If I were to have a pilot episode script for a TV show and a lot more ideas for it to progress, how might I go about getting a foot in the door and hopefully getting it sold?
I've used the iPhone keyboard and have had very little difficulty. It's surprisingly tolerant of big ol' fingers mashing on the keyboard. Tactile feedback? Not really necessary. It makes a clicking noise and you see the letter on the screen.
No, you're a fucking idiot for being a knee-jerking asshole. I've worked at computer shops. The vast majority of people coming through the door to buy a computer don't care about video cards or large amounts of expandability. Students? No duh. They're often a different generation, but still a minor segment of the overall market. I'd love to see a mini tower out of Apple, but I'm not going to hold my breath for it as it probably wouldn't drive a large number of Apple sales that don't get cannibalized from other models. More? Sure, but not as much as you'd think. But hey, I guess I'm just a Jobs-worshipping Mactard for thinking that, aren't I? Toolbag.
Oh, and the card IS upgradable. I replaced a 7300GT with a 7600GT in my current iMac. Lots of options? No, not really, but the possibility is there, and if they really wanted to, third parties could offer options. There may even be possibilities for flashing other MXM cards with Mac ROMs. So, while not hugely so, it IS upgradable, you stupid fuck.
So thanks for your idiotic, assumptive, ill-educated rant. It wouldn't be Slashdot without stupid ACs running amok and shooting their mouths off with idiotic crapola like they know what they're talking about. Thanks for rounding out the site, dipshit.
And how many of those people have or would buy a console, hmm? PC gaming is being upstaged by them. Although it's still a big market, most gamers will get a console instead of a PC that costs several times as much. Few people will put gaming as the top priority when they buy a computer. The video cards in the iMacs (perhaps minus the 2400XT in the low end) are adequate for most games. No, you can't turn up all the options, but you'll still be able to play them well enough. I think you're estimating the gamers, casual or otherwise, to be a much bigger driving factor than they really are.
And you keep missing the fact that most people will probably never add anything outside of one or two peripherals. You keep talking about a LOT of people, but that LOT of people is stilly a tiny fragment of the market.
Yes, because I can't get the video card I want put in. Thanks for completely missing the point. Most people don't care about advanced video card options.
And plays their games, and works with their PCI video capture card, and has enough USB ports for all their toys, and space for a 2nd hard drive to hold all their stuff.
Most people don't play demanding games, most people don't use video capture beyond Firewire on a digital camera and wouldn't know how to install a PCI card in the first place (and you can get USB/Firewire video capture devices), USB hubs are cheap and plentiful, and second hard drives can be hooked up via USB/Firewire. Do you even think about these idiotic arguments before you type them? Newsflash: Most people are utter noobs when it comes to computers. Get that through your skull.
Your right most people don't ugprade all the time. However, a LOT of people can't buy an imac that does what they want it to do. If they want something better than a crappy 8800GS, tough shit. Its not that they want to buy new graphics cards every couple months... they can't even get a decent one the day they buy it. And if they don't want a 24" behemoth, they can't even buy one with a crappy 800GS, they have to get the utterly abysmal ATi 2400/2600. YOU ARE STILL ASSUMING MOST PEOPLE CARE ABOUT BIG BAD VIDEO CARDS. They don't! Jesus, most people don't know what it is and don't care what it is. For the VAST majority of consumers, an 8800GS is far more than they'll ever need or use.
And LOTs of people never upgrade hard drives, but if the PC fills up before they are done with it, adding an $80 internal hard drive is easy, neat, and no fuss... and not possible on an imac.
Most PCs these days come with 6 to 8 usb ports. iMacs have 3 and one is tied up by the keyboard/mouse. Want more? Tough.
Want a TV-tuner card? Tough.
Bluray reader? Tough. Every single one of those idiotic arguments is completely ruined by the novel concept of EXTERNAL PERIPHERALS!! Imagine that! You can add USB hubs, external TV tuners, Bluray readers, and hard drives! Holy shit, you mean you don't have to put all that IN the computer?
Seriously, pull your head out of your ass.
You're not missing much on the streaming services. Almost all of their streamed library is either public domain or indie flicks. You'll find almost no mainstream studio pictures streamed from Netflix.
And griping about gaming consoles with, at best, marginal non-greenness is going to save the world? Greenpeace puts out shit like this for publicity and attention whoring.
Lose? Like hell. Apple can spend ten times more on lawyers than Psystar will make in a year. Even if they had a strong case, Apple could tie it up in court long enough to bankrupt them.
Hmm, desktop hard drive? Check. Standard laptop RAM? Check. Ability to replace the video card? Technically, check. It can be replaced as it's a separate module. Upgrading...well, you'd have to have a lower-end card and find a service provider willing to order/install the better one for you. However, it's kind of a moot point. You know why? BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE DON'T GIVE A SHIT. Geeks need to get that through their obstinate skulls. The vast majority of the buying public doesn't give a shit about upgrading their video card. They just want a computer that works so they can check their email, do word processing, and organize their photos. Upgrade-happy geeks are a tiny sliver of the overall market.
That was a FLDS compound, you idiot. Those guys were not Mormons. A lot of them were probably ex-Mormons who got kicked out of the mainstream church a long time ago for pulling that shit.
Um, no, anything using a Core Duo is 32-bit, which means the first gen of all Intel Macs with the exception of the Mac Pro. The Core 2 Duo was a 64-bit CPU, not the Core Duo.
Except for him using massive amounts of material DIRECTLY from the Harry Potter books, such as quoting large passages of text excessively. That is a very clear violation of copyright law no matter how much you cite it. Rowling saw nothing wrong with the encyclopedia UNTIL HE WENT COMMERCIAL WITH IT. Pretty big reason.
Only if they had the little annotation and footnote that indicated how they were measuring the space. If they had that, then screw this lawsuit. If not, then screw Creative. Can't say they didn't have it coming after that retarded patent suit against Apple for what? Column view on an MP3 player?
And Card is full of shit and has no idea what he's talking about. You can write non-commercial works all you want and nobody is going to care. If you publish something for profit without permission that is based soley on someone else's work, then you get sued, end of story.
The other difference is that this encyclopedia is directly using Rowling's work, not borrowing themes that have been used a hundred thousand times over. There's a HUGE difference that Card is completely missing here.
Oh, bullshit. Grown men who read them and enjoy them are one thing. Grown men who get obsessive about them are something completely different. Learn to differentiate between the two and you wont come off sounding like an asshole.
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If I were to have a pilot episode script for a TV show and a lot more ideas for it to progress, how might I go about getting a foot in the door and hopefully getting it sold?
So, does Slashdot get paid for this kind of advertisement?
I knew a tech who got one and loved it, but damn those things are loud. It's like a gigantic tailpipe for geeks.
It's not so much the idea of multitouch, it's that their implementation is very, very close to Apple's.
I've used the iPhone keyboard and have had very little difficulty. It's surprisingly tolerant of big ol' fingers mashing on the keyboard. Tactile feedback? Not really necessary. It makes a clicking noise and you see the letter on the screen.
Sounds like that loon needs to fornit some fornus.
No, you're a fucking idiot for being a knee-jerking asshole. I've worked at computer shops. The vast majority of people coming through the door to buy a computer don't care about video cards or large amounts of expandability. Students? No duh. They're often a different generation, but still a minor segment of the overall market. I'd love to see a mini tower out of Apple, but I'm not going to hold my breath for it as it probably wouldn't drive a large number of Apple sales that don't get cannibalized from other models. More? Sure, but not as much as you'd think. But hey, I guess I'm just a Jobs-worshipping Mactard for thinking that, aren't I? Toolbag.
Oh, and the card IS upgradable. I replaced a 7300GT with a 7600GT in my current iMac. Lots of options? No, not really, but the possibility is there, and if they really wanted to, third parties could offer options. There may even be possibilities for flashing other MXM cards with Mac ROMs. So, while not hugely so, it IS upgradable, you stupid fuck.
So thanks for your idiotic, assumptive, ill-educated rant. It wouldn't be Slashdot without stupid ACs running amok and shooting their mouths off with idiotic crapola like they know what they're talking about. Thanks for rounding out the site, dipshit.
And how many of those people have or would buy a console, hmm? PC gaming is being upstaged by them. Although it's still a big market, most gamers will get a console instead of a PC that costs several times as much. Few people will put gaming as the top priority when they buy a computer. The video cards in the iMacs (perhaps minus the 2400XT in the low end) are adequate for most games. No, you can't turn up all the options, but you'll still be able to play them well enough. I think you're estimating the gamers, casual or otherwise, to be a much bigger driving factor than they really are.
And you keep missing the fact that most people will probably never add anything outside of one or two peripherals. You keep talking about a LOT of people, but that LOT of people is stilly a tiny fragment of the market.
You're not missing much on the streaming services. Almost all of their streamed library is either public domain or indie flicks. You'll find almost no mainstream studio pictures streamed from Netflix.
And griping about gaming consoles with, at best, marginal non-greenness is going to save the world? Greenpeace puts out shit like this for publicity and attention whoring.
Lose? Like hell. Apple can spend ten times more on lawyers than Psystar will make in a year. Even if they had a strong case, Apple could tie it up in court long enough to bankrupt them.
Hmm, desktop hard drive? Check. Standard laptop RAM? Check. Ability to replace the video card? Technically, check. It can be replaced as it's a separate module. Upgrading...well, you'd have to have a lower-end card and find a service provider willing to order/install the better one for you. However, it's kind of a moot point. You know why? BECAUSE MOST PEOPLE DON'T GIVE A SHIT. Geeks need to get that through their obstinate skulls. The vast majority of the buying public doesn't give a shit about upgrading their video card. They just want a computer that works so they can check their email, do word processing, and organize their photos. Upgrade-happy geeks are a tiny sliver of the overall market.
That was a FLDS compound, you idiot. Those guys were not Mormons. A lot of them were probably ex-Mormons who got kicked out of the mainstream church a long time ago for pulling that shit.
The iMac was the beginning. Apple was back in the black long before the iPod/iTunes became a hot item.
Maxed? Those will take up to 512MB of RAM, which was enough to run 10.3 comfortably, even 10.4 if you used XPostFacto.
Um, no, anything using a Core Duo is 32-bit, which means the first gen of all Intel Macs with the exception of the Mac Pro. The Core 2 Duo was a 64-bit CPU, not the Core Duo.
Yeah, because Cuba is a worker's paradise, isn't it? You're a fucking idiot.
Except for him using massive amounts of material DIRECTLY from the Harry Potter books, such as quoting large passages of text excessively. That is a very clear violation of copyright law no matter how much you cite it. Rowling saw nothing wrong with the encyclopedia UNTIL HE WENT COMMERCIAL WITH IT. Pretty big reason.
Only if they had the little annotation and footnote that indicated how they were measuring the space. If they had that, then screw this lawsuit. If not, then screw Creative. Can't say they didn't have it coming after that retarded patent suit against Apple for what? Column view on an MP3 player?
And Card is full of shit and has no idea what he's talking about. You can write non-commercial works all you want and nobody is going to care. If you publish something for profit without permission that is based soley on someone else's work, then you get sued, end of story.
The other difference is that this encyclopedia is directly using Rowling's work, not borrowing themes that have been used a hundred thousand times over. There's a HUGE difference that Card is completely missing here.
Oh, bullshit. Grown men who read them and enjoy them are one thing. Grown men who get obsessive about them are something completely different. Learn to differentiate between the two and you wont come off sounding like an asshole.
Wow, that was a monstrous load of idiotic, trolling drivel, and from an AC no less. Go back to Digg, numbnuts.