First of all, that summary was kind of long and confused. Is this story about: 1) Microsoft cutting software prices? 2) Intel making similar hardware? 3) The price of Intel's similar hardware? ($230 is hardly double the XO's price, considering it's currently $200. But, you know, we'll go with it.) 4) Mr. Negroponte's disappointment in the demand for it? 5) 45,000 XO laptops have been ordered?
It just kind of rambles from one point to another without being firmly *about* any of them.
Secondly, isn't imitation the greatest form of flattery? How can you be so sure that MS and Intel are saying "let's crush this program!" and not "hey, that's a good idea, let's try it."
I'm an iPod customer who had to spent $50 on an FM receiver for the damned thing. (The $12 one only works with the "old" iPod models with the remote control port, Apple arbitrarily decided to get rid of that, meaning I got shafted with the $50 version.) Sure, Microsoft is paying an extra $.25 or whatever per unit to include FM, but it's a nice feature that a lot of people will use.
Not all cities have only crappy radio stations, and I like listening to Adam Carolla in the morning.
That's missing the point. The point is, "how do you know what to kill?"
The complaint was that you need to research all the background tasks in Windows to know which ones are taking up resources to make your system faster. My point, which you completely missed, is that you need to do the same research in any OS. Vista's not unique there.
Maybe for some of us mere mortals, we need help searching for stuff? Why not just accept that not everybody in the universe is an exact clone of you and let Microsoft add in the useful feature?
Compared to what other OS, where it's entirely 100% transparent exactly what the OS is doing at any given second? At least Windows *lets* you turn off the features; OS X usually doesn't even give you a choice.
Since I have to carry a laptop to/fro work anyway, and that's the only time during the day I find myself reading books, it really doesn't matter if it fits into a pocket or not. Of course, I'm not anybody, but I think pretty much anybody who can afford $400 for one of these things is already carrying around either a laptop, PDA, or iPhone/iPod Touch and all those devices make pretty damned good e-readers.
They don't have to "take it back" they have to exchange it for a working one. And they do that, both for games (through the retailer) and for consoles (through their warranty program-- extended so this guy filing the suit is covered!)
This suit is a total non-issue. If his Halo 3 disk didn't work, he should have taken it back to where he bought it and exchanged it for another disk. If that disk didn't work, he should have called Microsoft and gotten a warranty repair. You can't ignore the existing options for satisfaction, then complain that you're unsatisfied. This is nothing but an utter waste of a judge's time.
Did you not read the parent post? He JUST posted that the Xbox division had a profitable quarter last quarter, which would turn your statement: Microsoft takes a loss on the hardware, trying to make it up on license fees later. Which they have as yet been unable to do. entirely upside-down.
Now, you may argue that the good quarter is only because of Halo 3 and they'll soon go back into the red, but the point is they *have* been able to do it, it's documented, the parent poster mentioned it, and you're still posting the same old Slashdot crap without engaging your brain or, for that matter, even reading the post you're replying to.
Yeah, but aim the anger at someone who deserves it. Xbox titles are remarkably stable; it's PC games where 3 out of 5 titles on the shelf are buggy beyond belief. Just a couple days ago in another thread I was talking about what a buggy POS Battlefield: 2142 is... THAT game deserves a class-action suit. Halo 3 is pretty good.
It doesn't cause my Xbox 360 to crash, so it can't be option A.
If it's accidentally put in an old-school Xbox, all you see is a static screen that reads something like "this disk requires an Xbox 360 to play" so it's not option C.
That leaves option B: "Only the plaintiff's Xbox 360" which leaves an interesting question, can you have a class action lawsuit with a 'class' of only one person?
If you have admin access, the battle's already lost. What's the point of running a complex process to obtain their password when you have full access to everything on their computer? Might as well just drop in a keylogger and get the same info much easier.
It's been too long since I played it on PC, but HL2 on Xbox 360 definitely stalls at "checkpoints" (or whatever Valve calls them.) Moreso than, say, Halo 2 does.
In fact, Halo's a pretty good example of a game where the content *is* pretty much streamed to a large extent, and the "levels" are just artificially created as chapters in a story. It's not that it was technically impossible for Bungie to stream content, it's just that the story needed broken up and that was the best way to do it. (I mean, the chapters in Halo games usually represent hours of "time passes" anyway... would be really, really boring to do them in real-time.)
If we had these things crawling around, even the Nanny State couldn't prevent idiots from surviving.
So... you're saying two things here: 1) The nanny state is trying to kill idiots 2) Sea scorpions are helpful creatures that prevent idiots from getting into accidents?
It's believed that the last ice age killed off many larger versions of creatures that are very similar to what we have today.
I'm pretty sure it was human expansion that did it. Large animals + no fear of humans = GOOD EATING! At least, I've read that in Jared Diamond books, especially for North/South America and Australia. (For Europe it's less clear, but African large animals survived because they learned to fear/kill humans when humans were not numerous enough or good enough hunters to hunt them to extinction.
None of those columns have labels... can someone let me know what those numbers mean? For instance, in the first row, does "175M" indicate 175 MB of memory used?
With the number of times I've accidentally moved this route marker, I wouldn't like this at all. Even dragging the line by accident sometimes changes the route dramatically. Plus directions are different depending on how you travel... if I get directions in Seattle, I'm usually walking to the destination, but Google assumes I'm driving so it tries to make me go a block out of my way. (So the one-way street is going the right direction; but one-way streets don't apply to walking.)
I'm confused. If you don't want your name or address listed, why would you: 1) Bother to correct your address on Google Maps if it's wrong? You don't want people to know what it is anyway, right? 2) Use your real name when doing 1?
I'm more interested in the possibility that some species of dinosaur became sentient, built a technological civilization, and then erased all traces of themselves from the planet (causing mass extinctions in the process) before moving out into space. It's no more likely than ape-humping pyramid-building aliens, but sentient space dinosaurs would be a lot cooler.
I always support the theory about life on earth that was featured prominently in 1980s cartoons.
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First of all, that summary was kind of long and confused. Is this story about:
1) Microsoft cutting software prices?
2) Intel making similar hardware?
3) The price of Intel's similar hardware? ($230 is hardly double the XO's price, considering it's currently $200. But, you know, we'll go with it.)
4) Mr. Negroponte's disappointment in the demand for it?
5) 45,000 XO laptops have been ordered?
It just kind of rambles from one point to another without being firmly *about* any of them.
Secondly, isn't imitation the greatest form of flattery? How can you be so sure that MS and Intel are saying "let's crush this program!" and not "hey, that's a good idea, let's try it."
I'm an iPod customer who had to spent $50 on an FM receiver for the damned thing. (The $12 one only works with the "old" iPod models with the remote control port, Apple arbitrarily decided to get rid of that, meaning I got shafted with the $50 version.) Sure, Microsoft is paying an extra $.25 or whatever per unit to include FM, but it's a nice feature that a lot of people will use.
Not all cities have only crappy radio stations, and I like listening to Adam Carolla in the morning.
That's missing the point. The point is, "how do you know what to kill?"
The complaint was that you need to research all the background tasks in Windows to know which ones are taking up resources to make your system faster. My point, which you completely missed, is that you need to do the same research in any OS. Vista's not unique there.
Ok, so you're GOD OF ORGANIZATION.
Maybe for some of us mere mortals, we need help searching for stuff? Why not just accept that not everybody in the universe is an exact clone of you and let Microsoft add in the useful feature?
Sorry I hate posts like these.
Compared to what other OS, where it's entirely 100% transparent exactly what the OS is doing at any given second? At least Windows *lets* you turn off the features; OS X usually doesn't even give you a choice.
Since I have to carry a laptop to/fro work anyway, and that's the only time during the day I find myself reading books, it really doesn't matter if it fits into a pocket or not. Of course, I'm not anybody, but I think pretty much anybody who can afford $400 for one of these things is already carrying around either a laptop, PDA, or iPhone/iPod Touch and all those devices make pretty damned good e-readers.
They don't have to "take it back" they have to exchange it for a working one. And they do that, both for games (through the retailer) and for consoles (through their warranty program-- extended so this guy filing the suit is covered!)
This suit is a total non-issue. If his Halo 3 disk didn't work, he should have taken it back to where he bought it and exchanged it for another disk. If that disk didn't work, he should have called Microsoft and gotten a warranty repair. You can't ignore the existing options for satisfaction, then complain that you're unsatisfied. This is nothing but an utter waste of a judge's time.
Did you not read the parent post? He JUST posted that the Xbox division had a profitable quarter last quarter, which would turn your statement: Microsoft takes a loss on the hardware, trying to make it up on license fees later. Which they have as yet been unable to do. entirely upside-down.
Now, you may argue that the good quarter is only because of Halo 3 and they'll soon go back into the red, but the point is they *have* been able to do it, it's documented, the parent poster mentioned it, and you're still posting the same old Slashdot crap without engaging your brain or, for that matter, even reading the post you're replying to.
Yeah, but aim the anger at someone who deserves it. Xbox titles are remarkably stable; it's PC games where 3 out of 5 titles on the shelf are buggy beyond belief. Just a couple days ago in another thread I was talking about what a buggy POS Battlefield: 2142 is... THAT game deserves a class-action suit. Halo 3 is pretty good.
Well, I can eliminate two of those.
It doesn't cause my Xbox 360 to crash, so it can't be option A.
If it's accidentally put in an old-school Xbox, all you see is a static screen that reads something like "this disk requires an Xbox 360 to play" so it's not option C.
That leaves option B: "Only the plaintiff's Xbox 360" which leaves an interesting question, can you have a class action lawsuit with a 'class' of only one person?
Microsoft already has a product named "Office Live": http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officelive/FX101465131033.aspx?xid=CDBD3DE7-630E-477D-8B20-FE6BB97DB13D
The only thing these guys did was add the word "documents" to it.
and if you insist on having access that isn't via WiFi, add a
The suspense is killing me!!
If you have admin access, the battle's already lost. What's the point of running a complex process to obtain their password when you have full access to everything on their computer? Might as well just drop in a keylogger and get the same info much easier.
It's been too long since I played it on PC, but HL2 on Xbox 360 definitely stalls at "checkpoints" (or whatever Valve calls them.) Moreso than, say, Halo 2 does.
In fact, Halo's a pretty good example of a game where the content *is* pretty much streamed to a large extent, and the "levels" are just artificially created as chapters in a story. It's not that it was technically impossible for Bungie to stream content, it's just that the story needed broken up and that was the best way to do it. (I mean, the chapters in Halo games usually represent hours of "time passes" anyway... would be really, really boring to do them in real-time.)
Can someone please tell me what the columns are in English? While it's great to know how much "NI" Firefox has, I'd rather see the memory usage.
What stops you from just encrypting the data by default?
If we had these things crawling around, even the Nanny State couldn't prevent idiots from surviving.
So... you're saying two things here:
1) The nanny state is trying to kill idiots
2) Sea scorpions are helpful creatures that prevent idiots from getting into accidents?
Kind of weird, but ok!
It's believed that the last ice age killed off many larger versions of creatures that are very similar to what we have today.
I'm pretty sure it was human expansion that did it. Large animals + no fear of humans = GOOD EATING! At least, I've read that in Jared Diamond books, especially for North/South America and Australia. (For Europe it's less clear, but African large animals survived because they learned to fear/kill humans when humans were not numerous enough or good enough hunters to hunt them to extinction.
None of those columns have labels... can someone let me know what those numbers mean? For instance, in the first row, does "175M" indicate 175 MB of memory used?
Don't forget that the DOM model, even for a relatively simple webpage, has got to be at least a couple megs, and that's per-page/frame.
while it's clear even to me that solar will take a very big part of the production in the next years.
Are you saying that you're an idiot, and even to idiots it's clear than solar will be big? I don't get why the "even to me" is there otherwise.
With the number of times I've accidentally moved this route marker, I wouldn't like this at all. Even dragging the line by accident sometimes changes the route dramatically. Plus directions are different depending on how you travel... if I get directions in Seattle, I'm usually walking to the destination, but Google assumes I'm driving so it tries to make me go a block out of my way. (So the one-way street is going the right direction; but one-way streets don't apply to walking.)
I'm confused. If you don't want your name or address listed, why would you:
1) Bother to correct your address on Google Maps if it's wrong? You don't want people to know what it is anyway, right?
2) Use your real name when doing 1?
I'm more interested in the possibility that some species of dinosaur became sentient, built a technological civilization, and then erased all traces of themselves from the planet (causing mass extinctions in the process) before moving out into space. It's no more likely than ape-humping pyramid-building aliens, but sentient space dinosaurs would be a lot cooler.
I always support the theory about life on earth that was featured prominently in 1980s cartoons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaucers
And just in case anybody was wondering, this would be why I will not be voting for Clinton.