No, because Apple isn't trying to appeal to the poor, nor do they have to. I want a viable alternative for me, not for the unemployed mother of 7 kids.
How much free time to play games do you think the people who can afford Macs would have as compared to the people who couldn't?
Also if apple wants to be a viable Windows alternative they will have to let a lot more hardware work with mac os X.
Why?
If Apple was to be an alternative to Windows, I would expect that it would be the entireity of the Apple experience, from the OS to the hardware to the stupid one button mice. Why would anyone want to put OS X on some crappy Dell if they could actually use it on it's native hardware?
If they can manage to get 90% or more of Windows games running at within 15% of their original speed, I would see this as the first truly viable Windows alternative, not only for myself, but for millions of other people who are chained to Windows because of the games.
I desperately would like to be able to buy a mac and just use that for everything, but since about half of my PC usage is videogames, it's just not feasible for me.
I think Jobs and Co should be providing all the help and support they can to these guys. Sadly, Apple is not as much a fan of videogames as the rest of the world.
I don't see how making it playable on a console would ruin Spore.
For most games, I heartily agree with you, but it seems to me that every thing in Spore (at least from all the demos that I've seen) is controlled entirely by a cursor and one button. They have yet to show us anything that indicates any thing more than point and click. While I think it would be kind of a pain to use a standard controller to play it, the Wii-mote would be perfect for that kind of thing.
Or did they just detain him in order to confiscate his camera?
I imagine that if it's the latter, that there are tons of lawyers just salivating over the idea of the case against the police department they could cook up.
Whether it's their business or not, isn't in question.
I agree, they shouldn't be able to find out your credit score, but since they can, why is it so unreasonable for them to think you wouldn't be a fantastic addition to their company if you have poor credit?
You're upset that your prospective employer denied you a job based on the fact that you have proven yourself irresponsible in other facets of your life?
Why should they trust you with their own business' well-being when you have proven unable to manage your own financial well-being?
Oh? The gear used by professional football players (whether soccer or American football) isn't designed to exacting standards with cutting edge technology? You might want to let the boys at Nike and Adidas know that so they can all go home.
... but you also have to look at the possibility that no one would know the inherent flaws in Windows better than Microsoft, and thusly, no one would be better able to create anti-malware software. Sure, it might press competitors out of business, and that's inherently bad, but if it could provide us with a single anti-malware solution that was self-sustaining and beat all the bad stuff out there, I would be quite happy with MS.
Numbers 1-4 are already a fait accompli from a technical point of view. There's been nothing to stop OEMs or customers from adding their own software as defaults to any version of Windows, apart from Microsoft's shady business practices. Maybe Vista will make the process simpler, but complexity was never what stopped the Dell/Gateway/Toshiba etc of the world from changing defaults.
I agree with you, there is nothing stopping people from switching, except the fact that people simply didn't realize there was any alternative due to Microsoft's marketing/software tactics. Maybe I'm being too optimistic here, but I'm seeing Microsoft actually recognizing alternatives here. Sure, they aren't saying that the average person would benefit from them (and, realistically, most average people wouldn't! As much as OSS software is useful and solid, it's simply not as user friendly, familiar or widely supported as Microsoft's stuff is), but they are recognizing the fact that they exist.
I realize this is going to be an unpopular opinion here, but no one ever considers the idea that maybe Microsoft is trying to actually change it's old business practices.
Now, don't get me wrong, they're still in it for the money, and they'll never be Google, but is it entirely unfathomable that maybe Microsoft is trying to better the state of computer software as a whole? Many reasons could be cited as to why this would be a useful move for them in the long run, and I don't think that we should just automatically assume that their every action is designed to round up souls for them to harvest.
The majority of memory card sales go to the general public. The people who have $200 digital cameras and cheap memory cards. These people dont need to down/upload massive amounts of files in which they might actually notice the speed increases shown by these fancy cards.
Sure, they might be useful to high end photogs, but there is a reason they don't sell as well as we all think they should.
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Sega didn't create Shadowrun, nor do they probably have the rights to it.
With the new Shadowrun coming out for the 360, I doubt you'll see the Genesis version anywhere outside of an (illegal) emulator any time soon.
1. Post random number sequence
2. Tell people it was actually an elaborate social experiment
3. ???
4. Profit!
The lock-shooting that the author is referring to is in the novel, not the video game. That was kind of his point.
No, because Apple isn't trying to appeal to the poor, nor do they have to. I want a viable alternative for me, not for the unemployed mother of 7 kids.
How much free time to play games do you think the people who can afford Macs would have as compared to the people who couldn't?
Also if apple wants to be a viable Windows alternative they will have to let a lot more hardware work with mac os X. Why?
If Apple was to be an alternative to Windows, I would expect that it would be the entireity of the Apple experience, from the OS to the hardware to the stupid one button mice. Why would anyone want to put OS X on some crappy Dell if they could actually use it on it's native hardware?
If they can manage to get 90% or more of Windows games running at within 15% of their original speed, I would see this as the first truly viable Windows alternative, not only for myself, but for millions of other people who are chained to Windows because of the games.
I desperately would like to be able to buy a mac and just use that for everything, but since about half of my PC usage is videogames, it's just not feasible for me.
I think Jobs and Co should be providing all the help and support they can to these guys. Sadly, Apple is not as much a fan of videogames as the rest of the world.
I don't see how making it playable on a console would ruin Spore.
For most games, I heartily agree with you, but it seems to me that every thing in Spore (at least from all the demos that I've seen) is controlled entirely by a cursor and one button. They have yet to show us anything that indicates any thing more than point and click. While I think it would be kind of a pain to use a standard controller to play it, the Wii-mote would be perfect for that kind of thing.
2 tons is 2 tons.
2 tons of concrete will smash your bones into bits just as well as 2 tons of feathers.
What exactly are they charging him with?
Or did they just detain him in order to confiscate his camera?
I imagine that if it's the latter, that there are tons of lawyers just salivating over the idea of the case against the police department they could cook up.
Whether it's their business or not, isn't in question.
I agree, they shouldn't be able to find out your credit score, but since they can, why is it so unreasonable for them to think you wouldn't be a fantastic addition to their company if you have poor credit?
You're upset that your prospective employer denied you a job based on the fact that you have proven yourself irresponsible in other facets of your life?
Why should they trust you with their own business' well-being when you have proven unable to manage your own financial well-being?
That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Who watches the watchers? Jesus.
Because there's no profit in that.
Oh? The gear used by professional football players (whether soccer or American football) isn't designed to exacting standards with cutting edge technology? You might want to let the boys at Nike and Adidas know that so they can all go home.
... but you also have to look at the possibility that no one would know the inherent flaws in Windows better than Microsoft, and thusly, no one would be better able to create anti-malware software. Sure, it might press competitors out of business, and that's inherently bad, but if it could provide us with a single anti-malware solution that was self-sustaining and beat all the bad stuff out there, I would be quite happy with MS.
Personally, Id like to see a comparison of all the amazing top-of-the-line tech going into this vs that of the World Cup and, maybe the Superbowl.
Just for comparison's sake, I think that'd be rather interesting.
Anyone else kinda get the feeling that this AC's real name is 'Nick'?
Agreed.
But must we automatically condemn everything they do as an act of a despotic, evil dictator?
Did Bill come to anyone's house this morning and kick your puppy?
Adding tags at 6:27AM is a bad idea, kids.
Friends dont let friends drink and post.
Numbers 1-4 are already a fait accompli from a technical point of view. There's been nothing to stop OEMs or customers from adding their own software as defaults to any version of Windows, apart from Microsoft's shady business practices. Maybe Vista will make the process simpler, but complexity was never what stopped the Dell/Gateway/Toshiba etc of the world from changing defaults.
I agree with you, there is nothing stopping people from switching, except the fact that people simply didn't realize there was any alternative due to Microsoft's marketing/software tactics. Maybe I'm being too optimistic here, but I'm seeing Microsoft actually recognizing alternatives here. Sure, they aren't saying that the average person would benefit from them (and, realistically, most average people wouldn't! As much as OSS software is useful and solid, it's simply not as user friendly, familiar or widely supported as Microsoft's stuff is), but they are recognizing the fact that they exist.
It's a small step forward, but it is a step.
I realize this is going to be an unpopular opinion here, but no one ever considers the idea that maybe Microsoft is trying to actually change it's old business practices.
Now, don't get me wrong, they're still in it for the money, and they'll never be Google, but is it entirely unfathomable that maybe Microsoft is trying to better the state of computer software as a whole? Many reasons could be cited as to why this would be a useful move for them in the long run, and I don't think that we should just automatically assume that their every action is designed to round up souls for them to harvest.
Ok, let's assume you were to use a card with a 10,000 erase cycle cap.
If you took those 100 RAW picture images and then erased them every day, it would take you roughly 27 and a half years to run out of erase cycles.
Unless you're a total techno-packrat, you're going to have upgraded by then.
If you're still using the same memory card 27 years later, I think you're a member of the wrong website.
Fantastic!
Now it's only a matter of time before I can create my invincible army of mind-controlled fetal cyborg soldiers!
Do you really think anyone actually approaches that 10,000 erase cycle limit before a newer, shinier gadget comes out and they upgrade?
The majority of memory card sales go to the general public. The people who have $200 digital cameras and cheap memory cards. These people dont need to down/upload massive amounts of files in which they might actually notice the speed increases shown by these fancy cards.
Sure, they might be useful to high end photogs, but there is a reason they don't sell as well as we all think they should.