" But when the fully 3D, story-driven sequel fails, they point at the original on its lofty pedestal and demand an experience that lives up to their memories. "
First, I can't imagine that the amount of people buying game X who have some kind of deep emotional ties to the original Sega Saturn version really count for anything in the grand scheme of things.
Second, if a game fails, you can't blame it on those people. If your game fails, chances are far greater that it sucked rather than that there exist large numbers of people who had unrealistic expectations of it.
I have serious doubts that the iPhone will ever come to be. Apple is focusing on media as its second core competency.
and more and more people are getting their media via their phones. every time I go to asia, I'm shocked by how pervasive cell phones are and how much more of a viable replacement for a desktop they're becoming.
wedge a decent phone into a video ipod, get the interface right and support EVDO (and whatever the asia-market equivalent is) transfer rates and you've got a product that pretty much jumps into the consumers wallet and takes however much it wants.
Hi, how are you? We are fine. In the future, when stating that Hitler made no use of religion, you may want to keep in mind that Judaism is, in fact, a religion.
Call me crazy, but verifying that yes, you will in fact die if you dump a toaster into your bath doesn't really cut it as far as original research goes.
That's the down-side to living in these, our modern times. All the good basic stuff is already well-known. You have to spend an eternity climbing up onto the shoulders of those who came before you until you can grasp some tiny nugget of original research. Stupid Newton, ruining it for the rest of us.:mad:
This is a fairly obvious application of graph visualization tools. Unfortunately, since the topic is so difficult, all the good solutions tend to be commercial. GraphViz is nice up to a point, but is pretty crummy when you get into thousands of nodes and edges. JGraph is another open source tool, and it's reasonable good, but as with other free software, it starts to choke on larger graphs.
Some of the better commercial packages are from Tom Sawyer, AiSee, Ilog and yWorks.
I'm actually enjoying the backslash stories, but whatever tool you're using to write these things up and/or the submission mechanism keeps adding these weird little formatting weirnesses in. It'd be nice to see that fixed mdash hopfully soon.
As for MS being late to the market - MS has enough cash on hand to simply buy both Sony and Nintendo. It doesn't matter if they're late to market. They can afford to sit back and learn from everyone elses mistakes, which is what they generally do.
When it comes to long-term bidness strategy, I think it's a safe bet that MS knows what they're doing.
It's hard to say. Clearly it's not now, but who knows what the future will bring? Halo effect, etc. Just saying "not my core business" and ignoring it is a great way to obsolete yourself.
For the same reason that whenever there's a post about windows, everyone crowds in to sell people on linux - because it's better. Of course, if you do work in languages that aren't primarily Java/Javascript, then it's not for you. But if most of your time is spent in Javaland - my condolances;) - then Idea is a far superior IDE, and well-worth the money if you're doing it for a living. And if you're broke, there's the EAP, where you get to use the latest stable beta for free.
A friend of mine used to contend that Eclipse should simply use percent of Idea features implemented as their version number, which I found amusingly malicious and sort of true.
With Intellij Idea, this is how it works, with the caveat that the incremental, automatic checkins are done on a local version control system, and the developer decides when to commit to the actual vcs. Like pretty much everything else in Idea, it works great. You get superfine rollback control for even the smallest of changes. The only thing I'd change is to make the versioning persist across Idea restarts.
Ninjas v Pirates v Robots v Cowboys v Monkeys v WCW v Commandos v Terrorists
The episodic content writes itself. Got a widely publicized dog mauling case on the news? Tack a "v Vicious Dogs" onto that list and BOOM, welcome to Richistan, population: YOU.
every year, there's hundreds of new games based on tolkien-esque fantasy (dragons, elves, drawves, etc) and no one ever complains about that glut.
I do, at length. Seriously, I know Tolkein was great and everything, but can we get a decent non-starwars sci-fi or post-apocalypse MMOG please? Or just something without any goddamn ORCS?
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" But when the fully 3D, story-driven sequel fails, they point at the original on its lofty pedestal and demand an experience that lives up to their memories. "
First, I can't imagine that the amount of people buying game X who have some kind of deep emotional ties to the original Sega Saturn version really count for anything in the grand scheme of things.
Second, if a game fails, you can't blame it on those people. If your game fails, chances are far greater that it sucked rather than that there exist large numbers of people who had unrealistic expectations of it.
me too, along with the other 20 people who had treos on the plane. grandparent post is crazytalk.
and more and more people are getting their media via their phones. every time I go to asia, I'm shocked by how pervasive cell phones are and how much more of a viable replacement for a desktop they're becoming.
wedge a decent phone into a video ipod, get the interface right and support EVDO (and whatever the asia-market equivalent is) transfer rates and you've got a product that pretty much jumps into the consumers wallet and takes however much it wants.
Dear jcdenhartog,
Hi, how are you? We are fine. In the future, when stating that Hitler made no use of religion, you may want to keep in mind that Judaism is, in fact, a religion.
Sincerely,
The Jews
You can feel 50ms when you're playing fighting games. If the lag was constant, maybe it'd be different, but it never is.
Norton ClergyBlocker 2006 Pro Edition.
I'd buy two copies.
Just for completeness, I'll mention that it's the 'Vickers' machine gun, not 'Vicars.'
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http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/mgun_vickers.ht
Yes, I realize it's a pun, but it would have worked either way, really.
Call me crazy, but verifying that yes, you will in fact die if you dump a toaster into your bath doesn't really cut it as far as original research goes.
That's the down-side to living in these, our modern times. All the good basic stuff is already well-known. You have to spend an eternity climbing up onto the shoulders of those who came before you until you can grasp some tiny nugget of original research. Stupid Newton, ruining it for the rest of us. :mad:
Unless you have unlimited time or are documenting something very basic, at some point you will have to trust a source.
This is a fairly obvious application of graph visualization tools. Unfortunately, since the topic is so difficult, all the good solutions tend to be commercial. GraphViz is nice up to a point, but is pretty crummy when you get into thousands of nodes and edges. JGraph is another open source tool, and it's reasonable good, but as with other free software, it starts to choke on larger graphs.
Some of the better commercial packages are from Tom Sawyer, AiSee, Ilog and yWorks.
I imagine keeping yourself in suspended animation would be neither cheap nor entirely risk-free.
No. Idea is also a fairly awesome Javascript editor.
Quake guy, Gordon Freeman, the 'zug zug' guys from warcraft, I could go on for hours.
> I like the idea, but it will never ever be put into practice.
Not with that attitude it won't, mister.
Last time I checked (eep, I guess that was two years ago) MS had more cash reserves than Sonys market cap.
I was shocked too.
Not that it'd ever be a good idea - they can defeat Sony much more cost-effectively. I'm just sayin'.
I'm actually enjoying the backslash stories, but whatever tool you're using to write these things up and/or the submission mechanism keeps adding these weird little formatting weirnesses in. It'd be nice to see that fixed mdash hopfully soon.
Dunno. Don't really think it matters.
As for MS being late to the market - MS has enough cash on hand to simply buy both Sony and Nintendo. It doesn't matter if they're late to market. They can afford to sit back and learn from everyone elses mistakes, which is what they generally do.
When it comes to long-term bidness strategy, I think it's a safe bet that MS knows what they're doing.
It's hard to say. Clearly it's not now, but who knows what the future will bring? Halo effect, etc. Just saying "not my core business" and ignoring it is a great way to obsolete yourself.
actually, the main cash cow for microsoft is office.
There's some mythical man-months that would like a word with you.
For the same reason that whenever there's a post about windows, everyone crowds in to sell people on linux - because it's better. Of course, if you do work in languages that aren't primarily Java/Javascript, then it's not for you. But if most of your time is spent in Javaland - my condolances ;) - then Idea is a far superior IDE, and well-worth the money if you're doing it for a living. And if you're broke, there's the EAP, where you get to use the latest stable beta for free.
A friend of mine used to contend that Eclipse should simply use percent of Idea features implemented as their version number, which I found amusingly malicious and sort of true.
With Intellij Idea, this is how it works, with the caveat that the incremental, automatic checkins are done on a local version control system, and the developer decides when to commit to the actual vcs. Like pretty much everything else in Idea, it works great. You get superfine rollback control for even the smallest of changes. The only thing I'd change is to make the versioning persist across Idea restarts.
I get 4%.
Just imagine.
Ninjas v Pirates v Robots v Cowboys v Monkeys v WCW v Commandos v Terrorists
The episodic content writes itself. Got a widely publicized dog mauling case on the news? Tack a "v Vicious Dogs" onto that list and BOOM, welcome to Richistan, population: YOU.
I do, at length. Seriously, I know Tolkein was great and everything, but can we get a decent non-starwars sci-fi or post-apocalypse MMOG please? Or just something without any goddamn ORCS?