It's not the talking that bothers people, it's the shouting. I'm fine with people using phones on the train, it's just that most of the time they do it at twice the normal conversational volume. It is intensely annoying to have the minutiae of someone's life yelled out next to you while trying to read a book. I don't know why mobiles seem to have this effect on people.
Clearly many people are annoyed by it - a lot of trains round here have quiet carriages where mobile phones and music players are banned.
Exactly, this sounded great until I got to the part about having to buy replacement cartridges. Unless they cost literally pennies to buy, who is going to bother with that? Battery life is not really an issue for most phones these days (unless you own a RAZR) anyway.
I've seen several scientific papers presented at conferences where all the calculation was done in Excel, even for complex things like chemical process scheduling. Excel is quite a nice platform for that kind of thing: available on most computers, quite easy to use, easy to extend and easy to integrate with other desktop apps.
I have a well-trained spamassassin setup and all the Postfix UCE controls on (require resolvable FQDN, reject from relays.ordb.org etc.) Yet I still get 20 spam in my inbox/day, plus constant Helo command rejected: Host not found on the server.
I see, so because someone else is doing something evil, that makes it OK for Sony to do it too? Whatever anyone else does, what Sony did - install cloaked spyware on computers, lie about it, then be arrogant about it ("no one knows what a rootkit is anyway") and then release a tool to fix the problem that doesn't work properly - is pretty damn bad.
Yes, all companies make exaggerated claims about their products. When they outright lie, people will complain and most of the time, there are repercussions - like Apple being forced to withdraw their "Supercomputer" adverts. Sony is a fairly average 'premium' manufacturer with a track record of poor business decisions, apparently made in an attempt to create a vendor lock-in. They have slipped from profit to loss in the last year, are behind the technology curve in important things like MP3 players and LCD TVs and googling for "playstation 2 disk read errors" brings up a hell of a lot of hits.
"The playstation 2 will render Toy Story in real time", PS2 disk read errors, crappy MP3 players with terrible software, root-kits on CDs. And invention? Betamax, Minidisc, UMD, ATRAC. Yeah, great track record there since the Walkman.
The advantage Nintendo has is that they can (if sales go as well as predicted) create a large market of Wii-owners, all with identical hardware, which 3rd party developers can target. Unless the PC gamepad manufacturer can create that sort of market, their controller would always remain a minor add-on in a few games. Like that tactile mouse in Black and White.
I was interested in that myself - it appears that for most things, the Intel graphics are significantly slower than the Radeon 9200 in the PPC Mac Mini (Benchmarks and here)
Good graphics just means that the game is pleasing to watch, it's not necessarily anything to do with technology.
Take Katamari Damacy: flat shaded, small textures and low polygon objects, but the whole thing looks great because of the art style. Compare that to something like Unreal Tournament 2004, which has technologically better graphics but just looks dull and soulless in comparison.
But that laptop is 20% heavier, 20% thicker, has half the battery life (assuming both Apple and Acer lie equally) and comes with Windows XP, not OS X. Plus, it's made by Acer, who aren't exactly renowned for their build quality.
Considering that the Wii launch titles seem to include the new Zelda, the long-awaited new Mario and Metroid Prime 3. That's got to be 5 million sales right there.
Spending an afternoon making the OS work is not my definition of "fun" I think that's one of the main problems: for many Linux users, that is the definition of fun
Cost is also a fairly bad argument in many cases, as: - a couple of hundred dollars isn't all that much money if it saves you a few days googling for the solutions to Linux problems - Most people get a basically free copy anyway
Indeed, anyone who describes Linux as "faster than windows" has clearly had too much koolaid. I've seen so many posts in beginners' Linux forums saying "my new linux install is so slow, what have I done wrong?".
I think there must be some "Windows XP: Linux Zealot edition" that only the zealots use with automatic blue screens or something.
Get a job in the non-games software market first. Learn coding, good practice, project management, the importance of having good testers, make some contacts. All while working sensible hours and making a decent wage. Then consider getting into the gaming market.
Do you understand the concept of a 'game'? Playing Guitar Hero is this thing called 'fun'. Spending weeks learning to play Polly-wolly-doodle on a guitar isn't.
I just tried it out, and Mac OS X pastes the pathname if you drag a file into a terminal window. I think Nautilus does something similar, or you can put a script in your nautilus-scripts directory that will open a terminal window in the current directory (google for nautilus scripts, I think there is a giant repository somewhere).
I use the CLI a lot (currently have 7 terms open), I just don't like to dismiss the GUI so much.
I know there are situations where having a programming language available is useful, I've done it myself. That is a different application, however, and you can always launch a terminal window in the current dir using a Nautilus action if you need that.
The GP was apparently only talking about situations using cd, ls etc. I wish I could find the report I read about the command line vs GUI timings.
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It's not the talking that bothers people, it's the shouting. I'm fine with people using phones on the train, it's just that most of the time they do it at twice the normal conversational volume. It is intensely annoying to have the minutiae of someone's life yelled out next to you while trying to read a book. I don't know why mobiles seem to have this effect on people.
Clearly many people are annoyed by it - a lot of trains round here have quiet carriages where mobile phones and music players are banned.
Exactly, this sounded great until I got to the part about having to buy replacement cartridges. Unless they cost literally pennies to buy, who is going to bother with that? Battery life is not really an issue for most phones these days (unless you own a RAZR) anyway.
I've seen several scientific papers presented at conferences where all the calculation was done in Excel, even for complex things like chemical process scheduling. Excel is quite a nice platform for that kind of thing: available on most computers, quite easy to use, easy to extend and easy to integrate with other desktop apps.
I have a well-trained spamassassin setup and all the Postfix UCE controls on (require resolvable FQDN, reject from relays.ordb.org etc.) Yet I still get 20 spam in my inbox/day, plus constant Helo command rejected: Host not found on the server.
I see, so because someone else is doing something evil, that makes it OK for Sony to do it too? Whatever anyone else does, what Sony did - install cloaked spyware on computers, lie about it, then be arrogant about it ("no one knows what a rootkit is anyway") and then release a tool to fix the problem that doesn't work properly - is pretty damn bad.
Yes, all companies make exaggerated claims about their products. When they outright lie, people will complain and most of the time, there are repercussions - like Apple being forced to withdraw their "Supercomputer" adverts. Sony is a fairly average 'premium' manufacturer with a track record of poor business decisions, apparently made in an attempt to create a vendor lock-in. They have slipped from profit to loss in the last year, are behind the technology curve in important things like MP3 players and LCD TVs and googling for "playstation 2 disk read errors" brings up a hell of a lot of hits.
What an idiotic argument: you asked why do other people hate Sony, and then counter with why their evil behaviour doesn't affect you?
Do you have a Sony shrine in your front room by any chance?
"The playstation 2 will render Toy Story in real time", PS2 disk read errors, crappy MP3 players with terrible software, root-kits on CDs. And invention? Betamax, Minidisc, UMD, ATRAC. Yeah, great track record there since the Walkman.
The advantage Nintendo has is that they can (if sales go as well as predicted) create a large market of Wii-owners, all with identical hardware, which 3rd party developers can target. Unless the PC gamepad manufacturer can create that sort of market, their controller would always remain a minor add-on in a few games. Like that tactile mouse in Black and White.
I was interested in that myself - it appears that for most things, the Intel graphics are significantly slower than the Radeon 9200 in the PPC Mac Mini (Benchmarks and here)
Good graphics just means that the game is pleasing to watch, it's not necessarily anything to do with technology.
Take Katamari Damacy: flat shaded, small textures and low polygon objects, but the whole thing looks great because of the art style. Compare that to something like Unreal Tournament 2004, which has technologically better graphics but just looks dull and soulless in comparison.
But that laptop is 20% heavier, 20% thicker, has half the battery life (assuming both Apple and Acer lie equally) and comes with Windows XP, not OS X. Plus, it's made by Acer, who aren't exactly renowned for their build quality.
Looks like my Dashboard currency exchange rate is out of date...
London is much more expensive than the rest of the country, but things in the UK are generally more expensive.
The Intel iMacs come with 1x512Mb, though.
Except, of course, that the UK price includes VAT, making the actual price differential 7% or so.
Considering that the Wii launch titles seem to include the new Zelda, the long-awaited new Mario and Metroid Prime 3. That's got to be 5 million sales right there.
Spending an afternoon making the OS work is not my definition of "fun"
I think that's one of the main problems: for many Linux users, that is the definition of fun
Cost is also a fairly bad argument in many cases, as:
- a couple of hundred dollars isn't all that much money if it saves you a few days googling for the solutions to Linux problems
- Most people get a basically free copy anyway
Indeed, anyone who describes Linux as "faster than windows" has clearly had too much koolaid. I've seen so many posts in beginners' Linux forums saying "my new linux install is so slow, what have I done wrong?".
I think there must be some "Windows XP: Linux Zealot edition" that only the zealots use with automatic blue screens or something.
(yes, I run Mac OS X, Windows XP and Linux daily)
Get a job in the non-games software market first. Learn coding, good practice, project management, the importance of having good testers, make some contacts. All while working sensible hours and making a decent wage. Then consider getting into the gaming market.
Do you understand the concept of a 'game'? Playing Guitar Hero is this thing called 'fun'. Spending weeks learning to play Polly-wolly-doodle on a guitar isn't.
A shame that you allowed the activities of three people to destroy the fun of 20,000.
You don't need to look at the face, just the fingers. (Queue hundreds of Slashdotters staring at their hands)
I just tried it out, and Mac OS X pastes the pathname if you drag a file into a terminal window. I think Nautilus does something similar, or you can put a script in your nautilus-scripts directory that will open a terminal window in the current directory (google for nautilus scripts, I think there is a giant repository somewhere).
I use the CLI a lot (currently have 7 terms open), I just don't like to dismiss the GUI so much.
I know there are situations where having a programming language available is useful, I've done it myself. That is a different application, however, and you can always launch a terminal window in the current dir using a Nautilus action if you need that.
The GP was apparently only talking about situations using cd, ls etc. I wish I could find the report I read about the command line vs GUI timings.