...besides the fact that it would put every single dentist out of work.
No it wouldn't. Someone has got to perform the procedure, might just as well be a dentist. Besides, it wouldn't exactly fix the problems of crooked, impacted, or malformed teeth, so even with this technology, there will still be a need for qualified dentists.
It is slow, a memory hog, and the web browser takes forever to load (especially the store page). Half of the updates seem to try to reapply themselves every time I open Steam.
Steam may not be the worst program in the world, but it is far from perfect.
Check me if I wrong, but hasn't the iPhone always been behind on features? I mean, how many years did it take just to get copy / paste.
The iPhone was never about features, it was about style and ease of use. The problem is that they set the standard and the other companies have finally caught up.
Don't forget about the massive amount of Temp and "Perma-temp" workers. The year I spent as a temp was one of the worst years of my life. There were no sick days, no vacation days, and not even weather emergency days. If you took off for any reason, they docked that weeks pay $.50 / hour. That year also had one hell of a blizzard, and despite zero-visibility and iced-over roads and the governor going on the air telling everyone to stay home, almost everybody still showed up. Needless to say, nobody stayed home sick because of the significant loss of pay but because as a temp, they can fire you at any time for any reason.
Only 2 Gigs? KDE runs fine on half that. I only have 2 Gigs and even with the visual effects it runs great. Sure, you can run a Window Manager that runs on a Pentium 1 with 256 Megs, but don't do it just because you think KDE requires some monster machine with like 64 Gigs and an i7 processor.
Not only that, but do you know the minimum recommended amount of dollar bills required to "make it rain"? If I throw that many dollar coins in the air, that poor stripper is probably going to receive some serious head trauma.
But my phone or iPad don't have a controller buttons. It is also very difficult to use a controller and an iPad at the same time. This doesn't have that problem. Plus, developers know that I own one by sheer virtue that I own the console. Xbox Developers can't make that same assumption about whether I have a small phone, a large tablet, or neither.
You do know the reason behind that, right? How before Nintendo laying down the law, pretty much any company could make a game for any system. This lead to a flood of crappy games drowning out any actually decent games on the market place. This was a time where dog food companies and drink mix manufacturers were releasing games because they could and because it was the cool thing to do. This lead to a big crash where game companies went out of business because no one wanted buy the massive amount of crap that was on the market.
Nintendo came along and told publishers that they could only release so many games a year and enforced that though legal and hardware means. By reducing the amount of games on the market, it dramatically reduced the amount of crap and public confidence in the game industry was eventually restored. Those measures saved the industry and without them, gaming may have just stayed as something only nerds do on computers instead of the multibillion dollar industry it is today.
Well, for the ~70% of computers that run Windows they are a collection of decent games. For those who run Linux (and maybe Mac), from what I see, all the games but Saints Row are listed as either Gold or Platinum under WINE. So what good, indeed.
It is partly true. Make yourself an look weak and an easy target and you will be preyed on by those looking for a quick power trip. Give the bully a bloody nose once or twice and soon they will learn that you are not an easy target. Sure there will probably be retaliation and it hinges on whether or not you can seriously hurt them (and if you can't be prepared for living hell).
There are always exceptions like gangs and psychopaths, but for that "one asshole who won't leave you alone," that is probably the best advice out there. I know they always tell kids to find an adult and have them deal with it, but that is just seen a sign of weakness. At that age some people only understand physical strength; sadly many people never grow out of that mindset. There really is nothing like a bloody nose to tell a bully to fuck off.
Don't take shit from people and Don't ever start a fight. But if you are in a fight, always end it.
How many unexplainable deaths did you have in your class before everyone realized that it's better not to bully the chem guy?
I don't know were you went to school, but the chem prodigy in our school wasn't a vindictive murderer. He was the guy who made really good meth. Real premo stuff.
Did you mean absolutely wrong or are you internally twisting logic to fit your worldview?
Actually, they were right, albeit for the time. In the mid-nineties, CD-ROM drives were slow as hell (The Playstation and Saturn only had a 2x drive, compared to the 1x drive of the Sega CD or the 12x drive of the next-gen Dreamcast). Cartridges blew them out of the water for speed, especially random-access times. It isn't a huge problem now since read speeds have greatly increased, but it was a big deal back then.
PC games have required full installation for years, and consoles even require significant portions of many games to be installed to the hard drive first.
Here we go. PC games using CDs for years means Nintendo was right about predicting the death of CDs. That's pretty twisted.
But PCs weren't running the games from the CDs. The games were installed on a hard drive first because hard drives are faster, especially on random-access times, which for loading random textures or sprites is a plus. Typically, the only thing the CD was needed for in PC games was copy-protection and loading video cutscenes.
The major drawbacks of cartridges are cost and storage size. The Playstation was dog-slow but it could hold way more data than the N64 cartridges and because they were very cheap, publishers went with the Playstation. It also helped that the Playstation had an 18 month lead on the N64.
There was also the fact that Sega screwed over some major toy store chains, and pissed off quite a few high-profile game developers. Add to that the fact that the games could be pirated almost trivially and the Playstation 2 had the killer app of a DVD player.
Basically the Dreamcast was the perfect shit-storm.
Well to be fair, most of them only know of a few countries. Mexico is a hell hole filled with illegal immigrants; Europe is a communist country with filled with Nazis and gay people who talk funny; Russia is filled with Castro loving KGB commies who hate America; Asia is filled with commie chinks who eat rice and steal jobs; Australians have an obsession with BBQ Shrimp and crappy beer; Africa is filled with starving naked black people with spears; and the Middle East is a turrist filled desert. Canada is just like America and filled with polite people who like to say "aboot," "hosers," and "eh".
Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to find that most of these people think that the rest of the world live in caves and mud huts devoid of indoor plumbing.
Wireless will not be able to compete with wired any time soon, be it on speed or distance. Wireless is great if you have a couple of computers in a small suburban or rural home. If you have more than a few systems (which between PCs, laptops, tablets, game consoles, Smart TVs, and whathaveyou can add up quickly), live in a bigger house (especially with thick walls), or live in an more congested neighborhood saturated with wifi access points then having a wired network hooked to anything that needs a constant connection with any decent speed is a must. Wireless is great in many cases but make no mistake, wired networking is nowhere near dead.
Give up books? Of course not, because a book is just a collection of pieces of paper bound together. A book is unrelated to the content printed within.
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...besides the fact that it would put every single dentist out of work.
No it wouldn't. Someone has got to perform the procedure, might just as well be a dentist. Besides, it wouldn't exactly fix the problems of crooked, impacted, or malformed teeth, so even with this technology, there will still be a need for qualified dentists.
It is slow, a memory hog, and the web browser takes forever to load (especially the store page). Half of the updates seem to try to reapply themselves every time I open Steam.
Steam may not be the worst program in the world, but it is far from perfect.
1990 called, It wants it's Wingdings back.
Plus your profession has an awesome disco theme song.
You don't hear anyone singing:
Driving to the courthouse.
With a briefcase full of doc-u-ments
I get paid ten bucks
and reimbursed for gas-o-line
Well coal is organic and all natural! That's all that matters, right?
Check me if I wrong, but hasn't the iPhone always been behind on features? I mean, how many years did it take just to get copy / paste.
The iPhone was never about features, it was about style and ease of use. The problem is that they set the standard and the other companies have finally caught up.
First 300 pages? My copy of the Hobbit is only 275 pages and I'm pretty sure it isn't abridged. (1996 Restored Third Edition)
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes" --Oscar Wilde
Don't forget about the massive amount of Temp and "Perma-temp" workers. The year I spent as a temp was one of the worst years of my life. There were no sick days, no vacation days, and not even weather emergency days. If you took off for any reason, they docked that weeks pay $.50 / hour. That year also had one hell of a blizzard, and despite zero-visibility and iced-over roads and the governor going on the air telling everyone to stay home, almost everybody still showed up. Needless to say, nobody stayed home sick because of the significant loss of pay but because as a temp, they can fire you at any time for any reason.
The Wii U does absolutely no scaling or filters whatsoever.
Only 2 Gigs? KDE runs fine on half that. I only have 2 Gigs and even with the visual effects it runs great. Sure, you can run a Window Manager that runs on a Pentium 1 with 256 Megs, but don't do it just because you think KDE requires some monster machine with like 64 Gigs and an i7 processor.
Abolish the $1 note and create a $2 coin. It wouldn't have to be quite as light if you only needed to carry half as many.
Or we could just abolish the $1 note and massively increase the circulation of the current $2 note.
Not only that, but do you know the minimum recommended amount of dollar bills required to "make it rain"? If I throw that many dollar coins in the air, that poor stripper is probably going to receive some serious head trauma.
Won't someone please think of the strippers.
Ask any Scotsman, football is serious business. Any game that doesn't end in a riot wasn't a real game.
I believe Philadelphia Eagles fans are the same way.
But my phone or iPad don't have a controller buttons. It is also very difficult to use a controller and an iPad at the same time. This doesn't have that problem. Plus, developers know that I own one by sheer virtue that I own the console. Xbox Developers can't make that same assumption about whether I have a small phone, a large tablet, or neither.
You do know the reason behind that, right? How before Nintendo laying down the law, pretty much any company could make a game for any system. This lead to a flood of crappy games drowning out any actually decent games on the market place. This was a time where dog food companies and drink mix manufacturers were releasing games because they could and because it was the cool thing to do. This lead to a big crash where game companies went out of business because no one wanted buy the massive amount of crap that was on the market.
Nintendo came along and told publishers that they could only release so many games a year and enforced that though legal and hardware means. By reducing the amount of games on the market, it dramatically reduced the amount of crap and public confidence in the game industry was eventually restored. Those measures saved the industry and without them, gaming may have just stayed as something only nerds do on computers instead of the multibillion dollar industry it is today.
Well, for the ~70% of computers that run Windows they are a collection of decent games. For those who run Linux (and maybe Mac), from what I see, all the games but Saints Row are listed as either Gold or Platinum under WINE. So what good, indeed.
It is partly true. Make yourself an look weak and an easy target and you will be preyed on by those looking for a quick power trip. Give the bully a bloody nose once or twice and soon they will learn that you are not an easy target. Sure there will probably be retaliation and it hinges on whether or not you can seriously hurt them (and if you can't be prepared for living hell).
There are always exceptions like gangs and psychopaths, but for that "one asshole who won't leave you alone," that is probably the best advice out there. I know they always tell kids to find an adult and have them deal with it, but that is just seen a sign of weakness. At that age some people only understand physical strength; sadly many people never grow out of that mindset. There really is nothing like a bloody nose to tell a bully to fuck off.
Don't take shit from people and Don't ever start a fight. But if you are in a fight, always end it.
How many unexplainable deaths did you have in your class before everyone realized that it's better not to bully the chem guy?
I don't know were you went to school, but the chem prodigy in our school wasn't a vindictive murderer. He was the guy who made really good meth. Real premo stuff.
Did you mean absolutely wrong or are you internally twisting logic to fit your worldview?
Actually, they were right, albeit for the time. In the mid-nineties, CD-ROM drives were slow as hell (The Playstation and Saturn only had a 2x drive, compared to the 1x drive of the Sega CD or the 12x drive of the next-gen Dreamcast). Cartridges blew them out of the water for speed, especially random-access times. It isn't a huge problem now since read speeds have greatly increased, but it was a big deal back then.
PC games have required full installation for years, and consoles even require significant portions of many games to be installed to the hard drive first.
Here we go. PC games using CDs for years means Nintendo was right about predicting the death of CDs. That's pretty twisted.
But PCs weren't running the games from the CDs. The games were installed on a hard drive first because hard drives are faster, especially on random-access times, which for loading random textures or sprites is a plus. Typically, the only thing the CD was needed for in PC games was copy-protection and loading video cutscenes.
The major drawbacks of cartridges are cost and storage size. The Playstation was dog-slow but it could hold way more data than the N64 cartridges and because they were very cheap, publishers went with the Playstation. It also helped that the Playstation had an 18 month lead on the N64.
There was also the fact that Sega screwed over some major toy store chains, and pissed off quite a few high-profile game developers. Add to that the fact that the games could be pirated almost trivially and the Playstation 2 had the killer app of a DVD player.
Basically the Dreamcast was the perfect shit-storm.
Just wait until the Holodeck is invented. That will lead to an end of the species!
Well to be fair, most of them only know of a few countries. Mexico is a hell hole filled with illegal immigrants; Europe is a communist country with filled with Nazis and gay people who talk funny; Russia is filled with Castro loving KGB commies who hate America; Asia is filled with commie chinks who eat rice and steal jobs; Australians have an obsession with BBQ Shrimp and crappy beer; Africa is filled with starving naked black people with spears; and the Middle East is a turrist filled desert. Canada is just like America and filled with polite people who like to say "aboot," "hosers," and "eh".
Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to find that most of these people think that the rest of the world live in caves and mud huts devoid of indoor plumbing.
Wireless will not be able to compete with wired any time soon, be it on speed or distance. Wireless is great if you have a couple of computers in a small suburban or rural home. If you have more than a few systems (which between PCs, laptops, tablets, game consoles, Smart TVs, and whathaveyou can add up quickly), live in a bigger house (especially with thick walls), or live in an more congested neighborhood saturated with wifi access points then having a wired network hooked to anything that needs a constant connection with any decent speed is a must. Wireless is great in many cases but make no mistake, wired networking is nowhere near dead.
Give up books? Of course not, because a book is just a collection of pieces of paper bound together. A book is unrelated to the content printed within.
A TV is just an LCD monitor with an RF Tuner.