They are a business. Their goal is to make money, not release cool things for hackers. What makes you think they don't have ideas for the kinect technology?
The open source weak spot has always been the infighting, eventual lawsuits, splitting and renaming, remember that old saying about too many cooks in the kitchen?
I ended up ordering the LG optimus 7 from the telus website. They took no time in charging my creditcard but 2 days later it hasn't even been shipped. My experience in canada has been the same, none of the major carriers either don't have it or don't know what it is.
They are hard to get. On tuesday nobody could find one, most stores don't even know when they will get them in stock, even if you ordered they won't arrive until next week. Too early to conclude anything. I attended an MS conference on tuesday and they only had like 4 in total.. and there where hundereds of people there including MS employess.. can't find em, can't buy em.
so the FBI is watching them..how is this news for nerds or news for that matter? what's the relevance of this story? An FBI agent goes to work. that's it?
Mark one for incompetence. If you can't afford your own territorial mapping system maybe you shouldn't be in the taking down another countries flag business.
Maybe not the women, they are ok but consumer prices in Canada are outrageous. The only reason I see this happening is because Canadians can afford it, fuck back when I lived in Ontario they had a "sewer tax".. that's right you pay for the frigging sewer underneath your house in addition to your normal yearly federal and provisional tax. They tax everything, if it has a name it is taxed. If a car costs 20k in the U.S it's 30K in Canada, cellphone prices are the highest in the world, etc etc.
Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour.
Someone remind me please what we're saving? It's not electricity, because we use lightbulbs before sunrise and after sunset in summer and winter.
DST does save energy. It may not happen in the place you live but the times for sundown/sunrise does change significantly where I live depending on the time of year. It could be 8pm with the sun still out one part of the year and 5pm in darkness another time of the year. The culprit here is the phone, with auto DST there's no reason for this bug, shame on the programmers. It's a completely silly bug.
30gig wasn't enough and all I do is watch youtube videos. I was using about a gig per day on average just watching youtube videos, occasionally downloading a patch or a demo game and 30gigs wasn't enough. 20gig is pitiful for the 50$ or so they charge you a month.
I've seen this story going around the last couple of days. Most of us don't have early kinect games, seems like sites like engadget etc that got early access can't play and are making a mountain out of a mole hill. So you can't play your xbox for a couple of days, whoop dee effing do.
Having experienced this recently, where thousands of employees have to rely on a tool that only works with IE6, it's not something simple like CCS or scripting or some standards problem. This is large scale applications written entirely in Activex for IE6. Microsoft over the IE versions has changed Activex (for the better?) but that's the cause of the incompatibilty. I know one written by HP (not naming the app name) and deployed for thousands of users.. I bet HP doesn't even support it anymore and the company using it can't unless they migrate to an entirely new system.
There are two ways around it.
1. Don't upgrade IE on your machine or one of your machines 2. Install a VM with IE6 and fire it up when you need to use the tool.
Surprisingly (2) seems a lot easier to do from experience. VM's are a dime a dozen these days.
how is it an irrelevant detail? Do you see anyone else making xbox consoles? Windows phone 7 os is given to 3rd party manufacturers who create the hardware, just like Google does with Android to Samsung etc.
Google pulled Nexus one because it made no sense to compete with the same companies they were licensing Android to. Same applies here to microsoft, they could take Apples/RIM route of creating the software and hardware but they did not. So yes they do not have a tablet because they do not make the hardware.
ugh same old tired argument. I was part of the 12million, it's like saying 12million smokers agree smoking is good for you. Your fallacy is thinking everyone who plays wow likes to play it. I hated it the last 2 years until somehow I broke the addiction and quit.
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Shhh.. everyday we must have a story about how Microsoft is such a FAILURE.
They are a business. Their goal is to make money, not release cool things for hackers. What makes you think they don't have ideas for the kinect technology?
you don't have a windows 7 phone anyway! (Neither do I.. due to stupid shortages in Canadialand) but that's besides the point.
Is random neighbour protected by the secret service? if yes then YES, if no the NO.
The open source weak spot has always been the infighting, eventual lawsuits, splitting and renaming, remember that old saying about too many cooks in the kitchen?
seems everyone wants a piece of that kinect thing they created.
I don't get the joke. can someone explain it?
I ended up ordering the LG optimus 7 from the telus website. They took no time in charging my creditcard but 2 days later it hasn't even been shipped. My experience in canada has been the same, none of the major carriers either don't have it or don't know what it is.
They are hard to get. On tuesday nobody could find one, most stores don't even know when they will get them in stock, even if you ordered they won't arrive until next week. Too early to conclude anything. I attended an MS conference on tuesday and they only had like 4 in total.. and there where hundereds of people there including MS employess.. can't find em, can't buy em.
so the FBI is watching them..how is this news for nerds or news for that matter? what's the relevance of this story? An FBI agent goes to work. that's it?
No, if you know anything about programming the decryption key does not have to be in plaintext.
I think because the iPhone apps have to be reviewed by Apple is why they are much better in that regard
Mark one for incompetence. If you can't afford your own territorial mapping system maybe you shouldn't be in the taking down another countries flag business.
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Yea the netflix selection is garbage. Most of the time it's the sub 5/10 rating on imdb but meh it's something. TV has the same amount of crap too.
Maybe not the women, they are ok but consumer prices in Canada are outrageous. The only reason I see this happening is because Canadians can afford it, fuck back when I lived in Ontario they had a "sewer tax".. that's right you pay for the frigging sewer underneath your house in addition to your normal yearly federal and provisional tax. They tax everything, if it has a name it is taxed. If a car costs 20k in the U.S it's 30K in Canada, cellphone prices are the highest in the world, etc etc.
It's amazing how anyone can afford anything.
Here's how it is going to go down. We will replace a set of idiots who don't care about us, with a new set of idiots who don't care about us.
Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour.
Someone remind me please what we're saving? It's not electricity, because we use lightbulbs before sunrise and after sunset in summer and winter.
DST does save energy. It may not happen in the place you live but the times for sundown/sunrise does change significantly where I live depending on the time of year. It could be 8pm with the sun still out one part of the year and 5pm in darkness another time of the year. The culprit here is the phone, with auto DST there's no reason for this bug, shame on the programmers. It's a completely silly bug.
I had no idea millions of people used their phone as an alarm clock.
doesn't mean the rest of us need to suffer the same fate
30gig wasn't enough and all I do is watch youtube videos. I was using about a gig per day on average just watching youtube videos, occasionally downloading a patch or a demo game and 30gigs wasn't enough. 20gig is pitiful for the 50$ or so they charge you a month.
I've seen this story going around the last couple of days. Most of us don't have early kinect games, seems like sites like engadget etc that got early access can't play and are making a mountain out of a mole hill. So you can't play your xbox for a couple of days, whoop dee effing do.
Having experienced this recently, where thousands of employees have to rely on a tool that only works with IE6, it's not something simple like CCS or scripting or some standards problem. This is large scale applications written entirely in Activex for IE6. Microsoft over the IE versions has changed Activex (for the better?) but that's the cause of the incompatibilty. I know one written by HP (not naming the app name) and deployed for thousands of users.. I bet HP doesn't even support it anymore and the company using it can't unless they migrate to an entirely new system.
There are two ways around it.
1. Don't upgrade IE on your machine or one of your machines
2. Install a VM with IE6 and fire it up when you need to use the tool.
Surprisingly (2) seems a lot easier to do from experience. VM's are a dime a dozen these days.
how is it an irrelevant detail? Do you see anyone else making xbox consoles? Windows phone 7 os is given to 3rd party manufacturers who create the hardware, just like Google does with Android to Samsung etc.
Google pulled Nexus one because it made no sense to compete with the same companies they were licensing Android to. Same applies here to microsoft, they could take Apples/RIM route of creating the software and hardware but they did not. So yes they do not have a tablet because they do not make the hardware.
ugh same old tired argument. I was part of the 12million, it's like saying 12million smokers agree smoking is good for you. Your fallacy is thinking everyone who plays wow likes to play it. I hated it the last 2 years until somehow I broke the addiction and quit.