this is a great point to drive home: that the pilots had lost SA and positive control of the aircraft. had an emergency situation presented itself they would have been behind the aircraft, and that is not a good place to be. SA (situational awareness) is one of the key factors in aviation that differentiates the "that was a close one" moments and the "NTSB re-assembles my aircraft" moments.....
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Yeah games did get bigger and more of a challenge to develop, but most of the work is offshored to the cheapest labor in third world nations and then the debuggers are in the USA. It is the same way with sneakers, they make them in third world nations but sell for $100 or more in the USA.
making a game is not like making a pair of sneakers. and you have it the other way around: usually QA is offshored, as the quality is not as bad at a low price point. when you offshore, you absolutely get what you pay for - if you pay peanuts, the quality of the work you get back will reflect that.
sure greed is a factor, but like movies, video games are very risky - we've all seen great ideas crater and take untold amounts of money with them. those losses and failures have to be offset by successful games - hence the video game and movie industry's reliance on "sure bets": franchises/sequels.
different use cases will dictate what the consumer will look for. we don't even know what kind of consumer the supposed ARM netbook would target.
if it is targeting Macbook Air customers, they need to run windows well, and get app devs on board as well. but if they target the ultra-low-end, those consumers will buy whatever OS, no matter how crippled, if the price is right - and not having a windows licence fee in the price could make the difference.
netbooks are a great place to quietly slip in non-windows OS's that meet customer needs. the mobile phone/smart phone market has shown that customers aren't slavishly devoted to Windows. they will buy what works.
Linksys was acquired by cisco. there is about as much difference between Linksys and cisco routers as there is between a weekend yacht and a freighter.
IOS was designed to be an enterprise embedded solution, not for some Joe Bloggs out there who needs to hook up two computers to his cable connection.
using expensive "touch-labor" agri fuels like ethanol and soybean oil will not solve a massive world economy that exists due to coal and oil. where are the kids trying for the holy grail, synthetic gasoline/diesel/crude from organic waste?
For god's sakes, stop talking and show your displeasure! Don't buy XP! Throw it in the Seattle bay! Don't tell your IT dept to invest in MS stuff. If solaris, linux, etc. works better, invest in it! What we don't need is the government in the free market, like a bull in china shop. you'll regret it when the internet is gov't controlled, and any violation of the DMCA or others is prosecuted.
The REAL remedy to a company gone mad is to exercise your power: don't buy their stuff. They will have no money to use. There are tons of companies that have OS suites to rival microsoft. Buy the best one. The market regulates itself. You are the power, without the consumer, Microsoft does not exist. Boycott! Boycott!
PS: there are other companies which are just as destructive as MS, such as Oracle. any DBA will tell you Oracle stinks, but every DB boss recommends a purchase. attention need be paid here.
if it's not an open and free market, then how can AMD and VIA exist and succeed? intel has no more power than microsoft or even redhat to determine what we buy. heck, if other chipset companies wanted to "improve" intel chipsets they'd be sell like hotcakes. intel can't and will never be able to do anything about it except make a better product.
Before i say anything, i must make it clear that the chances of Linux making it to the desktop in 2 years or less is next to nil.
the problem with Linux is that is fragmented and is too decentralized. don't get me wrong, i LIKE that. but too many dunces who actually use computers for games and Word don't. they like everything to be under the one mantle of a single provider. it's not really functionality, it's the whole perception and presentation. most folks are confused by the array of Linux distributions, and that's just one "flavor" of Unix!
the general PC using public is used to one monolithic OS, be it Microsoft or Apple. the idea of a non-copyrighted OS with myriads of options and configurations (hell, even the UI isn't consistent!) confuses them.
this development just underlines the suspicion i have - that Sun is trying to move to the desktop with a Solaris/GNOME combo. Solaris already runs on Intel procs, and they're giving it away!(except for that $70 media charge)
the advantage is that Solaris is copyrighted - no one could get the Solaris source and sell it as a different brand. there would Sun Solaris, and that's it. real simple for the simple people.
sorry to mislead, but i did not intend to suggest a linuxPPC clone with "Apple" on it. note i said linux kernel, not the whole thing. in reference to earlier posts, X does not suck. it is better than both MacOS and Windows(why else is it still around?).
legacy compatibility? in order for an OS, or architecture, to mature, it must shake loose the shackles of legacy software. Apple has clout, why don't they work with thier developers, assure X ports? why? because they are sure they know a better way.
this only makes me more pissed because they have an awesome processor and memory architecture! Apple is taking the Microsoft road, being way too closed and proprietary. if MS hadn't usurped thier market, Apple would be in the sorry position of MS right now.
unix, properly configured, can be a commercial artist's OS(ahem, IRIX) and still be easy to use. on a well developed version, unix does not need to be "taken apart," nor have to "recompile the kernel for network changes." those are distinctly facets of the open software Linux.
what do you prefer? the shackle of goverment? governments around the world have butchered millions, yet you do not care. you are sheltered in your nice house, enjoying the fruits that many corporations choose to produce. if you hate corporations move to the "caribbean paridise" in Cuba, or China.
No corporation i've heard of has killed millions because they said no.
why in gods name do they insist on being so cutesy and artsy? Apple should have made a custom BSD or Linux kernel, wrapped stable implementations of standard GNU software around it, and used X. pop on a slick UI that simplifies system utilities and you are done.
hell, make it all a desktop, with a Mac-looking window manager(or ditch the whole mac look altogether).
that would at least be an improvement over the 10 percent CPU utilization that Aqua uses. compare that to 1 to 2 percent for Windows and about 3 or 5 for X.
P.S. check me on the X figures, i am not sure how much it differs from machine to machine.
Before everyone spouts their indoctrinated drivel, i would like to remind the posters that they would not be posting on slashdot, would not be using a browser, would be surfing an internet, and would not be using a computer if it were not for "multinational corporations", the "military industrial complex" or "monopolies." everyone wails on the evils of corporations, but poses no solution. corporations are one of the primary catalysts of the info revolution. I am sick and tired of the well-educated posters on this site showing a total lack of reasoning ability when it comes to politics. the frog french farmer is a european who cannot understand the capitalist system. he thinks, "wah, i can't sell my cheese, i guess that the highly visible and rich corporation over there is to blame. sue!" how quaint.
it is so strange that what "evil" corporations are accused of doing,(with what power i can't imagine) is the same stuff that governments have been doing forever! the game plays correctly into the cards of socialists who see this time of transition to be a opportunity. by scapegoating the capitalists, they can make an offer no one can refuse. instant totalitarianism. just add media conditioning, which the poor slashdot fellows have shown works wonderfully.
to conclude, do not simply parrot a belief that you heard that sounds cool. think, analyze, research. politics, so neglected and ridiculed, is the only way the individual can assert his or her power(save by revolution).
Read Toffler's Powershift, and the Wall Street Journal.
not really. what Rambus is doing is dubious, and depending on your interpretation of the law, illegal. MS was performing standard trade deals, "if you don't bundle this software, we wont't sell you this other software" that every major software firm does. Rambus is actually fixing prices of competing products, and using the marketing muscle of a major industry player to force a single standard onto the public (it is actually in the language of Intel's agreement with Rambus that RDRAM will be the only RAM standard for desktop PCs). if RDRAM was actually fast, and effecient, and a better product, i could maybe live with it. but DDR kicks RDRAM's butt at half RDRAM's clock speed, and consumes less power doing so. it isn't up to the government to solve this one - they'd muck it up in court. consumers must support chipset manufacturers like VIA and others that refuse to use the inferior RDRAM interface.
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that's was my point, if slyly worded.
was it someone famous that once said, "there's no such thing as bad publicity"?
someone is managing the launch of this game really well....
there is no "profit" for the consumer. there is a product that consumer can choose to purchase/rent/whatever.
and you can thank "capitalism" that Redbox even exists and provides a great service for a minimal fee.
Mod parent up, please.
this is a great point to drive home: that the pilots had lost SA and positive control of the aircraft. had an emergency situation presented itself they would have been behind the aircraft, and that is not a good place to be. SA (situational awareness) is one of the key factors in aviation that differentiates the "that was a close one" moments and the "NTSB re-assembles my aircraft" moments.....
clearly you haven't used VMS.
*shudder*
Yeah games did get bigger and more of a challenge to develop, but most of the work is offshored to the cheapest labor in third world nations and then the debuggers are in the USA. It is the same way with sneakers, they make them in third world nations but sell for $100 or more in the USA.
making a game is not like making a pair of sneakers. and you have it the other way around: usually QA is offshored, as the quality is not as bad at a low price point. when you offshore, you absolutely get what you pay for - if you pay peanuts, the quality of the work you get back will reflect that.
sure greed is a factor, but like movies, video games are very risky - we've all seen great ideas crater and take untold amounts of money with them. those losses and failures have to be offset by successful games - hence the video game and movie industry's reliance on "sure bets": franchises/sequels.
different use cases will dictate what the consumer will look for. we don't even know what kind of consumer the supposed ARM netbook would target.
if it is targeting Macbook Air customers, they need to run windows well, and get app devs on board as well. but if they target the ultra-low-end, those consumers will buy whatever OS, no matter how crippled, if the price is right - and not having a windows licence fee in the price could make the difference.
netbooks are a great place to quietly slip in non-windows OS's that meet customer needs. the mobile phone/smart phone market has shown that customers aren't slavishly devoted to Windows. they will buy what works.
Tractor Trailers use Diesel, which is not actually "gas"- it's a heavy fuel, and is exempt from federal gasoline excise taxes.
TV with added splitting headache!
are you kidding?
Linksys was acquired by cisco.
there is about as much difference between Linksys and cisco routers as there is between a weekend yacht and a freighter.
IOS was designed to be an enterprise embedded solution, not for some Joe Bloggs out there who needs to hook up two computers to his cable connection.
Been. Done.
using expensive "touch-labor" agri fuels like ethanol and soybean oil will not solve a massive world economy that exists due to coal and oil. where are the kids trying for the holy grail, synthetic gasoline/diesel/crude from organic waste?
For god's sakes, stop talking and show your displeasure! Don't buy XP! Throw it in the Seattle bay! Don't tell your IT dept to invest in MS stuff. If solaris, linux, etc. works better, invest in it! What we don't need is the government in the free market, like a bull in china shop. you'll regret it when the internet is gov't controlled, and any violation of the DMCA or others is prosecuted.
The REAL remedy to a company gone mad is to exercise your power: don't buy their stuff. They will have no money to use. There are tons of companies that have OS suites to rival microsoft. Buy the best one. The market regulates itself. You are the power, without the consumer, Microsoft does not exist. Boycott! Boycott!
PS: there are other companies which are just as destructive as MS, such as Oracle. any DBA will tell you Oracle stinks, but every DB boss recommends a purchase. attention need be paid here.
if it's not an open and free market, then how can AMD and VIA exist and succeed? intel has no more power than microsoft or even redhat to determine what we buy. heck, if other chipset companies wanted to "improve" intel chipsets they'd be sell like hotcakes. intel can't and will never be able to do anything about it except make a better product.
the problem with Linux is that is fragmented and is too decentralized. don't get me wrong, i LIKE that. but too many dunces who actually use computers for games and Word don't. they like everything to be under the one mantle of a single provider. it's not really functionality, it's the whole perception and presentation. most folks are confused by the array of Linux distributions, and that's just one "flavor" of Unix!
the general PC using public is used to one monolithic OS, be it Microsoft or Apple. the idea of a non-copyrighted OS with myriads of options and configurations (hell, even the UI isn't consistent!) confuses them.
this development just underlines the suspicion i have - that Sun is trying to move to the desktop with a Solaris/GNOME combo. Solaris already runs on Intel procs, and they're giving it away!(except for that $70 media charge)
the advantage is that Solaris is copyrighted - no one could get the Solaris source and sell it as a different brand. there would Sun Solaris, and that's it. real simple for the simple people.
Win 95->CDE or System 7->Xerox PARC
Everything was graphical then, it had to be or it would die. microsoft windows was quite unique, just as Motif/CDE was.
also try WordPerfect->Wordstar.
or Linux->UNIX
maybe even Kdevelop->Visual C++
sorry, but slashdot folks seem to bash MS without really thinking what they are saying...
by the way, the x86 scores you quote are exaggerated. most intel pcs would choke at 400 because of bottlenecks.
legacy compatibility? in order for an OS, or architecture, to mature, it must shake loose the shackles of legacy software. Apple has clout, why don't they work with thier developers, assure X ports? why? because they are sure they know a better way.
this only makes me more pissed because they have an awesome processor and memory architecture! Apple is taking the Microsoft road, being way too closed and proprietary. if MS hadn't usurped thier market, Apple would be in the sorry position of MS right now.
unix, properly configured, can be a commercial artist's OS(ahem, IRIX) and still be easy to use. on a well developed version, unix does not need to be "taken apart," nor have to "recompile the kernel for network changes." those are distinctly facets of the open software Linux.
No corporation i've heard of has killed millions because they said no.
Fuck Marx.
hell, make it all a desktop, with a Mac-looking window manager(or ditch the whole mac look altogether).
that would at least be an improvement over the 10 percent CPU utilization that Aqua uses. compare that to 1 to 2 percent for Windows and about 3 or 5 for X.
P.S. check me on the X figures, i am not sure how much it differs from machine to machine.
it is so strange that what "evil" corporations are accused of doing,(with what power i can't imagine) is the same stuff that governments have been doing forever! the game plays correctly into the cards of socialists who see this time of transition to be a opportunity. by scapegoating the capitalists, they can make an offer no one can refuse. instant totalitarianism. just add media conditioning, which the poor slashdot fellows have shown works wonderfully.
to conclude, do not simply parrot a belief that you heard that sounds cool. think, analyze, research. politics, so neglected and ridiculed, is the only way the individual can assert his or her power(save by revolution).
Read Toffler's Powershift, and the Wall Street Journal.
not really. what Rambus is doing is dubious, and depending on your interpretation of the law, illegal. MS was performing standard trade deals, "if you don't bundle this software, we wont't sell you this other software" that every major software firm does. Rambus is actually fixing prices of competing products, and using the marketing muscle of a major industry player to force a single standard onto the public (it is actually in the language of Intel's agreement with Rambus that RDRAM will be the only RAM standard for desktop PCs). if RDRAM was actually fast, and effecient, and a better product, i could maybe live with it. but DDR kicks RDRAM's butt at half RDRAM's clock speed, and consumes less power doing so.
it isn't up to the government to solve this one - they'd muck it up in court. consumers must support chipset manufacturers like VIA and others that refuse to use the inferior RDRAM interface.
screw the Pheonix Hawk - give me a Marauder lance with an Overlord Dropship. Long Live House Davion!
A/W only makes a maya renderer for Linux. I wish they ported the whole thing.
renderers don't use hardware acceleration, save for the processor and memory.