And do we give a fuck about that Italian reporter? We do not.
I'll clarify: it won't be used in Iraq. We can't equip our troops with the basics that they already need. You think we're going to ship them expensive and unproven (2 grunts and a bunch of journos doesn't qualify) vehicles that will be off little to no use in actually defending our grunts?
Military? You actually think this is intended for military use? Wow. You don't think that perhaps it'll primarily be used by domestic "law" enforcement for mass pain compliance?
Oh, genius. So, let's indescriminately torture innocent people whose cars have broken down in order to mildly inconvenience the 1% who are hostile. Truly, it will bring the War on Hearts and Minds to a speedy conclusion.
This will be used on peaceful protesters in the US, and will be sold to other repressive regimes for use against their own citizens. There is no use for it in Iraq.
I do not think that "unlimited download subscription service" means what you think it means. Do you mean the rental of encrypted data, access to which terminates when your contract lapses, or when (not if, when) Microsoft shitcans the service?
Is that totally clear? When Microsoft decides (or is forced, mmm, patents) to EOL their music service, you'll be holding a paperweight, and every cent you've spent on its purchase and on renting encrypted data will be flushed down the crapper.
They'll never do that? I trust in that as much as I trust their "promise" on PlaysForSure.
And I'm wondering; how do I bill these companies for my time? Would there be a government department willing to help me out with that, or perhaps a friendly lawyer (apologies for the oxymoron) interested in starting a class action suit? These fucknuts will only cease when it starts costing them to do this.
That's communist thinking. Selling units is always good, even if they're only breaking even. What, they can't do a half million unit limited run with gold cases and a $250 MRRP? What if they ship 50 million units to impoverished countries and then find that a 2 cent capacitor tends to blow after 3 month's use? A single recall will kill this program dead.
I love how he doesn't actually deny that New Line owe him the money, just that it's unreasonable of him to expect more than $250,000. If that's what they've actually delivered, which I wouldn't take on trust. If a movie exec told me that the sky was blue, I'd look out the window to check.
Why would they not want to sell the initial run of these things at a markup to us decadent westerners in order to get the volumes up and bring down the unit cost? Do they not understand the concept of flushing out problems by unloading overpriced units on early adopters? They really need to speak to Apple.
Those are very strange definitions for "success" and "launching". First, they haven't sold a single unit yet. Second, they won't sell any for another 6 months. Third, the response among potential purchasers went from zealotry to "Actually, that kind of sucks" in less time than it took to break an iPhone touchscreen. The iPhone (in its current form) is shaping up to be Apple's PS3.
Big companies spend about 15% of their budget on advertising, because that's what advertising consultants tell them that they need to spend. That hasn't changed. What happened was that they stopped spending too much of it on untargetted advertising. Google lets them spend it on targetted ads, which even if they don't get clickthroughs still buys them brand awareness among potential customers. Google does this very well indeed, and the question that you should be asking is: how does any other ad-supported service stay in business.
Is that it's effectively a modification of the developer's existing flight sim engine, and it really shows. Torpedo weapons have to be "locked on" by bearing on a target for a period of time, just like in a flight sim. The strafing passes are very much flight-sim based. Pull up, and you'll go up... until you "stall" at some sort of universal ceiling. It feels like flying F-86s and B-52s in 2.5 dimensions. What it doesn't feel like is Star Trek, unless you ever thought that Trek really needed to be more like Top Gun.
And that's the 360 version. The PC version is just appalling, and barely usable out of the box. At least wait for them to add configurable controls. Yes, you read that right.
Another issue with (manual) testing is that testers tend to pursue bugs aggressively in whatever area they first happen to find some, which means you get good depth coverage, but can end up missing out on testing whole areas of functionality.
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Given that you're clearly on crack, you might very well find yourself visited by the paramilitaries. They "knock" with a shotgun, by the way.
I'll clarify: it won't be used in Iraq. We can't equip our troops with the basics that they already need. You think we're going to ship them expensive and unproven (2 grunts and a bunch of journos doesn't qualify) vehicles that will be off little to no use in actually defending our grunts?
Military? You actually think this is intended for military use? Wow. You don't think that perhaps it'll primarily be used by domestic "law" enforcement for mass pain compliance?
We've already lost that argument. See "drive stun" and an explicit UCPD policy on torturing suspects into compliance in the context of Mostafa Tabatabainejad (among others).
Oh, genius. So, let's indescriminately torture innocent people whose cars have broken down in order to mildly inconvenience the 1% who are hostile. Truly, it will bring the War on Hearts and Minds to a speedy conclusion.
This will be used on peaceful protesters in the US, and will be sold to other repressive regimes for use against their own citizens. There is no use for it in Iraq.
I bet the TSA is already drawing up plans to ban these things being brought within half a mile of an aircraft.
I do not think that "unlimited download subscription service" means what you think it means. Do you mean the rental of encrypted data, access to which terminates when your contract lapses, or when (not if, when) Microsoft shitcans the service?
Is that totally clear? When Microsoft decides (or is forced, mmm, patents) to EOL their music service, you'll be holding a paperweight, and every cent you've spent on its purchase and on renting encrypted data will be flushed down the crapper.
They'll never do that? I trust in that as much as I trust their "promise" on PlaysForSure.
$180 a year. And you're renting the right to play their encrypted data on "your" device.
Also, they're counting Christmas and New Year sales; how are the returns looking?
And I'm wondering; how do I bill these companies for my time? Would there be a government department willing to help me out with that, or perhaps a friendly lawyer (apologies for the oxymoron) interested in starting a class action suit? These fucknuts will only cease when it starts costing them to do this.
Hopefully though, he'll get pounded in multiple orifices concurrently during his incarceration.
He thinks he can "know [they're] not real" by... failing to find them? Well, a lot of people go from science into entertainment these days.
that no scientist has ever proposed singularities as the source of ball lightning.
I typed $250,000,000, but after subtracting my ISP's expenses, there was only $250,000 net remaining.
That's communist thinking. Selling units is always good, even if they're only breaking even. What, they can't do a half million unit limited run with gold cases and a $250 MRRP? What if they ship 50 million units to impoverished countries and then find that a 2 cent capacitor tends to blow after 3 month's use? A single recall will kill this program dead.
Did you remember to save any of the iPod ones, because I don't actually recall them.
I love how he doesn't actually deny that New Line owe him the money, just that it's unreasonable of him to expect more than $250,000. If that's what they've actually delivered, which I wouldn't take on trust. If a movie exec told me that the sky was blue, I'd look out the window to check.
Why would they not want to sell the initial run of these things at a markup to us decadent westerners in order to get the volumes up and bring down the unit cost? Do they not understand the concept of flushing out problems by unloading overpriced units on early adopters? They really need to speak to Apple.
Those are very strange definitions for "success" and "launching". First, they haven't sold a single unit yet. Second, they won't sell any for another 6 months. Third, the response among potential purchasers went from zealotry to "Actually, that kind of sucks" in less time than it took to break an iPhone touchscreen. The iPhone (in its current form) is shaping up to be Apple's PS3.
Isn't that HD-DVDA?
Big companies spend about 15% of their budget on advertising, because that's what advertising consultants tell them that they need to spend. That hasn't changed. What happened was that they stopped spending too much of it on untargetted advertising. Google lets them spend it on targetted ads, which even if they don't get clickthroughs still buys them brand awareness among potential customers. Google does this very well indeed, and the question that you should be asking is: how does any other ad-supported service stay in business.
Look on your CD player. See the buttons marked pause and stop? Figure out the difference.
And that's the 360 version. The PC version is just appalling, and barely usable out of the box. At least wait for them to add configurable controls. Yes, you read that right.
Another issue with (manual) testing is that testers tend to pursue bugs aggressively in whatever area they first happen to find some, which means you get good depth coverage, but can end up missing out on testing whole areas of functionality.