Despite the hype, plastics are still very chemically similar to the organic compounds they are made from.
Know what the difference is between Strychnine and LSD is, chemically? There isn't one. But the way the atoms are arranged will make the difference between a pleasant experience and a painful death.
There are a few lab-produced chemicals that are truly foreign to the biosphere, but plastics are much more familiar to the ecology than we were told each Earth Day.
If right now I pushed a button and humanity suffered a total existance failure, in a thousand years there would be no buildings. No concrete. No roads. There would be almost nothing left that could still be identified as foreign, still identified as having been left by humans. Except plastic. Most of our plastic will still be here, in the same form we molded them from, thousands of years from now. Nuclear waste breaks down faster than plastic.
The main argument for plastic alienation is that the dominant oil-eating organisms are deep ocean dwellers and all the testing was done in standard landfill conditions with the sorts of fungi and bacteria that thrive in anaerobic mud.
Actually, the main arguments is that most plastic production depends on dead dino juice and there's only a limited supply of it, that it doesn't break down on less than a geological timescale, that it's difficult to re-use, and as it shreds itself down to the molecular level, it becomes a poison that infests the entire food chain.. and is now appearing in our own blood and tissue samples in detectable quantities, as well as being linked to all manner of health problems.
Yes, and unlike you, I also used my brain: Chopping something that's lighter than water in half doesn't change the fact that it's still lighter than water. Repeating a process a thousand more times and expecting a different result isn't just wrong... it's the very definition of insanity.
I just get a little tired of the scientific media and even some evolutionary biologists who act surprised when things happen that are predicted by their science.
It's the difference between theory and observation, my dear. A scientist will always be excited when the two match. It's no different than the landing of the Mars rovers. Sure, we expected them to land... but we still broke out the champaign and celebrated when they did.
Regarding the four words in STEM, I always thought that 'Science and Technology' and 'Technology and Engineering' are too close, semantically, to be used in that acronym. But I agree that Art should have been in it from the start!
Yes... they're very similar to each other and make a natural acronym in english. Let's fuck with that because I want to shove unrelated things into it that I think are a benefit to me and then follow with a "for the children" argument. Are you from Congress per-chance?
I'm always confounded when evolution does what it is predicted to do and we are all surprised by it. That waste can be used as food. Something will find a way to eat it.
That's not strictly accurate. Neither is the supposition "and eventually sink to the sea floor." There are two growing patches of plastic which has been ground down to the point where it is now a gloppy film-like consistency to much of it, and it has been bleached white from UV light, and although it's almost degraded to the molecular level... it's not sinking.
Worse, it's killing everything in the area as animals try to turn it into food... which in turn thanks to the food chain, means other animals, who didn't eat it, become contaminated by it, and so on and so on. But at no point has there been much evidence of evolutionary adaptation to convert this plastic waste into an actual food product. Animals adapt to its presence... and maybe eventually won't die because it is infesting the environment... but anything much more complicated than an amoeba has shown zero ability to metabolize this.
You can't trust evolution to clean up after you.:/ This argument is as specious as suggesting that we shouldn't worry about global warming because eventually a creature will be born that eats all of our waste for us and shits out rainbows.
Well, if the public wants something, it should pay for it (through taxes). It shouldn't try to stick random bystanders with the cost, not just because it's unjust, but because it doesn't work: the predictable consequence of such laws is that what you consider valuable now just quietly disappears altogether.
Bingo. This guy gets it. The responsibility is being laid with the wrong party; You're making these people responsible for unspecified and possibly prohibitively expensive work, and they're being paid by contracts with tight margins. Contracts don't say "Oh by the way, you may have to eat an extra $20 mil on your basement remodel because we found a cave there that nobody knew about. The contract is for $50,000 of work. ha ha."
If the government hadn't half-assed it and setup some kind of insurance fund and then just applied a.xx % tax to contract work done to support such excavations, etc., you'd be seeing a lot more cooperation. Not total cooperation, because not everyone wants their construction job delayed and a few asshats will try to hide it to keep the time tables, but it wouldn't be common industry practice, which is what this fail law causes.
and neglects to define Superman as character, leaving him only as a hollow symbol and stock character,
(dons asbestoes flame suit) Superman's character definition is as a hollow symbol and stock character. I mean seriously, he's supposed to be perfect. No major character flaws. Unerringly good. Massively overpowered... and only weakness is a special mineral that fell to Earth and can only be found in small amounts, glows to alert you of its presence, and can be detected by the hero when brought nearby. In other words, the only weapon that can defeat him he's given ample warning is in play.
There's not a lot of character development to do there; How exactly do you improve on a guy that's the very personification of "good"? All you can do with a character like that is create dramatic tension and a sense of moral conflict. Superman's only plot device is thus conflict. There will never be any real character change per-se.
Let the nerd rage boileth over now... for I have smote a loved hero upon the mountainside. (pulls down face mask)
Regulations don't work if people are criminals? What a fucking surprise.
Sure they do. They just work slowly. If I break into your house and steal your TV, the odds of me getting caught are pretty low. If I break into a hundred houses and steal their TVs too... chances are good they're going to bust me. When you stop looking at police as a way to prevent crime and instead as a way to deter crime, it becomes quite a bit clearer how it all fits together.
And for people saying "gun regulation can't work! Only criminals will have guns!", (The classic contemporary anti-regulation argument) I refer them to the fact that gun regulation on the purchase of silencers has been so effective that very few people have them. Regulation does work -- it works by preventing systemic abuse or crime, in the same way that traffic signals can't stop you from driving however you want... but people mostly obey the laws anyway because (a) it actually does keep them safer, and (b) it's a big fat fine and possible loss of driving privileges if you're busted too many times breaking too many laws.
I uhh, didn't mean for this to be 'funny'. I'm deadly serious: The law of unintended consequences is working overtime here. This is another classic example of how strict liability laws cause grave injustices. In the ideal case, nobody should ever be punished for trying to do the right think, contacting proper authorities, and generally taking personal responsibility for reporting a possible crime or public safety concern, or in cases where there is immediate threat to life, taking action -- even if such action in hindsight is later determined to have been unnecessary, incomplete, etc.
Laws like this take away a person's incentive and motivation to do good by others. To take personal responsibility. To be good citizens.
While its intent may have been to protect burial sites, etc., a noble idea... the actual effect has been to punish a living, responsible, contributing member of society for disturbing inanimate objects with no intrinsic value. It is, in effect, a form of religious bigotry -- not everyone believes that the remains of the dead have value, and nature doesn't give a damn... it recycles you when you're dead. And the judges' hands are tied on this because in strict liability cases, mens rea can't be considered -- that is, your motivation is totally irrelevant. I mean, even if it's to save lives, you're still just as guilty as if you'd done it out of pure malice and hatred.
Think you found the bones of someone who was murdered in Canada? Better be safe: Help the original killer by reburying the bones somewhere else. Thank you for your cooperation, Citizen.
Can you elaborate on that? I haven't seen Visual Studio hiding any code.
Mostly the initialization routines. In the old days, it would have been called winmain() and it would do all kinds of (pretty standard) initializations before regurgitating a useful handle to a window that you'd then nail the rest of your code to. It can also be frustrating when it derps on some dependency and you have to go searching for the right reference to add. When it derps hardcore, it won't even display the full IDE, spitting out a clusterfuck of errors over something you deleted but forgot to remove all the references to, and throws a shit fit... and you wind up having to rebuild the entire project and copy pasta your code into the new one to get it to build clean.
Visual Studio is fine for "lightweight" programming, but when you leave the sandbox Microsoft has made for you, shit gets real ugly, real fast.
Not trying to attack you or anything, but I just wanted to point out that germane doesn't mean what you seem to be using it to mean here.
Actually, it means the exact opposite of what was intended. I was trying for a spot of dramatic irony... but meeeeh. It doesn't come across so well on ye olde internetz.
Weird, most of the posts I've read from GirlinTraining have been interesting and well received by slashdot. Enough so that I remember her/his name. I can't say the same for either of you. Maybe you should try to contribute to the discussion rather than throwing stones?
Ah, who was it that said, "if ever a genius should appear you shall know them by this sign: That all the dunces will be in alliance against them." I take the hate mail in stride... if I'm not hated, I'm doing something wrong -- people only start throwing stones, throwing hissy fits, and generally behaving badly, when you start getting close to the truth. Given that almost all of my posts get at least a few "-1, Too Close For Comfort" mods and crap like this, I must be the most honest bitch out there.
Well, okay, at least the snarkiest though. Give me that atleast, right?;)
You know mods... I was going more for inciteful than insightful... also known as "funny". Please, if you're gonna mod me up for being a snarky bitch, at least make sure the final mod is Funny, ok? I got a reputation to uphold....:)
If it was so different and awesome in architecture that it delivered really innovative stuff then this might be OK
Yeah, if my car could go 500 MPH and get 100 miles to the gallon, but could only drive on gravel country roads far from where I live, it might be okay. Coz you know, car analogies. Obligatory. -_-
As I said above, play games on a PC, in Linux ideally.
Yes, because executing arbitrary code under Linux is safer than executing arbitrary code under Windows, right? Most games are still closed source. And Linux has had plenty of security vulnerabilities over the years as well. If that's the only thing you're basing your decision on, well...
Let me see it I got that right: Sonny p0wing your computer is just stupid, but MS making an always online console is weapons grade stupid? I got that right?
Sony got found out pretty early on there, bud. See, that's the awesome part about even the partly open systems of the Windows world. You can't hide your dirty laundry for long.. and let's be honest: There's people out there far better than Sony at this. It was amateur hour, okay? This was a middle manager telling his engineers to make this happen "or else", and not much more thought put into it than that, because he read in a trade show mag somewhere it was his duty to defend the company from the evil pirates by any means necessary, ethics be damned. And the poor bastard fell into that pit trap and took the whole company's public reputation with him.
It was stupid, ill-thought out, and poorly executed.
Now on the other side, we have the XBone... it's watching you like some creepy stalker, while you undress, while you watch TV.. recording everything you do... it makes the NSA's capturing of your phone's "meta data" look positively germane. I mean, they're making no bones about the XBone's objective here: It's to hoover-vac every last shred of privacy you ever had and sell it to the highest bidder.
This was deliberate, well thought out, well-funded, and the only thing that was poorly executed here was the public relations. They've come out looking like some lovecraftian horror beast about to be sent back into the deep by Johnny Depp wearing a pirate hat... They served their asses on a silver platter. But no... there is no contest here man. Not. Even. Fucking. Close.
101. Since I would have to pay 500$ for it, will I be able to run my own software on the Xbox One?
Today Microsoft Studios and the world's biggest and most renowned publishers, including 343 Industries, Crytek, Turn 10 Studios, Capcom and Insomniac Games, unveiled their blockbuster games lineup for Xbox One, with more exclusive titles than at any time in the history of Xbox. We're excited to share more about our complete launch portfolio over the coming weeks and months.
101. Since I would have to pay 500$ for it, will I be able to run my own software on the Xbox One?
Similar to Xbox 360, Xbox Live on Xbox One is free to any system owner with a broadband Internet connection and includes access to a robust catalog of gaming content on Xbox Marketplace and personal profiles.
101. Since I would have to pay 500$ for it, will I be able to run my own software on the Xbox One?
We're in continued discussions with a broad set of content providers and owners but we don't have anything to announce at this time.
101. Since I would have to pay 500$ for it, will I be able to run my own software on the Xbox One?
I exorcise thee, every unclean spirit, in the name of Ballmer the Father, and in the name of Microsoft, our lord and judge, and in the power of the Holy Console, that thou depart from this creature of Consumer which our Lord has designed to call unto his Holy temple. I cast out you noxious vermin, through the same Christ our Lord, who shall come to judge the living and the dead, and the world by fire.
Must connect to the internet once a day or locks you out, extreme limitations on lending or buying used games, etc. An excellent reason to play Steam games under Linux overall.
Normally I'd snark this, but I got nothing. I mean, I'm just bone dry here. It's so stupidifying that I think it may have temporarily caused my brain to seize up like an old VW bug.
Well, since you were a bit non-specific on what you're feeling butthurt about, I'll have to guess...Holy shit, a console made out of spare parts still has a better rep than the Xbone. Allows you to run your own software. Costs $99. 63,000 pre-orders. Meanwhile, at Microsoft HQ... "There aren't any official numbers..." (troll face)
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Well, this will be fun. Bruce Wayne is probably the only one that could sue Apple for patent infringement and win.
Despite the hype, plastics are still very chemically similar to the organic compounds they are made from.
Know what the difference is between Strychnine and LSD is, chemically? There isn't one. But the way the atoms are arranged will make the difference between a pleasant experience and a painful death.
There are a few lab-produced chemicals that are truly foreign to the biosphere, but plastics are much more familiar to the ecology than we were told each Earth Day.
If right now I pushed a button and humanity suffered a total existance failure, in a thousand years there would be no buildings. No concrete. No roads. There would be almost nothing left that could still be identified as foreign, still identified as having been left by humans. Except plastic. Most of our plastic will still be here, in the same form we molded them from, thousands of years from now. Nuclear waste breaks down faster than plastic.
The main argument for plastic alienation is that the dominant oil-eating organisms are deep ocean dwellers and all the testing was done in standard landfill conditions with the sorts of fungi and bacteria that thrive in anaerobic mud.
Actually, the main arguments is that most plastic production depends on dead dino juice and there's only a limited supply of it, that it doesn't break down on less than a geological timescale, that it's difficult to re-use, and as it shreds itself down to the molecular level, it becomes a poison that infests the entire food chain.. and is now appearing in our own blood and tissue samples in detectable quantities, as well as being linked to all manner of health problems.
You like read the summary at least right?
Yes, and unlike you, I also used my brain: Chopping something that's lighter than water in half doesn't change the fact that it's still lighter than water. Repeating a process a thousand more times and expecting a different result isn't just wrong... it's the very definition of insanity.
I just get a little tired of the scientific media and even some evolutionary biologists who act surprised when things happen that are predicted by their science.
It's the difference between theory and observation, my dear. A scientist will always be excited when the two match. It's no different than the landing of the Mars rovers. Sure, we expected them to land... but we still broke out the champaign and celebrated when they did.
Regarding the four words in STEM, I always thought that 'Science and Technology' and 'Technology and Engineering' are too close, semantically, to be used in that acronym. But I agree that Art should have been in it from the start!
Yes... they're very similar to each other and make a natural acronym in english. Let's fuck with that because I want to shove unrelated things into it that I think are a benefit to me and then follow with a "for the children" argument. Are you from Congress per-chance?
(as in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math)
One of these things is not like the other. Circle your answer.
I'm always confounded when evolution does what it is predicted to do and we are all surprised by it. That waste can be used as food. Something will find a way to eat it.
That's not strictly accurate. Neither is the supposition "and eventually sink to the sea floor." There are two growing patches of plastic which has been ground down to the point where it is now a gloppy film-like consistency to much of it, and it has been bleached white from UV light, and although it's almost degraded to the molecular level... it's not sinking.
Worse, it's killing everything in the area as animals try to turn it into food... which in turn thanks to the food chain, means other animals, who didn't eat it, become contaminated by it, and so on and so on. But at no point has there been much evidence of evolutionary adaptation to convert this plastic waste into an actual food product. Animals adapt to its presence... and maybe eventually won't die because it is infesting the environment... but anything much more complicated than an amoeba has shown zero ability to metabolize this.
You can't trust evolution to clean up after you. :/ This argument is as specious as suggesting that we shouldn't worry about global warming because eventually a creature will be born that eats all of our waste for us and shits out rainbows.
Well, if the public wants something, it should pay for it (through taxes). It shouldn't try to stick random bystanders with the cost, not just because it's unjust, but because it doesn't work: the predictable consequence of such laws is that what you consider valuable now just quietly disappears altogether.
Bingo. This guy gets it. The responsibility is being laid with the wrong party; You're making these people responsible for unspecified and possibly prohibitively expensive work, and they're being paid by contracts with tight margins. Contracts don't say "Oh by the way, you may have to eat an extra $20 mil on your basement remodel because we found a cave there that nobody knew about. The contract is for $50,000 of work. ha ha."
If the government hadn't half-assed it and setup some kind of insurance fund and then just applied a .xx % tax to contract work done to support such excavations, etc., you'd be seeing a lot more cooperation. Not total cooperation, because not everyone wants their construction job delayed and a few asshats will try to hide it to keep the time tables, but it wouldn't be common industry practice, which is what this fail law causes.
So, it's safe to assume you're on team Edward?
Team Guy Who Almost Hit Bella With a Car, actually.
and neglects to define Superman as character, leaving him only as a hollow symbol and stock character,
(dons asbestoes flame suit) Superman's character definition is as a hollow symbol and stock character. I mean seriously, he's supposed to be perfect. No major character flaws. Unerringly good. Massively overpowered... and only weakness is a special mineral that fell to Earth and can only be found in small amounts, glows to alert you of its presence, and can be detected by the hero when brought nearby. In other words, the only weapon that can defeat him he's given ample warning is in play.
There's not a lot of character development to do there; How exactly do you improve on a guy that's the very personification of "good"? All you can do with a character like that is create dramatic tension and a sense of moral conflict. Superman's only plot device is thus conflict. There will never be any real character change per-se.
Let the nerd rage boileth over now... for I have smote a loved hero upon the mountainside. (pulls down face mask)
Regulations don't work if people are criminals? What a fucking surprise.
Sure they do. They just work slowly. If I break into your house and steal your TV, the odds of me getting caught are pretty low. If I break into a hundred houses and steal their TVs too... chances are good they're going to bust me. When you stop looking at police as a way to prevent crime and instead as a way to deter crime, it becomes quite a bit clearer how it all fits together.
And for people saying "gun regulation can't work! Only criminals will have guns!", (The classic contemporary anti-regulation argument) I refer them to the fact that gun regulation on the purchase of silencers has been so effective that very few people have them. Regulation does work -- it works by preventing systemic abuse or crime, in the same way that traffic signals can't stop you from driving however you want... but people mostly obey the laws anyway because (a) it actually does keep them safer, and (b) it's a big fat fine and possible loss of driving privileges if you're busted too many times breaking too many laws.
Please tell me that pun was intentional...
I thought it was a dead ringer...
I uhh, didn't mean for this to be 'funny'. I'm deadly serious: The law of unintended consequences is working overtime here. This is another classic example of how strict liability laws cause grave injustices. In the ideal case, nobody should ever be punished for trying to do the right think, contacting proper authorities, and generally taking personal responsibility for reporting a possible crime or public safety concern, or in cases where there is immediate threat to life, taking action -- even if such action in hindsight is later determined to have been unnecessary, incomplete, etc.
Laws like this take away a person's incentive and motivation to do good by others. To take personal responsibility. To be good citizens.
While its intent may have been to protect burial sites, etc., a noble idea... the actual effect has been to punish a living, responsible, contributing member of society for disturbing inanimate objects with no intrinsic value. It is, in effect, a form of religious bigotry -- not everyone believes that the remains of the dead have value, and nature doesn't give a damn... it recycles you when you're dead. And the judges' hands are tied on this because in strict liability cases, mens rea can't be considered -- that is, your motivation is totally irrelevant. I mean, even if it's to save lives, you're still just as guilty as if you'd done it out of pure malice and hatred.
Think you found the bones of someone who was murdered in Canada? Better be safe: Help the original killer by reburying the bones somewhere else. Thank you for your cooperation, Citizen.
Can you elaborate on that? I haven't seen Visual Studio hiding any code.
Mostly the initialization routines. In the old days, it would have been called winmain() and it would do all kinds of (pretty standard) initializations before regurgitating a useful handle to a window that you'd then nail the rest of your code to. It can also be frustrating when it derps on some dependency and you have to go searching for the right reference to add. When it derps hardcore, it won't even display the full IDE, spitting out a clusterfuck of errors over something you deleted but forgot to remove all the references to, and throws a shit fit... and you wind up having to rebuild the entire project and copy pasta your code into the new one to get it to build clean.
Visual Studio is fine for "lightweight" programming, but when you leave the sandbox Microsoft has made for you, shit gets real ugly, real fast.
Not trying to attack you or anything, but I just wanted to point out that germane doesn't mean what you seem to be using it to mean here.
Actually, it means the exact opposite of what was intended. I was trying for a spot of dramatic irony... but meeeeh. It doesn't come across so well on ye olde internetz.
Weird, most of the posts I've read from GirlinTraining have been interesting and well received by slashdot. Enough so that I remember her/his name. I can't say the same for either of you. Maybe you should try to contribute to the discussion rather than throwing stones?
Ah, who was it that said, "if ever a genius should appear you shall know them by this sign: That all the dunces will be in alliance against them." I take the hate mail in stride... if I'm not hated, I'm doing something wrong -- people only start throwing stones, throwing hissy fits, and generally behaving badly, when you start getting close to the truth. Given that almost all of my posts get at least a few "-1, Too Close For Comfort" mods and crap like this, I must be the most honest bitch out there.
Well, okay, at least the snarkiest though. Give me that atleast, right? ;)
You know mods... I was going more for inciteful than insightful... also known as "funny". Please, if you're gonna mod me up for being a snarky bitch, at least make sure the final mod is Funny, ok? I got a reputation to uphold.... :)
If it was so different and awesome in architecture that it delivered really innovative stuff then this might be OK
Yeah, if my car could go 500 MPH and get 100 miles to the gallon, but could only drive on gravel country roads far from where I live, it might be okay. Coz you know, car analogies. Obligatory. -_-
As I said above, play games on a PC, in Linux ideally.
Yes, because executing arbitrary code under Linux is safer than executing arbitrary code under Windows, right? Most games are still closed source. And Linux has had plenty of security vulnerabilities over the years as well. If that's the only thing you're basing your decision on, well...
Good luck.
For some of us, you've already lost the sale. Always on internet is a killer for many of us, since it's mostly taking away our freedom.
You're kidding right? The current generation's mantra is "They can take away our freedom, but they'll never take away our always-connected internet!"
Let me see it I got that right: Sonny p0wing your computer is just stupid, but MS making an always online console is weapons grade stupid? I got that right?
Sony got found out pretty early on there, bud. See, that's the awesome part about even the partly open systems of the Windows world. You can't hide your dirty laundry for long.. and let's be honest: There's people out there far better than Sony at this. It was amateur hour, okay? This was a middle manager telling his engineers to make this happen "or else", and not much more thought put into it than that, because he read in a trade show mag somewhere it was his duty to defend the company from the evil pirates by any means necessary, ethics be damned. And the poor bastard fell into that pit trap and took the whole company's public reputation with him.
It was stupid, ill-thought out, and poorly executed.
Now on the other side, we have the XBone... it's watching you like some creepy stalker, while you undress, while you watch TV.. recording everything you do... it makes the NSA's capturing of your phone's "meta data" look positively germane. I mean, they're making no bones about the XBone's objective here: It's to hoover-vac every last shred of privacy you ever had and sell it to the highest bidder.
This was deliberate, well thought out, well-funded, and the only thing that was poorly executed here was the public relations. They've come out looking like some lovecraftian horror beast about to be sent back into the deep by Johnny Depp wearing a pirate hat... They served their asses on a silver platter. But no... there is no contest here man. Not. Even. Fucking. Close.
101. Since I would have to pay 500$ for it, will I be able to run my own software on the Xbox One?
Today Microsoft Studios and the world's biggest and most renowned publishers, including 343 Industries, Crytek, Turn 10 Studios, Capcom and Insomniac Games, unveiled their blockbuster games lineup for Xbox One, with more exclusive titles than at any time in the history of Xbox. We're excited to share more about our complete launch portfolio over the coming weeks and months.
101. Since I would have to pay 500$ for it, will I be able to run my own software on the Xbox One?
Similar to Xbox 360, Xbox Live on Xbox One is free to any system owner with a broadband Internet connection and includes access to a robust catalog of gaming content on Xbox Marketplace and personal profiles.
101. Since I would have to pay 500$ for it, will I be able to run my own software on the Xbox One?
We're in continued discussions with a broad set of content providers and owners but we don't have anything to announce at this time.
101. Since I would have to pay 500$ for it, will I be able to run my own software on the Xbox One?
I exorcise thee, every unclean spirit, in the name of Ballmer the Father, and in the name of Microsoft, our lord and judge, and in the power of the Holy Console, that thou depart from this creature of Consumer which our Lord has designed to call unto his Holy temple. I cast out you noxious vermin, through the same Christ our Lord, who shall come to judge the living and the dead, and the world by fire.
Must connect to the internet once a day or locks you out, extreme limitations on lending or buying used games, etc. An excellent reason to play Steam games under Linux overall.
Normally I'd snark this, but I got nothing. I mean, I'm just bone dry here. It's so stupidifying that I think it may have temporarily caused my brain to seize up like an old VW bug.
Citation badly needed.
Well, since you were a bit non-specific on what you're feeling butthurt about, I'll have to guess...Holy shit, a console made out of spare parts still has a better rep than the Xbone. Allows you to run your own software. Costs $99. 63,000 pre-orders. Meanwhile, at Microsoft HQ... "There aren't any official numbers..." (troll face)