Just add this to the list of questions that children ask their parents.
Right up there with:
What's a typewriter?
What's a record?
What's a horse and buggy?
Nintendo doom-sayers beware... (Comparison...)
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Console Pricing Economics
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One thing most/.ers are missing is that the XBox|PS|PS2|Sega are aimed at a different target audience than Nintendo.
XBox|PS|PS2|Sega are aimed at Boys aged 12-30. The game selection proves it. Most are shooting/Sports games.
Nintendo is aimed at KIDS aged 6-12. That's kids, as in Boys AND girls. As long as they have Pokemon and Mario, they will always have sales. My daughter (for instance) isn't interested in shooting games, but she does like Pokemon. And, she'll even play Super Smash brothers with her older brother, since the violence is not as bloody or gross as the PS2 games (etc.)
I would suppose that many parents, when looking for a console for their kids, take a look at what games are available, and base their decision on that. If they have young kids, they want non-violent (or at least, non-bloody) games. Those games are predominately for the Nintendo.
So I don't think Nintendo is going to be dying anytime soon.
They don't do Macs and HPUX and AIX and ....
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From their own web page.... System Requirements
StarOffice 6.0 runs on Solaris, Linux and Windows:
Solaris[tm] 8, 7, or 2.6 Operating Environments (SPARC[R] or Intel Architecture platforms)
Linux kernel 2.2.13 or higher
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME or XP
So, in other words, Sun is just like MS, only different. "Just support our own OSes, because we don't want to give anyone an opportunity to switch."
Yep. Jon "Trolled" us.
Yep, you fell for it.
Honestly now, if Slashdot is so bad, why do you keep coming back? It's his site (well, not really, but you know what I mean), he can do what he wants with it.
(BTW: I paid my $20 US as soon as I saw they took credit cards. Not so much to get rid of the annoying ads, but to make sure/. sticks around another year or two.)
Some years ago, whne I worked at AMD, a corporate level decision was made to run whatever the MS Mail solution was at the time (Exchange? Outlook?); even though there were several significantly better solutions out there.
What eventually came out was that it was a political decision. MS wanted to be able to show that large companies were successfully using their email package; and AMD NEEDED MS DOS/Windows to run on their 386/486 chips, and apparently this was one way of making sure that MS didn't have an "bugs" that would cause MS SW to crash on AMD chips.
What's that old quote about MS? "Window's ain't done till Lotus don't run?"
PR0N!, that's why. (BTW: I guess I qualify as an "Old fart" ) Everytime one of my kids/Monsters wants to check to see if they have email from one of their friends, I have to D/L the mail first, and delete ALL the junk, including stuff that is patently illegal in this country. Daddy? Why is that lady playing with that dog that way?
It's not just 30 minutes a year, it's 3650 minutes a YEAR!
Interestingly enough, the unicom site is slashdotted, but the www.unicomsi.com site is not. (But gee, those pages sure are loading slowly. I plan on checking the page-load speed several times today to see if it gets any worse.)
I still don't have a laser gun mounted in the back of my truck, and the last time I hooked up a giant electromagnet into the bed of my truck, it popped my front wheels off the ground.
Better to spend the money on designing smaller stills for moonshine!
Actually, the interesting thing is that this is also effectively a survey of/. readers, minus all the garbage survey options, and the joke answers people put in (Why yes, I think Cmdr Taco should run for president.;-)
This could be used as a covert method of distributing "Secret", or "Top Secret" information. (OR even "Company Classified"
data.)
Just buy a new ballast for your desk lamp,
wire it (covertly) to your PC, and then make
sure your light points towards a little bit
to your window. Then aim a telescope at the
window from another building/hill, and then hook up a PC to the telescope.
Of course, I'm sure the government has been doing
stuff like this for years for foreign agents. But if you can't bring your briefcase out of the building, then this would be an ideal way to get
the data out!
That would so cool to freak out the neighbor kids with, and to teach them to NOT ride in the street!
(Old Power Wheels pulls out of driveway and into street).
Car goes up the block, circles three times, and returns...
Kids Screaming in Terror
Me: Yep, that used to be little Johny's car.
Pause for dramatic effect
He took it out into the street one day to play, and SMACK! He got hit by a car, and it knocked him into that wall over there. At least he died instantly, that's what the doctors said.
Now... Now every year his ghost comes back to ride the car one more time.
Slashdot Mirror
(Disclaimer: This is MY clan, note my /. name;-)
/.ed ) server
This project of his has been going on for many months now, and he is (rightfully) the envy of the entire league.
To get an idea of what our little crowd is like, you should really check out our (soon to be
You know, I have to agree with you, even if they would have hidden a great science story like this somewhere on the backpages.
:-(
That's why I never bother to submit stories.
Right up there with:
One thing most /.ers are missing is that the XBox|PS|PS2|Sega are aimed at a different target audience than Nintendo.
XBox|PS|PS2|Sega are aimed at Boys aged 12-30. The game selection proves it. Most are shooting/Sports games.
Nintendo is aimed at KIDS aged 6-12. That's kids, as in Boys AND girls. As long as they have Pokemon and Mario, they will always have sales. My daughter (for instance) isn't interested in shooting games, but she does like Pokemon. And, she'll even play Super Smash brothers with her older brother, since the violence is not as bloody or gross as the PS2 games (etc.)
I would suppose that many parents, when looking for a console for their kids, take a look at what games are available, and base their decision on that. If they have young kids, they want non-violent (or at least, non-bloody) games. Those games are predominately for the Nintendo. So I don't think Nintendo is going to be dying anytime soon.
System Requirements
StarOffice 6.0 runs on Solaris, Linux and Windows:
So, in other words, Sun is just like MS, only different. "Just support our own OSes, because we don't want to give anyone an opportunity to switch."
Yep. Jon "Trolled" us. Yep, you fell for it. Honestly now, if Slashdot is so bad, why do you keep coming back? It's his site (well, not really, but you know what I mean), he can do what he wants with it. (BTW: I paid my $20 US as soon as I saw they took credit cards. Not so much to get rid of the annoying ads, but to make sure /. sticks around another year or two.)
Some years ago, whne I worked at AMD, a corporate level decision was made to run whatever the MS Mail solution was at the time (Exchange? Outlook?); even though there were several significantly better solutions out there.
What eventually came out was that it was a political decision. MS wanted to be able to show that large companies were successfully using their email package; and AMD NEEDED MS DOS/Windows to run on their 386/486 chips, and apparently this was one way of making sure that MS didn't have an "bugs" that would cause MS SW to crash on AMD chips.
What's that old quote about MS? "Window's ain't done till Lotus don't run?"
Same thing again, only different.
Major Astroturfing here... This guy makes his living because of AltaVista, so of course he's going to plug it.
His links at google
I don't mind him plugging AV, I just wish he'd disclosed his relationship a little more clearly, a little more earlier in his "article".
I should know better than to respond to such an obvious troll, but...
9/11
If sending in the marines stops this from happening again even once, then I am all for it.
Why do we get upset over SPAM?
PR0N!, that's why. (BTW: I guess I qualify as an "Old fart" ) Everytime one of my kids/Monsters wants to check to see if they have email from one of their friends, I have to D/L the mail first, and delete ALL the junk, including stuff that is patently illegal in this country. Daddy? Why is that lady playing with that dog that way?
It's not just 30 minutes a year, it's 3650 minutes a YEAR!
Just marry the poor fool. ;-)
Interestingly enough, the unicom site is slashdotted, but the www.unicomsi.com site is not. (But gee, those pages sure are loading slowly. I plan on checking the page-load speed several times today to see if it gets any worse.)
There are only a few times when I wish for a Score 10.... This is one of those times.
Good old Bernie MUST be a hoax. I have been browsing around, and can find no phone numbers for him or his company.
yp.yahoo.com
www.qwestdex.com
phone.people.yahoo.com
I can only surmise that this is somebody's elaborate hoax.
There is a lesson to be learned here...
Play nice, the world is now a very small sandbox.
The corollary here is:
Anytime you are about to interview somebody for a job, do a google search on them first.
So, what good is a laser or an electromagnet?
I still don't have a laser gun mounted in the back of my truck, and the last time I hooked up a giant electromagnet into the bed of my truck, it popped my front wheels off the ground.
Better to spend the money on designing smaller stills for moonshine!
Oh....
This must be Alaska exports so much WHEAT/CORN/BARLEY to the lower 48?
;-)
Nothing horribly insightful in this comment, sorry...
Oh Yuck!
Zelda is a decent game on the '64. Now they want to make it into a cartoon? And an ugly looking one at that!?!?!
All I want in a PDA is "Box"!
Star Cops info and here too
CSG_Surferdude
Actually, the interesting thing is that this is also effectively a survey of /. readers, minus all the garbage survey options, and the joke answers people put in (Why yes, I think Cmdr Taco should run for president. ;-)
CSG_Surferdude
Not that I'm paranoid, or anything...
This could be used as a covert method of distributing "Secret", or "Top Secret" information. (OR even "Company Classified" data.)
Just buy a new ballast for your desk lamp, wire it (covertly) to your PC, and then make sure your light points towards a little bit to your window. Then aim a telescope at the window from another building/hill, and then hook up a PC to the telescope.
Of course, I'm sure the government has been doing stuff like this for years for foreign agents. But if you can't bring your briefcase out of the building, then this would be an ideal way to get the data out!
CSG_Surferdude
I'd appreciate a link. I (obviously) must be using the wrong search terms over at google.
CSG_Surferdude
http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/
And then click on "Curly" on the left menu section.
They've just blocked Direct access to those pages.
If (lastpage_seen=slashdot){
&bugger off;
}
else {
&Let_them_in;
}
That is SOOOOO Funny.......
;-)
That would so cool to freak out the neighbor kids with, and to teach them to NOT ride in the street!
(Old Power Wheels pulls out of driveway and into street).
Car goes up the block, circles three times, and returns...
Kids Screaming in Terror
Me: Yep, that used to be little Johny's car.
Pause for dramatic effect
He took it out into the street one day to play, and SMACK! He got hit by a car, and it knocked him into that wall over there. At least he died instantly, that's what the doctors said.
Now... Now every year his ghost comes back to ride the car one more time.
Oh NOOOO!!!!!
The article states there is a "Big Magnetic Anomaly" in the lake. That can mean only one thing...
The UFO from the X-Files Movie
(OR is it the lost StarGate?)