In another first, the company also announced that it will allow an independent third party to check on working conditions at those factories, and to make its findings public.' ...which will have to report favorable findings if it wishes to operate in that country.
MS is fine with all those junk-grade tablets, just that they don't want something like the N900 to pop up. They were able to kill that by all-but acquiring Nokia and making sure Elop would kill the N9.
So take your "not target market" or "find a device that suits you" complaints and stuff them, tyvm.
Non-commercial deployments using the new runtime and SDK will require the fully tested and supported Kinect for Windows hardware and software platform, just as commercial deployments do. Existing non-commercial deployments using our beta SDK may continue using the beta and the Kinect for Xbox 360 hardware; to accommodate this, we are extending the beta license for three more years, to June 16, 2016.
If there is any major crippling, here would be the major part of it.
Couldn't find one of these(750GB, 7200RPM) for anything reasonable? I just decided to clone and expand the original disk onto the new drive - then saving the original as a restore disk.
Not sure how far back I got mine, but it was before everyone went OMGWTFFLOOD and left the territory of sane pricing.
Why bother with a free people when you can kill anyone that objects, or threaten to move the work elsewhere - as bids to divide the people amongst themselves?
Just because the US government has power to do a lot of locally illegal things around the world doesn't mean it should use that power every time we see something annoying.
Letting them continue in a country that doesn't care isn't the best option either.
Since it is a mistake to allow people to aid and abet a foreign country that is actively hostile to the US - whether it is China or like-minded Third World countries.
My sig isn't there just for show, that's what I actually believe.
When Motor Trend tested the 2011 Ford F-150 Pickups "the idea was to see whether it makes more sense for buyers to get the twin-turbo V-6 or the 5.0-liter V-8" (their quote). Continuing they said, "From the dyno and track results, the EcoBoost's performance data makes it a better rival for the 6.2 (liter V-8). The EcoBoost F-150 was fastest of the test..."
Except that it still read like it was a mixed bag - where the V-6 still was deficient if you wanted to get anything from it. Shoving more air through won't make up for what those extra cylinders will do.
I've owned a variety of big block and factory turbocharged cars including the real good ones -- 427 'Vette, 6.6 Liter Trans Am, 455 Stage 1 Buick, 3.8 liter Buick Turbo-Regal, GMC Syclone 4.3 liter turbo V-6, Volvo 2.3 liter turbo I-5. The turbo cars were better all around performers than the big blocks -- just as fast and better in every other category. One reason is that with a small, lightweight engine the car can be lighter and better balanced. In a direct comparison, I had a hot-rodder friend who owned the following two cars -- '69 Camaro with a transplanted 427 (L88 427 -- the real factory race engine in the late 60's, 7 liters for the metric oriented reader) and an '86 Buick Regal T-Type with the turbocharged 3.8 liter V6. After some garage tweaks the Regal ran a faster 1/4 mile at the dragstrip than the Camaro, both in the 11's as I recall. And I remember guys breaking rods racing naturally aspirated V-8 cars all the time.
That was before the whole rush by manufacturers to use turbochargers as a cylinder substitute, not an engine complement. Those blocks were fine without them as opposed to the cylinder cut+turbo that happens in the name of environmentalism.
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They shouldn't be here in the first place if they're taking slots that belong to our own citizens. Save the trip and help our own citizens.
No sense in not training our own versus helping the enemy.
While there were concerns about not being able to build it in the UK, what would it have been if they managed to do so?
Until they get rid of their monitoring/censoring, they don't even count for half that.
(In before the pro-China shills come to this article to talk about their Glorious Network protecting its people from dissent)
Here.
It held its own, just that its successors have been neutered due to:
Senselessly limiting the N9 to Third World hellholes in order to limit sales; excuses given that is being sold as a Symbian territory device
Terminating the line even if it actually makes Nokia money.
At least I don't have to be paid to defend truth; defending Nokia's Whorephones is another matter entirely.
In another first, the company also announced that it will allow an independent third party to check on working conditions at those factories, and to make its findings public.'
MS is fine with all those junk-grade tablets, just that they don't want something like the N900 to pop up. They were able to kill that by all-but acquiring Nokia and making sure Elop would kill the N9.
So take your "not target market" or "find a device that suits you" complaints and stuff them, tyvm.
Another platform, more backdoors?
Non-commercial deployments using the new runtime and SDK will require the fully tested and supported Kinect for Windows hardware and software platform, just as commercial deployments do. Existing non-commercial deployments using our beta SDK may continue using the beta and the Kinect for Xbox 360 hardware; to accommodate this, we are extending the beta license for three more years, to June 16, 2016.
If there is any major crippling, here would be the major part of it.
If it's bumped up $100 over the older Kinect, are they actively going to make sure the console version is crippled?
Nice, one can get to their absurd caps that much faster. Get rid of the caps and perhaps there might be something worth talking about.
DNSSEC is fine by itself, but it is only a distraction as implemented by Comcast.
It's nice and all, but the XO-3 might as well just be vaporware.
Couldn't find one of these(750GB, 7200RPM) for anything reasonable?
I just decided to clone and expand the original disk onto the new drive - then saving the original as a restore disk.
Not sure how far back I got mine, but it was before everyone went OMGWTFFLOOD and left the territory of sane pricing.
It's just drones, all the way down.
Why bother with a free people when you can kill anyone that objects, or threaten to move the work elsewhere - as bids to divide the people amongst themselves?
Nintendo isn't known for making high-cost accessories.
Dead by our hands? No.
Just get them in a less fraudulent jurisdiction such as the US, then offer them the following choices:
They can tell all and get a long prison sentence in a well-protected facility within the US.
They can be turned back to the country that they came from, where they would most likely end up dead by fellow criminals.
If anything, you would be saving their lives and taking out a conduit for malware and spam.
Just because the US government has power to do a lot of locally illegal things around the world doesn't mean it should use that power every time we see something annoying.
Letting them continue in a country that doesn't care isn't the best option either.
What's next? Nuking Justin Bieber?
I'd think you'd want to defuse him.
The US Government knows where they are, why not just go and black-bag them? Repeat until the spam stops, no matter what country.
I don't believe in appeasement of other countries.
Since it is a mistake to allow people to aid and abet a foreign country that is actively hostile to the US - whether it is China or like-minded Third World countries.
My sig isn't there just for show, that's what I actually believe.
Neutralizing China economically or militarily is the only way to do it while denying them any foothold in the US.
Do it publicly, loudly, and in a way that their lobbyists can't object to witnessing.
Shame that someone in the US Government didnt smack down Big Blue for treason.
When Motor Trend tested the 2011 Ford F-150 Pickups "the idea was to see whether it makes more sense for buyers to get the twin-turbo V-6 or the 5.0-liter V-8" (their quote). Continuing they said, "From the dyno and track results, the EcoBoost's performance data makes it a better rival for the 6.2 (liter V-8). The EcoBoost F-150 was fastest of the test..."
Except that it still read like it was a mixed bag - where the V-6 still was deficient if you wanted to get anything from it. Shoving more air through won't make up for what those extra cylinders will do.
I've owned a variety of big block and factory turbocharged cars including the real good ones -- 427 'Vette, 6.6 Liter Trans Am, 455 Stage 1 Buick, 3.8 liter Buick Turbo-Regal, GMC Syclone 4.3 liter turbo V-6, Volvo 2.3 liter turbo I-5. The turbo cars were better all around performers than the big blocks -- just as fast and better in every other category. One reason is that with a small, lightweight engine the car can be lighter and better balanced. In a direct comparison, I had a hot-rodder friend who owned the following two cars -- '69 Camaro with a transplanted 427 (L88 427 -- the real factory race engine in the late 60's, 7 liters for the metric oriented reader) and an '86 Buick Regal T-Type with the turbocharged 3.8 liter V6. After some garage tweaks the Regal ran a faster 1/4 mile at the dragstrip than the Camaro, both in the 11's as I recall. And I remember guys breaking rods racing naturally aspirated V-8 cars all the time.
That was before the whole rush by manufacturers to use turbochargers as a cylinder substitute, not an engine complement. Those blocks were fine without them as opposed to the cylinder cut+turbo that happens in the name of environmentalism.
They're already dead as a US car company.
How can they die again?