You don't think that Tetsuya Mizuguchi's getting there? Reading this comment kinda made me think, "Wait, now." Sure, Will Wright's got Spore and the recently dissolved Clover did Okami, but Mizuguchi's got a string of games in that category of "it's getting there". Rez was a few years ago. And Lumines/Meteos. And 99 Nights. And I think we can even stick Space Channel 5 in there as the right kind of idea.
I don't think there's any way Sony will be ready for TGS at this rate. I mean, they haven't even started manufacturing consoles and the launch is supposed to be what, 3 months away?
At this point, we should've seen playable demos at E3 from Sony, and more demos in Leipzig.
I mean, sure, we don't have a launch date for the Wii. But we have a ton of almost-ready-to-market games (thanks to the dev kit similarity between the Cube and the Wii) and we know what the gameplay looks like. Even with the hazy launch date, I think Nintendo's in much better shape right now than Sony is.
You still don't have the same "pop it in and play" thing with Xbox Live Arcade that you do with a traditional console. Frankly, you're not gonna get someone that's not computer-savvy (which is absolutely the case for many moms) to navigate it well enough to find the games they want. I think the ease of use of a traditional console is always going to win out with that crowd.
What can be done in Opera with extensions that can't be done with widgets, its own internal ad-blocking system, and UserJS, which supports most Greasemonkey scripts?
I'm just thinking of the extensions I was using before switching to Opera full-time from FF. ForecastFox is covered by a widget in 9, AdBlock's replaced by the ad-blocker, and I've gotten the GM scripts I'd been using running with very little trouble.
It's not ham flames you need to worry about. It's angry truckers going "What in the high hell have you done to my CB radio?" and then proceeding to take folks around the back of Joe's Truck Stop to rectify the situation.
There's only one case where I agree with you, and that's when a drug has been tested extensively internationally and there's solid clinical data there to back it up. If a drug's been used in Europe, Asia, or Australia for years with no major incidences of serious side effects, then YES, it should be fast-tracked for approval. If the data's there internationally to show the drug's safe, why should the US researchers need to replicate years and years of European data and navigate that red tape?
The "publish or perish" rule itself doesn't get directly reviewed by a university. It's more of a matter of how much research that's being published and, in turn, how much grant money they're bringing into the university.
If you're sitting on the same work for 10 years without any journal articles or anything to show for it, you're probably not bringing in too many grants. However, a lab that's publishing a lot is generally always working on a grant proposal for the next followup piece of work. Thus, it's bringing in a lot more money than one who's not publishing much.
Labs and professors live and die by the amount of money they have to fund their research, so that's really the heart of the "publish or perish" rule.
Think about it - the Xbox would be nothing without Halo and sports games. Half the folks I know who own one own it for Halo, and the other half just want to play Madden online. As it is, I think MS is shooting themselves in the foot by not having either of those ready for launch.
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You don't think that Tetsuya Mizuguchi's getting there? Reading this comment kinda made me think, "Wait, now." Sure, Will Wright's got Spore and the recently dissolved Clover did Okami, but Mizuguchi's got a string of games in that category of "it's getting there". Rez was a few years ago. And Lumines/Meteos. And 99 Nights. And I think we can even stick Space Channel 5 in there as the right kind of idea.
I don't think there's any way Sony will be ready for TGS at this rate. I mean, they haven't even started manufacturing consoles and the launch is supposed to be what, 3 months away? At this point, we should've seen playable demos at E3 from Sony, and more demos in Leipzig. I mean, sure, we don't have a launch date for the Wii. But we have a ton of almost-ready-to-market games (thanks to the dev kit similarity between the Cube and the Wii) and we know what the gameplay looks like. Even with the hazy launch date, I think Nintendo's in much better shape right now than Sony is.
You still don't have the same "pop it in and play" thing with Xbox Live Arcade that you do with a traditional console. Frankly, you're not gonna get someone that's not computer-savvy (which is absolutely the case for many moms) to navigate it well enough to find the games they want. I think the ease of use of a traditional console is always going to win out with that crowd.
What can be done in Opera with extensions that can't be done with widgets, its own internal ad-blocking system, and UserJS, which supports most Greasemonkey scripts? I'm just thinking of the extensions I was using before switching to Opera full-time from FF. ForecastFox is covered by a widget in 9, AdBlock's replaced by the ad-blocker, and I've gotten the GM scripts I'd been using running with very little trouble.
It's not ham flames you need to worry about. It's angry truckers going "What in the high hell have you done to my CB radio?" and then proceeding to take folks around the back of Joe's Truck Stop to rectify the situation.
There's only one case where I agree with you, and that's when a drug has been tested extensively internationally and there's solid clinical data there to back it up. If a drug's been used in Europe, Asia, or Australia for years with no major incidences of serious side effects, then YES, it should be fast-tracked for approval. If the data's there internationally to show the drug's safe, why should the US researchers need to replicate years and years of European data and navigate that red tape?
You have to put your penny into savings first. They check for that at the door, you know.
The "publish or perish" rule itself doesn't get directly reviewed by a university. It's more of a matter of how much research that's being published and, in turn, how much grant money they're bringing into the university. If you're sitting on the same work for 10 years without any journal articles or anything to show for it, you're probably not bringing in too many grants. However, a lab that's publishing a lot is generally always working on a grant proposal for the next followup piece of work. Thus, it's bringing in a lot more money than one who's not publishing much. Labs and professors live and die by the amount of money they have to fund their research, so that's really the heart of the "publish or perish" rule.
Think about it - the Xbox would be nothing without Halo and sports games. Half the folks I know who own one own it for Halo, and the other half just want to play Madden online. As it is, I think MS is shooting themselves in the foot by not having either of those ready for launch.
So, is there anything else you guys have thrown Buster at and then decided, "Hey, that looked like fun, I want to try that?"
It's on gAIM - logged in a few minutes ago, and promptly deleted the group as soon as I saw it.