Also, to add to this, console gaming, and PC gaming have always been a fairly niche market, a market that simply won't be displaced by iOS and android Minigames, in fact it's a market that would rather have a 3DS, or NGP than spend their time on Angry birds. The only thing that can, and likely will happen, is casual gamers leaving the consoles for small 99 cent minigames, but they were never exactly the target audience of most major titles. A casual player doesn't feel like putting the time down for Zelda, or Final fantasy, they don't want to get obliterated by the people who regularly play [insert FPS title here] online, they just want something simple to waste their time. That's what iOS, and Android can offer, what they can't offer is everything that a console or PC can to non-casual gamers. Any investor will realize that while major games might take a bit more effort, it is also a much more stable source of income, with a dedicated consumer-base. The minigames are hit and miss, plus a casual gamer isn't likely to see the need to buy a massive number of games for their phone, if you factor this in with their low price, it's easy to realize that these minigames which take very few resources to make, and probably WON'T sell like the next big FPS, and likely won't find itself on the wall of fame as Angry Birds has, the market for casual gaming on phones simply isn't as profitable, or at the very least, as reliable.
Yeah, "Most advanced" is definitely a personal judgement, but if you go strictly by hardware, last-gen the Xbox was the most advanced. PS2 vs Gamecube is a more difficult comparison, while the Gamecube's specs were better, its disks had limited storage when compared to the PS2's DVDs, in many ways this mirrored the N64 vs PS1, but overall the Xbox came out above and beyond as far as specs were concerned. Which of the three (Note, I owned them all, still do actually) did I feel was better? The gamecube, mainly because I'm a nintendo fanboy who can't go without their Zelda, or super smash brothers (though, I was extremely disappointed with the Mario offerings for the system.) Last gen specs didn't matter as much, all of the systems were "good enough" for cross-platform games to exist without any groundbreaking differences between them. Next Gen's probably going to have Sony and Microsoft leading the way again, however they're a ways off from releasing their next systems, so the Wii 2 will have a great advantage by being better than what's out now (marginally better than the PS3, and likely much better than the 360- Side note, before the Xbox fanboys start the flaming, I own a 360, and I don't own a PS3, but the 360 is definitely worse from a technical perspective, and yes, this does matter,) and still out of the way of future competition. The Wii 2 only needs to focus on being cheap to produce, and better than what's out now (Not very hard at all, all current offerings are relics) and it can easily dominate the market.
Nintendo's new hardware is going to be one step ahead of current-gen hardware, similar to how the Wii is just one step ahead of last-gen hardware. It's an interesting approach, and given the fact that Sony and Microsoft don't plan on releasing their next consoles for a few more years it should work out just fine. That being said, current gen consoles are atrociously outdated, and only prove to limit the PC gaming experience- My hardware isn't exactly the best (Sure, it's better than some 400$ Dell PC, but what gaming rig isn't?) but with Phenom II x4 at 3.8 GHz, 4 GB of ddr3 ram (1600 MHz, soon to be 8 GB,) and a geforce 460 GTX (factory OCed, and then some) I really have a hard time believing that my gaming experience isn't limited by the relics that are current-gen consoles. I mean, I get a stable 60 FPS on every game I own, without vsync I'd imagine it would be much higher.
I think it's because "they look cool using it." The learning doesn't matter if it makes them look cool, hey they might not even realize that they're learning!
Oh my... What kind of slave labor did you put your child through? Don't they have torture laws where you live? (Disclaimer: Sorry, I find it creepy that a 2 year old can install ANY os- and yeah, ubuntu's insanely easy to install, but still.)
Hey, don't forget about WINE. By no means is it anywhere near perfect, but it _does_ at some level or another help bridge the gap between Windows, and OSX/Linux as far as applications go. Hell, I can run L4D2 with it (that being said, performance is TERRIBLE compared to natively being run in w7.)
There's always gui-distros like ArchBang that are on the light side, and even lighter if you configure them right. 256MB of ram is usable, might not be exactly compelling, but none of what you've said is a good defense for the removal of OtherOS. That being said, I don't own a PS3, don't particularly care about them, and certainly don't want one.
I'd also like to point out it renders fairly slowly in Chrome 12. Also worth noting, I'm not exactly running a slow computer. Phenom II x4 @ 3.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR3 ram (1600 MHz,) and not that it matters for rendering a gif, a geforce 460 GTX factory overclocked.
So liberal homosexuals tend to vote in conservatives or... Okay, I'm a bit confused, care to explain what you mean by that? Also, I know a lot more straight people who shove their sexual orientation down people's throat than homosexuals, regardless of political affiliation (although, to be fair that could be attributed to the higher number of straight people.)
I think some of us have different definitions of great. For me "great > tolerable" is a solid rule that has never been broken, for you it seems the rule is "great >= tolerable."
Perhaps you aren't aware of all the companies backing LibreOffice? They don't run LibreOffice in the sense that Sun/Oracle did, but they are contributing. Here, I'll name just two of the companies that are supporting the document foundation: Google, and Redhat (now I want you to let me know if you haven't heard of these, I'd be more than happy to tell you about them.)
If Oracle really wanted to make it up to the community, they'd join the document foundation and donate the openoffice name to them. They were offered to do this before, and rejected it.
I actually emailed the press team. Here's what I wrote: "I think a thank you is in order from the XFCE team, as the release of GNOME3 has urged me (and many others) to switch to XFCE. With XFCE 4.8 released, the featuresessentiallymirror those found in GNOME2. With that being said, I think you can confidently send the XFCE team a "you're welcome" message for addingnumerousnumbers of people to their user base. Remind them that without the GNOME team ignoring the myriads of complaints about thedirectionof the GNOME project, none of this would of happened.
Thank you very much for reading" Anyone here should feel more than welcome to use this message, no credit needed. Spread the word, the XFCE team NEEDS to thank the gnome team for all of their hard work removing everything we needed, and giving us everything we didn't.
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Also, to add to this, console gaming, and PC gaming have always been a fairly niche market, a market that simply won't be displaced by iOS and android Minigames, in fact it's a market that would rather have a 3DS, or NGP than spend their time on Angry birds. The only thing that can, and likely will happen, is casual gamers leaving the consoles for small 99 cent minigames, but they were never exactly the target audience of most major titles. A casual player doesn't feel like putting the time down for Zelda, or Final fantasy, they don't want to get obliterated by the people who regularly play [insert FPS title here] online, they just want something simple to waste their time. That's what iOS, and Android can offer, what they can't offer is everything that a console or PC can to non-casual gamers. Any investor will realize that while major games might take a bit more effort, it is also a much more stable source of income, with a dedicated consumer-base. The minigames are hit and miss, plus a casual gamer isn't likely to see the need to buy a massive number of games for their phone, if you factor this in with their low price, it's easy to realize that these minigames which take very few resources to make, and probably WON'T sell like the next big FPS, and likely won't find itself on the wall of fame as Angry Birds has, the market for casual gaming on phones simply isn't as profitable, or at the very least, as reliable.
Yeah, "Most advanced" is definitely a personal judgement, but if you go strictly by hardware, last-gen the Xbox was the most advanced. PS2 vs Gamecube is a more difficult comparison, while the Gamecube's specs were better, its disks had limited storage when compared to the PS2's DVDs, in many ways this mirrored the N64 vs PS1, but overall the Xbox came out above and beyond as far as specs were concerned. Which of the three (Note, I owned them all, still do actually) did I feel was better? The gamecube, mainly because I'm a nintendo fanboy who can't go without their Zelda, or super smash brothers (though, I was extremely disappointed with the Mario offerings for the system.) Last gen specs didn't matter as much, all of the systems were "good enough" for cross-platform games to exist without any groundbreaking differences between them. Next Gen's probably going to have Sony and Microsoft leading the way again, however they're a ways off from releasing their next systems, so the Wii 2 will have a great advantage by being better than what's out now (marginally better than the PS3, and likely much better than the 360- Side note, before the Xbox fanboys start the flaming, I own a 360, and I don't own a PS3, but the 360 is definitely worse from a technical perspective, and yes, this does matter,) and still out of the way of future competition. The Wii 2 only needs to focus on being cheap to produce, and better than what's out now (Not very hard at all, all current offerings are relics) and it can easily dominate the market.
Nintendo's new hardware is going to be one step ahead of current-gen hardware, similar to how the Wii is just one step ahead of last-gen hardware. It's an interesting approach, and given the fact that Sony and Microsoft don't plan on releasing their next consoles for a few more years it should work out just fine. That being said, current gen consoles are atrociously outdated, and only prove to limit the PC gaming experience- My hardware isn't exactly the best (Sure, it's better than some 400$ Dell PC, but what gaming rig isn't?) but with Phenom II x4 at 3.8 GHz, 4 GB of ddr3 ram (1600 MHz, soon to be 8 GB,) and a geforce 460 GTX (factory OCed, and then some) I really have a hard time believing that my gaming experience isn't limited by the relics that are current-gen consoles. I mean, I get a stable 60 FPS on every game I own, without vsync I'd imagine it would be much higher.
I think it's because "they look cool using it." The learning doesn't matter if it makes them look cool, hey they might not even realize that they're learning!
This. Is. Genius.
Oh my... What kind of slave labor did you put your child through? Don't they have torture laws where you live?
(Disclaimer: Sorry, I find it creepy that a 2 year old can install ANY os- and yeah, ubuntu's insanely easy to install, but still.)
Hey, don't forget about WINE. By no means is it anywhere near perfect, but it _does_ at some level or another help bridge the gap between Windows, and OSX/Linux as far as applications go. Hell, I can run L4D2 with it (that being said, performance is TERRIBLE compared to natively being run in w7.)
You can try XFCE, though with elderly people that could still be a pretty big jump.
You could be some kind of Linux Guru, that being said you could also know how to use google. Here's some help http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+do+I+use+Google%3F You're welcome.
There's always gui-distros like ArchBang that are on the light side, and even lighter if you configure them right. 256MB of ram is usable, might not be exactly compelling, but none of what you've said is a good defense for the removal of OtherOS. That being said, I don't own a PS3, don't particularly care about them, and certainly don't want one.
And it totally enforceable! Go Sweden!
Look at the APNG page a bit more closely, most web browsers don't support it.
I'd also like to point out it renders fairly slowly in Chrome 12. Also worth noting, I'm not exactly running a slow computer. Phenom II x4 @ 3.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR3 ram (1600 MHz,) and not that it matters for rendering a gif, a geforce 460 GTX factory overclocked.
So liberal homosexuals tend to vote in conservatives or... Okay, I'm a bit confused, care to explain what you mean by that? Also, I know a lot more straight people who shove their sexual orientation down people's throat than homosexuals, regardless of political affiliation (although, to be fair that could be attributed to the higher number of straight people.)
I think some of us have different definitions of great. For me "great > tolerable" is a solid rule that has never been broken, for you it seems the rule is "great >= tolerable."
Perhaps you aren't aware of all the companies backing LibreOffice? They don't run LibreOffice in the sense that Sun/Oracle did, but they are contributing. Here, I'll name just two of the companies that are supporting the document foundation: Google, and Redhat (now I want you to let me know if you haven't heard of these, I'd be more than happy to tell you about them.)
If Oracle really wanted to make it up to the community, they'd join the document foundation and donate the openoffice name to them. They were offered to do this before, and rejected it.
Well, I haven't heard of a single piece of (non-OS) software that enables more 0-day attacks than Adobe's.
We don't want Adobe to go bankrupt that fast, do we?
They didn't?
I'd really recommend XFCE 4.8, imo it's pretty near feature parity with Gnome 2, which is 10x more than I can say for gnome 3.
I actually emailed the press team. Here's what I wrote:
"I think a thank you is in order from the XFCE team, as the release of GNOME3 has urged me (and many others) to switch to XFCE. With XFCE 4.8 released, the featuresessentiallymirror those found in GNOME2. With that being said, I think you can confidently send the XFCE team a "you're welcome" message for addingnumerousnumbers of people to their user base. Remind them that without the GNOME team ignoring the myriads of complaints about thedirectionof the GNOME project, none of this would of happened.
Thank you very much for reading"
Anyone here should feel more than welcome to use this message, no credit needed. Spread the word, the XFCE team NEEDS to thank the gnome team for all of their hard work removing everything we needed, and giving us everything we didn't.
Meanwhile I'd preorder on steam and save myself the trouble.
Hey, I'm running astroids, and TWO katamari games at once. Now that makes me happy.
Oh definitely, until of course, y'know... The immune system starts attacking the foreign cells. That might be a small bump on the road.