Seems the opposite of what I'm seeing and what the magazines are writing. The latest issue of EGM that I got last week had an article talking about how the PSP may be losing some 3rd party developers while the DS is good games and better sales.
I only know one person with a PSP and he bought one to install emulators like Mame, etc. on. All he does is play NES, SNES, Turbo Grafx and old arcade games on it. I don't think he's got a single PSP game for it.
It's a matter of degree. Keeping a kid inside all day gives them less of a sense of reality in some ways than we had as kids. Is Johnny's concept of a tiger that of a video game or that of going to a zoo and seeing one in real life. Same with flowers, etc. Sure, I'm not going to have my kids running through Compton but, at the same time, I will be taking them out to play in parks, hiking, to the beach, etc. rather than holing them up in the house the entire day. I might like that once in a while for a nice gaming fest but even I can't pull that off on a regular basis and I really wouldn't want my kids doing that either.
Not quite. Doing so will lead to what we're already seeing, the growing obesity problem in America. No, kids should be playing outside. Learn the world around you. Appreciate the world around you. Learn to socialize and make friends outside chatrooms. There's still plenty of time for the Xbox 360. I was outside a ton of the day and still had time for playing Atari or games on my friends computer.
What you're suggesting is just going to bring about worse personality and health conditions for kids.
Yes but what are you getting for that $500? It's obviously not a gaming machine. 256mb standard with a 40gb drive. To upgrade, you're looking at some bucks. If you're a PC user, you'll need a keyboard and mouse. Want a DVD burner? Add in some more. Before you know it, that $500 machine is now $732 with a keyboard, mouse, 512mb of RAM and a 4x Super Drive. Should you want to upgrade that 40gb drive it's $50 to go to an 80gb drive or you can just get an external firewire drive.
When Apple can put out that $732 mini at $500, I might be interested.
What you're missing is that there are plenty of apps which just don't run on AIX. Being at a shop where IBM is the preferred choice and Sun's a secondary, we've ended up with far more Sun machines than upper management expected.
Why? The simple fact that the software isn't able for AIX and, many times, the companies aren't interested in porting. In one case that I know of, a company did port and had all kinds of problems and is now saying they'd rather we just switched to Solaris as they don't want to bother with AIX. I'd rather these software companies just look towards Linux as I don't particularly want to bother with AIX either.
Pretty bad for a company like Blizzard, then. A game like Diablo 2, which was realsed what... 3 years ago... is still going really strong. Especially with the 1.10 patch that turned out to be a mini-expansion.
Many corporations don't allow this. The last thing they want is a system nothing like the dev, qa and production systems. You then get into the "but it works on OUR system! What's the matter with yours!?" situations.
Developers should develop. The developers I've worked with have proven time and time again that the knowledge they have of systems administration is next to nothing. The minute the administration gets left to them is the minute system stability goes to hell. This is my experience. I'm not saying it's like that everywhere but it's what I've experienced.
"You used a piece of software written by an open source advocate to determine the differences! Obviously it has bugs and missed several million lines of code! No, we won't show you. Just trust us!"
Mainframe!? I work for a bank and the machines that handle our ATM network are Tandems. That data likely ends up on the mainframe at some point but they don't connect to the mainframe directly.
As for mainframes running slow, what kind of crack are you smoking? It's not going to out-perform a lot of recent stuff out there but mainframes are I/O monsters that don't go down. When something does happen, IBM does NOT screw around with their mainframes.
Did work? Uhhh nope. Solitaire and many other games were played quite commonly. Others might just spend some time reading the newspaper. Others still would just chat with others to pass the time.
The web hasn't started us on the lack of work, it's merely given us a new way to kill time at work.
I have mine set to filter most NON pr0n. I don't need all that other stuff! Just give me lots of pr0n and I'm a happy camper. Of course, at this point, Car & Driver, Fry's ads, Sam Ash catalogs and a few other things seem to qualify as porn according to the wife.
Also, it's not quite a B sound. American's tend to just pronouce it either as a B or P. It's a bit of a cross between P and B. My Korean instructor beat that one into me pretty well. My wife, too;)
Of course, the tongue twister for me was always the lyu sound with these characters (pathetically drawn in ASCII)...
There are plenty of times when my wife says, "I want to get out of the house. Let's go see a movie". This kind of thing doesn't seem all too uncommon in the area I live.
Malls close early. Clubs aren't quite for everyone and many times have $10+ entrance fees so you can pay too much for a drink. Movies fill in the gap nicely. Maybe that's why I see swarms of teens there on the weekend.
So go ahead and prophesize the end of the movie theater world. It just doesn't seem likely to happen.
In all honesty, I hope that if the follow Apples guidlines, it looks nothing like OS X's gui. I find it completely cumbersome and akward compared to KDE or Win2k.
You're right. The desktop is no place to re-invent the wheel. So why is it okay for Apple to try yet you bash KDE and Gnome for giving it a shot. For me, OS X is just the same gui as before but was attacked by jelly beans with a pretty CDE dock thrown in. Waste of space, basically useless for me. As is the damn bar at the top (I find the Win2k "Start" bar and both KDE and Gnome's bars far more useful). If I want jelly beans, I can easily install WinXP and get jelly beans without the CDE hack.
I don't think I'm going to come up with something better. I think I'm already using something better. This comes from me using OS X whenever I get the chance, trying to do the stuff I normall do (web browsing, news reading, a few video games, pron downloading...) and getting completely frustrated with the damn gui each and every time.
As for others, they think they can do a better job than Apple and I say go for it. Who's to say Apple is the best solution for everyone? They're one of the worst for me that I've tried lately.
Unfortunately, without OfficialLinux you'll never see any sort of large popularity for Linux on the desktop. Then again, you may not see any large popularity for Linux on the desktop at all.
Choices create problems for end-users that just want to buy a box, turn it on and run a few apps. They don't want to have to decide between KDE, Gnome, E, Afterstep and a slew of other window managers.
Forcing everyone to use OfficialLinux is better than Windows. We at least can change things if we want (ie. toss out Gnome for KDE or E or whatever) We don't get many of those luxuries with Windows.
You can burn to CD or DVD now (or dump to tape for that matter). Once a new media comes out, transfer to disk, transfer to new backup media type. Voila! If a new format doesn't come out after X years or months, burn another copy just in case. Just make sure to set a date for yourself to recopy (every year, two years... whatever) and stick to it.
You could even dump stuff into a deposit box or something if you're really concerned about saving your data. Who knows if you'll be able to download all your favorite porn clips and pics in the future:P Losing porn is always a bad thing. Be smart. Protect yourself. Protect your porn.
Win2000 and XP have provided everything I've wanted at a price more convenient to me than a Mac.
Installing software is very simple in Windows, setting up hardware is pretty easy as well.
As far as refinement, I really can't stand the Mac interface. I've never liked it. OS X doesn't really add anything all that impressive to the mix for me either.
I suppose it's a matter of preference. Mine just happens to differ from yours.
Well that's just too damn bad for him now isn't it? Just because his tools are being used, doesn't mean the title of the product has to honor him, his company or the source they've written in any fashion.
I question whether or not they'll really ever care about me, the consumer. It seems as though they would be lost in a world where the consumer is their primary concern. The consumer really isn't concerned with source code. They just want something that works. If open source can do it and provide them with someone to yell at when their software doesn't work because their computer's turned off and they keep pushing the power button on the monitor to turn everthing on, great. If not, they'll find something that does. Would these two people be able to handle people like that? I just don't think so...
As one of the earlier posters said, it's the pushing of open source as almost a religion that's a turnoff to many.
Is there really a problem with that? Let's face it. We get enough crap thrown at us every day (if we bothered to pay attention). There's crap going on throughought the world. It's enough to make people go insane.
Given that, why can't we just go out for some mindless entertainment once in a while? It's really nothing more than us sitting at home and playing Quake or Wolfenstein.
I, for one, am quite happy to have entertainment for entertainment's sake. I don't need to be enlightened about things everywhere I go.
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Seems the opposite of what I'm seeing and what the magazines are writing. The latest issue of EGM that I got last week had an article talking about how the PSP may be losing some 3rd party developers while the DS is good games and better sales.
I only know one person with a PSP and he bought one to install emulators like Mame, etc. on. All he does is play NES, SNES, Turbo Grafx and old arcade games on it. I don't think he's got a single PSP game for it.
It's a matter of degree. Keeping a kid inside all day gives them less of a sense of reality in some ways than we had as kids. Is Johnny's concept of a tiger that of a video game or that of going to a zoo and seeing one in real life. Same with flowers, etc. Sure, I'm not going to have my kids running through Compton but, at the same time, I will be taking them out to play in parks, hiking, to the beach, etc. rather than holing them up in the house the entire day. I might like that once in a while for a nice gaming fest but even I can't pull that off on a regular basis and I really wouldn't want my kids doing that either.
Not quite. Doing so will lead to what we're already seeing, the growing obesity problem in America. No, kids should be playing outside. Learn the world around you. Appreciate the world around you. Learn to socialize and make friends outside chatrooms. There's still plenty of time for the Xbox 360. I was outside a ton of the day and still had time for playing Atari or games on my friends computer.
What you're suggesting is just going to bring about worse personality and health conditions for kids.
I want nothing to do with Steve Jobs "special sauce", thank you very much.
Yes but what are you getting for that $500? It's obviously not a gaming machine. 256mb standard with a 40gb drive. To upgrade, you're looking at some bucks. If you're a PC user, you'll need a keyboard and mouse. Want a DVD burner? Add in some more. Before you know it, that $500 machine is now $732 with a keyboard, mouse, 512mb of RAM and a 4x Super Drive. Should you want to upgrade that 40gb drive it's $50 to go to an 80gb drive or you can just get an external firewire drive.
When Apple can put out that $732 mini at $500, I might be interested.
What you're missing is that there are plenty of apps which just don't run on AIX. Being at a shop where IBM is the preferred choice and Sun's a secondary, we've ended up with far more Sun machines than upper management expected.
Why? The simple fact that the software isn't able for AIX and, many times, the companies aren't interested in porting. In one case that I know of, a company did port and had all kinds of problems and is now saying they'd rather we just switched to Solaris as they don't want to bother with AIX. I'd rather these software companies just look towards Linux as I don't particularly want to bother with AIX either.
Pretty bad for a company like Blizzard, then. A game like Diablo 2, which was realsed what... 3 years ago... is still going really strong. Especially with the 1.10 patch that turned out to be a mini-expansion.
Many corporations don't allow this. The last thing they want is a system nothing like the dev, qa and production systems. You then get into the "but it works on OUR system! What's the matter with yours!?" situations.
Developers should develop. The developers I've worked with have proven time and time again that the knowledge they have of systems administration is next to nothing. The minute the administration gets left to them is the minute system stability goes to hell. This is my experience. I'm not saying it's like that everywhere but it's what I've experienced.
We can now assume that any gun owner has killed people because he/she has a gun and ammunition?
"Imagine a beowulf cluster of these"
"You used a piece of software written by an open source advocate to determine the differences! Obviously it has bugs and missed several million lines of code! No, we won't show you. Just trust us!"
Mainframe!? I work for a bank and the machines that handle our ATM network are Tandems. That data likely ends up on the mainframe at some point but they don't connect to the mainframe directly.
As for mainframes running slow, what kind of crack are you smoking? It's not going to out-perform a lot of recent stuff out there but mainframes are I/O monsters that don't go down. When something does happen, IBM does NOT screw around with their mainframes.
Did work? Uhhh nope. Solitaire and many other games were played quite commonly. Others might just spend some time reading the newspaper. Others still would just chat with others to pass the time.
The web hasn't started us on the lack of work, it's merely given us a new way to kill time at work.
That's his damn spider sense tingling!
I have mine set to filter most NON pr0n. I don't need all that other stuff! Just give me lots of pr0n and I'm a happy camper. Of course, at this point, Car & Driver, Fry's ads, Sam Ash catalogs and a few other things seem to qualify as porn according to the wife.
Also, it's not quite a B sound. American's tend to just pronouce it either as a B or P. It's a bit of a cross between P and B. My Korean instructor beat that one into me pretty well. My wife, too ;)
Of course, the tongue twister for me was always the lyu sound with these characters (pathetically drawn in ASCII)...
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What are they smoking and why aren't they sharing!?
There are plenty of times when my wife says, "I want to get out of the house. Let's go see a movie". This kind of thing doesn't seem all too uncommon in the area I live.
Malls close early. Clubs aren't quite for everyone and many times have $10+ entrance fees so you can pay too much for a drink. Movies fill in the gap nicely. Maybe that's why I see swarms of teens there on the weekend.
So go ahead and prophesize the end of the movie theater world. It just doesn't seem likely to happen.
You're spouting opinion has fact here. Bad idea.
In all honesty, I hope that if the follow Apples guidlines, it looks nothing like OS X's gui. I find it completely cumbersome and akward compared to KDE or Win2k.
You're right. The desktop is no place to re-invent the wheel. So why is it okay for Apple to try yet you bash KDE and Gnome for giving it a shot. For me, OS X is just the same gui as before but was attacked by jelly beans with a pretty CDE dock thrown in. Waste of space, basically useless for me. As is the damn bar at the top (I find the Win2k "Start" bar and both KDE and Gnome's bars far more useful). If I want jelly beans, I can easily install WinXP and get jelly beans without the CDE hack.
I don't think I'm going to come up with something better. I think I'm already using something better. This comes from me using OS X whenever I get the chance, trying to do the stuff I normall do (web browsing, news reading, a few video games, pron downloading...) and getting completely frustrated with the damn gui each and every time.
As for others, they think they can do a better job than Apple and I say go for it. Who's to say Apple is the best solution for everyone? They're one of the worst for me that I've tried lately.
Unfortunately, without OfficialLinux you'll never see any sort of large popularity for Linux on the desktop. Then again, you may not see any large popularity for Linux on the desktop at all.
Choices create problems for end-users that just want to buy a box, turn it on and run a few apps. They don't want to have to decide between KDE, Gnome, E, Afterstep and a slew of other window managers.
Forcing everyone to use OfficialLinux is better than Windows. We at least can change things if we want (ie. toss out Gnome for KDE or E or whatever) We don't get many of those luxuries with Windows.
You can burn to CD or DVD now (or dump to tape for that matter). Once a new media comes out, transfer to disk, transfer to new backup media type. Voila! If a new format doesn't come out after X years or months, burn another copy just in case. Just make sure to set a date for yourself to recopy (every year, two years... whatever) and stick to it.
:P Losing porn is always a bad thing. Be smart. Protect yourself. Protect your porn.
You could even dump stuff into a deposit box or something if you're really concerned about saving your data. Who knows if you'll be able to download all your favorite porn clips and pics in the future
It depends.
Win2000 and XP have provided everything I've wanted at a price more convenient to me than a Mac.
Installing software is very simple in Windows, setting up hardware is pretty easy as well.
As far as refinement, I really can't stand the Mac interface. I've never liked it. OS X doesn't really add anything all that impressive to the mix for me either.
I suppose it's a matter of preference. Mine just happens to differ from yours.
Well that's just too damn bad for him now isn't it? Just because his tools are being used, doesn't mean the title of the product has to honor him, his company or the source they've written in any fashion.
I question whether or not they'll really ever care about me, the consumer. It seems as though they would be lost in a world where the consumer is their primary concern. The consumer really isn't concerned with source code. They just want something that works. If open source can do it and provide them with someone to yell at when their software doesn't work because their computer's turned off and they keep pushing the power button on the monitor to turn everthing on, great. If not, they'll find something that does. Would these two people be able to handle people like that? I just don't think so...
As one of the earlier posters said, it's the pushing of open source as almost a religion that's a turnoff to many.
Is there really a problem with that? Let's face it. We get enough crap thrown at us every day (if we bothered to pay attention). There's crap going on throughought the world. It's enough to make people go insane.
Given that, why can't we just go out for some mindless entertainment once in a while? It's really nothing more than us sitting at home and playing Quake or Wolfenstein.
I, for one, am quite happy to have entertainment for entertainment's sake. I don't need to be enlightened about things everywhere I go.