Can you put it in your pocket? Does it play like a proper gaming controller? No? Then that's why. Personally I'll have this, the Eee and the DS, all for different uses.
It should be lighter, smaller, and have faster 3d. Not to mention proper gaming controls and a keyboard. If you hate retro games, it's your loss, but there are/will be a lot more emulatores than those, like GBA and PS1, somewhat unique homebrew games, ports and a (too) few commercial ones.
This will appeal to geeks and hackers but 99.9% of the rest of the world will never, ever get this on their radar.
But that is exactly it's market. It's a product for a community that already exists and that is already buying it, so it will be a success. Beating nintendo is not the goal, making a great device with features that a few thousand people want is enough of a success, from my point of view. I'm unsure whether it will make enough money to compensate the amount of time spent designing it, but not everything is about the money. I'm sure they actually love the device themselves, say.
I don't know if anyone noticed this, but I found something weird yesterday while trying the browser. I was using it and found it weird that my eyes were getting too tired. I had a suspicion, so I popped up explorer right next to it and found the issue... The other browsers purposely dim the white to protect the eyes when reading black on white, but chrome does not.
The argument could also be made that Vista does a better job with elevation prompts than OS X, as Vista doesn't allow the privilege to propagate or remain open as OS X does.
Not really, having to click 'Yes' 30+ times in order to reorganize my start menu made me turn off the damned thing.
I don't usually comment, but... 1. Vista's security is a huge step up. It's a *good* thing that it asks you before changing things, don't disable it.
You don't like to have a proper start menu, right? Because otherwise, it takes you 6 clicks to move something. How great. Not to mention navigating control pannel.
2. Vista's improved memory management and added features (using extra RAM to cache disk -stolen straight outta Linux), being able to use a flash drive as swap.
Yeah, because if you google it you can clearly see that flash drives are faster than hard drives. Not.
3. Improved stability.
Debatable, depends on hardware drivers, yadda yadda.
5. My absolute favorite, copy->merge. I no longer have to connect my usb disks to my linux box and rsync them, I can just drag the entire folder over on Vista and answer 2 dialogs (one for the folder and one for the files) and I can merge/update my 195GB photo archives, Vista will do this on 2 USB drives in about 15 minutes, my rsync to the USB drives is at least 45 minutes.
I didn't know that, cute. It's a shame copying files within hard drives takes forever, which is kind of more important.
7. Folder layout and display is neater.
It still can't decide whether the display configuration is per folder of global, and doesn't mind changing it whenever it pleases.
9. Fixing the start menu so it doesn't scroll all over the desktop
So you like scrolling a tiny piece of your screen?
10. Uptime with Hibernate and sleep. I close my laptop and it hibernates. I don't have to reboot with Vista like I did every other day with XP.
Maybe you should update XP or complain to the manufacturer. Every laptop I've seen does that with XP.
If it's a reality in a backwards country in Europe (Portugal), I'm sure it'll appear in the US at some point. We have them in a few places that I've seen.
Sure it's their choice, unless they violate safety regulations. Just because they can more easily be sued doesn't mean they shouldn't have been forcibly stopped as well. I like liberalism well enough, but there must be health regulations because people don't usually care by themselves.
You're assuming that selling it at that temperature is essencial and the only way to sell it. To me, coffee made with boiling water tastes like crap and I've drank very good expressos without having to wait much for the damn thing to cool, so no, I can't see why they would keep doing it after having been repeatedly warned.
This story again? Not only was the coffe nearly boiling, which made the difference between 2nd and 3rd degree burns (as far as i recall), they had also been warned several times NOT to do it again.
Who says intel isn't being investigated? Just not in the US, but the EU is checking alegations of abuse. There are many definitions of monopoly, but I'd say that having almost every single buyer equating Microsoft with the software market is pretty big power.
Nice! You know what I mean, though. Technicaly, distributing game patches and demos, or trailers is usually done without permission because noone cares and is illegal as well. The Wonders of copyright:)
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Can you put it in your pocket? Does it play like a proper gaming controller? No? Then that's why. Personally I'll have this, the Eee and the DS, all for different uses.
It should be lighter, smaller, and have faster 3d. Not to mention proper gaming controls and a keyboard.
If you hate retro games, it's your loss, but there are/will be a lot more emulatores than those, like GBA and PS1, somewhat unique homebrew games, ports and a (too) few commercial ones.
But that is exactly it's market. It's a product for a community that already exists and that is already buying it, so it will be a success. Beating nintendo is not the goal, making a great device with features that a few thousand people want is enough of a success, from my point of view. I'm unsure whether it will make enough money to compensate the amount of time spent designing it, but not everything is about the money. I'm sure they actually love the device themselves, say.
FYI, it's status quo.
I don't know if anyone noticed this, but I found something weird yesterday while trying the browser. I was using it and found it weird that my eyes were getting too tired. I had a suspicion, so I popped up explorer right next to it and found the issue... The other browsers purposely dim the white to protect the eyes when reading black on white, but chrome does not.
Just found it interesting.
I don't usually comment, but...
1. Vista's security is a huge step up. It's a *good* thing that it asks you before changing things, don't disable it.
You don't like to have a proper start menu, right? Because otherwise, it takes you 6 clicks to move something. How great. Not to mention navigating control pannel.
2. Vista's improved memory management and added features (using extra RAM to cache disk -stolen straight outta Linux), being able to use a flash drive as swap.
Yeah, because if you google it you can clearly see that flash drives are faster than hard drives. Not.
3. Improved stability.
Debatable, depends on hardware drivers, yadda yadda.
5. My absolute favorite, copy->merge. I no longer have to connect my usb disks to my linux box and rsync them, I can just drag the entire folder over on Vista and answer 2 dialogs (one for the folder and one for the files) and I can merge/update my 195GB photo archives, Vista will do this on 2 USB drives in about 15 minutes, my rsync to the USB drives is at least 45 minutes.
I didn't know that, cute. It's a shame copying files within hard drives takes forever, which is kind of more important.
7. Folder layout and display is neater.
It still can't decide whether the display configuration is per folder of global, and doesn't mind changing it whenever it pleases.
9. Fixing the start menu so it doesn't scroll all over the desktop
So you like scrolling a tiny piece of your screen?
10. Uptime with Hibernate and sleep. I close my laptop and it hibernates. I don't have to reboot with Vista like I did every other day with XP.
Maybe you should update XP or complain to the manufacturer. Every laptop I've seen does that with XP.
If it's a reality in a backwards country in Europe (Portugal), I'm sure it'll appear in the US at some point.
We have them in a few places that I've seen.
So you'd reward the patent office for approving bullshit patents by giving them more money?
Deja vu... there was a thread like this that almost started a new meme. Well, at least there were less dogs burning. :)
Does anyone recall that?
I wonder, why Japan?
Sure it's their choice, unless they violate safety regulations. Just because they can more easily be sued doesn't mean they shouldn't have been forcibly stopped as well. I like liberalism well enough, but there must be health regulations because people don't usually care by themselves.
You're assuming that selling it at that temperature is essencial and the only way to sell it. To me, coffee made with boiling water tastes like crap and I've drank very good expressos without having to wait much for the damn thing to cool, so no, I can't see why they would keep doing it after having been repeatedly warned.
This story again? Not only was the coffe nearly boiling, which made the difference between 2nd and 3rd degree burns (as far as i recall), they had also been warned several times NOT to do it again.
Who says intel isn't being investigated? Just not in the US, but the EU is checking alegations of abuse.
There are many definitions of monopoly, but I'd say that having almost every single buyer equating Microsoft with the software market is pretty big power.
It's not like Blizzard is moral standard, though.
The GPL only requires that you provide the source on request, so, no. At any rate, any judge would tell them to eat cake and stop wasting his time.
Or, rather, if Novell was bought up and offered it's IP to Microsoft, MS would be free to sue.
Stereo sound only (according to The Linux Action Show, anyway.) Bit crap, that.
No, the police force as a whole. I fail to see which personal details were revelead in his account of the story, have you got another one?
I meant me. I've said it before, I think, I find you end up adding something to the discussion, even if it's a rant.
Such is life. There is at least one person who gets a kick out of your posts, though.
Nice! :)
You know what I mean, though. Technicaly, distributing game patches and demos, or trailers is usually done without permission because noone cares and is illegal as well. The Wonders of copyright