"And I want to have a say in how microsoft does business, but then again I didn't create microsoft, so I don't get to control it."
Slashdot needs an Irrelevant moderation choice. Offtopic doesn't quite cut it there.
The Labour Party describe themselves as socialists to try and keep the socialists on their side. They are far from socialist now.
They used to sing the Red Flag before their party conferences and believed in state ownership of economy. When Tony Blair became Labour leader, he removed Clause IV from Labour doctrine (the most sacrosanct clause the party had, it was about public ownership of the highest levels of the economy) and stopped them singing the Red Flag. To try and convince socialists that they are still socialist, they have this apparent 'middle way', where arrangements called Public-Private Partnerships are arranged. This is basically privatisation by another means. Example of a PPP: hiring private company Borlis to maintain public highways.
The Labour Party is as conservative as the Conservatives used to be, and in moving this way they've forced the Conservatives even further out to the Right.
Exactly. AMD want to beat Intel's mobile chips, and acquiring (that's what it would be, by the way - not a merger) ATI gives them an opportunity to repurpose their mobile technology. It wouldn't stop AMD and nVidia having the same good partnership they currently have, as AMD would have removed nVidia's main competitor... it's not like AMD would be going into producing their own graphics cards.
A computer shop in Manchester will begin selling AM2 motherboards and CPUs in a matter of days. Compare it to the FX-62 and we'll see. A fair test this time, please.
"EA aiming for 50% of the games they put their name on, but don't develop themselves, to be innovative."
I guess it doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
Recently I'd say MS have been anything but negligent towards security. People refusing to patch up, or using out of date Windows (i.e. 95/98) are a bigger problem.
Indeed. Splinter Cell 3 had the most ridiculous adverts in. Like a close-up of Wrigley's Airwaves at the beginning of an FMV. I laughed. I played on. I highly doubt the placement of ads in-game will illict a response to the effect of damaged game sales. That's why they can place the ads there... no one cares, and it's good market penetration.
This is true. I an my friends watched the E3 coverage over the 'Net. Beforehand, we were pretty keen on the 360, quite psyched for the Wii, and, as usual, fairly ambivalent towards the PS3. Afterwards, we're all getting 360s and definitely getting Wiis.
I think the trend identified here is set to continue well into the year. The 360 has some really top notch games coming out, with Gears of War and Chrome Hounds just two of them. Huxley is also shaping up quite well, even though it has recieved mixed reviews.
Turns out console gaming in 2006 is going to be just as awesome as PC gaming in 2006."
Merril Lynch's firm estimate was that it would cost >$900 to manufacture. Their extrapolation to release price did not take into account Sony's penchant for taking a sizeable loss on consoles sold so that they can make it back. AFAIK, analyst do not predict buisiness models, even with precedent.
You think five in every six people on Earth will see it on the Internet? As of the start of this year, less than two billion people of the six billion on the planet have access to the Internet (closer to one billion than two).
Personally I don't eat in restaurants pretentious enough to call snail 'escargot'.
I know if I were a boss, I'd be far more impressed with the worker who paid for a foot long sub than a worker who took me to a stick-up-its-ass 'fine dining' restaurant. There's making a good impression, and then there's throwing away good money just to look as good as possible by elitist standards.
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Yeah but it ain't no series of tubes, neither, dangit!
"And I want to have a say in how microsoft does business, but then again I didn't create microsoft, so I don't get to control it." Slashdot needs an Irrelevant moderation choice. Offtopic doesn't quite cut it there.
Indeed so. Are humans inherently selfish, or does prolonged exposure to 'dog-eat-dog' systems such as Capitalism breed selfishness amongst humans.
Yup... just like the ridiculous 'Super HD' resolutions Sony promised us in the PS3.
The all-but-official Kings of Making Shit Up. I don't believe anything Sony promise until I can see it in real-life.
I agree, except for the bit about China being communist... they're fascists, or state capitalists, call it what you will.
The Labour Party describe themselves as socialists to try and keep the socialists on their side. They are far from socialist now.
They used to sing the Red Flag before their party conferences and believed in state ownership of economy. When Tony Blair became Labour leader, he removed Clause IV from Labour doctrine (the most sacrosanct clause the party had, it was about public ownership of the highest levels of the economy) and stopped them singing the Red Flag. To try and convince socialists that they are still socialist, they have this apparent 'middle way', where arrangements called Public-Private Partnerships are arranged. This is basically privatisation by another means. Example of a PPP: hiring private company Borlis to maintain public highways.
The Labour Party is as conservative as the Conservatives used to be, and in moving this way they've forced the Conservatives even further out to the Right.
If I'd made that post I think I'd post it AC too.
Exactly. AMD want to beat Intel's mobile chips, and acquiring (that's what it would be, by the way - not a merger) ATI gives them an opportunity to repurpose their mobile technology. It wouldn't stop AMD and nVidia having the same good partnership they currently have, as AMD would have removed nVidia's main competitor... it's not like AMD would be going into producing their own graphics cards.
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I got to the end of the platforming section and thought they'd made a grave error and totally forgot about Mario Is Missing.
Fortunately it wasn't so. The last paragraph of the article saved us all.
Indeed. Hopefully the meta-modding will catch that. Reminds me, I've not done my slashdot duty today.
"You must be very proud of yourself."
I think if this public service announcement teaches us anything, it's that voice debate on the Internet is a bad thing.
A computer shop in Manchester will begin selling AM2 motherboards and CPUs in a matter of days. Compare it to the FX-62 and we'll see. A fair test this time, please.
"EA aiming for 50% of the games they put their name on, but don't develop themselves, to be innovative." I guess it doesn't roll off the tongue as well.
Recently I'd say MS have been anything but negligent towards security. People refusing to patch up, or using out of date Windows (i.e. 95/98) are a bigger problem.
I believe the appropriate response is "I for one welcome our giant high-definition feline overlords."
Thank You! Reading down the first sets of comments I had to wonder where all the people who knew what they were talking about had gone.
... nanotechnology regulates you!
(I'm sorry.)
Indeed. Splinter Cell 3 had the most ridiculous adverts in. Like a close-up of Wrigley's Airwaves at the beginning of an FMV. I laughed. I played on. I highly doubt the placement of ads in-game will illict a response to the effect of damaged game sales. That's why they can place the ads there... no one cares, and it's good market penetration.
This is true. I an my friends watched the E3 coverage over the 'Net. Beforehand, we were pretty keen on the 360, quite psyched for the Wii, and, as usual, fairly ambivalent towards the PS3. Afterwards, we're all getting 360s and definitely getting Wiis.
I think the trend identified here is set to continue well into the year. The 360 has some really top notch games coming out, with Gears of War and Chrome Hounds just two of them. Huxley is also shaping up quite well, even though it has recieved mixed reviews.
Turns out console gaming in 2006 is going to be just as awesome as PC gaming in 2006."
Merril Lynch's firm estimate was that it would cost >$900 to manufacture. Their extrapolation to release price did not take into account Sony's penchant for taking a sizeable loss on consoles sold so that they can make it back. AFAIK, analyst do not predict buisiness models, even with precedent.
You think five in every six people on Earth will see it on the Internet? As of the start of this year, less than two billion people of the six billion on the planet have access to the Internet (closer to one billion than two).
Personally I don't eat in restaurants pretentious enough to call snail 'escargot'.
I know if I were a boss, I'd be far more impressed with the worker who paid for a foot long sub than a worker who took me to a stick-up-its-ass 'fine dining' restaurant. There's making a good impression, and then there's throwing away good money just to look as good as possible by elitist standards.