There are all those thousands of people out there who play nothing but Halo on the original Xbox. You need something to make them upgrade. Now they can play nothing but Halo on the 360.
Presumably is an advantage if they release the documentation AND distribute some hardware to develop/test against. Otherwise you have to wait for someone "in the community" to buy the card and start working on the driver. That could mean real delays. Alright, a delay is better than what you have at the moment, ie nothing. To me it just sounds like ATI shirking all responsibility, not making any tactical moves.
I would have though that detailed knowledge of the actual hardware would be more useful than knowledge of the operating system and that's precisely what the hardware developers have.
So, if you want to run OS software on your OS operating system then now you will have to use OS drivers. Doesn't this just encourgage the hardware developers to leave it to "the community"? How many other companies will do this now?
It doesn't hurt to take a break from/. every now and again. It does "News for Nerds" quite well but I am not sure it does "News that matters" any more than Digg. It is not a news site as such, it is just a bunch of stories that appeal to a slightly skewed demographic. You don't get a unbiased political picture here any more than you would on the Jon Stewart show. If there are any political voices on here then they are the ones at the extremes shouting the loudest.
Can't wait to see people walking around with huge modchips soldered onto the back of their iPhones. I don't think Apple have any real problem with the hackers its just that the phone companies do. If you can write your own code then you can probably get it to change your provider. I think the hackers should concentrate on the Touch now. That's got most of the features with no outside business interests.
M$ won't sue just as they have to keep the Mac version of office alive. Something to do with being a monopoly. OOs next problem is do they spend a couple of months rewriting the interface to look like Office 2007? Menus are so old fashioned and the new ribbon thing is smart.
XML is probably ok for sending a character from one server to another but not for in game interactions. It just comes with such an unnecessarily large overhead.
VRML was one of those languages that popped up when people though they needed to describe everything in XML. Apart from a few spinning world demos I don't think it ever really took off.
You see, a white list would be bigger than the black list.
Would it? I think you will find that there is a finite (and probably quite small) number of programs out there. Each of those might ocasionally get updated. Compare that with malware or a virus that by nature morph each time it replicates. The bad guys are releasing new versions every day precisely to get around the blacklist.
Of course it does raise the question of what constitutes a good program. How many search toolbars do we really need?
Cola is different as there are two main brands and loads of cheap immitations. OS software is all free and so the main factor of choice is what does it do extra. Each of these variations exists because someone wants to add/change the functionality of the aplication and make it different form the source. Like linux you will get the version that is easy to install, the techy version (X11) and the others.
The question becomes not who will get the largets share of the office market but who will get the largets share of the Open Office market?
So, how many different variations of Open Office will there be out there? The IBM one, the Sun one, the various Linux distro versions, NeoOffice, etc. I am sure I have missed a few. I can't help thinking this is all diluting the presence of Open Office.
That's what I used to think but I believe Jobs a bit more now, especially after the DRM free music deal. Apple only implemented DRM as the labels demanded it but they know however that they will only sell iPods if you can import your own CDs. If they were expecting the user to only play stuff off iTunes then the max capacity would only need to be about 2Gb. No one would ever buy more than that.
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I am an atheist but how would we know if God lit the blue touch paper for the big bang?
There are all those thousands of people out there who play nothing but Halo on the original Xbox. You need something to make them upgrade. Now they can play nothing but Halo on the 360.
You obviously need to exploit a GoogHOle.
Their plan seems to be lose all the geek viewers and turn it into friends. :(
Seems a good place to mention Kiva. Lend people money to start up their businesses and then when they have paid it back, lend it again.
Presumably is an advantage if they release the documentation AND distribute some hardware to develop/test against. Otherwise you have to wait for someone "in the community" to buy the card and start working on the driver. That could mean real delays. Alright, a delay is better than what you have at the moment, ie nothing. To me it just sounds like ATI shirking all responsibility, not making any tactical moves.
I would have though that detailed knowledge of the actual hardware would be more useful than knowledge of the operating system and that's precisely what the hardware developers have.
They are from the next series of "Lost".
So, if you want to run OS software on your OS operating system then now you will have to use OS drivers. Doesn't this just encourgage the hardware developers to leave it to "the community"? How many other companies will do this now?
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I've dealt with these scare tactics at other stores in the past including other Circuit Cities, Best Buys and Guitar Centers.
I bet he has got one of those faces that just cries "Search me".
New software = Bad New service pack = Good
No one said anything about being free or public domain.
It doesn't hurt to take a break from /. every now and again. It does "News for Nerds" quite well but I am not sure it does "News that matters" any more than Digg. It is not a news site as such, it is just a bunch of stories that appeal to a slightly skewed demographic. You don't get a unbiased political picture here any more than you would on the Jon Stewart show. If there are any political voices on here then they are the ones at the extremes shouting the loudest.
If the editors don't even RTFAs before posting them, why shoud we? ;)
We haven't got any TV on the 360 over here. :(
Can't wait to see people walking around with huge modchips soldered onto the back of their iPhones. I don't think Apple have any real problem with the hackers its just that the phone companies do. If you can write your own code then you can probably get it to change your provider. I think the hackers should concentrate on the Touch now. That's got most of the features with no outside business interests.
M$ won't sue just as they have to keep the Mac version of office alive. Something to do with being a monopoly. OOs next problem is do they spend a couple of months rewriting the interface to look like Office 2007? Menus are so old fashioned and the new ribbon thing is smart.
XML is probably ok for sending a character from one server to another but not for in game interactions. It just comes with such an unnecessarily large overhead.
VRML was one of those languages that popped up when people though they needed to describe everything in XML. Apart from a few spinning world demos I don't think it ever really took off.
Not THE David Cassidy?
You see, a white list would be bigger than the black list.
Would it? I think you will find that there is a finite (and probably quite small) number of programs out there. Each of those might ocasionally get updated. Compare that with malware or a virus that by nature morph each time it replicates. The bad guys are releasing new versions every day precisely to get around the blacklist.
Of course it does raise the question of what constitutes a good program. How many search toolbars do we really need?
Chuck in some voice recognition and you could have ads displayed that relate to your conversation. That would be cool.
Cola is different as there are two main brands and loads of cheap immitations. OS software is all free and so the main factor of choice is what does it do extra. Each of these variations exists because someone wants to add/change the functionality of the aplication and make it different form the source. Like linux you will get the version that is easy to install, the techy version (X11) and the others.
The question becomes not who will get the largets share of the office market but who will get the largets share of the Open Office market?
So, how many different variations of Open Office will there be out there? The IBM one, the Sun one, the various Linux distro versions, NeoOffice, etc. I am sure I have missed a few. I can't help thinking this is all diluting the presence of Open Office.
That's what I used to think but I believe Jobs a bit more now, especially after the DRM free music deal. Apple only implemented DRM as the labels demanded it but they know however that they will only sell iPods if you can import your own CDs. If they were expecting the user to only play stuff off iTunes then the max capacity would only need to be about 2Gb. No one would ever buy more than that.