That does sound even better, though shaving close to that fixed time still leads to less abuse. During that whole 5 seconds, you have no feedback on what the rest of the market is going to do. Plus, you've opened up almost-high-frequency trading to the entire world, rather than just the local datacenter.
If you want to watch an awful movie about the magnetic pole shifting, you'll want to watch Absolute Zero. It's truly awful, but enjoyable from beginning to end. Catch phrase throughout the movie: "Science is never wrong."
Bad apps have bad reviews, although I saw an iOS app that had a lot of 5 star reviews even though it was truly awful. It was a Pac-Man demo (official, from Namco) that let you play the first level ONCE. As in, if you restart the app or even reboot the phone, you cannot play the first level again.
I did a sort to show the 5 star reviews first to see how this could happen, and saw dozens of spam reviews all giving the app 5 stars.
For the most part, though, when I want to find a special-purpose app or a new free game, I tend to just look through whatever's at the top of the popularity charts or rank my searches by the same - and then read the reviews.
You're leaving out the advertising budget, which is severely reduced when you're one search away in a central place. Individual sales might be less profitable, but the difference in exposure should be huge.
Might be a revolution in acquiring time-wasting games on the Mac. I currently have NONE. My iPod has a small selection of free and paid games that I really like. Would really like some of them ported to Mac, and with the store being here, the developers might make that leap.
And you can really only hold the developers to blame for that. Apple isn't opening the exclusive place to buy OS X software. They're just offering a really nice experience for the computers they do still support.
I think that the implication was that unlike having a clean slate, you would also have knowledge of a perfect history. It would make things seem far more wrong than if the opportunity never arose for such evil. I disagree as well, but I believe you have a slight misunderstanding of why they thought it would be better.
You think that removing something you feel is offensive is not censorship. If not, then what is?
The point is, instead of flat, dry history classes, books like these teach people. You learn the thoughts, words, and customs of the day. You can't wipe that out without consequences.
A lot of shooting arcade games require you to point the gun off-screen in order to reload. Yeah, there might be a puddle on the floor next to the high scorers.
And how do you "give" them your Facebook contact? An email address can just be dumped into the search box and you'll usually get exactly one result if the person is on Facebook. If they're not, you still have their email.
Even more tangential, I buy my PC games for under $20 - usually under $10. My wife and I play adventure games together, which is a shrinking category. New, these games start at $40-50. Only the best ones are around long enough to be bought at discount prices at a mass retailer. I'll look at a game that might be good, and try to remember it 3 years later when it's at $10. Since the games take a huge investment of time, and we already have 4 or 5 games ready to play, we can buy them only when they're $5 and still never run out of games to play.
And seeing the mess teaches the need for more structure. As long as the teaching doesn't stop there, I find this perfectly acceptable. You don't want to start learning programming with every possible pitfall in mind - you want results, NOW!
Forget emulated - for about the price of a non-grahping calculator, we can manufacture simple tablet machines like that. Put in two or three AA batteries and it will run for 10 hours at 10MHz. Where are they, and can I have one?
I disagree - but that's because my first computer was slow. CPU's don't run OO code directly. It's compiled into linear or semi-linear code - and CPU's still run mostly linear code. I say start with the GOTO's, move on to GOSUB/functions, and then move on to "Computers are fast enough that we can usually forget about all that junk, and put things into containers that make more sense to humans."
Not knowing how computers work leads to poor algorithms. And linear processing is something that one can understand easier than having to keep track of the layers in OO.
You can feel free to keep your opinion, but you're talking about highly addictive drugs - that often lead to crime to keep the addiction going - controlling the drugs is in the interest of the safety of society as a whole. You can't easily keep a regular job while addicted to cocaine. It doesn't matter if a free market can bring prices down. If you can't keep a job, you'll turn to crime to keep getting your fix.
That's not film. It's actually not even a very good transfer. When creating the screwed up versions, they restored the film from all the copies they could get their hands on, not in high def, and then made all their edits and unnecessary CG filler. Then, they ordered the original film destroyed, I believe. The "originals" on there are from an older scan of the film and don't even use the better film copy they used for the "special" edition.
If that revelation was released along with a bunch of useless crap, and people don't have the time or patience to sort through it, then I think you're exactly describing what happened.
Sarcasm aside, don't trust them! It's sad that they're the only source of anything close to real journalism these days, and someone else needs to get to work.
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That does sound even better, though shaving close to that fixed time still leads to less abuse. During that whole 5 seconds, you have no feedback on what the rest of the market is going to do. Plus, you've opened up almost-high-frequency trading to the entire world, rather than just the local datacenter.
Trades only take effect every 5 seconds. Wouldn't that stop this sort of abuse?
If you want to watch an awful movie about the magnetic pole shifting, you'll want to watch Absolute Zero. It's truly awful, but enjoyable from beginning to end. Catch phrase throughout the movie: "Science is never wrong."
Bad apps have bad reviews, although I saw an iOS app that had a lot of 5 star reviews even though it was truly awful. It was a Pac-Man demo (official, from Namco) that let you play the first level ONCE. As in, if you restart the app or even reboot the phone, you cannot play the first level again.
I did a sort to show the 5 star reviews first to see how this could happen, and saw dozens of spam reviews all giving the app 5 stars.
For the most part, though, when I want to find a special-purpose app or a new free game, I tend to just look through whatever's at the top of the popularity charts or rank my searches by the same - and then read the reviews.
You're leaving out the advertising budget, which is severely reduced when you're one search away in a central place. Individual sales might be less profitable, but the difference in exposure should be huge.
Might be a revolution in acquiring time-wasting games on the Mac. I currently have NONE. My iPod has a small selection of free and paid games that I really like. Would really like some of them ported to Mac, and with the store being here, the developers might make that leap.
And you can really only hold the developers to blame for that. Apple isn't opening the exclusive place to buy OS X software. They're just offering a really nice experience for the computers they do still support.
The staff of Fox News this time, I believe.
I think that the implication was that unlike having a clean slate, you would also have knowledge of a perfect history. It would make things seem far more wrong than if the opportunity never arose for such evil. I disagree as well, but I believe you have a slight misunderstanding of why they thought it would be better.
You think that removing something you feel is offensive is not censorship. If not, then what is?
The point is, instead of flat, dry history classes, books like these teach people. You learn the thoughts, words, and customs of the day. You can't wipe that out without consequences.
A lot of shooting arcade games require you to point the gun off-screen in order to reload. Yeah, there might be a puddle on the floor next to the high scorers.
And how do you "give" them your Facebook contact? An email address can just be dumped into the search box and you'll usually get exactly one result if the person is on Facebook. If they're not, you still have their email.
Great, so the ones with thought licenses get run over by the sleep-driving Lunesta users?
Even more tangential, I buy my PC games for under $20 - usually under $10. My wife and I play adventure games together, which is a shrinking category. New, these games start at $40-50. Only the best ones are around long enough to be bought at discount prices at a mass retailer. I'll look at a game that might be good, and try to remember it 3 years later when it's at $10. Since the games take a huge investment of time, and we already have 4 or 5 games ready to play, we can buy them only when they're $5 and still never run out of games to play.
But it is humid, and you get condensation. And condensation is wet.
And seeing the mess teaches the need for more structure. As long as the teaching doesn't stop there, I find this perfectly acceptable. You don't want to start learning programming with every possible pitfall in mind - you want results, NOW!
Even GW-BASIC had while loops. That's not exactly a recent development in the language. Dartmouth BASIC had FOR/NEXT. Just how far back are you going?
Forget emulated - for about the price of a non-grahping calculator, we can manufacture simple tablet machines like that. Put in two or three AA batteries and it will run for 10 hours at 10MHz. Where are they, and can I have one?
I disagree - but that's because my first computer was slow. CPU's don't run OO code directly. It's compiled into linear or semi-linear code - and CPU's still run mostly linear code. I say start with the GOTO's, move on to GOSUB/functions, and then move on to "Computers are fast enough that we can usually forget about all that junk, and put things into containers that make more sense to humans."
Not knowing how computers work leads to poor algorithms. And linear processing is something that one can understand easier than having to keep track of the layers in OO.
You can feel free to keep your opinion, but you're talking about highly addictive drugs - that often lead to crime to keep the addiction going - controlling the drugs is in the interest of the safety of society as a whole. You can't easily keep a regular job while addicted to cocaine. It doesn't matter if a free market can bring prices down. If you can't keep a job, you'll turn to crime to keep getting your fix.
Or just require that both hand be visible at all times, and any amputees require a doctor's note.
That's not film. It's actually not even a very good transfer. When creating the screwed up versions, they restored the film from all the copies they could get their hands on, not in high def, and then made all their edits and unnecessary CG filler. Then, they ordered the original film destroyed, I believe. The "originals" on there are from an older scan of the film and don't even use the better film copy they used for the "special" edition.
If that revelation was released along with a bunch of useless crap, and people don't have the time or patience to sort through it, then I think you're exactly describing what happened.
Not sure if I agree with infiltrating organized crime too directly. If the lawkeepers have to break the law to get or stay undercover, that is.
Sarcasm aside, don't trust them! It's sad that they're the only source of anything close to real journalism these days, and someone else needs to get to work.