The PC market is in decline, but it is not dying and will not die in the near future. The main reason for sluggish PC sales is that the technology has reached a peak at the moment (or you might say it has finally matured) and consumers no longer need to buy a new system every couple of years just to keep up. Since the dawn of the PC era users have had to constantly upgrade their hardware to run that new OS, that new game, or that new multimedia application. That time has ended. A decent system bought 5 years ago will still run everything it needs to.
True, the rise of tablets and smartphones also gnaw at the PC market, because some people only want to check their email and log onto Facebook, but the power, flexibility and usability of the PC will remain indispensable for a large amount of users and professionals.
Not to mention that League of Legends, the biggest online game that now has more regular players than World of Warcraft, is based on DOTA, a Warcraft 3 mod.
Why do you bring up John Romero as an anti-modding advocate? Doom was one of the first, big, moddable games. Id didn't release any tools up front and the community largely created their own, but Id never protested.
I agree with what you say. My point is that people who will install adblocking software will typically be that kind of people that hate ads and would never click them anyway, so the site doesn't really lose ad clicks from these people.
The orchestras can perform new music and live auditions instead of re-selling the same old classical music for hundreds of years. If something has been part of human culture for so long, and the original creators are long dead, it feels morally right to be able to enjoy these works for free.
Er... why is this rated troll and why are there so many heated responses? Of course it makes sense for developers to support old hardware and not use all the latest shiny's in their product. This way you broaden your customer base. Look at the most successfull game ever, World of Warcraft, already required very low specs when it was released and it has stayed that way for all these years.
Another advantage is that you can wait until bugs have been weeded out and tool support has cought up. I really don't get why parent is getting blasted like this.
I don't think that cozying up to a "president" that is in full swing of turning his country into a plutocrat dictatorship and police state while eliminating all opposition is the kind of publicity you want.
I thought trademark name clashes were a non-issue if they are completely unrelated entities, such as retail giant and UI system. Otherwise, you'd think we would be running out of names pretty soon.
A quick Google search on Windows 7 UI system "Aero" reveals eight different companies or products using that name, on the first page.
Whatever. Except that there are hard facts of why Republicans and conservatives, in the bigger picture, are full of shit: - Global Warming, the entire world has accepted the scientific evidence, except U.S. conservatives... not good for business. - Evolution, the entire world has accepted the scientific evidence, except U.S. conservatives... goes against their backwards religious beliefs - Spreading rumors that Obama is a muslim - Spreading rumors that Obama was not born in the U.S. "Mr president! Show me your birth certificate!" Like the U.S. president has nothing better to do. - Yes, there is absolutely no doubt that there are Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Look at this map... you see this gray spots!? Here, here and here. - Protecting taxes for rich people, while histerically claiming in the media that Obama wants to raise YOUR taxes!!! - Spreading incredible amounts of FUD about Obamacare. - The list goes on.
Far from me not understanding my "ideological opponents", it seems you have not a fucking idea about what the Republican Party and their media friends are all about. But just continue walking around with your head in your ass until your country has been completely devestated from the inside.
I'm not an Apple hater. All I know is that if I wanted to by a Samsung in the U.S. right now, I couldn't, thanks to Apple. And Apple did the same thing in Germany some time ago. Truly, I don't know alot about the legal background on these patent wars. But it seems to me that Apple, amongst other companies, is bringing these fights to a new level which wasn't there before, and that that isn't a good thing for me. Did TV, car, microwave, or wearing glasses manufacturers get sued and their products barred from the market on the whim of a competitor in the past? Not that I'm aware of.
I don't have any kind of smartphone yet, and in fact I was still weighing my options. I was leaning towards an Android device because I could code my own apps for it in Java, but alot of people are telling me how Apple is better, so I was still pretty much undecided. The fact that Apple is now twisting the market in its favor doesn't make me happy.
Stuff like this makes me want to buy a Samsung device right now, simply out of spite for these agressive, bullshit patent practices that limit competition and my choices as a consumer. Also, I have this built-in genetic disposition of always wanting to support the underdog.
It needs to be remastered because the Lannisters are red, cruel, they hate the common folk, torture people, and have all the cash. Obviously, they are affiliated with the Republican Party.
Wow, I really didn't know that. I found this site showing an image with a nice size.
It's quite amazing to think about how huge and close it is, to occupy such a relatively large portion of the sky. Too bad we can't appreciate it's splendor. I wonder if the view will improve as it gets closer. A poster above mentioned that it will get diffuser the closer it gets, but I wonder why.
It doesn't look that impressive because you are probably in the northern hemisphere, looking away from the galaxy, in the midst of civilization and artificial lights. If you are in the southern hemisphere, looking towards the galaxy, on a clear night in the middle of nowhere, it actually does look quite impressive.
I don't doubt that Microsoft Research has made important contributions (even though from the list you posted only C# is something I can put my finger on). Obviously, it's the "They are pretty much the only one" part that is complete nonsense.
Could be his wife / some other entity, is monitoring his official finances and he is procuring unmonitored cash for some less reputable activities such as gambling, whoring, etc.
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The PC market is in decline, but it is not dying and will not die in the near future. The main reason for sluggish PC sales is that the technology has reached a peak at the moment (or you might say it has finally matured) and consumers no longer need to buy a new system every couple of years just to keep up. Since the dawn of the PC era users have had to constantly upgrade their hardware to run that new OS, that new game, or that new multimedia application. That time has ended. A decent system bought 5 years ago will still run everything it needs to.
True, the rise of tablets and smartphones also gnaw at the PC market, because some people only want to check their email and log onto Facebook, but the power, flexibility and usability of the PC will remain indispensable for a large amount of users and professionals.
Not to mention that League of Legends, the biggest online game that now has more regular players than World of Warcraft, is based on DOTA, a Warcraft 3 mod.
Why do you bring up John Romero as an anti-modding advocate? Doom was one of the first, big, moddable games. Id didn't release any tools up front and the community largely created their own, but Id never protested.
I agree with what you say. My point is that people who will install adblocking software will typically be that kind of people that hate ads and would never click them anyway, so the site doesn't really lose ad clicks from these people.
It's not like I would ever click one of those ads anyway.
The orchestras can perform new music and live auditions instead of re-selling the same old classical music for hundreds of years. If something has been part of human culture for so long, and the original creators are long dead, it feels morally right to be able to enjoy these works for free.
Wow, and this response is rated insightful... must be another one of those days on Slashdot.
Er... why is this rated troll and why are there so many heated responses? Of course it makes sense for developers to support old hardware and not use all the latest shiny's in their product. This way you broaden your customer base. Look at the most successfull game ever, World of Warcraft, already required very low specs when it was released and it has stayed that way for all these years.
Another advantage is that you can wait until bugs have been weeded out and tool support has cought up. I really don't get why parent is getting blasted like this.
I don't think that cozying up to a "president" that is in full swing of turning his country into a plutocrat dictatorship and police state while eliminating all opposition is the kind of publicity you want.
I thought trademark name clashes were a non-issue if they are completely unrelated entities, such as retail giant and UI system. Otherwise, you'd think we would be running out of names pretty soon.
A quick Google search on Windows 7 UI system "Aero" reveals eight different companies or products using that name, on the first page.
Whatever. Except that there are hard facts of why Republicans and conservatives, in the bigger picture, are full of shit:
- Global Warming, the entire world has accepted the scientific evidence, except U.S. conservatives... not good for business.
- Evolution, the entire world has accepted the scientific evidence, except U.S. conservatives... goes against their backwards religious beliefs
- Spreading rumors that Obama is a muslim
- Spreading rumors that Obama was not born in the U.S. "Mr president! Show me your birth certificate!" Like the U.S. president has nothing better to do.
- Yes, there is absolutely no doubt that there are Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Look at this map... you see this gray spots!? Here, here and here.
- Protecting taxes for rich people, while histerically claiming in the media that Obama wants to raise YOUR taxes!!!
- Spreading incredible amounts of FUD about Obamacare.
- The list goes on.
Far from me not understanding my "ideological opponents", it seems you have not a fucking idea about what the Republican Party and their media friends are all about. But just continue walking around with your head in your ass until your country has been completely devestated from the inside.
Yes. It's called "denial". Republicans are full of it. And shit. And lies. And disinformation.
How can they live with themselves. I don't know.
I'm not an Apple hater. All I know is that if I wanted to by a Samsung in the U.S. right now, I couldn't, thanks to Apple. And Apple did the same thing in Germany some time ago. Truly, I don't know alot about the legal background on these patent wars. But it seems to me that Apple, amongst other companies, is bringing these fights to a new level which wasn't there before, and that that isn't a good thing for me. Did TV, car, microwave, or wearing glasses manufacturers get sued and their products barred from the market on the whim of a competitor in the past? Not that I'm aware of.
I don't have any kind of smartphone yet, and in fact I was still weighing my options. I was leaning towards an Android device because I could code my own apps for it in Java, but alot of people are telling me how Apple is better, so I was still pretty much undecided. The fact that Apple is now twisting the market in its favor doesn't make me happy.
Stuff like this makes me want to buy a Samsung device right now, simply out of spite for these agressive, bullshit patent practices that limit competition and my choices as a consumer.
Also, I have this built-in genetic disposition of always wanting to support the underdog.
And I forgot to mention that they are devious, lying bastards.
It needs to be remastered because the Lannisters are red, cruel, they hate the common folk, torture people, and have all the cash. Obviously, they are affiliated with the Republican Party.
Mkay.
The prices for the consumer could stay the same. It would cut Apple's profit margin from "obscene" to "above average" however.
Wow, I really didn't know that. I found this site showing an image with a nice size.
It's quite amazing to think about how huge and close it is, to occupy such a relatively large portion of the sky. Too bad we can't appreciate it's splendor. I wonder if the view will improve as it gets closer. A poster above mentioned that it will get diffuser the closer it gets, but I wonder why.
It doesn't look that impressive because you are probably in the northern hemisphere, looking away from the galaxy, in the midst of civilization and artificial lights.
If you are in the southern hemisphere, looking towards the galaxy, on a clear night in the middle of nowhere, it actually does look quite impressive.
Imagine how awesome the sky would look once Andromeda is near enough to dominate the view.
Imagine how awesome the sky would look with two galaxies, one of them much larger than our own, sprawling around it.
Imagine how such a view might affect the belief systems and cultures of all the advanced life forms that might be able to perceive it.
Hopefully, I will be there, billions of years in the future, and be able to experience it.
I don't doubt that Microsoft Research has made important contributions (even though from the list you posted only C# is something I can put my finger on). Obviously, it's the "They are pretty much the only one" part that is complete nonsense.
"They are pretty much the only one of the large companies that fund this kind of research"
Bullshit alert.
"Their work does lots of good for the world."
For the world? Or for Microsoft?
Citations needed.
Could be his wife / some other entity, is monitoring his official finances and he is procuring unmonitored cash for some less reputable activities such as gambling, whoring, etc.
Oh, and just for the record, I am still going to buy the DVD set once it is released. Again, for two reasons:
1. Better quality
2. My girlfriend will still want to see it in German