With AOL using this standard, Microsoft gets a huge chunk of marketshare for it.
Microsoft has one goal in all of this: To lock Open Source out of a standard, and then launch FUD campaigns about how Open Source refuses to support Sender-ID (because MS will charge an insane fee for licenses, but MS won't mention this) and thus helps spammers.
Close, but this system will also need a hard drive and CD drive.
Quick glancing at Pricewatch, You can probably get a 20GB hard drive for under $30 and a really generic CD-ROM Drive for under $20.
On the upside, we could probably get away with 256 MB of RAM. That will work for most people just browsing the web, sending email, or using a text document once in a while. So we're still probably looking at something around the $150 mark.
Now, this takes care of the hardware. What about the wonderful (*cough*) Microsoft software?
Windows XP Home: $199 Microsoft Word 2003: $199 ($499 if you want full office suite)
Nearly $400 for software on an PC that costs around $150! This is, unless MS really is going to start offering crippleware versions of Windows and Word in the US market.
I tried playing D&D as a Drow, but my DM said the shopkeeper refused to sell me anything when I went to purchase supplies in a town. In fact, when all the citizens of the town found out I was there, they grabbed torches and pitchforks and chased me away!
So what if mainstream Drow civilization is a blood thirsty horde commanded by a cruel matriarchy, and takes orders from an evil spider demon queen from the abyss? I don't think it is a big deal that most Drow only want to kill or enslave all the surface dwellers.
Refusing service to my character because I am a Drow is unfair discrimination and I don't see why my DM doesn't apologize to me.
MS is already being criticized that Windows is already too expensive. It is highly likely that multicore processors will hit the desktop market, and it would be bad for PR if Joe User found himself having to pay double because he has a dual core processor(even though he has no clue what a dual core processor really is).
Is it plausible that some Microsoft people have been experimenting with Linux to the point of even looking into making their own distro in the future? Sure.
Is it likely that they have a distribution that is release worthy just sitting on the shelf? I highly doubt it.
Symantec is actually being sued by a spyware company because Norton AntiVirus detects their software as "adware." IIRC, NAV doesn't even actually remove that software, it just detects it.
This game supposedly damaged our children in the following ways.
1. It taught them gambling. 2. It taught the theory of evolution. 3. It introduced kids to evil occultism and Eastern Religions. 4. It was a gateway game used by WOTC to lure kids into playing MTG and D&D. 5. It opened our kids up to be mind controlled by the Japanese, who would use our kids as drones to bomb Pearl Harbor again.
I've said it a while back before, game studios need to look closer to home to figure out why this happens.
Someone close to these companies are leaking the games. It wouldn't surprise me if it is someone in the QA department or someone who works where the game discs are mass produced and can make one disappear without much notice.
There are Libertarians running for offices ranging from City Councils of up to President.
The sad fact is that most people don't even pay attention to local elections, but many pay attention the the Presidential ones.
In local elections, it seems to me that most people just vote for the candidates identified with the same political party as themselves.
So Badnarik and Cobb aren't doing this just for themselves. They were hoping to garner attention for their parties as well, and to illustrate that it takes their being arrested to get any sort of headlines.
Of course, this isn't being a widely reported incident.
Basically, thanks to the war on drugs and similar crap, the Government pretends that it has the right to deny people of property without due process of law under the guise of asset forfeiture or "collecting evidence."
Yeah, maybe on older movies it could do 24 FPS, but this is a new DOOM Movie. The projector is going to need some upgrades to keep up.... Okay, so maybe I'm taking these Doom 3 system requirement jokes to far...
You'd just get addicted to recompiling your kernel, screwing with configuration files, and trying various driver builds trying to get the ATI card to work properly.
It doesn't really bring anything new to the table we didn't already know.
The major hurdles for widespread adoption of a browser other than IE have always been the fact that IE is tied to the OS, and that there are many IE-specific pages out there.
#1. The reason that Blizzard has been successful is because they consistantly make good games. Bnetd has been available since 1998, but StarCraft still sold millions of copies.
#2. The problem with the PC game market is that it can be a pain just to get a game to run.
Most people just want to play games. They don't want to check system requirements or deal with PC issues such as upgrading drivers, making sure their OSes haven't been turned to swiss cheese by spyware, etc.
Furthermore, not everyone is willing to upgrade their PCs to play the latest games well. The price of a top of the line graphics card is the same or more as the price of a game console. That card will be outdated within a year, whereas the console's life will be at least 4 years.
#3. It isn't like piracy is unheard of on consoles. Almost everyone I knew in high school and college who was a "gamer" had a modded Playstation and towers of pirated games.
You may not know this, but enabling the built in XP firewall before connecting protects against most of these threats.
Maybe you can blame MS for not enabling it by default, or by hiding it away from the user as a simple checkbox that is hard to get to, but it is there.
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With AOL using this standard, Microsoft gets a huge chunk of marketshare for it.
Microsoft has one goal in all of this: To lock Open Source out of a standard, and then launch FUD campaigns about how Open Source refuses to support Sender-ID (because MS will charge an insane fee for licenses, but MS won't mention this) and thus helps spammers.
Close, but this system will also need a hard drive and CD drive.
Quick glancing at Pricewatch, You can probably get a 20GB hard drive for under $30 and a really generic CD-ROM Drive for under $20.
On the upside, we could probably get away with 256 MB of RAM. That will work for most people just browsing the web, sending email, or using a text document once in a while. So we're still probably looking at something around the $150 mark.
Now, this takes care of the hardware. What about the wonderful (*cough*) Microsoft software?
Windows XP Home: $199
Microsoft Word 2003: $199 ($499 if you want full office suite)
Nearly $400 for software on an PC that costs around $150! This is, unless MS really is going to start offering crippleware versions of Windows and Word in the US market.
Why is this modded as a troll?
It is just speculation as to something that may (or may not) be happening between Google and Mozilla.
Just because the speculation makes Google seem like a bad guy doesn't mean it is trolling.
Well, at least not in my city, please. It sounds cool at first, but there is no such thing as "free."
This is going to end up costing all the taxpayers of the city millions more than originally speculated. Many may not use it.
It will also be wonderfully "regulated" by the city government and used to spy on the taxpayers who are paying for it.
I tried playing D&D as a Drow, but my DM said the shopkeeper refused to sell me anything when I went to purchase supplies in a town. In fact, when all the citizens of the town found out I was there, they grabbed torches and pitchforks and chased me away!
So what if mainstream Drow civilization is a blood thirsty horde commanded by a cruel matriarchy, and takes orders from an evil spider demon queen from the abyss? I don't think it is a big deal that most Drow only want to kill or enslave all the surface dwellers.
Refusing service to my character because I am a Drow is unfair discrimination and I don't see why my DM doesn't apologize to me.
I got frame dragging when playing Doom 3, so I updated to a GeForce 6800. The planet just needs to do something similar.
MS is already being criticized that Windows is already too expensive. It is highly likely that multicore processors will hit the desktop market, and it would be bad for PR if Joe User found himself having to pay double because he has a dual core processor(even though he has no clue what a dual core processor really is).
Is it plausible that some Microsoft people have been experimenting with Linux to the point of even looking into making their own distro in the future? Sure.
Is it likely that they have a distribution that is release worthy just sitting on the shelf? I highly doubt it.
Symantec is actually being sued by a spyware company because Norton AntiVirus detects their software as "adware." IIRC, NAV doesn't even actually remove that software, it just detects it.
First, it was the Pokemon trading card game.
This game supposedly damaged our children in the following ways.
1. It taught them gambling.
2. It taught the theory of evolution.
3. It introduced kids to evil occultism and Eastern Religions.
4. It was a gateway game used by WOTC to lure kids into playing MTG and D&D.
5. It opened our kids up to be mind controlled by the Japanese, who would use our kids as drones to bomb Pearl Harbor again.
So you're playing GTA: San Andreas rather than Neopets?
I've said it a while back before, game studios need to look closer to home to figure out why this happens.
Someone close to these companies are leaking the games. It wouldn't surprise me if it is someone in the QA department or someone who works where the game discs are mass produced and can make one disappear without much notice.
There are Libertarians running for offices ranging from City Councils of up to President.
The sad fact is that most people don't even pay attention to local elections, but many pay attention the the Presidential ones.
In local elections, it seems to me that most people just vote for the candidates identified with the same political party as themselves.
So Badnarik and Cobb aren't doing this just for themselves. They were hoping to garner attention for their parties as well, and to illustrate that it takes their being arrested to get any sort of headlines.
Of course, this isn't being a widely reported incident.
Basically, thanks to the war on drugs and similar crap, the Government pretends that it has the right to deny people of property without due process of law under the guise of asset forfeiture or "collecting evidence."
Yeah, maybe on older movies it could do 24 FPS, but this is a new DOOM Movie. The projector is going to need some upgrades to keep up. ... Okay, so maybe I'm taking these Doom 3 system requirement jokes to far ...
You're right. I don't think the theater's projector could even pull 10 FPS.
Remember that when facing down the Cyberdemon, the space marine shoots first!
Well, did you expect they'd just call him "DoomGuy" or "Player?"
You'd just get addicted to recompiling your kernel, screwing with configuration files, and trying various driver builds trying to get the ATI card to work properly.
What were the launch titles for this handheld supposed to be anyway?
It doesn't really bring anything new to the table we didn't already know.
The major hurdles for widespread adoption of a browser other than IE have always been the fact that IE is tied to the OS, and that there are many IE-specific pages out there.
#1. The reason that Blizzard has been successful is because they consistantly make good games. Bnetd has been available since 1998, but StarCraft still sold millions of copies.
#2. The problem with the PC game market is that it can be a pain just to get a game to run.
Most people just want to play games. They don't want to check system requirements or deal with PC issues such as upgrading drivers, making sure their OSes haven't been turned to swiss cheese by spyware, etc.
Furthermore, not everyone is willing to upgrade their PCs to play the latest games well. The price of a top of the line graphics card is the same or more as the price of a game console. That card will be outdated within a year, whereas the console's life will be at least 4 years.
#3. It isn't like piracy is unheard of on consoles. Almost everyone I knew in high school and college who was a "gamer" had a modded Playstation and towers of pirated games.
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Duke Nukem to arrive.
You may not know this, but enabling the built in XP firewall before connecting protects against most of these threats.
Maybe you can blame MS for not enabling it by default, or by hiding it away from the user as a simple checkbox that is hard to get to, but it is there.
I don't support most of the ideas of the Green Party.
That being said, at least I can respect the Green Party for sticking to their principles. They seem well meaning at least.
Unlike the Democrats, the Green Party is an actual left-leaning party, rather than a slightly less-right-leaning party than the Republicans.
The Democrats pretend to champion the little guy, but they are just as sold out as the Republicans.