But yeah, the actual website itself expects this stupid plugin, and that's retarded.
Too right. Retarded. That makes sense. If we want to play DivX video in our browsers, we should just ask the magic fairies to do it. It's ridiculous to expect us to install new software to give functionality we don't currently have.
It does have a 'coolness' fad factor at this time, believe it or not, there a LOT of people out there that like to have the latest thing. Heck, read how bad that type thinking is in Japan before criticizing the US on it.
Which random orifice did you pull that one out of? As someone who has been in Japan for nearly a decade, I haven't seen anything like the frenzied camping out/queueing that seems to have taken over a wide range of product launches in the US recently. It happens pretty rarely in Japan, when there's a new major (i.e. numbered) Final Fantasy release, or a new console launch. I very much doubt anyone here is going to be go bananas about a phone. Just because you still harbour that ridiculous "look at the crazy Japs" opinion, doesn't mean you can use them to deflect any argument you want about consumer behaviour.
8% isn't hugely significant in itself, but I think there will be a certain amount of noise made if it passes 10%.
Actually, I am one of the people who a few months ago was bemoaning the fact that Apple were blowing their opportunity, but now I think the timing may work in their favor after all. A lot of people were holding off with Vista to see how things turned out. If the outlook improved considerably, or the market share for Vista surged upwards, I think most people would have jumped on board and carried on regardless with Microsoft. But things haven't significantly improved, and Vista hasn't surged upwards. In fact if anything, Vista's pulling power is even less than at launch (when they could at least count on the mindless early adopters who'll buy anything that's new). If Apple can really get the message out about Leopard, it's going to shine even more brightly against the continuing lackluster performance of Microsoft's OS.
I entirely agree. What he did was huge. He practically created the desktop computer as we know it. And absolutely nothing since. His recent book "iWoz", with the modern day Apple style cover, using the i branding from Apple's current hugely successful range of products is ridiculous. He has absolutely no association with the current wave of success that Apple is riding.
I have no great love of Jobs, but let's be serious. If Woz was the boss of Apple, the company wouldn't exist any more.
At the risk of being the devil's advocate, is it entirely likely that they are using the publicity someone else (the labels) paid for to generate sales for this album?
What a strange suggestion. Presumably the fact that their record label has been paid handsomely with a cut from every one of the last 6 multi-million selling albums isn't enough then? Radiohead have more than paid for their previous distributor's services.
Presumably, if you've been to their site, you've already infringed their precious copyright, since your browser had to make a 'copy' of their precious HTML simply to render the page. Viewing it is irrelevant - the crime has already been committed.
Given that it was the first thought that entered my head when I read the headline (and probably that of every true geek) I wouldn't be so quick to judge.
My apologies. To clarify, I used the term 'shiny battleships' as a throwaway term to describe military hardware such as their as their Aegis destroyers which are about as shiny as they come given that the first Atago class was only commissioned this year. It wasn't meant to be a technically accurate description (perhaps warship would have been a better choice).
Population density is a factor in supply and demand. It's simple economics. Furthermore your argument is overly simplistic and fails to take into account that even a well organized telecoms company would have to spread its resources over both densely populated urban areas and rural settlements. However, you're right in that the U.S. is a total disaster. Don't assume though that just because your useless corporate pigs use it as an excuse, it automatically makes it a lie.
The Japanese were also forbidden by the terms of surrender to have a military sufficient for anything more than self-defense. Wonder what research could be funded with the money the U.S.A. spends on developing new ways to make dead soldiers.
Japan is actually the fourth biggest spender in the world when it comes to defence. While they may be a long way behind the U.S. (frankly everyone is), there are a lot of developed countries that spend a fraction of what Japan does. Japan's military might be constitutionally forbidden from waging war, but it doesn't stop them having some very shiny battleships.
it's certainly true that Japan's rapid post-War development, modernisation and resultant prosperity was the result of it being almost destroyed and rebuilt from scratch
I'm not sure what your basis for this is, but I think this is at least in part a fallacy. Japan was already the dominant power in the region before WWII, and had already demonstrated the capability to thrive without American dollars. They had the most advanced infrastructure of any country in Asia, a formidable military, and the modernisation of the country during the Meiji era had already set the path for future progress.
The majority of Japan's construction (homes, office buildings, schools, hospitals etc.) is knocked flat and rebuilt every 20-30 years for a couple of reasons. Firstly, land values are still incredibly high in Japan due to supply and demand, and so most buildings are created using relatively cheap materials to keep the overall cost to a bearable level. Secondly, being one of the most earthquake prone countries in the world, safety dictates that buildings have a lifespan of several big shakes before it's time for them to come down. It's better to renew them regularly rather than waiting for them to reach a high-risk level of structural soundness. Thus the entire country (bar a few temples, and places of historic interest) is rebuilt every generation or two, even without the assistance of American bombs. Had WWII not occurred, the country would probably be culturally different in many ways (I doubt baseball would have become the national sport) but as for completely rebuilding - that happens anyway.
Finally, population density, and a relatively compact geography (almost the entire population lives in about 20% of the land, due to the fact that the other 80% is highly mountainous) means that mobile phone infrastructure (for example, 3G coverage), fibre-based internet etc. can be deployed much more quickly and effectively than in a country like the U.S.
Can you even parody something that's already a joke?
Actually far from being a parody, I'd say this is a small victory for reality. The fact that Jack has recognized a nasty lawyer videogame character as himself, obviously indicates that he's finally realized that he's an asshole who everyone would like to kill.
No, not with all the legal action he brought to and directed at them. And then there are the un-constitutional laws he has passed, and that game industry lawyers had to waste time and resources fighting
Jesus! I knew Jack Thompson was deluded, but he's passing laws now!?
What did you do? As a Mac Pro owner, I can't say if Bootcamp made any difference to boot time because I've never measured it, but it certainly hasn't made enough of a difference for me to notice. I did install Windows on a dedicated hard drive though.
Yeah... who'd expect a tire spinning at thousands of revs per minute to cause a small patch of water to evaporate? A scientist who's never heard of friction?
Congratulations on choosing an intelligent and sober response, instead of the "go fuck yourself" that a lot of us would have opted for. It does you more credit than you probably intended.
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Who gives a shit.
Good to see that journalistic standards are so low in the US, it's worth of attention when a journalist from another country actually shows some.
Are we talking about the CEO who laid off half the development team, required the remainder to work over time, and then gave himself a bonus by firing the rest after the product went gold or the pirates?
Nothing to stop you starting your own company, shouldering the risk, and then creating jobs for other people. Go out and change the world if you think you can do better. Alternatively, take your route: sit on your ass and moan about hypothetical people who perhaps did all of the above.
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8% isn't hugely significant in itself, but I think there will be a certain amount of noise made if it passes 10%.
Actually, I am one of the people who a few months ago was bemoaning the fact that Apple were blowing their opportunity, but now I think the timing may work in their favor after all. A lot of people were holding off with Vista to see how things turned out. If the outlook improved considerably, or the market share for Vista surged upwards, I think most people would have jumped on board and carried on regardless with Microsoft. But things haven't significantly improved, and Vista hasn't surged upwards. In fact if anything, Vista's pulling power is even less than at launch (when they could at least count on the mindless early adopters who'll buy anything that's new). If Apple can really get the message out about Leopard, it's going to shine even more brightly against the continuing lackluster performance of Microsoft's OS.
I have no great love of Jobs, but let's be serious. If Woz was the boss of Apple, the company wouldn't exist any more.
Presumably, if you've been to their site, you've already infringed their precious copyright, since your browser had to make a 'copy' of their precious HTML simply to render the page. Viewing it is irrelevant - the crime has already been committed.
There are a lot of bad designers, that still read A List Apart. Just like there are a lot of bad golfers, who follow Tiger Woods.
Except anything by Adobe would still take 30 seconds.
My apologies. To clarify, I used the term 'shiny battleships' as a throwaway term to describe military hardware such as their as their Aegis destroyers which are about as shiny as they come given that the first Atago class was only commissioned this year. It wasn't meant to be a technically accurate description (perhaps warship would have been a better choice).
Population density is a factor in supply and demand. It's simple economics. Furthermore your argument is overly simplistic and fails to take into account that even a well organized telecoms company would have to spread its resources over both densely populated urban areas and rural settlements. However, you're right in that the U.S. is a total disaster. Don't assume though that just because your useless corporate pigs use it as an excuse, it automatically makes it a lie.
The majority of Japan's construction (homes, office buildings, schools, hospitals etc.) is knocked flat and rebuilt every 20-30 years for a couple of reasons. Firstly, land values are still incredibly high in Japan due to supply and demand, and so most buildings are created using relatively cheap materials to keep the overall cost to a bearable level. Secondly, being one of the most earthquake prone countries in the world, safety dictates that buildings have a lifespan of several big shakes before it's time for them to come down. It's better to renew them regularly rather than waiting for them to reach a high-risk level of structural soundness. Thus the entire country (bar a few temples, and places of historic interest) is rebuilt every generation or two, even without the assistance of American bombs. Had WWII not occurred, the country would probably be culturally different in many ways (I doubt baseball would have become the national sport) but as for completely rebuilding - that happens anyway.
Finally, population density, and a relatively compact geography (almost the entire population lives in about 20% of the land, due to the fact that the other 80% is highly mountainous) means that mobile phone infrastructure (for example, 3G coverage), fibre-based internet etc. can be deployed much more quickly and effectively than in a country like the U.S.
Can you even parody something that's already a joke?
Actually far from being a parody, I'd say this is a small victory for reality. The fact that Jack has recognized a nasty lawyer videogame character as himself, obviously indicates that he's finally realized that he's an asshole who everyone would like to kill.
What did you do? As a Mac Pro owner, I can't say if Bootcamp made any difference to boot time because I've never measured it, but it certainly hasn't made enough of a difference for me to notice. I did install Windows on a dedicated hard drive though.
Yeah... who'd expect a tire spinning at thousands of revs per minute to cause a small patch of water to evaporate? A scientist who's never heard of friction?
Congratulations on choosing an intelligent and sober response, instead of the "go fuck yourself" that a lot of us would have opted for. It does you more credit than you probably intended.
+1 Fucking Spot On