Re:reluctance of corporate America
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Your whole argument assumes that Apple is interested in "Corporate America" which, if you've checked lately, seems to be on a toboggan ride to the shit house. It's the nosedive of the American dollar.
Apple has never courted any businesses but creative professionals. Personally I think Apple created XServe and XSan because Steve Jobs wanted them for Pixar.
For the longest time, Mac-heads used "PowerBook" to mean "laptop" the way some people use "Kleenex" to mean "facial tissue."
That's because with the advent of the PowerBook 100 Apple basically "invented" the laptop. Do a touch of research and you will see before the PowerBook the portable industry was *frightening*. Every laptop since takes its design directly from the PowerBook.
Re:The link title is a little misleading.
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It's vaguely rediculous that software that is useful only for computers that are basically free/garbage at this point should still be subject to that kind of restriction when the newer 7.5.3 isn't.
7.5.5 runs on the same hardware that 7.1 does and is just as stable. It doesn't use much more memory and doesn't take up much more space. The ability to connect to the internet with an old Mac (which you can only do with 7.1 through hacks) makes the negligible amount of extra resources used worth it.
What ticks me off is that 7.6 is not available for free from Apple. It's the last version that ran on 030 Macs and is a big improvement over 7.5.5. Well, at least Apple gives away some of their old system software for free. I don't see old versions of OS/2 or Windows 3.1x online.
the DS really doesn't have any games going for it right now either. The only way I could justify it was by reasoning that Advanced Wars DS will be out for it soon.
I agree, I think the only reason why Nintendo released the DS when they did was to get a jump on the PSP. I know I am going to get a DS because:
A.) There will be a new Mario for it
2.) Animal Crossing
D.) CastleVania (oh man, it looks good)
I am really intrigued that the PSP is looking more like a portable entertainment device than just a game machine but there's no compelling software yet. It was also cool at one time that the PS2 had iLink and USB. That went nowhere fast.
I'm saying MS *DIDN'T* copy Apple, not this time anyway...
No, they copied BeOS. Which in turn got the idea from Apple where it was part of Copland.
Remember that Be was founded by ex-Apple exec Jean-Louis Gassee and that he had a lot of ex-Apple people with him.
Apple has had this technology for about 10 years now, they had been calling it V-Twin and it has been part of Sherlock. They are just now integrating it into the system.
About the display thing, I wholeheartedly agree, I think people assume any ipod is "teh coolness", but I'd rather buy a flash player with a display and fm tuner for the same price as an ipod shuffle
I have a 30GB iPod and I plan on getting a shuffle. For the same price as a USB flash drive I can get an iPod shuffle. I don't listen to FM and I really don't know anyone who does anymore. I've been looking around to find a car stereo that doesn't have FM, I don't want to have to pay for something I won't use.
Apple is the bomb. Apple is beyond the bomb. Apple is the nuclear winter that has descended upon Windows Media and every player that's not iPod. If the iPod shuffle sucks so bad why is everyone coming to say how much better their crappy flash player is compared to Apple's? I mean, if the shuffle sucks so bad it should be obvious, right?
MP3s will last longer than games. A good rundown of the different times
It's a crap rundown of different times and they start out stating that they will be very scientific and accurate then go on to say that they didn't even play the unit for long enough to test it well and besides, that's not how people will use it. Sorry, I don't have ADHD and I play games for about 3 hours at a sitting if I am into it.
They categorise 15 minutes as "heavy UMD movie video playback". Uh, what kind of 15 minute movies are you watching that are heavy playback at 15 minutes?
I work at Gamestop, and I can tell you that there is a lot more buzz about the PSP than there ever was about the DS.
Yes, you're right. Gamestop has decided to create more buzz for the PSP than they did for the DS. It costs more and Gamestop probably gets more per unit than they do for the GBA or DS for about the same shelving space. I never saw them hype the GBA although they were all over pre-orders for the NES edition of the GBA.
Speaking of pre-orders, WindWaker is on record to this date as the most pre-orders of any video game to date.
So, when a new product comes out, let's compare it to ALL THE THINGS it isn't. Jesus.
So tell me what a good comparison is, then? I am looking at it like the Gamegear. It eats up power, doesn't last very long and is based on old hardware. All the games are ports of games that are designed to be played on a stationary system.
I think it's definitely interesting but Nintendo has always had the games. Right now I can get a DS that plays not only all the DS games but all the GBA games, too (granted single player).
I am only going to carry around one portable system. I, like millions of others, already have a GBA and already have an iPod. DS is a lot more logical for me to get than a PSP.
It won't be long before we are seeing posts on message boards about how the PSP battery life sucks. THAT is what's going to kill it.
Microsoft has no experience in console gaming. Nintendo has been doing it right for a decade and half, why should we think the Xbox can just waltz onto the scene and take over?
Except the Xbox is still tied with Gamecube for a distant 2nd behind PS2. I have a PS2 and a Gamecube and to this day I still can only think of 2 games that were worth having the PS2 for: FFX and Kingdom Hearts. I love my GC and can think of at least a dozen games (all by Nintendo, actually) that have made it worth having. I'm much more interested in fun games than realism or what new spin they are putting on DOOM.
Re:Maybe im crazy too, but I loved that quote
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se other hand helds that are also dam close to a decade and a half old.. remember colour screens and the ability to watch TV on them(well i only remember the GG having a TV adapter but i never liked the lynx)
The Turbo Express was the first true competitor. It had a TV tuner and played the same games on the handheld as on the console. It was $300 at the time and that was astronomical compared to consoles and the Gameboy being under $100.
I cannot understand why Apple is sodding around with Motorola on this.
Apple has had a partnership with Motorolla for over 20 years on the Macintosh. Right now it looks like they're going to be getting their chips from IBM for the foreseeable future, so they have to do something to stay good business partners with Motorolla in case Motorolla comes up with something good again (like they did with Altivec). Nokia is a competitor to Motorolla. It is a BAD idea to partner with your partner's competitor.
This isn't a first. Verizon modified the firmware on the Treo 600 and Motorola v710 camera phones to prevent the images from being copied off via Bluetooth.
I was lucky to get my T616 before Cingular started on the Verizon kick, crippling phones. Luckily hardware companies are more than happy to sell their products directly.
I remember going into a Cingular store and the guy behind the desk didn't even know what firmware was. I asked if there was anyone that worked there that could actually do more than ring up a sale and he gave me a list of stores in the district that had a technician at them. It was a short list.
I don't have a problem paying extra for a phone where if I have questions or problems I can actually get answers for it.
Canada reminds me of the videogame company that releases their product later so they don't make the mistakes of their competition and ends up with a superior result!
Good to see the Canada being more realistic and more free about stuff like this.
I think it's because they have nothing to gain from helping protect an American cartel. Whereas in Europe there is a mini cartel that the EU wants to protect (in the EU it is actually in the Union's best interest). Sony 0WN3Z Japan. In Korea, only old people care about intellectual property.
Re:Popularizing existing technologies
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Don't get me wrong, the new iMacs are cool, but I would have liked to see the rotating monitor become mainstream.
Yes, the irony is that the printed page is at odds with any sort of screen. Apple used to have portrait displays and even had a HUUUUUUUGE grayscale display they called the two page display or something. Radius used to have a display that would rotate and had very clever software that would reposition your desktop.
The problem is that ii throws off people's spatial orientation (Mac OS X spatial properties, what are those?). Because window managers remember window placement, what happens when you size the window for landscape then change to portrait? No consistency.
I can see a time when you buy a digital iCamera, and instead of accepting tapes it just uses an iPod for storage.
Not sure why no one has talked about this yet but at Macworld NY Apple said there was going to be a digital camera add-on coming for the iPod in the first half of the year. Who knows if it's from Apple or a third party.
An electronics store will sell a dual link DVI cable for $100. A computer sells the exact same item for $12. I had the guy at Best Buy trying to convince my friend that the $100 one was the one he needed and that fool wasn't even on commission.
Somehow the plastic and copper is spectacularly different in the $100 version according to the guy, although he couldn't tell me how. I could tell my friend how they were the same but the guy couldn't tell him how they were different. My friend now connects his dish to his HD Mitsubishi with a $12 cable.
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Apple has never courted any businesses but creative professionals. Personally I think Apple created XServe and XSan because Steve Jobs wanted them for Pixar.
That's because with the advent of the PowerBook 100 Apple basically "invented" the laptop. Do a touch of research and you will see before the PowerBook the portable industry was *frightening*. Every laptop since takes its design directly from the PowerBook.
7.5.5 runs on the same hardware that 7.1 does and is just as stable. It doesn't use much more memory and doesn't take up much more space. The ability to connect to the internet with an old Mac (which you can only do with 7.1 through hacks) makes the negligible amount of extra resources used worth it.
What ticks me off is that 7.6 is not available for free from Apple. It's the last version that ran on 030 Macs and is a big improvement over 7.5.5. Well, at least Apple gives away some of their old system software for free. I don't see old versions of OS/2 or Windows 3.1x online.
The file was hidden on the CD.
No, it looks like American gamers are happy wit Gameboy Advance.
I agree, I think the only reason why Nintendo released the DS when they did was to get a jump on the PSP. I know I am going to get a DS because:
A.) There will be a new Mario for it
2.) Animal Crossing
D.) CastleVania (oh man, it looks good)
I am really intrigued that the PSP is looking more like a portable entertainment device than just a game machine but there's no compelling software yet. It was also cool at one time that the PS2 had iLink and USB. That went nowhere fast.
Far be it from me to try and defend Microsoft but this time I feel a little devil's advocacy is appropriate.
Who is to say that they haven't finally made it that only one period is allowed in a filename?
Uh, designed what? Luna? The Windows 3.x look was actually designed by IBM. The 95 look is an implementation of the OpenStep specification.
Of what exactly have they been such great designers?
No, they copied BeOS. Which in turn got the idea from Apple where it was part of Copland.
Remember that Be was founded by ex-Apple exec Jean-Louis Gassee and that he had a lot of ex-Apple people with him.
Apple has had this technology for about 10 years now, they had been calling it V-Twin and it has been part of Sherlock. They are just now integrating it into the system.
how come walkmans with fm radio are so hard to find?
doesn't it occur to manufacturers/ consumers how much functionality is added with so little effort by adding fm radio?
how much does the fm radio circuitry add to the cost of a walkman? 50 cents?
will someone please enlighten me then how come fm radio is so hard to find in walkmans?
I have a 30GB iPod and I plan on getting a shuffle. For the same price as a USB flash drive I can get an iPod shuffle. I don't listen to FM and I really don't know anyone who does anymore. I've been looking around to find a car stereo that doesn't have FM, I don't want to have to pay for something I won't use.
Apple is the bomb. Apple is beyond the bomb. Apple is the nuclear winter that has descended upon Windows Media and every player that's not iPod. If the iPod shuffle sucks so bad why is everyone coming to say how much better their crappy flash player is compared to Apple's? I mean, if the shuffle sucks so bad it should be obvious, right?
It's a crap rundown of different times and they start out stating that they will be very scientific and accurate then go on to say that they didn't even play the unit for long enough to test it well and besides, that's not how people will use it. Sorry, I don't have ADHD and I play games for about 3 hours at a sitting if I am into it.
They categorise 15 minutes as "heavy UMD movie video playback". Uh, what kind of 15 minute movies are you watching that are heavy playback at 15 minutes?
Speaking of pre-orders, WindWaker is on record to this date as the most pre-orders of any video game to date.
So tell me what a good comparison is, then? I am looking at it like the Gamegear. It eats up power, doesn't last very long and is based on old hardware. All the games are ports of games that are designed to be played on a stationary system.
I think it's definitely interesting but Nintendo has always had the games. Right now I can get a DS that plays not only all the DS games but all the GBA games, too (granted single player).
I am only going to carry around one portable system. I, like millions of others, already have a GBA and already have an iPod. DS is a lot more logical for me to get than a PSP.
It won't be long before we are seeing posts on message boards about how the PSP battery life sucks. THAT is what's going to kill it.
Except the Xbox is still tied with Gamecube for a distant 2nd behind PS2. I have a PS2 and a Gamecube and to this day I still can only think of 2 games that were worth having the PS2 for: FFX and Kingdom Hearts. I love my GC and can think of at least a dozen games (all by Nintendo, actually) that have made it worth having. I'm much more interested in fun games than realism or what new spin they are putting on DOOM.
The Turbo Express was the first true competitor. It had a TV tuner and played the same games on the handheld as on the console. It was $300 at the time and that was astronomical compared to consoles and the Gameboy being under $100.
The Lynx also had a TV tuner.
Apple has had a partnership with Motorolla for over 20 years on the Macintosh. Right now it looks like they're going to be getting their chips from IBM for the foreseeable future, so they have to do something to stay good business partners with Motorolla in case Motorolla comes up with something good again (like they did with Altivec). Nokia is a competitor to Motorolla. It is a BAD idea to partner with your partner's competitor.
That's why.
I was lucky to get my T616 before Cingular started on the Verizon kick, crippling phones. Luckily hardware companies are more than happy to sell their products directly.
I remember going into a Cingular store and the guy behind the desk didn't even know what firmware was. I asked if there was anyone that worked there that could actually do more than ring up a sale and he gave me a list of stores in the district that had a technician at them. It was a short list.
I don't have a problem paying extra for a phone where if I have questions or problems I can actually get answers for it.
Je ne comprends pas, indeed.
Yes, I know it's hard to understand but the US does not rule the world and the 00's will go down as the decade the world reminded us of that.
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I think it's because they have nothing to gain from helping protect an American cartel. Whereas in Europe there is a mini cartel that the EU wants to protect (in the EU it is actually in the Union's best interest). Sony 0WN3Z Japan. In Korea, only old people care about intellectual property.
Yes, the irony is that the printed page is at odds with any sort of screen. Apple used to have portrait displays and even had a HUUUUUUUGE grayscale display they called the two page display or something. Radius used to have a display that would rotate and had very clever software that would reposition your desktop.
The problem is that ii throws off people's spatial orientation (Mac OS X spatial properties, what are those?). Because window managers remember window placement, what happens when you size the window for landscape then change to portrait? No consistency.
Not sure why no one has talked about this yet but at Macworld NY Apple said there was going to be a digital camera add-on coming for the iPod in the first half of the year. Who knows if it's from Apple or a third party.
Somehow the plastic and copper is spectacularly different in the $100 version according to the guy, although he couldn't tell me how. I could tell my friend how they were the same but the guy couldn't tell him how they were different. My friend now connects his dish to his HD Mitsubishi with a $12 cable.