Sadly, they included a SoundBlaster X-Fi. For being "Vista Ready", this is way overkill as Vista (DX10) hardware accelerated audio. Way to turn a $100+ piece of equipment into a $1.42 integrated audio solution.
It's like an abducted child asking to be taken off the back of a milk carton or those have-you-seen-me mailings for DMCA violations. If they wouldn't have gone and gotten themselves kidnapped, this wouldn't have happened.
Thusly: if he didn't have naked pictures of himself on the internet, there wouldn't be naked pictures of himself on the internet.
Go ahead and "-1, distasteful" me... I deserve it.
this is why some nerds look like this guy. Not in the greatest of shape, but definitely not obese by any stretch.
You can't tell me that the skinny, dorky, pencil-necked geeks have taken in any degree of exercise in their lives aside from phalange-punching-perl-programming with "We Built This City" by Starship on the (net)radio.
All of that money trying to figure out why people are such fatties could have been instead used to try to put a little meat on the starving children of Africa's bones IMHO.
...then emo teens across America should be buying them up like hotcakes. FINALLY, someone who understands! and he plays reasonably entertaining video games too!!
Hot topic should have spotted the niche in the market long ago...
It's inevitable: advertising exists in our world and it will soon extend to virtual ones as well.
Will this lead to cheaper games? Nope Will this lead to better quality games? Did it ever lead to better quality TV? (answer:sometimes) Will we be able to cope with all of the extra mindless-consumer targeted advertising being flung at us in 1080p and 7.1 surround? Enh... who knows.
What it will lead to is a better sense of realism. So what if these evil, manipulative advertisements make you switch to drinking Coke and staying free with Stay-Free for a few weeks. When you start your next game (or, if the advertisements are dynamic, when the game switches them for you), you'll be drinking Pepsi happily as an Always girl... I promise!
These things are all mesh-networked together; focus on multiplayer.
Simple games like chess and checkers are great ways to both kill time and exercise your brain - and are best played with another person. Sure classics like a Number Munchers equivalent and Sim City would be great, and should be explored as well. I personally think that a lot of kids - hell, people in general - gain a lot of determination to improve through competition.
As previously mentioned in another post, the simplicity of the source code of these games would let children who are interested in programming understand what is being done. Adding the additional network component, as well, would prepare them for our highly-networked world.
Virtualization is great, but it needs to be simple. MacOS did this by placing "Classic" (Mac OS 9) apps in a seamless virtual environment. Users didn't even need to think about it, and that was important. There were _a lot_ of classic apps that needed to be emulated. It would be cool to do that for Windows apps, but I doubt it's ever going to happen.
I said this very same thing a while back... I think this is where Parallels is trying to go with their Coherence mode. The other day I went to launch firefox from spotlight and accidentally clicked on the wrong one - the shortcut to the windows version. Long story short, parallels quietly opened, resumed my windows session in the background, and within 20 seconds I had a firefox window open - coherence mode enabled automatically.
I think for Apple to implement such a feature would put them into a legally gray area that they would do best to just avoid. Nothing wrong with Parallels doing it for them, though. Then they can buy them out a la Logic...
according to the evolutionary approach, the belief in gods and the supernatural is really a 'spin-off' of a ingrained tendency to believe authority.
So what you're saying is that, at one point, God came down a peed all over a priest, who became the pope, and that alpha male heirarchy has continued ever since?
...marks the beginning of the Matrix. So long as there are different systems, we will always have to unplug - however briefly - to switch over to the competitor's product.
... you give up an OS riddled with security holes, poor interface design, and ridiculous resource requirements for another OS riddled with security holes, poor interface design, and even more ridiculous resource requirements... except it costs a few hundred (potentially) more.
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I imagine you do it with a hat, a bird, and a peg leg.
Sadly, they included a SoundBlaster X-Fi. For being "Vista Ready", this is way overkill as Vista (DX10) hardware accelerated audio. Way to turn a $100+ piece of equipment into a $1.42 integrated audio solution.
You not getting an obvious joke is friggin' retarded. What's even worse, is that you were modded +2 for that.
It's like an abducted child asking to be taken off the back of a milk carton or those have-you-seen-me mailings for DMCA violations. If they wouldn't have gone and gotten themselves kidnapped, this wouldn't have happened.
Thusly: if he didn't have naked pictures of himself on the internet, there wouldn't be naked pictures of himself on the internet.
Go ahead and "-1, distasteful" me... I deserve it.
Since it'll be tethered by WiFi... you'll have to be very careful to find the G-spot.
this is why some nerds look like this guy.
Not in the greatest of shape, but definitely not obese by any stretch.
You can't tell me that the skinny, dorky, pencil-necked geeks have taken in any degree of exercise in their lives aside from phalange-punching-perl-programming with "We Built This City" by Starship on the (net)radio.
All of that money trying to figure out why people are such fatties could have been instead used to try to put a little meat on the starving children of Africa's bones IMHO.
...then emo teens across America should be buying them up like hotcakes. FINALLY, someone who understands! and he plays reasonably entertaining video games too!!
Hot topic should have spotted the niche in the market long ago...
It's inevitable: advertising exists in our world and it will soon extend to virtual ones as well.
Will this lead to cheaper games? Nope
Will this lead to better quality games? Did it ever lead to better quality TV? (answer:sometimes)
Will we be able to cope with all of the extra mindless-consumer targeted advertising being flung at us in 1080p and 7.1 surround? Enh... who knows.
What it will lead to is a better sense of realism. So what if these evil, manipulative advertisements make you switch to drinking Coke and staying free with Stay-Free for a few weeks. When you start your next game (or, if the advertisements are dynamic, when the game switches them for you), you'll be drinking Pepsi happily as an Always girl... I promise!
These things are all mesh-networked together; focus on multiplayer.
Simple games like chess and checkers are great ways to both kill time and exercise your brain - and are best played with another person. Sure classics like a Number Munchers equivalent and Sim City would be great, and should be explored as well. I personally think that a lot of kids - hell, people in general - gain a lot of determination to improve through competition.
As previously mentioned in another post, the simplicity of the source code of these games would let children who are interested in programming understand what is being done. Adding the additional network component, as well, would prepare them for our highly-networked world.
I said this very same thing a while back... I think this is where Parallels is trying to go with their Coherence mode. The other day I went to launch firefox from spotlight and accidentally clicked on the wrong one - the shortcut to the windows version. Long story short, parallels quietly opened, resumed my windows session in the background, and within 20 seconds I had a firefox window open - coherence mode enabled automatically.
I think for Apple to implement such a feature would put them into a legally gray area that they would do best to just avoid. Nothing wrong with Parallels doing it for them, though. Then they can buy them out a la Logic...
So what you're saying is that, at one point, God came down a peed all over a priest, who became the pope, and that alpha male heirarchy has continued ever since?
Someone give this man a +4, Insightful or an Amen or something! Jesus!
On Xbox 360, arbitrary code runs YOU!!!
...I have a feeling that they're going to be making what will be classified as WMDs any day now. George Bush... Protect Us!!!
And if you find enough heart pieces, you'll get a lot of rupees.
I'd personally opt for a HUD displaying the same stats found on the SIMS. This way, I know just what I need to be happy and successful.
...marks the beginning of the Matrix. So long as there are different systems, we will always have to unplug - however briefly - to switch over to the competitor's product.
... you give up an OS riddled with security holes, poor interface design, and ridiculous resource requirements for another OS riddled with security holes, poor interface design, and even more ridiculous resource requirements... except it costs a few hundred (potentially) more.
... for xtube.com integration with Apple TV.
"...a young gentlemen from Carnegie Mellon University places water-logic-gate in the microwave to reinvent vaporware."