haha... iggymanz... OK LARPER's aside... when did/.'ers become so scared about what other people think about what they are wearing? If you're genuinely secure in your own self, that confidence attracts women much more than your safe and acceptable iPhone does. To all those internet tough guys aka Anonymous Cowards preaching violence for seeing a person wear something they don't approve of: Each and everyone of you is a pathetic little insecure bitch. Can't even stand up behind your own comments and you want to be the guy stomping a nerd in real life for daring to have the balls to wear what he wants? First off, you aren't interesting. You are pathetic little cowards scared of what people think of you. You would make for a horrible subject to film. That is what actually pisses you off that nobody cares about you or your sad little insecure AC lives.
Let's see. No facts, no logic, no effort, no point? You're just making it obvious you have a blatant lack of anything to add to the discussion, and added it anyway. I did that as a child, and my Uncle pointed this out to me: that just because you can speak doesn't mean you have anything to say. You might do well to learn that. I assume you're older than I was (pre Kindergarten).
This is a HUD combined with wearable computing and cloud syncing using Linux/Android as an OS and/. of all places can't think of something more interesting to say "You will look stupid using these". Or "I'd punch anyone wearing Google glass 'cos there is a camera in those things too. If you cannot see past your own vanity or that this might be more than a camera, then honestly you have no right to call yourself a nerd. Seriosu
These are "glasses" in the basest of terms only. If you cannot think of a reason outside of their vision and vanity associated with it that someone might wear one of these then you should hand in your geek card at the door on the way out. Your comment is about as reasonable as dismissing the idea of a bulletproof vest because you aren't cold.
So if I bought this I would have to pay a monthly fee to have XBOX gold so I can play online (the only way to play online) plus always on DRM even for games that are local and single player only. On top of this they wil have a store to sell me music, and videos ( I assume with the same always on DRM) and will be making extra money from that? Well I gave my XBOX 360 away for reasons similar to to, but more benign than this. Looks like i can avoid future news on this money grabbing sinkhole of greed.
The video isn't about how to use the browser. The article isn't about how to use the browser, or changes in UI of Chrome. Forking WebKit serves to accelerate and simplifying Chrome development.
The majority doesn't rule in a Constitutional Republic. It never has, and never will. The point of the the Constitution was to keep in check the power of the government and those citizens who would seek to infringe on those liberties. This is not a difficult concept to grasp. The constitution and the founding fathers knew the dangers of mob mentality. This whole thing is hardly new, and the need of the people to be able to defend themselves rightfully is spelled out for just such a purpose.
If Microsoft does not make Office software available on the platforms that people are using, those users will find other offerings. The document is not the king of the hill it once was. The more people use an alternative the less relevant the file type becomes. When the.doc.xls hegemony is broken then Windows and Office are directly less relevant. MS could push office all it wants, but if the world wants Linux or Mac or iOS or Android, office is no longer enough reason to change or shift platforms.
Calling a tablet something other than a PC, was a move to lock out/down the platform. You can;'t install your own software on an iPad because Apple makes more money this way. If they let you you would have the ability to install apps. Not being able to do this wouldn't fly on a PC. sSo the post PC thing was grandstanding to let Apple control the user. If it was a PC you'd have rights, same goes for a smartphone. Yet here we are on Slashdot being led by the nose and missing the bigger issue. I thought you guys were better than this..It is a sad day indeed.
It has a hard drive, a CPU, a BSD based OS, a screen, an input device and built in nifty keyboard, internet connectivity. It runs applications, can use the internet. shares a code base with OSX. It is a PC, and should be afforded the same rights as a PC. This idea of locking the user out because it is thin (different form factor) is only possible by perverting the term PC. Why is it that when I notice people trying to shift a term it is always to infringe some freedom they've been afforded that hinges on the term/word? A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator.
If the 720 gets hacked rest assured, the XBox live, Netflix, Zune music etc will cease to work making multi player irrelevant as well as any uses as a media center.
These days I am looking at this as a straight up power grab by the executive branch. The Patriot act and the recent leaked memo indicate their intents and desire to usurp the checks and balances to keep any one body from gaining too much power. Obama being in charge of the branch authorizing a police state and 30,000 drones and how to circumvent due process of their own citizens has the ability to to say no, fight for the Constitution and the citizens rights to privacy and dignity associated with it. If I am in charge of a project and it fails or falls behind, it is my responsibility. The state of the Constitution and the Republic ideals on which this country was founded fall squarely on his shoulders.
Netflix gives you a suggested rating based on the ratings you have given to other movies. You cannot actually view a movies over all ranking, just what Netflix thinks it should be for you. Steam lets you see the top selling games from the genres of your choosing and then lets you dig into actual metacritic reviews, to read gamer reviews and critic reviews. This happens with the native steam browser. My fear in user generated Steam scores would be subject to 1 star reviews because their 250 dollar trojan infested laptop with intel onboard shared GPU gives them bad frame rates in FarCry.
Which part of formal logic does your argument utilize? We don't need the right to bear arms because the government has bigger guns and helicopters and tanks? Then you follow up with the premise that the guns we have the rights to protect ourselves with are better suited for killing a civilian rather than an agent of tyranny? You're not bringing your A game to the discussion table.
An AR-15 is not an assault weapon. It is single fire, in the same way that a hunting rifle is, and the same way that a handgun/revolver is. One bullet per trigger pull. It was already illegal to own an assault rifle. That is until they change the definition. Sort of how anyone is a potential terrorist.
Your aliterate person who can't handle homophones looks pretty dumb, too. Look, folks, that kind of aliterate ignorance REALLY affects reading speed and comprehension. And if you actually know better, double shame on you.
You know what I see when I see "you're dog is loose"? I see a high school dropout who has never read an entire book in his whole life. I see a sad, uneducated individual. I see someone I pity. I see someone who is way out of his league at slashdot.
(waiting for an aliterate who thinks "aliterate" is a misspelling to comment...)
You seem awfully proud to know the meaning of the word aliterate...
If Microsoft makes moves and integrates it as a web app in outlook.com, then it should work in Google Chromebooks shortly. Of course in doing this MS is making even more of a move to make their base OS (Windows)/Internet Explorer hegemony irrelevant. I don;t know if MS knows how to build such things without proprietary lock ins and non standard web implementations. It is on their blood.
Google/Android has passed the 500 million active user mark. Granted that is tablet/smartphone marketplace, but that is something of an ownership. To an end user. Gmail/Gdocs/Gdrive/gmaps/ are all being offered for free and freely accessible on any device you want/need. To many people that is more than enough. You and your wife may need "power user tools" such as Excel, but the fact is that you are still using Google accounts and docs to share. Why are you using something free instead of buying Microsoft Server/Windows RDS CALS, MS Office Volume CAL's, Citrix CAL's and Active Directory CAL's so you can use your "getting real work done" Excel on your mobile devices? That is what real worky type professional people have to do to get real work done in a modern scenario with Microsoft. Or you could use the free for personal or 50 per year Google Docs. Yes MS is changing this with Office 365, but you know what, they could have done this 5 years ago, but why would they want to it cannibalizes their cash cow.
So Google is eating their lunch with their good enough offering in the personal sector. Why would anyone need to buy Office at extortionist pricing if they can get free that will suit more than 90 percent of users needs. Now that "good enough" is moving into global enterprises. No on e said Google owned enterprises, what was said is that they moving into and competing directly.
Edison dismissed Alternating Current when offered to him by Tesla because it would make him less money despite being a better standard and more affordable to the masses. He went as far to electrocute animals publicly to show the dangers of AC, despite the dangers of DC being significantly greater to sway people to the DC camp. Hardly a mans man with good cheap affordable electricity.
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haha... iggymanz... OK LARPER's aside... when did /.'ers become so scared about what other people think about what they are wearing? If you're genuinely secure in your own self, that confidence attracts women much more than your safe and acceptable iPhone does. To all those internet tough guys aka Anonymous Cowards preaching violence for seeing a person wear something they don't approve of: Each and everyone of you is a pathetic little insecure bitch. Can't even stand up behind your own comments and you want to be the guy stomping a nerd in real life for daring to have the balls to wear what he wants? First off, you aren't interesting. You are pathetic little cowards scared of what people think of you. You would make for a horrible subject to film. That is what actually pisses you off that nobody cares about you or your sad little insecure AC lives.
Let's see. No facts, no logic, no effort, no point? You're just making it obvious you have a blatant lack of anything to add to the discussion, and added it anyway. I did that as a child, and my Uncle pointed this out to me: that just because you can speak doesn't mean you have anything to say. You might do well to learn that. I assume you're older than I was (pre Kindergarten).
This is a HUD combined with wearable computing and cloud syncing using Linux/Android as an OS and /. of all places can't think of something more interesting to say "You will look stupid using these". Or "I'd punch anyone wearing Google glass 'cos there is a camera in those things too. If you cannot see past your own vanity or that this might be more than a camera, then honestly you have no right to call yourself a nerd. Seriosu
These are "glasses" in the basest of terms only. If you cannot think of a reason outside of their vision and vanity associated with it that someone might wear one of these then you should hand in your geek card at the door on the way out. Your comment is about as reasonable as dismissing the idea of a bulletproof vest because you aren't cold.
So if I bought this I would have to pay a monthly fee to have XBOX gold so I can play online (the only way to play online) plus always on DRM even for games that are local and single player only. On top of this they wil have a store to sell me music, and videos ( I assume with the same always on DRM) and will be making extra money from that? Well I gave my XBOX 360 away for reasons similar to to, but more benign than this. Looks like i can avoid future news on this money grabbing sinkhole of greed.
The video isn't about how to use the browser. The article isn't about how to use the browser, or changes in UI of Chrome. Forking WebKit serves to accelerate and simplifying Chrome development.
The majority doesn't rule in a Constitutional Republic. It never has, and never will. The point of the the Constitution was to keep in check the power of the government and those citizens who would seek to infringe on those liberties. This is not a difficult concept to grasp. The constitution and the founding fathers knew the dangers of mob mentality. This whole thing is hardly new, and the need of the people to be able to defend themselves rightfully is spelled out for just such a purpose.
If Microsoft does not make Office software available on the platforms that people are using, those users will find other offerings. The document is not the king of the hill it once was. The more people use an alternative the less relevant the file type becomes. When the .doc .xls hegemony is broken then Windows and Office are directly less relevant. MS could push office all it wants, but if the world wants Linux or Mac or iOS or Android, office is no longer enough reason to change or shift platforms.
If you want to reread what I wrote, and think, and then post non anonymously then we can have a conversation. I doubt you'll manage all three.
Calling a tablet something other than a PC, was a move to lock out/down the platform. You can;'t install your own software on an iPad because Apple makes more money this way. If they let you you would have the ability to install apps. Not being able to do this wouldn't fly on a PC. sSo the post PC thing was grandstanding to let Apple control the user. If it was a PC you'd have rights, same goes for a smartphone. Yet here we are on Slashdot being led by the nose and missing the bigger issue. I thought you guys were better than this..It is a sad day indeed.
It has a hard drive, a CPU, a BSD based OS, a screen, an input device and built in nifty keyboard, internet connectivity. It runs applications, can use the internet. shares a code base with OSX. It is a PC, and should be afforded the same rights as a PC. This idea of locking the user out because it is thin (different form factor) is only possible by perverting the term PC. Why is it that when I notice people trying to shift a term it is always to infringe some freedom they've been afforded that hinges on the term/word? A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator.
If the 720 gets hacked rest assured, the XBox live, Netflix, Zune music etc will cease to work making multi player irrelevant as well as any uses as a media center.
These days I am looking at this as a straight up power grab by the executive branch. The Patriot act and the recent leaked memo indicate their intents and desire to usurp the checks and balances to keep any one body from gaining too much power. Obama being in charge of the branch authorizing a police state and 30,000 drones and how to circumvent due process of their own citizens has the ability to to say no, fight for the Constitution and the citizens rights to privacy and dignity associated with it. If I am in charge of a project and it fails or falls behind, it is my responsibility. The state of the Constitution and the Republic ideals on which this country was founded fall squarely on his shoulders.
Netflix gives you a suggested rating based on the ratings you have given to other movies. You cannot actually view a movies over all ranking, just what Netflix thinks it should be for you. Steam lets you see the top selling games from the genres of your choosing and then lets you dig into actual metacritic reviews, to read gamer reviews and critic reviews. This happens with the native steam browser. My fear in user generated Steam scores would be subject to 1 star reviews because their 250 dollar trojan infested laptop with intel onboard shared GPU gives them bad frame rates in FarCry.
Apple failed so hard with the Pippin that you're suggestion couldn't do worse.
your suggestion.... gah
Apple failed so hard with the Pippin that you're suggestion couldn't do worse.
I'd really like to know why there's so much !@#$ like this going on.
Its called step 3: profit.
Doesn't make it any more or less appropriate that Microsoft did it first.
Which part of formal logic does your argument utilize? We don't need the right to bear arms because the government has bigger guns and helicopters and tanks? Then you follow up with the premise that the guns we have the rights to protect ourselves with are better suited for killing a civilian rather than an agent of tyranny? You're not bringing your A game to the discussion table.
Sadly for it to happen the desktop had to become irrelevant. Still I think it is a good thing overall.
An AR-15 is not an assault weapon. It is single fire, in the same way that a hunting rifle is, and the same way that a handgun/revolver is. One bullet per trigger pull. It was already illegal to own an assault rifle. That is until they change the definition. Sort of how anyone is a potential terrorist.
You're smart person is going to look pretty dumb
Your aliterate person who can't handle homophones looks pretty dumb, too. Look, folks, that kind of aliterate ignorance REALLY affects reading speed and comprehension. And if you actually know better, double shame on you.
You know what I see when I see "you're dog is loose"? I see a high school dropout who has never read an entire book in his whole life. I see a sad, uneducated individual. I see someone I pity. I see someone who is way out of his league at slashdot.
(waiting for an aliterate who thinks "aliterate" is a misspelling to comment...)
You seem awfully proud to know the meaning of the word aliterate...
If Microsoft makes moves and integrates it as a web app in outlook.com, then it should work in Google Chromebooks shortly. Of course in doing this MS is making even more of a move to make their base OS (Windows)/Internet Explorer hegemony irrelevant. I don;t know if MS knows how to build such things without proprietary lock ins and non standard web implementations. It is on their blood.
Google/Android has passed the 500 million active user mark. Granted that is tablet/smartphone marketplace, but that is something of an ownership. To an end user. Gmail/Gdocs/Gdrive/gmaps/ are all being offered for free and freely accessible on any device you want/need. To many people that is more than enough. You and your wife may need "power user tools" such as Excel, but the fact is that you are still using Google accounts and docs to share. Why are you using something free instead of buying Microsoft Server/Windows RDS CALS, MS Office Volume CAL's, Citrix CAL's and Active Directory CAL's so you can use your "getting real work done" Excel on your mobile devices? That is what real worky type professional people have to do to get real work done in a modern scenario with Microsoft. Or you could use the free for personal or 50 per year Google Docs. Yes MS is changing this with Office 365, but you know what, they could have done this 5 years ago, but why would they want to it cannibalizes their cash cow. So Google is eating their lunch with their good enough offering in the personal sector. Why would anyone need to buy Office at extortionist pricing if they can get free that will suit more than 90 percent of users needs. Now that "good enough" is moving into global enterprises. No on e said Google owned enterprises, what was said is that they moving into and competing directly.
Edison dismissed Alternating Current when offered to him by Tesla because it would make him less money despite being a better standard and more affordable to the masses. He went as far to electrocute animals publicly to show the dangers of AC, despite the dangers of DC being significantly greater to sway people to the DC camp. Hardly a mans man with good cheap affordable electricity.