I dont think microsoft had much to do with it, people got tired of using a 2 gig pendrive as their mass storage device and couldnt run any of their programs with a half a distro and a celphone UI
We had a fairly beefy box of a HP server get dumped on our dock at a company who sold overstock and NOS computers, this was back in the late 90's and we had people factory certified for many different brands, I did Apple and Compaq, we had some IBMer's in there yadda yadda we didnt have a HP guy at the time.
This mini fridge HP server had 1 simple issue on first glance, NTLDR is missing (windows NT4), so management made some calls and a guy showed up the next day. Once we showed him where he could setup shop he then proceeds to bring in a freaking library of 3 ring binders full of checklists and starts on page 1. After about a week of us walking in every morning snarking "dude, reinstall NT already" he came to the page where it apparently gave him enough of a flow chart to evaluate that Windows NT4 needed to be reinstalled.
Second week in he try's the restore media provided and it does not work, he concludes that the media is bad and orders another copy, which takes another 3 days. End of week he gets the new restore media and it does not work. It takes another 3 fucking days for him to figure out that the CD rom is bad (apparently this thing had been dropped in shipping).
already long story short it took this HP expert nearly 2 months to replace the 1 hard disk, 1 cd-rom and reinstall windows NT4 while me and one other person were cranking out 30 deskpros an hour with like a 2% return rate due to hardware problems mostly caused by shipping.
Oh no, we are way past Sony only looking retarded. They were full blown, 24/7 nurse on call, even special education cant handle them,retarded well before now.
Ill have you know I own none of those things, and make my own computer, for example let me just look at who made my motherboard.... FoxConn... shit, carry on
If it breaks my way of operating a computer. Yes gnome3 is pretty, yes gnome3 does have some interesting idea's, yes gnome3 is a fucking pain in the ass and gets in the way all the damn time.
I lasted a whole 3 months with it, then rolled back to gnome2, sure its ugly, sure it has its problems as well, but wow its like using a modern computer, not mac OS6, I can put shortcuts on my desktop without switching DM's, I can right click options that in gnome3 require 3rd party shit and editing a text file, I can make a pile of virtual desktops and not play mind games to get them to show up (like maximize 1 app so desktop2 shows then right click and move bullshit), and if my mouse happens to hit the corner of the screen the whole fucking thing doesnt insta break, zoom out, and require me to select something before I can get back to what I was doing (even windows7 got that right)
Twisted Metal is one of my top games everyone else loves but I hate, not cause of story but because of its gameplay. Now granted I haven't been forced to play it since PS1 days but what I remember was for a car game it responded very poorly, and far as a fun factor unless you memorised the maps it was seriously aggravating to be bombed from somewhere, knocked into oblivion and stuck in a ditch or a tree.
I didnt look very hard, literally 1 min on google and considering it was almost 20 years ago do you really expect it to look identical? be honest, rounded rectangle in glossy black, is not rocket science.
I am not going to waste my time arguing with fanboi's who think apple invented the symmetrical boarder, the color black and the fucking rectangle, have fun in your happy land made up of rainbows and unicorns
Apple has a big hard on "protecting" its ingenious design of a rounded rectangle with a flat surface and glossy paint, you really think they are going to waste all that time and money keeping the evil of the world from copying their earth-shattering genius just to release v3 in a translucent round case?
Back in the design days of the original macintosh they used Do It instead of OK, apparently a guy got frustrated and in anger asked "I'm not a dolt, why is the software calling me a dolt?"
you know recycled stock of these things come up all the time for less than 10 bucks, the only advantage here is the monitor bandwidth if they didnt fuck up their sampling, which is very easy to do
uh if you have ever used one of these shitty chi-co video samplers you would find the video quality was worse than plugging the composite signal into the antenna input of a 1977 black and white portable
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I dont think microsoft had much to do with it, people got tired of using a 2 gig pendrive as their mass storage device and couldnt run any of their programs with a half a distro and a celphone UI
We had a fairly beefy box of a HP server get dumped on our dock at a company who sold overstock and NOS computers, this was back in the late 90's and we had people factory certified for many different brands, I did Apple and Compaq, we had some IBMer's in there yadda yadda we didnt have a HP guy at the time.
This mini fridge HP server had 1 simple issue on first glance, NTLDR is missing (windows NT4), so management made some calls and a guy showed up the next day. Once we showed him where he could setup shop he then proceeds to bring in a freaking library of 3 ring binders full of checklists and starts on page 1. After about a week of us walking in every morning snarking "dude, reinstall NT already" he came to the page where it apparently gave him enough of a flow chart to evaluate that Windows NT4 needed to be reinstalled.
Second week in he try's the restore media provided and it does not work, he concludes that the media is bad and orders another copy, which takes another 3 days. End of week he gets the new restore media and it does not work. It takes another 3 fucking days for him to figure out that the CD rom is bad (apparently this thing had been dropped in shipping).
already long story short it took this HP expert nearly 2 months to replace the 1 hard disk, 1 cd-rom and reinstall windows NT4 while me and one other person were cranking out 30 deskpros an hour with like a 2% return rate due to hardware problems mostly caused by shipping.
I do, the problem is there is rarely anything worth buying
"SONY looks absolutely retarded"
Oh no, we are way past Sony only looking retarded. They were full blown, 24/7 nurse on call, even special education cant handle them,retarded well before now.
No to price gouging
Ill have you know I own none of those things, and make my own computer, for example let me just look at who made my motherboard .... FoxConn ... shit, carry on
its almost as bad as the program manager motif that KDE tried to use in early versions of 4
If it breaks my way of operating a computer. Yes gnome3 is pretty, yes gnome3 does have some interesting idea's, yes gnome3 is a fucking pain in the ass and gets in the way all the damn time.
I lasted a whole 3 months with it, then rolled back to gnome2, sure its ugly, sure it has its problems as well, but wow its like using a modern computer, not mac OS6, I can put shortcuts on my desktop without switching DM's, I can right click options that in gnome3 require 3rd party shit and editing a text file, I can make a pile of virtual desktops and not play mind games to get them to show up (like maximize 1 app so desktop2 shows then right click and move bullshit), and if my mouse happens to hit the corner of the screen the whole fucking thing doesnt insta break, zoom out, and require me to select something before I can get back to what I was doing (even windows7 got that right)
Twisted Metal is one of my top games everyone else loves but I hate, not cause of story but because of its gameplay. Now granted I haven't been forced to play it since PS1 days but what I remember was for a car game it responded very poorly, and far as a fun factor unless you memorised the maps it was seriously aggravating to be bombed from somewhere, knocked into oblivion and stuck in a ditch or a tree.
I insult him because his 2 paragraphs whipped out in less than 1 min after the article is an obvious copy and paste, and apparently poorly written
only in Germany
neither does a samsung and yet ...
I didnt look very hard, literally 1 min on google and considering it was almost 20 years ago do you really expect it to look identical? be honest, rounded rectangle in glossy black, is not rocket science.
I am not going to waste my time arguing with fanboi's who think apple invented the symmetrical boarder, the color black and the fucking rectangle, have fun in your happy land made up of rainbows and unicorns
it meets half of your design requirements
um yea
"the most interesting rumor is that the iPad 2 will continue to be sold at $200 to compete with the Kindle Fire."
continue? again show me where they are selling the iPad2 at 200$, it sure as shit aint on apple.com
or not getting 3 billion of what you think you deserve? there is a difference
the black rim is painted under the glass
http://www.pcwelt.de/galerien/iPad-Vorgaenger-1008126.html?bild=3
yes no one had glossy black tablets with 1 inch radius corners before iPad, not that 1992 compaq I linked to above
ok bullshit shill, where can I get a ipad2 for 200 bucks, I cant seem to find any under 400, fuck even the Apple site says "starting at 499"
Apple has a big hard on "protecting" its ingenious design of a rounded rectangle with a flat surface and glossy paint, you really think they are going to waste all that time and money keeping the evil of the world from copying their earth-shattering genius just to release v3 in a translucent round case?
Back in the design days of the original macintosh they used Do It instead of OK, apparently a guy got frustrated and in anger asked "I'm not a dolt, why is the software calling me a dolt?"
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Do_It.txt&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date&detail=medium&search=do%20it
The helicopter they had last year is already in the clearance section
retard
you know recycled stock of these things come up all the time for less than 10 bucks, the only advantage here is the monitor bandwidth if they didnt fuck up their sampling, which is very easy to do
uh if you have ever used one of these shitty chi-co video samplers you would find the video quality was worse than plugging the composite signal into the antenna input of a 1977 black and white portable