Blogger pettijohn went on the search for the best USB external keyboard with a pointing stick.
That's a very strange way to search for a keyboard. Couldn't he just use Google, or even go to the store and look with his eyes? Perhaps this article is for blind people, but even they can use Google via a screen reader.
The last couple of games I've bought I've not gotten on Steam because of the £10 or so I've saved by getting it from Amazon. Buying the game from a supermarket, like Asda (Walmart), would also have been cheaper.
Yeah, but you only get it for one platform, which is annoying if you ever want to switch. And if you lose the disc, your game is gone. With Steam, you can re-download at any time. You can play it on the other side of the world even if you forget to bring the disc with you.
With this and the Humbe Indie Bundle, could it be? 2010: The Year of Cross-Platform Gaming on The Desktop!
This is really key, because it means that people who have a PC just for gaming and a Mac or Linux box for everything else will be encouraged to switch to Mac or Linux entirely and drop Windows. If you had to re-buy all your games, that wouldn't happen.
Seriously, this is spot-on. I like to support gaming on the Mac, but I just got sick of paying the inflated prices for old games. Even an old title that would be in the $5 bargain bin for Windows, would sell at full-price for the Mac. So, I've mostly been playing PS3 games and downloadable indie games for the Mac. The situation with games on disc for Mac is ridiculous, with the exception of X-Plane, which isn't really a game.
Being able to easily migrate is awesome - and it means I might one day be able to easily move to Linux if/when it has enough applications to meet my professional needs, and bring my games with me.
He was talking about PayPal being the middle-man, not the developers. Which is a fair point, PayPal takes an outrageous percentage of the payments, and many people don't like to deal with them because of their questionable ethics.
Never before have I paid an agreed price for something and had the publisher contact me with: "we've changed the deal - in your favour. Head back to our website to download your extra shit
This is standard practice in the indie-software-bundle world. MacHeist, MacUpdate Promo, and the three other indie Mac bundles I can't remember the names of, have all done this. It creates a great sense of satisfaction for the early purchasers, while simultaneously encouraging a surge in sales at the end.
This shows that the giving freedom to your customers can work. It is a momentous slap in the face to the big boys like EA and ilk.
Not really. It's a confluence of factors that make this kind of thing successful. There's the novelty factor - if you did this every week, I think people would lose interest quickly. Related to the novelty factor is the massive media coverage it's gotten from places like slashdot, and I've even heard it mentioned on podcasts and blogs that aren't even computer-related. Again, if it happened every week, it wouldn't get this publicity. The other odd thing about it is the titles being triple platform, and there just aren't very many titles that are in that category. There's also the charity aspect, people feel good about giving money if some/all of it goes to a good cause.
Above all, it simply proves that people like a sale. This is nothing new. The promise of discounted prices has inspired people to buy stuff they otherwise wouldn't buy since the dawn of retailing. People have even been crushed to death or trampled in Black Friday sales, the allure is so strong.
really practical is realizing that for displays (TV, monitors) a 2-d shape mode on the chromaticity diagram made of 3 points is smaller than one made of 4.
But if that fourth point is already inside the gamut, how does it make the gamut larger?
Your point is that if somehow, for some reason, this new TV gimped the regular RGB while adding a fourth to it.
What? My post made no mention of the TV, let alone any claims of its superiority/inferiority.
I wasn't comparing any 3 to any 4, i was comparing any 3 to any 3+1.
What the hell does that even mean? 3+1 is 4, so what's the difference? 3+1 and 4?
Yes, that was obvious, yes you were looking to make a childish point, yes, i am right.
I don't see what's "childish" about making a logical and factual statement that refutes your utterly incorrect statement.
HDR is something which enables photographers to approach the dynamic range available in print photography while largely retaining the color saturation and other qualities of transparency film
That doesn't make much sense, because transparencies and computer displays have a higher dynamic range than prints, not lower.
I reality, HDR photography is about capturing a scene that has a very high contrast ration, beyond what cameras can capture or monitors display. It is done by using shots with different exposures, so parts of the image that would otherwise be over or under-exposed retain detail and don't just get clipped or blown out.
It does tend to be overdone, but so is saturation and the colors that people use in their photos/video don't particularly reflect reality very well either.
Actually, HDR photos are often a better representation of reality, because the human eye adjusts to different brightness levels, which is what the HDR process is doing.
No, I'm not being really picky. I'm being really practical. The two most common color systems in use are RGB and CMYK. Of these, the 4-color gamut has less colors than the 3-color gamut. The original poster was being ridiculously wrong when claiming that there was no possible way that a 3-color gamut could produce colors that a 4-color gamut couldn't. He didn't even claim "more colors" - he claimed the inability of one gamut to reproduce colors (even a single color) that another gamut could not.
"123% of televisions gamut". No way to accurately map that color onto your existing source media well.
Actually, there is, with the new high-gamut color systems now commonly supported by things like camcorders and Blu-Ray players. Or your computer - I mean nobody would ever hook up a computer to a large LCD display, right?
and a 3 color based gambit physically cannot display colors that a 4 color one can. Period.
I guess that's why your computer monitor with its 3 color gamut can produce colors that a printing press, with its 4 color gamut cannot.
Sorry, your statement is simply not true. There are many more factors to gamut than the number of colors used to produce it, such as bit depth, spectrum and display medium. A 2 bit per channel 4 color gamut is going to produce a lot less colors than an 8 bit per channel 3 color gamut. A 4 color gamut made up of blue, light blue, dark blue and cyan is going to produce a lot less colors than a 3 color gamut made up of red, green and blue.
No, my idea of a fine automobile is a Lamborghini Countach or a Corvette Stingray. A riced-up Honda Civic is the bastardization of an otherwise decent, affordable vehicle.
Exactly. And Apple products belong in the former category.
Actually, as someone who actually BOUGHT the bundle in TFA, I'd like to make note that the OS reporting is voluntary, not linked to the OS running at purchase time, and done when you get the email, not when you're typing in your Paypal/CC info.
That's interesting. I bought the bundle too, but after about three days, haven't clicked on the email link yet (I already bought most of those games anyway). Seeing as I never saw any "what platform do you use" option, I assumed those stats must have come from browser user-agent IDs.
And what's the Windows marketshare on the desktop? Probably at least 100 times that of Linux. So, if charity were equal, you'd expect Windows users to cover at least 85% of donations.
That's not even counting people who buy while at work, on their office-supplied Windows machine, while intending to use the games on Mac or Linux. Or those who primarily use Linux or Mac, but dual-boot Windows to play games.
Obviously, his transmission is distorted because of his distance from Earth.
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Please provide an example of me "making stuff up."
There's the post where you claim that you have to rewrite an application "from the ground up" to support iPhone and other phones. The truth is that you can write your application in several languages, particularly C variants. So you don't have to completely rewrite your apps for different platforms.
The other is where you claim that Flash isn't just as closed as other platforms. And that's just in this thread. I'm sure you've told many other lies in other stories.
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Blogger pettijohn went on the search for the best USB external keyboard with a pointing stick.
That's a very strange way to search for a keyboard. Couldn't he just use Google, or even go to the store and look with his eyes? Perhaps this article is for blind people, but even they can use Google via a screen reader.
Uh-oh, hot dog!
The last couple of games I've bought I've not gotten on Steam because of the £10 or so I've saved by getting it from Amazon. Buying the game from a supermarket, like Asda (Walmart), would also have been cheaper.
Yeah, but you only get it for one platform, which is annoying if you ever want to switch. And if you lose the disc, your game is gone. With Steam, you can re-download at any time. You can play it on the other side of the world even if you forget to bring the disc with you.
With this and the Humbe Indie Bundle, could it be? 2010: The Year of Cross-Platform Gaming on The Desktop!
This is really key, because it means that people who have a PC just for gaming and a Mac or Linux box for everything else will be encouraged to switch to Mac or Linux entirely and drop Windows. If you had to re-buy all your games, that wouldn't happen.
Seriously, this is spot-on. I like to support gaming on the Mac, but I just got sick of paying the inflated prices for old games. Even an old title that would be in the $5 bargain bin for Windows, would sell at full-price for the Mac. So, I've mostly been playing PS3 games and downloadable indie games for the Mac. The situation with games on disc for Mac is ridiculous, with the exception of X-Plane, which isn't really a game.
Being able to easily migrate is awesome - and it means I might one day be able to easily move to Linux if/when it has enough applications to meet my professional needs, and bring my games with me.
there's not a whole lot of reason for me to be concerned by this particular concerned.
Yeah, I don't worry about being adjectived by particular adjectives, either.
He was talking about PayPal being the middle-man, not the developers. Which is a fair point, PayPal takes an outrageous percentage of the payments, and many people don't like to deal with them because of their questionable ethics.
Never before have I paid an agreed price for something and had the publisher contact me with: "we've changed the deal - in your favour. Head back to our website to download your extra shit
This is standard practice in the indie-software-bundle world. MacHeist, MacUpdate Promo, and the three other indie Mac bundles I can't remember the names of, have all done this. It creates a great sense of satisfaction for the early purchasers, while simultaneously encouraging a surge in sales at the end.
Darth Wolfire: "I am altering the agreement. Pray I will alter it further. Speaking of which... How do you feel about open source software?"
KHHHAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!
... oh wait, wrong movie.
This shows that the giving freedom to your customers can work. It is a momentous slap in the face to the big boys like EA and ilk.
Not really. It's a confluence of factors that make this kind of thing successful. There's the novelty factor - if you did this every week, I think people would lose interest quickly. Related to the novelty factor is the massive media coverage it's gotten from places like slashdot, and I've even heard it mentioned on podcasts and blogs that aren't even computer-related. Again, if it happened every week, it wouldn't get this publicity. The other odd thing about it is the titles being triple platform, and there just aren't very many titles that are in that category. There's also the charity aspect, people feel good about giving money if some/all of it goes to a good cause.
Above all, it simply proves that people like a sale. This is nothing new. The promise of discounted prices has inspired people to buy stuff they otherwise wouldn't buy since the dawn of retailing. People have even been crushed to death or trampled in Black Friday sales, the allure is so strong.
really practical is realizing that for displays (TV, monitors) a 2-d shape mode on the chromaticity diagram made of 3 points is smaller than one made of 4.
But if that fourth point is already inside the gamut, how does it make the gamut larger?
Your point is that if somehow, for some reason, this new TV gimped the regular RGB while adding a fourth to it.
What? My post made no mention of the TV, let alone any claims of its superiority/inferiority.
I wasn't comparing any 3 to any 4, i was comparing any 3 to any 3+1.
What the hell does that even mean? 3+1 is 4, so what's the difference? 3+1 and 4?
Yes, that was obvious, yes you were looking to make a childish point, yes, i am right.
I don't see what's "childish" about making a logical and factual statement that refutes your utterly incorrect statement.
Better sound quality?
Buh? An iPod is capable of providing higher quality audio than any of the internet radio streams offer, so what are you talking about?
HDR is something which enables photographers to approach the dynamic range available in print photography while largely retaining the color saturation and other qualities of transparency film
That doesn't make much sense, because transparencies and computer displays have a higher dynamic range than prints, not lower.
I reality, HDR photography is about capturing a scene that has a very high contrast ration, beyond what cameras can capture or monitors display. It is done by using shots with different exposures, so parts of the image that would otherwise be over or under-exposed retain detail and don't just get clipped or blown out.
It does tend to be overdone, but so is saturation and the colors that people use in their photos/video don't particularly reflect reality very well either.
Actually, HDR photos are often a better representation of reality, because the human eye adjusts to different brightness levels, which is what the HDR process is doing.
Ok, but you are being really picky.
No, I'm not being really picky. I'm being really practical. The two most common color systems in use are RGB and CMYK. Of these, the 4-color gamut has less colors than the 3-color gamut. The original poster was being ridiculously wrong when claiming that there was no possible way that a 3-color gamut could produce colors that a 4-color gamut couldn't. He didn't even claim "more colors" - he claimed the inability of one gamut to reproduce colors (even a single color) that another gamut could not.
"123% of televisions gamut". No way to accurately map that color onto your existing source media well.
Actually, there is, with the new high-gamut color systems now commonly supported by things like camcorders and Blu-Ray players. Or your computer - I mean nobody would ever hook up a computer to a large LCD display, right?
and a 3 color based gambit physically cannot display colors that a 4 color one can. Period.
I guess that's why your computer monitor with its 3 color gamut can produce colors that a printing press, with its 4 color gamut cannot.
Sorry, your statement is simply not true. There are many more factors to gamut than the number of colors used to produce it, such as bit depth, spectrum and display medium. A 2 bit per channel 4 color gamut is going to produce a lot less colors than an 8 bit per channel 3 color gamut. A 4 color gamut made up of blue, light blue, dark blue and cyan is going to produce a lot less colors than a 3 color gamut made up of red, green and blue.
DO NOT BUY BOOKS FROM Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster
What about Art Vandalay? Are his books OK?
No, my idea of a fine automobile is a Lamborghini Countach or a Corvette Stingray. A riced-up Honda Civic is the bastardization of an otherwise decent, affordable vehicle.
Exactly. And Apple products belong in the former category.
Actually, as someone who actually BOUGHT the bundle in TFA, I'd like to make note that the OS reporting is voluntary, not linked to the OS running at purchase time, and done when you get the email, not when you're typing in your Paypal/CC info.
That's interesting. I bought the bundle too, but after about three days, haven't clicked on the email link yet (I already bought most of those games anyway). Seeing as I never saw any "what platform do you use" option, I assumed those stats must have come from browser user-agent IDs.
Because I'm super-smart.
And what's the Windows marketshare on the desktop? Probably at least 100 times that of Linux. So, if charity were equal, you'd expect Windows users to cover at least 85% of donations.
That's not even counting people who buy while at work, on their office-supplied Windows machine, while intending to use the games on Mac or Linux. Or those who primarily use Linux or Mac, but dual-boot Windows to play games.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I dunno, Coastguard?
Hulu uses flash. For $1 per I want h.264 and no fucking drm.
But if they did that, you still wouldn't pay.
Obviously, his transmission is distorted because of his distance from Earth.
Please provide an example of me "making stuff up."
There's the post where you claim that you have to rewrite an application "from the ground up" to support iPhone and other phones. The truth is that you can write your application in several languages, particularly C variants. So you don't have to completely rewrite your apps for different platforms.
The other is where you claim that Flash isn't just as closed as other platforms. And that's just in this thread. I'm sure you've told many other lies in other stories.
. Nobody is saying Apple should provide a darned thing. Nobody is saying Apple should write a flash plugin.
Actually, lots of people are saying exactly that. Just on slashdot, the number of people arguing this would be in the hundreds.