If you buy a Dewalt cordless drill for yourself, and Dewalt decides to put an aerosol form of anthrax in the box with your drill that is fired upon opening the drill box, is it YOUR fault you opened it? Dewalt didn't advertise the anthax, and they just packaged it for you. YOU'RE the one who caused its release.
So, everything's OK there. No lawsuit potential at all.
I blogged about this very topic a few weeks ago (when the Xbox360 and PS3 were announced), and I have to imagine that PC gaming will be heavily compromised by these upcoming consoles. I don't know if I'd go so far to say that PC gaming will be "dead," but it will take a few major wounds.
So, essentially, MS strategy has come down to publicly denouncing anything the competition does better than Microsoft. And we're not talking measured denouncement, we're talking fatalistic, extreme, quasi-dramatic fluff from the heads of the most powerful tech company on earth.
Strange to see Microsoft playing these cards. Surely there's a better way to handle it. Or is it that they play 90% of their customer base for fools and that their mighty words from up on high will topple growing giants?
I have a Boxx workstation mated to an HP L2335, and there's zero input lag whatsoever. In fact, I've never seen such a thing, and I've owned a 2000FP, 2001FP, and Apple Cinema Display in the past.
Funny -- I've had my PB for over a year and it's never once crashed on me. In fact, it's never hiccuped in the slightest, and I use it heavily. When I had my dual G5, it was equally flawless -- never a single problem.
So then -- I see your anecdotal evidence and raise you one. Your turn.
If it did, everyone and his brother would be complaining that it's nothing more than a rehash of old games underpinned by a new engine. Today's focus is more on content than ever before, so id had to ante up. A simple rehash would kill them.
Now, if they included the old levels as a bonus, that'd be another story.
Here's a great example of a company that's doing some "offshoring" work in Canada and actively marketing it as a better alternative than Indian offshoring.
You're a fucking retard. Look up the benchmarks yourself, they run better, all of them across the board. I wont do the research for you dick head.
Looking right now. Let's see what the deal is.
Premier? Nope, x86 faster.
PS7Bench? Nope, x86 faster.
After Effects? Nope, x86 faster.
I'm staring at the benchmarks right now on both Arstechnica and CW's DVE. Your claim that Adobe apps all run faster on the Mac would be 100% correct if it weren't dead wrong.
Oh poor baby, can't get his video games, oh no what ever will we do. Battlefield Vietnam is coming to the mac BTW, to bad you didn't look that one up. Every productivity app is on the Mac and quite a few that aren't or at least a viable alternative. Nice try reducing this to a "OMFG I CAN'T PLAY MY VIDEO GAMES" argument. Run away now moron.
It's more than just a few games. I need an app called ServerVantage to run, but it's Windows-only. I use AutoCAD with regularity, but alas, it's Windows-only. I have several other job-related apps that I need to run each and every day, but hey, what do you know? They run on Windows.
And with respect to the gaming side of things (I'm not a big time gamer), I don't care what's COMING, I care about what I CAN GET. I HAVE BF:V installed right now. I HAVE Far Cry installed. If I so choose, I will have Doom 3 installed long before you will.
People like you haven't learned that choice and having options are GOOD things.
Yeah whatever. Fucktard.
You're actually arguing that having a dual platform setup so you can enjoy the best a platform has to offer is a bad thing? Riiiiight.
That "Mac users are smarter" thing seems to be swirling down the toilet every second with you, son.
Yes you can get all of that and more. Sorry, but as stated above, you're a fucktard.
Really? Kick ass! Please show me where I can order a Mac with dual optical drives, an X800 GPU, and internal 10K drives in RAID 0. Also, give me two extra 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA data drives in RAID 1.
Boy, this is sweet. I had no idea I could order a Mac like that.
I'll wait right here while you simply point me to a link. Thanks.
Fuck off now troll, you contributed nothing.
You sure get angry when someone shoves a little reality into your OSX mega crusade. Quite literally, tiny-brained Mac users like yourself are the very worst part about being a Mac user myself.
The good news is that you're about the 500th raving idiot with whom I've had this "discussion," and the 500th one who can't defend himself in any way whatsoever and winds up on his heels, backpeddaling like a madman and getting angrier by the second.
Okay, as a Mac user I have to set you straight on a few points here, because you're the type of Mac user who makes Mac users like me really pissed off.
They all run better on the Mac, and the vast majority of people using these apps are doing so on the mac. Your point is moot.
They all run better on the Mac? Really? In term of what?
Performance? Prove it.
Workflow? That's subjective.
What lack of applications? I have everything I need, liteally.
You have everything YOU need. Everyone else might not. I, for one, own an Opteron desktop in addition to my PowerBook because I can't get apps like Far Cry, Battlefield: Vietnam, and few others under OSX.
With both a PC and a Mac, I have just about everything that's available to the broader market, literally. I don't have to hope that something makes its way to OSX so I can use it, and stuff that never sees the light of day under Windows lives on my PowerBook. Pretty damn convenient.
A balanced, best-of-all-worlds approach. Imagine that, huh?
Funny since it's apple who leads the market. Windows copies MacOSX, Apple made USB popular, widescreen displays, firewire etc etc etc.
Really? Apple leads the market? I can get a Mac with dual optical drives? How about an X800 GPU like I have in my Boxx workstation? How about internal 10K RAIDed drives? From the hardware side, there's no question that the x86 world gets a leg up on Apple. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
As for who's copying who, you need to realize that MS steals from Apple, and Apple from MS. Good ideas are borrowed all the time.
I just got a new FX53 machine with an X800 Pro, and I'm hoping that's plenty for Doom 3 at a reasonable framerate. It handles Far Cry very well, and just about every other game I've thrown at it.
Only thing is RAM. I have 1 GB stock, and am considering adding a second GB. Wonder if that'd make a difference at all...hmmm.
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Maybe by 2007 Xbox 360s will actually be in some stores around here, and then I can have my choice.
Such a horseshit argument.
If you buy a Dewalt cordless drill for yourself, and Dewalt decides to put an aerosol form of anthrax in the box with your drill that is fired upon opening the drill box, is it YOUR fault you opened it? Dewalt didn't advertise the anthax, and they just packaged it for you. YOU'RE the one who caused its release.
So, everything's OK there. No lawsuit potential at all.
Right?
"Cube?" Even Scott Adams prefers to refer to cubicles as "loser cruisers."
Please update your corporate jargon file.
My thoughts on the topic.
So, essentially, MS strategy has come down to publicly denouncing anything the competition does better than Microsoft. And we're not talking measured denouncement, we're talking fatalistic, extreme, quasi-dramatic fluff from the heads of the most powerful tech company on earth.
Strange to see Microsoft playing these cards. Surely there's a better way to handle it. Or is it that they play 90% of their customer base for fools and that their mighty words from up on high will topple growing giants?
Please. Just give me a break.
In other news, most homes are vulnerable to the classic BREAKIN attack if doors are left unlocked.
Film at 11.
I have a Boxx workstation mated to an HP L2335, and there's zero input lag whatsoever. In fact, I've never seen such a thing, and I've owned a 2000FP, 2001FP, and Apple Cinema Display in the past.
Amen to that, brother -- Apple is indeed the best at making Apple computers.
Funny -- I've had my PB for over a year and it's never once crashed on me. In fact, it's never hiccuped in the slightest, and I use it heavily. When I had my dual G5, it was equally flawless -- never a single problem.
So then -- I see your anecdotal evidence and raise you one. Your turn.
If it did, everyone and his brother would be complaining that it's nothing more than a rehash of old games underpinned by a new engine. Today's focus is more on content than ever before, so id had to ante up. A simple rehash would kill them.
Now, if they included the old levels as a bonus, that'd be another story.
Here's a great example of a company that's doing some "offshoring" work in Canada and actively marketing it as a better alternative than Indian offshoring.
Looking right now. Let's see what the deal is.
Premier? Nope, x86 faster.
PS7Bench? Nope, x86 faster.
After Effects? Nope, x86 faster.
I'm staring at the benchmarks right now on both Arstechnica and CW's DVE. Your claim that Adobe apps all run faster on the Mac would be 100% correct if it weren't dead wrong.
Oh poor baby, can't get his video games, oh no what ever will we do. Battlefield Vietnam is coming to the mac BTW, to bad you didn't look that one up. Every productivity app is on the Mac and quite a few that aren't or at least a viable alternative. Nice try reducing this to a "OMFG I CAN'T PLAY MY VIDEO GAMES" argument. Run away now moron.
It's more than just a few games. I need an app called ServerVantage to run, but it's Windows-only. I use AutoCAD with regularity, but alas, it's Windows-only. I have several other job-related apps that I need to run each and every day, but hey, what do you know? They run on Windows.
And with respect to the gaming side of things (I'm not a big time gamer), I don't care what's COMING, I care about what I CAN GET. I HAVE BF:V installed right now. I HAVE Far Cry installed. If I so choose, I will have Doom 3 installed long before you will.
People like you haven't learned that choice and having options are GOOD things.
Yeah whatever. Fucktard.
You're actually arguing that having a dual platform setup so you can enjoy the best a platform has to offer is a bad thing? Riiiiight.
That "Mac users are smarter" thing seems to be swirling down the toilet every second with you, son.
Yes you can get all of that and more. Sorry, but as stated above, you're a fucktard.
Really? Kick ass! Please show me where I can order a Mac with dual optical drives, an X800 GPU, and internal 10K drives in RAID 0. Also, give me two extra 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA data drives in RAID 1.
Boy, this is sweet. I had no idea I could order a Mac like that.
I'll wait right here while you simply point me to a link. Thanks.
Fuck off now troll, you contributed nothing.
You sure get angry when someone shoves a little reality into your OSX mega crusade. Quite literally, tiny-brained Mac users like yourself are the very worst part about being a Mac user myself.
The good news is that you're about the 500th raving idiot with whom I've had this "discussion," and the 500th one who can't defend himself in any way whatsoever and winds up on his heels, backpeddaling like a madman and getting angrier by the second.
Have fun, sport.
They all run better on the Mac, and the vast majority of people using these apps are doing so on the mac. Your point is moot.
They all run better on the Mac? Really? In term of what?
Performance? Prove it.
Workflow? That's subjective.
What lack of applications? I have everything I need, liteally.
You have everything YOU need. Everyone else might not. I, for one, own an Opteron desktop in addition to my PowerBook because I can't get apps like Far Cry, Battlefield: Vietnam, and few others under OSX.
With both a PC and a Mac, I have just about everything that's available to the broader market, literally. I don't have to hope that something makes its way to OSX so I can use it, and stuff that never sees the light of day under Windows lives on my PowerBook. Pretty damn convenient.
A balanced, best-of-all-worlds approach. Imagine that, huh?
Funny since it's apple who leads the market. Windows copies MacOSX, Apple made USB popular, widescreen displays, firewire etc etc etc.
Really? Apple leads the market? I can get a Mac with dual optical drives? How about an X800 GPU like I have in my Boxx workstation? How about internal 10K RAIDed drives? From the hardware side, there's no question that the x86 world gets a leg up on Apple. Sorry, that's just the way it is.
As for who's copying who, you need to realize that MS steals from Apple, and Apple from MS. Good ideas are borrowed all the time.
Apparently, while being able to grasp things esoteric, creative, and intellectual, sarcasm escapes the Mac user. Film at 11.
I just got a new FX53 machine with an X800 Pro, and I'm hoping that's plenty for Doom 3 at a reasonable framerate. It handles Far Cry very well, and just about every other game I've thrown at it.
Only thing is RAM. I have 1 GB stock, and am considering adding a second GB. Wonder if that'd make a difference at all...hmmm.
Both are excellent reading for those interested in the art (science?) of good UI/usability design.