The problem is when they keep their old phone turned on for a few days and it happily receives all of their iMessages until it runs out of batteries. That's what happened to me when a friend got a new phone. I told him to turn his phone off or unregister iMessages. He checked his old phone when he got home and there were the messages I had sent him the previous day.
So do hundreds of other companies. It's not like EA is the only company making fun games. Nobody could ever possibly play every game ever made, even if we just limited it to the fun ones and played games 24x7, there isn't time for it. So for me, when it comes to deciding between an EA game and something else, it's pretty easy to decide that because EA generally sucks I'll choose a something else every time.
JUST maybe the students are at fault for taking out huge student loans they couldn't possibly afford to pay back. Least of all the ones who do and then drop out before even completing their degree.
Hey, with Android you could try to be "forwards" compatible via reflection *gag*
That's one of the things I love about iOS is that you always build with the latest SDK and just do version checks for the (very) few features that aren't available on earlier versions. In an app I am working on, iOS6 required only 1 version check for a map related feature. Other than that? The code is identical no matter what version of the OS you are running on.
Android? it's bad. Maddeningly bad. We have a requirement to support 2.2+ while our users demand features that aren't really officially available until 4.0. The result is that we need to use a lot of different compatibility libraries to get the behavior our clients want on the devices a small percentage of them use. The part that keeps me up at night (not really) is wondering at which version of Android our compatibility libs are going to stop working for, and how to handle that problem when it comes up without axing features or functionality. Sure it's not something the users ever have to care about, but it definitely makes problems for developers.
A friend of mine got a squaretrade warranty for his android phone. It cost him $85 and the phone eventually broke. He sent it in to squaretrade paying his own shipping and they charged him a $100 deductible to fix it, and then sent it back. I looked up the price of a used phone same make/model from a local classified ad listing and they were going for $200. The $85 investment made him $10.
Yes, right click is so terrible that apple started using it in their UI years ago. Even before OSX you could ctrl+click to perform a right click which is not easily discoverable nor is it intuitive. But hey, at least they have it now! I mean Apple is SOO great at UX design that their so-called magic mouse won't even do a right click unless you lift your left finger off the device. Inspiring!
To be fair, OSX updates lately have been more like windows service packs than anything else. They haven't really added any core OS improvements for as long as I've owned a Mac, just a few extra apps like launchpad, time machine, and spaces.
As a guy with a degree in Computer Science and several friends with Law degrees, you are completely wrong. I had a job offer the day I graduated with the company I had a (paid) internship with. My lawyer friends on the other hand, one works for the state for pennies, and several were out of work their first year out of law school. Many of them were spending their time volunteering because that's what they needed to do to make good impressions at interviews. One has now resorted to trying to set up his own practice which has a whole set of it's own challenges (he is starting his own business after all). He likely won't be paid what everyone thinks lawyers make for years if he is even successful at finding clients at all.
Learning math helps you learn to solve problems, so no I don't use calculus every day, but I do solve problems every day. Discrete Math, Calculus, and Physics in my opinion are some of the most important courses a software engineer can take. Programming languages are easy to learn, problem solving abilities come from LOTS of practice.
PRETTY sure he isn't demanding anything. If he was (like me) coming from an iPhone to an android phone, then yes software updates are expected. When they don't come of course you are going to be disappointed.
I was promised a software update to my phone "within the next couple months" when I bought it. It came with 2.2, by time I got 2.3 NINE MONTHS LATER 4.0 was already out.
I went back to my 3gs iphone. It's over 3 years old and running the latest iOS just fine. It actually works better than my year old android phone. Oh, and every app doesn't install unnecessary battery draining/resource hogging services that start up automatically every time I launch the app and don't close when I close the app.
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You weren't going to anyway, shutup drama queen.
The problem is when they keep their old phone turned on for a few days and it happily receives all of their iMessages until it runs out of batteries. That's what happened to me when a friend got a new phone. I told him to turn his phone off or unregister iMessages. He checked his old phone when he got home and there were the messages I had sent him the previous day.
So do hundreds of other companies. It's not like EA is the only company making fun games. Nobody could ever possibly play every game ever made, even if we just limited it to the fun ones and played games 24x7, there isn't time for it. So for me, when it comes to deciding between an EA game and something else, it's pretty easy to decide that because EA generally sucks I'll choose a something else every time.
They have NOTHING to offer in this platform, nothing an average Tablet cant do right now.
Well except for, you know, a pile of nintendo exclusive franchises that millions of people want to play.
There are loads of people who still want to play games with an actual controller too. The markets can co-exist.
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Oh shutup.
4 million units in 2 days suggests that yes they (including me) will.
JUST maybe the students are at fault for taking out huge student loans they couldn't possibly afford to pay back. Least of all the ones who do and then drop out before even completing their degree.
Hey, with Android you could try to be "forwards" compatible via reflection *gag*
That's one of the things I love about iOS is that you always build with the latest SDK and just do version checks for the (very) few features that aren't available on earlier versions. In an app I am working on, iOS6 required only 1 version check for a map related feature. Other than that? The code is identical no matter what version of the OS you are running on.
Android? it's bad. Maddeningly bad. We have a requirement to support 2.2+ while our users demand features that aren't really officially available until 4.0. The result is that we need to use a lot of different compatibility libraries to get the behavior our clients want on the devices a small percentage of them use. The part that keeps me up at night (not really) is wondering at which version of Android our compatibility libs are going to stop working for, and how to handle that problem when it comes up without axing features or functionality. Sure it's not something the users ever have to care about, but it definitely makes problems for developers.
That isn't an acceptable or even equal alternative. A straight couple can get married and have those rights granted the next day. XX years != 1 day.
It's not a "start" button, it's a fucking menu button. It hasn't said "Start" on it in over a decade.
A friend of mine got a squaretrade warranty for his android phone. It cost him $85 and the phone eventually broke. He sent it in to squaretrade paying his own shipping and they charged him a $100 deductible to fix it, and then sent it back. I looked up the price of a used phone same make/model from a local classified ad listing and they were going for $200. The $85 investment made him $10.
It takes maybe 2 minutes to install start8 or classic shell and get rid of metro.
Yes, right click is so terrible that apple started using it in their UI years ago. Even before OSX you could ctrl+click to perform a right click which is not easily discoverable nor is it intuitive. But hey, at least they have it now! I mean Apple is SOO great at UX design that their so-called magic mouse won't even do a right click unless you lift your left finger off the device. Inspiring!
Saints row 3 is a separate key so you should be able to give that to someone else.
To be fair, OSX updates lately have been more like windows service packs than anything else. They haven't really added any core OS improvements for as long as I've owned a Mac, just a few extra apps like launchpad, time machine, and spaces.
Does Seth MacFarlane have 4 billion dollars?
As a guy with a degree in Computer Science and several friends with Law degrees, you are completely wrong. I had a job offer the day I graduated with the company I had a (paid) internship with. My lawyer friends on the other hand, one works for the state for pennies, and several were out of work their first year out of law school. Many of them were spending their time volunteering because that's what they needed to do to make good impressions at interviews. One has now resorted to trying to set up his own practice which has a whole set of it's own challenges (he is starting his own business after all). He likely won't be paid what everyone thinks lawyers make for years if he is even successful at finding clients at all.
Learning math helps you learn to solve problems, so no I don't use calculus every day, but I do solve problems every day. Discrete Math, Calculus, and Physics in my opinion are some of the most important courses a software engineer can take. Programming languages are easy to learn, problem solving abilities come from LOTS of practice.
I guess the people who rely on this pharmacy to get the medication they need at a price they can afford are just shit out of luck now?
PRETTY sure he isn't demanding anything. If he was (like me) coming from an iPhone to an android phone, then yes software updates are expected. When they don't come of course you are going to be disappointed. I was promised a software update to my phone "within the next couple months" when I bought it. It came with 2.2, by time I got 2.3 NINE MONTHS LATER 4.0 was already out. I went back to my 3gs iphone. It's over 3 years old and running the latest iOS just fine. It actually works better than my year old android phone. Oh, and every app doesn't install unnecessary battery draining/resource hogging services that start up automatically every time I launch the app and don't close when I close the app.
The pirate bay introduces the free security fix.
Add simcity to the growing list
Of games I won't be playing.
You obviously know fuck-all about Cystic Fibrosis. Let me help you get started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystic_fibrosis
I think if you were to ask anyone with CF whether or not they would consider themselves "viable offspring" you would probably get punched.