Well, one of the big hurdles to 3DTV in the home for the common TV user is definitely its current inconveniences. Current 3D TVs either require you to sit in a specific spot or wear glasses. This solves the biggest annoyance. Now they need to get the TV up to 360-480hz to make 3D watchable by 3-4 people and they are sitting on the next big home entertainment item.
It was a bad example. I was going to use american football examples, but each position has different issues. I was drawing a mental blank.
My father used to cross-country ski and was going to the olympic trials for Finland. However, knee problems caused him to drop out. One of his good friends had the same problem, so I extrapolated. Cue the xkcd slide.
Sports typically have one or two major common injuries associated with them, like knee damage for cross country skiing. I wonder if this will show on gamers in 20 or 30 years.
I'm specifically interested if mental problems occur later in life from over-use of the brain. Some gamers typically work a mental job, then come home and engage in 5-6 hours of very mentally intensive activity. Your brain gets hammered pretty heavily over the course of a day.
Another possibility is eye damage. During intense gaming sessions I notice that I dry my eyes out repeatedly focusing by not blinking during specific events. I wonder if this will effect me in 20 years. On another note, most gamers I've met have the same vision as me and we can wear each other's glasses without issue.
Not to be overly pedantic, but I don't really see how it wasn't blatently obvious that they were talking about input resolution in the summary. They referred to the touch screen portion of the device when listing DPI, not display resolution.
I'd be willing to bet that two of the large bullet points on their internal powerpoint arguing the revamp of bnet & removal of LAN play were Hamachi & BNETD(I think thats what it was called). Hamachi emulates LAN allowing people to play in LAN mode from anywhere, and BNETD(?), while appearing to be a reverse engineer of battle.net, likely had its roots in the LAN code.
Your 2nd line is 100% correct. This line from blizzard is as loaded as they get. Just like Apple, making quality stuff doesn't get you a free pass on trampling your users. I just wish people would see it rather than being apologists.
The people who get hurt by this are the people who are stuck. The high school grad going part time to college, working in a retail store bringing in $200/wk, driving a 15 year old clunker b/c they can't afford to buy a new car. There are a lot of people in situations like this. Suddenly, legislation is passed to double their energy costs, so their power bill & gas bill go up by 12% of their total income. They can choose to get a newer car and pay a car loan with money they don't have (even though insurance increases offset the fuel economy gains), rack up debt trying to get by, or stop going to college, dashing their hopes of a bright future.
Energy taxes, due to energy being a necessity in the world we live in, hurts the people who are barely making it by.
Stop looking at the big titles and look towards the niche. There are tons of MMOs out there that break the EQ model (WoW). Go through the list of MMOs in development at mmorpg.com and see what you can find that might interest you. I'm personally hoping The Secret World turns out good, and recently played Darkfall. Remember, shiny doesn't necessarily mean polish.
I can attest to laptops failing significantly faster than desktops, being more expensive per performance, being more expensive for maintenance, and being very limited in upgradeability. Desktops will have a place among those with extra cubic feet and a budget for the forseeable future.
I remember watching a documentary on the new Airbus plane. There are regulations on wing length, and that plane *has* to use the perpendicular tips at the end of its wings to help with lift, or its wings would be too long. If you require longer wings per pound, you will fit less passengers per plane to fit in regulation. They will have to find a way to collapse the wings without adding significant weight or complications to make this practical for larger planes. That is a very big hurdle, maybe they should focus on that next.
I can't remember why, but I remember them stating that the wing length regulations had very good reasons behind them (logistics of current airports being a major one if I recall). I don't think changing the regulations would be practical if that was the case.
If you act now, we'll throw in this brand new nose hair trimmer for FREE!!!! Get rid of those pesky nose hairs with our patented root-ripper design that leaves your nose feeling clean for months. Also, if you order within 24 hours we'll include a 29 foot garden hose!
Certain restrictions apply. $19.95 shipping & handling, delivery within continental US and Canada only....I love AMD, but COME ON man. Make it a LITTLE less obvious.
These domes must be custom fit to the leak, depth, and seabed hardness. It may look crude but it has many important engineering points. Also, they are so large that it is impractical to move it by any method other than shipping. Shipping between coastlines takes longer than building it on-site like they are doing. Also because of the size and shape, it is very difficult to keep them off-dock because they are not functional for over-the-road delivery. Permanent on-dock space is expensive (I work for a port company).
So they would have to keep multiple sizes on each multiple coastlines on-dock to cover a failsafe (blowout valve) that has never failed. I don't think they deserve the criticism you're giving them for not predicting such a extremely unlikely scenario and planning around it.
Foxit has something to gain from this. For a long time, Adobe only had money to lose by spending anything on their dominant reader that you *had* to use. It appears they haven't lost that mindset.
Some people require rationalizing their existence to a great creator, and beleiving in a supreme being is essential to their mental health and decision making. This is either the way they were brought up: "You don't do that because God said so" or the way they rationalized their actions: "I shouldn't/should do that because God said so." I can't explain why people do this but that's what happens. It would be incredibly dangerous to sponsor an anti-religion movement because this is the essence of some people's core being, and they would rather die than lose their beleifs (see the Middle East).
The best way to improve this over time is separation of church and state and education, which we're already doing. Forcing the issue is asking for widespread Anarchy. I don't know one way or another whether God exists or not, but I'm not willing to force my views on other people, which is what more than 90% of mankind's atrocities can be attributed to.
A little tip, if you have to put a line at the bottom of a rant to state what it isn't, then it probably is. It is an anti repub/pro dem rant, which appears to be rooted in confirmation bias. Both sides have been doing the same thing for decades, but based on which news you expose yourself to, you only see one side of the story. Its the reason I check CNN, Fox, and NBC for mainstream news rather than just one of them.
When people stop listening and start ranting, they stop absorbing information. This is why flamewars rarely end in any side giving ground, because they start with people who have already decided what they want to beleive.
Its the nightmares of a future with Apple controlling over 50% of a market that urges us to speak against Apple's practices. I'm perfectly fine with a "solutions company" being a niche player, but they were getting dangerously close to being the de facto smartphone standard. Apple in that kind of position, based on their decision history, would make Microsoft's Netscape debacle look like child's play. This flash issue would be analogous to MS not allowing any office apps other than MS Office for Windows "because it ruins the Windows Experience"...think about how evil that is.
It is natural for people instilled with freedom as a primary value to resist giving up freedom for convenience.
Isn't the US already getting massively fined for blocking overseas gambling? Will they now tax overseas gambling wagers and eliminate this fine, or is this only allowed for state-side operations? I would consider the $100 billion fine reduction to be a bigger boon than the tax revenue.
I'm not looking forward to the day when our two Google founders cash out. They currently have enough control to keep this idiot CEO in check, but when they lose that control I forsee a hostile takeover by Schmidt. I get the mental image that he sits in his office all day fuming over how he's not allowed to shoot Google's 5 year prospects into the crapper for a 25% profit increase this year (which is more than attainable by playing dirty with the information they hold).
I think they've pissed off everyone stuck up enough to be offended in some way, and I don't expect them to be in any more danger than they were before, considering the radical groups they've already made fun of. It would be incredibly stupid for extremists to make him a martyr for free speech when they could do much more damage elsewhere if they were capable of getting a bomb to this guy's doorstep, so this "threat" is more posturing than anything else.
Its funny how every ep has some sort of intelligent undertone to it. Whether it be the sex ed one ridiculing teaching sex ed to younger and younger ages or the "giant douche vs turd sandwich" mascot contest (my favorite) ridiculing the Rock the Vote campaign & 2004 candidates, there's nothing they aren't afraid to touch. Rock on, Matt & Trey!
Everyone is watching like a hawk for the rager who posts his Giant List of Apple Greivances, and the ever important fanboy reply to it praising something completely unrelated and ignoring the criticism entirely. It gets me laughing every time, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Even people not interested in Apple products will read Apple news stories because that kind of entertainment can't be bought.
The only comments sections I can laugh at on a consistent basis are Evolution on CNN and Apple on Slashdot.
The education system lives in its own separate reality. A lot of educators go to school, then college, then go straight back to school again. Admin positions are in the same boat. If your entire life is education, but the purpose of your education is to prepare people for a corporate world you've never experienced yourself, there is bound to be disconnects.
Some people tend to get so caught up in their distorted realities that they don't realize how incredibly insane some of their actions may be. There is possibility that this incident involved malicious intent, but its more likely that it was the result of incompetence. After all, half of the world is below average.
Well lets be fair, these get a lot of views. Not because this demographic is gaga over iStuff, but because the comments are as entertaining as an evolution article's comments on CNN.
They keep posting this crap because people love watching the cult followers defend their god. As annoying as it is, I like the entertainment.
I fail to understand why you think the Pirate party targets left wing voters. Not all conservatives are religious wackos, some just disagree with ideas like entitlement programs and big government, which are distinctly left wing. Privacy is the root of the pirate party which brings freedom-loving conservatives in droves.
I personally think the issue at the root of all the problems is clear from your post...the "dock" issue. I think all devices and modules (whether they be hardware or software) that are intended to be used with addons should not have patentable methods of connecting those addons. It breeds closed standards, vendor lockin, and creates barriers to entry, and stifles innovation. But then they shouldn't design an interconnect you say? I say you can't think of and create all possible addons yourself, and good entreprenuers who create addons add value to your device and indirectly increase your sales.
A license to use that connector creates a very significant barrier of entry to a garage entreprenuer. I like to think that you shouldn't have to have a fucking IPO to be able to add value to an existing product.
Good companies still do, as LTIs (lost time incidents) are expensive. In my industry, our locations have parties and rewards when they reach milestones like 100 days without an LTI. LTI scores are also something like 20+% of most manager's yearly goal, and is taken into account on their bonuses.
It pays to be safe for the employees and the company.
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Well, one of the big hurdles to 3DTV in the home for the common TV user is definitely its current inconveniences. Current 3D TVs either require you to sit in a specific spot or wear glasses. This solves the biggest annoyance. Now they need to get the TV up to 360-480hz to make 3D watchable by 3-4 people and they are sitting on the next big home entertainment item.
I personally see it as a very big deal.
It was a bad example. I was going to use american football examples, but each position has different issues. I was drawing a mental blank.
My father used to cross-country ski and was going to the olympic trials for Finland. However, knee problems caused him to drop out. One of his good friends had the same problem, so I extrapolated. Cue the xkcd slide.
Sports typically have one or two major common injuries associated with them, like knee damage for cross country skiing. I wonder if this will show on gamers in 20 or 30 years.
I'm specifically interested if mental problems occur later in life from over-use of the brain. Some gamers typically work a mental job, then come home and engage in 5-6 hours of very mentally intensive activity. Your brain gets hammered pretty heavily over the course of a day.
Another possibility is eye damage. During intense gaming sessions I notice that I dry my eyes out repeatedly focusing by not blinking during specific events. I wonder if this will effect me in 20 years. On another note, most gamers I've met have the same vision as me and we can wear each other's glasses without issue.
Informative article, all on one page, not chock full of ads. Now excuse me while I stock my bunker.
Not to be overly pedantic, but I don't really see how it wasn't blatently obvious that they were talking about input resolution in the summary. They referred to the touch screen portion of the device when listing DPI, not display resolution.
I'd be willing to bet that two of the large bullet points on their internal powerpoint arguing the revamp of bnet & removal of LAN play were Hamachi & BNETD(I think thats what it was called). Hamachi emulates LAN allowing people to play in LAN mode from anywhere, and BNETD(?), while appearing to be a reverse engineer of battle.net, likely had its roots in the LAN code.
Your 2nd line is 100% correct. This line from blizzard is as loaded as they get. Just like Apple, making quality stuff doesn't get you a free pass on trampling your users. I just wish people would see it rather than being apologists.
The people who get hurt by this are the people who are stuck. The high school grad going part time to college, working in a retail store bringing in $200/wk, driving a 15 year old clunker b/c they can't afford to buy a new car. There are a lot of people in situations like this. Suddenly, legislation is passed to double their energy costs, so their power bill & gas bill go up by 12% of their total income. They can choose to get a newer car and pay a car loan with money they don't have (even though insurance increases offset the fuel economy gains), rack up debt trying to get by, or stop going to college, dashing their hopes of a bright future.
Energy taxes, due to energy being a necessity in the world we live in, hurts the people who are barely making it by.
Stop looking at the big titles and look towards the niche. There are tons of MMOs out there that break the EQ model (WoW). Go through the list of MMOs in development at mmorpg.com and see what you can find that might interest you. I'm personally hoping The Secret World turns out good, and recently played Darkfall. Remember, shiny doesn't necessarily mean polish.
I can attest to laptops failing significantly faster than desktops, being more expensive per performance, being more expensive for maintenance, and being very limited in upgradeability. Desktops will have a place among those with extra cubic feet and a budget for the forseeable future.
I remember watching a documentary on the new Airbus plane. There are regulations on wing length, and that plane *has* to use the perpendicular tips at the end of its wings to help with lift, or its wings would be too long. If you require longer wings per pound, you will fit less passengers per plane to fit in regulation. They will have to find a way to collapse the wings without adding significant weight or complications to make this practical for larger planes. That is a very big hurdle, maybe they should focus on that next.
I can't remember why, but I remember them stating that the wing length regulations had very good reasons behind them (logistics of current airports being a major one if I recall). I don't think changing the regulations would be practical if that was the case.
If you act now, we'll throw in this brand new nose hair trimmer for FREE!!!! Get rid of those pesky nose hairs with our patented root-ripper design that leaves your nose feeling clean for months. Also, if you order within 24 hours we'll include a 29 foot garden hose!
Certain restrictions apply. $19.95 shipping & handling, delivery within continental US and Canada only. ...I love AMD, but COME ON man. Make it a LITTLE less obvious.
These domes must be custom fit to the leak, depth, and seabed hardness. It may look crude but it has many important engineering points. Also, they are so large that it is impractical to move it by any method other than shipping. Shipping between coastlines takes longer than building it on-site like they are doing. Also because of the size and shape, it is very difficult to keep them off-dock because they are not functional for over-the-road delivery. Permanent on-dock space is expensive (I work for a port company).
So they would have to keep multiple sizes on each multiple coastlines on-dock to cover a failsafe (blowout valve) that has never failed. I don't think they deserve the criticism you're giving them for not predicting such a extremely unlikely scenario and planning around it.
Foxit has something to gain from this. For a long time, Adobe only had money to lose by spending anything on their dominant reader that you *had* to use. It appears they haven't lost that mindset.
Some people require rationalizing their existence to a great creator, and beleiving in a supreme being is essential to their mental health and decision making. This is either the way they were brought up: "You don't do that because God said so" or the way they rationalized their actions: "I shouldn't/should do that because God said so." I can't explain why people do this but that's what happens. It would be incredibly dangerous to sponsor an anti-religion movement because this is the essence of some people's core being, and they would rather die than lose their beleifs (see the Middle East).
The best way to improve this over time is separation of church and state and education, which we're already doing. Forcing the issue is asking for widespread Anarchy. I don't know one way or another whether God exists or not, but I'm not willing to force my views on other people, which is what more than 90% of mankind's atrocities can be attributed to.
A little tip, if you have to put a line at the bottom of a rant to state what it isn't, then it probably is. It is an anti repub/pro dem rant, which appears to be rooted in confirmation bias. Both sides have been doing the same thing for decades, but based on which news you expose yourself to, you only see one side of the story. Its the reason I check CNN, Fox, and NBC for mainstream news rather than just one of them.
When people stop listening and start ranting, they stop absorbing information. This is why flamewars rarely end in any side giving ground, because they start with people who have already decided what they want to beleive.
Its the nightmares of a future with Apple controlling over 50% of a market that urges us to speak against Apple's practices. I'm perfectly fine with a "solutions company" being a niche player, but they were getting dangerously close to being the de facto smartphone standard. Apple in that kind of position, based on their decision history, would make Microsoft's Netscape debacle look like child's play. This flash issue would be analogous to MS not allowing any office apps other than MS Office for Windows "because it ruins the Windows Experience"...think about how evil that is.
It is natural for people instilled with freedom as a primary value to resist giving up freedom for convenience.
Isn't the US already getting massively fined for blocking overseas gambling? Will they now tax overseas gambling wagers and eliminate this fine, or is this only allowed for state-side operations? I would consider the $100 billion fine reduction to be a bigger boon than the tax revenue.
Relevant link: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/10/12/1411242/US-Faces-100-Billion-Fine-For-Web-Gambling-Ban?art_pos=11
I'm not looking forward to the day when our two Google founders cash out. They currently have enough control to keep this idiot CEO in check, but when they lose that control I forsee a hostile takeover by Schmidt. I get the mental image that he sits in his office all day fuming over how he's not allowed to shoot Google's 5 year prospects into the crapper for a 25% profit increase this year (which is more than attainable by playing dirty with the information they hold).
I think they've pissed off everyone stuck up enough to be offended in some way, and I don't expect them to be in any more danger than they were before, considering the radical groups they've already made fun of. It would be incredibly stupid for extremists to make him a martyr for free speech when they could do much more damage elsewhere if they were capable of getting a bomb to this guy's doorstep, so this "threat" is more posturing than anything else.
Its funny how every ep has some sort of intelligent undertone to it. Whether it be the sex ed one ridiculing teaching sex ed to younger and younger ages or the "giant douche vs turd sandwich" mascot contest (my favorite) ridiculing the Rock the Vote campaign & 2004 candidates, there's nothing they aren't afraid to touch. Rock on, Matt & Trey!
Everyone is watching like a hawk for the rager who posts his Giant List of Apple Greivances, and the ever important fanboy reply to it praising something completely unrelated and ignoring the criticism entirely. It gets me laughing every time, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Even people not interested in Apple products will read Apple news stories because that kind of entertainment can't be bought.
The only comments sections I can laugh at on a consistent basis are Evolution on CNN and Apple on Slashdot.
The education system lives in its own separate reality. A lot of educators go to school, then college, then go straight back to school again. Admin positions are in the same boat. If your entire life is education, but the purpose of your education is to prepare people for a corporate world you've never experienced yourself, there is bound to be disconnects.
Some people tend to get so caught up in their distorted realities that they don't realize how incredibly insane some of their actions may be. There is possibility that this incident involved malicious intent, but its more likely that it was the result of incompetence. After all, half of the world is below average.
Well lets be fair, these get a lot of views. Not because this demographic is gaga over iStuff, but because the comments are as entertaining as an evolution article's comments on CNN.
They keep posting this crap because people love watching the cult followers defend their god. As annoying as it is, I like the entertainment.
I fail to understand why you think the Pirate party targets left wing voters. Not all conservatives are religious wackos, some just disagree with ideas like entitlement programs and big government, which are distinctly left wing. Privacy is the root of the pirate party which brings freedom-loving conservatives in droves.
I personally think the issue at the root of all the problems is clear from your post...the "dock" issue. I think all devices and modules (whether they be hardware or software) that are intended to be used with addons should not have patentable methods of connecting those addons. It breeds closed standards, vendor lockin, and creates barriers to entry, and stifles innovation. But then they shouldn't design an interconnect you say? I say you can't think of and create all possible addons yourself, and good entreprenuers who create addons add value to your device and indirectly increase your sales.
A license to use that connector creates a very significant barrier of entry to a garage entreprenuer. I like to think that you shouldn't have to have a fucking IPO to be able to add value to an existing product.
Good companies still do, as LTIs (lost time incidents) are expensive. In my industry, our locations have parties and rewards when they reach milestones like 100 days without an LTI. LTI scores are also something like 20+% of most manager's yearly goal, and is taken into account on their bonuses.
It pays to be safe for the employees and the company.