Seamless, so long as you only want to play the music actually stored on the phone.
If you want to stream music through Pandora, Spotify, etc using your phone and Blue Tooth it over the car speakers... well good luck. I rent cars fairly frequently (about 2 weeks/month) and run about 50/50 chance of that actually working. I've switched back to using an aux cable the majority of the time.
The free market takes care of everything if you just bud out and not interfere.
Devil's devil's advocate : That last line kinda kills the whole argument.
If we butt-out and let the free market flow, then maybe it would take care of everything...maybe. But we don't. We meddle. We let the current Top Dog set the rules (through things like campaign donations and outright bribes) thereby circumventing the free market and giving themselves many undue advantages, aside from simply being bigger
It wouldn't be a hard cap, but a figure relative to the lowest (or average mean/median) wage of the company they oversee
If the CEO wants a raise, give everyone else in the company a raise... if the company can afford to pay its workers better, and still have left over cash for the CEO's raise, then he truly deserves it. On the flip side, if a company has to start cutting back, lowering wages or laying people off, that should have a direct negative effect the CEOs pocketbook
As a first step, this seems reasonable. Any sane company would take this approach.
Take over a half-finished product and see it through to completion. The hope, going forward, is that Google can leverage the revenue generated from the roll outs thus far to start building all new infrastructure.
Right now, the prices of Cable TV (content) vs Cable Internet (connectivity) are artificially linked, inflated and imbalanced. Let them split off and see how the "free market" reacts. If it means cable internet prices skyrocket, at least it might spark some genuine competition.
Bloodlines was an amazing game that got screwed over by the studio. They rushed it out completely unfinished for a holiday release. But the devs were dedicated enough to stay onboard and continue patching it up in their spare time (completely for free)
They had a few community managers, but the actual devs posted frequently, up to and including the C level guys. (CEO, COO, etc... it was a fairly small company)
Check out Dungeon Defenders. Similar concept, but with a Fantasy element instead of Sci Fi... plus a little more team work required, as each class has different "Towers"
Just be careful, Dungeon Defenders is chock full of DLC. Probably 30 or 40 different things, each a dollar or two... but it can add up, and it's a pretty ugly business model, imo. Game is still fun though.
Saw that on Steam yesterday. Looks interesting, but it's $30 just to play the "Early Access" version.
Call me old fashioned, but aren't studios supposed to PAY their testers? Or at very least let people beta test for free? Charging people for the 'privilege' of playing a beta is fucked. Especially considering the game claims to be "Free to Play" but ONLY charging the people who want "Early Access"
Looks interesting as a game, but the people running the show need to get their heads out of their asses..
I'd agree on Papers Please. It's absolutely no fun whatsoever, but it is also an absolutely fascinating experience.
Reminds me of "Spec Ops : The Line." At times, it was decidedly NOT FUN, which is kinda the opposite of what you expect from a video game, but it was always engaging as a character driven drama, akin to Godfather or Apocalypse Now (with which is shares source material, "Heart of Darkness" by Conrad) Plus it has great "moral choice" elements that put to shame every game that pops up and asks you "Would you like to be a jerk or a nice guy here?" The game just lets you do what you think is right, and usually recognizes your choice.
It's pretty short (8-10 hour campaign, absolutely worthless multiplayer) so look for it on sale, or through red box, game fly, etc
FTL was fun for a day or two, but the skill cap is extremely low, and it very quickly becomes you vs the random number generator
If you want to recreate the experience, get a quarter (or any heads/tails coin), a piece of paper and a pencil. Write the number 5 on the paper, and then flip the coin. If you get heads, add 1 to the number. If you get tails, subtract 1. Continue to flip and add/subtract in this way. The game ends when you get to either zero or ten (zero being a loss, ten being victory)
If you'd like to try on Hard Mode, it's the exact same, but heads is +1 and tails is -4 (recently patched from -6)
And when you're done playing, you keep the quarter.
Two months of fighting this, and debricking my router 2? 3? times, and I found one that did what I needed (that was to actually serve as a print server for a USB printer, as well as routing).. I have no idea how, or if, I'll be able to upgrade.....
mark, sr. sysadmin, Linux/Unix
Just FYI. If you can "debrick" something, than it's not bricked.
If you can get water, then you're taking water away from someone else, leveraging your farm's well being on the hope that whomever your getting water from will always have a surplus and always have methods to transport that surplus to you.
"The guy who decides" has clearly made a poor choice, as demonstrated by the article. If farming in the desert was viable, we wouldn't be running articles about this drought issue.
Anyone whose opinion matters knows exactly what net neutrality means.
Voters.
Yeah yeah, I know "If voting actually changed anything, they'd make it illegal," but until they do, a well informed voter can help push for the government we need. A lot of fairly intelligent people haven't heard of Net Neutrality, but as soon as you tell them "if it goes away, Comcast is allowed to kneecap NetFlix or any other streaming service, to make their own service look better," they've got a strong opinion on the matter.
Someone accessed kiddie porn, made terrorist threats, or did some other illegal stuff, that passed through ISP XYZ's router, no one ever did as much as accuse them of hosting the content.(now I guess comcast is to big to jail so they don't care)
I'd never thought about this angle, but you have a good point. If net neutrality doesn't survive, I wouldn't be surprised to see ISPs charged with monitoring data, or being held accountable for illegal material passed through the pipes that they would be monitoring.
I don't think there has ever been a drastic and/or immediate shift in policy based on a "We the People" petition... no (I could be wrong, so fee free to correct me here if needed)
However by simply answering the petition, the White House has helped to illuminate the problem for the less tech savvy folks who still follow politics. You'd be astonished (or maybe you wouldn't) to realize how many people have absolutely zero idea what "Net Neutrality" actually means. This response, no matter how neutered, will cause at least a small percentage of people to say "Hold on a second. What's this 'free and open Internet' concept?"
Couple that with the real or perceived repercussions and non-techs may actually start putting the pieces together "Why is my netflix so slow today? And what is the white house babbling about now? hey!" light bulb
1. It's Battle.Net not battlecraft. That's the actual website in addition to the common name. Mondegreens don't make you sound hip or cool. ("I don't twit on that twatter website, or whatever it's called *harumph*"
2. Valve isn't affiliated with Battle.Net in any way. Maybe if they were, Valve would have apprehended this criminal before they ransacked your account
3. Given 3 years uninterrupted, just about anyone interested could brute force your password by hand. Unsure of the relationship between your issue and DNS checks
4. You haven't logged in for 3 years, which means you haven't played any SC2 or D3 (not that I blame you) D2 characters hosted on Battle.Net expire after a certain dormant period (60 days?) Star Craft ladders reset, so there's really nothing to lose there. At best, they logged into your WoW account and sharded up your level 60 gear. This is such a non-issue, I can't even fathom why someone would WANT that account. There is literally nothing of value there, unless you have continued to pay subscription fees to WoW, in which case they might be using the account to Bot... but that's really not causing YOU any loss. If you've been paying the $15/month for the last 3 years, getting accused to cheating is really the LEAST of your worries
Still a few years before N64 or original Playstation released, which means you must be talking about SNES or Sega Genesis games. Kinda kills your "only had a problem with one CD." Unless you meant CDs or ROM Cartridges. Or maybe you just meant 16 years instead of 20. Little hyperbole never hurt.
So, still got your copy of FF7 around and ready to go? Because I do. On Steam.
Consider that athletes, like horses, do not always perform at their best on race day. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Beyond the myriad physiological reasons, ice is not the same rink to rink, skate blades can be sharpened differently with different interactions between the ice and the athlete's legs and so on.
While it certainly true that times vary, I think it becomes interesting when several people all start "not performing their best" at the exact same time, with a common variable between them.
I'd have to see a lot more data before I cast blame on the suits. As you mentioned, it could have been the ice, or just nerves, or a psychosomatic response to the "new untested suits." Could be a lot of things, but at first glance, the suits seem to be a reasonable hypothesis.
That said, it's not inherently "poor sportsmanship" to try and figure this out. If we're letting equipment R&D become part of the Olympic process, then so be it. Put it up next to Nutrition and workout regimen. If someone on the Olympic team said "we started a new pre-race diet today, and I don't think it's helping," or said that they need to focus on more cardio and less strength training next time, that wouldn't be whining. It would be trying to improve themselves and their performance. Questioning the suits is no different."
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Seamless, so long as you only want to play the music actually stored on the phone.
If you want to stream music through Pandora, Spotify, etc using your phone and Blue Tooth it over the car speakers ... well good luck. I rent cars fairly frequently (about 2 weeks/month) and run about 50/50 chance of that actually working. I've switched back to using an aux cable the majority of the time.
*devils advocate*
The free market takes care of everything if you just bud out and not interfere.
Devil's devil's advocate : That last line kinda kills the whole argument.
If we butt-out and let the free market flow, then maybe it would take care of everything ...maybe. But we don't. We meddle. We let the current Top Dog set the rules (through things like campaign donations and outright bribes) thereby circumventing the free market and giving themselves many undue advantages, aside from simply being bigger
It wouldn't be a hard cap, but a figure relative to the lowest (or average mean/median) wage of the company they oversee
If the CEO wants a raise, give everyone else in the company a raise... if the company can afford to pay its workers better, and still have left over cash for the CEO's raise, then he truly deserves it. On the flip side, if a company has to start cutting back, lowering wages or laying people off, that should have a direct negative effect the CEOs pocketbook
As a first step, this seems reasonable. Any sane company would take this approach.
Take over a half-finished product and see it through to completion. The hope, going forward, is that Google can leverage the revenue generated from the roll outs thus far to start building all new infrastructure.
Fingers crossed.
True, but at least this would force some action.
Right now, the prices of Cable TV (content) vs Cable Internet (connectivity) are artificially linked, inflated and imbalanced. Let them split off and see how the "free market" reacts. If it means cable internet prices skyrocket, at least it might spark some genuine competition.
No mod points to give, but 100x yes.
Bloodlines was an amazing game that got screwed over by the studio. They rushed it out completely unfinished for a holiday release. But the devs were dedicated enough to stay onboard and continue patching it up in their spare time (completely for free)
AARRRRRR!!!
Reminds me of City of Heroes (moment of silence)
They had a few community managers, but the actual devs posted frequently, up to and including the C level guys. (CEO, COO, etc ... it was a fairly small company)
Check out Dungeon Defenders. Similar concept, but with a Fantasy element instead of Sci Fi... plus a little more team work required, as each class has different "Towers"
Just be careful, Dungeon Defenders is chock full of DLC. Probably 30 or 40 different things, each a dollar or two ... but it can add up, and it's a pretty ugly business model, imo. Game is still fun though.
Saw that on Steam yesterday. Looks interesting, but it's $30 just to play the "Early Access" version.
Call me old fashioned, but aren't studios supposed to PAY their testers? Or at very least let people beta test for free? Charging people for the 'privilege' of playing a beta is fucked. Especially considering the game claims to be "Free to Play" but ONLY charging the people who want "Early Access"
Looks interesting as a game, but the people running the show need to get their heads out of their asses..
I'd agree on Papers Please. It's absolutely no fun whatsoever, but it is also an absolutely fascinating experience.
Reminds me of "Spec Ops : The Line." At times, it was decidedly NOT FUN, which is kinda the opposite of what you expect from a video game, but it was always engaging as a character driven drama, akin to Godfather or Apocalypse Now (with which is shares source material, "Heart of Darkness" by Conrad) Plus it has great "moral choice" elements that put to shame every game that pops up and asks you "Would you like to be a jerk or a nice guy here?" The game just lets you do what you think is right, and usually recognizes your choice.
It's pretty short (8-10 hour campaign, absolutely worthless multiplayer) so look for it on sale, or through red box, game fly, etc
FTL was fun for a day or two, but the skill cap is extremely low, and it very quickly becomes you vs the random number generator
If you want to recreate the experience, get a quarter (or any heads/tails coin), a piece of paper and a pencil. Write the number 5 on the paper, and then flip the coin. If you get heads, add 1 to the number. If you get tails, subtract 1. Continue to flip and add/subtract in this way. The game ends when you get to either zero or ten (zero being a loss, ten being victory)
If you'd like to try on Hard Mode, it's the exact same, but heads is +1 and tails is -4 (recently patched from -6)
And when you're done playing, you keep the quarter.
At least you have 3 shitty options. I'm limited to a single shitty option.
Not only that, but the device primarily in charge of transporting data is the most likely point of entry for malicious data.
Who'da'thunk
Two months of fighting this, and debricking my router 2? 3? times, and I found one that did what I needed (that was to actually serve as a print server for a USB printer, as well as routing).. I have no idea how, or if, I'll be able to upgrade.....
mark, sr. sysadmin, Linux/Unix
Just FYI. If you can "debrick" something, than it's not bricked.
If you can get water, then you're taking water away from someone else, leveraging your farm's well being on the hope that whomever your getting water from will always have a surplus and always have methods to transport that surplus to you.
"The guy who decides" has clearly made a poor choice, as demonstrated by the article. If farming in the desert was viable, we wouldn't be running articles about this drought issue.
Anyone whose opinion matters knows exactly what net neutrality means.
Voters.
Yeah yeah, I know "If voting actually changed anything, they'd make it illegal," but until they do, a well informed voter can help push for the government we need. A lot of fairly intelligent people haven't heard of Net Neutrality, but as soon as you tell them "if it goes away, Comcast is allowed to kneecap NetFlix or any other streaming service, to make their own service look better," they've got a strong opinion on the matter.
Someone accessed kiddie porn, made terrorist threats, or did some other illegal stuff, that passed through ISP XYZ's router, no one ever did as much as accuse them of hosting the content.(now I guess comcast is to big to jail so they don't care)
I'd never thought about this angle, but you have a good point. If net neutrality doesn't survive, I wouldn't be surprised to see ISPs charged with monitoring data, or being held accountable for illegal material passed through the pipes that they would be monitoring.
If you have good land, but it lacks water, then you find a way to add water, and then you can grow food there.
Please define "good" as it pertains to land and growing food. Because I would think that lacking water is a pretty big impediment for good farmland.
I don't think there has ever been a drastic and/or immediate shift in policy based on a "We the People" petition ... no (I could be wrong, so fee free to correct me here if needed)
However by simply answering the petition, the White House has helped to illuminate the problem for the less tech savvy folks who still follow politics. You'd be astonished (or maybe you wouldn't) to realize how many people have absolutely zero idea what "Net Neutrality" actually means. This response, no matter how neutered, will cause at least a small percentage of people to say "Hold on a second. What's this 'free and open Internet' concept?"
Couple that with the real or perceived repercussions and non-techs may actually start putting the pieces together "Why is my netflix so slow today? And what is the white house babbling about now? hey!" light bulb
"The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down" -Adam Savage
And a working PS1 on which to play it, with controllers? And a TV with open RCA jacks?
For my money, having it on Steam is just more convenient. Of course, ROMs are the best option, but I'm limiting to fully legal avenues
To each their own, I suppose
Where to start?
1. It's Battle.Net not battlecraft. That's the actual website in addition to the common name. Mondegreens don't make you sound hip or cool. ("I don't twit on that twatter website, or whatever it's called *harumph*"
2. Valve isn't affiliated with Battle.Net in any way. Maybe if they were, Valve would have apprehended this criminal before they ransacked your account
3. Given 3 years uninterrupted, just about anyone interested could brute force your password by hand. Unsure of the relationship between your issue and DNS checks
4. You haven't logged in for 3 years, which means you haven't played any SC2 or D3 (not that I blame you) D2 characters hosted on Battle.Net expire after a certain dormant period (60 days?) Star Craft ladders reset, so there's really nothing to lose there. At best, they logged into your WoW account and sharded up your level 60 gear. This is such a non-issue, I can't even fathom why someone would WANT that account. There is literally nothing of value there, unless you have continued to pay subscription fees to WoW, in which case they might be using the account to Bot... but that's really not causing YOU any loss. If you've been paying the $15/month for the last 3 years, getting accused to cheating is really the LEAST of your worries
20 years? So, 1994.
Still a few years before N64 or original Playstation released, which means you must be talking about SNES or Sega Genesis games. Kinda kills your "only had a problem with one CD." Unless you meant CDs or ROM Cartridges. Or maybe you just meant 16 years instead of 20. Little hyperbole never hurt.
So, still got your copy of FF7 around and ready to go? Because I do. On Steam.
Consider that athletes, like horses, do not always perform at their best on race day. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Beyond the myriad physiological reasons, ice is not the same rink to rink, skate blades can be sharpened differently with different interactions between the ice and the athlete's legs and so on.
While it certainly true that times vary, I think it becomes interesting when several people all start "not performing their best" at the exact same time, with a common variable between them.
I'd have to see a lot more data before I cast blame on the suits. As you mentioned, it could have been the ice, or just nerves, or a psychosomatic response to the "new untested suits." Could be a lot of things, but at first glance, the suits seem to be a reasonable hypothesis.
That said, it's not inherently "poor sportsmanship" to try and figure this out. If we're letting equipment R&D become part of the Olympic process, then so be it. Put it up next to Nutrition and workout regimen. If someone on the Olympic team said "we started a new pre-race diet today, and I don't think it's helping," or said that they need to focus on more cardio and less strength training next time, that wouldn't be whining. It would be trying to improve themselves and their performance. Questioning the suits is no different."