You should hold off for a little while longer yet and wait for Steam's console to come out. Valve doesn't have Sony's track record, nor Microsoft's love of self-implosion.
It's collectively worth $200 million. If you wire me $20,000 right now, I can get it out of the country and you can take 20% of the profits from the sale.
Security is a grade of order. Freedom is a grade of chaos. They exist on opposite ends of the spectrum.
Don't mistake bill of rights issues like speech (secure in our opinions) and privacy (secure in our papers and possessions) with security just because of the word "secure". Those have nothing to do with security and everything to do with freedom.
It would be like the government spending billions to protect the populace from lightning.
They did. It's called building codes and lightning rods. It didn't give anyone billions in kickbacks though, and it was an effective solution, so it doesn't count. Oh wait, I mean it's government intrusion into our personal freedoms. Yeah, that.
You forgot scenario 5: The police search your vehicle, drop contraband like a small packet of crack cocaine into some obscure niche in your car, "find" it, and arrest you for possession.
Oh, and scenario 4 never happens. At best, they'll search your car anyway and then get a slap on the wrist by the courts.
They're scared of it. They don't know what to do, or how it will affect their bottom line. They don't want it. They want people to stop using it. They want their control of the industry back.
The only way they know how to do this is to price the new way above the old way. Because they're still living in their old world, where supply is physical and limited physically. And in that world, changing the price of things changes demand.
In 8 years, China will be shipping their designs out to Africa.
Not that it matters. China will always have a ton more people than the U.S. They will always have a collective competitive advantage, if only because of economies of scale.
Not to mention that "their" firewall is actually a set of regional firewalls with differing rules. And even the firewall with the strictest rules leak like a sieve.
The purpose of the firewall (and associated software) is twofold: 1) to prevent casual encounters with subversive information and 2) to provide sufficient evidence on persons of interest for a conviction.
The second purpose is actually largely the same as the monitoring situation in the U.S. The government isn't out to get you specifically, but if it is, then it has a ton of evidence it can use to send you to jail.
I've got money most of the sales figures are businesses buying Windows 8 Pro and exercising the downgrade rights to Windows 7 for deployment. After all, corporations don't have activation issues. They can just pop a Windows 7 image on their new hardware and call it a day.
Personally, I'd pay a couple of UI design experts a small fee for some suggestions on how to fix the mess. Or, fire Ballmer and hire somebody who's not going to let their best people walk or be pushed out the door.
I'm not sure of your standards, but some of us measure success in change in the breadth of progress made, rather than in the minimization of progress lost.
Just a reminder: Most people don't use the "All Programs" list. They either use their desktop, on which you can hold tons more icons than large boxes, or type in their program and click the one that pops up.
Metro can show fewer icons than the (95/NT4) desktop. It also has no visual indication that users can just start typing after hitting the start menu to find programs. As it is inferior to both 95/NT4 and 7, one can argue that Metro is a 30-year backward slide in interface design.
In all seriousness though, there's some correlation between creativity and certain mental disorders, like and especially forms of schizophrenia. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if most geeks have it to some degree.
This one's actually not about union vs. non-union, despite the "union worker" in the statement. The "union worker" is merely a fact of the matter, because all lower-level city workers are unionized. So there's no non-union alternative to even consider.
It's about real people doing the work vs. the idiots at the top calling the shots. The real people have foresight and a strong sense of pragmatism. The idiots in charge have their heads in the clouds and their hand in the pork barrel.
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You should hold off for a little while longer yet and wait for Steam's console to come out. Valve doesn't have Sony's track record, nor Microsoft's love of self-implosion.
"official news page" is what I meant the linked text to read (I probably forgot the ">" in the opening tag).
At least the link goes to the right page...
It's also likely the first time Slashdot has the story up before the .
Oscar's gone 21st century.
It's collectively worth $200 million. If you wire me $20,000 right now, I can get it out of the country and you can take 20% of the profits from the sale.
Wtf are people smoking in the US?
Some strong stuff, if it takes a high school dropout to know right from wrong.
But I think it might be something in the kool ai--I mean water.
PIPA and SOPA were industry intrusions into government. This is something else entirely. Corruption I believe it's called.
Uh, what?
Security is a grade of order. Freedom is a grade of chaos. They exist on opposite ends of the spectrum.
Don't mistake bill of rights issues like speech (secure in our opinions) and privacy (secure in our papers and possessions) with security just because of the word "secure". Those have nothing to do with security and everything to do with freedom.
It would be like the government spending billions to protect the populace from lightning.
They did. It's called building codes and lightning rods. It didn't give anyone billions in kickbacks though, and it was an effective solution, so it doesn't count. Oh wait, I mean it's government intrusion into our personal freedoms. Yeah, that.
You forgot scenario 5: The police search your vehicle, drop contraband like a small packet of crack cocaine into some obscure niche in your car, "find" it, and arrest you for possession.
Oh, and scenario 4 never happens. At best, they'll search your car anyway and then get a slap on the wrist by the courts.
tl;dr: to kill the medium before it can be born.
They're scared of it. They don't know what to do, or how it will affect their bottom line. They don't want it. They want people to stop using it. They want their control of the industry back.
The only way they know how to do this is to price the new way above the old way. Because they're still living in their old world, where supply is physical and limited physically. And in that world, changing the price of things changes demand.
Their CEO would get jailed for back dating stock options or some other "crime."
Only in Texas...
Four times the batter life in a cellphone?
No, but maybe they could make the cellphone battery lighter and thinner, or make the phone more powerful, or make powerful phones cheaper.
In 8 years, China will be shipping their designs out to Africa.
Not that it matters. China will always have a ton more people than the U.S. They will always have a collective competitive advantage, if only because of economies of scale.
Not to mention that "their" firewall is actually a set of regional firewalls with differing rules. And even the firewall with the strictest rules leak like a sieve.
The purpose of the firewall (and associated software) is twofold: 1) to prevent casual encounters with subversive information and 2) to provide sufficient evidence on persons of interest for a conviction.
The second purpose is actually largely the same as the monitoring situation in the U.S. The government isn't out to get you specifically, but if it is, then it has a ton of evidence it can use to send you to jail.
I've got money most of the sales figures are businesses buying Windows 8 Pro and exercising the downgrade rights to Windows 7 for deployment. After all, corporations don't have activation issues. They can just pop a Windows 7 image on their new hardware and call it a day.
Can't do much worse than Windows 8, really.
Personally, I'd pay a couple of UI design experts a small fee for some suggestions on how to fix the mess. Or, fire Ballmer and hire somebody who's not going to let their best people walk or be pushed out the door.
the whole point is to get people to use metro apps. to pay for metro apps. to get a cut of metro apps sales.
And what they're going to find is that in doing this, there are going to be more and more software vendors moving to the subscription service.
What was that famous Star Wars quote again? Oh yeah.
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
I'm not sure of your standards, but some of us measure success in change in the breadth of progress made, rather than in the minimization of progress lost.
Just a reminder: Most people don't use the "All Programs" list. They either use their desktop, on which you can hold tons more icons than large boxes, or type in their program and click the one that pops up.
Metro can show fewer icons than the (95/NT4) desktop. It also has no visual indication that users can just start typing after hitting the start menu to find programs. As it is inferior to both 95/NT4 and 7, one can argue that Metro is a 30-year backward slide in interface design.
They often neglect basic personal hygiene.
I knew it! Everyone here is schizo!
In all seriousness though, there's some correlation between creativity and certain mental disorders, like and especially forms of schizophrenia. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if most geeks have it to some degree.
I guess they bring balance to people's heads too.
Becaue Diebold *ahem* I mean Premier Election Solutions needs their payday too. Duh.
This one's actually not about union vs. non-union, despite the "union worker" in the statement. The "union worker" is merely a fact of the matter, because all lower-level city workers are unionized. So there's no non-union alternative to even consider.
It's about real people doing the work vs. the idiots at the top calling the shots. The real people have foresight and a strong sense of pragmatism. The idiots in charge have their heads in the clouds and their hand in the pork barrel.