Problem is HP wants to get into the market of IBM and Co, which means business server software. I have yet to see any product from HP in that area. It took IBM and Oracle 20-30 years to build a lineup and consultant army.
Actually it was more like compaq engufled HP. They got a shitload of managers in who did not understand anything except for selling PC boxes. The entire PaRISC division etc... had to suffer from that other divisions were split apart etc... . Dec was a Compaq victim before.
The modern HP is be what Compaq would have become if they were not bought by HP.
Killed mostly by the measly ATOM hardware (thanks Intel) but in case of Tablets, they are actually useful. While I can see the current hype slowing down, I cannot see them entirely go away. They are to useful and they are not bound by a processor maker who actively tries to cripple their performance.
You basically can see the absence of Jobs already at apple. Lion was the shoddiest OSX release for ages. It still had a fair number of really innovative things in, but the overall quality of the implementation in many parts stinks, which is quite unusual for Apple.
Actually Xeroxs influence on the GUI was way bigger than apples, Xerox already had a full blown desktop floating windows etc... Apples main addition were the menus. Apple then funnily sued in the 80s half the world about floating windows and even won in some cases (Digital Researchs Gem which was programmed by ex Xerox people)
, and suddenly around age 60 they almost desperately want to tell anyone who can't run away fast enough all about their ulcers and hemorrhoids and operations. I would guess in.eu they don't do that, or at least their old people do it less than even our young people.
Their sitcoms, for example, must be wildly different than ours.
Actually old people are the same here, the sitcoms are not too different but are funnier, because they can make more sexual references. Go and watch coupling if you can, best Britcom ever, also Green Wing is highly recommendable.
COUPLING?! Are you mad? That was like a bad Friends! Green Wing was okay, but again it's just a British Scrubs, I would say. Spaced, now, _that's_ good comedy. Or Black Books.
You cannot compare the bad US coupling to the excellent UK one. The UK coupling was sort of friends meets american pie, or more along the lines of american pie.
, and suddenly around age 60 they almost desperately want to tell anyone who can't run away fast enough all about their ulcers and hemorrhoids and operations. I would guess in.eu they don't do that, or at least their old people do it less than even our young people.
Their sitcoms, for example, must be wildly different than ours.
Actually old people are the same here, the sitcoms are not too different but are funnier, because they can make more sexual references. Go and watch coupling if you can, best Britcom ever, also Green Wing is highly recommendable.
You can call me hardly an expert, but there was a recent very good bbc documentation regarding all the dating issues, and the missing proofs for salomon and David.
Problem to this simply is that many of those buildings were dated later than it is believed that Salomon ever existed. Until they find evidence that this building was built by Salomon himself the missing link still does not exist. The exact description can be easily explained most of the buildings existed still shortly before the babylonians came, so the memories in the tales are still fresh. I did not say Salomon did not exist, but they have yet to find the proof that he really is / was the biggest king israel ever had. The strange thing is by the bible he was the most important king, but yet the proof of him still is missing, to the worse some of the stuff attributed to him was built later.
This is utter bullshit. Jesus never talked about an original sin, he however talked about sins we commit against each other ever day. The interpretation of the original sin and jesus saves us from it came later on by taking the old testament literally. What he did was to say we should not sin against each other, which makes sense because only by being nice to each other a society can work in the long time b) "Shit" on the shoes of the so called jewish church back then by questioning their opressive rules, because he saw religion as something which should people help to live but not which people should be forced to live for c) Tried to tell the people that there is a god, and it is not the god who punishes but who loves all creation (all of it, so we do not have a god given right to pollute) and that he is the son of god who teaches the people and gives them a path to salvation (in my opinion in a sense to give them a path to live a good life, not to get rid of a mysterious sin they never committed) d) Those who suffer in this life will be rewarded for it in the next one in heaven e) Death is not the end f) As a proof that all of this was true he died and resurrected
What he never did:
a) Question the political authorities, in fact he made a clear distinction between religion and politics, so modern distinction between religion and politics and not interference between one or the other, in its root is very christian from a NT point of view
b) He never said anything about a root sin we are all bound to, but he said there is no one without sin, and you should and can revert your live and will be forgiven
Everything else outside of that is church doctrine and interpretation.
Heck there was definitively a need for a saviour who told the people, just be nice to each other and things work out and god is not the almighty punishing nutjob you think to believe but a good and loving father.
He just did not save mankind from a sin never committed sin (he also as far as I recall never said, although he said you should not sin against your next and repent if you did) but just told them what they should have known firsthand. Period. Why do people always make things more complicated than they are.
Unfortunately there are nutjobs like that still in existence. If you read a book you always should know about its creation and its cultural background. Thats what most of those nutjobs never do and know.
The Bible was written about 400bc in the babylonian exile, which basically fortified the one god believe in israel. Add to that that basically every religion in that area had its own creation myth and those did not live in isolation and most of this was oral tales you end up with nice stories which might have some historical background or roots. For instance adam and eve could have existed but not alone and definitely not as first humans on earth but as historical persons sometime in the early bronze age.
The prophets probably have been in existence given the timeframe of 1000-400 before the canonization, but even the existence of david and salomon are under question up until now at least as universal rulers over israel. I personally dont doubt both existed, but I personally doubt Salamon really was the ruler over the huge rich realm. But in the end, who really cares about all this.
So there is a load of things in the old testament which is rather questionable from a historical point of view. Also have in mind that the middle east countries always have been countries of tales and fables, and all this stuff is dark bronze age.
But back to those nutjobs, they read the bible word by word and think everything happened without even knowing an inch about the surrounding where it was written, when and by whom and which agenda was on the table. The political situations back then and why it was written (To give israel a solid cultural foundation and to fortify the one god believe which slowly but surely was winning thanks to the exile) You should never ever read a book written in the bronze age like you would do a historical book today. The mentality does not fit. Those books were not written for political accuracy but for giving tales to their people to live on and to answer the questions which arise in every generation, which have had ben orally transmitted and changed for hundreds of years.
Sega at least has a non disruptive history to their console times. Atari basically just was a floating brand when Infogrames bought them. Atari already was dead, and the modern Atari does not have anything to do with the Bushnell/Tramiel company, we used to love for their computers/consoles/games.
By name only, the current Atari only is sort of a legal successor of the old one. I think Infogrames once bought them and then basically rebranded for the US market (they thought Atari was better known). But at the time Infogrames bought them Atari just was a brand owned by someone with no business whatsoever anymore. There are lots of those names floating around in banks with ip which no one cares about. Scott Adams former company is one of those for instance. Atari just had the luck of being somewhat of an interest to someone. Ataris fate is similar to the one of Commodore, once a flagship of the US homecomputer industry now a brand owned by someone in a basement who makes a name of himself of selling overpriced atom computers and suing small websites.
I dont think it makes sense to file a class action lawsuit. But in case of Ubisoft I personally think, getting some lawyers to become rich might be justified. a) They mislead their customers (even sometimes by fine printing it or saying false things) b) They basically could not provide what they sold thanks to outages c) They simply deserve it, if a multi million dollar lawsuit which shows in their final earnings hits them they might start to rethink their strategy.
What are you talking about, the last two years there were Risen, Divine Divinity II Ego Draconis, Avadon and others which were/are excellent RPGs. I do not count anything from Bioware in anymore they are not RPGs anymore.
Actually there is a difference, core gamers do not have a problem with buying games for 60 USD, but the casual mass market and kids market is very price sensitive. Nintendo has a far bigger problem on its hands than Sony, because the casual and kids market is where Nintendo has been strong in the past years. For a parent it makes a difference if I buy a 99c game my kids play for a while or if I have to shell out 40 USD for something with the same miserable to mediocre quality. Add to that that carts are constantly lost by kids but downloadable games are not.
There is a load of people who really work with computers. People who use spreadsheets, graphics designers, programmers, technical designers, engineers, people writing serious documents. As long as you need a mouse or a keyboard to perform serious work you need something with those inputs.
Tablet devices are mostly for media consumation due to the lack of serious inputs. All I can see is that the mass market of people who just bought a pc for occasional gaming, some internet surfing and media watching will go away.
Well to sum things up. When the DS came out, i basically bought myself a hack rom, I uploaded a load of homebrew stuff, and suddenly the thing became a pda with good gaming controllers. I suddenly could play movies use it as an mp3 player etc.. and did not have to carry around the cartridges with me anymore. The thing was so much better. Than I had a look at nintendos half assed approaches and saw how bad the console was compared to what I had.
Now fast forward a little bit. IOS does what I loved about the "jailbroken" NDS + the games are 1-3 dollars each. As a parent it makes a difference if I buy a 40-50 dollars casual game or a 1-3 dollars casual game. As a user I care about having just one device doing everything and most of it good enough.
2 Years ago when I saw the introduction of the iPad and a load of kiddies standing around playing on it while the Nintendo section basically was empty (in a local electronics store) I thought to myself. Nintendo now has a serious problem.
Computers still are used for programming, how do I program a cellphone or a tablet computer. The only way I see it to replace the pc is that the pc becomes part of the device. Basically in maybe 10 years we will drop a tablet or cellphone onto a matress or something else which enables a data connection and loads the device and from there a monitor mouse keyboard and a different ui is powered to enable programming and certain work tasks.
You obviously never had a first gen macbook air, they were even worse than what you describe here:-) I am healed now, if I buy apple I usually wait 2-3 months into the lifecycle of the product and then visit the support forums and ask around. If there is a huge problem then usually you will see endless threads in the support forums about it, like you could do with the heating problems in the first gen macbook air, or now with versioning+autosave and the gray icons in lion.
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Problem is HP wants to get into the market of IBM and Co, which means business server software. I have yet to see any product from HP in that area. It took IBM and Oracle 20-30 years to build a lineup and consultant army.
Actually it was more like compaq engufled HP. They got a shitload of managers in who did not understand anything except for selling PC boxes. The entire PaRISC division etc... had to suffer from that other divisions were split apart etc... . Dec was a Compaq victim before.
The modern HP is be what Compaq would have become if they were not bought by HP.
Killed mostly by the measly ATOM hardware (thanks Intel)
but in case of Tablets, they are actually useful. While I can see the current hype slowing down, I cannot
see them entirely go away. They are to useful and they are not bound by a processor maker who
actively tries to cripple their performance.
You basically can see the absence of Jobs already at apple. Lion was the shoddiest OSX release for ages. It still had a fair number of really innovative things in, but the overall quality of the implementation in many parts stinks, which is quite unusual for Apple.
Actually Xeroxs influence on the GUI was way bigger than apples, Xerox already had a full blown desktop floating windows etc... Apples main addition were the menus.
Apple then funnily sued in the 80s half the world about floating windows and even won in some cases (Digital Researchs Gem which was programmed by ex Xerox people)
, and suddenly around age 60 they almost desperately want to tell anyone who can't run away fast enough all about their ulcers and hemorrhoids and operations. I would guess in .eu they don't do that, or at least their old people do it less than even our young people.
Their sitcoms, for example, must be wildly different than ours.
Actually old people are the same here, the sitcoms are not too different but are funnier, because they can make more sexual references.
Go and watch coupling if you can, best Britcom ever, also Green Wing is highly recommendable.
COUPLING?! Are you mad? That was like a bad Friends! Green Wing was okay, but again it's just a British Scrubs, I would say. Spaced, now, _that's_ good comedy. Or Black Books.
You cannot compare the bad US coupling to the excellent UK one.
The UK coupling was sort of friends meets american pie, or more along the lines of american pie.
we took your religious nutters, took one for the team.
Only those we did not burn upfront :-)
, and suddenly around age 60 they almost desperately want to tell anyone who can't run away fast enough all about their ulcers and hemorrhoids and operations. I would guess in .eu they don't do that, or at least their old people do it less than even our young people.
Their sitcoms, for example, must be wildly different than ours.
Actually old people are the same here, the sitcoms are not too different but are funnier, because they can make more sexual references.
Go and watch coupling if you can, best Britcom ever, also Green Wing is highly recommendable.
btw. you might be interested in this
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100226-king-solomon-wall-jerusalem-bible/
You can call me hardly an expert, but there was a recent very good bbc documentation regarding all the dating issues, and the missing proofs for salomon and David.
He got the message out. For that he succeeded.
Problem to this simply is that many of those buildings were dated later than it is believed that Salomon ever existed. Until they find evidence that this building was built by Salomon himself the missing link still does not exist.
The exact description can be easily explained most of the buildings existed still shortly before the babylonians came, so the memories in the tales are still fresh.
I did not say Salomon did not exist, but they have yet to find the proof that he really is / was the biggest king israel ever had. The strange thing is by the bible he was the most important king, but yet the proof of him still is missing, to the worse some of the stuff attributed to him was built later.
This is utter bullshit. Jesus never talked about an original sin, he however talked about sins we commit against each other ever day.
The interpretation of the original sin and jesus saves us from it came later on by taking the old testament literally.
What he did was to say we should not sin against each other, which makes sense because only by being nice to each other a society can work in the long time
b) "Shit" on the shoes of the so called jewish church back then by questioning their opressive rules, because he saw religion as something which should people help to live but not which people should be forced to live for
c) Tried to tell the people that there is a god, and it is not the god who punishes but who loves all creation (all of it, so we do not have a god given right to pollute) and that he is the son of god who teaches the people and gives them a path to salvation (in my opinion in a sense to give them a path to live a good life, not to get rid of a mysterious sin they never committed)
d) Those who suffer in this life will be rewarded for it in the next one in heaven
e) Death is not the end
f) As a proof that all of this was true he died and resurrected
What he never did:
a) Question the political authorities, in fact he made a clear distinction between religion and politics, so modern distinction between religion and politics and not interference between one or the other, in its root is very christian from a NT point of view
b) He never said anything about a root sin we are all bound to, but he said there is no one without sin, and you should and can revert your live and will be forgiven
Everything else outside of that is church doctrine and interpretation.
But my views are that of an amateur philosopher.
Heck there was definitively a need for a saviour who told the people, just be nice to each other and things work out and god is not the almighty punishing nutjob you think to believe but a good and loving father.
He just did not save mankind from a sin never committed sin (he also as far as I recall never said, although he said you should not sin against your next and repent if you did) but just told them what they should have known firsthand.
Period. Why do people always make things more complicated than they are.
Unfortunately there are nutjobs like that still in existence. If you read a book you always should know about its creation and its cultural background. Thats what most of those nutjobs never do and know.
The Bible was written about 400bc in the babylonian exile, which basically fortified the one god believe in israel. Add to that that basically every religion in that area had its own creation myth and those did not live in isolation and most of this was oral tales you end up with nice stories which might have some historical background or roots. For instance adam and eve could have existed but not alone and definitely not as first humans on earth but as historical persons sometime in the early bronze age.
The prophets probably have been in existence given the timeframe of 1000-400 before the canonization, but even the existence of david and salomon are under question up until now at least as universal rulers over israel. I personally dont doubt both existed, but I personally doubt Salamon really was the ruler over the huge rich realm. But in the end, who really cares about all this.
So there is a load of things in the old testament which is rather questionable from a historical point of view.
Also have in mind that the middle east countries always have been countries of tales and fables, and all this stuff is dark bronze age.
But back to those nutjobs, they read the bible word by word and think everything happened without even knowing an inch about the surrounding where it was written, when and by whom and which agenda was on the table. The political situations back then and why it was written (To give israel a solid cultural foundation and to fortify the one god believe which slowly but surely was winning thanks to the exile)
You should never ever read a book written in the bronze age like you would do a historical book today. The mentality does not fit. Those books were not written for political accuracy but for giving tales to their people to live on and to answer the questions which arise in every generation, which have had ben orally transmitted and changed for hundreds of years.
Sega at least has a non disruptive history to their console times. Atari basically just was a floating brand when Infogrames bought them. Atari already was dead, and the modern Atari does not have anything to do with the Bushnell/Tramiel company, we used to love for their computers/consoles/games.
By name only, the current Atari only is sort of a legal successor of the old one. I think Infogrames once bought them and then basically rebranded for the US market (they thought Atari was better known). But at the time Infogrames bought them Atari just was a brand owned by someone with no business whatsoever anymore. There are lots of those names floating around in banks with ip which no one cares about.
Scott Adams former company is one of those for instance. Atari just had the luck of being somewhat of an interest to someone.
Ataris fate is similar to the one of Commodore, once a flagship of the US homecomputer industry now a brand owned by someone in a basement who makes a name of himself of selling overpriced atom computers and suing small websites.
I dont think it makes sense to file a class action lawsuit.
But in case of Ubisoft I personally think, getting some lawyers to become rich might be justified.
a) They mislead their customers (even sometimes by fine printing it or saying false things)
b) They basically could not provide what they sold thanks to outages
c) They simply deserve it, if a multi million dollar lawsuit which shows in their final earnings hits them they might start to rethink their strategy.
What are you talking about, the last two years there were Risen, Divine Divinity II Ego Draconis, Avadon and others which were/are excellent RPGs. I do not count anything from Bioware in anymore they are not RPGs anymore.
Actually there is a difference, core gamers do not have a problem with buying games for 60 USD, but the casual mass market and kids market is very price sensitive. Nintendo has a far bigger problem on its hands than Sony, because the casual and kids market is where Nintendo has been strong in the past years.
For a parent it makes a difference if I buy a 99c game my kids play for a while or if I have to shell out 40 USD for something with the same miserable to mediocre quality.
Add to that that carts are constantly lost by kids but downloadable games are not.
There is a load of people who really work with computers.
People who use spreadsheets, graphics designers, programmers, technical designers, engineers, people writing serious documents.
As long as you need a mouse or a keyboard to perform serious work you need something with those inputs.
Tablet devices are mostly for media consumation due to the lack of serious inputs.
All I can see is that the mass market of people who just bought a pc for occasional gaming, some internet surfing and media watching will go away.
That is one big killer argument for me as well.
Well to sum things up. When the DS came out, i basically bought myself a hack rom, I uploaded a load of homebrew stuff, and suddenly the thing became a pda with good gaming controllers. I suddenly could play movies use it as an mp3 player etc.. and did not have to carry around the cartridges with me anymore. The thing was so much better. Than I had a look at nintendos half assed approaches and saw how bad the console was compared to what I had.
Now fast forward a little bit.
IOS does what I loved about the "jailbroken" NDS + the games are 1-3 dollars each.
As a parent it makes a difference if I buy a 40-50 dollars casual game or a 1-3 dollars casual game.
As a user I care about having just one device doing everything and most of it good enough.
2 Years ago when I saw the introduction of the iPad and a load of kiddies standing around playing on it while the Nintendo section basically was empty (in a local electronics store) I thought to myself. Nintendo now has a serious problem.
Computers still are used for programming, how do I program a cellphone or a tablet computer.
The only way I see it to replace the pc is that the pc becomes part of the device.
Basically in maybe 10 years we will drop a tablet or cellphone onto a matress or something else which enables
a data connection and loads the device and from there a monitor mouse keyboard and a different ui is powered to enable programming
and certain work tasks.
You obviously never had a first gen macbook air, they were even worse than what you describe here :-)
I am healed now, if I buy apple I usually wait 2-3 months into the lifecycle of the product and then visit the support forums and ask around.
If there is a huge problem then usually you will see endless threads in the support forums about it, like you could do with the heating problems in the first gen macbook air, or now with versioning+autosave and the gray icons in lion.