There are a lot of hints that Microsoft is backing away from this mistake and realizing that the desktop is still important to their bottom line. Ther executive that pushed Windows 8 was canned a long time ago, and there's a new CEO at the helm, and we've had backpedalling on some features (now you can boot straight to desktop, charms bar is announced to be vanishing, etc).
This is about politics, so it's irrelevant to try to fight it with logic or intelligence. The whole point is to throw in a lot of buzzwords to make your voting base spread the word, send you money, and keep on your side. Thus you say "marxist", "destroying American capitalism", "federal agency is plotting", and so on. Doesn't matter if it's true or not as long as your army believes you.
The Koch brothers know everyone with a brain is laughing at this, but that's ok because they're not the target audience.
I suspect within a month or two I'll hear my mother ask me what I think about Obama trying to take over the internet.
I suspect from the description that these are not your normal open 3D games, but perhaps games with the dreaded evil quick time events (QTE). Otherwise there are just to many variables to base a prediction on. 3 axes of freedom, an inventory full of weapons and tools, 10 dialogue choices... You could have thousands of branches to choose from.
My guess is that the game predicts you'll buy the DLC to enable the quest that the NPC is offering you, and so is predictively entering in your credit card number (curse you dragonage!).
60fps is much higher than most games need. I do quite well with 30 most of the time, and you don't notice anything unless you're rapidly moving your view left to right. People do just fine in many MMOs with only 20fps with 30ms latency, even in pvp.
Publishers want to rent you a game, not sell you one. Renting is lower up-front cost so it gets more people looking at the game (no one makes demos anymore), and those that get hooked on the game spend much more than the normal $50 price.
I think these are all single player games, so lag vs fairness wouldn't matter so much.
Also note that there is a difference between a nutritionist and a dietician. Dieticians are accredited professionals with a master's degree, whereas a nutritionist may have had only a few classes or even be self-proclaimed. I have noticed that a lot of fad diets seem to be coming from nutritionists (though not all).
I think some of this is just pseudo scientific hand waving by sociologists who don't understand evolution but still feel that they must fit everything into an evolutionary basis. Whereas I think it's very likely that having elderly grandparents is just a lucky side effect rather than part of a junior high school concept of survival of the fittest. Lucky side effects can be due to evolution as well, even things that are not good for us can be due to evolution.
Also note in more primitive societies that grandparents were still fertile much of the time as people had children at younger ages, so the grandparents were also parents. But even when that wasn't true, there was not "off switch" that killed off parents once they stopped raising children, instead they stuck around and society is what found a use for them.
We have hunter-gatherer groups of people today, we can see the food they eat and study them. Some of them indeed live very long lives. Thing is, some of the people with what would be called rotten diets also have very long lives even without excessive effort on the part of doctors, even some heavy smokers who make it to 100. So it's better to look at the average, once you lop off the extremes at both end, the outliers who live very long and the children who die early. The average civilized adult is living longer, and the major causes of death are things most primitive societies only rarely experience.
An interesting history of diets would be to look at the fads, or even the scientific study of diet, and how that changes over time. Ie, the miracle Mediterranean diet. Or the Japanese diet. Turns out there are some communities also with long average life spans with very dissimilar life styles, like some places in Ireland with lots of red meat consumption. But that doesn't fit into the notion of "we need to change what we do, let's find a foreign culture and copy it" (works for both diets and corporate management).
Back in paleo times, cave men were complaining that they had not yet evolved to eat all these nuts and berries and that they should return to a Pleistocene diet.
Seriously, these people with these diets are not scientists or dieticians, they're using pseudo science and they don't understand evolution or the time scales. We have continued evolving since pre-agricultural times.
I've yet to see any good science that unrefined nuts and grains are somehow better than refined variants (I mean lightly refined, like grinding, not the stuff from the mythical nutrition-removing machines). Consider also the massive starvation resulting from everyone going to a paleo diet, or eliminating all food that is processed or packaged (thus spoiling before it can get distributed). The human population is only so large as it is because of agriculture, and much of that due to invention of modern fertilizers a hundred years ago.
This is not just admins. Home users of Linux end up being baffled when things break and all the configuration infrastructure is now unrecognizable. It boils down to having a system that used to work which is not not working and when traced back it turns out to be some unnecessary change being made for the sake of change.
The new guard in most arenas seem predisposed to think that newer is the same as better. And sometimes that is true. In the case of systemd it's a mix of some new stuff that's good and desirable but inseparable from other parts which are new but not so good. So the conflict seems to be in the push to get the new+good stuff out soon while other people are concerned rightly about all the new+bad stuff being pushed out without any plan or discussion.
Similarly, there's the ubuntu unity style of stuff: a big push by new guard that want tablet/phone presence, and an old guard wondering what corrupted their desktop (you could probably peek inside Microsoft and see the same divide in the Windows 8 debacle). You can see this in the Mozilla Firefox version deathmarch probably.
Ultimately it's the push to get new stuff in as soon as possible that leads to the conflict.
These grids will be networked, but not connected to the internet. And we're already split into regions and hierarchies. There's a nationwide transmission network, and those guys are on the ball. Then there's a more regional distribution network. Then there's the local utilities.
Oh come off your fantasy planet. You're making it seem like all men are honest and all women are liars. Did you get accused once and now are on a crusade to prove that rape doesn't exist? And what were you doing rifling through someone's purse, that certainly doesn't give you any high ground. You've got a chip on your shoulder so big you can't walk straight.
It's also the rapist's excuse. Claim that roofies don't exist are are too difficult to find, then accuse the victim of drinking too much. If the victim is made to seem a heavy drinking party girl then it deflects attention away from the problem.
You realize the huge fraction of HIV/AIDS in heterosexuals? This is not due to gays pretending to be straight to fit in, but because normal missionary style heterosexual sex can also transmit the virus.
Another reason, Germany is seen as a technological/industrial leader. So to the people who know little about computing except what they see in an IT magazine, a German mark of approval is more important than an Italian thumbs up.
Nothing wrong with that though. There are people who really really hate C for being an obtuse language with too many symbols (they probably pass out when looking at Perl). If you discount languages derived from C, Ada is not relatively verbose compared to its peers.
The advantages can be enormous though. Consider smart meters. Utilities didn't even know when there was a power outage with old analog meters, until enough customers called in no trucks would roll. That's because if they respond to the first call it's almost always a blown fuse in a home. Similarly utilities did not know even the most basic facts about their infrastructure, like whether a neighborhood is being delivered the right voltage balanced across the phases, unless they sent an employee out to check. Having sensors on the distribution and transmission grids allows monitoring what is happening. It can alert to problems or emergencies quickly, such as gas leaks. It even works in winter when the regular meter readers don't bother showing up for 3 months and just estimate your bill.
Consider street lights and traffic lights. It would be a good idea to know soon when elements have burned out. We have cameras that detect traffic better than the eye-in-the-sky helicopter.
Yes it would be a great jobs program to get rid of all networks, but the municipalities, utilities, and government agencies are going to cut corners and not send someone to monitor every few hours.
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There are a lot of hints that Microsoft is backing away from this mistake and realizing that the desktop is still important to their bottom line. Ther executive that pushed Windows 8 was canned a long time ago, and there's a new CEO at the helm, and we've had backpedalling on some features (now you can boot straight to desktop, charms bar is announced to be vanishing, etc).
So many jokes to PIC from.
This is about politics, so it's irrelevant to try to fight it with logic or intelligence. The whole point is to throw in a lot of buzzwords to make your voting base spread the word, send you money, and keep on your side. Thus you say "marxist", "destroying American capitalism", "federal agency is plotting", and so on. Doesn't matter if it's true or not as long as your army believes you.
The Koch brothers know everyone with a brain is laughing at this, but that's ok because they're not the target audience.
I suspect within a month or two I'll hear my mother ask me what I think about Obama trying to take over the internet.
I suspect from the description that these are not your normal open 3D games, but perhaps games with the dreaded evil quick time events (QTE). Otherwise there are just to many variables to base a prediction on. 3 axes of freedom, an inventory full of weapons and tools, 10 dialogue choices... You could have thousands of branches to choose from.
My guess is that the game predicts you'll buy the DLC to enable the quest that the NPC is offering you, and so is predictively entering in your credit card number (curse you dragonage!).
60fps is much higher than most games need. I do quite well with 30 most of the time, and you don't notice anything unless you're rapidly moving your view left to right. People do just fine in many MMOs with only 20fps with 30ms latency, even in pvp.
Publishers want to rent you a game, not sell you one. Renting is lower up-front cost so it gets more people looking at the game (no one makes demos anymore), and those that get hooked on the game spend much more than the normal $50 price.
I think these are all single player games, so lag vs fairness wouldn't matter so much.
I'm sure there's a pitchfork mod. If not now, within the next ten minutes at least.
Also note that there is a difference between a nutritionist and a dietician. Dieticians are accredited professionals with a master's degree, whereas a nutritionist may have had only a few classes or even be self-proclaimed. I have noticed that a lot of fad diets seem to be coming from nutritionists (though not all).
I think some of this is just pseudo scientific hand waving by sociologists who don't understand evolution but still feel that they must fit everything into an evolutionary basis. Whereas I think it's very likely that having elderly grandparents is just a lucky side effect rather than part of a junior high school concept of survival of the fittest. Lucky side effects can be due to evolution as well, even things that are not good for us can be due to evolution.
Also note in more primitive societies that grandparents were still fertile much of the time as people had children at younger ages, so the grandparents were also parents. But even when that wasn't true, there was not "off switch" that killed off parents once they stopped raising children, instead they stuck around and society is what found a use for them.
We have hunter-gatherer groups of people today, we can see the food they eat and study them. Some of them indeed live very long lives. Thing is, some of the people with what would be called rotten diets also have very long lives even without excessive effort on the part of doctors, even some heavy smokers who make it to 100. So it's better to look at the average, once you lop off the extremes at both end, the outliers who live very long and the children who die early. The average civilized adult is living longer, and the major causes of death are things most primitive societies only rarely experience.
An interesting history of diets would be to look at the fads, or even the scientific study of diet, and how that changes over time. Ie, the miracle Mediterranean diet. Or the Japanese diet. Turns out there are some communities also with long average life spans with very dissimilar life styles, like some places in Ireland with lots of red meat consumption. But that doesn't fit into the notion of "we need to change what we do, let's find a foreign culture and copy it" (works for both diets and corporate management).
Back in paleo times, cave men were complaining that they had not yet evolved to eat all these nuts and berries and that they should return to a Pleistocene diet.
Seriously, these people with these diets are not scientists or dieticians, they're using pseudo science and they don't understand evolution or the time scales. We have continued evolving since pre-agricultural times.
I've yet to see any good science that unrefined nuts and grains are somehow better than refined variants (I mean lightly refined, like grinding, not the stuff from the mythical nutrition-removing machines). Consider also the massive starvation resulting from everyone going to a paleo diet, or eliminating all food that is processed or packaged (thus spoiling before it can get distributed). The human population is only so large as it is because of agriculture, and much of that due to invention of modern fertilizers a hundred years ago.
The uber games own all 5 systems, including PC, and they will gripe about each one being inferior.
Because the clear advantages are bundled together with clear disadvantages.
This is not just admins. Home users of Linux end up being baffled when things break and all the configuration infrastructure is now unrecognizable. It boils down to having a system that used to work which is not not working and when traced back it turns out to be some unnecessary change being made for the sake of change.
The new guard in most arenas seem predisposed to think that newer is the same as better. And sometimes that is true. In the case of systemd it's a mix of some new stuff that's good and desirable but inseparable from other parts which are new but not so good. So the conflict seems to be in the push to get the new+good stuff out soon while other people are concerned rightly about all the new+bad stuff being pushed out without any plan or discussion.
Similarly, there's the ubuntu unity style of stuff: a big push by new guard that want tablet/phone presence, and an old guard wondering what corrupted their desktop (you could probably peek inside Microsoft and see the same divide in the Windows 8 debacle). You can see this in the Mozilla Firefox version deathmarch probably.
Ultimately it's the push to get new stuff in as soon as possible that leads to the conflict.
These grids will be networked, but not connected to the internet. And we're already split into regions and hierarchies. There's a nationwide transmission network, and those guys are on the ball. Then there's a more regional distribution network. Then there's the local utilities.
Oh come off your fantasy planet. You're making it seem like all men are honest and all women are liars. Did you get accused once and now are on a crusade to prove that rape doesn't exist? And what were you doing rifling through someone's purse, that certainly doesn't give you any high ground. You've got a chip on your shoulder so big you can't walk straight.
And therefore, all women lie and rape never happens? Men are superior moral people? I don't see your point.
It's also the rapist's excuse. Claim that roofies don't exist are are too difficult to find, then accuse the victim of drinking too much. If the victim is made to seem a heavy drinking party girl then it deflects attention away from the problem.
You realize the huge fraction of HIV/AIDS in heterosexuals? This is not due to gays pretending to be straight to fit in, but because normal missionary style heterosexual sex can also transmit the virus.
Another reason, Germany is seen as a technological/industrial leader. So to the people who know little about computing except what they see in an IT magazine, a German mark of approval is more important than an Italian thumbs up.
Nothing wrong with that though. There are people who really really hate C for being an obtuse language with too many symbols (they probably pass out when looking at Perl). If you discount languages derived from C, Ada is not relatively verbose compared to its peers.
Oh sure, share some blame, that's fine. But that doesn't make Oracle suddenly innocent. Fraud is still fraud, even if you cheat someone dumb.
That law may be on the books but no one has enforced it in years.
And besides, HD-DVD is better than Bluray for this stuff.
The advantages can be enormous though. Consider smart meters. Utilities didn't even know when there was a power outage with old analog meters, until enough customers called in no trucks would roll. That's because if they respond to the first call it's almost always a blown fuse in a home. Similarly utilities did not know even the most basic facts about their infrastructure, like whether a neighborhood is being delivered the right voltage balanced across the phases, unless they sent an employee out to check. Having sensors on the distribution and transmission grids allows monitoring what is happening. It can alert to problems or emergencies quickly, such as gas leaks. It even works in winter when the regular meter readers don't bother showing up for 3 months and just estimate your bill.
Consider street lights and traffic lights. It would be a good idea to know soon when elements have burned out. We have cameras that detect traffic better than the eye-in-the-sky helicopter.
Yes it would be a great jobs program to get rid of all networks, but the municipalities, utilities, and government agencies are going to cut corners and not send someone to monitor every few hours.