If you're working on the weekend, your work should buy you business class internet access with none of this nonsense. Sorry to play devil's advocate, but you really need a better excuse.
Don't you remember in the Matrix where Morpheus holds up the Duracell battery to describe what the people are being used for? Google just managed to actually do it.
This is almost pretty much true, but basically equates to the summaries at Slashdot. A couple hundred characters, with a link that probably 10% of the commentators actually follow.
The way most of these comparisons work is that they take the feature set of the most expensive laptop and start there as a base point, or start at the most feature rich, like this review did. I've seen the commercial in question and the girl/actress/whatever had two requirements: a 17 inch screen and a sub thousand dollar price. Say what you will about that but that seems like a pretty common way to start shopping. Sure, the Macbook Pro is $2800 (?!) but I'm sure it has a ton of stuff she's simply not interested or aware of. The general public likes cheap computers, and I personally think it's a pretty effective ad.
It would be nice if they could have had a longer version where she's in the Apple store and finds her 17" laptop but not at the price she wants.
Effective ad for me, but it's personally not going to influence any of my purchases. I buy most of my stuff off Craigslist (17 inchers for under $100? yum - that's what she said).
Plus, who is their audience? People with old and clunky pc systems, who have blazing fast internet connections? There's not a whole lot of overlap, there.
Well, if they can somehow manage to get it to work, I think their audience is the gamer who wants to play newer games but not constantly keep his system updated with the latest hardware. I still play games on my Athlon 1800+ with 1GB of RAM and a 9800 Pro. It doesn't handle much of anything new, but if this service did work, I'd definitely try it out to play some of the newer games out there.
Enter the Matrix is a GREAT example of the one game that caused so many consumers to lose confidence in the video game industry. I can't think of a more hyped title with such a great license that was so utterly bad. Gamers bought this game in droves and I'm sure reviewers didn't get their hands on it until it was either nearly out or out.
I highly doubt Chrono Trigger had 1% the budget of FFXII.
One source I found said that FFXII had a budget of four billion yen, which in today's dollars is 40 million US dollars. We'll round that up to 50 million dollars just for the sake of inflation and all that.
1% of 50 million is $500,000. Chrono Trigger was released in 1995 by Squaresoft and was developed by the "Dream Team:" Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy; Akira Toriyama, lead artist for Dragonball and Dragon Quest; Yuuji Horii, another Dragon Quest artist and also CT's original writer; Masato Kato, the lead writer; and composers Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu, two of the most successful Japanese composers ever.
I can't find any hard numbers, but I'm guessing in today's dollars, Chrono Trigger had a budget between five million and 25 million. The big names alone cost a lot, not to mention the rest of the crew, which was very big.
But I still see your point, Chrono Trigger is my favorite game of all time, and FFXII's story is probably my least favorite in a long while, though I did enjoy the gameplay, where you programmed your team on how to act in certain situations.
I never understood the "reality has a liberal bias" line. What is that supposed to mean? That reality thinks that universal health care is good? That taxing is generally the best solution instead of cutting programs? Can someone explain this to me?
I personally think that reality has a half libertarian bias. People want to be free and left to their own, except when they have the opportunity to mess with someone else's life.
One bright spot in this recent economic turmoil is that more people are learning a lot of surprising things about the way our "free-market capitalist" system really works. More of them are realizing that it's not "the immigrants" or "the blacks" or "Wall Street" or even "the government" that is destroying our way of life, it's something a lot more systemic.
Yeah, it's showing us that badly managed businesses will fail, see Charter. It has also showed me at least, that when the government starts to step in and hand out bailouts and stimulus, that things only get worse. Especially no strings attached stimulus. People are surprised that AIG is doing what they want with the money that was given them without any checks? I'm not. I don't blame AIG, I blame "the government" (both the old and new) for giving them any money in the first place.
The application is not made for instant gratification, you're still downloading the torrent on a dedicated, static IP machine that has its uTorrent/Vuze apis exposed via the web.
During my time at school, I would have told you to go where your heart tells you, now that I'm out and paying student loans (and hey, I went to a public school), I'd say go where your heart tells you as long as your future wallet agrees.
I guess my real question is: if Valve goes down, can I still play? And I don't mean promises from Gabe that they'll release the No-Steam patch if they go bankrupt.
I have a Drupal-run site, it's my CMS and framework. Drupal is released under the GPL so I'm assuming all javascript, CSS, images, etc. are under that same umbrella. If I make a modification to the javascript or CSS, which I have, what does that mean to me?
Could someone go to my site and only run GPL'd code while ignoring mine (which I have not explicitly licensed)? I think he brings up a legitimate point.
Well, maybe Soulskill was just trying to be clever... I think it would be hard to be a Slashdot editor and not know the difference between gratis and libre.
Total anecdote, but my original Xbox was broken out of the box. Plugged it in and the first screen I see is a message in about 10 languages telling me something is broken and I should call this number.
I was able to return it to Gamestop with no problem, but this was in 2005 I believe, the Halo green Xbox.
My second one is still working today, both my wife and I use it nearly everyday with XBMC installed on it. Great little machine.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmm... gotta get back, done compiling.
If you're working on the weekend, your work should buy you business class internet access with none of this nonsense. Sorry to play devil's advocate, but you really need a better excuse.
Don't you remember in the Matrix where Morpheus holds up the Duracell battery to describe what the people are being used for? Google just managed to actually do it.
This is almost pretty much true, but basically equates to the summaries at Slashdot. A couple hundred characters, with a link that probably 10% of the commentators actually follow.
And sig pics, and big icons, and a bunch of other clutter that will make me need to adblock it all for work... Heh.
The other day I tried to bring up the man page of man, and it didn't have one. I was sad.
When you start staring longingly at the screen while beginning to sweat a little, it knows what to do.
The way most of these comparisons work is that they take the feature set of the most expensive laptop and start there as a base point, or start at the most feature rich, like this review did. I've seen the commercial in question and the girl/actress/whatever had two requirements: a 17 inch screen and a sub thousand dollar price. Say what you will about that but that seems like a pretty common way to start shopping. Sure, the Macbook Pro is $2800 (?!) but I'm sure it has a ton of stuff she's simply not interested or aware of. The general public likes cheap computers, and I personally think it's a pretty effective ad.
It would be nice if they could have had a longer version where she's in the Apple store and finds her 17" laptop but not at the price she wants.
Effective ad for me, but it's personally not going to influence any of my purchases. I buy most of my stuff off Craigslist (17 inchers for under $100? yum - that's what she said).
Politicians: Hard at work to put the "SS" in ISS.
Just Godwin'd this somehow.
Thanks for linking to your write-up, very interesting history!
Are you still in the industry?
Plus, who is their audience? People with old and clunky pc systems, who have blazing fast internet connections? There's not a whole lot of overlap, there.
Well, if they can somehow manage to get it to work, I think their audience is the gamer who wants to play newer games but not constantly keep his system updated with the latest hardware. I still play games on my Athlon 1800+ with 1GB of RAM and a 9800 Pro. It doesn't handle much of anything new, but if this service did work, I'd definitely try it out to play some of the newer games out there.
Enter the Matrix is a GREAT example of the one game that caused so many consumers to lose confidence in the video game industry. I can't think of a more hyped title with such a great license that was so utterly bad. Gamers bought this game in droves and I'm sure reviewers didn't get their hands on it until it was either nearly out or out.
I highly doubt Chrono Trigger had 1% the budget of FFXII.
One source I found said that FFXII had a budget of four billion yen, which in today's dollars is 40 million US dollars. We'll round that up to 50 million dollars just for the sake of inflation and all that.
1% of 50 million is $500,000. Chrono Trigger was released in 1995 by Squaresoft and was developed by the "Dream Team:" Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy; Akira Toriyama, lead artist for Dragonball and Dragon Quest; Yuuji Horii, another Dragon Quest artist and also CT's original writer; Masato Kato, the lead writer; and composers Yasunori Mitsuda and Nobuo Uematsu, two of the most successful Japanese composers ever.
I can't find any hard numbers, but I'm guessing in today's dollars, Chrono Trigger had a budget between five million and 25 million. The big names alone cost a lot, not to mention the rest of the crew, which was very big.
But I still see your point, Chrono Trigger is my favorite game of all time, and FFXII's story is probably my least favorite in a long while, though I did enjoy the gameplay, where you programmed your team on how to act in certain situations.
I never understood the "reality has a liberal bias" line. What is that supposed to mean? That reality thinks that universal health care is good? That taxing is generally the best solution instead of cutting programs? Can someone explain this to me?
I personally think that reality has a half libertarian bias. People want to be free and left to their own, except when they have the opportunity to mess with someone else's life.
One bright spot in this recent economic turmoil is that more people are learning a lot of surprising things about the way our "free-market capitalist" system really works. More of them are realizing that it's not "the immigrants" or "the blacks" or "Wall Street" or even "the government" that is destroying our way of life, it's something a lot more systemic.
Yeah, it's showing us that badly managed businesses will fail, see Charter. It has also showed me at least, that when the government starts to step in and hand out bailouts and stimulus, that things only get worse. Especially no strings attached stimulus. People are surprised that AIG is doing what they want with the money that was given them without any checks? I'm not. I don't blame AIG, I blame "the government" (both the old and new) for giving them any money in the first place.
The application is not made for instant gratification, you're still downloading the torrent on a dedicated, static IP machine that has its uTorrent/Vuze apis exposed via the web.
During my time at school, I would have told you to go where your heart tells you, now that I'm out and paying student loans (and hey, I went to a public school), I'd say go where your heart tells you as long as your future wallet agrees.
The bankers stole money from us...? Do you mean the money the government gave them with no strings attached?
If Steam goes down, can I still play?
Yes, Steam supports offline play.
I guess my real question is: if Valve goes down, can I still play? And I don't mean promises from Gabe that they'll release the No-Steam patch if they go bankrupt.
Can I sell it?
If Steam goes down, can I still play?
Atlas Shrugged is not actually a history book.
It definitely feels like current events though.
I have a Drupal-run site, it's my CMS and framework. Drupal is released under the GPL so I'm assuming all javascript, CSS, images, etc. are under that same umbrella. If I make a modification to the javascript or CSS, which I have, what does that mean to me?
Could someone go to my site and only run GPL'd code while ignoring mine (which I have not explicitly licensed)? I think he brings up a legitimate point.
Well, maybe Soulskill was just trying to be clever... I think it would be hard to be a Slashdot editor and not know the difference between gratis and libre.
Total anecdote, but my original Xbox was broken out of the box. Plugged it in and the first screen I see is a message in about 10 languages telling me something is broken and I should call this number.
I was able to return it to Gamestop with no problem, but this was in 2005 I believe, the Halo green Xbox.
My second one is still working today, both my wife and I use it nearly everyday with XBMC installed on it. Great little machine.
Or how about just no bailouts and let dying companies die?