VERY few console games actually run at 1080p whether or not your TV can accommodate that resolution. Among the titles that you'd compare with Crysis 3 for PC, ZERO of them run at 1080p.
This is all exactly relevant to what I said. Police departments finding a dead body and a person with a violent criminal record having shot them are subject to penalties under the stand your ground law because these guys were found to have "stood their ground". This is insanity. How many similar cases aren't even reported on because police feared being penalized and never even arrested the shooter such that he could even be legally deemed to have shot in self defense. The law grossly expands the definition of self defense and then penalizes police for responding reasonably in cases where someone has been shot under unknown circumstances. It's not enough to make almost anything that happens in your home self defense, we also have to make sure that police aren't even allowed to keep you from leaving town while they try to figure out what did happen. I'm willing to accept that some people do not consider this law to be overly broad in it's stated intention. But no rational person who actually understands it as written can think that about it's horrific and sloppy text and execution.
The previous self defense law in Florida was perfectly fine. If you felt threatened and had no way to escape you were justified in using lethal force. Stand your ground essentially took away the "and you have no way to escape" part of the law such that you can always use lethal force if you feel threatened. On top of that it added language so broad that it's comical. It also introduced punishments (yes punishments) for police departments which arrest somebody who is later found to have been within the new stand your ground law. That is not rational policy. If the police find someone dead and you say you shot them, you go to jail and your self defense or not is determined by state prosecutors and ultimately a judge and jury. Self defense is a determination made by the justice system, NOT by law enforcement. Punishing police departments for doing their lawful duty is absolutely stupid. It's a great way to make sure almost nobody ever gets arrested for murder as long as the dead guy was in their house.
I do love me some libre office in general. But I must admit that impress is straight up garbage. It does OK (and just ok) at opening ppt files. It sucks big time at building presentations. Google docs presentation builder is much better, but if you're mostly interested in presentations Office is really hard to avoid. Calc and writer put up an admirable showing for sure, but impress does not impress in the slightest.
You can disable this from the options menu. The command line is only needed to remove the functionality entirely such that nobody could enable it again.
So if you bought a Hello Kitty laptop filled with gigabytes of Hello Kitty videos and programs that would all be part of the Windows installation? I can see your definition totally makes as much sense as mine does. Those tools you are complaining about also let you burn a windows install disc from the recovery partition so you can blow it away if you want. Official Windows.iso files are also available online. Whenever I've installed windows from an official disc there was no recovery partition. Lenovo put that there. And 36% is not almost half. If you didn't want the things that Lenovo put on your machine then either get rid of them yourself or buy a different computer. If your point is that 27 is a bigger number than other smaller numbers, then explain why that matters. Storage is dirt cheap these days. Does an extra 20GB of space make your computer amazingly more functional than it was before? To the extent that you had a point you buried it under so much exaggerated bullshit that nobody can see it anymore.
When did 36% become "almost half"? Wait excuse me, "almost *HALF*". I forgot to include the needless hyperbole which looks even more ridiculous in light of your own numbers. Especially since a good portion of that is taken up by Lenovo's recovery partition. You know, that thing which has nothing at all to do with any decision on MS's part concerning their OS.
Sounds like you just killed your own argument. As you said, games hardly ever use more than 4GB of RAM. 4GB of RAM is not "large amounts of RAM". Ram is so cheap now, and even insanely cheap and small machines like the Zotac Zbox computers will support up to 8GB. I really don't see how this could possibly be a problem for anybody who would want to play games enough to even care that it's a problem.
The pixel quadruple resolution was chosen to allow OLD apps to run at the OLD resolution without looking as much like crap as they would on a non-integer pixel increase. NEW apps can and do run at the native resolution and work just fine and do look a lot better. The original post was completely wrong and stupid. That's all there is to it.
When legality is defined by whatever a mall security guard says then nobody can ever be sure about what is or is not legal. That's why we have laws codified by government and available for everybody to read. Security guards don't get to make it up as they go.
Exactly my thoughts as well. I was one of those Wii owners who was NOT rewarded for a 5 year wait between Zelda games because I was so bored by the end of Twilight Princess from all the rehashed crap that I never even bothered to play Skyward Sword. Twilight Princess looked like a shameless rehash from the start, but glowing reviews assured me that it only seemed that way and was really quite excellent. It wasn't. When glowing reviews for Skyward Sword appeared to be (quite ironically) rehashing the exact same language from the LoZ:TP reviews, I chose to pass.
You're an idiot. The methods for producing the original hockey stick graph were not hidden. They were published. And since publication, six or seven other climate research groups have analyzed the raw data themselves and all come up with similar graphs. I believe you are the one not looking critically at all the data. Like the fact that the hockey stick graph isn't a fraud just because two nobodies wrote a book (a book not peer reviewed before publication) saying so. They also said in their book that Mann's group cheated when producing their hockey stick graph because they only picked temperature proxy data sets which closely matched the known recent temperature record. The authors actually thought that their readers we too stupid to even know what a temperature proxy is and that closely matching the known temp record is exactly how you assess the accuracy of a temperature proxy. So Mann cheated because he only included the most accurate temperature proxies. They also don't tell you how they generated their non-hockey stick graph, by using the highly scientific method of simply throwing out any temperature proxy data that looked vaguely hockey stick shaped from inclusion in the analysis. If you spent 5 minutes on the internet looking for information that counters your beliefs as you accuse everyone else of not doing, then you'd easily find evidence that your post is idiotic bullshit.
Physics engines. I've seen too many otherwise excellent games absolutely crippled by their lazy reliance on a physics engine for things that don't actually work well that way. Watching enemy corpse ragdolls fly across the room is hilarious. Watching your valuable health, ammo, XP pickups sail over impassable barriers because some retarded dev decided that it would be "so super cool if those things had physics" is much less awesome. It's so easy to just click the "apply physics" check box without even thinking if it's going to make your game more fun or worrying about what it's going to mean for gameplay.
My biggest beef with email isn't so much shared documents but shared email threads. Getting cc'd on a group email after 7 or 8 reply-all's have already taken place is pretty much like getting a kick in the junk from your coworkers. And it's just presentation. If each message in the thread cleanly identified the writer without all the auto signatures tacked on with phone numbers and fax numbers and to/from info heading every single message in the thread with a list of poorly formatted information etc. Add a passed around collaborative document to that and your whole morning is gone.
I think they just lack follow through in a lot of cases. Google Wave was an excellent project. It's my opinion that if you frequently use email in a work related environment and don't hate the entire idea of it, you are a special kind of person (like actually a robot). All Google needed to do was say "here's Wave, it's kind of like email, but it sucks way less for most of the use cases of email." Instead they completely oversold a perfectly awesome email/IM alternative with a bunch of jargon about collaborative word documents, which nobody ever seemed able to get to work at all, and custom apps/plugins when none of the first available of them either worked or were interesting, and general collaboration/maps/project management/documents/wiki type functionality that didn't work well from the start and were totally overkill for what would have been a simple and huge deal for most people with jobs: something that does what email does but doesn't suck. After all this they canned it before it ever had a chance to demonstrate these advanced features.
That would be your Intelligent Design right there. You may not realize this depending on where you get your science information but there is quite literally ZERO evidence in favor of ID. Not a little. Or some weak evidence that needs more study to flesh it out. ZERO. Not a little bit vs. evolution through natural selection's large piles. I mean zero. Nothing. Intelligent design is blind religion at it's finest.
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
-Albert Einstein
Oh that kidder. We all know he wasn't a fan of evidence or anything so banal as that.
The first two Hyperion books were excellent. The next two were complete crap. I would advise anybody against reading hyperion for just that reason. The first two books are so good you won't be able to help yourself when it comes to the next two, and it's just not worth the horrible disappointment.
I've always been bothered by the needless complexity of a lot of disc ripping software. Sure options are nice, but seriously: storage space is dirt cheap these days (minus a certain flood induced shortage) just give me a damned rip button that rips a file of similar quality to the original. Thus I recommend MakeMKV. Extremely awesome software. I have no idea where they get off trying to charge $50 for it, but you can use it for free forever as long as you don't mind reinstalling it every 30 days.
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VERY few console games actually run at 1080p whether or not your TV can accommodate that resolution. Among the titles that you'd compare with Crysis 3 for PC, ZERO of them run at 1080p.
This is all exactly relevant to what I said. Police departments finding a dead body and a person with a violent criminal record having shot them are subject to penalties under the stand your ground law because these guys were found to have "stood their ground". This is insanity. How many similar cases aren't even reported on because police feared being penalized and never even arrested the shooter such that he could even be legally deemed to have shot in self defense. The law grossly expands the definition of self defense and then penalizes police for responding reasonably in cases where someone has been shot under unknown circumstances. It's not enough to make almost anything that happens in your home self defense, we also have to make sure that police aren't even allowed to keep you from leaving town while they try to figure out what did happen. I'm willing to accept that some people do not consider this law to be overly broad in it's stated intention. But no rational person who actually understands it as written can think that about it's horrific and sloppy text and execution.
Reality must not have read the same law you did
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/many-killers-who-go-free-with-florida-stand-your-ground-law-have-history/1241378
It would also seem that only men are allowed to stand their ground:
http://www.care2.com/causes/stand-your-ground-fails-abused-wife.html
The previous self defense law in Florida was perfectly fine. If you felt threatened and had no way to escape you were justified in using lethal force. Stand your ground essentially took away the "and you have no way to escape" part of the law such that you can always use lethal force if you feel threatened. On top of that it added language so broad that it's comical. It also introduced punishments (yes punishments) for police departments which arrest somebody who is later found to have been within the new stand your ground law. That is not rational policy. If the police find someone dead and you say you shot them, you go to jail and your self defense or not is determined by state prosecutors and ultimately a judge and jury. Self defense is a determination made by the justice system, NOT by law enforcement. Punishing police departments for doing their lawful duty is absolutely stupid. It's a great way to make sure almost nobody ever gets arrested for murder as long as the dead guy was in their house.
I do love me some libre office in general. But I must admit that impress is straight up garbage. It does OK (and just ok) at opening ppt files. It sucks big time at building presentations. Google docs presentation builder is much better, but if you're mostly interested in presentations Office is really hard to avoid. Calc and writer put up an admirable showing for sure, but impress does not impress in the slightest.
You can disable this from the options menu. The command line is only needed to remove the functionality entirely such that nobody could enable it again.
So if you bought a Hello Kitty laptop filled with gigabytes of Hello Kitty videos and programs that would all be part of the Windows installation? I can see your definition totally makes as much sense as mine does. Those tools you are complaining about also let you burn a windows install disc from the recovery partition so you can blow it away if you want. Official Windows .iso files are also available online. Whenever I've installed windows from an official disc there was no recovery partition. Lenovo put that there. And 36% is not almost half. If you didn't want the things that Lenovo put on your machine then either get rid of them yourself or buy a different computer. If your point is that 27 is a bigger number than other smaller numbers, then explain why that matters. Storage is dirt cheap these days. Does an extra 20GB of space make your computer amazingly more functional than it was before? To the extent that you had a point you buried it under so much exaggerated bullshit that nobody can see it anymore.
When did 36% become "almost half"? Wait excuse me, "almost *HALF*". I forgot to include the needless hyperbole which looks even more ridiculous in light of your own numbers. Especially since a good portion of that is taken up by Lenovo's recovery partition. You know, that thing which has nothing at all to do with any decision on MS's part concerning their OS.
Sounds like you just killed your own argument. As you said, games hardly ever use more than 4GB of RAM. 4GB of RAM is not "large amounts of RAM". Ram is so cheap now, and even insanely cheap and small machines like the Zotac Zbox computers will support up to 8GB. I really don't see how this could possibly be a problem for anybody who would want to play games enough to even care that it's a problem.
The cheesy page turn animation is a horrible UI flourish. Apple did us all a favor by forcing other tablets to employ less garish page turn effects.
Complete stupidity.
The pixel quadruple resolution was chosen to allow OLD apps to run at the OLD resolution without looking as much like crap as they would on a non-integer pixel increase. NEW apps can and do run at the native resolution and work just fine and do look a lot better. The original post was completely wrong and stupid. That's all there is to it.
When legality is defined by whatever a mall security guard says then nobody can ever be sure about what is or is not legal. That's why we have laws codified by government and available for everybody to read. Security guards don't get to make it up as they go.
Anybody else involuntarily swap "futurist" and "crackpot" in their minds whenever they read the term in a sentence? Especially one about Kurzweil?
Especially when the swipe to remove functionality pretty much removes the need for the fugly X buttons in the first place.
Acupuncture is based largely in astrology. Little more need be said about it.
Timecube?
Exactly my thoughts as well. I was one of those Wii owners who was NOT rewarded for a 5 year wait between Zelda games because I was so bored by the end of Twilight Princess from all the rehashed crap that I never even bothered to play Skyward Sword. Twilight Princess looked like a shameless rehash from the start, but glowing reviews assured me that it only seemed that way and was really quite excellent. It wasn't. When glowing reviews for Skyward Sword appeared to be (quite ironically) rehashing the exact same language from the LoZ:TP reviews, I chose to pass.
The Tixati bittorrent client is excellent. Free, no ads or tool bars. Definitely worth checking out.
You're an idiot. The methods for producing the original hockey stick graph were not hidden. They were published. And since publication, six or seven other climate research groups have analyzed the raw data themselves and all come up with similar graphs. I believe you are the one not looking critically at all the data. Like the fact that the hockey stick graph isn't a fraud just because two nobodies wrote a book (a book not peer reviewed before publication) saying so. They also said in their book that Mann's group cheated when producing their hockey stick graph because they only picked temperature proxy data sets which closely matched the known recent temperature record. The authors actually thought that their readers we too stupid to even know what a temperature proxy is and that closely matching the known temp record is exactly how you assess the accuracy of a temperature proxy. So Mann cheated because he only included the most accurate temperature proxies. They also don't tell you how they generated their non-hockey stick graph, by using the highly scientific method of simply throwing out any temperature proxy data that looked vaguely hockey stick shaped from inclusion in the analysis. If you spent 5 minutes on the internet looking for information that counters your beliefs as you accuse everyone else of not doing, then you'd easily find evidence that your post is idiotic bullshit.
Physics engines. I've seen too many otherwise excellent games absolutely crippled by their lazy reliance on a physics engine for things that don't actually work well that way. Watching enemy corpse ragdolls fly across the room is hilarious. Watching your valuable health, ammo, XP pickups sail over impassable barriers because some retarded dev decided that it would be "so super cool if those things had physics" is much less awesome. It's so easy to just click the "apply physics" check box without even thinking if it's going to make your game more fun or worrying about what it's going to mean for gameplay.
My biggest beef with email isn't so much shared documents but shared email threads. Getting cc'd on a group email after 7 or 8 reply-all's have already taken place is pretty much like getting a kick in the junk from your coworkers. And it's just presentation. If each message in the thread cleanly identified the writer without all the auto signatures tacked on with phone numbers and fax numbers and to/from info heading every single message in the thread with a list of poorly formatted information etc. Add a passed around collaborative document to that and your whole morning is gone.
I think they just lack follow through in a lot of cases. Google Wave was an excellent project. It's my opinion that if you frequently use email in a work related environment and don't hate the entire idea of it, you are a special kind of person (like actually a robot). All Google needed to do was say "here's Wave, it's kind of like email, but it sucks way less for most of the use cases of email." Instead they completely oversold a perfectly awesome email/IM alternative with a bunch of jargon about collaborative word documents, which nobody ever seemed able to get to work at all, and custom apps/plugins when none of the first available of them either worked or were interesting, and general collaboration/maps/project management/documents/wiki type functionality that didn't work well from the start and were totally overkill for what would have been a simple and huge deal for most people with jobs: something that does what email does but doesn't suck. After all this they canned it before it ever had a chance to demonstrate these advanced features.
religion without science is blind
That would be your Intelligent Design right there. You may not realize this depending on where you get your science information but there is quite literally ZERO evidence in favor of ID. Not a little. Or some weak evidence that needs more study to flesh it out. ZERO. Not a little bit vs. evolution through natural selection's large piles. I mean zero. Nothing. Intelligent design is blind religion at it's finest.
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
-Albert Einstein
Oh that kidder. We all know he wasn't a fan of evidence or anything so banal as that.
The first two Hyperion books were excellent. The next two were complete crap. I would advise anybody against reading hyperion for just that reason. The first two books are so good you won't be able to help yourself when it comes to the next two, and it's just not worth the horrible disappointment.
I've always been bothered by the needless complexity of a lot of disc ripping software. Sure options are nice, but seriously: storage space is dirt cheap these days (minus a certain flood induced shortage) just give me a damned rip button that rips a file of similar quality to the original. Thus I recommend MakeMKV. Extremely awesome software. I have no idea where they get off trying to charge $50 for it, but you can use it for free forever as long as you don't mind reinstalling it every 30 days.