I realize that thousands of forum bots repeat this lie every day, but that doesn't make it true. For a long time, the Cube was #2 worldwide. It was sometime in '04 or '05 that the Xbox managed to finally surpass it. Again this is WORLDWIDE sales we're talking about. Microsoft continues to flounder in Japan, with the 360 unable to surpass the Gamecube in total sales.
The bigger flaw in your logic is the implication that the mediocrity of the Gamecube somehow reflects on Nintendo as a whole, and that "market share" is the biggest goal of a company. Nintendo is not aiming to win the wank-tastic title of "number of home consoles sold". They are aiming to make money. If you look, then, at their overall business, they are doing pretty well. They don't lose money on Gamecubes. The Game Boy line basically created the handheld console market, and Nintendo has never slipped out of #1 here. They have had only 1 unprofitable quarter in their 100+ year history, and some of that was due to the exchange rate between the Yen and the US Dollar. They are doing fine.
I'm still not so sure about the impact of online in the now-ending generation. MS managed to get a pretty healthy subscriber base, but I also think that the demographic that signed up for Live is made up of a lot of PC gamers, and/or hardcore gamers. These are the same folks who are forcing the arms race of HD and graphical masturbation between Sony and MS.
Then we get to the money aspect. If my demographic assertion is correct, this is a group that isn't expanding at a phenomenal rate. I've read analysis that claims most of the growth in the US gaming industry was due to population growth, while the percentage of hardcore gamers stayed relatively constant. There's also the question of whether or not Live is profitable. I have seen only one article on this, which claimed it was not (I have no idea if it is).
Once everyone uses an internet-connected phone, the one valuable service VOIP providers currently offer (VOIP to POTS bridging) becomes irrelevant.
I don't think this is true. Community-run or even decentralized instant messaging is possible right now, but people happily use MSN or whatever because it "just works" and ties into features they use (Hotmail, etc). The same will probably be true for phone.
The term "open source" is ambiguous as well. A company could claim that some app of theirs is open source, yet twist the definition to mean something completely different (we see this with "free software" all the time). The only difference here is that IIRC, the Open Source Initiative holds a trademark on the term "Open Source", which allows them to sue people who use it in ways they don't approve of.
Amateur theatrics? Well obviously, Microsoft would never do something like these dirty hippies, and would never try to spread FUD by comparing things to cancer and communism.
I remember reading about how Gnumeric has developed a niche among those who use spreadsheets for things that require more mathematical accuracy. I wonder if MS is basically trying to stay bug-for-bug compatible with themself...
If I buy just 20 games for a system at $50 a game, that comes out to be $1000.
I would say that if you buy 20 games at $50 each, you're insane. I have around 20 PS2 games, and about 6 of those were bought for $50. The rest were either used or on sale. I think it's accurate to say that most gamers fall more in line with my buying pattern. Perhaps you should re-do your math to reflect those of us who are sane.
Stop. Just stop. I love you "libertarian" trolls to death, but this is one lie that simply isn't true. The mythical Free Market does not exist. It exists only in your mind, and serves, in essence, as your God, as it is an infallible ideal that only heretics dare to question.
How many people who use iTunes ever dive down into their music folder to queue up songs? That's right, zero.
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OK, so how many average consumers actually know about all that stuff and have a negative opinion towards them? My guess is that some of them might remember Betamax, but that it's a small percentage of people who have heard of CDs (which was developed by Sony).
Why in the hell would anyone want a media player that looks like that, and has so much bloat?
My guess is that it's because the average person does not understand the basic metaphors used in the modern computer. Personally, I like to have my music tagged and named correctly so that it makes sense in my file tree. For example: ~/music/$artist/$album/$song . The average computer user doesn't really understand the notions of "file" and "folder", so how in the hell are they going to figure out what I just said? Give them a shiny icon that makes everything better, and they'll take it over anything.
Why does everyone who makes the "Cost to fill my iPod" pricing argument always ignore the fact that most if not all iPod buyers have a preexisting CD collection with which to populate their device? Also, it would be even more financially responsible to add to your music collection by buying used CDs-- $150 a year would get you at least 15-17 of them, you can rip those tracks to whatever format and quality level you prefer, and they're yours to keep forever with no DRM.
Also also, there are ways to get free music, legally. Places like etree.org host tons of recordings from trade-friendly artists. The Creative Commons site has a page that links to some places to get music, including SoundClick, a site very reminiscent of the old, good mp3.com.
Unless you're running it on a 400Mhz iMac or something.
You know, I have 10.4 running on an iMac 333 with 288 megs of RAM. And you know what? It's really not unusable. Sure, the GUI lags a little there's a bunch of stuff being drawn, but it works fine for web browsing, print serving, and music playing.
You kind of have a problem here. Just because we define something as "terrorism" doesn't mean we're handing a blank check of our liberties to our various governments. Sure, in recent years this has basically been the case, but that's only because the definition of terrorism has been twisted to meet the needs of a few rich men who love power, and the public has allowed it to happen. If we actually look at the definition of the word, the US government is very guilty of terrorism. Should we be going after ourselves? Well, probably.
Obviously the school should have moved their MAC address into an infected pool and given them their own subnet with a webpage telling them that their machine was infected and to call tech support.
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I realize that thousands of forum bots repeat this lie every day, but that doesn't make it true. For a long time, the Cube was #2 worldwide. It was sometime in '04 or '05 that the Xbox managed to finally surpass it. Again this is WORLDWIDE sales we're talking about. Microsoft continues to flounder in Japan, with the 360 unable to surpass the Gamecube in total sales.
The bigger flaw in your logic is the implication that the mediocrity of the Gamecube somehow reflects on Nintendo as a whole, and that "market share" is the biggest goal of a company. Nintendo is not aiming to win the wank-tastic title of "number of home consoles sold". They are aiming to make money. If you look, then, at their overall business, they are doing pretty well. They don't lose money on Gamecubes. The Game Boy line basically created the handheld console market, and Nintendo has never slipped out of #1 here. They have had only 1 unprofitable quarter in their 100+ year history, and some of that was due to the exchange rate between the Yen and the US Dollar. They are doing fine.
I have personally never coded with Qt, but I've heard that the ease of developing with it justifies the cost.
Then we get to the money aspect. If my demographic assertion is correct, this is a group that isn't expanding at a phenomenal rate. I've read analysis that claims most of the growth in the US gaming industry was due to population growth, while the percentage of hardcore gamers stayed relatively constant. There's also the question of whether or not Live is profitable. I have seen only one article on this, which claimed it was not (I have no idea if it is).
I don't think this is true. Community-run or even decentralized instant messaging is possible right now, but people happily use MSN or whatever because it "just works" and ties into features they use (Hotmail, etc). The same will probably be true for phone.
The term "open source" is ambiguous as well. A company could claim that some app of theirs is open source, yet twist the definition to mean something completely different (we see this with "free software" all the time). The only difference here is that IIRC, the Open Source Initiative holds a trademark on the term "Open Source", which allows them to sue people who use it in ways they don't approve of.
In Soviet Russia, electrons download you!
Amateur theatrics? Well obviously, Microsoft would never do something like these dirty hippies, and would never try to spread FUD by comparing things to cancer and communism.
I remember reading about how Gnumeric has developed a niche among those who use spreadsheets for things that require more mathematical accuracy. I wonder if MS is basically trying to stay bug-for-bug compatible with themself...
Come back when you have a coherent argument. Thanks.
Yes, all used games cost $45, compared to $50 for new ones. Yep.
I would say that if you buy 20 games at $50 each, you're insane. I have around 20 PS2 games, and about 6 of those were bought for $50. The rest were either used or on sale. I think it's accurate to say that most gamers fall more in line with my buying pattern. Perhaps you should re-do your math to reflect those of us who are sane.
Stop. Just stop. I love you "libertarian" trolls to death, but this is one lie that simply isn't true. The mythical Free Market does not exist. It exists only in your mind, and serves, in essence, as your God, as it is an infallible ideal that only heretics dare to question.
How many people who use iTunes ever dive down into their music folder to queue up songs? That's right, zero.
OK, so how many average consumers actually know about all that stuff and have a negative opinion towards them? My guess is that some of them might remember Betamax, but that it's a small percentage of people who have heard of CDs (which was developed by Sony).
Or make a song about the evils of DRM, and then accuse them of censorship.
And the unfortunate part of this is, since the average computer user is used to this BS, they won't even complain.
My guess is that it's because the average person does not understand the basic metaphors used in the modern computer. Personally, I like to have my music tagged and named correctly so that it makes sense in my file tree. For example: ~/music/$artist/$album/$song . The average computer user doesn't really understand the notions of "file" and "folder", so how in the hell are they going to figure out what I just said? Give them a shiny icon that makes everything better, and they'll take it over anything.
The solution, of course, is better education.
Also also, there are ways to get free music, legally. Places like etree.org host tons of recordings from trade-friendly artists. The Creative Commons site has a page that links to some places to get music, including SoundClick, a site very reminiscent of the old, good mp3.com.
You know, I have 10.4 running on an iMac 333 with 288 megs of RAM. And you know what? It's really not unusable. Sure, the GUI lags a little there's a bunch of stuff being drawn, but it works fine for web browsing, print serving, and music playing.
You kind of have a problem here. Just because we define something as "terrorism" doesn't mean we're handing a blank check of our liberties to our various governments. Sure, in recent years this has basically been the case, but that's only because the definition of terrorism has been twisted to meet the needs of a few rich men who love power, and the public has allowed it to happen. If we actually look at the definition of the word, the US government is very guilty of terrorism. Should we be going after ourselves? Well, probably.
the next time some kid fries an ant with a magnifying glass, will K-Mart get taken to court for selling it?
Remember kids, repeat a lie enough times, and it becomes true. See also "liberal media".
It's not the same in other languages. IIRC, in Spanish, the equivalent idiom is "I gave a shit".
XM is also sent over the public airwaves.
This is what my school does.