Most people don't care if an SDK is available on a gaming platform, probably less than 0.1% actually care. If I want to play series60 games, I could get a regular phone rather than the cumbersome N-Gage.
Yes, some apps don't run nice when you're not admin, but you don't have to run as admin. Thus any IE exploits would only be running under your credentials, not Localsystem, and thus the risk is the same as xpdf.
If you like a large heavy set...
Frequently recalibrating the convergence...
Poor viewing angles (except for direct view)...
High power usage...
Burn in (except for direct view)...
Smaller screen sizes (except for rear projection)...
Dimmer pictures (except for direct view)...
Washed out in sunlight (except for direct view)...
yeah, they are awesome.
If you want a smaller TV, a direct view HDTV will give you a great picture, but they aren't cheap. Rear projection CRT is cheap, but with ALOT more cons and the picture doesn't look that great without ISF calibration.
You can't really stop the professional pirates as another poster stated above since they can afford equipment to make perfect copies and sell them. However, I don't believe this is the intention. Casual piraters out number professional pirates many times over and are much harder to stop due to the large number of lawsuits required. So they just make it difficult for the casual pirater and for the professional, there are fewer in number, so they can go after them with lawsuits.
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I do a lot of interviews where I work and many times I may ask a difficult problem that I want to see solved in real-time, but I don't expect them to actually solve it. Sometimes I just want to see how they approach the problem. What kind of questions they ask (if they even ask any questions). How they work under pressure, etc... If they can find a good solution, they need to make it look like they hadn't practiced that problem before:P
The number of deaths in Indonesia is estimated to be 400,000 given that several islands have disappeared. http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id =111574
Palm has been consistently losing market share to Pocket PC for some time now. You may argue that PDAs are on the way out, but it doesn't change the fact that Palm missed a big opportunity and stumbled with keeping their OS up to date and easy for developers to use. I used to be a Palm V owner. Now I use a Smartphone instead which does everything my Palm V did and more.
Not sure where you are pulling your numbers from, but if you check http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=IBM&annual and http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT&annual and look at the most recent annual report, IBM had much more revenue ($89 bil vs $37 bil), and slightly more gross profit ($33 bil vs $30 bil), but lower net income ($7.6 bil vs $8.2 bil) meaning that MSFT's margins are much higher.
Isn't this just the natural order of things? If you're not "strong" enough to adapt and survive, well, you will die off. Sounds horrible, but if you look at it from the bigger picture of man kind, this is how man is evolving. Needing less physical strength and more mental strength.
Not sure why my comment was modded as a troll given that it's true. Look at the latest NPD numbers. In October (in the US), PS2 software sales were up 56%, Xbox software sales were up 45%, Gamecube software sales were down 13%. Gamecube sales were down 57%. I own all three consoles, and the only games worth playing on the Gamecube was Mario Sunshine (not much different from Mario64, although it is fun), Zelda (not much different from Zelda64), Metroid Prime (not much different from 2-D Metroid). My Gamecube has been sitting in my closet for months. PS2 at least has some games worth playing: Jak3, Ratchet&Clank3, San Andreas.
Let's face it, the Gamecube is (comparatively) a failure. There's hardly any games for it and most of the ones available on it are better on the XBox. The ones from Nintendo are the better games and they are just remakes of their old games, nothing original (except maybe Pikman, which I'm not a fan of). After Nintendo fails in the next console wars, they will probably only compete in the portable market and produce software for the next gen PS3.
My Tivo automatigically calls home and downloads updates and has been doing this since day one years ago. DirectTv has already changed the logo that used to say Philips Tivo to Direct TV. They've made updates to the UI which were (thankfully) an improvement. So what's new?
If this prevents the computer illiterate people from running malicious software (which probably makes up 99% of the world), I'm all for it. If you think this can be used to prevent legitimate software from running, I wouldn't be worried about it. How quickly do you think an anticompetitive lawsuit would be filed if that happened? There's a good chance this feature can be enabled/disabled (preferrably not programmtically).
Not from Redmond. In Washington State that is true, but Washington state has many more cities than just Redmond.
Even if you don't count WinCE as Windows (despite the similar programming models that makes it easy to port an app from one to the other), there's also Embedded NT which is based on "Windows". Windows did run on PowerPC, Alpha, and MIPS, but the consumers and ISVs didn't embrace those platforms so they died off. Now Windows runs on x86 and ia64 and soon x64 (aka Amd64).
You must have missed those articles posted here where Walmart has several desktops and laptops selling without Windows.
Did you ever think that if people bought Windows for other architectures when they were available they would still be here today? So when Windows on ia64 is eventually killed because the Itanium pretty much failed, is that Microsoft's fault as well?
I'm not saying Microsoft couldn't have done more to promote alternative platforms, but clearly the market dictated that it wants to support one major platform: x86. There are pro's and con's to multi-platform vs single-platform and apparently the pro's outweigh the con's for single-platform.
The same argument could be made for MacOS running on limited platforms. Or Solaris only supporting 2. Etc... Sure, Linux runs on everything from a Dreamcast to a toaster, but so what?
1. Actually, for embedded devices, WinCE actually runs on a large number of them. You're just not aware of it as they are not always branded as Windows Powered and these run on many different types of CPUs. If you mean desktop, it may be true that Windows doesn't run on most of the desktop processors, but it does run on >90% of all desktops.
2. Last I heard, you could buy a PC without Windows. And nothing has ever stopped you from building your own. This is what I did.
3. Hmmm, public domain means public domain. Not sure what you mean unless you misunderstand what public domain means. They've used BSD code and put up the necessary copyright info as required by the license.
4. Microsoft has yet to abuse their patent portfolio. While on the other hand every other week they are being sued for patent infringement. Perhaps they are building a defensive portfolio?
I suppose it makes a lot of sense if the majority of Gmail users don't use Windows but their notifier is being developed on Windows first? Same with their toolbar.
So if your theory is true, wouldn't we see alot more sites using vbscript and activex? It may be true that if MS controls 90+% of the market share of web browsers, they can introduce whatever proprietary extensions they want, but web designers which is 90+% not Microsoft aren't adopting these extensions, so it doesn't matter.
First, most cracking of passwords is done offline after they've obtained your hash. To prevent someone who's guessing a password at an interactive logon, just lock the account after 3 bad attempts. Now force the user to contact the help desk and provide personal info (like socical security # along with some other stuff) to reset it.
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Most people don't care if an SDK is available on a gaming platform, probably less than 0.1% actually care. If I want to play series60 games, I could get a regular phone rather than the cumbersome N-Gage.
Yes, some apps don't run nice when you're not admin, but you don't have to run as admin. Thus any IE exploits would only be running under your credentials, not Localsystem, and thus the risk is the same as xpdf.
You do realize you can start a 32-bit cmd.exe by using Start->Run->%windir%\sys_wow64\cmd.exe
Maybe because the software they want to run is only available for Windows? In which case x86-64 is the right choice.
If you like a large heavy set... Frequently recalibrating the convergence... Poor viewing angles (except for direct view)... High power usage... Burn in (except for direct view)... Smaller screen sizes (except for rear projection)... Dimmer pictures (except for direct view)... Washed out in sunlight (except for direct view)... yeah, they are awesome. If you want a smaller TV, a direct view HDTV will give you a great picture, but they aren't cheap. Rear projection CRT is cheap, but with ALOT more cons and the picture doesn't look that great without ISF calibration.
That belief is hard usually because of acts of nature.
You can't really stop the professional pirates as another poster stated above since they can afford equipment to make perfect copies and sell them. However, I don't believe this is the intention. Casual piraters out number professional pirates many times over and are much harder to stop due to the large number of lawsuits required. So they just make it difficult for the casual pirater and for the professional, there are fewer in number, so they can go after them with lawsuits.
I do a lot of interviews where I work and many times I may ask a difficult problem that I want to see solved in real-time, but I don't expect them to actually solve it. Sometimes I just want to see how they approach the problem. What kind of questions they ask (if they even ask any questions). How they work under pressure, etc... If they can find a good solution, they need to make it look like they hadn't practiced that problem before :P
The number of deaths in Indonesia is estimated to be 400,000 given that several islands have disappeared. http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id =111574
Anyone can write a P2P client, but who will you network with? Not very useful with the other P.
Palm has been consistently losing market share to Pocket PC for some time now. You may argue that PDAs are on the way out, but it doesn't change the fact that Palm missed a big opportunity and stumbled with keeping their OS up to date and easy for developers to use. I used to be a Palm V owner. Now I use a Smartphone instead which does everything my Palm V did and more.
Not sure where you are pulling your numbers from, but if you check http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=IBM&annual and http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT&annual and look at the most recent annual report, IBM had much more revenue ($89 bil vs $37 bil), and slightly more gross profit ($33 bil vs $30 bil), but lower net income ($7.6 bil vs $8.2 bil) meaning that MSFT's margins are much higher.
Isn't this just the natural order of things? If you're not "strong" enough to adapt and survive, well, you will die off. Sounds horrible, but if you look at it from the bigger picture of man kind, this is how man is evolving. Needing less physical strength and more mental strength.
If you're going to steal an article and the title, at least steal the whole thing. http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000260021869/
And not only was Gamecube hardware sales down 57%, but XBox hardware sales were up 23%.
Not sure why my comment was modded as a troll given that it's true. Look at the latest NPD numbers. In October (in the US), PS2 software sales were up 56%, Xbox software sales were up 45%, Gamecube software sales were down 13%. Gamecube sales were down 57%. I own all three consoles, and the only games worth playing on the Gamecube was Mario Sunshine (not much different from Mario64, although it is fun), Zelda (not much different from Zelda64), Metroid Prime (not much different from 2-D Metroid). My Gamecube has been sitting in my closet for months. PS2 at least has some games worth playing: Jak3, Ratchet&Clank3, San Andreas.
Let's face it, the Gamecube is (comparatively) a failure. There's hardly any games for it and most of the ones available on it are better on the XBox. The ones from Nintendo are the better games and they are just remakes of their old games, nothing original (except maybe Pikman, which I'm not a fan of). After Nintendo fails in the next console wars, they will probably only compete in the portable market and produce software for the next gen PS3.
My Tivo automatigically calls home and downloads updates and has been doing this since day one years ago. DirectTv has already changed the logo that used to say Philips Tivo to Direct TV. They've made updates to the UI which were (thankfully) an improvement. So what's new?
If this prevents the computer illiterate people from running malicious software (which probably makes up 99% of the world), I'm all for it. If you think this can be used to prevent legitimate software from running, I wouldn't be worried about it. How quickly do you think an anticompetitive lawsuit would be filed if that happened? There's a good chance this feature can be enabled/disabled (preferrably not programmtically).
Not from Redmond. In Washington State that is true, but Washington state has many more cities than just Redmond. Even if you don't count WinCE as Windows (despite the similar programming models that makes it easy to port an app from one to the other), there's also Embedded NT which is based on "Windows". Windows did run on PowerPC, Alpha, and MIPS, but the consumers and ISVs didn't embrace those platforms so they died off. Now Windows runs on x86 and ia64 and soon x64 (aka Amd64). You must have missed those articles posted here where Walmart has several desktops and laptops selling without Windows. Did you ever think that if people bought Windows for other architectures when they were available they would still be here today? So when Windows on ia64 is eventually killed because the Itanium pretty much failed, is that Microsoft's fault as well? I'm not saying Microsoft couldn't have done more to promote alternative platforms, but clearly the market dictated that it wants to support one major platform: x86. There are pro's and con's to multi-platform vs single-platform and apparently the pro's outweigh the con's for single-platform. The same argument could be made for MacOS running on limited platforms. Or Solaris only supporting 2. Etc... Sure, Linux runs on everything from a Dreamcast to a toaster, but so what?
1. Actually, for embedded devices, WinCE actually runs on a large number of them. You're just not aware of it as they are not always branded as Windows Powered and these run on many different types of CPUs. If you mean desktop, it may be true that Windows doesn't run on most of the desktop processors, but it does run on >90% of all desktops. 2. Last I heard, you could buy a PC without Windows. And nothing has ever stopped you from building your own. This is what I did. 3. Hmmm, public domain means public domain. Not sure what you mean unless you misunderstand what public domain means. They've used BSD code and put up the necessary copyright info as required by the license. 4. Microsoft has yet to abuse their patent portfolio. While on the other hand every other week they are being sued for patent infringement. Perhaps they are building a defensive portfolio?
I suppose it makes a lot of sense if the majority of Gmail users don't use Windows but their notifier is being developed on Windows first? Same with their toolbar.
So if your theory is true, wouldn't we see alot more sites using vbscript and activex? It may be true that if MS controls 90+% of the market share of web browsers, they can introduce whatever proprietary extensions they want, but web designers which is 90+% not Microsoft aren't adopting these extensions, so it doesn't matter.
First, most cracking of passwords is done offline after they've obtained your hash. To prevent someone who's guessing a password at an interactive logon, just lock the account after 3 bad attempts. Now force the user to contact the help desk and provide personal info (like socical security # along with some other stuff) to reset it.
Advance Wars is an example of a game with cartoony graphics, but with gameplay that adult gamers will enjoy (turn based strategy).