Ditto. I'm curious about those costs too because I've been multi-platform for so long I can't even relate to the idea of training people to learn how to click on a brushed metal window instead of a Microsoft one. I know that Start Button / Apple menu is going to cause wholesale panic around the company cafeteria.
Corporate riot ensues, Wall Street collapses, dogs and cats living together - MASS HYSTERIA!
Just explaining the lack of a BSD is going to be comedy gold baby! And the OSX wirly rainbow thingie is also sure to be a barn-burner. Start those camcorders for YouTube, and kick back and enjoy the fun.
Right. I'll just run off an get my copy of Microsoft Office for Linux. Um. Hmm. Don't see one. There's one for OSX and everything but - hang on let me check again - no... That's strange.. Ah well, I'm sure there's a copy of Photoshop for Linux. Lessie - Windows, Mac....hmm. Darn. Well SURELY there's a copy of Flash Developer for Linux. Hmmmm....gosh.
Uh - unless we're talking about receptionists stringing together redundant database systems and large-scale host arrays, I think - nay - suspect, that an application - of any kind - might be in order. Then again I haven't checked, does GIMP handle.psd files with decent layer mapping?
Some concrete numbers on admin costs between the two platforms. Whatever reasons you proscribe to the whole Windows vs Macs vs every electronic plague on the planet, I suspect there's some serious cost-benefits to making the switch at the corporate level.
If nothing else I'd love to see a larger market-share for Apple just to cut down on the number of spam-generating zombies out there.
Um your inflation figures are off by - by a gross margin.
What cost $100 in 2001 would cost $113.24 in 2006. Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2006 and 2001, they would cost you $100 and $88.31 respectively.
"The pre-1975 data are the Consumer Price Index statistics from Historical Statistics of the United States (USGPO, 1975). All data since then are from the annual Statistical Abstracts of the United States."
Note: Data not from a fucktard site trying to foist gold on me.
They've footdragged so much on getting universal binary versions of their software to operate on Intel, that I'm not surprised in the least that they'd also foot-drag on Vista-savvy versions of their software. In an interesting turnabout, the fastest native version of their software (for the remainder of the year) - might be - be OSX for Intel - if the damn thing is released for the Mac users by summer.
Actually I'd be surprised if Adobe's stuff isn't usable in Vista as-is. It's probably just a marketing spat between the two insofar that Adobe wasn't going to commit itself to being "Vista Ready" when Microsoft sent out the promotional packets.
But of course, because then we can make a giant "L-a-s-e-r" and turn the moon into a death-star. The laser of course would be named the Alan Parson's Project.
And then we could ransom the world for - one - miiilioooon dol-lars.
Right - windows users never heard of Snap X. Anything sent to my screen I can convert to a quicktime MOV, of any quality. Content - you're nabbed and ready to be uploaded elsewhere. Oops - I'm sorry - did that fuck up Joost's marketing plan?
The more markets will probably prevent the other phones from being sold globally, but if they establish a not-for-sale suit in the US, that's one major market they could knock off the map. But of course they're pissing contests. But putting out the image of defending vigerously is something many companies are known for regardless of whether it's warrated. It's similar to trademarks where if you don't protect at all - you basically give up the trademarks by proxy. I don't think Apple's going to sit around and wait for their intellectual property (regardless of merit) to be invalidated by default.
I errored on the time reference btw - the 200 patent speal happens at 1 hour 30 minutes elapsed, not remaining.
And now the countdown starts on the two other phones cited in the WSJ article. It didn't fly under my radar the "boy have we patented it" line at the expo - and for those who want the recast, on the (free) download at iTunes of the keynote - at 1:30 (remaining) comes the clarifier of over 200 patents filed on the iPhone.
Looking at the slightest cause for a lawsuit - "trade dress" it seems the other manufacturers are playing with fire already.
For a fan of corporate porn (me), it's going to be fun watching the legal fallout from the clones (remember all the imac clones that emachine tried to sell within a year - that's absolutely nothing compared to the design theft that happens in cellphones all the time). The LG and the Samsung weren't mentioned to have touch-screen but - boy - the LG is really looking to open it's legal doors in "creating consumer confusion from trade dress" bigtime.
Anyone want to place bets on when the first lawsuits from Apple start? I'm guessing August by the latest.
This generation - and I'm including the 360 because it's only now hitting it's software stride - has had probably the worst rollout of any generation I can remember. The PS2 had at least 4 compelling titles at (or nearly at) launch, as did the Dreamcast. I think the only fumble titlewise was the N64 for the first 5 months. This time it's across the board. In the rush for 4th quarter revenue - the developers must have been utterly screwed.
I'd love to hear some concrete numbers from the dev-crowd on how many months in advance ANY dev-kit (regarless of how sucky they were) actually appeared in advance of launch because all I've heard to date is "oh crap this" and "the libraries that" but no idea how long they've even had the things.
I suspect the answer would scare the crap out of any early-adopter.
Raises its ugly head. I can't tell you how many development groups I'd seen hobbled by outside politics vs real-world applications and logic. Sounds all conspiracy theoryish, but in the world of marketing, you can't get away from these things. Looks like Wall Mart got the Microsoft Kool-Aid.
"At least with the University they gave us money and facilities - you don't know what it's like out there - I've worked in the private sector. They exect results..."
Well in the USA if you're a freelance journalist or a contractor you effectively are running your own business and it PAYS to buy expensive tech because come tax time a higher deduction for an equipment purchase is always a good thing. The US govt encourages business expenses to build the economy. Sorry to hear your govt is so short sighted. Sucks to be you.
Conspiracy theories aside - I hadn't thought of table-tennis since I never game it much though with conventional controllers. The game got high marks though and - you, me and anyone else not drooling into a bucket - would THINK would be a no-brainer to update and bring to the Wii.
A former co-worker at a design firm always lamented that his designs for bike parts which were squeezed to the hilt with a phone book of legal copy was proof that lawyers were removing Darwin from the equation and providing ample evidence that devolution was taking place. I'm all for safety, but so far the last article I read on the NY idea was that 3 people died this year.
3? Goddamn - that's a political hot potato if I ever heard one. Thank god they can trump that up while guns kill a few hundred more in his same city.
Three. Holy flying fuck. I'm sure there's plenty of other great death numbers out there to get busy on - but nooooo. THREE! Call out the fucking national guard!
Oh puleez. People have been hacking and modding consoles for ages. Here's a great video of a hack of Guitar Hero 2 for the PS2 with a modchip. The song is meh, but the performance is captivating:
Only bias I can bring is I'm not a fan of "stealth" games. But once you get past the stealth and the combat - there's nothing THERE gamewise. I thought the Wii was supposed to be about the frigging game? GTA has been a solid license for Take 2 since aside from mayhem it actually has GAMEPLAY.
I took a 15 dollar loss, but Manhunt has to be on of the only titles I returned within a week of buying it for trade-in value for the PS2.
And one other thing - don't think I didn't notice that "Warriors" was the first real sequal to that pile of crap. Same lame game with new skins and a theme. Whoop-de-shit.
There's been fears expressed that like the GameCube, the Wii outside of Nintendo titles (which is why I got my Wii system - btw Youtube fullscreenmode is pretty compelling TV) might be another baston of "shovelware" - here's the first massive proof. Fellow Wii owners, get out your shovels, let the crapfest begin.
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You use Macromedia suite? Good for you!
Um - you did know that's Adobe right? Pwned.
"applications that require copy protection support. This includes titles such as Photoshop CS and Dreamweaver MX 2004 and later."
Sounds like an enterprise solution for wackyness! I'm so sold.
Ditto. I'm curious about those costs too because I've been multi-platform for so long I can't even relate to the idea of training people to learn how to click on a brushed metal window instead of a Microsoft one. I know that Start Button / Apple menu is going to cause wholesale panic around the company cafeteria.
Corporate riot ensues, Wall Street collapses, dogs and cats living together - MASS HYSTERIA!
Just explaining the lack of a BSD is going to be comedy gold baby! And the OSX wirly rainbow thingie is also sure to be a barn-burner. Start those camcorders for YouTube, and kick back and enjoy the fun.
Right. I'll just run off an get my copy of Microsoft Office for Linux. Um. Hmm. Don't see one. There's one for OSX and everything but - hang on let me check again - no... That's strange.. Ah well, I'm sure there's a copy of Photoshop for Linux. Lessie - Windows, Mac....hmm. Darn. Well SURELY there's a copy of Flash Developer for Linux. Hmmmm....gosh.
.psd files with decent layer mapping?
Uh - unless we're talking about receptionists stringing together redundant database systems and large-scale host arrays, I think - nay - suspect, that an application - of any kind - might be in order. Then again I haven't checked, does GIMP handle
Some concrete numbers on admin costs between the two platforms. Whatever reasons you proscribe to the whole Windows vs Macs vs every electronic plague on the planet, I suspect there's some serious cost-benefits to making the switch at the corporate level.
If nothing else I'd love to see a larger market-share for Apple just to cut down on the number of spam-generating zombies out there.
Um your inflation figures are off by - by a gross margin.
What cost $100 in 2001 would cost $113.24 in 2006.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2006 and 2001,
they would cost you $100 and $88.31 respectively.
From: http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
"The pre-1975 data are the Consumer Price Index statistics from Historical Statistics of the United States (USGPO, 1975). All data since then are from the annual Statistical Abstracts of the United States."
Note: Data not from a fucktard site trying to foist gold on me.
Glad you're not an accountant.
They've footdragged so much on getting universal binary versions of their software to operate on Intel, that I'm not surprised in the least that they'd also foot-drag on Vista-savvy versions of their software. In an interesting turnabout, the fastest native version of their software (for the remainder of the year) - might be - be OSX for Intel - if the damn thing is released for the Mac users by summer.
Actually I'd be surprised if Adobe's stuff isn't usable in Vista as-is. It's probably just a marketing spat between the two insofar that Adobe wasn't going to commit itself to being "Vista Ready" when Microsoft sent out the promotional packets.
But of course, because then we can make a giant "L-a-s-e-r" and turn the moon into a death-star.
The laser of course would be named the Alan Parson's Project.
And then we could ransom the world for - one - miiilioooon dol-lars.
After that - we can get to work on the sharks.
I'm surpised that didn't make it into the summary. Let's rewrite the headline please:
"Hot babe researcher has this to say about hard drives - oh momma!"
I think we'd see a bit more comments in the thread don't you think? MARKETING - you need to think about MARKETING!
Right - windows users never heard of Snap X. Anything sent to my screen I can convert to a quicktime MOV, of any quality. Content - you're nabbed and ready to be uploaded elsewhere. Oops - I'm sorry - did that fuck up Joost's marketing plan?
Gosh I'm sorry about that.
The more markets will probably prevent the other phones from being sold globally, but if they establish a not-for-sale suit in the US, that's one major market they could knock off the map. But of course they're pissing contests. But putting out the image of defending vigerously is something many companies are known for regardless of whether it's warrated. It's similar to trademarks where if you don't protect at all - you basically give up the trademarks by proxy. I don't think Apple's going to sit around and wait for their intellectual property (regardless of merit) to be invalidated by default.
I errored on the time reference btw - the 200 patent speal happens at 1 hour 30 minutes elapsed, not remaining.
And now the countdown starts on the two other phones cited in the WSJ article. It didn't fly under my radar the "boy have we patented it" line at the expo - and for those who want the recast, on the (free) download at iTunes of the keynote - at 1:30 (remaining) comes the clarifier of over 200 patents filed on the iPhone.
Looking at the slightest cause for a lawsuit - "trade dress" it seems the other manufacturers are playing with fire already.
For a fan of corporate porn (me), it's going to be fun watching the legal fallout from the clones (remember all the imac clones that emachine tried to sell within a year - that's absolutely nothing compared to the design theft that happens in cellphones all the time). The LG and the Samsung weren't mentioned to have touch-screen but - boy - the LG is really looking to open it's legal doors in "creating consumer confusion from trade dress" bigtime.
Anyone want to place bets on when the first lawsuits from Apple start? I'm guessing August by the latest.
This generation - and I'm including the 360 because it's only now hitting it's software stride - has had probably the worst rollout of any generation I can remember. The PS2 had at least 4 compelling titles at (or nearly at) launch, as did the Dreamcast. I think the only fumble titlewise was the N64 for the first 5 months. This time it's across the board. In the rush for 4th quarter revenue - the developers must have been utterly screwed.
I'd love to hear some concrete numbers from the dev-crowd on how many months in advance ANY dev-kit (regarless of how sucky they were) actually appeared in advance of launch because all I've heard to date is "oh crap this" and "the libraries that" but no idea how long they've even had the things.
I suspect the answer would scare the crap out of any early-adopter.
I guess the obligatory music industry retort "well, if they'd just license the tech to other MP3 players we'd welcome that" is due to come in soon.
No - wait.
re:"Apple has what, 3.5% of the overall market? and *nix-on-the-desktop for people who frequent Walmart probably won't even register on the dial."
Isn't firefox available for Windows? Oh my yes - it IS. Wow. Amazing. Please don't post with a hangover or when still drunk. Just a lil' tip.
Raises its ugly head. I can't tell you how many development groups I'd seen hobbled by outside politics vs real-world applications and logic. Sounds all conspiracy theoryish, but in the world of marketing, you can't get away from these things. Looks like Wall Mart got the Microsoft Kool-Aid.
"At least with the University they gave us money and facilities - you don't know what it's like out there - I've worked in the private sector. They exect results..."
Well in the USA if you're a freelance journalist or a contractor you effectively are running your own business and it PAYS to buy expensive tech because come tax time a higher deduction for an equipment purchase is always a good thing. The US govt encourages business expenses to build the economy. Sorry to hear your govt is so short sighted. Sucks to be you.
Conspiracy theories aside - I hadn't thought of table-tennis since I never game it much though with conventional controllers. The game got high marks though and - you, me and anyone else not drooling into a bucket - would THINK would be a no-brainer to update and bring to the Wii.
Good call.
A former co-worker at a design firm always lamented that his designs for bike parts which were squeezed to the hilt with a phone book of legal copy was proof that lawyers were removing Darwin from the equation and providing ample evidence that devolution was taking place. I'm all for safety, but so far the last article I read on the NY idea was that 3 people died this year.
3? Goddamn - that's a political hot potato if I ever heard one. Thank god they can trump that up while guns kill a few hundred more in his same city.
Three. Holy flying fuck. I'm sure there's plenty of other great death numbers out there to get busy on - but nooooo. THREE! Call out the fucking national guard!
Oh puleez. People have been hacking and modding consoles for ages. Here's a great video of a hack of Guitar Hero 2 for the PS2 with a modchip. The song is meh, but the performance is captivating:
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http://www.poe-news.com/forums/sp.php?pi=10013907
Either you're a PCbigot or a troll or an idiot. I'd guess all-of-the-above.
Neither does denial.
Only bias I can bring is I'm not a fan of "stealth" games. But once you get past the stealth and the combat - there's nothing THERE gamewise. I thought the Wii was supposed to be about the frigging game? GTA has been a solid license for Take 2 since aside from mayhem it actually has GAMEPLAY.
I took a 15 dollar loss, but Manhunt has to be on of the only titles I returned within a week of buying it for trade-in value for the PS2.
And one other thing - don't think I didn't notice that "Warriors" was the first real sequal to that pile of crap. Same lame game with new skins and a theme. Whoop-de-shit.
There's been fears expressed that like the GameCube, the Wii outside of Nintendo titles (which is why I got my Wii system - btw Youtube fullscreenmode is pretty compelling TV) might be another baston of "shovelware" - here's the first massive proof. Fellow Wii owners, get out your shovels, let the crapfest begin.
Can I have a marshmellow?
re:"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
Corrected: How much wood could a Canuck chuck if a Canuck could chuck wood?