On one hand they have the PC gaming market they need to support; On the other hand the more they move to console the more they make money and Vice Versa. Though with Vista's new Xbox live connection feature allowing Xbox 360 owners and PC owners to play each other. It sort of bridges the gap.
But they did it to themselves.
Nah, I'm using those buzzwords to create the idea of what it could be like. Think about it. If you put people in a place and make them comftorable enough to talk to one another they will. As to what will happen is really anyones guess. But I'd like to think that many a great connection would be made allowing for more tech jobs to be filled.
I'm curious as to why Dell just doesn't sell high quality high end machines with Linux on them. Most linux distro's support med to high end equipment in machines. So why not just do those instead. The price would be similar to an equally configured windows machine sure. But you would have less failure rates. Essentially making high quality linux machines for mainstream rather than the current trend of pc box makers to make cheap linux machines which mainstream users see as a cheap machine and find out that its really out of thier league.
Who says they have to give out the ideas. Many times you can be talking about a concept or parts of an idea with someone and they can use thier experience to help you get past troubles in the proccess sometimes you can be talking about one idea already patented and come up with another to improve it. Most of these guys are not really money hogs they are people who just want to achieve the next thing on thier minds. Its not like intel, google, qualcomm all patent the same things but they do work with similar ideas. Say google IT department guy sitting next to the intel guy on the bus telling him I wish we had processors that fit this specific need. What if that intel engineer worked on a proccessor previously that already fit that specific need but didn't produce it because it didn't fit needs xyz for everyone else. Information gets passed on Intel makes a move and makes a proccessor that fits a specific need of googles and they order 10,000 of them for thier servers. Something casual such as that can easily lead to deals between companies for products each needs.
It just creates more cooperation and innovation among both companies. Thus, I say keep the execs and managers out of it because they ruin the whole thought process with control.
What is funnier is that all said employees who got fired would go start another company. Especially since they would probably be the prima donna's. Freedom promotes innovation. Fear promotes revolution. Take your pick which would you rather have. I think you should just outlaw any executives and managers from the bus. So you can keep the people who do most of the innovation on the bus together bouncing ideas off each other.
Just think of the engineering discussions and the kinds of networking that would go on if they shared the transportation system. Intel employees could bounce ideas off of google ones creating a rather good synergy for building up servers, etc.. Really I don't know what company wouldn't want thier employees on that bus especially if google was a potential customer for them.
Technically with inflation games should be hovering around 100 bucks a game or more. So the fact they're only 40-60 bucks now tells you that yes indeed it already has cut the costs.
I was thinking this subject should be more advertising in your next game. Xbox certainly isn't the first do this. I recall similar efforts in earlier games from other vendors and even on PC titles. I fully expect that as the costs of making games go up so do the revenues. If someone is willing to pay money to put an ad in the game I'd normally expect to see there anyways then fine. Just don't go subliminal about it and put goodyear on anything other than the blimp in the sky.
Apple with its ever increasing popularity is going through some growing pains. Dell, HP, IBM, and lenovo are rather large companies. They have a support structure thats geared worldwide to be quick and responsive to the needs of thier clients of which 60 percent of thier profits come from. They have more volume and more easily available parts to support it. Making contracts to be no more than 24 hours of downtime isn't impossible with them. However, Apple despite thier current size and brand recongition isn't large enough to adequatly cover the needs of mission critical businesses yet. Every tech in the world can fix a PC pretty quick as problems are common among parts and usually parts needed are on the shelf somewhere accessible within hours Vs Apple which has a centralised system of parts which may or may not be on backorder at the time of repair. Thus, its not a far stretch to argue that it would be very benefitial if Apple where to decisively license out thier OS. With restrictions on certain throughly tested high quality parts only would ease any reliability problems they might have. Dell, HP, IBM doing this would make them a killing. They could even create thier own Apple certified logo selling it only to parts suppliers who meet spec and pay in. Sure, it keeps the price higher; but so long as Apple keeps the quality high do you think the mainstream is going to care much about the price if the downtime and support cost is half of the cheaper windows machine?
Really?? Think about it. Look on wikipedia and you see. The last version of wordperfect for Mac was made in 1997 with 3.5e oddly enough the same time the last version was made for Dos. Corel realised it and they knew. If Microsoft hadn't continued making it for Mac. Corel would have moved in and built up a strong alliance with Mac users quickly as a replacement. Lawyers, Schools, Art shops, Kinkos, and many other copy shops around the country were already pretty heavy on Mac side using it to make a large number of comercial products. Microsoft would have lost a lot to an emerging market of customers that just found something else nearly as good if not better. Wordperfect was definatly better than Word at the time. The advantage Microsoft had was Office and easy integration of products in one package that no one else had. Corel came out with a package a little later than them. But it was too late; The Microsoft Marketing machine had momentum especially with thier giveaway of Office 2000 Premium to the RSP(Retail Sales People). This is really what changed the market for them.
I've done some consulting for them already.:-D Back in the day, with thier connected products division. It's a good thing they killed it because that market got crowded quick. Nowdays, it is pretty much taken over by Microsoft and Logitech owning about 80 percent of the connected point product sales out of retail.
I have all my emails dating back to like 1998 on my computer and backed up to 3 different hard drives out of which 1 gets replaced every 2 years. I have it organised by person even. I've yet to have a drive fail on my email computer but I don't want it happening anytime soon. I do delete all spam on a semi monthly basis. Sure my file is large but its handy when looking for old programs or emails that need finding for information thats been lost in the corporate structure. It scares my boss a little in that I have every single email we've ever exchanged for the last 6-7 years. But then again I don't work for a fourtune 500 company.
"Back to black we say. Its the new motivation for companies everywhere give thier employees that floating in corporate nothingness feeling. "Oh wait, did't we already do that?"
I echo that correction. Retailers are seeing very consistent sales, few trade ins and lots of good reviews. It should be good enough to hold us all over till next month when ultrablowmeup 6.5342 comes out next month. Its Odd that in Germany they'd think I was a freak about to go postal for playing these games but love me for helping out in a homeless shelter from time to time and being a half time volunteer at my church. All things in moderation I say.
Think of what would have happened had microsoft cut funding for the mac office?
Most likely Apple would have made thier own version of office probably heavily embracing Wordperfect. Thus, creating an entire market outside of MSFT control and what if Wordperfect got a good foothold in the mac side then you'd see many clients having to support it on the PC side as well thus increasing the market on PC side. Thats the side that was thought out in the boardroom, coffeetable discussions that we never hear about.
The idea of cutting off mac. Was simply at the time an idea. It only got as far as slow updates to mac office. But look at the upside. The last version of macoffice is pretty much similar to the current version of office. So you get the new ideas, new features, ahead of the PC guys.
So I think Microsoft played thier cards quite well for the time. Otherwise they would have assured the destruction of one of thier own core markets.
I'm thinking that once they explain out(dumb out) the details for the more mainstream users so they can make more of thier own designs and ideas to tweak for individual perspectives. This book will be heralded as the first of this generation. In tweaking and customizations.
Crackdown among the retailers has recieved a rather good following. Good reviews from players, few trade ins, and an increasing speed in sales after launch. The Halo 3 beta is Icing on the cake for many of these players.
While technically it may be easier to buy votes. I doubt it's going to be easy to do. Any cash involved transaction isn't garruanteed. Any record for record transaction is easy enough to figure out by a good fraud investigator. Plus, the scale that one would have to work on in order to achieve a sizeable change in vote would have to be in the thousands. Therefore also increasing the ability for it to be tracked.
I wouldn't blame them. They tried to make something cheap and simple to use like the current systems with easy interactivity. But costs with anything related to the security of a vote will always be high. The only way I see that we could really secure every vote is to send out worm drive usb sticks for voters to just walk up and plug into thier voting office. This way once the vote is entered it cannot be changed. Only read or erased. This would also allow people to vote in the safety of thier own homes with access to far more research at the same time with the power of the internet. This would also make recounts easier.
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I've always been kinda curious as to what this dark matter is. Maybe the Nuetrino research will shed some light on this issue.
So long as they don't create a black hole somewhere. :)
On one hand they have the PC gaming market they need to support; On the other hand the more they move to console the more they make money and Vice Versa. Though with Vista's new Xbox live connection feature allowing Xbox 360 owners and PC owners to play each other. It sort of bridges the gap. But they did it to themselves.
Nah, I'm using those buzzwords to create the idea of what it could be like. Think about it. If you put people in a place and make them comftorable enough to talk to one another they will. As to what will happen is really anyones guess. But I'd like to think that many a great connection would be made allowing for more tech jobs to be filled.
I'm curious as to why Dell just doesn't sell high quality high end machines with Linux on them. Most linux distro's support med to high end equipment in machines. So why not just do those instead. The price would be similar to an equally configured windows machine sure. But you would have less failure rates. Essentially making high quality linux machines for mainstream rather than the current trend of pc box makers to make cheap linux machines which mainstream users see as a cheap machine and find out that its really out of thier league.
Who says they have to give out the ideas. Many times you can be talking about a concept or parts of an idea with someone and they can use thier experience to help you get past troubles in the proccess sometimes you can be talking about one idea already patented and come up with another to improve it. Most of these guys are not really money hogs they are people who just want to achieve the next thing on thier minds. Its not like intel, google, qualcomm all patent the same things but they do work with similar ideas. Say google IT department guy sitting next to the intel guy on the bus telling him I wish we had processors that fit this specific need. What if that intel engineer worked on a proccessor previously that already fit that specific need but didn't produce it because it didn't fit needs xyz for everyone else. Information gets passed on Intel makes a move and makes a proccessor that fits a specific need of googles and they order 10,000 of them for thier servers. Something casual such as that can easily lead to deals between companies for products each needs. It just creates more cooperation and innovation among both companies. Thus, I say keep the execs and managers out of it because they ruin the whole thought process with control.
What is funnier is that all said employees who got fired would go start another company. Especially since they would probably be the prima donna's. Freedom promotes innovation. Fear promotes revolution. Take your pick which would you rather have. I think you should just outlaw any executives and managers from the bus. So you can keep the people who do most of the innovation on the bus together bouncing ideas off each other.
Just think of the engineering discussions and the kinds of networking that would go on if they shared the transportation system. Intel employees could bounce ideas off of google ones creating a rather good synergy for building up servers, etc.. Really I don't know what company wouldn't want thier employees on that bus especially if google was a potential customer for them.
Technically with inflation games should be hovering around 100 bucks a game or more. So the fact they're only 40-60 bucks now tells you that yes indeed it already has cut the costs.
I was thinking this subject should be more advertising in your next game. Xbox certainly isn't the first do this. I recall similar efforts in earlier games from other vendors and even on PC titles. I fully expect that as the costs of making games go up so do the revenues. If someone is willing to pay money to put an ad in the game I'd normally expect to see there anyways then fine. Just don't go subliminal about it and put goodyear on anything other than the blimp in the sky.
So buying one when they come out. I really don't care what the cost. I've been wanting one of these for years to play my games.
Apple with its ever increasing popularity is going through some growing pains. Dell, HP, IBM, and lenovo are rather large companies. They have a support structure thats geared worldwide to be quick and responsive to the needs of thier clients of which 60 percent of thier profits come from. They have more volume and more easily available parts to support it. Making contracts to be no more than 24 hours of downtime isn't impossible with them. However, Apple despite thier current size and brand recongition isn't large enough to adequatly cover the needs of mission critical businesses yet. Every tech in the world can fix a PC pretty quick as problems are common among parts and usually parts needed are on the shelf somewhere accessible within hours Vs Apple which has a centralised system of parts which may or may not be on backorder at the time of repair. Thus, its not a far stretch to argue that it would be very benefitial if Apple where to decisively license out thier OS. With restrictions on certain throughly tested high quality parts only would ease any reliability problems they might have. Dell, HP, IBM doing this would make them a killing. They could even create thier own Apple certified logo selling it only to parts suppliers who meet spec and pay in. Sure, it keeps the price higher; but so long as Apple keeps the quality high do you think the mainstream is going to care much about the price if the downtime and support cost is half of the cheaper windows machine?
Really?? Think about it. Look on wikipedia and you see. The last version of wordperfect for Mac was made in 1997 with 3.5e oddly enough the same time the last version was made for Dos. Corel realised it and they knew. If Microsoft hadn't continued making it for Mac. Corel would have moved in and built up a strong alliance with Mac users quickly as a replacement. Lawyers, Schools, Art shops, Kinkos, and many other copy shops around the country were already pretty heavy on Mac side using it to make a large number of comercial products. Microsoft would have lost a lot to an emerging market of customers that just found something else nearly as good if not better. Wordperfect was definatly better than Word at the time. The advantage Microsoft had was Office and easy integration of products in one package that no one else had. Corel came out with a package a little later than them. But it was too late; The Microsoft Marketing machine had momentum especially with thier giveaway of Office 2000 Premium to the RSP(Retail Sales People). This is really what changed the market for them.
I've done some consulting for them already. :-D Back in the day, with thier connected products division. It's a good thing they killed it because that market got crowded quick. Nowdays, it is pretty much taken over by Microsoft and Logitech owning about 80 percent of the connected point product sales out of retail.
Considering my email file is over a gig. Yea, that would kinda suck. but hard drive storage is actually kinda cheap.
I have all my emails dating back to like 1998 on my computer and backed up to 3 different hard drives out of which 1 gets replaced every 2 years. I have it organised by person even. I've yet to have a drive fail on my email computer but I don't want it happening anytime soon. I do delete all spam on a semi monthly basis. Sure my file is large but its handy when looking for old programs or emails that need finding for information thats been lost in the corporate structure. It scares my boss a little in that I have every single email we've ever exchanged for the last 6-7 years. But then again I don't work for a fourtune 500 company.
I think its kinda off. No channel field representative I know makes 50k a year. Probably why they all drive beater cars.
"Back to black we say. Its the new motivation for companies everywhere give thier employees that floating in corporate nothingness feeling. "Oh wait, did't we already do that?"
I echo that correction. Retailers are seeing very consistent sales, few trade ins and lots of good reviews. It should be good enough to hold us all over till next month when ultrablowmeup 6.5342 comes out next month. Its Odd that in Germany they'd think I was a freak about to go postal for playing these games but love me for helping out in a homeless shelter from time to time and being a half time volunteer at my church. All things in moderation I say.
Think of what would have happened had microsoft cut funding for the mac office? Most likely Apple would have made thier own version of office probably heavily embracing Wordperfect. Thus, creating an entire market outside of MSFT control and what if Wordperfect got a good foothold in the mac side then you'd see many clients having to support it on the PC side as well thus increasing the market on PC side. Thats the side that was thought out in the boardroom, coffeetable discussions that we never hear about. The idea of cutting off mac. Was simply at the time an idea. It only got as far as slow updates to mac office. But look at the upside. The last version of macoffice is pretty much similar to the current version of office. So you get the new ideas, new features, ahead of the PC guys. So I think Microsoft played thier cards quite well for the time. Otherwise they would have assured the destruction of one of thier own core markets.
I'm thinking that once they explain out(dumb out) the details for the more mainstream users so they can make more of thier own designs and ideas to tweak for individual perspectives. This book will be heralded as the first of this generation. In tweaking and customizations.
Crackdown among the retailers has recieved a rather good following. Good reviews from players, few trade ins, and an increasing speed in sales after launch. The Halo 3 beta is Icing on the cake for many of these players.
While technically it may be easier to buy votes. I doubt it's going to be easy to do. Any cash involved transaction isn't garruanteed. Any record for record transaction is easy enough to figure out by a good fraud investigator. Plus, the scale that one would have to work on in order to achieve a sizeable change in vote would have to be in the thousands. Therefore also increasing the ability for it to be tracked.
I wouldn't blame them. They tried to make something cheap and simple to use like the current systems with easy interactivity. But costs with anything related to the security of a vote will always be high. The only way I see that we could really secure every vote is to send out worm drive usb sticks for voters to just walk up and plug into thier voting office. This way once the vote is entered it cannot be changed. Only read or erased. This would also allow people to vote in the safety of thier own homes with access to far more research at the same time with the power of the internet. This would also make recounts easier.
Am first to post... In an Applesky sort of way.