Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Aug 2012 22:36 UTC
Now that Windows 8 has gone gold, Microsoft can move on to other things. With Windows 8, the most important of these is probably to make sure people know how to actually use it. Metro is filled to the brim with hard-to-discover features, but Microsoft has a plan. Will it be enough?
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RE: It Looks Like Nearly All Of You Drank The KoolAid
by delta0.delta0 on Sat 4th Aug 2012 01:48
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Look those are all just details, who cares if its locked down, if it can spy on every part of your life, that it doesn't allow proper multi tasking... It has "live" tiles and beautiful fonts, that's what is important after all, everyone just loves text and plain tiles. Who cares that you need to buy new equipment to use it. Ooh look it even has a crappy start video ooh wow..
Apple : You're holding it wrong..
Microsoft : You're using it wrong..
I don't understand why this story is a main story... It seems every windows / Microsoft Story becomes prime focus and anything else becomes a column story ..
Seriously what a junky 15 second video, why is this a main story ?
RE: It Looks Like Nearly All Of You Drank The KoolAid
by ze_jerkface on Sat 4th Aug 2012 20:16
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Member since:2012-06-22
As long as they keep you thinking and talking about their product in terms they want you thinking and talking in, even if you think you're being critical, they have you by the -- 'everything'...
No they don't.
That marketing strategy may work for fashion but computers are tools and opinions are not entirely subjective. Negative talk really will keep people away from new technology, see Vista as an example.
RE[2]: It Looks Like Nearly All Of You Drank The KoolAid
by hoak on Sat 4th Aug 2012 22:46
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Member since:2007-12-17
Windows 8 is a passive consumption toy, not a tool; with emphasis obviously on style over substance, and form that does not follow function it's pure fashion market speak being employed to sell Windows 8.
No one that buys Windows 8, products it runs on, or is perceived to compete with needs these products; that obviates 'tool' -- and technology is no more a feature here then that required to manufacture a pair of pink high heels...
What's more Micosoft has enough liquid cash to buy Windows 8 in greater volume then Windows 7 sold Scientology style, and have enough spare change left over in the slush fund to buy a few more failing countries assets -- we may never know if Windows 8 sold poorly or not.
Edited 2012-08-04 22:55 UTC
RE[2]: It Looks Like Nearly All Of You Drank The KoolAid
by tomcat on Mon 6th Aug 2012 18:40
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That marketing strategy may work for fashion but computers are tools and opinions are not entirely subjective. Negative talk really will keep people away from new technology, see Vista as an example.
What reality do you dwell in? Vista sold 180 million licenses.
http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/38485-microsoft-sa...
RE: It Looks Like Nearly All Of You Drank The KoolAid
by tomcat on Mon 6th Aug 2012 18:37
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What about the fact this OS spies on you more then any that came before it?
How so?
Will be more closed impacting more markets, industry and people then any OS before it?
That depends on your perspective. You will certainly be able to do anything you want to do as a developer.
Enterprise and Dev
http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/09/only-enterprise-and-develop...
What about the fact that the UI doesn't even allow a User to effectively multi-task applications (yes the OS can, but no you can't if you access any part of 'Metro' in the process)?
What does that even mean? Metro allows you to put applications side-by-side -- docked -- and the UIs are unquestionably multi-tasked.
What about a thousand other questions that aren't even being heard or asked? WTF?!
Rhetorical. Not addressable.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
"It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 21:41 UTC
Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 17:04 UTC
"But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.More News »
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When it comes to the general public it's not surprising to see Hill & Knowlton derivative distraction marketing campaigns designed to keep everyone talking about 'how beautiful the Emperor's New Clothes are' -- but it's a bit shocking to see that it works so well on a more sophisticated audience as well.
As long as they keep you thinking and talking about their product in terms they want you thinking and talking in, even if you think you're being critical, they have you by the -- 'everything'...
Am I the only one that has noticed the idiot campaign for 'The only button you need to click for anything; click the wonderful button!' obviates serious discussion just about everything anyone that's conscious and has a conscience, should be talking about?
What about the fact this OS spies on you more then any that came before it? Will be more closed impacting more markets, industry and people then any OS before it? What about the fact that the UI doesn't even allow a User to effectively multi-task applications (yes the OS can, but no you can't if you access any part of 'Metro' in the process)? What about a thousand other questions that aren't even being heard or asked?
WTF?!
Edited 2012-08-04 00:45 UTC