If you go to the order page, you'll see that the glossy screen is an option. People who spend a lot of time watching DVDs in the dark on their laptop (i.e. frequent travellers) usually go for glossy, the rest of the world sticks with anti-glare.
Their video game division is the one making profits. (Well, and Sony Insurance). So yes, *theoretically*, it could doom them. Practically, we'll all say "oooh! Shiny!" and buy the damn thing;)
You know, it's not like you're getting forced to buy the content. As for the cost of content - you have obviously *no* clue what it costs to generate and test new content. Of course we're making some money on it - the point is that we actually would like to live off making games. If you don't like that, just make your own and release them as open source. Nobody's stopping you.
And that's insecure? Your run-of-the-mill car can be broken into in about 20 seconds. How'd I know? I managed to leave my keys in my car and called AAA. The guy showed up and had it open in under 20 seconds, just using a coathanger.
From that POV, give me the fancy-pants stuff any time.
The point is that this is "mystery-meat navigation". I.e. I don't know it's there unless you explicitly tell me. A little 'x' button tells me that there's a spot for closing things.
To be fair, this is only because Windowing software has conditioned us to assume that 'x' means close. But nothing has conditioned us to assume that middle click is close. In fact, FF itself teaches the user that middle click *opens* a link - it's counterintuitive that it also closes things.
I didn't mention full HD, but it's really nitpicking. The pipes are there - cable is in almost every household. All it takes is the will to push a solution.
And as soon as there is demand - i.e. when people start losing local media - somebody will step forward and offer that solution.
Seriously though, most people using computers know that drives fail and they risk losing everything on there, so they will want to back up purchases to relatively cheap media (optical media fits the bill).
That's priceless. You almost made me spill my coffee. Even if it's tea.
a) Most people using computers know that in the event of failure, they find the closest relative who understands computer and watch him do magic incantations. (Face it - for the average person, computer-savvy people might be shamans as well)
b) The few who know that disk fail largely back up to other discs. Even 20 GB - a small amount if you have digital video - means 5 DVDs right now. Instead, get an external drive, sync it up from time to time.
The people actually having RAID arrays or NAS systems are a *vast* minority.
So, the lions share of the market basically gives a rat's ass right now. That'll change once they lose their first MP3 collection, but that's still a few years out. (Take the start of the iPod wave, add hard drive MTBF. Pain will happen)
At this point, the first one to sell streaming with perpetual rights will win. And I wouldn't be surprised if several companies are trying to hammer out the necessary deals *right now*
And the $210 DLink streams video from...? The Ether?
Ah. Wait. Let's add at least another $300 for a PC. That gets me what kind of cost savings? Almost none, you say? That's right. And I can have Windows hassles, too, while my macMini just works.
I understand quite well what the GP was saying - and even though my reply has been facetious, the point still remains. *Nobody* has the time or inclination to become an expert in all areas. We pick and choose.
To take your e-mail example: I'm a long time game developer (programming), so I fancy myself somewhat of a technical expert when it comes to computers. And still, if my e-mail breaks down, I call our IT department. Fixing Outlook (or Windows) does not interest me a lick, and there are people who know more about it than I do and are paid for doing this job - so why on earth would I do it?
I can take the same time and instead spend some quality time improving our tool chain - which is a better use of my time for me and my employer.
The same holds true for many subjects. Fixing cars is utterly uninteresting for me, so I pay somebody. I do not care, at all, which part goes where and is called what. The thing drives, or it doesn't. I'd rather spend that time getting up to speed on other things.
There are very few people who are not curious about some things, and I'm tired of people judging them because they are different things. If somebody chooses to be an expert at squirrel hunting and not understand computers, that's their choice. It doesn't make them better or worse people.
I don't know anything about ancient egyptian recipes, and, believe it or not, I could care less.
Hope the blood starts spurting. In case it doesn't: I'm also not interested in football. At all. Feminine hygiene products? Nu-uh. Understanding ancient germanic dialects? Not really.
You are, of course, an expert in all of them, or at least strongly inclined to read up on all of them now, right?
Hopefully, there's a large pool of blood now, and this post takes care of one more self-righteous hypocrite.
Well, excuse me for not complete re-reading an article I read a month before. The point remains - this is not a book review, but either an advertisment or blatant plagiarism. And, as usual, the/. editors don't give a sh*t either way.
My personal hope is that Fast Company sues./ for damages - maybe *then* we'd have something happen around here.
So, therefore, you see nothing wrong in shoving your views down every one else's throats
He was making a point that (government) censorship is not a good idea. Hence, *not* shoving down his views everybodys throats.
Has it occured to you that, perhaps, the bitch is a bit stuck-up, is a religious hag, or is a dog and is unable to sexually satisfy her husband who cannot therefore be blamed for using pornography to masturbate???
Did it ever occur to you that sex is about *love*? With that attitude, I wouldn't be surprised if you're not finding much love.
How about keeping an open mind (of course, this is impossible for a religious type, because religion is first and foremost about closing minds)???
Right, because you are *such* an open minded person. Here's a christian guy, who explains his own values and how *he* sticks to his values, and why - and all you do is give him a good flaming? Way to go for the open-minded department.
This is one of the most disgusting posts I read in a long time. I'm an agnostic myself, and I have plenty of issues with the religious fundamentalists - but you are living proof that there are enough people on the non-religious fringe who are about as Taliban as any religious guy could get.
For one thing, the goal of a programmer is typically to write the code correctly, so that it doesn't have to be rewritten over and over again;
I would posit that this theoretical programmer hasn't spent a lot of time on real-life projects.... There is no perfect code. Never. Just undiscovered requirements.
Keep in mind that public *preventive* healthcare benefits society as a whole. Maybe that's the way out - society pays for prevention, and you insure yourself for the cure part....
And please, stop with the "higher quality" BS - unless you're paying a lot of money and go to one of the major research clinic, US health care providers are *way* below the standards I've seen in Germany.
Heck, the clinics that administer the health tests for immigrants are so run down that you need to be afraid to *get* infections there.
Yes, they do treat life-threatening emergencies without asking right away. However, they have no problems asking next-of-kin while they do the treatment. At least that's my experience - my wife had a severe concussion (passed out for over a minute) which certainly might be life-threatening. She got treated right away - and I got to fill out the insurance info right away.
But that's all fine and good in the current system - somebody needs to pay. The problem here is that health care is so expensive that many people can't afford it. One serious injury, and they're bankrupt - making it even harder to afford health care.
Call me a socialist, but I believe that basic health care should be provided to everybody, or cheap enough that everybody can afford it. And please don't raise the cost argument - health care costs are high because
* We pay for treatment, not prevention. That's certainly fixable * We've inserted HMOs into the process. Giant bureaucracies that just siphon off money * And finally, there's too much litigation going on. Fix that, and life's becoming better. (I'll even tell you how to fix it - punitive damages go to not-for-profits. Neither the plaintiff nor the lawyers see a red cent. We still keep the punishment, but we don't reward people for suing.)
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He might not be trolling - as my HD is filling up, I noticed OSX slowing down significantly. (Unless there's something else I'm missing).
So maybe it's just a good idea to always keep at least 10GB or so available. (that's where I started noticing problems)
No, you don't have to wait - you can pick glossy or matte finish, depending on waht you like.
;)
Although, if you just nail your windows shut, you can use the glossy screen and impress friends!
If you go to the order page, you'll see that the glossy screen is an option. People who spend a lot of time watching DVDs in the dark on their laptop (i.e. frequent travellers) usually go for glossy, the rest of the world sticks with anti-glare.
Their video game division is the one making profits. (Well, and Sony Insurance). So yes, *theoretically*, it could doom them. Practically, we'll all say "oooh! Shiny!" and buy the damn thing ;)
You know, it's not like you're getting forced to buy the content. As for the cost of content - you have obviously *no* clue what it costs to generate and test new content. Of course we're making some money on it - the point is that we actually would like to live off making games. If you don't like that, just make your own and release them as open source. Nobody's stopping you.
Uh - no. The character asks for the penalty for necro*mancing*, not necrophilia. Those are quite different beasts.
And that's insecure? Your run-of-the-mill car can be broken into in about 20 seconds. How'd I know? I managed to leave my keys in my car and called AAA. The guy showed up and had it open in under 20 seconds, just using a coathanger.
From that POV, give me the fancy-pants stuff any time.
The point is that this is "mystery-meat navigation". I.e. I don't know it's there unless you explicitly tell me. A little 'x' button tells me that there's a spot for closing things.
To be fair, this is only because Windowing software has conditioned us to assume that 'x' means close. But nothing has conditioned us to assume that middle click is close. In fact, FF itself teaches the user that middle click *opens* a link - it's counterintuitive that it also closes things.
Or, in one short word: "Useability"
You must be new around here...
A 'tag' is nothing but a majority vote. That means a large percentage of the readers things Cringley's posts are trolling. If you don't like it, deal.
Tagging is about the benefit for the community, not for your personal benefit.
I didn't mention full HD, but it's really nitpicking. The pipes are there - cable is in almost every household. All it takes is the will to push a solution.
And as soon as there is demand - i.e. when people start losing local media - somebody will step forward and offer that solution.
and it stared right back.
(Apologies to Nietzsche, but it had to be said)
That's priceless. You almost made me spill my coffee. Even if it's tea.
a) Most people using computers know that in the event of failure, they find the closest relative who understands computer and watch him do magic incantations. (Face it - for the average person, computer-savvy people might be shamans as well)
b) The few who know that disk fail largely back up to other discs. Even 20 GB - a small amount if you have digital video - means 5 DVDs right now. Instead, get an external drive, sync it up from time to time.
The people actually having RAID arrays or NAS systems are a *vast* minority.
So, the lions share of the market basically gives a rat's ass right now. That'll change once they lose their first MP3 collection, but that's still a few years out. (Take the start of the iPod wave, add hard drive MTBF. Pain will happen)
At this point, the first one to sell streaming with perpetual rights will win. And I wouldn't be surprised if several companies are trying to hammer out the necessary deals *right now*
And the $210 DLink streams video from...? The Ether?
Ah. Wait. Let's add at least another $300 for a PC. That gets me what kind of cost savings? Almost none, you say? That's right. And I can have Windows hassles, too, while my macMini just works.
Brilliant plan!
I understand quite well what the GP was saying - and even though my reply has been facetious, the point still remains. *Nobody* has the time or inclination to become an expert in all areas. We pick and choose.
To take your e-mail example: I'm a long time game developer (programming), so I fancy myself somewhat of a technical expert when it comes to computers. And still, if my e-mail breaks down, I call our IT department. Fixing Outlook (or Windows) does not interest me a lick, and there are people who know more about it than I do and are paid for doing this job - so why on earth would I do it?
I can take the same time and instead spend some quality time improving our tool chain - which is a better use of my time for me and my employer.
The same holds true for many subjects. Fixing cars is utterly uninteresting for me, so I pay somebody. I do not care, at all, which part goes where and is called what. The thing drives, or it doesn't. I'd rather spend that time getting up to speed on other things.
There are very few people who are not curious about some things, and I'm tired of people judging them because they are different things. If somebody chooses to be an expert at squirrel hunting and not understand computers, that's their choice. It doesn't make them better or worse people.
I don't know anything about ancient egyptian recipes, and, believe it or not, I could care less.
Hope the blood starts spurting. In case it doesn't: I'm also not interested in football. At all. Feminine hygiene products? Nu-uh. Understanding ancient germanic dialects? Not really.
You are, of course, an expert in all of them, or at least strongly inclined to read up on all of them now, right?
Hopefully, there's a large pool of blood now, and this post takes care of one more self-righteous hypocrite.
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A remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties; a cure-all.
Awesome! The world *needs* dessertification. Can I have chocolate mousse?
World of Warcraft? Starwars Battlefront?
Quite a few AAA title make it to the Mac, these days - just later.
Well, excuse me for not complete re-reading an article I read a month before. The point remains - this is not a book review, but either an advertisment or blatant plagiarism. And, as usual, the /. editors don't give a sh*t either way.
./ for damages - maybe *then* we'd have something happen around here.
My personal hope is that Fast Company sues
Forms the basis? If my memory serves me right, this is more or less a verbatim copy of the article.
He was making a point that (government) censorship is not a good idea. Hence, *not* shoving down his views everybodys throats.
Did it ever occur to you that sex is about *love*? With that attitude, I wouldn't be surprised if you're not finding much love.
Right, because you are *such* an open minded person. Here's a christian guy, who explains his own values and how *he* sticks to his values, and why - and all you do is give him a good flaming? Way to go for the open-minded department.
This is one of the most disgusting posts I read in a long time. I'm an agnostic myself, and I have plenty of issues with the religious fundamentalists - but you are living proof that there are enough people on the non-religious fringe who are about as Taliban as any religious guy could get.
I would posit that this theoretical programmer hasn't spent a lot of time on real-life projects.... There is no perfect code. Never. Just undiscovered requirements.
Keep in mind that public *preventive* healthcare benefits society as a whole. Maybe that's the way out - society pays for prevention, and you insure yourself for the cure part....
And please, stop with the "higher quality" BS - unless you're paying a lot of money and go to one of the major research clinic, US health care providers are *way* below the standards I've seen in Germany.
Heck, the clinics that administer the health tests for immigrants are so run down that you need to be afraid to *get* infections there.
Yes, they do treat life-threatening emergencies without asking right away. However, they have no problems asking next-of-kin while they do the treatment. At least that's my experience - my wife had a severe concussion (passed out for over a minute) which certainly might be life-threatening. She got treated right away - and I got to fill out the insurance info right away.
But that's all fine and good in the current system - somebody needs to pay. The problem here is that health care is so expensive that many people can't afford it. One serious injury, and they're bankrupt - making it even harder to afford health care.
Call me a socialist, but I believe that basic health care should be provided to everybody, or cheap enough that everybody can afford it. And please don't raise the cost argument - health care costs are high because
* We pay for treatment, not prevention. That's certainly fixable
* We've inserted HMOs into the process. Giant bureaucracies that just siphon off money
* And finally, there's too much litigation going on. Fix that, and life's becoming better. (I'll even tell you how to fix it - punitive damages go to not-for-profits. Neither the plaintiff nor the lawyers see a red cent. We still keep the punishment, but we don't reward people for suing.)