You don't have to buy the F-15 directly. You just go buy a congressperson and have them get you one. Sure it might technically "belong" to the local Civil Air Patrol, but you get to take it out on the weekends.
Your OSX Girlfriend shows up on your doorstep telling you to buy her a new Snow Leopard coat. Oh, and you are going to need to get her some updated pants and shoes too to match. Of course, she won't step inside your door until you've gone and bought one of those new Apple brand "iMansions" that, really, is just the same as the Intel Houses that everyone has, but comes with fancy aluminum siding and costs twice as much. You could TRY to put aluminum siding on any old Intel house, but you hear those contractors are getting sued out of business.
So, you finally get the new mansion and invite her in and you realize that she's really just like every other girl you've been with. But, all your friends like her, so you might as well go along with it. She's arty, but very serious too, and won't play any games with you. After a while, after buying her all her iAccessories you realize you really aren't getting any more out of her than your other girlfriends.
But your Linux girlfriend, she is awesome. She'll do whatever you want, whenever you want, rarely complains and will stay in pretty much any house or mobile home you have. Sadly, she's also a robot who gets delivered to your house in a box, and you have to assemble her up the way you want. You have to turn to your friends and the internet to find out why the heck she won't talk with you, or why her feet are on backwards. She's very secure in your relationship, so much that she won't do anything unless you really PROVE you are her boyfriend. She plays a few games, but you're getting sick of chess, solitaire and downhill sledding penguins. And then every few weeks you have to shut her down to replace her heart and lungs. You are so damn tired keeping her running and happy all the time who has time for sex?
To top it off, everyone has seen her naked. She's put it all over the Internet for everyone to see and fiddle with her naughty bits. She claims it makes her a better woman, but since you have to keep patching her up, you aren't so sure. What's worse, she keeps comparing you to some guy she met in Finland and talks about how much he "got inside her."
Oh, and Moore's law is exponential. If resolution was exponential and we doubled as often as Moore's law, then in the past 15 years our monitor resolution would have gone from 640x480 to 327,680x245,760
So, I think it's safe to say the summary ISN'T misleading.
Just trying some random math that may or may not be based upon bad assumptions:
1993 to 2008 = 15 years = 180 months = 10 Moore's Law Cycles Monitor size over that period was from 640x480 to 1920x1200 (pulling from my butt, we could argue EGA vs VGA and what percentage of the users actually have 1920x1200, but its a place to start)
Pixels: 640x480 = 307,200 to 1920x1200 = 2304000 which is a factor of 7.5.
So, in summary, over the past 15 years Moore's Law has eclipsed monitor growth. 10 times vs. 7.5 times.
I'm sure loads of people will point out flaws in my logic. BUT, the purpose of the article too is to point out that Ray Tracing on mobile devices may be possible. So in effect, you're fixing the resolution at 640x480 or lower, in which case Moore's law definitely wins out.
Well, they haven't pissed me off yet. I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 bit, and other than some driver issues at the beginning (which were resolved fairly quickly) things have been great. The only time I had any real trouble with it was when one version of iTunes kept bluescreening the system, but even that's been fixed now.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not a mistake. All I see are a bunch of lemmings who would rather bitch and moan about the "big bad evil company" than actually look at the product logically and thoughtfully.
Oh, ye of higher moral values. So I assume you work on your own farm, generate your own power, sew your own clothes, grow your own food, and hand built that computer you are using to type up your comments on? No - I didn't think so. You are just a part of the problem and the machine as the rest of us.
Do I wish that everyone had enough to eat, that there was no "want" in the world, there wasn't any resource shortages and no disease? and that everyone could go off and do whatever the hell they wanted all the time? Sure I do! But as much as I'd love to be off drinking, gambling, and cavorting with supermodels all day, I'm also a realist and realize that that is a fantasy world.
Capitalism isn't a religion - its a fact of life. It always has been. People need stuff, other people make and sell stuff. If you don't like that - then don't participate. (And you will very likely starve to death or die of disease.)
I don't get how Microsoft is "exploiting resources." They built a product, they can charge whatever the hell they want for it, and its their right that people aren't stealing it. Period. If you don't like the product, don't like the company, think they beat midgets with bats to make them right the code, or whatever your personal stick up your butt is with it, then JUST DON'T BUY IT. If you, and the legions of haters out there are so damned smart, then your lack of market share should make the product tank, will force Microsoft to go back to the drawing board and write a product a little more to your liking. In the meantime, shouting "YOU GUYS SUCK!" from every mountaintop is just pissing everyone else off and makes you look like a sheep that's joining the bleating crowd of the anti-Microsoft "religion."
I'm sorry, what business model should they use instead? Give everything away for free and hope that people paypal them a donation for their efforts? Build a business model off of paying for support? So they can have a market cap of 3.8B like Redhat instead of 300B? Are YOU going to hire / feed / clothe all those folks from Microsoft who get laid off or who's jobs get sent overseas?
IF the piracy reminders affect legitimate users, then that's one thing and an issue they would need to fix. If its only going after the people who aren't activating Vista, then good for them.
If you don't like it, them, and their business practices, then just STFU and "buy" something else. And if you hate Microsoft because you think they are a money grubbing, evil, capitalist company - then wake up to the real world. That's what business is about - making as much money as you possibly can, however you can do it, and make yourself and your shareholders rich. If you can't stand that idea then go buy yourself a farm somewhere in the middle of nowhere and milk some goats for a living - because you can't escape it in today's modern life.
Microsoft's not any more or less evil than any other large-cap corporation out there. The whiners better just face up to that fact and move the hell on. You are getting tiring to listen to.
Its more like Blockbuster not selling or renting porn. It's the console maker saying they don't want that associated with their brand.
BUT, how is it any different than renting SAW or Hostel or any one of the other R rated blood filled flix out there. Its not. We need to not have a double standard with any media... Nor should we have a double standard between sex and violence.
Well I don't know how much "evidence" there is around a personal opinion, but to me the difference between OpenOffice and MS Office is the difference between slogging through mud up to my knees, vs. ice-skating.
Sure, with OpenOffice I get there, but it's messy, not very pretty, and I'm tired and worn out by the time I get there. With MS Office 2007, most of what I do is effortless, works the first time, and I get there faster. The same is true with GTD on Outlook 2007, vs. using Gmail or Thunderbird and trying to hack in other productivity enhancements.
Sure, every so often I fall and hit the ice, but that's becoming less and less of an occurrance. In fact, I can't remember the last time Office crashed hard or lost data.
Same could be said for Photoshop vs. Gimp for me. I'm just so tuned into how I do things in PS, and all of the features at my disposal that going back to Gimp is like trying to play Halo without my thumbs. I'm sure it works fine for some people, but Gimp just isn't for me.
But that's just my personal opinion. To each their own.
You know, if the MacBoys weren't so @#$#@$ offensive, I'd have some sympathy. But it seems to an outsider that Leopard is a lot like the "cool kid" coming to school with herpes just like anyone else...
Maybe if you actually read up on the company, or visited their web site, you'd know that this was PRECISELY what they were going to do. LiftPort was a "group" of companies with the overarching goal of building a space elevator, but they were planning on licensing or selling a lot of what they developed along the way to fund themselves.
This whole comment thread is pretty funny - everyone's bashing LiftPort without actually reading about what they were planning to do, the technology behind it, or where their efforts were being placed. I can't speak to the legal issues, but overall the LiftPort plan was a good one. Especially for a company in a country that could give two shits about space exploration and technology anymore.
They weren't going to just build a space elevator, much of the technology that they were developing was also going to be licensed off. They weren't just about the end-game. Like many companies with long term goals, they fund their R&D by licensing their past R&D.
Everyone knows that God does not exist, due to the existence of the Babelfish.
People used to go to sideshows with three legged men and Platypus boy. Didn't mean that they were really three legged men. Just another side show to milk money from the rubes - and what better way to do that then to pray on their beliefs. (pun intended)
To get an invitation to Google Paper, you must send a SASE (Self addressed, stamped envelope) to Google at:
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Once you get accepted to Google Paper, you will have 5 invitations that you can send out to your friends and family. You will receive these invitations as coupons in your first Google Paper shipment. You then simply mail these invitation coupons out to your family and friends (the coupon postcards MUST be postmarked for security purposes) and then they send the coupons to Google to begin receiving their Google Paper deliveries.
ALL games borrow from each other just like every single form of media ever invented by humans. Who the hell cares if your Warcraft is "better" or "more original" than Warhammer, or vice versa? I think a certain man named J.R.R. Tolkien might have something to say about that... well, if he were still around.
Seriously - who the hell has time to even think up this crap?
Want to have money for education? Get out of Iraq and stop spending billions of dollars a year on the war.
Politicians need to revisit their priorities...
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I doubt this will happen - not because "they" care about the IP or the rights of the old games but because if you start playing old abandonware titles, you won't be spending money on:
1. New consoles at $400 a pop 2. New video cards at $200+ 3. New PCs at $1000+ 4. New games at $40 to $80 5. Periperhals, xbox live, mmog fees, etc, etc, etc.
Why would they release old games, even at $1.00 a pop? The only exception I see is Xbox Live Arcade, where they charge you a couple of bucks for the game, on TOP of the $400 + Live Membership, and then know that you'll still go buy Halo 3 when it comes out. But that model isn't going to get your Leisure Suit back on your PC...
Hands down, STILL my favorite game ever. I love CStrike, Oblivion, and Unreal, but no other game affected me so much after I finished it. Its led to my healthy dose of skepticism and paranoia that I have today!
Definitely go check it out if you are into these at all. I believe there is still a telnet server out there where you could play these games online...
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You don't have to buy the F-15 directly. You just go buy a congressperson and have them get you one. Sure it might technically "belong" to the local Civil Air Patrol, but you get to take it out on the weekends.
And congresspeople are MUCH cheaper.
sigh, I meant "insecure in your relationship." damn proof-reading.
Lets continue the analogy:
Your OSX Girlfriend shows up on your doorstep telling you to buy her a new Snow Leopard coat. Oh, and you are going to need to get her some updated pants and shoes too to match. Of course, she won't step inside your door until you've gone and bought one of those new Apple brand "iMansions" that, really, is just the same as the Intel Houses that everyone has, but comes with fancy aluminum siding and costs twice as much. You could TRY to put aluminum siding on any old Intel house, but you hear those contractors are getting sued out of business.
So, you finally get the new mansion and invite her in and you realize that she's really just like every other girl you've been with. But, all your friends like her, so you might as well go along with it. She's arty, but very serious too, and won't play any games with you. After a while, after buying her all her iAccessories you realize you really aren't getting any more out of her than your other girlfriends.
But your Linux girlfriend, she is awesome. She'll do whatever you want, whenever you want, rarely complains and will stay in pretty much any house or mobile home you have. Sadly, she's also a robot who gets delivered to your house in a box, and you have to assemble her up the way you want. You have to turn to your friends and the internet to find out why the heck she won't talk with you, or why her feet are on backwards. She's very secure in your relationship, so much that she won't do anything unless you really PROVE you are her boyfriend. She plays a few games, but you're getting sick of chess, solitaire and downhill sledding penguins. And then every few weeks you have to shut her down to replace her heart and lungs. You are so damn tired keeping her running and happy all the time who has time for sex?
To top it off, everyone has seen her naked. She's put it all over the Internet for everyone to see and fiddle with her naughty bits. She claims it makes her a better woman, but since you have to keep patching her up, you aren't so sure. What's worse, she keeps comparing you to some guy she met in Finland and talks about how much he "got inside her."
I love going through the latest annual ARRL handbook. (ham radio)
I've NEVER bought a song on iTunes. Does that mean that I'm part of the boycott, or do I need to buy something first, then never buy again?
Seriously though - I'd much rather put my money behind LaLa.com - they have a much better model imho.
I give you "Hadron - Eater of Worlds"
Oh, and Moore's law is exponential. If resolution was exponential and we doubled as often as Moore's law, then in the past 15 years our monitor resolution would have gone from 640x480 to 327,680x245,760
So, I think it's safe to say the summary ISN'T misleading.
Just trying some random math that may or may not be based upon bad assumptions:
1993 to 2008 = 15 years = 180 months = 10 Moore's Law Cycles
Monitor size over that period was from 640x480 to 1920x1200 (pulling from my butt, we could argue EGA vs VGA and what percentage of the users actually have 1920x1200, but its a place to start)
Pixels: 640x480 = 307,200 to 1920x1200 = 2304000 which is a factor of 7.5.
So, in summary, over the past 15 years Moore's Law has eclipsed monitor growth. 10 times vs. 7.5 times.
I'm sure loads of people will point out flaws in my logic. BUT, the purpose of the article too is to point out that Ray Tracing on mobile devices may be possible. So in effect, you're fixing the resolution at 640x480 or lower, in which case Moore's law definitely wins out.
Well, they haven't pissed me off yet. I'm running Vista Ultimate 64 bit, and other than some driver issues at the beginning (which were resolved fairly quickly) things have been great. The only time I had any real trouble with it was when one version of iTunes kept bluescreening the system, but even that's been fixed now.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not a mistake. All I see are a bunch of lemmings who would rather bitch and moan about the "big bad evil company" than actually look at the product logically and thoughtfully.
Oh, ye of higher moral values. So I assume you work on your own farm, generate your own power, sew your own clothes, grow your own food, and hand built that computer you are using to type up your comments on? No - I didn't think so. You are just a part of the problem and the machine as the rest of us.
Do I wish that everyone had enough to eat, that there was no "want" in the world, there wasn't any resource shortages and no disease? and that everyone could go off and do whatever the hell they wanted all the time? Sure I do! But as much as I'd love to be off drinking, gambling, and cavorting with supermodels all day, I'm also a realist and realize that that is a fantasy world.
Capitalism isn't a religion - its a fact of life. It always has been. People need stuff, other people make and sell stuff. If you don't like that - then don't participate. (And you will very likely starve to death or die of disease.)
I don't get how Microsoft is "exploiting resources." They built a product, they can charge whatever the hell they want for it, and its their right that people aren't stealing it. Period. If you don't like the product, don't like the company, think they beat midgets with bats to make them right the code, or whatever your personal stick up your butt is with it, then JUST DON'T BUY IT. If you, and the legions of haters out there are so damned smart, then your lack of market share should make the product tank, will force Microsoft to go back to the drawing board and write a product a little more to your liking. In the meantime, shouting "YOU GUYS SUCK!" from every mountaintop is just pissing everyone else off and makes you look like a sheep that's joining the bleating crowd of the anti-Microsoft "religion."
You truly are an idiot if you are spending $700 on Vista. Get the Vista Ultimate OEM at NewEgg for $169
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116213
I'm sorry, what business model should they use instead? Give everything away for free and hope that people paypal them a donation for their efforts? Build a business model off of paying for support? So they can have a market cap of 3.8B like Redhat instead of 300B? Are YOU going to hire / feed / clothe all those folks from Microsoft who get laid off or who's jobs get sent overseas?
IF the piracy reminders affect legitimate users, then that's one thing and an issue they would need to fix. If its only going after the people who aren't activating Vista, then good for them.
If you don't like it, them, and their business practices, then just STFU and "buy" something else. And if you hate Microsoft because you think they are a money grubbing, evil, capitalist company - then wake up to the real world. That's what business is about - making as much money as you possibly can, however you can do it, and make yourself and your shareholders rich. If you can't stand that idea then go buy yourself a farm somewhere in the middle of nowhere and milk some goats for a living - because you can't escape it in today's modern life.
Microsoft's not any more or less evil than any other large-cap corporation out there. The whiners better just face up to that fact and move the hell on. You are getting tiring to listen to.
Its more like Blockbuster not selling or renting porn. It's the console maker saying they don't want that associated with their brand.
BUT, how is it any different than renting SAW or Hostel or any one of the other R rated blood filled flix out there. Its not. We need to not have a double standard with any media... Nor should we have a double standard between sex and violence.
When they call off the REAL violence in Iraq.
Well I don't know how much "evidence" there is around a personal opinion, but to me the difference between OpenOffice and MS Office is the difference between slogging through mud up to my knees, vs. ice-skating.
Sure, with OpenOffice I get there, but it's messy, not very pretty, and I'm tired and worn out by the time I get there. With MS Office 2007, most of what I do is effortless, works the first time, and I get there faster. The same is true with GTD on Outlook 2007, vs. using Gmail or Thunderbird and trying to hack in other productivity enhancements.
Sure, every so often I fall and hit the ice, but that's becoming less and less of an occurrance. In fact, I can't remember the last time Office crashed hard or lost data.
Same could be said for Photoshop vs. Gimp for me. I'm just so tuned into how I do things in PS, and all of the features at my disposal that going back to Gimp is like trying to play Halo without my thumbs. I'm sure it works fine for some people, but Gimp just isn't for me.
But that's just my personal opinion. To each their own.
You know, if the MacBoys weren't so @#$#@$ offensive, I'd have some sympathy. But it seems to an outsider that Leopard is a lot like the "cool kid" coming to school with herpes just like anyone else...
Yeah, but if you were a total dick (like Fox News) then I might move it to another level of the parking garage to teach you a lesson.
Maybe if you actually read up on the company, or visited their web site, you'd know that this was PRECISELY what they were going to do. LiftPort was a "group" of companies with the overarching goal of building a space elevator, but they were planning on licensing or selling a lot of what they developed along the way to fund themselves.
This whole comment thread is pretty funny - everyone's bashing LiftPort without actually reading about what they were planning to do, the technology behind it, or where their efforts were being placed. I can't speak to the legal issues, but overall the LiftPort plan was a good one. Especially for a company in a country that could give two shits about space exploration and technology anymore.
They weren't going to just build a space elevator, much of the technology that they were developing was also going to be licensed off. They weren't just about the end-game. Like many companies with long term goals, they fund their R&D by licensing their past R&D.
Everyone knows that God does not exist, due to the existence of the Babelfish.
People used to go to sideshows with three legged men and Platypus boy. Didn't mean that they were really three legged men. Just another side show to milk money from the rubes - and what better way to do that then to pray on their beliefs. (pun intended)
To get an invitation to Google Paper, you must send a SASE (Self addressed, stamped envelope) to Google at:
Google
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Mountain View, CA 94043
Once you get accepted to Google Paper, you will have 5 invitations that you can send out to your friends and family. You will receive these invitations as coupons in your first Google Paper shipment. You then simply mail these invitation coupons out to your family and friends (the coupon postcards MUST be postmarked for security purposes) and then they send the coupons to Google to begin receiving their Google Paper deliveries.
ALL games borrow from each other just like every single form of media ever invented by humans. Who the hell cares if your Warcraft is "better" or "more original" than Warhammer, or vice versa? I think a certain man named J.R.R. Tolkien might have something to say about that... well, if he were still around.
Seriously - who the hell has time to even think up this crap?
Want to have money for education? Get out of Iraq and stop spending billions of dollars a year on the war.
Politicians need to revisit their priorities...
I doubt this will happen - not because "they" care about the IP or the rights of the old games but because if you start playing old abandonware titles, you won't be spending money on:
1. New consoles at $400 a pop
2. New video cards at $200+
3. New PCs at $1000+
4. New games at $40 to $80
5. Periperhals, xbox live, mmog fees, etc, etc, etc.
Why would they release old games, even at $1.00 a pop? The only exception I see is Xbox Live Arcade, where they charge you a couple of bucks for the game, on TOP of the $400 + Live Membership, and then know that you'll still go buy Halo 3 when it comes out. But that model isn't going to get your Leisure Suit back on your PC...
Hands down, STILL my favorite game ever. I love CStrike, Oblivion, and Unreal, but no other game affected me so much after I finished it. Its led to my healthy dose of skepticism and paranoia that I have today!
Definitely go check it out if you are into these at all. I believe there is still a telnet server out there where you could play these games online...