yes you could port wow, but I think what the OP was referring to is it would require massive reengineering of the controls and system interaction as it is heavily designed around having a mouse and keyboard as well as the ability to have mods and macros. I have not played wow for 2 years, but when I did my keyboard had 60+ keybinds as well as complete sets of macros for the various classes.
Why would this generate a story, it is just a garbage article. Patents aren't reviewed and granted in days or even weeks, you would be considered to have been kissed on the prick if it was done in months instead of years. filing while the government is shutdown won't make the slightest bit of difference unless you expect this shutdown to run for years and in which case I think patent trolls will be the least of your worries.
console advantage is if you buy a console game you know 100% it will work, you don't need to know anything about computers, or configurations or ensuring your specs are adequate for the game. You plug one end into the TV and the other in the power outlet, configuration DONE. steam you need to then understand whether your hardware is capable of running the game, you also have to find people that are interested enough in consoles to favour a console version of steam over a PC version. Those that play a few casual games on the PC are not a market you are going to win with a console, just as many console gamers are not people you are going to win over with a custom PC gaming machine, if graphics horsepower and the games range on a PC hasn't won them over already then there is nothing steam brings that is beneficial. I game mainly on a PC, why would I buy a steambox? all the disadvantages of a console with a reduced set of advantages of a PC. To me it is the worst of both worlds.
Of the 3 console makers Nintendo is the least likely to be impacted by Steam as their platform is the most different and really appeals to a different audience (and I say that as someone that is not interested in nintendos current offerings). Even MS and Sony are unlikely to feel much impact, the core reasons to buy a console over a computer/steambox don't seem to be being addressed by Valve and they are more likely just to end up with a customized gaming PC/console that will appeal to a small segment of PC gamers (As a PC Gamer steambox is interesting from a technology point of view but not something I am interested in),
Sadly they actually require more power not less. So you are left with durability advantage, "sounds" like they would have a very small niche market if they ever make them commercially available.
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With Hindsight anything is easy to predict with 100% accuracy. Apple, while on the decline now, picked that consumers wanted simple interfaces and trendy items and would happily compromise on features for that. Myself and many others thought apple was wrong at the time. Consumers are very hard to predict as Blackberry found out and as Apple are finding out now.
People cared when Duke Nukem released, It was just that when it released it was apparent that it had come straight from the developers sphincter and was still steaming.
These are likely to be used in price insensitive installations for now, e.g. satellites, where weight and efficiency count for more than the build cost.
this doesn't in anyway protect you from NSA, Google still has access to the information, The NSA has access to google (be it directly or via court order). The only thing this prevent is sniffing external to that which I think most people would consider a far lower risk.
Their are hundreds of thousands of businesses with applications that they would love to have on a tablet type device without having to spend huge wads of cash redeveloping them. I don't see what is so hard for you to understand, their is currently a largely untapped market that is served by nobody as an IPAD or Android tablet won't do the job and the current MS based ones suck.
that was my point, casual gamers are NOT a good target market for a replacement for there desktop, casual gamers don't need a console, especially one that doesn't do everything there PC currently does.
gamers are a tiny fraction of the desktop market and of those many "also" game rather than being pure gamers. Addressing the gaming is nice but it doesn't come close to creating an ecosystem to replace the desktop incumbents
If you are targeting those that want a keyboard and mouse then you aren't competing in the console market, they would be trying to cannibalise their own PC market which is unlikely to be a winning strategy, As a PC gamer myself I am not switching to any console, even if it does come with a Mouse and Keyboard, my own PC is almost certainly going to be superior to any console they devise as they will be far more cost limited than my PC will be.
You seem to completely miss the point. It is on contract, it is not free or $1, the price is usually even higher than the outright purchase price, it is just hidden in the contract price for those too gullible to realise they are paying more for it or those that have little option (yes I know some places in the US it is hard to not be on a contract).
Of course you "could" write a touch-friendly application in VB6 - and I did, back in about 1996. The concern is if the app written in 1996 for use on a desktop will be usable on a tablet today. Was it written with little tiny mouse-only sized buttons? That's touch-screen failure.
Doesn't matter if it's portable to a tablet if it's not usable on a tablet.
Considering vb6 wasn't available till end of 1998 that is a pretty impressive effort, actually even vb5 wasn't released in 1996.
A fingerprint scanner is NOT A SECURITY DEVICE, It is the opposite, it is a convenience in place of a security device. Anyone that is serious about security doesn't recommend or permit users to use a fingerprint scanner as a security login.
It isn't "In Theory" or "or if they don't leave out key features that business wants". The devices are dribbling out onto the market NOW, you can install whatever you want on them, they run a standard full copy of windows, no lockdown like RT, it is the same version that runs installed on a desktop.
While I don't condone Russia or china's actions. UN intervention TRIGGERS more violence and death, it is rarely an avenue for preventing death. A UN intervention means firing missiles from the safety of ships and jets while thousands of innocent victims are collateral damage.
No with haswell we are talking about X86 windows. RT is destined for the bin. haswell makes full windows with 100% backwards compatibility in a tablet device a desirable thing. Everything from photoshop to your VB app written a decade ago that you no longer have the developers or source code or funding to rewrite is now viable on a windows tablet device.
The millions of legacy apps that don't have to be rewritten as they would with an android device. The Advantage is massive, The OS is distant second in importance to the applications a user uses.
I didn't vote for them but I can understand people doing the donkey vote this election and just putting 1 in the first box. This time around even the best party could only be described as BAD, which is I guess compared to the labor government is a huge step up. But still you feel dirty voting for any of them.
no the differentiation is not important at all. We have android and we have Linux. At least that is what most people in the real world call them, those that understand the difference don't need it pointed out and those that don't understand could not give a shit anyway.
I honor my family when I say NEVER, I honor my own ethics and beliefs about the importance of ones family. I help others regularly and happily make sacrifices of my own, but I will NEVER not now or EVER sacrifice my family for others. call it whatever you like but my values say they are the most important thing in the world to me. anybody that would willingly compromise their own families future for the sake of others sickens me. make sacrifices for yourself, not of others.
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yes you could port wow, but I think what the OP was referring to is it would require massive reengineering of the controls and system interaction as it is heavily designed around having a mouse and keyboard as well as the ability to have mods and macros. I have not played wow for 2 years, but when I did my keyboard had 60+ keybinds as well as complete sets of macros for the various classes.
Why would this generate a story, it is just a garbage article. Patents aren't reviewed and granted in days or even weeks, you would be considered to have been kissed on the prick if it was done in months instead of years. filing while the government is shutdown won't make the slightest bit of difference unless you expect this shutdown to run for years and in which case I think patent trolls will be the least of your worries.
console advantage is if you buy a console game you know 100% it will work, you don't need to know anything about computers, or configurations or ensuring your specs are adequate for the game. You plug one end into the TV and the other in the power outlet, configuration DONE. steam you need to then understand whether your hardware is capable of running the game, you also have to find people that are interested enough in consoles to favour a console version of steam over a PC version. Those that play a few casual games on the PC are not a market you are going to win with a console, just as many console gamers are not people you are going to win over with a custom PC gaming machine, if graphics horsepower and the games range on a PC hasn't won them over already then there is nothing steam brings that is beneficial. I game mainly on a PC, why would I buy a steambox? all the disadvantages of a console with a reduced set of advantages of a PC. To me it is the worst of both worlds.
Of the 3 console makers Nintendo is the least likely to be impacted by Steam as their platform is the most different and really appeals to a different audience (and I say that as someone that is not interested in nintendos current offerings). Even MS and Sony are unlikely to feel much impact, the core reasons to buy a console over a computer/steambox don't seem to be being addressed by Valve and they are more likely just to end up with a customized gaming PC/console that will appeal to a small segment of PC gamers (As a PC Gamer steambox is interesting from a technology point of view but not something I am interested in),
Sadly they actually require more power not less. So you are left with durability advantage, "sounds" like they would have a very small niche market if they ever make them commercially available.
With Hindsight anything is easy to predict with 100% accuracy. Apple, while on the decline now, picked that consumers wanted simple interfaces and trendy items and would happily compromise on features for that. Myself and many others thought apple was wrong at the time. Consumers are very hard to predict as Blackberry found out and as Apple are finding out now.
People cared when Duke Nukem released, It was just that when it released it was apparent that it had come straight from the developers sphincter and was still steaming.
These are likely to be used in price insensitive installations for now, e.g. satellites, where weight and efficiency count for more than the build cost.
this doesn't in anyway protect you from NSA, Google still has access to the information, The NSA has access to google (be it directly or via court order). The only thing this prevent is sniffing external to that which I think most people would consider a far lower risk.
Their are hundreds of thousands of businesses with applications that they would love to have on a tablet type device without having to spend huge wads of cash redeveloping them. I don't see what is so hard for you to understand, their is currently a largely untapped market that is served by nobody as an IPAD or Android tablet won't do the job and the current MS based ones suck.
that was my point, casual gamers are NOT a good target market for a replacement for there desktop, casual gamers don't need a console, especially one that doesn't do everything there PC currently does.
gamers are a tiny fraction of the desktop market and of those many "also" game rather than being pure gamers. Addressing the gaming is nice but it doesn't come close to creating an ecosystem to replace the desktop incumbents
If you are targeting those that want a keyboard and mouse then you aren't competing in the console market, they would be trying to cannibalise their own PC market which is unlikely to be a winning strategy, As a PC gamer myself I am not switching to any console, even if it does come with a Mouse and Keyboard, my own PC is almost certainly going to be superior to any console they devise as they will be far more cost limited than my PC will be.
You seem to completely miss the point. It is on contract, it is not free or $1, the price is usually even higher than the outright purchase price, it is just hidden in the contract price for those too gullible to realise they are paying more for it or those that have little option (yes I know some places in the US it is hard to not be on a contract).
Of course you "could" write a touch-friendly application in VB6 - and I did, back in about 1996. The concern is if the app written in 1996 for use on a desktop will be usable on a tablet today. Was it written with little tiny mouse-only sized buttons? That's touch-screen failure.
Doesn't matter if it's portable to a tablet if it's not usable on a tablet.
Considering vb6 wasn't available till end of 1998 that is a pretty impressive effort, actually even vb5 wasn't released in 1996.
A fingerprint scanner is NOT A SECURITY DEVICE, It is the opposite, it is a convenience in place of a security device. Anyone that is serious about security doesn't recommend or permit users to use a fingerprint scanner as a security login.
It isn't "In Theory" or "or if they don't leave out key features that business wants". The devices are dribbling out onto the market NOW, you can install whatever you want on them, they run a standard full copy of windows, no lockdown like RT, it is the same version that runs installed on a desktop.
While I don't condone Russia or china's actions. UN intervention TRIGGERS more violence and death, it is rarely an avenue for preventing death. A UN intervention means firing missiles from the safety of ships and jets while thousands of innocent victims are collateral damage.
No with haswell we are talking about X86 windows. RT is destined for the bin. haswell makes full windows with 100% backwards compatibility in a tablet device a desirable thing. Everything from photoshop to your VB app written a decade ago that you no longer have the developers or source code or funding to rewrite is now viable on a windows tablet device.
The millions of legacy apps that don't have to be rewritten as they would with an android device. The Advantage is massive, The OS is distant second in importance to the applications a user uses.
I didn't vote for them but I can understand people doing the donkey vote this election and just putting 1 in the first box. This time around even the best party could only be described as BAD, which is I guess compared to the labor government is a huge step up. But still you feel dirty voting for any of them.
Why would anyone ever exchange private Keys???? The system does not work that way.
no the differentiation is not important at all. We have android and we have Linux. At least that is what most people in the real world call them, those that understand the difference don't need it pointed out and those that don't understand could not give a shit anyway.
I honor my family when I say NEVER, I honor my own ethics and beliefs about the importance of ones family. I help others regularly and happily make sacrifices of my own, but I will NEVER not now or EVER sacrifice my family for others. call it whatever you like but my values say they are the most important thing in the world to me. anybody that would willingly compromise their own families future for the sake of others sickens me. make sacrifices for yourself, not of others.
where did you pull that garbage from? Vaccinations are about protecting your child's future not sacrificing it.