>It's now a solid market that Microsoft dominates Dominate?
Once again they have sold the least amount of hardware globally out of all three big console. The Xbox pretty much doesn't sell much outside of the US because Microsoft basically ignores (or is incompetent) in various international markets. Half the services of the new XOne aren't even useful outside of North America.
I call this succeeding despite oneself and hardly approaching domination.
The PS3 has outsold the Xbox360 now, as I have predicted many times on Slashdot and is now on pace to outsell the Wii after 3 more years of sale (assuming a diminishing sales rate in South America where it is just starting to be sold for a reasonable price).
without properly scaled ups and diesel generator I experienced drive failures of about 1-3 per month accross 300 machines. 3 power failures where ups gave out (which may have only directly caused 5% of those failures)
After moving to a properly resourced DC... 3 per year.
I think two new shoulder buttons L2 and R2 were added in 1994 and sticks were added in 1996. By Sony. 17 years ago. The gamepad has essentially been unchanged ever since, unless you count Nintendo, which finds a way to get by with less buttons.
I'm with you CronoClod, even if newbile-slashdot is not.
Simple fact, there were games before FPS and RTS and they played best wtih gamepads and sticks. Most games outside of these areas play better with pads. PC Gamers (of which I am one) just seem to think FPS and RTS are the end-all-be all of gaming. It also never occurs to them, that many PS3 games which require it, support Mouse and Keyboard and have since the introduction of USB ports on PS2.
Risk on PS3 plays fine. Civ on PS3 plays fine. Simcity was adapted to SNES to play rather well with a pad, meanwhile, was absolutely BRUTAL with a stylus on DS.
I never realized my dreams were relegated to the physically-known universe. I mean, even REM-me found it laughable that Mila Kunis would ever be interested in me personally, but I suppose it is speculatively possible. But the time I lucidly FTLed the unknown Universe, that was still very realistic to REM-me.
Recall's point was never to plant speculative non-real memories. It was to provide a unique, impossible experience for the consumer at a variety of scenarios for a reasonable cost of admission. Kind of like, a movie theatre for your mind only, the 4th wall completely destroyed. These are simply the implications.
Nothing dumb about hollywood magic spectacles (I'm sure you prefer your sci-fi hard, but I'm not picky), however if I recall, they did pretty much kill that plot line.
I think you forget, not much in "Recall" was ever 'real'. Saying Total Recall (modern or original) is not realistic as per your definition of reality is pretty meaningless since they are implanted memories/experiences meant to provide excitement to the consumer (and you, the viewer).
There is very little reason to believe PS4 and Xbone will be shipping with 'crippled' DNLA servers. You have to remember PS3 was one of the first widely available consumer devices to deploy DNLA.
Sorry it's a fact. On the desktop and on clustered racks VMWare wins hands down in features and performance. While there is a roadmap to match KVM with ESX feature-for-feature it will not reach parity for a few years yet assuming VMWare stays fairly static.
I work daily with every large scalable deployments of every virtualization solution on x86 and PPC. Nothing touches VMWare on x86 in the present.
>If you sell your software for $2500 for limited-time use, your software is going to get cracked. Period.
Especially a security software suite written by a cyber security company based out of Washington DC selling their software for 2500$ a pop. It makes you wonder who their customers are, and who they are beholden to. I wouldn't touch this software with a 10 foot pole. And jumpin' joe, that unprofessional website. I can't decide if this guy is an NSA mole that sells snake oil to corporate IT departments or script kiddy grown too big for his britches!
Indeed, just because one is paranoid, doesn't mean someone isn't out to get them.
Also, certainly no one is interested in individuals of the lower class directly, so this obfuscation keeps people like phatomfive from waking up and smelling the roses. I'm by no means poor, but it really crystallized for me a few years ago, when a child of a rich family told me to go home to my 'ticky tacky carbon copy house' when correcting his bad-behavior. He honestly believed I was beneath him- ALREADY!
It is us vs. them and they despise us on a level I cannot even fathom, beyond it's own irony.
Yeah, I'm not sure at what transformation point humanity as a whole will need to adjust its view on some ethical positions, in order to survive/thrive. But, I sense that 'about now' or 'soon' is possibly one of those times. I'm just a peon along for the ride.
Exactly, I guess my point was not clear to the first AC is that it is always subject to Cost/Benefit analysis. After 2003, this benefit crystallized and the cost investment finally caught up with what is available in terms of technology. Before 2003, I could definitely see energy companies going, "What me worry?"
it's easy to forget that the power grid is a very complex web grown organically over generations and is still subject to a lot of modernization.
> If anything, the organizing body (Midwest ISO) should shoulder at least half of the blame since they exist _solely_ to prevent that sort of thing from happening.
It's called a cascade failure. There is nothing reasonably preventative or reactive that could have been done once 3 outgoing lines from Ohio were down.
I don't have a problem with this. I don't see why the US would get involved in 2013, but they have every reason NOT to (as you yourself pointed out).
Again, isn't this what we want?
You miss the point completely AC, that no one wants US to be world police, until of course they do want the most effective army in the world for their own geopolitical pet-project. You miss the point, that just because you think US should have no involvement in something, doesn't mean that you have all of the information...
The US is essentially not interested in things which are unprofitable for Americans. Again, why do we have a problem with this?
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You know what, I'm getting very tired at this 'citation needed' crap when someone is clearly providing an anecdote, and not regurgitating research.
It makes you seem smug and smart internally, but really- to anyone with a brain it makes you seem small, petty and very uninteresting.
No no no, according to half of this thread, this never happens and the greedy worker bees left with all the honey!
This is baloney. I have mod points every other week and contribute comments, firehose, etc.
>It's now a solid market that Microsoft dominates
Dominate?
Once again they have sold the least amount of hardware globally out of all three big console. The Xbox pretty much doesn't sell much outside of the US because Microsoft basically ignores (or is incompetent) in various international markets. Half the services of the new XOne aren't even useful outside of North America.
I call this succeeding despite oneself and hardly approaching domination.
The PS3 has outsold the Xbox360 now, as I have predicted many times on Slashdot and is now on pace to outsell the Wii after 3 more years of sale (assuming a diminishing sales rate in South America where it is just starting to be sold for a reasonable price).
Wisdom brother.
without properly scaled ups and diesel generator I experienced drive failures of about 1-3 per month accross 300 machines. 3 power failures where ups gave out (which may have only directly caused 5% of those failures)
After moving to a properly resourced DC...
3 per year.
You're right the point is lost on me. I have no debate beyond TR being unrealistic as a premise.
Or at least, SOMETHING AWFUL
I think two new shoulder buttons L2 and R2 were added in 1994 and sticks were added in 1996. By Sony. 17 years ago. The gamepad has essentially been unchanged ever since, unless you count Nintendo, which finds a way to get by with less buttons.
I'm with you CronoClod, even if newbile-slashdot is not.
Simple fact, there were games before FPS and RTS and they played best wtih gamepads and sticks. Most games outside of these areas play better with pads. PC Gamers (of which I am one) just seem to think FPS and RTS are the end-all-be all of gaming. It also never occurs to them, that many PS3 games which require it, support Mouse and Keyboard and have since the introduction of USB ports on PS2.
Risk on PS3 plays fine. Civ on PS3 plays fine. Simcity was adapted to SNES to play rather well with a pad, meanwhile, was absolutely BRUTAL with a stylus on DS.
I never realized my dreams were relegated to the physically-known universe. I mean, even REM-me found it laughable that Mila Kunis would ever be interested in me personally, but I suppose it is speculatively possible. But the time I lucidly FTLed the unknown Universe, that was still very realistic to REM-me.
Recall's point was never to plant speculative non-real memories. It was to provide a unique, impossible experience for the consumer at a variety of scenarios for a reasonable cost of admission. Kind of like, a movie theatre for your mind only, the 4th wall completely destroyed. These are simply the implications.
Nothing dumb about hollywood magic spectacles (I'm sure you prefer your sci-fi hard, but I'm not picky), however if I recall, they did pretty much kill that plot line.
I think you forget, not much in "Recall" was ever 'real'. Saying Total Recall (modern or original) is not realistic as per your definition of reality is pretty meaningless since they are implanted memories/experiences meant to provide excitement to the consumer (and you, the viewer).
Agreed, people only hated Total Recall because it ruined the purity of the original. And we'll see the same when Robocop comes out too.
That said on it's own, I enjoyed Total Recall remake quite a bit. By no means a perfect movie, it could have been a lot worse.
So.... You are taking the wait and see approach?
There is very little reason to believe PS4 and Xbone will be shipping with 'crippled' DNLA servers. You have to remember PS3 was one of the first widely available consumer devices to deploy DNLA.
> but it has better controls for certain types of games
but it has better controls for SOME types of games.
Sorry it's a fact. On the desktop and on clustered racks VMWare wins hands down in features and performance. While there is a roadmap to match KVM with ESX feature-for-feature it will not reach parity for a few years yet assuming VMWare stays fairly static.
I work daily with every large scalable deployments of every virtualization solution on x86 and PPC. Nothing touches VMWare on x86 in the present.
Exactly, hence my distrust and survey of the maker's motives.
No corporation in their right might would use this particular junk.
Walt, we know damn well that story isn't true.
He has nothing to do with L0pht.
>If you sell your software for $2500 for limited-time use, your software is going to get cracked. Period.
Especially a security software suite written by a cyber security company based out of Washington DC selling their software for 2500$ a pop. It makes you wonder who their customers are, and who they are beholden to. I wouldn't touch this software with a 10 foot pole. And jumpin' joe, that unprofessional website. I can't decide if this guy is an NSA mole that sells snake oil to corporate IT departments or script kiddy grown too big for his britches!
Indeed, just because one is paranoid, doesn't mean someone isn't out to get them.
Also, certainly no one is interested in individuals of the lower class directly, so this obfuscation keeps people like phatomfive from waking up and smelling the roses. I'm by no means poor, but it really crystallized for me a few years ago, when a child of a rich family told me to go home to my 'ticky tacky carbon copy house' when correcting his bad-behavior. He honestly believed I was beneath him- ALREADY!
It is us vs. them and they despise us on a level I cannot even fathom, beyond it's own irony.
Yeah, I'm not sure at what transformation point humanity as a whole will need to adjust its view on some ethical positions, in order to survive/thrive. But, I sense that 'about now' or 'soon' is possibly one of those times. I'm just a peon along for the ride.
Exactly, I guess my point was not clear to the first AC is that it is always subject to Cost/Benefit analysis. After 2003, this benefit crystallized and the cost investment finally caught up with what is available in terms of technology. Before 2003, I could definitely see energy companies going, "What me worry?"
it's easy to forget that the power grid is a very complex web grown organically over generations and is still subject to a lot of modernization.
> If anything, the organizing body (Midwest ISO) should shoulder at least half of the blame since they exist _solely_ to prevent that sort of thing from happening.
It's called a cascade failure. There is nothing reasonably preventative or reactive that could have been done once 3 outgoing lines from Ohio were down.
At least less than half the time...
I don't have a problem with this. I don't see why the US would get involved in 2013, but they have every reason NOT to (as you yourself pointed out).
Again, isn't this what we want?
You miss the point completely AC, that no one wants US to be world police, until of course they do want the most effective army in the world for their own geopolitical pet-project. You miss the point, that just because you think US should have no involvement in something, doesn't mean that you have all of the information...
The US is essentially not interested in things which are unprofitable for Americans. Again, why do we have a problem with this?