Is Apple for years has made outrageous claims about performance and productivity (remember the intel snail ads? You don't? Here's a reminder...). I won't even talk about the wierd and inaccurate claims they make in their mac vs. pc ads.
But Microsoft (who has been quiet for ages!) makes one or two not even dubious claims (whoa - macs cost more - big news) and everyone gets all bent out of shape.
If you figure they have an ever growing customer base (which they should if they are a good business), and have been investing into their bandwidth, equipment and support like a good company - while costs increase, it should be offset by their increased customer base anyhow.
Not to mention their price they pay for bandwidth has been going down steadily over the years (don't believe me? read their quarterly SEC report!).
So actually yeah their prices should stay steady, or even go down eventually.
Because this has more to do with TW wanting to curb streaming video (since its competing with their video on demand services) than it does bandwidth use.
If they only charged for use they'd be out of business in a month.
Maybe you can tell me then - I figured that a certain amount of money used from out monthly subscription would be re-invested into the company to allow it to expand indefinitely (or nearly indefinitely). Is this not the case?
Well think about it - gold farmers are using bots to farm this money 24-7 - its an artificial money supply injected into the game (because no one player actually earned it).
Which causes the money to be worth less.
WoW already has a pretty terrible economy where nothing sold is actually worth the effort to farm it. I honestly think its cheaper just to buy materials/potions etc from someone than to put the effort into getting the stuff yourself.
I don't think so - I don't live there, but my parents do - and they pay 50 pounds for like 30 megabits (this is in Edinburgh Scotland). I don't believe its metered either.
I actually think one of the main reasons British TV programs don't make it in the US is because of the format - it doesn't allow for commercials, or is too short or too long (and would allow for too many commercials).
I know even as late as the 80's there were shows that ended at like 12 after - for some reason tv corps in the US like shows that last 30 minutes - 1 hour (with ads).
Lately however - I've noticed a lot of BBC shows are formatted so they can be sold overseas - like the new Dr. Who series.
This is the kind of crap that 3rd world despots always use in their propaganda to prove to their own people that were are imperialist war mongers - true or not they should have arrested him and treated him like any other person they held in captivity to prove to everyone that we treat everyone equally.
I had the same problems really - many pvp based corps want at least 6 million skillpoints just to join, and some as many at 20 million.
Unless you just want to tackle all day you need an insane amount of time just sitting there buying skill books and "learning" crap.
It seems to me there's an insane amount of unnecessary skills as well - many that sound similar, many that have crazy amounts of dependencies that you'll only figure out using a flow chart (get used to flow charts and spreadsheets if you want to take the game seriously btw).
I guess some people like that - and to be honest if my RL friends played it I'd be more into it, but as it stands I'll play something else.
Sorry you're confused. I've never been there:(, but I have a room-mate who used to be stationed there. He said its one of the most heavily watched places he's ever been. Its doubtful that someone wouldn't notice troop or artillery movement.
Yes antiquated - every film I've seen of them blustering about their military they are driving around copies (or originals I have no clue) of 1950-1970ish soviet hardware and the most recent film I can find was made in 2006.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HByXYxYN7H4 - most modern jet in that film is a Mig-29, I doubt they have many as most of jets in that film are Mig-21's while capable in the right hands, is a late 50's airplane.
I think if the north did invade there would be casualties no doubt, but the majority of the war would be over in hours if not days. Between the UN and South Korea they have ground and air superiority.
There's an estimated 500,000 troops on the south Korean side of the demarcation line - do you honestly think with their antiquated hardware they'd be allowed to shell Seoul?
The problem was that the phone had some real glaring problems that were never resolved. Such as a one day battery life. And the inability to charge the phone after the battery wore out completely.
So I don't know much about openmoko, but you're saying that if you let the battery go to 0% that would brick the phone?
You'd think someone would have caught that in testing...
What more need be said? Well, please elaborate. What exactly is wrong with Solaris, according to you? What exactly is it lacking that other unixes do offer? What is lacking about the many features that other unixes simply do not have? Even an open source version is made available.
I'll bite
I always thought it was odd that every Solaris machine I've ever been given (including the Blade 1500 at my last job which came with Solaris 10) I had to spend hours, weeks, months and even years applying patches and setting up keyboard maps so that when I hit backspace it actually deleted characters, and for the most part I always used the factore keyboards with these workstations. I always thought it was retarded that the stock keyboard didn't actually work with Solaris 8/9/10 out of the box.
Solaris 10 out of the box when I logged in via the UI had no less than 5 separate dialogues warning me about various configuration errors or something (some were bugs I had to patch, others were things I had to fix by hand). None of these machines were ever fully fixed and had tons of subtle issues that no-one including me seemed to be able to fix, but since I had work-arounds it worked well enough. And talking to friends I found most Solaris machines seemed to be this way - working, but lots of small annoying issues that never went fixed. Every one of these machines was brand new purchased straight from Sun and pre-configured at the factory and nothing ever worked.
Being a Sun customer for years - I felt that their hardware was just fine (I only recall one problem with a cpu which they replaced fast), but Sun software seemed to be QA'd by monkey's - you shouldn't ship something with loads of error messages. Not a single app they ever sent me worked out of the box. Not a single damn app without hours of fiddeling. Same with 3rd part apps certified for Solaris. The fact that to view their KB and download these fixes costs money just pours salt into your wound.
Moving to Linux as most people are doing was like a dream - seriously. You install packages and they usually worked with minimal configuration. The keyboard worked without lots of fiddling - actually looking at most common Linux distos like Debian and Unbuntu the keyboard worked perfectly out of the box.
Solaris is fine enough as an OS, but it lacks polish in every single way imaginable and needs serious design help. I find it hilarious that they used to try to market it as a replacement to Windows a long time ago (search computer chronicles archives if you don't believe me).
I live in washington - I think they could be a tad bit more generous and pay for the entire thing themselves - which they could easily afford - especially after laying off 1200 people?
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Is Apple for years has made outrageous claims about performance and productivity (remember the intel snail ads? You don't? Here's a reminder...). I won't even talk about the wierd and inaccurate claims they make in their mac vs. pc ads.
But Microsoft (who has been quiet for ages!) makes one or two not even dubious claims (whoa - macs cost more - big news) and everyone gets all bent out of shape.
One of the most violent games I ever played as a child was Walker (this was in the 80's):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoZxnQraJpE
I honestly don't feel the urge to shoot up the neighborhood several hundred violent games later.
I do know chess players who have spent thousands of hours practicing. Not sure what the difference is...
Drop by a 24 hour gym I guess...
Want to see an economy tank all we need is a couple million illiterate people come of working age.
If you figure they have an ever growing customer base (which they should if they are a good business), and have been investing into their bandwidth, equipment and support like a good company - while costs increase, it should be offset by their increased customer base anyhow.
Not to mention their price they pay for bandwidth has been going down steadily over the years (don't believe me? read their quarterly SEC report!).
So actually yeah their prices should stay steady, or even go down eventually.
Because this has more to do with TW wanting to curb streaming video (since its competing with their video on demand services) than it does bandwidth use.
If they only charged for use they'd be out of business in a month.
Maybe you can tell me then - I figured that a certain amount of money used from out monthly subscription would be re-invested into the company to allow it to expand indefinitely (or nearly indefinitely). Is this not the case?
Well think about it - gold farmers are using bots to farm this money 24-7 - its an artificial money supply injected into the game (because no one player actually earned it).
Which causes the money to be worth less.
WoW already has a pretty terrible economy where nothing sold is actually worth the effort to farm it. I honestly think its cheaper just to buy materials/potions etc from someone than to put the effort into getting the stuff yourself.
I don't think so - I don't live there, but my parents do - and they pay 50 pounds for like 30 megabits (this is in Edinburgh Scotland). I don't believe its metered either.
I actually think one of the main reasons British TV programs don't make it in the US is because of the format - it doesn't allow for commercials, or is too short or too long (and would allow for too many commercials).
I know even as late as the 80's there were shows that ended at like 12 after - for some reason tv corps in the US like shows that last 30 minutes - 1 hour (with ads).
Lately however - I've noticed a lot of BBC shows are formatted so they can be sold overseas - like the new Dr. Who series.
You don't think were a tad above that?
This is the kind of crap that 3rd world despots always use in their propaganda to prove to their own people that were are imperialist war mongers - true or not they should have arrested him and treated him like any other person they held in captivity to prove to everyone that we treat everyone equally.
Except they aren't - in Eve stations are a static screen, and you jump from place to place so the distance is minimized.
I had the same problems really - many pvp based corps want at least 6 million skillpoints just to join, and some as many at 20 million.
Unless you just want to tackle all day you need an insane amount of time just sitting there buying skill books and "learning" crap.
It seems to me there's an insane amount of unnecessary skills as well - many that sound similar, many that have crazy amounts of dependencies that you'll only figure out using a flow chart (get used to flow charts and spreadsheets if you want to take the game seriously btw).
I guess some people like that - and to be honest if my RL friends played it I'd be more into it, but as it stands I'll play something else.
Every update I've ever had to do on my Mac requires me to restart... Even browser app/plugin updates.
Sorry you're confused. I've never been there :(, but I have a room-mate who used to be stationed there. He said its one of the most heavily watched places he's ever been. Its doubtful that someone wouldn't notice troop or artillery movement.
Yes antiquated - every film I've seen of them blustering about their military they are driving around copies (or originals I have no clue) of 1950-1970ish soviet hardware and the most recent film I can find was made in 2006.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HByXYxYN7H4 - most modern jet in that film is a Mig-29, I doubt they have many as most of jets in that film are Mig-21's while capable in the right hands, is a late 50's airplane.
I think if the north did invade there would be casualties no doubt, but the majority of the war would be over in hours if not days. Between the UN and South Korea they have ground and air superiority.
Check out Clear Skies - Eve Online and Half-Life 2.
http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=783871
There's an estimated 500,000 troops on the south Korean side of the demarcation line - do you honestly think with their antiquated hardware they'd be allowed to shell Seoul?
That was wrong, but at least we have computers/electricity and the press were allowed to report this gross misuse of government power.
That's what makes us better than them or any other dictatorship, the fact that we are allowed to report and criticize what the government does.
The problem was that the phone had some real glaring problems that were never resolved. Such as a one day battery life. And the inability to charge the phone after the battery wore out completely.
So I don't know much about openmoko, but you're saying that if you let the battery go to 0% that would brick the phone?
You'd think someone would have caught that in testing...
What more need be said? Well, please elaborate. What exactly is wrong with Solaris, according to you? What exactly is it lacking that other unixes do offer? What is lacking about the many features that other unixes simply do not have? Even an open source version is made available.
I'll bite
I always thought it was odd that every Solaris machine I've ever been given (including the Blade 1500 at my last job which came with Solaris 10) I had to spend hours, weeks, months and even years applying patches and setting up keyboard maps so that when I hit backspace it actually deleted characters, and for the most part I always used the factore keyboards with these workstations. I always thought it was retarded that the stock keyboard didn't actually work with Solaris 8/9/10 out of the box.
Solaris 10 out of the box when I logged in via the UI had no less than 5 separate dialogues warning me about various configuration errors or something (some were bugs I had to patch, others were things I had to fix by hand). None of these machines were ever fully fixed and had tons of subtle issues that no-one including me seemed to be able to fix, but since I had work-arounds it worked well enough. And talking to friends I found most Solaris machines seemed to be this way - working, but lots of small annoying issues that never went fixed. Every one of these machines was brand new purchased straight from Sun and pre-configured at the factory and nothing ever worked.
Being a Sun customer for years - I felt that their hardware was just fine (I only recall one problem with a cpu which they replaced fast), but Sun software seemed to be QA'd by monkey's - you shouldn't ship something with loads of error messages. Not a single app they ever sent me worked out of the box. Not a single damn app without hours of fiddeling. Same with 3rd part apps certified for Solaris. The fact that to view their KB and download these fixes costs money just pours salt into your wound.
Moving to Linux as most people are doing was like a dream - seriously. You install packages and they usually worked with minimal configuration. The keyboard worked without lots of fiddling - actually looking at most common Linux distos like Debian and Unbuntu the keyboard worked perfectly out of the box.
Solaris is fine enough as an OS, but it lacks polish in every single way imaginable and needs serious design help. I find it hilarious that they used to try to market it as a replacement to Windows a long time ago (search computer chronicles archives if you don't believe me).
Thats the sad thing about this story is I wouldn't put it past them if it wasn't April 1st.
All the whining when they load it down with april fools jokes, and when they don't - still the whining...
I live in washington - I think they could be a tad bit more generous and pay for the entire thing themselves - which they could easily afford - especially after laying off 1200 people?
Want to hear something really funny? Downloaded the silverlight plugin for my mac and the video still didn't work.