Because the PC gaming is aiming at a different demographic than console gaming. Console games are "simpler"/"easyer" by their nature. The range of input is wider and more precise on a PC. For example, aim assist is basically required to play a FPS game on a console, aim assist is seen as lame by PC gamers. Console games are made more "accessible" (dumber/simpler) and as a result many "core" PC player are turned off by these games. The same thing, the PC gaming experience will never totally die, it will remain at least as a niche. What will power my big screen, mouse and keyboard will be a different thing; I can imagine my "phone" being put into a cradle and run the latest and greatest competitive game.
I think you are thinking about Ubuntu on Android. Sure I also think that something like that is the future. But what is "the PC" really? For certain things you will still want a large screen and a keyboard and mouse... maybe augmented with touch... I think it is crucial that Microsoft does not forget this, if they want to stay alive. But the way things are going now, it appears not to be the case.
I could not agree more with that. I think the current approach to Window 8 and metro is dead in the water. I installed the Windows 8 preview on my Netbook and it sucks like hell. Sure I can imagine the tablet use case to be rally nice and snappy and I like the new look an feel. But if you start to seriously work with that thing, you go crazy each time you don't find your program in the start screen. Oh, and don't get me started on the "gestures" thing where you need to ram you mouse into one corner to open a menu. If Microsoft would have taken an approach like Windows Media Center, it would have been the best of the two worlds. Base Windows with metro ontop; on your desktop no meto on your tablet metro by default (and on your DVR system Windows Media Center by default). It would be so simple and straight forward. But it seams like the don't get what is really wanted by their users... But they tend to learn for a the next version (until they screw up the follwing one); think Windows ME -> Windows XP; Windows Vista -> Windows 7... Windows 8 -> ???
What really is missing in the equation is the "personal cloud", something with the ease of use of "the cloud" but my hardware (and probably my software). I wonder why people haven't come up with that, a way to redirect web storage services to your local network or your dedicated hardware in the web... I just hope that this will come in the following years.
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Actually not, if it is a legit commit as Linus... That is the extent he can fake any account...
Oh yea, don't forget, is is a US company that must obey US law. If they have a court order saying to seize all *.ru domains, they must comply with it or be forced out of business. Sure it will have a detrimental effect on diplomatic relations, but it is technically possible. The good news is though that (hopefully) courts will recognize that other than com, net, org, edu, gov and us are they don't have jurisdiction.
The best are those with jeans, a shirt, a hard hat and a slim briefcase; puts you into the architect, structural engineer category. Workers might not like you, but they will definitely go out of your way, since you must be important.
Actually being "part of Anonymous" is nothing and everything. Being an active member on any chan and posting as Anonymous (like everybody else) and actively spreading and fostering ideas is also Anonymous, no tools required...
Actually a friend of mine has a 1.8 SSD drive that contains only the boot loader to his system and he caries it around with him. (Yes, he is crazy.) So unless they get a hand onto that thing, there is plausible denial that his system was just recently wiped. (Which causes totally different problems...)
I am not so sure about that monitoring thing here. I understand the basic sentiment and you need clear rules of conduct for the schools IT resources. The big problem is children are involved you must be VERY CAREFUL that you don't trample on their privacy rights. You know you have a problem when you installing a monitoring software goes for securing the IT systems to you pervert spying on our poor children.
Unless you are professional photographer that sells your pictures, there is no real need to go to all this length. Just duplicate the pictures and be done with it.
You also are mistaken on the copyright issue here. Unless you are in a clear cut contractual situation, everyone who contributed to the picture has a claim to the copyright. That is the person who shot the picture, the person on the picture and probably who ever own the background...
You couldn't be more wrong! Yes, there is room for improvement, but companies like Foxcon are actually the better alternative. People travel long ways to go work there. Why? Because they get food and education for their children, something they would not get in the rural area they lived in. These people choose to move from the "middle ages" to the "industrial revolution", they have a choice and factory work is the better alternative.
Is it a good idea for companies to move their production to these countries? What would they do if the production would be still in "here" (by varying degrees of here)? Yes, exactly robots! Do you think robots are better than Chinese workers?
Here is some food for thought, what is better? Pumping money into foreign economies and actually helping them bootstrap themselves or sending a few million sacs of rice every year for eternity, because they are starving?
... or letting Joe and Jane feel safer. They had military in airports without bullets, TSA and most airport security is about making the passengers feel safe.
That is not totally true. They need to pay the people who performed/made for the recording. Sure the royalties are not as base. In addition many have some blanket deals for music in public places, these are quite affordable no matter what music you play.
What good does your DRM do when it is software that can be altered? You know, patch a few NOP statements over your if statement. Unless it is multiplayer and your don't hand out the server (see how good that works) you have no real leverage with DRM. The only thing you are preventing is some guy installing his copy on 2 PCs. But if they really want to do that they will get a crack for that anyway. I see zero gains in adding DRM. If you don't sell your game it is purely because your price/value ratio is not adequate, reducing the value by adding DRM will not net you money.
And THAT is why encryption and stenography exists. Want to google for CP? Just need to know the trigger words du jour and you will find. And let's not even start with freenet. It is naive to think that they will catch well organized criminals with these approaches, they only get the low hanging fruit. The more they pressure it the more they go underground. What really breaks the organized crime is real police work, like infiltrating the crime ring.
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Because the PC gaming is aiming at a different demographic than console gaming. Console games are "simpler"/"easyer" by their nature. The range of input is wider and more precise on a PC. For example, aim assist is basically required to play a FPS game on a console, aim assist is seen as lame by PC gamers. Console games are made more "accessible" (dumber/simpler) and as a result many "core" PC player are turned off by these games. The same thing, the PC gaming experience will never totally die, it will remain at least as a niche. What will power my big screen, mouse and keyboard will be a different thing; I can imagine my "phone" being put into a cradle and run the latest and greatest competitive game.
I think you are thinking about Ubuntu on Android. Sure I also think that something like that is the future. But what is "the PC" really? For certain things you will still want a large screen and a keyboard and mouse... maybe augmented with touch... I think it is crucial that Microsoft does not forget this, if they want to stay alive. But the way things are going now, it appears not to be the case.
If you get it to run an a VM, that is... All the VMs that I tried failed.
But on the other hand, GP is kind of lame; You install an OPERATING SYSTEM, what did you think it does?
Though Microsoft could have make a VM style preview and many would have been happier with it... But then that is Microsoft...
I could not agree more with that. I think the current approach to Window 8 and metro is dead in the water. I installed the Windows 8 preview on my Netbook and it sucks like hell. Sure I can imagine the tablet use case to be rally nice and snappy and I like the new look an feel. But if you start to seriously work with that thing, you go crazy each time you don't find your program in the start screen. Oh, and don't get me started on the "gestures" thing where you need to ram you mouse into one corner to open a menu. If Microsoft would have taken an approach like Windows Media Center, it would have been the best of the two worlds. Base Windows with metro ontop; on your desktop no meto on your tablet metro by default (and on your DVR system Windows Media Center by default). It would be so simple and straight forward. But it seams like the don't get what is really wanted by their users... But they tend to learn for a the next version (until they screw up the follwing one); think Windows ME -> Windows XP; Windows Vista -> Windows 7... Windows 8 -> ???
It depends with whom you share...
... or see the teammate that I'm supposed to be healing...
Speaking of playing games, I am always annoyed as hell when my fingers are in the way of the screen.
Do is sense an anti trust suit? Yes I do!
Right leg on blue circle.
What really is missing in the equation is the "personal cloud", something with the ease of use of "the cloud" but my hardware (and probably my software). I wonder why people haven't come up with that, a way to redirect web storage services to your local network or your dedicated hardware in the web... I just hope that this will come in the following years.
Actually not, if it is a legit commit as Linus... That is the extent he can fake any account...
Oh yea, don't forget, is is a US company that must obey US law. If they have a court order saying to seize all *.ru domains, they must comply with it or be forced out of business. Sure it will have a detrimental effect on diplomatic relations, but it is technically possible. The good news is though that (hopefully) courts will recognize that other than com, net, org, edu, gov and us are they don't have jurisdiction.
The best are those with jeans, a shirt, a hard hat and a slim briefcase; puts you into the architect, structural engineer category. Workers might not like you, but they will definitely go out of your way, since you must be important.
They "existed" well beforehand, the RFC 1738 was written to get things standardized, actually like most internet technology...
Actually being "part of Anonymous" is nothing and everything. Being an active member on any chan and posting as Anonymous (like everybody else) and actively spreading and fostering ideas is also Anonymous, no tools required...
P.S. It needs more DESU!
Actually a friend of mine has a 1.8 SSD drive that contains only the boot loader to his system and he caries it around with him. (Yes, he is crazy.) So unless they get a hand onto that thing, there is plausible denial that his system was just recently wiped. (Which causes totally different problems...)
I am not so sure about that monitoring thing here. I understand the basic sentiment and you need clear rules of conduct for the schools IT resources. The big problem is children are involved you must be VERY CAREFUL that you don't trample on their privacy rights. You know you have a problem when you installing a monitoring software goes for securing the IT systems to you pervert spying on our poor children.
Oh no we can't have 9.99$! I am so confused if I see 9.95$...
Unless you are professional photographer that sells your pictures, there is no real need to go to all this length. Just duplicate the pictures and be done with it.
You also are mistaken on the copyright issue here. Unless you are in a clear cut contractual situation, everyone who contributed to the picture has a claim to the copyright. That is the person who shot the picture, the person on the picture and probably who ever own the background...
You couldn't be more wrong! Yes, there is room for improvement, but companies like Foxcon are actually the better alternative. People travel long ways to go work there. Why? Because they get food and education for their children, something they would not get in the rural area they lived in. These people choose to move from the "middle ages" to the "industrial revolution", they have a choice and factory work is the better alternative.
Is it a good idea for companies to move their production to these countries? What would they do if the production would be still in "here" (by varying degrees of here)? Yes, exactly robots! Do you think robots are better than Chinese workers?
Here is some food for thought, what is better? Pumping money into foreign economies and actually helping them bootstrap themselves or sending a few million sacs of rice every year for eternity, because they are starving?
... or letting Joe and Jane feel safer. They had military in airports without bullets, TSA and most airport security is about making the passengers feel safe.
That is not totally true. They need to pay the people who performed/made for the recording. Sure the royalties are not as base. In addition many have some blanket deals for music in public places, these are quite affordable no matter what music you play.
As a matter of fact, I would like this feature. If my bank site fails, I will not use it. If some crummy board fails, who cares...
If twitter can run their servers at something like 99.999% then a CA can too...
What good does your DRM do when it is software that can be altered? You know, patch a few NOP statements over your if statement. Unless it is multiplayer and your don't hand out the server (see how good that works) you have no real leverage with DRM. The only thing you are preventing is some guy installing his copy on 2 PCs. But if they really want to do that they will get a crack for that anyway. I see zero gains in adding DRM. If you don't sell your game it is purely because your price/value ratio is not adequate, reducing the value by adding DRM will not net you money.
And THAT is why encryption and stenography exists. Want to google for CP? Just need to know the trigger words du jour and you will find. And let's not even start with freenet. It is naive to think that they will catch well organized criminals with these approaches, they only get the low hanging fruit. The more they pressure it the more they go underground. What really breaks the organized crime is real police work, like infiltrating the crime ring.