Do you garden? It takes weeks to plant and years to grow a plant; by which time you may discover that the rose in that area doesn't get enough sun, the lilac over there is too invasive, the bachelor buttons are weedy, and the maple tree is sucking all the life out of the tulip bed beneath it.
Whereas a virtual garden? Minutes to setup, a couple hours of virtual plantings, and instant feedback on microclimates, plant water compatibility, plant to plant compatibility, and even visualization of what colors/heights/textures might look like.
Then you just click "Buy now" and you get a phone call from a local contractor, a week later you have everything planted, and within a year it should look exactly as planned.
You are assuming P2P interaction is the only point of the internet. I just gave you several non P2P examples.
It is like you saying, "Why do we need businesses/malls/stores? We can just interact directly with the tailor/furniture-wright/cook directly to get our goods."
There are entire "universes" of non P2P interactions available, such as shopping, building, and playing that are easier/cheaper/faster/better in VW than in real life, and IRC does not allow any of those.
You can't try on virtual clothes at an Amazon.com VW in IRC. Nor can you mock up your garden at a Lowes.com VW in IRC.
You can also assembly virtual furniture in your virtual house at a Macy's VW, test how a new dresser might fit in your bedroom, etc, and your 3D avatar would tell you, "It's too tight!"
That would be the logical extension of 3D, don't you think?
The point still holds; the lack of a multi-touch UI or app makes it appear that mt is a gimmick. Someone just has to write the Word or 1-2-3 that utilizes mt in the business space and then there is a need for it.
There are seven million iPhones and probably 6 million iPod touches out there. 13 million multitouch computers out of 271m PCs in 2007 means roughly one in 21 consumer PCs have a multitouch.
If we broadly include iPhones and iPod touches in the multitouch PC category (or even PC category) despite that they don't run Windows, don't have x86 processors, and can't yet run external applications.
All it takes is for Apple to release an x86 based forwards compatible super-iPod/iPhone tablet (which I am sure they have in a lab somewhere) and you have 5% of the market instantly being multitouch. Microsoft doesn't want to miss out on that market.
Multitouch is the new mouse. Did you also dismiss the mouse as too consumer and not business friendly?
Without multitouch, Windows is limited in where it can go, and as Apple has already shown, multitouch is not superficial but fundamental to making certain form factors work.
Except what helps an 80 year old billionaire will help an 70 year old millionaire, 60 year old white collar worker, etc, down to 20 year olds with pulmonary hypertension.
So what IS the cost if an 80 year old billionaire is funding the research for treatment that will benefit everyone else, except a billionaire's money?
Note I said "OpenOffice" and not StarOffice, StarWriter, etc.
From the same wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#Platforms "Platforms for which OO.o is available include Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, OpenVMS, OS/2 and IRIX.[10] The current primary development platforms are Microsoft Windows, Linux and Solaris."
My point still stands that it was a Linux app that moved to Mac (it also happened to be a Windows, BSD, Solaris, OpenVMS, IRIX, and OS/2 app). My use of the word "exclusive" was incorrect, and that I admit.
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The color is all wrong on the ADM-3A. As in, there is no translucent color shell at all.
The iMac was known for several things: AiO Color Cute
Um, how about KHTML, which started open source (like Open Office), got adopted by Apple into WebKit and (eventually) saw much use of contributions as well as adoption in terms of Nokia's web browser, QT using WebKit, rollbacks of code into KHTML, etc.
I mean, OpenOffice was a Linux exclusive app that moved to Mac, so you're quest for a OS-X only app that runs on Linux seems pointless.
You also can't modify a forklift to work underwater (this suit can) or in space (this suit can) or in collapsed mineshafts (this suit can) or in any number of restrictive or exotic locations.
Like all the PlaysForSure partners who now have to compete directly with the Zune?
How many of their PocketPC/Windows Mobile partners will have to face a ZunePhone this year?
It doesn't give much confidence to partner with someone who has every intention to stab you in the back. At this point, Android is more threatening than Microsoft, to Apple.
If you are willing to add the iPhone (even if it is less than a year old), the average drops to 0.250.
Of course, you may be right: rallying allies around a common platform might be a good strategy, but it hasn't worked for Microsoft since the first DOS/Windows PCs.
Why would more customizability translate to increased sales or profit?
More desirable designs, more desirable software, more desirable capabilities, that will sell more computers, and none of those things have anything to do with "customizability".
What are you talking about? Sonnet: System wide spellcheck has been a part of Mac OS X since 2001, a part of NeXT since 1986 (I think) Strigi/Nepomuk: System wide search/index and metadata has been a part of Mac OS X since 2005 Solid: Isn't this I/OKit, a framework for managing drivers, power management, driver loading, and configuration of devices? Plasma: Isn't this a combination of CoreGraphics/Quartz, Dashboard, the Dock, the Finder, et al? Decibel: This sounds unique:)
So a lot of things already exist in the Mac that are being written up for KDE4, some things look like an evolution of existing Mac technologies, and some things are new.
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The first example it takes weeks because you need to buy, plant, re-assess, buy, plant, re-assess.
In the second example all that is done within an hour, instead you just buy and plant once. No iteration involved.
And no, this will not work better than a landscape designer, it just allows you to become a landscape designer, even if you are a bad one.
You're arguing against stupid implementations, not against implementations.
I imagine if Blizzard did it, things might not be so sucky.
I imagine with that kind of integration, the game itself is FREE. Ad supported even.
You can think of it as another internet, but instead of Google Earth, it's Google Azeroth, instead of Yahoo! Mail, it's WoWoo! Mail, etc.
Why is it more problematic in a game than in real life?
Do you garden?
It takes weeks to plant and years to grow a plant; by which time you may discover that the rose in that area doesn't get enough sun, the lilac over there is too invasive, the bachelor buttons are weedy, and the maple tree is sucking all the life out of the tulip bed beneath it.
Whereas a virtual garden? Minutes to setup, a couple hours of virtual plantings, and instant feedback on microclimates, plant water compatibility, plant to plant compatibility, and even visualization of what colors/heights/textures might look like.
Then you just click "Buy now" and you get a phone call from a local contractor, a week later you have everything planted, and within a year it should look exactly as planned.
You are assuming P2P interaction is the only point of the internet. I just gave you several non P2P examples.
It is like you saying, "Why do we need businesses/malls/stores? We can just interact directly with the tailor/furniture-wright/cook directly to get our goods."
There are entire "universes" of non P2P interactions available, such as shopping, building, and playing that are easier/cheaper/faster/better in VW than in real life, and IRC does not allow any of those.
You can't try on virtual clothes at an Amazon.com VW in IRC. Nor can you mock up your garden at a Lowes.com VW in IRC.
You can also assembly virtual furniture in your virtual house at a Macy's VW, test how a new dresser might fit in your bedroom, etc, and your 3D avatar would tell you, "It's too tight!"
That would be the logical extension of 3D, don't you think?
I know some parents/spouses who go to work for escapism. Why shouldn't games/life be like that?
I imagine it's a choice, and if you don't want to use it, you don't, and if you do, it makes the game more convenient and accessible.
SMS integration with WoW would be neat: especially if you can remote your character via SMS.
You mean you would rather do this:
.Mac, YouTube, GMail, etc.
Take a screenshot
Alt-tab to an editor
Save picture
Select picture
Upload picture to a website
Over
Take a screenshot
Select in-game photo app
Upload picture to a website
This applies to everything: LiveJournal, WordPress, Twitter, Flikr,
Why shouldn't WoW or SL be able to integrate directly with Skype, AIM, email, Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter?
It's probably the next step of increasing MMO/VW usage.
The point still holds; the lack of a multi-touch UI or app makes it appear that mt is a gimmick. Someone just has to write the Word or 1-2-3 that utilizes mt in the business space and then there is a need for it.
There are seven million iPhones and probably 6 million iPod touches out there. 13 million multitouch computers out of 271m PCs in 2007 means roughly one in 21 consumer PCs have a multitouch.
If we broadly include iPhones and iPod touches in the multitouch PC category (or even PC category) despite that they don't run Windows, don't have x86 processors, and can't yet run external applications.
All it takes is for Apple to release an x86 based forwards compatible super-iPod/iPhone tablet (which I am sure they have in a lab somewhere) and you have 5% of the market instantly being multitouch. Microsoft doesn't want to miss out on that market.
Multitouch is the new mouse. Did you also dismiss the mouse as too consumer and not business friendly?
Without multitouch, Windows is limited in where it can go, and as Apple has already shown, multitouch is not superficial but fundamental to making certain form factors work.
Does our constitution apply outside the US?
Does it apply to non citizens?
Ideally it should apply to both, but I can see technical reasons why it wouldn't.
So if you are a US citizen, you should be able to wield the 4th.
Except what helps an 80 year old billionaire will help an 70 year old millionaire, 60 year old white collar worker, etc, down to 20 year olds with pulmonary hypertension.
So what IS the cost if an 80 year old billionaire is funding the research for treatment that will benefit everyone else, except a billionaire's money?
Note I said "OpenOffice" and not StarOffice, StarWriter, etc.
From the same wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#Platforms
"Platforms for which OO.o is available include Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, OpenVMS, OS/2 and IRIX.[10] The current primary development platforms are Microsoft Windows, Linux and Solaris."
My point still stands that it was a Linux app that moved to Mac (it also happened to be a Windows, BSD, Solaris, OpenVMS, IRIX, and OS/2 app). My use of the word "exclusive" was incorrect, and that I admit.
The color is all wrong on the ADM-3A. As in, there is no translucent color shell at all.
The iMac was known for several things:
AiO
Color
Cute
The ADM-3A lacks color or cute.
Except WebKit was the fork from the start; it just wasn't open sourced until 2 years later.
Um, how about KHTML, which started open source (like Open Office), got adopted by Apple into WebKit and (eventually) saw much use of contributions as well as adoption in terms of Nokia's web browser, QT using WebKit, rollbacks of code into KHTML, etc.
I mean, OpenOffice was a Linux exclusive app that moved to Mac, so you're quest for a OS-X only app that runs on Linux seems pointless.
You also can't modify a forklift to work underwater (this suit can) or in space (this suit can) or in collapsed mineshafts (this suit can) or in any number of restrictive or exotic locations.
Like all the PlaysForSure partners who now have to compete directly with the Zune?
How many of their PocketPC/Windows Mobile partners will have to face a ZunePhone this year?
It doesn't give much confidence to partner with someone who has every intention to stab you in the back. At this point, Android is more threatening than Microsoft, to Apple.
How is that strategy working out for their Zune?
So far Microsoft is batting 0.333:
Windows, hit
Zune, miss
WMA, miss
If you are willing to add the iPhone (even if it is less than a year old), the average drops to 0.250.
Of course, you may be right: rallying allies around a common platform might be a good strategy, but it hasn't worked for Microsoft since the first DOS/Windows PCs.
Why would more customizability translate to increased sales or profit?
More desirable designs, more desirable software, more desirable capabilities, that will sell more computers, and none of those things have anything to do with "customizability".
They own Java, though I didn't know that contained caffeine.
What are you talking about? :)
Sonnet: System wide spellcheck has been a part of Mac OS X since 2001, a part of NeXT since 1986 (I think)
Strigi/Nepomuk: System wide search/index and metadata has been a part of Mac OS X since 2005
Solid: Isn't this I/OKit, a framework for managing drivers, power management, driver loading, and configuration of devices?
Plasma: Isn't this a combination of CoreGraphics/Quartz, Dashboard, the Dock, the Finder, et al?
Decibel: This sounds unique
So a lot of things already exist in the Mac that are being written up for KDE4, some things look like an evolution of existing Mac technologies, and some things are new.
What is your point? No one develops in a vacuum.
They got in serious trouble with the US for manipulating Windows licenses, not for giving special treatment to their programs.
Read up. Compaq and IBM, Netscape and OS/2.