TIE Fighter was amazing. Absolutely amazing. That game turned me from "kinda liking Star Wars" to a total Star Wars fanboy; I ended up reading several of the novels because of characters introduced in that game that were taken from those novels.
They really need to come up with a new starfighter based combat simulator, and do it right. Unfortunately the only thing I trust EA to do right (they hold the Star Wars license) is abuse and burn out developers.
When my first reaction to seeing the interior photos is "Wow this shit is fugly", the bar is immediately raised on how impressive the rest of the vehicle will have to be before I consider buying one.
I think back to when the Model S was announced; my reaction to the dashboard on that car was "Whoah, COOOL!"
People keep talking about the model 3 but no one seems to be talking about the ugly, spartan dashboard that inspires absolutely no emotion or passion.
Featureless except for a generic tablet screen in the middle. No awe-inspiring gauge cluster. No pleasing lines and curves.
My 2014 Honda Accord has a far nicer looking dash and it's a mainstream mass-produced car that isn't particularly special. (I love my car, but there's nothing unique or thrilling about it.)
What the hell were they thinking? This is Tesla, damnit. They should be making a car that blows you away when you sit behind the wheel.
IPs are only worth that much because they're extremely scarce right now. If HP tried to unload all their address space at once they probably wouldn't get all that much for it.
It's kind of like big executives who are worth a billion or more because of their stock holdings, but if they tried to sell it all the price would tank because of basic supply and demand.
Media companies are making bigger profits than ever, with no signs of it slowing down. Why are they so concerned about the tiny amount of piracy taking place?
1) Most piracy is done by teenagers and people who are broke and cannot afford to watch content legitimately anyway. 2) Piracy is a pain in the ass. Paying a few dollars for content is far easier, so that's what most people will do.
If they want to reduce piracy further, the best way is to make watching content as easy and simple as possible. For example, FOX recently yanked a bunch of their shows from Netflix because they're starting their own streaming service. Most people don't want to pay for multiple streaming services! Their greed is probably going to result in more piracy, as people go "Damnit Firefly is no longer on Netflix. I'm just going to torrent the rest of the episodes." So now instead of making some money, they make none.
And despite all this, like I mentioned earlier, the industry is more profitable than ever. They're basically yelling "THE SKY IS FALLING!!" on a clear, calm day with blue skies and sunshine.
Things started going downhill when they started putting limitations on third-party clients, like only allowing a limited number of user API keys and not providing new features to third parties, like polls for example.
Then after they did that, they slowly started making their official client worse and worse until it became unpleasant to use. If they ever kill off third parties like Tweetbot, that'll be the end of Twitter for me.
I wish they'd go back to encouraging and supporting third-party clients. If they want to put advertising requirements in, that's fine, as long as they don't stifle the platform. At the very LEAST they could make the official client better but I think that ship has sailed.
At what point does this race to the bottom on prices result in nothing but garbage products?
We're already seeing a major quality drop for a lot of day to day items. I'm all for less expensive products but if they're all junk, what's the point?
Ambiguous law tends to be thrown out in court. Sadly most people don't bother to take it to trial because the pre-trial hearing dismisses the case or offers no points and a signficiantly lower fine and/or traffic school.
They do this on purpose because they know they'll lose in court, setting precedent.
There is always a specific point where there is indecision about whether to stop or keep going when the light turns yellow.
- Stopping means hitting the brakes hard, possibly causing an accident due to someone rear-ending you. - Proceeding means you might shave a bit of the red.
Shaving a bit of the red is generally not going to cause an accident because it takes time for cars to accelerate and get going. There is also a dead-time between one direction turning red and the other turning green. However, as someone who was nearly rear-ended for stopping at a light because I had to brake very hard, I'd much prefer to proceed than stop in these cases.
Not to mention, if you *ENTER* the intersection on yellow it's perfectly legal, even if the light turns red once you're already in it.
The law states that the state of the light matters the moment you enter the intersection. Once you enter, you must exit the intersection as quickly as possible, but the light doesn't matter at that point. This is what also allows you to dwell in the intersection when making a left on green, and finish the turn when the light turns yellow->red.
Everyone seems to be clamoring for a phone without bezels, but it seems obvious to me that you have to HOLD the device, and parts of your hand will always cover some of the front of the device if you hold it securely, and therefore with a bezel-less device you will be covering your screen all the time.
Why do people seem to want this? It makes no sense. I like bezels on my handheld devices so I can actually hold and use them at the same time!
The problem is the enemy can then send 100 $200 drones next time. They only spend $20K and there's no way you have enough missiles to take them all down.
There needs to be an inexpensive way to deal with inexpensive threats, otherwise the enemy can cause you to spend a fortune and not even accomplish your mission of defending your territory.
The problem is this is an all-or-nothing approach, and you won't get updates at all, or update notifications, leaving your PC to eventually become insecure.
It needs to be a middle ground. Notify the user about updates, give them control over updates, and ONLY automatically push updates for *glaring, immediate* security problems.
I don't get why Microsoft has to be such a pain in the ass about updates.
Apple has always let the user decide when they want to install updates. You get an update notification, then install the updates either right away or tell it to install them over night. There is never a forced install; the user is always in control. This is IRONIC especially since Apple tends to be a control freak company in most other ways!
Apple will VERY OCCASIONALLY automatically push an extremely critical update to fix glaring security problems, but has done this very rarely.
It seems MS could do a lot more to give the user control of updates, including the ability to easily roll back updates that cause problems.. The current system is just asking for trouble.
People who ragequit social media and delete everything are usually doing it for attention. Quietly not posting anymore doesn't attract attention; that's why they don't just do that.
If someone genuinely just loses interest in a platform and isn't after attention (whether it be positive or negative) will just stop using that platform quietly. That's kind of what happened with me and Livejournal.
I played with Snapchat briefly and didn't see the appeal. Everything that it could do is already done better by other services like Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Instagram, and so on. It was clunky and didn't really add any value to my online social experience.
Why are other companies trying to copy them? I don't get it.
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TIE Fighter was amazing. Absolutely amazing. That game turned me from "kinda liking Star Wars" to a total Star Wars fanboy; I ended up reading several of the novels because of characters introduced in that game that were taken from those novels.
They really need to come up with a new starfighter based combat simulator, and do it right. Unfortunately the only thing I trust EA to do right (they hold the Star Wars license) is abuse and burn out developers.
When my first reaction to seeing the interior photos is "Wow this shit is fugly", the bar is immediately raised on how impressive the rest of the vehicle will have to be before I consider buying one.
I think back to when the Model S was announced; my reaction to the dashboard on that car was "Whoah, COOOL!"
I know people who are perfectly happy to have their only copy of their photos on iCloud because "It's Apple! They have backups!"
Umm no. Even they do, you have no control over those backups, when they're made or how to recover the data if it's lost.
Keep your own damn backups, people. Treat cloud services as just another single, lose-able copy of your data.
People keep talking about the model 3 but no one seems to be talking about the ugly, spartan dashboard that inspires absolutely no emotion or passion.
Featureless except for a generic tablet screen in the middle. No awe-inspiring gauge cluster. No pleasing lines and curves.
My 2014 Honda Accord has a far nicer looking dash and it's a mainstream mass-produced car that isn't particularly special. (I love my car, but there's nothing unique or thrilling about it.)
What the hell were they thinking? This is Tesla, damnit. They should be making a car that blows you away when you sit behind the wheel.
IPs are only worth that much because they're extremely scarce right now. If HP tried to unload all their address space at once they probably wouldn't get all that much for it.
It's kind of like big executives who are worth a billion or more because of their stock holdings, but if they tried to sell it all the price would tank because of basic supply and demand.
Media companies are making bigger profits than ever, with no signs of it slowing down. Why are they so concerned about the tiny amount of piracy taking place?
1) Most piracy is done by teenagers and people who are broke and cannot afford to watch content legitimately anyway.
2) Piracy is a pain in the ass. Paying a few dollars for content is far easier, so that's what most people will do.
If they want to reduce piracy further, the best way is to make watching content as easy and simple as possible. For example, FOX recently yanked a bunch of their shows from Netflix because they're starting their own streaming service. Most people don't want to pay for multiple streaming services! Their greed is probably going to result in more piracy, as people go "Damnit Firefly is no longer on Netflix. I'm just going to torrent the rest of the episodes." So now instead of making some money, they make none.
And despite all this, like I mentioned earlier, the industry is more profitable than ever. They're basically yelling "THE SKY IS FALLING!!" on a clear, calm day with blue skies and sunshine.
Things started going downhill when they started putting limitations on third-party clients, like only allowing a limited number of user API keys and not providing new features to third parties, like polls for example.
Then after they did that, they slowly started making their official client worse and worse until it became unpleasant to use. If they ever kill off third parties like Tweetbot, that'll be the end of Twitter for me.
I wish they'd go back to encouraging and supporting third-party clients. If they want to put advertising requirements in, that's fine, as long as they don't stifle the platform. At the very LEAST they could make the official client better but I think that ship has sailed.
...and promptly refilled it with water that smells worse.
>There is always the risk of someone finding out a way to break the DRM and easily distribute the files.
Already happens.
Netflix knows this. They try to make it hard for J Casual User to do this, but they know the pirates will break the DRM.
Notice how Netflix exclusives are all up on the usual pirate channels the same day they air.
At what point does this race to the bottom on prices result in nothing but garbage products?
We're already seeing a major quality drop for a lot of day to day items. I'm all for less expensive products but if they're all junk, what's the point?
They don't even have to do that.
The Switch has an SD slot.
They could simply allow you to copy save games to an SD card. This is TRIVIAL STUFF. I'm surprised Nintendo hasn't figured it out.
Ambiguous law tends to be thrown out in court. Sadly most people don't bother to take it to trial because the pre-trial hearing dismisses the case or offers no points and a signficiantly lower fine and/or traffic school.
They do this on purpose because they know they'll lose in court, setting precedent.
I said that a few months ago. I never figured someone would actually attempt to do so.
And yes it still applies.
How is it that four decades into the personal computing era and ANYTHING in the UI is using any significant amount of CPU?
A blinking cursor?? The Apple II had a blinking cursor in 1977, and it was implemented in hardware. It used zero percent of the CPU.
My gods, programmers have gotten lazy. What's next, extra CPU consumption for bold text? The system slowing down every time it beeps?
There is always a specific point where there is indecision about whether to stop or keep going when the light turns yellow.
- Stopping means hitting the brakes hard, possibly causing an accident due to someone rear-ending you.
- Proceeding means you might shave a bit of the red.
Shaving a bit of the red is generally not going to cause an accident because it takes time for cars to accelerate and get going. There is also a dead-time between one direction turning red and the other turning green. However, as someone who was nearly rear-ended for stopping at a light because I had to brake very hard, I'd much prefer to proceed than stop in these cases.
Not to mention, if you *ENTER* the intersection on yellow it's perfectly legal, even if the light turns red once you're already in it.
The law states that the state of the light matters the moment you enter the intersection. Once you enter, you must exit the intersection as quickly as possible, but the light doesn't matter at that point. This is what also allows you to dwell in the intersection when making a left on green, and finish the turn when the light turns yellow->red.
I knew it would be a bad idea to install that laptop logged into Slashdot at collapsed-drunkard level in the pub restroom.
They can feel free and go to town on my laptop. I hope they have fun with 512GB of AES encrypted data.
Everyone seems to be clamoring for a phone without bezels, but it seems obvious to me that you have to HOLD the device, and parts of your hand will always cover some of the front of the device if you hold it securely, and therefore with a bezel-less device you will be covering your screen all the time.
Why do people seem to want this? It makes no sense. I like bezels on my handheld devices so I can actually hold and use them at the same time!
The problem is the enemy can then send 100 $200 drones next time. They only spend $20K and there's no way you have enough missiles to take them all down.
There needs to be an inexpensive way to deal with inexpensive threats, otherwise the enemy can cause you to spend a fortune and not even accomplish your mission of defending your territory.
Come to think of it, "it's not Facebook" should be enough reason to use anything.
Thanks for the perfect explanation. :)
The problem is this is an all-or-nothing approach, and you won't get updates at all, or update notifications, leaving your PC to eventually become insecure.
It needs to be a middle ground. Notify the user about updates, give them control over updates, and ONLY automatically push updates for *glaring, immediate* security problems.
I don't get why Microsoft has to be such a pain in the ass about updates.
Apple has always let the user decide when they want to install updates. You get an update notification, then install the updates either right away or tell it to install them over night. There is never a forced install; the user is always in control. This is IRONIC especially since Apple tends to be a control freak company in most other ways!
Apple will VERY OCCASIONALLY automatically push an extremely critical update to fix glaring security problems, but has done this very rarely.
It seems MS could do a lot more to give the user control of updates, including the ability to easily roll back updates that cause problems.. The current system is just asking for trouble.
People who ragequit social media and delete everything are usually doing it for attention. Quietly not posting anymore doesn't attract attention; that's why they don't just do that.
If someone genuinely just loses interest in a platform and isn't after attention (whether it be positive or negative) will just stop using that platform quietly. That's kind of what happened with me and Livejournal.
I played with Snapchat briefly and didn't see the appeal. Everything that it could do is already done better by other services like Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, Instagram, and so on. It was clunky and didn't really add any value to my online social experience.
Why are other companies trying to copy them? I don't get it.