3087

What epic mishandling? The new GUI API is the evolution of WinForm -> WPF -> Silverlight -> Modern. I was able to carry my knowledge over from one to the next to the next. Not to mention the consistency of .NET throughout the last decade. If there is any one thing MS does better than any other tech company its their ease of development. Granted I’ve never developed for the PS4, but the simple fact that I can apply my business learned programming to an X-Box is significant.

3088

The original Xbox was x86 based and had a windows kernel.

3089

So the “big” news all over the interwebs today is that Sony will allow it’s PS4 users to download and play their digital library on their friends’ consoles. I’m not exactly clear why this is news. Can’t the 360 and the PS3 do this already? Will the Xbox One be losing this feature? I’m honestly not seeing where the news is here.

3090

Well, it’s a change from the current approach.

3091

About 99.9999 % of all apps in the world run on iOS or Android on no-PC architecture. MAYBE windows sucks.

3092

Polygon “reported” this initially, without realizing (!?) that the 360 and PS3 already allow it. They’ve since updated their article.

3093

Damn, well said, dude. I hate it how people misuse word “innovation” all the time.

3094

Definitions from Merriam-Webster online:
1: the introduction of something new
2: a new idea, method, or device

There’s no value judgement about the quality of the innovation in the definition. I think everyone is using it correctly.

3095

??? That’s the problem with problematic articles. Right now PS4 is number 4 and Xbox One not even on the list. Those charts are moment to moment things and trying to figure out tendencies from them is stupid.

3096

I agree. Which is precisely why I asked if NPD records preorders. Always helps to read the post in its entirety.

3097

Use this link, it’s 2013 so far. Also PS4 is up in the dailies again at number 4 while XB1 is at like 30.

3098

I was going to say use the Best Seller of the year but forge has linked that. PS3 is at #3 and the Xbox One is at #6 which is where both will probably stay since they’re launch day editions and both currently out of stock.

3099

If you start with a image of a face, and change the colour of random bits of that image, maybe 10%. You lost information, and the new image has less information. If this continue in a loop, you may end with zero information.


char * image[9000]


for(;;){
  r = random(0,9000);
  rr = random(0,255);
  image[r] = rr; //innovation happends here
   
  redraw_screen(image);
}

After many, many, many innovations, the result image is dumber than dumb. Contains not traits or anything interesting. Just noise.

Merriam-Webster can’t be a good dictionary, because if your definition of innovation is functionally identical to change, its not worth reading it.

3100

If I pee in your beer will you call me an innovator or an asshole? Do you want to look it up on Merriam-Webster online? :)

3101

Yep. Gotta agree with Teiman & Stridergg on this one. Linguistic relativity and evolution is a fascinating-if-yawn-inducing field. I believe that the use of “innovation” in PR speak everywhere in the US has distilled a more specific and positive connotation than the standard “change after experimentation.” Pretty much every company experiments and implements changes, and a great many of them fall flat on their face. Those failures are usually not referred to as innovations, but more commonly “learning through trial and error” or in PR speak, “being a learning company.”

3102

I think Microsoft should adapt the latest Snowden revelations into their marketing campaign, e.g. “XboxOne - officially NSA-approved. Buy the patriotic console!”.

3103

There you have it. When someone posts on a board, I assume he’s speaking in plain English, not PR speak. I hate it when BS corporate speak starts to become common use.

If someone pees in your beer using a novel funnel of his own invention, that’s an innovation, even if it’s a bad one.

It’s not just Merriam-Webster that defines it that way, it’s all the online dictionaries I checked – expect for businessdictionary.com, which has the BS corporate one. I’m usually a capitalist, but when it comes to language, for some reason it rubs me the wrong way when corporations start to change the meaning of common words.

3104

So you’re saying you don’t want to boil the ocean here, but changing paradigms in corporate speak isn’t a synergy you can get behind?

3105

I swear every time someone says paradigm I want to punch them in the dick.

3106

Could not agree more. Let’s set aside whether the marketplace was ready for the original vision Microsoft had in mind for the Xbox One. That’s debatable and different people will have different views.

What isn’t debatable - They did a horrible job in communicating to the many people who actually really liked their 360 experience (or those who didn’t own a 360 but were at least open to hearing why they should own the next Xbox). Just horrid.

I don’t want to kick Microsoft while they’re down, but a little more humility like this is welcome.