I highly doubt that you need to make a second brand to help casual gamers more readily adopt casual games. Usually casual games are far cheaper to begin with and usually give away the fact they are are rather simple concepts. I'd say a casual gamer is far less likely to look for a brand within a brand and far more likely to pick up an affordable title that looks enjoyable.
Well, that's because Access is a cooperative as far as I know so it's as close to a private crown corporation you can get which is why they're actually interested in providing service. As far as I can tell Sasktel doesn't touch my bandwith at all. It wouldn't make sense anyways because they're held accountable to their customers because they own them. I personally love Sasktel, it's one of the few thing's I'd miss if I left this province. Although from experience when I worked at Access, there are some people out there who absolutely hate them.
"Wouldn't it be smarter to have a "risk team" playing around for the next release while the current release is being polished so that when the rest of the team starts working on the next release there's already been enough time on it to make sure it is production quality?"
They have this already, it's called DEBIAN. As I recall, the dissatisfaction with that model is one o0f the things that brought Ubuntu to the forefront in the first place. Well, that and the free discs.
For some schools thin clients are impractical, I know it my school, mind you I don't live in the states so I can't say what it's like there, but at my school we have full blown animation and film courses along with some heavy photoshop classes. For situations like this you'd need a pretty powerful server and it ends up being more trouble than it's worth.
Wrong. Unless Grandma sits next to the child during every second of gameplay, sharing in the experience with him, it is not even remotely the same circumstance. The situation would be closer to Grandma getting the kid inside a theater where an R-rated movie is playing, and then leaving him to his own devices.
Maybe it's just me, but doesn't the second circustance seem worse than the original?
I never said the 360 should have won did I? However, I think a running prototype could win, it's still hardware, not a final set, but it's working hardware. However a mock-up is not hardware, it's a paper weight.
Only at E3 can a peice of hardware that isn't even running win Best Hardware/Peripheral. I guess the bevelling on the mock-up was just that good. Sheesh!
I thought the defination of a casual gamer was someone who played games merely for a few hours of enjoyment each week on any genre. A hardcore gamer whose speaciality lies in puzzle and logic games is nevertheless a hardcore gamer. since did one have to play an FPS to qualify as a gamer?
There is nothing "simple" about having a different package upgrade mechanism for every program.
and there's nothing simple about going to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manger then having to login to root then click mark all upgrades then click apply then in apply the following changes click apply again then the user watches packages with obscure names download to the computer then the user gets to watch a terminal window pop-up that the user have no idea what it's doing(I'm sure that's comforting to a new user)God help if there's a Yes No prompt during these installs.
how is this any easier than most mmdern standalone applications that check for an update notify you take you exactly to the site where there's a big button that says download and all you have to do is click download it, extract it and drag it into your applications folder or if you want you can even leave it on the desktop.
Further more if something goes wrong with this package manager that breaks the system how is the user going to know what the hell happened? At least this way they have a vague idea of what exactly they installed and since most apps on OS X don't require you to install them as root, very few of these can permanently damage the system. whereas if you're running synaptic and you experience a power-failure there can be some not so pretty results.
And lastly when the user is tired of a program and no longer wants it on their computer all they have to do is drag it into their trash and all that's left is their preference files in case they want to reinstall the program at a later date.
Package managers are great for seasoned admins, but they are dangerous in the hands of an unexperienced user.
This software is definately a preview. I tried to watch the keynote on it from WWDC. The picture was slow as hell(Took steve fifteen minutes to get on stage) and the audio feed was talking about intel processors. Man, somebody sure messed up that feed.
Oh come on let's be serious, Windows doesn't even blue screen anymore, I can't understand how people can be so juvenile over something so small as a CPU. Apple is a buisness and if switching to Intel is what they want to do, more power(no pun intended) to them. If x86 was really as bad as these so called "experts" make it out to be, it would have died years ago, much less beat the PPC in benchmarks on several occasions. For the record I used an Apple PC(yes, contrary to popular beleif a mac qualifies as a personal computer) for the first 17 years of my life. However this past year for cost reasons I got my brother's old PC in my room and not wanting to run windows I chose linux, but I still feared the worst because I had always been lead to beleive that the x86 is "inferior" to PPC. Despite the slight reduction in eye candy between OSs, I've had a no less enjoyable experince on the x86 I had on any of the various macs I've used.
You can blame the marketing department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation for that one. I swear those mindless jerks will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
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The number one reason gaming will never become an olympic sport
BAWLS (and other assorted energy drinks)
I mean, think of the doping scandals!
I highly doubt that you need to make a second brand to help casual gamers more readily adopt casual games. Usually casual games are far cheaper to begin with and usually give away the fact they are are rather simple concepts. I'd say a casual gamer is far less likely to look for a brand within a brand and far more likely to pick up an affordable title that looks enjoyable.
Blu-Ray Should Have Been Optional on PS3?
Should the title been worded as a question, rather than a statement?
Well, that's because Access is a cooperative as far as I know so it's as close to a private crown corporation you can get which is why they're actually interested in providing service. As far as I can tell Sasktel doesn't touch my bandwith at all. It wouldn't make sense anyways because they're held accountable to their customers because they own them. I personally love Sasktel, it's one of the few thing's I'd miss if I left this province. Although from experience when I worked at Access, there are some people out there who absolutely hate them.
"Wouldn't it be smarter to have a "risk team" playing around for the next release while the current release is being polished so that when the rest of the team starts working on the next release there's already been enough time on it to make sure it is production quality?"
They have this already, it's called DEBIAN. As I recall, the dissatisfaction with that model is one o0f the things that brought Ubuntu to the forefront in the first place. Well, that and the free discs.
If you hadn't noticed, most DVDs these days have DRM on them too. So Eeither way you're going to have to break DRM.
to get the first post, which I'm sure I've missed
For some schools thin clients are impractical, I know it my school, mind you I don't live in the states so I can't say what it's like there, but at my school we have full blown animation and film courses along with some heavy photoshop classes. For situations like this you'd need a pretty powerful server and it ends up being more trouble than it's worth.
Looks like someone's pulling for adsense hits.
Maybe it's just me, but doesn't the second circustance seem worse than the original?
Although in all honesty what major gaming website can't we say this about?
I never said the 360 should have won did I? However, I think a running prototype could win, it's still hardware, not a final set, but it's working hardware. However a mock-up is not hardware, it's a paper weight.
Says the Anonymous Coward
It's like the nexus of the universe!
Only at E3 can a peice of hardware that isn't even running win Best Hardware/Peripheral. I guess the bevelling on the mock-up was just that good. Sheesh!
I thought the defination of a casual gamer was someone who played games merely for a few hours of enjoyment each week on any genre. A hardcore gamer whose speaciality lies in puzzle and logic games is nevertheless a hardcore gamer. since did one have to play an FPS to qualify as a gamer?
There is nothing "simple" about having a different package upgrade mechanism for every program.
and there's nothing simple about going to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manger
then having to login to root
then click mark all upgrades
then click apply
then in apply the following changes click apply again
then the user watches packages with obscure names download to the computer
then the user gets to watch a terminal window pop-up that the user have no idea what it's doing(I'm sure that's comforting to a new user)God help if there's a Yes No prompt during these installs.
how is this any easier than most mmdern standalone applications that check for an update notify you take you exactly to the site where there's a big button that says download and all you have to do is click download it, extract it and drag it into your applications folder or if you want you can even leave it on the desktop.
Further more if something goes wrong with this package manager that breaks the system how is the user going to know what the hell happened? At least this way they have a vague idea of what exactly they installed and since most apps on OS X don't require you to install them as root, very few of these can permanently damage the system. whereas if you're running synaptic and you experience a power-failure there can be some not so pretty results.
And lastly when the user is tired of a program and no longer wants it on their computer all they have to do is drag it into their trash and all that's left is their preference files in case they want to reinstall the program at a later date.
Package managers are great for seasoned admins, but they are dangerous in the hands of an unexperienced user.
This software is definately a preview. I tried to watch the keynote on it from WWDC. The picture was slow as hell(Took steve fifteen minutes to get on stage) and the audio feed was talking about intel processors. Man, somebody sure messed up that feed.
Well it's the closest you can get to an all-in-one x86 iMac... ...wait a minute.
In Soviet Russia, FAT beefs up YOU.
Which would you prefer?
Hey-Oh!
or
Zing!
Oh come on let's be serious, Windows doesn't even blue screen anymore, I can't understand how people can be so juvenile over something so small as a CPU. Apple is a buisness and if switching to Intel is what they want to do, more power(no pun intended) to them. If x86 was really as bad as these so called "experts" make it out to be, it would have died years ago, much less beat the PPC in benchmarks on several occasions. For the record I used an Apple PC(yes, contrary to popular beleif a mac qualifies as a personal computer) for the first 17 years of my life. However this past year for cost reasons I got my brother's old PC in my room and not wanting to run windows I chose linux, but I still feared the worst because I had always been lead to beleive that the x86 is "inferior" to PPC. Despite the slight reduction in eye candy between OSs, I've had a no less enjoyable experince on the x86 I had on any of the various macs I've used.
That is one of the most inconsiderate things you could have ever done. You didn't even post a spoiler warning.
You can blame the marketing department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation for that one. I swear those mindless jerks will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Considering there is no Sasketchewan, I'm not surprised. Now Saskatchewan, there's a bunch of bastards if I've ever seen one.
Yes, I do live in Saskatchewan.