Depends. Would I work for the Xbox team or the mobile team? No. OS team, Office team? Probably not. Microsoft Research, which is mostly separate from the main company and does quite a bit of cool stuff? I'd really think about it.
Just like with Sony (awful music department, surprising ebook department), Microsoft is too big to be monolithic. You need to subdivide the company in smaller blocks and analyze each of them separately, for they probably don't work the same way. I'd still rather join Google or one of those awesome game devs like Naughty Dog, Relic or Media Molecule, though.
Well I do hope it was an issue with the glasses/TV I tried, but there was constant HEAVY flickering over all the screen when I tried it out. The kind of flickering I'd usually see on an about-to-die, 40 Hz refresh rate CRT. If that is normal behavior, 3D is dead for me.
Whatever the case though, I can't shake the feeling it's just one huge fad.
I think quite a bit of this can be attributed on generic versus specific behavior. I am not an AI programmer, and I just glanced at the page and videos, but from what I gathered most of the AIs had hardcoded strategies that they would follow blindly. Then, the strength of the AI was directly proportional to the quality of the strategy that was implemented. They would use very specific patterns and follow them systematically.
What I would be curious about would be a more generic AI. Instead of using known strategies, the AI would analyze the battlefield and would, for instance, focus fire on support units (not on "medics" or "science vessels", but using the stats of the unit to determine its usage and purpose) or the most dangerous units (air-to-ground would prioritize fire on ground-to-air units) or the most important buildings (using ratios and comparisons to determine this, instead of hardcoding that building A is critical). Technically, it could then be able to react to a lot more situations and would also be adaptable if the fight changes or if the enemy bot has a counter for whatever strategy had been planned. Obviously, a generic bot is harder to build and it might also not be as efficient when compared to singular strategies, but it would be an interesting experiment to make.
How come there's never been a conflict of interest investigation/defense/whatever about this? It's pretty clear that the guy isn't entirely impartial about this.
Sony tends to have a lot of peripheral features that, while unrelated to the primary purpose of the product, still add to its value. By stretching in this manner, though, they also tend not to perfect much of what they do, sometimes pulling features altogether because they don't get them working the way they want. For some reason, they also have a hard time engaging with their customers, so they often cause the ire of their fans by removing stuff as a unilateral, business-minded decision. The suits control the company and shut down a lot of stuff which I think were conceived and implemented by engineers, designers and people more directly related to the product.The higher ups just don't understand.
Nintendo, on the other hand, usually has a very focused experience. They have few, if any, extraneous features (web browser on DS?), so they don't/can't remove anything because that would immediately cripple the core features of the machines.
Microsoft is more like Sony, but whereas Sony is a hardware company, Microsoft is a software company. I think that really shows: Sony's hardware is usually of a much greater quality than Microsoft (sleeker, less hardware defects) while Microsoft's software is far more advanced (XBL, NXE). Ironically, a Sony-Microsoft joint venture would benefit both companies far more than any other.
I don't know where the complaining comes from. I have never, ever had to wait for a movie to load on a BD disk. The time required for things to load is roughly equal to that of DVDs and it has never bothered me. You can find complaints about Blu-ray, but I think this one is just nitpicking.
This does not change the fact that the US and other countries have declared war on these countries at some point in recent history, which was what I was highlighting. That the US made a 180 and courted them to use them in the Middle-East both does not surprise me and doesn't change what I meant to say.
When I read something like this, the first thing I do is look at the defense budget. I'm sorry, but until a country cuts the fat in the absolutely useless military, they have no right to declare they're short on money. The UK wastes 36 BILLION POUNDS a year for that. No, it can't be brought down to zero, even though that would be an obvious help, but surely you can get back a few billions from there? Oh wait, you'd rather make your children stupid and/or sick and destroy the science effort of your country. Right, that's obviously the better choice.
Disclaimer: I'm not a UK citizen and my country is also wasting money to fund the military (even going as far as buying your ready-to-sink subs...). I just find it hypocritical how govts justify budget cuts in many areas, yet spend more every year on military. Don't get me started on the US.
With Office 2007 and above you can even hide the entire ribbon, leaving almost nothing to distract you, if you so desire. It's both practical for small screens and it helps isolating you if you're easily distracted.
I remember many similar stories already making the headlines here. I don't want to downplay their achievement, it's cool, but it's not really new or exciting anymore for anyone but them. I was hoping a real heavier-than-air craft, not another weather balloon.
I believe you're reading too much out of a single line. If the cell's maintaining its undifferentiated state, then you can easily show that it'd be able to divide itself indefinitely. I'm not a biologist or a physician, but I'm pretty sure that, at this point, we still don't know much about what could happen in either embryonic or adult stem cells after a lot of divisions as part of a therapy.
That already exists in the form of lecturers, although they don't need video to do their job. You can bet that if you put a bunch of mildly interested students in a darkly lit room with a video projection, the volume of snorting will soon outmatch the sound coming from the TV.
As someone who switched from a 8800 GTX to a HD 5850, I'm always struck by how little OpenCL is being used currently. I have seen and heard lots about CUDA, but not about OpenCL. Also, AMD/ATI's graphics drivers really suck in comparison to Nvidia's ones.
AMD will have to do a lot of work to manage to gain the upper hand again. People don't care that they have an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU (integrated or not) or AMD/ATI, as long as it works.
You're mistaking the i7-9xx for the i7-8xx. Only 9xx are on the more expensive X58 chipset. I'm not saying P55 motherboards are cheap, but they're certainly cheaper.
Impulse does not force DRM, while Steam does. The DRM's up to the publisher. Stardock's games, for instance, can be downloaded through Impulse and then played with Impulse off. Actually, Impulse itself cannot run in the background, they have a separate launcher app for that.
The downside is that Impulse rarely has better prices than Steam.
That Apple removed floppies and they disappeared in the end only means they were 10 years too early. If I remove my DVD drive from my computer now, am I a visionary or just stupid?
It's unfortunate that any new ISP would be subject to using the network of one of those problematic ISPs. The only possible solution would be to make the entire infrastructure public, but I doubt lobbyists would allow that to happen, anywhere in the world.
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Depends. Would I work for the Xbox team or the mobile team? No. OS team, Office team? Probably not. Microsoft Research, which is mostly separate from the main company and does quite a bit of cool stuff? I'd really think about it.
Just like with Sony (awful music department, surprising ebook department), Microsoft is too big to be monolithic. You need to subdivide the company in smaller blocks and analyze each of them separately, for they probably don't work the same way. I'd still rather join Google or one of those awesome game devs like Naughty Dog, Relic or Media Molecule, though.
If you pay for the waste processing plant.
Well I do hope it was an issue with the glasses/TV I tried, but there was constant HEAVY flickering over all the screen when I tried it out. The kind of flickering I'd usually see on an about-to-die, 40 Hz refresh rate CRT. If that is normal behavior, 3D is dead for me.
Whatever the case though, I can't shake the feeling it's just one huge fad.
I think quite a bit of this can be attributed on generic versus specific behavior. I am not an AI programmer, and I just glanced at the page and videos, but from what I gathered most of the AIs had hardcoded strategies that they would follow blindly. Then, the strength of the AI was directly proportional to the quality of the strategy that was implemented. They would use very specific patterns and follow them systematically.
What I would be curious about would be a more generic AI. Instead of using known strategies, the AI would analyze the battlefield and would, for instance, focus fire on support units (not on "medics" or "science vessels", but using the stats of the unit to determine its usage and purpose) or the most dangerous units (air-to-ground would prioritize fire on ground-to-air units) or the most important buildings (using ratios and comparisons to determine this, instead of hardcoding that building A is critical). Technically, it could then be able to react to a lot more situations and would also be adaptable if the fight changes or if the enemy bot has a counter for whatever strategy had been planned. Obviously, a generic bot is harder to build and it might also not be as efficient when compared to singular strategies, but it would be an interesting experiment to make.
How come there's never been a conflict of interest investigation/defense/whatever about this? It's pretty clear that the guy isn't entirely impartial about this.
Sony tends to have a lot of peripheral features that, while unrelated to the primary purpose of the product, still add to its value. By stretching in this manner, though, they also tend not to perfect much of what they do, sometimes pulling features altogether because they don't get them working the way they want. For some reason, they also have a hard time engaging with their customers, so they often cause the ire of their fans by removing stuff as a unilateral, business-minded decision. The suits control the company and shut down a lot of stuff which I think were conceived and implemented by engineers, designers and people more directly related to the product.The higher ups just don't understand.
Nintendo, on the other hand, usually has a very focused experience. They have few, if any, extraneous features (web browser on DS?), so they don't/can't remove anything because that would immediately cripple the core features of the machines.
Microsoft is more like Sony, but whereas Sony is a hardware company, Microsoft is a software company. I think that really shows: Sony's hardware is usually of a much greater quality than Microsoft (sleeker, less hardware defects) while Microsoft's software is far more advanced (XBL, NXE). Ironically, a Sony-Microsoft joint venture would benefit both companies far more than any other.
Ya, and the Wii is you flogging around with what looks like a remote control. It'll never work...
Oh wait.
I don't know where the complaining comes from. I have never, ever had to wait for a movie to load on a BD disk. The time required for things to load is roughly equal to that of DVDs and it has never bothered me. You can find complaints about Blu-ray, but I think this one is just nitpicking.
This does not change the fact that the US and other countries have declared war on these countries at some point in recent history, which was what I was highlighting. That the US made a 180 and courted them to use them in the Middle-East both does not surprise me and doesn't change what I meant to say.
Difference being, each of those countries were/are seen as enemies to the West for what they have done. China is seen as a business partner.
If that was the case, nobody would shop at Walmart. Chinese goods are cheap, consumers like cheap.
When I read something like this, the first thing I do is look at the defense budget. I'm sorry, but until a country cuts the fat in the absolutely useless military, they have no right to declare they're short on money. The UK wastes 36 BILLION POUNDS a year for that. No, it can't be brought down to zero, even though that would be an obvious help, but surely you can get back a few billions from there? Oh wait, you'd rather make your children stupid and/or sick and destroy the science effort of your country. Right, that's obviously the better choice.
Disclaimer: I'm not a UK citizen and my country is also wasting money to fund the military (even going as far as buying your ready-to-sink subs...). I just find it hypocritical how govts justify budget cuts in many areas, yet spend more every year on military. Don't get me started on the US.
With Office 2007 and above you can even hide the entire ribbon, leaving almost nothing to distract you, if you so desire. It's both practical for small screens and it helps isolating you if you're easily distracted.
I remember many similar stories already making the headlines here. I don't want to downplay their achievement, it's cool, but it's not really new or exciting anymore for anyone but them. I was hoping a real heavier-than-air craft, not another weather balloon.
Way to dodge the question, heh.
I believe you're reading too much out of a single line. If the cell's maintaining its undifferentiated state, then you can easily show that it'd be able to divide itself indefinitely. I'm not a biologist or a physician, but I'm pretty sure that, at this point, we still don't know much about what could happen in either embryonic or adult stem cells after a lot of divisions as part of a therapy.
That already exists in the form of lecturers, although they don't need video to do their job. You can bet that if you put a bunch of mildly interested students in a darkly lit room with a video projection, the volume of snorting will soon outmatch the sound coming from the TV.
It's worse than the RIAA. At least the US do have Pandora.
I'm sorry, but AMD has no high end. They compete very well in low and mid ranges, but high end is just Intel.
As someone who switched from a 8800 GTX to a HD 5850, I'm always struck by how little OpenCL is being used currently. I have seen and heard lots about CUDA, but not about OpenCL. Also, AMD/ATI's graphics drivers really suck in comparison to Nvidia's ones.
AMD will have to do a lot of work to manage to gain the upper hand again. People don't care that they have an Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU (integrated or not) or AMD/ATI, as long as it works.
You're mistaking the i7-9xx for the i7-8xx. Only 9xx are on the more expensive X58 chipset. I'm not saying P55 motherboards are cheap, but they're certainly cheaper.
So instead of Spiderman we get... Plantman?
Impulse does not force DRM, while Steam does. The DRM's up to the publisher. Stardock's games, for instance, can be downloaded through Impulse and then played with Impulse off. Actually, Impulse itself cannot run in the background, they have a separate launcher app for that.
The downside is that Impulse rarely has better prices than Steam.
That Apple removed floppies and they disappeared in the end only means they were 10 years too early. If I remove my DVD drive from my computer now, am I a visionary or just stupid?
It's unfortunate that any new ISP would be subject to using the network of one of those problematic ISPs. The only possible solution would be to make the entire infrastructure public, but I doubt lobbyists would allow that to happen, anywhere in the world.