When will a nation that still calculates pressure in pound per square feet (hahaha that sounds so funny) make the step into the 21st century? We made that step decaeds ago. It was 18 inches (45.72 cm) long.
I have more important things to do with my life than buy graphics cards costing more than a PS3 & Xbox combined and find the drivers for all the peripherals and make it all work.
Good thing you haven't had to do that in years then.
Hundreds of employees each spending 20+ minutes to figure out where the fuck the print button went in the new version of Office, for example. No, clicking on the ball in the top corner of the screen is not even close to intuitive
before the Fed, when there was Free Market, the US standard of living was constantly rising and prices would not go up all the time but would come down due to actual competition.
Because it's pretty terrible. Well, let me clarify that. If it was some other combat game set in any other universe released for cheap on Steam it would be OK. For a Command and Conquer game it blows.
No base building? No resource gathering? No continuity with the previous story?
Did anybody in EA management play any of the other C&C games? Or even know of their existence?
C&C 4 is the Indiana Jones 4 of the gaming world. What is it with 4s?
Oh joy, another visually stunning film with a disjointed script, mixing Tolkien's brilliant timeless dialog with flat modern drivel penned by Fran Walsh.
Fran Walsh is not the problem. Philippa Boyens is. She writes like a fan-girl who never grew up.
It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't screw up the plot and dialog so badly.
Tolkien's goal was to create a mythology. His idea was that he would create the world and background and eventually other people would come along and fill in the details with more stories, poetry, music, whatever. So a new story set in the period between The Hobbit and LotR is actually fulfilling Tolkien's vision for Middle Earth.
Because people, broadly speaking, don't want options. They want their stuff to work. You don't like the iPhone because you're not in Apple's target market.
As soon as you start adding options, the complexity of the system goes up. The time it takes to make sure all the options work together correctly goes up exponentially. The chances for bugs and obscure problems rises. And while it might make a small percentage of people such as yourself happier, the people Apple are selling to (for example: your wife) don't want to make any choices and wouldn't use them even if they were available.
My first computer was an Apple II, and I loved it precisely because it was so open. This is a different Apple these days
The difference is, the Apple II days were a long time ago. A large percentage of people who bought one were computer geeks who wanted to take the cover off and poke at the wires. These days, not so much.
The Amiga port was released about a year later. It worked flawlessly. Because it has fixed hardware, so the programmers only have ONE configuration to deal with, not 20,000 potential combinations.
Consoles are the same way.
I have not had a major problem getting anything to run on a PC since like DirectX 3.
Apple has severe intrest in controlling how people consume their media and their hardware is reflecting this, making it harder and harder to install alternative methods. You can of course believe they won't abuse this, you can but you would be a silly person.
You're entirely missing the point. People who buy Apple products, broadly speaking don't WANT an alternate method. That's why they buy the hardware in the first place: because they know they won't have to screw with it. Apple is giving people what they want. You may choose to define that as "abuse" if you like.
I really don't know if your kind can ever learn,
Yes, everyone is an idiot but you.
One command and you can change everything and access everything...
Exactly. There are how many monkey pictures of Bush out there? I recall seeing one in a newspaper's politics section once, and no one even bats an eye. then one comes out about Michelle Obama and suddenly it's horribly offensive and racist.
I know Slashdot has a reputation for having a lot of, shall we saw, socially unaware people, but surely you can understand the difference in context between a GWB monkey picture and a Michelle Obama monkey picture?
In my experience US plugs get bent pins, can be woefully insecure in their sockets (literally dropping out)
I have a set of US-to-CountryX plug adapters, and I once used the UK adapter so I could plug in my cell phone charger. It would just barely stay in the socket. By that I mean it was leaning out of the socket far enough that I could see the pins. So in my experience your sockets don't hold things any better than ours do.
Windows has only improved in the last few years because Microsoft started making real technical integrity more of a priority; stability and security
Coding for stability and security is coding for the end user.
but it's the type of statement made by people who believe that writing programs to be as complex (rather than as simple) as possible, is the "modern, sophisticated," approach,
On the contrary, it's the type of statement made by people why actually want their software to be used. By actual people.
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Is it wrong of me to think that it would be awesome if everybody did this to every phone?
Yes. Yes it is.
When will a nation that still calculates pressure in pound per square feet (hahaha that sounds so funny) make the step into the 21st century?
We made that step decaeds ago. It was 18 inches (45.72 cm) long.
I have more important things to do with my life than buy graphics cards costing more than a PS3 & Xbox combined and find the drivers for all the peripherals and make it all work.
Good thing you haven't had to do that in years then.
No, not really.
They discovered a large herd of animals which died in a a large flood event.
What did this remind you of?
All the other large herds of animals which have died in large flood events separated by thousands or millions of years?
Put away your bullshit anti-religious rhetoric and look at the evidence honestly.
OK.... done.
Mitochondrial Eve
Explain what you think Mitochondrial Eve means, and then we'll tell you why you're wrong.
Science now knows that it is possible for humans to live for centuries if their Telomeres were to not deteriorate.
Science now knows that if my aunt had testicles, she'd be my uncle.
Hundreds of employees each spending 20+ minutes to figure out where the fuck the print button went in the new version of Office, for example. No, clicking on the ball in the top corner of the screen is not even close to intuitive
Sorry about your stupid employees.
before the Fed, when there was Free Market, the US standard of living was constantly rising and prices would not go up all the time but would come down due to actual competition.
That's adorable. :3
The Won is on record saying the US should be nuke free (stupid!)
You know who else wanted to get rid of nukes? That's right...
"It would be fine with me if we eliminated all nuclear weapons"
--Ronald Wilson Reagan at the '86 Reykjavik summit
Because it's pretty terrible. Well, let me clarify that. If it was some other combat game set in any other universe released for cheap on Steam it would be OK. For a Command and Conquer game it blows.
No base building?
No resource gathering?
No continuity with the previous story?
Did anybody in EA management play any of the other C&C games? Or even know of their existence?
C&C 4 is the Indiana Jones 4 of the gaming world. What is it with 4s?
Oh joy, another visually stunning film with a disjointed script, mixing Tolkien's brilliant timeless dialog with flat modern drivel penned by Fran Walsh.
Fran Walsh is not the problem. Philippa Boyens is. She writes like a fan-girl who never grew up.
It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't screw up the plot and dialog so badly.
Such as?
Thanks but no thanks.
Really? Why?
Tolkien's goal was to create a mythology. His idea was that he would create the world and background and eventually other people would come along and fill in the details with more stories, poetry, music, whatever. So a new story set in the period between The Hobbit and LotR is actually fulfilling Tolkien's vision for Middle Earth.
Is when the developer blows the voice budget on a couple famous names, leaving the rest of the game voiced by the same 3 people. See also: Oblivion.
But what's wrong with giving people options?
Because people, broadly speaking, don't want options. They want their stuff to work. You don't like the iPhone because you're not in Apple's target market.
As soon as you start adding options, the complexity of the system goes up. The time it takes to make sure all the options work together correctly goes up exponentially. The chances for bugs and obscure problems rises. And while it might make a small percentage of people such as yourself happier, the people Apple are selling to (for example: your wife) don't want to make any choices and wouldn't use them even if they were available.
My first computer was an Apple II, and I loved it precisely because it was so open. This is a different Apple these days
The difference is, the Apple II days were a long time ago. A large percentage of people who bought one were computer geeks who wanted to take the cover off and poke at the wires. These days, not so much.
Oh, please. This isn't done to make things "simple", it's done to make you pay more.
These aren't mutually exclusive.
The Amiga port was released about a year later. It worked flawlessly. Because it has fixed hardware, so the programmers only have ONE configuration to deal with, not 20,000 potential combinations.
Consoles are the same way.
I have not had a major problem getting anything to run on a PC since like DirectX 3.
(Yes, I know: Anecdotes are not evidence)
Apple has severe intrest in controlling how people consume their media and their hardware is reflecting this, making it harder and harder to install alternative methods. You can of course believe they won't abuse this, you can but you would be a silly person.
You're entirely missing the point. People who buy Apple products, broadly speaking don't WANT an alternate method. That's why they buy the hardware in the first place: because they know they won't have to screw with it. Apple is giving people what they want. You may choose to define that as "abuse" if you like.
I really don't know if your kind can ever learn,
Yes, everyone is an idiot but you.
One command and you can change everything and access everything...
Which 99.99% of people don't care about. At all.
We(humans) have a minimal affect on it.
Show your work.
Exactly. There are how many monkey pictures of Bush out there? I recall seeing one in a newspaper's politics section once, and no one even bats an eye. then one comes out about Michelle Obama and suddenly it's horribly offensive and racist.
I know Slashdot has a reputation for having a lot of, shall we saw, socially unaware people, but surely you can understand the difference in context between a GWB monkey picture and a Michelle Obama monkey picture?
It's nothing new. Back in the days when AT&T was THE Phone Company, you couldn't own your landline phone either. You rented it monthly from Ma Bell.
1. I don't worry about firewalls, or anti-virus software.
Sucker.
4. New OS every few months, FREE. FOREVER..
This is a good thing?
Regulation is for pussies, you insensitive Euroclod.
In my experience US plugs get bent pins, can be woefully insecure in their sockets (literally dropping out)
I have a set of US-to-CountryX plug adapters, and I once used the UK adapter so I could plug in my cell phone charger. It would just barely stay in the socket. By that I mean it was leaning out of the socket far enough that I could see the pins. So in my experience your sockets don't hold things any better than ours do.
"Lesson learned? You still need to run anti-virus on Windows 7."
Or you could start by turning up the UAC level.
People complain that UAC in Vista was too intrusive, so MS turned it down by default. Now people are complaining that it doesn't do enough.
Windows has only improved in the last few years because Microsoft started making real technical integrity more of a priority; stability and security
Coding for stability and security is coding for the end user.
but it's the type of statement made by people who believe that writing programs to be as complex (rather than as simple) as possible, is the "modern, sophisticated," approach,
On the contrary, it's the type of statement made by people why actually want their software to be used. By actual people.
As priorities, faddishness, popularity, and most of all, the end user, need to die.
Perhaps you should consider a different career. If you're not coding for the end user, you're just masturbating.