How did you get a Wii dev kit? Or are you just writing a web-based game and saying it runs "on Wii" because it has a browser?
The beauty of the Xbox is that any off-the-shelf PC can be used as a dev kit. (The *actual* dev kits have more features, of course, but the PC can do 90% of the work no problem.)
The $41k in CALs is cheaper than the additional $60k you'd have to pay to hire an experienced Linux admin instead of an ActiveDirectory admin. That's assuming you *could* find an experienced Linux admin in less than, say, six months of looking.
Don't forget you can mount Sharepoint pages/folders as network drives, and simply drag&drop files in and out of them like any other network folder. That's a *huge* feature, and there's no way you could replicate that with MediaWiki.
That game isn't on Xbox Live Arcade, it's on the XNA Community site. The Community site has absolutely NO filters for content, quality, etc... by design. There are shitty games on it, in other words. Games with poor graphics, games that don't work.
The theory is that you write your game (or a prototype of it), put it up on the Community site for a very low cost (not 400 pts like those guys) and get feedback on how well it plays, how popular it is, etc. Microsoft will supposedly cherry-pick the best of the Community site to include on actual Xbox Live Arcade.
It's not a perfect system, but it's loads better than anything the Wii or PS3 have.
When you consider the iPhone requires a Mac to develop for (minimum cost: $500ish), and that the vast majority of people wanting to develop video games almost certainly run Windows, XNA comes out as quite a bit more affordable.
Ideas such as freedom and liberty don't hold much weight here, as we never had to really struggle to get them.
That's completely and entirely wrong. The are thousands of rights that British should take great pride in, for example, the thought that slavery is unacceptable and almost single-handedly extinguishing it world-wide. (There are other things the British should be ashamed of, but, hey, that applies to every nation.)
Maybe the problem is that you're not being taught your own damned history.
I really doubt a magic bullet can exist for the many types of cellular damage that can occur in different body systems.
But wouldn't it be awesome if it did? "Wow, you barely survived that nuclear blast. Here, let me shoot you with a to repair the damage." You get nuked and shot on the same day, and come out healthy!
Not only do I leave mine open, but I actually changed the SSID to my address. (Probably unnecessary, since the antenna doesn't reach further than one house in either direction, but eh.) My neighbor, on the other hand, his unsecured network is called "linksys" and he probably doesn't intend for it to be unsecured. I've actually accidentally connected to it when my connection went down, used for it the better part of a day without noticing.
So why the hell does sleep and hibernate (apparently) work on Dells and Lenovos, but not HPs or Apples? (The laptops I've tried Ubuntu sleep on.) Is there some code that says "if( laptop.ownedBy( 'blakeyrat' ) ){ DontSleepRight(); }"?
But fine, I forgot everybody on Slashdot is a pedant: "yes, there exists at least one and possibly more laptops for which Ubuntu works perfectly." Happy?
The fact that Netscape sucked ass, crashed constantly, had nothing to do with it? IE won because it was a better product. The proof? IE won over Netscape on Macintosh as well, and Apple shipped both browsers on the install CD.
It's even more annoying seeing as Vista is TWO YEARS OLD at the point. I know that most Slashdotters are running XP and, frankly most Windows users in general are running XP. But if you're going to compare something to the current version of Windows, please realize that the current version is Vista-- and has been for some time. If you haven't used Vista, just don't bother.
The big loser is Oblivion, not because the engine is inferior or bad, but because it's named "Gamebryo." "Gamebryo." I could muse over this for a year and not come up with a worse name for a game engine.
Zune already has an app. Given, it's not cross-platform, but it would be goofy if Microsoft replaced their perfectly functional (and in fact quite good!) Zune app with a Silverlight app.
BTW, if you want to try the Zune app, you don't need to own the hardware. It runs approximately 50 times faster than iTunes, with the same featureset.
I mean, Zune (iPod), Bing (Google), this (Spottify)... Lagging behind the competition a little, are we?
You're missing something.
Until a couple of years ago, Microsoft didn't compete with the iPod, they didn't compete with Google (well... mostly), they didn't compete with Pandora or whatever, they didn't compete in console gaming.
This isn't Microsoft playing catch-up, this is Microsoft entering new markets they weren't in previously. Completely different scenario. So you're not really making any point, not any that's meaningful.
"A late-comer to the market is struggling to keep up with the established market" isn't news.
I gave up when I logged in after the last expansion and saw Tauren riding around in motorcycles. Ugh. (And it doesn't help that, as mentioned in many of the posts here, WOW is *really* starting to look like ass. Actually it was released looking bad, but now it's simply ridiculous.)
The capital P perplexes me. Is it possible to typo a correct capitalization? If it's not a typo, what does it mean? is "Microsoft Promised" a proper noun? But then how would the rest of the sentence work?
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How did you get a Wii dev kit? Or are you just writing a web-based game and saying it runs "on Wii" because it has a browser?
The beauty of the Xbox is that any off-the-shelf PC can be used as a dev kit. (The *actual* dev kits have more features, of course, but the PC can do 90% of the work no problem.)
The $41k in CALs is cheaper than the additional $60k you'd have to pay to hire an experienced Linux admin instead of an ActiveDirectory admin. That's assuming you *could* find an experienced Linux admin in less than, say, six months of looking.
Measure *all* the costs.
Yes, Microsoft is obviously the first company to think of this concept. Make sure you assign all blame to them and not, for example, to Google.
Don't forget you can mount Sharepoint pages/folders as network drives, and simply drag&drop files in and out of them like any other network folder. That's a *huge* feature, and there's no way you could replicate that with MediaWiki.
That game isn't on Xbox Live Arcade, it's on the XNA Community site. The Community site has absolutely NO filters for content, quality, etc... by design. There are shitty games on it, in other words. Games with poor graphics, games that don't work.
The theory is that you write your game (or a prototype of it), put it up on the Community site for a very low cost (not 400 pts like those guys) and get feedback on how well it plays, how popular it is, etc. Microsoft will supposedly cherry-pick the best of the Community site to include on actual Xbox Live Arcade.
It's not a perfect system, but it's loads better than anything the Wii or PS3 have.
When you consider the iPhone requires a Mac to develop for (minimum cost: $500ish), and that the vast majority of people wanting to develop video games almost certainly run Windows, XNA comes out as quite a bit more affordable.
Ideas such as freedom and liberty don't hold much weight here, as we never had to really struggle to get them.
That's completely and entirely wrong. The are thousands of rights that British should take great pride in, for example, the thought that slavery is unacceptable and almost single-handedly extinguishing it world-wide. (There are other things the British should be ashamed of, but, hey, that applies to every nation.)
Maybe the problem is that you're not being taught your own damned history.
This company also came up with a time machine. They can't tell you what materials it's made out of, though, because that's a trade secret.
Don't forget the human flesh some ghouls carry. +25 HP but only +2 radiation! SCORE!
I really doubt a magic bullet can exist for the many types of cellular damage that can occur in different body systems.
But wouldn't it be awesome if it did? "Wow, you barely survived that nuclear blast. Here, let me shoot you with a to repair the damage." You get nuked and shot on the same day, and come out healthy!
Ok? Good for you. I just said I keep it open on purpose.
Not only do I leave mine open, but I actually changed the SSID to my address. (Probably unnecessary, since the antenna doesn't reach further than one house in either direction, but eh.) My neighbor, on the other hand, his unsecured network is called "linksys" and he probably doesn't intend for it to be unsecured. I've actually accidentally connected to it when my connection went down, used for it the better part of a day without noticing.
So why the hell does sleep and hibernate (apparently) work on Dells and Lenovos, but not HPs or Apples? (The laptops I've tried Ubuntu sleep on.) Is there some code that says "if( laptop.ownedBy( 'blakeyrat' ) ){ DontSleepRight(); }"?
Google's Open-Source Chromium project announced a new compression technique called Courgette geared towards distributing really small updates today.
Better hurry! It won't work tomorrow!
That wasn't on the list.
But fine, I forgot everybody on Slashdot is a pedant: "yes, there exists at least one and possibly more laptops for which Ubuntu works perfectly." Happy?
The fact that Netscape sucked ass, crashed constantly, had nothing to do with it? IE won because it was a better product. The proof? IE won over Netscape on Macintosh as well, and Apple shipped both browsers on the install CD.
And sleep mode worked on all the laptops on that list? And the built in webcam?
I'm not calling bullshit on you yet, but I've never seen a laptop install of Ubuntu where sleep mode worked bug free.
It's even more annoying seeing as Vista is TWO YEARS OLD at the point. I know that most Slashdotters are running XP and, frankly most Windows users in general are running XP. But if you're going to compare something to the current version of Windows, please realize that the current version is Vista-- and has been for some time. If you haven't used Vista, just don't bother.
The big loser is Oblivion, not because the engine is inferior or bad, but because it's named "Gamebryo." "Gamebryo." I could muse over this for a year and not come up with a worse name for a game engine.
Zune already has an app. Given, it's not cross-platform, but it would be goofy if Microsoft replaced their perfectly functional (and in fact quite good!) Zune app with a Silverlight app.
BTW, if you want to try the Zune app, you don't need to own the hardware. It runs approximately 50 times faster than iTunes, with the same featureset.
I mean, Zune (iPod), Bing (Google), this (Spottify)... Lagging behind the competition a little, are we?
You're missing something.
Until a couple of years ago, Microsoft didn't compete with the iPod, they didn't compete with Google (well... mostly), they didn't compete with Pandora or whatever, they didn't compete in console gaming.
This isn't Microsoft playing catch-up, this is Microsoft entering new markets they weren't in previously. Completely different scenario. So you're not really making any point, not any that's meaningful.
"A late-comer to the market is struggling to keep up with the established market" isn't news.
I gave up when I logged in after the last expansion and saw Tauren riding around in motorcycles. Ugh. (And it doesn't help that, as mentioned in many of the posts here, WOW is *really* starting to look like ass. Actually it was released looking bad, but now it's simply ridiculous.)
I think the news is that 40% of companies *do* have plans to deploy Windows 7. That's huge... that should be read as a huge success for Microsoft.
The capital P perplexes me. Is it possible to typo a correct capitalization? If it's not a typo, what does it mean? is "Microsoft Promised" a proper noun? But then how would the rest of the sentence work?
Everybody else thought the reference was too obvious, and didn't want to be the dork thinking he was being all clever by posting it.