If there is money there someone will step up. Yeah a making a game base off a movie will sell 2M copies, but how much did you have to pay for the license? And look at how much the Warcraft trademark is worth now, and that came from a strategy game which is a niche market.
Game companies would be stupid not to make niche games. Just like how hollywood makes artsy films. Sometimes they lose money, but sometimes you can create an entire francise out of it.
the number of casual gamers is rising faster than the number of hardcore gamers? Maybe there will be more licensed crap but still be the same amount of quality original games made?
Pay attention. The movie companies basically said, no DRM, no HD. MS doesn't want to be in a situation where windows doesn't play HD, but apple computers do. Makes them look bad you know? Anyway, DRM isn't that big a deal. No one is forcing you to buy DRM'd movies. Hell, I'm sure you'll even be able to pirate HD movies if you've got the bandwidth for it. All its going to do is prevent you from buying HD movies at walmart and making copies for your friends (which is fair). It will also prevent you from making backup copies and transfering HD content to othe mediums (which kinda sucks). But we all know the limitations (can't copy) and advantages (HD without having to download for days from a torrent) of DRM. You can choose to buy it or not buy it.
Ah well its not a better system then its just a different system for a different style of play. Its just the GP was saying its 100 times better, when really he should say that it is better in some respects and weak in others.
After the refuse to sell them Manhunt, the kids will then be sitting in a store with $60 in their pocket surounded by video games, 90% of which they can buy. What do you think will happen next?
This might hurt the sales of Manhunt, but it won't have much effect on Gamestop.
so.... you just add 10 to whatever the speed limit is and go by that. So then is it silly to ticket someone going 11mph over as opposed to going 10 mph over?
You waste fuel and risk people's lives because you're unable to comprehend the meaning of MAXIMUM 55, but its not you thats silly its everyone else.
ummmm... is a local client superior to a web interface when you want to quickly check your mail on someone else's computer? local client requires you to spend around 5 minutes configuring it and then after you've checked your mail you have to delete the settings. With a web interface you just log in, read your messages and log out.
If I try to steal a heavy object but then drop the object on my foot, breaking my foot, should I then not get charged for theft because "I've already suffered enough?"
The person that got in the accident may think the accident was caused by some animal jumping out in front of him, or hitting a pothole, or bad road conditions, etc. to rationalise that it wasn't his fault. The ticket underlines the fact that if he hadn't been speeding it may have prevented the accident.
And yes if you go 1mph over the speed limit you can be fined. It is the _maximum_ speed not the recommended speed. Of course the radar has a margin of error so if a cop did write a ticket for that you could contest it and you will be found not guilty. But as soon as you exceed the speed limit you are breaking the law.
I think GPS is a bit much, for logistical reasons and for privacy reasons. But I am completely for photo radar. If everyone drove the speed limit instead of constantly changing lanes to try to pass everyone, traffic would flow much quicker. And sitting stationary for an hour because of an accident up ahead wouldn't be as frequent an occurance. And the icing on the cake would be the fact that we'd be burning less fuel if we all drove the speed limit. The only reason not to use photo radar is that a lot of people think its somehow "not fair" that the law actually gets enforced. And these people vote out any politician that tries to implement it.
Yes but google's motto it "don't be evil". Maybe they should change that to "don't be quite as evil as the other guys". But I guess that doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
That may be, but I've had IE7 lock while testing a site I was building. It was due to some javascript constantly resizing the page. Didn't have any problems with it on any other browser (even IE 5 and 6) just IE7. Took me a while to figure it out too, since if javascript is running a long time most browsers will pop up with a message about javascript taking a long time ad giving you an option to stop it. Not IE though, it just keeps chugging away at it, buttons unresponsive, screen not repainting. Only Ctrl-Alt-Del and end task will stop it.
This wasn't me intentionally trying to screw with IE7 either. Just that IE7 fires onresize a little too much and freezes up if there's an endless look in js. Its a pretty shoddy browser.
MS's programmers are skilled just unmotivated. I'm sure they could solve this problem, but they won't bother to unless a manager specifically tells them to do it. Otherwise they're just putting in time until they've worked at MS enough years that it looks good onthier resume so they can get a job somewhere decent.
See this is where MS is stupid. They are making things a lot more complicated than they have to be. MS offers the upgrade version for two reasons:
1) People that have XP don't want to lose their files and apps when installing Vista 2) XP is good enough that people don't want to pay the full amount for Vista which is arguably only marginally better
So this upgrade fulfills reason #1, but for people that are in group 2) that want/need to do an install from scratch, they are making things more complicated than they have to be. All they need to do is have the Vista upgrade DVD check for XP on the HDD. if its there then check its key and upgrade. If its not then do a full install and when it comes time to enter the product key, prompt for both the customer's Vista key _and_ their XP key. Why would they force the customer to reinstall XP before installing Vista?
I think I'll just keep using linux where the upgrade disc is the same disc as the full install and niether require any keys at all.
Yeah, you might be a nice guy right now. But if you're under a lot of stress, or something really horrible happens, or maybe you just didn't sleep enough last night, or maybe one night you have too much to drink.... What happens if, just for a second in a moment of weakness, your perception of reality blurs a little. Just enough to fool yourself into thinking you're in a videogame where it's acceptible to be cruel.
All I know is that I'd be nervous being around someone like you.
Why not fully socialise healthcare. All doctors become government employees and are paid a salary. Or you could pay them $X per patient they treat?
The problem is really more insurance companies than the government anyway. As inefficient as government is, insurance companies are worse. A quick comaparison of insurance rates in places where insurance (all insurance, not just health) is nationalised vs. everywhere else proves this.
Yes but it means that the database snobs should stop bitching about MySQL. Although they still will, its just that now they will look like bigger asses than before.
You're very wrong about MySQL. Its not a mish-mash of code, they're basically just keeping the interface separate from the storage. This means you can write your queries without thinking about what storage engine you're using and choose your storage engine without having to thinking about how people are going to query it. This gives MySQL a huge amount of flexibility. If you're building a webforum and want speed, but aren't really worried about transactions, you can use MyISAM. If you are doing something serious and need transactions then you can choose InnoDB, or someday, Falcon. And what's really cool is you can mix it up and have InnoDB for some tables and MyISAM for others all within the same database.
And why are you upset about having plugins? would you prefer to have all kinds of features you don't need all there by default? If that's the case you must work for MS.
There are disadvantages to MySQL. But keeping the storage engines modularised is not one of them. The fact that you identified MySQL's greatest strengths as a weakness marks you as someone who hasn't even tried it. You are in grave danger of becoming a database snob. And there's nothing worse than a database snob.
Nope... Blake is complaining about Google and the article submitter made an offhand remark that its because of this parakey thing. Just continuing the slashdot tradition of injecting flamebait in the article summaries.
Yeah but you can get a player that can play both BluRay and DVDs. So all your DVDs still work and you can start buying new releases on bluray (or HDDVD, but its seems to me like bluray has won). So it may not offer as big a improvement as DVD but it will also be a much easier transition. More like an upgrade than a replacement.
Of course the lack of HDTVs will be a problem. But as people start buying HDTVs they will pick up a bluray player along with it.
not the same thing. In Linux the remote app is the same as any other app. It puts an icon in the notification area (system tray), keyboard shortcuts and multimedia keys all work, etc. Everything is integrated with my desktop. With windows its all in a desktop thats within some other window.
There's no technical advantage to ubuntu its just that all the apps that most users will want are all there by default and configured the ways users want them by default.
Have you tried it? It sounds like all the things you are complaining about have been solved by ubuntu like a year ago. Decent text editor? yep... and strangely enough its called "Text Editor" There is one Media Player, and strangely enough its called "Movie Player". If you install all the codecs, it will play everything you throw at it. Oh, I guess there's also rhythmbox, but it is more focused on organising your music and doesn't play movies at all. GAIM Internet Messenger gives access to Yahoo, MSN, ICQ/AIM, Google Talk all in one client. Thunderbird is there for email, or you Can use Evolution if you want something more like outlook. What else do you want?
Yes there are a few little solitaire like games there, but they're easily removed and take up hardly any space. You can't say "I want a desktop with everything I want and nothing else" can you? You can't please everyone. Anyway just go to Add/remove uncheck all the boxes under games and click apply.
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If there is money there someone will step up. Yeah a making a game base off a movie will sell 2M copies, but how much did you have to pay for the license? And look at how much the Warcraft trademark is worth now, and that came from a strategy game which is a niche market.
Game companies would be stupid not to make niche games. Just like how hollywood makes artsy films. Sometimes they lose money, but sometimes you can create an entire francise out of it.
ummm... wouldn't the pirates be able to use the same information?
the number of casual gamers is rising faster than the number of hardcore gamers? Maybe there will be more licensed crap but still be the same amount of quality original games made?
Pay attention. The movie companies basically said, no DRM, no HD. MS doesn't want to be in a situation where windows doesn't play HD, but apple computers do. Makes them look bad you know? Anyway, DRM isn't that big a deal. No one is forcing you to buy DRM'd movies. Hell, I'm sure you'll even be able to pirate HD movies if you've got the bandwidth for it. All its going to do is prevent you from buying HD movies at walmart and making copies for your friends (which is fair). It will also prevent you from making backup copies and transfering HD content to othe mediums (which kinda sucks). But we all know the limitations (can't copy) and advantages (HD without having to download for days from a torrent) of DRM. You can choose to buy it or not buy it.
Ah well its not a better system then its just a different system for a different style of play. Its just the GP was saying its 100 times better, when really he should say that it is better in some respects and weak in others.
You can't ban annoying assholes, the system makes half the coices for you and its 100 times better? You have an interesting definition of "better".
After the refuse to sell them Manhunt, the kids will then be sitting in a store with $60 in their pocket surounded by video games, 90% of which they can buy. What do you think will happen next?
This might hurt the sales of Manhunt, but it won't have much effect on Gamestop.
so.... you just add 10 to whatever the speed limit is and go by that. So then is it silly to ticket someone going 11mph over as opposed to going 10 mph over?
You waste fuel and risk people's lives because you're unable to comprehend the meaning of MAXIMUM 55, but its not you thats silly its everyone else.
ummmm... is a local client superior to a web interface when you want to quickly check your mail on someone else's computer? local client requires you to spend around 5 minutes configuring it and then after you've checked your mail you have to delete the settings. With a web interface you just log in, read your messages and log out.
If I try to steal a heavy object but then drop the object on my foot, breaking my foot, should I then not get charged for theft because "I've already suffered enough?"
The person that got in the accident may think the accident was caused by some animal jumping out in front of him, or hitting a pothole, or bad road conditions, etc. to rationalise that it wasn't his fault. The ticket underlines the fact that if he hadn't been speeding it may have prevented the accident.
And yes if you go 1mph over the speed limit you can be fined. It is the _maximum_ speed not the recommended speed. Of course the radar has a margin of error so if a cop did write a ticket for that you could contest it and you will be found not guilty. But as soon as you exceed the speed limit you are breaking the law.
I think GPS is a bit much, for logistical reasons and for privacy reasons. But I am completely for photo radar. If everyone drove the speed limit instead of constantly changing lanes to try to pass everyone, traffic would flow much quicker. And sitting stationary for an hour because of an accident up ahead wouldn't be as frequent an occurance. And the icing on the cake would be the fact that we'd be burning less fuel if we all drove the speed limit. The only reason not to use photo radar is that a lot of people think its somehow "not fair" that the law actually gets enforced. And these people vote out any politician that tries to implement it.
Yes but google's motto it "don't be evil". Maybe they should change that to "don't be quite as evil as the other guys". But I guess that doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
I think he was using the word "literally" in a figurative way.
That may be, but I've had IE7 lock while testing a site I was building. It was due to some javascript constantly resizing the page. Didn't have any problems with it on any other browser (even IE 5 and 6) just IE7. Took me a while to figure it out too, since if javascript is running a long time most browsers will pop up with a message about javascript taking a long time ad giving you an option to stop it. Not IE though, it just keeps chugging away at it, buttons unresponsive, screen not repainting. Only Ctrl-Alt-Del and end task will stop it.
This wasn't me intentionally trying to screw with IE7 either. Just that IE7 fires onresize a little too much and freezes up if there's an endless look in js. Its a pretty shoddy browser.
If Richard Branson is running an airline, wouldn't it be in his best interest to see climate change debunked?
Also Competitive Enterprise Institute doesn't need as much money since fake science is much cheaper than real science.
MS's programmers are skilled just unmotivated. I'm sure they could solve this problem, but they won't bother to unless a manager specifically tells them to do it. Otherwise they're just putting in time until they've worked at MS enough years that it looks good onthier resume so they can get a job somewhere decent.
See this is where MS is stupid. They are making things a lot more complicated than they have to be. MS offers the upgrade version for two reasons:
1) People that have XP don't want to lose their files and apps when installing Vista
2) XP is good enough that people don't want to pay the full amount for Vista which is arguably only marginally better
So this upgrade fulfills reason #1, but for people that are in group 2) that want/need to do an install from scratch, they are making things more complicated than they have to be. All they need to do is have the Vista upgrade DVD check for XP on the HDD. if its there then check its key and upgrade. If its not then do a full install and when it comes time to enter the product key, prompt for both the customer's Vista key _and_ their XP key. Why would they force the customer to reinstall XP before installing Vista?
I think I'll just keep using linux where the upgrade disc is the same disc as the full install and niether require any keys at all.
Yeah, you might be a nice guy right now. But if you're under a lot of stress, or something really horrible happens, or maybe you just didn't sleep enough last night, or maybe one night you have too much to drink.... What happens if, just for a second in a moment of weakness, your perception of reality blurs a little. Just enough to fool yourself into thinking you're in a videogame where it's acceptible to be cruel.
All I know is that I'd be nervous being around someone like you.
Why not fully socialise healthcare. All doctors become government employees and are paid a salary. Or you could pay them $X per patient they treat?
The problem is really more insurance companies than the government anyway. As inefficient as government is, insurance companies are worse. A quick comaparison of insurance rates in places where insurance (all insurance, not just health) is nationalised vs. everywhere else proves this.
Yes but it means that the database snobs should stop bitching about MySQL. Although they still will, its just that now they will look like bigger asses than before.
You're very wrong about MySQL. Its not a mish-mash of code, they're basically just keeping the interface separate from the storage. This means you can write your queries without thinking about what storage engine you're using and choose your storage engine without having to thinking about how people are going to query it. This gives MySQL a huge amount of flexibility. If you're building a webforum and want speed, but aren't really worried about transactions, you can use MyISAM. If you are doing something serious and need transactions then you can choose InnoDB, or someday, Falcon. And what's really cool is you can mix it up and have InnoDB for some tables and MyISAM for others all within the same database.
And why are you upset about having plugins? would you prefer to have all kinds of features you don't need all there by default? If that's the case you must work for MS.
There are disadvantages to MySQL. But keeping the storage engines modularised is not one of them. The fact that you identified MySQL's greatest strengths as a weakness marks you as someone who hasn't even tried it. You are in grave danger of becoming a database snob. And there's nothing worse than a database snob.
Nope... Blake is complaining about Google and the article submitter made an offhand remark that its because of this parakey thing. Just continuing the slashdot tradition of injecting flamebait in the article summaries.
Yeah but you can get a player that can play both BluRay and DVDs. So all your DVDs still work and you can start buying new releases on bluray (or HDDVD, but its seems to me like bluray has won). So it may not offer as big a improvement as DVD but it will also be a much easier transition. More like an upgrade than a replacement.
Of course the lack of HDTVs will be a problem. But as people start buying HDTVs they will pick up a bluray player along with it.
Yeah, because Apple sure doesn't want people to buy their expensive hardware.
not the same thing. In Linux the remote app is the same as any other app. It puts an icon in the notification area (system tray), keyboard shortcuts and multimedia keys all work, etc. Everything is integrated with my desktop. With windows its all in a desktop thats within some other window.
There's no technical advantage to ubuntu its just that all the apps that most users will want are all there by default and configured the ways users want them by default.
Have you tried it? It sounds like all the things you are complaining about have been solved by ubuntu like a year ago. Decent text editor? yep... and strangely enough its called "Text Editor" There is one Media Player, and strangely enough its called "Movie Player". If you install all the codecs, it will play everything you throw at it. Oh, I guess there's also rhythmbox, but it is more focused on organising your music and doesn't play movies at all. GAIM Internet Messenger gives access to Yahoo, MSN, ICQ/AIM, Google Talk all in one client. Thunderbird is there for email, or you Can use Evolution if you want something more like outlook. What else do you want?
Yes there are a few little solitaire like games there, but they're easily removed and take up hardly any space. You can't say "I want a desktop with everything I want and nothing else" can you? You can't please everyone. Anyway just go to Add/remove uncheck all the boxes under games and click apply.