Thats because microsoft doesn't give a shit about how much space it wastes on peoples hard drives. My windows 7 computer has a installer folder which takes up over 7gb and I hardly installed any programs on it. Googling tells me I can't delete this folder either. Apparently the folder contains backups of the programs I have installed but since I already do my own backups of the computer it is stupid that I am forced to have a backup of a backup.
Yea I remember ms-DOS. You could go into the DOS directory and delete every exe and com file you never used to make the OS even leaner.
BTW, your windows directory is small compared to mine. Mine takes up freaking 30gb and that is with system restore and windows update backups removed. Fuck I hate windows but its the shit os I have to use to use the programs I want.
Companies like Google do this to legitimize another company's business. I've been using the internet for quite some time now and I've seen loads of companies/websites come and go. But with all this integration of facebook/twitter/youtube/linkedin shit into apps and other websites, it makes me wonder what happens when those sites go out of fashion (out of fad). Or is the internet mature enough now that websites/comanies have stopped coming and going.
Heck, even Slashdot participates in this with those 4 symbols near the article summary.
Is it really Google competing with Uber or is it really Uber competing with Google?
In February this year Uber formed a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop driverless car technology. They're now looking to buy Nokia's map technology for navigation and replace technology provided by Google maps.
Google says they aren't competing with Uber. Their drive sharing app was made internally for certain employees to carpool to work.
Google has at least $258M invested in Uber and has their chief legal officer on the Uber board.
I don't think Google's investment in Uber is anything like ms's partnership with IBM in making OS/2 or ms partnership with opengl. I think the partnership is more akin to Google's relationship with Mozilla back then (which Mozilla later ceased). Google is stronger when there is more than one with their ideas.
"Facebook has become unusable. Load times are now in excess of 30 seconds. Packet loss seems awful. Images don't load, the page is botched from missing CSS bits."
They tried to force people to update by not releasing IE and directx on older versions of windows. I could see them doing the same for directx - if your windows is not up to patch xxxx it wont install. It would be pretty annoying if you just bought a new game and you can't play it until you ponied up for ms's subscription model.
I think ms would like to get rid of legacy desktop programs if they could. Window's compatibilty with old programs keeps people using windows but if windows can get rid of it they could lock down the os with all apps going through their app store that they can collect 30% on. It wont be our os to do what we like with anymore. and everything will be drm drm drm.
You're right it does cost money but I think they could still make it available for free. They could run it like the xbox model where the console makes a loss but they make the money back on other things. On the pc they could make a loss on the os and then try to make the money back through a 30% cut on everything sold on the windows app store. Sorta like how Google pays for the upkeep of Android from the app store sales.
For this to really work though, ms would have to break windows compatibility and force all programs and apps to go through the app store. I think Valve sees it this way too thats why have brought Steam to Linux and Apple and they host a lot of triple play titles which you only have to buy once. Even GOG with the Galaxy desktop client they're making, will be on Linux and Apple too.
Yea, that is right. They're free at the start but developers have to pay 5% after they make a certain amount of sales.
There's also another big name engine which is coming and will be free. Valves Source 2 engine has no royalities, the only cleveat being that games made in Source 2 must have a version for sale on steam.
The timeframe for Source 2 is unknown but don't expect Half Life 3 until Source 2 is out.
Obviously, when I wrote "we've" I was referring to the post 1930s generation who were taught that theres 9 planets not 8. Same as I am not referring to the currently generation when I wrote "we've" because they being taught that theres 8 again.
If you go back even further there were even less than 8 planets. OMG!
Do they have to know every planet there is? Just teach them the important ones ie the 9 that we've always known. We don't teach kids every animal species there is out there, why should it be important to know the names of all the 2000 planets out there.
It would also need to be reworked so the app isn't tied to your itunes/google play account anymore but to ms's app store. If people still need a itunes/google play account to make the app work then ms still has that problem where people have a itunes/google play account already... why wouldnt they just stay there and buy apps off itunes/google play to run on the windows phone.
The problem ms still has with this is nobody wants to buy their android/ios apps AGAIN. So ms might be able to get new people who have never had a android or iphone before (how many of these people would there be?) the windows phone will still have a lack of incentive for people to swap phones because nobody wants to buy their entire library of apps again. ms may as well throw the towel in. they came in too late to the phone market even after steering nokia to its death for the ms cause.
A android/ios app running on a windows phone will likely be slower, suck more power off the phone and be at the mercy of a buggy translation layer or apple/google doing what ms did to wordperfect and os/2 and changing the api.
Why anyone would want to buy a windows phone to help ms become a monopoly in that market to fuck over corporations and consumers again is beyond me.
You say accelerating yet the FA is about microsoft doing the opposite.
Had microsft open sourced something useful then maybe people might care like open sourcing skype or ntfs or windows or office or outlook or uefi signing, the kinect etc. Instead they open source rubbish which is only good to leverage their own products and is nothing good for for porting to other platforms for interoperability.
I guess what I was trying to do was to give an example of a different situation where an innocent party is wronged by losing something that they thought they had purchased legitimately. Same as your point 1. The buyer hasn't committed a crime but they still lose what they have purchased. Maybe a better example would have been counterfeit keys. The rights owner doesn't have to recognize them.
To point 2, in the case of the kindle book, amazon refunded the buyers, so they had the option of rebuying the books elsewhere and hopefully sending the revenue correctly this time to the rightful owner.
I'm just explaining to the AC and the readers here why his 1984 ebook got removed. Right or wrong what amazon did, its different from what steam does when it removes a game from sale.
That book youre are talking about was sold by somebody on Amazon who never had the rights to it to you in the first place so you never had a legit license to have that book. Thats why Amazon could remove from existing buyers. The same way as if you bought stolen goods from a second hand store, the police can remove it.
Games that have been take off steam have never been removed from a users library when the license was fine when it was sold.
microsofts brand name is shot and they know it. Compare the different console boxes. The ps4 and wii u have the company name displayed quite promiantly on them while the xbox one does. Nor did the xbox 360 or the original xbox.
Even on the zune device boxes microsoft was ashamed to put display their company name prominently on it.
And on phones they used the Nokia name to push their windows phones.
Fact is, outside of pc software and hardware, microsoft knows their brand name deters customers.
I'm not at all surprised at how advanced Valve's VR offering is. They were actually working on VR long before the Oculus Rift started. For some reason Valve canned the project and let go of all their staff including Jeri Ellsworth. Many of these people were then snapped up by Oculus. Because Valve didn't sell their project to Oculus, Valve would have retained all their previous VR work to use when they restarted the project.
One reason why the Oculus Rift could be shittier than the Valve one is that Valve holds the IP to do something better and is not selling it to facebook.
If I am not mistaken, Valve did the ports for Left4dead, Portal 2 and HL2 to the Rift. Valve is definitely not a newcomer to the VR game.
I hope it is Valves VR that takes off. Valve only cares about gaming and doing it well. If facebook wins you can bet they will augment targeted ads into the VR.
That's easy to find Spaceball II. It is here on this video cassette tape.
Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop. Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie? Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now. Dark Helmet: What happened to then? Colonel Sandurz: We passed then. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now. Dark Helmet: Go back to then. Colonel Sandurz: When? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: Now? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: I can't. Dark Helmet: Why? Colonel Sandurz: We missed it. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. Dark Helmet: When will then be now? Colonel Sandurz: Soon. Dark Helmet: How soon?
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Thats because microsoft doesn't give a shit about how much space it wastes on peoples hard drives. My windows 7 computer has a installer folder which takes up over 7gb and I hardly installed any programs on it. Googling tells me I can't delete this folder either. Apparently the folder contains backups of the programs I have installed but since I already do my own backups of the computer it is stupid that I am forced to have a backup of a backup.
Yea I remember ms-DOS. You could go into the DOS directory and delete every exe and com file you never used to make the OS even leaner.
BTW, your windows directory is small compared to mine. Mine takes up freaking 30gb and that is with system restore and windows update backups removed. Fuck I hate windows but its the shit os I have to use to use the programs I want.
Companies like Google do this to legitimize another company's business. I've been using the internet for quite some time now and I've seen loads of companies/websites come and go. But with all this integration of facebook/twitter/youtube/linkedin shit into apps and other websites, it makes me wonder what happens when those sites go out of fashion (out of fad). Or is the internet mature enough now that websites/comanies have stopped coming and going.
Heck, even Slashdot participates in this with those 4 symbols near the article summary.
Is it really Google competing with Uber or is it really Uber competing with Google?
In February this year Uber formed a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to develop driverless car technology. They're now looking to buy Nokia's map technology for navigation and replace technology provided by Google maps.
Google says they aren't competing with Uber. Their drive sharing app was made internally for certain employees to carpool to work.
Google has at least $258M invested in Uber and has their chief legal officer on the Uber board.
I don't think Google's investment in Uber is anything like ms's partnership with IBM in making OS/2 or ms partnership with opengl. I think the partnership is more akin to Google's relationship with Mozilla back then (which Mozilla later ceased). Google is stronger when there is more than one with their ideas.
"Facebook has become unusable. Load times are now in excess of 30 seconds. Packet loss seems awful. Images don't load, the page is botched from missing CSS bits."
What is the bad thing again? :)
They tried to force people to update by not releasing IE and directx on older versions of windows. I could see them doing the same for directx - if your windows is not up to patch xxxx it wont install. It would be pretty annoying if you just bought a new game and you can't play it until you ponied up for ms's subscription model.
I think ms would like to get rid of legacy desktop programs if they could. Window's compatibilty with old programs keeps people using windows but if windows can get rid of it they could lock down the os with all apps going through their app store that they can collect 30% on. It wont be our os to do what we like with anymore. and everything will be drm drm drm.
You're right it does cost money but I think they could still make it available for free. They could run it like the xbox model where the console makes a loss but they make the money back on other things. On the pc they could make a loss on the os and then try to make the money back through a 30% cut on everything sold on the windows app store. Sorta like how Google pays for the upkeep of Android from the app store sales.
For this to really work though, ms would have to break windows compatibility and force all programs and apps to go through the app store. I think Valve sees it this way too thats why have brought Steam to Linux and Apple and they host a lot of triple play titles which you only have to buy once. Even GOG with the Galaxy desktop client they're making, will be on Linux and Apple too.
MSDOS 4.0 had multi tasking but it wasn't very good so ms released 4.1 with the mulitasking removed.
"And if you think there is not value in the time-value of money then you need to study business more..."
What? Where did you get the idea I thought that?
Yea, that is right. They're free at the start but developers have to pay 5% after they make a certain amount of sales.
There's also another big name engine which is coming and will be free. Valves Source 2 engine has no royalities, the only cleveat being that games made in Source 2 must have a version for sale on steam.
The timeframe for Source 2 is unknown but don't expect Half Life 3 until Source 2 is out.
Obviously, when I wrote "we've" I was referring to the post 1930s generation who were taught that theres 9 planets not 8. Same as I am not referring to the currently generation when I wrote "we've" because they being taught that theres 8 again.
If you go back even further there were even less than 8 planets. OMG!
Do they have to know every planet there is? Just teach them the important ones ie the 9 that we've always known. We don't teach kids every animal species there is out there, why should it be important to know the names of all the 2000 planets out there.
It would also need to be reworked so the app isn't tied to your itunes/google play account anymore but to ms's app store. If people still need a itunes/google play account to make the app work then ms still has that problem where people have a itunes/google play account already... why wouldnt they just stay there and buy apps off itunes/google play to run on the windows phone.
The problem ms still has with this is nobody wants to buy their android/ios apps AGAIN. So ms might be able to get new people who have never had a android or iphone before (how many of these people would there be?) the windows phone will still have a lack of incentive for people to swap phones because nobody wants to buy their entire library of apps again. ms may as well throw the towel in. they came in too late to the phone market even after steering nokia to its death for the ms cause.
A android/ios app running on a windows phone will likely be slower, suck more power off the phone and be at the mercy of a buggy translation layer or apple/google doing what ms did to wordperfect and os/2 and changing the api.
Why anyone would want to buy a windows phone to help ms become a monopoly in that market to fuck over corporations and consumers again is beyond me.
....or propaganda to show Iran in a bad light.
I think the new way around this is to enclose them with ".
They are not going to get very far weeding out fake likes when their system is set up to bribe people for likes.
What facebook needs to do is add a dislike button like youtube has.
If I want to comment on my local government's facebook page to complain about something why the fuck do I have to LIKE them first.
Secondly facebook should crack down on companies asking for likes to enter competitions or get discount coupons at their shop.
You say accelerating yet the FA is about microsoft doing the opposite.
Had microsft open sourced something useful then maybe people might care like open sourcing skype or ntfs or windows or office or outlook or uefi signing, the kinect etc. Instead they open source rubbish which is only good to leverage their own products and is nothing good for for porting to other platforms for interoperability.
Fair enough. That probably wasn't a good example by me.
Incidentally in the case of the kindle book, amazon refunded the buyers their money so they did at least try to help the victims.
I guess what I was trying to do was to give an example of a different situation where an innocent party is wronged by losing something that they thought they had purchased legitimately. Same as your point 1. The buyer hasn't committed a crime but they still lose what they have purchased. Maybe a better example would have been counterfeit keys. The rights owner doesn't have to recognize them.
To point 2, in the case of the kindle book, amazon refunded the buyers, so they had the option of rebuying the books elsewhere and hopefully sending the revenue correctly this time to the rightful owner.
Agreed. Copyright infringement isn't theft. I should have made a better example.
Not sure why you are asking me this... ?
I'm just explaining to the AC and the readers here why his 1984 ebook got removed. Right or wrong what amazon did, its different from what steam does when it removes a game from sale.
That book youre are talking about was sold by somebody on Amazon who never had the rights to it to you in the first place so you never had a legit license to have that book. Thats why Amazon could remove from existing buyers. The same way as if you bought stolen goods from a second hand store, the police can remove it.
Games that have been take off steam have never been removed from a users library when the license was fine when it was sold.
microsofts brand name is shot and they know it. Compare the different console boxes. The ps4 and wii u have the company name displayed quite promiantly on them while the xbox one does. Nor did the xbox 360 or the original xbox.
Even on the zune device boxes microsoft was ashamed to put display their company name prominently on it.
And on phones they used the Nokia name to push their windows phones.
Fact is, outside of pc software and hardware, microsoft knows their brand name deters customers.
I'm not at all surprised at how advanced Valve's VR offering is. They were actually working on VR long before the Oculus Rift started. For some reason Valve canned the project and let go of all their staff including Jeri Ellsworth. Many of these people were then snapped up by Oculus. Because Valve didn't sell their project to Oculus, Valve would have retained all their previous VR work to use when they restarted the project.
One reason why the Oculus Rift could be shittier than the Valve one is that Valve holds the IP to do something better and is not selling it to facebook.
If I am not mistaken, Valve did the ports for Left4dead, Portal 2 and HL2 to the Rift. Valve is definitely not a newcomer to the VR game.
I hope it is Valves VR that takes off. Valve only cares about gaming and doing it well. If facebook wins you can bet they will augment targeted ads into the VR.
That's easy to find Spaceball II. It is here on this video cassette tape.
Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop.
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
Dark Helmet: How soon?