yes, and then they are more of a threat to the poor creatures they eat, and the population of those things are reduced.
And saying it is a building block of life, and not pollution is a false dichotomy. Would you like to live in a 50% oxygen atmosphere (same temperature and pressure)? A requisite of life can be bad if there is too much of it.
Your response to #4 is Show a lack of reading comprehension. I didn't say that the connection would be from a different source, I said there wasn't one. I go to places where I have NO OPTION except at ridiculous prices, for a connection, but still enjoy playing games, I know others that do the same.
#2 and #3 - Yeah, and cloud stored can be even worse. You now have to trust them to maintain and keep available their cloud. It's another potential point of failure.
I doubt it will be any better of a selling point when Sony does it than when MS does it...
And if you think Sony won't... do you remember the last time Sony had a chance to screw their customers for profit and control, with a reasonable (or even only slight) chance of success, and DIDN'T take it? Neither do I.
He then likened people who worry about intermittent internet connectivity being an issue as the same as someone not buying a vacuum cleaner because the electricity sometimes goes out.
This guy is proof that you can be a retard and still get into high positions in the corporate world.
(1) A vacuum cleaner is almost a necessity, a console is a luxury. While there are other ways to clean a carpet, they are generally much more effort intensive. (2) you don't lose your state when the electricity goes out, with a vacuum. (3) electric is less prone to flicker than internet connection, if nothing else, because a flicker of electric will not cause the same for the internet. Excepting with UPSes, but these aren't exactly ubiquitous. (4) many people travel, and bring their consoles with them... They don't always get to bring an internet connection.
Even if there were no other issues with DRM, this addition would provide enough to make it a deal-breaker for many. You can stick your always on DRMed XBox720 up your ass. Sideways. After adding spikes.
Election before last, some PACs were using these to sound like the party they opposed, and had very unconvincing arguments to prevent impressing those they didn't turn away from their opposition. I know around here the Republicans used this tactic quite... liberally. However I have friends in other regions where the Democrats used it... so it really isn't tied down to one party, either.
You are assuming they are in your timezone, or that for some reason your time zone should have priority. There are plenty of timezones where it is not yet midday, and it is perfectly reasonable for the editors to give their own time zone precedence.
Actually I was just picking on the original poster for a typo.
He lost the "^" and the "-", and my brain was implicitly putting a "10^" in front of the 1031... Still a fail... but EVERYONE seems to be misreading everyone's post... It's great!
Why? They get a lot of their vehicles from the private sector.
That being said, there's a lot of apples and oranges here.
"We estimate that for all U.S. civilian and defense needs globally for both terrestrial and space weather applications, the cost to government agencies in the U.S. will be less than $70 million per year. As the satellites collect data, PlanetIQ would sell the data to government weather services around the world as well as the U.S. Air Force. The most recently launched polar-orbiting satellite, sent into space by the U.S. in 2011, cost $1.5 billion."
OK, what is the life expectancy of that satellite? You can't just compare a 'per year' cost of an operation to a one time cost of part of an operation - the latter is usually averaged out into the former.
Also, there's quality and reliability concerns - if the product (satellite system) doesn't produce the quality you want (accuracy of weather mapping), it may be worth it to pay a lot more for an alternative. Also, they may be charging a certain amount per client ($70 million a year each?), but how many clients are there? It is possible, that in the long run, the total cost to all the clients could be higher, even if taxes were reduced proportional to the amount of money saved (heh, yeah, that'll happen... Wanna buy a bridge too?)
It looks good initially, but I wonder if, for the government, or society in general, it will actually pan out to be an advantage.
Really glad I don't know much Lady Gaga, only the last has ever gotten stuck in my head (forced to listen to it around my sister...), God, she's annoying. Oh, which was I referring to? (in a deep, whispery voice.) Yes.
Though, right now my problem is the Flatu-check Nano commercial... I mean Accucheck Retard... I mean... Annoying piece of shit that has an obnoxious jingle that says something that sounds impressive but is actually meaningless.
I hate commercials that use comparatives, but don't compare them to anything. 23% more accurate than what? Smelling urin (old method for checking for diabetes). 50% more cash than what, an extremely low yeild savings account? No I don't want that, and that baby was smart until she gave in!
*sigh* morning half asleep train of thought rant done. I think slashdot may need a "-1 WTF" mod for this post, by this point.
If cars need gas, we'll either need to figure out how to create gas from atmospheric CO2 (probably more biodiesel) or give up on cars in not too terribly long. Eh. Electric or hydrogen will work, it will just take time to ramp up.
As for power plants. I can certainly see Nuclear as been a good and viable plan for the future (keep them away from coasts and tectonically active regions), but... What is wrong with also using solar? In areas where there is a lot of sunlight, and low enough latitude, solar is a perfectly viable solution. If it can be almost viable in Germany, there are certainly many parts of Africa, the American Southwest, and Central America that could use it just fine.
If I were hiking, I'd go for a battery charger for a flashlight, cell phone and/or GPS. I know people who'd go for coffee pots or powered water filters.
But mostly I can see chargers for those little battery powered nicities.
Audiophiles, who have long remained loyal to vinyl albums, are also adopting the lossless formats, some of the most popular of which are FLAC and AIFF, and in some cases can build up terabyte-sized album collections as the formats are still about five times the size of compressed audio files.
Software users, who have long remained loyal to physical media, are also adopting the lossless formats, some of the most popular of which are ZIP and TGZ, and in some cases can build up terabyte-sized collections as the formats are still about five times the size of compressed data files.
Reads about as sensibly. Seriously, I could be wrong about AIFF, but I know FLAC is compressed. Maybe not lossy, but is a subset of compression, not the whole show.
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yes, and then they are more of a threat to the poor creatures they eat, and the population of those things are reduced.
And saying it is a building block of life, and not pollution is a false dichotomy. Would you like to live in a 50% oxygen atmosphere (same temperature and pressure)? A requisite of life can be bad if there is too much of it.
When you can't afford the prices, it isn't really an option.
An untenable option is the same as no option.
boom.
Your response to #4 is Show a lack of reading comprehension. I didn't say that the connection would be from a different source, I said there wasn't one. I go to places where I have NO OPTION except at ridiculous prices, for a connection, but still enjoy playing games, I know others that do the same.
#2 and #3 - Yeah, and cloud stored can be even worse. You now have to trust them to maintain and keep available their cloud. It's another potential point of failure.
I doubt it will be any better of a selling point when Sony does it than when MS does it...
And if you think Sony won't... do you remember the last time Sony had a chance to screw their customers for profit and control, with a reasonable (or even only slight) chance of success, and DIDN'T take it? Neither do I.
I think his post was meant to be a bit sarcastic. As in the guy is willingly throwing away his customers.
I know that's what I'll do.
This guy is proof that you can be a retard and still get into high positions in the corporate world.
(1) A vacuum cleaner is almost a necessity, a console is a luxury. While there are other ways to clean a carpet, they are generally much more effort intensive.
(2) you don't lose your state when the electricity goes out, with a vacuum.
(3) electric is less prone to flicker than internet connection, if nothing else, because a flicker of electric will not cause the same for the internet. Excepting with UPSes, but these aren't exactly ubiquitous.
(4) many people travel, and bring their consoles with them... They don't always get to bring an internet connection.
Even if there were no other issues with DRM, this addition would provide enough to make it a deal-breaker for many.
You can stick your always on DRMed XBox720 up your ass. Sideways. After adding spikes.
No.
we humans evolved to eat pretty much anything that moves. [...]
And many things that don't!
You mean you've not gotten the fog horn, "the FBI reports... ", or "This is your second and final warning!"?
Lucky bastard.
No it isn't.
Election before last, some PACs were using these to sound like the party they opposed, and had very unconvincing arguments to prevent impressing those they didn't turn away from their opposition. I know around here the Republicans used this tactic quite... liberally. However I have friends in other regions where the Democrats used it... so it really isn't tied down to one party, either.
RMS was stolen by Apple for hygenic reasons.
eh. You can actually find them UnROT'ed in the firehose.
slashdot decided it would be really droll... err... funny, to ROT13 the articles, so users are ROT13'ing their posts.
My post that you replied to was "OMG Ponies!" ROT13'ed, referencing an older (and better) April Fools joke.
BZT Cbavrf!
Yeah... this has to be the most boring & tedious April fools joke ever.
You are assuming they are in your timezone, or that for some reason your time zone should have priority. There are plenty of timezones where it is not yet midday, and it is perfectly reasonable for the editors to give their own time zone precedence.
Actually I was just picking on the original poster for a typo.
He lost the "^" and the "-", and my brain was implicitly putting a "10^" in front of the 1031... Still a fail... but EVERYONE seems to be misreading everyone's post ... It's great!
Damn. I want to know what universe you live, in, those electrons are HEAVY.
The sun only weighs ~1.9891x10^30kg, an electron is almost 5.0 x 10^1000 times heavier!
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun )
Why? They get a lot of their vehicles from the private sector.
That being said, there's a lot of apples and oranges here.
OK, what is the life expectancy of that satellite? You can't just compare a 'per year' cost of an operation to a one time cost of part of an operation - the latter is usually averaged out into the former.
Also, there's quality and reliability concerns - if the product (satellite system) doesn't produce the quality you want (accuracy of weather mapping), it may be worth it to pay a lot more for an alternative. Also, they may be charging a certain amount per client ($70 million a year each?), but how many clients are there? It is possible, that in the long run, the total cost to all the clients could be higher, even if taxes were reduced proportional to the amount of money saved (heh, yeah, that'll happen... Wanna buy a bridge too?)
It looks good initially, but I wonder if, for the government, or society in general, it will actually pan out to be an advantage.
I'm tempted to say run the cord between your pack and yourself, so it won't catch, but that could be rather uncomfortable.
Using VMWare player myself. Of course that's free as in beer rather than open source.
Really glad I don't know much Lady Gaga, only the last has ever gotten stuck in my head (forced to listen to it around my sister...), God, she's annoying.
Oh, which was I referring to? (in a deep, whispery voice.) Yes.
Though, right now my problem is the Flatu-check Nano commercial... I mean Accucheck Retard... I mean... Annoying piece of shit that has an obnoxious jingle that says something that sounds impressive but is actually meaningless.
I hate commercials that use comparatives, but don't compare them to anything. 23% more accurate than what? Smelling urin (old method for checking for diabetes). 50% more cash than what, an extremely low yeild savings account? No I don't want that, and that baby was smart until she gave in!
*sigh* morning half asleep train of thought rant done. I think slashdot may need a "-1 WTF" mod for this post, by this point.
If cars need gas, we'll either need to figure out how to create gas from atmospheric CO2 (probably more biodiesel) or give up on cars in not too terribly long. Eh. Electric or hydrogen will work, it will just take time to ramp up.
As for power plants. I can certainly see Nuclear as been a good and viable plan for the future (keep them away from coasts and tectonically active regions), but... What is wrong with also using solar? In areas where there is a lot of sunlight, and low enough latitude, solar is a perfectly viable solution. If it can be almost viable in Germany, there are certainly many parts of Africa, the American Southwest, and Central America that could use it just fine.
If I were hiking, I'd go for a battery charger for a flashlight, cell phone and/or GPS. I know people who'd go for coffee pots or powered water filters.
But mostly I can see chargers for those little battery powered nicities.
Software users, who have long remained loyal to physical media, are also adopting the lossless formats, some of the most popular of which are ZIP and TGZ, and in some cases can build up terabyte-sized collections as the formats are still about five times the size of compressed data files.
Reads about as sensibly. Seriously, I could be wrong about AIFF, but I know FLAC is compressed. Maybe not lossy, but is a subset of compression, not the whole show.