Who cares if cursive dies! Let it! Most people's cursive handwriting has -always- been illegible anyway. Printed handwriting is easier to write and easier to read. A retarded monkey could figure out how to draw letters in the same shape they pop up on a computer screen.
Serial killer handwriting is plenty adequate in the event of an 'emergency'. They'd simply pick up a pen and scoot it across a piece of paper - much the same way we've done for thousands of years.
Or we could always revive the manual typewriter for those of you whose minds boggle at the thought of picking up the ever perplexing pencil or pen and paper.
They essentially did resurrect Visual J++ by morphing Java to work with the.Net common language infrastructure. Looks like Java, smells like Java - but it's 'I can't believe it's not Java'.
Microsoft is afraid of losing their visual modeling partner. The bad part is that Borland's new modeling solution TogetherJ doesn't support the Microsoft platform. Rational's XDE does. If IBM gets Rational, Microsoft loses it's status with Rational as a first class platform, and Borland would be something of a consolation prize. I doubt that Microsoft would want to buy Borland because it would probably take less development resources to make Visio into a decent UML modeling tool than it would to make Together support their platform. Also, if I'm not mistaken TogetherJ is written in Java, a cardinal MS no-no.
I opened my Xbox to put a UATA cable on the hard drive and I was quite surprized to see how few processors were on the motherboard. There were only 4 or 5 in total. You have the Celeron, the video chipset (which also handles the sound), the I/O chipset (which handles the USB, disk I/O, and ethernet) and a Dolby Digital encoder. Apart from the memory, that was about it.
With the high level of integration here, I honestly can't see them losing too much on each box. I take the word that they cost $425 a piece to build with an enormous gain of salt. At $299, if they're selling at a loss it isn't much of one. The only big ticket component in the box is the DVD-ROM drive.
The only reason Luigi's Mansion is such a hot seller is because most retailers are only selling GameCubes in bundles that include Luigi.
Then of course, there's the really weak number of GameCube games available to choose from. If a retailer (such as EBX here) requires you to buy 3, 4, or now 5 games of your choosing with your console, you don't really have much choice but to buy Luigi.
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Who cares if cursive dies! Let it! Most people's cursive handwriting has -always- been illegible anyway. Printed handwriting is easier to write and easier to read. A retarded monkey could figure out how to draw letters in the same shape they pop up on a computer screen.
Serial killer handwriting is plenty adequate in the event of an 'emergency'. They'd simply pick up a pen and scoot it across a piece of paper - much the same way we've done for thousands of years.
Or we could always revive the manual typewriter for those of you whose minds boggle at the thought of picking up the ever perplexing pencil or pen and paper.
Um, two words: Visual J#
.Net common language infrastructure. Looks like Java, smells like Java - but it's 'I can't believe it's not Java'.
They essentially did resurrect Visual J++ by morphing Java to work with the
Microsoft is afraid of losing their visual modeling partner. The bad part is that Borland's new modeling solution TogetherJ doesn't support the Microsoft platform. Rational's XDE does. If IBM gets Rational, Microsoft loses it's status with Rational as a first class platform, and Borland would be something of a consolation prize. I doubt that Microsoft would want to buy Borland because it would probably take less development resources to make Visio into a decent UML modeling tool than it would to make Together support their platform. Also, if I'm not mistaken TogetherJ is written in Java, a cardinal MS no-no.
With the high level of integration here, I honestly can't see them losing too much on each box. I take the word that they cost $425 a piece to build with an enormous gain of salt. At $299, if they're selling at a loss it isn't much of one. The only big ticket component in the box is the DVD-ROM drive.
The only reason Luigi's Mansion is such a hot seller is because most retailers are only selling GameCubes in bundles that include Luigi.
Then of course, there's the really weak number of GameCube games available to choose from. If a retailer (such as EBX here) requires you to buy 3, 4, or now 5 games of your choosing with your console, you don't really have much choice but to buy Luigi.