Now that you're up to date, we have a new American President who is not beholden to special interests, especially energy interests, who has some vision for a clean energy future.
So lets see, you have a product where over half of them break 4 years or so into the lifetime of the console. Without a 360 people won't buy games, if they don't buy games the console dies and becomes unprofitable. The very -least- MS could do would be extend the warranty. Not only would it be a terrible idea publicity-wise (Vista being a failure, Zune being mostly a failure, Live never catching on, etc) but it would hurt them in the bottom line especially at the start of the consoles lifetime where they lose money per console.
Cite the programs that apparently have no Mac equivalent. Other than games and niche programs, a Mac has all the bases covered. By using your argument because Windows doesn't include a syntax highlighting editor by default it is impossible to program for Windows, never mind the fact there many free tools to do the job.
For some reason, despite the price tag of zero and the hardcore love of a thousand morons, OpenOffice makes every single document I produce or open from any office suite to any office suite look like total and absolute ass. Maybe it's worth $65 to me for my documents not to induce eye strain. Aesthetics are extremely important in the "real world" (see: the desktop usage scenario where most F/OSS does not exist.)
Because we all just -know- how great MS Office is at keeping formatting between versions. Ever had different versions of Office and open up the same document? Take the document from Word 2003 from work and open it on Office XP at home and it looks totally different. Even documents between versions don't show up the same. If you want things to look the exact same, export it as a PDF.
That's absolutely wrong. It's in our best interest to ignore these products until they become worth showing people. Some open source projects have graduated and are worth showing users (ie 7-zip) while others are utterly terrible and only have popularity due to an arbitrary freetard bias (openoffice, koffice, compiz, etc..) so they need to be ignored so the developers don't get the idea into their heads that they've accomplished something worthwhile and (heaven-forbid) stop going back to the drawing board, where they should be firmly planted.
While KOffice isn't really that great, Open Office is perhaps the best office suite save for iLife and MS Office. And yes, there are a -lot- of others, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_suite). Compiz is pretty good for eye candy, it works much nicer than Vista's "3-D effects" and more impressive than OS X's.
Citation needed. Most F/OSS software can be easily installed in OS X. While Windows has a larger freeware (proprietary software at no cost) library due to their monopoly. Lets see here, Office Suite, either pay $99 for Office or pay $79 for iLife, or download a free suite for both. Lets see, image manipulator, either buy Photoshop or download the GIMP for free, etc.
says David Tian, a scientist for NASA who works spare-time on UltraSurf, the free software designed to promote unrestricted Internet access for citizens of China persecuted for being members of Falun Gang, the religious group the Chinese government is trying to suppress."
So the same government with flag@whitehouse.gov wants freedom of information in other countries but not in their own?
In general though popular games tend to have larger budgets and more impressive games. Every generation has its "popular" game, at first it was Pong, then it was Space Invaders games, then it was platformers, then it was fighting games/RPGs, etc.
The difference is The Wall Street Journal has reputation (well, at least it did before they were bought by News Corporation), on the other hand Fox News does not. Ever heard of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index? The company that compiles that is the same company that owns The Wall Street Journal. And I expect the Wall Street Journal to decline in relevance as management shifts from older generations to younger generations more comfortable with the internet.
I don't think that I've ever played a truly excellent FPS that wasn't rated M or at the very least T. About the only two exceptions would be Portal which is more of a puzzle game, and Chex Quest but that was a mod of Doom II which was rated M. Had Zelda not done a few things to avoid getting a T rating, I have little doubt that it would be rated T (green "blood" rather than red blood, etc). The two most looked at games recently are FPS games and sandbox games. Both of which usually have M ratings.
If you live in the BBC, chances are you already pay for the BBC via taxes and "TV licenses", for those of us not in the UK, chances are we also pay for the BBC via a cable or satellite subscription with BBC America as one of the channels.
Nintendo -used- to be known for that. But seriously, since the GameCube, Nintendo finally figured out how to make everything they touch gold again so we get crap games with no replay value and that are little more than tech demos (Wii Sports anyone?) or repeat the same formula over, and over and over again to the extreme (how many Mario Party games are we up to now? 9 in 10 years?). While they do make some stellar games (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) their better games are often their more violent games.
Exactly, while I do sometimes question their RSS feed from having bias in the stories they promote, on the average they seem to do a good job of being objective, much better than say, CNN, Fox and MSNBC. About the only thing that I sometimes miss from the other networks is some more local, US centric stories, but for world news, the BBC is perhaps the best, hands down.
Its pretty reasonable, lets say you have a ROM site that has every NES game on it, that there is over 600 games. Knowing that most ROM sites have more than one console and pretty much all the games for at least a single console, its not that unreasonable to claim 45 million "infringements".
Don't they realize by restricting access to games they lose new talent? In general most kids have an idea what they want to do when they are around 15, they might not know which exact field, but at least a general idea (law, medical, computers, etc.) and by restricting kids access to "mature" games that are very often considered some of the better games they play crappy games and might not be interested in learning do develop video games.
However you can't cause any -real- harm with a computer. Yah, you can be a dick, yes you can trash some systems, yes you can make things slow and shut down from servers but that is it.
Exactly, in all honesty with counterfeit money, so long as people don't notice it is a -good thing- in moderation. So long as everyone agrees it is valuable, it doesn't get "recorded" so as long as it is in moderation it doesn't cause any inflation, and it gets money around. Unfair, yes, terrible? No.
What I think would be scary is them abusing this for something non-digital (and in all honesty its impossible with sane security practices to have a "cyber-disaster") in order to cover up wrongdoings.
The difference though was, the floppy disk was hardware, as far as I know (and http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/968001001931 seems to say so) that there is still floppy disk support for OS X. It costs money to include a floppy disk, it does not cost any money, and probably almost no money in support, to continue supporting an un-changing platform that is "dead". Taking it out A) most likely has no space gains B) inconveniences users and C) is pointless. It cost money to continue shipping floppy disks, it does not cost any more money to keep syncing with Palm devices.
Sure, but there is a difference between legacy as in hardware, legacy that requires lots of code and legacy that is relatively small. My guess is Palm OS sync isn't that big of a program, nor does it need constant updating. So either A) Release it as a downloadable update, B) Or include it as an option when installing. Taking it out though, that just screams anticompeditive.
I don't think its the fact that they can be turned into biofuel but the fact that we are pretty much just throwing away 20% of potential crops that can be used for it, so we wouldn't need to use new fields or change crops. On the other hand, pretty much all the corn grown for ethanol could be used for human consumption (yeah, you might need a different type of corn).
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Now that you're up to date, we have a new American President who is not beholden to special interests, especially energy interests, who has some vision for a clean energy future.
When did Obama resign?
...Which are niche programs. There are many other CAD programs, there are QCad, NX, and ArchiCAD all of which run just fine on OS X.
So lets see, you have a product where over half of them break 4 years or so into the lifetime of the console. Without a 360 people won't buy games, if they don't buy games the console dies and becomes unprofitable. The very -least- MS could do would be extend the warranty. Not only would it be a terrible idea publicity-wise (Vista being a failure, Zune being mostly a failure, Live never catching on, etc) but it would hurt them in the bottom line especially at the start of the consoles lifetime where they lose money per console.
Yes, the 360 is a "success", but also has terrible flaws. For one is its 50% failure rate (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/17/game-informer-xbox-360-at-54-2-percent-failure-rate/ http://kotaku.com/5339555/report-xbox-360-failure-rate-over-50-percent http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/24/microsoft-responds-to-xbox-360-54-2-percent-failure-rate-report/ ). While XBL is fine for gaming, buying stuff with "Microsoft Points" is odd, unlike Nintendo Points or buying gift cards with Sony, theres no easy way I can find out what everything costs in US dollars. Etc.
Cite the programs that apparently have no Mac equivalent. Other than games and niche programs, a Mac has all the bases covered. By using your argument because Windows doesn't include a syntax highlighting editor by default it is impossible to program for Windows, never mind the fact there many free tools to do the job.
For some reason, despite the price tag of zero and the hardcore love of a thousand morons, OpenOffice makes every single document I produce or open from any office suite to any office suite look like total and absolute ass. Maybe it's worth $65 to me for my documents not to induce eye strain. Aesthetics are extremely important in the "real world" (see: the desktop usage scenario where most F/OSS does not exist.)
Because we all just -know- how great MS Office is at keeping formatting between versions. Ever had different versions of Office and open up the same document? Take the document from Word 2003 from work and open it on Office XP at home and it looks totally different. Even documents between versions don't show up the same. If you want things to look the exact same, export it as a PDF.
That's absolutely wrong. It's in our best interest to ignore these products until they become worth showing people. Some open source projects have graduated and are worth showing users (ie 7-zip) while others are utterly terrible and only have popularity due to an arbitrary freetard bias (openoffice, koffice, compiz, etc..) so they need to be ignored so the developers don't get the idea into their heads that they've accomplished something worthwhile and (heaven-forbid) stop going back to the drawing board, where they should be firmly planted.
While KOffice isn't really that great, Open Office is perhaps the best office suite save for iLife and MS Office. And yes, there are a -lot- of others, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_suite). Compiz is pretty good for eye candy, it works much nicer than Vista's "3-D effects" and more impressive than OS X's.
Citation needed. Most F/OSS software can be easily installed in OS X. While Windows has a larger freeware (proprietary software at no cost) library due to their monopoly. Lets see here, Office Suite, either pay $99 for Office or pay $79 for iLife, or download a free suite for both. Lets see, image manipulator, either buy Photoshop or download the GIMP for free, etc.
How many people -really- search their HD? A few extra MBs won't be noticeable to most people, especially if they keep it in obscure directories.
says David Tian, a scientist for NASA who works spare-time on UltraSurf, the free software designed to promote unrestricted Internet access for citizens of China persecuted for being members of Falun Gang, the religious group the Chinese government is trying to suppress."
So the same government with flag@whitehouse.gov wants freedom of information in other countries but not in their own?
In general though popular games tend to have larger budgets and more impressive games. Every generation has its "popular" game, at first it was Pong, then it was Space Invaders games, then it was platformers, then it was fighting games/RPGs, etc.
The difference is The Wall Street Journal has reputation (well, at least it did before they were bought by News Corporation), on the other hand Fox News does not. Ever heard of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index? The company that compiles that is the same company that owns The Wall Street Journal. And I expect the Wall Street Journal to decline in relevance as management shifts from older generations to younger generations more comfortable with the internet.
I don't think that I've ever played a truly excellent FPS that wasn't rated M or at the very least T. About the only two exceptions would be Portal which is more of a puzzle game, and Chex Quest but that was a mod of Doom II which was rated M. Had Zelda not done a few things to avoid getting a T rating, I have little doubt that it would be rated T (green "blood" rather than red blood, etc). The two most looked at games recently are FPS games and sandbox games. Both of which usually have M ratings.
...And I should really learn to proofread. That should say If you live in the UK chances are you already pay for the BBC. Not If you live in the BBC.
If you live in the BBC, chances are you already pay for the BBC via taxes and "TV licenses", for those of us not in the UK, chances are we also pay for the BBC via a cable or satellite subscription with BBC America as one of the channels.
Nintendo -used- to be known for that. But seriously, since the GameCube, Nintendo finally figured out how to make everything they touch gold again so we get crap games with no replay value and that are little more than tech demos (Wii Sports anyone?) or repeat the same formula over, and over and over again to the extreme (how many Mario Party games are we up to now? 9 in 10 years?). While they do make some stellar games (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) their better games are often their more violent games.
Exactly, while I do sometimes question their RSS feed from having bias in the stories they promote, on the average they seem to do a good job of being objective, much better than say, CNN, Fox and MSNBC. About the only thing that I sometimes miss from the other networks is some more local, US centric stories, but for world news, the BBC is perhaps the best, hands down.
Its pretty reasonable, lets say you have a ROM site that has every NES game on it, that there is over 600 games. Knowing that most ROM sites have more than one console and pretty much all the games for at least a single console, its not that unreasonable to claim 45 million "infringements".
Don't they realize by restricting access to games they lose new talent? In general most kids have an idea what they want to do when they are around 15, they might not know which exact field, but at least a general idea (law, medical, computers, etc.) and by restricting kids access to "mature" games that are very often considered some of the better games they play crappy games and might not be interested in learning do develop video games.
However you can't cause any -real- harm with a computer. Yah, you can be a dick, yes you can trash some systems, yes you can make things slow and shut down from servers but that is it.
Exactly, in all honesty with counterfeit money, so long as people don't notice it is a -good thing- in moderation. So long as everyone agrees it is valuable, it doesn't get "recorded" so as long as it is in moderation it doesn't cause any inflation, and it gets money around. Unfair, yes, terrible? No.
What I think would be scary is them abusing this for something non-digital (and in all honesty its impossible with sane security practices to have a "cyber-disaster") in order to cover up wrongdoings.
The difference though was, the floppy disk was hardware, as far as I know (and http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/968001001931 seems to say so) that there is still floppy disk support for OS X. It costs money to include a floppy disk, it does not cost any money, and probably almost no money in support, to continue supporting an un-changing platform that is "dead". Taking it out A) most likely has no space gains B) inconveniences users and C) is pointless. It cost money to continue shipping floppy disks, it does not cost any more money to keep syncing with Palm devices.
Sure, but there is a difference between legacy as in hardware, legacy that requires lots of code and legacy that is relatively small. My guess is Palm OS sync isn't that big of a program, nor does it need constant updating. So either A) Release it as a downloadable update, B) Or include it as an option when installing. Taking it out though, that just screams anticompeditive.
Because watermelons aren't used in many processed foods. I've never seen canned watermelons, watermelon juice in any major store, etc.
I don't think its the fact that they can be turned into biofuel but the fact that we are pretty much just throwing away 20% of potential crops that can be used for it, so we wouldn't need to use new fields or change crops. On the other hand, pretty much all the corn grown for ethanol could be used for human consumption (yeah, you might need a different type of corn).