disappointment. After they're gone, I'm sure it'll only be another twenty years before I stop seeing customers' boxen with Macafee's anti-virus expired demo notification popping up every time I touch it. Maybe they should have given away more nagware, that might have helped.
the money. I'm sure more people than you (collective) or I at Dell are in the know about something. Perhaps they see the opportunity to ship BluRay drives earlier than if they ship HDDVD drives. If they wait for HDDVD, other OEMs will eat their lunch sitting around waiting for an os that makes an appearance in a year or so. And Firefox shipping is likely due to customer complaints about spyware and malware, enough people complain about something, you save money on tech support by moving to something secure.
I'm pretty sure the point is that if MS buys Opera, it would not be to add a browser to the financial portfolio, but to have a more secure browser. MSOpera would form the basis of the next gen of IE, which would still be given away for free.
a personal assistant? I hate to sound harsh, but I don't understand how these people can function in a world that at a bare minimum seems to require one or the other sense (sight vs. hearing), and the absense of both means perhaps these people are going to be left behind. How much could it possibly cost to have someone help them, I imagine they need help when they leave the house, would an internet nurse be so far fetched?
The original 128k mac sold for $2495, and considering that it didn't sell nearly as well a year later I'm pretty sure there wasn't a price gouging at double the price going on. But yeah, I never had a 20MB hard drive because I never had an extra $2500. I didn't get my first until they were well under $500
what you're told. That's why. Remember way back twenty years ago when things like a Mac cost $2500? Well, profit margins ain't what they used to be, so new and inventive ways have to be thought up for profit to be made. If people really cared about getting screwed, we wouldn't all be paying "universal access charges" on our phones.
I have a habit of helping out people that don't have a lot of money, keeping their boxes alive and gasping, and even low income people scrounge and find old PCs for either very short money or free. Some of these people have more than 4 boxes, having got them free from businesses giving away ancient hardware, garbage finds, Goodwill etc. These people certainly qualify as novices by anyone's classification. I just stopped by one house recently, and found that they have a DSL modem with built in router and wireless AP all rolled together. These people wouldn't know anything about firewalls, security, or basic configuration of any kind. They practically scream victim if you put them in this situation.
Sorry, maybe I didn't rant enough, but I wasn't targetting just movies based on games. I'm also opposed to games that expand on the plot of a movie, nothing bothers me more than having to shell out $10 for a movie that invariably dissappoints, then find out that one of the main reasons I feel dissapointed is that the story line is continued. In a $50 video game. You want an answer to this? Make another movie. Make the first one longer. Make another movie that perfectly paralells the game, but if I'm paying for the movie to be told a story, I don't want to have to finish the story in a game later.
If anything it's going to be a grand convergence of suck. Doom anyone? Wing Commander? I'd like to know who the "everyone" is that seems to want this sort of thing, because I haven't heard a single person speak will of this sort of thing. 2 hours of watching someone else play a game? Or even 2 hours of plot in a game I could have played myself. Thanks, but the only convergence I'd like is to be able to go into an arcade (remember those?) and play $10 worth of quarters on a movie theater sized screen. and $10 because that's roughly what a movie goes for these days.
what happens when you throw away those enormous Publisher's Clearing House checks? Someone goes through the trash, finds a cancelled check that's 3'x6', now they have your account #... next thing you know...
I wouldn't know, too busy spending my time being productive on my mac, that and you know, actually getting out of the house for entertaintment. Like finding girls.
if you want to do it on the cheap, you're obviously not going to be budgeting a decent set of speakers for each room, so what's the point of pumping a crappy audio signal across your house to worse speakers? I'm not saying a whole house audio project is a bad idea, or that cutting corners is a bad idea, but there comes a point where you have to realize that some things are expensive for a reason. You're not using proprietary hardware or software to do this, it's all generic off-the-shelf hardware and software. If the market hasn't made it cheap enough for you to be able to put this together on your budget, start saving, and do it right the first time when you've got the bankroll big enough.
Microsoft doesn't get any press when they release a new patch measured in a matter of hours, not months. It's all the media's fault that Apple gets all the good press. It's got nothing to do with being an underdog company, with miniscule market share, that has pulled itself out of debt and has started building and selling products that can be instantly identified as Apple products. Apple has a good game plan, and it shows in what they do. I've seen bad press on the Nano flaws, and god knows nobody likes the ROKR. I wonder if Dvorak would feel the same way, back about 22 years or so.
Hmmmm Microsoft gets all the good press, why is it Big ol' IBM can't get any good press these days?
Dvorak, go back to living under your rock, you're much more fun when you're the village idiot.
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disappointment. After they're gone, I'm sure it'll only be another twenty years before I stop seeing customers' boxen with Macafee's anti-virus expired demo notification popping up every time I touch it. Maybe they should have given away more nagware, that might have helped.
it's the publishers that demand such high prices. Same with cds and dvds.
the money. I'm sure more people than you (collective) or I at Dell are in the know about something. Perhaps they see the opportunity to ship BluRay drives earlier than if they ship HDDVD drives. If they wait for HDDVD, other OEMs will eat their lunch sitting around waiting for an os that makes an appearance in a year or so. And Firefox shipping is likely due to customer complaints about spyware and malware, enough people complain about something, you save money on tech support by moving to something secure.
I'm pretty sure the point is that if MS buys Opera, it would not be to add a browser to the financial portfolio, but to have a more secure browser. MSOpera would form the basis of the next gen of IE, which would still be given away for free.
a personal assistant? I hate to sound harsh, but I don't understand how these people can function in a world that at a bare minimum seems to require one or the other sense (sight vs. hearing), and the absense of both means perhaps these people are going to be left behind. How much could it possibly cost to have someone help them, I imagine they need help when they leave the house, would an internet nurse be so far fetched?
The original 128k mac sold for $2495, and considering that it didn't sell nearly as well a year later I'm pretty sure there wasn't a price gouging at double the price going on. But yeah, I never had a 20MB hard drive because I never had an extra $2500. I didn't get my first until they were well under $500
what you're told. That's why. Remember way back twenty years ago when things like a Mac cost $2500? Well, profit margins ain't what they used to be, so new and inventive ways have to be thought up for profit to be made. If people really cared about getting screwed, we wouldn't all be paying "universal access charges" on our phones.
Brother, you ain't kidding. I just got paid with a kitten. It has extra toes.
I have a habit of helping out people that don't have a lot of money, keeping their boxes alive and gasping, and even low income people scrounge and find old PCs for either very short money or free. Some of these people have more than 4 boxes, having got them free from businesses giving away ancient hardware, garbage finds, Goodwill etc. These people certainly qualify as novices by anyone's classification. I just stopped by one house recently, and found that they have a DSL modem with built in router and wireless AP all rolled together. These people wouldn't know anything about firewalls, security, or basic configuration of any kind. They practically scream victim if you put them in this situation.
stick with Slashdot to tell me how to be a geek. So much for being multicultural.
Sorry, maybe I didn't rant enough, but I wasn't targetting just movies based on games. I'm also opposed to games that expand on the plot of a movie, nothing bothers me more than having to shell out $10 for a movie that invariably dissappoints, then find out that one of the main reasons I feel dissapointed is that the story line is continued. In a $50 video game. You want an answer to this? Make another movie. Make the first one longer. Make another movie that perfectly paralells the game, but if I'm paying for the movie to be told a story, I don't want to have to finish the story in a game later.
If anything it's going to be a grand convergence of suck. Doom anyone? Wing Commander? I'd like to know who the "everyone" is that seems to want this sort of thing, because I haven't heard a single person speak will of this sort of thing. 2 hours of watching someone else play a game? Or even 2 hours of plot in a game I could have played myself. Thanks, but the only convergence I'd like is to be able to go into an arcade (remember those?) and play $10 worth of quarters on a movie theater sized screen. and $10 because that's roughly what a movie goes for these days.
really?
what happens when you throw away those enormous Publisher's Clearing House checks? Someone goes through the trash, finds a cancelled check that's 3'x6', now they have your account #... next thing you know...
Wouldn't that be an upload?
I wouldn't know, too busy spending my time being productive on my mac, that and you know, actually getting out of the house for entertaintment. Like finding girls.
if you want to do it on the cheap, you're obviously not going to be budgeting a decent set of speakers for each room, so what's the point of pumping a crappy audio signal across your house to worse speakers? I'm not saying a whole house audio project is a bad idea, or that cutting corners is a bad idea, but there comes a point where you have to realize that some things are expensive for a reason. You're not using proprietary hardware or software to do this, it's all generic off-the-shelf hardware and software. If the market hasn't made it cheap enough for you to be able to put this together on your budget, start saving, and do it right the first time when you've got the bankroll big enough.
Get an axe.
pull this off? Money, hard work, and development. Did you think it came from aliens?
Ahh, well then clearly you need fewer employees, and more lawyers.
more software patents. That will solve almost all legal woes with clear cut lines of IP ownership.
Microsoft doesn't get any press when they release a new patch measured in a matter of hours, not months. It's all the media's fault that Apple gets all the good press. It's got nothing to do with being an underdog company, with miniscule market share, that has pulled itself out of debt and has started building and selling products that can be instantly identified as Apple products. Apple has a good game plan, and it shows in what they do. I've seen bad press on the Nano flaws, and god knows nobody likes the ROKR. I wonder if Dvorak would feel the same way, back about 22 years or so. Hmmmm Microsoft gets all the good press, why is it Big ol' IBM can't get any good press these days? Dvorak, go back to living under your rock, you're much more fun when you're the village idiot.
always assume anything you want. It won't make it correct though.
that it's good for storing recipies, and dad can do the family taxes on it. After all, it helped put the PC where it is...