It's not that they can't, it's that it would be silly for SE to sell FF4-6 on the VC when the GBA ports are just over a year old. They make a lot more money per copy sold on the GBA than on the VC, so it would be silly of them to undercut GBA sales with VC sales. Meanwhile, Super Mario World came out for GBA ages ago and has more or less run its course. Releasing it on VC isn't likely to significantly affect GBA sales at all.
The only really annoying thing about lack of collision in WoW is that sometimes a mob or player will run straight through you while you're trying to hit them. All melee and ranged attacks and most spells require you to be facing your target. Since mobs have perfect reaction times, they can run through you and keep hitting you without missing a single attack. In the meantime, you can miss out on a few swings or have a long casting spell fail because you didn't react fast enough to no longer facing the right way, and in a close fight, that can get you killed. This is aggrivated by the fact that for whatever reason, mobs will occasionally run in to you rather than just in front of you to attack you, often stopping just a few inches beyond the treshold where they're no longer considered in front of you.
I'm pretty sure the broadcaster putting text on your screen does not constitute a legal contract between you and them. Otherwise, I can say "By reading any of my other posts ever, you agree to wire me $3000 per word read" and you would be obligated to do so. They can put whatever the heck they want, I'm not obligated to obey anything beyond the letter of the law, and using the Slingbox to unicast (read: not broadcast) something from yourself to yourself does not constitute copyright infringement.
Apple already had 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC to support before any of the Intel chips had come out. Now they have four architectures to support instead of three. That being said, they've built Xcode (their IDE that ships with every Mac and is available for free download from their website) with this in mind. By default, all applications you make with it are compiled to run nateively on any of the four architectures with no additional work on your part. I have never once heard of an issue with an application or a piece of hardware only working in 32 or 64 bit mode, and applications that have been compiled since Xcode became Intel aware run perfectly fine on either Intel or PowerPC. The only issue has been older binaries that were compiled solely for PowerPC, and thus must run in emulation on Intel Macs.
Microsoft simply has inferior 64-bit support. On OS X, 32-bit and 64-bit drivers can hapily co-exixt. On Windows, it's one or the other. That means your entire system must migrate to 64-bit at once (including all your peripherals), which is a pretty strong detriment from going 64-bit. I have a 64-bit processor, but neither my network card, my printer, nor my sound card have 64-bit drivers or ever will. No way am I replacing all those components so that I can run 64-bit Windows when 32-bit Windows gets the job done just fine.
Were I work, we almost all use MacBook Pros, which have built in cameras and support 4-way video conferencing. Need to talk to someone? You've got phone, email, IM, and video conference to choose from.
I remember hearing a few years back that Herb Kelleher (co-founder and chairman of Southwest Airlines) would serve as a flight attendant once a month. It allowed him to find any problems that may be brewing there in the front lines long before he would have noticed them up in his office. Plus, it gave him a chance to get direct feedback from his customers, and it kept him grounded in the reality of the company he was managing.
I submit to you the following for consideration, all of which can be learned by doing the quests in Ratchet and Westfall. At the end of the third war (Warcraft III), both the Alliance and Horde capitals were destroyed. The leadership of both factions paid for skilled craftsmen to build new capital cities. Thrall, leader of the Horde, hired a group of goblins from the Steamwheedle Cartel to build the orcish capital of Orgrimmar. He was very grateful for the their fine work and paid them well. The goblins were impressed enough with the orcs that they decided to start their own port town not far from Orgrimmar (Ratchet).
Meanwhile, the humans hired Edvin VanCleave and his guild of craftsmen to build the city of Stormwind. They likewise did an excellent job building the city. However, when they attempted to collect their pay after finishing, the government conveniently "forgot" that they had offered VanCleave any pay at all for his work. They threw him out on the streets of the city he built without a penny. Disillusioned with the kingdom of Stormwind, VanCleave and his guild reformed in to the Defias gang, who frequently terrorize Alliance players in the level 1 to 30 range. VanCleave himself is the last boss of Dead Mines, the first Alliance instance.
I gotta be honest, as much as I enjoy playing with the latest and greatest toys during the day, at 3 AM, I'd MUCH rather be sleeping than diagnosing some random server failure.
Come to think of it, one of Apple's chief advantages is that they control both the hardware and the software, so they can custom tailor OS X to each individual model they sell. With Linux, Dell (and any other OEM) can gain this advantage as well by customizing a distro to install and run just right on the machine it's sold with. IE, Dellbuntu's installer may know exactly what chipset, wireless card, sound card, etc. a stock Inspiron 9900L (made up model number) ships with and configure them all perfectly during the OS install so a user restorring their machine never has to worry about driver installation or configuration for stock hardware. It just works! Imagine that.
Probably just so they can report you if you don't pay. Actually, that's consistent with what the GP said earlier where if you pay a deposit, they don't need your SSN. If you don't pay up, they just keep your deposit instead of reporting you and forwarding you to collections.
Because the release of Vista hasn't really made a dent in Mac sales. Sure, Vista's sold many more copies than Mac OS X has, which everyone should have expected given the market four months ago (i.e. MS dominates and almost all new computers ship with Windows). The key is that, year over year, Apple's sales are still increasing, even though last year they didn't have to compete with Vista and this year they do. Sure, when the iPod first came out 5 years ago, maybe MP3 players were all that was keeping Apple alive. However, today Mac sales are self sustaining and rising.
In my mind, there was never much of a doubt that Vista would do well. Microsoft just had too much momentum for it to flop. What's up the air right now, especially if it takes 5 years to come out, is Windows 7. MS's momentum is decreasing, and if they don't reverse the trend, then they eventually won't have enough to get another free pass like Vista. The fact that Vista didn't slow Mac sales is bad for them. Very bad.
In a nutshell, glossy displays have much richer colors, which (in my opinion) produces a much nicer looking picture. However, they tend to reflect lots of glare. I'm good at ignoring glare as long as it's not too intense, so I don't really notice it, but the same glare drives some people crazy. Matte displays sacrifice the extra richness for being much more resistant to glare.
In any case, if you haven't seen the two side by side, I recommend you do so before purchasing another notebook. If you've got an Apple store nearby, they've probably got a side by side comparison for you to use, or can set one up if they don't. Barring that, any Best Buy or Fry's should have laptops with glossy screens on display, so you can take a look at it and see if you like it. Bear in mind that the lighting in Best Buy and Fry's is very much unlike home lighting, and that the glare you see there will likely be more intense than the glare you would see at home.
Since this is an Apple thread, I'll throw in that currently all MacBooks ship with a glossy display, while MacBook Pros have matte displays as an option at no extra charge.
Anyone notice what the main control on the iPod is? It's fundamentally a knob (implemented digitally). And that's no small part of the product's success.
I'd never noticed that the click wheel behaves like a digital knob, but you're absolutely right. Thanks for pointing that out. I had noticed that the thing I like so much about my iPod and that makes it stand out so much to me vs. other MP3 players is that, with a single circular gesture, I can move as far up or down an arbitrarily long list as I want, rather than having to push the up or down button over and over and over.
The problem with other cell phone companies copying the GUI of the iPhone (and is the same problem other MP3 player makers had with copying the iPod's GUI) is that the whole GUI is designed around the pattented input device. Sure, you could make another GUI that _looks_ like the iPhone's, but without the multi-touch input, it won't _feel_ like the iPhone's.
Additionally the fact that there will be no third party software available for the iPhone really puts me off.
This is a common but untrue statement. Jobs said that all software must be approved by Apple, but he never said there won't be any third party software.
I don't know how many people this diescribes, but in my case, I don't watch very many shows anyway. It's significantly cheaper for me just to buy the ones I want to watch a la carte than for me to subscribe to cable. In addition, I have all the episodes I buy forever, so if next week or next year I decide I want to watch a couple of my favorites again, I just hit a couple buttons on my Apple remote and they're playing, with no additional cost.
I can't say I've used the Mac version much, though I did use the Windows version as my main browser for a month or so. Both Opera (on Windows and Mac) and Safari got quickly labled by me as "I like this browser a lot, but there's just too many pages it doesn't render right." Whether that's the brower's fault or the page designer's fault, I really don't care. In the end, Firefox and Camino simply do a better job of what I use a web browser for: browsing the web.:)
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It's not that they can't, it's that it would be silly for SE to sell FF4-6 on the VC when the GBA ports are just over a year old. They make a lot more money per copy sold on the GBA than on the VC, so it would be silly of them to undercut GBA sales with VC sales. Meanwhile, Super Mario World came out for GBA ages ago and has more or less run its course. Releasing it on VC isn't likely to significantly affect GBA sales at all.
The only really annoying thing about lack of collision in WoW is that sometimes a mob or player will run straight through you while you're trying to hit them. All melee and ranged attacks and most spells require you to be facing your target. Since mobs have perfect reaction times, they can run through you and keep hitting you without missing a single attack. In the meantime, you can miss out on a few swings or have a long casting spell fail because you didn't react fast enough to no longer facing the right way, and in a close fight, that can get you killed. This is aggrivated by the fact that for whatever reason, mobs will occasionally run in to you rather than just in front of you to attack you, often stopping just a few inches beyond the treshold where they're no longer considered in front of you.
I'm pretty sure the broadcaster putting text on your screen does not constitute a legal contract between you and them. Otherwise, I can say "By reading any of my other posts ever, you agree to wire me $3000 per word read" and you would be obligated to do so. They can put whatever the heck they want, I'm not obligated to obey anything beyond the letter of the law, and using the Slingbox to unicast (read: not broadcast) something from yourself to yourself does not constitute copyright infringement.
Apple already had 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC to support before any of the Intel chips had come out. Now they have four architectures to support instead of three. That being said, they've built Xcode (their IDE that ships with every Mac and is available for free download from their website) with this in mind. By default, all applications you make with it are compiled to run nateively on any of the four architectures with no additional work on your part. I have never once heard of an issue with an application or a piece of hardware only working in 32 or 64 bit mode, and applications that have been compiled since Xcode became Intel aware run perfectly fine on either Intel or PowerPC. The only issue has been older binaries that were compiled solely for PowerPC, and thus must run in emulation on Intel Macs.
Microsoft simply has inferior 64-bit support. On OS X, 32-bit and 64-bit drivers can hapily co-exixt. On Windows, it's one or the other. That means your entire system must migrate to 64-bit at once (including all your peripherals), which is a pretty strong detriment from going 64-bit. I have a 64-bit processor, but neither my network card, my printer, nor my sound card have 64-bit drivers or ever will. No way am I replacing all those components so that I can run 64-bit Windows when 32-bit Windows gets the job done just fine.
The Apple store has 6 foot HDMI cables for 20 bucks.
Were I work, we almost all use MacBook Pros, which have built in cameras and support 4-way video conferencing. Need to talk to someone? You've got phone, email, IM, and video conference to choose from.
www.adiumx.com. No need to mess with MSN for Mac. :)
I remember hearing a few years back that Herb Kelleher (co-founder and chairman of Southwest Airlines) would serve as a flight attendant once a month. It allowed him to find any problems that may be brewing there in the front lines long before he would have noticed them up in his office. Plus, it gave him a chance to get direct feedback from his customers, and it kept him grounded in the reality of the company he was managing.
I submit to you the following for consideration, all of which can be learned by doing the quests in Ratchet and Westfall. At the end of the third war (Warcraft III), both the Alliance and Horde capitals were destroyed. The leadership of both factions paid for skilled craftsmen to build new capital cities. Thrall, leader of the Horde, hired a group of goblins from the Steamwheedle Cartel to build the orcish capital of Orgrimmar. He was very grateful for the their fine work and paid them well. The goblins were impressed enough with the orcs that they decided to start their own port town not far from Orgrimmar (Ratchet).
Meanwhile, the humans hired Edvin VanCleave and his guild of craftsmen to build the city of Stormwind. They likewise did an excellent job building the city. However, when they attempted to collect their pay after finishing, the government conveniently "forgot" that they had offered VanCleave any pay at all for his work. They threw him out on the streets of the city he built without a penny. Disillusioned with the kingdom of Stormwind, VanCleave and his guild reformed in to the Defias gang, who frequently terrorize Alliance players in the level 1 to 30 range. VanCleave himself is the last boss of Dead Mines, the first Alliance instance.
Which one of these sounds evil to you?
I gotta be honest, as much as I enjoy playing with the latest and greatest toys during the day, at 3 AM, I'd MUCH rather be sleeping than diagnosing some random server failure.
Come to think of it, one of Apple's chief advantages is that they control both the hardware and the software, so they can custom tailor OS X to each individual model they sell. With Linux, Dell (and any other OEM) can gain this advantage as well by customizing a distro to install and run just right on the machine it's sold with. IE, Dellbuntu's installer may know exactly what chipset, wireless card, sound card, etc. a stock Inspiron 9900L (made up model number) ships with and configure them all perfectly during the OS install so a user restorring their machine never has to worry about driver installation or configuration for stock hardware. It just works! Imagine that.
Probably just so they can report you if you don't pay. Actually, that's consistent with what the GP said earlier where if you pay a deposit, they don't need your SSN. If you don't pay up, they just keep your deposit instead of reporting you and forwarding you to collections.
Because the release of Vista hasn't really made a dent in Mac sales. Sure, Vista's sold many more copies than Mac OS X has, which everyone should have expected given the market four months ago (i.e. MS dominates and almost all new computers ship with Windows). The key is that, year over year, Apple's sales are still increasing, even though last year they didn't have to compete with Vista and this year they do. Sure, when the iPod first came out 5 years ago, maybe MP3 players were all that was keeping Apple alive. However, today Mac sales are self sustaining and rising.
In my mind, there was never much of a doubt that Vista would do well. Microsoft just had too much momentum for it to flop. What's up the air right now, especially if it takes 5 years to come out, is Windows 7. MS's momentum is decreasing, and if they don't reverse the trend, then they eventually won't have enough to get another free pass like Vista. The fact that Vista didn't slow Mac sales is bad for them. Very bad.
In a nutshell, glossy displays have much richer colors, which (in my opinion) produces a much nicer looking picture. However, they tend to reflect lots of glare. I'm good at ignoring glare as long as it's not too intense, so I don't really notice it, but the same glare drives some people crazy. Matte displays sacrifice the extra richness for being much more resistant to glare.
In any case, if you haven't seen the two side by side, I recommend you do so before purchasing another notebook. If you've got an Apple store nearby, they've probably got a side by side comparison for you to use, or can set one up if they don't. Barring that, any Best Buy or Fry's should have laptops with glossy screens on display, so you can take a look at it and see if you like it. Bear in mind that the lighting in Best Buy and Fry's is very much unlike home lighting, and that the glare you see there will likely be more intense than the glare you would see at home.
Since this is an Apple thread, I'll throw in that currently all MacBooks ship with a glossy display, while MacBook Pros have matte displays as an option at no extra charge.
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I'd never noticed that the click wheel behaves like a digital knob, but you're absolutely right. Thanks for pointing that out. I had noticed that the thing I like so much about my iPod and that makes it stand out so much to me vs. other MP3 players is that, with a single circular gesture, I can move as far up or down an arbitrarily long list as I want, rather than having to push the up or down button over and over and over.
The problem with other cell phone companies copying the GUI of the iPhone (and is the same problem other MP3 player makers had with copying the iPod's GUI) is that the whole GUI is designed around the pattented input device. Sure, you could make another GUI that _looks_ like the iPhone's, but without the multi-touch input, it won't _feel_ like the iPhone's.
Additionally the fact that there will be no third party software available for the iPhone really puts me off.
This is a common but untrue statement. Jobs said that all software must be approved by Apple, but he never said there won't be any third party software.
I don't know how many people this diescribes, but in my case, I don't watch very many shows anyway. It's significantly cheaper for me just to buy the ones I want to watch a la carte than for me to subscribe to cable. In addition, I have all the episodes I buy forever, so if next week or next year I decide I want to watch a couple of my favorites again, I just hit a couple buttons on my Apple remote and they're playing, with no additional cost.
As the old joke goes, never underetimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes. Or a Fed Ex plane full of hard drives. Your choice.
I can't say I've used the Mac version much, though I did use the Windows version as my main browser for a month or so. Both Opera (on Windows and Mac) and Safari got quickly labled by me as "I like this browser a lot, but there's just too many pages it doesn't render right." Whether that's the brower's fault or the page designer's fault, I really don't care. In the end, Firefox and Camino simply do a better job of what I use a web browser for: browsing the web. :)
Opera for Windows and Mac has been free as in beer for quite some time now. Go download it from Opera.com, it's pretty good.
I've used Mac FUSE with SSH, but haven't tried FTP yet. I'll poke around and see what I can find out. Thanks.