Visual Studio 2010 install initial start-up time:
- without McAfee: 15 seconds
- with McAfee running: 4 minutes
Those are real numbers measured yesterday. I had to disable the bloody thing(6 services bloatware!) or I would spend 3 days installing Visual Studio.

So let me fix that for you:
When they are not killing your computer, they're figuring out how to kill people. :)

Related articles, next, previous, most discussed, this day on slashdot, all unnecessary cross-linking for an obvious reason.

Slashdot looks like a SEO link farm these days. Its simply disgusting.

The human race have a disgusting surplus of resources. 2% of us can and are providing for the rest of 98%.
We can multiply by a factor of 50 and do nothing, just get more fat and find more entertainment.

Also, anything can happen in 15 to 20 years, its bullshit prediction.

Indeed. And its not only games, the applications follow already. Operating systems are next.

The reason is simple: online requirement is just a too effective anti-piracy measure to not do it. Those 5% unlucky bastards without Internet can go screw themselves.

Let me give you an example:
Do you think Blizzard's initial success was because of their high quality blablabla? They make compromises just like every other company out there. There was plenty of good video games creators at that time, but most of them didn't bothered to implement a good online service protection. Their success was based on the fact that to play on the Battle.net 1.0 you needed to buy the original game, there was no way to bypass that protection - if you shared your unique CDKEY they disabled it. Sure, after a few years, pirated servers started to appear, but even now, the main original servers is where the real action is about. Pirated servers are slow/unstable/shortlived and only a few people are online there.

In a world where any software protection gets hacked in a matter of days, this online requirement protection survived for even 15 years! One would be a fool not to do it.

Steam is DRM. Steam is run by people. DRM is pure evil, thus people are pure evil. To kill DRM, we must kill people. All of them. Nuke them from orbit! With flower and chocolates, while being screwed! Someone think of the rights of our children!

Logical fallacies are fun.

How dare you bring cold hard boring facts into a scandalous funny flamebait! :)

First of all, this TV was presented in January, so this is 2 months old.

Secondly, the camera is for gesture and facial recognition, used to interact with the UI of anything that runs on the TV platform, of course including any 3rd party application(app store, hello?). Its the exact same thing as Kinect. So this is just pure tinfoilhattism.

365.24219878125

That's all, really.

You don't get it. They entire business model is about making money from copyright trolling YouTube videos with an automated software. They have no incentive whatsoever to reduce their error rate. More error = more money. Its like a money printing business.

Note that they name YouTube as a "partner". YouTube is in on this one. Advertising whores.

Its a whole new low-standards bar. The human ingeniousness for producing money from low-morale crap never cease to disgust me.

No lawsuits required:

1. Falsely report copyright infringements on YouTube for tons of videos (especially popular ones). If the posters dispute it, dispute them back.
2. Make more accounts, report a shit load more bogus infringements
3A. Profit for you. Push it until it tilts into 3B.
3B. YouTube bans all your accounts, they realize their system is not working and change it so this cannot be abused anymore. Everybody wins, you are a hero and you also made tons of money.

As a charming side effect, Ramblefish's trolling Youboob business model is out the window. This is not a problem in any way. Its a pure win-win...-win situation.

Not to mention that amount of money could solve the global economy crisis.
Ok ok, I'll go ...

Well lets do the math:
1 Trilion copyrights infrigers (birds on earth)
X
10 000 infrigement counts per infriger (songs by a bird during its lifetime)
X
1 USD per infrigement
=
1 million billions USD

That's losses endured by Rumblefish because of birds. Looks like suing the birds is a sound(hah!) business plan.

So what you're saying is that we should rename our High/Medium/Low priorities as: Need/Want/Like. Its all about semantics. Oh, and about ass kissing :) Not far from the truth.

Now, to get serious, projects that are higher than the level of a "hello world" program are always political. The assigned/official priority are just for looks, the real priority is ... ethereal, being re-decided perhaps every day, for each person.

I know you all want to reach that level when you just at those lovely priority numbers and make your decision based on a simple comparison like 2 3. Trying to simplify the problem is human and somehow understandable. But its still lazy.

No, you need to handle conflicts on a case by case basis. Again. And again. Forever. There is no way out. That is your job and you have to do it.

Indeed, this is a troubled business line.

Pioneer went BOOM long time ago, with many others. RIP Kuro /sigh
Sony display sold to Samsung.
Panasonic moving its factories to China and focusing on cutting costs and zero R&D, after the QA disaster at the Czech republic factory (most 2011 plasmas had insane green tint and fluctuating brightness).

The only real players left in the TV business are Samsung and LG and they are both operating on heavy losses on TV lines.
Not only we will not come up with new stuff, we may even go back a few steps(CRT ... /shivers). Its going to be ugly. Real ugly.

Very insightful. This is natural. As part of their internal optimizer, most people want the most with the minimum amount of effort. If possible, everything for free. Now. I'm so tired of kids thinking they are somehow entitled to everything, for just being born.

But this is not something new, most people are shortsighted, and that include most of Slashdot's audience. Those few who actually take the effort to think a bit into the future will always be in advantage, and those who are used to receive everything for free will be paralyzed when they hit a real problem.

On the other hand, we have to keep in mind this is media, and media is not about cold, absolute and truthful information. Its about entertainment. People come here to be entertained, to have fun, not to listen to uncomfortable truths. Lies and misinformation are ok, fun must prevail at all costs.

These kind of comments will always be unpopular, thus modded down into oblivion, even if they are in fact insightful. This is where democracy fails. I'll join you in -1 hell. Fuck stupidity!