Nintendo originallly screwed Sony way back and made fools out of them
Yes, Nintendo did quit the Playstation-as-SNES-addon deal, but that probably ended up being the best thing that ever happened to Sony. You can hardly say the Big N "made fools out of them."
I agree with your assessment of Yamauchi, though. He seemed very pompous, feeling personally betrayed by Squaresoft's decision to start producing for the PS, when in fact the CD format was the only way they could have done justice to FFVII's story and scope. Nintendo is still playing catch-up to recover from the decisions he made and the crucial bridges he burned.
Tokyo Game Show, where I believe GameCube debuted in 2001, when it was still under the codename "Dolphin." This seems like a logical event for Nintendo to unveil "Revolution" as well.
This is a more serious problem than it seems. Nintendo's "innovations" sometimes turn out to be interesting, e.g. Mario 64's control scheme, some turn out pointless, e.g. Virtual Boy. Honestly, I think the DS will fall in the latter category; its "innovative" features don't impress consumers as much as the PSP's, and game designers may or may not come up with any actually interesting uses for them.
An aside: I recall reading that the Virtual Boy was designed by the same person, Gunpei Yokoi, who designed the Game Boy, and that after the product's failure the company made him personally demonstrate it at the next year's E3...to no one, because no one cared. And this was despite his history as a brilliant innovator. Let's hope "Revolution" doesn't suffer the same fate.
(Or, maybe the "Revolution" will be that Nintendo decides that online gaming is a pretty good idea, what with Microsoft and that whole "Live" thing. ^_^)
And while they're at it, they can come up with an audio editing program that installs directly from one package and has features comparable to those of Pro Tools or Cakewalk SONAR.
I'm waiting...
This is funny but also contains a valid point. If software patents are as evil as many Slashdotters claim, we should support neither side, and call a cease-fire in the M$ bashing while discussing the case.
I use the word "crap" here to refer to artistic merit, NOT popularity. "Dumbing down" involves omitting what most artists/critics/people with good taste think comprises merit--insight, complexity, and originality--for catchiness and popularity. (Though naturally, as the Beatles and many others have proven, this need not be a dichotomy.) The idea of dumbing down, of course, implies that most people are too stupid to appreciate art and will instead complacently gravitate toward the familiar or the ephemerally "cool."
Damnit, mods! I have a better question for you. Why is THIS guy modded insightful? He can't spell "independent," and he assumes that all "independant" (sic) music is metal, thanks to the (also unwarranted) assumption that the independent scene where he lives is representative of the scene in general. And "99% of everything is crap" is an overgeneralized cliche. It does not apply, to some extent, to independent music, because much independent music is so because its creators don't want to "dumb down" their work to popular taste.
Granted, the RIAA and major labels also help some good music succeed. (Radiohead, for example, ought to be dear to the heart of many a Slashdotter.) But these organizations inspire a culture of shallow, creatively bankrupt greed in popular music that indie music--so it seems to me, a casual observer--does not have. The lawsiuts against downloaders, as well as the unwillingness of the labels and their association to move to a new distribution system (such as Voluntary Collective Licensing) that might cut into short-term profits, are reflections of this greed. And they're also damn good reasons to give the RIAA the finger for the time being, in spite of Mr. Insightful's "argument."
Right now I am looking at a handy CSS reference chart saying which browser supports what, and the fact is, one third to half of the standard is entirely un-implemented by Mozilla, Opera and IE.
If a CSS standard falls on browser designers to implement, and no one implements it, was it really "the standard?"
Holy ke-rapp... I just did the vulnerable servers search and the SAMBA settings for members.lycos.co.uk showed up! Anyone here care to mess with those crazy Brits*?
(*No offense intended to the British people in particular. If it had been members.lycos.es I would have said "crazy Hispanics," etc, etc.)
Wow! I confer upon this post an honorary +6 Uber-Informative. Thanks. ccm.
BTW, I wasn't saying fiat is a bad thing, I was pretty much just bashing an AC for fun. Still, the economics lesson was greatly appreciated. ^_^
Uh...no. The $2 bill, like any other bill, is "legal tender for all debts, public and private." The government says YOU MUST ACCEPT IT. Unlike the various currencies of old, it's not an IOU note for gold or some such inherently valuable thing. It's called "fiat" money--worth $2 because the government says so.
Good thing you're an AC, so we can't make fun of you for sleeping through high-school economics.
Eh.... you make a good case, but I disagree. The analogy breaks down, because software adoption is not the same as a partisan political debate.
Most people who support parties or candidates have no idea of the substance of what they are supporting; rhetoric influences these people greatly, which is why politicians must "frame the debate" and play the rhetoric game. Not so with potential Linux (and FOSS in general) users. Businesses (looking at OSes for servers and desktops) and ordinary home users, as opposed to nerds like ourselves, will use what works easily and reliably.
They will be largely unaffected by the competing philosophies and rhetoric of Gates and RMS/other FOSS zealots. Almost no non-nerds see software in political terms.
And, for a different reason, that does mean that we need to clamp down on zealotry, because it can interfere with the "just works" philosophy that will ultimately win users over. Take Ubuntu for example. It's a fine Linux distribution, but it includes no non-free software. "But we need to be free, free, free to do whatever we want with EVERY SINGLE PIECE of code that we run!!" Not if you care about the average user--who depends on non-free Flash, Java, MP3 and video card drivers and would find reverse-engineered alternatives unacceptable. The first thing all the Ubuntu newbies ask in the forum is "How do I install [non-free package X]?"
This has little to do with debate. The real issue: the more extreme the rhetoric, the less pragmatic the software. And that lack of pragmatism needs to stop.
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I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of employers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
haahahahah...mod parent up, it's actually a pretty funny hoax.
If you *were* *he*, perhaps you'd have better grammar skills as well.
(bring on the flamebait, mods...)
...live action Disney movies? ...Animal Farm???
Oh yeah?? Well...
</paranoia mode>
So there.
Nintendo originallly screwed Sony way back and made fools out of them
Yes, Nintendo did quit the Playstation-as-SNES-addon deal, but that probably ended up being the best thing that ever happened to Sony. You can hardly say the Big N "made fools out of them."
I agree with your assessment of Yamauchi, though. He seemed very pompous, feeling personally betrayed by Squaresoft's decision to start producing for the PS, when in fact the CD format was the only way they could have done justice to FFVII's story and scope. Nintendo is still playing catch-up to recover from the decisions he made and the crucial bridges he burned.
some show in Japan in the Fall
Tokyo Game Show, where I believe GameCube debuted in 2001, when it was still under the codename "Dolphin." This seems like a logical event for Nintendo to unveil "Revolution" as well.
from the please-don't-blame-this-on-the-free-market dept.
Oh, but we will.....
This is a more serious problem than it seems. Nintendo's "innovations" sometimes turn out to be interesting, e.g. Mario 64's control scheme, some turn out pointless, e.g. Virtual Boy. Honestly, I think the DS will fall in the latter category; its "innovative" features don't impress consumers as much as the PSP's, and game designers may or may not come up with any actually interesting uses for them.
An aside: I recall reading that the Virtual Boy was designed by the same person, Gunpei Yokoi, who designed the Game Boy, and that after the product's failure the company made him personally demonstrate it at the next year's E3...to no one, because no one cared. And this was despite his history as a brilliant innovator. Let's hope "Revolution" doesn't suffer the same fate.
(Or, maybe the "Revolution" will be that Nintendo decides that online gaming is a pretty good idea, what with Microsoft and that whole "Live" thing. ^_^)
And while they're at it, they can come up with an audio editing program that installs directly from one package and has features comparable to those of Pro Tools or Cakewalk SONAR. I'm waiting...
The so-called "millions of dollars in lost revenue" actually come from remakes and compilations of these old games for the GBA/SP/what-have-you.
This is funny but also contains a valid point. If software patents are as evil as many Slashdotters claim, we should support neither side, and call a cease-fire in the M$ bashing while discussing the case.
I use the word "crap" here to refer to artistic merit, NOT popularity. "Dumbing down" involves omitting what most artists/critics/people with good taste think comprises merit--insight, complexity, and originality--for catchiness and popularity. (Though naturally, as the Beatles and many others have proven, this need not be a dichotomy.) The idea of dumbing down, of course, implies that most people are too stupid to appreciate art and will instead complacently gravitate toward the familiar or the ephemerally "cool."
or even Windows.
Well, it does have the advantage of not being Windows. ^_^
Damnit, mods! I have a better question for you. Why is THIS guy modded insightful? He can't spell "independent," and he assumes that all "independant" (sic) music is metal, thanks to the (also unwarranted) assumption that the independent scene where he lives is representative of the scene in general. And "99% of everything is crap" is an overgeneralized cliche. It does not apply, to some extent, to independent music, because much independent music is so because its creators don't want to "dumb down" their work to popular taste.
Granted, the RIAA and major labels also help some good music succeed. (Radiohead, for example, ought to be dear to the heart of many a Slashdotter.) But these organizations inspire a culture of shallow, creatively bankrupt greed in popular music that indie music--so it seems to me, a casual observer--does not have. The lawsiuts against downloaders, as well as the unwillingness of the labels and their association to move to a new distribution system (such as Voluntary Collective Licensing) that might cut into short-term profits, are reflections of this greed. And they're also damn good reasons to give the RIAA the finger for the time being, in spite of Mr. Insightful's "argument."
A righteous and just one against those godless peer-to-peer commies, thank you very much.
Remote-Controlled Files? Get with the times, stupid scientists! This has been in Windows for years!
into the second controller port, and the flies will no longer be able to avoid your swatters.
Right now I am looking at a handy CSS reference chart saying which browser supports what, and the fact is, one third to half of the standard is entirely un-implemented by Mozilla, Opera and IE.
If a CSS standard falls on browser designers to implement, and no one implements it, was it really "the standard?"
What's really going to cook your noodle later is... what browser did they use to render it correctly to generate the reference rendering?
Holy ke-rapp... I just did the vulnerable servers search and the SAMBA settings for members.lycos.co.uk showed up! Anyone here care to mess with those crazy Brits*?
(*No offense intended to the British people in particular. If it had been members.lycos.es I would have said "crazy Hispanics," etc, etc.)
Wow! I confer upon this post an honorary +6 Uber-Informative. Thanks. ccm. BTW, I wasn't saying fiat is a bad thing, I was pretty much just bashing an AC for fun. Still, the economics lesson was greatly appreciated. ^_^
Now if I sent Best Buy 57 $2 credit card transactions, and they banned my IP, that would be one thing...but...um...none of this took place online.
Uh...no. The $2 bill, like any other bill, is "legal tender for all debts, public and private." The government says YOU MUST ACCEPT IT. Unlike the various currencies of old, it's not an IOU note for gold or some such inherently valuable thing. It's called "fiat" money--worth $2 because the government says so. Good thing you're an AC, so we can't make fun of you for sleeping through high-school economics.
Eh.... you make a good case, but I disagree. The analogy breaks down, because software adoption is not the same as a partisan political debate.
Most people who support parties or candidates have no idea of the substance of what they are supporting; rhetoric influences these people greatly, which is why politicians must "frame the debate" and play the rhetoric game. Not so with potential Linux (and FOSS in general) users. Businesses (looking at OSes for servers and desktops) and ordinary home users, as opposed to nerds like ourselves, will use what works easily and reliably.
They will be largely unaffected by the competing philosophies and rhetoric of Gates and RMS/other FOSS zealots. Almost no non-nerds see software in political terms.
And, for a different reason, that does mean that we need to clamp down on zealotry, because it can interfere with the "just works" philosophy that will ultimately win users over. Take Ubuntu for example. It's a fine Linux distribution, but it includes no non-free software. "But we need to be free, free, free to do whatever we want with EVERY SINGLE PIECE of code that we run!!" Not if you care about the average user--who depends on non-free Flash, Java, MP3 and video card drivers and would find reverse-engineered alternatives unacceptable. The first thing all the Ubuntu newbies ask in the forum is "How do I install [non-free package X]?"
This has little to do with debate. The real issue: the more extreme the rhetoric, the less pragmatic the software. And that lack of pragmatism needs to stop.