o you backpedal from "amazing" to "not to be ashamed of".
Don't play word games and don't take it out of context. I stand by my original post 100%.
So far, XBox360 wasn't able to outdo XBox1, so XBox1 FAILED in "setting it up for the second generation".
Heh. The damn box has only been out for what, 6, 7 months? And has beaten the current iteration of game boxes by a full year, possibly more? You are trying to compare 6 months of sales with several years of sales that is an unfair comparison.
When you are not a fanboi, why are you parroting this nonsense?
They have cracked into a market where others have tried and failed. 20% (and I'm skeptical of that number but don't have anything to back it up) is nothing to be ashamed of in the timeframe they have done so. They took a risk from an economic standpoint and I think it is an interesting method and I have no doubt they will retain a strong market share.
be it from Atari, Sega,
Where is Atari and Sega? they couldn't hack it (crap, there goes my karma... )
First the fanbois claimed how it will smash PS3
Only time will tell, since the PS3 hasn't made its appearance yet. Tick, tock, tick, tock...
Personally I can't stand console gaming You'll have to pry my Intellimouse and my Nostromo n52 from my cold, dead fingers. But anyways...
... they would shut down the factories and stop manufacturing them. Fact is they have a game plan, fact is they are still flying off the shelves, fact is they are gaining market share... that's all that matters. People with consoles buy games. The more colsoles you have out there the more games you potentially sell. You have to spend money to make money.
this article states Microsoft expects to make money in 2007. Also note that all figures on how much microsoft is "actually losing" is speculation by industry analysts. No one actually knows precisely how much Microsoft is paying for what component.
If you want to crack a market you have to pull out the checkbook and take a hit. You can't go in timid. Microsoft has shown that and look at the market share they have gained. They have a good percentage of gamers hooked, now on the third generation consoles they don't have to take as big a hit on the console price.
... getting to market a year+ before your competition, selling your devices as quickly as you can produce them, considering that Microsoft is only on their second generation device whereas Sony is on their third (not to count portable devices) and Nintendo is on... uh... fifth? Microsoft is doing well. They cracked a market.
...is not all that matters. Come on, look at Microsoft, you should understand this by now. Market share **is** what matters. They established an amazing market share on their first round product, considering the market has been tied up by Nintendo and Sony for years and we hadn't seen anyone make a successful crack into it. They made a nice hole for the XBOX 360 to ease into, and they did it a good year+ before Nintendo or Sony will be able to make a response.
By the way I don't own and never have owned a console. I'm not a fanboy. Just taking an objective look at it from the outside. Microsoft couldn't care less about losing a few million/tens of million/even hundred million on the first run of XBOX. They were cracking a market and setting up for the second and third generation. And they did well.
3 *different* SATA boxes, different hard drives different motherboards (2 home machines, 1 work machine), install from retail XP disc, no drivers required at all.
**however** we had to switch Linux distros (or upgrade kernels) in order to get Linux working. At work we use a certain version of a certain OS for compatibility reasons and it did not support SATA. Those of us with the new boxes are now using FC4.
By the way... Fedora Core 3 does **not** support SATA. Must have been 4.
Just 1 team has to "win", and win doesn't have to be a complete success. If they can demonstrate the technology is 70, 80, even 90% there then that technology can be taken from the contestants and worked on in industry.
This is really whiny of Google actually because it is so damn easy to add Google. Click the magnifying glass, click add search providers. Pick your provider, from a whole host of providers (inclusing Wikipedia, Google, Ask, etc.) Microsoft even went so far as to use OpenSearch, an open standard so anyone can create and add their search engine. They must be feeling the crunch from Redmond...
Click the magnifying glass, click "Find search providers." You get a list of providers, including Google and Wikipedia.
Google needs to buck up and become a man, whining doesn't get you much of anywhere. Just like Firefox and Opera you can change your default search engine.
I also thought it was pretty interesting that IE supports OpenSearch, an open standard to add search engines (unlike FF and Opera).
Some people have a dream job that they want to pursue. Before making the plunge it would be nice to get their feet wet - to see if it was really all they thought it would be. I'm a bit skeptical that a few days is enough to make that kind of a decision but regardless it is a good experiance, and a unique niche company.
They are catering to a very specific clientele - people looking at making a career change, most likely to a self-owned business, and most likely with a decent amount of money in the bank (by the sound of the article). This is about pursuing a life dream, not avoiding work.
... you are going to trust a Wikipedia article over the man, himself? I mean, if the wikipedia article is about ninjitsu, that means its about ninjas, and this man is the head ninja... you are going to complain that the head ninja isn't living up to the wikipedia article?/boggle
Consumers have the choice to shop where the choose. They vote with the Almighty Dollar. The Almighty Dollar has spoken. For day to day goods people choose low price over quality (and in many cases Wal Mart quality was equivalent to anything else you could get your hands on anyways).
Its a cutthroat world nowadays. If you can't run with the big companies well then you better find a niche market that the big companies can't find profitable.
For software written a several years ago, yes, you are very right porting is a pain in the arse when you are dealing with 3D graphics and even using the native windowing environment (the knife slices both ways, going from unix to windows isn't much fun either).
If you are starting out fresh... Qt or FOX or WxWidgets are all good cross-platform windowing toolkits. Only caveat with Qt is that it is GPL (unless you get a commercial license) whereas FOX and WxWidgets are LGPL.
For 3D graphics check out OpenSceneGraph. Very portable and built directly on GL. I am able to build projects (currenly using Qt+OSG, also working on FOX+OSG due to licensing issues) on both Linux and Windows with minimal effort in porting.
Seeing as you can get a Pentium III processor for about $10, 256MB RAM for $25 (both on Pricewatch)... throw in a motherboard ($25) with onboard video, sound, etc. and a hard drive ($30 for a 40gb EIDE) and you have a similar product for cheaper, and we didn't even have to resort to OEM/bulk pricing.
The unique feature is a 64 bit RISC chip and S-video out for a TV interface. No need for a computer monitor.
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Either Cringely and Dvorak have been in bed for awhile and had a kid in the cloak of darkness or they're getting kinky and doing threesomes -_-
o you backpedal from "amazing" to "not to be ashamed of".
Don't play word games and don't take it out of context. I stand by my original post 100%.
So far, XBox360 wasn't able to outdo XBox1, so XBox1 FAILED in "setting it up for the second generation".
Heh. The damn box has only been out for what, 6, 7 months? And has beaten the current iteration of game boxes by a full year, possibly more? You are trying to compare 6 months of sales with several years of sales that is an unfair comparison.
"canada sucks" - Peter Griffin, Family Guy
When you are not a fanboi, why are you parroting this nonsense?
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They have cracked into a market where others have tried and failed. 20% (and I'm skeptical of that number but don't have anything to back it up) is nothing to be ashamed of in the timeframe they have done so. They took a risk from an economic standpoint and I think it is an interesting method and I have no doubt they will retain a strong market share.
be it from Atari, Sega,
Where is Atari and Sega? they couldn't hack it (crap, there goes my karma
First the fanbois claimed how it will smash PS3
Only time will tell, since the PS3 hasn't made its appearance yet. Tick, tock, tick, tock
Personally I can't stand console gaming You'll have to pry my Intellimouse and my Nostromo n52 from my cold, dead fingers. But anyways
... they would shut down the factories and stop manufacturing them. Fact is they have a game plan, fact is they are still flying off the shelves, fact is they are gaining market share... that's all that matters. People with consoles buy games. The more colsoles you have out there the more games you potentially sell. You have to spend money to make money.
this article states Microsoft expects to make money in 2007. Also note that all figures on how much microsoft is "actually losing" is speculation by industry analysts. No one actually knows precisely how much Microsoft is paying for what component.
If you want to crack a market you have to pull out the checkbook and take a hit. You can't go in timid. Microsoft has shown that and look at the market share they have gained. They have a good percentage of gamers hooked, now on the third generation consoles they don't have to take as big a hit on the console price.
... getting to market a year+ before your competition, selling your devices as quickly as you can produce them, considering that Microsoft is only on their second generation device whereas Sony is on their third (not to count portable devices) and Nintendo is on... uh... fifth? Microsoft is doing well. They cracked a market.
...is not all that matters. Come on, look at Microsoft, you should understand this by now. Market share **is** what matters. They established an amazing market share on their first round product, considering the market has been tied up by Nintendo and Sony for years and we hadn't seen anyone make a successful crack into it. They made a nice hole for the XBOX 360 to ease into, and they did it a good year+ before Nintendo or Sony will be able to make a response.
By the way I don't own and never have owned a console. I'm not a fanboy. Just taking an objective look at it from the outside. Microsoft couldn't care less about losing a few million/tens of million/even hundred million on the first run of XBOX. They were cracking a market and setting up for the second and third generation. And they did well.
3 *different* SATA boxes, different hard drives different motherboards (2 home machines, 1 work machine), install from retail XP disc, no drivers required at all.
**however** we had to switch Linux distros (or upgrade kernels) in order to get Linux working. At work we use a certain version of a certain OS for compatibility reasons and it did not support SATA. Those of us with the new boxes are now using FC4.
By the way... Fedora Core 3 does **not** support SATA. Must have been 4.
Just 1 team has to "win", and win doesn't have to be a complete success. If they can demonstrate the technology is 70, 80, even 90% there then that technology can be taken from the contestants and worked on in industry.
This is really whiny of Google actually because it is so damn easy to add Google. Click the magnifying glass, click add search providers. Pick your provider, from a whole host of providers (inclusing Wikipedia, Google, Ask, etc.) Microsoft even went so far as to use OpenSearch, an open standard so anyone can create and add their search engine. They must be feeling the crunch from Redmond...
Click the magnifying glass, click "Find search providers." You get a list of providers, including Google and Wikipedia.
Google needs to buck up and become a man, whining doesn't get you much of anywhere. Just like Firefox and Opera you can change your default search engine.
I also thought it was pretty interesting that IE supports OpenSearch, an open standard to add search engines (unlike FF and Opera).
Some people have a dream job that they want to pursue. Before making the plunge it would be nice to get their feet wet - to see if it was really all they thought it would be. I'm a bit skeptical that a few days is enough to make that kind of a decision but regardless it is a good experiance, and a unique niche company.
They are catering to a very specific clientele - people looking at making a career change, most likely to a self-owned business, and most likely with a decent amount of money in the bank (by the sound of the article). This is about pursuing a life dream, not avoiding work.
... you are going to trust a Wikipedia article over the man, himself? I mean, if the wikipedia article is about ninjitsu, that means its about ninjas, and this man is the head ninja... you are going to complain that the head ninja isn't living up to the wikipedia article? /boggle
Walmart pays it's employees very poorly.
No worse than the grocery store next door.
When you and Dvorak are snuggled up in bed at night thinking up these crazy ideas how do you decide who gets which idea to write about the next day?
-Curious on Slashdot
So, I (we)
you mean, Wii?
Consumers have the choice to shop where the choose. They vote with the Almighty Dollar. The Almighty Dollar has spoken. For day to day goods people choose low price over quality (and in many cases Wal Mart quality was equivalent to anything else you could get your hands on anyways).
Its a cutthroat world nowadays. If you can't run with the big companies well then you better find a niche market that the big companies can't find profitable.
I wasn't arguing, I completely agree. I was making suggestions for anyone wanting to start out in this area.
For software written a several years ago, yes, you are very right porting is a pain in the arse when you are dealing with 3D graphics and even using the native windowing environment (the knife slices both ways, going from unix to windows isn't much fun either).
If you are starting out fresh... Qt or FOX or WxWidgets are all good cross-platform windowing toolkits. Only caveat with Qt is that it is GPL (unless you get a commercial license) whereas FOX and WxWidgets are LGPL.
For 3D graphics check out OpenSceneGraph. Very portable and built directly on GL. I am able to build projects (currenly using Qt+OSG, also working on FOX+OSG due to licensing issues) on both Linux and Windows with minimal effort in porting.
poor Nintendo fanboys. I really feel for you.
... XBOX ... PlayStaton ... Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!
"Yeah, I can't wait for the Wii"
"Wii is gonna kick the XBOX"
I mean come on
A chinese company can. That's the point. This computer isn't cheap.
...it tastes baaaaaaaaaad!
Seeing as you can get a Pentium III processor for about $10, 256MB RAM for $25 (both on Pricewatch)... throw in a motherboard ($25) with onboard video, sound, etc. and a hard drive ($30 for a 40gb EIDE) and you have a similar product for cheaper, and we didn't even have to resort to OEM/bulk pricing.
The unique feature is a 64 bit RISC chip and S-video out for a TV interface. No need for a computer monitor.
do note that the summary forgot at least 1 letter...