I find it quite disturbing that their solution to usability problems is more pop-up bubbles.
Why can't the WU client-side piece proactively display a bubble "Look! Cool, new features for Windows
XP" and the option to display a much richer "advertisement" for the feature if the user wants to read more?
This creates a problem with user expectations. If you ship a GNU/L distro on a UMPC for the general population, people will look at it and say "oh, like a Mac, guess I'll have to find new apps." If you try to ship it with WINE installed, people will instead try to run their old apps and then moan when nothing works quite right. WINE is a last resort.
Remember - "bigger is better" for most people. I can hardly watch typical HDTV due to how hard they stomp on the video for compression, as the macro blocking is too distracting to me (web content tends to be better, as most web producers actually CARE about that kind of thing). At least SDTV tends to be too soft of a picture to have bad macro blocking, and they don't need to compress it has hard in the first place to send it down the tubes. These issues only hurt OTA and cheap cable HDTV. With a disc, or FIOS, the compression is very high-quality.
They're talking about having "exclusive demos and beta access". It actually sounds like Sony's trying to start charging for their online service, one part at a time.
Simple, this is not television, film, or radio. You, as actors, are not what is driving this vehicle. People play these games because they want to play GTA4. If the character was mute and you had to read text (as is the case with a number of other games) the game would feel different but I think it would have sold just as well. *Sprint Enabled*
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They're contributing code under a license different from the project it's intended for? I know it's technically doable, but it's suspicious at best coming from MS.
That said, a lot of stuff can happen in 50 years, and I bet that once some of the major problems get solved, there will be an insane stream of money pouring into this field to accelerate the research. Just imagine the benefits an "omniscient" AI trader would bring to a bank. The question is, do we want this to happen? This will be far more disruptive a technology than anything you've ever seen. I take it you haven't read the sequels to Ender's Game.
That's entirely, 100% false. Every bit of the Mac OS X that was developed by Apple is encrypted on the disk and requires a hardware decryption unit to run. To run on a normal PC (or a normal PC's motherboard, at least) all of the binaries have to be decrypted and the kernel has to be patched to ignore the nonexistant crypto chip and not try to re-decrypt. (There once was a user who whined...)
If you want a CELL supercomputer, IBM will happily sell you Cell/BE blade servers. The PS3 is a game console, the objective here is lower costs for the same hardware over a 6-7 year period.
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1. Build robust military telecommunications network in case the commies nuke us.
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5. Profit!
Doesn't seem like much of an "issue" to me.
In other news, cows shit, grass grows, and pigs still in aeronautical R+D stage.
This creates a problem with user expectations. If you ship a GNU/L distro on a UMPC for the general population, people will look at it and say "oh, like a Mac, guess I'll have to find new apps." If you try to ship it with WINE installed, people will instead try to run their old apps and then moan when nothing works quite right. WINE is a last resort.
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They're talking about having "exclusive demos and beta access". It actually sounds like Sony's trying to start charging for their online service, one part at a time.
While this does require physical access, running something as root before login is still incredibly stupid.
What a killer criticism!
I'll be here all week.
If you're going for the Linux version, be sure to test out the demo. I had to run it through aoss to make it work.
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You (and most people) forget, with an xbox 360 and an afternoon, I can pirate _every_ game. At once.
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We already have that. It's called Monsanto Co., Legal Division.They're contributing code under a license different from the project it's intended for? I know it's technically doable, but it's suspicious at best coming from MS.
Wipe the hard drive of your old laptop, use the XP key on the Eee.
Installing Ubuntu is a lot easier than installing Windows. It is not, however, easier than buying a computer preloaded with Windows.
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I don't think he meant ingesting it. Wink wink.
I knew someone on Slashdot was behind it when I got a program that consisted of:
int main() { while(1) { malloc(1); } return 0; }
If you don't derive your truth from logic and observation, nor from divine enlightenment, then...
Wait, so there's a belief system out there where you can just pull truth out of your ass?
That's entirely, 100% false. Every bit of the Mac OS X that was developed by Apple is encrypted on the disk and requires a hardware decryption unit to run. To run on a normal PC (or a normal PC's motherboard, at least) all of the binaries have to be decrypted and the kernel has to be patched to ignore the nonexistant crypto chip and not try to re-decrypt. (There once was a user who whined...)
If you want a CELL supercomputer, IBM will happily sell you Cell/BE blade servers. The PS3 is a game console, the objective here is lower costs for the same hardware over a 6-7 year period.