Don't want to hack my microwave oven Don't want the audio to make an MP3 Just want to pay out and be sued forever Give me DRM and let me be a slave!
[chorus] I want my - I want my - I want my DRM! I want my - I want my - I want my DRM!
We got to move these cross-licensed patents We got to ship these digitial HDTVs It's hard work slaving for the big boss But we don't care cause we're employees
I'm sorry, if you have broadband access, why would you want to pay even more money to get fewer features, when most game sites hosted by game publishers do a far better job and interfere less often?
oh, and I know they were nominated, but it looks like, based on all the multiples of nominations for Animal Crossing: Wild World, that it's just a pro forma nomination, so they can pretend they gave Nintendogs a chance.
It's like nominating the film God of War for an Oscar - they may win some kind of boring technical award, but Nicholas Cage isn't going to show up on stage and get a chance to speak on live TV.
For those too lazy from eating pork rinds from 10 am Saturday morning until 2 am Sunday morning playing it FTF to bother actually getting on the bus or their bike to go play it next week.
Wow.
Plus, you don't have to pick up after your friends who leave all their dirty socks, pizza boxes, and scribbled on pieces of paper all over the basement that your mom gets on your case for, and you can press mute when your mom yells at you to finish your chores.
Bonus: if you talk in a really deep voice, noone will know you're not a wise elf lord with really cool hair but are really a skinny kid with broken glasses and a bad case of acne who is too shy to get a girlfriend even though his best friend who's a girl is secretly waiting for him to ask her to the school dance if he'd just stop boring her talking about AD&D for just a second.
by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who created the universe and thus has copyright, or is it copyleft, well he has lots of invisible tentacles anyway - to the whole fake religious controversy idea in the first place.
I mean, heck, He/She/It's a cartoon drawing and He/She/It's a God, and didn't create us in His/Her/It's own image because we're imperfect, so it makes just as much sense as suing someone for such a thing...
Just curious, but why do your office mates need to burn dvds or cds?
Because it is medical data, and sometimes you have to maintain a physical chain of custody, due to HIPPA and other scientific medical restrictions.
Sure, there's a network; Sure, there are secure websites; But sometimes you burn off a physical copy for someone travelling with a laptop, for example, when they visit - and are part of the study group.
These days, what's the point of geography... or the news for that matter.
Well, the point of geography is to keep you from wandering off into the moors, when you were headed for a nice warm pub.
And the point of the news is to get you upset about things you can do very little, if anything, about. Kind of like clocks in your car - then you can worry you're late, but you'll still be late.
Seriously, $500 is RIDICULOUS for a PC of that calibur (unless your talking laptops). I can build a moderate gaming computer for that. A no-frills-just-types-prints-and-surfs PC should be possible at around $300.
You can buy something like that from TigerDirect for about $300, if I remember correctly. Think the website is tigerdirect.com - but you need to look around - I always wait until they ship me a paper catalog, then I can look for good machines there.
DVD R/W, 11b/g wireless, 756M RAM (or thereabouts), fast AMD CPU, and OpenOffice is really expensive - and this is with (gasp) WinXP preinstalled.
I would like to say, though, when I look around my office, I see people who need to burn CD and DVD, who need high-end graphics, who need dual core CPUs.
Because I work in Medical Genetics. And my last office was in Structural Genomics (same kind of capabilities needed). Genetic data crunching really needs a lot of on-CPU crunching, but we usually can get away with only 4Gig of RAM (ok, 8Gig for Data servers). And all those run Linux (bought them from Pogo Linux).
So, I'd have to up that ultimate office PC requirement just a tad.
Good points. I've been thinking of selling some of my Konami stock and either buying back some Sony or maybe even going with Honda (energy play there) instead.
I don't think you'll be seeing a $250 retail price bundle. I said at Costco. I picked up a GameCube price bundle there, year of release, for about $100 less than at, say, EBX.
I remember on my original 8 bit nintendo, most of the games I had were not made by nintendo..... Konami, Data East, Square etc...
True. In fact, Konami's planning quite a bit of fun with both the Nintendo and Sony game consoles that are coming out, according to all the presentations at the annual shareholders meeting I watched.
Some have said "You can fool some of the people all of the time."
Luckily for us, it turns out all you have to do is just go up to a queue of people, put on a stern face, say "Terrorist", and they'll all happily give away all the rights that people died to gain in just a quick nip of time.
Now, on behalf of us and our ally Oceania, I'd like to thank you all, and ask you please show your papers and salute with stiff arms as we play our national anthem, "Brittania, Brittania, Uber Alles!"
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1. who paid the analyst or his firm?
2. why would anyone ditch their xBox for an xBox360 when it runs so many fewer games? why not just wait until the price drops?
3. this assumes people aren't waiting until the PS3 and NR come out - which they are. I have an xBox, and I'm not planning on buying an xBox360 and see no reason to change my decision, unless I compare all three consoles and decide the games I want are only on the 360. but that's not looking likely right now.
You can project all you like, but if your lightbulb is burnt out in the projector, it won't matter.
Sting is the singer of the chorus of the Dire Straights song.
... once it's ripped to MP3, it's pretty easy to transfer it digitally, if it's music, but code is another thing. Even though MP3 is a German licensed technology.
It's an obscure musical reference.
That said, it sounds like I'll just have to go back to hooking up my speakers and putting a high-end microphone in front of them again, if we let DRM do what it says it will do.
But
True, and even if they do come out with GTA: Eido or some Japanese version, or even GTA: Emerald City (since Seattle is hot in Japan), I doubt we'll be seeing a Gamecube or GBA version, so maybe that is why Mario has the lead.
On the other hand, we're looking at raw numbers, so it is slightly surprising to find out that Mario titles are the most popular.
They only just released Sims 2 on the xBox (have it), PS2, and Gamecube, and there are also new Sims2 releases for GBA, PSP, etc.
Took me a while to even find the Game cheats books for them.
My guess would be that a lot of people who bought Sims and Sims: The Urbz will be picking those up this year, so I wouldn't expect them to stay in the bottom tier of the pack.
Now, if we were talking PC, then the Sims 2: Nightlife, Sims 2: University, and Sims 2: Open For Business sidelines would probably push the whole category way over the top, but none of those exist for the consoles to date.
Even though Mario wins cross-platform, it's interesting that Pokemon gives him a run for his money when we go into the Gamecube/Gameboy sphere.
My guess would be it's all the people playing Mario GoKart on the xBox and PS2 that push Mario over the winner's line.
Look at that coder, trying to use GPL
He's got the source code, and he pubs for free
Look at that coder, he wants the money
So he imposes DRM on me
Don't want to hack my microwave oven
Don't want the audio to make an MP3
Just want to pay out and be sued forever
Give me DRM and let me be a slave!
[chorus]
I want my - I want my - I want my DRM!
I want my - I want my - I want my DRM!
We got to move these cross-licensed patents
We got to ship these digitial HDTVs
It's hard work slaving for the big boss
But we don't care cause we're employees
[chorus]
Apologies to Sting.
I'm sorry, if you have broadband access, why would you want to pay even more money to get fewer features, when most game sites hosted by game publishers do a far better job and interfere less often?
oh, and I know they were nominated, but it looks like, based on all the multiples of nominations for Animal Crossing: Wild World, that it's just a pro forma nomination, so they can pretend they gave Nintendogs a chance.
It's like nominating the film God of War for an Oscar - they may win some kind of boring technical award, but Nicholas Cage isn't going to show up on stage and get a chance to speak on live TV.
Doesn't everyone love puppies?
I thought this was going to be about BDSM.
That's the Japanese version.
For those too lazy from eating pork rinds from 10 am Saturday morning until 2 am Sunday morning playing it FTF to bother actually getting on the bus or their bike to go play it next week.
Wow.
Plus, you don't have to pick up after your friends who leave all their dirty socks, pizza boxes, and scribbled on pieces of paper all over the basement that your mom gets on your case for, and you can press mute when your mom yells at you to finish your chores.
Bonus: if you talk in a really deep voice, noone will know you're not a wise elf lord with really cool hair but are really a skinny kid with broken glasses and a bad case of acne who is too shy to get a girlfriend even though his best friend who's a girl is secretly waiting for him to ask her to the school dance if he'd just stop boring her talking about AD&D for just a second.
so Jesus had kids. What's wrong with that? Why would Catholic church be upset by this? We could all be descendents of JC.
...
Actually, my question is, how did they rate on Hot or Not?
That might answer whether or not there were many descendents
by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who created the universe and thus has copyright, or is it copyleft, well he has lots of invisible tentacles anyway - to the whole fake religious controversy idea in the first place.
...
I mean, heck, He/She/It's a cartoon drawing and He/She/It's a God, and didn't create us in His/Her/It's own image because we're imperfect, so it makes just as much sense as suing someone for such a thing
Just curious, but why do your office mates need to burn dvds or cds?
Because it is medical data, and sometimes you have to maintain a physical chain of custody, due to HIPPA and other scientific medical restrictions.
Sure, there's a network; Sure, there are secure websites; But sometimes you burn off a physical copy for someone travelling with a laptop, for example, when they visit - and are part of the study group.
These days, what's the point of geography... or the news for that matter.
Well, the point of geography is to keep you from wandering off into the moors, when you were headed for a nice warm pub.
And the point of the news is to get you upset about things you can do very little, if anything, about. Kind of like clocks in your car - then you can worry you're late, but you'll still be late.
I agree, I bought my laptop at tigerdirect too, very good deals. Downloaded OpenOffice onto it, can run gaming software, pretty decent machines.
We are still playing democracy-being-hypocritical-as-usual here.r division.
...
China belongs to the yes-we're-big-brother-and-we-don't-like-you-eithe
But King George says that China is our ally and we should sell them our military technology, or was that our US ports, so isn't that the same thing?
Dang, forgot my sarcasm key
Seriously, $500 is RIDICULOUS for a PC of that calibur (unless your talking laptops). I can build a moderate gaming computer for that. A no-frills-just-types-prints-and-surfs PC should be possible at around $300.
You can buy something like that from TigerDirect for about $300, if I remember correctly. Think the website is tigerdirect.com - but you need to look around - I always wait until they ship me a paper catalog, then I can look for good machines there.
That takes zero time, really.
DVD R/W, 11b/g wireless, 756M RAM (or thereabouts), fast AMD CPU, and OpenOffice is really expensive - and this is with (gasp) WinXP preinstalled.
I would like to say, though, when I look around my office, I see people who need to burn CD and DVD, who need high-end graphics, who need dual core CPUs.
Because I work in Medical Genetics. And my last office was in Structural Genomics (same kind of capabilities needed). Genetic data crunching really needs a lot of on-CPU crunching, but we usually can get away with only 4Gig of RAM (ok, 8Gig for Data servers). And all those run Linux (bought them from Pogo Linux).
So, I'd have to up that ultimate office PC requirement just a tad.
We Americans must admit our defeat, but we'll get you twats next year when we convince google to hand over those logs.
I'm betting on the third place contender, China, to pull off an upset win next year, myself.
Good points. I've been thinking of selling some of my Konami stock and either buying back some Sony or maybe even going with Honda (energy play there) instead.
I don't think you'll be seeing a $250 retail price bundle. I said at Costco. I picked up a GameCube price bundle there, year of release, for about $100 less than at, say, EBX.
Retail won't drop until at least the next year.
I remember on my original 8 bit nintendo, most of the games I had were not made by nintendo..... Konami, Data East, Square etc...
True. In fact, Konami's planning quite a bit of fun with both the Nintendo and Sony game consoles that are coming out, according to all the presentations at the annual shareholders meeting I watched.
I'd like to accept this award most humbly.
Some have said "You can fool some of the people all of the time."
Luckily for us, it turns out all you have to do is just go up to a queue of people, put on a stern face, say "Terrorist", and they'll all happily give away all the rights that people died to gain in just a quick nip of time.
Now, on behalf of us and our ally Oceania, I'd like to thank you all, and ask you please show your papers and salute with stiff arms as we play our national anthem, "Brittania, Brittania, Uber Alles!"
Thank you.
Muslim extremists.
Strange, I thought most members of the House of Commons and House of Lords weren't Muslim.
Good thing I'm a Jedi, then. Like most brits.
sorry, second cousin. check out Gil Luna for a closer relative of mine who's in SAG and AFTRA, he's got a film coming out soon.
I know it's an uncommon name, but it's more common than you might think.