If it is war then we fight to maintain market share, a perceived limited resource, which is what the American automakers diid, which is why MS is doing
Google is just as guilty of trying to maintain market share as Microsoft.
And how screwed are the people who just don't happen to have fast internet?
Just as screwed as the users of Linux package managers that download all their software over the network, I guess. Chances are that if you have a Mac, you have access to fast internet.
Making games has to be one of the most barbaric, ass-backwards forms of software development. The worst crunch times, the longest hours, the greediest publishers, and the most amateur media covering it all. Other entertainment mediums such filmmaking or writing have veterans who keep creating for decades, but the game industry burns out its stars and drives them away; e.g., Will Wright.
If the version number were 4.0.2 instead of 5.0 Enterprises wouldn't be getting their panties in a bunch over this.
Yes, that's the whole point. By end-of-living 4.x so early, Mozilla is not catering to the needs of enterprise users who can't just install major new versions of software all the time.
"I have absolutely no evidence or basis for this, but hey, I believe it and that's enough for me."
How is Google passing Apple in the short-term? Counting iPads, iPhones, and iPods, iOS has an enormous lead over Android. You just rarely hear about iOS combined marketshare because the Google-friendly media makes sure to compare all Android devices to one iOS phone.
Slashdot in 2001: "Microsoft is unfairly leveraging its Windows monopoly to push its other products! Break this company up!" Slashdot in 2011: "Hey, come on, now, Google is just a for-profit company trying to sell its products like everyone else."
Opera fans love to repeat that they have hundreds of millions of users, but it's never actually proven. On the contrary, Opera regularly shows up at the bottom of market share stats. If it had 200 million users, it would have much higher share.
The summary is non-informative, but one of the new features in iOS 5 beta 2 is that wireless syncing is now enabled. Hey, at least it's something to talk about.
If you're a monopoly, you can't leverage that monopoly to push your other products anti-competitively. One example would be Google's hard-coded results for specific search terms that place its services at the top of the page regardless of their actual popularity (e.g., Google Finance appearing over the more popular Yahoo Finance, complete with a unique visual presentation). Keep in mind that Google has previously claimed that its search results page is entirely algorithmically driven in response to monopoly concerns.
I have to say, it's interesting how some people's attitudes change when the company involved isn't Microsoft. Google is a gigantic advertising company that happens to hand out free services to get your personal data indexed for their network. They exploit the positive connotation of "open source" and other causes in order to appeal to a certain type of techie, but their motives are just as impure as Microsoft's (and their search engine is as closed source and proprietary as Windows). I'm not really sure why they're afforded the benefit of the doubt by so many fans.
Silverlight was more than a competitor to Flash. It was an application platform that was potentially going to become the official way to develop first-class Windows apps. It is used on Windows Mobile phones. If you only ever read Slashdot, though, you'd think it was simply an "answer to Flash."
I think you're missing the significance. WPF was supposed to be the modern development platform for Windows, then Silverlight, and now it's HTML5. Microsoft keeps pulling the rug out from developers as it attempts to find a true replacement for Win32.
Total Biscuit's playthrough of the demo made it look fun, with a few complaints. The graphics looked pretty good, too, much better than the naysayers in these comments were suggesting.
"Jeeves, I'm way too intelligent and mature for this rubbish. Please remove it so I don't have to sully my pastry fingers with this guttertrash. At once!"
That's exactly what the 1st game was, and I still to this day do not understand why people thought it was so great.
Because they can take a joke. You already ranted about the game earlier and obviously never took to its politically incorrect humor because you feel the need to remind us of how you're too mature for it. You probably didn't like the Grand Theft Auto games either, or Mortal Kombat, or any other controversial game that walks the edges of social acceptability--something I consider important for entertainment to do or else it becomes stale whitebread.
so? I don't know about you, but there's nothing I love more than when I'm about to kill somebody and they use a cheap gimmick on me.
That cheap gimmick is fun as hell, the same reason Mario Kart is fun. For crying out loud, there is no other shooter in which you can fire a shrink ray at a mirror, have the projectile reflect off of the mirror, hit someone in the next room, and then step on them. That's really not fun to you? Were you born wearing a suit and tie?
Yeah, games today definitely don't have big-breasted women or other sexual imagery oh wait
DNF will be a hit. That the usual politically correct types will hold their noses up at is is all the more reason it should exist in all its offensive glory. This society has become so incredibly stuck-up and wimpy that it can't take a joke anymore.
Duke 3d wasn't fun. Duke 3d was a polished doom-esque experience with some quirky weapons and completely forced humor. It was an interesting alternative to doom/quake until Quake 2 came out, at which point Duke's failure to actually be a -good game- in and of itself was completely evident.
You're definitely projecting your own opinions here, because Duke 3D was a smash-hit that a lot of people still cite as a game with innovative ideas yet to be matched in today's games, especially in multiplayer. The tongue-in-cheek attitude was also unique, and especially in today's environment when so many games try hard to be serious and cinematic, a politically incorrect game that doesn't give a shit about offending people will stand out even more.
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Google is just as guilty of trying to maintain market share as Microsoft.
People said the same thing about Microsoft. Google is a lot like Microsoft used to be, actually. The similarities are eerie.
Just as screwed as the users of Linux package managers that download all their software over the network, I guess. Chances are that if you have a Mac, you have access to fast internet.
"Hacktivism." Ugh.
They're young, naive, and afraid of rocking the boat.
Making games has to be one of the most barbaric, ass-backwards forms of software development. The worst crunch times, the longest hours, the greediest publishers, and the most amateur media covering it all. Other entertainment mediums such filmmaking or writing have veterans who keep creating for decades, but the game industry burns out its stars and drives them away; e.g., Will Wright.
Yes, that's the whole point. By end-of-living 4.x so early, Mozilla is not catering to the needs of enterprise users who can't just install major new versions of software all the time.
"I have absolutely no evidence or basis for this, but hey, I believe it and that's enough for me."
How is Google passing Apple in the short-term? Counting iPads, iPhones, and iPods, iOS has an enormous lead over Android. You just rarely hear about iOS combined marketshare because the Google-friendly media makes sure to compare all Android devices to one iOS phone.
Slashdot in 2001: "Microsoft is unfairly leveraging its Windows monopoly to push its other products! Break this company up!"
Slashdot in 2011: "Hey, come on, now, Google is just a for-profit company trying to sell its products like everyone else."
He's talking about the ad-supported version of Opera that existed for years.
"I'm going to make a baseless claim, and I'm sure as hell not going to waste my time proving it!"
If Opera had 200 million users, it would have a higher market share number. Instead, it regularly appears at the bottom of the list.
Opera fans love to repeat that they have hundreds of millions of users, but it's never actually proven. On the contrary, Opera regularly shows up at the bottom of market share stats. If it had 200 million users, it would have much higher share.
Flash playback is still pretty choppy on Linux.
The summary is non-informative, but one of the new features in iOS 5 beta 2 is that wireless syncing is now enabled. Hey, at least it's something to talk about.
If you're a monopoly, you can't leverage that monopoly to push your other products anti-competitively. One example would be Google's hard-coded results for specific search terms that place its services at the top of the page regardless of their actual popularity (e.g., Google Finance appearing over the more popular Yahoo Finance, complete with a unique visual presentation). Keep in mind that Google has previously claimed that its search results page is entirely algorithmically driven in response to monopoly concerns.
I have to say, it's interesting how some people's attitudes change when the company involved isn't Microsoft. Google is a gigantic advertising company that happens to hand out free services to get your personal data indexed for their network. They exploit the positive connotation of "open source" and other causes in order to appeal to a certain type of techie, but their motives are just as impure as Microsoft's (and their search engine is as closed source and proprietary as Windows). I'm not really sure why they're afforded the benefit of the doubt by so many fans.
Slashdot circa 1999: "Free Kevin Mitnick!"
Slashdot circa 2011: "These damn hackers are interfering with my WoW time."
Non-technical people don't want alternate stores. Your premise is flawed right from the start.
What Slashdot have you been visiting?
Silverlight was more than a competitor to Flash. It was an application platform that was potentially going to become the official way to develop first-class Windows apps. It is used on Windows Mobile phones. If you only ever read Slashdot, though, you'd think it was simply an "answer to Flash."
I think you're missing the significance. WPF was supposed to be the modern development platform for Windows, then Silverlight, and now it's HTML5. Microsoft keeps pulling the rug out from developers as it attempts to find a true replacement for Win32.
Total Biscuit's playthrough of the demo made it look fun, with a few complaints. The graphics looked pretty good, too, much better than the naysayers in these comments were suggesting.
"Jeeves, I'm way too intelligent and mature for this rubbish. Please remove it so I don't have to sully my pastry fingers with this guttertrash. At once!"
Because they can take a joke. You already ranted about the game earlier and obviously never took to its politically incorrect humor because you feel the need to remind us of how you're too mature for it. You probably didn't like the Grand Theft Auto games either, or Mortal Kombat, or any other controversial game that walks the edges of social acceptability--something I consider important for entertainment to do or else it becomes stale whitebread.
That cheap gimmick is fun as hell, the same reason Mario Kart is fun. For crying out loud, there is no other shooter in which you can fire a shrink ray at a mirror, have the projectile reflect off of the mirror, hit someone in the next room, and then step on them. That's really not fun to you? Were you born wearing a suit and tie?
Yeah, games today definitely don't have big-breasted women or other sexual imagery oh wait
DNF will be a hit. That the usual politically correct types will hold their noses up at is is all the more reason it should exist in all its offensive glory. This society has become so incredibly stuck-up and wimpy that it can't take a joke anymore.
You're definitely projecting your own opinions here, because Duke 3D was a smash-hit that a lot of people still cite as a game with innovative ideas yet to be matched in today's games, especially in multiplayer. The tongue-in-cheek attitude was also unique, and especially in today's environment when so many games try hard to be serious and cinematic, a politically incorrect game that doesn't give a shit about offending people will stand out even more.