By ordering a plate of food at a restaurant, I'm telling the owner of said restaurant that I want them to put that salt in my food. If I didn't, I wouldn't agree to the transaction.
If you want to argue that restaurants should be required to provide fact sheets about what is contained in food they serve, I'm all ears. The free market requires a knowledgeable consumer for it to be considered an equitable trade. But telling me that I, as an adult, am not allowed to purchase and consume a product even after I know the risks involved goes against the very idea of freedom.
Funny, I've found that to be the exact same thing most hypocritical about Democrats. You can scoop a fetus out because it's your body, but by god if you try to put salt on your food we'll throw you in the fucking slammer.
It's an option on Nissans. An expensive option. My wife was considering a Sentra, and yes it's available but it costs several hundred dollars. She ended up getting a Mazda3 instead, where again it was an option, but only as part of a package that was quite a bit more expensive.
Of course Apple will sell more than Android. The larger installed user base makes that inevitable. Even if it were released the same day for both platforms, the fact that there are 20x more iPhones out there (number pulled from ass, don't know what it actually is) means it will sell more.
Back in the late 90s I created a relevance ranking system for my employer to rank the output of our legal research system. Similar to a hyperlink, legal documents have a unique references. Sometimes they're created by the publisher such as West (now Thomson) and their Federal Supplement and other times for unpublished documents it's a docket number from the court. Long story short, the documents were indexed and at run time using a combination of hit density and the number of times a document was referred to by other documents, we had a fairly accurate relevance engine. I even took it a step further and for the documents that referenced the found document, looked to see if the original search term was present in the linking document. If so, we assumed that it was linking to the found document for reasons related to the search rather than for some other reason, as court cases often are referenced for reasons outside of their main ruling.
I agree completely. I factored in Live when I purchased the Xbox. At the time the PS3 was still selling for $500 while I paid $300 for the Xbox. So that's only a TCO difference of $100 for I what I see as a clear advantage. Perhaps now that they're in line with Microsoft's retail pricing they feel they're in a better position to charge for additional features.
He misspoke. It's $50 per year. I feel it's worth every penny to have a cohesive online environment where gaming and talking with friends is always easy.
What oxdeadbeef is saying is that all the client data about thousands of nearby objects doesn't have to be updated all the way from server to end client. That's updated only to the client at the OnLive datacenter, which could be shared with all clients running there. It's just another tier which then processes the end clients screen and sends them the screen.
Currently MMOs choke when you get too many people in one place and this is part of the reason.
Really? So even assuming they only had a 0.1% market penetration that's 200 customers in Ft Wayne. At 1MB/s, do you really think there is sufficient bandwidth to the dominant local internet provider to handle this kind of service at acceptable levels? Remember, there's another 200,000 people could be using YouTube and Pandora at the same time. Since most customers will likely be using this service at the same time in the evening, the peak requirements could be astronomical and I don't think the bandwidth exists for them to serve very many people adequately.
Or maybe some of us get tired of hearing that some new form factor is going to render every previous product obsolete. I'm happy with netbooks. Laptops are too bulky, the netbook is a great portable form factor. Wrist computing doesn't interest me, so don't say something stupid like "netbooks are dead."
They are also selling Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper that way. I bought a case of each and frankly I find them much better tasting than their corn syrup counterparts. It may be kind of a "no duh" thing to say, but they're not as syrupy tasting.
Yet video game sales worldwide have been exploding since 1999. I don't suppose it could just be shifting priorities of consumers, could it? Nah, it's gotta be the pirates, because as we all know everybody pirates music but nobody pirates video games.
Indeed, nobody had ever heard of James Cameron until this whole Avatar thing.
This discussion is about new content creators, not the 0.0001% of the population that already has international fame. Nobody will argue that the system doesn't work for those already on top such as Bono. They're saying it doesn't work for the vast majority of people attempting to earn a living through their art.
The police stopped working for the people long ago. Now they work for politicians, and as we all know they are clearly NOT people in any sense of the word.
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Sounds fair to me. Now if only we can eliminate both the Republican and Democrat parties, we may all be able to live in peace and harmony.
Moral busybodies on both sides of the aisle are what will destroy this country.
By ordering a plate of food at a restaurant, I'm telling the owner of said restaurant that I want them to put that salt in my food. If I didn't, I wouldn't agree to the transaction.
If you want to argue that restaurants should be required to provide fact sheets about what is contained in food they serve, I'm all ears. The free market requires a knowledgeable consumer for it to be considered an equitable trade. But telling me that I, as an adult, am not allowed to purchase and consume a product even after I know the risks involved goes against the very idea of freedom.
Chef? Does he really think there's a chef in the TGIFridays kitchen? They reheat pre-made meals.
People need to learn how to take care of themselves for fucks sake.
For the record, I'm pro-choice. About everything. If you want to get an abortion or use heroin, that's your business.
Funny, I've found that to be the exact same thing most hypocritical about Democrats. You can scoop a fetus out because it's your body, but by god if you try to put salt on your food we'll throw you in the fucking slammer.
It's an option on Nissans. An expensive option. My wife was considering a Sentra, and yes it's available but it costs several hundred dollars. She ended up getting a Mazda3 instead, where again it was an option, but only as part of a package that was quite a bit more expensive.
I can practically smell the patchouli...
Of course Apple will sell more than Android. The larger installed user base makes that inevitable. Even if it were released the same day for both platforms, the fact that there are 20x more iPhones out there (number pulled from ass, don't know what it actually is) means it will sell more.
You can leave your cell phone behind. Can you leave your arm at home?
Talk about ignorant... Capitalism implies no such thing.
Back in the late 90s I created a relevance ranking system for my employer to rank the output of our legal research system. Similar to a hyperlink, legal documents have a unique references. Sometimes they're created by the publisher such as West (now Thomson) and their Federal Supplement and other times for unpublished documents it's a docket number from the court. Long story short, the documents were indexed and at run time using a combination of hit density and the number of times a document was referred to by other documents, we had a fairly accurate relevance engine. I even took it a step further and for the documents that referenced the found document, looked to see if the original search term was present in the linking document. If so, we assumed that it was linking to the found document for reasons related to the search rather than for some other reason, as court cases often are referenced for reasons outside of their main ruling.
I agree completely. I factored in Live when I purchased the Xbox. At the time the PS3 was still selling for $500 while I paid $300 for the Xbox. So that's only a TCO difference of $100 for I what I see as a clear advantage. Perhaps now that they're in line with Microsoft's retail pricing they feel they're in a better position to charge for additional features.
He misspoke. It's $50 per year. I feel it's worth every penny to have a cohesive online environment where gaming and talking with friends is always easy.
Don't most families already have at least two cars anyway? Why is having one of them be electric such a bizarre concept?
Just imagine how much cheaper it would be to put gas in your truck if all those city folk weren't using any at all.
Real languages used to build real products which generate real business need to die? And this was modded insightful?
What oxdeadbeef is saying is that all the client data about thousands of nearby objects doesn't have to be updated all the way from server to end client. That's updated only to the client at the OnLive datacenter, which could be shared with all clients running there. It's just another tier which then processes the end clients screen and sends them the screen.
Currently MMOs choke when you get too many people in one place and this is part of the reason.
Really? So even assuming they only had a 0.1% market penetration that's 200 customers in Ft Wayne. At 1MB/s, do you really think there is sufficient bandwidth to the dominant local internet provider to handle this kind of service at acceptable levels? Remember, there's another 200,000 people could be using YouTube and Pandora at the same time. Since most customers will likely be using this service at the same time in the evening, the peak requirements could be astronomical and I don't think the bandwidth exists for them to serve very many people adequately.
Or maybe some of us get tired of hearing that some new form factor is going to render every previous product obsolete. I'm happy with netbooks. Laptops are too bulky, the netbook is a great portable form factor. Wrist computing doesn't interest me, so don't say something stupid like "netbooks are dead."
They are also selling Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper that way. I bought a case of each and frankly I find them much better tasting than their corn syrup counterparts. It may be kind of a "no duh" thing to say, but they're not as syrupy tasting.
At the MN State Fair last year, I did spend a bit of time at the home improvement building looking at carpet made out of corn.
Yet video game sales worldwide have been exploding since 1999. I don't suppose it could just be shifting priorities of consumers, could it? Nah, it's gotta be the pirates, because as we all know everybody pirates music but nobody pirates video games.
Indeed, nobody had ever heard of James Cameron until this whole Avatar thing.
This discussion is about new content creators, not the 0.0001% of the population that already has international fame. Nobody will argue that the system doesn't work for those already on top such as Bono. They're saying it doesn't work for the vast majority of people attempting to earn a living through their art.
The police stopped working for the people long ago. Now they work for politicians, and as we all know they are clearly NOT people in any sense of the word.
As opposed to the highly controlled USSR economy which is currently flourishing... errr....
Sorry, what's your point?