I agree. I don't know how much market MS could possibly carve out of gaming, or how much pressure they could possibly put on a corporation like Sony. Gaming is still a niche market. IMHO, Microsoft is better of trying to get entrenched in DRM and home media. The audience is way bigger.
PS: For those who said that xbox will be a "huge success" or the "best success story for ages"... they may now have a bit of a problem, isn't- it;-)
First and foremost, I don't own an X-Box, nor will I ever, so this is NOT an evangelistic plug for MS.
Apparently you don't know anything about business, or more to the point, how MS does business. It doesn't matter whether or not X-Box 1 is a success or not. If MS can tear out big enough of a chunk from Sony's & Nintendo's collective asses and wedge itself in enough into the gaming market, it paves the way for X-Box 2 to take it all over.
MS doesn't care one way or the other whether or not X-Box 1 makes any money for them, they just want the market presence gouged out for them. Once that is done, the console trolls who don't know any better will wait with bated breath for X-Box 2.
IMHO, it's about dang time. If they had this around 5 years ago when I was working on my comp sci degree, I definitely woulda stuck around long enough to get one of these as well. Instead, I'm just a lowly programmer making stacks of cash and getting my toes licked by beautiful women.
Wonder what this means for all the current Xbox Mod Chips?
Nothing to me. I don't own an Ecks-Box, and don't plan on it, since I already have two computers. Why would I want a stripped down PC I can't do anything to? Don't need Ecks-Box Live either; I've been playing games on the net for years already.
I gots me a ps2 & gamecube for consoling (no pun intended). And I only got the ps2 after they dropped the price way low, and only then cos it could also play DVDs. It gets more use as a DVD player (well, except for now, since they released Marvel vs Capcom 2...my thumb hurtz!!!).
I played Halo once. That's all it took to say, nope, not for me.
I frickin' LIKE black, plain, bitter-tasting coffee! Of course, I also do it for the caffeine, but I like the way coffee tastes. For me in the morning, the first taste of coffee is like the first taste of an ice-cold beer after working in the yard all day!
Always been pretty simple to me, if ya don't like the way shit tastes, don't drink it. I always get a laugh at the losers at Barnes and Noble drinking they're super-duper triple expresso with everything but the kitchen sink in it.
IMHO, plain old black coffee, strong as heck, frickin' rulez!
IMHO, if a fire, flood, or other disaster wipes out my data center and any/all backups, I pretty much think thats God's way of saying I didn't need all of that shit.
Well, while I'm not particularly thrilled about having to learn another ten thousand things (XPath, XSLT, etc) in order to use XML to it's fullest extent, but it does have a huge advantage: easy to validate a document and it's data. I don't know about you, but I'm sick until my nuts ache having to parse through mile-long flat files produced by a legacy mainframe only to find out after-the-fact they forgot to leave out the damn carriage-return line-feed pairs and the layout is thrown off by one byte! Anyway, I can validate an XML document in like three or four lines of code, regardless of language. Plus, there are XML parsers written for just about every language and platform, even frickin OS390/Natural/ADABAS, which means I don't have to return a flat file to the COBOL folks! I can just have SQL Server 2K chew up the data, spit it out in XML format, and then have a DTS package automatically FTP the XML document back to the mainframe just in time for the JCL schedule to kick up! Dunno about you, but it makes my life easier for dang sure.
...id's got John-to-the-C...and he's a pretty smart mother f*cker. He's a programmer who actually knows what he's doing, where there's a lot of no-counts out there who THINK they know how to program. Newbies keep cranking out code that has already been written by someone else, and as Bjarne Stroustrup always says, don't re-invent the f*cking wheel.
I just love how they mention 'Encryption' and they act like it's virtuall impossible to get at the goodies. The data's all there, it's just inaccessible at present.
I have every faith that SOMEONE will eventually figure out how to factor large primes really quickly. I'm sure that in the hari-kari that will undoubtedly ensue I'll find a moment or two to chuckle how all encryption schemes are suddenly rendered useless.
Correct me if I'm smoking crack here (because I'm not a network person by any means, just a lowly programmer), but doesn't Norton AV Corporate version try to find clients on a local network by doing a lookup on port 38293 and if it doesn't find it there it tries a NetBios lookup?
I wonder how many of those "pings" are caused by their own damn product?
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I don't download the player from real anymore, I just let netscape install the one that ships with it. IIRC, when I installed Netscape 7.01 the other day, it installed a non-RealOne version of their player. I do agree with the grandPARENT though: Real is getting annoying as hell. Plus, I just love when it goes out on it's own to the web. I just re-installed my system a couple weeks ago and this morning both real and google toolbar got busted by ZoneAlarm for looking for a net connection. At least WMP has the decency to only do it when it's running...
...he is f*cked like chuck. That definitely sounds like a federal-pound-me-in-the-ass crime. I admire him in a way though. If it tweren't for these darn family responsibilities 'o mine, I'd prolly be out there doing some really unlawful stuff too. Curse my responsible nature! ARRGGH!!
Question though about something mentioned in the article: what's so amazing about this "P4" techonology that no one has been able to crack it yet? Has it only been on the market a week? Or is it just really that good?
...I was wearing a typical 70s brown-and-yellow striped shirt a-la Charlie Brown, those hard little leather shoes they make little kids wear, and I was sitting on the car holding my little birthday cake which had chocolate icing and three orange candles on it. I remember my mother taking my picture and my grandma bitching about how she was just SO certain I was going to drop the cake. Hmmm, now that I think of it, I also believe that was the first time I talked back to my grandmother (and certainly not the last).
I also remember getting into the dishwasher when I was really little and pulling a kitchen knife out. I dropped it and as it fell it cut my left index finger. My mother tells me I was two when that happened.
I've always wondered what the Matrix was coded in? C? (naw, too structured, it'd be a TON of code, and hard to maintain). C++? (possibly, it's still the speed king, aside from assembly, and templates offer a wonderful way to create metalanguages to describe things in a high level, plus I love love LOVE object oriented programming). Heaven forbid, maybe it's VISUAL BASIC! Since you can SEE everything in the Matrix, it would make sense, right?!? Ok, that's a joke. But seriously though, the question stands. Plus, what kind of hardware does this thing run on? A Beowulf cluster of WHAT??? Oh, and the most important thing...do you think it's Intel inside, or AMD?
Ok, shit...I'm sure Microsoft had a hand in it...the head squiggly is prolly Billy Gates. So, the Matrix is probably in all reality The Matrix.Net!!!
...pretty uninteresting. I can say with relative certainty that I would rather eat dirt than read this book.
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My hats off to you. I'm extremely grateful to the military professionals, for providing the rest of us the freedom to choose how we want to live our lives.
Anyway, if Super Successful Guy (parent) needs such accolades (degree, salary, sports car) to get laid, then he must be one seriously messed up dude. I mean, get real! It doesn't take that much effort!
...gawd almighty, I love my kids, but that is one serious ass-whooping coming when she gets home after school today!
Seriously though, I know I, and my whole generation, were arrogant and did all kinds of crazy things that we shouldn't, just to get back at teachers, elders, authority figures, etc. But, at least from my perspective, there was a point of no return that we wouldn't go past, for the very real fear of shaming your family and disappointing your parents. I'm a grown man and I will go and do as I please, but I DO care about what my parents think of me as a person.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: my family may be boring as all heck, but at least we're not drug addicts or running around with chainsaws and crap like that!
Damn skippy. I am in total agreement. I never watch non-cable broadcasts anyway, so it's not as if they make any money off me (other than my monthly Cocks Comm. Bill). I don't need this crap to live. For Pete's sake, I lived 27 years before ever even jumping on the Internet bandwagon. Although most people think they can't live without. Pointless discussion though. I agree with the notion this crap will be cracked faster than....well, some really fast stuff!
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Perl or Python = anyone can maintain
Obfuscated Java and/or C++ = job security
'Nuff said
According to his theory 50,000 years ago
This guy has a 50K year old theory? How the hell old is he?!?
I agree. I don't know how much market MS could possibly carve out of gaming, or how much pressure they could possibly put on a corporation like Sony. Gaming is still a niche market. IMHO, Microsoft is better of trying to get entrenched in DRM and home media. The audience is way bigger.
PS: For those who said that xbox will be a "huge success" or the "best success story for ages" ... they may now have a bit of a problem, isn't- it ;-)
First and foremost, I don't own an X-Box, nor will I ever, so this is NOT an evangelistic plug for MS.
Apparently you don't know anything about business, or more to the point, how MS does business. It doesn't matter whether or not X-Box 1 is a success or not. If MS can tear out big enough of a chunk from Sony's & Nintendo's collective asses and wedge itself in enough into the gaming market, it paves the way for X-Box 2 to take it all over.
MS doesn't care one way or the other whether or not X-Box 1 makes any money for them, they just want the market presence gouged out for them. Once that is done, the console trolls who don't know any better will wait with bated breath for X-Box 2.
With all due regard to this tax idea, I think Whoopi Goldberg put it most aptly...
"A quarter? You want a quarter? Kiss my ass. Find me in New York for this f*cking quarter!"
IMHO, it's about dang time. If they had this around 5 years ago when I was working on my comp sci degree, I definitely woulda stuck around long enough to get one of these as well. Instead, I'm just a lowly programmer making stacks of cash and getting my toes licked by beautiful women.
No, really, this I would have stuck around for.
Wonder what this means for all the current Xbox Mod Chips?
Nothing to me. I don't own an Ecks-Box, and don't plan on it, since I already have two computers. Why would I want a stripped down PC I can't do anything to? Don't need Ecks-Box Live either; I've been playing games on the net for years already.
I gots me a ps2 & gamecube for consoling (no pun intended). And I only got the ps2 after they dropped the price way low, and only then cos it could also play DVDs. It gets more use as a DVD player (well, except for now, since they released Marvel vs Capcom 2...my thumb hurtz!!!).
I played Halo once. That's all it took to say, nope, not for me.
I frickin' LIKE black, plain, bitter-tasting coffee! Of course, I also do it for the caffeine, but I like the way coffee tastes. For me in the morning, the first taste of coffee is like the first taste of an ice-cold beer after working in the yard all day!
Always been pretty simple to me, if ya don't like the way shit tastes, don't drink it. I always get a laugh at the losers at Barnes and Noble drinking they're super-duper triple expresso with everything but the kitchen sink in it.
IMHO, plain old black coffee, strong as heck, frickin' rulez!
IMHO, if a fire, flood, or other disaster wipes out my data center and any/all backups, I pretty much think thats God's way of saying I didn't need all of that shit.
Well, while I'm not particularly thrilled about having to learn another ten thousand things (XPath, XSLT, etc) in order to use XML to it's fullest extent, but it does have a huge advantage: easy to validate a document and it's data. I don't know about you, but I'm sick until my nuts ache having to parse through mile-long flat files produced by a legacy mainframe only to find out after-the-fact they forgot to leave out the damn carriage-return line-feed pairs and the layout is thrown off by one byte! Anyway, I can validate an XML document in like three or four lines of code, regardless of language. Plus, there are XML parsers written for just about every language and platform, even frickin OS390/Natural/ADABAS, which means I don't have to return a flat file to the COBOL folks! I can just have SQL Server 2K chew up the data, spit it out in XML format, and then have a DTS package automatically FTP the XML document back to the mainframe just in time for the JCL schedule to kick up! Dunno about you, but it makes my life easier for dang sure.
...id's got John-to-the-C...and he's a pretty smart mother f*cker. He's a programmer who actually knows what he's doing, where there's a lot of no-counts out there who THINK they know how to program. Newbies keep cranking out code that has already been written by someone else, and as Bjarne Stroustrup always says, don't re-invent the f*cking wheel.
I just love how they mention 'Encryption' and they act like it's virtuall impossible to get at the goodies. The data's all there, it's just inaccessible at present.
I have every faith that SOMEONE will eventually figure out how to factor large primes really quickly. I'm sure that in the hari-kari that will undoubtedly ensue I'll find a moment or two to chuckle how all encryption schemes are suddenly rendered useless.
Correct me if I'm smoking crack here (because I'm not a network person by any means, just a lowly programmer), but doesn't Norton AV Corporate version try to find clients on a local network by doing a lookup on port 38293 and if it doesn't find it there it tries a NetBios lookup?
I wonder how many of those "pings" are caused by their own damn product?
I don't download the player from real anymore, I just let netscape install the one that ships with it. IIRC, when I installed Netscape 7.01 the other day, it installed a non-RealOne version of their player. I do agree with the grandPARENT though: Real is getting annoying as hell. Plus, I just love when it goes out on it's own to the web. I just re-installed my system a couple weeks ago and this morning both real and google toolbar got busted by ZoneAlarm for looking for a net connection. At least WMP has the decency to only do it when it's running...
I'm not ready yet!
I'm still trying to gather myself after the amazing performance of the heart-rending "Emotion Engine" in the PS2!
*Sniff* It brings a tear to me eye...
...he is f*cked like chuck. That definitely sounds like a federal-pound-me-in-the-ass crime. I admire him in a way though. If it tweren't for these darn family responsibilities 'o mine, I'd prolly be out there doing some really unlawful stuff too. Curse my responsible nature! ARRGGH!!
Question though about something mentioned in the article: what's so amazing about this "P4" techonology that no one has been able to crack it yet? Has it only been on the market a week? Or is it just really that good?
I think that's you coming down off X or LSD or something.
...I was wearing a typical 70s brown-and-yellow striped shirt a-la Charlie Brown, those hard little leather shoes they make little kids wear, and I was sitting on the car holding my little birthday cake which had chocolate icing and three orange candles on it. I remember my mother taking my picture and my grandma bitching about how she was just SO certain I was going to drop the cake. Hmmm, now that I think of it, I also believe that was the first time I talked back to my grandmother (and certainly not the last).
I also remember getting into the dishwasher when I was really little and pulling a kitchen knife out. I dropped it and as it fell it cut my left index finger. My mother tells me I was two when that happened.
I've always wondered what the Matrix was coded in? C? (naw, too structured, it'd be a TON of code, and hard to maintain). C++? (possibly, it's still the speed king, aside from assembly, and templates offer a wonderful way to create metalanguages to describe things in a high level, plus I love love LOVE object oriented programming). Heaven forbid, maybe it's VISUAL BASIC! Since you can SEE everything in the Matrix, it would make sense, right?!? Ok, that's a joke. But seriously though, the question stands. Plus, what kind of hardware does this thing run on? A Beowulf cluster of WHAT??? Oh, and the most important thing...do you think it's Intel inside, or AMD?
Ok, shit...I'm sure Microsoft had a hand in it...the head squiggly is prolly Billy Gates. So, the Matrix is probably in all reality The Matrix.Net!!!
For the love of frickin' Gawd! Like I believe that any more than I believed Ollie North during the Iran-Contra hearings!
...pretty uninteresting. I can say with relative certainty that I would rather eat dirt than read this book.
My hats off to you. I'm extremely grateful to the military professionals, for providing the rest of us the freedom to choose how we want to live our lives.
Anyway, if Super Successful Guy (parent) needs such accolades (degree, salary, sports car) to get laid, then he must be one seriously messed up dude. I mean, get real! It doesn't take that much effort!
...gawd almighty, I love my kids, but that is one serious ass-whooping coming when she gets home after school today!
Seriously though, I know I, and my whole generation, were arrogant and did all kinds of crazy things that we shouldn't, just to get back at teachers, elders, authority figures, etc. But, at least from my perspective, there was a point of no return that we wouldn't go past, for the very real fear of shaming your family and disappointing your parents. I'm a grown man and I will go and do as I please, but I DO care about what my parents think of me as a person.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: my family may be boring as all heck, but at least we're not drug addicts or running around with chainsaws and crap like that!
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Damn skippy. I am in total agreement. I never watch non-cable broadcasts anyway, so it's not as if they make any money off me (other than my monthly Cocks Comm. Bill). I don't need this crap to live. For Pete's sake, I lived 27 years before ever even jumping on the Internet bandwagon. Although most people think they can't live without. Pointless discussion though. I agree with the notion this crap will be cracked faster than....well, some really fast stuff!
darn straight... I laughed so hard a little blob of snot blew outta my nose. It was pretty funny in and of itself.