I... can't... brain shutting down... Patent lawsuit on Slashdot... must blame Apple... Apple not involved... does not compute... EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
Nobody knows or cares about Lik-Sang and most people see Blu-Ray as the only sane reason to get a PS3. The PS3 has one major problem. When they sat down to make the system, they decided to take on the 360 at $400 + $200 (HD) and make a $600 PS3 that had more features at the same price. And all in all, they win on points, and they still have Final Fantasy and Metal Gear and Gran Turismo to play. They had it all wrapped up.
But they forgot about Nintendo. Nintendo came out with something cheaper than both systems, and more fun to play as a gaming platform. Notice I say more FUN. Forget about graphics, forget about games that take 9 billion years to conquer, the Wii is just laugh-out-loud shameless addictive fun. So, price to fun factor, especially in groups of warm bodies, Nintendo beats both systems hands down. Not only that, people like Midway, EA, and everyone else have taken to the controller and are poised to deliver. NFS: Carbon on Wii is the most satisfying NFS on a console ever, and that's on every platform you can name. The Wireless is easy, the internet modules are great fun for showing YouTube videos, the downloadable ROMs is the most consumer oriented move I have ever seen from a company, the hardware worked on rev 1, and normal people love it.
Just consider the economics of the situation: At $250 for the Wii and $50 for WiiPlay, $80 for two more controllers, you could buy 4 more games, before you hit the $600 the PS3 costs and have 6 different engaging new game to play with actual living breathing people using an interface that people WANT to experience together. Here's an example: I got a thin PS2 a while back and gifted my old PS2 to a friend of mine who plays mostly MMOs and FPSs has never owned a gaming console in his life. He never hooked it up, and probably never will. After just 2 hours of playing Wii Tennis, he decided that he must have one. This is why Nintendo is, at least for now, going to be pushing consumers to pass up the PS3.
Sony's biggest mistake was thinking that, considering the slow sales of the N64 and GameCube, Nintendo just wasn't going to be any competition. They became over-focused on trumping Microsoft at their own game, and they did, but it just doesn't matter. People are going to continue to skate past the PS3 and frantically search for a Wii, not because it's too expensive, NOT because they don't have any games, NOT because it's a rip off; It's because Nintendo just plain offers a better product, PERIOD.
There's a lot of people on this story mentioning this fact, but I think that the critical misinformation embedded in these comments is the assumption that MacOS was created as a software operating system, like Windows.
Mac OS, like the software that drives a Xerox copier or a T-85 calculator, was designed to be the front end of a controlled machine, not a system nonspecific operating system that supported various components heterogeneously. When you buy windows, you buy it with the understanding that it's designed to be installed on whatever you can manage to install it on. This is an evolution of DOS at the end of the day, and Microsoft's name of the game is domination, not integration.
Now Apple is running a flavor of BSD at the core, which is designed to run heterogeneously. And now Microsoft's software can run in virtualization. These are two concepts that neither company could have prepared for when starting the business model that drives them. To Apple, an OS is not something you buy from Xerox and install on a T-85 calculator. If they did release an open installable version of OS X for all platforms it would cease, essentially, to be a >MAC OS. It would just be an OS like Linux or Windows.
So, all of you people who want to talk about Apple locking you out, I'm sorry, but you bought the wrong machine. You can't buy a Lexmark and then complain that it doesn't come with Xerox OS. Essentially, this is the concept Apple started with.
Doku
I totally agree. This is about the most inaccurate article that I have ever read, also one of the most poorly written.
My primary problem with the arguement is that he assumes that MP3s are the end all be all of media and that this new whizbang device that he has conceved of will play them in the mystical "near future". MP3 is already considered a bad codec by most professionals and MP4 seems to be taking off rather well. I would hope my 12 megapixel camera can do a little more than a crappy stereo sound output anyway.
Furthermore, half of his article is piracy centric. The MPAA and RIAA both want DRM because in the case of CDs and Vinal, and to some extent, tapes, the medium IS the DRM. The last half seems to really be focused on the fact that some other format is not bound by the same rules as CDs and tapes before copy. Ergo, better?
How is this an arguement against the best solution to a market that is "out to get" downloaders? Honestly, I feel that Apple's music store is a benefit of having the Apple products that play them. 99% of the people that don't like music store for whatever reasons they may have cooked up are pissed off that there isn't a pirate friendly version of it anymore or that they don't have an iPod.
Look man, I get songs instantly, they sound just fine to me, and the integration into everything just sells it that much better.
Really tho, this is absolute flamebait. How did it get posted?
Doku
I am also not a lawyer, but what does Tiger make? Last I checked they weren't in the software manufacturing business nor the computer manufacturing business. They don't brand anything. At best they can license their name as a retail outlet, right? Surely that's not the same category as a piece of software.
I'm confuzzled.
Doku
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I think that everyone here who gets into the primary arguement about Mac vs. PC hasn't paid for a windows operating system in their entire lives. Word to the wise, Windows is EXTREMELY expensive, legally. From newegg.com (only place to shop really) Windows XP Retail is $267.95, which is $67.96 more expensive than FIVE RETAIL LICENSES OF MAC OS X. Sure those five computers have to be in one house legally, but I have three Macs and two PCs in my house. To keep both of my PCs running the newest version of Windows, legally, I can get two upgrade CDs for $400, or two retail packs (which just seems to work better) for $530, while every Mac in my house is one $200 bill, LEGAL. Buying an OEM piece of software for an already purchased computer is a crime. Furthermore, even in the OEM market Windows XP costs more. The full blown version of Mac OS X comes with every Mac, while XP PRO is generally a $50-$100 upgrade on most "home" computers sold by the big boys. While you may have an arguement that you prefer XP Pro (modded to look like a mac) over Mac OS X (the real thing), I would prefer cheap brain surgery over having to use XP Home in my everyday life. (just my opinion)
Let's look at this in another light: as a business, if I want a server OS that is going to be infinately expandable on users. This is literally impossible with Microsoft. Like their Professional desktop OS, their Server OS is twice as expensive as the Mac counterpart, and only seats 25 computers (Windows 2003 Enterprise vs. Mac OS X Server Tiger Unlimited) The fiscal sense here is obvious!
I'm not even going to talk hardware here. It's too big an arguement.
Really though. To people who argue for PC superiority, really ask yourself when the last time you had to go down to a real store and actually put down good money for that OS you hold in such high regard. Especially during the 95, 95b, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000Pro, XP "rehash" cycle.
Soon every patent case will have an immediate defence from the Slashdot community. Some small company is going to get sued for putting a button on their interface by We-Screw-U-Patents and 8,000 replies to their "ask slashdot?" post will be exhibit A from the defence and it will be thrown out.
It's not free, but you realize that Apple has this: http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/
I mean. I can't actually figure out what the hell you are trying to say with "routinely do open graphical windows spawned by applications on other machines running totally different operating systems." I mean, Remote Desktop is quite a bit more than that, but if just spawing graphical windows from completely different operating systems is your bag baby, I say go with it.
I don't bother looking for a song on any free service if iTunes has it. It's just not worth my time. If I can't afford the iTunes song, maybe.
The supply vs. demand curve should always prove to raise ammount purchased, if and ONLY if scarcity proves true. Once there is enough, no one cares. For example, there's plenty of my scribbles on the back of my notebooks, so no matter how much or how little I charge, no one wants it. I think that this is a valid allegory to the music industry since the Backstreet Boys.
This 5 cent plan will probably not work simply because there isn't enough good music out there. I don't know who these people are that download hundreds of song per month, but seriously people, find a new hobby. 95% of what you are downloading totally sucks balls. Your iPod does not have to be absolutely full for you to use it. Stop filling it with crap.
Doku
Most all software has serious bugs, and the up-tick in firefox bug was as predictable as the sun rising. The real key is going to be in how the bugs are dealt with.
What a great attitude. I've got to try that one on my boss sometime.
"Hey man, chill out. I'm like Firefox with all these bugs, and you know, everybody likes Firefox. I actually wrote those intentionally so people would love my software! Vat a Kantry!"
I was 20 when I was working for a programming firm here in town. I was doing software testing using WinRunner and I was not a happy camper when it came to TSL, the language we wrote this crap in. I started working on a library of functions to wrap TSL and do the blocks of code we wanted with a function call that returned something intelligible. This got me points.
They decided to send me to their special training session and made me "guru" of TSL so I could help with scripting. However, a co-worker got promoted to manager in an environment that did not have management. We were just four testers doing what we did as well as we could. I was pretty much the only one that helped out with the library I was writing and the stupid "certification" program. The person who was promoted was mad with power... She was sent to a special management training where they taught her not to treat the employees like children. Her response : "I have to treat them like children"
Long story short, this escalated into a lot of interesting discoveries such as the fact she was banging the CEO. After many horrible months of doing the absolute best I could with the situation, I left for the great carear of Pizza Delivery, but that was only after almost seven months of unemployment.
At 22 I finally got back in college and to date I have pulled a 1.7 to a 3.4. Now I'm 25, a junior, and inline for an internship programming Java, C and C++. However, financially I have been living on loans and the various contract tech work I do around town. I think that is a successful yin and yang.
I personally think that unless the management were total jerks AND you stuck it out for three months at least, then you pulled a pretty stupid move. Unless of course: Everyone hated you. If no one in the company likes you, yet they keep you around for your skills in something, treat you like crap and pay you like crap, that is the only situation where the storming out is appropriate, especially if your skill is really really rare.:P
Doku
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It's not just the headline. The whole thing is google fanboy trash.
I... can't... brain shutting down... Patent lawsuit on Slashdot... must blame Apple... Apple not involved... does not compute... EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
Nobody knows or cares about Lik-Sang and most people see Blu-Ray as the only sane reason to get a PS3. The PS3 has one major problem. When they sat down to make the system, they decided to take on the 360 at $400 + $200 (HD) and make a $600 PS3 that had more features at the same price. And all in all, they win on points, and they still have Final Fantasy and Metal Gear and Gran Turismo to play. They had it all wrapped up.
But they forgot about Nintendo. Nintendo came out with something cheaper than both systems, and more fun to play as a gaming platform. Notice I say more FUN. Forget about graphics, forget about games that take 9 billion years to conquer, the Wii is just laugh-out-loud shameless addictive fun. So, price to fun factor, especially in groups of warm bodies, Nintendo beats both systems hands down. Not only that, people like Midway, EA, and everyone else have taken to the controller and are poised to deliver. NFS: Carbon on Wii is the most satisfying NFS on a console ever, and that's on every platform you can name. The Wireless is easy, the internet modules are great fun for showing YouTube videos, the downloadable ROMs is the most consumer oriented move I have ever seen from a company, the hardware worked on rev 1, and normal people love it.
Just consider the economics of the situation: At $250 for the Wii and $50 for WiiPlay, $80 for two more controllers, you could buy 4 more games, before you hit the $600 the PS3 costs and have 6 different engaging new game to play with actual living breathing people using an interface that people WANT to experience together. Here's an example: I got a thin PS2 a while back and gifted my old PS2 to a friend of mine who plays mostly MMOs and FPSs has never owned a gaming console in his life. He never hooked it up, and probably never will. After just 2 hours of playing Wii Tennis, he decided that he must have one. This is why Nintendo is, at least for now, going to be pushing consumers to pass up the PS3.
Sony's biggest mistake was thinking that, considering the slow sales of the N64 and GameCube, Nintendo just wasn't going to be any competition. They became over-focused on trumping Microsoft at their own game, and they did, but it just doesn't matter. People are going to continue to skate past the PS3 and frantically search for a Wii, not because it's too expensive, NOT because they don't have any games, NOT because it's a rip off; It's because Nintendo just plain offers a better product, PERIOD.
It's the iPod all over again.
There's a lot of people on this story mentioning this fact, but I think that the critical misinformation embedded in these comments is the assumption that MacOS was created as a software operating system, like Windows. Mac OS, like the software that drives a Xerox copier or a T-85 calculator, was designed to be the front end of a controlled machine, not a system nonspecific operating system that supported various components heterogeneously. When you buy windows, you buy it with the understanding that it's designed to be installed on whatever you can manage to install it on. This is an evolution of DOS at the end of the day, and Microsoft's name of the game is domination, not integration. Now Apple is running a flavor of BSD at the core, which is designed to run heterogeneously. And now Microsoft's software can run in virtualization. These are two concepts that neither company could have prepared for when starting the business model that drives them. To Apple, an OS is not something you buy from Xerox and install on a T-85 calculator. If they did release an open installable version of OS X for all platforms it would cease, essentially, to be a >MAC OS. It would just be an OS like Linux or Windows. So, all of you people who want to talk about Apple locking you out, I'm sorry, but you bought the wrong machine. You can't buy a Lexmark and then complain that it doesn't come with Xerox OS. Essentially, this is the concept Apple started with. Doku
I totally agree. This is about the most inaccurate article that I have ever read, also one of the most poorly written. My primary problem with the arguement is that he assumes that MP3s are the end all be all of media and that this new whizbang device that he has conceved of will play them in the mystical "near future". MP3 is already considered a bad codec by most professionals and MP4 seems to be taking off rather well. I would hope my 12 megapixel camera can do a little more than a crappy stereo sound output anyway. Furthermore, half of his article is piracy centric. The MPAA and RIAA both want DRM because in the case of CDs and Vinal, and to some extent, tapes, the medium IS the DRM. The last half seems to really be focused on the fact that some other format is not bound by the same rules as CDs and tapes before copy. Ergo, better? How is this an arguement against the best solution to a market that is "out to get" downloaders? Honestly, I feel that Apple's music store is a benefit of having the Apple products that play them. 99% of the people that don't like music store for whatever reasons they may have cooked up are pissed off that there isn't a pirate friendly version of it anymore or that they don't have an iPod. Look man, I get songs instantly, they sound just fine to me, and the integration into everything just sells it that much better. Really tho, this is absolute flamebait. How did it get posted? Doku
I am also not a lawyer, but what does Tiger make? Last I checked they weren't in the software manufacturing business nor the computer manufacturing business. They don't brand anything. At best they can license their name as a retail outlet, right? Surely that's not the same category as a piece of software.
I'm confuzzled.
Doku
I think that everyone here who gets into the primary arguement about Mac vs. PC hasn't paid for a windows operating system in their entire lives. Word to the wise, Windows is EXTREMELY expensive, legally. From newegg.com (only place to shop really) Windows XP Retail is $267.95, which is $67.96 more expensive than FIVE RETAIL LICENSES OF MAC OS X. Sure those five computers have to be in one house legally, but I have three Macs and two PCs in my house. To keep both of my PCs running the newest version of Windows, legally, I can get two upgrade CDs for $400, or two retail packs (which just seems to work better) for $530, while every Mac in my house is one $200 bill, LEGAL. Buying an OEM piece of software for an already purchased computer is a crime. Furthermore, even in the OEM market Windows XP costs more. The full blown version of Mac OS X comes with every Mac, while XP PRO is generally a $50-$100 upgrade on most "home" computers sold by the big boys. While you may have an arguement that you prefer XP Pro (modded to look like a mac) over Mac OS X (the real thing), I would prefer cheap brain surgery over having to use XP Home in my everyday life. (just my opinion)
Let's look at this in another light: as a business, if I want a server OS that is going to be infinately expandable on users. This is literally impossible with Microsoft. Like their Professional desktop OS, their Server OS is twice as expensive as the Mac counterpart, and only seats 25 computers (Windows 2003 Enterprise vs. Mac OS X Server Tiger Unlimited) The fiscal sense here is obvious!
I'm not even going to talk hardware here. It's too big an arguement.
Really though. To people who argue for PC superiority, really ask yourself when the last time you had to go down to a real store and actually put down good money for that OS you hold in such high regard. Especially during the 95, 95b, 98, 98SE, ME, 2000Pro, XP "rehash" cycle.
Doku
Soon every patent case will have an immediate defence from the Slashdot community. Some small company is going to get sued for putting a button on their interface by We-Screw-U-Patents and 8,000 replies to their "ask slashdot?" post will be exhibit A from the defence and it will be thrown out.
Doku
Must have definition of an Inverse Tacheon Pulse!!!
Reconfiguring the deflector dish... We be pimpin'
Doku
It's not free, but you realize that Apple has this: http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/
I mean. I can't actually figure out what the hell you are trying to say with "routinely do open graphical windows spawned by applications on other machines running totally different operating systems." I mean, Remote Desktop is quite a bit more than that, but if just spawing graphical windows from completely different operating systems is your bag baby, I say go with it.
Doku
I don't bother looking for a song on any free service if iTunes has it. It's just not worth my time. If I can't afford the iTunes song, maybe. The supply vs. demand curve should always prove to raise ammount purchased, if and ONLY if scarcity proves true. Once there is enough, no one cares. For example, there's plenty of my scribbles on the back of my notebooks, so no matter how much or how little I charge, no one wants it. I think that this is a valid allegory to the music industry since the Backstreet Boys. This 5 cent plan will probably not work simply because there isn't enough good music out there. I don't know who these people are that download hundreds of song per month, but seriously people, find a new hobby. 95% of what you are downloading totally sucks balls. Your iPod does not have to be absolutely full for you to use it. Stop filling it with crap. Doku
Most all software has serious bugs, and the up-tick in firefox bug was as predictable as the sun rising. The real key is going to be in how the bugs are dealt with.
What a great attitude. I've got to try that one on my boss sometime.
"Hey man, chill out. I'm like Firefox with all these bugs, and you know, everybody likes Firefox. I actually wrote those intentionally so people would love my software! Vat a Kantry!"
Doku
I was 20 when I was working for a programming firm here in town. I was doing software testing using WinRunner and I was not a happy camper when it came to TSL, the language we wrote this crap in. I started working on a library of functions to wrap TSL and do the blocks of code we wanted with a function call that returned something intelligible. This got me points. They decided to send me to their special training session and made me "guru" of TSL so I could help with scripting. However, a co-worker got promoted to manager in an environment that did not have management. We were just four testers doing what we did as well as we could. I was pretty much the only one that helped out with the library I was writing and the stupid "certification" program. The person who was promoted was mad with power... She was sent to a special management training where they taught her not to treat the employees like children. Her response : "I have to treat them like children" Long story short, this escalated into a lot of interesting discoveries such as the fact she was banging the CEO. After many horrible months of doing the absolute best I could with the situation, I left for the great carear of Pizza Delivery, but that was only after almost seven months of unemployment. At 22 I finally got back in college and to date I have pulled a 1.7 to a 3.4. Now I'm 25, a junior, and inline for an internship programming Java, C and C++. However, financially I have been living on loans and the various contract tech work I do around town. I think that is a successful yin and yang. I personally think that unless the management were total jerks AND you stuck it out for three months at least, then you pulled a pretty stupid move. Unless of course: Everyone hated you. If no one in the company likes you, yet they keep you around for your skills in something, treat you like crap and pay you like crap, that is the only situation where the storming out is appropriate, especially if your skill is really really rare. :P
Doku