Uh, no it doesn't. On the contrary, because there are many groups competing to build a decent android phone, and a decent android launcher, and a decent android screen etc, some of them will be pretty fucking terrible. We don't buy from those, we buy from those that succeed. That was precisely the parent's point.
No one ever got antitrust action against them for withdrawing one of their own services. If so, I guess Apple would be in trouble for not making an iTunes app for Android, and Microsoft would be in trouble for not porting Word to Linux.
Could well be. I'm not reliving my youth, never played any FF game as a kid, but I have discovered them later. I did consider buying this, but I too decided against it.
Point is, I'm pretty sure they're still breaking even at this rate, 100000 sales in the first month. There may well be a market for somewhat more expensive games if we have a very solid expectation of quality, as we have with this game (solid gameplay, and has been soldily ported twice already).
Square Enix recently (this month) released a port of Final Fantasy III to Android. It's priced at $15.99 and has sold between 50000 and 100000 copies. Apparently it's been out for iOS for a while at the same price, I recon they wouldn't have ported it to Android if it didn't sell well there.
2. It's even more work to make it efficient, because a would-be reimplementor will have to know why things are the way they are rather than just how it is.
3. It's chasing a moving target. It will never, ever be as good as the latest version from Microsoft.
The only reason to do it is backwards compatibility. That can be a good reason, for a long time it's was easier to run old DOS games in Dosbox than with Window's backwards compatibility stuff.
Better to use openGL. For Android, iOS, mac, and all consoles but xbox it's what you will need anyway. For the rest of the stuff DirectX does - well, Steam has just hired Sam Lantinga. SDL is one of the nicest C libraries I know, but Lantinga has worked for a long time on a rewrite based on what he (and the world) has learned since 2000 - and since he has a damn impressive CV, I expect that's a lot.
I'm thinking - actually, it's more like hoping, I suppose - that when the Android hardware makers see just how much Google's stewardship is worth to buyers, they'll be more inclined to offer closer to stock android images and timely updates.
The thing about the Nexus 7 is that hardware wise, it is of course an Asus Tablet very similar to their Transformer series, like the Galaxy Nexus is a thinly veiled Samsung phone. Yes, Google being responsible is worth quite a lot, and the price tag is unusual... but the top end Transformers are very competitive on other features.
The point of the 8GB model is that you just download/stream on demand. I do that already out of necessity on my ancient Desire. It works nicely if you have a fast unlimited data plan. The thing about the Nexus 7 that I'm least happy about is that it doesn't have phone data connectivity... its bigger cousin the Asus Transformer Infinity has an edge there.
Sometimes it's appropriate. I bought Early Bird for Android. Later they made it free, which I'm OK with. What's not OK is making the free version (which I was automatically "upgraded" to) have intrusive ads.
It would, if it were true. But there are a lot of other things that stink.
Nice Godwin, by the way. I happen to have an interest in that topic, and the main problem with eugenicists wasn't that they falsified data (although they sometimes did that too), but that they failed to recognise their corruption and extreme conflict of interest in putting themselves up as judges of which humans/human traits were desirable or not. Their problem was in the moral philosophy department primarily, rather than the biology or statistics department.
Bullshit. Even if there was important, unreconstructable data deleted at UEA (which I doubt), their climate data set is just one out of the four major ones. It will not take "a large amount of time to collect enough contrasting data to get something useful", because climate data from the last 100 years is extremely plentiful and detailed.
Step out from your anonymous cowardice, and publish your detailed, lengthy critiques somewhere we can see them?
Professional hubris, along with the famous Dunning-Kruger effect (beyond a certain level of incompetence, people know so little that they fail to realize they're incompetent), means that scientific journals get lots and lots of junk. Unless we see your papers, we can't know, and have to go by the default assumption that you're clueless (since most would-be paradigm changing papers are rejected for good reasons).
There are various kinds of conservativism. Many are usually sensible (environmental conservativism, moral conservativism). But the most dangerous sort, I think, is what I like to call power conservativism. A power conservative thinks that people who currently have some kind of power should be allowed to keep it, and get more of it just in case someone wants to take it away from them.
The goal is entrenching the present hierarchies of power. Change in itself isn't bad, only change that topples leaders or empowers "the rabble".
Some genuinely authoritarian people may have a power conservative attitude despite not being very powerful themselves. But mostly, it's just a common human inclination, fueled by uncertainty, that happens to play out most in those who have much to lose.
It's what originally held ME back until about 12 years ago (that, and Debian Potato's failure to autoconfigure X).
It's only now, in particular with the many extremely good Indie games coming on Linux, that things are changing. I've bought a recent Humble Indie Bundle, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress and Osmos, and supported the Double Fine Kickstarter. All with excellent Linux clients.
The internet has a good filtering mechanism, it's called Google. For some reason, although Google are the ones behind it, Google Play (and the actual Google search engine!) is much worse at filtering out the crap. If you Google an app name, you get a billion and one trashy sites promising to install it for free if you download this executable before you get the actual developer's site.
Apple's filtering mechanism is just censorship by default, like Nintendo's. The other console makers, they don't really have much filtering, and consequently a lot of crap to wade through.
The last bit is important. If the French government had opened the system, instead of (somewhat corruptly) handing it over to a private monopoly, the world could have looked quite different.
Connectivity where you had to pay high minute rates was not unique to Minitel. The BBS world worked that way. Still, people migrated off it to the internet in short order - why didn't they for minitel?
I'm no expert on it, but my guess is that Minitel must have provided some popular and hard to replace services - perhaps services dependent on a critical mass of users. The BBS world didn't really have a critical mass of users, and there was very little "official" presence in it, much like ham radio.
Sounds very strange if the phone is still functional. One thing is if it refused to boot, but if it boots, you should be able to go into bootloader mode, and from there you should be able to flash radio and updates.
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Uh, no it doesn't. On the contrary, because there are many groups competing to build a decent android phone, and a decent android launcher, and a decent android screen etc, some of them will be pretty fucking terrible. We don't buy from those, we buy from those that succeed. That was precisely the parent's point.
No one ever got antitrust action against them for withdrawing one of their own services. If so, I guess Apple would be in trouble for not making an iTunes app for Android, and Microsoft would be in trouble for not porting Word to Linux.
Nice try Rapideye.
Could well be. I'm not reliving my youth, never played any FF game as a kid, but I have discovered them later. I did consider buying this, but I too decided against it.
Point is, I'm pretty sure they're still breaking even at this rate, 100000 sales in the first month. There may well be a market for somewhat more expensive games if we have a very solid expectation of quality, as we have with this game (solid gameplay, and has been soldily ported twice already).
Square Enix recently (this month) released a port of Final Fantasy III to Android. It's priced at $15.99 and has sold between 50000 and 100000 copies. Apparently it's been out for iOS for a while at the same price, I recon they wouldn't have ported it to Android if it didn't sell well there.
It doesn't have to be. They could strike a deal. I'm pretty sure that's what Gabe plans to do with Ubuntu, as Ubuntu has had an app store forever...
1. It's immense work.
2. It's even more work to make it efficient, because a would-be reimplementor will have to know why things are the way they are rather than just how it is.
3. It's chasing a moving target. It will never, ever be as good as the latest version from Microsoft.
The only reason to do it is backwards compatibility. That can be a good reason, for a long time it's was easier to run old DOS games in Dosbox than with Window's backwards compatibility stuff.
Better to use openGL. For Android, iOS, mac, and all consoles but xbox it's what you will need anyway. For the rest of the stuff DirectX does - well, Steam has just hired Sam Lantinga. SDL is one of the nicest C libraries I know, but Lantinga has worked for a long time on a rewrite based on what he (and the world) has learned since 2000 - and since he has a damn impressive CV, I expect that's a lot.
I'm thinking - actually, it's more like hoping, I suppose - that when the Android hardware makers see just how much Google's stewardship is worth to buyers, they'll be more inclined to offer closer to stock android images and timely updates.
The thing about the Nexus 7 is that hardware wise, it is of course an Asus Tablet very similar to their Transformer series, like the Galaxy Nexus is a thinly veiled Samsung phone. Yes, Google being responsible is worth quite a lot, and the price tag is unusual... but the top end Transformers are very competitive on other features.
The point of the 8GB model is that you just download/stream on demand. I do that already out of necessity on my ancient Desire. It works nicely if you have a fast unlimited data plan. The thing about the Nexus 7 that I'm least happy about is that it doesn't have phone data connectivity... its bigger cousin the Asus Transformer Infinity has an edge there.
Sometimes it's appropriate. I bought Early Bird for Android. Later they made it free, which I'm OK with. What's not OK is making the free version (which I was automatically "upgraded" to) have intrusive ads.
> part of the process is actually manipulating the data in a process called normalizing it.
Ooh, technical language! I don't understand what normalizing means, so what you say probably makes sense... oh wait. I do, and it doesn't.
It would, if it were true. But there are a lot of other things that stink.
Nice Godwin, by the way. I happen to have an interest in that topic, and the main problem with eugenicists wasn't that they falsified data (although they sometimes did that too), but that they failed to recognise their corruption and extreme conflict of interest in putting themselves up as judges of which humans/human traits were desirable or not. Their problem was in the moral philosophy department primarily, rather than the biology or statistics department.
Bullshit. Even if there was important, unreconstructable data deleted at UEA (which I doubt), their climate data set is just one out of the four major ones. It will not take "a large amount of time to collect enough contrasting data to get something useful", because climate data from the last 100 years is extremely plentiful and detailed.
You're just peddling delayer talking points.
Step out from your anonymous cowardice, and publish your detailed, lengthy critiques somewhere we can see them?
Professional hubris, along with the famous Dunning-Kruger effect (beyond a certain level of incompetence, people know so little that they fail to realize they're incompetent), means that scientific journals get lots and lots of junk. Unless we see your papers, we can't know, and have to go by the default assumption that you're clueless (since most would-be paradigm changing papers are rejected for good reasons).
There are various kinds of conservativism. Many are usually sensible (environmental conservativism, moral conservativism). But the most dangerous sort, I think, is what I like to call power conservativism. A power conservative thinks that people who currently have some kind of power should be allowed to keep it, and get more of it just in case someone wants to take it away from them.
The goal is entrenching the present hierarchies of power. Change in itself isn't bad, only change that topples leaders or empowers "the rabble".
Some genuinely authoritarian people may have a power conservative attitude despite not being very powerful themselves. But mostly, it's just a common human inclination, fueled by uncertainty, that happens to play out most in those who have much to lose.
It's what originally held ME back until about 12 years ago (that, and Debian Potato's failure to autoconfigure X).
It's only now, in particular with the many extremely good Indie games coming on Linux, that things are changing. I've bought a recent Humble Indie Bundle, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress and Osmos, and supported the Double Fine Kickstarter. All with excellent Linux clients.
The internet has a good filtering mechanism, it's called Google. For some reason, although Google are the ones behind it, Google Play (and the actual Google search engine!) is much worse at filtering out the crap. If you Google an app name, you get a billion and one trashy sites promising to install it for free if you download this executable before you get the actual developer's site.
Apple's filtering mechanism is just censorship by default, like Nintendo's. The other console makers, they don't really have much filtering, and consequently a lot of crap to wade through.
Hey, when did concerns about hypocrisy ever stop an intellectual property litigant?
Apple reap what they sow plenty of themselves.
Price cartels are bad, but they aren't by any convincing metaphor about extortion.
The last bit is important. If the French government had opened the system, instead of (somewhat corruptly) handing it over to a private monopoly, the world could have looked quite different.
Connectivity where you had to pay high minute rates was not unique to Minitel. The BBS world worked that way. Still, people migrated off it to the internet in short order - why didn't they for minitel?
I'm no expert on it, but my guess is that Minitel must have provided some popular and hard to replace services - perhaps services dependent on a critical mass of users. The BBS world didn't really have a critical mass of users, and there was very little "official" presence in it, much like ham radio.
Reasonable question.
Not reasonable conclusion. "Yes, the customer pays a little more, but that’s what you want anyway." -- Steve Jobs
Also, it means "heavy rock".
> And I can no longer flash anything. At all.
Sounds very strange if the phone is still functional. One thing is if it refused to boot, but if it boots, you should be able to go into bootloader mode, and from there you should be able to flash radio and updates.