You had blue screens every couple of weeks? Sounds like a hardware problem, not a Vista problem. Good thing you were able to find an excuse to insult Vista though! Nice job!
But the beginning of the story was not normal progression whatsoever.
Trying and trying again I wouldn't call a plot pattern since you could make the same association with a love story, mystery, action film -- all of which have completely different plot focuses. Using your logic, Shrek has the same plot pattern as Iron Man.
True. But I think a recent movie I saw with a less-rehashed storyline would be Iron Man. I was pleasantly surprised by the unorthodox flow of the storyline. But even parts of that movie were typical.
I think he was just saying that these anal people expect the movie to be exactly like the book. And yes, they usually do go on and on about every single difference.
It's not practical or feasible most of the time to have a movie follow its source book precisely. These anal types really have nothing to bitch about.
Forcing everyone to learn CS would be the same thing as forcing everyone to take Anthropology. It's optional for a reason.
They should focus more on teaching mathematics well to ensure that students don't get raped when they get into college/university. Foreign students have an unbelievable advantage over the domestic.
Speeding is illegal but not immoral. Speed limits are intentionally set much lower than needed with safety as the excuse -- however the real reason is to increase government revenue. Ever wonder why whenever you hear about a budget crisis, all of the sudden 5 people you know have recently been pulled over by The Man for speeding?
Oh.. my wife got a speeding ticket for going 11 over the speed limit. We paid the fine.
Is that 11 miles or kilometers? You still should have fought it. The police know that there are bigger fish to fry out there.
You can't just blindly agree with all parts of the law.
What you described is a single incident. This case was planned harm inflicted over a long period of time (even more evidence that it was intentional).
The law realizes, in some areas, that humans are humans. If someone asks me out and I reject and humiliate them without thinking, I may be charged with a federal crime, but probably not convicted. Even if they killed themselves from a single incident or harassment, I wouldn't be responsible because by all reason, it wasn't just my hand that pushed them off of the brink. However if I planned to harass this person repeatedly, and there was evidence that I went to great lengths to do this, I probably would get convicted. There's a difference.
I'm sorry but I don't buy it. I'm not denying that Apple has remarkably outsold other cell/smart phone companies in a short period of time. It is truly an achievement. But to say they did it completely through innovation is naive.
Apple had two things going for them. The touchscreen phone market was relatively untouched (I'm not talking stylus) at the time the iPhone was released. The other thing they have always had going for them: Apple advertises like nuts and gets the young ones hooked on their products through pop culture mass media.
Yes, Apple innovated (a bit). But had the iPhone or its 3G successor been released later, it would not have made as much of a splash. The same would be the case if they had not advertised as much. Since iPhone's release, I have seen an advertisement for it at least half of each time I sit down to watch television. How many advertisements for Nokia, BlackBerry, or Palm did you see on TV before the iPhone's release?
Apple has had the luck of saturating this market at the right time. The pushed it with advertising. Their phone could have been crap and it still would have sold. Innovation was just a little thing they threw in as a bonus for us consumers.
Moore's law is just that the number of transistors will double in chips every X years. I don't think it says anything about the power the CPU produces or how it produces it (number of cores, and frequency per core).
So Moore's law isn't anyone's problem but the hardware people. If fact it wasn't even a law, just an observation that Moore made at the time and it happened to continue.
It's the hardware people who have created a problem for us programmers by increasing the number of cores instead of increasing the frequency of each core.
The reason why the Wii is outselling the other two consoles is because it focuses on fun and the quality of the games.
I disagree with that. Most Wii games focus on using motion controls for the sake of using motion controls. It mostly results in a bad experience that people think they will like because they have never tried it before. This is why Nintendo keeps popping out different peripherals every few months: to entice new gamers.
But to say that there is fun and quality in their games, well I wouldn't agree with that. A lot of the games for Wii would be much more fun without motion controls at all.
Wii being better for Nintendo or not, I was severely disappointed by the console.
However, if you aren't interested in games for Grandma, why would you care?
Exactly. I felt that most of the games simply weren't as immersive as with other consoles. They were either directed towards casual gamers and might as well have been put on Pop Cap online games, or the flaky motion controls just got in the way of the experience. After having the console for 4 months, I had already stopped playing. I have heard similar experiences from many, many people.
Maybe innovate the controllers fully next time instead of cheaping-out just to make a profit. It would also help if any third parties were able to make as good of games as first parties when using motion controls.
Good news is that everyone's still hooked on the system, so Christmas is going to be a great time to sell!
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You had blue screens every couple of weeks? Sounds like a hardware problem, not a Vista problem. Good thing you were able to find an excuse to insult Vista though! Nice job!
If theres someone that can do your job better or cheaper, shouldn't he get it, regardless of what shithole country he is forced to live in?
Not unless you want to support sweat shops!
But the beginning of the story was not normal progression whatsoever. Trying and trying again I wouldn't call a plot pattern since you could make the same association with a love story, mystery, action film -- all of which have completely different plot focuses. Using your logic, Shrek has the same plot pattern as Iron Man.
True. But I think a recent movie I saw with a less-rehashed storyline would be Iron Man. I was pleasantly surprised by the unorthodox flow of the storyline. But even parts of that movie were typical.
I think he was just saying that these anal people expect the movie to be exactly like the book. And yes, they usually do go on and on about every single difference.
It's not practical or feasible most of the time to have a movie follow its source book precisely. These anal types really have nothing to bitch about.
Forcing everyone to learn CS would be the same thing as forcing everyone to take Anthropology. It's optional for a reason.
They should focus more on teaching mathematics well to ensure that students don't get raped when they get into college/university. Foreign students have an unbelievable advantage over the domestic.
Well they get sympathy in mine.
Speeding is illegal but not immoral. Speed limits are intentionally set much lower than needed with safety as the excuse -- however the real reason is to increase government revenue. Ever wonder why whenever you hear about a budget crisis, all of the sudden 5 people you know have recently been pulled over by The Man for speeding?
Oh .. my wife got a speeding ticket for going 11 over the speed limit. We paid the fine.
Is that 11 miles or kilometers? You still should have fought it. The police know that there are bigger fish to fry out there.
You can't just blindly agree with all parts of the law.
It's not stealing. It's copyright infringement.
Boy people really piss me off when they argue over semantics...
You're stretching the logic far too much.
What you described is a single incident. This case was planned harm inflicted over a long period of time (even more evidence that it was intentional).
The law realizes, in some areas, that humans are humans. If someone asks me out and I reject and humiliate them without thinking, I may be charged with a federal crime, but probably not convicted. Even if they killed themselves from a single incident or harassment, I wouldn't be responsible because by all reason, it wasn't just my hand that pushed them off of the brink. However if I planned to harass this person repeatedly, and there was evidence that I went to great lengths to do this, I probably would get convicted. There's a difference.
For once innovation pays, I love it.
I'm sorry but I don't buy it. I'm not denying that Apple has remarkably outsold other cell/smart phone companies in a short period of time. It is truly an achievement. But to say they did it completely through innovation is naive.
Apple had two things going for them. The touchscreen phone market was relatively untouched (I'm not talking stylus) at the time the iPhone was released. The other thing they have always had going for them: Apple advertises like nuts and gets the young ones hooked on their products through pop culture mass media.
Yes, Apple innovated (a bit). But had the iPhone or its 3G successor been released later, it would not have made as much of a splash. The same would be the case if they had not advertised as much. Since iPhone's release, I have seen an advertisement for it at least half of each time I sit down to watch television. How many advertisements for Nokia, BlackBerry, or Palm did you see on TV before the iPhone's release?
Apple has had the luck of saturating this market at the right time. The pushed it with advertising. Their phone could have been crap and it still would have sold. Innovation was just a little thing they threw in as a bonus for us consumers.
I'm not saying they intentionally created a problem, either. But a problem it is for programmers right now.
Moore's law is just that the number of transistors will double in chips every X years. I don't think it says anything about the power the CPU produces or how it produces it (number of cores, and frequency per core).
So Moore's law isn't anyone's problem but the hardware people. If fact it wasn't even a law, just an observation that Moore made at the time and it happened to continue.
It's the hardware people who have created a problem for us programmers by increasing the number of cores instead of increasing the frequency of each core.
The reason why the Wii is outselling the other two consoles is because it focuses on fun and the quality of the games.
I disagree with that. Most Wii games focus on using motion controls for the sake of using motion controls. It mostly results in a bad experience that people think they will like because they have never tried it before. This is why Nintendo keeps popping out different peripherals every few months: to entice new gamers.
But to say that there is fun and quality in their games, well I wouldn't agree with that. A lot of the games for Wii would be much more fun without motion controls at all.
However, if you aren't interested in games for Grandma, why would you care?
Exactly. I felt that most of the games simply weren't as immersive as with other consoles. They were either directed towards casual gamers and might as well have been put on Pop Cap online games, or the flaky motion controls just got in the way of the experience. After having the console for 4 months, I had already stopped playing. I have heard similar experiences from many, many people.
Maybe innovate the controllers fully next time instead of cheaping-out just to make a profit. It would also help if any third parties were able to make as good of games as first parties when using motion controls.
Good news is that everyone's still hooked on the system, so Christmas is going to be a great time to sell!