People 'got' the idea of a cartridge - you had a home appliance, that did a number of interesting things, based on physical actions you took. Nowadays with any modern OS, there's so much background crap, nobody really knows what their computer does.
I graduated 2nd in my class, and went on to one of the top 10 engineering schools in the country. And I got up every morning on time. The trick? Eat breakfast - and I don't mean a coffee or a Snickers. Parents, feed your damn kids a real meal.
768k DSL is fast enough for most people - posting on Facebook, checking CNN, sending webmail. The people who need 10MBit are the warez hounds and ISO downloaders.
Other than a few Slashdot readers and luddites, few modern PC purchasers need a line-in jack. iTunes and Amazon won, for $9.99 you can get a perfect MP3 rip of my old vinyl, without spending 1+ hours per album ripping then tweaking, then exporting.
Pervasive multithreading gives you the best user experience. Hell, even the Linux kernel is self-preemptible to provide a faster-looking user experience.
Given GM's historical failures, and their new immunity from market forces (thank you taxpayers), it's not the place best suited to develop this kind of tech, if indeed this tech is necessary. What's wrong with driving more slowly in the fog? Why do I need HUD, or worse, banner ads, on my windshield? If Toyota, once the paragon of automotive quality, can bork up the drive-by-wire system, it doesn't bode well for GM. I don't want my windshield blue-screening on me.
An RPG style game is typically designed so nobody ever dies, with the XP and challenges scaling more or less with ability. All this will produce is a bunch of kids who perform the same, and get A's (or Legend status).
DirectX won, because it does sound and HID input handling, and because its on every PC sold to every mouthbreathing, Best Buy shopping, banana eating customer.
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Not all of us lay back and spread our legs for Apple, timothy.
Guys, 1 or two sneak April 1 jokes is ok. Retarded non-stories is another. You aren't funny. Retire and pimp Apple products on a blog somewhere.
Talk to your wife. I hear she has an 'app' for that.
+1 Insightful to you.
So given that the west is slowly dying under a load of debt and bad demographics, this was a useful endeavor because ... ?
If its confusing to ordinary people, perhaps they shouldn't be empowered to make decisions based on the data.
Kids in poorer homes probably miss out on a lot of opportunities. Are you going to legislate that away too ?
People 'got' the idea of a cartridge - you had a home appliance, that did a number of interesting things, based on physical actions you took. Nowadays with any modern OS, there's so much background crap, nobody really knows what their computer does.
is how freedom dies, btw.
I graduated 2nd in my class, and went on to one of the top 10 engineering schools in the country. And I got up every morning on time. The trick? Eat breakfast - and I don't mean a coffee or a Snickers. Parents, feed your damn kids a real meal.
768k DSL is fast enough for most people - posting on Facebook, checking CNN, sending webmail. The people who need 10MBit are the warez hounds and ISO downloaders.
Other than a few Slashdot readers and luddites, few modern PC purchasers need a line-in jack. iTunes and Amazon won, for $9.99 you can get a perfect MP3 rip of my old vinyl, without spending 1+ hours per album ripping then tweaking, then exporting.
It went out with a whimper.
Pervasive multithreading gives you the best user experience. Hell, even the Linux kernel is self-preemptible to provide a faster-looking user experience.
90/10 rule - we're most of the way there, to get that last 10% will require a massive organizational and technological shift. Who cares, just recycle.
Is there a "-1, Eurodouche" tag?
No djb tag?
You mean your network guys don't just have 1 giant, multi-tabbed Excel file?
Given GM's historical failures, and their new immunity from market forces (thank you taxpayers), it's not the place best suited to develop this kind of tech, if indeed this tech is necessary. What's wrong with driving more slowly in the fog? Why do I need HUD, or worse, banner ads, on my windshield? If Toyota, once the paragon of automotive quality, can bork up the drive-by-wire system, it doesn't bode well for GM. I don't want my windshield blue-screening on me.
An RPG style game is typically designed so nobody ever dies, with the XP and challenges scaling more or less with ability. All this will produce is a bunch of kids who perform the same, and get A's (or Legend status).
Didn't we learn from Lovecraft? /waiting for the Del Toro movie...
If you're douchey enough to go see the movies that get 3d-ified, and they suck, you only have yourself to blame.
How many of those "Add this to Facebook" links do you see everywhere? How many of those drive page hits to facebook.com ?
FWIW, I work for $LARGE_US_BANK and we have an 8 character password limit, that MUST be exactly 8 characters, contain a number, etc.etc.etc.
MANY passwords can be eliminated through some social engineering.
Wear knickerbockers?
Tie an onion to your belt?
Change happens, embrace it, or go the way of the dinosaur.
DirectX won, because it does sound and HID input handling, and because its on every PC sold to every mouthbreathing, Best Buy shopping, banana eating customer.