But games can be played offline too. But maybe not when it's new and one want to sign up and such?
Gift day is the 25th in the US?
As for board-games I thought about that when I was over at a friend who have an Xbox One and we were supposed to play some and it wouldn't connect for us either.
He don't play them but I do and I had just got Dungeon Lords Anniversary Edition from backing it on Kickstarter and there's little chance that "wouldn't run" if you had anyone to play with.
Then again didn't the Xbox One go for as low at $299 or something? I think the US price of that game was $90 so.. Whatever one want to pay that for some card board, paper, wood and glass pieces (+ plastic insert! How modern!) is up for everyone to decide I guess:)
Much more variation and more single player content, dexterity and story to be told on the Xbox One than the board game.
Which doesn't have any such system. Is usually cheaper than Steam. Often have extra content over Steam. Give away games not given away in other places. Also have Linux client.
And so on.
But it doesn't give Steam keys and don't have as much client software. So if you want to brag about your Steam games or Steam achievements or take part of the Steam community whatever that really is it won't cut it.
But if you only want games and want to be able to play them without problems and cheaply it's likely better than Steam.
I assume due to motion blur because things moves in frames and they aren't razor sharp so the video content will flow into each other anyway.
Some games have motion blur but if you base that on the previous frame you will still see part of that frame and hence likely react slower because you're still seeing old content.
Considering some monitors do 144 Hz and GPU-synced I don't think it's much of an issue with the right equipment though.
Because even if the people from the middle-east and Africa develop for the better and people in Sweden do so to we still bring people from the middle-east and Africa to Sweden and they may lag behind in humanity... If nothing else they cost money due to the well-fare system.
I think all of west is open to have Russia join them.
The thing just is that Putin say "NATO moves close" and Russians on RT always trash talk especially people in Poland saying how they are whores to the Europeans.
And then there's the military spending, increases, exercises, "oups I lost my... in your territory" and flat out denying everything though no-one believes that anyway.
Russia is a bully and try to scare people to like him..
That obviously doesn't work very well.
You can't convince Finland that "Oh joining NATO would be bad for you and destabilize this region!" but at the same time joke about how Finland is next.
Or tell Estonia and Latvia that that there wouldn't be much left of their countries if a major conflict broke out in the area and then assume that they will be like "Great my Soviet over lord!
All of them want to join EU and NATO.
None of them seem to beg for joining the Soviet union.
I wonder why that is..
Painful integration for whom? For Russia or Europe? Don't you mean for Russia?
But Russia isn't all that far from Europe anyway. Here in Sweden we import a crap-load of people from for instance Somalia and well.. A crap-load of Russians would be a major upgrade.
You're at least well educated and come from a real working country.
And what if the US government chose not to sell bonds to them?
In case you haven't noticed the US government always run on a deficit and have loans of 18 trillions.
(I guess they could monetize it all by selling to the FED who just burned them or whatever to push down the dollar. I don't know whatever that accomplish much. I assume Americans want to buy foreign products.)
What about one with deals with companies but where you either have to share up to a ratio of say n:1 (n=10 or 20 or whatever, hence fix their distribution) or pay say "more than the average" to not be forced to do that?
With money going in being distributed to those who contributed their work (maybe over number of downloads but then again I guess people would cheat.. so - Yeah. Maybe not a good system after all?)
Sure there must be a way to charge a reasonable "media fee" and then provide a competitive "media access"?
I make the assumption the phones communicate with the base stations and that there's standards and common ideas developed for the two.
And just because Ericsson don't make any phones any longer they don't necessarily have abandoned developing the technologies / hardware for the purpose (not that I know they do so, well, except their ARM chips.)
"What, do you want a beginner version? Sure, we have it for 20 bucks and it can be turned on. And off. And you can press NumLock and make a LED blink. What, ya think it's too little? Well, you get what you pay... hahaha!"
http://techmoran.com/will-huaw... 4 July 2013: "Li Yingtao, the head of Huaweiâ(TM)s R&D has said that Huawei is in the plan to increase its investment on R&D and could outspend Swedish Ericsson, which is the worldâ(TM)s largest telecom equipment seller, this year."
"The company spent US$4.9 billion in 2012 on research and development, but it is looking to increase that in order to convince customers that it isnâ(TM)t just a vendor that competes on price, but also on quality."
"In terms of a percentage of revenues, Ericsson spent 14.4% of its revenues on research, compared to 13.7% by Huawei."
So likely over $5 billion for each company for just 2013?
I don't know what the deal was at either time, saw nothing in the merge part at first (that was a 50/50% thing.)
When Sony bought out Ericsson from that they paid little over 1 billion for Ericsson 50% share part, they cross-licensed their patents and Sony got _FIVE_ crucial patents.
Ericsson still do radio communications / mobile phone network equipment. They likely still hold a bunch of mobile phone patents and chances are they have got new ones / the research and developments carries into phones to and not just the telephone company owned network part. Phones and the fixed antennas need to be able to communicate with each other.
Not that I know the details but I assume they are irrelevant when it comes to phone patents.... especially since they went after Xiaomi for them..
"particular, Chinese regulators are concerned Microsoft could use its patents to gain an edge in the local market. Over 80 percent of Chinese smartphones run Android, which Microsoft claims contains certain technologies on which it holds patents." "In cases involving less important patents, Microsoft can seek a product ban if the vendor conducted "negotiations not in good faith," according to the ministry. Microsoft's promise on fundamental patents will last indefinitely; the promise on non-fundamental patents for eight years."
Concerns Microsoft and not Nokia.
And I guess it make some sense considering the position Nokias mobile phones where in relative where they were on the patents front.
Also it was something China asked for to accept it. I don't know to what extent they can enforce that but I guess there was a situation of accepting that or not. Not given Chinese companies would just be able to use it for nothing and not risk anything.
How are they trolling? Swedish companies spend a lot on R&D. We innovate a lot. The companies innovate a lot. Sure they charge for their innovations. So what? You're free to spend billions in R&D too.
#1 South Korea 4.36% #2 Israel 3.93% #3 Japan 3.67% #4 Sweden 3.3% #5 Finland 3.1% #6 USA 2.7% #7 Austria 2.5% #8 Denmark 2.4% #9 Switzerland 2.3% #10 Iceland 2.3% #11 Germany 2.3% #12 Taiwan 2.3% #13 Singapore 2.2% #14 China 1.97%
Saudi Arabia 0.25% Etiopia 0.17% Indonesia 0.07%.. so in case you wonder why the world is as it is with successful tech companies.. Maybe the amount of money they pour into R&D relate somewhat to that...
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Also how much is great design vs great programmer?
I mean, Facebook is supposed to be worth over 200 billion USD.
By now I guess they have some very talented staff too.
Maybe they have forever, what do I know.
I've never felt the product was very impressive. The third party applications? Then again they was annoying.
It was made for them.
Also they found out who was running that drug store.
Yeah, it's just nasty.
But games can be played offline too. But maybe not when it's new and one want to sign up and such?
Gift day is the 25th in the US?
As for board-games I thought about that when I was over at a friend who have an Xbox One and we were supposed to play some and it wouldn't connect for us either.
He don't play them but I do and I had just got Dungeon Lords Anniversary Edition from backing it on Kickstarter and there's little chance that "wouldn't run" if you had anyone to play with.
Then again didn't the Xbox One go for as low at $299 or something? I think the US price of that game was $90 so.. Whatever one want to pay that for some card board, paper, wood and glass pieces (+ plastic insert! How modern!) is up for everyone to decide I guess :)
Much more variation and more single player content, dexterity and story to be told on the Xbox One than the board game.
I tried to come up with "why?" too.
Is it simply because they want to extort Sony and Microsoft for money?
I assume it's not revenge for TPB raid or "PC master race! Console peasants!"
There's GOG.
Which doesn't have any such system.
Is usually cheaper than Steam.
Often have extra content over Steam.
Give away games not given away in other places.
Also have Linux client.
And so on.
But it doesn't give Steam keys and don't have as much client software. So if you want to brag about your Steam games or Steam achievements or take part of the Steam community whatever that really is it won't cut it.
But if you only want games and want to be able to play them without problems and cheaply it's likely better than Steam.
I assume due to motion blur because things moves in frames and they aren't razor sharp so the video content will flow into each other anyway.
Some games have motion blur but if you base that on the previous frame you will still see part of that frame and hence likely react slower because you're still seeing old content.
Considering some monitors do 144 Hz and GPU-synced I don't think it's much of an issue with the right equipment though.
Because even if the people from the middle-east and Africa develop for the better and people in Sweden do so to we still bring people from the middle-east and Africa to Sweden and they may lag behind in humanity. .. If nothing else they cost money due to the well-fare system.
Of course in the case of the Russians I mean without the tanks.
Also please act civilized and don't bring corruption / mafia way of doing things.
But yeah, regular business and workers and regular people just living minding their own business no problem whatsoever of course.
What do you mean with the European Hamas part?
I think all of west is open to have Russia join them.
The thing just is that Putin say "NATO moves close" and Russians on RT always trash talk especially people in Poland saying how they are whores to the Europeans.
And then there's the military spending, increases, exercises, "oups I lost my ... in your territory" and flat out denying everything though no-one believes that anyway.
Russia is a bully and try to scare people to like him ..
That obviously doesn't work very well.
You can't convince Finland that "Oh joining NATO would be bad for you and destabilize this region!" but at the same time joke about how Finland is next.
Or tell Estonia and Latvia that that there wouldn't be much left of their countries if a major conflict broke out in the area and then assume that they will be like "Great my Soviet over lord!
All of them want to join EU and NATO.
None of them seem to beg for joining the Soviet union.
I wonder why that is ..
Painful integration for whom? For Russia or Europe? Don't you mean for Russia?
But Russia isn't all that far from Europe anyway. Here in Sweden we import a crap-load of people from for instance Somalia and well.. A crap-load of Russians would be a major upgrade.
You're at least well educated and come from a real working country.
Why actually want DOLLARS?!
What you want is products and services.
The actual dough just help it happen. (Guess that answer the question somewhat, it's may be the best intermediate.)
And what if the US government chose not to sell bonds to them?
In case you haven't noticed the US government always run on a deficit and have loans of 18 trillions.
(I guess they could monetize it all by selling to the FED who just burned them or whatever to push down the dollar. I don't know whatever that accomplish much. I assume Americans want to buy foreign products.)
The Artists Bay?
What about one with deals with companies but where you either have to share up to a ratio of say n:1 (n=10 or 20 or whatever, hence fix their distribution) or pay say "more than the average" to not be forced to do that?
With money going in being distributed to those who contributed their work (maybe over number of downloads but then again I guess people would cheat.. so - Yeah. Maybe not a good system after all?)
Sure there must be a way to charge a reasonable "media fee" and then provide a competitive "media access"?
I know it's a thing.
It was the gift of the year some year in Sweden.
That was the point.
It was an example of initial hype but then really isn't much of a thing today.
Guess it may have been hard to understand what I meant for a non-Swede though :)
At least my bread was baked in my bread baking machine this morning.
(No it wasn't.)
I make the assumption the phones communicate with the base stations and that there's standards and common ideas developed for the two.
And just because Ericsson don't make any phones any longer they don't necessarily have abandoned developing the technologies / hardware for the purpose (not that I know they do so, well, except their ARM chips.)
"What, do you want a beginner version? Sure, we have it for 20 bucks and it can be turned on. And off. And you can press NumLock and make a LED blink. What, ya think it's too little? Well, you get what you pay... hahaha!"
Mac vs PC: Choose a Vista: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://techmoran.com/will-huaw...
4 July 2013:
"Li Yingtao, the head of Huaweiâ(TM)s R&D has said that Huawei is in the plan to increase its investment on R&D and could outspend Swedish Ericsson, which is the worldâ(TM)s largest telecom equipment seller, this year."
"The company spent US$4.9 billion in 2012 on research and development, but it is looking to increase that in order to convince customers that it isnâ(TM)t just a vendor that competes on price, but also on quality."
"In terms of a percentage of revenues, Ericsson spent 14.4% of its revenues on research, compared to 13.7% by Huawei."
So likely over $5 billion for each company for just 2013?
Source?
I don't know what the deal was at either time, saw nothing in the merge part at first (that was a 50/50% thing.)
When Sony bought out Ericsson from that they paid little over 1 billion for Ericsson 50% share part, they cross-licensed their patents and Sony got _FIVE_ crucial patents.
Ericsson still do radio communications / mobile phone network equipment. They likely still hold a bunch of mobile phone patents and chances are they have got new ones / the research and developments carries into phones to and not just the telephone company owned network part. Phones and the fixed antennas need to be able to communicate with each other.
Not that I know the details but I assume they are irrelevant when it comes to phone patents. ... especially since they went after Xiaomi for them ..
Anyway. If Ericsson can sue successfully for it I would take that as them being able to and not having signed such a deal.
Both Ericsson and Nokia have real innovations, have made real products, have spend billions (?) in R&D and so on.
+ otherwise.
As in if they wasn't depending on Chinese decision on the matter. And didn't made such a deal.
[citation needed]
For both I guess.
Though the other I guess I can easily search for.
"particular, Chinese regulators are concerned Microsoft could use its patents to gain an edge in the local market. Over 80 percent of Chinese smartphones run Android, which Microsoft claims contains certain technologies on which it holds patents."
"In cases involving less important patents, Microsoft can seek a product ban if the vendor conducted "negotiations not in good faith," according to the ministry. Microsoft's promise on fundamental patents will last indefinitely; the promise on non-fundamental patents for eight years."
Concerns Microsoft and not Nokia.
And I guess it make some sense considering the position Nokias mobile phones where in relative where they were on the patents front.
Also it was something China asked for to accept it. I don't know to what extent they can enforce that but I guess there was a situation of accepting that or not. Not given Chinese companies would just be able to use it for nothing and not risk anything.
Regardless of what have happened Ericsson have developed both the equipment and technology.
Xiaomi have used it without paying.
What is there to be upset about?
I know?
But Ericsson has been or is a market leader in mobile phone equipment and has researched, spent and made developments as one.
Xiaomi is more or less irrelevant.
My other post:
How are they trolling?
Swedish companies spend a lot on R&D.
We innovate a lot. The companies innovate a lot.
Sure they charge for their innovations. So what?
You're free to spend billions in R&D too.
R&D % of GDP PPP:
(Not all countries in the world - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...)
#1 South Korea 4.36%
#2 Israel 3.93%
#3 Japan 3.67%
#4 Sweden 3.3%
#5 Finland 3.1%
#6 USA 2.7%
#7 Austria 2.5%
#8 Denmark 2.4%
#9 Switzerland 2.3%
#10 Iceland 2.3%
#11 Germany 2.3%
#12 Taiwan 2.3%
#13 Singapore 2.2%
#14 China 1.97%
Saudi Arabia 0.25% .. so in case you wonder why the world is as it is with successful tech companies .. Maybe the amount of money they pour into R&D relate somewhat to that ...
Etiopia 0.17%
Indonesia 0.07%
How are they trolling?
Swedish companies spend a lot on R&D.
We innovate a lot. The companies innovate a lot.
Sure they charge for their innovations. So what?
You're free to spend billions in R&D too.