What if he had said DX10 was absolutely necessary and that everyone should go out and buy Vista on Jan 30? How many people would have listened to him? (This is not intended to be flamebait or trolling. This is a genuine question as I am not an graphics savvy geek)
The first game I noticed this in was BG DA. I remember being impressed at the time... Even when you save the game, and return, your enemies lie slain where you left them.
I can not imagine ever thinking $250 million is not enough FOR MY OWN back account.
If you ever get your hands around $250M, I'd suggest you not put it all in one bank account. The FDIC only insures your deposits up to $100,000 per bank.
Jackson wants to show New Line that the fans won't tolerate anyone else doing the Hobbit and this is just to get us riled up so we make a big to do about it online. Once we do this, Jackson can go to New Line and say "look, you can'd do this without me, now pay up."
The real question is how will the number end up once sony gets production going at a decent speed?
Even after sony gets production going, you'll still be able to buy a Wii + 4 or 5 games for the same price as a PS3 with no games. Which one would you buy if both were in stock and you had a $525 gift card (assuming sales tax is 5%).
RDF = Reality Distortion Field. I am kind of going through withdraw at this point. This is the first Macworld I can remember where I had nothing to go out and buy the next day. Sure I could get a 802.11n Airport Express Base Station, but where is iLife? Where is something interesting that is available today? And how long before the Apple faithful tire of gadgets... The Mac is a computer, not a gadget and it seems unforgivable, IMO, that all that was announced during the keynote were gadgets.
I believe 5 hours is talk time and you'd be hard pressed to find many phones that exceed 5 hours by much without some ungodly bulky battery. I am more curious if the battery is removable so you could keep 2 on you at any given time.
I disagree that Apple is expecting this to be as popular as the iPod. They set a goal of 10 mln units in 2008. I think they sold 10 mln nanos in the last week of November last year. Okay, I pulled that number out of my iButt... So, I hear you on the flip phone suiting you, but Apple wanted to make waves. This accomplishes that. Now when they have 5% of the mobile handset market, then they can release an iFlip or an iPhone nano or an iPhone shuffle (which will dial a contact at random, obviously.) But this is the product to establish them as a viable handset provider.
If I know anything, I know that the answer has to be completely one or the other. There is no room for the middle ground for anyone. It is completely self evident that software should 'just work' or users are lazy.
Does anyone else think 32GB might be bigger than they need? I wouldn't spend $600 more, but I would spend $150 more for an 8GB version and just leave my MP3s at home. I realize Vista won't install on 8GB (then again, maybe its close), but OS X (without GarageBand and iMovie) or XP should fit on there just fine.
Yes, but do you have millions of people connected while you do that? And do you have millions of database trasnsactions and to-the-second sensitive activities going on while you roll out your code live?
I can agree with this, but Microsoft, ever blazing the trail of innovation [sarcasm], decided to put out a crap-tacular version of Vista called Home Basic. Apple could draw parallels to this and express that full blown OS X is Mac Hardware only. I imagine that OS X Lite would install video tech demos of the stuff not included so that the user is made aware of all the killer features they are missing. And again, its just an idea... And not to knock the old days of Apple, but I had no interest in it whatsoever before OS X. OS 9 and before just bored me to tears and seemed confusing to move around in. I think the windows task bar was better than the switcher, but OS X's Dock puts the taskbar to shame.
I always thought it would be cool if Apple released OSX Lite for PCs. This would nix some of the iLife Apps or cripple them (think iPhoto Elements, no Garage band, no iWeb, and limited iMovie) and would probably not allow any pro apps to run (Final Cut Pro, Logic, Aperture, etc...). Maybe just strip out Quartz Extreme and some of the other core (audio, video, image) services entirely. This way they could make money from selling a $50-$80 OS to all PC owners and they would have a whole new platform for the switch campaign - if you like OS X Lite, check out what full blown OS X on a Mac can do! Plus they'd reap all the benefits from selling through the likes of Dell and HP and it would start to put Windows into check with there being a competing OS option (that comes with the actual support that comes with a consumer facing software vendor, sorry Linux) all through the OEMs. PLUS, they get more hardware support and they let the hardware manufacturers write the drivers for Macs just like they do for Windows... one can dream.
I can see both sides of the argument, but I think everyone forgets that before iTunes, the big labels weren't willing to open their catalogs. Sure emusic was around, but it was all small time labels and it largely still is. The point is, I don't think Apple has as much control as everyone thinks they do. Plus, they don't care about the content as much as we do. They are out to sell iPods, Macs, and soon iTVs. The content they sell just reinforces their position as the market leader.
I will leave you with this nugget, though: I recently helped someone who had their Mac crash. She had moved from computer to computer paying little attention to her iTunes account. But this time, there was a problem. She had authorized all her available computers to play her music collection. She had her files backed up, but she had lost her system drive in her Mac and it was gone at this point. I thought she was screwed. It turns out, there is a little known feature of your iTunes account whereby you can reset your authorized computers on your account with Apple. The only catch is that you can only do this once a year.
If you find you have reached 5 authorizations due to system upgrades, you can reset your authorization count by clicking Deauthorize All in the Account Information screen. Note: You may only use this feature once per year. The Deauthorize All button will not appear if you have fewer than 5 authorized computers or if you have used this option within the last 12 months.
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What if he had said DX10 was absolutely necessary and that everyone should go out and buy Vista on Jan 30? How many people would have listened to him? (This is not intended to be flamebait or trolling. This is a genuine question as I am not an graphics savvy geek)
The first game I noticed this in was BG DA. I remember being impressed at the time... Even when you save the game, and return, your enemies lie slain where you left them.
If you ever get your hands around $250M, I'd suggest you not put it all in one bank account. The FDIC only insures your deposits up to $100,000 per bank.
Whoa, Its just a theory, man.
Jackson wants to show New Line that the fans won't tolerate anyone else doing the Hobbit and this is just to get us riled up so we make a big to do about it online. Once we do this, Jackson can go to New Line and say "look, you can'd do this without me, now pay up."
Even after sony gets production going, you'll still be able to buy a Wii + 4 or 5 games for the same price as a PS3 with no games. Which one would you buy if both were in stock and you had a $525 gift card (assuming sales tax is 5%).
Seems to me that they should just start shipping the consoles that aren't selling in the US and Japan to Europe.
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RDF = Reality Distortion Field. I am kind of going through withdraw at this point. This is the first Macworld I can remember where I had nothing to go out and buy the next day. Sure I could get a 802.11n Airport Express Base Station, but where is iLife? Where is something interesting that is available today? And how long before the Apple faithful tire of gadgets... The Mac is a computer, not a gadget and it seems unforgivable, IMO, that all that was announced during the keynote were gadgets.
I believe 5 hours is talk time and you'd be hard pressed to find many phones that exceed 5 hours by much without some ungodly bulky battery. I am more curious if the battery is removable so you could keep 2 on you at any given time.
I disagree that Apple is expecting this to be as popular as the iPod. They set a goal of 10 mln units in 2008. I think they sold 10 mln nanos in the last week of November last year. Okay, I pulled that number out of my iButt... So, I hear you on the flip phone suiting you, but Apple wanted to make waves. This accomplishes that. Now when they have 5% of the mobile handset market, then they can release an iFlip or an iPhone nano or an iPhone shuffle (which will dial a contact at random, obviously.) But this is the product to establish them as a viable handset provider.
I think they were keynoted, actually.
Kind of disappointing. Sure, Jobs is excited, but some of us like Apple for things other than the iPod/iTMS.
If I know anything, I know that the answer has to be completely one or the other. There is no room for the middle ground for anyone. It is completely self evident that software should 'just work' or users are lazy.
Does anyone else think 32GB might be bigger than they need? I wouldn't spend $600 more, but I would spend $150 more for an 8GB version and just leave my MP3s at home. I realize Vista won't install on 8GB (then again, maybe its close), but OS X (without GarageBand and iMovie) or XP should fit on there just fine.
I think what you are talking about is called Yahoo! Auctions and the problem is nobody will see the item you are listing.
Yes, but do you have millions of people connected while you do that? And do you have millions of database trasnsactions and to-the-second sensitive activities going on while you roll out your code live?
I don't know about anyone else, but I play to escape, not to feel fulfilled about anything of the real world.
I can agree with this, but Microsoft, ever blazing the trail of innovation [sarcasm], decided to put out a crap-tacular version of Vista called Home Basic. Apple could draw parallels to this and express that full blown OS X is Mac Hardware only. I imagine that OS X Lite would install video tech demos of the stuff not included so that the user is made aware of all the killer features they are missing. And again, its just an idea... And not to knock the old days of Apple, but I had no interest in it whatsoever before OS X. OS 9 and before just bored me to tears and seemed confusing to move around in. I think the windows task bar was better than the switcher, but OS X's Dock puts the taskbar to shame.
I always thought it would be cool if Apple released OSX Lite for PCs. This would nix some of the iLife Apps or cripple them (think iPhoto Elements, no Garage band, no iWeb, and limited iMovie) and would probably not allow any pro apps to run (Final Cut Pro, Logic, Aperture, etc...). Maybe just strip out Quartz Extreme and some of the other core (audio, video, image) services entirely. This way they could make money from selling a $50-$80 OS to all PC owners and they would have a whole new platform for the switch campaign - if you like OS X Lite, check out what full blown OS X on a Mac can do! Plus they'd reap all the benefits from selling through the likes of Dell and HP and it would start to put Windows into check with there being a competing OS option (that comes with the actual support that comes with a consumer facing software vendor, sorry Linux) all through the OEMs. PLUS, they get more hardware support and they let the hardware manufacturers write the drivers for Macs just like they do for Windows... one can dream.
I will leave you with this nugget, though: I recently helped someone who had their Mac crash. She had moved from computer to computer paying little attention to her iTunes account. But this time, there was a problem. She had authorized all her available computers to play her music collection. She had her files backed up, but she had lost her system drive in her Mac and it was gone at this point. I thought she was screwed. It turns out, there is a little known feature of your iTunes account whereby you can reset your authorized computers on your account with Apple. The only catch is that you can only do this once a year.
Check it out here.
I think it would be more compelling to actually read something off a bill and then report back to the /. community.
Just to clarify: We are all part of many social networks whether or not we participate in social networking websites.
If I could run Matlab on it, I could use all its power.
You are right. I mean this is a member function! Sheesh, what was I thinking?