Personally, I think the parent was just doing a from the cuff posting at best, and karma whoring at worst.
And as to your OO point. Huh? OO is just as good on Linux as it is on Windows. I'll boot into Windows to check. Ayup, performs about the same.
Still nowhere close to MS Office, but who uses all those features? All I need is RTF + Spellcheck for documents, and basic spreadsheet functionality. Then again, I'm not a "power-office-user".
If security is built into the product from the ground up, you're fucked by satan sideways with a pineapple. Cause the later versions are always built upon the older ones, even with a recode certain things need to stay the same.
You will always need to upgrade software, you will always need to patch it, the only real difference is MS charges you for it every few years.
Shrug, Exchange much like Sendmail has always been a bastard child. It deservedly should always have an albatros around it's neck.
I mean hell, you don't so much admin exchange as wrestle with it(although this might have changed).
And realistic criticism pretty much amounts to: Hire someone with experience, good references, who knows their stuff and the only difference in security is going to be employment cost versus sunk cost.
There is no remote MS flaw that can't be worked around to my knowledge, and there is no Linux/Unix/BSD flaw that also can't be worked around. It's all in the admin.
This is such a flaw, caused by another flaw.
When we get perfect people we'll have perfect programmers, then we'll have perfect software. Not gonna happen.
Simple, buy a cube or subscription for someone for Christmas. You get the disk, they get a game system. Or buy two games, which irritates me, because I JUST DID(SC 2 and Viewtiful Joe), and there's only ONE game left out that I want. Grrr.
There's a HUGE incentive for everyone to do it. You make the perfect battery, it lasts for years and powers things for years. How much do you think you could sell such a thing for? Well above the margins of your "competition", for sure.
Yea I realized my mistake right about when I clicked submit. A and D are just a little too close together.... Good thing I'm not an EE or we might see some dangerous products coming out.
I'd actually be curious to know how they did that, thicker filament maybe? Less wattage? Different method all-together?
Outlets in the US are 120 volts DC. FYI. And your lightbulb example is hogwash. Lightbulbs will burn out no matter what. It has to do with the resistance in the filament which causes them to glow in the first place. Think of it like a dam, when you flip the switch on, the current suddenly meets resistance at the weakest points of the bulb, where the filament attaches. Occassionally it will superheat and boom, light bulb goes dead.
Now if you're through making wild accusations, perhaps you can explain what precisely operating systems and printers have in common with batteries. I'm not even going to attempt to argue with you on those points on/. which is why you used them. But, regardless, if A is a square and B is a square that doesn't mean C is a square.
Yes, yes I'm sure it all comes down to greed. Because you know, there's no way they wouldn't price longer lasting batteries higher than lower costing batteries. I mean to make up for the loss in volume. Oh and there's no incentive for any of the various battery companies to one-up their competition and grab market share by making a more efficient/longer-lasting battery. That's why we see that energizer bunny all the time, because it's unprofitable to sell batteries based upon length of life.
Even if we see developer support shift to the GC, there is a 1-2 year lead in on games development. Any gains in that area aren't going to be realized until just around the time of the next console generation.
So, this holiday season will probably determine who finishes at number 2 at the end of this generation.
MS is not a viable competitor right now in Japan (you know, that country that the article is about) and probably NEVER will be. In Japan the two big guys are Sony and Nintendo with MS trailing a quite far distant third. The X-Box tanked there, think Turbo Graphics 16 tanked, think Atari Jaguar tanked. This means MS will not be any measurable part of the equation when it comes to imported titles. So it will remain in the gun game/fps/sports game niche it currently occupies. Hardly a competitor towards the wide genre mix Sony has, and not really competing with Nintendo's niche either. But while Nintendo still has opportunity to capture market share in their home market, MS continuously fucks up in what is to them a foreign market.
Here in the US, you still don't have a point, as GC and X-Box sales are about on par with each other after the most recent round.
I wonder how much money MS paid them or how much free merchandise they got... The fact that you quoted them proves it was well spent.
Seriously, the PA people are shills. Ignore them. They hype what they are PAID to hype. And their unthinking fans won't buy anything unless it gets the PA stamp of approval. That's viral marketing gold right there./. get's 3,000,000 page hits a day and deals up about that many ads and still can't support itself with advertising revenue alone. And the cost of bandwidth per page view declines as page views rise. PA gets a fraction of that traffic, serves less pages a day and can subsist on T-Shirt sales, ads and donations alone to the tune of supporting two married guys(oh, and employees) with extreme gaming habits in one of the most expensive regions in the country? Riiiigggghht.
Ever heard of SoulKool? Buncha dot-bombers sitting in a room getting paid $10 an hour to troll forums like this hyping product.
Oh, and they aren't required to say anything about it. Hah.
I've played on Live, I've played online PC games, and I've played online PS2 games. I don't see any value to Live that's worth the amount for the features it offers over keeping an IM client on my computer up, or say having a phone. Oh, and that's the same type of crap they harp on GameSpy about.
Shills. Read the comic, ignore the news, think for yourself.
Taco must've borrowed the ring of duplication. Anyway, that was a sectioned story, this one isn't, more people will see it besides us game nuts. So I hope people realize this and don't bitch and moan about the dupe. I mean, not many have the ocular fortitude necessary to read the games page. =)
Anyway here's my comment from that story: Disc format, which as I said elsewhere means moving parts. Also means certain tricks won't be easily doable(like rumble) and there's a chance the device will screw up during travel. We'll see if they can work around that.
New format, which means I'd have to buy all new games for it. Not that big a deal, and I haven't been following it, but the GBA is backwards compatable. How many people own gameboy games and gameboy color games?
Large size, just to accomidate everything.
Going to be high cost next to it's competition. Simply because it's more advanced and will be newer.
Probably memory cards, rather than on-cartridge memory.
Will need to swap expansions rather than just swapping carts. The neo-geo stayed in existance for years because of the amount of hardware you could shove onto the cart.
Slower load times, cart over disc usage. We'll see if they can work around that.
Sony's console hardware has a history of breaking, oh, around just after warranty. I don't expect this to be different.
Disc format, which as I said elsewhere means moving parts. Also means certain tricks won't be easily doable(like rumble) and there's a chance the device will screw up during travel. We'll see if they can work around that.
New format, which means I'd have to buy all new games for it. Not that big a deal, and I haven't been following it, but the GBA is backwards compatable. How many people own gameboy games and gameboy color games?
Large size, just to accomidate everything.
Going to be high cost next to it's competition. Simply because it's more advanced and will be newer.
Probably memory cards, rather than on-cartridge memory.
Will need to swap expansions rather than just swapping carts. The neo-geo stayed in existance for years because of the amount of hardware you could shove onto the cart.
Slower load times, cart over disc usage. We'll see if they can work around that.
Sony's console hardware has a history of breaking, oh, around just after warranty. I don't expect this to be different.
Well while spot on, it's also how Microsoft has the monopoly power it does in the first place. Not enough demand for alternative OS's to make selling and supporting them profitable, which means they don't, which means that the OEMs have to be able to sell Windows, which means MS can (and did) dictate terms to the OEMs.
Oh and if you want to buy a machine without support, you can always buy a Dell. You of course will also get a copy of windows, but removing 1/2 things you don't need isn't bad!
Remember this is the US courts system, it moves slowly. Most of the events of today have their genesis in the events of 10 years ago(or longer).
Did Microsoft have monopoly power over the PC market? Yes, to put it simply, they were found guilty(and that verdict was held up by appeal).
Did the remedies in any way allow or aid their competition to break into the market? Not really. IE (a key point) still dominates the web, Netscape would be dead if not for the Time Warner jugernaut holding it up. MS is leveraging the power(money) they earned during this time period and through relationships established during this time period to break into other markets(Television, the XBox).
So, alternative or no alternative, you may as well either apply an adequate remedy to fix the problem, or just overturn the damn verdict.
But, in my experience, many doctors are loathe to go out on a limb and try an experimental treatment due to various reasons. Lack of expertise, lack of information about the treatment(if they even know about it) and risk of malpractice suit top the list there.
Plus of course there's the ever-present red tape.
And, from the research standpoint, it's not like you can keep a study open, also for varying reasons.
Yes, but studies are generally kept to certain sizes. So if you aren't in the study and are terminally ill you can still be SOL. For instance, this is not being tested on anyone not already in the study.
Get a terminal cancer that would qualify you for the(or even a) study, and you definately aren't guaranteed to be able to get into one.
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Yes, for we are swimming in moon specks.
It's got a cool/unique aspect to it that's going to make it sell for a lot.
Remember those yahoos who stole and tried to sell a full-fledged moon rock?
Wow, you sure can read a lot from a little.
Personally, I think the parent was just doing a from the cuff posting at best, and karma whoring at worst.
And as to your OO point. Huh? OO is just as good on Linux as it is on Windows. I'll boot into Windows to check. Ayup, performs about the same.
Still nowhere close to MS Office, but who uses all those features? All I need is RTF + Spellcheck for documents, and basic spreadsheet functionality. Then again, I'm not a "power-office-user".
European actually, and the airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.
Verdict is still out on African(but is probably about the same). The eternal question still stands.
If security is built into the product from the ground up, you're fucked by satan sideways with a pineapple. Cause the later versions are always built upon the older ones, even with a recode certain things need to stay the same.
You will always need to upgrade software, you will always need to patch it, the only real difference is MS charges you for it every few years.
Shrug, Exchange much like Sendmail has always been a bastard child. It deservedly should always have an albatros around it's neck.
I mean hell, you don't so much admin exchange as wrestle with it(although this might have changed).
And realistic criticism pretty much amounts to: Hire someone with experience, good references, who knows their stuff and the only difference in security is going to be employment cost versus sunk cost.
There is no remote MS flaw that can't be worked around to my knowledge, and there is no Linux/Unix/BSD flaw that also can't be worked around. It's all in the admin.
This is such a flaw, caused by another flaw.
When we get perfect people we'll have perfect programmers, then we'll have perfect software. Not gonna happen.
Sounds like how MUDs used to be run. Cool. I'll have to check your game out once I get broadband again.
There's some pitfalls in that model, but I'm sure you've got them all figured out.
Simple, buy a cube or subscription for someone for Christmas. You get the disk, they get a game system. Or buy two games, which irritates me, because I JUST DID(SC 2 and Viewtiful Joe), and there's only ONE game left out that I want. Grrr.
Actually it's an African proverb.
;)
Wow, man, you thought an african proverb was originated as the flavor text for a Magic Card.
If I am a geek, and the grandparent is a geek, then you are our king.
There's a HUGE incentive for everyone to do it. You make the perfect battery, it lasts for years and powers things for years. How much do you think you could sell such a thing for? Well above the margins of your "competition", for sure.
Yea I realized my mistake right about when I clicked submit. A and D are just a little too close together.... Good thing I'm not an EE or we might see some dangerous products coming out.
I'd actually be curious to know how they did that, thicker filament maybe? Less wattage? Different method all-together?
Outlets in the US are 120 volts DC. FYI. And your lightbulb example is hogwash. Lightbulbs will burn out no matter what. It has to do with the resistance in the filament which causes them to glow in the first place. Think of it like a dam, when you flip the switch on, the current suddenly meets resistance at the weakest points of the bulb, where the filament attaches. Occassionally it will superheat and boom, light bulb goes dead.
/. which is why you used them. But, regardless, if A is a square and B is a square that doesn't mean C is a square.
Here, go read up on how light bulbs and flourescent lights work.
Now if you're through making wild accusations, perhaps you can explain what precisely operating systems and printers have in common with batteries. I'm not even going to attempt to argue with you on those points on
Yes, yes I'm sure it all comes down to greed. Because you know, there's no way they wouldn't price longer lasting batteries higher than lower costing batteries. I mean to make up for the loss in volume. Oh and there's no incentive for any of the various battery companies to one-up their competition and grab market share by making a more efficient/longer-lasting battery. That's why we see that energizer bunny all the time, because it's unprofitable to sell batteries based upon length of life.
They should also be at about the point where they run into similar problems getting their chips made(CPU/FPU).
Even if we see developer support shift to the GC, there is a 1-2 year lead in on games development. Any gains in that area aren't going to be realized until just around the time of the next console generation.
So, this holiday season will probably determine who finishes at number 2 at the end of this generation.
You're either ignorant or western-centric.
MS is not a viable competitor right now in Japan (you know, that country that the article is about) and probably NEVER will be. In Japan the two big guys are Sony and Nintendo with MS trailing a quite far distant third. The X-Box tanked there, think Turbo Graphics 16 tanked, think Atari Jaguar tanked. This means MS will not be any measurable part of the equation when it comes to imported titles. So it will remain in the gun game/fps/sports game niche it currently occupies. Hardly a competitor towards the wide genre mix Sony has, and not really competing with Nintendo's niche either. But while Nintendo still has opportunity to capture market share in their home market, MS continuously fucks up in what is to them a foreign market.
Here in the US, you still don't have a point, as GC and X-Box sales are about on par with each other after the most recent round.
I wonder how much money MS paid them or how much free merchandise they got...
/. get's 3,000,000 page hits a day and deals up about that many ads and still can't support itself with advertising revenue alone. And the cost of bandwidth per page view declines as page views rise. PA gets a fraction of that traffic, serves less pages a day and can subsist on T-Shirt sales, ads and donations alone to the tune of supporting two married guys(oh, and employees) with extreme gaming habits in one of the most expensive regions in the country? Riiiigggghht.
The fact that you quoted them proves it was well spent.
Seriously, the PA people are shills. Ignore them. They hype what they are PAID to hype. And their unthinking fans won't buy anything unless it gets the PA stamp of approval. That's viral marketing gold right there.
Ever heard of SoulKool? Buncha dot-bombers sitting in a room getting paid $10 an hour to troll forums like this hyping product.
Oh, and they aren't required to say anything about it. Hah.
I've played on Live, I've played online PC games, and I've played online PS2 games. I don't see any value to Live that's worth the amount for the features it offers over keeping an IM client on my computer up, or say having a phone. Oh, and that's the same type of crap they harp on GameSpy about.
Shills. Read the comic, ignore the news, think for yourself.
The parent comment was posted BEFORE the update was.
It is not redundant.
Taco must've borrowed the ring of duplication. Anyway, that was a sectioned story, this one isn't, more people will see it besides us game nuts. So I hope people realize this and don't bitch and moan about the dupe. I mean, not many have the ocular fortitude necessary to read the games page. =)
Anyway here's my comment from that story:
Disc format, which as I said elsewhere means moving parts. Also means certain tricks won't be easily doable(like rumble) and there's a chance the device will screw up during travel. We'll see if they can work around that.
New format, which means I'd have to buy all new games for it. Not that big a deal, and I haven't been following it, but the GBA is backwards compatable. How many people own gameboy games and gameboy color games?
Large size, just to accomidate everything.
Going to be high cost next to it's competition. Simply because it's more advanced and will be newer.
Probably memory cards, rather than on-cartridge memory.
Will need to swap expansions rather than just swapping carts. The neo-geo stayed in existance for years because of the amount of hardware you could shove onto the cart.
Slower load times, cart over disc usage. We'll see if they can work around that.
Sony's console hardware has a history of breaking, oh, around just after warranty. I don't expect this to be different.
Disc format, which as I said elsewhere means moving parts. Also means certain tricks won't be easily doable(like rumble) and there's a chance the device will screw up during travel. We'll see if they can work around that.
New format, which means I'd have to buy all new games for it. Not that big a deal, and I haven't been following it, but the GBA is backwards compatable. How many people own gameboy games and gameboy color games?
Large size, just to accomidate everything.
Going to be high cost next to it's competition. Simply because it's more advanced and will be newer.
Probably memory cards, rather than on-cartridge memory.
Will need to swap expansions rather than just swapping carts. The neo-geo stayed in existance for years because of the amount of hardware you could shove onto the cart.
Slower load times, cart over disc usage. We'll see if they can work around that.
Sony's console hardware has a history of breaking, oh, around just after warranty. I don't expect this to be different.
Wierd, the first thing that pops into my head when I see or hear about the PSP is: "Moving Parts"
As opposed to the GBA, which has, IIRC, no moving parts apart from the controls and the clamshell.
And yea, anti-skip has gotten a lot better, but ehhh...
Excellent idea to put the discs in a sleeve, all CDs and DVDs should be in sleeves. It costs pennies, and it protects the things.
Well while spot on, it's also how Microsoft has the monopoly power it does in the first place. Not enough demand for alternative OS's to make selling and supporting them profitable, which means they don't, which means that the OEMs have to be able to sell Windows, which means MS can (and did) dictate terms to the OEMs.
Oh and if you want to buy a machine without support, you can always buy a Dell. You of course will also get a copy of windows, but removing 1/2 things you don't need isn't bad!
Remember this is the US courts system, it moves slowly. Most of the events of today have their genesis in the events of 10 years ago(or longer).
Did Microsoft have monopoly power over the PC market? Yes, to put it simply, they were found guilty(and that verdict was held up by appeal).
Did the remedies in any way allow or aid their competition to break into the market? Not really. IE (a key point) still dominates the web, Netscape would be dead if not for the Time Warner jugernaut holding it up. MS is leveraging the power(money) they earned during this time period and through relationships established during this time period to break into other markets(Television, the XBox).
So, alternative or no alternative, you may as well either apply an adequate remedy to fix the problem, or just overturn the damn verdict.
But, in my experience, many doctors are loathe to go out on a limb and try an experimental treatment due to various reasons. Lack of expertise, lack of information about the treatment(if they even know about it) and risk of malpractice suit top the list there.
Plus of course there's the ever-present red tape.
And, from the research standpoint, it's not like you can keep a study open, also for varying reasons.
Yes, but studies are generally kept to certain sizes. So if you aren't in the study and are terminally ill you can still be SOL. For instance, this is not being tested on anyone not already in the study.
Get a terminal cancer that would qualify you for the(or even a) study, and you definately aren't guaranteed to be able to get into one.
Because that would make sense, and lawmakers are bound by some higher law to avoid making sense as much as possible.
Oh, you're dying, it's a given, 3 months huh? Well, sorry, but you'll have to wait a few years for us to approve this, because it could kill you.
The virus is found naturally in shallow pools of water, I guess you could go around drinking from those...