The problem with the Apple Store (or rather, it's Magic) is that because every app has been tried and vetted by Apple people are more willing to try things out.
Yes, you can probably get something with identical functionality elsewhere for free for every other OS, but if I was an average non-tech-lit people and I searched Google for a programme like, say, a GPS app, and found one that was free, looked decent and had a slick web-site I might still be wary of downloading it because my Techie friend warned me not to since I might get a virus.
With the App store, and apple in general, they have this air of "We can't get viruses" that's pervaded the public consciousness. They're safe. They're warm and 'trustworthy' to the majority of non-techies.
That is why the iPad will sell. It's a 5-inch thick condom for the internet. 90% protection, 10% of the fun.
I like renaming my shortcuts something ridiculous, like "Super Wankatron 3000", or personal affronts to my friends, such as "Winston is a fudge packer".
We're seriously looking into using Unity where I work. We still get asked to do browser-based 3D stuff and are forced to use Shockwave. There's O3D, the Google browser plugin (Windows and Mac OSX only, no Linux AFAIK) which works quite well, but suffers from being controlled by Javascript and thus is slower in everything that's not Chrome (funny that)
There are some serious steps in the right direction though. The sooner we have Canvas 3D contexts though the better
I'm 24, I had my Commodore 64 when I was 4, I wasn't surfing the web until about 1997 either. I don't consider myself old (Sometimes I do, I just don't "get" this modern music nonsense). I can remember using AltaVista and Yahoo search. Sometimes searching through Geocities directories back in the day.
It's a Blizzard game, ofcourse it'll be enjoyable. It's whether or not the Koreans yum it up and it becomes their new national sport that will be the true test of the game:D
one that can be taken off and replaced constantly without replacing the entire machine (or atleast a significant part, IE the whole display unit) would lower maintainence costs. This will likely be welcomed with open arms:)
That needs qualifying as #1 in the HOME market. There are many more servers running various brands of Unix and Linux out there than there are running IIS or Apache on a Windows box (though not an insignificant ammount).
Servers are naturally harder to get viruses or trojans onto them as they're generally not used to surf the web, and the only applications executed on them should be done by a responsible sysadmin - who should know better.
Windows is targeted as it is the #1 Home and Business OS, and as most people are clueless about how the technology actually works (running with admin privileges, surfing dodgy sites, falling for phishing scams, opening spam emails). A street magician or scam artist will only target those people who they see as a patsy. The obvious idiot. The lazy fool. Windows and IE attract them both, and they get burned for it.
US Robotics named themselves after the Fictional Company (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Robotics , and also the foreword to one of Asimov's books. I think it was 'The Complete Robot')
Three of the five mobs on the Maulgar fight in Gruuls lair were like that. Kiggler the Crazed was normally tanked by a class immune to polymorph (Druid, either Feral - the proper tank spec - or Moonkin - the ranged DPS spec) Olm the summoner is tanked by a warlock controlling Olms own pets Firehand is tanked by a mage who spell-steals his damage shield as he casts his big spells.
one of my favourite fights (as I got to tank Kiggler:D)
It's probably wise for someone to insure their TV (as that is all the Extended warranty is really) if it was rather expensive, but there are a few things that I will not purchase the warranty for, and have been pressured by sales people.
MP3 players (they're small, portable, likely to break, but honestly, you can buy a half decent one for 20 quid) Digital Cameras (The home-market ones, not the Professional level ones.) PCs and peripherals (Myself, personally, if shit goes wrong with my PC I know how to fix it, I don't need some tit 100 miles away replacing every component and wiping the OS when I know it's a driver issue)
Honestly, I got pressured by a bloke in Curry's about getting Extended warranty on a £15 USB Mouse that cost twice as much as the mouse itself. I've been using it for 7 years and it's still perfectly fine (and it's by Microsoft:O) Same with my MP3 player (5 years) and my phone (3 years so far, and only a bit of the front casings come loose, Sellotape FTW). My last phone fared less well, it lasted two months, but I *did* slam it in a car door. Accidents happen, but the phone only cost £20 and it was PAYG so I only lost about £3 in credit.
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The problem with the Apple Store (or rather, it's Magic) is that because every app has been tried and vetted by Apple people are more willing to try things out.
Yes, you can probably get something with identical functionality elsewhere for free for every other OS, but if I was an average non-tech-lit people and I searched Google for a programme like, say, a GPS app, and found one that was free, looked decent and had a slick web-site I might still be wary of downloading it because my Techie friend warned me not to since I might get a virus.
With the App store, and apple in general, they have this air of "We can't get viruses" that's pervaded the public consciousness. They're safe. They're warm and 'trustworthy' to the majority of non-techies.
That is why the iPad will sell. It's a 5-inch thick condom for the internet. 90% protection, 10% of the fun.
I like renaming my shortcuts something ridiculous, like "Super Wankatron 3000", or personal affronts to my friends, such as "Winston is a fudge packer".
We're seriously looking into using Unity where I work. We still get asked to do browser-based 3D stuff and are forced to use Shockwave.
There's O3D, the Google browser plugin (Windows and Mac OSX only, no Linux AFAIK) which works quite well, but suffers from being controlled by Javascript and thus is slower in everything that's not Chrome (funny that)
There are some serious steps in the right direction though. The sooner we have Canvas 3D contexts though the better
Q'pla!
I'm 24, I had my Commodore 64 when I was 4, I wasn't surfing the web until about 1997 either. I don't consider myself old (Sometimes I do, I just don't "get" this modern music nonsense). I can remember using AltaVista and Yahoo search. Sometimes searching through Geocities directories back in the day.
I've forgotten what my point was.
Anyway. I'm not old.
At the end of Chronicles he has an army now. I expect the third movie to be basically just Dune, but with Riddick instead of Atreides.
It's a Blizzard game, ofcourse it'll be enjoyable. It's whether or not the Koreans yum it up and it becomes their new national sport that will be the true test of the game :D
one that can be taken off and replaced constantly without replacing the entire machine (or atleast a significant part, IE the whole display unit) would lower maintainence costs. This will likely be welcomed with open arms :)
16 contact points as in 16 fingers at once, not 16 'buttons'
This needs a car anaolgy!
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well you can't complain, you're getting IE for free
That needs qualifying as #1 in the HOME market. There are many more servers running various brands of Unix and Linux out there than there are running IIS or Apache on a Windows box (though not an insignificant ammount).
Servers are naturally harder to get viruses or trojans onto them as they're generally not used to surf the web, and the only applications executed on them should be done by a responsible sysadmin - who should know better.
Windows is targeted as it is the #1 Home and Business OS, and as most people are clueless about how the technology actually works (running with admin privileges, surfing dodgy sites, falling for phishing scams, opening spam emails). A street magician or scam artist will only target those people who they see as a patsy. The obvious idiot. The lazy fool. Windows and IE attract them both, and they get burned for it.
Rumpelstiltskin? is that the new Microsoft smart phone?
HL2 Episodes kinda already have an infinite middle and no ending...
I remember her being on Kids TV at about 12. A Maxim Calendar of her is just creepy :S
I know it was a compliation, but it had a unique forward by Asimov in which he mentions US Robots (I think it was that book, I could be wrong)
US Robotics named themselves after the Fictional Company (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Robotics , and also the foreword to one of Asimov's books. I think it was 'The Complete Robot')
I had that when I was in Norway, it's rather nice
The fact you're comparing a game to a job says loads about how fun EVE is.
That's what they get for making their game characters so damn sexy...
wait, did I just say that out loud?
Note to self: work in inner monologue.
it looks like my handwriting... I think I'm sending presents to my self from the future
Three of the five mobs on the Maulgar fight in Gruuls lair were like that.
Kiggler the Crazed was normally tanked by a class immune to polymorph (Druid, either Feral - the proper tank spec - or Moonkin - the ranged DPS spec)
Olm the summoner is tanked by a warlock controlling Olms own pets
Firehand is tanked by a mage who spell-steals his damage shield as he casts his big spells.
one of my favourite fights (as I got to tank Kiggler :D)
It's probably wise for someone to insure their TV (as that is all the Extended warranty is really) if it was rather expensive, but there are a few things that I will not purchase the warranty for, and have been pressured by sales people.
MP3 players (they're small, portable, likely to break, but honestly, you can buy a half decent one for 20 quid)
Digital Cameras (The home-market ones, not the Professional level ones.)
PCs and peripherals (Myself, personally, if shit goes wrong with my PC I know how to fix it, I don't need some tit 100 miles away replacing every component and wiping the OS when I know it's a driver issue)
Honestly, I got pressured by a bloke in Curry's about getting Extended warranty on a £15 USB Mouse that cost twice as much as the mouse itself. I've been using it for 7 years and it's still perfectly fine (and it's by Microsoft :O)
Same with my MP3 player (5 years) and my phone (3 years so far, and only a bit of the front casings come loose, Sellotape FTW). My last phone fared less well, it lasted two months, but I *did* slam it in a car door. Accidents happen, but the phone only cost £20 and it was PAYG so I only lost about £3 in credit.
I like how Scotland's independent from the UK... wait... I never voted for that...