Nobody but a couple of geeks care about DS homebrew, and the rest of the world will instantly see that DS flashcarts are used almost exclusively to pirate games (which is, in fact the truth, don't even try to deny it). This isn't a PR disaster for Nintendo at all.
Please tell me one reason why I should run the pro apps that I use 90% of my workday in Wine. Money isn't one (I paid thousands of dollars for these apps, I can easily afford a Windows/Mac OS license) and the warm fuzzy feeling of free software isn't either (Adobe isn't much less evil than Microsoft/Apple). Not to mention Wine doesn't support everything or the newest versions. It's fine for the dude that absolutely needs Photoshop once in a while and mostly uses Emacs, but it makes absolutely zero sense in a pro media environment.
How about something that can replace Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut or Logic?
No, GIMP, Inkscape, Cinelerra/Blender or Audacity don't count. All of those are good enough to do the kind of media stuff programmers occasionally have to do, but totally incapable of replacing a full featured pro app.
"Waggling" is a common derisive term for the Wiimote gimmick. Its motion sensing is not precise enough for many applications, but no Wii game can possibly go without using this "innovation", so many games (notably Zelda TP) just replaced pressing a button with shaking ("waggling") the Wiimote.
It means you could model every little brick and bit of mortar, down to the tiniest scratch, and it wouldn't slow the game down (up to the limit of the number of vertices you can store in memory). It wouldn't slow down rendering, but it would certainly slow down development time; someone has to model all those bricks, you know. It's a much more feasible approach to just get a good programmer to write some creative pixel shaders to fake details, especially for static, decorative geometry. Raytracing is a geek's wet dream, because geeks like accurate stuff, but does not autmatically translate to a better look. Getting more bling by cutting a few corners will win over people who don't know the difference between rasterizing any day. I suppose we will get a couple of games that mostly consist of reflective spheres though - kind of like the stencil shadow demo that was Doom 3.
The undercarriage, suspension is still made of traditional 'old' materials i.e. steel It's based on the Z8, which has an aluminum undercarriage (which isn't all that unusual either). Thanks for trying though, but you really shouldn't assume each car built in the last 10 years is structurally identical to your old Pinto.
But most other musical styles don't have album covers that look like they're straight out of a DnD sourcebook. Mind you, in my experience most non-idiotic DnDers are metal fans as well.
If you bought at versions of OS X ever, you're at $650 in the wost case (probably lower; you likely at least bought a new Mac in the meantime, which s one license less, and OS X only really came into its own with 10.2, so many people didn't buy it before).
In comparison, for Windows' top of the line editions of in the same time period (XP and Vista), you paid about $500. Note that OEM and system builder version of OS X don't exist for obvious reasons, so you can't compare those. And nobody ever said Macs were cheap. But it's certainly not outrageous.
the ability to get 5 years out of their pro machines The G4 stopped production almost exactly 4 years ago. And it may be a year until 10.6 actually comes out. Plus, it's not like a new OS release suddenly makes your G4 stop working just because you can't install it.
In any case, your rule is working. If you want to reconsider your position, go ahead, but you'll have to justify it to yourself a little more congruently.
I have to say any subscription based service makes me uneasy. You probably bought the internet wholesale instead of subscribing for access to it. Right?
1. Security specialists are worried about poeple doing mischief on planes and want to spot them before something happens.
2. They tell the airlines they have to watch the passengers better.
3. Turns out you need actual people for this, who may or may not even be able to spot that casually.
4. ??? aka Technology fixes everything!
5. PROFIT (I guess some company will earn a good sum developing this)
The second part is basically a restating of the old rule that hobbyist developers will scratch THEIR itch, not that of others. SO we have a bunch of very good FOSS coding tools and server software, but usability for non-developers is still lacking, if they even try. Still, it's true, even if geeks will scoff at it and go NYA NYA YOU CAN'T MAKE ME, doubly so if Miscrosoft employees say it - which is kind of sad.
In the previous article we learned that meaningful and useful features would not be included. No, in the previous article we learned that something that never was meant to be in it and does not even matter at all (the MinWin kernel) will not be in fact, included. In this one we learn that W7 is still far too slow to make its new GUI usable. Did nobody notice how laggy that thing is? I wouldn't want to use that.
You think that's an alternative? That's like saying bash is an alternative to KDE. It's just that this "download video to look at it" was getting pretty annoying ten years ago; I guess some people consider inline images decadent as well. I personally consider that attitude the geek equivalent of "640k should be enough for anybody".
The problems with Vista have little to do with the kernel. And MinWin was never promised as a W7 feature (it's really not MS' fault that people thought of it that way). In fact, what the hell, who cares about the kernel anyway, the NT kernel was always good and will likely continue to be. The big question if MS will manage to clean up their historic userland crap and plus the new userland crap they introduced in Vista.
There is no alternative to Flash. Flash would likely be marginalized by now if FLV hadn't come along; it saved Flash's ass and, to Adobe's credit, made ubiquitous video on the web a reality. Seriously, remember the olden days? Quicktime and WMV, of which the former works fine on Mac OS but is an abomination of a plugin on Windows (easily worse than Flash), and the latter being what you went with if you wanted shit to work for at least the majority of people, even though it was horrible and, philosophically speaking, just plain WRONG? Or use Java, with its massive startup time and memory footprint, to play the pretty laughable (right now) Theora codec? Flash is (relatively) fast, crossplatform, and EVERYWHERE, so it's the smallest of a whole lot of evils. Unless you want Google to include a video layer in their toolbar, and therefore be forced to istall it, your best bet is to bother Adobe to make Flash more secure.
Software you are talking about is business, or should be business. I fundamentally disagree with this statement. Business is part of the software ecosystem. But software, including operating systems, can and should be written, distributed and used outside of a business context. Well, I'd have to disagree with this. Even if something is free (in any meaning), that does not means it's not in a business context. Linux and any BSD, which are the only OSs mentioned in here so far, are very much Business (Serious Business, even *rimshot*). At most, they are anti-business, but just negating everything does not actually make all that different (the ol' flip side of the same coin thing). There are some non-business OSs out there, but those are the really obscure hobbyist ones like Menuet.
Put it on iTunes or wind up like all the "Plays For Sure" suckers did. Is there a supportable, platform agnostic DRM available for the movie industry? No there isn't, because FOSS OS users don't want DRM to begin with - which is a noble cause but, of course, also prohibits them from playing nice with The Man until the revolution finally comes. Which is most likely a very negligible loss, but you really shouldn't whine about not being able to watch DRM'd movies on Linux, because it's a feature, not a bug.
Donating to Stallman's fan club hardly makes the world a better place, I'd rather donate to the Catholic Church. If you must, donate to the SI (which is a lot more pragmatic).
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Nobody but a couple of geeks care about DS homebrew, and the rest of the world will instantly see that DS flashcarts are used almost exclusively to pirate games (which is, in fact the truth, don't even try to deny it). This isn't a PR disaster for Nintendo at all.
Please tell me one reason why I should run the pro apps that I use 90% of my workday in Wine. Money isn't one (I paid thousands of dollars for these apps, I can easily afford a Windows/Mac OS license) and the warm fuzzy feeling of free software isn't either (Adobe isn't much less evil than Microsoft/Apple). Not to mention Wine doesn't support everything or the newest versions. It's fine for the dude that absolutely needs Photoshop once in a while and mostly uses Emacs, but it makes absolutely zero sense in a pro media environment.
How about something that can replace Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut or Logic?
No, GIMP, Inkscape, Cinelerra/Blender or Audacity don't count. All of those are good enough to do the kind of media stuff programmers occasionally have to do, but totally incapable of replacing a full featured pro app.
"Waggling" is a common derisive term for the Wiimote gimmick. Its motion sensing is not precise enough for many applications, but no Wii game can possibly go without using this "innovation", so many games (notably Zelda TP) just replaced pressing a button with shaking ("waggling") the Wiimote.
But most other musical styles don't have album covers that look like they're straight out of a DnD sourcebook. Mind you, in my experience most non-idiotic DnDers are metal fans as well.
Apple themselves don't support PPC Macs fully anymore. Try to run the iPhone SDK on a G5 some time.
If you bought at versions of OS X ever, you're at $650 in the wost case (probably lower; you likely at least bought a new Mac in the meantime, which s one license less, and OS X only really came into its own with 10.2, so many people didn't buy it before).
In comparison, for Windows' top of the line editions of in the same time period (XP and Vista), you paid about $500. Note that OEM and system builder version of OS X don't exist for obvious reasons, so you can't compare those. And nobody ever said Macs were cheap. But it's certainly not outrageous.
In any case, your rule is working. If you want to reconsider your position, go ahead, but you'll have to justify it to yourself a little more congruently.
People have lost their jobs for picking their nose at the wrong time. That means pretty much nothing.
1. Security specialists are worried about poeple doing mischief on planes and want to spot them before something happens.
2. They tell the airlines they have to watch the passengers better.
3. Turns out you need actual people for this, who may or may not even be able to spot that casually.
4. ??? aka Technology fixes everything!
5. PROFIT (I guess some company will earn a good sum developing this)
The second part is basically a restating of the old rule that hobbyist developers will scratch THEIR itch, not that of others. SO we have a bunch of very good FOSS coding tools and server software, but usability for non-developers is still lacking, if they even try. Still, it's true, even if geeks will scoff at it and go NYA NYA YOU CAN'T MAKE ME, doubly so if Miscrosoft employees say it - which is kind of sad.
Because only people who love stuff like that play NetHack in the first place.
You think that's an alternative? That's like saying bash is an alternative to KDE. It's just that this "download video to look at it" was getting pretty annoying ten years ago; I guess some people consider inline images decadent as well. I personally consider that attitude the geek equivalent of "640k should be enough for anybody".
The problems with Vista have little to do with the kernel. And MinWin was never promised as a W7 feature (it's really not MS' fault that people thought of it that way). In fact, what the hell, who cares about the kernel anyway, the NT kernel was always good and will likely continue to be. The big question if MS will manage to clean up their historic userland crap and plus the new userland crap they introduced in Vista.
There is no alternative to Flash. Flash would likely be marginalized by now if FLV hadn't come along; it saved Flash's ass and, to Adobe's credit, made ubiquitous video on the web a reality. Seriously, remember the olden days? Quicktime and WMV, of which the former works fine on Mac OS but is an abomination of a plugin on Windows (easily worse than Flash), and the latter being what you went with if you wanted shit to work for at least the majority of people, even though it was horrible and, philosophically speaking, just plain WRONG? Or use Java, with its massive startup time and memory footprint, to play the pretty laughable (right now) Theora codec? Flash is (relatively) fast, crossplatform, and EVERYWHERE, so it's the smallest of a whole lot of evils. Unless you want Google to include a video layer in their toolbar, and therefore be forced to istall it, your best bet is to bother Adobe to make Flash more secure.
Oops, that was supposed to mean OSI (http://opensource.org/)
Donating to Stallman's fan club hardly makes the world a better place, I'd rather donate to the Catholic Church. If you must, donate to the SI (which is a lot more pragmatic).
I bought Portal for Mike Patton.