I'd play that in a second! And with the gobs and gobs of cash WoW is bringing in, I wouldn't be surprised to see Blizzard pumping money into yet another MMORPG. If one MMORPG hooks 8 million players, two should be able to hook 16 million, right?
MySql for a developer is equivalent to wrench for a mechanic? What about people who develop device drivers? What about people who write the kernel? I was unaware that mechanics only had one wrench to work with.
If I were to encrypt all my FireFox private data (cookies, history, etc), would that make a difference? Is there an extension out there that anyone knows about that will encrypt FireFox's private data on exit, and unencrypt it only when FireFox is running? Or will this matter? Does the Spyware activly run on your computer? Or only when BF2142 is running?
DRM on Zunes. Spyware on hit games. Is this companies shooting themselves in the foot? Or is it that the average consumer knows nothing about such things - and thus doesn't care?
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Sitting on the subway, listening to my Zune when I hear a quick couple beeps during my song. My Zune is telling me another Zune just entered my wireless radius. I jump to the wireless screen with one button, and see the user 'Loves2Splooge' has 1242 songs to share. I am able to browse his list as easily as I browse mine - I can even preview the song wirelessly before transfering to my Zune. I take about 30 tracks and permanently store them to my Zune.
THAT would be an iPod killer... what makes it sad is that it's only the stupid software that limits the aforementioned ideas. I hope someone is able to come out with a custom OS that enables users to do just what I've described.
... remove the DRM. That's it. I'd buy one in an instant. I like the Zune, from what I've read and the pictures I've seen it seems pretty cool! Especially the wireless sharing of files - that's really cool. However, the DRM that the wireless transfers forces on your media is unacceptable. Any takers on how long it will take to crack the DRM? Or Any takers on how long it will take to get Linux running - doing the same things - minus the DRM?
Something more helpful to society? I disagree with you... I think that a tool like this would be tremendously helpful. Maybe not to society immediately, but think about being able to access someone's memories from even 50 years ago, or 100. Being able to look back on how things were is a great way to get a grasp on how things are, and how things will be. History repeats itself.
I agree with most of the other comment posters in this thread - PC games are by no means a niche market - but the article headline says 'Becoming a niche', and I think that's key. I think we're starting to see more and more developers putting their main focus behind consoles, then just doing a lazy port over to PC (Ubisoft's XIII and Beyond Good & Evil spring to mind). When this happens PC game quality suffers, and does in fact become a niche. We're not there yet, certainly not for at least 3 or 4 more years, but I seriously doubt PC games will ever reach the 'niche' status. Especially with big money makers like WoW backing them up.
As far as pc hardware vs. console hardware, if you already have a computer, really all you need is a basic 3d graphics adaptor ($70+), if you buy the lowend $70 cards - yes expect to buy a new one next year. If you buy a $200 card, chances are you won't have to upgrade for at least a couple years - maybe more depending on the level of quality you're willing to accept. I've had my X800 Pro since it's release 2 years ago, and it handles all the new games VERY well.
I couldn't agree more. I'm surprised they didn't take a page from Sega's history. Clearly Sega's legion of fanboys were not enough to solely push the Dreamcast (or 32X, or Saturn...) It is all about the games, and the experience the games give you. Provided Nintendo's new controller idea is a lot of fun to play with, I have a feeling you'll see a market shift. Fanboys can change allegiance, and will if the tech is cool enough.
I hope they'll add multiplayer support to old games - Mario Tennis 64 (among hundreds of others) online would be awesome!! I know this may be a bit challanging, but if it could be done, I know a bunch of my non-gamer friends would be MUCH more interested in buying a Wii.
I know this is slightly offtopic - but what info does he have for or against sandboxed sites? If you're actually active in the SEO community this article will be old news to you (as opposed to having only a passing interest in SEO, resulting in over emphasis on PR -- lots of SEO clients have this problem). The sandbox however is a problem many of us are still grappling with. Do any slashdotter's have any insights into Google's sandbox?
Is it just me, or is it getting more and more possible to do away with Windows completely and just use a plethora of Firefox extensions to accomplish the same goals? The more I think about it, there certainly are enough extensions out there to just have Windows boot firefox.exe rather than explorer as a default shell. Forget the start menu! Everything you need is built into your web browser!! As for office apps, there's a good range of "Web 2.0" office suites that you could use. I can't decide if this is a good or a bad thing.
My Dad used to teach computers to older people in the late 80's, and he used to tell them "If you can read, you can use a computer". Which is true to a certain extent, words that are used to describe computer terms like "Fatal Error", "Device Driver", "Operating System" are quite unique to the computer world, however analyzing the words themselves one should be able to decipher what the term means. Kids need to start with this kind of solid logical foundation - that computers aren't big jumbles of confusing numbers, icons, and buttons. They should also be forced to use a command line until grade 5. I've found that once someone learns how to do even basic shell functions they feel much more empowered and confident.
Since over 80% of our traffic is IE6 we optimize all our sites for it when we're trying to meet a deadline or just get something over with. If we have time, or if the client requests, we make our sites W3C. But like the post points out -- why bother with standards complience if nothing supports a standard.
Kudos to Nintendo! I know a lot of my non-gamer friends are excited to see games from older systems (especially NES and SNES) able to be played on the next gen Nintendo system. Everyone knows a major factor on if game systems fail or prosper is the number of good titles they have. Sony and MS are pushing developers to make new crazy things for their new crazy system. Nintendo chooses to 'think differently' and use older - already proven good - game content for their new system - in addition to the titles that will be new to the Revolution.
Although something about Sonic the Hedgehog being played on a Nintendo system that doesn't sit right with me.:)
Is it just me or does Michael Robertson have a knack for WAY over hyping everything he does. Lindows/Linspire was supposed to change the Linux desktop world - and frankly Ubuntu has done a better job. SIPPhone doesn't seem to stand up to Skype. And Mp3.com got sold and redone by Cnet. Now this 'ajaxWrite' doesn't seem to be any different than the many other WYSIWYG editors available today.
I think Mr. Robertson should wait until his products/ideas are actually able to do what he says. But then again who does that anymore anyways?
I wish Maxis was still independent. After playing many other EA titles I've come to equate EA with poor quality (Battlefield 2 was coded by monkeys I'm sure of it - lets check the game version the server is running *after* we take 10 minutes to load everything!). With the only exception being Maxis produced titles. It's sad that EA gobbled up such a great little company and is now exploiting them to make money for themselves (although I'd bet they treat Maxis very well because they're a big money maker for EA... see The Sims - and now Spore).
Will Wright should quit and start a new company. Or Google should hire him (Google Games!?).
I for one am glad to see that some douchebag who figured out how to write HTML can finally give me all the truths about physics. I'm glad he's solved all the problems.... After I RTFA two words came to mind: ad homimen.
The only thing I thought was cool about Palms was the "beaming" feature, where you could inject your contact info straight into someone else's Palm. Now if only cell phones could do this.
My phone (Nokia 5100 - the new one) can do this, in fact before I got rid of my Palm I beamed all my contacts directly into my phone VIA infrared. I would assume if you have a Nokia phone with an IrDA port you can beam contact info from phone to phone. They just need to make it easier (it's buried on a 3rd teir menu when looking at contacts... on my phone at least).
Does anyone know if Bluetooth supports this kind of 'business card' exchange? If so why isn't it more popular?
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I'd rather have both a piracy tax AND habeas corpus instead of having neither.
Sell the Aero interface as an upgrade to XP for $25 a pop, then keep working on Vista till it's ready!
I'd play that in a second! And with the gobs and gobs of cash WoW is bringing in, I wouldn't be surprised to see Blizzard pumping money into yet another MMORPG. If one MMORPG hooks 8 million players, two should be able to hook 16 million, right?
Oh this is a bad idea - when skyn^H^H Google becomes fully self-aware - it's going to have it's own incredible power source?!
Water wet?
Windows prone to bugs?
Obvious statements as questions annoy readers?
I actually *really* like this idea!!
If I were to encrypt all my FireFox private data (cookies, history, etc), would that make a difference?
Is there an extension out there that anyone knows about that will encrypt FireFox's private data on exit, and unencrypt it only when FireFox is running?
Or will this matter? Does the Spyware activly run on your computer? Or only when BF2142 is running?
DRM on Zunes. Spyware on hit games. Is this companies shooting themselves in the foot? Or is it that the average consumer knows nothing about such things - and thus doesn't care?
Sitting on the subway, listening to my Zune when I hear a quick couple beeps during my song. My Zune is telling me another Zune just entered my wireless radius. I jump to the wireless screen with one button, and see the user 'Loves2Splooge' has 1242 songs to share. I am able to browse his list as easily as I browse mine - I can even preview the song wirelessly before transfering to my Zune. I take about 30 tracks and permanently store them to my Zune.
THAT would be an iPod killer... what makes it sad is that it's only the stupid software that limits the aforementioned ideas. I hope someone is able to come out with a custom OS that enables users to do just what I've described.
... remove the DRM. That's it. I'd buy one in an instant.
I like the Zune, from what I've read and the pictures I've seen it seems pretty cool! Especially the wireless sharing of files - that's really cool. However, the DRM that the wireless transfers forces on your media is unacceptable.
Any takers on how long it will take to crack the DRM?
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Any takers on how long it will take to get Linux running - doing the same things - minus the DRM?
Something more helpful to society?
I disagree with you... I think that a tool like this would be tremendously helpful. Maybe not to society immediately, but think about being able to access someone's memories from even 50 years ago, or 100. Being able to look back on how things were is a great way to get a grasp on how things are, and how things will be.
History repeats itself.
I agree with most of the other comment posters in this thread - PC games are by no means a niche market - but the article headline says 'Becoming a niche', and I think that's key.
I think we're starting to see more and more developers putting their main focus behind consoles, then just doing a lazy port over to PC (Ubisoft's XIII and Beyond Good & Evil spring to mind). When this happens PC game quality suffers, and does in fact become a niche.
We're not there yet, certainly not for at least 3 or 4 more years, but I seriously doubt PC games will ever reach the 'niche' status. Especially with big money makers like WoW backing them up.
As far as pc hardware vs. console hardware, if you already have a computer, really all you need is a basic 3d graphics adaptor ($70+), if you buy the lowend $70 cards - yes expect to buy a new one next year. If you buy a $200 card, chances are you won't have to upgrade for at least a couple years - maybe more depending on the level of quality you're willing to accept. I've had my X800 Pro since it's release 2 years ago, and it handles all the new games VERY well.
I couldn't agree more. I'm surprised they didn't take a page from Sega's history. Clearly Sega's legion of fanboys were not enough to solely push the Dreamcast (or 32X, or Saturn...)
It is all about the games, and the experience the games give you. Provided Nintendo's new controller idea is a lot of fun to play with, I have a feeling you'll see a market shift.
Fanboys can change allegiance, and will if the tech is cool enough.
I hope they'll add multiplayer support to old games - Mario Tennis 64 (among hundreds of others) online would be awesome!!
I know this may be a bit challanging, but if it could be done, I know a bunch of my non-gamer friends would be MUCH more interested in buying a Wii.
I know this is slightly offtopic - but what info does he have for or against sandboxed sites? If you're actually active in the SEO community this article will be old news to you (as opposed to having only a passing interest in SEO, resulting in over emphasis on PR -- lots of SEO clients have this problem).
The sandbox however is a problem many of us are still grappling with. Do any slashdotter's have any insights into Google's sandbox?
Is it just me, or is it getting more and more possible to do away with Windows completely and just use a plethora of Firefox extensions to accomplish the same goals?
The more I think about it, there certainly are enough extensions out there to just have Windows boot firefox.exe rather than explorer as a default shell. Forget the start menu! Everything you need is built into your web browser!! As for office apps, there's a good range of "Web 2.0" office suites that you could use.
I can't decide if this is a good or a bad thing.
Regular Keyboard - $9.99CAD
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Can of black spray paint - $5.99CAD
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20 minutes work
= This keyboard?
I fail to see how it's worth $90CAD?!
My Dad used to teach computers to older people in the late 80's, and he used to tell them "If you can read, you can use a computer". Which is true to a certain extent, words that are used to describe computer terms like "Fatal Error", "Device Driver", "Operating System" are quite unique to the computer world, however analyzing the words themselves one should be able to decipher what the term means.
Kids need to start with this kind of solid logical foundation - that computers aren't big jumbles of confusing numbers, icons, and buttons.
They should also be forced to use a command line until grade 5. I've found that once someone learns how to do even basic shell functions they feel much more empowered and confident.
Priority 2: Make it compliant.
Since over 80% of our traffic is IE6 we optimize all our sites for it when we're trying to meet a deadline or just get something over with. If we have time, or if the client requests, we make our sites W3C. But like the post points out -- why bother with standards complience if nothing supports a standard.
Kudos to Nintendo! I know a lot of my non-gamer friends are excited to see games from older systems (especially NES and SNES) able to be played on the next gen Nintendo system.
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Everyone knows a major factor on if game systems fail or prosper is the number of good titles they have. Sony and MS are pushing developers to make new crazy things for their new crazy system. Nintendo chooses to 'think differently' and use older - already proven good - game content for their new system - in addition to the titles that will be new to the Revolution.
Although something about Sonic the Hedgehog being played on a Nintendo system that doesn't sit right with me.
Is it just me or does Michael Robertson have a knack for WAY over hyping everything he does. Lindows/Linspire was supposed to change the Linux desktop world - and frankly Ubuntu has done a better job. SIPPhone doesn't seem to stand up to Skype. And Mp3.com got sold and redone by Cnet. Now this 'ajaxWrite' doesn't seem to be any different than the many other WYSIWYG editors available today.
I think Mr. Robertson should wait until his products/ideas are actually able to do what he says. But then again who does that anymore anyways?
I wish Maxis was still independent. ... see The Sims - and now Spore).
After playing many other EA titles I've come to equate EA with poor quality (Battlefield 2 was coded by monkeys I'm sure of it - lets check the game version the server is running *after* we take 10 minutes to load everything!). With the only exception being Maxis produced titles.
It's sad that EA gobbled up such a great little company and is now exploiting them to make money for themselves (although I'd bet they treat Maxis very well because they're a big money maker for EA
Will Wright should quit and start a new company. Or Google should hire him (Google Games!?).
Google this douche's name and see the stupidness that comes up.
I for one am glad to see that some douchebag who figured out how to write HTML can finally give me all the truths about physics. I'm glad he's solved all the problems....
After I RTFA two words came to mind: ad homimen.
The only thing I thought was cool about Palms was the "beaming" feature, where you could inject your contact info straight into someone else's Palm.
... on my phone at least).
Now if only cell phones could do this.
My phone (Nokia 5100 - the new one) can do this, in fact before I got rid of my Palm I beamed all my contacts directly into my phone VIA infrared. I would assume if you have a Nokia phone with an IrDA port you can beam contact info from phone to phone. They just need to make it easier (it's buried on a 3rd teir menu when looking at contacts
Does anyone know if Bluetooth supports this kind of 'business card' exchange? If so why isn't it more popular?