Or if I want a good BSD system, like the song says, "Boom...there it is."
Uhh... that's "Whoop there it is"...
Airport built in (you can turn it off if you're worried, or get an Airport and bridge it to your local network at 128 bits encryption - sitting in the living room surfing the net was never so much fun;) )
The Airport antenna is built into every new Mac (desktops and laptops), and they all have an internal slot for the Airport card, but the Airport card itself is an extra $100.
I do have some pretty old CDs from the early 80's, and I will NOT put them in my 52X CDROM drive. Unless of course, I want to scrap bits and pieces out of my machine.:)
I have a 40x CD on my desktop. Playing CD's is an awful experience, because the whirring of the motor is so loud that it detracts greatly from enjoying the music.
For supporting evidence, just open the Apple Store and the Dell websites. Buying a Dell with MS Office bundled adds about $100 to the price. Macs... hmmm, where's the bundle option? There is none, because MS doesn't sell a bundle version of Mac Office. Every Mac user has to pay full pop, $460.
I don't recall MS saying much one way or the other except saying you could download a JVM from their site. The Java community themselves planted this seed of doubt.
Yeah, but the friggen Java download is 6 MB's! (So I've heard.) That's nothing for corporate users on broadband connections, but when you're trying to appeal to Joe Consumer surfing the web with his modem at home, with an attention span of maybe 20 seconds, he's not going to be patient enough to sit through a 30 minute download just so he can view your site. More than likely, he's gonna keep on surfing.
If broadband had 80% saturation with consumers, then maybe it wouldn't be a big deal. But I'd bet large amounts of money that this is Micros~1's plan, to push Java into irrelevancy by making it difficult to use. They couldn't own it via their embrace and extend strategy, so they're attacking it by slieghting it.
...and then there's the scammers. There was a company a few years ago (OneSource, I think) that had a product called the "Laundry Ball"; it was a plastic ball that they claimed to have treated with a "special cleaning substance," and you threw it into your washing machine instead of adding soap. Supposedly, this thing lasted 1,000's of washes, and they recommended that, for really tough stains, you run your clothes through several times (I shit you not). Washing machines are quite good these days, and it's amazing how clean you can get your clothes with just water.
Proving PT Barnum right, the company exploded in growth overnight, and they did millions of dollars in sales. AT THEIR FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION, it was a massive blowout -- music, parties, alcohol, and lots and lots of starry-eyed distributors talking about ways to spend all the money they would soon be making. Minutes before the keynote, however, the FTC served papers on the president and the company, essentially putting them out of business and levying heavy fines on them. The president's first keynote was to tell everyone the party was over. The company was dissolved shortly after that.
In addition to the normal internet peak usage times, you can also through another one into the mix: rush hour traffic. I live in a major metropolitan city (of ~4 mil), and I can't hardly use my cell phone from about 4:30 to 5:30.
I wonder how that's going to work with data connections, that are constantly dropping and reestablishing? It'll be a mess, for sure.
IMO, Moulin Rouge should have gotten the Oscar for "Best Cinematography". There was some good work in LOTR, but I thought the cinematography in MR was simply stunning. Of course, I also think that Ewan Mcgregor should have gotten the nod for Best Actor, but he wasn't even nominated.
And yes, LOTR *did* deserve to win for Best Picture. However, the Academy is generally biased towards adult dramas, so it's not terribly surprising that they shafted LOTR.
Namely, the push into subscription-based models for ALL games. If we could imagine a scenario where all game publishers are using Steam to deliver games, sooner or later (probably sooner), one of the suits is going to suggest that they could make a heck of a lot more revenue selling subscriptions to games rather than selling the actual game.
Yes, they are saving money by not selling shrink-wrapped CD's. But those savings are going to be short-lived as everyone starts competing in online distribution. And once they realize that they have cut game prices as low as they can to compete, the next logical step is subscriptions for everything (single-player games included).
You won't be able to "relive the good old days" without whipping out the credit card first.:-(
Well, I'm not going to get into a lengthy defense of Harry because, like I said, I don't know the guy. However, just reading that first article you linked to is SUCH A BLATANT HATCHET JOB BY A COMPETITOR that it's downright silly. I mean, one of their points against AICN is (and I quote), "Really bad writing". Huh?!? Is that proof of his lack of ethics or proof that FilmThreat despises AICN? (Probably the latter.) In another part they blast AICN for using psuedonyms like Moriarty and Elektra, saying that "they might be studio hacks," but then a few paragraphs later go on to identify Moriarty as Drew McWeeny, an AICN staffer. So, which is it? Is Moriarty a "studio hack" writing puff pieces or an AICN staffer? (Everyone at AICN knows he is the latter.)
The fact that the half-dozen tirades you linked to all came from FilmThreat tells me that they have an axe to grind. Probably they are just trying to siphon off users from AICN.
I don't know Harry personally, but I'm a long-time reader of AICN. IMO, Harry's got a lot more integrity than that. I would find it very hard to believe that Harry faked a review.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'll venture to guess that once a market is established in a certain way, and you attempt to tamper with it in such a way that you force most of your competitors out of business, you are acting in a monopolistic fashion.
Apple never provided Be with technical documentation. To my knowledge, Be took advantage of the fact that hardware companies like PowerComputing were given technical documentation.
Besides, you are uncritically assuming that Be is telling the truth. IMO, the collapse of the clone market left Be feeling as though their prospects on the PPC platform had significantly diminished; the jazz about "no hardware documentation" was about as convenient an excuse as any for them to abandon their largest installed base of users at the time.
However, Be's argument neglects the fact that LinuxPPC and YellowDog Linux have survived just fine since the disappearance of Mac clones, and as open source initiatives, would have provided Be with source code that they could have adapted.
Besides, it allowed them to pour all of their development resources into the x86 platform, which controls 95% of the market. Why fight Apple for the scraps of their 5% market share? Jean Louis-Gasse saw Be as a direct compeititor to Apple, going after the design and multimedia markets, but it took the death of the Mac clones to wake him up to the fact that there was far more gravy to be had on x86 than PPC.
The problem with your argument is that Apple sells the hardware and the OS together as one unit, and they've never stopped anyone before from selling alternate OS's for Mac hardware.
Trying to go after Apple in this manner would be like trying to go after Toyota because you can't buy a Celica with a Honda Accord drivetrain.
What Micros~1 was doing was forcing third-party hardware manufacturers into anti-competitive licensing contracts. That scenario does not exist on the Mac side.
The Windows Update feature would make installing IPv6 a fairly painless operation. You need it? Just go grab that Critical Updates package you've been neglecting for two years.
It's not a showstopper; I wouldn't even say it's a bump in the road, provided MS thought it was important enough to put in Critical Updates.
Nielsen is so focused on practical usability that aesthetics are out the window.
Mastering a visual medium like the web means that, in most instances, you have to find the intersection of good content, usability, and pleasing design.
To balance that out, though, you have to look at the fact that never, ever in the history of the planet has so much expression flowed so freely. There is nothing even remotely close that we could compare the impact of the Internet to. Using the example of pornography, which is often at the center of this debate, ten years ago you had to drive to a convenience store to buy a magazine that had a lot of airbrushed nudity; if you wanted the really hardcore stuff and the videos, you had to find an adult bookstore; if you wanted the illegal stuff (child pornography), then you'd probably have to mail-order it and wait several days for it to get to you. Nowadays, anyone can find the most gruesome depictions of child sexual abuse, bondage, bestiality, et al, in streaming MPEG-3 format, just with a few clicks of the mouse, never leaving the comfort of their home. And there's nothing in place to prevent millions of children with internet access from being exposed to it.
"Free speech" advocates have no appreciation for a) how unprecedented this is, and b) the impact on society as a whole. After all, we're not talking about "Give me liberty or give me death" -type free speech here, we're talking about harmful speech.
Somebody who finds a secure spot in the map from where they can kill lots of people (usually near power-ups, health or ammo), and they're usually tough to dislodge. The more valuable the stash of weapons/ammo/health the camper is hording, the more frustrated people get.
I realize that 1% of 10000 emails sent out is an acceptable return rate, but I wouldn't call it thriving. Show some solid proof that this is true and I will believe you.
The problem is the low cost of spam; it doesn't matter if you send out 8 or 80,000, your costs are not significantly increased. Yes, your rates of return might be incredibly low, but the additional costs are negligible to ramp up your distribution until you get the desired number of hits off the campaign.
Wasn't there an issue of the Incredible Hulk where a group of evil scientists released a swarm of radioactive mutant insects on the unsuspecting humans?
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Or if I want a good BSD system, like the song says, "Boom...there it is."
;) )
Uhh... that's "Whoop there it is"...
Airport built in (you can turn it off if you're worried, or get an Airport and bridge it to your local network at 128 bits encryption - sitting in the living room surfing the net was never so much fun
The Airport antenna is built into every new Mac (desktops and laptops), and they all have an internal slot for the Airport card, but the Airport card itself is an extra $100.
I do have some pretty old CDs from the early 80's, and I will NOT put them in my 52X CDROM drive. Unless of course, I want to scrap bits and pieces out of my machine. :)
I have a 40x CD on my desktop. Playing CD's is an awful experience, because the whirring of the motor is so loud that it detracts greatly from enjoying the music.
For supporting evidence, just open the Apple Store and the Dell websites. Buying a Dell with MS Office bundled adds about $100 to the price. Macs... hmmm, where's the bundle option? There is none, because MS doesn't sell a bundle version of Mac Office. Every Mac user has to pay full pop, $460.
When you also consider that Office is a Top Ten title on the Mac, then you realize that MS is making a ton of money off of Mac users.
The nanny who decided to take off her dress and clean up the house in her underwear would probably have no recourse"
If only it was true...
Hmmm, there's something about middle-aged, overweight Venezualan women that just doesn't do it for me....
I don't recall MS saying much one way or the other except saying you could download a JVM from their site. The Java community themselves planted this seed of doubt.
Yeah, but the friggen Java download is 6 MB's! (So I've heard.) That's nothing for corporate users on broadband connections, but when you're trying to appeal to Joe Consumer surfing the web with his modem at home, with an attention span of maybe 20 seconds, he's not going to be patient enough to sit through a 30 minute download just so he can view your site. More than likely, he's gonna keep on surfing.
If broadband had 80% saturation with consumers, then maybe it wouldn't be a big deal. But I'd bet large amounts of money that this is Micros~1's plan, to push Java into irrelevancy by making it difficult to use. They couldn't own it via their embrace and extend strategy, so they're attacking it by slieghting it.
...and then there's the scammers. There was a company a few years ago (OneSource, I think) that had a product called the "Laundry Ball"; it was a plastic ball that they claimed to have treated with a "special cleaning substance," and you threw it into your washing machine instead of adding soap. Supposedly, this thing lasted 1,000's of washes, and they recommended that, for really tough stains, you run your clothes through several times (I shit you not). Washing machines are quite good these days, and it's amazing how clean you can get your clothes with just water.
Proving PT Barnum right, the company exploded in growth overnight, and they did millions of dollars in sales. AT THEIR FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION, it was a massive blowout -- music, parties, alcohol, and lots and lots of starry-eyed distributors talking about ways to spend all the money they would soon be making. Minutes before the keynote, however, the FTC served papers on the president and the company, essentially putting them out of business and levying heavy fines on them. The president's first keynote was to tell everyone the party was over. The company was dissolved shortly after that.
In addition to the normal internet peak usage times, you can also through another one into the mix: rush hour traffic. I live in a major metropolitan city (of ~4 mil), and I can't hardly use my cell phone from about 4:30 to 5:30.
I wonder how that's going to work with data connections, that are constantly dropping and reestablishing? It'll be a mess, for sure.
IMO, Moulin Rouge should have gotten the Oscar for "Best Cinematography". There was some good work in LOTR, but I thought the cinematography in MR was simply stunning. Of course, I also think that Ewan Mcgregor should have gotten the nod for Best Actor, but he wasn't even nominated.
And yes, LOTR *did* deserve to win for Best Picture. However, the Academy is generally biased towards adult dramas, so it's not terribly surprising that they shafted LOTR.
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It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
What about Lotus Domino/Notes? They even have an OS X client available as a beta, something MS doesn't have yet.
Namely, the push into subscription-based models for ALL games. If we could imagine a scenario where all game publishers are using Steam to deliver games, sooner or later (probably sooner), one of the suits is going to suggest that they could make a heck of a lot more revenue selling subscriptions to games rather than selling the actual game.
:-(
Yes, they are saving money by not selling shrink-wrapped CD's. But those savings are going to be short-lived as everyone starts competing in online distribution. And once they realize that they have cut game prices as low as they can to compete, the next logical step is subscriptions for everything (single-player games included).
You won't be able to "relive the good old days" without whipping out the credit card first.
Well, I'm not going to get into a lengthy defense of Harry because, like I said, I don't know the guy. However, just reading that first article you linked to is SUCH A BLATANT HATCHET JOB BY A COMPETITOR that it's downright silly. I mean, one of their points against AICN is (and I quote), "Really bad writing". Huh?!? Is that proof of his lack of ethics or proof that FilmThreat despises AICN? (Probably the latter.) In another part they blast AICN for using psuedonyms like Moriarty and Elektra, saying that "they might be studio hacks," but then a few paragraphs later go on to identify Moriarty as Drew McWeeny, an AICN staffer. So, which is it? Is Moriarty a "studio hack" writing puff pieces or an AICN staffer? (Everyone at AICN knows he is the latter.)
The fact that the half-dozen tirades you linked to all came from FilmThreat tells me that they have an axe to grind. Probably they are just trying to siphon off users from AICN.
Quite a sad way to build an audience.
I don't know Harry personally, but I'm a long-time reader of AICN. IMO, Harry's got a lot more integrity than that. I would find it very hard to believe that Harry faked a review.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'll venture to guess that once a market is established in a certain way, and you attempt to tamper with it in such a way that you force most of your competitors out of business, you are acting in a monopolistic fashion.
Apple never provided Be with technical documentation. To my knowledge, Be took advantage of the fact that hardware companies like PowerComputing were given technical documentation.
Besides, you are uncritically assuming that Be is telling the truth. IMO, the collapse of the clone market left Be feeling as though their prospects on the PPC platform had significantly diminished; the jazz about "no hardware documentation" was about as convenient an excuse as any for them to abandon their largest installed base of users at the time.
However, Be's argument neglects the fact that LinuxPPC and YellowDog Linux have survived just fine since the disappearance of Mac clones, and as open source initiatives, would have provided Be with source code that they could have adapted.
Besides, it allowed them to pour all of their development resources into the x86 platform, which controls 95% of the market. Why fight Apple for the scraps of their 5% market share? Jean Louis-Gasse saw Be as a direct compeititor to Apple, going after the design and multimedia markets, but it took the death of the Mac clones to wake him up to the fact that there was far more gravy to be had on x86 than PPC.
The problem with your argument is that Apple sells the hardware and the OS together as one unit, and they've never stopped anyone before from selling alternate OS's for Mac hardware.
Trying to go after Apple in this manner would be like trying to go after Toyota because you can't buy a Celica with a Honda Accord drivetrain.
What Micros~1 was doing was forcing third-party hardware manufacturers into anti-competitive licensing contracts. That scenario does not exist on the Mac side.
Nickelodeon has been testing this stuff for YEARS.
An ear bud? Excuse me? Is that an advance in design?
Other than that, it looks like the previous model.
There's nothing to see here. Move along, folks...
The Windows Update feature would make installing IPv6 a fairly painless operation. You need it? Just go grab that Critical Updates package you've been neglecting for two years.
It's not a showstopper; I wouldn't even say it's a bump in the road, provided MS thought it was important enough to put in Critical Updates.
That, I believe, is largely due to Yahoo using their SE. Yahoo is still king.
Nielsen is so focused on practical usability that aesthetics are out the window.
Mastering a visual medium like the web means that, in most instances, you have to find the intersection of good content, usability, and pleasing design.
To balance that out, though, you have to look at the fact that never, ever in the history of the planet has so much expression flowed so freely. There is nothing even remotely close that we could compare the impact of the Internet to. Using the example of pornography, which is often at the center of this debate, ten years ago you had to drive to a convenience store to buy a magazine that had a lot of airbrushed nudity; if you wanted the really hardcore stuff and the videos, you had to find an adult bookstore; if you wanted the illegal stuff (child pornography), then you'd probably have to mail-order it and wait several days for it to get to you. Nowadays, anyone can find the most gruesome depictions of child sexual abuse, bondage, bestiality, et al, in streaming MPEG-3 format, just with a few clicks of the mouse, never leaving the comfort of their home. And there's nothing in place to prevent millions of children with internet access from being exposed to it.
"Free speech" advocates have no appreciation for a) how unprecedented this is, and b) the impact on society as a whole. After all, we're not talking about "Give me liberty or give me death" -type free speech here, we're talking about harmful speech.
Somebody who finds a secure spot in the map from where they can kill lots of people (usually near power-ups, health or ammo), and they're usually tough to dislodge. The more valuable the stash of weapons/ammo/health the camper is hording, the more frustrated people get.
;-)
It's quite fun, actually...
I realize that 1% of 10000 emails sent out is an acceptable return rate, but I wouldn't call it thriving. Show some solid proof that this is true and I will believe you.
The problem is the low cost of spam; it doesn't matter if you send out 8 or 80,000, your costs are not significantly increased. Yes, your rates of return might be incredibly low, but the additional costs are negligible to ramp up your distribution until you get the desired number of hits off the campaign.
True, most of the "social interaction" in online games consists of the following statements:
"You f***ing lagger! Relog now!"
"Stupid newbie!"
"WTF? You hacker!"
"Camper!!! Kick that f***ing camper!"
"0wned!"
"Ha ha you suck!"
"You #!@% Q#% @!#%$ piece of @#%$!"
Wasn't there an issue of the Incredible Hulk where a group of evil scientists released a swarm of radioactive mutant insects on the unsuspecting humans?
Wow, they're right! The similarities are uncanny.