Well, it's a directed graph. Someone linking to google/facebook/twitter doesn't necessarily help you get from there back to the page with the outgoing link.
Few details, but if he's talking about a box that's actually running games, I have to say I think they're going about this the wrong way. I think they should try solve the problem "How do we bring gaming from your already existing personal computer in another room, to your local devices (TVs, tablets)". Think "short range OnLive", creating a bridge between the computer and the display and sound output/controller input. You could even (for not so resource intensive games) run multiple instances on the SAME computer and have the I/O going to different devices, allowing separate-device multiplayer that way.
If they think they can 'take on MS and Sony' then sure the spoils from a stand-alone box would be greater, but I think growing the existing costumer base makes more sense than trying to build a new one. If you're spending a lot of money on steam, it's because you already have hardware to play games on. You don't need or necessarily WANT more hardware thingymajingies.
I wish I'd be surprised by how easily the "foot soldiers" of the muslim world are manipulated, but I'm not. We all know the video was manufactured for muslims to "blow up", and I realize that there's a muslim leadership on the other side who know this but don't care, feeling they have more to win than lose by using it to manipulate the masses for their ends.
Surely there are people in the muslim world who can stand up and say "Look friends, you're being manipulated. Why are you falling for this?"
Religion. Always festering in uneducated and thus easily manipulated populations, like a cancer on humanity.
I'd invoke some form of principle of proportionality. A law where all programmers were liable for their code (no exceptions, straight up same for something that is given away for free as something used in airplanes) would mean the eradication of industries, a set back of science and progress almost unfathomable. Who would have written the first web-browser under such tyrrany? No one. Who'd write a $4 game when the liabilty at the other end of the balance board weighs in at multiple millions, or conversely, who could write a $4 game using methods that guarantee no software errors? No one. Things we take for granted today couldn't exist. Freedoms we have to distribute our code on the web, no strings attached, would have to go away. And to solve what problem?
At the most basic level, do we really need to give lawyers more tools to fuck us all over with? Really? Because lawyers are the only ones who would profit from this kind of legislation. Everyone else will be losers.
Who are "they"? The voices in your head, or your friends on right-wing forums who spew much worse 25/7 every day of the year? "The only good liberal is..." yeah, that's right. I know you kin.
Problem though is that Apple is WELL KNOWN for not being consistent (that in fact is the most common complaint!), so there being other examples of books mentioning Amazon doesn't prove anything either way.
Companies love to talk about free markets, but they hate to operate on them. Free to them means not the free flow of goods and services, it means the freedom to do whatever they like.
Steam for instance, topical, even has two tiers for europe; western and eastern, with different prices and catalogues. Imagine if they had two tiers for the US! If I go to Steam this very minute, in their "Flash Sale" there are four games listed. Well, normally. Currently one of the boxes say "We're sorry. This game is not available in your region".
They're allowed to produce products whereever in the world it's the cheapest for them -- which is fine -- HOWEVER they are then ALLOWED to segment markets so that consumers can't enjoy the same freedoms. Politicians bend over to give corps the legal tools to enforce these arbitrary restrictions on trade. Is it any wonder that we revile them?
Sorry for the ranting, but I don't have time to rewrite.
That this is a bad idea with a long history is what makes it so grating, and if it's a joke -- which I hope -- it's one that's been done before, better.
I'm not sure what lesson you drew from the Amiga (which was definitely killed by bad [un]management, not because it was closed (which it wasn't) or even overly expensive), but I agree with the general sentiment that Open (which currently equals Android) will win in the long run. It will win on price and volume and being "good enough". Here's an interesting graph ("The Rise and Fall of Personal Computing") which I have not verified in any way. Look at the slope of android vs the apple products. That to me says "android will win in a couple of years".
This assumes that Apple will continue to be AAPL and position themselves as selling exclusive high-end products, meaning they'll try to keep margins very high while refusing to play in some markets on pure principle (like the 7" tablet form which IIRC Jobs didn't want)
What we can expect is ever more litigation from AAPL as the balance of power starts shifting. Perhaps in two years we'll have have a more or less clean split between ios android and win8. In the end though, the march of Commoditization is relentless, and it favors cheap-and-open, neither of which describes MS and Apple.
I've actually been thinking that the phone form factor as we know it today may well go the way of the dodo in the future. Who really makes calls any more? Maybe that Galaxy Note is a transitional form to a bigger device ("tablet") which CAN make calls but is really optimized for reading/dictating. Heck, in the future what's to say that your speech won't be recognized into text or phonemes from text AND speech alike, burst over an IP channel and then synthezied -- possibly in "your voice" -- on the other end. But I digress.
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Can someone please change the "anonymous reader writes" to "The paid shill Florian Mueller? Thanks.
[...] it will be offset by the surge from firing up coal or gas stations to restore electricity supplies afterward.
Sure, because power plants usually shut down for an hour here and there due to lessened demand. What sort of retard wrote this crap?
The paper doesn't disclose the brands.
Well, it's a directed graph. Someone linking to google/facebook/twitter doesn't necessarily help you get from there back to the page with the outgoing link.
Takes time to figure out how to do "SELECT date,text FROM twitters WHERE user_id=num;" #webscale #nosql
Few details, but if he's talking about a box that's actually running games, I have to say I think they're going about this the wrong way. I think they should try solve the problem "How do we bring gaming from your already existing personal computer in another room, to your local devices (TVs, tablets)". Think "short range OnLive", creating a bridge between the computer and the display and sound output/controller input. You could even (for not so resource intensive games) run multiple instances on the SAME computer and have the I/O going to different devices, allowing separate-device multiplayer that way.
If they think they can 'take on MS and Sony' then sure the spoils from a stand-alone box would be greater, but I think growing the existing costumer base makes more sense than trying to build a new one. If you're spending a lot of money on steam, it's because you already have hardware to play games on. You don't need or necessarily WANT more hardware thingymajingies.
Last I checked you can't actually cast a negative vote, so you have to either abstain or vote FOR something.
A vote for Romney would hardly be a vote AGAINST Gitmo, etc.
Presumably this means they've announced the memory limits for Windows 8 somewhere? Windows 7 limits.
Sort of important if you want to know which version to get. I assume they're still segmenting.
Am I 'rite?
>everyone knows Samsung hates Apple
Congratulations, you win the Backward Assertion of The Day.
>So you have to go undetected through a submarine and a few frigates to get near them.
Which from my understanding has been done, or at least, AIP submarines were considered threat enough that the US Navy needed 2 years to play with one.
I wish I'd be surprised by how easily the "foot soldiers" of the muslim world are manipulated, but I'm not. We all know the video was manufactured for muslims to "blow up", and I realize that there's a muslim leadership on the other side who know this but don't care, feeling they have more to win than lose by using it to manipulate the masses for their ends.
Surely there are people in the muslim world who can stand up and say "Look friends, you're being manipulated. Why are you falling for this?"
Religion. Always festering in uneducated and thus easily manipulated populations, like a cancer on humanity.
I'd invoke some form of principle of proportionality. A law where all programmers were liable for their code (no exceptions, straight up same for something that is given away for free as something used in airplanes) would mean the eradication of industries, a set back of science and progress almost unfathomable. Who would have written the first web-browser under such tyrrany? No one. Who'd write a $4 game when the liabilty at the other end of the balance board weighs in at multiple millions, or conversely, who could write a $4 game using methods that guarantee no software errors? No one. Things we take for granted today couldn't exist. Freedoms we have to distribute our code on the web, no strings attached, would have to go away. And to solve what problem?
At the most basic level, do we really need to give lawyers more tools to fuck us all over with? Really? Because lawyers are the only ones who would profit from this kind of legislation. Everyone else will be losers.
Who are "they"? The voices in your head, or your friends on right-wing forums who spew much worse 25/7 every day of the year? "The only good liberal is..." yeah, that's right. I know you kin.
Sony had what was essentially a wrapper for the PS3, and the RUMOR is that the next one will be OpenGL "native", but rumors console are always crazy.
The initial port probably ran on a MESA (software) backend. Hence 6 fps.
My power brick had a slight discoloration from when I used it to thaw a frozen cinnamon bun.
Problem though is that Apple is WELL KNOWN for not being consistent (that in fact is the most common complaint!), so there being other examples of books mentioning Amazon doesn't prove anything either way.
Companies love to talk about free markets, but they hate to operate on them. Free to them means not the free flow of goods and services, it means the freedom to do whatever they like.
Steam for instance, topical, even has two tiers for europe; western and eastern, with different prices and catalogues. Imagine if they had two tiers for the US! If I go to Steam this very minute, in their "Flash Sale" there are four games listed. Well, normally. Currently one of the boxes say "We're sorry. This game is not available in your region".
They're allowed to produce products whereever in the world it's the cheapest for them -- which is fine -- HOWEVER they are then ALLOWED to segment markets so that consumers can't enjoy the same freedoms. Politicians bend over to give corps the legal tools to enforce these arbitrary restrictions on trade. Is it any wonder that we revile them?
Sorry for the ranting, but I don't have time to rewrite.
This is so stupid, it makes me hate to world.
That this is a bad idea with a long history is what makes it so grating, and if it's a joke -- which I hope -- it's one that's been done before, better.
RIM seems to be the Commodore of this decade. Good product, dedicated following, "killer management".
I'm not sure what lesson you drew from the Amiga (which was definitely killed by bad [un]management, not because it was closed (which it wasn't) or even overly expensive), but I agree with the general sentiment that Open (which currently equals Android) will win in the long run. It will win on price and volume and being "good enough". Here's an interesting graph ("The Rise and Fall of Personal Computing") which I have not verified in any way. Look at the slope of android vs the apple products. That to me says "android will win in a couple of years".
This assumes that Apple will continue to be AAPL and position themselves as selling exclusive high-end products, meaning they'll try to keep margins very high while refusing to play in some markets on pure principle (like the 7" tablet form which IIRC Jobs didn't want)
What we can expect is ever more litigation from AAPL as the balance of power starts shifting. Perhaps in two years we'll have have a more or less clean split between ios android and win8. In the end though, the march of Commoditization is relentless, and it favors cheap-and-open, neither of which describes MS and Apple.
I've actually been thinking that the phone form factor as we know it today may well go the way of the dodo in the future. Who really makes calls any more? Maybe that Galaxy Note is a transitional form to a bigger device ("tablet") which CAN make calls but is really optimized for reading/dictating. Heck, in the future what's to say that your speech won't be recognized into text or phonemes from text AND speech alike, burst over an IP channel and then synthezied -- possibly in "your voice" -- on the other end. But I digress.
How does your version of grep work and look? Do you draw automatons with the mouse?
Bar Nigel Farage, who is the Chuck Norris of politics, it's like watching monkeys at typewriters.
You're saying Nigel Farage is a slightly paranoid, homophobic bigot, like Chuck?
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