It's Microsoft we're talking about here. MS is notorious for promising vaporware so people wait for its product and don't buy an already existing one on the promise that Really Soon Now (tm) they can buy the MS equivalent.
I'll judge those specs when the console ships. Until then, you can promise 8k gaming and 512gigs of ram. Hell, I can promise you that. Sure, the console will ship in 2026, but you only asked for the specs, not when it's available.
I'm not so sure about this. People do like the idea of "really" being in a game. Yes, the current models are mostly overpriced toys, and the games that you get for them are glorified tech demos that rehash the same idea over and over and over, but the technology is already pretty advanced and the computing power is there to make it work and it is actually more entertaining than frustrating already.
It's one of the few times when a technology hit the market when it was actually at least mostly ready. Next gen will already be the one that is "there".
I was pondering the offer, but then decided to throw my money off the bridge and at least see the funny green slips fly. I think I got more out of it than most of the people who gave him money.
Oh my god, that's all you people ever ask! "Does that hold water, does that hold water", why is that important? There are children out there dying! On our streets! Every single day! People without jobs! Strife, domestic and abroad!
No sir, I say this is not the time for such discussions. It is time to take each other by the hand, across the board, find the common ground, close the lines and join together, for a house divided cannot stand! We have to go forward into the future, bold and fearless, for our children and future generations depend on it!
What has one to do with the other? You could just as well have said "No privacy for you because purple monkey dishwasher" and it would have made just about as much sense.
It's easier with Breitbart, they at least offer SO outlandish stories that it's trivial to identify them as some sort of insane ramblings of some conspiracy nut.
Come to Europe! We sure could need a sensible person or two to immigrate here, just to dilute the unwashed masses of idiots that is doing that currently.
Let's face it, the US economy is dependent on exports. Now, what do you export? Unfortunately the statistics I know don't declare tourism as an export article, but judging from the GDP data, we can at least start pondering
agriculture: 1.1% industry: 19.4% services: 79.5%
80 cents of every GDP dollar come from services. Services are now very, very hard to export. Either you have to send the person performing the service abroad, or you have to get the person using (and paying for) the service here. Since the former will probably not be taxable here, the latter is way more popular.
That's called tourism.
Even considering that most services are for domestic consumption, it's hard to miss that the US economy is heavily dependent on the service sector. We're talking about around 70 million tourists from abroad visiting the US. And I think it's safe to assume that few of them manage to get by on a dollar a day.
Funny coincidence, I work in embedded in my spare time and am a security researcher by trade, so I think I can say with some confidence that they don't mix well. For many reasons.
First of all, there is no history of security in embedded. Because until very recently, there was absolutely no reason or need to even consider security an issue. You were dealing with closed, if not hermetically sealed systems. They could more often than not not even receive updates, let alone communicate with other embedded devices. Even "sophisticated" devices like TVs, not even talking about the "dumb" ones like washing machines or dishwashers. It's been only about a decade that TVs have a connection that's bidirectional. And "real" internet on TVs only arrived a generation of TVs ago.
And for all the other embedded gadgets, that whole "connectivity" thing is still very much bleeding edge.
And all that in devices for which until very recently, again, every byte mattered. Computer programmers are used to Mega- and Gigabytes of ram at their disposal, with embedded, you're in some areas still talking KB. Especially when it comes to low-cost devices where you can't just stuff in more ram and faster ICs because they'd simply cost too much. Yes, a part costing maybe a buck or two is "too expensive" here.
Put that together and add exactly ZERO experience with security among embedded developers (for all the reasons above) and you most likely understand why this is a HUGE problem that will bite us in the rear. Actually, it's already biting.
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It's Microsoft we're talking about here. MS is notorious for promising vaporware so people wait for its product and don't buy an already existing one on the promise that Really Soon Now (tm) they can buy the MS equivalent.
I'll judge those specs when the console ships. Until then, you can promise 8k gaming and 512gigs of ram. Hell, I can promise you that. Sure, the console will ship in 2026, but you only asked for the specs, not when it's available.
I'm not so sure about this. People do like the idea of "really" being in a game. Yes, the current models are mostly overpriced toys, and the games that you get for them are glorified tech demos that rehash the same idea over and over and over, but the technology is already pretty advanced and the computing power is there to make it work and it is actually more entertaining than frustrating already.
It's one of the few times when a technology hit the market when it was actually at least mostly ready. Next gen will already be the one that is "there".
JFKs cardinal sin was to pick a VP that isn't worse than him.
Take a look at the VPs since and tell me that they are not essentially just assassination insurance.
But that's the stuff that 9 out of 10 times happens.
That's less a problem than cutting corners when it comes to sanity checks due to timing or program memory constraints.
Erh... The CIA disagrees.
Youtube made a deal with content owners. Kim has never been one willing to share his loot.
I was pondering the offer, but then decided to throw my money off the bridge and at least see the funny green slips fly. I think I got more out of it than most of the people who gave him money.
Oh my god, that's all you people ever ask! "Does that hold water, does that hold water", why is that important? There are children out there dying! On our streets! Every single day! People without jobs! Strife, domestic and abroad!
No sir, I say this is not the time for such discussions. It is time to take each other by the hand, across the board, find the common ground, close the lines and join together, for a house divided cannot stand! We have to go forward into the future, bold and fearless, for our children and future generations depend on it!
Huh? What trackers?
By the way, before someone asks: Huh? What ads?
What has one to do with the other? You could just as well have said "No privacy for you because purple monkey dishwasher" and it would have made just about as much sense.
Last time I checked not even religious nuts consider their kids part of their body.
Really? You can just do that?
I guess that lamenting about H-1Bs isn't that close to reality then, is it?
Great, so "throwaway cell phone" is going onto the list of things to get should I ever fly out to the US again.
Not as much the new cool, more the retaliation after they started the media war.
"Why should I believe you?"
Time and again we have been lied and misled by Microsoft. Give me one good reason I should believe this.
"What crooked scheme did he come up with this time?"
Quite seriously, did he ever even try a business that isn't at least shady if not outright illegal?
It's easier with Breitbart, they at least offer SO outlandish stories that it's trivial to identify them as some sort of insane ramblings of some conspiracy nut.
Come to Europe! We sure could need a sensible person or two to immigrate here, just to dilute the unwashed masses of idiots that is doing that currently.
Coincidentally that was the decade when traveling to the US was fun for the last time.
It may surprise you, but most of the world does. Well, unless you invaded them and made them pay you for it.
Let's face it, the US economy is dependent on exports. Now, what do you export? Unfortunately the statistics I know don't declare tourism as an export article, but judging from the GDP data, we can at least start pondering
agriculture: 1.1%
industry: 19.4%
services: 79.5%
80 cents of every GDP dollar come from services. Services are now very, very hard to export. Either you have to send the person performing the service abroad, or you have to get the person using (and paying for) the service here. Since the former will probably not be taxable here, the latter is way more popular.
That's called tourism.
Even considering that most services are for domestic consumption, it's hard to miss that the US economy is heavily dependent on the service sector. We're talking about around 70 million tourists from abroad visiting the US. And I think it's safe to assume that few of them manage to get by on a dollar a day.
América es grande otra vez ya? O todavía tenemos que inflar el ego un poco más?
Funny coincidence, I work in embedded in my spare time and am a security researcher by trade, so I think I can say with some confidence that they don't mix well. For many reasons.
First of all, there is no history of security in embedded. Because until very recently, there was absolutely no reason or need to even consider security an issue. You were dealing with closed, if not hermetically sealed systems. They could more often than not not even receive updates, let alone communicate with other embedded devices. Even "sophisticated" devices like TVs, not even talking about the "dumb" ones like washing machines or dishwashers. It's been only about a decade that TVs have a connection that's bidirectional. And "real" internet on TVs only arrived a generation of TVs ago.
And for all the other embedded gadgets, that whole "connectivity" thing is still very much bleeding edge.
And all that in devices for which until very recently, again, every byte mattered. Computer programmers are used to Mega- and Gigabytes of ram at their disposal, with embedded, you're in some areas still talking KB. Especially when it comes to low-cost devices where you can't just stuff in more ram and faster ICs because they'd simply cost too much. Yes, a part costing maybe a buck or two is "too expensive" here.
Put that together and add exactly ZERO experience with security among embedded developers (for all the reasons above) and you most likely understand why this is a HUGE problem that will bite us in the rear. Actually, it's already biting.
Ohhh, it's from the slander journal?
Ok, we can safely ignore that bullshit then, carry on.