That was true for me for a long time, but they stopped that themselves when they came out with Blu-Ray at much higher prices. I didn't want to buy Blu-Rays for twice as much, but I also didn't want to buy DVDs when there was a Blu-Ray, so I turned my NetFlix account back on.
I also didn't want to buy Blu-ray because of the content protection and region encoding. I can rip DVDs and my player is region-free, whereas I don't have software to rip Blu-ray, and my player is region locked. So I still buy DVDs, or rent Blu-ray.
By the way, is this true for Chrome, too? It's said to be parallel but by my experience (on a dual-core system) some other busy tab can quite efficiently jam the current one I'm browsing.
Not my experience on OS X or Linux. Chrome tabs run as separate processes. I've never seen one manage to stall the others.
It's worth pointing out that any time someone reviews something that they got for free through the Vine program, there's a note at the top of the review saying "Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program" with a link to find out exactly what that means. So anyone who wants to ignore Vine reviews is free to do so. Also, anyone who's in the Vine program gets a "Vine voice" tag on their profile, so you can ignore their other reviews if you want.
I'm one of those evil Vine reviewers. And for the record, I'm quite happy to give a scathing review to a product that I didn't pay for. If there's any bias to my Vine reviews, it's because I don't bother signing up to receive something unless I think there's a pretty good chance I'll like it.
To me, this article seems like a journalist who's upset because suddenly ordinary people are getting the free stuff that he gets.
My N64 gathered dust. My Gamecube gathered dust. My Wii gathered dust. Why repeat the process?
Absolutely. Look at Metacritic's game releases by score by year for the Wii, for 2011, and you can see what the problem is. Count up the number of "green" games, and total by year.
2007: 19. 2008: 42. 2009: 64. 2010: 44. 2011: a miserable 10, if the current rate continues.
In comparison, the PS3 has had more good games than the Wii every single year, and its lead has increased every year.
So the Wii had three years where there were a decent number of good games. And a lot of those were ports of older games. And even then, other consoles had more good games, and when games were multiplatform, the Wii versions were usually inferior.
I have no interest in Wii U at this point. What I want from Nintendo is for them to either ship games, or get third party developers shipping games that don't suck. Or ideally, both.
Ironically, with the DS it's the opposite problem. There's a ton of good DS software, and I have no interest in the 3DS because they're moving in the direction of stupid gimmicks. I'm actually more interested in Sony's offerings for my next handheld game system.
Then you should buy hardware that has open source drivers. Every time I've had to throw away working hardware it's been because there are no drivers for current OS releases. Your insistence that Linux needs a stable API for closed source drivers is exactly what would force Linux users to get used to throwing away working hardware.
Right now you can still use Linux with a bus mouse or a SCSI scanner. Try that with Windows 7.
I don't want binary drivers. They're not supportable. They cause forced obsolescence of hardware, and they tend to be bloated and buggy. I want hardware manufacturers to sell hardware, not to try and lock me in by keeping what I've purchased a secret. That's why when I buy hardware, I make sure I buy Linux certified hardware that has open source drivers.
The sad part is other than Linus Torvalds being an absolute douche and treating the kernel as his personal playtoy and not allowing Linux to have what everyone else has had for a decade or more, BSD, Solaris, OSX, Windows, OS/2, a stable hardware ABI so updates don't hose drivers?
Buy hardware that has open source drivers. End of problem.
I blame the hardware manufacturers for not providing documentation for their hardware.
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Another one: h/2Pi, h being Planck's constant.
Well, that brings us on to Planck Units. If we're going to change things to make the formulae easier, then it seems pretty clear that the universe has a set of much more natural units.
Pick your unit of length so that = 1, c = 1, G = 1, and so on. The equations of physics get a lot easier. (Particularly relativity with c being 1.)
Of course, there's the minor problem that your speed limit signs on roads have to be labeled 1.044×10^-7 (in planck lengths per unit planck time). But it's hardly physics' fault that everyday quantities are so inconveniently sized compared to the universe..
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One of the worst things you can do to a student that truly understands the material is to drag them down and force them to do what they consider menial tasks.
But shouldn't we be getting them ready for adult life and the world of work?
I agree--and it's why every time I've tried KDE I've abandoned it and gone back to XFCE or Gnome after a few days.
[...] If not, all that work to make a tightly integrated DE and apps is just a bunch of useless bloat and features that only half-work if you don't do things exactly the way the devs want you to.
Last time I checked, KDE 4 had lower resource usage than GNOME, so the "bloat" isn't a reason to go back to GNOME.
Not my experience. The only thing not backed up by default is your SMS messages. All your e-mail, contacts, apps, configuration and so on are in the Google cloud. You get a new phone, sign in, and everything restores automatically.
Or they could sell a pro OS X for $500 for developers. Or even $1000. And all the people looking to make a fast buck on the iPhone would bend over and take it.
I have no plans ever to switch my home network to IPv6 unless someone can make a compelling case as to why that would make any sense at all.
I'm guessing that it will be a hell of a lot easier to turn on IPv6, than to set up a 4to6 encapsulating NAT so you can reach IPv6 hosts even though you only have IPv4.
With 6to4 and RFC 3068 it ought to be a checkbox or two to turn on IPv6 on your router, if your router doesn't suck.
Well, I've never used multi-party chat, even though I have it in iChat. PSTN integration is a bit dubious too, the whole reason people use Skype is so that they don't have to use paid-for PSTN connections.
There is a great deal of ambiguity in these discussions. The parent is stating the Google Voice, when used via a mobile device through the Google Voice app, is not VoIP. This is a correct statement. When you place a call to a non-Google Voice number (land line, cell number, etc.) from your mobile device using the Google Voice feature you are actually calling a generic number. Google places another call to the to desired number and the two calls are connected. Thus, your device is using conventional cell phone communication, and burning whatever 'minutes' are involved.
Unless your device is (say) an Android phone with VoIP set up using the built in Android support. Or T-Mobile WiFi calling.
i.e. it's even more complex and ambiguous than you suggest
If you only get link-local addresses, you're not fully set up. You need to either use an RFC3068 anycast tunneling, or set up an explicit tunnel.
Assuming you go the anycast route (since that's what Comcast being ready for IPv6 would imply), once your router is configured properly your systems should autoconfigure themselves with globally routable IPv6 addresses starting with 2002.
You must have a Google-white-listed DNS server. I have an IPv6-enabled workstation and DNS server, however I get no AAAA record back for ipv6.l.google.com.
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That was true for me for a long time, but they stopped that themselves when they came out with Blu-Ray at much higher prices. I didn't want to buy Blu-Rays for twice as much, but I also didn't want to buy DVDs when there was a Blu-Ray, so I turned my NetFlix account back on.
I also didn't want to buy Blu-ray because of the content protection and region encoding. I can rip DVDs and my player is region-free, whereas I don't have software to rip Blu-ray, and my player is region locked. So I still buy DVDs, or rent Blu-ray.
By the way, is this true for Chrome, too? It's said to be parallel but by my experience (on a dual-core system) some other busy tab can quite efficiently jam the current one I'm browsing.
Not my experience on OS X or Linux. Chrome tabs run as separate processes. I've never seen one manage to stall the others.
EA's actually been doing this exact thing for a while now (called "Project $10"). It hasn't backfired on them.
That'll be why their revenue has been dropping since 2009, right?
It's not op art at all.
If you're going to use a term, make sure you know what it means.
Curve, XP, OS 5. Maybe they fixed it.
VirtualBox is ehh okay at best. If you want to do anything even slightly fancy (manage a BlackBerry over USB, or perhaps run OpenBSD), it fails badly.
Yeah, but managing a BlackBerry over USB doesn't work in VMware either.
It's worth pointing out that any time someone reviews something that they got for free through the Vine program, there's a note at the top of the review saying "Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program" with a link to find out exactly what that means. So anyone who wants to ignore Vine reviews is free to do so. Also, anyone who's in the Vine program gets a "Vine voice" tag on their profile, so you can ignore their other reviews if you want.
I'm one of those evil Vine reviewers. And for the record, I'm quite happy to give a scathing review to a product that I didn't pay for. If there's any bias to my Vine reviews, it's because I don't bother signing up to receive something unless I think there's a pretty good chance I'll like it.
To me, this article seems like a journalist who's upset because suddenly ordinary people are getting the free stuff that he gets.
My N64 gathered dust. My Gamecube gathered dust. My Wii gathered dust. Why repeat the process?
Absolutely. Look at Metacritic's game releases by score by year for the Wii, for 2011, and you can see what the problem is. Count up the number of "green" games, and total by year.
2007: 19.
2008: 42.
2009: 64.
2010: 44.
2011: a miserable 10, if the current rate continues.
In comparison, the PS3 has had more good games than the Wii every single year, and its lead has increased every year.
So the Wii had three years where there were a decent number of good games. And a lot of those were ports of older games. And even then, other consoles had more good games, and when games were multiplatform, the Wii versions were usually inferior.
I have no interest in Wii U at this point. What I want from Nintendo is for them to either ship games, or get third party developers shipping games that don't suck. Or ideally, both.
Ironically, with the DS it's the opposite problem. There's a ton of good DS software, and I have no interest in the 3DS because they're moving in the direction of stupid gimmicks. I'm actually more interested in Sony's offerings for my next handheld game system.
If new games were $20 instead of $50 or $60, I'm pretty certain my game library would be more than 3x as big.
New games are $20 or $30, if you wait for the Greatest Hits or Game of the Year release.
And right now you can get Assassin's Creed II for $9.99 on PSN.
I have no love of throwing away working hardware
Then you should buy hardware that has open source drivers. Every time I've had to throw away working hardware it's been because there are no drivers for current OS releases. Your insistence that Linux needs a stable API for closed source drivers is exactly what would force Linux users to get used to throwing away working hardware.
Right now you can still use Linux with a bus mouse or a SCSI scanner. Try that with Windows 7.
I don't want binary drivers. They're not supportable. They cause forced obsolescence of hardware, and they tend to be bloated and buggy. I want hardware manufacturers to sell hardware, not to try and lock me in by keeping what I've purchased a secret. That's why when I buy hardware, I make sure I buy Linux certified hardware that has open source drivers.
The sad part is other than Linus Torvalds being an absolute douche and treating the kernel as his personal playtoy and not allowing Linux to have what everyone else has had for a decade or more, BSD, Solaris, OSX, Windows, OS/2, a stable hardware ABI so updates don't hose drivers?
Buy hardware that has open source drivers. End of problem.
I blame the hardware manufacturers for not providing documentation for their hardware.
Another one: h/2Pi, h being Planck's constant.
Well, that brings us on to Planck Units. If we're going to change things to make the formulae easier, then it seems pretty clear that the universe has a set of much more natural units.
Pick your unit of length so that = 1, c = 1, G = 1, and so on. The equations of physics get a lot easier. (Particularly relativity with c being 1.)
Of course, there's the minor problem that your speed limit signs on roads have to be labeled 1.044×10^-7 (in planck lengths per unit planck time). But it's hardly physics' fault that everyday quantities are so inconveniently sized compared to the universe..
One of the worst things you can do to a student that truly understands the material is to drag them down and force them to do what they consider menial tasks.
But shouldn't we be getting them ready for adult life and the world of work?
I agree--and it's why every time I've tried KDE I've abandoned it and gone back to XFCE or Gnome after a few days.
[...] If not, all that work to make a tightly integrated DE and apps is just a bunch of useless bloat and features that only half-work if you don't do things exactly the way the devs want you to.
Last time I checked, KDE 4 had lower resource usage than GNOME, so the "bloat" isn't a reason to go back to GNOME.
Not my experience. The only thing not backed up by default is your SMS messages. All your e-mail, contacts, apps, configuration and so on are in the Google cloud. You get a new phone, sign in, and everything restores automatically.
> Considering that Android does not even have single device backup capability with or without a computer you are comparing apples to rotten oranges.
If only there were free applications to back up your entire Android device and all its data...
Or they could sell a pro OS X for $500 for developers. Or even $1000. And all the people looking to make a fast buck on the iPhone would bend over and take it.
I'm guessing that it will be a hell of a lot easier to turn on IPv6, than to set up a 4to6 encapsulating NAT so you can reach IPv6 hosts even though you only have IPv4.
With 6to4 and RFC 3068 it ought to be a checkbox or two to turn on IPv6 on your router, if your router doesn't suck.
Well, I've never used multi-party chat, even though I have it in iChat. PSTN integration is a bit dubious too, the whole reason people use Skype is so that they don't have to use paid-for PSTN connections.
There is a great deal of ambiguity in these discussions. The parent is stating the Google Voice, when used via a mobile device through the Google Voice app, is not VoIP. This is a correct statement. When you place a call to a non-Google Voice number (land line, cell number, etc.) from your mobile device using the Google Voice feature you are actually calling a generic number. Google places another call to the to desired number and the two calls are connected. Thus, your device is using conventional cell phone communication, and burning whatever 'minutes' are involved.
Unless your device is (say) an Android phone with VoIP set up using the built in Android support. Or T-Mobile WiFi calling.
i.e. it's even more complex and ambiguous than you suggest
iChat's video chat was built on industry standards too, and look what happened to that.
This is a great opportunity for Google to roll out a multi-platform competitor.
You mean like the video and audio chat they already have in Gmail, that works on Windows, Mac and Linux?
If you only get link-local addresses, you're not fully set up. You need to either use an RFC3068 anycast tunneling, or set up an explicit tunnel.
Assuming you go the anycast route (since that's what Comcast being ready for IPv6 would imply), once your router is configured properly your systems should autoconfigure themselves with globally routable IPv6 addresses starting with 2002.
You must have a Google-white-listed DNS server. I have an IPv6-enabled workstation and DNS server, however I get no AAAA record back for ipv6.l.google.com.
Your IPv6 is broken, then.
$ dig AAAA ipv6.l.google.com ;; ANSWER SECTION:
[...]
ipv6.l.google.com. 300 IN AAAA 2001:4860:8001::69
Running Unbound on Debian, no special configuration.