Did you even read the comment you replied to? He/she specced the white one out to have the same hard drive as the black one, and it's still $150 cheaper.
I have to believe that Nintendo play tested the heck out of their new controller -- but still the thought of jamming it upwards everytime I want to throw a punch in (say) Mike Tyson's Punch Out seems tiring:(
Heaven forbid that gamers should actually get any exercise.
I find the Pruis pretty fun to drive - I have not driven a Jetta or Golf for anything more than a few minutes - what's so "fun" about them?
They're available with stick shifts, they accelerate faster, they have sharper handling, they respond quicker to braking and throttle input, etc.
What else are you using your car to do besides the A->B stuff for anyway?
I drive because I enjoy driving, not just because I like to go fast but because I like the feeling of tight control over a powerful machine. The Prius isn't really aimed at people who like to drive their cars, it's aimed at people who wish they didn't have to. IMHO, most Prius drivers (actually, most automatic-transmission drivers in general) would prefer to just push a button and teleport to their office/school/wherever. The Prius is a great car for that demographic; it's simple to drive and it will get you where you want to go. But it just doesn't respond very well to spirited driving. Taking a Prius on a twisty mountain road is an excercise in frustration.
For example, I drive a 1995 Corolla station wagon, which is also not a great driver's car, but it's light-years ahead of the Prius. In my car, if I'm going 10mph in first gear and I touch my foot to the gas pedal, the car jumps forward instantly. If you floor the throttle in a Prius going 10mph, it takes a full second or two for the gas engine to turn on and rev up and for the CV transmission to adjust before anything actually happens. That's a really long time when you're trying to accelerate out of a corner, or if you're trying to avoid an imminent T-boning.
So sure, the Prius is fine if your concept of driving enjoyment is listening to a nice sound system while taking a lazy cruise around to look at the scenery, and there's nothing wrong with that. But in that case, you wouldn't be enjoying driving, you'd be enjoying the other things you're doing while driving. I personally get more pleasure out of the driving itself, and hence I wouldn't buy a Prius.
Let's see it go around corners faster than a Ferarri.
It does. The gas-powered Ariel Atom beat several Ferraris around the Top Gear test track. It's really not that hard to believe; the Atom's light weight gives it a big handling advantage over bigger cars like the Ferraris.
They're completely different classes of vehicles. The Ariel Atom (which this is based on) costs ~$40,000. The Bugatti costs $1,250,000. The Atom is basically a souped up go-kart, and it's amazing, but you can't compare it to a supercar like the Veyron.
The Prius is a decent car if all you want to do is get from point A to point B, but it's horribly boring. A TDI Jetta or Golf will get similar milage and be a lot nicer to drive.
So it can do a quarter mile fast. Ask anyone who does open wheel racing (formula 1, etc), and they will tell you, "drag racing is for pussies". Anyone can slam down their foot and go a short distance in a straight line. No skill is involved.
Since this is just a modified Ariel Atom, I'd assume it has similar handling to the gas version, which is supposed to be quite good.
I don't think anyone was planning on taking road trips in this thing, any more than in the gas-powered Atom (which probably also has a tiny fuel tank). But it'd be a great around-town car; how often do you drive >100 miles in a day?
reviews have been coming around showing as much as a 30% speed increase for common tasks if you install Windows on your Intel mac.
I haven't seen those reviews. What I have seen is that games are faster under Windows (because of optimization and OSX underclocking the MacBook GPU) and that Office is significantly faster (because of Rosetta). Neither of those are inherent problems with OSX.
Also, a 30% speed increase during your daily use would be pretty useless for "common tasks" (playing music, web browsing, word processing, spreadsheets, email, etc.) because none of those activities are CPU-bound in the least.
I think "virus" has basically become a generic term for all types of malware, at least in the public conciousness. "Real" viruses barely exist anymore.
Because marking a post 'redundant' is a punishment.
No, really it's not. My post above just got modded redundant (unfairly, I might add), but it doesn't affect me at all. The same is true of any person with halfway decent karma. A couple karma points either way is not a big deal. This is why karma scores were changed to words instead of numbers: so people would stop bitching about minor things like this.
their comment doesn't need cleaning up
So, why exactly do you think the community needs two comments saying the exact same thing?
If it's rated high when a previous post does the job, then you can rate it 'overrated'. That follows the spirit of the rules, IMO.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure "overrated" modding affects karma just as "redundant" does (though it is immune to metamoderating, which is why it's such a popular catch-all mod choice). So what makes it better than "redundant"?
Uh, why not? There's no point in having two posts with the same info. The moderation system isn't really meant to be a reward/punishment system; the goal is to clean up the comments. Regardless of the GP's good intentions, their post is, very much, redundant.
The second is probably more of a personal thing - I've got mates who have the latest and greatest GFX cards in their machines, but I'll be damned if I can tell the difference between their games and mine.
I have a 9700 Pro (also from 2003) and I thought the same for a long time. But there are games out now which will make it choke, Oblivion being my best example. It's mostly playable when set to lowest quality settings, but the framerate drops to almost nothing whenever someone casts a chameleon spell or when I'm fighting multiple enemies. It's still a great game, but it doesn't look nearly as gorgeous and it's not as playable as it would be on a higher-end card.
There's also a limit to what typical gamers will have in the way of monitors. I doubt many gamers have monitors comparable to those used by Pixar or Industrial Light and Magic. So even if your graphics card can do better, the rest of your hardware can't.
Monitors are not in any way a limiting factor at the moment. I can watch HD-quality live action videos on my CRT and it looks damn good. No 3D video card is gonna match that any time soon. I don't want ultra-hi-res graphics, I want good graphics at normal resolutions. I'd settle for 640x480 if it meant DVD-quality games.
The military can't just hire civilian musicians to play at a military funeral; they have to use enlisted soldiers (or veterans). The idea is that the military saying goodbye to one of its own.
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especially when they're burying a loved one who died in a non-peaceful way
To be fair, I think that active-duty casualties still get a real bugler. AFAIK, these devices are for (much more common) veteran's funerals.
Porn actor is really a pretty bad job. The expectations are huge (no pun intended) - can you get it up on demand, at any time of day, and keep it up for hours of filming, before releasing on demand? And the rewards aren't great - the pay sucks and I'd be surprised if you got much sexual pleasure out of it.
An encyclopedia is supposed to present unbiased and balanced facts. It one viewpoint is favoured over another, that's bias - by definition. Bias is present when you present a case with favour given to one side, whether that favour be justified or not!
An encyclopedia's job is to present all relevant facts. In some cases, such as (for example) the articles on slavery and Hitler, the facts are going to be primarily negative, and that's just how it is. I'm not saying that the same is necessarily true for Wal-Mart, but if it were, the article should reflect that.
I wasn't talking about downtown city streets; I thought that was obvious, but apparently you need me to remind you that "quite a few cases" is not remotely the same thing as "every possible case, including this dumbass example I'm about to make up". I assure you that there exist roads in the USA that have neither parked cars nor sharp corners, and where it's very easy to tell what the traffic conditions are. You won't find them in big cities, though (with the exception of interstates).
You didn't answer either of my questions. You were arguing that the M-16 and Camaro are crappy because of focus groups, and so I asked for some evidence that they were actually designed by focus groups. Your response is that they must have been, because they're crappy. That's just circular reasoning; you're not actually showing anything.
As for your network of Linux servers, it doesn't fufill the same function as a media center PC, so you can't argue that it's an acceptable substitute, focus groups or no.
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Did you even read the comment you replied to? He/she specced the white one out to have the same hard drive as the black one, and it's still $150 cheaper.
Heaven forbid that gamers should actually get any exercise.
They're available with stick shifts, they accelerate faster, they have sharper handling, they respond quicker to braking and throttle input, etc.
What else are you using your car to do besides the A->B stuff for anyway?
I drive because I enjoy driving, not just because I like to go fast but because I like the feeling of tight control over a powerful machine. The Prius isn't really aimed at people who like to drive their cars, it's aimed at people who wish they didn't have to. IMHO, most Prius drivers (actually, most automatic-transmission drivers in general) would prefer to just push a button and teleport to their office/school/wherever. The Prius is a great car for that demographic; it's simple to drive and it will get you where you want to go. But it just doesn't respond very well to spirited driving. Taking a Prius on a twisty mountain road is an excercise in frustration.
For example, I drive a 1995 Corolla station wagon, which is also not a great driver's car, but it's light-years ahead of the Prius. In my car, if I'm going 10mph in first gear and I touch my foot to the gas pedal, the car jumps forward instantly. If you floor the throttle in a Prius going 10mph, it takes a full second or two for the gas engine to turn on and rev up and for the CV transmission to adjust before anything actually happens. That's a really long time when you're trying to accelerate out of a corner, or if you're trying to avoid an imminent T-boning.
So sure, the Prius is fine if your concept of driving enjoyment is listening to a nice sound system while taking a lazy cruise around to look at the scenery, and there's nothing wrong with that. But in that case, you wouldn't be enjoying driving, you'd be enjoying the other things you're doing while driving. I personally get more pleasure out of the driving itself, and hence I wouldn't buy a Prius.
When we develop batteries or fuel cells good enough that an electric F1 car doesn't have to stop every few minutes for a 4.5-hour recharge.
It does. The gas-powered Ariel Atom beat several Ferraris around the Top Gear test track. It's really not that hard to believe; the Atom's light weight gives it a big handling advantage over bigger cars like the Ferraris.
They're completely different classes of vehicles. The Ariel Atom (which this is based on) costs ~$40,000. The Bugatti costs $1,250,000. The Atom is basically a souped up go-kart, and it's amazing, but you can't compare it to a supercar like the Veyron.
The Prius is a decent car if all you want to do is get from point A to point B, but it's horribly boring. A TDI Jetta or Golf will get similar milage and be a lot nicer to drive.
Since this is just a modified Ariel Atom, I'd assume it has similar handling to the gas version, which is supposed to be quite good.
I don't think anyone was planning on taking road trips in this thing, any more than in the gas-powered Atom (which probably also has a tiny fuel tank). But it'd be a great around-town car; how often do you drive >100 miles in a day?
I would imagine that anyone interested in doing one of these jobs for no pay is quite welcome to do so, 18 or not.
I haven't seen those reviews. What I have seen is that games are faster under Windows (because of optimization and OSX underclocking the MacBook GPU) and that Office is significantly faster (because of Rosetta). Neither of those are inherent problems with OSX.
Also, a 30% speed increase during your daily use would be pretty useless for "common tasks" (playing music, web browsing, word processing, spreadsheets, email, etc.) because none of those activities are CPU-bound in the least.
I think "virus" has basically become a generic term for all types of malware, at least in the public conciousness. "Real" viruses barely exist anymore.
Because it's being run by Apple, you dolt.
Use the VideoDownloader extension for Firefox.
No, really it's not. My post above just got modded redundant (unfairly, I might add), but it doesn't affect me at all. The same is true of any person with halfway decent karma. A couple karma points either way is not a big deal. This is why karma scores were changed to words instead of numbers: so people would stop bitching about minor things like this.
their comment doesn't need cleaning up
So, why exactly do you think the community needs two comments saying the exact same thing?
If it's rated high when a previous post does the job, then you can rate it 'overrated'. That follows the spirit of the rules, IMO.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure "overrated" modding affects karma just as "redundant" does (though it is immune to metamoderating, which is why it's such a popular catch-all mod choice). So what makes it better than "redundant"?
Uh, why not? There's no point in having two posts with the same info. The moderation system isn't really meant to be a reward/punishment system; the goal is to clean up the comments. Regardless of the GP's good intentions, their post is, very much, redundant.
I have a 9700 Pro (also from 2003) and I thought the same for a long time. But there are games out now which will make it choke, Oblivion being my best example. It's mostly playable when set to lowest quality settings, but the framerate drops to almost nothing whenever someone casts a chameleon spell or when I'm fighting multiple enemies. It's still a great game, but it doesn't look nearly as gorgeous and it's not as playable as it would be on a higher-end card.
Monitors are not in any way a limiting factor at the moment. I can watch HD-quality live action videos on my CRT and it looks damn good. No 3D video card is gonna match that any time soon. I don't want ultra-hi-res graphics, I want good graphics at normal resolutions. I'd settle for 640x480 if it meant DVD-quality games.
The military can't just hire civilian musicians to play at a military funeral; they have to use enlisted soldiers (or veterans). The idea is that the military saying goodbye to one of its own.
To be fair, I think that active-duty casualties still get a real bugler. AFAIK, these devices are for (much more common) veteran's funerals.
Porn actor is really a pretty bad job. The expectations are huge (no pun intended) - can you get it up on demand, at any time of day, and keep it up for hours of filming, before releasing on demand? And the rewards aren't great - the pay sucks and I'd be surprised if you got much sexual pleasure out of it.
An encyclopedia's job is to present all relevant facts. In some cases, such as (for example) the articles on slavery and Hitler, the facts are going to be primarily negative, and that's just how it is. I'm not saying that the same is necessarily true for Wal-Mart, but if it were, the article should reflect that.
I wasn't talking about downtown city streets; I thought that was obvious, but apparently you need me to remind you that "quite a few cases" is not remotely the same thing as "every possible case, including this dumbass example I'm about to make up". I assure you that there exist roads in the USA that have neither parked cars nor sharp corners, and where it's very easy to tell what the traffic conditions are. You won't find them in big cities, though (with the exception of interstates).
Why would you think that? Did I ever say anything to that effect?
As for your network of Linux servers, it doesn't fufill the same function as a media center PC, so you can't argue that it's an acceptable substitute, focus groups or no.