It's all you get on many embedded platforms, such as the iPhone, Android, and friends, plus it's all you get on Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, etc. etc. So long as there are 3d applications on those platforms (and others), and no new spec is created, OpenGL will have a critical mass to survive. Whether it will ever take over the Windows game development market again remains to be seen, however.
The 360 used to lose money, but I believe that it is now profitable. Overall, it still has yet to cover all of the costs, but it is now on its way to doing so.
I can't remember anyone making fun of the Character Map program that ships with Windows. "Character map sucks" only brings up 36 search results in Google, so it can't be all that horrible....
Also - not that I was a big fan of the Kin, they really shouldn't have let it die in a fire like they did 48 days after launch for largely petty political reasons. When you ship a product - you stand by that product and make it the best possible no matter what.
I agree, they shouldn't have cancelled the Kin in the way they did, but then again, they shouldn't have had the political infighting that led to its demise in the first place. It's not a good sign when a fairly major product is a failure because of intense internal rivalry. They are supposed to be on the same team!
My university mandated that sort of thing if you couldn't pass an exam showing that you could use Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to some degree of competence. I didn't need it, but a handful of people I knew did to get past the Excel portion of the test.
To be fair, they are indeed growing, but they are not growing as fast as their rivals are. Who, in 2000, would have predicted that the Evil Empire would be surpassed in market cap by Apple? I certainly wouldn't. Not in the slightest. I think their problem is the legacy cruft that they have added over the years, but at the same time, that is about the only virtue that they have: you can many of your ancient apps from the 90s on your brand new PC. Getting rid of this cruft would remove the bloat and allow them to make a much more streamlined, modern OS, but it would also get rid of most of the reason to stay with Windows in the first place.
It will be interesting to watch what they do for the next version of Windows or two. I think the next version of Windows is supposed to be 64-bit only, so maybe they can get rid of some legacy stuff in that version.
I don't really remember thinking that the original Xbox was laughable. The console of that generation that I thought was laughable was the GameCube; it gave me really low hopes for the Wii, until I played one. Perhaps the Kin disaster isn't foreshadowing what's to come; maybe it's just a misstep on the path to success. For the sake of MS, I hope so, because they will eventually be boxed into a small corner if they can't gain traction in the mobile market.
NAT can be crossed if the users on both sides know the public IP address of the other. Host A sends a stream of garbage to the NAT gateway of Host B. All of these packets will be dropped, but it will make the router allow incoming traffic from that public address to go to Host A. Host B then sends its own garbage data to Host A's gateway, which will then pass through. Host B's router now will let traffic through. Once Host A gets the garbage, it can send an acknowledgement and establish a connection. I did that for a battleship game I wrote many moons ago so that I could play against friends through NAT. Not sure if this will work for all routers, but it worked with ours.
Amateurs have a huge amount of coding tools at their disposal. With a compiler and a text editor, one can go far. With vim and gcc, for example, my only limit is my ability and imagination. That is what I love so much about this field: it is very open.
Windows 7, at least, supports NFS shares (though not out of the box), so using NFS for your home network (assuming that's what it's for) makes sense now. Use that, skip SMB. iSCSI is beyond my knowledge level.
Well, for one, you don't need to use a floppy to get RAID drivers (I'm ignoring slipstreamed install disks). Windows 7 (and Vista?) support SSD TRIM commands; I don't think XP does. Newer hardware might not have XP drivers. There's no Direct X 10 and above. And so on and so forth....
Not really. At the end of the day, it's the taxpayer footing the bill for the misbehaving cop, not the cop himself (at least in every case I've heard of).
I also have an iPhone and live in VA, and there are places I go that have no cellphone service, or very poor sevice, but these are rural areas with very low population density. As a side effect, I do get the occasional dropped call.
Whether or not one can have a democratic sharia law is less important than the end result of sharia law, religious tyranny. It matters little whether this tyranny was put in place by the ballot box or not. This is one of the reasons we place limits on the power of governments, even if 50% + 1 put it in power.
If the low is artificial, does that mean that the high is artificial? Also, what do you mean by artificial? When I see words like that in conjunction with a problem (e.g. bubbles), I tend to think that the solution is to get rid of whatever artificial factor there is, not pile more countermeasures against it (such as this index). There are many schools of thought on this issue.
I can attest to the power that garlic and onions have in preventing AIDS. You see, ingesting these magical foods in large quantities eliminates the possibility of intercourse (or anything else that involves being with 3 meters of a member of the opposite sex), thus staving off the terrible scourge that is AIDS. The risk of getting it becomes very low. Don't you see how much of a forward thinker this minister was?
I would suggest equipping all drivers with rather large wrenches. That might solve the loose nut problem. Either that, or make it so only women and eunuchs can drive.
You can enable more optimizations, because the baseline processor that will be able to run the 64-bit app will have more features. IIRC, they all will have SSE2 at least. Plus, there are more registers. It shouldn't make a big difference in most office use cases Now, working with ginormous spreadsheets / photos/ videos / whatever may see an advantage.
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It's all you get on many embedded platforms, such as the iPhone, Android, and friends, plus it's all you get on Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, etc. etc. So long as there are 3d applications on those platforms (and others), and no new spec is created, OpenGL will have a critical mass to survive. Whether it will ever take over the Windows game development market again remains to be seen, however.
Whether that's true or not, it's a laughing stock because no one used to. No one bought it either.
The 360 used to lose money, but I believe that it is now profitable. Overall, it still has yet to cover all of the costs, but it is now on its way to doing so.
I can't remember anyone making fun of the Character Map program that ships with Windows. "Character map sucks" only brings up 36 search results in Google, so it can't be all that horrible....
Also - not that I was a big fan of the Kin, they really shouldn't have let it die in a fire like they did 48 days after launch for largely petty political reasons. When you ship a product - you stand by that product and make it the best possible no matter what.
I agree, they shouldn't have cancelled the Kin in the way they did, but then again, they shouldn't have had the political infighting that led to its demise in the first place. It's not a good sign when a fairly major product is a failure because of intense internal rivalry. They are supposed to be on the same team!
My university mandated that sort of thing if you couldn't pass an exam showing that you could use Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to some degree of competence. I didn't need it, but a handful of people I knew did to get past the Excel portion of the test.
I hear he has an excellent guerrilla marketing strategy.
To be fair, they are indeed growing, but they are not growing as fast as their rivals are. Who, in 2000, would have predicted that the Evil Empire would be surpassed in market cap by Apple? I certainly wouldn't. Not in the slightest. I think their problem is the legacy cruft that they have added over the years, but at the same time, that is about the only virtue that they have: you can many of your ancient apps from the 90s on your brand new PC. Getting rid of this cruft would remove the bloat and allow them to make a much more streamlined, modern OS, but it would also get rid of most of the reason to stay with Windows in the first place.
It will be interesting to watch what they do for the next version of Windows or two. I think the next version of Windows is supposed to be 64-bit only, so maybe they can get rid of some legacy stuff in that version.
I don't really remember thinking that the original Xbox was laughable. The console of that generation that I thought was laughable was the GameCube; it gave me really low hopes for the Wii, until I played one. Perhaps the Kin disaster isn't foreshadowing what's to come; maybe it's just a misstep on the path to success. For the sake of MS, I hope so, because they will eventually be boxed into a small corner if they can't gain traction in the mobile market.
NAT can be crossed if the users on both sides know the public IP address of the other. Host A sends a stream of garbage to the NAT gateway of Host B. All of these packets will be dropped, but it will make the router allow incoming traffic from that public address to go to Host A. Host B then sends its own garbage data to Host A's gateway, which will then pass through. Host B's router now will let traffic through. Once Host A gets the garbage, it can send an acknowledgement and establish a connection. I did that for a battleship game I wrote many moons ago so that I could play against friends through NAT. Not sure if this will work for all routers, but it worked with ours.
Amateurs have a huge amount of coding tools at their disposal. With a compiler and a text editor, one can go far. With vim and gcc, for example, my only limit is my ability and imagination. That is what I love so much about this field: it is very open.
Windows 7, at least, supports NFS shares (though not out of the box), so using NFS for your home network (assuming that's what it's for) makes sense now. Use that, skip SMB. iSCSI is beyond my knowledge level.
I use FreeBSD, you insensitive clod!
Well, for one, you don't need to use a floppy to get RAID drivers (I'm ignoring slipstreamed install disks). Windows 7 (and Vista?) support SSD TRIM commands; I don't think XP does. Newer hardware might not have XP drivers. There's no Direct X 10 and above. And so on and so forth....
How about they end the monopoly, then? I'm all for that, regardless of whether or not the town government gets free cable TV.
Not really. At the end of the day, it's the taxpayer footing the bill for the misbehaving cop, not the cop himself (at least in every case I've heard of).
I also have an iPhone and live in VA, and there are places I go that have no cellphone service, or very poor sevice, but these are rural areas with very low population density. As a side effect, I do get the occasional dropped call.
Whether or not one can have a democratic sharia law is less important than the end result of sharia law, religious tyranny. It matters little whether this tyranny was put in place by the ballot box or not. This is one of the reasons we place limits on the power of governments, even if 50% + 1 put it in power.
If the low is artificial, does that mean that the high is artificial? Also, what do you mean by artificial? When I see words like that in conjunction with a problem (e.g. bubbles), I tend to think that the solution is to get rid of whatever artificial factor there is, not pile more countermeasures against it (such as this index). There are many schools of thought on this issue.
I can attest to the power that garlic and onions have in preventing AIDS. You see, ingesting these magical foods in large quantities eliminates the possibility of intercourse (or anything else that involves being with 3 meters of a member of the opposite sex), thus staving off the terrible scourge that is AIDS. The risk of getting it becomes very low. Don't you see how much of a forward thinker this minister was?
I would suggest equipping all drivers with rather large wrenches. That might solve the loose nut problem. Either that, or make it so only women and eunuchs can drive.
It might be, but then there's that whole DRM system that's been there since Vista. They really sold out to the RIAA/MPAA.
The hosts file covers them too, as well as anything else that uses the net.
Have you seen pickup trucks nowadays? Some of those things look quite capable of hauling space telescopes around.
You can enable more optimizations, because the baseline processor that will be able to run the 64-bit app will have more features. IIRC, they all will have SSE2 at least. Plus, there are more registers. It shouldn't make a big difference in most office use cases Now, working with ginormous spreadsheets / photos/ videos / whatever may see an advantage.