Inconsistent design is generally considered a bad thing.
For non-techies, switching operating systems is akin to learning a foreign language. You're lucky to get a typical Windows user to even try Linux or OS X long enough to become minimally proficient. Software like VMWare utterly baffles most people, and expecting them switch between OSes with different file structures and interface paradigms every time they start an app is an accident waiting to happen.
"Why can't program X see my USB stick?" "Why won't program Y print to my printer?" "Where did all my files go? I can't even find the C drive!" "Why isn't my headset working?" "Why do I need Windows Updates on my Mac?"...
Most companies would kill to get a 1/3 cut on every program sold.
Brick and mortar stores already do. As does Steam, as well as many other online services.
Thing is, most smaller developers would rather be coding than spending their lives dealing with processing/billing/installation/supply chain issues, so paying someone 30% off the top to handle all that is actually a good deal. Small developers selling cheap apps would probably lose most of that to credit card processing fees anyway. Big developers like Adobe and Autodesk do get a bit screwed, but I won't be losing any sleep over that.
I hear about 80% of the work in this HD transfer involves editing every shot with a display panel, sign, label or plaque to remove the easter eggs and in-jokes. So far, Mike Okuda has been burned in effigy three times.
It's nice to see proof that the accident was not really on the scale of Chenobyl. It released only around 5% of the radioactive material, and lacked the dangerous and long-lived heavier isotopes of Chernobyl. The one downside is the proximity to the ocean, which could hurt the local fishing industry and is expected to spawn 1.5–2 horrific monsters bent on destroying Tokyo.
Actually, the Blade has a weaker CPU than the MacBook Pro and only a slightly better GPU.
It's hardly a "gaming" notebook by today's standards; they compromised performance to get that sleek design. The trackpad display is interesting, but I can't imagine too many game developers will bother to support it. The custom buttons could be nice for MMOs, but all in all I can't really see why I'd want to spend hundreds more on this over a 17" MacBook Pro.
Still, if it's a quality machine on the inside, I wish them well. It's nice seeing companies break out of the race to the bottom and put out well-built hardware.
And in a data point sure to further damage techies' reputation for social skills
Wait, "techies" wouldn't be caught dead using a tablet. After all, they know notebooks have far more features and power and do everything so much better than silly tablets. Tablets are just for Apple cultists and hipsters following the latest fad! As soon as the novelty wears off, people will buy notebooks again... I know they will...
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A glorious synergy of snack food and glossy touchscreen devices.
Every time I see one of these mergers this comes to mind.
Well, that and the Looney Tunes cliche of two characters grabbing each other in mid-air before plummeting to the earth below.
Inconsistent design is generally considered a bad thing.
For non-techies, switching operating systems is akin to learning a foreign language. You're lucky to get a typical Windows user to even try Linux or OS X long enough to become minimally proficient. Software like VMWare utterly baffles most people, and expecting them switch between OSes with different file structures and interface paradigms every time they start an app is an accident waiting to happen.
"Why can't program X see my USB stick?" ...
"Why won't program Y print to my printer?"
"Where did all my files go? I can't even find the C drive!"
"Why isn't my headset working?"
"Why do I need Windows Updates on my Mac?"
Sorry, he was already murdered by an enraged Lobot
Haven't you heard? We're planning to save the economy by mining crystite ore from the planet Irata.
Having some understanding of the field, I'm normally pretty forgiving about the problems involved in getting robots to interact in the real world.
But in this case, I can't get this out of my head.
Or they sent a DeLorean and a flying DeLorean arrived.
I could never figure out why my antimatter chips always, er, failed after being implanted in living hosts.
Just-activated network that only works with a handful of just-released devices is surprisingly fast and uncongested. Film at eleven.
Most companies would kill to get a 1/3 cut on every program sold.
Brick and mortar stores already do. As does Steam, as well as many other online services.
Thing is, most smaller developers would rather be coding than spending their lives dealing with processing/billing/installation/supply chain issues, so paying someone 30% off the top to handle all that is actually a good deal. Small developers selling cheap apps would probably lose most of that to credit card processing fees anyway. Big developers like Adobe and Autodesk do get a bit screwed, but I won't be losing any sleep over that.
I hear about 80% of the work in this HD transfer involves editing every shot with a display panel, sign, label or plaque to remove the easter eggs and in-jokes. So far, Mike Okuda has been burned in effigy three times.
Nature is one of the oldest science journals.
It's nice to see proof that the accident was not really on the scale of Chenobyl. It released only around 5% of the radioactive material, and lacked the dangerous and long-lived heavier isotopes of Chernobyl. The one downside is the proximity to the ocean, which could hurt the local fishing industry and is expected to spawn 1.5–2 horrific monsters bent on destroying Tokyo.
In simple terms, it had its life sucked out by a machine and would take a miracle to come back now.
Well, I guess that self-defense class will finally pay off.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/14755/the-dick-van-dyke-show-i-am-my-brothers-keeper springs to mind, not to mention a fair number of other sitcoms and cartoons.
(Hulu, sorry for those outside the US).
Many parts of the bible lend credence to your theory that He runs out of lithium from time to time.
To be fair, phone cameras have become pretty decent, but a tripod or steadicam is as useful as ever, and operator skill is most important of all.
Actually, the Blade has a weaker CPU than the MacBook Pro and only a slightly better GPU.
It's hardly a "gaming" notebook by today's standards; they compromised performance to get that sleek design. The trackpad display is interesting, but I can't imagine too many game developers will bother to support it. The custom buttons could be nice for MMOs, but all in all I can't really see why I'd want to spend hundreds more on this over a 17" MacBook Pro.
Still, if it's a quality machine on the inside, I wish them well. It's nice seeing companies break out of the race to the bottom and put out well-built hardware.
er... does www count?
What, a bare-bones protocol for requesting documents written in a SGML ripoff? I really don't see what the big deal is.
...since about the time we started blaming disease on sin.
But with the tax money saved from these wasteful government programs, every American will be building rockets and satellites in their own back yard!
Don't think of it as gutting science and social programs—think of it as the beginning of modern conservatism's great leap forward.
And in a data point sure to further damage techies' reputation for social skills
Wait, "techies" wouldn't be caught dead using a tablet. After all, they know notebooks have far more features and power and do everything so much better than silly tablets. Tablets are just for Apple cultists and hipsters following the latest fad! As soon as the novelty wears off, people will buy notebooks again... I know they will...
(cradles my HP EliteBook and cries)
It took nearly 80 years for the first 1 million patents to issue in the U.S. This most recent 1 million patents took only about 5 years.
And the average population of the US from 1790 (when the first patent was issued) to 1870 was around 15 million. Now it's around 300 million.
So... For the USA's first 80 years, we had 1/16th the patent rate of today, but 1/20th the population.
Is this, then, a story about how patent rates are declining?
Well, then the free market would sort things out—and as a side benefit it would help the local arms industry.
http://www.videogamer.com/news/pc_gaming_markets_annual_revenue_is_11_billion.html