Well, it's aimed at people who already have a USB keyboard, a USB mouse and a USB microphone.
It shows in the picture and lists in the specs 'Audio line in minijack'. It also supports Bluetooth. So what you meant to say was it's aimed at people who already have a USB or Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. And a mic, I guess (why not mention speakers). Anyway that is pretty normal for users of Apple products. They haven't exactly been rolling out PS2 components... Either way, not really very informative.
I should have added I saw where you said you were aware of production costs, but you don't seem to be willing to take them into account. So that statement is just fluff.
Digital products are not scarce, so the prices should reflect that. Even digital products on plastic disks are cheap to make. If they aren't happy with a 100% markup for their "products"...screw 'em. Just tons of other businesses manage to stay in business and make a good profit at less than 100% markup, sometimes much much less than that. If the clone makers can charge $1.25 and still make a profit over their costs, then the official joints could charge two bucks even and proly come real dang close to 100% markup. If they claim it costs more than that, they are getting copies made for resale where it is way too expensive, they should shop around better.
As to pure digital download products, this is replicator tech we are talking about. The people, the consumers, need a "law" on our side, a 21st century law, that reflects the reality of our first near free replicator tech and make it so all download products can't be priced more than 100% markup over server/hosting/processing/bandwith costs.
Um... you are aware that people have to develop said content yes? You seem to have forgotten well... paying the people who created the content. Glad you thought about server costs and all, but that is just distribution... It is not 'replicator' tech. You are simply looking at the copying point, not at production.
I am not defending $20 digital downloads of albums or lobbying for stupid laws. I just wanted to point out that your view of how digital content is generated it horribly flawed.
Granted I live in a smaller city (little over 180,000 in the metro/city area, much less in the core 'downtown') but we recently got rid of our parking meters. Now they just have signs that say 45 minute parking between 6 and 6. A bicycle cop rides around and if he sees the same car long enough he tickets it. Seems to me much more effective than the parking meters. At the very least I can actually park in front of my apartment now to do quick things like unload groceries rather than park forever away and make multiple trips to haul them all in.
That is somewhat misleading. Isn't the original Tribes down? WON went down along with all the original games that were on it (though you can migrate to Steam). Heck EA shuts down PC things left and right. You are making this sound console specific when in reality it is just more obvious on consoles.
You certainly have a whitewashed view of history... Windows 98 had full USB support for any device built out of the box. First usb header (not even a port) I ever saw was on an ASUS motherboard in the mid 90's long before apple was using them.
Most PC companies are about gradual change - have both options on a board, then one option after the parts arrive - which is what Apple did until the iMac g3. One could easily argue what they did was a bit premature.
Interesting you mention floppies - I recall a lot of mac users being rather upset (this is long before CD-RW, or usb thumb drives were all that common). Many 3rd party companies made a lot of money selling after market USB floppy drives.
Apple did force the issue, but like I said - iMac came out in 1998 (there first all usb machine - no ADB) - by then Windows 98 had full USB support built into the OS. Microsoft's famous bluescreen error while plugging in a USB scanner was demoing Windows 98, and yes that feature worked when it shipped. 95 OS-R2 had the same USB support via a patch, and no it wasn't just keyboard/mice.
In other words - by 1998 - USB was here probably because both Microsoft and Apple promoted it actively, but you have to remember Apple derided USB (even when 2.0 came out) as being too primative for anything hdd/camera/scanner related (yes there were firewire scanners made for the Mac).
Windows 98 did not have "full USB support for any device". It had dreadful support for some things and would explode with others. Hence Windows 98 SE and the Gold Patch. And thank you for reminding me of the awfulness that was trying to fix someone's hosed gold patch attempt/shudder
Well thats the old part. I am hardly a theology scholar, but I think (could be wrong) a lot of the stuff in the new testament was ment to invalidate the old stuff, like stoning. So if someone is doing it for Jebus then they should be likewise against that stuff. If they just follow the old testament then they aren't really Christains, but that would be some valid form of religion I guess.
It'd be interesting to make a bot like this that plays MMOs or something equally repetitive -- is that against terms of service? How would they know?
I remember making a "robot" to beat Ruby Weapon in FF7, which consisted of a coffee cup pressing the X button -- the fight took 2 hours thanks to summon animations.
Wouldn't that just attack? No summons no inv and you would get owned? Plus I mean if you wanted to cheese an optional boss that was just there for you to have fun with there are many ways to end the fight quickly. Lucky 7s, Vincent bug, etc.
These games don't require mega power graphic cards, just decent ones. And most any semi-modern Mac has one of those. I have a 2007 MacBook Pro and it has a 8600GT in it, not integrated Intel. Paired with it is a 2.6Ghz T7800 Core2Duo. It can run all of the games they have announced (well no idea on Portal 2 I guess) just fine. And that is a 3 year old Mac. I think the lowest end you can get anymore still isn't Intel, its a nVidia 9400 and several also just use that as a lower power integrated and have a discrete as well.
Hm not sure what the issue is then. I run it fine on a Core 2 Duo E6850, 6 gigs of ram, eVGA 9800GTX+ on Win 7 64. Never had an issue. Do you have an older box running XP or something? If so, you can install it on there and then copy the files over. It will whine about some missing DLL files, but you can copy them from the XP box. Then it should just ask you for your CD key on first run on the 7 machine.
What problems do you have with AoE 3? I can run it and the expansion on 7 without issue. Ran fine on Vista too. I think it whines if you try to install it on 2k, but even then it will still work if I remember correctly.
Even with all the real things you can slam Microsoft for, some people feel the need to make things up. Reminds me of that pre-Vista paper by that (I think) NZ guy that was full of stuff that even then people who had the RC knew to be false. Sensational things get page views I guess.
Can anyone post system requirements for those of us unable to reach particular sites?
sure:
PC Minimum Requirements:
Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7
2.2 Ghz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
1 GB system RAM/1.5 GB for Vista and Windows 7
128 MB NVidia GeForce 6600 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card
1024x768 minimum display resolution
4 GB free hard space
Broadband connection
I'm not sure why Comcast gets so much hate. Maybe it depends on the local market you are in?
It does seem to be very much where you live. I have had awesome luck with Comcast. Only had to call customer service once and they were out there the next day, replaced my modem and everything was just fine. Speed is great (well for US cable anyway). I have tried both the local Knology and AT&T, and both cost more for slower speeds.
However I have a friend who lives about 20 minutes away who has Comcast and his is awful. The speed makes it almost unusable between 4-6pm. Goes down every other day for an hour or so. Just where you live. Same with any ISP in my exp.
NOTE: Don't take this as super condescending. If it comes across that way it is my failure to correctly convey my message, not any intent to be a jerk. I am half joking here. I included a liberal amount of ':P' to help!
Well you got modded up actually! So now you have to apologize:P Just kidding of course. That said, I have the hard time seeing the "truth" about America's "dictatorial" policy and since you didn't really provide any backing for that claim I am going to file it as crazy gibberish. A claim you did support by arguing with the mods in a reply to your own post:P
I am an American who dislikes a good bit of our foreign policy, so I didn't mean to say you have no reason to be irked by it. Far from it. If I don't like it I can certainly see why you wouldn't! I was simply saying that going about posting "dictatorial policy!" and "the truth won't go away!" sounds more like the crazed fear mongering employed by some of my fellow Americans to steer our foreign policy in the directions you don't like than presenting an opposing view.
I hate to let you two know, but... well, that name is terrible. Then again iPod and Walkman didn't exactly sound great when they first came out either. WAIT! Maybe that is the secret of good marketing! A terrible name. Quickly to the iInventadrome!
This is completely absurd FUD. IE *was used*, it is insecure, and there is no fix (yet). These conclusions come right from this article and others.
Everywhere I read this I see IE 6. That would seem to contradict everything you just said. Wouldn't the fix be a newer version of IE and the problem be using outdated software?
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This could be just a really lame joke post, but since it got modded interesting I guess I will falling for it if it is... Get a little perspective? You have a sig that says "Life's too short." but you spend your time getting riled up about the government spending a tiny bit of money amusing children over the holidays... OH THE HORROR! Also, a large number of non-religious families do the whole Santa thing too you know. It is just something fun for kids, not "propagandising children".
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but if I had to work late and I found out that you got our pizza, mountain dew, and coffee replaced with a salad... well... bad things might happen:P
Though at this point in time I am starting to think you and I are talking about different versions of Expose. ION option or something? Forgive me if I went offtopic there.
Eh, I think we will just have to agree to disagree on those. I personally just don't see the connection. As for the clip I was talking about, which makes the point better than I can, I dug it up:
if you care to watch it. But I generally try not to debate Fox's coverage too seriously, no one ever changes their opinion so it is fairly pointless. Plus it usually ends up with the pot calling the kettle black on both sides as every source has bias just as every individual does.
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Well, it's aimed at people who already have a USB keyboard, a USB mouse and a USB microphone.
It shows in the picture and lists in the specs 'Audio line in minijack'. It also supports Bluetooth. So what you meant to say was it's aimed at people who already have a USB or Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. And a mic, I guess (why not mention speakers). Anyway that is pretty normal for users of Apple products. They haven't exactly been rolling out PS2 components... Either way, not really very informative.
I should have added I saw where you said you were aware of production costs, but you don't seem to be willing to take them into account. So that statement is just fluff.
Digital products are not scarce, so the prices should reflect that. Even digital products on plastic disks are cheap to make. If they aren't happy with a 100% markup for their "products"...screw 'em. Just tons of other businesses manage to stay in business and make a good profit at less than 100% markup, sometimes much much less than that. If the clone makers can charge $1.25 and still make a profit over their costs, then the official joints could charge two bucks even and proly come real dang close to 100% markup. If they claim it costs more than that, they are getting copies made for resale where it is way too expensive, they should shop around better. As to pure digital download products, this is replicator tech we are talking about. The people, the consumers, need a "law" on our side, a 21st century law, that reflects the reality of our first near free replicator tech and make it so all download products can't be priced more than 100% markup over server/hosting/processing/bandwith costs.
Um... you are aware that people have to develop said content yes? You seem to have forgotten well... paying the people who created the content. Glad you thought about server costs and all, but that is just distribution... It is not 'replicator' tech. You are simply looking at the copying point, not at production.
I am not defending $20 digital downloads of albums or lobbying for stupid laws. I just wanted to point out that your view of how digital content is generated it horribly flawed.
But how would I live without my Birkenstocks?!?!?
Granted I live in a smaller city (little over 180,000 in the metro/city area, much less in the core 'downtown') but we recently got rid of our parking meters. Now they just have signs that say 45 minute parking between 6 and 6. A bicycle cop rides around and if he sees the same car long enough he tickets it. Seems to me much more effective than the parking meters. At the very least I can actually park in front of my apartment now to do quick things like unload groceries rather than park forever away and make multiple trips to haul them all in.
That is somewhat misleading. Isn't the original Tribes down? WON went down along with all the original games that were on it (though you can migrate to Steam). Heck EA shuts down PC things left and right. You are making this sound console specific when in reality it is just more obvious on consoles.
More than likely. Though that is hardly rare.
You certainly have a whitewashed view of history... Windows 98 had full USB support for any device built out of the box. First usb header (not even a port) I ever saw was on an ASUS motherboard in the mid 90's long before apple was using them.
Most PC companies are about gradual change - have both options on a board, then one option after the parts arrive - which is what Apple did until the iMac g3. One could easily argue what they did was a bit premature.
Interesting you mention floppies - I recall a lot of mac users being rather upset (this is long before CD-RW, or usb thumb drives were all that common). Many 3rd party companies made a lot of money selling after market USB floppy drives.
Apple did force the issue, but like I said - iMac came out in 1998 (there first all usb machine - no ADB) - by then Windows 98 had full USB support built into the OS. Microsoft's famous bluescreen error while plugging in a USB scanner was demoing Windows 98, and yes that feature worked when it shipped. 95 OS-R2 had the same USB support via a patch, and no it wasn't just keyboard/mice.
In other words - by 1998 - USB was here probably because both Microsoft and Apple promoted it actively, but you have to remember Apple derided USB (even when 2.0 came out) as being too primative for anything hdd/camera/scanner related (yes there were firewire scanners made for the Mac).
Windows 98 did not have "full USB support for any device". It had dreadful support for some things and would explode with others. Hence Windows 98 SE and the Gold Patch. And thank you for reminding me of the awfulness that was trying to fix someone's hosed gold patch attempt /shudder
Well thats the old part. I am hardly a theology scholar, but I think (could be wrong) a lot of the stuff in the new testament was ment to invalidate the old stuff, like stoning. So if someone is doing it for Jebus then they should be likewise against that stuff. If they just follow the old testament then they aren't really Christains, but that would be some valid form of religion I guess.
It'd be interesting to make a bot like this that plays MMOs or something equally repetitive -- is that against terms of service? How would they know?
I remember making a "robot" to beat Ruby Weapon in FF7, which consisted of a coffee cup pressing the X button -- the fight took 2 hours thanks to summon animations.
Wouldn't that just attack? No summons no inv and you would get owned? Plus I mean if you wanted to cheese an optional boss that was just there for you to have fun with there are many ways to end the fight quickly. Lucky 7s, Vincent bug, etc.
These games don't require mega power graphic cards, just decent ones. And most any semi-modern Mac has one of those. I have a 2007 MacBook Pro and it has a 8600GT in it, not integrated Intel. Paired with it is a 2.6Ghz T7800 Core2Duo. It can run all of the games they have announced (well no idea on Portal 2 I guess) just fine. And that is a 3 year old Mac. I think the lowest end you can get anymore still isn't Intel, its a nVidia 9400 and several also just use that as a lower power integrated and have a discrete as well.
Hm not sure what the issue is then. I run it fine on a Core 2 Duo E6850, 6 gigs of ram, eVGA 9800GTX+ on Win 7 64. Never had an issue. Do you have an older box running XP or something? If so, you can install it on there and then copy the files over. It will whine about some missing DLL files, but you can copy them from the XP box. Then it should just ask you for your CD key on first run on the 7 machine.
What problems do you have with AoE 3? I can run it and the expansion on 7 without issue. Ran fine on Vista too. I think it whines if you try to install it on 2k, but even then it will still work if I remember correctly.
Even with all the real things you can slam Microsoft for, some people feel the need to make things up. Reminds me of that pre-Vista paper by that (I think) NZ guy that was full of stuff that even then people who had the RC knew to be false. Sensational things get page views I guess.
Can anyone post system requirements for those of us unable to reach particular sites?
sure:
PC Minimum Requirements:
Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1/Windows 7
2.2 Ghz Pentium IV or equivalent AMD Athlon processor
1 GB system RAM/1.5 GB for Vista and Windows 7
128 MB NVidia GeForce 6600 GT/ATI Radeon 9800 PRO video card
1024x768 minimum display resolution
4 GB free hard space
Broadband connection
I'm not sure why Comcast gets so much hate. Maybe it depends on the local market you are in?
It does seem to be very much where you live. I have had awesome luck with Comcast. Only had to call customer service once and they were out there the next day, replaced my modem and everything was just fine. Speed is great (well for US cable anyway). I have tried both the local Knology and AT&T, and both cost more for slower speeds.
However I have a friend who lives about 20 minutes away who has Comcast and his is awful. The speed makes it almost unusable between 4-6pm. Goes down every other day for an hour or so. Just where you live. Same with any ISP in my exp.
Hey fuckstick! In Capitalism, man exploits man. In Communism, it's the exact opposite.
What?
NOTE: Don't take this as super condescending. If it comes across that way it is my failure to correctly convey my message, not any intent to be a jerk. I am half joking here. I included a liberal amount of ':P' to help!
:P Just kidding of course. That said, I have the hard time seeing the "truth" about America's "dictatorial" policy and since you didn't really provide any backing for that claim I am going to file it as crazy gibberish. A claim you did support by arguing with the mods in a reply to your own post :P
:P for good measure!
Well you got modded up actually! So now you have to apologize
I am an American who dislikes a good bit of our foreign policy, so I didn't mean to say you have no reason to be irked by it. Far from it. If I don't like it I can certainly see why you wouldn't! I was simply saying that going about posting "dictatorial policy!" and "the truth won't go away!" sounds more like the crazed fear mongering employed by some of my fellow Americans to steer our foreign policy in the directions you don't like than presenting an opposing view.
Oh and a closing
I hate to let you two know, but... well, that name is terrible. Then again iPod and Walkman didn't exactly sound great when they first came out either. WAIT! Maybe that is the secret of good marketing! A terrible name. Quickly to the iInventadrome!
This is completely absurd FUD. IE *was used*, it is insecure, and there is no fix (yet). These conclusions come right from this article and others.
Everywhere I read this I see IE 6. That would seem to contradict everything you just said. Wouldn't the fix be a newer version of IE and the problem be using outdated software?
This could be just a really lame joke post, but since it got modded interesting I guess I will falling for it if it is... Get a little perspective? You have a sig that says "Life's too short." but you spend your time getting riled up about the government spending a tiny bit of money amusing children over the holidays... OH THE HORROR! Also, a large number of non-religious families do the whole Santa thing too you know. It is just something fun for kids, not "propagandising children".
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but if I had to work late and I found out that you got our pizza, mountain dew, and coffee replaced with a salad... well... bad things might happen :P
You can name the terms whatever you want and set them to keep that. I just threw this together in a sec.
works on mine by default even
Though at this point in time I am starting to think you and I are talking about different versions of Expose. ION option or something? Forgive me if I went offtopic there.
The newest Expose also puts a label below the window to resolve that issue.
Eh, I think we will just have to agree to disagree on those. I personally just don't see the connection. As for the clip I was talking about, which makes the point better than I can, I dug it up:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-october-29-2009/for-fox-sake-
if you care to watch it. But I generally try not to debate Fox's coverage too seriously, no one ever changes their opinion so it is fairly pointless. Plus it usually ends up with the pot calling the kettle black on both sides as every source has bias just as every individual does.