If it wasn't, why would Nintendo bet its own future on it? You really need to read up on this thing, especially the interviews with people from Nintendo.
The guy you talked to sounded like he was a fanboy of another console manufacturer, so what is your point exactly?
Never mind the fact that his arguments have already been answered by Nintendo: They don't want to show any games yet because they are unfinished and because there are still secrets that will be revealed about its full potential.
Arguments like "probably not durable enough" is something you could say about anything: Will the PS3 controller be durable enough? The Xbox? And so on. Only a fanboy of another manufacturer would flame Nintendo for not being durable enough when he hasn't actually seen it himself.
Er, why would you ask for it to be modded down when you actually supported his point? The Revolution controller won't be too expensive (it's included with the console), and you won't get tired quickly (you can rest your arms while playing).
So basically, he was right and you supported his points.
The knife was sharp enough to carve off the flesh someone's body. It was the knife manufacturer's faul that I put the knife on the dashboard, and when the car hit a bump it jumped down and severed my penis. We are talking about a knife sharp enough to cut into meat.
You don't know that it will require a second purchase. No one knows what Nintendo will add to the retail package.
One thing's for sure, though: Nintendo's controller can handle games from other consoles, but other consoles can't handle games that take advantage of this thing.
That could either mean lots of nice and exclusive titles for Nintendo, or it could mean nothing.
But it isn't necessarily a bad thing. Nintendo could end up getting loads of exclusive games because of this, especially if it sells well.
"It'll be popular among people who want to try something new, without particularly caring about the games they're playing."
Ah, so basically what you are saying is that it will be popular among people who just want to play games and aren't hardcore gamers? I mean, grandma doesn't know much about games, but if she can pick up this thing and start waving it around, and get started playing without studying a complicated instruction manual, then I think she might actually start enjoying it.
As for porting, you did catch the news that you could plug things into it to transform it into a more conventional controller?
But I do agree: This could be a move which puts Nintendo ahead again, or it could kill them. Let's see what happens.
...and preparing to write a scathing post where you flame Sun for their stupid marketing...
Know that you've been had. You've just been influenced by their marketing campaign, and the fact that you even bothered to come here and be annoyed by it proves that it worked;)
Access have later struggled to catch up with the likes of Opera in actually supporting normal web pages. Creating a subset of the internet on the internet itself seems silly, and indeed, it turned out that people wanted to access real sites, not just cHTML or WAP sites.
I guess they decided to give up fighting with outdated technology against Opera, and instead went to diversify their software offerings to survive the onslaught of better mobile browsers.
"we did support this for three years and the content didn't come"
Yeah, back when no one knew about Mozilla (Firefox). But now Firefox is all over the place, and can make a difference. Lousy argument.
Not that I necessarily think the original poster is right when he whines about this non-bug (it's asking for a new feature, not reporting something that doesn't work as designed).
"Maybe it's the open source community that needs to really look at some of the things that MySQL ab has done in the past and really think if that reputation is warranted, especially after this."
How about you at least provide us with some specific examples rather than spewing out vague FUD-like comments?
Especially considering the fact that the "partnership" thing is SCO's claim, while the contract is actually SCO becoming a customer of MySQL. So basically what you seem to be saying is that if Saddam uses Ubuntu Linux then Ubuntu Linux must be evil.
Or what are you saying?
If MySQL has indeed partnered with SCO and are actively helping them, they should be condemned and deserve to go belly-up. But if this story is just nonsense, and you can't even produce a single example of evil behavior in the past from MySQL... Well... Give us the evidence, damn it!
"Way to miss the original topic of the thread; I was responding to the bundling of applications and an OS, not Microsoft's monopoly practices."
That's exactly the point. You were whining about how people criticize Microsoft for bundling software and thereby killing competitors. This is exactly how Microsoft has dealt with earlier threats (like Netscape): Illegal practices.
"Wow-- so because you're a Windows user, that gives you the knowledge/authority to say that OSX is technically superior?"
I've tried it. Spotlight beats anything Microsoft has come up with, hands down. Yes, Mac OS X has all the features Microsoft had to remove from Vista today.
"it seems to be a case of Roboform claiming Opera doesn't let them do X which is needed to make it work, and Opera claiming the same thing to Roboform"
No, it's about Opera not allowing software to integrate itself with Opera (which does prevent spyware, but hey...). Opera has all the stuff that's needed, apart from a plug-in API which can be used by Roboform to access internal Opera stuff.
Obviously creating such an API specifically for Roboform would be a waste of time and resources. All we can hope for is that a general API is made available at some point.
Way to miss the point. What are you, a Microsoft employee/share holder?
Microsoft is a conviced monopolist. The company has been conviced of using illegal means to expand its illegal monopoly to other markets.
That a few people may choose to download a different media player (or browser) is besides the point.
And it doesn't help to do better than Microsoft when it has an illegal monopoly and abuses its monopoly to kill the competition. As a Windows user, I can tell you that technically, Mac OS X is superior to Windows, but I'm simply used to the way Windows works, and since I like games I simply se no point in getting a Mac. Again, due to Microsoft's monopoly.
"For a long time you could load Opera on a 1.44MB floppy and use it sort of like a 'live CD' for whenever you had to work on a machine that didn't have it. So yeah, the current release is bloated."
Opera back when it fit on a floppy didn't support half of what it does today. Unicode alone made Opera 50 per cent bigger or so. Not to mention full DOM and CSS support.
So maybe you should try to inform yourself before making comments about "bloat"...
Yeah, because you specifically set Opera to do so when installing it. It gives you the option between targeted ads and generic ads when you run it for the first time. It doesn't even default to either, but forces you to choose one of them.
When the user knows exactly what is going on it's not "spying".
It is the crime of taking someone else's property without consent. And property, as we know, is physical.
"when is it different than borrowing?"
Uh... "How is up different than down?"
Why do you even need to ask? When you borrow something, you are given permission by the owner to use it. When did borrowing something become a crime? Because you must believe that it is since you are comparing it to one (theft)...
"if i were to lend you a cd, and asked for it back in a week, and you ignore me for a while, at what point is that theft?"
I fail to see what this has to do with the difference between theft and copyright infringement. At which point does the larva turn into a butterfly? Just because I can't tell you exactly when it happens doesn't mean that a butterfly is the same as a larva.
"what if you rip the tracks but don't give the cd back -- you're sure as shit stealing from me...but are you really stealing from the artist?"
No, the CD was stolen, and the copying was copyright infringement, a totally different thing as most people with a clue know by now.
You know, just like murder is not theft just because you could say that "murder is taking someone's life away from them so it must be theft", but that is obviously ignoring the differences between murder and theft, and the fact that theft and murder are covered by different laws.
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If it wasn't, why would Nintendo bet its own future on it? You really need to read up on this thing, especially the interviews with people from Nintendo.
Never mind the fact that his arguments have already been answered by Nintendo: They don't want to show any games yet because they are unfinished and because there are still secrets that will be revealed about its full potential.
Arguments like "probably not durable enough" is something you could say about anything: Will the PS3 controller be durable enough? The Xbox? And so on. Only a fanboy of another manufacturer would flame Nintendo for not being durable enough when he hasn't actually seen it himself.
So basically, he was right and you supported his points.
Face it, the McDonalds coffee lawsuit was crap. You can't sue someone else for your own stupidity.
The knife was sharp enough to carve off the flesh someone's body. It was the knife manufacturer's faul that I put the knife on the dashboard, and when the car hit a bump it jumped down and severed my penis. We are talking about a knife sharp enough to cut into meat.
One thing's for sure, though: Nintendo's controller can handle games from other consoles, but other consoles can't handle games that take advantage of this thing.
That could either mean lots of nice and exclusive titles for Nintendo, or it could mean nothing.
But it isn't necessarily a bad thing. Nintendo could end up getting loads of exclusive games because of this, especially if it sells well.
As for porting, you did catch the news that you could plug things into it to transform it into a more conventional controller?
But I do agree: This could be a move which puts Nintendo ahead again, or it could kill them. Let's see what happens.
Know that you've been had. You've just been influenced by their marketing campaign, and the fact that you even bothered to come here and be annoyed by it proves that it worked ;)
Let's hope Skype doesn't go the way of Kazaa :)
I guess they decided to give up fighting with outdated technology against Opera, and instead went to diversify their software offerings to survive the onslaught of better mobile browsers.
Not that I necessarily think the original poster is right when he whines about this non-bug (it's asking for a new feature, not reporting something that doesn't work as designed).
Especially considering the fact that the "partnership" thing is SCO's claim, while the contract is actually SCO becoming a customer of MySQL. So basically what you seem to be saying is that if Saddam uses Ubuntu Linux then Ubuntu Linux must be evil.
Or what are you saying?
If MySQL has indeed partnered with SCO and are actively helping them, they should be condemned and deserve to go belly-up. But if this story is just nonsense, and you can't even produce a single example of evil behavior in the past from MySQL... Well... Give us the evidence, damn it!
And of course Vista isn't out yet. They've had to rip out all the promised goodies, and it's still ages way from release.
Maxthon has the IE engine, and is therefore as slow as insecure as the regular IE. Maxthon is just a sad excuse for a shell.
Obviously creating such an API specifically for Roboform would be a waste of time and resources. All we can hope for is that a general API is made available at some point.
Microsoft is a conviced monopolist. The company has been conviced of using illegal means to expand its illegal monopoly to other markets.
That a few people may choose to download a different media player (or browser) is besides the point.
And it doesn't help to do better than Microsoft when it has an illegal monopoly and abuses its monopoly to kill the competition. As a Windows user, I can tell you that technically, Mac OS X is superior to Windows, but I'm simply used to the way Windows works, and since I like games I simply se no point in getting a Mac. Again, due to Microsoft's monopoly.
So maybe you should try to inform yourself before making comments about "bloat"...
When the user knows exactly what is going on it's not "spying".
But I guess history shows that the Skype creators could sell their creation to set out for something else. That's what they did with Kazaa anyway.
Why do you even need to ask? When you borrow something, you are given permission by the owner to use it. When did borrowing something become a crime? Because you must believe that it is since you are comparing it to one (theft)...
I fail to see what this has to do with the difference between theft and copyright infringement. At which point does the larva turn into a butterfly? Just because I can't tell you exactly when it happens doesn't mean that a butterfly is the same as a larva. No, the CD was stolen, and the copying was copyright infringement, a totally different thing as most people with a clue know by now.You know, just like murder is not theft just because you could say that "murder is taking someone's life away from them so it must be theft", but that is obviously ignoring the differences between murder and theft, and the fact that theft and murder are covered by different laws.