100% agree. Especially with the grandparent. I think whats happened is MS has never really had to justify "why?" before.
They are used to being the default choice and now that they are not. Also they do not have the broadest base of apps to draw people in thus sales have gone nowhere.
That was my reaction as well. This is the logo used at the store since it opened last year. Now its just the official logo and will show up more and more as they update their various products.
I grew up in a small town 30 min away from the SF Bay Area. UPS delivered but that was it. No Fedex, DLH, etc. While the town did have a post office there was no door service just a PO Box.
In addition to the other valid points others have mentioned over in the Mac side of the pond we do refer to applications as "apps". The file extension is even.app. Obviously its not exclusive people use lots of words depending upon their computing background and knowledge. executable, binary, app, application, etc...
Cmd+shift+4 (gives you cross hairs you can drag for any region). Then hit the space bar to toggle window mode. It will capture the window you are hovering over when you click.
Sonds like the firmware got corrupted. My wife took her 3GS (1 year old to the day) in to the apple store last night. A tech looked at it, found it reported ~8 hours of battery life but 700 days of standby time. Obviously this was not right, found the firmware was corrupted and asked if she would permit a wipe and restore. Apparently this caused some errors in the back and a few min later he came back with a new phone for her.
As it was the last day of the included warranty it only cost us a few minutes of our time. Note that as it was the firmware that was the problem she could not do a full restore from her computer. Just reinstalled apps, some restored data some did not. And had to re-setup to her liking.
Some trophy enabled games failed to init properly (Heavy Rain is one such game) and would quit. While others would load and play fine. I played Fallout 3 sunday evening but the catch was it zero'd out my local trophy data, as if I had never played the game. Not sure what would have happened if I earned one during my playtime that night. If anyone is curious now that everything working again I restored my trophies by launching the game (init to 0%) then quit and re-synced my trophy data with the PSN servers. This restored all the missing data.
Also there were reports of some fat PS3's that were not effected by the bug at all. Just like the new slim models.
About the Wii you are mostly right. You do not have to connect to the net and still have to manually start a update. But some games require a firmware update before you can play. I think Metroid or Mario Galaxy was one such game. So Nintendo can force people to upgrade, assuming they want to play the shinny new game they just purchased.
And the 360 has a extra year of games for people to choose from. While I do agree there are people who only have a few Wii games there are always a group of people who only buy a few games per console. I know plenty of people with a PS2 and only have Madden, GTA3 and maybe another game or two. Same for XBox Halo 1/2 and another game or two.
>No surprise that Northrend would be the setting for the newest expansion. A bit disappointing, really.
Lots of folks were pissed off last year when it was revealed that the expansion would not be Northrend but instead Outland. I think this will make quite a few WoW addicts happy.
I thought Dell did this when you installed Linux on one of their computers. It voided the warranty.
Think there was a Slashdot article about it too.
I had a friend in college who had to take Dell to small claims court because they refused to honor the warranty. He downgraded from XP to 2k (I think it was XP could have been ME). They used that as an excuse to brush him off. He won because his computer came with and still had the sticker that said "Certified for Windows XP / 2000". So Dell was unable to argue that Windows 2000 was unsupported and voided the warranty.
I doubt this qualifies for all the carriers but I thought I saw an ad for one of them that offered to buy you out of your existing contract so you could sign up with them. No idea if this is a common practice or was just a short term deal.
I think what really matters is that everybody considers the Wii a safe buy. While the other consoles have GTA style games, the Wii is something that parents and grandparents view as a fun toy for the entire family. I've yet to hear any of the normal concerns about video game violence applied to the Wii.
Thats just because they are not looking closely at the game selection. If things continue the Wii will be the PS2 of this generation, with the "hardcore" (read gfx heavy) games going to the 360 in US/Europe and PS3 (I guess) in Japan. There are already a number of violent games out for the Wii. In fact the most violent game I've ever played in 25 years is on it (Godfather).
But I do agree with you that the perception is that Wii/Nintendo = kid safe. For the most part this is true. But perception is not always reality.
That trick works with tons of games (Civ 3, Blizzard games, etc), but sadly not RailRoad Tycoon 3. A few months after I got the game my CD drive died.:(
Toys-R-us @ Northgate mall in Seattle had controllers this past weekend. Not sure what the general supply is in the area though. The EB in the same mall did not have any accessories on the wall at all. Maybe they were behind the counter.
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I saw the site yesterday and a number of posters exposed also included bits about how their parents shared the same views.
Well this is the third platform Steam has come out for. First Windows, then Mac OS, now Linux.
100% agree. Especially with the grandparent. I think whats happened is MS has never really had to justify "why?" before.
They are used to being the default choice and now that they are not. Also they do not have the broadest base of apps to draw people in thus sales have gone nowhere.
That was my reaction as well. This is the logo used at the store since it opened last year. Now its just the official logo and will show up more and more as they update their various products.
Working As Intended.
I grew up in a small town 30 min away from the SF Bay Area. UPS delivered but that was it. No Fedex, DLH, etc. While the town did have a post office there was no door service just a PO Box.
Thanks for the link.
You have seen pictures of RMS right? I doubt he even knows what a razor is let alone the tyranny of living under P&G iron rule.
Thats how you know he is an engineer.
In addition to the other valid points others have mentioned over in the Mac side of the pond we do refer to applications as "apps". The file extension is even .app. Obviously its not exclusive people use lots of words depending upon their computing background and knowledge. executable, binary, app, application, etc...
Cmd+shift+4 (gives you cross hairs you can drag for any region). Then hit the space bar to toggle window mode. It will capture the window you are hovering over when you click.
Sonds like the firmware got corrupted. My wife took her 3GS (1 year old to the day) in to the apple store last night. A tech looked at it, found it reported ~8 hours of battery life but 700 days of standby time. Obviously this was not right, found the firmware was corrupted and asked if she would permit a wipe and restore. Apparently this caused some errors in the back and a few min later he came back with a new phone for her.
As it was the last day of the included warranty it only cost us a few minutes of our time. Note that as it was the firmware that was the problem she could not do a full restore from her computer. Just reinstalled apps, some restored data some did not. And had to re-setup to her liking.
Some trophy enabled games failed to init properly (Heavy Rain is one such game) and would quit. While others would load and play fine. I played Fallout 3 sunday evening but the catch was it zero'd out my local trophy data, as if I had never played the game. Not sure what would have happened if I earned one during my playtime that night. If anyone is curious now that everything working again I restored my trophies by launching the game (init to 0%) then quit and re-synced my trophy data with the PSN servers. This restored all the missing data.
Also there were reports of some fat PS3's that were not effected by the bug at all. Just like the new slim models.
About the Wii you are mostly right. You do not have to connect to the net and still have to manually start a update. But some games require a firmware update before you can play. I think Metroid or Mario Galaxy was one such game. So Nintendo can force people to upgrade, assuming they want to play the shinny new game they just purchased.
Obj-C 2.0 (released with Leopard last month) added garbage collection. You can use either method but I believe the idea is to migrate to GC.
>No surprise that Northrend would be the setting for the newest expansion. A bit disappointing, really.
Lots of folks were pissed off last year when it was revealed that the expansion would not be Northrend but instead Outland. I think this will make quite a few WoW addicts happy.
I doubt this qualifies for all the carriers but I thought I saw an ad for one of them that offered to buy you out of your existing contract so you could sign up with them. No idea if this is a common practice or was just a short term deal.
AFAIK there were no Webkit (KHTML also?) based browsers for windows.
iCal is apples calendaring app. It has been shipping standard since 10.2 (I think). It is due to get a nice upgrade in Leopard (http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ical.html) and will be a part of their server offerings (http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/icalse rver.html). Hope that helps.
But I do agree with you that the perception is that Wii/Nintendo = kid safe. For the most part this is true. But perception is not always reality.
50 minutes into the keynote Jobs says they will be bringing out 3G phones in the future.
That trick works with tons of games (Civ 3, Blizzard games, etc), but sadly not RailRoad Tycoon 3. A few months after I got the game my CD drive died. :(
Toys-R-us @ Northgate mall in Seattle had controllers this past weekend. Not sure what the general supply is in the area though. The EB in the same mall did not have any accessories on the wall at all. Maybe they were behind the counter.