you think it's easy to port to the 360 and the PS3? The PS3 is practically virtualizing the 360. When you have a game that pushes the 360 like Gears of WAr---how are you going to port all those custom memory manipulations? 360 has shared memory. PS3 has dedicated memory per core. 360 has more memory but Shared memory is slower by definition. 3 cores vs 8-1. The really good games are going to take a helluva lotta money to code right. AI intelligence are going to cost a fortune, either to build yourself or to license. It's not all rosy on their end. WW2 germany had good tech. U.S. had decent enough tech but they could pump it out faster. The Allies won the logistics before they won the ground war.
It's less riskier, much faster, much cheaper to do a Wii game. For a little extra you can even port to the prev gen consoles. Even if only 10% of Wii games are good, it's still going to be more than other consoles. There will just be so much Wii inventory.
If you think about it, the only reason Gears of War did so incredibly well was because of the Duck and Cover system+ Roadie Run. Doom3 looked great but ppl saw that it played just like any other FPS. It' s the same reason why Resistance isn't a system seller. Not unique enough.
First of all, it's in the Constitution that we have the right to bear guns. Cuz the government isn't always right and the founders felt that the citizens should have the means to protect itself. The point is: The GOVERNMENT isnt always right. When any type of social change happens, the government is usually either slow to respond, react wrongly or even reject it. Its what governments are MADE for. To keep things stable.
But without social change, women wouldn't have suffrage--they wouldnt even be able to wear bikinis either. Everything begins with a thought. What you think is unacceptable today may be commonplace in the future. It all depends on the outside variables--and the PEOPLE are the best regulators of themselves cuz they are in daily contact with external factors--not some government sitting behind mountain high wall of a desk.
Checks and Balances do not mean pressure valves. It means the regulation of those IN power. A triumvirate deal so that if one side gets to heavy and intoxicated with power, the other 2 sides can bring him back to fray. You can corrupt one system, maybe do two. But by the time you do 2, the third would have already smelt you and start catarizing you.
Statement and thought is not enough to incriminate someone. Should we round up everyone who enjoys rape, and pedophilia? A majority of these ppl will never act upon these urges. Desires are not something you can remove, but it is something you can control. By YOURSELF. You want the government to police not only the land, the water, and the air, but also your mind? You might as well be a dead zombie. Who's the arbiter of what is acceptable to say? How can any social change happen like that? We aren't children. You don't let children swear in the playground because it incites fights. But WE are not children. We are grown men and women with intelligence. A lot of ppl think different, say that the majority of ppl in this world are idiots--pshaw. Maybe. But if you believe in democracy and want to make it work, then you have to believe and realize the world to be full of smart peers. That's the whole point of democracy and their institutions. Peer jury duty, elections, etc. You do realize this, don't you? Can't be afraid to let some asshole mouth off. Can't let the government imprison ppl for saying what's on their mind.
Bah. Don't be elitist. You live in a democracy, for god's sake.
Jesus christi. God knows, Microsoft is just as money hungry as other companies(Apple) but god knows they've abused their power.
Cringeley is a pulpit. He works on speculation. That's what he does. No one is treating his shit like gospel. No one is saying he's got solid proof. The facts he does have is True though. And his train of thought has a line of reasoning so it's not like it's 100% bullcock.
Paul Allen IS trying to get rid of his microsoft stock. If not, he's doing a really good pretending to. Pessimism doesnt mean Microsoft will fail. Only the Vista/Office Launch will decide that. The more delays the more time for competing office/OS products to launch and root into mainstream.
Hell, it's super hard to kill monopolies. Only technology can disrupt technology. But doesnt mean that Cringely doesnt have a point.
Why should they allow other ppl? I mean, it's Jobs company, he can do whatever he wants as long as he doesn't abuse his market position. It's a private company. It aint no public trust. So, are you telling me that he's abusing market position? Or that Ipods are undercutting other competitors by price? Or that Ipods can raise their prices with impunity to demand?
Are any of these factors truth? Do Judges even study economics anymore or are they just shills? U.S. District Judge James Ware is a tool. A bonafide tool.
That's a different animal. RIAA and it's subsidiary companies are a monopoly because they own the distribution chain, the adveritising chian, and the creation of music. It's a monopoly on English Music. And you can tell it's a monopoly because of the inelasticity. Go wiki inelasticity or subscribe to an economics podcast.
GM and the rest are not a monopoly because Cars are not language. Most people have hands and feet and can drive. Not all enjoy foreing music. Plus, if they were a monopoly, their prices would not be elastic to demand.
This lawsuit is frivolous and should not have been put forward. I hope the Groklaw website does some research on this. For god's sakes, apple's prices are pretty fair for what they provide. Why should the government tell a private company how to behave? Jesus Christ. What right do they have? What natural right do they have? If this lawsuit isn't struck down, there's going to be a lot of discontents. Me, for example. Jobs must be going psychotic. If he wasn't considering entering politics, he will now.
You are getting it all wrong. Itunes not only browses music, it databases everything for you. Databasing music is a godsend.
A strong Smart Playlist setup with boolean categories allows a) no duplicates b) fast song search and b) just clean.
Plus it has podcast organization built into the system. Video too.
Hell, it's a content distributor/organizer bar none.
"Windows Media player has 45% of the PC music player industry..." Seriously? Ppl still use WMP to play their music? And 45%? Wow.
Okay two points.
i regularly check my RSS feeds and it wasn't on the front page on Sunday. In fact i only caught it today. What exactly is a dupe story anyways. I first saw this discussion on digg but since most digg comments are dumber than sticks, I was looking forward to slashdot commentary.
Second point. One of the points the digg convo had, if you can weed out all that junk, is that there are some IE only pages that provide NEEDED services.
There's also the fact that IE doesnt play well in other browsers. People that develop on MACs might have liked an updated IE just for testin' purposes.
Slashdot needs to AJAX the replies.
I agree whole-heartedly by your comment. I'd like to add that not only should companies value GOOD employees as their most valued asset but they should value a good promotion system based on sound judgement.
Cuz workers won't work hard, respect people that know less than them. A commander not only needs to know how to deploy forces but if need be drive a tank, maneuver a plan, and take up a radar post.
You have to know almost as much as your employees before they can respect you. That's the only way you can judge who to hire, and who not to hire.
The reason why other companies failed when they amped up their salesforce is because all they knew was how to hire the right salespeople and not how to hire the right engineer or vice versa. Google's pop quiz hiring system is good. Flawed but good. Sooner or later, somebody's going to get all the questions to Google's hiring test, and Google'll be hiring cheaters and not the quick-thinkers they need.
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you think it's easy to port to the 360 and the PS3? The PS3 is practically virtualizing the 360. When you have a game that pushes the 360 like Gears of WAr---how are you going to port all those custom memory manipulations? 360 has shared memory. PS3 has dedicated memory per core. 360 has more memory but Shared memory is slower by definition. 3 cores vs 8-1. The really good games are going to take a helluva lotta money to code right. AI intelligence are going to cost a fortune, either to build yourself or to license. It's not all rosy on their end. WW2 germany had good tech. U.S. had decent enough tech but they could pump it out faster. The Allies won the logistics before they won the ground war. It's less riskier, much faster, much cheaper to do a Wii game. For a little extra you can even port to the prev gen consoles. Even if only 10% of Wii games are good, it's still going to be more than other consoles. There will just be so much Wii inventory. If you think about it, the only reason Gears of War did so incredibly well was because of the Duck and Cover system+ Roadie Run. Doom3 looked great but ppl saw that it played just like any other FPS. It' s the same reason why Resistance isn't a system seller. Not unique enough.
First of all, it's in the Constitution that we have the right to bear guns. Cuz the government isn't always right and the founders felt that the citizens should have the means to protect itself. The point is: The GOVERNMENT isnt always right. When any type of social change happens, the government is usually either slow to respond, react wrongly or even reject it. Its what governments are MADE for. To keep things stable. But without social change, women wouldn't have suffrage--they wouldnt even be able to wear bikinis either. Everything begins with a thought. What you think is unacceptable today may be commonplace in the future. It all depends on the outside variables--and the PEOPLE are the best regulators of themselves cuz they are in daily contact with external factors--not some government sitting behind mountain high wall of a desk. Checks and Balances do not mean pressure valves. It means the regulation of those IN power. A triumvirate deal so that if one side gets to heavy and intoxicated with power, the other 2 sides can bring him back to fray. You can corrupt one system, maybe do two. But by the time you do 2, the third would have already smelt you and start catarizing you. Statement and thought is not enough to incriminate someone. Should we round up everyone who enjoys rape, and pedophilia? A majority of these ppl will never act upon these urges. Desires are not something you can remove, but it is something you can control. By YOURSELF. You want the government to police not only the land, the water, and the air, but also your mind? You might as well be a dead zombie. Who's the arbiter of what is acceptable to say? How can any social change happen like that? We aren't children. You don't let children swear in the playground because it incites fights. But WE are not children. We are grown men and women with intelligence. A lot of ppl think different, say that the majority of ppl in this world are idiots--pshaw. Maybe. But if you believe in democracy and want to make it work, then you have to believe and realize the world to be full of smart peers. That's the whole point of democracy and their institutions. Peer jury duty, elections, etc. You do realize this, don't you? Can't be afraid to let some asshole mouth off. Can't let the government imprison ppl for saying what's on their mind. Bah. Don't be elitist. You live in a democracy, for god's sake.
how much is Microsoft paying you?
Jesus christi. God knows, Microsoft is just as money hungry as other companies(Apple) but god knows they've abused their power.
Cringeley is a pulpit. He works on speculation. That's what he does. No one is treating his shit like gospel. No one is saying he's got solid proof. The facts he does have is True though. And his train of thought has a line of reasoning so it's not like it's 100% bullcock.
Paul Allen IS trying to get rid of his microsoft stock. If not, he's doing a really good pretending to. Pessimism doesnt mean Microsoft will fail. Only the Vista/Office Launch will decide that. The more delays the more time for competing office/OS products to launch and root into mainstream.
Hell, it's super hard to kill monopolies. Only technology can disrupt technology. But doesnt mean that Cringely doesnt have a point.
Why should they allow other ppl? I mean, it's Jobs company, he can do whatever he wants as long as he doesn't abuse his market position. It's a private company. It aint no public trust. So, are you telling me that he's abusing market position? Or that Ipods are undercutting other competitors by price? Or that Ipods can raise their prices with impunity to demand? Are any of these factors truth? Do Judges even study economics anymore or are they just shills? U.S. District Judge James Ware is a tool. A bonafide tool.
That's a different animal. RIAA and it's subsidiary companies are a monopoly because they own the distribution chain, the adveritising chian, and the creation of music. It's a monopoly on English Music. And you can tell it's a monopoly because of the inelasticity. Go wiki inelasticity or subscribe to an economics podcast. GM and the rest are not a monopoly because Cars are not language. Most people have hands and feet and can drive. Not all enjoy foreing music. Plus, if they were a monopoly, their prices would not be elastic to demand. This lawsuit is frivolous and should not have been put forward. I hope the Groklaw website does some research on this. For god's sakes, apple's prices are pretty fair for what they provide. Why should the government tell a private company how to behave? Jesus Christ. What right do they have? What natural right do they have? If this lawsuit isn't struck down, there's going to be a lot of discontents. Me, for example. Jobs must be going psychotic. If he wasn't considering entering politics, he will now.
You are getting it all wrong. Itunes not only browses music, it databases everything for you. Databasing music is a godsend. A strong Smart Playlist setup with boolean categories allows a) no duplicates b) fast song search and b) just clean. Plus it has podcast organization built into the system. Video too. Hell, it's a content distributor/organizer bar none. "Windows Media player has 45% of the PC music player industry..." Seriously? Ppl still use WMP to play their music? And 45%? Wow.
Okay two points. i regularly check my RSS feeds and it wasn't on the front page on Sunday. In fact i only caught it today. What exactly is a dupe story anyways. I first saw this discussion on digg but since most digg comments are dumber than sticks, I was looking forward to slashdot commentary. Second point. One of the points the digg convo had, if you can weed out all that junk, is that there are some IE only pages that provide NEEDED services. There's also the fact that IE doesnt play well in other browsers. People that develop on MACs might have liked an updated IE just for testin' purposes. Slashdot needs to AJAX the replies.
I agree whole-heartedly by your comment. I'd like to add that not only should companies value GOOD employees as their most valued asset but they should value a good promotion system based on sound judgement. Cuz workers won't work hard, respect people that know less than them. A commander not only needs to know how to deploy forces but if need be drive a tank, maneuver a plan, and take up a radar post. You have to know almost as much as your employees before they can respect you. That's the only way you can judge who to hire, and who not to hire. The reason why other companies failed when they amped up their salesforce is because all they knew was how to hire the right salespeople and not how to hire the right engineer or vice versa. Google's pop quiz hiring system is good. Flawed but good. Sooner or later, somebody's going to get all the questions to Google's hiring test, and Google'll be hiring cheaters and not the quick-thinkers they need.