If this were a story about Microsoft trying to stop vendors from building machines that can run their OS, there would be a million typical comments about them being an evil monopoly, etc.
Since it's Apple, I'm sure it's somehow ok, in a shiny, trendy, hip way.
So it's +3 interesting that you dig up something from 1915. How is that apropos of what I asked the poster who was on a typical, predictable tangent about hyphens as they apply to blacks, but no one else?
In other news I actually DO have an African-American friend who applied for an African American scholarship who was later turned down because he's not black
Yeah, I hate the term African-American.
Charlize Theron is African-American. The black guy next door who has lived in the US all his life isn't.
Then why don't you also tell that to all the people who say they are Italian-American, Irish-American, and Asian-American. No one ever seems to have a problem with those terms.
That's one of the easiest ways to be modded +5 insightful on/., just complain about games...
That is one of the easiest ways to be modded +5 interesting on slashdot, just complain about someone getting modded up for making an ontopic karma whoring.
Too bad you'll never be accused of being interesting.
I don't care if someone thought that was redundant; I pointed out that the mention of compensation for innovation will get you modded down here, which is true.
They already release much of it for free with adverts on the tele. Wtf is the difference?
You're kidding, right? You just answered your own question: "...with adverts on the tele."
They make millions from those ads on TV, not to mention it is up to them whether or not they choose to have their content online, regardless of what anyone here thinks.
I'm still rockin 512 megs and doing fine - main system I mean. Integrated graphics.
The only reason this kind of thing bothers me a bit is that I imagine it's pushing videogames further and further into the world of being 1,000 employee, NASA sized engineering projects. Rather than charming little projects that say, that husband and wife that were Sierra could do on their own and be competitive.
This kind of reliance on jet-powered hardware kind of insures that the game is going to be all megacorporations working from market research.
Another example of the easy way to get modded +5 insightful trend: Graphics technology is supposed to advance. I can't believe all the luddite sentiments I read here on/.
If the news were that some open source developer is utilizing 2GB video cards and a bunch of games were coming to Linux (as if that will happen), everyone would be applauding all this innovation.
i dont like fpses. but then again, that kind of graphics, makes some fpses worth playing.
And that right there sums up the problem with the gaming industry. Game producers don't even need to worry about whether their game is any good simply because some people will play it just because it's shiny (unity100, I'm looking right at you).
That's one of the easiest ways to be modded +5 insightful on/., just complain about games with good graphics not having any creativity. What about the games with bad graphics and bad gameplay? The two are not mutually exclusive.
Games are a visual medium, they are supposed to look good.
So to answer your question, under-qualified holders of worthless masters degrees use second life to (unsuccessfully) create a semblance of academic credibility in a futile attempt to mitigate their self-loathing by substituting a virtual classroom for the real one no accredited university would ever let these pretentious assholes have.
Honestly, how desperate for a power trip are such people as to force mid-to-late 20 year olds into a mockery of a traditional rule-centric "classroom" in a game primarily used for sexual gratification between human/animal hybrids.
Is Harvard an unaccredited university? Someone needs to tell them that, since they've conducted class in Second Life.
How can you say it was or wasn't when there is only one one significant OS vendor?
"Being the dominant gaming platform hasn't been a flop"
It's a gaming platform. Whether it's dominant is another matter - references please.
"Developers going en masse to DirectX over OpenGL hasn't been a flop."
Hooray! One thing! One! Never mind that nobody outside the development community cares, it's one thing that MS has done well, I tell ya!
Oh, no, wait. MS didn't support OpenGL very well, so if developers wanted to get their stuff on the only OS in town.... I think you know where that's going.
You need a reference? Go to the store and look at all the games on the shelves.
Anyone who thinks I'm wrong - look at what MSFT have achieved in the last 10 years. Is there anything - anything at all - that has not been either a flop or just a blatant me-too play?
XP wasn't a flop or "me-too play." Being the dominant gaming platform hasn't been a flop. Developers going en masse to DirectX over OpenGL hasn't been a flop.
Speak for yourself. The VAST majority of computer users use windows. The majority of servers run windows. As for price, a quick google of OS X, shows that Leopard is selling for at minumum, 161.49. I can get an OEM of winXP for 129.99. Talking about high prices, how about the Apple hardware, which is overpriced, and when something breaks, you have to take it to some uptight douchebag @ Apple to fix, not your local PC repair shop.
I'm sick to death of iFanbois. If Apple was so good, why are they not the market leader? Why can't they support any hardware mashup like the big boys at Microsoft do? I'm no MS fanboi, but ignorant comments like this piss me off./rant
You've just learned, as I have, that if you say anything anti-Apple here you get modded as a Troll or Flamebait. The Mac Hipsters don't like it. I'll go ahead and beat them to it and mod my own post down as -5 Flamebait!
I saw a laptop some years back which had a CD player separate from the computer; if you had a CD in the drive, you could spin it up and plug in headphones to get tunes out of it without powering up the whole machine.
Sounds pretty similar, I think. I didn't see the point of it then, either.
That reminds me of a laptop I read about a couple years ago, except in this case you could watch a DVD without booting into the OS. I haven't heard anymore about it, or similar laptops since.
That sentiment seems to be de rigueur among the FOSS community. Why stop there? Why not "If I need to calculate I'll just buy a calculator", "If I want to play chess I'll get a chessboard", "If I want to..., I'll buy a..."
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I purchase Latitudes, and precision computers. If someone wanted an Inspirion it may be different.
Good thing the Inspiron comes with Ubuntu.
I was wondering how far down I'd have to read to find an utterly-devoid-of-context Linux comment!
your argument is void, as microsoft's empire is built upon the fact that they run on most commodity hardware.
My argument is void in that it presumes an ability on your part to grasp the hypothetical. Thanks for playing.
Meow! Better watch where you poke your overinflated ego, you might end up hitting something pointy.
Pointy like your head?
First off LG sucks. Second, it's their OS, they *do* have a legal right to decide what hardware their creation will be allowed to run on.*
*as long as it is contained in the EULA.
If Microsoft did the same thing, would that be as well-received?
If this were a story about Microsoft trying to stop vendors from building machines that can run their OS, there would be a million typical comments about them being an evil monopoly, etc. Since it's Apple, I'm sure it's somehow ok, in a shiny, trendy, hip way.
So it's +3 interesting that you dig up something from 1915. How is that apropos of what I asked the poster who was on a typical, predictable tangent about hyphens as they apply to blacks, but no one else?
Why doesn't anyone complain about the provisions in Affirmative Action that benefit white women?
Yeah, I hate the term African-American.
Charlize Theron is African-American. The black guy next door who has lived in the US all his life isn't.
Then why don't you also tell that to all the people who say they are Italian-American, Irish-American, and Asian-American. No one ever seems to have a problem with those terms.
That's one of the easiest ways to be modded +5 insightful on /., just complain about games...
That is one of the easiest ways to be modded +5 interesting on slashdot, just complain about someone getting modded up for making an ontopic karma whoring.
Too bad you'll never be accused of being interesting.
I don't care if someone thought that was redundant; I pointed out that the mention of compensation for innovation will get you modded down here, which is true.
They already release much of it for free with adverts on the tele. Wtf is the difference?
You're kidding, right? You just answered your own question: "...with adverts on the tele." They make millions from those ads on TV, not to mention it is up to them whether or not they choose to have their content online, regardless of what anyone here thinks.
My god. This looks like someone saying that maybe, just maybe, people ought to be paid for their creations. What are you doing on Slashdot?
Get paid for your work? Now they'll mod you down for sure!
You notice this only comes after the news that their employee's viewing/uploading histories are coming under scrutiny.
How about games with good gameplay and bad graphics? Those exist too, and they are better than games with good graphics and bad gameplay.
Here's a novel concept: developers should strive for both graphics and content! That's just crazytalk...
I'm still rockin 512 megs and doing fine - main system I mean. Integrated graphics.
The only reason this kind of thing bothers me a bit is that I imagine it's pushing videogames further and further into the world of being 1,000 employee, NASA sized engineering projects. Rather than charming little projects that say, that husband and wife that were Sierra could do on their own and be competitive.
This kind of reliance on jet-powered hardware kind of insures that the game is going to be all megacorporations working from market research.
Another example of the easy way to get modded +5 insightful trend: Graphics technology is supposed to advance. I can't believe all the luddite sentiments I read here on /.
If the news were that some open source developer is utilizing 2GB video cards and a bunch of games were coming to Linux (as if that will happen), everyone would be applauding all this innovation.
i dont like fpses. but then again, that kind of graphics, makes some fpses worth playing. And that right there sums up the problem with the gaming industry. Game producers don't even need to worry about whether their game is any good simply because some people will play it just because it's shiny (unity100, I'm looking right at you).
That's one of the easiest ways to be modded +5 insightful on /., just complain about games with good graphics not having any creativity. What about the games with bad graphics and bad gameplay? The two are not mutually exclusive.
Games are a visual medium, they are supposed to look good.
Is Harvard an unaccredited university? Someone needs to tell them that, since they've conducted class in Second Life.
"XP wasn't a flop"
How can you say it was or wasn't when there is only one one significant OS vendor?
"Being the dominant gaming platform hasn't been a flop"
It's a gaming platform. Whether it's dominant is another matter - references please.
"Developers going en masse to DirectX over OpenGL hasn't been a flop."
Hooray! One thing! One! Never mind that nobody outside the development community cares, it's one thing that MS has done well, I tell ya!
Oh, no, wait. MS didn't support OpenGL very well, so if developers wanted to get their stuff on the only OS in town.... I think you know where that's going.
You need a reference? Go to the store and look at all the games on the shelves.
XP wasn't a flop or "me-too play." Being the dominant gaming platform hasn't been a flop. Developers going en masse to DirectX over OpenGL hasn't been a flop.
Speak for yourself. The VAST majority of computer users use windows. The majority of servers run windows. As for price, a quick google of OS X, shows that Leopard is selling for at minumum, 161.49. I can get an OEM of winXP for 129.99. Talking about high prices, how about the Apple hardware, which is overpriced, and when something breaks, you have to take it to some uptight douchebag @ Apple to fix, not your local PC repair shop. I'm sick to death of iFanbois. If Apple was so good, why are they not the market leader? Why can't they support any hardware mashup like the big boys at Microsoft do? I'm no MS fanboi, but ignorant comments like this piss me off. /rant
You've just learned, as I have, that if you say anything anti-Apple here you get modded as a Troll or Flamebait. The Mac Hipsters don't like it. I'll go ahead and beat them to it and mod my own post down as -5 Flamebait!
Just take them an iMac and a MacBook Pro with leapard on it and say "Make it work just like this."
What would that involve? No Java 6 support and no cutting-edge game performance.
I saw a laptop some years back which had a CD player separate from the computer; if you had a CD in the drive, you could spin it up and plug in headphones to get tunes out of it without powering up the whole machine.
Sounds pretty similar, I think. I didn't see the point of it then, either.
That reminds me of a laptop I read about a couple years ago, except in this case you could watch a DVD without booting into the OS. I haven't heard anymore about it, or similar laptops since.
That sentiment seems to be de rigueur among the FOSS community. Why stop there? Why not "If I need to calculate I'll just buy a calculator", "If I want to play chess I'll get a chessboard", "If I want to ..., I'll buy a ..."
I just checked Distrowatch, you appear to be at number 9.
On the contrary, I was clicking around in a Windows alpha: Vista, pre sp1!