"I'm not claiming this is a target-guided bullet, I'm saying it's laser-guided bullet."
So, you're claiming that the laser spot isn't the target for the bullet? Now you're being silly, or trolling.
Of course the laser spot isn't the target for the bullet, who's trying to destroy a laser dot?! If you want to shoot someone standing in front of a wall and target them with a laser but they move out of the way before the bullet gets there the laser dot is going to be on the wall behind them, and you'll still hit the laser dot - because it is guiding the bullet - but did you hit the target? No, because the laser dot isn't the target, it's the guide!
This really isn't that difficult a concept to grasp, I can't see why you're having so much trouble with it so let me try this a different way: If you are hiking with a guide what is that guide doing? He/she is 'guiding' you, and doing so not by moving you or positioning you, but by indicating where you need to go. Likewise the laser is indicating to the bullet where it needs to go, by definition it is guiding the bullet, if the laser weren't there the bullet would not know where to go because it has no guide, the bullet will go wherever the laser is pointing because the laser is the bullet's guide, if it were self-guided it wouldn't need a laser. Really it's not that hard.
If you still don't get it then explain to me what you think the purpose of the laser is.
"Guiding" is a verb, which implies action. You could set up a fixed laser pointing to a spot, and it's the bullet which is taking action to hit that spot.
Take away the laser and what happens? The bullet is lost, it needs guidance, which it gets from the laser. What happens when you need to drive to an unknown destination? You need a guidance system (person, map, sat-nav, etc...).
Your claim is like saying that when going to the grocery store, the store is driving the car.
Wrong, I'm not claiming this is a target-guided bullet, I'm saying it's laser-guided bullet. What gets you and the car to the grocery store? Perhaps you are self-guided - based on your existing knowledge or perhaps you are guided by a friend, a sat-nav system or a map.
Obviously, it's the control logic and fins which are guiding the bullet..
And where to? To wherever the laser paints. The object of the exercise is to get the bullet to hit the target, and since the bullet is guided by the laser (hence laser-guided) it will go wherever the laser goes, which is why you put the laser on the target.
Isn't that why he said you have to do what the users need (as in what they require to fulfill the requirements of their job and progress the business) rather than what the users want?
Why on earth did that post get a Troll mod? Troll mod doesn't mean "I disagree".
oh come on, a completely off-topic gushing post praising apple by a self-proclaimed linux expert and geek that suggests linux should be more like apple and that we would all look like nerds and geeks if it weren't for steve jobs because apple contributed so much more to general computing than linux or windows. I don't think anyone disagrees that apple make good products for a particular market (I certainly use them - OSX and an ipad - for particular things) or that they have contributed enormously to the industry but obvious troll is obvious, if thinly veiled. Also if you switched Apple for Microsoft in a post like that there would be endless replies accusing the poster of 'shilling' or 'trolling'.
Seriously, try one of Apple's products. It's not hard to see why they're so popular.
Of course you can see why they're popular, but it's not price or ignorance that keeps people from owning them, it's that it's never a one-size-fits-all solution.
And for Linux devs - try to make your stuff more like Apple's products.
Why? If you want stuff that's like Apple's products buy Apple's products.
Microsoft spent $500M USD on advertising WP7 prior to the $1B USD that they gave Nokia. That money has had very very little ROI. So marketing is not the issue.
They quality and effectiveness of advertising can't be measured by the amount of money spent on it. What did you think of the 'seinfeld' Microsoft ads?
However, the bigger issue is that WP7 is just not cool
They should have tied it to the xbox brand, not the windows one.
And which 2 ISPs would that be? Surely the submitter is not talking about the ISPs in the article he references, in which they were merely ORDERED to block TPB and makes no claims about who has COMPLIED.
Hint: XS4ALL is one of those ISPs which was ordered to block TPB, which I use, and which has not in fact blocked it.
FTFA: Ziggo and XS4ALL, meanwhile, are expected to enforce the blockade this coming Wednesday, February 1st.
They may not have just yet but it appears they will.
Not really, no. If you read the article (or even the summary) you'll see it is related to Dutch ISPs and that it's BREIN that is the anti-piracy group making the demand. Also that the ISPs you've categorized as fearing the MPAA, RIAA and BSA (which are all American?) were in fact taken to court by BREIN, the court then ruled that they had to block access.
Not sure how you got modded insightful, it's not even close to correct.
My take is that the phone is different than iPhone or Android. It does some things better; some thing worse, but nothing outstanding. At this point it will be a matter of personal preference. It seems most consumers are preferring Android or iPhone.
I agree, if you're a late-comer you need to offer something compelling or revolutionary otherwise most people will likely continue using whatever they are currently using if they don't have any major issues.
He was referring to WP6.5, however there was no Windows Phone 6.5, there was a Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile is a very different product to Windows Phone.
You mentioned, "WP7 is designed *superbly*. It's immensely usable, it's very, VERY fast even on a single core processor."...This sounds just incredible--not even close to what I would expect. The exact opposite of what we have been hearing from many others.
I don't know about the AC - or you for that matter - but i've used a windows phone (phone?) and it certainly is incredibly smooth (even if you haven't used one i'm sure you can have a look at youtube videos). As for usability i can't say i found it any less usable than any other smartphone, things are generally where you expect them to be just like on iOS, skydrive and office integration is pretty nice if you like that sort of thing. I think their zune (on the phone i mean) software needs some work though, for example creating playlists isn't exactly intuitive. It's basically the modern smartphone experience (android, ios) just presented in a bit different way and with ties to xbox live, I don't see it winning over happy iphone or android customers by virtue of it not being something particularly revolutionary or anything like that but for what it's worth it does appear to be pretty well done.
The original product includes the license to day 1 DLC. The fact that you cannot sell this license along with the game should be a violation of the first sale doctrine.
Legally the issue centers around whether the copy is sold or licensed to the user, if it is licensed then obviously the first sale doctrine doesn't apply. IANAL and I think what they are doing is pretty shifty, if you feel particularly strong about the issue I'd recommend taking it up with the EFF, or at least contacting them to find out what their position on it is.
If Ford started selling the key to your car as a "free" app for your smartphone, but anyone buying that same car second hand had to shell out $1500 for a new "key," how long do you think it would take for before either a) congress enacts a law outlawing the practice, or b) FoMoCo's HQ is burnt to the ground?
Or c), GM, Chrysler, VAG, Toyota, Honda, Subaru, BMW, Mercedes, etc all start doing it too and everyone just accepts it as the new norm. Because, sadly, "c" is where the video game world is headed.
No, because that's not what it is at all. It's just the day-1 DLC that comes with the game that you cannot use, so it's more like buying a second-hand car that originally came with a concierge service, but then finding that the concierge service is only available to the original owner. I don't agree with it, but your analogy is way off.
These jackasses are even starting to do hardware locks - won't it just suck when kids can't take games to a friend's house to play them together?
Not that i agree with this, but the new equivalent to that - on the xbox anyway (my ps3 is pretty much just for bluray so it may have a similar feature i just haven't checked) - is downloadable profiles. Go to another console, download your profile and you're set. I don't see why you couldn't do the same thing with Steam.
Of course this doesn't address the used game market or lending games or anything like that.
It's been done in such a way that you can still sell the original product, you just can't sell the non-transferable license to the day 1 DLC. Certainly a dodgy way of doing it.
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"I'm not claiming this is a target-guided bullet, I'm saying it's laser-guided bullet."
So, you're claiming that the laser spot isn't the target for the bullet? Now you're being silly, or trolling.
Of course the laser spot isn't the target for the bullet, who's trying to destroy a laser dot?! If you want to shoot someone standing in front of a wall and target them with a laser but they move out of the way before the bullet gets there the laser dot is going to be on the wall behind them, and you'll still hit the laser dot - because it is guiding the bullet - but did you hit the target? No, because the laser dot isn't the target, it's the guide!
This really isn't that difficult a concept to grasp, I can't see why you're having so much trouble with it so let me try this a different way:
If you are hiking with a guide what is that guide doing? He/she is 'guiding' you, and doing so not by moving you or positioning you, but by indicating where you need to go. Likewise the laser is indicating to the bullet where it needs to go, by definition it is guiding the bullet, if the laser weren't there the bullet would not know where to go because it has no guide, the bullet will go wherever the laser is pointing because the laser is the bullet's guide, if it were self-guided it wouldn't need a laser. Really it's not that hard.
If you still don't get it then explain to me what you think the purpose of the laser is.
"Guiding" is a verb, which implies action. You could set up a fixed laser pointing to a spot, and it's the bullet which is taking action to hit that spot.
Take away the laser and what happens? The bullet is lost, it needs guidance, which it gets from the laser. What happens when you need to drive to an unknown destination? You need a guidance system (person, map, sat-nav, etc...).
Your claim is like saying that when going to the grocery store, the store is driving the car.
Wrong, I'm not claiming this is a target-guided bullet, I'm saying it's laser-guided bullet. What gets you and the car to the grocery store? Perhaps you are self-guided - based on your existing knowledge or perhaps you are guided by a friend, a sat-nav system or a map.
Obviously, it's the control logic and fins which are guiding the bullet..
And where to? To wherever the laser paints. The object of the exercise is to get the bullet to hit the target, and since the bullet is guided by the laser (hence laser-guided) it will go wherever the laser goes, which is why you put the laser on the target.
Isn't that why he said you have to do what the users need (as in what they require to fulfill the requirements of their job and progress the business) rather than what the users want?
Why on earth did that post get a Troll mod? Troll mod doesn't mean "I disagree".
oh come on, a completely off-topic gushing post praising apple by a self-proclaimed linux expert and geek that suggests linux should be more like apple and that we would all look like nerds and geeks if it weren't for steve jobs because apple contributed so much more to general computing than linux or windows. I don't think anyone disagrees that apple make good products for a particular market (I certainly use them - OSX and an ipad - for particular things) or that they have contributed enormously to the industry but obvious troll is obvious, if thinly veiled. Also if you switched Apple for Microsoft in a post like that there would be endless replies accusing the poster of 'shilling' or 'trolling'.
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Seriously, try one of Apple's products. It's not hard to see why they're so popular.
Of course you can see why they're popular, but it's not price or ignorance that keeps people from owning them, it's that it's never a one-size-fits-all solution.
And for Linux devs - try to make your stuff more like Apple's products.
Why? If you want stuff that's like Apple's products buy Apple's products.
No, it just steers itself in that direction, the laser is what guides it to where it needs to get to. The 'paint' is what guides it to the target.
Microsoft spent $500M USD on advertising WP7 prior to the $1B USD that they gave Nokia. That money has had very very little ROI. So marketing is not the issue.
They quality and effectiveness of advertising can't be measured by the amount of money spent on it. What did you think of the 'seinfeld' Microsoft ads?
However, the bigger issue is that WP7 is just not cool
They should have tied it to the xbox brand, not the windows one.
And which 2 ISPs would that be? Surely the submitter is not talking about the ISPs in the article he references, in which they were merely ORDERED to block TPB and makes no claims about who has COMPLIED.
Hint: XS4ALL is one of those ISPs which was ordered to block TPB, which I use, and which has not in fact blocked it.
FTFA:
Ziggo and XS4ALL, meanwhile, are expected to enforce the blockade this coming Wednesday, February 1st.
They may not have just yet but it appears they will.
That about sum it up?
Not really, no. If you read the article (or even the summary) you'll see it is related to Dutch ISPs and that it's BREIN that is the anti-piracy group making the demand. Also that the ISPs you've categorized as fearing the MPAA, RIAA and BSA (which are all American?) were in fact taken to court by BREIN, the court then ruled that they had to block access.
Not sure how you got modded insightful, it's not even close to correct.
My take is that the phone is different than iPhone or Android. It does some things better; some thing worse, but nothing outstanding. At this point it will be a matter of personal preference. It seems most consumers are preferring Android or iPhone.
I agree, if you're a late-comer you need to offer something compelling or revolutionary otherwise most people will likely continue using whatever they are currently using if they don't have any major issues.
Really, no 6.5? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/06/windows-mobile-6-5-review/
And the windows mobile 6.5 sdk from MS.... http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=5389
He was referring to WP6.5, however there was no Windows Phone 6.5, there was a Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Mobile is a very different product to Windows Phone.
suggesting the guy is not american, still means pretty much the same thing either way.
What, btw, is an emporer?
An emperor with the o and e the wrong way round?
You mentioned, "WP7 is designed *superbly*. It's immensely usable, it's very, VERY fast even on a single core processor." ...This sounds just incredible--not even close to what I would expect. The exact opposite of what we have been hearing from many others.
I don't know about the AC - or you for that matter - but i've used a windows phone (phone?) and it certainly is incredibly smooth (even if you haven't used one i'm sure you can have a look at youtube videos). As for usability i can't say i found it any less usable than any other smartphone, things are generally where you expect them to be just like on iOS, skydrive and office integration is pretty nice if you like that sort of thing. I think their zune (on the phone i mean) software needs some work though, for example creating playlists isn't exactly intuitive.
It's basically the modern smartphone experience (android, ios) just presented in a bit different way and with ties to xbox live, I don't see it winning over happy iphone or android customers by virtue of it not being something particularly revolutionary or anything like that but for what it's worth it does appear to be pretty well done.
But how is it just Apple that's being singled out here?
Probably something to do with their size and profits.
The original product includes the license to day 1 DLC. The fact that you cannot sell this license along with the game should be a violation of the first sale doctrine.
Legally the issue centers around whether the copy is sold or licensed to the user, if it is licensed then obviously the first sale doctrine doesn't apply. IANAL and I think what they are doing is pretty shifty, if you feel particularly strong about the issue I'd recommend taking it up with the EFF, or at least contacting them to find out what their position on it is.
If Ford started selling the key to your car as a "free" app for your smartphone, but anyone buying that same car second hand had to shell out $1500 for a new "key," how long do you think it would take for before either a) congress enacts a law outlawing the practice, or b) FoMoCo's HQ is burnt to the ground? Or c), GM, Chrysler, VAG, Toyota, Honda, Subaru, BMW, Mercedes, etc all start doing it too and everyone just accepts it as the new norm. Because, sadly, "c" is where the video game world is headed.
No, because that's not what it is at all. It's just the day-1 DLC that comes with the game that you cannot use, so it's more like buying a second-hand car that originally came with a concierge service, but then finding that the concierge service is only available to the original owner. I don't agree with it, but your analogy is way off.
These jackasses are even starting to do hardware locks - won't it just suck when kids can't take games to a friend's house to play them together?
Not that i agree with this, but the new equivalent to that - on the xbox anyway (my ps3 is pretty much just for bluray so it may have a similar feature i just haven't checked) - is downloadable profiles. Go to another console, download your profile and you're set. I don't see why you couldn't do the same thing with Steam.
Of course this doesn't address the used game market or lending games or anything like that.
First sale doctrine. QED.
It's been done in such a way that you can still sell the original product, you just can't sell the non-transferable license to the day 1 DLC. Certainly a dodgy way of doing it.
Remember 90% of the world's music players do not make a living from it.
What do you mean by 'music players'?
Well he's talking about if it were legal, in that case I don't see why not.
So how much should they be?