Most of the Xbox team was hired right out of Sega after the demise of the Dreamcast. It's no coincidence, it's history repeating--and by the same morons that did it the first go-around. It's like Hitler coming out of hiding and saying, "You know what, I should try to take over the world and simultaneously ruin my image by frying minorities." Oh wait... Didn't you know George W. Bush's grandfather helped fund the Nazi party?
Let's all just hope that the youth of tomorrow aren't so stupid as we are to buy into all this targeted marketing, buzz-phrase generating, social engineering bullshit. Honestly, how many Viacom-programmed MTV clones does this planet need? Even the goths, punks, and emos have been hyper focused into a marketable group (hot topic anyone?). I'm surprised a clothing or marketing company hasn't purchased a site like this, but instead they're all media companies.
How is it that not wanting to believe in a creator is being narrow minded, while believing in one and not wanting to delve deeper is considered "open minded." I feel like your argument is just another intelligent designists last-ditch efford to stick "God" into an otherwise godless universe.
Have you noticed that the color sync is different as well? Perhaps it's just something with my system, but one monitor always has a different shade of whatever color I hapen to be looking at. It's especially difficult because I'm usually trying to work on graphics.
This is totally obvious but why aren't schools instructing people how to use Dvorak keyboards? It was designed for efficiency and it reduces stressful hand movements. Trying to standardize anything less is a bad move when it would be much more intelligent to standardize the proven best.
Apple needs to just make their own music label. They have the stockpiled cash and the means of distribution to do it. Just put the whole damn record industry out of business and see if they cry to work for Apple in 5 years.
Switch, you'll be fine. I use QWERTY at work and when I'm doing work on other people's PCs. I do fine on QWERTY for letters for the most part but have a little more difficult time finding punctuation marks without looking for them. Dvorak is ideal for programmers and anyone who uses brackets etc... since they seem to fall in more ergonomic places. I was having to do some PHP coding on someone else's computer with a QWERTY layout and my only issue was when I had to put in quotation marks and curly brackets. Other than that, I type about 70wpm (QWERTY), a far cry less than the 140 I used to go at, but when I'm at home it's a different story.
It's a Motorola cell phone with a mobile version of iTunes that can sync up with your desktop version and copy a playlist over, similar to the iPod shuffle. Then, you can either use the phone to play Mp3s through a pair of head phones or you can use a song as a ringtone.
Why would a system designer intentionally cripple a system to support an ancient dev kit just to appease developers when they can say "fuck you DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!" and they'd have to work with the new kit regardless. Fuck developers, the architecture decides how the development kit will work and the architecture designers have the last say. Sony and Microsoft both know that no matter how difficult it is to work with the dev kit people will write code for it because it's what is required of them. The PS2 is horrific to write software for, but people do it none the less. Nintendo could say tomorrow that all the new Revolution games have to be written in QBASIC with a Direct X 7 obfuscation layer and if they could prove people are going to buy the damn system, someone will write software for it.
But have you seen one that had been purchased? All the iPod owners I know have the Apple ones, but then again we don't have any retailers here in town (that I know of) that carry the HP iPod. There's no difference between the two, this I know, but there's a certain stigma attached with buying otherwise "generic" products.
I'd say Apple is more likely to team up with HP given their relationship over the iPod. HP's shown that it's more than willing to bend over backwards to please the almighty Apple and take it right up the rear even if it means selling someone else's product under the simple guise of being able to sell sticker packets to "customize" its skin to turn a profit from it. Does anyone own an HP iPod anyway? I've never actually seen one with the HP logo on it. Apple all the way.
How is Microsoft going to continue developing games for the Xbox 360 (which is now done on G5 hardware from Apple) when Apple no longer supports the PPC processor? Microsoft must be shitting their pants right now, running around, trying to create a new development box that can support this now-dated platform.
I still can't quite wrap my little grey mass around why apple hasn't moved away from hardware completely and simply done their OS. They would become the largest OS distributor within a matter of a few years so long as they could keep up with driver development. Yes, Apple's hardware is better and they could always offer their own top-of-the-line systems that have the faster busses, better drives, and zippier graphics that you expect from an Apple system. Microsoft has proven that you can charge people an arm and a leg for an OS and get away with it, finally making this a relatively viable business model for Apple. The only thing keeping them back now is a(nother) transition similar to the 68x to PPC we saw over a decade ago. Apple's proven that they can do it (christ remember where they came from--the Apple I) and I don't doubt for a moment that they're capable of re-inventing themselves again. Plus, by sticking to the nice margins they get from their accessories I'd still expect Apple to keep numbers up in their cam/mp3/monitor departments.
FYI It's Lithium Polymer. I thought I'd clarify, not because I'm a bitch but because the two technologies are fundamentally different (discharge cycle counting). If a LiPoly battery isn't discharged beyond a certain voltage it doesn't count as a discharge cycle (of which LiPoly batteries are expected to have around 500 before going sour).
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Either I live in a topsy turvey town or most market research is wrong. PSP has outsold DS by a LONG-SHOT at my store since it came out. XBoX has outsold PS2 by a LONG-SHOT at my store since we opened. There are whole days where not a single game from the GameCube section leaves the floor. There are whole weeks where not a single person touches the DS section. But I must tell you, we get TONS of people shopping the PSP section. It got so bad that we simply took our DS marketing off the wall and put it in a small display rack like how we display the GBA games. It's nothing impressive. The PSP takes up about as much store space as our GameCube section now.
Now they wont' be locked into service-specific hardware implementations and can have all the load put on the service provider. They've turned a blow-hard "business-partner" with grandios hardware constraints into a simple iTunes content provider and calmed a storm before it ever began.
I was going to mention that in my post but hoped people would fill in the blanks as opposed to construct a conspiracy theory (ala vapor-ware). It's nice to see some Venture Capital firms making things easy for their clients and having a serious understanding of how this technology works before setting out to do something huge.
I'm sad to say that even with a $150 price difference than the expected price of the Xbox 360, the PS3 sounds to be a lot more bang for the buck. It's like comparing the DS to the PSP. I've owned both and frankly I wish I'd of saved my $150 from the DS to buy more PSP games.
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Most of the Xbox team was hired right out of Sega after the demise of the Dreamcast. It's no coincidence, it's history repeating--and by the same morons that did it the first go-around. It's like Hitler coming out of hiding and saying, "You know what, I should try to take over the world and simultaneously ruin my image by frying minorities." Oh wait... Didn't you know George W. Bush's grandfather helped fund the Nazi party?
Let's all just hope that the youth of tomorrow aren't so stupid as we are to buy into all this targeted marketing, buzz-phrase generating, social engineering bullshit. Honestly, how many Viacom-programmed MTV clones does this planet need? Even the goths, punks, and emos have been hyper focused into a marketable group (hot topic anyone?).
I'm surprised a clothing or marketing company hasn't purchased a site like this, but instead they're all media companies.
How is it that not wanting to believe in a creator is being narrow minded, while believing in one and not wanting to delve deeper is considered "open minded." I feel like your argument is just another intelligent designists last-ditch efford to stick "God" into an otherwise godless universe.
Coming soon, from Xombo ;)
Have you noticed that the color sync is different as well? Perhaps it's just something with my system, but one monitor always has a different shade of whatever color I hapen to be looking at. It's especially difficult because I'm usually trying to work on graphics.
He's onto us *over*
Well, the problem there is that the texture would remain stationary as the object moved around on the stage.
This is totally obvious but why aren't schools instructing people how to use Dvorak keyboards? It was designed for efficiency and it reduces stressful hand movements.
Trying to standardize anything less is a bad move when it would be much more intelligent to standardize the proven best.
Apple needs to just make their own music label. They have the stockpiled cash and the means of distribution to do it. Just put the whole damn record industry out of business and see if they cry to work for Apple in 5 years.
Because /.'s editors aren't knowledgable in the same way as Phrack's are, they'd never be able to legitimately edit and prove posted articles.
Switch, you'll be fine.
I use QWERTY at work and when I'm doing work on other people's PCs. I do fine on QWERTY for letters for the most part but have a little more difficult time finding punctuation marks without looking for them.
Dvorak is ideal for programmers and anyone who uses brackets etc... since they seem to fall in more ergonomic places.
I was having to do some PHP coding on someone else's computer with a QWERTY layout and my only issue was when I had to put in quotation marks and curly brackets. Other than that, I type about 70wpm (QWERTY), a far cry less than the 140 I used to go at, but when I'm at home it's a different story.
It's a Motorola cell phone with a mobile version of iTunes that can sync up with your desktop version and copy a playlist over, similar to the iPod shuffle. Then, you can either use the phone to play Mp3s through a pair of head phones or you can use a song as a ringtone.
Nothing to see here, move along. No surprises.
Why would a system designer intentionally cripple a system to support an ancient dev kit just to appease developers when they can say "fuck you DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!" and they'd have to work with the new kit regardless.
Fuck developers, the architecture decides how the development kit will work and the architecture designers have the last say.
Sony and Microsoft both know that no matter how difficult it is to work with the dev kit people will write code for it because it's what is required of them. The PS2 is horrific to write software for, but people do it none the less.
Nintendo could say tomorrow that all the new Revolution games have to be written in QBASIC with a Direct X 7 obfuscation layer and if they could prove people are going to buy the damn system, someone will write software for it.
Have you considered that you might have Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder? (It's not OCD so don't even go there)
They told me there were side-effects but the FDA never tested it on "roborts".
But have you seen one that had been purchased? All the iPod owners I know have the Apple ones, but then again we don't have any retailers here in town (that I know of) that carry the HP iPod. There's no difference between the two, this I know, but there's a certain stigma attached with buying otherwise "generic" products.
I'd say Apple is more likely to team up with HP given their relationship over the iPod. HP's shown that it's more than willing to bend over backwards to please the almighty Apple and take it right up the rear even if it means selling someone else's product under the simple guise of being able to sell sticker packets to "customize" its skin to turn a profit from it.
Does anyone own an HP iPod anyway? I've never actually seen one with the HP logo on it. Apple all the way.
How is Microsoft going to continue developing games for the Xbox 360 (which is now done on G5 hardware from Apple) when Apple no longer supports the PPC processor? Microsoft must be shitting their pants right now, running around, trying to create a new development box that can support this now-dated platform.
I still can't quite wrap my little grey mass around why apple hasn't moved away from hardware completely and simply done their OS. They would become the largest OS distributor within a matter of a few years so long as they could keep up with driver development. Yes, Apple's hardware is better and they could always offer their own top-of-the-line systems that have the faster busses, better drives, and zippier graphics that you expect from an Apple system. Microsoft has proven that you can charge people an arm and a leg for an OS and get away with it, finally making this a relatively viable business model for Apple.
The only thing keeping them back now is a(nother) transition similar to the 68x to PPC we saw over a decade ago. Apple's proven that they can do it (christ remember where they came from--the Apple I) and I don't doubt for a moment that they're capable of re-inventing themselves again.
Plus, by sticking to the nice margins they get from their accessories I'd still expect Apple to keep numbers up in their cam/mp3/monitor departments.
FYI It's Lithium Polymer. I thought I'd clarify, not because I'm a bitch but because the two technologies are fundamentally different (discharge cycle counting). If a LiPoly battery isn't discharged beyond a certain voltage it doesn't count as a discharge cycle (of which LiPoly batteries are expected to have around 500 before going sour).
Either I live in a topsy turvey town or most market research is wrong.
PSP has outsold DS by a LONG-SHOT at my store since it came out.
XBoX has outsold PS2 by a LONG-SHOT at my store since we opened.
There are whole days where not a single game from the GameCube section leaves the floor.
There are whole weeks where not a single person touches the DS section.
But I must tell you, we get TONS of people shopping the PSP section.
It got so bad that we simply took our DS marketing off the wall and put it in a small display rack like how we display the GBA games. It's nothing impressive. The PSP takes up about as much store space as our GameCube section now.
Now they wont' be locked into service-specific hardware implementations and can have all the load put on the service provider. They've turned a blow-hard "business-partner" with grandios hardware constraints into a simple iTunes content provider and calmed a storm before it ever began.
I was going to mention that in my post but hoped people would fill in the blanks as opposed to construct a conspiracy theory (ala vapor-ware).
It's nice to see some Venture Capital firms making things easy for their clients and having a serious understanding of how this technology works before setting out to do something huge.
Both sites seem to be structured in the same manner with similar page titles and similar wording for content.
I'm sad to say that even with a $150 price difference than the expected price of the Xbox 360, the PS3 sounds to be a lot more bang for the buck. It's like comparing the DS to the PSP. I've owned both and frankly I wish I'd of saved my $150 from the DS to buy more PSP games.