The BBC's done good things with podcasting as well. And their Beethoven symphony MP3 downloads shattered all their expectations and really opened their eyes (and the eyes of the rest of the classical music community). I believe I heard on NPR (on a podcast version of one of their on-air show, natch) that the BBC expected 25,000 downloads of the Beethoven MP3s. They got 1.7 million.
I don't know if they're quite sure of what they're doing, but they keep experimenting and giving things a try. They know enough to know that they can't just ignore the online space.
He claims that they're going to attract casual gamers, yet the launch lineup was aimed squarely at the same audience that bought the Xbox 1.
You're thinking too narrowly - the RETAIL games are aimed at the traditional Xbox audience. The casual gamer content is sitting right there on the Marketplace, and Bejeweled and friends are filling the casual niche pretty damn well from the word "go". At the Austin Game Conference, MS had a booth all about their "Casual Games". It was pretty much all games on the Marketplace or coming later.
A $10 replacement connector from eBay fixes virtually every dead NES system out there.
The vast, vast, vast majority of non-functioning NES systems have nothing wrong with them except worn-out connectors. The ones you can get on eBay today are much more solid and long-lasting than the ones that were in the system originally.
>> I believe there are many people that will consider doing this, and I think this could hurt OSX.
If by "many", you mean "a few geeks", then sure.
This is a classic case of geeks projecting their own computer usage on the population on the whole. Very few "regular people" would ever think to do anything of the sort.
Not that it doesn't sound like a halfway good idea. I'd keep OS X but install a nice x86 Linux distribution instead of some of the less mature PPC Linux distros that were available the last time I had a Mac laptop.
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I don't know if they're quite sure of what they're doing, but they keep experimenting and giving things a try. They know enough to know that they can't just ignore the online space.
I just can't wait to go back before dups and read the original articles.
Just for, uhm, posterity, what web forums might these be?
Don't even joke like that. I don't think I could handle TWO Stallmans.
Nothing smacks of insecurity like having to lowercase the "G" in "God" in someone else's quote.
No, they just shoot at them. :(
You're thinking too narrowly - the RETAIL games are aimed at the traditional Xbox audience. The casual gamer content is sitting right there on the Marketplace, and Bejeweled and friends are filling the casual niche pretty damn well from the word "go". At the Austin Game Conference, MS had a booth all about their "Casual Games". It was pretty much all games on the Marketplace or coming later.
By your logic, so would every person with a web browser that caches.
You're probably breaking the law right now!
Typical.
Well what he forgot to mention is that it was 1400 lines of assembly code. It was actually just 2 lines of APL code.
Which cell block are you in?
The vast, vast, vast majority of non-functioning NES systems have nothing wrong with them except worn-out connectors. The ones you can get on eBay today are much more solid and long-lasting than the ones that were in the system originally.
If by "many", you mean "a few geeks", then sure.
This is a classic case of geeks projecting their own computer usage on the population on the whole. Very few "regular people" would ever think to do anything of the sort.
Not that it doesn't sound like a halfway good idea. I'd keep OS X but install a nice x86 Linux distribution instead of some of the less mature PPC Linux distros that were available the last time I had a Mac laptop.
You know, that would work far better than a Slashdot-posted joke should...
Ten foot?