This isn't about the ability to play classic games. This is about the ability to easily play classic games. With a Raspberry Pi, emulators, etc., you have to do a lot more to make it work. I'm sure it can be done fairly easily, but people have to do the research, buy the components, load it all together, and troubleshoot any problems. You and I may enjoy doing that, but some people just want to plug it in and play.
Games are automatically saved at certain points allowing resuming after power off: Win
While I agree with the rest of your points, I have to disagree with this one. I find the all-or-nothing approach of most NES games to be preferable. Games like Super Mario Bros. got it right with the ability to have extra lives, but forcing you to start from the very beginning if you run out. The ability to keep reloading a save state until you finally get past a certain challenge spoils the achievement, IMO. By making you start from the very beginning, it also forces you to take a break from beating your head against the same wall.
Of course, this is just my opinion, and how you wish to play your games is perfectly valid.
Can you please enlighten me as to why you believe this is an inferior product? I'm not part of the 'Retro' community, so I'd be grateful to know of any better alternatives.
I have to admit ignorance in this as well. I know of 3 things which are required to connect a home to the internet.
1. Last mile, connecting the users to the network
2. Edge interconnect, which routes traffic to/from end users and the backbone
3. Backbone, which connects all the ISPs
1 and 2 constitute what we colloquially refer to as the ISP. If 1 is a municipal fiber network, then that means an ISP is just an interconnect between the fiber network and the backbone?
Furthermore, phone calls are closer to video than text. We had audio phone conversations before we had instant text communication in everyone's hands, and text communication caught on like wildfire as an easier, less intrusive thing to do.
I think the asynchronous nature of text is a bigger contributing factor to it's success than how unobtrusive it is.
(reposted because I wasn't logged in the first time)
I wish people would stop calling it an upgrade. That implies that it's better than its predecessors, which this clearly is not - when compared to Windows 7, at least. Windows 10 is only an update, which means that it's newer.
Cars do fly. The first flying car was made 17 years after the first car. And the first space car was made 58 years after that. For whatever reason, the stewards of the English language decided to call these things aircraft and spacecraft rather than flying cars and space cars.
I'd like to bolster your argument by pointing out that the word 'car' is a shortened form of the word 'carriage.' A carriage is a device that moves something from one place to another. Therefore, an automobile, airplane, watercraft, and spacecraft are all cars.
The ethical problem with chimeras is similar to the one with abortion. How do we define a 'person?' We have the same DNA as a lot of other life forms. As it is, we can use a pig heart as a temporary replacement for a human heart. Do we define a person based on one's ability to reproduce? A person and a sheep can't reproduce with one another, or we'd have seen plenty of chimeras already, based on the rumors I've heard about farmers in various parts of the world. However, plenty of people are unable to reproduce with certain members of the opposite sex, or at all. Does that disqualify them from being a person? The more we discover about our natural world, and the more we learn to tinker with its many mechanisms, the more we blur the line between us and everything else.
Many people claim that we are moral actors, and therefore are held to higher standards than animals. Men shouldn't kill a rival male, take his mate, and slaughter his children, but some animals do that. Men should also refrain from forcing copulation on a woman, but some animals do that. If we mix human DNA with other animals, at what point do we start expecting lions to be moral actors? At what point do we stop expecting humans to be moral actors? I don't have any answers. Clearly there are benefits to be had here, just as their are benefits to researching embryonic stem cells. At the same time, we need to consider the wider impacts this will have on our society, culture, and sense of self.
I'm pretty sure that they want college-educated individuals because they know how to focus for 6-8 hours a day, and write daily reports. The pay is awfully low, IMO, but it may be ideal for a recent liberal arts graduate.
I wonder where we draw the line for responsibility when encouraging reckless behavior. If someone threatens to murder another person's family if they don't perform some reckless act, then the one making the threats clearly bears most of the responsibility. Youtube creates an environment for people to get attention by showing off their reckless behavior, thus encouraging it. However, I don't think it's specific enough in the behavior it encourages, and therefore isn't responsible for it. Snapchat's speed overlay seems to be a strong enough, and specific enough of an encouragement that it's largely responsible for the ensuing recklessness. At the very least, I would say that it's as responsible for the behavior as a person directly 'daring' another to go faster, and mocking them for being a coward if they don't do it. Where do you think we should draw the line for encouraging such behaviors?
I've never seen one of these nag screens on my Win7 machines. In the office, I use Win7 Pro in a managed domain. At home, I use Win7 Pro with no domain. I never did anything consciously to prevent it. I may have done something, like disable automatic updates, which had a pleasant side effect of preventing these nag screens. Does anyone know why I'm one of the lucky few who has never been prompted to update?
As for the premium, well don't you think gaz station take a profit
No, they don't. They make a few pennies per gallon, and if that's all a gas station sold, it would go out of business within a month. The real money is in the convenience store. They sell snacks, drinks, cigarettes, etc., at a huge markup. The gas is just there to get people to stop. That's also why all these gas station are putting up those obnoxious screens on the pumps, which play videos highlighting their "delicious snacks, and refreshing drinks." It's all about the up-sell.
This makes me wish I spoke Swedish. I'd love to move there. It has a beautiful countryside, beautiful women, and beautiful privacy laws. I also wish I spoke Danish for similar reasons.
In general, I agree with your premise. That's why I never buy the extended warranty on anything. A store wouldn't offer the warranty if it didn't result in a net profit for them. If I can't afford a replacement for an item breaking, then I can't really afford the item in the first place.
For Amazon, selling you a prime membership is better because it removes the shipping cost from the equation when a customer is considering whether to purchase an item from them or not. That turns into more gross sales, and also allows Amazon to make up the difference through economies of scale.
As a customer, is that better for you? You no longer have to worry about shipping costs, so purchasing items through Amazon is more convenient. You also don't have to plan a trip to the store, which can also be more stressful and expensive if you have kids. How much is your time worth for you? How much wear do you put on your vehicle, and spend on gasoline, when you drive to the store? These answers are different for each of us, but I think more of us fall on the side of prime membership being beneficial for us than those who don't.
I'm a prime member, and I find it to be immensely useful. When I calculate how much money we save, prime membership is clearly worth it. On average, the items my family (i.e. my wife) shops for cost significantly less through Amazon than through a brick-and-mortar store. The only advantages that a brick-and-mortar store hold for us are the absence of shipping fees and delivery times. With prime membership's included 2-day shipping, those shipping fees become a small fraction of the prime membership cost, and 2-day shipping delivers the items sooner than I can schedule a trip to the store and buy them. Altogether we save time and money.
It's true that their prime streaming catalog sucks, but that's not the main reason for most people to purchase a prime membership. Prime streaming, by itself, is definitely not worth $100/year.
For those who didn't immediately make the connection, the words "no such agency" in the summary was a reference to the nickname for the NSA. It would have been better if they capitalized it as No Such Agency.
To be a drone it has to be remotely piloted without requiring line of sight by the operator. Your three examples fail the "remotely piloted" requirement because they are in a fixed location.
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This isn't about the ability to play classic games. This is about the ability to easily play classic games. With a Raspberry Pi, emulators, etc., you have to do a lot more to make it work. I'm sure it can be done fairly easily, but people have to do the research, buy the components, load it all together, and troubleshoot any problems. You and I may enjoy doing that, but some people just want to plug it in and play.
Games are automatically saved at certain points allowing resuming after power off: Win
While I agree with the rest of your points, I have to disagree with this one. I find the all-or-nothing approach of most NES games to be preferable. Games like Super Mario Bros. got it right with the ability to have extra lives, but forcing you to start from the very beginning if you run out. The ability to keep reloading a save state until you finally get past a certain challenge spoils the achievement, IMO. By making you start from the very beginning, it also forces you to take a break from beating your head against the same wall.
Of course, this is just my opinion, and how you wish to play your games is perfectly valid.
Can you please enlighten me as to why you believe this is an inferior product? I'm not part of the 'Retro' community, so I'd be grateful to know of any better alternatives.
Remember kiddies:
Don't just format - zero out.
--zero_out
I have to admit ignorance in this as well. I know of 3 things which are required to connect a home to the internet.
1. Last mile, connecting the users to the network
2. Edge interconnect, which routes traffic to/from end users and the backbone
3. Backbone, which connects all the ISPs
1 and 2 constitute what we colloquially refer to as the ISP. If 1 is a municipal fiber network, then that means an ISP is just an interconnect between the fiber network and the backbone?
These gravity waves were not from two black holes colliding. It was just Chuck Norris doing push-ups again.
Furthermore, phone calls are closer to video than text. We had audio phone conversations before we had instant text communication in everyone's hands, and text communication caught on like wildfire as an easier, less intrusive thing to do.
I think the asynchronous nature of text is a bigger contributing factor to it's success than how unobtrusive it is. (reposted because I wasn't logged in the first time)
I'm guessing it has something to do with splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen, and splitting a single application process into multiple processes.
I wish people would stop calling it an upgrade. That implies that it's better than its predecessors, which this clearly is not - when compared to Windows 7, at least. Windows 10 is only an update, which means that it's newer.
Now everyone, please upgrade your adjective.
Cars do fly. The first flying car was made 17 years after the first car. And the first space car was made 58 years after that. For whatever reason, the stewards of the English language decided to call these things aircraft and spacecraft rather than flying cars and space cars.
I'd like to bolster your argument by pointing out that the word 'car' is a shortened form of the word 'carriage.' A carriage is a device that moves something from one place to another. Therefore, an automobile, airplane, watercraft, and spacecraft are all cars.
The ethical problem with chimeras is similar to the one with abortion. How do we define a 'person?' We have the same DNA as a lot of other life forms. As it is, we can use a pig heart as a temporary replacement for a human heart. Do we define a person based on one's ability to reproduce? A person and a sheep can't reproduce with one another, or we'd have seen plenty of chimeras already, based on the rumors I've heard about farmers in various parts of the world. However, plenty of people are unable to reproduce with certain members of the opposite sex, or at all. Does that disqualify them from being a person? The more we discover about our natural world, and the more we learn to tinker with its many mechanisms, the more we blur the line between us and everything else.
Many people claim that we are moral actors, and therefore are held to higher standards than animals. Men shouldn't kill a rival male, take his mate, and slaughter his children, but some animals do that. Men should also refrain from forcing copulation on a woman, but some animals do that. If we mix human DNA with other animals, at what point do we start expecting lions to be moral actors? At what point do we stop expecting humans to be moral actors? I don't have any answers. Clearly there are benefits to be had here, just as their are benefits to researching embryonic stem cells. At the same time, we need to consider the wider impacts this will have on our society, culture, and sense of self.
offering to a different couple of news organizations to mail them
I RTFA, and this is an accurate quote. The grammar in article is as bad as the grammar in the summary.
Too soon, yo~
I'm pretty sure that they want college-educated individuals because they know how to focus for 6-8 hours a day, and write daily reports. The pay is awfully low, IMO, but it may be ideal for a recent liberal arts graduate.
I wonder where we draw the line for responsibility when encouraging reckless behavior. If someone threatens to murder another person's family if they don't perform some reckless act, then the one making the threats clearly bears most of the responsibility. Youtube creates an environment for people to get attention by showing off their reckless behavior, thus encouraging it. However, I don't think it's specific enough in the behavior it encourages, and therefore isn't responsible for it. Snapchat's speed overlay seems to be a strong enough, and specific enough of an encouragement that it's largely responsible for the ensuing recklessness. At the very least, I would say that it's as responsible for the behavior as a person directly 'daring' another to go faster, and mocking them for being a coward if they don't do it. Where do you think we should draw the line for encouraging such behaviors?
I've never seen one of these nag screens on my Win7 machines. In the office, I use Win7 Pro in a managed domain. At home, I use Win7 Pro with no domain. I never did anything consciously to prevent it. I may have done something, like disable automatic updates, which had a pleasant side effect of preventing these nag screens. Does anyone know why I'm one of the lucky few who has never been prompted to update?
As for the premium, well don't you think gaz station take a profit
No, they don't. They make a few pennies per gallon, and if that's all a gas station sold, it would go out of business within a month. The real money is in the convenience store. They sell snacks, drinks, cigarettes, etc., at a huge markup. The gas is just there to get people to stop. That's also why all these gas station are putting up those obnoxious screens on the pumps, which play videos highlighting their "delicious snacks, and refreshing drinks." It's all about the up-sell.
This makes me wish I spoke Swedish. I'd love to move there. It has a beautiful countryside, beautiful women, and beautiful privacy laws. I also wish I spoke Danish for similar reasons.
Exclusive, low price items for a membership fee? If I were Costco I'd be nervous...
Low price items? There's a reason we call it the "$200 store" around here. You spend at least that much every time you shop there.
In general, I agree with your premise. That's why I never buy the extended warranty on anything. A store wouldn't offer the warranty if it didn't result in a net profit for them. If I can't afford a replacement for an item breaking, then I can't really afford the item in the first place. For Amazon, selling you a prime membership is better because it removes the shipping cost from the equation when a customer is considering whether to purchase an item from them or not. That turns into more gross sales, and also allows Amazon to make up the difference through economies of scale. As a customer, is that better for you? You no longer have to worry about shipping costs, so purchasing items through Amazon is more convenient. You also don't have to plan a trip to the store, which can also be more stressful and expensive if you have kids. How much is your time worth for you? How much wear do you put on your vehicle, and spend on gasoline, when you drive to the store? These answers are different for each of us, but I think more of us fall on the side of prime membership being beneficial for us than those who don't.
I admit that I didn't read the article, but I don't think drugs and alcohol are things which are offered exclusively to prime members.
I'm a prime member, and I find it to be immensely useful. When I calculate how much money we save, prime membership is clearly worth it. On average, the items my family (i.e. my wife) shops for cost significantly less through Amazon than through a brick-and-mortar store. The only advantages that a brick-and-mortar store hold for us are the absence of shipping fees and delivery times. With prime membership's included 2-day shipping, those shipping fees become a small fraction of the prime membership cost, and 2-day shipping delivers the items sooner than I can schedule a trip to the store and buy them. Altogether we save time and money. It's true that their prime streaming catalog sucks, but that's not the main reason for most people to purchase a prime membership. Prime streaming, by itself, is definitely not worth $100/year.
Gravitational waves are the result of Chuck Norris doing push-ups. All this "gamma ray" stuff is just Chuck Norris deniers grasping at straws.
For those who didn't immediately make the connection, the words "no such agency" in the summary was a reference to the nickname for the NSA. It would have been better if they capitalized it as No Such Agency.
To be a drone it has to be remotely piloted without requiring line of sight by the operator. Your three examples fail the "remotely piloted" requirement because they are in a fixed location.