For a long time, it has seemed strange to me that a component/system manufacturer like ASUS hasn't built Linux distro that just plays media and games with a console interface. If they took Linux, added on XBMC, skinned it so that it appeared to be a console, and sold it with one of their motherboard already in a nice consolly case, they would be in the console market selling hardware at a profit. OK, they would need to do a little more than that. They would need to make the system hide anything Linuxy. That shouldn't be very hard. My TV already does it. If I didn't know what to look for, I would never know that it was a Linux system.
One of the big benefits that someone like ASUS would have with this is that they wouldn't need to manufacture a lot of custom parts. One of their already in production mother boards would be just fine. Other than the case, they wouldn't need to bring any new manufacturing on line to do it. Plus, the system would have 'Boot to Other OS' by default, and that other OS would be Windows.
It has always surprised me that someone like ASUS has never sold a complete system that had a Console Mode. As the component manufacturer, they could guarantee extended availability of a specific model. If they included something like a linux distro that booted directly to a modified XBMC that was set up to boot games, and then return to the launcher with a standard keypress, they could be a console manufacturer over night. They wouldn't need to sell at a loss, as PC hardware that is on par with the current gen consoles could easily be had for a couple of hundred dollars. They wouldn't need to do special runs because the hardware would be standard PC hardware. They could sell the exact same parts to people who want to buy regular PCs. This would also make everyone one of their 'consoles' have a 'Boot to Other OS' feature that let them boot into Windows.
I actually suspect drunk driving (as well as most other traffic violations) will be a big factor in slowing down the adoption of autonomous cars. What city or state agency is going to want to give up the huge amounts of money that are collected on things like drunk driving? Cities and counties require crime at this time to stay solvent.
They were also the store that everybody ordered 'online' products from. Back then they called it mail order. They also sold everything. From shoelaces to houses.
Which basically comes down to the public transportation sucking just as bad or worse in dense cities as sparse cities, but the roads being even worse yet. And the call for public transportation in sparse areas is just an attempt to make the sparse areas that are currently better to be as crappy as the cramped dense cities.
Your arguing with the wrong person. oh_my_080980980 and richard.york are the ones claiming that it was the HARDWARE that was innovative. Richard feels so strongly about it that he needed to repeatedly swear at me to make his point.
Wrong. There were some loses on the shift, and there were also gains. Almost no casual gamers skipped Windows. The single most widely played video game ever was Solitaire on Windows.
And when tepples says multiple gamepads, he means more than 2.
No, he doesn't. If he did, he would be being intellectually dishonest. Systems of that time rarely if ever had more than 2 game ports.
Whether gaming primarily shifted back to systems without keyboards or not doesn't change the fact that gaming didn't disappear in 1983. It just moved to platforms that marketers didn't count. Some big players lost a bunch of money, and instead of acknowledging that their competitors took their customers, they declared it a crash.
Why would limit the gay person from marrying a straight person? We don't restrict black people from drinking from from previously black only or previously white only fountains. They can drink from any fountain they want.
All three of these are only considered 'innovations' because 'innovation' is newspeak. It is used when you polish up on old idea, and take credit for it. I'm not going to argue the quality of those products, because they were somewhere between good and great. But, making a good product isn't "innovation". Making something new is. The iPod was just a trendy music player. There were plenty on the market at the time. The iPhone was just an iPod Touch with a phone built in. All of the PDA manufactures were doing that, as it was a market trend to merge PDAs (which is what the Touch is) and phones. And the iPad was just a tablet. Those had been available for years.
"Innovation" get used in the tech field for the same reason that "Journalist" gets used in the news field. It used to be that we used "Invent" and "Reporter", but when companies didn't want to be held to the standards that these words held, they found synonyms. Synonyms that matched the original words enough that the general public would hear the original when the replacement was spoken, but that had just enough leeway to claim they are not lying when they were called on the table to live up to to those standards.
So, in modern English, "Innovate" means "We marketed ideas that other people have had for a long time, and want you to give us credit for inventing it."
No, B&M has to move product to storage are, place on shelf, replace on shelf over and over again as customers move them around. B&M has to set up displays for the products, as well as keep staff on site to direct customers to the product. B&M also has to package the product, but must also handle the product at the point of purchase. The most expensive part of the labor is the fact that in a B&M, you cannot optimize your handling like you can with an online retailer. With an online retailer, you can do your picking for all of product x, and then move on to the picking of product y. You can lay everything out before starting your packing. With B&M, you are limited in your handling optimization due to the fact that for large parts of the process, you must complete each customers order before moving to the next.
Even we were to be generous and say that the B&M doesn't have more handling, we still wouldn't accept a "handling" charge above and beyond the advertised price.
You must be young. When everybody moved off the Atari 2600 in 1983, they were not moving to the IBM compatibles. They were moving to Apple II s, Ti99/4a s, and to C64 s, etc. These system easily supported 2 joysticks. In fact, they supported the industry standard 9 pin digital joysticks that the Atari 2600s also used. We simply unplugged them from the Atari, and plugged them into the C64. Not only did they support multiple joysticks, but it was also the norm.
And yes, the public has listened (as they often do) to the marketing people, so they believe something that never existed. This isn't new or surprising.
That is one of the nice things about Android. It is specifically designed to handle multiple resolutions. That means that the difference between a TV size optimized game and a phone size optimized game can be as little as exporting your graphic resources at different resolutions. The device is a $99 device. It doesn't have to solve every problems, or be the height of technology. Making any product is always a feature/quality tradeoff with cost to manufacture. This company obviously believes that for a lot of people, MS, SONY, and even Nintendo have pushed the cost of manufacture too high.
My guess is that they are right. I know that I would be satisfied with moving backwards a generation in console power to get out from under the thumb of the big three. Last generation's systems were pretty darn good.
Of course, the 1983 crash only happened if you ignore the gaming systems that everybody moved to by listening to marketing and declaring consoles and computers completely different animals with no crossover in market. Not to mention that all of the games moved to platforms with more indie development.
The fact that I could marry your sister and you cannot certainly is discrimination. What you seem to miss is that 1) "family relationship" is not a protected class, and 2) There are serious health risks involved with marrying (under the presumption that this will more likely than not lead to children). So, like yelling fire in a crowded theater, it is banned. Thus, your analogy fails.
It is EXACTLY like dividing abilities based on race. Race AND gender are protected classes. Saying that you can marry someone of the opposite sex is the same as saying that you can drink from a water fountain that has been labeled for your race. Even more to the point, saying that you can only marry someone of a different gender is the same as telling people they can only marry someone from the same race. Claiming that it isn't inequality because everyone can marry someone of their own race EQUALLY simply doesn't fly.
That is why I quit using eBay. It got to the point that you could practically ignore the "price" of the item because the primary cost was going to be S&H. You would see S&H at $30 for something that was going to be put an envelope and mailed.
I have always thought that "Handling" charges should be banned. When people hear Shipping and Handling, they think "Shipping". With shipping, we can verify the cost. Handling on the other hand is just the "amount we want to charge that is above our advertised price". It is fraud. If Safeway advertised corn at $0.10 an ear, but when people went to the register, it rang up at $1.00 and ear, the excuse of "Handling" charges wouldn't fly. Mail order (which is what internet shopping is) has LESS handling costs than B&M stores. So, claiming "handling" charges is less valid than in a B&M.
Yes, it does. And, the only reason that we segregate bathrooms based on gender is because people are in denial over the number of gay people in society. Segregated bathrooms are not some inherent moral standard that exists in isolation. The reason we have segregated bathrooms is because we consider it a problem to drop our pants in the presence of someone who might find it sexually titillating, and we are not wanting a sexual relations with.
The acceptance of group bathrooms at all are reliant on cognitive disassociation.
Correct, and that also is not equal. Pointing out another inequality is not an arguement that they are not inequal. You will also find that in many places no longer have gender specific bathrooms.
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It seems that if you opt for slow and expensive, you always end up with crap.
Good example: The Chicken Pox vaccine.
For a long time, it has seemed strange to me that a component/system manufacturer like ASUS hasn't built Linux distro that just plays media and games with a console interface. If they took Linux, added on XBMC, skinned it so that it appeared to be a console, and sold it with one of their motherboard already in a nice consolly case, they would be in the console market selling hardware at a profit. OK, they would need to do a little more than that. They would need to make the system hide anything Linuxy. That shouldn't be very hard. My TV already does it. If I didn't know what to look for, I would never know that it was a Linux system.
One of the big benefits that someone like ASUS would have with this is that they wouldn't need to manufacture a lot of custom parts. One of their already in production mother boards would be just fine. Other than the case, they wouldn't need to bring any new manufacturing on line to do it. Plus, the system would have 'Boot to Other OS' by default, and that other OS would be Windows.
It has always surprised me that someone like ASUS has never sold a complete system that had a Console Mode. As the component manufacturer, they could guarantee extended availability of a specific model. If they included something like a linux distro that booted directly to a modified XBMC that was set up to boot games, and then return to the launcher with a standard keypress, they could be a console manufacturer over night. They wouldn't need to sell at a loss, as PC hardware that is on par with the current gen consoles could easily be had for a couple of hundred dollars. They wouldn't need to do special runs because the hardware would be standard PC hardware. They could sell the exact same parts to people who want to buy regular PCs. This would also make everyone one of their 'consoles' have a 'Boot to Other OS' feature that let them boot into Windows.
I actually suspect drunk driving (as well as most other traffic violations) will be a big factor in slowing down the adoption of autonomous cars. What city or state agency is going to want to give up the huge amounts of money that are collected on things like drunk driving? Cities and counties require crime at this time to stay solvent.
They were also the store that everybody ordered 'online' products from. Back then they called it mail order. They also sold everything. From shoelaces to houses.
Yes, it gets better. It goes from completely useless to sucking really bad. That is better.
Which basically comes down to the public transportation sucking just as bad or worse in dense cities as sparse cities, but the roads being even worse yet. And the call for public transportation in sparse areas is just an attempt to make the sparse areas that are currently better to be as crappy as the cramped dense cities.
Your arguing with the wrong person. oh_my_080980980 and richard.york are the ones claiming that it was the HARDWARE that was innovative. Richard feels so strongly about it that he needed to repeatedly swear at me to make his point.
I'm not confusing anything. YOU are saying that anything that doesn't fit your conclusion doesn't count.
And I point anyone who cares to read your post as validation of my point.
Wrong. There were some loses on the shift, and there were also gains. Almost no casual gamers skipped Windows. The single most widely played video game ever was Solitaire on Windows.
And when tepples says multiple gamepads, he means more than 2.
No, he doesn't. If he did, he would be being intellectually dishonest. Systems of that time rarely if ever had more than 2 game ports.
Whether gaming primarily shifted back to systems without keyboards or not doesn't change the fact that gaming didn't disappear in 1983. It just moved to platforms that marketers didn't count. Some big players lost a bunch of money, and instead of acknowledging that their competitors took their customers, they declared it a crash.
Why would limit the gay person from marrying a straight person? We don't restrict black people from drinking from from previously black only or previously white only fountains. They can drink from any fountain they want.
Could easily be made today on the subject of gay marriage.
Except that they don't. Just saying doesn't make it true.
All three of these are only considered 'innovations' because 'innovation' is newspeak. It is used when you polish up on old idea, and take credit for it. I'm not going to argue the quality of those products, because they were somewhere between good and great. But, making a good product isn't "innovation". Making something new is. The iPod was just a trendy music player. There were plenty on the market at the time. The iPhone was just an iPod Touch with a phone built in. All of the PDA manufactures were doing that, as it was a market trend to merge PDAs (which is what the Touch is) and phones. And the iPad was just a tablet. Those had been available for years.
"Innovation" get used in the tech field for the same reason that "Journalist" gets used in the news field. It used to be that we used "Invent" and "Reporter", but when companies didn't want to be held to the standards that these words held, they found synonyms. Synonyms that matched the original words enough that the general public would hear the original when the replacement was spoken, but that had just enough leeway to claim they are not lying when they were called on the table to live up to to those standards.
So, in modern English, "Innovate" means "We marketed ideas that other people have had for a long time, and want you to give us credit for inventing it."
No, B&M has to move product to storage are, place on shelf, replace on shelf over and over again as customers move them around. B&M has to set up displays for the products, as well as keep staff on site to direct customers to the product. B&M also has to package the product, but must also handle the product at the point of purchase. The most expensive part of the labor is the fact that in a B&M, you cannot optimize your handling like you can with an online retailer. With an online retailer, you can do your picking for all of product x, and then move on to the picking of product y. You can lay everything out before starting your packing. With B&M, you are limited in your handling optimization due to the fact that for large parts of the process, you must complete each customers order before moving to the next.
Even we were to be generous and say that the B&M doesn't have more handling, we still wouldn't accept a "handling" charge above and beyond the advertised price.
You must be young. When everybody moved off the Atari 2600 in 1983, they were not moving to the IBM compatibles. They were moving to Apple II s, Ti99/4a s, and to C64 s, etc. These system easily supported 2 joysticks. In fact, they supported the industry standard 9 pin digital joysticks that the Atari 2600s also used. We simply unplugged them from the Atari, and plugged them into the C64. Not only did they support multiple joysticks, but it was also the norm.
And yes, the public has listened (as they often do) to the marketing people, so they believe something that never existed. This isn't new or surprising.
That is one of the nice things about Android. It is specifically designed to handle multiple resolutions. That means that the difference between a TV size optimized game and a phone size optimized game can be as little as exporting your graphic resources at different resolutions. The device is a $99 device. It doesn't have to solve every problems, or be the height of technology. Making any product is always a feature/quality tradeoff with cost to manufacture. This company obviously believes that for a lot of people, MS, SONY, and even Nintendo have pushed the cost of manufacture too high.
My guess is that they are right. I know that I would be satisfied with moving backwards a generation in console power to get out from under the thumb of the big three. Last generation's systems were pretty darn good.
Of course, the 1983 crash only happened if you ignore the gaming systems that everybody moved to by listening to marketing and declaring consoles and computers completely different animals with no crossover in market. Not to mention that all of the games moved to platforms with more indie development.
The fact that I could marry your sister and you cannot certainly is discrimination. What you seem to miss is that 1) "family relationship" is not a protected class, and 2) There are serious health risks involved with marrying (under the presumption that this will more likely than not lead to children). So, like yelling fire in a crowded theater, it is banned. Thus, your analogy fails.
It is EXACTLY like dividing abilities based on race. Race AND gender are protected classes. Saying that you can marry someone of the opposite sex is the same as saying that you can drink from a water fountain that has been labeled for your race. Even more to the point, saying that you can only marry someone of a different gender is the same as telling people they can only marry someone from the same race. Claiming that it isn't inequality because everyone can marry someone of their own race EQUALLY simply doesn't fly.
That is why I quit using eBay. It got to the point that you could practically ignore the "price" of the item because the primary cost was going to be S&H. You would see S&H at $30 for something that was going to be put an envelope and mailed.
I have always thought that "Handling" charges should be banned. When people hear Shipping and Handling, they think "Shipping". With shipping, we can verify the cost. Handling on the other hand is just the "amount we want to charge that is above our advertised price". It is fraud. If Safeway advertised corn at $0.10 an ear, but when people went to the register, it rang up at $1.00 and ear, the excuse of "Handling" charges wouldn't fly. Mail order (which is what internet shopping is) has LESS handling costs than B&M stores. So, claiming "handling" charges is less valid than in a B&M.
Yes, it does. And, the only reason that we segregate bathrooms based on gender is because people are in denial over the number of gay people in society. Segregated bathrooms are not some inherent moral standard that exists in isolation. The reason we have segregated bathrooms is because we consider it a problem to drop our pants in the presence of someone who might find it sexually titillating, and we are not wanting a sexual relations with.
The acceptance of group bathrooms at all are reliant on cognitive disassociation.
Correct, and that also is not equal. Pointing out another inequality is not an arguement that they are not inequal. You will also find that in many places no longer have gender specific bathrooms.