Maybe you've never researched the iPhone, but one of the big things about it is that it has a full version of the Safari web browser\. AJAX apps like Google Maps already run just fine.
Safari (or WebKit, rather) isn't stripped down, semi-standards, or an unforgivable browser. It was the first browser to pass the ACID test and supports more of CSS3 and other standards than anyone else.
You must be thinking of "Windows Internet Explorer 7."
So because AMD is releasing a 3Ghz Operton, suddenly the "Gigahertz Race" is magically back on? Is this some AMD guy trying to win support after the last article talked about their massive operating losses?
You don't know that's true. Intel would raise prices as far as it wouldn't decrease sales. If they rose prices too high, a competitor could undercut them. If they did anything illegal, the government would go after them. It's not my job to worry what someone might do in some hypothetical situation just because AMD is floundering around right now.
Why do I always get the impression stuff like this is said by those with an allegiance to AMD? It's not my concern as a "sane customer" whether or not AMD survives. My role as a consumer is to buy what I want--the best-performing chip for its price. That's currently coming from Intel. It's not my concern whether some other company isn't doing as well.
Apparently, Microsoft isn't aware of the full-featured web browser that will allow the use of online office applications. You know the stuff Microsoft has been talking up lately. It's odd that they've apparently forgotten the web revolution, given that they've been talking about how into it they are now. Guess it was more bullshit from Redmond.
1.) The high price. $400 is still way too much for a console. 2.) The lack of variety in the games. It's all first-person shooters. 3.) Its complete lack of presence in Japan. With Sony's failure, that leaves all of Japan, and all of Japan's developers, to Nintendo.
Since its November launch, the Wii has already sold over half the amount the 360 did in a year. At some point this year, the Wii is going to surpass the 360's total sales, and it will be another embarrassing mark for Microsoft's money-losing Xbox division. The ultra-expensive "XBox 360 Elite" isn't going to help matters any. It's like Microsoft is obsessed with catering to the smallest, most hardcore target market as possible while Nintendo gets to target everyone else.
No, the real kicker is that you guys are defending a kid who broke the law, just so you can scapegoat the RIAA and make yourselves feel better about pirating music from hard-working artists. "The RIAA made me do it!"
1.) Some kid broke the law and ripped off an artist. 2.) The RIAA, well within its right to defend itself from theft, took legal action (just like Slashdot said they should seven years ago during the Napster lawsuit..."go after individual infringers!" you all said). 3.) This kid was deposed like anyone who broke the law might be. 4.) Pro-piracy propaganda gets posted to Slashdot about how he's being "Deposed On School Day."
You see, the RIAA scapegoating is done on purpose so that pirates don't feel bad pirating music. If they can remove the artist from the equation and make themselves feel like they're fighting a bad guy, they feel less guilty and ashamed for FUCKING OVER artists and their rights. It will never change the truth that they're just making sure human beings don't get paid for their work, but it's not like pro-piracy arguments have ever made sense or been based on any kind of truth.
I've never had a problem with documentation. Are you saying the only reason you discounted PostgreSQL as a superior database was the documentation, despite the fact that for years, MySQL would happily drop data without telling you?
I don't even know one Vista user here in the States. This OS has been a real flop for Microsoft. Notice they don't give stats for actual activated copies of Vista or customer sales--they only give the numbers of OEM licenses sold. They did the same with XP to inflate the numbers.
It's easy for nostalgia to cloud our thinking. Ultima underworld was interesting and fun, but it pales to games liek oblivion which basically take the same idea and run with it.
I was with you until this part. Ultima Underworld pales next to Oblivion? Oblivion is one of the most retarded, "streamlined" RPGs ever made. It's an example of the modern-day, marketing-driven tech demos that this article is criticizing. Go play Daggerfall from 10 years ago and remember that it came from the same company!
If this was Apple, we would get a bunch of people bitching about Apple's secrecy, like we always do. Kudos on the "I'm pointing out Slashdot double standards, mod me up!" karma whore routine, though. It's a worthy classic.
And you're wrong, there will be plenty of Microsoft shills defending Microsoft.
Bill O'Rielly and Coulter both make far more outrageous remarks but they get a pass because the establishment does not take them seriously.
When has O'Reilly called a black person a nappy-headed ho? I actually dig O'Reilly because he doesn't let politicians dodge a question like all the other talking heads do.
What I find really funny is that Democrats and other liberals were forced to speak out against Imus, who is normally a welcome venue for them. But I noticed that nobody called out Jesse Jackson for his hypocrisy when he has made anti-semitic remarks. The only person who did was Meredith Vieria, and she actually APOLOGIZED for bringing it up. She would never apologize to a conservative hypocrite. Oi.
Windows fans everywhere, admiring the pretty Macs in the window: "If only our biggest complaint was having to wait two and a half years instead of just two years for a new OS release."
That was my initial reaction, but then I remembered that awesome keynote and was reminded of how damn useful the iPhone would be to me. Let's face it, the iPhone will be the hot device of 2007 along with the Wii, and it will sell millions more than Leopard will.
Steve Jobs will be demoing a "feature complete" Leapard at WWDC, so we'll know what we're getting and finally get to see the "top secret features." Already, the new dev build that was released today has abolished all brushed metal--every app looks like iTunes 7, even Mail. I don't mind a few months of polish to get everything right. Lord knows Vista could have used it.
And before the Windows trolls come out of the woodwork to defend the flop that is Vista, a four month delay is a major difference from a four year delay. And Apple is actually releasing successful products in the meantime.:) The iPhone is going to dominate this summer, so may as well give Leopard the fall.
(Typical wingerdom on display here folks... draw a flawed analogy to something "the democrats" did, add a pithy response, and voila! Sleazy republicans, absolved of guilt. Don't buy into it.)
Yes, it's flawed wingerdom to point out the hypocrisy of Democrats. Why, it was totally cool when Clinton covered up all the shit he did, pardoned friends of his who contributed to the Library, etc. When there's a Republican sending salacious messages to a paige, Democrats were right to use that against ALL Republicans only to hold a memorial for Gary Studds, an openly gay Democrat who ACTUALLY DID sleep with an underage paige. And it's totally awesome when the media doesn't call them on the double standard!
Fuck it, let's just hate Bush all the time and accuse everyone of being "wingers" when they point out the hypocrisy. After all, covering up documents when your administration is being investigated by the 9/11 commission is totally acceptable, but firing a bunch of lawyers is not--EVEN THOUGH CLINTON DID THE SAME DAMN THING IN THE EARLY 90s.
I still design pages using HTML 3.2 standard. Life was happy when pages were small and simple.
Congratulations, you stick to old, broken HTML that takes more bandwidth to do the same thing newer, more optimal versions can. Should clients be forced to suffer through Javascript libraries for form validation, or do you want to be able to just specify it in a tag and let the browser take care of it? Computers are for doing the hard work for you, right?
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Maybe you've never researched the iPhone, but one of the big things about it is that it has a full version of the Safari web browser\. AJAX apps like Google Maps already run just fine.
Safari (or WebKit, rather) isn't stripped down, semi-standards, or an unforgivable browser. It was the first browser to pass the ACID test and supports more of CSS3 and other standards than anyone else.
You must be thinking of "Windows Internet Explorer 7."
So because AMD is releasing a 3Ghz Operton, suddenly the "Gigahertz Race" is magically back on? Is this some AMD guy trying to win support after the last article talked about their massive operating losses?
You don't know that's true. Intel would raise prices as far as it wouldn't decrease sales. If they rose prices too high, a competitor could undercut them. If they did anything illegal, the government would go after them. It's not my job to worry what someone might do in some hypothetical situation just because AMD is floundering around right now.
Why do I always get the impression stuff like this is said by those with an allegiance to AMD? It's not my concern as a "sane customer" whether or not AMD survives. My role as a consumer is to buy what I want--the best-performing chip for its price. That's currently coming from Intel. It's not my concern whether some other company isn't doing as well.
If Intel is making good processors at an affordable price, why would I not want that? Monopolies aren't inherently bad.
Apparently, Microsoft isn't aware of the full-featured web browser that will allow the use of online office applications. You know the stuff Microsoft has been talking up lately. It's odd that they've apparently forgotten the web revolution, given that they've been talking about how into it they are now. Guess it was more bullshit from Redmond.
1.) The high price. $400 is still way too much for a console.
2.) The lack of variety in the games. It's all first-person shooters.
3.) Its complete lack of presence in Japan. With Sony's failure, that leaves all of Japan, and all of Japan's developers, to Nintendo.
Since its November launch, the Wii has already sold over half the amount the 360 did in a year. At some point this year, the Wii is going to surpass the 360's total sales, and it will be another embarrassing mark for Microsoft's money-losing Xbox division. The ultra-expensive "XBox 360 Elite" isn't going to help matters any. It's like Microsoft is obsessed with catering to the smallest, most hardcore target market as possible while Nintendo gets to target everyone else.
No, the real kicker is that you guys are defending a kid who broke the law, just so you can scapegoat the RIAA and make yourselves feel better about pirating music from hard-working artists. "The RIAA made me do it!"
Here is what happened:
1.) Some kid broke the law and ripped off an artist.
2.) The RIAA, well within its right to defend itself from theft, took legal action (just like Slashdot said they should seven years ago during the Napster lawsuit..."go after individual infringers!" you all said).
3.) This kid was deposed like anyone who broke the law might be.
4.) Pro-piracy propaganda gets posted to Slashdot about how he's being "Deposed On School Day."
You see, the RIAA scapegoating is done on purpose so that pirates don't feel bad pirating music. If they can remove the artist from the equation and make themselves feel like they're fighting a bad guy, they feel less guilty and ashamed for FUCKING OVER artists and their rights. It will never change the truth that they're just making sure human beings don't get paid for their work, but it's not like pro-piracy arguments have ever made sense or been based on any kind of truth.
I've never had a problem with documentation. Are you saying the only reason you discounted PostgreSQL as a superior database was the documentation, despite the fact that for years, MySQL would happily drop data without telling you?
Windows 2000 forever!
I thought Intel had the lead on consumer-priced 64-bit chips with the Core 2.
I don't even know one Vista user here in the States. This OS has been a real flop for Microsoft. Notice they don't give stats for actual activated copies of Vista or customer sales--they only give the numbers of OEM licenses sold. They did the same with XP to inflate the numbers.
I was with you until this part. Ultima Underworld pales next to Oblivion? Oblivion is one of the most retarded, "streamlined" RPGs ever made. It's an example of the modern-day, marketing-driven tech demos that this article is criticizing. Go play Daggerfall from 10 years ago and remember that it came from the same company!
If this was Apple, we would get a bunch of people bitching about Apple's secrecy, like we always do. Kudos on the "I'm pointing out Slashdot double standards, mod me up!" karma whore routine, though. It's a worthy classic.
And you're wrong, there will be plenty of Microsoft shills defending Microsoft.
When has O'Reilly called a black person a nappy-headed ho? I actually dig O'Reilly because he doesn't let politicians dodge a question like all the other talking heads do.
What I find really funny is that Democrats and other liberals were forced to speak out against Imus, who is normally a welcome venue for them. But I noticed that nobody called out Jesse Jackson for his hypocrisy when he has made anti-semitic remarks. The only person who did was Meredith Vieria, and she actually APOLOGIZED for bringing it up. She would never apologize to a conservative hypocrite. Oi.
Time for the wakeup call--most consumers don't give a shit about HD and don't even have HDTVs. They probably don't know what "HD" is.
Windows fans everywhere, admiring the pretty Macs in the window: "If only our biggest complaint was having to wait two and a half years instead of just two years for a new OS release."
Grandparent post gets +5, I get -1 for dissenting?
Rush Limbaugh was right today--liberals don't believe in debate.
That was my initial reaction, but then I remembered that awesome keynote and was reminded of how damn useful the iPhone would be to me. Let's face it, the iPhone will be the hot device of 2007 along with the Wii, and it will sell millions more than Leopard will.
:) The iPhone is going to dominate this summer, so may as well give Leopard the fall.
Steve Jobs will be demoing a "feature complete" Leapard at WWDC, so we'll know what we're getting and finally get to see the "top secret features." Already, the new dev build that was released today has abolished all brushed metal--every app looks like iTunes 7, even Mail. I don't mind a few months of polish to get everything right. Lord knows Vista could have used it.
And before the Windows trolls come out of the woodwork to defend the flop that is Vista, a four month delay is a major difference from a four year delay. And Apple is actually releasing successful products in the meantime.
Yes, it's flawed wingerdom to point out the hypocrisy of Democrats. Why, it was totally cool when Clinton covered up all the shit he did, pardoned friends of his who contributed to the Library, etc. When there's a Republican sending salacious messages to a paige, Democrats were right to use that against ALL Republicans only to hold a memorial for Gary Studds, an openly gay Democrat who ACTUALLY DID sleep with an underage paige. And it's totally awesome when the media doesn't call them on the double standard!
Fuck it, let's just hate Bush all the time and accuse everyone of being "wingers" when they point out the hypocrisy. After all, covering up documents when your administration is being investigated by the 9/11 commission is totally acceptable, but firing a bunch of lawyers is not--EVEN THOUGH CLINTON DID THE SAME DAMN THING IN THE EARLY 90s.
Congratulations, you stick to old, broken HTML that takes more bandwidth to do the same thing newer, more optimal versions can. Should clients be forced to suffer through Javascript libraries for form validation, or do you want to be able to just specify it in a tag and let the browser take care of it? Computers are for doing the hard work for you, right?
It's interesting that I was marked Overrated and you weren't. I love biased mods.
No, you don't get it, this will be an IPOD NANO KILLER! After years of iPod Killers, this will be the one! And Vista is NOT a flop, damn you!