"Why fret over privacy loss if you aren't doing anything illegal/covert?"
Imagine one day... in the future... you get a speeding ticket. They seize your computer and search it for other things that are 'illegal'. They look through your massive porn stash and discover that 1 image (out of 10,000) has one actress (or actor, not that there's anything wrong with it.) wasn't quite 18 when it was filmed. Then you're severely busted.
As recently as two years ago, I wouldn't have painted such a seemingly laughable picture. More recently, though, I feel cold typing something like this.
"It's a shame that they're doing comedy again. In the Pirkinning suffered from one clear drawback: Finns can't do parody. We suck at it - sorry."
Oh, I dunno about that. On a sci-fi forum I'm an active member of, we found quite a bit to laugh at. I'm wondering, though, if the humor was a little too niche'y. My parents would have gotten a huge laugh out of Galaxy Quest, but ItP, even if it were in English, would have missed many moments with them. I don't think it's that the Finns cannot do parody, I think that they just got a little too close to the details.
" What about the sword fighting stuff that Nintento actually demoed? (Red Steel was it?). How does that game work? Is it completlely free or does it have specific pre-programed sword animations?"
From the trailer I saw, I got the idea it was somewhere in the middle. Your movements are like gestures, not unlike mouse gestures in FireFox or Opera. (If you held out the sword, your character would touch it to the bad guy's throat...) Movement around the character was more or less automatic. It was more about getting your sword into the right space than trying to strafe around somebody shoooting. (That's not to say you couldn't move the thumb-chuck... but that wasn't expressly stated in the game.)
"In other words you agree with me. The controller is no use for RPGs. Now you'll just be holding two controllers instead of one just to move around."
The only difference between that and a PS2 controller is that the left and right side aren't connected. You're making a weak argument, sorry.
"Clearly you've never used a gyroscopic mouse or you wouldn't be making the comparison. Attempting to nudge a pointer over a button using a gyroscopic mouse is considerably more clumsy than a normal desktop mouse."
Clearly you don't know much about the Nintendo hardware. It's not gyroscopic. You can actually point at pixels on the screen.
"No one buys a console because of the power of the hardware, they buy it for the games that are on it. Therefore the PS3 will be sold to those who play games that will be exclusive to the PS3."
*Sigh* If only this were true.
What really happens is (some) people look at specs and think "this system will be cooler, longer." They're betting that some time before the system dies, a bunch of woweee-zowweee games will show up.
I'm not saying everybody buys systems this way, but I've read quite a few comments on several forums where people have based their purchasing decision on their interpretation of the specs. Oh, and there isn't universal agreement here, so the 360 and ps3 fanboys don't get along too well. Hehe.
"Could someone please explain to me how this is even remotely fucking funny? It's like a shitty knock knock joke without the punch line.. So WTF?"
You didn't get it? OMG!! LOL!!! But it waz soo ferneeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Ok ok ok... I'd explain it to you, but there's a Carrot Top marathon on, so I'll have to get back to you laterz.
Bow Tie... hehehe where does this guy come up with these things? Ahahahahaa.
"Once the users cannot switch, Nintendo have little chance of winning. Microsoft will then stop funding R&D to make up for all that lost capital. Stifling innovation at the cost of consumers."
Um... what? Please explain how Microsoft is going to make a game console that users cannot switch from and why Nintendo or Sony couldn't have done this? I'd really like to hear this one, I'm sure Sony and Nintendo would love to hear this, too.
" I am glad I am not the only one who is not sold on this controller as the be all, end all of game development. However, if it turns out that most games are better without the 'chucks, how would Nintendo fan boys justify spending another 200 bucks on a system that is no better than the gamecube they already have?"
Easy enough: a.) The system is already more powerful than the GameCube. b.) Virtual Console. c.) On-line play. d.) Actually, lots of stuff is already taking advantage of the controller. e.) The DS has proven Nintendo knows how to attain its goals. f.) We're making a $200 investment in gameplay as opposed to a $500 investment in graphics. We're not feeling so foolish.
"I guess the question is about the term innovate. As I said in the first question, did apple innovate or just improve."
I don't normally go rushing to Apple's defense. Actually, I'm usually quite critical of them. (To the point that I was mod-bombed so badly I was actually suspended from Slashdot for a few weeks.) However, the one argument I really cannot make is that they weren't innovative. It's easy to boil things down to overly simple terms and say things like "well, they weren't the first to use an HD" and brush them off. But at the end of the day, they're the ones that turned an 'MP3' player into a mass-market device *and* they kicked the music industry hard enough in the balls to allow on-line distribution of music. Maybe they didn't 'invent' anything, but they did put the right package together. To me, that's innovation. If you don't agree, that's fine, but please don't argue that the iPod ended up in millions of homes simply because it was shiny.
"I remember buying some magazines that had print outs of the source code for C64 games."
Heh. I remember buying up a bunch of those, writing about 20 lines of code, then deciding that game I had beaten 20 times before was awfully tempting to beat again.
"What if you're FedEx'ing a home movie of your child's birth (including states of undress of the mother) to your mother-in-law who couldn't be there? Would the FedEx personnel be gawking at that?"
"You know, to some degree, I do agree with you but I was being literal with the name of the organization, which is "Federation Against Copyright Theft"."
Reminds me of a comment somebody made here a few years ago:
"I downloaded an MP3 once, and Metallica was no longer able to perform that song!"
In Some respects, this may seem a little too new for what you're trying to do, but I'm going to throw it out anyway: A 286 with Wing Commander with an original Sound Blaster. I think a lot of people here would agree that WC was a major milestone in PC Gaming. For a while, Wing Commander was the game you built your machine around.
Erm, this would appeal to *ME*, but I don't know how well it'd work for you. The pre-Wolfenstein days are pretty interesting.
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"and the difference between opera and firefox is so small as to be meaningless"
Opera has had far fewer security problems than FireFox.
"It's existence, not "existance""
Thanks for the spelling tip, Mr. Russsell with three S's.
"Why fret over privacy loss if you aren't doing anything illegal/covert?"
Imagine one day... in the future... you get a speeding ticket. They seize your computer and search it for other things that are 'illegal'. They look through your massive porn stash and discover that 1 image (out of 10,000) has one actress (or actor, not that there's anything wrong with it.) wasn't quite 18 when it was filmed. Then you're severely busted.
As recently as two years ago, I wouldn't have painted such a seemingly laughable picture. More recently, though, I feel cold typing something like this.
"It's a shame that they're doing comedy again. In the Pirkinning suffered from one clear drawback: Finns can't do parody. We suck at it - sorry."
Oh, I dunno about that. On a sci-fi forum I'm an active member of, we found quite a bit to laugh at. I'm wondering, though, if the humor was a little too niche'y. My parents would have gotten a huge laugh out of Galaxy Quest, but ItP, even if it were in English, would have missed many moments with them. I don't think it's that the Finns cannot do parody, I think that they just got a little too close to the details.
"My car is under the weather. Literally."
Unless you know people who keep their cars in orbit, then everybody's car is under the weather. Literally.
"The $500 dollar machine will have superior graphics and be priced at $200... then what?"
You'll wait a few years, have an inferior controller, and discover that superior graphics aren't everything.
"The biggest kicker for "next generation" consoles is the price of games has been hiked."
I'm actually surprised it took this long. Games had a $50 price tag back when I was a kid. That hasn't changed over the years, but inflation sure has.
" What about the sword fighting stuff that Nintento actually demoed? (Red Steel was it?). How does that game work? Is it completlely free or does it have specific pre-programed sword animations?"
From the trailer I saw, I got the idea it was somewhere in the middle. Your movements are like gestures, not unlike mouse gestures in FireFox or Opera. (If you held out the sword, your character would touch it to the bad guy's throat...) Movement around the character was more or less automatic. It was more about getting your sword into the right space than trying to strafe around somebody shoooting. (That's not to say you couldn't move the thumb-chuck... but that wasn't expressly stated in the game.)
"In other words you agree with me. The controller is no use for RPGs. Now you'll just be holding two controllers instead of one just to move around."
The only difference between that and a PS2 controller is that the left and right side aren't connected. You're making a weak argument, sorry.
"Clearly you've never used a gyroscopic mouse or you wouldn't be making the comparison. Attempting to nudge a pointer over a button using a gyroscopic mouse is considerably more clumsy than a normal desktop mouse."
Clearly you don't know much about the Nintendo hardware. It's not gyroscopic. You can actually point at pixels on the screen.
"Intel also claims that a Core 2 Extreme-based enthusiast PC will leave the pixel power of a Playstation 3 in the dust."
Even if technically true, given the 'lowest common denominator' style of PC games, would that really mean a flippin thing for a year or two?
"No one buys a console because of the power of the hardware, they buy it for the games that are on it. Therefore the PS3 will be sold to those who play games that will be exclusive to the PS3."
*Sigh* If only this were true.
What really happens is (some) people look at specs and think "this system will be cooler, longer." They're betting that some time before the system dies, a bunch of woweee-zowweee games will show up.
I'm not saying everybody buys systems this way, but I've read quite a few comments on several forums where people have based their purchasing decision on their interpretation of the specs. Oh, and there isn't universal agreement here, so the 360 and ps3 fanboys don't get along too well. Hehe.
"I'm not a Sony fanboy, not by a long shot, but comparing a 5 grand PC to a 1/2 grand PS/3 does seem a tad unfair, now doesn't it?"
In a year or so, that PC will drop significantly in price, and the PS3 won't.
"Could someone please explain to me how this is even remotely fucking funny? It's like a shitty knock knock joke without the punch line.. So WTF?"
You didn't get it? OMG!! LOL!!! But it waz soo ferneeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Ok ok ok... I'd explain it to you, but there's a Carrot Top marathon on, so I'll have to get back to you laterz.
Bow Tie... hehehe where does this guy come up with these things? Ahahahahaa.
"Once the users cannot switch, Nintendo have little chance of winning. Microsoft will then stop funding R&D to make up for all that lost capital. Stifling innovation at the cost of consumers."
Um... what? Please explain how Microsoft is going to make a game console that users cannot switch from and why Nintendo or Sony couldn't have done this? I'd really like to hear this one, I'm sure Sony and Nintendo would love to hear this, too.
" I am glad I am not the only one who is not sold on this controller as the be all, end all of game development. However, if it turns out that most games are better without the 'chucks, how would Nintendo fan boys justify spending another 200 bucks on a system that is no better than the gamecube they already have?"
Easy enough:
a.) The system is already more powerful than the GameCube.
b.) Virtual Console.
c.) On-line play.
d.) Actually, lots of stuff is already taking advantage of the controller.
e.) The DS has proven Nintendo knows how to attain its goals.
f.) We're making a $200 investment in gameplay as opposed to a $500 investment in graphics. We're not feeling so foolish.
"I guess the question is about the term innovate. As I said in the first question, did apple innovate or just improve."
I don't normally go rushing to Apple's defense. Actually, I'm usually quite critical of them. (To the point that I was mod-bombed so badly I was actually suspended from Slashdot for a few weeks.) However, the one argument I really cannot make is that they weren't innovative. It's easy to boil things down to overly simple terms and say things like "well, they weren't the first to use an HD" and brush them off. But at the end of the day, they're the ones that turned an 'MP3' player into a mass-market device *and* they kicked the music industry hard enough in the balls to allow on-line distribution of music. Maybe they didn't 'invent' anything, but they did put the right package together. To me, that's innovation. If you don't agree, that's fine, but please don't argue that the iPod ended up in millions of homes simply because it was shiny.
"Of course, the study did not look at what men were able to tell about women by looking at photographs of their female body parts."
Well, I can look at a chick's beard and tell she's got lotsa testosterone.
"I remember buying some magazines that had print outs of the source code for C64 games."
Heh. I remember buying up a bunch of those, writing about 20 lines of code, then deciding that game I had beaten 20 times before was awfully tempting to beat again.
"What if you're FedEx'ing a home movie of your child's birth (including states of undress of the mother) to your mother-in-law who couldn't be there? Would the FedEx personnel be gawking at that?"
Not for very long, I imagine. Blech.
"You know, to some degree, I do agree with you but I was being literal with the name of the organization, which is "Federation Against Copyright Theft"."
Reminds me of a comment somebody made here a few years ago:
"I downloaded an MP3 once, and Metallica was no longer able to perform that song!"
"What will they think of next?!"
Well, now that Star Trek is gone, the future looks gloomy.
"So can we call it Vista CE?"
Oh... I dunno. WinCE is definitely a more descriptive acronym.
I heard a rumor that at E3 we'll see what happens when they put five of these things together!
In Some respects, this may seem a little too new for what you're trying to do, but I'm going to throw it out anyway: A 286 with Wing Commander with an original Sound Blaster. I think a lot of people here would agree that WC was a major milestone in PC Gaming. For a while, Wing Commander was the game you built your machine around.
Erm, this would appeal to *ME*, but I don't know how well it'd work for you. The pre-Wolfenstein days are pretty interesting.
"I would say collosus, the original bletchly park beast... it could still out perform a P4...."
Huh?