I'm very surprised MS haven't been taking the mobile market more seriously, I thought they were trying to push netbook users towards mobile phone computing with their Fone+ initiative. They seem very non-committal in this space, either half-heartedly supporting various iterations of the platform only to refresh the brand after a hiatus and stubbornly pushing the same old thing on consumers, or dropping products entirely when they show any sign of weakness in the market. You don't build a platform and user base by running away when you get cold feet, you have to stand behind it, address concerns, and build up a sense of confidence in consumers. Why should anyone be confident of any of MS's mobile phone attempts when there are already very strong brands with a history that consumers can put their faith in?
This is exactly why MS will always be behind... they wait until an idea is already popular, and then they try and jump on it with their own spin ("hey it's the same thing but with our store and it's got SilverLight(TM)!"). They commit to it half-heartedly, making potential customers apprehensive. Then if it catches on, instead of putting real muscle behind it, MS just coasts until it either sinks or floats and then they let it stagnate. Microsoft will never "be what's next" unless they really get a grip on a specific direction and commit to it. They will never do that because "the hot new thing" is changing all the time and MS are always trying to pounce on it as if they can catch it and put it in a cage. They're convinced that it's possible. Meanwhile companies like Apple are in the driver's seat coming up with very nice devices that they've put thought into from the ground up. They may fail like the Newton but when they catch on it takes forever for everyone else to catch up.
I don't look at the keyboard when I type, so what's the advantage to using this over that of just switching between virtual desktops? You would definitely save a lot of battery life without the second screen. I can only look at one screen at a time (unless you want to kludge stereoscopic vision in somehow). It would be nice to use the bottom part as a drawing tablet, but that would receive limited use by a niche audience. You could use the top screen as such anyhow, and if a normal laptop had a multi-touch screen that would slide down over the keyboard and turn into a tablet then it would serve the purpose without including a second screen. Much better without two the screens causing glare on each other.
This is not meant to be taken seriously, it's just PR so that non-technical folk see headlines like this in the news and think to themselves "Hmm, MS is leading an outreach to help others with security, they sure must know a lot if they're giving away all of this help and information and they must have a lot of confidence if they believe they can help their competition and it won't affect them!"
So now the default ISP package tagline will be: "Most of our users want faster access to mainstream media sites, so as an added value, our default packages emphasize this"
and we'll start hearing more of this: "Our more experienced users really want faster access to niche sites so we have special premium power user packages for that"
I'm so glad I kept all my games (including my pile of shame), I have a good stockpile to keep me going until this crap blows over.
Yes, Shareware was the same sort of concept, except in that case you downloaded a third of the game, and then had a choice of a physical or digital copy. What they're proposing here is they sell you 1/3rd of the game on physical medium, and then tie the rest with DRM to a console that could possibly fail and an account that could possibly be inaccessible in the future when they shut down support for "legacy hardware".
I'm just glad I can still get to world 8 on my copy of Super Mario Bros 3, and the second castle in Symphony of the Night isn't going anywhere either.
For example, no longer should individuals have to remember an ever-expanding and potentially insecure list of usernames and passwords to login into various online services.
That's actually creating many other problems. For example, if my online identity is the same across many sites, information that I am not willingly providing to one site can just be scraped off another. As another example, various bits of data can all be easily tied back to an individual, undermining their privacy.
Do they really want to make people so afraid that they would rather fight blindly anything that stimulates them the wrong way instead of discerning actual dangers and confronting them intelligently?
Jet Grind Radio would be a great one, it's better than the sequel and hard to find. Seaman would be a fun title, and could use all those headsets many players already own for voice chat. Shenmue would be another, it would be nice to preserve this piece of video game history. I'd like to see Chu Chu Rocket as well, it fits in perfectly with many other PSN/XBLA titles, and would also be great on WiiWare. They should also get together with Q Entertainment and bring Rez to the PSN, and I'd like to play it on Wii since the controls would lend themselves perfectly to that game.
As a security measure, shouldn't Firefox prevent access to plugins that weren't explicitly registered by the end user? If it discovers something new upon startup, then warn the user, circle it in red in the extensions list, and disable it. Allow an "enable" button, but again, warn the user and demand confirmation if it is enabled. Every time extensions are modified explicitly by the end user (like the way they ask you if it's ok for you to install a plugin from the web with a dialog that is not supposed to be trapped by other processes), make a list of the state of extensions, and use that to compare with on startup.
You can only take so many Castlevania Symphony of the Night sequels
I actually wish there were more... and I would love to see a true high definition sequel or remake of Symphony of the Night (the planned Harmony of Despair actually recycles sprites from the standard def games and the DS games, so it is not true high def).
More games should do this, that way they get ported to other systems through community effort and you have even more people purchasing the game.
In addition, more developers get to fool around with the engine to see if they want to use it for their game, and then pay for a commercial license if they so wish.
Really, Canada is up there above Sweden in the eyes of the US? They're just chucking Canada in there since the US has been putting pressure on them to "harmonize" their laws. I guess they're trying to shame them into it?
So, no getting out of the way of ambulances and fire trucks then? Do these vehicles have to constantly update the instructions for intersection engine control? What if they go off their planned route?
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I'm very surprised MS haven't been taking the mobile market more seriously, I thought they were trying to push netbook users towards mobile phone computing with their Fone+ initiative. They seem very non-committal in this space, either half-heartedly supporting various iterations of the platform only to refresh the brand after a hiatus and stubbornly pushing the same old thing on consumers, or dropping products entirely when they show any sign of weakness in the market. You don't build a platform and user base by running away when you get cold feet, you have to stand behind it, address concerns, and build up a sense of confidence in consumers. Why should anyone be confident of any of MS's mobile phone attempts when there are already very strong brands with a history that consumers can put their faith in?
This is exactly why MS will always be behind... they wait until an idea is already popular, and then they try and jump on it with their own spin ("hey it's the same thing but with our store and it's got SilverLight(TM)!"). They commit to it half-heartedly, making potential customers apprehensive. Then if it catches on, instead of putting real muscle behind it, MS just coasts until it either sinks or floats and then they let it stagnate. Microsoft will never "be what's next" unless they really get a grip on a specific direction and commit to it. They will never do that because "the hot new thing" is changing all the time and MS are always trying to pounce on it as if they can catch it and put it in a cage. They're convinced that it's possible. Meanwhile companies like Apple are in the driver's seat coming up with very nice devices that they've put thought into from the ground up. They may fail like the Newton but when they catch on it takes forever for everyone else to catch up.
I don't look at the keyboard when I type, so what's the advantage to using this over that of just switching between virtual desktops? You would definitely save a lot of battery life without the second screen. I can only look at one screen at a time (unless you want to kludge stereoscopic vision in somehow). It would be nice to use the bottom part as a drawing tablet, but that would receive limited use by a niche audience. You could use the top screen as such anyhow, and if a normal laptop had a multi-touch screen that would slide down over the keyboard and turn into a tablet then it would serve the purpose without including a second screen. Much better without two the screens causing glare on each other.
This is not meant to be taken seriously, it's just PR so that non-technical folk see headlines like this in the news and think to themselves "Hmm, MS is leading an outreach to help others with security, they sure must know a lot if they're giving away all of this help and information and they must have a lot of confidence if they believe they can help their competition and it won't affect them!"
Is it III, lll, IlI, or lIl? I can't really tell without changing the font...
Google is splintering the Java platform, just like Microsoft was doing back in the 90s, and should be held up to the same standards
Does that mean Google will get a slap on the wrist and then it's business as usual?
So now the default ISP package tagline will be: "Most of our users want faster access to mainstream media sites, so as an added value, our default packages emphasize this"
and we'll start hearing more of this: "Our more experienced users really want faster access to niche sites so we have special premium power user packages for that"
He would rather that content creators only build native iOS apps that work only for iDevices rather than use already-existing channels
Is that why the iPhone originally intended to have apps that were just "web clips" until people whined that they couldn't write native applications?
So can they port Rage to Wii now? If it runs on the 3GS, it can't be that far off from working fine on the Wii.
I'm so glad I kept all my games (including my pile of shame), I have a good stockpile to keep me going until this crap blows over.
Yes, Shareware was the same sort of concept, except in that case you downloaded a third of the game, and then had a choice of a physical or digital copy. What they're proposing here is they sell you 1/3rd of the game on physical medium, and then tie the rest with DRM to a console that could possibly fail and an account that could possibly be inaccessible in the future when they shut down support for "legacy hardware".
I'm just glad I can still get to world 8 on my copy of Super Mario Bros 3, and the second castle in Symphony of the Night isn't going anywhere either.
It's that little bit in the middle where you're at work that just seems to crush your soul a little bit.
For example, no longer should individuals have to remember an ever-expanding and potentially insecure list of usernames and passwords to login into various online services.
That's actually creating many other problems. For example, if my online identity is the same across many sites, information that I am not willingly providing to one site can just be scraped off another. As another example, various bits of data can all be easily tied back to an individual, undermining their privacy.
What's the point of this? Aren't they already the exact same thing?
What are the supported character sets? Is it only roman characters or what?
Do they really want to make people so afraid that they would rather fight blindly anything that stimulates them the wrong way instead of discerning actual dangers and confronting them intelligently?
What about the Dual Shock controller? As long as they offer something that significantly improves the experience, it will sell well.
Jet Grind Radio would be a great one, it's better than the sequel and hard to find. Seaman would be a fun title, and could use all those headsets many players already own for voice chat. Shenmue would be another, it would be nice to preserve this piece of video game history. I'd like to see Chu Chu Rocket as well, it fits in perfectly with many other PSN/XBLA titles, and would also be great on WiiWare. They should also get together with Q Entertainment and bring Rez to the PSN, and I'd like to play it on Wii since the controls would lend themselves perfectly to that game.
As a security measure, shouldn't Firefox prevent access to plugins that weren't explicitly registered by the end user? If it discovers something new upon startup, then warn the user, circle it in red in the extensions list, and disable it. Allow an "enable" button, but again, warn the user and demand confirmation if it is enabled. Every time extensions are modified explicitly by the end user (like the way they ask you if it's ok for you to install a plugin from the web with a dialog that is not supposed to be trapped by other processes), make a list of the state of extensions, and use that to compare with on startup.
You can only take so many Castlevania Symphony of the Night sequels
I actually wish there were more... and I would love to see a true high definition sequel or remake of Symphony of the Night (the planned Harmony of Despair actually recycles sprites from the standard def games and the DS games, so it is not true high def).
More games should do this, that way they get ported to other systems through community effort and you have even more people purchasing the game.
In addition, more developers get to fool around with the engine to see if they want to use it for their game, and then pay for a commercial license if they so wish.
I guess Merdouche translated from French to English means "enema"?
But if you cut it earlier, you can keep those stem cells and benefit from them, right? You're saying we should start giving all of that up?
Really, Canada is up there above Sweden in the eyes of the US? They're just chucking Canada in there since the US has been putting pressure on them to "harmonize" their laws. I guess they're trying to shame them into it?
So, no getting out of the way of ambulances and fire trucks then? Do these vehicles have to constantly update the instructions for intersection engine control? What if they go off their planned route?
Everyone should start carrying an SD card filled with variations on goatse and 2 girls 1 cup