The keyboard and mouse is the superior controller by the only metric that matters, performance.
Only if you choose a style of game that caters to that control method and agree that performance is the only metric that matters. Take any arcade driving, shooting or dancing game, replace the specialized, context-appropriate control methods with your better "performing", keyboard and mouse controllers and watch the dust collect. Would you rather play a head to head fighting game with an arcade stick or a keyboard/mouse?
Even if FPS games are the most relevant to Valve, perhaps they see that as a problem to solve.
I'd also argue that the supremacy of the keyboard/mouse for PC games is a byproduct of the PC's limitations and the impracticality of creating an immersive gaming experience on general-purpose computer.
Interesting to note that both DNA and CCTV evidence were unreliable in this case. If neither of those two are reliable, and they can both be wrong in the same case, and I suspect that most would agree that these should be expected to be more reliable than eye-witness and circumstantial evidence, one has to ask some profound questions about the modern systems of criminal justice.
I’m not sure where the idea that pinch and stretch was at stake originated.
Simple. It originated among people disingenuously insinuating that this trial was all about pinch-to-zoom and rounded corners. In fact, these are simply rhetorical shorthand for the obviousness and prior art that should have undermined Apples claims.
OTOH, I get writer is saying about the sorry state of writing. He knocked that one out of the park.
If somebody wants a Louis Vuitton handbag, but the actual bags are too expensive, but the guy at the market stall has them for a quarter of the price, then this is great, right? Win win.
The person buying an LV knock-off from a market stall is not a lost LV customer. Again, selling the knock-off might be illegal, but the rationale is weak.
The only 'harm' to LV is some counterfeiter proving that their designs are trivial to copy, and thus not terribly valuable. Conversely, if LV designed a bag that was of such sophisticated manufacture and evident quality that it couldn't be knocked-off, they wouldn't have a counterfeit problem. You know, if they innovated. . .
LV's and Apple are fighting the same war -- trying to maintain the perceived exclusivity of product lines that are no longer innovative.
That is true, but how is it relevant?. Parent is concerned that by purchasing apps, he is sending money to apple. I'm pointing out that many apps are free, and he can purchase them without sending money to apple.
It is relevant if the free apps are garbage, and apps worth having require the user to send money to Apple.
And all the default apps are already great, so you can make phone calls, send text messages etc right out of the box.
Wow, out-of-the-box calling and text messaging with a phone? What a coup! I hope Apple got a patent for these innovations.
The only reason it's crammed full of garbage is because it's the current top mobile store and everyone wants to try to make a buck.
The point is that, because of Apple's careful curation of their app store, they are responsible for the thousands of garbage apps that they carefully vet and approve. What they offer is "legit", but only if you don't count being jerked around just so that they can pad their marketing schtick.
Its about more than the App Store. There are plenty of reasons why someone might want an iPhone-like handset that improves on the iPhone. Different screen size, removable storage, better calling performance, lower price-point, disagreement with Apple's corporate ethic, etc.
Some do. Some just like the hardware. How many times have you heard people on/. tout Apples's supposedly sterling hardware as an excuse to pay a premium for an Apple product?
Another company wants to make their own phone with iPhone features. But this is illegal. So apple sues and wins. If another company wants to make an iPhone killer, why not just design a better phone? Just a thought.
If a customer wants an phone with features similar to the iPhone, but with a larger screen, removable storage, etc., and Apple doesn't care to provide these options, why shouldn't they be able to buy one from another company that wants to serve their needs? Oh, yeah. "This is illegal".
What I'm really wondering though is whether this "article" is a cleverly disguise Windows 8 plug: the Linux bit is there to prevent the poster for being marked as a Microsoft shill, while the real message is "Windows 8 is a work of art".
It is a cleverly disguised OS-X plug meant to discredit the concept of letting users determine how they want their UI to look.. What better way to discredit Linux configurability than to suggest that the type of person who likes to configure their Linux installation will be impressed by the beauty of Windows 8?
It prevents people from buying a phone that has everything that they like about the iPhone, but is also an improvement on the iPhone. This is exacerbated by Apple's own policies that hinder their customer's ability to make their own improvements to their own property.
Democrats have been complicit in lowering standards and dumbing down education over the past 4 decades or so. Their motives are somewhat different, but the result is mostly the same. Our public educational systems are a mess and our students woefully undereducated.
You may as well say that schools for the blind are complicit in the dumbing down of silent film appreciation.
The root of our educational system's failure is conservatives and their their special blend of literal Christianism and social darwinism. They have worked as hard as they can to make sure the that public education system has been swamped with needy children and given less and less money to deal with them. Their goal is to prove that a) poor people are irredeemable and b) public education doesn't work.
There is a big damn difference between actively trying to break something, and doing a less than optimal job of making something broken work again.
If all I'm going to be doing at 120 is sitting in a wheel chair, unable to remember what I had for breakfast with a catheter and colostomy bag attached to me, you can keep your attempts at immortality.
Sitting around all day seems to be many people's idea of utopia. Just throw in a snappy broadband connection and some clever marketers to re-package the catheter and colostomy bag as a high-tech innovation.
As for remembering what you had for breakfast -- that is what Twitter is for.
However people choose to live their lives, they tend to prize them very highly, and want to preserve them. If someone's idea of paradise is an eternity spent on the couch eating Cheetos and playing Xbox... well, what the hell, that's his business. As long as he doesn't cause problems for those of us who want to do more with our lives, I don't see any cause to complain.
Not necessarily. Personally, I think that most people are completely demoralized, and thus self-indulgent in self-destructive ways. I don't believe that just because someone chooses to do something, it is because they think it is "paradise".
And people who do not take care of themselves most certainly do cause problems for the rest of us.
Old people don't massively take their own life, people overwhemingly chose treatment when facing cancer, etc.
In most parts of America, choosing to end your own life instead of choosing treatment for a serious illness is complicated. There are a variety of pressures that push people towards life-prolonging treatment, from religious norms, to sentimental loved-ones, to laws preventing assisted suicide. In all these ways, people are made to feel uncomfortable with rejecting treatment. Its no coincidence that these treatments generate profits.
Spending an indefinite amount of time young and healthy, or even middle-aged and mostly healthy? Sign me up.
In America, how many of the current middle-aged are "mostly healthy". Or even the young? Most people today won't make the slightest effort to maintain their health.
If you are going to live a life of sedentary consumption, as most people seem to aspire too, being young is little better than being old.
"I would probably buy one, and I live in the US. It would depend on how much it costs to run the pump and get a full tank."
What about safety? It seems like your only criteria fuel costs.
My guess is that safety for this car is terrible. The Tata Nano is for example without airbags and features only a single wing mirror. Personally I would be quite worried about the safety of such a car.
What specifically, are your safety concerns? It is likely safer than a motorcycle. Additional mirrors could easily be added (and would probably be mandated as standard equipment).
My biggest concern would be getting obliterated by someone else's oversized, overpowered and overweight vehicle. But I have that concern when walking or cycling.
It is also a problem that is easily solved, e.g. by kicking oil companies off of welfare and forcing them to pass the real cost of their product on to consumers.
same concept as the supermarket check out line magazines and other trinkets. that stuff is high margin.
newegg and amazon do the same thing with suggested add ons. geeks fall for it as well just different products
I don't think these are all that similar, because you still see these add ons in the cart and are likely to delete them during check out if they are frivolous.
"Frictionless" is more along the lines of one-click buying.
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The keyboard and mouse is the superior controller by the only metric that matters, performance.
Only if you choose a style of game that caters to that control method and agree that performance is the only metric that matters. Take any arcade driving, shooting or dancing game, replace the specialized, context-appropriate control methods with your better "performing", keyboard and mouse controllers and watch the dust collect. Would you rather play a head to head fighting game with an arcade stick or a keyboard/mouse?
Even if FPS games are the most relevant to Valve, perhaps they see that as a problem to solve.
I'd also argue that the supremacy of the keyboard/mouse for PC games is a byproduct of the PC's limitations and the impracticality of creating an immersive gaming experience on general-purpose computer.
Interesting to note that both DNA and CCTV evidence were unreliable in this case. If neither of those two are reliable, and they can both be wrong in the same case, and I suspect that most would agree that these should be expected to be more reliable than eye-witness and circumstantial evidence, one has to ask some profound questions about the modern systems of criminal justice.
I’m not sure where the idea that pinch and stretch was at stake originated.
Simple. It originated among people disingenuously insinuating that this trial was all about pinch-to-zoom and rounded corners. In fact, these are simply rhetorical shorthand for the obviousness and prior art that should have undermined Apples claims.
OTOH, I get writer is saying about the sorry state of writing. He knocked that one out of the park.
If somebody wants a Louis Vuitton handbag, but the actual bags are too expensive, but the guy at the market stall has them for a quarter of the price, then this is great, right? Win win.
The person buying an LV knock-off from a market stall is not a lost LV customer. Again, selling the knock-off might be illegal, but the rationale is weak.
The only 'harm' to LV is some counterfeiter proving that their designs are trivial to copy, and thus not terribly valuable. Conversely, if LV designed a bag that was of such sophisticated manufacture and evident quality that it couldn't be knocked-off, they wouldn't have a counterfeit problem. You know, if they innovated. . .
LV's and Apple are fighting the same war -- trying to maintain the perceived exclusivity of product lines that are no longer innovative.
That is true, but how is it relevant?. Parent is concerned that by purchasing apps, he is sending money to apple. I'm pointing out that many apps are free, and he can purchase them without sending money to apple.
It is relevant if the free apps are garbage, and apps worth having require the user to send money to Apple.
And all the default apps are already great, so you can make phone calls, send text messages etc right out of the box.
Wow, out-of-the-box calling and text messaging with a phone? What a coup! I hope Apple got a patent for these innovations.
The only reason it's crammed full of garbage is because it's the current top mobile store and everyone wants to try to make a buck.
The point is that, because of Apple's careful curation of their app store, they are responsible for the thousands of garbage apps that they carefully vet and approve. What they offer is "legit", but only if you don't count being jerked around just so that they can pad their marketing schtick.
Its about more than the App Store. There are plenty of reasons why someone might want an iPhone-like handset that improves on the iPhone. Different screen size, removable storage, better calling performance, lower price-point, disagreement with Apple's corporate ethic, etc.
People like the iPhone for iPhone features.
Some do. Some just like the hardware. How many times have you heard people on /. tout Apples's supposedly sterling hardware as an excuse to pay a premium for an Apple product?
Another company wants to make their own phone with iPhone features. But this is illegal. So apple sues and wins. If another company wants to make an iPhone killer, why not just design a better phone? Just a thought.
If a customer wants an phone with features similar to the iPhone, but with a larger screen, removable storage, etc., and Apple doesn't care to provide these options, why shouldn't they be able to buy one from another company that wants to serve their needs? Oh, yeah. "This is illegal".
What I'm really wondering though is whether this "article" is a cleverly disguise Windows 8 plug: the Linux bit is there to prevent the poster for being marked as a Microsoft shill, while the real message is "Windows 8 is a work of art".
It is a cleverly disguised OS-X plug meant to discredit the concept of letting users determine how they want their UI to look.. What better way to discredit Linux configurability than to suggest that the type of person who likes to configure their Linux installation will be impressed by the beauty of Windows 8?
many apps are available for free...
There is "free" stuff in every trash receptacle in every town.
. . . or other garbage android has been known for. . .
Apple's app store is crammed with garbage and nobody can set up a garbage-free alternative.
The code itself may be "safe", but I consider having my time wasted to be malicious.
Apple phones don't kill people, SAMSUNG PHONES DO.
With Apple innovations.
How does it limit customer choice?
It prevents people from buying a phone that has everything that they like about the iPhone, but is also an improvement on the iPhone. This is exacerbated by Apple's own policies that hinder their customer's ability to make their own improvements to their own property.
Samsung phones have been determined to be equivalent to Apple's iPhone.
At least equivalent to the iPhone.
Democrats have been complicit in lowering standards and dumbing down education over the past 4 decades or so. Their motives are somewhat different, but the result is mostly the same. Our public educational systems are a mess and our students woefully undereducated.
You may as well say that schools for the blind are complicit in the dumbing down of silent film appreciation.
The root of our educational system's failure is conservatives and their their special blend of literal Christianism and social darwinism. They have worked as hard as they can to make sure the that public education system has been swamped with needy children and given less and less money to deal with them. Their goal is to prove that a) poor people are irredeemable and b) public education doesn't work.
There is a big damn difference between actively trying to break something, and doing a less than optimal job of making something broken work again.
If all I'm going to be doing at 120 is sitting in a wheel chair, unable to remember what I had for breakfast with a catheter and colostomy bag attached to me, you can keep your attempts at immortality.
Sitting around all day seems to be many people's idea of utopia. Just throw in a snappy broadband connection and some clever marketers to re-package the catheter and colostomy bag as a high-tech innovation.
As for remembering what you had for breakfast -- that is what Twitter is for.
However people choose to live their lives, they tend to prize them very highly, and want to preserve them. If someone's idea of paradise is an eternity spent on the couch eating Cheetos and playing Xbox ... well, what the hell, that's his business. As long as he doesn't cause problems for those of us who want to do more with our lives, I don't see any cause to complain.
Not necessarily. Personally, I think that most people are completely demoralized, and thus self-indulgent in self-destructive ways. I don't believe that just because someone chooses to do something, it is because they think it is "paradise".
And people who do not take care of themselves most certainly do cause problems for the rest of us.
No. As time passes the 99% represent an even larger number (being a function of the overall population), and thus even harder to avoid.
How about you spend enough time at a 9 to 5 job to build up enough money for you to start your own business doing what you really love.
It is significantly less possible to do that today that it was a single generation ago.
Old people don't massively take their own life, people overwhemingly chose treatment when facing cancer, etc.
In most parts of America, choosing to end your own life instead of choosing treatment for a serious illness is complicated. There are a variety of pressures that push people towards life-prolonging treatment, from religious norms, to sentimental loved-ones, to laws preventing assisted suicide. In all these ways, people are made to feel uncomfortable with rejecting treatment. Its no coincidence that these treatments generate profits.
Not boredom as in "there is nothing to do." Boredom as in "I am so gawddamn tired of these people and their bullshit."
Spending an indefinite amount of time young and healthy, or even middle-aged and mostly healthy? Sign me up.
In America, how many of the current middle-aged are "mostly healthy". Or even the young? Most people today won't make the slightest effort to maintain their health.
If you are going to live a life of sedentary consumption, as most people seem to aspire too, being young is little better than being old.
99% of people are idiots.
80 years among them is about enough.
"I would probably buy one, and I live in the US. It would depend on how much it costs to run the pump and get a full tank."
What about safety? It seems like your only criteria fuel costs.
My guess is that safety for this car is terrible. The Tata Nano is for example without airbags and features only a single wing mirror. Personally I would be quite worried about the safety of such a car.
What specifically, are your safety concerns? It is likely safer than a motorcycle. Additional mirrors could easily be added (and would probably be mandated as standard equipment).
My biggest concern would be getting obliterated by someone else's oversized, overpowered and overweight vehicle. But I have that concern when walking or cycling.
It is also a problem that is easily solved, e.g. by kicking oil companies off of welfare and forcing them to pass the real cost of their product on to consumers.
same concept as the supermarket check out line magazines and other trinkets. that stuff is high margin.
newegg and amazon do the same thing with suggested add ons. geeks fall for it as well just different products
I don't think these are all that similar, because you still see these add ons in the cart and are likely to delete them during check out if they are frivolous.
"Frictionless" is more along the lines of one-click buying.