MS got the marketing right, and the execution wrong, as usual. Wanting to shoehorn a desktop OS and hardware into a tablet yields horrendous results in terms of battery life, ergonomics, and looks. Leveraging Users' training, Apps name brand, file formats and OS design works up to the point where someone comes up with a brand new design tailored for tablets, and another one for phones...
I think RealID was an attempt at calming down the trolls: you troll less when you can be tracked back to your main, and can't hide behind a lvl 1 alt. I understand the issues that this created though.
I think Blizzard should implement a Karma system similar to shalshdot's, and openly rate player on 3 axis: - social (the karma thing) - skill (also peer-generated) - gear (anything would be better than GearScore.
This is difficult to do right, especially since you want to watch out for gangs of friends karming up each other, but Blizzard hould have the intellectual, technical and financial means to put something nice in place. Once they realize that trolls and noobs are a main reason why people get sick of their game.
I partly agree. I have an HD2, which uses WinMob 6.5. It's by no means perfect, but way more open than anything Apple (imagine ! drag-and-drop music/movies upload from any PC ! No need to use one specific media player/manager !), is reasonably stable and has the handful of apps I need (browser, media, ereader, RSS).
Winphone7 actually looks worse than 6.5, with Jobsian levels of user lockout and playpenning, and certainly Microsoftian levels of ergonomy and reliability. Talk about best of both worlds...
My bet is MS is once again shooting themselves in the foot by aping Apple instead of going after another market, namely users who actually want a hint of freedom, even at the cost of a smidgen of complexity.
the main reason big business loves MS is lack of choice. Business loves having no choice, ie no risk. My brother works in IT for a very large firm, and was recently on a kinda tricky remoting/virtualization project. His main wish ? that "MS had decimated the market, so that I wouldn't have to choose something".
big business would not sue MS, their lawyers know it''s a lost cause. they may sue their consultants (including MS if MS is doing the consulting), but not the hardware/software suppliers.
"performance" by itself doesn't mean anything. You have to refer to "performance per dollar" or "performance per watt" or... that's why you don't see everyone buying the top of the line CPU... There's a bunch of stuff that offers the highest performance, and that doesn't really sell much, if at all: fighter jets, formula 1 cars, thoroughbreds... We might feel all sexy at the idea of owning one of those, but the bare fact is, we can't afford it, and, when push comes to shove, we would be stupid to, anyway.
talking about perf/price, AMD is not that bad, especially for run-of-the-mill levels of performance, and once you take the MB cost into account (why are Intel's MB so much more expensive ?). On a fixed budget, I'd rather scrimp on the CPU/MB, and put more into the GPU and disks, because that's what limiting my PC, right now.
talking about perf/watt... I'm not running a server farm, I don't care. Intal is ahead, though.
There's so many holes is that story it's kinda sad:
1- Please define profanity. Is yesterday's profanity still as much of a profanity today ? Is this black and white, or shades of gray ? Who decides that ? 2- Do children simply talk more now, hence utter more "profanities" in total, or do they utter more "profanities" as a %age of what they say, too. 3- Are adults aware, and have adults always been aware, of all and of the same quantity and quality of utterances by children ?
the whole think, as is, smacks of attention whoring and speaking fees seeking.
I don't see how deciding to lose money is going to change anything. Not even deciding to be cheap. Not even deciding to be free. Hey, i'm giving you fresh turds ! Free ! How comes nobody wants any ?
The solution is not "losing money" per se, but coming up with something compelling for end-users, developers and OEMs.
The solution, on the contrary, is to aim at being very expensive, and making something people are ready to pay big bucks for.
I'm not sure what the students' other courses are, but I'm wondering if, instead of teaching them general programming in a very basic, very not-usable-in-any-real-job way, it wouldn't be more practical, instead, of teaching them specifically how to create content, artwork, for somebody else's game, using real-world, or close to real-world (since you need free) tools.
You're obviously not going to make them into game developers. Would it maybe be better to make them into semi-credible artwork guys ? Maybe develop a basic game yourself, and ask them to do the artwork ?
Then again, if they already have these kind of courses, by all means do teach them game dev as best you can, it will be useful for them, too.
I started reading ebooks on a Palm 128 years ago, I'm now up to an HTC HD2. There's several good apps to do that, including Opera, which lets you use custom colors and styles (white text on a black background works best for me, and it's classy, too).
I like the smallish form factor, the always-with-me utility, the fact I can unobtrusively read one-handed in the subway, while waiting at the supermarket... and having to carry around only ONE device for phone + mp3 player + radio + ereader + emergency web stuff + PIM.
I'd love a bigger, better screen, but 4.3" LCD, once tweaked ot my tastes, is good enough. A separate device would be too much of a bother. I'd love a 5" Dell Streak, though, except it seems the sound output is extremely bad.
or is MS so much at their wits' end that they don't even know which feature to hype for their "we'll do that in 3 years, honest, you can stop buying iPads now" PR campaigns ?
it's always good to be able to follow the law and make backup copies.
what other profit industry can we create ? maybe someone could invent universal copyright, so we've got to pay royalties on all the food we cook, phrases we utter....
I keep seeing stuff that was supposed to use it postponed, cancelled, switching SOCs... Is there a big flaw, a resistant bug, a big customer who bought all the supply ?
well, you're parroting pointless nonsense too... does he at least use an iPhone/iPod, or do you have one single anecdote you use in all cases ?
Plus your reasonning is faulty, one counter example does not invalidate my statement.
BTW, I know how to use wkpedia and google, and how NOT to use them when I don't care ? As opposed to you, apparently, I'm not much into celebrity nerding.
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why do you guys use "rate of speed" when "speed" would suffice ? to sound more seriouser ?
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You don't make friends by invading a country either, so maybe the whole concept should be re-evaluated ?
Great, you just need a friend with fast legs, willing to work for a 20% cut.
Most crimes are committed in boardrooms and government. Let's put CCTV there.
MS got the marketing right, and the execution wrong, as usual. Wanting to shoehorn a desktop OS and hardware into a tablet yields horrendous results in terms of battery life, ergonomics, and looks. Leveraging Users' training, Apps name brand, file formats and OS design works up to the point where someone comes up with a brand new design tailored for tablets, and another one for phones ...
I think RealID was an attempt at calming down the trolls: you troll less when you can be tracked back to your main, and can't hide behind a lvl 1 alt. I understand the issues that this created though.
I think Blizzard should implement a Karma system similar to shalshdot's, and openly rate player on 3 axis:
- social (the karma thing)
- skill (also peer-generated)
- gear (anything would be better than GearScore.
This is difficult to do right, especially since you want to watch out for gangs of friends karming up each other, but Blizzard hould have the intellectual, technical and financial means to put something nice in place. Once they realize that trolls and noobs are a main reason why people get sick of their game.
I partly agree. I have an HD2, which uses WinMob 6.5. It's by no means perfect, but way more open than anything Apple (imagine ! drag-and-drop music/movies upload from any PC ! No need to use one specific media player/manager !), is reasonably stable and has the handful of apps I need (browser, media, ereader, RSS).
Winphone7 actually looks worse than 6.5, with Jobsian levels of user lockout and playpenning, and certainly Microsoftian levels of ergonomy and reliability. Talk about best of both worlds...
My bet is MS is once again shooting themselves in the foot by aping Apple instead of going after another market, namely users who actually want a hint of freedom, even at the cost of a smidgen of complexity.
the main reason big business loves MS is lack of choice. Business loves having no choice, ie no risk. My brother works in IT for a very large firm, and was recently on a kinda tricky remoting/virtualization project. His main wish ? that "MS had decimated the market, so that I wouldn't have to choose something".
big business would not sue MS, their lawyers know it''s a lost cause. they may sue their consultants (including MS if MS is doing the consulting), but not the hardware/software suppliers.
they synch nicely
"performance" by itself doesn't mean anything. You have to refer to "performance per dollar" or "performance per watt" or ... that's why you don't see everyone buying the top of the line CPU... There's a bunch of stuff that offers the highest performance, and that doesn't really sell much, if at all: fighter jets, formula 1 cars, thoroughbreds... We might feel all sexy at the idea of owning one of those, but the bare fact is, we can't afford it, and, when push comes to shove, we would be stupid to, anyway.
talking about perf/price, AMD is not that bad, especially for run-of-the-mill levels of performance, and once you take the MB cost into account (why are Intel's MB so much more expensive ?). On a fixed budget, I'd rather scrimp on the CPU/MB, and put more into the GPU and disks, because that's what limiting my PC, right now.
talking about perf/watt... I'm not running a server farm, I don't care. Intal is ahead, though.
There's so many holes is that story it's kinda sad:
1- Please define profanity. Is yesterday's profanity still as much of a profanity today ? Is this black and white, or shades of gray ? Who decides that ?
2- Do children simply talk more now, hence utter more "profanities" in total, or do they utter more "profanities" as a %age of what they say, too.
3- Are adults aware, and have adults always been aware, of all and of the same quantity and quality of utterances by children ?
the whole think, as is, smacks of attention whoring and speaking fees seeking.
I don't see how deciding to lose money is going to change anything. Not even deciding to be cheap. Not even deciding to be free. Hey, i'm giving you fresh turds ! Free ! How comes nobody wants any ?
The solution is not "losing money" per se, but coming up with something compelling for end-users, developers and OEMs.
The solution, on the contrary, is to aim at being very expensive, and making something people are ready to pay big bucks for.
You "solution" is exactly why MS is losing.
I'm not sure what the students' other courses are, but I'm wondering if, instead of teaching them general programming in a very basic, very not-usable-in-any-real-job way, it wouldn't be more practical, instead, of teaching them specifically how to create content, artwork, for somebody else's game, using real-world, or close to real-world (since you need free) tools.
You're obviously not going to make them into game developers. Would it maybe be better to make them into semi-credible artwork guys ? Maybe develop a basic game yourself, and ask them to do the artwork ?
Then again, if they already have these kind of courses, by all means do teach them game dev as best you can, it will be useful for them, too.
I started reading ebooks on a Palm 128 years ago, I'm now up to an HTC HD2. There's several good apps to do that, including Opera, which lets you use custom colors and styles (white text on a black background works best for me, and it's classy, too).
I like the smallish form factor, the always-with-me utility, the fact I can unobtrusively read one-handed in the subway, while waiting at the supermarket... and having to carry around only ONE device for phone + mp3 player + radio + ereader + emergency web stuff + PIM.
I'd love a bigger, better screen, but 4.3" LCD, once tweaked ot my tastes, is good enough. A separate device would be too much of a bother. I'd love a 5" Dell Streak, though, except it seems the sound output is extremely bad.
quick clarification:
their punishment = Google's punishment (english, corporation = they)
his punishment = the employee's punishment.
My point is that someone entrusted their data to Google. Someone within Google misused it. Google themselves get off scot-free.
If a bank's employee messes with my money, I'm suing the bank, not the employee. What's the difference ?
try Opera, and save your session.
This is a taste of things to come. Companies will do it. Subcontractors will do it. Employees will do it. Trainees will do it.
When you put your data out there... well, it's out there. Your choice. THis was Google's responsibility.. what was their punishment ? nothing.
My browser's performance has always been "good enough". Can we talk about ergonomy, reliability, compatibility, please ?
it mainly helps you fake your own life.
or is MS so much at their wits' end that they don't even know which feature to hype for their "we'll do that in 3 years, honest, you can stop buying iPads now" PR campaigns ?
it's always good to be able to follow the law and make backup copies.
what other profit industry can we create ? maybe someone could invent universal copyright, so we've got to pay royalties on all the food we cook, phrases we utter....
I keep seeing stuff that was supposed to use it postponed, cancelled, switching SOCs... Is there a big flaw, a resistant bug, a big customer who bought all the supply ?
I smell a rat. And dirty SOCs.
well, you're parroting pointless nonsense too... does he at least use an iPhone/iPod, or do you have one single anecdote you use in all cases ?
Plus your reasonning is faulty, one counter example does not invalidate my statement.
BTW, I know how to use wkpedia and google, and how NOT to use them when I don't care ? As opposed to you, apparently, I'm not much into celebrity nerding.
I don't know who he is, but I'm not going away. I don't quite get your post, too.