"Which is ironic, really, given that the actual practical differences between the PS4 and Xbox One are vanishingly small and only really apparent to hardcore enthusiasts."
In other words you have absolutely nothing of value to add to anything related to the console market.
No one is reading your giant rambling and delusional walls of text.
Microsoft is 0/3 in the console market with many billions of dollars wasted on the fourteen year long Xbox fiasco.
The first Xbox was an overpriced bunch of desktop PC parts thrown in a big ugly box and was dumped by Microsoft due to its failure in the marketplace.
The second Xbox:
* Was rushed out the door a year/year and a half early to try to pad out its installed base numbers
* Had the RRoD fiasco that inflated its installed base numbers by tens of millions of units
* Cost 200 dollars less than the much more powerful PS3
And despite all that Microsoft still came in last with the Xbox 360.
And now Microsoft is getting utterly crushed by the PS4 in worldwide sales.
To describe the Xbox as anything other than a monumental failure for Microsoft is delusional.
And, no, the Xbox One hasn't 'sold 10 million' - its worldwide installed base numbers are in the 7-8 million range. The Xbox One has been bombing so badly in sales that Microsoft will not admit to its actual installed base numbers.
Linux has become the laughingstock of the computing world thanks to the Systemd Fiasco.
An entire operating system trashed by a single incompetent clown and his shit pet project rammed down distro throats by his foaming at the mouth fanboys.
A healthy open source community would never have let this fiasco happen.
Hello FreeBSD. A pure Unix operating system run by grownups only interested in technical excellence.
Why would I pay effectively double for a Mac that:
1. I can't even get a Blu-Ray drive with
2. Apple's crap OpenGL drivers
Having had a tablet now for the past year and finding I spend most of my casual computing done with it and all my development work on my FreeBSD system.
Buying a Mac would be a waste of money. The only reason I would ever get a Mac desktop would be if for some reason I needed to work on a Mac desktop application. That is highly unlikely to ever happen.
I've got FreeBSD 9.1 running on my machine now and it is absolute Unix heaven.
The NVidia drivers work perfectly with my 580 card. The rest of my hardware was recognized and works properly.
All my gaming is done on my PS3 and Wii and a little bit on my Android devices. So my FreeBSD is primarily used for development and some webbrowsing. Working on a system that is stable and free from the crazy and random crap that plagues the various Linux distros is wonderful. The only negative I've found so far is the desktop's ports aren't as fully setup as you get as with something like Ubunut or Mint since the major focus of most of the FreeBSD devs is on server use.
I would like to thank all the lame people who have so diligently been posting their lame 'is dying' posts. I would never have checked out BSD if it wasn't for them. And it looks like the latest attempt at BSD FUD about funding massively backfired and led to a huge surge in project donations.
I usually hate these type of cute little sayings but after having switched from Linux to FreeBSD it really rings true:
Linux is for people who hate Microsoft BSD is for people who love Unix
The most important change is the maturation of open source developers and open source development.
Use of the viral and restrictive GPL is falling dramatically and truly free licensing like BSD is on the rise. Fading away are the days of the open source world being dominated by 15 years screaming about 'possibly GPL violation!!!' on Slashdot.
Everywhere that open source is succeeding is thanks to BSD licensed software:
* BSD based Chrome over the GPL based Mozilla
* Partially BSD based OS X on the desktop over the clusterfuck of GPL Linux desktops
* BSD based(outside the kernel) Android dominating the cellphone market over the effectively dead GPL based Linux cellphone efforts
This is the book that turned me into a grown up in the world of computer languages. It is the book that brought unparalleled insight and wisdom into every other computer language book, discussion about computer languages, or actual real world use of computer languages since reading.
Over the past couple of years Windows has pretty much disappeared. Every single person I know over the past couple of years has bought a Mac. However, overall computer use seems to have dropped quite a bit with cellphones and tablets becoming the primary computing device friends and family use to day to day.
Of course the cellphones and tablet are all Android and Apple with one or two Blackberry people. I know this just anecdotal evidence but I have to imagine this isn't just some random fluke.
I think we are see just how high the stakes were when Mozilla and Chrome took away 40-50 percent of the browser market from IE. I don't think anything we are seeing now with Android and Apple cellphones and tablets would be possible if IE still completely dominated the web.
The PS3 is around 54-55 million in sales by the latest numbers.
The PS3 is in year 5 of its life. That means there are most likely going to be another 6 years of sales for the console going by the 11 year life of the PS2 and Sony's own comments.
The PS3 is currently selling 13-14 million consoles a year while at $299.
The PS2 exploded into the 20-25 million a year range when it dropped from $299 to $199.
To reach a 100 million the PS3 needs to sell 45 million more over 6 years. That comes out to 7 million a year.
To reach 130 million the PS3 needs to sell 12 million a year.
The 120-130 million worldwide installed base for the PS3 is probably being conservative.
There isn't any question as to if the PS3 will win this gen in first place. It's just by how much and how close they will get to the PS2's insane 155+ million.
The PS3 is going to an eleven year life at least. The PS2 is at eleven years right now and still selling well and somewhere in the 155+ million range in worldwide sales.
When the PS2 dropped to $199 from $299 its sales reached into the 20-25 million a year range. The PS3 is just about to hit the same sweet spot where the PS2 exploded in sales.
Sony has a massive 21 first party studio lineup that is cranking out a flood of PS3 exclusives that dwarf the combined exclusive output of Nintendo and Microsoft combined. There are still major first party franchises that have yet to be released on the PS3.
The PS3 is easily going to end up in the 120, 130 million worldwide installed base range by the end of the PS3's life.
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"Sorry, but you are, right now, living in the world created by Apple."
4 out of 5 smartphones in the world bought by consumers is made by Google.
Microsoft still dominates the increasingly irrelevant and dying desktop PC market where Apple remains a niche player.
Sony is the absolute king of the console market.
The only place anyone's 'world is dominated by Apple' would be hipsters who spend their days drinking shit coffee at Starbucks.
Up until 2011 Nokia was the worldwide leader in smartphone marketshare when Samsung took over the top spot and has held that title to the present.
So not only did Apple not invent the smartphone market they have never even been the leader in it.
"Which is ironic, really, given that the actual practical differences between the PS4 and Xbox One are vanishingly small and only really apparent to hardcore enthusiasts."
In other words you have absolutely nothing of value to add to anything related to the console market.
No one is reading your giant rambling and delusional walls of text.
Microsoft is 0/3 in the console market with many billions of dollars wasted on the fourteen year long Xbox fiasco.
The first Xbox was an overpriced bunch of desktop PC parts thrown in a big ugly box and was dumped by Microsoft due to its failure in the marketplace.
The second Xbox:
* Was rushed out the door a year/year and a half early to try to pad out its installed base numbers
* Had the RRoD fiasco that inflated its installed base numbers by tens of millions of units
* Cost 200 dollars less than the much more powerful PS3
And despite all that Microsoft still came in last with the Xbox 360.
And now Microsoft is getting utterly crushed by the PS4 in worldwide sales.
To describe the Xbox as anything other than a monumental failure for Microsoft is delusional.
And, no, the Xbox One hasn't 'sold 10 million' - its worldwide installed base numbers are in the 7-8 million range. The Xbox One has been bombing so badly in sales that Microsoft will not admit to its actual installed base numbers.
Linux has become the laughingstock of the computing world thanks to the Systemd Fiasco.
An entire operating system trashed by a single incompetent clown and his shit pet project rammed down distro throats by his foaming at the mouth fanboys.
A healthy open source community would never have let this fiasco happen.
Hello FreeBSD. A pure Unix operating system run by grownups only interested in technical excellence.
"Ok, tablet == iPad. None of those other "tablets" are selling that well."
http://bgr.com/2012/12/05/tablet-market-share-2012/
Not only does tablet not equal iPad. iPads look to have a smaller marketshare than Android in the near future.
Why would I pay effectively double for a Mac that:
1. I can't even get a Blu-Ray drive with
2. Apple's crap OpenGL drivers
Having had a tablet now for the past year and finding I spend most of my casual computing done with it and all my development work on my FreeBSD system.
Buying a Mac would be a waste of money. The only reason I would ever get a Mac desktop would be if for some reason I needed to work on a Mac desktop application. That is highly unlikely to ever happen.
I've got FreeBSD 9.1 running on my machine now and it is absolute Unix heaven.
The NVidia drivers work perfectly with my 580 card. The rest of my hardware was recognized and works properly.
All my gaming is done on my PS3 and Wii and a little bit on my Android devices. So my FreeBSD is primarily used for development and some webbrowsing. Working on a system that is stable and free from the crazy and random crap that plagues the various Linux distros is wonderful. The only negative I've found so far is the desktop's ports aren't as fully setup as you get as with something like Ubunut or Mint since the major focus of most of the FreeBSD devs is on server use.
I would like to thank all the lame people who have so diligently been posting their lame 'is dying' posts. I would never have checked out BSD if it wasn't for them. And it looks like the latest attempt at BSD FUD about funding massively backfired and led to a huge surge in project donations.
I usually hate these type of cute little sayings but after having switched from Linux to FreeBSD it really rings true:
Linux is for people who hate Microsoft
BSD is for people who love Unix
That's right righteous Apple soldiers!
Mod down the unbelievers!
Claims like that are simply bizarre.
The Blackberry 5810 - March 2002:
http://cdn.crackberry.com/files/u3/evo3BlackBerry5810.jpg
Status bar along the top - power,signal strenth,clock
Grid of app icons
Keyboard along the bottom
It really is amazing how Apple came up with the iPhone when there was NOTHING like it out there...
Edit:
Fading away are the days of the open source world being dominated by 15 year olds screaming about 'possibly GPL violation!!!' on Slashdot.
The most important change is the maturation of open source developers and open source development.
Use of the viral and restrictive GPL is falling dramatically and truly free licensing like BSD is on the rise. Fading away are the days of the open source world being dominated by 15 years screaming about 'possibly GPL violation!!!' on Slashdot.
Everywhere that open source is succeeding is thanks to BSD licensed software:
* BSD based Chrome over the GPL based Mozilla
* Partially BSD based OS X on the desktop over the clusterfuck of GPL Linux desktops
* BSD based(outside the kernel) Android dominating the cellphone market over the effectively dead GPL based Linux cellphone efforts
Edward David
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_E._David_Jr.
Roger Cohen
http://www.durangobill.com/RogerCohen.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/android-activations-2011-12
"The other mobile OS makers need to make the same sort of change or they fear annoying what users they have left."
Boggle.
Learn to read actual research journals from the past five years dimwit.
Linking to some bird dinosaur fanboy's webpage at Berkeley is about as silly as linking to wikipedia.
Unless by 'current understanding' you mean you saw it in Jurassic Park.
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The Design and Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/dp/0201543303
This is the book that turned me into a grown up in the world of computer languages. It is the book that brought unparalleled insight and wisdom into every other computer language book, discussion about computer languages, or actual real world use of computer languages since reading.
Let's just sum up how badly Apple lied to the court:
* Altered the aspect ratio
* Changed the colour of the device
* Rotated the device 90 degrees from its standard
* Fabricated screen contents to look like an iPad instead of the standard Android OS
Judges have little tolerance for crap like this.
I'm surprised those numbers aren't lower.
Over the past couple of years Windows has pretty much disappeared. Every single person I know over the past couple of years has bought a Mac. However, overall computer use seems to have dropped quite a bit with cellphones and tablets becoming the primary computing device friends and family use to day to day.
Of course the cellphones and tablet are all Android and Apple with one or two Blackberry people. I know this just anecdotal evidence but I have to imagine this isn't just some random fluke.
I think we are see just how high the stakes were when Mozilla and Chrome took away 40-50 percent of the browser market from IE. I don't think anything we are seeing now with Android and Apple cellphones and tablets would be possible if IE still completely dominated the web.
Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft's first party studios are listed right there on their respective corporate websites.
The Wii U will have graphical power similar to the PS3 and a 25 gigabyte disc format.
Welcome to this gen with the Wii U.
The PS3 is around 54-55 million in sales by the latest numbers.
The PS3 is in year 5 of its life. That means there are most likely going to be another 6 years of sales for the console going by the 11 year life of the PS2 and Sony's own comments.
The PS3 is currently selling 13-14 million consoles a year while at $299.
The PS2 exploded into the 20-25 million a year range when it dropped from $299 to $199.
To reach a 100 million the PS3 needs to sell 45 million more over 6 years. That comes out to 7 million a year.
To reach 130 million the PS3 needs to sell 12 million a year.
The 120-130 million worldwide installed base for the PS3 is probably being conservative.
There isn't any question as to if the PS3 will win this gen in first place. It's just by how much and how close they will get to the PS2's insane 155+ million.
The PS3 is going to an eleven year life at least. The PS2 is at eleven years right now and still selling well and somewhere in the 155+ million range in worldwide sales.
When the PS2 dropped to $199 from $299 its sales reached into the 20-25 million a year range. The PS3 is just about to hit the same sweet spot where the PS2 exploded in sales.
Sony has a massive 21 first party studio lineup that is cranking out a flood of PS3 exclusives that dwarf the combined exclusive output of Nintendo and Microsoft combined. There are still major first party franchises that have yet to be released on the PS3.
The PS3 is easily going to end up in the 120, 130 million worldwide installed base range by the end of the PS3's life.
The PS3 is still $299 - the launch price of the PS2.
The PS2 went on to sell 110+ million consoles when it had its price drop from $299 to $199.
The PS3 is going to end up first in worldwide sales this gen.