I'm with you. I prefer PC shooters. But don't get your hopes up. Console shooter ports are tied to a poor mapping of the controls from the original platform. All kinds of annoying menu systems and such, too.
It sounds more like a summer job opportunity for local teenagers - the local city council offers $10 per pound of tar ball collected at the beach.
How quaint. The deadly disaster has suddenly been spun into a summer employment opportunity for Archie and his chums. Oh wait. They don't know how to scuba dive, so their tar collection will be limited to walking along the shore. Tar down in the coral and elsewhere along the ocean floor will go uncollected.
Oh, and since this imaginative $10/lb. bounty program only rewards participants based on tar collected, the incentive is to go after the low-hanging fruit of big globs and ignore the smaller pieces. Instead of a thorough cleaning of the beaches, the program will result in a half-assed combing. No, to pay people to clean beaches of tar, you need to train them, supervise them, and pay them hourly. Volunteers work well, too.
He's not saying he's above criticism or better than everyone else. What he's referring to is the tendency among successful people to appreciate and recognize the hard work it takes to achieve success at ANYTHING. This is why you do not have Nobel prize winners making public comments dissing everything Metallica has released since Justice. Successful people have overcome challenges, failed, and persisted. They may see other people misstep in their opinion, but they can empathize with their journey.
Basically, Steve Jobs is calling out this blogger person for being a loudmouth who has no sense of what leadership requires. No idea what thousand upon thousands of decisions Steve Jobs has made to accomplish what he's done. Steve's not saying the guy has no right to criticize. He's saying that his criticism might have more credibility if he had more credentials to his name other than 'internet critic'.
I'm with Jobs on all this shit. No PORN on the app store? BFD!!! I don't recall Nintendo, Sony, Sega, or Microsoft licensing titles for their consoles that included overt nudity, even though many releases were marked for mature users only. Even so, there was nothing preventing you from throwing a porno DVD into any of those consoles nor is there anything preventing an iPad user from ripping a porn DVD and loading it onto the device. What groundbreaking app is getting censored that was going to deliver porn content in any special way that can't be accessed via Safari?
That rig was working in the water off of Venice, Louisiana. It's very deep water there and as a result is favored for deepwater sportsfishing. If you sail out of Venice, it doesn't take nearly as long to get to water with Marlin whereas the Texas Gulf Coast requires quite a voyage to get out to those depths. See the map on this page and look at how that Peninsula in Louisiana extends out to the edge of the gulf shelf. My experience in the gulf is from fishing, not oil, but it could be that the reason those folks are drilling off of Venice is because the petroleum deposits could be at the same footage below sea level, but with less soil between the ocean surface and the oil. Less actual drilling could make it more lucrative to run prospecting drill expeditions to find deposits. Just a guess.
It's related because electricity is the number-one competitor to gasoline for powering automobiles. Can't even think what the number-two competitor might be. Maybe horses?
You put that thing on the network, soldier, and if my boys fail to contain Skynet, your >$500,000 CNC machine becomes a Skynet factory for building T-1000's. That's why we keep it on floppies.
Phalanx's mini gun fires at 3,000 to 4,500 rounds per minute, but in bursts of 60 to 100 shots at a time. The projectile is a 20mm sabot round, so perhaps only a few bursts would be required to disable an incoming missle. Crew would likely have sufficient advance warning to be able to reload ammo cans.
I used to live across the street from a church. They would run the AC throughout the summer 24/7 even though the building was only staffed on Sunday. Would be nice if the city would shut off AC on buildings that are mostly unoccupied.
I don't mean to be a smart-ass here, but an Archos 404 has a 3.5" screen. The viewing experience on a small screen is something less than that of the iPad. Not to mention the inevitable stream of educational games that will be developed for the iPad. Hopefully, some young backseat passengers will use the iPad to read books, but if they were going to read, maybe actual books would be a better choice due to the lower distraction potential.
That little embargo will last just up until the trailer for Avatar 2 is released on the internet.
Seth
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Cars would be a lucrative application of this technology. It would likely get your insurance rates reduced because it would help document collisions and vehicle thefts.
I think it would also be exceptionally valuable for use with police. A camera system that records forwards and backwards could be used in court to dispute a cop's claim that a driver was swerving and might even refute a claim of speeding. It certainly could bolster a driver's claim that she fully stopped at a traffic signal. Because the conversation would be held on public property, a roadway, I'm not sure the officer's consent would even be required to record the audio. The police dash cams record audio for DWI stops and there certainly isn't any consent involved there.
If the reason for a traffic stop can be proven to be false, anything that is charged afterwards must be dismissed. i.e. if a cop pulls a car over for swerving across lanes and then notices a funny smell in the car and searches to find a collection of pot, a camera recording that proves the driver wasn't swerving would require the possession charge to be thrown out.
State-by-state, friend. No federal law on recording conversations. Since this only records what the wearer may witness, it evades a lot of laws against hidden video cameras.
I have no idea why the parent comment isn't modded to the stratosphere. Perhaps it is too obvious. Too much common sense. Not interesting or insightful because it's as true as the sun is present in the sky.
I'm really just speaking from first-hand experience of having suspicious people knocking on my door asking ridiculous questions about looking for an old friend. I've lived in my house for 13 years, and knew the folks living there for the 4 years before me. It's doubtful to me that someone in their late twenties or earlier thirties would be knocking on a door asking about someone who would have lived there at least 17 years previously.
One guy was up my driveway looking through the windows when I went out to my car to get something. When I asked him what the F he was doing back there, he said he was looking for a girl he used to know. Ok, so I guess a common story for these folks is that they're looking for long lost friends.
A lot of people believe this to be the security risk. That a criminal will monitor a Loopt or Foursquare account to figure out when a house is unoccupied. In the real world, that's a far more sophisticated approach than what house burglars use.
Instead, they knock on the door of a house that appears unoccupied. If someone answers, they say, "Oh, I'm looking for my friend, Sally. Does she still live here?" If no one answers, then they proceed with the burglary. Finding empty houses does not require internet technology.
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I'm with you. I prefer PC shooters. But don't get your hopes up. Console shooter ports are tied to a poor mapping of the controls from the original platform. All kinds of annoying menu systems and such, too.
10 developers
40 hours per week
12 weeks (3 months)
= 4,800 man hours
This is like the president of BP saying "thousands of tablespoons of oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico."
Whew! It sure is a relief to know there's nothing to worry about now from that oil leak in the gulf of mexico. Thank you for clearing this up!
Seth
How quaint. The deadly disaster has suddenly been spun into a summer employment opportunity for Archie and his chums. Oh wait. They don't know how to scuba dive, so their tar collection will be limited to walking along the shore. Tar down in the coral and elsewhere along the ocean floor will go uncollected.
Oh, and since this imaginative $10/lb. bounty program only rewards participants based on tar collected, the incentive is to go after the low-hanging fruit of big globs and ignore the smaller pieces. Instead of a thorough cleaning of the beaches, the program will result in a half-assed combing. No, to pay people to clean beaches of tar, you need to train them, supervise them, and pay them hourly. Volunteers work well, too.
Seth
He's not saying he's above criticism or better than everyone else. What he's referring to is the tendency among successful people to appreciate and recognize the hard work it takes to achieve success at ANYTHING. This is why you do not have Nobel prize winners making public comments dissing everything Metallica has released since Justice. Successful people have overcome challenges, failed, and persisted. They may see other people misstep in their opinion, but they can empathize with their journey.
Basically, Steve Jobs is calling out this blogger person for being a loudmouth who has no sense of what leadership requires. No idea what thousand upon thousands of decisions Steve Jobs has made to accomplish what he's done. Steve's not saying the guy has no right to criticize. He's saying that his criticism might have more credibility if he had more credentials to his name other than 'internet critic'.
I'm with Jobs on all this shit. No PORN on the app store? BFD!!! I don't recall Nintendo, Sony, Sega, or Microsoft licensing titles for their consoles that included overt nudity, even though many releases were marked for mature users only. Even so, there was nothing preventing you from throwing a porno DVD into any of those consoles nor is there anything preventing an iPad user from ripping a porn DVD and loading it onto the device. What groundbreaking app is getting censored that was going to deliver porn content in any special way that can't be accessed via Safari?
Seth
Horribly, this research will likely contribute to a successful implementation of the human centipede.
Seth
funniest thing I've read all week! Nintendo should have released a cellphone four years ago.
older Socket AM2+ and AM3 motherboards with only a BIOS update.
Isn't that an oxymoron?!? A BIOS update on and older AM2+ mobo?
Seth
That rig was working in the water off of Venice, Louisiana. It's very deep water there and as a result is favored for deepwater sportsfishing. If you sail out of Venice, it doesn't take nearly as long to get to water with Marlin whereas the Texas Gulf Coast requires quite a voyage to get out to those depths. See the map on this page and look at how that Peninsula in Louisiana extends out to the edge of the gulf shelf. My experience in the gulf is from fishing, not oil, but it could be that the reason those folks are drilling off of Venice is because the petroleum deposits could be at the same footage below sea level, but with less soil between the ocean surface and the oil. Less actual drilling could make it more lucrative to run prospecting drill expeditions to find deposits. Just a guess.
Seth
It's related because electricity is the number-one competitor to gasoline for powering automobiles. Can't even think what the number-two competitor might be. Maybe horses?
Seth
Along the Texas and much of the Louisiana shoreline, the water is about 50' deep as far as 60 miles offshore.
Seth
Isn't it ironic that the strongest bastion of communism is actually the most viciously capitalistic business environment?
Seth
You put that thing on the network, soldier, and if my boys fail to contain Skynet, your >$500,000 CNC machine becomes a Skynet factory for building T-1000's. That's why we keep it on floppies.
Seth
Phalanx's mini gun fires at 3,000 to 4,500 rounds per minute, but in bursts of 60 to 100 shots at a time. The projectile is a 20mm sabot round, so perhaps only a few bursts would be required to disable an incoming missle. Crew would likely have sufficient advance warning to be able to reload ammo cans.
Seth
I used to live across the street from a church. They would run the AC throughout the summer 24/7 even though the building was only staffed on Sunday. Would be nice if the city would shut off AC on buildings that are mostly unoccupied.
Seth
Just to clarify,
Seth
I don't mean to be a smart-ass here, but an Archos 404 has a 3.5" screen. The viewing experience on a small screen is something less than that of the iPad. Not to mention the inevitable stream of educational games that will be developed for the iPad. Hopefully, some young backseat passengers will use the iPad to read books, but if they were going to read, maybe actual books would be a better choice due to the lower distraction potential.
Seth
Do a Google search on the phrase, "Disney largest shareholder" and you will also answer the question of who has the keys to the "Disney Vault."
Seth
That little embargo will last just up until the trailer for Avatar 2 is released on the internet.
Seth
Cars would be a lucrative application of this technology. It would likely get your insurance rates reduced because it would help document collisions and vehicle thefts.
I think it would also be exceptionally valuable for use with police. A camera system that records forwards and backwards could be used in court to dispute a cop's claim that a driver was swerving and might even refute a claim of speeding. It certainly could bolster a driver's claim that she fully stopped at a traffic signal. Because the conversation would be held on public property, a roadway, I'm not sure the officer's consent would even be required to record the audio. The police dash cams record audio for DWI stops and there certainly isn't any consent involved there.
If the reason for a traffic stop can be proven to be false, anything that is charged afterwards must be dismissed. i.e. if a cop pulls a car over for swerving across lanes and then notices a funny smell in the car and searches to find a collection of pot, a camera recording that proves the driver wasn't swerving would require the possession charge to be thrown out.
Seth
State-by-state, friend. No federal law on recording conversations. Since this only records what the wearer may witness, it evades a lot of laws against hidden video cameras.
Seth
I have no idea why the parent comment isn't modded to the stratosphere. Perhaps it is too obvious. Too much common sense. Not interesting or insightful because it's as true as the sun is present in the sky.
Seth
Here's a short article about federal prison time for selling counterfeit purses and the like.
Seth
I'm really just speaking from first-hand experience of having suspicious people knocking on my door asking ridiculous questions about looking for an old friend. I've lived in my house for 13 years, and knew the folks living there for the 4 years before me. It's doubtful to me that someone in their late twenties or earlier thirties would be knocking on a door asking about someone who would have lived there at least 17 years previously.
One guy was up my driveway looking through the windows when I went out to my car to get something. When I asked him what the F he was doing back there, he said he was looking for a girl he used to know. Ok, so I guess a common story for these folks is that they're looking for long lost friends.
Seth
A lot of people believe this to be the security risk. That a criminal will monitor a Loopt or Foursquare account to figure out when a house is unoccupied. In the real world, that's a far more sophisticated approach than what house burglars use.
Instead, they knock on the door of a house that appears unoccupied. If someone answers, they say, "Oh, I'm looking for my friend, Sally. Does she still live here?" If no one answers, then they proceed with the burglary. Finding empty houses does not require internet technology.
Seth