The balls would be hit and fall to some measurable pattern. It really shouldn't be hard to prove if one ball is "better" than another.
However it sounds like bollocks for someone to have a patent on dimples or anything else in a golf ball. While quality, patterns and materials may vary causing some balls to be better than others, the general form and function of golf ball has more or less gone unchanged in the last 40 years.
Below Gamestop prices != good value. Look at the price of best selling games in CeX versus Tesco, Sainsburys, Argos, Amazon etc. The second hand game in CeX retails for the same as the brand new game elsewhere. CeX even pay a reduced VAT on the difference between what they bought for and what they sold for too so they probably make higher margins than those other places too.
I'm sure they have a surplus of old consoles and might sell them somewhat reasonable. It doesn't excuse the fleecing that is their main bread and potatoes. Look at the price of a Nintendo Switch next time you're passing the window.
CeX also sells used games for more money than they can be obtained brand new, just like Gamestop. They don't even have to worry about VAT on second hand sales so the margins are huge.
And no they're not just 2nd hand. They can and do buy up stock of in-demand items and then sell them for a greatly inflated prices. They did this with PSVR and with Nintendo Switch. For example the Nintendo Switch which has an RRP of £280 is selling in their stores right now for £340.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with Gamestop's terrible customer service, poor staff morale, product upselling, or the ripoff markup applied to everything in-store. It's so bad that you can frequently buy a brand new video game elsewhere for less than they're trying to palm off some second hand copy.
I'm surprised they're even still in business. Same goes for CeX for that matter.
I'm not aware of any drones capable of autonomously navigating the sort of enclosed spaces and avoiding hazards that a typical city would contain. Wires would be especially perilous but also seagulls, flying debris (paper / plastic / leaves), wind gusts around tall buildings, rain, trees, festival decorations etc.
And self drive vehicles are nowhere close to Johnny Cab levels of automation. Even the most advanced of them screw up and require human interventions either because they get stuck, do something dumb or put the car / passengers at risk. Tesla's self drive is especially limited and is basically just a glorified lane tracking system that requires human oversight. Even there we've seen what can happen when the system goes catastrophically wrong.
Now all they have to do is invent these amazing hover pods capable of carrying people, develop the software able to land, take off, navigate them autonomously (including not crashing into each other, wires, buildings, signage etc.), find some idiots willing to be guinea pigs to ride in them, and finally erect a 100m tall flashing sign that says VAINGLORY on one side and HUBRIS on the other.
Yes I've run it in VirtualBox too. Biggest issue is trying to install the damned thing and the fact that OS/2 used ring-0 in weird ways that no virtual machine supported properly until recently. System requirements for OS/2 are so puny that it doesn't make sense to rewrite it - 16MB, single core, 200MB HDD would do. The software it runs isn't a moving target so there is no reason for the OS to be either.
This isn't random idiots rating a movie a la Google Store apps. It's professional movie critics. The score is a fair representation of critical consensus.
Rotten Tomatoes produce a score that is the consensus of often hundreds of reviews. You're free to ignore the consensus, agree with it, or disagree with it. You're free to read individual reviews and likewise come to your own conclusion.
Sensible people pay heed of reviews even if they don't agree with them. Producers like Brett Ratner, Michael Bay et al would prefer that you didn't though.
Stop making shit films and make good ones instead. Critics won't call you out for making shit films. Cinema goers will pay lots of money to see good films.
Or continue to make shit films and then whine that people have the means to discover if a film is shit before wasting their money and time watching it.
The US doesn't know who has visited those territories at any point in their lives. Nor does it know if these people have social media accounts or not. Nor does it know whether the accounts that it is told about are their genuine accounts or just some phony "legend" accounts that are intended to be innocuous. Providing the person doesn't walk through with their phone / laptop signed into an incriminating account its hard to see what the US can do.
To me it doesn't seem like it serves any purpose at all except to act as more bureaucracy and another excuse to turn "undesirables" away for infringing some petty and onerous rule.
Maybe blasting a mile long tunnel in a straight, horizontal line through rock without worrying about a city over the top is a relatively straightforward operation. Biggest issue I guess would be digging out the ends and disposing of the rock somewhere.
Samsung fill their phones with apps that double up everything Google does but in a more crappy way. And its all baked into the firmware so it cannot be removed (only hidden), degrades performance and leaves less space for user data.
For people who want a digital assistant, somehow I doubt that "bixby" will be in any way more useful or functional than Google's. It's just more crapware that nobody asked for and nobody will use in sufficient quantity to justify its existence. It probably needs people to use all the other crapware and Samsung's cloud storage in order to function at all.
The current layout engine in Mozilla uses threading selectively and is generally single threaded for any particular thing. It also suffers the usual issues like buffer overflows, races, leaks etc. which are a nuisance in most software but could be exploitable in a browser. In fact a browser has to process and consume a lot of untrusted data in streams and data structures so the chance for corrupt / malicious payloads is far higher.
So that's what driving the use of Rust. The Rust compiler prevents data races so the design can be far more aggressively concurrent without risking corruption. The compiler also whacks issues like dangling pointers, buffer overflows, null pointer calls etc. by design so it stops a whole raft of common programmer errors. It wouldn't stop a layout engine from suffering application level bugs, like rendering a page badly, getting stuck in a loop, adding stuff to a list without bounds checks etc. so it's not a panacea, but its still better than C/C++.
Exactly. Java, C++ and C are not going to go anywhere for a long time. Even if Rust is better for a whole raft of systems programming tasks it's not like anyone is going to go out and rewrite code that already works. More likely usage for Rust will grow with IoT since code needs to be performant, reliable and secure and C / C++ really aren't suitable for that task.
There is no "blatant violation" because there is no reasonable expectation when purchasing a console that you should be able crack the hardware/software, or that if you do that the manufacturer should still provide service to your device.
Hack away but consoles manufacturers are totally in their rights to block your device, sue you under the right circumstances, ban you online, or patch the firmware so new games won't play.
Trump is riding the same wave of populism as these others. In times of economic or political stress some people are swayed by simplistic solutions to complex problems. Invariably these solutions involve getting rid of "them", where "them" is some easily definable outside force for which all of society's ills can be blamed on.
Turkey is walking down the path towards authoritarianism and dictatorship, arresting political opponents, suppressing freedom of speech, beating up dissenters etc.. And they call other nations nazis for not facilitating it... Bunch of hypocrites.
Don't be absurd. Billions are lost from cracked consoles. This is quite evident by observing the roaring trade in DS revolution style cartridges that allowed people to play "backups" (i.e. pirate copies). It can also be observed by the quality of titles on platforms that get pirated. Quality falls off a cliff and all that sells is shovelware and a few 1st party titles. Honest owners suffer as much as the platform does from this drop in quality.
If the Switch is irrevocably hacked this early in its life it will prove fatal to the platform. Nintendo presumably have taken measures in depth to stop this and anyone who owns a Switch better hope they have.
Yes by the measure of what it could have been without those hacks. Platforms that don't or can't be fixed (e.g. DS, Wii) get blackballed or 3rd parties churn out shovelware because there is no profit from aiming any higher.
And by "actually own" you mean "pirate stuff". Consoles are closed platforms because the billions in profits come from making you pay to play stuff on the thing. This should not come as a shock to any prospective owner.
Owners who bought it on the basis of being a closed system should be glad its kept closed because it means more premium titles for them to play and a platform which isn't dead before its time. Exploited systems rapidly descend into a cesspit of shovelware and an early grave.
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However it sounds like bollocks for someone to have a patent on dimples or anything else in a golf ball. While quality, patterns and materials may vary causing some balls to be better than others, the general form and function of golf ball has more or less gone unchanged in the last 40 years.
I'm sure they have a surplus of old consoles and might sell them somewhat reasonable. It doesn't excuse the fleecing that is their main bread and potatoes. Look at the price of a Nintendo Switch next time you're passing the window.
And no they're not just 2nd hand. They can and do buy up stock of in-demand items and then sell them for a greatly inflated prices. They did this with PSVR and with Nintendo Switch. For example the Nintendo Switch which has an RRP of £280 is selling in their stores right now for £340.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with Gamestop's terrible customer service, poor staff morale, product upselling, or the ripoff markup applied to everything in-store. It's so bad that you can frequently buy a brand new video game elsewhere for less than they're trying to palm off some second hand copy. I'm surprised they're even still in business. Same goes for CeX for that matter.
And self drive vehicles are nowhere close to Johnny Cab levels of automation. Even the most advanced of them screw up and require human interventions either because they get stuck, do something dumb or put the car / passengers at risk. Tesla's self drive is especially limited and is basically just a glorified lane tracking system that requires human oversight. Even there we've seen what can happen when the system goes catastrophically wrong.
Now all they have to do is invent these amazing hover pods capable of carrying people, develop the software able to land, take off, navigate them autonomously (including not crashing into each other, wires, buildings, signage etc.), find some idiots willing to be guinea pigs to ride in them, and finally erect a 100m tall flashing sign that says VAINGLORY on one side and HUBRIS on the other.
Yes I've run it in VirtualBox too. Biggest issue is trying to install the damned thing and the fact that OS/2 used ring-0 in weird ways that no virtual machine supported properly until recently. System requirements for OS/2 are so puny that it doesn't make sense to rewrite it - 16MB, single core, 200MB HDD would do. The software it runs isn't a moving target so there is no reason for the OS to be either.
This isn't random idiots rating a movie a la Google Store apps. It's professional movie critics. The score is a fair representation of critical consensus.
It would be easier to run a virtualized OS/2 as the guest of a 21st century operating system.
One guys "crap" is another guys entertainment.
Rotten Tomatoes produce a score that is the consensus of often hundreds of reviews. You're free to ignore the consensus, agree with it, or disagree with it. You're free to read individual reviews and likewise come to your own conclusion.
Sensible people pay heed of reviews even if they don't agree with them. Producers like Brett Ratner, Michael Bay et al would prefer that you didn't though.
Or continue to make shit films and then whine that people have the means to discover if a film is shit before wasting their money and time watching it.
To me it doesn't seem like it serves any purpose at all except to act as more bureaucracy and another excuse to turn "undesirables" away for infringing some petty and onerous rule.
Maybe blasting a mile long tunnel in a straight, horizontal line through rock without worrying about a city over the top is a relatively straightforward operation. Biggest issue I guess would be digging out the ends and disposing of the rock somewhere.
For people who want a digital assistant, somehow I doubt that "bixby" will be in any way more useful or functional than Google's. It's just more crapware that nobody asked for and nobody will use in sufficient quantity to justify its existence. It probably needs people to use all the other crapware and Samsung's cloud storage in order to function at all.
So that's what driving the use of Rust. The Rust compiler prevents data races so the design can be far more aggressively concurrent without risking corruption. The compiler also whacks issues like dangling pointers, buffer overflows, null pointer calls etc. by design so it stops a whole raft of common programmer errors. It wouldn't stop a layout engine from suffering application level bugs, like rendering a page badly, getting stuck in a loop, adding stuff to a list without bounds checks etc. so it's not a panacea, but its still better than C/C++.
The Mozilla Foundation are trying to solve problems that would be nigh impossible in c++. Not reimplementation for the sake of it.
Exactly. Java, C++ and C are not going to go anywhere for a long time. Even if Rust is better for a whole raft of systems programming tasks it's not like anyone is going to go out and rewrite code that already works. More likely usage for Rust will grow with IoT since code needs to be performant, reliable and secure and C / C++ really aren't suitable for that task.
Hack away but consoles manufacturers are totally in their rights to block your device, sue you under the right circumstances, ban you online, or patch the firmware so new games won't play.
Trump is riding the same wave of populism as these others. In times of economic or political stress some people are swayed by simplistic solutions to complex problems. Invariably these solutions involve getting rid of "them", where "them" is some easily definable outside force for which all of society's ills can be blamed on.
Turkey is walking down the path towards authoritarianism and dictatorship, arresting political opponents, suppressing freedom of speech, beating up dissenters etc.. And they call other nations nazis for not facilitating it... Bunch of hypocrites.
If the Switch is irrevocably hacked this early in its life it will prove fatal to the platform. Nintendo presumably have taken measures in depth to stop this and anyone who owns a Switch better hope they have.
Yes by the measure of what it could have been without those hacks. Platforms that don't or can't be fixed (e.g. DS, Wii) get blackballed or 3rd parties churn out shovelware because there is no profit from aiming any higher.
Owners who bought it on the basis of being a closed system should be glad its kept closed because it means more premium titles for them to play and a platform which isn't dead before its time. Exploited systems rapidly descend into a cesspit of shovelware and an early grave.
If you run Struts 2 on them then yes.
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