Of course, we need to get dumbasses to trash their cars and fill those landfills so they can buy our expensive shit that is not really that eco friendly if you compare the whole product life... genius!
I stopped going to the cinema years ago, ppl make the whole experience intolerable these days, babies crying, ppl checking their 90" phones all the time, seats that have more chance to be uncomfortable than not
Why would i do that, when i have a 47" tv in my living room, air conditioner, a popcorn making kit, a fridge and i can pause and go to the bathroom at any time ? I even save the driving time, the gas cost and the extra cost of the junk food i would probably consume if i went there
On demand services are the future of cinema, the Napster guy is telling you that, if you had heard him the last time apple might now have stolen your business from you, altho that whole talk about set up boxes is ridiculous, stop making it harder than it needs to be, look at Netflix, go online, put your paypal or credit card info and you are in
But sure, keep pointing at the dreaded pirates, Im sure those are the ones that will take you business away from you and not Netflix or their competitors. I used to sail the caribbean for my weekend entertainment a few years ago and you know what ? streaming has made it so much more convenient that im happy to pay for the service and forget the hassle of searching the net, handling flashdrives or looking for subtitltes, that is how you end piracy, with better service.
How does this work ? they made mistakes in their lives that got them in debt, then they found themselves in a bad situation that makes their debts worse... soooo everyone else should pay them for them ?
So what do you get for doing things right ? for not drowning yourself in debt, busting your ass studying, working, investing, researching, learning and finally succeeding ?... you get to pay for everyone that did not?
So, what is the incentive for doing things right ?, why waste the effort ?... what do you plan to do when the failure to success balance tips to the failure side because you subsidized being a failure ?
but in the mean time calibre does batch conversion in like 3 clicks, takes about 20 seconds per book you can have it then upload them to your kindle, just leave it working for an hour
Paperwhite is a freaking good deal for the price, specially if you get it during those discount days
You need to have the automatic updates on, then it has to succeed downloading the 2~3 gb, then it needs to have enough space in the HD to unpack, and THEN the dreaded "you have 30 minutes to comply or ill ram windows 10 up your computer hole"
If you want proof just run windows update, the windows 10 "upgrade" will be the autoselected option, should you turn automatic updates on it will try to install it
What do you mean they are denying it ? they did not deny that they changed it to a recommended update, if you have automatic windows update enabled (enabled by default when you install the os) it WILL install windows 10
i just opened windows update in windows 8.1 to check and it automatically selected the windows 10 upgrade (in the optional tab) as the most critical update instead of the 50+ critical updates in the priority tab
Yeah the system constantly pushes the idea of "Pass at any cost" instead of "Acquire knowledge, improve yourself" Its sort of a mix of lazy professors, lack of advancement in education techniques and terrible attempts at motivating the students
The attempts at fixing this have turned education into a "You tried, so you still pass" award show that is getting even WORSE results
You are never going to beat technology, in a handful of years youll get students have that have AR overlays implanted on their eyes, you are not going to beat this kind of cheating
The problem is that the testing method using today is too easy to cheat, instead of trying to do the impossible how about designing tests to be more practical making the students apply their knowledge instead of having them parrot information that can be easily written down on a paper.
The whole written test thing is pointless in many subjects, if you are in an embedded processors class, have the students use a test rig to do something, if you are in a chemistry class have the students repeat an experiment, i understand that in the most basic level you have to test basic knowledge but if you try a little bit you can find a better test than "parrot those 10 formulas you have seen in class to the paper again"
I have seen so many students with memory so perfect they could rival Sherlock Holmes but when its time to actually use that information to deduce an equation, explain something or compose a complex answer they turn into drooling mutes
I am not going to use biometrics to authenticate shit
You can only get your biometrics stolen ONCE, after that big effing luck changing your eye signature or your fingerprints
You have littered the whole internet with your facebook and instagram pictures in a while variety of pictures
Media ppl specially, there are thousands of hours of high resolution video of your face in a wide variety of poses, you are soooooooo screwed
Lazy ppl unwilling to remember passwords are going to be the end of us
Just send them rfid/usb Tokens that generate hashes with a secret seed or that stores a long table with random values loaded by Amazon themselves, stop it with the biometrics nonsense
But then you are bringing a third party that has nothing to do with the crime the judge is pursuing into the mix
Why should Apple or Google be responsible of unlocking phones or hold the responsibility over back door access or user keys ?
What about the user's rights ? why should their own propiety be used against them ? the law gives you a protection to being pressured to testify against yourself, why shouldnt that protection be extended to a product where ppl pour their most intimate and private thoughts
The rest of the world does not like eating turds, they are not going to use US software if its embedded in spyware if they can help it, they are probably looking for alternatives right now, i very much doubt these laws will do much for your economy.
There will always be someone somewhere willing to offer that product or equivalent without the shoot-yourself-in-the-foot feature, you are actively preventing US software companies from making a desirable competing product
The inevitable ending is that US made software will quickly lose presence in the market as everyone rushes for the programs that do not happily leave a door open for spreading pictures if their junks all over the net.
Yes i was thinking the same thing, the same problem is always ignored for electric cars, the way our electric grid is designed just does not support this kind of use
im guessing one possible solution would be to precharge a secondary battery in the charger slowly and then charge the battery though that not the grid, however that would be expensive and not every efficient
also you dont really need 30 seconds, 5 minutes would be good enough
Either he failed and got sacked or he was the bestestest goddamn CEO of them all, choose one already
I don't understand why they are doing all this adulation, it makes EA look like they are letting their best man (in the whole damn company!) go, just say "No more work for you!, NEXT!"
agreed, however the 9.5 still sits proudly on the second place in metacritic, just check out the quote :
"A near-perfect fusion of the classic simulation game with modern social and online play elements. It is in every way the fully realized evolution of the franchise and a much welcome iteration, perfectly engineered to dispense the maximum amount of fun in the most efficient way possible. "
i want to give them credit for coming out and taking it back (regardless of the stupidity of numerical scores) but im having such a hard time doing it after reading that quote "perfectly engineered to dispense the maximum amount of fun in the most efficient way possible"... jeez
Actually, he downgraded it to an 8 for the launch problems and then he downgraded it again to a 4 when they removed cheetah mode and leaderboards (they were more important that being able to play the game apparently)
I dont mind this move, its perfectly understandable, what i'd like them to fix is the stupid way permissions work, now everything asks for access to everything, enough is enough if they want to keep growing as a platform they need to give the user more control by default or theyll keep forcing us to take root further to reclaim our ownership over our own freaking device
Last time i checked i could turn the TV off, in fact i barely even watch TV these days these days because watching though the net, playing a game or doing anything else is a much better use of my time
I'm as tired of these sort of commercials as the next guy but i would not ban them, i feel its a personal choice and not a place for government enforcement, it opens a dangerous door for them to start telling us what we can and cannot watch, listen or read in the name of psychological health
Dear European representatives, please vote for the Sun not to continue radiating heat after 25ÂC, I'm quite sure it will be at least 5 times easier to implement than banning porn, thank you
Even when products are prepackaged its not always easy to open them without contaminating the interior with the exterior, like when you open cans and the liquid spills over the half removed top or when you crack an egg and some of the outer shell gets inside
you could wash the package before opening (which i do, specially for eggs, milk cartons and cans) but most ppl just dont bother or they do it only when they are visibly very dirty
also the hands that are touching the dirty packages are also going to touch the unprotected food, most ppl dont stop and go wash their hands after opening one, they do it after they finish preparing the food
I wonder what will governments say when one of these 300 bucks satellites cause a 100 thousand million satellite to get out of orbit or even an accident during a future space mission
im completely for freedom to tinker but we need to be aware of the harmful consequences of things we do might have, the trash already in space will eventually come bite us in the ass, if we are going to make more it should at least be for a good reason and not just for epen purposes
i dont know about you guys but i live in Argentina and our president LOVES... LOOOOOVEEEEEES to use official communication hijacking to talk about nonsense and personal political agendas (as an example she used one to say that "Pork improves sex life"... yeah wtf), last thing we need is to lose the ability to shut her up
sooooo making expensive blockbuster games that need to be in the top 10 to break even causing them to play it safe remaking the same game again and again *cough* NWN * cough* is making the industry stagnate and might not be a good idea... no objection here, i agree completely
but then "BioWare is experimenting with smaller scale MMO development", really ? adding the 12309742377th MMO to the ones in the making is not causing stagnation ? how many mmos can a gamer play at the same time ? i doubt its more than 1, development are they really any different from each other ? they are all the freaking same game server maintenance and troubleshooting staff for that are cheap ? the constant postrelease development required to stop players from running away to a new game (and many will leave anyway) is cheap ?
a few stupid mistakes coupled with arrogance and your investment is down the drain just look at APB, it seems to me this path will erode the consumer base much faster than the older one.
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Of course, we need to get dumbasses to trash their cars and fill those landfills so they can buy our expensive shit that is not really that eco friendly if you compare the whole product life... genius!
I stopped going to the cinema years ago, ppl make the whole experience intolerable these days, babies crying, ppl checking their 90" phones all the time, seats that have more chance to be uncomfortable than not
Why would i do that, when i have a 47" tv in my living room, air conditioner, a popcorn making kit, a fridge and i can pause and go to the bathroom at any time ?
I even save the driving time, the gas cost and the extra cost of the junk food i would probably consume if i went there
On demand services are the future of cinema, the Napster guy is telling you that, if you had heard him the last time apple might now have stolen your business from you, altho that whole talk about set up boxes is ridiculous, stop making it harder than it needs to be, look at Netflix, go online, put your paypal or credit card info and you are in
But sure, keep pointing at the dreaded pirates, Im sure those are the ones that will take you business away from you and not Netflix or their competitors. I used to sail the caribbean for my weekend entertainment a few years ago and you know what ? streaming has made it so much more convenient that im happy to pay for the service and forget the hassle of searching the net, handling flashdrives or looking for subtitltes, that is how you end piracy, with better service.
i did not say their illness was a mistake, i implied taking the loan was a mistake, keep your strawman
Maybe one day you'll have to pay things with your own work instead of asking daddy, then you will understand why money is precious.
Putting money in an investment that will not pay back is a great way to run a sinking ship, better keep those floaters handy.
How does this work ? they made mistakes in their lives that got them in debt, then they found themselves in a bad situation that makes their debts worse ... soooo everyone else should pay them for them ?
So what do you get for doing things right ? for not drowning yourself in debt, busting your ass studying, working, investing, researching, learning and finally succeeding ? ... you get to pay for everyone that did not?
So, what is the incentive for doing things right ?, why waste the effort ?... what do you plan to do when the failure to success balance tips to the failure side because you subsidized being a failure ?
Look i agree with you, they should support epub
but in the mean time calibre does batch conversion in like 3 clicks, takes about 20 seconds per book you can have it then upload them to your kindle, just leave it working for an hour
Paperwhite is a freaking good deal for the price, specially if you get it during those discount days
You need to have the automatic updates on, then it has to succeed downloading the 2~3 gb, then it needs to have enough space in the HD to unpack, and THEN the dreaded "you have 30 minutes to comply or ill ram windows 10 up your computer hole"
If you want proof just run windows update, the windows 10 "upgrade" will be the autoselected option, should you turn automatic updates on it will try to install it
What do you mean they are denying it ? they did not deny that they changed it to a recommended update, if you have automatic windows update enabled (enabled by default when you install the os) it WILL install windows 10
i just opened windows update in windows 8.1 to check and it automatically selected the windows 10 upgrade (in the optional tab) as the most critical update instead of the 50+ critical updates in the priority tab
Yeah the system constantly pushes the idea of "Pass at any cost" instead of "Acquire knowledge, improve yourself"
Its sort of a mix of lazy professors, lack of advancement in education techniques and terrible attempts at motivating the students
The attempts at fixing this have turned education into a "You tried, so you still pass" award show that is getting even WORSE results
You are never going to beat technology, in a handful of years youll get students have that have AR overlays implanted on their eyes, you are not going to beat this kind of cheating
The problem is that the testing method using today is too easy to cheat, instead of trying to do the impossible how about designing tests to be more practical making the students apply their knowledge instead of having them parrot information that can be easily written down on a paper.
The whole written test thing is pointless in many subjects, if you are in an embedded processors class, have the students use a test rig to do something, if you are in a chemistry class have the students repeat an experiment, i understand that in the most basic level you have to test basic knowledge but if you try a little bit you can find a better test than "parrot those 10 formulas you have seen in class to the paper again"
I have seen so many students with memory so perfect they could rival Sherlock Holmes but when its time to actually use that information to deduce an equation, explain something or compose a complex answer they turn into drooling mutes
I am not going to use biometrics to authenticate shit
You can only get your biometrics stolen ONCE, after that big effing luck changing your eye signature or your fingerprints
You have littered the whole internet with your facebook and instagram pictures in a while variety of pictures
Media ppl specially, there are thousands of hours of high resolution video of your face in a wide variety of poses, you are soooooooo screwed
Lazy ppl unwilling to remember passwords are going to be the end of us
Just send them rfid/usb Tokens that generate hashes with a secret seed or that stores a long table with random values loaded by Amazon themselves, stop it with the biometrics nonsense
But then you are bringing a third party that has nothing to do with the crime the judge is pursuing into the mix
Why should Apple or Google be responsible of unlocking phones or hold the responsibility over back door access or user keys ?
What about the user's rights ? why should their own propiety be used against them ? the law gives you a protection to being pressured to testify against yourself, why shouldnt that protection be extended to a product where ppl pour their most intimate and private thoughts
The rest of the world does not like eating turds, they are not going to use US software if its embedded in spyware if they can help it, they are probably looking for alternatives right now, i very much doubt these laws will do much for your economy.
There will always be someone somewhere willing to offer that product or equivalent without the shoot-yourself-in-the-foot feature, you are actively preventing US software companies from making a desirable competing product
The inevitable ending is that US made software will quickly lose presence in the market as everyone rushes for the programs that do not happily leave a door open for spreading pictures if their junks all over the net.
its also the difference between making an awesome looking "THE FUTURE IS NIGHT!" newspaper article and a meh one
Yes i was thinking the same thing, the same problem is always ignored for electric cars, the way our electric grid is designed just does not support this kind of use
im guessing one possible solution would be to precharge a secondary battery in the charger slowly and then charge the battery though that not the grid, however that would be expensive and not every efficient
also you dont really need 30 seconds, 5 minutes would be good enough
Either he failed and got sacked or he was the bestestest goddamn CEO of them all, choose one already
I don't understand why they are doing all this adulation, it makes EA look like they are letting their best man (in the whole damn company!) go, just say "No more work for you!, NEXT!"
agreed, however the 9.5 still sits proudly on the second place in metacritic, just check out the quote :
"A near-perfect fusion of the classic simulation game with modern social and online play elements. It is in every way the fully realized evolution of the franchise and a much welcome iteration, perfectly engineered to dispense the maximum amount of fun in the most efficient way possible. "
i want to give them credit for coming out and taking it back (regardless of the stupidity of numerical scores) but im having such a hard time doing it after reading that quote "perfectly engineered to dispense the maximum amount of fun in the most efficient way possible" ... jeez
Actually, he downgraded it to an 8 for the launch problems and then he downgraded it again to a 4 when they removed cheetah mode and leaderboards (they were more important that being able to play the game apparently)
I dont mind this move, its perfectly understandable, what i'd like them to fix is the stupid way permissions work, now everything asks for access to everything, enough is enough if they want to keep growing as a platform they need to give the user more control by default or theyll keep forcing us to take root further to reclaim our ownership over our own freaking device
Last time i checked i could turn the TV off, in fact i barely even watch TV these days these days because watching though the net, playing a game or doing anything else is a much better use of my time
I'm as tired of these sort of commercials as the next guy but i would not ban them, i feel its a personal choice and not a place for government enforcement, it opens a dangerous door for them to start telling us what we can and cannot watch, listen or read in the name of psychological health
Dear European representatives, please vote for the Sun not to continue radiating heat after 25ÂC, I'm quite sure it will be at least 5 times easier to implement than banning porn, thank you
Even when products are prepackaged its not always easy to open them without contaminating the interior with the exterior, like when you open cans and the liquid spills over the half removed top or when you crack an egg and some of the outer shell gets inside
you could wash the package before opening (which i do, specially for eggs, milk cartons and cans) but most ppl just dont bother or they do it only when they are visibly very dirty
also the hands that are touching the dirty packages are also going to touch the unprotected food, most ppl dont stop and go wash their hands after opening one, they do it after they finish preparing the food
I wonder what will governments say when one of these 300 bucks satellites cause a 100 thousand million satellite to get out of orbit or even an accident during a future space mission
im completely for freedom to tinker but we need to be aware of the harmful consequences of things we do might have, the trash already in space will eventually come bite us in the ass, if we are going to make more it should at least be for a good reason and not just for epen purposes
i dont know about you guys but i live in Argentina and our president LOVES... LOOOOOVEEEEEES to use official communication hijacking to talk about nonsense and personal political agendas (as an example she used one to say that "Pork improves sex life" ... yeah wtf), last thing we need is to lose the ability to shut her up
sooooo making expensive blockbuster games that need to be in the top 10 to break even causing them to play it safe remaking the same game again and again *cough* NWN * cough* is making the industry stagnate and might not be a good idea... no objection here, i agree completely
but then "BioWare is experimenting with smaller scale MMO development", really ? adding the 12309742377th MMO to the ones in the making is not causing stagnation ?
how many mmos can a gamer play at the same time ? i doubt its more than 1, development
are they really any different from each other ? they are all the freaking same game
server maintenance and troubleshooting staff for that are cheap ?
the constant postrelease development required to stop players from running away to a new game (and many will leave anyway) is cheap ?
a few stupid mistakes coupled with arrogance and your investment is down the drain just look at APB, it seems to me this path will erode the consumer base much faster than the older one.
Bioware, what the hell ?