What annoys me about this is that just a few days ago I got an email from AT&T saying that they've installed new towers in my area and expanded 3G coverage. They had a link to their coverage maps that said "Click here for 3G coverage maps" with a thumbnail of the orange voice coverage map, which is of course much much more dense than their spotty blue 3G map. I found it extremely misleading and would have just assumed that was really their 3G coverage except that I had seen the Verizon commercial recently.
When Atari was released, people were amazed by the graphics (I'm sure this point will astound several of our younger readers). Even then, there were people complaining that the graphics really only stood in the way of allowing you to do whatever you wanted to do in the game the way you could in text-based games - as long as you could figure out the syntax!
The real point here is that, since games have had graphics, there have been people that felt the state-of-the-art graphics only got in the way of what they liked about the games they liked previously.
I'm only conjecturing, but I think part of it is that people have a tendency to assume that graphics have pretty much gotten as good as they're going to be for a long time. Even in the atari days people couldn't imagine how the graphics were going to get much better. To say that the games on the upcoming consoles don't look any better than they do on the current consoles is true, but these are just release titles. After developers have had a couple years to unravel all the tricks, we should be seeing amazing things.
To me, graphics don't make the game. But they can certainly go a long way to enhance a game with a solid foundation of gameplay.
Don't think of this as a method of keeping drunk people from driving cars (enough possible exploits have already been posted here) but rather as a device to allow people to determine if they're really as sober as they think they are when they step into the car. I would actually welcome a way to know if I'm approaching the legal limit when I get into my car that doesn't require getting pulled over first.
I can't honestly imagine that he really has that much of an influence over what happens to Windows on a software level. It's not like he's out there implementing features in code.
Many companies hire their chief executives based on their ability to run a business, regardless of their inability to actually understand anything that business does.
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What annoys me about this is that just a few days ago I got an email from AT&T saying that they've installed new towers in my area and expanded 3G coverage. They had a link to their coverage maps that said "Click here for 3G coverage maps" with a thumbnail of the orange voice coverage map, which is of course much much more dense than their spotty blue 3G map. I found it extremely misleading and would have just assumed that was really their 3G coverage except that I had seen the Verizon commercial recently.
I was about to say "Geez, can't take a joke?" but then I noticed you're sitting at +5 Insightful, so you must not be alone.
When Atari was released, people were amazed by the graphics (I'm sure this point will astound several of our younger readers). Even then, there were people complaining that the graphics really only stood in the way of allowing you to do whatever you wanted to do in the game the way you could in text-based games - as long as you could figure out the syntax!
The real point here is that, since games have had graphics, there have been people that felt the state-of-the-art graphics only got in the way of what they liked about the games they liked previously.
I'm only conjecturing, but I think part of it is that people have a tendency to assume that graphics have pretty much gotten as good as they're going to be for a long time. Even in the atari days people couldn't imagine how the graphics were going to get much better. To say that the games on the upcoming consoles don't look any better than they do on the current consoles is true, but these are just release titles. After developers have had a couple years to unravel all the tricks, we should be seeing amazing things.
To me, graphics don't make the game. But they can certainly go a long way to enhance a game with a solid foundation of gameplay.
Don't think of this as a method of keeping drunk people from driving cars (enough possible exploits have already been posted here) but rather as a device to allow people to determine if they're really as sober as they think they are when they step into the car. I would actually welcome a way to know if I'm approaching the legal limit when I get into my car that doesn't require getting pulled over first.
I can't honestly imagine that he really has that much of an influence over what happens to Windows on a software level. It's not like he's out there implementing features in code.
Many companies hire their chief executives based on their ability to run a business, regardless of their inability to actually understand anything that business does.