I hope that they will be able to recover some of the agility they had 5-10 years ago, but right now, to me personally, Microsoft has become just another big company that has become too big and bloated to be able to effectively listen to the concerns of their users. I don't know what you're talking about. They are a computer software company. They just happen to make MP3 players, video game systems, keyboards & mice, touch-screen tabletops, internet portals, email services, search services, mapping services, DVRs...
Yeah, OK, they might be spreading themselves a little thin...
Do you feel you should have had to suffer those pains for 8 months? Can you concede that MS may have jumped the gun and released Vista too soon? Things such as slow file copying should NOT make it into a retail release. Even after stripping out the new features they kept talking about (WinFS, Nomad come to mind), they still couldn't release it without MAJOR bugs. So many people complain about its problems waking from sleep that they had to have known it was an issue before it was released. If I was working on a project, got a phone call and my computer went to sleep, only to have it not wake up again, I would be royally pissed off. I'm sure Microsoft appreciates all the free beta testing they've gotten from all you early adopters, though. If I were you, I'd call and ask for a paycheck for your time. Thankfully I build my own PCs and have not had Vista forced upon me.
If you'd bothered to read the article, it isn't all due to driver issues. He has problems also with the way they redesigned the network settings, how responsive the system is reconnecting to wireless after waking from sleep (if they do at all), as well as shared drives not being found by one computer on the network when a different one sees it just fine. His problems are with the UI, the networking protocols, as well as drivers. On brand new hardware, no less. It isn't like he was trying to support a P2 400 or something, brand new Dell workstations, which I'm sure had Vista Ready or even Vista Premium Ready stamped all over them. Vista has been out for more than 8 months now, and they still haven't worked out these annoyances and broken features. Vistas problems go well beyond drivers and into the realm of what others like to call here "defective by design".
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Yeah, I have to call BS on their claim it was part of the big explosion, since it is currently commonly thought that it was an air-burst event which would not leave a 3-ton object behind. If this rock was really from the event, I'm pretty sure the mystery would be solved, which it isn't.
They might be able to get games to work on it. They could make it so it plays in wide screen mode, placing a pseudo-control pad interface on the left and some button image on the right side. In the middle you'd have the gameplay area. The iPhone screen would be the controller. Program it so it automatically suspends the game when a call comes in, and resumes when it is over. That would be slick. Who wants to start making it?:)
Wow, and you know what? There are even MORE terrorists training in this thing we call "real life"! Can you believe it? We'd better end this thing called life before they have a chance to do something!
All kidding aside, I bet there are "terrorists" using any form of communication that is there. Unless we live completely isolationist lives, never being allowed to interact with anyone, ever, people are going to *gasp* get together and talk about things, including terrorism. Focusing on video games is just stupid and a colossal waste of time.
Oh man! Rick Berman is working for AMD now? He wasn't content fucking up the Star Trek franchise? What is the semiconductor equivalent of killing off Commander Data? AMD, I guess, will be as screwed as Scott Bacula.
you're by the bathrooms and you can watch any hottie walk back to her seat. Yeah, and you can also smell the ripe dookie she just dropped in the can as she saunters on down the aisle.
With distributed serving, the real question is how many host servers will it take to support one person streaming. The days of needing a single big-iron server to host a download is thankfully over, if the user chooses.
Many of the accounts of the crash site at Roswell and the parts recovered claim that there was a metal that despite being super thin, was flexible and impervious to damage. Ok... if they really had such a material, how the heck did the craft crash and scatter debris? If the material was that good, how did it come apart? I'd love to believe, but that part in particular has always made me a bit skeptical of the whole incident.
Don't forget the stories about people saying it is the best ipod ever because now they can put it down their pants and call themselves and REALLY love the thing. Those will mostly be posted on MySpace by 30 year olds in their parent's basement.
Only 2 more days and the wait will be over... the wait for everyone to stop posting their random idiotic speculation about how good/bad/shiny it's going to be! Yeah, then it will only be "hands-on" reports and stories about how someone figured out how to crack the OS and load software while it is docked (which I don't doubt you'll be able to do unless Apple physically separated the OS part of the drive from the iPod part). I don't see any shortage of stories on it for at least a month.
As an Apple fan, even I am finding the level of coverage of this thing to be ridiculous. There are no less than 5 headlines about the iPhone on that page alone. The #*$(# thing isn't even out yet! For this much hype, you'd think it came with 3 5-star hookers and a brick of cocaine straight from colombia.
For those wondering, like I was, what this Coherence thing was about (since the submitter or editors decided not to include a link), here ya go: Parallels Coherence. It basically lets Parallels run without having to use the Windows desktop so windows Apps appear to be more like Mac apps. Kinda slick.
fast! you call this FAST? most MS-software is developed in a view minutes!!!11!1ONE Yes, it only takes moments to write a check and buy a company out. Isn't that how MS does most of its development?
There are lots of applications that don't even need to talk to anything directly. A word processor, for instance. As long as file transfer works (which I assume it does), it can be used for that purpose. If Apple's only real concern was overloading the cell phone network, there would be no reason to not allow this kind of development.
I really think they were just waiting until they had a proper development environment for the phone to allow proper development. Getting Java running on this would be trivial since it runs on OS X already (if it even has it removed from this version). Java alone opens the phone up to a variety of already made phone targeted applications and games.
I don't think it does, but it does have wi-fi. I have a card in my phone now, but I wouldn't use it if I could just transfer all the files via wi-fi. Yes, I use bluetooth, but it is a pain in the ass to send and receive files (at least on windows).
Funny, the last time I bought a DVD, I didn't have to sign anything that gave them any rights to my purchase. There was no EULA, there weren't even any signs at best buy saying what rights I had versus them. If it isn't explicitly listed BEFORE I buy it, I assume that I have full rights to do whatever I want with it, even make a frisbee out of it and throw it at the MPAA members.
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Yeah, OK, they might be spreading themselves a little thin...
Do you feel you should have had to suffer those pains for 8 months? Can you concede that MS may have jumped the gun and released Vista too soon? Things such as slow file copying should NOT make it into a retail release. Even after stripping out the new features they kept talking about (WinFS, Nomad come to mind), they still couldn't release it without MAJOR bugs. So many people complain about its problems waking from sleep that they had to have known it was an issue before it was released. If I was working on a project, got a phone call and my computer went to sleep, only to have it not wake up again, I would be royally pissed off. I'm sure Microsoft appreciates all the free beta testing they've gotten from all you early adopters, though. If I were you, I'd call and ask for a paycheck for your time. Thankfully I build my own PCs and have not had Vista forced upon me.
If you'd bothered to read the article, it isn't all due to driver issues. He has problems also with the way they redesigned the network settings, how responsive the system is reconnecting to wireless after waking from sleep (if they do at all), as well as shared drives not being found by one computer on the network when a different one sees it just fine. His problems are with the UI, the networking protocols, as well as drivers. On brand new hardware, no less. It isn't like he was trying to support a P2 400 or something, brand new Dell workstations, which I'm sure had Vista Ready or even Vista Premium Ready stamped all over them. Vista has been out for more than 8 months now, and they still haven't worked out these annoyances and broken features. Vistas problems go well beyond drivers and into the realm of what others like to call here "defective by design".
Yeah, I have to call BS on their claim it was part of the big explosion, since it is currently commonly thought that it was an air-burst event which would not leave a 3-ton object behind. If this rock was really from the event, I'm pretty sure the mystery would be solved, which it isn't.
B...B...But 9/11!!! Terrorists! If you watch porn you are a terrorist, and you might as well have flown the planes into the WTC yourself!
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If I didn't say it, someone in the Bush administration would have eventually to support anything that people don't agree with.
They might be able to get games to work on it. They could make it so it plays in wide screen mode, placing a pseudo-control pad interface on the left and some button image on the right side. In the middle you'd have the gameplay area. The iPhone screen would be the controller. Program it so it automatically suspends the game when a call comes in, and resumes when it is over. That would be slick. Who wants to start making it? :)
Wow, and you know what? There are even MORE terrorists training in this thing we call "real life"! Can you believe it? We'd better end this thing called life before they have a chance to do something!
All kidding aside, I bet there are "terrorists" using any form of communication that is there. Unless we live completely isolationist lives, never being allowed to interact with anyone, ever, people are going to *gasp* get together and talk about things, including terrorism. Focusing on video games is just stupid and a colossal waste of time.
Oh man! Rick Berman is working for AMD now? He wasn't content fucking up the Star Trek franchise? What is the semiconductor equivalent of killing off Commander Data? AMD, I guess, will be as screwed as Scott Bacula.
With distributed serving, the real question is how many host servers will it take to support one person streaming. The days of needing a single big-iron server to host a download is thankfully over, if the user chooses.
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Many of the accounts of the crash site at Roswell and the parts recovered claim that there was a metal that despite being super thin, was flexible and impervious to damage. Ok... if they really had such a material, how the heck did the craft crash and scatter debris? If the material was that good, how did it come apart? I'd love to believe, but that part in particular has always made me a bit skeptical of the whole incident.
In all their simulations of me, am I flipping them off like I'm doing right now? Simulate THIS buddy!
Don't forget the stories about people saying it is the best ipod ever because now they can put it down their pants and call themselves and REALLY love the thing. Those will mostly be posted on MySpace by 30 year olds in their parent's basement.
No, but the video link that is up on CNN/Money right now is speculating that it might land you a date.
As an Apple fan, even I am finding the level of coverage of this thing to be ridiculous. There are no less than 5 headlines about the iPhone on that page alone. The #*$(# thing isn't even out yet! For this much hype, you'd think it came with 3 5-star hookers and a brick of cocaine straight from colombia.
The police will finally have something they can process their stored petafiles with! Two at a time no less!
For those wondering, like I was, what this Coherence thing was about (since the submitter or editors decided not to include a link), here ya go: Parallels Coherence. It basically lets Parallels run without having to use the Windows desktop so windows Apps appear to be more like Mac apps. Kinda slick.
There are lots of applications that don't even need to talk to anything directly. A word processor, for instance. As long as file transfer works (which I assume it does), it can be used for that purpose. If Apple's only real concern was overloading the cell phone network, there would be no reason to not allow this kind of development.
I really think they were just waiting until they had a proper development environment for the phone to allow proper development. Getting Java running on this would be trivial since it runs on OS X already (if it even has it removed from this version). Java alone opens the phone up to a variety of already made phone targeted applications and games.
I don't think it does, but it does have wi-fi. I have a card in my phone now, but I wouldn't use it if I could just transfer all the files via wi-fi. Yes, I use bluetooth, but it is a pain in the ass to send and receive files (at least on windows).
Funny, the last time I bought a DVD, I didn't have to sign anything that gave them any rights to my purchase. There was no EULA, there weren't even any signs at best buy saying what rights I had versus them. If it isn't explicitly listed BEFORE I buy it, I assume that I have full rights to do whatever I want with it, even make a frisbee out of it and throw it at the MPAA members.
Sure beats the vespene gas that would be generated in the suit after eating at the intergalactic taco bell.
I've seen a better bumper sticker, IMHO: "Save the environment: Plant a Bush back in Texas"
Seems about right to me.