Support for multiple CPUs, is but one area where Windows NT was (and remains) superior. Possibly, but who cares? The world is going multi-core, not multiple CPUs and I would suggest that Apple has the lead there, and will strengthen it with Grand Central, Grand Central Dispatch, and OpenCL.
Okay, the hardware specs look good, but the software description scotched the deal for me. "Familiar Microsoft® Windows® Platform". Windows? Secure? Crap. Point those guys to some of the numerous articles we've seen here in the last few days about Windows vulnerabilities. I'm sure the only reason Windows Mobile devices haven't been rooted in the past is the lack of incentive. With the POTUS now carrying one, the incentive is there.
The XBox is not yet 'profitable'. They now have a positive cash flow, meaning they are taking in more money than they are spending, but they have a long way to go to pay back the initial $6 billion investment.
This is quite possibly the most moronic comment I've ever seen posted on Slashdot. Do a little research into the Microsoft anti-trust affair before you go shooting your mouth off.
I'll go you one further; vulnerability != exploit. Show me a tally of exploits in the wild, or better yet, exploits that aren't proof-of-concept. I don't think you find a single one for Macs or Linux, while the number of dangerous exploits for Windows numbers in the tens, or even hundreds, of thousands.
You need to read that article more closely. The games division showed a profit for that quarter. They're still a long way from erasing that gaping 6 billion dollar wound that the games division has created. And now that the Halo trilogy is over they're going to somehow come up with another blockbuster on the same scale, or greater.
Personally, I don't see how they're going to do it. They bought Bungie just for the game that became Halo, but other studios, like Rare, have yet to produce anything resembling a hit. I think they're screwed. They're never going to recoup the initial investment.
Maybe you went to the wrong site, but it's quite obvious here. $399 for two laptops, one is given to a child in a developing nation. The cost of the second laptop is considered a charitable donation and is tax-deductible. The T-Mobile info is on that page, too.
It sounds from the article ("Now I can pick up a Styrofoam cup without crushing it. With my other hand, I would really have to concentrate on how much pressure I was putting on the cup.") that there's some form of feedback mechanism, but I thought that was years away. Without pressure sensors, a you really have is a 'Waldo' attached to your wrist, you've got no way of knowing how much force you're exerting on an object.
Then, of course, you really want the rest of the sensory package, touch, temperature, pain feedback, and all the other things your hands do for you.
This ties in neatly with Phillip Pullmans's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. In the first book, we learn that there are many parallel universes. In the second book we begin to discover that Dark Matter is collected to the rise of intelligence, and find a knife so sharp that it can cut between dimensions.
Kinda neat that science is mirroring fiction.
Here ya go, the real story. Project Mogul was an Air Force project to detect nuclear tests by listening for them in the high atmosphere. It had the highest security classification, and when one of the balloons, along with it's plastic and tinfoil acoustic detectors, crashed near Roswell, the CIA decided that the UFO story provided a good cover.
So, technically, it wasn't a weather balloon. Oh and the egg-shaped saucer? That was a different test version of the acoustic detector. They experimented with a number of different shapes.
If wonder if that's why this deal fell through. (Bubbleshare was subsequently bought by Kaboose for $2.25 million.) Obviously, News Corp wants an established photo-sharing site that has an established audience and name-recognition, not just a plug-in for MySpace.
a couple of months ago. I thought the mass storage of the 360 wasn't up to par with the PS3. Whether or not Sony can recover from the marketing disaster that was the PS3 launch is another question entirely.
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Support for multiple CPUs, is but one area where Windows NT was (and remains) superior.
Possibly, but who cares? The world is going multi-core, not multiple CPUs and I would suggest that Apple has the lead there, and will strengthen it with Grand Central, Grand Central Dispatch, and OpenCL.
Read this if you don't believe me.
Okay, the hardware specs look good, but the software description scotched the deal for me. "Familiar Microsoft® Windows® Platform".
Windows? Secure? Crap. Point those guys to some of the numerous articles we've seen here in the last few days about Windows vulnerabilities. I'm sure the only reason Windows Mobile devices haven't been rooted in the past is the lack of incentive. With the POTUS now carrying one, the incentive is there.
Here ya go. Only $229.95!
It's not COBOL. It's much worse.
Oh frequently. And by robots and aliens, too. She's insatiable.
A plan worthy of SPECTRE! The ransom should be $500 Billion in uncut diamonds.
That was a joke, right? My cat is smarter than the combined intelligence of Motorola.
The XBox is not yet 'profitable'. They now have a positive cash flow, meaning they are taking in more money than they are spending, but they have a long way to go to pay back the initial $6 billion investment.
Great. All I get is "Sorry Canada" and Terrance and Philip farting at me. Must be some kind of "Blame Canada" joke.
This is quite possibly the most moronic comment I've ever seen posted on Slashdot. Do a little research into the Microsoft anti-trust affair before you go shooting your mouth off.
They solved the design problem in 1972. I think it will end up looking like this.
I'll go you one further; vulnerability != exploit. Show me a tally of exploits in the wild, or better yet, exploits that aren't proof-of-concept. I don't think you find a single one for Macs or Linux, while the number of dangerous exploits for Windows numbers in the tens, or even hundreds, of thousands.
You need to read that article more closely. The games division showed a profit for that quarter. They're still a long way from erasing that gaping 6 billion dollar wound that the games division has created. And now that the Halo trilogy is over they're going to somehow come up with another blockbuster on the same scale, or greater.
Personally, I don't see how they're going to do it. They bought Bungie just for the game that became Halo, but other studios, like Rare, have yet to produce anything resembling a hit. I think they're screwed. They're never going to recoup the initial investment.
I guess the SGC has to be separate from the rest of the military net. ;)
Err, no. It is only one country. The Zune is not available in Canada or Mexico.
Maybe you went to the wrong site, but it's quite obvious here. $399 for two laptops, one is given to a child in a developing nation. The cost of the second laptop is considered a charitable donation and is tax-deductible. The T-Mobile info is on that page, too.
You don't know how lucky you are not to know. Just bask in your ignorance and pity the rest of us.
And don't forget "Basic Instinct" and 'Showgirls".
Oh, wait...
Everyone at K5 makes fun of you.
What? Both of them?
So Sun got themselves a Cluster File System and a Cluster Fuck System on the same day?
It sounds from the article ("Now I can pick up a Styrofoam cup without crushing it. With my other hand, I would really have to concentrate on how much pressure I was putting on the cup.") that there's some form of feedback mechanism, but I thought that was years away. Without pressure sensors, a you really have is a 'Waldo' attached to your wrist, you've got no way of knowing how much force you're exerting on an object.
Then, of course, you really want the rest of the sensory package, touch, temperature, pain feedback, and all the other things your hands do for you.
This ties in neatly with Phillip Pullmans's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. In the first book, we learn that there are many parallel universes. In the second book we begin to discover that Dark Matter is collected to the rise of intelligence, and find a knife so sharp that it can cut between dimensions.
Kinda neat that science is mirroring fiction.
Here ya go, the real story. Project Mogul was an Air Force project to detect nuclear tests by listening for them in the high atmosphere. It had the highest security classification, and when one of the balloons, along with it's plastic and tinfoil acoustic detectors, crashed near Roswell, the CIA decided that the UFO story provided a good cover.
So, technically, it wasn't a weather balloon. Oh and the egg-shaped saucer? That was a different test version of the acoustic detector. They experimented with a number of different shapes.
If wonder if that's why this deal fell through. (Bubbleshare was subsequently bought by Kaboose for $2.25 million.)
Obviously, News Corp wants an established photo-sharing site that has an established audience and name-recognition, not just a plug-in for MySpace.
a couple of months ago. I thought the mass storage of the 360 wasn't up to par with the PS3. Whether or not Sony can recover from the marketing disaster that was the PS3 launch is another question entirely.