I'd suggest that you watch the video. It's not the 3D graphics that he's talking about.
Also, I've had OS X on my laptop since July of 2001. Aqua was first released to the world in an OS X alpha build presented at MacWorld in January of 2000. According to the Wikipedia article (if we can trust that), work on Vista started in May of 2001. And Aero (even if not by that name) has only been in Vista since build 4074 (according to the Wikipedia article on Aero); Paul Thurrott's images of that build are dated May 5, 2004.
So, some might "remember" that even before OS X was launched for its first version, the "Vista Road Map" had been published clearly stating that Aero has always been slated as part of the operating system - but they'd be remembering wrong.
We changed dramatically the development process that was being used and we reset the Windows Vista development project in mid-2004, essentially starting over.
Also doesn't mention: "Vista is infinitely more pleasant than cutting your leg of with a rusty, old knife." You make it sound as if it was hard to make it better than its predecessors.
They'd have nobody to copy. Microsoft don't do anything unless they're forced to. Without Apple you would still be using MS DOS.
Without Microsoft, you would probably still be using MacOS Classic on a PowerPC, dreaming of the day you could smoothly run multiple tasks and not have one crashing program bring down the whole OS with it.
While you'ld be proudly switching DOS tasks in something Microsoft stole from some poor schmuck - just without those stupid icons.
In the original anti-trust suit against Microsoft in which they were found to have monopoly status, the industry over which they were found to have a monopoly was explicitly defined by the court as Intel based PCs.
Actually it was the market for Desktop Operating Systems for Intel compatible PCs
Who are you to say this isn't due to Microsoft dropping Windows for all other computer platforms?
Right, bad ol' conservative Bavaria, as opposed to liberal, tolerant Prussia where they had to build that wall to keep all the people from running away. That was East Germany, not Prussia. As for Prussia:
All Religions are equal and good, if only the people that practise them are honest people; and if Turks and heathens came and wanted to live here in this country, we would build them mosques and churches.
Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia
BTW, the wall Mexico build is higher - no, wait, that was the USA.
Which is odd, because Texas is a hotbed of game development. I'd imagine either New York or California are far more likely to ban violent games before Texas. Perhaps conservatism isn't to blame in this case? So how many games showing boobies or worse were produced in Texas? Maybe Texan conservatism is to blame for that? Obviously Texan conservatives want to conserve violence.
When will the game developers leave Germany? And what will the next industry chased out of that poor deluded country be? Germany has a complex over the whole Third Reich thing - it's understandable, but let's face it, if you weren't involved or responsible somehow, you need to build a bridge and get over it. Any people could go that way given the right (wrong) circumstances. This has nothing to do with Nazis, it has to do with kids shooting other kids. We Germans -unlike Americans- just aren't used to that yet.
Are you one of those people who cried POLICE BRUTALITY! when Rodney King was beaten? Are you one of those people who cried "Nigger should have stayed home!" when Sean Bell was shot?
Again why would Apple care that people don't buy from iTMS anymore, they already bought a song from the iTMS and can't switch anymore.
If people aren't buying (new) iTunes, they are buying or ripping music elsewhere, unless they're happy playing the same music forever. So the proportion of iTunes music in their collection is only reducing; the hassle of switching to a new player is less.
So when they only have bought 5 songs out of a thousand on their iPod (like the average iPod owner has), that's a hassle, but when they rip another 500, suddenly they can switch to a Zune.
I do remember reading that Apple operated ITMS at a loss in order to sell iPods. So, I agree, who cares.
But if people are rolling their own MP3s, they can easily move to any other iPod clone. If they have a big iTunes collection, they're pretty much locked in to iPod (I know, there are ways, but nor as simple as copying an MP3.)
Again why would Apple care that people don't buy from iTMS anymore, they already bought a song from the iTMS and can't switch anymore.
Come now. No references are needed for this. Simple physics. Warmer oceans evaporate more water and a warmer atmosphere can hold much more water. This combined effect will mean more rain everywhere, even in places that get very little right now. There is no conjecture, but that is how the laws of nature work. A warmer Earth is a more fruitful place for all. Much of the world's ice is already floating on the oceans and is therefore displacing the water. All that floating ice melting would not raise the oceans even a millimeter. All the ice on land melting would not make much of a rise either. Just get yourself a globe and look how much ice area on land there is compared to the vastness of the oceans. The worlds major ice stores are in Antarctica and Greenland. If that all melted the oceans would not rise enough to cause many problems. It would take a LOT of global warming for a long time to melt all that ice, not just a few degrees. If the average temperature of the whole planet increased by as much as 10DegC, the worlds deserts would shrink to insignificance. There is evidence that the vast Sahara was once inhabited land. Sure, and we all know that deserts got more rain instead of growing bigger in the last couple of decades.
Ohh, and much of the Earth's ice is infact on the continent of Antarctica.
Climate is subject to many variables, including solar output. There is evidence that human activity has had little if any effect on global climate in the past. Humans didn't build Pyramids 10000 years ago, so the Pyramids must be all natural occurances.
Why is it always the 800 lb. gorilla warning us that there will be other 800 lb. gorillas if we keep him from becoming a 900 lb. gorilla - esp. when he's actually talking about 10 gorrilas of 80 lb. each.
Consider that the serious violent crime rate (and murder if you check those numbers too) has dropped pretty much year on year since 1993 - the year Doom, arguably the first "murder simulator," was released. Well, the problem with your argument is this little statistic: Number of school shootings in Germany before Doom: 0, after Doom: >0. Statistics over relation between violent crime and gaming in the US aren't going to matter much when a German politician can easily quote that.
At the risk of being modded "flamebait" I will answer the question. The school of thought where everything can be blamed on something external arose from modern social liberalism. Yet it's mostly (like in this case) the Conservatives doing the blaming.
If estimated gaming community is 2Mln people, that one shooting idiot make up about 1/2mln*100 = 0,00005% of gamers.
You didn't specify if you meant those 2 million to be "Hardcore gamers". Numbers I've read, that came up in articles surrounding that silly suggestion from Beckstein, where from 10 to 20 million gamers in Germany. Those figures seem fairly plausible to me, looking around my friends (most of them are not geeks) and workmates. Heck, even my father is addicted by Anno 1502;-)
So it's even less than what you came up with.
Yeah, I'm sure that 25% of Germans are avid fraggers. Point is, even Beckstein didn't ask for a ban on Anno 1502 (err, 1503? 1701?).
My belief is that if there are 2 eyewitnesses minimum, or if the evidence is overwhelming, or if the person confesses, ie, there is little to no possibility of them being innocent, they should be taken out back and shot. Saves the taxpayers time and money. Now this also would require better conduct in the judicial system, so for now I'd say just the 2+ eyewitnesses or a confession. 123 - and that's just those where the DA and judge couldn't cover the evidence up.
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While you'ld be proudly switching DOS tasks in something Microsoft stole from some poor schmuck - just without those stupid icons.
OS/2 and Windows NT beg to differ.
Thanks for proving my point about Microsoft claiming to have mamde something themselves.Thanks. I was pretty sure you didn't actually have the brains to understand a simple sentence, but it's nice to get confirmation.
I'd suggest that you watch the video. It's not the 3D graphics that he's talking about.
Also, I've had OS X on my laptop since July of 2001. Aqua was first released to the world in an OS X alpha build presented at MacWorld in January of 2000. According to the Wikipedia article (if we can trust that), work on Vista started in May of 2001. And Aero (even if not by that name) has only been in Vista since build 4074 (according to the Wikipedia article on Aero); Paul Thurrott's images of that build are dated May 5, 2004.
So, some might "remember" that even before OS X was launched for its first version, the "Vista Road Map" had been published clearly stating that Aero has always been slated as part of the operating system - but they'd be remembering wrong.
Well, if you can believe Jim Allchin: I don't know, isn't June 28th, 2004 just about mid-2004?Yeah, that figures.
Also doesn't mention: "Vista is infinitely more pleasant than cutting your leg of with a rusty, old knife." You make it sound as if it was hard to make it better than its predecessors.
They'd have nobody to copy. Microsoft don't do anything unless they're forced to. Without Apple you would still be using MS DOS.
Without Microsoft, you would probably still be using MacOS Classic on a PowerPC, dreaming of the day you could smoothly run multiple tasks and not have one crashing program bring down the whole OS with it.
While you'ld be proudly switching DOS tasks in something Microsoft stole from some poor schmuck - just without those stupid icons.In the original anti-trust suit against Microsoft in which they were found to have monopoly status, the industry over which they were found to have a monopoly was explicitly defined by the court as Intel based PCs.
Actually it was the market for Desktop Operating Systems for Intel compatible PCs
Who are you to say this isn't due to Microsoft dropping Windows for all other computer platforms?Mike Myers is the head of the USGS? Smashing, baby! That's so unbelievably shagadelic...uhh, ohhh MARK Myers...oops. He said Alaska, not Canada.
Much nicer Americans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozJh-V2Zd-Y
BTW, the wall Mexico build is higher - no, wait, that was the USA.
I can't take anyone serious who thinks three mouse-buttons are enough.
If people aren't buying (new) iTunes, they are buying or ripping music elsewhere, unless they're happy playing the same music forever. So the proportion of iTunes music in their collection is only reducing; the hassle of switching to a new player is less.
So when they only have bought 5 songs out of a thousand on their iPod (like the average iPod owner has), that's a hassle, but when they rip another 500, suddenly they can switch to a Zune.But if people are rolling their own MP3s, they can easily move to any other iPod clone. If they have a big iTunes collection, they're pretty much locked in to iPod (I know, there are ways, but nor as simple as copying an MP3.)
Again why would Apple care that people don't buy from iTMS anymore, they already bought a song from the iTMS and can't switch anymore.
....So where are your references?.....Come now. No references are needed for this. Simple physics. Warmer oceans evaporate more water and a warmer atmosphere can hold much more water. This combined effect will mean more rain everywhere, even in places that get very little right now. There is no conjecture, but that is how the laws of nature work. A warmer Earth is a more fruitful place for all. Much of the world's ice is already floating on the oceans and is therefore displacing the water. All that floating ice melting would not raise the oceans even a millimeter. All the ice on land melting would not make much of a rise either. Just get yourself a globe and look how much ice area on land there is compared to the vastness of the oceans. The worlds major ice stores are in Antarctica and Greenland. If that all melted the oceans would not rise enough to cause many problems. It would take a LOT of global warming for a long time to melt all that ice, not just a few degrees. If the average temperature of the whole planet increased by as much as 10DegC, the worlds deserts would shrink to insignificance. There is evidence that the vast Sahara was once inhabited land. Sure, and we all know that deserts got more rain instead of growing bigger in the last couple of decades.
Ohh, and much of the Earth's ice is infact on the continent of Antarctica.
Why is it always the 800 lb. gorilla warning us that there will be other 800 lb. gorillas if we keep him from becoming a 900 lb. gorilla - esp. when he's actually talking about 10 gorrilas of 80 lb. each.
wait...wasn't he a plumber?
Yes, like Mario. Geez, get with the time - they work with a "series of tubes". CCIEs they are!Consider that the serious violent crime rate (and murder if you check those numbers too) has dropped pretty much year on year since 1993 - the year Doom, arguably the first "murder simulator," was released.
Well, the problem with your argument is this little statistic: Number of school shootings in Germany before Doom: 0, after Doom: >0. Statistics over relation between violent crime and gaming in the US aren't going to matter much when a German politician can easily quote that.
You didn't specify if you meant those 2 million to be "Hardcore gamers". Numbers I've read, that came up in articles surrounding that silly suggestion from Beckstein, where from 10 to 20 million gamers in Germany. Those figures seem fairly plausible to me, looking around my friends (most of them are not geeks) and workmates. Heck, even my father is addicted by Anno 1502 ;-)
So it's even less than what you came up with.
Yeah, I'm sure that 25% of Germans are avid fraggers. Point is, even Beckstein didn't ask for a ban on Anno 1502 (err, 1503? 1701?).