According to these exits polls, Kerry should have won, 316 to 222.
The poll gave Florida, Ohio and New Mexico to Kerry.
And this poll came out before any polling places were closed, so there was definitely the possibility that they may have influenced the vote with faulty information.
The difference being that Microsoft has a virtual monopoly in the marketplace because of shrewd and anti-competitive business dealings. The anti-spyware market, however, is wide-open, and missteps like this results in shrinking sales.
And Gator's customers are not the millions and millions of computers they install their spyware on; Gator's customers are the people who spend advertising dollars using their service.
As Slashdot is now proving, when this sort of thing comes to light, it totally destroys the brand image, and the credibility of the company goes down in flames. Sales plummet, people get laid off and the company never recovers.
Companies work very, very hard to create a brand image. Their brand is their promise to the consumer that they are going to deliver the best product possible. It's a really stupid CEO that is willing to sell out his brand in such a blatant conflict of interest.
Voting against, nor for. I remember a lot of Gore supporters saying that in 2000, also.
You have to wonder, Why don't Democrats get more involved in the primary process and get candidates nominated whom they can really throw their support behind? They are always offering up these candidates that nobody really wants (Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry). Clinton seems to have been the exception in the last 30 years.
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John Fund of the Wall Street Journal has an excellent article today about how the election results are going to play out, hour by hour. He tells you what states are going to close their polls at what time, and discusses what are the key races and key factors in the election around the country. Great read.
No, that's exactly what I responded to. If Apple starts cranking out high-quality games that are Mac-only and Mac-first, then they will start growing the installed base of users and thus more games will be sold. Just imagine if Apple had bought Bungie instead of MS, and Halo came out for the Mac first, and then consoles and PC's six months later. It would have swayed a lot of buyers to get a Mac instead of a PC.
And again I'll make the point, there aren't nearly enough games on the market that Apple is going to be cannibalizing sales from anyone. Besides, who is there to compete against? There are no commercial game developers that are Mac-only. There are shareware companies like Ambrosia, but they'll be the first to tell you that they aren't really competing against store-bought stuff. What Mac game developers there are are working on ports of known PC hits; by the time they finish working on a title, there has been six months of building support in the PC community, plus the previous six months of pre-release hype. If Valve were to release HL2 for the Mac, there's nothing that Apple could release that could keep it from being a hit. No, an Apple-branded games division releasing Mac-only titles would be in a category all by itself. And that's also kind of the point -- If Apple could do it, and be successful, then hopefully others will follow.
Can Apple crank out A-list games consistently? I believe they can. Remember, Apple is not like other tech companies. They don't push hardware and software out the door just because a deadline is looming. Apple's attitude has always been, "It's done when it's done." They are very anal about the quality of what they put their logo on, especially if Jobs gets involved.
Of course, Apple doesn't currently have the skills in-house to crank out games, so what they need to do is to identify who some up-and-coming PC game developers are and buy them.
Halo was first demoed on a Mac. However, even a simultaneous release of an A-list title like Halo is a huge boost for the Mac as a games platform. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen often enough.
But I disagree... games are not like productivity apps. The market can only support a few word processing apps, or spreadsheets, or image-editing apps. There is a a single application concept that is continually refined and expanded upon, and the company that does that the best generally ends up owning the market. How many word processing programs does any one person need? Just one. Why buy WordPerfect when you already have MS Word?
Games are a wholly different beast. If there are two different FPS games that hit the market in the same quarter, they are not necessarily competing. If both are A-list games, then the serious game consumer is likely to buy BOTH games.
And let's face it, the Mac games market isn't anywhere NEAR saturated. A-list Mac games hit the market so infrequently that there is plenty of room for Apple to serve up a lot of quality titles without squeezing out third-party developers. I would even go so far as to say that they would be doing Mac game developers a great service, because they would be advancing the Mac as a games platform, and thus more gamers would buy Macs, and thus more games in general would get sold.
are great games that are Mac-first or Mac-only. I know, good luck trying to convince developers to do that, when the Mac only has >5% marketshare.
Halo was originally going to be a Mac-first game. Bungie was originally a Mac-only developer, and they cranked out some great stuff. Marathon was the best FPS for the longest time, and it was Mac-only. So it was with much weeping and gnashing of teeth as Mac gamers watched Bungie get assimilated by the MS Borg Cube, and then watched as Halo came out for the Mac platform, dead last. Sigh...
Having Apple get involved with porting games is not a bad idea. Apple definitely needs to start throwing some money at game development. The only problem is that they would be taking money away from other Mac development houses that specialize in porting Windows games. It would be better if Apple would emulate MS and snatch up a few up-and-coming game developers, and start cranking out their own line of games.
At this point, that's the only way that Apple is going to get Mac-first and Mac-only A-list titles.
The first HL was mere days away from shiping when Valve yanked the plug on it. Why? Because they knew that they were going to issue frequent updates to the game, and that the Mac port would almost always be a version or two behind. Thus, the Mac online experience would suffer greatly. Because Valve put a heavy emphasis on the online game, they decided at the last minute not to create a situation where the Windows players adored the game but the Mac players were always complaining.
Does it make sense that the Dreamcast version of HL made it to shelves but not the Mac version? Not to me, either. Let's face it, Mac users are used to being second-class citizens when it comes to gaming, and they would have loved HL, even if it meant they could only play against other Mac users. But, I'm sure that Valve was considering the cost of all those free updates that they were going to be issuing, and ultimately decided that the Mac was too much work for too little reward.
HL for Mac was virtually done but they ate the cost of it (and pissed off Sierra in the process), rather than just ship it out. I would say that the atmosphere at Valve is very anti-Mac at this point.
Has anything changed at Valve? Last I checked, Gabe Newell was still running the show, so I guess the answer is still "No". Valve will never publish a HL game for the Mac.
Matthew 7:1 & 2: Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
The FCC judged Stern on the basis of his profane speech. Stern is not alleging that the FCC used profane speech.
But Stern tried to make it a partisan shot, trying to paint Powell as a Bush patsy, when in fact Powell was nominated to the FCC by the Clinton administration.
Powell also pointed out that the commission, comprised of both Democrats and Republicans, voted unanimously for the fines against Stern, and that it was the Democratic commissioners who wanted even larger fines.
Stern came off in the interview as only having half of the facts.
Stern: First question, how did you get your job? It is apparent to most of us in boradcasting that your father got you your job... I really don't think you're qualified to be the head of the commission. Do you deny that your father got you this job?
Powell: I would deny it exceedingly. You can look at my resume if you want, Howard. I'm not ashamed of it and I think it justifies my existence. I was chief of staff of the anti-trust division, I'm an attorney, I was a clerk on the court of the United States, I was a private attorney, I had the same credentials that virtually anyone who sits in my position does. I think it's a little unfair that just because I happen to have a famous father, and other public officials don't, that you make an assumption that that's the only basis on which I serve in my position.
Think about it. These Muslim extremists have a religious belief that killing in the name of Allah is their divine service. Martyrdom is what they want, and killing one group only ignites passion for their cause.
Bush is at least being honest about the situation when he says that he doesn't know if there will be an end to terrorist acts. Kerry just throws out a blanket statement that he's going to end terrorism.
Ok, how are you going to do that?
Don't know, Kerry is very dodgy on the specifics of his foreign policy initiatives. Just read my current journal entry for more info on that.
At this point, I think Kerry is just saying anything to get elected. Kerry's statement about the DMCA is very ambiguous, meaning that he doesn't really have a strong mind to change it. He did vote for it, after all, so why should he change it?
between having one-on-one discussions with North Korea and having a six-on-one discussion involving the most powerful nations surrounding NK (who just happen to have a more vested interest in the situation than we do), then he should probably stop writing about politics and stick to playing with technology toys.
In order to steal the game, you have to beat up enough cops and hookers in your town, and run over a few pedestrians on your way to work, and then you will be approached by a mysterious stranger who will send you on a mission that will result in your getting a bootleg copy of GTA:SA.
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That would make Teresa Heinz-Kerry the Princess prancing around in Jar-Jar's abode in a thong bikini.
Uhhh... sorry, not only can I not buy that, but I've got to go take a bath and scrub my brain clean of that image... bleh.
According to these exits polls, Kerry should have won, 316 to 222.
The poll gave Florida, Ohio and New Mexico to Kerry.
And this poll came out before any polling places were closed, so there was definitely the possibility that they may have influenced the vote with faulty information.
The difference being that Microsoft has a virtual monopoly in the marketplace because of shrewd and anti-competitive business dealings. The anti-spyware market, however, is wide-open, and missteps like this results in shrinking sales.
And Gator's customers are not the millions and millions of computers they install their spyware on; Gator's customers are the people who spend advertising dollars using their service.
As Slashdot is now proving, when this sort of thing comes to light, it totally destroys the brand image, and the credibility of the company goes down in flames. Sales plummet, people get laid off and the company never recovers.
Companies work very, very hard to create a brand image. Their brand is their promise to the consumer that they are going to deliver the best product possible. It's a really stupid CEO that is willing to sell out his brand in such a blatant conflict of interest.
3D patent?
I think God already has the prior art on creating three dimensional objects.
Voting against, nor for. I remember a lot of Gore supporters saying that in 2000, also.
You have to wonder, Why don't Democrats get more involved in the primary process and get candidates nominated whom they can really throw their support behind? They are always offering up these candidates that nobody really wants (Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry). Clinton seems to have been the exception in the last 30 years.
John Fund of the Wall Street Journal has an excellent article today about how the election results are going to play out, hour by hour. He tells you what states are going to close their polls at what time, and discusses what are the key races and key factors in the election around the country. Great read.
There are really long lines at the polls.
That's the only update you need from now until 7 PM EST, when the polls close. There's nothing else to report.
At 7 PM EST, turn your FM station to NPR.
No, that's exactly what I responded to. If Apple starts cranking out high-quality games that are Mac-only and Mac-first, then they will start growing the installed base of users and thus more games will be sold. Just imagine if Apple had bought Bungie instead of MS, and Halo came out for the Mac first, and then consoles and PC's six months later. It would have swayed a lot of buyers to get a Mac instead of a PC.
And again I'll make the point, there aren't nearly enough games on the market that Apple is going to be cannibalizing sales from anyone. Besides, who is there to compete against? There are no commercial game developers that are Mac-only. There are shareware companies like Ambrosia, but they'll be the first to tell you that they aren't really competing against store-bought stuff. What Mac game developers there are are working on ports of known PC hits; by the time they finish working on a title, there has been six months of building support in the PC community, plus the previous six months of pre-release hype. If Valve were to release HL2 for the Mac, there's nothing that Apple could release that could keep it from being a hit. No, an Apple-branded games division releasing Mac-only titles would be in a category all by itself. And that's also kind of the point -- If Apple could do it, and be successful, then hopefully others will follow.
Can Apple crank out A-list games consistently? I believe they can. Remember, Apple is not like other tech companies. They don't push hardware and software out the door just because a deadline is looming. Apple's attitude has always been, "It's done when it's done." They are very anal about the quality of what they put their logo on, especially if Jobs gets involved.
Of course, Apple doesn't currently have the skills in-house to crank out games, so what they need to do is to identify who some up-and-coming PC game developers are and buy them.
Halo was first demoed on a Mac. However, even a simultaneous release of an A-list title like Halo is a huge boost for the Mac as a games platform. Unfortunately, it doesn't happen often enough.
But I disagree... games are not like productivity apps. The market can only support a few word processing apps, or spreadsheets, or image-editing apps. There is a a single application concept that is continually refined and expanded upon, and the company that does that the best generally ends up owning the market. How many word processing programs does any one person need? Just one. Why buy WordPerfect when you already have MS Word?
Games are a wholly different beast. If there are two different FPS games that hit the market in the same quarter, they are not necessarily competing. If both are A-list games, then the serious game consumer is likely to buy BOTH games.
And let's face it, the Mac games market isn't anywhere NEAR saturated. A-list Mac games hit the market so infrequently that there is plenty of room for Apple to serve up a lot of quality titles without squeezing out third-party developers. I would even go so far as to say that they would be doing Mac game developers a great service, because they would be advancing the Mac as a games platform, and thus more gamers would buy Macs, and thus more games in general would get sold.
Do a little fact-checking before you post - the DC version didn't make it to the shelves.
Half Life for Sega Dreamcast
are great games that are Mac-first or Mac-only. I know, good luck trying to convince developers to do that, when the Mac only has >5% marketshare.
Halo was originally going to be a Mac-first game. Bungie was originally a Mac-only developer, and they cranked out some great stuff. Marathon was the best FPS for the longest time, and it was Mac-only. So it was with much weeping and gnashing of teeth as Mac gamers watched Bungie get assimilated by the MS Borg Cube, and then watched as Halo came out for the Mac platform, dead last. Sigh...
Having Apple get involved with porting games is not a bad idea. Apple definitely needs to start throwing some money at game development. The only problem is that they would be taking money away from other Mac development houses that specialize in porting Windows games. It would be better if Apple would emulate MS and snatch up a few up-and-coming game developers, and start cranking out their own line of games.
At this point, that's the only way that Apple is going to get Mac-first and Mac-only A-list titles.
The first HL was mere days away from shiping when Valve yanked the plug on it. Why? Because they knew that they were going to issue frequent updates to the game, and that the Mac port would almost always be a version or two behind. Thus, the Mac online experience would suffer greatly. Because Valve put a heavy emphasis on the online game, they decided at the last minute not to create a situation where the Windows players adored the game but the Mac players were always complaining.
Does it make sense that the Dreamcast version of HL made it to shelves but not the Mac version? Not to me, either. Let's face it, Mac users are used to being second-class citizens when it comes to gaming, and they would have loved HL, even if it meant they could only play against other Mac users. But, I'm sure that Valve was considering the cost of all those free updates that they were going to be issuing, and ultimately decided that the Mac was too much work for too little reward.
HL for Mac was virtually done but they ate the cost of it (and pissed off Sierra in the process), rather than just ship it out. I would say that the atmosphere at Valve is very anti-Mac at this point.
Has anything changed at Valve? Last I checked, Gabe Newell was still running the show, so I guess the answer is still "No". Valve will never publish a HL game for the Mac.
Can .grits be far behind?
Uhhh... we vote for faster servers and more memory in 2004!
Matthew 7:1 & 2: Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
The FCC judged Stern on the basis of his profane speech. Stern is not alleging that the FCC used profane speech.
But Stern tried to make it a partisan shot, trying to paint Powell as a Bush patsy, when in fact Powell was nominated to the FCC by the Clinton administration.
Powell also pointed out that the commission, comprised of both Democrats and Republicans, voted unanimously for the fines against Stern, and that it was the Democratic commissioners who wanted even larger fines.
Stern came off in the interview as only having half of the facts.
Stern: First question, how did you get your job? It is apparent to most of us in boradcasting that your father got you your job... I really don't think you're qualified to be the head of the commission. Do you deny that your father got you this job?
Powell: I would deny it exceedingly. You can look at my resume if you want, Howard. I'm not ashamed of it and I think it justifies my existence. I was chief of staff of the anti-trust division, I'm an attorney, I was a clerk on the court of the United States, I was a private attorney, I had the same credentials that virtually anyone who sits in my position does. I think it's a little unfair that just because I happen to have a famous father, and other public officials don't, that you make an assumption that that's the only basis on which I serve in my position.
Go figure.
Kerry is also promising to end terrorism.
Think about it. These Muslim extremists have a religious belief that killing in the name of Allah is their divine service. Martyrdom is what they want, and killing one group only ignites passion for their cause.
Bush is at least being honest about the situation when he says that he doesn't know if there will be an end to terrorist acts. Kerry just throws out a blanket statement that he's going to end terrorism.
Ok, how are you going to do that?
Don't know, Kerry is very dodgy on the specifics of his foreign policy initiatives. Just read my current journal entry for more info on that.
At this point, I think Kerry is just saying anything to get elected. Kerry's statement about the DMCA is very ambiguous, meaning that he doesn't really have a strong mind to change it. He did vote for it, after all, so why should he change it?
between having one-on-one discussions with North Korea and having a six-on-one discussion involving the most powerful nations surrounding NK (who just happen to have a more vested interest in the situation than we do), then he should probably stop writing about politics and stick to playing with technology toys.
ET has already been found in the UK!
Steve Jobs tells me that the real problem is that the planet isn't cold enough!
In order to steal the game, you have to beat up enough cops and hookers in your town, and run over a few pedestrians on your way to work, and then you will be approached by a mysterious stranger who will send you on a mission that will result in your getting a bootleg copy of GTA:SA.