Sorry to reply to my own post, but I was a bit hasty in my rant. I'm thinking about a couple of apps in particular and not about all the apps. Blender's viewport kicks ass in ways that make me envious and 3D Studio MAX isn't far behind. I just wanted to acknowledge this before I get my well-deserved roast.:D
Okay, so abstraction on hardware with practically unlimited processing power will make NVidia obsolete. There's precedent for that, even if it's a bit off topic. The Wii and the DS.
What you're describing, though, isn't even really on the horizon. In the more near-term, like at least for the next decade, we're still reliant on predictable hardware specs to make games and apps. You talk about inertia keeping the x86 alive. Well of course! This industry thrives on standards. That's how Microsoft can 'dictate 3D features we have'. I'd normally stand right next to you and light my torch, but the 3d apps I rely on to put the roof over my head still use an old version of OpenGL and only give me 8 lights to play with in real-time. I'm not sure DirectX is exactly what I want there, but I do wish a bigger entity would make these guys pull these apps into the 21st century.
With greater personal power, we won't have Microsoft dictating what 3D features we can have. With individuals become supercomputers, these three companies will be out of business. However, personal survivability and power will be sufficient that former employees will be fine.
I fully expect Apple to release an iWatch. Something with a super high resolution 1/2 inch screen where I can read graphic novels, listen to mp3's, watch high definition movies, while talking to grandma on the phone and swaping recipes with her online because I deserve to be one of the elite. Oh yeah, and it comes with a minature black turtle neck and levis case so I don't scratch the screen. (Score:2, Funny)
Aumsingly people complain about how much the iPhone is mentioned on this site.
You know, I'd easily pay $200 right now for a watch that uses a BT connection to talk to my phone. When my phone rings, the watch tells me who's calling. I'd also be able to use a button to silence my phone. That's it, that's all it'd have to do. (I'm assuming I'd have to charge it less frequently than every 3 days.) Bonus if it could change my music selection and show me what song it is.
Any more complicated than that, like you were getting at, and you're just getting silly for a watch.
4) Slap your forehead when the BT makes the movie more popular the profit pours in. 5) Get pointed and laughed at for not paying attention when this happened to Wolverine.
I appreciate you taking the time to describe to me the benefits of ignorance. The cost of this bliss seems to be very high, though. I mean our conversation about reading comprehension has made you a very unhappy guy!! Bliss is nice and all, but I don't wanna end up as the sort of guy that runs around calling people the stupidest on the internet. Thank you, though, I hope you restore equilibrium.:)
Sigh, and once again you fail to properly express your point... you are not indicating that I am unable to read, you are indicating that I don't know what Orwellian means.
Hahahaha! I wonder if on the second read you'll catch the silliness of what you just said, here.
I imagine distinctions this 'subtle' are lost on you though, you are quite possibly the stupidest person on the internet I've encountered today.
Yeah... you know, that might have stung if you weren't spending all this energy trying to defend a poorly conceived point. This whole theme of reading comprehension is just making this comical.
Thanks! Although the credit really should go to the guy I was replying to. My point wouldn't have worked if he hadn't cooperated by making one so weak!
I was talking about it not being Orwellian, not saying it wasn't dickish.
Since my previous post about how nobody cried 'Orwellian' before got modded down, I'm just going to bring up one little thing. Blackberries have these 'sensors' too. Some Motorola phones have it and even the Nokia N95 comes complete with one installed. And, as people love to point out, Apple has no marketshare compared to these guys, so we hate them all more now, right? Big ol' Orwellian Nokia. Right?
I know my attitude alone will get this post modded down. Fine, whatever. I'd just like to make one thing clear. I'm not defending Apple. I just think that before we sharpen our pitchforks and light our torches, we need to be consistent about what we're mad about. If Apple's bad for pointing moisture stickers in their phones, then so is Nokia and the other phone carriers who do that, too. If it's Orwellian to put a tattler in that, fine, it's Orwellian when the other companies do it, too. But if we shake our fists in the air just because it's Apple, we're no better than the fanboys we love to complain about.
I can see that you must be young enough never to have used the search engines you list, if you suggest that you would have been able to find anything useful.
What are you talking about? I found useful results all the time! I just wish my interest in being a porn connoisseur could be turned into a career.
Slashdot Mirror
Is anyone else getting sick of hearing exciting stories about Google?
If you're sick of it, why are you increasing the comment count in a Google thread and helping Slashdot serve ads?
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I was a bit hasty in my rant. I'm thinking about a couple of apps in particular and not about all the apps. Blender's viewport kicks ass in ways that make me envious and 3D Studio MAX isn't far behind. I just wanted to acknowledge this before I get my well-deserved roast. :D
Okay, so abstraction on hardware with practically unlimited processing power will make NVidia obsolete. There's precedent for that, even if it's a bit off topic. The Wii and the DS.
What you're describing, though, isn't even really on the horizon. In the more near-term, like at least for the next decade, we're still reliant on predictable hardware specs to make games and apps. You talk about inertia keeping the x86 alive. Well of course! This industry thrives on standards. That's how Microsoft can 'dictate 3D features we have'. I'd normally stand right next to you and light my torch, but the 3d apps I rely on to put the roof over my head still use an old version of OpenGL and only give me 8 lights to play with in real-time. I'm not sure DirectX is exactly what I want there, but I do wish a bigger entity would make these guys pull these apps into the 21st century.
With greater personal power, we won't have Microsoft dictating what 3D features we can have. With individuals become supercomputers, these three companies will be out of business. However, personal survivability and power will be sufficient that former employees will be fine.
What?
Dude..I had no idea that existed. Thank you for taking the time to send me that link!
I fully expect Apple to release an iWatch. Something with a super high resolution 1/2 inch screen where I can read graphic novels, listen to mp3's, watch high definition movies, while talking to grandma on the phone and swaping recipes with her online because I deserve to be one of the elite. Oh yeah, and it comes with a minature black turtle neck and levis case so I don't scratch the screen. (Score:2, Funny)
Aumsingly people complain about how much the iPhone is mentioned on this site.
You know, I'd easily pay $200 right now for a watch that uses a BT connection to talk to my phone. When my phone rings, the watch tells me who's calling. I'd also be able to use a button to silence my phone. That's it, that's all it'd have to do. (I'm assuming I'd have to charge it less frequently than every 3 days.) Bonus if it could change my music selection and show me what song it is.
Any more complicated than that, like you were getting at, and you're just getting silly for a watch.
XP users do not need big hard drives to have problems.
Tee hee giggle snort! So, besides porn, what do Linux and Mac users fill their hard drives with? Games?
Wait... wasn't that Popeye? It's so easy to get those two confused.
But what if you are NOT stupid?
You know, he's right. Not being stupid means the car a ton of moving parts will be just as reliable as one with only half.
One day while driving, an engineer's wife was nagging the shit out of him...
Ah, I was wondering if that was originally supposed to be an escape pod.
4) Slap your forehead when the BT makes the movie more popular the profit pours in.
5) Get pointed and laughed at for not paying attention when this happened to Wolverine.
I continue to be amused by the power switch on the MagicJack: MagicJack On. MagicJack Off.
I got in trouble with my mom once because the SNES instruction manual said "Flip off the power switch".
This is one of many reasons why creative professionals prefer macs over PCs
No, it's not. Nobody even knows about this bug.
Would I be wrong in thinking that my comment last week had something to do with this ggetting posted?
I appreciate you taking the time to describe to me the benefits of ignorance. The cost of this bliss seems to be very high, though. I mean our conversation about reading comprehension has made you a very unhappy guy!! Bliss is nice and all, but I don't wanna end up as the sort of guy that runs around calling people the stupidest on the internet. Thank you, though, I hope you restore equilibrium. :)
Sigh, and once again you fail to properly express your point... you are not indicating that I am unable to read, you are indicating that I don't know what Orwellian means.
Hahahaha! I wonder if on the second read you'll catch the silliness of what you just said, here.
I imagine distinctions this 'subtle' are lost on you though, you are quite possibly the stupidest person on the internet I've encountered today.
Yeah... you know, that might have stung if you weren't spending all this energy trying to defend a poorly conceived point. This whole theme of reading comprehension is just making this comical.
With your clear issues with reading comprehension I doubt you've ever even read 1984.
That's an interesting thing to say to a guy that isn't comparing a tamper sticker to gov't surveillance.
Really, because I'm pretty sure his argument was a fairly good one...
Wow, really? "It's Orwellian!" "It's Apple, say no more!"
...and I don't see how you comment did anything to counter
There wasn't anything to counter. You also apparently only read one line of my post.
Making a weak counterpoint is not excusable, no matter how weak you think the original point was.
"But I think his point wasn't a fairly good one!" Heh.
Thanks! Although the credit really should go to the guy I was replying to. My point wouldn't have worked if he hadn't cooperated by making one so weak!
I was talking about it not being Orwellian, not saying it wasn't dickish.
Since my previous post about how nobody cried 'Orwellian' before got modded down, I'm just going to bring up one little thing. Blackberries have these 'sensors' too. Some Motorola phones have it and even the Nokia N95 comes complete with one installed. And, as people love to point out, Apple has no marketshare compared to these guys, so we hate them all more now, right? Big ol' Orwellian Nokia. Right?
I know my attitude alone will get this post modded down. Fine, whatever. I'd just like to make one thing clear. I'm not defending Apple. I just think that before we sharpen our pitchforks and light our torches, we need to be consistent about what we're mad about. If Apple's bad for pointing moisture stickers in their phones, then so is Nokia and the other phone carriers who do that, too. If it's Orwellian to put a tattler in that, fine, it's Orwellian when the other companies do it, too. But if we shake our fists in the air just because it's Apple, we're no better than the fanboys we love to complain about.
The purpose of the sensors is to keep tabs to see whether you behaved well with the phone.
No, it's not. Well, maybe if you desperately stretch the meaning of the phrase 'keep tabs'.
It's a secret device
No, it's not.
that can only be used against you to Apple's advantage.
Agreed with this bit.
Nobody's saying Apple is about to start torturing people... but why is this *not at all* Orwellian, which you're implying?
a.) Mainly because there is nothing Orwellian about it.
b.) If this were Orwellian, we'd have heard this cry a million times before from a thousand other products.
c.) It's clear from your post that you're already aware that this claim is a heck of a stretch. Maybe it's time to extend Godwin's law to Orwell.
They really have liquid sensors in them? That seems so... Orwellian. Does that not bother anyone else?
Liquid sensors on a mobile device are Orwellian.. +2 Interesting. And Apple fans are the ones considered to be in the Reality Distortion Field?
Does anybody actually believe that we have progressed significantly in our use of tech to educate? I sure don't.
Kids are using computers now a lot more than they were 10 years ago.
I can see that you must be young enough never to have used the search engines you list, if you suggest that you would have been able to find anything useful.
What are you talking about? I found useful results all the time! I just wish my interest in being a porn connoisseur could be turned into a career.