Than Studio Execs? Yes. I think a random number generator, or even a rolling rock can better predict the next blockbuster.
Grace Randolph has explained really well in the past how studio execs are completely out of touch with the audiences. They live in their own little world. There are movies that most people figured would be bombs, but studio execs thought would be top blockbusters.
It isn't like they don't have the data telling them the fact either. Take Ghostbuster for example. The original was made for 30 million and grossed 229.1, which about 114.5 million would have gone to the studio. Good return. Now look at the 2016 Ghostbuster, budget of 144 million. Then add on that the film was being extremely sexist against men. The initial budget logically seems too high, then they basically attacked the original audience.
WINE was already mentioned, which makes up quite a bit of the core ReactOS libraries.
Alphabet has sponsored a fair amount of development, such as NTFS driver, through Google's Summer of Code projects.
They even ran a direct community fundraiser to pay for development of core components.
More companies helping development would probably be a good thing.
It is also a bit of a double edged sword, just look at Microsoft and their DLL Hell. Most of that hell was a constant push to get things done fast, instead of doing them right.
You would think that with all the data big stores collect, they would know their customers better.
Target in Canada didn't fail because of competition. It failed because it didn't secure it's supply chain and didn't have the products people wanted.
Best Buy is failing for not understanding their customers, even though they are quite vocally being told they don't appreciate being treated like criminals. Also they are failing in Canada because they are not providing the products people want, where they want them. This dispite buying out FutureShop, including the data of exactly what stores were thriving and what they were selling.
We can also see Indigo failing because while Chapters was more convenient than Amazon, Indigo removed transfers from other stores and made the online experience painful.
They already did this with Cortana. Remember her? No, probably because anyone who was using her stopped when it started ignoring your default browser and always opens Edge instead.
You said Killer App, and not Killer Game.
My Killer App is Bigscreen. Best of all, it is free.
Yes, Rift Core 2.0 has desktop support, but in all honesty, it SUCKS!!! I am hoping it gets better in the future, but if you want to use your desktop Bigscreen is where it is at right now.
My main use for it is to use the computer at night without my kids being able to see the screen. This is so they can sleep, instead of getting the blue light from my monitors. Also watching YouTube on a big screen is really cool. I also managed to get 3D Blu-rays finally working.
Strangely enough, I mostly play GTA Online in my Rift. I did buy VorpX, but the performance is poor, and if you are in first person, I find the 3D wonky quite a bit, or I have to opt for poor 3D with poor performance. I more play it on a screen in Bigscreen. Again, so my kids can't watch me playing.
Cleaning up water that his organization helped pollute. Using other people's money to try to shove Microsoft software into schools at extra long term costs to the schools, but lining his personal pockets. Using donation money to dictate what Gates thinks should be taught in schools. Trading money to desperate people for their chance to reproduce.
Honestly, this world could benefit from less of his form of so called philanthropy. He uses the so called "charity" to further his aims of power and control.
There, fixed the subject for you.
Since March 2001, when OSX was first released, Apple has been lazy about all of OSX security. The biggest culprit usually being extremely slow in updating 3rd party libraries included in the core OS, even when the version of the libraries they are using have known major security problems.
Before 2001, security wasn't even on a lot of people's radar, so before that I'm pretty sure they were lazy about it too.
They aren't just lazy in security either, just look at their UI. Until recently many of their programs the interface was completely different between their applications. There was not much consistency. This may explain why study after study keeps showing that Apple have the worse user interfaces.
I think the iPod and the stupid wheel is an extremely good example of this. My uncle got my grandmother an iPod. She never was able to remember how to use it. My aunt got her a Zen, and she never had troubles using that.
You mean project Echelon. Which the CIA director admitted before congress that it was illegally capturing US citizens phone calls and emails. I'm still baffled why nothing happened to him. Under the US CIA mandate, spying on a US citizen without cause is an act of treason.
The FBI had Carnivore running at the same time, but their mandate at the time was to spy on all US citizens. A role that now falls to the Department of Homeland Security.
The only problem is the top terrorists country in the world has a large army and lots of nukes. It also doesn't have the most sane president right now. The country is responsible for, or provides funding for an estimated 90% of all terrorist attacks each year.
Yes, resolving this issue would result in thousands to millions of people killed and an increase in property theft measured better in multiplication than percentage.
I was going to say that if encryption had a backdoor between 0 and 0 children would have been saved, but then I thought about all the IoT devices that have been hacked recently. The truth is, with backdoor we would be putting thousands, tens of thousands, possibly even hundreds of thousands of children at risk.
Just ask Cisco how the government mandatedo backdoors worked for them and how much it cost them?
I decided to try this today.
Very interesting some of the programs that are constantly trying to use your data.
The only problem is this app uses a lot of power! Normally I would be at about 45% power, just after installing it, and some other programs that were using data when they shouldn't have, I was at 2%.
Interesting program, but way to power hungry for my taste.
I guess you weren't on Verizon in 2014. Verizon was still throttling Netflix even after Netflix paid their ransom fee. Many people in the US only have 1 option for Internet. Actually Verizon is still throttling Netflix and YouTube on mobile.
Net Nutrality didn't come about because of fear of what could happen, but because of what Verizon, AT&T and Bell were doing.
You may not have been affected, but many were. Don't worry, you most likely will be affected without even realizing it. Netflix might start costing more. YouTube may need to start using more annoying forms of advertising.
The only county that would have benefited from the TPP was the US. It would have given you the power to enact your draconian laws on all the other countries. It also would have forced us to use your joke of a patent system.
Thank you Trump for making a decision that cost America thousands of jobs and billions in unethical revenue and power to your country.
I haven't a Linux GUI in years. Linux constantly, buy only command line on servers. Has the UI not improved?
I only ask because at work I had to switch to Windows 3.11... I mean Mac OS, and it feels like they haven't left the 80s.
There once was this boy. His parents had had 6 other children, but they all died before the age of 6 months. For this reason he was known as a miracle child.
He believed that people with blue eyes and blond hair were a superior race. Though he did not have these himself.
He got some so called doctors and scientists to work on a way to change eye and hair colour later in life.
You may have heard of him as he became leader of a nation known as the Third Empire.
Adolf Hitler
Not completely true. You can monitor outgoing traffic to find out if the spell checker is making outbound calls. You used to be able to reliably do this on the physical same box, but Microsoft is making that much harder now. That being said, another computer can be used to monitor everything.
No, a normal person probably couldn't do this, but all it takes is one tech person to investigate. Your normal person also isn't going to be looking at the open source code.
Our copyright laws are not out of date. Actually a large portion of them are relatively new. The reason why there are so many restrictions on companies in Canada is due to constant abuse of the system. Sometimes the US refuses to do. It is the US copyright that is massively out of date. Bell is one of the reasons for the restrictions on companies. Also, what Bell calls piracy, and what the law calls piracy is very different.
We know from submarines that small, or large leaks will not just cause the tube to implode.
We also know from multiple particle accelerator small, medium and catastrophic failures that the tubes won't implode.
Kind of like explosive decompression on airplanes in movies, this is based on fiction, not already proved scientific facts.
As for the train/pods, most of the air flooding in would go around the train. In Hyperloop 1's design the use a Maglev system. You are talking about the mass of wind vs the mass of the train and the force of the Maglev. The wind is not winning there. Even if you are talking about Elon's original proposal, the air pods would probably have enough compressed air to gently put down the train.
As I understand it, Apple reviews all apps. That means that Apple deliberately allowed fraud apps onto their store.
Under US law that is referred to as aiding and abetting.
Seriously! You are asking in a ln Apple product thread about why someone hates choice?
Now I know that Microsoft have been shoving their own choices down everyone's throats lately, but Apple has always done this. Apple's attitude is, "It's our way, or the highway."
I have seen the Samsung edge to edge technology, and it is truly edge to edge. I just saw the iPhone X, and there is a definite bezel. It is a wrapping around piece of glass, but there is black between the screen and the side of the glass, so not a true edge to edge, even though they are using a Samsung display.
I don't know where you have been, but graphics processors have been used for 3D rendering for a long time.
While no where near the power we have now, SGI was making dedicated 3D chips that were utilized not only in the creation of 3D scenes, but also in the final render. This was over 20 years ago.
Professional houses have been using PC cards all the way back to the Voodoo 2 in 1999.
Now it would be almost unheard of, for any final rendering stage not to use the GPU.
Heck ILM has their own rendering plug-in with customized graphics drivers to try to cope with the rendering load.
No, a graphics card cannot handle all the textures, polygons and shaders needed to render a final scene, but they don't have to. They load in what is needed at the time, render their part, then load in the next part, only keeping the frame in the card's memory.
Actually it is very common on blockbuster movies for multiple cards to be working on one scene at the same time with each card rendering a section of the frame.
Rest assured, that your finding have been forwarded to Microsoft's legal team. Expect a cease and desist letter soon.
If you do not desist, Microsoft will explore further legal actions to stop you investigating this problem, and others in the future.
Even if Microsoft cannot find a legal reason to stop you, they will just sue you into the ground
Thank you for using Microsoft. Remember, our code does not have any bugs, only features.
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Than Studio Execs? Yes. I think a random number generator, or even a rolling rock can better predict the next blockbuster.
Grace Randolph has explained really well in the past how studio execs are completely out of touch with the audiences. They live in their own little world. There are movies that most people figured would be bombs, but studio execs thought would be top blockbusters.
It isn't like they don't have the data telling them the fact either. Take Ghostbuster for example. The original was made for 30 million and grossed 229.1, which about 114.5 million would have gone to the studio. Good return. Now look at the 2016 Ghostbuster, budget of 144 million. Then add on that the film was being extremely sexist against men. The initial budget logically seems too high, then they basically attacked the original audience.
WINE was already mentioned, which makes up quite a bit of the core ReactOS libraries.
Alphabet has sponsored a fair amount of development, such as NTFS driver, through Google's Summer of Code projects.
They even ran a direct community fundraiser to pay for development of core components.
More companies helping development would probably be a good thing.
It is also a bit of a double edged sword, just look at Microsoft and their DLL Hell. Most of that hell was a constant push to get things done fast, instead of doing them right.
You would think that with all the data big stores collect, they would know their customers better.
Target in Canada didn't fail because of competition. It failed because it didn't secure it's supply chain and didn't have the products people wanted.
Best Buy is failing for not understanding their customers, even though they are quite vocally being told they don't appreciate being treated like criminals. Also they are failing in Canada because they are not providing the products people want, where they want them. This dispite buying out FutureShop, including the data of exactly what stores were thriving and what they were selling.
We can also see Indigo failing because while Chapters was more convenient than Amazon, Indigo removed transfers from other stores and made the online experience painful.
They already did this with Cortana. Remember her? No, probably because anyone who was using her stopped when it started ignoring your default browser and always opens Edge instead.
You said Killer App, and not Killer Game.
My Killer App is Bigscreen. Best of all, it is free.
Yes, Rift Core 2.0 has desktop support, but in all honesty, it SUCKS!!! I am hoping it gets better in the future, but if you want to use your desktop Bigscreen is where it is at right now.
My main use for it is to use the computer at night without my kids being able to see the screen. This is so they can sleep, instead of getting the blue light from my monitors. Also watching YouTube on a big screen is really cool. I also managed to get 3D Blu-rays finally working.
Strangely enough, I mostly play GTA Online in my Rift. I did buy VorpX, but the performance is poor, and if you are in first person, I find the 3D wonky quite a bit, or I have to opt for poor 3D with poor performance. I more play it on a screen in Bigscreen. Again, so my kids can't watch me playing.
Cleaning up water that his organization helped pollute. Using other people's money to try to shove Microsoft software into schools at extra long term costs to the schools, but lining his personal pockets. Using donation money to dictate what Gates thinks should be taught in schools. Trading money to desperate people for their chance to reproduce.
Honestly, this world could benefit from less of his form of so called philanthropy. He uses the so called "charity" to further his aims of power and control.
There, fixed the subject for you.
Since March 2001, when OSX was first released, Apple has been lazy about all of OSX security. The biggest culprit usually being extremely slow in updating 3rd party libraries included in the core OS, even when the version of the libraries they are using have known major security problems.
Before 2001, security wasn't even on a lot of people's radar, so before that I'm pretty sure they were lazy about it too.
They aren't just lazy in security either, just look at their UI. Until recently many of their programs the interface was completely different between their applications. There was not much consistency. This may explain why study after study keeps showing that Apple have the worse user interfaces.
I think the iPod and the stupid wheel is an extremely good example of this. My uncle got my grandmother an iPod. She never was able to remember how to use it. My aunt got her a Zen, and she never had troubles using that.
You mean project Echelon. Which the CIA director admitted before congress that it was illegally capturing US citizens phone calls and emails. I'm still baffled why nothing happened to him. Under the US CIA mandate, spying on a US citizen without cause is an act of treason.
The FBI had Carnivore running at the same time, but their mandate at the time was to spy on all US citizens. A role that now falls to the Department of Homeland Security.
The only problem is the top terrorists country in the world has a large army and lots of nukes. It also doesn't have the most sane president right now. The country is responsible for, or provides funding for an estimated 90% of all terrorist attacks each year.
Yes, resolving this issue would result in thousands to millions of people killed and an increase in property theft measured better in multiplication than percentage.
I was going to say that if encryption had a backdoor between 0 and 0 children would have been saved, but then I thought about all the IoT devices that have been hacked recently. The truth is, with backdoor we would be putting thousands, tens of thousands, possibly even hundreds of thousands of children at risk.
Just ask Cisco how the government mandatedo backdoors worked for them and how much it cost them?
I decided to try this today.
Very interesting some of the programs that are constantly trying to use your data.
The only problem is this app uses a lot of power! Normally I would be at about 45% power, just after installing it, and some other programs that were using data when they shouldn't have, I was at 2%.
Interesting program, but way to power hungry for my taste.
I guess you weren't on Verizon in 2014. Verizon was still throttling Netflix even after Netflix paid their ransom fee. Many people in the US only have 1 option for Internet. Actually Verizon is still throttling Netflix and YouTube on mobile.
Net Nutrality didn't come about because of fear of what could happen, but because of what Verizon, AT&T and Bell were doing.
You may not have been affected, but many were. Don't worry, you most likely will be affected without even realizing it. Netflix might start costing more. YouTube may need to start using more annoying forms of advertising.
The only county that would have benefited from the TPP was the US. It would have given you the power to enact your draconian laws on all the other countries. It also would have forced us to use your joke of a patent system.
Thank you Trump for making a decision that cost America thousands of jobs and billions in unethical revenue and power to your country.
I haven't a Linux GUI in years. Linux constantly, buy only command line on servers. Has the UI not improved? I only ask because at work I had to switch to Windows 3.11... I mean Mac OS, and it feels like they haven't left the 80s.
There once was this boy. His parents had had 6 other children, but they all died before the age of 6 months. For this reason he was known as a miracle child.
He believed that people with blue eyes and blond hair were a superior race. Though he did not have these himself. He got some so called doctors and scientists to work on a way to change eye and hair colour later in life.
You may have heard of him as he became leader of a nation known as the Third Empire.
Adolf Hitler
Not completely true. You can monitor outgoing traffic to find out if the spell checker is making outbound calls. You used to be able to reliably do this on the physical same box, but Microsoft is making that much harder now. That being said, another computer can be used to monitor everything.
No, a normal person probably couldn't do this, but all it takes is one tech person to investigate. Your normal person also isn't going to be looking at the open source code.
Our copyright laws are not out of date. Actually a large portion of them are relatively new. The reason why there are so many restrictions on companies in Canada is due to constant abuse of the system. Sometimes the US refuses to do. It is the US copyright that is massively out of date. Bell is one of the reasons for the restrictions on companies. Also, what Bell calls piracy, and what the law calls piracy is very different.
We know from submarines that small, or large leaks will not just cause the tube to implode.
We also know from multiple particle accelerator small, medium and catastrophic failures that the tubes won't implode.
Kind of like explosive decompression on airplanes in movies, this is based on fiction, not already proved scientific facts.
As for the train/pods, most of the air flooding in would go around the train. In Hyperloop 1's design the use a Maglev system. You are talking about the mass of wind vs the mass of the train and the force of the Maglev. The wind is not winning there. Even if you are talking about Elon's original proposal, the air pods would probably have enough compressed air to gently put down the train.
As I understand it, Apple reviews all apps. That means that Apple deliberately allowed fraud apps onto their store. Under US law that is referred to as aiding and abetting.
Seriously! You are asking in a ln Apple product thread about why someone hates choice?
Now I know that Microsoft have been shoving their own choices down everyone's throats lately, but Apple has always done this. Apple's attitude is, "It's our way, or the highway."
I have seen the Samsung edge to edge technology, and it is truly edge to edge. I just saw the iPhone X, and there is a definite bezel. It is a wrapping around piece of glass, but there is black between the screen and the side of the glass, so not a true edge to edge, even though they are using a Samsung display.
The funniest thing was them trying to show it off working on stage, and it failed asking him to use his PIN instead because face recognition failed.
I don't know where you have been, but graphics processors have been used for 3D rendering for a long time.
While no where near the power we have now, SGI was making dedicated 3D chips that were utilized not only in the creation of 3D scenes, but also in the final render. This was over 20 years ago. Professional houses have been using PC cards all the way back to the Voodoo 2 in 1999.
Now it would be almost unheard of, for any final rendering stage not to use the GPU.
Heck ILM has their own rendering plug-in with customized graphics drivers to try to cope with the rendering load.
No, a graphics card cannot handle all the textures, polygons and shaders needed to render a final scene, but they don't have to. They load in what is needed at the time, render their part, then load in the next part, only keeping the frame in the card's memory.
Actually it is very common on blockbuster movies for multiple cards to be working on one scene at the same time with each card rendering a section of the frame.
Rest assured, that your finding have been forwarded to Microsoft's legal team. Expect a cease and desist letter soon. If you do not desist, Microsoft will explore further legal actions to stop you investigating this problem, and others in the future. Even if Microsoft cannot find a legal reason to stop you, they will just sue you into the ground
Thank you for using Microsoft. Remember, our code does not have any bugs, only features.