PC sales would go up if consoles didn't exist, since many triple A titles are made for both consoles and PC they often lack the high fidelity graphics our PC's are truly capable of, and thus we have no need to buy a new PC.
Only a hardcore gamer would think like this.
Many PC gamers just upgrade hardware, new CPU, more memory, bigger graphics card. OS upgrade is a bit of a leap, especially when you already have a load of toys installed.
I don't get every version. I tend to sit on the fence and see how newer versions sort out. Perhaps I get to see them at work. I avoided Vista as there were so many things wrong with it. Windows 7 looked like what Vista should have been. Windows 8 has raised too many questions and we're not getting it at work, staying with Windows 7 machines.
Also, as I've said for the past coulple years, the PC is overkill for many people who just want email, social stuff, simple games, they get a phone or tablet for that now.
Then leave somewhere some hidden caches with statements your cult following are all wackos, nuts, loonies, etc. hidden all over the place, along with a signature and photo of you doing something contrary to their beliefs.
Remember how everyone is supposed to have their 15 minutes of fame, like Andy said?
So my figuring is this - there are more celebs and notable people than ever before, thanks in part to the web.
Therefore the gross overall amount of fame has increased, while time has remained constant, so people will have less than 15 minutes of fame. Gotta be down to about 10 minutes, or less by now. Right?
So my plan is to go about making everyone else famous. The more fame and notoriety of ordinary clods applies downward pressure on minutes of fame. With luck I can get it down to less than 10 seconds. People could then look back upon my shameful, scandelous existence and forget about it almost immediately as they move on to what World Famous Slashdot Poster #218171 has had to say lately.
When you are gone you cease to be self-centered, you are dead-centered. A target! Ripe for bruteforced attacks on your history! Just a matter of time before some character in North Korea and completely re-done your entire browsing and interweb content history as a life-long supporter of Dear Leader Fatty-fattington.
5,000 across all 4 tested search engines vs. 10,000,000 pages searched with just Bing. The real story here is that search engines generally don't return malware pages at all anymore, but lets put that line at the end and make it another corp-war story instead.
How about browsers? Google Chrome will attempt to block you from going to a known malicious site.
When I was stationed on the DMZ back in the 80's, they basically told us that if the North ever invaded, we were toast. They had so many troops and ordinance on the border that they could completely overwhelm us and a good chunk of the South before we could even respond. And that was back when we had WAY more nukes than we do today (and no fewer soldiers on the DMZ). Having the men and munitions to win the *war* will be cold comfort to the U.S. and South Korean soldiers killed in the initial *battle*.
A friend joined the US Army as a dentist and served a tour in ROK, right up along the border. He had no illusions regarding his life expectancy, in terms of seconds, if hostilities recommenced. Those on both sides of the immediate border would be puree. Ultimately the North would be well done with a side of chips, but the cost of taking the Kingdom of the Kims out would be terrible.
Pretty much. This H1-B VISA push is called "in-sourcing" by the trade; you bring a bunch of folks from overseas and then you pay them less than what the local talent would want and you push the market down. Then you can hire local talent as well at a discount.
If a large number of major corporations want something you'd be right to be suspicious.
Hi, this is the 1990's calling. We want our captialist ploy back.
These artificial limitations on what and with who US companies can work with are just creating a wall between US and other countries. The nations that mainly benefit from this are Russia and China and they can do a lot of business and even military research together. Not only that but Russia and China have always been good friends, even after soviet russia fell down.
Therefore, both Russia and China wins and US loses.
It's time to stop pretending all this is going to work. If anyone in the world wants software or hardware it's pretty easy to get it.
No need for nukes with North Korea, anyway. They will easily be flattened by conventional missles. They are effectively defenceless and have a tiny infrastructure. Any war with them with missiles would be concluded before you heard about it on Slashdot.
...and since Adobe (and lots of other people) want to move all their apps to the "cloud", it'll only be a year or two before all you need is that same old 2.0ghz C2D laptop to do all that hefty photo editing. I'll bet the owner of that laptop will be just fine for years to come, even though he's going to take up photography next year.
The cloud does not interest me. I honestly have now idea how Adobe or Microsoft or anyone thinks life is going to be good when you are dealing with very large sets of very large media and trying to run them through large applications which have many large ad-ins and plug-ins to perform actions over a 6Mbps DSL. Back in the early days of networking we tried hosting the wordprocessor, spreadsheet and other apps on a server and keeping people's working files there. Bottleneck city when everyone was hitting it. We'll need Gigabit bandwidths and very fast servers before the cloud can really replace a desktop or laptop. It's a cute idea, but like when everyone thought the internet was going to kill TV in the 1990's they were premature in their estimations.
Look, PC sales are on the decline. This we all know. So MS decided to tackle tablets in a big, audacious way in order to increase their relevance in the post-PC era. And it might have worked...
HAD THEY NOT BEEN SO ARROGANT AS TO REMOVE THE GODDAMNED START MENU AND FORCED OLD PC HARDWARE TO USE THEIR TOUCHSCREEN UI!
What is funny about your post is my old XP tablet, where Microsoft added a pen layer to operate the UI, which is damn slow and balky. It works, but you have to be very patient. So Win 8 is like this in reverse.:D
The things that are good about windows 8 (modularity of features and some options for speedy lightweight installs, for example) are not at all apparent to most end users.
The things that are absolute fails about windows 8 are the things that are completely in your face for most users.
Features from the first group won't successfully justify the antifeatures in the second group.
All M$ has to do is fix their UI and sales will go back up.
Well, there are two large factors in the decline of Win 8 sales. One being people dislike Windows 8, as too different. The other thing is people aren't all buying a PC to replace their old PC. Mac sales are up as are tablets and smart phones. People who only needed their PC to keep in touch or exchange photos no longer need a PC, so they aren't going to buy one.
There hasn't been a damn thing in the last several years worth upgrading for. Gamers and developers aside, there has been nothing at all interesting happening in the PC world.
I'm still on a 2.0ghz C2D laptop and had no intention of upgrading anytime soon.
Except memory.
I settled on Win 7 Pro so I could cram 32GB of RAM onto my mother board. Life with Photoshop and some other hungry apps is quite a lot easier when you aren't paging like a paging fiend on national paging day.
As for the interface, I wanted to stick with familiar, not revolutionary. Win 8 reviews worried me. Generally Windows releases have departed from the previous one with less emphasis on keeping the system familiar. First things I do is turn off the Mac imitation peek, which I find extremely irritating. Gone also is the Aero/Glass look for the Classic look. I bought this to do work on, not bother me and try to look futuristic.
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PC sales would go up if consoles didn't exist, since many triple A titles are made for both consoles and PC they often lack the high fidelity graphics our PC's are truly capable of, and thus we have no need to buy a new PC.
Only a hardcore gamer would think like this.
Many PC gamers just upgrade hardware, new CPU, more memory, bigger graphics card. OS upgrade is a bit of a leap, especially when you already have a load of toys installed.
Windows 8.
I don't get every version. I tend to sit on the fence and see how newer versions sort out. Perhaps I get to see them at work. I avoided Vista as there were so many things wrong with it. Windows 7 looked like what Vista should have been. Windows 8 has raised too many questions and we're not getting it at work, staying with Windows 7 machines.
Also, as I've said for the past coulple years, the PC is overkill for many people who just want email, social stuff, simple games, they get a phone or tablet for that now.
Then leave somewhere some hidden caches with statements your cult following are all wackos, nuts, loonies, etc. hidden all over the place, along with a signature and photo of you doing something contrary to their beliefs.
Remember how everyone is supposed to have their 15 minutes of fame, like Andy said?
So my figuring is this - there are more celebs and notable people than ever before, thanks in part to the web.
Therefore the gross overall amount of fame has increased, while time has remained constant, so people will have less than 15 minutes of fame. Gotta be down to about 10 minutes, or less by now. Right?
So my plan is to go about making everyone else famous. The more fame and notoriety of ordinary clods applies downward pressure on minutes of fame. With luck I can get it down to less than 10 seconds. People could then look back upon my shameful, scandelous existence and forget about it almost immediately as they move on to what World Famous Slashdot Poster #218171 has had to say lately.
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It will be like you never existed
Is it possible to be low-level formatted after you are gone?
"How'd he die?" "Head crashed." "Oh, ow."
Just leave a trail of baffling BS. It's the least you can do for your legacy. Maybe you'll end up with a cult following, like L. Ron.
I don't care, I'm self centered and dead option?
When you are gone you cease to be self-centered, you are dead-centered. A target! Ripe for bruteforced attacks on your history! Just a matter of time before some character in North Korea and completely re-done your entire browsing and interweb content history as a life-long supporter of Dear Leader Fatty-fattington.
Best buy some After-life Insurance or something.
I read the headline like some anonymous oligarch pledged the money out of its own pocket...
In Capitalist West one misplaced n gives one man credit over a nation.
In other news - the United States of American all belongs to one rich, rich person.
They'll only hire you as a sysadmin
Tell 'em you use it so you can read the fnords.
It's certainly an unusual shape for a snowflake untouched by human hands.
And just the other day I was looking a photograph of snowflakes caught on felt, which left them unaffected.
Sometimes you don't need uber technology, but the creativity of a person on a very limited budget.
...Moments later, the pictures were uploaded to Instagram with a vintage filter, and ceased being cool.
And then Mark Zuckerberg formed a new polical lobby for Snow Flake Preservation.
This is about supercomputers used for scientific modelling, not servers for banks or infrastructure.
Which are supercomputers of another sort, but supercomputers nonetheless.
5,000 across all 4 tested search engines vs. 10,000,000 pages searched with just Bing. The real story here is that search engines generally don't return malware pages at all anymore, but lets put that line at the end and make it another corp-war story instead.
How about browsers? Google Chrome will attempt to block you from going to a known malicious site.
When I was stationed on the DMZ back in the 80's, they basically told us that if the North ever invaded, we were toast. They had so many troops and ordinance on the border that they could completely overwhelm us and a good chunk of the South before we could even respond. And that was back when we had WAY more nukes than we do today (and no fewer soldiers on the DMZ). Having the men and munitions to win the *war* will be cold comfort to the U.S. and South Korean soldiers killed in the initial *battle*.
A friend joined the US Army as a dentist and served a tour in ROK, right up along the border. He had no illusions regarding his life expectancy, in terms of seconds, if hostilities recommenced. Those on both sides of the immediate border would be puree. Ultimately the North would be well done with a side of chips, but the cost of taking the Kingdom of the Kims out would be terrible.
Pretty much. This H1-B VISA push is called "in-sourcing" by the trade; you bring a bunch of folks from overseas and then you pay them less than what the local talent would want and you push the market down. Then you can hire local talent as well at a discount.
If a large number of major corporations want something you'd be right to be suspicious.
Hi, this is the 1990's calling. We want our captialist ploy back.
These artificial limitations on what and with who US companies can work with are just creating a wall between US and other countries. The nations that mainly benefit from this are Russia and China and they can do a lot of business and even military research together. Not only that but Russia and China have always been good friends, even after soviet russia fell down.
Therefore, both Russia and China wins and US loses.
It's time to stop pretending all this is going to work. If anyone in the world wants software or hardware it's pretty easy to get it.
No need for nukes with North Korea, anyway. They will easily be flattened by conventional missles. They are effectively defenceless and have a tiny infrastructure. Any war with them with missiles would be concluded before you heard about it on Slashdot.
...and since Adobe (and lots of other people) want to move all their apps to the "cloud", it'll only be a year or two before all you need is that same old 2.0ghz C2D laptop to do all that hefty photo editing. I'll bet the owner of that laptop will be just fine for years to come, even though he's going to take up photography next year.
The cloud does not interest me. I honestly have now idea how Adobe or Microsoft or anyone thinks life is going to be good when you are dealing with very large sets of very large media and trying to run them through large applications which have many large ad-ins and plug-ins to perform actions over a 6Mbps DSL. Back in the early days of networking we tried hosting the wordprocessor, spreadsheet and other apps on a server and keeping people's working files there. Bottleneck city when everyone was hitting it. We'll need Gigabit bandwidths and very fast servers before the cloud can really replace a desktop or laptop. It's a cute idea, but like when everyone thought the internet was going to kill TV in the 1990's they were premature in their estimations.
Look, PC sales are on the decline. This we all know. So MS decided to tackle tablets in a big, audacious way in order to increase their relevance in the post-PC era. And it might have worked...
HAD THEY NOT BEEN SO ARROGANT AS TO REMOVE THE GODDAMNED START MENU AND FORCED OLD PC HARDWARE TO USE THEIR TOUCHSCREEN UI!
What is funny about your post is my old XP tablet, where Microsoft added a pen layer to operate the UI, which is damn slow and balky. It works, but you have to be very patient. So Win 8 is like this in reverse. :D
The things that are good about windows 8 (modularity of features and some options for speedy lightweight installs, for example) are not at all apparent to most end users.
The things that are absolute fails about windows 8 are the things that are completely in your face for most users.
Features from the first group won't successfully justify the antifeatures in the second group.
All M$ has to do is fix their UI and sales will go back up.
Well, there are two large factors in the decline of Win 8 sales. One being people dislike Windows 8, as too different. The other thing is people aren't all buying a PC to replace their old PC. Mac sales are up as are tablets and smart phones. People who only needed their PC to keep in touch or exchange photos no longer need a PC, so they aren't going to buy one.
There hasn't been a damn thing in the last several years worth upgrading for. Gamers and developers aside, there has been nothing at all interesting happening in the PC world.
I'm still on a 2.0ghz C2D laptop and had no intention of upgrading anytime soon.
Except memory.
I settled on Win 7 Pro so I could cram 32GB of RAM onto my mother board. Life with Photoshop and some other hungry apps is quite a lot easier when you aren't paging like a paging fiend on national paging day.
As for the interface, I wanted to stick with familiar, not revolutionary. Win 8 reviews worried me. Generally Windows releases have departed from the previous one with less emphasis on keeping the system familiar. First things I do is turn off the Mac imitation peek, which I find extremely irritating. Gone also is the Aero/Glass look for the Classic look. I bought this to do work on, not bother me and try to look futuristic.
you guys still believe in this myth?
Asolutely, Mr. Elsgarth J. Finchlipp; 8871 W. Blortmann Terrace; Bleemington, VT, 01010; who recently read the Guardian, New York Times and Scotts Valley Patch, via Google News and purchased Lime Bagels with Soy Cheese at Eugor's Coffee Shoppe and Tea Room.
rather than risk a speeding ticket every clock cycle.
So you, for one, do not welcome our new robotic speeding ticket issuing overlords?
Company makes billions of dollars; wants more. Competitors not happy.
Translation: "They're doing what we would do, but they're a lot better at it than we are."
You never know how the EC will react, tho.
There's no need to fight, you BOTH suck.
Truly. I'm so underwhelmed by farcebook home I'm nearly into negative territory here.
Someone tell me where I can go to watch some paint drying on a wall, so I can get some enthusiasm going here.