This shouldn't be surprising considering New York also recently announced an increase in taxes on Electric and Gas.
They've also declined to renew the Tax breaks on Movie/TV shooting which will probably kill off quite a few TV shows (or they'll relocate to other venues taking the jobs with them).
At this point the NY government is taxing anything and everything they can to keep from cutting ANY program.
Its getting absurd.
Its like someone overweight trying to slim down by refusing to exercise or change their diet.
2) we're too busy spending money on new "gee whiz" human launch systems
3) then we're going to need a "tanker" to refuel the "pit stop craft". Next thing you know we have a whole infrastructure to support robotic space exploration/exploitation. It'd be far too practical.
Its very poorly supported, and provides nowhere near the same level of control as a Wii-mote (let alone 4 of them + nunchucks).
On the other hand, it provides Video-Chat (something Nintendo will probably never offer), and when combined with some of their "Interactive art" ideas, the PS Eye kept a bunch of kids very occupied during my last party. Amazed the heck out of my wife.:)
What about Halo? I believe it was originally a Mac only title, then Microsoft bought it. We could say that Microsoft wouldn't be where they are today without exclusivity deals.
This should greatly minimize the technical justification for region coding.
It might also be why PS3 games are not region coded.
In fact, there are already threads discussing importing the US version of FFXIII to the UK when its released, instead of waiting the inevitable 6-12 months for Square to finish all the language localizations for the Europe release.
The client software refuses to run on anything newer than Windows XP SP1.... This is the kind of problem the XP-mode is intended to address.
Umm... what makes you think that XP-mode will offer anything but WinXP SP3 level emulation? (just curious)
For your situation, what you've already done (roll your own VM) is the perfect solution. An even better solution from a cost perspective, if the main use of the machine is the VM, is to look at things like Linux to decrease the cost of the desktops, which you just need to host the VM (assuming the VM is the main thing you need, since every OS now-a-days supports Documents, Email and Web).
Extended Gripper reaches down from off screen to PC as he puts his wallet in its grip. PC: Oh, I got caught in the latest BotNet and some hacker is stealing my information. You know how it is.
Mac: No, sorry PC. Mac users don't usually have their computers taken over. Do you need help getting out of that net? Or counseling?
PC: No, I'll be fine once he issues the Kill command. Then I can just reinstall from scratch and forget this ever happened.
Mac: But, you'll learn from the mistakes so you don't get caught in the same BotNet again, right?
But I suppose throwing cash at new hardware is one way to fix things.
Well, in their defense, that has been "required" up till relatively recently.
If you wanted to run Office/Web Browser/Watch Videos/etc. you often needed to upgrade your computer a few times over the past decade or two.
Most people are still caught in that mindset of "oh, I guess I'll need to replace it every X" where X is somewhere between 6 months and 2 years.
They also don't probably realize that the computer they have NOW (provided they got a dual-core model with "enough" memory) is probably sufficient to do anything most people use it for on a daily basis... provided it doesn't get loaded down with Malware/Crapware/Viruses/Trojans/etc.
Until they realize that the old "upgrade treadmill" has leveled off, they're still expecting their computer to slow down over time.:/
What happens if/when there is an x86 -> arm jit runtime compiler?
Remember apple has a nice ppc -> x86 jit for when it switched to intel cpu's, so it's not impossible.
and don't forget than dotnet is cpu independent!
Good questions, but unfortunately for MS its a different situation.
1. Apple's Rosetta works because it the Intel hardware its running on is more powerful than the PPC hardware its emulating. A better example would be VirtualPC on Apple PPC hardware running Windows. It worked, but it was dog slow compared to VMWare or Parallels on Apple Intel hardware.
Another option some people have mentioned, that goes along with Rosetta is the idea of "Fat Binaries" where one "binary" actually includes multiple binaries for different architectures. Apple did this with their Universal Binaries that contain both PPC and Intel code inside them. This allows the same binary to work on multiple architectures. Its a great idea and contains the flexibility to let you support multiple architectures, but I think MS would need to modify the OS to support it, and even then, it balloons the size of the binary because of all the "redundant" pieces that most users won't even use. This isn't something that you want for a netbook. On OSX this extra space can often run in to the GB depending on how many applications you have installed. Once of the big things in Snow Leopard is that removing PPC support allows Apple to start stripping out that cruft themselves (at the expense of no longer supporting PPC hardware from 3-4 years ago).
2..Net is SUPPOSED to be architecture independent, and most of the stuff that is developed for Mono is, but a lot of the stuff MS develops make calls to WINtel specific libraries. They (MS) would have to port these libraries to ARM. They could certainly do it, but I doubt it would just be "recompile the source" since a lot of those libraries were probably not coded with portability in mind, let alone making sure that the architecture supports the features the libraries are expecting, in the format they are expecting.
If Microsoft shipped an ARM emulator with Visual Studio and provided the same kind of one-click mechanism for creating fat binaries that Apple offers then I imagine a lot of software would be ported very quickly.
THey'd also need to make the OS able to handle fat binaries. It should also up the space requirements quite a bit.
And I find your suggestion to not plow into pedestrians equally absurd. How else am I going to rack up combo bonus points?
Also, obviously the goal is to have as many cars as possible with these air bags on them, so the pedestrian won't just bounce off my car into another air-bagless car and die, but instead will be bounced again and again from car to car until harmlessly tossed onto the grass, where they will doubtless jump up and shout in child-like glee "Again! Again!" And I'll get like 10,000 points for a 40-bounce combo. Looks like a win-win scenario to me. Why Luddites like you are against using technology to make life more awesome, I'll never know.
Ah. I obviously hadn't considered the "Multi-Bounce onto the Grass" scenario.... now if only they would start planting grass on City Sidewalks.
It might be "Egier" to use, but how far will it stray from the original project (that everyone else is currently using), or is it the first leak in the Dam before everyone jumps ship.
Its especially ironic given the push that netbooks have had over the past year, and the emphasis on Power savings that is pushing developers to consider using ARM chips, and by extension Linux (since Windows just plain won't run on them:) ).
If the OSS community doesn't support an opportunity to get our foot in the door (in a BIG way), by putting "our" OS on the "longest running and lightest" Netbooks/Notebooks that come out (or put our software out with known bugs), then we deserve to reap what we sow.
Actually, it pales in comparison to the #1 advance for "pedestrian protection", DON'T F-ING HIT THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Sorry, but the idea that ricocheting a pedestrian from my hood into something else (presumably something without an airbag) seems absurd.
At BEST its attempting to move liability from one person (the one driving the vehicle), to another (the driver that caused the life altering injury when some hapless pedestrian got thrown like a billiard ball against his car).
If these come out, I'm just going to wait until the lawsuits start piling in, although since they'll most likely be filed by living people instead of on their behalf, it may take juries a bit to warm up to the idea of placing blame where it really belongs (cue Monty-Python's "You got turned into a newt?... I got better" routine)
Yeah, that's almost like that episode of Sliders with the vampires. Or zombies. I forget which. Anyway, yeah, that's a really good reason why we shouldn't ever release any new medicine. It's just too dangerous to humanity as a whole!:')
It was zombies, and the "zombie" effect was caused by some sort of diet supplement originally, before it spread (and I'm amazed I remember that). (found a link:http://www.brillig.com/sliders/episodes/41.html)
Considering how "Wonderfully Regulated" the diet and weight loss field is, I'm sure we have nothing to fear from a harmful supplement. ~
Why oh why would a photographer (excuse me, "Photo-Journalist"), want to be holding ANYTHING that looks remotely like a weapon, especially when in a War Zone?
Hmm perhaps if we contacted the people at hackingforprofit@yahoo.com then they could answer some questions? Perhaps they could even be the next "Ask Slashdot"?
I could see it now:
"Slashdot: Post your questions for the hackingforprofit@yahoo.com group! The top five will be sent in, and hopefully answered in an anonymous fashion."
Q: 5) Are you idiots? A: Well... I DO live in Virginia, and worked for a local IT dept. Since they had a security break-in, on a system I was responsible for, I'd say yes.
Q: 4) What were you thinking? A: My XBox 360 had just RRoD and I thought to myself, "Self, what is a quick way for me to make enough cash to never have to worry about replacing my 360 again?" I figure $10M should just about do it.
Q: 3) Are you really expecting anyone to pay? A: Well... why wouldn't they? What do you know that I don't?
Q: 2) What sort of precautions are you taking to keep the FBI from tracking you down via a secret cookie, javascript subroutine or 0 pixel image embedded in your Yahoo mail? A: A what? Now wait a minute...
Q: 1) How long do you really expect to get away with this? A: Lets go back to that last question for a minute? What are you talking about? I just use Internet Explorer. It even has the latest patches from MS.
[bing-bong] One sec. I'll finish this up right after I get the front door.
I've got a conspiracy theory about it to...one based on one of Parkinson's laws. It goes "When someone's hired to manage the doing of something, he's likely to expand his job to cover anything he can make seem related, in order to justify hiring more subordinate to manage."
I for one am very glad that we (the world) is promoting jobs creation to fill the role of these "Super Censors", but I am sad to think that the whole world is allowing our fear of job loss to force us into the position of Censoring (children I assume), from hearing about the sound from a "Big Bang".
I would think that most adults are more than happy to keep the noise down if a child is around, and it wouldn't take Sensors for this to happen.
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This shouldn't be surprising considering New York also recently announced an increase in taxes on Electric and Gas.
They've also declined to renew the Tax breaks on Movie/TV shooting which will probably kill off quite a few TV shows (or they'll relocate to other venues taking the jobs with them).
At this point the NY government is taxing anything and everything they can to keep from cutting ANY program.
Its getting absurd.
Its like someone overweight trying to slim down by refusing to exercise or change their diet.
Nice site. Interesting project.
Its a good thing they didn't put (insert x86 architecture OS here) on them.
I can see the first message sent back containing the words "No keyboard present. Press F1 to continue." ... followed by a prolonged silence. ;)
1) we're lazy
2) we're too busy spending money on new "gee whiz" human launch systems
3) then we're going to need a "tanker" to refuel the "pit stop craft". Next thing you know we have a whole infrastructure to support robotic space exploration/exploitation. It'd be far too practical.
The Doctor of course.
Exactly what I was thinking.
A "more recent" example is the PS3's "Eye".
Its very poorly supported, and provides nowhere near the same level of control as a Wii-mote (let alone 4 of them + nunchucks).
On the other hand, it provides Video-Chat (something Nintendo will probably never offer), and when combined with some of their "Interactive art" ideas, the PS Eye kept a bunch of kids very occupied during my last party. Amazed the heck out of my wife. :)
Where are my mod points when I need them?
+1 Insightful. (and probably +1 Incite-ful also :) )
It might also be why PS3 games are not region coded.
In fact, there are already threads discussing importing the US version of FFXIII to the UK when its released, instead of waiting the inevitable 6-12 months for Square to finish all the language localizations for the Europe release.
Umm ... what makes you think that XP-mode will offer anything but WinXP SP3 level emulation? (just curious)
For your situation, what you've already done (roll your own VM) is the perfect solution. An even better solution from a cost perspective, if the main use of the machine is the VM, is to look at things like Linux to decrease the cost of the desktops, which you just need to host the VM (assuming the VM is the main thing you need, since every OS now-a-days supports Documents, Email and Web).
It doesn't have "no life". No instead of living in their parent's basement, millions of WoW users can live in a WoWPod!
Just think if we make it a little bigger and include a bed, they would never have to leave?
I hear Singapore just ordered several thousand of them.
PC hanging from off screen in a fishing net.
Mac: Hey PC, what happened to you?
Extended Gripper reaches down from off screen to PC as he puts his wallet in its grip.
PC: Oh, I got caught in the latest BotNet and some hacker is stealing my information. You know how it is.
Mac: No, sorry PC. Mac users don't usually have their computers taken over. Do you need help getting out of that net? Or counseling?
PC: No, I'll be fine once he issues the Kill command. Then I can just reinstall from scratch and forget this ever happened.
Mac: But, you'll learn from the mistakes so you don't get caught in the same BotNet again, right?
PC: [softly] ... and forget this ever happened.
Well, in their defense, that has been "required" up till relatively recently.
If you wanted to run Office/Web Browser/Watch Videos/etc. you often needed to upgrade your computer a few times over the past decade or two.
Most people are still caught in that mindset of "oh, I guess I'll need to replace it every X" where X is somewhere between 6 months and 2 years.
They also don't probably realize that the computer they have NOW (provided they got a dual-core model with "enough" memory) is probably sufficient to do anything most people use it for on a daily basis ... provided it doesn't get loaded down with Malware/Crapware/Viruses/Trojans/etc.
Until they realize that the old "upgrade treadmill" has leveled off, they're still expecting their computer to slow down over time. :/
"Ya Canna Change the laws of Physics!!!!" ... oh ... wait ... never mind.
Good questions, but unfortunately for MS its a different situation.
1. Apple's Rosetta works because it the Intel hardware its running on is more powerful than the PPC hardware its emulating. A better example would be VirtualPC on Apple PPC hardware running Windows. It worked, but it was dog slow compared to VMWare or Parallels on Apple Intel hardware.
Another option some people have mentioned, that goes along with Rosetta is the idea of "Fat Binaries" where one "binary" actually includes multiple binaries for different architectures. Apple did this with their Universal Binaries that contain both PPC and Intel code inside them. This allows the same binary to work on multiple architectures. Its a great idea and contains the flexibility to let you support multiple architectures, but I think MS would need to modify the OS to support it, and even then, it balloons the size of the binary because of all the "redundant" pieces that most users won't even use. This isn't something that you want for a netbook. On OSX this extra space can often run in to the GB depending on how many applications you have installed. Once of the big things in Snow Leopard is that removing PPC support allows Apple to start stripping out that cruft themselves (at the expense of no longer supporting PPC hardware from 3-4 years ago).
2. .Net is SUPPOSED to be architecture independent, and most of the stuff that is developed for Mono is, but a lot of the stuff MS develops make calls to WINtel specific libraries. They (MS) would have to port these libraries to ARM. They could certainly do it, but I doubt it would just be "recompile the source" since a lot of those libraries were probably not coded with portability in mind, let alone making sure that the architecture supports the features the libraries are expecting, in the format they are expecting.
THey'd also need to make the OS able to handle fat binaries. It should also up the space requirements quite a bit.
Or avoid a commuting cost. ... might raise your health insurance cost though.
Ah. I obviously hadn't considered the "Multi-Bounce onto the Grass" scenario. ... now if only they would start planting grass on City Sidewalks.
It might be "Egier" to use, but how far will it stray from the original project (that everyone else is currently using), or is it the first leak in the Dam before everyone jumps ship.
Its especially ironic given the push that netbooks have had over the past year, and the emphasis on Power savings that is pushing developers to consider using ARM chips, and by extension Linux (since Windows just plain won't run on them :) ).
If the OSS community doesn't support an opportunity to get our foot in the door (in a BIG way), by putting "our" OS on the "longest running and lightest" Netbooks/Notebooks that come out (or put our software out with known bugs), then we deserve to reap what we sow.
Actually, it pales in comparison to the #1 advance for "pedestrian protection", DON'T F-ING HIT THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Sorry, but the idea that ricocheting a pedestrian from my hood into something else (presumably something without an airbag) seems absurd.
At BEST its attempting to move liability from one person (the one driving the vehicle), to another (the driver that caused the life altering injury when some hapless pedestrian got thrown like a billiard ball against his car).
If these come out, I'm just going to wait until the lawsuits start piling in, although since they'll most likely be filed by living people instead of on their behalf, it may take juries a bit to warm up to the idea of placing blame where it really belongs (cue Monty-Python's "You got turned into a newt? ... I got better" routine)
Oh good. The shaken baby app can be ported to WM without running afoul of MicroSoft's App Guidelines. ~
however their recent child support filings may lend a clue.
It was zombies, and the "zombie" effect was caused by some sort of diet supplement originally, before it spread (and I'm amazed I remember that). (found a link:http://www.brillig.com/sliders/episodes/41.html)
Considering how "Wonderfully Regulated" the diet and weight loss field is, I'm sure we have nothing to fear from a harmful supplement. ~
Why oh why would a photographer (excuse me, "Photo-Journalist"), want to be holding ANYTHING that looks remotely like a weapon, especially when in a War Zone?
Hmm perhaps if we contacted the people at hackingforprofit@yahoo.com then they could answer some questions? Perhaps they could even be the next "Ask Slashdot"?
I could see it now:
"Slashdot: Post your questions for the hackingforprofit@yahoo.com group! The top five will be sent in, and hopefully answered in an anonymous fashion."
Q: 5) Are you idiots? ... I DO live in Virginia, and worked for a local IT dept. Since they had a security break-in, on a system I was responsible for, I'd say yes.
A: Well
Q: 4) What were you thinking?
A: My XBox 360 had just RRoD and I thought to myself, "Self, what is a quick way for me to make enough cash to never have to worry about replacing my 360 again?" I figure $10M should just about do it.
Q: 3) Are you really expecting anyone to pay? ... why wouldn't they? What do you know that I don't?
A: Well
Q: 2) What sort of precautions are you taking to keep the FBI from tracking you down via a secret cookie, javascript subroutine or 0 pixel image embedded in your Yahoo mail? ...
A: A what? Now wait a minute
Q: 1) How long do you really expect to get away with this?
A: Lets go back to that last question for a minute? What are you talking about? I just use Internet Explorer. It even has the latest patches from MS.
[bing-bong] One sec. I'll finish this up right after I get the front door.
[crash] THIS IS FBI! ON THE GROUND NOW!
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I for one am very glad that we (the world) is promoting jobs creation to fill the role of these "Super Censors", but I am sad to think that the whole world is allowing our fear of job loss to force us into the position of Censoring (children I assume), from hearing about the sound from a "Big Bang".
I would think that most adults are more than happy to keep the noise down if a child is around, and it wouldn't take Sensors for this to happen.