My statement indicated that Americans enjoyed being able to carry out the actions of criminals. They like living a lifestyle of crime and being able to have sex whenever they want with any hooker they want, and then getting the chance to beat them up afterwards.
In Mario Brothers, the graphics were child-like and the plumber brothers just went through pipes and smushed plants. It was all very kid-like and innocent fun.
Vice City is nothing at all like that. It's rude, crude, and downright degrading to women and policemen alike.
I stand by my original statement. Anyone who has a sick fetish for being a crime boss should be tossed into jail.
Like I said earlier, it's no wonder you are all such privacy nuts -- you're busy at home raping and killing on your videogame systems.
The reason Vice City isn't very complex yet requires such expensive graphics cards is because it's primarily written in the C programming language.
C's biggest difficulty, as we all know, is the fact that it is by far one of the slowest languages in existance, especially when compared to more modern languages such as Java and C#. Although the reasons for this are varied, the main reasons seems to be the way C requires a programmer to laboriously work with chunks of memory.
Sorry, but requiring a programmer to manipulate blocks of memory is a tedious way to program. This was satisfactory back in the early days of coding, but then again, so were punchcards. By using what are called "pointers" a C programmer is basically requiring the computer to do three sets of work rather than one. The first time requires the computer to duplicate whatever is stored in the memory space "pointed to" by the pointer. The second time requires it to perform the needed operation on this space. Finally the computer must delete the duplicate set and set the values of the original accordingly.
Clearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why C is so slow. When one looks at a more modern (and a more serious) programming language like Java, C# or - even better - Visual Basic that lacks such archaic coding styles, one will also note a serious speed increase over C.
I think a re-write would be very advantageous for this game and could let it sell even more copies. 8.5 million games sold only means that marketing did their job; it doesn't necessarily mean that the people who bought it ended up enjoying it.
OK, I'm trying to decide which new video game to pick up.
My heart's content wants me to get Metroid Prime since Super Metroid was my favorite game of all time, but then again my brain is screaming for the hilarious drop dead fun of Vice City.
I can only afford one so it's quite a tough decision.
You think Apple sucks because they have realised that the traditional MacOS has
come to the end of the line and instead of rehashing old rubbish as MS
and Intel have been doing, they have gone to great lengths to write a
new OS based on highly regarded kernal and system, whereas MS has
rehashed NT and, as they usually do, added more and more (mostly
unnecessary) features.
You think they suck because they base their computer and OS designs on what their
customers want, unlike MS which designs its own ideas and forces them on
its customers (HTML email, VBS, ASP and now the new IE5, with it's
different rendering of web pages and 96dpi images) because, being the
market leader (due to great marketing, not great design), people have no
choice.
You think Apple hardware sucks because it uses parts compatible with PC's, despite
the fact that Apple hardware components have (for the most part) always
been designed by other manufacturers, merely this time they have
selected less unique hardware, because this is what their customers
wanted and Apple customers are willing to spend extra for this.
You all think Apple sucks because they build computers up to a quality, not down to a
price. They suck especially because they took the bold step of
designing harware that simple, straightforward and attractive to alot of
people (iMac), and in great defiance of the PC market, sells very well.
More insulting are the PC owners who discovered their friends' iMacs ran
faster.
Oh, and you think Apple sucks most of all because it forces PC owners to realise that
they are MS and Intel lemmings - in no control of the chipset's and
OS'es they use, as what they do is controlled by both these companies.
If it weren't for Apple, AMD and others, everyone, with the exception of
companies that can afford expensive un*x workstations, would be complete
slaves to MS and Intel.
This is like saying Mercedes Benz sucks because they design innovative
cars who's designs influenced car designs for many decades.
Maybe Apple should apologise for shattering people's ideas of what a
computer should be.
Whodathunk that one day we'd be reading a story titled "Apple:..." with an IBM icon?
I would, but that's because I'm used to Slashdot editors making mistakes.
There's not one -- one -- mention of Apple in the entire press release. If you'd read it yourself instead of just chiming in to the discussion here without knowing what you're talking about, you'd see they talk about Blade servers and only Blade servers.
Apple hopes to use the 970 some day much in the same way that war protestors hope the U.S. won't bomb Iraq. Who knows what'll happen in the end?
Did you read the press release? I doubt it. You saw "Apple" as the subject of the headline and just half-hazardly clicked the reply button and started a schpiel about how Apple really needed this, etc.
If you go and check the press release out, you'll see that only the Blade server architectures are even mentioned.
Yeah, Apple hopes to use this some day, but it'll be a long time coming.
Someone resection this to strictly IBM rather than an Apple > IBM article.
They're over and done with, and have been, for nearly half a decade now.
After lingering problems with OS 9, delayed completion of OS X, and most importantly the stagnation of processor development for PowerPC computers, most Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) for major companies have all but written off Apple Computers.
Sure, you can accuse this of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but the bottom line is essentially that Apple has failed to compete on a purely technological basis. Their machinery does look very nice, and they really cleaned up the X interface for their Quartz window manager experience built-in to OS X, but that doesn't mean it can execute Photoshop filters any faster. Some of the more serious graphic artists, therefore, have begun to phase out their use of the PowerPC platform and have already high-tailed it over to the Pentium side of the fence with new 3GHz Dell computers.
This chip is great, and I'm not arguing that. Go read the specs at ArsTechnica if you want, I've already got them nearly memorized. But this and no chip will ever save Apple from their rut.
No, they will always stay in business because they have a niche with people who would turn down a free Monet painting because it doesn't match their sofa.
Before you pluck down a few hundred dollars for the latest edition of Visual Studio, please be sure to stop by your computer science faculty office and see if they have discounted Microsoft licensing deals.
My school has so many alumni working at Microsoft that anyone and everyone taking CS classes at the university can obtain Windows 2000 and Visual Studio.NET for free.
Taiwan represents a very tech-saavy populace that's probably a close 2nd to South Korea in terms of computing skills. Even if Microsoft can get just half of all Microsoft-using citizens there to actually pay money for MS products, they will make an amazing profit that will line the pockets of MS executives.
Taiwan is famous for more than just piracy, and your comment was rude and unnecessary. Most mass-produced toys are made in Taiwan because they perfected advanced assembly line techniques and could do it cheaper than the U.S.
I've been dealing with the Baby Bells' general stagnation for quite a while now.
DSL is still not available in my area, and I live near two major California cities. You'd think that with all the major universities and Silicon Valley in California that they'd have little trouble creating good quality DSL home subscriber lines. But, alas, they have yet to deliver.
I really wish cable modems weren't my only option because they have outages a lot from what I hear, but it's my only choice. Hey, it's either that or a dial-up modem.
Like I just said in another post to this thread, the Newton is just really, really innovative and is a natural, intuitive handheld to use.
If you actually read the article you'd see that the Newton is still being used by many people, and they're not just super-geek hobbyists on some masochistic joy-ride. Don't make blanket statements about something that you probably have never even used.
It works well what it's supposed to do, and don't cut it down for that. I bet many Newton owners are still pleased about their device, whereas many Palm Pilot folks get a new PDA and then stop using it after the novelty wears off.
I know that most of us have Palm Pilots of some sort, but the Newton was really cool especially when you consider that it was invented many, many years ago and then mass-produced fairly efficiently.
The Palm is great and all, but the Newton was just so innovative for its time. I still have the one I bought several years ago and will give it to my daughter when she gets old enough.
What about academic discounts? Many students, even those at public colleges, can get copies of Office XP and other popular software packages for as little as $5.00.
Unless your office is entirely UNIX-based, you'll need VMware or other OS-emulation software to share Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents. When it comes down to it, businesses would rather pay the extra money for compatible software than save money on software that prevents them from interacting with other businesses.
What about maintenence costs? UNIX administrators are far more advanced and intelligent than your typical high-school age MCSE. UNIX is much more powerful, but Windows is easy, and in a world full of mostly dumb people, they choose what's easiest.
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Like I said in the last thread, Americans have an unnatural and dangerous thirst for blood and gore.
First the Vice City sales of 8.5 million in a mere 3 months. Then we're reading about this snow gun.
What's next, the bombing of an innocent Middle Eastern country just for the hell of it?
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You're taking what I said out of context.
My statement indicated that Americans enjoyed being able to carry out the actions of criminals. They like living a lifestyle of crime and being able to have sex whenever they want with any hooker they want, and then getting the chance to beat them up afterwards.
In Mario Brothers, the graphics were child-like and the plumber brothers just went through pipes and smushed plants. It was all very kid-like and innocent fun.
Vice City is nothing at all like that. It's rude, crude, and downright degrading to women and policemen alike.
I stand by my original statement. Anyone who has a sick fetish for being a crime boss should be tossed into jail.
Like I said earlier, it's no wonder you are all such privacy nuts -- you're busy at home raping and killing on your videogame systems.
The reason Vice City isn't very complex yet requires such expensive graphics cards is because it's primarily written in the C programming language.
C's biggest difficulty, as we all know, is the fact that it is by far one of the slowest languages in existance, especially when compared to more modern languages such as Java and C#. Although the reasons for this are varied, the main reasons seems to be the way C requires a programmer to laboriously work with chunks of memory.
Sorry, but requiring a programmer to manipulate blocks of memory is a tedious way to program. This was satisfactory back in the early days of coding, but then again, so were punchcards. By using what are called "pointers" a C programmer is basically requiring the computer to do three sets of work rather than one. The first time requires the computer to duplicate whatever is stored in the memory space "pointed to" by the pointer. The second time requires it to perform the needed operation on this space. Finally the computer must delete the duplicate set and set the values of the original accordingly.
Clearly this is a horrendous use of resources and the chief reason why C is so slow. When one looks at a more modern (and a more serious) programming language like Java, C# or - even better - Visual Basic that lacks such archaic coding styles, one will also note a serious speed increase over C.
I think a re-write would be very advantageous for this game and could let it sell even more copies. 8.5 million games sold only means that marketing did their job; it doesn't necessarily mean that the people who bought it ended up enjoying it.
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OK, I'm trying to decide which new video game to pick up.
My heart's content wants me to get Metroid Prime since Super Metroid was my favorite game of all time, but then again my brain is screaming for the hilarious drop dead fun of Vice City.
I can only afford one so it's quite a tough decision.
Any advice, geeks?
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Aren't there other ways for people to relax and have fun.
I personally would rather make love to my wife a couple times than sit around all Saturday afternoon staring at the TV screen.
Maybe that's just me though.
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The true American spirit really shines through these sales results.
So, who is it that loves violence, terror, and rape so much again?
Yeah, thought so.
We have enough geeks and articles about geeks who tinker with things to optimize them even though they work just fine the way they are.
The root server engineers are busy explaining why not to tinker with things that are clearly and inherently broken.
Don't complain about useless queries -- FIX THE SYSTEM.
I side on the fence that if you care enough about privacy to make it your job to fight it, you clearly have something to hide.
You think they suck because they base their computer and OS designs on what their customers want, unlike MS which designs its own ideas and forces them on its customers (HTML email, VBS, ASP and now the new IE5, with it's different rendering of web pages and 96dpi images) because, being the market leader (due to great marketing, not great design), people have no choice.
You think Apple hardware sucks because it uses parts compatible with PC's, despite the fact that Apple hardware components have (for the most part) always been designed by other manufacturers, merely this time they have selected less unique hardware, because this is what their customers wanted and Apple customers are willing to spend extra for this.
You all think Apple sucks because they build computers up to a quality, not down to a price. They suck especially because they took the bold step of designing harware that simple, straightforward and attractive to alot of people (iMac), and in great defiance of the PC market, sells very well. More insulting are the PC owners who discovered their friends' iMacs ran faster.
Oh, and you think Apple sucks most of all because it forces PC owners to realise that they are MS and Intel lemmings - in no control of the chipset's and OS'es they use, as what they do is controlled by both these companies. If it weren't for Apple, AMD and others, everyone, with the exception of companies that can afford expensive un*x workstations, would be complete slaves to MS and Intel.
This is like saying Mercedes Benz sucks because they design innovative cars who's designs influenced car designs for many decades.
Maybe Apple should apologise for shattering people's ideas of what a computer should be.
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Whodathunk that one day we'd be reading a story titled "Apple: ..." with an IBM icon?
I would, but that's because I'm used to Slashdot editors making mistakes.
There's not one -- one -- mention of Apple in the entire press release. If you'd read it yourself instead of just chiming in to the discussion here without knowing what you're talking about, you'd see they talk about Blade servers and only Blade servers.
Apple hopes to use the 970 some day much in the same way that war protestors hope the U.S. won't bomb Iraq. Who knows what'll happen in the end?
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This doesn't even really involve Apple, though.
Did you read the press release? I doubt it. You saw "Apple" as the subject of the headline and just half-hazardly clicked the reply button and started a schpiel about how Apple really needed this, etc.
If you go and check the press release out, you'll see that only the Blade server architectures are even mentioned.
Yeah, Apple hopes to use this some day, but it'll be a long time coming.
Someone resection this to strictly IBM rather than an Apple > IBM article.
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They're over and done with, and have been, for nearly half a decade now.
After lingering problems with OS 9, delayed completion of OS X, and most importantly the stagnation of processor development for PowerPC computers, most Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) for major companies have all but written off Apple Computers.
Sure, you can accuse this of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but the bottom line is essentially that Apple has failed to compete on a purely technological basis. Their machinery does look very nice, and they really cleaned up the X interface for their Quartz window manager experience built-in to OS X, but that doesn't mean it can execute Photoshop filters any faster. Some of the more serious graphic artists, therefore, have begun to phase out their use of the PowerPC platform and have already high-tailed it over to the Pentium side of the fence with new 3GHz Dell computers.
This chip is great, and I'm not arguing that. Go read the specs at ArsTechnica if you want, I've already got them nearly memorized. But this and no chip will ever save Apple from their rut.
No, they will always stay in business because they have a niche with people who would turn down a free Monet painting because it doesn't match their sofa.
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I was once forced by pirates to use Microsoft software. Will that get me any sort of discount?
Only in Soviet Russia.
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They do!
.NET for free.
Before you pluck down a few hundred dollars for the latest edition of Visual Studio, please be sure to stop by your computer science faculty office and see if they have discounted Microsoft licensing deals.
My school has so many alumni working at Microsoft that anyone and everyone taking CS classes at the university can obtain Windows 2000 and Visual Studio
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Taiwan represents a very tech-saavy populace that's probably a close 2nd to South Korea in terms of computing skills. Even if Microsoft can get just half of all Microsoft-using citizens there to actually pay money for MS products, they will make an amazing profit that will line the pockets of MS executives.
Taiwan is famous for more than just piracy, and your comment was rude and unnecessary. Most mass-produced toys are made in Taiwan because they perfected advanced assembly line techniques and could do it cheaper than the U.S.
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I've been dealing with the Baby Bells' general stagnation for quite a while now.
DSL is still not available in my area, and I live near two major California cities. You'd think that with all the major universities and Silicon Valley in California that they'd have little trouble creating good quality DSL home subscriber lines. But, alas, they have yet to deliver.
I really wish cable modems weren't my only option because they have outages a lot from what I hear, but it's my only choice. Hey, it's either that or a dial-up modem.
What would you do?
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Like I just said in another post to this thread, the Newton is just really, really innovative and is a natural, intuitive handheld to use.
If you actually read the article you'd see that the Newton is still being used by many people, and they're not just super-geek hobbyists on some masochistic joy-ride. Don't make blanket statements about something that you probably have never even used.
It works well what it's supposed to do, and don't cut it down for that. I bet many Newton owners are still pleased about their device, whereas many Palm Pilot folks get a new PDA and then stop using it after the novelty wears off.
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I know that most of us have Palm Pilots of some sort, but the Newton was really cool especially when you consider that it was invented many, many years ago and then mass-produced fairly efficiently.
The Palm is great and all, but the Newton was just so innovative for its time. I still have the one I bought several years ago and will give it to my daughter when she gets old enough.
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