Sorry, but if you have to charge your phone after four hours, you've most likely been playing Angry Birds for four hours straight. In other words, either none of the people you know have to work for a living, or you're simply lying. My bet is on the latter.
You're not looking. The leaves on the trees, for instance. The PC version is clearly more detailed. When looking at them in full resolution, there's really no comparison.
Console graphics can't really rival PC graphics. Take a look at this comparison of PC vs Xbox vs PS3 in GTA4. Then consider the fact that most modern gaming PCs (i.e. quad core with a midrange GPU or better) easily run the game at 1920x1080 @60 FPS, whereas the consoles use lower resolution and get choppier frame rates.
Isn't the iPhone's A4 CPU supposedly some hundred MHz slower than the the one in the Nexus S, giving it better battery life? I don't think this has anything to do with strangling web apps, just different design goals.
No, he's right. Your comment had one single point: condescension. American brands like Miller, Coors and Budweiser aren't any better than Corona. If you're going to look down on something, the least you could do is find a high place. All you've got is bigoted nationalism. Fuck you.
Your bullshit detector must be broken, since your "best example" of artistic production was done in an outdated mode. "Most of it" commissioned by rich clients? Your example of one isn't even anecdotal evidence for that. It might have been true for sculpture and painting, back in the days, but it's certainly wrong for literature, film, music (classical being an exception).
Not really. Anonymity might be valued, but so might personal information. To make money off one of them, you need 1) the ability to deliver, 2) a method for getting paid, and 3) wealthy customers. Facebook gets all of these, 4chan only the first one (and to a limited degree). Also note that Facebook's customers (the source of its revenue) aren't the users, but the advertisers. Invading the privacy of millions of others is obviously worth a lot more than simply saving your own.
Well, there's the old myth of Guinness not tasting the quite right anywhere but Dublin. For all I know, it might be true, despite it all being brewed in Dublin and shipped around the world. Naturally, you'd want to taste the only beer Ireland is known for the way it's meant to be when you're visiting Ireland for the first time.
Pulseaudio is of course a good example, but new stuff comes up all the time. A new version of X.org breaking the binary drivers, a window manager using OpenGL extensions not properly implemented by certain drivers (I believe this was the case with kwin 4.5 and radeon), due to poor communication between projects. You notice more of this when running a rolling release distro like Arch or Debian Sid and tracking bleeding edge drivers, of course. Things related to X have been particularly bad the last few years. Hopefully it will change when everything has been moved to Gallium3d, but until then the situation is a bit messy.
Excusing Apple from being hacked is by definition (2) an apology. Being emotional (something which is only your imaginative interpretation of my rather terse writing, btw) does not negate being rational, on the other hand. You're attacking my comments with false logic and false propositions. Good work for someone pretending to be the rational one.
FYI, you should get paid for that kind of PR work. Making pre-emptive excuses for Apple and all. "Oh, Apple is only losing cuz they're the best, and now we'll get trolls cuz haterz gunna hate!" Perhaps your kind is the reason why Apple is hated. You disgust me.
It never ceases to amaze me what ridiculous pro-Apple nonsense will get modded up on this site. Neither I nor the GP used the word "evil". You didn't address one single point, yet use the label absurd. You should stick it somewhere else, fanboy.
Is the correct answer. The reason why Apple failed competing with Microsoft back in the day is simply that they were more Microsoft than Microsoft. Slightly more incompatible with everyone else, far more locked-in. Much more expensive to upgrade, and more often forced to upgrade.
That's an incredibly long comment for saying something which just isn't true. In the real world, alpha and beta are defined more pragmatically. They're only labels for various stages of "not done yet"; some projects may adhere to your long-winded definitions, most others don't.
Yes, it's doing fairly well, considering that it's the origin of Western culture. Did you know that idiot is a Greek word? It describes you accurately in more than a dozen languages.
Utter bullshit. It can't possibly be a "self-justifying excuse" as I'm not justifying myself, nor excusing anything. OTOH, I do point out the fact that plenty of great canonical works are derivative. Speaking of "cultural decay", all the Greek Classics were re-telling old and well-known stories, and that at what was for more than a millennium known as the height of civilisation. So on the one hand, you have evidence, on the other hand you have your evidently false claims.
Blah, blah, blah. Throughout history, most works of fiction have been derivative crap, a few have been original and fewer still have been really good. Hell, pretty much all the best works of fiction are derivative works: Shakespeare's dramas hardly contain a single original storyline. Computer games certainly weren't any better in the 80s than they are now, you just tend to forget the more forgettable ones. Some of the better ones (Giana Sisters) were pure rip-offs.
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Sorry, but if you have to charge your phone after four hours, you've most likely been playing Angry Birds for four hours straight. In other words, either none of the people you know have to work for a living, or you're simply lying. My bet is on the latter.
You're not looking. The leaves on the trees, for instance. The PC version is clearly more detailed. When looking at them in full resolution, there's really no comparison.
It starts out well, but practically everything in the last section is utter bullshit.
Console graphics can't really rival PC graphics. Take a look at this comparison of PC vs Xbox vs PS3 in GTA4. Then consider the fact that most modern gaming PCs (i.e. quad core with a midrange GPU or better) easily run the game at 1920x1080 @60 FPS, whereas the consoles use lower resolution and get choppier frame rates.
Isn't the iPhone's A4 CPU supposedly some hundred MHz slower than the the one in the Nexus S, giving it better battery life? I don't think this has anything to do with strangling web apps, just different design goals.
No, he's right. Your comment had one single point: condescension. American brands like Miller, Coors and Budweiser aren't any better than Corona. If you're going to look down on something, the least you could do is find a high place. All you've got is bigoted nationalism. Fuck you.
Oh, look! A beer snob!
Your bullshit detector must be broken, since your "best example" of artistic production was done in an outdated mode. "Most of it" commissioned by rich clients? Your example of one isn't even anecdotal evidence for that. It might have been true for sculpture and painting, back in the days, but it's certainly wrong for literature, film, music (classical being an exception).
Not really. Anonymity might be valued, but so might personal information. To make money off one of them, you need 1) the ability to deliver, 2) a method for getting paid, and 3) wealthy customers. Facebook gets all of these, 4chan only the first one (and to a limited degree). Also note that Facebook's customers (the source of its revenue) aren't the users, but the advertisers. Invading the privacy of millions of others is obviously worth a lot more than simply saving your own.
Well, there's the old myth of Guinness not tasting the quite right anywhere but Dublin. For all I know, it might be true, despite it all being brewed in Dublin and shipped around the world. Naturally, you'd want to taste the only beer Ireland is known for the way it's meant to be when you're visiting Ireland for the first time.
Pulseaudio is of course a good example, but new stuff comes up all the time. A new version of X.org breaking the binary drivers, a window manager using OpenGL extensions not properly implemented by certain drivers (I believe this was the case with kwin 4.5 and radeon), due to poor communication between projects. You notice more of this when running a rolling release distro like Arch or Debian Sid and tracking bleeding edge drivers, of course. Things related to X have been particularly bad the last few years. Hopefully it will change when everything has been moved to Gallium3d, but until then the situation is a bit messy.
No, it's broken because there's an infinite number of tiny little parts that usually don't work properly together.
Excusing Apple from being hacked is by definition (2) an apology. Being emotional (something which is only your imaginative interpretation of my rather terse writing, btw) does not negate being rational, on the other hand. You're attacking my comments with false logic and false propositions. Good work for someone pretending to be the rational one.
I just pointed out that it's neither blind nor irrational. The first dozen or so comments to this story were Apple apologists trying to spin it.
FYI, you should get paid for that kind of PR work. Making pre-emptive excuses for Apple and all. "Oh, Apple is only losing cuz they're the best, and now we'll get trolls cuz haterz gunna hate!" Perhaps your kind is the reason why Apple is hated. You disgust me.
For someone actually capable of relevant name-dropping, you certainly take ignorance to another level.
Is that so? You believe a statement of fact somehow loses its validity through a dubious messenger? I rest my case.
You're an idiot.
It never ceases to amaze me what ridiculous pro-Apple nonsense will get modded up on this site. Neither I nor the GP used the word "evil". You didn't address one single point, yet use the label absurd. You should stick it somewhere else, fanboy.
Is the correct answer. The reason why Apple failed competing with Microsoft back in the day is simply that they were more Microsoft than Microsoft. Slightly more incompatible with everyone else, far more locked-in. Much more expensive to upgrade, and more often forced to upgrade.
That's an incredibly long comment for saying something which just isn't true. In the real world, alpha and beta are defined more pragmatically. They're only labels for various stages of "not done yet"; some projects may adhere to your long-winded definitions, most others don't.
Yes, it's doing fairly well, considering that it's the origin of Western culture. Did you know that idiot is a Greek word? It describes you accurately in more than a dozen languages.
Utter bullshit. It can't possibly be a "self-justifying excuse" as I'm not justifying myself, nor excusing anything. OTOH, I do point out the fact that plenty of great canonical works are derivative. Speaking of "cultural decay", all the Greek Classics were re-telling old and well-known stories, and that at what was for more than a millennium known as the height of civilisation. So on the one hand, you have evidence, on the other hand you have your evidently false claims.
Blah, blah, blah. Throughout history, most works of fiction have been derivative crap, a few have been original and fewer still have been really good. Hell, pretty much all the best works of fiction are derivative works: Shakespeare's dramas hardly contain a single original storyline. Computer games certainly weren't any better in the 80s than they are now, you just tend to forget the more forgettable ones. Some of the better ones (Giana Sisters) were pure rip-offs.