I think number one thing that gets people modded into the gutter is misstatement of opinions as facts. They don't say, "I disagree because..." or "I think...", they say "you are wrong", which is very common in politics and incites flamewars and partisanship. It shows either a lack of humbleness and respect for others opinions or an inability to distinguish opinions from facts. It may fly in debate realms where emotion trumps logic like politics, but logic and reason triumph on this site.
Note that this isn't directed at you, its just my observations on the moderation habits of slashdot.
So I thought commodity hardware had problems at high altitudes and extreme temperatures? Hell, they have special LCD TVs for high altitude livable locations.
I disagree. There is a true dichotomy present - a unified experience comes at the cost of options. In a perfect world this may not be true, but the world isn't perfect. Android phones are selling so well because it caters to the latter, which includes the majority of users. The Eris was a perfect fit for my mother and two friends because it was small, cheap, cute, and fit their light usage needs. The droid was right for me because of customizability and the full keyboard. The Evo was best for another friend because of a Sprint company discount and local Sprint coverage. This is a result of Google focusing its efforts on the modular facets of the OS, and the carrier adoption of the OS is also a result of this focus. These things are not possible if you only have one device that only works on one network with draconian restrictions to OS usage.
This is almost identical to the desktop wars in the 90's that put Apple in the gutter. I highly doubt Apple doesn't see where this is going because they have experienced it before. However, unlike before, Apple knows how to profit in its niche. Expect them to remain a competitor as a profitable solutions company, not as a market leader.
People are like that. That Mercedes commercial royally ticks me off, with quotes like "I didn't realize I was drifting into the other lane" and "I didn't realize the car in front of me had stopped." Why the fuck are you driving then?! Yes, its a commercial, but there are really people like this on the road. The world revolves around them and they are not paying attention to what they are supposed to be doing, or their surroundings, or their state of mind. I would not doubt for a minute that these people would rely entirely on the technology to tell them something they should already know, and drive in a dangerous condition prior to the alarm going off.
That is a very important question. Heroes of Newerth did some really cool things that can't be matched by typical RTS P2P play. First and foremost, its impossible to maphack because the netcode doesn't send information for units in fog of war, that information residing only on the server. You'd have to hack their servers to gain that exploit. They also have a reconnect feature where, say, if your comp restarts and you log back in, you are prompted to rejoin the game. These alone make it a much better experience than DotA. The only thing DotA 2 seems to have going for it over HoN is AI and coaching system (which is admittedly needed because the game has a very steep learning curve). LoL has the in-game rewards part covered.
So if I want to game on a platform, I have to buy a specific phone for an asston of money only for an inferior product? Excellent job removing 30% of your potential customers. There's a reason all printers aren't all-in-ones and shampoo and conditioner still beat 2-in-1s: they suck.
I wonder what world these marketoids live on, this crap reminds me of hollywood.
I'll have to give FB credit here where it is due. There have been major complaints that your FB data isn't portable, so they have you stuck in a lock-in. This is clearly a response to those complaints. I'll be the first to hate on FB, and I still don't have an account, but we can't have it both ways bro. This brought me one step closer to signing up.
...but now I feel bad for even supporting Motorola/HTC. We have a Droid and an Eris, which are fine, but the G2 and D2 are going in the wrong direction. I will not renew with either of these companies if they continue with these retarded shenanigans.
It is a very effective tool to get shit done while "mobile." Your comment just amounts to a rant because you're not taking into account how its used by others. Take my mother, whose job revolves around the weather, she can now check the radar while in her car so she knows what to expect and plan for her company. My uncle checks forum questions for his business on the go all the time, because hes not big enough to staff it yet. I use it to check on things on break at work that I'd rather not have on in my work internet history for privacy reasons. Its worth the money to all three of us.
With regards to cost, yeah, we all know its outrageous and hope that some day a big antitrust suit slaps this crap down. They can't get away with it forever as the public is becoming increasingly hostile towards both ISPs and wireless carriers. Hopefully we'll see some change soon.
Virtually every tech I know will replace IE with Firefox every time they work on someone's computer and tell them to use it instead, solely because they don't want to keep coming back for stupid IE fails. Chrome on the other hand has gotten lots of publicity and has an ad on one of the most popular sites on the net.
While we're on this topic, I need some answers people: Why in the hell does *everyone* call it foxfire? What in gods name can get those two things reversed from more than 50% of the computer illiterate population? Help me people! Is it just my friends/family/clients or is it a common problem?
Voice traffic is very small when in a data format, and no, data is much cheaper. Assuming a megabyte a minute (which is probably on the high end), 5 gigs at $30/mo is 2000 minutes. My 1400 minute family plan is $80/mo.
I think this is why carriers are instituting data tiers.
I'm confused about your comment regarding saving money by being vegetarian during the day. Being a nourished vegetarian is insanely expensive. Maybe its because you eat meat at night and don't have to offset those dietary needs?
I've always wondered if there is a study on average age of death for omnivores vs vegetarians at specific weight classes or income brackets. Pretty much every vegetarian I know is under a constant state of malnourishment, gets sick more often than normal, and experience more health problems than their healthy omnivore counterparts.
You are missing the point, its not about having one philosophy to make decisions, its about making the right decision for the right problem, philosophy be damned. Using a political philosophy to justify a decision is a cop-out to critical thinking. Is it wrong to regulate an industry's reporting requirements when they are using numbers that don't correlate with the truth? No. Is it wrong to remove regulation from an industry requiring 5-10 years of permit pursuit just to get started? No. I'll let you guess which two industries I'm talking about.
I don't think anyone here is arguing that the govt should defend against attacks for anything but critical infastructure like power plants, and even then people are irritated that these power plants are even attackable. I'm not sure who you are ranting at.
Some people just use their data plan to check weather & e-mail on the go (like my mother). I gobble up tons of data, streaming Sirius at work for 8 hours a day.
To someone like you and I, but to the casual smartphone users who use 100-200 megs a month its a steal. That's the audience they are targeting, and the carriers should be very afraid because that's where their margins on their data plans come from. Its going to hurt us regardless.
You are missing the forest for the trees. People are against these kinds of decisions not because of the results for the pirates, but because the laws can be abused. Copyright law is currently being misused to quash political campaigns, as an example. The "First they came for the Jews..." quote is incredibly appropriate for any privacy issue.
Do you not see the implications of any company being able to request private information from your ISP on a subpoena, even when that private information doesn't always reflect the person using the IP?
This sounds different from what was done for Thief 1 & 2. I recall their problems being related to newer graphics hardware architecture, specifically shaders I believe. If you tried to play the games, everything would be a greenish tint, and the shadows (which is a major gameplay element) were pitch black and unusable. I recall someone modding the game to run all the graphics through the CPU rather than GPU to avoid this issue.
Would someone care to explain the difference between what I just described and what they did for WC?
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I think number one thing that gets people modded into the gutter is misstatement of opinions as facts. They don't say, "I disagree because..." or "I think...", they say "you are wrong", which is very common in politics and incites flamewars and partisanship. It shows either a lack of humbleness and respect for others opinions or an inability to distinguish opinions from facts. It may fly in debate realms where emotion trumps logic like politics, but logic and reason triumph on this site.
Note that this isn't directed at you, its just my observations on the moderation habits of slashdot.
Well yeah, I guess that works too. I was going on the heavy handed case of double extrapolation in the summary.
http://xkcd.com/605/
So I thought commodity hardware had problems at high altitudes and extreme temperatures? Hell, they have special LCD TVs for high altitude livable locations.
Hate to be a stickler, but you're killing me bro. Two stories now and you've used "experiance" in both posts. No sir. Its "experience."
I disagree. There is a true dichotomy present - a unified experience comes at the cost of options. In a perfect world this may not be true, but the world isn't perfect. Android phones are selling so well because it caters to the latter, which includes the majority of users. The Eris was a perfect fit for my mother and two friends because it was small, cheap, cute, and fit their light usage needs. The droid was right for me because of customizability and the full keyboard. The Evo was best for another friend because of a Sprint company discount and local Sprint coverage. This is a result of Google focusing its efforts on the modular facets of the OS, and the carrier adoption of the OS is also a result of this focus. These things are not possible if you only have one device that only works on one network with draconian restrictions to OS usage.
This is almost identical to the desktop wars in the 90's that put Apple in the gutter. I highly doubt Apple doesn't see where this is going because they have experienced it before. However, unlike before, Apple knows how to profit in its niche. Expect them to remain a competitor as a profitable solutions company, not as a market leader.
Data centers don't really create jobs. Estimates are at like 100 tops.
Yeah it gave the building contractors something to do, but it would have been better spent towards our shoddy roads.
Because my state legislature bent over and asked for apples two-inch dick. The tax incentives they gave for the damn thing are rediculous.
I was under the impression that the US and China have enough coal to last hundreds of years. Has this changed?
People are like that. That Mercedes commercial royally ticks me off, with quotes like "I didn't realize I was drifting into the other lane" and "I didn't realize the car in front of me had stopped." Why the fuck are you driving then?! Yes, its a commercial, but there are really people like this on the road. The world revolves around them and they are not paying attention to what they are supposed to be doing, or their surroundings, or their state of mind. I would not doubt for a minute that these people would rely entirely on the technology to tell them something they should already know, and drive in a dangerous condition prior to the alarm going off.
That is a very important question. Heroes of Newerth did some really cool things that can't be matched by typical RTS P2P play. First and foremost, its impossible to maphack because the netcode doesn't send information for units in fog of war, that information residing only on the server. You'd have to hack their servers to gain that exploit. They also have a reconnect feature where, say, if your comp restarts and you log back in, you are prompted to rejoin the game. These alone make it a much better experience than DotA. The only thing DotA 2 seems to have going for it over HoN is AI and coaching system (which is admittedly needed because the game has a very steep learning curve). LoL has the in-game rewards part covered.
We'll see how tihs pans out.
So if I want to game on a platform, I have to buy a specific phone for an asston of money only for an inferior product? Excellent job removing 30% of your potential customers. There's a reason all printers aren't all-in-ones and shampoo and conditioner still beat 2-in-1s: they suck.
I wonder what world these marketoids live on, this crap reminds me of hollywood.
I'll have to give FB credit here where it is due. There have been major complaints that your FB data isn't portable, so they have you stuck in a lock-in. This is clearly a response to those complaints. I'll be the first to hate on FB, and I still don't have an account, but we can't have it both ways bro. This brought me one step closer to signing up.
...but now I feel bad for even supporting Motorola/HTC. We have a Droid and an Eris, which are fine, but the G2 and D2 are going in the wrong direction. I will not renew with either of these companies if they continue with these retarded shenanigans.
It is a very effective tool to get shit done while "mobile." Your comment just amounts to a rant because you're not taking into account how its used by others. Take my mother, whose job revolves around the weather, she can now check the radar while in her car so she knows what to expect and plan for her company. My uncle checks forum questions for his business on the go all the time, because hes not big enough to staff it yet. I use it to check on things on break at work that I'd rather not have on in my work internet history for privacy reasons. Its worth the money to all three of us.
With regards to cost, yeah, we all know its outrageous and hope that some day a big antitrust suit slaps this crap down. They can't get away with it forever as the public is becoming increasingly hostile towards both ISPs and wireless carriers. Hopefully we'll see some change soon.
Virtually every tech I know will replace IE with Firefox every time they work on someone's computer and tell them to use it instead, solely because they don't want to keep coming back for stupid IE fails. Chrome on the other hand has gotten lots of publicity and has an ad on one of the most popular sites on the net.
While we're on this topic, I need some answers people: Why in the hell does *everyone* call it foxfire? What in gods name can get those two things reversed from more than 50% of the computer illiterate population? Help me people! Is it just my friends/family/clients or is it a common problem?
Mega Fail, missed the edit button. 5 gigs at $30/mo is 5000 minutes.
Voice traffic is very small when in a data format, and no, data is much cheaper. Assuming a megabyte a minute (which is probably on the high end), 5 gigs at $30/mo is 2000 minutes. My 1400 minute family plan is $80/mo.
I think this is why carriers are instituting data tiers.
I'm confused about your comment regarding saving money by being vegetarian during the day. Being a nourished vegetarian is insanely expensive. Maybe its because you eat meat at night and don't have to offset those dietary needs?
I've always wondered if there is a study on average age of death for omnivores vs vegetarians at specific weight classes or income brackets. Pretty much every vegetarian I know is under a constant state of malnourishment, gets sick more often than normal, and experience more health problems than their healthy omnivore counterparts.
You are missing the point, its not about having one philosophy to make decisions, its about making the right decision for the right problem, philosophy be damned. Using a political philosophy to justify a decision is a cop-out to critical thinking. Is it wrong to regulate an industry's reporting requirements when they are using numbers that don't correlate with the truth? No. Is it wrong to remove regulation from an industry requiring 5-10 years of permit pursuit just to get started? No. I'll let you guess which two industries I'm talking about.
I don't think anyone here is arguing that the govt should defend against attacks for anything but critical infastructure like power plants, and even then people are irritated that these power plants are even attackable. I'm not sure who you are ranting at.
Because of the rediculous character limit on twitter and texts, and the fact that not all sites are created of equal or sensible URL lengths.
Some people just use their data plan to check weather & e-mail on the go (like my mother). I gobble up tons of data, streaming Sirius at work for 8 hours a day.
To someone like you and I, but to the casual smartphone users who use 100-200 megs a month its a steal. That's the audience they are targeting, and the carriers should be very afraid because that's where their margins on their data plans come from. Its going to hurt us regardless.
You are missing the forest for the trees. People are against these kinds of decisions not because of the results for the pirates, but because the laws can be abused. Copyright law is currently being misused to quash political campaigns, as an example. The "First they came for the Jews..." quote is incredibly appropriate for any privacy issue.
Do you not see the implications of any company being able to request private information from your ISP on a subpoena, even when that private information doesn't always reflect the person using the IP?
This sounds different from what was done for Thief 1 & 2. I recall their problems being related to newer graphics hardware architecture, specifically shaders I believe. If you tried to play the games, everything would be a greenish tint, and the shadows (which is a major gameplay element) were pitch black and unusable. I recall someone modding the game to run all the graphics through the CPU rather than GPU to avoid this issue.
Would someone care to explain the difference between what I just described and what they did for WC?