That's becuase wp7 was just a stop gap solution for win8. Now that they have ported the NT kernel, and the wp8 phones are fast enough to run it, they will get a fair few updates.
I would go to a wintel phone tomorrow if intel would hurry up with the next gen chip, both MS and Intel have let me do some pretty awesome shit over the years. Personally i have no problem with exe's and it's not like your forced to use IE or Office (not that office is that bad).
I have only ever used android smart phones and personally i don't see what all the hype is about, it's seriously buggy (i'm running jellybean now), and even if some functionalities are there, half you will never find, and some really simple stuff is just missing, not to mention i get creeped out by how much information google has collected on me. I have been so ready to throw my nexus through a window on more than one occasion. I'm suspicious of windows phone because of there past, but my next phone could well be windows, preferably with a full linux dual boot (I'll see what comes out).
They aren't abandoning windows phone. If the story poster had read the story, he would of seen they are stopping support for windows phone 8 in 2014, but considering windows 9 will be coming out fairly soon, that is hardly a problem. Does this guy think that Microsoft has abandoned windows because they stopped support for XP?
She actually started trying to press the opposite button thinking there was something wrong with the VCR, then she tried accusing the kid sitting in the front row.
Oh good lord i loved the IR port on my ppc. I bought one in high school and set it up to control the class room VCRs. When the teacher would press rewind i would press fast forward, i nearly sent her bat shit insane, and i got away Scott free.
Not all improvements are just incremental. I think Samsung are still trying, like the eye scrolling tech they are putting into this one seems like genuine innovation. Alot of this upgrade does seem incremental though, higher res, more power, more cores, more megapixels, bigger battery; If they made the phone flexible or a hud built into glasses, that would of been more than an incremental update (although as technology grows upon itself you can always argue it's incremental) but they aren't going to risk the "galaxy" on that.
These guys http://www.neptunepine.com/ are putting all of android onto a watch and it has a 2g, 3g modem (which i really doubt the apple watch will). It's not really all that hard considering it'll be running on an arm chip (and android and ios were written for that originally) so it just setting up a new resolution.
That google-glass thing is a pile of shit, but glasses with screens in each eye are coming, and will be really cool, especially after a couple of generations and they get really slick. Just like the watches, when it's one big flexible screen you can curl around your wrist and stretch out flat, then everyone will want one.
Being Innovative in gaming is more than throwing millions of dollars and lots of artists at someone else's engine to make pretty graphics. There are defiantly some innovative gaming companies out there, but a lot are just piggy backing of the better companies, and using the stupid console crowd that will buy anything they see on the side of a bus.
Are you saying auto manufactures don't make cars that are purposely sexy, and insanely fast, to get males to drool over them and pay massive amounts of money that quite often kills them? How about making a gun cheap, effective and available enough for genocide? And if you don't think the Alcohol industry profit from others misery, and play all kinds of mind games with there customers through advertisements and promos then your quite mistaken.
"to play games that play better and look just as good on a $200 console?"
Oh you have no idea do you? if it was so comparable how come if they put pc players, and console players in the same multiplayer game, the pc players mop the floor with console player? Hint it has something do to with all the extra resolution, better input devices, and speed/smoothness of the machine. Besides a pc does a lot more than a console, and its easily upgradeable.
first cyrsis was good (for me), the world was so open you could tackle missions any way you want (which is personally what i loved) now they funnel you down a few points and put invisible walls everywhere (which completely ruins the illusion of having a super suit).
It's less group think then a lot of places. Have you tried the circlejerk of reddit comments./. has a few blind-spots like microsoft (they could cure cancer and/. would tell them to fuck off) but over all it's not to bad.
"In what way are drone strikes cowardly? Are air strikes cowardly? Is artillery cowardly?" Yeah they kind of are, especially when the enemy doesn't have any. War is war and i'm not saying we should do it one by one as pistols at dawn, but you see a lot of people complaining the terrorists are cowardly for using their explosives and hiding in caves, and if so the Americans are just as cowardly if not more so for hiding in Nevada.
"Possibly so, but what is the alternative? To not fight?" short answer yes, if America spent half of what it did on killing those people as it did on helping them, who in that country would want to kill them? It would take far too long to explain the finer details, but suffice to say you couldn't just give them a pile of money or try and convert it in to mini America.
"The technologies available to the Australia Project just seemed to spring up out of nowhere, perfectly convenient to the story." I know what you mean, but if you had robots doing all the boring stuff, it would free up a lot of people to experiment with technology. It's hard to tell what would happen in that environment. Personally i would be at whatever hackerspace workshop they had working on all kinds of projects; but maybe too much of the population would just watch TV, and play video games.
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That's becuase wp7 was just a stop gap solution for win8. Now that they have ported the NT kernel, and the wp8 phones are fast enough to run it, they will get a fair few updates.
Yeah, but Microsoft is increasing the frequency of new versions. Similar to android, osx, and ios, having a new version every year instead of 5.
They have already made the kernal change, i wouldn't expect too many phones being left behind now.
I would go to a wintel phone tomorrow if intel would hurry up with the next gen chip, both MS and Intel have let me do some pretty awesome shit over the years. Personally i have no problem with exe's and it's not like your forced to use IE or Office (not that office is that bad).
I have only ever used android smart phones and personally i don't see what all the hype is about, it's seriously buggy (i'm running jellybean now), and even if some functionalities are there, half you will never find, and some really simple stuff is just missing, not to mention i get creeped out by how much information google has collected on me. I have been so ready to throw my nexus through a window on more than one occasion. I'm suspicious of windows phone because of there past, but my next phone could well be windows, preferably with a full linux dual boot (I'll see what comes out).
They aren't abandoning windows phone. If the story poster had read the story, he would of seen they are stopping support for windows phone 8 in 2014, but considering windows 9 will be coming out fairly soon, that is hardly a problem. Does this guy think that Microsoft has abandoned windows because they stopped support for XP?
She actually started trying to press the opposite button thinking there was something wrong with the VCR, then she tried accusing the kid sitting in the front row.
Oh good lord i loved the IR port on my ppc. I bought one in high school and set it up to control the class room VCRs. When the teacher would press rewind i would press fast forward, i nearly sent her bat shit insane, and i got away Scott free.
Graphene super supercapcitors to the rescue.
Not all improvements are just incremental. I think Samsung are still trying, like the eye scrolling tech they are putting into this one seems like genuine innovation. Alot of this upgrade does seem incremental though, higher res, more power, more cores, more megapixels, bigger battery; If they made the phone flexible or a hud built into glasses, that would of been more than an incremental update (although as technology grows upon itself you can always argue it's incremental) but they aren't going to risk the "galaxy" on that.
I agree, i've only used windows 8 a little, and i see no point in upgrading from 7, however with a little work it's not really that bad. Also modernmix http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/windows-8-tip-run-metro-apps-windows-desktop will run metro apps in windows on the desktop.
Yeah guys no fair, your only allowed to hack the evil terrorist countries.
These guys http://www.neptunepine.com/ are putting all of android onto a watch and it has a 2g, 3g modem (which i really doubt the apple watch will). It's not really all that hard considering it'll be running on an arm chip (and android and ios were written for that originally) so it just setting up a new resolution.
That google-glass thing is a pile of shit, but glasses with screens in each eye are coming, and will be really cool, especially after a couple of generations and they get really slick. Just like the watches, when it's one big flexible screen you can curl around your wrist and stretch out flat, then everyone will want one.
So it's anonymous aggregated, but they deliver you targeted search results and ads based on your previous browsing history?
Being Innovative in gaming is more than throwing millions of dollars and lots of artists at someone else's engine to make pretty graphics. There are defiantly some innovative gaming companies out there, but a lot are just piggy backing of the better companies, and using the stupid console crowd that will buy anything they see on the side of a bus.
Are you saying auto manufactures don't make cars that are purposely sexy, and insanely fast, to get males to drool over them and pay massive amounts of money that quite often kills them? How about making a gun cheap, effective and available enough for genocide? And if you don't think the Alcohol industry profit from others misery, and play all kinds of mind games with there customers through advertisements and promos then your quite mistaken.
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Crytek is a german company that makes the cryengine3 then they partner with a bunch of other companies to make games (like ubisoft and far cry)
"to play games that play better and look just as good on a $200 console?"
Oh you have no idea do you? if it was so comparable how come if they put pc players, and console players in the same multiplayer game, the pc players mop the floor with console player? Hint it has something do to with all the extra resolution, better input devices, and speed/smoothness of the machine. Besides a pc does a lot more than a console, and its easily upgradeable.
That might even do that, if they made the crytek engine.
first cyrsis was good (for me), the world was so open you could tackle missions any way you want (which is personally what i loved) now they funnel you down a few points and put invisible walls everywhere (which completely ruins the illusion of having a super suit).
Hahaha. What's the equivalent of a bsod for a cancer cure? Also I heard their cafeteria serves baby panda.
It's less group think then a lot of places. Have you tried the circlejerk of reddit comments. /. has a few blind-spots like microsoft (they could cure cancer and /. would tell them to fuck off) but over all it's not to bad.
"In what way are drone strikes cowardly? Are air strikes cowardly? Is artillery cowardly?" Yeah they kind of are, especially when the enemy doesn't have any. War is war and i'm not saying we should do it one by one as pistols at dawn, but you see a lot of people complaining the terrorists are cowardly for using their explosives and hiding in caves, and if so the Americans are just as cowardly if not more so for hiding in Nevada.
"Possibly so, but what is the alternative? To not fight?" short answer yes, if America spent half of what it did on killing those people as it did on helping them, who in that country would want to kill them? It would take far too long to explain the finer details, but suffice to say you couldn't just give them a pile of money or try and convert it in to mini America.
"The technologies available to the Australia Project just seemed to spring up out of nowhere, perfectly convenient to the story." I know what you mean, but if you had robots doing all the boring stuff, it would free up a lot of people to experiment with technology. It's hard to tell what would happen in that environment. Personally i would be at whatever hackerspace workshop they had working on all kinds of projects; but maybe too much of the population would just watch TV, and play video games.
Renault Laguna has a card instead of a key and it's locked into the dash while the car is on.