The common method was just to reduce the timing, meaning that games would run 17% slower than usual. For Final Fantasy VII for example, the actual play time was stretched, so if the game clock says you've been playing for 50 hours, it was in actual fact 60.
I've never understood the deal with college rankings. The problem is the fixation we have on getting "the best", as if there was some universal measure. Why can't we be happy with variety and individual merits? Do some arbitrary numbers from a school really tell you much about a person you're about to employ? Do you really think the work of some research teams at a particular college that your potential employee probably had absolutely no connection to, other than being in the same school, along with thousands of others, will make a difference to the work he'll be doing for your company?
Nevertheless, many employer like to live under the illusion that they just got a first-class scientist to work for them who will catapult them to the top.
What I love about many Nintendo games is the multilingual "5 languages in 1" option. Granted though, this was easier on the GBA and GameCube when you didn't have to reboot to switch the setting in the firmware. But there's no better way to practice a language than to use it for something you enjoy.
Oh. It's the same kind of guys who do stuff for the Appstore, but they aren't forced to abide to Apple's idea of what software deserves to be on their system.
Actually, it does tie copies of online-capable games to specific systems. This was a problem when loads of people upgraded to the DS Lite, but IIRC there is a simple solution to that.
Major? Its the primary concern to people who would like another alternative to Windows but don't want to spend an arm and a leg on expensive hardware they don't need.
There, fixed that for you.
If you actually buy a Mac, this is no restriction at all
Yeah, DRM is no restriction at all. You just have to avoid doing the things it won't let you do and there is absolutely no restriction to think of./sarcasm
Removing DRM probably will kill the music industry as we know it
Actually it can't, because DRM on audio is totally ineffective. On an OS OTOH, it can be quite effective.
The only market for commercial "hackintoshs" would be customers who would otherwise have bought hardware from Apple - they'd be wiped out and take one of the few serious competitors to Windows with them.
Without going into too much speculation from here, I think it would be safe to say that removing the hardware restrictions from OSX would open it up to a whole load of new markets and would have a much better chance of competing.
How that woul affect their profit margins at the Hardware Devision is another issue. Most of their revenue comes from iPods and iPhones nowadays anyway.
Not exactly something I can carry in a small bag, but if the notion strikes me I can design a new Space Shuttle on it using SolidWorks or AutoCAD Inventor.
That would be a nightmare for heat management. Notebooks are carefully engineered to deal with exactly the amount of heat expected from the hardware. Also it would make it bulkier and more expensive.
Size is still a major issue in that device class (probably in any really). The eeepc can easily and safely be held in one hand, fits into a small bag, and doesn't take up space you'd use otherwise. Price is also very important. We had very small subnotebooks for years before, but they were expensive as hell. People expect smaller but less powerful equipment to be cheaper, quite rightly IMO.
I never understand how some beefy numbers on hardware influence their buying habits so much, as if bigger numbers = happier purchase. Most people who buy a netbook know they won't be needing huge RAM, a power hungry hard drice, fancy graphics or a huge screen. OTOH the very small profile has a huge impact on how they use and work with the machine.
As far as I'm concerned, anybody who I hear bragging about their hardware should justify what they need it for to maintain credibility.
If we were ever in a state that we wouldn't have any oxygen to breathe, we'd have died much earlier from, uh, not having anything to eat. Plants produce food and oxygen. If we didn't have any oxygen, we wouldn't be producing food either.
And apart from these far-fetched ideas, have you noticed that atmouspheric CO2 levels are give in parts per million, wheras oxygen makes up 20%?
Nah, I doubt it. People might be prepared to spend a few thousand dollars on a TV, but not on a pair of stereoscopic glasses. Contained glasses are also very disorientating because the image is static regardless of if you look away, so you're going to be isolted from the rest of your surroundings. Also, you're going to be the only one enjoying the image, so forget it if you expect to enjoy anything with other people, like with party games or watching movies with freinds.
If you have a government overseeing everything then you just have one big possible point of failure as opposed to just smaller points of failure.
Care to elaborate how the Credit Crisis is a "small point of failure"?
but massive government oversight of peoples' lives and dealings, whether they be business or personal (not like the distinction is meaningful or real) is ever really a just or good idea.
Yeah, because giving a democracy the power to do something as radical as keep a stable currency is such a huge intrusion. We should all be scribbling our own IOU's to pay for things. Works much better./sarcasm
The games can be copied to SD cards. Admittedly, nobody has properly cracked the DRM on them, but it's easier to install a homebrew emulator and put an unprotected ROM file on it.
Duh, they already have this feature. If you delete the game file, you just have to head to the shop channel and download it again for free. You still have to keep the save files, but they take up like one or two blocks.
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...which totally flopped.
The common method was just to reduce the timing, meaning that games would run 17% slower than usual. For Final Fantasy VII for example, the actual play time was stretched, so if the game clock says you've been playing for 50 hours, it was in actual fact 60.
I've never understood the deal with college rankings.
The problem is the fixation we have on getting "the best", as if there was some universal measure.
Why can't we be happy with variety and individual merits? Do some arbitrary numbers from a school really tell you much about a person you're about to employ? Do you really think the work of some research teams at a particular college that your potential employee probably had absolutely no connection to, other than being in the same school, along with thousands of others, will make a difference to the work he'll be doing for your company?
Nevertheless, many employer like to live under the illusion that they just got a first-class scientist to work for them who will catapult them to the top.
What I love about many Nintendo games is the multilingual "5 languages in 1" option. Granted though, this was easier on the GBA and GameCube when you didn't have to reboot to switch the setting in the firmware. But there's no better way to practice a language than to use it for something you enjoy.
Oh. It's the same kind of guys who do stuff for the Appstore, but they aren't forced to abide to Apple's idea of what software deserves to be on their system.
Damnit, I remember that one got me stuck for like one and a half hours hours in the 8-hour game.
So much Anger...
Was a great game though.
Actually, it does tie copies of online-capable games to specific systems. This was a problem when loads of people upgraded to the DS Lite, but IIRC there is a simple solution to that.
Major? Its the primary concern to people who would like another alternative to Windows but don't want to spend an arm and a leg on expensive hardware they don't need.
There, fixed that for you.
If you actually buy a Mac, this is no restriction at all
Yeah, DRM is no restriction at all. You just have to avoid doing the things it won't let you do and there is absolutely no restriction to think of. /sarcasm
Removing DRM probably will kill the music industry as we know it
Actually it can't, because DRM on audio is totally ineffective. On an OS OTOH, it can be quite effective.
The only market for commercial "hackintoshs" would be customers who would otherwise have bought hardware from Apple - they'd be wiped out and take one of the few serious competitors to Windows with them.
Without going into too much speculation from here, I think it would be safe to say that removing the hardware restrictions from OSX would open it up to a whole load of new markets and would have a much better chance of competing.
How that woul affect their profit margins at the Hardware Devision is another issue. Most of their revenue comes from iPods and iPhones nowadays anyway.
Not exactly something I can carry in a small bag, but if the notion strikes me I can design a new Space Shuttle on it using SolidWorks or AutoCAD Inventor.
Pretty sure the eeepc could do that too.
That would be a nightmare for heat management. Notebooks are carefully engineered to deal with exactly the amount of heat expected from the hardware.
Also it would make it bulkier and more expensive.
Size is still a major issue in that device class (probably in any really). The eeepc can easily and safely be held in one hand, fits into a small bag, and doesn't take up space you'd use otherwise.
Price is also very important. We had very small subnotebooks for years before, but they were expensive as hell. People expect smaller but less powerful equipment to be cheaper, quite rightly IMO.
The only such issue I can think of with Macs is the restriction of OSX to Apple hardware
Yeah, that's a pretty major restriction there.
which nobody seemed worried about until the Intel switch
Well DUH...
and, IMHO, removing that would simply kill OS X.
The same as removing DRM from music would "kill" the music industry?
You're last requirement's a bummer.
It's still pointless to compare new to used though. Give it time and you'll be able to pick up used eeepc's for cheap too.
I never understand how some beefy numbers on hardware influence their buying habits so much, as if bigger numbers = happier purchase. Most people who buy a netbook know they won't be needing huge RAM, a power hungry hard drice, fancy graphics or a huge screen. OTOH the very small profile has a huge impact on how they use and work with the machine.
As far as I'm concerned, anybody who I hear bragging about their hardware should justify what they need it for to maintain credibility.
The Macbook is no Netbook, and the Macbook Air is more than four time what Netbook owners would consider "expensive".
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If we were ever in a state that we wouldn't have any oxygen to breathe, we'd have died much earlier from, uh, not having anything to eat.
Plants produce food and oxygen. If we didn't have any oxygen, we wouldn't be producing food either.
And apart from these far-fetched ideas, have you noticed that atmouspheric CO2 levels are give in parts per million, wheras oxygen makes up 20%?
Nah, I doubt it. People might be prepared to spend a few thousand dollars on a TV, but not on a pair of stereoscopic glasses.
Contained glasses are also very disorientating because the image is static regardless of if you look away, so you're going to be isolted from the rest of your surroundings.
Also, you're going to be the only one enjoying the image, so forget it if you expect to enjoy anything with other people, like with party games or watching movies with freinds.
Never wor laser safety goggles have you? Or what about flip-up sunglasses? Can't get much more comfortable than that.
If you have a government overseeing everything then you just have one big possible point of failure as opposed to just smaller points of failure.
Care to elaborate how the Credit Crisis is a "small point of failure"?
but massive government oversight of peoples' lives and dealings, whether they be business or personal (not like the distinction is meaningful or real) is ever really a just or good idea.
Yeah, because giving a democracy the power to do something as radical as keep a stable currency is such a huge intrusion. We should all be scribbling our own IOU's to pay for things. Works much better./sarcasm
No, it's pedometer, as in pedestrian.
The games can be copied to SD cards. Admittedly, nobody has properly cracked the DRM on them, but it's easier to install a homebrew emulator and put an unprotected ROM file on it.
Duh, they already have this feature. If you delete the game file, you just have to head to the shop channel and download it again for free.
You still have to keep the save files, but they take up like one or two blocks.
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Bandwidth (computing): a rate of data transfer, or bit rate, measured in bits per second