No, I don't watch the E Show and I've only listened since Feb. or so. If Courtney Love was on during that time I may have tuned out her insane babbling.
Do you know what date that was, or do you have an quotes?
He goes on the radio; makes the kinds of jokes that he likes (I have no evidence to believe otherwise), and that evidently most people in his markets like; talks about his life, famous people, and the news. What about that is schtick?
What does he say to only get attention? Can you give some examples? What, he says he hates Blacks? Hmm, no. He says Republicans should be shot? Hmm, no. What controversial airtime filling is he doing?
Also, consider how deflated he feels doing a show where he can't be creative due to FCC censorship (right or wrong). It'll be interesting what the show is like come 2006.
Regardless, he's entertaining to listen to, and there is nothing these millions of people have to work out. Rather than telling millions of people they're wrong, you could just consider that they have a different opinion, and a different idea of funny (which is hardly jock-shocking--it's the stuff guys talk about between classes and when hanging out).
It takes under 3 seconds to start, and 50MB of RAM. And that's on my old 1.2Ghz TBird, where the RAM happens not to be a problem (who doesn't have 512MB nowadays--though, even 256MB should be good).
Sure, you may have been hyperbolizing, but let it be known that the latest OOo is not a monster.
Tiger is supposed to be out in Q1 2005 I think. I've been talking to some friends who have the beta about its features (I don't use any Apple products) and it looks like it'll have some nice filesystem features.
There is custom metadata, although currently you can't add any of your own via the Finder -- other applications add the metadata and the Finder can show them. There is Spotlight, which is very accessible and searches through the metadata, file contents (I think, depending on the file), and file attributes quickly. And the coolest thing I've heard of is Smart Folders, which I believe can make a folder that contains a dynamic list of files based on some criteria (eg. all files in the system that are a certain size, or all files ending in.rom, or all files containing metadata "Author: Jack").
Hopefully Linux will implement metadata (I've never heard of linux metadata but I suppose it could exist) and something like Smart Folders.
It looks to me like the XBox has the best multiplayer support of any console system, and a lot of very good games. The hardware is only a part of a console product.
Aren't people missing the intentions of the XGameStation? From reading the XGameStation forums a while ago, and looking at the current About page, I got the impression that the point was to learn about both software AND hardware. Buying a $200 XBox isn't going to teach you a lot about its hardware, and about console design in general.
I wonder though if there are cheaper ways to learn about console design. And once you have any basic console you can learn a tonne about the programming.
Well, to try and contradict you a little... try and play Zelda: The Wind Waker and battle the swordsman on the first island (I've forgotten all the names). I just had to hit him 500 times without taking 3 hits from him. It's actually really easy--no anticipation, no adreneline, no leaning forward (laying on a bed), very little dodging--but it takes forever and a tonne of button presses. In the last 100 hits my hand was starting to hurt. The problem isn't that I had played all day (which I had), but rather that combat involves more buttons and this is one of the longest battles in the game.
The main problem is sweat on the controller and how tight you have to grip it during combat.. plus it's a little unnatural to have your index fingers so far away from the rest of the fingers I suppose.
Granted, maybe it's poorly designed compared to the XBox controller... I dunno. The button layout might be better on the 3D keyboard too.
You should call MSN Tech Support up then. I think the number is 1800-386-5550.
There are only so many things a tech can do, since they follow instructions from a big database, have a few tools, have floor leads and Level 2 support. However, it'll save you the trouble of e-mailing them back and forth, and if you stay on the line (they aren't allowed to hang up on you) you can insure some sort of resolution or confirm a problem really exists, rather than having them pass you off with some excuse to keep their talk time low. Keep in mind that the first level of tech support has very limited e-mail access, but the level above can do significantly more.
There used to be a flag associated with MSN e-mail accounts to give POP3 access. A tech could check it for you. It could be something else the other ppl didn't know aobut (I saw this a lot, especially from new techs. A second opinion would be good)... you might just be out of luck though.
I don't know much about cars, but I think that in the car market, parts like the BMWs use to build their features are much more expensive than the parts the Hyundais would use, whereas in the computer market the parts in the Macs aren't significantly more expensive than the ones the PCs use.
Like I said, no I don't have proof. I had skimmed an article earlier in the day about how Apple lost profit in the recent past from bad pricing, but I didn't forsee such a discussion and cleared my history at some point. I agree, it would be wierd for them not to maximize profits, but I suspect Apple has a bit of an ego problem, and Jobs too doesn't help that.
I think one of my points remains however that marketshare is linked to profitability.
Say Apple, in this example, makes one computer that costs $800 to make. If they sell it for $2000 and 1,000,000 people buy it, they make a profit 1.2 billion dollars. If they instead sell it for $1500, and 3,000,000 people buy it, then they'll make a profit of 2.1 billion dollars.
In the latter example Apple is making a bigger profit, AND has larger market share (which I imagine has its advantages too).
So I can't really understand Jobs when he said that. Macs aren't BMWs, they're tools for sending email and browsing the web (to a lot of people). That's not different than the nicely-priced PC. It doesn't seem at all that they are tagetting a different market... so wtf? Though I have no proof, I would wager that Apple could make bigger profits if they priced the computers better and put them into more stores. But I can't think of a reason why Apple wouldn't want more profits.. except to maintain some elitism.
Obviously Apple isn't dying, but maybe they aren't growing and profiting as much as they could be.
Yeah, they are quite connected, and I don't know exactly how or to what extent. But as you know you could type a filename or internet address into either and they'd load.
I did notice Windows Explorer after I saw AC.. I checked it in the file properties. But nitpicking a nitpicker...! Umm. *I* wasn't writing a blurb so I'm absolved.:)
I guess Windows Explorer was the original program, and what with 8.3 it was called explorer.exe. Then when IE came out, they couldn't use explorer.exe, and iexplore.exe is a full 8.3 again.
Hey, I'd work on a free textbook too if I had the knowledge. And I will, eventually.
Yeah, the Wikipedia is doing great. But go and look at the Wikibooks done so far. Very few are completed, and the ones in progress don't look very useful yet. I sampled Japanese and Biology: Japanese was lacking any lesson plan and everything but basic content, and Biology looked more like somebody's notes. They are only good as references.
And that's why I think competition will only be bad right now: there are apparantly too few people working on the Wikibooks.
Competition might be good when all project involved have a lot of people (or money) behind them, but I think these free book projects are lacking volunteers.
The seller is listed as living in Hong Kong, says so himself, and from "Member since: Mar-17-00" (Source) I would suspect he's been there for a while. His eBay name is "lingjr", which is probably stands for Ling Junior. That's not a Japanese name. Lastly, the romanization of Dreamcast is "", or if that doesn't render, "doriimukyasuto" (Source).
I'm not trying to be a dick. I just think he isn't Japanese.
But does lexical access mean the dog can understand language? All that Pullum is saying is that the dog isn't understanding language*, and so the phrase is misused in the article. I didn't think he was being harsh at all.
Oops, I realize now that the Slashdot-linked article isn't the same one that Geoffrey is annoyed about. To clarify what I mean, the bullshit is the idea that dogs can understand language.
This is bullshit, according to Geoffrey Pullum, professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Screw paraphrasing: "The trained object-fetching behavior of Rico, the border collie that this German research is talking about, has nothing at all to do with understanding language. The behavior is comparable to what you would have shown if you demonstrated that you had trained your goldfish to swim to a given object in its tank when you showed it a card with a given letter of the Greek alphabet. By all means attempt that too, if you think it would be interesting science. But don't bring it to me for my approval under a headline saying Research Shows Goldfish Can Read Greek, that's all! Unless you actually enjoy seeing the veins standing out in my neck as I hurl some more defenseless chairs and coffee tables and goldfish tanks around the room."
His post is available here. And for those geeks interested in language, check out the Language Log.
The Natural Voices take over 400 megs of hard drive space (it seems to vary with which version you get). And while the actual voice sounds Ok, the intonation is still unrealistic.
Of course, a Far Cry install is a couple of gigabytes...
Chess is more logarithmic than the MMORPG situation which is more linear. That is, it'll take a while to be competetive at chess, but then to get a little better will require much more work. But in the MMORPGs, it could be impossible to catch up to the higher players - even with exponential experience requirements - because in my experience (granted i was never very competetive) a level 41 could always defeat a level 40.
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No, I don't watch the E Show and I've only listened since Feb. or so. If Courtney Love was on during that time I may have tuned out her insane babbling.
Do you know what date that was, or do you have an quotes?
Wow, I wonder if you have really ever listened.
He goes on the radio; makes the kinds of jokes that he likes (I have no evidence to believe otherwise), and that evidently most people in his markets like; talks about his life, famous people, and the news. What about that is schtick?
What does he say to only get attention? Can you give some examples? What, he says he hates Blacks? Hmm, no. He says Republicans should be shot? Hmm, no. What controversial airtime filling is he doing?
Also, consider how deflated he feels doing a show where he can't be creative due to FCC censorship (right or wrong). It'll be interesting what the show is like come 2006.
Regardless, he's entertaining to listen to, and there is nothing these millions of people have to work out. Rather than telling millions of people they're wrong, you could just consider that they have a different opinion, and a different idea of funny (which is hardly jock-shocking--it's the stuff guys talk about between classes and when hanging out).
More than 128MB of RAM and a coffee break?!
It takes under 3 seconds to start, and 50MB of RAM. And that's on my old 1.2Ghz TBird, where the RAM happens not to be a problem (who doesn't have 512MB nowadays--though, even 256MB should be good).
Sure, you may have been hyperbolizing, but let it be known that the latest OOo is not a monster.
Tiger is supposed to be out in Q1 2005 I think. I've been talking to some friends who have the beta about its features (I don't use any Apple products) and it looks like it'll have some nice filesystem features.
.rom, or all files containing metadata "Author: Jack").
There is custom metadata, although currently you can't add any of your own via the Finder -- other applications add the metadata and the Finder can show them. There is Spotlight, which is very accessible and searches through the metadata, file contents (I think, depending on the file), and file attributes quickly. And the coolest thing I've heard of is Smart Folders, which I believe can make a folder that contains a dynamic list of files based on some criteria (eg. all files in the system that are a certain size, or all files ending in
Hopefully Linux will implement metadata (I've never heard of linux metadata but I suppose it could exist) and something like Smart Folders.
Would you be surprised to learn that even Zero-Point Energy schemes get investors?
It looks to me like the XBox has the best multiplayer support of any console system, and a lot of very good games. The hardware is only a part of a console product.
Aren't people missing the intentions of the XGameStation? From reading the XGameStation forums a while ago, and looking at the current About page, I got the impression that the point was to learn about both software AND hardware. Buying a $200 XBox isn't going to teach you a lot about its hardware, and about console design in general.
I wonder though if there are cheaper ways to learn about console design. And once you have any basic console you can learn a tonne about the programming.
Well, to try and contradict you a little... try and play Zelda: The Wind Waker and battle the swordsman on the first island (I've forgotten all the names). I just had to hit him 500 times without taking 3 hits from him. It's actually really easy--no anticipation, no adreneline, no leaning forward (laying on a bed), very little dodging--but it takes forever and a tonne of button presses. In the last 100 hits my hand was starting to hurt. The problem isn't that I had played all day (which I had), but rather that combat involves more buttons and this is one of the longest battles in the game.
The main problem is sweat on the controller and how tight you have to grip it during combat.. plus it's a little unnatural to have your index fingers so far away from the rest of the fingers I suppose.
Granted, maybe it's poorly designed compared to the XBox controller... I dunno. The button layout might be better on the 3D keyboard too.
You should call MSN Tech Support up then. I think the number is 1800-386-5550.
/me was briefly an MSN tech
There are only so many things a tech can do, since they follow instructions from a big database, have a few tools, have floor leads and Level 2 support. However, it'll save you the trouble of e-mailing them back and forth, and if you stay on the line (they aren't allowed to hang up on you) you can insure some sort of resolution or confirm a problem really exists, rather than having them pass you off with some excuse to keep their talk time low. Keep in mind that the first level of tech support has very limited e-mail access, but the level above can do significantly more.
There used to be a flag associated with MSN e-mail accounts to give POP3 access. A tech could check it for you. It could be something else the other ppl didn't know aobut (I saw this a lot, especially from new techs. A second opinion would be good)... you might just be out of luck though.
I don't know much about cars, but I think that in the car market, parts like the BMWs use to build their features are much more expensive than the parts the Hyundais would use, whereas in the computer market the parts in the Macs aren't significantly more expensive than the ones the PCs use.
Like I said, no I don't have proof. I had skimmed an article earlier in the day about how Apple lost profit in the recent past from bad pricing, but I didn't forsee such a discussion and cleared my history at some point. I agree, it would be wierd for them not to maximize profits, but I suspect Apple has a bit of an ego problem, and Jobs too doesn't help that.
I think one of my points remains however that marketshare is linked to profitability.
Say Apple, in this example, makes one computer that costs $800 to make. If they sell it for $2000 and 1,000,000 people buy it, they make a profit 1.2 billion dollars. If they instead sell it for $1500, and 3,000,000 people buy it, then they'll make a profit of 2.1 billion dollars.
In the latter example Apple is making a bigger profit, AND has larger market share (which I imagine has its advantages too).
So I can't really understand Jobs when he said that. Macs aren't BMWs, they're tools for sending email and browsing the web (to a lot of people). That's not different than the nicely-priced PC. It doesn't seem at all that they are tagetting a different market... so wtf? Though I have no proof, I would wager that Apple could make bigger profits if they priced the computers better and put them into more stores. But I can't think of a reason why Apple wouldn't want more profits.. except to maintain some elitism.
Obviously Apple isn't dying, but maybe they aren't growing and profiting as much as they could be.
Yeah, they are quite connected, and I don't know exactly how or to what extent. But as you know you could type a filename or internet address into either and they'd load.
:)
I did notice Windows Explorer after I saw AC.. I checked it in the file properties. But nitpicking a nitpicker...! Umm. *I* wasn't writing a blurb so I'm absolved.
I guess Windows Explorer was the original program, and what with 8.3 it was called explorer.exe. Then when IE came out, they couldn't use explorer.exe, and iexplore.exe is a full 8.3 again.
It should have read "Internet Explorer", not "Explorer", on the blurb for this article.
Explorer is another component in Windows.
Hey, I'd work on a free textbook too if I had the knowledge. And I will, eventually.
Yeah, the Wikipedia is doing great. But go and look at the Wikibooks done so far. Very few are completed, and the ones in progress don't look very useful yet. I sampled Japanese and Biology: Japanese was lacking any lesson plan and everything but basic content, and Biology looked more like somebody's notes. They are only good as references.
And that's why I think competition will only be bad right now: there are apparantly too few people working on the Wikibooks.
Competition might be good when all project involved have a lot of people (or money) behind them, but I think these free book projects are lacking volunteers.
The seller is listed as living in Hong Kong, says so himself, and from "Member since: Mar-17-00" (Source) I would suspect he's been there for a while. His eBay name is "lingjr", which is probably stands for Ling Junior. That's not a Japanese name. Lastly, the romanization of Dreamcast is "", or if that doesn't render, "doriimukyasuto" (Source).
I'm not trying to be a dick. I just think he isn't Japanese.
But does lexical access mean the dog can understand language? All that Pullum is saying is that the dog isn't understanding language*, and so the phrase is misused in the article. I didn't think he was being harsh at all.
* I can't say I really know what that means.
We are especially unique, because we understand language. More on that in my other post in this story...
Oops, I realize now that the Slashdot-linked article isn't the same one that Geoffrey is annoyed about. To clarify what I mean, the bullshit is the idea that dogs can understand language.
This is bullshit, according to Geoffrey Pullum, professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Screw paraphrasing: " The trained object-fetching behavior of Rico, the border collie that this German research is talking about, has nothing at all to do with understanding language. The behavior is comparable to what you would have shown if you demonstrated that you had trained your goldfish to swim to a given object in its tank when you showed it a card with a given letter of the Greek alphabet. By all means attempt that too, if you think it would be interesting science. But don't bring it to me for my approval under a headline saying Research Shows Goldfish Can Read Greek, that's all! Unless you actually enjoy seeing the veins standing out in my neck as I hurl some more defenseless chairs and coffee tables and goldfish tanks around the room. "
His post is available here. And for those geeks interested in language, check out the Language Log.
Maybe 10x was some hyperbole?
The Natural Voices take over 400 megs of hard drive space (it seems to vary with which version you get). And while the actual voice sounds Ok, the intonation is still unrealistic.
Of course, a Far Cry install is a couple of gigabytes...
Typical book scans (non-textbook) fit nicely on a Cd-rom, and after compression so would atypical books.
Maybe he meant lumber jacks.
Chess is more logarithmic than the MMORPG situation which is more linear. That is, it'll take a while to be competetive at chess, but then to get a little better will require much more work. But in the MMORPGs, it could be impossible to catch up to the higher players - even with exponential experience requirements - because in my experience (granted i was never very competetive) a level 41 could always defeat a level 40.