Yes Battle.net is older than steam but it developed into an online store after if I remember my history. It used to be a glorified multiplayer system back in the day. Or maybe my memory is fading in my old age. They did say it was down hill from 30:)
I wonder if Microsoft is just going to survive off of it's cloud-based azure? They're doing LOTS of new work in that project.
Their recent market cap is certainly not due to the roaring success of the Windows 10 October release. Based on their most recently quarterly report Azure is bringing in as much revenue and even more profit than the cash-cow of Office / Productivity apps and just shy of the OEM racket they got going with Windows.
Chromium isn't eating your RAM, the modern internet is. The only browsers which use significantly different (reads less) amount of RAM are those that lack the full capabilities as defined in the standards.
People endlessly say that upgrade cycles haven't been defined by software for a while, it seems strange that you would claim the opposite.
more effort than just keeping the Windows kernel around.
This is understated. About the only "good" part of Windows left is the kernel. Their driver interfaces break windows every chance they get, their useland / UI is garbage, and their applications bundled with Windows are even worse.
Frankly, IT market would be much better without Microsoft. At this point it is just an obstacle.
Do not wish for this. As horrid as Windows (and MS in general) is the best option is NOT reduced choice. If anything the world would be better of with Windows continuing but having a market share like Apple.
but aint no CIO that wants to foot the bill to retool all of those corporate web apps
False. There's a lot of work that goes on for retooling those web apps. Not because obsolescence mind you, but because MOBILE! Wooot! And ActiveX doesn't run on mobile.
Start worrying if she ever says "you killed my libido".:-)
I often tell me girlfriend at some point we should just change our facebook status to married, after all after 10 years we're effectively having sex like a married couple XD
Can't believe I have to explain this on slashdot, but... Optane IS memory.
Maybe you should learn what marketing is and what people need to understand. Yes Optane and NAND is memory. Now why do you think that NAND isn't sold as "memory" to consumers? Why do you think Optane is?
Your splitting hairs on definition is as dishonest as Intel's marketing division. The same marketing decision which has almost directly caused the current trend of advertising laptops with 24GB of "memory" (8GB of RAM, I'll leave it as an exercise to you to guess the rest). There's a time to split hairs (Tesla autopilot is as intelligent as real airplane autopilot) and there's a time to realise that splitting hairs for the purposes of marketing is fundamentally dishonest (using autopilot for people who don't understand what autopilot is).
Selling an SSD while calling it "memory" is definitely in the latter. I can't believe I had to explain that difference to you. Remember if everyone was a IT technical genius then marketing departments wouldn't need to exist since everyone would read through the very bullshit that they come up with. For all intents and purposes Optane SSDs are *NOT* memory and you should never say it is to anyone outside of IT circle.
It really could replace DRAM
Maybe some day just not now, and not at launch, which is effectively the broken promise.
In the news today companies that are more at risk due to their business practices are the first affected. That doesn't change the causality, only the mitigating factors. Ford also didn't a bailout during the car crisis, so holding them up as like pointing to a well off royalty and saying: "See rich people are fine, what are poor people complaining about!"
Oh I agree the technology can wait. What I'm calling out is this absurd idea that Apple should apologies for something they have been doing from day one and at the same time offering an absurd and completely bullshit excuse.
Say it like it is. You just gave a good rational reason for not being an early adopter. Apple could learn from your response.
You need someone to make your point because you can't get past the "USA BAD" meme.
Nope. My point stands by itself. By you, by the republicans pushing to end EV tax credits, and by the actions of your administration and your people.
We're not blaming anyone for anything, you are.
Sure you are. The fact that you don't see this in this very thread, in this very discussion, and in the press releases of your own government is quite telling. The ghost of Steve is floating around thinking "I thought I had a good reality distortion field, but really I was just an amateur!"
Lots of nations committing to not commit to maybe do something that they all know is ineffective anyway,
Opinions do not make it so. But hey circle jerks come in all forms. If you consider people making plans as not achieving something then you should be right beside me in criticising yourself for not only not making plans, but also not taking action... errr. Sorry that was unfair and unkind. You're taking action... just in the wrong way.
We left the circle-jerk which you guys are addicted to because we're too busy accomplishing something to waste time jerking you off.
Keep telling yourself that while you choke.
My advice is to find a new hobby
No thanks. I actively enjoy my hobby of arguing with idiots on the internet. It keeps my English skills honed and remind me that there are some incredible minds out there. And to be clear a mind has to be incredible to come up with the conclusions that you just presented. *tips hat to you*
The gaming industry is getting a bad as the movie industry.
What do you mean "is" getting? Every idiot launching their own store has been par for the course since Steam became a profit centre for Valve. Origin? Battle.net? These have all been around for ages.
, how it made them gain weight, dropped their libido...
There's a variety of pills that affect different women differently. Of course they don't like it. Ultimately it's a body altering substance. No one really likes their mood / personality to be dependent on a drug. But speaking from experience swapping from one pill to another made my partner horny as all heck and she gained a bit of weight after stopping altogether but that was due to the mood change (can't give a crap attitude combined with sitting and eating). Exercise fixed that. Not the weight, but the mood.
Yes, but are they nutritious and healthy ? It's a highly processed food
Meaning what? Define processing. There are plenty of healthy processed foods. There are plenty of processed foods loaded with everything bad for you. What is processing? Do I need to reconstitute something? Do I need to grind down offal and sell it as meat? Do canned fruits count? They are processed. What about wine, most of that contains additive 220 so you can consider that "processed" too for a certain definition.
I've tried some of these non-meat burgers and they are excellent.
Can you name some brands to consider trying? And maybe what you're comparing them to? I have some vegan friends and every attempt at a dinner party has often resulted in something that compares favourably only to a Mcdonalds meat patty and to be honest I'm not sure there's any meat in that either.
I keep hearing about good tasting alternatives, but I've yet to actually experience any.
I agree, but you miss the point. When you upset the balance of supply and demand you end up with stupid crap happening. This can be seen in every country. For example a classic upskilling for labourers is to study engineering within their discipline. Yet a few years ago I remember congratulating several electricians who just got their degrees only to find out they were disappointed that they wasted their time. They were being paid 3 times as much to crimp wires as they would be to design the wiring for a building due to a local boom causing a massive shortage in electricians. (Sawmill workers paid like doctors).
Now the problem there is it was causing companies to go under. So what to do? Wait 5 years (3 year apprenticeship + momentum) for the labour pool to balance? Or grant visas to educated and capable people willing to come into the country, and do the said work. Thank god the government at the time did the latter as the imbalance actually killed 2 projects I was working on. Not sure what would have happened if we were stuck like that for another 5 years.
Yes this was eventually abused, and the department of labour then proceeded to crack down on the abusers (good workplace protection laws in Australia which is lacking severely in the USA).
Basic macro-economic theory: Swings in supply and demand happen, however they get more severe if you take a market and arbitrarily cut it up (i.e. by national boundaries), and remember importing labour to pay local taxes and contribute to local GDP is favourable to upsetting local market conditions and the negatives effects that come with it (not just expensive labour, or worse performing labour, market depression which comes from volatile cost of supply,... to say nothing of the inevitable problems with having some expensive people on the books if the market collapses, or if they are being paid more than others).
It's bad because the worker is temporary.
I think you're seeing this backwards. It's GOOD because it's temporary. The ultimate goal of any nation is to be self sufficient. There are market forces which can correct the imbalance however they take time. A degree and some experience takes longer than an intercontinental flights and some paperwork. Ignoring the abusers, H-1Bs exists to level a temporary situation in a volatile market.
I don't want to go to hospital only to be turned down by lack of nurses. I don't want to go to hospital only to find that it either closed, or that my tax rate increased massively because the cost of care went up. I also don't want to go to hospital in 10 years to find it staffed exclusively by foreigners (and dealing with abusers as well as limiting the duration of visas does this).
Mind you I realise the irony of me saying this despite me living in another country right now on a temporary workers visa, but I do have a sense of nationalism too. I escaped my home country due to the labour market there being saturated on the completion of a major gas exploration expansion. A few years in Europe where I could put my skills to good use was preferable to flipping burgers at home. However as expected the market back home is starting to change again, as is the market here which seems to be getting less desperate for skilled workers by the day.
These visas have a place in the macro-economic system and a solution to their abuse shouldn't devalue their reason for existing.
I think you may have missed a lot. Not only have we had mass hacked IoT devices causing issues (recently an attack on DNS root servers was brought to you by Chinese internet connected webcams) but we've even had whitehat hackers hacking IoT devices to force them to apply updates to make them more secure, and grey hats hacking the devices to brick them so they stop polluting the web.
I think we covered both here on Slashdot but I'm on time constraints so I'll leave the searching to you:-)
As an owner of a LTE-A device in a city which didn't have an LTE-A network I'm genuinely confused by Apple's announcement. Mind you there's no surprise about this announcement in the slightest. They have been behind the curve on adopting every new wireless technology ever in their phones. They were one of the last for 3G, middle of the pack for 4G, slow to release LTE-A, they have been a generation behind in all Bluetooth standards and a generation behind the competition in WiFi too.
Why should this be any different? The marketing department should have some balls and just come out and say: "We're doing the same thing we've always done, you won't get 5G support for a while."
What promises did Optane break? It seems to be exactly where everyone believed it would be.
It's exactly what everyone believed it would be (a fast technology for high-end SSDs). Just not what Intel said it would be (the end of DRAM as we know it) when Optane was in the same state as this GPU announcement. Hell they even market it as "Optane Memory". The fact that everyone called out their bullshit at the time and it has proven to be exactly what we thought doesn't change this.
I didn't say it's a bad product without a purpose. I just said it's not what Intel promised in their useless marketing releases.
Slashdot Mirror
Only for Windows users.
Well since Linux on desktop is a myth I assumed so where the users ;-P
Yes Battle.net is older than steam but it developed into an online store after if I remember my history. It used to be a glorified multiplayer system back in the day. Or maybe my memory is fading in my old age. They did say it was down hill from 30 :)
I wonder if Microsoft is just going to survive off of it's cloud-based azure? They're doing LOTS of new work in that project.
Their recent market cap is certainly not due to the roaring success of the Windows 10 October release. Based on their most recently quarterly report Azure is bringing in as much revenue and even more profit than the cash-cow of Office / Productivity apps and just shy of the OEM racket they got going with Windows.
Chromium isn't eating your RAM, the modern internet is. The only browsers which use significantly different (reads less) amount of RAM are those that lack the full capabilities as defined in the standards.
People endlessly say that upgrade cycles haven't been defined by software for a while, it seems strange that you would claim the opposite.
Fuck that. DirectX should just die.
Are you speaking as a developer or as a user? As a user DirectX just works.
more effort than just keeping the Windows kernel around.
This is understated. About the only "good" part of Windows left is the kernel. Their driver interfaces break windows every chance they get, their useland / UI is garbage, and their applications bundled with Windows are even worse.
Frankly, IT market would be much better without Microsoft. At this point it is just an obstacle.
Do not wish for this. As horrid as Windows (and MS in general) is the best option is NOT reduced choice. If anything the world would be better of with Windows continuing but having a market share like Apple.
but aint no CIO that wants to foot the bill to retool all of those corporate web apps
False. There's a lot of work that goes on for retooling those web apps. Not because obsolescence mind you, but because MOBILE! Wooot! And ActiveX doesn't run on mobile.
Maybe IE6 wasn't so bad...
I'll happily hand over a list of all my favourite porn in exchange for a browser that can render a webpage faster than I can make a cup of coffee.
Start worrying if she ever says "you killed my libido". :-)
I often tell me girlfriend at some point we should just change our facebook status to married, after all after 10 years we're effectively having sex like a married couple XD
Can't believe I have to explain this on slashdot, but... Optane IS memory.
Maybe you should learn what marketing is and what people need to understand. Yes Optane and NAND is memory. Now why do you think that NAND isn't sold as "memory" to consumers? Why do you think Optane is?
Your splitting hairs on definition is as dishonest as Intel's marketing division. The same marketing decision which has almost directly caused the current trend of advertising laptops with 24GB of "memory" (8GB of RAM, I'll leave it as an exercise to you to guess the rest). There's a time to split hairs (Tesla autopilot is as intelligent as real airplane autopilot) and there's a time to realise that splitting hairs for the purposes of marketing is fundamentally dishonest (using autopilot for people who don't understand what autopilot is).
Selling an SSD while calling it "memory" is definitely in the latter. I can't believe I had to explain that difference to you. Remember if everyone was a IT technical genius then marketing departments wouldn't need to exist since everyone would read through the very bullshit that they come up with. For all intents and purposes Optane SSDs are *NOT* memory and you should never say it is to anyone outside of IT circle.
It really could replace DRAM
Maybe some day just not now, and not at launch, which is effectively the broken promise.
In the news today companies that are more at risk due to their business practices are the first affected. That doesn't change the causality, only the mitigating factors. Ford also didn't a bailout during the car crisis, so holding them up as like pointing to a well off royalty and saying: "See rich people are fine, what are poor people complaining about!"
Oh I agree the technology can wait. What I'm calling out is this absurd idea that Apple should apologies for something they have been doing from day one and at the same time offering an absurd and completely bullshit excuse.
Say it like it is. You just gave a good rational reason for not being an early adopter. Apple could learn from your response.
Thanks will see if it's available locally.
You need someone to make your point because you can't get past the "USA BAD" meme.
Nope. My point stands by itself. By you, by the republicans pushing to end EV tax credits, and by the actions of your administration and your people.
We're not blaming anyone for anything, you are.
Sure you are. The fact that you don't see this in this very thread, in this very discussion, and in the press releases of your own government is quite telling. The ghost of Steve is floating around thinking "I thought I had a good reality distortion field, but really I was just an amateur!"
Lots of nations committing to not commit to maybe do something that they all know is ineffective anyway,
Opinions do not make it so. But hey circle jerks come in all forms. If you consider people making plans as not achieving something then you should be right beside me in criticising yourself for not only not making plans, but also not taking action... errr. Sorry that was unfair and unkind. You're taking action... just in the wrong way.
We left the circle-jerk which you guys are addicted to because we're too busy accomplishing something to waste time jerking you off.
Keep telling yourself that while you choke.
My advice is to find a new hobby
No thanks. I actively enjoy my hobby of arguing with idiots on the internet. It keeps my English skills honed and remind me that there are some incredible minds out there. And to be clear a mind has to be incredible to come up with the conclusions that you just presented. *tips hat to you*
The gaming industry is getting a bad as the movie industry.
What do you mean "is" getting? Every idiot launching their own store has been par for the course since Steam became a profit centre for Valve. Origin? Battle.net? These have all been around for ages.
, how it made them gain weight, dropped their libido...
There's a variety of pills that affect different women differently. Of course they don't like it. Ultimately it's a body altering substance. No one really likes their mood / personality to be dependent on a drug. But speaking from experience swapping from one pill to another made my partner horny as all heck and she gained a bit of weight after stopping altogether but that was due to the mood change (can't give a crap attitude combined with sitting and eating). Exercise fixed that. Not the weight, but the mood.
You have to have someone else to rub it in. And that will affect them too.
If it needs to be rubbed in your back shoulders, then doesn't it stand to reason that it wouldn't affect the person getting it on their hands?
Yes, but are they nutritious and healthy ? It's a highly processed food
Meaning what? Define processing. There are plenty of healthy processed foods. There are plenty of processed foods loaded with everything bad for you.
What is processing? Do I need to reconstitute something? Do I need to grind down offal and sell it as meat? Do canned fruits count? They are processed. What about wine, most of that contains additive 220 so you can consider that "processed" too for a certain definition.
I hate hearing the term "processed food".
I've tried some of these non-meat burgers and they are excellent.
Can you name some brands to consider trying? And maybe what you're comparing them to? I have some vegan friends and every attempt at a dinner party has often resulted in something that compares favourably only to a Mcdonalds meat patty and to be honest I'm not sure there's any meat in that either.
I keep hearing about good tasting alternatives, but I've yet to actually experience any.
I agree, but you miss the point. When you upset the balance of supply and demand you end up with stupid crap happening. This can be seen in every country. For example a classic upskilling for labourers is to study engineering within their discipline. Yet a few years ago I remember congratulating several electricians who just got their degrees only to find out they were disappointed that they wasted their time. They were being paid 3 times as much to crimp wires as they would be to design the wiring for a building due to a local boom causing a massive shortage in electricians. (Sawmill workers paid like doctors).
Now the problem there is it was causing companies to go under. So what to do? Wait 5 years (3 year apprenticeship + momentum) for the labour pool to balance? Or grant visas to educated and capable people willing to come into the country, and do the said work. Thank god the government at the time did the latter as the imbalance actually killed 2 projects I was working on. Not sure what would have happened if we were stuck like that for another 5 years.
Yes this was eventually abused, and the department of labour then proceeded to crack down on the abusers (good workplace protection laws in Australia which is lacking severely in the USA).
Basic macro-economic theory: Swings in supply and demand happen, however they get more severe if you take a market and arbitrarily cut it up (i.e. by national boundaries), and remember importing labour to pay local taxes and contribute to local GDP is favourable to upsetting local market conditions and the negatives effects that come with it (not just expensive labour, or worse performing labour, market depression which comes from volatile cost of supply, ... to say nothing of the inevitable problems with having some expensive people on the books if the market collapses, or if they are being paid more than others).
It's bad because the worker is temporary.
I think you're seeing this backwards. It's GOOD because it's temporary. The ultimate goal of any nation is to be self sufficient. There are market forces which can correct the imbalance however they take time. A degree and some experience takes longer than an intercontinental flights and some paperwork. Ignoring the abusers, H-1Bs exists to level a temporary situation in a volatile market.
I don't want to go to hospital only to be turned down by lack of nurses.
I don't want to go to hospital only to find that it either closed, or that my tax rate increased massively because the cost of care went up.
I also don't want to go to hospital in 10 years to find it staffed exclusively by foreigners (and dealing with abusers as well as limiting the duration of visas does this).
Mind you I realise the irony of me saying this despite me living in another country right now on a temporary workers visa, but I do have a sense of nationalism too. I escaped my home country due to the labour market there being saturated on the completion of a major gas exploration expansion. A few years in Europe where I could put my skills to good use was preferable to flipping burgers at home. However as expected the market back home is starting to change again, as is the market here which seems to be getting less desperate for skilled workers by the day.
These visas have a place in the macro-economic system and a solution to their abuse shouldn't devalue their reason for existing.
I think you may have missed a lot. Not only have we had mass hacked IoT devices causing issues (recently an attack on DNS root servers was brought to you by Chinese internet connected webcams) but we've even had whitehat hackers hacking IoT devices to force them to apply updates to make them more secure, and grey hats hacking the devices to brick them so they stop polluting the web.
I think we covered both here on Slashdot but I'm on time constraints so I'll leave the searching to you :-)
As an owner of a LTE-A device in a city which didn't have an LTE-A network I'm genuinely confused by Apple's announcement. Mind you there's no surprise about this announcement in the slightest. They have been behind the curve on adopting every new wireless technology ever in their phones. They were one of the last for 3G, middle of the pack for 4G, slow to release LTE-A, they have been a generation behind in all Bluetooth standards and a generation behind the competition in WiFi too.
Why should this be any different? The marketing department should have some balls and just come out and say: "We're doing the same thing we've always done, you won't get 5G support for a while."
So it's quite possible that there were no jobs lost due to the tariffs.
Except for those where companies have announced plant closures directly citing the tariffs you'd be right.
What promises did Optane break? It seems to be exactly where everyone believed it would be.
It's exactly what everyone believed it would be (a fast technology for high-end SSDs). Just not what Intel said it would be (the end of DRAM as we know it) when Optane was in the same state as this GPU announcement. Hell they even market it as "Optane Memory". The fact that everyone called out their bullshit at the time and it has proven to be exactly what we thought doesn't change this.
I didn't say it's a bad product without a purpose. I just said it's not what Intel promised in their useless marketing releases.