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by vectorpush 15y ago
> It demonstrates a large amount of hubris to even think it should be. So what? It's this same hubris which bucks against the biological directive to impregnate every fertile female that enters your field of vision. Since when do human
722.
by vectorpush 15y ago
I've used 1and1.com for years and they are almost always cheaper than godaddy.
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by vectorpush 15y ago
People would just skip the ads.
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by vectorpush 15y ago
Steve Jobs is a great man, but isn't this a little much?
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by vectorpush 15y ago
Find a place on the internet where discussion of Apple doesn't erupt into controversy. I also disagree with the sentiment that something needs to be done to fix civility on HN. This entire meta-discussion is a self correcting mechanism in a
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by vectorpush 15y ago
Agreed. I would expect that a community like HN would be a little bit more impervious to marketing, but I guess that is just further testament to the legend of Steve Jobs.
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by vectorpush 15y ago
I'm not so sure. To make an impact it would have to be a very popular IP designed with OnLive's stack in mind coupled with platform exclusivity (at least at launch). The problem I see for OnLive is that their target demographic (gamers who
728.
by vectorpush 15y ago
GameStop's lack of scruples: not surprising. GameStop fears OnLive as a substantial threat: a little surprising. Internet speeds for the majority of Americans are just way too slow for OnLive to be viable.
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by vectorpush 15y ago
you don't think history in any way resembles itself. I wouldn't go that far, but I think in this case, the markets are so radically different that it's difficult to take a lot of meaning from the comparisons. So far, the non-IOS tablets a
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by vectorpush 15y ago
You can write games for iPhone, therefore it is a gaming platform. A valid point, and I think when you're talking about today's hand-held gaming devices vs today's mobile phones, you've got a meaningful comparison because the consumer can
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by vectorpush 15y ago
I don't see the meaning in a graph comparing tablets from 8 months ago to game consoles from 20 years ago.
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by vectorpush 15y ago
I was being sarcastic when I said that adding iPad sales to the graph would make it meaningful since a comparison of 2 to 30 doesn't require a graph for digestion. The point of the graph is "these tablets don't sell for shit, here, compare
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by vectorpush 15y ago
I am confused... the point is made more clear by comparing game consoles to phones? How? Not to mention you're comparing 4 iterations of the iPhone to arbitrary console life cycles. If we're talking about pure numbers here, there are more s
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by vectorpush 15y ago
I think the point of the comparison is basically: here's a bunch of console you probably never heard about. They flopped. That's exactly my point. "Here's a bunch of [insert failed consumer electronic] you've never heard of without regard
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by vectorpush 15y ago
My point was that the sale of tablets vs "obscure" gaming consoles is a meaningless comparison.
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by vectorpush 15y ago
I didn’t include the iPad’s approximately 30 million units on here because it distorted the graph’s scale too much. Too bad, seems to me like this graph is meaningless otherwise. The comparison is completely arbitrary.
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by vectorpush 15y ago
I don't think we're dealing with a bubble, at least not the bubble we've come to associate with epic disaster. Of course, there is hype aplenty, and instances like the Groupon IPO have shown that startup mania is becoming a bit overzealous,
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by vectorpush 15y ago
Can someone explain to me why Microsoft doesn't embrace Mono (or at least its ideal) outright? It seems to me like a stable and well supported multiplatform C# could establish a long lasting .NET hegemony across the industry. Appears to be
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by vectorpush 15y ago
Well, for some people Scala means just too much incidental complexity for too little power gains, and are trying to find different balance on complexity/power scale by inventing different languages. I can't see what's wrong with that. Exa
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by vectorpush 15y ago
The real problem with the iPhone home button is that it requires a metric ton of force to register the depression.
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by vectorpush 15y ago
I am interested in the details regarding how the AI was able to map the manual to the game controls.
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by vectorpush 15y ago
In terms of justice, 18 years is kind of steep, but on a visceral level I just can't feel bad for a guy who tried to frame someone as a child pornographer. You're dunzo buddy.
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by vectorpush 15y ago
The site is a lot of fun, but I suspect there is a major novelty effect in play here. Once the excitement of being a DJ wanes, many individuals will prefer sites that grant them more granular control of their playlist, especially once copyr