I'm filing for a patent on a device with the screen on top and the buttons on the bottom. That way, your thumb and that muscle there will not obscure the screen as you're operating the buttons. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go quit my job, because I'm about to be rich.
Scissors were invented well over 150 years ago, and they can be used as a weapon. Maybe we should ban them too. Cotton hasn't had any major advancements in quite a while, and people make cloth from it and dye it gang colors. Dihydrogen monoxide is as old as the hills, and causes hundreds or thousands of deaths each year. We, as responsible people, must petition to get these dangerous products off the streets. Who's with me?
$300/day does not make $78k annually. Ok, it does, but we're not talking about apples and apples. It depends on the type of business, the way it's run, and a million other factors, but overhead for an in-house employee is between 50-70% of the cost to maintain that employee, the rest being salary/wage. That means, if you cost your employer $300/day, that means you get between $35k and $50k per year on your pay stub, or around there.
I'm about 90% into a complete changeover from Windows to Linux in my (rather geeky) home. I have to say, I can see how Gnome can easily cause a great many problems to the CLI-phobic. KDE's 'Control Panel' thingy is far from perfect, but at least it covers most everything, and it's all in one place. In order to do things in Gnome (like xorg.conf settings), I find I need to actually go into my/etc folder and start vimming.
Gnome needs a Control Panel - something an average user can understand, and with a minimum of effort, change everything from display resolution to mouse accelleration to kernel modules. Forcing users to change things manually is where you crash your systems (I know this much). If you keep it all in the GUI, you maintain control over the settings, and you can make sure any changes are sane before implementing them. But if you hide the settings, the user has no choice but to muck around on his own, and then complain to all his coworkers that Linux is strictly for geeks.
This is not Apple. You can't assume the user won't have to change settings, because the hardware is nothing approaching uniform.
Do ads for anything related to PC audio/video/controllers qualify as video game ads now? Out of 24 examples, I can count the actual video game ads on one hand. Any list of the worst video game ads that doesn't include that original Zelda ad with the wierd guy jumping around screaming "Tektikes!" just isn't a proper list.
DRM? no thanks.
What's wrong with blue tooth, 802.11a-z?
First of all, encryption does not equal Digital Rights Management. What it does mean is your neighbor can't put his TV on the shared wall between your apartments and watch whatever you are watching. Most wireless technologies employ encryption to secure data transmission, including 802.11.
Second, Bluetooth and 802.11 do not have the transmission rates required. According to what I've read, to transmit the signal from a full HDMI you would need about 1.65 gbps. Even assuming the JPEG compression can knock down half the video size, that would still mean close to 1 gbps, which is approximately double the still-theoretical 802.11n.
Issues like this are just going to increase the demand for downloadable movies, and hasten the demise of "Disc Media" as the primary means of movie watching.
Except, even with my not-too-shabby-for-the-US 8mbit/sec cable connection, it'll take about a day to download a 35gig movie. That's assuming, of course, that I can get reasonably close to my own theoretical limit of 8meg down, and whichever (genius) company is sending me the file can push the data that quickly. I can't get that kind of sustained bandwidth from any company I've downloaded anything from, aside from various Linux distros via bittorent. With a very few downloaders, those numbers add up very quickly, and our measly upload rates (384k for me) do not make the bittorrent avenue feasible in my eyes.
I think my point is, before we start looking to get high-def movies via IP, we need to get some bigger trucks to move all these internets through the series of pipes.
Apple doesn't aim to market to people who know what they are doing with a PC (I use the term in its original context, Personal Computer, without any bias to one OS or another). They are aiming for the less tech-savvy user, and hoping to create the (not entirely incorrect) impression that Mac's are easier to use than pretty much any other OS based machine on the market.
If/when that becomes the case, I think we'll find that 'market value' will decrease substantially, since the only people selling game-money will no longer be those who do it professionally and surreptitiously, but those basement/dorm dwelling merchants of the sort that drive in-game markets down by selling at prices that amount to a loss.
The availability over the Internet of the ALLOFMP3.com materials is authorized by the license # LS-3-05-03 of the Russian Multimedia...
... The user bears sole responsibility for any use and distribution of all materials received from AllOFMP3.com. This responsibility is dependent on the national legislation in each user's country of residence. The Administration of AllOFMP3.com does not possess information on the laws of each particular country and is not responsible for the actions of foreign users.
In other words, this Russian outfit can't guarantee that you won't be sued by a certain US entity for buying and downloading their fancy-shmancy mp3's. No thanks.
Have you ever tried using a TV as a monitor using S-Video? If you're not using software specifically designed for it (MythTV/Media Center) then it's all but useless. The signal from S-Video is in some respects like a low resolution VGA signal, but it's very sloppy in comparison, smearing the pixels across a comparitively wide area. It's fine for graphics and very large print on things like buttons, but it just isnt' accurate enough to make legible text unless that text is pretty big.
Because I can't play actual football very well. If the game is sophisticated enough to judge where I'm aiming my no-button-pressing-controller-throw, then I (and a great many others) will largely suck at this game.
If, however, the throwing motion is just a signal in general to throw the ball to a pre-designated receiver, then isn't it just a glorified button press? If that's the case, then it smacks of Power-Glove-ness, replacing a simple thumb motion with a large and complicated maneuver in an attempt to impress people.
Or do they just want to see me "accidently" smack my opponent in the back of the head with my controller?
Look, if you can't pony up for the dual-core Athlon, and the doubled up GeForce 7900, don't take it out on the game developers. Come on out of the stone age, why don'tcha.
I just have no tolerance for people that let their technology sit around for months without upgrading.
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I'm filing for a patent on a device with the screen on top and the buttons on the bottom. That way, your thumb and that muscle there will not obscure the screen as you're operating the buttons. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go quit my job, because I'm about to be rich.
Scissors were invented well over 150 years ago, and they can be used as a weapon. Maybe we should ban them too. Cotton hasn't had any major advancements in quite a while, and people make cloth from it and dye it gang colors. Dihydrogen monoxide is as old as the hills, and causes hundreds or thousands of deaths each year. We, as responsible people, must petition to get these dangerous products off the streets. Who's with me?
$300/day does not make $78k annually. Ok, it does, but we're not talking about apples and apples. It depends on the type of business, the way it's run, and a million other factors, but overhead for an in-house employee is between 50-70% of the cost to maintain that employee, the rest being salary/wage. That means, if you cost your employer $300/day, that means you get between $35k and $50k per year on your pay stub, or around there.
I'm about 90% into a complete changeover from Windows to Linux in my (rather geeky) home. I have to say, I can see how Gnome can easily cause a great many problems to the CLI-phobic. KDE's 'Control Panel' thingy is far from perfect, but at least it covers most everything, and it's all in one place. In order to do things in Gnome (like xorg.conf settings), I find I need to actually go into my /etc folder and start vimming.
Gnome needs a Control Panel - something an average user can understand, and with a minimum of effort, change everything from display resolution to mouse accelleration to kernel modules. Forcing users to change things manually is where you crash your systems (I know this much). If you keep it all in the GUI, you maintain control over the settings, and you can make sure any changes are sane before implementing them. But if you hide the settings, the user has no choice but to muck around on his own, and then complain to all his coworkers that Linux is strictly for geeks.
This is not Apple. You can't assume the user won't have to change settings, because the hardware is nothing approaching uniform.
Do ads for anything related to PC audio/video/controllers qualify as video game ads now? Out of 24 examples, I can count the actual video game ads on one hand. Any list of the worst video game ads that doesn't include that original Zelda ad with the wierd guy jumping around screaming "Tektikes!" just isn't a proper list.
That depends on your definition of 'sound':
No, it doesn't make a sound.
Yes, it does make a sound.
10: Virtual Boy 9: Gizmondo 8: Saturn 7: Action Max 6: CDi 5: N-Gage 4: Lynx 3: 32X 2: 3DO Interactive Multiplayer 1: Jaguar
That's a lot of porn
I have the same combination on my luggage!
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I swear nobody ever bothers to check google before posting.
Yeah, because all Will Wright's other 'sandbox' games have flopped. It's only his games that follow a hard script and storyline that do well.
Biggest market first? I really don't think PC gaming is the biggest market these days. Not by a long shot.
First of all, encryption does not equal Digital Rights Management. What it does mean is your neighbor can't put his TV on the shared wall between your apartments and watch whatever you are watching. Most wireless technologies employ encryption to secure data transmission, including 802.11.
Second, Bluetooth and 802.11 do not have the transmission rates required. According to what I've read, to transmit the signal from a full HDMI you would need about 1.65 gbps. Even assuming the JPEG compression can knock down half the video size, that would still mean close to 1 gbps, which is approximately double the still-theoretical 802.11n.
Except, even with my not-too-shabby-for-the-US 8mbit/sec cable connection, it'll take about a day to download a 35gig movie. That's assuming, of course, that I can get reasonably close to my own theoretical limit of 8meg down, and whichever (genius) company is sending me the file can push the data that quickly. I can't get that kind of sustained bandwidth from any company I've downloaded anything from, aside from various Linux distros via bittorent. With a very few downloaders, those numbers add up very quickly, and our measly upload rates (384k for me) do not make the bittorrent avenue feasible in my eyes.
I think my point is, before we start looking to get high-def movies via IP, we need to get some bigger trucks to move all these internets through the series of pipes.
Generally, selling as much as you supply at asking price is considered a success.
Apple doesn't aim to market to people who know what they are doing with a PC (I use the term in its original context, Personal Computer, without any bias to one OS or another). They are aiming for the less tech-savvy user, and hoping to create the (not entirely incorrect) impression that Mac's are easier to use than pretty much any other OS based machine on the market.
They better make it legal for me to sell them.
If/when that becomes the case, I think we'll find that 'market value' will decrease substantially, since the only people selling game-money will no longer be those who do it professionally and surreptitiously, but those basement/dorm dwelling merchants of the sort that drive in-game markets down by selling at prices that amount to a loss.
Because I can't play actual football very well. If the game is sophisticated enough to judge where I'm aiming my no-button-pressing-controller-throw, then I (and a great many others) will largely suck at this game.
If, however, the throwing motion is just a signal in general to throw the ball to a pre-designated receiver, then isn't it just a glorified button press? If that's the case, then it smacks of Power-Glove-ness, replacing a simple thumb motion with a large and complicated maneuver in an attempt to impress people.
Or do they just want to see me "accidently" smack my opponent in the back of the head with my controller?
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/rooter.pdf
Look, if you can't pony up for the dual-core Athlon, and the doubled up GeForce 7900, don't take it out on the game developers. Come on out of the stone age, why don'tcha.
I just have no tolerance for people that let their technology sit around for months without upgrading.
My Windows machine already performs plenty of "Random Instructions", thank you very much.