The switch is painless and transparent to the end user and they can do everything and run any piece of software they did before the switch. Same goes for large scale business roll-outs as well as the home desktop.
Original ideas without the means or experience to implement them are not worth much. Give me a solid, experienced team with a solid, but average idea over a dreamer with a great idea and no resources or means to do anything with it any day. People matter way more than ideas.
Good luck. Ideas in the games industry are cheap. I've worked in this business for almost 9 years now and there is no shortage of ideas. Your idea without a team or experience is pretty well worthless. No game company wants external ideas, believe me they have enough of their own. Want to sell the idea? Get a team together, do a proof of concept and try getting funding to do it yourself.
It's still a charity and has to be run by charity rules. No matter how much you dislike Microsoft charities are run by a different set of rules than for profit corporations and can be audited at any time. They must maintain a level of transparency at all times. And what I meant about MS products is that I have no doubt that the Gates Foundation can make a deal with Microsoft that they couldn't make with other vendors.
You are operating under the erroneous assumption (as are a lot of people in this thread) that Gates somehow has total control and that he can spend the Foundation's money wherever he wants to. It's a charitable corporation and has to operate with a certain level of transparency.
From Wikipedia - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF) is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000 and doubled in size by Warren Buffett in 2006. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the United States, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.
And of course they are going to give away Microsoft products. Do you expect them to give away something they don't own?
I really don't care much about open source. I mean it's neat and all, but my motivation for using or buying a product is how well it suits my needs. I am not a coder so it's not like I could contribute in that way anyway. Bottom line is that there is no reason on the earth why closed commercial and open source can't both exist. I've used some OSS in the past and it's worked quite well, but there are still areas where it doesn't come close to the commercial products I've used. I do sound design and haven't come across anything that comes close to the polish and functionality of Sound Forge and Pro Tools, etc. This Stallman guy seems to just have an axe to grind regardless of how reasonable his position is. And to bring in a charity that has done demonstrably good things to the discussion for the purposes of adding some smear is childish at best.
That's strange because I was able to tell right away what the models of the various HDD, video, etc were in the Device Manager. You mustn't have looked all that hard.
Your loss leader examples don't apply here. Apple is not losing money on their laptops and they use the same HDDs and memory as a lot of laptop manufacturers.
You realize that laptop makes including Apple often used the same components right? I mean, there isn't a "special" Apple hard drive or memory or DVD factory out there. As for your experience I think you are exaggerating big time. I've had a Dell for years and it's been solid as have the Dells that I have worked with and the ones my associates own. I know fewer people with failed Macbooks only because I know fewer people with Macbooks, but they do fail as well.
It doesn't take long to find audiophile scams all over the net. From markers that you are supposed to write on component cases with to lifts that keep the cables off the floor to exotic wood replacement knobs. The sad thing is that just like spammers only a few morons have to fall for these tricks for them to make money.
The issue was a combination of factors. The mounting for the HS on the GPU was cheap and flimsy. Over time with heating and cooling cycles that the GPU would go through the expansion and contraction fatigued the mounting arms which ceased to apply proper pressure. That lead to inadequate contact with the GPU which caused the temp to rise. This eventually melted the GPU solder between the package and the board to the point where some of the connections were broken. That's why the towel trick works. Apparently it heats the solder to the point that it flows again and will often restore the connection. This eventually fails for the same reason the initial failure happened. So, I am not sure WTF the article is talking about.
Agreed. Trailers can change the tone, can make a comedy look funnier than it is, can even change genre as evidenced by movies marketed as thigh slapping comedies that end up being mostly drama with a few chuckles. Trailers are cool, but meaningless marketing tools.
Exactly. Price wise it's not even in the same ballpark price wise as the DS or even PSP to start. People will buy a few games for their iPhone/Touch, but no one is going to buy one just for games.
Apple pushes into gaming they flop. How many times have they promised new tools and support for game devs and come up far, far short? They have no passion for it and you can tell that comes from the top.
Look at how they collected the data and how old the study is. Also, I don't and will never buy into the idea that every industry has to reflect the overall gender/age/racial breakdown of a country, state, city, whatever. Could the game industry use more diversity? Sure, but like any industry it's up to people that want to work in that business to step up and get jobs or create companies that reflect what they want to see in games.
than mypsace. That place is an abortion of epic proportions. The only times I even go there is to check out some band that has sample tunes up on the site. Even that's hit and miss with their crappy and inconsistent streaming and useless player.
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The switch is painless and transparent to the end user and they can do everything and run any piece of software they did before the switch. Same goes for large scale business roll-outs as well as the home desktop.
The road to a minimum wage job is paved with "great ideas".
Original ideas without the means or experience to implement them are not worth much. Give me a solid, experienced team with a solid, but average idea over a dreamer with a great idea and no resources or means to do anything with it any day. People matter way more than ideas.
Good luck. Ideas in the games industry are cheap. I've worked in this business for almost 9 years now and there is no shortage of ideas. Your idea without a team or experience is pretty well worthless. No game company wants external ideas, believe me they have enough of their own. Want to sell the idea? Get a team together, do a proof of concept and try getting funding to do it yourself.
It's still a charity and has to be run by charity rules. No matter how much you dislike Microsoft charities are run by a different set of rules than for profit corporations and can be audited at any time. They must maintain a level of transparency at all times. And what I meant about MS products is that I have no doubt that the Gates Foundation can make a deal with Microsoft that they couldn't make with other vendors.
You are operating under the erroneous assumption (as are a lot of people in this thread) that Gates somehow has total control and that he can spend the Foundation's money wherever he wants to. It's a charitable corporation and has to operate with a certain level of transparency.
From Wikipedia - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (B&MGF) is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates in 2000 and doubled in size by Warren Buffett in 2006. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the United States, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.
And of course they are going to give away Microsoft products. Do you expect them to give away something they don't own?
Stallman only supports diseases whose genetic code is GNU.
Show me a single charitable act done by a large corporation that doesn't take into account the lift it will give to its image.
I really don't care much about open source. I mean it's neat and all, but my motivation for using or buying a product is how well it suits my needs. I am not a coder so it's not like I could contribute in that way anyway. Bottom line is that there is no reason on the earth why closed commercial and open source can't both exist. I've used some OSS in the past and it's worked quite well, but there are still areas where it doesn't come close to the commercial products I've used. I do sound design and haven't come across anything that comes close to the polish and functionality of Sound Forge and Pro Tools, etc. This Stallman guy seems to just have an axe to grind regardless of how reasonable his position is. And to bring in a charity that has done demonstrably good things to the discussion for the purposes of adding some smear is childish at best.
That's strange because I was able to tell right away what the models of the various HDD, video, etc were in the Device Manager. You mustn't have looked all that hard.
Your loss leader examples don't apply here. Apple is not losing money on their laptops and they use the same HDDs and memory as a lot of laptop manufacturers.
You realize that laptop makes including Apple often used the same components right? I mean, there isn't a "special" Apple hard drive or memory or DVD factory out there. As for your experience I think you are exaggerating big time. I've had a Dell for years and it's been solid as have the Dells that I have worked with and the ones my associates own. I know fewer people with failed Macbooks only because I know fewer people with Macbooks, but they do fail as well.
It's news to all the people that have just switched to Mac because of their marketing campaigns.
It doesn't take long to find audiophile scams all over the net. From markers that you are supposed to write on component cases with to lifts that keep the cables off the floor to exotic wood replacement knobs. The sad thing is that just like spammers only a few morons have to fall for these tricks for them to make money.
Right, but what breaks the contact in the first place if the solder doesn't melt? Or does the heat weaken the solder to a breaking point?
Good point. Then how do you think the towel trick works?
The issue was a combination of factors. The mounting for the HS on the GPU was cheap and flimsy. Over time with heating and cooling cycles that the GPU would go through the expansion and contraction fatigued the mounting arms which ceased to apply proper pressure. That lead to inadequate contact with the GPU which caused the temp to rise. This eventually melted the GPU solder between the package and the board to the point where some of the connections were broken. That's why the towel trick works. Apparently it heats the solder to the point that it flows again and will often restore the connection. This eventually fails for the same reason the initial failure happened. So, I am not sure WTF the article is talking about.
Agreed. Trailers can change the tone, can make a comedy look funnier than it is, can even change genre as evidenced by movies marketed as thigh slapping comedies that end up being mostly drama with a few chuckles. Trailers are cool, but meaningless marketing tools.
Exactly. Price wise it's not even in the same ballpark price wise as the DS or even PSP to start. People will buy a few games for their iPhone/Touch, but no one is going to buy one just for games.
Apple pushes into gaming they flop. How many times have they promised new tools and support for game devs and come up far, far short? They have no passion for it and you can tell that comes from the top.
Look at how they collected the data and how old the study is. Also, I don't and will never buy into the idea that every industry has to reflect the overall gender/age/racial breakdown of a country, state, city, whatever. Could the game industry use more diversity? Sure, but like any industry it's up to people that want to work in that business to step up and get jobs or create companies that reflect what they want to see in games.
I have a 2Wire 2700HG-E from Telus. I assume this would have the same vulnerability?
than mypsace. That place is an abortion of epic proportions. The only times I even go there is to check out some band that has sample tunes up on the site. Even that's hit and miss with their crappy and inconsistent streaming and useless player.
I'd say the "dumb" one here would be you. The PS3 and 360 both do HDTV. It may not be as high res as you can go on a PC, but it's still hi def.
I still don't know what you are comparing the 360 to? The PC?