Spoilers ahoy!
The virus that increases the apes' intelligence is fatal to humans. It seems to be symptomatic a few days after infection, and kills the infected about a week or so after infection. During the credits, we see an infected pilot stepping into a busy airport and sneezing blood.
The apes wouldn't have to fight.
Actually, no not really. Watch the movie, there's a lot less anti-science than I expected.
The apes rising up is due to human mistreatment. The spread of the virus is due to the greedy businessman pushing ahead with trials sooner than the scientist advised. The lead character is clearly shown to want to save both Caesar and his father.
Seriously, give it a chance. I had huge misgivings from the trailer, but the movie delivered fairly well. The complaints about the "bad guys" being two dimensional is somewhat true, but they do all at least have clear and reasonable motivations, despite their lack of development.
Actually, the only real "tech demo" game of theirs I can think of is Lost Coast, and that's still pretty fun. The rest may have introduced technology, but that wasn't the main focus.
First they came for the Porn Apps
And I said "Fuck it, I'm moving to Android".
And there was no one to censor me.
Just avoid shit like this by not supporting the ecosystem in the first place.
It's not just the price, it's that there's not enough reasons to get a tablet over a laptop other than the "new shiny thing" reasons. Laptops are just about as portable and can do more. Yes, there's things that tablets are better at (content consumption like books and movies, touch screen applications), but not enough to justify the price. It's out of "impulse buy" range, and it's hard to think of enough use cases that wouldn't be served adequately by a laptop to excuse the expense.
At least, that's my opinion. I'll ignore the "weight of silver" comment, because I have no idea where that came from.
And if that doesn't bother you enough, think about Microsoft doing it. They built Windows, the most widely used platform in the world, why shouldn't they be able to do it? After all, these applications would not exist if not for Windows! (s/windows/iOS, and it's an actual argument I've seen on this)
As of posting, there are 45 comments. 5 of them are "KHAAAN" jokes.
11% of the comments are literally the same lazy joke.
FFS Slashdot, get some originality.
Except that he's supposedly omnipotent, so he could make it so that we grow, mature and learn the most anyway. To say otherwise would be to deny his omnipotence, no?
Exactly. From my point of view, it's hard to consider a choice as "meaningful" if the consequences of your choice is essentially random. For a choice to have "meaning", you have to be able to actually consider the effects of your actions. The player should be able to have some idea of what will and will not result from their taking an action. I'm not saying unforeseen consequences should not happen, but that there should generally be correlation between the decision and the outcome. The player should have some idea of the gravity of their choice (not an arbitrary "pick up this item or lose the game in 20 hours"), the possible effects (although unexpected complications can be good sometimes), and feel that their actions had an effect.
There's a lot more that I could say here, but I think I might try to work it into a full length blog post at some point.
"PS3 is so powerful it's going to last 10 years"
It may not last 10 years (I can't see 5 years into the future), but it seems like it's going past the usual 5 year lifespan for consoles. That's pretty noteworthy, in my opinion.
I think there's probably a liiiittle bit of marketing hype in claiming a handhold will get the same power as a PS3. Like others have said, I can't see a way to do that and have any meaningful battery life. I'd imagine there would be heating issues as well. In a closed room, a PS3 turned on for a while works almost as well as a space heater (yes, I've actually used it like that before. Don't judge me).
This is pretty bad for an Ars Technica article. They usually do a good job examining both sides and avoid favoring one side heavily.
This piece completely dismisses everything said by the other side. No mention of the possibility of raised fees, ignoring the burden on OSS developers, parroting Gruber's lines about how support Flash is hypocritical, etc. It's a sad day for the standard of Ars Technica's writing.
Is it just me, or are the people that constantly post "Hey everybody, this guy has a GIRLFRIEND!" far more annoying than the folks who mention their SO's? Dating someone isn't that big of a deal. It's not the people mentioning they've found someone that make it into an issue, it's the idiot who gets annoyed at their mention that makes it an issue.
What? I've used.apks to install a number of applications to my Android phone. I didn't have to do any jailbreaking to do so either, just tick a single checkbox.
Are you seriously that ignorant, trolling, or did I just get whooshed?
They've posted about it on Hacker News, and yes it is word by word. They said they'd like to have better translation (Google Translate style), but it wouldn't be possible to do offline. Since part of the utility of this app is being able to use it in a foreign country when you're off the network, that would cripple it. It would also slow it down a good deal, as it would have to retrieve network results.
"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable." The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another."
Politics and the English Language should be required reading in schools.
(Yes, you may have seen me saying this elsewhere. It's worth repeating.)
It's as heavy on the UI configuration as you want it to be. I just used a default configuration and was done with it. Foobar2000 is to music players as Firefox is to web browsers: they can become a timesink or bloated, but it's basically your fault if they do.
Do you have any numbers to support this? Although government programs generally are horribly inefficient, do you have any actual data indicating that NASA is just as bad? You seem to be relying on the assumption that government programs are always wasteful inefficient messes to the nth degree. Private spaceflight seems like an interesting idea, and I know there are several companies already working towards it, but reaching another star is a long, long, long term investment. It seems to me that government funding is actually useful in cases where there is no immediate return for the investors. Otherwise, you're essentially relying on philanthropy, no?
"(X) is Dead" is just as unrealistic as "(X) is the Year of the Linux Desktop". I think the TFA is right that Linux may never gain a majority share, but that doesn't mean it's *dead*.
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Spoilers ahoy! The virus that increases the apes' intelligence is fatal to humans. It seems to be symptomatic a few days after infection, and kills the infected about a week or so after infection. During the credits, we see an infected pilot stepping into a busy airport and sneezing blood. The apes wouldn't have to fight.
Actually, no not really. Watch the movie, there's a lot less anti-science than I expected. The apes rising up is due to human mistreatment. The spread of the virus is due to the greedy businessman pushing ahead with trials sooner than the scientist advised. The lead character is clearly shown to want to save both Caesar and his father. Seriously, give it a chance. I had huge misgivings from the trailer, but the movie delivered fairly well. The complaints about the "bad guys" being two dimensional is somewhat true, but they do all at least have clear and reasonable motivations, despite their lack of development.
Actually, the only real "tech demo" game of theirs I can think of is Lost Coast, and that's still pretty fun. The rest may have introduced technology, but that wasn't the main focus.
I wish I had mod points. This really explains the story much better.
You're using different definitions of the word "right" from each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_rights It is a perfectly valid disagreement though.
Yeah, I don't trust the BBC after that bull they made up about spaghetti harvests.
First they came for the Porn Apps And I said "Fuck it, I'm moving to Android". And there was no one to censor me. Just avoid shit like this by not supporting the ecosystem in the first place.
It's not just the price, it's that there's not enough reasons to get a tablet over a laptop other than the "new shiny thing" reasons. Laptops are just about as portable and can do more. Yes, there's things that tablets are better at (content consumption like books and movies, touch screen applications), but not enough to justify the price. It's out of "impulse buy" range, and it's hard to think of enough use cases that wouldn't be served adequately by a laptop to excuse the expense. At least, that's my opinion. I'll ignore the "weight of silver" comment, because I have no idea where that came from.
And if that doesn't bother you enough, think about Microsoft doing it. They built Windows, the most widely used platform in the world, why shouldn't they be able to do it? After all, these applications would not exist if not for Windows! (s/windows/iOS, and it's an actual argument I've seen on this)
Come on, be fair. It took Apple waaay longer than that to figure it out.
As of posting, there are 45 comments. 5 of them are "KHAAAN" jokes. 11% of the comments are literally the same lazy joke. FFS Slashdot, get some originality.
That doesn't address my point whatsoever.
Except that he's supposedly omnipotent, so he could make it so that we grow, mature and learn the most anyway. To say otherwise would be to deny his omnipotence, no?
Exactly. From my point of view, it's hard to consider a choice as "meaningful" if the consequences of your choice is essentially random. For a choice to have "meaning", you have to be able to actually consider the effects of your actions. The player should be able to have some idea of what will and will not result from their taking an action. I'm not saying unforeseen consequences should not happen, but that there should generally be correlation between the decision and the outcome. The player should have some idea of the gravity of their choice (not an arbitrary "pick up this item or lose the game in 20 hours"), the possible effects (although unexpected complications can be good sometimes), and feel that their actions had an effect. There's a lot more that I could say here, but I think I might try to work it into a full length blog post at some point.
"PS3 is so powerful it's going to last 10 years" It may not last 10 years (I can't see 5 years into the future), but it seems like it's going past the usual 5 year lifespan for consoles. That's pretty noteworthy, in my opinion. I think there's probably a liiiittle bit of marketing hype in claiming a handhold will get the same power as a PS3. Like others have said, I can't see a way to do that and have any meaningful battery life. I'd imagine there would be heating issues as well. In a closed room, a PS3 turned on for a while works almost as well as a space heater (yes, I've actually used it like that before. Don't judge me).
This is pretty bad for an Ars Technica article. They usually do a good job examining both sides and avoid favoring one side heavily. This piece completely dismisses everything said by the other side. No mention of the possibility of raised fees, ignoring the burden on OSS developers, parroting Gruber's lines about how support Flash is hypocritical, etc. It's a sad day for the standard of Ars Technica's writing.
Is it just me, or are the people that constantly post "Hey everybody, this guy has a GIRLFRIEND!" far more annoying than the folks who mention their SO's? Dating someone isn't that big of a deal. It's not the people mentioning they've found someone that make it into an issue, it's the idiot who gets annoyed at their mention that makes it an issue.
What? I've used .apks to install a number of applications to my Android phone. I didn't have to do any jailbreaking to do so either, just tick a single checkbox.
Are you seriously that ignorant, trolling, or did I just get whooshed?
They've posted about it on Hacker News, and yes it is word by word. They said they'd like to have better translation (Google Translate style), but it wouldn't be possible to do offline. Since part of the utility of this app is being able to use it in a foreign country when you're off the network, that would cripple it. It would also slow it down a good deal, as it would have to retrieve network results.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable." The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another."
Politics and the English Language should be required reading in schools.
(Yes, you may have seen me saying this elsewhere. It's worth repeating.)
It's as heavy on the UI configuration as you want it to be. I just used a default configuration and was done with it. Foobar2000 is to music players as Firefox is to web browsers: they can become a timesink or bloated, but it's basically your fault if they do.
They already had a guy for that; he was played by Harrison Ford.
Do you have any numbers to support this? Although government programs generally are horribly inefficient, do you have any actual data indicating that NASA is just as bad? You seem to be relying on the assumption that government programs are always wasteful inefficient messes to the nth degree. Private spaceflight seems like an interesting idea, and I know there are several companies already working towards it, but reaching another star is a long, long, long term investment. It seems to me that government funding is actually useful in cases where there is no immediate return for the investors. Otherwise, you're essentially relying on philanthropy, no?
"(X) is Dead" is just as unrealistic as "(X) is the Year of the Linux Desktop". I think the TFA is right that Linux may never gain a majority share, but that doesn't mean it's *dead*.
RSS readers. I scroll through the list and middle click the items that look interesting. I routinely wind up with 40, and occasionally have up to 60.