This expansion funding gives us the ability to move even more aggressively in key areas of our business and further accelerate our company's strategy and growth.
I'm glad they got money, bu jesus, this is like scraping my brain with sandpaper. Please speak English about what you;re actually doing, we're happy about it.
I agree that this is really the best solution. I ripped my entire collection over the span of about 2 weeks. Pop in a CD, fire it up, walk away. I'd be willing to bet that the original poster spends a lot of time sitting near a computer. Just load up another one and keep it rolling when it ejects.
Plus, Darwine's getting to be very close to a stable Universal Binary release, and all the non-gaming apps should be workable.
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I've been gaming since the Atari 2600. Since then I've bought the Intellivision Colecovision, NES, SNES, TG-16, Jaguar (hey, it dropped to $30 at a local game store), PSX, PS2 and an xbox. I've also had a gaming PC since Wolf3D. So I'm into my gaming.
These days I wander into a game store wish cash in my pocket, look through everything there, and walk out empty-handed. Nothing sounds interesting.
Maybe I'm just no longer the target market, because I've been there and done that. I'll play every GTA game that comes out, but really, there's been almost nothing new in a long, LONG time.
If Nintendo can come up with something new and compelling, I'd be interested.
That's really weird, as I was walking to work this morning I was wishing that someone would take Palm from it's current state of elegant crashiness and do something wonderful with it like apple did going from os9 to osx.
Not as much as they're supposed to, or could. Beyond that being the mantra of those trying to keep games like GTA on the market, the fact is that most educational software is teaching kids to "click here, then here," and kids aren't really understanding why.
That is a gross generalization, but in many cases it's true, and if you spend an afternoon with a child playing educational games, you'll start to see it. My nieces can blow through a Carmen Sandiego game in no time, but they couldn't tell you a single thing it was supposed to teach them.
A guy gets arrested for tricking people into giving him passwords and then using them.
a decade later, he's an industry pundit, and people pay attention to what he says. How many thousands of people did the same things Mitnick did, but didn't get caught?
Well, I agree with you, but I could see paying like $10 for the game, to cover packaging and shipping and all the distribution stuff, but if you're going to hit me for $10-15/month just to play the game, don't charge $50-60 for it. That's ludicrous.
Well, it amazes me that everyone instantly starts thinking of third-world countries when they read this, because my first thought was that America's farmers might actually start making money again.
See, we have farmers right here in the U.S. of A., and they've been hurting for decades due to the same conglomeration of power that most other small businesses are getting screwed by. There's a single company in Texas called Dean Foods that controls something like 95% of the milk market.
I'm overly idealistic, I'll agree with that, but I'd love to see our farmers start makign money again, and this would be a great way to do it.
Imagine land becoming valuable again for something other than pavement and condos....
Well, there's a Dell laptop, a Thinkpad and a Powerbook in my house.
The Powerbook is always grabbed first.
It just feels a lot more solid than any other laptop I've ever used, it's more compact, and in all honesty, I just prefer OSx to Windows or the Ubuntu/Gentoo/Fedora laptops I've built.
Yes, people buy Apple hardware for the cases, especially the laptops.
Yes, you can buy and build a PC in an outrageous case that makes people drool, but when there's a turnkey solution with the reliability of an appliance, people will buy it.
What is stopping Apple or another software company from offering the best darn interface for programmers and users to work with, and then find the processor to wrap the interface around?
Apple is not a software company. They are a hardware company. It's that simple. They build really solid, nifty hardware that apparently reaches fetish level for a certain market, and they've learned to turn that market into money.
The problem with being completely platform agnostic is that they would compeltely have to change their product line and manufacturing processes far too often, plus all of the porting from platform to platform would be a nightmare of its own.
This wasn't a knee-jerk reaction, Appple was unable to build a fast laptop, and IBM couldn't offer them anything competitive with what was happening on the x86 side of things. I've got the latest Powerbook G4, which is the best, fastest laptop Apple could offer until now, and it's just too far behind the curve. Would you rather they remained there, while IBM worked on other things and didn't care?
The news is about the cost per iMac, but this being/., everyone is focusing on the reason for switching, since it has already been rehashed a thousand times and they're comfortable flaming about it.
Really, what this article is saying is that Apple is only making $450 per low-end iMac sold, based on their own estimates, which are most likely wrong.
(Slashdot reader) writes, "(Uknown pundit) wrote an article about (Technology that we're not currently fond of), based on conjecture and personal opinion. Does this mean that (Technology flavor of the month) is taking over?
I really like the UI of Palm, it's a very elegant way to interact with a handheld. WinCE is just annoying as hell to me. I've used PalmOS since version 2 and I really like it. I tried WinCE (or whatever they're calling it now) a couple of times for a month or so at a stretch, and I just wanted to run the device over with my car. I'm not an anti-MS zealot or anything, I just think that they don't know how to build a handheld UI that can match the simplicity of Palm.
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Would it be possible to boot Linux from the SD card, or must the phone be flashed?
They already have a pay-to-watch model, so they wouldn't be screwing traditional outlets as much as the networks, and MAN it would be nice to be able to get HBO tv shows without having to pay for the rest of the crap cable and satellite force you to pay for.
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This expansion funding gives us the ability to move even more aggressively in key areas of our business and further accelerate our company's strategy and growth.
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I'm glad they got money, bu jesus, this is like scraping my brain with sandpaper. Please speak English about what you;re actually doing, we're happy about it.
I agree that this is really the best solution. I ripped my entire collection over the span of about 2 weeks. Pop in a CD, fire it up, walk away. I'd be willing to bet that the original poster spends a lot of time sitting near a computer. Just load up another one and keep it rolling when it ejects.
Internet Talks About Dvorak Again.
Come one, are we trained monkeys? Who gives a crap?
Or flings one?
Plus, Darwine's getting to be very close to a stable Universal Binary release, and all the non-gaming apps should be workable.
I've been gaming since the Atari 2600. Since then I've bought the Intellivision Colecovision, NES, SNES, TG-16, Jaguar (hey, it dropped to $30 at a local game store), PSX, PS2 and an xbox. I've also had a gaming PC since Wolf3D. So I'm into my gaming.
These days I wander into a game store wish cash in my pocket, look through everything there, and walk out empty-handed. Nothing sounds interesting.
Maybe I'm just no longer the target market, because I've been there and done that. I'll play every GTA game that comes out, but really, there's been almost nothing new in a long, LONG time.
If Nintendo can come up with something new and compelling, I'd be interested.
No, you're thinking Clapcrap.
It's like it's 1996 already!
but.... but.... all Republicans are pro-free-market, right?
That's really weird, as I was walking to work this morning I was wishing that someone would take Palm from it's current state of elegant crashiness and do something wonderful with it like apple did going from os9 to osx.
I doubt it's true, but it would be nice.
Thresh was a Quake player. He was the first gamer to win $100,000 (and a Ferrari) playing games, and so he was dubbed "The Michael Jordan of Gaming."
He's in Wikipedia too.
Not as much as they're supposed to, or could. Beyond that being the mantra of those trying to keep games like GTA on the market, the fact is that most educational software is teaching kids to "click here, then here," and kids aren't really understanding why.
That is a gross generalization, but in many cases it's true, and if you spend an afternoon with a child playing educational games, you'll start to see it. My nieces can blow through a Carmen Sandiego game in no time, but they couldn't tell you a single thing it was supposed to teach them.
We've got a long, long way to go.
I can get my computer off the desk and stick it to the wall.
"Wall mounted keyboards... It must be.... the FUTURE!" - Crow T. Robot
A guy gets arrested for tricking people into giving him passwords and then using them.
a decade later, he's an industry pundit, and people pay attention to what he says. How many thousands of people did the same things Mitnick did, but didn't get caught?
Should we worry about their opinions too?
Well, I agree with you, but I could see paying like $10 for the game, to cover packaging and shipping and all the distribution stuff, but if you're going to hit me for $10-15/month just to play the game, don't charge $50-60 for it. That's ludicrous.
Well, it amazes me that everyone instantly starts thinking of third-world countries when they read this, because my first thought was that America's farmers might actually start making money again.
See, we have farmers right here in the U.S. of A., and they've been hurting for decades due to the same conglomeration of power that most other small businesses are getting screwed by. There's a single company in Texas called Dean Foods that controls something like 95% of the milk market.
I'm overly idealistic, I'll agree with that, but I'd love to see our farmers start makign money again, and this would be a great way to do it.
Imagine land becoming valuable again for something other than pavement and condos....
Well, there's a Dell laptop, a Thinkpad and a Powerbook in my house.
The Powerbook is always grabbed first.
It just feels a lot more solid than any other laptop I've ever used, it's more compact, and in all honesty, I just prefer OSx to Windows or the Ubuntu/Gentoo/Fedora laptops I've built.
Yes, people buy Apple hardware for the cases, especially the laptops.
Yes, you can buy and build a PC in an outrageous case that makes people drool, but when there's a turnkey solution with the reliability of an appliance, people will buy it.
They didn't mention battery life even ONCE during the keynote, and there's no mention of it anywhere on the web that I've been able to find.
My Macbook should be in the first shipment (my department is paying for it, not me), I'm eager to see how long it will last.
What is stopping Apple or another software company from offering the best darn interface for programmers and users to work with, and then find the processor to wrap the interface around?
Apple is not a software company. They are a hardware company. It's that simple. They build really solid, nifty hardware that apparently reaches fetish level for a certain market, and they've learned to turn that market into money.
The problem with being completely platform agnostic is that they would compeltely have to change their product line and manufacturing processes far too often, plus all of the porting from platform to platform would be a nightmare of its own.
This wasn't a knee-jerk reaction, Appple was unable to build a fast laptop, and IBM couldn't offer them anything competitive with what was happening on the x86 side of things. I've got the latest Powerbook G4, which is the best, fastest laptop Apple could offer until now, and it's just too far behind the curve. Would you rather they remained there, while IBM worked on other things and didn't care?
The news is about the cost per iMac, but this being /., everyone is focusing on the reason for switching, since it has already been rehashed a thousand times and they're comfortable flaming about it.
Really, what this article is saying is that Apple is only making $450 per low-end iMac sold, based on their own estimates, which are most likely wrong.
Why is THAT news? You got me.
(Slashdot reader) writes, "(Uknown pundit) wrote an article about (Technology that we're not currently fond of), based on conjecture and personal opinion. Does this mean that (Technology flavor of the month) is taking over?
I really like the UI of Palm, it's a very elegant way to interact with a handheld. WinCE is just annoying as hell to me. I've used PalmOS since version 2 and I really like it. I tried WinCE (or whatever they're calling it now) a couple of times for a month or so at a stretch, and I just wanted to run the device over with my car. I'm not an anti-MS zealot or anything, I just think that they don't know how to build a handheld UI that can match the simplicity of Palm.
Would it be possible to boot Linux from the SD card, or must the phone be flashed?
...maybe "rootkit can become a word too?
They already have a pay-to-watch model, so they wouldn't be screwing traditional outlets as much as the networks, and MAN it would be nice to be able to get HBO tv shows without having to pay for the rest of the crap cable and satellite force you to pay for.