It's 9:35 PM PST, I go to their web site. Nothing about downloading a video. In fact it's still advertising the fact that it will be available at 8PM PST Monday. In fact nothing about what the show is about or what happened or anything.
I guess those guys don't "get" the internet. Tell me again why I should bother with this?
I own an Xbox and a GC and I play the GC a lot more than I do the XBox. Right now the favorite is Donkey Konga. I've got Halo 1/2, KOTOR, Doom3, all the favorites for the XBox. But I just seem to enjoy playing the GC more. Tales of Symphonia is the coolest looking game I've seen in a while.
It could just be that I'm a 10 year old trapped in a 30 year old body though.
I'm sitting here listening to a song on my iPod Shuffle that I bought at Napster with a gift card from my wife last Christmas.
I bought the 10 songs the card allowed me to buy at Napster, burned them to CD, popped the CD into my iBook, and imported the tracks into iTunes. I filled in the blanks with the track name and artist and synced the files over to my iPod.
My point is, I wasn't locked into only iTunes. I buy the majority of my music online from ITMS because it's convenient.
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How is it unuseable? What can't you do with a 256MB Mac Mini?
I only had 256MB on my new iBook for a long time. The only reason I bumped it up to 512 was to compose more complex songs in Garageband.
You mock, but it could work. It does take a special kind of geek to watch cartoons about their favorite Sci-Fi show. But the Star Wars:Clone Wars series was really well done. Seeing a 4 year (or 2 year) series about Kirks early years at the Academy could work just as well.
See that's what I thought. I figured "resource intensive" meant either heavy video/audio editing or professional Photoshop work. My everyday use doesn't include editing a 200MB video file, let alone a 2GB video file.:) My 2K little source files fit fine into 512 MB of RAM. FWIW, the only reason I upgraded to 512MB of RAM was for GarageBand. Well, that and the whole "you can never have enough RAM" thing.
Define a resource intensive app. I see this claim that "OSX is a joke with 512 and 256 MB of RAM" all the time. I've got a new gen iBook with 512MB of RAM in it and I haven't noticed any slowdown. I've had Firefox with 10+ tabs running, Thunderbird, Adium, iTunes playing music, SubEthaEdit,iTerm, MySQL, and WoW running in a window all at the same time. Expose still displays the windows quickly. I've been using plenty of resources and haven't noticed any slowdown.
Unlike when I fire up Firefox, Outlook 2003 and Visual Studio on my Windows 2000 desktop machine at work. (P4 2.4GhZ w/ 512MB RAM). I routinely see "Your system is low on memory" messages.
They were at the Penny Arcade Expo and won every game they played there. I can't imagine a bunch of chumps showing up at a Penny Arcade expo and playing against girls in public.
Wow, that wins "most confusing headline of the year" in my book. They backed off of Google groups beta and went back to Google Groups after making it manditory for everyone(I didn't get that memo apparently, I was too busy doing my TPS reports).
Now EVERYONE will be performing that little experiment but some of them will forget to remove the mistakes or will leave them in intentionaly. So the Wikipedia will slowly turn into a piece of junk Just like the rest of the blog littered web.
I have issues with online games that require you to be subscribed to XBox live AND pay a subscription fee to play their game (*cough* Phantasy Star Online for the XBox *cough*). I'm not paying twice to play the same game, it's either or for me. Either I subscribe to Xbox live and can play the game online OR I can play it separate from Xbox live.
I read an interview with one of the Xbox heads who explained the layoffs (the link escapes me right now though).
He said in effect that they needed to produce for in-house titles during the launch and first few years of the XBox to draw in the third-party developers. Now that the third party developers are creating more games for the Xbox, Microsoft doesn't need all the extra staff.
No, I've met a lot of the Microsoft bloggers in person and I've seen their blue badges. I have my doubts as to how much of the blogging is "encouraged" vs. spontaneous but they ARE actual Microsoft employees. A lot of the blogs read like PR releases.
The button on the TV doesn't say "enable AC Current" it says "Power". The lever/button on your toaster that determines how long to apply heat to your bread doesn't say "length of time to apply heat to bread" it says "lighter" and one end and "darker" at the other.
So rather than creating a icon that displays the entire filesystem and labeling it "Filesystem", create one that says "Movies" and have it display all of the movie files on the users computers no matter where they are located on their hard drive. Same with "Documents" and "Spreadsheets". Allow them to create categories, sort, re-order, and search within the container, but limit the container to what the user wants to see at that time and allow the advanced users to change that view.
If you're looking for sugar for your tea do you look at the entire kitchen or do you look in the sugar bowl?
Which would be easier for a novice computer user to understand; A button that says "Mozilla FireFox 0.8" or a button that says "Browse the internet"?
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Note the label "FileSystem" in the Nautilus screenshot.
You just lost Grandma. Heck you just lost my dad. You want to know how to design a computer for Grandma? You design it like a TV or a toaster is designed. Task oriented rather than open ended.
What I'd like to see come out of Google, is an add in that will categorize and search my local drives using the Google search algorithm. They have Google appliances that businesses can buy and use internally. I'd like to see a home based, and home priced, version of that application. Maybe have it search the internet as well, present the results separately. So if I'm looking for a file containing the words "efficient search keywords" (or something like that) it shows me files in my local system (including network shares maybe) as well as results on the internet.
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If I see a rocket move past me in three frames, I'm calling LAG!
It's 9:35 PM PST, I go to their web site. Nothing about downloading a video. In fact it's still advertising the fact that it will be available at 8PM PST Monday. In fact nothing about what the show is about or what happened or anything.
I guess those guys don't "get" the internet. Tell me again why I should bother with this?
I own an Xbox and a GC and I play the GC a lot more than I do the XBox. Right now the favorite is Donkey Konga. I've got Halo 1/2, KOTOR, Doom3, all the favorites for the XBox. But I just seem to enjoy playing the GC more. Tales of Symphonia is the coolest looking game I've seen in a while.
It could just be that I'm a 10 year old trapped in a 30 year old body though.
For a reference for this theory see www.dreamcast.com
I burned them to an Audio CD which I then imported as AAC files.
How is that compressing something that is already compressed?
I'm sitting here listening to a song on my iPod Shuffle that I bought at Napster with a gift card from my wife last Christmas.
I bought the 10 songs the card allowed me to buy at Napster, burned them to CD, popped the CD into my iBook, and imported the tracks into iTunes. I filled in the blanks with the track name and artist and synced the files over to my iPod.
My point is, I wasn't locked into only iTunes. I buy the majority of my music online from ITMS because it's convenient.
How is it unuseable? What can't you do with a 256MB Mac Mini?
I only had 256MB on my new iBook for a long time. The only reason I bumped it up to 512 was to compose more complex songs in Garageband.
You mock, but it could work. It does take a special kind of geek to watch cartoons about their favorite Sci-Fi show. But the Star Wars:Clone Wars series was really well done. Seeing a 4 year (or 2 year) series about Kirks early years at the Academy could work just as well.
See that's what I thought. I figured "resource intensive" meant either heavy video/audio editing or professional Photoshop work. My everyday use doesn't include editing a 200MB video file, let alone a 2GB video file. :) My 2K little source files fit fine into 512 MB of RAM. FWIW, the only reason I upgraded to 512MB of RAM was for GarageBand. Well, that and the whole "you can never have enough RAM" thing.
Define a resource intensive app. I see this claim that "OSX is a joke with 512 and 256 MB of RAM" all the time. I've got a new gen iBook with 512MB of RAM in it and I haven't noticed any slowdown. I've had Firefox with 10+ tabs running, Thunderbird, Adium, iTunes playing music, SubEthaEdit,iTerm, MySQL, and WoW running in a window all at the same time. Expose still displays the windows quickly. I've been using plenty of resources and haven't noticed any slowdown.
Unlike when I fire up Firefox, Outlook 2003 and Visual Studio on my Windows 2000 desktop machine at work. (P4 2.4GhZ w/ 512MB RAM). I routinely see "Your system is low on memory" messages.
Communism is the man by man exploitation of Capitalism?
They were at the Penny Arcade Expo and won every game they played there. I can't imagine a bunch of chumps showing up at a Penny Arcade expo and playing against girls in public.
Wow, that wins "most confusing headline of the year" in my book. They backed off of Google groups beta and went back to Google Groups after making it manditory for everyone(I didn't get that memo apparently, I was too busy doing my TPS reports).
Now EVERYONE will be performing that little experiment but some of them will forget to remove the mistakes or will leave them in intentionaly. So the Wikipedia will slowly turn into a piece of junk Just like the rest of the blog littered web.
Interesting. There are no Cybercafes registered in Seattle. That's kind of weird given that Valve's head quarters are a 10 minute drive from Seattle.
I have issues with online games that require you to be subscribed to XBox live AND pay a subscription fee to play their game (*cough* Phantasy Star Online for the XBox *cough*). I'm not paying twice to play the same game, it's either or for me. Either I subscribe to Xbox live and can play the game online OR I can play it separate from Xbox live.
I read an interview with one of the Xbox heads who explained the layoffs (the link escapes me right now though).
He said in effect that they needed to produce for in-house titles during the launch and first few years of the XBox to draw in the third-party developers. Now that the third party developers are creating more games for the Xbox, Microsoft doesn't need all the extra staff.
Friends don't let friends buy Britney Spears in the first place.
No, I've met a lot of the Microsoft bloggers in person and I've seen their blue badges. I have my doubts as to how much of the blogging is "encouraged" vs. spontaneous but they ARE actual Microsoft employees. A lot of the blogs read like PR releases.
You are correct but you missed my point.
The button on the TV doesn't say "enable AC Current" it says "Power". The lever/button on your toaster that determines how long to apply heat to your bread doesn't say "length of time to apply heat to bread" it says "lighter" and one end and "darker" at the other.
So rather than creating a icon that displays the entire filesystem and labeling it "Filesystem", create one that says "Movies" and have it display all of the movie files on the users computers no matter where they are located on their hard drive. Same with "Documents" and "Spreadsheets". Allow them to create categories, sort, re-order, and search within the container, but limit the container to what the user wants to see at that time and allow the advanced users to change that view.
If you're looking for sugar for your tea do you look at the entire kitchen or do you look in the sugar bowl?
Which would be easier for a novice computer user to understand; A button that says "Mozilla FireFox 0.8" or a button that says "Browse the internet"?
Note the label "FileSystem" in the Nautilus screenshot.
You just lost Grandma. Heck you just lost my dad.
You want to know how to design a computer for Grandma? You design it like a TV or a toaster is designed. Task oriented rather than open ended.
That's what they get for letting Scooby-Doo work in their marketing department.
Ok, How about Windux? or !Windows?
2 years, try 6 at the last estimate.
What I'd like to see come out of Google, is an add in that will categorize and search my local drives using the Google search algorithm. They have Google appliances that businesses can buy and use internally. I'd like to see a home based, and home priced, version of that application. Maybe have it search the internet as well, present the results separately. So if I'm looking for a file containing the words "efficient search keywords" (or something like that) it shows me files in my local system (including network shares maybe) as well as results on the internet.