You, Mr(s)AC, obviously have never driven in Phoenix. 10mph over the posted speed limit is the norm on any of the many freeways crossing the metro area. It's not speeding, it's keeping up with the flow of traffic. I have witnessed many a highway patrol vehicle driving 10 over the speed limit and as long as the traffic is moving, not pulling people over who go past them (as long as they are not flying pass). It's not leadfoot, it's survival!
Not a Nintendo fanboi, but I have to say that so far, when Nintendo has stated that something will be released on a certian date, they normally release on that date. Just my.02
I have been programming going on 10 years now, the last 4 or 5 mainly doing.NET C#/VB.NET stuff. I had this exact discussion with some other programmers the other day, and my boss chimed in as well. The general consensus was, if you are programming, certificates are about worthless in the MS world. My boss mentioned that not only does he not really care if someone is certified or not, he has noticed that those with certifications tend to not have the same amount of 'real world' knowledge as someone who is.
In my own personal experience, the only time a certification is worth it is if you are working for a company that pays more based on having one, such as a college or government entity. Sure, they may educate you on how to do things the right way, but a lot of the time the 'wrong' way is not only faster (both performance wise and coding wise), but also allows you to do things that are nigh impossible to do if you follow the conventions that certificates would show you.
My first major introduction to computer games was on a C64. Sure, I played cartridge games on the Vic-20, but some of my most fond memories of gaming come from the C-64. Already owning a 360, I was going to put off buying another system for a few years till they dropped in price. Now, I might be in live for the Wii when it ships. Does anyone remember the ninja game for the C-64, the one where you would find different weapons laying around, angle view playing, little black ninja, etc.etc?
I am just thinking that it might have something to do with that $600 graphics card is part of a computer, that you can do unlimited things with? A console is made for playing games, that is it. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be made into the 'center of the living room' or some such tripe, but it boils down to 'it plays games'.
Yeah, that $600 graphics card is bought to play games, but it also has other qualities that make it worth that price. But honestly, I know a grand total of 1 person that has a $600 graphics card in their computer. Most, your 'grand percentage', have a good mid-priced $250 graphics card, which handles games well, just not 16xAA at 1900x1200 res with the graphic quality cranked. $600 for a console is absurd.
"But it's also a blu-ray player..." Whoop-de-doo. Just what I need, another quality Sony proprietary format on an untested player that chances are will crap out in less then a year. What gets me is all the pro-PS3 people trying to convince me that the PS3 is a great bargain. I make a good wage, over the going British salary I am sure, and I will be damned if I spend $600 for a console, especially one that is pushing a new untested format, that no one has seen a demonstrated online capability for, and by all accounts the games for it are not meeting up to hype that is surrounding them.
I truely believe that a child will grow up to be a product of their environment. My two year old, who spent the first 8 months of his life sitting on my wifes lap/breast feeding while she was at work in front of a computer. He then spent the next year sitting on my lap or playing in the computer room as I was working. He has been exposed to computers his whole life. It should have come as no surprise to me when I came home the other day, and he has turned on the computer, clicked the login button, opened up IE and clicked the 'favorite' icon and opened SesameStreet.com. He had seen me do it a thousand times while growing up to keep him entertained while I was off on the other monitor doing something else.
While I agree that children need more stimulation then what they can gather from digital means, it doens't mean that we should remove it until they are a certian age. We are in the digital age, when more and more information is coming down the 'intertubes'. Nothing is going to replace real life experience, but I think that by exposing a child to the information that is out there, be it through the computer or other digital means, is a way to expand their horizons beyond what I, and many others, were exposed to growing up.
Unfortunately, this has lead my son to start guzzling Mountain Dew, saying 'woot!' when he successfully makes it in the toilet instead of his pants, and saying 'I for one welcome my daddy overlord' when I get home..../joke
I think that you miss a point... read the rest of the posts in this article. Almost all of them are pointing to the fact that either they don't have a HD TV, and are not interested in HD DVD, or have a HD TV and don't care about the new formats, their current player works fine. I would say if anything, the war is over, both failed and Sony is stuck with a high priced game system that won't play normal DVD's.
Just curious as to where you are coming up with these figures? Your assumptions (and you know what they say about assuming) that Blu-Ray prices are going to 'go way way down' is based on what?
And you end your statement once again with the assumption that console systems are going to have a huge impact on what format prospers. I have looked back on your post history, and any article with PS3 or Blu-Ray mentioned in it you spout out this same rhetoric.
I am getting so tired of Sony fanbois pointing to the PS3 and proclaiming that Blu-Ray has won the format war. Without arguing the point that the PS3 is looking to not quite be the smashing success that you wish it to be, the average person is not going to buy a game machine to watch his/her movies on. They are going to buy a dedicated player. Walk into just about any house in the nation, and how many of those houses do you figure are watching their DVD's on a playstation/xbox?
Ya know, what is it with the shit-eating lately? Was there a memo that I missed somewhere that moved shit eating from being something that just wasn't mentioned to 'check this video out on my iPod'?:) --- notice the smiley
Yeah, and guys who don't like technology, video games, military hadrware are not even men... holy shit!
You forgot the high-horsepower anything. But yeah, as someone mentioned, this is slashdot, not floral-arrangement.com.
You might want to check out MadCap Boxing in the arcade. You 'wear' 2 gloves (each has some good weight to it) and motion capture captures your moves. I played it at a local arcade here in town, and actually was sweating by the end of the game. Information about it
Yeah, no clout with the general public.... My wife, who hasn't the slightest idea about video games, knows of PA. The fact that they made a comment that the PS3 is not for them is going to reverberate outside of the 'hardcore' gaming circles into the general public because of how popular they are.
You obviously don't care, you have made your mind up that the PS3 is for you (why, I have no idea, but you have). But, for the non-hardcore who read geek news and those that don't, when major game 'celebs' make comments like PA did, people tend to take notice.
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You, Mr(s)AC, obviously have never driven in Phoenix. 10mph over the posted speed limit is the norm on any of the many freeways crossing the metro area. It's not speeding, it's keeping up with the flow of traffic. I have witnessed many a highway patrol vehicle driving 10 over the speed limit and as long as the traffic is moving, not pulling people over who go past them (as long as they are not flying pass). It's not leadfoot, it's survival!
Not a Nintendo fanboi, but I have to say that so far, when Nintendo has stated that something will be released on a certian date, they normally release on that date. Just my .02
You must be new here.... How many Library's of Congress does that fill? ...is the proper question ;)
I have been programming going on 10 years now, the last 4 or 5 mainly doing .NET C#/VB.NET stuff. I had this exact discussion with some other programmers the other day, and my boss chimed in as well. The general consensus was, if you are programming, certificates are about worthless in the MS world. My boss mentioned that not only does he not really care if someone is certified or not, he has noticed that those with certifications tend to not have the same amount of 'real world' knowledge as someone who is.
In my own personal experience, the only time a certification is worth it is if you are working for a company that pays more based on having one, such as a college or government entity. Sure, they may educate you on how to do things the right way, but a lot of the time the 'wrong' way is not only faster (both performance wise and coding wise), but also allows you to do things that are nigh impossible to do if you follow the conventions that certificates would show you.
Offtopic? I think not! If I had some mod points, you my friend would be getting some +1 funny for that.
Well, I guess I had better post some copywritten material, as I have some slacks that I need taken in.
That's it... The Last Ninja... ah, memories of many a late night spent playing that game. Thank you!
My first major introduction to computer games was on a C64. Sure, I played cartridge games on the Vic-20, but some of my most fond memories of gaming come from the C-64. Already owning a 360, I was going to put off buying another system for a few years till they dropped in price. Now, I might be in live for the Wii when it ships. Does anyone remember the ninja game for the C-64, the one where you would find different weapons laying around, angle view playing, little black ninja, etc.etc?
You don't need to sell your sole to Microsoft just to share good music
That's good to hear, cause as far as I am concerned MS is not getting any of my fish!!
I am just thinking that it might have something to do with that $600 graphics card is part of a computer, that you can do unlimited things with? A console is made for playing games, that is it. Yeah, yeah, it's going to be made into the 'center of the living room' or some such tripe, but it boils down to 'it plays games'.
Yeah, that $600 graphics card is bought to play games, but it also has other qualities that make it worth that price. But honestly, I know a grand total of 1 person that has a $600 graphics card in their computer. Most, your 'grand percentage', have a good mid-priced $250 graphics card, which handles games well, just not 16xAA at 1900x1200 res with the graphic quality cranked. $600 for a console is absurd.
"But it's also a blu-ray player..." Whoop-de-doo. Just what I need, another quality Sony proprietary format on an untested player that chances are will crap out in less then a year. What gets me is all the pro-PS3 people trying to convince me that the PS3 is a great bargain. I make a good wage, over the going British salary I am sure, and I will be damned if I spend $600 for a console, especially one that is pushing a new untested format, that no one has seen a demonstrated online capability for, and by all accounts the games for it are not meeting up to hype that is surrounding them.
Bravo!!! But, ummm... C# and .NET have only been around since 2001... makes it kinda hard to have 9 years experience... oh wait...
They are hard and have sharp corners, I can think of a lot of reasons to throw them...
I truely believe that a child will grow up to be a product of their environment. My two year old, who spent the first 8 months of his life sitting on my wifes lap/breast feeding while she was at work in front of a computer. He then spent the next year sitting on my lap or playing in the computer room as I was working. He has been exposed to computers his whole life. It should have come as no surprise to me when I came home the other day, and he has turned on the computer, clicked the login button, opened up IE and clicked the 'favorite' icon and opened SesameStreet.com. He had seen me do it a thousand times while growing up to keep him entertained while I was off on the other monitor doing something else.
/joke
While I agree that children need more stimulation then what they can gather from digital means, it doens't mean that we should remove it until they are a certian age. We are in the digital age, when more and more information is coming down the 'intertubes'. Nothing is going to replace real life experience, but I think that by exposing a child to the information that is out there, be it through the computer or other digital means, is a way to expand their horizons beyond what I, and many others, were exposed to growing up.
Unfortunately, this has lead my son to start guzzling Mountain Dew, saying 'woot!' when he successfully makes it in the toilet instead of his pants, and saying 'I for one welcome my daddy overlord' when I get home....
One useless "I moved to Mac, HAHAHA" post, 499 to go...(credit to Daeg)
Doh! My Bad, that too!
I could be mistaken, but I think that you mean if you could play DVD on a HD-DVD you would purchase it?
I think that you miss a point... read the rest of the posts in this article. Almost all of them are pointing to the fact that either they don't have a HD TV, and are not interested in HD DVD, or have a HD TV and don't care about the new formats, their current player works fine. I would say if anything, the war is over, both failed and Sony is stuck with a high priced game system that won't play normal DVD's.
Just curious as to where you are coming up with these figures? Your assumptions (and you know what they say about assuming) that Blu-Ray prices are going to 'go way way down' is based on what? And you end your statement once again with the assumption that console systems are going to have a huge impact on what format prospers. I have looked back on your post history, and any article with PS3 or Blu-Ray mentioned in it you spout out this same rhetoric.
I am getting so tired of Sony fanbois pointing to the PS3 and proclaiming that Blu-Ray has won the format war. Without arguing the point that the PS3 is looking to not quite be the smashing success that you wish it to be, the average person is not going to buy a game machine to watch his/her movies on. They are going to buy a dedicated player. Walk into just about any house in the nation, and how many of those houses do you figure are watching their DVD's on a playstation/xbox?
Ya know, what is it with the shit-eating lately? Was there a memo that I missed somewhere that moved shit eating from being something that just wasn't mentioned to 'check this video out on my iPod'? :) --- notice the smiley
Yeah, and guys who don't like technology, video games, military hadrware are not even men... holy shit! You forgot the high-horsepower anything. But yeah, as someone mentioned, this is slashdot, not floral-arrangement.com.
You might want to check out MadCap Boxing in the arcade. You 'wear' 2 gloves (each has some good weight to it) and motion capture captures your moves. I played it at a local arcade here in town, and actually was sweating by the end of the game. Information about it
Holy astroturfing batman!
Yeah, no clout with the general public.... My wife, who hasn't the slightest idea about video games, knows of PA. The fact that they made a comment that the PS3 is not for them is going to reverberate outside of the 'hardcore' gaming circles into the general public because of how popular they are. You obviously don't care, you have made your mind up that the PS3 is for you (why, I have no idea, but you have). But, for the non-hardcore who read geek news and those that don't, when major game 'celebs' make comments like PA did, people tend to take notice.
I play my front, you play my back?
;)
Is it just me, or is there something very wrong about this statement?