What? Are you saying that you want the Start Button to have some action when clicked? If it was so important, you should have documented it at the requirements.
You asked for a button, MS gave you a button. Content yourself with it.
Nowhere in the article it's stated that they can compile the source.
I got an offer to read Windows source code once. That condition was there, I wouldn't have the environment needed to actualy compile it. But I work in Brazil, it's possible that Australia got a special deal, there is just no evidence of that.
You should put your head out of the Windows box some day. Processes are not slow, and there is no reason for IPC to be slower than multi-thread data access (altough a few implementations are).
Well if your comment was at the theory level, I missundertood you.
I completely agree that recessions are temporary suboptimal allocation of resources; if we could just make the optimum allocation, we wouldn't have them. But in practice it would be the same if it was mandated by physics, we simply don't have the tech to solve the allocation problem, and any missalocation will cause a recession while it's correcting.
Knowing that, the only things we can do are minimising the misalocation (by minimising the government, for example) and letting the corrections happen as soon as it's natural.
Producing less and leaving resources idle is not an effective means to correct previous excessive borrowing. It may be a failure mode commonly triggered by previous bad decision making, but it's still a failure to make the correct decisions.
And that's typical lame-economist thinking where everything is fungible. The world does not work that way, we need to make the resources idle before somebody else can allocate them for any other use. As a consequence, if we have a giant missalocation of resources, the only way to fix it is by making those resources idle, creating a price signal that people can recognize and take advantage of.
And, that's still idealized in several ways. For example, notice that we have a huge amount of resources allocated at the task of fighting productive allocations of resources.
Those papers don't indicate it's a quantum computer either. It's a computer that makes calculations using "quantum effects", as the company claim on the few places they have to be honest.
If somebody else has something that important to say, they can put it on their site, they don't need to destroy yours. Even if your site tries to gather different points of view.
Also, the press was never "press-like". It was always a matter of "if you have something to say, write your own journal".
This is slashdot, and even now, by 2013, it's not too much to expect that the average person around here knows what a C-like language looks like.
That said, 3 equal symbols will make you look like a Javascript programer faster than you can point to any less widespread reference, like Prolog. And even now, with all the buzz around it, that's not a good image to have.
Yes, it does need a study. It may be obvious for you, hell it may be obvious for everybody, but unless people make actual quantitative studies we won't know the details, or if it's really true. And there are plenty of obvious things that once somebody studies them we discover that weren't true.
Well, I live in Brazil. Here, the legislators are a caste on their own. When they say "quack like a duck", corporations quack. But even at the US, they create laws based on self interest, it's only that your legislator's self interest tells them to obey the corportations.
Anyway, I pay a lot more for my pension than private workers pay for they retirement here. And probably none of us will get it back in 30 years.
So, MS is being played? The big publishers care for nothing, except how many people that have one kind of console want to buy their game. They'll support the console that sells more (to a public that likes them - not the Wii), and ony them think about the second place.
I don't believe the other propositions given by xbone (being a media center without DVR functions) will ever matter enough for getting gamer money, but maybe I'm wrong.
I'm quite sure that you are right here. The price of media centers is going down fast, while the price of the X-Box is going up slowly. Altough some people got the Xbox 360 to use as media centers, it's very unlikely that any measurable number of people will do that this time.
I'd somewhat disagree with the perspective of a bureocrat. It's the legislators that write laws, the bureocrats are required to apply them and are often reluctant to do that. That said, bureocrats do write some rules, when the Law tells them to, and some of them do think that way... What's unexpected because despite your claims, normaly their salaries and pension isn't dependent on convoluted rules.
Sig. a bureocrat (that loves exposing stupid rules and already helped extinguishing my 3 previous work assignments - that means, nobody does them anymore, except for one that we couldn't completely extinguish, so there are 2 people locked on it, replacing a team of 21.)
Let me see it I got that right: Sonny p0wing your computer is just stupid, but MS making an always online console is weapons grade stupid? I got that right?
Also, why does nobody remember the "always on" feature of the MS Teleprompt?
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What? Are you saying that you want the Start Button to have some action when clicked? If it was so important, you should have documented it at the requirements.
You asked for a button, MS gave you a button. Content yourself with it.
Nowhere in the article it's stated that they can compile the source.
I got an offer to read Windows source code once. That condition was there, I wouldn't have the environment needed to actualy compile it. But I work in Brazil, it's possible that Australia got a special deal, there is just no evidence of that.
You should put your head out of the Windows box some day. Processes are not slow, and there is no reason for IPC to be slower than multi-thread data access (altough a few implementations are).
Well if your comment was at the theory level, I missundertood you.
I completely agree that recessions are temporary suboptimal allocation of resources; if we could just make the optimum allocation, we wouldn't have them. But in practice it would be the same if it was mandated by physics, we simply don't have the tech to solve the allocation problem, and any missalocation will cause a recession while it's correcting.
Knowing that, the only things we can do are minimising the misalocation (by minimising the government, for example) and letting the corrections happen as soon as it's natural.
DRM is the ideal tool for a corrupt government. From there to "killing people" there is a jump, but not a huge one.
And that's typical lame-economist thinking where everything is fungible. The world does not work that way, we need to make the resources idle before somebody else can allocate them for any other use. As a consequence, if we have a giant missalocation of resources, the only way to fix it is by making those resources idle, creating a price signal that people can recognize and take advantage of.
And, that's still idealized in several ways. For example, notice that we have a huge amount of resources allocated at the task of fighting productive allocations of resources.
That reduces the efficiency, requiring more nuclear reactors to power it (but less fuel).
Lots of people can do that.
Fortunately, all of them are smart enough to realise that's a waste of time, and stop quite fast.
Belive it or not, that was WinFS selling point by the late 90's. Directly from the MS marketing.
Apple seems obvious, except that I doubt they'll join anything. Apple looks like a fight-alone-to-death kind of warrior.
But they'll certainly keep ther current non-agression pact.
So, the GP should have heard a "crash"?
Yeah, politicians never make bad* decisions. How dare the GP claim otherwise.
* Bad for the people they represent, not for their pockets, of course.
Those papers don't indicate it's a quantum computer either. It's a computer that makes calculations using "quantum effects", as the company claim on the few places they have to be honest.
A console can also update when you put a new disk on it.
If somebody else has something that important to say, they can put it on their site, they don't need to destroy yours. Even if your site tries to gather different points of view.
Also, the press was never "press-like". It was always a matter of "if you have something to say, write your own journal".
No problem. São Paulo is underwater for 3 months every year. They probably know how to handle that.
I was just about to ask if the server would be run by the Agência Brasileira de Inteligência*, but your post is near enough.
*The brazilian version of NSA, that following its NSA trainning, nobody ever remember that exists.
This is slashdot, and even now, by 2013, it's not too much to expect that the average person around here knows what a C-like language looks like.
That said, 3 equal symbols will make you look like a Javascript programer faster than you can point to any less widespread reference, like Prolog. And even now, with all the buzz around it, that's not a good image to have.
Yes, it does need a study. It may be obvious for you, hell it may be obvious for everybody, but unless people make actual quantitative studies we won't know the details, or if it's really true. And there are plenty of obvious things that once somebody studies them we discover that weren't true.
Well, I live in Brazil. Here, the legislators are a caste on their own. When they say "quack like a duck", corporations quack. But even at the US, they create laws based on self interest, it's only that your legislator's self interest tells them to obey the corportations.
Anyway, I pay a lot more for my pension than private workers pay for they retirement here. And probably none of us will get it back in 30 years.
So, MS is being played? The big publishers care for nothing, except how many people that have one kind of console want to buy their game. They'll support the console that sells more (to a public that likes them - not the Wii), and ony them think about the second place.
I'm quite sure that you are right here. The price of media centers is going down fast, while the price of the X-Box is going up slowly. Altough some people got the Xbox 360 to use as media centers, it's very unlikely that any measurable number of people will do that this time.
That's not funny either.
I'd somewhat disagree with the perspective of a bureocrat. It's the legislators that write laws, the bureocrats are required to apply them and are often reluctant to do that. That said, bureocrats do write some rules, when the Law tells them to, and some of them do think that way... What's unexpected because despite your claims, normaly their salaries and pension isn't dependent on convoluted rules.
Sig. a bureocrat (that loves exposing stupid rules and already helped extinguishing my 3 previous work assignments - that means, nobody does them anymore, except for one that we couldn't completely extinguish, so there are 2 people locked on it, replacing a team of 21.)
Sorry, wrong name. It's telescreen.
Let me see it I got that right: Sonny p0wing your computer is just stupid, but MS making an always online console is weapons grade stupid? I got that right?
Also, why does nobody remember the "always on" feature of the MS Teleprompt?