MS as a company is a little over 25 years old. So in that time frame have they ever lost a dominant position in any area? It seems (so far) the answer is no.
once the average grandmother is using a different browser (because the big media told her that a virus would make her computer explode if she didn't) it's putting the thought into everyone's head that maybe there's an alternative to MS, that they don't define computing.
As I read this it occurred to me, has MS EVER lost a market once they came to dominate it? Obviously not OS or Office markets. They never owned the server market. Sure they have had some amazing failures and other offerings that any other company would have had to give up on long ago. But has MS ever lost a market like this before?
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Get a GBA. All that classic old fogie 16bit-dont waste time with long cutscence - great story / gameplay stuff I love. They are also super cheap with the SP & DS out.:-)
But that is $180 (plus tax) added onto of your $600 ebay score. At that point might have well gotten the eMac. Same software and probably better hardware (Macs really hold their values) and less hassle. Of course then your using the CRT and not [insert kick ass LCD/CRT you own].
Correction: Mac OS X was delayed again, public beta was released summer of 00'. A "final" version came out March 24th 2001, with a useable 10.1 update available that summer.
Just for one thing I dislike about OS X: Lack of thumbnail view in finder windows. You have to go to column view and click images one at a time to see their previews. Annoying.
Switch to the finder, view menu, show view options. Check show icon preview.
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I remember for Railroad Tycoon you had a sheet with like 20 trains on it and had to identify the loco. I played that game so much I ended up memorizing all the trains and never needed the card. Even today I still remember a few.
Put Away went the way of the dodo when Mac OS X took over. The difference between Put Away and Eject is Eject left a ghost image of the disk and you could copy a disk to another disk by storing pieces in RAM. So it was a poor mans disk copy when you had no other storage means. Of course with the advent of hard disks this stopped being useful and became more of an annoyance.
Seriously that was one of the main selling points for me. I look at the DS as what the SP should have been, plus it has all this other stuff. The SP is just too small and it cramped my hands real fast.
I would hope so it just kinda sucks. Makes more sense when changing the config then pictochat that is the one that surprised me more. Went looking in the manual for any kind of soft reset function and came up empty handed (it was 4am though:-/ )
But I do find it cool that all I can bitch about is a (like you said) 2 second reset.:-)
It was disappointing that you need to reset to do alot of things. As far as I have found once you select some action you MUST restart to get back to the choice menu. So if you select pictochat and want to play a game you have to restart no backing out to the main menu again.
there is also five or six control settings available for left/right/dual control. I have found the controls to be similar to using a mouse as far as aiming goes.
Go read any bio on Jobs or the wikipedia entries they should cover it well. But in summery, Jobs got removed from power at apple and left taking a number of people with him. He started out fresh building atop BSD+Mach, licensed postscript and made a high end workstation. As Hillgrass says in the intro to his book "NeXT hired a small team of brilliant engineers. This small team developed a computer, an operating system, a printer, a factory, and a set of development tools." But it all cost an arm and a leg and never caught on (until around 2002 or so...)
We ran out 8100 for about 6-7 years before my brother killed in at college. Our family iMac (rev D) is now pushing 6 as well. My fathers power book (pismo) is a little over 5 as well. Likewise for my brothers powerbook and in may my sisters first gen icebook will be 4 years. The only replacement plans we have is the imac as it's barely fast enough for OS X and is starting to fall apart (CD Rom is busted) and once I am making some money I plan to buy my father a new PowerBook.
This is fairly typical of Mac users I know, and once we do buy new machines we find uses for the old (our Mac Plus after years when to our Church and served there for years)
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MS as a company is a little over 25 years old. So in that time frame have they ever lost a dominant position in any area? It seems (so far) the answer is no.
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But GTA 1 & 2 were ports from windows.
Get a GBA. All that classic old fogie 16bit-dont waste time with long cutscence - great story / gameplay stuff I love. They are also super cheap with the SP & DS out. :-)
But that is $180 (plus tax) added onto of your $600 ebay score. At that point might have well gotten the eMac. Same software and probably better hardware (Macs really hold their values) and less hassle. Of course then your using the CRT and not [insert kick ass LCD/CRT you own].
Correction: Mac OS X was delayed again, public beta was released summer of 00'. A "final" version came out March 24th 2001, with a useable 10.1 update available that summer.
Along with it's high prices and shitty selection. But there is on in Tracy.
same here, little nemo was a great game.
Just for one thing I dislike about OS X: Lack of thumbnail view in finder windows. You have to go to column view and click images one at a time to see their previews. Annoying.
Switch to the finder, view menu, show view options. Check show icon preview.
I remember for Railroad Tycoon you had a sheet with like 20 trains on it and had to identify the loco. I played that game so much I ended up memorizing all the trains and never needed the card. Even today I still remember a few.
Put Away went the way of the dodo when Mac OS X took over. The difference between Put Away and Eject is Eject left a ghost image of the disk and you could copy a disk to another disk by storing pieces in RAM. So it was a poor mans disk copy when you had no other storage means. Of course with the advent of hard disks this stopped being useful and became more of an annoyance.
At least on Mac OS you can open up the package and get the .torrent file and open that up in any BT client of your choice.
Seriously that was one of the main selling points for me. I look at the DS as what the SP should have been, plus it has all this other stuff. The SP is just too small and it cramped my hands real fast.
I would hope so it just kinda sucks. Makes more sense when changing the config then pictochat that is the one that surprised me more. Went looking in the manual for any kind of soft reset function and came up empty handed (it was 4am though :-/ )
:-)
But I do find it cool that all I can bitch about is a (like you said) 2 second reset.
It was disappointing that you need to reset to do alot of things. As far as I have found once you select some action you MUST restart to get back to the choice menu. So if you select pictochat and want to play a game you have to restart no backing out to the main menu again.
there is also five or six control settings available for left/right/dual control. I have found the controls to be similar to using a mouse as far as aiming goes.
Any NSTextArea's, so pretty much everything that takes text as input.
Go read any bio on Jobs or the wikipedia entries they should cover it well. But in summery, Jobs got removed from power at apple and left taking a number of people with him. He started out fresh building atop BSD+Mach, licensed postscript and made a high end workstation. As Hillgrass says in the intro to his book "NeXT hired a small team of brilliant engineers. This small team developed a computer, an operating system, a printer, a factory, and a set of development tools." But it all cost an arm and a leg and never caught on (until around 2002 or so...)
Got any more of those "tiny" HD's? My 80's are getting a bit stuffed.
We ran out 8100 for about 6-7 years before my brother killed in at college. Our family iMac (rev D) is now pushing 6 as well. My fathers power book (pismo) is a little over 5 as well. Likewise for my brothers powerbook and in may my sisters first gen icebook will be 4 years. The only replacement plans we have is the imac as it's barely fast enough for OS X and is starting to fall apart (CD Rom is busted) and once I am making some money I plan to buy my father a new PowerBook. This is fairly typical of Mac users I know, and once we do buy new machines we find uses for the old (our Mac Plus after years when to our Church and served there for years)
It went the opposite way, all geeks hated it until it became popular.
Worms 3D keeps the tradition alive. :-)
167Mhz PowerPC 7455 bus. bob serves me well though... just like in bed, it's not how big/fast/long it is it's how you use it.
neither do I, guess someone though it was a huge joke and knocked you down in the process. Oh well, just /. no intelligence necessary.