@Christopher "This comes down to civil rights trumping religious ideals. "
Oh, I see, so this is NOT okay to you? https://www.youtube.com/wat...
To me, I think it is completely fine for them to exercise their rights.
Can you clarify something for me so that I can get outraged properly when these social injustice occurs? Just to clarify your stance: It is okay for a private company like Blizzard to exercise their right to suppress free-speech to ban the Pepe meme (even though it is only the alt-left that push the narrative that Pepe is associated with the Neo-Nazi); but it is NOT okay for a private cakery to turn away customers whom the staff deem to have characteristics that is against the staff's rel...
My friends and I were going to purchase Torchlight 2 hoping that it would tide us over until Diablo 3.
When it got delayed, Diablo 3 tide us over for all of a week, when we realized that Diablo 3 is nowhere near as great as Diablo 2.
After experiencing the poorly designed, monotonous and boring Diablo 3, there was no doubt that all my friends and I were going to all buy Torchlight 2.
Then Guild Wars 2 came out.
It sho...
@KeiserSosay4788
No. Japanese companies take responsibility for any inconvenience caused by their products and services. Take Toyota, for example, even though the unintended acceleration problem was not fully their fault, they paid billions and accepted responsibility for it.
Now take Microsoft. RROD. There was obviously a big problem, but they have denied and lied about it.
Take BP Oil Spill. There were blame and finger pointing. And now, BP...
ARBitrator - it sounds like you read about MAC addresses in a textbook, added your own interpretation of it, and try to pass off that false information as fact.
I have purchased tens of thousands of MAC addresses for network hardware for numerous embedded systems, and I can tell you that you CANNOT arbitrary create MAC addresses of your own.
The buyer of the addresses are assigned a BLOCK, there is no such thing as an "ID process" that allows you to...
It is exactly why Microsoft is detrimental to every industry they enter into. Instead of putting money and effort into R&D, they spend millions to market and force-feed their rehashed, non-viable and/or copied products (HD-DVD, Zune, Silverlight, Kin, Bing, Kinect, Windows Mobile 7) and try to trick consumers into thinking those technology is innovative.
Unfortunately, consumers gets suckered into Microsoft's marketing, purchase Microsoft's inferior products inste...
If you think Kinect is amazing, then you have no clue how technology works and is simply a sheep that has been misled by another one of Microsoft's deceptive marketing campaigns.
Functionally, Kinect is no different than an EyeToy. How is it an amazing piece of hardware when it was available 10 years ago?
The difference being that Gabe's response was his opinion stated as fact.
Anton's response is not an opinion. It is an absolutely logical response from an engineer's perspective on the limitations of a particular system.
Microsoft's entire business is built upon deceptive marketing to mislead consumers to purchase old, inferior and sometimes faulty products. They simply cannot afford to let their engineers speak their minds.
T...
butterfinger, I have been in the tech industry for 15 years dealing with business consultation, and have been dealing with Microsoft technology far longer than you have. It is ironic that you call me ignorant, when you are the one guilty of it. With my experience, I can credibly announce to everyone that you are absolutely WRONG.
You are the one that needs to open your eyes. It doesn't matter how many disagrees I get because those are the people who are completely IGNORAN...
No. It was from a real engineer's perspective. Microsoft's technologies are usually smoke-and-mirrors, using marketing, instead of real innovation, to sell un-innovative products.
I have said this when Natal was first shown, and I will say it again: Kinect WILL NOT do what Microsoft has tried to market the device to be.
They tried to trick consumers into believing it is the next step in gaming with high precision and full of features. No. It's all...
Alpha-Male22, it is actually people with your beliefs that US is in such poor economic state right now.
Guess what? People who don't do any research think it is a "conspiracy" when in reality, those people are the ones that are completely wrong and uninformed.
Let me tell you, the reasons why the US is in such a bad state is because of Corporatism where corporation is tied with the government. So, policies are made to go to wars and banks are ba...
No. The Japanese support good, quality products. Look at how big Apple is in Japan. Japan is very knowledgeable about electronics, so if a company produces an innovative and robust product, it will be successful.
However, if a company produces a product that is NOT innovative and breaks-down, it is a guarantee that the Japanese will not purchase it (ex. Xbox, Kinect).
The reason why Microsoft is successful in America is because the average American tend to be...
The problem is that Microsoft is not in the industry to "compete". Microsoft has every intention of using their Office/OS monopoly to invest whatever it takes to muscle-out the competition and become a monopoly in the game industry.
Look at the advertising budget for Kinect. Leveraging their monopoly and spending 500 million to mislead consumers into purchasing 10 years-old technology. Microsoft has never let their products do the talking. Instead, they make old and...
It's ironic. If you want to talk about "sheep", you might want to take a look at Microsoft-supporters who bought into HD-DVD, Zune, Kin, Bing, and now Kinect due to highly misleading marketing campaigns that tries to sell old and inferior technology as innovation.
"Sheep" would not even begin to describe people who gives Microsoft money, a company that doesn't invest into R&D, and instead, puts the capital into misleading marketing campaigns to...
If the player is slow, or his/her perception of speed is poor, then Kinect will seem to have little lag.
However, if Kinect is played by anyone who play sports, they will immediately notice the lag.
For example, I can extend my arm to punch, and pull back my arm into a ready position, before the beginning of the punch is even registered on Kinect.
Sure, a slower person playing mini-games on Kinect will probably not notice the lag. But that is...
There is a reason why you see motion-capturing systems use reflective marker bulbs to accurately capture motion: Anything else just does not work.
The Playstation Move uses the same idea as motion-capturing systems, that is why it is highly accurate and works very well.
Current day, software already have problems with voice-to-text conversion. All computer scientists and engineers know that image-recognition-to-remapping is many times more difficult than voic...
You obviously do not know anything about Microsoft. Microsoft is KNOWN to use underhand business tactics if it means they can get a foothold and/or monopolize a market.
From paying out the media to standard organizations, Microsoft have employed underhand business tactics time and time again.
Read up on SCO's case against Linux. It stemmed from Microsoft having dealings with SCO to spread false information about Linux to slow its adoption.
No.
From the input lag to the numerous problems already shown in various demos, Microsoft knows that they have a non-functional product; but instead of scrapping or delaying the obviously non-working product, they opt to spend millions and use celebrities to try to convince and pass off a faulty device as the next generation of input for gaming.
From RROD and over-priced peripherals, to the marketing that push inferior technology such as HD-DVD, Zune, IE and ...
No.
The difference between Microsoft and most other credible companies is that other companies DO NOT use underhand business tactics to promote an inferior product.
Sony never claimed PSPGo to be the next revolution and spent millions to hire stars to promote it. Sony let their technology and products speak for itself.
Microsoft has bribed and lobbied to push through inferior technology such as OOXML to stranglehold the market to prevent inno...
@Christopher
So, just to clarify, you do NOT think it is okay for the Muslim bakeries to refuse customers based on their beliefs?