Windows is an operating system. It's supposed to run whatever code the user tells it to run. If the user tells it to delete all system files, or send out 50,000 emails, it should do that. Once it stops doing exactly what the user instructs it to do, and tries to stop you from doing stuff because it thinks you shouldn't, it becomes more obtrusive I think that MS should fix problems with their own applications that cause code to get run without the user knowing it, but there's a lot of viruses that come from people downloading and running programs out of their own free will, without any open ports or buffer overflow trickery. Most viruses and malware are spread through using social engineering to get the user to willingly run the application, and not by exploiting some bug in the computer code itself.
BluRay really does look better. A lot better than a DVD. However, most people aren't willing to pay extra to get that better experience. Just like everybody could spend $3000 on a computer to play all their games at ultra high resolutions with really high framerates. But they don't. Because whatever quality they get is good enough, and the extra money doesn't justify the cost. If they really wanted to make BluRay catch on, they would price the discs the same price as DVD. A new movie isn't worth an extra $10 just because the resolution better. I'd rather buy 3 DVDs than 2 BluRays.
Firstly, the N64 had a mini joystick before the original Playstation. The original Playstation controller from 1994 only had a D-Pad, The Dual shock was released later in 1997. The N64 came out in 1996.
Also, how immersed do you want to be in your game? I have a Wii, but I find a lot of time I'd rather play a game like Mario Galaxy, where it does use the motion sensing, but doesn't require you go be standing up, and getting your entire body into it. It's really nice for certain games, like golf, to have a life like feel, but I don't think it works well for all games. A lot of times I'll just start up an old virtual console game, and use the classic controller. Then again, I find I get enough exercise away from my console, that I don't need to do more when I'm playing video games.
I think it would be hard to argue that a browser has any monetary value. Since I don't think there are any browsers that require you to pay for them (Opera was the last, and quit charging a long time ago), I would think that MS would charge the same amount, with or without the browser, especially if the browser is going to be an optional free download later on. It would make much sense to allow people to pay less for windows, and then just be able to download IE later.
No matter how much they try, the US can't mandate anything to do with the internet, because it doesn't own the internet. You can tell everybody in the US to switch to IPV6, but that isn't going to make everyone else in the world immediately comply. Same as a shutting down internet gambling. You can shut down the US based ones, but you can't shut down offshore ones.
Wouldn't it be easy for the people buying the computers to wipe the hard drive and install their own software, without the internet blocking software on it?
There's tons of people who are going to be cut off because of this. Analog TV has much better range than Digital TV, and has much better tolerances with a bad signal. Think about when there's bad weather with your satellite dish. The picture is either there, or it's completely gone. With analog, you get varying degrees of static depending on how bad the signal is, but when there's bad weather, like hurricanes or blizzards, you can make out some of what's going on to get the news.
I think that's a big advantage to buying Nintendo consoles, especially early on in the lifecycle. If you buy a nintendo on release day, you can pretty much be assured that there will be at least 10 really awesome titles, just from the stuff they produce themselves.
I would think that a 2D laptop would only slice through your arm in the same way that an XRay removes your skin and muscle to show bone. You have particles traveling through your body all the time. There's even particles that travel directly through the earth and don't interact with anything.
Maybe because parallel programming is just inherently hard. We've had simulated parallel programming for probably at least 15 years, using threads, or even multiple processes, and nobody has found a good model that actually makes it easy to do parallel programming. I took a course in university, and although I did quite well, I have to say that parallel programming requires you to relearn a lot of what you have learned, and requires a very large paradigm shift. We have enough programmers who have trouble with sequential programming, we don't need to make it any harder for them.
But you can lend it out for free at the library? Lot's of phono records at my local library. If I'm not mistaken, there's a couple copies of certain software titles too.
Personally, I never buy a game unless I think it's something that I want to keep. I don't think it's right to give a publisher $60 for a game that I will only get 20 hours play out of, regardless of whether or not I can sell it later. I buy a lot of WiiWare games simply because they are only $10. I really don't mind if I only play it for 5 hours when I only pay $10. Personally, I think publishers of all media (games, books, software, music, movies) would do a lot better if they sold their products for a cheaper price. Don't make me think about buying it. Make it pure impulse, and you will set a lot more product.
I'm not saying I don't have any illegitimate copies of software/movies/music, but I also don't try to pretend that having these objects is completely ok. If you don't like the way their business model is run, the only right way to protest it is to not consume the media in any way. If you pirate it, you are basically saying that the product is worth something to you, but that you don't want to pay the price they are asking for it.
Run Javascript through an obfuscator, and see how readable it is. "readable in all circumstances" can't possibly exist. Anybody could make unreadable code in any language.
If a call comes in as you are switching batteries, same thing happens as when you are in a blackout spot with regular phone. The caller doesn't get through and they call back later. I don't think something like this would be used as an always on, get a call every half hour type of phone. But more as a replacement for people who are on pay as you go service, who may only use it for outgoing calls, or may only receive 1 or 2 calls a day.
I've always thought that saying corn was a food crop was kind of odd. Personally I don't eat that much corn, and I probably wouldn't miss it much if there was no corn. However, as you point out, corn is used to feed animals. And then the animals are used to feed humans. So although we don't eat the corn directly, we do eat corn.
I'd like to see a system that would work in the winter in Canada. Hard to track faces when they are all covered with scarves. If this became a big problem, I imagine a lot of people would simple cover their faces.
I guess you don't look around enough. I'm in Canada, and I don't think it's very different than the US. While there aren't as many tailors as clothing stores, there's still plenty of people doing these jobs. I realize that not everybody realizes the difference between a suit you get a tailor to make, and one you pick up for $100 at the mall.
I agree. Selling software, probably has to be the most (potentially) lucrative market their is. Get the right product, and you can sell something that is essentially free to replicate. Sure there's a lot of upfront costs. But the cost to produce just about any software product is the same whether there are 40, or 40 million customers.
Well, Best Buy bought out Futureshop here in Canada. They had plans of opening up Best Buy's, and closing down Futureshop. What they found out, is that after they opened the Best Buy stores, they made just as much money with Best Buy as they did with the Futureshops, and didn't Lost any Business at the existing Futureshop stores. They also realized that a lot of people, probably a majority of people aren't even aware they are owned by the same company. So many customers will make remarks about bad customer service and say they will go to the other store, while the employees snicker at them. I'ms sure that This is basically the same thing. Most people will have no idea they are the same store, and they will think they have a real choice about where to shop.
I really agree. If you actually think about it more logically, We should a screenings before stepping onto local transit, since I've heard a lot more stories about terrorists blowing up buses, then about them blowing up planes. Sure, you could say the security helps on the planes, but once they secured up the buses, they'd just choose a different venue. Until everything is "ultra-secure" and we have no privacy of freedom, and they have won. While it's probably a good idea to check people on planes, It only makes sense if we also scan people going onto buses, trains, and any other form of mass transportation.
By that metric, a lot of cars probably aren't safe to enter the highway. The Geo Metro has a 0-60 time of 16 seconds, and the ford focus has a time of 8.1 seconds. And that's as factory tested. I bet that the way most cars in america are maintained, there's probably about 20% of cars that can't do 0-60 in under 10 seconds.
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Personally I find that standard keyboards are just fine, and that those "ergonomic" ones are terribly uncomfortable.
Windows is an operating system. It's supposed to run whatever code the user tells it to run. If the user tells it to delete all system files, or send out 50,000 emails, it should do that. Once it stops doing exactly what the user instructs it to do, and tries to stop you from doing stuff because it thinks you shouldn't, it becomes more obtrusive I think that MS should fix problems with their own applications that cause code to get run without the user knowing it, but there's a lot of viruses that come from people downloading and running programs out of their own free will, without any open ports or buffer overflow trickery. Most viruses and malware are spread through using social engineering to get the user to willingly run the application, and not by exploiting some bug in the computer code itself.
BluRay really does look better. A lot better than a DVD. However, most people aren't willing to pay extra to get that better experience. Just like everybody could spend $3000 on a computer to play all their games at ultra high resolutions with really high framerates. But they don't. Because whatever quality they get is good enough, and the extra money doesn't justify the cost. If they really wanted to make BluRay catch on, they would price the discs the same price as DVD. A new movie isn't worth an extra $10 just because the resolution better. I'd rather buy 3 DVDs than 2 BluRays.
Firstly, the N64 had a mini joystick before the original Playstation. The original Playstation controller from 1994 only had a D-Pad, The Dual shock was released later in 1997. The N64 came out in 1996.
Also, how immersed do you want to be in your game? I have a Wii, but I find a lot of time I'd rather play a game like Mario Galaxy, where it does use the motion sensing, but doesn't require you go be standing up, and getting your entire body into it. It's really nice for certain games, like golf, to have a life like feel, but I don't think it works well for all games. A lot of times I'll just start up an old virtual console game, and use the classic controller. Then again, I find I get enough exercise away from my console, that I don't need to do more when I'm playing video games.
I think it would be hard to argue that a browser has any monetary value. Since I don't think there are any browsers that require you to pay for them (Opera was the last, and quit charging a long time ago), I would think that MS would charge the same amount, with or without the browser, especially if the browser is going to be an optional free download later on. It would make much sense to allow people to pay less for windows, and then just be able to download IE later.
No matter how much they try, the US can't mandate anything to do with the internet, because it doesn't own the internet. You can tell everybody in the US to switch to IPV6, but that isn't going to make everyone else in the world immediately comply. Same as a shutting down internet gambling. You can shut down the US based ones, but you can't shut down offshore ones.
Wouldn't it be easy for the people buying the computers to wipe the hard drive and install their own software, without the internet blocking software on it?
There's tons of people who are going to be cut off because of this. Analog TV has much better range than Digital TV, and has much better tolerances with a bad signal. Think about when there's bad weather with your satellite dish. The picture is either there, or it's completely gone. With analog, you get varying degrees of static depending on how bad the signal is, but when there's bad weather, like hurricanes or blizzards, you can make out some of what's going on to get the news.
I think that's a big advantage to buying Nintendo consoles, especially early on in the lifecycle. If you buy a nintendo on release day, you can pretty much be assured that there will be at least 10 really awesome titles, just from the stuff they produce themselves.
I would think that a 2D laptop would only slice through your arm in the same way that an XRay removes your skin and muscle to show bone. You have particles traveling through your body all the time. There's even particles that travel directly through the earth and don't interact with anything.
Maybe because parallel programming is just inherently hard. We've had simulated parallel programming for probably at least 15 years, using threads, or even multiple processes, and nobody has found a good model that actually makes it easy to do parallel programming. I took a course in university, and although I did quite well, I have to say that parallel programming requires you to relearn a lot of what you have learned, and requires a very large paradigm shift. We have enough programmers who have trouble with sequential programming, we don't need to make it any harder for them.
But you can lend it out for free at the library? Lot's of phono records at my local library. If I'm not mistaken, there's a couple copies of certain software titles too.
Personally, I never buy a game unless I think it's something that I want to keep. I don't think it's right to give a publisher $60 for a game that I will only get 20 hours play out of, regardless of whether or not I can sell it later. I buy a lot of WiiWare games simply because they are only $10. I really don't mind if I only play it for 5 hours when I only pay $10. Personally, I think publishers of all media (games, books, software, music, movies) would do a lot better if they sold their products for a cheaper price. Don't make me think about buying it. Make it pure impulse, and you will set a lot more product.
I'm not saying I don't have any illegitimate copies of software/movies/music, but I also don't try to pretend that having these objects is completely ok. If you don't like the way their business model is run, the only right way to protest it is to not consume the media in any way. If you pirate it, you are basically saying that the product is worth something to you, but that you don't want to pay the price they are asking for it.
Or just run a network over the phone lines .
Yeah, but last time I checked, you couldn't get gigabit wireless.
Run Javascript through an obfuscator, and see how readable it is. "readable in all circumstances" can't possibly exist. Anybody could make unreadable code in any language.
If a call comes in as you are switching batteries, same thing happens as when you are in a blackout spot with regular phone. The caller doesn't get through and they call back later. I don't think something like this would be used as an always on, get a call every half hour type of phone. But more as a replacement for people who are on pay as you go service, who may only use it for outgoing calls, or may only receive 1 or 2 calls a day.
I've always thought that saying corn was a food crop was kind of odd. Personally I don't eat that much corn, and I probably wouldn't miss it much if there was no corn. However, as you point out, corn is used to feed animals. And then the animals are used to feed humans. So although we don't eat the corn directly, we do eat corn.
I'd like to see a system that would work in the winter in Canada. Hard to track faces when they are all covered with scarves. If this became a big problem, I imagine a lot of people would simple cover their faces.
I guess you don't look around enough. I'm in Canada, and I don't think it's very different than the US. While there aren't as many tailors as clothing stores, there's still plenty of people doing these jobs. I realize that not everybody realizes the difference between a suit you get a tailor to make, and one you pick up for $100 at the mall.
I agree. Selling software, probably has to be the most (potentially) lucrative market their is. Get the right product, and you can sell something that is essentially free to replicate. Sure there's a lot of upfront costs. But the cost to produce just about any software product is the same whether there are 40, or 40 million customers.
Well, Best Buy bought out Futureshop here in Canada. They had plans of opening up Best Buy's, and closing down Futureshop. What they found out, is that after they opened the Best Buy stores, they made just as much money with Best Buy as they did with the Futureshops, and didn't Lost any Business at the existing Futureshop stores. They also realized that a lot of people, probably a majority of people aren't even aware they are owned by the same company. So many customers will make remarks about bad customer service and say they will go to the other store, while the employees snicker at them. I'ms sure that This is basically the same thing. Most people will have no idea they are the same store, and they will think they have a real choice about where to shop.
I really agree. If you actually think about it more logically, We should a screenings before stepping onto local transit, since I've heard a lot more stories about terrorists blowing up buses, then about them blowing up planes. Sure, you could say the security helps on the planes, but once they secured up the buses, they'd just choose a different venue. Until everything is "ultra-secure" and we have no privacy of freedom, and they have won. While it's probably a good idea to check people on planes, It only makes sense if we also scan people going onto buses, trains, and any other form of mass transportation.
By that metric, a lot of cars probably aren't safe to enter the highway. The Geo Metro has a 0-60 time of 16 seconds, and the ford focus has a time of 8.1 seconds. And that's as factory tested. I bet that the way most cars in america are maintained, there's probably about 20% of cars that can't do 0-60 in under 10 seconds.