I guess, if that's what you've got its cool but they're definitely not the same. SOCOM lets you play with a whopping 16 people online; Planetside puts you on a TEAM of >100. Completely different ballpark.
Or take City of Heroes/Villians. They have probably the finest avatar design tools of any game; you can define just about every proportion of the body, including the details of the face--AND it all shows up in the game. Could you even see that kind of detail on an NTSC TV?
Which leads me to my final point: they look like ass on a regular TV, and an HDTV plus a modern gaming system will set you back just as much as a run-of-the-mill gaming computer. Plus my gaming computer can be a digital jukebox, download fansubs, burn CDs, instant message, and check my email WHILE I'm gaming.
I don't think that the "value" arguement is as strong as a lot of people think it is--you get exactly what you pay for. If you pay for an old, low-end console, you get just that: it's cheap and it looks cheap. Yes, I'm looking at you, Halo2. If you pay for an awesome new HD console + HDTV, you get badass new detail, but you just paid the equivalent of a desktop computer--or more.
I really wanted to mod you Flamebait, but I thought I'd respond instead.
Did you even read the question? He said he wants to make Linux an OPTION when he replaces and installs desktops. Not that he wants to "force" anybody to switch. Not that he's trying to save money. Not that he wants to evangelize. None of the above things that you mentioned. He never bragged, nor did he ever even HINT at "switching" the entire organization.
He wants information about introducing non-Windows desktops into what was an all Windows shop. Maybe his graphic artist will want the OPTION to buy a Mac; maybe somebody else in the organization will want the OPTION to use Linux. He wants to make these OPTIONS available, not as standalones, but as part of the greater network so that the users have all of the Active Directory (etc) stuff available even if they CHOOSE an alternate platform.
I am baffled about how you got modded up so high, when you didn't even come close to a reasonable response.
Dammit. You beat me to a great "insensitive clod" joke.
I'll just toss one more "Yeah me too" onto the list; I have an '04 Tiburon. It was far and away the most car I could get for the money it cost, which is pretty important for a teacher:p Truth be told, I looked at and liked some American (made in Canaday & Mexico) cars, I just couldn't hack the price. The next Korean car I buy will probably be made in the USA anyways, so it's all just semantics!
Interesting but cryptic comment. Care to explain to us how a black and white TV with monochromatic phosphores could have display anything more than "grey colors"?
I'm not saying this to troll; I wouldn't be surprised if you could teach me something.
You forget that Sony has severe and debilitating multi-personality disorder. Their left hand never knows what the hell their right is doing; they have all of these disparate divisions that fight turf wars when their markets overlap. The hardware people and the media people seem like they've been at odds many times.
That's because you missed the fact that the entire post was CLASSIC iPod quotes; i.e. about the original iPod release. It was, in fact, only available to Mac users with Firewire. USB etc came later as the Windows kits came around.
Apple-tab cycles applications, but the real kicker: Apple-tilda cycles windows within applications.
I've found that I navigate my windows & apps much faster with this than on Windows. When I'm using my Windows computer at work I always get frustrated when Alt-Tilda doesn't do anything;)
I saw these for sale in a convinience store (Circle-K) TWO YEARS AGO. I haven't seen (noticed?) them lately, so they certainly didn't blow up in sales, but for heaven's sake: what are all of you smoking! Doesn't anybody read? (I'm not even talking about the article, I'm talking about tech news in general!) You guys call yourselves nerds? I can't believe all of these people are "up in arms" about a product that's been around and already failed in the marketplace. The only "hoax" is the idea that it was Microsoft; in fact, it was the arguably equally evil Disney that came up with this one.
why hasn't apple incorporated an FM tuner into their iPod line yet?
Because most people don't care, and the few that do can go buy a Creative "MuVo" or an "iRiver" and look like nerds. Result: iRiver and Creative get reps as dorkware, making them even less attractive to most people. Apple gleefully carries bags of money home, and Creative/iRiver executives throw down their tophats and curse Apple like cartoon villians. "Foiled again!"
Then again, the Chicago effort of 1860 was done on the backs of local men and mules, whereas New Orleans 2005 has the advantage of power machinery and a billion dollars in federal disaster aid.
Sure there was a recession, and sure, sometimes a company needs to reorganize a little, shed a little dead weight (few people on/. question IBM's sale of its PC & laptop businesses, regardless of how much they like ThinkPads... some things make sense).
But there's also blatant mismanagement. Nobody can defend Enron or Tyco as being "victims of the recession." HP, and (as I've heard from many many sources) Motorola were both strong companies that were turned upside down by incompetant management--in the middle of a recession, no less, which just made things worse.
...except that OSX is built on NeXTStep, which was explicitly designed to happily support multiple platforms. Two hardware platforms, and a universal OS with universal binaries.
IBM had multiple homebaked platforms with multiple homebaked OS's all trying to serve the same markets; reminds me of GM's product clutter. Seems different to me, though I may just be a rank amateur.
Heh... I work at a fairly low-income high school in Arizona, teaching basic physics to 16 & 17 yr olds. Most of them can't afford a good calculator, or have other fiscal priorities, and I don't have enough calculators for everybody, so I made myself a sine/cos/tan table in about 2 minutes in Excel, and ran off a hundred copies.
The students were crushed, because "no calculator" was no longer an excuse. Then of course I had several faculty members asking for copies--and explanations of how I did it!
I think calculators are great, and am all in favor of advanced classes getting them (especially classes like calculus and physics where a graphing calculator is great for visualizing functions) but I'm inclined to believe that the Irish model is the one we should probably be following; especially when I find myself teaching simple mathematics--like simplifying fractions--to my 16 & 17 yr olds.
It seems like the entire photo functionality is kind of an "oh yeah, it can do this too" that Apple added after they put a color screen on the iPod. The real reason for the color screen was probably a) to look kewl and b) so that the iPod could display album art in color (also cool!).
It gets a 1 because it isn't intelligent, and it is a poorly thought out "popularist" copy of other people's comments from months before.
The market-share bugaboo has been rehashed a million times, so I'll say it one more time: in a market of hundreds of millions of units, market share doesn't mean squat. What matters is INSTALL BASE. As long as there are, literally, MILLIONS of installed Macintoshes (with, literally, millions sold every year), there will be a market for Apple-compatible software, peripherals, etc.
Apple may not be #1 in sales, but they are well within the top 10 (like 6 or 7, it was shown a few slashdot articles ago). They move a lot of merchandise. Their 'market share' has dropped mostly as a result of the massive growth of the market. The number of players is huge, and the number of machines sold is mind boggling.
Any redundant comment that centers around market share deserves to be squashed. Market share is not everything, it is one small thing in a sea of indicators to watch, and low on the list of importance.
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I guess, if that's what you've got its cool but they're definitely not the same. SOCOM lets you play with a whopping 16 people online; Planetside puts you on a TEAM of >100. Completely different ballpark.
Or take City of Heroes/Villians. They have probably the finest avatar design tools of any game; you can define just about every proportion of the body, including the details of the face--AND it all shows up in the game. Could you even see that kind of detail on an NTSC TV?
Which leads me to my final point: they look like ass on a regular TV, and an HDTV plus a modern gaming system will set you back just as much as a run-of-the-mill gaming computer. Plus my gaming computer can be a digital jukebox, download fansubs, burn CDs, instant message, and check my email WHILE I'm gaming.
I don't think that the "value" arguement is as strong as a lot of people think it is--you get exactly what you pay for. If you pay for an old, low-end console, you get just that: it's cheap and it looks cheap. Yes, I'm looking at you, Halo2. If you pay for an awesome new HD console + HDTV, you get badass new detail, but you just paid the equivalent of a desktop computer--or more.
I took your advice, and bought a Playstation!
:(
Now, can you help me get World of Warcraft to run on it? How about Planetside?
I keep getting errors; it doesn't recognize the disks
It's not a legitimate question! Nobody suggested that the entire company should switch over! OF COURSE he didn't offer a business rationale!
He didn't offer a business rationale for switching from Diet Coke to Diet Pepsi, either, because IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE QUESTION.
It seems you are a moron.
I really wanted to mod you Flamebait, but I thought I'd respond instead.
Did you even read the question? He said he wants to make Linux an OPTION when he replaces and installs desktops. Not that he wants to "force" anybody to switch. Not that he's trying to save money. Not that he wants to evangelize. None of the above things that you mentioned. He never bragged, nor did he ever even HINT at "switching" the entire organization.
He wants information about introducing non-Windows desktops into what was an all Windows shop. Maybe his graphic artist will want the OPTION to buy a Mac; maybe somebody else in the organization will want the OPTION to use Linux. He wants to make these OPTIONS available, not as standalones, but as part of the greater network so that the users have all of the Active Directory (etc) stuff available even if they CHOOSE an alternate platform.
I am baffled about how you got modded up so high, when you didn't even come close to a reasonable response.
Bittorrent.
Dammit. You beat me to a great "insensitive clod" joke.
:p Truth be told, I looked at and liked some American (made in Canaday & Mexico) cars, I just couldn't hack the price. The next Korean car I buy will probably be made in the USA anyways, so it's all just semantics!
I'll just toss one more "Yeah me too" onto the list; I have an '04 Tiburon. It was far and away the most car I could get for the money it cost, which is pretty important for a teacher
No.
Interesting but cryptic comment. Care to explain to us how a black and white TV with monochromatic phosphores could have display anything more than "grey colors"?
I'm not saying this to troll; I wouldn't be surprised if you could teach me something.
You forget that Sony has severe and debilitating multi-personality disorder. Their left hand never knows what the hell their right is doing; they have all of these disparate divisions that fight turf wars when their markets overlap. The hardware people and the media people seem like they've been at odds many times.
geekiverse?
is that like blogosphere?
[gouges eyes]
That's because you missed the fact that the entire post was CLASSIC iPod quotes; i.e. about the original iPod release. It was, in fact, only available to Mac users with Firewire. USB etc came later as the Windows kits came around.
Apple-tab cycles applications, but the real kicker:
;)
Apple-tilda cycles windows within applications.
I've found that I navigate my windows & apps much faster with this than on Windows. When I'm using my Windows computer at work I always get frustrated when Alt-Tilda doesn't do anything
OK, they aren't "single-play," but disposable DVD's have been around for YEARS. This was the first hit on Google:
wired news, 2003
I saw these for sale in a convinience store (Circle-K) TWO YEARS AGO. I haven't seen (noticed?) them lately, so they certainly didn't blow up in sales, but for heaven's sake: what are all of you smoking! Doesn't anybody read? (I'm not even talking about the article, I'm talking about tech news in general!) You guys call yourselves nerds? I can't believe all of these people are "up in arms" about a product that's been around and already failed in the marketplace. The only "hoax" is the idea that it was Microsoft; in fact, it was the arguably equally evil Disney that came up with this one.
why hasn't apple incorporated an FM tuner into their iPod line yet?
Because most people don't care, and the few that do can go buy a Creative "MuVo" or an "iRiver" and look like nerds. Result: iRiver and Creative get reps as dorkware, making them even less attractive to most people. Apple gleefully carries bags of money home, and Creative/iRiver executives throw down their tophats and curse Apple like cartoon villians. "Foiled again!"
Then again, the Chicago effort of 1860 was done on the backs of local men and mules, whereas New Orleans 2005 has the advantage of power machinery and a billion dollars in federal disaster aid.
Why use batteries... how about a huge flywheel, on frictionless magnetic bearings, in a vacuum chamber...
and sharks... with lasers..
not to anybody who deals in surveying or real estate--7 sections is huge by any standard.
Sure there was a recession, and sure, sometimes a company needs to reorganize a little, shed a little dead weight (few people on /. question IBM's sale of its PC & laptop businesses, regardless of how much they like ThinkPads... some things make sense).
But there's also blatant mismanagement. Nobody can defend Enron or Tyco as being "victims of the recession." HP, and (as I've heard from many many sources) Motorola were both strong companies that were turned upside down by incompetant management--in the middle of a recession, no less, which just made things worse.
You must be new to English.
...also known as the command key. Ctrl is another key altogether ;)
...except that OSX is built on NeXTStep, which was explicitly designed to happily support multiple platforms. Two hardware platforms, and a universal OS with universal binaries.
IBM had multiple homebaked platforms with multiple homebaked OS's all trying to serve the same markets; reminds me of GM's product clutter. Seems different to me, though I may just be a rank amateur.
Heh... I work at a fairly low-income high school in Arizona, teaching basic physics to 16 & 17 yr olds. Most of them can't afford a good calculator, or have other fiscal priorities, and I don't have enough calculators for everybody, so I made myself a sine/cos/tan table in about 2 minutes in Excel, and ran off a hundred copies.
The students were crushed, because "no calculator" was no longer an excuse. Then of course I had several faculty members asking for copies--and explanations of how I did it!
I think calculators are great, and am all in favor of advanced classes getting them (especially classes like calculus and physics where a graphing calculator is great for visualizing functions) but I'm inclined to believe that the Irish model is the one we should probably be following; especially when I find myself teaching simple mathematics--like simplifying fractions--to my 16 & 17 yr olds.
It seems like the entire photo functionality is kind of an "oh yeah, it can do this too" that Apple added after they put a color screen on the iPod. The real reason for the color screen was probably a) to look kewl and b) so that the iPod could display album art in color (also cool!).
whopping adj, (ca. 1625 ): extremely large, also: EXTRAORDINARY, INCREDIBLE
:D)
---Merriam Webster Dictionary
(didn't get the joke, but hopes there was one there for the +5 funny
It gets a 1 because it isn't intelligent, and it is a poorly thought out "popularist" copy of other people's comments from months before.
The market-share bugaboo has been rehashed a million times, so I'll say it one more time: in a market of hundreds of millions of units, market share doesn't mean squat. What matters is INSTALL BASE. As long as there are, literally, MILLIONS of installed Macintoshes (with, literally, millions sold every year), there will be a market for Apple-compatible software, peripherals, etc.
Apple may not be #1 in sales, but they are well within the top 10 (like 6 or 7, it was shown a few slashdot articles ago). They move a lot of merchandise. Their 'market share' has dropped mostly as a result of the massive growth of the market. The number of players is huge, and the number of machines sold is mind boggling.
Any redundant comment that centers around market share deserves to be squashed. Market share is not everything, it is one small thing in a sea of indicators to watch, and low on the list of importance.