Frankly, ipad comparison is hilarious. Surface has the industry standard microSD port. Just put in another 32 gigs. Costs something around 30€ at the moment.
Question: doesn't modern linux have hibernation just like windows does? I rarely if ever boot windows since XP SP2 times other then for updates that require full restart. Instead I just hibernate the machine when leaving it. So no need to close any of my programs, they're all immediately available upon restart/resume in the state I left them in.
These offerings are aimed at people who are hardcore enough to invest money into something that isn't ready and not even guaranteed to ever come out. If you haven't invested into a current status quo gamer OS, how can these projects possibly target you? They'd likely have to shake every one of your kind for four-five digits EACH to break even and you can't be bothered even spend two digits to play huge game libraries available today.
You are clearly from US and have had very little if any contact with how cultures in the "outside world of there be dragons" interact when it comes to neighborly conflicts that lasted centuries to millenia.
Reality is, it's not going to happen. No matter what.
You can charge more when there's a shortage on the market. But there isn't one now, unlike people are implying. There may be on in the future as there are basically three large scale LCD panel manufacturers in the world, Samsung, LG and Sharp. If apple really does manage to get itself banned from purchasing from Samsung, LG and Sharp may be able to increase prices on their hardware sold to apple due to less competition and possible shortage with increase in sales from other competing products.
That said, this is extremely unlikely. Samsung, like most huge megacorps is an amalgam of essentially independent parts, and even if one part is in a pissing match with the buyer of product of another part, that is unlikely to seriously impact business.
1. No, not nearly enough unless they want to spend pretty much all of it. Sharp is huge, and selling to a foreigner would require massive amount of extra funds to essentially bribe a lot of japanese legislature. 2. Sharp has problems with money flow due to current banking environment and crisis hitting its sales and profit margins hard, in addition to increasing competition. It's not really ready to collapse, that statement was most likely aimed at helping it secure low cost loans with governmental backing, as is the way of things in Japan. 3. Expertise in question simply doesn't exist. This is what Sony tried once, threw a LOT of resources at the problem and failed in a spectacular margin. Biggest problem is completely different corporate culture, japanese and american simply do not mix.
Many people nowadays think that money solves everything. It really doesn't. What money can do is support inefficiency until it runs out. But it won't fix the problem causing the drain.
That's the whole point. To you, the product isn't valuable enough to spend a minute booting windows. Consider how that makes you look in the eyes of the developer/publisher.
As for paying, let me remind you of the very noisy "it should be open and free" linux community.
Asking for something that is a nice, slightly easier way to use the product doesn't equate to demand. Most of these people will simply boot windows to play. In the end there is little to no lost audience to this issue regardless of "would you want one" poll numbers.
It's nice to entertain thoughts about windows not being the only game in town when it comes to PC gaming. But that is simply the reality at the moment. And as long as windows can be easily booted on the same PCs that runs linux when needed, there is little to no incentive outside ideology to make ports.
In this regard, apple has actually managed this particular feat by being "cool". Companies get easy PR by announcing and releasing OSX versions of their games, which often outweighs the downside of having to develop a port, especially when you can make a shoddy semi-automated port like they did with GW2 for example, and get bright-eyed clueless folks preach that their company is awesome and buy their products for embracing the apple way when it basically shat on their faces.
That said, for a project of this size, that isn't that great of a budget. We're either looking at something rather mediocre in the genre that has been stale for ages (so even mediocre will look great), or they will go looking for more funding at some point.
That said, I was a huge fan of freelancer, and I'd love to have a sequel to that.
Unfortunately both have their own problems. A can be easily picked or cut through, which is how most bikes are stolen nowadays. B requires enormous amount of effort.
The usual solution is to employ both. Lock the bike and place it somewhere where it's seen by many people to make it hard to break the lock without attracting attention.
Vast majority of "bank red tape" isn't something you can solve through technical means. That is because it's in place to control the human factor, also known as "opportunity makes a thief". And with rewards size of a bank, there are plenty of those looking for opportunities.
Let me put it this way: I'm EXTREMELY for people being able to choose a way out, on one condition: it has to be THEIR choice, one they're not pressured into by anyone.
There was actually a pretty good analysis on Elop, and the game he's in. His chances are basically that Nokia will either die and microsoft get smartphone division out of the wreck and he gets to be the boss of that, or Nokia manages to survive and he becomes unemployable as a CEO that destroyed a fortune500 company in a record time with a lot of personal mistakes.
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Frankly, ipad comparison is hilarious. Surface has the industry standard microSD port. Just put in another 32 gigs. Costs something around 30€ at the moment.
With ipad, you're SOL.
Question: doesn't modern linux have hibernation just like windows does? I rarely if ever boot windows since XP SP2 times other then for updates that require full restart. Instead I just hibernate the machine when leaving it. So no need to close any of my programs, they're all immediately available upon restart/resume in the state I left them in.
These offerings are aimed at people who are hardcore enough to invest money into something that isn't ready and not even guaranteed to ever come out. If you haven't invested into a current status quo gamer OS, how can these projects possibly target you? They'd likely have to shake every one of your kind for four-five digits EACH to break even and you can't be bothered even spend two digits to play huge game libraries available today.
You're gutting your own point.
You are clearly from US and have had very little if any contact with how cultures in the "outside world of there be dragons" interact when it comes to neighborly conflicts that lasted centuries to millenia.
Reality is, it's not going to happen. No matter what.
That's a damn bad way to put it then, because the entire point of companies like Foxconn is that they let their buyers micromanage their production.
You want the return of early industrial age, when most people could barely afford to live on monotonous 14-16 hour a day factory work?
Are you insane?
Samsung is still producing apple displays, the small ipad one is samsung for example.
You can charge more when there's a shortage on the market. But there isn't one now, unlike people are implying. There may be on in the future as there are basically three large scale LCD panel manufacturers in the world, Samsung, LG and Sharp. If apple really does manage to get itself banned from purchasing from Samsung, LG and Sharp may be able to increase prices on their hardware sold to apple due to less competition and possible shortage with increase in sales from other competing products.
That said, this is extremely unlikely. Samsung, like most huge megacorps is an amalgam of essentially independent parts, and even if one part is in a pissing match with the buyer of product of another part, that is unlikely to seriously impact business.
1. No, not nearly enough unless they want to spend pretty much all of it. Sharp is huge, and selling to a foreigner would require massive amount of extra funds to essentially bribe a lot of japanese legislature.
2. Sharp has problems with money flow due to current banking environment and crisis hitting its sales and profit margins hard, in addition to increasing competition. It's not really ready to collapse, that statement was most likely aimed at helping it secure low cost loans with governmental backing, as is the way of things in Japan.
3. Expertise in question simply doesn't exist. This is what Sony tried once, threw a LOT of resources at the problem and failed in a spectacular margin. Biggest problem is completely different corporate culture, japanese and american simply do not mix.
Many people nowadays think that money solves everything. It really doesn't. What money can do is support inefficiency until it runs out. But it won't fix the problem causing the drain.
That's the whole point. To you, the product isn't valuable enough to spend a minute booting windows. Consider how that makes you look in the eyes of the developer/publisher.
As for paying, let me remind you of the very noisy "it should be open and free" linux community.
Asking for something that is a nice, slightly easier way to use the product doesn't equate to demand. Most of these people will simply boot windows to play. In the end there is little to no lost audience to this issue regardless of "would you want one" poll numbers.
It's nice to entertain thoughts about windows not being the only game in town when it comes to PC gaming. But that is simply the reality at the moment. And as long as windows can be easily booted on the same PCs that runs linux when needed, there is little to no incentive outside ideology to make ports.
In this regard, apple has actually managed this particular feat by being "cool". Companies get easy PR by announcing and releasing OSX versions of their games, which often outweighs the downside of having to develop a port, especially when you can make a shoddy semi-automated port like they did with GW2 for example, and get bright-eyed clueless folks preach that their company is awesome and buy their products for embracing the apple way when it basically shat on their faces.
Linux doesn't have this path available either.
This fundraiser seems to be directly contravening your rather bold claims.
1. Apple has profit margins of a fashion company, not a tech one.
2. Cisco has most of its profit margins in large scale B2B.
What exactly is wrong with either of two above statements?
Cisco has large scale B2B profits. This is yet another different market.
Unlike popular culture would have you believe, there's far more to the economy then private consumption.
They also have private backing, apparently around 10 million USD total at the moment according to article on ars: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/11/star-citizens-chris-roberts-discusses-upping-the-ante-on-pc-gaming/
That said, for a project of this size, that isn't that great of a budget. We're either looking at something rather mediocre in the genre that has been stale for ages (so even mediocre will look great), or they will go looking for more funding at some point.
That said, I was a huge fan of freelancer, and I'd love to have a sequel to that.
I must say, this would be really funny if it was a joke. And it's really sad that you actually appear to believe in what you're writing.
Which is because they have profit margin of a fashion company, rather then a tech one.
Unfortunately both have their own problems. A can be easily picked or cut through, which is how most bikes are stolen nowadays. B requires enormous amount of effort.
The usual solution is to employ both. Lock the bike and place it somewhere where it's seen by many people to make it hard to break the lock without attracting attention.
It's both funny and sad how it's usually people who never really had to handle the human factor on that scale that make this claim.
You make it sound like it's easy to stop murder, theft and so on. Just add "no murder and theft" language into law.
Wait, don't we have that already?
Vast majority of "bank red tape" isn't something you can solve through technical means. That is because it's in place to control the human factor, also known as "opportunity makes a thief". And with rewards size of a bank, there are plenty of those looking for opportunities.
Different banks. Central banks have little to nothing in common with savings banks.
Not really, no. My current gaming rig cost me about 800€, my laptop was 350€ and my smartphone was 100€ (from store, not operator, no subsidy).
Quite a few of us like bang for a buck, rather then bang at any cost.
Let me put it this way: I'm EXTREMELY for people being able to choose a way out, on one condition: it has to be THEIR choice, one they're not pressured into by anyone.
There was actually a pretty good analysis on Elop, and the game he's in. His chances are basically that Nokia will either die and microsoft get smartphone division out of the wreck and he gets to be the boss of that, or Nokia manages to survive and he becomes unemployable as a CEO that destroyed a fortune500 company in a record time with a lot of personal mistakes.