Comment Innovate or Die? (Score 5, Insightful) 360
Why innovate when you can legislate?
That seems to be what is going on these days.
Why innovate when you can legislate?
That seems to be what is going on these days.
I'd be more worried about Death Stars showing up and ruining my plans for rebellion. Hopefully they exit hyperspace on the far side of the gas giant giving me enough time to launch a counter assault......
My dad is almost 60 and he will play Worms Armageddon with me on the X360 sometimes when he comes to visit. Does this mean he is a gamer?
I've always thought, there are people who play games, just like there are people who go to the movies, but just the act of doing that doesn't make them "Movie Buffs" or "Gamers"
There's a small amount of American's who have gotten incredibly rich off all of this as well.
I wonder if they are going to be assisting their fellow citizens in need of food, shelter & work in the coming years while they live off the profits of war.
More then likely though they will be on MTV's My Sweet 16th throwing a 100,000K party for their little angel instead.
Osama Bin Laden may be dead, but without Ewoks & a John Williams music score to celebrate this mighty victory with, it feels kind of empty.
Till the Ark of the Covenant turns up that prior art can't be proven.
We pay the frigging Gold Subscription per month & still can't get indie games. I want to have a fit playing Techno Kitten Adventure god damn it!
When you think about it, it does make sense.
Rural towns can suddenly become attractive to businesses looking to expand their IT Infrastructure.
Land prices are cheaper for data centres, Rent/Property is cheaper for employees and there is a decent quality of life.
A National/Multi-National can put their IT Centre out of a city without the massive expense of backhaul.
I'm looking at getting rid of the iPhone later this year and going to Android, but if MS increase services through XBL I may go with that.
I already have a lot of games on XBL, plus use it for Movies & TV, if any of those services can be used on my phone I'd probably be persuaded to go with that.
Currently though the models of phones don't really excite me.
Apple hasn't figured a away to get fee's from sellers and customers yet.
I'd have to say Windows 7 is not too difficult too bad these days.
The biggest problem I have always had with Windows though is the way it manages applications. There are far too many install vectors, from a single binary to various packaged installers.
Microsoft should have secured this better and reduced the options to developers for installing applications. All it does is confuse the user, and make it more difficult for heuristic scanning to determine what is legitimate or not, plus it allows developers to be lazy.
The way Linux/Apple have gone with Applications as packages is a much smarter idea.
Even with Windows 7/Windows 2008 Microsoft still haven't really addressed this. UAC while good doesn't address the underlying problem of the heterogeneous environment(or mess) that Windows applications are.
The latest version of MSN(now Live Messenger) you link it in to Facebook and can use it to chat to all your Facebook friends.
It's much more stable than Facebook's chat, plus you can keep chat history.
I'm working with a client still trying to get their Sun Software Support agreement recognised by Oracle. The Product support contract was not recognised in Oracle's support system when we migrated off Sunsolve and after waiting on hold for over 4 hours the other day we are still no closer to fixing it.
Actually getting a hold of someone at Oracle is difficult, compared to Sun where they would work really hard to maintain relationships.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
