There's absolutely no technical challenge in doing crossplatform development for mobile, relatively speaking, so abstraction won't help. As said in the summary, the problem is the user expectations are different, and no amount of technical solutions will help.
You said it yourself: "its a design problem". Thats just the thing: 99.999% of the challenge is the design. Coding is the trivial part that anyone can do.
Powershell is at least as good (and many will argue it is better) than the mainstream unix shells. I'm sure there's some Unix shell thats better, but the commonly used ones are not.
Why isn't it free? Because millions of people were willing to pay for it. It would have been retarded to do anything else. The There was around 1 million unit just in preorder, including selling out the collector edition at 150$ a piece.
Yeah, the previous poster said so too. Didnt realize they had removed it...I guess the last couple of times I used it, it was a coincidence that it worked.
Im pretty sure just adding a + in front of the words you specifically want to see does the job.
You can also use a - to make sure some terms are NOT in the results. Always useful. Still agree with the rest of your post though, google is becoming useless very quickly.
I dont know... full text search is a big deal, as well as being able to carry hundreds of books all at once to make sure you always have the right one with you.
I would assume in those scenarios, if you own the game, you're not the pirate. You're allowed to have the backup. The people distributing the backups however.....
It would be interesting to see a parallel world where the 360's early runs didnt have such high failure rates, if Sony would still be in the race at all.... That microsoft was able to stay in the race themselves with such an insane failure rate says something...
You don't happen to work at a certain large american investment bank, do you? I worked at one once, where the boot time was so insane, no one dared rebooting their computer. And since computers were automatically rebooted every weekend, for mondays they gave us a blackberry app to boot up our computers remotely, thus significantly increasing people's productivity. Was pretty nuts.
The only real thing I've seen that breaks it is the advanced power management setting. Some softwares (usually piece of junks, but not all) will disable the ability to sleep for computers they deem should be always on.
Using media center's sharing capabilities tend to do that. So in the advanced power option, you expand the Sleep node in the tree, and make sure Allow hybrid sleep is on.
Thats for sleeping. I haven't seen a computer having trouble waking up from sleeping (aside, as I said, 1-2 lap-tops with documented bios issues) since XP (where sleep was, as far as I know, broken)
Bingo. I've used sleep mode exclusively for the last 5 years or so, on my lap-tops and desktops. Wake up time, like 2 seconds or something? Reboot only for updates right before going to bed.
I've heard that some cheap lap-tops bios have issues with sleep. I don't know if thats true, but I've honestly didn't see a Windows machine that had trouble with sleep/resume since Vista SP1 came out, desktop or lap-top, and in the Vista pre-SP1 days i've only seen 1-2 crap lap-tops having issues with it rarely.
And thats with a sample size of about 20 computers at home between my wife and I, and a hundred thousand (not all the same) or so at work with none having any issues...
There WILL be a pirated version of the game sooner or later
There will be, like there is for Starcraft 2. It took over a year for it to pop out.
Just preventing launch day piracy supposingly saves almost as many sales as they will lose from pissing people off, since most pirates do so before the game comes out or a while after. If it takes, let say, a month before the "offline" version of the game comes out, Blizzard won.
And even if all this isn't true, its what they believe, so they win in their head. And since its their company, its all what matters to them.
Err...intellisense for C++ works just fine in VS2010. I didn't try C++/CLI, but it works beautifully for vanilla C++. Much better than in the previous versions, actually.
That means it's not usable on a bus. Or in the backseat of a moving car
The 3d range is actually a little less sensitive than some people make it out to be. It works just fine on a bumpy right or in the bus. Admittedly, if you get sick in cars easily, that's not recommended, but still works fine. The eyestrain generally comes from not putting the 3D at the right level for your eyes... it always go away after you get used to it (a few hours max).
I'm being told some games do 3D particularly poorly. I only have one game right now because I got mine recently (unfortunately before this announcement), but Zelda at least is quite flawless, and the 3D in it isn't a gimmick at all.
Ok, point taken:) I do beleive VirtualBox is able to emulate 64 bit platforms on 32 bit hardware... though that must be horribly slow, and on a netbook that WOULD be an achievement.
Its really not anymore. Windows is bloated for backward compatibility and because of its features. If you smack all the same features and the backward compatibility stuff in Linux, well, it gets bloated.
If you setup a minimal Linux setup with only a CLI and no other GUI, it will be lightweight too. Only issue is that a lot of people won't like it that way =P
he said he used a netbook _AND_ a windows 7 64x host. Sure, it may be confusing to some to name a piece of hardware followed by a piece of software, but the rest of us understood that he meant "a netbook and a normal computer". Sorry you're a bit slow, no one's perfect.
Because its only one of the billion of features the box has, it includes the hardware, and my mom can configure it herself out of the box. You take the machine, plug it on your network, click the "next" button a few times and you're done.
Backup automatically during the night (wakes up my computers, all of them, and put them back to sleep when its done) to make incremental backups. Then there's an iso on the server that you can burn to disk...
If anything happens, you take the disk, boot with it. It detects the home server, and prompt you with a drop down asking which backup you want to restore. Mine is configured to make daily backups for 2 weeks, weekly backups for 2 months, then monthly for a year... they're incremental so they don't take much room.
Pick the backup, click the button, go get breakfast, come back, computer's fixed, problem solved.
Not that I ever had to use it aside for testing purpose, but its nice peace of mind.
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There's absolutely no technical challenge in doing crossplatform development for mobile, relatively speaking, so abstraction won't help. As said in the summary, the problem is the user expectations are different, and no amount of technical solutions will help.
You said it yourself: "its a design problem". Thats just the thing: 99.999% of the challenge is the design. Coding is the trivial part that anyone can do.
Powershell is at least as good (and many will argue it is better) than the mainstream unix shells. I'm sure there's some Unix shell thats better, but the commonly used ones are not.
my first "data plan" pre-iphone era (way before) was $49.99 for 5 megabytes with something like 20-30 cents per kilobyte after that.
Yeah, it was pretty ridiculous.
Why isn't it free? Because millions of people were willing to pay for it. It would have been retarded to do anything else. The There was around 1 million unit just in preorder, including selling out the collector edition at 150$ a piece.
its actually fairly common for internal applications in big companies, especially finance, legal, etc.
On the open internet though? Nope.
Yeah, the previous poster said so too. Didnt realize they had removed it...I guess the last couple of times I used it, it was a coincidence that it worked.
Im pretty sure just adding a + in front of the words you specifically want to see does the job.
You can also use a - to make sure some terms are NOT in the results. Always useful. Still agree with the rest of your post though, google is becoming useless very quickly.
I dont know... full text search is a big deal, as well as being able to carry hundreds of books all at once to make sure you always have the right one with you.
I would assume in those scenarios, if you own the game, you're not the pirate. You're allowed to have the backup. The people distributing the backups however.....
July 2005? Wasn't E3 2005, when Nintendo announced the Wii, around May? Did they show the controller at E3?
It would be interesting to see a parallel world where the 360's early runs didnt have such high failure rates, if Sony would still be in the race at all.... That microsoft was able to stay in the race themselves with such an insane failure rate says something...
I dont see HTC flaunting how green and environment friendly they are.
Apple however does that on occasion.
hands free is legal because a) at least you have your hands free to control the care, and b) it would be too difficult to enforce.
No point in making laws you can't enforce.
You don't happen to work at a certain large american investment bank, do you? I worked at one once, where the boot time was so insane, no one dared rebooting their computer. And since computers were automatically rebooted every weekend, for mondays they gave us a blackberry app to boot up our computers remotely, thus significantly increasing people's productivity. Was pretty nuts.
The only real thing I've seen that breaks it is the advanced power management setting. Some softwares (usually piece of junks, but not all) will disable the ability to sleep for computers they deem should be always on.
Using media center's sharing capabilities tend to do that. So in the advanced power option, you expand the Sleep node in the tree, and make sure Allow hybrid sleep is on.
Thats for sleeping. I haven't seen a computer having trouble waking up from sleeping (aside, as I said, 1-2 lap-tops with documented bios issues) since XP (where sleep was, as far as I know, broken)
Bingo. I've used sleep mode exclusively for the last 5 years or so, on my lap-tops and desktops. Wake up time, like 2 seconds or something? Reboot only for updates right before going to bed.
Problem solved.
I've heard that some cheap lap-tops bios have issues with sleep. I don't know if thats true, but I've honestly didn't see a Windows machine that had trouble with sleep/resume since Vista SP1 came out, desktop or lap-top, and in the Vista pre-SP1 days i've only seen 1-2 crap lap-tops having issues with it rarely.
And thats with a sample size of about 20 computers at home between my wife and I, and a hundred thousand (not all the same) or so at work with none having any issues...
There will be, like there is for Starcraft 2. It took over a year for it to pop out.
Just preventing launch day piracy supposingly saves almost as many sales as they will lose from pissing people off, since most pirates do so before the game comes out or a while after. If it takes, let say, a month before the "offline" version of the game comes out, Blizzard won.
And even if all this isn't true, its what they believe, so they win in their head. And since its their company, its all what matters to them.
Err...intellisense for C++ works just fine in VS2010. I didn't try C++/CLI, but it works beautifully for vanilla C++. Much better than in the previous versions, actually.
The 3d range is actually a little less sensitive than some people make it out to be. It works just fine on a bumpy right or in the bus. Admittedly, if you get sick in cars easily, that's not recommended, but still works fine. The eyestrain generally comes from not putting the 3D at the right level for your eyes... it always go away after you get used to it (a few hours max).
I'm being told some games do 3D particularly poorly. I only have one game right now because I got mine recently (unfortunately before this announcement), but Zelda at least is quite flawless, and the 3D in it isn't a gimmick at all.
Ok, point taken :) I do beleive VirtualBox is able to emulate 64 bit platforms on 32 bit hardware... though that must be horribly slow, and on a netbook that WOULD be an achievement.
Its really not anymore. Windows is bloated for backward compatibility and because of its features. If you smack all the same features and the backward compatibility stuff in Linux, well, it gets bloated.
If you setup a minimal Linux setup with only a CLI and no other GUI, it will be lightweight too. Only issue is that a lot of people won't like it that way =P
he said he used a netbook _AND_ a windows 7 64x host. Sure, it may be confusing to some to name a piece of hardware followed by a piece of software, but the rest of us understood that he meant "a netbook and a normal computer". Sorry you're a bit slow, no one's perfect.
Because its only one of the billion of features the box has, it includes the hardware, and my mom can configure it herself out of the box. You take the machine, plug it on your network, click the "next" button a few times and you're done.
Thats one reason why I love Windows Home Server.
Backup automatically during the night (wakes up my computers, all of them, and put them back to sleep when its done) to make incremental backups. Then there's an iso on the server that you can burn to disk...
If anything happens, you take the disk, boot with it. It detects the home server, and prompt you with a drop down asking which backup you want to restore. Mine is configured to make daily backups for 2 weeks, weekly backups for 2 months, then monthly for a year... they're incremental so they don't take much room.
Pick the backup, click the button, go get breakfast, come back, computer's fixed, problem solved.
Not that I ever had to use it aside for testing purpose, but its nice peace of mind.