Revenue is made on the sales of games, not consoles. A casual gamer doesn't play much, so he won't buy many games either. That means less revenue per gamer.
I have the 3 consoles and a high-end PC. My PC is mostly for working (and runs Linux most of the time anyway), and most of my gaming is on the xbox 360. The japanese do not release their games on PC, only on consoles (except for doujinshi games, eroge or other indies). And very few of their games make it to the xbox. They're the reason why I bought a PS3 in the first place.
As you can see, your anecdotal evidence is not verified by me.
The xbox 360 was clearly the winner of the previous generation. The wii did get a lot of sales, but it was from casual people and not more regular and serious game consumers.
Am I the only one that laughed when I saw vital causes next to American Red Cross, Child’s Play, Electronic Frontier Foundation, World Land Trust and charity:water?
LaTeX may look good, but it's old and inelegant technology. The real ironic part is that TeX was written by a guy who contributed a lot to the field of programming languages, grammars and parsing, but its grammar is horrible.
That description is ambiguous. Chandler's isn't the "Clang lead". He's the guy that leads Google's developments in Clang. The main developers of both Clang and LLVM are from Apple.
As a member of both the C and C++ standards committees, and as a CEO of a company that sells C++ libraries to businesses for high-performance computing, I have to disagree with you.
The Oracle/Sun and IBM compilers are the worst C++ compilers available. Intel is also pretty bad, despite touting good standards conformance and being designed for runtime speed, it deals very badly with abstraction penalties, and is extremely slow to compile. Microsoft's compiler is also pretty bad, both at compilation speed, standards conformance, and runtime speed, with each new version introducing quirks and regressions (they have acknowledged major codegen regressions in the recent releases and are investigating them)
If you want a good C++ compiler, GCC or Clang are the only tools available.
I thought I was the only one with the performance problems. No one seems to care about my bug reports. Most of the overhead seems to come from the new macro tracing feature, by the way.
For C++ programming you'll need GCC 4.8 anyway because there is no way to get a complete template trace with 4.6 or 4.7. I don't understand what thet were thinking when they decided to skip arbitrary instantiation contexts in the trace with no ability to not skip them.
Internet piracy: choose what you want to watch and watch it. Available on the day it is aired on or released, in any country or region around the world, best quality, all versions available, subtitles for all languages, no ads, transferable to any device.
DVDs: find a shop that has what you want and is willing to sell it in your region, or order them online. Go to the shop or wait. Put the DVD in your current DVD reader in its box. Put the DVD you just bought inside the DVD reader. Watch the mandatory ads. Go through some horrible and unpractical menu. Bad subtitles. Not transferable. Bad resolution and often interlaced video. No easy way to keep track of which version of the video it is and whether there are better ones that got released later or in other regions. Must use the DRM-locked interface of your DVD reader to do anything.
Blurays: pretty much like DVDs, except the quality is better and the non-transferability and ads are even worse.
TV channels: you must be present at the time of broadcast to see the show, or set up the appropriate recording with an inept interface (assuming you have paid the premium to be allowed to do this). If your connectivity fails or stutters during the broadcast, you've missed the bit in question. Ridiculous amounts of advertisements (especially in the US). Very bad subtitles, if they're even available. Not transferable to another device. Must use the DRM-locked interface of your TV box to do anything.
Video on Demand: Number of shows available fairly limited, even with the best services, since only the shows for which the provider has struck a deal are available. Shows only available quite after they've been aired or released. Not transferable to another device. Services tied to particular geographic regions. Some problems similar to that of TV channels with some services. Must use the DRM-locked interface of your TV box to do anything.
The hard part is delivering consistent quality on a fast and regular basis. No, that's not possible for anyone, and people with a little of experience downloading know they should prefer releases from reliable subgroups than from nobodies.
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Revenue is made on the sales of games, not consoles.
A casual gamer doesn't play much, so he won't buy many games either. That means less revenue per gamer.
I have the 3 consoles and a high-end PC. My PC is mostly for working (and runs Linux most of the time anyway), and most of my gaming is on the xbox 360.
The japanese do not release their games on PC, only on consoles (except for doujinshi games, eroge or other indies). And very few of their games make it to the xbox. They're the reason why I bought a PS3 in the first place.
As you can see, your anecdotal evidence is not verified by me.
PC-like games go to xbox 360. PS3 has mostly japanese console-only games, which are not a replacement for a PC.
The xbox 360 was clearly the winner of the previous generation.
The wii did get a lot of sales, but it was from casual people and not more regular and serious game consumers.
Who sells them those consoles? Microsoft.
Microsoft is still the reference for office stuff and games, and there is really no way around it.
Apparently they had a fairly good marketing campaign.
I don't understand how that can be surprising.
In technology, the simplest an idea is, the bigger the value.
You realize it's used by teens for sexting and as an alternative mean to SMS or facebook chat, right?
Am I the only one that laughed when I saw vital causes next to American Red Cross, Child’s Play, Electronic Frontier Foundation, World Land Trust and charity:water?
What kind of "journalist" doesn't even google a pirate name?
What's the difference?
Or do you refuse to acknowledge the bias in education?
South Africa isn't a third world country.
Maybe you should read the comments you reply to. I clearly said Knuth invented TeX, not LaTeX.
LaTeX may look good, but it's old and inelegant technology.
The real ironic part is that TeX was written by a guy who contributed a lot to the field of programming languages, grammars and parsing, but its grammar is horrible.
More logic than philosophy.
Philosophy is unfortunately a pseudo-science, and is often in conflict with logic.
That description is ambiguous. Chandler's isn't the "Clang lead". He's the guy that leads Google's developments in Clang.
The main developers of both Clang and LLVM are from Apple.
It's so good that you should use the experimental Clang port instead or the outdated GCC whenever you can.
As a member of both the C and C++ standards committees, and as a CEO of a company that sells C++ libraries to businesses for high-performance computing, I have to disagree with you.
The Oracle/Sun and IBM compilers are the worst C++ compilers available.
Intel is also pretty bad, despite touting good standards conformance and being designed for runtime speed, it deals very badly with abstraction penalties, and is extremely slow to compile.
Microsoft's compiler is also pretty bad, both at compilation speed, standards conformance, and runtime speed, with each new version introducing quirks and regressions (they have acknowledged major codegen regressions in the recent releases and are investigating them)
If you want a good C++ compiler, GCC or Clang are the only tools available.
I thought I was the only one with the performance problems. No one seems to care about my bug reports. Most of the overhead seems to come from the new macro tracing feature, by the way.
For C++ programming you'll need GCC 4.8 anyway because there is no way to get a complete template trace with 4.6 or 4.7. I don't understand what thet were thinking when they decided to skip arbitrary instantiation contexts in the trace with no ability to not skip them.
Play it and see. Or read the description on wikipedia.
The zero-day scene is entirely automated, doesn't change the fact that if you take down the bot providers, it falls down.
Internet piracy: choose what you want to watch and watch it. Available on the day it is aired on or released, in any country or region around the world, best quality, all versions available, subtitles for all languages, no ads, transferable to any device.
DVDs: find a shop that has what you want and is willing to sell it in your region, or order them online. Go to the shop or wait. Put the DVD in your current DVD reader in its box. Put the DVD you just bought inside the DVD reader. Watch the mandatory ads. Go through some horrible and unpractical menu. Bad subtitles. Not transferable. Bad resolution and often interlaced video. No easy way to keep track of which version of the video it is and whether there are better ones that got released later or in other regions. Must use the DRM-locked interface of your DVD reader to do anything.
Blurays: pretty much like DVDs, except the quality is better and the non-transferability and ads are even worse.
TV channels: you must be present at the time of broadcast to see the show, or set up the appropriate recording with an inept interface (assuming you have paid the premium to be allowed to do this). If your connectivity fails or stutters during the broadcast, you've missed the bit in question. Ridiculous amounts of advertisements (especially in the US). Very bad subtitles, if they're even available. Not transferable to another device. Must use the DRM-locked interface of your TV box to do anything.
Video on Demand: Number of shows available fairly limited, even with the best services, since only the shows for which the provider has struck a deal are available. Shows only available quite after they've been aired or released. Not transferable to another device. Services tied to particular geographic regions. Some problems similar to that of TV channels with some services. Must use the DRM-locked interface of your TV box to do anything.
Enjoy your sub-par service then.
The hard part is delivering consistent quality on a fast and regular basis. No, that's not possible for anyone, and people with a little of experience downloading know they should prefer releases from reliable subgroups than from nobodies.