If they are EXACTLY what the consumer wants then why are they selling so badly? they have certainly been advertised and pushed, they got huge amounts of press, yet from all the recent articles it seems even the relatively low selling MS Surface tablets are outselling them and that is pretty bad for something supposedly all these consumers want.
The same broken concept of crippled terminal type computers seems to have been repeated so many times over the past 30 years (time I have been in IT). The chromebook is just yet another attempt at a concept that consumers have shown repeatedly they don't want. I really expect (and hope) chromebooks also end up on the trash heap of bad ideas just like all the previous versions, the concept seems more aimed at what software and advertising companies want not what users need or want.
His post was mostly in jest, but many countries really do have extremely strict laws on data access which in many cases amount to if you don't have explicit permission to access the information then you are trespassing/hacking if you access it and poor security or settings by the company in question does not excuse the action. by saying they have scanned so many buckets they really have potentially opened themselves up for all sorts of legal trouble if any countries in question decide to make an issue of it.
Why would sending desktops asleep mean no AV scan's backups or updates? Go read up on Wake on Lan, it has been around a long LONG time and is supported in most if not all machines nowadays and if you truly actually have a Go Green initiative and you don't already do this then you are technologically a long way behind most orgs already and should be sending your staff to basic admin training and researching basic technology management and operations not looking at ways to burn more electricity.
For a Go-Green initiative, maybe you should consider turning 18,000 computers off over night.
^this, if you have a go green initiative and relatively modern computers then why the hell are they on 24x7? Wake them up when they need to be scanned or backed up, the rest of the time they should be asleep. The people suggesting bitcoin as an alternative there need to be slapped senseless.
kinnect was a huge success sales wise and the next version "looks" like they could be ready to continue that. Yes the games were crap for it on the 360 but most of that should improve on the next xbox. Really I think the leap is very much like kinnect V1, way to many limitations in the product for it to be more than a gimmic on this first iteration. Where as kinnect was limited in accuracy, leap is extremely limited in range making these really too different focus markets.
Seriously can't Slashdot do something about this fucking prick posting this shit all the time instead of forcing moderators to waste points down modding it. Censorship sucks, but having some mods just deleting this shit is very much needed, as is someone to hunt him down and slice off his nutsack.
yes and they have made some of my favourite animated movies, however I still wish there were more animated studios up to their standard, their are a couple but I wish their were quite a few more like them, perhaps then we would see more substance it what is being produced.
It seems that while the graphics and data requirements increase dramatically the actual quality of the stories and movies are increasing just as rapidly but in the other direction. I would much prefer less focus on graphics and 3D and them spending some money of some bloody writters that don't just rehash the same shit over and over.
Is ending subsidization really going to appeal to the mass consuming public? How many teenagers have $650 for a new iPhone? You'd think they'd offer some kind of optional secondary loan plan where you pay off a little bit every month, or owe the whole amount if you want to change carriers.
you didn't even need to click into the article to see that is exactly what they are doing, summary itself says
To keep customers from having to front the full cost of the phone with unsubsidized plans, they'll let people pay off phones in installments.[
You are living in the past. VMware while still ahead is only barely so, HyperV and all the others have made huge progress to the point where unless you are a niche that depends on a very specific VMware scenario then it is very difficult to justify the premium they charge.
Interestingly enough that is exactly what the Australian Tax office has just done, used records such as Ebay to track people you are evading tax and/or illegally claiming social security.
Perhaps you should go reread the Geneva convention. It is actually very explicit about protection of civilians, your country being at war does not in any way open its citizens up to attack under the convention. The Fourth Geneva Convention is all about protection of non combatants in a war zone.
It would take far far more than a single games success to turn them around. The problem with multi billion dollar companies is it is like a bus hurtling down a hill, SimCity if successful would be like downshifting gears. It may slow the decent but it would take a shit load more to stop the bus let alone turn it around.
"if you're going to launch a popular title that needs to be constantly connected to online servers"
Seriously who lets this shit past review. While I would love EA to be suffering and the CEO to be ousted because of the DRM BS it simply isn't true. The CEO has been underperforming for some time, the companies shares are down as is its financial performance and it has little to do with SimCity.
The key to your sentence there was the word "SOLD". They did not and have never sued someone for modifying there own xbox, they do actively ban them from using online services though. Modifying your box is not illegal, selling devices that circumvent protection mechanisms in many countries however is illegal.
please point out ANY person elected or not that has the required knowledge? The truth is there are far FAR more areas of expertise than Politician's, So you can either decide to massively increase the government to ensure there is someone that is knowledgeable about every area and hope they also don't have an agenda (I say fuck that), or learn to work with the fact that it is simply not possible to expect them to be knowledgeable about all areas and in many cases it is better that they aren't and instead try to elect people that actually listen to the people they are supposed to represent.
Setting such unachievable goals and asking countries to sign up for it can only have one of 2 responses, countries refuse to sign up or they completely fail to meet the target. Having hard to reach stretch goals can be a great motivator for action, having goals you must sign up for that are financially and technically impossible to meet in the timeline is just a recipe for no action and failure. A fundamental test for setting goals is are they achievable, setting a goal that is not achievable means no matter how much progress you make you have failed.
Many of them don't even have reliable phone, electricity, water or sewage combined with the problems of war/warlords/racial and religious violence. Until those basics are addressed being able to have 20mbps is going to do nothing to encourage businesses to setup there. It is a nice goal, but it will be a struggle in the rich countries and is completely unachievable in the poor countries in that timeframe. Even Australia which has a current project to have its fibre network rolled out will not be close complete by 2020 and has a base speed of 12mbps and we are one of the countries that is currently making relatively rapid progress.
Someone that understands corporate environments in that board members more often then not work across MANY big corporates and it is idiotic to do anything to burn your bridges as the next company you want to work for has a chance of being connected to some of the same board members. Only a fool or someone that has no interest in further employment would write anything different.
Someone at a high level paying the price for DRM-incurred failure. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, asshole.
That appears o be the usual BS Slashdot summary more than anything. The usual pick 2 events and immediately make up the most sensational story they can come up with by combining the 2.
He doesn't step down till March 30 (not what you would expect if he was fired) and there is no mention or insinuation from anywhere that it is to do with SimCity, apart from the usual Slashdot sensationist summary writers. More importantly there is absolutely no indication that EA has any intention of backing away from there idiotic DRM, if anything there public facing response has hardened over the last few weeks showing they believe it was the right thing to do regardless of how much it screws over everyone.
While the lawsuit may be excessive it is hardly a case of snobby expectations to expect to not receive a faulty product, especially one that is so incredibly expensive.
I would seriously doubt where I work even ranks in the top 10,000 internet content providers by volume, yet the article would suggest they would have to be one of the top providers for there numbers to be true.
Is internet traffic really only 26 Petabytes a month, while that is a big number it sounds awefully low to me as the place I work does 15 Terabytes a month and they are little more than a miniscule pimple on face of the internet.
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If they are EXACTLY what the consumer wants then why are they selling so badly? they have certainly been advertised and pushed, they got huge amounts of press, yet from all the recent articles it seems even the relatively low selling MS Surface tablets are outselling them and that is pretty bad for something supposedly all these consumers want.
The same broken concept of crippled terminal type computers seems to have been repeated so many times over the past 30 years (time I have been in IT). The chromebook is just yet another attempt at a concept that consumers have shown repeatedly they don't want. I really expect (and hope) chromebooks also end up on the trash heap of bad ideas just like all the previous versions, the concept seems more aimed at what software and advertising companies want not what users need or want.
His post was mostly in jest, but many countries really do have extremely strict laws on data access which in many cases amount to if you don't have explicit permission to access the information then you are trespassing/hacking if you access it and poor security or settings by the company in question does not excuse the action. by saying they have scanned so many buckets they really have potentially opened themselves up for all sorts of legal trouble if any countries in question decide to make an issue of it.
Why would sending desktops asleep mean no AV scan's backups or updates? Go read up on Wake on Lan, it has been around a long LONG time and is supported in most if not all machines nowadays and if you truly actually have a Go Green initiative and you don't already do this then you are technologically a long way behind most orgs already and should be sending your staff to basic admin training and researching basic technology management and operations not looking at ways to burn more electricity.
For a Go-Green initiative, maybe you should consider turning 18,000 computers off over night.
^this, if you have a go green initiative and relatively modern computers then why the hell are they on 24x7? Wake them up when they need to be scanned or backed up, the rest of the time they should be asleep. The people suggesting bitcoin as an alternative there need to be slapped senseless.
kinnect was a huge success sales wise and the next version "looks" like they could be ready to continue that. Yes the games were crap for it on the 360 but most of that should improve on the next xbox. Really I think the leap is very much like kinnect V1, way to many limitations in the product for it to be more than a gimmic on this first iteration. Where as kinnect was limited in accuracy, leap is extremely limited in range making these really too different focus markets.
Seriously can't Slashdot do something about this fucking prick posting this shit all the time instead of forcing moderators to waste points down modding it. Censorship sucks, but having some mods just deleting this shit is very much needed, as is someone to hunt him down and slice off his nutsack.
yes and they have made some of my favourite animated movies, however I still wish there were more animated studios up to their standard, their are a couple but I wish their were quite a few more like them, perhaps then we would see more substance it what is being produced.
It seems that while the graphics and data requirements increase dramatically the actual quality of the stories and movies are increasing just as rapidly but in the other direction. I would much prefer less focus on graphics and 3D and them spending some money of some bloody writters that don't just rehash the same shit over and over.
Is ending subsidization really going to appeal to the mass consuming public? How many teenagers have $650 for a new iPhone? You'd think they'd offer some kind of optional secondary loan plan where you pay off a little bit every month, or owe the whole amount if you want to change carriers.
you didn't even need to click into the article to see that is exactly what they are doing, summary itself says
To keep customers from having to front the full cost of the phone with unsubsidized plans, they'll let people pay off phones in installments.[
You are living in the past. VMware while still ahead is only barely so, HyperV and all the others have made huge progress to the point where unless you are a niche that depends on a very specific VMware scenario then it is very difficult to justify the premium they charge.
Interestingly enough that is exactly what the Australian Tax office has just done, used records such as Ebay to track people you are evading tax and/or illegally claiming social security.
Perhaps you should go reread the Geneva convention. It is actually very explicit about protection of civilians, your country being at war does not in any way open its citizens up to attack under the convention. The Fourth Geneva Convention is all about protection of non combatants in a war zone.
It would take far far more than a single games success to turn them around. The problem with multi billion dollar companies is it is like a bus hurtling down a hill, SimCity if successful would be like downshifting gears. It may slow the decent but it would take a shit load more to stop the bus let alone turn it around.
"if you're going to launch a popular title that needs to be constantly connected to online servers"
Seriously who lets this shit past review. While I would love EA to be suffering and the CEO to be ousted because of the DRM BS it simply isn't true. The CEO has been underperforming for some time, the companies shares are down as is its financial performance and it has little to do with SimCity.
The key to your sentence there was the word "SOLD". They did not and have never sued someone for modifying there own xbox, they do actively ban them from using online services though. Modifying your box is not illegal, selling devices that circumvent protection mechanisms in many countries however is illegal.
please point out ANY person elected or not that has the required knowledge? The truth is there are far FAR more areas of expertise than Politician's, So you can either decide to massively increase the government to ensure there is someone that is knowledgeable about every area and hope they also don't have an agenda (I say fuck that), or learn to work with the fact that it is simply not possible to expect them to be knowledgeable about all areas and in many cases it is better that they aren't and instead try to elect people that actually listen to the people they are supposed to represent.
Setting such unachievable goals and asking countries to sign up for it can only have one of 2 responses, countries refuse to sign up or they completely fail to meet the target. Having hard to reach stretch goals can be a great motivator for action, having goals you must sign up for that are financially and technically impossible to meet in the timeline is just a recipe for no action and failure. A fundamental test for setting goals is are they achievable, setting a goal that is not achievable means no matter how much progress you make you have failed.
Many of them don't even have reliable phone, electricity, water or sewage combined with the problems of war/warlords/racial and religious violence. Until those basics are addressed being able to have 20mbps is going to do nothing to encourage businesses to setup there. It is a nice goal, but it will be a struggle in the rich countries and is completely unachievable in the poor countries in that timeframe. Even Australia which has a current project to have its fibre network rolled out will not be close complete by 2020 and has a base speed of 12mbps and we are one of the countries that is currently making relatively rapid progress.
Someone that understands corporate environments in that board members more often then not work across MANY big corporates and it is idiotic to do anything to burn your bridges as the next company you want to work for has a chance of being connected to some of the same board members. Only a fool or someone that has no interest in further employment would write anything different.
Someone at a high level paying the price for DRM-incurred failure. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, asshole.
That appears o be the usual BS Slashdot summary more than anything. The usual pick 2 events and immediately make up the most sensational story they can come up with by combining the 2.
He doesn't step down till March 30 (not what you would expect if he was fired) and there is no mention or insinuation from anywhere that it is to do with SimCity, apart from the usual Slashdot sensationist summary writers. More importantly there is absolutely no indication that EA has any intention of backing away from there idiotic DRM, if anything there public facing response has hardened over the last few weeks showing they believe it was the right thing to do regardless of how much it screws over everyone.
And there are still many places that pagers and cell phones are forbidden to be turned on so what exactly is your point?
While the lawsuit may be excessive it is hardly a case of snobby expectations to expect to not receive a faulty product, especially one that is so incredibly expensive.
I would seriously doubt where I work even ranks in the top 10,000 internet content providers by volume, yet the article would suggest they would have to be one of the top providers for there numbers to be true.
Is internet traffic really only 26 Petabytes a month, while that is a big number it sounds awefully low to me as the place I work does 15 Terabytes a month and they are little more than a miniscule pimple on face of the internet.