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This just in - people still make vinyl records, and people buy them because (they think) vinyl records sound better than any other recording medium.
Also, all those 386 processors that are still in active use need to be replaced occasionally.
It is better. All other recording medium I know of are digital. Records uses an analog format so they can better replicate the audio as it sounded like when it was recorded. Although I really don't know anybody who can tell the difference.
So other people will invite him to work on their products, which he'll do, and that'll generate buzz and excitement for those products. And they'll win, and Sony will lose. This is awesome! I really have to say, I am amazed at the skill and precision with which Sony has managed the PS3. They've got some kind of dream team working on this. There's a cycle. First, identify the largest clearly identifiable remaining demographic. Second, piss them off. Repeat.
PS3: Buy it for the Other OS feature, keep it because no one will take it off your hands. (No, really. I have a launch 60GB which I bought entirely for the Other OS feature. It's now useless for playing games because games require "updates" that disable the only functionality I got it for, but no one's gonna buy the old loud monster to play video games...)
I would, but then again I like the backwards compatibility and I want a blue ray player:)
Try playing on a console. It feels much more natural, and realistic
No, that is just because you are more familiar with consoles. I come from a PC background and find that the exact opposite is true. I find the controller to be an artificial barrier to immersion. If I want to look at something in real life I don't think of turning my head at a particular speed. I just whip it around and immediately lock on to what I want to see, just like using a mouse.
I had a console background, but I had no problem to using a computers keyboard/mouse to play games. Heck I'd go for the computer over a controller anytime now.
There are always those who use a notebook or netbook computer to help them learn. It can be used to take note (with a spell-check feature) or to look up additional information on the subject matter. By keeping people from using them you stop the people who will use it for a good reason.
I don't have a car foe them to place a tracking device on? What will they do put it on my bicycle or inside my shoes? The first option would be funny to see:P
Wile it is true making the DVD's coast money. It dose not justify the amount the charge for a season. When they charge $40 for 1 season of a TV show they are crossing the line. They made there money and payed off coast, yet they want that much for a few disk that coast maybe $5 to make with packaging?
Wow, I don't normally think this after looking at an XKCD comic, but that one is so arrogant and off the mark, in one of the worst ways possible!
Blindly trusting a GPS device's directions, and insultingly disregarding the likely better directions of someone who lives there and is intimately familiar with the best way to get there, shows a total distrust in the intelligence of the person you're visiting. Sure, it's good to have the address and look up the directions yourself, but immediately preferring the automated directions, which often, at least in my experience, have problems, is almost sociopathic in the trust it shows in technology over personal wisdom.
To bring this back to the support desk issue, I think it actually supports the current, often frustrating, script-based approach. What is the ratio of knowledgeable users to arrogant idiots who thinks they're knowledgeable users? You know, the users who don't want to listen to the easy solution that fixes the problem 80% of the time, which would fix it for them, because they're experts and have a tool that often works that they trust in totally, even though they haven't the faintest clue on what they're doing?
Well using a GPS saves a lot of writing down/remembering directions
heck even with good directions it is still easy enough to get lost if you don't know the area you are going to
GPS units are maps and directions all in one:)
I agree...wile Apple products have less then 90% of the Malware/viruses that Windows has it still has them. When more people start using OSX more Malware/virus will show up, but till then there won't be as much interest in it
They're seriously comparing phones that lose signal with a standard grip to phones where hold the phone with both hands deliberately trying to cover the antenna and pretend the result is somehow meaningful?
Wouldn't a sane signal comparison compare them using reasonably common grips? It's sorta stupid to say "When you deliberately cover both antennas with an awkward two hand grip it'll lose 10 dBm", everyone knows the antenna will lose signal if you cover it, the point is that the iPhone is so easy to cover by accident.
I'm sure they fix it in a few months with the next version of the Iphone
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or one bullet into the head of the holder of them caps....as you can tell I played fallout as an evil person *Mwahahahaha*
This is why I have already started stockpiling bottle caps.
stockpiling guns would be a better use of both time and space...although a fatboy mini nuke would be even better :)
Did you read parent post?
"Nobody really replaces CPUs."
Well I have, thats what it has to do with the topic.
I have as well. I have had to replace my motherboard twice within a 6 month time frame as well (I got a board that quickly wend bad board from an RMA)
Well It was promised that if valve ever went under they would patch their games to play without steam. Also steam does more then just act as DRM.
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TFTFY
What about Valve (http://www.valvesoftware.com)?
I'll see your "fire on the Internet" and raise you "fire in a crowded theatre".
and I will raise it to "fire for various uses in a consumer environment"
I will raise it to "Orangish-Red fire with a bit of blue in the middle".
Then I will have to raise to "Heat generating source with mutable uses in an open world environment"
I'll see your "fire on the Internet" and raise you "fire in a crowded theatre".
and I will raise it to "fire for various uses in a consumer environment"
I think we're living in dire times and must construct Mooncraft, but beware of the creepers...
LMAO...BEST COMMENT EVER!!!!!!!
Tho I'd be a bit more worried about the skeletons myself.
This just in - people still make vinyl records, and people buy them because (they think) vinyl records sound better than any other recording medium.
Also, all those 386 processors that are still in active use need to be replaced occasionally.
It is better. All other recording medium I know of are digital. Records uses an analog format so they can better replicate the audio as it sounded like when it was recorded. Although I really don't know anybody who can tell the difference.
"final distribution of five /8 blocks"
If I've said it once I've said it a thousand times.
You do NOT talk about the final five!
lol you made my night with that comment :)
So other people will invite him to work on their products, which he'll do, and that'll generate buzz and excitement for those products. And they'll win, and Sony will lose. This is awesome! I really have to say, I am amazed at the skill and precision with which Sony has managed the PS3. They've got some kind of dream team working on this. There's a cycle. First, identify the largest clearly identifiable remaining demographic. Second, piss them off. Repeat.
PS3: Buy it for the Other OS feature, keep it because no one will take it off your hands. (No, really. I have a launch 60GB which I bought entirely for the Other OS feature. It's now useless for playing games because games require "updates" that disable the only functionality I got it for, but no one's gonna buy the old loud monster to play video games...)
I would, but then again I like the backwards compatibility and I want a blue ray player :)
Try playing on a console. It feels much more natural, and realistic
No, that is just because you are more familiar with consoles. I come from a PC background and find that the exact opposite is true. I find the controller to be an artificial barrier to immersion. If I want to look at something in real life I don't think of turning my head at a particular speed. I just whip it around and immediately lock on to what I want to see, just like using a mouse.
I had a console background, but I had no problem to using a computers keyboard/mouse to play games. Heck I'd go for the computer over a controller anytime now.
There are always those who use a notebook or netbook computer to help them learn. It can be used to take note (with a spell-check feature) or to look up additional information on the subject matter. By keeping people from using them you stop the people who will use it for a good reason.
I don't have a car foe them to place a tracking device on? What will they do put it on my bicycle or inside my shoes? The first option would be funny to see :P
Wile it is true making the DVD's coast money. It dose not justify the amount the charge for a season.
When they charge $40 for 1 season of a TV show they are crossing the line.
They made there money and payed off coast, yet they want that much for a few disk that coast maybe $5 to make with packaging?
SPOILER
The krauts lose, twice.
Only because France isn't involved.
lol. Thanks for that laugh :)
I know of 2 fan made ghostbuster files that are not for sell (download only that are listed on IMDB
Freddy VS Ghostbusters (only 35 min so prob should not be counted as a movie :P) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439576/
and
Return of the Ghostbusters http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230164/
if they got listed then, I don't see why this movie can't be
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
(I think thats how I'd like to be remembered)
Same here...I would so pick the portal song :)
I kinda want a copy of that mag...although I wonder if that screen can be used for anything else?
Wow, I don't normally think this after looking at an XKCD comic, but that one is so arrogant and off the mark, in one of the worst ways possible!
Blindly trusting a GPS device's directions, and insultingly disregarding the likely better directions of someone who lives there and is intimately familiar with the best way to get there, shows a total distrust in the intelligence of the person you're visiting. Sure, it's good to have the address and look up the directions yourself, but immediately preferring the automated directions, which often, at least in my experience, have problems, is almost sociopathic in the trust it shows in technology over personal wisdom.
To bring this back to the support desk issue, I think it actually supports the current, often frustrating, script-based approach. What is the ratio of knowledgeable users to arrogant idiots who thinks they're knowledgeable users? You know, the users who don't want to listen to the easy solution that fixes the problem 80% of the time, which would fix it for them, because they're experts and have a tool that often works that they trust in totally, even though they haven't the faintest clue on what they're doing?
Well using a GPS saves a lot of writing down/remembering directions heck even with good directions it is still easy enough to get lost if you don't know the area you are going to GPS units are maps and directions all in one :)
You know smart-phones can do more then go onto the internet right? Not everybody who wants one wants it for web access.
This may seem like an insane idea, but can they somehow be used to make phone calls?
yes and without needing internet access as well :)
You know smart-phones can do more then go onto the internet right? Not everybody who wants one wants it for web access.
It is very good...stay away from Oil and use something a little more cleaner
I agree...wile Apple products have less then 90% of the Malware/viruses that Windows has it still has them. When more people start using OSX more Malware/virus will show up, but till then there won't be as much interest in it
They're seriously comparing phones that lose signal with a standard grip to phones where hold the phone with both hands deliberately trying to cover the antenna and pretend the result is somehow meaningful?
Wouldn't a sane signal comparison compare them using reasonably common grips? It's sorta stupid to say "When you deliberately cover both antennas with an awkward two hand grip it'll lose 10 dBm", everyone knows the antenna will lose signal if you cover it, the point is that the iPhone is so easy to cover by accident.
I'm sure they fix it in a few months with the next version of the Iphone