Well, I assume that everything you said had meaning, but to someone who doesn't know anything about audio (like me, and presumably the AC), it really does sound like Trek-worthy technobabble.
Get this through your heads already: Apple is not Steve Jobs. He does not personally do all of the stuff Apple does. Assuming Apple's engineers (the people who actually matter) don't quit when Jobs leaves, Apple will do just fine after Jobs.
Yes, God forbid we enjoy building computers, and find it less of a pain to support them ourselves than deal with the tech support guy from India who only knows what his script tells him to say. You must be right, we must have self-esteem problems.
Wah, wah, wah. This is the same retarded thing we hear every time someone does something that isn't FOSS in Linux. Guess what, man? The vast majority of the world just wants their shit to work. We don't give a flying fuck if it's "free software" or not, because we aren't ever going to need the ability to modify it. We just want it to do what we want it to do. The entire mindset of free software zealots is off-base: the highest goal is functionality, not ideology. The zealots may put ideology first, but, well, they're zealots, and there's a reason they're a small portion of the population.
a) Are you sure? Google behaves normally in a browser, but OpenDNS doesn't resolve Google's real IP by default. I know this only because I happened to try to do an nslookup on Google when I was troubleshooting a network issue.
b) If it really isn't doing that for you, and you didn't turn it off, someone else did it for you. They really do do this by default, and yes, I'm positive I don't have a virus or anything like that.
Three points: FFX was also amazing from start to finish (definitely don't understand why people underestimate it so), Halo showed us that an FPS can have a compelling world a long time ago, and Bioshock was never a 360 exclusive.
No. OpenDNS does actually do this. You can turn it off by making an account, however. I despise it, but don't know of a better choice, since my ISP pulls the same bullshit, with no option to turn it off.
Bullshit. By the definition of opinion, all opinions are, in fact, equal. They are subjective, and no one opinion can be said to be better than another.
It'd be interesting to see what a judge said, but I agree with the interpretation people above posted: the placement of the double/triple word scores is part of the game rules just as surely as letter tiles are, so that doesn't qualify as copyright infringement.
Well, Bioshock certainly isn't more compelling than a lot of the FF games, so that's hardly a fair statement to make. And recent games aren't as sucky (imnsho) as made out to be: FF12 wasn't the series' best, but FFX was easily better than Bioshock. That was one of the best RPGs I've ever seen.
We spent great effort fixing Y2K bus, thus prevented the bugs from causing serious damage. Therefore, you conclude, we should not have fixed the Y2K bugs.
You misunderstand his logic. The logic was: we spent great effort fixing Y2K bugs, which would not have caused serious damage (even if we had not fixed them). Therefore, we should not have fixed the Y2K bugs.
I happen to agree with him, for the most part. Y2K, by the time it was all said and done, was a huge marketing scam. I mean, I even had a stereo system that said "Y2K compliant!" on the box. WTF? There may have been some legitimate concern at first, but it wasn't long before people blew the whole thing way out of proportion, and turned it into a big "crisis".
You're taking it just a bit too personally. No one is saying teenagers can't program well. What we are saying is that complex projects like games or OS kernels are terrible for beginners. This dude needs to get into something more manageable first, and then into more complex things if he wants to. The only reason his dad should point him at really complex projects is if that's all he's interested in programming.
...but in essence you are right. People should have to learn basic car maintenance to get a license, and also pass some kind of test to be able to use a computer;).
No, he isn't right. People shouldn't have to learn basic car maintenance to operate a car. You don't actually need to know how to change your oil to operate your car safely. With a computer, yes, people should be more educated about it (considering the stuff the average Joe does to their computer is a bit like me putting diesel in my gasoline car and wondering why it breaks), but again, should not be required to know how to fix it.
It's just stupid to expect everyone to learn about everything that interacts with their life. I don't know the first thing about building a bridge, should I be expected to learn that before I drive over any more bridges?
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However, he only has a supporting role in this movie.
Are you serious? The movie is very clearly about Batman, first and foremost. How anyone could even think otherwise... I dunno.
Did you read what I said, man? My entire post was about opportunity cost. If no one is willing to pay you for the time you used to troubleshoot Linux, your opportunity cost is $0. That was the entire point of my post!
People like to point to GUI design studies as if they're fact. If they're supposed to be actual fact, then one counterexample is enough to disprove said "fact". If they're not supposed to be actual fact, then they don't really have any meaningful use when you're discussing if a GUI is good or bad.
In either case, the study of GUI design isn't something you can call upon to prove your point when discussing the usefulness of a program's GUI.
We're talking about "Linux is free". Unless someone is putting a dollar value on that time, it is indeed free (ie, worthless for the purposes of this discussion). I didn't say that you can't use your free time for worthwhile things.
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I'm in no position to agree or disagree with your assessment of Linux, since I don't use it, but I have to point something out to you: unless you have a way of turning your free time into income, that time is worthless. People talk a lot about how something is only free if your time is worthless, but unless you're taking time off from your job, or sacrificing something you could be selling in your free time (and most of us aren't doing those things), your time is worthless. You have a limited quantity of it, but that doesn't matter if no one is paying you for it.
Here's the weird thing. If the execs hate the current format of E3, and the gamers hate the current format of E3, why the hell are they still keeping it!? Those are the only two groups of people E3 is about, so if it's not meeting the needs of those groups... change it.
No, that is your experience. How can you seriously think that your personal thought process is close enough to everyone else's (even though you accept they differ) to make judgments on how effective OS X's GUI is? You have said that people work in different ways, yet you still seem to think that your own subjective experience is somehow absolute. That makes no sense unless you really think you know better than everyone else.
Sigh. You seriously don't understand what I'm saying at all. Let me try to put it another way: GUI design "rules" are like a math theorem that says "For all x, y happens". All you need is one counterexample to disprove the whole thing, and make the theorem useless. You can easily disprove GUI design "rules" in that way, which makes the entire field worthless.
I know that how efficiently someone works is almost always a very personalized thing. Very rarely will two people work at peak efficiency the same way. And you expect me to believe that people that study GUI design (whose goal is to maximize efficeincy) can achieve a result which is optimum for everyone? That's a real stretch. Look at OS X, whose GUI is lauded for being "objectively" great. Yet, I find it to be less efficient than other GUIs. That means that the "facts" people are using to evaluate it aren't facts at all.
Anyway, I never said my opinions from personal experience are fact. I'm saying there can be no facts in this arena. It's like art. We can never define what "good art" is, because it varies so widely from person to person, and each one is no more correct than the other.
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Well, I assume that everything you said had meaning, but to someone who doesn't know anything about audio (like me, and presumably the AC), it really does sound like Trek-worthy technobabble.
Get this through your heads already: Apple is not Steve Jobs. He does not personally do all of the stuff Apple does. Assuming Apple's engineers (the people who actually matter) don't quit when Jobs leaves, Apple will do just fine after Jobs.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Yes, God forbid we enjoy building computers, and find it less of a pain to support them ourselves than deal with the tech support guy from India who only knows what his script tells him to say. You must be right, we must have self-esteem problems.
Wah, wah, wah. This is the same retarded thing we hear every time someone does something that isn't FOSS in Linux. Guess what, man? The vast majority of the world just wants their shit to work. We don't give a flying fuck if it's "free software" or not, because we aren't ever going to need the ability to modify it. We just want it to do what we want it to do. The entire mindset of free software zealots is off-base: the highest goal is functionality, not ideology. The zealots may put ideology first, but, well, they're zealots, and there's a reason they're a small portion of the population.
What the fuck is your point in dragging unrelated issues into the discussion? Just to set up strawmen?
a) Are you sure? Google behaves normally in a browser, but OpenDNS doesn't resolve Google's real IP by default. I know this only because I happened to try to do an nslookup on Google when I was troubleshooting a network issue.
b) If it really isn't doing that for you, and you didn't turn it off, someone else did it for you. They really do do this by default, and yes, I'm positive I don't have a virus or anything like that.
Three points: FFX was also amazing from start to finish (definitely don't understand why people underestimate it so), Halo showed us that an FPS can have a compelling world a long time ago, and Bioshock was never a 360 exclusive.
No. OpenDNS does actually do this. You can turn it off by making an account, however. I despise it, but don't know of a better choice, since my ISP pulls the same bullshit, with no option to turn it off.
All opinions are not equal...
Bullshit. By the definition of opinion, all opinions are, in fact, equal. They are subjective, and no one opinion can be said to be better than another.
It'd be interesting to see what a judge said, but I agree with the interpretation people above posted: the placement of the double/triple word scores is part of the game rules just as surely as letter tiles are, so that doesn't qualify as copyright infringement.
Well, Bioshock certainly isn't more compelling than a lot of the FF games, so that's hardly a fair statement to make. And recent games aren't as sucky (imnsho) as made out to be: FF12 wasn't the series' best, but FFX was easily better than Bioshock. That was one of the best RPGs I've ever seen.
We spent great effort fixing Y2K bus, thus prevented the bugs from causing serious damage. Therefore, you conclude, we should not have fixed the Y2K bugs.
You misunderstand his logic. The logic was: we spent great effort fixing Y2K bugs, which would not have caused serious damage (even if we had not fixed them). Therefore, we should not have fixed the Y2K bugs.
I happen to agree with him, for the most part. Y2K, by the time it was all said and done, was a huge marketing scam. I mean, I even had a stereo system that said "Y2K compliant!" on the box. WTF? There may have been some legitimate concern at first, but it wasn't long before people blew the whole thing way out of proportion, and turned it into a big "crisis".
You're taking it just a bit too personally. No one is saying teenagers can't program well. What we are saying is that complex projects like games or OS kernels are terrible for beginners. This dude needs to get into something more manageable first, and then into more complex things if he wants to. The only reason his dad should point him at really complex projects is if that's all he's interested in programming.
...but in essence you are right. People should have to learn basic car maintenance to get a license, and also pass some kind of test to be able to use a computer ;).
No, he isn't right. People shouldn't have to learn basic car maintenance to operate a car. You don't actually need to know how to change your oil to operate your car safely. With a computer, yes, people should be more educated about it (considering the stuff the average Joe does to their computer is a bit like me putting diesel in my gasoline car and wondering why it breaks), but again, should not be required to know how to fix it.
It's just stupid to expect everyone to learn about everything that interacts with their life. I don't know the first thing about building a bridge, should I be expected to learn that before I drive over any more bridges?
However, he only has a supporting role in this movie.
Are you serious? The movie is very clearly about Batman, first and foremost. How anyone could even think otherwise... I dunno.
You either PvP or Raid else you don't get the shiny stuff.
Huh. I guess I imagined my shiny crafted epics. Oh well.
In a word, probably. Michael Caine and Christian Bale were both better than Ledger. Ledger was excellent, but he wasn't the best actor in TDK.
Did you read what I said, man? My entire post was about opportunity cost. If no one is willing to pay you for the time you used to troubleshoot Linux, your opportunity cost is $0. That was the entire point of my post!
People like to point to GUI design studies as if they're fact. If they're supposed to be actual fact, then one counterexample is enough to disprove said "fact". If they're not supposed to be actual fact, then they don't really have any meaningful use when you're discussing if a GUI is good or bad.
In either case, the study of GUI design isn't something you can call upon to prove your point when discussing the usefulness of a program's GUI.
We're talking about "Linux is free". Unless someone is putting a dollar value on that time, it is indeed free (ie, worthless for the purposes of this discussion). I didn't say that you can't use your free time for worthwhile things.
I'm in no position to agree or disagree with your assessment of Linux, since I don't use it, but I have to point something out to you: unless you have a way of turning your free time into income, that time is worthless. People talk a lot about how something is only free if your time is worthless, but unless you're taking time off from your job, or sacrificing something you could be selling in your free time (and most of us aren't doing those things), your time is worthless. You have a limited quantity of it, but that doesn't matter if no one is paying you for it.
Here's the weird thing. If the execs hate the current format of E3, and the gamers hate the current format of E3, why the hell are they still keeping it!? Those are the only two groups of people E3 is about, so if it's not meeting the needs of those groups... change it.
No, that is your experience. How can you seriously think that your personal thought process is close enough to everyone else's (even though you accept they differ) to make judgments on how effective OS X's GUI is? You have said that people work in different ways, yet you still seem to think that your own subjective experience is somehow absolute. That makes no sense unless you really think you know better than everyone else.
Sigh. You seriously don't understand what I'm saying at all. Let me try to put it another way: GUI design "rules" are like a math theorem that says "For all x, y happens". All you need is one counterexample to disprove the whole thing, and make the theorem useless. You can easily disprove GUI design "rules" in that way, which makes the entire field worthless.
I know that how efficiently someone works is almost always a very personalized thing. Very rarely will two people work at peak efficiency the same way. And you expect me to believe that people that study GUI design (whose goal is to maximize efficeincy) can achieve a result which is optimum for everyone? That's a real stretch. Look at OS X, whose GUI is lauded for being "objectively" great. Yet, I find it to be less efficient than other GUIs. That means that the "facts" people are using to evaluate it aren't facts at all.
Anyway, I never said my opinions from personal experience are fact. I'm saying there can be no facts in this arena. It's like art. We can never define what "good art" is, because it varies so widely from person to person, and each one is no more correct than the other.