Am i the only one feeling this is just a foray into multicore chips because they hit a brick wall when it comes to faster single core CPUs? While i like the thought of say 8 cores or something id much rather have those 8 cores being faster than having a frigging supercomputer under my desk.
Nintendo have been making boatloads of money with the Wii while Microsoft and Sony barely break even right now. Microsoft have not recouped the expenses, they are just breaking even. Its a long time before they have a profit gain from the whole escapade.
The problem for Nintendo is that much of the interesting stuff arent ready yet like real 3D instead of those 1950s glasses we have rediscovered. Real time rendering are also not availiable yet. Sensory feedback is very hard and expensive if you go beyond buzzing and rumbling.
The best they can accomplish is a hardware upgrade and better accuracy of the controller unless they come up with something really new. I suspect they want to upgrade out of cycle with regards to both Microsoft and Sony and take them with their pants down especially if they just do a hardware upgrade. The current release forecast of 2012 makes me wonder if they have something new and exciting in store after all. Sadly i cant imagine what it could ever be, but then again i could never in my life imagine the Wii Controller or the huge marketshare of the Wii.
And before you Microsoft Astroturfers obey your master and mod me into oblivion, thats how it is. Windows is the attack vector used when gaining access to the various SCADA systems its after. Even with a Secure SCADA system, as long as its managed on a Windows computer its vulnerable to attacks. Take Windows out of the picture and the threat lowers significantly.
Maybe he has a reasonably secure computer running Linux instead of Windows? Without the backdoors, windows update and trucksized security issues Windows has its pretty darn hard breaking into a computer that connects to random places all over the world, especially if it runs an updated linux distribution. Im not sure its possible even with unlimited resources.
They ALWAYS cheat because its not in their organisational capacity to deliver something good. They deliver mediocre and then warp the surrounding world into their own desired image.
Its a webcam with some depth perception and a mic. I dont know why anyone would get worked up about it. The original stuff was something else since it did much the calc stuff in hardware, this version does most in software.
Also, it was developed in a company Microsoft bought and then maimed it to pieces. Microsoft bought a good product and made it worse.
WP7 has gotten its fair share of paid for hype no doubt. Grassroots like with Android and iPhone, not so much. There just aren't anything in WP7 to get excited about. Its just boring and featureless without anything even remotely unique that would make it stand out.
Thats the same for people i knew that had Windows Mobiles, all of them got it from work. Every single one of them hated Windows Mobile with a passion, even the really die hard MS fanboys.
Those people are not going to be happy getting the same crap all over again in their lap.
Well, it was next to impossible to buy an Android phone when they launched, anywhere. In stores they didnt come until more than a year had passed after the release here in sweden. The difference was that there was a big demand for Android phones where people wanted one since they was announced, without any campaigns at all being done.
I suspect the reason Microsoft shipped so few was that they wanted to build a perception that there was big demand and it backfired at them because there was next to nil demand in reality.
You own one, you might just want to defend your expenditure? You have no more authority than me. I evaluated it and deemed it "sucks to much to spend that kind of money".
And the best astroturfers always start with saying "i hate Microsoft but THIS product is teh shit!".
I have used it, am very dissapointed. You might think its good, i dont. The lag made it unbearable and while you can get used to it i never will as an avid FPS player.
You really comes across as a rampant fanboy trying to protect "your" decisions.
Crime does pay, handsomely. Both white collar crimes and your normal kinds like theft etc. To just brush the enormous amounts of people doing crimes off as idiots is to vastly oversimplify for oneself and shift the blame away from society.
One of the times crimes pays best is when you dont have anything to lose and not any viable options to get something you even can lose. Those are the people who mostly get cought. For many of them a life in prison isnt much worse than life on the streets.
Educated and smart criminals can go on for many years without even getting near a police. They have something to lose and are not very interested in getting in jail. Those people wont brag about their crimes on the phone or plan something on facebook.
As more and more surveillence becomes adapted online less and less recources are put IRL. The smart criminals can even use this survaillence to their advantage. Some stuff you can do:
Let a friend take your phone somewhere while you bust in or do some other crime. Plaster all kinds of activities on social sites that would make it impossible to do something illegal, while you are doing those crimes. Send messages where you arrange a fake meeting.
Most important of all, never mention anything illegal while online, ever, anywhere. No matter what encryption you have its more or less useless if someone has access to your cell/comp/accounts. The sad in all this is that its crappy criminals that gets busted while the smart ones have the time of their life. Im also worried about it being misused for personal gain. If history is anything to go by, countless of innocent lives have already been ruined because someone with access to these informations used them for personal gain.
Tried one yesterday and i was very disappointed. My Eye-Toy, the Sony product Microsoft copied and extended is eight years old and still more responsive. The lag was very annoying and made games like boxing unbearable since you punch and your boxer punches long after on the screen.
Since i have used Eye-Toy extensively i was expecting that the Kinect would be much better but it was actually worse in some respects. The tech behind kinect/Eye-Toy has been used extensively in arcades etc so its actually pretty surprising Microsoft couldnt get it right. Perhaps they had to work themselves around some patents of variants that actually work and in the process ended up with an inferior product.
This is where i feel some sort of law should be put in place to put pressure on management. It has to be punished to willfully ship faulty software. Right now its just a PR problem some companies just throw stuff like SDL at (and then just ignore it internally).
It has nothing to do with the cost of the software. Extremely expensive enterprise software are often just as crappy as any cheap crap out there, sadly sometimes even worse. The difference is that the expensive software has highly trained personnel supporting it, carefully not doing anything not throughly documented and tested.
Personally im convinced laws demanding responsibility from software firms would benefit them as well as it would put an end to the feature frenzy from the marketing departments. In the end the software would be cheaper to develop and manage, not more expensive.
Because they have an incentive your normal software maufacturer doesnt have. It has to work as supposed to it has to ship.
Give current software companies a reason to code properly and the quality will take a big jump with almost no effort at all. Like, i dont know, any guaranties whatsoever the stuff works?
You should thank Lars Knoll for choosing the GPL for their KTHML project. Thats the sole reason Apple are forced to share their improvements to the khtml rendering engine in return for all the free code they got from khtml. Its not like Apple had a choice in the matter except starting from scratch.
Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Universe, The (un)Event and Caprica etc are nothing but your everyday soap operas disguised as scifi. Scifi is just the background scenery for endless dribbel of feelings, debates and other crap. I hate those shows as much as i hate Dallas, Emmerdale Farm, Days of our lives or any other mind numbing storyline where things never move forward. These shows also lack any resemblance of self distance or humor. Its like you put 10 tax accountants as writers.
I like shows like Firefly, Lexx, Sanctuary, Stargate Atlantis and Farscape etc where something actually happens with the story. Farscape is an absolute favorite because of its nutty humor and excellent cast.
Sadly the trend is going towards soaps and because of this i only follow Sanctuary nowadays. Everything else i know of gives me the same feeling as watching any other soap, it sucks donkeys balls.
Chrome OS is probably not intended to stay on smaller devices like netbooks forever. It looks as if its more lined up to compete against Windows and Apple on desktops eventually.
They overlap somewhat between tabs and netbooks but thats not really a problem.
Nope, its not astrotufring unless its paid, like Microsoft does it.
A big reson people react so strongly is that much of the fuzz about Google and privacy is manufactured by pr people. The problem is, Google is amongst the absolute top when it comes to privacy. There are much bigger fish to fry with much worse policies. The campaign against Google trying to purport them as evil is pretty transparent and an obvious PR fake since none of the complaints originate from users themselves, only various "interest groups", all nicely tied to Microsoft.
Microsofts problem is that everybody thinks they are a bunch of douchebags that couldnt code themselves out of a wet basic Hello World. Google on the other hand is the posterchild of quality, customer satisfaction and delivery.
What to do? Bring Google down to your level where you know how to fight.
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Am i the only one feeling this is just a foray into multicore chips because they hit a brick wall when it comes to faster single core CPUs? While i like the thought of say 8 cores or something id much rather have those 8 cores being faster than having a frigging supercomputer under my desk.
Nintendo have been making boatloads of money with the Wii while Microsoft and Sony barely break even right now. Microsoft have not recouped the expenses, they are just breaking even. Its a long time before they have a profit gain from the whole escapade.
The problem for Nintendo is that much of the interesting stuff arent ready yet like real 3D instead of those 1950s glasses we have rediscovered. Real time rendering are also not availiable yet. Sensory feedback is very hard and expensive if you go beyond buzzing and rumbling.
The best they can accomplish is a hardware upgrade and better accuracy of the controller unless they come up with something really new. I suspect they want to upgrade out of cycle with regards to both Microsoft and Sony and take them with their pants down especially if they just do a hardware upgrade. The current release forecast of 2012 makes me wonder if they have something new and exciting in store after all. Sadly i cant imagine what it could ever be, but then again i could never in my life imagine the Wii Controller or the huge marketshare of the Wii.
There, corrected for you.
And before you Microsoft Astroturfers obey your master and mod me into oblivion, thats how it is. Windows is the attack vector used when gaining access to the various SCADA systems its after. Even with a Secure SCADA system, as long as its managed on a Windows computer its vulnerable to attacks. Take Windows out of the picture and the threat lowers significantly.
Maybe he has a reasonably secure computer running Linux instead of Windows? Without the backdoors, windows update and trucksized security issues Windows has its pretty darn hard breaking into a computer that connects to random places all over the world, especially if it runs an updated linux distribution. Im not sure its possible even with unlimited resources.
What happens if a smartphone meets an anti-smartphone?
Apple atleast delivers something that works, Microsoft releases pure garbage.
Microsoft, cheating? Umpossible!
They ALWAYS cheat because its not in their organisational capacity to deliver something good. They deliver mediocre and then warp the surrounding world into their own desired image.
Its a webcam with some depth perception and a mic. I dont know why anyone would get worked up about it. The original stuff was something else since it did much the calc stuff in hardware, this version does most in software.
Also, it was developed in a company Microsoft bought and then maimed it to pieces. Microsoft bought a good product and made it worse.
WP7 has gotten its fair share of paid for hype no doubt. Grassroots like with Android and iPhone, not so much. There just aren't anything in WP7 to get excited about. Its just boring and featureless without anything even remotely unique that would make it stand out.
Thats the same for people i knew that had Windows Mobiles, all of them got it from work. Every single one of them hated Windows Mobile with a passion, even the really die hard MS fanboys.
Those people are not going to be happy getting the same crap all over again in their lap.
Well, it was next to impossible to buy an Android phone when they launched, anywhere. In stores they didnt come until more than a year had passed after the release here in sweden. The difference was that there was a big demand for Android phones where people wanted one since they was announced, without any campaigns at all being done.
I suspect the reason Microsoft shipped so few was that they wanted to build a perception that there was big demand and it backfired at them because there was next to nil demand in reality.
Haha, love that sketch!
You own one, you might just want to defend your expenditure? You have no more authority than me. I evaluated it and deemed it "sucks to much to spend that kind of money".
And the best astroturfers always start with saying "i hate Microsoft but THIS product is teh shit!".
I have used it, am very dissapointed. You might think its good, i dont. The lag made it unbearable and while you can get used to it i never will as an avid FPS player.
You really comes across as a rampant fanboy trying to protect "your" decisions.
Crime does pay, handsomely. Both white collar crimes and your normal kinds like theft etc. To just brush the enormous amounts of people doing crimes off as idiots is to vastly oversimplify for oneself and shift the blame away from society.
One of the times crimes pays best is when you dont have anything to lose and not any viable options to get something you even can lose. Those are the people who mostly get cought. For many of them a life in prison isnt much worse than life on the streets.
Educated and smart criminals can go on for many years without even getting near a police. They have something to lose and are not very interested in getting in jail. Those people wont brag about their crimes on the phone or plan something on facebook.
As more and more surveillence becomes adapted online less and less recources are put IRL. The smart criminals can even use this survaillence to their advantage. Some stuff you can do:
Let a friend take your phone somewhere while you bust in or do some other crime.
Plaster all kinds of activities on social sites that would make it impossible to do something illegal, while you are doing those crimes.
Send messages where you arrange a fake meeting.
Most important of all, never mention anything illegal while online, ever, anywhere. No matter what encryption you have its more or less useless if someone has access to your cell/comp/accounts. The sad in all this is that its crappy criminals that gets busted while the smart ones have the time of their life. Im also worried about it being misused for personal gain. If history is anything to go by, countless of innocent lives have already been ruined because someone with access to these informations used them for personal gain.
Tried one yesterday and i was very disappointed. My Eye-Toy, the Sony product Microsoft copied and extended is eight years old and still more responsive. The lag was very annoying and made games like boxing unbearable since you punch and your boxer punches long after on the screen.
Since i have used Eye-Toy extensively i was expecting that the Kinect would be much better but it was actually worse in some respects. The tech behind kinect/Eye-Toy has been used extensively in arcades etc so its actually pretty surprising Microsoft couldnt get it right. Perhaps they had to work themselves around some patents of variants that actually work and in the process ended up with an inferior product.
This is where i feel some sort of law should be put in place to put pressure on management. It has to be punished to willfully ship faulty software. Right now its just a PR problem some companies just throw stuff like SDL at (and then just ignore it internally).
It has nothing to do with the cost of the software. Extremely expensive enterprise software are often just as crappy as any cheap crap out there, sadly sometimes even worse. The difference is that the expensive software has highly trained personnel supporting it, carefully not doing anything not throughly documented and tested.
Personally im convinced laws demanding responsibility from software firms would benefit them as well as it would put an end to the feature frenzy from the marketing departments. In the end the software would be cheaper to develop and manage, not more expensive.
Because they have an incentive your normal software maufacturer doesnt have. It has to work as supposed to it has to ship.
Give current software companies a reason to code properly and the quality will take a big jump with almost no effort at all. Like, i dont know, any guaranties whatsoever the stuff works?
You should thank Lars Knoll for choosing the GPL for their KTHML project. Thats the sole reason Apple are forced to share their improvements to the khtml rendering engine in return for all the free code they got from khtml. Its not like Apple had a choice in the matter except starting from scratch.
Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Universe, The (un)Event and Caprica etc are nothing but your everyday soap operas disguised as scifi. Scifi is just the background scenery for endless dribbel of feelings, debates and other crap. I hate those shows as much as i hate Dallas, Emmerdale Farm, Days of our lives or any other mind numbing storyline where things never move forward. These shows also lack any resemblance of self distance or humor. Its like you put 10 tax accountants as writers.
I like shows like Firefly, Lexx, Sanctuary, Stargate Atlantis and Farscape etc where something actually happens with the story. Farscape is an absolute favorite because of its nutty humor and excellent cast.
Sadly the trend is going towards soaps and because of this i only follow Sanctuary nowadays. Everything else i know of gives me the same feeling as watching any other soap, it sucks donkeys balls.
Chrome OS is probably not intended to stay on smaller devices like netbooks forever. It looks as if its more lined up to compete against Windows and Apple on desktops eventually.
They overlap somewhat between tabs and netbooks but thats not really a problem.
Nope, its not astrotufring unless its paid, like Microsoft does it.
A big reson people react so strongly is that much of the fuzz about Google and privacy is manufactured by pr people. The problem is, Google is amongst the absolute top when it comes to privacy. There are much bigger fish to fry with much worse policies. The campaign against Google trying to purport them as evil is pretty transparent and an obvious PR fake since none of the complaints originate from users themselves, only various "interest groups", all nicely tied to Microsoft.
Microsofts problem is that everybody thinks they are a bunch of douchebags that couldnt code themselves out of a wet basic Hello World. Google on the other hand is the posterchild of quality, customer satisfaction and delivery.
What to do? Bring Google down to your level where you know how to fight.
I was just this very moment thinking of sending flyers. Being able to select and order a campaign easily is worth much to me.
Ill be sure to try this out as soon as its released.