Re:I disagree with Smart Appliances being listed
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I completely agree. Smart appliances are just waiting for the consumer HOUSING market to catch up. Right now, the vast majority of houses don't have the infrastructure to support smart appliances, and there is no cheap solution for doing so.
I suppose electricity was a flop because as soon as it was conceived, there wasn't in-house wiring.
As the PS3 project lead at Stanford noted, the GPU client is inefficient with its FLOPS. He was saying that for the GPU client a scatter is far more of a hit than a recalculation, so they end up using 2-3x the FLOPS to calculate the same data as a single FLOP might take on a PC or a PS3.
Overall, I think Vista is a gradual evolution of the Windows platform.
Don't delude yourself into thinking that tech savvy people don't put the heat on Apple for their similarly moderate improvements version over version because their Apple. Apple releases them every 1.5-2 years.
This took Microsoft over SIX years to send out. People aren't saying it's not a gradual improvement, people are asking why the hell it took Microsoft SIX years to make such gradual improvement, how long its going to be before they make their next incompatable "gradual improvement", and whether or not Microsoft even has an R&D department. Most of the things they did were very clearly innovated by someone else.
-Security's a problem? Let's create something that will let us blame the user. (UAC)
-Games going to other OSs are a problem? Let's rewrite an incompatable DX10.
-Third party drivers for video crads are crashing our driver model? Let's just gimp the third parties so that they can't and do it ourselves. (Bonus for gimping OpenGL.)
-GUI/useability is a problem? Let's just slice and dice some Linux and OS X elements.
The problem is not that Vista is incremental in change, it's that its incremental, it took six years, and Microsoft is forcing the incompatability anyways.
I use JIRA at work, and for free you can get Flyspray, a PHP/MySQL ticket tracking system that is excellent for everything JIRA does minus the Enterprise Level Management stuff that the Bob's at every job want. ("What's this... assessments? Numbers? Give me graphs with multiple colors of how many tickets we're closing!")
But they did NOT give a battery life for "listen" mode, where it's just waiting for a call doing nothing. If we're talking 16 hours of audio on one charge, I could easily see 24+ hours of listen on one charge.
As the article notes, this game was developed by Mistwalker Studios, not "Squaresoft". Further, I can only assume you meant Squaresoft as in the same square that makes Final Fantasy. In which case, Square merged with Enix about five or six years ago, and is now called "Square Enix".
Does anyone know if this attack is possible on Opera? Opera's wand has been around longer than FireFox has, so I'm kinda curious. It seems like something people could exploit in more than just FireFox.
I think the record companies will argue that the settlement against Kazaa was for creating the file sharing software, and not for actually infringing on any copyrights.
But wasn't that their whole argument? That Kazaa thrived off of copyinfringement, not that they had some disdain for networking protocols...
Actually.. there's only 175k slated for US, and 400k worldwide before X-mas.
Oh? Because EVERY respectable place I've heard so far is still saying 400k.
That's from my buddy the manager of a local chain store.
Yeah, because I have TONS of experience assuring me that the manager of a retail store is an expert on corporate politics and electronics manufacture numbers.
Not to mention that he's told me that at least 1/2 of his pre-orders are destined for E-bay.
And how exactly does he know this?
I'd say something about that devious plan, but I'm under an NDA.. suffice it to say it'll be an interesting Friday.
If HE says Sony is setting themselves up to come crashing down, you better believe they are.
Because Atari was diversified in nearly every consumer electronic product in existence, had holdings in intellectual property markets and a market cap of $41 billion.
Sorry, Sony is a different boat than a company who created a market by convincing people that a new type of product was something they wanted.
Bushnell is respectable, and he has experience in the field, but the industry is an entirely different game now. Markets, and products are merging. How many people thought consumers would pay $300+ for a music device? Jobs did, and that's all that mattered evidentally.
Bushnell is, erroneously, using experience from a younger, less mature, less saturated market, to make prediction about a market which has merged with several other markets and a company which he is neither privvy to, nor had comparable experience or resources to when he was running the show.
This is just like someone quoting Einstein on philosophy. The man was an expert in math and physics... that doesn't make him an expert on everything.
I know who he is. Plenty of famous and important people can be complteely retarded. Lapsing into utter stupidity is not something limitted to the weak among us.
I agree with the summary mostly, however, I found the connotation of the entire thing rather... dubious.
I cannot check the article, (slashdotted), and since no link to the sites in question was provided, I am left to trust that the sites were good-natured content, and entirely legal, instead of deciding for myself.
I also wasn't able to find out the name of the vigilante group, as it wasn't included in the summary. For all I know it could be the ACLU.
The discussion should be about the principal of content filtering, not what content was filtered or who requested it. Everyone has websites that they feel only tarnish the internet. Demogaugery like this:
"...minor-attracted adults..." "...a U.S. vigilante group..." "...a number of (entirely legal) web sites..."
Does not help your position. They are pedophiles, interest/lobbying groups and entirely legal in Canada. Your choice of words turned me off to a subject which I completely agree with the summary on, because it shows the same double standard you are crying about.
This would enver hold up if challenged though. While public places of commerce may be considered part of the public domain, the internet is something for which you have to actively choose to participate in, and is not provided by the government as a public service, nor is it provided for free by the market.
200 years of rules have held that if you pay to be in a location or a venue, it is no longer part of public domain. Do amusement parks have to make their thrill rides agree to the ADA? Certainly their facilities do, but their rides do not.
Stop sounding self-important. Video games are about making money. That's what Microsoft is in it for, what Sony is in it for, and what Nintendo is in it for. It is their first motivation; all of them. Acting indignant because one of them acted on their motivations, jsut like they all do, makes you look impossibly childish.
* Committing (read: Gave initial report) to a worldwide simultaneous launch, then delaying the launch in the largest of your markets (if you combine all of Sony's divisions)
* Preventing consumers from importing PS3s (into regions for which the product hasn't been tested or certified for the local area's electricity and communication standards, and is illegal to use or operate) by driving companies that try to export them out of business with multiple spurious lawsuits
* Presenting CGI as real-time footage (back before they had a completed SKU to run any real time footage on... you know... they should have just... shown nothing... and let Microsoft wow the fickle gamer market)
My mistake. I'm horrible at reading between the lines.
Yeah, because everyone who likes Final Fantasy is just drooling over Halo...
People who like FPS on console are probably already sold on the 360. It's the one genre that the 360 has hands down, (and thats assuming Killzone and Resistance don't completely rock). Halo probably won't sell new consumers, just save the old ones.
* Committing to a worldwide simultaneous launch, then delaying the launch in the largest of your markets
Last I checked, the PS2 and PS1 had higher sell through in NTSC.
* Preventing consumers from importing PS3s by driving companies that try to export them out of business with multiple spurious lawsuits
Last I checked, each locale has its own laws, regulations and certifications that all electronics must legally pass in order to be safe for the consumer.
* Presenting CGI as real-time footage
Last I check, (when I played it at Tokyo Game Show), LAIR was anything but CGI, and beyond incredible compared to current gen or X360.
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I completely agree. Smart appliances are just waiting for the consumer HOUSING market to catch up. Right now, the vast majority of houses don't have the infrastructure to support smart appliances, and there is no cheap solution for doing so.
I suppose electricity was a flop because as soon as it was conceived, there wasn't in-house wiring.
As the PS3 project lead at Stanford noted, the GPU client is inefficient with its FLOPS. He was saying that for the GPU client a scatter is far more of a hit than a recalculation, so they end up using 2-3x the FLOPS to calculate the same data as a single FLOP might take on a PC or a PS3.
This took Microsoft over SIX years to send out. People aren't saying it's not a gradual improvement, people are asking why the hell it took Microsoft SIX years to make such gradual improvement, how long its going to be before they make their next incompatable "gradual improvement", and whether or not Microsoft even has an R&D department. Most of the things they did were very clearly innovated by someone else.
-Security's a problem? Let's create something that will let us blame the user. (UAC)
-Games going to other OSs are a problem? Let's rewrite an incompatable DX10.
-Third party drivers for video crads are crashing our driver model? Let's just gimp the third parties so that they can't and do it ourselves. (Bonus for gimping OpenGL.)
-GUI/useability is a problem? Let's just slice and dice some Linux and OS X elements.
The problem is not that Vista is incremental in change, it's that its incremental, it took six years, and Microsoft is forcing the incompatability anyways.
I use JIRA at work, and for free you can get Flyspray, a PHP/MySQL ticket tracking system that is excellent for everything JIRA does minus the Enterprise Level Management stuff that the Bob's at every job want. ("What's this... assessments? Numbers? Give me graphs with multiple colors of how many tickets we're closing!")
After all, the R in MSRP stands for recommended.
;)
Man, the video game industry is REALLY using marketing speech if MSRP stands for Manufacterer Suggested Recomended Price.
Hmmm... so now whoever kills you has to "rm -r" your will.
5 hours for voice, 16 hours for music...
But they did NOT give a battery life for "listen" mode, where it's just waiting for a call doing nothing. If we're talking 16 hours of audio on one charge, I could easily see 24+ hours of listen on one charge.
As the article notes, this game was developed by Mistwalker Studios, not "Squaresoft". Further, I can only assume you meant Squaresoft as in the same square that makes Final Fantasy. In which case, Square merged with Enix about five or six years ago, and is now called "Square Enix".
Which ESR are you talking about?
Does anyone know if this attack is possible on Opera? Opera's wand has been around longer than FireFox has, so I'm kinda curious. It seems like something people could exploit in more than just FireFox.
I think the record companies will argue that the settlement against Kazaa was for creating the file sharing software, and not for actually infringing on any copyrights.
But wasn't that their whole argument? That Kazaa thrived off of copyinfringement, not that they had some disdain for networking protocols...
Why shouldn't we forget about the XBox... Microsoft did...
Oh SNAP!
I wonder why people are forgetting the graveyard of broken promises that the X360 has yet to fulfill...
Damn, I already spot a mistype...
That should read: "Teh Gaim Partty"
...a 13 year old naming the convention. That would give it a TON of credibility.
I can see it now: "The Gaim Partty"
Oh? Because EVERY respectable place I've heard so far is still saying 400k.
Yeah, because I have TONS of experience assuring me that the manager of a retail store is an expert on corporate politics and electronics manufacture numbers.
Not to mention that he's told me that at least 1/2 of his pre-orders are destined for E-bay.
And how exactly does he know this?
Ah "under NDA"... surrrrre....
Because Atari was diversified in nearly every consumer electronic product in existence, had holdings in intellectual property markets and a market cap of $41 billion.
Sorry, Sony is a different boat than a company who created a market by convincing people that a new type of product was something they wanted.
Bushnell is respectable, and he has experience in the field, but the industry is an entirely different game now. Markets, and products are merging. How many people thought consumers would pay $300+ for a music device? Jobs did, and that's all that mattered evidentally.
Bushnell is, erroneously, using experience from a younger, less mature, less saturated market, to make prediction about a market which has merged with several other markets and a company which he is neither privvy to, nor had comparable experience or resources to when he was running the show.
This is just like someone quoting Einstein on philosophy. The man was an expert in math and physics... that doesn't make him an expert on everything.
I know who he is. Plenty of famous and important people can be complteely retarded. Lapsing into utter stupidity is not something limitted to the weak among us.
They have almost half of that sold in pre-orders/campers already...
Is this guy like the Dvorak of video games or something?
I cannot check the article, (slashdotted), and since no link to the sites in question was provided, I am left to trust that the sites were good-natured content, and entirely legal, instead of deciding for myself.
I also wasn't able to find out the name of the vigilante group, as it wasn't included in the summary. For all I know it could be the ACLU.
The discussion should be about the principal of content filtering, not what content was filtered or who requested it. Everyone has websites that they feel only tarnish the internet. Demogaugery like this:
Does not help your position. They are pedophiles, interest/lobbying groups and entirely legal in Canada. Your choice of words turned me off to a subject which I completely agree with the summary on, because it shows the same double standard you are crying about.
This would enver hold up if challenged though. While public places of commerce may be considered part of the public domain, the internet is something for which you have to actively choose to participate in, and is not provided by the government as a public service, nor is it provided for free by the market.
200 years of rules have held that if you pay to be in a location or a venue, it is no longer part of public domain. Do amusement parks have to make their thrill rides agree to the ADA? Certainly their facilities do, but their rides do not.
Stop sounding self-important. Video games are about making money. That's what Microsoft is in it for, what Sony is in it for, and what Nintendo is in it for. It is their first motivation; all of them. Acting indignant because one of them acted on their motivations, jsut like they all do, makes you look impossibly childish.
Ah so it should have read:
* Committing (read: Gave initial report) to a worldwide simultaneous launch, then delaying the launch in the largest of your markets (if you combine all of Sony's divisions)
* Preventing consumers from importing PS3s (into regions for which the product hasn't been tested or certified for the local area's electricity and communication standards, and is illegal to use or operate) by driving companies that try to export them out of business with multiple spurious lawsuits
* Presenting CGI as real-time footage (back before they had a completed SKU to run any real time footage on... you know... they should have just... shown nothing... and let Microsoft wow the fickle gamer market)
My mistake. I'm horrible at reading between the lines.
Yeah, because everyone who likes Final Fantasy is just drooling over Halo...
People who like FPS on console are probably already sold on the 360. It's the one genre that the 360 has hands down, (and thats assuming Killzone and Resistance don't completely rock). Halo probably won't sell new consumers, just save the old ones.
Last I checked, the PS2 and PS1 had higher sell through in NTSC.
Last I checked, each locale has its own laws, regulations and certifications that all electronics must legally pass in order to be safe for the consumer.
Last I check, (when I played it at Tokyo Game Show), LAIR was anything but CGI, and beyond incredible compared to current gen or X360.