Obviously, "power" refers to its colloquial meaning of "generated electricity" (as in "The power is out!"), not to the scientific definition of the term.
The modded game is not the same as the game as sold, it is a different game.
I think that's a valid point, but it has nothing to with Dave Long's complaining that parents should have somehow deduced the presence of the unlockable content from the box labels.
Yeah, I have zero sympathy for the politicians who are blowing this way, way, way out of proportion, but a patronizing dismissal of parents as lazy and uninformed is equally stupid.
The issue is content that is not acknowledged as being in the game! Whether or not you think Rockstar should be criticized over it, it's difficult to see how any parent should reasonably have known it was there.
I owned one of the early Excels, and its quality was precisely as he describes. (I got mine used, and it was a cost-effective purchase given the minimal price, but it was a piece of junk.)
The Tiburon came out after Hyundai got through their initial hurdles in the US and the quality was a lot higher. Hyundai makes good cars *now* but their reputation from the Excel still hangs over them, which is his point.
There are still Girbaud jeans? And yet Zubaz has gone under? Now there's your indictment of capitalism...
A study done among thousands of users determined that 35% of people use the PC for Web surfing, 18% use it for games and everything else is an also-ran. The next biggest thing, email, is only 9.2%.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that 1) this refers to home PCs only and 2) that the question was about the most frequent use (and the numbers therefore add up to 100%). There are enough niche uses, all under 9%, that add up to 38% of people's primary computer use? This makes no sense.
Umm, OS X is (Free)BSD with a few relatively minor changes.
Yeah, some minor changes like the display system, the libraries and APIs, the utilities and pretty much anything else with which a user interacts... ls and cat are the same, though.
In any case, this is an interview with a Linux site. Laporte is just being polite.
Where does this sudden surge in the usage of "Feh" come from? To anyone with any familiarity with Yiddish, it comes across as idiotically as if my grandmother started saying "Fo' shizzle!"
[T]here really is no uncertainty about this process. It is going forward and most users will not notice or care about whether their Macintosh has an Intel or a PPC inside of it.
It's not even like this is a purely hypothetical question. Apple has already been through a CPU arch change, and while they nearly made a huge mess of it on the developer side (and had their asses saved by Code Warrior), from the user's point of view the change was seamless. On this round, they have the developer-side problems much more firmly in hand, so I really don't understand what all the FUD is about.
Given that Michael Robertson's only real talent is turning lawsuits into publicity, I wouldn't put him at the top of the list of people Apple should take advice from.
If you're travelling through an unfamiliar region, either in your own country or another, why not listen to the radio and get a feel for the local culture? You might find it more rewarding than listening to Smarmy Nerd Podcast in a state of total obliviousness.
In fact, you might even hear about an interesting place or event, and take the opportunity to *gasp* interact with people who aren't just like you.
As with "The C Programming Language", "Learning Perl"'s prominence is based more on its historical significance than on its merits as a text compared to its competitors.
Does this remind anyone else of the dire warnings about Japan "taking over" in the '80s and '90s.
The difference is that 1980's Japan genuinely was the most innovative and influential engineering and manufacturing powerhouse in the world. We're seeing the same hype and hysteria today over China based on -- what? All these scientists and engineers in China have accomplished what, to date?
If you realize that you're donating some (unknown) amount for data recovery and the (unknown) rest to pay for some (unknown) costs of (unknown) analysis -- then, fine. But the impression I took away from the blurb and the impression most posters seem to have gotten is that they need $250,000 RIGHT NOW!!!! OR THE DATA WILL BE LOST FOREVER!!!! People should at least understand what they're giving to.
Furthermore, while I don't have direct experience with files like this, I was skeptical even before seeing that FAQ that the data are remotely as unrecoverable as they're making out. On the contrary, I'd bet some dinosaur data processor would do it pro bono. The FAQ doesn't enhance their credibility in my eyes. They should limit their emergency appeal to the recovery and then apply for grants for the analysis.
Thanks for pulling that out. It seems to me, though, that the key part is:
Why does it cost $250,000 to recover the data? This seems like a lot.
This amount enables us first to save the data from destruction, and then to support the complex analyses necessary to solve this mystery. We may well have to bring in more help from other eminent "celestial mechanicians" to provide fresh perspectives on the anomaly.
Before giving them a cent, I'd really like to know a) how much the data retrieval costs and b) whether it really can't be done by EDS or someone else accustomed to dealing with ancient data files. I'm certainly not donating for them to "may well have to bring in more help".
I dunno -- seems to me if you're going to go for the vulgarity of a Ferrari computer, the utter vulgarity of the all-red model beats the subdued vulgarity of the new rev.
On the other hand, the Tulip E-Go on that site is genuinely stunning. I don't know how many customers there are for a 64-bit laptop that looks like a tulip-covered handbag, though. And 283,000 Euros for the diamond-encrusted model is a bit steep -- maybe Lil' Kim would want one.
In any case, I bet you can't just call up and get a review model of that in Australia, either.
The Ferrari laptop mentioned above was previously discussed here...
To clarify. IIRC it was actually the 32 bit predecessor to today's mentioned laptop, although my point stands. (In fact, I saw one of those Ferrari laptops in Italy a few months ago and to give Rob Enderle credit, it is pretty stunning at first glance, although not something I'd want to look at for more than a few minutes.)
The Ferrari laptop mentioned above was previously discussed here, and opinion ran so strongly for it being Teh Stupidest Thing EVAR! that the story was classed under "It's Funny. Laugh."
If that sort of low-volume enthusiast novelty hardware is typical of AMD64 notebooks, it hardly requires conspiracy theories about Intel to explain why vendors (in Australia, mind you!) don't have lots of them in stock.
Geez, we almost got through a week without a "The game industry needs to ______ to attract more female gamers!" article, but Zonk steps in at the last minute with another one...
It's a shame that none of the people who know exactly how to attract female gamers bother to actually, y'know, make games. (With the one exception of Brenda Laurel, who mostly succeeded in issuing lots of press releases about how smart she is before blowing through all her investors' money.)
Well, it's public domain, freely available via the U.S. Freedom of Information Act.
More to the point, it's freely available via *Sourceforge*! (As if the guy you're responding to has the slightest need for a hundred megs of MUMPS code, let alone plans to audit the thing before opening his Mandrake-based hospital.)
Its often that they just don't have the time...some people would rather spend their time actually making something work, and others are more interested in making something understood.
I think the second half of that is more on target than the first. A lot of techies aren't willing to put in the time and effort to present their work well: because it's hard, because they lack confidence in their writing and speaking or just because it's not fun. And then they hide behind the excuse that speaking and writing poorly is a sign of 1337-ness.
The problem is that for a lot of jobs, the maxim the reviewer brushed off is entirely true. If you can't explain what you did, you might as well not have done it.
Seeing Gopher for the first time, and saying "NOW the Internet is really going to take off!"
Using the original web browser to try to find some software, back when you had to telnet to CERN, and saying "This stupid thing is never going to be useful."
Building my first PC and seeing it boot up.
Various points where pieces of code suddenly gelled into an application.
Getting a printer to work on Linux for the first time. Of course that was just a couple of years ago, thanks to CUPS -- someday I hope to get the Conexant USB modem to work!
There are two things missing from Windows that drive me absolutely battyboth tied to the lack of automated window arrangement.
The two UIs are designed to be used differently. The Mac interface is designed to have a lot of windows visible at the same time. Windows is designed to have one fullscreen window (or two tiled windows)visible at a time. A sibling comment says it perfectly: "Though at least windoes makes it easier to use one window per screen."
I understand your frustration -- I'm accustomed to the Mac method and I find Windows (especially the giant opaque super-windows in Windows Office) infuriating.
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I think that's a valid point, but it has nothing to with Dave Long's complaining that parents should have somehow deduced the presence of the unlockable content from the box labels.
The issue is content that is not acknowledged as being in the game! Whether or not you think Rockstar should be criticized over it, it's difficult to see how any parent should reasonably have known it was there.
The Tiburon came out after Hyundai got through their initial hurdles in the US and the quality was a lot higher. Hyundai makes good cars *now* but their reputation from the Excel still hangs over them, which is his point.
There are still Girbaud jeans? And yet Zubaz has gone under? Now there's your indictment of capitalism...
And it should be "Nerds and geeks take many forms...". What a moron! I bet he uses suboptimal thermal paste!
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that 1) this refers to home PCs only and 2) that the question was about the most frequent use (and the numbers therefore add up to 100%). There are enough niche uses, all under 9%, that add up to 38% of people's primary computer use? This makes no sense.
Yeah, some minor changes like the display system, the libraries and APIs, the utilities and pretty much anything else with which a user interacts... ls and cat are the same, though.
In any case, this is an interview with a Linux site. Laporte is just being polite.
Where does this sudden surge in the usage of "Feh" come from? To anyone with any familiarity with Yiddish, it comes across as idiotically as if my grandmother started saying "Fo' shizzle!"
It's not even like this is a purely hypothetical question. Apple has already been through a CPU arch change, and while they nearly made a huge mess of it on the developer side (and had their asses saved by Code Warrior), from the user's point of view the change was seamless. On this round, they have the developer-side problems much more firmly in hand, so I really don't understand what all the FUD is about.
Given that Michael Robertson's only real talent is turning lawsuits into publicity, I wouldn't put him at the top of the list of people Apple should take advice from.
In fact, you might even hear about an interesting place or event, and take the opportunity to *gasp* interact with people who aren't just like you.
As with "The C Programming Language", "Learning Perl"'s prominence is based more on its historical significance than on its merits as a text compared to its competitors.
Perhaps, but that wasn't my point, was it?
The difference is that 1980's Japan genuinely was the most innovative and influential engineering and manufacturing powerhouse in the world. We're seeing the same hype and hysteria today over China based on -- what? All these scientists and engineers in China have accomplished what, to date?
Furthermore, while I don't have direct experience with files like this, I was skeptical even before seeing that FAQ that the data are remotely as unrecoverable as they're making out. On the contrary, I'd bet some dinosaur data processor would do it pro bono. The FAQ doesn't enhance their credibility in my eyes. They should limit their emergency appeal to the recovery and then apply for grants for the analysis.
On the other hand, the Tulip E-Go on that site is genuinely stunning. I don't know how many customers there are for a 64-bit laptop that looks like a tulip-covered handbag, though. And 283,000 Euros for the diamond-encrusted model is a bit steep -- maybe Lil' Kim would want one.
In any case, I bet you can't just call up and get a review model of that in Australia, either.
To clarify. IIRC it was actually the 32 bit predecessor to today's mentioned laptop, although my point stands. (In fact, I saw one of those Ferrari laptops in Italy a few months ago and to give Rob Enderle credit, it is pretty stunning at first glance, although not something I'd want to look at for more than a few minutes.)
If that sort of low-volume enthusiast novelty hardware is typical of AMD64 notebooks, it hardly requires conspiracy theories about Intel to explain why vendors (in Australia, mind you!) don't have lots of them in stock.
It's a shame that none of the people who know exactly how to attract female gamers bother to actually, y'know, make games. (With the one exception of Brenda Laurel, who mostly succeeded in issuing lots of press releases about how smart she is before blowing through all her investors' money.)
It's a) a clever hack and b) fun.
More to the point, it's freely available via *Sourceforge*! (As if the guy you're responding to has the slightest need for a hundred megs of MUMPS code, let alone plans to audit the thing before opening his Mandrake-based hospital.)
I think the second half of that is more on target than the first. A lot of techies aren't willing to put in the time and effort to present their work well: because it's hard, because they lack confidence in their writing and speaking or just because it's not fun. And then they hide behind the excuse that speaking and writing poorly is a sign of 1337-ness.
The problem is that for a lot of jobs, the maxim the reviewer brushed off is entirely true. If you can't explain what you did, you might as well not have done it.
...and instead of jumping from 1.0 to 1.5, call it Firefox 8.0!
The two UIs are designed to be used differently. The Mac interface is designed to have a lot of windows visible at the same time. Windows is designed to have one fullscreen window (or two tiled windows)visible at a time. A sibling comment says it perfectly: "Though at least windoes makes it easier to use one window per screen."
I understand your frustration -- I'm accustomed to the Mac method and I find Windows (especially the giant opaque super-windows in Windows Office) infuriating.