>Wait, why is the third console called Xbox One again? Time to fire that guy in marketing. Into the Sun.
Because the marketing guys thought it would be known as "The One" [insert hallelujah choir here], which would have been a pretty sweet accomplishment. Unfortunately for them, and predictably for the rest of us, it's known as the "XBone."
If you don't care about the color, and are hiding it anyway, the smart move is to sell it to someone who cares about fashion and is willing to overpay for the less-available gold version.
That or get your kicks announcing that you have one and don't care, though you can continue to do that without actually having a gold iPhone, so I'd sell it for sure.
>Actually there isn't that much difference between the two. It comes down to if you have Android Apps,
>then you stay on Android, or if you have iOS apps then you stay on iOS.
I think you make an interesting point, but I'm not sure how many people it's true for. Phone apps are so inexpensive that I could buy IOS equivalents of all my Android apps for well under $100 if Apple offered a better product for my use case than the large-screen Samsung Note-series phones I use. I'm not entrenched like I am with Windows on the PC.
It seems like the most efficient way to kill all humans without the side-effects of nuclear war, especially if we can build killer robots that can make more killer robots. What do you have against efficiency?
I'd say using, and becoming addicted to addictive drugs IS a mental issue, so your two categories can be collapsed into one. Mentally-well people don't seek dangerous drugs, and if they should become addicted, have the resources to get some help.
Drugs like Heroin, and excess alcohol use for a legal example, have allure for people who are unhappy in their lives, but not for happy, well-adjusted people.
>To put this differently; I have a cousin who doesn't do shit. At all. She's a worthless drag on society with 5 children.
>I work my ass off to the tune of 60-70 hours a week, every week, sometimes quite a bit more than that. If she and I are suddenly paid the same,
>I am staying home and playing XBOX, fuck this work stuff.
I don't think anyone is suggesting you'd be paid the same. I haven't seen anyone suggesting that we ban work. In a free basic income system, people would still be able to earn more money, they just wouldn't have a miserable life if they're poorly adapted to our current society. Your "worthless" cousin might have some more money in her pocket, but you can still make widgets to sell to her to improve your situation. A purely communist country would be just as bad as a completely capitalist one. You always need balance between a free market and social services.
Even if everyone was paid the same, which I think is a terrible idea, many of us are smart, capable people who enjoy and take great satisfaction from our work.
The problem with that is it encourages weird subcultures and cults to try to overbreed us all and take over the country without needing to support their members. They can grow their rural compounds without limit with the ever-increasing government income based on population growth.
Conservatives have a ton of bad ideas, hysterical beliefs, and problematic behaviors, but I think they're right that if you give people a free ride, many will contribute nothing but mouths to feed and violence, and will be a drain on us all.
I'd love to free up people's time and make having a job stop being a life and death situation, but if you give people the potential for a free ride, you start needing to add all kinds of regulation to stop abuse, and I see it needing to go as far as restricting parenthood to productive people, so maybe we're better off with the current situation.
We've made some progress with the ACA, so jobless people don't have to die in the streets, and I think we should be happy with these small steps. Reforming prisons so they rehabilitate prisoners would be a good next step. We don't need to turn our whole culture and economy upside down with a completely socialist system at this time.
I think if they offered the local homes free electricity in exchange for accepting a nuke plant, they'd have some takers.
Of course no one want the added risk of living near a nuclear power plant if they receive no benefit for taking that risk.
>You are assuming that advances in artificial intelligence are even possible and that it is just a matter of time before we create a computer like Hal or Data.
This seems like a safe assumption assuming civilization doesn't collapse completely. We understand that souls are imaginary, and the human brain is a machine composed of proteins and fats, so there's no reason to not expect artificial intelligences superior to us to be created, whether it be done with silicon or meat. It's extremely unlikely that the human brain is the optimal architecture for producing rational thought.
You know that's not true, and is just another Republican malfunction. It's actually really good that the Republicans live in a fantasy world made of straw-men though, it means they'll be on the scrap-heap of history very soon outside of the deep south.
We need a second party to counter the Democrats, but the Republicans are too far gone for that role.
Try turning off the 3D on a head mounted display. It may just be that you're in the portion of the population that can't handle stereoscopic 3D, or it may be VR itself that you have a problem with.
>You know, you can probably safely generalize that to 'never trust any tech company to not screw its customers'.
Probably true, but no other company has screwed me like Nvidia did. I'm sure others have stories of other companies doing similar things to them, but for me Nvidia is the only company that obsoleted a very fun $1K product with a software update.
eMagin is also to blame of course for not creating their own software to drive the device, and they never managed to get their head-tracking working on anything but Windows XP.
I think that was the last bleeding-edge product I ever bought. I'm hoping to not have the same experience with the Occulus Rift, which I probably won't be able to resist buying.
> Nvidia promises to keep the device updated with the latest versions of Android, too.
Years ago I picked up an eMagin head mounted display for about a grand, which was pretty spectacular until Nvidia dropped support for the product with their next driver release, making it totally useless for any game that came out after the HMD was released. Nvidia had made a deal with the people who make the Trimon 3D monitors, and as part of that, they had dropped support for prior 3D products. Do not trust Nvidia to provide usable updates, unless you want to waste money like I did.
I agree. I turn my 7" tablet sideways to get the same width of my 10", and it just requires a little more scrolling.
The difference in weight is a huge difference when holding the device for extended periods.
Google+ even follows some of us to Slashdot.
Fortunately my Google+ name is a pseudonym using the first and last names of two different actors. Real-looking is all they care about, not that you actually use your real name.
The reason for a hand reader in addition to a code is to stop dishonest employees from clocking each other in. Of course dishonest employees should be unemployed, but in poor-paying jobs it's hard to attract quality people.
That's why we have inheritance taxes, but the ignorant conservatives call that a "death tax," and claim that giving back to the society that rewarded them so much in life is theft.
I think steep inheritance taxes are the only way away from the rule by super-wealthy families that we're under today. A wealthy person will still have inappropriate influence over us all, but their do-nothing offspring will not.
It sounds like you're a lazy, useless slob who projects that on to others.
Many of us find more interesting uses of our free time than getting high all the time.
The particularly bad ones are specifically bad for healthy adults with a non-compromised immune systems, so let's stop pretending that a healthy immune system protects against dangerous flu variants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm
The seats on the United flights I took a couple of months ago had outlets, but no USB ports, so point in favor in carrying an ac/usb adapter there. Only two outlets per group of three seats though, so they can quickly be taken.
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>Wait, why is the third console called Xbox One again? Time to fire that guy in marketing. Into the Sun.
Because the marketing guys thought it would be known as "The One" [insert hallelujah choir here], which would have been a pretty sweet accomplishment.
Unfortunately for them, and predictably for the rest of us, it's known as the "XBone."
Compared to Surface Pro, yes, but if the regular Surface is still running RT, it's more of a toy than the iPad.
They're not RIM anymore, and the purchase price seems to match the valuation of their assets. I'm as surprised by this as you are.
If you don't care about the color, and are hiding it anyway, the smart move is to sell it to someone who cares about fashion and is willing to overpay for the less-available gold version.
That or get your kicks announcing that you have one and don't care, though you can continue to do that without actually having a gold iPhone, so I'd sell it for sure.
>Actually there isn't that much difference between the two. It comes down to if you have Android Apps,
>then you stay on Android, or if you have iOS apps then you stay on iOS.
I think you make an interesting point, but I'm not sure how many people it's true for. Phone apps are so inexpensive that I could buy IOS equivalents of all my Android apps for well under $100 if Apple offered a better product for my use case than the large-screen Samsung Note-series phones I use. I'm not entrenched like I am with Windows on the PC.
It seems like the most efficient way to kill all humans without the side-effects of nuclear war, especially if we can build killer robots that can make more killer robots.
What do you have against efficiency?
I'd say using, and becoming addicted to addictive drugs IS a mental issue, so your two categories can be collapsed into one. Mentally-well people don't seek dangerous drugs, and if they should become addicted, have the resources to get some help.
Drugs like Heroin, and excess alcohol use for a legal example, have allure for people who are unhappy in their lives, but not for happy, well-adjusted people.
>To put this differently; I have a cousin who doesn't do shit. At all. She's a worthless drag on society with 5 children.
>I work my ass off to the tune of 60-70 hours a week, every week, sometimes quite a bit more than that. If she and I are suddenly paid the same,
>I am staying home and playing XBOX, fuck this work stuff.
I don't think anyone is suggesting you'd be paid the same. I haven't seen anyone suggesting that we ban work. In a free basic income system, people would still be able to earn more money, they just wouldn't have a miserable life if they're poorly adapted to our current society. Your "worthless" cousin might have some more money in her pocket, but you can still make widgets to sell to her to improve your situation. A purely communist country would be just as bad as a completely capitalist one. You always need balance between a free market and social services.
Even if everyone was paid the same, which I think is a terrible idea, many of us are smart, capable people who enjoy and take great satisfaction from our work.
The problem with that is it encourages weird subcultures and cults to try to overbreed us all and take over the country without needing to support their members. They can grow their rural compounds without limit with the ever-increasing government income based on population growth.
Conservatives have a ton of bad ideas, hysterical beliefs, and problematic behaviors, but I think they're right that if you give people a free ride, many will contribute nothing but mouths to feed and violence, and will be a drain on us all.
I'd love to free up people's time and make having a job stop being a life and death situation, but if you give people the potential for a free ride, you start needing to add all kinds of regulation to stop abuse, and I see it needing to go as far as restricting parenthood to productive people, so maybe we're better off with the current situation.
We've made some progress with the ACA, so jobless people don't have to die in the streets, and I think we should be happy with these small steps. Reforming prisons so they rehabilitate prisoners would be a good next step. We don't need to turn our whole culture and economy upside down with a completely socialist system at this time.
I think if they offered the local homes free electricity in exchange for accepting a nuke plant, they'd have some takers. Of course no one want the added risk of living near a nuclear power plant if they receive no benefit for taking that risk.
>You are assuming that advances in artificial intelligence are even possible and that it is just a matter of time before we create a computer like Hal or Data.
This seems like a safe assumption assuming civilization doesn't collapse completely. We understand that souls are imaginary, and the human brain is a machine composed of proteins and fats, so there's no reason to not expect artificial intelligences superior to us to be created, whether it be done with silicon or meat. It's extremely unlikely that the human brain is the optimal architecture for producing rational thought.
If only Walmart was still just a rural thing. They're everywhere these days.
You know that's not true, and is just another Republican malfunction. It's actually really good that the Republicans live in a fantasy world made of straw-men though, it means they'll be on the scrap-heap of history very soon outside of the deep south.
We need a second party to counter the Democrats, but the Republicans are too far gone for that role.
Try turning off the 3D on a head mounted display. It may just be that you're in the portion of the population that can't handle stereoscopic 3D, or it may be VR itself that you have a problem with.
>You know, you can probably safely generalize that to 'never trust any tech company to not screw its customers'.
Probably true, but no other company has screwed me like Nvidia did. I'm sure others have stories of other companies doing similar things to them, but for me Nvidia is the only company that obsoleted a very fun $1K product with a software update.
eMagin is also to blame of course for not creating their own software to drive the device, and they never managed to get their head-tracking working on anything but Windows XP.
I think that was the last bleeding-edge product I ever bought. I'm hoping to not have the same experience with the Occulus Rift, which I probably won't be able to resist buying.
> Nvidia promises to keep the device updated with the latest versions of Android, too.
Years ago I picked up an eMagin head mounted display for about a grand, which was pretty spectacular until Nvidia dropped support for the product with their next driver release, making it totally useless for any game that came out after the HMD was released. Nvidia had made a deal with the people who make the Trimon 3D monitors, and as part of that, they had dropped support for prior 3D products. Do not trust Nvidia to provide usable updates, unless you want to waste money like I did.
I agree. I turn my 7" tablet sideways to get the same width of my 10", and it just requires a little more scrolling. The difference in weight is a huge difference when holding the device for extended periods.
Google+ even follows some of us to Slashdot. Fortunately my Google+ name is a pseudonym using the first and last names of two different actors. Real-looking is all they care about, not that you actually use your real name.
The reason for a hand reader in addition to a code is to stop dishonest employees from clocking each other in. Of course dishonest employees should be unemployed, but in poor-paying jobs it's hard to attract quality people.
That's why we have inheritance taxes, but the ignorant conservatives call that a "death tax," and claim that giving back to the society that rewarded them so much in life is theft. I think steep inheritance taxes are the only way away from the rule by super-wealthy families that we're under today. A wealthy person will still have inappropriate influence over us all, but their do-nothing offspring will not.
So, add a contraceptive to the free drugs that will keep some problem people off the streets.
It sounds like you're a lazy, useless slob who projects that on to others. Many of us find more interesting uses of our free time than getting high all the time.
The particularly bad ones are specifically bad for healthy adults with a non-compromised immune systems, so let's stop pretending that a healthy immune system protects against dangerous flu variants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm
http://www.taigtools.com/cmill.html
Taig makes a decent little product that can do all but one of the operations on an ar-15 receiver.
If you want to vastly over complicate a homemade weapon, I'm sure you can find a design that can be milled.
The seats on the United flights I took a couple of months ago had outlets, but no USB ports, so point in favor in carrying an ac/usb adapter there. Only two outlets per group of three seats though, so they can quickly be taken.