The US has a population of 300 million plus. The EU has a population of 500 million plus. (I don't have numbers for Canada, Mexico and South America.) It seems to be like the Japan numbers are pretty much a drop in the bucket-- they should be focusing their efforts on Europe and the US first (like they are), and Korea and Japan second.
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They're more or less stated that they're working as hard as they can on backwards compatibility. What they haven't stated is whether it will come standard, or be an extra... knowing the issue with nVidia patents, it'll likely be an extra piece of software, probably costing around $25-30. That's my guess, at least.
In any case, my Xbox is still in good condition, so it doesn't worry me for at least a few years. My buddy with a first-gen Xbox that's slowly falling apart will be more interested in compatibility.
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Oh, so since I'm excited about the Xbox 360 and looking forward to owning one, I must work for Microsoft and do "astroturfing?" Get a grip on reality, man. I don't have any issues with Microsoft as a company and I really like my Xbox 1. That doesn't mean I'm a paid shill, that means I tried out the system and I made up my own damn mind without being influenced by this typical Slashdot bullshit.
I'm sorry that I'm not thinking like a Slashdot drone, but I'm buying a Xbox 360 when they come out-- the idiocy in your post has practically guaranteed it.
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Why is Japanese support thought to be so critical for consoles? Just because they have controlled the marketplace since the mid-80s doesn't mean that there's some magical juice that makes Japanese games or hardware better than American ones. If anything, we should be supporting Microsoft for taking back the industry from overseas instead of declaring that they will fail because they don't have Japanese developer support.
A *real* MUDder would type "rec rec" and not the wasteful "recite recall."
Mudding isn't bad advice, but it's also not really a good example of the type of typing you'll need to do in real life. Most MUDs consist mostly of typing commands for attacking a MOB, and very little of actually talking to other players.
What you want to find is a MUD based around RP, in which you're typing to other players much more than you're giving commands to the environment. (Plug: The Eternal Struggle http://esmud.com/ is an excellent RP MUD.)
On the contrary, I think that if you learn typing "correctly," or if you learn it yourself without tutoring, the end-result is the exact same. The reason typing classes teach you to keep your fingers near the homerow is, whether you taught yourself or not, that's where your fingers will end up anyway when you try to go fast. The only reason variation, really, is what fingers you use to hit what letters... for instance, I always use my right thumb to hit space and my left pinky to hit shift, and I tend to use my left hand more than my right for keys in the middle of the keyboard.
Ah yes. It's always great to see a group of professional developers debate about the best way to perform good software practices on a web forum that basically hasn't been changed since 1998.
Hah, good one. Problem is typing HTML tags is a pain in the ass... if I could have just double-clicked the word and hit "Command-B" like any other application (or mail application) in OS X, I definately would have used it. Just goes to show why web-based interfaces will never beat out good GUI applications.
What does being poor have to do with anything? So if people are poor, they should be able to steal cars and gas to get to work? Or, and if people are poor, they should be able to shoplift from stores because, you know, they're so poor!
Seriously, what are you, a communist? Yeah, it's a pity that some people are poor, but our society in the US is pretty-well constructed.
And guess what? Our laws are fair, to both the rich and the poor. There are very few double-standards.
Person A has a terrible experience with ComCast so moves to Time-Warner. Person B has a terrible experience with Time-Warner and so moves to ComCast. What neither person realizes is that the odds of having a terrible experience is about the same on both services... they just had bad luck on one, and good luck on the second. But no company has 100% excellent customer service all the time.
What really bugs me is that these people, not realizing this, then go online and shout out, "don't sign up with DishNetwork! I had a bad experience!" (I guess it evens out with people who have a similar bad experience with DirectTV, but still.) Instead, they should be saving, "go with the company that has the features you want for the price you want."
What hardware are you using to get the video on the HD? I know there are some USB2 cards out there, but do you have a recommendation? Also what software PVR package are you using? I don't think I've seen any yet for OS X, but I remember hearing that MythTV kind of runs...
But to go into a little more detail... let's list some of the things in your post that are offensive:
1) The term "Noobs" 2) The fact that anybody who doesn't know how to "add two commands to the window manager" (Personally, I don't even know what that means!) is a moron. 3) The fact that MCE is better and easier (fact, buddy) is FUD. Is it spreading fear? Does it spread uncertainty? Does it spread doubt? No; it's simply better. I've used both, and I'll vouch for it personally.
A usability problem is a usability problem. If the remote is listed as "supported," then why should they have to do *anything* to get it to work? It should just work right away. Not wanting to install DeCSS to watch DVDs is a perfectly acceptable position to take-- news flash: It IS illegal! (If you don't like it, spend money for a license and purchase rights to decode DVDs on Linux.) Why do they have to run Gedit if they're using supported hardware?
It's not FUD if it's true. (It's also not FUD if it's a blatent lie-- the acronym seems to have lost the meaning it once had.)
If my memory serves, the problems that allowed the Blaster Worm and others to work were publically known for months and MS didn't do anything about them. That's where the condemnation of Microsoft comes from.
Microsoft had a patch for Code Red and Blaster available for 3 months or so before the attacks happened. You can't blame Microsoft if their users don't install the patches.
I'm constantly amazed there's no OS X viruses. Think about it, it's a large community of people with (generally) beefy hardware on fat Internet pipes who think they're absolutely immune from viruses (and therefore don't run any protection.) Imagine the botnet you could make with that!
Hah! And what about Apple's consumer-based point-and-click system that came out a full decade before Windows was usable? And how popular were those early Macintoshes?
I hate to break this to you, but your theory makes no sense. Obviously, the GUI didn't have a LOT to do with people buying PCs (with Microsoft DOS) for home computers.
Whoa, buddy, we're talking about Xbox. Are you entirely ignorant of Live?
Yeah, a lot of Xbox technology is evolutionary, like HDTV support. But a lot of it is also pretty damned innovative and new... it blew me away when I found out the Xbox was going to have a HD installed. And you'd have to be living in a closet to think that Live service isn't innovative.
(Sure, perhaps each PART of Live has been implemented before but not: 1) Across many, many games and 2) All in one package.)
I know you have to bash the Xbox because it's Microsoft, but I guarantee that if it was the Sega Xbox, people would be praising it.
Hah! My MacOS X build gets hung-up on Fark Photoshop threads all the time. I thought it was just me, or just on OS X... good to know that other people have the same problem.
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The US has a population of 300 million plus. The EU has a population of 500 million plus. (I don't have numbers for Canada, Mexico and South America.) It seems to be like the Japan numbers are pretty much a drop in the bucket-- they should be focusing their efforts on Europe and the US first (like they are), and Korea and Japan second.
They're more or less stated that they're working as hard as they can on backwards compatibility. What they haven't stated is whether it will come standard, or be an extra... knowing the issue with nVidia patents, it'll likely be an extra piece of software, probably costing around $25-30. That's my guess, at least.
In any case, my Xbox is still in good condition, so it doesn't worry me for at least a few years. My buddy with a first-gen Xbox that's slowly falling apart will be more interested in compatibility.
Oh, so since I'm excited about the Xbox 360 and looking forward to owning one, I must work for Microsoft and do "astroturfing?" Get a grip on reality, man. I don't have any issues with Microsoft as a company and I really like my Xbox 1. That doesn't mean I'm a paid shill, that means I tried out the system and I made up my own damn mind without being influenced by this typical Slashdot bullshit.
I'm sorry that I'm not thinking like a Slashdot drone, but I'm buying a Xbox 360 when they come out-- the idiocy in your post has practically guaranteed it.
Why is Japanese support thought to be so critical for consoles? Just because they have controlled the marketplace since the mid-80s doesn't mean that there's some magical juice that makes Japanese games or hardware better than American ones. If anything, we should be supporting Microsoft for taking back the industry from overseas instead of declaring that they will fail because they don't have Japanese developer support.
A *real* MUDder would type "rec rec" and not the wasteful "recite recall."
Mudding isn't bad advice, but it's also not really a good example of the type of typing you'll need to do in real life. Most MUDs consist mostly of typing commands for attacking a MOB, and very little of actually talking to other players.
What you want to find is a MUD based around RP, in which you're typing to other players much more than you're giving commands to the environment. (Plug: The Eternal Struggle http://esmud.com/ is an excellent RP MUD.)
On the contrary, I think that if you learn typing "correctly," or if you learn it yourself without tutoring, the end-result is the exact same. The reason typing classes teach you to keep your fingers near the homerow is, whether you taught yourself or not, that's where your fingers will end up anyway when you try to go fast. The only reason variation, really, is what fingers you use to hit what letters... for instance, I always use my right thumb to hit space and my left pinky to hit shift, and I tend to use my left hand more than my right for keys in the middle of the keyboard.
Ah yes. It's always great to see a group of professional developers debate about the best way to perform good software practices on a web forum that basically hasn't been changed since 1998.
It will be interesting to see how long before these new 2 GB accounts are inundated with spam.
It's good to see you're approaching this with an open mind. Criminy.
Hah, good one. Problem is typing HTML tags is a pain in the ass... if I could have just double-clicked the word and hit "Command-B" like any other application (or mail application) in OS X, I definately would have used it. Just goes to show why web-based interfaces will never beat out good GUI applications.
What does being poor have to do with anything? So if people are poor, they should be able to steal cars and gas to get to work? Or, and if people are poor, they should be able to shoplift from stores because, you know, they're so poor!
Seriously, what are you, a communist? Yeah, it's a pity that some people are poor, but our society in the US is pretty-well constructed.
And guess what? Our laws are fair, to both the rich and the poor. There are very few double-standards.
That always happens with big companies.
Person A has a terrible experience with ComCast so moves to Time-Warner. Person B has a terrible experience with Time-Warner and so moves to ComCast. What neither person realizes is that the odds of having a terrible experience is about the same on both services... they just had bad luck on one, and good luck on the second. But no company has 100% excellent customer service all the time.
What really bugs me is that these people, not realizing this, then go online and shout out, "don't sign up with DishNetwork! I had a bad experience!" (I guess it evens out with people who have a similar bad experience with DirectTV, but still.) Instead, they should be saving, "go with the company that has the features you want for the price you want."
That is correct. Join the 21st century where people actually *want* to boldface text in their email... amazing!
Hah! The NEA is a terrorist organization. Most repressive union ever.
What hardware are you using to get the video on the HD? I know there are some USB2 cards out there, but do you have a recommendation? Also what software PVR package are you using? I don't think I've seen any yet for OS X, but I remember hearing that MythTV kind of runs...
My initial response is "fuck you, asshole."
But to go into a little more detail... let's list some of the things in your post that are offensive:
1) The term "Noobs"
2) The fact that anybody who doesn't know how to "add two commands to the window manager" (Personally, I don't even know what that means!) is a moron.
3) The fact that MCE is better and easier (fact, buddy) is FUD. Is it spreading fear? Does it spread uncertainty? Does it spread doubt? No; it's simply better. I've used both, and I'll vouch for it personally.
A usability problem is a usability problem. If the remote is listed as "supported," then why should they have to do *anything* to get it to work? It should just work right away. Not wanting to install DeCSS to watch DVDs is a perfectly acceptable position to take-- news flash: It IS illegal! (If you don't like it, spend money for a license and purchase rights to decode DVDs on Linux.) Why do they have to run Gedit if they're using supported hardware?
It's not FUD if it's true. (It's also not FUD if it's a blatent lie-- the acronym seems to have lost the meaning it once had.)
If my memory serves, the problems that allowed the Blaster Worm and others to work were publically known for months and MS didn't do anything about them. That's where the condemnation of Microsoft comes from.
Microsoft had a patch for Code Red and Blaster available for 3 months or so before the attacks happened. You can't blame Microsoft if their users don't install the patches.
I'm constantly amazed there's no OS X viruses. Think about it, it's a large community of people with (generally) beefy hardware on fat Internet pipes who think they're absolutely immune from viruses (and therefore don't run any protection.) Imagine the botnet you could make with that!
Hah! And what about Apple's consumer-based point-and-click system that came out a full decade before Windows was usable? And how popular were those early Macintoshes?
I hate to break this to you, but your theory makes no sense. Obviously, the GUI didn't have a LOT to do with people buying PCs (with Microsoft DOS) for home computers.
Whoa, buddy, we're talking about Xbox. Are you entirely ignorant of Live?
Yeah, a lot of Xbox technology is evolutionary, like HDTV support. But a lot of it is also pretty damned innovative and new... it blew me away when I found out the Xbox was going to have a HD installed. And you'd have to be living in a closet to think that Live service isn't innovative.
(Sure, perhaps each PART of Live has been implemented before but not:
1) Across many, many games and
2) All in one package.)
I know you have to bash the Xbox because it's Microsoft, but I guarantee that if it was the Sega Xbox, people would be praising it.
haha, the best part is how it's moderated as "interesting!"
Har-de-har har har.
Hah! My MacOS X build gets hung-up on Fark Photoshop threads all the time. I thought it was just me, or just on OS X... good to know that other people have the same problem.
... but not $1200 DAMNED DOLLARS!
Holy shit those are expensive.
What do you mean "what happened to them?" They've only been around for like half a year, and they work great.
And we need more men in nursing. Seriously, I work at a hospital with a large staff, and it's pathetic how few men are willing to work as nurses.
For some reason, society just seems to naturally select certain genders for certain roles, even when the barriers to those roles are removed.