He claims that 'games have hardly changed since the invention of the first-person shooter.' From the article: "The business is going to attempt to sustain growth and creativity by making game players buy newer and newer machines. Computer gaming has always been sustained by never-ending improvements in resolution and realism. But once we get to photorealism, what is going to sustain growth?"
My thoughts on reading this: how is the above different from the following:
"Word processing has hardly changed since the invention of Microsoft Word. The business is going to attempt to sustain growth and creativity by making IT managers buy newer and newer machines. Memo writing has always been sustained by never-ending improvements in resolution and realism. But once we get to basic document creation , what is going to sustain growth?"
Not to be naive, but...
Just because the guy is working for Google doesn't necessarily mean that Google is now in charge of Firefox. There are plenty of examples of software projects that are not company owned, but in which companies support development, since said companies benefit from both a good product and the karma that comes with supporting good software, especially that they don't own.
Furthermore, I doubt too many of us are paid to cruise slashdot, or write the programs we write -- we should wish him the best of luck, and congratulate him on finding somebody to pay him for what he's already doing well!
My story -- and Zipcar subsidies
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There are lots of people complaining about the pricing -- here's my story with Zipcar in Boston.
My 1992 Saturn was falling apart on the streets -- between snow, getting sideswiped, looking for parking spaces (most people in the city don't have dedicated spots), and the fact that my car was 10 years old and had the usual 10-year-old car problems, it was quite a burden. I estimated that I spent about $150 per month on it all told (maintenance, parking tickets, gas, insurance) -- all so I could drive to the grocery store once a week.
So enter Zipcar. They have nice cars (most are late-model VW's -- Jettas, Beetles -- if you want to pay a little more, you can even rent Minis and BMW 7-series cars!), and more importantly, their reserved spots are closer to my house than I was able to park my own car. I donated my piece-of-junk car to charity, canceled my insurance, and signed up.
As for the pricing, my philosophy was that if I spent less than $150 per month, I was doing great -- and no headaches of car ownership. At $8.50 per hour, that's over 17 hours of driving -- needless to say, I haven't gotten close to that. If I plan ahead, I can get a normal rental car. I've figured that the break-even point between Zipcar and standard car rental (considering gas and insurance) is about 5 hours.
I also haven't seen it mentioned that Zipcar has agreements with several local businesses and universities. For example, MIT provides spots on campus and waives the application fees for grad students, faculty, and staff.
I think it's great to have a progressive, tech-friendly, environmental company around that actually improves my quality of life and saves me money.
Is there really a spot in the lineup for a 2.7 GHz machine? I mean, it's less than 10% faster clock speed than the 2.5 GHz -- with no other alterations, it's really going to have negligible performance increases, but you can be sure you'll be shelling out a couple hundred $$ for it.
Just go straight to 3.0!
I think the way to think of this is that it's a Wireless-G router with no LAN-side ethernet ports, but instead has an audio-out connector. Bottom line -- maybe it's not a Squeezebox, but the fact that it costs less than routers with similar feature sets, AND will work really well for those of us who have already bought into the Mac platform, makes it a potential huge winner.
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" Word processing has hardly changed since the invention of Microsoft Word . The business is going to attempt to sustain growth and creativity by making IT managers buy newer and newer machines. Memo writing has always been sustained by never-ending improvements in resolution and realism. But once we get to basic document creation , what is going to sustain growth?"
Not to be naive, but... Just because the guy is working for Google doesn't necessarily mean that Google is now in charge of Firefox. There are plenty of examples of software projects that are not company owned, but in which companies support development, since said companies benefit from both a good product and the karma that comes with supporting good software, especially that they don't own. Furthermore, I doubt too many of us are paid to cruise slashdot, or write the programs we write -- we should wish him the best of luck, and congratulate him on finding somebody to pay him for what he's already doing well!
There are lots of people complaining about the pricing -- here's my story with Zipcar in Boston.
My 1992 Saturn was falling apart on the streets -- between snow, getting sideswiped, looking for parking spaces (most people in the city don't have dedicated spots), and the fact that my car was 10 years old and had the usual 10-year-old car problems, it was quite a burden. I estimated that I spent about $150 per month on it all told (maintenance, parking tickets, gas, insurance) -- all so I could drive to the grocery store once a week. So enter Zipcar. They have nice cars (most are late-model VW's -- Jettas, Beetles -- if you want to pay a little more, you can even rent Minis and BMW 7-series cars!), and more importantly, their reserved spots are closer to my house than I was able to park my own car. I donated my piece-of-junk car to charity, canceled my insurance, and signed up. As for the pricing, my philosophy was that if I spent less than $150 per month, I was doing great -- and no headaches of car ownership. At $8.50 per hour, that's over 17 hours of driving -- needless to say, I haven't gotten close to that. If I plan ahead, I can get a normal rental car. I've figured that the break-even point between Zipcar and standard car rental (considering gas and insurance) is about 5 hours.
I also haven't seen it mentioned that Zipcar has agreements with several local businesses and universities. For example, MIT provides spots on campus and waives the application fees for grad students, faculty, and staff.
I think it's great to have a progressive, tech-friendly, environmental company around that actually improves my quality of life and saves me money.
Is there really a spot in the lineup for a 2.7 GHz machine? I mean, it's less than 10% faster clock speed than the 2.5 GHz -- with no other alterations, it's really going to have negligible performance increases, but you can be sure you'll be shelling out a couple hundred $$ for it. Just go straight to 3.0!
I think the way to think of this is that it's a Wireless-G router with no LAN-side ethernet ports, but instead has an audio-out connector. Bottom line -- maybe it's not a Squeezebox, but the fact that it costs less than routers with similar feature sets, AND will work really well for those of us who have already bought into the Mac platform, makes it a potential huge winner.