Microsoft has gone full Apple. I'm curious to see whether this will end up taking an Android like approach, with Microsoft producing 'flagship' devices for 3rd parties to aspire to, resulting in wide price ranges, or if they'll end up catering to and designing for their own (expensively priced) hardware only (ala Apple). The latter could be very bad for Microsoft's bottom line (all those licensing fees) in the immediate future; stockholders would have to prepare for quite the rollercoaster...
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I think this is really cool. As a certified diver, I think it'd be a blast to help streetview-ify my local dive spots. Many locals have never even gone snorkeling in the local coves and beaches, much less diving in them; it could really help raise awareness of just how cool and awesome our local ecosystems are. Most people are amazed when they visit the local Scripps Aquarium and see just how much diversity is sitting just off of our coast in 60ft of water.
Blue Toad is a little-known privately held company, but its technology touches millions of users around the world. It provides private-label digital edition and app-building services to 6,000 different publishers, and serves 100 million page views each month, DeHart said.
It's an RPG. I loved the Mass Effect series, and still have characters from earlier play-throughs that I plan to get to eventually. I did as many side missions as I could find, and was able to get to to the threshold needed to unlock the best ending. It wasn't easy, but they did manage to make it not feel like grinding...I wouldn't call it 'ocd', I'd just call it getting my money's worth.:)
They've bought their fair share of studios that were previously oriented around a great single-player experience, and have proceeded to suck the life force out of many of them. Bioware is one such studio that comes to mind. After seeing what they did to Dragon Age II and Mass Effect 3, it's likely I won't buy another EA game again for a long while. It's really sad seeing these once-great studios killed by the plague that is EA Games.
That's not necessarily true. My GF is in the midst of getting her Mathematics PhD and is teaching some algebra/pre-calc courses this semester. They're making her use the asinine digital solutions for homework, and it's causing her (and her students) nothing but headaches. She'd love nothing more than to use old-school pencil and paper, but her hands are tied by her department head.
I had kind of been rooting for the Titan mission. It's far riskier, but would give us some valuable information about the ice and methane lakes on the moon, and some hope to find microbial life.
Instead of ranting about how it's not his fault, why didn't he just repeatedly mutter phrases about 'Big Data' and 'Cloud Infrastructure' to the reviewer?
Yeah, I saw the business story a few days ago. I think it's worth keeping an employee willing to dust things up and make bold moves every once in a while. GM of all companies should know the risks of a bureaucracy of yes-men; it nearly killed them. It sounds like he made some controversial decisions at his post, and wasn't afraid to mix it up defending them to his superiors.
What really irks me is that they just fired the guy responsible for pulling that ad money out of Facebook (and the 2012 super bowl). I think he was right on the money, but apparently there's no room in GM's marketing budget for common sense.
...three is absurd. There's a reason why the Tolkien family HATES Hollywood, and this is an embodiment of those reasons. Peter Jackson is rapidly becoming the next George Lucas. Put down the ultra insane frame-rates and concentrate on not butchering the books in the name of moneys.
My understanding is that in Europe, every phone manufacturer either has to build their phone to use Micro-USB as a charging standard, or provide an adapter at no charge. If this is the case, why don't they just save everybody the headache and move to the now-rampant standard? The proposal for this came out in 2009 IIRC, so it's not like this was just sprung on them...
When I sold my 2006 macbook pro in 2010, after getting four years of hard use out of it, a fanboi offered to pay $50 extra if I had the box. Not all of us mac users buy them as fashion accessories, but we're more than happy to prey on those who do.:)
I, too, keep the boxes from my iThings, but for another reason. I've found that resale goes WAY up when you sell an Apple product on CL with the original boxing material. I have no idea why, but people really do put a value on Apple's packaging. You are correct, from a design standpoint, they do a really good job; but that's where my love of iBoxes ends. It's a nice tradeoff for me, though, so I'm not really complaining about iBox fever.
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My understanding is that it's only about a Library of Congress in size.
Thanks, Linus, for taking the time to sit down and write up some in-depth, thoughtful answers. I, for one, enjoyed the answer regarding CPU design.
Microsoft has gone full Apple. I'm curious to see whether this will end up taking an Android like approach, with Microsoft producing 'flagship' devices for 3rd parties to aspire to, resulting in wide price ranges, or if they'll end up catering to and designing for their own (expensively priced) hardware only (ala Apple). The latter could be very bad for Microsoft's bottom line (all those licensing fees) in the immediate future; stockholders would have to prepare for quite the rollercoaster...
Sections 1 and 2 of this act shall become operative only if funding for the purposes of this act is provided in an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute, or through federal or private funds, or through a combination of state, federal, and private funds.
Well, I had my hopes up for a second, anyway.
I think this is really cool. As a certified diver, I think it'd be a blast to help streetview-ify my local dive spots. Many locals have never even gone snorkeling in the local coves and beaches, much less diving in them; it could really help raise awareness of just how cool and awesome our local ecosystems are. Most people are amazed when they visit the local Scripps Aquarium and see just how much diversity is sitting just off of our coast in 60ft of water.
In other news, openmarket's servers just went down in flames.
Blue Toad is a little-known privately held company, but its technology touches millions of users around the world. It provides private-label digital edition and app-building services to 6,000 different publishers, and serves 100 million page views each month, DeHart said.
It's an RPG. I loved the Mass Effect series, and still have characters from earlier play-throughs that I plan to get to eventually. I did as many side missions as I could find, and was able to get to to the threshold needed to unlock the best ending. It wasn't easy, but they did manage to make it not feel like grinding...I wouldn't call it 'ocd', I'd just call it getting my money's worth. :)
They've bought their fair share of studios that were previously oriented around a great single-player experience, and have proceeded to suck the life force out of many of them. Bioware is one such studio that comes to mind. After seeing what they did to Dragon Age II and Mass Effect 3, it's likely I won't buy another EA game again for a long while. It's really sad seeing these once-great studios killed by the plague that is EA Games.
That's not necessarily true. My GF is in the midst of getting her Mathematics PhD and is teaching some algebra/pre-calc courses this semester. They're making her use the asinine digital solutions for homework, and it's causing her (and her students) nothing but headaches. She'd love nothing more than to use old-school pencil and paper, but her hands are tied by her department head.
If it's not already, you can bet it will be when their season starts back up at the end of September. :)
Here's hoping that if the babies find themselves wobbling, they won't fall down.
At first I thought we'd be seeing a new /. page. Thank God it's just a story.
"...caused a 3000 car pile-up today, the largest in US history..."
I had kind of been rooting for the Titan mission. It's far riskier, but would give us some valuable information about the ice and methane lakes on the moon, and some hope to find microbial life.
Instead of ranting about how it's not his fault, why didn't he just repeatedly mutter phrases about 'Big Data' and 'Cloud Infrastructure' to the reviewer?
Tannenbaum maintains an election model that currently predicts an Obama win (334 to 206 electoral votes) http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Yeah, I saw the business story a few days ago. I think it's worth keeping an employee willing to dust things up and make bold moves every once in a while. GM of all companies should know the risks of a bureaucracy of yes-men; it nearly killed them. It sounds like he made some controversial decisions at his post, and wasn't afraid to mix it up defending them to his superiors.
What really irks me is that they just fired the guy responsible for pulling that ad money out of Facebook (and the 2012 super bowl). I think he was right on the money, but apparently there's no room in GM's marketing budget for common sense.
...three is absurd. There's a reason why the Tolkien family HATES Hollywood, and this is an embodiment of those reasons. Peter Jackson is rapidly becoming the next George Lucas. Put down the ultra insane frame-rates and concentrate on not butchering the books in the name of moneys.
My understanding is that in Europe, every phone manufacturer either has to build their phone to use Micro-USB as a charging standard, or provide an adapter at no charge. If this is the case, why don't they just save everybody the headache and move to the now-rampant standard? The proposal for this came out in 2009 IIRC, so it's not like this was just sprung on them...
When I sold my 2006 macbook pro in 2010, after getting four years of hard use out of it, a fanboi offered to pay $50 extra if I had the box. Not all of us mac users buy them as fashion accessories, but we're more than happy to prey on those who do. :)
I, too, keep the boxes from my iThings, but for another reason. I've found that resale goes WAY up when you sell an Apple product on CL with the original boxing material. I have no idea why, but people really do put a value on Apple's packaging. You are correct, from a design standpoint, they do a really good job; but that's where my love of iBoxes ends. It's a nice tradeoff for me, though, so I'm not really complaining about iBox fever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/business/media/hollywood-acts-warily-at-comic-con-fearing-bad-publicity.html And I was at this panel. The highlight by far was hearing from Andy Serkis, and listening to him act out a dialogue between Gollum and Smeagol. I'm not sure about the rest of the movie, but they showed footage that proved they hit the riddle game scene out of the park.