If gamers want to game, they can splurge and buy a graphics card (a decent card is just as expensive as 2 of the latest games ~$120). I don't disagree that Intel integrated graphics are utter garbage, but it's not hard to circumvent poor onboard graphics with an AGP/PCI-e card. Even if there was a motherboard with amazing integrated graphics, I would pass it up because in another 2 years I would have to buy a whole new motherboard (with probably a different CPU socket, so a new CPU would be needed too) with the then-latest in gfx chips in order to play the latest games.
I'm not going to get one because it can do those things -- but its ability to do those things makes me all giddy and the techno-freak inside me smile. It's a game machine and gosh-darnit, I'm going to play games on it:]
Nintendo would be able to at least add a 1 to those numbers if they released the black DS Lite in the USA (a.k.a. "I'd buy one"). Even though it has some nice hardware (touchscreen, built-in WiFi, mic, ARM processor), I was also skeptical of the DS at first: "Oh come on, how many developers are going to make use of the touch screen"... thankfully my skepticism was vanquished when developers came through with real creativity and awesomeness. Add to the awesome games the ability to play movies and mp3's (http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3834), run Linux (url:http://www.dslinux.org/>), and the awesome looks of the machine... and you have an unstoppable portable.
...if they were only in black (and the cool dark navy blue... and the blue "ice").
So is "Snakes On A Plane" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/) the story of the next step in snake-spurred human evolution? Go Samuel L Jackson, go... use your evolutionary powers!
You do know that AMD doesn't make PC's, right? Just because big-name PC manufacturers (Dell, HP, etc) use Intel chips in their machines with onboard graphics, it doesn't make it Intel's fault that the machines can't game. If the manufacturers were using AMD chips, they'd still have super-lame-o-vision onboard graphics. Manufacturers care jack-diddly about performance, they just want specs with high numbers. ATI + AMD won't do anything to make PC manufacturers go "Hey, let's make machines that actually perform well instead of just having 'ohmygosh specs'".
Anyone who wants to do high-graphic game can use their BRAIN and see that onboard graphics won't cut it... and there is a simple solution for them (if they don't want to build their own computer which is the smartest/cheapest way to go) -- it's called a graphics card; you can pick up a fairly decent one for $150, but if you're on a budget you can get ones cheaper that will still fit your need.
I don't get it? Why was he slow? Was there a race or something and he pulled a hamstring? Mmmmm... ham on a string. Ooh oh -- it's my patent, I claim it *puts down a flag* in the name of me. "Ham on a string, coming soon to a... meat store near you".
Yes, I may be a computer nerd, but 15 year olds think anyone over 18 (and under say... 25 [I'm 21]) is hot. Also, it probably helps that I'm riding a pink pony in one of my pictures... don't ask.
No. Besides being fundamentally different (an ISP vs. a website), you had to pay for AOL. Myspace is free (well, it may take a toll on your eyesite when you visit a page with a pink background and sparklies and a slightly lighter shade of pink for font). Anyone who pays for crap is a moron. But free crap... hey, it's free! (I use Myspace in order to keep in touch with friends....and to have random 15 year olds tell me I'm "sooo hawt" so I can wish I was dead).
They're spying on us while waiting for the rise of the machines. They'll know it is time when they see their leader, the brave little toaster, rise up....unfortunately for them, the brave little toaster had a little accident involving a fork after he captured one of my bagels. I had the last laugh that day.
Yes, because fictional violence equates with real-world violence. Also, if you had ever seen the Death Wish movies, you would know they are about justice, not shameless violence (if you want violent Charles Bronson movies, check out Kenjite). Americans are violent? Yes, that's why in Iran it's common etiquitte to beat women who are seen with men who are not their relatives or husband or why in Africa there are thousands of children with guns killing other children with guns all at the whim of a few maniacal warlords... hell, the Americans are in Iraq... and in Iraq, the major religious sects are blowing each other up with car bombs... they must've picked it up from the Americans. There are a host of reasons why the UK is "less violent" than the US (mixed populations, gun control, cultural differences) -- it can't be pinned on one thing, ESPECIALLY not something like "oh Americans love violence". How many people in the UK like violent movies? I would bet about the same percentage as is seen in the US!
I may be wrong, but myspace doesn't operate their own ad agency -- it's all outsourced to a company that specializes in online advertising. I only had to block one domain (I'm at work, so I can't look it up right now) to stop 99% of the flash ads on myspace. I blame the ad agency -- based on the other ads they have (way back in the day before I had Firefox with flash block, every other ad on myspace was "your system is infected, click here to infect your computer....I mean clean it. yes... clean it with viruses!") the ad agency is a bunch of greedy, soulless bastards.
Charles Bronson will take out that trash (if only he were still alive). If you've never seen the Death Wish series, do yourself a favor and watch them. Then go out and kick some scum-bag butt. Or at least think about it, because it's the thought that counts.
These criminals aren't too bright (then again, what criminals are). If I was going to rob someone using a gun (weapon charges tacked on to robbery in the states make it a much bigger offense - not too sure what the UK is like regarding that) I would be sure to get something a little more valuable than their iPod.
That's what this company is doing. If some "cool" kid in his Camaro (hell, as the article says, even his Porsche) pulls up next to me and thinks I look funny in my electric mobile, wait until he sees how funny I look when I've left him in the dust. I wouldn't buy one of these ($80,000...and with a range of 250 miles I'd be fscked because I have to travel about 300 miles to get home from where I am now).
Have you seen the launch line-up for the PS3? Even Sony admits it's unexciting! I don't see anyone sitting on the money they would otherwise spend on a 360/Wii for those launch games... yet Sony is still worrying about shortages (and they're trying to have 2 million units ready). I just can't see any real gamer sitting on money for unexciting launch games -- games aren't about investment (games aren't like a car in that you don't buy them to last for years... it's usually one or two plays through, worth maybe 40 hours of your time) so I have a hard time seeing anyone wait THAT long to save up money for PS3 over the 360/Wii. If people REALLY want one that bad -- they would've started saving a while ago. I honestly can't see this slowing the market (though it does help that most of the people I know are either going with the 360, Wii, or both).
I believe you meant "I am hoping the previous news I have read about PS3 region coding for games is true and JAPAN and the US are in the same region, so we can import some japanese games directly without modding the console."... but I may be mistaken:]
I would hope they make US and America the same region, otherwise a lot of people are going to be awfully confused.
It works in his mind -- he's an analyst so he MUST be right. Just like, in his world, [analogy time!] if a car maker came out with a car that went 0-60 in 2 seconds, had heated + cooled leather seats, contained 18 cupholders, and scratched your ass with a laser from space - but was insanely expensive - it would slow down the market, even if the other auto-makers made drastic improvements and innovations to their cars. I wish I was an analyst so I could make up things that didn't even have to make sense and get paid for it.
Creative and the other mp3 players get no accessories. This is an overlooked market (last time I checked, Creative holds 5% of the mp3 player market... don't say that's too small, because remember -- that's about the percentage that Apple holds in the computer market) and it makes me sad (then again, maybe I don't want any accessories if manufacturers are going to make a leather thong for my Zen).
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Did anyone else think "Conan... O'Brien?".
That would be pretty sweet: *Hair swish* *summon Max Weinberg and the Max Weinberg Seven*
If gamers want to game, they can splurge and buy a graphics card (a decent card is just as expensive as 2 of the latest games ~$120). I don't disagree that Intel integrated graphics are utter garbage, but it's not hard to circumvent poor onboard graphics with an AGP/PCI-e card. Even if there was a motherboard with amazing integrated graphics, I would pass it up because in another 2 years I would have to buy a whole new motherboard (with probably a different CPU socket, so a new CPU would be needed too) with the then-latest in gfx chips in order to play the latest games.
I'm not going to get one because it can do those things -- but its ability to do those things makes me all giddy and the techno-freak inside me smile. It's a game machine and gosh-darnit, I'm going to play games on it :]
I know, when will people stop knocking the work of the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Nintendo would be able to at least add a 1 to those numbers if they released the black DS Lite in the USA (a.k.a. "I'd buy one"). Even though it has some nice hardware (touchscreen, built-in WiFi, mic, ARM processor), I was also skeptical of the DS at first: "Oh come on, how many developers are going to make use of the touch screen"... thankfully my skepticism was vanquished when developers came through with real creativity and awesomeness. Add to the awesome games the ability to play movies and mp3's (http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3834), run Linux (url:http://www.dslinux.org/>), and the awesome looks of the machine... and you have an unstoppable portable.
...if they were only in black (and the cool dark navy blue... and the blue "ice").
So is "Snakes On A Plane" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/) the story of the next step in snake-spurred human evolution? Go Samuel L Jackson, go... use your evolutionary powers!
You do know that AMD doesn't make PC's, right? Just because big-name PC manufacturers (Dell, HP, etc) use Intel chips in their machines with onboard graphics, it doesn't make it Intel's fault that the machines can't game. If the manufacturers were using AMD chips, they'd still have super-lame-o-vision onboard graphics. Manufacturers care jack-diddly about performance, they just want specs with high numbers. ATI + AMD won't do anything to make PC manufacturers go "Hey, let's make machines that actually perform well instead of just having 'ohmygosh specs'".
Anyone who wants to do high-graphic game can use their BRAIN and see that onboard graphics won't cut it... and there is a simple solution for them (if they don't want to build their own computer which is the smartest/cheapest way to go) -- it's called a graphics card; you can pick up a fairly decent one for $150, but if you're on a budget you can get ones cheaper that will still fit your need.
I don't get it? Why was he slow? Was there a race or something and he pulled a hamstring? Mmmmm... ham on a string. Ooh oh -- it's my patent, I claim it *puts down a flag* in the name of me. "Ham on a string, coming soon to a... meat store near you".
Yes, I may be a computer nerd, but 15 year olds think anyone over 18 (and under say... 25 [I'm 21]) is hot. Also, it probably helps that I'm riding a pink pony in one of my pictures... don't ask.
No. Besides being fundamentally different (an ISP vs. a website), you had to pay for AOL. Myspace is free (well, it may take a toll on your eyesite when you visit a page with a pink background and sparklies and a slightly lighter shade of pink for font). Anyone who pays for crap is a moron. But free crap... hey, it's free! (I use Myspace in order to keep in touch with friends. ...and to have random 15 year olds tell me I'm "sooo hawt" so I can wish I was dead).
They're spying on us while waiting for the rise of the machines. They'll know it is time when they see their leader, the brave little toaster, rise up. ...unfortunately for them, the brave little toaster had a little accident involving a fork after he captured one of my bagels. I had the last laugh that day.
A girl that plays video games? Impossible!!! *runs and hides*
Let me be the first to say... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... It's about time judges started giving Jack Thompson the respect he deserves.
Yes, because fictional violence equates with real-world violence. Also, if you had ever seen the Death Wish movies, you would know they are about justice, not shameless violence (if you want violent Charles Bronson movies, check out Kenjite). Americans are violent? Yes, that's why in Iran it's common etiquitte to beat women who are seen with men who are not their relatives or husband or why in Africa there are thousands of children with guns killing other children with guns all at the whim of a few maniacal warlords... hell, the Americans are in Iraq... and in Iraq, the major religious sects are blowing each other up with car bombs... they must've picked it up from the Americans. There are a host of reasons why the UK is "less violent" than the US (mixed populations, gun control, cultural differences) -- it can't be pinned on one thing, ESPECIALLY not something like "oh Americans love violence". How many people in the UK like violent movies? I would bet about the same percentage as is seen in the US!
*makes crack about how the French get their butts handed to them in every war but with an army of robots they might have a chance*
She pulls them out of... you know, I'm not even going to go there.
You obviously know nothing about genetics or genetic engineering for that matter. Have fun with your uneducated opinions :]
I may be wrong, but myspace doesn't operate their own ad agency -- it's all outsourced to a company that specializes in online advertising. I only had to block one domain (I'm at work, so I can't look it up right now) to stop 99% of the flash ads on myspace. I blame the ad agency -- based on the other ads they have (way back in the day before I had Firefox with flash block, every other ad on myspace was "your system is infected, click here to infect your computer. ...I mean clean it. yes... clean it with viruses!") the ad agency is a bunch of greedy, soulless bastards.
Charles Bronson will take out that trash (if only he were still alive). If you've never seen the Death Wish series, do yourself a favor and watch them. Then go out and kick some scum-bag butt. Or at least think about it, because it's the thought that counts.
These criminals aren't too bright (then again, what criminals are). If I was going to rob someone using a gun (weapon charges tacked on to robbery in the states make it a much bigger offense - not too sure what the UK is like regarding that) I would be sure to get something a little more valuable than their iPod.
That's what this company is doing. If some "cool" kid in his Camaro (hell, as the article says, even his Porsche) pulls up next to me and thinks I look funny in my electric mobile, wait until he sees how funny I look when I've left him in the dust. I wouldn't buy one of these ($80,000 ...and with a range of 250 miles I'd be fscked because I have to travel about 300 miles to get home from where I am now).
Have you seen the launch line-up for the PS3? Even Sony admits it's unexciting! I don't see anyone sitting on the money they would otherwise spend on a 360/Wii for those launch games... yet Sony is still worrying about shortages (and they're trying to have 2 million units ready). I just can't see any real gamer sitting on money for unexciting launch games -- games aren't about investment (games aren't like a car in that you don't buy them to last for years... it's usually one or two plays through, worth maybe 40 hours of your time) so I have a hard time seeing anyone wait THAT long to save up money for PS3 over the 360/Wii. If people REALLY want one that bad -- they would've started saving a while ago. I honestly can't see this slowing the market (though it does help that most of the people I know are either going with the 360, Wii, or both).
I believe you meant "I am hoping the previous news I have read about PS3 region coding for games is true and JAPAN and the US are in the same region, so we can import some japanese games directly without modding the console."... but I may be mistaken :]
I would hope they make US and America the same region, otherwise a lot of people are going to be awfully confused.
It works in his mind -- he's an analyst so he MUST be right. Just like, in his world, [analogy time!] if a car maker came out with a car that went 0-60 in 2 seconds, had heated + cooled leather seats, contained 18 cupholders, and scratched your ass with a laser from space - but was insanely expensive - it would slow down the market, even if the other auto-makers made drastic improvements and innovations to their cars. I wish I was an analyst so I could make up things that didn't even have to make sense and get paid for it.
Creative and the other mp3 players get no accessories. This is an overlooked market (last time I checked, Creative holds 5% of the mp3 player market... don't say that's too small, because remember -- that's about the percentage that Apple holds in the computer market) and it makes me sad (then again, maybe I don't want any accessories if manufacturers are going to make a leather thong for my Zen).
Maybe they just happened to have some extra space on their webserver?... *looks around*... *tinfoil hat ON*