What features exactly are so integrated that a 3rd party developer could not mimmick? The address book is accessable by any program. That is all I can think of.
Apple is just doing what it has to do to compete. And honestly, for the iApps I use, there is no alternative which I find better, if there was, I would probably use it.
If Apple was a dominant force in the market, at the caliber of Microsoft, then the maybe the iApps would seem a bit monopolistic. But Apple doesn't try to force you to use them and they can be uninstalled if you don't want them, unlike IE and as WMP.
The only game that had support for non-Sony ethernet adapters was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and this was because the game came out almost a year before Sony's adapter. It had support for 4 or so USB Ethernet Adapters but none of them were wireless. I also wouldn't expect any of the new online games to support these adapters.
Students (and Education Faculty) can still get it for $69 through Apple with the educational discount. And you don't have to mail in a rebate either. I will purchasing my copy this way.
I haven't read the article yet, but I'm going to assume he didn't need to buy a whole new computer to switch to Windows XP from Linux unless he was running YDL or something. So he most likely didn't switch to OS X because he didn't want to plunk down the cash for a new machine.
That't not to say OS X isnt a better choice, hell I switch from Win2k to OS X last year and I'm not looking back (except to play Galaxies this fall).
It wouldn't make sense to run the promotion into August if they were going to give the G4 towers a speed bump at this show. Apple doesn't want to give a rebate on the NEW G4 towers, just the old ones. Now if Apple were releasing G5 towers at the show, then the rebates for G4 towers would be a good idea still. But we all know that isn't going to happen this year.
Hopefully January will be a different story. Plus that gives me time to save up!:)
I don't think they are going to stop selling VCRs anytime soon. I'll bet they will still sell blank VHS tapes for some time too. I think they are just going to stop selling movies on VHS. Which is fine by me.
I see this more as the equivalent of saying that those who make metal and drive the delivery trucks are responsible for murders as well as those who manufacture guns.
Morpheus is analagous to the gun manufacturer ISP's are analagous to the delivery trucks and Microsoft's and etc. software is analagous to the metal used to manufacture guns, bullets, knives etc.
While Slashdot may or may not be biased away from the Xbox, the titles of the articles is not based around that.
The title "XBox released" is a general title doesn't seem like a dig at the console in anyway, while
the title "GameCube Really And Truly For Sale" is a play on the fact that some stores were already selling cubes and today is the official launch day, where it will be available everywhere (except where it is sold out).
Being that Resident Evil is now a Gamecube exclusive [cube.ign.com] , that part of your argument doesnt hold.
Also, the new bond game from EA, and Perfect Dark (very not for kids) and Conker's Other Bad Day (very very not for kids).
Mario may look like a kiddie game, but there has not been many platform games which I would consider better than Mario 64, so yes I do enjoy playing them (at 21 years old). I do not enjoy Pokemon one bit though. Zelda is a great game, Im not sure I like the look of the new one, but its probably going to be a great game anyhow.
Dont forget Rougue Leader.
So while Nintendo has a 'kiddie' image left over from n64, it is clear that they are trying to target a much more broad audience this time around.
Is X-box going to be the 1st console to have downloadable software patches for its games?
Brining the sell now, fix later attitude of the PC world to the console world. (albeit, the PC world needs it due to the limitless hardware configurations consumers might have.)
What you just explained is what most people who do not like this music, do not like about this music.
It is manufactured, easily digestible, put in a pretty little package and sold by the millions.
It is what the record companies want you to buy, it is easy for them to sell, especially when it is all over TRL.
The music is too perfect, there is no soul to it. N*sync has no emotional attachment to the songs because all they did was sing them.
Sure they look good and arguably can dance and arguably have good voices, but its manufactured, and pushed upon its audience, who buy it because all their friends are going to have it and its all over MTV and popular radio.
Its the perfect formula.
The same can be said for mainstream rap and rock, with the exception that some of them, infact, more likely most of them, actually write their own songs. It is still over produced to the point where seeing how much talent these bands don't have in concert is painful.
Man, Windows must be the best program ever, I mean it's version numbers have completely surpassed the realm of numbers, only to be replaced by the letters XP!
A 2 week delay I can handle, but thank God that Nintendo is not launching its 3rd console in a row with a Pilotwings game. I think thats what really did N64 in.
Does it seem odd to anyone else that this article about the new voice for MSN is about three times longer than the one about the DMCA and Dimitri from the other day?
I guess we can see where the press' priorities are.
Especially now, the game is pretty stable with the latest patches and such. If they got the axe the day it was released that would not have been good at all. The only way I can see a game being an investment is if you are the type wait for a mission pack or map pack add-on.
There can still be good mods to look forward too.
I got my copy for 27 bucks. I still think it is money well spent.
I really like this game, it is the only FPS I've wasted my time playing in the past few months.
I'm curious why (or if?) Dynamix is the only software house this is happening to with the merger. It doesn't seem like they are dead wieght, I mean Tribes 2 is a great game and I can't see why it should see an early end.
If only the source code would somehow 'accidently leak' out now....
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Maybe I just don't understand how this works, but at some point the signal will have to be separated to each users line right? I mean, its not like a cable wire where every channel is sent out but you only watch what channel your on.
So maybe the server that sends out the multicast isn't all that affected, but at some point, some server or router (i dont know much about netowrking- ?) is going to have to send these huge amounts of data down separate lines.
Thats where I thing bottlenecks would happen.
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Not only do I see this as a problem with the downstream bandwidth I get from my ISP, I also see this as a problem for servers.
What kind of server can send out 20MBps streams to thousands if not millions of users?
And we think the net is clogged now. Imagine a HDTV server is streaming something that gets posted as news to/.
I don't see the big deal here. Let the online music services be anti-competitive, they are not going to last anyway, if they launch the way the record companies are planning them to.
I'm not going to pay the same price for a song that is lesser quality than a CD so I can sit and wait for it to download. And the best part about it, is that I can only listen to it on my PC. Now thats great, I'll buy all this music and I won't be able to use it in my car or home stereo, so what good does it do me.
Even if I get a copy protected CD at least I can put the CD in my car/pc/stereo, or oh no! bring it to a friends house.
The record companies will have a rude awakening if they do not listen to the consumers wants when designing these new services.
How could they not see this one coming?
"... and only have a fraction of our "real" hardware on Banjo so don't worry about speed..."
Ok, send the entire slashdot community, to test the next incarnation of slashdot, but on a fraction of the hardware that is powering the current community.
hehe. irony is funny.
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What features exactly are so integrated that a 3rd party developer could not mimmick? The address book is accessable by any program. That is all I can think of.
Apple is just doing what it has to do to compete. And honestly, for the iApps I use, there is no alternative which I find better, if there was, I would probably use it.
If Apple was a dominant force in the market, at the caliber of Microsoft, then the maybe the iApps would seem a bit monopolistic. But Apple doesn't try to force you to use them and they can be uninstalled if you don't want them, unlike IE and as WMP.
The only game that had support for non-Sony ethernet adapters was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and this was because the game came out almost a year before Sony's adapter. It had support for 4 or so USB Ethernet Adapters but none of them were wireless. I also wouldn't expect any of the new online games to support these adapters.
Students (and Education Faculty) can still get it for $69 through Apple with the educational discount. And you don't have to mail in a rebate either. I will purchasing my copy this way.
swill.
I haven't read the article yet, but I'm going to assume he didn't need to buy a whole new computer to switch to Windows XP from Linux unless he was running YDL or something. So he most likely didn't switch to OS X because he didn't want to plunk down the cash for a new machine.
That't not to say OS X isnt a better choice, hell I switch from Win2k to OS X last year and I'm not looking back (except to play Galaxies this fall).
It wouldn't make sense to run the promotion into August if they were going to give the G4 towers a speed bump at this show. Apple doesn't want to give a rebate on the NEW G4 towers, just the old ones. Now if Apple were releasing G5 towers at the show, then the rebates for G4 towers would be a good idea still. But we all know that isn't going to happen this year.
:)
Hopefully January will be a different story. Plus that gives me time to save up!
The official name of the OS is
Mac OS X version 10.2
I know it doesn't make sense, and what happens when they get to 11?
Mac OS X version 11.0?
MAc OS XI version 11.0?
none of those makes sense especially since
Mac OS X is pronounced "Mac OS ten"
I don't think they are going to stop selling VCRs anytime soon. I'll bet they will still sell blank VHS tapes for some time too. I think they are just going to stop selling movies on VHS. Which is fine by me.
Does spelling count? If so my first "hello wordl" program was buggy ....
I see this more as the equivalent of saying that those who make metal and drive the delivery trucks are responsible for murders as well as those who manufacture guns.
Morpheus is analagous to the gun manufacturer
ISP's are analagous to the delivery trucks
and Microsoft's and etc. software is analagous to the metal used to manufacture guns, bullets, knives etc.
While Slashdot may or may not be biased away from the Xbox, the titles of the articles is not based around that.
The title "XBox released" is a general title doesn't seem like a dig at the console in anyway, while
the title "GameCube Really And Truly For Sale" is a play on the fact that some stores were already selling cubes and today is the official launch day, where it will be available everywhere (except where it is sold out).
Being that Resident Evil is now a Gamecube exclusive [cube.ign.com] , that part of your argument doesnt hold.
Also, the new bond game from EA, and Perfect Dark (very not for kids) and Conker's Other Bad Day (very very not for kids).
Mario may look like a kiddie game, but there has not been many platform games which I would consider better than Mario 64, so yes I do enjoy playing them (at 21 years old). I do not enjoy Pokemon one bit though. Zelda is a great game, Im not sure I like the look of the new one, but its probably going to be a great game anyhow.
Dont forget Rougue Leader.
So while Nintendo has a 'kiddie' image left over from n64, it is clear that they are trying to target a much more broad audience this time around.
Is X-box going to be the 1st console to have downloadable software patches for its games?
Brining the sell now, fix later attitude of the PC world to the console world. (albeit, the PC world needs it due to the limitless hardware configurations consumers might have.)
What you just explained is what most people who do not like this music, do not like about this music.
It is manufactured, easily digestible, put in a pretty little package and sold by the millions.
It is what the record companies want you to buy, it is easy for them to sell, especially when it is all over TRL.
The music is too perfect, there is no soul to it. N*sync has no emotional attachment to the songs because all they did was sing them.
Sure they look good and arguably can dance and arguably have good voices, but its manufactured, and pushed upon its audience, who buy it because all their friends are going to have it and its all over MTV and popular radio.
Its the perfect formula.
The same can be said for mainstream rap and rock, with the exception that some of them, infact, more likely most of them, actually write their own songs. It is still over produced to the point where seeing how much talent these bands don't have in concert is painful.
Man, Windows must be the best program ever, I mean it's version numbers have completely surpassed the realm of numbers, only to be replaced by the letters XP!
it's not being launched with Pilotwings Cube.
A 2 week delay I can handle, but thank God that Nintendo is not launching its 3rd console in a row with a Pilotwings game. I think thats what really did N64 in.
Does it seem odd to anyone else that this article about the new voice for MSN is about three times longer than the one about the DMCA and Dimitri from the other day?
I guess we can see where the press' priorities are.
I hope that link isn't an illegal circumvention device!
Especially now, the game is pretty stable with the latest patches and such. If they got the axe the day it was released that would not have been good at all. The only way I can see a game being an investment is if you are the type wait for a mission pack or map pack add-on. There can still be good mods to look forward too. I got my copy for 27 bucks. I still think it is money well spent.
I really like this game, it is the only FPS I've wasted my time playing in the past few months.
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I'm curious why (or if?) Dynamix is the only software house this is happening to with the merger. It doesn't seem like they are dead wieght, I mean Tribes 2 is a great game and I can't see why it should see an early end.
If only the source code would somehow 'accidently leak' out now
Maybe I just don't understand how this works, but at some point the signal will have to be separated to each users line right? I mean, its not like a cable wire where every channel is sent out but you only watch what channel your on. So maybe the server that sends out the multicast isn't all that affected, but at some point, some server or router (i dont know much about netowrking- ?) is going to have to send these huge amounts of data down separate lines. Thats where I thing bottlenecks would happen.
Not only do I see this as a problem with the downstream bandwidth I get from my ISP, I also see this as a problem for servers.
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What kind of server can send out 20MBps streams to thousands if not millions of users?
And we think the net is clogged now. Imagine a HDTV server is streaming something that gets posted as news to
I don't see the big deal here. Let the online music services be anti-competitive, they are not going to last anyway, if they launch the way the record companies are planning them to.
I'm not going to pay the same price for a song that is lesser quality than a CD so I can sit and wait for it to download. And the best part about it, is that I can only listen to it on my PC. Now thats great, I'll buy all this music and I won't be able to use it in my car or home stereo, so what good does it do me.
Even if I get a copy protected CD at least I can put the CD in my car/pc/stereo, or oh no! bring it to a friends house.
The record companies will have a rude awakening if they do not listen to the consumers wants when designing these new services.
I suspect I'm not alone here.
How could they not see this one coming? "... and only have a fraction of our "real" hardware on Banjo so don't worry about speed ..."
Ok, send the entire slashdot community, to test the next incarnation of slashdot, but on a fraction of the hardware that is powering the current community.
hehe. irony is funny.
ooops, you'll have to dummy down the specs on that machine to save 500 bucks, I though it started at 999 it started at 1500. sue me!