Did you forget about the iPod mini?
My girlfriend bought the pink just for its color. If it came in exclusively white, I think mini sales would've been abysmal... At one point while purchasing the iPod, she quipped "Who would buy the silver one when they have green, blue and pink?"
So, I can't trust your guarantee.
Have you forgotten that the original Xbox wouldn't play DVDs unless the separate DVD remote was purchased and plugged in one of the ports?
There's a license for each DVD player, and Nintendo doesn't want to build it into their console, but leaves the option available for people who want to pay the license.
I personally think it's a useful name from an artistic point of view. The Wii logo movie has anthropomorphized little is jumping around. It leaves a lot open for different marketing purposes, a lot like the Pixar lamp hopping around...
Also, when Nintendo markets Nintendo WiFi, they can have little is hopping around, followed by an F shooting up, and squeezing after the first i indicating that the game can be played online too. To see what I mean, watch the linked movie for the logo.
I personally think it's a flexible name. Better than Xbox 360, and that certain didn't stop people from buying that system.
Where do you think Hussein got the chemical weapons, and other various WMDs? That's right, us, when we were funding Iraq's campaign against Iran.
And what about Bush I, idly sitting in office while Hussein was making massive graves? A few people change our entire agenda in this country, and other mindless goons clamor along, crying foul!
I have a feeling the mini might be updated too. After Tiger's annoucnement (12th), I ordered the 1.42 GHz mini with Airport Extreme.
The order's still open, and says it will ship "On or before 4/22". If the upgrade is imminent, perhaps my order will be upgraded while it's still open, as Apple is known to do.
Actually, look at the "i.MX Reference Design PDA" on their list. They mention it running Win.NET, even though their screenshot is Qtopia on Motorola's Linux PDA.
If they build the console from the ground up, they might as well use the most efficient means possible, as well as eliminating the case of installing alternative software on the machine.
Right now they're selling the consoles *drastically* at cost, and I don't see them lowering the price to compete with the GC's $99, but if they had effective components and low-cost yet powerful hardware, they'd be a console manufacturer, and not simply a "We want to make a mini-PC so porting the W2k kernel and DX will be uber-easy" developer.
Not that I'm a big fan of the movie, but wasn't that what Tim Robbins' character had on his wall? Famous paintings on the screen with fading transitions, but then again, I haven't seen it in awhile...
I think one of the beautiful things about the GBA is the extended battery life. (Where even the storage is solid-state).
I fear that this portable device might need a fan *AND* a motor to spin the media to read from it, adding a severe drain to the battery...
(Mind you, I'm no fanboy, in fact I'm excited for the PSP, but I'm curious how they can handle the power consumption...)
I think, more accurately, they reference from "Cartesian Doubt". In his Des Cartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy," he begins by doubting what we accept as fact: our perceptions.
Since the Matrix modulates electrical impulses for our brains to control our perceptions, I think it would directly relate to Cartesian Doubt, not an allegory of seeing shadows on a cave wall.
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Did you forget about the iPod mini? My girlfriend bought the pink just for its color. If it came in exclusively white, I think mini sales would've been abysmal... At one point while purchasing the iPod, she quipped "Who would buy the silver one when they have green, blue and pink?" So, I can't trust your guarantee.
Have you forgotten that the original Xbox wouldn't play DVDs unless the separate DVD remote was purchased and plugged in one of the ports?
There's a license for each DVD player, and Nintendo doesn't want to build it into their console, but leaves the option available for people who want to pay the license.
I personally think it's a useful name from an artistic point of view. The Wii logo movie has anthropomorphized little is jumping around. It leaves a lot open for different marketing purposes, a lot like the Pixar lamp hopping around...
Also, when Nintendo markets Nintendo WiFi, they can have little is hopping around, followed by an F shooting up, and squeezing after the first i indicating that the game can be played online too. To see what I mean, watch the linked movie for the logo.
I personally think it's a flexible name. Better than Xbox 360, and that certain didn't stop people from buying that system.
To quote, 'quite frankly, fund terrorism activities,' according to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (in reference to copyright infringement).
Attorney General Gonzales was appointed by W. Bush, so it is entirely appropriate attack the Bush administration's doubletalk.
"Terrorism" is the new red scare, where a blanket term applies to anything unpatriotic and antigovernment.
Where do you think Hussein got the chemical weapons, and other various WMDs? That's right, us, when we were funding Iraq's campaign against Iran.
And what about Bush I, idly sitting in office while Hussein was making massive graves? A few people change our entire agenda in this country, and other mindless goons clamor along, crying foul!
I have a feeling the mini might be updated too. After Tiger's annoucnement (12th), I ordered the 1.42 GHz mini with Airport Extreme.
The order's still open, and says it will ship "On or before 4/22". If the upgrade is imminent, perhaps my order will be upgraded while it's still open, as Apple is known to do.
Actually, look at the "i.MX Reference Design PDA" on their list. They mention it running Win .NET, even though their screenshot is Qtopia on Motorola's Linux PDA.
I'd say the funny part about the author's rants and raves about Red Hat are contradicted in the link provided:
Red Hat has aggressively lobbied Congress to eliminate software patents and copyrights.
However, after visiting the site, the only word used is "patent," the only occurance of "copyright" is at the bottom of the page claiming that it's a © of Redhat.
If they build the console from the ground up, they might as well use the most efficient means possible, as well as eliminating the case of installing alternative software on the machine. Right now they're selling the consoles *drastically* at cost, and I don't see them lowering the price to compete with the GC's $99, but if they had effective components and low-cost yet powerful hardware, they'd be a console manufacturer, and not simply a "We want to make a mini-PC so porting the W2k kernel and DX will be uber-easy" developer.
Not that I'm a big fan of the movie, but wasn't that what Tim Robbins' character had on his wall? Famous paintings on the screen with fading transitions, but then again, I haven't seen it in awhile...
I think one of the beautiful things about the GBA is the extended battery life. (Where even the storage is solid-state). I fear that this portable device might need a fan *AND* a motor to spin the media to read from it, adding a severe drain to the battery... (Mind you, I'm no fanboy, in fact I'm excited for the PSP, but I'm curious how they can handle the power consumption...)
I think, more accurately, they reference from "Cartesian Doubt". In his Des Cartes' "Meditations on First Philosophy," he begins by doubting what we accept as fact: our perceptions. Since the Matrix modulates electrical impulses for our brains to control our perceptions, I think it would directly relate to Cartesian Doubt, not an allegory of seeing shadows on a cave wall.