The only reasonable reply to this would be something along the lines of:
I am most contrite, good sir, but I know no soul that one may name N. E. the First. Perchance you may bestow further minutiae to aid into attaining your objective?
This is Activision we're speaking of. They have already said they believe franchises must be milkable every year in order to be worth it, and have shown this by shutting down the vast majority of studios which cannot fit that vision. They have also managed to run down Guitar Hero through multiple games a year, every year, and are doing the same with Call of Duty.
Expecting anything but generic drivel in a cash grab effort from this is being utterly deluded.
Activision's marketing machine is going to just entirely obscure the current The Walking Dead games, which are actually, you know, good. Activision's only good for making shitty derivative shooters and this just proves it. Telltale's take on it is visually interesting, plays nicely and generally feels different from the average zombie game.
Such a crying shame most people will come to associate "TWD game" as meaning "generic zombie shooter".
No, the sad part is that very little of this research becomes a Microsoft product. They could've made a killing with some of that (do you remember how much coverage the Courier got? They could've beaten everyone to the tablet punch with that!), but preferred to let it rot in a filing cabinet.
That's plain disingenuous. Firefox's a blatant example of version number inflation; there's nearly no distinguishing feature between each version. Android's a fast progressing software project; new versions are frequent, but each comes with significant (sometimes drastic) changes.
You should be complaining that your phone manufacturer/mobile provider is keeping you stuck at 2.3.5 instead of complaining Google is improving the OS.
I know you were going for a funny mod, but while they didn't actually remove everyone, they made them at least much less painful. You can mute chat and just about ignore everyone if you so desire, but even then they're more helpful than harmful. There's basically no way for an idiot to troll or block you from progressing. Anything they do at the very least helps them, in almost all cases also helps you.
It's a brilliant system and one which removes much of the pain out of MMOs.
Yeah, because obviously Samsung's own designers would never ever think of taking the best bits of their past designs and redesigning the parts that didn't fit, right? It's... slightly obvious that a tablet should be thin and easy to hold, meaning it shouldn't have protruding shapes behind it.
But Apple apologists need to keep the bashing going!
Thing is, will we really call them "tablets" by then? We managed to invent a term for "netbook", yet if you described them to somebody 5 years prior they'd just call them a small notebook. Likewise, a PDA and a smartphone are rather close in terms of functionality, yet they're named differently.
If your idea of a "tablet" is one with a high-precision, pressure-sensitive stylus, color e-ink, a foldable cover and the screen giving proper tactile feedback similar to a keyboard, then sure, that could easily be a dominant force. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately, that's not what I'd call a "tablet" now, and that's probably not how we're going to call it then.
What you're describing sounds awfully like this (apparently already outdated and uninteresting) piece of technology we called an ebook reader a few years ago.
Its battery can last for weeks, as opposed to days. It doesn't let kids get distracted by a billion other things. Its screen is the most wonderful thing (bar actual paper) to read on.
Oh, yeah, except it's not the latest gadget around. Yeah. I guess that means we should go with tablets, right?
I managed to take notes of just about any course I cared about on a computer, with LaTeX. The learning curve was steep but it can help with later tasks and it dramatically improves your touch typing speed whether you want it or not. And if you're curious, I don't just meant text; most courses involved nothing but formulae (physics and comp sci courses).
If I had to do it again, though, I'd probably go for a Livescribe pen, mainly because transcribing everything meant I'd be unable to concentrate on what was said. I had the same issue with writing using a pencil, but the Livescribe's ability to also record what is being said changes many things.
I can also imagine a neural interface that lets me directly write what I think, and I'll gladly move onto that when it comes out.
In the meantime, it's fairly easy to see (without resorting to extremely convoluted analogies) that a full-sized keyboard is better than a touchscreen at text entry. On top of being larger (and thus allowing for a greater margin of error), it features tactile feedback, which is crucial to touch typing. It is also placed in a more suitable location, instead of being stuck right besides the screen.
The easiest metric is wpm, as you've pointed out. A skilled Morse operator can go at speeds in excess of 40 wpm. The currently standing record for fastest Morse copying was set by Ted R. McElroy at 75.2 wpm. The average professional keyboard touch typist is 50-80 wpm. The Guinness Record for fastest touch typist goes to Ms. Barbara Blackburn, who reached a top speed of 212 wpm, with an average of 150 wpm for 50 minutes. That's more than twice the Morse input method's speed. Therefore, a keyboard is a superior form of text entry if speed is all that matters.
I do not know statistics about tablets, but from what I have seen and experienced I presume that they are still significantly slower than a keyboard.
Does anyone know of a good credit card... "sleeve" that shields EM radiation? Ideally something you can put the card into that can fit in your usual wallet and which is still fairly easy to remove for when you do need to use it.
I know business degrees don't usually require you to know how to count, but it's the first time I've seen marketshare stats touted around that add up to 111%.
As much as I'd like that to be the case (competition is good), I'd have issue trusting numbers with such flaws. Either it's quoted out of context or the people who did it flunk stats 101.
While I am not able to repair my car beyond simple problems, I understand the basics of how a car works. That cannot be said of computers for the vast, vast majority of people.
Oh and, I can get my car fixed. I can also fix my PC. Tablet? Yeah, right.
To be fair, at least with government you have the hope (slim as it is) that some people are there genuinely to make things better for everyone (or as many as possible).
True, I forgot about that, but I'm afraid you need a lot more than just a good leader. You need a change in the corporate culture and policies, and as much as I think CM is a very nice project, I doubt he can make that happen. There's just too much inertia.
At best, Samsung would stop messing with things and use Cyanogenmod directly, with perhaps in-house testing before releasing official updates. That'd be an ideal and very unlikely situation though, because CM gives way too much power to the (average) end user.
I certainly hope at least a small proportion of teachers work for the love of teaching and of passing knowledge. If all you care about is money, you shouldn't be a teacher in the first place.
A lot of people have become so jaded they can't even notice the problem.
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Release to marketing would sure explain why we get Metro after all.
The only reasonable reply to this would be something along the lines of:
I am most contrite, good sir, but I know no soul that one may name N. E. the First. Perchance you may bestow further minutiae to aid into attaining your objective?
I know this was supposed to be funny, but the "Informative" mod is depressing.
Infinity/Infinity is undefined, just like 0/0 and Infinity/0.
Not that that helps, as Activision is worse in just about every respect.
This is Activision we're speaking of. They have already said they believe franchises must be milkable every year in order to be worth it, and have shown this by shutting down the vast majority of studios which cannot fit that vision. They have also managed to run down Guitar Hero through multiple games a year, every year, and are doing the same with Call of Duty.
Expecting anything but generic drivel in a cash grab effort from this is being utterly deluded.
Activision's marketing machine is going to just entirely obscure the current The Walking Dead games, which are actually, you know, good. Activision's only good for making shitty derivative shooters and this just proves it. Telltale's take on it is visually interesting, plays nicely and generally feels different from the average zombie game.
Such a crying shame most people will come to associate "TWD game" as meaning "generic zombie shooter".
Nah, because they'll want you to pay more if you take longer.
No, the sad part is that very little of this research becomes a Microsoft product. They could've made a killing with some of that (do you remember how much coverage the Courier got? They could've beaten everyone to the tablet punch with that!), but preferred to let it rot in a filing cabinet.
What's the difference if that 0,1% are organized as corporations or as owner-led robber baronies?
There is no difference, and that's precisely what everybody is so disgusted about.
That's plain disingenuous. Firefox's a blatant example of version number inflation; there's nearly no distinguishing feature between each version. Android's a fast progressing software project; new versions are frequent, but each comes with significant (sometimes drastic) changes.
You should be complaining that your phone manufacturer/mobile provider is keeping you stuck at 2.3.5 instead of complaining Google is improving the OS.
There's a new Windows OS every 2-5 years, each with relatively minor changes from the older version.
In comparison, there are dozens of active concurrent Linux distros all releasing new versions with often jarring UI differences (hello, Unity!).
Windows is usually very conservative and stable in its UI design.
I know you were going for a funny mod, but while they didn't actually remove everyone, they made them at least much less painful. You can mute chat and just about ignore everyone if you so desire, but even then they're more helpful than harmful. There's basically no way for an idiot to troll or block you from progressing. Anything they do at the very least helps them, in almost all cases also helps you.
It's a brilliant system and one which removes much of the pain out of MMOs.
Yeah, because obviously Samsung's own designers would never ever think of taking the best bits of their past designs and redesigning the parts that didn't fit, right? It's... slightly obvious that a tablet should be thin and easy to hold, meaning it shouldn't have protruding shapes behind it.
But Apple apologists need to keep the bashing going!
Thing is, will we really call them "tablets" by then? We managed to invent a term for "netbook", yet if you described them to somebody 5 years prior they'd just call them a small notebook. Likewise, a PDA and a smartphone are rather close in terms of functionality, yet they're named differently.
If your idea of a "tablet" is one with a high-precision, pressure-sensitive stylus, color e-ink, a foldable cover and the screen giving proper tactile feedback similar to a keyboard, then sure, that could easily be a dominant force. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately, that's not what I'd call a "tablet" now, and that's probably not how we're going to call it then.
What you're describing sounds awfully like this (apparently already outdated and uninteresting) piece of technology we called an ebook reader a few years ago.
Its battery can last for weeks, as opposed to days. It doesn't let kids get distracted by a billion other things. Its screen is the most wonderful thing (bar actual paper) to read on.
Oh, yeah, except it's not the latest gadget around. Yeah. I guess that means we should go with tablets, right?
I managed to take notes of just about any course I cared about on a computer, with LaTeX. The learning curve was steep but it can help with later tasks and it dramatically improves your touch typing speed whether you want it or not. And if you're curious, I don't just meant text; most courses involved nothing but formulae (physics and comp sci courses).
If I had to do it again, though, I'd probably go for a Livescribe pen, mainly because transcribing everything meant I'd be unable to concentrate on what was said. I had the same issue with writing using a pencil, but the Livescribe's ability to also record what is being said changes many things.
I can also imagine a neural interface that lets me directly write what I think, and I'll gladly move onto that when it comes out.
In the meantime, it's fairly easy to see (without resorting to extremely convoluted analogies) that a full-sized keyboard is better than a touchscreen at text entry. On top of being larger (and thus allowing for a greater margin of error), it features tactile feedback, which is crucial to touch typing. It is also placed in a more suitable location, instead of being stuck right besides the screen.
The easiest metric is wpm, as you've pointed out. A skilled Morse operator can go at speeds in excess of 40 wpm. The currently standing record for fastest Morse copying was set by Ted R. McElroy at 75.2 wpm. The average professional keyboard touch typist is 50-80 wpm. The Guinness Record for fastest touch typist goes to Ms. Barbara Blackburn, who reached a top speed of 212 wpm, with an average of 150 wpm for 50 minutes. That's more than twice the Morse input method's speed. Therefore, a keyboard is a superior form of text entry if speed is all that matters.
I do not know statistics about tablets, but from what I have seen and experienced I presume that they are still significantly slower than a keyboard.
So basically we need to invent the spork of computing?
So having kids is GM too, then?
Guess a few people would get a stroke if they knew that.
Does anyone know of a good credit card... "sleeve" that shields EM radiation? Ideally something you can put the card into that can fit in your usual wallet and which is still fairly easy to remove for when you do need to use it.
I know business degrees don't usually require you to know how to count, but it's the first time I've seen marketshare stats touted around that add up to 111%.
As much as I'd like that to be the case (competition is good), I'd have issue trusting numbers with such flaws. Either it's quoted out of context or the people who did it flunk stats 101.
While I am not able to repair my car beyond simple problems, I understand the basics of how a car works. That cannot be said of computers for the vast, vast majority of people.
Oh and, I can get my car fixed. I can also fix my PC. Tablet? Yeah, right.
To be fair, at least with government you have the hope (slim as it is) that some people are there genuinely to make things better for everyone (or as many as possible).
Corporations? Not so much.
True, I forgot about that, but I'm afraid you need a lot more than just a good leader. You need a change in the corporate culture and policies, and as much as I think CM is a very nice project, I doubt he can make that happen. There's just too much inertia.
At best, Samsung would stop messing with things and use Cyanogenmod directly, with perhaps in-house testing before releasing official updates. That'd be an ideal and very unlikely situation though, because CM gives way too much power to the (average) end user.
I certainly hope at least a small proportion of teachers work for the love of teaching and of passing knowledge. If all you care about is money, you shouldn't be a teacher in the first place.
A lot of people have become so jaded they can't even notice the problem.