We can't keep waiting for 'the next version' of windows phone to fix the problems with the OS. It needs the multitasking fixed on major apps, it needs the scrolling bugs fixed. It needs a lot of minor things fixed that have been problems for years now. People like a phone OS for what it can do, not what the next update promises to bring. Then there is the issue of Apollo even being able to run on current hardware.
The reason we don't have easily available high resolution desktop displays is very simple: software support. Current popular operating systems have so many hard-coded UI elements that do not scale easily or reliably that if a 20" 326dpi monitor were available you would not be able to use it with Windows, OSX, or Linux ( maybe linux with massive tweaking ) unless it came with a huge magnifying glass so you could see the UI elements that refuse to scale.
I think this line of reasoning is very short-sighted. History is filled with examples of discoveries made by accident while trying to push the boundaries of a field. How do you know that a more permanent presence on the moon wouldn't lead to the next major breakthrough?
To think that we can learn everything that we need to by doing all of our experiments at the bottom of a gravity well in our own tiny little corner of the solar system is absurd.
One thing to consider is that this does not skip all commercials all the time. It only skips commercials on certain prime-time shows and it will only do it after about 1AM the following morning.
As far as I can tell this is because the feature is human-powered and the data gets pushed to the units after someone has had time to sit down and mark the commercials.
It seems like every month now that I wake up in the morning and see another amazing application for GPUs.
It is incredible to see the progress that a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry can bring to other markets like space exploration that would normally run on super expensive first-generation prototype hardware.
It seems entirely reasonable to me for them to optimize the driver to run particular programs faster if at all possible. I would only consider this cheating if the software is not being rendered entirely ( I think nvidia did this? ), or if it somehow degraded the play experience ( such as jerky with higher average framerates versus smooth with lower average frame rates ).
By this logic, would the special drivers ( like SLI or crossfire ) that have to be optimized per application also be cheating?
This is well demonstrated in Penny Arcade's series of games "On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness". The artistic quality of the game improved my enjoyment of it far more than the high polygon counts of modern shooters and other such games.
I think that with the success of games like this and the latest Paper Mario games we are finally starting to see that it's the story and artwork that we are paying for, the technology is secondary. I hope the future holds more games with a strong story focus like these and Silicon Knights' Eternal Darkness.
Google also serves image ads, and I'm pretty sure I've even seen some flash ads, though I could be wrong about the last one.
I also think you are confused about how google ads work, or adblock works, because it is quite simple in adblock to block all google text ads.
Abblock for me is necessary, not because I have an aversion to seeing advertisements, but because I block content which distracts me from the page I am reading. I use adblock, but I do not subscribe the massive "catch-all" lists it tries to get me to install. I simply use it as a tool to remove content that annoys me as I browse.
I admit there is a fine line between condoning such activity and trying to make it safer for the parties involved. You could say the same for groups that give out clean needles and groups that feed illegal aliens. Certainly these are activities that shouldn't be going on in the first place, but by keeping them out of sight you make them many times more dangerous.
Seriously, there are quite clear click-through warnings on the site, if you don't want to see adult advertising, don't go into that section. As for illegal activity, it's a public forum so you can expect a certain amount of that sort of thing.
This is the sort of thing that is going to go on regardless of the existence of craigslist. Now at least there is some kind of paper trail if something bad goes down ( kidnapping, murder, etc ) since most people don't secure delete their emails, but if we make sure this all keeps out on the street corner at night, it just makes it all that much more dangerous.
The mention of device drivers makes me wonder. Are they going to start limiting the kinds of devices you can install based on the version of OS?
They already limit how many CPU sockets you can have based on the version, I wonder if they'll start limiting the kinds of video cards and such accessories based upon the version too...
It will continue to run fine and dandy until Snow Leopard when they require 64-bit, which your 2006 MacBook Pro ( being a Core Duo and not a Core 2 Duo ) doesn't support.
Then you get to either buy a 2007/Early 2008 model with a defective nVidia 8600M chip, or a new notebook with DRM.
There was however a late 2006 MacBook pro with Core 2 Duo and an ATi chip, however those will likely be scarce.
It seems a bit unfair to say that iTunes has had no competitors under Mac OSX as a music player when VLC does an admirable job at playing my music and TV shows, on OSX, and has done for a long time now.
I think very few themes actually contribute to the usability of a program. Most of the time I look at an archive of themes for a program it's flooded with various nearly-unusable pictures-of-bikini-girls-made-into-interfaces type themes. On the rare chance I find a theme I genuinely like, it's for a slightly older version of the program and half of the elements are broken. When are developers going to admit that they should just stick to the OS's GUI toolkit? The user can then theme their entire window manager, instead of each individual program.
I've been rocking a Linksys WRT54GS ( with the 32MB ram, the early ones ) with DD-WRT with an uptime of over a year now.
A lot of people have had poor stability with the WRT54G series, but from reading online most of it comes from the shoddy power supplies linksys uses, making it sensitive to voltage fluctuations. I've had mine hooked up to an APC and haven't had a single problem since then. A few friends have followed suit and also experienced a lot more stability.
I'd have to side with EA here, because it's their purpose to make games, and the only reason they have forums is to try and get people to buy ( or keep buying ) said games.
People in the "internets are serios business" camp think they can go around posting whatever they want and break anyones TOS because most people don't care enough to track them down. They are now having to face the harsh reality that people trying to run a business on the internet don't have to put up with that crap.
I too loved the compiler optimizations, however the process could be offloaded elsewhere if you just had a package management system that stored different architecture specific optimizations pre-built. The idea is already implemented in things these optimized Mac builds of firefox. What if we had an entire OS installer and package manager that downloaded binaries for our particular architecture?
There would certainly be space costs on the server side, but I don't see why it's anything worse than hosting entire livedvds for obscure architectures when most of your users will be using x86 anyways.
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We can't keep waiting for 'the next version' of windows phone to fix the problems with the OS. It needs the multitasking fixed on major apps, it needs the scrolling bugs fixed. It needs a lot of minor things fixed that have been problems for years now.
People like a phone OS for what it can do, not what the next update promises to bring. Then there is the issue of Apollo even being able to run on current hardware.
The reason we don't have easily available high resolution desktop displays is very simple: software support. Current popular operating systems have so many hard-coded UI elements that do not scale easily or reliably that if a 20" 326dpi monitor were available you would not be able to use it with Windows, OSX, or Linux ( maybe linux with massive tweaking ) unless it came with a huge magnifying glass so you could see the UI elements that refuse to scale.
I can't believe you warned them about the Japan and Haiti earthquakes but didn't warn them about 9/11 or Nicholas Cage?
Digital presses and platesetters tend to start at 1200x1200dpi and go up from there.
I think this line of reasoning is very short-sighted. History is filled with examples of discoveries made by accident while trying to push the boundaries of a field. How do you know that a more permanent presence on the moon wouldn't lead to the next major breakthrough?
To think that we can learn everything that we need to by doing all of our experiments at the bottom of a gravity well in our own tiny little corner of the solar system is absurd.
One thing to consider is that this does not skip all commercials all the time. It only skips commercials on certain prime-time shows and it will only do it after about 1AM the following morning. As far as I can tell this is because the feature is human-powered and the data gets pushed to the units after someone has had time to sit down and mark the commercials.
It seems like every month now that I wake up in the morning and see another amazing application for GPUs. It is incredible to see the progress that a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry can bring to other markets like space exploration that would normally run on super expensive first-generation prototype hardware.
It seems entirely reasonable to me for them to optimize the driver to run particular programs faster if at all possible. I would only consider this cheating if the software is not being rendered entirely ( I think nvidia did this? ), or if it somehow degraded the play experience ( such as jerky with higher average framerates versus smooth with lower average frame rates ). By this logic, would the special drivers ( like SLI or crossfire ) that have to be optimized per application also be cheating?
Well since it is GSM I would say in the United States, no. Elsewhere in the world, you will probably fare better.
What do I need this service for? I use windows, so when I pass away the malware on my computer will continue to send thousands of emails every day.
This is well demonstrated in Penny Arcade's series of games "On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness". The artistic quality of the game improved my enjoyment of it far more than the high polygon counts of modern shooters and other such games.
I think that with the success of games like this and the latest Paper Mario games we are finally starting to see that it's the story and artwork that we are paying for, the technology is secondary. I hope the future holds more games with a strong story focus like these and Silicon Knights' Eternal Darkness.
Google also serves image ads, and I'm pretty sure I've even seen some flash ads, though I could be wrong about the last one.
I also think you are confused about how google ads work, or adblock works, because it is quite simple in adblock to block all google text ads.
Abblock for me is necessary, not because I have an aversion to seeing advertisements, but because I block content which distracts me from the page I am reading. I use adblock, but I do not subscribe the massive "catch-all" lists it tries to get me to install. I simply use it as a tool to remove content that annoys me as I browse.
This technology sounds like it would be very beneficial when we see wider use of assisted movement robotics for humans.
I admit there is a fine line between condoning such activity and trying to make it safer for the parties involved. You could say the same for groups that give out clean needles and groups that feed illegal aliens. Certainly these are activities that shouldn't be going on in the first place, but by keeping them out of sight you make them many times more dangerous.
Seriously, there are quite clear click-through warnings on the site, if you don't want to see adult advertising, don't go into that section. As for illegal activity, it's a public forum so you can expect a certain amount of that sort of thing.
This is the sort of thing that is going to go on regardless of the existence of craigslist. Now at least there is some kind of paper trail if something bad goes down ( kidnapping, murder, etc ) since most people don't secure delete their emails, but if we make sure this all keeps out on the street corner at night, it just makes it all that much more dangerous.
The mention of device drivers makes me wonder. Are they going to start limiting the kinds of devices you can install based on the version of OS?
They already limit how many CPU sockets you can have based on the version, I wonder if they'll start limiting the kinds of video cards and such accessories based upon the version too...
It will continue to run fine and dandy until Snow Leopard when they require 64-bit, which your 2006 MacBook Pro ( being a Core Duo and not a Core 2 Duo ) doesn't support.
Then you get to either buy a 2007/Early 2008 model with a defective nVidia 8600M chip, or a new notebook with DRM.
There was however a late 2006 MacBook pro with Core 2 Duo and an ATi chip, however those will likely be scarce.
It seems a bit unfair to say that iTunes has had no competitors under Mac OSX as a music player when VLC does an admirable job at playing my music and TV shows, on OSX, and has done for a long time now.
I think very few themes actually contribute to the usability of a program. Most of the time I look at an archive of themes for a program it's flooded with various nearly-unusable pictures-of-bikini-girls-made-into-interfaces type themes.
On the rare chance I find a theme I genuinely like, it's for a slightly older version of the program and half of the elements are broken.
When are developers going to admit that they should just stick to the OS's GUI toolkit? The user can then theme their entire window manager, instead of each individual program.
But can you prove it computationally?
I've been rocking a Linksys WRT54GS ( with the 32MB ram, the early ones ) with DD-WRT with an uptime of over a year now.
A lot of people have had poor stability with the WRT54G series, but from reading online most of it comes from the shoddy power supplies linksys uses, making it sensitive to voltage fluctuations. I've had mine hooked up to an APC and haven't had a single problem since then. A few friends have followed suit and also experienced a lot more stability.
I'll wait for this to be confirmed by Richard Dean Anderson.
I'd have to side with EA here, because it's their purpose to make games, and the only reason they have forums is to try and get people to buy ( or keep buying ) said games.
People in the "internets are serios business" camp think they can go around posting whatever they want and break anyones TOS because most people don't care enough to track them down. They are now having to face the harsh reality that people trying to run a business on the internet don't have to put up with that crap.
Woah, I just learned [knitting].
I too loved the compiler optimizations, however the process could be offloaded elsewhere if you just had a package management system that stored different architecture specific optimizations pre-built. The idea is already implemented in things these optimized Mac builds of firefox. What if we had an entire OS installer and package manager that downloaded binaries for our particular architecture?
There would certainly be space costs on the server side, but I don't see why it's anything worse than hosting entire livedvds for obscure architectures when most of your users will be using x86 anyways.