ÂPushing Memory Stick when we already had SD Card which had the same form factor was the first thing.Or was it mini-disc? Pushing their proprietary formats, was the first thing.
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To be fair MemorySticks and MiniDiscs wern't the worst ar far as proprietary formats go. Talk about XD cards and Digital Compact Cassettes.
I remember hearing some question that was, I suppose, meant to test your character, or something. "Would you rather be poor and happy, or rich and unhappy?" I think the "correct" answer was supposed to be "poor and happy," but I beg to differ. I've been poor and happy before. I've also had more than my share of poor and unhappiness. I think I'd give "rich and unhappy" a try. And if I can't deal with that I'd give away the money until it made me happy.
Wasn't SecondLife based on VRML? I remember reading about the promise of VRML; virtual shopping malls, real estate, massive multiplayer games, etc... I never played around in SL but I thought that it was all VRML.
Ours was a Sanyo betamax machine in '82 or '83. The first movie we ever rented was Star Wars. For some reason we put it on at what must have been 11 or 12 at night, so I fell asleep right at Darth entrance. Never saw the whole movie until nearly a decade later.
My former boss used to refer to it as a hard drive and the CRT monitor was the computer. I upgraded it to a larger size and he asked if I had gotten a new computer. Most people I know seem to call any generic mp3 player an iPod. And before Android became a household name, every smartphone was an iPhone.
Why is this a big deal anyway? Couldn't you personalize the icons any. I'm sure that Windows always had the ability to add custom UI anyway, so what does it matter what the defaults look like.
It's said the only atomic particles exhibit the wave/partial duality answer large objects like people not so much. But what if you aggregate all of positions of ones self across all universes. If a person is sitting in a chair in his bedroom in pn universe would he be sitting in the exact same chair in the same way in all others? Perhaps in some you are an inch to the left, in others across the room. And still ib other across town. Like an electron you exact position is not certain across all universes.
They used a bunch of off the shelf digital cameras, but also the blend frames together to create frames in between. Not to mention post processed image stabilization and color correction.
I think it was Apple that started naming their products the same name. If I told you that a bought an iMac which one do you think i was refering to? The one from last year? From 5 years ago? The one from 15 years ago? All called iMac. even the "G3","G4" and G5" are not officially part of the name.
I know that there two different things but between smartTV and 3DTV I'd rather be forced to buy a 3DTV. At least you could turn the 3D off, and know that it was off.
I remember voice recognition was cool. Back in the early 90s I was messing around voice recognition in high school. It wasn't perfect but surely in the 2 decades CPUs have gotten fast enough with their dual cores and quad cores to handle voice without calling home. What happened?
One of my favorite DVDs, not movies, has got to be Beastie Boys Video Anthology. It's one of the most feature rich DVDs that I own and if a group were to release a collection of videos this is how it should be done. Some of the video not only include multiple angles, but multiple remixes on the language tracks.
Does such a display exists? I always assumed that that's what they were doing. I can imagine that it would much more. It might be cheaper to use one small 4K display than 2 smaller 1080p ones.
You know Android has folders well before iOS did. Besides' whem you disable an app you clear up cache and user data. a small amount compared to the app size, but it does free up RAM. Especially the services that run in the background, like live wallpaper.
Are you refering to the Commodore CDTV and the CD32. Game systems so obscure that even among rare system collectors it hardly gets mentioned. Even the Bandai/Apple Pippin gets more recognition.
I bought PC about 5 years ago that I use primarily for gaming. But I've also used it to make a little money on the side. Pretty much paid for itself. Aren't too many games that do that. Not without a RMAH at least.
(Mind you, I'm not a history buff so I might be dead wrong on the whole issue. I'm bored and I like this tangent.) But isn't that what we do anyway. Pick and choose parts of other cultures that we find appealing and assemilate them into our own. And we ignore the stuff we don't agree with. Isn't that the whole "melting pot" idea? Even cultures that, by OP's definition, we find inferior. Some of the things that are at the core of our culture came from cultures that would be "inferior". I know I keep bringing that word back, I didn't chose it, but it implies a value judgement of worthlessness, something to be ignored. Do we ignore a whole culture because we find part undesirable? History disagrees.
The problem, I think, comes when a game is a mere copy and offers nothing new. If Namco just made a clone of Space Invaders, but in color, Galaxian would have been forgotten with the rest. If you're going to copy atleast add something new.
The practices you describe are things are thing that most civilized people can dislike regardless of weither or not its attached to a culture. All that means is that you are intolarent of certain behaviors and practices. If you find people who do the same thing in your own culture it doesn't make you a hypocrite for disliking that, too. I think that your term "cultural racist" as you discribe it could be just explained as intolarent of immoral acts. In that case, yes, most people are cultural "racists", but most folks won't deny it.
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ÂPushing Memory Stick when we already had SD Card which had the same form factor was the first thing.Or was it mini-disc? Pushing their proprietary formats, was the first thing.
 To be fair MemorySticks and MiniDiscs wern't the worst ar far as proprietary formats go. Talk about XD cards and Digital Compact Cassettes.
I remember hearing some question that was, I suppose, meant to test your character, or something. "Would you rather be poor and happy, or rich and unhappy?" I think the "correct" answer was supposed to be "poor and happy," but I beg to differ. I've been poor and happy before. I've also had more than my share of poor and unhappiness. I think I'd give "rich and unhappy" a try. And if I can't deal with that I'd give away the money until it made me happy.
Wasn't SecondLife based on VRML? I remember reading about the promise of VRML; virtual shopping malls, real estate, massive multiplayer games, etc... I never played around in SL but I thought that it was all VRML.
Ours was a Sanyo betamax machine in '82 or '83. The first movie we ever rented was Star Wars. For some reason we put it on at what must have been 11 or 12 at night, so I fell asleep right at Darth entrance. Never saw the whole movie until nearly a decade later.
My former boss used to refer to it as a hard drive and the CRT monitor was the computer. I upgraded it to a larger size and he asked if I had gotten a new computer. Most people I know seem to call any generic mp3 player an iPod. And before Android became a household name, every smartphone was an iPhone.
For a second i thought they were bringing GeoCities back.
4K on a phone, meh. 4K on a table with a Wacom stylus, sign me up. Especially if it's as big a Galaxy Note Tab screen.
Shattered glass becomes the least of your worries when the whole phone falls to pieces. Now where did my 4G radio chip land?
Why is this a big deal anyway? Couldn't you personalize the icons any. I'm sure that Windows always had the ability to add custom UI anyway, so what does it matter what the defaults look like.
It's said the only atomic particles exhibit the wave/partial duality answer large objects like people not so much. But what if you aggregate all of positions of ones self across all universes. If a person is sitting in a chair in his bedroom in pn universe would he be sitting in the exact same chair in the same way in all others? Perhaps in some you are an inch to the left, in others across the room. And still ib other across town. Like an electron you exact position is not certain across all universes.
They used a bunch of off the shelf digital cameras, but also the blend frames together to create frames in between. Not to mention post processed image stabilization and color correction.
I think it was Apple that started naming their products the same name. If I told you that a bought an iMac which one do you think i was refering to? The one from last year? From 5 years ago? The one from 15 years ago? All called iMac. even the "G3" ,"G4" and G5" are not officially part of the name.
How about MicroMV, VFD analog floppy disks, and their weird removable hard disk camcorder. Too obscure?
I know that there two different things but between smartTV and 3DTV I'd rather be forced to buy a 3DTV. At least you could turn the 3D off, and know that it was off.
I remember voice recognition was cool. Back in the early 90s I was messing around voice recognition in high school. It wasn't perfect but surely in the 2 decades CPUs have gotten fast enough with their dual cores and quad cores to handle voice without calling home. What happened?
One of my favorite DVDs, not movies, has got to be Beastie Boys Video Anthology. It's one of the most feature rich DVDs that I own and if a group were to release a collection of videos this is how it should be done. Some of the video not only include multiple angles, but multiple remixes on the language tracks.
Does such a display exists? I always assumed that that's what they were doing. I can imagine that it would much more. It might be cheaper to use one small 4K display than 2 smaller 1080p ones.
You know Android has folders well before iOS did. Besides' whem you disable an app you clear up cache and user data. a small amount compared to the app size, but it does free up RAM. Especially the services that run in the background, like live wallpaper.
Remember when America Online bought TimeWarner? That actually happened. Almost as crazy as being bought by the parent company of DC Comics.
Are you refering to the Commodore CDTV and the CD32. Game systems so obscure that even among rare system collectors it hardly gets mentioned. Even the Bandai/Apple Pippin gets more recognition.
I bought PC about 5 years ago that I use primarily for gaming. But I've also used it to make a little money on the side. Pretty much paid for itself. Aren't too many games that do that. Not without a RMAH at least.
(Mind you, I'm not a history buff so I might be dead wrong on the whole issue. I'm bored and I like this tangent.) But isn't that what we do anyway. Pick and choose parts of other cultures that we find appealing and assemilate them into our own. And we ignore the stuff we don't agree with. Isn't that the whole "melting pot" idea? Even cultures that, by OP's definition, we find inferior. Some of the things that are at the core of our culture came from cultures that would be "inferior". I know I keep bringing that word back, I didn't chose it, but it implies a value judgement of worthlessness, something to be ignored. Do we ignore a whole culture because we find part undesirable? History disagrees.
But is it really relevant what one culture considers moral, particularly if you deem the whole culture inferior, as opposed to just parts of it.
The problem, I think, comes when a game is a mere copy and offers nothing new. If Namco just made a clone of Space Invaders, but in color, Galaxian would have been forgotten with the rest. If you're going to copy atleast add something new.
The practices you describe are things are thing that most civilized people can dislike regardless of weither or not its attached to a culture. All that means is that you are intolarent of certain behaviors and practices. If you find people who do the same thing in your own culture it doesn't make you a hypocrite for disliking that, too. I think that your term "cultural racist" as you discribe it could be just explained as intolarent of immoral acts. In that case, yes, most people are cultural "racists", but most folks won't deny it.