ET would have never killed off gaming - all it would have done is tighten the standards on what publishers would ship as acceptable (which actually happened) and people would tighten their standards on what they would buy before trying. ET if anything was probably good for the industry and consumers. Right now I think we are seeing a return of shovelware, and its effects. The economy is bad, and I know for a fact that I'm not the only one waiting for COD MW2 to end up in the bargain bin (60$ is just too much to take a chance on).
Same with MMO's - I'm sure somewhere Mythic for instance has a figure on how many box sales they will get on day one, and aren't nearly as concerned with how many people actually stay subscribed (just my observation - they just seem disinterested in actually addressing community concerns).
And yes I bought ET when it came out - its still in my box o carts wherever my 2600 is, and it wasn't the last pile of crap I ever spent good money on, but it certianly made me think more about my purchases after that.
One word - Qualcomm - they are really the reason there's such a divide in standards with 3G technology in the US (and elsewhere, but its more pronounced here).
Read up on it - the vast vast majority of all this expensive audiophile hardware is snakeoil. More than one study has shown even audiophiles can't tell the difference between good hardware and crap.
It wouldn't surprise me if Lexicon's stuff has always been marked up 500% from what it actually cost to make.
The problem is that Ideascale will likely bill the DOE back for US rates (300-400 dollars per hour) and pocket the difference - they clearly need to keep a tighter reign on contractors.
And don't tell anybody but I think Obama's coffee mugs are... MADE IN CHINA! Just like yours and mine! The horror!
My mug is made in the USA;). If I was the president I'd do the best I could to make sure everything I used was made here in America (or at the very least - made in a country that has fair labor practices) - because I'd want to do the best I can to support this country.
Making stuff in China for 10 cents and selling it here for 20-30 dollars will likely have some severe repercussions being the economic miracle that it is.
I actually think it benefits both Microsoft and Apple for them to release their products in tandem. It adds to the rivalry and people love that. Not to mention, they're certainly going to be compatible with only their respective products so a long time Mac user isn't going to be stolen nor will a longtime Windows user go over to the iSlate.
How long have tablet PC's been around (Windows for Pen Computing came out in 92)? Unless the macpad is really revolutionary (knowing Apple they could pull something cool off), I really don't see anything really coming of this that hasn't already been done by Microsoft and their OEM's.
Because the people who WORK on the Macs are the people who draw for a living, compose music, make videos, etc. They are the people who have the jobs Cubible Joe wish he could have (and are obviously successful enough at it to afford apple products).
Maybe turtleneck universe, but when I was working in printing (which is really part of the design world) we had Macs (G4's and the like - really ancient stuff), the vast vast vast majority of all the machines used in production were Windows machines. Reason? Cost - pure and simple.
The sad reality is that all these once niche apps run on Windows and Mac these days and they generally run faster on Windows - not because Macs are slow, but Apple generally have a lot longer hardware upgrade window for some reason.
Case in point: the fastest Mac's money can buy are Core 2 based 3 GHz machines where you can already get i7's and AMD systems on the PC side that are faster and more efficient at the same clock speeds for less money than Apple is selling their stuff - and i7's have been out since last year.
You know whats funny though - my brother is in a graphic design school (something along the lines to Aii) and he's notes that while everyone there really wants a Mac, no-one there uses them personally mainly because they can't afford them.
Sure once you've made it in the professional world money for these sorts of things really isn't a problem, but when your starting out cost really is a factor and a 500$ PC with 8 gigs of ram will run circles around a 3000-5000 dollar Mac Pro - doubly so as there isn't any 64 bit Photoshop for the Mac to take advantage of large chunks of ram.
The major problem I have with the mac in regard to this is look at the chunk of documentation that requires you to hold down meta keys to access the second mouse button context menu - or even if your not using the context menus you still have to have a lot of hands to use the apple/option keys to access stuff - its very involved.
Back when the powerbook only had the one ctrl button on the left hand side of the keyboard made for a miserable experience actually just using the OS - essentially it requires two hands to use the track pad whereas my PC its not nearly as involved (which meant - you couldn't have the powerbook sitting on the side of your desk - you pretty much had to use it square in front of you to get any work done). I have no idea if they fixed this in newer apple laptops (putting another ctrl button on the right hand side - which would be a cludge at best), but its the major reason I'll never ever ever get another Apple laptop - that and the overheat issues with the macbook pro.
Oddly enough all this could be solved by putting another button on the trackpad;).
Name one motion capture based game that didn't suck?
If you search Nintendo Wii bad controls on Google you'll see what I mean - and its one of the better implementations of this technology. I doubt the next Nintendo console will have such a strong emphases on this.
Every single other motion control gimmick that has come out for any console (and each was heralded as the end of standard controllers) has failed in a big way.
Backdoor is a security thing (creating an entry point into the system that no-one knows about so even if you are locked out you can regain access easily) - this has little to do with security.
You should really take a computer class at your local community college - all these things are doable by shortcuts built into the OS since Windows NT - Window key + L will lock the PC for instance.
(speaking as someone who has worked quite a great deal with implementing Acrobat forms...)
End users don't need this stuff (it would be cool if IRS Tax forms were intelligent, but that would cut into the profits of a lot of tax prep companies). A lot of enterprises however use this stuff. I would agree its not the best solution in every case, but one thing it was used for frequently was a front end for some other system where they previously printed out, faxed in a paper form and then transcribed it by hand into some mainframe CRM app - well with Acrobat forms you can cut out a lot of that steps - keep the familiar forms, and keep training costs down to boot.
Livecycle forms is just a development environment like anything else (SAP/Datatel etc) - and if you are used to it - great, if not - use something else.
I do know - for end users being able to type into a form they previous wrote on was helpful because they knew where everything was and how the form worked. That certainly cut down training time, and calls to help desks.
And no - no other pdf viewer (even foxit) is compliant enough to actually work within this workflow - its either Reader 8/9 or nothing.
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Like a labor union could outspend some corporation...
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare? I got that on steam for like 9 dollars over Christmas.
ET would have never killed off gaming - all it would have done is tighten the standards on what publishers would ship as acceptable (which actually happened) and people would tighten their standards on what they would buy before trying. ET if anything was probably good for the industry and consumers. Right now I think we are seeing a return of shovelware, and its effects. The economy is bad, and I know for a fact that I'm not the only one waiting for COD MW2 to end up in the bargain bin (60$ is just too much to take a chance on).
Same with MMO's - I'm sure somewhere Mythic for instance has a figure on how many box sales they will get on day one, and aren't nearly as concerned with how many people actually stay subscribed (just my observation - they just seem disinterested in actually addressing community concerns).
And yes I bought ET when it came out - its still in my box o carts wherever my 2600 is, and it wasn't the last pile of crap I ever spent good money on, but it certianly made me think more about my purchases after that.
One word - Qualcomm - they are really the reason there's such a divide in standards with 3G technology in the US (and elsewhere, but its more pronounced here).
Source? I benchmarked Verizon's network tethered to a laptop and get constantly around 1.5 megabits per second - which is way waster than 300K.
Executives like money?
Are you though? Because I bet if that did happen they still wouldn't assume liability.
Who said anything about OSX? :0
Read up on it - the vast vast majority of all this expensive audiophile hardware is snakeoil. More than one study has shown even audiophiles can't tell the difference between good hardware and crap.
It wouldn't surprise me if Lexicon's stuff has always been marked up 500% from what it actually cost to make.
The problem is that Ideascale will likely bill the DOE back for US rates (300-400 dollars per hour) and pocket the difference - they clearly need to keep a tighter reign on contractors.
My mug is made in the USA ;). If I was the president I'd do the best I could to make sure everything I used was made here in America (or at the very least - made in a country that has fair labor practices) - because I'd want to do the best I can to support this country.
Making stuff in China for 10 cents and selling it here for 20-30 dollars will likely have some severe repercussions being the economic miracle that it is.
That the amount of effort to develop software to fake all this was probably equal to the amount of actually setting up the cameras properly.
Like any professional is going to get an imac right?
Your right - I only looked at the Mac Pro and the laptops.
How long have tablet PC's been around (Windows for Pen Computing came out in 92)? Unless the macpad is really revolutionary (knowing Apple they could pull something cool off), I really don't see anything really coming of this that hasn't already been done by Microsoft and their OEM's.
Maybe turtleneck universe, but when I was working in printing (which is really part of the design world) we had Macs (G4's and the like - really ancient stuff), the vast vast vast majority of all the machines used in production were Windows machines. Reason? Cost - pure and simple.
The sad reality is that all these once niche apps run on Windows and Mac these days and they generally run faster on Windows - not because Macs are slow, but Apple generally have a lot longer hardware upgrade window for some reason.
Case in point: the fastest Mac's money can buy are Core 2 based 3 GHz machines where you can already get i7's and AMD systems on the PC side that are faster and more efficient at the same clock speeds for less money than Apple is selling their stuff - and i7's have been out since last year.
You know whats funny though - my brother is in a graphic design school (something along the lines to Aii) and he's notes that while everyone there really wants a Mac, no-one there uses them personally mainly because they can't afford them.
Sure once you've made it in the professional world money for these sorts of things really isn't a problem, but when your starting out cost really is a factor and a 500$ PC with 8 gigs of ram will run circles around a 3000-5000 dollar Mac Pro - doubly so as there isn't any 64 bit Photoshop for the Mac to take advantage of large chunks of ram.
The major problem I have with the mac in regard to this is look at the chunk of documentation that requires you to hold down meta keys to access the second mouse button context menu - or even if your not using the context menus you still have to have a lot of hands to use the apple/option keys to access stuff - its very involved.
Back when the powerbook only had the one ctrl button on the left hand side of the keyboard made for a miserable experience actually just using the OS - essentially it requires two hands to use the track pad whereas my PC its not nearly as involved (which meant - you couldn't have the powerbook sitting on the side of your desk - you pretty much had to use it square in front of you to get any work done). I have no idea if they fixed this in newer apple laptops (putting another ctrl button on the right hand side - which would be a cludge at best), but its the major reason I'll never ever ever get another Apple laptop - that and the overheat issues with the macbook pro.
Oddly enough all this could be solved by putting another button on the trackpad ;).
Well its not like I can download diamonds by bittorrent - yet.
Name one motion capture based game that didn't suck?
If you search Nintendo Wii bad controls on Google you'll see what I mean - and its one of the better implementations of this technology. I doubt the next Nintendo console will have such a strong emphases on this.
Every single other motion control gimmick that has come out for any console (and each was heralded as the end of standard controllers) has failed in a big way.
Probably why its not documented - typically things not tested aren't ;).
Anyhow it works on Windows 7 x64.
Backdoor is a security thing (creating an entry point into the system that no-one knows about so even if you are locked out you can regain access easily) - this has little to do with security.
You should really take a computer class at your local community college - all these things are doable by shortcuts built into the OS since Windows NT - Window key + L will lock the PC for instance.
I could be wrong (its been a long time since atmospheric chemistry 101) but last I checked warm air wasn't a greenhouse gas.
My friend's HTC droid works just fine with Exchange - I assume the N1 would as well.
(speaking as someone who has worked quite a great deal with implementing Acrobat forms...)
End users don't need this stuff (it would be cool if IRS Tax forms were intelligent, but that would cut into the profits of a lot of tax prep companies). A lot of enterprises however use this stuff. I would agree its not the best solution in every case, but one thing it was used for frequently was a front end for some other system where they previously printed out, faxed in a paper form and then transcribed it by hand into some mainframe CRM app - well with Acrobat forms you can cut out a lot of that steps - keep the familiar forms, and keep training costs down to boot.
Livecycle forms is just a development environment like anything else (SAP/Datatel etc) - and if you are used to it - great, if not - use something else.
I do know - for end users being able to type into a form they previous wrote on was helpful because they knew where everything was and how the form worked. That certainly cut down training time, and calls to help desks.
And no - no other pdf viewer (even foxit) is compliant enough to actually work within this workflow - its either Reader 8/9 or nothing.
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