It seems to me that apple is just trying to tie everyone to their media distribution.
Well, duh.. Of course they are.
You don't just buy an iPod, you buy your very own iTunes franchise, set up in your pocket.
I think that's actually part of the appeal. Buying an iPod gets you "into the club", so to speak, where any other media player doesn't. People just dont realize the "club" is simply "apple consumers".
I am (was) an amateur apiculturist, that is, I used to have my own hive of pet bees.
My grandfather was a semi-hobbiest beekeeper who made a decent living after retirement selling beekeeping equipment, and taught me all about the wonder of the bees. I don't claim to be the worlds leading authority on bees, but I find them pretty fascinating, and know a bunch about 'em.
Anyways, I don't see Occam's razor being applied here. Here is what devastates bees:
1) Foulbrood.. Comes in two varieties, American and European.. Makes the larva basically rot in their pupas. It can be prevented with teramiacin (sp?! its a horse medicine), but the only cure for an infected colony is fire, and lots of it - mandated by the authorities. It's been somewhat of an epidemic since the 80s. There is lots of talk about it spreading because of commercially sold queens, and or colonies. Ie; The industry developed a bee that makes lots of honey, but is succeptible to this. This accounts for a *lot* of missing bees.
2) Africanized bees? A lot gets made of "killer bees", but once they move into a colony, that colony doesn't collect as much honey - and you don't see as many bees.
3) Climate or other environmental problems. Bees will abandon a location if it isn't suitable. It's common to have a swarm (too little food or too much space, so half the bees pack up a new queen and leave) that leaves the original colony to die - too few bees left to tend to the queen, or an incapable queen is a death sentence to a hive.
I can't believe the "scientists" would skip past an obvious sign of climate change and jump straight to cell phones. I've never heard this before, and frankly, it sounds like a bunch of horse-shit.
Every time specs, or the workings of any piece of PC hardware changes, a certain part of the OSS community cries foul, or says its "Windows-friendly" because MSFT is (quite predictably) out of the gate with support.
Hardware development isn't going to stop just because 4 out of 5 kernel devs agree to release a driver as stable.
I think the programmer side of the community is flexible enough to deal with hardware changes, and it's just that annoying end-user whining because he wants hardware X to work today, and the fact that he doesnt have it proves some world conspiracy against him.
Or is it like everywhere else, and you can only get them at Best Buy or Wal-Mart?
The only distribution channel left is the 100% mass-market mainstream one. If you're looking for something obscure on CD, I guess you're stuck with internet or maybe at the bands live show.
Where a high (100%) level of consistency is absolutely required.
Basically, the default behavior on any exception is to crash, and roll back any open transactions. There's just no way to recover from something unexpected, and still be able to guarantee that the next commit to the DB isn't going to fuck something up.
I have described this behaviour as intentional, and have played it off as a feature - directly comparing it to a competitors product, which took an "ignore error, keep on truckin'" approach. They fired the first shot by finding a bug that made our app crash, and claimed the crashing meant it was buggy. Meanwhile, no crashes on their side means no bugs.
So I showed how I could exploit a bug to start corrupting records, and even found a way to do it willfully (ie; change your parking ticket into a warrant for forced sodomy).
Of course, we treat every crash as a bug - but the fact that it crashes (after writing out as much relevant info as possible into a.log file) is a feature in itself.
4 months later and they axe one of their products?
Wow, that's a short amount of shelf time.
I'd have thought the P-is-for-poverty-S3 would have been their way in.
The 20gig thing wouldnt' have been an issue for people who want to play games, but the other missing features (wifi, etc) were a burn.
Am I mistaken, or did this thing either not come with DVI cable, or it didn't have a DVI port at all?
You have to see through all this "we listened to our customers" crap (Sony never does), and realize this is all because of the Wii's seemingly runaway success.
Any plans to release any good games to make up for the exclusives they've lost?
Thats funny, I haven't used the 360 for anything other than a means of watching HD movies since I got the Wii.
I see Zelda, Paper Mario, Wii Sports, Wario Ware, Elebits - and even "crappy" wii games like Rampage are fun on the Wii. And I see nothing really worth owning on the 360 (I guess Gears of War is alright, I'll pick it up when its cheaper though..)
To me, the 360 and PS3 don't offer anything that I haven't played before - they're the exact same games I've played since the PSX era, with the exact same controller. The games are just shinier. But, the Wii offers something new.
I've played Far Cry for both, both are supposedly "crappy" titles, relative to what's out there. But the wii-mote actually works, and I found the Wii version engaging because of it.
What does that prove? Nothing. Just that different people have different tastes.
But the numbers seem to show there's more of me than you.
I love my PalmOS based 650, but the 700 running windows is a little bit hinkey, from what I've heard.
Or am I thinking about a different palm?
I dont even know who makes what. I just want a new Treo.
And I hope I can use my existing software, too. And I hope it doesn't take 40 minutes to turn on, like other linux-based consumer devices. (Seriously, you could fall asleep waiting for a Tivo to reboot).
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Were cars better "back in the day"? Guess it depends what point of view you take.
It was certainly easier to be impressed, back in the day.
99% of the titles I played on C64 were shit, and the Atari 2600 or NES could only dream of a good/bad title ratio like that.
Gaming today is as it's always been. If you prefer the older titles (and to a certain extent, I do), go ahead and play them.
It seems to me that apple is just trying to tie everyone to their media distribution.
Well, duh.. Of course they are.
You don't just buy an iPod, you buy your very own iTunes franchise, set up in your pocket.
I think that's actually part of the appeal. Buying an iPod gets you "into the club", so to speak, where any other media player doesn't. People just dont realize the "club" is simply "apple consumers".
I am (was) an amateur apiculturist, that is, I used to have my own hive of pet bees.
My grandfather was a semi-hobbiest beekeeper who made a decent living after retirement selling beekeeping equipment, and taught me all about the wonder of the bees. I don't claim to be the worlds leading authority on bees, but I find them pretty fascinating, and know a bunch about 'em.
Anyways, I don't see Occam's razor being applied here. Here is what devastates bees:
1) Foulbrood.. Comes in two varieties, American and European.. Makes the larva basically rot in their pupas. It can be prevented with teramiacin (sp?! its a horse medicine), but the only cure for an infected colony is fire, and lots of it - mandated by the authorities. It's been somewhat of an epidemic since the 80s. There is lots of talk about it spreading because of commercially sold queens, and or colonies. Ie; The industry developed a bee that makes lots of honey, but is succeptible to this. This accounts for a *lot* of missing bees.
2) Africanized bees? A lot gets made of "killer bees", but once they move into a colony, that colony doesn't collect as much honey - and you don't see as many bees.
3) Climate or other environmental problems. Bees will abandon a location if it isn't suitable. It's common to have a swarm (too little food or too much space, so half the bees pack up a new queen and leave) that leaves the original colony to die - too few bees left to tend to the queen, or an incapable queen is a death sentence to a hive.
I can't believe the "scientists" would skip past an obvious sign of climate change and jump straight to cell phones. I've never heard this before, and frankly, it sounds like a bunch of horse-shit.
I thought they were sharing stuff like Final Fantasy XII, Quake 4, and other top tier titles.
Why minimize the initial act? Thousands of people are not being threatened over "dream pinball 3d".
Every time specs, or the workings of any piece of PC hardware changes, a certain part of the OSS community cries foul, or says its "Windows-friendly" because MSFT is (quite predictably) out of the gate with support.
Hardware development isn't going to stop just because 4 out of 5 kernel devs agree to release a driver as stable.
I think the programmer side of the community is flexible enough to deal with hardware changes, and it's just that annoying end-user whining because he wants hardware X to work today, and the fact that he doesnt have it proves some world conspiracy against him.
Yes, it is.
People are no longer divided by race as a matter of law.
Now it's just time to all be part of the same society.
Punished by who?
Were they fired for political reasons, or did the audience tune out?
They should have let Imus die by himself, just like they should let Rosie die by herself.
Did the CD just die and I missed the memo?
As a matter of fact, it did.
Do you have any CD stores left in your town/mall?
Or is it like everywhere else, and you can only get them at Best Buy or Wal-Mart?
The only distribution channel left is the 100% mass-market mainstream one. If you're looking for something obscure on CD, I guess you're stuck with internet or maybe at the bands live show.
moviebeam, vongo, etc..
How long do you think the market for movies on physical discs will be around?
The DVD (HD, Blu, or Pink with spots) is bound to share the same fate as the CD eventually.
It doesn't help that a $70 upconverting DVD player makes enough improvement, that most casual viewers consider it "HD".
The real question is, when am I going to be able to use (either) technology in my PC?
I mean, reading/writing 25+ gig discs, *cheaply*?
IMO that's the real format war. The marketplace has shown a remarkable lack of interest in these things as $1000 uber-premium movie-watchers.
Those rhesus monkeys are some nappy-headed hos, let me tell ya.
Where a high (100%) level of consistency is absolutely required.
.log file) is a feature in itself.
Basically, the default behavior on any exception is to crash, and roll back any open transactions. There's just no way to recover from something unexpected, and still be able to guarantee that the next commit to the DB isn't going to fuck something up.
I have described this behaviour as intentional, and have played it off as a feature - directly comparing it to a competitors product, which took an "ignore error, keep on truckin'" approach. They fired the first shot by finding a bug that made our app crash, and claimed the crashing meant it was buggy. Meanwhile, no crashes on their side means no bugs.
So I showed how I could exploit a bug to start corrupting records, and even found a way to do it willfully (ie; change your parking ticket into a warrant for forced sodomy).
Of course, we treat every crash as a bug - but the fact that it crashes (after writing out as much relevant info as possible into a
You think democrats have ever respected the notion of truly free speech?
Fuck Tipper Gore and fuck the PMRC
Letter grades and color coded terror levels.
I like how they think they have to kindergarten-up government to teach it to the people.
I've worked on a few different government 'nets. It's always just a little bit more complicated than that.
GTA3 came out for PS2 in 2002, for XBox in 2003.
San Andreas hit PS2 in 2004..
So is the lack of a GTA game perhaps responsible for this?
Most "M" games suck. My kids never bugged me to play "50 cents bulletproof".
Don't get me wrong, I'm an oldschool commie fan.
The C64 was huge.
The Amiga... not so much..
I remember Populous and Battle Chess
I guess whatever space-thingers that DirectPC and other satellite services bounce off aren't routers?
What's the distinction, some NASA geek 'splain please.
Is this like packets being routed like usa-satellite-satellite-satellite-africa?
Mr pain and punishment, I bet you're just achin to spank some bacon, YOU BAD BOY
4 months later and they axe one of their products?
Wow, that's a short amount of shelf time.
I'd have thought the P-is-for-poverty-S3 would have been their way in.
The 20gig thing wouldnt' have been an issue for people who want to play games, but the other missing features (wifi, etc) were a burn.
Am I mistaken, or did this thing either not come with DVI cable, or it didn't have a DVI port at all?
You have to see through all this "we listened to our customers" crap (Sony never does), and realize this is all because of the Wii's seemingly runaway success.
Any plans to release any good games to make up for the exclusives they've lost?
Thats funny, I haven't used the 360 for anything other than a means of watching HD movies since I got the Wii.
I see Zelda, Paper Mario, Wii Sports, Wario Ware, Elebits - and even "crappy" wii games like Rampage are fun on the Wii. And I see nothing really worth owning on the 360 (I guess Gears of War is alright, I'll pick it up when its cheaper though..)
To me, the 360 and PS3 don't offer anything that I haven't played before - they're the exact same games I've played since the PSX era, with the exact same controller. The games are just shinier. But, the Wii offers something new.
I've played Far Cry for both, both are supposedly "crappy" titles, relative to what's out there. But the wii-mote actually works, and I found the Wii version engaging because of it.
What does that prove? Nothing. Just that different people have different tastes.
But the numbers seem to show there's more of me than you.
In the bathroom?
Your eyebulbs absorb only blue-filtered light.
Considering there's more than just a song, there's the data needed to sync the game to the music.
Oh wait, Xbox
YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!
Fuckin stuff doesnt even have FAIRPLAY on it TO PROTECT ME FROM EVIL
Wait until Guitar Hero comes out for Apple TV. APPLE "GETS IT"
Is Palm the people making the Treo?
I love my PalmOS based 650, but the 700 running windows is a little bit hinkey, from what I've heard.
Or am I thinking about a different palm?
I dont even know who makes what. I just want a new Treo.
And I hope I can use my existing software, too. And I hope it doesn't take 40 minutes to turn on, like other linux-based consumer devices. (Seriously, you could fall asleep waiting for a Tivo to reboot).
Cool, my Playstation 4 will come with a built in mod chip!
(if sony isn't too busy crying in the bathroom to develop a next next next next gen console)
Apparently this is big news to CmdrTaco.
What a maroon.
Ok, I knew /. was getting less and less computer literate.
But if you don't fucking know basic UNIX process control, don't talk about computers, or IT, k?
Seriously, this isnt even Computers 101. This is the bullshit you're expected to know to take Computers 101.