... played it through again recently. The recent Captain America film is largely this. Some nice little touches that hark back to Wolf 3D, like the hot dinners that give you health, and the way the standard soldiers fall when shot.
Are you basing this on any long-term exposure to service-packed Vista, or are you saying it because some men on the internet said it so it must be true?
Console makers will not be using this anytime soon.
Because there are huge swathes of even the affluent-ish West that don't have anything like decent broadband. Why drastically limit your potential userbase?
I know of people, recently made redundant and with no history whatsoever in IT or software development going on government courses to learn how to write apps because all they read about is 21-year olds writing some game or other and becoming millionaires. And they're little dinky things that go on phones, not big scary things that go on computers! How hard can it be!
There's an ever-increasing noise-to-signal ratio in app development for any platform. The get-rich-quick bandwagon has passed.
Not worthless to me - it let me move my router from two floors up to downstairs beside where the main phone socket is, flooding downstairs with lovely WiFi (and drowning out all the neighbours WiFi) and piping the network back upstairs via powerline. The two BT plugs I have are the best things I ever bought.
... but here in Ireland the textbook publishers have a lovely little scam going where they change the textbooks every year, so that they can't be passed on second-hand. Also a lot are of the type where you have to write into the actual textbook, so even if you could pass them on, they'd be useless. This is the sort of thing governments should be looking at.
" Apparently, secret experiments in Cupertino's labs have looked into putting enlarged iPads up on raised stands for a better user experience, but these were a failure.
"Three things came out of those trials," says our source.
"First: you've now got to reach up to get at the touchscreen, which gives you another set of aches and pains. Second: You're getting smeary finger tracks all over the display."
In other words, in situations that demand it, USE A FUCKING LAPTOP OR DESKTOP.
The UI doesn't need to be dumbed down particularly
as anyone with a 4-year-old and an iPad will tell you, but what would be extremely welcome is robust content filtering and family safety which is woefully lacking if not absent on the iPad.
Seriously - if anyone in Redmond thinks the corporate world, which does A LOT OF TYPING, will ever embrace touchscreens for the workaday desktops, they are seriously bananas.
"It is amazing that a viable Linux desktop OS (Red Hat desktop, for instance) has not taken hold in the enterprise. How in the world do these CIOs justify paying seven figures in annual Microsoft support for software "
Very simple my friend - all the software that you actually need to use to run an enterprise (ERP, payroll, manufacturing etc) does not exist on Linux or Apple.
"Even in the world of corporate, next gen consoles (with an admin option to prohibit game playing) instead of desktops, that can be "repaired" by simply power cycling with cloud based / centrally held data storage would sound attractive to many a PHB interested in culling IT staff "
If you're going to go completely thin-client and cloud-based in the corporate world, why would you spend money on the audio-visual grunt of a console? All you need is a really dumb Linux terminal. And if you plug a mouse and keyboard into a console, how is it different from a PC anyway?
And the corporate desktop isn't going to forego mouse and keyboard for Kinect and touch screens - good luck typing up a 20 page letter or doing the payroll like that.
There'll be cross-over in terms of Windows 8, but the desktop version of that will just be an evolution of the traditional UI , it's the tablets and phones that will be Metro city.
... since they let the fargin' marketing dept design it, it's clear they're going to try to thrash another couple of years out of it by trying to push Kinect and set-top-box functionality in your face, relentlessly.
It's looking decidely creaky these days - Skyrim is gorgeous but has murderous lag and pop-up.
Went fine apart from having to manually install Wifi drivers despite the install stage finding them OK. Also, can't use any sort of suspend or hibernate as it locks the thing hard.
Linux distros really have to sort these sorts of niggles out, and in a way that doesn't involve faffing with conf files and the like.
Aside from that, I like it a lot. Certainly would use it over Unity.
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Good game
... played it through again recently. The recent Captain America film is largely this. Some nice little touches that hark back to Wolf 3D, like the hot dinners that give you health, and the way the standard soldiers fall when shot.
To all the people saying Vista was Windows ME 2
Are you basing this on any long-term exposure to service-packed Vista, or are you saying it because some men on the internet said it so it must be true?
The latter, I suspect.
MOAR
GIGABITS
And don't spare the horses.
Console makers will not be using this anytime soon.
Because there are huge swathes of even the affluent-ish West that don't have anything like decent broadband. Why drastically limit your potential userbase?
Adobe in money-grasping asshholery debacle?
Quelle surprise.
"The cloud is the new operating system"
Cough.
Opera Mini, Dolphin ...
They're all there. And all nearly as shite as mobile Safari. You can't officially change the default browser but there are apps that can.
Don't you love when Linux elitists
when faced with a genuinely popular distro like Ubuntu, have to retreat further into elitism by hating Ubuntu.
Re: This will be interesting
Good luck with that.
A hit on the Bong
Steve - you work in a fictional loft office with wooden floors don't you? Of course you do.
Oh the lulz ...
""I've always hated litigation and I continue to hate it - we just want people to invent their own stuff," he said."
This from a company whose entire existence is based on brilliant redesign and marketing of other people's ideas.
Apps are the new word processing.
I know of people, recently made redundant and with no history whatsoever in IT or software development going on government courses to learn how to write apps because all they read about is 21-year olds writing some game or other and becoming millionaires. And they're little dinky things that go on phones, not big scary things that go on computers! How hard can it be!
There's an ever-increasing noise-to-signal ratio in app development for any platform. The get-rich-quick bandwagon has passed.
Re: SaaS just shifts the single point of failure
"To do it properly you'd need two connections from different suppliers coming into your premises using two different routes."
Exactly. As if your average SME is going to shell out for that. It's hard enough to get the buggers to do backups.
We are *so* heading for another dot com bust.
Good fucking riddance I say.
Re: Not really thinking, are they?
So unfair I HATE YOU
I have no idea what any of this means ...
... but you write it so well, you delightful young booby.
Quicktime?
Goooooood-night.
I bet the Discovery channel
are really getting the horn over this, There's a good 2 years of programming here.
Titanoboa!
Secret Nazi Titanoboas
UFO Titanoboas - The Evidence
Ah Wyse ...
I remember wiring up their terminals with serial cables to 16-port serial boards in PCs running Concurrent DOS. Them were the days. Shudder.
Excellent!
Low Fat Offal Tubes for breakfast all round!
MOAR
LASERS
Aged urine
also known as 'lant', used to be actively collected and used for many things, cleaning floors and flavouring beer being two of them.
Now you know where the term 'on the piss' comes from.
burrrrrrrr-beep.
BBC Computer 32K
BASIC
>
Joe Kittinger
had to have a separate support heavy-lift aircraft just for his balls.
Re: Reinventing the wheel
Because JS requires a lot less syntactical faffing.
Re: Powerline networking?
Not worthless to me - it let me move my router from two floors up to downstairs beside where the main phone socket is, flooding downstairs with lovely WiFi (and drowning out all the neighbours WiFi) and piping the network back upstairs via powerline. The two BT plugs I have are the best things I ever bought.
I don't know if it's the same in the UK
... but here in Ireland the textbook publishers have a lovely little scam going where they change the textbooks every year, so that they can't be passed on second-hand. Also a lot are of the type where you have to write into the actual textbook, so even if you could pass them on, they'd be useless. This is the sort of thing governments should be looking at.
Oh dear lord
" Apparently, secret experiments in Cupertino's labs have looked into putting enlarged iPads up on raised stands for a better user experience, but these were a failure.
"Three things came out of those trials," says our source.
"First: you've now got to reach up to get at the touchscreen, which gives you another set of aches and pains. Second: You're getting smeary finger tracks all over the display."
In other words, in situations that demand it, USE A FUCKING LAPTOP OR DESKTOP.
The UI doesn't need to be dumbed down particularly
as anyone with a 4-year-old and an iPad will tell you, but what would be extremely welcome is robust content filtering and family safety which is woefully lacking if not absent on the iPad.
That and a jammy finger-proof screen.
Great for tablets and phones
Seriously - if anyone in Redmond thinks the corporate world, which does A LOT OF TYPING, will ever embrace touchscreens for the workaday desktops, they are seriously bananas.
Bubble memory
FTW.
The price of the memory ...
... is gouging, plain and simple.
Re: Re: Re: Re: "Windows is dead."
"It is amazing that a viable Linux desktop OS (Red Hat desktop, for instance) has not taken hold in the enterprise. How in the world do these CIOs justify paying seven figures in annual Microsoft support for software "
Very simple my friend - all the software that you actually need to use to run an enterprise (ERP, payroll, manufacturing etc) does not exist on Linux or Apple.
I have not voted.
There is no option there for 'commenterino'.
Re: X in SPAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCEEEEEEEEE!
I care not a jot as long as it continues to feature:
Miniskirted pouting IN SPAAAACE!!!!
Why can nobody spell 'lose'?
Not 'loose', FFS.
Ah, 3D...
... it really is deader than dead.
Generally agreed yes
by MS haters. Everyone else seems to use it in their hundreds of millions. If only they knew!
Yeah but come on
pretty dumb if the thought he was getting full MS Office for free.
I doubt it.
"Even in the world of corporate, next gen consoles (with an admin option to prohibit game playing) instead of desktops, that can be "repaired" by simply power cycling with cloud based / centrally held data storage would sound attractive to many a PHB interested in culling IT staff "
If you're going to go completely thin-client and cloud-based in the corporate world, why would you spend money on the audio-visual grunt of a console? All you need is a really dumb Linux terminal. And if you plug a mouse and keyboard into a console, how is it different from a PC anyway?
And the corporate desktop isn't going to forego mouse and keyboard for Kinect and touch screens - good luck typing up a 20 page letter or doing the payroll like that.
There'll be cross-over in terms of Windows 8, but the desktop version of that will just be an evolution of the traditional UI , it's the tablets and phones that will be Metro city.
With the recent Dash update
... since they let the fargin' marketing dept design it, it's clear they're going to try to thrash another couple of years out of it by trying to push Kinect and set-top-box functionality in your face, relentlessly.
It's looking decidely creaky these days - Skyrim is gorgeous but has murderous lag and pop-up.
If the keyboard *was* LEGO
it would still be better than the real original keyboard.
I want a BBC B one.
To put my Raspberry Pi in.
There was me forgetting
that because it WORKS that means it's RIGHT.
I stuck it on a laptop only last weekend ...
Went fine apart from having to manually install Wifi drivers despite the install stage finding them OK. Also, can't use any sort of suspend or hibernate as it locks the thing hard.
Linux distros really have to sort these sorts of niggles out, and in a way that doesn't involve faffing with conf files and the like.
Aside from that, I like it a lot. Certainly would use it over Unity.
'Throes'
And you might even be right if the day ever comes to pass when all the enterprise apps (payroll, ERP) and games and the like appear on Linux.
Vibrio splendidus?
Sounds like an ancient Roman sex toy.
Bedroom coders and assorted boffins ...
... assemble!
Lame troll
of the week.
It doesn't lie ...
... it takes a guess, obviously. Maybe not an accurate one, but still. How the f**k would it know how long an install is going to take?
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