Your average consumer still doesn't know what an OS is.
We still had more than a few years of people building buying and selling Sinclairs, Commodore, Amstrads, Amiga, etc but it took Wintel to take it main stream.
I think mobiles will go one of 2 ways Android or iOS unless something else comes along to blow them away or the competition catches up.
While I agree that Vendors shouldn't add software with out asking you, surely if you are going to liken it to a trojan then maybe your system should have better defences to these trojans ?
Because the companies would have to pay probably more than twice as much as they currently do. Its hard enough to start a new company now a days without putting a crippling amount of tax on them.
Companies which already exist and are only just breaking even would make a loss and after a while there would be not enough companies to pay the governments bill or jobs for people to earn anything.
It doesn't sound fair why your company should get taxed on the money it makes which it pays to employees who then get taxed on earnings who then get charged sales tax when they spend it, but it is a carefully balanced system where you cant move one tax with out affecting the others.
From TFA: "... Tianhe-1A has set a new performance record of 2.507 pataflops, as mesured by the Linpack benchmark... Tianhe-1A is theorectically able to do more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second(one petaflop) at peak speed. Tianhe-1A's peak performance reaches 1.206 petaflops...
I haven't checked this but I'd bet that more than half of the games released this year were sequels. Its a problem with the industry rather than the console.
I think I shall go and patent "Smart Tea" sounds like it might be the next big-ish thing.
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I'm in a similar boat. Impressive technology, not the best use for it.
I've always thought of it as a Tech demo that wouldn't stop. still they are still using parts of it in Buzz for example and I'm sure they will use it for more practical purposes.
Steam DRM isnt that bad it even got an offline mode when your net connection is down. Steam have always let you have your software on multiple PC's but only allowed to be logged in at one place.
the steamworks intergration with the save games is going to be interesting tho.
Of all the DRM I've seen Steam is the one least obtrusive I've seen. It also lets you download a game which you bought on DVD through your net connection if you have registered it with them ala "Supreme Commander 2"
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Or China could pull another "alleged" Gmail stunt and hack their way in and pull a list of Malcontents...
Yet the share for windows is about twice that of the other platforms you would expect a wider spread.
In a word: no.
Your average consumer still doesn't know what an OS is.
We still had more than a few years of people building buying and selling Sinclairs, Commodore, Amstrads, Amiga, etc
but it took Wintel to take it main stream.
I think mobiles will go one of 2 ways Android or iOS unless something else comes along to blow them away or the competition catches up.
I got sent this on twitter today:
How many Peta members does it take to change a lightbulb?.... None, Peta can't change anything.
http://twitter.com/#!/SuperMeatBoy
Apparently people are saying that Super Tofu boy cost more to make than super meat boy.
While I agree that Vendors shouldn't add software with out asking you, surely if you are going to liken it to a trojan then maybe your system should have better defences to these trojans ?
That's it I ordered a nice set of Freedom bag water but now I'm going to chuck it in the sea and embargo Amazon.
Because the companies would have to pay probably more than twice as much as they currently do.
Its hard enough to start a new company now a days without putting a crippling amount of tax on them.
Companies which already exist and are only just breaking even would make a loss and after a while there would be not enough companies to pay the governments bill or jobs for people to earn anything.
It doesn't sound fair why your company should get taxed on the money it makes which it pays to employees who then get taxed on earnings who then get charged sales tax when they spend it, but it is a carefully balanced system where you cant move one tax with out affecting the others.
...and its still lost the plot.
That MB Games had released Operation for the iPad ...
Where as the official austrian doctors application will probally be rejected.
TBH the drop IE usage is probably more to do with the "browser choice" update finally getting to more users.
Someone will say "hardcore gaming is dying" soon...
True, there are a lot of reasons to dislike MS, and just about every major player.
It just seems MS have a dispropotional amount of bad press like this:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/10/28/0113244/Microsoft-Charging-Royalties-For-Linux
which if you Read TFA you can see it totally un-true.
From TFA: ... Tianhe-1A is theorectically able to do more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second(one petaflop) at peak speed. Tianhe-1A's peak performance reaches 1.206 petaflops...
"... Tianhe-1A has set a new performance record of 2.507 pataflops, as mesured by the Linpack benchmark
So does it do 1, 1.206 or 2.507 petaflops ?
I haven't checked this but I'd bet that more than half of the games released this year were sequels.
Its a problem with the industry rather than the console.
This is /. any anti MS stuff gets a horde of comments in seconds.
I think I shall go and patent "Smart Tea" sounds like it might be the next big-ish thing.
I'm in a similar boat.
Impressive technology, not the best use for it.
I've always thought of it as a Tech demo that wouldn't stop.
still they are still using parts of it in Buzz for example and I'm sure they will use it for more practical purposes.
I've had 6 die and currently have 2, but I'm seriously thinking of upgrading just so it doesn't sound like a jet engine and die in a year.
They basically did this on "mass effect 2" with "the Cerberus Network".
Steam DRM isnt that bad it even got an offline mode when your net connection is down.
Steam have always let you have your software on multiple PC's but only allowed to be logged in at one place.
the steamworks intergration with the save games is going to be interesting tho.
Of all the DRM I've seen Steam is the one least obtrusive I've seen.
It also lets you download a game which you bought on DVD through your net connection if you have registered it with them ala "Supreme Commander 2"
The "express" version is free, limited yes but you can get to the documentation TFA is about through it.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/
Everytime it ran a web page with flash on.
I got the 4.0 reference source it works in VS2010.
And then comes the law suits when someone inevitably slaps a passer-by while trying to find their way to ann-summers.