Even with the losses, I always though hydrogen would be the way to go for excess energy stored up through the day. Of course, on a large scale, I wouldn't be using photovoltaics but perhaps some type of concentrator and steam electrolysis. Molten salt may also be a way to go at that level.
On a small level, how problematic would hydrogen be to store if used for things like heating a house? I realize it wouldn't power cars at its density level (natural gas already takes up too much space).
Another solution may be storing the energy as compressed air.
The announcement doesn't surprise me at all. Germany is retarded with copyrights and riddled with the copyright industry lobbyists, they make auctions now give a percentage of art sales into a fund to be distributed to the artist who made it. This even affects art that was sold before the law. All it did was spring up masses of organizations that claim to represent a list of artists to claim the money and then take their commission.
Not to mention that the people who invested into art suddenly lost a few % to these leeches.
Before anyone claims that's right or correct, should volunteer, when selling their house, to give a few % to the carpenter/bricklayers/plumbers/electricians/etc. who built it, into perpetuity. Or when their used car is sold, give a few percent to the manufacturer. Or used books on amazon. Etc.
It's a nice proof of concept but I agree with you on the navigation, as well as hearing a store full of those would drive me nuts, hell, it announcing I'm buying anything personal, like condoms would suck. Plus I'd imagine in that current form, it will just get stolen.
OTOH, what I really want in a store is help. Human help is often hard to find, having to track it down and half the time they seem clueless. I wish that at the end of every aisle or something predictable like that, I could find kiosks that tell me either price of an item or location of what I'm looking for vs. my relative location. They already have those in some places, but it's usually one or the other. Bonus points if it could tell me more about the product I have or want.
Economy: Yes, it's a problem. However, not an unsolvable one. I, too, am quite worried, but it's not doomsday. It might be bad for a while, but it'll get better.
Look up David Walker. He was the Comptroller General of the US under Bush and Clinton. He was saying back in 2005-6 that we're boned if we didn't act back then and it only got worse now. Here is one such video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxoP_9W6FC8
I encourage anyone to seek out more of his videos, including his GAO videos floating on the web. What the US is facing is a downfall that will be almost last generations. It won't be the great depression, as the US didn't default nor hyperinflate (like Germany) back then, it will be even worse.
Right now we're facing extraordinarily low interest for whatever reason and that means we're ONLY paying about $4B a week. By 2016, that'll double to $9.2B. By 2020, 8 short years, that'll be $20B in just interest payments.
Interest will creep up making borrowing that much more expensive. Nearly every "cut" in Washington the last 30+ years was some dysphemism mere meaning the projected increase in budget the upcoming year isn't as big as it was supposed to be. There is no political will to reign spending or actually forcing the populace to pay for that spending via taxes.
A few of the logical conclusions of this will be either default on the loans or hyperinflation as the currency get printed, or we trudge on stoically living in an austere manner. A default or hyperinflation will basically stop all loans to this country, either in the form of actual T-bill buying or in the form of imports. Store shelves sitting empty and all of that fun stuff. Obligations like Federal/Military pensions will basically be null and void for all intents and purposes, as will medicare/social security. Sure the government can give you the money but that money won't mean anything. Like a 1920s Reichsmark. Cash savings won't mean zip. Only hard assets matter. Trudging on stoically will mean most severe tax hikes ever - after WW2 to 80s, Fed rates rose to a graduated 91% even without all this debt and all the previous promises like pensions/socialsecurity/medicare slashed to hell anyway.
But then, much of the west faces this or similar problems, so perhaps some massive debt forgiveness comes, probably screwing a bunch of pension funds and the like.
As for natural gas.... right now proven world reserves stands at stands at 191T m^3. The US has about 7T m^3, and a huge chunk of the rest is in Russia and Iran, which are not exactly friendly to us nor have we exactly been cultivating decent relationship with them. Since China is scouring the globe for energy sources, I assume they have or will get long term contracts from one or both of them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_proven_reserves
So at current rates, assuming 100% extraction, we have 60 years of Natural Gas. The best case at current usage for proven reserves, much of which are in hostile countries.
The IEA predicts a 2.2% increase in demand annually. Using the rule of 70, that's a doubling time of ~32 years. That cuts down the best case scenario for Natural Gas down to 39 years, at current uses, meaning we don't start leaning on it heavily for transportation and the like.
Now, the scientist in my top link talks about how if everyone switched over to electric cars, they would have to go from 300 generating plants to 3,000. One order of magnitude, 10x. Without doing specific calculations, perhaps we can assume that could carry over to natural gas if used extensive for personal transportation. How many years then?
Yes, NG can be used in conjunction with oil and other energy sources and carry us for a while longer until we find a real solution.
I know a lot of immigrants from Europe. Their accents are there but it's not bad, they are completely understandable to the average American. In the past, some of them tried Dragon to poor to mediocre success and Siri is no better, if not worse.
And Siri should be better, the inquiries are often simple, repeated commands. But Siri doesn't seem to ever learn. It would be so simple to set up profiles to train it to compensate to some degree, but like most computer programs, the human has to conform to it and not the other way around. Sad.
Seeing one guy ask for "wedder today" and seeing the program never learn that they mean "weather" is disheartening.
Stratfor's use of insiders for intelligence soon turned into a money-making scheme of questionable legality. The emails show that in 2009 then-Goldman Sachs Managing Director Shea Morenz and Stratfor CEO George Friedman hatched an idea to "utilise the intelligence" it was pulling in from its insider network to start up a captive strategic investment fund. CEO George Friedman explained in a confidential August 2011 document, marked DO NOT SHARE OR DISCUSS: "What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor's intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like".
Versioning is oldschool back during the boxed days of software. The downside of such versioning is the buyer has to wonder if it's the "right time" to buy said software or if they should hold off, not unlike hardware itself.
Most software should just do away with that, and offer updates for a set period of time from purchase, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, etc. That eliminates best time to purchase, gives everyone the same fair deal, and provides the developer with steady income too.
If I were Apple, I would offer developers a subsciption functions, where they can offer software and updates for a specific time from purchase.
Don't get me wrong, versioning numbers can still be provided to tell users what new things the upgrades entail, but not as a fence that says "You don't get this because you bought a day too early. Nyah, nyah!"
It's like listening to a used car salesman whose motto is "We screw the other guy and pass the savings onto you!" and believing you're the one getting a good deal when in reality the "savings" only gets passed onto the salesman himself.
Oh, and the integration will be two way: no more separate stereo system, you can play you iPhone music to the TV.
Watch for an add with the spaghetti monster as a tangle of wires while an Apple logo shaped PAC Man chases after it while Justin Long is eating John Hodgman's meatballs allowing the monster to be destroyed. Okay, that may be a little too far out there.
However, everything Apple did so far to skyrocket as it did was for portable devices.
So what are we talking here? A TV running iOS with integrated DVR and using some sort of next gen cable card? What will be the big hook? It needs more than integration with other Apple devices, although we can probably expect teleconferencing with face time (hello boardrooms of America) and streaming to iPad/iphones.
Being subscription services, cable companies will jump at the chance of exclusivity contracts and give in to Apple's demands and needs like compatibility with a better cablecard type system.
Watch for Verizon Fios winning this one./end speculation
In the end, this only benefits lawyers and kills future innovation.
I don't see how Apple is benefitting long-term from this mentality and cultural mindset. It's a shortterm win at best and then a death by a thousand cuts as any of it's own innovations will be dealt with the same way by other companies.
I don't particularly blame Apple for this, but they certainly could afford a few lobbyists to turn this crap system around.
If he wanted to avoid criticism, he could have simply retired quite comfortably to his home in Pennsylvania.
You mean his $2M house in Virginia. He was using a cheap sub-100K home in PA, rented out to some tenants, to both maintain the illusion of residency and screw a poor local school district out of $67k-100k (exact figure varies by story) to send his kids to some cyber charter school while they were primarily living in VA.
I find it interesting that a Christian-Taliban like Santorum would cry about cyberbullying when he thinks raped women should see a resulting pregnancy as a gift from god and that the Catholic Church paedophile priest is primarily a Homosexual problem rather than one of opportunity.
I see one bully here and the top google result is what I would term "blowback". If I felt sorry for anyone, it would be for his children and anyone else with that name who has nothing to do with it.
This whole thing strikes me as if a Christian would put up $ for someone to prove to him that God doesn't exist with said Christian as both judge and also having no real incentive to part with the $.
To add my single data point.... I lived in my area my whole life.... the whole winter it was unseasonably warm except for maybe 7 or so days. We're talking late April/October temperatures. One of the days it was cold, it snowed on Halloween, and we never used to get snow before New Years/Christmas. Freakish.
It used to be a mild area with no significant weather of any type. And the last 5 years was so much the opposite. Previous two winters we got so much more snow dumped on us than usual (this year almost nothing), every week more and more of it. High winds at certain times of the year. Blistering summers where the grass is parched now.
I know I'm a single data point in a short amount of time, but compared to what it was like growing up, it feels like a real change has been taking place.
An overclocked processor will either fail soon or not fail at all... which means replacements will happen while the processor is still being manufactured.
By the time the processor fails, is sent, comes back, etc. a lot of time is lost, and the processor value is likely to have gone down, which will likely discourage fraud by sellers trying to pass overclocked processors to unsuspecting clients.
These last two reasons seem at odds at each other. It will fail soon or not all all... but so much time will be pass simply sending it back?
It doesn't matter when the chip comes back to the house from intel's side, just when they send it off. With priority mail, even from the other side of America from Intel, it will take 3 days maybe to reach them at a cost of $5 or so. Give them a couple of days to process it and it's still under a working week.
I don't think that is enough time to drive down market price in most cases, the world is not moving that fast.
More likely, the policy stems from the fact that you don't have to return anything anyone ships to you in the mail, while you can still demand that they send you what you paid for, after 30 days (or other reasonable amount of time).
What you are referring to came about in the 19th Century as a result of mail order where people who never ordered anything got something in the mail and then a later inflated invoice for it, but the key part is unordered merchandise. If you have a relationship with the seller, and especially if they send you what was pictured, this won't apply, and you are opening yourself to a lawsuit trying to prove tangential issues such as authenticity.
This policy probably stems from modern counterfeit goods such as Rolex/Coach or whatever else knockoffs of expensive products are floating around. And it's bad enough there, let alone antiques, since companies of modern goods have a good incentive to suppress any secondhand market of their own products and some will flag listings as counterfeit just for the sake of it.
But I have relatives in the antique business and in certain areas, you can really ask 10 experts and get 10 different opinions. Really. Or appraisers tell you different opinions based on what you pay and want to hear or their own agendas (if you didn't buy it from them, it becomes more suspect in some cases, petty politics like that, etc.)
But that is besides the point. Here, Paypal broke the piece, they should buy it, at full price. It's not their place to determine what's fake or not. Even if it was, they are not law enforcement, they are acting as self-appointed vigilantes. Return shipping in the condition it was sent should be a requirement. And moreso, if they determine the seller is out their to sell counterfeit goods or defraud someone, they should shut down the account and forward evidence to the proper authorities.
It's inevitable, language always adjusts to popular usage eventually, even with guards in place that act as filters.
Though I still cringe when people say they "could care less."
Not that all rules set in place by self-annointed authorities. I never understood why end-of-sentence punctuation should appear inside quotations, especially if it might not match what was quoted, like making a question out of a sentence.
You're forgetting about the fact that the target audience here(basically a bunch of FPS addicts) have known nothing else but FPS games and the ridiculous rules within. The ability to take 20 rounds before "dying"(and then being revived again) is completely normal concept, yet hardly imitates real life.
Putting a real rifle in their hand isn't going to easily remove years and years of disillusioned immortality. Good luck to them surviving on an actual battlefield where bullets hurt and frag grenades kill, not just turn your vision red and vibrate a piece of fucking plastic in your hand. And standing there breathing for 45 seconds doesn't suddenly heal you.
Cheaper and easier does not always mean better.
That's okay. In 40-100 years, we'll be killing 3rd world citizens with remotely piloted terminators, which will completely into line with current FPS shooters.
But until we get there, most people kinda know their bodies != what's on screen. And the ones that do think that, well, a round of darwin awards on me.
>That's it in a nutshell. Nothing feels worse than being out $1, AND knowing that you were the dope that pulled the trigger on the wrong thing.
OMG, who give a ****?! I never agonized over an app purchase in my life. In fact, to me it's software that's as cheap (outside of Linux/OSS) as it's ever been and happens to be in a more usable package. I don't even know where to find the people who would, and I don't think I want them in my life as they probably think software engineers should work for free. It's not a damn bazaar, you can either look at the reviews online or on the reviews on the internet about most somewhat mainstream apps.
I mean, in most cases it's a buck!!! In the 90s, I could return $60+ video games. If I go to the supermarket and buy anything, bread, a candybar, etc, taste it, don't like it, guess what? I can't return it (with any ease) and in most cases it's over a buck. Nor at a restaurant without getting in a huff.
Can I return songs on iTunes? What?! No?! Damn, does this whole story and thread reads like a 1st world problems meme. Hell, I have 7 screens of app, deleted some I don't particularly care for but weren't worth my time bitching about. $0.99 cents? I can find that on the ground on the street.
There are plenty of try before you buy apps too, having the old "lite version". In fact, the whole thing is the old PC industry mentalities, for better or worse, in terms of demos and what not. Nothing new here, Apple's App marketplace isn't going to fail, and it's not flooded with crap, 90% of everything in every media since stone age cave paintings was crap to begin with.
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Even with the losses, I always though hydrogen would be the way to go for excess energy stored up through the day. Of course, on a large scale, I wouldn't be using photovoltaics but perhaps some type of concentrator and steam electrolysis. Molten salt may also be a way to go at that level.
On a small level, how problematic would hydrogen be to store if used for things like heating a house? I realize it wouldn't power cars at its density level (natural gas already takes up too much space).
Another solution may be storing the energy as compressed air.
The announcement doesn't surprise me at all. Germany is retarded with copyrights and riddled with the copyright industry lobbyists, they make auctions now give a percentage of art sales into a fund to be distributed to the artist who made it. This even affects art that was sold before the law. All it did was spring up masses of organizations that claim to represent a list of artists to claim the money and then take their commission.
Not to mention that the people who invested into art suddenly lost a few % to these leeches.
Before anyone claims that's right or correct, should volunteer, when selling their house, to give a few % to the carpenter/bricklayers/plumbers/electricians/etc. who built it, into perpetuity. Or when their used car is sold, give a few percent to the manufacturer. Or used books on amazon. Etc.
It's a nice proof of concept but I agree with you on the navigation, as well as hearing a store full of those would drive me nuts, hell, it announcing I'm buying anything personal, like condoms would suck. Plus I'd imagine in that current form, it will just get stolen.
OTOH, what I really want in a store is help. Human help is often hard to find, having to track it down and half the time they seem clueless. I wish that at the end of every aisle or something predictable like that, I could find kiosks that tell me either price of an item or location of what I'm looking for vs. my relative location. They already have those in some places, but it's usually one or the other. Bonus points if it could tell me more about the product I have or want.
Look up David Walker. He was the Comptroller General of the US under Bush and Clinton. He was saying back in 2005-6 that we're boned if we didn't act back then and it only got worse now. Here is one such video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxoP_9W6FC8
I encourage anyone to seek out more of his videos, including his GAO videos floating on the web. What the US is facing is a downfall that will be almost last generations. It won't be the great depression, as the US didn't default nor hyperinflate (like Germany) back then, it will be even worse.
Right now we're facing extraordinarily low interest for whatever reason and that means we're ONLY paying about $4B a week. By 2016, that'll double to $9.2B. By 2020, 8 short years, that'll be $20B in just interest payments.
Interest will creep up making borrowing that much more expensive. Nearly every "cut" in Washington the last 30+ years was some dysphemism mere meaning the projected increase in budget the upcoming year isn't as big as it was supposed to be. There is no political will to reign spending or actually forcing the populace to pay for that spending via taxes.
A few of the logical conclusions of this will be either default on the loans or hyperinflation as the currency get printed, or we trudge on stoically living in an austere manner. A default or hyperinflation will basically stop all loans to this country, either in the form of actual T-bill buying or in the form of imports. Store shelves sitting empty and all of that fun stuff. Obligations like Federal/Military pensions will basically be null and void for all intents and purposes, as will medicare/social security. Sure the government can give you the money but that money won't mean anything. Like a 1920s Reichsmark. Cash savings won't mean zip. Only hard assets matter. Trudging on stoically will mean most severe tax hikes ever - after WW2 to 80s, Fed rates rose to a graduated 91% even without all this debt and all the previous promises like pensions/socialsecurity/medicare slashed to hell anyway.
But then, much of the west faces this or similar problems, so perhaps some massive debt forgiveness comes, probably screwing a bunch of pension funds and the like.
If you want to know the future of energy, listen to this Chris Martenson lecture, I believe scary times are ahead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WBiTnBwSWc
As for natural gas.... right now proven world reserves stands at stands at 191T m^3. The US has about 7T m^3, and a huge chunk of the rest is in Russia and Iran, which are not exactly friendly to us nor have we exactly been cultivating decent relationship with them. Since China is scouring the globe for energy sources, I assume they have or will get long term contracts from one or both of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_proven_reserves
Our world usage last year was 168T ft^3 according to this:
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/ieo/nat_gas.cfm
Google tells me that is equal to 3.2T m^3.
So at current rates, assuming 100% extraction, we have 60 years of Natural Gas. The best case at current usage for proven reserves, much of which are in hostile countries.
The IEA predicts a 2.2% increase in demand annually. Using the rule of 70, that's a doubling time of ~32 years. That cuts down the best case scenario for Natural Gas down to 39 years, at current uses, meaning we don't start leaning on it heavily for transportation and the like.
Now, the scientist in my top link talks about how if everyone switched over to electric cars, they would have to go from 300 generating plants to 3,000. One order of magnitude, 10x. Without doing specific calculations, perhaps we can assume that could carry over to natural gas if used extensive for personal transportation. How many years then?
Yes, NG can be used in conjunction with oil and other energy sources and carry us for a while longer until we find a real solution.
I know a lot of immigrants from Europe. Their accents are there but it's not bad, they are completely understandable to the average American. In the past, some of them tried Dragon to poor to mediocre success and Siri is no better, if not worse.
And Siri should be better, the inquiries are often simple, repeated commands. But Siri doesn't seem to ever learn. It would be so simple to set up profiles to train it to compensate to some degree, but like most computer programs, the human has to conform to it and not the other way around. Sad.
Seeing one guy ask for "wedder today" and seeing the program never learn that they mean "weather" is disheartening.
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Is insider trading exciting enough for you?
Versioning is oldschool back during the boxed days of software. The downside of such versioning is the buyer has to wonder if it's the "right time" to buy said software or if they should hold off, not unlike hardware itself.
Most software should just do away with that, and offer updates for a set period of time from purchase, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, etc. That eliminates best time to purchase, gives everyone the same fair deal, and provides the developer with steady income too.
If I were Apple, I would offer developers a subsciption functions, where they can offer software and updates for a specific time from purchase.
Don't get me wrong, versioning numbers can still be provided to tell users what new things the upgrades entail, but not as a fence that says "You don't get this because you bought a day too early. Nyah, nyah!"
I wish Apple went to some type of vectoring system instead of these primitive bitmap shit.
Can't it be about screwing both?
It's like listening to a used car salesman whose motto is "We screw the other guy and pass the savings onto you!" and believing you're the one getting a good deal when in reality the "savings" only gets passed onto the salesman himself.
Oh, and the integration will be two way: no more separate stereo system, you can play you iPhone music to the TV.
Watch for an add with the spaghetti monster as a tangle of wires while an Apple logo shaped PAC Man chases after it while Justin Long is eating John Hodgman's meatballs allowing the monster to be destroyed. Okay, that may be a little too far out there.
However, everything Apple did so far to skyrocket as it did was for portable devices.
So what are we talking here? A TV running iOS with integrated DVR and using some sort of next gen cable card? What will be the big hook? It needs more than integration with other Apple devices, although we can probably expect teleconferencing with face time (hello boardrooms of America) and streaming to iPad/iphones.
Being subscription services, cable companies will jump at the chance of exclusivity contracts and give in to Apple's demands and needs like compatibility with a better cablecard type system.
Watch for Verizon Fios winning this one. /end speculation
In the end, this only benefits lawyers and kills future innovation.
I don't see how Apple is benefitting long-term from this mentality and cultural mindset. It's a shortterm win at best and then a death by a thousand cuts as any of it's own innovations will be dealt with the same way by other companies.
I don't particularly blame Apple for this, but they certainly could afford a few lobbyists to turn this crap system around.
You mean his $2M house in Virginia. He was using a cheap sub-100K home in PA, rented out to some tenants, to both maintain the illusion of residency and screw a poor local school district out of $67k-100k (exact figure varies by story) to send his kids to some cyber charter school while they were primarily living in VA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum#Pennsylvania_residency
Or maybe it's just the google algorithm at work.
I find it interesting that a Christian-Taliban like Santorum would cry about cyberbullying when he thinks raped women should see a resulting pregnancy as a gift from god and that the Catholic Church paedophile priest is primarily a Homosexual problem rather than one of opportunity.
I see one bully here and the top google result is what I would term "blowback". If I felt sorry for anyone, it would be for his children and anyone else with that name who has nothing to do with it.
This whole thing strikes me as if a Christian would put up $ for someone to prove to him that God doesn't exist with said Christian as both judge and also having no real incentive to part with the $.
To add my single data point.... I lived in my area my whole life.... the whole winter it was unseasonably warm except for maybe 7 or so days. We're talking late April/October temperatures. One of the days it was cold, it snowed on Halloween, and we never used to get snow before New Years/Christmas. Freakish.
It used to be a mild area with no significant weather of any type. And the last 5 years was so much the opposite. Previous two winters we got so much more snow dumped on us than usual (this year almost nothing), every week more and more of it. High winds at certain times of the year. Blistering summers where the grass is parched now.
I know I'm a single data point in a short amount of time, but compared to what it was like growing up, it feels like a real change has been taking place.
And I like how you use "scare quotes" on a phrase he used as if negated his valid observation.
These last two reasons seem at odds at each other. It will fail soon or not all all... but so much time will be pass simply sending it back?
It doesn't matter when the chip comes back to the house from intel's side, just when they send it off. With priority mail, even from the other side of America from Intel, it will take 3 days maybe to reach them at a cost of $5 or so. Give them a couple of days to process it and it's still under a working week.
I don't think that is enough time to drive down market price in most cases, the world is not moving that fast.
What you are referring to came about in the 19th Century as a result of mail order where people who never ordered anything got something in the mail and then a later inflated invoice for it, but the key part is unordered merchandise. If you have a relationship with the seller, and especially if they send you what was pictured, this won't apply, and you are opening yourself to a lawsuit trying to prove tangential issues such as authenticity.
This policy probably stems from modern counterfeit goods such as Rolex/Coach or whatever else knockoffs of expensive products are floating around. And it's bad enough there, let alone antiques, since companies of modern goods have a good incentive to suppress any secondhand market of their own products and some will flag listings as counterfeit just for the sake of it.
But I have relatives in the antique business and in certain areas, you can really ask 10 experts and get 10 different opinions. Really. Or appraisers tell you different opinions based on what you pay and want to hear or their own agendas (if you didn't buy it from them, it becomes more suspect in some cases, petty politics like that, etc.)
But that is besides the point. Here, Paypal broke the piece, they should buy it, at full price. It's not their place to determine what's fake or not. Even if it was, they are not law enforcement, they are acting as self-appointed vigilantes. Return shipping in the condition it was sent should be a requirement. And moreso, if they determine the seller is out their to sell counterfeit goods or defraud someone, they should shut down the account and forward evidence to the proper authorities.
I hope the lady sues them and gets extra damages.
But safari is not iOS. Just a browser.
If wikipedia is correct:
IIRC, one of the major things with iOS was that graphic routines would be given priority over everything else:
http://www.inspiredgeek.com/2011/12/07/why-android-graphics-are-laggy-while-ios-is-smooth-facts-practical-reality/
Seems to me that it's all a fundamental UI issue.
It's inevitable, language always adjusts to popular usage eventually, even with guards in place that act as filters.
Though I still cringe when people say they "could care less."
Not that all rules set in place by self-annointed authorities. I never understood why end-of-sentence punctuation should appear inside quotations, especially if it might not match what was quoted, like making a question out of a sentence.
That's okay. In 40-100 years, we'll be killing 3rd world citizens with remotely piloted terminators, which will completely into line with current FPS shooters.
But until we get there, most people kinda know their bodies != what's on screen. And the ones that do think that, well, a round of darwin awards on me.
>That's it in a nutshell. Nothing feels worse than being out $1, AND knowing that you were the dope that pulled the trigger on the wrong thing.
OMG, who give a ****?! I never agonized over an app purchase in my life. In fact, to me it's software that's as cheap (outside of Linux/OSS) as it's ever been and happens to be in a more usable package. I don't even know where to find the people who would, and I don't think I want them in my life as they probably think software engineers should work for free. It's not a damn bazaar, you can either look at the reviews online or on the reviews on the internet about most somewhat mainstream apps.
I mean, in most cases it's a buck!!! In the 90s, I could return $60+ video games. If I go to the supermarket and buy anything, bread, a candybar, etc, taste it, don't like it, guess what? I can't return it (with any ease) and in most cases it's over a buck. Nor at a restaurant without getting in a huff.
Can I return songs on iTunes? What?! No?! Damn, does this whole story and thread reads like a 1st world problems meme. Hell, I have 7 screens of app, deleted some I don't particularly care for but weren't worth my time bitching about. $0.99 cents? I can find that on the ground on the street.
There are plenty of try before you buy apps too, having the old "lite version". In fact, the whole thing is the old PC industry mentalities, for better or worse, in terms of demos and what not. Nothing new here, Apple's App marketplace isn't going to fail, and it's not flooded with crap, 90% of everything in every media since stone age cave paintings was crap to begin with.
For more great /. stories like this, check out:
http://www.quickmeme.com/First-World-Problems/