The battery design is actually pretty good, even in heavy use I can get well over a day easy - if I'm not doing much it wlll last for a few. Good for a smartphone.
No, their battery design is lousy. When a Samsung Epix gets almost 3 days of heavy use between recharges of its removeable battery all the while using super electricity burning Windows Mobile, this is crap. Just because you're wearing Apple colored blinders doesn't mean the battery is any better than it really is: lousy.
So what gave you this "right to privacy" again? Can I make up some rights too, while we're at it? How about a right to watch cartoons. If you don't believe in that, they you need to relearn what a "free society" is all about.
He got tagged for a more thorough search. It must've been the TSA's new un-American script radars. He got searched. They found a script. They read it. They let him go. Did I miss anything?
I'm sure if they restricted their Emulator to packs that can be downloaded using iTunes DLC system, there wouldn't be an issue. I think Apple wants a piece of everything that runs on your iPhone.
The Chip-8 emulator allows users to type in arbitrary code, so that's clearly not a hard and fast rule.
I think that people fail to realize that Mark Frauenfelder has been writing in this more casual style (with 'zines then blogs) for more than 20 years now. He was building an audience for more than 12 years by the time he decided to blog. It's not like he was starting out with nothing. This was an evolution in his career, not a catastrophic event.
Very well said...that's one of the self-delusions of many in the geek community that really irritates me (that we're smarter ergo better than everyone else). It seems a lot of this goes along with the rise of geek chic.
But isn't the point of choosing to be in any social group an effort to feel better about oneself? Some geeks take the easy way out by making themselves feel taller by shoving people beneath them.
I have found that people who are on the manufacturing floor of a factory are just as likely to pick up an abstract explanation as a geek would.
So being a geek is more a function of nerd literacy rather than intelligence? I concur. I would also expand this to personal hygiene (specifically lack thereof) as well.
But if developers are leaving out content in order to make DLC more compelling, that's messed up. And that's exactly what's happening more and more often. Capcom released 4 DLC packs for SFIV with alternate costumes, items that used to have been included in the regular release, or as a patch after the fact. That's hardly an appropriate use of DLC, IMO.
Exactamundo. I download a lot of TV shows, and recently, I'd taken to watching available programming on Hulu. No skin off my back to go back to Bittorrent.
Wow, that's good to know. Having cancelled my WoW account for months at a time when I do other things, I had no idea I was still paying for it. I thought I only paid the months that I wanted to play. Good to know.
I guess the developers want to encourage us to steal the original content, then pay for the DLC? I understand that the DLC is seen as a way to monetize all those pirates out there. So, again, the legitimate users get screwed in the process.
It's hugely positive for the business types who keep pushing micropayments as the thing that will save the Internet, despite the fact that they've been tried several times before and have been a dismal failure.
Oh come on, you're going to try and tell us that Flooz.com was a dismal failure? They had Whoopi Goldberg as their spokesperson for Christ sakes! How is that a failure?
I think that most of us Catholics felt betrayed not because abuse was happening (unfortunately, that's a fact of any large organization of people) but the covering up of these actions, allowing the abusers to continue their horrific behaviors relateively unscathed.
I'd have to say that their target demographic is probably everyone who bought an Xbox 360. The one piece of MS's gaming strategy that's been noticably lacking is the handheld. Now, it appears they're getting serious about it. I had high hopes for Zune integration when the 360 came out, and it just never happened. Then, XNA came out and it looked like things were going to happen in that space again, and then nothing. Maybe the old axiom about MS getting it right on the third shot is going to hold true, yet again?
After the scandals with the clergy, I stopped giving money to the church and started giving it all directly to charities. Nobody mistreated me. Maybe you're just making this up?
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The battery design is actually pretty good, even in heavy use I can get well over a day easy - if I'm not doing much it wlll last for a few. Good for a smartphone.
No, their battery design is lousy. When a Samsung Epix gets almost 3 days of heavy use between recharges of its removeable battery all the while using super electricity burning Windows Mobile, this is crap. Just because you're wearing Apple colored blinders doesn't mean the battery is any better than it really is: lousy.
The attack doesn't work in AES-128 or AES-192. It only works on AES-256.
It's a much more open platform.
So what gave you this "right to privacy" again? Can I make up some rights too, while we're at it? How about a right to watch cartoons. If you don't believe in that, they you need to relearn what a "free society" is all about.
He got tagged for a more thorough search. It must've been the TSA's new un-American script radars. He got searched. They found a script. They read it. They let him go. Did I miss anything?
Unless, of course, we're talking about Paedophiles. Then, mob mentality is obviously the weapon of choice for any sane society, right? Twat.
I'm sure if they restricted their Emulator to packs that can be downloaded using iTunes DLC system, there wouldn't be an issue. I think Apple wants a piece of everything that runs on your iPhone.
The Chip-8 emulator allows users to type in arbitrary code, so that's clearly not a hard and fast rule.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Children are self-centered, then we grow out of it.
I think that people fail to realize that Mark Frauenfelder has been writing in this more casual style (with 'zines then blogs) for more than 20 years now. He was building an audience for more than 12 years by the time he decided to blog. It's not like he was starting out with nothing. This was an evolution in his career, not a catastrophic event.
Very well said...that's one of the self-delusions of many in the geek community that really irritates me (that we're smarter ergo better than everyone else). It seems a lot of this goes along with the rise of geek chic.
But isn't the point of choosing to be in any social group an effort to feel better about oneself? Some geeks take the easy way out by making themselves feel taller by shoving people beneath them.
I have found that people who are on the manufacturing floor of a factory are just as likely to pick up an abstract explanation as a geek would.
So being a geek is more a function of nerd literacy rather than intelligence? I concur. I would also expand this to personal hygiene (specifically lack thereof) as well.
Sorry, I don't watch documentaries that make the viewers more stupid.
Ah, I get it, so they only rig the elections that upset the whiners. Gotcha. Very clever, these rascals, very clever.
But if developers are leaving out content in order to make DLC more compelling, that's messed up. And that's exactly what's happening more and more often. Capcom released 4 DLC packs for SFIV with alternate costumes, items that used to have been included in the regular release, or as a patch after the fact. That's hardly an appropriate use of DLC, IMO.
Exactamundo. I download a lot of TV shows, and recently, I'd taken to watching available programming on Hulu. No skin off my back to go back to Bittorrent.
Wow, that's good to know. Having cancelled my WoW account for months at a time when I do other things, I had no idea I was still paying for it. I thought I only paid the months that I wanted to play. Good to know.
I guess the developers want to encourage us to steal the original content, then pay for the DLC? I understand that the DLC is seen as a way to monetize all those pirates out there. So, again, the legitimate users get screwed in the process.
It's hugely positive for the business types who keep pushing micropayments as the thing that will save the Internet, despite the fact that they've been tried several times before and have been a dismal failure.
Oh come on, you're going to try and tell us that Flooz.com was a dismal failure? They had Whoopi Goldberg as their spokesperson for Christ sakes! How is that a failure?
I think that most of us Catholics felt betrayed not because abuse was happening (unfortunately, that's a fact of any large organization of people) but the covering up of these actions, allowing the abusers to continue their horrific behaviors relateively unscathed.
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The voting machines were rigged in many states and gave Bush the election.
Yeah, that's why the Republicans won in a landslide again in 2008. The system is totally rigged. You so smart.
Yeah, look what they did to that Shamwow dude.
I'd have to say that their target demographic is probably everyone who bought an Xbox 360. The one piece of MS's gaming strategy that's been noticably lacking is the handheld. Now, it appears they're getting serious about it. I had high hopes for Zune integration when the 360 came out, and it just never happened. Then, XNA came out and it looked like things were going to happen in that space again, and then nothing. Maybe the old axiom about MS getting it right on the third shot is going to hold true, yet again?
After the scandals with the clergy, I stopped giving money to the church and started giving it all directly to charities. Nobody mistreated me. Maybe you're just making this up?
Yeah, because Google defines reality. If it's first on Google, then it's obviously the only thing you need to know.
Well, I did say the dude was a shithead. I'll own that.