Unfortunately you're a minority because game sales have never been so high. I 100% agree with you that DRM is bad since it doesn't bring any benefits to the single player experience. I think game companies should continu providing good multiplayer experiences in hopes that drives piracy down.
I mostly develop for MS and as much as I was looking forward to Windows 8 I have come slightly disapointed. MS continues to provide strong legacy support and it's hurt them every time. They carry big luggage over every version and it's annoying. It's time for them to make some moves. I think the PC market, wether it be Linux, Mac or MS is dispearing at the consumer level. At the business level PCs are still a necessaty and for many MS is what they live with day to day.
I'm not worried about the business side with MS, I'm just worried it's too late for MS to get in the consumer market.
Don't forget D-Link. They have some products that are brutal but they also have many that are great. Like most products, when they first come out with firmware version 1.0, they aren't any good until a version or 2.
My opinion may be bias on this one since I worked for the company for a little while. On the other hand, I own D-Link, Linksys and Buffalo hardware and find them all to be the same level of quality (end user quality)
If all the computers do is monitor, how can that cause failures. Monitoring only reads sensors, it doesn't shut down grids. The employees manually shut down the systems but don't usually do this blindly.
Do you mind providing me your first and last name, the bank you use and I'll call see if I can get something done. Give me your bank card number while at it. Lets see how succesful I am. I bet you I'll get nowhere.
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My brother works for a very large electricity plant and he says that the only computer controlled anything is the monitoring systems. The action of turing on/off turbines is manual. I know this isn't true of the whole electrical grid but I'm sure there are considerations made when hooking up computers to critical systems like those ones.
Maybe that's why banks in Canada are better (Speculating of course). My bank makes it a nightmare for me to get anything done over the phone. 1000 security questions that are very difficult for anybody to answer but the actual card user.
"Steam is now being used by thousands". That's too funny. So this makes the news because they reached a whoping 1000 users. If it was more than 10 000 they would have said: "Steam is now being used by tens of thousands users".
You clearly don't understand the concept. You gotta get out a little more and see something beyond your keyboard. Many banks require this service for corporate accounts. It's easy to use and very safe. This password changes every 5 minutes but remains valid for the 5 minutes until it changes again, so I don't understand your comment about watching paint dry. Just tells me you don't understand the technology.
And it being not interesting is not the point, the point is it's secure.
FYI, if you're more than 20 years old, I know for fact your a failure in life because you haven't found a way to provided a useful amount of feedback on someone else's idea. Instead you write childish comments that don't further the conversation in a constructive maner.
Your thinking from an end user's point of view. Our business requires a password + generated key (every 5 minutes) to login to online banking. So having just the password is not enough to break in.
I know the end user protection levels are poor, you're just not aware of what happens at the corporate level.
What sells cars? The engine under the hood or the styling, features and marketing?
Your speaking from your point of view (as a techie). Fact and matter is, most users don't even know Android is Linux. They want a working phone. End of story. As users replace their phone, they now have access to 4 viable options.
The fact that MS has increased their mobile phone sales by 10 folds is an indicator of success (NA only). They won't turn the tide overnight but they will find their share of the market. FYI, their market share went from.15% to just under 1% in 2 months.
To think there are only 2 big players to own this huge market is just plain silly.
Sorry to say, your part of the less than 1% of people that care about this. Nokia doesn't want 1%, they want a viable share of the world market. Making phones unlockable is not their priority and having it on Linux doesn't sell more phones than it being MS or Black Berry OS.
I love the fact that they released blue prints for 3d printers. This is without a doubt a marketing move but I have yet to see Apple do the same thing.
Passwords have been proven to be worthless on their own. What we need is something like the banks use. Simple and very secure. Combination of a password you remember (Doesn't have to be complicated) and a randomly generated token provided via a smart device, say your phone. You want to login: enter you password and this token that changes every 5 minutes (or whatever) and voila. It's slightly less convinient than a simple password but is much safer. Concerns of course are places without signal or people without cell phones. We can start by offering this as an OPT in feature.
We don't usually get it right the first time. That is why there is a need to structure properly. If you do that, refactoring is just a small detail.
On the other hand, if no pre-coding analysis was performed, failure in initial structure can be devastating but in that case no amount of refactoring will replace the need to recode it properly.
Watch the video. It has a couple of interesting features. Nothing that would sell me until they prove they deserve a second chance
The Keyboard and personnal/business modes are the interesting features to a guy like me. I just gotta hang on to that iPhone 3 a little longer before I choose my next phone.
Protesting is supposed to be a sacrifice done by a group of people to get attention on a specified topic. Having your computer do the protesting isn't a sacrifice. If you're going to shut down a service or someone's ability to go to work, you should at least have to make a sacrifice beyond the click a button.
I got back to my previous statement. When you first write code, there's no reason to hack it if it's going to take just as much time to do it right. I didn't say anything about re-writting code. Bad code that was written is there.
This mentality of 'IT WORKS, WHO CARE'. Do it right the first time. If you're seasoned, it doesn't take anymore time than hacking it!
Depends what your time is worth. I consider my time to be worth something so every minute counts. SSDs help improve production significantly. I estimate my daily time saving around 20 minutes since I updated to an SSD. So say I cost the company $20 an hour, at the end of the year the company saves $4000 worth of my salary. Well worth the $150 to $400 investment
SSD are also a great solution for improving database speeds. Most data in a database doesn't change so the rewrite issue is not really an issue.
Wow. You care so little you wasted 15 minutes writting a novel about it. Thank god I stopped reading after the 1st paragraph. I would have built a very negative attitude towards the world and how bad it is.
I'm no fan of Apple but allowing apps to run via browsers is a huge security risk. This is why the app store is controlled. Apple prides themselves in providing a friendly, safe and stable environment, something both MS and Linux have failed to do.
If you want flexibility, it comes at the price of security in most cases. Nobody is forcing you to buy an Apple device, so if your not happy go to Android or yet MS.
If they have intranets coded in ASP.net running on IIS and authenticating through NTLM, then it makes perfect sense. Something you can get done with only IE. I personally hate using domain authentication through IIS for web applications but it has value in some businesses. There's also the intranet configuration that can be handy.
You're right. Windows XP users have proved that by still holdind a high percentage of the OS market. If you don't change the tools you run on your OS you don't need to upgrade. Eventually time catches up and you have no choice.
In our line of business we deal with AutoCAD a lot. We have been forced to upgrade our AutoCAD only because our customers use a newer version and if we don't upgrade we simply can't do our work.
I get it. Just sounded like your view was unrealistic. I understand now that you added this post but prior to this post it sounded like you expected all 300 million citizen to carry jerry cans and test volume distributed vs charged.
The reason I said you use the bus is that I wouldn't expect that comment from someone who fills up the tank once or twice a week at -30 C. I would hate to pull a measuring device, fill it with gas to find out if I should fill up my car here or somewhere else.:)
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Unfortunately you're a minority because game sales have never been so high. I 100% agree with you that DRM is bad since it doesn't bring any benefits to the single player experience. I think game companies should continu providing good multiplayer experiences in hopes that drives piracy down.
I mostly develop for MS and as much as I was looking forward to Windows 8 I have come slightly disapointed. MS continues to provide strong legacy support and it's hurt them every time. They carry big luggage over every version and it's annoying. It's time for them to make some moves. I think the PC market, wether it be Linux, Mac or MS is dispearing at the consumer level. At the business level PCs are still a necessaty and for many MS is what they live with day to day.
I'm not worried about the business side with MS, I'm just worried it's too late for MS to get in the consumer market.
BTW, this article was flamebait.
Don't forget D-Link. They have some products that are brutal but they also have many that are great. Like most products, when they first come out with firmware version 1.0, they aren't any good until a version or 2.
My opinion may be bias on this one since I worked for the company for a little while. On the other hand, I own D-Link, Linksys and Buffalo hardware and find them all to be the same level of quality (end user quality)
If all the computers do is monitor, how can that cause failures. Monitoring only reads sensors, it doesn't shut down grids. The employees manually shut down the systems but don't usually do this blindly.
Do you mind providing me your first and last name, the bank you use and I'll call see if I can get something done. Give me your bank card number while at it. Lets see how succesful I am. I bet you I'll get nowhere.
My brother works for a very large electricity plant and he says that the only computer controlled anything is the monitoring systems. The action of turing on/off turbines is manual. I know this isn't true of the whole electrical grid but I'm sure there are considerations made when hooking up computers to critical systems like those ones.
Maybe that's why banks in Canada are better (Speculating of course). My bank makes it a nightmare for me to get anything done over the phone. 1000 security questions that are very difficult for anybody to answer but the actual card user.
"Steam is now being used by thousands". That's too funny. So this makes the news because they reached a whoping 1000 users. If it was more than 10 000 they would have said: "Steam is now being used by tens of thousands users".
ROFL
You clearly don't understand the concept. You gotta get out a little more and see something beyond your keyboard. Many banks require this service for corporate accounts. It's easy to use and very safe. This password changes every 5 minutes but remains valid for the 5 minutes until it changes again, so I don't understand your comment about watching paint dry. Just tells me you don't understand the technology.
And it being not interesting is not the point, the point is it's secure.
FYI, if you're more than 20 years old, I know for fact your a failure in life because you haven't found a way to provided a useful amount of feedback on someone else's idea. Instead you write childish comments that don't further the conversation in a constructive maner.
Your thinking from an end user's point of view. Our business requires a password + generated key (every 5 minutes) to login to online banking. So having just the password is not enough to break in.
I know the end user protection levels are poor, you're just not aware of what happens at the corporate level.
What sells cars? The engine under the hood or the styling, features and marketing?
Your speaking from your point of view (as a techie). Fact and matter is, most users don't even know Android is Linux. They want a working phone. End of story. As users replace their phone, they now have access to 4 viable options.
The fact that MS has increased their mobile phone sales by 10 folds is an indicator of success (NA only). They won't turn the tide overnight but they will find their share of the market. FYI, their market share went from .15% to just under 1% in 2 months.
To think there are only 2 big players to own this huge market is just plain silly.
Sorry to say, your part of the less than 1% of people that care about this. Nokia doesn't want 1%, they want a viable share of the world market. Making phones unlockable is not their priority and having it on Linux doesn't sell more phones than it being MS or Black Berry OS.
I love the fact that they released blue prints for 3d printers. This is without a doubt a marketing move but I have yet to see Apple do the same thing.
Passwords have been proven to be worthless on their own. What we need is something like the banks use. Simple and very secure. Combination of a password you remember (Doesn't have to be complicated) and a randomly generated token provided via a smart device, say your phone. You want to login: enter you password and this token that changes every 5 minutes (or whatever) and voila. It's slightly less convinient than a simple password but is much safer. Concerns of course are places without signal or people without cell phones. We can start by offering this as an OPT in feature.
Will they teach Baxter the urban dictionary like they did with IBM Watson? Would really make them look like real plant employees. -- Stereotype
We don't usually get it right the first time. That is why there is a need to structure properly. If you do that, refactoring is just a small detail.
On the other hand, if no pre-coding analysis was performed, failure in initial structure can be devastating but in that case no amount of refactoring will replace the need to recode it properly.
Watch the video. It has a couple of interesting features. Nothing that would sell me until they prove they deserve a second chance
The Keyboard and personnal/business modes are the interesting features to a guy like me. I just gotta hang on to that iPhone 3 a little longer before I choose my next phone.
Protesting is supposed to be a sacrifice done by a group of people to get attention on a specified topic. Having your computer do the protesting isn't a sacrifice. If you're going to shut down a service or someone's ability to go to work, you should at least have to make a sacrifice beyond the click a button.
I got back to my previous statement. When you first write code, there's no reason to hack it if it's going to take just as much time to do it right. I didn't say anything about re-writting code. Bad code that was written is there.
This mentality of 'IT WORKS, WHO CARE'. Do it right the first time. If you're seasoned, it doesn't take anymore time than hacking it!
You can never answer #2 with 100% confidence and if you are a seasoned coder, coding it properly won't be harder than hacking it together.
Depends what your time is worth. I consider my time to be worth something so every minute counts. SSDs help improve production significantly. I estimate my daily time saving around 20 minutes since I updated to an SSD. So say I cost the company $20 an hour, at the end of the year the company saves $4000 worth of my salary. Well worth the $150 to $400 investment
SSD are also a great solution for improving database speeds. Most data in a database doesn't change so the rewrite issue is not really an issue.
Wow. You care so little you wasted 15 minutes writting a novel about it. Thank god I stopped reading after the 1st paragraph. I would have built a very negative attitude towards the world and how bad it is.
I'm no fan of Apple but allowing apps to run via browsers is a huge security risk. This is why the app store is controlled. Apple prides themselves in providing a friendly, safe and stable environment, something both MS and Linux have failed to do.
If you want flexibility, it comes at the price of security in most cases. Nobody is forcing you to buy an Apple device, so if your not happy go to Android or yet MS.
If they have intranets coded in ASP.net running on IIS and authenticating through NTLM, then it makes perfect sense. Something you can get done with only IE. I personally hate using domain authentication through IIS for web applications but it has value in some businesses. There's also the intranet configuration that can be handy.
You're right. Windows XP users have proved that by still holdind a high percentage of the OS market. If you don't change the tools you run on your OS you don't need to upgrade. Eventually time catches up and you have no choice.
In our line of business we deal with AutoCAD a lot. We have been forced to upgrade our AutoCAD only because our customers use a newer version and if we don't upgrade we simply can't do our work.
I get it. Just sounded like your view was unrealistic. I understand now that you added this post but prior to this post it sounded like you expected all 300 million citizen to carry jerry cans and test volume distributed vs charged.
The reason I said you use the bus is that I wouldn't expect that comment from someone who fills up the tank once or twice a week at -30 C. I would hate to pull a measuring device, fill it with gas to find out if I should fill up my car here or somewhere else. :)