I suppose you might consider it that, but I don't think it really qualifies to be a "disposable item". That is an object which you could, if you so chose, prolong by taking good care of it, but its value is low enough that you don't bother. An hour of recreation isn't really an object in the first place, but it also isn't something you can preserve, it's inherently transient. If anything, I'd call it closer to a consumable item.
Hell I bought a new iPhone 3GS today for $100 -- at that price point it's a disposable item.
WTF!?
Sorry, but something that costs $100 isn't a disposable item, it still costs a reasonable amount of effort to earn that much money. Our currency hasn't become that inflated yet...
The time saved would be more than worth the $30-$40, unless the person asking the question is completely broke.
That only applies if he is using time that he would have otherwise been using to make money. If he's taking time that would otherwise have been spent doing something frivolous (gaming, watching TV, napping), his time is worthless (in the monetary sense).
Once in a while, what you say will be correct, but in the vast majority of cases, you're wrong.
From snapshots you can't really see the differences between it and 95 or 98, but it was really a mix bag of both and had some very nifty tricks that did not make it in 98. For instance, you could get rid of mouse double-clicks, and use 1 click action throughout the UI, weblike. Options would turn blue when hovered by the mouse pointer.
Dude, that was actually in 98. It confused the hell out of most users (who were accustomed by then to the double-click), but it was there.
Because some of us (me included) will give up our game boxes only when you pry them from our cold, dead fingers. For me, buying the shiny new package, opening it up, and looking through the manual is part of the experience, and digital downloads can never replace it. Digital downloads are OK, but they'll always be inferior to a physical product for many of us.
He didn't say Doom was rubbish. He said the story was rubbish, and used that as an example of how games today have improved upon classics like Doom. At no point does he refer to Doom as anything less than the cornerstone of modern gaming that it is.
That's not a reason that the phone won't become prevalent. AT&T requires you to get a contract to get an iPhone, but that hasn't hindered that device much.
Furthermore, it's inaccurate to say that a cell phone plan is part of the cost of the phone. You're paying for a plan whether or not you get the expensive phone, so that's gonna cost you either way.
Plus, $100/month? Seriously? What the hell kind of cell phone plan is that, the one where they give you blow jobs when you pay your bill? I see plans that cost like $50/month, not $100.
The N64 version, though, was basically like the versions today are, although the communist shell was less deadly, and could pretty easily go off the track in its search for the first-place player.
The 'Cube version made the communist shell absolutely deadly (although you could dodge it by dropping back to second place once you heard the shell launch), and is almost exactly like MK DS in terms of weapons. I think the only new one they added on the DS was the ink blot, which was pretty easy to cope with, so I don't think it makes that much of a difference.
Mind you, there's very much still an element of skill in Mario Kart. I can't beat the really good racers online, no matter how much the game helps me out with items. You might feel that the amount is too low, and that is up to you to decide, so I won't argue on that point. Don't be mistaken, though, skill is very much alive and well in MK-land.
Well, the first point is fair, and the third is somewhat accurate, but I don't think it's an issue.
On the second point, though, you're full of shit. There are enough games that don't rely on "motion sensor as a gimmick". Off the top of my head: Mario Galaxy, Zelda, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Metroid Prime 3, Super Paper Mario. Yes, it's all Nintendo games, but honestly, I don't give a shit who makes the game. If other developers are making crappy games for the Wii, that's their fault, not the console's. You might also be dismissive of the games I've listed for other reasons, but even then, they aren't just motion-sensor-gimmick games, so your original assertion is false.
I went to read the article in which the author claims there's sexism in OSS, and his claims are laughable. He's crying "sexism" because there are less women. However, sexism is not less-than-equal distribution of the sexes, it is discrimination against one of the sexes arbitrarily. Has this moron ever considered that maybe, just maybe, women don't happen to be interested in coding? Some are, and they do that... but if others aren't interested, it doesn't mean sexism at all.
Furthermore, he's talking about development that tends to happen on the fucking internet. You know, where your gender is conveniently masked unless you choose to reveal it. How, exactly, are these theoretical sexists going to discriminate against women when they can't even know which coders are men and which are women??
I don't want kids for much the same reason you mentioned. I enjoy a fairly independent lifestyle right now, and I don't wish to give it up. If I had kids, I, being a responsible person wishing to raise them properly, would then have to give up a lot of the independence and free time that I enjoy right now. On top of that, I like not having to deal with them at inopportune times. I like kids... other people's kids, so that at the end of the day, they aren't my responsibility. I'll admit that it's selfish, but it harms no one, so I think it's a perfectly acceptable reason, even if it is selfish.
I think you've misinterpreted the argument a bit. The GP is saying (and I'm inclined to agree) that it's better for physicians' employers to give their employees any required training during their normal work hours (as opposed to requiring them to do it at home). If you want to spend some of your free time educating yourself on a different topic, more power to you! I don't think anyone is suggesting that your employer should be able to dictate to you that you have to study certain subjects during that time.
Yeah, I always thought that it was traditional to have to accomplish some significant shit to win a Nobel Prize. Apparently not, though. All Obama has really done that tons of common citizens haven't is be elected president (which, yes, is an accomplishment, but not a Nobel-worthy accomplishment). Where the hell are the Nobel Prizes coming our way?
For one thing, this operating system is no longer available, and it was available only preinstalled on a new PC. The page doesn't say one way or another whether it still works on Windows Vista Home Premium.
It does, and it works well.
For another, the original poster doesn't want to stream from a Windows Media Center PC.
That's fine, but I wasn't addressing the submitter, I was addressing the parent to my post.
Microsoft have gone out of their way to make the box useless for anything bar playing games for some reason.
Hardly. It also makes a great interface for playing media files stored on your PC. The fact that you don't want to do that does not negate the fact that it works beautifully.
Personally, I prefer it this way. I, er, "acquire" the media files using my PC, and I have a hell of a lot cheaper storage using internal hard drives than I can get by buying USB hard drives (plus, I already have tons of storage space on my PC, vs a big USB hard drive which I'd have to buy). The fact that I need to have two machines to do it doesn't bother me in the least. Hell, if I built my own media center PC to hook up directly to the TV, I'd still be streaming the files, simply because I already have tons of storage on my main rig.
It works very, very well. I use Windows Media Player to serve the media, and the 360 plays it beautifully. It doesn't play every video format under the sun, but it does play DivX and XviD, which is the majority of video files.
The 360 can do some video streaming from XP computers with media player 11 or Vista boxes but it's a pain in the butt. There's products like tversity that can do transcoding but it's so much more hassle than it's worth it's not even funny.
What?! Streaming video files from your PC to your 360 is dead easy. Is the format DivX/XviD (most files)? Plays with no modification right from the dashboard. If not, set up the media center (can be a bit of a pain, but hardly the epic pain in the ass you claim), install Transcode 360 on your PC, select file, select the Transcode option, done.
If that's considered hard (where the majority of files play seamlessly, and the rest require only slightly more work), I want to know what the heck easy is. That must be something like "the device picks which files to play for me, and plays them without my intervention".
You know, it really doesn't matter. It's not like you don't know how to convert the units if you need to convert them... and you probably don't need to know them anyway.
But then, I guess if you ignored "problems" that aren't really problematic, you wouldn't have this beautiful outlet for self-righteous whining*.
*The irony of saying this isn't lost on me, but I'm sick enough of seeing people fucking complain about which arbitrarily-defined system of measurement to use that I'm willing to make myself look a bit silly.
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You can't call the plan the cost of the phone. You'd pay for the plan with or without the phone.
Is an hour or so of recreation "disposable"?
I suppose you might consider it that, but I don't think it really qualifies to be a "disposable item". That is an object which you could, if you so chose, prolong by taking good care of it, but its value is low enough that you don't bother. An hour of recreation isn't really an object in the first place, but it also isn't something you can preserve, it's inherently transient. If anything, I'd call it closer to a consumable item.
Hell I bought a new iPhone 3GS today for $100 -- at that price point it's a disposable item.
WTF!?
Sorry, but something that costs $100 isn't a disposable item, it still costs a reasonable amount of effort to earn that much money. Our currency hasn't become that inflated yet...
The time saved would be more than worth the $30-$40, unless the person asking the question is completely broke.
That only applies if he is using time that he would have otherwise been using to make money. If he's taking time that would otherwise have been spent doing something frivolous (gaming, watching TV, napping), his time is worthless (in the monetary sense).
Once in a while, what you say will be correct, but in the vast majority of cases, you're wrong.
Bioshock was never exclusive. It was out on the PC at the same time as the 360.
From snapshots you can't really see the differences between it and 95 or 98, but it was really a mix bag of both and had some very nifty tricks that did not make it in 98. For instance, you could get rid of mouse double-clicks, and use 1 click action throughout the UI, weblike. Options would turn blue when hovered by the mouse pointer.
Dude, that was actually in 98. It confused the hell out of most users (who were accustomed by then to the double-click), but it was there.
Because some of us (me included) will give up our game boxes only when you pry them from our cold, dead fingers. For me, buying the shiny new package, opening it up, and looking through the manual is part of the experience, and digital downloads can never replace it. Digital downloads are OK, but they'll always be inferior to a physical product for many of us.
Um... that's TFA. It wasn't hard to find. :/
He didn't say Doom was rubbish. He said the story was rubbish, and used that as an example of how games today have improved upon classics like Doom. At no point does he refer to Doom as anything less than the cornerstone of modern gaming that it is.
Huh?
That's not a reason that the phone won't become prevalent. AT&T requires you to get a contract to get an iPhone, but that hasn't hindered that device much.
Furthermore, it's inaccurate to say that a cell phone plan is part of the cost of the phone. You're paying for a plan whether or not you get the expensive phone, so that's gonna cost you either way.
Plus, $100/month? Seriously? What the hell kind of cell phone plan is that, the one where they give you blow jobs when you pay your bill? I see plans that cost like $50/month, not $100.
With a contract, you can get the HTC Magic from T-Mobile for $150. That's not quite your asking price of $100, but it's not exactly $1000 either.
The N64 version, though, was basically like the versions today are, although the communist shell was less deadly, and could pretty easily go off the track in its search for the first-place player.
The 'Cube version made the communist shell absolutely deadly (although you could dodge it by dropping back to second place once you heard the shell launch), and is almost exactly like MK DS in terms of weapons. I think the only new one they added on the DS was the ink blot, which was pretty easy to cope with, so I don't think it makes that much of a difference.
Mind you, there's very much still an element of skill in Mario Kart. I can't beat the really good racers online, no matter how much the game helps me out with items. You might feel that the amount is too low, and that is up to you to decide, so I won't argue on that point. Don't be mistaken, though, skill is very much alive and well in MK-land.
I dunno, those things are what makes Mario Kart Mario Kart. It can be irritating, yes, but it also lends an element of unpredictability and hilarity.
On the other hand, playing that game gives me nasty hand cramps, because of the way I have to hold the DS.
Well, the first point is fair, and the third is somewhat accurate, but I don't think it's an issue.
On the second point, though, you're full of shit. There are enough games that don't rely on "motion sensor as a gimmick". Off the top of my head: Mario Galaxy, Zelda, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Metroid Prime 3, Super Paper Mario. Yes, it's all Nintendo games, but honestly, I don't give a shit who makes the game. If other developers are making crappy games for the Wii, that's their fault, not the console's. You might also be dismissive of the games I've listed for other reasons, but even then, they aren't just motion-sensor-gimmick games, so your original assertion is false.
Ex-FUCKING-actly!
I went to read the article in which the author claims there's sexism in OSS, and his claims are laughable. He's crying "sexism" because there are less women. However, sexism is not less-than-equal distribution of the sexes, it is discrimination against one of the sexes arbitrarily. Has this moron ever considered that maybe, just maybe, women don't happen to be interested in coding? Some are, and they do that... but if others aren't interested, it doesn't mean sexism at all.
Furthermore, he's talking about development that tends to happen on the fucking internet. You know, where your gender is conveniently masked unless you choose to reveal it. How, exactly, are these theoretical sexists going to discriminate against women when they can't even know which coders are men and which are women??
Nail, head, etc.
I don't want kids for much the same reason you mentioned. I enjoy a fairly independent lifestyle right now, and I don't wish to give it up. If I had kids, I, being a responsible person wishing to raise them properly, would then have to give up a lot of the independence and free time that I enjoy right now. On top of that, I like not having to deal with them at inopportune times. I like kids... other people's kids, so that at the end of the day, they aren't my responsibility. I'll admit that it's selfish, but it harms no one, so I think it's a perfectly acceptable reason, even if it is selfish.
I think you've misinterpreted the argument a bit. The GP is saying (and I'm inclined to agree) that it's better for physicians' employers to give their employees any required training during their normal work hours (as opposed to requiring them to do it at home). If you want to spend some of your free time educating yourself on a different topic, more power to you! I don't think anyone is suggesting that your employer should be able to dictate to you that you have to study certain subjects during that time.
Yeah, I always thought that it was traditional to have to accomplish some significant shit to win a Nobel Prize. Apparently not, though. All Obama has really done that tons of common citizens haven't is be elected president (which, yes, is an accomplishment, but not a Nobel-worthy accomplishment). Where the hell are the Nobel Prizes coming our way?
This degrades the award so much it's laughable.
You aren't the parent of my original post, dude. Read the thread more carefully.
For one thing, this operating system is no longer available, and it was available only preinstalled on a new PC. The page doesn't say one way or another whether it still works on Windows Vista Home Premium.
It does, and it works well.
For another, the original poster doesn't want to stream from a Windows Media Center PC.
That's fine, but I wasn't addressing the submitter, I was addressing the parent to my post.
Microsoft have gone out of their way to make the box useless for anything bar playing games for some reason.
Hardly. It also makes a great interface for playing media files stored on your PC. The fact that you don't want to do that does not negate the fact that it works beautifully.
Personally, I prefer it this way. I, er, "acquire" the media files using my PC, and I have a hell of a lot cheaper storage using internal hard drives than I can get by buying USB hard drives (plus, I already have tons of storage space on my PC, vs a big USB hard drive which I'd have to buy). The fact that I need to have two machines to do it doesn't bother me in the least. Hell, if I built my own media center PC to hook up directly to the TV, I'd still be streaming the files, simply because I already have tons of storage on my main rig.
It works very, very well. I use Windows Media Player to serve the media, and the 360 plays it beautifully. It doesn't play every video format under the sun, but it does play DivX and XviD, which is the majority of video files.
The 360 can do some video streaming from XP computers with media player 11 or Vista boxes but it's a pain in the butt. There's products like tversity that can do transcoding but it's so much more hassle than it's worth it's not even funny.
What?! Streaming video files from your PC to your 360 is dead easy. Is the format DivX/XviD (most files)? Plays with no modification right from the dashboard. If not, set up the media center (can be a bit of a pain, but hardly the epic pain in the ass you claim), install Transcode 360 on your PC, select file, select the Transcode option, done.
If that's considered hard (where the majority of files play seamlessly, and the rest require only slightly more work), I want to know what the heck easy is. That must be something like "the device picks which files to play for me, and plays them without my intervention".
You know, it really doesn't matter. It's not like you don't know how to convert the units if you need to convert them... and you probably don't need to know them anyway.
But then, I guess if you ignored "problems" that aren't really problematic, you wouldn't have this beautiful outlet for self-righteous whining*.
*The irony of saying this isn't lost on me, but I'm sick enough of seeing people fucking complain about which arbitrarily-defined system of measurement to use that I'm willing to make myself look a bit silly.