Why are people still under the impression that buying one console forbids you from buying any others? That stops being true once you get out of high school and get a real job.
CDs are used to move music from the store to the iPod, then they go into the closet and are never seen again. If I want the tactile joy of owning a representation of my attachment to the band, I'll buy a T-shirt.
It is not true that MS just "let Red vs Blue do their thing". The RvB team has had a private agreement with MS from very early on that allows the use of their IP.
We're messing around with black holes and we don't even have an operational Hawking drive yet? I don't know about you, but I really don't trust the TechnoCore all that much.
3. You needn't tweak, optimize, or otherwise fiddle with a console game to make it look good.
How many games have I had to overly tweak or specialize....maybe two. The settings allow more PCs to play games, and it doesn't take rocket science to figure out. Most games implement the Bad, Better, Best system of setting for the real dim witted ones. And as for the articles, you get what is advertised with a console game, this is not true. I simply point to the PS2 debacle. You know, when they were not clear pre-launch about shots being in-game.
You kind of defeated your own argument there- PC games go the extra mile to make sure that more PCs can run the game by reducing quality, but on a console 100% of the machines run the game at maximum quality at all times. And that's not even getting into the tweaking necessary to get around problems with your setup.
And if you're going to complain about bullshit screenshots, talk to owners of not-cutting-edge video cards who are never going to get the graphics quality used to promote PC games either.
I bet in less than a year's time, there is going to be some new HDTV surround sound requirement that will force everyone to replace their current dolby digital sound / speakers in order to truely enjoy hdtv sound.
We're almost there. There was recently an update to the HDMI spec (1.3) that may break compatibility with older HDMI devices.
I also have a question... this thing about 32bit vista not being able to produce true HD resolution with movies.... is that some kind of joke?
Vista on 32-bit will not require the use of signed device drivers; on 64-bit it will. Microsoft decided, with prodding from the MPAA, naturally, to disallow true HD resolutions when there is a chance that the data will pass through unsigned code on the way from the drive to the monitor. So no, it's not a joke, but it has nothing to do with how powerful the computer is.
There's also a big reason to use iTunes for TV that doesn't apply to either music or movies: Get it the day after it airs, not a few months later on DVD or at some indeterminate time when the network decides to rerun it.
My knee-jerk reaction was "Of course not", but this actually makes sense. At least now the "I only pirate to decide whether to buy it" crowd has no excuse any more.
The Constitution isn't set in stone either; it's had provisions for amending it built-in since day 1, and we've taken advantage of that 27 times so far. True, you generally have more notice and opportunity to object to an amendment as well, but no one is compelling you to be a customer of a music store.
Yeah, it sure was great when Linux adoption reached the tipping point and it switched from a marginal OS for nerds to a major competitor to Windows. Or was that back in 2005? Or 2004? 2003? 2002? 2001?
And it is, there's no denying it. But if Microsoft tomorrow released a player for DRMed WMV9, Mac users would be all over it and be happy that a flaw in their platform has been fixed. If they released one for Linux, they would be met with "Why isn't this open source?", "I'm never using M$ garbage on principle", and so on, and uptake will be pretty low.
Ideally, the results of this machine would not instantly set off the cavity search buzzer but would rather be sent to a human expert to be taken into account along with other factors when deciding whether or not a passenger deserves a more extensive examination.
If you're going to put a compiler on the list, it should be the original IBM FORTRAN compiler. It bridged the gap between interpreters and assemblers and allowed the computer itself to take an active role in code generation for the first time.
Spot on. I'm using Leopard right now (a legitimate copy I received while attending WWDC) because I'm one of those developers, but it's really not ready for casual use yet. Sure, it's got some new stuff, but it also has all kinds of crazy quirks bugs, and things that got broken from Tiger and haven't been fixed yet- for example, as I type this, Safari is pegging the CPU and adding characters to the text field at a rate of maybe 2 or 3 a second.
The only reason to download Leopard is to brag to your l33t friends. If you want to use your Mac for any real purpose, stick with Tiger.
They're "willing" to sell OS X to anyone who walks up with $129 in hand, but the official company line is still that OS X is for Apple-manufactured hardware only.
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Why are people still under the impression that buying one console forbids you from buying any others? That stops being true once you get out of high school and get a real job.
CDs are used to move music from the store to the iPod, then they go into the closet and are never seen again. If I want the tactile joy of owning a representation of my attachment to the band, I'll buy a T-shirt.
You can also use your PS3's downtime to help Sony convince regulators the PS3 is a "computer" and not a "game console" so they get a tax break!
Yeah, it's great that you can tweak your makefile to shave a few extra grams off the kernel here and there.
You can also rip the DVD directly to H.264 with Handbrake and skip the second encoding.
I expect the iTV to support the same codecs the iPod does: H.264, MPEG-4, MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV.
It is not true that MS just "let Red vs Blue do their thing". The RvB team has had a private agreement with MS from very early on that allows the use of their IP.
We're messing around with black holes and we don't even have an operational Hawking drive yet? I don't know about you, but I really don't trust the TechnoCore all that much.
3. You needn't tweak, optimize, or otherwise fiddle with a console game to make it look good. How many games have I had to overly tweak or specialize....maybe two. The settings allow more PCs to play games, and it doesn't take rocket science to figure out. Most games implement the Bad, Better, Best system of setting for the real dim witted ones. And as for the articles, you get what is advertised with a console game, this is not true. I simply point to the PS2 debacle. You know, when they were not clear pre-launch about shots being in-game.
You kind of defeated your own argument there- PC games go the extra mile to make sure that more PCs can run the game by reducing quality, but on a console 100% of the machines run the game at maximum quality at all times. And that's not even getting into the tweaking necessary to get around problems with your setup.
And if you're going to complain about bullshit screenshots, talk to owners of not-cutting-edge video cards who are never going to get the graphics quality used to promote PC games either.
I bet in less than a year's time, there is going to be some new HDTV surround sound requirement that will force everyone to replace their current dolby digital sound / speakers in order to truely enjoy hdtv sound.
We're almost there. There was recently an update to the HDMI spec (1.3) that may break compatibility with older HDMI devices.
I also have a question... this thing about 32bit vista not being able to produce true HD resolution with movies.... is that some kind of joke?
Vista on 32-bit will not require the use of signed device drivers; on 64-bit it will. Microsoft decided, with prodding from the MPAA, naturally, to disallow true HD resolutions when there is a chance that the data will pass through unsigned code on the way from the drive to the monitor. So no, it's not a joke, but it has nothing to do with how powerful the computer is.
There's also a big reason to use iTunes for TV that doesn't apply to either music or movies: Get it the day after it airs, not a few months later on DVD or at some indeterminate time when the network decides to rerun it.
And what allowances will be made for the ~5% of devices that according to this article will never pass the test?
This is why Apple's cameras have a little light that comes on when the camera does, and can't be overridden in software.
They have my vote when they get to 4) It's the worst thing to happen to web design since .
The strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was disproven some time ago.
The technical capacity is still there. I'm not buying one until it isn't. Same with the remote-bricking commands.
I thought the Howard Dean fiasco had finally gotten rid of this "true power of the web" crap.
I order you to breathe! Good! Now, keep breathing for the rest of your life! You are obeying my every command! Witness my magical mind control powers!
My knee-jerk reaction was "Of course not", but this actually makes sense. At least now the "I only pirate to decide whether to buy it" crowd has no excuse any more.
The Constitution isn't set in stone either; it's had provisions for amending it built-in since day 1, and we've taken advantage of that 27 times so far. True, you generally have more notice and opportunity to object to an amendment as well, but no one is compelling you to be a customer of a music store.
I absolutely disagree with that statement. In fact, I don't think most people would do that even if it were not illegal.
Something like 40% of Internet traffic says you're wrong. It's even easier to refrain from pirating than it is to pirate, and yet here we are.
Yeah, it sure was great when Linux adoption reached the tipping point and it switched from a marginal OS for nerds to a major competitor to Windows. Or was that back in 2005? Or 2004? 2003? 2002? 2001?
And it is, there's no denying it. But if Microsoft tomorrow released a player for DRMed WMV9, Mac users would be all over it and be happy that a flaw in their platform has been fixed. If they released one for Linux, they would be met with "Why isn't this open source?", "I'm never using M$ garbage on principle", and so on, and uptake will be pretty low.
Ideally, the results of this machine would not instantly set off the cavity search buzzer but would rather be sent to a human expert to be taken into account along with other factors when deciding whether or not a passenger deserves a more extensive examination.
Ideally.
If you're going to put a compiler on the list, it should be the original IBM FORTRAN compiler. It bridged the gap between interpreters and assemblers and allowed the computer itself to take an active role in code generation for the first time.
Spot on. I'm using Leopard right now (a legitimate copy I received while attending WWDC) because I'm one of those developers, but it's really not ready for casual use yet. Sure, it's got some new stuff, but it also has all kinds of crazy quirks bugs, and things that got broken from Tiger and haven't been fixed yet- for example, as I type this, Safari is pegging the CPU and adding characters to the text field at a rate of maybe 2 or 3 a second.
The only reason to download Leopard is to brag to your l33t friends. If you want to use your Mac for any real purpose, stick with Tiger.
They're "willing" to sell OS X to anyone who walks up with $129 in hand, but the official company line is still that OS X is for Apple-manufactured hardware only.