I'd have to agree. Regardless of what they do in the console realm, their handhelds will be going strong for at least the near future.
When we decide that our son deserves a reward or we want to just surprise him with a new game, a $30 3DS game is much easier on the wallet than a $60 console game. The same logic applies to when he wants to spend money he has saved up, he can get usually afford a new 3DS game, or even two used ones, but almost never can he get a new console game.
What makes you think they'll let a little fact like that get in the way of their doomsaying? I'm sure they'll be able to come up with something:
This one happened faster than previous ones
This one was slower than others
This one was stronger
It was weaker
It's going to happen over the holidays so it has biblical implications
When combined with global warming it will cause untold catastrophes
...
No, no, you just have to hang them on the back of the fridge. They'll be a bit hard to get to there but, just think, 11 years from now when you switch them back, you'll have all sorts of rediscovered recipes to try.
Saying that the market share of windows is declining while increasing the size of the market with devices that widows was a never a factor on is misleading and manipulative.
I'm by no means an MS evangelist or anything but the argument in the OP is sort of like saying that Ford is losing market a share when you include lawn mowers and tractors into the market. They simply aren't relevant, when windows begins to lose market share in the PC market at the rate described above, then you can pose the question. Until then it just sounds like you're trying to start a fight.
I was just wondering the same thing. I won't buy most games unless I can rent them first and try them.
So, MS is saying you have to just buy the game, no more trying it out first. Oh, and you have to buy it at pretty close to retail price too, even if it is used. You can't borrow one from a friend to try it out (my son does that all the time and we go buy the ones he likes). You can't take them to someone else's house for a game night.
I guess I wont be getting an xbox 1
According to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/smitten?s=t, you're ok with smitten. However you should probably be a bit more specific about which definition you mean. One would be rather amusing to see, the other sort of disgusting in a beastial sort of way
And, I'm not sure the llamas would appreciate either
I say bullets and grenades, because why else would you care to track indoors
Because the days of pitched battles across huge areas are falling behind. The modern battle field is getting more and more urban (that would be indoors), and where it isn't urban, it is often underground or inside caves
... now we'll have crazy smart bullets to take care of the terrorists, that's right, the terrorists in their caves... They really don't like having to give orders to actual people, do they, knowing that people may not always take the orders if they disagree with them.
Actually, the point of doing this would be to save American lives and not needlessly endanger them. I'm sure they aren't very worried about people disobeying orders
Having lots of people means nothing if you can't get them there. The Chinese navy is pretty much none existent, at least as far as what they would need to mount any sort of invasion of Taiwan or Japan. Even a very small US Naval force would be sufficient to prevent them from having any sort of success.
Korea would be the only one they could have a chance of doing anything with. And even then I'm sure North Korea would have a thing or two to say about it.
Sure charge everyone a hundredth of a cent for each email, assuming my account doesn't get hacked, I'll need to pay a penny or two each month. No problem.
But wait.... who's going to pay to set up the monitoring process, the billing process, the dispute process, the collection process, and the method of getting the money to where it is that it's supposed to go? So my $.01 per month just turned into $1.00 or $2.00.
Politicians should be required to prove they have a minimum IQ and a certain level of common sense before being allowed to run in an election
Unfortunately the president is no longer capable of making such an address. Shortly after being informed of the North Korean threat he was found on the floor of the oval office, unconscious. Apparently he had been laughing so hard, not only did he pull a muscle in his abdomen, but he was so short of breath he passed out.
He woke once briefly, on the way to the hospital, and is believed to have said something about nuclear weapons, and not hitting barns while being inside them, at which point he began laughing again....
As several dozen other people have mentioned crappy docs account for a lot of it, the fact that Stack Overflow comes up first in most searches is a lot more of it, but another factor is that, in most cases, devs aren't looking for a technical definition of some API method. They are looking for a solution to a problem and the way technical docs are written they don't lend themselves to those sorts of questions unless you know the method that you need and can go right in there and find it.
And then hope that it has some sort of readable description and possibly an example. Otherwise, it's off to what ever site actually has a post by some who has used that method and can tell me how to use to solve my problem.
Yep, the US government is hacking the Chinese military in order to steal all their valuable, state of the art, highly effective, totally awesome..... oh who am I kidding. It went like this.
US government: We need you to hack in to the Chinese military and steal all their secrets.
Hacker: Sure thing, I'll get right on it. .... a few weeks later....
Hacker: Here you go, there was quite bit there but I got it all.
US Government: perfect, you've done your country a great service..... ahhh, wait a minute....
Hacker: what?
US Government: You hacked the wrong country, these are all our military files... in fact, you got the wrong decade, these are all really old.
Hacker: Dude, it was from China, it was all right there in the folder named "R sekret stuf that we didnt get from noone else", behind the folder labeled "Taiwan Invasion plans"
US Government: Ok, well, errr thanks, I guess we have nothing to worry about.
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I'd have to agree. Regardless of what they do in the console realm, their handhelds will be going strong for at least the near future.
When we decide that our son deserves a reward or we want to just surprise him with a new game, a $30 3DS game is much easier on the wallet than a $60 console game. The same logic applies to when he wants to spend money he has saved up, he can get usually afford a new 3DS game, or even two used ones, but almost never can he get a new console game.
Good point, but maybe they don't know the difference either
Maybe they mean "impact" as in had an effect on. I'm pretty it is just bad writing though ... just trying to give them an out ...
Ok, we build this giant wooden badger ...
What makes you think they'll let a little fact like that get in the way of their doomsaying? I'm sure they'll be able to come up with something:
...
This one happened faster than previous ones
This one was slower than others
This one was stronger
It was weaker
It's going to happen over the holidays so it has biblical implications
When combined with global warming it will cause untold catastrophes
No, no, you just have to hang them on the back of the fridge. They'll be a bit hard to get to there but, just think, 11 years from now when you switch them back, you'll have all sorts of rediscovered recipes to try.
Really? Let me know if you still think that after you've been waving your arms in the air in front of your monitor for about 10 minutes.
My biggest fear is being told to do it a certain way because that's the way it was always done.
Which is right there with the "If it isn't broke don't fix it" philosophy
Hey, no it doesn't. It says ...... oh, errr.... nevermind
Can we mod the OP as a troll?
Saying that the market share of windows is declining while increasing the size of the market with devices that widows was a never a factor on is misleading and manipulative.
I'm by no means an MS evangelist or anything but the argument in the OP is sort of like saying that Ford is losing market a share when you include lawn mowers and tractors into the market. They simply aren't relevant, when windows begins to lose market share in the PC market at the rate described above, then you can pose the question. Until then it just sounds like you're trying to start a fight.
... there will always be talented people willing to do whatever they have to in order to stay competitive and even excel.
If they have to go to those lengths, they're not that talented
No. They'll have to maintain the $60 model, for xbox games at least, since they will be selling so many fewer of them after this.
I was just wondering the same thing. I won't buy most games unless I can rent them first and try them.
So, MS is saying you have to just buy the game, no more trying it out first. Oh, and you have to buy it at pretty close to retail price too, even if it is used. You can't borrow one from a friend to try it out (my son does that all the time and we go buy the ones he likes). You can't take them to someone else's house for a game night.
I guess I wont be getting an xbox 1
According to http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/smitten?s=t, you're ok with smitten. However you should probably be a bit more specific about which definition you mean. One would be rather amusing to see, the other sort of disgusting in a beastial sort of way
And, I'm not sure the llamas would appreciate either
Especially solar cells that keep getting holes punched in them ... sorry, had to ...
To regularly spam the people you want to get to donate money to you.
Still no literal "bearded man in the sky"-style deity though.
What!? No beard? All those pictures and statues and stuff are wrong?
I say bullets and grenades, because why else would you care to track indoors
Because the days of pitched battles across huge areas are falling behind. The modern battle field is getting more and more urban (that would be indoors), and where it isn't urban, it is often underground or inside caves
... now we'll have crazy smart bullets to take care of the terrorists, that's right, the terrorists in their caves ... They really don't like having to give orders to actual people, do they, knowing that people may not always take the orders if they disagree with them.
Actually, the point of doing this would be to save American lives and not needlessly endanger them. I'm sure they aren't very worried about people disobeying orders
I, for one, welcome our internet connected, email sending, fairly penguin overlords.
Having lots of people means nothing if you can't get them there. The Chinese navy is pretty much none existent, at least as far as what they would need to mount any sort of invasion of Taiwan or Japan. Even a very small US Naval force would be sufficient to prevent them from having any sort of success.
Korea would be the only one they could have a chance of doing anything with. And even then I'm sure North Korea would have a thing or two to say about it.
In reality you'll get modded down because right after you say that you'll get modded down you go on to insult the very people doing the modding.
And, what the hell is a "DO NOTHING HAT" and how did it get in the way of a powerful economy?
Sure charge everyone a hundredth of a cent for each email, assuming my account doesn't get hacked, I'll need to pay a penny or two each month. No problem.
But wait .... who's going to pay to set up the monitoring process, the billing process, the dispute process, the collection process, and the method of getting the money to where it is that it's supposed to go? So my $.01 per month just turned into $1.00 or $2.00.
Politicians should be required to prove they have a minimum IQ and a certain level of common sense before being allowed to run in an election
Unfortunately the president is no longer capable of making such an address. Shortly after being informed of the North Korean threat he was found on the floor of the oval office, unconscious. Apparently he had been laughing so hard, not only did he pull a muscle in his abdomen, but he was so short of breath he passed out.
....
He woke once briefly, on the way to the hospital, and is believed to have said something about nuclear weapons, and not hitting barns while being inside them, at which point he began laughing again
As several dozen other people have mentioned crappy docs account for a lot of it, the fact that Stack Overflow comes up first in most searches is a lot more of it, but another factor is that, in most cases, devs aren't looking for a technical definition of some API method. They are looking for a solution to a problem and the way technical docs are written they don't lend themselves to those sorts of questions unless you know the method that you need and can go right in there and find it.
And then hope that it has some sort of readable description and possibly an example. Otherwise, it's off to what ever site actually has a post by some who has used that method and can tell me how to use to solve my problem.
Yep, the US government is hacking the Chinese military in order to steal all their valuable, state of the art, highly effective, totally awesome ..... oh who am I kidding. It went like this.
US government: We need you to hack in to the Chinese military and steal all their secrets.
.... a few weeks later .... ..... ahhh, wait a minute .... ... in fact, you got the wrong decade, these are all really old.
Hacker: Sure thing, I'll get right on it.
Hacker: Here you go, there was quite bit there but I got it all.
US Government: perfect, you've done your country a great service
Hacker: what?
US Government: You hacked the wrong country, these are all our military files
Hacker: Dude, it was from China, it was all right there in the folder named "R sekret stuf that we didnt get from noone else", behind the folder labeled "Taiwan Invasion plans"
US Government: Ok, well, errr thanks, I guess we have nothing to worry about.