Microsoft's efforts will at least accomplish something worthwhile: force Apple and Google to recognize the need for real applications like LibreOffice on tablets as opposed to just forcing users to accept a steady diet of media consumption and lightweight apps.
Remember Freedows, another all hat, no cattle project. Eventually ReactOS was developed in a more modest way and has long since achieved useful status. A good project needs a lot more than good ideas. Essentially all successful open source projects are lead by highly skilled coders.
You sir, are full of it; first of all shadows/HDR issues (if there are any, this could just be stylised) have absolutely zero to do with Blender itself but with the renderer they were using.
The guy is clueless. The shadows are there and they are decent.
You know, I'm not impressed that you're unimpressed. I think it mainly shows that you don't have a clue what you're talking about, but you like the sound of yourself talking.
I am sorry to say that even Lucas could have done better than that. That was the absolutely lamest thing I have seen in a long time.
Don't be such a flipping jerk. Sure, the acting is cheesy, the screen writing is cheesy, but it's still an awesome achievement and it has its entertaining moments. Hey, I've got an idea, why don't you come back here and make another whiny post after you've made a live action film with integrated CGI?
As a company, EA has lost 3/4 of its value since 2008. Down nearly 50% in the last twelve months. What went wrong? First they colluded with Microsoft to gut the PC game market in favor of locked down consoles and did fine for a while until the console market in turn began to be gutted by the shift to mobile gaming which is growing fast but is also filled with competitors and has per-unit pricing at a fraction of EA's traditional markets. Coupled with zero detectable product innovation and a shortage of healthy independent game developers to pillage, looks likes it's all downhill from here for EA.
Why, technically, can't rosters be updated separately from the engine?
Whoa, you are talking about taking food out of the mouths of EA shareholders, ultimately damaging the economy and leading to the end of the world as we know it.
Market cap is a precise measure of how much the investing world values a company. Of course, investors are often wrong. Take Microsoft for example. With Steve Ballmer firmly entrenched and the board entirely zombified, Microsoft will just continue to make worse use of its wealth than its competitors. Microsoft therefore deserves an even lower valuation than it has today.
You really have no idea what a TPM chip is used for.
I do. But why should a TPM chip need 30% of the die space of a general purpose processor? Is that accurate? If so this sounds like, hmm, like massive chrome bumpers on the Edsel if you will be so kind as to permit me a car analogy.
Agreed, all the signs of a massive Microsoft tablet fail are here. I wonder what they're thinking? Maybe Microsoft hopes that the usual MSOffice addiction will make everything ok? If so they're due to be sadly disappointed when naive users discover that rubber keyboards just do not substitute for even a tiny clamshell, let alone a form factor suitable for real work. And then there will be the inevitable file compatibility issues. And the confused messaging about whether you're supposed to use the tablet as a laptop replacement or whether you're supposed to drink the cloud apps koolaid.
After the smoke clears the market will be left with a lot of unsaleable Microsoft tablet stock gathering dust in warehouses. Cue the Linux geeks to make these things actually work like usable tablets, for cheap.
KDE4 is better than Gnome3, but that's a pretty low bar. It's not nearly as good as KDE3...
You're behind the curve. KDE 4 caught up with and passed KDE 3 some time ago. I can count on the fingers of one finger how many KDE 3 features I miss now. Just one: the slide away task bar.
I question the mental balance of the sort of people who like to dig up and wallow in such muck.
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I abandoned Ubuntu after it incorporated Unity. My loss of productivity was too big to continue using it.
I don't have a problem with Unity. It works well enough to install Kubuntu, which I do immediately, then I can sit back with popcorn and watch the Unity devs continue on their voyage of discovery. I'm even willing to admit that Unity has some cool ideas, provided I'm not forced to use it. From time to time I log into it and play around a bit, then go back to KDE pretty soon. Which does exactly what I want in exactly the way I want to do it.
You don't have to think about kwin, it just stays out of the way and does its thing in an unsurprising way. Advanced features like "keep above" and "remember position" are there, easy to get at, and obvious how to use when you need them. The default theme is tastefully done, not ugly and not in your face.
Happily running KDE. Stable, pretty, highly configurable, defaults require minimal tweaking by me, just does the job. Kubuntu introduces some minor blemishes but survivable. Had to run Windows for a few days, was impressed what a poor experience it is compared to KDE. Just one of many annoying Windows habits: likes to wake up from sleep in the middle of the night and nag me about spending money on McAffey and Norton. Likes to shut down without asking instead of sleep if I make the tinyiest miss with the mouse. Like to reboot a lot. Sometimes just acts strange until rebooted. Argh.
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Microsoft's efforts will at least accomplish something worthwhile: force Apple and Google to recognize the need for real applications like LibreOffice on tablets as opposed to just forcing users to accept a steady diet of media consumption and lightweight apps.
Remember Freedows, another all hat, no cattle project. Eventually ReactOS was developed in a more modest way and has long since achieved useful status. A good project needs a lot more than good ideas. Essentially all successful open source projects are lead by highly skilled coders.
Not a lot said about environmental impact. Heap leaching is a famously effective way to poison streams and destroy large tracts of forest.
I'm positive that when Microsoft hired Anders they uttered a sentence like "We want to clone Java so it only runs on Windows."
And then .Net was born.
And then today Google became bigger than Microsoft in terms of market capitalization, on the back of Linux and Javascript.
Just keep calling it "ECMA Script" until it sticks.
For some reason, "ECMA" always makes me think of "ACNE". Now it will for you, too ;-)
You're welcome.
Politically, however, the finger was pointed at China.
Technically, the finger should be pointed at Microsoft.
What exactly does Noah Kagan do? Writing blogs is certainly not his superpower. After reading it I felt I knew less than when I started.
You sir, are full of it; first of all shadows/HDR issues (if there are any, this could just be stylised) have absolutely zero to do with Blender itself but with the renderer they were using.
The guy is clueless. The shadows are there and they are decent.
You know, I'm not impressed that you're unimpressed. I think it mainly shows that you don't have a clue what you're talking about, but you like the sound of yourself talking.
I am sorry to say that even Lucas could have done better than that. That was the absolutely lamest thing I have seen in a long time.
Don't be such a flipping jerk. Sure, the acting is cheesy, the screen writing is cheesy, but it's still an awesome achievement and it has its entertaining moments. Hey, I've got an idea, why don't you come back here and make another whiny post after you've made a live action film with integrated CGI?
I had problems, and have problems, with design decisions that they have made.
No specifics anywhere to be seen. Pretty hard to rebut that.
As a company, EA has lost 3/4 of its value since 2008. Down nearly 50% in the last twelve months. What went wrong? First they colluded with Microsoft to gut the PC game market in favor of locked down consoles and did fine for a while until the console market in turn began to be gutted by the shift to mobile gaming which is growing fast but is also filled with competitors and has per-unit pricing at a fraction of EA's traditional markets. Coupled with zero detectable product innovation and a shortage of healthy independent game developers to pillage, looks likes it's all downhill from here for EA.
Why, technically, can't rosters be updated separately from the engine?
Whoa, you are talking about taking food out of the mouths of EA shareholders, ultimately damaging the economy and leading to the end of the world as we know it.
Market cap is a precise measure of how much the investing world values a company. Of course, investors are often wrong. Take Microsoft for example. With Steve Ballmer firmly entrenched and the board entirely zombified, Microsoft will just continue to make worse use of its wealth than its competitors. Microsoft therefore deserves an even lower valuation than it has today.
when Cook started, AAPL was trading at ~$400; now it's trading at ~$700.
It shows that Tim Cook is good at milking the cow, but the cow is getting old.
I agree that that map app is flawed, but first releases of anything usually is.
The stupidity was in cutting over to the new maps before it was ready.
People really need to understand exactly how important Microsoft is to the world.
I would just like to point out that the gap between Microsoft's and Google's market cap has shrunk to roughly 2% as of today.
Now explain why I would even *want* to use phone apps on my desktop?
Because there are hundreds of thousands of them and, statistically, there has to be at least one good one.
You really have no idea what a TPM chip is used for.
I do. But why should a TPM chip need 30% of the die space of a general purpose processor? Is that accurate? If so this sounds like, hmm, like massive chrome bumpers on the Edsel if you will be so kind as to permit me a car analogy.
Agreed, all the signs of a massive Microsoft tablet fail are here. I wonder what they're thinking? Maybe Microsoft hopes that the usual MSOffice addiction will make everything ok? If so they're due to be sadly disappointed when naive users discover that rubber keyboards just do not substitute for even a tiny clamshell, let alone a form factor suitable for real work. And then there will be the inevitable file compatibility issues. And the confused messaging about whether you're supposed to use the tablet as a laptop replacement or whether you're supposed to drink the cloud apps koolaid.
After the smoke clears the market will be left with a lot of unsaleable Microsoft tablet stock gathering dust in warehouses. Cue the Linux geeks to make these things actually work like usable tablets, for cheap.
KDE4 is better than Gnome3, but that's a pretty low bar. It's not nearly as good as KDE3...
You're behind the curve. KDE 4 caught up with and passed KDE 3 some time ago. I can count on the fingers of one finger how many KDE 3 features I miss now. Just one: the slide away task bar.
I question the mental balance of the sort of people who like to dig up and wallow in such muck.
I abandoned Ubuntu after it incorporated Unity. My loss of productivity was too big to continue using it.
I don't have a problem with Unity. It works well enough to install Kubuntu, which I do immediately, then I can sit back with popcorn and watch the Unity devs continue on their voyage of discovery. I'm even willing to admit that Unity has some cool ideas, provided I'm not forced to use it. From time to time I log into it and play around a bit, then go back to KDE pretty soon. Which does exactly what I want in exactly the way I want to do it.
You don't have to think about kwin, it just stays out of the way and does its thing in an unsurprising way. Advanced features like "keep above" and "remember position" are there, easy to get at, and obvious how to use when you need them. The default theme is tastefully done, not ugly and not in your face.
Happily running KDE. Stable, pretty, highly configurable, defaults require minimal tweaking by me, just does the job. Kubuntu introduces some minor blemishes but survivable. Had to run Windows for a few days, was impressed what a poor experience it is compared to KDE. Just one of many annoying Windows habits: likes to wake up from sleep in the middle of the night and nag me about spending money on McAffey and Norton. Likes to shut down without asking instead of sleep if I make the tinyiest miss with the mouse. Like to reboot a lot. Sometimes just acts strange until rebooted. Argh.