"With around 400,000 licenses a day new Vista users will take 8 weeks to beat Mac users, 4 days to exceed Mac sales and 3 days to exceed Linux desktop users.".... and only one day to find out it barely installs on their 3 year old Dell that was "certified Vista ready" by the Vista readiness tool, and one hour to rip out half of their hair installing it.
I bought a Saturn BEFORE I bought a playstation, as at the time, the Saturn was slated to receive the best RPG lineup since the Super NES. Square was just Square at that time, having not bought out Enix, and they were free agents, having just left Nintendo - so I expected a ton of good games on the Saturn. Unfortunately, Square signed with Sony, and the Saturn took a big hit; but the system was still doing more than the Playstation with it's power in it's first year. NiGHTS was an amazing game that I still break out to this day, and Panzer Dragoon Saga is still one of the best RPG's of all time - so it's nice to know that there is still some love out there, albeit limited. No matter what, these systems will stay strong thanks to the fans and geeks out there who keep it alive.
Even if crap like this could be made at this time, I wouldn't want it powering my hearing aide... seriously, let's beam some microwaves DIRECTLY INTO MY BRAIN!
It's still the best way to placate people, and the government knows this. Just wait for TV's brought to you with pre-set channel selections... press a button and get CNN, another for Fox News, another for MSNBC, etc... let the programming begin!
while I agree with you that yes, it is at the fault of the developers for not getting their software up for Vista, you didn't make any more points beyond that. You have a machine that came pre installed with Vista, so you have no point of reference as to how poorly it installs (and it does) We both agree that Aero is crap, and you're telling me that Apple didn't come up with Widgets, and that calling the same thing gadgets on Vista is not the same thing, and nothing but a sad imitation? Or that MS didn't bother with tabbed browsing until Firefox made it popular? Or that they didn't use the same idea behind spotlight for their "improved search" within Vista? Apple didn't make all these things - and they're not the end all be all of software design (after all, they're running their OS on a kernel they didn't fully design), but the fact remains that I've yet to see something original out of MS since the inception of windows, and when your last great innovation was over 10 years ago, you're not saying much. I don't even care if they did rip everyone off, they've always done that - they just don't do it well anymore, and they sure as hell don't convince me that it's worth it to buy their software, ever.
My install of Vista was a bogged down, hour and half long trial (on a 3.2ghz P4 system with a Gig of RAM), with nearly no proof that anything has been corrected or fixed in this new outing for Microsoft. The installer still loads everything in 16 color 800x600 mode, can't find simple pieces of hardware, and takes bloddy forever to simply get on with it. I saw Vista crash to BSOD in less than five minutes of installing it, and due to a sound card driver from a not even obscure sound card, nonetheless. The flashy interface doesn't impress me, and it doesn't offer me much when it comes to actually getting work done. Couple with that that almost no software developers have been able to release fully working Vista versions yet, and you have an OS that I can't understand anyone actually wanting to use. MS is about five years late on getting onto the Digital Lifestyle train, and I can't see anything in Vista that helps me enjoy my digital media, just the same poorly coded media player that only uses Microsoft's proprietary junk.
Finally, to anyone who says that MS made leaps and bounds in this OS release, I say to you this; there is not one thing in Vista that MS didn't rip off from Apple. Widgets are called Gadgets, windows now have transparencies, and suddenly there's a search bar in the start menu that seems oddly the same as spotlight, though still doesn't work even %1 as well as what it's ripping off, not to mention that IE 7 had to rip off Firefox in order to get anything new under it's belt, and still can't do it well. At least Microsoft stays true to their history of stealing ideas and repackaging them.
Finally there's the "security" of the system, which apparently means asking you 8 billion questions to do even the most menial system tasks;
"You'd like to install a piece of Microsoft software, is this ok?" "Yes" "you've said that you'd like to install a piece of microsoft software, is this ok?" "GAH!"
Vista gets a 1 out of five, if even that. Too little, too late MS.
"Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
Just the erroneous use of "totally" here makes Bill sound like a twelve year old schoolyard bully trying to assert his supremacy. He's going to have ten times the amount of attacks on Vista now, because of this.
"Does the entire tenor of that campaign bother you, that Mac is the cool guy and PC-- That's for my customers to decide."
They're deciding Bill, they're realizing that you:
A.) Don't care about them, never will. B.) Really don't get it; you're quite late trying to get on board the "digital lifestyle" train. If Windows is for my digital lifestyle, I must be living in a binary cardboard box. C.) Can't come up with a convincing argument to purchase your new OS, despite having a mountain of money at your disposal to promote it with.
As other users here have mentioned, I too am not crazy about the "I'm a Mac" ads, I think that they are pompous in their own ways, but they in no way make me feel that Apple is as blatantly ignorant and Gates and MS come off being. I recently bought my Macbook, and though I still own my windows machine, I am further convinced that I'd rather continue my move to Apple when I read comments like this from the CEO of a corporation trying desperately to catch up with the users it is consistently alienating.
what a total asshat. this guy needs to be reminded that losing a customer costs you more than bringing on a new one, and he's gonna both lose customers present and future acting like this.
If there is anything we've seen as of late though, it is that even FOIA is no good when it comes to something the.gov has decided they wish to conceal. It is more than likely that the government here in the US is using this robot, and has been for a long time. You won't even know you're being audited for what you did last year until three years from now - and at that, you can be audited at any time, for any reason. Taxation without representation went out the window a long time ago when government became too big for it's britches. Look at it this way; you're supposed to report the money you make at a garage sale to the government. A garage sale! You could make one dollar, and the IRS wants their piece of it. Is it right? No. Is it legal for them? Yes. But, the fact remains that they won't ever be able to track all the money coming and going over the net and in everyday business. Paypal and Ebay all say that they do not divulge your personal info to anyone (though when the government shows up at their door, I'm sure they're at beck and call). Ebay has even led campaigns to stop the proposals to enforce a different tax on every item sold to and from every state. Paypal is a bank you can be a part of with little to no proof of who you are. This is the future of economy. If the government wants in, they'll either have to ask nicely, or do it by force - I imagine they'll choose the latter. When, we can't know for sure. But, corporations, huge, behemoth corporations, still get away every year with paying little to nothing in taxes. Stop picking on the little guy.
How are we to believe that we are to "do the right thing", and report every single cent we make in a year, when we currently have a national deficit too large to imagine, and a government that continues to spend money in ways we'll never be able to fathom, on things which may never affect us, and we are not made privy to the information of how and when our taxes are spent and on what?
Super mario bros. 1 and 3 (NES) Sonic 3 Chrystalis (NES) Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III, F-Zero, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, Legend of Zelda: Link to the past (SNES) Final Fantasy 7, Xenogears (PS)
And probably some other old school stuff that I'd dig up.
right, so I suppose if it's been "debunked" for the thousandth time, that we should continue just spewing crap into the atmosphere at an alarming rate, after all, everyone LOVES pollution. global warming or not, what we're doing to the earth right now is going to get us in big trouble eventually.
I'd have to say that another reason for this (and I'm sure someone said it) is that you can easily give a CD to a friend for them to copy - if you're a average itunes user, you may not know how to get your music out of your library and to someone else's. It's nice to hear that people still buy CD's, although most of it is probably crap.
My worst hosting experience was with featureprice.com - based out of florida, when I found them a number of years ago they had great deals and really cheap service, so I went with them. I had a ton of bandwidth and storage, and it cost me nearly nothing (about $125 per year).
But, they were a shady company; at one point my site went down entirely for a few days; no one in tech was available or picking up or responding to emails. About a week later I recieved an email titled "Explanation email". It detailed that apparently a water main had broke in a server room and destroyed the entire room - what kind of server room has a water main hanging above the units, I do not know. I lost all my data but was given two years free hosting. All of which did me no good when, six months or so later, Featureprice seemed to again lose all of its tech support at the same time that my site went totally dead. For about two weeks I was down, and had to redirect to another server I own. No phone support, just a chat with litterally ONE person handling all inquiries - as well there was a support ticket system, but good luck if that worked. What it amounted to was my finding out that FP had gone totally bankrupt, fired all of its crew and left its servers for dead. They said they were sold to Atlantic.net, but near as I could tell, that was all a sham as well. FP's CEO (whose name escapes me, we'll call them stupidhead) ran off with everyone's money, which was quite annoying because I had recently also paid for another year of hosting. I was told my money would be returned, but of course, it was not. I contacted the BBB and the attorney general, etc. all to no avail. Oh well. I'm with a better host now (godaddy) and much happier. If they were still around I'd warn everyone to stay away from them, but they're long dead now.
heh, i think we all saw this coming. My friend was going nuts over Daikatana when it went into production 4 years ago, and even then I knew that Romero would take forever to get it done. Ionstorm always kinda seemed like the "Empire that's not an empire but feels like it is" to me, I suppose that the empire forgot how to write good game engines... "Condensing fact from the vapor of nuance" - neal stephenson, Snow Crash
hey there.. i've been watching anime for a LONG time, and here is a list of good stuff (as far as i am concerned) Ninja Scroll Akira BubbleGum Crisis Gundam Wing Dragon Ball Z Riding Bean Macross Plus Street Fighter 2 (the music is great) there's a slew of other good ones, but those are some of my favorites... check em out, you'll like them:P
I find it very very interesting that Lars says that he does not even really know what Napster is, nor does he really know how to use the internet other than *cough* AOL. It's good to know that someone who "goes after" anyone who "fucks" with them has not done his homework on the technology that he is fighting. I'm glad I never bought a Metallica album...
I would just like to know how it is that you, Metallica, and your lawyers, actually think that by suing Napster and a group of (mainly) kids you are going to make an impact upon the Mp3 community. If you took the time to study it, rather than downgrade it, you would know that by taking this kind of action against the internet, you are actually losing money, not gaining it. Mp3 is a way for artists and performers to promote themselves without being signed, and I would think that is something you guys could relate to, seeing as you once used to be very starving musicians at one time. Come on guys, we've all seen the VH1 "Behind the music" where you talk about how broke you were. Mp3 is here to stay. Thanks for listening to what I have to say.
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"With around 400,000 licenses a day new Vista users will take 8 weeks to beat Mac users, 4 days to exceed Mac sales and 3 days to exceed Linux desktop users." .... and only one day to find out it barely installs on their 3 year old Dell that was "certified Vista ready" by the Vista readiness tool, and one hour to rip out half of their hair installing it.
just gross. that sounds like a painful and sad debacle for all.
I bought a Saturn BEFORE I bought a playstation, as at the time, the Saturn was slated to receive the best RPG lineup since the Super NES. Square was just Square at that time, having not bought out Enix, and they were free agents, having just left Nintendo - so I expected a ton of good games on the Saturn. Unfortunately, Square signed with Sony, and the Saturn took a big hit; but the system was still doing more than the Playstation with it's power in it's first year. NiGHTS was an amazing game that I still break out to this day, and Panzer Dragoon Saga is still one of the best RPG's of all time - so it's nice to know that there is still some love out there, albeit limited. No matter what, these systems will stay strong thanks to the fans and geeks out there who keep it alive.
Even if crap like this could be made at this time, I wouldn't want it powering my hearing aide... seriously, let's beam some microwaves DIRECTLY INTO MY BRAIN!
sounds annoying. I'll take my extra clicking over having to waste time waiting.
It's still the best way to placate people, and the government knows this. Just wait for TV's brought to you with pre-set channel selections... press a button and get CNN, another for Fox News, another for MSNBC, etc... let the programming begin!
surpised? no. scared? not really. Laughing? A lot.
I sound like one too, so it's ok :P
while I agree with you that yes, it is at the fault of the developers for not getting their software up for Vista, you didn't make any more points beyond that. You have a machine that came pre installed with Vista, so you have no point of reference as to how poorly it installs (and it does) We both agree that Aero is crap, and you're telling me that Apple didn't come up with Widgets, and that calling the same thing gadgets on Vista is not the same thing, and nothing but a sad imitation? Or that MS didn't bother with tabbed browsing until Firefox made it popular? Or that they didn't use the same idea behind spotlight for their "improved search" within Vista? Apple didn't make all these things - and they're not the end all be all of software design (after all, they're running their OS on a kernel they didn't fully design), but the fact remains that I've yet to see something original out of MS since the inception of windows, and when your last great innovation was over 10 years ago, you're not saying much. I don't even care if they did rip everyone off, they've always done that - they just don't do it well anymore, and they sure as hell don't convince me that it's worth it to buy their software, ever.
My install of Vista was a bogged down, hour and half long trial (on a 3.2ghz P4 system with a Gig of RAM), with nearly no proof that anything has been corrected or fixed in this new outing for Microsoft. The installer still loads everything in 16 color 800x600 mode, can't find simple pieces of hardware, and takes bloddy forever to simply get on with it. I saw Vista crash to BSOD in less than five minutes of installing it, and due to a sound card driver from a not even obscure sound card, nonetheless. The flashy interface doesn't impress me, and it doesn't offer me much when it comes to actually getting work done. Couple with that that almost no software developers have been able to release fully working Vista versions yet, and you have an OS that I can't understand anyone actually wanting to use. MS is about five years late on getting onto the Digital Lifestyle train, and I can't see anything in Vista that helps me enjoy my digital media, just the same poorly coded media player that only uses Microsoft's proprietary junk.
Finally, to anyone who says that MS made leaps and bounds in this OS release, I say to you this; there is not one thing in Vista that MS didn't rip off from Apple. Widgets are called Gadgets, windows now have transparencies, and suddenly there's a search bar in the start menu that seems oddly the same as spotlight, though still doesn't work even %1 as well as what it's ripping off, not to mention that IE 7 had to rip off Firefox in order to get anything new under it's belt, and still can't do it well. At least Microsoft stays true to their history of stealing ideas and repackaging them.
Finally there's the "security" of the system, which apparently means asking you 8 billion questions to do even the most menial system tasks;
"You'd like to install a piece of Microsoft software, is this ok?"
"Yes"
"you've said that you'd like to install a piece of microsoft software, is this ok?"
"GAH!"
Vista gets a 1 out of five, if even that. Too little, too late MS.
"Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine."
Just the erroneous use of "totally" here makes Bill sound like a twelve year old schoolyard bully trying to assert his supremacy. He's going to have ten times the amount of attacks on Vista now, because of this.
"Does the entire tenor of that campaign bother you, that Mac is the cool guy and PC--
That's for my customers to decide."
They're deciding Bill, they're realizing that you:
A.) Don't care about them, never will.
B.) Really don't get it; you're quite late trying to get on board the "digital lifestyle" train. If Windows is for my digital lifestyle, I must be living in a binary cardboard box.
C.) Can't come up with a convincing argument to purchase your new OS, despite having a mountain of money at your disposal to promote it with.
As other users here have mentioned, I too am not crazy about the "I'm a Mac" ads, I think that they are pompous in their own ways, but they in no way make me feel that Apple is as blatantly ignorant and Gates and MS come off being. I recently bought my Macbook, and though I still own my windows machine, I am further convinced that I'd rather continue my move to Apple when I read comments like this from the CEO of a corporation trying desperately to catch up with the users it is consistently alienating.
what a total asshat. this guy needs to be reminded that losing a customer costs you more than bringing on a new one, and he's gonna both lose customers present and future acting like this.
If there is anything we've seen as of late though, it is that even FOIA is no good when it comes to something the .gov has decided they wish to conceal. It is more than likely that the government here in the US is using this robot, and has been for a long time. You won't even know you're being audited for what you did last year until three years from now - and at that, you can be audited at any time, for any reason. Taxation without representation went out the window a long time ago when government became too big for it's britches. Look at it this way; you're supposed to report the money you make at a garage sale to the government. A garage sale! You could make one dollar, and the IRS wants their piece of it. Is it right? No. Is it legal for them? Yes. But, the fact remains that they won't ever be able to track all the money coming and going over the net and in everyday business. Paypal and Ebay all say that they do not divulge your personal info to anyone (though when the government shows up at their door, I'm sure they're at beck and call). Ebay has even led campaigns to stop the proposals to enforce a different tax on every item sold to and from every state. Paypal is a bank you can be a part of with little to no proof of who you are. This is the future of economy. If the government wants in, they'll either have to ask nicely, or do it by force - I imagine they'll choose the latter. When, we can't know for sure. But, corporations, huge, behemoth corporations, still get away every year with paying little to nothing in taxes. Stop picking on the little guy.
How are we to believe that we are to "do the right thing", and report every single cent we make in a year, when we currently have a national deficit too large to imagine, and a government that continues to spend money in ways we'll never be able to fathom, on things which may never affect us, and we are not made privy to the information of how and when our taxes are spent and on what?
Updating your software can always make more issues even though it fixes others. I guess they'll think twice before applying that next winXP hotfix.
A short list...
Super mario bros. 1 and 3 (NES)
Sonic 3
Chrystalis (NES)
Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III, F-Zero, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, Legend of Zelda: Link to the past (SNES)
Final Fantasy 7, Xenogears (PS)
And probably some other old school stuff that I'd dig up.
agreed.
right, so I suppose if it's been "debunked" for the thousandth time, that we should continue just spewing crap into the atmosphere at an alarming rate, after all, everyone LOVES pollution. global warming or not, what we're doing to the earth right now is going to get us in big trouble eventually.
I'd have to say that another reason for this (and I'm sure someone said it) is that you can easily give a CD to a friend for them to copy - if you're a average itunes user, you may not know how to get your music out of your library and to someone else's. It's nice to hear that people still buy CD's, although most of it is probably crap.
you don't. I'm stuck in that rut, and I've basically given up. go corporate america.
My worst hosting experience was with featureprice.com - based out of florida, when I found them a number of years ago they had great deals and really cheap service, so I went with them. I had a ton of bandwidth and storage, and it cost me nearly nothing (about $125 per year).
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But, they were a shady company; at one point my site went down entirely for a few days; no one in tech was available or picking up or responding to emails. About a week later I recieved an email titled "Explanation email". It detailed that apparently a water main had broke in a server room and destroyed the entire room - what kind of server room has a water main hanging above the units, I do not know. I lost all my data but was given two years free hosting. All of which did me no good when, six months or so later, Featureprice seemed to again lose all of its tech support at the same time that my site went totally dead. For about two weeks I was down, and had to redirect to another server I own. No phone support, just a chat with litterally ONE person handling all inquiries - as well there was a support ticket system, but good luck if that worked. What it amounted to was my finding out that FP had gone totally bankrupt, fired all of its crew and left its servers for dead. They said they were sold to Atlantic.net, but near as I could tell, that was all a sham as well. FP's CEO (whose name escapes me, we'll call them stupidhead) ran off with everyone's money, which was quite annoying because I had recently also paid for another year of hosting. I was told my money would be returned, but of course, it was not. I contacted the BBB and the attorney general, etc. all to no avail. Oh well. I'm with a better host now (godaddy) and much happier. If they were still around I'd warn everyone to stay away from them, but they're long dead now.
there's some more info here: http://www.carrierhotels.com/wiredspace/archives/
heh, i think we all saw this coming. My friend was going nuts over Daikatana when it went into production 4 years ago, and even then I knew that Romero would take forever to get it done. Ionstorm always kinda seemed like the "Empire that's not an empire but feels like it is" to me, I suppose that the empire forgot how to write good game engines... "Condensing fact from the vapor of nuance" - neal stephenson, Snow Crash
hey there.. i've been watching anime for a LONG time, and here is a list of good stuff (as far as i am concerned) Ninja Scroll Akira BubbleGum Crisis Gundam Wing Dragon Ball Z Riding Bean Macross Plus Street Fighter 2 (the music is great) there's a slew of other good ones, but those are some of my favorites... check em out, you'll like them :P
I find it very very interesting that Lars says that he does not even really know what Napster is, nor does he really know how to use the internet other than *cough* AOL. It's good to know that someone who "goes after" anyone who "fucks" with them has not done his homework on the technology that he is fighting. I'm glad I never bought a Metallica album...
I would just like to know how it is that you, Metallica, and your lawyers, actually think that by suing Napster and a group of (mainly) kids you are going to make an impact upon the Mp3 community. If you took the time to study it, rather than downgrade it, you would know that by taking this kind of action against the internet, you are actually losing money, not gaining it. Mp3 is a way for artists and performers to promote themselves without being signed, and I would think that is something you guys could relate to, seeing as you once used to be very starving musicians at one time. Come on guys, we've all seen the VH1 "Behind the music" where you talk about how broke you were. Mp3 is here to stay. Thanks for listening to what I have to say.