I was talking more in the context of programming but I should point out you can take the bar exam in some states without going to law school and then basically earn work experience afterwards.
University is not worthless but there is a bit of a lie going around that you must do it and the fact is the vast majority of people won't be solicitors or doctors and they probably won't even be programmers. All they're doing is driving down the value of a degree and for each generation the value of a degree will become less while (if things stay the same) the cost won't go down and their adult lives can be put on hold longer than they should.
It's no surprise developed nations are seeing their birth rates going down. To an extent that is a good thing but eventually it will cause problems. But after say 100 years of university effectively becoming high school part 2 it will be hard to convince people to become less educated to help society and have kids.
I was talking in context of programming but of course some careers are too important not to ensure someone hasn't been properly trained. That said some jobs that people think require a degree don't in some case. For example California, I believe, will still allow you can take the bar without going to law school.
Don't be so sure of that. I would have thought higher education would have taught you not to make such absolute comments on something you can't back up.
It may matter if you want to work on Wall Street but the lack of a degree doesn't stop you from doing interesting things. I do understand though why someone who pays a fortune for a degree would get upset at the notion some people do it without the debt and no matter how quickly you pay it off they never had it in the first place.
That rant is full of retard and funnily he tries to rig his google serach results to make it appear github is on the top. Sourceforge (which I don't use btw) blows github out of the water in terms of size and options.
In fact github probably has the least options out of any code hosting service and the expectation that I'm going to pay for private repos isn't going to happen. Certainly not when said site has had its share of security flaws because it's a ruby site written by ruby tards who no doubt prefer to brogram while downing red bull.
You're right, it has a fairly wide and thin battery that takes up lot of the area within the macbook. I won't deny that but a Surface pro isn't exactly tiny compared to a 13" MBP. There's little reason there can't be a battery in it the height and width of the machine and giving it the same battery life. Hell, even if it were half the size, it should give more than 4 hours. It's screen size isn't vastly better. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's effectly the same as my MBP and why would should a pen take that much from battery life? 8 to 10, from my experience even include surfing the net and watching youtube videos (obviously not for 8 hrs straight). I managed to get over 10 hours out of it despite the fact Apple only claimed 10 on it.
If it were cheaper than a laptop fine. But it's as expensive as a pretty decent laptop and the battery life of a poor laptop. That's unacceptable. The ancient thinkpad I'm on now has ubuntu 12.04 on it which is apparently notorious for eating through battery and it still tops the surface pro battery life and that is powering a 1400 x 1050 laptop monitor and a 40 inch TV as a second monitor.
Sorry but there is no justifying a 4 hour battery life. That is pretty shit in this day and age.
The weaker console often wins. The PS2 was weaker than the xbox (not sure about the gamecube though RE4 looked better on the GC), the PSX was weaker than the N64 and the Wii was significantly under powered compared to the competition. Nintendo's portables have always been the least powerful and have dominated portable gaming.
The reality is most people do care about the games more than the processing power.
If this proves anything, the ghz number doesn't mean much. So it's apparently half the speed of the xbox and PS3 and yet it's already producing graphics on par with those systems. if the ghz was the be all and end all them it shouldn't be able to do that.
My 2 year old 13 inch MacBook Pro is intel based and gets 8 to 10 hrs on the battery easily. There is no excuse for surface getting only 4 hours unless windows just runs that poorly.
For the most part it is, but facebook has become more annoying about pushing things in your face that you try to ignore. though its instance to tell me on a near daily basis that a friend likes Amazon is far more annoying.
The only issue I have with it is the screen resolution. Either it needs to be cheaper or have a better screen. PC makers are getting better at copying Apple but screen sizes have stagnated way too long especially now that they're charging more for ultrabooks.
Meh, it's not that bad. They even have good mapping for some of the most rural areas in PA. Something that good Google years to get around to doing. People just want to hate on Apple since they're a big company so they went out of their way to find issues. Forgetting that Google maps still has plenty of issues too even with mapping the US because the fact is mapping the whole globe or even the western world is a monumental task.
That's why people should pool their resources and contribute to open street map. We'd all have much better maps if companies put their resources into it rather than, for example, one of those companies getting busted for mucking with OSM' data.
I'm sure these companies would love to give them what they want but thanks to US laws they can't be trusted. Europeans should give preference to hosts with no ties to the US if they have sensitive information.
The Governments in particular should avoid big large corporations because of that and because they're avoiding tax.
The true genius of Apple, Woz, said Australia was much better and he's wants to move there. How can he be wrong when everything Apple did that was good is attributed to him.
Those games cheap games on gog are the games you used to get on compilation discs. They've paid for their budget so they're basically happy to get what they can for them now because it doesn't matter. That doesn't change the games on Gog used to sell for anything from $20 to $60 on their initital release.
If you don't think there is any difference between new and old games then fine. Stick with old games. The new ones will eventually be old and cheaper. But part of the price you pay for being first to have it is you have to help pay for the development.
I doubt most big budget games would pay for themselves at $2 to $10 but likewise you pointed out sales figures have to remain constant which basically means they can never do anything that doesn't appeal to the lowest common denominator and even when they're cheap people stil pirate. There have been numerous people that have complained about their cheap indie titles largely being played by pirates. World of goo was looking at something like a 90% piracy rate (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/11/acrying-shame-world-of-goo-piracy-rate-near-90/) and they even had a pay what you want model for quite some time. People could have paid I think a minimum of 10 cents and they choose to steal it.
If they go without rather than paying then I'm fine with that. When publishers can see what their real market is then they can work to that but this idea that everyone has to behind over backwards to appeal to skin flints that won't even pay 10 cents for a game is BS. There is no market in catering to these people. There will always be an excuse not to pay. Games are too expensive, too much money goes to the wrong person, the game isn't original enough to warrant paying for it or whatever.
I think the logical solution is to work something out like, for example, they only enforce infringement against media that is DRM free. That can push publishers into removing restrictions and in return pirates get banned from the internet for a year and lose their computer. You'll see a lot of parents shit bricks when their child loses the computer for good and internet access for a significant length of time.
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You make sound like there no software around that could handle the task or that no one would step in and fill the gap. That'sa pretty poor assumption.
it is when you type part of the title of a game and it doesn't find it.
I was talking more in the context of programming but I should point out you can take the bar exam in some states without going to law school and then basically earn work experience afterwards.
University is not worthless but there is a bit of a lie going around that you must do it and the fact is the vast majority of people won't be solicitors or doctors and they probably won't even be programmers. All they're doing is driving down the value of a degree and for each generation the value of a degree will become less while (if things stay the same) the cost won't go down and their adult lives can be put on hold longer than they should.
It's no surprise developed nations are seeing their birth rates going down. To an extent that is a good thing but eventually it will cause problems. But after say 100 years of university effectively becoming high school part 2 it will be hard to convince people to become less educated to help society and have kids.
I was talking in context of programming but of course some careers are too important not to ensure someone hasn't been properly trained. That said some jobs that people think require a degree don't in some case. For example California, I believe, will still allow you can take the bar without going to law school.
Because Steam search is kinda shit.
Yeah for single player games.
Because Nintendo won't push them to the back in favour for big names in film and TV. Oh and advertising.
Why bother when most uni grads are too stupid to work the right hours for the right wage?
Don't be so sure of that. I would have thought higher education would have taught you not to make such absolute comments on something you can't back up.
It may matter if you want to work on Wall Street but the lack of a degree doesn't stop you from doing interesting things. I do understand though why someone who pays a fortune for a degree would get upset at the notion some people do it without the debt and no matter how quickly you pay it off they never had it in the first place.
It hasn't harmed me in any noticeable way and I did it all on my own without parental help.
That rant is full of retard and funnily he tries to rig his google serach results to make it appear github is on the top. Sourceforge (which I don't use btw) blows github out of the water in terms of size and options.
In fact github probably has the least options out of any code hosting service and the expectation that I'm going to pay for private repos isn't going to happen. Certainly not when said site has had its share of security flaws because it's a ruby site written by ruby tards who no doubt prefer to brogram while downing red bull.
$7 a month is pretty expensive for a repo hosting site that only has one option (git).
I'll take bitbucket which gives the choice of mercurial or git and private repos for free and a better pricing model.
You're right, it has a fairly wide and thin battery that takes up lot of the area within the macbook. I won't deny that but a Surface pro isn't exactly tiny compared to a 13" MBP. There's little reason there can't be a battery in it the height and width of the machine and giving it the same battery life. Hell, even if it were half the size, it should give more than 4 hours. It's screen size isn't vastly better. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's effectly the same as my MBP and why would should a pen take that much from battery life? 8 to 10, from my experience even include surfing the net and watching youtube videos (obviously not for 8 hrs straight). I managed to get over 10 hours out of it despite the fact Apple only claimed 10 on it.
If it were cheaper than a laptop fine. But it's as expensive as a pretty decent laptop and the battery life of a poor laptop. That's unacceptable. The ancient thinkpad I'm on now has ubuntu 12.04 on it which is apparently notorious for eating through battery and it still tops the surface pro battery life and that is powering a 1400 x 1050 laptop monitor and a 40 inch TV as a second monitor.
Sorry but there is no justifying a 4 hour battery life. That is pretty shit in this day and age.
The weaker console often wins. The PS2 was weaker than the xbox (not sure about the gamecube though RE4 looked better on the GC), the PSX was weaker than the N64 and the Wii was significantly under powered compared to the competition. Nintendo's portables have always been the least powerful and have dominated portable gaming.
The reality is most people do care about the games more than the processing power.
If this proves anything, the ghz number doesn't mean much. So it's apparently half the speed of the xbox and PS3 and yet it's already producing graphics on par with those systems. if the ghz was the be all and end all them it shouldn't be able to do that.
My 2 year old 13 inch MacBook Pro is intel based and gets 8 to 10 hrs on the battery easily. There is no excuse for surface getting only 4 hours unless windows just runs that poorly.
For the most part it is, but facebook has become more annoying about pushing things in your face that you try to ignore. though its instance to tell me on a near daily basis that a friend likes Amazon is far more annoying.
The only issue I have with it is the screen resolution. Either it needs to be cheaper or have a better screen. PC makers are getting better at copying Apple but screen sizes have stagnated way too long especially now that they're charging more for ultrabooks.
I'd say some of it will be down to driver / software development that they can get for free on Windows.
So theatre comedy is just that different from theatre drama? FB events are highly annoying for those who don't care about someone's event.
Meh, it's not that bad. They even have good mapping for some of the most rural areas in PA. Something that good Google years to get around to doing. People just want to hate on Apple since they're a big company so they went out of their way to find issues. Forgetting that Google maps still has plenty of issues too even with mapping the US because the fact is mapping the whole globe or even the western world is a monumental task.
That's why people should pool their resources and contribute to open street map. We'd all have much better maps if companies put their resources into it rather than, for example, one of those companies getting busted for mucking with OSM' data.
I'm sure these companies would love to give them what they want but thanks to US laws they can't be trusted. Europeans should give preference to hosts with no ties to the US if they have sensitive information.
The Governments in particular should avoid big large corporations because of that and because they're avoiding tax.
The true genius of Apple, Woz, said Australia was much better and he's wants to move there. How can he be wrong when everything Apple did that was good is attributed to him.
Those games cheap games on gog are the games you used to get on compilation discs. They've paid for their budget so they're basically happy to get what they can for them now because it doesn't matter. That doesn't change the games on Gog used to sell for anything from $20 to $60 on their initital release.
If you don't think there is any difference between new and old games then fine. Stick with old games. The new ones will eventually be old and cheaper. But part of the price you pay for being first to have it is you have to help pay for the development.
I doubt most big budget games would pay for themselves at $2 to $10 but likewise you pointed out sales figures have to remain constant which basically means they can never do anything that doesn't appeal to the lowest common denominator and even when they're cheap people stil pirate. There have been numerous people that have complained about their cheap indie titles largely being played by pirates. World of goo was looking at something like a 90% piracy rate (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/11/acrying-shame-world-of-goo-piracy-rate-near-90/) and they even had a pay what you want model for quite some time. People could have paid I think a minimum of 10 cents and they choose to steal it.
If they go without rather than paying then I'm fine with that. When publishers can see what their real market is then they can work to that but this idea that everyone has to behind over backwards to appeal to skin flints that won't even pay 10 cents for a game is BS. There is no market in catering to these people. There will always be an excuse not to pay. Games are too expensive, too much money goes to the wrong person, the game isn't original enough to warrant paying for it or whatever.
I think the logical solution is to work something out like, for example, they only enforce infringement against media that is DRM free. That can push publishers into removing restrictions and in return pirates get banned from the internet for a year and lose their computer. You'll see a lot of parents shit bricks when their child loses the computer for good and internet access for a significant length of time.