I'm sorry, but if you can't be arsed to properly inform yourself about a product before making a purchase decision (other than "oooh shiny"), then you deserve what you get. It's people like you who get us in this mess in the first place, and I don't feel an ounce of sympathy. I just hope you learned your lesson and will boycott this stuff in the future.
I'm not trying to be offensive, but I really cannot feel sympathy for people who are being deliberately ignorant (out of lazyness) to the detriment of the rest of society.
I'm sorry, but personally I don't think it's a terribly good example, for several reasons.
1) First of all, I myself think that chinabounders behaviour is in bad taste. Now I wouldn't go after him in any way, but It doesn't exactly make me feel sympathetic towards him either. 2) He put it online himself. He basically told the entire world what he was doing, knowing fully well that somebody could take an issue with it. The internet is not your safe haven where you can do anything you like without consequences, at least not if you don't even attempt to remain anonymous. (ok, I don't know the details of this case, but that is what it sounds like to me).
Of course it is still wrong for the witch hunters to do anything *illegal* to chinabounder - but if he tells the entire world what he is doing, he should not be surprised if somebody gets offended and "retaliates" in a *legal* manner.
If the witch hunters do illegal things (aka crime), then that is not a problem with the idea of a witch hunt, but those criminal persons need to be jailed.
The whole point that is being made here is that they SHOULD care, because otherwise they will end up getting screwed sooner or later. Not caring about open standards is just so damn shortsighted.
Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and passionate
His father Leopold (1719–1787) was deputy Kapellmeister to the court orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and a minor composer.
In the fourth year of his age his father, for a game as it were, began to teach him a few minuets and pieces at the clavier.
If you're only considering the AI aspect of the whole matter I would pretty much agree with you, although I wouldn't be quite so harsh.
But for me this is more about understanding what makes music "work", and in that respect this seems to be quite astonishing. Or at least the article makes it seem so, the two demo pieces presented, while intriguing, are somewhat underwhelming.
The second reason this is interesting is because it does tell us something about our brains, on a quite high level, but still.
In conclusion I would agree that this is nothing really revolutionary, but I think it is a bit too strong to say that it is completely boring (which I don't think you meant to say).
I believe most (older?) versions of ARM come without a FPU. Presumably the ARM processor on the Droid/Milestone is one of those that do have a FPU and thus can take advantage of it.
That's what I've been told, not sure whether it's correct.
I disagree. I have played several games that were buggy and/or where the gameplay itself was awkward up to annoying, just to see the story unfold.
I hate how the shift has gone from singleplayer to multiplayer and even MMO games. While multiplayer is fun as well, what I really really want is an immersive game world with a good story. That's the main reason I play video games. Which is probably why I love RPGs.
not having RTFA and only RTFS, a slightly improvement to your analogy would be having to find the somewhat obscure/hidden entrance to that office. I.e. there are no big signs around saying "secret office this way" or "enter here".
Personally I can highly recommend http://www.strato.com/ if you are in europe. I have a dedicated server with full root access, and I am usually very satisfied with their support.
Oh yeah, because as long as we have enough landfills to dump all our waste, it's not a problem that we're wasting many resources on crap. Just because you CAN do something, doesn't always mean you should.
The faster my computer is, the better, but if programs just get slower every time I upgrade my hardware, then wtf are we improving hardware technology for? So we can have more lazy developers?
Obviously you'd have to lay it on a desk or your lap when you for example want to type an email.
For me the point is not that this sort of device can be used as a handheld device (and ONLY that), but it should work well as a handheld device IN ADDITION to being a proper computer, albeit with lower performance than a big desktop machine.
That way you have ONE device that you can take with you anywhere, which is always useful AT LEAST as a handheld device.
Well, whenever I upgrade the hard drives in my computer (which happens maybe once ever year or two years), I copy all data to my new drives and then use the old ones as backup.
That way my backup technology is never older than one year and is guaranteed to not be completely useless.
I always have ALL my data on the set of drives in my current computer, and on the set of drives I took out of the computer (in addition to whatever I may have on external drives, my laptop, whatever).
This is so simple that I don't understand how it is possible that not everyone is doing this.
I never understood people making backups on CD/DVD.
Buy a big harddrive and make backups on that. Preferably an external harddrive that you store someplace else, or at least one that is not always plugged into the computer.
Much much easier than having to go through heaps of CD/DVDs every couple of years and reburn them to make sure all your data is ok.
Everything you say is completely true and I don't mean to deny it.
However, people don't commit crimes just because guns are available. It's not like if you find a gun lying around you immediately start thinking "hey cool, I'm gonna shoot somebody". People usually have other reasons to commit crime (poverty, social status, brain disorders, whatever), and it's those reasons you either have to prevent or detect and neutralize.
However, from what I can tell, whenever something bad happens people immediately cry "ban the guns", while hardly anyone wants to figure out and fight/prevent the actual reasons behind the crime.
I will admit that much stricter gun laws would probably have prevented at least some of the school shooting in the U.S. Probably/maybe.
However, I don't believe that guns are the root cause for the gun violence problem. If all you're going to do is to ban guns, you're not really fixing any problems, you're just hiding them (and depriving everyone else of their right to bear arms at the same time). You should find out what makes people go crazy like that and work on that problem instead.
Couldn't you just tell them that they may need to validate/activate their copy? You should probably stick a note to the case telling them exactly what to do, and what will happen if it is an illegal copy - then it's completely up to them.
I can't really believe you haven't thought of that yourself, so what is the problem with that approach?
Yes yes, as long as you can live in your happy fantasy world everything is probably fine for you.
We other people who actually need our software to work will continue to criticize things when appropriate.
Remember, the fact that you don't require any of the broken features in open office does not make these features less broken for all the other people who would like to rely on them. This is not an opinion, it's a fact.
OP said that he never encountered a game - which I interpret as "having heard about", since I know a whole lot about a whole lot of games without ever having played or owned many of them. It would simply be illogical to restrict this to games he has actual personal playing experience with.
Furthermore, that ratio between the number of games OP has encountered and the number of games in existences is likely FAR greater than the number of people living and the one person being he himself. Therefore it makes far more sense to extrapolate from "some games" to "many games" than it does from "one person" to "6,000,000,000 persons".
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I'm sorry, but if you can't be arsed to properly inform yourself about a product before making a purchase decision (other than "oooh shiny"), then you deserve what you get. It's people like you who get us in this mess in the first place, and I don't feel an ounce of sympathy. I just hope you learned your lesson and will boycott this stuff in the future.
I'm not trying to be offensive, but I really cannot feel sympathy for people who are being deliberately ignorant (out of lazyness) to the detriment of the rest of society.
I'm sorry, but personally I don't think it's a terribly good example, for several reasons.
1) First of all, I myself think that chinabounders behaviour is in bad taste. Now I wouldn't go after him in any way, but It doesn't exactly make me feel sympathetic towards him either.
2) He put it online himself. He basically told the entire world what he was doing, knowing fully well that somebody could take an issue with it. The internet is not your safe haven where you can do anything you like without consequences, at least not if you don't even attempt to remain anonymous. (ok, I don't know the details of this case, but that is what it sounds like to me).
Of course it is still wrong for the witch hunters to do anything *illegal* to chinabounder - but if he tells the entire world what he is doing, he should not be surprised if somebody gets offended and "retaliates" in a *legal* manner.
If the witch hunters do illegal things (aka crime), then that is not a problem with the idea of a witch hunt, but those criminal persons need to be jailed.
We get it - i.e. that most people don't care.
The whole point that is being made here is that they SHOULD care, because otherwise they will end up getting screwed sooner or later. Not caring about open standards is just so damn shortsighted.
ah, it seems I deserved a whoosh. Thankfully I kept my post in a strictly neutral tone.
quotes from above linked article:
Mozart learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and passionate
His father Leopold (1719–1787) was deputy Kapellmeister to the court orchestra of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and a minor composer.
In the fourth year of his age his father, for a game as it were, began to teach him a few minuets and pieces at the clavier.
If you're only considering the AI aspect of the whole matter I would pretty much agree with you, although I wouldn't be quite so harsh.
But for me this is more about understanding what makes music "work", and in that respect this seems to be quite astonishing. Or at least the article makes it seem so, the two demo pieces presented, while intriguing, are somewhat underwhelming.
The second reason this is interesting is because it does tell us something about our brains, on a quite high level, but still.
In conclusion I would agree that this is nothing really revolutionary, but I think it is a bit too strong to say that it is completely boring (which I don't think you meant to say).
I believe most (older?) versions of ARM come without a FPU. Presumably the ARM processor on the Droid/Milestone is one of those that do have a FPU and thus can take advantage of it.
That's what I've been told, not sure whether it's correct.
I disagree. I have played several games that were buggy and/or where the gameplay itself was awkward up to annoying, just to see the story unfold.
I hate how the shift has gone from singleplayer to multiplayer and even MMO games. While multiplayer is fun as well, what I really really want is an immersive game world with a good story. That's the main reason I play video games. Which is probably why I love RPGs.
not having RTFA and only RTFS, a slightly improvement to your analogy would be having to find the somewhat obscure/hidden entrance to that office. I.e. there are no big signs around saying "secret office this way" or "enter here".
Personally I can highly recommend http://www.strato.com/ if you are in europe. I have a dedicated server with full root access, and I am usually very satisfied with their support.
Their prices are very reasonable as well.
Oh yeah, because as long as we have enough landfills to dump all our waste, it's not a problem that we're wasting many resources on crap. Just because you CAN do something, doesn't always mean you should.
The faster my computer is, the better, but if programs just get slower every time I upgrade my hardware, then wtf are we improving hardware technology for? So we can have more lazy developers?
Problem is, developers get used to not having to worry about memory consumption and performance.
Let me be neither the first or last to say:
Fuck you, sony and EA.
yes indeed. I'm just wating for one of these devices to come out with a proper screen resolution (1024*768 - seriously?) and a proper Desktop-like OS.
Obviously you'd have to lay it on a desk or your lap when you for example want to type an email.
For me the point is not that this sort of device can be used as a handheld device (and ONLY that), but it should work well as a handheld device IN ADDITION to being a proper computer, albeit with lower performance than a big desktop machine.
That way you have ONE device that you can take with you anywhere, which is always useful AT LEAST as a handheld device.
Well, whenever I upgrade the hard drives in my computer (which happens maybe once ever year or two years), I copy all data to my new drives and then use the old ones as backup.
That way my backup technology is never older than one year and is guaranteed to not be completely useless.
I always have ALL my data on the set of drives in my current computer, and on the set of drives I took out of the computer (in addition to whatever I may have on external drives, my laptop, whatever).
This is so simple that I don't understand how it is possible that not everyone is doing this.
well, duh!
I never understood people making backups on CD/DVD.
Buy a big harddrive and make backups on that. Preferably an external harddrive that you store someplace else, or at least one that is not always plugged into the computer.
Much much easier than having to go through heaps of CD/DVDs every couple of years and reburn them to make sure all your data is ok.
I wouldn't exactly call it a coincidence, I think the causalities are a bit too complex for that.
However, to give you a short answer: yes, that would be one way of putting it.
Just because you want to believe otherwise (for whatever reason, maybe just because you are used to it), does not make it true.
Everything you say is completely true and I don't mean to deny it.
However, people don't commit crimes just because guns are available. It's not like if you find a gun lying around you immediately start thinking "hey cool, I'm gonna shoot somebody". People usually have other reasons to commit crime (poverty, social status, brain disorders, whatever), and it's those reasons you either have to prevent or detect and neutralize.
However, from what I can tell, whenever something bad happens people immediately cry "ban the guns", while hardly anyone wants to figure out and fight/prevent the actual reasons behind the crime.
correlation != causation.
I will admit that much stricter gun laws would probably have prevented at least some of the school shooting in the U.S. Probably/maybe.
However, I don't believe that guns are the root cause for the gun violence problem. If all you're going to do is to ban guns, you're not really fixing any problems, you're just hiding them (and depriving everyone else of their right to bear arms at the same time). You should find out what makes people go crazy like that and work on that problem instead.
Couldn't you just tell them that they may need to validate/activate their copy? You should probably stick a note to the case telling them exactly what to do, and what will happen if it is an illegal copy - then it's completely up to them.
I can't really believe you haven't thought of that yourself, so what is the problem with that approach?
Yes yes, as long as you can live in your happy fantasy world everything is probably fine for you.
We other people who actually need our software to work will continue to criticize things when appropriate.
Remember, the fact that you don't require any of the broken features in open office does not make these features less broken for all the other people who would like to rely on them. This is not an opinion, it's a fact.
OP said that he never encountered a game - which I interpret as "having heard about", since I know a whole lot about a whole lot of games without ever having played or owned many of them. It would simply be illogical to restrict this to games he has actual personal playing experience with.
Furthermore, that ratio between the number of games OP has encountered and the number of games in existences is likely FAR greater than the number of people living and the one person being he himself. Therefore it makes far more sense to extrapolate from "some games" to "many games" than it does from "one person" to "6,000,000,000 persons".
Thanks for pointing this out, finally a place where I can get those games still missing from my collection.
analogy fail.
better would be to say that he never ever heard about an actual murder taking place and therefore beliefs no one has ever been murdered.
I shouldn't even have to point this out.