Halo, Call of Duty, C&C Generals, Jedi Knight II, Neverwinter Nights, Unreal Tournament, Warcraft 3, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Sim City 4, Unreal Tournament 2003, Dungeon Siege, Civ3, etc.
There are a fair number of games for the Mac these days - almost to the extent where one could be a casual gamer and semi hard core gamer and be a Mac user.
The thing that I'd like to know is what motivated intel to increase the length of the pipeline. Intel generally doesn't go off half-cocked when they change the core. There is usually a reason they do what they do irregardless of the implementation which may perform poorly.
Jake 2.0 deserved to be cancelled because it was just stupid. I don't know who they were expecting to reach with that trash, but it just wasn't a compelling show at all.
Enterprise however is at least worth watching. Its unfortunate that UPN put it on at such a poor time slot, but thems the brakes I guess. If Enterprise does spiral into obscurity, hopefully when the shows return (probably in some internet fan format) they will return with more creativeness that the current producers are capable of mustering. Never before have I seen time travel used so much - its like casting a spell in a video game. Temporal Cold War? Dumbest plot EVER!
Actually I think they get it more than you do I'm afraid. We're entering a period where the industry is about to jump start is previously dot-bomb aborted attempt to create platforms for rich client applications that work in internet browsers. For all the good that HTML is, developers and corporations alike want to do more.... a WHOLE lot more. Even Macromedia is realizing that it was in the ballpark with their Generator product and is coming out with Flex.
This migration to rich internet UIs would have happened a long time ago, but when the bubble burst - all of the companies doing anything innovative in that space died and took all their ideas with them and scattered the talent to the four winds. As the tech industry recovers, expect them to start where they left off - just with a business plan that wasn't written by underpants gnomes.
Anyone who has done any development on Nokias phones knows that Nokia is very 'bullet point' when it comes to supporting them. Their Java support for MIDP2.0 for example is a complete joke. Its horribly broken and Nokia knows it - basic applications from tutorials sometimes don't work properly or don't work in certain firmware batches of phones. What they NEED to do is get some quality control in place instead of adding a 'language of the year' to their platforms.
Solution? Spin the company back off! If its going to die, at least let it die fighting for marketshare - not because you don't understand the space. The way I see it as an investor is that Sun just threw away at least 2 billion dollars to acquire a company and brand, only to get absolutely nothing out of it. Heads should roll for stuff like that.
They should open their eyes and realize how valuable the cobalt line was to the market it served and how that market is coming right back again in the form of consumer level servers. Consumers are gathering large amounts of content (mp3s, movies, photo albums, etc) and they are starting to want to host this content - THEMSELVES! This is a nice market for low cost, quiet, easy to manage servers. The average consumer doesn't want to administer Linux, the want to administer something along the lines of a Cobalt server (or easier).
Sun once again pisses away an opportunity because they can't see the forest for the trees.
A lot of IT companies have cut costs during the downturn by shutting down plants and turning to contract manufacturers. But some of those arrangements are going to turn sour.
Great job Ms. Cleo. That would be like me making the prediction "many people will buy cheap cars in 2004 to save money - yet some will regret their choices and wish they'd spent the extra money".
# The total destruction of Microsoft's monopoly due to the utter, complete failure of their upcoming retarded product lines. Bill Gates' Ring Of Power tossed into the fires of Mt. Redmond and becomes molten slag. The towers of Microsoft crumble and all rejoice. (Note to Microsoft apologists : If you find this offensive, you need a sense of humour. If you're still unhappy with this, well, you suck.)
You fool, Bill Gates' Ring of Power must be thrown into the fires of Mt. Raineir. We haven't destroyed the ring because we're waiting for an erruption. Once that happens - kiss his but goodbye.
How long will it be before we realize that the Japaneese are developing a combat mecha program before we seize the Japaneese mainland!
While their constitution won't allow them to send soldiers overseas to fight in wars and such - it doesn't prohibit humanoid combat mecha! Stop them now before its too late:)
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There are too many steps involved. What's needed is the ability to put content into a deploy directory things just get torrented and distributed.
The other problem being the relative difficulty of actually finding those 'random' websites that contain links to the things you'd actually want to download.
Being out first applies to patents. If X Windows is indeed trademarked (and I wasn't immediately able to find one), then they could have said something years ago. But with trademarks, the more popular a brand - the more likely it is for the popular brand to trump the unpopular brand. Microsoft Windows enjoys wider popularity than X WIndows and as such there would be no brand confusion nor dilution with X Windows.
Myth: Publicly releasing open source code will attract flurries of patches and new contributors.
Reality: You'll be lucky to hear from people merely using your code, much less those interested in modifying it.
So. Just because something is open or closed source, it does not mean that it is a good program nor does it imply that anybody wants to use it.
And even if there are a lot of people who use it - don't expect them to be willing or ABLE to provide you feedback or software development assistance. Being open source doesn't mean that people will take the time to help the project along. Many people will use the software and download new versions of it without ever once providing any assistance of any kind back to the community that developed it.
I can arguably get more money, but I as of yet don't know how I could possibly get more time:)
I use Myth because it is a more ideal solution, but I have certainly wasted a LOT of my life fighting with and configuring it. Time I could have spent doing much more lucrative things:)
With StarOffice installed, the average customer of a WalMart PC pretty much has everything that they need to be honest. They may go looking for a copy of Quicken, but I don't think it will be long before Intuit realizes that there is some money to be had and ports that application over. They can do Turbo Tax just fine over the web - so outside of gaming (much of which they can do with WineX).
The platform barrier is falling pretty rapidly, though it would fall a heck of a lot faster if these shortsighted companies stopped writing their applications in DirectX and wrote them OpenGL:) But then again, most of them want a freeride on the XBox and there is no console that REALLY supports OpenGL (slow PS2 port notwithstanding).
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Halo, Call of Duty, C&C Generals, Jedi Knight II, Neverwinter Nights, Unreal Tournament, Warcraft 3, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Sim City 4, Unreal Tournament 2003, Dungeon Siege, Civ3, etc.
There are a fair number of games for the Mac these days - almost to the extent where one could be a casual gamer and semi hard core gamer and be a Mac user.
The thing that I'd like to know is what motivated intel to increase the length of the pipeline. Intel generally doesn't go off half-cocked when they change the core. There is usually a reason they do what they do irregardless of the implementation which may perform poorly.
Jake 2.0 deserved to be cancelled because it was just stupid. I don't know who they were expecting to reach with that trash, but it just wasn't a compelling show at all.
Enterprise however is at least worth watching. Its unfortunate that UPN put it on at such a poor time slot, but thems the brakes I guess. If Enterprise does spiral into obscurity, hopefully when the shows return (probably in some internet fan format) they will return with more creativeness that the current producers are capable of mustering. Never before have I seen time travel used so much - its like casting a spell in a video game. Temporal Cold War? Dumbest plot EVER!
Idiots.
How can it bring value to any market when you can do the job on a less expensive piece of hardware?
It hasn't been won, but its reaching a point where the additional burdon and expense of going after the pirates isn't worth it.
Sure, here's an entire PDF of them
Known issues with 6600
If you KNOW you have issues - DON'T SHIP THE PRODUCT! Its painfully clear that we can't upgrade these phones once they're in the space.
Actually I think they get it more than you do I'm afraid. We're entering a period where the industry is about to jump start is previously dot-bomb aborted attempt to create platforms for rich client applications that work in internet browsers. For all the good that HTML is, developers and corporations alike want to do more.... a WHOLE lot more. Even Macromedia is realizing that it was in the ballpark with their Generator product and is coming out with Flex.
This migration to rich internet UIs would have happened a long time ago, but when the bubble burst - all of the companies doing anything innovative in that space died and took all their ideas with them and scattered the talent to the four winds. As the tech industry recovers, expect them to start where they left off - just with a business plan that wasn't written by underpants gnomes.
Anyone who has done any development on Nokias phones knows that Nokia is very 'bullet point' when it comes to supporting them. Their Java support for MIDP2.0 for example is a complete joke. Its horribly broken and Nokia knows it - basic applications from tutorials sometimes don't work properly or don't work in certain firmware batches of phones. What they NEED to do is get some quality control in place instead of adding a 'language of the year' to their platforms.
Last I checked - Windows Media Player nor any other WMA service worked on Linux either.
Is this early enough to qualify as the first piece of vaporware of 2004?
Solution? Spin the company back off! If its going to die, at least let it die fighting for marketshare - not because you don't understand the space. The way I see it as an investor is that Sun just threw away at least 2 billion dollars to acquire a company and brand, only to get absolutely nothing out of it. Heads should roll for stuff like that.
They should open their eyes and realize how valuable the cobalt line was to the market it served and how that market is coming right back again in the form of consumer level servers. Consumers are gathering large amounts of content (mp3s, movies, photo albums, etc) and they are starting to want to host this content - THEMSELVES! This is a nice market for low cost, quiet, easy to manage servers. The average consumer doesn't want to administer Linux, the want to administer something along the lines of a Cobalt server (or easier).
Sun once again pisses away an opportunity because they can't see the forest for the trees.
A lot of IT companies have cut costs during the downturn by shutting down plants and turning to contract manufacturers. But some of those arrangements are going to turn sour.
Great job Ms. Cleo. That would be like me making the prediction "many people will buy cheap cars in 2004 to save money - yet some will regret their choices and wish they'd spent the extra money".
Sign me up Fortune!
WHat! Are you challenging Microsoft's right to innovate? Shame on you :)
Must have been due to some guys working in the position because there doesn't seem to be anything gender biased about the word secretary.
# The total destruction of Microsoft's monopoly due to the utter, complete failure of their upcoming retarded product lines. Bill Gates' Ring Of Power tossed into the fires of Mt. Redmond and becomes molten slag. The towers of Microsoft crumble and all rejoice. (Note to Microsoft apologists : If you find this offensive, you need a sense of humour. If you're still unhappy with this, well, you suck.)
You fool, Bill Gates' Ring of Power must be thrown into the fires of Mt. Raineir. We haven't destroyed the ring because we're waiting for an erruption. Once that happens - kiss his but goodbye.
The evidence SCO invented to claim ownership of Linux.
Do those benchmarks qualify as OSS?
How long will it be before we realize that the Japaneese are developing a combat mecha program before we seize the Japaneese mainland!
:)
While their constitution won't allow them to send soldiers overseas to fight in wars and such - it doesn't prohibit humanoid combat mecha! Stop them now before its too late
There are too many steps involved. What's needed is the ability to put content into a deploy directory things just get torrented and distributed.
The other problem being the relative difficulty of actually finding those 'random' websites that contain links to the things you'd actually want to download.
Being out first applies to patents. If X Windows is indeed trademarked (and I wasn't immediately able to find one), then they could have said something years ago. But with trademarks, the more popular a brand - the more likely it is for the popular brand to trump the unpopular brand. Microsoft Windows enjoys wider popularity than X WIndows and as such there would be no brand confusion nor dilution with X Windows.
And even if there are a lot of people who use it - don't expect them to be willing or ABLE to provide you feedback or software development assistance. Being open source doesn't mean that people will take the time to help the project along. Many people will use the software and download new versions of it without ever once providing any assistance of any kind back to the community that developed it.
Mod parent up - very important!
I can arguably get more money, but I as of yet don't know how I could possibly get more time :)
:)
I use Myth because it is a more ideal solution, but I have certainly wasted a LOT of my life fighting with and configuring it. Time I could have spent doing much more lucrative things
With StarOffice installed, the average customer of a WalMart PC pretty much has everything that they need to be honest. They may go looking for a copy of Quicken, but I don't think it will be long before Intuit realizes that there is some money to be had and ports that application over. They can do Turbo Tax just fine over the web - so outside of gaming (much of which they can do with WineX).
:) But then again, most of them want a freeride on the XBox and there is no console that REALLY supports OpenGL (slow PS2 port notwithstanding).
The platform barrier is falling pretty rapidly, though it would fall a heck of a lot faster if these shortsighted companies stopped writing their applications in DirectX and wrote them OpenGL