You are missing my point. Would you stop buying books if there was a possibility you couldn't read it again in 15 years? When you buy a book you are not guaranteed that you will be able to read it in 15 years, there are lots of "what ifs" that can happen in 15 years.
What if you die tomorrow? Then you won't be able to play any video games. What if? Please, repeat after me, it is just one $50 video game, everything will be okay. You are too caught up on these "what if" worst case scenarios, just enjoy every day you are alive.
"Let me guess, your one of those people who thought Circuit City's disposable DVDs (divx) was a good idea?"
I didn't think it was a good idea profit wise, but I have no problems with the concept as long as they are not trying to fool people into believing they were like regular DVDs.
"Or you wouldn't mind if your board game spontaneously stopped working?"
If it stopped working a day or two after I bought it, then yes I would mind. However, if it spontaneously stopped working a year after I bought it I would probably just deal with it. I have had board games where pieces broke or got lost which rendered the game unplayable, but I didn't have a tantrum.
"Some of us like knowing our hard-earned money isn't going to be dependent on a company staying in business. Yes, we like to replay games that are 15 years old"
I have no problem with you playing 15 year old games, however I think it is silly to not buy and enjoy a $50 game today because of some "what if" scenario 15 years in the future.
I get this image of you staying up at night worrying that your game library might be obsolete. I imagine that you spend hours of your time making 3 and 4 backups of every game and buying spare hardware just so you can play these games 15 years from now. Life is short, live for the present. If the games don't work 15 years from now, I am sure you will find other cheap ways to entertain yourself.
You are not going to buy a game because 15 years from now you might not be able to play it? Other then a house, I don't think about "what if" scenarios for 15 year from now when I purchase something. Just relax, it is just a $50 video game, it may work 15 years from now or it might not, I am sure you will be able to get by. The 20-25 hours of entertainment I got out of the game was worth the $50 I spent.
Where did you get the above list? I tried searching google and wikipedia and could not find any similar information. Phrases like "DRM capable sound card" and "DRM capable digital speakers" produce 0 hits on google. I am a bit skeptical that all of those will be required to play your average hollywood movie on a PC, especially with an upcoming format war.
I am not sure where you are getting your information, but apple is not giving "extensive student discounts" to the UC system. UC sells ipods for the same price you can buy them on the http://store.apple.com/ education store.
I agree this is probably a flawed/biased study, however the sample size is not the issue. 1000 people is common for a national wide poll. See http://www.gallup.com/help/FAQs/poll1.asp:
To be sure, there is some gain in sampling accuracy that comes from increasing sample sizes. Common sense -- and sampling theory -- tell us that a sample of 1,000 people probably is going to be more accurate than a sample of 20. Surprisingly, however, once the survey sample gets to a size of 500, 600, 700 or more, there are fewer and fewer accuracy gains that come from increasing the sample size. Gallup and other major organizations use sample sizes of between 1,000 and 1,500 because they provide a solid balance of accuracy against the increased economic cost of larger and larger samples. If Gallup were to -- quite expensively -- use a sample of 4,000 randomly selected adults each time it did its poll, the increase in accuracy over and beyond a well-done sample of 1,000 would be minimal, and generally speaking, would not justify the increase in cost.
Then Apple would essentially have to maintain 2 operating systems on the iPod when Apple could just as easily add the same features to the current iPod OS.
Besides, open source isn't going to help Apple over take Microsoft. Innovation, ease of use, and value will be a lot more effective.
A 1 gig SD cost about $60-$80 for consumers (I assume mem stick, CF and USB flash are about the same). For that same price Sony could add a 80 - 100 gig harddrive. I would much rather pay an extra $60 for the ps3 for an internal harddrive that developers will actually use then $60 for an SD card that developers might use.
I never understood this reasoning. If a game is good then it is good, it does not matter if the game developer made up the content or paid for it. The problem comes when the game sucks and is sold based just on the license or franchise. However, there are just as many bad games with original content then their are with licensed content.
I don't know if the US government has any specific policies reguarding PPI and financial data, but the HHS has HIPAA http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ for personal medical data. The state of California has SB1386 to protect Californians personal financial data. However, neither go far enough and I am supprised more incidents are not made public. I suspect there are many more security breaches that companies are quiet.
HTML files and their content are index, what isn't indexed it you Safari history and Safari cache. If I do a spotlight search for "Personal Web Sharing" the index.html file in ~/Sites is the top hit.
Sure, it was easy to rebel against a country that was thousands of miles away and only kept a skeleton army in the colonies. Just ask the Confederates how easy it is to rebel against the Union. And they were not even trying to overthrow the government, just leave it. The citizenry of the US is not armed enough to overthrow its own government.
HDTV is not expensive anymore. My mom just got a 32" HDTV for about $500, which is about $100 more the the average standard def 32" TV. HDTV is not just for the rich anymore.
"I'm not sure that the current generation of consoles is played-out."
I am not sure what you mean by "played-out" but the current gen is not adequate for HD. Microsoft is trying to beat everyone to the market with a system that can truly take advantage of HDTVs, I believe this may be a good strategy for them. The jump from standard def to high def is going to be more noticeable then the jump between the that last gen of consoles to the current one.
Well, I assume you mean just the processor, because Motorola discontinued their Mac clones in 1997 (which may seem like a billion years ago) but IBM never made a "Mac"
Now, if you are just talking about processors, then if you are running the game on a brand spanking new Mac Mini, eMac, iBook, or PowerBook then it would still have a Motorola processor*.
* G4 processors are designed by Motorola with help from Apple and IBM, the so called AIM Alliance.
Why use oroborosx when you can use the Apple X11? (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/) It is 100x better, it has hardware acceleration via Quartz and OpenGL, it plays well with the Dock, etc. Oroborosx is so 10.1.
I agree. In Civ 2, I used to make my civ lean and mean by having 10-15 super cities, however in Civ 3 I had to have about 100 cities spread out everywhere so I could obtain 90% of the strategic resources. Now that is not a bad thing, but having that many cities causes each turn to take 10 mins and I simply do not have time to play a game that last that long.
Or why not just look at the street signs to find out where you are? If the street corner is in a database it is probably in an area that is developed enough to have street signs.
The Army is mad that "Hackers" are ruining their recruiting tool. While they probably have some legal ground to stand on with regard to "all accounts and derivative products, are the property of the United States Army. When you tamper with the game... you're misusing Army property - and, worse, you're misusing US Army computer programs and equipment." for espionage charges. However, using that law to prosecute people for cheating on a video game is definitely not in the spirit of the law.
The Army must believe this is a very effective means of recruiting or a game developer just exceeded his authority.
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"1. Equivalent MHz is the speed in MHz needed by an ARM968E-S to achieve equivalent performance"
You are missing my point. Would you stop buying books if there was a possibility you couldn't read it again in 15 years? When you buy a book you are not guaranteed that you will be able to read it in 15 years, there are lots of "what ifs" that can happen in 15 years.
What if you die tomorrow? Then you won't be able to play any video games. What if? Please, repeat after me, it is just one $50 video game, everything will be okay. You are too caught up on these "what if" worst case scenarios, just enjoy every day you are alive.
"Let me guess, your one of those people who thought Circuit City's disposable DVDs (divx) was a good idea?"
I didn't think it was a good idea profit wise, but I have no problems with the concept as long as they are not trying to fool people into believing they were like regular DVDs.
"Or you wouldn't mind if your board game spontaneously stopped working?"
If it stopped working a day or two after I bought it, then yes I would mind. However, if it spontaneously stopped working a year after I bought it I would probably just deal with it. I have had board games where pieces broke or got lost which rendered the game unplayable, but I didn't have a tantrum.
"Some of us like knowing our hard-earned money isn't going to be dependent on a company staying in business. Yes, we like to replay games that are 15 years old"
I have no problem with you playing 15 year old games, however I think it is silly to not buy and enjoy a $50 game today because of some "what if" scenario 15 years in the future.
I get this image of you staying up at night worrying that your game library might be obsolete. I imagine that you spend hours of your time making 3 and 4 backups of every game and buying spare hardware just so you can play these games 15 years from now. Life is short, live for the present. If the games don't work 15 years from now, I am sure you will find other cheap ways to entertain yourself.
You are not going to buy a game because 15 years from now you might not be able to play it? Other then a house, I don't think about "what if" scenarios for 15 year from now when I purchase something. Just relax, it is just a $50 video game, it may work 15 years from now or it might not, I am sure you will be able to get by. The 20-25 hours of entertainment I got out of the game was worth the $50 I spent.
Where did you get the above list? I tried searching google and wikipedia and could not find any similar information. Phrases like "DRM capable sound card" and "DRM capable digital speakers" produce 0 hits on google. I am a bit skeptical that all of those will be required to play your average hollywood movie on a PC, especially with an upcoming format war.
For you people out there who prefer to read instead of just watch:
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I am not sure where you are getting your information, but apple is not giving "extensive student discounts" to the UC system. UC sells ipods for the same price you can buy them on the http://store.apple.com/ education store.
Any second now? How about 4 days ago: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050714. html
Then Apple would essentially have to maintain 2 operating systems on the iPod when Apple could just as easily add the same features to the current iPod OS.
Besides, open source isn't going to help Apple over take Microsoft. Innovation, ease of use, and value will be a lot more effective.
A 1 gig SD cost about $60-$80 for consumers (I assume mem stick, CF and USB flash are about the same). For that same price Sony could add a 80 - 100 gig harddrive. I would much rather pay an extra $60 for the ps3 for an internal harddrive that developers will actually use then $60 for an SD card that developers might use.
I never understood this reasoning. If a game is good then it is good, it does not matter if the game developer made up the content or paid for it. The problem comes when the game sucks and is sold based just on the license or franchise. However, there are just as many bad games with original content then their are with licensed content.
I don't know if the US government has any specific policies reguarding PPI and financial data, but the HHS has HIPAA http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ for personal medical data. The state of California has SB1386 to protect Californians personal financial data. However, neither go far enough and I am supprised more incidents are not made public. I suspect there are many more security breaches that companies are quiet.
HTML files and their content are index, what isn't indexed it you Safari history and Safari cache. If I do a spotlight search for "Personal Web Sharing" the index.html file in ~/Sites is the top hit.
Sure, it was easy to rebel against a country that was thousands of miles away and only kept a skeleton army in the colonies. Just ask the Confederates how easy it is to rebel against the Union. And they were not even trying to overthrow the government, just leave it. The citizenry of the US is not armed enough to overthrow its own government.
HDTV is not expensive anymore. My mom just got a 32" HDTV for about $500, which is about $100 more the the average standard def 32" TV. HDTV is not just for the rich anymore.
"I'm not sure that the current generation of consoles is played-out."
I am not sure what you mean by "played-out" but the current gen is not adequate for HD. Microsoft is trying to beat everyone to the market with a system that can truly take advantage of HDTVs, I believe this may be a good strategy for them. The jump from standard def to high def is going to be more noticeable then the jump between the that last gen of consoles to the current one.
Well, I assume you mean just the processor, because Motorola discontinued their Mac clones in 1997 (which may seem like a billion years ago) but IBM never made a "Mac"
Now, if you are just talking about processors, then if you are running the game on a brand spanking new Mac Mini, eMac, iBook, or PowerBook then it would still have a Motorola processor*.
* G4 processors are designed by Motorola with help from Apple and IBM, the so called AIM Alliance.
Even ONE NIGHT is unacceptable
Why use oroborosx when you can use the Apple X11? (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/) It is 100x better, it has hardware acceleration via Quartz and OpenGL, it plays well with the Dock, etc. Oroborosx is so 10.1.
I agree. In Civ 2, I used to make my civ lean and mean by having 10-15 super cities, however in Civ 3 I had to have about 100 cities spread out everywhere so I could obtain 90% of the strategic resources. Now that is not a bad thing, but having that many cities causes each turn to take 10 mins and I simply do not have time to play a game that last that long.
"Honestly will the mac user community do anything about this or will they simply pay for msoffice and call it a day?"
Since when did buying software become a bad thing?
Or why not just look at the street signs to find out where you are? If the street corner is in a database it is probably in an area that is developed enough to have street signs.
The Army is mad that "Hackers" are ruining their recruiting tool. While they probably have some legal ground to stand on with regard to "all accounts and derivative products, are the property of the United States Army. When you tamper with the game ... you're misusing Army property - and, worse, you're misusing US Army computer programs and equipment." for espionage charges. However, using that law to prosecute people for cheating on a video game is definitely not in the spirit of the law.
The Army must believe this is a very effective means of recruiting or a game developer just exceeded his authority.