Most people run 7 because not because they wanted to (they skipped Vista) but they were forced to by XP's end of life.
I imagine man users didn't know what to expect. Microsoft has the worst advertising and promotion I can think of. For instance why would people in the market for a tablet buy a Surface? All they've seen in the advertisements is hipster morons dancing on a table in a confrence room. No product knowledge in the advert.
Apple runs an assortment of campaigns. Some inform, others are touchy-feely. The best ones put the camera right on the device and quickly demonstrate the ease of use of a single app or function. Even the Mac vs/ PC ads usually conveyed something useful.
Now Google is in the consumer hardware market with the Nexus tablets and Chromebooks. The tablets are amoung the best in class. the Chromebooks are inexpensive and an attractive alternatives to MS and PC laptops. If you're not a gamer and just want bread and butter features it's a big savings.
MS under Ballmer doesn't compete. They expect you to care enough to inform yourself. The market shows most people do not.
Knocking down the silos in an organization is generally a good thing. That said I doubt Ballmer knows what to do next. The smartest thing he could do is choose a successor.
Ballmer doesn't have vision. He doesn't understand the mobile market. Windows 8 was a disaster and MS continues to lose ground to Apple. The introduction of XBoxOne couldn't have been worse - great hardware crippled by licensing BS. Surface is overpriced and underselling next to Ipad and Android tablets.
When they mod a package it no longer matches the APK signature. On many Android phones if you install a custom (unsigned) kernel you will get a yellow triangle during boot.
The funny thing about medicine... as long as there's money to be made in selling the treatment you can be sure there won't be a cure. The treatment will always follow the bigger money.
A patient of chemo for cancer will take many thousands of dollars each year to combat their disease, so this is where cancer treatment seems to have stalled out in the US.
The "AIDS cocktail" has become quite inexpensive and costs a few bucks a week (until you get insurance numbers involved) so it's no surprising to see a more expensive treatment appear. A Stem Cell Transplant is a cash cow, with related costs adding up to $150-300k USD.
Nintendo sold 118m Gameboy handhelds. The DS has sold 157m worldwide. Android dwarfs both of those numbers.
I doubt all Android owners are all gamers or that they all have a device worth playing on. Still, nothing changes the fact this is a neglected, potentially huge market for quality gaming. The big names in game development are staying away in droves.
You're right that I'm still running 4.1.1, I wan't aware the Wiimote app had stopped working. To be honest, it's not a big picture solution to the problem.
Ultimately for gaming to expand on Android players need to know when they buy a game 1) It will work on their device. 2) The controls will be more that a hodge-podge of shakes and swipe actions. It's time for bluetooth joystick support to become standard. When you buy computer hardware it usually has stickers "Compatable with..." and then all the flavors of Windows and OSX. There should be an Android sticker there too. 3) I've paid 5 dollars for games on my tablet (one of those - Asphalt 7 - has never worked on any device I've owned. Gameloft sucks.) I don't mind paying for a decent game as long as it's not buggy. Low price points are an idea created by the app store mindset. We all know real games are going to cost more. If there were a good port of an Arkham title I'd buy it without hesitation.
According to wikipedia there are over 900 million Android mobile devices in the world. That's a lot of potential gamers who want to play something better than Fruit Ninja. At this point EA ports some of their stuff and then there's Gameloft - everything they publish would be laughed off another platform.
I have a Tegra 3 based device - an Asus Transformer - and Need for Speed is the only game I play that doesn't piss me off.
"...but there's no buttons or joystick and so controls suck" Bullshit. I've paired a Wii classic controller through bluetooth and used it to play old MAME arcade stuff. There's countless bluetooth joysticks in the world. Game publishers could code the option to use them (and tell gamers it's heavily recomended) and then start writing some decent games.
... I would like to have a version of Eclipse or Netbeans that I can run ON AN ANDROID. I have an Asus Transformer tablet and keyboard. I'd like the option of writing code for the Android on an Android.
Consider for a moment that were possible. Probably not today, at some point if driver software could be written to run this digital model. If by some long shot it were possible would it be ethically right? What if there were some sense of awareness, personality, fear of the strange circumstances she now finds herself in? She would be without her senses and without any level of input from the outside that she would relate to as a normal person.
And then consider: Is it right to turn such a system on and off like any other computer?
I know. What was I thinking? Screw bringing in those eggheads!
When you punch through to a hole in the ground I would have thought somebody would be concerned with sinkholes and other underground features that can cause a foundation to shift or collapse.
Nope. We should follow your lead. Drive those piles into the ground and raise a 40 story building.
OK. Let's do it you way. Next time a construction company punches into a void area of limestone or other sediment they should fill it without further study or concern. I'll tell them Runaway1956 takes full responsibility, don't be concerned with a delay. Fill it with concrete. After all, that brand new Nuclear Power Station you're building is going to supply energy for an entire region. We shouldn't concern ourselves with the possibility you accidently discovered a previously undocumented fault line.
Nice. Your former employer filled undocumented, potentially important history (which belongs to us all) with cement. You worked for the same breed of dumbasses who tore down a Mayan temple to make road gravel.
Is government a pain in the ass? Yes. Do the overreact? All the time. Why? Because of people doing stuff like what you just described.
In 2008 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion against copyright holders after failure to enforce trademarks for more than 40 years.
The defendant Thomas Kenneth Abraham for years was a producer of decorative fraternity and sorority paddles. In 1990 thirty-two fraternities and sororities commenced contacting Abraham asking his to pay a license to use certain house names and logos. The defendant asseted a "laches defense" which is when a copyright holder falls asleep which regard to their trademark enforcement as he had already been creating the paddles for 30+ years. In 2008 the plantiffs sued and and were declined monetary relief after failing to enforce their copyrights for so long. They were however awarded an injunction against further use by Abraham, which of course doesn't line the attorneys pockets.
How long have people been singing Happy Birthday? How many people even knew there was an "author"? I would have assumed it was a 'traditional' and hence public domain.
Certainly there has been no enforcement of copyright over the years, and I'm guessing latches would apply.
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Most people run 7 because not because they wanted to (they skipped Vista) but they were forced to by XP's end of life.
I imagine man users didn't know what to expect. Microsoft has the worst advertising and promotion I can think of. For instance why would people in the market for a tablet buy a Surface? All they've seen in the advertisements is hipster morons dancing on a table in a confrence room. No product knowledge in the advert.
Apple runs an assortment of campaigns. Some inform, others are touchy-feely. The best ones put the camera right on the device and quickly demonstrate the ease of use of a single app or function. Even the Mac vs/ PC ads usually conveyed something useful.
Now Google is in the consumer hardware market with the Nexus tablets and Chromebooks. The tablets are amoung the best in class. the Chromebooks are inexpensive and an attractive alternatives to MS and PC laptops. If you're not a gamer and just want bread and butter features it's a big savings.
MS under Ballmer doesn't compete. They expect you to care enough to inform yourself. The market shows most people do not.
I left out how most enterprises are STILL USING XP because Vista, 7 and 8 are all considered consumer grade operating systems by IT people.
Knocking down the silos in an organization is generally a good thing. That said I doubt Ballmer knows what to do next. The smartest thing he could do is choose a successor.
Ballmer doesn't have vision. He doesn't understand the mobile market. Windows 8 was a disaster and MS continues to lose ground to Apple. The introduction of XBoxOne couldn't have been worse - great hardware crippled by licensing BS. Surface is overpriced and underselling next to Ipad and Android tablets.
I'm only suprised he hasn't been forced out.
Plausible.
Most people when meeting somebody from Montana wouldn't be able to tell if they are "living" or "living dead".
When they mod a package it no longer matches the APK signature. On many Android phones if you install a custom (unsigned) kernel you will get a yellow triangle during boot.
The funny thing about medicine... as long as there's money to be made in selling the treatment you can be sure there won't be a cure. The treatment will always follow the bigger money.
A patient of chemo for cancer will take many thousands of dollars each year to combat their disease, so this is where cancer treatment seems to have stalled out in the US.
The "AIDS cocktail" has become quite inexpensive and costs a few bucks a week (until you get insurance numbers involved) so it's no surprising to see a more expensive treatment appear. A Stem Cell Transplant is a cash cow, with related costs adding up to $150-300k USD.
All hail the KING of the NORTH!!! All hail the KING of the NORTH!!!
Weekly? Bi-weekly seems to be the most common in the US.
I've been thin for cash during that second week enough times, I can only imagine how much worse it would be to go a whole month.
Nintendo sold 118m Gameboy handhelds. The DS has sold 157m worldwide. Android dwarfs both of those numbers.
I doubt all Android owners are all gamers or that they all have a device worth playing on. Still, nothing changes the fact this is a neglected, potentially huge market for quality gaming. The big names in game development are staying away in droves.
You're right that I'm still running 4.1.1, I wan't aware the Wiimote app had stopped working. To be honest, it's not a big picture solution to the problem.
Ultimately for gaming to expand on Android players need to know when they buy a game
1) It will work on their device.
2) The controls will be more that a hodge-podge of shakes and swipe actions. It's time for bluetooth joystick support to become standard. When you buy computer hardware it usually has stickers "Compatable with..." and then all the flavors of Windows and OSX. There should be an Android sticker there too.
3) I've paid 5 dollars for games on my tablet (one of those - Asphalt 7 - has never worked on any device I've owned. Gameloft sucks.) I don't mind paying for a decent game as long as it's not buggy. Low price points are an idea created by the app store mindset. We all know real games are going to cost more. If there were a good port of an Arkham title I'd buy it without hesitation.
Google needs to step up here.
According to wikipedia there are over 900 million Android mobile devices in the world. That's a lot of potential gamers who want to play something better than Fruit Ninja. At this point EA ports some of their stuff and then there's Gameloft - everything they publish would be laughed off another platform.
I have a Tegra 3 based device - an Asus Transformer - and Need for Speed is the only game I play that doesn't piss me off.
"...but there's no buttons or joystick and so controls suck" Bullshit. I've paired a Wii classic controller through bluetooth and used it to play old MAME arcade stuff. There's countless bluetooth joysticks in the world. Game publishers could code the option to use them (and tell gamers it's heavily recomended) and then start writing some decent games.
Would you kindly remember to vote on November 5th?
... I would like to have a version of Eclipse or Netbeans that I can run ON AN ANDROID. I have an Asus Transformer tablet and keyboard. I'd like the option of writing code for the Android on an Android.
I'm so disappointed nobody picked up on the reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3obvJQ0blfQ
Saltwater and batteries!?!?!
Consider for a moment that were possible. Probably not today, at some point if driver software could be written to run this digital model. If by some long shot it were possible would it be ethically right? What if there were some sense of awareness, personality, fear of the strange circumstances she now finds herself in? She would be without her senses and without any level of input from the outside that she would relate to as a normal person.
And then consider: Is it right to turn such a system on and off like any other computer?
Coming up next - Google patents an upward facing camera on the toe of men's shoes.
I know. What was I thinking? Screw bringing in those eggheads!
When you punch through to a hole in the ground I would have thought somebody would be concerned with sinkholes and other underground features that can cause a foundation to shift or collapse.
Nope. We should follow your lead. Drive those piles into the ground and raise a 40 story building.
OK. Let's do it you way. Next time a construction company punches into a void area of limestone or other sediment they should fill it without further study or concern. I'll tell them Runaway1956 takes full responsibility, don't be concerned with a delay. Fill it with concrete. After all, that brand new Nuclear Power Station you're building is going to supply energy for an entire region. We shouldn't concern ourselves with the possibility you accidently discovered a previously undocumented fault line.
Nice. Your former employer filled undocumented, potentially important history (which belongs to us all) with cement. You worked for the same breed of dumbasses who tore down a Mayan temple to make road gravel.
Is government a pain in the ass? Yes. Do the overreact? All the time. Why? Because of people doing stuff like what you just described.
I'm just a poor boy
An interesting concept but it seems very unlikely this will be a prefered solution in 30 years as battery technology improves.
In 2008 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion against copyright holders after failure to enforce trademarks for more than 40 years.
The defendant Thomas Kenneth Abraham for years was a producer of decorative fraternity and sorority paddles. In 1990 thirty-two fraternities and sororities commenced contacting Abraham asking his to pay a license to use certain house names and logos. The defendant asseted a "laches defense" which is when a copyright holder falls asleep which regard to their trademark enforcement as he had already been creating the paddles for 30+ years. In 2008 the plantiffs sued and and were declined monetary relief after failing to enforce their copyrights for so long. They were however awarded an injunction against further use by Abraham, which of course doesn't line the attorneys pockets.
How long have people been singing Happy Birthday? How many people even knew there was an "author"? I would have assumed it was a 'traditional' and hence public domain.
Certainly there has been no enforcement of copyright over the years, and I'm guessing latches would apply.
The only part I thought was actually cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7YYfgx_cHo
They could do the next film this way. Better than putting Ahnuld in front of the camera.
...gave Dr. Evil a million dollars he'd have (da daaa dadada dadada) 11 MILLION BILLION DOLLARS!!!!
Muahahaaha! Muahahaha!!!!