Isn't there a statistic that 89% of statistics are made up on the spot? Or is it 87%? Either way, I'm pretty sure there is some statistic or at the very least a common saying that says "x percent of statistics are made up on the spot".
I think your missing point. The exact percent does not matter as it too, is fabricated.
Every time I power on or bring my Ubuntu-running laptop out of hibernation, I have to unmute it in software.
I have a dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 7. I really tried to get into Linux and I went through hell getting the graphics working, largely because it wouldn't automatically detect propriety graphics stuff for reasons that were explained to me only they sounded more like religious fundamentalism than actual usability. Then the clock died and feeds me errors on a regular basis and the sound went away with the exception of the start up sound that is the one sound I don't actually want. I have tried and failed to fix these issues and sadly now Ubuntu has become the horrible thing that happens to my computer when I power it up but am not quick enough to leap at the keyboard and select something else from the boot menu.
Like I said, I would love to have a nice clean working version of Linux, but it needs to 'just work' before it can seriously compete on the desktop market. Why would someone change from something that works to something that doesn't under the guise of the word 'free'. I cannot stress enough that to me, Linux is only free if you have no value on your own time or take pleasure out of fixing things which are broken.
In this, Linux has most definitely won
and it won many years ago
Not on the desktop, which as a PC user is the area most directly relevant to me. It would be nice if Linux was much better than Windows 7, it's just that for most people, it simply isn't.
Perhaps a similar study or "side by side" study should be performed on basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey, and football.
We should start by examining worst offending influences. Its possible that violent video games can lead to violence, but reading religious texts can lead to genocide.
Why jobs doesn't want that POS on Iphones or Ipads!
Easily turned around. Considering it was phishing based attack, you could quite as easily say its no wonder that Jobs doesn't want people actually using iPhones or iPads as anything other than toys.
Thanks. Not wanting to be an ungrateful ass or anything, but it would have helped if you had stated the following information pertained to the UK first..
It's very typically the other way around. TFA for example assumes you are in the USA without ever even mentioning it and therefore ignores things such as the European Patent Convention which "excludes 'programs for computers' from patentability (Art. 52(2)) to the extent that a patent application relates to a computer program"
Sony has the right idea in this. Allowing digital downloadable versions of their games available on day of release. Otherwise surely your opening your game up to a little more piracy?
A little anecdotal rumouring, a news story does not make. It might as well be talking about werewolves and fairies for all the evidence it provides. I'm not saying it's not true, but if your phone is cut off every time you say the word 'protest' then it's not exactly going to be difficult to reproduce and actually prove.
Though you might want to get used to the sound of knocking on your door if you carry out extensive trials.....
You might have been whooshed by a troll. Watch out for that spread between "critically acclaimed" and "commercially popular".
Actually I think this is how most critics are irrelevant and failing in their primary function. They are not relevant to the majority of the market, mostly too busy making themselves seem clever or arty.
All the customer support is in India, now all the IT, research and programming is too. At some point all these highly qualified Indians are going to get together and realise they can cut the expensive USA out of the loop entirely and develop and sell products at a fraction of the cost.
Is it me or does this entire thread seem to state that Americans are preparing for natural disasters by arming up and getting ready to play real life MW2 with their neighbours?
The fact that the west has lost the moral high ground does not raise the moral ground of China.
No but it certainly does not validate our Western opinion, also worth considering are other facts such as how China has half the murder rate of the USA and much of Europe and roughly double the happy planet index value as well as consistently scoring higher in life satisfaction surveys. At what point in any of this do we become qualified to criticise their way of living?
Your right, the west should be quick to judge the foreign cultures we have little personal experience of and take the moral high ground; After all acts like the crippling economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the UN after bombing their country into the stone age only caused an estimated million civilian casualties of which an estimated 500,000+ were children.
But how can the Chinese live with themselves, not allowing children under the age of 18 to visit Internet cafe's? It is much more important we quietly sweep our acts of indirect genocide under the mat then and focus on the real moral issue here, these backward evil nations that resist us putting a Starbucks and MacDonald's on every street corner.
But please keep assuming things about me; it's fun to read.
Actually the second person 'you' was actually directed at the vibe of general dissatisfaction and assumption all these films would be crap by many here and elsewhere and not actually you but I see how it is a mistake to use the word when also quoting someone at the start of the post. My apologies if you assumed it was a rant at you (this time the you is actually directed at you).
LotR isn't the best example... maybe the first movie... but the last two did become mindless action flicks.
It's become too cool to dislike films for X Y or Z 'fancy-pants' reasons but I'll be happy to admit I loved the LotR films, the much derided Battle of LA and even the transformers films. I am looking forwards to many of the films in this list. People these days seem too keen to watch the latest flick with the novel or comic book in one hand booing the choices in casting or plot decisions and I cannot help but think of when people visit big league sports matches and shout abuse or 'expert' advise to some of the greatest athletes on the planet. The guys making the films are some of the best in the world and just because you don't like their immediate choices does not make them inherently wrong. The sad truth is that many of us here in/. are just not in the mainstream audience demographic.
The more hassle it is to play catchup, the less people who'll use firmware hacks for piracy. Sony don't have to win, they just have to put up a fight.
Also worth noting that Sony absolutely will not give up on this when the teams involved in blocking these hacks can justify a blank cheque budget by scaremongering their bosses with notions of limitless piracy.
That is the entire point of hacking in general, to satisfy curiosity. At least true hacking.
In most cases like this, its esteem and bragging rights and not necessarily curiosity.
It is a nice side effect when people can have proper access to the devices they purchase but unfortunately it also has the negative side effect of seriously damaging honest users online gaming experience, especially when all the cheating begins.
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Isn't there a statistic that 89% of statistics are made up on the spot? Or is it 87%? Either way, I'm pretty sure there is some statistic or at the very least a common saying that says "x percent of statistics are made up on the spot".
I think your missing point. The exact percent does not matter as it too, is fabricated.
Every time I power on or bring my Ubuntu-running laptop out of hibernation, I have to unmute it in software.
I have a dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 7. I really tried to get into Linux and I went through hell getting the graphics working, largely because it wouldn't automatically detect propriety graphics stuff for reasons that were explained to me only they sounded more like religious fundamentalism than actual usability. Then the clock died and feeds me errors on a regular basis and the sound went away with the exception of the start up sound that is the one sound I don't actually want. I have tried and failed to fix these issues and sadly now Ubuntu has become the horrible thing that happens to my computer when I power it up but am not quick enough to leap at the keyboard and select something else from the boot menu.
Like I said, I would love to have a nice clean working version of Linux, but it needs to 'just work' before it can seriously compete on the desktop market. Why would someone change from something that works to something that doesn't under the guise of the word 'free'. I cannot stress enough that to me, Linux is only free if you have no value on your own time or take pleasure out of fixing things which are broken.
...right after the world ends in 2012.
Citation required.
In this, Linux has most definitely won and it won many years ago
Not on the desktop, which as a PC user is the area most directly relevant to me. It would be nice if Linux was much better than Windows 7, it's just that for most people, it simply isn't.
Perhaps a similar study or "side by side" study should be performed on basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey, and football.
We should start by examining worst offending influences. Its possible that violent video games can lead to violence, but reading religious texts can lead to genocide.
Who's up for a game of spot the fanboy? From either side of the fence.
Why jobs doesn't want that POS on Iphones or Ipads!
Easily turned around. Considering it was phishing based attack, you could quite as easily say its no wonder that Jobs doesn't want people actually using iPhones or iPads as anything other than toys.
Whole topic should be modded flamebait!
... it appears to be a very pro Google article.
Well their single quoted source was the Official Google Blog, so their bound to 'like' it.
- they're essentially asking for relief from government.
The sad thing is that tax relief for games development would only likely delay the inevitable outsourcing to India or China.
Thanks. Not wanting to be an ungrateful ass or anything, but it would have helped if you had stated the following information pertained to the UK first. .
It's very typically the other way around. TFA for example assumes you are in the USA without ever even mentioning it and therefore ignores things such as the European Patent Convention which "excludes 'programs for computers' from patentability (Art. 52(2)) to the extent that a patent application relates to a computer program"
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent
Sony has the right idea in this. Allowing digital downloadable versions of their games available on day of release. Otherwise surely your opening your game up to a little more piracy?
Happy Birthday William. For your 80th birthday we have heavily Photoshopped this picture of you.
A little anecdotal rumouring, a news story does not make. It might as well be talking about werewolves and fairies for all the evidence it provides. I'm not saying it's not true, but if your phone is cut off every time you say the word 'protest' then it's not exactly going to be difficult to reproduce and actually prove.
Though you might want to get used to the sound of knocking on your door if you carry out extensive trials.....
You might have been whooshed by a troll. Watch out for that spread between "critically acclaimed" and "commercially popular".
Actually I think this is how most critics are irrelevant and failing in their primary function. They are not relevant to the majority of the market, mostly too busy making themselves seem clever or arty.
Welcome to the concept of capitalism!
Welcome to the concept of capitalism!
All the customer support is in India, now all the IT, research and programming is too. At some point all these highly qualified Indians are going to get together and realise they can cut the expensive USA out of the loop entirely and develop and sell products at a fraction of the cost.
Is it me or does this entire thread seem to state that Americans are preparing for natural disasters by arming up and getting ready to play real life MW2 with their neighbours?
Hypocrisy is ok but relativism is not? Or is the real bugbear in the house merely patriotism?
Iraq is more relevant as it is comparably recent and many of the same people are still in power.
The fact that the west has lost the moral high ground does not raise the moral ground of China.
No but it certainly does not validate our Western opinion, also worth considering are other facts such as how China has half the murder rate of the USA and much of Europe and roughly double the happy planet index value as well as consistently scoring higher in life satisfaction surveys. At what point in any of this do we become qualified to criticise their way of living?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Planet_Index
Your right, the west should be quick to judge the foreign cultures we have little personal experience of and take the moral high ground; After all acts like the crippling economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the UN after bombing their country into the stone age only caused an estimated million civilian casualties of which an estimated 500,000+ were children.
But how can the Chinese live with themselves, not allowing children under the age of 18 to visit Internet cafe's? It is much more important we quietly sweep our acts of indirect genocide under the mat then and focus on the real moral issue here, these backward evil nations that resist us putting a Starbucks and MacDonald's on every street corner.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1719267/pdf/v088p00092b.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions#Effect_of_the_sanctions_on_the_Iraqi_people
http://www.suite101.com/content/children-as-casualties-of-war-a176530
the smoking will likely be thousands of times more likely to be lethal than the "radeeayshun" will.
Do you get full dental coverage working for the TSA?
But please keep assuming things about me; it's fun to read.
Actually the second person 'you' was actually directed at the vibe of general dissatisfaction and assumption all these films would be crap by many here and elsewhere and not actually you but I see how it is a mistake to use the word when also quoting someone at the start of the post. My apologies if you assumed it was a rant at you (this time the you is actually directed at you).
LotR isn't the best example... maybe the first movie... but the last two did become mindless action flicks.
It's become too cool to dislike films for X Y or Z 'fancy-pants' reasons but I'll be happy to admit I loved the LotR films, the much derided Battle of LA and even the transformers films. I am looking forwards to many of the films in this list. /. are just not in the mainstream audience demographic.
People these days seem too keen to watch the latest flick with the novel or comic book in one hand booing the choices in casting or plot decisions and I cannot help but think of when people visit big league sports matches and shout abuse or 'expert' advise to some of the greatest athletes on the planet.
The guys making the films are some of the best in the world and just because you don't like their immediate choices does not make them inherently wrong. The sad truth is that many of us here in
The more hassle it is to play catchup, the less people who'll use firmware hacks for piracy. Sony don't have to win, they just have to put up a fight.
Also worth noting that Sony absolutely will not give up on this when the teams involved in blocking these hacks can justify a blank cheque budget by scaremongering their bosses with notions of limitless piracy.
That is the entire point of hacking in general, to satisfy curiosity. At least true hacking.
In most cases like this, its esteem and bragging rights and not necessarily curiosity.
It is a nice side effect when people can have proper access to the devices they purchase but unfortunately it also has the negative side effect of seriously damaging honest users online gaming experience, especially when all the cheating begins.