I'm 29 and I pre-ordered it. Nintendo fan for life, biatch.
I don't give a damn what graphic style Nintendo chooses for their games.. since they are one of the last game developers actually making FUN GAMES instead of barely interactive movies, I'll keep buying from them.
Counterstrike is the most popular ONLINE FPS. Anyone with any knowledge of the game industry realizes that, despite what the hardcore gamers think, the VAST majority of people don't play online games. So you're incorrect. And so are the people who modded you up.
Surely they've heard of the Unified Modeling Language? Why do developers so often reuse acronyms that are already widely in use? I mean surely with only so many letters, you're going to get collisions, but with something as already well known as UML... jeez.
Yeah but Evercrack customers keep coming and paying Sony the monthly dues. So from a business perspective, Sony is doing exactly the right thing. Why spend money increasing customer service if you can have poor customer service and keep most of your customers anyway?
And when you have 10 browser windows open in the single Windows desktop, each with a taskbar entry truncated to "Internet Ex" how do you know which one to switch to?
IE lists the page's title first, eg:
Hyatt Discusses Tabs - Microsoft Internet Explorer
Not just that. It allows you to lesser RAM since the windowmanager doesnt have to open multiple windows.
Well the original poster was talking about Windows. While things may be different on X+WhateverWindowManager you use, the overhead of a new window in Windows is very minimal. Coupled with 512 megabytes of more of memory and this is a complete non-issue.
XP's grouping can be shut off (in Control Panel/Taskbar and Start Menu applet). I shut it off the first day I started using XP and never looked back.
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I'm wondering what Microsoft will call them when it comes out.
What makes you think they ever will? Speaking as a longtime IE/Windows user, I never quite understood the fuss of tabs. I just use multiple browser windows and use the taskbar to flip between them. Why put into an application that which should be part of the OS?
I work for a company that creates software for the scientific community. You'd be surprised how many customers use our OpenGL-based 3D molecular modelling solution using stereo-3D display devices of various kinds (most often they use high-end shutter glasses). They would be all over this type of technology.
China will be a world super power, but their timeframe in that spot won't be too long. The inevitable population crunch that will occur from decades of single-child only rules coupled with the fact that parents will do just about anything to have a male heir, including exporting or killing their female babies means that the population is going to drastically shrink from current highs even in our own lifetimes.
His question wasn't really off the mark when you factor DRM into this. I'm sure he's well aware that the iPod doesn't have a CD player, he was merely asking if copying the track to CD marks the song as 'used' in the DRM system, and thus stops you from transferring it to the iPod.
In other words...maybe you're the one who needs to do a little thinking before posting, jackass.
Means I don't have to buy a whole album for one or two songs, the commpanies make just as much money so they're happy, aside from it's not free as in air, what's not to like?
While I agree that being able to pick song by song would be nice in the short term, I do think it would have some long term consequences that may not be so good.
Imagine some future world where everyone gets their music via these services... you could easily wind up with a situation where every new song is overproduced (and possibly run by one of those 'AI' music-hit detectors mentioned here previously) to try to ensure it is a hit, since any time spent writing/recording it will be 'wasted' if not enough people pay for the song by itself. Right now you have an environment where artists can put some experimental tunes in between the sure-fire hits. Maybe these tracks hit the mark and become huge, maybe they tank, but at least they are trying something different. If everything is per-song I think we'll eventually see even less artist experimentation and artist growth than we do now, and that is scary.
Your "superior technology" tends to work only on your "superior" OS. It also means that DirectX has a limited set of people that can direct its evolution, and that evolution can only proceed on one platform.
I'm no Microsoft-fanboy, but I have to admit that often having a limited set of people directing the evolution of architecture is the way to go.
This is why (among other things) hardware shader support has been sorted out in DirectX for quite a while now, while OpenGL had a horrible mess of incompatible competing extentions. Yeah, they are fixing all of this with ARB2 shaders and gslang, but.... like... 2 years later...
I haven't seen Microsoft having a patch ready within 24 hours of a vulnerability being announced.
Then you haven't been looking hard enough. Not that Microsoft always gets fixes out within 24 hours, but neither does OSS. In both camps some bugs are harder to fix and verify than others.
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Python is MUCH better than Perl, in every way. If you agree, mod me down.
Anyone know where I can pick up a cheap copy of Windows??
Last one out, turn off the lights!
This topic is so lame I can scarely understand why it was voted in!
If you mod me down I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
I don't give a damn what graphic style Nintendo chooses for their games.. since they are one of the last game developers actually making FUN GAMES instead of barely interactive movies, I'll keep buying from them.
Counterstrike is the most popular ONLINE FPS. Anyone with any knowledge of the game industry realizes that, despite what the hardcore gamers think, the VAST majority of people don't play online games. So you're incorrect. And so are the people who modded you up.
First reply to first +1 bonus post modded to -1.
First +1 bonus post. Aw yeah.
Surely they've heard of the Unified Modeling Language? Why do developers so often reuse acronyms that are already widely in use? I mean surely with only so many letters, you're going to get collisions, but with something as already well known as UML... jeez.
Yeah but Evercrack customers keep coming and paying Sony the monthly dues. So from a business perspective, Sony is doing exactly the right thing. Why spend money increasing customer service if you can have poor customer service and keep most of your customers anyway?
IE lists the page's title first, eg:
Hyatt Discusses Tabs - Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft may be evil, but they aren't stupid.
Well the original poster was talking about Windows. While things may be different on X+WhateverWindowManager you use, the overhead of a new window in Windows is very minimal. Coupled with 512 megabytes of more of memory and this is a complete non-issue.
XP's grouping can be shut off (in Control Panel/Taskbar and Start Menu applet). I shut it off the first day I started using XP and never looked back.
What makes you think they ever will? Speaking as a longtime IE/Windows user, I never quite understood the fuss of tabs. I just use multiple browser windows and use the taskbar to flip between them. Why put into an application that which should be part of the OS?
I work for a company that creates software for the scientific community. You'd be surprised how many customers use our OpenGL-based 3D molecular modelling solution using stereo-3D display devices of various kinds (most often they use high-end shutter glasses). They would be all over this type of technology.
Totally.
China will be a world super power, but their timeframe in that spot won't be too long. The inevitable population crunch that will occur from decades of single-child only rules coupled with the fact that parents will do just about anything to have a male heir, including exporting or killing their female babies means that the population is going to drastically shrink from current highs even in our own lifetimes.
Are you on drugs, son? Cost/benefit wise he'd only have to be 1/3rd as good/productive as that group of six.
Considering he thinks they released Windows 95 into "the public domain", I don't think this guy is the sharpest tool in the shed.
I mean duh, dude do you know whut a iPod is.
His question wasn't really off the mark when you factor DRM into this. I'm sure he's well aware that the iPod doesn't have a CD player, he was merely asking if copying the track to CD marks the song as 'used' in the DRM system, and thus stops you from transferring it to the iPod.
In other words...maybe you're the one who needs to do a little thinking before posting, jackass.
While I agree that being able to pick song by song would be nice in the short term, I do think it would have some long term consequences that may not be so good.
Imagine some future world where everyone gets their music via these services... you could easily wind up with a situation where every new song is overproduced (and possibly run by one of those 'AI' music-hit detectors mentioned here previously) to try to ensure it is a hit, since any time spent writing/recording it will be 'wasted' if not enough people pay for the song by itself. Right now you have an environment where artists can put some experimental tunes in between the sure-fire hits. Maybe these tracks hit the mark and become huge, maybe they tank, but at least they are trying something different. If everything is per-song I think we'll eventually see even less artist experimentation and artist growth than we do now, and that is scary.
Microsoft didn't just JOIN, they were a founding member.
Neat trick considering there never was a DirectX 4.
I'm no Microsoft-fanboy, but I have to admit that often having a limited set of people directing the evolution of architecture is the way to go.
This is why (among other things) hardware shader support has been sorted out in DirectX for quite a while now, while OpenGL had a horrible mess of incompatible competing extentions. Yeah, they are fixing all of this with ARB2 shaders and gslang, but.... like... 2 years later...
Then you haven't been looking hard enough. Not that Microsoft always gets fixes out within 24 hours, but neither does OSS. In both camps some bugs are harder to fix and verify than others.