I really like Microsoft's spec sheet that compares the X-box to the PS2. Mhz are up. Hard drive included. It pushes more polygons.
There is one main difference, though. The PS2 exsists! It's out in Japan. If you go to the right store, you can see one in the US. I've done this. I've seen it. I've felt it. I've played it. When can I do that with an X-box?
X-box has to be some of the best vaporware stats I've seen from Microsoft in awhile.
In my opinion, this thing is nothing but FUD. They see that PS2 stands to take a big chunk out of their market, possibly starting a new one. Something inbetween a counsel and a computer. The PS2 sold like 980,000 units in the first 48 hours of it's release. It's gonna continue to sell in Japan. When it comes out in the US and Europe it'll take those markets by storm as well. Microsoft no doubt sees this as a threat to their gaming market. So make up an imaginary threat to it and let the hype-machine take care of the rest.
However, I don't think Microsoft understands the counsel market as well as it thinks. I think this thing is going to tank, big-time.
I'm no expert, but I know where my money is going. PS2 for even just one simple reason... GRAN TURISMO 2000!!!!! --
I don't know if agree with Kurtz that making fun of ignorant people isn't funny. Most comedy seems to the based on somebody else gettin' dissed. Comedy almost always puts somebody down. I guess it's just a matter of knowing your audience.
What I will agree with, is that some of strips he used as an example are not particularly funny (at least not to me). PvP, however, keeps me laughlin' all the time. --
I'm not too tech savy on this subject, but I do know a lot about most of the formats in question here. "Real" stuff pretty much sucks. Past Microsoft video sucked. Media Player is a vast improvement over their other attempts, but it still lacks a lot of the functionality of QuickTime. QuickTime is the shit. It sucks that it is not readily availible for the Linux crowd. However, the streaming server is. I believe it's even an Open Source project under Darwin.
Also, I have to believe that there is a Linux version of QuickTime in the works. MacOS X will be a UNIX based system. QuickTime will be made for MacOS X. Apple wants QuickTime to be the defacto standard for playing video on your computer. I can't see why they wouldn't port QuickTime to Linux.
I'm sure Sorenson could make a UNIX version of their Codec. It's gotta be possible. I just wish someone would just get off their ass and do it. --
You really show how much more educated you are over most Americans by spouting off such racist garbage. It's shame that people are stereotypying based on what country you live in. I live the US. I graduated from high school and college. I am not overweight, dumb, or lazy. I do not own a gun (most people from other countries seem to think Americans are armed to the teeth). I don't use Windows, I use a Mac. I'm different from almost every stand point that you've tried to stereotype me with.
I am white though. So I suppose I am an evil racist that wants to destroy the world. --
Isn't also a bad stereotype to use the word nerd to refer only to men. I know plenty of females that would call themselves nerds... and they're proud of it too. --
I don't understand what this person is talking about. True nerds are very strong in character. A true nerd would say, "Who needs women when the latest demo of Quake 3 is about to be released." Strong willed indeed! --
Rumor once had it that Apple was looking at alternatives to ATI. Or at least, looking for additional cards to offer in it build to order configurations. Mmmm... Nvida and a G4 --
If that were true, would museums be filled with poems instead of pictures and sculptures? Visual arts are important too. By showing something visually we can see what others are trying say to us instead of just interpreting what they say. By know what others think we can better form our own ideas and our own "Self." --
I would expect stripped down to be 32MB and a normal display. Apple wants to start shipping DVD standard on all machines by the end of the year. FireWire is on the motherboard, so they won't lose that. Rage 3D is the only graphics option I've heard, so they gotta have that to drive the display.
Stripped down is probably just be the base of what will be a build-to-order machine. --
But how do you know for certain that these predictions are true. You can't really. We really can't know anything outside of ourselves. How do we know that our brains aren't hooked up to a computer feeding us false information (ala The Matrix). How can I prove that the world I preceive is the same world you see? How do I know if you even exist? This is where spirituality comes in. I believe that I really am something more than a sack of chemicals. That there is outside of me that is still me. The other me. My brain is just a computer that I get to use in a universe that might not be real. I just wish people would stop passing off every little sciency thing of as fact and remember that in the scope of the universe, we really know so very little. In the scope of God, we know even less. -- Steve --
They really shouldn't stop teaching evolution. They should just start teaching it as theory and not fact. We have no real facts outside of what each us has seen for ourselves. Granted if your friend tells you about something that you did not witness, your likely to believe them. But if a manuscript from the 1500s says that dragons used to fly around skies, would you believe that? This is what separates theories and facts.
Science is really no different than any other religion. The people who believe in it are certainly self-righteous enough to belong to a religion. In the end, how do you really know that the rest of the world even exsists outside of your own brain. Believe in yourself. -- Steve --
Noisy Dumbasses can kill this movie! I saw it early on video tape on big screen TV (no, it wasn't pirated and no, I don' t know how they got a copy) with a group of about 15 people or so. Everyone got very quite as the weird stuff started happening and it really allowed you to individually get into the film.
I then saw it in the theater. Some people cannot just shut up and watch a movie. Making wise cracks at inapporiate moments can yank you back out of the film and remind you that are just watching a movie. This is probably why some people think it's the scarist film they've ever seen and others think it's a joke.
Atmosphere is everything!
Other than that, I thought it was a great idea for a film and was excuted perfectly. Hopefully this will get Hollywood off it's ass and thinking again. --
Entertainment and marketing are a means to an end. We need to put more support into space exploration and if the only way wwe can do that is through a theme park, I say build the sucker. NASA should open it's doors to commercial marketing also. I can see it now, the fuel cell of the space shuttle painted up to look like a Coke can. Maybe some STP stickers will make it look like a race car. Marketing is wonderful thing. -- Steve --
God forbid you stand out in a crowd. May be Apple and the rest of the computer-making-world should just go back to making beige and black machines. That way no one would have to be different. --
There is also a blue one. Supposedly, all the colors the iMac is shipping in will also, be availible on the iBook with an additional sixth color. Smoked Gray!(rumor)
Don't get excited over the lack of colors yet. This machine dosen't ship until September. --
Besides, how many of you wouldn't feel embarassed to bring this thing to a business meeting...?
That's why it's a consumer portable. If you want a slick looking business machine, you buy the cool looking PowerBook. The iBook is gearing towards the educational/consumer market, not a business market. However, I believe Apple is planing on releasing a smoked gray colored iBook once it releases it in it's full array of colors.
Besides if you don't mind spending a little extra cash, a PowerBook is a better machine in every way. Lighter, smaller, bigger screen, faster CPU, greater expandability, etc. --
I don't think OS X Server is currently supported ("supported" being the keyword here) on PowerBooks, but the consumer version of OS X will support any G3 Power Macintosh. Due out in late 1999/early 2000. --
I don't think the eMate was ever really sold in mainstream channels. Besides, the iBook is going to be a different animal. I think an inexpensive notebook that's inbetween a regular notebook and one of those micro notebooks could definately find a nich. A regular notebook might still be too big for some people and micro notebook is almost unuseable for most. I still happy with my Desktop and Palm Pilot config though.
Using the iMac fad on the iBook (whether you like the design or not) will sell machines. Apple's probably already got a winner. --
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I really like Microsoft's spec sheet that compares the X-box to the PS2. Mhz are up. Hard drive included. It pushes more polygons.
There is one main difference, though. The PS2 exsists! It's out in Japan. If you go to the right store, you can see one in the US. I've done this. I've seen it. I've felt it. I've played it. When can I do that with an X-box?
X-box has to be some of the best vaporware stats I've seen from Microsoft in awhile.
In my opinion, this thing is nothing but FUD. They see that PS2 stands to take a big chunk out of their market, possibly starting a new one. Something inbetween a counsel and a computer. The PS2 sold like 980,000 units in the first 48 hours of it's release. It's gonna continue to sell in Japan. When it comes out in the US and Europe it'll take those markets by storm as well. Microsoft no doubt sees this as a threat to their gaming market. So make up an imaginary threat to it and let the hype-machine take care of the rest.
However, I don't think Microsoft understands the counsel market as well as it thinks. I think this thing is going to tank, big-time.
I'm no expert, but I know where my money is going. PS2 for even just one simple reason... GRAN TURISMO 2000!!!!!
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Maybe Netcraft is seeing MacOS X Server which is based on BSD. Just a thought.
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I don't know if agree with Kurtz that making fun of ignorant people isn't funny. Most comedy seems to the based on somebody else gettin' dissed. Comedy almost always puts somebody down. I guess it's just a matter of knowing your audience.
What I will agree with, is that some of strips he used as an example are not particularly funny (at least not to me). PvP, however, keeps me laughlin' all the time.
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I'm not too tech savy on this subject, but I do know a lot about most of the formats in question here. "Real" stuff pretty much sucks. Past Microsoft video sucked. Media Player is a vast improvement over their other attempts, but it still lacks a lot of the functionality of QuickTime. QuickTime is the shit. It sucks that it is not readily availible for the Linux crowd. However, the streaming server is. I believe it's even an Open Source project under Darwin.
Also, I have to believe that there is a Linux version of QuickTime in the works. MacOS X will be a UNIX based system. QuickTime will be made for MacOS X. Apple wants QuickTime to be the defacto standard for playing video on your computer. I can't see why they wouldn't port QuickTime to Linux.
I'm sure Sorenson could make a UNIX version of their Codec. It's gotta be possible. I just wish someone would just get off their ass and do it.
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You really show how much more educated you are over most Americans by spouting off such racist garbage. It's shame that people are stereotypying based on what country you live in. I live the US. I graduated from high school and college. I am not overweight, dumb, or lazy. I do not own a gun (most people from other countries seem to think Americans are armed to the teeth). I don't use Windows, I use a Mac. I'm different from almost every stand point that you've tried to stereotype me with.
I am white though. So I suppose I am an evil racist that wants to destroy the world.
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I say, who needs women? I have a Nintendo (subsitute: PlayStation, PC, Dreamcast, Hooker, etc.)
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Isn't also a bad stereotype to use the word nerd to refer only to men. I know plenty of females that would call themselves nerds... and they're proud of it too.
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I don't understand what this person is talking about. True nerds are very strong in character. A true nerd would say, "Who needs women when the latest demo of Quake 3 is about to be released." Strong willed indeed!
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Rumor once had it that Apple was looking at alternatives to ATI. Or at least, looking for additional cards to offer in it build to order configurations. Mmmm... Nvida and a G4
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If that were true, would museums be filled with poems instead of pictures and sculptures? Visual arts are important too. By showing something visually we can see what others are trying say to us instead of just interpreting what they say. By know what others think we can better form our own ideas and our own "Self."
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Geez, I was just speculating. No need to jump down my throat.
For all I know, the new iMac will come with 500mb of RAM and that'll be the stripped down version.
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I would expect stripped down to be 32MB and a normal display. Apple wants to start shipping DVD standard on all machines by the end of the year. FireWire is on the motherboard, so they won't lose that. Rage 3D is the only graphics option I've heard, so they gotta have that to drive the display.
Stripped down is probably just be the base of what will be a build-to-order machine.
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But how do you know for certain that these predictions are true. You can't really. We really can't know anything outside of ourselves. How do we know that our brains aren't hooked up to a computer feeding us false information (ala The Matrix). How can I prove that the world I preceive is the same world you see? How do I know if you even exist? This is where spirituality comes in. I believe that I really am something more than a sack of chemicals. That there is outside of me that is still me. The other me. My brain is just a computer that I get to use in a universe that might not be real. I just wish people would stop passing off every little sciency thing of as fact and remember that in the scope of the universe, we really know so very little. In the scope of God, we know even less.
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Steve
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They really shouldn't stop teaching evolution. They should just start teaching it as theory and not fact. We have no real facts outside of what each us has seen for ourselves. Granted if your friend tells you about something that you did not witness, your likely to believe them. But if a manuscript from the 1500s says that dragons used to fly around skies, would you believe that? This is what separates theories and facts.
Science is really no different than any other religion. The people who believe in it are certainly self-righteous enough to belong to a religion. In the end, how do you really know that the rest of the world even exsists outside of your own brain. Believe in yourself.
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Steve
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Noisy Dumbasses can kill this movie! I saw it early on video tape on big screen TV (no, it wasn't pirated and no, I don' t know how they got a copy) with a group of about 15 people or so. Everyone got very quite as the weird stuff started happening and it really allowed you to individually get into the film.
I then saw it in the theater. Some people cannot just shut up and watch a movie. Making wise cracks at inapporiate moments can yank you back out of the film and remind you that are just watching a movie. This is probably why some people think it's the scarist film they've ever seen and others think it's a joke.
Atmosphere is everything!
Other than that, I thought it was a great idea for a film and was excuted perfectly. Hopefully this will get Hollywood off it's ass and thinking again.
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Entertainment and marketing are a means to an end. We need to put more support into space exploration and if the only way wwe can do that is through a theme park, I say build the sucker. NASA should open it's doors to commercial marketing also. I can see it now, the fuel cell of the space shuttle painted up to look like a Coke can. Maybe some STP stickers will make it look like a race car. Marketing is wonderful thing.
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Steve
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God forbid you stand out in a crowd. May be Apple and the rest of the computer-making-world should just go back to making beige and black machines. That way no one would have to be different.
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There is also a blue one. Supposedly, all the colors the iMac is shipping in will also, be availible on the iBook with an additional sixth color. Smoked Gray!(rumor)
Don't get excited over the lack of colors yet. This machine dosen't ship until September.
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Duh.
Can't you tell they're marketing this towards students. If you want a business machine, get a PowerBook.
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They were refering to the PowerBook being a 14.1 inch screen, not the iBook.
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That's why it's a consumer portable. If you want a slick looking business machine, you buy the cool looking PowerBook. The iBook is gearing towards the educational/consumer market, not a business market. However, I believe Apple is planing on releasing a smoked gray colored iBook once it releases it in it's full array of colors.
Besides if you don't mind spending a little extra cash, a PowerBook is a better machine in every way. Lighter, smaller, bigger screen, faster CPU, greater expandability, etc.
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I don't think OS X Server is currently supported ("supported" being the keyword here) on PowerBooks, but the consumer version of OS X will support any G3 Power Macintosh. Due out in late 1999/early 2000.
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Although they will announce it today, it is (rumor has it) going to be awhile until you can buy one. I don't think they're quite ready yet.
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I don't think the eMate was ever really sold in mainstream channels. Besides, the iBook is going to be a different animal. I think an inexpensive notebook that's inbetween a regular notebook and one of those micro notebooks could definately find a nich. A regular notebook might still be too big for some people and micro notebook is almost unuseable for most. I still happy with my Desktop and Palm Pilot config though.
Using the iMac fad on the iBook (whether you like the design or not) will sell machines. Apple's probably already got a winner.
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Because the average viewer likes the feeling of his/her brain turning into mush.
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