mckilljoy

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Starcraft II Marketplace: There's a map for that.(starcraft2.com)
2 points by mckilljoy 17y ago|0 comments
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
I like how they choose to trade off consistency for speed. It's not like Facebook is a mission-critical application that requires all data to be 100% consistent. If an update to a user's photo album isn't immediately viewable by all other u
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Ask HN: Who is hiring Product Managers?
11 points by mckilljoy 17y ago|8 comments
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
The exploited is detailed here: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Jan/341 My favorite part comes at the end. The last step involves predicting where a specific BIOS handler lies in memory. It is a static address in all pre-Vista OS
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
Don't get be wrong, I completely agree with you that Apple has made some bold decisions, and I respect them for that. However, I'm not sure it is fair to contrast Apple's innovation in new products to Microsoft's (lack of) innovation in est
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
I'm not sure it is valuable to segment the market into those who buy "toys" and those who buy "hard-core games". At the end of the day, there is just one big market: the human population. Yes, Microsoft sold 30 million Xboxs to "hard core g
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
You could probably also have a tree of the ~32 most common words. At the very beginning you could have a branch to choose whether you want to pick the 'word' tree or the 'letter' tree.
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
Microsoft's lack innovation is a result of a couple of factors I can think of: -Leaders without vision: Gates wasn't perfect, but he at least put forward the vision of a PC in every house. Ballmer is more of a cheerleader than a visionary,
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
He certainly can't send messages as complicated as that, but if I only had one bit to flip, I would be flipping it as much as possible to get someone's attention. That said, he probably did the correct thing by simply answering their questi
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
So she went linearly through the whole alphabet until he found the letter he wanted? Sounds like somebody should have used a binary search! Hey-oooo!
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
This whole story is really very fascinating, although a few details seem a bit odd. For example, the patient didn't answer the last question because.. he fell asleep? I would imagine if I was trapped inside my body and suddenly given a mech
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
Also, to be far, they don't actually separate Xbox earnings from, say, WinMo earnings. Xbox probably dominates, but it is hard to infer exactly how profitable they were.
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
Well, define your criteria for success. Xbox is successful in that it has a large mind-share in the hard-core gamer community, but financially the project is still a failure. Had Microsoft decided not to begin the Xbox project 10+ years ago
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
Consider the life-time revenue and cost of the Xbox project starting before 2001. And don't forget that $1 billion written off for RRoD warranty repairs. Over this last decade, Xbox is still in a pretty deep hole, and even optimistic earnin
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
Technologically, a lot has been done under the hood since 1995 just to allow modern hardware to work. USB devices, wireless NICs, and multicore CPUs didn't even exist when Windows95 was released. Much of the "innovation" is unseen. While I
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
Based on their latest presentation at CES, they have even lost that tiny sense of direction. Now the strategy has become "Many screens and a cloud" to encompass netbooks, tablets, etc. that weren't easily anticipated a year or two ago. Mayb
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
I agree, even that is an impressive accomplishment. But after nearly 10 years, it would be nice to see them actually profit on the endeavor.
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
Acer jumps on all bandwagons at once in 2010, offering an application store, an E-reader, Chrome OS netbooks, and hints they are possibly working on a tablet. An app store for Windows software seems a bit questionable, since Steam and the M
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Acer to offer App Store, E-Reader, Chrome Netbook, ...(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mckilljoy 17y ago|1 comments
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SeaMicro builds box with 512 Atom CPUs(gigaom.com)
16 points by mckilljoy 17y ago|14 comments
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
Natal definitely has potential to revolutionize HCI, but I find it hard to believe it will help Xbox match the success of the Wii. I cringe every time I see that video from E3 of that poor woman flailing on stage, swatting virtual dodge bal
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
I don't feel papers like this are really adding much to the community. Of course all explanations of consciousness go against our conventional understanding of the universe, that's why we don't understand consciousness yet. More likely than
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
1. Windows brand does not connect with a particular demographic. 2. Microsoft sponsors Family Guy special in order to connect with this demographic. 3. Microsoft realizes content this demographic finds funny does not align with the Windows
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by mckilljoy 17y ago
Those Fusion IO cards are wicked fast, so long as you don't mind paying like $8K for 160 GB.