"Unwieldy, Confusing, Labrynthine, Mystery Way to Get to Your Programs and God Knows What Else That May or May Not Accessible Through the (My) Computer Icon"
I've never been able to succintly explain to people why I switched from Windows to Macintosh until just now.
I already have "Moje Dokumenty" (original name by Windows with polish localization) and "My Documents" right next to it, created by some dumb program.
Which once again demonstrates the inelegance of WIndows. On Mac OS special folders could be named anything and be anywhere (futeure-proofing and localisation-safe). Applications just tell the OS that something needs to go into whichever special folder it needs to go in. So it's not impossible to create an elegant solution, just not possible for Microsoft to do it.
Furthermore, most LCDs tend to wash colors out a bit. Taking the game Morrowind as an example, on my six year old Samsung 19" CRT, the colors are deep, saturated, and the world looks full of life. Moving to either of the two LCD displays I have (both on laptops - one Dell, one Toshiba), the game world looks like someone sprayed Chlorox on everything.
Quite obviously you've never used a high-quality LCD. ANymore the only thing that CRTs have over high end LCDs is the refresh rate. Walk into an Apple store (75% of Americans live at most 20 minutes away from one) and view the gorgeousness that is an Apple Cinema Display.
Your main problem seems to be that you're basing the state of LCDs off of that crap Dell LCD. If you're interested in a PC notebook with an excellent LCD you should have bought a VAIO.
The plus side, it has 3 USB and 2 PS/2 ports so all your periferals will have a spot.
I'm not sure how having two uselss PS/2 ports is a plus when they could have added one more USB port instead. Don't PC USB keyboards have hubs for the mouse in them like Mac keyboards do?
All you have to do is look at the numbers. Console game sales (software-wise) are skyrocketing while PC-based games are creeping along. Look to IDG for the hard numbers.
Also, all the next-gen consoles are PPC based and use ATi graphics. You're looking in the wrong direction if you think PCs are going to benefit from this, wrong architecture.
but this device is not the savior to teen drunk driving
Especially since "drunk" changes from state to state.
I am becoming more and more alarmed at the rate states are losing power and the way the current administration is trying to limit the power they have left. One of the great things in this country and one of the principles it has been founded and fought for is the power of the states.
The best-selling video game of all time is still Myst. It also holds the best-selling PC game of all time to this day. There is no debate that the main draw of Myst was the gorgeousness of it (most of the puzzles were too hard for it to have been for the puzzles).
The best-selling video game cartridge of all time is still Super Mario Bros. 3.
You can get all this info from IDG, it's their job to track that kinda stuff.
Let's see some avante-garde approaches to video games for once.
That torch was passed from the Dreamcast to the Gamecube and then to the NDS. Companies like Sony and Microsoft are shooting for lowest common denominator.
Since I can plug a VoIP phone in anywhere, how is the dispatch going to know where you are like they would with a POTS line?
The only solution to that as I can see is to do what the cell-phone companies did. Put GPS in the piece of hardware that goes between the RJ-45 and the RJ-11 jack.
i'd like to comment that it's wrong to call a Blu-ray media DVD.. it's not like you go calling your DVD's CD's either, do you?
No, although it's technically correct since CD stands for Compact Disc and DVDs are the same size. Since DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc, it wouldn't be incorrect to call Blu-Ray DVDs either.
I was complaining to a co-worker a few days ago about how my Firewire drive was on it's last legs... It's a 100g drive and nearing capacity...He was blown away that I had that many files as it was, and I was about to make a humorous comment about the boatloads of porn I have on it
Step one: load pr0n into iMovie.
Step two: burn to DVD using iDVD
Step three: there's no step three
Those of us who are old enough will remember "copy protected" software from the early days of the PC. That died a well-deserved death before too long, because it was only effective for giving legitimate customers a pain in the ass.
Oh, cripes, I remember those. Code wheels and scavenger hunts in the instruction manual, secret passwords, disk data branding. It was like having to play a game just to play the game. Back then I bought more computer games than I do now and I cracked every one of them to avoid the nonsense.
Does Nintendo think many people with an original Gameboy Advanced is likely to purchase a GBA sp, or a Gameboy mirco?
Yes, yes they do. And people will. When Gameboy Pocket came out, I could not believe the amount of those things Nintendo was selling. SAME DAMN EXACT THING, just smaller. I remember being in a game store buying South Park for N64 and Nightmare Creatures on PSX. Everyone else was salivating over a Gameboy Pocket.
I had a GBA and bought a GBA sp as soon as they came out with a red one. I wish I'd waited for the NES edition.
The patent's about tagging the origin of an email address and altering the display of that email address based on the origin of the email address - if the email address came from the address book it looks one way if it comes from the internet it looks differently.
It's Apple's creator and type scheme just applied to an e-mail address.
he' s well within his rights to close the thread...just like that kid who would always take his ball and go home when the game didn't go his way...remember that kid?
NO, it's totally different. It's like the kid who tells you to get out of his house and YOU'RE the one that has to go home.
His blog is not your public playplace. Some of the posts he had could be likened to vandalism on private property. It amazes me more and more when I read slashdot the amount of people that believe the internet is public property. It's not.
Reading stories about companies that only comply with the license and somehow they are evil and bad because they don't do more than what the license requires, yet somehow that's not the fault of whomever decided on that license for that software. Bloggers should now let people run rampant on their private blogs.
A blog is not a public forum. It's a private discussion with only one moderator.
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I've never been able to succintly explain to people why I switched from Windows to Macintosh until just now.
Which once again demonstrates the inelegance of WIndows. On Mac OS special folders could be named anything and be anywhere (futeure-proofing and localisation-safe). Applications just tell the OS that something needs to go into whichever special folder it needs to go in. So it's not impossible to create an elegant solution, just not possible for Microsoft to do it.
Once every version in every version of Windows which means they've changed the default, as a company, somewhere around 12 times.
There was no standard, designated or even suggested area to save files in Windows 3.x, the default was always the application directory.
Quite obviously you've never used a high-quality LCD. ANymore the only thing that CRTs have over high end LCDs is the refresh rate. Walk into an Apple store (75% of Americans live at most 20 minutes away from one) and view the gorgeousness that is an Apple Cinema Display.
Your main problem seems to be that you're basing the state of LCDs off of that crap Dell LCD. If you're interested in a PC notebook with an excellent LCD you should have bought a VAIO.
I'm not sure how having two uselss PS/2 ports is a plus when they could have added one more USB port instead. Don't PC USB keyboards have hubs for the mouse in them like Mac keyboards do?
All you have to do is look at the numbers. Console game sales (software-wise) are skyrocketing while PC-based games are creeping along. Look to IDG for the hard numbers.
Also, all the next-gen consoles are PPC based and use ATi graphics. You're looking in the wrong direction if you think PCs are going to benefit from this, wrong architecture.
Especially since "drunk" changes from state to state.
I am becoming more and more alarmed at the rate states are losing power and the way the current administration is trying to limit the power they have left. One of the great things in this country and one of the principles it has been founded and fought for is the power of the states.
The best-selling video game cartridge of all time is still Super Mario Bros. 3.
You can get all this info from IDG, it's their job to track that kinda stuff.
That torch was passed from the Dreamcast to the Gamecube and then to the NDS. Companies like Sony and Microsoft are shooting for lowest common denominator.
Um, made sure it was tied for a distant second?
Who the hell names a pre-release console Phantom, anyway? It's like naming your new software product VapourWare.
C:\WINNT
The only solution to that as I can see is to do what the cell-phone companies did. Put GPS in the piece of hardware that goes between the RJ-45 and the RJ-11 jack.
No, although it's technically correct since CD stands for Compact Disc and DVDs are the same size. Since DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc, it wouldn't be incorrect to call Blu-Ray DVDs either.
Of course, Blu-Ray is catchier and has a hyphen!
Step one: load pr0n into iMovie.
Step two: burn to DVD using iDVD
Step three: there's no step three
Oh, cripes, I remember those. Code wheels and scavenger hunts in the instruction manual, secret passwords, disk data branding. It was like having to play a game just to play the game. Back then I bought more computer games than I do now and I cracked every one of them to avoid the nonsense.
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
-Benjamin Franklin
Then I'll leave the country.
I have a less US-centric view than you do, I guess.
Best. Zelda. Evar.
Um, how is over 3 times as many "about the same"?
Yes, yes they do. And people will. When Gameboy Pocket came out, I could not believe the amount of those things Nintendo was selling. SAME DAMN EXACT THING, just smaller. I remember being in a game store buying South Park for N64 and Nightmare Creatures on PSX. Everyone else was salivating over a Gameboy Pocket.
I had a GBA and bought a GBA sp as soon as they came out with a red one. I wish I'd waited for the NES edition.
It's Apple's creator and type scheme just applied to an e-mail address.
NO, it's totally different. It's like the kid who tells you to get out of his house and YOU'RE the one that has to go home.
His blog is not your public playplace. Some of the posts he had could be likened to vandalism on private property. It amazes me more and more when I read slashdot the amount of people that believe the internet is public property. It's not.
Reading stories about companies that only comply with the license and somehow they are evil and bad because they don't do more than what the license requires, yet somehow that's not the fault of whomever decided on that license for that software. Bloggers should now let people run rampant on their private blogs.
A blog is not a public forum. It's a private discussion with only one moderator.
I'm bald, you insensitive clod!