Virtually all economic ideas are based on an assumption of a continually growing economy. On a finite planet, with limited prospects for getting out, or importing significant amounts of material in, that right there is enough to make those theories spectacularly stupid.
On somewhat shorter time scales, some theories seem to be better than others (liberal, as you say), but show me proof they work. Where are the rigorous studies? There aren't any cause you can't double-blind nation-state economics! You can't even do multiple, controlled variable, repeatable tests! No science here!
I don't know or care about the others, but Display Port 1.2 handles 4k. As I said in my other comment, Ivy Bridge can physically drive 4k, it just needs a driver update, which Intel is supposed to do soon I think.
Dunno what the average onboard gpu is, but new Intels can (Ivy Bridge (w/ software update)). Since AMD is using Radeon tech, it shouldn't be an issue for them either, though I haven't heard anything.
It would take a while for the new monitors to come in anyway, so just the newer stuff supporting it should be fine.
Conservative economic plans are as bad as liberal.
This is because almost all economic ideas, of any school, are disastrous in the long term, and most are unverifiable in the short to medium term (many of the ones that are verifiable are verifiably bad). Economics is a fucked field.
I would say conservatives tend to have empathy issues to some extent, but I do not think that primarily drives those issues. Those issues tend to be related to conservatives being, well, conservative (literal meaning), and liking strong central authority (strong central authority, in turn, tends to like lots of very personal rules to help keep that authority). Also see: alliance of different types of conservative under one banner, combination of personal and economic ideas under one axis
The liberal issue you cite, I would say have an underlying origin in liberal collectivist tendencies, elevating the concern for the group, rather than the individual, and taking solutions that are implement by the group, rather than the individual.
>should have been a clue that they are actually working on supporting Linux. While rumors about this have existed for years we our now beyond the rumor stage
80.7 percent of the U.S. population lived in urban areas as of the 2010 Census, a boost from the 79 percent counted in 2000
For the 2010 count, the Census Bureau has defined 486 urbanized areas, accounting for 71.2 percent of the U.S. population. The 3,087 urban clusters account for 9.5 percent of the U.S. population.
The L.A.-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area has the highest population density, with 6,999.3 people per square mile. Hickory, North Carolina, has the lowest, with 811.1 people per square mile.
So 71 percent of Americans live in areas with a density of at least 800 people/sq. mi. Another 9.5 percent are in "urban clusters" which are much smaller and go down in density as low as 360 people/sq. mi. (though some are very dense). That doesn't sound at all like "only about half the population".
Though I don't know if there are any studies showing the cut-off effects of density on mesh networks.
Raise them from chicks and they make great pets and will not have a problem with hugs. Some will even purr! There are chicken diapers so your chicken can stay in the house.
Wii Sports is a whole different thing than the football/basketball/baseball/etc games on 360/PS. It doesn't take itself too damn seriously for starters. And personally, my favorites in Wii Sports are tennis and bowling, hardly mainstays of the big sports franchises.
In any case, even playing those games on the console might be a bit better than watching them. The post that triggered my complaint was about the lack of apps for *watching* sports on the Wii.
Damn, I hate sports. Or to be more accurate, I don't like sports fans. I am not a fan of playing 90+% of team sports, but a few are ok. But watching pro sports? Bleh! And the people that do are mostly just terrible.
Anyway, Sports fans will fit in much better with the Call of Modern Combat 12 fans, and as such, should stick to the Xbox or possibly the PS. Nintendo is for people that like happy, fun games.
For me a lot of things add up. Note that I was excited about the original Wii, and still like it a lot.
The controller seems much more like a gimmick to me. I liked the motion control possibilities of the first one (and it was put to some good use, if never quite what could have been IMO), but this seems a lot less useful. Oh, there certainly are some uses, it may be very useful for a few games. But I see it being less used than the motion control.
The power I am pretty much ok with. The Wii was less powerful, and it is mostly fine for what it does. However, I am pissed that the Wii U does not upscale Wii games to HD. That is one of the biggest limits on the Wii to me. And the emulator upscales! Why the hell won't the Wii U? Yeah, it was a mistake not making the Wii HD in the first place, and yeah, upscaled will never look like native. But it is something!
Another issue is, as you noted, the online situation. Like the HD, the lack of a decent system for online play was basically inexcusable even back at release. And unlike the HD issue, the Wii U still doesn't fix it, even for new games. It sounds like there is a bit more infrastructure in place, but not enough to be worthwhile.
I haven't owned a console of my own since I was a kid, but since my brother likes his PS3 and doesn't much care for his Wii, I was thinking of getting a Wii U. But I am not sure I see the point if it doesn't upscale Wii games.
You have to set it up, obviously. Set your domain/workgroup and what dir(s) you share, etc. But once set up it works. With Linux, with Windows. Windows shares never even seem to work quite right, even with Windows (and especially if you use XP and 7) . It is a bit better on an actual AD domain...
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Like Newton and Alchemy.
Virtually all economic ideas are based on an assumption of a continually growing economy. On a finite planet, with limited prospects for getting out, or importing significant amounts of material in, that right there is enough to make those theories spectacularly stupid.
On somewhat shorter time scales, some theories seem to be better than others (liberal, as you say), but show me proof they work. Where are the rigorous studies? There aren't any cause you can't double-blind nation-state economics! You can't even do multiple, controlled variable, repeatable tests! No science here!
Yeah, and Tesla also cloaked a navy ship and accidentally sent it back in time! And the world is run by Illuminati Lizard-men!
I don't know or care about the others, but Display Port 1.2 handles 4k.
As I said in my other comment, Ivy Bridge can physically drive 4k, it just needs a driver update, which Intel is supposed to do soon I think.
Dunno what the average onboard gpu is, but new Intels can (Ivy Bridge (w/ software update)). Since AMD is using Radeon tech, it shouldn't be an issue for them either, though I haven't heard anything.
It would take a while for the new monitors to come in anyway, so just the newer stuff supporting it should be fine.
Conservative economic plans are as bad as liberal.
This is because almost all economic ideas, of any school, are disastrous in the long term, and most are unverifiable in the short to medium term (many of the ones that are verifiable are verifiably bad). Economics is a fucked field.
I would say conservatives tend to have empathy issues to some extent, but I do not think that primarily drives those issues. Those issues tend to be related to conservatives being, well, conservative (literal meaning), and liking strong central authority (strong central authority, in turn, tends to like lots of very personal rules to help keep that authority). Also see: alliance of different types of conservative under one banner, combination of personal and economic ideas under one axis
The liberal issue you cite, I would say have an underlying origin in liberal collectivist tendencies, elevating the concern for the group, rather than the individual, and taking solutions that are implement by the group, rather than the individual.
I approve of this.
>(probably WinRT 2.0 when they iron out the last of the Win32 dependencies)
Will that even happen? Right now, WinRT seems to be built 100% on top of Win32...
>should have been a clue that they are actually working on supporting Linux. While rumors about this have existed for years we our now beyond the rumor stage
We have been beyond that for a long time now...
> It'll take some other big names getting onboard. Right now it's just valve and maybe some small fries. EA comes to mind.
I think that needs restructuring. I see what you mean, but it sounds like you just called EA a small fry (that is onboard with Linux gaming).
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2012/03/us-urban-population-what-does-urban-really-mean/1589/
So 71 percent of Americans live in areas with a density of at least 800 people/sq. mi. Another 9.5 percent are in "urban clusters" which are much smaller and go down in density as low as 360 people/sq. mi. (though some are very dense). That doesn't sound at all like "only about half the population".
Though I don't know if there are any studies showing the cut-off effects of density on mesh networks.
Raise them from chicks and they make great pets and will not have a problem with hugs. Some will even purr!
There are chicken diapers so your chicken can stay in the house.
Dunno, I played a bit of Wind Waker, and I liked it pretty well. But it did not seem like a Zelda game to me.
I have hope for Zelda, because look at New SMB Wii.
Wii Sports is a whole different thing than the football/basketball/baseball/etc games on 360/PS. It doesn't take itself too damn seriously for starters. And personally, my favorites in Wii Sports are tennis and bowling, hardly mainstays of the big sports franchises.
In any case, even playing those games on the console might be a bit better than watching them. The post that triggered my complaint was about the lack of apps for *watching* sports on the Wii.
I love having high karma!
Because for all the Wii U's failings it isn't a pointless pile of shit?
Why the flying fuck would I want an iPad when I could buy an android tablet or an Asus transformer or something, and hack a real OS on there?
And yes, I am the Wii U's target audience, even if they are not convincing me to buy one right now.
>Zelda
All I want in that regard is a new isometric-view game (not on a portable)...
I never really got into the 3D ones...
Damn, I hate sports. Or to be more accurate, I don't like sports fans. I am not a fan of playing 90+% of team sports, but a few are ok. But watching pro sports? Bleh! And the people that do are mostly just terrible.
Anyway, Sports fans will fit in much better with the Call of Modern Combat 12 fans, and as such, should stick to the Xbox or possibly the PS. Nintendo is for people that like happy, fun games.
For me a lot of things add up. Note that I was excited about the original Wii, and still like it a lot.
The controller seems much more like a gimmick to me. I liked the motion control possibilities of the first one (and it was put to some good use, if never quite what could have been IMO), but this seems a lot less useful. Oh, there certainly are some uses, it may be very useful for a few games. But I see it being less used than the motion control.
The power I am pretty much ok with. The Wii was less powerful, and it is mostly fine for what it does. However, I am pissed that the Wii U does not upscale Wii games to HD. That is one of the biggest limits on the Wii to me. And the emulator upscales! Why the hell won't the Wii U? Yeah, it was a mistake not making the Wii HD in the first place, and yeah, upscaled will never look like native. But it is something!
Another issue is, as you noted, the online situation. Like the HD, the lack of a decent system for online play was basically inexcusable even back at release. And unlike the HD issue, the Wii U still doesn't fix it, even for new games. It sounds like there is a bit more infrastructure in place, but not enough to be worthwhile.
I haven't owned a console of my own since I was a kid, but since my brother likes his PS3 and doesn't much care for his Wii, I was thinking of getting a Wii U. But I am not sure I see the point if it doesn't upscale Wii games.
You have to set it up, obviously. Set your domain/workgroup and what dir(s) you share, etc.
But once set up it works. With Linux, with Windows. Windows shares never even seem to work quite right, even with Windows (and especially if you use XP and 7) . It is a bit better on an actual AD domain...
Samba works a hell of a lot better than Window's native sharing ever did.
LO vs AOO is more like GNU emacs vs Xemacs or something.
The JWZ solution is probably best here too: give up caring and go into the alcohol business.
>(I already bet my reputation at work on it)
Sorry to hear it.
It's retro-cool, that's what it is!
You haven't wired your heart to your modem yet? Quit living in the past, man!