The only thing I can figure is that maybe they're afraid of:
a) Connectix and or Apple enhancing the hw/sw mix of the VGS platform to the point where PSX games look exceptionally better on VGS-Macintosh than PSX consoles. - basically an embarassment to Sony.
b) The existence of a multi-purpose computer system that can play PSX games also makes possible the analysis and circumvention of their game copy-protection scheme, which encourages more widespread piracy.
c) The technical "black-eye" they get when another company figures their shit out.
d) Mac/VGS becomes a more attractive buy for consumers, lowering the marketshare ratio between Macintosh and PSX, causing game developers to go "whoa, maybe it's more profitable to put Mac higher up on our platform priority list", and they're afraid of falling below the cutoff, and being marginallized as a platform. The fact that PSX is THE standard platform for games these days is a big advantage for Sony, as the same holds true for Microsoft when software companies develop for that platform to the exclusion of their competitors.
Actually, if you think about it, there is no discrete "third-person-plural" word in english.
How does one address a group of people, without ambiguously referring to any individual in that group.
"Y'all" is the answer - unfortunately, it's not a part of proper english.
I find myself using y'all all the time in emails, and I was born and raised in Chicago. What if you start a thread with one person, and either one of you cc:s a couple of others in, and someone says, "well, what do you think?" Is he talking to one person, or the group? There are no visual cues in email, you could use the cumbersome "you all", or you could use "y'all". I think it's time we add "y'all" to the lexicon of proper english. (my apologies to the queen).
You have the right not to be killed. Murder is a crime. Unless it is done, by a police man, or an aristocrat.
You have the right to food money. Provided, of course, you don't mind a little, investigation, humiliation, and if you cross your fingers, rehabilitation.
You have the right to free speech. As long as, your not dumb enough to actually try it.
Once again, I state that I blame the idiots, no, morons, no, enemies of freedom, who did not vote for McCain.
I know, he's not the poster child for freedom, but he did put campaign finance reform on the map in America. And the folks who listened to Bush's well-financed commercials, took it back off.
Where do you Canadians get the term "redneck" from, I didn't know it was possible to get sunburn that close to the arctic circle. Or are you talking about windburn or frostbite?
A single $ layed down on the counter in exchange for goods is a thing of the past. Once the consumer buys what he or she needs, they can (theoretically) drop out of society, quit their jobs, and move on, not be an "economic unit".
"they" have already converted things like houses and cars over; you no longer BUY a house anymore, you basically rent it from the bank, and make monthly payments. Same with cars (they're even pushing leasing increasingly since the late 80's). Now they want to do the same with entertainment. Gone will be the days where you could watch something on TV, tape it, and watch it again as much as you want, or lend it to a friend. Same with music. It's all going over to a revenue-maximizing pay-per-view model. Same with computer software, what do you think the term "ASP" means? Application Service Provider. Gouge the customer for ownership of the app, and provide the app on a pay-per-use basis off an internet server. Most people won't want to pay $500 to own a copy of Word, especially if it will be obsolte (due to shifting proprietary file-formats) in six months, so why not rent it from MSN for $5 per use? Problem is, if you use it more than 100 times, you lose in the deal.
Well, they've done something about one of my pet peeves:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000516/tc/micr osoft_virus_block_2.html (making it harder for someone to unwittingly execute a trojan horse email attachment - thus curtailing their global spread. Sure it makes SOME email functionality a bit less convenient, but it's a small price to pay)
and: http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/000516/l16495316.html (to fight a really nasty parasite)
All in all, not bad, really, and I'm as rabidly anti-Microsoft as they come. Way to go, Bill, you're not all bad. Now just get rid of these bogus "out of virtual memory" errors.
Heh, I was a visitor there once, and I still have my badge and guidebook, with the little chart telling you what the various klaxons and warning sirens meant, and little illustrations of what to do in each case.
Ringing Bell & Flashing red light = High Airborne Radioactivity - > Evacuate area. Siren, Steady Blast for 3-6 minutes = Evacuation -> go to staging area. Siren, wavering tone for 3-6 minutes = Take Cover -> Stay Inside Gong or horn = Fire -> Evacuate Howler = Criticality -> Run
The illustration is humorous, as the others just show people calmly walking out a door, etc. but the last one is a person just frantically trying to get away. None of that "do not panic, proceed calmly and cautiously" bull.
Hanford; I have been there - they have a *VERY* impressive IBM supercomputer for running simulations of groundwater seepage of leaking waste. They have become the world renowned experts on handling nuclear spillage. In fact, a guy I worked with routinely flies to Russia to help in the management of the continuing Chernobyl situation (they need to build a new sarcophagus because if the old one collapses, it was hastily built, it could send clouds of radioactive dust up into the atmosphere).
In Hanford, it's not only leaking into the groundwater, and the river, but recently there were also news articles about ant colonies, going into the ground, and spreading radiation outside the controlled perimeter. Since the ants didn't mutate into giant ants, I think we're alright. ..
Digital CAN be a great technology, and has the capacity to provide as good a quality as analog (as far as the sensitivity of humans can discern). BUT, Digital content gives providers the means to throttle that quality with much finer control. So if Time Warner wants to take your $40/mo for digital service, and be cheap-asses on bandwidth, they can easily do it, because Joe Six-Pack wont know the difference. Most people are not audiophiles and videophiles, and that is why this technology lets these content providers get away with crap like this. The edge-cases like you and me will go to better, competing services like Satellite, or maybe someday, DSL-provided internet, and get a better deal, with better quality. (Satellite lets a provider pick up an unlimited number of new customers without having to divie-up the bandwidth, just sit under that satellite's footprint with a dish, and you have a good signal).
Where this doesn't work so well is when content providers are also content producers, and when the game starts getting rough, and when Time Warner decides that none of it's provider competitors will have Time Warner movies or other content available. We saw this a couple of weeks ago when Time Warner played hardball with Disney during negotiations, and cut ABC from their cable networks. This was only the beginning. It's going to get worse, much, much worse. Just thank whatever diety you worship that DivX didn't take off.
Digital signal, I've had it for three months now. Razor sharp images, and I've never once noticed any artifacts. Of course, due to stupid legislation, I don't get NBC or CBS, and you know what? I don't miss them. What's on CBS anyways? Nightline, or 20/20, or some stupid pseudo-news show doing documentaries on the heartbreak of psoriasis.
Now I have Cartoon Network. Johnny Bravo dude. And my son can watch like 10 episodes of Pokemon every Saturday. I get like 20 channels of sports I don't ever, ever watch. And best of all, NASA channel, where they show the award-winning Earth Views - cataloged video from shuttle missions. This rocks. Cable sucks.
For me, the real killer in QT is it's SLOOOOW launch time. I'm finished watching the movie in WIMP (WIndows Media Player) before QT even launches. It's a joke, and I wish Apple would do something about it. QT 3 was okay, but QT 4 is very slow, even on my 300MHz G3.
"The whole point of actually dropping the bombs on Japan was to "convince" them to give up, rather than fight on."
- oh don't even go there. There's whole groups of people out there who believe it was a show of force to intimidate not just Japan, but everyone else, and also to use the Japanese as lab rats to see what would happen when the Bomb was detonated over civilians. They'll cite info that Japan had already surrendered, but the request was not only ignored but also covered-up by the US. Also, they'll say that the US *tricked* Japan into Pearl Harbor, and that we did receive a formal declaration of war before the invasion, and that the proof of that was that most of the US Navy's aircraft carriers steamed out of Pearl Harbor just before the attack (might have had something to do with our covert interception of the Purple message. ..)
Carbonizing an app doesn't make it any closer to Cocoa. Cocoa evolved from the very different Openstep API. Carbon evolved from the old Toolbox API. The two are almost totally unrelated.
However, I've heard lots of developers on the net rant about how great the Openstep API were and how easy it is to develop - some non-programmer journalist wrote an article a few years back about supposedly being able to go from, not knowing how to program, to writing a full-featured word processor program in something like 2 hours, using Openstep. So basically, it should take Microsoft about 6 hours to develop MS Office for OS X. (2 for word, 2 for excel, 2 for talking paperclip). The fact that MS has not done this, and the fact that the MSIE team has been disbanded and moved over to WebTV, means that MS is abandoning the Mac platform, probably in some lame attempt to blame the DOJ for their troubles.;-)
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The only thing I can figure is that maybe they're afraid of:
a) Connectix and or Apple enhancing the hw/sw mix of the VGS platform to the point where PSX games look exceptionally better on VGS-Macintosh than PSX consoles. - basically an embarassment to Sony.
b) The existence of a multi-purpose computer system that can play PSX games also makes possible the analysis and circumvention of their game copy-protection scheme, which encourages more widespread piracy.
c) The technical "black-eye" they get when another company figures their shit out.
d) Mac/VGS becomes a more attractive buy for consumers, lowering the marketshare ratio between Macintosh and PSX, causing game developers to go "whoa, maybe it's more profitable to put Mac higher up on our platform priority list", and they're afraid of falling below the cutoff, and being marginallized as a platform. The fact that PSX is THE standard platform for games these days is a big advantage for Sony, as the same holds true for Microsoft when software companies develop for that platform to the exclusion of their competitors.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
even better;
more third-party emulators sold = less money lost selling consoles.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
what about PSX2 games?
Will PSX games look as good on PSX2 as they do on Dreamcast/Bleem?
Will there be a Dreamcast emulator for PSX2?
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Actually, if you think about it, there is no discrete "third-person-plural" word in english.
How does one address a group of people, without ambiguously referring to any individual in that group.
"Y'all" is the answer - unfortunately, it's not a part of proper english.
I find myself using y'all all the time in emails, and I was born and raised in Chicago. What if you start a thread with one person, and either one of you cc:s a couple of others in, and someone says, "well, what do you think?" Is he talking to one person, or the group? There are no visual cues in email, you could use the cumbersome "you all", or you could use "y'all". I think it's time we add "y'all" to the lexicon of proper english. (my apologies to the queen).
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Know your rights.
You have the right not to be killed.
Murder is a crime.
Unless it is done, by a police man, or an aristocrat.
You have the right to food money.
Provided, of course, you don't mind a little,
investigation,
humiliation,
and if you cross your fingers,
rehabilitation.
You have the right to free speech.
As long as, your not dumb enough to actually try it.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Once again, I state that I blame the idiots, no, morons, no, enemies of freedom, who did not vote for McCain.
I know, he's not the poster child for freedom, but he did put campaign finance reform on the map in America. And the folks who listened to Bush's well-financed commercials, took it back off.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Clooney sucked in ER.
Clooney was great in Northern Exposure.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Where do you Canadians get the term "redneck" from, I didn't know it was possible to get sunburn that close to the arctic circle. Or are you talking about windburn or frostbite?
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
A single $ layed down on the counter in exchange for goods is a thing of the past. Once the consumer buys what he or she needs, they can (theoretically) drop out of society, quit their jobs, and move on, not be an "economic unit".
"they" have already converted things like houses and cars over; you no longer BUY a house anymore, you basically rent it from the bank, and make monthly payments. Same with cars (they're even pushing leasing increasingly since the late 80's). Now they want to do the same with entertainment. Gone will be the days where you could watch something on TV, tape it, and watch it again as much as you want, or lend it to a friend. Same with music. It's all going over to a revenue-maximizing pay-per-view model. Same with computer software, what do you think the term "ASP" means? Application Service Provider. Gouge the customer for ownership of the app, and provide the app on a pay-per-use basis off an internet server. Most people won't want to pay $500 to own a copy of Word, especially if it will be obsolte (due to shifting proprietary file-formats) in six months, so why not rent it from MSN for $5 per use? Problem is, if you use it more than 100 times, you lose in the deal.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Well, they've done something about one of my pet peeves:
r osoft_virus_block_2.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20000516/tc/mic
(making it harder for someone to unwittingly execute a trojan horse email attachment - thus curtailing their global spread. Sure it makes SOME email functionality a bit less convenient, but it's a small price to pay)
and:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/000516/l16495316.html
(to fight a really nasty parasite)
All in all, not bad, really, and I'm as rabidly anti-Microsoft as they come. Way to go, Bill, you're not all bad. Now just get rid of these bogus "out of virtual memory" errors.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Or more scientifically:
Information has a natural tendency towards freeness.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Not evil enough.
.
He's - quasi-evil. .
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Heh, I was a visitor there once, and I still have my badge and guidebook, with the little chart telling you what the various klaxons and warning sirens meant, and little illustrations of what to do in each case.
Ringing Bell & Flashing red light = High Airborne Radioactivity - > Evacuate area.
Siren, Steady Blast for 3-6 minutes = Evacuation -> go to staging area.
Siren, wavering tone for 3-6 minutes = Take Cover -> Stay Inside
Gong or horn = Fire -> Evacuate
Howler = Criticality -> Run
The illustration is humorous, as the others just show people calmly walking out a door, etc. but the last one is a person just frantically trying to get away. None of that "do not panic, proceed calmly and cautiously" bull.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Cut the crap. I watch The Simpsons and I *know* Uranium glows green dammit!
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Hanford;
.
I have been there - they have a *VERY* impressive IBM supercomputer for running simulations of groundwater seepage of leaking waste. They have become the world renowned experts on handling nuclear spillage. In fact, a guy I worked with routinely flies to Russia to help in the management of the continuing Chernobyl situation (they need to build a new sarcophagus because if the old one collapses, it was hastily built, it could send clouds of radioactive dust up into the atmosphere).
In Hanford, it's not only leaking into the groundwater, and the river, but recently there were also news articles about ant colonies, going into the ground, and spreading radiation outside the controlled perimeter. Since the ants didn't mutate into giant ants, I think we're alright. .
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Digital CAN be a great technology, and has the capacity to provide as good a quality as analog (as far as the sensitivity of humans can discern). BUT, Digital content gives providers the means to throttle that quality with much finer control. So if Time Warner wants to take your $40/mo for digital service, and be cheap-asses on bandwidth, they can easily do it, because Joe Six-Pack wont know the difference. Most people are not audiophiles and videophiles, and that is why this technology lets these content providers get away with crap like this. The edge-cases like you and me will go to better, competing services like Satellite, or maybe someday, DSL-provided internet, and get a better deal, with better quality. (Satellite lets a provider pick up an unlimited number of new customers without having to divie-up the bandwidth, just sit under that satellite's footprint with a dish, and you have a good signal).
Where this doesn't work so well is when content providers are also content producers, and when the game starts getting rough, and when Time Warner decides that none of it's provider competitors will have Time Warner movies or other content available.
We saw this a couple of weeks ago when Time Warner played hardball with Disney during negotiations, and cut ABC from their cable networks. This was only the beginning. It's going to get worse, much, much worse. Just thank whatever diety you worship that DivX didn't take off.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
DISH Network, my man.
Digital signal, I've had it for three months now. Razor sharp images, and I've never once noticed any artifacts.
Of course, due to stupid legislation, I don't get NBC or CBS, and you know what? I don't miss them. What's on CBS anyways? Nightline, or 20/20, or some stupid pseudo-news show doing documentaries on the heartbreak of psoriasis.
Now I have Cartoon Network. Johnny Bravo dude. And my son can watch like 10 episodes of Pokemon every Saturday. I get like 20 channels of sports I don't ever, ever watch. And best of all, NASA channel, where they show the award-winning Earth Views - cataloged video from shuttle missions. This rocks. Cable sucks.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Seven Layers?
All People Seem To Need Data Processing!
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
I think you just violated the DMCA!
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
For me, the real killer in QT is it's SLOOOOW launch time. I'm finished watching the movie in WIMP (WIndows Media Player) before QT even launches. It's a joke, and I wish Apple would do something about it. QT 3 was okay, but QT 4 is very slow, even on my 300MHz G3.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
(celestial) Gamma-ray bursts happen on the average of about once every 24 hours or so. Not once a month.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
"The whole point of actually
.)
dropping the bombs on Japan was to "convince" them to give up, rather than fight on."
- oh don't even go there. There's whole groups of people out there who believe it was a show of force to intimidate not just Japan, but everyone else, and also to use the Japanese as lab rats to see what would happen when the Bomb was detonated over civilians.
They'll cite info that Japan had already surrendered, but the request was not only ignored but also covered-up by the US. Also, they'll say that the US *tricked* Japan into Pearl Harbor, and that we did receive a formal declaration of war before the invasion, and that the proof of that was that most of the US Navy's aircraft carriers steamed out of Pearl Harbor just before the attack (might have had something to do with our covert interception of the Purple message. .
blah blah blah blah
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Carbonizing an app doesn't make it any closer to Cocoa. Cocoa evolved from the very different Openstep API. Carbon evolved from the old Toolbox API. The two are almost totally unrelated.
;-)
However, I've heard lots of developers on the net rant about how great the Openstep API were and how easy it is to develop - some non-programmer journalist wrote an article a few years back about supposedly being able to go from, not knowing how to program, to writing a full-featured word processor program in something like 2 hours, using Openstep. So basically, it should take Microsoft about 6 hours to develop MS Office for OS X. (2 for word, 2 for excel, 2 for talking paperclip). The fact that MS has not done this, and the fact that the MSIE team has been disbanded and moved over to WebTV, means that MS is abandoning the Mac platform, probably in some lame attempt to blame the DOJ for their troubles.
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Ah! At last! A worthy RISK opponent!
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .
Why is it that 95% of the population of Canada lives within 100 miles of the US border? I thought the beer in Canada was better. . .
I just remembered this old Metallica song. . .