We are already seeing the beginnings of this with things like "favorites" and "home/desktop" in most file dialogs these days. That just needs to be taken to a higher level and cleaned up.
Apple calls it Smart Folders and it will be available in Tiger.
When I had an Indigo 2, I remember being blown out of the water with how much IRIX cost. I wanted to upgrade to 6.5, I believe, and it was something like $650. I'm gonna guess that Solaris is priced comparably.
Unix vendors have always charged a lot for their OS and that was always part of their business strategy since people don't upgrade workstations very often. I'm not really sure why they charge so much because I've not seen anything that runs on them that can't be ported to a $129 version of Unix (Mac OS X) or even a free workalike (Linux). Most of the exotic things that Unix workstations can do has to do with the hardware.
Unix vendors have not driven the technology of their workstations significantly in the last decade. They were too busy trying to use PC parts to make them. Now there's no reason not to use a PC (or a Mac) to do the things workstations used to do. Rapid IO? Check. Mass RAM? Check. What do they offer? Really?
I stopped playing sports games around the 16-bit era. They weren't fun anymore. What happened to making a sports game fun instead of just some lame franchise game? Now if EA's game sucks or you don't like it, you're SOL for a sports game until next year.
I could be wrong, but I recall games like Double Dribble on NES, Baseball Stars on Neo Geo, and Virtua Tennis on Dreamcast as being fun.
I mean, they can be goofy sometimes but at least Nintendo is still making good sports games.
Actually, I would assume a PlayStation 2 or a Gamecube could produce something really close if someone decided to put that much into quality. Main difference being, as posted, that a lot of lighting has to be tweaked by hand. It's a lot of processing power to program into anything the reflective value of every surface (i.e. porous objects reflect less light than nonporous objects). Movies only play at 24 fps, so if you were targeting that framerate, you could pump up the quality.
Games like Final Fantasy X and Windwaker spring to mind when I think of visual quality. Storylines to these games also make a huge difference, just like Toy Story is every bit as enjoyable as Incredibles because of the story.
I am convinced that TV shows will be online before movies. They are a third to a quarter of the size and it's an untapped market for selling something that is actually free (outside of the new and still rare TV on DVD trend).
Even with art, it's not the AIDS quilt we remember, it's Van Gogh's Starry Night.
Folk art is quite different than Fine art. Folk art has a distinct culture behind it whereas Fine art is typically an individual expression (sometimes a statement). Yes, you're right, people remember the individual in Fine art whereas Folk art is about a community.
Your assertion is that recognition is the inherent drive for art. I always thought it was expression. It's also not art by committee, it's art by community.
I dunno about you, but I'd like to keep these videos around longer than 48 hours
Cable companies charge $3.99 for new releases and $1.99-$2.99 for older titles for On-Demand movies and you only get a 24 hour viewing period. I like the idea of a subscription like NetFlix has. You pay a certain amount a month to access the service. I think we'll see this happen with TV shows before movies.
it seems like they would have built-in an infra-red port if they really wanted this to be part of a home theatre solution.
Hmm, yes. I remember thinking the same thing about the PlayStation 2. It took how many hardware revisions before they added it?
It would be pretty insignificant for Apple to come out with a USB IR device and remote that EVERY Mac user and even PC user could buy (Bluetooth uses too much juice).
It's only when you book at the last minute that the prices rocket up to something like 120 pounds per flight. Fortunately, most flights are less than 1 hour in duration (Edinburgh to London is around 400 miles - about the same as SF to LA) - By train this takes 6 to 8 hours
Let me give you a little insight to what it's like to travel by plane in the U.S. To begin, you get cheaper flights if you book last minute or you have a really good travel agent and call a month or two ahead of time. You get the seats airlines can't sell (coach) cheap.
You have to be at the airport an hour ahead of time so they can pat you down for a nail file but let you walk right onto the plane with your eye glasses (which could be broken and used to cut). That's after it takes an hour to get to the airport because 99% of the time airports are nowhere near residential because of people that complain of the noise. Then once you get to the destination it takes at least a half hour waiting by the carrousel to get your baggage if you couldn't cram it all into a carry-on the size of a shoe box which is all they let you on with nowadays. Then your back out in the middle of nowhere and have to drive that hour back into where you want to go.
If it's not more than 6 hours away by auto it's not worth the hassle anymore to fly. Infinitely more legroom and I don't have to pee in a closet.
You have to follow traffic laws to drive a car. You have to pay sales tax when you buy a chair from a store. You have to pay into social security to get a job. Sucks, doesn't it?
You don't even have to have a license to operate an automobile on private property. If you get a tax ID number from your state you don't have to pay sales tax on anything if you find the right outlet.
What sucks is all the lies we are being fed. The only people that are going to prosper from SS reform are the companies that privatise it. There's go to be no way to get away from billionaire CEOs who will have a license to print money if they do something that asinine. Look at how well private medicine works. They haven't cured anything since Polio and you're basically SOL if you don't have insurance, and then you're SOL if you change your insurance company and never needed coverage.
Republicans are screwing everyone but the rich hard and rough up the ass and without so much as spit. Banks can now charge me to cash a check drawn on their bank? WTF? It's not going to get better. We're living in pre-revolutionary France. It won't be long before the beheadings begin.
My wife is a doctor, and I have read studies on the influence of women in medicine. The basic conclusion is that after the male dominated culture makes allowances for women's differences (by not forcing them to act as males) that having women as doctors not only improves care for the women's patients, but when working in teams seems to make the male doctors better doctors as well.
There was a poll done recently about trusting authority figures (read about it on AOL or Slashdot, I can't remember), or something like that, and topping the list of trusted people were teachers and nurses. Clergy were pretty far down the list. The poll was probably fixed because you probably had to order a set number of professions but that's neither here nor there for the outcome.
Teaching and nursing are totally female dominated careers. Most of the authority figures that were male dominated were at the bottom of the list. This leads me to believe that most people trust women more than they trust men. I'd tend to agree. I'd rather have a female give care for me when I am in the hospital than a man because I always get the feeling that a woman is more genuinely concerned for my well-being than a man is.
No one gets upset when someone says women are better caregivers than men because we know genetically females are hardwired for it. That doesn't mean that every woman is better than every man at it, it just means that you're going to find the exception rather than the rule.
Now why is it that in the US many women aren't excelling in math and science, where as in the rest of the world they are?
In most schools you can get the same degree with a "C" as you can with an "A", so just because you have more international women interested in a masters or doctorate doesn't mean they are excelling as compared to US women.
Personally I believe it's because a man can't rely on marrying a woman to be the source of income whereas a woman can. Like Barbie says, "Math is Tough!" and why bother to study something that will make you a lot of money when you can just marry for it. It's one of the inequalities of the sexes that women never want to discuss. That's most likely cultural but it's a world culture, not a US one.
I happen to like her songs, whether she wrote them or not, and I like her raspy voice, it has qualities of Sheryl Crow and Marianne Faithful. It's not the typical squeaky girl pop. You're doing exactly what you are complaining about. You're saying she sucks because it's popular right now to say she sucks.
"Shadow" is a good song about what it's like to always live your life being compared to someone you have no ability or desire to be like and finding your own identity. "Pieces of Me" of is a really good song about someone who is not the paxil/ativan-popping norm we are seeing. She's complicated and moody and she has found love and that feels really good. I've yet to hear anything from her that people wouldn't be claiming is perfection and poetry if Jewel had done it.
Pop music is supposed to be easy to listen to with lyrics that anyone can relate to, that's what makes it popular.
This sounds a bit familiar... I think the RIAA stole this idea from Southpark. Cartman dressed up like a robot (AWESOM-O) to get secrets from Butters... but he ended up in Hollywood creating blockbuster movie ideas.
They did something similar in an SNL skit with Jennifer Love-Hewitt (years before the South Park episode). It was a goofy game show where movie execs are given seemingly unrelated concepts and have to put them together to make a hit. It was a funny skit.
As an aside, there are reasons why we have genres, because certain ideas always work on a basic level. Farce, Fish-out-of-water, mystery. There are formulas for all of these, you just fill in the blanks. They are just applying the same concept to music. Why do different styles of music become hits? I mean in terms of sales and not Billboard, since Billboard now includes radio play, which you can buy. That's worth studying, whether people try to use it for good(TM) or evil(TM).
Yes, certain music will get passed over by the big executives (Bhangra, for example) but that's what makes underground movements compelling, they're not mass popular.
Everytime OO.o is updated there's a front page article on it. This isn't an update to an old application, it's a new word processor from Microsoft's only desktop competitor, THAT'S why we're hearing about it.
Am I one of the only ones who prefers usability, stability, and performance... to eye candy
I like eye candy if it adds to the overall experience. If you've ever used Mac OS X's Expose feature, you can understand what having a good graphics card can mean. Expose is not that great without Quartz Extreme. Expose is the answer to window clutter. Why use multiple desktops to separate all my windows when I can do it with one? What other things will be possible in the future?
Personally, I don't really feel the need to give some minimum wage McJob employee my billing information just to buy a video game. All he has to do is remember my address and zip code and he already has my credit card number. Credit card numbers may not be printed on your receipt, but look when you sign the slip that prints out, it's on there.
Luckily Microsoft makes bazillions off Windows and Office and can throw a couple billion here and there on various schemes--gaming, set top boxes, what have you.
There was a woman who was head of Sony's game division in America that was being interviewed about the Xbox and how it was third behind Gamecube and PS2 in terms of unit slaes and game sales and they asked her how she thought Microsoft was going to respond to losing so much money on it.
Basically she said something to the effect that Microsoft was an interesting company in that they could lose money on XBox forever and still not go anywhere or have it make a difference about losing the money.
It doesn't matter if Microsoft is successful in anything they do anymore, they make so much money off of Windows and Office they could bleed money from every orifice and it still wouldn't matter.
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Apple calls it Smart Folders and it will be available in Tiger.
Unix vendors have always charged a lot for their OS and that was always part of their business strategy since people don't upgrade workstations very often. I'm not really sure why they charge so much because I've not seen anything that runs on them that can't be ported to a $129 version of Unix (Mac OS X) or even a free workalike (Linux). Most of the exotic things that Unix workstations can do has to do with the hardware.
Unix vendors have not driven the technology of their workstations significantly in the last decade. They were too busy trying to use PC parts to make them. Now there's no reason not to use a PC (or a Mac) to do the things workstations used to do. Rapid IO? Check. Mass RAM? Check. What do they offer? Really?
I could be wrong, but I recall games like Double Dribble on NES, Baseball Stars on Neo Geo, and Virtua Tennis on Dreamcast as being fun.
I mean, they can be goofy sometimes but at least Nintendo is still making good sports games.
Games like Final Fantasy X and Windwaker spring to mind when I think of visual quality. Storylines to these games also make a huge difference, just like Toy Story is every bit as enjoyable as Incredibles because of the story.
BLASPHEME!
Don't give them any ideas, right now they're free at the iTMS!
I am convinced that TV shows will be online before movies. They are a third to a quarter of the size and it's an untapped market for selling something that is actually free (outside of the new and still rare TV on DVD trend).
Folk art is quite different than Fine art. Folk art has a distinct culture behind it whereas Fine art is typically an individual expression (sometimes a statement). Yes, you're right, people remember the individual in Fine art whereas Folk art is about a community.
Your assertion is that recognition is the inherent drive for art. I always thought it was expression. It's also not art by committee, it's art by community.
Wait a month, to be sure they will come. Remember iMac USB Fever?
Cable companies charge $3.99 for new releases and $1.99-$2.99 for older titles for On-Demand movies and you only get a 24 hour viewing period. I like the idea of a subscription like NetFlix has. You pay a certain amount a month to access the service. I think we'll see this happen with TV shows before movies.
Hmm, yes. I remember thinking the same thing about the PlayStation 2. It took how many hardware revisions before they added it?
It would be pretty insignificant for Apple to come out with a USB IR device and remote that EVERY Mac user and even PC user could buy (Bluetooth uses too much juice).
Let me give you a little insight to what it's like to travel by plane in the U.S. To begin, you get cheaper flights if you book last minute or you have a really good travel agent and call a month or two ahead of time. You get the seats airlines can't sell (coach) cheap.
You have to be at the airport an hour ahead of time so they can pat you down for a nail file but let you walk right onto the plane with your eye glasses (which could be broken and used to cut). That's after it takes an hour to get to the airport because 99% of the time airports are nowhere near residential because of people that complain of the noise. Then once you get to the destination it takes at least a half hour waiting by the carrousel to get your baggage if you couldn't cram it all into a carry-on the size of a shoe box which is all they let you on with nowadays. Then your back out in the middle of nowhere and have to drive that hour back into where you want to go.
If it's not more than 6 hours away by auto it's not worth the hassle anymore to fly. Infinitely more legroom and I don't have to pee in a closet.
What sucks is all the lies we are being fed. The only people that are going to prosper from SS reform are the companies that privatise it. There's go to be no way to get away from billionaire CEOs who will have a license to print money if they do something that asinine. Look at how well private medicine works. They haven't cured anything since Polio and you're basically SOL if you don't have insurance, and then you're SOL if you change your insurance company and never needed coverage.
Republicans are screwing everyone but the rich hard and rough up the ass and without so much as spit. Banks can now charge me to cash a check drawn on their bank? WTF? It's not going to get better. We're living in pre-revolutionary France. It won't be long before the beheadings begin.
There was a poll done recently about trusting authority figures (read about it on AOL or Slashdot, I can't remember), or something like that, and topping the list of trusted people were teachers and nurses. Clergy were pretty far down the list. The poll was probably fixed because you probably had to order a set number of professions but that's neither here nor there for the outcome.
Teaching and nursing are totally female dominated careers. Most of the authority figures that were male dominated were at the bottom of the list. This leads me to believe that most people trust women more than they trust men. I'd tend to agree. I'd rather have a female give care for me when I am in the hospital than a man because I always get the feeling that a woman is more genuinely concerned for my well-being than a man is.
No one gets upset when someone says women are better caregivers than men because we know genetically females are hardwired for it. That doesn't mean that every woman is better than every man at it, it just means that you're going to find the exception rather than the rule.
In most schools you can get the same degree with a "C" as you can with an "A", so just because you have more international women interested in a masters or doctorate doesn't mean they are excelling as compared to US women.
Personally I believe it's because a man can't rely on marrying a woman to be the source of income whereas a woman can. Like Barbie says, "Math is Tough!" and why bother to study something that will make you a lot of money when you can just marry for it. It's one of the inequalities of the sexes that women never want to discuss. That's most likely cultural but it's a world culture, not a US one.
I happen to like her songs, whether she wrote them or not, and I like her raspy voice, it has qualities of Sheryl Crow and Marianne Faithful. It's not the typical squeaky girl pop. You're doing exactly what you are complaining about. You're saying she sucks because it's popular right now to say she sucks.
"Shadow" is a good song about what it's like to always live your life being compared to someone you have no ability or desire to be like and finding your own identity. "Pieces of Me" of is a really good song about someone who is not the paxil/ativan-popping norm we are seeing. She's complicated and moody and she has found love and that feels really good. I've yet to hear anything from her that people wouldn't be claiming is perfection and poetry if Jewel had done it.
Pop music is supposed to be easy to listen to with lyrics that anyone can relate to, that's what makes it popular.
They did something similar in an SNL skit with Jennifer Love-Hewitt (years before the South Park episode). It was a goofy game show where movie execs are given seemingly unrelated concepts and have to put them together to make a hit. It was a funny skit.
As an aside, there are reasons why we have genres, because certain ideas always work on a basic level. Farce, Fish-out-of-water, mystery. There are formulas for all of these, you just fill in the blanks. They are just applying the same concept to music. Why do different styles of music become hits? I mean in terms of sales and not Billboard, since Billboard now includes radio play, which you can buy. That's worth studying, whether people try to use it for good(TM) or evil(TM).
Yes, certain music will get passed over by the big executives (Bhangra, for example) but that's what makes underground movements compelling, they're not mass popular.
Norah Jones sounds pretty much like Mazzy Star without the reverb and echo. IIRC, "Fade Into You" was a top 10 hit.
Everytime OO.o is updated there's a front page article on it. This isn't an update to an old application, it's a new word processor from Microsoft's only desktop competitor, THAT'S why we're hearing about it.
I like eye candy if it adds to the overall experience. If you've ever used Mac OS X's Expose feature, you can understand what having a good graphics card can mean. Expose is not that great without Quartz Extreme. Expose is the answer to window clutter. Why use multiple desktops to separate all my windows when I can do it with one? What other things will be possible in the future?
You have to get the DVI to video adapter.
Personally, I don't really feel the need to give some minimum wage McJob employee my billing information just to buy a video game. All he has to do is remember my address and zip code and he already has my credit card number. Credit card numbers may not be printed on your receipt, but look when you sign the slip that prints out, it's on there.
I have a friend who is an EMS guy. He says he's never pulled a dead body out of a seat-belt.
There was a woman who was head of Sony's game division in America that was being interviewed about the Xbox and how it was third behind Gamecube and PS2 in terms of unit slaes and game sales and they asked her how she thought Microsoft was going to respond to losing so much money on it.
Basically she said something to the effect that Microsoft was an interesting company in that they could lose money on XBox forever and still not go anywhere or have it make a difference about losing the money.
It doesn't matter if Microsoft is successful in anything they do anymore, they make so much money off of Windows and Office they could bleed money from every orifice and it still wouldn't matter.
SEE! That's why America has New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago!
Two words: Animal Crossing