It was absurdly hard, and it had 20 hidden levels. Hardcore doesn't mean that it requires you to think, that's largely a function of what genre the game is.
Okay, how do I explain it in an easy to understand way. The sun is like a huge server that uploads Vitamin D to you. However, we're constantly told scare stories about how we'll accidently download skin cancer from it, to sell antiviolet products. Unless you live near the equator, you can't get very good access to it except in the summer.
Wishful thinking. Artificial sweeteners are what we'll probably see much more of, since they're far cheeper due to only needing 200 times less aspartame or acesulfame potasium, 300 times less saccharin, 600 times less sucralose, or 30-50 times less cyclamate(but cyclamate is really cheap to produce AFAIK. Although it is banned in the US for now...)
Over in England, artificial sweeteners are already starting to be used in non-diet foods for this reason.
I think ethanol driving up the price of corn is a bad thing, it'll drive up the price of erythritol.
"But DJCacophony," you may say, "there are other players that can handle unprotected AAC." I am well aware of this, but the fact of the matter is that there aren't a whole lot, and Jobs knows this. The only other semi-mainstream player I can name offhand is the Zune
Rockbox supports it. 'nuff said.
Okay, it doesn't do so completely yet, but I'm sure this'll get them to finish it up quick, so soon there'll be a good selection of aac players.
What are these other mp3 manufacturers going to say in their commercials? "Now compatible with 20% of Itunes"?
"Compatible with mp3, aac, wma, drm-wma". Or if they want to make it sound really impressive, "Compatible with mp3, aac, wma, drm-wma, vorbis, speex, flac, wma-lossless, mpc, and a whole bunch of synthesized music formats."
And it'll be more than 20% if all or almost all independant labels join in on this. Perhaps not so much in sales, but certainly in selection.
The manufacturers will likely wait until 100% of Itunes is un-DRM'd beforehand, and who knows when that will be?
Really? Do tell, what portion of itunes music is available in.ogg?
After however times they've done this, the only way they could pull an april fools joke is by tricking people by not putting up any fake stories. Instead, post stories that sound fake but really aren't.
Or... post serious stories, but have all the links go to the wrong articles. Maybe have them all go to the same site, so that it gets slashdotted extra severely.
Really, everything? So the cost of the media on which the games are distributed goes up? The costs of making a game cross platform and compatible with various hardware on a platform goes up? Nevermind how much it's getting outsourced.
Of course not. I keep hearing such claims of "rising developement costs" all the time, without much justification to go along with them.(although this is the first time I heard such a claim about wii games). It looks like nothing more than a big load of FUD to excuse squeezing consumers more.
What would we need all those buildings for? We could put a big telescope on the moon, but I can't think of much else that we could do there. Even tourism would be really hard to get off the ground, it would be even riskier than orbital tourism. Perhaps we could service and manufacture satelites, but that should be easier in orbit. We could start a new arms race...
I'm all in favor of putting the real costs up front. It's almost impossible to enforce a fee at disposal time. People will just find some other way to hide these things in the trash or dump them.
Exactly. And add a deposit fee to it so that people will make sure to dispose of it properly.
Really, why do articles like this even make it here?
Considering how rabidly defensive your post is, and that it was modded up right away, when the summary says nothing critical about the gates foundation or about this move, and if you're absolutely sure that it has to be against microsoft in one way or another, well then, it must be there to show how bad a persecution complex you microsoft fanboys have.
Stop being so defensive of microsoft, how are they being kept from competing?
Just why are you crying like this about microsoft not being forgiven? Is not being liked by some people some sort of draconian punishment? Nothing significant has been done about them so far, if a typical criminal evaded the law for a very long time, would you tell people that because it was so long ago they should all just forget about it?
No, all I'm saying is that it's a nice courtesy to let whoever has the most at stake battle it out first.
What's so shocking about such a scenario anyway? It comes to mind very easily since it's roughly what microsoft is trying to do to the ipod with the zune.
As was already menioned, different rules apply to monopolies, but if the same rules did apply, would you prefer it if apple was the one charged first, and if that was used as a precedent to limit microsoft's opportunity to fight the charge?
you mean the console that lost 4 billion, and took 40% of the console market from sony?
Xbox sold 24 million, while PS2 sold 110M and gamecube sold 21M. That's not 40% of the market. And since the PS1 only sold 100M units, I don't see how it can be said to have taken ANY of the market away from sony.
the console that, going into it's second generation
Then how would it be "getting it right the first time"?
the console that may very well be veiwed by historians as the biginning of the end for sony?
*confused* You mean the wii?
No, i'm speaking of the console which, if were really lucky, may be seen by historians as the beggining of the end of microsoft.
You must not be paying much attention to world events, or you'd be know that there would be a significant amount of comments along the lines of "Open source users slam military coups" as well.
I also try to avoid wasting money, but the hard drive's the one thing I do upgrade the most frequently. I've been lucky to have avoided the really noisy 7200 rpm ball bearing hard drives, but despite that I've replaced an 80 gig drive with a quieter 160 gig samsung P80, and then I've added a 160 gig V80 to that.
The original xbox lost $4 billion. Not sure about how the 360 division is doing overall, but AFAIK the consoles are losing something like $100 each.
I don't think bill gates has the authority to release windows for free, and even if he or a bunch of people at microsoft did, he/they would be lynched by shareholders for it.
So make it available in various ways. Make it available in an OCR resistant image, and for those that can't see the image include an alternate way of obtaining it.
But most people, who don't think that there's really anything wrong with throwing away computers in the first place, are indoctrinated to believe that piracy is a mortal sin.
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It was absurdly hard, and it had 20 hidden levels. Hardcore doesn't mean that it requires you to think, that's largely a function of what genre the game is.
Ahem... ever heard Super Mario 2? ie. the one released in Japan?
Wishful thinking. Artificial sweeteners are what we'll probably see much more of, since they're far cheeper due to only needing 200 times less aspartame or acesulfame potasium, 300 times less saccharin, 600 times less sucralose, or 30-50 times less cyclamate(but cyclamate is really cheap to produce AFAIK. Although it is banned in the US for now...)
Over in England, artificial sweeteners are already starting to be used in non-diet foods for this reason.
I think ethanol driving up the price of corn is a bad thing, it'll drive up the price of erythritol.
Okay, it doesn't do so completely yet, but I'm sure this'll get them to finish it up quick, so soon there'll be a good selection of aac players.
And it'll be more than 20% if all or almost all independant labels join in on this. Perhaps not so much in sales, but certainly in selection.Really? Do tell, what portion of itunes music is available in
After however times they've done this, the only way they could pull an april fools joke is by tricking people by not putting up any fake stories. Instead, post stories that sound fake but really aren't.
Or... post serious stories, but have all the links go to the wrong articles. Maybe have them all go to the same site, so that it gets slashdotted extra severely.
Really, everything? So the cost of the media on which the games are distributed goes up? The costs of making a game cross platform and compatible with various hardware on a platform goes up? Nevermind how much it's getting outsourced.
Of course not. I keep hearing such claims of "rising developement costs" all the time, without much justification to go along with them.(although this is the first time I heard such a claim about wii games). It looks like nothing more than a big load of FUD to excuse squeezing consumers more.
What would we need all those buildings for? We could put a big telescope on the moon, but I can't think of much else that we could do there. Even tourism would be really hard to get off the ground, it would be even riskier than orbital tourism. Perhaps we could service and manufacture satelites, but that should be easier in orbit. We could start a new arms race...
Exactly. And add a deposit fee to it so that people will make sure to dispose of it properly.
Stop being so defensive of microsoft, how are they being kept from competing?
Just why are you crying like this about microsoft not being forgiven? Is not being liked by some people some sort of draconian punishment? Nothing significant has been done about them so far, if a typical criminal evaded the law for a very long time, would you tell people that because it was so long ago they should all just forget about it?
No, all I'm saying is that it's a nice courtesy to let whoever has the most at stake battle it out first.
What's so shocking about such a scenario anyway? It comes to mind very easily since it's roughly what microsoft is trying to do to the ipod with the zune.
As was already menioned, different rules apply to monopolies, but if the same rules did apply, would you prefer it if apple was the one charged first, and if that was used as a precedent to limit microsoft's opportunity to fight the charge?
Italy already tried making the richest guy prime minister. I hear he's not very well regarded as a head of state.
Then how would it be "getting it right the first time"?
*confused* You mean the wii?
No, i'm speaking of the console which, if were really lucky, may be seen by historians as the beggining of the end of microsoft.
No, it's recursive. Haven't you ever wanted a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters?
What about the console that lost 4 billion?
You must not be paying much attention to world events, or you'd be know that there would be a significant amount of comments along the lines of "Open source users slam military coups" as well.
Simply disposed of? Didn't you at least harvest the magnets?
I also try to avoid wasting money, but the hard drive's the one thing I do upgrade the most frequently. I've been lucky to have avoided the really noisy 7200 rpm ball bearing hard drives, but despite that I've replaced an 80 gig drive with a quieter 160 gig samsung P80, and then I've added a 160 gig V80 to that.
The original xbox lost $4 billion. Not sure about how the 360 division is doing overall, but AFAIK the consoles are losing something like $100 each.
I don't think bill gates has the authority to release windows for free, and even if he or a bunch of people at microsoft did, he/they would be lynched by shareholders for it.
So make it available in various ways. Make it available in an OCR resistant image, and for those that can't see the image include an alternate way of obtaining it.
But most people, who don't think that there's really anything wrong with throwing away computers in the first place, are indoctrinated to believe that piracy is a mortal sin.