I'd like a unified gaming system that works across all platforms, however I think that's probably too much to hope for, and probably too tricky to implement in reality due to the percent chance of getting the relevant companies working together on such a thing being pretty close to zero.
A third party could do it I think. Look what Steam is doing with Win/Mac (and soon Linux?) Someone should get Valve on that. Steam Droid. Achievements, friends, VOIP...
It doesn't matter. Android doesn't need the Google Marketplace. It can install any APK files. There are even alternatives to the marketplace with dedicated ranking, sorting, tracking, etc. One example is http://slideme.org/
I'm not talking about the iPhone. There are literally millions of Android development phones out there though. Every single one of them. There's less of a development cost. If you want to claim that development will skyrocket because of how many dev phones are out there all you have to do is look at how Android is doing.
There are just as many (if not more) hardware firms kicking out Android based devices (phones, tablets, remote controls, etc.) and several global telco's with Android as well... What's your point?
Um, If 200,000 of those phones are owned by developers/partners/employees it's hardly going to be paramount to success. You may as well say there are 200,000 phones sitting in a warehouse because that's about as much as they'll actually get used for phones.
That's just Microsoft artificially inflating the distribution numbers to make people (like you) think that people are actually using the phones as something other than a testing platform.
In order to find out the true usage numbers, we now have to subtract 200,000 from whatever number we are given.
People will end up pointing out the special cases though. If SSD has an "IBM 80G DeskStar" type situation where one particular set of chips comes out completely unreliable I think it will be more detrimental to SSD than it was the HDD. Mainly because HDDs didn't have much for alternate storage technology.
That's why I think hard disks will still be the norm for mid-term retention for a while. It can't take much to run your system off an SSD and mirror it to a platter... can it?
My best guess would be like a "hybrid" drive that uses the SSD for all immediate tasks and cache write that data to disk when it's free. In the event of an outage, you still have the data on the SSD which should always be considered accurate and you have the platters in case the SSD fails.
I'm pretty sure there are no RAID controllers that support that, but my RAID knowledge is limited to the basics of 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 so there could be...
Now there's an idea... have an app that generates a hash of the site domain and a common password and use that as the password for that site. Then all you have to do is put the domain name and your password in a box and poof, instant alphanumeric/non-dictionary password.
What bugs me is when you are trying to find a picture of some car part or something along that line and you find a forum where someone posted an attachment that requires login to download.
Also, the fact that XDA forums requires login to be able to get anything worth going there for.
But in this case, the logo he's using is really close to the Geek Squad logo and it's on the side of a Volkswagon Beetle, just like the Geek Squad cars (though, not two colored.)
It was included in my Professional edition... either via the disk or a covert update (because I didn't see anything about the DVD maker in the update summaries.)
Which brings me to another issue I have with Win7... I removed the Libraries and Favorites links from Explorer and they keep pushing them back in during updates. I wish there was a layer of user settings that even Microsoft has to abide by.
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I'd like a unified gaming system that works across all platforms, however I think that's probably too much to hope for, and probably too tricky to implement in reality due to the percent chance of getting the relevant companies working together on such a thing being pretty close to zero.
A third party could do it I think. Look what Steam is doing with Win/Mac (and soon Linux?) Someone should get Valve on that. Steam Droid. Achievements, friends, VOIP...
Also, Android development is free as well. If you want your app on the Google Marketplace, there's a small fee though.
It doesn't matter. Android doesn't need the Google Marketplace. It can install any APK files. There are even alternatives to the marketplace with dedicated ranking, sorting, tracking, etc. One example is http://slideme.org/
I'm not talking about the iPhone. There are literally millions of Android development phones out there though. Every single one of them. There's less of a development cost. If you want to claim that development will skyrocket because of how many dev phones are out there all you have to do is look at how Android is doing.
There are just as many (if not more) hardware firms kicking out Android based devices (phones, tablets, remote controls, etc.) and several global telco's with Android as well... What's your point?
The one thing I took from these videos is the annoying 1-2 second lag between pressing something on the screen and the phone actually doing something.
Also, I've seen games with better visuals on Android and the iPhone...
Um, If 200,000 of those phones are owned by developers/partners/employees it's hardly going to be paramount to success. You may as well say there are 200,000 phones sitting in a warehouse because that's about as much as they'll actually get used for phones.
That's just Microsoft artificially inflating the distribution numbers to make people (like you) think that people are actually using the phones as something other than a testing platform.
In order to find out the true usage numbers, we now have to subtract 200,000 from whatever number we are given.
No text and no useful text are two very different things. For instance, this text isn't very useful. ;)
As long as they don't have those spray devices in the back of the seat in front of you like they have in some of the 3D theme theaters...
People will end up pointing out the special cases though. If SSD has an "IBM 80G DeskStar" type situation where one particular set of chips comes out completely unreliable I think it will be more detrimental to SSD than it was the HDD. Mainly because HDDs didn't have much for alternate storage technology.
That's why I think hard disks will still be the norm for mid-term retention for a while. It can't take much to run your system off an SSD and mirror it to a platter... can it?
My best guess would be like a "hybrid" drive that uses the SSD for all immediate tasks and cache write that data to disk when it's free. In the event of an outage, you still have the data on the SSD which should always be considered accurate and you have the platters in case the SSD fails.
I'm pretty sure there are no RAID controllers that support that, but my RAID knowledge is limited to the basics of 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 so there could be...
And why is this better than just base64-encoding 48 bytes from /dev/random?
Because that's probably all he's doing.
No, do like we do: change every 30 days so any attacker knows that the last two digits will be that month.
OpenId is nice, but the site has to have support for it.
Wait, you're telling me it sends my actual password over the internet and not *******? WTF
I got into programming to give my brain a rest! :p
Now there's an idea... have an app that generates a hash of the site domain and a common password and use that as the password for that site. Then all you have to do is put the domain name and your password in a box and poof, instant alphanumeric/non-dictionary password.
Hmm.
What bugs me is when you are trying to find a picture of some car part or something along that line and you find a forum where someone posted an attachment that requires login to download.
Also, the fact that XDA forums requires login to be able to get anything worth going there for.
Except with DLC they tell you it was made... in movies these things apparently get lost. (How do you "lose" film that you still have?)
Sorry, I didn't see you posted half your thought in the Subject line.
Um, 2010 (is 17 years) + 3 = 2013 (is 20 years.)
He is selling something... He's selling a service that has little to no entrance fee. It still requires dedication, time and attention.
If an open source project used a similar logo to Betty Crocker, you better believe they will get a cease and desist letter.
But in this case, the logo he's using is really close to the Geek Squad logo and it's on the side of a Volkswagon Beetle, just like the Geek Squad cars (though, not two colored.)
It was included in my Professional edition... either via the disk or a covert update (because I didn't see anything about the DVD maker in the update summaries.)
Which brings me to another issue I have with Win7... I removed the Libraries and Favorites links from Explorer and they keep pushing them back in during updates. I wish there was a layer of user settings that even Microsoft has to abide by.
I don't think it matters if they offer different services. It would be the same as someone opening a seafood restaurant called Walleye-mart.
The logo on the side of the Beetle is pretty close, IMHO. I don't think it's overzealous. It's pretty blatant.