At some point, you have to accept that the movie isn't going to portray every little thing with maddening detail, and that you have to assume some plausible backstory exists that isn't being depicted. Guess what, you rarely see characters going to the bathroom or sleeping either. Rather than calling it a "glaring technical problem," you assume they do it off-screen at some point.
You need to read his words more closely. He said libertarians, not liberals. Libertarians are all about personal and economic freedoms because they believe the free market regulates itself, as in nature.
The "overpriced hardware" troll died a long time ago. The Mac Pro is over $1,000 cheaper than the equivalent Dell, and even the MacBook Pro outdoes the equivalent Dell portable on price.
But please, go on justifying your use of an inferior hardware platform still relying on the 25+ year old BIOS.
Crushing the competition by illegal and immoral means is something they did in the 90s, yes. That's not "evil." Evil is a very loaded term; please stop abusing it. Hitler is evil. Rape is evil. Microsoft is a company too big for its britches. Get some perspective!
I have to tell you, some of your post comes off as anti-business.
Microsoft can be said to be evil as a company, because they play so rough in the marketplace that they have ruined countless companies in their growing process.
Being successful in the marketplace and "ruining" competitors doesn't make one "evil." If I sell better lemonade than the stand down the street and put them out of business through my superior marketing and distribution, that doesn't mean I'm evil. I agree that Microsoft's OEM deals in the 90s were anti-competitive, but that also doesn't make someone evil. Evil is a very subjective, religious term that is grossly misused by Slashdotters.
Microsoft doesn't care about quality, they care about money. They will care about quality (and they're moving in that direction these days) when shoddy products stop making just as much money as good ones.
They do care about quality; their legacy codebase makes it difficult to produce any. Obvious this is something to fault them for, but to claim they only care about money is silly. All companies care about financial returns for their efforts.
And it's also well documented that ice is increasing in areas like Greenland. This is more global warming alarmism that we'll all be laughing at in 2040, just as we laugh at the "global cooling" of the 1970s where scientists actually recommended melting the polar ice caps!
The WSJ already had an article about the "stalling" of online music sales, claiming that it's happening for the first time. They include a chart, where you notice something interesting. The exact same thing happened last year (so it's not the "first time"), and then sales skyrocketed through the holidays as everyone got their nanos and iTunes cards. In fact, I remember the news coverage exactly 12 months ago talking about iTunes sales supposedly flatlining.
This is another article people won't even remember after December and Apple posts their biggest sales figures yet. There are so many iPods out there sitting in wrapped boxes waiting for Dec. 25th...
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What is the big draw of ruby on rails? I really couldn't find any reason why I'd want to use it above PHP
No offense, but I'd be drawn to any alternative just to get off of PHP...
And if you follow Groklaw, you'd laugh at the fact that lead Windows guy Allchin wrote an email to Gates and Ballmer in 2004 explaining that if he didn't work at Microsoft, he'd be using a Mac...
Slashdot also assumes a completely unconfirmed rumor from a site with a low historical accuracy is front page news.
The last thing Apple is afraid of is the abortion of interface design that is Aero and its five different menu styles and embarrassing shut down menu--only Microsoft could spread out "turn off computer" into nine or so redundant menu options.
Or buy an Intel Mac. My iMac boots and gets to the desktop in 12 seconds. Apple developers mentioned that EFI really helps a lot here, which makes Vista's BIOS-only support all the more disappointing.
Well, people are raving about Wii Sports, Rayman, Trauma Center, and Twilight Princess (real people, not a meta-review site). Time Magazine called Sports the greatest game ever made, and everyone who tries it loves it. Even if you just count Sports and Zelda, that's two great titles for the price of one. Again, the Wii has the best launch lineup of the three consoles.
I've always found it ridiculous how Mac users don't like running cross-platform applications under X. X is a standard for windowing on *nix systems, even if it's old and a little broken
It's old and broken, and you find it ridiculous that people don't want to use it? It's jarring to be using a Mac and suddenly come across an application with its menu bar grafted onto the top of its window instead of sitting at the top like every other application on the system and no drag-and-drop or support for other system services. I think it's a little ridiculous to be surprised that people would want to avoid this inconsistency, especially with such a revered system as OS X.
The next version of Pages, according to sources, will introduce two specialized modes for layout and word-processing. Apple apparently plans to adopt Pages for all its internal documentation needs. Apple doesn't need to approach the level of functionality in Office, as the majority of people only use a tenth of what Office offers anyway. If they can make a decent Word alternative for most people, that's good enough.
close but no cigar. I know you want to drive your anti-Xbox point home, but at least get your facts straight.
It's pretty funny that you link to a page showing the free Silver membership without mentioning that you can't play games online with it. You have to pay for the Gold membership to actually do that. Enjoy sending Microsoft $50 a year; the rest of us will play online for free.
Looking at that page also reveals that you have to have a storage device to use Live, which means either buying the expensive Premium 360 or buying a Core and shelling out for the hard drive separately. Again, I believe the Xbox 360 is the poorest deal and the most overpriced of all three consoles.
That's it, folks. Dan Wesnor's lone experience in a Best Buy officially determines who is winning the next-gen war. Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft--may as well pack up your bags and go home. There's no way around the fact Dan saw some people playing Guitar Hero on a demo kiosk. It's all over.
Wow, it's "really great" and has "multiplayer options." That really justifies ripping people off in single player.
I spent a weekend at a friend's house and beat Gears of War by Sunday. Five hours on Saturday and four on Sunday. Is the Xbox 360 nothing but shooter games or what? Sheesh. When Metroid Prime 3 comes out and proves that the Wii's controller is the ultimate way to control first person shooters on a console, 360 gamers will look pretty silly trying to aim with their little joysticks.
The Wii has only 1 excellent game? Have you forgotten Rayman, Wii Sports, Excite Truck, and Trauma Center? Not to mention the Virtual Console? I'd say the Wii has had the best launch lineup compared to the PS3 and 360--a far cry from the launch lineup the Gamecube had.
They can't compete with Microsoft but they can blow Sony out of the water.
Why can't they compete with Microsoft? Microsoft is in a potentially bad position. In 2007, a hardcore gamer with money to spend on a high-end console will eventually go with the Playstation 3 when supplies aren't limited (Sony still has 80% user base of the home console market, last I read). Everyone else will be getting Wiis, along with hardcore gamers wanting a secondary Nintendo system. This puts the 360 in a middleground position where it has to compete for both hardcore and casual markets that the other guys are specializing on. They also have to compete with free online gaming--Sony and Nintendo won't be requiring subscription fees.
How many consoles do you think Nintendo and Sony will be selling next holiday season?
Probably a lot more than the 360 is selling right now. Nintendo and Sony are constrained by supply issues just like the 360 was 12 months ago. Nintendo has previously said they expect to ship up to 4 million worldwide by the end of the year, which is nearly half of what Microsoft has sold in the last 12 months. If people take to the Wii like they took to the DS, then Microsoft needs to worry because the hardcore gamers will be spending their money on the PS3 and maybe Wii on the side, and the mainstream casual gamers will be getting Wiis. Despite everyone's love of hating Sony lately, they still dominate the home console market, and the PS2 is selling more than the 360, while Nintendo owns casual gaming and portables. YAXS (Yet Another XBox Shooter) isn't going to change Microsoft's market position.
You really have to play Wii Sports with another person for the full effect. You can play it solo, but it's just not the same experience (except for perhaps bowling and golfing which fare better as solo games). The Wii is the kind of system grandmas will keep around to pull out for when their grandkids come over. It's something everyone can enjoy, much like the original NES before "hardcore" gamers took over the market and turned everything into sports games, racing games with "Street" or "Underground" in the titles, and first-person shooters.
It's pretty disingenuous of you to not mention that you're referring to the Core configuration, which has no wireless capability or hard drive.
If you buy a Core system for $300 and actually want to save your game or have XBox 1 compatibility, that's an additional $100 for the hard drive add-on, putting you up to $400 (Microsoft really wants you to get a hard drive). Along with a game, that's $450, and at that high of a price, you may as well just shell out for the Premium configuration at a whopping $400, which is $450 if you include a game.
And after all that, you still have to pay Microsoft money every month just to be able to play online. Microsoft currently has no plans to make Xbox Live free, while Sony and Nintendo will offer it totally free.
Of the three consoles, I actually consider the Xbox 360 the most overpriced. Nintendo can justify their price with the built-in WiFi, 512MB flash storage, and remote control, while Sony can cite Blu-Ray and the Cell in contributing to the cost of the PS3. I really think the 360 will be in trouble in the next two years when Sony sorts out its supply issues and everyone else picks up the Wii as a cheap primary or secondary console.
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At some point, you have to accept that the movie isn't going to portray every little thing with maddening detail, and that you have to assume some plausible backstory exists that isn't being depicted. Guess what, you rarely see characters going to the bathroom or sleeping either. Rather than calling it a "glaring technical problem," you assume they do it off-screen at some point.
Ah, the NVidia method of display optimization.
You need to read his words more closely. He said libertarians, not liberals. Libertarians are all about personal and economic freedoms because they believe the free market regulates itself, as in nature.
The "overpriced hardware" troll died a long time ago. The Mac Pro is over $1,000 cheaper than the equivalent Dell, and even the MacBook Pro outdoes the equivalent Dell portable on price.
But please, go on justifying your use of an inferior hardware platform still relying on the 25+ year old BIOS.
Crushing the competition by illegal and immoral means is something they did in the 90s, yes. That's not "evil." Evil is a very loaded term; please stop abusing it. Hitler is evil. Rape is evil. Microsoft is a company too big for its britches. Get some perspective!
Being successful in the marketplace and "ruining" competitors doesn't make one "evil." If I sell better lemonade than the stand down the street and put them out of business through my superior marketing and distribution, that doesn't mean I'm evil. I agree that Microsoft's OEM deals in the 90s were anti-competitive, but that also doesn't make someone evil. Evil is a very subjective, religious term that is grossly misused by Slashdotters.
They do care about quality; their legacy codebase makes it difficult to produce any. Obvious this is something to fault them for, but to claim they only care about money is silly. All companies care about financial returns for their efforts.
And it's also well documented that ice is increasing in areas like Greenland. This is more global warming alarmism that we'll all be laughing at in 2040, just as we laugh at the "global cooling" of the 1970s where scientists actually recommended melting the polar ice caps!
The WSJ already had an article about the "stalling" of online music sales, claiming that it's happening for the first time. They include a chart, where you notice something interesting. The exact same thing happened last year (so it's not the "first time"), and then sales skyrocketed through the holidays as everyone got their nanos and iTunes cards. In fact, I remember the news coverage exactly 12 months ago talking about iTunes sales supposedly flatlining.
This is another article people won't even remember after December and Apple posts their biggest sales figures yet. There are so many iPods out there sitting in wrapped boxes waiting for Dec. 25th...
No offense, but I'd be drawn to any alternative just to get off of PHP...
And if you follow Groklaw, you'd laugh at the fact that lead Windows guy Allchin wrote an email to Gates and Ballmer in 2004 explaining that if he didn't work at Microsoft, he'd be using a Mac...
Slashdot also assumes a completely unconfirmed rumor from a site with a low historical accuracy is front page news.
The last thing Apple is afraid of is the abortion of interface design that is Aero and its five different menu styles and embarrassing shut down menu--only Microsoft could spread out "turn off computer" into nine or so redundant menu options.
Or buy an Intel Mac. My iMac boots and gets to the desktop in 12 seconds. Apple developers mentioned that EFI really helps a lot here, which makes Vista's BIOS-only support all the more disappointing.
Well, people are raving about Wii Sports, Rayman, Trauma Center, and Twilight Princess (real people, not a meta-review site). Time Magazine called Sports the greatest game ever made, and everyone who tries it loves it. Even if you just count Sports and Zelda, that's two great titles for the price of one. Again, the Wii has the best launch lineup of the three consoles.
The mod system is totally broken, and we've been promised a new version for years now. I officially declare vaporware.
It's old and broken, and you find it ridiculous that people don't want to use it? It's jarring to be using a Mac and suddenly come across an application with its menu bar grafted onto the top of its window instead of sitting at the top like every other application on the system and no drag-and-drop or support for other system services. I think it's a little ridiculous to be surprised that people would want to avoid this inconsistency, especially with such a revered system as OS X.
The next version of Pages, according to sources, will introduce two specialized modes for layout and word-processing. Apple apparently plans to adopt Pages for all its internal documentation needs. Apple doesn't need to approach the level of functionality in Office, as the majority of people only use a tenth of what Office offers anyway. If they can make a decent Word alternative for most people, that's good enough.
It's pretty funny that you link to a page showing the free Silver membership without mentioning that you can't play games online with it. You have to pay for the Gold membership to actually do that. Enjoy sending Microsoft $50 a year; the rest of us will play online for free.
Looking at that page also reveals that you have to have a storage device to use Live, which means either buying the expensive Premium 360 or buying a Core and shelling out for the hard drive separately. Again, I believe the Xbox 360 is the poorest deal and the most overpriced of all three consoles.
That's it, folks. Dan Wesnor's lone experience in a Best Buy officially determines who is winning the next-gen war. Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft--may as well pack up your bags and go home. There's no way around the fact Dan saw some people playing Guitar Hero on a demo kiosk. It's all over.
Wow, it's "really great" and has "multiplayer options." That really justifies ripping people off in single player.
I spent a weekend at a friend's house and beat Gears of War by Sunday. Five hours on Saturday and four on Sunday. Is the Xbox 360 nothing but shooter games or what? Sheesh. When Metroid Prime 3 comes out and proves that the Wii's controller is the ultimate way to control first person shooters on a console, 360 gamers will look pretty silly trying to aim with their little joysticks.
The Wii has only 1 excellent game? Have you forgotten Rayman, Wii Sports, Excite Truck, and Trauma Center? Not to mention the Virtual Console? I'd say the Wii has had the best launch lineup compared to the PS3 and 360--a far cry from the launch lineup the Gamecube had.
Why can't they compete with Microsoft? Microsoft is in a potentially bad position. In 2007, a hardcore gamer with money to spend on a high-end console will eventually go with the Playstation 3 when supplies aren't limited (Sony still has 80% user base of the home console market, last I read). Everyone else will be getting Wiis, along with hardcore gamers wanting a secondary Nintendo system. This puts the 360 in a middleground position where it has to compete for both hardcore and casual markets that the other guys are specializing on. They also have to compete with free online gaming--Sony and Nintendo won't be requiring subscription fees.
Probably a lot more than the 360 is selling right now. Nintendo and Sony are constrained by supply issues just like the 360 was 12 months ago. Nintendo has previously said they expect to ship up to 4 million worldwide by the end of the year, which is nearly half of what Microsoft has sold in the last 12 months. If people take to the Wii like they took to the DS, then Microsoft needs to worry because the hardcore gamers will be spending their money on the PS3 and maybe Wii on the side, and the mainstream casual gamers will be getting Wiis. Despite everyone's love of hating Sony lately, they still dominate the home console market, and the PS2 is selling more than the 360, while Nintendo owns casual gaming and portables. YAXS (Yet Another XBox Shooter) isn't going to change Microsoft's market position.
The Gamecube remained profitable because of Nintendo's first-party titles. Sony doesn't make first-party PSP games.
You really have to play Wii Sports with another person for the full effect. You can play it solo, but it's just not the same experience (except for perhaps bowling and golfing which fare better as solo games). The Wii is the kind of system grandmas will keep around to pull out for when their grandkids come over. It's something everyone can enjoy, much like the original NES before "hardcore" gamers took over the market and turned everything into sports games, racing games with "Street" or "Underground" in the titles, and first-person shooters.
It's pretty disingenuous of you to not mention that you're referring to the Core configuration, which has no wireless capability or hard drive.
If you buy a Core system for $300 and actually want to save your game or have XBox 1 compatibility, that's an additional $100 for the hard drive add-on, putting you up to $400 (Microsoft really wants you to get a hard drive). Along with a game, that's $450, and at that high of a price, you may as well just shell out for the Premium configuration at a whopping $400, which is $450 if you include a game.
And after all that, you still have to pay Microsoft money every month just to be able to play online. Microsoft currently has no plans to make Xbox Live free, while Sony and Nintendo will offer it totally free.
Of the three consoles, I actually consider the Xbox 360 the most overpriced. Nintendo can justify their price with the built-in WiFi, 512MB flash storage, and remote control, while Sony can cite Blu-Ray and the Cell in contributing to the cost of the PS3. I really think the 360 will be in trouble in the next two years when Sony sorts out its supply issues and everyone else picks up the Wii as a cheap primary or secondary console.