And that is the #1 problem with modern-day business executives: it's pretty damn clear that companies would make more damn money if they stopped sacrificing the future to reap profits this year. I will never understand why businesses which are run for profit are choosing strategies that result in less money in the end.
That completely depends on your needs. This user wants to do what he wants with his phone, not what the manufacturer graciously allows him to do (otherwise, why get a smartphone?). Because of that, Android is an infinitely better choice than iPhone. The UI is about equal (although less pretty), and while people may bemoan the lack of apps, 95% of the apps I've seen on the iPhone are useless. Thus, for my requirements (and yes, I know the mainstream user base doesn't share them. I don't care, as they are not me), Android is light-years ahead of the iPhone.
That doesn't scare me so much, but I do run backups because of one time where my partition table mysteriously disappeared. I had an epiphany that drive failure isn't the only thing that can make you lose data, and now I backup to another computer I built. It's not as good as burning discs, I suppose, but a lot more feasible. I might try online backup in the future, though, that seems pretty decent.
I need 500 GB drives because I currently run a 1 TB RAID 5 array. I don't need to get 500 GB total space (I have more crap than that anyway), it'd just be very impractical to build a 1 TB array using 160 GB drives. Granted, I probably wouldn't use RAID 5 because the drives aren't prone to random death like magnetic drives, but it would still be 6 drives to get the kind of capacity I want. That's a bit more than I'm willing to go along with.
As to goal... I tend to have a lot of software/game disc images, movies, and TV shows sitting around on my PC (both "very legit" and actually legit), and while I don't strictly need to have them all on the disk at once, I'm in love with the convenience of being able to pull anything up at a moment's notice. Like I said, I have a 1 TB array, and I'm using at least 600 GB of it right now.
My problem with SSDs isn't even the price per GB (which is bad enough). It's the amount of space, period. Currently, on Newegg, their Intel SSDs (I singled out Intel as they reportedly make the best) come in a maximum of 160 GB. That is honestly a pathetic amount of storage. When the drives come in at least 500 GB sizes, then I'll consider them. Not a moment before.
Yeah you can. The way he said it implies that they believe in competition, which Apple clearly doesn't (hell, they've done stuff that would make Microsoft blush). That statement, coming from Steve Jobs, is the joke of the decade. Shame we had to reach that point so early, now there won't be any anticipation as we wonder what the decade's biggest joke will be!
f) Costs $10 more than every other PC game on the market for no justifiable reason.
I was going to buy MW2 on release day until they did that shit. Now, I'll still buy it, but not until it's $50 or less. I won't pay one damn penny more than the market standard price for a game (unless maybe it's so spectacular that it deserves more, but MW2 is a fairly standard FPS. Well-done, but nothing special).
Except for the fact that skirmish mode in SC2 will have all the races and units available (and is arguably the true meat of the game). So really, your complaint boils down to "BLIZZARD IS GOING TO RELEASE MORE CAMPAIGNS INSTEAD OF PUTTING THEM ALL IN ONE GAME OH NOES!", which Civilization has done in the past (and isn't a big deal anyway). So your whining is baseless.
Now I have a friend that just decided to start playing back in October. He signs up and starts playing on Elune for instance. In 3 months he never was invited into a single group. Ever. Why? "He didn't have any heirloom gear" and "His gear score is too low." etc... The digital equivalent of "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer."
So wait... you're blaming Blizzard's tools for the fact that these other players are morons? Any WoW player with any sense knows that it's not worth obsessing over someone's gear for 5-mans, let alone the low-level ones. It's unfortunate that Elune is apparently populated by elitist morons, but I don't think we can blame the Armory for that. Before there was the Armory, there was inspecting someone, and yes, people got booted from groups when they got inspected and their gear wasn't up to someone's "standard".
Or you simply write faster than you type. I type pretty fast when I put my mind to it, but for the stop-and-go affair that is taking notes, I tend to do better with handwriting.
Then you're simply very good at the game. It really is quite difficult (and I'm not even counting getting all the star coins, which I'm sure will be much harder). I wouldn't quite call it soul-crushing, but it definitely is at the broken-controller level of difficulty.
You are either a phenomenally great Mario player, are letting the times you used Super Guide skew your difficulty assessment ("I can skip this hard level so the game is easy"), or a colossal liar. The game is not easy by any stretch of the imagination.
The AC below you is right, if you want difficulty in a game, it's odd that you consider ME2 to be better than Dragon Age. Dragon Age was really fucking hard, even on the normal difficulty. ME2 has its challenging moments on normal, but overall, it's infinitely easier than Dragon Age, which was what they call Nintendo Hard.
They're spreading misinformation, although unintentionally (I hope). Android OS has had support for multitouch events since 1.6 (I think? Someone correct me if I'm wrong), and other phones support it in the hardware. The Droid, for example, supports multitouch just fine, despite the fact that the Google apps don't use it.
I would not call those gestures "obvious" at all. Until people were making a big deal about the lack of those gestures during the Droid's launch, I had no idea that it was supported in iPhone OS, despite having owned an iPod Touch for almost a year at that point (I had been double-tapping to zoom, and cursing my inability to conveniently zoom out). The problem is that Apple clearly didn't invent the gestures, not that they're obvious. They're very non-obvious (or were, when first made).
So what? If porn sites bothered to have malware targeting Ubuntu, a porn addict could easily get an Ubuntu PC loaded up with it. No amount of OS security is a defense against the user being stupid enough to fall for "you need this program to get $thing_you_want!"
Did I miss something or did Google PR and astroturfing successfully prevented this point from being made in any of the articles or Slashdot comments?
Or the far simpler explanation that no one simply happened to think of it. No conspiracy theory required.
Furthermore, I can think of at least one good reason for Google to still use IE6 internally, and that is testing. Granted, one would hope they were taking precautions to make sure they didn't get attacked because of it, but the fact remains that it was pretty reasonable for them to keep a couple of IE6 machines around for testing their services.
BioWare get it together please. Dragon Age on insanity was not easy on my first play through, but it was not hard either. DA was much harder than ME2 though
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What the heck are you talking about? I played Dragon Age on normal, and it was still a stiff challenge (and I'm not a newbie to RPGs here), and at times was balls-to-the-walls hard. The hardest parts of the game were still fairly tough even on easy. Unless you played the "special more-easy" version of Dragon Age, I'm going to go ahead and say that your sense of difficulty is completely out of whack.
Halo 2? I thought even amoung Halo fans nobody liked that game for more than the multiplayer.
Not in the least. I find the multiplayer of Halo to be rather uninspired in general, but the single-player blows every other shooter I've played out of the water (story-wise, there are others which are far better game-mechanics-wise).
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And it's a great game single-player, too. It's basically what Modern Warfare 2 should have been, I'm happy they made it.
And that is the #1 problem with modern-day business executives: it's pretty damn clear that companies would make more damn money if they stopped sacrificing the future to reap profits this year. I will never understand why businesses which are run for profit are choosing strategies that result in less money in the end.
That completely depends on your needs. This user wants to do what he wants with his phone, not what the manufacturer graciously allows him to do (otherwise, why get a smartphone?). Because of that, Android is an infinitely better choice than iPhone. The UI is about equal (although less pretty), and while people may bemoan the lack of apps, 95% of the apps I've seen on the iPhone are useless. Thus, for my requirements (and yes, I know the mainstream user base doesn't share them. I don't care, as they are not me), Android is light-years ahead of the iPhone.
That's because I'm an expert in... nameology.
That doesn't scare me so much, but I do run backups because of one time where my partition table mysteriously disappeared. I had an epiphany that drive failure isn't the only thing that can make you lose data, and now I backup to another computer I built. It's not as good as burning discs, I suppose, but a lot more feasible. I might try online backup in the future, though, that seems pretty decent.
I need 500 GB drives because I currently run a 1 TB RAID 5 array. I don't need to get 500 GB total space (I have more crap than that anyway), it'd just be very impractical to build a 1 TB array using 160 GB drives. Granted, I probably wouldn't use RAID 5 because the drives aren't prone to random death like magnetic drives, but it would still be 6 drives to get the kind of capacity I want. That's a bit more than I'm willing to go along with.
As to goal... I tend to have a lot of software/game disc images, movies, and TV shows sitting around on my PC (both "very legit" and actually legit), and while I don't strictly need to have them all on the disk at once, I'm in love with the convenience of being able to pull anything up at a moment's notice. Like I said, I have a 1 TB array, and I'm using at least 600 GB of it right now.
My problem with SSDs isn't even the price per GB (which is bad enough). It's the amount of space, period. Currently, on Newegg, their Intel SSDs (I singled out Intel as they reportedly make the best) come in a maximum of 160 GB. That is honestly a pathetic amount of storage. When the drives come in at least 500 GB sizes, then I'll consider them. Not a moment before.
Yeah you can. The way he said it implies that they believe in competition, which Apple clearly doesn't (hell, they've done stuff that would make Microsoft blush). That statement, coming from Steve Jobs, is the joke of the decade. Shame we had to reach that point so early, now there won't be any anticipation as we wonder what the decade's biggest joke will be!
Wouldn't that actually be the spelling police?
I need to bookmark this post for the epic truth it contains. You said it better than I ever could, thank you!
f) Costs $10 more than every other PC game on the market for no justifiable reason.
I was going to buy MW2 on release day until they did that shit. Now, I'll still buy it, but not until it's $50 or less. I won't pay one damn penny more than the market standard price for a game (unless maybe it's so spectacular that it deserves more, but MW2 is a fairly standard FPS. Well-done, but nothing special).
Except for the fact that skirmish mode in SC2 will have all the races and units available (and is arguably the true meat of the game). So really, your complaint boils down to "BLIZZARD IS GOING TO RELEASE MORE CAMPAIGNS INSTEAD OF PUTTING THEM ALL IN ONE GAME OH NOES!", which Civilization has done in the past (and isn't a big deal anyway). So your whining is baseless.
Tell him that all those big trucks are not, in fact, the internet.
Now I have a friend that just decided to start playing back in October. He signs up and starts playing on Elune for instance. In 3 months he never was invited into a single group. Ever. Why? "He didn't have any heirloom gear" and "His gear score is too low." etc... The digital equivalent of "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer."
So wait... you're blaming Blizzard's tools for the fact that these other players are morons? Any WoW player with any sense knows that it's not worth obsessing over someone's gear for 5-mans, let alone the low-level ones. It's unfortunate that Elune is apparently populated by elitist morons, but I don't think we can blame the Armory for that. Before there was the Armory, there was inspecting someone, and yes, people got booted from groups when they got inspected and their gear wasn't up to someone's "standard".
Or you simply write faster than you type. I type pretty fast when I put my mind to it, but for the stop-and-go affair that is taking notes, I tend to do better with handwriting.
Then you're simply very good at the game. It really is quite difficult (and I'm not even counting getting all the star coins, which I'm sure will be much harder). I wouldn't quite call it soul-crushing, but it definitely is at the broken-controller level of difficulty.
You are either a phenomenally great Mario player, are letting the times you used Super Guide skew your difficulty assessment ("I can skip this hard level so the game is easy"), or a colossal liar. The game is not easy by any stretch of the imagination.
The AC below you is right, if you want difficulty in a game, it's odd that you consider ME2 to be better than Dragon Age. Dragon Age was really fucking hard, even on the normal difficulty. ME2 has its challenging moments on normal, but overall, it's infinitely easier than Dragon Age, which was what they call Nintendo Hard.
They're spreading misinformation, although unintentionally (I hope). Android OS has had support for multitouch events since 1.6 (I think? Someone correct me if I'm wrong), and other phones support it in the hardware. The Droid, for example, supports multitouch just fine, despite the fact that the Google apps don't use it.
I would not call those gestures "obvious" at all. Until people were making a big deal about the lack of those gestures during the Droid's launch, I had no idea that it was supported in iPhone OS, despite having owned an iPod Touch for almost a year at that point (I had been double-tapping to zoom, and cursing my inability to conveniently zoom out). The problem is that Apple clearly didn't invent the gestures, not that they're obvious. They're very non-obvious (or were, when first made).
So what? If porn sites bothered to have malware targeting Ubuntu, a porn addict could easily get an Ubuntu PC loaded up with it. No amount of OS security is a defense against the user being stupid enough to fall for "you need this program to get $thing_you_want!"
Did I miss something or did Google PR and astroturfing successfully prevented this point from being made in any of the articles or Slashdot comments?
Or the far simpler explanation that no one simply happened to think of it. No conspiracy theory required.
Furthermore, I can think of at least one good reason for Google to still use IE6 internally, and that is testing. Granted, one would hope they were taking precautions to make sure they didn't get attacked because of it, but the fact remains that it was pretty reasonable for them to keep a couple of IE6 machines around for testing their services.
BioWare get it together please. Dragon Age on insanity was not easy on my first play through, but it was not hard either. DA was much harder than ME2 though
O.O
What the heck are you talking about? I played Dragon Age on normal, and it was still a stiff challenge (and I'm not a newbie to RPGs here), and at times was balls-to-the-walls hard. The hardest parts of the game were still fairly tough even on easy. Unless you played the "special more-easy" version of Dragon Age, I'm going to go ahead and say that your sense of difficulty is completely out of whack.
Halo 2? I thought even amoung Halo fans nobody liked that game for more than the multiplayer.
Not in the least. I find the multiplayer of Halo to be rather uninspired in general, but the single-player blows every other shooter I've played out of the water (story-wise, there are others which are far better game-mechanics-wise).
You can buy them in the US as well. There is absolutely no reason anyone should buy a retail copy of Windows. Ever.