you think if MS gets lots of market share then ramps its prices to start making money that it will keep its market share?
Bah! I would say that this has already happened... Two words: Xbox Live. Sure they are selling the box at a loss, but how much cash do you think they are getting a month on this?
"RPG has a lot of fun on her own again, hanging out with groups of friends, leaving MMO far behind. MMO lives his selfish and unimaginative lifestyle, as he had all along."
Is it just me, or is this whole article just Kharma-Whoring Conspiracy from elitest D&D types?
PS. Some of my best friends are elitest D&D types...:P
Another thing I noticed about pricing is that games hit the $20 discount rack pretty quickly compared to the SNES/N64 days, maybe a year for the less popular titles and two years for the more popular ones.
The problem with using this as a measure of unpopularity, is that PS2 games go to a $20 price tag after they sell a certain amount. So, as a result the $20 price means that is WAS popular...
Can anyone tell me the details of this? Sorry I would RTFA, but I am weary of following strange links at work. What is the typical size for a video encoded in this format? For instance about how big would an hour show be (I know it depends on the quality, but work with me:P)? How much memory can the sticks hold and how much are they?
Well, I don't know about the GP, but for me, I see out of both eyes, but my brain greatly favors the one eye. As a result I do see in 3D, but the nature of the traditional 3D glasses technology doesn't work very well for me. I am interested in the answer to the GP's question.
I think we have gone beyond the point of "As long as there is an interest and the opportunity to make some money". Lucas has made so much money that I believe that even if he sold ZERO copies of the next incarnation, he would still do it again. He has absolutely no qualms about spending money merely to support his "artistic vision". Did anyone see the 60 Minutes special on him the other day? He spent millions of dollars building a headquarters for his movie studios on Skywalker Ranch only to turn around 2(3?) years later and buy the most expensive piece of land in California and drop another $350 million to move the headquaters again. The only way we will stop seeing these remakes is when he is dead.
In any event, most fantasy never tries to explain why magic works, and that that does, generally doesn't do so with any semblance of science, Robert Shea's adventures being a notable exception. Which doesn't disprove my point: a few science fiction/fantasy crossover novels that blend the two does not two disparate genres unify, any more than romance and horror are one and the same simply because a few novels have been written that incorporate elements of both.
That is not the point at all. Science Fiction is technically any story that has any elements that cannot be explained in our understanding of science. Hence, they only way to resolve it is by changing or adding to that understanding. Does the author have to explicitly say that he has created a fiction scientific unverse? No, often it is quite obvious. Magic, whether you call it technology or not doesn't matter, is not supported by our view of science. Therefore it is a fictional universe based on fictional science.
Many books/films/stories which are considered SciFi never explain how anything works (Firefly, War of the Worlds, Stranger in a Strange Land) but they are SciFi still. Science Fiction is an extremely broad topic and has many sub-genres which is why they are usually seperated out in bookstores to make organizing and finding things easier.
Fantasy is a sub-genre of Science Fiction. It contains fictional science. That is the definition of Science Fiction. Magic and trolls and what not do not exist in real life therefore a fictional science needs to be created in order to explain it.
So what. This is always a problem. Companies will always work to increase their profits and customers will always work to decrease their costs. There is no magicical point at which the system is "perfect" and the model will stay the same for all eternity. The market of anything is perpetually fluid. You cannot say that it is pointless to use a better scheme becuase it will eventually degrade to the same unhappy state it is now.
You are forgetting the force that will supposedly drive TV Producers to a download system in the first place. It is the same concept that lead to the development of iTunes and others. That's right, customers will buy into the system if it is better. The system will degrade until it is no longer acceptable to customers and the cycle will repeat.
The implication has always seemed to me to be that it is in the distant past. For instance, one of the "songs" that are in the LOTR series appears to be the precursor to the nursery rhyme "The cow jumped over the moon".
All that information is nice for some people, but a lot of parents just want to know, "Is it okay to buy for my 10-year-old, or not?"
Well, that gets to the crux of the problem. There are really only two sides. The parents who research (anywhere from actually reading the box to looking at a trusted online review) and those who can't be bothered (notice my bias).
Those parents who care enough to research, don't need a more detailed rating system, they have already evaluated the product for themselves. Those who don't are the ones who want a simple "Is this acceptible or not?" answer.
In summary, the current system supports the latter and the former dont need one. IANAP, but if you need to use a simple rating system to determine if it is acceptable, you have already given up control of what your children are exposed to. Some parents are ok with that and others are not.
Sounds like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Only BtVS had at LEAST 3 Geek/SciFi/Comic reference every episode. Oh, and good dialogue. Oh, and one of the lesbians was a hacker.
The GP said that Half Life 2's Widescreen support solved the problem. HL2's widescreen is infact TRUE widescreen. There is more viewable area than the normal view.
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Your comment is disturbingly sadist
I really had trouble taking his post seriously. Sounds to me like he is either a troll or trying to be funny.
Which PSP games support infrastructure wireless co-op or VS play?
Ummm... What is Twisted Metal a PSP launch title? How much did I win Alex?
Or post on Slashdot.
In capitalist Japan music downloads you!
I guess you've forgotten the Nintendo Power Pad.
Everyone has forgotten it. Isn't that his point?
you think if MS gets lots of market share then ramps its prices to start making money that it will keep its market share?
Bah! I would say that this has already happened... Two words: Xbox Live. Sure they are selling the box at a loss, but how much cash do you think they are getting a month on this?
"RPG has a lot of fun on her own again, hanging out with groups of friends, leaving MMO far behind. MMO lives his selfish and unimaginative lifestyle, as he had all along."
:P
Is it just me, or is this whole article just Kharma-Whoring Conspiracy from elitest D&D types?
PS. Some of my best friends are elitest D&D types...
There are only... FOUR... lights...
my god a geek that goes to the gym!!!!
What you think are revolutionary? Hate to break it to you... but the girlfriend thing, now that's something to talk about!
Another thing I noticed about pricing is that games hit the $20 discount rack pretty quickly compared to the SNES/N64 days, maybe a year for the less popular titles and two years for the more popular ones.
The problem with using this as a measure of unpopularity, is that PS2 games go to a $20 price tag after they sell a certain amount. So, as a result the $20 price means that is WAS popular...
To borrow a cliche from Fark:
This thread is useless without pictures.
Heh, you could always program a macro so you actually would HAVE a key that does ctrl+alt+del. That would be bad ass.
Could you map it to the Windows Key?
Can anyone tell me the details of this? Sorry I would RTFA, but I am weary of following strange links at work. What is the typical size for a video encoded in this format? For instance about how big would an hour show be (I know it depends on the quality, but work with me :P)? How much memory can the sticks hold and how much are they?
Thanks
Well, I don't know about the GP, but for me, I see out of both eyes, but my brain greatly favors the one eye. As a result I do see in 3D, but the nature of the traditional 3D glasses technology doesn't work very well for me. I am interested in the answer to the GP's question.
I think we have gone beyond the point of "As long as there is an interest and the opportunity to make some money". Lucas has made so much money that I believe that even if he sold ZERO copies of the next incarnation, he would still do it again. He has absolutely no qualms about spending money merely to support his "artistic vision". Did anyone see the 60 Minutes special on him the other day? He spent millions of dollars building a headquarters for his movie studios on Skywalker Ranch only to turn around 2(3?) years later and buy the most expensive piece of land in California and drop another $350 million to move the headquaters again. The only way we will stop seeing these remakes is when he is dead.
In any event, most fantasy never tries to explain why magic works, and that that does, generally doesn't do so with any semblance of science, Robert Shea's adventures being a notable exception. Which doesn't disprove my point: a few science fiction/fantasy crossover novels that blend the two does not two disparate genres unify, any more than romance and horror are one and the same simply because a few novels have been written that incorporate elements of both.
That is not the point at all. Science Fiction is technically any story that has any elements that cannot be explained in our understanding of science. Hence, they only way to resolve it is by changing or adding to that understanding. Does the author have to explicitly say that he has created a fiction scientific unverse? No, often it is quite obvious. Magic, whether you call it technology or not doesn't matter, is not supported by our view of science. Therefore it is a fictional universe based on fictional science.
Many books/films/stories which are considered SciFi never explain how anything works (Firefly, War of the Worlds, Stranger in a Strange Land) but they are SciFi still. Science Fiction is an extremely broad topic and has many sub-genres which is why they are usually seperated out in bookstores to make organizing and finding things easier.
Fantasy is a sub-genre of Science Fiction. It contains fictional science. That is the definition of Science Fiction. Magic and trolls and what not do not exist in real life therefore a fictional science needs to be created in order to explain it.
So what. This is always a problem. Companies will always work to increase their profits and customers will always work to decrease their costs. There is no magicical point at which the system is "perfect" and the model will stay the same for all eternity. The market of anything is perpetually fluid. You cannot say that it is pointless to use a better scheme becuase it will eventually degrade to the same unhappy state it is now.
You are forgetting the force that will supposedly drive TV Producers to a download system in the first place. It is the same concept that lead to the development of iTunes and others. That's right, customers will buy into the system if it is better. The system will degrade until it is no longer acceptable to customers and the cycle will repeat.
The implication has always seemed to me to be that it is in the distant past. For instance, one of the "songs" that are in the LOTR series appears to be the precursor to the nursery rhyme "The cow jumped over the moon".
All that information is nice for some people, but a lot of parents just want to know, "Is it okay to buy for my 10-year-old, or not?"
Well, that gets to the crux of the problem. There are really only two sides. The parents who research (anywhere from actually reading the box to looking at a trusted online review) and those who can't be bothered (notice my bias).
Those parents who care enough to research, don't need a more detailed rating system, they have already evaluated the product for themselves. Those who don't are the ones who want a simple "Is this acceptible or not?" answer.
In summary, the current system supports the latter and the former dont need one. IANAP, but if you need to use a simple rating system to determine if it is acceptable, you have already given up control of what your children are exposed to. Some parents are ok with that and others are not.
Why do people, who have NO experties[sic] in an area, feel the need to talk about an area.
I like how you made this statement then proceded to "talk about an area".
Sounds like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Only BtVS had at LEAST 3 Geek/SciFi/Comic reference every episode. Oh, and good dialogue. Oh, and one of the lesbians was a hacker.
Mod the parent funny! Am I the only one who go this Star Wars reference?
The GP said that Half Life 2's Widescreen support solved the problem. HL2's widescreen is infact TRUE widescreen. There is more viewable area than the normal view.