Disney plans on encrypting their screener DVDs. Umm, last time I checked Disney didn't have anything good to pirate. Nothing remotely good has come out of them in years with the exception of distrubtion for Pixar and Ghili-Films.
To me this is like putting a dog turd in a wall safe.
Sometimes I really hate that HTML formatting, and sometimes I really hate even more forgetting about it.
> "Microsoft cannot look good without lying about Apple"
That would imply that in order to make oneself to look better to a comparable product. That would most likely rely on another company purposely calling it "iPod video" but its not like that, instead its the consumers purposely misnaming the product.
> "Microsoft cannot look good without lying about Apple"
That would imply that in order to make oneself to look better to a comparable product. That would most likely rely on another company purposely calling it "iPod video" but its not like that, instead its the consumers purposely misnaming the product.
And who is this Mr. QWERTY you speak of?
[ dvorak ]
It's just a fifth generation iPod with video. Video is not its primary function, if it was, then it'd be an iPod video. God damnit, people need to stop spreading misinformation on things.
Its not video iPod or iPod video. Its a 5th Generation iPod with Video.
iPod video would have its primarily purpose for playing video. The 5G iPod is still primarily music player with some video functionality. Apple is testing the waters, unfortunately way too many ignorant people are calling it a "video iPod" or a "iPod video" when it is not.
Instead of going for the little pups, go for the big dogs. Go sue Energy providers! Yeah! Cause you know, we couldn't pirate music if it weren't for electricity powering computers and other electronic equipment. Yeah, that show them!
I'd have to say it is the absurd requirements to run the OS alone; not the total lack of features. I mean seriously what are they thinking? People shouldn't need multiple GHz, gigabytes of ram, harddrives the size of buses, and videocards with 128MB of ram just to make the OS pretty. Scaling be damned, its ridiculous.
IT managers are looking at it like this, $200+ for a new CPU, $120 for a Mobo, $500 for the video card, $200 for the 2GB of ram, and $200 for harddrives just to run an OS that will be outdated compared to its alternatives? Thats outright stupid.
...for giving developers 'freedom from responsibility which would be considered wholly unacceptable in almost any other sphere of activity, public or private'.
Yeah cause you know; gun manufactors are totally held responsible for each person shot or killed by each of their guns. Oh and of course Silverware makers are totally held responsible for stabbings with their utensils. Oh and bullet manufactorers are also held responsible for whatever their bullets are used for. Oh and lets not forget energy providers for providing electricity that can kill, or water and sewage system maintainers for people drowning and stuff. What a total load of crap.
Ever since I signed up for the Do-Not-Call list I get even more telemarketters and unwanted calls. Before I signed up, I used to get maybe two or three calls a day outside of the hourly call from TalkAmerica. After I signed up my phone rings twice every half an hour. Its even worse.
Today I have gotten at least 16 calls since 6AM. DIE TALKAMERICA! DIE!
I seriously doubt spending $500 for a brand new Mac Mini is going to make people stick with Windows.
You can stay on the Wintel side if you want, Apple is looking at the demographic of people that are just simply sick and tired of babysitting their machines.
You forget that Apple isn't a software company. Its a HARDWARE and software company. A brand new Mac is going to make Apple more money than a copy of OS X will. Yeah, they can still sell their premium hardware, but whose is going to buy it? Not many. The majority of Apple's profits come from hardware. They are not going to risk what the Clones did to them last time. As soon as let clones run Mac OS, Apple's hardware sales fell and the market share only went up a fraction.
Here are some other reasons why Apple won't do it:
1. Growing pains for the Business. If Apple's market share increases rapidly, Apple won't have the resources at hand to keep up with it. If you are a boss, can you imagine having an overwhelming surge of new customers coming in that just outright floods your workers?
2. Going generic means supporting tons of hardware. That means OS X would go the way of Windows. So much for all the installations being near identical. Instead you have to come up with tons and tons of drivers, you have to support millions of configurations, you have document and provide help on millions and millions of problems. All your software becomes bloated and makes it harder to debug, which means buggy product releases.
3. OS X becomes a big cracker and virus writer target. A huge marketshare means a bigger malicious group of people. Suddenly Mac Users will have to worry about viruses, scripts, worms, and the like.
4. People will find a way to steal the OS regardless of how much effort is put into anti-piracy. Look at M$, they spent millions on developing a way to prevent piracy of XP, and people still crack it every few days.
5. Stagnation. If you have a monopoly you really don't have to be innovative, you just have to keep up with the times. Look at M$, the monopoly, practically no new ideas out of them. They don't have to worry about competing. Apple on the other hand has to put out every innovation they can think of to get people to switch, if the position is reversed it'll be the same thing.
I disagree with opinion of Windows 3.1-95's piracy being what gave Microsoft the monopoly.
Just because you can get it for free doesn't mean its going to be instantly popular. Look at Linux, its free, its effecient, and you can get it practically anywhere on anything. But it still doesn't have the market penetration of Windows. Sure some of it may have to do with the dizzy array of UI offerings.
Microsoft took a better approach. Instead of tying in together the hardware and software they just went for the software. It gave people a lot more options in terms of what they could run it on. Developers in turn saw this as a better platform to develop for because it had sucha huge market of hardware to use.
But in the end what made Microsoft a Monopoly was the OEM deals, the shady tactics of stealing work from others, patenting other peoples ideas, and threatening manufacturers who didn't buy into them. (i.e. If you support other OSs forget about getting discounts, etc.)
Everyone knows Windows 3.1 is abysmal by any standards. But Microsoft took a step forward with W95 and people accepted it, they weren't particularly thrilled with it compared to Apple at the time, but it was good enough and it ran on enough cheap hardware to make it a very good sell.
The average business man only thinks about how to make money and save it. If there is a choice between a machine that works absolutely perfectly, designed well, and is easy to use but has a steep price tag, they are going to go with the cheaper alternative that won't work as well. Those same business men don't care about innovation, they want something that will get the job done. Sure enough Windows sales for Business soared.
Most of the time businesses will not use pirated software, they will pay the cost of the hardware and software and not worry about things that most pirates do. Thats where M$ got its strangle hold.
As business sales soared, it began to invade the consumer market, at the time the most people thought computers could do was work related stuff. So they went with what they knew, they got cheap PCs with a cheap OS.
All of a sudden the PC starts to flourish for the consumer market, Developers see that as a target audience. Who would you build for? 5 cheap machines or 1 expensive one? They are going to go for the people that have the bulk of the hardware and OS. It just becomes a vicious cycle.
I'm not saying that piracy didn't help. But it didn't make them a monopoly. They probably still would have a monopoly even if their OS wasn't pirated.
I think you'd be discouraging them too if there was a chance all your profits would die because you could go out anywhere and get an illegal copy of their OS and run it on generic hardware.
Sure some people would actually buy legitament copies of OS X for the MacTels, but a lot more people would just pirate it to save money and not buy an Apple Machine.
If you have a choice between buying an Apple Machine at $2000, but you can build an even more powerful machine for that price or lower and stick a cracked copy of OS X on it, where will you spend your money?
Believe me, I'd love to have an Athlon 64 FX-57 PowerMac over some Pentium Mac any day, but Apple has to keep itself afloat. They can't live off the iPod sales forever.
I'm quite sure a lot of people can identify with a big breasted woman who can shoot tribesmen a few hundred times and jump twelve feet in the air. Or better yet I bet people can identify being a serial auto thief, or even better than that I'm sure everyone can identify being a 8 foot tall cyborg that can flip tanks over.
Get over it, video games are meant to be escapism, not something to identify with.
Now if you will, I must go out and steal a few hundred cars, kill some cops, rape some hookers, and shoot rockets at cars.
All these people crying and whining about Wind Waker's look. But how many of these people actually played the game through?
All these people just dismiss something off hand because of appearance, it just shows how little people have come. "OMG ITS A KIDDY GAME BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE A CARTOON!" How utterly immature of people to dismiss WW as a childish game. I have been a Zelda fan since I got my hands on the original gold cartridge version of The Legend of Zelda for the NES and have been a vivid and rabid fan of Zelda since then. I've played pretty much all of the Zelda games (except two for the iCD).
These people claiming that WW "betrayed everything about Zelda" obviously don't have the slightest clue about what Zelda is. Its an adventure for the heart that is meant to make people feel good. Hell it was based on Shigeru's Childhood, its supposed to have a child like feel to it.
Anyone who dismissed Wind Waker because of its looks is absolutely immature about how games should be. They missed out on a great game, sure the TriForce hunting was a bit boring, but by the end of it you felt as if you had completed an epic game that even shadowed OoT in some respects. Plenty of more than memorable battles, traps, puzzles, and of course probably the best end boss in any Zelda game to date.
And the way Link finishes off Ganon is definitely not "kiddy."
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Disney plans on encrypting their screener DVDs. Umm, last time I checked Disney didn't have anything good to pirate. Nothing remotely good has come out of them in years with the exception of distrubtion for Pixar and Ghili-Films.
To me this is like putting a dog turd in a wall safe.
Sometimes I really hate that HTML formatting, and sometimes I really hate even more forgetting about it.
> "Microsoft cannot look good without lying about Apple"
That would imply that in order to make oneself to look better to a comparable product. That would most likely rely on another company purposely calling it "iPod video" but its not like that, instead its the consumers purposely misnaming the product.
And who is this Mr. QWERTY you speak of?
[ dvorak ]
> "Microsoft cannot look good without lying about Apple" That would imply that in order to make oneself to look better to a comparable product. That would most likely rely on another company purposely calling it "iPod video" but its not like that, instead its the consumers purposely misnaming the product. And who is this Mr. QWERTY you speak of? [ dvorak ]
It's just a fifth generation iPod with video. Video is not its primary function, if it was, then it'd be an iPod video. God damnit, people need to stop spreading misinformation on things.
Its not video iPod or iPod video. Its a 5th Generation iPod with Video.
iPod video would have its primarily purpose for playing video. The 5G iPod is still primarily music player with some video functionality. Apple is testing the waters, unfortunately way too many ignorant people are calling it a "video iPod" or a "iPod video" when it is not.
I'm going to patent idiocy, stupidity, and retardation. USPTO will owe me billions! Bwahahahahaha....
Today during a recent survey funded by Micro$oft. Playstation 3 will give you brain tumors, and Nintendo Revolution gives you Cancer.
No! It's notta tumor! [its a feature.]
Instead of going for the little pups, go for the big dogs. Go sue Energy providers! Yeah! Cause you know, we couldn't pirate music if it weren't for electricity powering computers and other electronic equipment. Yeah, that show them!
W32.GODZILLA.K@MM!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhh Choooooo!!!!!
*sniffle*
What?
Yeah there in bed together, no doubt. But its still its biggest flaw and probably the biggest reason people are going elsewhere.
I'd have to say it is the absurd requirements to run the OS alone; not the total lack of features. I mean seriously what are they thinking? People shouldn't need multiple GHz, gigabytes of ram, harddrives the size of buses, and videocards with 128MB of ram just to make the OS pretty. Scaling be damned, its ridiculous.
IT managers are looking at it like this, $200+ for a new CPU, $120 for a Mobo, $500 for the video card, $200 for the 2GB of ram, and $200 for harddrives just to run an OS that will be outdated compared to its alternatives? Thats outright stupid.
Giving the coasters total control of beer? They could keep mankind enslaved.
I, for one, welcome our new Intelligent Coaster Overlords.
Wow, I guess I should also be held responsible for the improper spelling of "manufacturers" now too. Crap. I better get a good lawyer.
...for giving developers 'freedom from responsibility which would be considered wholly unacceptable in almost any other sphere of activity, public or private'.
Yeah cause you know; gun manufactors are totally held responsible for each person shot or killed by each of their guns. Oh and of course Silverware makers are totally held responsible for stabbings with their utensils. Oh and bullet manufactorers are also held responsible for whatever their bullets are used for. Oh and lets not forget energy providers for providing electricity that can kill, or water and sewage system maintainers for people drowning and stuff. What a total load of crap.
What planet is this guy living on?
Ever since I signed up for the Do-Not-Call list I get even more telemarketters and unwanted calls. Before I signed up, I used to get maybe two or three calls a day outside of the hourly call from TalkAmerica. After I signed up my phone rings twice every half an hour. Its even worse.
Today I have gotten at least 16 calls since 6AM. DIE TALKAMERICA! DIE!
Anyone else have a mental image of a monkey throwing its own waste, after reading that title?
M$ if you are reading this, please keep your own crap to yourself. No one wants it, thanks.
If $100 Million dollars won't make you want to switch to Vista, what will?
How about a OS that isn't a big steaming pile of dog crap packaged in an optical disc format?
I seriously doubt spending $500 for a brand new Mac Mini is going to make people stick with Windows.
You can stay on the Wintel side if you want, Apple is looking at the demographic of people that are just simply sick and tired of babysitting their machines. You forget that Apple isn't a software company. Its a HARDWARE and software company. A brand new Mac is going to make Apple more money than a copy of OS X will. Yeah, they can still sell their premium hardware, but whose is going to buy it? Not many. The majority of Apple's profits come from hardware. They are not going to risk what the Clones did to them last time. As soon as let clones run Mac OS, Apple's hardware sales fell and the market share only went up a fraction.
Here are some other reasons why Apple won't do it:
1. Growing pains for the Business. If Apple's market share increases rapidly, Apple won't have the resources at hand to keep up with it. If you are a boss, can you imagine having an overwhelming surge of new customers coming in that just outright floods your workers?
2. Going generic means supporting tons of hardware. That means OS X would go the way of Windows. So much for all the installations being near identical. Instead you have to come up with tons and tons of drivers, you have to support millions of configurations, you have document and provide help on millions and millions of problems. All your software becomes bloated and makes it harder to debug, which means buggy product releases.
3. OS X becomes a big cracker and virus writer target. A huge marketshare means a bigger malicious group of people. Suddenly Mac Users will have to worry about viruses, scripts, worms, and the like.
4. People will find a way to steal the OS regardless of how much effort is put into anti-piracy. Look at M$, they spent millions on developing a way to prevent piracy of XP, and people still crack it every few days.
5. Stagnation. If you have a monopoly you really don't have to be innovative, you just have to keep up with the times. Look at M$, the monopoly, practically no new ideas out of them. They don't have to worry about competing. Apple on the other hand has to put out every innovation they can think of to get people to switch, if the position is reversed it'll be the same thing.
I disagree with opinion of Windows 3.1-95's piracy being what gave Microsoft the monopoly.
Just because you can get it for free doesn't mean its going to be instantly popular. Look at Linux, its free, its effecient, and you can get it practically anywhere on anything. But it still doesn't have the market penetration of Windows. Sure some of it may have to do with the dizzy array of UI offerings.
Microsoft took a better approach. Instead of tying in together the hardware and software they just went for the software. It gave people a lot more options in terms of what they could run it on. Developers in turn saw this as a better platform to develop for because it had sucha huge market of hardware to use.
But in the end what made Microsoft a Monopoly was the OEM deals, the shady tactics of stealing work from others, patenting other peoples ideas, and threatening manufacturers who didn't buy into them. (i.e. If you support other OSs forget about getting discounts, etc.)
Everyone knows Windows 3.1 is abysmal by any standards. But Microsoft took a step forward with W95 and people accepted it, they weren't particularly thrilled with it compared to Apple at the time, but it was good enough and it ran on enough cheap hardware to make it a very good sell.
The average business man only thinks about how to make money and save it. If there is a choice between a machine that works absolutely perfectly, designed well, and is easy to use but has a steep price tag, they are going to go with the cheaper alternative that won't work as well. Those same business men don't care about innovation, they want something that will get the job done. Sure enough Windows sales for Business soared.
Most of the time businesses will not use pirated software, they will pay the cost of the hardware and software and not worry about things that most pirates do. Thats where M$ got its strangle hold.
As business sales soared, it began to invade the consumer market, at the time the most people thought computers could do was work related stuff. So they went with what they knew, they got cheap PCs with a cheap OS.
All of a sudden the PC starts to flourish for the consumer market, Developers see that as a target audience. Who would you build for? 5 cheap machines or 1 expensive one? They are going to go for the people that have the bulk of the hardware and OS. It just becomes a vicious cycle.
I'm not saying that piracy didn't help. But it didn't make them a monopoly. They probably still would have a monopoly even if their OS wasn't pirated.
I think you'd be discouraging them too if there was a chance all your profits would die because you could go out anywhere and get an illegal copy of their OS and run it on generic hardware.
Sure some people would actually buy legitament copies of OS X for the MacTels, but a lot more people would just pirate it to save money and not buy an Apple Machine.
If you have a choice between buying an Apple Machine at $2000, but you can build an even more powerful machine for that price or lower and stick a cracked copy of OS X on it, where will you spend your money?
Believe me, I'd love to have an Athlon 64 FX-57 PowerMac over some Pentium Mac any day, but Apple has to keep itself afloat. They can't live off the iPod sales forever.
I'm quite sure a lot of people can identify with a big breasted woman who can shoot tribesmen a few hundred times and jump twelve feet in the air. Or better yet I bet people can identify being a serial auto thief, or even better than that I'm sure everyone can identify being a 8 foot tall cyborg that can flip tanks over.
Get over it, video games are meant to be escapism, not something to identify with.
Now if you will, I must go out and steal a few hundred cars, kill some cops, rape some hookers, and shoot rockets at cars.
All these people crying and whining about Wind Waker's look. But how many of these people actually played the game through?
All these people just dismiss something off hand because of appearance, it just shows how little people have come. "OMG ITS A KIDDY GAME BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE A CARTOON!" How utterly immature of people to dismiss WW as a childish game. I have been a Zelda fan since I got my hands on the original gold cartridge version of The Legend of Zelda for the NES and have been a vivid and rabid fan of Zelda since then. I've played pretty much all of the Zelda games (except two for the iCD).
These people claiming that WW "betrayed everything about Zelda" obviously don't have the slightest clue about what Zelda is. Its an adventure for the heart that is meant to make people feel good. Hell it was based on Shigeru's Childhood, its supposed to have a child like feel to it.
Anyone who dismissed Wind Waker because of its looks is absolutely immature about how games should be. They missed out on a great game, sure the TriForce hunting was a bit boring, but by the end of it you felt as if you had completed an epic game that even shadowed OoT in some respects. Plenty of more than memorable battles, traps, puzzles, and of course probably the best end boss in any Zelda game to date.
And the way Link finishes off Ganon is definitely not "kiddy."
Give M$ some time to work its magic, then there will be plenty of holes and viruses for all!