I think Nintendo were smart. They have "jacked up" the price to make money on the hardware -- as they've always done -- but it STILL costs much less than the others.
The family looking to buy a console won't look at how much the manufacturer makes on the hardware -- they look at the fun to be had from the thing, then the price. The Wii pretty much rule both.
Said Mrs. Consola: "Hm. This little white thingy looks fun for the whole family, displays pretty, soft pictures with cute characters, and costs half of the big black thingy and the weird green thingamabob with games mostly about killing each other -- which one should I get? Oh my, which indeed?"
Microsoft seriously need to start work on a "Windows Neo" or something that is redesigned from the core and will break compatibility with _everything_ unless they can create some "Classic" thing like Apple did for OSX.
I see this as the only way to "fix" the Windows codebase which must look like a complete, utter mess after a decade of hacks.
My employer also sees the sense in having dual monitors. Here, everyone has them -- from developers to support -- and I've not met one who thinks it's not a productivity advantage.
In the days of CRTs I could understand this. But with LCD's? Two does not take that much more desk space than one since they're so flat. Keep them close to the wall or something. Your keyboard or laptop is usually what takes up the most space on the desk.
I used the laptop with a 17" CRT until the CRT was replaced with a 19" LCD recently -- it cleared up half my desk:)
I think the entire GITS universe has some of the more realistic near-future fictional technologies. Especially after seeing the clip of the bionic suit some Japanese professor has made (looked kind of like Mega Man when I think about it) and recent advances in neuro-computer connections. True cybernetic limbs are not far away, I think.
Sitting on my computer yesterday I noticed why I like Beryl more than a non-3D desktop: When changing workspace from left to right with CTRL-ALT- the windows on the next desktop redraw. The thing is, the controls in each windows are redrawn one by one and it feels slow. It feels like I lose a second or two or work every time I switch workspaces to refresh the webpage I just changed two lines of CSS in.
With Beryl the desktop just spins to the next workspace, and the windows there are already redrawn.
I use those and still use the cube spin. Just up the speed a bit and set zooming to occur only when scroll-clicking or left+right-clicking the desktop. I work just as fast as before using 3D effects but the added percepted fluency of the action makes work a bit more... "mentally ergonomic", if you will.
As long as the effects are not irritating, i.e. fast-moving and fluent, it's a win-win situation for me.
Genesis could actually be a metaphorical description of the creation of the earth, and does not have to be at odds with the scientific evidence. It is all based on interpretation.
That's why I enjoy stuff like these guys and the amusing-to-read ramblings of Blavatsky. At least these people did not outright disregard neither science nor myth and tried to link them somehow. Reading "The Secret Doctrine"s chapters on creation myths is especially fun. "Hey perhaps these few lines is just a metaphor for something that took really really long to do?"
Their theories are of course not closer to what "really happened" than any other quasi-religious nutjobs. Everyone knows it's turtles all the way down.
If all our news sources were like that, then real news would be taken for a joke and people would be oblivious that they REALLY bought a deffective Nvidia.
Today I read an article about a machine installed at an airport for automatically declaring and paying customs, so one doesn't have to deal with pesky uniformed personnel. It was demonstrated by our Minister of Finance. I think this is the year's April Fool's joke.
In the 70's, NRK (Norwegian equivalent of Auntie Beeb) broadcast a story saying that the "Wine Monopoly" (national alcohol sales monopoly) would be dumping cheap surplus wine and encouraged people to show up at the salespoints with buckets.
The queues spanned city blocks. It's our version of the BBC's Spaghetti Trees, their most successful prank ever.
Large, respected news media take great joy in trying to make fools of all of us. Because everyone (except you, apparently) knows that April 1st is the one day you should not trust any news source, and instead try and figure out what is this year's prank.
I did only play those consoles once, the N64 and the one before that. Haven't tried the GC or Wii. I much prefer the north/south/east/west layout of buttons rather than having them in a horizontal row.
I think you're talking about the SEGA Genesis (Mega Drive) which had ABC horizontally. The SNES, which came before the N64, had the NSEW layout (and was the first with such a layout and L+R buttons, no?:)
In my view the SNES controller is still the best digital gamepad ever made.
And I ask, which is more accurate? There is a clear difference in perceived intelligence between the two quotes. The more stalling, mumbling, mmm-ing and aah-ing, the less intelligent you seem. A person that instead formulates a sentence before speaking it comes off as more intelligent, coherent and not to say concise. Even though there are one-to-two-second pause between each sentence and before a reply, it's better and quicker than a person that um... have problems being aaah... able to construct sentences like aaaaahhhhhn... edumacated fella.
Companies that have customer contact and depend on having their systems up and running usually have a skeleton crew that can handle things while the others are away, i.e. both sysadmins in a company are not on vacation at the same time.
But your search queries leave the house, unencrypted, with no guarantee of protection and travel to Google. That's where the analogy has fault.
It's like sending letters without envelopes and demanding that the USPS makes sure no-one can snap up and read the letters while in transit. Or going to the post office in the nude and demand the post office makes sure nobody can see your penis before you get there.
What? You don't have a penis, and I'm an insensitive clod? Sorry.
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If enough people in the classroom had rushed him he might have killed a couple of them before being overpowered, instead of > 10.
I think Nintendo were smart. They have "jacked up" the price to make money on the hardware -- as they've always done -- but it STILL costs much less than the others.
The family looking to buy a console won't look at how much the manufacturer makes on the hardware -- they look at the fun to be had from the thing, then the price. The Wii pretty much rule both.
Said Mrs. Consola: "Hm. This little white thingy looks fun for the whole family, displays pretty, soft pictures with cute characters, and costs half of the big black thingy and the weird green thingamabob with games mostly about killing each other -- which one should I get? Oh my, which indeed?"
Oh, thanks for this -- a fantastic ditty indeed :)
Microsoft seriously need to start work on a "Windows Neo" or something that is redesigned from the core and will break compatibility with _everything_ unless they can create some "Classic" thing like Apple did for OSX.
I see this as the only way to "fix" the Windows codebase which must look like a complete, utter mess after a decade of hacks.
Thanks for citing sources and doing what I had no time to :)
My employer also sees the sense in having dual monitors. Here, everyone has them -- from developers to support -- and I've not met one who thinks it's not a productivity advantage.
In the days of CRTs I could understand this. But with LCD's? Two does not take that much more desk space than one since they're so flat. Keep them close to the wall or something. Your keyboard or laptop is usually what takes up the most space on the desk.
:)
I used the laptop with a 17" CRT until the CRT was replaced with a 19" LCD recently -- it cleared up half my desk
Well, the first-gen P's could yield unpredictable results some times
I think the entire GITS universe has some of the more realistic near-future fictional technologies. Especially after seeing the clip of the bionic suit some Japanese professor has made (looked kind of like Mega Man when I think about it) and recent advances in neuro-computer connections. True cybernetic limbs are not far away, I think.
...or just say "Computer!"
Not to mention the fact you'll be walking around like a gorilla with RSI in both arms after a day of using the thing.
Sitting on my computer yesterday I noticed why I like Beryl more than a non-3D desktop: When changing workspace from left to right with CTRL-ALT- the windows on the next desktop redraw. The thing is, the controls in each windows are redrawn one by one and it feels slow. It feels like I lose a second or two or work every time I switch workspaces to refresh the webpage I just changed two lines of CSS in.
With Beryl the desktop just spins to the next workspace, and the windows there are already redrawn.
I use those and still use the cube spin. Just up the speed a bit and set zooming to occur only when scroll-clicking or left+right-clicking the desktop. I work just as fast as before using 3D effects but the added percepted fluency of the action makes work a bit more... "mentally ergonomic", if you will.
As long as the effects are not irritating, i.e. fast-moving and fluent, it's a win-win situation for me.
Of course, if you start at 0 (why didn't I? brainfart, I guess.)
That's why I enjoy stuff like these guys and the amusing-to-read ramblings of Blavatsky. At least these people did not outright disregard neither science nor myth and tried to link them somehow. Reading "The Secret Doctrine"s chapters on creation myths is especially fun. "Hey perhaps these few lines is just a metaphor for something that took really really long to do?"
Their theories are of course not closer to what "really happened" than any other quasi-religious nutjobs. Everyone knows it's turtles all the way down.
Today I read an article about a machine installed at an airport for automatically declaring and paying customs, so one doesn't have to deal with pesky uniformed personnel. It was demonstrated by our Minister of Finance. I think this is the year's April Fool's joke.
In the 70's, NRK (Norwegian equivalent of Auntie Beeb) broadcast a story saying that the "Wine Monopoly" (national alcohol sales monopoly) would be dumping cheap surplus wine and encouraged people to show up at the salespoints with buckets.
The queues spanned city blocks. It's our version of the BBC's Spaghetti Trees, their most successful prank ever.
Large, respected news media take great joy in trying to make fools of all of us. Because everyone (except you, apparently) knows that April 1st is the one day you should not trust any news source, and instead try and figure out what is this year's prank.
Lighten up.
I think you're talking about the SEGA Genesis (Mega Drive) which had ABC horizontally. The SNES, which came before the N64, had the NSEW layout (and was the first with such a layout and L+R buttons, no?
In my view the SNES controller is still the best digital gamepad ever made.
But of course. Typo.
Ugh, you should submit that to worsethanfailure.com or something.
B000-B7FF if I remember correctly, at least for DOS -- was it an ENN386 option?
If I could mod you +65537 Funny I would.
Level 2 support and up isn't so bad, since you don't have to deal with the users directly ;)
And I ask, which is more accurate? There is a clear difference in perceived intelligence between the two quotes. The more stalling, mumbling, mmm-ing and aah-ing, the less intelligent you seem. A person that instead formulates a sentence before speaking it comes off as more intelligent, coherent and not to say concise. Even though there are one-to-two-second pause between each sentence and before a reply, it's better and quicker than a person that um... have problems being aaah... able to construct sentences like aaaaahhhhhn... edumacated fella.
Companies that have customer contact and depend on having their systems up and running usually have a skeleton crew that can handle things while the others are away, i.e. both sysadmins in a company are not on vacation at the same time.
It's like sending letters without envelopes and demanding that the USPS makes sure no-one can snap up and read the letters while in transit. Or going to the post office in the nude and demand the post office makes sure nobody can see your penis before you get there.
What? You don't have a penis, and I'm an insensitive clod? Sorry.