Seriously, though... when was the last time you bought a game on a physical disk? Services like Steam has pretty much made that obsolete. Even watching Blu Ray discs is becoming something that only "old people" do now.
This this makes the new XBox $50 cheaper, more power to them. You're basically required to have always on Internet access for most games anyway, so it's not like you're losing any much functionality here.
Wasn't Google working on building a giant floating barge with office space in San Francisco's harbor in order to get around these insane housing prices? What ever happened to that idea?
Grr... I meant to say that perhaps they'll buy a company like Nvidia to expand into the gaming market, or a company like Twitter if they want to go the Social route.
They might even surprise us an try making a business play by buying a company like Salesforce, but that's less likely.
I figured that Apple would eventually go the IBM route, and start buying other companies in order to keep their product line fresh. Perhaps they'll
Like Big Blue, it seems that they forgot how to innovate, and have just been coasting with incremental improvements to their products for the past five years.
Yeah, I'd imagine that I too would "steal" company supplies to wrap my Christmas gifts at work if I was forced to work crazy overtime in December. Somehow it's not considered wage theft when you're on salary, so don't be suprised if you have to go through hell to help meet some arbitrary ''End of Q4" deadline from your manager.
Somewhere along the line, I got annoyed enough with the soda machine prices to start bring in my own soda.
It makes me wonder what the breaking point is for me when it comes to Netflix subscription costs? $20 a month? At some point, switching over to Hulu or HBO Go will seem like a better option.
Yeah, I'm curious... how this is going to work? Is it going to work like the McAfee bloatware on retail PC, where I'm going to get pestered to upgrade to the "Pro" version every time I turn on the TV?
Also, do I have the option to uninstall the software? If not, I'm pretty sure that they're going to lose some customers over this.
(Frankly, I'm amazed that Microsoft hasn't allowed AntiVirus programs for the XBox yet. It's much more like a PC than a SmartPC is.
I have to wonder what the Chinese Government thinks about projects like this, as it seems like a pretty easy way to bypass their countries firewall restrictions.
How do they stop something like this? Ban the ownership of OneWeb receivers? How would they even enforce that? Would they take even more drastic efforts if the service became popular, like run a signal jammer on that frequency?
I doubt that it would get to the point where they start shooting down "rogue" satellites over their airspace, but I guess that's what Trump wants Space Force for:)
I guess that's one of the dangers of outsourcing your development to a country that's more lax when it comes to political correctness.
I'll admit that my sample size is a bit small, but some of the Indian co-workers that I worked with in the past were kinda racist when it came to certain ethnicities. They also seemed a bit homophobic as well.
If it was anyone but IBM, I'd feel a bit sorry for them. That said, these guys repeatedly go after the cheapest labor force possible at the expense of quality, and kinda deserve the trouble they made for themselves.
Yeah... having a blazing fast wireless network isn't going to be all that helpful if the Chinese have an "off" switch for it when they do something to piss them off.
Umm... the browser on the iPhone stores credentials for you and automatically authenticates using Face ID or Touch ID if you have it configured.
I'm not sure why wouldn't configure such a feature if available. Any decent password that's worth a damn (mixed case, numbers, punctuation, more than 8 characters) would be a pain in the ass to type on a mobile device keyboard.
At some point in the near future, Macbooks will start coming with custom Apple designed ARM processors instead of Intel chips.
At that point, the trendy urban hipsters buying these Macbooks will be developing on ARM and will want to deploy their code on ARM based servers. Your local IT department might say no, but I'm sure that the cloud hosting providers will gladly oblige.
I think that the left shoe goes into "foot strangulation" mode if you forget to renew your license after a month. You'll have to amputate your foot to get it off if you don't renew at that point.
That would be kinda stupid, no? If Lightsaber dueling becomes an official sport, they can make a fortune selling actual "Official Licensed Gear" of the sport.
They could become the next Wilson of Lightsabers, and only sue the people selling knockoff products.
I'd like to think that most Slashdot users are smart enough to see through crap like this.
Most of us have had to deal with an Android phone from Samsung/HTC/Motorola/etc that has had a custom UI on top of Android by now, and should know that they only cause problems. Even if the features seem cool on the initial phone release, you always end up with the following:
1) Additional added bugs caused by software incompatibilities between the UI changes and various Android applications 2) Slowdowns caused by the additional software bloat adding memory and CPU usage on the phone. 3) Delays with Android updates caused compatibility issues between the OS updates and the UI changes.
This is why I wouldn't touch an Android phone that doesn't have anything other than the stock OS.
I would think that Slashdot's eyeballs are pretty valuable, as most of us are probably 40+ year old IT workers with six figure salaries.
Compare that to Reddit, where most of their customers are broke college students sharing dumb memes with each other and downvoting everyone that disagrees with them.
Sure, most of us here are smart enough to use ad blockers, but it seems that Slashdot has found ways around that and snuck in enough sponsored content to keep them afloat.
U-Verse's VDSL seems to cap out at 54 mbit/sec, and even then you'll only get those speeds if you're close to the central office. The best I could get from them where I used to live was 25 mbps, which is pretty bad considering that Comcast offers 250 mbps speeds in the same area.
I think that one of the child bot ads were hocking TurboTax, but I'm not sure of that. It wasn't exactly all that memorable.
I kinda wish that the Game Of Thrones dragon would have showed up and burned a few more of these commercials. It would have made the entire Super Bowl more interesting.
More like the marketing team realized that they would get even more publicity for the game by issuing an apology and getting the mainstream tech press interested in the product.
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Seriously, though... when was the last time you bought a game on a physical disk? Services like Steam has pretty much made that obsolete. Even watching Blu Ray discs is becoming something that only "old people" do now.
This this makes the new XBox $50 cheaper, more power to them. You're basically required to have always on Internet access for most games anyway, so it's not like you're losing any much functionality here.
Wasn't Google working on building a giant floating barge with office space in San Francisco's harbor in order to get around these insane housing prices? What ever happened to that idea?
Grr... I meant to say that perhaps they'll buy a company like Nvidia to expand into the gaming market, or a company like Twitter if they want to go the Social route.
They might even surprise us an try making a business play by buying a company like Salesforce, but that's less likely.
I figured that Apple would eventually go the IBM route, and start buying other companies in order to keep their product line fresh. Perhaps they'll
Like Big Blue, it seems that they forgot how to innovate, and have just been coasting with incremental improvements to their products for the past five years.
Yeah, I'd imagine that I too would "steal" company supplies to wrap my Christmas gifts at work if I was forced to work crazy overtime in December. Somehow it's not considered wage theft when you're on salary, so don't be suprised if you have to go through hell to help meet some arbitrary ''End of Q4" deadline from your manager.
Somewhere along the line, I got annoyed enough with the soda machine prices to start bring in my own soda.
It makes me wonder what the breaking point is for me when it comes to Netflix subscription costs? $20 a month? At some point, switching over to Hulu or HBO Go will seem like a better option.
Yeah, I'm curious... how this is going to work? Is it going to work like the McAfee bloatware on retail PC, where I'm going to get pestered to upgrade to the "Pro" version every time I turn on the TV?
Also, do I have the option to uninstall the software? If not, I'm pretty sure that they're going to lose some customers over this.
(Frankly, I'm amazed that Microsoft hasn't allowed AntiVirus programs for the XBox yet. It's much more like a PC than a SmartPC is.
Netflix made 16 billion in profit last year. I wish that I could be "victimized" like that.
I have to wonder what the Chinese Government thinks about projects like this, as it seems like a pretty easy way to bypass their countries firewall restrictions.
How do they stop something like this? Ban the ownership of OneWeb receivers? How would they even enforce that? Would they take even more drastic efforts if the service became popular, like run a signal jammer on that frequency?
I doubt that it would get to the point where they start shooting down "rogue" satellites over their airspace, but I guess that's what Trump wants Space Force for :)
I guess that's one of the dangers of outsourcing your development to a country that's more lax when it comes to political correctness.
I'll admit that my sample size is a bit small, but some of the Indian co-workers that I worked with in the past were kinda racist when it came to certain ethnicities. They also seemed a bit homophobic as well.
If it was anyone but IBM, I'd feel a bit sorry for them. That said, these guys repeatedly go after the cheapest labor force possible at the expense of quality, and kinda deserve the trouble they made for themselves.
Yeah... having a blazing fast wireless network isn't going to be all that helpful if the Chinese have an "off" switch for it when they do something to piss them off.
Umm... the browser on the iPhone stores credentials for you and automatically authenticates using Face ID or Touch ID if you have it configured.
I'm not sure why wouldn't configure such a feature if available. Any decent password that's worth a damn (mixed case, numbers, punctuation, more than 8 characters) would be a pain in the ass to type on a mobile device keyboard.
At some point in the near future, Macbooks will start coming with custom Apple designed ARM processors instead of Intel chips.
At that point, the trendy urban hipsters buying these Macbooks will be developing on ARM and will want to deploy their code on ARM based servers. Your local IT department might say no, but I'm sure that the cloud hosting providers will gladly oblige.
I think that the left shoe goes into "foot strangulation" mode if you forget to renew your license after a month. You'll have to amputate your foot to get it off if you don't renew at that point.
That would be kinda stupid, no? If Lightsaber dueling becomes an official sport, they can make a fortune selling actual "Official Licensed Gear" of the sport.
They could become the next Wilson of Lightsabers, and only sue the people selling knockoff products.
I'd like to think that most Slashdot users are smart enough to see through crap like this.
Most of us have had to deal with an Android phone from Samsung/HTC/Motorola/etc that has had a custom UI on top of Android by now, and should know that they only cause problems. Even if the features seem cool on the initial phone release, you always end up with the following:
1) Additional added bugs caused by software incompatibilities between the UI changes and various Android applications
2) Slowdowns caused by the additional software bloat adding memory and CPU usage on the phone.
3) Delays with Android updates caused compatibility issues between the OS updates and the UI changes.
This is why I wouldn't touch an Android phone that doesn't have anything other than the stock OS.
Yeah... I thought that Apple's cheapest iPhone was the SE, which I've seen on sale at Walmart for $99 in the past.
The phone is basically obsolete at this point, though. It needs a serious upgrade.
I would think that Slashdot's eyeballs are pretty valuable, as most of us are probably 40+ year old IT workers with six figure salaries.
Compare that to Reddit, where most of their customers are broke college students sharing dumb memes with each other and downvoting everyone that disagrees with them.
Sure, most of us here are smart enough to use ad blockers, but it seems that Slashdot has found ways around that and snuck in enough sponsored content to keep them afloat.
"Deposited his life savings into Quadriga CX's digital exchange" were the stupidity keywords that convinced me not to feel sorry for him.
After all of the Bitcoin exchanges that have failed over the past few years, why do people still DO this?
U-Verse's VDSL seems to cap out at 54 mbit/sec, and even then you'll only get those speeds if you're close to the central office. The best I could get from them where I used to live was 25 mbps, which is pretty bad considering that Comcast offers 250 mbps speeds in the same area.
Dumb question... are there any actual speed improvements at all, or are they just changing the logo?
I think that one of the child bot ads were hocking TurboTax, but I'm not sure of that. It wasn't exactly all that memorable.
I kinda wish that the Game Of Thrones dragon would have showed up and burned a few more of these commercials. It would have made the entire Super Bowl more interesting.
Oracle is doing it's best to kill it on the server side as well by requiring a license for it for commercial use.
I feel bad for any company dumb enough to pay it, though, considering that there are free alternatives out there like OpenJDK.
More like the marketing team realized that they would get even more publicity for the game by issuing an apology and getting the mainstream tech press interested in the product.
The cynic in me thinks that Ubisoft's "outraged retraction" was just part of the marketing plan.
Hey... it worked, right? You now have Slashdot and other media outlets talking about The Division 2, a game I've never heard of until now.