From what I've read so far, people involved in product design or product development might enjoy this book. Then again, the story might feel all too familiar.
Don't worry, that sentence was awful. Both structurally and contextually. If someone is going to make statements like that they needs to provide some examples.
But on a side note, did you know the success of Pong relates to the success of unicorns in modern games? Why? Just 'cause.
Ya, but of those cases which probably run the coolest, they do so with the grace of a blind caveman.
Hell, I can pin my MB on wall, aim a giant desk fan at it, and revel in my awesome airflow. A few of those cases don't seem much more sophisticated then that.... unless you count spider eyes and lights.
Ohh good engineering and industrial design, where are't thou?
Well, that gets us back to the actual article "How the PS3 Hit $600" - the current "cheap" Toshiba HD-DVD player is $500 (and based on reviews I have read, it's a POS). Either it will have to drop in price by 50% in the next 6 months, or it will be more a decision of "I can buy a new movie player for $500, or a cutting edge game system PLUS movie player for $600." Which of course is what Sony is hoping will happen. And if they are right, I think the majority of Blu-Ray players sold in 2007 will actually be PS3s. We'll see if they are right, or screwed...
True, but for people who aren't gamers a game console is an incredibly undesirable set-top. And that means non-gamers are going to presented with two types of set tops... one one type will cost half as much.
Ya, but Laserdisk was not a storage medium for personal computers. Nor was it backwards compatible with VHS.
I would imagine that HDDVD / BluRay will simply start to trickle into PCs and consumer electronics until it becomes standard. Backwards compatibility will allow migration to higher capacity drives to be pushed by manufacturers.
And if this is the case, I don't know how well that bodes for BluRay. If consumers are presented with two new "DVD players" with nearly identical features, but one is half the price and does 1080i instead of 1080p... which player are they going to buy? Probably the HDDVD "DVD player".
But who know. Perhaps this will turn out like DVD-RW vs DVD+RW.
They''ll certainly come up as a threat on a xray scanner until TSA screeners become accustom to seeing stuff like this. However, they'll simply run an ED trace on them , they'll come up negative, and you'll be on your way.
Actually, in a 2 years most major airports are going to get rid of xray scanners in favor of much more sophisticated explosives detection machines. Screeners will automatically know whether or not something like this is a bomb or not.... so you won't need to be pulled aside.
Now, all that's left is to ban all computers which are manufactured in China... so they should just go ahead and ban computers in general from the State department.
This has been the one feature that has prevented me from using that browser. I've been using Safari since I NEED red squiggly lines. My speeling is teh horable.
A year or two ago I recall seeing a few spellcheck projects being done for Mozilla / Firebox. Did one of those projects finally become incorporated with the 2.0a trunk?
"Switching to Intel will make it easier for game developers to port their code, which will lead to more games available for the Mac."
Actually, no.
For the time being it means developers must make universal binaries of games. Many Mac game developers have noted that ports will have increased development times for the next few years.
Porting will speed up when PPC hardware is irrelevant and Intel only builds are acceptable.
Console kiddies? Someone would have to run the numbers, I but I would bet the console market has more older gamers the pc market.
Most of the "older" gamers I know are people that have grown up on console gaming. They're also generally tired of maintaining a gaming machine or playing games on something they're forced to work at 8 hours a day.
But lets look back to Beta. Beta died because the innovation and competition being done with more affordable players was being done with the opposing format.
I would seem as if Sony has, more or less, recreated Betamax by introducing a $500 BD player.
Betamax died because it was a) expensive, and b) unavailable to 3rd party manufacturers. No doubt, Sony has opened up BluRay to 3rd parties who want to develop BD players. That said, with BD disk -drives- retailing at $850, how are 3rd party manufacturers supposed to develop a set-top that will go up against the PS3?
This smells like beta all over again. Sony's opened up BD to third parties, but if they're going to market a $500 set top, they should probably get prepared for a flood of manufacturers producing HD DVD players.
all eyes are going to be on Nintendo? You're kidding right?
It's E3, everyone is going to be announcing something that week. It's going to be big week for next gen titles, there's a lot left to be said about the PS3, etc. Soooo many different things will be announced or clarified next week.
Well, people have been saying this for as long as I can remember. They said it about classic Mac OS, and they say it about OS X.
In all my years of using MacOS I've had two viruses. The Autostart worm and Sevendust. Both exploited classic MacOS and therefore did not require user authentication... as "Leap-A" does.
I'd say that's a fairly decent track record.
If something is going to infect MacOS X it is probably going to exploit user error. There -are- people who are dumb enough to think they need to enter their password after clicking on a jpeg. There may come a point when Apple needs to make their authentication dialog boxes retard proff. Currently, that's not a big problem.
I think this will be somewhat of an issue for Vista, which is going to nag the hell out of users. I fear that may result in a "boy who cried wolf" scenario with it's users.
User authentication is actually fairly rare in OS X. Most operations and third party software installations do not require authentication. So when they do pop up, there tends to be a moment of pause.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a Linux player with the next release of Flash. Adobe releases linux / unix versions of Acrobat reader, they might do something similar for Flash player.
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From what I've read so far, people involved in product design or product development might enjoy this book. Then again, the story might feel all too familiar.
Don't worry, that sentence was awful. Both structurally and contextually. If someone is going to make statements like that they needs to provide some examples.
But on a side note, did you know the success of Pong relates to the success of unicorns in modern games?
Why? Just 'cause.
Ya, but of those cases which probably run the coolest, they do so with the grace of a blind caveman.
Hell, I can pin my MB on wall, aim a giant desk fan at it, and revel in my awesome airflow. A few of those cases don't seem much more sophisticated then that.... unless you count spider eyes and lights.
Ohh good engineering and industrial design, where are't thou?
Unfortunately pressing that button repels most chicks.
Well, that gets us back to the actual article "How the PS3 Hit $600" - the current "cheap" Toshiba HD-DVD player is $500 (and based on reviews I have read, it's a POS). Either it will have to drop in price by 50% in the next 6 months, or it will be more a decision of "I can buy a new movie player for $500, or a cutting edge game system PLUS movie player for $600." Which of course is what Sony is hoping will happen. And if they are right, I think the majority of Blu-Ray players sold in 2007 will actually be PS3s. We'll see if they are right, or screwed...
True, but for people who aren't gamers a game console is an incredibly undesirable set-top. And that means non-gamers are going to presented with two types of set tops... one one type will cost half as much.
Ya, but Laserdisk was not a storage medium for personal computers. Nor was it backwards compatible with VHS.
I would imagine that HDDVD / BluRay will simply start to trickle into PCs and consumer electronics until it becomes standard. Backwards compatibility will allow migration to higher capacity drives to be pushed by manufacturers.
And if this is the case, I don't know how well that bodes for BluRay. If consumers are presented with two new "DVD players" with nearly identical features, but one is half the price and does 1080i instead of 1080p... which player are they going to buy? Probably the HDDVD "DVD player".
But who know. Perhaps this will turn out like DVD-RW vs DVD+RW.
They had video demos of people touching an LCD.
What's the deal with that crappy prototype picture? It looks like they literally have a projector mounted to the celling.
Haven't they heard of Photoshop?
It's-a racist! Woohoo! Yippie!
They''ll certainly come up as a threat on a xray scanner until TSA screeners become accustom to seeing stuff like this. However, they'll simply run an ED trace on them , they'll come up negative, and you'll be on your way.
Actually, in a 2 years most major airports are going to get rid of xray scanners in favor of much more sophisticated explosives detection machines. Screeners will automatically know whether or not something like this is a bomb or not.... so you won't need to be pulled aside.
Now, all that's left is to ban all computers which are manufactured in China... so they should just go ahead and ban computers in general from the State department.
Thanks for putting this story under the Apple category... we almost missed our daily quota of Apple related stories.
Note: we're also lacking the monthly story about AIDS finally being cured.
This has been the one feature that has prevented me from using that browser. I've been using Safari since I NEED red squiggly lines. My speeling is teh horable.
A year or two ago I recall seeing a few spellcheck projects being done for Mozilla / Firebox. Did one of those projects finally become incorporated with the 2.0a trunk?
"Switching to Intel will make it easier for game developers to port their code, which will lead to more games available for the Mac."
Actually, no.
For the time being it means developers must make universal binaries of games. Many Mac game developers have noted that ports will have increased development times for the next few years.
Porting will speed up when PPC hardware is irrelevant and Intel only builds are acceptable.
Console kiddies? Someone would have to run the numbers, I but I would bet the console market has more older gamers the pc market.
Most of the "older" gamers I know are people that have grown up on console gaming. They're also generally tired of maintaining a gaming machine or playing games on something they're forced to work at 8 hours a day.
But lets look back to Beta. Beta died because the innovation and competition being done with more affordable players was being done with the opposing format.
If there's one thing Sony understands, it's how consumers want to purchase, transport, and playback media.
E3 starts on that day, there will be plenty of hype everywhere... not just from Nintendo's circle.
Heck, MS is showing Halo 3 on the same day.
I would seem as if Sony has, more or less, recreated Betamax by introducing a $500 BD player.
Betamax died because it was a) expensive, and b) unavailable to 3rd party manufacturers. No doubt, Sony has opened up BluRay to 3rd parties who want to develop BD players. That said, with BD disk -drives- retailing at $850, how are 3rd party manufacturers supposed to develop a set-top that will go up against the PS3?
This smells like beta all over again. Sony's opened up BD to third parties, but if they're going to market a $500 set top, they should probably get prepared for a flood of manufacturers producing HD DVD players.
all eyes are going to be on Nintendo? You're kidding right?
It's E3, everyone is going to be announcing something that week. It's going to be big week for next gen titles, there's a lot left to be said about the PS3, etc. Soooo many different things will be announced or clarified next week.
Well, people have been saying this for as long as I can remember. They said it about classic Mac OS, and they say it about OS X.
In all my years of using MacOS I've had two viruses. The Autostart worm and Sevendust. Both exploited classic MacOS and therefore did not require user authentication... as "Leap-A" does.
I'd say that's a fairly decent track record.
If something is going to infect MacOS X it is probably going to exploit user error. There -are- people who are dumb enough to think they need to enter their password after clicking on a jpeg. There may come a point when Apple needs to make their authentication dialog boxes retard proff. Currently, that's not a big problem.
I think this will be somewhat of an issue for Vista, which is going to nag the hell out of users. I fear that may result in a "boy who cried wolf" scenario with it's users.
User authentication is actually fairly rare in OS X. Most operations and third party software installations do not require authentication. So when they do pop up, there tends to be a moment of pause.
... it was written by John Dvorak, and that guy has as much insight as a rock.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a Linux player with the next release of Flash. Adobe releases linux / unix versions of Acrobat reader, they might do something similar for Flash player.
a) Macromedia is no more. Flash is an Adobe product.
b) 64 computing is pretty useless for Flash.
I don't know about nervous... he was playing to an audiences full of people with sticks firmly crammed up their asses.