For some reason, I'm associating the Wii with the sound effects during the shower scene in Psycho. It's the weird (violin?) noise as the girl is getting stabbed.
If this happens, gamers will get even weaker. As it stands, gamers can be proud of their oddly-muscled forearms, fingers and thumbs. But what will they have in the future? A vein on their forehead that they can pulse on command.
The big ass problem button is bad design. To be fair, the "Ok this is lame" should be as visible as Digg It button.
"Yes you can promote or bury as many comments as you like, but only once per comment."
This does little to minimize abuse. Let's say that story is about Perl, I can bury every comment that critizes Perl or talks about other languages. It would only take a small number people doing the same to abuse the system.
On Digg, you can only vote to promote a story and have it appear on homepage. You can't vote against the story. The only way a story dies is from old age.
Also, the general idea of a democracy is that everyone has an equal say. I can promote or bury as many comments as I like. If there is a limit, I've haven't send them yet. So if I vote on 20 comments, doesn't that equate me having 20 votes? If the average user only votes on 5 comments, then I effectively have more power.
Some of the games that were... on the N64, those games were pretty large and are still gonna be pretty hard to distribute digitally depending on the title."
Sounds like an excuse. Distribution shouldn't be a problem. I got Half-Life 2 and Day of Defeat over Steam. Those seemed pretty large.
Now on the other hand, if he had mention problems with storing the games...
Once I read an interview with an old school designer/architect(forgot the name). He said that when he was done with a product, he would start removing features. And if missing feature didn't make the product useless, it would stay off.
QA and debugging will never be done. There will always be some bugs.
Companies deal with the bugs that will affect a lot of users and ignore the bugs that will affect only 12 people. But the trick is telling between the two.
First, Boot Camp is beta software. Second, non-destructive partitioning seems to work only if you're lucky. Making a backup is a basic precaution and it's your own fault if ignore it.
I installed BootCamp on my MBP with lots of free space on the HD. It killed my OS X partition. But I didn't lose anything since I had made a backup. I lost an hour of time but that was it.
Course, now that most things are released as beta software, we should probably think of a new term to really mean beta. People seem to treat beta as 1.0 releases and get mad when things go wrong.
And which are they going to have bigger profit margins on - a CD that they sell for $200 or a mac mini at $500?
Well, that depends on how much it cost them to make the software on the CD and how much it cost to create the mac mini. These things just don't appear in the stores automagically.
I think one of the biggest factors against OS X on PC's is the tech support. Getting hardware makers to provide OS X drivers should be easy. But then customers would call asking whether the Start button is. Or they'd call asking how to eject a CD. Answering those questions will cost Apple time and money. If if there's no solution, it'll cost them goodwill.
People like Apple because it just works. Put OS X on any PC and that advantage goes away.
3) As #2 illustrates, there's always been something sleazy about Linspire. They appeared, making ludicrous claims about Windows compatability, stepping on Microsoft's trademark while prominently advertising rebadged KDE apps as their own, and they've been like that ever since. They may not do anything wrong but it's always... off.
So...you're saying it's the used-car saleman of the linux world?
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I hear they can buy Michael Dell for only $389k after a $330k instant rebate.
Well, you'll be safe as long as no one invents a usb -> crowbar attachment.
Did anyone else get that?
Please? I don't care if you have to lie.
Faceconferencing doubleplusgood.
If this happens, gamers will get even weaker. As it stands, gamers can be proud of their oddly-muscled forearms, fingers and thumbs. But what will they have in the future? A vein on their forehead that they can pulse on command.
They should just make a giant hologram of the sun. Then we'd have perpetual energy.
Find another place to put it, or find a bigger place to live. Why exactly is it under your bed? Why not put it the furthest spot from your bed?
I could have put something more sexual in the subject, but decided not to.
"Yes you can promote or bury as many comments as you like, but only once per comment."
This does little to minimize abuse. Let's say that story is about Perl, I can bury every comment that critizes Perl or talks about other languages. It would only take a small number people doing the same to abuse the system.
Also, the general idea of a democracy is that everyone has an equal say. I can promote or bury as many comments as I like. If there is a limit, I've haven't send them yet. So if I vote on 20 comments, doesn't that equate me having 20 votes? If the average user only votes on 5 comments, then I effectively have more power.
I've got lots of resentment to go around.
I know it was a proof of concept but... does the virus perform better on Windows or Linux?
Nothing beats the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Sounds like an excuse. Distribution shouldn't be a problem. I got Half-Life 2 and Day of Defeat over Steam. Those seemed pretty large.
Now on the other hand, if he had mention problems with storing the games...
No self-respecting geek should work for Best Buy.
Once I read an interview with an old school designer/architect(forgot the name). He said that when he was done with a product, he would start removing features. And if missing feature didn't make the product useless, it would stay off.
Companies deal with the bugs that will affect a lot of users and ignore the bugs that will affect only 12 people. But the trick is telling between the two.
Anyone know the company he works for? I'd like to know what company to avoid.
I installed BootCamp on my MBP with lots of free space on the HD. It killed my OS X partition. But I didn't lose anything since I had made a backup. I lost an hour of time but that was it.
Course, now that most things are released as beta software, we should probably think of a new term to really mean beta. People seem to treat beta as 1.0 releases and get mad when things go wrong.
The first step toward failure is trying. So don't try.
Slows what yu know.
I'm nostly ful of alochol.
Well, that depends on how much it cost them to make the software on the CD and how much it cost to create the mac mini. These things just don't appear in the stores automagically.
I think one of the biggest factors against OS X on PC's is the tech support. Getting hardware makers to provide OS X drivers should be easy. But then customers would call asking whether the Start button is. Or they'd call asking how to eject a CD. Answering those questions will cost Apple time and money. If if there's no solution, it'll cost them goodwill.
People like Apple because it just works. Put OS X on any PC and that advantage goes away.
That's unpossible.
So...you're saying it's the used-car saleman of the linux world?