Your numbers are also way off. Windows/x86 has ~95% marketshare, (incidentally, Macintosh market share is around 3%, not 2%, which is a significant difference when you're coming from 2) but that is only a consideration of new pc sales. Installed base, which changes MUCH MUCH more slowly than marketshare, is entirely different, and MacOS is around 10%. This same mistake is also how some linux advocates, who have a surprisingly poor concept of numbers, have come to the conclusion that there are more linux users than macintosh.
In terms of converts when Longhorn comes out, if Windows 2000, and XP were any indication, it will be YEARS before they reach even 50% of users. WinXP has yet to reach that mark.
I'd bet good money Rio and Apple are using the same HDD's for their players. If the drives are crapping out, its 99% drive MFR, or user's fault.
Some people are astounded by the rate at which HDD based MP3 players crap out, but I'm not. When has it ever been the case that we went running, camping, road tripping with any kind of HDD strapped to our waist, and had the HDD accessed every couple minutes the entire time? They're just not up to the task yet. Either their failing a bunch, or their being broken a bunch. Whichever it is, they're just not ready for the way we live.
To increase the reliability of your data backup, you need to move it to a medium that is more stable than the original copies. It also needs to be remote from the original. If you're working on a laptop, having the data striped on your laptop is of hardly any use. Flood, fire, electrical surge, theft, accidental damage will all happily destroy both copies of your data, since they're in the same place.
Now where would I like to see a laptop raid? In a mobile media workstation! Video editors, sound guys, they'd love the extra throughput of a raid 0 that fits in their briefcase.
I remember a time when I was at [some fast food chain, probably McDonalds], and they had no small drink! It was Medium, Large, and Biggie-Extra-Value-Super-Fun-Size. On top of that, the Medium was the same size as the Large I was expecting. It was like I'd just eaten some teacake in wonderland and everything was fscked up.
Your burger analogy is from Wendys. They noticed almost nobody ordered the Classic Triple, and removed it from the menu. Directly following this, they noticed a steep decline in Classic Double sales. So they brought it back, and Double sales went back to normal. Somehow it legitimizes the "medium" purchase when there's an "absurdedly large" one that you're not getting. Its like ordering 2 x 1/4 lb patties with bacon, cheese, and fries the size of your head is showing restraint. (note: this is what i grew up snarfing as a teenager;P ) That 3rd 1/4 lb patty would just be nonsense!
You mean criminal? Pretty much every state with sales tax requires you to declare purchases made elsewhere without sales tax on your federal return. I take it for granted that nobody does this, but still, if you're going to break a law to save a few percent and call it smart, I'm going to propose the brilliant solution of stealing one outright.
Super Mario Brothers 2 wasn't really a sequel to SMB. Nintendo took a game called Doki Doki Panic, which had a completely separate cast of characters, and its own story, redrew all the characters to be from the mario world, and released it in the US as Super Mario Brothers 2. I mean, can we really call this a sequel when its just a completely different game with a Super Mario name tag slapped on it?
Then in a bizarre twist, they released the american version of the japanese game as Super Mario USA (since the japanese already had a Super Mario Brothers 2, in a game that was very similar to the first title, and has been released several times in various forms on US carts as "Lost Levels")
Despite the wierdities of its sordid past, SMB 2 is still a great game!
AppleCare states that they will repair or replace a unit under warranty at their discretion. AppleCare also makes no guarantees as to uninterrupted service.
"Apple will be more than happy to upgrade you to what was equivalant since they are probably running out of G3 logic boards for your iBook."
Lets see: swap out a logic board they've had in a warehouse for a couple years, or GIVE AWAY a brand new product instead of selling it full retail. You're not thinking right.
Retailers are fully aware of retail scams. They know there are organized criminals, terrorists and career criminals that make their livings by preying upon retail stores. So why not take every measure to prevent these crimes? Well, do you want to be treated like a criminal every time you enter a store? This may surprise you to know, but most retailers concentrate their efforts on serving their customers, and making them want to come back. You really don't want what you're asking for. The fact that you can't see that; you're just short sighted as well.
They solved this with the original iPod. It has 32 mb RAM, which it can fill in a couple seconds, or queue a complete track in a fraction of one. It caches all music to RAM and plays it from there, making track skipping virtually impossible. If you shook an iPod violently (like in a paint mixer) for about 15 minutes, you might manage to get it to stop playing entirely, but it won't skip, and a normal workout will never manage to stop the beats.
I don't think any HD based player since the iPod (and probably models before it) are even capable of skipping for the same reasons.
Adobe lost (or avoided dominating) the low end market of photo editing by actively ignoring it and dismissing it as a fad.
Around 2001, they transformed PhotoshopLE (ya know, that demo of Photoshop that came with scanners and cameras) into Photoshop Elements, an actual product that had a very capable feature set, and either comes bundled with something, or costs about $100. For a consumer lvl photo editing suite, its really nice, and for photoshop afficionado's its a very familiar experience.
Thats not a fan, it's a blower. The difference being a fan needs clearance on both front and back to achieve normal lvls of efficiency, and a blower doesn't, but it doesn't move as much air per rpm. And given that the macmini is about 16.5 cm a side, that blower is less than 80mm sq, or smaller than a normal case fan. I'd hardly call that big. It may seem to take up a significant amount of the MacMini's internal real estate, but its still small. Given the rather modest specs of the mac mini, and the fact that power supply is external, I wouldn't suspect they need to move too much air to keep it happy.
When I see a crowd of kids/ppl standing in a parking lot, I think about positioning for area attacks based on surrounding architecture and the shape of their group.
I also marvel at how long it takes to get around cities without superspeed (basically the ability to run 60 mph all the time)
Despite the evils of monthly subscriptions and such, MMO's offer a gaming experience impossible via "host your own", such as the highly detailed worlds with constantly updated content, with thousands of players to interract with.
But more importantly, I don't see this as any sort of precedent at all. We've known for decades that chatrooms, MUD's are highly addictive. All they've done is taken these existing mediums, put them in a gorgeous package, and make them consumer accessable (i.e. no need for telnet clients and command prompts).
I'm not debating whether eMacs are good or crap, or anywhere in between, but in his review snipplet, the author stated that "the lack of a DVD burner makes offloading files impossible"
Ignoring the fact that the eMac is a Mac, and therefore has USB, Firewire, ethernet, supports Target Disk Mode (ok, some of that is slightly poweruser), the review model had a CD-RW?!?! Last time I checked, people still used those, Best Buy still sells CD-R's and you could use them to, I dunno offload files?
If you missed Updates 1 and 2, then you've missed quite a bit.
Update 1 added costume changes, a raise in maximum level to 50, several new city zones, such as Peregrin Island, outdoor instanced missions (more mission variety), new villain groups, new tiles sets,
Update 2 was HUGE:
Added a badge system where you collect badges for completing certain missions, completing task forces, visiting certain areas, reading history plaques, accomplishing certain tasks (healing, being mezzed, paying debt, taking dmg, earning influence, etc.), killing certain enemies. Collecting certain combinations of badges will give you an Accolade which provides a permenant additional power, or a boost to your HP/End.
Added several trials such as Eden Trial, Terra Volta trial (allows character respecification), Cavern of Transcendance trial, several taskforces
Added Capes and Body Auras for character customization
Added new zones, The Hollows, Shadow Shard/Firebase Zulu
Basically if you've missed both patches, you'd hardly recognize the game from all the changes its undergone. The content patches have been quite amazingly huge.
Plans for the future include Epic Archetypes (Kheldians, accessible by having a lvl 50 character, and possibly other means), expanding existing power pools to include new abilities, and a Out of Combat experience system referred to as skills, which would be long term abilities one could develop and improve on their characters (dubbed CoH's answer to crafting).
People who complain about lack of content in CoH tend to be people who burned through the content when the game was released (and there wasn't enough), and continue to complain about it now. the game is only about half a year old! Still, they've pushed 2 huge content patches (free), two special Paragon City invasions, and lots more in the works. I expect in 6 more months, CoH will contain enough content to satisfy those hardcore MMO players who dislike being able to burn through everything in 6 weeks (playing 12+ hours a day, naturally).
I have friends who navigated Faultline and TerraVolta only using SS. My friend (who followed me around w/ SS as I SJ'ed all over) couldn't figure out what the "wimps" were complaining about. He had to take the scenic route, but he could always get to where I was.
Now shadowshard is supposedly much harder to get around w/o SS, but I haven't gone there yet.. too much other content in the early 40's for me to pull away from just yet.
A new subgenre to the FPS is the massive military simulations like battlefield, joint ops, and the like. Dozens of players go up against each other, attacking with an entire arsenal, such as tanks, planes, battleships, guide missiles, helicopters, etc. etc. It is certainly derived from more traditional FPS's, but when the new generation of FPS's come out (Doom3, HL2, etc.), there will certainly be more to create a distinction between these and their predecessors.
For each of the three "families" Blizzard makes, (starcraft, diablo, warcraft):
up to 8 computers: $500/yr unlimited: $1000/yr all three families, unlimited: $1500
this does not include software, but they'll sell licensee's their boxes games for $10/title
Valves license covers all their games, includes software, and costs $10/computer each month. In that way, Valve is industry leading in being unbelievably expensive. So valve gives you the DoD, condition zero, half life, along with CS, but its just WAY too expensive for 7 year old software.
I use a phone book. Sure, it doesn't look as cool, but it's virtually free. Of course, I had to move to a larger city first, as the Elyria county book is less than a cm thick, and tended to let a lot of the heat through.
This doesn't provide a complete solution, but there are a number of third party solutions out there to "store" dock settings, so that if you had a messed up dock, you could change it to a preset dock really easily.
You can also set up your dock just the way you want it, back up your dock's.pref file somewhere secure, then write an applescript that overwrites the.pref into the appropriate directory, and relauch the dock. This way, your favorite dock setup is never more than a click away. I used to do this trick when I worked at at computer store by moving the applescript around via iPod to make the 30+ macs pretty in a hurry.
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[i]unless it's spinning as fast as the fucking Earth.[/i]
.0007 rpm, compared to 7200 rpm. These already spin a few million times faster than the earth.
1 rpd? thats
Your numbers are also way off. Windows/x86 has ~95% marketshare, (incidentally, Macintosh market share is around 3%, not 2%, which is a significant difference when you're coming from 2) but that is only a consideration of new pc sales. Installed base, which changes MUCH MUCH more slowly than marketshare, is entirely different, and MacOS is around 10%. This same mistake is also how some linux advocates, who have a surprisingly poor concept of numbers, have come to the conclusion that there are more linux users than macintosh.
In terms of converts when Longhorn comes out, if Windows 2000, and XP were any indication, it will be YEARS before they reach even 50% of users. WinXP has yet to reach that mark.
I'd bet good money Rio and Apple are using the same HDD's for their players. If the drives are crapping out, its 99% drive MFR, or user's fault.
Some people are astounded by the rate at which HDD based MP3 players crap out, but I'm not. When has it ever been the case that we went running, camping, road tripping with any kind of HDD strapped to our waist, and had the HDD accessed every couple minutes the entire time? They're just not up to the task yet. Either their failing a bunch, or their being broken a bunch. Whichever it is, they're just not ready for the way we live.
mirrored! I meant mirrored! (early morning posts)...
;D
somehow, I'm always amazed when there's actual evidence of other people reading my posts
To increase the reliability of your data backup, you need to move it to a medium that is more stable than the original copies. It also needs to be remote from the original. If you're working on a laptop, having the data striped on your laptop is of hardly any use. Flood, fire, electrical surge, theft, accidental damage will all happily destroy both copies of your data, since they're in the same place.
Now where would I like to see a laptop raid? In a mobile media workstation! Video editors, sound guys, they'd love the extra throughput of a raid 0 that fits in their briefcase.
I remember a time when I was at [some fast food chain, probably McDonalds], and they had no small drink! It was Medium, Large, and Biggie-Extra-Value-Super-Fun-Size. On top of that, the Medium was the same size as the Large I was expecting. It was like I'd just eaten some teacake in wonderland and everything was fscked up.
;P ) That 3rd 1/4 lb patty would just be nonsense!
Your burger analogy is from Wendys. They noticed almost nobody ordered the Classic Triple, and removed it from the menu. Directly following this, they noticed a steep decline in Classic Double sales. So they brought it back, and Double sales went back to normal. Somehow it legitimizes the "medium" purchase when there's an "absurdedly large" one that you're not getting. Its like ordering 2 x 1/4 lb patties with bacon, cheese, and fries the size of your head is showing restraint. (note: this is what i grew up snarfing as a teenager
You mean criminal? Pretty much every state with sales tax requires you to declare purchases made elsewhere without sales tax on your federal return. I take it for granted that nobody does this, but still, if you're going to break a law to save a few percent and call it smart, I'm going to propose the brilliant solution of stealing one outright.
Super Mario Brothers 2 wasn't really a sequel to SMB. Nintendo took a game called Doki Doki Panic, which had a completely separate cast of characters, and its own story, redrew all the characters to be from the mario world, and released it in the US as Super Mario Brothers 2. I mean, can we really call this a sequel when its just a completely different game with a Super Mario name tag slapped on it?
Then in a bizarre twist, they released the american version of the japanese game as Super Mario USA (since the japanese already had a Super Mario Brothers 2, in a game that was very similar to the first title, and has been released several times in various forms on US carts as "Lost Levels")
Despite the wierdities of its sordid past, SMB 2 is still a great game!
AppleCare states that they will repair or replace a unit under warranty at their discretion. AppleCare also makes no guarantees as to uninterrupted service.
"Apple will be more than happy to upgrade you to what was equivalant since they are probably running out of G3 logic boards for your iBook."
Lets see: swap out a logic board they've had in a warehouse for a couple years, or GIVE AWAY a brand new product instead of selling it full retail. You're not thinking right.
Retailers are fully aware of retail scams. They know there are organized criminals, terrorists and career criminals that make their livings by preying upon retail stores. So why not take every measure to prevent these crimes? Well, do you want to be treated like a criminal every time you enter a store? This may surprise you to know, but most retailers concentrate their efforts on serving their customers, and making them want to come back. You really don't want what you're asking for. The fact that you can't see that; you're just short sighted as well.
Mac OS X server is $499 for a 10-client, and $999 for unlimited client.
They solved this with the original iPod. It has 32 mb RAM, which it can fill in a couple seconds, or queue a complete track in a fraction of one. It caches all music to RAM and plays it from there, making track skipping virtually impossible. If you shook an iPod violently (like in a paint mixer) for about 15 minutes, you might manage to get it to stop playing entirely, but it won't skip, and a normal workout will never manage to stop the beats.
I don't think any HD based player since the iPod (and probably models before it) are even capable of skipping for the same reasons.
Adobe lost (or avoided dominating) the low end market of photo editing by actively ignoring it and dismissing it as a fad.
Around 2001, they transformed PhotoshopLE (ya know, that demo of Photoshop that came with scanners and cameras) into Photoshop Elements, an actual product that had a very capable feature set, and either comes bundled with something, or costs about $100. For a consumer lvl photo editing suite, its really nice, and for photoshop afficionado's its a very familiar experience.
Thats not a fan, it's a blower. The difference being a fan needs clearance on both front and back to achieve normal lvls of efficiency, and a blower doesn't, but it doesn't move as much air per rpm. And given that the macmini is about 16.5 cm a side, that blower is less than 80mm sq, or smaller than a normal case fan. I'd hardly call that big. It may seem to take up a significant amount of the MacMini's internal real estate, but its still small. Given the rather modest specs of the mac mini, and the fact that power supply is external, I wouldn't suspect they need to move too much air to keep it happy.
When I see a crowd of kids/ppl standing in a parking lot, I think about positioning for area attacks based on surrounding architecture and the shape of their group.
I also marvel at how long it takes to get around cities without superspeed (basically the ability to run 60 mph all the time)
Despite the evils of monthly subscriptions and such, MMO's offer a gaming experience impossible via "host your own", such as the highly detailed worlds with constantly updated content, with thousands of players to interract with.
But more importantly, I don't see this as any sort of precedent at all. We've known for decades that chatrooms, MUD's are highly addictive. All they've done is taken these existing mediums, put them in a gorgeous package, and make them consumer accessable (i.e. no need for telnet clients and command prompts).
I'm not debating whether eMacs are good or crap, or anywhere in between, but in his review snipplet, the author stated that "the lack of a DVD burner makes offloading files impossible"
Ignoring the fact that the eMac is a Mac, and therefore has USB, Firewire, ethernet, supports Target Disk Mode (ok, some of that is slightly poweruser), the review model had a CD-RW?!?! Last time I checked, people still used those, Best Buy still sells CD-R's and you could use them to, I dunno offload files?
If you missed Updates 1 and 2, then you've missed quite a bit.
Update 1 added costume changes, a raise in maximum level to 50, several new city zones, such as Peregrin Island, outdoor instanced missions (more mission variety), new villain groups, new tiles sets,
Update 2 was HUGE:
Added a badge system where you collect badges for completing certain missions, completing task forces, visiting certain areas, reading history plaques, accomplishing certain tasks (healing, being mezzed, paying debt, taking dmg, earning influence, etc.), killing certain enemies. Collecting certain combinations of badges will give you an Accolade which provides a permenant additional power, or a boost to your HP/End.
Added several trials such as Eden Trial, Terra Volta trial (allows character respecification), Cavern of Transcendance trial, several taskforces
Added Capes and Body Auras for character customization
Added new zones, The Hollows, Shadow Shard/Firebase Zulu
Basically if you've missed both patches, you'd hardly recognize the game from all the changes its undergone. The content patches have been quite amazingly huge.
Plans for the future include Epic Archetypes (Kheldians, accessible by having a lvl 50 character, and possibly other means), expanding existing power pools to include new abilities, and a Out of Combat experience system referred to as skills, which would be long term abilities one could develop and improve on their characters (dubbed CoH's answer to crafting).
People who complain about lack of content in CoH tend to be people who burned through the content when the game was released (and there wasn't enough), and continue to complain about it now. the game is only about half a year old! Still, they've pushed 2 huge content patches (free), two special Paragon City invasions, and lots more in the works. I expect in 6 more months, CoH will contain enough content to satisfy those hardcore MMO players who dislike being able to burn through everything in 6 weeks (playing 12+ hours a day, naturally).
I have friends who navigated Faultline and TerraVolta only using SS. My friend (who followed me around w/ SS as I SJ'ed all over) couldn't figure out what the "wimps" were complaining about. He had to take the scenic route, but he could always get to where I was.
Now shadowshard is supposedly much harder to get around w/o SS, but I haven't gone there yet.. too much other content in the early 40's for me to pull away from just yet.
A new subgenre to the FPS is the massive military simulations like battlefield, joint ops, and the like. Dozens of players go up against each other, attacking with an entire arsenal, such as tanks, planes, battleships, guide missiles, helicopters, etc. etc. It is certainly derived from more traditional FPS's, but when the new generation of FPS's come out (Doom3, HL2, etc.), there will certainly be more to create a distinction between these and their predecessors.
Blizzard's license is as follows:
For each of the three "families" Blizzard makes, (starcraft, diablo, warcraft):
up to 8 computers: $500/yr
unlimited: $1000/yr
all three families, unlimited: $1500
this does not include software, but they'll sell licensee's their boxes games for $10/title
Valves license covers all their games, includes software, and costs $10/computer each month. In that way, Valve is industry leading in being unbelievably expensive. So valve gives you the DoD, condition zero, half life, along with CS, but its just WAY too expensive for 7 year old software.
I use a phone book. Sure, it doesn't look as cool, but it's virtually free. Of course, I had to move to a larger city first, as the Elyria county book is less than a cm thick, and tended to let a lot of the heat through.
If competative eaters can polish off 50 hotdogs in under 12 minutes, I'm sure our protagonist can do fifty eggs... unless they were OSTRICH eggs.
Um, no that's $9090/mo for a service he agreed to do for free. And a $1000 for hosting + development for THAT site is obscene.
This doesn't provide a complete solution, but there are a number of third party solutions out there to "store" dock settings, so that if you had a messed up dock, you could change it to a preset dock really easily.
.pref file somewhere secure, then write an applescript that overwrites the .pref into the appropriate directory, and relauch the dock. This way, your favorite dock setup is never more than a click away. I used to do this trick when I worked at at computer store by moving the applescript around via iPod to make the 30+ macs pretty in a hurry.
You can also set up your dock just the way you want it, back up your dock's