What application does the second screen create? It's always a map or a menu screen, which was already a part of every game to begin with.
Have you played Metroid Prime First Hunt? Because it's the only FPS I have ever played on a console that did not feel clunky. The reason? The touch screen alows very "mouse like" aiming and turning. Have you played Warioware? Hundreds of mini games that just could not be done on a joypad.
However, given the vast quantity of PC users already out there, many of whom have had it with Microsoft, would it be a wise decision for Apple to simply allow any and all PC users to use their new OS?
It might be. It all depends on one simple question. Do apple make more money on hardware or software?
The minute apple released a version of OS X that would install on any X86 PC, Apple hardware sales would drop through the floor. Third party vendors would sell knock off boxes, identical to the apple machines in every respect bar the logo, with OS X pre-installed. The only difference would be the price tag, a couple of hundred pounds cheaper. Would the increase in OS sales be sufficient to offset the inevitable loss of revenue on hardware?
I would think Apple appear to have decided, at least for now, that it would not be.
The words 'pot', 'kettle' and 'black' come to mind. Is Microsoft unaware that their registry is far more 'brittle'?
Hand on heart, I have never, ever installed software on a windows box which has broken another piece of software. Not saying it never happens, I accept it does, just saying I have never personally done it.
Yes, ten Word icons followed by "C:\Docu..." is a REALLY great way to drag stuff from window to window within an application (or multiple apps)!
Funny, when I read that, I glanced down at my task bar. I'm using Gnome, and all my apps in the task bar only display the title of the document open in them. Firefox just says "fold n drop...", Rhythmbox just says gives the song name playing, and abiword only has the document title. None of them have app names or file paths. Same thing when I hit Alt+Tab.
I can honestly say that I had never consciously noticed this before. But it does make things nice and simple.
Most good codecs can squeeze a movie down to 1.4 gigs or so, so downloading is entirely an option.
Have a look on any bit torrent site, and you'll see stacks of movies encoded using DIVX / XVID clocking in at around 700 MB. Say a few hours to download a full copy?
Also worth taking into consideration is a scenario in which someone is trying to...rush a seriously wounded person to a hospital
I drive into Leeds at rush hour at least once a week. If your life ever depends on someone rushing you to Leeds General hospital at 8 AM then I hope you have your affairs in order.
Why is it called rush hour when everything moves so slowly?
The only way the insanity of the current patent system will get sorted out is if it claims high profile corporate victims.
No one in power will ever listen to a bunch of geeks complaining about patented media formats. We need more and more corporates to be bitten on the ass by submarine patents.
So I for one hope the Blackberry does infringe patents. I hope IBM, Sony and any other high tech corporations you can think of get stung with frivolous lawsuits too. I hope someone, somewhere, has patented "using transparency in a graphical user interface" and is just itching for MS to release longhorn.
The only way the system will change is when those with money and power start to suffer as a result of it.
Your right of course, Debian is very well documented. But your missing the point.
I could do a base Ubuntu install, then sit my dad in front of it with a copy of the Ubuntu guide. Within half an hour, he would be able to play DVDs, MP3s, WMV files, watch quicktime trailers and use P2P software.
Now true, he would'nt have learnt anything. But he probably doesn't want to. He probably just wants to listen to Radio 5 live online.
Ubuntu and the Ubuntu guide are Debian for people who don't care how it works.
The fact is that no-one is going to have a critical environment that uses IE
Really? Thats great news! I'll just go and tell my boss that none of our web based apps are "mission critical". He'll be thrilled that we don't have to worry about them anymore.
I think you're wrong, because most users never, ever, install an OS.
Most users do not know what an OS is.
The number of people dual booting between Windows and OS x on their x86 macs will be a tiny proportion of the market. Not saying no one will do it mind you. Just that it will have absolutly no effect on the software industry.
In fact, I don't expect the switch to X86 to change much of anything. As I've said before, what the hell is the point of buying a mac if your not going to run OS X? I really don't think that there are many windows users being held back from switching to OS X. There are really very few obstacles.
There is even a Mac port of office, Photoshop is a native Mac app, all the "killer apps" are there already. Most home users could switch if they wanted to.
Gamers will never switch to the Mac in great numbers, for one simple reason. For the same price as a Mac, I can buy a biege box with a better graphics card. For a serious gamer, the graphics card always wins.
Disclaimer: I own a mac. I just don't think this is as big a deal as everyone is making out. Maybe to us geeks on/., but to users in the real world? I think it will have very little impact.
1. Install Windows XP
2. Remove windows swap space (uses space at very end of partition)
3. Defragment drive
4. Run Knoppix CD and use qtparted to resize NTFS partition
5. Reboot PC with Windows XP - NTFS realizes it has been lobotimized and validates partition
6. Reinstall Windows swap space (768 MB)
Well, yes, that would work. But tell me, if your starting from scratch, why give windows the whole drive then go through the whole process of resizing the partition? Why not just start out with FDISK, and create a FAT partition of the size you want, and install windows on that?
That is not a troll. He's referencing Little Britain, a british sketch show. One of the characters is a teenage girl who starts every sentence "yeah but no but...".
Why OS X X86 (try saying that drunk) will change a damn thing?
Lets see:
Run linux on a mac? Already can. Just ask Linus.
Run windows on a Mac? Maybe, but really, if I'm running Windows, what advantage would a Mac have over a biege box, besides looks?
Run OS X on a Biege box? Apple have already said this will not be possible.
I simply do not see how this will have any impact from the average end users point of view. Only fan boys will care. In fact, most people will probably be unaware anything has changed. I doubt apple will want to spoil finish of their machines with a gaudy "intel inside" sticker.
Please, feel free to set me straight. I'm open to arguments, if anyone can tell me why it will be simpler to switch now apple are using Intel chips.
He is a professional troll, and quite why his stories still feature on Slashdot's front page despite his provably moronic public statements is what I can't believe.
Allow me to explain.
He features on the slashdot front page because his moronic flamebait always riles up slashdotters and guarantees lots of posts. Right now, this is the most popular story on the front page, with over 700 posts. As long as we keep posting and reading, Dvorak will keep being featured.
Which means you and I have just helped encourage the next Dvorak story.
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Best platformer ever
No, that would be Super Mario World on the SNES. Or Mario 64 (N64 version) If we're talking 3D platformers.
Fact
What application does the second screen create? It's always a map or a menu screen, which was already a part of every game to begin with. Have you played Metroid Prime First Hunt? Because it's the only FPS I have ever played on a console that did not feel clunky. The reason? The touch screen alows very "mouse like" aiming and turning. Have you played Warioware? Hundreds of mini games that just could not be done on a joypad.
However, given the vast quantity of PC users already out there, many of whom have had it with Microsoft, would it be a wise decision for Apple to simply allow any and all PC users to use their new OS?
It might be. It all depends on one simple question. Do apple make more money on hardware or software?
The minute apple released a version of OS X that would install on any X86 PC, Apple hardware sales would drop through the floor. Third party vendors would sell knock off boxes, identical to the apple machines in every respect bar the logo, with OS X pre-installed. The only difference would be the price tag, a couple of hundred pounds cheaper. Would the increase in OS sales be sufficient to offset the inevitable loss of revenue on hardware?
I would think Apple appear to have decided, at least for now, that it would not be.
Drag and drop installation in Linux would be great. But hell, we don't even have "double click, next, next" installation yet. One thing at a time.
This might just be my first ever Flamebait mod right here.
The words 'pot', 'kettle' and 'black' come to mind. Is Microsoft unaware that their registry is far more 'brittle'?
Hand on heart, I have never, ever installed software on a windows box which has broken another piece of software. Not saying it never happens, I accept it does, just saying I have never personally done it.
Never done it on Linux either. Ain't apt great?
Yes, ten Word icons followed by "C:\Docu..." is a REALLY great way to drag stuff from window to window within an application (or multiple apps)!
Funny, when I read that, I glanced down at my task bar. I'm using Gnome, and all my apps in the task bar only display the title of the document open in them. Firefox just says "fold n drop...", Rhythmbox just says gives the song name playing, and abiword only has the document title. None of them have app names or file paths. Same thing when I hit Alt+Tab.
I can honestly say that I had never consciously noticed this before. But it does make things nice and simple.
Why not the same as a auto manufacturer who's defect in a car contributed to an accident
You mean viruses are written by accident, as a result of microsofts actions?
Wow.
I hate MS as much as the next slashdotter, but really, the people responsible for viruses are the people who write them.
Mods do your worst.
Most good codecs can squeeze a movie down to 1.4 gigs or so, so downloading is entirely an option.
Have a look on any bit torrent site, and you'll see stacks of movies encoded using DIVX / XVID clocking in at around 700 MB. Say a few hours to download a full copy?
BSD License vs. GPL Linux vs. FreeBSD Emacs vs. vi C++ vs. Java Python vs. Perl PHP vs. Ruby on Rails Microsoft vs. SCO
These are hardly flamefests. These are minor disgareements, trifling spats, compared to the greatest flame war of all time.
C64 or Spectrum?
To be honest, if it had been one bomb, on one line, the whole network would probably still have been shut down.
The US & UK went to war on a country that had done nothing to them (Iraq), and created a fertile breeding ground for terrorists
So, just out of curiosity, why did 9-11 happen? No one had been invaded by the US in 2001, so what was that all about?
Also worth taking into consideration is a scenario in which someone is trying to...rush a seriously wounded person to a hospital
I drive into Leeds at rush hour at least once a week. If your life ever depends on someone rushing you to Leeds General hospital at 8 AM then I hope you have your affairs in order.
Why is it called rush hour when everything moves so slowly?
The only way the insanity of the current patent system will get sorted out is if it claims high profile corporate victims.
No one in power will ever listen to a bunch of geeks complaining about patented media formats. We need more and more corporates to be bitten on the ass by submarine patents.
So I for one hope the Blackberry does infringe patents. I hope IBM, Sony and any other high tech corporations you can think of get stung with frivolous lawsuits too. I hope someone, somewhere, has patented "using transparency in a graphical user interface" and is just itching for MS to release longhorn.
The only way the system will change is when those with money and power start to suffer as a result of it.
" There is substantially more evidence for the existence of Jesus than you appear to believe
And there is even more evidence for the existence of David Koresh. What's your point?
Learn to do things without pretty GUIs.
Do you buy your food at a supermarket? Learn to grow and harvest crops. Learn to hunt, skin and prepare wild animals.
See what I'm saying here?
That the story below this one is "Security Breach Exposes 40M Credit Cards" ?
Your right of course, Debian is very well documented. But your missing the point.
I could do a base Ubuntu install, then sit my dad in front of it with a copy of the Ubuntu guide. Within half an hour, he would be able to play DVDs, MP3s, WMV files, watch quicktime trailers and use P2P software.
Now true, he would'nt have learnt anything. But he probably doesn't want to. He probably just wants to listen to Radio 5 live online.
Ubuntu and the Ubuntu guide are Debian for people who don't care how it works.
Why would I do that?
Because you'd win two thousand dollars.
The fact is that no-one is going to have a critical environment that uses IE
Really? Thats great news! I'll just go and tell my boss that none of our web based apps are "mission critical". He'll be thrilled that we don't have to worry about them anymore.
I think you're wrong, because most users never, ever, install an OS.
/., but to users in the real world? I think it will have very little impact.
Most users do not know what an OS is.
The number of people dual booting between Windows and OS x on their x86 macs will be a tiny proportion of the market. Not saying no one will do it mind you. Just that it will have absolutly no effect on the software industry.
In fact, I don't expect the switch to X86 to change much of anything. As I've said before, what the hell is the point of buying a mac if your not going to run OS X? I really don't think that there are many windows users being held back from switching to OS X. There are really very few obstacles.
There is even a Mac port of office, Photoshop is a native Mac app, all the "killer apps" are there already. Most home users could switch if they wanted to.
Gamers will never switch to the Mac in great numbers, for one simple reason. For the same price as a Mac, I can buy a biege box with a better graphics card. For a serious gamer, the graphics card always wins.
Disclaimer: I own a mac. I just don't think this is as big a deal as everyone is making out. Maybe to us geeks on
1. Install Windows XP 2. Remove windows swap space (uses space at very end of partition) 3. Defragment drive 4. Run Knoppix CD and use qtparted to resize NTFS partition 5. Reboot PC with Windows XP - NTFS realizes it has been lobotimized and validates partition 6. Reinstall Windows swap space (768 MB)
Well, yes, that would work. But tell me, if your starting from scratch, why give windows the whole drive then go through the whole process of resizing the partition? Why not just start out with FDISK, and create a FAT partition of the size you want, and install windows on that?
That is not a troll. He's referencing Little Britain, a british sketch show. One of the characters is a teenage girl who starts every sentence "yeah but no but...".
Why OS X X86 (try saying that drunk) will change a damn thing?
Lets see:
Run linux on a mac? Already can. Just ask Linus.
Run windows on a Mac? Maybe, but really, if I'm running Windows, what advantage would a Mac have over a biege box, besides looks?
Run OS X on a Biege box? Apple have already said this will not be possible.
I simply do not see how this will have any impact from the average end users point of view. Only fan boys will care. In fact, most people will probably be unaware anything has changed. I doubt apple will want to spoil finish of their machines with a gaudy "intel inside" sticker.
Please, feel free to set me straight. I'm open to arguments, if anyone can tell me why it will be simpler to switch now apple are using Intel chips.
Listen, in the event that a Halo movie is made, you can be sure that we WILL see Master Chiefs face.
Don't believe me? See Judge Dredd.
He is a professional troll, and quite why his stories still feature on Slashdot's front page despite his provably moronic public statements is what I can't believe.
Allow me to explain.
He features on the slashdot front page because his moronic flamebait always riles up slashdotters and guarantees lots of posts. Right now, this is the most popular story on the front page, with over 700 posts. As long as we keep posting and reading, Dvorak will keep being featured.
Which means you and I have just helped encourage the next Dvorak story.