Capitalizing god's name means applying a human characteristic to an omnipotent and all-powerful force...in other words, it's as silly as applying one sex or the other to god.
I meant it was ballsy to assume a beast as huge as Facebook would let him do this.
I can understand not wanting to go bankrupt, but I agree with you and others...he likely could have found someone willing to work on this case at no charge. Still, the guy seems quite talented and capable...I'm sure he will find a way to get the professional recognition he deserves.
This was true back in the mid-90's, but realistically there are only two companies releasing designs that everyone else uses for gaming purposes: AMD and Intel for CPUs, and AMD/ATI and Nvidia for video cards. Yes, I know that trouble shows up with different architectures on older cards, but come on.
No longer do they have to worry about Verite, 3DFX, S3ViRGE, etc...they are using the same basic APIs, and really only have to optimize for ATI or Nvidia. True, there are other options like Intel's GMA, but you aren't going to be gaming on that underpowered thing anyway.
There was a time when the "wide variety of config" argument made sense...but it just sounds like lazy developers to me at this point.
...they could start with A. not making PC games that crash when you do anything (yes an exaggeration, but you get the point) and B. letting me play the game without insane drm hoops. When it's easier for me to play a downloaded copy than it is to play the copy you are selling, there is a serious problem.
And don't argue that Ubisoft's newest DRM scheme is the answer. Paying customers are having just as much trouble as the pirates.
Actually, they aren't exactly "trivial" in either cost or engineering considerations.
My Creative Zen has both an SDHC slot in it as well as a USB port, yet is FAR FAR smaller than an iPad and far less complicated from an engineering standpoint. Those connectors are attatched to a PCB that is approx 1"x2" which also houses their controllers, the flash memory, and any other parts needed to process the audio/video files and send data to the screen (as well as the controller for the screen itself. If BOTH of these connectors can exist on my tiny little media player, they can fit on the iPad.
Not only that, but the cheapest version of the iPad is $500...you're telling me they couldn't afford to put at least one of two things that are more or less standard on just about every consumer electronics device released in the least 2-4 years?
Now what will be interesting, is whether Apple allows the iPad "camera connection kit" to be used for general purpose use, instead of just for photo grabbing. If so, then the need is essentially addressed (no flames about the $15/port that the camera connection kit costs). But if not, then I think there is some room to gripe (because then, it's just about the software).
As far as the camera is concerned, that isn't too big of a deal to me because I would likely never use it...although it is obviously a big deal for a number of others.
As for "expandability", WTF are you smoking? It's a TABLET.
Expandability in regards to storage. The thing is huge, and can't be bought for less than $500. Even the cheapest of the cheap phones nowadays can have their storage expanded via a card reader. Even if it was just a miniSD slot, there is absolutely no excuse to not have this option on something as "magical" and "revolutionary" as an iPad.
Other than to get you to spend hundreds of dollars more on increased built-in storage, of course.
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Bottom line is that the iPad is a glimpse at what the future of (casual) computing is going to look like. If you don't want to get onboard, that's fine, but don't cry when you realize the train has left the station without you.
Tell ya what: you go right ahead and get on that train with the bus seats in large rooms and holes in the floor to be used as bathrooms. I'll wait for the next one that pulls into the station. You know, the one with the queen size beds and silk sheets and private rooms and room service?
In all seriousness, the problem (for me, anyway) isn't that the iPad is bad...it's that it isn't nearly as good as it could be. With the large number of other tablets on their way, and the inevitable 2nd gen iPad in the near future, I see no reason to spend $500+ on what is essentially an incomplete piece of hardware aimed at early adopters and Apple fanatics who are all gung ho about owning "the next big thing" without considering whether their money could be better spent elsewhere.
Even that much is enough to get addicted. Not a heavy enough addiction to cause you any obvious discomfort, but enough to make you slightly down etc, so when you do smoke you feel good (assuming of course you do it fairly regularly, rather than once a month or so...if you can go days without one, but you still generally do it every day, you probably have at least some level of addiction).
I would agree that I have a level of addiction, but it isn't to tobacco...it's to the mechanism of smoking. See below for more on that.
Regardless, why do you smoke? How can it possibly be worth it considering the health problems associated with it? Is it really that nice of a thing to do?
Honestly? Because I really, really enjoy the mechanism of smoking. It doesn't matter if it's hand-rolled Damiana (which we do occasionally use as an alternative just to change things up), shisha out of a hooka, or tobacco in a cig; the mechanism of inhaling smoke and exhaling it is just very enjoyable to me.
As I said in a post further up, being a gamer and Internet lurker I'm used to brand loyalty (although I think the concept is a bit silly)...my problem is that Microsoft zealots say that what they use (Microsoft) is better than what you use (Apple), while Apple zealots say that they are better than you because they use Apple products.
There is a difference, and a rather significant one at that.
If you consider "regularly buying them" to be "buying two packs every time I fill my car with gas on saturdays", then yes I go out of my way to get them...although most people wouldn't consider walking 10 feet into the gas station store while gas is still pumping into my car to be "going out of my way".
Since people get a bit touchy when it comes to the iPad, the standard "this is only my opinion" disclaimer applies to my post.
I think the iPad is indicitive of what tablets could potentially be used for, but is too much like a "beta" to be worth its price (at least for me). No expandability, no USB ports, no flash-card reader...these are things that would be very trivial to add from both a cost and engineering perspective, yet are still lacking. Even in an "internet appliance", having at LEAST an SDHC reader built in would be a huge plus.
Keeping it locked to the appstore will surely please the Apple faithful and the less technically inclined...but considering you can get an 8GB iPod Touch on ebay for around $150, the iPad (at least this current version) is a waste of money.
Tablets have a ton of potential to be awesome devices...the iPad just isn't quite there yet for me, although the necessary changes are minimal.
One of them sits just down the hall from me. The man submits a request literally every month to have his corporate-provided ThinkPad replaced with a Macbook because he "can't get any work done on this piece of crap."
Microsoft fanboys don't pretend they are better than you...they pretend the products they use are better than the products you use. I'm fine with that. I've been a gamer and internet lurker for a very long time, I'm used to that sort of thinking. While I personally think it's stupid to lock yourself into only one option (i.e. I owned both an SNES AND a Genesis), I understand why some people have that kind of mentality.
Apple fanboys, however, go beyond mere brand loyalty. Apple fanboys insinuate that they are a better person than I am simply because they use Apple products and I don't. That is something I have absolutely zero patience for.
. Due to their business strategy to lock customers into their products, i.e. not complying to standards, they don't need to innovate, they just have to make sure that the locks are still firm. A good indication of the beginning of the end is that it is starting to get lucrative for companies to break out of the Microsoft prison. Apple is doing the right thing, they keep their products simple, they don't try to appeal to every human crawling the face of the earth, and they emphasize on products that actually *work*.
Hold the fuck on. Are you really suggestion that Apple is less restrictive than Microsoft? Seriously?
Oh yeah, I forgot... the App Store and iTunes are the pinnacles of consumer empowerment. I mean, it doesn't get much better than having to hack your device so you can use non-Apple approved programs, or having your music player wipe itself completely because you hooked it up to a different computer.
Yup. Apple really knows how to let people use their purchases freely.::golf clap::
Something that is vital to Apple overtaking Microsoft is a shift in attitude of the "zealous Apple consumer". Most folks that use Apple products are fine, but holy jeebus do Apple zealots piss me off. We get it, your brand of choice is shiny and pretty. Shut up about it.
Again, I know this only applies to a small portion of the Apple userbase, but that small portion is unbelievably annoying.
The usual "this is only my opinion" disclaimer applies.
"You know who the worst kind of non-smoker is? You're just sitting there smoking, and they walk up to you and start coughing.::cough cough COUGH COUGH RRRRRRRRR:: Well that's not very nice...you walk up to cripple people and start dancing too, you fuck?" -Bill Hicks
Again, I smoke at most half a pack a day, and it isn't uncommon for me to go for days without smoking at all (a good example being when we went to visit my fiancee's sister two weeks ago...didn't have a single cig for a week, nor did I ever feel the need for one)
Cigs are one of those things where if I have them, that's great...if I don't, I'm not going to go out of my way to get more.
So what you're saying is that it's impossible to enjoy something without being addicted to it? No wonder the rehab thing is so popular nowadays...people are addicted to everything!
That isn't true at all...how many people do you know who sit there saying they have to quit, it's disgusting, etc while they have a cig in their mouth? I have personally known a number of people like that (all of whom smoked more than a pack a day, btw)
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Apu's name is a perfectly cromulent choice for Scrabble!
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, triple word score. Suck it.
Capitalizing god's name means applying a human characteristic to an omnipotent and all-powerful force...in other words, it's as silly as applying one sex or the other to god.
I meant it was ballsy to assume a beast as huge as Facebook would let him do this.
I can understand not wanting to go bankrupt, but I agree with you and others...he likely could have found someone willing to work on this case at no charge. Still, the guy seems quite talented and capable...I'm sure he will find a way to get the professional recognition he deserves.
Stupid, but ballsy. Gotta give credit where it's due.
This was true back in the mid-90's, but realistically there are only two companies releasing designs that everyone else uses for gaming purposes: AMD and Intel for CPUs, and AMD/ATI and Nvidia for video cards. Yes, I know that trouble shows up with different architectures on older cards, but come on.
No longer do they have to worry about Verite, 3DFX, S3ViRGE, etc...they are using the same basic APIs, and really only have to optimize for ATI or Nvidia. True, there are other options like Intel's GMA, but you aren't going to be gaming on that underpowered thing anyway.
There was a time when the "wide variety of config" argument made sense...but it just sounds like lazy developers to me at this point.
My apologies if my ignorance preceeds me.
...they could start with A. not making PC games that crash when you do anything (yes an exaggeration, but you get the point) and B. letting me play the game without insane drm hoops. When it's easier for me to play a downloaded copy than it is to play the copy you are selling, there is a serious problem.
And don't argue that Ubisoft's newest DRM scheme is the answer. Paying customers are having just as much trouble as the pirates.
...considering we are a pharmaceutical call center, we pretty much have to invest heavily in HIPAA security.
Actually, they aren't exactly "trivial" in either cost or engineering considerations.
My Creative Zen has both an SDHC slot in it as well as a USB port, yet is FAR FAR smaller than an iPad and far less complicated from an engineering standpoint. Those connectors are attatched to a PCB that is approx 1"x2" which also houses their controllers, the flash memory, and any other parts needed to process the audio/video files and send data to the screen (as well as the controller for the screen itself. If BOTH of these connectors can exist on my tiny little media player, they can fit on the iPad.
Not only that, but the cheapest version of the iPad is $500...you're telling me they couldn't afford to put at least one of two things that are more or less standard on just about every consumer electronics device released in the least 2-4 years?
Now what will be interesting, is whether Apple allows the iPad "camera connection kit" to be used for general purpose use, instead of just for photo grabbing. If so, then the need is essentially addressed (no flames about the $15/port that the camera connection kit costs). But if not, then I think there is some room to gripe (because then, it's just about the software).
As far as the camera is concerned, that isn't too big of a deal to me because I would likely never use it...although it is obviously a big deal for a number of others.
As for "expandability", WTF are you smoking? It's a TABLET.
Expandability in regards to storage. The thing is huge, and can't be bought for less than $500. Even the cheapest of the cheap phones nowadays can have their storage expanded via a card reader. Even if it was just a miniSD slot, there is absolutely no excuse to not have this option on something as "magical" and "revolutionary" as an iPad.
Other than to get you to spend hundreds of dollars more on increased built-in storage, of course.
Bottom line is that the iPad is a glimpse at what the future of (casual) computing is going to look like. If you don't want to get onboard, that's fine, but don't cry when you realize the train has left the station without you.
Tell ya what: you go right ahead and get on that train with the bus seats in large rooms and holes in the floor to be used as bathrooms. I'll wait for the next one that pulls into the station. You know, the one with the queen size beds and silk sheets and private rooms and room service?
In all seriousness, the problem (for me, anyway) isn't that the iPad is bad...it's that it isn't nearly as good as it could be. With the large number of other tablets on their way, and the inevitable 2nd gen iPad in the near future, I see no reason to spend $500+ on what is essentially an incomplete piece of hardware aimed at early adopters and Apple fanatics who are all gung ho about owning "the next big thing" without considering whether their money could be better spent elsewhere.
Again, just my opinion.
Even that much is enough to get addicted. Not a heavy enough addiction to cause you any obvious discomfort, but enough to make you slightly down etc, so when you do smoke you feel good (assuming of course you do it fairly regularly, rather than once a month or so...if you can go days without one, but you still generally do it every day, you probably have at least some level of addiction).
I would agree that I have a level of addiction, but it isn't to tobacco...it's to the mechanism of smoking. See below for more on that.
Regardless, why do you smoke? How can it possibly be worth it considering the health problems associated with it? Is it really that nice of a thing to do?
Honestly? Because I really, really enjoy the mechanism of smoking. It doesn't matter if it's hand-rolled Damiana (which we do occasionally use as an alternative just to change things up), shisha out of a hooka, or tobacco in a cig; the mechanism of inhaling smoke and exhaling it is just very enjoyable to me.
As I said in a post further up, being a gamer and Internet lurker I'm used to brand loyalty (although I think the concept is a bit silly)...my problem is that Microsoft zealots say that what they use (Microsoft) is better than what you use (Apple), while Apple zealots say that they are better than you because they use Apple products.
There is a difference, and a rather significant one at that.
If you consider "regularly buying them" to be "buying two packs every time I fill my car with gas on saturdays", then yes I go out of my way to get them...although most people wouldn't consider walking 10 feet into the gas station store while gas is still pumping into my car to be "going out of my way".
But hey, everyone is different.
Since people get a bit touchy when it comes to the iPad, the standard "this is only my opinion" disclaimer applies to my post.
I think the iPad is indicitive of what tablets could potentially be used for, but is too much like a "beta" to be worth its price (at least for me). No expandability, no USB ports, no flash-card reader...these are things that would be very trivial to add from both a cost and engineering perspective, yet are still lacking. Even in an "internet appliance", having at LEAST an SDHC reader built in would be a huge plus.
Keeping it locked to the appstore will surely please the Apple faithful and the less technically inclined...but considering you can get an 8GB iPod Touch on ebay for around $150, the iPad (at least this current version) is a waste of money.
Tablets have a ton of potential to be awesome devices...the iPad just isn't quite there yet for me, although the necessary changes are minimal.
Again, this is all only my opinion.
One of them sits just down the hall from me. The man submits a request literally every month to have his corporate-provided ThinkPad replaced with a Macbook because he "can't get any work done on this piece of crap."
You think I'm being overly dramatic. I'm not.
Microsoft fanboys don't pretend they are better than you...they pretend the products they use are better than the products you use. I'm fine with that. I've been a gamer and internet lurker for a very long time, I'm used to that sort of thinking. While I personally think it's stupid to lock yourself into only one option (i.e. I owned both an SNES AND a Genesis), I understand why some people have that kind of mentality.
Apple fanboys, however, go beyond mere brand loyalty. Apple fanboys insinuate that they are a better person than I am simply because they use Apple products and I don't. That is something I have absolutely zero patience for.
. Due to their business strategy to lock customers into their products, i.e. not complying to standards, they don't need to innovate, they just have to make sure that the locks are still firm. A good indication of the beginning of the end is that it is starting to get lucrative for companies to break out of the Microsoft prison. Apple is doing the right thing, they keep their products simple, they don't try to appeal to every human crawling the face of the earth, and they emphasize on products that actually *work*.
Hold the fuck on. Are you really suggestion that Apple is less restrictive than Microsoft? Seriously?
Oh yeah, I forgot... the App Store and iTunes are the pinnacles of consumer empowerment. I mean, it doesn't get much better than having to hack your device so you can use non-Apple approved programs, or having your music player wipe itself completely because you hooked it up to a different computer.
Yup. Apple really knows how to let people use their purchases freely. ::golf clap::
Something that is vital to Apple overtaking Microsoft is a shift in attitude of the "zealous Apple consumer". Most folks that use Apple products are fine, but holy jeebus do Apple zealots piss me off. We get it, your brand of choice is shiny and pretty. Shut up about it.
Again, I know this only applies to a small portion of the Apple userbase, but that small portion is unbelievably annoying.
The usual "this is only my opinion" disclaimer applies.
and by "chile" I meant "chilean food", not "chilli"
I remember that, for a period of time, I had a nuclear accident in my pants every week.
Habanero chile Tuesday's FTL (or win, depending on how you look at it)
"You know who the worst kind of non-smoker is? You're just sitting there smoking, and they walk up to you and start coughing. ::cough cough COUGH COUGH RRRRRRRRR:: Well that's not very nice...you walk up to cripple people and start dancing too, you fuck?" -Bill Hicks
Interesting you say that, because we roll our own cigs with loose tobacco, usually with American Spirit or some other "organic" tobacco.
Again, I smoke at most half a pack a day, and it isn't uncommon for me to go for days without smoking at all (a good example being when we went to visit my fiancee's sister two weeks ago...didn't have a single cig for a week, nor did I ever feel the need for one)
Cigs are one of those things where if I have them, that's great...if I don't, I'm not going to go out of my way to get more.
So what you're saying is that it's impossible to enjoy something without being addicted to it? No wonder the rehab thing is so popular nowadays...people are addicted to everything!
That isn't true at all...how many people do you know who sit there saying they have to quit, it's disgusting, etc while they have a cig in their mouth? I have personally known a number of people like that (all of whom smoked more than a pack a day, btw)