Besides, who wouldn't be charmed out of their socks by a giant R.O.B. the Robot waving a Nintendo Zapper at your Starfox Arwing fighter? I mean, can you get any geekier?;)
I wouldn't.
I'm as much of a geek as most geeks, but I'm also a "grown-up". These games, regardless of how much fun they may be to play, hold -zero- appeal to me (and most of my friends). I really don't want to play a game that looks, sounds, and feels like it was designed for young children.
The Wii people can have their Mario games. Personally, I think I'm bringing out Grand Theft Auto: Vice City again this weekend. Good gameplay WITH a good story, good graphics, and good sound and music is what I expect.
I don't know what "HDMI to DVI adapter to bypass HDCP" means, and quite honestly, I don't care. But my question is, do manufacturers expect consumers to be able to understand all of this mess? What ever happened to plugging a game system into a TV? How many adapters and acronyms are people going to tolerate just to plug the damned thing to the TV? Sounds ridiculous to me. I'm a big fan of plain ol' RCA jacks: Red and white for audio, yellow for video. It's simple, and you can't screw it up. Just because the new sets and devices (like the PS3) are higher definition doesn't mean that plugging the damn things in should be so complicated. Why do I need 6 ways to connect a TV to a signal (coax cable, RCA plugs, S-video, HDMI, DVI, optical, etc.)? It makes me realize that I'm happy with my regular tube TV. It's cheap, it's simple, it looks good, and you don't have to go through 12 pages of directions to plug it in.
Because then you have to worry about rolling out installs, versions, etc. Active X in this particular format means that you can very easily push fully functional Windows apps (with Windows security and all) out to all of your users at the same time. It's very useful. Think of Ajax as a very, very bad equivalent to one tiny bit of Active X functionality.
This is particular unrelated to Linux, especially since I'd wager a lot of money that Windows goes on 90% of these machines after they're sold. I may very buy some of these guys so I can use my "old" Windows 2000 licenses.
As a result, Microsoft doesn't have a lot of control over the app or how it interacts with the OS.
Say "Hi" to Vista. That's the main thing they're in the process of fixing. Signed drivers will take care of bad drivers. I'm sure there's some kind of "Trusted" software thing that will be implemented soon after it's released to the public. "Trusted Computing" takes care of the apps.
Apparently, Microsoft saw this problem being serious a long time ago, and started working on it right after Windows 2000 came out. Maybe they were inspired by the Linux distribution model. Who knows?
Everything you said about bad installs is correct (and applies to drivers). But I think that Vista is the start of fixing this huge problem.
Yes, which is part of the reason they still only have single digit marketshare. Apple upgrades are very expensive, and often very necessary for the users.
I've got $600 bucks burning a hole in my pocket because I STILL can't get my hands on a PS3 in my area! There's definitely not a surplus of these things yet.
I think you're wrong. I don't know what you mean by "taken out by big competing entities" is supposed to mean. Companies can compete with each other, but I don't know what "taken out" means.
More importantly, this kind of thing is sorely needed. The current state of OSS is a mess. There are no standards, and every system is some hodgepodge mix of lots of competing products, none of them working together well.
Right now, I can call Microsoft, and get them to sell me all of the software my business needs, and it'll work and they'll support it. (We'll be a 100% Microsoft shop except for our web server, in a few months). Same with Apple. If I want to run Linux and Open Source stuff, then about all I can do is spend lots of time with Google, and find somebody with no particular certifications or qualifications to patch together some custom system for me that is ultimately supported by nobody.
I can't run my business this way. That's like if instead of having one company take care of all of our garbage collection as I do now, I'd have one company that picks up garbage, but they can only work with certain types of dumpsters, which I have to buy here, and another company to handle cardboard, but their trucks only work with this other type of dumpster, blah, blah, blah. I see the Linux platform the same way: a mess that I don't have the time or money to try to decipher.
Althoguh Linux has a loooong way to go before business owners can just use some Linux platform, and have things actually work together, this sounds like this is a step in the right direction.
If the FCC had balls and were ethical, that's what they'd have done.
Forcing a company to alter their product with the force of law is never ethical. Besides, this isn't a service using public airwaves. These are private satellites broadcasting to private subscribers. The government has no place in telling either XM or Sirius what they can and cannot do.
Most good dog and cat foods have had plenty of probiotics added to them for years now. It's nothing new. We sell a lot of probiotics to people to give their pets after they've had a round of antibiotics. That's why antibiotics upset your stomach when you take them... they often kill the good bacteria in your gut that help with digestion.
No, I don't think that you have anything to worry about. There are tons and tons and tons of adults who hvae *zero* interest in anything that's anime/Mario themed. I wouldn't even consider a Nintendo because this kind of stuff in no way appeals to me. I doubt that there's that much Nintendo/PS2 crossover outside of hardcore gamer geeks. I don't know any regular people (not geeks) that own a Nintendo. The consensus is that Nintendos are "for kids", and I tend to agree.
Seriously, I just moved into a new place and I opted for no Net connection. I simply end up wasting an insane amount of time, after which, I ask myself, "What in the hell did I get accomplished?" 9 times out of 10, my answer to myself is "nothing". Honestly, the Net is so clogged up with commercial crap, and re-hashed news wire stuff, and useless blogs, that there's really very little new, original content on the Net that's easy to find. The signal to noise ratio is waaaay down from where it was, say, back in '95. So, I'll poke around during the day at work, but I like my free time to be free to actually *do* things.
So, I am part of that statistic. I don't know how typical I am, though. I've been using the Net since before the Web was around, and I guess I feel like I've already seen most of the good stuff.
I just don't see how they can really expect to win major market share with this platform.
If you've looked at the XBox 360 sales numbers, it's obvious that there are LOTS of people (like me) that are patiently waiting for the PS3. I'm not going to buy 2 consoles, and it's pretty damn shortsighted if I can't wait a bit longer for a much better console. Sony has nothing to worry about. And, Nintendo has largely dropped off the radar among grown-up, non-Japanese game players. I know that I consider Nintendo to be just for the kiddies, and I haven't considered buying a Nintendo product in 10 years.
Many researchers are spending lots of time researching AI, and the problems for which the Laws of Robotics are a an attempted solution; Namely how do you keep the robotis from taking over and/or indiscriminately killing mere humans, as seen in so many hollywood movies. So fictional laws are important as experiments in looking at potential solutions to a real problem.
OK, no need to research further. I have the answer. Press the power button. I mean c'mon... we're hundreds, if not thousands of years away from this being any kind of an issue. And even if it does become an issue, robots are just gizmos like me cell phone that you can just turn off. This is a silly "problem" to be discussing.
That's funny, because I think that MySQL is a lot like MS's dumbing down of "My Computer" and "My Documents", etc. MySQL sounds like some kind of dumbed-down toy database, to me.
Well, it does use CELL technology instead of the same old x86 Intel architecture. From everything I've read in non-game publications, it'll make the XBox 360 look like a Colecovision by comparison. I tried a XBox 360 in a store today, and it looked and played exactly like my PS2. I don't understand why the point of the 360 is, actually.
Nintendo all the way.
Nintendo? Don't they just make games for little kids these days?
and look at the DS now.
I don't even know what the DS is. What's your point... that there's something called the "DS" that nobody has heard of, kind of like whatever Nintendo is making these days?
Actually, I meant that I'd rather spend my nights drinking and getting laid instead of tinkering around with my computer to make it as functional as XP/2000 are out of the box. I don't play computer games (I assume "WOW" is a computer game).
I'm waiting for the PS3 because everything I've read says that it's going to be incredible, and the XBox 360 is really unimpressive. I don't know what ads or hype you're talking about, and I've never heard the "turn it upside down" FUD you're trying to spread. I just want a really good console, so I'm waiting for the PS3. You may want to turn off your TV, and turn on your brain.
Oh I don't know, I think the lack of spyware, advare and viruses would be quite interesting to all of them. Of course, MacOs has this too, but that requires Mac hardware.
You OSS trolls are *really* going to have to come up with some new material. It feels like you guys are really scaping the bottom of the barrel, here, looking for something, *anything* that would justify the masochism of using Linux on desktops It's not like you guys are limited to facts... that has never been an issue before. How about something more creative and relevant like "Linux: the choice of 30-year-old virgins."? Or "Linux: now with more unpronounceable applications!" Or, oh, I got it: "Why have a social life when you can spend time trying to get Linux to work?"
Although, I'll give credit where credit is due: you guys finally gave up trying to convince people that it's easier than Windows 2000/XP. I thought that you guys were never going to quit with that one. That was just embarassing.
I can't speak for GM or Lowe's, but IBM is nowhere near migrating from Windows to *nix anything on the vast majority of their desktops. Just more FUD from the OSS crowd...
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Besides, who wouldn't be charmed out of their socks by a giant R.O.B. the Robot waving a Nintendo Zapper at your Starfox Arwing fighter? I mean, can you get any geekier? ;)
I wouldn't.
I'm as much of a geek as most geeks, but I'm also a "grown-up". These games, regardless of how much fun they may be to play, hold -zero- appeal to me (and most of my friends). I really don't want to play a game that looks, sounds, and feels like it was designed for young children.
The Wii people can have their Mario games. Personally, I think I'm bringing out Grand Theft Auto: Vice City again this weekend. Good gameplay WITH a good story, good graphics, and good sound and music is what I expect.
I don't know what "HDMI to DVI adapter to bypass HDCP" means, and quite honestly, I don't care. But my question is, do manufacturers expect consumers to be able to understand all of this mess? What ever happened to plugging a game system into a TV? How many adapters and acronyms are people going to tolerate just to plug the damned thing to the TV? Sounds ridiculous to me. I'm a big fan of plain ol' RCA jacks: Red and white for audio, yellow for video. It's simple, and you can't screw it up. Just because the new sets and devices (like the PS3) are higher definition doesn't mean that plugging the damn things in should be so complicated. Why do I need 6 ways to connect a TV to a signal (coax cable, RCA plugs, S-video, HDMI, DVI, optical, etc.)? It makes me realize that I'm happy with my regular tube TV. It's cheap, it's simple, it looks good, and you don't have to go through 12 pages of directions to plug it in.
Why not just make it a Windows app then?
Because then you have to worry about rolling out installs, versions, etc. Active X in this particular format means that you can very easily push fully functional Windows apps (with Windows security and all) out to all of your users at the same time. It's very useful. Think of Ajax as a very, very bad equivalent to one tiny bit of Active X functionality.
This is particular unrelated to Linux, especially since I'd wager a lot of money that Windows goes on 90% of these machines after they're sold. I may very buy some of these guys so I can use my "old" Windows 2000 licenses.
If this kind of stuff was covered by the mainstream media, I think we'd see a sharp uptick in the sales of ammunition in this county.
As a result, Microsoft doesn't have a lot of control over the app or how it interacts with the OS.
Say "Hi" to Vista. That's the main thing they're in the process of fixing. Signed drivers will take care of bad drivers. I'm sure there's some kind of "Trusted" software thing that will be implemented soon after it's released to the public. "Trusted Computing" takes care of the apps.
Apparently, Microsoft saw this problem being serious a long time ago, and started working on it right after Windows 2000 came out. Maybe they were inspired by the Linux distribution model. Who knows?
Everything you said about bad installs is correct (and applies to drivers). But I think that Vista is the start of fixing this huge problem.
Yes, which is part of the reason they still only have single digit marketshare. Apple upgrades are very expensive, and often very necessary for the users.
I've got $600 bucks burning a hole in my pocket because I STILL can't get my hands on a PS3 in my area! There's definitely not a surplus of these things yet.
I think you're wrong. I don't know what you mean by "taken out by big competing entities" is supposed to mean. Companies can compete with each other, but I don't know what "taken out" means. More importantly, this kind of thing is sorely needed. The current state of OSS is a mess. There are no standards, and every system is some hodgepodge mix of lots of competing products, none of them working together well. Right now, I can call Microsoft, and get them to sell me all of the software my business needs, and it'll work and they'll support it. (We'll be a 100% Microsoft shop except for our web server, in a few months). Same with Apple. If I want to run Linux and Open Source stuff, then about all I can do is spend lots of time with Google, and find somebody with no particular certifications or qualifications to patch together some custom system for me that is ultimately supported by nobody. I can't run my business this way. That's like if instead of having one company take care of all of our garbage collection as I do now, I'd have one company that picks up garbage, but they can only work with certain types of dumpsters, which I have to buy here, and another company to handle cardboard, but their trucks only work with this other type of dumpster, blah, blah, blah. I see the Linux platform the same way: a mess that I don't have the time or money to try to decipher. Althoguh Linux has a loooong way to go before business owners can just use some Linux platform, and have things actually work together, this sounds like this is a step in the right direction.
If the FCC had balls and were ethical, that's what they'd have done.
Forcing a company to alter their product with the force of law is never ethical. Besides, this isn't a service using public airwaves. These are private satellites broadcasting to private subscribers. The government has no place in telling either XM or Sirius what they can and cannot do.
Most good dog and cat foods have had plenty of probiotics added to them for years now. It's nothing new. We sell a lot of probiotics to people to give their pets after they've had a round of antibiotics. That's why antibiotics upset your stomach when you take them... they often kill the good bacteria in your gut that help with digestion.
Honestly, you should check out one of these sites first. At "Prosper", most of the "loans" are for at least 15%! I don't know who this is helping...
You're kidding, right?
No, I don't think that you have anything to worry about. There are tons and tons and tons of adults who hvae *zero* interest in anything that's anime/Mario themed. I wouldn't even consider a Nintendo because this kind of stuff in no way appeals to me. I doubt that there's that much Nintendo/PS2 crossover outside of hardcore gamer geeks. I don't know any regular people (not geeks) that own a Nintendo. The consensus is that Nintendos are "for kids", and I tend to agree.
Seriously, I just moved into a new place and I opted for no Net connection. I simply end up wasting an insane amount of time, after which, I ask myself, "What in the hell did I get accomplished?" 9 times out of 10, my answer to myself is "nothing". Honestly, the Net is so clogged up with commercial crap, and re-hashed news wire stuff, and useless blogs, that there's really very little new, original content on the Net that's easy to find. The signal to noise ratio is waaaay down from where it was, say, back in '95. So, I'll poke around during the day at work, but I like my free time to be free to actually *do* things.
So, I am part of that statistic. I don't know how typical I am, though. I've been using the Net since before the Web was around, and I guess I feel like I've already seen most of the good stuff.
I just don't see how they can really expect to win major market share with this platform.
If you've looked at the XBox 360 sales numbers, it's obvious that there are LOTS of people (like me) that are patiently waiting for the PS3. I'm not going to buy 2 consoles, and it's pretty damn shortsighted if I can't wait a bit longer for a much better console. Sony has nothing to worry about. And, Nintendo has largely dropped off the radar among grown-up, non-Japanese game players. I know that I consider Nintendo to be just for the kiddies, and I haven't considered buying a Nintendo product in 10 years.
Many researchers are spending lots of time researching AI, and the problems for which the Laws of Robotics are a an attempted solution; Namely how do you keep the robotis from taking over and/or indiscriminately killing mere humans, as seen in so many hollywood movies. So fictional laws are important as experiments in looking at potential solutions to a real problem.
OK, no need to research further. I have the answer. Press the power button. I mean c'mon... we're hundreds, if not thousands of years away from this being any kind of an issue. And even if it does become an issue, robots are just gizmos like me cell phone that you can just turn off. This is a silly "problem" to be discussing.
That's funny, because I think that MySQL is a lot like MS's dumbing down of "My Computer" and "My Documents", etc. MySQL sounds like some kind of dumbed-down toy database, to me.
Is there a single new idea in the PS3?
Well, it does use CELL technology instead of the same old x86 Intel architecture. From everything I've read in non-game publications, it'll make the XBox 360 look like a Colecovision by comparison. I tried a XBox 360 in a store today, and it looked and played exactly like my PS2. I don't understand why the point of the 360 is, actually.
Nintendo all the way.
Nintendo? Don't they just make games for little kids these days?
and look at the DS now. I don't even know what the DS is. What's your point... that there's something called the "DS" that nobody has heard of, kind of like whatever Nintendo is making these days?
Actually, I meant that I'd rather spend my nights drinking and getting laid instead of tinkering around with my computer to make it as functional as XP/2000 are out of the box. I don't play computer games (I assume "WOW" is a computer game).
I'm waiting for the PS3 because everything I've read says that it's going to be incredible, and the XBox 360 is really unimpressive. I don't know what ads or hype you're talking about, and I've never heard the "turn it upside down" FUD you're trying to spread. I just want a really good console, so I'm waiting for the PS3. You may want to turn off your TV, and turn on your brain.
Yeah, but I kinda' thought that that was a given. That shouldn't be news to anybody, unless you get all of your news from the US gov't.
Oh I don't know, I think the lack of spyware, advare and viruses would be quite interesting to all of them. Of course, MacOs has this too, but that requires Mac hardware.
You OSS trolls are *really* going to have to come up with some new material. It feels like you guys are really scaping the bottom of the barrel, here, looking for something, *anything* that would justify the masochism of using Linux on desktops It's not like you guys are limited to facts... that has never been an issue before. How about something more creative and relevant like "Linux: the choice of 30-year-old virgins."? Or "Linux: now with more unpronounceable applications!" Or, oh, I got it: "Why have a social life when you can spend time trying to get Linux to work?"
Although, I'll give credit where credit is due: you guys finally gave up trying to convince people that it's easier than Windows 2000/XP. I thought that you guys were never going to quit with that one. That was just embarassing.
How about "Flatulent Ferret"? You can't get more professional than that.
I can't speak for GM or Lowe's, but IBM is nowhere near migrating from Windows to *nix anything on the vast majority of their desktops. Just more FUD from the OSS crowd...