The real question is have is how is this supposed to make them money? Any investors that find out about this should be throwing a shitfit, and replacing anyone involved with this. Decisions like this look to make AT&T LOSE more money than they gain. Time spent on a such a dumbassed idea, pissed off customers, lawsuits when they fail to filter, lawsuits for filtering the wrong content, etc. This makes beyond no sense.
News at 11! Corporation takes money earned in one less profitable area of the company, and puts it into the development of another area of the company! WTF!?!?!?
Customers don't complain loudly enough about such things, so I personally have little sympathy for most people here in the US. Just one more reason for me to keep looking for greener pastures elsewhere in the world. Sad thing is on my trip to China I just got back from that it's more competitive with it's own consumers than the US is with it's own. Just the government is getting it's cut in the action from all sides usually there.
The gp's link provided is purely by some crazy conspiracy theorist. It's a known fact the CIA is involved with them. Hell, before they bought Keyhole (known now as Google Earth) the CIA owned at least a 10% stake in the company. I say there is a very good chance they are dealings with the CIA beyond that though. They'd be stupid not to approach Google in some capacity. They have amazing algorithms down there, and I'm sure the CIA is paying them top dollar. Business is likely as far as the arrangement goes though. I'm fairly sure they don't even bother requesting information from Google they out not be requesting. They honestly don't need to. Thats the kind of thing the DOJ, and other clueless people in the government do.
Heres the trick none of those religious nutjobs get. The US government at least, does not legally recognize religion in any way, shape, or form. They just get tax exempt, non-profit status. Why is beyond me since almost all of them seem to be raking in the cash like it's nobody's business. Would really take their arguments out from underneath them if religious people could be coherently reasoned with.
You apparently never used PS1. Up until 3.0 there were no layers, single undo up till 5.0 (single layer + single undo up till 3.0 took some SERIOUS skill), and other improvements as time went on. Now if you want to talk about an app thats seen next to no improvement over time, look at Illustrator. I started with 3.0, and really haven't seen that huge of a leap in new features. Vector art really doesn't get too whiz-bangy, but I keep upgrading just to be able to read other people's files. Bah...Microsoft 101 right there.
Ugghhh, I remember owning that player, and a few other Rio players. I couldn't even begin to call them decent. Sure they were smaller than a CD player, but the music sounded horrid, and controls somehow sucked more than a CD player, which was about a quarter of the price. No I do not enjoy transferring songs for half an hour just to change a single CD of songs. It was an important player, but man did it suck.
Hey, if Russia, and Mexico were up for it, had a valid reason, and were all buddy buddy I'd say go for it (wheres th rouge state on our continent who can strike at Russia?). A meager 10 missile defense system means shit next to each countrie's massive stockpiles. If either country launched an offensive on the other with missiles, no countermeasure system short of some Star Trek style shield of doom would stop the other country. This is purely posturing, and distractions from other more important issues Putin has on his plate back at home.
I like how you talk almost like MAD wouldn't affect you. If someone is going down they generally end up taking everyone else they can down with them too. MAD is the only thinking holding the world together atm. One day that may change, but not today. Crazy little extremists right now however are threatening that system. They have this fucked up little desire TO die. Thats a system that is completely incompatible even with itself. It's a genetic, dead, end.
Yes, you have such a broader view. Sounds like your just skewed in yet another way personally. Stop "thinking" those countries don't want those defense weapons, and do some damn research on your own instead of guessing what you want the truth to be (or I dunno, use some critical thinking). It's what continually fucks up history. People who just believe what they want to believe. The US can't FORCE a country to take those defense systems (unless they are occupying). They have to actually want them to be installed. Surprise surprise, both Czech, and Poland's government want the systems installed. It's their sovereign territory afterall. Only people really bitching about the installation are those extremely small cluster of inhabitants around the installation's proposed location. To make the matter more interesting the Communist Party in the region is running a propaganda campaign. No wonder the people are bitching about it.
I'm from the US personally, and have my own hatred for the country (currently in Hong Kong), but all of this is boiling down to the US wanting to protect itself, and others from unknown rouge groups from firing small amounts of hostilities at ourselves, and others just because we are free in our political, and religious beliefs. This system would drop at most 10 of the 1000s of missiles the Soviets have. On the other side you have a government official who needs a distraction from more important issues (hey not only the US does that!).
As much as I hate the military industrial complex we all having going, I would certainly love to see how the world would keep itself stable if the US really minded it's own business, and pulled out of all military installations that are not on it's own soil. So many countries would be utterly screwed, and thrown back into old, and completely fucking stupid conflicts (not to mention unleash current monsters it mostly keeps caged in their own country) without the looming giant known as the US military who is happy to put it's nose where it may or may not belong. I'll take a well meaning, dumb brute behind me any day over an obviously insane dictator next door with delusions of grandeur, and genocide. The systems not perfect, but if you have a better solution, please do run for office wherever you live. People are open to suggestions!
Meh, I skip roughly 80% of all commercials. It's the benefit to owning a Replay. The earlier units have a fairly nice auto commercial skip. Gets annoying with shows like Lost where I have to turn it off since it'll skip during the actual show due to the wild changes in video lighting cuts, and volume.
Your kidding me right? Both are the target of the GP's rage. Last thing the world needs is another fucking 5 hour game turned into a 60 hour random set of fight sequences where the goal is more to max your character out over actually finishing the game. Xenosaga was a good game, but you gota admit. The story wasn't that strong. Oh teh noes! Monsters! Can't really say the same about KH though. Sure I'll get flamed for it, but compared to RPGs that came before it? Super Mario RPG had more entertainment value, and a better storyline to boot. At least it kept things slightly fresh.
If you want unlimited you pay for a business connection. The max home connection I can get is 6MB/786KB, and maxes out around 150gb. I've gone years killing over 300gb a month usually, add just went to a business connection with the same speeds (slightly higher up though), and they won't dare bitch about my consumption (never did until they thought I had a viri once). Response time for down times is a hell of allot better too. 2hr to have a truck at my door 24/7.
Your shitting me right? Turning that kinda thing over to the government would get family groups involved with games they've never seen. A whole lobbying industry would spring up overnight in the interest of "protecting the children" oh dear god why won't someone just think of the fucking adults who just want to buy the games, and not deal with the bullshit? At least with the way it is the ESRB is fair unless the game companies have something hidden, or flat out forgot to take out (GTA:SA). Turning something over to the government to be done is when you yourself admit you are incapable of doing it yourself. If parents can't look at the game box, and figure out Doom 3 is all about blow shit up with yummy bloody bits. I think they should just turn their kids over to the government. They have no intrest in being a parent if they are THAT disconnected from their children's life. If your going to breed a people who are reliant upon the nanny state, at least do it right I say.
Yeah, thats what devs tell hopeful 18yr olds. Worked in enough game companies, and I've known the testers generally. They are generally stuck in some really shitty room, and regarded as a lower being. In my years I have only ever seen one tester move out of test, and that was to QA code directly. Never seen an artist emerge, never seen a programmer, nothing has ever come out of test. How I got my foot in the door? I interned for bout 4-5 months in the marketing department doing design-work. Even when I was just a lowly intern NOT getting paid I was more highly regarded.
The way it works anywhere is you have to talk to people. People in QA have virtually no reason to talk to anyone in the company outside of QA. Due to that, anyone you talk to instantly takes the notion that you want something (too many hopefuls, and not enough talent). Hell even when I was an intern people in QA thought I could help them go elsewhere in the company. If people have that delusion that QA will help them get into the industry though, I say by all means! I sure as hell won't ever work QA. Just don't be shocked when the project your on finishes, and you get laid off.
battle.net was just Blizzard following suit of previous developers such as Westwood Studios. Next your gona say Command & Conquer sprung from Warcraft.
Wow, you had me until you mentioned the dev kit is small enough to put on every developers desk as a reason devs like them (Wii devkits are smaller still I believe). Thats the last thing devs care about. It's more the high cost per dev kit devs care about. Nintendo initially was giving out Dev kits for nothin, and the price for them now is at MOST $1,750. Just for contrast, the PSP dev kit is a bit over $4,000, original PS2 Dev kit was $18,000, original Xbox was just a little under that, and current dev kits can't be too far off with the current gen systems. This is an instance that just upgrading previous gen technology is very worth it.
Please, pull your head out of the sand fanboy. Wii Devkits are dirt cheap (less than two weeks of employing a dev), and anyone who ever coded for a Gamecube knows allot about the Wii by default. Can't even begin to stay that about the 360, or PS3.
Yeah, because developers shouldn't have to be held to the same standards as Nintendo. Not to mention, Nintendo is a bastard about putting out comes continuously. I buy a crapload of games, and the last game I picked up for the Wii before Super Paper Mario came out for the Wii was Elebits when it came out (Virtual Console games not counted). Thats a pretty fucking long lull any, and every developer *cough* EA *cough* should have jumped on. Too bad none of them had the brains to realize what was going on at the last E3, and are bitching now that they have to play catchup, or bitch when their game thats just a port doesn't sell like Super Paper Mario (Prince of Persia).
And one more thing. Who cares if they have to sit next to a Nintendo title? They are competing with them if they are on a Nintendo console or not. If they choose not to go for the Wii they risk developing for systems that are by & large have less interest (360s barely selling more at this point because it has a year head-start), and cost far more to develop for. At least if your game is directly next to a Nintendo title it's likely getting a whole lot more potential buyer eyeballs looking at it than if it had been on the other systems right now.
It's not that Greenpeace is even making assumptions. Greenpeace is just a terrorist organization that hates corporate America. Whats worse is that newspapers carry their tripe, and now we have Jobs actually acknowledging they exist. YOU DON'T FUCKING NEGOTIATE WITH SOMEONE WHO'S WILLING TO SET OFF A BOMB TO PROVE A POINT!!!
Yeah, hate to break it to you, but BR has failed. Not against HD-DVD, but itself. DVD is good enough for 99% of the population. The sales figures validate this assumption as well. A higher price per disk, and new hardware for something that really all it has going for it is that it's "more digital" than the thing it wants so badly to replace is not what I'd call "compelling". Most of the population watches movies & TV on sub 30" TVs still, and pretty much will until the end of time. People only have so much money, and space to deal with.
I have an exception to what your statement says. Put your family on Wii Sports, and there won't be one person who doesn't pick it up within a minute or two.
Wow, a pirate that thinks he knows jack about how handheld carts work. Most of the DS flash carts use very slow read, but quick writing flash cards. Older GBA carts utilize higher quality (almost on par with what Nintendo uses) memory. Thats why if you have a lower quality GBA cart (ones made for DS games), the game would actually crash. It's expecting to stream all content on the fly, and if one piece isn't there when it's expected the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. Now with the DS it had the same problem initially until flash cart makers got the bright idea to drop some code in that would allow the game to stream, yet not freak out when things got too slow (you can't avoid it short of going with a non-removeable flash memory cart). Just like any other cart based system, both systems stream artwork, and other data on the fly as needed when the memory is full. When you have that kind of setup, your needs for expensive battery sucking memory goes down sharply. Ever notice how a flash cart has considerably less play time than a legitimate cart?
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The real question is have is how is this supposed to make them money? Any investors that find out about this should be throwing a shitfit, and replacing anyone involved with this. Decisions like this look to make AT&T LOSE more money than they gain. Time spent on a such a dumbassed idea, pissed off customers, lawsuits when they fail to filter, lawsuits for filtering the wrong content, etc. This makes beyond no sense.
News at 11! Corporation takes money earned in one less profitable area of the company, and puts it into the development of another area of the company! WTF!?!?!?
Customers don't complain loudly enough about such things, so I personally have little sympathy for most people here in the US. Just one more reason for me to keep looking for greener pastures elsewhere in the world. Sad thing is on my trip to China I just got back from that it's more competitive with it's own consumers than the US is with it's own. Just the government is getting it's cut in the action from all sides usually there.
The gp's link provided is purely by some crazy conspiracy theorist. It's a known fact the CIA is involved with them. Hell, before they bought Keyhole (known now as Google Earth) the CIA owned at least a 10% stake in the company. I say there is a very good chance they are dealings with the CIA beyond that though. They'd be stupid not to approach Google in some capacity. They have amazing algorithms down there, and I'm sure the CIA is paying them top dollar. Business is likely as far as the arrangement goes though. I'm fairly sure they don't even bother requesting information from Google they out not be requesting. They honestly don't need to. Thats the kind of thing the DOJ, and other clueless people in the government do.
Heres the trick none of those religious nutjobs get. The US government at least, does not legally recognize religion in any way, shape, or form. They just get tax exempt, non-profit status. Why is beyond me since almost all of them seem to be raking in the cash like it's nobody's business. Would really take their arguments out from underneath them if religious people could be coherently reasoned with.
You apparently never used PS1. Up until 3.0 there were no layers, single undo up till 5.0 (single layer + single undo up till 3.0 took some SERIOUS skill), and other improvements as time went on. Now if you want to talk about an app thats seen next to no improvement over time, look at Illustrator. I started with 3.0, and really haven't seen that huge of a leap in new features. Vector art really doesn't get too whiz-bangy, but I keep upgrading just to be able to read other people's files. Bah...Microsoft 101 right there.
Ugghhh, I remember owning that player, and a few other Rio players. I couldn't even begin to call them decent. Sure they were smaller than a CD player, but the music sounded horrid, and controls somehow sucked more than a CD player, which was about a quarter of the price. No I do not enjoy transferring songs for half an hour just to change a single CD of songs. It was an important player, but man did it suck.
Then bitch at the manufacturer for not supporting post-script at least. Theres no good fucking reason not to use a standardized system for printing.
Hey, if Russia, and Mexico were up for it, had a valid reason, and were all buddy buddy I'd say go for it (wheres th rouge state on our continent who can strike at Russia?). A meager 10 missile defense system means shit next to each countrie's massive stockpiles. If either country launched an offensive on the other with missiles, no countermeasure system short of some Star Trek style shield of doom would stop the other country. This is purely posturing, and distractions from other more important issues Putin has on his plate back at home.
I like how you talk almost like MAD wouldn't affect you. If someone is going down they generally end up taking everyone else they can down with them too. MAD is the only thinking holding the world together atm. One day that may change, but not today. Crazy little extremists right now however are threatening that system. They have this fucked up little desire TO die. Thats a system that is completely incompatible even with itself. It's a genetic, dead, end.
Yes, you have such a broader view. Sounds like your just skewed in yet another way personally. Stop "thinking" those countries don't want those defense weapons, and do some damn research on your own instead of guessing what you want the truth to be (or I dunno, use some critical thinking). It's what continually fucks up history. People who just believe what they want to believe. The US can't FORCE a country to take those defense systems (unless they are occupying). They have to actually want them to be installed. Surprise surprise, both Czech, and Poland's government want the systems installed. It's their sovereign territory afterall. Only people really bitching about the installation are those extremely small cluster of inhabitants around the installation's proposed location. To make the matter more interesting the Communist Party in the region is running a propaganda campaign. No wonder the people are bitching about it.
I'm from the US personally, and have my own hatred for the country (currently in Hong Kong), but all of this is boiling down to the US wanting to protect itself, and others from unknown rouge groups from firing small amounts of hostilities at ourselves, and others just because we are free in our political, and religious beliefs. This system would drop at most 10 of the 1000s of missiles the Soviets have. On the other side you have a government official who needs a distraction from more important issues (hey not only the US does that!).
As much as I hate the military industrial complex we all having going, I would certainly love to see how the world would keep itself stable if the US really minded it's own business, and pulled out of all military installations that are not on it's own soil. So many countries would be utterly screwed, and thrown back into old, and completely fucking stupid conflicts (not to mention unleash current monsters it mostly keeps caged in their own country) without the looming giant known as the US military who is happy to put it's nose where it may or may not belong. I'll take a well meaning, dumb brute behind me any day over an obviously insane dictator next door with delusions of grandeur, and genocide. The systems not perfect, but if you have a better solution, please do run for office wherever you live. People are open to suggestions!
Meh, I skip roughly 80% of all commercials. It's the benefit to owning a Replay. The earlier units have a fairly nice auto commercial skip. Gets annoying with shows like Lost where I have to turn it off since it'll skip during the actual show due to the wild changes in video lighting cuts, and volume.
Your kidding me right? Both are the target of the GP's rage. Last thing the world needs is another fucking 5 hour game turned into a 60 hour random set of fight sequences where the goal is more to max your character out over actually finishing the game. Xenosaga was a good game, but you gota admit. The story wasn't that strong. Oh teh noes! Monsters! Can't really say the same about KH though. Sure I'll get flamed for it, but compared to RPGs that came before it? Super Mario RPG had more entertainment value, and a better storyline to boot. At least it kept things slightly fresh.
You carry keys!?!?!? You knuckle dragger! Get yourself a driver =P
If you want unlimited you pay for a business connection. The max home connection I can get is 6MB/786KB, and maxes out around 150gb. I've gone years killing over 300gb a month usually, add just went to a business connection with the same speeds (slightly higher up though), and they won't dare bitch about my consumption (never did until they thought I had a viri once). Response time for down times is a hell of allot better too. 2hr to have a truck at my door 24/7.
Uh, wow, troll of doom with the intelligence of a goldfish. Same memory span too.
Your shitting me right? Turning that kinda thing over to the government would get family groups involved with games they've never seen. A whole lobbying industry would spring up overnight in the interest of "protecting the children" oh dear god why won't someone just think of the fucking adults who just want to buy the games, and not deal with the bullshit? At least with the way it is the ESRB is fair unless the game companies have something hidden, or flat out forgot to take out (GTA:SA). Turning something over to the government to be done is when you yourself admit you are incapable of doing it yourself. If parents can't look at the game box, and figure out Doom 3 is all about blow shit up with yummy bloody bits. I think they should just turn their kids over to the government. They have no intrest in being a parent if they are THAT disconnected from their children's life. If your going to breed a people who are reliant upon the nanny state, at least do it right I say.
Yeah, thats what devs tell hopeful 18yr olds. Worked in enough game companies, and I've known the testers generally. They are generally stuck in some really shitty room, and regarded as a lower being. In my years I have only ever seen one tester move out of test, and that was to QA code directly. Never seen an artist emerge, never seen a programmer, nothing has ever come out of test. How I got my foot in the door? I interned for bout 4-5 months in the marketing department doing design-work. Even when I was just a lowly intern NOT getting paid I was more highly regarded.
The way it works anywhere is you have to talk to people. People in QA have virtually no reason to talk to anyone in the company outside of QA. Due to that, anyone you talk to instantly takes the notion that you want something (too many hopefuls, and not enough talent). Hell even when I was an intern people in QA thought I could help them go elsewhere in the company. If people have that delusion that QA will help them get into the industry though, I say by all means! I sure as hell won't ever work QA. Just don't be shocked when the project your on finishes, and you get laid off.
Japanese are doing that kind of stuff too. 39 can be pronounced san-kyu, and theres others, but I forget now.
battle.net was just Blizzard following suit of previous developers such as Westwood Studios. Next your gona say Command & Conquer sprung from Warcraft.
Wow, you had me until you mentioned the dev kit is small enough to put on every developers desk as a reason devs like them (Wii devkits are smaller still I believe). Thats the last thing devs care about. It's more the high cost per dev kit devs care about. Nintendo initially was giving out Dev kits for nothin, and the price for them now is at MOST $1,750. Just for contrast, the PSP dev kit is a bit over $4,000, original PS2 Dev kit was $18,000, original Xbox was just a little under that, and current dev kits can't be too far off with the current gen systems. This is an instance that just upgrading previous gen technology is very worth it.
Please, pull your head out of the sand fanboy. Wii Devkits are dirt cheap (less than two weeks of employing a dev), and anyone who ever coded for a Gamecube knows allot about the Wii by default. Can't even begin to stay that about the 360, or PS3.
Yeah, because developers shouldn't have to be held to the same standards as Nintendo. Not to mention, Nintendo is a bastard about putting out comes continuously. I buy a crapload of games, and the last game I picked up for the Wii before Super Paper Mario came out for the Wii was Elebits when it came out (Virtual Console games not counted). Thats a pretty fucking long lull any, and every developer *cough* EA *cough* should have jumped on. Too bad none of them had the brains to realize what was going on at the last E3, and are bitching now that they have to play catchup, or bitch when their game thats just a port doesn't sell like Super Paper Mario (Prince of Persia).
And one more thing. Who cares if they have to sit next to a Nintendo title? They are competing with them if they are on a Nintendo console or not. If they choose not to go for the Wii they risk developing for systems that are by & large have less interest (360s barely selling more at this point because it has a year head-start), and cost far more to develop for. At least if your game is directly next to a Nintendo title it's likely getting a whole lot more potential buyer eyeballs looking at it than if it had been on the other systems right now.
It's not that Greenpeace is even making assumptions. Greenpeace is just a terrorist organization that hates corporate America. Whats worse is that newspapers carry their tripe, and now we have Jobs actually acknowledging they exist. YOU DON'T FUCKING NEGOTIATE WITH SOMEONE WHO'S WILLING TO SET OFF A BOMB TO PROVE A POINT!!!
Yeah, hate to break it to you, but BR has failed. Not against HD-DVD, but itself. DVD is good enough for 99% of the population. The sales figures validate this assumption as well. A higher price per disk, and new hardware for something that really all it has going for it is that it's "more digital" than the thing it wants so badly to replace is not what I'd call "compelling". Most of the population watches movies & TV on sub 30" TVs still, and pretty much will until the end of time. People only have so much money, and space to deal with.
I have an exception to what your statement says. Put your family on Wii Sports, and there won't be one person who doesn't pick it up within a minute or two.
Wow, a pirate that thinks he knows jack about how handheld carts work. Most of the DS flash carts use very slow read, but quick writing flash cards. Older GBA carts utilize higher quality (almost on par with what Nintendo uses) memory. Thats why if you have a lower quality GBA cart (ones made for DS games), the game would actually crash. It's expecting to stream all content on the fly, and if one piece isn't there when it's expected the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. Now with the DS it had the same problem initially until flash cart makers got the bright idea to drop some code in that would allow the game to stream, yet not freak out when things got too slow (you can't avoid it short of going with a non-removeable flash memory cart). Just like any other cart based system, both systems stream artwork, and other data on the fly as needed when the memory is full. When you have that kind of setup, your needs for expensive battery sucking memory goes down sharply. Ever notice how a flash cart has considerably less play time than a legitimate cart?