When I'm on the Can/train/bus/plane(assuming wifi enabled flight)/couch, I really don't want to do work but I might want to look up Wikipedia articles on obscure CPU architectures or the reign of Polpot.
But, this is a, "Your favorite language/OS/GUI/Browser/whatever sucks" comment for the sake of realizing that no, languages aren't really *that* different.
except you've got a processor that's a third as fast (since the Nexus 1 and iPad have Ghz CPUs)
more mHz/gHz != more MIPS, FLOPS or whatever processing benchmark you want to use to determine processor performance. The difference is much more different than pure CPU frequency.
Yes, we're making the asme point but you're vastly understating the processing problem at hand.
Linux and Mac OS during the time of the trial were actually threatened by Microsoft's monopolistic actions. OEMs were gunshy about releasing Linux machines(still are; but they're far more common now than they were in the 90's when Microsoft was branded a monopoly) and Mac OS was being threatened by Microsoft under pricing Windows on the desktop. Of course, OSX wasn't even out yet, being as how it was 1998.
Linux, Mozilla and other competitors in the tech field largely have been free software products put together by non profits. Yes, OSX is a huge exception to this one, but, in order to build hardware in the 90's, it was either Microsoft's way, or the highway. Which Apple chose.
Yes, the USPS is the only entity that can send first class mail. Great, next you're going to discover that only the cops can arrest people for crime. The postal system is a requirement and a responsibility of the Federal Government. BFD.
It means you don't know basic economic theory, and because you don't even understand free markets, you surely aren't qualified to speak against free markets. What people do with their money is none of your business. Your concern for other peoples' money reveals you to be the greedy one. But this is common among closet liberals and I am not surprised. What "got us into this mess" was government intervention, deciding that hobos had the right to new homes, and that reckless financial companies had the right to a second life, both on taxpayer dime. People like you deciding how other peoples' money should be redistributed.
What people do with their money IS their business. I really don't care, not unless you're planning on polluting the air, commit crimes, destroy property, etc. or paying for the cleanup of your own particular mess.
We got in this situation because federal regulators didn't know that Goldman Sachs and Magnetar were arranging financial products that were defective by design then bet that those products would indeed fail then not informing their customers of said products that they were indeed crap. It was a failure of *lack* of regulation, not in spite of it.
Take your 19th century ideas about capitalism elsewhere you Paulite. You guys want to talk free market but you guys never want to deal with what happens when the obscenely wealthy are allowed to do when they're given carte fucking blanche. You guys never seem to realize that the wealthy have the leverage to screw the middle and lower classes and have since the dawn of time and that now it's worse than ever. How can you forget child labor or Upton Sinclair's The Jungle? Or do you guys furiously pleasure yourselves to the idea of the poor getting screwed because, fuck'em, THAT'S THE WAY ~* FREE MARKETS *~ WORK?
Flash dies. So do magnetic media. Optical might suck but it's hardy, and it's cheap too! Costs pennies to press out and volume is negotiable. If you need 10k units? Do able. Need 1m units? Do able. I don't think magnetic media has that kind of flexibility.
You're seriously telling me that Standard Oil and Microsoft weren't monopolies?
Fuck you.
(Thomas Jefferson, blah blah blah, ridicule, ideas must be distinct before reason can act on them).
Just for the fun though, Standard Oil did hold something like 91% of all US output of oil, and something like 85% of all retail sales of oil. Not only that but they also kept others out of the market through intimidation and economic force. That's a monopoly. Like telling your OEMs, "Ship another OS and we'll make your life a living hell."
The Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 explicitly requires the Federal Government establish post offices. The USPS doesn't engage in monopolistic practices when you send mail. The USPS isn't keeping DHL, FedEx, UPS, Airborne Express, or independent couriers from operating in the market.
The fallacy of Keynesianism is that, short of divine wisdom, government spending will never be done efficiently because it will neither reflect every single self-interest of thousands and millions that a free market is based off of, nor accurately sort wants and needs due to artificially inflated means. In layman's terms: the money will be wasted.
What the fuck does this even mean?
Let's say the Federal Government builds a highway, the money's "wasted" because some rich business asshole didn't spend it? Because the Government spent for the common good rather than for the generation of more money?
Money for money's sake is a horrible and greedy way to look at economics. It's this thinking that got us in this situation in the first place.
If me buying a 3GS now kicks in the "GOD DAMN IT I SHOULD'VE WAITED" mechanism in my life, this means a lot of other Apple fans will be able to get the new shiny iToy sooner and they has me to thank.
It's not. I love the iPhone, but it's not the same experience or concept as other smart phones. It does a few things well, and lacking in many other areas, areas I really don't care about. It's like hiring an idiot savant who's brilliant at math doing your books.
Governments exist to fulfill the will of the people who put that Government in power(Dictators, Revolutionaries, Monarchs, Theocrats, whatever). In our case, we put the Government in power, and we agree on what the Government does and doesn't do. Governments exist solely as a way to enforce the social contract between each other.
You're also incredibly wrong about monopolies. Microsoft was found guilty of being a monopoly. Even if you don't buy the DoJ's explanation, Microsoft put BeOS out of business when they put their foot down to OEMs not to put BeOS on their machines. That's a textbook case of what monopolistic practices. They acted like a monopoly in the desktop OS business in the 90's.
So was Standard Oil. You really can't tell me that during the Libertarian paradise that was the Gilded Age that the Government was backing Standard Oil.
The USPS *has* to exist, and in the constitution it's explicitly stated this needs to happen. It has a monopoly on delivering mail much like the US Army has a monopoly on using tanks to blow shit up.
My point with the whole "too big to fail" thing is that companies *wind up* that big and intertwined with *out* oversight. And if the market let those firms fail, it would cause a cataclysm in the financial sector like never seen before. If we listened to Hayek instead of Keynes, we'd be sitting in caves trying to figure out which bug is edible because the market would've lead itself to it's own demise.
Central planning is pretty bad too. A centralized Government really can't tell people what they should consume. However, telling people what they can't consume and what they can't produce is a different story.
For instance, Glass-Steagall stated that you can't have investment banks also sell product financial products tied to their investments and the investments of their customers on that arm(This is what happened with Magnetar; they put together financial instruments that they also insured against; creating a huge conflict of interest; Glass-Steagall would've prevented Magnetar from existing in a way that it could do such a thing legally). It's not telling people they *have* to buy certain instruments, just that instruments put onto the market must fulfill certain criteria before going onto the market.
Putting together guidelines for how the market shouldn't act in general versus telling what IS going to happen. Pure capitalism and pure communism are both unsustainable. The Market nor the Government can do it all by itself. However, since the 70's, everyone's been trying to gut Government interaction with the market, so we need to start tilting the scales the other way; this is why I'm a liberal(I'd be a moderate in any other god damned country; my views are far more say, Labour than Lib. Dem. Then again, Labour's had a hard rightwing swerve lately AFAIK).
Too big to fail is largely a Libertarian exercise as well. When there's no oversight and regulation from external, uninterested bodies, monopolies will spring up. The powerful will exert it's power over others to corner a market simply by strong arm tactics. Standard Oil did it, so did Microsoft. It's like being at a no-limit poker table, and everytime you move in, there's a guy who's really large stacked and he puts you all in. Sometimes it works and you double up. More often than not, you're strong armed out of a hand.
Hayek was wrong that the market place would take care of itself. We know now, as we knew then, that the marketplace was full of flawed individuals with partial knowledge. it can't take care of itself. it needs oversight. That's where Hayek is painfully wrong. Libertarianism seems to be built upon the idea of not just financially screwing the poor, but the poor hoping to catch a lucky break and be the screwer not the screwed.
Yes and Ron Paul's ideas are entirely against the mainstream of American opinion. Even more so if people figure out he wants to gut Government to the point where it's useless.
Ron Paul doesn't need to enter the 21st century, he needs to enter the 20th century. Hayek was wrong. Period. Can we move on as a people now?
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Basically, if you buy something off of another music, movie or other digital download site, it may not work on the PS3. Also, back up your shit incase it crashes.
Engines aren't as important as the games themselves. Particularly for a franchise. If Super SF4 used the same engine as Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, then I would be really, really, really sad.
Because traditionally, specialized devices do very well in the mobile field. MP3 Players, game consoles, etc. Generalized devices don't. There's a reason why Palm's circling the drain and Windows Mobile took a knee in the ghoolies when the iPhone came out.
Sigh, why can't hardware makers these days just do that: make hardware?
Because then the OS suffers as a result.
The traditional PC paradigm of one vendor supplies your hardware, another your OS is kind of ridiculous when you think about quality control and usability. It means no device is ever really unique anymore.
yes because Bushwhackers with absolutely no armor loaded down with nothing but medium pulse lasers should be able to cripple Atlases and other Assault Mechs with ease.
(Fun bug in MW3: Put "zero" for tonnage for each part of your mech, and you get free armor. No one at MW3 LAN parties i went to figured it out until I told them about it)
That's fine. While I love my iPhone and I'll gladly shill Apple's crap for free, there's hardly a master of any of these(I'll argue that yes, Apple deservedly top of the heap for mobile devices; but if there were no iPhone, Android *would* be the sexiest thing on the block; even if there are huge, radical flaws with the platform). When it comes to maps, fiber, search, even Usenet, Google does things well.
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When I'm on the Can/train/bus/plane(assuming wifi enabled flight)/couch, I really don't want to do work but I might want to look up Wikipedia articles on obscure CPU architectures or the reign of Polpot.
Hinge(Which can break) + Stylus(Which can go lost and is a lousy input device) = Fail in the long haul.
Of course, I also believe that the iPad's losing out by not having an *optional* stylus tool for drawing, but that's just me.
WebOS on hardawre from HP?
Dear god no.
Poor WebOS. Sometimes dying is less painful than living through agony.
I know.
But, this is a, "Your favorite language/OS/GUI/Browser/whatever sucks" comment for the sake of realizing that no, languages aren't really *that* different.
except you've got a processor that's a third as fast (since the Nexus 1 and iPad have Ghz CPUs)
more mHz/gHz != more MIPS, FLOPS or whatever processing benchmark you want to use to determine processor performance. The difference is much more different than pure CPU frequency.
Yes, we're making the asme point but you're vastly understating the processing problem at hand.
Perhaps I want to make money on an application? Being an American, will I even be sold in a European App store?
Objective-C lets me read byte from an allocated memory location, lets me write byte to an allocated memory location. Sounds like what C++ can do.
Everything else is just libraries and semantics.
Here's a big question.
What are application sales figures like RIGHT NOW for Symbian? What about consolidated application market? Does one even exist? What about for Maemo?
Linux and Mac OS during the time of the trial were actually threatened by Microsoft's monopolistic actions. OEMs were gunshy about releasing Linux machines(still are; but they're far more common now than they were in the 90's when Microsoft was branded a monopoly) and Mac OS was being threatened by Microsoft under pricing Windows on the desktop. Of course, OSX wasn't even out yet, being as how it was 1998.
Linux, Mozilla and other competitors in the tech field largely have been free software products put together by non profits. Yes, OSX is a huge exception to this one, but, in order to build hardware in the 90's, it was either Microsoft's way, or the highway. Which Apple chose.
Yes, the USPS is the only entity that can send first class mail. Great, next you're going to discover that only the cops can arrest people for crime. The postal system is a requirement and a responsibility of the Federal Government. BFD.
It means you don't know basic economic theory, and because you don't even understand free markets, you surely aren't qualified to speak against free markets. What people do with their money is none of your business. Your concern for other peoples' money reveals you to be the greedy one. But this is common among closet liberals and I am not surprised. What "got us into this mess" was government intervention, deciding that hobos had the right to new homes, and that reckless financial companies had the right to a second life, both on taxpayer dime. People like you deciding how other peoples' money should be redistributed.
What people do with their money IS their business. I really don't care, not unless you're planning on polluting the air, commit crimes, destroy property, etc. or paying for the cleanup of your own particular mess.
We got in this situation because federal regulators didn't know that Goldman Sachs and Magnetar were arranging financial products that were defective by design then bet that those products would indeed fail then not informing their customers of said products that they were indeed crap. It was a failure of *lack* of regulation, not in spite of it.
Take your 19th century ideas about capitalism elsewhere you Paulite. You guys want to talk free market but you guys never want to deal with what happens when the obscenely wealthy are allowed to do when they're given carte fucking blanche. You guys never seem to realize that the wealthy have the leverage to screw the middle and lower classes and have since the dawn of time and that now it's worse than ever. How can you forget child labor or Upton Sinclair's The Jungle? Or do you guys furiously pleasure yourselves to the idea of the poor getting screwed because, fuck'em, THAT'S THE WAY ~* FREE MARKETS *~ WORK?
Flash dies. So do magnetic media. Optical might suck but it's hardy, and it's cheap too! Costs pennies to press out and volume is negotiable. If you need 10k units? Do able. Need 1m units? Do able. I don't think magnetic media has that kind of flexibility.
You're seriously telling me that Standard Oil and Microsoft weren't monopolies?
Fuck you.
(Thomas Jefferson, blah blah blah, ridicule, ideas must be distinct before reason can act on them).
Just for the fun though, Standard Oil did hold something like 91% of all US output of oil, and something like 85% of all retail sales of oil. Not only that but they also kept others out of the market through intimidation and economic force. That's a monopoly. Like telling your OEMs, "Ship another OS and we'll make your life a living hell."
The Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 explicitly requires the Federal Government establish post offices. The USPS doesn't engage in monopolistic practices when you send mail. The USPS isn't keeping DHL, FedEx, UPS, Airborne Express, or independent couriers from operating in the market.
The fallacy of Keynesianism is that, short of divine wisdom, government spending will never be done efficiently because it will neither reflect every single self-interest of thousands and millions that a free market is based off of, nor accurately sort wants and needs due to artificially inflated means. In layman's terms: the money will be wasted.
What the fuck does this even mean?
Let's say the Federal Government builds a highway, the money's "wasted" because some rich business asshole didn't spend it? Because the Government spent for the common good rather than for the generation of more money?
Money for money's sake is a horrible and greedy way to look at economics. It's this thinking that got us in this situation in the first place.
Asshole.
Actually, the DSLite and the DSi were like, 3 or 4 years apart from each other and the DS was 3 years from the DSLite.
I lost my 3GS in a bar Saturday night.
If me buying a 3GS now kicks in the "GOD DAMN IT I SHOULD'VE WAITED" mechanism in my life, this means a lot of other Apple fans will be able to get the new shiny iToy sooner and they has me to thank.
Can we stop calling the iPhone a 'smart phone?'
It's not. I love the iPhone, but it's not the same experience or concept as other smart phones. It does a few things well, and lacking in many other areas, areas I really don't care about. It's like hiring an idiot savant who's brilliant at math doing your books.
I propose a new name, 'Idiot Savant' phone.
Governments exist to fulfill the will of the people who put that Government in power(Dictators, Revolutionaries, Monarchs, Theocrats, whatever). In our case, we put the Government in power, and we agree on what the Government does and doesn't do. Governments exist solely as a way to enforce the social contract between each other.
You're also incredibly wrong about monopolies. Microsoft was found guilty of being a monopoly. Even if you don't buy the DoJ's explanation, Microsoft put BeOS out of business when they put their foot down to OEMs not to put BeOS on their machines. That's a textbook case of what monopolistic practices. They acted like a monopoly in the desktop OS business in the 90's.
So was Standard Oil. You really can't tell me that during the Libertarian paradise that was the Gilded Age that the Government was backing Standard Oil.
The USPS *has* to exist, and in the constitution it's explicitly stated this needs to happen. It has a monopoly on delivering mail much like the US Army has a monopoly on using tanks to blow shit up.
My point with the whole "too big to fail" thing is that companies *wind up* that big and intertwined with *out* oversight. And if the market let those firms fail, it would cause a cataclysm in the financial sector like never seen before. If we listened to Hayek instead of Keynes, we'd be sitting in caves trying to figure out which bug is edible because the market would've lead itself to it's own demise.
Central planning is pretty bad too. A centralized Government really can't tell people what they should consume. However, telling people what they can't consume and what they can't produce is a different story.
For instance, Glass-Steagall stated that you can't have investment banks also sell product financial products tied to their investments and the investments of their customers on that arm(This is what happened with Magnetar; they put together financial instruments that they also insured against; creating a huge conflict of interest; Glass-Steagall would've prevented Magnetar from existing in a way that it could do such a thing legally). It's not telling people they *have* to buy certain instruments, just that instruments put onto the market must fulfill certain criteria before going onto the market.
Putting together guidelines for how the market shouldn't act in general versus telling what IS going to happen. Pure capitalism and pure communism are both unsustainable. The Market nor the Government can do it all by itself. However, since the 70's, everyone's been trying to gut Government interaction with the market, so we need to start tilting the scales the other way; this is why I'm a liberal(I'd be a moderate in any other god damned country; my views are far more say, Labour than Lib. Dem. Then again, Labour's had a hard rightwing swerve lately AFAIK).
Too big to fail is largely a Libertarian exercise as well. When there's no oversight and regulation from external, uninterested bodies, monopolies will spring up. The powerful will exert it's power over others to corner a market simply by strong arm tactics. Standard Oil did it, so did Microsoft. It's like being at a no-limit poker table, and everytime you move in, there's a guy who's really large stacked and he puts you all in. Sometimes it works and you double up. More often than not, you're strong armed out of a hand.
Hayek was wrong that the market place would take care of itself. We know now, as we knew then, that the marketplace was full of flawed individuals with partial knowledge. it can't take care of itself. it needs oversight. That's where Hayek is painfully wrong. Libertarianism seems to be built upon the idea of not just financially screwing the poor, but the poor hoping to catch a lucky break and be the screwer not the screwed.
Yes and Ron Paul's ideas are entirely against the mainstream of American opinion. Even more so if people figure out he wants to gut Government to the point where it's useless.
Ron Paul doesn't need to enter the 21st century, he needs to enter the 20th century. Hayek was wrong. Period. Can we move on as a people now?
Most of this segment of the EULA's been there since the first EULA.
see: http://web.archive.org/web/20061210231357/http://www.scei.co.jp/ps3-eula/ps3_eula_en.html
(Someone at TFA pointed this out.)
except this bit:
Additionally, you may not be able to view your own content if it includes or displays content that is protected by authentication technology. Some services may change your current settings, cause a loss of data or content, or cause some loss of functionality. It is recommended that you regularly back up any data on the hard disk that is of a type that can be backed up.
Basically, if you buy something off of another music, movie or other digital download site, it may not work on the PS3. Also, back up your shit incase it crashes.
Last I remember, PS3s were for playing games.
Most PS3 owners won't be hacking their console, I'd imagine.
Isn't Epic doing this with the Unreal Engine?
Isn't Valve doing this with the Source Engine?
Engines aren't as important as the games themselves. Particularly for a franchise. If Super SF4 used the same engine as Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, then I would be really, really, really sad.
Because traditionally, specialized devices do very well in the mobile field. MP3 Players, game consoles, etc. Generalized devices don't. There's a reason why Palm's circling the drain and Windows Mobile took a knee in the ghoolies when the iPhone came out.
Sigh, why can't hardware makers these days just do that: make hardware?
Because then the OS suffers as a result.
The traditional PC paradigm of one vendor supplies your hardware, another your OS is kind of ridiculous when you think about quality control and usability. It means no device is ever really unique anymore.
yes because Bushwhackers with absolutely no armor loaded down with nothing but medium pulse lasers should be able to cripple Atlases and other Assault Mechs with ease.
(Fun bug in MW3: Put "zero" for tonnage for each part of your mech, and you get free armor. No one at MW3 LAN parties i went to figured it out until I told them about it)
That's fine. While I love my iPhone and I'll gladly shill Apple's crap for free, there's hardly a master of any of these(I'll argue that yes, Apple deservedly top of the heap for mobile devices; but if there were no iPhone, Android *would* be the sexiest thing on the block; even if there are huge, radical flaws with the platform). When it comes to maps, fiber, search, even Usenet, Google does things well.