Without reiterating too much of what's already been said, the notion that video games are for 20-30 year old males must die. Nintendo are right to steer towards a better target.
The powers-that-be at my workplace won't allow me to read books on my workstation because of firewalling, and won't let me read them from a PDA or smartphone for fear of privacy (personal information) violations.
Because of that fear, my books and magazines must be paper.
I hate just saying "me too" but I feel strongly about this one.
I never knew how good I really was until just a couple years ago, because for years I was reading classified ads that made BS demands and didn't know it.
Remember the Dreamcast? Dial-up modem, the whole thing. It tried to do too much at the time, before the consumers were ready for it.
The reason the Dreamcast failed is because Sega's staff planned it that way. They wanted a fast exit from the hardware business; the three years of Dreamcast allowed them to cut their losses from what was an expensive and lingering Duval Project.
Public perception here was irrelevant; Sega already had the deals to make software for other consoles in 2000. If the Dreamcast had been thought of as an overwhelming success, its life still would have been cut short.
I have to begin by admitting I agree with a few of the trolls, that RSS as Slashdot implement it is quite redundant, though it makes a handy way to see all the articles without loading the whole homepage. What it -is- good for is that it's very easy to write programs that interpret it, so you can write your own sort of aggregator and read the content in your own way, limited by your imagination. This is the spirit of the World Wide Web, whether you put a version number on it or not.
My real point was in the subject line, though. Survey results are heavily influenced by the people asked to take them. I bet maybe four people in the building where I work know what RSS is.
Hint for those seeking a commercial use for RSS- New Products in an RSS feed.
If Apple win this patent it means all other software will be fair game or risk infringement for fourteen years... or when the reforms finally make all this junk worthless, whichever comes first.
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'wii' stands for We Ignore Idiots.
Without reiterating too much of what's already been said, the notion that video games are for 20-30 year old males must die. Nintendo are right to steer towards a better target.
The powers-that-be at my workplace won't allow me to read books on my workstation because of firewalling, and won't let me read them from a PDA or smartphone for fear of privacy (personal information) violations.
Because of that fear, my books and magazines must be paper.
I hate just saying "me too" but I feel strongly about this one.
I never knew how good I really was until just a couple years ago, because for years I was reading classified ads that made BS demands and didn't know it.
The reason the Dreamcast failed is because Sega's staff planned it that way. They wanted a fast exit from the hardware business; the three years of Dreamcast allowed them to cut their losses from what was an expensive and lingering Duval Project.
Public perception here was irrelevant; Sega already had the deals to make software for other consoles in 2000. If the Dreamcast had been thought of as an overwhelming success, its life still would have been cut short.
I have to begin by admitting I agree with a few of the trolls, that RSS as Slashdot implement it is quite redundant, though it makes a handy way to see all the articles without loading the whole homepage. What it -is- good for is that it's very easy to write programs that interpret it, so you can write your own sort of aggregator and read the content in your own way, limited by your imagination. This is the spirit of the World Wide Web, whether you put a version number on it or not.
My real point was in the subject line, though. Survey results are heavily influenced by the people asked to take them. I bet maybe four people in the building where I work know what RSS is.
Hint for those seeking a commercial use for RSS- New Products in an RSS feed.
I think 4% of web users don't know they use HTML every day.
Public access cable.
http://www.legaltorrents.com/index.htm
If Apple win this patent it means all other software will be fair game or risk infringement for fourteen years... or when the reforms finally make all this junk worthless, whichever comes first.