there's no new sony console in sight cause sony is -still- recouping costs for the rediculous development cost of the PS3.
no idea what MS's excuse is.
honestly, I'm not sure why either one of them doesn't just grab the cheapest phenom quad core, slap in a GTX650 and 8gb of ram, write "legitmately 5x faster than waht you've got now", and sell it for $250.
i mean seriously, the existing consoles have a tri-core that nobody can program for, and the rough equivilent of an geforce 7800 (although with unified shaders in the xbox, so more like an 8600).
damn near anything off the shelf is way faster nowadays.
now if only we can figure out what to do with the 600,000 (minimum) extra babies -per year- that would be piling up assuming even the most generous estimates for adoption-seekers vs abortions....
Ever been pregnant? me neither. Wife was though. Looked pretty damn unpleasant.
you ever given birth? me neither. seen it though. looks like it hurts a whole hell of a lot.
also, you know, there's that whole "now I've got a kid I don't want" thing, that's pretty harsh too.
ever had a kid? I have. they're expensive, they're a pain in the ass, and they completely destroy your life. the only thing that makes them bearable is that you love the flying fuck out of them. Now take away that part where you want the kid and add in the part where you're constantly reminded of one of the worst experiences of your life every time you look at them.
now tell me again how that's not harsh fucking punishment?
You know that it is possible to use facebook without sacrificing too much in the way of privacy and personal details.
1. don't put much (or any) personal details up on your page. I think mine knows the city and state I currently live in, the city and state I was born in, who I'm married to, and my birthday. that's it. FB doesn't have my detailed address or phone numbers. It doesn't know where I went to school. It doesn't know where I work or have worked. It doesn't know what I'm interested in. I'm a member of no "groups". I don't "like" any companies, brands, or corporations. I run no apps.
2. noscript and other addons means FB doesn't get to snoop on my browsing habits elsewhere.
FB doesn't know anything about me that isn't public record already. Small price to pay for what is, when you think about it, probably the most underappreciated interpersonal communication tool ever developed. (which also makes you sad to see how it is used, when you think even further about said topic)
To me, that lack of power is a VERY good thing because it means the developers will be forced to make their games fun rather than pretty.
I -know- there are some people on here who remember that there were games before ansiotropic filtered bump mapped motion blured LOD textured polygons.
I even seem to remember enjoying a few of them. Super metroid anyone? Final Fantasy II and III (4j and 6j)? mario kart, ice hockey, bubble bobble, zelda(s), sonic(s), punch out, tecmo bowl, come on how long do I have to go?
there are a ton of good 2d sprite games on the android market. 2d doesn't -need- to be dead.
Not to mention that "underpowered" is relative. This thing is roughly as powerful, give or take, as the original xbox or ps2, and I'm pretty sure there were some good enjoyable 3D games for them as well.
don't lump them all in together. some of the hardware manufactuers have foresight. Asus in particular has impressed me.
Asus tablets are very high quality pieces of hardware, priced -very- competitively. Google themselve selected Asus as their hardware partner for their first nexus tablet.
and what have they done to differentiate themselves from the competition? how about the only tablet that can be attached to a matching clamshell keyboard (that contains a second battery no less) to turn it into an android netbook with 15-20 hours of battery life when you want that.
I see it the complete opposite. Instagram was last month's "words with friends" or "draw something" or "pintrist" or whatever. It was the obsession-of-the-moment for the barely-computer-literate, and from a completely anecdotal point of view, I've seen its popularity drop off tremendously in just the past few weeks. I used to see it all over my wife's tumblr feed and my facebook, and now it's showing up way less often. the new obession-of-the-moment are these creepy animated gifs apparently, that only show like 12 frames at a time of a movie or tv show. I don't get it, but then, I guess it's not "for me".
Facebook on the other hand, for all the complaints it always garners, appears to be going as strong as it ever was, at least as far as I can tell. If there's something new and more popular on the horizon for all the tweens and children, I haven't heard about it yet. That said, FB seems to be constantly slightly reinventing itself successfully every 6 to 12 months, adding some new feature or some new integration to keep its users interested for the next little bit. I don't know if it's Zuckerberg or his underlings doing it, but there's a pretty intelligent hand directing that company (well, perhaps not their mergers and aquisitions dept). I don't see FB going anywhere for a good while yet.
Considering that Carmack and iD software: A. pretty much invented the first person shooter B. almost singlehandedly kept the genre from falling into complete shit for half a decade until other developers figured out how to make games that weren't just copies of wolfenstein 3d C. again virtually singlehandedly created the market for hardware 3d acceleration D. wrote the engine that Valve used for Half-life 1
you just -might- want to give him a bit more respect than calling him "this guy" and dismissing his opinions offhand. "This guy" is more or less the grandfather of modern PC gaming for christ's sake. You don't have to agree with his opinion, but have some freakin respect.
since 1993. How long have you been doing it, because apparenty you're doing it wrong.
I didn't say that no warez was infected, I said I've never been infected. The difference is knowing what you're doing and knowing how to avoid the bad stuff.
one of the nice things about demonoid was that, generally speaking, if a dozen people post comments on a crack or what have you, confirming that they found a virus, the listing gets yanked down. I thusly ran across several things on there that weren't clean, but I never downloaded any of em obviously.
I've never gotten a virus from warez. got one from a porn download once, but that was my own fault. i was about 99% sure that it contained a virus, i opened it anyway to see what my anti-virus would do.
took me about 5 minutes to clean up the mess, and that was that. turned out to be pretty good porn too.
so you're simultantiously rooting for a literal interpretation of the bible AND for the scientific acheivement of the moon landings. wow. nice job. 10/10 troll. would read again!
Apple is not Microsoft, they do not sell operating systems.
they most assuredly DO sell operating systems.
they just will only sell it to people who have already purchased "their"(*) hardware. Which, hey, is their choice. I'm just pointing out that it limits their OS sales. I guess they figure they make more than that back on overpricing the hardware.
*insinuating everything electronic isn't all made by the same 3 or 4 manufactuers in china now anyway.
no, of course not. I was refering to my original post, where I stated that I see no need to purchase a new machine that is spec'd nearly identically to a machine I already own, simply to run a different OS. I furthermore stated that anybody who does so is poor at managing money in response to the guy who insinuated that I didn't purchase a mac because I was "poor".
If you're buying a new machine because you either don't have one, or have something very old, and you want a mac? hey, fine, whatever. it's your dollar. you could have gotten more hardware for less money with a different manufacturer and OS combo, but I'm not going to shit all over your decision.
I think you mean OSX is not for people who are good with money.
Because people who continually purchase and re-purchase goods at artifically inflated prices that are pretty much the same as the goods they already own, simply for the cachet of having the label, well generally those people are what we call "bad at managing money".
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there's no new sony console in sight cause sony is -still- recouping costs for the rediculous development cost of the PS3.
no idea what MS's excuse is.
honestly, I'm not sure why either one of them doesn't just grab the cheapest phenom quad core, slap in a GTX650 and 8gb of ram, write "legitmately 5x faster than waht you've got now", and sell it for $250.
i mean seriously, the existing consoles have a tri-core that nobody can program for, and the rough equivilent of an geforce 7800 (although with unified shaders in the xbox, so more like an 8600).
damn near anything off the shelf is way faster nowadays.
Exactly. And what did you learn from that experience?
What does that have to do with anything?
If everybody had to raise their own cow, feed it, water it, slaughter it, and butcher it... how many hamburgers do you think they'd eat?
Hell, most people wouldn't even want to get their appendix removed if they had to watch it.
people are squeamish... at least until you spend time in the bowels of the internet.
adoption?
of course!
why didn't I think of that?
now if only we can figure out what to do with the 600,000 (minimum) extra babies -per year- that would be piling up assuming even the most generous estimates for adoption-seekers vs abortions....
http://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/cduncan/230/adoption.htm
Ever been pregnant?
me neither.
Wife was though.
Looked pretty damn unpleasant.
you ever given birth?
me neither.
seen it though.
looks like it hurts a whole hell of a lot.
also, you know, there's that whole "now I've got a kid I don't want" thing, that's pretty harsh too.
ever had a kid? I have. they're expensive, they're a pain in the ass, and they completely destroy your life. the only thing that makes them bearable is that you love the flying fuck out of them. Now take away that part where you want the kid and add in the part where you're constantly reminded of one of the worst experiences of your life every time you look at them.
now tell me again how that's not harsh fucking punishment?
You know that it is possible to use facebook without sacrificing too much in the way of privacy and personal details.
1. don't put much (or any) personal details up on your page. I think mine knows the city and state I currently live in, the city and state I was born in, who I'm married to, and my birthday. that's it. FB doesn't have my detailed address or phone numbers. It doesn't know where I went to school. It doesn't know where I work or have worked. It doesn't know what I'm interested in. I'm a member of no "groups". I don't "like" any companies, brands, or corporations. I run no apps.
2. noscript and other addons means FB doesn't get to snoop on my browsing habits elsewhere.
FB doesn't know anything about me that isn't public record already. Small price to pay for what is, when you think about it, probably the most underappreciated interpersonal communication tool ever developed. (which also makes you sad to see how it is used, when you think even further about said topic)
hell, with these "privacy concerns", you better take off the headset before using facebook or even google!
galaxy s3 = $599
ouya = $109
To me, that lack of power is a VERY good thing because it means the developers will be forced to make their games fun rather than pretty.
I -know- there are some people on here who remember that there were games before ansiotropic filtered bump mapped motion blured LOD textured polygons.
I even seem to remember enjoying a few of them. Super metroid anyone? Final Fantasy II and III (4j and 6j)? mario kart, ice hockey, bubble bobble, zelda(s), sonic(s), punch out, tecmo bowl, come on how long do I have to go?
there are a ton of good 2d sprite games on the android market. 2d doesn't -need- to be dead.
Not to mention that "underpowered" is relative. This thing is roughly as powerful, give or take, as the original xbox or ps2, and I'm pretty sure there were some good enjoyable 3D games for them as well.
To be fair, I don't have any 14-year-old friends, so I'll have to take your neice's word for it.
I wonder what it says about a generation however that prefers to communicate with each other in 140 word snippets?
also, I wonder if facebook's age "requirement" affects the distribution curve at all?
don't lump them all in together. some of the hardware manufactuers have foresight. Asus in particular has impressed me.
Asus tablets are very high quality pieces of hardware, priced -very- competitively. Google themselve selected Asus as their hardware partner for their first nexus tablet.
and what have they done to differentiate themselves from the competition? how about the only tablet that can be attached to a matching clamshell keyboard (that contains a second battery no less) to turn it into an android netbook with 15-20 hours of battery life when you want that.
I see it the complete opposite. Instagram was last month's "words with friends" or "draw something" or "pintrist" or whatever. It was the obsession-of-the-moment for the barely-computer-literate, and from a completely anecdotal point of view, I've seen its popularity drop off tremendously in just the past few weeks. I used to see it all over my wife's tumblr feed and my facebook, and now it's showing up way less often. the new obession-of-the-moment are these creepy animated gifs apparently, that only show like 12 frames at a time of a movie or tv show. I don't get it, but then, I guess it's not "for me".
Facebook on the other hand, for all the complaints it always garners, appears to be going as strong as it ever was, at least as far as I can tell. If there's something new and more popular on the horizon for all the tweens and children, I haven't heard about it yet. That said, FB seems to be constantly slightly reinventing itself successfully every 6 to 12 months, adding some new feature or some new integration to keep its users interested for the next little bit. I don't know if it's Zuckerberg or his underlings doing it, but there's a pretty intelligent hand directing that company (well, perhaps not their mergers and aquisitions dept). I don't see FB going anywhere for a good while yet.
I'm not saying I'd buy stock in it of course.
Considering that Carmack and iD software:
A. pretty much invented the first person shooter
B. almost singlehandedly kept the genre from falling into complete shit for half a decade until other developers figured out how to make games that weren't just copies of wolfenstein 3d
C. again virtually singlehandedly created the market for hardware 3d acceleration
D. wrote the engine that Valve used for Half-life 1
you just -might- want to give him a bit more respect than calling him "this guy" and dismissing his opinions offhand.
"This guy" is more or less the grandfather of modern PC gaming for christ's sake. You don't have to agree with his opinion, but have some freakin respect.
thanks for the backup.
it only takes a little paranoia, and a lot of common sense, to avoid getting infected.
How long have you been downloading "warez"?
since 1993. How long have you been doing it, because apparenty you're doing it wrong.
I didn't say that no warez was infected, I said I've never been infected. The difference is knowing what you're doing and knowing how to avoid the bad stuff.
I rarely download anything major from piratebay.
one of the nice things about demonoid was that, generally speaking, if a dozen people post comments on a crack or what have you, confirming that they found a virus, the listing gets yanked down. I thusly ran across several things on there that weren't clean, but I never downloaded any of em obviously.
I've never gotten a virus from warez.
got one from a porn download once, but that was my own fault. i was about 99% sure that it contained a virus, i opened it anyway to see what my anti-virus would do.
took me about 5 minutes to clean up the mess, and that was that. turned out to be pretty good porn too.
but warez? no, never gotten anything from warez.
hell not just adblock, but also noscript, and https everywhere.
my browsing experience can be a pain in the ass, but at least it's relatively safe.
to finally start researching private newsgroup servers.
craigslist was a technological shithole when I last went apartment shopping in the mid 2000s.
amazingly it now looks and works... exactly the same?
I guess they're getting their money's worth out of that "beginning html" book?
so you're simultantiously rooting for a literal interpretation of the bible AND for the scientific acheivement of the moon landings.
wow. nice job.
10/10 troll. would read again!
i'm shitting on the decisions of the guy who told me that the only reason I don't replace perfectly good hardware is just because i'm too poor.
how he got access to my financial records is beyond me.
Apple is not Microsoft, they do not sell operating systems.
they most assuredly DO sell operating systems.
they just will only sell it to people who have already purchased "their"(*) hardware. Which, hey, is their choice. I'm just pointing out that it limits their OS sales. I guess they figure they make more than that back on overpricing the hardware.
*insinuating everything electronic isn't all made by the same 3 or 4 manufactuers in china now anyway.
no, of course not. I was refering to my original post, where I stated that I see no need to purchase a new machine that is spec'd nearly identically to a machine I already own, simply to run a different OS. I furthermore stated that anybody who does so is poor at managing money in response to the guy who insinuated that I didn't purchase a mac because I was "poor".
If you're buying a new machine because you either don't have one, or have something very old, and you want a mac? hey, fine, whatever. it's your dollar. you could have gotten more hardware for less money with a different manufacturer and OS combo, but I'm not going to shit all over your decision.
I think you mean OSX is not for people who are good with money.
Because people who continually purchase and re-purchase goods at artifically inflated prices that are pretty much the same as the goods they already own, simply for the cachet of having the label, well generally those people are what we call "bad at managing money".