Reminds me of one major update where a new feature they were touting was a new and improved visualizer.
Really? Who sits at their computer just watches 3D rendered shapes change form? This is a selling point for the general audience? Why did you spend Dev time working on this instead of making the program more stable or streamlines; or even a USEFUL feature?
I think that's where MS is going wrong on their whole setup, trying to push Devs onto the latest an greatest.
Whereas Apple and Google basically have you pay a small fee and you can get the SDK and app listed in their store. MS OTOH is telling Devs they need to buy a new untested OS to develop for their platform, in addition to everything else.
As I understand it, it's the availability of fiber. DC needs a fuck ton of fiber, and a big city is more likely to have it already present then some podunk town.
Also the Governor of SC already cut funding and personnel to the state IT depts. So Yea, I would agree that it's not likely to have been an honest mistake and the eventual consequence pf government action.
You can cut corners all you like but at the end of the day, security and redundancy do cost money.
> Consoles are a bad deal all around: Outdated hardware
Except for one thing where they are good at... Making the companies money.
> Arguing that PC games give players too many configuration options (even if they choose to use them) is ridiculous.
Never heard that one before, normally More Options = Good. It's not like you need a PhD in rocket science to understand the difference between Low, Med, High graphics settings.
I think MS is hedging on their install base and businesses. By getting them all on this Walled Garden they are thinking they will become the Apple of the business world; of course this does not take into account that if businesses will have to retain their staff, why would they stick to MS?
Most of the sues I saw were art of a proper name from where the material is from:
Columbia University, Stanford University, University of Melbourne, Duke University, Brown University
I would hardly consider using a proper name a claim to that term; also these courses are available via the Universities main site, Coursera just collects them in one place. Kind of like how you can watch a TV show off a station's website, but can see them collected on Hulu.
So why are they not blocking blocking out the main University site if it's such a concern?
Plus, why could I not then just drink multiple ones? Makes as much sense as those TSA rules about x amount in a bottle. So instead of one big bottle that's not allowed, you put the solution in two small ones, each of which is allowed.
> I cannot sell you this 16oz cup of soda, but you can buy these two 8oz for the same price.
Well if 90% of the revenue goes to the musicians then I doubt he'll be going through any of the major protection rackets and sticking to smaller/indie stuff. Otherwise there would be no way to guarantee that percent going to them.
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Reminds me of one major update where a new feature they were touting was a new and improved visualizer.
Really? Who sits at their computer just watches 3D rendered shapes change form? This is a selling point for the general audience? Why did you spend Dev time working on this instead of making the program more stable or streamlines; or even a USEFUL feature?
IDK, how many workstations will Google force me to upgrade to their Chrome OS?
Yes, because a single fiber cable in some backwater town with zero redundancy is a great place to build a DC.
I think that's where MS is going wrong on their whole setup, trying to push Devs onto the latest an greatest.
Whereas Apple and Google basically have you pay a small fee and you can get the SDK and app listed in their store. MS OTOH is telling Devs they need to buy a new untested OS to develop for their platform, in addition to everything else.
Yea, if you recall the iPhone was a big deal and then the App store was released after many people already had the HW.
Much easier to woo devs when you got a large install base, vs. trying to court them when most have not even heard of your HW/SW.
As I understand it, it's the availability of fiber. DC needs a fuck ton of fiber, and a big city is more likely to have it already present then some podunk town.
Well for SW it's claimed it's a licence, thus you cannot resell the licence.
Of course it too has certain protections and if those are to the benefit to the consumer then it's switched around to say it's a normal purchase.
Also the Governor of SC already cut funding and personnel to the state IT depts.
So Yea, I would agree that it's not likely to have been an honest mistake and the eventual consequence pf government action.
You can cut corners all you like but at the end of the day, security and redundancy do cost money.
> Consoles are a bad deal all around: Outdated hardware
Except for one thing where they are good at...
Making the companies money.
> Arguing that PC games give players too many configuration options (even if they choose to use them) is ridiculous.
Never heard that one before, normally More Options = Good.
It's not like you need a PhD in rocket science to understand the difference between Low, Med, High graphics settings.
Well they did "reprimand" those agents a few years back who were caught masturbating to the images.
I think MS is hedging on their install base and businesses.
By getting them all on this Walled Garden they are thinking they will become the Apple of the business world; of course this does not take into account that if businesses will have to retain their staff, why would they stick to MS?
Also considering the initial startup costs, just to break in would be very difficult.
Cell towers are not cheap, nor the network wot support them.
Most of the sues I saw were art of a proper name from where the material is from:
Columbia University, Stanford University, University of Melbourne, Duke University, Brown University
I would hardly consider using a proper name a claim to that term; also these courses are available via the Universities main site, Coursera just collects them in one place. Kind of like how you can watch a TV show off a station's website, but can see them collected on Hulu.
So why are they not blocking blocking out the main University site if it's such a concern?
They can write note and get out of Biology?
How long ago was this? Only things I think you could get out of in my time was PE and Sex Ed.
Practically speaking they probably only do get a few months of actual learning in the school year.
Back when I was in HW they would take a good 4 months (collectively) of the year to prepare for one test or another.
Billy was a chemist.
Now Billy is no more.
What billy thought was H20.
Was H2SO4.
Plus, why could I not then just drink multiple ones?
Makes as much sense as those TSA rules about x amount in a bottle. So instead of one big bottle that's not allowed, you put the solution in two small ones, each of which is allowed.
> I cannot sell you this 16oz cup of soda, but you can buy these two 8oz for the same price.
Well if 90% of the revenue goes to the musicians then I doubt he'll be going through any of the major protection rackets and sticking to smaller/indie stuff. Otherwise there would be no way to guarantee that percent going to them.
> Turn left at the Pacific Ocean and continue for 6000 miles.
> $20 billion AUS dollars
And how much is that in real money?
Sure, but their whole basis was that they were streaming it from the Cloud.
Why if I have a 20gb BW cap would I stream HD content when I could go buy the game on DVD and play it locally?
I wonder how much the state of our network connectivity had with their failure.
More and more providers roll out BW caps, over sell their network BW, and raise their prices for the higher tiers.
So basically they make money off what was stand alone SW and have since been converted to be services.
Also wasn't the original Xbox HW a loss in terms of money?
Which of course now they are actively trying to throttle and monitor traffic.