Heres the problem. Nintendo does NOT compete with other developers. Hell they don't even compete with MS & Sony. To Nintendo, competition really doesn't exist. They aren't worried about beating out their competitor, but concerned with making money. If anyone else wants to make some money too they aren't going to complain. You'll find if you look at the problem with devs that don't do as well are relying on existing IP. It's not Nintendo's fault developers can't take a risk on something new (primarily Western developers are this problem). Hell, take a look at Elebits for a good example of a dev that did something unique. It's no Super Paper Mario by any means, but at least it shows us the people who brought us DDR can think outside of the box enough to make a good game.
Developers can piss themselves all day that they won't make as much as Nintendo, but it's kind of hard to have any sympathy for them when their mantra is to develop for one console, and port to the rest (and ones like EA weren't even on board till just recently!). Of course people aren't going to buy Prince of Persia in droves. It's been out for the previous generation of consoles for how many years? Developers need to just stop complaining, and stop giving excuses so they can get out from underneath Nintendo's shadow, and *gasp* do something new & interesting.
Please, take your form response, shove it up your ass, and set yourself alight. My statement is an opinion, not of fact. Do I believe we need to cut back on our waste? Of course, this is a fact given our finite number of resources available to us. I find it largely interesting that papers state data from the past 100 years or so. Last thing this planet does is work on sub-100 year cycles (we've barely had the ability to assign numbers to temperature for a couple hundred years). Do yourself a favor in the future, entertain debate, and lively discussion next time instead of being a pompous asshole who hides behind a form response. You'd look less like a psyco environmentalist. Then, and only then, will YOU have the RIGHT to even post on/. I assume you've published scientific articles on the issue since you demand that of others? Hmmmm...didn't fucking think so.
So what your saying is that people will always want to buy new music? If only that were so with music. What happens when you go from listening to less than $120 a year equivalent in new music to less than $10? Do you cancel your subscription, and lose everything? No, your forced to keep paying whatever they want for the honor of keeping access plus inflation.
Thats something else entirely, but I completely agree with (rarely even touch Advil myself). Drug testing is just a demeaning thing employers do. Most entertaining thing I've ever heard though is drug testing people in the art department. I about shit myself laughing.
Same goes for this study. They found information about the Asian beas, and zip on the ones here. The data is so preliminary it should have never made it to the press.
I'm about as big of a "down with the man" as you can be, but Global Warming has it's pitfalls. Do I admit Global Warming is happening? Yup, just like I admit back in the 70's we were going through Global Cooling. Are we having an affect on the matter? Sure! Are we affecting things as much as most are saying? I'm betting no. The planet goes through warming & cooling phases regardless of what we do. In large part this gloom & doom of Global Warming started with the psychotics over at Greenpeace, and similar terrorist style green initiative organizations that just want to bring "the man" down a notch.
Global Warming has become an accepted idea in scientific circles, and any who say otherwise, or even attempt to be rational about new research, or saying otherwise are tossed without even examining the results, or just flat-out attacked. Both sides are completely abhorrent to the thought that either could be wrong, and due to that, we'll all just have to wait another 30 years or so when the climate takes a downturn. The process begins a new, 30 years more of empirical data to skew either way, and by then, media will be even better at spinning it.
It's only a risk if your printer is an Epson generally with non-replaceable ink heads. Something like HPs you can buy the shittiest refills you can, and it doesn't matter. Ink head clogged? Oh well, hit it with a little alcohol, nope, new cart. Too bad I only got to refill that black cartrige three times for printing text.
Something else of note though. I find it highly suspicious these sites that have been doing photo ink print comparisons all of a sudden. In the control case they use OEM fresh carts, and OEM paper. Then they turn around, get the cheapest ink refill they can, and use garbage Office Depot paper, or paper that was made for a different printer entirely (the paper is the main factor in these instances). Just my 2 cents on the matter though.
Thats the lamest defense I've ever seen when people talk about cellphones. "Just carry a spare battery." The Fing point is to carry LESS stuff. Not to mention if you actually knew how a smartphone like an N95 flips out with set calendar dates & such when you pull the battery you wouldn't even make that stupid comment. Now if you were to say something like an external AA charger you'd have something, but hey, every phone ends up getting hardware the does that. Can't exactly bash the hippster Apple on that.
If your comparing the basic brick phones to the iPhone your comparing Apples to Oranges. Up next! Bitching about the gas mileage of a BMW to a Toyota Yaris.
And Nokia is any better? Stated standby time on my N95 (their crack at the iPhone) is 8.5 days. Good fucking luck with that I say. I'm charging the phone nightly, and if not that midway through the day, and I'm not that heavy of a user.
Problem is they'll likely realize in a year or two the industry needs E3. It's a kind of industry cheer thing (and forces devs to show what they've been doing), and the internet is just to big to get your independent game noticed otherwise.
More just an issue of free speech deep down. That'll get someone tossed in the next election. When the hell did a government entity have the right block access to something that wasn't obscene?
Yes it reduces cost when you need less than FOUR colors. Any other time it increases cost. Only time more than 4 makes sense is when you want your product to look it's best, and you better have massive volume of Doritos to make this worth while.
This isn't just MS hate here. The tech is pretty on paper, but will end up failing in practice. B&W bar codes are far more fault tolerant than color barcodes. Especially in low light conditions. All the software has to worry about is as to if it's seeing a monochrome black, or white. Throwing colors into the mix doesn't work nearly as well. Just look at how well color barcodes have suceeded. They've existed nearly as long as 1D barcodes, but just don't work well in practice. Hell, 2D B&W barcodes have enough problems in practice, and have to be quite larger generally or they often can't be read without special equipment.
Sure they could put shrapnel up there, but they'd screw themselves over. Destroying satellites is the absolutely last thing you wanna do. One satellite destroyed is one more object in space (likely multiple pieces) to worry about. Not to mention small pieces of shrapnel can destroy anything, and the US can't even track any debris thats smaller than a baseball. It's a mutually assured destruction kind of thing. You leave our stuff alone, or it'll invariably damage/destroy something else of yours in the 20 some years it takes to deorbit, and burn up in the atmosphere.
February:
Nintendo DS: 485,000
Nintendo Wii: 335,000
Sony PlayStation 2: 295,000
Microsoft Xbox 360: 228,000
Sony PlayStation Portable: 176,000
Nintendo Game Boy Advance: 136,000
Sony PlayStation 3: 127,000
EA is suffering already by not making nearly as much as they could be (that kinda stuff gets people replaced). Theres a good reason Nintendo has been the top developer for their system who rakes in the most cash. EA, and others write them off, and shortly after the Wii launch they were bitching about how they won't ever be as big as Nintendo on their own console vs MS & Sony who have fairly weak #s in their own offerings on their own systems. Could have something to do with Nintendo being fully behind their own console, and the quality involved, but who knows. I'd personally be happy if EA had nothing to do with Nintendo consoles. They just shovel out shitty sports games, rehashes, and half-assed ports.
Perhaps, but this is more of a case of natural selection is still there with apes. As long as a human survives past the first year or two the only thing that will kill them before they reproduce is usually their own stupidity, or another human. This isn't really that big of news. Without the eager push of natural selection a species doesn't get the weaker strains filtered out nearly as fast as the one who does.
Sounds more like an IT guy that needs the justification for a job. My work is on Exchange right now, and I'm no fan of it. Our parent company hosts it, and takes care of things since I have better things to do (like real work). Once Google's system gets a bit better (say, allow pop3 retrieval of mail marked as spam) I'm dumping Exchange like a bad habit. Sure Google may change their policies in the future, but so can I. I just have better things to do than manage an Exchange server. Hell, maybe once I need an extra reason to keep my job I'd change my tune on the matter.
Thats not very difficult to do if your doing that kind of thing in all honesty (keeping receipts on things you'd be buying anyways is fairly easy). The IRS doesn't want people who sell their old junk periodically. They want the person who is using it as a continual revenue income stream (probably 5k-10k minimum a year they want).
The OEM copies the poster is likely talking about you can buy on Ebay. I know I have. You install them only on a new machine (fresh install) so there will be no upgrading of Windows from a previous version. It's how small computer shops use OEM licenses.
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Heres the problem. Nintendo does NOT compete with other developers. Hell they don't even compete with MS & Sony. To Nintendo, competition really doesn't exist. They aren't worried about beating out their competitor, but concerned with making money. If anyone else wants to make some money too they aren't going to complain. You'll find if you look at the problem with devs that don't do as well are relying on existing IP. It's not Nintendo's fault developers can't take a risk on something new (primarily Western developers are this problem). Hell, take a look at Elebits for a good example of a dev that did something unique. It's no Super Paper Mario by any means, but at least it shows us the people who brought us DDR can think outside of the box enough to make a good game.
Developers can piss themselves all day that they won't make as much as Nintendo, but it's kind of hard to have any sympathy for them when their mantra is to develop for one console, and port to the rest (and ones like EA weren't even on board till just recently!). Of course people aren't going to buy Prince of Persia in droves. It's been out for the previous generation of consoles for how many years? Developers need to just stop complaining, and stop giving excuses so they can get out from underneath Nintendo's shadow, and *gasp* do something new & interesting.
Please, take your form response, shove it up your ass, and set yourself alight. My statement is an opinion, not of fact. Do I believe we need to cut back on our waste? Of course, this is a fact given our finite number of resources available to us. I find it largely interesting that papers state data from the past 100 years or so. Last thing this planet does is work on sub-100 year cycles (we've barely had the ability to assign numbers to temperature for a couple hundred years). Do yourself a favor in the future, entertain debate, and lively discussion next time instead of being a pompous asshole who hides behind a form response. You'd look less like a psyco environmentalist. Then, and only then, will YOU have the RIGHT to even post on /. I assume you've published scientific articles on the issue since you demand that of others? Hmmmm...didn't fucking think so.
Good Luck!
So what your saying is that people will always want to buy new music? If only that were so with music. What happens when you go from listening to less than $120 a year equivalent in new music to less than $10? Do you cancel your subscription, and lose everything? No, your forced to keep paying whatever they want for the honor of keeping access plus inflation.
Thats something else entirely, but I completely agree with (rarely even touch Advil myself). Drug testing is just a demeaning thing employers do. Most entertaining thing I've ever heard though is drug testing people in the art department. I about shit myself laughing.
Same goes for this study. They found information about the Asian beas, and zip on the ones here. The data is so preliminary it should have never made it to the press.
I'm about as big of a "down with the man" as you can be, but Global Warming has it's pitfalls. Do I admit Global Warming is happening? Yup, just like I admit back in the 70's we were going through Global Cooling. Are we having an affect on the matter? Sure! Are we affecting things as much as most are saying? I'm betting no. The planet goes through warming & cooling phases regardless of what we do. In large part this gloom & doom of Global Warming started with the psychotics over at Greenpeace, and similar terrorist style green initiative organizations that just want to bring "the man" down a notch.
Global Warming has become an accepted idea in scientific circles, and any who say otherwise, or even attempt to be rational about new research, or saying otherwise are tossed without even examining the results, or just flat-out attacked. Both sides are completely abhorrent to the thought that either could be wrong, and due to that, we'll all just have to wait another 30 years or so when the climate takes a downturn. The process begins a new, 30 years more of empirical data to skew either way, and by then, media will be even better at spinning it.
It's only a risk if your printer is an Epson generally with non-replaceable ink heads. Something like HPs you can buy the shittiest refills you can, and it doesn't matter. Ink head clogged? Oh well, hit it with a little alcohol, nope, new cart. Too bad I only got to refill that black cartrige three times for printing text.
Something else of note though. I find it highly suspicious these sites that have been doing photo ink print comparisons all of a sudden. In the control case they use OEM fresh carts, and OEM paper. Then they turn around, get the cheapest ink refill they can, and use garbage Office Depot paper, or paper that was made for a different printer entirely (the paper is the main factor in these instances). Just my 2 cents on the matter though.
Thats not engrossed, you, are obsessed. That game came out how many years ago?
Then why bitch? Because you aren't their target demographic? Boo hoo.
Thats the lamest defense I've ever seen when people talk about cellphones. "Just carry a spare battery." The Fing point is to carry LESS stuff. Not to mention if you actually knew how a smartphone like an N95 flips out with set calendar dates & such when you pull the battery you wouldn't even make that stupid comment. Now if you were to say something like an external AA charger you'd have something, but hey, every phone ends up getting hardware the does that. Can't exactly bash the hippster Apple on that.
If your comparing the basic brick phones to the iPhone your comparing Apples to Oranges. Up next! Bitching about the gas mileage of a BMW to a Toyota Yaris.
Cooking Mama as the latest noteworthy release? Super Paper Mario came out a couple weeks ago. Hardly a bland game.
MSE & BB are both passing technology. Give me IMAP support just about every phone supports any day over that lockin garbage.
And Nokia is any better? Stated standby time on my N95 (their crack at the iPhone) is 8.5 days. Good fucking luck with that I say. I'm charging the phone nightly, and if not that midway through the day, and I'm not that heavy of a user.
Problem is they'll likely realize in a year or two the industry needs E3. It's a kind of industry cheer thing (and forces devs to show what they've been doing), and the internet is just to big to get your independent game noticed otherwise.
More just an issue of free speech deep down. That'll get someone tossed in the next election. When the hell did a government entity have the right block access to something that wasn't obscene?
Yes it reduces cost when you need less than FOUR colors. Any other time it increases cost. Only time more than 4 makes sense is when you want your product to look it's best, and you better have massive volume of Doritos to make this worth while.
This isn't just MS hate here. The tech is pretty on paper, but will end up failing in practice. B&W bar codes are far more fault tolerant than color barcodes. Especially in low light conditions. All the software has to worry about is as to if it's seeing a monochrome black, or white. Throwing colors into the mix doesn't work nearly as well. Just look at how well color barcodes have suceeded. They've existed nearly as long as 1D barcodes, but just don't work well in practice. Hell, 2D B&W barcodes have enough problems in practice, and have to be quite larger generally or they often can't be read without special equipment.
Sure they could put shrapnel up there, but they'd screw themselves over. Destroying satellites is the absolutely last thing you wanna do. One satellite destroyed is one more object in space (likely multiple pieces) to worry about. Not to mention small pieces of shrapnel can destroy anything, and the US can't even track any debris thats smaller than a baseball. It's a mutually assured destruction kind of thing. You leave our stuff alone, or it'll invariably damage/destroy something else of yours in the 20 some years it takes to deorbit, and burn up in the atmosphere.
February:
Nintendo DS: 485,000
Nintendo Wii: 335,000
Sony PlayStation 2: 295,000
Microsoft Xbox 360: 228,000
Sony PlayStation Portable: 176,000
Nintendo Game Boy Advance: 136,000
Sony PlayStation 3: 127,000
You don't keep up on things very well I take it.
EA is suffering already by not making nearly as much as they could be (that kinda stuff gets people replaced). Theres a good reason Nintendo has been the top developer for their system who rakes in the most cash. EA, and others write them off, and shortly after the Wii launch they were bitching about how they won't ever be as big as Nintendo on their own console vs MS & Sony who have fairly weak #s in their own offerings on their own systems. Could have something to do with Nintendo being fully behind their own console, and the quality involved, but who knows. I'd personally be happy if EA had nothing to do with Nintendo consoles. They just shovel out shitty sports games, rehashes, and half-assed ports.
Perhaps, but this is more of a case of natural selection is still there with apes. As long as a human survives past the first year or two the only thing that will kill them before they reproduce is usually their own stupidity, or another human. This isn't really that big of news. Without the eager push of natural selection a species doesn't get the weaker strains filtered out nearly as fast as the one who does.
Sounds more like an IT guy that needs the justification for a job. My work is on Exchange right now, and I'm no fan of it. Our parent company hosts it, and takes care of things since I have better things to do (like real work). Once Google's system gets a bit better (say, allow pop3 retrieval of mail marked as spam) I'm dumping Exchange like a bad habit. Sure Google may change their policies in the future, but so can I. I just have better things to do than manage an Exchange server. Hell, maybe once I need an extra reason to keep my job I'd change my tune on the matter.
Thats not very difficult to do if your doing that kind of thing in all honesty (keeping receipts on things you'd be buying anyways is fairly easy). The IRS doesn't want people who sell their old junk periodically. They want the person who is using it as a continual revenue income stream (probably 5k-10k minimum a year they want).
The OEM copies the poster is likely talking about you can buy on Ebay. I know I have. You install them only on a new machine (fresh install) so there will be no upgrading of Windows from a previous version. It's how small computer shops use OEM licenses.