The MSN Desktop Search tool is already available, and a hell of a lot better than google's desktop search. You can download it from http://beta.toolbar.msn.com/.
Your definition of minimalism is probably different than a lot of other people's. Keep that in mind. I can't function unless I have at least a compiler, if not a full-blown IDE on the computer I'm using. Same thing goes for Photoshop and me.
You may not have either, and may disregard the need for me or anyone else to have these. Just remember, everyone's different. Because you don't find something useful doesn't mean someone else won't.
That's funny, last night I wanted to blast a few things too. So, I went over to my XBox, put Halo 2 into it, and was killing things in less than 20 minutes... I mean less than a minute.
isn't it a little more interesting to think about Longhorn running Xbox? (note: I have zero inside knowledge about XNA, and I'm basing all of my understanding on it on publicly available info).
VC++ most certainly *does* have a Winforms designer. You have to create a Managed C++ Winforms project in order to take advantage of it, though. Otherwise it just ain't gonna work for you;-). If you create a native app you can still use the old-school RC file editor, although my take on it is that it's just easier to hack RC files by hand (I've spent the past two weeks doing nothing but hand-editing RC files at work).
Of the people capable shelling out $400 on a portable game console, I sincerely doubt most have not played most of the big hits for the PS1 and the PS2. And you're right, the PSP is not the first handheld console to cost more than $250, but the other examples you cited (game gear and lynx) died painful deaths at the hands of the marketplace. They're probably not the best examples to cite for prior evidence that the PSP won't doom itself to failure with a big price tag (jesus, I mean I could buy a PS2, GTA: SA, and DDR with a pad for less than the price of a PSP at launch).
Call me when I should care. For the time being, this looks like an overpriced device without a long term commitment from ISVs. I'm not going to spend $300 or $400 on a device that will allow me to watch a CGI movie based around the characters from FF7 and play a card game version (!?!?) of Metal Gear Solid. I'll save my pennies and go pick up a few more games out of the thousands available for the GBA.
I should clarify one point, though. I am incredibly excited that Sony's pushing the state of the art in handheld gaming. However, I refuse to be a guinea pig for their foray into this market. I'd rather wait until this turns out to be either a PlayStation or another PSX.
Bungie was discussing this a few weeks back on their rumor roundup, I believe. They said that they were going to stick to free maps and the like, if I am not mistaken.
I know this is off-topic, but... The Supreme Court of the United States Box? What in the world is that? Some sort of large wooden crate filled with nine elderly law-wranglers?
Do you really think the US government would allow a theocracy to come to power in Iraq? How about Afghanistan? What if this is what the people of those countries want? What if that government is unhelpful or outwardly hostile to the US? Would we still want them around? That's the up and down-side to democracy; it is what the people make of it.
I wrote iRooster. I've spent a ton of time over the past year working on it, and I sell it for money because I can, and I don't see any particularly good reason to give it away. I host on ASP.Net because I prefer it for some things. I work on developer tools for a Fortune 500 during the day, and occasionally hack away on Objective C when I have an hour or two. I am pretty much equally comfortable with windows, mac os x, and linux.
take a look at my resume, it should clear up everything.
Take a look at my resume (available through my personal website). It should clear up exactly why I write Mac software, but host on ASP.net. (of course, the plot thickens once you realize what brethorsting.com is hosted on).
No no no! Clearly they meant the street! It runs right through Santa Clara University in Santa Clara CA. You can't miss it, just look for the college students passed out in the street. (Full disclosure: my girlfriend went to Santa Clara U). (Full Disclosure 2: I still don't respect most of the people she went to school with). (Full Disclosure 3: One of those fuckers threw up on me once). (Full Disclosure 4: I went to the University of Minnesota, where people had the fucking decency to at least throw up in the hallway, and not on each other).
It is just criminal that the de facto standard for document propagation is proprietary and closed.
I thought PDF was an open spec... No matter, the other de facto standard is open and managed by the W3C, and visible in such varied and sundry applications as IE, FireFox, and Safari:-)
.doc isn't the end all and be all of life; in fact, I'd wager that there were probably more html files out there now than Word files
Uh-oh, I bet you guys are going to have some serious rethinking to do in that critical launch-an-app-by-holding-down-some-silly-button kernel module, then. Seriously, though. This patent was dragged out as an example of something incredibly broad from the Microsoft portfolio, not as a decent cross-section of the 27 possible patents that affeect the kernel.
It's a little late for me to go point by point through here, so i just want to respond to one thing: the billions of dollars in "dead cash" are actually going to be given to shareholders pending shareholder approval. If you want to talk more in an easier format, you can email me at aaron (at) brethorsting (!!!NOSPAM!!!) (dot) com.
The parent really should be modded up; they're entirely right. This is one thing about Mac OS and Mac OS X that has always perplexed me. Why on earth is it easier to accidentally invoke an action than cancel it?
Interesting, so you're saying that Microsoft presupposed back in 1995/1996 (when Slate started) that they would have a need around, say, 2004 to inject a little self-criticism into the corporate culture. So they start an award-winning online news magazine, spend millions of dollars on it, and kick back and wait 8 years so that Slate can publish an article that criticizes Internet Explorer? You've gotta be kidding.
This is just another damned if you do, damned if you don't circumstance. If Slate shilled for IE, you'd cry foul. As it is, they plug Firefox over IE and you cry foul. What do you want?!?
Furthermore, blogging is more about connecting one-to-one with customers. Didn't they do a terrible job of this in the past? Don't you think they're doing better now?
This seems a bit overkill to me. I feel like this is more of a knee-jerk reaction than a solid business move for some reason. Perhaps the real question is not "how far can we boost our market share with these 35 new phones," but instead should be "what's wrong with our existing phones?"
Realistically, you shouldn't have to add this many different products to your line to snag the coveted clamshell and camera buyers.
I bought a Motorola MPX200 a little under a year ago because I could write software for the damned thing, but before that I had always been a Nokia owner. Clearly, this is not a standard line of reasoning for most buyers. Nevertheless, perhaps Nokia should make it a little more obvious where their SDKs live for their phones and hold student developer contests or something.
Assuming you have a touch screen, Windows has been able to do this since the release of Windows XP, using the remote assistance feature. Also, for the record, I hate getting into "I can pee this far, how far can you pee" debates. I just felt the need to reassert my "Windows shill" status by posting this;-).
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Your definition of minimalism is probably different than a lot of other people's. Keep that in mind. I can't function unless I have at least a compiler, if not a full-blown IDE on the computer I'm using. Same thing goes for Photoshop and me.
You may not have either, and may disregard the need for me or anyone else to have these. Just remember, everyone's different. Because you don't find something useful doesn't mean someone else won't.
That's funny, last night I wanted to blast a few things too. So, I went over to my XBox, put Halo 2 into it, and was killing things in less than 20 minutes... I mean less than a minute.
isn't it a little more interesting to think about Longhorn running Xbox? (note: I have zero inside knowledge about XNA, and I'm basing all of my understanding on it on publicly available info).
VC++ most certainly *does* have a Winforms designer. You have to create a Managed C++ Winforms project in order to take advantage of it, though. Otherwise it just ain't gonna work for you ;-). If you create a native app you can still use the old-school RC file editor, although my take on it is that it's just easier to hack RC files by hand (I've spent the past two weeks doing nothing but hand-editing RC files at work).
Sure good to see that Jay Cost isn't partisan in any way, shape, or form...
Of the people capable shelling out $400 on a portable game console, I sincerely doubt most have not played most of the big hits for the PS1 and the PS2. And you're right, the PSP is not the first handheld console to cost more than $250, but the other examples you cited (game gear and lynx) died painful deaths at the hands of the marketplace. They're probably not the best examples to cite for prior evidence that the PSP won't doom itself to failure with a big price tag (jesus, I mean I could buy a PS2, GTA: SA, and DDR with a pad for less than the price of a PSP at launch).
Call me when I should care. For the time being, this looks like an overpriced device without a long term commitment from ISVs. I'm not going to spend $300 or $400 on a device that will allow me to watch a CGI movie based around the characters from FF7 and play a card game version (!?!?) of Metal Gear Solid. I'll save my pennies and go pick up a few more games out of the thousands available for the GBA.
I should clarify one point, though. I am incredibly excited that Sony's pushing the state of the art in handheld gaming. However, I refuse to be a guinea pig for their foray into this market. I'd rather wait until this turns out to be either a PlayStation or another PSX.
Bungie was discussing this a few weeks back on their rumor roundup, I believe. They said that they were going to stick to free maps and the like, if I am not mistaken.
I know this is off-topic, but... The Supreme Court of the United States Box? What in the world is that? Some sort of large wooden crate filled with nine elderly law-wranglers?
Do you really think the US government would allow a theocracy to come to power in Iraq? How about Afghanistan? What if this is what the people of those countries want? What if that government is unhelpful or outwardly hostile to the US? Would we still want them around? That's the up and down-side to democracy; it is what the people make of it.
This was part of the whole announcement back when XNA was first unveiled. Jeez.
I wrote iRooster. I've spent a ton of time over the past year working on it, and I sell it for money because I can, and I don't see any particularly good reason to give it away. I host on ASP.Net because I prefer it for some things. I work on developer tools for a Fortune 500 during the day, and occasionally hack away on Objective C when I have an hour or two. I am pretty much equally comfortable with windows, mac os x, and linux.
take a look at my resume, it should clear up everything.
Take a look at my resume (available through my personal website). It should clear up exactly why I write Mac software, but host on ASP.net. (of course, the plot thickens once you realize what brethorsting.com is hosted on).
What's the order of who we hate more again? I can never remember if Clear Channel scores higher on the Evil Index than Microsoft... ;-)
No no no! Clearly they meant the street! It runs right through Santa Clara University in Santa Clara CA. You can't miss it, just look for the college students passed out in the street. (Full disclosure: my girlfriend went to Santa Clara U). (Full Disclosure 2: I still don't respect most of the people she went to school with). (Full Disclosure 3: One of those fuckers threw up on me once). (Full Disclosure 4: I went to the University of Minnesota, where people had the fucking decency to at least throw up in the hallway, and not on each other).
I'll happily give you twenty bucks for your iPod, then ;-).
It is just criminal that the de facto standard for document propagation is proprietary and closed.
I thought PDF was an open spec... No matter, the other de facto standard is open and managed by the W3C, and visible in such varied and sundry applications as IE, FireFox, and Safari :-)
.doc isn't the end all and be all of life; in fact, I'd wager that there were probably more html files out there now than Word files
Uh-oh, I bet you guys are going to have some serious rethinking to do in that critical launch-an-app-by-holding-down-some-silly-button kernel module, then. Seriously, though. This patent was dragged out as an example of something incredibly broad from the Microsoft portfolio, not as a decent cross-section of the 27 possible patents that affeect the kernel.
It's a little late for me to go point by point through here, so i just want to respond to one thing: the billions of dollars in "dead cash" are actually going to be given to shareholders pending shareholder approval. If you want to talk more in an easier format, you can email me at aaron (at) brethorsting (!!!NOSPAM!!!) (dot) com.
No, it runs on a different OS system...
The parent really should be modded up; they're entirely right. This is one thing about Mac OS and Mac OS X that has always perplexed me. Why on earth is it easier to accidentally invoke an action than cancel it?
Interesting, so you're saying that Microsoft presupposed back in 1995/1996 (when Slate started) that they would have a need around, say, 2004 to inject a little self-criticism into the corporate culture. So they start an award-winning online news magazine, spend millions of dollars on it, and kick back and wait 8 years so that Slate can publish an article that criticizes Internet Explorer? You've gotta be kidding.
This is just another damned if you do, damned if you don't circumstance. If Slate shilled for IE, you'd cry foul. As it is, they plug Firefox over IE and you cry foul. What do you want?!?
Furthermore, blogging is more about connecting one-to-one with customers. Didn't they do a terrible job of this in the past? Don't you think they're doing better now?
OSS Software? Is that anything like Homer's BBBQ, where the extra B is for BYOBB? (the other 'B' is a typo...)
This seems a bit overkill to me. I feel like this is more of a knee-jerk reaction than a solid business move for some reason. Perhaps the real question is not "how far can we boost our market share with these 35 new phones," but instead should be "what's wrong with our existing phones?"
Realistically, you shouldn't have to add this many different products to your line to snag the coveted clamshell and camera buyers.
I bought a Motorola MPX200 a little under a year ago because I could write software for the damned thing, but before that I had always been a Nokia owner. Clearly, this is not a standard line of reasoning for most buyers. Nevertheless, perhaps Nokia should make it a little more obvious where their SDKs live for their phones and hold student developer contests or something.
Assuming you have a touch screen, Windows has been able to do this since the release of Windows XP, using the remote assistance feature. Also, for the record, I hate getting into "I can pee this far, how far can you pee" debates. I just felt the need to reassert my "Windows shill" status by posting this ;-).