They are not the first site to try this. I have come across tons of examples in the past where chrome got you one price and IE got you a different price. I actually keep 5 browsers installed to check this out from time to time. None of the Big brand retailers have done it yet that I have soon but it is only a matter of time.
I really hope they figure out how to make a faster read write speed. It is already almost a given that if you have a RAID 5 setup with 2TB drives there is bound to be an error during rebuild. There was a report on the chance of failure of an array using large drives failing during rebuild. So instead of RAID6 or are we going to have to go to a 3 parity RAID?
They claimed RAID 5 should have failed in 09 and that is sata drives but if you put 60TB on a single drive you are asking for trouble IMO. Granted a nice RAID10 would be nice though.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162
This story is old news already. And Motorola was asked on their FB page apologized for the comment and said they are working to help developers while protecting users. I am assuming there will be Dev models or something to that extent that cost a touch more but are open. Or they will just do away with it. Motorola just crawled out of near bankruptcy after all. A lot of people try to root android and brick shit this kind of prevents that. In some ways i like it keeps the script kiddies away from the DX makes sure people know their shit before treading there.
So the first thing I do is say to myself "I gotta see this". Head over to the site to see and sho nuff. All I did was add more traffic to them posting this story helped them out, perhaps that was the plan. Am I the only one that did this and then came to a realization.
This sounds great for what I might be able to do someday on my linux box. But will it run crysis. And even taking that seriously, when will it run it. They are writing this from the ground up it sounds like. DX12 will be out before this ready to have just D3D11. The catchup game is never going to be fast enough. Until developers use something that can run on both systems side by side this is going to be a moot point.
You guys all realize this is a Funny or Die presents video that was re-done with the drunk guy narrating it thats why the actors are in there. Still hilarious though.
I don't want to spend $50 to rent a game that only works until Ubi takes the servers offline permanently, there are a lot of games I come back to years later to play just for the hell of it.
People will still get the RTMs and they will still have pirated copies out before launch just watch. The community of crackers is most times a lot smarter than the people who wrote the DRM in the first place.
In my early days of running servers at home I used 1.x Apache a lot, it will be missed but I must say I love 2.x releases these days and haven't seen much 1.x out there lately.
Making 80% of total production value on an XBOX that is sitting on the shelf is better than making nothing at all you have to figure these aren't made on an as needed basis they are mass produced so total sales overall is the best. Same with Sony both companies will should start breakign even early next year on hardware, I can't find the link now that showed lower manufacturing costs. By them dropping the price some people believe they have already broke even or are startign to turn a profit on hardware.
Glad I downloaded this the day it came out. Odds are some low level tech at M$ used a part of something free he found on the web and thats all there is to it. I am going to break it down when and if it comes back to see what the differences are but until then I am glad I have Windows 7 on my Netbook. Also I may create a blog post with the original file to be used only for "historical and comparison usage" of course. Really all this does is format a flash drive and then copy the files from iso. Anyone could accomplish this with a number of other tools out there.
You do know that bought music can be burned to a cd so the first thing you should have done is backed it up then there would be no reason to bitch about DRM. There is way too much about this. Buy MP3 on the Zune store if it bugs you. I would really like for someone to explain to me why it is so hard to buy a DRM'd cd and burn it to real media that can be ripped at your leisure. Digital products are fine, i love getting things instantly on the fly, but i am also smart enough to know for 5 minutes of my time i can create a hard copy to file away. Any software you buy digitally you can't guarantee the company will be around forever to let you redownload the software. Blank media costs pennies these days and external hard drives are cheap as well. I know in the case of music if the server is turned off or the label pulls the track you are sol even if you have a digital backup that it would need to authenticate to.
I think this could do a lot for Microsoft. One thing is for sure they will need better techs than what you can find at say a Best Buy. If you have people there that actually know the products it could do a lot for people getting what they need not what the high school senior at best buy tells them will do what they need. Also there is a good chance this will be a place to get Xboxs and some of Microsoft's other hardware out there. I am willing to bet there are a lot of retailers who have never heard of some of the hardware MS puts out and it will be nice to see a lot of it and play with it.
Seriously people if you buy anything and you don't take advantage of the rebate by the time it expires too fucking bad. I am so sick of whiny/. ers complaining because they let their coupon expire. This community is supposed to be people that get technology and should have been on the edge of it. The first thing the coupon program should do is take all the names on the list that are people who were already shipped a coupon and daily move them to the back of the line. Here's an idea, go buy a new cell phone pay 300 bucks for it sign a 2 year deal and then piss and moan because you were too lazy to mail in the 200 dollar rebate. See how far that gets you. I hope just to piss off the government and the stupid 5% of the population that all the broadcasters switch anyways. Then let the government sit there and explain why even though the date was pushed back nobody's tv fuckin works
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Even in the downturn there will still be gamers that want more out of what they are playing. Look how many people are still waiting for something to play Crysis decently. and GTAIV is a joke with its lack of anti-aliasing.
Microsoft should just stick to the EU and not add a damn browser at all over there. Then these people who get a nice new computer can plug it into their router and get nowhere. The browser is almost a necessary item now. Who wants to buy a PC and have to remember to grab the free cd to install the browser of their choice. Then again they could always go home and FTP the browser install files, wait. That will be the next one MS will have to take FTP out of windows because its hurting companies that sell FTP software. Hmm what else could be add to the list. While we are at it take notepad and wordpad out of the OS. After you take all of this out ship to the EU and call it Windows FUEU. If DELL or any of the other vendors start adding more crap to a PC that will make the market better for sure. What about those of us who custom build our boxes. And to anyone who thinks apple isn't a monopoly then you are sadly fuckin mistaken. Apple locks down more proprietary shit then MS ever has or will. Look at the fucking Psystar lawsuit that made them the larger monopoly than MS. The difference in Apple is a monopoly by force, MS is just a market leader.
Monopoly - exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices.
If that isn't Apple and forcing you to buy their hardware I don't what the fuck is.
If your wife was shooting you a text on your personal phone about waiting for you naked when you got home would want that sent out to a company wide distribution list. Give the man his personal belongings let him worry about using it properly and trust him a bit. I didn't even vote for the guy but this has been one of the stupidest arguments since the initial debates. We deal with this everyday at work, not on a grand scale like the presidency but the same principal, maybe worse we are always so scared of HIPAA around here.
What if some one company takes open source software and on the request of a Government Official "Adds" a new feature. What is stopping them from adding malicious code. I know corporate QA is a joke but the chance for some small rogue app in open source seems far greater to me.
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Buy the sim for 14.99, then for 49.99 you get unlimited talk and text, they claim unlimited data but they warn and bitch if you use too much.
You don't need to be a gamer. Compiling is a lot faster on SSD too you know.
Phones are lighter and thinner and people keep buying them so obviously they are saying yes with their wallets.
They are not the first site to try this. I have come across tons of examples in the past where chrome got you one price and IE got you a different price. I actually keep 5 browsers installed to check this out from time to time. None of the Big brand retailers have done it yet that I have soon but it is only a matter of time.
BES has an express version as well that is free.
I really hope they figure out how to make a faster read write speed. It is already almost a given that if you have a RAID 5 setup with 2TB drives there is bound to be an error during rebuild. There was a report on the chance of failure of an array using large drives failing during rebuild. So instead of RAID6 or are we going to have to go to a 3 parity RAID? They claimed RAID 5 should have failed in 09 and that is sata drives but if you put 60TB on a single drive you are asking for trouble IMO. Granted a nice RAID10 would be nice though. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162
Where did they get their facts? Wikipedia is flourishing. Don't believe me? Give me ten minutes then go check wikipedia. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-08/
This story is old news already. And Motorola was asked on their FB page apologized for the comment and said they are working to help developers while protecting users. I am assuming there will be Dev models or something to that extent that cost a touch more but are open. Or they will just do away with it. Motorola just crawled out of near bankruptcy after all. A lot of people try to root android and brick shit this kind of prevents that. In some ways i like it keeps the script kiddies away from the DX makes sure people know their shit before treading there.
Not really just decided I would try this typing thing while 4chan is hosed up
So the first thing I do is say to myself "I gotta see this". Head over to the site to see and sho nuff. All I did was add more traffic to them posting this story helped them out, perhaps that was the plan. Am I the only one that did this and then came to a realization.
This sounds great for what I might be able to do someday on my linux box. But will it run crysis. And even taking that seriously, when will it run it. They are writing this from the ground up it sounds like. DX12 will be out before this ready to have just D3D11. The catchup game is never going to be fast enough. Until developers use something that can run on both systems side by side this is going to be a moot point.
You guys all realize this is a Funny or Die presents video that was re-done with the drunk guy narrating it thats why the actors are in there. Still hilarious though.
I don't want to spend $50 to rent a game that only works until Ubi takes the servers offline permanently, there are a lot of games I come back to years later to play just for the hell of it.
People will still get the RTMs and they will still have pirated copies out before launch just watch. The community of crackers is most times a lot smarter than the people who wrote the DRM in the first place.
In my early days of running servers at home I used 1.x Apache a lot, it will be missed but I must say I love 2.x releases these days and haven't seen much 1.x out there lately.
Making 80% of total production value on an XBOX that is sitting on the shelf is better than making nothing at all you have to figure these aren't made on an as needed basis they are mass produced so total sales overall is the best. Same with Sony both companies will should start breakign even early next year on hardware, I can't find the link now that showed lower manufacturing costs. By them dropping the price some people believe they have already broke even or are startign to turn a profit on hardware.
Glad I downloaded this the day it came out. Odds are some low level tech at M$ used a part of something free he found on the web and thats all there is to it. I am going to break it down when and if it comes back to see what the differences are but until then I am glad I have Windows 7 on my Netbook. Also I may create a blog post with the original file to be used only for "historical and comparison usage" of course. Really all this does is format a flash drive and then copy the files from iso. Anyone could accomplish this with a number of other tools out there.
You do know that bought music can be burned to a cd so the first thing you should have done is backed it up then there would be no reason to bitch about DRM. There is way too much about this. Buy MP3 on the Zune store if it bugs you. I would really like for someone to explain to me why it is so hard to buy a DRM'd cd and burn it to real media that can be ripped at your leisure. Digital products are fine, i love getting things instantly on the fly, but i am also smart enough to know for 5 minutes of my time i can create a hard copy to file away. Any software you buy digitally you can't guarantee the company will be around forever to let you redownload the software. Blank media costs pennies these days and external hard drives are cheap as well. I know in the case of music if the server is turned off or the label pulls the track you are sol even if you have a digital backup that it would need to authenticate to.
I think this could do a lot for Microsoft. One thing is for sure they will need better techs than what you can find at say a Best Buy. If you have people there that actually know the products it could do a lot for people getting what they need not what the high school senior at best buy tells them will do what they need. Also there is a good chance this will be a place to get Xboxs and some of Microsoft's other hardware out there. I am willing to bet there are a lot of retailers who have never heard of some of the hardware MS puts out and it will be nice to see a lot of it and play with it.
Seriously people if you buy anything and you don't take advantage of the rebate by the time it expires too fucking bad. I am so sick of whiny /. ers complaining because they let their coupon expire. This community is supposed to be people that get technology and should have been on the edge of it. The first thing the coupon program should do is take all the names on the list that are people who were already shipped a coupon and daily move them to the back of the line. Here's an idea, go buy a new cell phone pay 300 bucks for it sign a 2 year deal and then piss and moan because you were too lazy to mail in the 200 dollar rebate. See how far that gets you. I hope just to piss off the government and the stupid 5% of the population that all the broadcasters switch anyways. Then let the government sit there and explain why even though the date was pushed back nobody's tv fuckin works
Even in the downturn there will still be gamers that want more out of what they are playing. Look how many people are still waiting for something to play Crysis decently. and GTAIV is a joke with its lack of anti-aliasing.
I know and the law is worthless. So much for free enterprise and Darwinism in the world of economics.
Microsoft should just stick to the EU and not add a damn browser at all over there. Then these people who get a nice new computer can plug it into their router and get nowhere. The browser is almost a necessary item now. Who wants to buy a PC and have to remember to grab the free cd to install the browser of their choice. Then again they could always go home and FTP the browser install files, wait. That will be the next one MS will have to take FTP out of windows because its hurting companies that sell FTP software. Hmm what else could be add to the list. While we are at it take notepad and wordpad out of the OS. After you take all of this out ship to the EU and call it Windows FUEU. If DELL or any of the other vendors start adding more crap to a PC that will make the market better for sure. What about those of us who custom build our boxes. And to anyone who thinks apple isn't a monopoly then you are sadly fuckin mistaken. Apple locks down more proprietary shit then MS ever has or will. Look at the fucking Psystar lawsuit that made them the larger monopoly than MS. The difference in Apple is a monopoly by force, MS is just a market leader. Monopoly - exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices. If that isn't Apple and forcing you to buy their hardware I don't what the fuck is.
If your wife was shooting you a text on your personal phone about waiting for you naked when you got home would want that sent out to a company wide distribution list. Give the man his personal belongings let him worry about using it properly and trust him a bit. I didn't even vote for the guy but this has been one of the stupidest arguments since the initial debates. We deal with this everyday at work, not on a grand scale like the presidency but the same principal, maybe worse we are always so scared of HIPAA around here.
What if some one company takes open source software and on the request of a Government Official "Adds" a new feature. What is stopping them from adding malicious code. I know corporate QA is a joke but the chance for some small rogue app in open source seems far greater to me.