MS *should* be worried about this. People, including many Slasdotters, have been attributing blame for years to MS for instabilities in the OS that are actually caused by shit 3rd party drivers.
WTF are you talking about, have you even seen an Xbox360? I'm looking at the optical connection from my Xbox360 to my amp now...
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My experience exactly. I got an Xbox360 for my son this Christmas and I was pleasantly surprised how easily it made itself into a media hub. I bought the thing to play games but I'm using it to stream media quite often. It just *works*...it found my PC on the network and the music I have on it. I'd planned on building an HTPC but I'm not sure I need to now.
WOW...Ann Coulter on Slashdot!!! Who would have thought!! C'mon Ann...stop posting AC, don't be such a pussy.
If you're going to keep posting Ann try to remember when you're posting on/. the term 'liberal' isn't taken as nearly a dirty word as your regular audience deems it.
Pat Buchanan != Neocon. He is a conservative...not a Big Government neocon. I read a number of conservative columnists regularly, Buchanan one of them (strange for a dirty left-leaning centrist, eh?). He regularly rails against the neocon establishment for the damage they are doing to the country (via Iraq, Israel, and immigration policy) and for having lost sight of true conservatism.
Intel is suffering from the Osborne Effect. They have hyped their new products (which are comming in July/August of 2006) so much that no one wants their current parts.
I don't think Intel is suffering from the Osborne Effect. People don't want their current products because the competition has a better offering. The only option Intel really has is to hype future products because it has become common knowledge that their current line up can't compete with AMD. The hype you're hearing is more of an effort to stop the exodus to AMD, it's yet to be seen if that will work.
Intel is selling many parts at a loss
...and you know this how? Are you privy to the details of Intel's cost/unit? Yes, they've cut prices but they may have had plenty of room to do so and still make money.
You're assuming the populace would know it when such a 'revolution' started. What would actually happen though is the government through the media will have branded these folks terrorists, leftist nuts intent on destroying your right to security. These terrorists would be out to destroy your god given right to consume under the 'protection' of the almighty government. You don't have to look far to see how this works. Right now everyone who fights against us is branded a 'terrorist'. But stangely enough we're the ones projecting our values (in the name democracy perhaps?) on other nations around the world.
So this is what gets modded as +5 Insightful on/. these days? Guess the trick is to say it like you know what you're talking about and the mods will follow. LCD 'refresh' rates are measured in 'ms' not 'Hz'. Poster also seems to be stuck in 2002...todays LCDs with sub-10ms refresh rates (I believe I read about a 3-4ms LCD coming soon as well) have eliminated the 'blurring' problem evident on older units. I've played many BF2, Doom3 and several others on my 19" 8ms LCD and it's been excellent...no ghosting. Todays units are greatly improved over the old 20ms+ ones. The only area CRTs still maintain an advantage are in displaying high resolution...LCDs outside their native resolution just aren't as nice.
Aside from the feeling I get that parent was being humorous, I'm sure you've noticed the 'what OS are they running' posts in this story. You know damn well there's lots of slashbois salivating at the idea this might be a.NET/SQL Server/XP on IIS system so they can blame MS while ignoring the fact bad systems can be developed on any platform.
Wonderful anecdotes telling us how inept you are at installing hardware on a Windows box (installing a burner ain't that hard)...sounds like you should stick to the closed architecture of Apple to keep coming up with these cliched fanboi anecdotes.
That's what Microsoft did. Apps are apps and OS is OS, and coupling one to the other has been recognized as bad design since the 1960s or earlier. Yet MS purposefully chose to do bad engineering because it looked like a good marketing strategy.
It looked like a good marketing strategy because it WAS indeed good marketing strategy. Almost everyone of the non-techie users I know likes the fact they can play their video clips, surf da intarweb, read e-mail, etc. without having to go out and buy another software package or download it from somewhere else. Is it fair or ethical for MS to tie these things into the OS? Personally I think not. Personally I'd prefer a more stripped down OS that lets me choose what apps I want to run. However the non-techie unwashed masses want things convenient and simple to use and don't give a fuck about clean and proper OS design.
...and Sony will no doubt lose lots of money on the Cell-equipped PS3. Let's not forget nearly all of the console manufacturers lose money on the boxes hoping to make up the loss on software (game) sales.
Setting up a foundation like that just for PR...shake your head...are you truly that blind or do you post stuff like this for the karma bonus? *Everyone* in Gates' position donates more than Gates' foundation? Paul Allen (no question is doing great things with the money he has) donates 2x more? At least back your bullshit up with some links.
"He is border line illegal and totally unethical in just about all things"
+2 Insightful??? This is a moronic statement if I've ever heard one...nothing like painting with a broad brush. Yeah, a number of Gates' actions in business have been immoral and illegal. But saying just about everything he's done is illegal and unethical is fucking stupid. The Gates Foundation funds a lot of charitable and very good causes...more people in Gates' position should do the same.
...damn...someone has to explain the disc thing. I am officially old...soon I'm gonna be like that guy in our shop who's always talking about compiling on punch cards.
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Ars' articles are normally well written and discussions (usually) have good signal:noise.
"it's a sad day for MS when i'm more likely to believe they are up to no good than i am to believe they had a good idea."
Actually that says a lot more about you than it does MS
MS *should* be worried about this. People, including many Slasdotters, have been attributing blame for years to MS for instabilities in the OS that are actually caused by shit 3rd party drivers.
'and the XBox360, which lacks optical out... '
WTF are you talking about, have you even seen an Xbox360? I'm looking at the optical connection from my Xbox360 to my amp now...
My experience exactly. I got an Xbox360 for my son this Christmas and I was pleasantly surprised how easily it made itself into a media hub. I bought the thing to play games but I'm using it to stream media quite often. It just *works*...it found my PC on the network and the music I have on it. I'd planned on building an HTPC but I'm not sure I need to now.
Could it be because Samsung doesn't have a content arm to come up with ass-tastic ways to hobble their tech like Sony does?
Please post more information and some links to these $3000 items that are going unsold at $200 and $10. What the hell are you selling?
WOW...Ann Coulter on Slashdot!!! Who would have thought!! C'mon Ann...stop posting AC, don't be such a pussy.
/. the term 'liberal' isn't taken as nearly a dirty word as your regular audience deems it.
If you're going to keep posting Ann try to remember when you're posting on
Pat Buchanan != Neocon. He is a conservative...not a Big Government neocon. I read a number of conservative columnists regularly, Buchanan one of them (strange for a dirty left-leaning centrist, eh?). He regularly rails against the neocon establishment for the damage they are doing to the country (via Iraq, Israel, and immigration policy) and for having lost sight of true conservatism.
"If he manages to get the movie industry to play along, I propose we send him to negotiate with OPEC next"
Great...so then we'll only have to pay $0.49 a litre for fuel but to get that price we'll all have to drive a white iWagon?
I don't think Intel is suffering from the Osborne Effect. People don't want their current products because the competition has a better offering. The only option Intel really has is to hype future products because it has become common knowledge that their current line up can't compete with AMD. The hype you're hearing is more of an effort to stop the exodus to AMD, it's yet to be seen if that will work.
Intel is selling many parts at a loss
"I suspect you meant B-2s, but I don't think those flew around the world for Al-Qaeda."
I think this counts.
"...27 sorties from Whiteman AFB (to Iraq) and releasing more than 1.5 million pounds of munitions."
I assume when they say munitions they aren't talking about toys for children.
You're assuming the populace would know it when such a 'revolution' started. What would actually happen though is the government through the media will have branded these folks terrorists, leftist nuts intent on destroying your right to security. These terrorists would be out to destroy your god given right to consume under the 'protection' of the almighty government. You don't have to look far to see how this works. Right now everyone who fights against us is branded a 'terrorist'. But stangely enough we're the ones projecting our values (in the name democracy perhaps?) on other nations around the world.
Like parent mentioned...games. A lot of games, even popular ones, aren't ported to the Mac.
So this is what gets modded as +5 Insightful on /. these days? Guess the trick is to say it like you know what you're talking about and the mods will follow. LCD 'refresh' rates are measured in 'ms' not 'Hz'. Poster also seems to be stuck in 2002...todays LCDs with sub-10ms refresh rates (I believe I read about a 3-4ms LCD coming soon as well) have eliminated the 'blurring' problem evident on older units. I've played many BF2, Doom3 and several others on my 19" 8ms LCD and it's been excellent...no ghosting. Todays units are greatly improved over the old 20ms+ ones. The only area CRTs still maintain an advantage are in displaying high resolution...LCDs outside their native resolution just aren't as nice.
Aside from the feeling I get that parent was being humorous, I'm sure you've noticed the 'what OS are they running' posts in this story. You know damn well there's lots of slashbois salivating at the idea this might be a .NET/SQL Server/XP on IIS system so they can blame MS while ignoring the fact bad systems can be developed on any platform.
Wonderful anecdotes telling us how inept you are at installing hardware on a Windows box (installing a burner ain't that hard)...sounds like you should stick to the closed architecture of Apple to keep coming up with these cliched fanboi anecdotes.
I'll bet the general public isn't even aware of the previous Mars rovers.
That's what Microsoft did. Apps are apps and OS is OS, and coupling one to the other has been recognized as bad design since the 1960s or earlier. Yet MS purposefully chose to do bad engineering because it looked like a good marketing strategy.
It looked like a good marketing strategy because it WAS indeed good marketing strategy. Almost everyone of the non-techie users I know likes the fact they can play their video clips, surf da intarweb, read e-mail, etc. without having to go out and buy another software package or download it from somewhere else. Is it fair or ethical for MS to tie these things into the OS? Personally I think not. Personally I'd prefer a more stripped down OS that lets me choose what apps I want to run. However the non-techie unwashed masses want things convenient and simple to use and don't give a fuck about clean and proper OS design.
...and Sony will no doubt lose lots of money on the Cell-equipped PS3. Let's not forget nearly all of the console manufacturers lose money on the boxes hoping to make up the loss on software (game) sales.
"Look at us, we elected a labotomized monkey as our President! We're stupid!"
Oh the irony...thanks to the idiot AC for the morning chuckle.
Setting up a foundation like that just for PR...shake your head...are you truly that blind or do you post stuff like this for the karma bonus? *Everyone* in Gates' position donates more than Gates' foundation? Paul Allen (no question is doing great things with the money he has) donates 2x more? At least back your bullshit up with some links.
"He is border line illegal and totally unethical in just about all things"
+2 Insightful??? This is a moronic statement if I've ever heard one...nothing like painting with a broad brush. Yeah, a number of Gates' actions in business have been immoral and illegal. But saying just about everything he's done is illegal and unethical is fucking stupid. The Gates Foundation funds a lot of charitable and very good causes...more people in Gates' position should do the same.
I'd wager there's a difference in Gates' demo not working 100% and his PC catching fire too...
...damn...someone has to explain the disc thing. I am officially old...soon I'm gonna be like that guy in our shop who's always talking about compiling on punch cards.