Whatever. You point out that there are equally capable APIs that would allow game devs to target multiple platforms with ease. Yet they aren't using them. Maybe the reason I give isn't the actual reason, or maybe it is. If those APIs were as good, don't you think game devs would use them to sell a few thousand more copies?
1) delayed and cut features have been status quo from the beginning, at least with Windows OS releases.
Isn't this the status quo with most software?
2) Nothing new in Office. Aside from new document formats, there has been little new for years from what I hear.
Agree here. But honestly, what features are left that aren't already in Word?
3) MSN has been nothing really since WebTV and that was a failure as well.
No so sure on this one; people actually do use it to dial up to the internet still.
4) MSN search. That will succeed if they are allowed to slap that into IE by default, just like bundling IE.
I doubt that MSN by default will help them. People aren't going to change from something they like, especially considering how trivial it is to change this option. They'll only become better if they start doing some things the same as google.. one thing that keeps me from using it (besides irrelevent results) is that its graphics heavy.
5) Xbox 360. Dunno, the PS3 and the game market will determine this. From what I understand the 360 is a decent gaming platform, but lacking in games at this time.
The major hurt for the PS3 though is a lack of console... MS may come out on top on this one, I think its pretty likely. the original xbox was actually a pretty good console.
6) Pad based computing. Microsoft has had a number of products fail, but Windows Tablet edition is not that significant of a product and it will sell as long as tablets will sell.
Agreed.
7).NET - dunno. Visual Studio has done well, Microsoft's version of Java died for some reason. Regardless of.NET's success, I don't see Microsoft's development environments going anywhere before Windows and derived platforms go away as well.
The.Net framework has taken off pretty well actually. So well that they are positioning it just like they did Win32; its going to be THE way to talk to the kernel in future versions of Windows. Think of the currentl redistributable as Win32s.
8) Google. Microsoft has never liked competition. The funny thing is that they silently ignore Apple because (IMHO) they can't touch them.
I'm sure no company likes competition:-) They ignore Apple because Apple is irrelevent in the computer world, and is never likely to become anything. I think the decision to go with x86 for future Apple's is a desperate attempt to gain some market share... but I think its likely to fail.
Is it all one unified API? Is it all ONE package to download? Or do you now need to visit three different sites, for three products, each with its own style of APIs?
I already knew of the existence of those projects, I feel the problem is that they are three seperate projects, not one unified, integrated package, with the same style of API across all three.
Google has found something like when the bar is available to users, 80% of searches will come from the bar. I'm not sure on that number but it is around there.
And its currently not available at all in IE6. So google isn't actually losing anything if the user installs IE7, since 'the bar' was not there for them to begin with.
That may have been the point of the article, but the thread I'm in was talking about US vacation policy, and it seemed to me that the GP poster though that Federal holidays HAD to be given off, or a vacation day added. I didn't see anything that indicated that post was refering to British policy.
I understood your point completely, I just think you're wrong. DirectX games were NOT what pushed developers to Win95; it was the comforting fact that they could target Win95 and not shut out the huge (at the time) Win3.x people.
I think few game devs moved to DX until version 2 or 3; I remember pretty well since I had just started college and was big into gaming.. and I don't ever remember seeing a game that required DX 1. If you know of any that had any kind of popularity, I'd love to know.
I'd like to see a lot of money thrown into OpenGL 2.0 so that all the 'features' that are needed are in there and ready to rock (and easily upgraded when necessary). Then all game companies dump DX* as a secondary/backup way to play the games with OpenGL being the main. It would also make porting somewhat easier I would imagine.
While I would love this as well, it won't happen until OpenGL starts including audio, input control and network control as a single integrated library. Right now, you'll get the great graphics, but game devs have to do ALOT more work for input, audio and networking.
You don't have a clue what you are talking about. DX 1 wasn't a driving factor for acceptace of Win95. If anything, it was that they back ported the 'new' kernel interface, win32, as Win32s, so that you could target 95 while not leaving 3.1x people out in the cold.
Also note this is what they are doing with.Net..
At any rate, it will be some time before game devs target DX 10, since it will be some time before thier target audience moves to Vista.
I'm also quite sure that a lot of game studios will support DX-X and nothing else, so if you want to play Halflife 3 and Duke Nu... (ok, no lame jokes, I promised), you have to get Vista.
So you think current game devs will target an OS which won't be on a majority of desktops for quite a few years?
Well, I suppose they'd sell a few more copies that if they targeted only a Mac.
Um, I went pretty far up the chain, and while I did find someone that pointed out the Brits get a lot more vacation, it seems that the minimum two week vacation, and then the next reply about some that don't get those, were refering to American vacation policy.
So, please point out where I missed it, and the post I replied to was talking about British holidays.
The gasoline companies don't seem to agree with you. They all have record profits at the end of the quarters in which they all simultaneously raise their prices sharply.
Isn't that why just about everyone is accusing them of colluding?
What's wrong is people like yourself who continually insist that others bear the burden for her. People get sick. They die. There is not an inherent right to have your illnesses cured because they are heartbreaking.
I have to agree with you. Death is a part of life. Some things can easily be cured, and should be. Others are probably beyond the resources that we have on this planet. Our resources are limited, and as sad as it is, that means that some things are not worth treating. You end up draining people's ability to support themselves attempting to do so, and it gets to the point where this makes them unhealthy, because now they can't do the things they need to remain healthy. Then they go onto healthcare, further draining everyone else..
Bank holidays are not what you think. They are legal holidays. While it is true that you may have to work at a bank holiday, the employer is legally required to offer you a day off in lieu, so the point about the higher amount of days off stands.
Please site this law, because unless your the feds or a bank, you are NOT obligated to follow all federal holidays. I've never worked for any company that honored all of them.
Any economists care to explain what's going on here?
There's no need for an economist to explain it. I will. FWIW, my wife works in the billing dept. of the largest hospital in this area.
First, the hospital is horrid at billing properly. In the end, they end up eating the cost of many free procedures. Its their own fault though, but no doubt plays a part in increasing the price.
Secondly, being fat may not have affected the study as to why we are sicker, but being fat is certainly expensive. For some unknown reason, insurance will pay for a gastric bypass.. a procedure which is never medically necessary. For those big enough to get the surergy but still mostly mobile on their own, they ALWAYS can lose the weight with proper diet and exersise. They prove this time and again, because before insurance approves the surgery, they must lose 5% of their body wait by diet and exersise. If you can lose 5%, you can lose a good portion of the rest. If you're too big to even move, well, you did it to yourself, and there's no reason the rest of society should pay for your fat ass to have a surgery to fix your self hatred.
Oh, and the final point about gastric bypass; over 75% of these people continue their bad eating habits, and end up popping their stomach because they continue to over eat. The ones you see on TV are the rare ones that keep up with their new diet. And even those people continue to have serious medical problems.
The best fix would be for insurances to pay for preventive measures; gym memberships and procedures that would help stop a problem before it becomes life threatening. Currently most insurances won't pay until something is medically necessary; ie your life is in danger. Eliminating coverage for those that don't take reasonable care of themselves (those that don't wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle, not wearing a seatbelt in a car, not going to the gym, and those that continue to smoke).
So, what's to be done? Well, for starters, we need to provide an alternate viewpoint in government.
OR... We could drastically reduce the size the federal government and give rights back to the states, where you vote matters much more. Then maybe we wouldn't have an FCC which can dicate technology or content to anyone, it would just allocate spectrum. We could also lets states determine their own drug laws, drinking ages, and other stuff that really is outside the mandate of the federal government.
Oh, and also the late fees were MORE than if you had returned the movie and rented it again. So while you paid $4 for a '2 day rental' you ended up paying $5 for returning it one day late.
You rent the damn movie, they tell you when it's due back, you return by that time. If you don't, you get a penalty. It's only fair, seeing as how you were denying them from possibly renting it to someone else. I don't understand how people could complain about it.
Because every other video store in america said '2 day rental' to mean that if you rented on friday, you had to return it on sunday. Blockbuster started counting the day you rented it, meaning something rented on friday had to be back the next day (which is what every other rental place considered '1 day rental.').
When IE7 mysterously appears on everyone's computer, then you'll be able to invoke the apples to oranges argument.
As it stands now, no one is selling Vista, and even when they do, it will be a LONG time for Vista to make a big inroads. Therefore, for most people today (and until Vista starts replaces most of the XP installations out there), IE7 is an optional download, just like firefox.
MSN is the home page for a lot of IE uses, yet they still seem to manually goto google to do a search. IE7 will only come bundled with Vista; for most users today, IE7 will be a seperate download as well. There are alot of reasons to get upset at MS for; this doesn't seem to be one of them.
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Whatever. You point out that there are equally capable APIs that would allow game devs to target multiple platforms with ease. Yet they aren't using them. Maybe the reason I give isn't the actual reason, or maybe it is. If those APIs were as good, don't you think game devs would use them to sell a few thousand more copies?
1) delayed and cut features have been status quo from the beginning, at least with Windows OS releases.
.NET - dunno. Visual Studio has done well, Microsoft's version of Java died for some reason. Regardless of .NET's success, I don't see Microsoft's development environments going anywhere before Windows and derived platforms go away as well.
.Net framework has taken off pretty well actually. So well that they are positioning it just like they did Win32; its going to be THE way to talk to the kernel in future versions of Windows. Think of the currentl redistributable as Win32s.
:-) They ignore Apple because Apple is irrelevent in the computer world, and is never likely to become anything. I think the decision to go with x86 for future Apple's is a desperate attempt to gain some market share... but I think its likely to fail.
Isn't this the status quo with most software?
2) Nothing new in Office. Aside from new document formats, there has been little new for years from what I hear.
Agree here. But honestly, what features are left that aren't already in Word?
3) MSN has been nothing really since WebTV and that was a failure as well.
No so sure on this one; people actually do use it to dial up to the internet still.
4) MSN search. That will succeed if they are allowed to slap that into IE by default, just like bundling IE.
I doubt that MSN by default will help them. People aren't going to change from something they like, especially considering how trivial it is to change this option. They'll only become better if they start doing some things the same as google.. one thing that keeps me from using it (besides irrelevent results) is that its graphics heavy.
5) Xbox 360. Dunno, the PS3 and the game market will determine this. From what I understand the 360 is a decent gaming platform, but lacking in games at this time.
The major hurt for the PS3 though is a lack of console... MS may come out on top on this one, I think its pretty likely. the original xbox was actually a pretty good console.
6) Pad based computing. Microsoft has had a number of products fail, but Windows Tablet edition is not that significant of a product and it will sell as long as tablets will sell.
Agreed.
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8) Google. Microsoft has never liked competition. The funny thing is that they silently ignore Apple because (IMHO) they can't touch them.
I'm sure no company likes competition
Is it all one unified API? Is it all ONE package to download? Or do you now need to visit three different sites, for three products, each with its own style of APIs?
I already knew of the existence of those projects, I feel the problem is that they are three seperate projects, not one unified, integrated package, with the same style of API across all three.
Google has found something like when the bar is available to users, 80% of searches will come from the bar. I'm not sure on that number but it is around there.
And its currently not available at all in IE6. So google isn't actually losing anything if the user installs IE7, since 'the bar' was not there for them to begin with.
That may have been the point of the article, but the thread I'm in was talking about US vacation policy, and it seemed to me that the GP poster though that Federal holidays HAD to be given off, or a vacation day added. I didn't see anything that indicated that post was refering to British policy.
I understood your point completely, I just think you're wrong. DirectX games were NOT what pushed developers to Win95; it was the comforting fact that they could target Win95 and not shut out the huge (at the time) Win3.x people.
I think few game devs moved to DX until version 2 or 3; I remember pretty well since I had just started college and was big into gaming.. and I don't ever remember seeing a game that required DX 1. If you know of any that had any kind of popularity, I'd love to know.
I'd like to see a lot of money thrown into OpenGL 2.0 so that all the 'features' that are needed are in there and ready to rock (and easily upgraded when necessary). Then all game companies dump DX* as a secondary/backup way to play the games with OpenGL being the main. It would also make porting somewhat easier I would imagine.
While I would love this as well, it won't happen until OpenGL starts including audio, input control and network control as a single integrated library. Right now, you'll get the great graphics, but game devs have to do ALOT more work for input, audio and networking.
You don't have a clue what you are talking about. DX 1 wasn't a driving factor for acceptace of Win95. If anything, it was that they back ported the 'new' kernel interface, win32, as Win32s, so that you could target 95 while not leaving 3.1x people out in the cold.
.Net..
Also note this is what they are doing with
At any rate, it will be some time before game devs target DX 10, since it will be some time before thier target audience moves to Vista.
I'm also quite sure that a lot of game studios will support DX-X and nothing else, so if you want to play Halflife 3 and Duke Nu... (ok, no lame jokes, I promised), you have to get Vista.
So you think current game devs will target an OS which won't be on a majority of desktops for quite a few years?
Well, I suppose they'd sell a few more copies that if they targeted only a Mac.
Um, I went pretty far up the chain, and while I did find someone that pointed out the Brits get a lot more vacation, it seems that the minimum two week vacation, and then the next reply about some that don't get those, were refering to American vacation policy.
So, please point out where I missed it, and the post I replied to was talking about British holidays.
The gasoline companies don't seem to agree with you. They all have record profits at the end of the quarters in which they all simultaneously raise their prices sharply.
Isn't that why just about everyone is accusing them of colluding?
Actually you're not far off; preservatives have been attributed to one of the reasons people here have been living longer.
What's wrong is people like yourself who continually insist that others bear the burden for her. People get sick. They die. There is not an inherent right to have your illnesses cured because they are heartbreaking.
I have to agree with you. Death is a part of life. Some things can easily be cured, and should be. Others are probably beyond the resources that we have on this planet. Our resources are limited, and as sad as it is, that means that some things are not worth treating. You end up draining people's ability to support themselves attempting to do so, and it gets to the point where this makes them unhealthy, because now they can't do the things they need to remain healthy. Then they go onto healthcare, further draining everyone else..
Bank holidays are not what you think. They are legal holidays. While it is true that you may have to work at a bank holiday, the employer is legally required to offer you a day off in lieu, so the point about the higher amount of days off stands.
Please site this law, because unless your the feds or a bank, you are NOT obligated to follow all federal holidays. I've never worked for any company that honored all of them.
Any economists care to explain what's going on here?
There's no need for an economist to explain it. I will. FWIW, my wife works in the billing dept. of the largest hospital in this area.
First, the hospital is horrid at billing properly. In the end, they end up eating the cost of many free procedures. Its their own fault though, but no doubt plays a part in increasing the price.
Secondly, being fat may not have affected the study as to why we are sicker, but being fat is certainly expensive. For some unknown reason, insurance will pay for a gastric bypass.. a procedure which is never medically necessary. For those big enough to get the surergy but still mostly mobile on their own, they ALWAYS can lose the weight with proper diet and exersise. They prove this time and again, because before insurance approves the surgery, they must lose 5% of their body wait by diet and exersise. If you can lose 5%, you can lose a good portion of the rest. If you're too big to even move, well, you did it to yourself, and there's no reason the rest of society should pay for your fat ass to have a surgery to fix your self hatred.
Oh, and the final point about gastric bypass; over 75% of these people continue their bad eating habits, and end up popping their stomach because they continue to over eat. The ones you see on TV are the rare ones that keep up with their new diet. And even those people continue to have serious medical problems.
The best fix would be for insurances to pay for preventive measures; gym memberships and procedures that would help stop a problem before it becomes life threatening. Currently most insurances won't pay until something is medically necessary; ie your life is in danger. Eliminating coverage for those that don't take reasonable care of themselves (those that don't wear a helmet while riding a motorcycle, not wearing a seatbelt in a car, not going to the gym, and those that continue to smoke).
I know C# will detect all those problems.. I don't even think that the x == 0 will compile.
Hopefully C / C++ compilers will at least warn of these things as well.
I try to never have any warnings in the code, just so that things like this are easier to catch.
Easy. Eliminate the concept of a district completely. The entire state votes for all the candidates.
So, what's to be done? Well, for starters, we need to provide an alternate viewpoint in government.
OR... We could drastically reduce the size the federal government and give rights back to the states, where you vote matters much more. Then maybe we wouldn't have an FCC which can dicate technology or content to anyone, it would just allocate spectrum. We could also lets states determine their own drug laws, drinking ages, and other stuff that really is outside the mandate of the federal government.
I was shot in the leg when I was 17 and dealing heroin.
I didn't stop dealing heroin until I was 27.
I did start carring a gun.
The fact that you were too stupid to get out does not mean that violence is never a way to stop other violence.
Oh, and also the late fees were MORE than if you had returned the movie and rented it again. So while you paid $4 for a '2 day rental' you ended up paying $5 for returning it one day late.
You rent the damn movie, they tell you when it's due back, you return by that time. If you don't, you get a penalty. It's only fair, seeing as how you were denying them from possibly renting it to someone else. I don't understand how people could complain about it.
Because every other video store in america said '2 day rental' to mean that if you rented on friday, you had to return it on sunday. Blockbuster started counting the day you rented it, meaning something rented on friday had to be back the next day (which is what every other rental place considered '1 day rental.').
When IE7 mysterously appears on everyone's computer, then you'll be able to invoke the apples to oranges argument.
As it stands now, no one is selling Vista, and even when they do, it will be a LONG time for Vista to make a big inroads. Therefore, for most people today (and until Vista starts replaces most of the XP installations out there), IE7 is an optional download, just like firefox.
MSN is the home page for a lot of IE uses, yet they still seem to manually goto google to do a search. IE7 will only come bundled with Vista; for most users today, IE7 will be a seperate download as well. There are alot of reasons to get upset at MS for; this doesn't seem to be one of them.
And so will IE when its released. Whats you're point?
You are incorrect however; it doesn't prompt you at all.