Openly promoting the "Windows gets virii, Macs don't" will probably cause a huge intrest in virus makers who aren't totally obsessed with Macs to prove them wrong. Way to go. Would have been smart to invest in anti-virus software on the system level before you did this Apple.
Since I have a G4 iBook, it is not x86 based, and viruses that target that will not target my iBook... *Plugs ears* I can't hear you. Universal binary virii will not happen.
The physics simulation needed for a variety of scientific problems has always needed incredible processing power (such as the Earth Simulator). I'm wondering how accurate they can make this physics simulation, and if it would work better at physics simulation then traditional CPU-powered methods. It makes me want to compare it to the Grape Clusters used for some highly-specialized force-related research (I know University of Tokyo and Rochester Institute of Technology have them).
Since when is $40 an expensive DVD player? I've seen them for half that!!!!
I can hear the competing pronounciations now...
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Both Sides of Wii
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I see it is spelled Wii, which is pronounced like "Weee" since the Japanese i is an e sound, like the e in key. I guess there best strategy will be to incorporate the sound into the logo, and start advertising early so people get it right. Although perhaps it won't be a problem, and my Japanese has led me to loosing a sense of American pronounciations of new words.
Let's see. Price is still kinda high. Price is high for a lot of features (it is a PDA after all) he wouldn't need, and Sprint doesn't necessaraly have the best coverage (Sprint, T-Mobile, and Cingular don't offically work in my town). Yeah, that would be enough reason for me.
Thank you Mr. Troll, you just gave me the evidence I need to show my friend Macs aren't unreasonibly priced compared to Windows platforms (A bit more expensive, but a few hundred isn't terribly significant if you are already spending $2500).
Not enough statistical data to do that....
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They have plenty of data about consoles launching in the $300 - $400 range and not flopping terribly. There haven't been any successful consoles (if any, at least that I know of) that have launched in the $700 range. lack of market data from previous launches like that makes a move like that extremely dangerous to do. And selling out is also a great way to build up steam for people to want it more. Reguardless of the price, if I hear console A is selling fast compared to console B that is selling slow, I'll be more interested in console A to see what people are so interested in.
Although patches weren't terribly uncommon back then (Quake has used them for a while), I remember the original Unreal to be the first mainstream game that really worked like this (there may have been others I don't know about though). Right in the box, there was a slip that said it was somewhat incomplete and thus somewhat still in the testing phase. I found that to be rather interesting that they did that.
I don't like big-screen notebooks myself. I worked on a 13 inch display just fine on my desktop back in the day. Even if your laptop is going to be your primary computer, I'd prefer something light and compact even if it was my primary computer, and to just hook that up to a larger external display at home (an iBook in my case which isn't the smallist, but it is far from large). But we'll see how I stick to this when I actually can afford a 17" MacBook Pro....
One may not think so, but on newsgroups, porn groups are among the most popular by far. The amount and variety of porn circulating on newsgroups is impressive to say the least, at least on commercial hosts you have to pay for (so all you youngins can't just use your ISP newsgroups most likely to get your porn fix). I can't even ponder how much it would have messed me up if I had access to this much porn as a kid....
People used to have to at least obtain a legit copy, be it from a friend or a rental store. Now the copy you download will have gone through maybe dozens of people before it gets to you.
I for one am for DRM, even though it can be sticky in some situations. People used to at least rent movies to copy them, but now, zero money is going to the movie producers for pirated movies. It's gotten to a point where downloading a song or movie from the internet illegally has become so widely accepted socially that DRM may be necessary. I just download stuff due to the convenience. But when half the people download movies and convert them to DVD, it doesn't sound very convenient...
There's a certain special thing about people getting caught for openly bragging about what they did.... Has prevented a lot of school shootings probably....
I've downloaded a dozen or so random first episodes of anime over the past couple days, and their ecchi content was rather high.... It seems wrong this stuff is probably shown normally on TV....
Very true. But for many users, I think until they are affected, it doesn't matter to them. Thus why MS has had to be so forceful with the updates, and why the updates were rarely used before that virus that spread through ip networks, and not email.
Computer specialists and hard core Linux users and stuff may have a distrust towards Microsoft, but I think the general public probably could give a rats ass, and probably trust MS as much as any other company. iPod sales are more likely to cause conversion due to interest then distrust of the alternative. And most people that use a computer for email/web and don't really like to fixate on it would probably prefer to follow the "If it isn't broken, don't fix it" philosophy, which will lead them to using Windows systems for a very long time. I'm a big Mac user, but from most people I've talked to that use a computer as a tool for communication and that's all dislike OS X, because it's too different.
Although Blizzard has been under a lot of scruteny lately for a variety of issues (sexual orientation prejudice, bad servers, etc.), I'm glad that they are still a company with the integrity to keep the game running fair at the loss of profit (since I don't think many players care if others cheat a bit, at least not to the point of quitting the game). At $12/mo for 12 months, that's a loss of over777,000 dollars from those 5400 players. Seems like many other companies would rather keep the money then keep the playing fair....
You commit a crime, you get punished. He may end up in a US prison (which seems common-sense, since f I commited a fairly major crime in the UK, I'd expect to be in prison there, not here) , but I have my doubts they would send him to Guantanamo, especially since the US did not hint at it.... This revenge stuff is bs. True, he exposed a lot of vunlerability, but if they don't punish him hard, many more will try thinking they can get away with a slap on the wrist. This is just politics warped in the opposite direction. There have been times when people against the Patriot act and other Bush decisions have seemed as bad if not more obnoxious and ignorant then some of the hard-core Bush followers. I don't mean to troll, but it sounds like this article is written by someone wrapped up in the anti-Bush attitude. Balance is hard to find. It's much easier to just choose a side and let them give you a bias then to continue to think on your own, joining a side momentarily when you agree.
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It seems like such an odd idea...... I'm curious if it actually works...
Openly promoting the "Windows gets virii, Macs don't" will probably cause a huge intrest in virus makers who aren't totally obsessed with Macs to prove them wrong. Way to go. Would have been smart to invest in anti-virus software on the system level before you did this Apple.
Since I have a G4 iBook, it is not x86 based, and viruses that target that will not target my iBook... *Plugs ears* I can't hear you. Universal binary virii will not happen.
The physics simulation needed for a variety of scientific problems has always needed incredible processing power (such as the Earth Simulator). I'm wondering how accurate they can make this physics simulation, and if it would work better at physics simulation then traditional CPU-powered methods. It makes me want to compare it to the Grape Clusters used for some highly-specialized force-related research (I know University of Tokyo and Rochester Institute of Technology have them).
Since when is $40 an expensive DVD player? I've seen them for half that!!!!
I see it is spelled Wii, which is pronounced like "Weee" since the Japanese i is an e sound, like the e in key. I guess there best strategy will be to incorporate the sound into the logo, and start advertising early so people get it right. Although perhaps it won't be a problem, and my Japanese has led me to loosing a sense of American pronounciations of new words.
I saw that headline and thought it would be another Intel VIIV thing.....
Let's see. Price is still kinda high. Price is high for a lot of features (it is a PDA after all) he wouldn't need, and Sprint doesn't necessaraly have the best coverage (Sprint, T-Mobile, and Cingular don't offically work in my town). Yeah, that would be enough reason for me.
Thank you Mr. Troll, you just gave me the evidence I need to show my friend Macs aren't unreasonibly priced compared to Windows platforms (A bit more expensive, but a few hundred isn't terribly significant if you are already spending $2500).
They have plenty of data about consoles launching in the $300 - $400 range and not flopping terribly. There haven't been any successful consoles (if any, at least that I know of) that have launched in the $700 range. lack of market data from previous launches like that makes a move like that extremely dangerous to do. And selling out is also a great way to build up steam for people to want it more. Reguardless of the price, if I hear console A is selling fast compared to console B that is selling slow, I'll be more interested in console A to see what people are so interested in.
Although patches weren't terribly uncommon back then (Quake has used them for a while), I remember the original Unreal to be the first mainstream game that really worked like this (there may have been others I don't know about though). Right in the box, there was a slip that said it was somewhat incomplete and thus somewhat still in the testing phase. I found that to be rather interesting that they did that.
I never said they shouldn't make it. I was just giving my opinion on it.
I don't like big-screen notebooks myself. I worked on a 13 inch display just fine on my desktop back in the day. Even if your laptop is going to be your primary computer, I'd prefer something light and compact even if it was my primary computer, and to just hook that up to a larger external display at home (an iBook in my case which isn't the smallist, but it is far from large). But we'll see how I stick to this when I actually can afford a 17" MacBook Pro....
One may not think so, but on newsgroups, porn groups are among the most popular by far. The amount and variety of porn circulating on newsgroups is impressive to say the least, at least on commercial hosts you have to pay for (so all you youngins can't just use your ISP newsgroups most likely to get your porn fix). I can't even ponder how much it would have messed me up if I had access to this much porn as a kid....
People used to have to at least obtain a legit copy, be it from a friend or a rental store. Now the copy you download will have gone through maybe dozens of people before it gets to you.
Not with my RFID Blocking Kit RFID Blocking Kit Shirt!!
I for one am for DRM, even though it can be sticky in some situations. People used to at least rent movies to copy them, but now, zero money is going to the movie producers for pirated movies. It's gotten to a point where downloading a song or movie from the internet illegally has become so widely accepted socially that DRM may be necessary. I just download stuff due to the convenience. But when half the people download movies and convert them to DVD, it doesn't sound very convenient...
Could have as many crashes as an unpatched Win95 install....
There's a certain special thing about people getting caught for openly bragging about what they did.... Has prevented a lot of school shootings probably....
I don't know about eveyrone else, but my upload is 56 kbyte/sec max, and that seems pretty throttled compared to my download.
I've downloaded a dozen or so random first episodes of anime over the past couple days, and their ecchi content was rather high.... It seems wrong this stuff is probably shown normally on TV....
Very true. But for many users, I think until they are affected, it doesn't matter to them. Thus why MS has had to be so forceful with the updates, and why the updates were rarely used before that virus that spread through ip networks, and not email.
Computer specialists and hard core Linux users and stuff may have a distrust towards Microsoft, but I think the general public probably could give a rats ass, and probably trust MS as much as any other company. iPod sales are more likely to cause conversion due to interest then distrust of the alternative. And most people that use a computer for email/web and don't really like to fixate on it would probably prefer to follow the "If it isn't broken, don't fix it" philosophy, which will lead them to using Windows systems for a very long time. I'm a big Mac user, but from most people I've talked to that use a computer as a tool for communication and that's all dislike OS X, because it's too different.
Although Blizzard has been under a lot of scruteny lately for a variety of issues (sexual orientation prejudice, bad servers, etc.), I'm glad that they are still a company with the integrity to keep the game running fair at the loss of profit (since I don't think many players care if others cheat a bit, at least not to the point of quitting the game). At $12/mo for 12 months, that's a loss of over777,000 dollars from those 5400 players. Seems like many other companies would rather keep the money then keep the playing fair....
You commit a crime, you get punished. He may end up in a US prison (which seems common-sense, since f I commited a fairly major crime in the UK, I'd expect to be in prison there, not here) , but I have my doubts they would send him to Guantanamo, especially since the US did not hint at it.... This revenge stuff is bs. True, he exposed a lot of vunlerability, but if they don't punish him hard, many more will try thinking they can get away with a slap on the wrist. This is just politics warped in the opposite direction. There have been times when people against the Patriot act and other Bush decisions have seemed as bad if not more obnoxious and ignorant then some of the hard-core Bush followers. I don't mean to troll, but it sounds like this article is written by someone wrapped up in the anti-Bush attitude. Balance is hard to find. It's much easier to just choose a side and let them give you a bias then to continue to think on your own, joining a side momentarily when you agree.