Noone thinks Apple invented tablets, but it is a nice strawman I guess. Apple just made them many times better and more friendly than the horrid and expensive "Windows Pen Computing" tablets that were only bought by professionals who could write it off as a business expense.
Believing that Apple invented tablets is as dumb as believing the PC revolution would not have happened without Microsoft.
Microsoft shill is shilling? "in the 1980s" - it sounds more like you were born after the 1980s...
The WP7 interface is different but not better as a consequence. Already, people have run into issues where some title was longer than the space available and intuitively they wanted to scroll over to see the rest, but "scrolling" just switched to the next panel instead, leaving the previous title behind. How good is that to the end user?
Registrars do anything for money. There's plenty of porn sites under.info,.biz,.name - domains that in theory had strict rules for what they could be used for. Adding more TLDs only serve to increase the space the registrars can register you under.
And people find what they are looking for by using a search engine anyway, not by guessing at the correct URL for something.
Even if you ware told (in writing) what the rules for that party was? You could have gone to a different party even though the "restricted" one was more popular.
Because the censorship covered by the First Amendment deals only with the Government.
Your right of free speech does not imply that any third party has a duty to help you spread it. E.g. Hustler can print porn but Wal-mart are free to choose not to sell it.
Yes, because consoles don't have platformers, strategy games, casual games etc... FPSes constitute only a small part of the console game selection out there.
Would you want to? No, it's a device with a particular purpose.
Can I run Adobe Creative Suite CS5 on my old PC? Yes. Can I run the game Age of Conan on it? No, I would need to upgrade practically everything.
So the PC is great for non-game purposes, and a small-ish segment of the PC-owning population are the upgradeoholics that keep the PC hardware business running as they mistake power for playability.
My AGP-equipped PC has reached its limit graphics-card-wise. And the Pentium 4 was unable to run Age of Conan even after the graphics card had been upgraded to meet those requirements.
But it can do everything else I would want a PC to do. Is PC gaming important enough to keep upgrading? Nope, I have stopped and spent the cash I would have used for a new PC on a console instead. Because: It. Just. Works.
Ask your average PC owner what level of PixelShader their graphics card supports. Or what half the other terms on the "system requirements" list even means. Or why they should need to know.
Meanwhile they can go into a store, get a game box that says "Playstation 3" on it and know it will work immediately on their PS3 console.
Not that I have much time for games these days anyhow.
In which case you should welcome "simplified" games on a console, no?
... and after spending all that on hardware they just download your game off a torrent anyway.
This is why the world's most popular PC games - World of Warcraft and Farmville - run fine on low-end machines that people actually have while Crytek et al mope about because of low sales of their "you need to be this rich to run our game" high-requirement, high-cost output.
Pull what stuff? Market success? Broken up why? They have their own hardware and their own software, neither of which is considered "vital" the way Windows has become. They aren't organized in a way that lead to "cross-subsidization" problems between business units - their products have good profit margins, unlike Microsoft where (until recently) everything other than Windows and Office was subsidized by those sales.
Microsoft escaped breakup by donating to GWB's presidential campaign. The DOJ inquiries started by Clinton were canceled.
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Why is it a defect? Is it mandatory for all members of a species to procreate? And gays are not sterile.
Inventing = doing things first.
Succeeding = doing things right,
Noone thinks Apple invented tablets, but it is a nice strawman I guess. Apple just made them many times better and more friendly than the horrid and expensive "Windows Pen Computing" tablets that were only bought by professionals who could write it off as a business expense.
Believing that Apple invented tablets is as dumb as believing the PC revolution would not have happened without Microsoft.
Because it will draw page hits. Ever notice those ads? Welcome to Slashbloid.
And a Fiat 500 cannot replace a Porsche Cayenne. But they still sell like hotcakes.
... and you drink tap water instead of Coca-Cola...
If the iPad is a Ferrari I guess the more expensive Xoom is a Koenigsegg?
Pounds? I thought you people used dollars? Are you still under Britain or something?
Heard at the gym:
"Man, you are really working that strength routine, are you a firefighter?"
"No, I am a nerd that has to carry a laptop around all day."
"Ouch!"
... and how many laptop owners actually create anything anyway? It's not like "watching Netflix all day" needs a keyboard.
Only if the laptop has a touch screen. Those are few and far between. And does a laptop wake from sleep in fractions of a second?
Let's throw a T-party for those letteraly challenged.
A car is one particular way of setting up those particles, and it is not the only way to do it. So the rules are satisfied.
Microsoft shill is shilling? "in the 1980s" - it sounds more like you were born after the 1980s...
The WP7 interface is different but not better as a consequence. Already, people have run into issues where some title was longer than the space available and intuitively they wanted to scroll over to see the rest, but "scrolling" just switched to the next panel instead, leaving the previous title behind. How good is that to the end user?
Registrars do anything for money. There's plenty of porn sites under .info, .biz, .name - domains that in theory had strict rules for what they could be used for. Adding more TLDs only serve to increase the space the registrars can register you under.
And people find what they are looking for by using a search engine anyway, not by guessing at the correct URL for something.
Wasn't MariaDB enough?
Even if you ware told (in writing) what the rules for that party was? You could have gone to a different party even though the "restricted" one was more popular.
Because the censorship covered by the First Amendment deals only with the Government.
Your right of free speech does not imply that any third party has a duty to help you spread it. E.g. Hustler can print porn but Wal-mart are free to choose not to sell it.
No, but people generally seem ti buy Steam games on sale.
Personally, I got Fallout 3, tried running it under Windows 7 on my MacBook Pro, noticed it froze solid after a few minutes.
Then I got it for the PS3 and it ran flawlessly. Of course.
... but for XHTML you would need to namespace it since it would be outside the HTML (default) namespace.
But I guess XHTML is dead now.
Yes, because consoles don't have platformers, strategy games, casual games etc... FPSes constitute only a small part of the console game selection out there.
No.
Would you want to? No, it's a device with a particular purpose.
Can I run Adobe Creative Suite CS5 on my old PC? Yes. Can I run the game Age of Conan on it? No, I would need to upgrade practically everything.
So the PC is great for non-game purposes, and a small-ish segment of the PC-owning population are the upgradeoholics that keep the PC hardware business running as they mistake power for playability.
My AGP-equipped PC has reached its limit graphics-card-wise. And the Pentium 4 was unable to run Age of Conan even after the graphics card had been upgraded to meet those requirements.
But it can do everything else I would want a PC to do. Is PC gaming important enough to keep upgrading? Nope, I have stopped and spent the cash I would have used for a new PC on a console instead. Because: It. Just. Works.
Ask your average PC owner what level of PixelShader their graphics card supports. Or what half the other terms on the "system requirements" list even means. Or why they should need to know.
Meanwhile they can go into a store, get a game box that says "Playstation 3" on it and know it will work immediately on their PS3 console.
Not that I have much time for games these days anyhow.
In which case you should welcome "simplified" games on a console, no?
... and after spending all that on hardware they just download your game off a torrent anyway.
This is why the world's most popular PC games - World of Warcraft and Farmville - run fine on low-end machines that people actually have while Crytek et al mope about because of low sales of their "you need to be this rich to run our game" high-requirement, high-cost output.
Bad wooshing. That was a quote from Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", it is spoken - at the end, if memory serves.
Pull what stuff? Market success? Broken up why? They have their own hardware and their own software, neither of which is considered "vital" the way Windows has become. They aren't organized in a way that lead to "cross-subsidization" problems between business units - their products have good profit margins, unlike Microsoft where (until recently) everything other than Windows and Office was subsidized by those sales.
Microsoft escaped breakup by donating to GWB's presidential campaign. The DOJ inquiries started by Clinton were canceled.