Wow, what are you, the fucking Grinch? It was a joke, laugh. Besides, Mario Party is a really fun game, and we've already planned parties to play it once it comes out over here in Europe.
Follow through with the slow put until the remote registers it. It's entirely possible to hit very, very slow puts if you just follow through and don't stop in the middle.
I think most people realize that it's reality. That doesn't mean that all companies behave like this, or that we should just accept it and not talk about it.
Apple didn't try to blackmail the rumor site. They tried to find the leak of a trade secret and sued against unknown persons. They then tried to force the rumor sites to reveal their source. Kind of something entirely different.
Why would a Company be so stupid and do something like this intentionally? I mean, they basically destroyed the credibility of any positive article on the company, because now you can't be sure whether they blackmailed the reporter into writing it. What company would be so stupid?
Huh? A corporation tries to blackmail a news outlet into not printing an article - which the outlet has researched on its own, by the way, and not received from the company - and you think this is fine? Sure, it's not illegal, but I don't want to buy goods from a company who tries to supporess a free and fair press, and from a public relations standpoint, this just makes me doubt whether positive articles about Sony are actually the result of Sony's blackmailing of reporters.
If Sony suspects that somebody leaked trade secrets, they should just go to the courts and see whether they can force Kotaku to reveal the sources. But don't try to blackmail the press.
It terms of features and getting things done, pretty much any of the current "smart phones" blow it away. The iPhone is not for people who want smartphones for getting anything serious done.
You know, I find that hilarious. I've owned four smartphones during the recent years. A high-end Nokia phone (proprietary OS), a SonyEricsson P800 (Symbian), a Treo 650 (Palm) and, most recently, a SonyEricsson P990i (again, Symbian). All of these phones suck. They suck at the most simple tasks. The Treo has a usable interface, but it still look exactly like my first Palm, except it's in color. It still doesn't do real multitasking! Even sending an SMS locks up the whole damn thing.
The P800 was a neat phone, but the P990i is an utter joke. It's as if they took everything good from the P800 and made it as bad as they possibly could. For example, it takes 14 steps to enter a new appointment. Obviously, somebody at SonyEricsson noticed that this was an issue and created an additional, shorter path, but if you use that, you don't see your existing appointments, which makes it absolutely useless.
The P900i is a constant source of frustration, despite being a "serious" phone.
Frankly, I fail to see how the iPhone is not for people who want serious stuff done. As far as I can see, the current batch of smartphones simply fails at being good for anything other than showing people how much money you earn. Which is a useful function, to be sure, but not really what I need a phone for.
Seriously, it's pretty much impossible for the iPhone to be harder to use than its competitors.
I owned a Cube during last gen, and one of the reasons I wanted to get a PS3 was to play some of the games I missed - Okami, God of War, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Psychonauts, Katamari Damacy. Now I'll probably just buy a cheap PS2 instead of the PS3.
If your Wii cooks discs in Wiiconnect24 mode, it's broken. My Wii has been running in Wiiconnect24 since I bought it the day it came out, and it is only slightly warm to the touch if I'm not playing games.
Probably not. I'm guessing they have a batch of fixed iPods which they send out as soon as they get a broken one, which they then refurbish. Less downtime for users.
I actually prefer the XP interface over both Linux AND OSX. And no noob accusations, I've had a massive computer hobby since back when the TRS-80 was considered bleeding edge.
So you got used to something and don't feel the alternatives justify the time you need to spend to get up to speed. Nothing wrong with that. It just doesn't say anything about the respective qualities of the operating systems you mentioned.
If you have to stare at something all day long, how it looks plays a huge factor in how you feel at the end of the day. In addion, implying that Apple's products are only "skin deep" is absurd.
Mac OS X may not be for you. Maybe Windows is a better OS for what you need. Maybe Linux is. But not everyone is like you, and people who care about aesthetics aren't inferior to you.
Don't have the time to go through your list, but I'm not sure you considered everything a MacBook offers. MacBooks come with a built-in iSight, MagSafe, a wifi card (802.11n), a remote (nice for presentations), a firewire port, gigabit ethernet, Core 2 Duo chips, and tons of software such as Front Row and iLife. They are also quite small (which is definitely worth something) and offer good battery life. And yes, they run Mac OS X as well as Windows (which is also definitely worth something). I think they are priced very competitively for what they offer.
Well, as the other poster already surmised, and judging by your other comments (most modded to -1, Troll), you do indeed seem to be quite insane. In addition to that, you also have no idea what you're talking about. Apple has one of the (if not the) best design teams in the computer industry. Jonathan Ive, Apple's Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, has won many awards for his work at Apple.
Putting sugar on shit doesn't make it anything other than shit.
But putting sugar on a cookie is the icing on the cake. I'm guessing you simply have no clue about Apple and its products. It's way more than just skin-deep candy colors.
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...along with the ability to make money, I presume.
Do you enjoy making yourself miserable or can you just not help it? Cheer up, mate.
I hope you're lying. Otherwise, the Mars program is in deep shit. Oh. Wait. That explains a lot.
Wow, what are you, the fucking Grinch? It was a joke, laugh. Besides, Mario Party is a really fun game, and we've already planned parties to play it once it comes out over here in Europe.
Follow through with the slow put until the remote registers it. It's entirely possible to hit very, very slow puts if you just follow through and don't stop in the middle.
The problem is that it's highly likely that somebody else would have come up with this idea either way.
I think most people realize that it's reality. That doesn't mean that all companies behave like this, or that we should just accept it and not talk about it.
Sure, Kotaku doesn't have some kind of inherent right to get information from Sony. So?
Sony was in a position of power and used that power to influence a news source. That makes them both untrustworthy asshats as well as idiots.
Apple didn't try to blackmail the rumor site. They tried to find the leak of a trade secret and sued against unknown persons. They then tried to force the rumor sites to reveal their source. Kind of something entirely different.
Why would a Company be so stupid and do something like this intentionally? I mean, they basically destroyed the credibility of any positive article on the company, because now you can't be sure whether they blackmailed the reporter into writing it. What company would be so stupid?
Oh, wait, we're talking about Sony here.
So the games media is crap, and those which aren't crap are stupid for not being crap? What's your point?
So the fact that Bush does it makes it okay? Or what exactly are you trying to say here?
Huh? A corporation tries to blackmail a news outlet into not printing an article - which the outlet has researched on its own, by the way, and not received from the company - and you think this is fine? Sure, it's not illegal, but I don't want to buy goods from a company who tries to supporess a free and fair press, and from a public relations standpoint, this just makes me doubt whether positive articles about Sony are actually the result of Sony's blackmailing of reporters.
If Sony suspects that somebody leaked trade secrets, they should just go to the courts and see whether they can force Kotaku to reveal the sources. But don't try to blackmail the press.
You know, I find that hilarious. I've owned four smartphones during the recent years. A high-end Nokia phone (proprietary OS), a SonyEricsson P800 (Symbian), a Treo 650 (Palm) and, most recently, a SonyEricsson P990i (again, Symbian). All of these phones suck. They suck at the most simple tasks. The Treo has a usable interface, but it still look exactly like my first Palm, except it's in color. It still doesn't do real multitasking! Even sending an SMS locks up the whole damn thing.
The P800 was a neat phone, but the P990i is an utter joke. It's as if they took everything good from the P800 and made it as bad as they possibly could. For example, it takes 14 steps to enter a new appointment. Obviously, somebody at SonyEricsson noticed that this was an issue and created an additional, shorter path, but if you use that, you don't see your existing appointments, which makes it absolutely useless.
The P900i is a constant source of frustration, despite being a "serious" phone.
Frankly, I fail to see how the iPhone is not for people who want serious stuff done. As far as I can see, the current batch of smartphones simply fails at being good for anything other than showing people how much money you earn. Which is a useful function, to be sure, but not really what I need a phone for.
Seriously, it's pretty much impossible for the iPhone to be harder to use than its competitors.
I don't think they hid it. Also, the 2000's handwriting recognition did not need any training.
The iPod had less features than its competitors, too. That's a feature, not a bug. Same with iPhone.
I owned a Cube during last gen, and one of the reasons I wanted to get a PS3 was to play some of the games I missed - Okami, God of War, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Psychonauts, Katamari Damacy. Now I'll probably just buy a cheap PS2 instead of the PS3.
If your Wii cooks discs in Wiiconnect24 mode, it's broken. My Wii has been running in Wiiconnect24 since I bought it the day it came out, and it is only slightly warm to the touch if I'm not playing games.
Probably not. I'm guessing they have a batch of fixed iPods which they send out as soon as they get a broken one, which they then refurbish. Less downtime for users.
So you got used to something and don't feel the alternatives justify the time you need to spend to get up to speed. Nothing wrong with that. It just doesn't say anything about the respective qualities of the operating systems you mentioned.
If you have to stare at something all day long, how it looks plays a huge factor in how you feel at the end of the day. In addion, implying that Apple's products are only "skin deep" is absurd.
Mac OS X may not be for you. Maybe Windows is a better OS for what you need. Maybe Linux is. But not everyone is like you, and people who care about aesthetics aren't inferior to you.
With such a coherent argument, I can't see how anyone would think you were a Troll!
Don't have the time to go through your list, but I'm not sure you considered everything a MacBook offers. MacBooks come with a built-in iSight, MagSafe, a wifi card (802.11n), a remote (nice for presentations), a firewire port, gigabit ethernet, Core 2 Duo chips, and tons of software such as Front Row and iLife. They are also quite small (which is definitely worth something) and offer good battery life. And yes, they run Mac OS X as well as Windows (which is also definitely worth something). I think they are priced very competitively for what they offer.
Well, as the other poster already surmised, and judging by your other comments (most modded to -1, Troll), you do indeed seem to be quite insane. In addition to that, you also have no idea what you're talking about. Apple has one of the (if not the) best design teams in the computer industry. Jonathan Ive, Apple's Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, has won many awards for his work at Apple.
But putting sugar on a cookie is the icing on the cake. I'm guessing you simply have no clue about Apple and its products. It's way more than just skin-deep candy colors.