That only works if you then have ethernet connected to the internet. This lets you become an access point, and connect to another access point using a single card.
They have licensed Mac OS before, so we know exactly what the outcome of that would be.
This gets said a lot, but is it really true? Ask any Apple user what they think of John Scully, and they'll spit on your shoes... yet Scully raised Apple's sales from $800 million to $8 billion.
Who is to say that licensing Mac OS didn't save the company?
It has absolutely nothing to do with ads, and everything to do with media contracts with overseas content providers.
If you're in the UK, and you want to watch Hulu, don't yell at Hulu, yell at Sky. They're the ones who have the exclusive broadcasting rights for certain shows in your country... they're the ones whose contracts prevent Hulu from streaming to your country.
Wait... what? There is no technical limitation, there's no financial limitation, there's no business limitation... unless the company behind Hulu is extremely dense or has absolutely no clue about marketing.
If Hulu were available in your country, the networks couldn't charge Sky as much as they do for shows.
Last I checked, the UK still measures distance in miles, still rates fuel efficiency in miles per gallon, and uses a totally fucked up scale for measuring human weight.
although the recent crop of consoles sure seem a lot more failure prone than standard gaming consoles and even computers from the past
Not really. Everyone I knew had to do voodoo to get the NES to play. Blowing on the cart wasn't enough, you also had to put it in in just the right way.
Everyone I knew with a PS1 eventually had to run it upside down to prevent disk read errors.
The internet just makes console failures more well known.
Not only that, but at my work, when using wifi, you have to use a web browser to log in before you can get anywhere on the internet. Without a web browser, you can't use FTP, etc.
Same goes for hotels and other places. Imagine not being able to reinstall your OS just because you're in a hotel at the time.
Fallout 3 is a good example. It's plastered with ads. Walk into a room and there's a Nuka Cola poster on the wall. There's old billboards all over the landscape.
Sure, it's fake ads, but it's still advertising.
Fallout3 wouldn't be nearly as immersive it didn't have all that ad space.
Lots of people get the sunday paper strictly for the coupons. Hell, sunday circulars are posted on engadget and joystiq all the time. "According to this best buy ad, there's a sale... blah blah".
I'd say just as many people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials as the game.
Youtube is filled with "Top 10 funniest commercials" videos.
I agree with you, but in the MS antitrust trial, it was ruled that Macs are not part of the PC market, and that Apple did not compete in the same space as MS.
I'm not sure how his principles work in this instance however.
He can't spread FUD about patents in Mono, at the same time he's promoting Portable.NET/DotGNU. If there are patents in Mono, there are patents in his own Portable.NET.
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That only works if you then have ethernet connected to the internet. This lets you become an access point, and connect to another access point using a single card.
This gets said a lot, but is it really true? Ask any Apple user what they think of John Scully, and they'll spit on your shoes... yet Scully raised Apple's sales from $800 million to $8 billion.
Who is to say that licensing Mac OS didn't save the company?
That's not true at all. You can't use plugins with VSE, but you can certainly use 3rd party libraries.
Plus if you use C#, you can do pretty much anything in VSE, including making games using XNA.
I agree. People say they want non-biased news, but they don't. What they want is news that matches their own biases.
No one ever writes an angry letter saying "while I agree with everything you're saying, you're letting your bias show"
I'd rephrase that to say Apple has an effective case... because I certainly wouldn't call what they're doing "good".
It has absolutely nothing to do with ads, and everything to do with media contracts with overseas content providers.
If you're in the UK, and you want to watch Hulu, don't yell at Hulu, yell at Sky. They're the ones who have the exclusive broadcasting rights for certain shows in your country... they're the ones whose contracts prevent Hulu from streaming to your country.
If only there was a way for you to find out what other people thought of the game before you buy it...
If Hulu were available in your country, the networks couldn't charge Sky as much as they do for shows.
Last I checked, the UK still measures distance in miles, still rates fuel efficiency in miles per gallon, and uses a totally fucked up scale for measuring human weight.
They were using the iPod compatible device ID, but the manufacturer ID was Palm. That's how USB is designed to work.
Not really. Everyone I knew had to do voodoo to get the NES to play. Blowing on the cart wasn't enough, you also had to put it in in just the right way.
Everyone I knew with a PS1 eventually had to run it upside down to prevent disk read errors.
The internet just makes console failures more well known.
Did it fly off the shelves when it was $50?
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9134802/Microsoft_discounts_Windows_7_Home_Premium_to_50_deal_to_last_two_weeks
90% of ST's problems are solved by "reversing the polarity".
In other words, they put the batteries in backwards.
Judging from the responses you got.. I'm guessing that Star Trek and MST3K has no crossover audience what-so-ever.
Two that come to mind are
The Flashbelt Conference
and
The Golden Gate Ruby Conference
Both of which had pretty tasteless presentations.
Not only that, but at my work, when using wifi, you have to use a web browser to log in before you can get anywhere on the internet. Without a web browser, you can't use FTP, etc.
Same goes for hotels and other places. Imagine not being able to reinstall your OS just because you're in a hotel at the time.
Fallout 3 is a good example. It's plastered with ads. Walk into a room and there's a Nuka Cola poster on the wall. There's old billboards all over the landscape.
Sure, it's fake ads, but it's still advertising.
Fallout3 wouldn't be nearly as immersive it didn't have all that ad space.
Yes, people like advertising.
Lots of people get the sunday paper strictly for the coupons. Hell, sunday circulars are posted on engadget and joystiq all the time. "According to this best buy ad, there's a sale... blah blah".
I'd say just as many people watch the Super Bowl for the commercials as the game.
Youtube is filled with "Top 10 funniest commercials" videos.
Yeah, they're talking about stuff like there being billboards in Burnout Paradise, and the billboards advertise real products.
You don't even have to look at the billboard, but it is realistic to have billboards on the side of the road.
Be a short-lived war, considering only ARVs will have guns.. I'm thinking they're gonna win.
I agree with you, but in the MS antitrust trial, it was ruled that Macs are not part of the PC market, and that Apple did not compete in the same space as MS.
No, but that's not microsoft's fault.
IBM, open source's savior, is still fighting *for* software patents.
I'm not sure how his principles work in this instance however.
He can't spread FUD about patents in Mono, at the same time he's promoting Portable.NET/DotGNU. If there are patents in Mono, there are patents in his own Portable.NET.
Posts like this convince me that PJ is the world's most successful FUDster.
MS did not sell any patents to SCO. SCO got their Unix copyrights from Novell.