No man, Sony learned the consequences of having a lame-numbered console (PS3) go up against a much higher number console (the 360), and Microsoft knows they need to keep upping the ante. So Next Generation consoles are gonna be the Playstation 4,000,000, the Microsoft Xbox (int sum = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i = 1,000,000,000; i++)sum += x[i];), and the Nintendo Infinity+1.
Competition is always good for the consumer. When one company dominates, there's no pressure, and that company will only marginally improve their products over their previous iteration.
So, wait, you think that switchers will switch back to PC's, after having just bought atleast $1000 worth of Apple hardware, to use XP, something they already had before??
This is actually fabulous news for Apple. It makes MS look like a bunch of idiots for releasing a product so bad that people will go out of their way to not buy. It also shows that OSX 10.4 Tiger can easily compete against Vista, so there's no rush to let Leapord out of the cage yet (cat outta the bag?).
It's rather embarassing when your competitor's two year old product is more popular than your brand new product.
Well, the 33 mile long underground Seikan Tunnel, linking the Japanese Islands of Hokkaido and Honshu, is smack in the midde of the Ring of Fire, and has held up for almost 20 years, so I wouldn't worry about it.
"If we release a security update that is not adequately tested, we could potentially put customers at risk."
I'm sorry, were the customers not at risk before? I don't understand. How could a security update expose more security holes, unless it were coded by a dumbass? Oh, wait...
Yet, the state of free press is nearly equatable in terms of relative freedom to criticize the government. I never said Putin was a mass-murderer on the scale of Stalin: his method of silencing dissidents is much different. The fact remains that Putin stifles freedom of press, even freedom of speech, in a manner that recalls Stalin.
Putin has Russia locked down almost as tight as Stalin. Only, instead of killing people, he just chases them out of the country, or locks them up. Remember how one political dissident's lawyer recieved death threats, and fled to Amsterdam? Yeah, guess who ordered the death threats. Hint: It's not Yeltsin. He owns most of the TV and media outlets - he can clean up his mess by making it a non story. I wish Kasparov was only the first example of Putin's ironhold grip on political discussion.
What new UI elements in iPhone? Unless they seriously revamped the iPhone UI since the Macworld demostration, it looks like a siomple mix of Dashboard style for the main menu, and iPod 5G styled lists (which is pretty similar to Aqua). Personally, I think that there's a lot more to Leopard than we've seen so far: Apple is notoriously secretive, and even with Vista out, they don't want to show their cards too early. This has been the longest that an OSX release has been in development since the first Beta in 2001, and I think we'll see some improvements like a new Finder and UI.
Aqua is a well done, attractive, if old, interface, that still runs acceptably on years old G4 and G5 model Macs. iTunes 7 is probably a prototype of sorts for a new GUI. I would welcome a refreshment along this vein, as I'm so tired of Aqua that I run ShapeShifter on my Mac, because the performance hit is worth looking at something other than Aqua.
However, Apple would be stupid to make a GUI that their older models can't run acceptably. I think that everyone learned from Vista not to make the GUI graphics intensive, and I don't think they would delay an alredy overdue OS release to optimize it as such. There is still a huge amount of Mac users running PowerPC systems, and Apple would be unwise to Alienate them with a half-compatible OS.
Although I have to admit that stripping out a new GUI from the developer's seeds would be an attraictive explanation for why they're so damn buggy.
Personally, I'm skeptical that the iPhone is the reason they're delaying Leopard. Which sounds better to Wall Street, and the general public: "We had to delay Leopard becouse it's super buggy right now, and we've underestimated how long it would take to fix it," or "We've delayed Leopard in order to work even harder on the most hyped and highest profile consumer device of the year: the iPhone"?
I know your coment is modded "Funny," but I'm not sure you're kidding. In the case that you're serious:
1) NASA has a budget less than that of the National Park Service. A total of 0.6% of the federal budget in 2006 (16 billion out of 2.4 trillion). Considering that space colonization will ensure the survival of the Human race, I don't think were wasting our money with it. Especially since the DoD spend a whopping $447 billion (24.5 times that of NASA's budget.)
2) When did NASA become the Asteriod defense force? There's really no feasible way to divert an inter-planetary body (asteriod, comet) heading right for us, without more sophisticated space exploration technology, and, well, right now NASA won't be able to put men and women into space for four years, since their budget is continually cut thanks to people like you.
Really, there are FAR better places to cut federal spending than in the 0.7% of the budget that NASA spends.
Apple really meant it when they removed "Computer" from their name. So far, they've released the AppleTV, the corresponding 802.11n base station, and are holding back OS X for the iPhone. The only computer update was the rather delayed 4 Core/Processor Mac Pro. Looks like Apple's focus is now firmly on multimedia and entertainment devices rather than computers
So, they want to adopt transparency, but they make themselves accessible to only the fraction of computer users that have Second Life installed? Is there something I'm missing here?
I've heard of several situations where grad students saw their research being used in a commercial setting, without credit, and without permission. Hopefully this will to more to prevent the kind of situations I'm talking about, and less off the ones you're describing.
Always good for someone to own the rights to research they've done. In the age of disregard for IP, I'm not sure how much it will do, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
It's pretty awesome, I'll grant you that, but it'll be expensive to gear up production on this thing (not to mention sell it - I couldn't see any speculation on price in TFA, but I imagine it won't be cheap). I don't see this being sold in any halfway-large volumes until at least after the other side of peak oil. Until then, it's a nice toy, but it doesn't make any econmic sense.
I feel a little evil for saying this, but I actually like my PSP. Why? Four reasons.
First off: emulation. I got my PSP relatively early, so I've always been running it hacked. I have full speed emulators for PSX, SNES, NES, GB/GBC, and GBA, plus a quasi-fullspeed N64 emulator. I can play almost any game released between the 1980s and 1999. Being able to play Super Mario Bros. 3 and Mario64 anywhere you want is awesome. It does say something about the PSP's current game library that I'm mostly using it to play games released for other platforms, though.
Second is Lumines. This is easily one of the top 10 games of all time, and definitely one of my top three. If you liked Tetris, you'll LOVE Lumines. It takes Tetris and does it one better, by making it into an actual puzzle game, rather than a mostly twitch-based game like Tetris is. It's also a treat for the ears as well. The music is integral to the game, and almost all the songs are excellent. I can't help but sway in time with the beat every time I play. It's also a marathon, while Tetris was a short fix. One game of Lumines will take me the better part of two hours. Many a plane ride have been made bearable thanks to Lumines.
Third is the wed browser. Since I didn't have a laptop till recently, being able to use the internet without having to use the family-shared computer was invaluable. This is really only a selling point for those still living with their parents, though, or those who have to share a computer.
Finally, the orgasmic screen + movies. Since I've been running hacked firmware, I've been able to play full screen 480x272 videos since I've gotten the thing. I have a 1GB mem stick, which runs about $70 dollars or so, and I can fit about three decent quality movies on a stick, along with about 20-30 SNES, NES, GBA, and N64 games.
However, the sobering point for Sony is that I've only liked their device when I've hacked it. They should really be questioning their business strategy when customers have to exploit their devices to enjoy them.
The Newton, while utlimately too large and expensive for widespread adoption, was certainly not a "flop" by any standards. Without the Newton tackling the quirks of handwriting recognition, and figuring out a GUI that works, there would be no Palm, and no PDA as we know it.
Hopefully this will result in something more significant than the Ansari X-Prize (for spaceflight). Wasn't that supposed to jump-start private spaceflight as an industry? All I can recall are the two spaceflights the SpaceShip One team made in 2004 to win the thing, and nothing of not since.
His death, at only 49, was one of the saddest events in recent memory for English literatue. Apart from being brilliantly funny, he also made very keen observations on society and culture. One of my favorites: "... To summarize, the people who want to lead the government, are, by virtue of wanting to lead, the least qualified to do so. To summarize the summary: people are a problem."
May he be remembered fondly, with tea and biscuits.
I am reminded of Douglas Adam's Electronic Thumb from HHTTG: half the electrical engineers in the galaxy are working on fresh ways of jamming the signals, and the other half are working on fresh ways to jam the jamming signals. There are ways to get around CD-key authorization besides using someone elses - I believe that people have already found a way to disable the Registration request in the Adobe CS3 beta, by deleting the file that reminds CS3 it still needs a registration number.
Piracy is only realy a wide-spread problem after games are succesful enough to be widely pirated - otherwise it's too hard for the average user to find a pirated copy. By this point, the game has made enough revenue to be profitable. It's just the publisher's constant desire for insane profits that forces devs to move to consoles.
Well, it seems that you, my good friend, are a veritable gold mine of testosterone, so all we need to do to reserve the, um, I believe you call it "pussifying", of our young males and preserve our military strength is drop a well down into your pituitary gland, and distribute the resulting juices nationwide.
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No man, Sony learned the consequences of having a lame-numbered console (PS3) go up against a much higher number console (the 360), and Microsoft knows they need to keep upping the ante. So Next Generation consoles are gonna be the Playstation 4,000,000, the Microsoft Xbox (int sum = 0; int i; for (i = 0; i = 1,000,000,000; i++)sum += x[i];), and the Nintendo Infinity+1.
Competition is always good for the consumer. When one company dominates, there's no pressure, and that company will only marginally improve their products over their previous iteration.
You mean just like those quad-proc Voodoo cards saved 3DFX? Oh, wait...
So, wait, you think that switchers will switch back to PC's, after having just bought atleast $1000 worth of Apple hardware, to use XP, something they already had before??
This is actually fabulous news for Apple. It makes MS look like a bunch of idiots for releasing a product so bad that people will go out of their way to not buy. It also shows that OSX 10.4 Tiger can easily compete against Vista, so there's no rush to let Leapord out of the cage yet (cat outta the bag?).
It's rather embarassing when your competitor's two year old product is more popular than your brand new product.
Well, the 33 mile long underground Seikan Tunnel, linking the Japanese Islands of Hokkaido and Honshu, is smack in the midde of the Ring of Fire, and has held up for almost 20 years, so I wouldn't worry about it.
I'm sorry, were the customers not at risk before? I don't understand. How could a security update expose more security holes, unless it were coded by a dumbass?
Oh, wait...
I believe you mean "Minitrue" there, comrade! Newthinkers unsay oldspeak "Ministry of Truth."
Good thing they didn't have any, you know, work to do.
Yet, the state of free press is nearly equatable in terms of relative freedom to criticize the government. I never said Putin was a mass-murderer on the scale of Stalin: his method of silencing dissidents is much different. The fact remains that Putin stifles freedom of press, even freedom of speech, in a manner that recalls Stalin.
Putin has Russia locked down almost as tight as Stalin. Only, instead of killing people, he just chases them out of the country, or locks them up. Remember how one political dissident's lawyer recieved death threats, and fled to Amsterdam? Yeah, guess who ordered the death threats. Hint: It's not Yeltsin. He owns most of the TV and media outlets - he can clean up his mess by making it a non story. I wish Kasparov was only the first example of Putin's ironhold grip on political discussion.
What new UI elements in iPhone? Unless they seriously revamped the iPhone UI since the Macworld demostration, it looks like a siomple mix of Dashboard style for the main menu, and iPod 5G styled lists (which is pretty similar to Aqua). Personally, I think that there's a lot more to Leopard than we've seen so far: Apple is notoriously secretive, and even with Vista out, they don't want to show their cards too early. This has been the longest that an OSX release has been in development since the first Beta in 2001, and I think we'll see some improvements like a new Finder and UI.
Aqua is a well done, attractive, if old, interface, that still runs acceptably on years old G4 and G5 model Macs. iTunes 7 is probably a prototype of sorts for a new GUI. I would welcome a refreshment along this vein, as I'm so tired of Aqua that I run ShapeShifter on my Mac, because the performance hit is worth looking at something other than Aqua.
However, Apple would be stupid to make a GUI that their older models can't run acceptably. I think that everyone learned from Vista not to make the GUI graphics intensive, and I don't think they would delay an alredy overdue OS release to optimize it as such. There is still a huge amount of Mac users running PowerPC systems, and Apple would be unwise to Alienate them with a half-compatible OS.
Although I have to admit that stripping out a new GUI from the developer's seeds would be an attraictive explanation for why they're so damn buggy.
Personally, I'm skeptical that the iPhone is the reason they're delaying Leopard. Which sounds better to Wall Street, and the general public: "We had to delay Leopard becouse it's super buggy right now, and we've underestimated how long it would take to fix it," or "We've delayed Leopard in order to work even harder on the most hyped and highest profile consumer device of the year: the iPhone"?
I know your coment is modded "Funny," but I'm not sure you're kidding. In the case that you're serious:
1) NASA has a budget less than that of the National Park Service. A total of 0.6% of the federal budget in 2006 (16 billion out of 2.4 trillion). Considering that space colonization will ensure the survival of the Human race, I don't think were wasting our money with it. Especially since the DoD spend a whopping $447 billion (24.5 times that of NASA's budget.)
2) When did NASA become the Asteriod defense force? There's really no feasible way to divert an inter-planetary body (asteriod, comet) heading right for us, without more sophisticated space exploration technology, and, well, right now NASA won't be able to put men and women into space for four years, since their budget is continually cut thanks to people like you.
Really, there are FAR better places to cut federal spending than in the 0.7% of the budget that NASA spends.
Apple really meant it when they removed "Computer" from their name. So far, they've released the AppleTV, the corresponding 802.11n base station, and are holding back OS X for the iPhone. The only computer update was the rather delayed 4 Core/Processor Mac Pro. Looks like Apple's focus is now firmly on multimedia and entertainment devices rather than computers
So, they want to adopt transparency, but they make themselves accessible to only the fraction of computer users that have Second Life installed? Is there something I'm missing here?
I've heard of several situations where grad students saw their research being used in a commercial setting, without credit, and without permission. Hopefully this will to more to prevent the kind of situations I'm talking about, and less off the ones you're describing.
Always good for someone to own the rights to research they've done. In the age of disregard for IP, I'm not sure how much it will do, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.
It's pretty awesome, I'll grant you that, but it'll be expensive to gear up production on this thing (not to mention sell it - I couldn't see any speculation on price in TFA, but I imagine it won't be cheap). I don't see this being sold in any halfway-large volumes until at least after the other side of peak oil. Until then, it's a nice toy, but it doesn't make any econmic sense.
Wake me up when you've got an "invisibility" device that'll let me sneak into the girls locker room without getting seen.
I feel a little evil for saying this, but I actually like my PSP. Why? Four reasons. First off: emulation. I got my PSP relatively early, so I've always been running it hacked. I have full speed emulators for PSX, SNES, NES, GB/GBC, and GBA, plus a quasi-fullspeed N64 emulator. I can play almost any game released between the 1980s and 1999. Being able to play Super Mario Bros. 3 and Mario64 anywhere you want is awesome. It does say something about the PSP's current game library that I'm mostly using it to play games released for other platforms, though. Second is Lumines. This is easily one of the top 10 games of all time, and definitely one of my top three. If you liked Tetris, you'll LOVE Lumines. It takes Tetris and does it one better, by making it into an actual puzzle game, rather than a mostly twitch-based game like Tetris is. It's also a treat for the ears as well. The music is integral to the game, and almost all the songs are excellent. I can't help but sway in time with the beat every time I play. It's also a marathon, while Tetris was a short fix. One game of Lumines will take me the better part of two hours. Many a plane ride have been made bearable thanks to Lumines. Third is the wed browser. Since I didn't have a laptop till recently, being able to use the internet without having to use the family-shared computer was invaluable. This is really only a selling point for those still living with their parents, though, or those who have to share a computer. Finally, the orgasmic screen + movies. Since I've been running hacked firmware, I've been able to play full screen 480x272 videos since I've gotten the thing. I have a 1GB mem stick, which runs about $70 dollars or so, and I can fit about three decent quality movies on a stick, along with about 20-30 SNES, NES, GBA, and N64 games. However, the sobering point for Sony is that I've only liked their device when I've hacked it. They should really be questioning their business strategy when customers have to exploit their devices to enjoy them.
The Newton, while utlimately too large and expensive for widespread adoption, was certainly not a "flop" by any standards. Without the Newton tackling the quirks of handwriting recognition, and figuring out a GUI that works, there would be no Palm, and no PDA as we know it.
Hopefully this will result in something more significant than the Ansari X-Prize (for spaceflight). Wasn't that supposed to jump-start private spaceflight as an industry? All I can recall are the two spaceflights the SpaceShip One team made in 2004 to win the thing, and nothing of not since.
His death, at only 49, was one of the saddest events in recent memory for English literatue. Apart from being brilliantly funny, he also made very keen observations on society and culture. One of my favorites: "... To summarize, the people who want to lead the government, are, by virtue of wanting to lead, the least qualified to do so. To summarize the summary: people are a problem." May he be remembered fondly, with tea and biscuits.
I am reminded of Douglas Adam's Electronic Thumb from HHTTG: half the electrical engineers in the galaxy are working on fresh ways of jamming the signals, and the other half are working on fresh ways to jam the jamming signals. There are ways to get around CD-key authorization besides using someone elses - I believe that people have already found a way to disable the Registration request in the Adobe CS3 beta, by deleting the file that reminds CS3 it still needs a registration number. Piracy is only realy a wide-spread problem after games are succesful enough to be widely pirated - otherwise it's too hard for the average user to find a pirated copy. By this point, the game has made enough revenue to be profitable. It's just the publisher's constant desire for insane profits that forces devs to move to consoles.
Well, it seems that you, my good friend, are a veritable gold mine of testosterone, so all we need to do to reserve the, um, I believe you call it "pussifying", of our young males and preserve our military strength is drop a well down into your pituitary gland, and distribute the resulting juices nationwide.