Sure Microsoft makes plenty of bad decisions, but there's no way they're dumb enough to think that zunes aren't selling because customers want more content restrictions.
On the other hand, I suppose they are dumb enough and arrogant enough to believe that they could compete with itunes if they kissed the asses of enough content providers. They can't, nor can anyone else really. That battle has already been fought and apple is winning by an overwhelming margin. Their best bet is to make quality players with as much compatibility as possible and forget the music stores and DRM ass-kissing that comes with running one.
Speaking as someone with far too much free time, I've never done anything/. worthy. I imagine the same is true of many of us, so lets give the guy some credit.
On the contrary - Starcraft II is probably very high priority over there. WoW can only go on for so long, and they need to get people interested in the Starcraft universe again so they can release a Starcraft MMO.
Seriously. I'm tired of sound cards basically being an all Creative market. While this newspost is basically a slashadvertisement, I'll buy it as soon as I dig up another review or two that echo the results of this one.
Parent is right. I believe at the time of the ATI purchase AMD knew what their roadmap looked like and they knew what Intel's roadmap looked like. They saw tough times coming in the near future and realized that they don't have the financial cushion that intel has that allows them to continue to spend big on R&D when profits are down. They were going to fall behind and stay behind.
Spending the cash for ATI buy makes this current short/medium term even more painful, but the hope is that they can weather the storm and come out of it with some sort of revolutionary cpu/gpu combo that will knock intel's socks off. Time will tell if it will happen or not, but it looks like the adjustment period is over. The 780g chipset is getting good reviews for its stability, power savings, and great integrated graphics.
We already run this way at where I work. We're a small place and there's no in-house IT department. If one of us in development needs more ram or a new harddrive, the procedure is to go buy it and install it yourself and give management the bill. Nearly everyone is savvy enough to handle this on their own, and if you aren't its easy enough to ask someone to help you.
I agree with most of this except #3. Here in the age of internet enabled consoles, more and more console games are being released with bugs to be patched later.
What kind of question is this? Linux users aren't gamers because of the hassle of gaming on linux. Wine is great and all, and I"m constantly impressed that such an ambitious project works as well as it does, but even the games that it runs perfectly still require some futzing with. Directx 9 features are being implemented currently but come on - dx9 is 5+ years old now. Combining that with wine regressions, game patches that break wine compatibility and its just not worth the effort. I'll either boot into windows or go play a game console.
Have you ever played a FPS where you're on the clearly better team and you just clobber the other guys for several rounds? For me it gets old real fast and I'll go find a more balanced server. If you're dying, you're at least being challenged. Its motivating and sometimes it gives you a particular opponent to gun for.
Now, I do see an aftermarket opportunity for value-added software to work with Google, Inc., to develop filters that parents, schools, and others who want "child-friendly" computers can use that will greatly reduce adult-oriented material in Google search results. Even better if the major p0rn industry players help out. Even better, I can flip the filter around to block all those pesky non-porno websites that litter the internet.
Type about:config in your address bar and click through the warning. Find the setting "browser.urlbar.richresults" and set it to false. Close and re-open firefox and you got your old URL bar behavior back. Happy wanking!
Well, I suppose this transaction fee explanation is actually a legitimate one, but now it brings me to another question. Shouldn't I get some kind of discount for buying points in large quantities? Me buying 2000 points at once saves them money over me buying 500 points four times doesn't it?
There have been a handful of occasions where a highly anticipated demo hits live and overwhelm the download servers (bioshock). I can see this change being beneficial to Gold members in such scenarios.
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I'm almost afraid to ask, but what would the upload cap be?
I'm fine with that as a limit if they also agree to stop tampering with the connections of anyone not in violation of it.
Sure Microsoft makes plenty of bad decisions, but there's no way they're dumb enough to think that zunes aren't selling because customers want more content restrictions.
On the other hand, I suppose they are dumb enough and arrogant enough to believe that they could compete with itunes if they kissed the asses of enough content providers. They can't, nor can anyone else really. That battle has already been fought and apple is winning by an overwhelming margin. Their best bet is to make quality players with as much compatibility as possible and forget the music stores and DRM ass-kissing that comes with running one.
Speaking as someone with far too much free time, I've never done anything /. worthy. I imagine the same is true of many of us, so lets give the guy some credit.
On the contrary - Starcraft II is probably very high priority over there. WoW can only go on for so long, and they need to get people interested in the Starcraft universe again so they can release a Starcraft MMO.
The xbox division is actually turning a profit these days.
Seriously. I'm tired of sound cards basically being an all Creative market. While this newspost is basically a slashadvertisement, I'll buy it as soon as I dig up another review or two that echo the results of this one.
Parent is right. I believe at the time of the ATI purchase AMD knew what their roadmap looked like and they knew what Intel's roadmap looked like. They saw tough times coming in the near future and realized that they don't have the financial cushion that intel has that allows them to continue to spend big on R&D when profits are down. They were going to fall behind and stay behind.
Spending the cash for ATI buy makes this current short/medium term even more painful, but the hope is that they can weather the storm and come out of it with some sort of revolutionary cpu/gpu combo that will knock intel's socks off. Time will tell if it will happen or not, but it looks like the adjustment period is over. The 780g chipset is getting good reviews for its stability, power savings, and great integrated graphics.
Yep. Just copy this little protection file into your MBR...
We already run this way at where I work. We're a small place and there's no in-house IT department. If one of us in development needs more ram or a new harddrive, the procedure is to go buy it and install it yourself and give management the bill. Nearly everyone is savvy enough to handle this on their own, and if you aren't its easy enough to ask someone to help you.
I think the behavior of the awesomebar is great, I just don't like how big it is. oldbar takes care of that though.
Yes. You pass if the website renders correctly. You fail if the website owns your machine.
66 with adblock, 67 without it. You aren't missing much.
I agree with most of this except #3. Here in the age of internet enabled consoles, more and more console games are being released with bugs to be patched later.
Chicken and egg. Nobody makes games for linux because there are no linux gamers because nobody makes games for linux.
What kind of question is this? Linux users aren't gamers because of the hassle of gaming on linux. Wine is great and all, and I"m constantly impressed that such an ambitious project works as well as it does, but even the games that it runs perfectly still require some futzing with. Directx 9 features are being implemented currently but come on - dx9 is 5+ years old now. Combining that with wine regressions, game patches that break wine compatibility and its just not worth the effort. I'll either boot into windows or go play a game console.
Have you ever played a FPS where you're on the clearly better team and you just clobber the other guys for several rounds? For me it gets old real fast and I'll go find a more balanced server. If you're dying, you're at least being challenged. Its motivating and sometimes it gives you a particular opponent to gun for.
Even better, I can flip the filter around to block all those pesky non-porno websites that litter the internet.
I actually say that outloud every month when I get my bill. And then I pay them because there are no other options in my area.
Sounds like a divorce.
You got fark in my slashdot.
Type about:config in your address bar and click through the warning. Find the setting "browser.urlbar.richresults" and set it to false. Close and re-open firefox and you got your old URL bar behavior back. Happy wanking!
This is easily the best post I've ever seen, on /. or anywhere else.
Well, I suppose this transaction fee explanation is actually a legitimate one, but now it brings me to another question. Shouldn't I get some kind of discount for buying points in large quantities? Me buying 2000 points at once saves them money over me buying 500 points four times doesn't it?
There have been a handful of occasions where a highly anticipated demo hits live and overwhelm the download servers (bioshock). I can see this change being beneficial to Gold members in such scenarios.