Problems don't get solved until they have to . People are short sighted and lazy. Plus, if you fix something before it's really a problem and anything goes wrong, it's your fault.
You only notice problems that are big, small problems get solved too quickly for them to seem like anything.
IMHO the best recipe for life is a very stable, but very energetic process. Something that is cyclical, active enough to produce as many chemical reactions as possible, but no so wild that it constantly destroys complex products. I think this may provide a good environment for a self reproducing chemical process to appear randomly just by chance. After that evolution can take over.
The earth is a lot like this, with it's yearly cycles, active weather and a sea that is not particularly destructive outside of the top couple of meters. But these kinds of processes could be achieved in a million different ways. I wouldn't be surprised most of the factors we consider requirements to life are over-specific and it really just has more to do with mixing things up enough to produce life, but not so much that it dies before reproduction.
I see what you're saying, so let's setup a simple argument for all tech-savvy people on this issue that won't require them to say IPv4 is running out.
How about: Although we do have workarounds which are quite effective in solving the problem with the limited number of IPv4 addresses, the limited number of addresses is a good represtation of other limitations in IPv4 which IPv6 solves.
Ok, that was a quick shot at this, can someone with some writing skills take a crack at this?
I have a friend who thinks just like you do, and I will offer two rebuttals:
1. A lot of products are more useful if you use them not as intended. It doesn't mean the original use case is worthless, just that it can be made more worthwhile. I'm not supposed to use bittorrent to download copyrighted materials, doesn't mean it's worthless for distributing linux distros.
2. "Unofficial" uses give manufactures protection against legal attacks. Sure, giving an Apple product access to the App store isn't exactly sticking it to the man, but jailbreaking iOS device to run wifi only Apps in 3g is exactly the kind of added functionality a manufacturer couldn't provide "out of box". Apple can't let apps run wild that way because of ATT, but if jailbreakers are able to do so Apple isn't responsible (at least it will be very difficult to hold them).
And so the fact that Apple TV can be made better may be to the advantage of both users and manufacturers, not a mark against the original product which is not much more expensive than a usb n-wifi receiver.
If it is a single player game I'd like to be able to run without Internet access.
Just curious, do you have problems with running in offline mode? I mean, I hear a lot of horror stories, but it's worked pretty reliably for me, so far.
Seems to work well enough when I need it, but I meant I want to be able to reinstall it without interenet access. Forgive me for my ambiguity. When I buy a game I would like it to have all the same features as a pirated one, including the ability to install it and run it as much as I want for my personal use, so long as my hardware supports it.
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When Steam ceases to exist, I'll use the crack. I'm not really sure what else do you want.
I love Steam, but if you ask me what I want, it would be this. I want to buy a game and be able to use it forever without the need to go to some shady crack site. If it is a single player game I'd like to be able to run without Internet access. I want DRM to be a problem for pirates, not for legitimate copies.
Processing efficiency is ARM's whole focus. They usually talk about the performance per milliwatt of their chips. This is why they never compare themselves to Intel or AMD, which focus on performance, and why most hand-helds use ARM based processors (PSP, Nintendo DS, iPhone, basically every single Android device, etc). If your device runs on a battery this makes good sense unless you have to have x86 compatibility.
If you cant work out whether the app has the function that you need, you could always follow the support link and ask the developer. If the developer says it has a function and it hasn't, then you can report the app to Apple and also get a refund.
As a matter of interest, what was the specific function you needed, and did you find it?
I can't remember exactly what I needed, but I did figure out that it wouldn't work without multitasking (iPhone 3G), and push notification would not cut it.
As for contacting the developer, it might be a legitimate solution, but it is a lot more work, and it would take a lot more time. I would have to do it for each app, and I would still not know until after I bought it whether or not the app works very well. A classic case where piracy is the superior solution, even for an honest user. In 5 minutes I could determine first hand if the app was worth using and buy it. In this case I just gave up, since without multitasking no app could make this work.
The appstore is a nightmarish mess. You cannot tell before you buy exactly what the app does. Just the other day I wanted to download an advanced alarm application (I forgot apple's backgrounding policies basically made this a non starter, but that's an issue for a different thread). I get a list of alarm apps and can't really figure out which one isn't trash. They are all rated about 3 stars, so none of them seem very good, but if they can do the one thing I need them it to do I might pay 99 cents. However the one app that seems to do it is 9.99. So I can buy a 99c app that will most likely fail, buy a 9.99 app, which might also fail and the users are not too happy with. None of these apps have reviews online I can take advantage of. So I pirate it, so I can see before I buy.
/end devil's advocate
The Android Market Place lets you get a refund for any app if you're not satisfied within 48 hours.
Although I agree with your points, I think there is a big item missing here, Android. Steam on Android could be a killer app, especially with cross platform saves. I could start playing Plants vs Zombies on my PC, move it to my phone and finish it on my PS3.
Although your idea is very cool, it would be much easier to use something like the Google Vans to do this. The hard part of this project is figuring out where the cameras were pointing when the pictures were taken. With good geo location information and an electronic compass you can eliminate that, difficult, part of the process. I'm sure if you payed enough you could just license the high quality originals used in street view and do the same thing for a fraction of the cost.
I know I'm coming late to the party, but I didn't like Mario 64 either. In the end it was the guesswork in finding the stars. I like Mario Games to be pure platforming goodness, and having to guess what to do was too much. When I looked up a star and saw that it was hidden in a wall I had to shoot myself into, I gave up. Mario Galaxy doesn't have this problem, it gives you a pretty clear hint and just lets you explore to find it. Anyhow, my two cents, if it is your favorite game of all time, by all means, enjoy. Chrono Trigger is mine.
Ok, but are they energy independent? I suspect this is the source of the remark. If they are energy independent they are 100% free of foreign oil, which is really the only good ethanol can hope to produce.
In all fairness, I can't full screen on my Atom 2.0G in Hulu at 480p, or play videos at the resolution of my screen (1024x600). Granted the amount of graphics acceleration needed for this is next to nothing, but I just wanted to illustrate how these low end machines might not satisfy a average user.
PS I am not an average user, we'll see how this machine works with Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix, maybe I'll have more luck.
That is a pretty hard line to take with an entire field, but I can't say it is totally unfounded. However, have you done any checking to see if psychology is really that useless? I mean 99% of what a doctor can really do is prescribe antibiotics or do surgery. And you can know a lot about psychology without having being able to cure anything. And you would never treat depression with Valium. I'm guessing your view is based on some personal dislike more than fact. I wonder what the % is of suicidal patients that survive in and out of therapy. That is a non trivial problem.
If you were the size of a moon, the pressure you feel on the side you face your planet will be different from the pressure on the far side. Add to this an elliptical orbit around a planet and the core of the moon has enough activity to churn and produce heat. A lot of things are pretty crazy once you're the size of a moon.
Apple's made a huge mistake in their lockdown and with any luck Google will either beat them or force them to stop being... well... Apple. (And I say this as an iPhone and Mac user...) Apple is Apple, it is why I returned my iPod Touch. I saw the greatness the hardware had, but couldn't stand the uphill battle with Apple to use the hardware in the way I wanted to. The iPhone is incredible, but I'm hoping Android will be literally awesome.
Android. Just think of it this way, it all likelihood, about a week after an android phone comes out, the "open" version of the firmware/os will come out. The iPhone was Jailbroken, and clever people figured out how to program for it. What do you think the limit will be with Android phones? I'm pretty sure that it will only be hardware, unless you stick with the original firmware/os. Time will tell.
To be fair they say housewives and office ladies need a durable, shock-proof solid state design as much as students, not children. Thinking back to my college buddies I'm sure this implies that women are alcoholics, not weak or frail (definitely clumsy and careless though).
I got the 7800GT, and an SLI motherboard to take advantage of it when it dropped in price. The card never got cheaper. Just saying, because it happened to me.
I have tried to do stuff like this with my Wiimote. It's not very precise, and it moves all the time (just try to hold your arm perfectly still for more than a second and hit a keyboard command at the same time). Also motion control really only works when you "waggle" the mote. Actually trying to measure if you did a vertical or horizontal swipe is near impossible. I used my Wiimote quite successfully in Supreeme Commander, but not as the mouse. I used it to replace the keyboard. That worked quite well, I didn't have to look down to find a key for most of the commands I used, however this technique would not work with a game like Starcraft that makes better use of hotkeys.
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Problems don't get solved until they have to . People are short sighted and lazy. Plus, if you fix something before it's really a problem and anything goes wrong, it's your fault.
You only notice problems that are big, small problems get solved too quickly for them to seem like anything.
IMHO the best recipe for life is a very stable, but very energetic process. Something that is cyclical, active enough to produce as many chemical reactions as possible, but no so wild that it constantly destroys complex products. I think this may provide a good environment for a self reproducing chemical process to appear randomly just by chance. After that evolution can take over.
The earth is a lot like this, with it's yearly cycles, active weather and a sea that is not particularly destructive outside of the top couple of meters. But these kinds of processes could be achieved in a million different ways. I wouldn't be surprised most of the factors we consider requirements to life are over-specific and it really just has more to do with mixing things up enough to produce life, but not so much that it dies before reproduction.
I see what you're saying, so let's setup a simple argument for all tech-savvy people on this issue that won't require them to say IPv4 is running out.
How about:
Although we do have workarounds which are quite effective in solving the problem with the limited number of IPv4 addresses, the limited number of addresses is a good represtation of other limitations in IPv4 which IPv6 solves.
Ok, that was a quick shot at this, can someone with some writing skills take a crack at this?
I started those statements stating it was a legal issue. I know they aren't technical problems.
I have a friend who thinks just like you do, and I will offer two rebuttals:
1. A lot of products are more useful if you use them not as intended. It doesn't mean the original use case is worthless, just that it can be made more worthwhile. I'm not supposed to use bittorrent to download copyrighted materials, doesn't mean it's worthless for distributing linux distros.
2. "Unofficial" uses give manufactures protection against legal attacks. Sure, giving an Apple product access to the App store isn't exactly sticking it to the man, but jailbreaking iOS device to run wifi only Apps in 3g is exactly the kind of added functionality a manufacturer couldn't provide "out of box". Apple can't let apps run wild that way because of ATT, but if jailbreakers are able to do so Apple isn't responsible (at least it will be very difficult to hold them).
And so the fact that Apple TV can be made better may be to the advantage of both users and manufacturers, not a mark against the original product which is not much more expensive than a usb n-wifi receiver.
Just curious, do you have problems with running in offline mode? I mean, I hear a lot of horror stories, but it's worked pretty reliably for me, so far.
Seems to work well enough when I need it, but I meant I want to be able to reinstall it without interenet access. Forgive me for my ambiguity. When I buy a game I would like it to have all the same features as a pirated one, including the ability to install it and run it as much as I want for my personal use, so long as my hardware supports it.
When Steam ceases to exist, I'll use the crack. I'm not really sure what else do you want.
I love Steam, but if you ask me what I want, it would be this. I want to buy a game and be able to use it forever without the need to go to some shady crack site. If it is a single player game I'd like to be able to run without Internet access. I want DRM to be a problem for pirates, not for legitimate copies.
Processing efficiency is ARM's whole focus. They usually talk about the performance per milliwatt of their chips. This is why they never compare themselves to Intel or AMD, which focus on performance, and why most hand-helds use ARM based processors (PSP, Nintendo DS, iPhone, basically every single Android device, etc). If your device runs on a battery this makes good sense unless you have to have x86 compatibility.
If you cant work out whether the app has the function that you need, you could always follow the support link and ask the developer. If the developer says it has a function and it hasn't, then you can report the app to Apple and also get a refund.
As a matter of interest, what was the specific function you needed, and did you find it?
I can't remember exactly what I needed, but I did figure out that it wouldn't work without multitasking (iPhone 3G), and push notification would not cut it.
As for contacting the developer, it might be a legitimate solution, but it is a lot more work, and it would take a lot more time. I would have to do it for each app, and I would still not know until after I bought it whether or not the app works very well. A classic case where piracy is the superior solution, even for an honest user. In 5 minutes I could determine first hand if the app was worth using and buy it. In this case I just gave up, since without multitasking no app could make this work.
To play devil's advocate:
/end devil's advocate
The appstore is a nightmarish mess. You cannot tell before you buy exactly what the app does. Just the other day I wanted to download an advanced alarm application (I forgot apple's backgrounding policies basically made this a non starter, but that's an issue for a different thread). I get a list of alarm apps and can't really figure out which one isn't trash. They are all rated about 3 stars, so none of them seem very good, but if they can do the one thing I need them it to do I might pay 99 cents. However the one app that seems to do it is 9.99. So I can buy a 99c app that will most likely fail, buy a 9.99 app, which might also fail and the users are not too happy with. None of these apps have reviews online I can take advantage of. So I pirate it, so I can see before I buy.
The Android Market Place lets you get a refund for any app if you're not satisfied within 48 hours.
Although I agree with your points, I think there is a big item missing here, Android. Steam on Android could be a killer app, especially with cross platform saves. I could start playing Plants vs Zombies on my PC, move it to my phone and finish it on my PS3.
Although your idea is very cool, it would be much easier to use something like the Google Vans to do this. The hard part of this project is figuring out where the cameras were pointing when the pictures were taken. With good geo location information and an electronic compass you can eliminate that, difficult, part of the process. I'm sure if you payed enough you could just license the high quality originals used in street view and do the same thing for a fraction of the cost.
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Two Words: Mario Galaxy. I think it has 3 buttons you need to know about. Jump. Squat/Stomp. Menu. You shake the controller to make him spin. Game on.
I know I'm coming late to the party, but I didn't like Mario 64 either. In the end it was the guesswork in finding the stars. I like Mario Games to be pure platforming goodness, and having to guess what to do was too much. When I looked up a star and saw that it was hidden in a wall I had to shoot myself into, I gave up. Mario Galaxy doesn't have this problem, it gives you a pretty clear hint and just lets you explore to find it. Anyhow, my two cents, if it is your favorite game of all time, by all means, enjoy. Chrono Trigger is mine.
Ok, but are they energy independent? I suspect this is the source of the remark. If they are energy independent they are 100% free of foreign oil, which is really the only good ethanol can hope to produce.
In all fairness, I can't full screen on my Atom 2.0G in Hulu at 480p, or play videos at the resolution of my screen (1024x600). Granted the amount of graphics acceleration needed for this is next to nothing, but I just wanted to illustrate how these low end machines might not satisfy a average user. PS I am not an average user, we'll see how this machine works with Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix, maybe I'll have more luck.
That is a pretty hard line to take with an entire field, but I can't say it is totally unfounded. However, have you done any checking to see if psychology is really that useless? I mean 99% of what a doctor can really do is prescribe antibiotics or do surgery. And you can know a lot about psychology without having being able to cure anything. And you would never treat depression with Valium. I'm guessing your view is based on some personal dislike more than fact. I wonder what the % is of suicidal patients that survive in and out of therapy. That is a non trivial problem.
Suck and prostitute need to be used carefully in a sentence... Also, I hope GTA IV allows me to slashdot hookers.
If you were the size of a moon, the pressure you feel on the side you face your planet will be different from the pressure on the far side. Add to this an elliptical orbit around a planet and the core of the moon has enough activity to churn and produce heat. A lot of things are pretty crazy once you're the size of a moon.
Android. Just think of it this way, it all likelihood, about a week after an android phone comes out, the "open" version of the firmware/os will come out. The iPhone was Jailbroken, and clever people figured out how to program for it. What do you think the limit will be with Android phones? I'm pretty sure that it will only be hardware, unless you stick with the original firmware/os. Time will tell.
To be fair they say housewives and office ladies need a durable, shock-proof solid state design as much as students, not children. Thinking back to my college buddies I'm sure this implies that women are alcoholics, not weak or frail (definitely clumsy and careless though).
I got the 7800GT, and an SLI motherboard to take advantage of it when it dropped in price. The card never got cheaper. Just saying, because it happened to me.
I have tried to do stuff like this with my Wiimote. It's not very precise, and it moves all the time (just try to hold your arm perfectly still for more than a second and hit a keyboard command at the same time). Also motion control really only works when you "waggle" the mote. Actually trying to measure if you did a vertical or horizontal swipe is near impossible. I used my Wiimote quite successfully in Supreeme Commander, but not as the mouse. I used it to replace the keyboard. That worked quite well, I didn't have to look down to find a key for most of the commands I used, however this technique would not work with a game like Starcraft that makes better use of hotkeys.