If Google pushed hard enough, Mozilla would listen.
Firefox is not blocking Google's ads; those that want to will use the hosts file. It only blocks annoying flash ads. So Mozilla is not depriving Google of money.
Google only wants you to use their search engine and web apps, for whatever sick and twisted reasons you could dream up. They make their money through ads (you become their product) and their ads are text. So if Chrome isn't too hot, it's okay, Mozilla still is, and Mozilla 3 Google.
The improvements in the form of V8 and the Gears engine helps everyone. If they can push it on Firefox, again, it means Google's aps are now spead up; more hits, more users, quicker for the end user so more popular. I really do believe Chrome is just trying to show browser developpers how some bored people at Google see browsers, and just want to help push things forward.
Think about it; V8, Qt, and WebKit. And there's a brand new web browser, and it works great with Google.
The nice thing about current GPU/CPU tech is that a Athlon X2 2.6GHz with an 8800GT/HD4850 is considered baseline by Ars, and can play games at 1680x1050 comfortably. That's pretty incredible.
Considering Intel only puts it on some chips, it's the only thing that makes me consider AMD right now.
That and the fact that 45nm Phenoms are coming to AM2+, so an AM2 board is not as "useless" as an LGA775... Sure, the LGA775 will get newer 45nm CPUs, and likely a few 32nm ones (or updated 45nm while the Nehalems are fixed up), but I feel you get better flexibility with AMD right now if you don't mind losing out a bit in gaming performance. Quads are also cheap when it's AMD. I'm just waiting for a 90W or 65W quad, and I'll buy one then.
What would be nice is more honest numbers, though. From what I hear the new CPUs (including X2-4850e) from AMD have messed up TDP; like Intel's old "meh this much I guess" measurements, nothing like the new Core 2 mesurements of "Danger! Danger! This shit's gonna blow!"...
But virtualisation takes the cake. I don't get a hit with AMD's CPUs, having Pacifica in all the chips.
You can also have video over USB. It might take two USB ports (one for video, other for charging or other data) and it would be limited to 640x480 or around there, but it can be done. You could use FireWire, too; it's very fast, and having added firewire might have given the poor thing a chance at life.
And get whom to make the models, textures, maps, and audio? And then get whom to pitch the playable prototype to publishers?
You and friends?
People who have submitted their works as free artwork or whose copyrights have expired? Pay someone for them? Here's a fun idea, if I like a band's music, couldn't I help them get some recognition by paying them for songs to put in my game/project?
Of course your work will never be as good as a specialist. Then again, what the hell was expected? Did people like Valve look at the Portal concept and say "eww those models look like shit, next"?
"Game schools" are a joke. I wouldn't mind a class focusing on the developpement of a game (ie how to manage the whole process, not actually making them) but seriously specialising in a field where things change quickly enough (more if you're into consoles; I'm just talking SDK-wise here) and where the concepts can be figured out by yourself (how many of us did minigames at some point?).
University/college is not always the answer. You're wasting time in a class instead of being out on the field working, and you'll get less respect for that wasted time. (Can you show you're able to hold a job if all you've been doing could have been partying while following a joke of a program?)
People want XP on these. Microsoft will only sell them it if it has a screen smaller than 1280x768 (I think that was the requirement... maybe 1024x768), with 1GB of RAM or less, and a single-core 1.6GHz CPU.
So until some OEM gets their shit in gear and gives the gorilla a swift kick to the balls we're not getting better netbooks.
I loved the netbook concept. Microsoft killed it already. It's over guys.
AMD realises this. They're going to make cheap light notebooks. So what if Vista/Win7 is preloaded on it? It can run it so the clueless won't care, the more informed will put XP/Linux/w.e, and everyone goes home happy with a low-power, low-cost, good-to-high-performance AMD64 CPU and hopefully some crazy Radeon card, in a slim 13" package for 500$-600$.
Alternatively, we should be looking at a super-sized nVidia Tegra. Think Tegra with 8 or 16 cores, half of them GeForcen, the other half typical CPUs. Or VIA Nano + nVidia GeForce (although it's a totally badass platform, being x86 means it can be poisoned). Or Sun Niagara. If Sun could just get its act together, they could sell a 4-core UltraSPARC (T1 or T2, whichever works best) that hopefully would be running in the tens/low-20s W maximum power range for the entire package and an SSD, with a 10"-13" screen.
HP at least is showing some balls. It's still an Atom but the new HP netbooks (they are not the mininote/2133. it is a crime against those godly netbooks to call the new ones that.) have like 2GB of RAM, 8GB SSDs, ship with Linux, sell for 379$ USD. I'm wondering if they have a Nano/GeForce combo set for the near future in the 2133's case.
LEGO doesn't need much in terms of ressources, so being in Danemark gives them a lot of good press, steady oil from Norway, possibly tax cuts, is pretty much seen as one of those cool Danish things, so I can't see them going off to the People's Republic either (nor to Taiwan).
The plastic is high-quality. I've always noticed that; MegaBlocks are weaker and thiner, whereas the LEGO bricks feel better. It's worth the extra pennies/brick.
Why didn't the Chinese and Indians show us they're capable, intelligent, and ressourceful nations by leapfrogging ahead of NA/Europe, and implement the stuff we've been dreaming about?
I know it's a lot of work but why exactly didn't they take the time?
Laziness. And you really think this will change if the americans shove it down our throats?
(TBH: "global warming" may or may not be real, all things considered, but too much of anything is a dangerous thing. So let's kick the oil habit before the Tar Sands are all the rage.)
Then what if, say, Maxis posts their budget for this game is 15 million USD (and has another source audit them to make sure it isn't all just business expenses, but reasonable costs like paying the people working on it, and a bit to go towards things like the physical devices they used)). Well, if Maxis makes ~20 million USD (a bit of profit; costs to EA would have been covered in the other number) during the span of 5 years, the source code should be passed on to another group to maintain.
If they couldn't raise the money, then the game just keeps being sold by whoever until it makes back its money, if it can. When the game is passed on to the other group, after those ~5 years to get the money, they can continue to release patches/updates, and it's released as either open source (obviously with commercial distribution restriction, knowing game companies). The binaries would also hopefully be released.
50$ will not cover the costs to make a game, but hopefully together we can do it.
But that's Germany, and it's France with the history of strong industrial espionnage (both in terms of capabilities and in terms of actually doing it).
Oh, it's worth it. Stay the hell off my land, please.
Look at a map and tell me with a straight face we can't claim the arctic as our own... Look at places like Grise Fiord; you're right there, about a few hours off from the actual north pole, and guess what? It's a small inuit community! (albeit not the prettiest one, but still)
It's an issue of we don't want international ships crossing and killing the region (enviromentally) in the name of profit, spitting in our face. Oil will be the least of our concerns.
Or they roll your eyes at you and put their iPod headphones back in -- they won't have to worry about security with Web 2.0.
That sounds like home...
It's really not just Australia. I think it's just that, because Australia is sadly not a big content producer, nobody wants to link up to it, and nobody wants to produce content there because no big names are there, because nobody wants to link up to it, etc.
Ignorance about computers (even the basic of security, as in, "be careful") is widespread no matter where you are; but I think it only changes based on how many "geeks" (um, EXPERT INTERNETS? the slashdot crowd...) you've got around.
It would come preinstalled, it's just that the requirements by the anti-trust ruling were to stop the forced integration of IE on the code level... As in IE needs to be removable.
rich people buy lots of shit so they'll pay a lot.
The problem is, "you kill businesses!11!!"
I don't think there is a reasonable solution. Drop the taxes and sure you get plenty of companies, but you might make less, and tax havens are always out there. Increase taxes, and well, you fuck over the SMB based locally, and you fuck over any chance of multinationals coming over. And some companies buy a lot but barely scrape by profit-wise; what do you do for them?
Neither candidate had a good policy. Neither did any of our candidates. They're all full of shit.
Heh, I'm no racist. But electing a man and pointing out he's of a certain race is not equality. Maybe it's not the kind of equality you were looking for, but what did you expect?
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If Google pushed hard enough, Mozilla would listen.
Firefox is not blocking Google's ads; those that want to will use the hosts file. It only blocks annoying flash ads. So Mozilla is not depriving Google of money.
Google only wants you to use their search engine and web apps, for whatever sick and twisted reasons you could dream up. They make their money through ads (you become their product) and their ads are text. So if Chrome isn't too hot, it's okay, Mozilla still is, and Mozilla 3 Google.
The improvements in the form of V8 and the Gears engine helps everyone. If they can push it on Firefox, again, it means Google's aps are now spead up; more hits, more users, quicker for the end user so more popular. I really do believe Chrome is just trying to show browser developpers how some bored people at Google see browsers, and just want to help push things forward.
Think about it; V8, Qt, and WebKit. And there's a brand new web browser, and it works great with Google.
And don't forget that San-Diegos are used for power measurements!
The nice thing about current GPU/CPU tech is that a Athlon X2 2.6GHz with an 8800GT/HD4850 is considered baseline by Ars, and can play games at 1680x1050 comfortably. That's pretty incredible.
Considering Intel only puts it on some chips, it's the only thing that makes me consider AMD right now.
That and the fact that 45nm Phenoms are coming to AM2+, so an AM2 board is not as "useless" as an LGA775... Sure, the LGA775 will get newer 45nm CPUs, and likely a few 32nm ones (or updated 45nm while the Nehalems are fixed up), but I feel you get better flexibility with AMD right now if you don't mind losing out a bit in gaming performance. Quads are also cheap when it's AMD. I'm just waiting for a 90W or 65W quad, and I'll buy one then.
What would be nice is more honest numbers, though. From what I hear the new CPUs (including X2-4850e) from AMD have messed up TDP; like Intel's old "meh this much I guess" measurements, nothing like the new Core 2 mesurements of "Danger! Danger! This shit's gonna blow!"...
But virtualisation takes the cake. I don't get a hit with AMD's CPUs, having Pacifica in all the chips.
You could also use USB-On-the-Go, couldn't you?
(I know the Pandora does this)
You use a mini video port?
You can also have video over USB. It might take two USB ports (one for video, other for charging or other data) and it would be limited to 640x480 or around there, but it can be done. You could use FireWire, too; it's very fast, and having added firewire might have given the poor thing a chance at life.
You can live without paying taxes.
It's just that your nation will not support you at all.
No u
No silly, we're the descendants of retarted fish monkeys having buttsex with each other!
And get whom to make the models, textures, maps, and audio? And then get whom to pitch the playable prototype to publishers?
You and friends?
People who have submitted their works as free artwork or whose copyrights have expired? Pay someone for them? Here's a fun idea, if I like a band's music, couldn't I help them get some recognition by paying them for songs to put in my game/project?
Of course your work will never be as good as a specialist. Then again, what the hell was expected? Did people like Valve look at the Portal concept and say "eww those models look like shit, next"?
"Game schools" are a joke. I wouldn't mind a class focusing on the developpement of a game (ie how to manage the whole process, not actually making them) but seriously specialising in a field where things change quickly enough (more if you're into consoles; I'm just talking SDK-wise here) and where the concepts can be figured out by yourself (how many of us did minigames at some point?).
University/college is not always the answer. You're wasting time in a class instead of being out on the field working, and you'll get less respect for that wasted time. (Can you show you're able to hold a job if all you've been doing could have been partying while following a joke of a program?)
Again, blame Microsoft.
People want XP on these. Microsoft will only sell them it if it has a screen smaller than 1280x768 (I think that was the requirement... maybe 1024x768), with 1GB of RAM or less, and a single-core 1.6GHz CPU.
So until some OEM gets their shit in gear and gives the gorilla a swift kick to the balls we're not getting better netbooks.
I loved the netbook concept. Microsoft killed it already. It's over guys.
AMD realises this. They're going to make cheap light notebooks. So what if Vista/Win7 is preloaded on it? It can run it so the clueless won't care, the more informed will put XP/Linux/w.e, and everyone goes home happy with a low-power, low-cost, good-to-high-performance AMD64 CPU and hopefully some crazy Radeon card, in a slim 13" package for 500$-600$.
Alternatively, we should be looking at a super-sized nVidia Tegra. Think Tegra with 8 or 16 cores, half of them GeForcen, the other half typical CPUs. Or VIA Nano + nVidia GeForce (although it's a totally badass platform, being x86 means it can be poisoned). Or Sun Niagara. If Sun could just get its act together, they could sell a 4-core UltraSPARC (T1 or T2, whichever works best) that hopefully would be running in the tens/low-20s W maximum power range for the entire package and an SSD, with a 10"-13" screen.
HP at least is showing some balls. It's still an Atom but the new HP netbooks (they are not the mininote/2133. it is a crime against those godly netbooks to call the new ones that.) have like 2GB of RAM, 8GB SSDs, ship with Linux, sell for 379$ USD. I'm wondering if they have a Nano/GeForce combo set for the near future in the 2133's case.
What is England without the English?
(be they scandinavs, anglo-saxons, normands, africans, indians...)
LEGO doesn't need much in terms of ressources, so being in Danemark gives them a lot of good press, steady oil from Norway, possibly tax cuts, is pretty much seen as one of those cool Danish things, so I can't see them going off to the People's Republic either (nor to Taiwan).
The plastic is high-quality. I've always noticed that; MegaBlocks are weaker and thiner, whereas the LEGO bricks feel better. It's worth the extra pennies/brick.
Why didn't the Chinese and Indians show us they're capable, intelligent, and ressourceful nations by leapfrogging ahead of NA/Europe, and implement the stuff we've been dreaming about?
I know it's a lot of work but why exactly didn't they take the time?
Laziness. And you really think this will change if the americans shove it down our throats?
Or maybe sensationalists are looking for money?
(TBH: "global warming" may or may not be real, all things considered, but too much of anything is a dangerous thing. So let's kick the oil habit before the Tar Sands are all the rage.)
Then what if, say, Maxis posts their budget for this game is 15 million USD (and has another source audit them to make sure it isn't all just business expenses, but reasonable costs like paying the people working on it, and a bit to go towards things like the physical devices they used)). Well, if Maxis makes ~20 million USD (a bit of profit; costs to EA would have been covered in the other number) during the span of 5 years, the source code should be passed on to another group to maintain.
If they couldn't raise the money, then the game just keeps being sold by whoever until it makes back its money, if it can. When the game is passed on to the other group, after those ~5 years to get the money, they can continue to release patches/updates, and it's released as either open source (obviously with commercial distribution restriction, knowing game companies). The binaries would also hopefully be released.
50$ will not cover the costs to make a game, but hopefully together we can do it.
But that's Germany, and it's France with the history of strong industrial espionnage (both in terms of capabilities and in terms of actually doing it).
Oh, it's worth it. Stay the hell off my land, please.
Look at a map and tell me with a straight face we can't claim the arctic as our own... Look at places like Grise Fiord; you're right there, about a few hours off from the actual north pole, and guess what? It's a small inuit community! (albeit not the prettiest one, but still)
It's an issue of we don't want international ships crossing and killing the region (enviromentally) in the name of profit, spitting in our face. Oil will be the least of our concerns.
Or they roll your eyes at you and put their iPod headphones back in -- they won't have to worry about security with Web 2.0.
That sounds like home...
It's really not just Australia. I think it's just that, because Australia is sadly not a big content producer, nobody wants to link up to it, and nobody wants to produce content there because no big names are there, because nobody wants to link up to it, etc.
Ignorance about computers (even the basic of security, as in, "be careful") is widespread no matter where you are; but I think it only changes based on how many "geeks" (um, EXPERT INTERNETS? the slashdot crowd...) you've got around.
I wonder how long before this ends up in my spambox?...
It would come preinstalled, it's just that the requirements by the anti-trust ruling were to stop the forced integration of IE on the code level... As in IE needs to be removable.
rich people buy lots of shit so they'll pay a lot.
The problem is, "you kill businesses!11!!"
I don't think there is a reasonable solution. Drop the taxes and sure you get plenty of companies, but you might make less, and tax havens are always out there. Increase taxes, and well, you fuck over the SMB based locally, and you fuck over any chance of multinationals coming over. And some companies buy a lot but barely scrape by profit-wise; what do you do for them?
Neither candidate had a good policy. Neither did any of our candidates. They're all full of shit.
I remember that the guys behind the beagleboard wanted to build a portable mini projector... Is this what they were building?
Heh, I'm no racist. But electing a man and pointing out he's of a certain race is not equality. Maybe it's not the kind of equality you were looking for, but what did you expect?
Now Microsoft has removed the graphical subsystem from OS
No, sadly it's still there. It's just that now you have the option to boot into cmd.exe for Server 2k8.
The kernel and explorer.exe/iexplorer.exe are still all integrated.