Not necessarily. Sure speed bumps are common, but usually incremental. Doubling performance over a single generation is not too common in desktop computing these days. I was going to buy another laptop next month since I always have a spare and I just retired my spare. But was planning on going with the new Macbook or an Air for their slightly smaller form factor. Now it looks like I'll might be opting for another 13" MBP.
I am pretty miffed to read this. Nothing like paying a load of cash for a shiny new laptop only to find out a couple months later that you'd have been way better off waiting.
Or we stand up an say we are willing to take the risks, even it it means those guys will sneak in, but we will have more liberties.
We are past the point of merely saying anything.
We are to the point where only an outright civil war will stop our slide into a Totalitarian Police State.
Except Intel is lacking heavily in good embedded processors for now
FTFY
You do know what Intel makes right? And even if they don't know how to make something as good as the competition in-house, they have the pockets to buy someone that can. It just takes the motivation.
ONLY MORESO???? Dude, not saying it does not happen with conventional cab drivers but claiming assaults and rapes happen more frequently with legit drivers isn't just disengienious, it's a blatant fucking lie.
Just look at Google: https://www.google.com/webhp?s...
Uber comes up the search over and over and over again. And considering how many legit cab drivers there are vs how many Uber drivers there are -- it's pretty fucked up that a fledgeling service shows up so frequently in global results. Granted, some of those might be different links to the same incident, but the point remains the same. And that point is: NO -- rapes and beatings don't happen more frequently at the hands of legit cab drivers.
Yeah, except Obama has done fuck all about it except for shrugging his shoulders and saying "meh" when the media created a shit-storm about it.
So Obama is every bit to blame as Bush.
He's not saying that Half-Life is retro or that no one wants to make Half-Life 3, he's saying that no one at Valve wants to make a HL3 that is just more of the same. Valve seems to pride itself on gameplay innovations, and if they can't come up with something totally unique and creative for HL3, they aren't going to just put it out as-is.
That's not what I was saying. I was saying that they backed in a lead in to a sequel into the plot.
Maybe you didn't play HL2, but it ended at a major enem installation and it was made clear that the next step was to travel to where the invaders were based from.
Then they just left it.
It's an unfinished, incomplete story that promised to resume. And Gabe is saying they probably wont and those that want the conclusion are just delusional little shits. But Valve is a Company, not a Person and while an Author might not be able to finish his work due to illness or death, Valve is a company, is very alive and has hundreds of employees and contractors and can hire more as needed.
I don't think they care either. It was never meant as a formal boycott, just that I don't buy their games much anyway.
However, they made lots of money on HL, and will make even more money on HL if they can be bothered to release the sequel they wrote into the plot.
And this shit about Terry Prachett or whoever is ridiculous. An Author is one guy who has so much time in which to do his life's work. Valve is a company of hundreds and can hire more people to produce their products. So dishing on fans as such just comes off as really dickish.
What awesome games? I'm still waiting for a reason to buy a PS4 and so far the new game releases from 2014 and 2015 are shit-tier. Best thing I've seen so far is Mass Effect 4, which will be out... sometime before 2018... maybe. If it weren't for the release of the Mass Effect bundle last summer, I probably wouldn't be playing anything right now. The Last of Us is the only thing that's tempted me, but I hear the Multiplayer on that is pretty crappy so have decided to pass on that for now since it sounds like I'll just be doing that Single Player anyway -- so why bother shelling out $400 for that? Keep in mind that I've already played Bioshock infinite, Borderlands 2, Dead Space 3 and Dead Island Riptide (god awful pile of shit) on my PS3 before PS4 was even released.
So I'm curious where this backlog of awesome games are, or what you mean by awesome games, because right now, I can't think of any. But I'd like to know of any that might be worth my heading out and getting a PS4. I make occasional pop-ins at Gamestop to see the new releases, but so far nothing is tempting.
HL2 ended with a fucking cliff hanger FFS! We were left thinking that it's time to take it to where the baddies live. What's so desperate to believe they intended to make a third installment? I always assumed that we'd see HL3 when they came out with their Source 2 gaming engine. Now Gabe's talking like HL is "retro" and the article makes it sound as if Valve has no intention to make new games that are single player. Personally, after reading that article, I hope they don't release a new HL. Gabe comes off as a major asshole who forgot that they set up the whole ending of HL2 as a segue to a sequel and is now acting like anyone who wants them to finish their story is a sorry ass loser. So fuck them. I don't buy many games, and haven't bought a Valve game since Portal2 and will make damn sure that's my last Valve purchase ever unless HL3 is released and they stop talking about their customers like they are worthless trash who are idiots for wanting a finished story when left with a cliff hanger.
Silly hater? Illogical nonsense? Hey asshole -- how about you at least bother to fucking google
Here's a comprehensive list of incidents, and in the US and Europe, not just in India and Pakistan
http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/...
Fact is any psycho can become an uber driver and use the service to cruise for victims and that's exactly what has happened and will happen until they start screening and licensing their drivers as per the tai regulations EVERYWHERE mandate.
So fuck you, fuck your "mod point" and fuck your inability to even fucking use a fucking search engine.
I can't help feel that its the established players who want to kill any newcoming competition. that - in itself - really annoys me.
Is it that they want to kill competition or is it that they want Uber to abide by the same laws and regulations and pay the same taxes and fees that they do?
Is it so annoying that Uber is being punished for not abiding by the laws? If you feel so, then you are an anarchist and opposed to a society based on law.
Because only an anarchist sees no value in the rule of law. These laws aren't put into place to restrict competition, as much as they are for consumer protection.
How many news articles have you read about Uber drivers raping or otherwise assaulting riders -- I can think of several off hand in the last year.
How many news articles have you read about legally licensed cabbies doing the same?
Who paid her? Who was she shilling for? As far as I ever knew, she was an independent Paralegal who started the site as a personal project to follow the SCO case. Seems you are one of the Microsoft/SCO OSS haters out to continue to slander and bash PJ and anyone who supports Open Source or freedom of Speech.
The lack of an Amazon Instant app is annoying, but Netflix is there. The rest of the content is kind of ho-hum, but then again, mirroring and airplay solves some of those issues, like Amazon Instant or many other media playback app
Quote for Truth. That's basically my only gripe about AppleTV. No freaking Amazon Streaming. I get Amazon Streaming on my PS3 and my iPad and iPhone, but not on my AppleTV WTF? Why wont Amazon support AppleTV?
While the 1st gen Apple TV didn't do too much for me, since buying a new AppleTV last year, I've almost all but stopped using Amazon Streaming because I can't be bothered to switch over to PS3 just to watch a couple TV shows on Amazon they don't have on Netflix. The Man in the High Castle pilot was the sole exception over the last couple months.
And the "recommended" way to watch Amazon Streaming on Apple TV is to use AirPlay -- a BS proposition, since you're streaming from the internet to one device, then locally restreaming to the AppleTV -- way to clog your network.
Perhaps I should cancel my Prime Membership when it comes up -- I'm not buying so much off Amazon these days and not using their streaming service at all since buying my new AppleTV unit. When HBO GO does become available on AppleTV for $15/month the benefit of the "HBO Collection" on Amazon will be lost.
Seems the solution for Vietnam would be all to easy: Simply remind the US that you kicked their asses and took that base fair and square and that if they have a problem with it, they are free to come back over and have their "operation freedom" shoved up their ass all over again because they are allied with both Russia and China and the party raising most of the tensions in the "region" is the US who keeps demanding that the world do as it says or "else".
Yeah, there' plenty of rip-offs out there, but some high end audio products are really worth the money
Just a few months ago I shelled out $500 for a digital audio enhancer that sits between my receiver and amp
You can really hear the soft roundness of the 0's and the 1s are so sharp and crisp.
I can only imagine it's so that Intel can sell you a special "SSD Data Recovery Pro SUPER-DUPER XD3 Turbo" enclosure that will flip some bits and allow you to obtain read access for the low low price of $199.00
Then what good would the "up to 70 years after the creators death" do? Clearly Copyright law was intended to allow the artist's children and grandchildren to live off the royalties and never have to work a day of their brilliantly productive and culturally enriching lives. This ruling will allow the descendants of Marvin Gaye to continue in their efforts.
Now, if I was Motorola or Samsung? Yea, I'd be worried.
Yeah, because the Samsung smartwatch has literally rocked the world.
Seems to have dropped off the radar after it's initial hype, which was mainly about how they beat Apple to the punch.
Now days, no one gives a shit about the samsung smart watch.
And Motorola? They don't even matter anymore.
And speaking of Timex. Compared side by side, that Samsung looks more like the cheap ass Timex as far as "smart watches" go.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ...http://cdn.macrumors.com/artic...
After all, what is a "virtual currency" but a "good" to be exchanged? All in-game credits should be prohibited from being used to pay for items outside the game or being exchanged for cash Trading goods or services for other goods or services? Also should be illegal, since how can the Government monitor such transactions?
Cash should also be made illegal, since it can not be immediately tracked and might be used for nefarious purchases and most importantly, privately held cash destabilizes our glorious economy by keeping it out of the hands of the almighty Financial Institutions who can use it to invest in hedge funds and conduct other sound business practices like lending it out to other large institutions or buy up massive tracts of property to mortgage to Wealthy Chinese Citizens thereby keeping our economy strong.
The only legal means of paying for goods or services should be with a Chip and Pin implant on your hand or forehead.
Seems in the last couple of years tech companies have adopted the notion that a Developer's time has no inherent value and that a job candidate has nothing better to do with their day than spend 11am till 5pm at their offices in an "interview" and that somehow offering "lunch" make it ok. Hell, I've even seen one or two companies state that they put all candidates through a 3 or 4 hour "coding test"!
Seriously, it's disrespectful, demanding and FUCKING DEGRADING.
It presumes that I as a person have nothing better to do with my time.
It presumes that I want a job so much that I will be wiling to do ANYTHING to get it.
It presumes that somehow by making someone waste their entire fucking day in your offices, that you'll somehow be better equipped to make a hiring decision.
Being that I only casually consider FT jobs with companies WHO APPROACH ME and am happily SELF-EMPLOYED, yes, I do have better things to do and any company who expects me to spend more than 2 hours at their offices for an interview is promptly given an immediate decline. And no, coming back around to "try to work something out" is off the table, because I've already seen your culture, and it's toxic. No amount of beer kegs and ping pong can hide the vile cesspool that is your company's core.
But, seeing that this practice is fast becoming the norm, I shall probably remain independent since it seems a lot of tech companies are just fucking toxic with abusive management.
It's CLIMATE CHANGE, not global warming and you seem to agree that the climate has been changing and you even go so far as to attribute climate change as having some impact by man (the romans)
So it would seem you agree with the scientific community in that many aspects of CLIMATE CHANGE are man made, while others are entirely part of the Earth's natural process.
What? You didn't intend to agree with the scientific community? Well better hurry back on over to cliimatedenialforjesuswiki.com to find new "talking points" to shitpost on/.
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Not necessarily. Sure speed bumps are common, but usually incremental. Doubling performance over a single generation is not too common in desktop computing these days. I was going to buy another laptop next month since I always have a spare and I just retired my spare. But was planning on going with the new Macbook or an Air for their slightly smaller form factor. Now it looks like I'll might be opting for another 13" MBP.
I am pretty miffed to read this. Nothing like paying a load of cash for a shiny new laptop only to find out a couple months later that you'd have been way better off waiting.
Or we stand up an say we are willing to take the risks, even it it means those guys will sneak in, but we will have more liberties.
We are past the point of merely saying anything. We are to the point where only an outright civil war will stop our slide into a Totalitarian Police State.
Yeah, well, it's not too hard to escape from unicode hell...
Except Intel is lacking heavily in good embedded processors for now
FTFY
You do know what Intel makes right? And even if they don't know how to make something as good as the competition in-house, they have the pockets to buy someone that can. It just takes the motivation.
Just look at Google: https://www.google.com/webhp?s... Uber comes up the search over and over and over again. And considering how many legit cab drivers there are vs how many Uber drivers there are -- it's pretty fucked up that a fledgeling service shows up so frequently in global results. Granted, some of those might be different links to the same incident, but the point remains the same. And that point is: NO -- rapes and beatings don't happen more frequently at the hands of legit cab drivers.
Seven Year Old San Francisco Girl Struck and Killed By Uber Driver; Uber Denies Responsibility http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/...
Boston Uber Driver Charged with indecent Assault and Battery http://www.bostonglobe.com/met...
Off-Duty LA Uber Driver Accused of Sexual Assault http://www.bizjournals.com/los...
Chicago Uber Driver With Felony Conviction Charged With Battery For Allegedly Hitting Passenger http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...
Writer and Activist Reports Being Choked in DC; Uber Denies The Event and Responsibility http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...
DC Uber Driver Allegedly Assaults Customer for Burping http://www.washingtoncitypaper...
San Francisco Uber Customer Claims Abuse and Assault by Uber Driver (Pando) http://pando.com/2013/11/25/ub...
Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...
Uber Driver Pulls Gun on Valet in Atlanta http://pando.com/2014/09/08/at...
Uber Driver Punches Passenger in Oklahoma http://newsok.com/oklahoma-cit...
Lyft Driver Attacks Pedestrian in San Francisco http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news...
Lyft Driver Brandishes Knife in Los Angeles http://www.laweekly.com/2013-0...
Uber Customer Sues for $2M over Alleged Driver Stabbing in DC http://dcinno.streetwise.co/20...
DC Uber Driver Allegedly Rapes Customer http://betabeat.com/2013/03/ub...
Uber Driver Charged with Fondling Passenger in Chicago http://valleywag.gawker.com/ub...
DC Uber Driver Arrested for Alleged Rape But Not Charged Despite Strong Evidence http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Another DC Uber Driver Accused of Molesting Uber Rider http://valleywag.gawker.com/an...
Passenger Struck In Head With Hammer by UberX Driver http://www.forbes.com/sites/el...
Uber Driver in India Accused of Rape http://www.bbc.c
Yeah, except Obama has done fuck all about it except for shrugging his shoulders and saying "meh" when the media created a shit-storm about it. So Obama is every bit to blame as Bush.
He's not saying that Half-Life is retro or that no one wants to make Half-Life 3, he's saying that no one at Valve wants to make a HL3 that is just more of the same. Valve seems to pride itself on gameplay innovations, and if they can't come up with something totally unique and creative for HL3, they aren't going to just put it out as-is.
That's not what I was saying. I was saying that they backed in a lead in to a sequel into the plot. Maybe you didn't play HL2, but it ended at a major enem installation and it was made clear that the next step was to travel to where the invaders were based from. Then they just left it. It's an unfinished, incomplete story that promised to resume. And Gabe is saying they probably wont and those that want the conclusion are just delusional little shits. But Valve is a Company, not a Person and while an Author might not be able to finish his work due to illness or death, Valve is a company, is very alive and has hundreds of employees and contractors and can hire more as needed.
I don't think they care either. It was never meant as a formal boycott, just that I don't buy their games much anyway. However, they made lots of money on HL, and will make even more money on HL if they can be bothered to release the sequel they wrote into the plot. And this shit about Terry Prachett or whoever is ridiculous. An Author is one guy who has so much time in which to do his life's work. Valve is a company of hundreds and can hire more people to produce their products. So dishing on fans as such just comes off as really dickish.
What awesome games? I'm still waiting for a reason to buy a PS4 and so far the new game releases from 2014 and 2015 are shit-tier. Best thing I've seen so far is Mass Effect 4, which will be out... sometime before 2018... maybe. If it weren't for the release of the Mass Effect bundle last summer, I probably wouldn't be playing anything right now. The Last of Us is the only thing that's tempted me, but I hear the Multiplayer on that is pretty crappy so have decided to pass on that for now since it sounds like I'll just be doing that Single Player anyway -- so why bother shelling out $400 for that? Keep in mind that I've already played Bioshock infinite, Borderlands 2, Dead Space 3 and Dead Island Riptide (god awful pile of shit) on my PS3 before PS4 was even released.
So I'm curious where this backlog of awesome games are, or what you mean by awesome games, because right now, I can't think of any. But I'd like to know of any that might be worth my heading out and getting a PS4. I make occasional pop-ins at Gamestop to see the new releases, but so far nothing is tempting.
Slashdot needs a "pudger rockin' a fedora" icon for autist keyboard operator submissions
HL2 ended with a fucking cliff hanger FFS! We were left thinking that it's time to take it to where the baddies live. What's so desperate to believe they intended to make a third installment? I always assumed that we'd see HL3 when they came out with their Source 2 gaming engine. Now Gabe's talking like HL is "retro" and the article makes it sound as if Valve has no intention to make new games that are single player. Personally, after reading that article, I hope they don't release a new HL. Gabe comes off as a major asshole who forgot that they set up the whole ending of HL2 as a segue to a sequel and is now acting like anyone who wants them to finish their story is a sorry ass loser. So fuck them. I don't buy many games, and haven't bought a Valve game since Portal2 and will make damn sure that's my last Valve purchase ever unless HL3 is released and they stop talking about their customers like they are worthless trash who are idiots for wanting a finished story when left with a cliff hanger.
Silly hater? Illogical nonsense? Hey asshole -- how about you at least bother to fucking google
Here's a comprehensive list of incidents, and in the US and Europe, not just in India and Pakistan http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/...
Fact is any psycho can become an uber driver and use the service to cruise for victims and that's exactly what has happened and will happen until they start screening and licensing their drivers as per the tai regulations EVERYWHERE mandate.
So fuck you, fuck your "mod point" and fuck your inability to even fucking use a fucking search engine.
I can't help feel that its the established players who want to kill any newcoming competition. that - in itself - really annoys me.
Is it that they want to kill competition or is it that they want Uber to abide by the same laws and regulations and pay the same taxes and fees that they do? Is it so annoying that Uber is being punished for not abiding by the laws? If you feel so, then you are an anarchist and opposed to a society based on law. Because only an anarchist sees no value in the rule of law. These laws aren't put into place to restrict competition, as much as they are for consumer protection. How many news articles have you read about Uber drivers raping or otherwise assaulting riders -- I can think of several off hand in the last year. How many news articles have you read about legally licensed cabbies doing the same?
Who paid her? Who was she shilling for? As far as I ever knew, she was an independent Paralegal who started the site as a personal project to follow the SCO case. Seems you are one of the Microsoft/SCO OSS haters out to continue to slander and bash PJ and anyone who supports Open Source or freedom of Speech.
The lack of an Amazon Instant app is annoying, but Netflix is there. The rest of the content is kind of ho-hum, but then again, mirroring and airplay solves some of those issues, like Amazon Instant or many other media playback app
Quote for Truth. That's basically my only gripe about AppleTV. No freaking Amazon Streaming. I get Amazon Streaming on my PS3 and my iPad and iPhone, but not on my AppleTV WTF? Why wont Amazon support AppleTV? While the 1st gen Apple TV didn't do too much for me, since buying a new AppleTV last year, I've almost all but stopped using Amazon Streaming because I can't be bothered to switch over to PS3 just to watch a couple TV shows on Amazon they don't have on Netflix. The Man in the High Castle pilot was the sole exception over the last couple months. And the "recommended" way to watch Amazon Streaming on Apple TV is to use AirPlay -- a BS proposition, since you're streaming from the internet to one device, then locally restreaming to the AppleTV -- way to clog your network. Perhaps I should cancel my Prime Membership when it comes up -- I'm not buying so much off Amazon these days and not using their streaming service at all since buying my new AppleTV unit. When HBO GO does become available on AppleTV for $15/month the benefit of the "HBO Collection" on Amazon will be lost.
Seems the solution for Vietnam would be all to easy: Simply remind the US that you kicked their asses and took that base fair and square and that if they have a problem with it, they are free to come back over and have their "operation freedom" shoved up their ass all over again because they are allied with both Russia and China and the party raising most of the tensions in the "region" is the US who keeps demanding that the world do as it says or "else".
Yeah, there' plenty of rip-offs out there, but some high end audio products are really worth the money Just a few months ago I shelled out $500 for a digital audio enhancer that sits between my receiver and amp You can really hear the soft roundness of the 0's and the 1s are so sharp and crisp.
I can only imagine it's so that Intel can sell you a special "SSD Data Recovery Pro SUPER-DUPER XD3 Turbo" enclosure that will flip some bits and allow you to obtain read access for the low low price of $199.00
Then what good would the "up to 70 years after the creators death" do? Clearly Copyright law was intended to allow the artist's children and grandchildren to live off the royalties and never have to work a day of their brilliantly productive and culturally enriching lives. This ruling will allow the descendants of Marvin Gaye to continue in their efforts.
Now, if I was Motorola or Samsung? Yea, I'd be worried.
Yeah, because the Samsung smartwatch has literally rocked the world. Seems to have dropped off the radar after it's initial hype, which was mainly about how they beat Apple to the punch. Now days, no one gives a shit about the samsung smart watch. And Motorola? They don't even matter anymore. And speaking of Timex. Compared side by side, that Samsung looks more like the cheap ass Timex as far as "smart watches" go. http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ... http://cdn.macrumors.com/artic...
After all, what is a "virtual currency" but a "good" to be exchanged? All in-game credits should be prohibited from being used to pay for items outside the game or being exchanged for cash Trading goods or services for other goods or services? Also should be illegal, since how can the Government monitor such transactions? Cash should also be made illegal, since it can not be immediately tracked and might be used for nefarious purchases and most importantly, privately held cash destabilizes our glorious economy by keeping it out of the hands of the almighty Financial Institutions who can use it to invest in hedge funds and conduct other sound business practices like lending it out to other large institutions or buy up massive tracts of property to mortgage to Wealthy Chinese Citizens thereby keeping our economy strong.
The only legal means of paying for goods or services should be with a Chip and Pin implant on your hand or forehead.
Seems in the last couple of years tech companies have adopted the notion that a Developer's time has no inherent value and that a job candidate has nothing better to do with their day than spend 11am till 5pm at their offices in an "interview" and that somehow offering "lunch" make it ok. Hell, I've even seen one or two companies state that they put all candidates through a 3 or 4 hour "coding test"! Seriously, it's disrespectful, demanding and FUCKING DEGRADING. It presumes that I as a person have nothing better to do with my time. It presumes that I want a job so much that I will be wiling to do ANYTHING to get it. It presumes that somehow by making someone waste their entire fucking day in your offices, that you'll somehow be better equipped to make a hiring decision. Being that I only casually consider FT jobs with companies WHO APPROACH ME and am happily SELF-EMPLOYED, yes, I do have better things to do and any company who expects me to spend more than 2 hours at their offices for an interview is promptly given an immediate decline. And no, coming back around to "try to work something out" is off the table, because I've already seen your culture, and it's toxic. No amount of beer kegs and ping pong can hide the vile cesspool that is your company's core. But, seeing that this practice is fast becoming the norm, I shall probably remain independent since it seems a lot of tech companies are just fucking toxic with abusive management.
It's CLIMATE CHANGE, not global warming and you seem to agree that the climate has been changing and you even go so far as to attribute climate change as having some impact by man (the romans)
So it would seem you agree with the scientific community in that many aspects of CLIMATE CHANGE are man made, while others are entirely part of the Earth's natural process.
What? You didn't intend to agree with the scientific community? Well better hurry back on over to cliimatedenialforjesuswiki.com to find new "talking points" to shitpost on /.