"'I know you're not going to consciously find these details particularly appealing," says Ives, 'but I think it's the fact that we've worried about all of them that makes the product so precious.'"
Then why do they matter? As long as my product works, and works well, and I notice the quality, shouldn't that be enough? Why should the product cost more money simply because someone labored over it to add features I will never notice? I don't buy a product because the developer decided to make it "precious" by worring about it too much. Just a thought.
Is something users are ready for but technology is not. Why must we continue to integrate multiple technologies in really shitty ways? Just wait 5 years for technology to catch up and things will be a lot better. There's already proof Apple should have waited. Look at the nano, it's got such tiny flash chips which are huge storage-wise. Wouldn't it have made sense to wait just a little while longer and put those in the ROKR? Yes, I know that technologies have to come out at some point, and that someone has to be an early player, but perhaps these players are a bit too early.
This would effectively cancel out the UK's recent successes in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and would have wider global implications as well.
In this case we have the earth releasing CO2 into the air, something we really don't have the means to stop. Although the net effect might mean the same emissions as before, at least the man made emissions are being reduced, that's what un-natural. If the earth is going to release some CO2, that's something that would have happened anyway. So that's not exactly "cancelling out" the effect.
You do realize that many of the features in Longhorn/Vista (most importantly WinFS) were due for Windows NT 3.x? The creators of NT were way before their time, but typical Microsoft screwed everything up. If Windows NT 3.x had the features originally planned, I don't think Windows would nearly suck as much as it does now. Instead they have spent 10 years trying to add the features that were supposed to be there in the first place. Imagine where we could be instead. A world where Microsoft might actually not suck. But instead here we are, wishing Longhorn/Vista had all those nice features that would make our experience with Windows (face it, you can't escape from it all the time) a little nicer. Those "MEGA-AWESOME MUST BUY features" have been delayed so long that I'm sure Microsoft doesn't mind leaving them out for later.
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How is that a problem? Look at their demo page. Whoopdeedoo. Now I can stare at a SquirrelMail login screen. Still haven't gotten access to much of anything that I'm not supposed to. Heck, there are plenty of websites offering e-mail through SquirrelMail. Whatever...
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1) From the picture sets posted, it is obviously the same mobo in the same computer, take a look at the whole image and you'll see that's really hard to fake. If it was surely someone would have dismissed the image by now.
2) Well, the second point is mute. This article says that TPM doesn't exist on the dev kits. It obviously does. Another element is the fact that shipping out some dev kits with the chip and others without is fantastically stupid. Dev kits are supposed to simulate a users machine. What's a dev supposed to do if his kit has a bug that others aren't experiencing? Just suck it up and continue on? Not for $1500.
ARCchart do allow that the porting process would be possible if technically not an easy feat. This rather understates the difficulty involved. The strength of Symbian is and always has been the fact it has been designed as a mobile OS from the beginning of its life. From release 6 onwards it has been designed with mobile telephony at the heart of the OS. As a result the Symbian OS is structured is some fundamentally different ways to other OSs. Power and performance management are key considerations in design from the kernel upwards. As a result the Symbian OS is the most powerful mobile OS available. It would require fundamental changes in Linuxs core to achieve similar specifications.
Okay, I have to continue my commentary...
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He claims that the N-Gage will succeed in the fact that it will have the largest installed user base. N-Gage game compatable phones will be purchased by people who don't care, and ignorant pundits will then claim that means it's a successful console. When can we start measuring success in games sold, not consoles? It's the games where the money is made after all...
As if the N-Gage comment didn't throw me off...
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...this had me really going: "It's the same reason US cars are better than Japanese cars: We've been doing it longer."
What a great joke site, that's the funniest thing I've seen all day...oh...wait...that's not a joke? Oh...sad...
Who really cares what Dvorak thinks? Yeah yeah, "Score: -1, Redundant", but I'm making quite a different point here. Most people so far are pointing out that Slashdot sure links there a lot, and boy is Dvorak negative, but really now, what has Dvorak done in the past that lead us to at least listen to his b*tching? I'm actually kinda seriously asking that question, as opposed to just rhetorically, because I really want to know what he did that somehow made some people respect his judgement as a pundit. I seem him everwhere it seems, but he never seems to make any sound statements, so what was the sound statement that gained people's trust? Or is his just another media-hyped, uptight, over critical whiner?
Here's how I think about the current ratings fiasco:
For years video games rated by the ESRB have had short explanations which tell you exactly why the game recieved the rating that it did. Recently, the movie industry began to do the same. To me, this indicates that the game industry in fact is doing a better job with their system than the movie industry. Not only that, but you can go to many many many stores and rent/buy R rated movies, no matter what your age. So what's the deal here? Why on Earth are we so content to put down the video game industry. I don't really CARE what kind of bullsh*t is flying around, at least we can fling mud where mud is due. Or is that just too much to ask in a society where politics is not driven by anything close to what is good for the country, but only what is good for the candidate.
Does it matter? The point is that it's locked content that's not intended to be accessable, and thus doesn't contribute to the games rating and is not Rockstar's responsiblity. Yes, they should be more careful about leaving bits and pieces in, but no, if it takes someone else's external mod to activate it, that is not their problem. For example, what if someone took the Unreal engine and created a game on top of it to train terrorists. Then the terrorists used this training to kill people. Is that the Unreal engine creator's fault? No, someone just took their engine and without their knowledge created something else with it. Not their problem, nor should they be held responsible for the games content.
"but I can say confidently that public education in my country sucks."
You can? Really? Have you BEEN to every public school in America? I'm a product of FCPS and I can definately say they don't suck. It's one of the best school systems around. People come from many countries around the world to take a look at TJHSST, the local magnet school. Obviously some school systems in America don't suck if people from many diverse countries want to take a look at how we do things around here...
Sweatshop? How? To me it looks like a bunch of teens and college students who are doing an easy job (and even on computers! how fun!) to make a little extra cash while their superiors profit massively. Sounds like the typical teen job. Go look at a grocery store or a fast food resturant, heck, even an internship. It's making the company a lot of money (even indirectly, think how much money they save in productivity if an intern is getting the coffee), and yet the student doesn't get much cash. So where is the outrage on our side?
I live over here in North America, and I've heard of Greatest Hits games (they have red bars on the boxes), and they come in at $20. I've never seen a Platinum title, nor do I know what it is. I would assume it was equivalent to the Greatest Hits collection here in North America, but, the fact that after a LOWERING of the price they still cost more than Greatest Hits kinda throws me off. What gives?
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"'I know you're not going to consciously find these details particularly appealing," says Ives, 'but I think it's the fact that we've worried about all of them that makes the product so precious.'"
Then why do they matter? As long as my product works, and works well, and I notice the quality, shouldn't that be enough? Why should the product cost more money simply because someone labored over it to add features I will never notice? I don't buy a product because the developer decided to make it "precious" by worring about it too much. Just a thought.
Is something users are ready for but technology is not. Why must we continue to integrate multiple technologies in really shitty ways? Just wait 5 years for technology to catch up and things will be a lot better. There's already proof Apple should have waited. Look at the nano, it's got such tiny flash chips which are huge storage-wise. Wouldn't it have made sense to wait just a little while longer and put those in the ROKR? Yes, I know that technologies have to come out at some point, and that someone has to be an early player, but perhaps these players are a bit too early.
This would effectively cancel out the UK's recent successes in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and would have wider global implications as well.
In this case we have the earth releasing CO2 into the air, something we really don't have the means to stop. Although the net effect might mean the same emissions as before, at least the man made emissions are being reduced, that's what un-natural. If the earth is going to release some CO2, that's something that would have happened anyway. So that's not exactly "cancelling out" the effect.
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Well gee, I sure hope he did more research than that!
Anyone for 2.5GHz Pentium M, GeForce 7800 Go graphics and a 200GB RAID array
Sure, but that definately depends on battery life. RAIDs are old news, go see Hypersonic. But I wouldn't exactly consider those lugs laptops.
You do realize that many of the features in Longhorn/Vista (most importantly WinFS) were due for Windows NT 3.x? The creators of NT were way before their time, but typical Microsoft screwed everything up. If Windows NT 3.x had the features originally planned, I don't think Windows would nearly suck as much as it does now. Instead they have spent 10 years trying to add the features that were supposed to be there in the first place. Imagine where we could be instead. A world where Microsoft might actually not suck. But instead here we are, wishing Longhorn/Vista had all those nice features that would make our experience with Windows (face it, you can't escape from it all the time) a little nicer. Those "MEGA-AWESOME MUST BUY features" have been delayed so long that I'm sure Microsoft doesn't mind leaving them out for later.
Out of all the replies, yours made sense and you weren't an a**hole. Thank you, I now see the point.
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How is that a problem? Look at their demo page. Whoopdeedoo. Now I can stare at a SquirrelMail login screen. Still haven't gotten access to much of anything that I'm not supposed to. Heck, there are plenty of websites offering e-mail through SquirrelMail. Whatever...
But the anti-bullies are bullying the creators of Bully.
How ironic.
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This article says it's NOT there at all.
1) From the picture sets posted, it is obviously the same mobo in the same computer, take a look at the whole image and you'll see that's really hard to fake. If it was surely someone would have dismissed the image by now.
2) Well, the second point is mute. This article says that TPM doesn't exist on the dev kits. It obviously does. Another element is the fact that shipping out some dev kits with the chip and others without is fantastically stupid. Dev kits are supposed to simulate a users machine. What's a dev supposed to do if his kit has a bug that others aren't experiencing? Just suck it up and continue on? Not for $1500.
We break it down and let you decide:
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Also be sure to check out the updated TPM Resource Center and take a look at the chip information while you're at it.
Nokia to move off Symbian? Unlikely
ARCchart do allow that the porting process would be possible if technically not an easy feat. This rather understates the difficulty involved. The strength of Symbian is and always has been the fact it has been designed as a mobile OS from the beginning of its life. From release 6 onwards it has been designed with mobile telephony at the heart of the OS. As a result the Symbian OS is structured is some fundamentally different ways to other OSs. Power and performance management are key considerations in design from the kernel upwards. As a result the Symbian OS is the most powerful mobile OS available. It would require fundamental changes in Linuxs core to achieve similar specifications.
He claims that the N-Gage will succeed in the fact that it will have the largest installed user base. N-Gage game compatable phones will be purchased by people who don't care, and ignorant pundits will then claim that means it's a successful console. When can we start measuring success in games sold, not consoles? It's the games where the money is made after all...
...this had me really going: "It's the same reason US cars are better than Japanese cars: We've been doing it longer."
What a great joke site, that's the funniest thing I've seen all day...oh...wait...that's not a joke? Oh...sad...
Who really cares what Dvorak thinks? Yeah yeah, "Score: -1, Redundant", but I'm making quite a different point here. Most people so far are pointing out that Slashdot sure links there a lot, and boy is Dvorak negative, but really now, what has Dvorak done in the past that lead us to at least listen to his b*tching? I'm actually kinda seriously asking that question, as opposed to just rhetorically, because I really want to know what he did that somehow made some people respect his judgement as a pundit. I seem him everwhere it seems, but he never seems to make any sound statements, so what was the sound statement that gained people's trust? Or is his just another media-hyped, uptight, over critical whiner?
Here's how I think about the current ratings fiasco:
For years video games rated by the ESRB have had short explanations which tell you exactly why the game recieved the rating that it did. Recently, the movie industry began to do the same. To me, this indicates that the game industry in fact is doing a better job with their system than the movie industry. Not only that, but you can go to many many many stores and rent/buy R rated movies, no matter what your age. So what's the deal here? Why on Earth are we so content to put down the video game industry. I don't really CARE what kind of bullsh*t is flying around, at least we can fling mud where mud is due. Or is that just too much to ask in a society where politics is not driven by anything close to what is good for the country, but only what is good for the candidate.
Thanks for the article link! I love having it at my finger tips here on Slashdot!
Does it matter? The point is that it's locked content that's not intended to be accessable, and thus doesn't contribute to the games rating and is not Rockstar's responsiblity. Yes, they should be more careful about leaving bits and pieces in, but no, if it takes someone else's external mod to activate it, that is not their problem. For example, what if someone took the Unreal engine and created a game on top of it to train terrorists. Then the terrorists used this training to kill people. Is that the Unreal engine creator's fault? No, someone just took their engine and without their knowledge created something else with it. Not their problem, nor should they be held responsible for the games content.
It took about a day to load, but at least it did something! Try it Coralized.
But at least you can still control it! Use the Cell Phone Interface
"but I can say confidently that public education in my country sucks."
You can? Really? Have you BEEN to every public school in America? I'm a product of FCPS and I can definately say they don't suck. It's one of the best school systems around. People come from many countries around the world to take a look at TJHSST, the local magnet school. Obviously some school systems in America don't suck if people from many diverse countries want to take a look at how we do things around here...
Sweatshop? How? To me it looks like a bunch of teens and college students who are doing an easy job (and even on computers! how fun!) to make a little extra cash while their superiors profit massively. Sounds like the typical teen job. Go look at a grocery store or a fast food resturant, heck, even an internship. It's making the company a lot of money (even indirectly, think how much money they save in productivity if an intern is getting the coffee), and yet the student doesn't get much cash. So where is the outrage on our side?
I live over here in North America, and I've heard of Greatest Hits games (they have red bars on the boxes), and they come in at $20. I've never seen a Platinum title, nor do I know what it is. I would assume it was equivalent to the Greatest Hits collection here in North America, but, the fact that after a LOWERING of the price they still cost more than Greatest Hits kinda throws me off. What gives?