How naive do you have to be to be a Microsoft employee that had this brainchild and think that wouldn't get leaked about 5 minutes after video was made available to programmers?
Well, considering TFA says that the videos were made in 2004, it took about 2 years before the programmers got their hands on them...
There's another commercial for some hemorrhoid cream "from the makers of Head On." I'm scared that soon there'll be commercials saying "Apply directly to asshole. Apply directly to asshole. Apply directly to asshole."
Say it with me: MONEY. Having automated systems is just plain cheaper. Sure they still have to have real live people around to take a few of the calls. But I'd guess that by implementing "self-assist" voice menu systems, 9 out of 10 calls can be handled by the machine and not take up the time of the "expensive" employee. When dealing with just about any business decision, the answer usually boils down to M-O-N-E-Y.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were a way to start with a core operating system unit that could then have additional modules and applications bolted on as necessary? You'd have full control over exactly what functions the machine will and will not have. Too bad such a beast will never exist...
My question is whether or not this will be made abundantly clear to the player/purchaser before they buy the game. Will they be aware that they're only getting the first half and will be asked to pay again to finish it?
I work for a biomedical publisher and fully support open access policies, especially for publically-funded research. My question, however, is just how much will the average citizen get out of reading a highly technical research report on a subject? Unless they are well schooled in a particular field, they likely won't even understand what the abstract is talking about.
I see they use the term 'Scientists' for just about anyone these days.
From TFA: "Team members Richard Shipman, who teaches artificial intelligence, Andy Shaw, a researcher in space robotics, and computer technician Ian Izett, have built the wanger using scrap metal and discarded mechanical parts."
Yeah, seriously. This is just a couple of know-nothing teachers and some techie guy. There's no "science" involved in anything they're doing...
Firing is an expensive act. Apple can expect to lose the productivity the fired employee would have given to the company during the time it recruits and trains the replacement, and recruiting is hardly cheap either.
You're talking about some schmucks working in their retails stores. This is hardly on the same level as an engineer who has deep internal knowledge of things and must be debriefed so his team won't lose ground...Not to mention, as others have said, when you illicitly take something from your employer, then proceed to talk about the action while at work, then boohoo for you if you get fired...
I love how the Bigfoot thing is billed as "answering the tough questions," yet it's simply filled with more nonsense marketing bullshit. In one answer they talk about completely bypassing the Windows network stack, yet in another answer they say they don't offload the full stack. Which is it?
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...he appears to have stopped.
I guess you missed the last sentence and link to his blog in that summary: "Read more for additional details and pictures about this mystery."
Perhaps if people got a share of the ad revenue from the stories they posted, it'd work better.
That's exactly the model that Newsvine uses. It's a good combination of the AP wire feed with user-submitted content from elsewhere on the web.
How naive do you have to be to be a Microsoft employee that had this brainchild and think that wouldn't get leaked about 5 minutes after video was made available to programmers?
Well, considering TFA says that the videos were made in 2004, it took about 2 years before the programmers got their hands on them...
There's another commercial for some hemorrhoid cream "from the makers of Head On." I'm scared that soon there'll be commercials saying "Apply directly to asshole. Apply directly to asshole. Apply directly to asshole."
Say it with me: MONEY. Having automated systems is just plain cheaper. Sure they still have to have real live people around to take a few of the calls. But I'd guess that by implementing "self-assist" voice menu systems, 9 out of 10 calls can be handled by the machine and not take up the time of the "expensive" employee. When dealing with just about any business decision, the answer usually boils down to M-O-N-E-Y.
What? You got a problem with explosive orgasms?
Wouldn't it be nice if there were a way to start with a core operating system unit that could then have additional modules and applications bolted on as necessary? You'd have full control over exactly what functions the machine will and will not have. Too bad such a beast will never exist...
Sorry, my work blocks anything having to do with "gaming." It really sucks...
According to your logic, we shouldn't expect an Xbox to "deliver something like Xbox Live" either...
They'd better put that in there somewhere...
Obviously not teaching grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
My question is whether or not this will be made abundantly clear to the player/purchaser before they buy the game. Will they be aware that they're only getting the first half and will be asked to pay again to finish it?
Hell, it still has problems handling its own word wrap feature if you edit something.
Are you attempting to justify keeping the reports secret?
I see you haven't bothered to read the first sentence of my post.
Where does this leave me? My video card said it's only x16. Sounds like I'll need to hook up four of them to be able to play HD.
I work for a biomedical publisher and fully support open access policies, especially for publically-funded research. My question, however, is just how much will the average citizen get out of reading a highly technical research report on a subject? Unless they are well schooled in a particular field, they likely won't even understand what the abstract is talking about.
I guess I forgot to include the sarcasm tag...
I see they use the term 'Scientists' for just about anyone these days.
From TFA: "Team members Richard Shipman, who teaches artificial intelligence, Andy Shaw, a researcher in space robotics, and computer technician Ian Izett, have built the wanger using scrap metal and discarded mechanical parts."
Yeah, seriously. This is just a couple of know-nothing teachers and some techie guy. There's no "science" involved in anything they're doing...
Exactly. These are people who were raised to believe that simply saying "I'm sorry" frees them from any repercussions for their actions.
Firing is an expensive act. Apple can expect to lose the productivity the fired employee would have given to the company during the time it recruits and trains the replacement, and recruiting is hardly cheap either.
You're talking about some schmucks working in their retails stores. This is hardly on the same level as an engineer who has deep internal knowledge of things and must be debriefed so his team won't lose ground...Not to mention, as others have said, when you illicitly take something from your employer, then proceed to talk about the action while at work, then boohoo for you if you get fired...
I love how the Bigfoot thing is billed as "answering the tough questions," yet it's simply filled with more nonsense marketing bullshit. In one answer they talk about completely bypassing the Windows network stack, yet in another answer they say they don't offload the full stack. Which is it?
Oh man. That's just too funny! :-D
Any chance we can get them to add Shredisode IV to the game?
Pffft. I'll wait for the multicore versions of these cards. Aren't ATI and NVIDIA aware that dualcore is the new buzzword in computing?!?
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