I know this may be modded as redundant, but after reading the title of the article I immediately wanted to respond with the exact same comment. Resident Evil set the standard for the horror gaming industry and I doubt we would even have this discussion if the game was never even made.
I think Nintendo will be able to keep Mario around through endless ports of old games to new portable systems and new games. They intend to keep their best franchises around forever.
I was born in 1981 so, of course, Mario in one form or another has been a constant of my life. I, personally, beleive that the video gaming industry is certainly going to continue to grow and since it is an 'industry' just like movies and music, companies like Sony, M$ and Nintendo understand the idea of branding young impressionable minds with familiar concepts.
Mario is an icon and by 2029, it wouldn't suprise me that he and his friends (Peach, Luigi, DK, etc.) are just as famous as Mickey Mouse and his firends were in the 80's (appx. fifty years after his introduction). Mario is an icon of video games that children recognize all over the world. It would be foolish for Nintendo, or any company that might buy them out in the next 18 years, to discontinue such a long running and successful trademark that literally millions of young and old people associate with happy, youthful memories.
Be careful what you wish for. There is a slim chance that Intel could be holding onto this technology because they don't want to be 'anti-competitive'. Let's assume Intel could hypothetically release chips that are twice as fast as anything that is out there right now. What would happen? It could kill AMD if Intel can keep up that technological growth at a much superior rate than AMD. Anti-trust lawsuits would follow.
But, before you call the anti-trust lawyers a bunch of SOB's stifeling technological growth, consider this. If Intel did run AMD out of existance. Intel would no longer have a reason to sink as much money in R&D. They could slack off with only moderate growth and nobody could do anything about it.
I dare say Intel understands very well and they are going to do all that they can to remain #1 in the industry while at the same time avoiding all possible litigation that could be brought against them by the competition.
I'm hoping it will be upheld. I'm tired of holding out on getting a High-Def so I can get my government subsides (SP?) for the two analog TVs that I have.
No, they shouldn't because it would be a waste of time. No web designer in their right mind would mark any thing as an object because, sure enough, as soon as it's implemented in an HTML spec, some one out there will right a plug-in to hide those elements.
Web developers want their ads to be seen. They aren't going to make it easy for those ads to be blocked.
I knew WoW was a HUGE MMORPG and that's about it but if my calculations are correct
9M Active Accounts
* $10/monthly subscription fees(that's my guess, I don't know the actual figure)
* 12 Months
=
$1.08 Billion a year!
Holy Cow, that's insane!
I didn't RTFA, but I think I can some what agree with the statements in the summary. Most user's user their computers for word processing and internet use. Most notebooks that you can buy today can do all that most of those users will ever need including watching the occasional video (web, DVD and soon HD-DVD/BluRay based).
That means desktops will mostly be for office work and the hardcore gamer types. The desktop will never die, though. My personal reason-- I'm a developer with two 19 inch monitors and a desktop with as much power as my company will let me purchase. More power = more space. It always has been that way and it always will.
My 2 cents.
So... public libraries are illegal because anyone can check out a book and photocopy the contents of copy righted material? What about the music CDs of movies that you can access there?
It's the same principle, in my opinion.
I'll admit, I only skimmed the article, but if M$ spent that much money, total, on patent legal fees, that money needs to be divided evenly against the revenue of all offered products.
Sorry, that wouldn't work. You would want it to use the system resources only when the application was not playing games. In that case, many user's would probably simply cut off the entire console when they weren't playing games simply to spite the system.
Yes, I didn't read the article but I wonder if this is from in-network computers for these major companies or if it included the computers that traveling business men and women tote around. It's been my experience that the laptop users often have more freedom on their mobile computers to download and install any junk they can find. This means that they are more likely to be targets of bots that will setup this type of crap. Also, a couple of the companies that were mentioned were more tech based. I would imagine that those corporations might have a higher percent of power-users that they allow to have Admin rights on their workstations. Of course, just because your a power-user doesn't mean that you are going to take the best of care of your work box.
My 2 cents.
But you see...
1024MB/GB * 1024GB/TB = 1,048,576
1,048,476 / 5 = 209,715.2
*GASP*... You caught me on a math error that is so blatently obvious that I feel that I must admit the truth-- I used a calculator instead of my mind. Must have been a typo when I entered in the figures. Sorry...
Not really. They probably won't even increase the storage size of there servers any more than they typically do. My guess is that they've noticed that most users (probably in the neighborhood of 99.99%) aren't anywhere close to their max usage and that offering this 'feature' is good simply for advertising and attracting new customers. The really limit is the size of the individual emails themselves. If you are limited to 5MB of space/per email, you would have to have about 25k 5MB emails to fill one TB. That's not going to happen, even if your account is a ten year old spam catcher.
... that also a large chunk of this probably goes to the console maker as well. I'd be quite surprised to see that Sony (or M$) hasn't upped their licensing fees for these new systems over the last generation significantly.
Not to mention, it stated that they cut on their firewalls, and then they had to restore these settings to the defaults so that the scoring system would work. Um.... that doesn't seem like a problem to anyone else? Of course, I can't complain to much. I would have loved to have been a part of this just for the experience even with these unrealistic scenarios.
Just get a new job. Sure this may sound like a bad idea because most say that it doesn't look good on your resume to have had 8 different jobs for the past fifteen years. I would typically agree with that notion but it has been my experience that there is no shortage of need for GOOD software developers or other IT personnel who are enthusiastic about there jobs and seek continual job growth in their area of expertise.
1. Take the job and suck it up.
2. Start working on a project.
3. Make yourself indespinsable.
4. Feverishly look for work for their competitors.
5. Dump the company to work for "the other guys" when you land a position.
6. Profit! (In the form of the sweet feeling of pay back)
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I know this may be modded as redundant, but after reading the title of the article I immediately wanted to respond with the exact same comment. Resident Evil set the standard for the horror gaming industry and I doubt we would even have this discussion if the game was never even made.
I was born in 1981 so, of course, Mario in one form or another has been a constant of my life. I, personally, beleive that the video gaming industry is certainly going to continue to grow and since it is an 'industry' just like movies and music, companies like Sony, M$ and Nintendo understand the idea of branding young impressionable minds with familiar concepts.
Mario is an icon and by 2029, it wouldn't suprise me that he and his friends (Peach, Luigi, DK, etc.) are just as famous as Mickey Mouse and his firends were in the 80's (appx. fifty years after his introduction). Mario is an icon of video games that children recognize all over the world. It would be foolish for Nintendo, or any company that might buy them out in the next 18 years, to discontinue such a long running and successful trademark that literally millions of young and old people associate with happy, youthful memories.
Anyways, that's my two cents.
Be careful what you wish for. There is a slim chance that Intel could be holding onto this technology because they don't want to be 'anti-competitive'. Let's assume Intel could hypothetically release chips that are twice as fast as anything that is out there right now. What would happen? It could kill AMD if Intel can keep up that technological growth at a much superior rate than AMD. Anti-trust lawsuits would follow.
But, before you call the anti-trust lawyers a bunch of SOB's stifeling technological growth, consider this. If Intel did run AMD out of existance. Intel would no longer have a reason to sink as much money in R&D. They could slack off with only moderate growth and nobody could do anything about it.
I dare say Intel understands very well and they are going to do all that they can to remain #1 in the industry while at the same time avoiding all possible litigation that could be brought against them by the competition.
Yeah, I just want the $40 check (or $80 if it's per TV).
I'm hoping it will be upheld. I'm tired of holding out on getting a High-Def so I can get my government subsides (SP?) for the two analog TVs that I have.
No, they shouldn't because it would be a waste of time. No web designer in their right mind would mark any thing as an object because, sure enough, as soon as it's implemented in an HTML spec, some one out there will right a plug-in to hide those elements.
Web developers want their ads to be seen. They aren't going to make it easy for those ads to be blocked.
I knew WoW was a HUGE MMORPG and that's about it but if my calculations are correct 9M Active Accounts * $10/monthly subscription fees(that's my guess, I don't know the actual figure) * 12 Months = $1.08 Billion a year! Holy Cow, that's insane!
I didn't RTFA, but I think I can some what agree with the statements in the summary. Most user's user their computers for word processing and internet use. Most notebooks that you can buy today can do all that most of those users will ever need including watching the occasional video (web, DVD and soon HD-DVD/BluRay based). That means desktops will mostly be for office work and the hardcore gamer types. The desktop will never die, though. My personal reason-- I'm a developer with two 19 inch monitors and a desktop with as much power as my company will let me purchase. More power = more space. It always has been that way and it always will. My 2 cents.
42 years!
"Dammit! 'Somebody' has leaked the film..."
I kind of had the same thought but I think it is more likely that a disgruntled employee did this, or one that knew his days at M$ were numbered.
So... public libraries are illegal because anyone can check out a book and photocopy the contents of copy righted material? What about the music CDs of movies that you can access there? It's the same principle, in my opinion.
You have 'Ahhh...' when you say it. From the back of the throat.
Where's the flying toasters? I remember the first time I saw them. I was 12 and I still thought it was lame.
I'll admit, I only skimmed the article, but if M$ spent that much money, total, on patent legal fees, that money needs to be divided evenly against the revenue of all offered products.
Sorry, that wouldn't work. You would want it to use the system resources only when the application was not playing games. In that case, many user's would probably simply cut off the entire console when they weren't playing games simply to spite the system.
Yes, I didn't read the article but I wonder if this is from in-network computers for these major companies or if it included the computers that traveling business men and women tote around. It's been my experience that the laptop users often have more freedom on their mobile computers to download and install any junk they can find. This means that they are more likely to be targets of bots that will setup this type of crap. Also, a couple of the companies that were mentioned were more tech based. I would imagine that those corporations might have a higher percent of power-users that they allow to have Admin rights on their workstations. Of course, just because your a power-user doesn't mean that you are going to take the best of care of your work box. My 2 cents.
The typo came when I typed in the numbers into the calculator. I missed a digit and it threw it off.
But you see... 1024MB/GB * 1024GB/TB = 1,048,576 1,048,476 / 5 = 209,715.2 *GASP*... You caught me on a math error that is so blatently obvious that I feel that I must admit the truth-- I used a calculator instead of my mind. Must have been a typo when I entered in the figures. Sorry...
Not really. They probably won't even increase the storage size of there servers any more than they typically do. My guess is that they've noticed that most users (probably in the neighborhood of 99.99%) aren't anywhere close to their max usage and that offering this 'feature' is good simply for advertising and attracting new customers. The really limit is the size of the individual emails themselves. If you are limited to 5MB of space/per email, you would have to have about 25k 5MB emails to fill one TB. That's not going to happen, even if your account is a ten year old spam catcher.
I'm hopped up on Mountain Dew and I'll be on you like a spider monkey! Silcon chip, that is.
... that also a large chunk of this probably goes to the console maker as well. I'd be quite surprised to see that Sony (or M$) hasn't upped their licensing fees for these new systems over the last generation significantly.
Not to mention, it stated that they cut on their firewalls, and then they had to restore these settings to the defaults so that the scoring system would work. Um.... that doesn't seem like a problem to anyone else? Of course, I can't complain to much. I would have loved to have been a part of this just for the experience even with these unrealistic scenarios.
Just get a new job. Sure this may sound like a bad idea because most say that it doesn't look good on your resume to have had 8 different jobs for the past fifteen years. I would typically agree with that notion but it has been my experience that there is no shortage of need for GOOD software developers or other IT personnel who are enthusiastic about there jobs and seek continual job growth in their area of expertise.
R&D, huh? Easy.
1. Take the job and suck it up.
2. Start working on a project.
3. Make yourself indespinsable.
4. Feverishly look for work for their competitors.
5. Dump the company to work for "the other guys" when you land a position.
6. Profit! (In the form of the sweet feeling of pay back)