they are selling 2-3x the amount of hardware and software then they did at the same time last year for the PS2 and PSP (all of this is for USA/Canada). I honestly don't see any reason WHY.
IT has nothing to do with people wnatign a PS3 and setteling for a PSP/PS2, as that is just faulty logic. It might be people buying PS2/P when little timmy wants a PS3 (but that does not really seem like sound reasoning to me either).
Mabey it has something to do with the 360 already being out for a year now. I am willing to bet that the introduction of the 360 into the market hurt sony/nintendo hardware sales during that time, and thus also game sales. The same could be said about the PSP and the DS, the PSP launched a few months before the DS and thus people already had picked it up, and their games. Then, intime for the holiday season, Nintendo released the DS.
What about there being better games out? Yah, PS2 has some great games out atm, did it lack in games last holiday season? honestly not sure, can any one vouch for/against that? PSP? Not that I know of. As far as I can tell the PSP still has lack luster games, jsut like last year.
Citing evidence that games are responsible for increased aggression and poor health
Isn't this a self solvign problem? Ok, so they become violent, but at the same time the get fat and lazy, thus unable to act out on these violent impulses!
wii play is deffinatly a game I am looking foward to. More mindless little games that are just fun to play. Personaly I can't wait for a mario party game.
As for the rest, yup nintendo knows they have to earn their suces, why? because they already found out what happens if you take it for granted. (some up and comming game system kicks your ass)
yes, ofcourse we show "symptoms" of addiction, my question is what does the WHO say about the number of these symptoms that we need to show before we are clasified as addicted, and howmany people showed those signs.
the main article is not all that interesting to me, why? it is all old news. Yes, Nintendo is not goign for bleeding edge tech, instead they gor for games and profit, and b/c of this they make money.
The little 1up article is much more interesting. They see the XBox starting to MAKE money in the next 2 years, last I saw they were not planing on actualy makign money via the xbox for awhile yet, this sounds like the 360 really has been the shot in the arm that MS needed to actualy enter the market and start making money out of it.
Disclamers: I am a nintendo fanboy, and thus rather familiar with the ups and downs nintendo has gone through. I also bashed the Xbox and loved the PS2. However with this generation I am really looking at the 360 as a great system, though my $$ is still with nintendo. I would personaly rank the 360 and the Wii as rather equal interms of fun that can be gotten out of them, however the $ required to get aid fun is MUCH lower on the side of the Wii. I rank the 360 and Wii well above the PS3 simply due to a lackluster showing of games beign announced.
On a compleatly offtopic note: Are peopel THAT attached to GMod?
I know you can do some nifty thigns with it (and aparently that list of nifty things has increased ALOT since I last used it), but $10 for a playground?
I would rather pay $10 for sometihng that had some amount of game in it (now if you combined source forts and GMod, I would be a happy camper, and probably shell out alot more then $10)
The reason why Steam is popular is because it is tied in with a few KEY products (CS, and to a lesser extent HL2) that get people to regularly use the service, and be comfterable with it.
There ARE other companies out there that will sell you digital copies of games (Direct2Drive from IGN, Gamestop sells them, XBoxLive Arcade, and gametap is sorta in there). However they don't have a service that gives you a plat form for a way of accessign your content, a chat interface, and a server browser exept for XBLA (well, I dono, does gametap?).
I don't expect to see that many A Line games showing up as first runs on Steam because it is feedign the "competitor", however we are seeing alot of "indy" games like Darwinia showing up on Steam at (or shortly after) launch.
One interesting thing to see would be the comparison between violent games, movies, and competitive sports - basketball/football. Lets see how everything stacks up, not just viewing things in isolation. After that, we can move on to see if there is a correlation with events/behaviours later in life.
I like the idea alot actualy. We get the data and then compare it to data from activities we are more familiar with....
The Dikatana ones are actualy relatively good (they get you to go "wth was that! gona go look it up"), as well as sticking with you (the fact that the first one is still a meme to this day).
A couple involve people looking stupid (he is right on that, make people in your adds look COOL, not stupid), however he lumps planescape torment in there with em, and I personaly think that the guy from that add looked awsome.
His main complaints seem to be that he does not like ussing sex to sell, well sorry mate, sex sells, deal with it and move on. Slap a scantily clad lady on your add and the target demographic WILL look at it (that is the sign of a GOOD add).
The previous articles had considerably worse adds, and to tell you the truth the were MUCH worse adds from that time.
Well, ok, so you play MoH:F (FPS) and your emotional arousal increase (amygdala), and your control, focus, and concentration decreases (prefrontal portions) MORE SO then if you play NfS:U (Racing)...
That says to me that both of them have these effects. It also does not state how long this effect LAST (does it stop right at the end, 1 min? 10 mins? an hr? a day?).
Now, can any bio/psych people tell us EXACTLY what those 2 portions controll?
Are we wimply seeing that it takes greater concentration to play a racing game then it does an FPS? How does brain activity like this play out in real life? (what causes it?)
It would be a good idea if it actually worked. They were able to obtain material to make at least one atomic bomb, hardly the type of item you see at Best Buy.
My thoughts exactly. If I was an enterprising scumbag (with the proper contacts), I would contact Kim and just have him draw up a list of what he wants, buy everything on the list, and resell them for 2-10x the cost. Does the USA check the mail to Johny Kim in N.Korea? if so then just find the country that does not and have someone send em from there.
The problem is that I can create an email address in a coupple of seconds to a coupple of mins, submit that, click the link, and I have authed with out ever giving my real email. And with the services like 10mm and mailinator, it is incredibly quick and easy. Admitedly I always just create junk GMail accounts (ussed to make junk hotmail accounts, but gmail is much faster). The part that I actualy like about making junk gmail accounts is that I just name them using a standard (for me) meathod, and if I ever need to check mail from the same place, it is all still there (for instance, Thansal.newsday@gmail.com, Thansal.JonsBlog@gmail.com, Thansal.slashdot@gmail.com). So, unless you want to block all free email services, you are SOL.
The thing that alot of peopel are not mentioning are low population areas. You will find alot mroe places that dont' take CCs in those areas.
An as everyone points out, any place that works on selling a high volume of low cost items (hotdogs, coffe, icecream, etc) will not take CCs, or will have a minimum purchace.
I used to work in an icecream shop in a college town, all of the college kids (my self included) had debitcards, and never caried cash. The guy who ran the store did get a CC machine, but placed a $5 minimum, as he literaly would lose money on each transaction otherwise.
we also had a guy who was blind (worked for the college) that came in relatively frequently. It was not uncommon for one of us to pick out the proper bill from his wallet, or let him know just what he had, otherwise he just worked on memory of what he had, and hoped people were honest with him.
These cameras are almost entierly 2+ years old! (September 2003 - January 2005)
If I had a defective camera, I would not hold on to it for 2+ years, I would have returned it to the store that sold me the piece of junk in the first place.
If you have a giant set of data, and you set a computer on it for long enough, it should be able to come up with some rather solid paterns/corelations/etc. You come up with these things, and if you don't have to wory about paying the stock broker what ever cut for each transaction (because you are the broker), then constantly trading on these thigns seems like agreat idea.
However, it still can't predict things that a human can (yet). I doubt that a computer can incorporate thigns like global news, company announcements, and other such real world variables into how it makes judgments. That was the one thing that the article didn't really talk about.
So I doubt we will see these "black boxes" replacing brokers, simply suplimenting them.
it is from a number of old mmos as well as irc systems,/em,/me,/emote,/e all simply removed the ":" after your name in a chat field. I hope you were joking, but still.
hmm, from what you, and all of the above posters have said, it sounds like it is primarily a very good version of a tactical shooter (something I do like). I am primarily a PC gammer, and I am buying a Wii (looks like I can get one this weekend, yay for me), however I keep on getting tempted by the 360. There seem to be a number of very good games, some solid net play (the subscription is one of the big things putting me off there), and some amasing graphics (my budget says no HD TV for me, another put off atm).
I am not, I was simply pointing out that the general consesus on Jesus' birth is divine intervention (aka MAGIC *waves fingers*)
Aparently I am also wrong about immaculate conception referencing Jesus' birth (acording to another poster it is about Mary's birth), The "Virgin Birth" is what refers to Jesus.
either way, I don't really care that much (again, not christian my self), was just pointing out that the concept of trying to flame a religion using science is kinda silly as the entire POINT of religion is that it often does not.
I am right here, you don't have to keep on looking. Sorry if finding me delayed anythign important. I will still be here latter if now is not a good time./em sits back down
My book, Disinfection Byproducts in Drinking Water: Formation, analysis, and control was published by Lewis Publishers. Based on a recent calculation, the payment I received for writing the book is very close to what my son got from Taco Bell based on a hourly rate. And you can buy this book from Wal-Mart online! By the way, don't expect a cheap book here. With 5% off, it is still $142.45 for 176 pages.
Well, I hope his new endevor goes better then his last one did (monitarily that is)!
Exactly, Blizzard is a smart company, they do not want to tick of these users as well as create a bad name amongst geeks (if they had not done anythign about these accoutns there would have been a good number of poeple that are suddenly warry about Bilz's policys).
Meh, Blizz is one of the companies I consider myself a fanboy of (as far back as the wonderful games that are the lost vikings games, who you can find in ULDA btw), so this is no big shock to me.
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they are selling 2-3x the amount of hardware and software then they did at the same time last year for the PS2 and PSP (all of this is for USA/Canada). I honestly don't see any reason WHY.
IT has nothing to do with people wnatign a PS3 and setteling for a PSP/PS2, as that is just faulty logic. It might be people buying PS2/P when little timmy wants a PS3 (but that does not really seem like sound reasoning to me either).
Mabey it has something to do with the 360 already being out for a year now. I am willing to bet that the introduction of the 360 into the market hurt sony/nintendo hardware sales during that time, and thus also game sales.
The same could be said about the PSP and the DS, the PSP launched a few months before the DS and thus people already had picked it up, and their games. Then, intime for the holiday season, Nintendo released the DS.
What about there being better games out?
Yah, PS2 has some great games out atm, did it lack in games last holiday season? honestly not sure, can any one vouch for/against that?
PSP? Not that I know of. As far as I can tell the PSP still has lack luster games, jsut like last year.
any one got some better ideas?
Sweet!
wii play is deffinatly a game I am looking foward to. More mindless little games that are just fun to play. Personaly I can't wait for a mario party game.
As for the rest, yup nintendo knows they have to earn their suces, why? because they already found out what happens if you take it for granted. (some up and comming game system kicks your ass)
Gamespot seems dead to me, so instead:
yes, ofcourse we show "symptoms" of addiction, my question is what does the WHO say about the number of these symptoms that we need to show before we are clasified as addicted, and howmany people showed those signs.
Meh, can't say more with out TFA beign up
the main article is not all that interesting to me, why? it is all old news.
Yes, Nintendo is not goign for bleeding edge tech, instead they gor for games and profit, and b/c of this they make money.
The little 1up article is much more interesting. They see the XBox starting to MAKE money in the next 2 years, last I saw they were not planing on actualy makign money via the xbox for awhile yet, this sounds like the 360 really has been the shot in the arm that MS needed to actualy enter the market and start making money out of it.
Disclamers:
I am a nintendo fanboy, and thus rather familiar with the ups and downs nintendo has gone through. I also bashed the Xbox and loved the PS2. However with this generation I am really looking at the 360 as a great system, though my $$ is still with nintendo. I would personaly rank the 360 and the Wii as rather equal interms of fun that can be gotten out of them, however the $ required to get aid fun is MUCH lower on the side of the Wii. I rank the 360 and Wii well above the PS3 simply due to a lackluster showing of games beign announced.
On a compleatly offtopic note:
Are peopel THAT attached to GMod?
I know you can do some nifty thigns with it (and aparently that list of nifty things has increased ALOT since I last used it), but $10 for a playground?
I would rather pay $10 for sometihng that had some amount of game in it (now if you combined source forts and GMod, I would be a happy camper, and probably shell out alot more then $10)
The reason why Steam is popular is because it is tied in with a few KEY products (CS, and to a lesser extent HL2) that get people to regularly use the service, and be comfterable with it.
There ARE other companies out there that will sell you digital copies of games (Direct2Drive from IGN, Gamestop sells them, XBoxLive Arcade, and gametap is sorta in there). However they don't have a service that gives you a plat form for a way of accessign your content, a chat interface, and a server browser exept for XBLA (well, I dono, does gametap?).
I don't expect to see that many A Line games showing up as first runs on Steam because it is feedign the "competitor", however we are seeing alot of "indy" games like Darwinia showing up on Steam at (or shortly after) launch.
as for:
I like the idea alot actualy. We get the data and then compare it to data from activities we are more familiar with....
These adds are not THAT bad for the most part.
The Dikatana ones are actualy relatively good (they get you to go "wth was that! gona go look it up"), as well as sticking with you (the fact that the first one is still a meme to this day).
A couple involve people looking stupid (he is right on that, make people in your adds look COOL, not stupid), however he lumps planescape torment in there with em, and I personaly think that the guy from that add looked awsome.
His main complaints seem to be that he does not like ussing sex to sell, well sorry mate, sex sells, deal with it and move on. Slap a scantily clad lady on your add and the target demographic WILL look at it (that is the sign of a GOOD add).
The previous articles had considerably worse adds, and to tell you the truth the were MUCH worse adds from that time.
Well, ok, so you play MoH:F (FPS) and your emotional arousal increase (amygdala), and your control, focus, and concentration decreases (prefrontal portions) MORE SO then if you play NfS:U (Racing)...
That says to me that both of them have these effects. It also does not state how long this effect LAST (does it stop right at the end, 1 min? 10 mins? an hr? a day?).
Now, can any bio/psych people tell us EXACTLY what those 2 portions controll?
Are we wimply seeing that it takes greater concentration to play a racing game then it does an FPS?
How does brain activity like this play out in real life? (what causes it?)
My thoughts exactly. If I was an enterprising scumbag (with the proper contacts), I would contact Kim and just have him draw up a list of what he wants, buy everything on the list, and resell them for 2-10x the cost. Does the USA check the mail to Johny Kim in N.Korea? if so then just find the country that does not and have someone send em from there.
This does not hurt the dictator.
The problem is that I can create an email address in a coupple of seconds to a coupple of mins, submit that, click the link, and I have authed with out ever giving my real email. And with the services like 10mm and mailinator, it is incredibly quick and easy. Admitedly I always just create junk GMail accounts (ussed to make junk hotmail accounts, but gmail is much faster). The part that I actualy like about making junk gmail accounts is that I just name them using a standard (for me) meathod, and if I ever need to check mail from the same place, it is all still there (for instance, Thansal.newsday@gmail.com, Thansal.JonsBlog@gmail.com, Thansal.slashdot@gmail.com). So, unless you want to block all free email services, you are SOL.
The thing that alot of peopel are not mentioning are low population areas. You will find alot mroe places that dont' take CCs in those areas.
An as everyone points out, any place that works on selling a high volume of low cost items (hotdogs, coffe, icecream, etc) will not take CCs, or will have a minimum purchace.
I used to work in an icecream shop in a college town, all of the college kids (my self included) had debitcards, and never caried cash. The guy who ran the store did get a CC machine, but placed a $5 minimum, as he literaly would lose money on each transaction otherwise.
we also had a guy who was blind (worked for the college) that came in relatively frequently. It was not uncommon for one of us to pick out the proper bill from his wallet, or let him know just what he had, otherwise he just worked on memory of what he had, and hoped people were honest with him.
These cameras are almost entierly 2+ years old! (September 2003 - January 2005)
If I had a defective camera, I would not hold on to it for 2+ years, I would have returned it to the store that sold me the piece of junk in the first place.
Meh, I don't get it at all.
Heh, yup I tried to buy one of those. 2 mins before 11 PST the site slowed t oa crawl, and for about 5 mins after the site just did not respond.
That is kinda impressive to do to amazon.com.
Meh, we expect this type of thing by now, and it does not matter on the company. I expect that they will have it working in the next couple of days.
Speaking of gettign stuff workign in the next couple of days, can any one report on how the Wii online stuff is going? is it working now?
If you have a giant set of data, and you set a computer on it for long enough, it should be able to come up with some rather solid paterns/corelations/etc. You come up with these things, and if you don't have to wory about paying the stock broker what ever cut for each transaction (because you are the broker), then constantly trading on these thigns seems like agreat idea.
However, it still can't predict things that a human can (yet). I doubt that a computer can incorporate thigns like global news, company announcements, and other such real world variables into how it makes judgments. That was the one thing that the article didn't really talk about.
So I doubt we will see these "black boxes" replacing brokers, simply suplimenting them.
it is from a number of old mmos as well as irc systems, /em, /me, /emote, /e all simply removed the ":" after your name in a chat field. I hope you were joking, but still.
hmm, from what you, and all of the above posters have said, it sounds like it is primarily a very good version of a tactical shooter (something I do like). I am primarily a PC gammer, and I am buying a Wii (looks like I can get one this weekend, yay for me), however I keep on getting tempted by the 360. There seem to be a number of very good games, some solid net play (the subscription is one of the big things putting me off there), and some amasing graphics (my budget says no HD TV for me, another put off atm).
:D
Thank you, and all of the other replies
Any one mind doing me a favor?
/. collective intelegence.
What is so great about gears?
I admit, Ihave done no homework on this, and thus am simply relying on the
It is just another FPS, isn't it?
Is there somethign fantasticly inovative about it?
somethign horribly fun?
Somethign original?
please, I am curious. (and lazy)
I thought this was always one of the largets conserns about the impact of net neutrality legislation?
Or the nagain, it might just be that I am an online game addict and thuso nly think about these things.
yah never know......
I am not, I was simply pointing out that the general consesus on Jesus' birth is divine intervention (aka MAGIC *waves fingers*)
Aparently I am also wrong about immaculate conception referencing Jesus' birth (acording to another poster it is about Mary's birth), The "Virgin Birth" is what refers to Jesus.
either way, I don't really care that much (again, not christian my self), was just pointing out that the concept of trying to flame a religion using science is kinda silly as the entire POINT of religion is that it often does not.
/em stands up
/em sits back down
I am right here, you don't have to keep on looking. Sorry if finding me delayed anythign important. I will still be here latter if now is not a good time.
Well, I hope his new endevor goes better then his last one did (monitarily that is)!
Exactly, Blizzard is a smart company, they do not want to tick of these users as well as create a bad name amongst geeks (if they had not done anythign about these accoutns there would have been a good number of poeple that are suddenly warry about Bilz's policys).
Meh, Blizz is one of the companies I consider myself a fanboy of (as far back as the wonderful games that are the lost vikings games, who you can find in ULDA btw), so this is no big shock to me.