I think the PS3 will have a degree of success, but I think that it will be second fiddle to the 360, just like the article says, but in the global market I don't know if the Wii will be far third. Globally the GameCube is in 2nd right now to the PS2, why would this be any different now? I think there even is a chance in hell of the Wii killing both competitors in Japan.
I disagree. Microsoft has made the same mistake that they did with the Xbox; they concentrated on the hardware (don't care) and Xbox Live (don't care) and basically ignored the games. I'm looking at the current line-up for the Xbox 360 and I'm seeing nothing that interests me. There's nothing on the horizon for the Xbox 360 that interests me. On the other hand, I already know of four PS3 games that I want to play.
This is exactly what happened last time. I own all the last-gen consoles including the Dreamcast. The majority of my games are on the PS2; three dozen PS2 games but fewer than a dozen Xbox games. Part of the problem is that Xbox games are rarely exclusive to the Xbox. The only Xbox game I have that isn't available for the PS2 is Halo and I should have gotten the PC version instead.
My prediction; Wii and Xbox 360 to sell roughly equal numbers world wide. PS3 will sell two to three times as many consoles as the Xbox 360. The PS3 life-cycle will also be longer by about two years, so there will be yet another Microsoft console before the PS3 runs its course which will further cannabalise Xbox 360 sales.
Does OpenOffice or any of the other semi-mature non-Microsoft applications have support for disabilities at or better than MS Office? Most people who are not completely blinded by ideology will say honestly, "not yet".
You're confusing the document format with one of the many applications that can read/write that format. The state mandate was for Open Document. You're complaining that Open Office - one of 15 applications that can read/write Open Document - is inferior to Microsoft Office.
Microsoft could quite easily write a plugin to read/write Open Document. Microsoft Office already support dozens of other formats of dubious quality and relevance. Open Document is clearly relevant and IMO of very high quality. Why is Open Document such a problem for Microsoft? I think I know why. Do you?
*Cough*. People from the US would become a whole lot less obnoxious if they stopped believing they were the only country that mattered. Similarly obnoxious phrases to "sole world superpower" include "the world police" and "we saved your sorry asses in WWII".
Just another example of old people in government not understanding the differences in new technology.
It's actually an example of you not understanding the fee.
If you read the fine article it says in the second sentence that VOIP will be charged when it connects to the PSTN network (yeah yeah, ATM machine, deal with it). This isn't discriminatory against VOIP; all other voice services including cell phones are charged when they connect to the PSTN network. VOIP to VOIP won't be charged because that's independent of the PSTN network.
So far the VOIP companies have been getting a free ride because they've been sending voice traffic over the PSTN network without paying the fee. This makes VOIP->PSTN look cheaper than PSTN->PSTN partly because the customer isn't paying the same fees as the PSTN providers. With the fee in place there will be even more encouragment for customers to switch to pure VOIP->VOIP.
Or VPC because that's all it is. It's just a virtualizer.
Except Virtual PC on the Mac is actually an emulator and not a virtualizer. With VPC the CPU is emulated so it is mind-numbingly slow. Parallels on the Mac will virtualise the CPU if your CPU supports VT-x (although everything else is emulated).
There are very few people who actually have any taste in music. The vast majority of music purchases are made by shleps buying whatever is on the radio or MTV. So who is on the radio or MTV?
Who made you the Supreme Judge of Taste in Music?
Get down off your pedestal before you hurt yourself.
You're completely missing the point. It's not about you feeling 2 or 3 degree difference in temperature and wearing a lighter t-shirt or a thicker sweater, not at all, it's what those 2 or 3 degrees do to climate phenomena such as hurricanes, polar ice, oceans, plankton and so on.
It's even worse than that. Changes in climate will affect where rainfall occurs. Right now the rain falls on the fertile farmlands. Imagine that the rainfall shifts 100 miles north and falls on barren rock and as a result the crops die and there is widespread famine. It's not just about polar ice and plankton. It's about people starving to death.
Ok, am I missing something here? Last I heard, water expands when it freezes, not when it warms -- unless it warms to the point of boiling, which is clearly not (yet) the case.
I'm not sure what you heard, but water does expand when it warms. It also expands when it freezes (state change from liquid to solid).
Rural folks who can't afford food are really happy to work at these places. Sweatshops suck, but they are still an improvement for many people around the world.
That's called exploitation. As an enlightened human being with compassion you are supposed to feel outrage towards exploitation, rather than what appears to be satisfaction that these poor unfortunate people could have it even worse.
"Eat my scraps, lick my shoes, and you smile boy or I'll throw you out on the streets and you'll starve to death, so you better be grateful for what I give you". Is that the sort of person you want to be?
Specially from a user point of view, but also for servers and supercomputers, how do Linux and Solaris compare?
I know there isn't an easy answer to this, but a knowledgeable person could shed some light on us.
You're right, there isn't an easy answer. Basically Solaris rocks for some things, sucks for other things. There are situations where I would recommend one over the other, and situations where either one would be fine, and there are even situations where Solaris is the only option. It's not even just a matter of technology; there is more to choosing a platform than the technology alone.
I had written a patch for ns_ldap.c to fix an obscure bug. After 2 frustrating weeks of dealing with online registration, which resulted in a heated exchange with one of Sun's adminstrators, I simply gave up trying. They've made it too hard to get involved in the project. For any normal open source project I simply download the tarball, run configure, make, make install, and submit patches to the email address of the most convenient maintainer. With OpenSolaris it's like trying to pull teeth. Even building a binary from the source is a major mission that makes building XFree86 look like child's play. And that's a real shame, because I'd like to fix bugs in Solaris as I find them, but I am not going to go out of my way.
Same reason. I won't buy ALAC for 99c because of DRM. I will possibly buy FLAC for 99c because I trust the format. I already pay roughly 99c for CDDA (on pressed discs).
Then there are other considerations such as making backups, proof of purchase and transfer to non-Apple players (eg, my car stereo), that are all seemingly ignored when people compare prices of physical CDs against iTunes AAC. I factor those costs (and my time) into the comparison and then the 99c per song offering of iTunes starts looking pretty expensive.
Bear in mind that here in Australia the iTunes price per song is $1.69AUD however CDs are priced roughly $1USD = $1AUD, so the value proposition of iTunes is even lower.
I think it's far too expensive for an AAC (or MP3) copy of the song. I have not paid for a single iTunes song and I won't until the prices become reasonable.
Is the author like 12?
I WANT EVERYTHING AND I WANT IT NOW! GIMME GIMME GIMME!!
No, it sounds more like he's 30. When you're 12 you can afford to piss away 100 hours a week on a video game to unlock all the specials, because when you're 12 you have parents to cook and clean and provide a roof over your head. When you're 30 you suddenly need to care for your own kids and that means you spend 100 hours a week working. If you're lucky you have 2-3 hours per week to play video games.
The game writers are still writing games as if we're 12 year olds. The gamer market has grown up and now we want games that fit in with our older lifestyles. That means sweet and concise games, high quality visuals, and no repetition or tedium to get all the content. If they could throw in more substantial plots that don't assume we're uneducated retards, that would also be greatly appreciated.
Half-life 2 was a pretty good game for the aging gamer. Though it still had a retarded plot.
Wouldn't the fact that you don't have it all make you crave that next level or secret area all the more? Then you would spend more and more time playing and playing, working to get that last bit of pleasure.
No, it just pisses me off. I don't want to spend 100 hours collecting Chocobo poo to get a special weapon, or 30 weekends doing the same damn race in Burnout to unlock a special car. I paid for the game. I want to see all the content.
So, anyway, my question is this: why are we supporting them?
Because regardless of your personal opinion on piracy - mine is that software/music piracy is illegal, immoral and unethical - there are problems with the way this was handled. A minister gave direct orders to police which is illegal in itself. Police resources were taken away from investigating actual crimes to perform an illegal raid to seize computers for torrent sharing which is not illegal in this particular country. Several innocent bystanders were illegally forced to give saliva samples for DNA testing and were illegally denied legal representation. And the thing that started all this was pressure from the US government and an association that represents US corporations, but I repeat myself, and that itself is illegal, immoral and unethical.
What has happened here is yet another example of US corporate interests trumping the local laws of another country and foreign governments being used as puppets to enforce US laws in countries where US law does not apply. There is far more at stake here than some torrents being shared on a server in Sweden.
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I disagree. Microsoft has made the same mistake that they did with the Xbox; they concentrated on the hardware (don't care) and Xbox Live (don't care) and basically ignored the games. I'm looking at the current line-up for the Xbox 360 and I'm seeing nothing that interests me. There's nothing on the horizon for the Xbox 360 that interests me. On the other hand, I already know of four PS3 games that I want to play.
This is exactly what happened last time. I own all the last-gen consoles including the Dreamcast. The majority of my games are on the PS2; three dozen PS2 games but fewer than a dozen Xbox games. Part of the problem is that Xbox games are rarely exclusive to the Xbox. The only Xbox game I have that isn't available for the PS2 is Halo and I should have gotten the PC version instead.
My prediction; Wii and Xbox 360 to sell roughly equal numbers world wide. PS3 will sell two to three times as many consoles as the Xbox 360. The PS3 life-cycle will also be longer by about two years, so there will be yet another Microsoft console before the PS3 runs its course which will further cannabalise Xbox 360 sales.
You're confusing the document format with one of the many applications that can read/write that format. The state mandate was for Open Document. You're complaining that Open Office - one of 15 applications that can read/write Open Document - is inferior to Microsoft Office.
Microsoft could quite easily write a plugin to read/write Open Document. Microsoft Office already support dozens of other formats of dubious quality and relevance. Open Document is clearly relevant and IMO of very high quality. Why is Open Document such a problem for Microsoft? I think I know why. Do you?
*Cough*. People from the US would become a whole lot less obnoxious if they stopped believing they were the only country that mattered. Similarly obnoxious phrases to "sole world superpower" include "the world police" and "we saved your sorry asses in WWII".
No, they just have to offer to provide the source code on media (eg, DVD-R) at a reasonable cost.
Mountain. Molehill. This story has no legs.
It's actually an example of you not understanding the fee.
If you read the fine article it says in the second sentence that VOIP will be charged when it connects to the PSTN network (yeah yeah, ATM machine, deal with it). This isn't discriminatory against VOIP; all other voice services including cell phones are charged when they connect to the PSTN network. VOIP to VOIP won't be charged because that's independent of the PSTN network.
So far the VOIP companies have been getting a free ride because they've been sending voice traffic over the PSTN network without paying the fee. This makes VOIP->PSTN look cheaper than PSTN->PSTN partly because the customer isn't paying the same fees as the PSTN providers. With the fee in place there will be even more encouragment for customers to switch to pure VOIP->VOIP.
It shouldn't but it does.
The MacBook Pro, for one.
You are wrong. Shush now.
Except Virtual PC on the Mac is actually an emulator and not a virtualizer. With VPC the CPU is emulated so it is mind-numbingly slow. Parallels on the Mac will virtualise the CPU if your CPU supports VT-x (although everything else is emulated).
Who made you the Supreme Judge of Taste in Music?
Get down off your pedestal before you hurt yourself.
It's even worse than that. Changes in climate will affect where rainfall occurs. Right now the rain falls on the fertile farmlands. Imagine that the rainfall shifts 100 miles north and falls on barren rock and as a result the crops die and there is widespread famine. It's not just about polar ice and plankton. It's about people starving to death.
I'm not sure what you heard, but water does expand when it warms. It also expands when it freezes (state change from liquid to solid).
Brilliant insight into the problem.
That's called exploitation. As an enlightened human being with compassion you are supposed to feel outrage towards exploitation, rather than what appears to be satisfaction that these poor unfortunate people could have it even worse.
"Eat my scraps, lick my shoes, and you smile boy or I'll throw you out on the streets and you'll starve to death, so you better be grateful for what I give you". Is that the sort of person you want to be?
You're right, there isn't an easy answer. Basically Solaris rocks for some things, sucks for other things. There are situations where I would recommend one over the other, and situations where either one would be fine, and there are even situations where Solaris is the only option. It's not even just a matter of technology; there is more to choosing a platform than the technology alone.
I had written a patch for ns_ldap.c to fix an obscure bug. After 2 frustrating weeks of dealing with online registration, which resulted in a heated exchange with one of Sun's adminstrators, I simply gave up trying. They've made it too hard to get involved in the project. For any normal open source project I simply download the tarball, run configure, make, make install, and submit patches to the email address of the most convenient maintainer. With OpenSolaris it's like trying to pull teeth. Even building a binary from the source is a major mission that makes building XFree86 look like child's play. And that's a real shame, because I'd like to fix bugs in Solaris as I find them, but I am not going to go out of my way.
Same reason. I won't buy ALAC for 99c because of DRM. I will possibly buy FLAC for 99c because I trust the format. I already pay roughly 99c for CDDA (on pressed discs). Then there are other considerations such as making backups, proof of purchase and transfer to non-Apple players (eg, my car stereo), that are all seemingly ignored when people compare prices of physical CDs against iTunes AAC. I factor those costs (and my time) into the comparison and then the 99c per song offering of iTunes starts looking pretty expensive. Bear in mind that here in Australia the iTunes price per song is $1.69AUD however CDs are priced roughly $1USD = $1AUD, so the value proposition of iTunes is even lower.
No.
Because homosapiens use intelligence to be the most fit to survive. That's why we're kicking ass!
I think it's far too expensive for an AAC (or MP3) copy of the song. I have not paid for a single iTunes song and I won't until the prices become reasonable.
No, it sounds more like he's 30. When you're 12 you can afford to piss away 100 hours a week on a video game to unlock all the specials, because when you're 12 you have parents to cook and clean and provide a roof over your head. When you're 30 you suddenly need to care for your own kids and that means you spend 100 hours a week working. If you're lucky you have 2-3 hours per week to play video games.
The game writers are still writing games as if we're 12 year olds. The gamer market has grown up and now we want games that fit in with our older lifestyles. That means sweet and concise games, high quality visuals, and no repetition or tedium to get all the content. If they could throw in more substantial plots that don't assume we're uneducated retards, that would also be greatly appreciated.
Half-life 2 was a pretty good game for the aging gamer. Though it still had a retarded plot.
No, it just pisses me off. I don't want to spend 100 hours collecting Chocobo poo to get a special weapon, or 30 weekends doing the same damn race in Burnout to unlock a special car. I paid for the game. I want to see all the content.
You quoted mine! You just left off the punchline. :-)
I already did that joke.
Because regardless of your personal opinion on piracy - mine is that software/music piracy is illegal, immoral and unethical - there are problems with the way this was handled. A minister gave direct orders to police which is illegal in itself. Police resources were taken away from investigating actual crimes to perform an illegal raid to seize computers for torrent sharing which is not illegal in this particular country. Several innocent bystanders were illegally forced to give saliva samples for DNA testing and were illegally denied legal representation. And the thing that started all this was pressure from the US government and an association that represents US corporations, but I repeat myself, and that itself is illegal, immoral and unethical.
What has happened here is yet another example of US corporate interests trumping the local laws of another country and foreign governments being used as puppets to enforce US laws in countries where US law does not apply. There is far more at stake here than some torrents being shared on a server in Sweden.
England, actually.
However the concept that the US is the centre of the universe was most definitely invented by the US.
Dickens and Shakespeare are both dead. I don't think they give a damn.