So are you saying Apple is better, or just brand-name? Or maybe it's just that Apple creates a more pleasant experience? BMWs, AFAIK, are more reasonably priced over in Germany because they're not imported with fancy taxes brought to you by the letters U, S and A.
This is absolutely correct. That's why only people with technical know how got Linux, started to use it and love it, and then told all their friends about it. And that is how Linux got to be so big on the desktop!
My first question to everyone: Why can't a company be both a hardware AND a software company?
This leads to the disadvantage of having a limited and more costly hardware base, but that is why Apple products "just work".
Why does knowing your hardware make the hardware more expensive?
It seems to me that the reason Apple hardware is more expensive is that only Apple makes Apple hardware. If there were some competition they would become cheaper. I think it might be safe to say Apple also tests their hardware but I doubt they test it anymore than Asus, Intel, AMD, MSI, or whatever. So most of the quality control goes into software. But then do they test it anymore than Adobe or Macromedia or what have you? They have a very limited set of hardware to test on as opposed to those companies who test their software on lots of different hardware. So that means they have actually less testing to do. And since they know the hardware (as they made it) they can optimize. So hardware is more expensive because of lack of competition, software is less expensive because of less testing.
So you are paying for a complete experience. Which I can get from Dell or something similar. So you are paying for what exactly?
If any of this is wrong let me know. I like Apple, but the only reason I see it as more expensive is because there is a subset of the population that is willing to pay for "more expensive".
Either that's really fast or MGS is not very long. I did something similar with Jedi Outcast, only I cheated and turned on noclip allowing me to pass through walls. It still took me ~45 minutes. If I had to actually run through, it would have been a much longer time.
Maybe this has never happened to you, but there have been many times where entire scenes and thoughts and consequences have all gone through my mind in a fraction of a second. I got all the visual and audio sensations that my brain can create as well as a much larger understanding of the situation than what I would have gotten had the events actually transpired.
I passed out once and had a very long dream. My mind created the backstories of all the people involved in the dream including a lot of sensations (sight, sound, touch, smell, etc.). When I came to, those around me said I had barely been out for a second. That's quite a lot that the brain can do. Very very quickly I might add.
So a computer can "remember" more things because it can write it down and then look it up later? I do that all the time and thus can remember all sorts of things. That's very impressive of a computer. Also as said by another poster, computers have not as yet learned anything. We have conditioned them very similarly to Pavlov's dogs. but they (computers and the dogs) really haven't learned anything.
If it had been translated more correctly it would say "Thou shalt not murder." There is a difference, albeit very subtle. Remember the same God that said "Thou shalt not kill" also said "He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death." (and only a chapter later), so He was certainly not saying "don't ever kill at all, even a little bit."
Email me when 50% of the country doesn't consider me a "terrorist" simply because I am not a conservative. Nuance is useless today. Only big, broad ideological strokes remain. Welcome to 2005.
Yes welcome to 2005 when even though we don't agree with the way things are we apparently will just go along with it anyway. You don't sound like you approve of that fact that many people use broad strokes but yet you do it anyway and use everybody else doing it as a rationalization for your usage. And I am pretty sure that 5%0 of the country does not think that you are a terrorist. Unless of course you were one of those people that hijacked the planes. Once again, very broad strokes. It's old hat. "Everyone disagrees with me so they must think I am a total wacko! That means they're all wackos!"
Not that it matters since the article is pure speculation anyway, but I find it amusing that you take their speculation, add some of your own conjecture, then you talk of how stupid those moves (that you made up) would be, and thus conclude that either the original speculation or MS is dumb.
Where is the connect between playing games and making games? Where is the connect between using anything and wanting to make that thing? For some it is there for sure. (Jedi Outcast made me switch from Bio-Chem to be a doctor into CS to be a game programmer but that's not everyone). But for sake of argument let's pretend there is a connection to be made.
But if you start from an assumption that all races are equal, and you then realize that non-whites play games more than whites (in other words, there is an obvious interest in games),
So why then do they play more? Why isn't someone going after this and making sure more white kids play games. Obviously there is a discrepancy somewhere! Maybe white kids are being denied games at the store. We should go after the stores then for refusing to sell games to white kids.
In all seriousness, maybe there is a problem. But if there is maybe someone ought to do some research into those problems rather than quickly shouting it out just to be heard. I don't see scientists bellowing from the rooftops everytime they get a new hypothesis. No, first they hypothesize, then they test, then they publish results. That way we can eliminate a lot of the crap like this. "Oh noes! CONSPIRACY!!"
Except that the article already says that more minorites play games than whites, and yet most game programmers are white. So by your logic, if we get even more white programmers, there will be even more white gamers. Stupid logic, always getting in the way! The article refutes itself by giving these two facts;
1) More minorities play games than whites.
2) Most game programmers are white.
Then they go on to say that these facts mean we must have more minority developers. Why? What does it accomplish? So that there are more minorities who will play games? They're already playing more. Someone tell me why! Just let people decide what they want to do rather than starting a new campaign or some other such nonsense.
That wouldn't solve anything. For those who are truly addicted they would have two accounts, either for the same game or a different game. The article did say that he had taken naps and bathroom breaks. All this would do is interrupt somebody after they had played hard for a long time and right before they killed the Master Dragon they get booted.
Of course, but try to find such a thing. I haven't seen one. (Only looked at consumer-end offerings)
Where are you looking for your consumer-end stuff? The Canon A85 series is great.
You probably turn off the display, so yes, then the thing will probably last waaaaaay longer. It just removes one of the great features of a digital camera.
So you are complaining that using an added feature that is a vast improvement over analog uses too much battery power even though said improvement is not necessary and by thus turning it off you don't have a valid complaint? Or in other words, "lol, what?"
I like the idea of having 13 months in the year. That way all the months have 28 days except for one. You could make it December. That way, all your bills that are due on the 8th of the month (or whatever) are due on the exact same day (Monday or whatever) for the entire year. Then we hit December(or whatever the last month of the year would be) and that switches everything for the following year. And while we're at it, we could move OCTOber, NOVEmber, and DECEmber to be the 8th, 9th, and 10th months respectively, like they are supposed to be.
Ahh, but if you use your fingers to count in binary (up is on, down is off) then you can count a lot higher than just adding your hands as a single digit in base-10.
I agree. Why even do it. If someone loves to play A, wouldn't it be fairly safe to assume they have an XBox. And if that is the case they will still be able to play it. It's not like the old XBox is going to get jealous of the new XBox and refuse to put out anymore.
This nazi-ism was brought to you by a stupid cousin of mine who wouldn't even believe me when I showed him the website. So like I said, it's just a small pet peeve of mine.
Let's get one thing straight. Rockstar did something (with the help of a modder) that got a lot of attention. And now everyone is jumping on the band wagon looking for some attention related to it. Rockstar is happy because it is free PR, but it's the same with these crazy protesters. It's free publicity for them as well. The politicians are doing it, the protesters are doing it, Rockstar is doing it, news sites are doing it,/. is doing it. It's all publicity for free. Every one of them knows that this whole thing is something that will get people to talk. Can we please never hear of this again?
While I agree with everything you've said, one thing bothers me. The name of the company is id, not ID. ID is short for Identification or Intelligent Design. id is for Frued's description of part of the human psyche. id software spells it with a lower case all the time, so it's not even Id, but certainly not ID. Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine.
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This guy already found a way to watch ESPN in peace
So are you saying Apple is better, or just brand-name? Or maybe it's just that Apple creates a more pleasant experience? BMWs, AFAIK, are more reasonably priced over in Germany because they're not imported with fancy taxes brought to you by the letters U, S and A.
This is absolutely correct. That's why only people with technical know how got Linux, started to use it and love it, and then told all their friends about it. And that is how Linux got to be so big on the desktop!
This leads to the disadvantage of having a limited and more costly hardware base, but that is why Apple products "just work".
Why does knowing your hardware make the hardware more expensive?
It seems to me that the reason Apple hardware is more expensive is that only Apple makes Apple hardware. If there were some competition they would become cheaper. I think it might be safe to say Apple also tests their hardware but I doubt they test it anymore than Asus, Intel, AMD, MSI, or whatever. So most of the quality control goes into software. But then do they test it anymore than Adobe or Macromedia or what have you? They have a very limited set of hardware to test on as opposed to those companies who test their software on lots of different hardware. So that means they have actually less testing to do. And since they know the hardware (as they made it) they can optimize. So hardware is more expensive because of lack of competition, software is less expensive because of less testing.
So you are paying for a complete experience. Which I can get from Dell or something similar. So you are paying for what exactly?
If any of this is wrong let me know. I like Apple, but the only reason I see it as more expensive is because there is a subset of the population that is willing to pay for "more expensive".
Either that's really fast or MGS is not very long. I did something similar with Jedi Outcast, only I cheated and turned on noclip allowing me to pass through walls. It still took me ~45 minutes. If I had to actually run through, it would have been a much longer time.
Maybe this has never happened to you, but there have been many times where entire scenes and thoughts and consequences have all gone through my mind in a fraction of a second. I got all the visual and audio sensations that my brain can create as well as a much larger understanding of the situation than what I would have gotten had the events actually transpired.
I passed out once and had a very long dream. My mind created the backstories of all the people involved in the dream including a lot of sensations (sight, sound, touch, smell, etc.). When I came to, those around me said I had barely been out for a second. That's quite a lot that the brain can do. Very very quickly I might add.
So a computer can "remember" more things because it can write it down and then look it up later? I do that all the time and thus can remember all sorts of things. That's very impressive of a computer. Also as said by another poster, computers have not as yet learned anything. We have conditioned them very similarly to Pavlov's dogs. but they (computers and the dogs) really haven't learned anything.
Email me when 50% of the country doesn't consider me a "terrorist" simply because I am not a conservative. Nuance is useless today. Only big, broad ideological strokes remain. Welcome to 2005.
Yes welcome to 2005 when even though we don't agree with the way things are we apparently will just go along with it anyway. You don't sound like you approve of that fact that many people use broad strokes but yet you do it anyway and use everybody else doing it as a rationalization for your usage. And I am pretty sure that 5%0 of the country does not think that you are a terrorist. Unless of course you were one of those people that hijacked the planes. Once again, very broad strokes. It's old hat. "Everyone disagrees with me so they must think I am a total wacko! That means they're all wackos!"
Not that it matters since the article is pure speculation anyway, but I find it amusing that you take their speculation, add some of your own conjecture, then you talk of how stupid those moves (that you made up) would be, and thus conclude that either the original speculation or MS is dumb.
Ctrl-a, Ctrl-c, open notepad, Ctrl-v, Ctrl-s, type document.html, press OK. Done.
But if you start from an assumption that all races are equal, and you then realize that non-whites play games more than whites (in other words, there is an obvious interest in games),
So why then do they play more? Why isn't someone going after this and making sure more white kids play games. Obviously there is a discrepancy somewhere! Maybe white kids are being denied games at the store. We should go after the stores then for refusing to sell games to white kids.
In all seriousness, maybe there is a problem. But if there is maybe someone ought to do some research into those problems rather than quickly shouting it out just to be heard. I don't see scientists bellowing from the rooftops everytime they get a new hypothesis. No, first they hypothesize, then they test, then they publish results. That way we can eliminate a lot of the crap like this. "Oh noes! CONSPIRACY!!"
1) More minorities play games than whites.
2) Most game programmers are white.
Then they go on to say that these facts mean we must have more minority developers. Why? What does it accomplish? So that there are more minorities who will play games? They're already playing more. Someone tell me why! Just let people decide what they want to do rather than starting a new campaign or some other such nonsense.
That wouldn't solve anything. For those who are truly addicted they would have two accounts, either for the same game or a different game. The article did say that he had taken naps and bathroom breaks. All this would do is interrupt somebody after they had played hard for a long time and right before they killed the Master Dragon they get booted.
But it's not infinite.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Where are you looking for your consumer-end stuff? The Canon A85 series is great.
You probably turn off the display, so yes, then the thing will probably last waaaaaay longer. It just removes one of the great features of a digital camera.
So you are complaining that using an added feature that is a vast improvement over analog uses too much battery power even though said improvement is not necessary and by thus turning it off you don't have a valid complaint? Or in other words, "lol, what?"
Already been done. That is so 19th century.
I like the idea of having 13 months in the year. That way all the months have 28 days except for one. You could make it December. That way, all your bills that are due on the 8th of the month (or whatever) are due on the exact same day (Monday or whatever) for the entire year. Then we hit December(or whatever the last month of the year would be) and that switches everything for the following year. And while we're at it, we could move OCTOber, NOVEmber, and DECEmber to be the 8th, 9th, and 10th months respectively, like they are supposed to be.
Ahh, but if you use your fingers to count in binary (up is on, down is off) then you can count a lot higher than just adding your hands as a single digit in base-10.
Why yes, yes it does.
I agree. Why even do it. If someone loves to play A, wouldn't it be fairly safe to assume they have an XBox. And if that is the case they will still be able to play it. It's not like the old XBox is going to get jealous of the new XBox and refuse to put out anymore.
How many posts would a first poster post if a first poster could post first?
This nazi-ism was brought to you by a stupid cousin of mine who wouldn't even believe me when I showed him the website. So like I said, it's just a small pet peeve of mine.
Let's get one thing straight. Rockstar did something (with the help of a modder) that got a lot of attention. And now everyone is jumping on the band wagon looking for some attention related to it. Rockstar is happy because it is free PR, but it's the same with these crazy protesters. It's free publicity for them as well. The politicians are doing it, the protesters are doing it, Rockstar is doing it, news sites are doing it, /. is doing it. It's all publicity for free. Every one of them knows that this whole thing is something that will get people to talk. Can we please never hear of this again?
While I agree with everything you've said, one thing bothers me. The name of the company is id, not ID. ID is short for Identification or Intelligent Design. id is for Frued's description of part of the human psyche. id software spells it with a lower case all the time, so it's not even Id, but certainly not ID. Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine.