Not defending anyone that uses this pricing scheme, but what makes people think they have a right to something at any price? A strong sense of entitlement. Anyone familiar with sales knows that the more someone wants something the higher they'll pay. All the complainers are going to have used their own knowledge of someone's desires to benefit themselves sometime in their life, and they'll still remain self-righteous and indignant.
That if you were on this jury, that foreman would be valuable ewed as the expert by easily impressed everyman and you'd be arguing how silly his position is while the other jurors shot you down because "he has expertise, where's your patent?" ugh. I am glad for my mental health I was nowhere near that jury room.
Absolutely nonsense. Asking which one is the real "you" is presumptive since there is no "real you." there is no soul, no vital essence, no metaphysical, ontological chain of identity that exists as any discrete, singular being separable from the functional state and operations of your physical makeup. The outcome is two yous, both perceiving themselves as the real McCoy.
You guys are operating on naive philosophical assumptions best left in the bronze age with its cosmology. Your intuitions rely on extra material baggage whether you recognize or will admit to it or not.
You can't even browse the file system on an Ipad by default; doing many things on Apple products is a headache simply because it's so stripped-down and lacking basic functionality.
I was in the same situation myself. I ended up buying a Nexus 7and now I'm typing this on my tablet in between finishing a book. I am the first book I've read in years, and actually. The functionality and portability of a tablet combined with the ease of reading pdfs or epubs or whatever can't be beat.
You can have an entire library in your hand. You can use find functions for words or phrases and can look up words on Google or a dictionary app and pop right back into the reader program.
Also, you can get free public domain books off project gutenberg. I love my tablet and I love finally sitting down and reading again.
Of course. The being able to play games and watch video on this is pretty nice.
I'd recommend a Nexus 7 but wait a few months... The first runs of the device have had some hardware problems.
I don't remember the details, but wasn't this a little more nuanced then just Google straight-up lying?
Also, and I'm not trying to defend Google if they did lie about this or whatever, but I think a lot of the crap over cookies is popular media sideshow scare stuff. It (in this case, I believe) doesn't identify individual users and anyway people can generally be tracked by IP and sessions and other stuff.
I hate Rand, but terrible argument. Nobody can account for unforeseen failure. So what then if the regulations or government itself fails? Hell, the basic argument of Rand's could be stated in terms of failure, that business is less likely to fail that government. That certainly was the main theme of that god-awful book (terribly, terribly written) Atlas Shrugged.
Usually the people that complain about too many features in phones and stuff, that I see, are either people getting on in their years or, to be frank, not very bright. I'm not impressed by his arguing because I've seen Apple fanboys argue that sdhc expandability is a bad thing because--get this--it's too complicated. I'm no android fanboy--i think Google really dropped the ball with Nexus 7 defects. It's just clear to me that iOS is made for A lower common denominator, technologically speaking. iOS is perfect for, say, teenage girls that get their computers swapped with crapware and 3 million toolbars in their browser but I would expect a little slashdot savvy on Slashdot.
How can Android look like a cheap copy of the iOS experience when Android is infinitely more customizable and feature-filled than iProducts?
Let's not beat around the bush here. iOS offers a very watered-down featureset so non-tech saavy people don't have trouble with it. That's fine for people like you, but I wouldn't ever call Android a copy of iOS in any way when Android simply does more than iOS does.
What did you do on the NDS? I enjoyed a lot of the NDS homebrew, maybe I used something you made. (assuming you mean you made stuff on it).
I have to say homebrew on portable devices is also largely declining since phones and tablets are becoming much better gaming platforms that also serve a lot extra functions. the NDS was an awkward and bulky device to use to play books, movies, and music, but some people, including me, used it that way because we didn't own cell phones that could. Now, nearly everyone does... I suspect Nintendo is very afraid of tablets and the direction cell phones are going.
Homebrew and piracy are cousins, that's true, but the homebrew scene on the PSP and the NDS was far more than just piracy. The NDS's homebrew scene sucked by comparison to the PSP's but people turned the NDS into a (shitty) mp3 player, movie player, book reader, and there was even a planner app. Somebody made a good roguelike POWDER DS for it, too.
The thing is, the need for homebrew on portable systems has also gone down since phones fill these functions quite nicely. This wasn't so true during the NDS's heyday.
Not to mention, as the article alluded to, is that the rise of tablets and phones will eat away possible would-be homebrewers since they now have portable systems to work on (tablets) where they can actually get money on. People made homebrew for the NDS and PSP because they were portable systems. Phones and tablets now eclipse those systems. Nintendo is especially in a bind because tablets and phones are very much taking over casual gaming, and I suspect we'll start to see a little more serious gaming on phones and tablets too as they are now hitting a sweet spot in terms of processing and graphical power, especially with the release of the affordable Nexus 7 that does games pretty well.
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Not defending anyone that uses this pricing scheme, but what makes people think they have a right to something at any price? A strong sense of entitlement. Anyone familiar with sales knows that the more someone wants something the higher they'll pay. All the complainers are going to have used their own knowledge of someone's desires to benefit themselves sometime in their life, and they'll still remain self-righteous and indignant.
Uh, Nintendo does/did this heavily.
I can't wait until Slashdot announces the when the exciting conclusion to my Naruto / Captain Planet crossover fanfiction comes out!
Brainless college students that just found leftism via their University professor and old people concerned about a lack of God in the classrooms?
That if you were on this jury, that foreman would be valuable ewed as the expert by easily impressed everyman and you'd be arguing how silly his position is while the other jurors shot you down because "he has expertise, where's your patent?" ugh. I am glad for my mental health I was nowhere near that jury room.
Absolutely nonsense. Asking which one is the real "you" is presumptive since there is no "real you." there is no soul, no vital essence, no metaphysical, ontological chain of identity that exists as any discrete, singular being separable from the functional state and operations of your physical makeup. The outcome is two yous, both perceiving themselves as the real McCoy.
You guys are operating on naive philosophical assumptions best left in the bronze age with its cosmology. Your intuitions rely on extra material baggage whether you recognize or will admit to it or not.
>generally painless to support
When it has much less features than the alternative, uh, yeah. It would be.
USING a Mac outside of Apple's "use-our-store-or-cry-yourself-to-sleep" model, not so fun.
You can't even browse the file system on an Ipad by default; doing many things on Apple products is a headache simply because it's so stripped-down and lacking basic functionality.
If only I knew how to "Think Different," just like you.
I got a tablet and now I'm reading more than ever.
That assumes a person with some technical grasp would actually want an Apple product.
I was in the same situation myself. I ended up buying a Nexus 7and now I'm typing this on my tablet in between finishing a book. I am the first book I've read in years, and actually. The functionality and portability of a tablet combined with the ease of reading pdfs or epubs or whatever can't be beat.
You can have an entire library in your hand. You can use find functions for words or phrases and can look up words on Google or a dictionary app and pop right back into the reader program.
Also, you can get free public domain books off project gutenberg. I love my tablet and I love finally sitting down and reading again.
Of course. The being able to play games and watch video on this is pretty nice.
I'd recommend a Nexus 7 but wait a few months... The first runs of the device have had some hardware problems.
And that entity should be the government, of course!
I don't remember the details, but wasn't this a little more nuanced then just Google straight-up lying?
Also, and I'm not trying to defend Google if they did lie about this or whatever, but I think a lot of the crap over cookies is popular media sideshow scare stuff. It (in this case, I believe) doesn't identify individual users and anyway people can generally be tracked by IP and sessions and other stuff.
I hate Rand, but terrible argument. Nobody can account for unforeseen failure. So what then if the regulations or government itself fails? Hell, the basic argument of Rand's could be stated in terms of failure, that business is less likely to fail that government. That certainly was the main theme of that god-awful book (terribly, terribly written) Atlas Shrugged.
NWN is far better than Dragon Age. I'm not sure how you could even begin to think otherwise. Dragon Age struck me as an incredibly watered-down NWN.
So you're within the "getting on in your years" type. I can respect that.
Usually the people that complain about too many features in phones and stuff, that I see, are either people getting on in their years or, to be frank, not very bright. I'm not impressed by his arguing because I've seen Apple fanboys argue that sdhc expandability is a bad thing because--get this--it's too complicated. I'm no android fanboy--i think Google really dropped the ball with Nexus 7 defects. It's just clear to me that iOS is made for A lower common denominator, technologically speaking. iOS is perfect for, say, teenage girls that get their computers swapped with crapware and 3 million toolbars in their browser but I would expect a little slashdot savvy on Slashdot.
How can Android look like a cheap copy of the iOS experience when Android is infinitely more customizable and feature-filled than iProducts?
Let's not beat around the bush here. iOS offers a very watered-down featureset so non-tech saavy people don't have trouble with it. That's fine for people like you, but I wouldn't ever call Android a copy of iOS in any way when Android simply does more than iOS does.
I'm pretty sure this is exactly it and I would have upvoted you had I not already commented earlier.
Not to mention a lot of Vista's problems were due to driver issues and not necessarily MS's
It really is. There's a LOT of money and corruption behind the Olympics.
What did you do on the NDS? I enjoyed a lot of the NDS homebrew, maybe I used something you made. (assuming you mean you made stuff on it).
I have to say homebrew on portable devices is also largely declining since phones and tablets are becoming much better gaming platforms that also serve a lot extra functions. the NDS was an awkward and bulky device to use to play books, movies, and music, but some people, including me, used it that way because we didn't own cell phones that could. Now, nearly everyone does... I suspect Nintendo is very afraid of tablets and the direction cell phones are going.
Homebrew and piracy are cousins, that's true, but the homebrew scene on the PSP and the NDS was far more than just piracy. The NDS's homebrew scene sucked by comparison to the PSP's but people turned the NDS into a (shitty) mp3 player, movie player, book reader, and there was even a planner app. Somebody made a good roguelike POWDER DS for it, too.
The thing is, the need for homebrew on portable systems has also gone down since phones fill these functions quite nicely. This wasn't so true during the NDS's heyday.
Not to mention, as the article alluded to, is that the rise of tablets and phones will eat away possible would-be homebrewers since they now have portable systems to work on (tablets) where they can actually get money on. People made homebrew for the NDS and PSP because they were portable systems. Phones and tablets now eclipse those systems. Nintendo is especially in a bind because tablets and phones are very much taking over casual gaming, and I suspect we'll start to see a little more serious gaming on phones and tablets too as they are now hitting a sweet spot in terms of processing and graphical power, especially with the release of the affordable Nexus 7 that does games pretty well.