Well Ebert has a history of thinking his personal view is the worlds view. Look at his decades old opinion about video games being not an art. This reminds me on the old greeks which had the same discussion when theatre was invented. Every generation for thousands of years had their handful of Eberts!
Is less the eye of the viewer but the attitude of the movie industriy. a) Shoddy movies which have 3d plastered on top as afterthought b) The 3d tax of the movie theatres which is a hidden 25% price hike over here in Europe c) The smallest problem is the eye strain, you dont watch it constantly.
Add to all this that movies at least over here in europe have become really expensive watching especially if you have to pay for a family and you can see why 3d itself is the smallest issue. I tend to avoid 3d like the plaque but not because of the eye strain.
This does not work, windows is not an argument for buying a tablet especially if it becomes unusable then. The funny stuff is that their second biggest problem used to be their ultimate vendor lockin. The IE, now that serious html5 webapps crawl up left and right for tablets they dont have anything worthwhile to show off which does not lack serious features literally any other tablet has. Face it while IE9 is nice regarding css transitions it is not really up to what webkit the current mobile defacto standard is with its html5 features. Microsoft at least is 3 years behind and given the pace of development they will be forever. No matter what the marketing paper says IE9 == some css3 transitions implemented, no proper working canvas control, if they deliver it the betas did not show any sign of being less buggy than IE6 was compared to the current browsers. SVG == same Dom Level 3 serious deficiencies Webworkers no implementations at all Websockets not even remotely in sight
etc... the list goes on and on. So even if they roll out a tablet what are they going to use, a webkit version which is tablet ready probably will not be delivered for them, and their own browser is utter garbage and lacks seriously compared to the competition, but the train goes towards rich client uis on tablets, so Microsoft has a three year delivery problem here as well.
PS: I am currently programming a site for toying and learning against the latest browser techs and only having to support opera 10, moz4 and webkit is a joy, finally things mostly work out of the box like they should and i dont even have to rely for now on any third party javascript framework for basic stuff like querying a node or getting fade effects or basic animations, all which is lacking is a decent toolkit support for the canvas control so that you can export vector graphics directly to canvas. As soon as you get rid of any IE and legacy browsers things become really easy.
This is old Microsoft tactics, if you dont have something worthwhile to show off then promise vaporware and spud fud. This worked really well in the 80s and 90s because they had a myriad of idiotic journalists at their side. I can remember an article in one of the biggest PC magazines pro Windows 3.0 and contra OS/2 which literally stated you dont need multitasking because you cannot do more than one thing yourself. Note this was not an official ad, but a serious article by one so called tech journalist. Add to that that everything Microsoft brought out back then had better implementations somewhere else, but people were not exposed to the alternatives so they bought the fud not knowing better. Now lets wheel forward, Microsoft still brings out half assed solutions 3 years late to the game but people are exposed to the alternatives by the millions and also the press now is on Apples and Androids side and Microsoft once the underdog compared to IBM now is IBM literally, accepted but not really liked and boring. So will those tactics work, no. Microsoft never was the inventor and has become less and less risky since Ballmer has taken over. But their fud tactics have not changed while the world around them has. One hint to Microsoft if you are unable to change and adapt you are bound to die or at least to shrink.
Motorola has been saying the same thing for almost a year, I can remember the same when the first complaints started about the Motorola Milestones bootloader in Europe. This is official company position or at least has been. Needless to say, Motorola is drop dead regarding Android over here for most people. Once screwed with a Milestone never another Motorola phone again, that sums it up! And those were the hardcore customers constantly buying expensive phones if they are good!
Add to that the word of mouth power, I noticed quite a while ago, that the geek crowd usually is 2 years ahead of the curve of the general people technologywise, this must be the so called word of mouth delay. I assume if a device constantly is bad mouthed by the so called technology savy normal people after a while start to notice and will start buying something else. Motorola should be really worried! They only have one year left in europe, but the no buy effect here has been kicking in for a while!
Not all of them, Samsung is pretty open, the Nexus line probably always will be, HTC only does what they have to do but nothing more because they know that their core customers are the ones hacking the device to pieces, so they only put some makeup like protection onto their devices. The only ones who play the hardball game with a go screw yourself if you dont want our ways attitude are Sony and Motorola. Needless to say that in many countries those phones are under the radar of most people or on the do not buy if you need a new device list!
They can apologize what they want, go buy your phones elsewhere if you dont like the encrypted bootloader has been the official company position over here in Europe for the last year pretty much since the first complaints about the Milestones bootloader started. Add to that that they left the milestone owners here hanging dry with by months delayed updates over the Droids, and you have hundreds of thousands of ex Milestone owners who probably will never buy another Motorola phone again. The Milestone initially sold in huge numbers due to the Droids openness and its really good hardware, that is until people noticed they were screwed over! As far as Europe is concerned, Motorola is dead for the forseeable future regarding phones! So dont blame the admin he was just defending the official company line, and this apology only will be marketing bullshit until they really improve their ways!
If you want an open phone and if you want kickass hardware, then always buy the latest Nexus which is offered or branded from Google. So far every Nexus had an official way on unlocking the bootloader. I have bought a Nexus One last year and I am still happy with it, but I will skip the Nexus S. The N1 serves me well and the community rom support still is top notch thanks to its openness. I expect the Nexus S will be similar in this regard.
Or in other words, if you are under heavy competition, you can win by being better, but you cannot win by screwing your own customers, trying to nickel and dime them out of their purchases and in the end insult them with arrogant company remarks if they rightfully complain about a defect of you product! I get the feeling that some people inside of Motorolas mobile phone divison need a serious influx of reality or should get rid of their cocaine habits! They seem to live in a total reality disortion field, and it is not in engineering where this field is located because the hardware usually is top notch!
They can retract what they want, their go buy your phone elsewhere if you dont like the locked bootloader stance has been their official position for over a year now, and they said it multiple times in Europe when people started to complain that the Milestone bootloader was locked while the Droid ones was not. Needless to say the Milestone only was a mediocre success over here and almost anyone who has bought the Milestone will never ever buy another Motorola phone again, because additonally to that Motorola left the Milestone owners hanging for months with updates which the Droid got rather in time! I have yet to meet a single Milestone user who has not been severely pissed at Motorola. This is the book example on how you kill your own success upfront by your own arrogance! Motorola is Dead over here in Europe as far as people are concerned, because it is not only the die hard geeks who wont buy their phones they word of mouth spreads, and whatever desaster recovery Motorola now tries over Facebook they cannot really recover unless they really change their ways regarding their users! But even then it probably is too late, Samsung and HTC have gotten their acts straight with their hardware now, and the Nexus S is the current top notch open phone and as far as it seems Google will continue the tradition of offering one open phone, so in the end Google probably will win the game after all, it just will take some time!
I dont have a problem with your attitude either, I simply dont buy the droid phones because of it. Last year you probably lost 1200 USD on phone sales to HTC by me alone, if you can live with it then look at your european sales numbers they are mediocre at best and ask yourself why is that so? In the meanwhile phones from HTC, Samsung etc.. sell like crazy! Droid doesnt for me and neither will be the upcoming Tablet!
Because you love the job? Outside of that working conditions depend heavily on the employer, I used to work in one of those blame shops, but not anymore, and I am pretty happy now.
Actually my wife works in the local city council as a lawyer and I am an IT pro who has to go into international banks. So she cannot move I have to commute to customers often thousands of kilometers away. So guess what you cannot really move in that situation even if you want to:-) Be glad that you and your wife can find a job very nearby, I cannot because the local customers pay lousily pretty much every IT guy leaves the city after a short period of time because of that. I simply settled down to a combination of home office and customer office with night commuting if possible, moving is no option due to the save job of my wife and a small toddler we have. So be glad you have the luxury to move after your job some people dont:-)
I just wonder why no one ever tried to push a mini on demand rail system, where you have small capsules of max 2-4 passengers and they are pushed to their destination points on demand. Sounds more ecologically sane to me than the stuff we have currently because in low usage times only a small fraction of capsules are pushed in high traffic times you push a lot. Of couse you cannot get rid of dedicated stops that way and stops because a capsule in front of you has a passenger leaving, but given the small size of the capsules you probably can run several lanes beside, an express and a slow lane.
Guess it really depends on where you live in swizerland, if you live far away from the next railway station then it is really slower bug given the density of the swiss railroads, I guess 60% of the people are faster by train. I dont live there but often are there and I am really amazed how great it is despite the often rather old technology they use. Within the zurich it is often a matter of minutes to reach the point where you want to go and commuting is also possible because of the 22 express train lines which connect the city and the outerior. I guess the best way to commute in Zurich is simply park and ride park it outside take the next express train into the city. Of course if you work somewhere where you have to make a long tram ride then you are screwed in Zurich as well like in any other city where you have to reach a point timely using the tram! Public transportation is never perfect but it also heavily depends on what you have to reach and where it is located.
Problem is, OpenGL is only the graphics stack and nowadays the computing stack. DirectX covers way more ground take what OpenGL does, add some isolation code for input, sound i/o, networking etc.. and you get DirectX. None of that is present on OpenGL and only a subset (Networking) is standardized over all machines, the mess starts as soon as you have to handle sound and input devices, have fun!
Actually lots of people never heard of it, it is one of those european RPG gems almost none in the US have noticed because it either did not get any reviews or just lousy reviews by us mags because there was no big US publisher behind it (another prime example is Gothic 2 one of the best RPGs ever made). The game really is a gem, it has written Ultima Underworld all over it.
I admit I hurt sony probably more than the average pirate out there. The reason, I do not own a sony console nor did I ever buy a single game from them. This is potential losses of thousands of dollars since 1995!!!
Hey, this guy knows what he is talking about he has pissed off more legal customers in the history of gaming than everyone else. No one has done more successfully to implement a customers playing your game prevention scheme then he did. So give this guy some credit he definitely has something worthwhile to say:-)
Id say the wisest move would be from Microsofts side to ditch IE entirely and participate in the Webkit project like everyone else, then we finally also would have a unification in engines to big degrees! But hell freezes over before that happens I guess.
And yet IE comes shortest, there is litterally only one feature they did right and that is the hardware accelerated CSS transitions and transformations and even there it is questionable which transitions work and which not. Everything else is either only halfway implemented or missing entirely. IE9 is html 4.5 at best:-)
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Well Ebert has a history of thinking his personal view is the worlds view. Look at his decades old opinion about video games being not an art. This reminds me on the old greeks which had the same discussion when theatre was invented.
Every generation for thousands of years had their handful of Eberts!
Is less the eye of the viewer but the attitude of the movie industriy.
a) Shoddy movies which have 3d plastered on top as afterthought
b) The 3d tax of the movie theatres which is a hidden 25% price hike over here in Europe
c) The smallest problem is the eye strain, you dont watch it constantly.
Add to all this that movies at least over here in europe have become really expensive watching especially if you have to pay for a family and you
can see why 3d itself is the smallest issue.
I tend to avoid 3d like the plaque but not because of the eye strain.
This does not work, windows is not an argument for buying a tablet especially if it becomes unusable then. The funny stuff is that their second biggest problem used to be their ultimate vendor lockin. The IE, now that serious html5 webapps crawl up left and right for tablets they dont have anything worthwhile to show off which does not lack serious features literally any other tablet has. Face it while IE9 is nice regarding css transitions it is not really up to what webkit the current mobile defacto standard is with its html5 features. Microsoft at least is 3 years behind and given the pace of development they will be forever.
No matter what the marketing paper says
IE9 == some css3 transitions implemented, no proper working canvas control, if they deliver it the betas did not show any sign of being less buggy than IE6 was compared to the current browsers.
SVG == same
Dom Level 3 serious deficiencies
Webworkers no implementations at all
Websockets not even remotely in sight
etc...
the list goes on and on. So even if they roll out a tablet what are they going to use, a webkit version which is tablet ready probably will not be delivered for them, and their own browser is utter garbage and lacks seriously compared to the competition, but the train goes towards rich client uis on tablets, so Microsoft has a three year delivery problem here as well.
PS: I am currently programming a site for toying and learning against the latest browser techs and only having to support opera 10, moz4 and webkit is a joy, finally things mostly work out of the box like they should and i dont even have to rely for now on any third party javascript framework for basic stuff like querying a node or getting fade effects or basic animations, all which is lacking is a decent toolkit support for the canvas control so that you can export vector graphics directly to canvas. As soon as you get rid of any IE and legacy browsers things become really easy.
This is old Microsoft tactics, if you dont have something worthwhile to show off then promise vaporware and spud fud. This worked really well in the 80s and 90s because they had a myriad of idiotic journalists at their side. I can remember an article in one of the biggest PC magazines pro Windows 3.0 and contra OS/2 which literally stated you dont need multitasking because you cannot do more than one thing yourself. Note this was not an official ad, but a serious article by one so called tech journalist. Add to that that everything Microsoft brought out back then had better implementations somewhere else, but people were not exposed to the alternatives so they bought the fud not knowing better. Now lets wheel forward, Microsoft still brings out half assed solutions 3 years late to the game but people are exposed to the alternatives by the millions and also the press now is on Apples and Androids side and Microsoft once the underdog compared to IBM now is IBM literally, accepted but not really liked and boring. So will those tactics work, no. Microsoft never was the inventor and has become less and less risky since Ballmer has taken over. But their fud tactics have not changed while the world around them has. One hint to Microsoft if you are unable to change and adapt you are bound to die or at least to shrink.
Motorola has been saying the same thing for almost a year, I can remember the same when the first complaints started about the Motorola Milestones bootloader in Europe. This is official company position or at least has been. Needless to say, Motorola is drop dead regarding Android over here for most people. Once screwed with a Milestone never another Motorola phone again, that sums it up!
And those were the hardcore customers constantly buying expensive phones if they are good!
Add to that the word of mouth power, I noticed quite a while ago, that the geek crowd usually is 2 years ahead of the curve of the general people technologywise, this must be the so called word of mouth delay. I assume if a device constantly is bad mouthed by the so called technology savy normal people after a while start to notice and will start buying something else. Motorola should be really worried! They only have one year left in europe, but the no buy effect here has been kicking in for a while!
Not all of them, Samsung is pretty open, the Nexus line probably always will be, HTC only does what they have to do but nothing more because they know that their core customers are the ones hacking the device to pieces, so they only put some makeup like protection onto their devices. The only ones who play the hardball game with a go screw yourself if you dont want our ways attitude are Sony and Motorola. Needless to say that in many countries those phones are under the radar of most people or on the do not buy if you need a new device list!
They can apologize what they want, go buy your phones elsewhere if you dont like the encrypted bootloader has been the official company position over here in Europe for the last year pretty much since the first complaints about the Milestones bootloader started. Add to that that they left the milestone owners here hanging dry with by months delayed updates over the Droids, and you have hundreds of thousands of ex Milestone owners who probably will never buy another Motorola phone again. The Milestone initially sold in huge numbers due to the Droids openness and its really good hardware, that is until people noticed they were screwed over!
As far as Europe is concerned, Motorola is dead for the forseeable future regarding phones!
So dont blame the admin he was just defending the official company line, and this apology only will be marketing bullshit until they really improve their ways!
If you want an open phone and if you want kickass hardware, then always buy the latest Nexus which is offered or branded from Google. So far every Nexus had an official way on unlocking the bootloader. I have bought a Nexus One last year and I am still happy with it, but I will skip the Nexus S. The N1 serves me well and the community rom support still is top notch thanks to its openness. I expect the Nexus S will be similar in this regard.
Or in other words, if you are under heavy competition, you can win by being better, but you cannot win by screwing your own customers, trying to nickel and dime them out of their purchases and in the end insult them with arrogant company remarks if they rightfully complain about a defect of you product!
I get the feeling that some people inside of Motorolas mobile phone divison need a serious influx of reality or should get rid of their cocaine habits! They seem to live in a total reality disortion field, and it is not in engineering where this field is located because the hardware usually is top notch!
They can retract what they want, their go buy your phone elsewhere if you dont like the locked bootloader stance has been their official position for over a year now, and they said it multiple times in Europe when people started to complain that the Milestone bootloader was locked while the Droid ones was not. Needless to say the Milestone only was a mediocre success over here and almost anyone who has bought the Milestone will never ever buy another Motorola phone again, because additonally to that Motorola left the Milestone owners hanging for months with updates which the Droid got rather in time!
I have yet to meet a single Milestone user who has not been severely pissed at Motorola. This is the book example on how you kill your own success upfront by your own arrogance! Motorola is Dead over here in Europe as far as people are concerned, because it is not only the die hard geeks who wont buy their phones they word of mouth spreads, and whatever desaster recovery Motorola now tries over Facebook they cannot really recover unless they really change their ways regarding their users! But even then it probably is too late, Samsung and HTC have gotten their acts straight with their hardware now, and the Nexus S is the current top notch open phone and as far as it seems Google will continue the tradition of offering one open phone, so in the end Google probably will win the game after all, it just will take some time!
I dont have a problem with your attitude either, I simply dont buy the droid phones because of it. Last year you probably lost 1200 USD on phone sales to HTC by me alone, if you can live with it then look at your european sales numbers they are mediocre at best and ask yourself why is that so?
In the meanwhile phones from HTC, Samsung etc.. sell like crazy!
Droid doesnt for me and neither will be the upcoming Tablet!
Because you love the job? Outside of that working conditions depend heavily on the employer, I used to work in one of those blame shops, but not anymore, and I am pretty happy now.
Well I just met an old colleque of mine yesterday who commutes 4 hours every day :-)
Actually my wife works in the local city council as a lawyer and I am an IT pro who has to go into international banks. So she cannot move I have to commute to customers often thousands of kilometers away. So guess what you cannot really move in that situation even if you want to :-) :-)
Be glad that you and your wife can find a job very nearby, I cannot because the local customers pay lousily pretty much every IT guy leaves the city after a short period of time because of that.
I simply settled down to a combination of home office and customer office with night commuting if possible, moving is no option due to the save job of my wife and a small toddler we have.
So be glad you have the luxury to move after your job some people dont
I just wonder why no one ever tried to push a mini on demand rail system, where you have small capsules of max 2-4 passengers and they are pushed to their destination points on demand.
Sounds more ecologically sane to me than the stuff we have currently because in low usage times only a small fraction of capsules are pushed in high traffic times you push a lot. Of couse you cannot get rid of dedicated stops that way and stops because a capsule in front of you has a passenger leaving, but given the small size of the capsules you probably can run several lanes beside, an express and a slow lane.
Guess it really depends on where you live in swizerland, if you live far away from the next railway station then it is really slower bug given the density of the swiss railroads, I guess 60% of the people are faster by train. I dont live there but often are there and I am really amazed how great it is despite the often rather old technology they use. Within the zurich it is often a matter of minutes to reach the point where you want to go and commuting is also possible because of the 22 express train lines which connect the city and the outerior. I guess the best way to commute in Zurich is simply park and ride park it outside take the next express train into the city.
Of course if you work somewhere where you have to make a long tram ride then you are screwed in Zurich as well like in any other city where you have to reach a point timely using the tram!
Public transportation is never perfect but it also heavily depends on what you have to reach and where it is located.
Actually it had multiple ground levels and also a physics engine additionally on top of that, so it probably was more advanced than Doom.
Problem is, OpenGL is only the graphics stack and nowadays the computing stack. DirectX covers way more ground take what OpenGL does, add some isolation code for input, sound i/o, networking etc.. and you get DirectX.
None of that is present on OpenGL and only a subset (Networking) is standardized over all machines, the mess starts as soon as you have to handle sound and input devices, have fun!
Actually lots of people never heard of it, it is one of those european RPG gems almost none in the US have noticed because it either did not get any reviews or just lousy reviews by us mags because there was no big US publisher behind it (another prime example is Gothic 2 one of the best RPGs ever made). The game really is a gem, it has written Ultima Underworld all over it.
It was the Ultima Underworld 3, Origin-Looking Glass never did.
I admit I hurt sony probably more than the average pirate out there. The reason, I do not own a sony console nor did I ever buy a single game from them.
This is potential losses of thousands of dollars since 1995!!!
Hey, this guy knows what he is talking about he has pissed off more legal customers in the history of gaming than everyone else. No one has done more successfully to implement a customers playing your game prevention scheme then he did. So give this guy some credit he definitely has something worthwhile to say :-)
Id say the wisest move would be from Microsofts side to ditch IE entirely and participate in the Webkit project like everyone else, then we finally also would have a unification in engines to big degrees!
But hell freezes over before that happens I guess.
And yet IE comes shortest, there is litterally only one feature they did right and that is the hardware accelerated CSS transitions and transformations and even there it is questionable which transitions work and which not. Everything else is either only halfway implemented or missing entirely. :-)
IE9 is html 4.5 at best