as we slide into our long period of decline, like the UK did, and France did, and Belgium, and Poland did before us...
now the mantle is being taken up by the EU, China, and Japan, who concentrate more on useful trips and less on wasteful space stations, and don't try to use 30 year old technology designed to last 10 years, just to finance silly foreign adventures that don't help their economy...
If you love something, you probably want to post a review.
If you hate something, you definitely want to post a review - and use the most vitriolic language you possibly can.
If you're like the vast majority of people who thought it was ok but not that great or passable but not worth complaining about, you will very very rarely post a review, because you just don't care.
Thus, most opinions are never recorded, because people who are lukewarm won't even bother rating it in most instances, except in a comparison review, where their opinions frequently will be measured.
Random polling of customers would result in better measurements than reviews. Even being paid for a review - store credit, increased in reviewer ranking, whatever the spif is - will subtly distort reviews to become more positive than they should be - as marketers know.
But, hey, my first degree was focussed on sales and marketing, so what do I know...
Also, I couldn't find one Google hit to support your conjecture that Konami stated that 360 games will be the most expensive at the retail end.
Considering the broadcast was of a Japanese company with webcasted simultaneous translation...
you probably saw Slide 1, Slide 2 - you have to look at them.
And I never said that 360 games will definitely be the most expensive, I just said game developers are expecting the xBox platform will have the highest base retail price, with Sony's PS3 at or below that (depending on the game), and with Nintendo Gamewhatever games at a lower price than that (except for multi-platform games, which may retail at the same price for all 3 platforms).
When you're at the top in game pricing, it doesn't matter what your excuse is, you're at the top.
Anyway, didn't you already make me your Foe? so why do you bother reading my reply post? I don't even use my karma bonus to post them, so it's really a waste.
ask yourself what will happen when people die on your bridge, job site, in your hospital because the code went wonky or prescribed 999 mg of something instead of 4.5 mg...
And it does it with text that reads "Object reference not unlike paste error synk mast rtry input now (0,9):"
But, hey, it's you who will be on TV that night...
dude, I just this week watched the one hour Konami webcast of their annual shareholder meeting. Your disbelief of my actual real experience is your problem - not mine.
It was translated, I don't have time to argue with you over what game pricing will be.
Face it, any pre-launch game pricing is vaporware at best. Everyone buys their game system bundled at CostCo anyway...
WiMax, another name for the 802.16 standard for wireless broadband, has a range of up to 30 miles and can deliver broadband at a theoretical maximum of 75 megabits per second, which is more than 20 times the speed of the fastest wired broadband available commercially.
Funny, TW cable is ~50/month @ 5mbit/s down where I live. 20*5=100 last I checked, which would make the "theoretical" 75mbit/s in fact less than 20 times the speed of the fastest wired broadband available commercially. I'm not even going to start about Verizon FIOS.:P
Or, if you live near a whole bunch of coffeeshops and restaurants with free WiFi b/g like I have, I can pick up between 11 and 55 mbps at home - note I do buy things from those shops since they're my neighbors.
Which means it's not that much faster - for FREE.
So if cable is $50/month, and DSL is $50/month and this is way more expensive - but I can get half as much for ZERO dollars - why would I switch?
Is that 75 Mbs for WiMax per customer, or is it shared by all of the users?
Good question. At home my WiFi picks up between 11 Mbps and 55 Mbps, so if it's "20 times more powerful" then why is it less than two times more powerful than what I can get for free from my local coffeeshops?
Linux cruise ships - plus you can learn how to code in Perl at the same time on a cruise.
But seriously, just because you want to port something doesn't mean other people want to port it, so you would be better off trying to contact people interested in your game in the first place, who can code for Linux or who have ported before, as they are most likely easily "rewarded" by special insights into how the game works, or you could also reward them with special game tokens (like having an island named after them or a building in a standard or Linux-only map) or other things.
Wow, you are really missing the point. You have absolutely no proof that PS3 and Revolution games will be cheaper and you are stating it like it's fact. You are a fanboy pot calling my kettle black.
You seem to have missed the details of my first post in this thread. I stated I owned Konami stock and had held Sony and Nintendo until recently. I actually watched various stockholder meetings and announcements, including the recent Konami one, and that's why I'm saying they are going to be cheaper.
Live in your dream world, if you must, but don't drag us all there.
like i said, that's my personal opinion. regardless, why are you so hyper about it, when my basic post that: a. you can buy it cheaper at CostCo and save a bundle; and b. the games are more expensive than they are for the PS3 and Nintendo GameWhatever platforms.
Both of which are true statements.
So, you love Halo - great. So, Nintendo actually makes money on both it's games and it's box - great. So, I'm a bad bad bad person for buying an xBox - which I have - only to play Lego Star Wars and Fable on - tough cookies, I refuse to apologize since I've tried the other games on friends' boxes and don't want to buy them.
My basic points still stand. So not everyone has drunk the xBox360 is greatest thing since patented sliced biobread coolaid - deal with it. I just said it was cheaper - true - and that for the games I like it's not the greatest platform cause the games aren't there.
Right, because we all know Sony is run by a nice Japanese family out of their little shop in Tokyo and Nintendo is a kindly old man that just likes making kids happy. They have no profit or market share motivations like Microsoft does. And Microsoft will go out it's way to make games that suck and to kick puppies.
Um, ok. I've owned MSFT for decades - and still do. I owned Nintendo NTDOY for about five years and sold it before the last downturn. I owned Sony for about three years. Currently have shares in Konami [think Yu-Gi-Oh!].
Seriously, I'm just saying it will be cheaper at CostCo and that my opinion - not proven fact - is that xBox games are mostly FPS, racing, and sports types and that if you want fun games you'll get cheaper (less than the $60 MSFT xBox360 price) with the PS3 or the Nintendo GameWhateverNextGenIs.
The question is more along the lines of: 1. what if there's a storm surface-side and the Net goes down? 2. are telepresent scientists as effective and as collaborative as scientists on site? 3. how much is too much - in other words, do telepresent scientists all trying to get scientists on site to "do them a favor and jiggle that thing there" become a nuisance for scientists who actually travelled the distance, or do they act as an aid by not getting caught up in the "on the spot feeling" and being more observational and more rational in behaviour? 4. if an expedition is comprised mostly of telepresent scientists, will they log in when the on site scientists are sleeping or eating or will they hog resources at the same time - does it increase utilization or harm it? 5. does virtual champagne tast the same?
check out the August 12 issue of Science for a paper from our lab... now I just need to find another position, since our grant's expiring...
if you recall, Lotus was pushing a LotusWorks shell on top of DOS back then, which many in the corporate world (not the academic community) regarded as "just as good as Windows".
you have to remember that GUI's weren't regarded as essential by the bean counters back then.
I remember when, during the Seattle WTO meeting of a few years back, there were so many demonstrations and even violent disruptions. At the time I thought, "What a bunch of radical extremists.
Then you don't actually remember it.
I live here. I ate lunch frequently in the hotels the WTO attendees were staying, with my friends, where we actually talked about the issues and the delegates overheard us - first time they had even heard of some of the real issues.
The violent demonstrators were a handful of people - and I've been on BOTH sides of riots, and seen far worse while wearing a helmet and riot shield and mask - the thing was that tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators were lumped in with the very very few violent demonstrators.
Will they try to revise patent law again in the EU - of course, they stand to make a lot of money.
Will they succeed? Ask them if the FTAA will go thru since the CAFTA just barely made it.
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as we slide into our long period of decline, like the UK did, and France did, and Belgium, and Poland did before us ...
...
now the mantle is being taken up by the EU, China, and Japan, who concentrate more on useful trips and less on wasteful space stations, and don't try to use 30 year old technology designed to last 10 years, just to finance silly foreign adventures that don't help their economy
note that Consumer Reports refused to even rate Saturn cars for years, because they were sold at a fixed price. even they have their biases.
If you love something, you probably want to post a review.
...
If you hate something, you definitely want to post a review - and use the most vitriolic language you possibly can.
If you're like the vast majority of people who thought it was ok but not that great or passable but not worth complaining about, you will very very rarely post a review, because you just don't care.
Thus, most opinions are never recorded, because people who are lukewarm won't even bother rating it in most instances, except in a comparison review, where their opinions frequently will be measured.
Random polling of customers would result in better measurements than reviews. Even being paid for a review - store credit, increased in reviewer ranking, whatever the spif is - will subtly distort reviews to become more positive than they should be - as marketers know.
But, hey, my first degree was focussed on sales and marketing, so what do I know
Also, I couldn't find one Google hit to support your conjecture that Konami stated that 360 games will be the most expensive at the retail end.
...
Considering the broadcast was of a Japanese company with webcasted simultaneous translation
you probably saw Slide 1, Slide 2 - you have to look at them.
And I never said that 360 games will definitely be the most expensive, I just said game developers are expecting the xBox platform will have the highest base retail price, with Sony's PS3 at or below that (depending on the game), and with Nintendo Gamewhatever games at a lower price than that (except for multi-platform games, which may retail at the same price for all 3 platforms).
When you're at the top in game pricing, it doesn't matter what your excuse is, you're at the top.
Anyway, didn't you already make me your Foe? so why do you bother reading my reply post? I don't even use my karma bonus to post them, so it's really a waste.
>Why is it that the Admins can't take it upon themselves to keep their software updated with the latest patches?
You are assuming the fix is a patch. I get vulnerability reports for my servers every week.
And then there are patches like the last two Oracle patches which - get this - actually made it worse.
Sometimes it's a good idea to wait for them to patch the patch.
I would assume that it also means Dictionary Needed, Stat!
...
I think you mean Directory Needs Solutions
Don't Know Standard patches
nah, it's $1.35
i live in Fremont, Center of the Universe, surrounded by the rest of Seattle.
We like our coffee hot, our WiFi strong, and our women all the time.
ask yourself what will happen when people die on your bridge, job site, in your hospital because the code went wonky or prescribed 999 mg of something instead of 4.5 mg ...
...
And it does it with text that reads "Object reference not unlike paste error synk mast rtry input now (0,9):"
But, hey, it's you who will be on TV that night
Who cares who they partner with or what technologies they're pioneering?
They use pop-under ads that get past Firefox's popup blocker.
I'll never be one of their customers.
Same here. Pop-under ads really make my blood boil - now if they did pop-tab ads where they create a new tab - well, I'd still hate their guts.
dude, I just this week watched the one hour Konami webcast of their annual shareholder meeting. Your disbelief of my actual real experience is your problem - not mine.
...
It was translated, I don't have time to argue with you over what game pricing will be.
Face it, any pre-launch game pricing is vaporware at best. Everyone buys their game system bundled at CostCo anyway
WiMax, another name for the 802.16 standard for wireless broadband, has a range of up to 30 miles and can deliver broadband at a theoretical maximum of 75 megabits per second, which is more than 20 times the speed of the fastest wired broadband available commercially.
:P
Funny, TW cable is ~50/month @ 5mbit/s down where I live. 20*5=100 last I checked, which would make the "theoretical" 75mbit/s in fact less than 20 times the speed of the fastest wired broadband available commercially. I'm not even going to start about Verizon FIOS.
Or, if you live near a whole bunch of coffeeshops and restaurants with free WiFi b/g like I have, I can pick up between 11 and 55 mbps at home - note I do buy things from those shops since they're my neighbors.
Which means it's not that much faster - for FREE.
So if cable is $50/month, and DSL is $50/month and this is way more expensive - but I can get half as much for ZERO dollars - why would I switch?
Is that 75 Mbs for WiMax per customer, or is it shared by all of the users?
Good question. At home my WiFi picks up between 11 Mbps and 55 Mbps, so if it's "20 times more powerful" then why is it less than two times more powerful than what I can get for free from my local coffeeshops?
1. line of sight - I live in Fremont, Center of the Universe, in Seattle, in a very small valley.
2. last time I saw pricing it was totally out of my price scale.
3. are we so very sure that pumping that much in that spectra is safe? Why?
4. frickin laser beams on mutated sea bass!
Depends on what you need for the team.
If you're short on documenters, game hobbyists into your game are usually way more likely to do a good job, and the same goes for testers.
Linux trains
Linux cruise ships - plus you can learn how to code in Perl at the same time on a cruise.
But seriously, just because you want to port something doesn't mean other people want to port it, so you would be better off trying to contact people interested in your game in the first place, who can code for Linux or who have ported before, as they are most likely easily "rewarded" by special insights into how the game works, or you could also reward them with special game tokens (like having an island named after them or a building in a standard or Linux-only map) or other things.
Hope this helps.
Wow, you are really missing the point. You have absolutely no proof that PS3 and Revolution games will be cheaper and you are stating it like it's fact. You are a fanboy pot calling my kettle black.
You seem to have missed the details of my first post in this thread. I stated I owned Konami stock and had held Sony and Nintendo until recently. I actually watched various stockholder meetings and announcements, including the recent Konami one, and that's why I'm saying they are going to be cheaper.
Live in your dream world, if you must, but don't drag us all there.
wouldn't that kill you off faster?
... the monkeys might decide to gang up on you for bogarting it for the whole trip.
not the pallet of cigarettes - the xBox
and all I have to show for it is this radioactively glowing t-shirt.
like i said, that's my personal opinion. regardless, why are you so hyper about it, when my basic post that:
a. you can buy it cheaper at CostCo and save a bundle; and
b. the games are more expensive than they are for the PS3 and Nintendo GameWhatever platforms.
Both of which are true statements.
So, you love Halo - great. So, Nintendo actually makes money on both it's games and it's box - great. So, I'm a bad bad bad person for buying an xBox - which I have - only to play Lego Star Wars and Fable on - tough cookies, I refuse to apologize since I've tried the other games on friends' boxes and don't want to buy them.
My basic points still stand. So not everyone has drunk the xBox360 is greatest thing since patented sliced biobread coolaid - deal with it. I just said it was cheaper - true - and that for the games I like it's not the greatest platform cause the games aren't there.
Besides, I'm waiting for Black & White 2.
Right, because we all know Sony is run by a nice Japanese family out of their little shop in Tokyo and Nintendo is a kindly old man that just likes making kids happy. They have no profit or market share motivations like Microsoft does. And Microsoft will go out it's way to make games that suck and to kick puppies.
Um, ok. I've owned MSFT for decades - and still do. I owned Nintendo NTDOY for about five years and sold it before the last downturn. I owned Sony for about three years. Currently have shares in Konami [think Yu-Gi-Oh!].
Seriously, I'm just saying it will be cheaper at CostCo and that my opinion - not proven fact - is that xBox games are mostly FPS, racing, and sports types and that if you want fun games you'll get cheaper (less than the $60 MSFT xBox360 price) with the PS3 or the Nintendo GameWhateverNextGenIs.
Some will be on all platforms, of course.
but the PS3 or Nintendo's box will have cheaper and more fun games, so it doesn't matter anyway.
The question is more along the lines of:
... now I just need to find another position, since our grant's expiring ...
1. what if there's a storm surface-side and the Net goes down?
2. are telepresent scientists as effective and as collaborative as scientists on site?
3. how much is too much - in other words, do telepresent scientists all trying to get scientists on site to "do them a favor and jiggle that thing there" become a nuisance for scientists who actually travelled the distance, or do they act as an aid by not getting caught up in the "on the spot feeling" and being more observational and more rational in behaviour?
4. if an expedition is comprised mostly of telepresent scientists, will they log in when the on site scientists are sleeping or eating or will they hog resources at the same time - does it increase utilization or harm it?
5. does virtual champagne tast the same?
check out the August 12 issue of Science for a paper from our lab
if you recall, Lotus was pushing a LotusWorks shell on top of DOS back then, which many in the corporate world (not the academic community) regarded as "just as good as Windows".
you have to remember that GUI's weren't regarded as essential by the bean counters back then.
I remember when, during the Seattle WTO meeting of a few years back, there were so many demonstrations and even violent disruptions. At the time I thought, "What a bunch of radical extremists.
Then you don't actually remember it.
I live here. I ate lunch frequently in the hotels the WTO attendees were staying, with my friends, where we actually talked about the issues and the delegates overheard us - first time they had even heard of some of the real issues.
The violent demonstrators were a handful of people - and I've been on BOTH sides of riots, and seen far worse while wearing a helmet and riot shield and mask - the thing was that tens of thousands of peaceful demonstrators were lumped in with the very very few violent demonstrators.
Will they try to revise patent law again in the EU - of course, they stand to make a lot of money.
Will they succeed? Ask them if the FTAA will go thru since the CAFTA just barely made it.
The pendulum swings.