At least "open" as in "doesn't require code signing".
Are you serious? Value encrypts and hashes the data sent to you for steam to allow it to be run. Its actually far more complicated than code signing. The process to sell your games on steam is pretty much identical to Apple, you just don't realize it.
Code signing IS A GOOD THING. It ensures the code you have is the code they wrote. It means, when done properly, no virus is going to fuck you over, if it modifies the code it WILL be detected, period.
The only people who see this as 'a bad thing' are people who think its a good thing to modify code for their own purposes. While there are some people that want to do this for legal reasons (hacking around and modding for your own fun and enjoyment, possibly sharing with others in an ethical/moral way), there are far more that want to do it for not only illegal reasons (basic piracy) but truely bad reasons (backdoors, rootkit payloads, viruses in general).
Your console DOES need multitasking. Why should every developer reimplement threads? Theres nothing that stops it from being a single process.
Do you really want developers to be forced to deal with keeping the audio buffers for music full inbetween frames or would you rather actually get something accomplished because they can just fire off a play function that creates a thread to play the music and to deal with sounds without having to update each particular sound bit every frame?
Do you really think its a good idea to have developers doing partial loads per frame so they can stream data in and have open worlds with no load times?
You want an OS that was designed to run real time animation on it. Not a phone that lets developers access game like features.
Android devices are shit because you're doing too much with it, not because it has a multitasking kernel. That and Android's GUI subsystem remains shitty even at v4.1, but thats another discussion entirely and one thats easy to overcome if you have a single process or few process environment. Turn off the radios if text messages bother you. Its not a console, its a fucking phone. Stop being all pissed off because its doing what it was intended to do and you want it to do all those things perfectly at the same time when it simply doesn't have the CPU power. Hell games generally try to exploit full CPU power from the git go anyway, so no shit its going to slow down when background tasks start doing things.
What you perceive as one thing at a time hasn't been one thing at a time since the Atari 2600. Developers aren't going to write code for hardware that makes them do EVERYTHING themselves... well, some might, but the first thing they'll do is write a little OS to give them sanity and code reuse, then they'll start making the other bits and in the end, if they last long enough to pull it off, they'll have written an OS for it and a game on top of that. And then they won't share that OS with anyone else, meaning every bug they find and squash, every neat innovative way to accomplish something mundane, every cool trick to make the game easier to write... will only be in their games, and someone else will have to reinvent the wheel.... again... with a whole new set of bugs and shitty problems.
You're currently modded +5 insightful when your post is pretty much exactly the opposite of such.
Theres no reason a Linux kernel with a few or one processes can not accomplish proper game play. Ubuntu isn't going to cut it, as soon as cron fires off the nightly accounting/cleanup/security check scripts, it'll be hosed. And that will just be an example of using the wrong tool for the job.
Apparently you didn't see the elections. Its a safe bet that most republicans (50% of the country, almost EXACTLY) don't really dig on the health care act, and plenty of democrats are known to not like it all that much either which is why having a super majority in congress still did not get it passed without being torn to shreds.
And you're missing the point, it doesn't matter what the restaurant takes, it matters WHAT YOU FILE TO THE IRS. When you file your taxes you tell them what you ACTUALLY MADE, not what they the restaurant claims. If it is incorrect, you ADJUST IT AS NEEDED.
But in reality... if you actually make less than 15%, you're so shitty you'll be fired anyway.
The first employee I hired was working as a waiter before I hired him. It took me an extra year to get to the point where I could hire him at $65k/year so that he was actually making enough in his mind to go from working 3 nights a week as a waiter to working 5 days a week.
Midnight shift at Denny's tends to get you a lot of people coming in after partying, intoxicated. While some kids will shaft you, most adults who have been there won't.
You really misunderstand the world of a service industry employee.
So you've just confirmed that you have absolutely no idea how these businesses are run and operate which pretty much means you've just show you aren't qualified to be part of the conversation. Did it in your first 3 lines even.
Lets see, all the ones in Europe... yea pretty much, failing or damn close too it. What rock have you been living under?
We're not selling oil, we're buying it, so we're essentially paying for the ones in the middle east... of course... you picked countries with very different definitions of 'universal' than what most people in this conversation actually have.
Have you experienced Israeli health care? You can keep it, I'd rather pay out the ass for American health care and get seen before I die.
You seriously have no clue what you're talking about.
Not sure what country you live in, but in America the company is actually required to provide compensation for that by law. If you're driving and not getting properly paid, you should be filing some legal paperwork.
If you're going to promote hate and bigotry against gays, it's not going to be tolerated.
You are an idiot.
Please show me the organization you think lost business because they openly opposed homosexuality.
I really hope you aren't trying to use the Chik-Fil-A thing as an example considering the 'boycott' didn't even show up on the radar and the 'we support chik-fil-a day was a record success.
Hell, even gays we making fun of the douches like you who think you're any less of a bigot for being all pissed off when someone doesn't agree with you.
You do not have the right to express yourself in anyway you see fit. You do not have the right to express yourself on/in/with anything that is considered 'mine'.
You can take your retarded understanding of 'freedom of speech' and shove it up your ass. Freedom of speech does not mean what you think it does.
Companies should be required by law to NOT SEND ANY advertisements to users who do not explicitly OPT-IN.
OPT-IN should be required to be a LINE ITEM on its own, not allowed to be part of ANY other item. I really don't give a fuck how many people lose their jobs because of it.
I did not opt in to AT&T advertisements about crap because I signed a contract to use their service.
I did not opt in to the cable company calling my cell phone and trying to sell me their shitty VoIP crap service.
Or perhaps you've just worked at some shitty pizza places? I've done my fair share of baking too. Gas is a easier to deal with, but if you're notcing corn meal or smoke, someone is doing it very wrong.
I call bullshit on your entire post. If anything, you sound like the snob.
The delta between Apple and it's competitors is reducing.
Yea, kind of like the iPod. It took about 3 months between the time the iPod hit the market and the time there were crappy knock offs. Do you remember the knock offs? Exactly.
He probably means that we're not seeing the kind of 'jumps' that we saw from iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4
Having a desk draw with every iPhone since day one except the 5 laying in it, after the original iPhone, what 'jumps' are you referring too? They were all just revisions. I rather like the iPhone and I just skipped the 4 completely. What is so amazing over the 3GS? Its just an incremental update.
or the creation of the iPad.
To be fair, the iPad was at least attempt #2 to create a functional tablet from Apple. The first one failed horribly. They realized it wasn't going to work and came back later with an incremental update that DID work.
Apple's innovation is taking something and making it not suck. They don't need to invent new shit all the time.
Apple should steal BASF's old add campaign. 'We don't make things you use. We make things you use BETTER'
They have no need to make something Earth shattering today. They got 40 billion in the bank in freaking cash. They've got plenty of time to wait for something new to come out and then say 'hey, you know what, that would be awesome if it didn't trip over itself!' And then you'll see the next iThing.
Making some new 'awesome technology' rarely gets you very far. Putting it into peoples hands in a useful way on the other hand, does.
That said, I'm really not sure Apple can pull that off without Jobs. Being an Apple fan (obviously) I've not been very impressed with whats come since he's gone. It all feels like its not really got that Apple polish I've come to love.
-isms are all fine and dandy. People fuck them up and will be true regardless of which ism you choose until people as a whole under go an unimaginable change in perspective.
Windows 8 is a GUI change to Windows 7, nothing more. That change also happens to suck for everyone not using a tablet or phone... so most people who are actually going to use Windows 8 in the next few years.
At best, it should have been a free add on for Windows 7. OPTIONAL add on.
You're confusing 'no walls' with 'walls with a gate'. Android is most certainly walled on anything that matters, the wall just has a gate. Ubuntu for all intents and purposes isn't worth talking about as no one cares enough to run it at this point in time.
With the greatest respect... I don't think you are the kind of user Microsoft thinks of in design.
And this is where Microsoft has failed, completely.
The typical users in my office do one thing at once in maximized windows. Look at outlook, now facebook, now type in word, now facebook, now type in word, now facebook, now outlook, now facebook.....
Are these users doing so on small monitors because no one bothered to get them large monitors they could be more productive on? The only time you see that behavior is on 15" monitors. Give people larger displays and that rapidly goes away.
Based on initial reaction, however, and long lines outside ATT stores, it looks like they're off to a good start.
Please who me one non-windows fan site that states that, and show me one picture of said lines where anyone in the line shows their face rather than looking like a setup photo.
The only lines I've seen are shown standing in an empty parking lot, where they would be ran over if there was actual traffic to the store, not wrapped around the store like would happen if the parking lot were full and had cars moving through it.
Apple was certainly a viable company before the iThings culture, but the iThings culture is most certainly when they got their money printing machine installed.
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At least "open" as in "doesn't require code signing".
Are you serious? Value encrypts and hashes the data sent to you for steam to allow it to be run. Its actually far more complicated than code signing. The process to sell your games on steam is pretty much identical to Apple, you just don't realize it.
Code signing IS A GOOD THING. It ensures the code you have is the code they wrote. It means, when done properly, no virus is going to fuck you over, if it modifies the code it WILL be detected, period.
The only people who see this as 'a bad thing' are people who think its a good thing to modify code for their own purposes. While there are some people that want to do this for legal reasons (hacking around and modding for your own fun and enjoyment, possibly sharing with others in an ethical/moral way), there are far more that want to do it for not only illegal reasons (basic piracy) but truely bad reasons (backdoors, rootkit payloads, viruses in general).
and if you "hack" your console to let you play pirated games, you risk your whole library.
Not really. Taking games you bought away from you is theft. It doesn't matter if I steal your car, that doesn't make it legal for you to steal my car.
Steam provides the DRM, they can choose to use it or not. No need to reinvent the wheel.
Your console DOES need multitasking. Why should every developer reimplement threads? Theres nothing that stops it from being a single process.
Do you really want developers to be forced to deal with keeping the audio buffers for music full inbetween frames or would you rather actually get something accomplished because they can just fire off a play function that creates a thread to play the music and to deal with sounds without having to update each particular sound bit every frame?
Do you really think its a good idea to have developers doing partial loads per frame so they can stream data in and have open worlds with no load times?
You want an OS that was designed to run real time animation on it. Not a phone that lets developers access game like features.
Android devices are shit because you're doing too much with it, not because it has a multitasking kernel. That and Android's GUI subsystem remains shitty even at v4.1, but thats another discussion entirely and one thats easy to overcome if you have a single process or few process environment. Turn off the radios if text messages bother you. Its not a console, its a fucking phone. Stop being all pissed off because its doing what it was intended to do and you want it to do all those things perfectly at the same time when it simply doesn't have the CPU power. Hell games generally try to exploit full CPU power from the git go anyway, so no shit its going to slow down when background tasks start doing things.
What you perceive as one thing at a time hasn't been one thing at a time since the Atari 2600. Developers aren't going to write code for hardware that makes them do EVERYTHING themselves ... well, some might, but the first thing they'll do is write a little OS to give them sanity and code reuse, then they'll start making the other bits and in the end, if they last long enough to pull it off, they'll have written an OS for it and a game on top of that. And then they won't share that OS with anyone else, meaning every bug they find and squash, every neat innovative way to accomplish something mundane, every cool trick to make the game easier to write ... will only be in their games, and someone else will have to reinvent the wheel .... again ... with a whole new set of bugs and shitty problems.
You're currently modded +5 insightful when your post is pretty much exactly the opposite of such.
Theres no reason a Linux kernel with a few or one processes can not accomplish proper game play. Ubuntu isn't going to cut it, as soon as cron fires off the nightly accounting/cleanup/security check scripts, it'll be hosed. And that will just be an example of using the wrong tool for the job.
alienate half your customers
Apparently you didn't see the elections. Its a safe bet that most republicans (50% of the country, almost EXACTLY) don't really dig on the health care act, and plenty of democrats are known to not like it all that much either which is why having a super majority in congress still did not get it passed without being torn to shreds.
And you're missing the point, it doesn't matter what the restaurant takes, it matters WHAT YOU FILE TO THE IRS. When you file your taxes you tell them what you ACTUALLY MADE, not what they the restaurant claims. If it is incorrect, you ADJUST IT AS NEEDED.
But in reality ... if you actually make less than 15%, you're so shitty you'll be fired anyway.
The first employee I hired was working as a waiter before I hired him. It took me an extra year to get to the point where I could hire him at $65k/year so that he was actually making enough in his mind to go from working 3 nights a week as a waiter to working 5 days a week.
Midnight shift at Denny's tends to get you a lot of people coming in after partying, intoxicated. While some kids will shaft you, most adults who have been there won't.
You really misunderstand the world of a service industry employee.
So you've just confirmed that you have absolutely no idea how these businesses are run and operate which pretty much means you've just show you aren't qualified to be part of the conversation. Did it in your first 3 lines even.
Skewed perspective much?
Lets see, all the ones in Europe ... yea pretty much, failing or damn close too it. What rock have you been living under?
We're not selling oil, we're buying it, so we're essentially paying for the ones in the middle east ... of course ... you picked countries with very different definitions of 'universal' than what most people in this conversation actually have.
Have you experienced Israeli health care? You can keep it, I'd rather pay out the ass for American health care and get seen before I die.
You seriously have no clue what you're talking about.
Not sure what country you live in, but in America the company is actually required to provide compensation for that by law. If you're driving and not getting properly paid, you should be filing some legal paperwork.
If you're going to promote hate and bigotry against gays, it's not going to be tolerated.
You are an idiot.
Please show me the organization you think lost business because they openly opposed homosexuality.
I really hope you aren't trying to use the Chik-Fil-A thing as an example considering the 'boycott' didn't even show up on the radar and the 'we support chik-fil-a day was a record success.
Hell, even gays we making fun of the douches like you who think you're any less of a bigot for being all pissed off when someone doesn't agree with you.
You do not have the right to express yourself in anyway you see fit. You do not have the right to express yourself on/in/with anything that is considered 'mine'.
You can take your retarded understanding of 'freedom of speech' and shove it up your ass. Freedom of speech does not mean what you think it does.
Wrong.
Companies should be required by law to NOT SEND ANY advertisements to users who do not explicitly OPT-IN.
OPT-IN should be required to be a LINE ITEM on its own, not allowed to be part of ANY other item. I really don't give a fuck how many people lose their jobs because of it.
I did not opt in to AT&T advertisements about crap because I signed a contract to use their service.
I did not opt in to the cable company calling my cell phone and trying to sell me their shitty VoIP crap service.
Or perhaps you've just worked at some shitty pizza places? I've done my fair share of baking too. Gas is a easier to deal with, but if you're notcing corn meal or smoke, someone is doing it very wrong.
I call bullshit on your entire post. If anything, you sound like the snob.
The delta between Apple and it's competitors is reducing.
Yea, kind of like the iPod. It took about 3 months between the time the iPod hit the market and the time there were crappy knock offs. Do you remember the knock offs? Exactly.
He probably means that we're not seeing the kind of 'jumps' that we saw from iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4
Having a desk draw with every iPhone since day one except the 5 laying in it, after the original iPhone, what 'jumps' are you referring too? They were all just revisions. I rather like the iPhone and I just skipped the 4 completely. What is so amazing over the 3GS? Its just an incremental update.
or the creation of the iPad.
To be fair, the iPad was at least attempt #2 to create a functional tablet from Apple. The first one failed horribly. They realized it wasn't going to work and came back later with an incremental update that DID work.
Apple's innovation is taking something and making it not suck. They don't need to invent new shit all the time.
Apple should steal BASF's old add campaign. 'We don't make things you use. We make things you use BETTER'
They have no need to make something Earth shattering today. They got 40 billion in the bank in freaking cash. They've got plenty of time to wait for something new to come out and then say 'hey, you know what, that would be awesome if it didn't trip over itself!' And then you'll see the next iThing.
Making some new 'awesome technology' rarely gets you very far. Putting it into peoples hands in a useful way on the other hand, does.
That said, I'm really not sure Apple can pull that off without Jobs. Being an Apple fan (obviously) I've not been very impressed with whats come since he's gone. It all feels like its not really got that Apple polish I've come to love.
-isms are all fine and dandy. People fuck them up and will be true regardless of which ism you choose until people as a whole under go an unimaginable change in perspective.
Practical? When was the last time he did anything other than talk about how awesome he used to be?
Oh wait ... I see your point
Too bad you don't have Spotliight ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)
Windows 8 is a GUI change to Windows 7, nothing more. That change also happens to suck for everyone not using a tablet or phone ... so most people who are actually going to use Windows 8 in the next few years.
At best, it should have been a free add on for Windows 7. OPTIONAL add on.
You're confusing 'no walls' with 'walls with a gate'. Android is most certainly walled on anything that matters, the wall just has a gate. Ubuntu for all intents and purposes isn't worth talking about as no one cares enough to run it at this point in time.
The problem is ... who uses full screen apps in Lion/Mountain Lion?
So far, those versions suck as they basically just hide the menu bar, which is rather useful to most people.
With the greatest respect ... I don't think you are the kind of user Microsoft thinks of in design.
And this is where Microsoft has failed, completely.
The typical users in my office do one thing at once in maximized windows. Look at outlook, now facebook, now type in word, now facebook, now type in word, now facebook, now outlook, now facebook .....
Are these users doing so on small monitors because no one bothered to get them large monitors they could be more productive on? The only time you see that behavior is on 15" monitors. Give people larger displays and that rapidly goes away.
Based on initial reaction, however, and long lines outside ATT stores, it looks like they're off to a good start.
Please who me one non-windows fan site that states that, and show me one picture of said lines where anyone in the line shows their face rather than looking like a setup photo.
The only lines I've seen are shown standing in an empty parking lot, where they would be ran over if there was actual traffic to the store, not wrapped around the store like would happen if the parking lot were full and had cars moving through it.
You've been trolled.
Apple was certainly a viable company before the iThings culture, but the iThings culture is most certainly when they got their money printing machine installed.