Why would a Microsoft "insider" risk their employment spilling well known issues about the XBOX 360 as "secrets" to a blog very read. That doesn't sound like a good career move. Just talking about failures of the xbox in the clothing market doesn't seem too bad to me:
Since it's launch in Fall of 2005 Xbox 360 systems all over the world have had major hardware failure problems resulting in millions of *costumers* having to mail their Xbox back to Microsoft.
(granted I had no idea it was so popular with those people, maybe they're looking for new design ideas)
so, driving uphill uses the same amount of gasoline that driving downhill? Sure. As long as you drive uphill *backwards*. Actually you'll probably suck some CO2 in while doing so.
I've always said that bureaucrats have a lot in common with squirrels. Except the squirrels have the very useful side effect of planting lots of trees. Nothing useful grows out of secrecy.
According to the linked article, none of the hacks were completely successful. Are you saying we shouldn't be imagining a beowulf cluster of those ? But they're hot grits proof !
Does anyone else find it ironic that they want you to buy your movie tickets with your cell phone and then don't want you to bring your cell phone into the theater? There's a great opportunity for "cell phone lockers", $2 per 1/2 hour !
Even an external USB battery expander would defeat the purpose of an ultraportable- it'd be a little awkward to have a brick sticking out of the side of your sleek sexy ultra thin Air. Absolutely, obviously the purpose of having such a sleek PC is that you can bring three with you so that they can last through long flights.
Just the contrary. Actually they would rebuild the body without the cancer, the anemia etc and only the brain from the current consciousness-state, the rest of the body would be built according to the recording done when the subject was 21 year old. IOW immortality. ... for your clone.
Well sports constantly deal with the risk of having new doping techniques alter results. So isn't a bit hypocritical to require perfection? That was my first thought as well. The other contestants will just have to update their chemical intake.
I can't believe this comment has gone this long without an explanation. In good faith I will assume you are not trolling.
There is a lot of good information at Talk origins. In summary, it says "The entropy of a closed system cannot decrease." (Which, I believe, is what you are referencing.) It goes on to say "However, they neglect the fact that life is not a closed system. The sun provides more than enough energy to drive things." The Sun or the Earth itself in the case of chemosynthesis based foodchains (usually at the bottom of the oceans). Either way the argument holds.
There were some movies an owner of a BMW with iDrive placed on the Internet because he was unhappy with the performance of the car's computer system. I remember hearing about that weird thing. Didn't know it ran Windows on top of having a braindead UI.
What's not cost effective about it? I could spend the time and trouble going to Safeway or Albertsons or Kingsoopers and buying groceries or I could save all that time and effort and pay Safeway or Albertsons or Kingsoopers to bring the SAME groceries TO ME. I don't know how it works in the US, but here (Paris), I actually *walk* to one of the supermarkets that's 500m away, then shop, then give them my address and they deliver the stuff (free past a certain amount, and I shop for groceries only once every 3 weeks or so) 1 or two hours later at a pre agreed time.
Takes about 40 minutes of my time. And I get to go out and get various other things in the neighbourhood while I'm at it. I looked at shopping online but it wasn't worth the hassle (takes longer unless you always pick the same thing and ends up being more expensive).
If there were animated ads on the carts I'd shop elsewhere though.
Yeah, just what I need, to get assended by some wannabe housewife distracted from her cellie while herding her SUV down the freeway above the speed limit when she gets distracted by a moving video ad. If housewives paid more attention to the afternoon soap on their SUV's TV instead of looking at the billboards, things like that wouldn't happen !
Compare with shout by Mrs. Weasley at end of last Potter book . .. Haven't read it but it's probably along the lines of "get away from her you naughty person, pout !"
They already do (and have done) this for many years. I would have considered this a dupe (triple ? sextuple ?) except for the many variants of the story that have been posted here already.
If your government (most of them, except for the Greek one apparently, which might be too busy doing something useful, or maybe doing nothing, which might be just as well, whichever) wants to read your mail, it does so through whichever agency has its ear to the wires at the moment. If some sort of lawful athority (like a court of law), presumably in conjunction with a legal case, wants to read your mail, it usually gets more complicated since there's some paperwork involved and some paths to be followed, some of which (quite a number actually) are dead ends (as in "your mail may not be read"). And as far as they are concerned that is that.
This translates to (in US pop culture equivalents that will be understood by everyone), if the govenment wants to mess with you, they can send you to Guantanamo or to Syria to have you tortured -after reading your mail- because they rewrite rules as they go. If the courts want to mess with you, it's a bit more complicated because there actually are procedures in place.
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The SNES couldn't push 500 triangles per second ?
Maybe some kind of security thing kicked in (xbox on the run, kill it !)
Doe. John Doe to be precise.
Actually you'll probably suck some CO2 in while doing so.
I think he should go the whole way and call them viriises. It's technology after all.
Nothing useful grows out of secrecy.
Oook ?
But they're hot grits proof !
(sorry, got carried away there, keep going)
IOW immortality. ... for your clone.
There is a lot of good information at Talk origins. In summary, it says "The entropy of a closed system cannot decrease." (Which, I believe, is what you are referencing.) It goes on to say "However, they neglect the fact that life is not a closed system. The sun provides more than enough energy to drive things." The Sun or the Earth itself in the case of chemosynthesis based foodchains (usually at the bottom of the oceans). Either way the argument holds.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/55980
or for more PR
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/dec06/12-11FIAPR.mspx "[
Takes about 40 minutes of my time. And I get to go out and get various other things in the neighbourhood while I'm at it. I looked at shopping online but it wasn't worth the hassle (takes longer unless you always pick the same thing and ends up being more expensive).
If there were animated ads on the carts I'd shop elsewhere though.
If your government (most of them, except for the Greek one apparently, which might be too busy doing something useful, or maybe doing nothing, which might be just as well, whichever) wants to read your mail, it does so through whichever agency has its ear to the wires at the moment. If some sort of lawful athority (like a court of law), presumably in conjunction with a legal case, wants to read your mail, it usually gets more complicated since there's some paperwork involved and some paths to be followed, some of which (quite a number actually) are dead ends (as in "your mail may not be read"). And as far as they are concerned that is that.
This translates to (in US pop culture equivalents that will be understood by everyone), if the govenment wants to mess with you, they can send you to Guantanamo or to Syria to have you tortured -after reading your mail- because they rewrite rules as they go. If the courts want to mess with you, it's a bit more complicated because there actually are procedures in place.