i can take a console game and play it on any console it was made for at people's homes. with PC games you can't do that. you have to install, fight the DRM, worry about hardware requirements, etc
meanwhile the average computer prices have dropped. back in 1998 the average laptop cost $3000. today it's $700. the prices on Intel CPU's have dropped along with other components. the only ones to have gone up are graphics card prices
i go way back to the Riva TNT2 and voodoo2 days. i bought a top of the line voodoo2 the day it came out back in 1998. cost me $299. these days a top of the line card is $500 or more and it sucks enough electricity to power a small town.
x-box 360 cost me $299 same as my PS3. i can also use each one to watch media on my tv without the hassle of doing it on the PC which is usually in the opposite side of the house or room. the games are usually the same which means that the gameplay experience is the same. most people won't spend the money just for the graphics card. the "gamer" is now a 40 year old person that plays Cityville on facebook. not a nerd playing Doom, command and conquer or starcraft on their PC
reminds me of when i first came to the US, parents had no money and my dad would say if you want to see a movie then think very hard about it to make sure you will like it since it's so expensive. same with buying a $25 book. with a $.99 you aren't going to think so hard about it since it costs less than coffee
the ghetto risk where you risk a lot for little potential reward. choose any stupid scam you read about where the idiot criminal gets caught for stealing very little money in the big picture. say a few thousand $$$.
the good risk where you risk a little or even a lot but for a good reward. like say finding a new job at google.
fourth down is a bad risk unless you're losing and there is very little time left since most plays in sports result in very little reward or none at all. like in baseball where hitting the ball 1/3 times means you're a superstar.
i know someone who went from zero to a good java dev after going to a similar college with a tech program. otherwise we'll be like europe where if you don't do well on the high school tests they give you will never go to college and never have a chance to change your life in the future
most tasks that are perfect for computers are repetitive work of finding the right data in a warehouse. just program it to find the right data and it will work until done. people hate repetitive work, people want something interesting that always changes.
the lawyers will just get put to work doing something else that needs to be done but wasn't affordable because companies that needed the document searches done would pay more
GL releases a "new" version of these movies every few years to get money from the fans and they keep paying. next there will be another blu ray release with 3d and digital copy when he could have done it for the upcoming 2011 release
i've been burned buying on specs, most notably the sega 32X and genesis compared to the SNES
as an android and iOS user, the apple app store is much better than the android market for most people. i agree that the hot chick's asses live wallpaper is cool for some, but for most people they prefer the simplicity of the iPad.
even as a geek i recommend iPhone over android to non-techie people. the only reason i tell them to buy android is that you can get a nice phone for free on contract
easy for users to give permission and no one asks themselves why a wallpaper app needs root access. on iOS the phone is locked down and users can't give this access in the first place
what probably happened is that too many apps became free and paid for by admob/iAD to the developer. the original prices on the app store were pretty high and fell pretty fast
maybe on no profit consumer computers, but on servers Intel rules. Xeons are 32nm, faster in most cases, better power efficiency and by the time you price out the server the cost is the same or less than AMD based servers.
don't kill the SSD hype. it's so cooler having Windows boot up 10 seconds faster and so much worth the ridiculous prices per GB these things go for. not even the power savings make up for the cost
yes, paying onlive to rent a game is so much better than buying it for the same price or less on my x-box or PS3. and my x-box/ps3 can be used for netflix, hulu, dvd, blu ray and other uses. onlive will just waste a HDMI port on my TV
because i had mine jailbroken for a few months last year and got tired of it. don't care about pirated apps or the themes. don't want to pay $10 for sbs settings or tethering apps either. and i don't tether so i don't care about it
with the iphone 3g and before ios4 there was multi-tasking. but now is there any feature i'm missing because i'm not jailbroken?
once in a while i get friend invites from people all over the world i've never met. i ignore them. i guess that's how they got access to people's facebook profiles.
annoying thing about gmail is that it will add people to your contact list only if you were on a receive list for a big email. one time as a joke i sent invites to everyone who i had an email address for in my gmail. most people i've never met. a lot of people accepted blindly
i couldn't navigate until Platoon Leader's Development Course in the US Army and now i can look at any map and find my way easily. never use a GPS. even learned to navigate using the terrain in a few days.
half the battle is just looking at your watch and the sun to figure out where north, south, east and west are
this is like the shoplifting database in the USA. if you get a conviction for shoplifting there is a database that retailers check and they will refuse you employment based on it and possibly entry into their stores
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i can take a console game and play it on any console it was made for at people's homes. with PC games you can't do that. you have to install, fight the DRM, worry about hardware requirements, etc
yes $150 cards will play games very well. but will they play them like the video is hyping the new engine?
meanwhile the average computer prices have dropped. back in 1998 the average laptop cost $3000. today it's $700. the prices on Intel CPU's have dropped along with other components. the only ones to have gone up are graphics card prices
i go way back to the Riva TNT2 and voodoo2 days. i bought a top of the line voodoo2 the day it came out back in 1998. cost me $299. these days a top of the line card is $500 or more and it sucks enough electricity to power a small town.
x-box 360 cost me $299 same as my PS3. i can also use each one to watch media on my tv without the hassle of doing it on the PC which is usually in the opposite side of the house or room. the games are usually the same which means that the gameplay experience is the same. most people won't spend the money just for the graphics card. the "gamer" is now a 40 year old person that plays Cityville on facebook. not a nerd playing Doom, command and conquer or starcraft on their PC
reminds me of when i first came to the US, parents had no money and my dad would say if you want to see a movie then think very hard about it to make sure you will like it since it's so expensive. same with buying a $25 book. with a $.99 you aren't going to think so hard about it since it costs less than coffee
stop drinking the steve jobs kool aid
once htm5 matures and you get more dev tools it will be the same performance monster as flash animations
there are two risk reward ratios
the ghetto risk where you risk a lot for little potential reward. choose any stupid scam you read about where the idiot criminal gets caught for stealing very little money in the big picture. say a few thousand $$$.
the good risk where you risk a little or even a lot but for a good reward. like say finding a new job at google.
fourth down is a bad risk unless you're losing and there is very little time left since most plays in sports result in very little reward or none at all. like in baseball where hitting the ball 1/3 times means you're a superstar.
i know someone who went from zero to a good java dev after going to a similar college with a tech program. otherwise we'll be like europe where if you don't do well on the high school tests they give you will never go to college and never have a chance to change your life in the future
most tasks that are perfect for computers are repetitive work of finding the right data in a warehouse. just program it to find the right data and it will work until done. people hate repetitive work, people want something interesting that always changes.
the lawyers will just get put to work doing something else that needs to be done but wasn't affordable because companies that needed the document searches done would pay more
GL releases a "new" version of these movies every few years to get money from the fans and they keep paying. next there will be another blu ray release with 3d and digital copy when he could have done it for the upcoming 2011 release
so where are these tablets with the same or better specs than the iPad but cheaper price?
i've been burned buying on specs, most notably the sega 32X and genesis compared to the SNES
as an android and iOS user, the apple app store is much better than the android market for most people. i agree that the hot chick's asses live wallpaper is cool for some, but for most people they prefer the simplicity of the iPad.
even as a geek i recommend iPhone over android to non-techie people. the only reason i tell them to buy android is that you can get a nice phone for free on contract
but he gave the info to wikileaks which is cool, so they should just like let him go and tell him not to do it again
easy for users to give permission and no one asks themselves why a wallpaper app needs root access. on iOS the phone is locked down and users can't give this access in the first place
what probably happened is that too many apps became free and paid for by admob/iAD to the developer. the original prices on the app store were pretty high and fell pretty fast
maybe on no profit consumer computers, but on servers Intel rules. Xeons are 32nm, faster in most cases, better power efficiency and by the time you price out the server the cost is the same or less than AMD based servers.
don't kill the SSD hype. it's so cooler having Windows boot up 10 seconds faster and so much worth the ridiculous prices per GB these things go for. not even the power savings make up for the cost
would be a smart move. Nokia owns thousands of patents that Apple licenses
yes, paying onlive to rent a game is so much better than buying it for the same price or less on my x-box or PS3. and my x-box/ps3 can be used for netflix, hulu, dvd, blu ray and other uses. onlive will just waste a HDMI port on my TV
because i had mine jailbroken for a few months last year and got tired of it. don't care about pirated apps or the themes. don't want to pay $10 for sbs settings or tethering apps either. and i don't tether so i don't care about it
with the iphone 3g and before ios4 there was multi-tasking. but now is there any feature i'm missing because i'm not jailbroken?
iphone jailbreakers didn't re-engineer the apple digital cert or codes. they just found a way to install their own software via apple's security holes
once in a while i get friend invites from people all over the world i've never met. i ignore them. i guess that's how they got access to people's facebook profiles.
annoying thing about gmail is that it will add people to your contact list only if you were on a receive list for a big email. one time as a joke i sent invites to everyone who i had an email address for in my gmail. most people i've never met. a lot of people accepted blindly
i couldn't navigate until Platoon Leader's Development Course in the US Army and now i can look at any map and find my way easily. never use a GPS. even learned to navigate using the terrain in a few days.
half the battle is just looking at your watch and the sun to figure out where north, south, east and west are
code an activeX plugin and you should be OK
this is like the shoplifting database in the USA. if you get a conviction for shoplifting there is a database that retailers check and they will refuse you employment based on it and possibly entry into their stores