I don't own a PS2, and I'm probably not going to buy a PS3. I'm just tired of all they hyperbola over the Wii, most of which sounds very forced and artificial to my ear.
You completely missed the part where I pointed out that I use mine mostly as a downloads temp folder, didn't you?
A place to "put" stuff? I put docs in my documents folder, apps in my applications folder, movies in my movie folder, etc. Each has a shortcut in the finder window, where I can find them very quickly, and all my apps remember which directory I want each of them looking in first.
If I kept all the things I'm "currently working on" on the desktop itself, it would be a cluttered mess. It was already getting to be a cluttered mess back in the days of my Quadra 605. Today, I would be nuts to go back to such a workflow method.
If you feel better sticking with doing it that way, feel free to do so. That's one of the things that I've always liked about Apple UI design: They are nothing if not flexible.
With the current generation (previous in case of MS), it's easy to buy all 3 with one pay check.
Well, considering how much the PS3 costs, it would be even cheaper to buy 5 or 6 Wii consoles. (I say "Wii consoles", because there is no way to pluralize "Wii" that doesn't sound totally fucking stupid.)
Actually, if they come out with some good network games for the Wii, that would be kind of cool, assuming you have enough TV sets lying around to accomodate them. It would be a little bit like the "LAN Parties" that were big back in the late 90s, only with assurance that everybody's playing on a box with the same specs as you.
And hardly any of the UIDs are that high. Maybe you're astroturfing for Sony by making accusations of astroturfing. Read your comments; you sound like a disgruntled Sony fanboy who is upset that the people here on/. think $600 is too much, or that the Wiimote is neat, or whatever.
You obviously haven't read enough of my comments.
I'm a current X-Box & PSP owner, and not inclined to buy any of the current generation of consoles just yet.
If I do eventually buy one (or more) of the new consoles, it will be because of games I want to play, not because of Blu-Ray disks or motion sensors or pixel size or liquid-cooled CPUs or concave design curves.
Games.
When somebody is claiming to be a gamer, but is getting waaaaay too excited about all that other shit, I get a little skeptical about their motivation. So sue me.
As for Japan, if it says Sony, it sells regardless of what it is. Those Aibo robot dogs were a great example since they were selling those for $1000+ and still couldn't make them fast enough.
Considering what a typical Japanese home is like (tiny... and usually with no front or back yard to speak of), the robot dog is not such a crazy idea for a household pet. Actual dog owners in Japan spend well over $1000 on the real thing. They tend to by pure-bred dogs (toy breeds and shi tsus are especially popular) and feed them premium food. You won't see a lot of half Golden Retriever / half German Sheppherd mutts roaming around in big yards and living on table scraps over there. Dog ownership in Japan is mostly for the rich (or at least, those who wish to appear rich).
It's a marketing strategy where you send people on to chat forums to create the illusion of a grassroots movement in favor of your company or product.
Fake grass == Astroturf. Get it?
Microsoft was actually caught doing it back in the 90s, so it's not like you need to be a radical conspiracy theorist to be aware that it goes on... and after a while you learn what to listen for.
All of these new Nintendo fans coming out of the woodwork just bursting to tell you all about how wonderful Nintendo's new console and direction will be, even before any of us have actually seen a working console, rings very much of that sort of thing.
Hence, I'm dead-set convinced that at least some of the the drooling hyperbola of praise for Nintendo that we've been seeing lately is coming from paid shills.
One person with an honest favorable opinion of the Wii totally disproves that games.slashdot.com has been overrun with astroturfing fake fanboys.
Oh wait. No it doesn't. It doesn't prove much of anything, except that perhaps thier underhanded stealth marketing strategy is paying off.
My prediction, FWIW: All three consoles will make money, and have their share of fans. All three will have a few fun games, and a crapload of lame ones. None of them will be anything "revolutionary" to turn cartwheels over.
It seems that the PS3 is all about using their popularity as a console to push the Blu-Ray market forward. One could even speculate that they don't even care if the high price chips away at their game console dominance, so long as it give a boost to a new media format.
That stragety might actually work in Japan. They seem to jump on board with MD's, LD's, PSP disks, etc.
But here... I don't know anybody that really gives much of a crap about either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. Even if one format or the other does eventually get adopted, nobody's in any hurry to replace their DVD collections.
I think both Microsoft and Nintendo might have a real window here to gain a little ground. I don't think either of them will become #1 in the US market, but the game might no longer be defined as "Sony and everybody else."
Could we have just one story about either the PS3 or the X-Box 360 that isn't stuffed without enthusiastic shills (mostly with UID's above 900,000) popping up to tell us how TOTALLY AWESOME the Nintendo Wii is going to be?
Oh, I'm not disputing that they are charging a premium for the pretty black cases. I'm just saying that you can't evaluate the "value" of that extra 20GB by looking at what Apple would charge to up-spec the smaller drive, because Apple's BTO prices are so wildly atypical.
Personally, I think it's awesome. Whenever you see somebody carrying a black MacBook, they are pretty much announcing to you that they've got more money than sense. Exactly the sort of people I want to surround myself with. Mwuhuhahahahahaha!
Plus, as an added bonus, I like to think the day will come, sometime down the road, when some snobby slashbot sees a used black MacBook on sale at a sensational price, and he will be in agony over it, because even though it fits his needs perfectly, he will utterly detest the idea of ever being seen with it. Something about that image makes me smile.
Shrinking the icon and font size doesn't help in Finder because the auto-arrange takes up far too much space so windows have to be large to see everything.
Auto-arrange? You poor, ignorant fool.
The "icon view" is only there to keep old-school MacOS bigots from weeping openly in the streets. The first thing I do with every Mac I buy is go into the Finder prefs and set it to always use the hierarchical folder menus. While I'm at it, I remove all desktop icons for mounted disks. Having them in my finder window is more than enough.
The desktop enviornment was king back in the System 7 days, but these days I use my desktop as a temporary downloads folder, but otherwise leave it empty. It's a redundant part of OS X which Apple would have purged long ago, if not for the outcry of older Mac-heads who don't want to let go of it.
I've got a 12" iBook, and on a typical Boeing aircraft, if the person in front of me puts their seat back, I can *just barely* have the iBook open, sitting on the front lip of the tray table.
If my laptop screen was one inch taller, it would be pretty much impossible to use in most of the cheap seats of a plane. I would have to always arrive early and request an exit-row seat.
That's one reason why I think the wide-screen laptops are an awesome idea. More screen real estate, less height when it's open.
You're not really doing a direct comparison when you spec machines to match using Apple's BTO options. It's almost always far cheaper to buy the off-the-shelf base configuration and upgrade it yourself, even if you pay somebody to do the installation.
My trusty G4 iBook handles World of Warcraft rather nicely, so I'm thinking a little light gaming on the new one is not out of the question.
Still, while the purest in me regrets seeing Apple moving to integrated graphics on their iBook line, the realist in me says that video performance will still probably be better than the modest ATI cards they used to use.
These video chipsets are, like it or not, part of the reason why Apple moved to Intel. By having a complete motherboard solution which includes the GPU, Apple saves exactly one (1) assload of money on the production of their low-end consumer systems. This allows them to make MacBooks and minis with smokin' dual-core processors for around the same price as the ones that once sported ultra-cheap G4 chips.
I'm also digging the widescreen concept of their laptops. My 12" iBook is nice on a long plane ride, but the new 13" MacBook looks like it would be even better suited to a seat-back tray.
I'm going to pass on this round, not out of "version 1.0 fear", but simply because I think I can squeeze a couple more years of utility out of my G4 iBook before I'm ready for a new computer. It's no speed-demon, but it does everything I really need it to at the moment.
He finds it strange that people called that message from "Keith" to be spam... but the thing is, if you have no idea who "Keith" is, it probably IS spam... and if you do know him, you probably would not mark it as such.
The same goes for the US Airways thing. Yeah, it's an example of "not spam", but if you haven't recently bought a US Airways ticket, then the save bet would be that it is.
Oh... and the nun joke is fucking hilarious. That alone made TFA worth reading.
You don't really know what "off by default" means, do you?
For the telnet or ssh exploits to work, you need to go out of your way to turn those services on. Most Mac users will never turn either of those on, therefore would not be impacted by these exploits.
Yeah, you have everyone figured out don't you, I live in my own house, not a room in my parents basement.
I'm a little baffled. When did I even imply that you're living in your parents' basement? You seem to be responding to criticisms I didn't actually make.
Nevertheless, Det. Lamond does confirm that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest." They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs."
That's not an indicator of a trend.
Since 65% of the general population of America consider themselves fans of one Star Trek series or another, and men tend to like Star Trek more than women do, and adults tend to like Star Trek more than kids do... if anything less than 80% of pedophiles (who are mainly adult men) were into Star Trek, that would indicate that trekkies are statistically under-represented in the child-molester population.
That is HILARIOUS!!!! OMG! When I saw the title "Star Wreck", I thought it would be lame and unimaginative, but jokes like that are comedy GOLD!!! I gotta see it now!
Wow. That was the best you could do, combing through past articles over a two-year span.
A virus which requires telnet to be on (it's off by default), another that requires ssh to be turned on (ditto), and a third which requires physical access to the machine.
All of which were hyped up on slashdot as if Mac users actually had a reason to be worried, when almost all of them did not.
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Mr. Sony?
I don't own a PS2, and I'm probably not going to buy a PS3. I'm just tired of all they hyperbola over the Wii, most of which sounds very forced and artificial to my ear.
You completely missed the part where I pointed out that I use mine mostly as a downloads temp folder, didn't you?
A place to "put" stuff? I put docs in my documents folder, apps in my applications folder, movies in my movie folder, etc. Each has a shortcut in the finder window, where I can find them very quickly, and all my apps remember which directory I want each of them looking in first.
If I kept all the things I'm "currently working on" on the desktop itself, it would be a cluttered mess. It was already getting to be a cluttered mess back in the days of my Quadra 605. Today, I would be nuts to go back to such a workflow method.
If you feel better sticking with doing it that way, feel free to do so. That's one of the things that I've always liked about Apple UI design: They are nothing if not flexible.
With the current generation (previous in case of MS), it's easy to buy all 3 with one pay check.
Well, considering how much the PS3 costs, it would be even cheaper to buy 5 or 6 Wii consoles. (I say "Wii consoles", because there is no way to pluralize "Wii" that doesn't sound totally fucking stupid.)
Actually, if they come out with some good network games for the Wii, that would be kind of cool, assuming you have enough TV sets lying around to accomodate them. It would be a little bit like the "LAN Parties" that were big back in the late 90s, only with assurance that everybody's playing on a box with the same specs as you.
And hardly any of the UIDs are that high. Maybe you're astroturfing for Sony by making accusations of astroturfing. Read your comments; you sound like a disgruntled Sony fanboy who is upset that the people here on /. think $600 is too much, or that the Wiimote is neat, or whatever.
You obviously haven't read enough of my comments.
I'm a current X-Box & PSP owner, and not inclined to buy any of the current generation of consoles just yet.
If I do eventually buy one (or more) of the new consoles, it will be because of games I want to play, not because of Blu-Ray disks or motion sensors or pixel size or liquid-cooled CPUs or concave design curves.
Games.
When somebody is claiming to be a gamer, but is getting waaaaay too excited about all that other shit, I get a little skeptical about their motivation. So sue me.
As for Japan, if it says Sony, it sells regardless of what it is. Those Aibo robot dogs were a great example since they were selling those for $1000+ and still couldn't make them fast enough.
Considering what a typical Japanese home is like (tiny... and usually with no front or back yard to speak of), the robot dog is not such a crazy idea for a household pet. Actual dog owners in Japan spend well over $1000 on the real thing. They tend to by pure-bred dogs (toy breeds and shi tsus are especially popular) and feed them premium food. You won't see a lot of half Golden Retriever / half German Sheppherd mutts roaming around in big yards and living on table scraps over there. Dog ownership in Japan is mostly for the rich (or at least, those who wish to appear rich).
It's a marketing strategy where you send people on to chat forums to create the illusion of a grassroots movement in favor of your company or product.
Fake grass == Astroturf. Get it?
Microsoft was actually caught doing it back in the 90s, so it's not like you need to be a radical conspiracy theorist to be aware that it goes on... and after a while you learn what to listen for.
All of these new Nintendo fans coming out of the woodwork just bursting to tell you all about how wonderful Nintendo's new console and direction will be, even before any of us have actually seen a working console, rings very much of that sort of thing.
Hence, I'm dead-set convinced that at least some of the the drooling hyperbola of praise for Nintendo that we've been seeing lately is coming from paid shills.
One person with an honest favorable opinion of the Wii totally disproves that games.slashdot.com has been overrun with astroturfing fake fanboys.
Oh wait. No it doesn't. It doesn't prove much of anything, except that perhaps thier underhanded stealth marketing strategy is paying off.
My prediction, FWIW: All three consoles will make money, and have their share of fans. All three will have a few fun games, and a crapload of lame ones. None of them will be anything "revolutionary" to turn cartwheels over.
Where did your brain even pull this one out of?
I'm guessing you don't read comments in "nested" order, and that's why you don't know who I replied to.
It seems that the PS3 is all about using their popularity as a console to push the Blu-Ray market forward. One could even speculate that they don't even care if the high price chips away at their game console dominance, so long as it give a boost to a new media format.
That stragety might actually work in Japan. They seem to jump on board with MD's, LD's, PSP disks, etc.
But here... I don't know anybody that really gives much of a crap about either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. Even if one format or the other does eventually get adopted, nobody's in any hurry to replace their DVD collections.
I think both Microsoft and Nintendo might have a real window here to gain a little ground. I don't think either of them will become #1 in the US market, but the game might no longer be defined as "Sony and everybody else."
It's demographics they've just pretty much ignored for a long time.
Yeah, because no atypical gamers, such as women, got into playing Katamari at all.
Oh, wait...
Could we have just one story about either the PS3 or the X-Box 360 that isn't stuffed without enthusiastic shills (mostly with UID's above 900,000) popping up to tell us how TOTALLY AWESOME the Nintendo Wii is going to be?
That would be just great. 'kay? Thanks.
What do you propose that should be where the desktop is now?
All the windows in which I'm actually doing stuff.
If you knew me, you would know that I was making a joke.
I actually paid an extra $20 to get my Motorola RAZR in pink, and I'm glad I did.
Sarcasm and similar humor seldom plays well in text. I should know that by now.
Oh, I'm not disputing that they are charging a premium for the pretty black cases. I'm just saying that you can't evaluate the "value" of that extra 20GB by looking at what Apple would charge to up-spec the smaller drive, because Apple's BTO prices are so wildly atypical.
Personally, I think it's awesome. Whenever you see somebody carrying a black MacBook, they are pretty much announcing to you that they've got more money than sense. Exactly the sort of people I want to surround myself with. Mwuhuhahahahahaha!
Plus, as an added bonus, I like to think the day will come, sometime down the road, when some snobby slashbot sees a used black MacBook on sale at a sensational price, and he will be in agony over it, because even though it fits his needs perfectly, he will utterly detest the idea of ever being seen with it. Something about that image makes me smile.
Shrinking the icon and font size doesn't help in Finder because the auto-arrange takes up far too much space so windows have to be large to see everything.
Auto-arrange? You poor, ignorant fool.
The "icon view" is only there to keep old-school MacOS bigots from weeping openly in the streets. The first thing I do with every Mac I buy is go into the Finder prefs and set it to always use the hierarchical folder menus. While I'm at it, I remove all desktop icons for mounted disks. Having them in my finder window is more than enough.
The desktop enviornment was king back in the System 7 days, but these days I use my desktop as a temporary downloads folder, but otherwise leave it empty. It's a redundant part of OS X which Apple would have purged long ago, if not for the outcry of older Mac-heads who don't want to let go of it.
You must never fly coach.
I've got a 12" iBook, and on a typical Boeing aircraft, if the person in front of me puts their seat back, I can *just barely* have the iBook open, sitting on the front lip of the tray table.
If my laptop screen was one inch taller, it would be pretty much impossible to use in most of the cheap seats of a plane. I would have to always arrive early and request an exit-row seat.
That's one reason why I think the wide-screen laptops are an awesome idea. More screen real estate, less height when it's open.
You're not really doing a direct comparison when you spec machines to match using Apple's BTO options. It's almost always far cheaper to buy the off-the-shelf base configuration and upgrade it yourself, even if you pay somebody to do the installation.
My trusty G4 iBook handles World of Warcraft rather nicely, so I'm thinking a little light gaming on the new one is not out of the question.
Still, while the purest in me regrets seeing Apple moving to integrated graphics on their iBook line, the realist in me says that video performance will still probably be better than the modest ATI cards they used to use.
These video chipsets are, like it or not, part of the reason why Apple moved to Intel. By having a complete motherboard solution which includes the GPU, Apple saves exactly one (1) assload of money on the production of their low-end consumer systems. This allows them to make MacBooks and minis with smokin' dual-core processors for around the same price as the ones that once sported ultra-cheap G4 chips.
I'm also digging the widescreen concept of their laptops. My 12" iBook is nice on a long plane ride, but the new 13" MacBook looks like it would be even better suited to a seat-back tray.
I'm going to pass on this round, not out of "version 1.0 fear", but simply because I think I can squeeze a couple more years of utility out of my G4 iBook before I'm ready for a new computer. It's no speed-demon, but it does everything I really need it to at the moment.
He finds it strange that people called that message from "Keith" to be spam... but the thing is, if you have no idea who "Keith" is, it probably IS spam... and if you do know him, you probably would not mark it as such.
The same goes for the US Airways thing. Yeah, it's an example of "not spam", but if you haven't recently bought a US Airways ticket, then the save bet would be that it is.
Oh... and the nun joke is fucking hilarious. That alone made TFA worth reading.
You don't really know what "off by default" means, do you?
For the telnet or ssh exploits to work, you need to go out of your way to turn those services on. Most Mac users will never turn either of those on, therefore would not be impacted by these exploits.
Yeah, you have everyone figured out don't you, I live in my own house, not a room in my parents basement.
I'm a little baffled. When did I even imply that you're living in your parents' basement? You seem to be responding to criticisms I didn't actually make.
By, "except" I think maybe you meant to say "and also."
Nevertheless, Det. Lamond does confirm that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest." They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs."
That's not an indicator of a trend.
Since 65% of the general population of America consider themselves fans of one Star Trek series or another, and men tend to like Star Trek more than women do, and adults tend to like Star Trek more than kids do... if anything less than 80% of pedophiles (who are mainly adult men) were into Star Trek, that would indicate that trekkies are statistically under-represented in the child-molester population.
It is called 'parody':
a hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!
Twist drive - Warp drive
Maggot hole - Wormhole
See?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
That is HILARIOUS!!!! OMG! When I saw the title "Star Wreck", I thought it would be lame and unimaginative, but jokes like that are comedy GOLD!!! I gotta see it now!
Wow. That was the best you could do, combing through past articles over a two-year span.
A virus which requires telnet to be on (it's off by default), another that requires ssh to be turned on (ditto), and a third which requires physical access to the machine.
All of which were hyped up on slashdot as if Mac users actually had a reason to be worried, when almost all of them did not.
Thanks for proving my point.