Shared Objects (the Flash "cookies" are easily limited via Flash's settings panel (adn the default is 100KB), so your information is not very accurate.
Although iPhone doesn't have a keyboard and ponting device, that's no reason to limit the possible creativity that game developers may come with to figure other fun games with other methods of control, ie. http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/02/interview_the_next_big_puzzle.php
But I agree with the rest of your post.
It will be nice to see what the competitors will come with now ny copying the iPhone features, like what was done with iPod back in 01 and some time after it's release.
Oh, btw, I didn't see any good point about how this is going to be a flop. I don't own a Mac and I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I have to admit that Steve Jobs isn't messing with product flops since the Cube. I guess they learned the lesson - although no company is safe from making a bad business decision.
"Hey, we sell the DVD for a (*cough*) reasonable price and we offer digital downloads of our content for an (*cough*) excellent price! They pirate our movies because they want to, not because we don't offer a (*cough*) good way to get it!"
Now I'm really interested in seeing Windows games' benchmarks running on MacIntel computers. In theory, they would have a performance impact since there's a new "layer", correct?
What about DirectX drivers?
Wasn't MSN search supposed to already be better than Google at the time of it's launch?
For me, this is just corporate bullshit to increase some stock exchange ratings.
Last time I checked out, Last.fm used to require a download of a proprietary player. If now you can play in Winamp, I might try it again.
The biggest advantage of Pandora, IMO, was the less-intrusive nature of the service, as using a Flash Player seems much "friendly" to the user (not to mention that's a easier way to popularize the site among the average Joes)
Well, my opinion is that the usual business paradigms don't quite apply to the internet. You have to be the FIRST one, doesn't matters how stupid your idea is.
Slashdotters will be in pure state of joy when the next leaked memo says something like "...as I read in Slashdot, said by SilverspurG, we need to do this, this and this..."
IMHO, there are different visions on what MS does with computer/internet apps versus what Google does.
Google tries to improve people's life by adding "non-usual" - i.e., "innovatory" functions - on it's products. Example: the flight dates thing that was announced today (http://news.com.com/Google+flight+search+takes+of f/2100-1038_3-5917821.html?tag=nefd.top). I may not live in USA, but I don't recall seeing a similar tool online (SIMPLE, fast and user-friendly to use, not those complicated planners with ).
Microsoft's plan is (almost) always to CREATE new tools that DON'T INNOVATE, just allows you to make the same thing in different ways (even being easier).
What I mean is that Microsoft COPIES good ideas, but doesn't have creative people to THINK how a human can use the computer to make everyday tasks easier (in a SIMPLE way), that's the basic difference.
My 2 cents: there are two key aspects:
1) Price;
2) Availability.
1 - If the price's too high, it would be very difficult to convince people to buy a high-end card with almost the same performance that a $100-less card (7800GTX).
2 - Remember that the X1800XT will be available only middle-November, which gives nVidia a lot of time to think how to counter-attack with something like a 7800Ultra.
I think that the corporate part of AMD is very serious, because you can only design good chips with responsability. BUT I agrre with you in respect to their marketing department, which I agree that it's a joke.
"Intrusive"? How's that? I agree that Adobe Acrobat is a ass-heavy plugin and puts a lot of sh*tty bars in Office products, for example, but I didn't get your point about the Flash plug-in.
I'm from Brazil and to be true, we dont have a chance in space race. The Alcantara's accident (this is how the base is named) is one of the best places on Earth to launch a spacecraft, but we were trying to launch our own satellites rather than paying other countries to do so, which would cost a much less more.
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Shared Objects (the Flash "cookies" are easily limited via Flash's settings panel (adn the default is 100KB), so your information is not very accurate. Although iPhone doesn't have a keyboard and ponting device, that's no reason to limit the possible creativity that game developers may come with to figure other fun games with other methods of control, ie. http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/02/interview_the_next_big_puzzle.php But I agree with the rest of your post.
It will be nice to see what the competitors will come with now ny copying the iPhone features, like what was done with iPod back in 01 and some time after it's release.
Oh, btw, I didn't see any good point about how this is going to be a flop. I don't own a Mac and I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I have to admit that Steve Jobs isn't messing with product flops since the Cube. I guess they learned the lesson - although no company is safe from making a bad business decision.
The funny thing is that the Bill Gates foundation invests on the same big corporations and business that help destroy the planet and fund the continous poverty in some countries. Please see: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la- na-gatesx07jan07,0,4205044,full.story?coll=la-home -headlines and http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la- na-gates8jan08,0,1773314,full.story
Same words as mine, as I live in Brazil, although not as "bad" as your African country, the same things applies. Please don't let this bill pass!
Using your logic, any search engine could be interpreted as the drug dealer. I always suspected that was something nasty about this Jeeves guy.
Not to mention that IE6 doesn't support transparent PNGs, which really sucks. I don't know about IE7's support, though.
Sincerely, I don't get. When viruses started to come embedded in a .AVI/.MPG/whatever file?
"Hey, we sell the DVD for a (*cough*) reasonable price and we offer digital downloads of our content for an (*cough*) excellent price! They pirate our movies because they want to, not because we don't offer a (*cough*) good way to get it!"
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Now I'm really interested in seeing Windows games' benchmarks running on MacIntel computers. In theory, they would have a performance impact since there's a new "layer", correct? What about DirectX drivers?
Try Azerty's Themes, they are very nice.
Wasn't MSN search supposed to already be better than Google at the time of it's launch? For me, this is just corporate bullshit to increase some stock exchange ratings.
Last time I checked out, Last.fm used to require a download of a proprietary player. If now you can play in Winamp, I might try it again.
The biggest advantage of Pandora, IMO, was the less-intrusive nature of the service, as using a Flash Player seems much "friendly" to the user (not to mention that's a easier way to popularize the site among the average Joes)
Well, my opinion is that the usual business paradigms don't quite apply to the internet. You have to be the FIRST one, doesn't matters how stupid your idea is.
Slashdotters will be in pure state of joy when the next leaked memo says something like "...as I read in Slashdot, said by SilverspurG, we need to do this, this and this..."
Windows Live remembers me of www.netvibes.com (or any other "customized homepage" system).
IMHO, there are different visions on what MS does with computer/internet apps versus what Google does. Google tries to improve people's life by adding "non-usual" - i.e., "innovatory" functions - on it's products. Example: the flight dates thing that was announced today (http://news.com.com/Google+flight+search+takes+of f/2100-1038_3-5917821.html?tag=nefd.top). I may not live in USA, but I don't recall seeing a similar tool online (SIMPLE, fast and user-friendly to use, not those complicated planners with ).
Microsoft's plan is (almost) always to CREATE new tools that DON'T INNOVATE, just allows you to make the same thing in different ways (even being easier).
What I mean is that Microsoft COPIES good ideas, but doesn't have creative people to THINK how a human can use the computer to make everyday tasks easier (in a SIMPLE way), that's the basic difference.
My 2 cents: there are two key aspects: 1) Price; 2) Availability. 1 - If the price's too high, it would be very difficult to convince people to buy a high-end card with almost the same performance that a $100-less card (7800GTX). 2 - Remember that the X1800XT will be available only middle-November, which gives nVidia a lot of time to think how to counter-attack with something like a 7800Ultra.
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I think that the corporate part of AMD is very serious, because you can only design good chips with responsability. BUT I agrre with you in respect to their marketing department, which I agree that it's a joke.
But hey, lightsabers are totally plausible, eh?
"Intrusive"? How's that? I agree that Adobe Acrobat is a ass-heavy plugin and puts a lot of sh*tty bars in Office products, for example, but I didn't get your point about the Flash plug-in.
Is the "slashdot effect" that fast? This story has just been posted...
Maybe I'm wrong, but wasn't this news posted less than a week ago?
I'm from Brazil and to be true, we dont have a chance in space race. The Alcantara's accident (this is how the base is named) is one of the best places on Earth to launch a spacecraft, but we were trying to launch our own satellites rather than paying other countries to do so, which would cost a much less more.