the curve of time to car value is far different from the curve of technology value over time. For example, a car is considered an antique after a certain period of time, in which its value goes up (if properly maintained and restored)!
try selling a nintendo or an old watch calculator made in the 80s in 10 years, I doubt you'll get more than a 5-10 bucks. The point is, the car analogy has yet again made someone look like an idiot:P
the same could be said of a 800 GB hard drive years ago. i'll explain in mathematical terms: as time, thats our X axis, increases, the Y value decreases. If you guessed Y to be the cost, give yourself a chimichanga. If you guessed Y to be anything else including, but not limited to, goat milk, give yourself a wedgie.
I think you're leaving out some very important information about the lack of sales when compared to doom 3:
first off, it had been like 10 years since the release of doom 2, which as we all know doom to be a very popular old time favorite for many of us. on the other hand, far cry was never as popular, and even though it was pretty fun, had nothing new to bring to plate that we hadn't already seen in the likes of halflife and whatnot
second, most people's PCs can run crysis, but at the Low settings. the low settings make the game look exactly like farcry, so whats the point.
third, there's just nothing else notable about crysis besides the graphics (if you have the hardware for it). And even there its only for the effects, take a look at call of duty 4: sure the graphics aren't near crysis, but the presentation is tremendously powerful and makes it work.
fourth, the single player in crysis was fun, kinda, but really really short. combine that with a poorly designed multiplayer and you have a game with no longevity. in essence you have a 50 dollar sink hole for anyone except those who have a powerful new computer.
Sims, Black & white (the first 1), Morrowind, now those have more in common with the sandbox style of play. Assassin's creed has fairly open levels to be sure, but I heard with all your wall climbing abilities there are still far too many walls the game limits you from going beyond.
I was running the MES site at Microsoft under a virtual machine, and the task manager inside the VM was at 70-90% cpu usage running only the one firefox window! (as shown on a 3.2Ghz intel processor with 2GB of RAM running Ubuntu)
if there's one feature about Ubuntu that I love more than my Mac is that you can install a TON of applications from Synaptic or via the awesome Add/Remove app. OSX on the other hand, if you want to install some new piece of software, be prepared to pay for it, or to get a really useless trial version.
The reason people are buying mac is because they want something new, and when it comes to purchasing a computer your only choices are OSX and Vista for most people. I'd bet anything that if we saw more linux pcs at stores like best buy and walmart, the cheaper linux PC would CLOBBER in sales, because people really do care about cost.
Battletech always seemed a more interesting universe, especially when it comes to video games. That said, it would be kinda fun to a play a NeverWinterNights type game in the shadowrun universe.
What's really to stop someone from popping up a screen that says "Please enter your PayPal username and password below:" anyway? I mean all they gotta do is set up some simple html page that kinda looks official and you can be sure that you'll get more than a handful of dummies who'll actually put it in. I have to wonder when things stop being considered the fault of the program and start being the fault of the user.
You can currently watch some netflix movies online and it streams them perfectly fine over my RoadRunner connection.
Let Apple make their locked down AppleTV, these guys can probably make a standalone device which does what the netflix movie stream on demand does... only they had better get more selections.
exactly, just try to think about all the OSes and Applications you've ever used, and try to think about what you liked and didn't like. Then add in a little of your own flavor, try it out, and if you don't like it, redo it!
what if you only want the DVR capability, would you necessary spend the extra on the HD-DVD player... dunno about you but I don't plan on going to HD discs for as long as I can (if ever, i don't wanna re-buy my 100+ dvds)
I hear that, write well in the first place and you'll never need to regret it!
That said over the last 2 years I've learned a lot about more proper ways to code, and whenever I get a chance to go back to a previous block of code I see about improving it if its worth the effort, otherwise I just go ewww I'll never code like that again. Its all about the learning experience and if you don't like how you code... then stop coding the way you usually do. DUH.
The aerospace fighters were always very intriguing to me in the Batteltech universe... I mean Mechs and tanks are slow moving easy targets when you're in a supersonic jet:)
I also feel that, if done right, even infantry fights could be interesting, but only if you can reasonably with a good amount of skill take out a mech with the proper teamwork.
"There's a thin line between "hard core RPGer" and "inanimate object", I think."
Spot on, and it doesn't end at RPGs. I find the more popular and the more freedom you give people in a program the more they'll complain about other freedoms that they don't have. Maybe this could even be applied to a social and human interactivity aspect but the bottom line is that once you give someone a taste of something so appealing they will always want more.
I think the real concern comes with people who have not only unreasonable requests for what they want, but also they tend to only think of what THEY want. Its this selfishness that drives it as far as I can tell.
I'm not saying it is selfish to want more, but its certainly selfish to want more and not consider why you won't get more.
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the curve of time to car value is far different from the curve of technology value over time. For example, a car is considered an antique after a certain period of time, in which its value goes up (if properly maintained and restored)!
:P
try selling a nintendo or an old watch calculator made in the 80s in 10 years, I doubt you'll get more than a 5-10 bucks. The point is, the car analogy has yet again made someone look like an idiot
do that and you'll just end up with a bunch of lunatics living in your kitchen worshipping your new toaster.
the same could be said of a 800 GB hard drive years ago. i'll explain in mathematical terms: as time, thats our X axis, increases, the Y value decreases. If you guessed Y to be the cost, give yourself a chimichanga. If you guessed Y to be anything else including, but not limited to, goat milk, give yourself a wedgie.
I think you're leaving out some very important information about the lack of sales when compared to doom 3:
first off, it had been like 10 years since the release of doom 2, which as we all know doom to be a very popular old time favorite for many of us. on the other hand, far cry was never as popular, and even though it was pretty fun, had nothing new to bring to plate that we hadn't already seen in the likes of halflife and whatnot
second, most people's PCs can run crysis, but at the Low settings. the low settings make the game look exactly like farcry, so whats the point.
third, there's just nothing else notable about crysis besides the graphics (if you have the hardware for it). And even there its only for the effects, take a look at call of duty 4: sure the graphics aren't near crysis, but the presentation is tremendously powerful and makes it work.
fourth, the single player in crysis was fun, kinda, but really really short. combine that with a poorly designed multiplayer and you have a game with no longevity. in essence you have a 50 dollar sink hole for anyone except those who have a powerful new computer.
They should have called it "Extreme Value Subscription"... oh wait, its not 1999 anymore
Sims, Black & white (the first 1), Morrowind, now those have more in common with the sandbox style of play. Assassin's creed has fairly open levels to be sure, but I heard with all your wall climbing abilities there are still far too many walls the game limits you from going beyond.
I was running the MES site at Microsoft under a virtual machine, and the task manager inside the VM was at 70-90% cpu usage running only the one firefox window! (as shown on a 3.2Ghz intel processor with 2GB of RAM running Ubuntu)
That has the be the awesomest useless appliance I have seen!
if there's one feature about Ubuntu that I love more than my Mac is that you can install a TON of applications from Synaptic or via the awesome Add/Remove app. OSX on the other hand, if you want to install some new piece of software, be prepared to pay for it, or to get a really useless trial version.
The reason people are buying mac is because they want something new, and when it comes to purchasing a computer your only choices are OSX and Vista for most people. I'd bet anything that if we saw more linux pcs at stores like best buy and walmart, the cheaper linux PC would CLOBBER in sales, because people really do care about cost.
Battletech always seemed a more interesting universe, especially when it comes to video games. That said, it would be kinda fun to a play a NeverWinterNights type game in the shadowrun universe.
What's really to stop someone from popping up a screen that says "Please enter your PayPal username and password below:" anyway? I mean all they gotta do is set up some simple html page that kinda looks official and you can be sure that you'll get more than a handful of dummies who'll actually put it in. I have to wonder when things stop being considered the fault of the program and start being the fault of the user.
i think the legislation doesn't understand a difference either, which is why the retarded law is being talked about in the first place.
Not so, says I...
You can currently watch some netflix movies online and it streams them perfectly fine over my RoadRunner connection.
Let Apple make their locked down AppleTV, these guys can probably make a standalone device which does what the netflix movie stream on demand does... only they had better get more selections.
exactly, just try to think about all the OSes and Applications you've ever used, and try to think about what you liked and didn't like. Then add in a little of your own flavor, try it out, and if you don't like it, redo it!
what if you only want the DVR capability, would you necessary spend the extra on the HD-DVD player... dunno about you but I don't plan on going to HD discs for as long as I can (if ever, i don't wanna re-buy my 100+ dvds)
1GB RAM for most everybody is PLENTY
2GB RAM for most gamers/heavy application users is PLENTY
because anything past that will see almost zero net gain in performance, end of freakin story.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CcxKHjdTQKs
Dwight: "Second life doesn't have winners or losers."
Jim: "Oh, it has losers."
That's right, I'm on to you Pit Spikes, you were once my bane but now, on my iPod, you'll be my biznatch!
Just attach laser beams to the crew's heads so they'll have the advantage over sharks. Plus I hear shark is tasty :)
I hear that, write well in the first place and you'll never need to regret it!
That said over the last 2 years I've learned a lot about more proper ways to code, and whenever I get a chance to go back to a previous block of code I see about improving it if its worth the effort, otherwise I just go ewww I'll never code like that again. Its all about the learning experience and if you don't like how you code... then stop coding the way you usually do. DUH.
The aerospace fighters were always very intriguing to me in the Batteltech universe... I mean Mechs and tanks are slow moving easy targets when you're in a supersonic jet :)
I also feel that, if done right, even infantry fights could be interesting, but only if you can reasonably with a good amount of skill take out a mech with the proper teamwork.
Chuck Norris' pinky finger could punch a hole through Segal. Too bad Chuck only ever uses his entire fist!
now if only we can get all suicide bombers to wear this material over the bomb vest....
"There's a thin line between "hard core RPGer" and "inanimate object", I think."
Spot on, and it doesn't end at RPGs. I find the more popular and the more freedom you give people in a program the more they'll complain about other freedoms that they don't have. Maybe this could even be applied to a social and human interactivity aspect but the bottom line is that once you give someone a taste of something so appealing they will always want more.
I think the real concern comes with people who have not only unreasonable requests for what they want, but also they tend to only think of what THEY want. Its this selfishness that drives it as far as I can tell.
I'm not saying it is selfish to want more, but its certainly selfish to want more and not consider why you won't get more.
Mass Effect. That's about it.