As long as DirectX is a thing, Windows has an app store and the Xbox is binary compatible with the core OS, you're never going to escape Microsoft in gaming.
DirectX isn't the selling point it once was...It doesn't run on Android for a start, That is half your potential market...In money terms a much greater market Increasingly game engines with the promise develop once publish everywhere are what games are developed in. The xbox is not as big an influence as you think it is, and definitely not as much as Microsoft thinks it has after the backlash from games being treated badly by Microsoft, going to the loving arms of Sony.
... the main culprit responsible for the state of PC gaming. The entire game industry shit on PC because it was easier to sell to console kiddies.
Actually there is a revolution in PC Gaming. I should say gaming in general driven by an army of small indie gaming outfits. That amongst a multitude of pleasant surprises a move to DRM Free, Ethical Pricing, Cross Platform (Linux/Mac and Android), they have started putting the "Game" Back in Gaming with interested untried genres themes and inventive and challenging gameplay...rather than the usual tired franchises.
What he probably means is that Microsoft should not try to produce its own PC games.
What he should mean is how Gamers where shit on by Microsoft over the Xbox One, and bringing that same madness to the PC market, would probably be a bad thing. Not that I can tell, the penny arcade report was pretty offensively a love fest to Microsoft Nasty Practices at announced. I found the way they have discussed the second hand games particularly offensive.
A rise in eating too fucking much. There isn't anything mysterious about this
Ignoring your link to the advert! You should read the article. The article is questioning the "rise" in obesity (in America is 1 in 3) in seeming contradiction of Bloomberg’s thermodynamics.
Your advert might make the point "You're fat because you are stupid" in what you may think is clever because its offensive (gives you a feeling of superiority), but it excuses the underlying factors. That is not to say you should eat sensibly and exercise and underlying factors should be used as an excuse for being fat.
You know why, or should know why. It what Microsoft had built to dominate the (hardware) mobile industry using its old monopoly's of Windows Desktop Applications...and Microsoft Office Insurance. Its a locked down (Secure Boot Crap) Microsoft hardware running Windowsish on (Incompatible with X86 Binary) ARM, forcing you to use Microsofts store. Using the Very Unpopular Metro(Instead of a real Desktop...and Without Desktop Applications). Hitting its OEM Abused Wives on the with a backhand of "you're rubbish". Throwing its hostages on the fire with Metro(PC's are on their 5th quarterly drop in PC sales). While the rest of the industry is moving towards Chrome and Android(Its set to eclipse Windows this year)...Dell being the last hangout because of this supposed takeover.
The reality is their is no bigger news. When will be the year of Microsoft Mobile?
What fantasy world are you living in and what the hell are you smoking? Windows...an afterthought? Can I buy a Linux native version of:
A world where we now are hitting 6 Android consoles...quoting old games(I like my games cross platform anyway) is not going to change that. I am currently sporting an Ouya + Xperia Play + Gnu Linux running steam (I'll be honest I'm struggling to play through all the humble bundles)
Yahoo was dominant in email. Yahoo is still dominant in email. Despite all the press gmail and outlook get, Yahoo his still the biggest email service in the US.
Yahoo! Mail had 281 million (December 2012) while 420 million (18 February 2013) and gmail 425 million (June 2012. Those are the figures from wikipedia which place Yahoo! a behind the main players. The figures are worldwide. I am not sure why I should care about US only figures...its a small market, or why the results should be vastly different.
If Google stopped working, I wouldn't suffer very much, I think. (When Gmail crashes, I think that for gmail users this is another issue... but I use alternative email).
Except Googe+ is growing, and even though it is in no way eclipsing Facebook. Yahoo was dominant in search; Apple was dominant in smartphones; Hotmail was dominant in internet mail. How is the fact that there is strong player in the market relevant, both Apple and Microsoft could benefit from having their own social network, and Facebook is a threat to both.
Pro Tip: Rather than Googling 'Facebook' you could use a bookmark, or try www.facebook.com
Facebook is definitely Googles main threat (when will they release their own search engine). Its why Google are throwing everything behind Google+. I have been astonished how Microsoft/Apple have been prepared to squander their respective advantages by not having a social network, preferring to support Facebook against Google.
Well, every major version of Windows going back to 1.0 has come out around 3-4 years apart (except XP->Vista, which took 6+ years). So it's likely that Windows 9 would come out in in the beginning of 2016 or 2017
but they really should focus on making a browser for the desktop that doesn't run like utter shat. I know reality doesn't sink in easily in nerd's minds but the firefox team doesn't give a flying fuck about tech savy users and ranting about it won't have any effect at all. The only viable routes at this point are :
1 - use a different browser (and no Chrome is not the answer) 2 - take the firefox source code and fork it. Forget about chasing the latest useless shiny and start fixing serious bugs and revamp the UI so that it caters to the tech savy user first (and by restriction to the lambda user as well). In other terms revamp Firefox so that it gives back the browser experience to the user.
For christ's sake, people forked Gnome, is there nobody at all that can fork Firefox and fix it ?
This. Fork Fx at 3.6, patch in the security patches, and ship it.
Looking at what has happened since the new releases. I am personally enjoying the fact that features get delivered to me sooner like Isolated Plug-ins; WebM playback; Hardware Acceleration; Do Not Track...The List really does go on and on. The reality is though the UI has actually changed very little...and power users get advanced features like about:config; bout:memory; about:cache, as well as a whole plethora of plugins to play with. Its the reasons why I prefer it to Chrome...A none too shabby browser itself (http://gs.statcounter.com/ wow look at its adoption in spite of Internet Explorer monopolistic bundling)
The bottom line is Internet Explorer is behind, they are doing their customers a disservice by including it at all, as alternative browsers continue to provide a faster; safer; experience.
What?! Samsung are the only ones growing - they've just had a great quarter, again. LG is a distant 3rd place with 5% of the smartphone market.
Sent from my iPhone.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24257413 These are the latest figures from IDC they actually break out Android shipments. They show Samsung growing less than the overall market from 44.4% to 39.1% (the iPhone dropped from 16.6% to 13.2%). Its not a two horse race however the market leaders want to paint it, and as time goes on even less of one.
"In the evening of September 23, a riot broke out in Foxconn's factory complex in Taiyuan, Shanxi. 2.000 Foxconn workers took part in the riot, many thousands looked on, and 40 people got injured. The rioters smashed shop-windows, set fires on the street, over-turned police cars and demolished company fences. 5.000 police were sent in but did not bring the situation under control until the early morning hours."
Absolutely, Although you are obviously not sick enough to use lives of people to push an Apple products that have used child labour...and famously use Samsung components in their(not your) produces.
The bottom line is if you where Genuine you would be looking into buying(and promoting) a Android Motorola X as Google reopened a manufacturing plants to assemble them in America employing training and treating with dignity 2000 employees.
Only Apple mistreats their factory workers. This is clearly FUD spread by people with an anti-Android agenda
Apple famously (still) use Samsung components...and Samsung although they are very successful in the telephone market, also produce windows phones, Bada phones..and will soon do Tizen phones. Ironically Samsung is not as big in smartphones as it once was. Growth from Samsung has been flat compared to companies like LG and Sony (and other brands) taking up the slack in Apples declining market share.
Yeah, and none of the "tech folks" I know thought an oversized iPhone was gonna go anywhere,..."tech folk" on this very website thought a certain device that lacked wireless and had less space than a Nomad
Ironically many "tech folks"(sic) not only predicated the tablet, but looked forward to it, and own many of its ealier iterations. The iPad was the most expected device ever, there were surprises...*price* for one. As for the Mp3 quote. The fact that a prominent "tech folk" thought technology would win over brand is maybe misguided in retrospect, although I took advantage of cheap better alternatives. Ironically he can sleep easy now Android dominated 80% of the smartphone market while Apple cling to 14% that he was right all along.
Am I dumb and missing the sarcasm? People don't normally carry their iPads everywhere with them, but I know TONS of people who have them. Most don't even bother with their PC's anymore.
In the context of your quote iPads sales are plummeting. Those may be Android tablet Kathleen Sullivan.
why in the world did Microsoft spend so much on such a bad idea? Same with the phones...
The why is actually easy...money, and by money I mean Apple Money + Samsung Money + Google Money + American Express + Old Abusive Monopoly For years. Imagine if Microsoft had 95% share of Phone and Tablet Market share, with everyone else having to use them as their store for electronic goods.
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As long as DirectX is a thing, Windows has an app store and the Xbox is binary compatible with the core OS, you're never going to escape Microsoft in gaming.
DirectX isn't the selling point it once was...It doesn't run on Android for a start, That is half your potential market...In money terms a much greater market Increasingly game engines with the promise develop once publish everywhere are what games are developed in. The xbox is not as big an influence as you think it is, and definitely not as much as Microsoft thinks it has after the backlash from games being treated badly by Microsoft, going to the loving arms of Sony.
... the main culprit responsible for the state of PC gaming. The entire game industry shit on PC because it was easier to sell to console kiddies.
Actually there is a revolution in PC Gaming. I should say gaming in general driven by an army of small indie gaming outfits. That amongst a multitude of pleasant surprises a move to DRM Free, Ethical Pricing, Cross Platform (Linux/Mac and Android), they have started putting the "Game" Back in Gaming with interested untried genres themes and inventive and challenging gameplay...rather than the usual tired franchises.
What he probably means is that Microsoft should not try to produce its own PC games.
What he should mean is how Gamers where shit on by Microsoft over the Xbox One, and bringing that same madness to the PC market, would probably be a bad thing. Not that I can tell, the penny arcade report was pretty offensively a love fest to Microsoft Nasty Practices at announced. I found the way they have discussed the second hand games particularly offensive.
What is this shit?
Better than an article about the iphone being the colour GOLD!....maybe
A rise in eating too fucking much. There isn't anything mysterious about this
Ignoring your link to the advert! You should read the article. The article is questioning the "rise" in obesity (in America is 1 in 3) in seeming contradiction of Bloomberg’s thermodynamics.
Your advert might make the point "You're fat because you are stupid" in what you may think is clever because its offensive (gives you a feeling of superiority), but it excuses the underlying factors. That is not to say you should eat sensibly and exercise and underlying factors should be used as an excuse for being fat.
What is slashdots obsession with the surface rt?
You know why, or should know why. It what Microsoft had built to dominate the (hardware) mobile industry using its old monopoly's of Windows Desktop Applications...and Microsoft Office Insurance. Its a locked down (Secure Boot Crap) Microsoft hardware running Windowsish on (Incompatible with X86 Binary) ARM, forcing you to use Microsofts store. Using the Very Unpopular Metro(Instead of a real Desktop...and Without Desktop Applications). Hitting its OEM Abused Wives on the with a backhand of "you're rubbish". Throwing its hostages on the fire with Metro(PC's are on their 5th quarterly drop in PC sales). While the rest of the industry is moving towards Chrome and Android(Its set to eclipse Windows this year)...Dell being the last hangout because of this supposed takeover.
The reality is their is no bigger news. When will be the year of Microsoft Mobile?
What fantasy world are you living in and what the hell are you smoking? Windows...an afterthought? Can I buy a Linux native version of:
A world where we now are hitting 6 Android consoles...quoting old games(I like my games cross platform anyway) is not going to change that. I am currently sporting an Ouya + Xperia Play + Gnu Linux running steam (I'll be honest I'm struggling to play through all the humble bundles)
Yes I know there's games for Linux, I run Linux myself
Then you have been sleeping. The games revolution has already happened. Windows in now an afterthought. Its a new world.
To be fair Elite wasn't much of a game either, but it was still an awesome way to spend your time.
No Elite was a lot of game. http://www.oolite.org/ current remake.
Scrolls is currently Mac and PC only, it looks great https://scrolls.com/ There is a indication that it will be coming soon http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/mojangs-scrolls-is-coming-to-linux-soon.2135 although personally I am not holding my breath. Fortunately Linux isn't short of games anymore.
Yahoo was dominant in email. Yahoo is still dominant in email. Despite all the press gmail and outlook get, Yahoo his still the biggest email service in the US.
Yahoo! Mail had 281 million (December 2012) while 420 million (18 February 2013) and gmail 425 million (June 2012. Those are the figures from wikipedia which place Yahoo! a behind the main players. The figures are worldwide. I am not sure why I should care about US only figures...its a small market, or why the results should be vastly different.
If Google stopped working, I wouldn't suffer very much, I think. (When Gmail crashes, I think that for gmail users this is another issue... but I use alternative email).
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/17/4631622/microsoft-apologies-for-outlook-and-activesync-downtime-says-error Your email could be out three days not one minute.
Probably because they're not fools.
Except Googe+ is growing, and even though it is in no way eclipsing Facebook. Yahoo was dominant in search; Apple was dominant in smartphones; Hotmail was dominant in internet mail. How is the fact that there is strong player in the market relevant, both Apple and Microsoft could benefit from having their own social network, and Facebook is a threat to both.
Pro Tip: Rather than Googling 'Facebook' you could use a bookmark, or try www.facebook.com
Facebook is definitely Googles main threat (when will they release their own search engine). Its why Google are throwing everything behind Google+. I have been astonished how Microsoft/Apple have been prepared to squander their respective advantages by not having a social network, preferring to support Facebook against Google.
You lost us as soon as you said XP is better than 7.
It isn't
Actually there are a few ways that XP is better than 7, Hardware requirements being a major one (It was sold on netbooks for years after it had been replaced...and never ran with 7). It is part of the reason why http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 for Windows XP is still around 40%.
Well, every major version of Windows going back to 1.0 has come out around 3-4 years apart (except XP->Vista, which took 6+ years). So it's likely that Windows 9 would come out in in the beginning of 2016 or 2017
http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/28/3693368/windows-blue-update-low-cost I thought the plan was to keep the Windows 8 Numbering for now, and then push towards yearly updates for Microsoft’s OS. In fact I thought that is what 8.1 was. I thought it was a great idea.
but they really should focus on making a browser for the desktop that doesn't run like utter shat.
I know reality doesn't sink in easily in nerd's minds but the firefox team doesn't give a flying fuck about tech savy users and ranting about it won't have any effect at all. The only viable routes at this point are :
1 - use a different browser (and no Chrome is not the answer)
2 - take the firefox source code and fork it. Forget about chasing the latest useless shiny and start fixing serious bugs and revamp the UI so that it caters to the tech savy user first (and by restriction to the lambda user as well). In other terms revamp Firefox so that it gives back the browser experience to the user.
For christ's sake, people forked Gnome, is there nobody at all that can fork Firefox and fix it ?
This. Fork Fx at 3.6, patch in the security patches, and ship it.
I can feel your pain. I Do find this technique of replying to yourself quite exciting, While attaching the product, without providing any substance. Here is http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-27-firefox-21-opera-next,3534-12.html a comprehensive comparison' Fastest Browser is Firefox.
Looking at what has happened since the new releases. I am personally enjoying the fact that features get delivered to me sooner like Isolated Plug-ins; WebM playback; Hardware Acceleration; Do Not Track...The List really does go on and on. The reality is though the UI has actually changed very little...and power users get advanced features like about:config; bout:memory; about:cache, as well as a whole plethora of plugins to play with. Its the reasons why I prefer it to Chrome...A none too shabby browser itself (http://gs.statcounter.com/ wow look at its adoption in spite of Internet Explorer monopolistic bundling)
The bottom line is Internet Explorer is behind, they are doing their customers a disservice by including it at all, as alternative browsers continue to provide a faster; safer; experience.
What?! Samsung are the only ones growing - they've just had a great quarter, again. LG is a distant 3rd place with 5% of the smartphone market.
Sent from my iPhone.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24257413 These are the latest figures from IDC they actually break out Android shipments. They show Samsung growing less than the overall market from 44.4% to 39.1% (the iPhone dropped from 16.6% to 13.2%). Its not a two horse race however the market leaders want to paint it, and as time goes on even less of one.
Samsux is going too far imitating Apple. Get a grip.
Over work pressure over the iPhone 5
http://www.gongchao.org/en/islaves-struggles/revolt-of-the-islaves
"In the evening of September 23, a riot broke out in Foxconn's factory complex in Taiyuan, Shanxi. 2.000 Foxconn workers took part in the riot, many thousands looked on, and 40 people got injured. The rioters smashed shop-windows, set fires on the street, over-turned police cars and demolished company fences. 5.000 police were sent in but did not bring the situation under control until the early morning hours."
Boycott samsung, amiright?
Absolutely, Although you are obviously not sick enough to use lives of people to push an Apple products that have used child labour...and famously use Samsung components in their(not your) produces.
The bottom line is if you where Genuine you would be looking into buying(and promoting) a Android Motorola X as Google reopened a manufacturing plants to assemble them in America employing training and treating with dignity 2000 employees.
Only Apple mistreats their factory workers. This is clearly FUD spread by people with an anti-Android agenda
Apple famously (still) use Samsung components...and Samsung although they are very successful in the telephone market, also produce windows phones, Bada phones..and will soon do Tizen phones. Ironically Samsung is not as big in smartphones as it once was. Growth from Samsung has been flat compared to companies like LG and Sony (and other brands) taking up the slack in Apples declining market share.
Android sales are high because everyone starts with the 80 dollar Android tablet and discovers it's junk before they upgrade to something better.
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24253413 Sorry those are the latest figures. That is Apple having a sales drop of 14% Year On Year while Samsung rise of 277%, In a market that raised 60% YonY.
The bottom line is Apple need to start competing on more than brand.
Yeah, and none of the "tech folks" I know thought an oversized iPhone was gonna go anywhere, ..."tech folk" on this very website thought a certain device that lacked wireless and had less space than a Nomad
Ironically many "tech folks"(sic) not only predicated the tablet, but looked forward to it, and own many of its ealier iterations. The iPad was the most expected device ever, there were surprises...*price* for one. As for the Mp3 quote. The fact that a prominent "tech folk" thought technology would win over brand is maybe misguided in retrospect, although I took advantage of cheap better alternatives. Ironically he can sleep easy now Android dominated 80% of the smartphone market while Apple cling to 14% that he was right all along.
Am I dumb and missing the sarcasm? People don't normally carry their iPads everywhere with them, but I know TONS of people who have them. Most don't even bother with their PC's anymore.
In the context of your quote iPads sales are plummeting. Those may be Android tablet Kathleen Sullivan.
why in the world did Microsoft spend so much on such a bad idea? Same with the phones...
The why is actually easy...money, and by money I mean Apple Money + Samsung Money + Google Money + American Express + Old Abusive Monopoly For years. Imagine if Microsoft had 95% share of Phone and Tablet Market share, with everyone else having to use them as their store for electronic goods.