I love YouTube comments. They are * hilarious*. No matter what the video is of, you find that the comments always degenerate to the most bizarre, hate-filled arguments imaginable. It makes for some hilarious reading.
But, like sugar, you can have too much of it. It quickly becomes nauseating. Best is to get a small taste and then take no more. Just like too much sugar will eventually destroy your pancreas, too many YouTube comments will eventually destroy your faith in humanity.
i believe that google guy himself said something like "google+ is not a social network, it is an identity service." its amazing people still use it after that:/
following a bunch of celebrities does not make you an "intellectual". i'd rather say that if you find your friends' posts "stupid cards and signs spamming my Facebook feed", why are you friends with such people. as for following famous people, twitter already does that, with far less complexity and bullshit. in conclusion, people use g+ because they wanna be all smug and feel "intellectual".
ms gave nokia a chance. so far, they're still not doing the best. nokia used to make the best phones (highend), AND the cheapest phones (lowend). then, for some time (2-3) years, they sat and did nothing, churning out similarly speced and featured smartphones. suddenly it blew up in their faces, because steve jobs. imo, nokia should be running to make unique phones that try to sell on something other than being wp. a pure view lumia with 40MP camera would be a fine start.
i don't know if everything (gps, 3g, camera) worked with it but you can install ubuntu on the n900. without hacking, or rooting or doing any weird shit. basically, n900 is the closest to an 'open' phone. and nobody bought it, inspite of huge marketing by nokia.
won't work. nokia already tried that with symbian and maemo. americans didn't buy. nokia on the verge of failure now. imo, choosing wp was the best option they had.
The iPhone worked because people could use it as an iPod, and it had the whole exclusive iTunes infrastructure behind it.
wtf?! people had been using their phones as an 'ipod' looooooong before iphone. and every device that can play music and videos has "the whole exclusive iTunes infrastructure behind it".
libreoffice goes belly up opening even the simplest of docx files. no nice fonts, tables get mixed up, charts get all fucked, and lots of other quirks that ruin your file. also, it is slow. i didnt think it was possible to do it but they've actually made a word processor slower than word.
and this is exactly why i look forward to more automation in cars. do you really think driving like an asshole ("flipping the car's tail out while purposefully messing with the throttle to induce a controlled sideways skid on a wet road") is safer?! life is not a fast and furious movie. i bet the guys who coded up your car's traction control and abs know much more physics than you and can better predict the way your car reacts. if you want to do stunts like this, go do it in a closed-off road, race-track, etc.
i think will smith's character was wrong about being angry with the robots. the programmers made the decision he is angry about, not the robots. this behavior could have been fixed with a patch, if will smith had talked to the right guys at usr and made them understand.
untrue. today's games have very rich multiplayer components, and people play it for 6-12 months every night. sounds pretty replayable to me.
Most modern games come with nothing, a DVD in a case and if you're lucky there's a one page card inside with a link to a website which may show you how to play.
that's because they have an inbuilt tutorial. which is miles better than a static list of controls and moves.
Some modern games come feature incomplete. Here's your new game. Oh what you wanted that bit of the story too? Well you can have that as soon as you send us yet MORE money.
i agree, but even without dlc, the game is fairly complete. usually.
A 2600 or SNES had actual cartridges which cost actual money to produce. They were a significant portion of the distribution costs. Todays games come on a flimsy 20c sheet of plastic (if you're lucky) and sometimes you don't even get that instead option for some download effectively cutting distribution costs out completely.
providing gigabytes of download to millions of people also costs something. maybe not as much as a cartridge/dvd, but its not free. and i think all that is offset by the level of sophistication of modern games, which requires more coders, more artists, more testers, better pcs, etc.
I don't think many people understand exactly the constraints probes and rovers operate under, for example Spirit and Opportunity has a power budget of about 0.6 kWh/day and has been down to under 0.1 kWh/day in winter.
doesn't the new rover (msl) have an entire nuclear power generator inside it? it will not be affected by summer/winter, 2kW for 14 years. so i think all future manned missions will use nuclear power instead of shitty solar panels. and not worry about power anymore.
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yeah, and a paltry $80 million is going to fix all those problems, right?
they dont show the popup if you dont have a g+ profile.
I love YouTube comments. They are * hilarious*. No matter what the video is of, you find that the comments always degenerate to the most bizarre, hate-filled arguments imaginable. It makes for some hilarious reading.
But, like sugar, you can have too much of it. It quickly becomes nauseating. Best is to get a small taste and then take no more. Just like too much sugar will eventually destroy your pancreas, too many YouTube comments will eventually destroy your faith in humanity.
ftfy.
weirdly, the same thing is happening to me. the reply button has simply stopped working. maybe only some people are seeing this behavior.
i believe that google guy himself said something like "google+ is not a social network, it is an identity service." its amazing people still use it after that :/
Linux Mint's MATE interface is the way to go. lightweight, fast, familiar ui, and reasonably customizable.
why not use twitter then? it does the follow strangers thing a lot better than g+.
following a bunch of celebrities does not make you an "intellectual". i'd rather say that if you find your friends' posts "stupid cards and signs spamming my Facebook feed", why are you friends with such people. as for following famous people, twitter already does that, with far less complexity and bullshit.
in conclusion, people use g+ because they wanna be all smug and feel "intellectual".
Then its scripts freeze your browser every now and then. And you have to keep killing the process to recover all the memory lost to leaks.
somebody needs an upgrade!
i agree, g+ ui is horribly ugly and slower to load. fb pages look like works of art compared to g+.
g+ has 150 million users, not active users.
this happens when it thinks you are using a shitty browser. lemme guess, android tablet, right? try using an ipad, the fb website is amazing on it.
ms gave nokia a chance. so far, they're still not doing the best. nokia used to make the best phones (highend), AND the cheapest phones (lowend). then, for some time (2-3) years, they sat and did nothing, churning out similarly speced and featured smartphones. suddenly it blew up in their faces, because steve jobs.
imo, nokia should be running to make unique phones that try to sell on something other than being wp. a pure view lumia with 40MP camera would be a fine start.
i don't know if everything (gps, 3g, camera) worked with it but you can install ubuntu on the n900. without hacking, or rooting or doing any weird shit. basically, n900 is the closest to an 'open' phone. and nobody bought it, inspite of huge marketing by nokia.
won't work. nokia already tried that with symbian and maemo. americans didn't buy. nokia on the verge of failure now. imo, choosing wp was the best option they had.
The iPhone worked because people could use it as an iPod, and it had the whole exclusive iTunes infrastructure behind it.
wtf?! people had been using their phones as an 'ipod' looooooong before iphone. and every device that can play music and videos has "the whole exclusive iTunes infrastructure behind it".
libreoffice goes belly up opening even the simplest of docx files. no nice fonts, tables get mixed up, charts get all fucked, and lots of other quirks that ruin your file. also, it is slow. i didnt think it was possible to do it but they've actually made a word processor slower than word.
two words:
slashdot groupthink.
and this is exactly why i look forward to more automation in cars. do you really think driving like an asshole ("flipping the car's tail out while purposefully messing with the throttle to induce a controlled sideways skid on a wet road") is safer?! life is not a fast and furious movie. i bet the guys who coded up your car's traction control and abs know much more physics than you and can better predict the way your car reacts. if you want to do stunts like this, go do it in a closed-off road, race-track, etc.
i think will smith's character was wrong about being angry with the robots. the programmers made the decision he is angry about, not the robots. this behavior could have been fixed with a patch, if will smith had talked to the right guys at usr and made them understand.
yup, i misread the word 'royals'. and even then it does not make any sense :/
lol! then make babies! and make them play lots of games. market increases in 15 years.
Most modern games have zero replay value.
untrue. today's games have very rich multiplayer components, and people play it for 6-12 months every night. sounds pretty replayable to me.
Most modern games come with nothing, a DVD in a case and if you're lucky there's a one page card inside with a link to a website which may show you how to play.
that's because they have an inbuilt tutorial. which is miles better than a static list of controls and moves.
Some modern games come feature incomplete. Here's your new game. Oh what you wanted that bit of the story too? Well you can have that as soon as you send us yet MORE money.
i agree, but even without dlc, the game is fairly complete. usually.
A 2600 or SNES had actual cartridges which cost actual money to produce. They were a significant portion of the distribution costs. Todays games come on a flimsy 20c sheet of plastic (if you're lucky) and sometimes you don't even get that instead option for some download effectively cutting distribution costs out completely.
providing gigabytes of download to millions of people also costs something. maybe not as much as a cartridge/dvd, but its not free. and i think all that is offset by the level of sophistication of modern games, which requires more coders, more artists, more testers, better pcs, etc.
except people won't buy a game that makes you pay for each of its 12 'episodes'. i think its better if they just start making longer games.
I don't think many people understand exactly the constraints probes and rovers operate under, for example Spirit and Opportunity has a power budget of about 0.6 kWh/day and has been down to under 0.1 kWh/day in winter.
doesn't the new rover (msl) have an entire nuclear power generator inside it? it will not be affected by summer/winter, 2kW for 14 years. so i think all future manned missions will use nuclear power instead of shitty solar panels. and not worry about power anymore.