Except these mythical small devs that have great ideas and the skill to show it can already code for at the very least the 360 Community Games and the iPhone, two devices that have already sold in the millions and have got a lot of people rich.
As a dev I really don't see any incentive to dev for this thing, and as a guy that buys games I see even less reason to buy one.
The Contradictor is by tagging something like !funny when it's already tagged funny.
I've got both the tagger and the contra, despite the fact that I have slashdot viewed as basically as possible (*short of using Links) and there fore never see tags.
Unless your a fast reader. Seriously, I can finoish a 300 page novel in abnout 2 hours without trying hard.
Luckily I carry my iPhone with some (jailbroken) text file software and a stack of ebooks in plaintext:)
(yeah, jail broken. See, the trouble is is that a lot of books, even when plaintext, are over 700K, usually around 1M. ANd this size appears to be big enough to crash every text-reading app I could find in the App Store. Luckily I'd already jailbroken it, so I installed textReader and now I don't have to buy a kindle:D
My GF had an argument with me about this the other day "the first thing you do when you come in is a peck on the cheek for me then you sit straight down at your computer"
My answer of "course I fucking do, who else will check on how the torrents a re coming along" didn't go down well.
My current GF is bi, freelances as a database admin and was already running Linux before I met her (though she's switched to macs now). Oh, an her favourite TV Shows / movies were Firefly, Star Trek (Voyager) and Aliens.
Now, that might not seem a good starting point for a relationship, but man, the things she's willing to do in the bedroom *winky*
I have a policy in my circle of friends / family that they simply name the album / film / game they want and if I already have it it's up as soon as I can stick it on my FTP. If I don't have it they wait a few days while I "acquire" it.
The advantages to this scheme: 1: I look like an amazingly hoopy frood for giving away free stuff 2: it's secure as shit as it's so personal 3: I don't have to fix their PCs when they get some dodgy wares.
But since Apple don't sell Macs without some prior version of OS X, it's irrelevant whether they list the requirements as "10.3+" or "Mac Computer"
So the hardware is the minimum required to installr, in that the hardware by default includes the software license required to install the upgrade. Even if you went to install 10.5 on a Mac with no OS at all, or with only Windows or whatever, it would still count as an upgrade as the purchase of the hardware included the license for the software you would be upgrading from.
It's confusing, I know. Well, it isn't, you're just being contradictory. Or cheap.
"Minimum System Requirements Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor 512MB of physical RAM DVD drive for installation"
You see the word "Requirement" followed by the words "Mac computer"? Strikes me as being pretty simple, really.
Service Packs are rarely more than bundles of bugfixes and security updates. Sure, XP SP2 added a few security bits and Vista SP1 added an updated kernel, but they're really nothing alike.
Leopard, for example, added (by Apple's count) 300 features. Now, I can't count that many, but I can easily name 5 off the top of my head that made the upgrade worthwhile for me. Time Machine alone is the sort of app I've gladly paid £30 for in the past, and that's half the upgrade cost right there.
And the X.5,6 etc patches are never strictly necessary. My mum runs 10.3 on her (ancient) iMac and gets by fine, and my iBook is used by my girlfriend constantly and still runs 10.4. Sure, now and then they run across an application that needs the added features in 10.5 and so they have to find an alternative. But very very rarely, and 10.4 even still gets security patches.
It's not really an apples-to-apples assessment to say that 10.blah updates are like Service Packs at al
Really it's "flavour of the last ten years" seeing as the iMac came out in 1998, and the iBook not long after that (and the iPod, iLife etc not long after that, come to think of it)
Though I agree that Nintendo shouldn't have called it the DSi. Not because of any implied "Apple-ness", but simply because it sounds stupid.
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Except these mythical small devs that have great ideas and the skill to show it can already code for at the very least the 360 Community Games and the iPhone, two devices that have already sold in the millions and have got a lot of people rich.
As a dev I really don't see any incentive to dev for this thing, and as a guy that buys games I see even less reason to buy one.
Precisely so.
Read this post in a synthetic voice and you have a follow up song to Radiohead's "Fitter Happier"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EoukRWQ-ec
I did as you asked. Not sure how you're going to act on it though:
"WE ARE FUCKED! THE END IS EXTREMELY FUCKING NIGH!"
The finiancial reports have been getting a little melodramatic recently.
The Contradictor is by tagging something like !funny when it's already tagged funny.
I've got both the tagger and the contra, despite the fact that I have slashdot viewed as basically as possible (*short of using Links) and there fore never see tags.
Unless your a fast reader. Seriously, I can finoish a 300 page novel in abnout 2 hours without trying hard.
Luckily I carry my iPhone with some (jailbroken) text file software and a stack of ebooks in plaintext :)
(yeah, jail broken. See, the trouble is is that a lot of books, even when plaintext, are over 700K, usually around 1M. ANd this size appears to be big enough to crash every text-reading app I could find in the App Store. Luckily I'd already jailbroken it, so I installed textReader and now I don't have to buy a kindle :D
My Girlfriend is German you insensitive clod!
My GF had an argument with me about this the other day "the first thing you do when you come in is a peck on the cheek for me then you sit straight down at your computer"
My answer of "course I fucking do, who else will check on how the torrents a re coming along" didn't go down well.
My current GF is bi, freelances as a database admin and was already running Linux before I met her (though she's switched to macs now). Oh, an her favourite TV Shows / movies were Firefly, Star Trek (Voyager) and Aliens.
Now, that might not seem a good starting point for a relationship, but man, the things she's willing to do in the bedroom *winky*
Seriously, geeky girls are the bestest.
I have a policy in my circle of friends / family that they simply name the album / film / game they want and if I already have it it's up as soon as I can stick it on my FTP. If I don't have it they wait a few days while I "acquire" it.
The advantages to this scheme:
1: I look like an amazingly hoopy frood for giving away free stuff
2: it's secure as shit as it's so personal
3: I don't have to fix their PCs when they get some dodgy wares.
Win-win all round :)
Really both option should just be under one button, marked "make /. half-decent again"
(also I've taken to timing how long it takes for the preview box to pop up. Current speed record is 6 seconds.
That's uh, that's not good guys.)
I hate to sound a complete noob, but:
"how I mien classcic mode?"
(also, could somebody set /. to actually follow our choice of fonts when in "basic mode"? It looks hideous with this tiny serif bullshit.)
I have a wetsuit and a laptop with WiFi. I accept your challenge.
But since Apple don't sell Macs without some prior version of OS X, it's irrelevant whether they list the requirements as "10.3+" or "Mac Computer"
So the hardware is the minimum required to installr, in that the hardware by default includes the software license required to install the upgrade. Even if you went to install 10.5 on a Mac with no OS at all, or with only Windows or whatever, it would still count as an upgrade as the purchase of the hardware included the license for the software you would be upgrading from.
It's confusing, I know. Well, it isn't, you're just being contradictory. Or cheap.
Taken directly from Apple about 10 seconds ago:
"Minimum System Requirements
Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or PowerPC G4 (867MHz or faster) processor
512MB of physical RAM
DVD drive for installation"
You see the word "Requirement" followed by the words "Mac computer"? Strikes me as being pretty simple, really.
I think his point is that even the NT architecture is getting a bit long in the tooth.
Actually they're really not comparable.
Service Packs are rarely more than bundles of bugfixes and security updates. Sure, XP SP2 added a few security bits and Vista SP1 added an updated kernel, but they're really nothing alike.
Leopard, for example, added (by Apple's count) 300 features. Now, I can't count that many, but I can easily name 5 off the top of my head that made the upgrade worthwhile for me. Time Machine alone is the sort of app I've gladly paid £30 for in the past, and that's half the upgrade cost right there.
And the X.5,6 etc patches are never strictly necessary. My mum runs 10.3 on her (ancient) iMac and gets by fine, and my iBook is used by my girlfriend constantly and still runs 10.4. Sure, now and then they run across an application that needs the added features in 10.5 and so they have to find an alternative. But very very rarely, and 10.4 even still gets security patches.
It's not really an apples-to-apples assessment to say that 10.blah updates are like Service Packs at al
Apple's sales are up, especially on the laptop line. People love quality in this climate.
Buy cheap, buy twice, as we say in my family.
Well, he was right in thes sense that he also insists night follows day and that water is wet at room temperature at sea level.
That is to say, asking a technology company to lower prices and add features is stating the bloody obvious!
Err, They err, they do have UPGRADE written on the boxes.
"A non-zero number equal to 1-.9"
0.1????
Really it's "flavour of the last ten years" seeing as the iMac came out in 1998, and the iBook not long after that (and the iPod, iLife etc not long after that, come to think of it)
Though I agree that Nintendo shouldn't have called it the DSi. Not because of any implied "Apple-ness", but simply because it sounds stupid.
Don't even joke about it. The second the die hard environmentalists hear about this, NASA will have to hire a team to check for bats.
Information doesn't want to be free. You just want to be cheap.
The glass isn't half empty, it was simply designed to hold twice as much water as necessary!