Not to mention that any user can root the iOS device, trivially. "Jailbreak" is fine if you're a home user chafing at Apple's restrictions, but rooted devices are a fucking nightmare if you're corporate security trying to make sure that things don't join the network loaded full of intrusion tools.
And I can hear the cries from dickwads, just like the last time we had this discussion, "well just make your network secure then and you won't care what's on it and I can run what I want." By that logic if we have a "secure" airport, as you said, a guy with a trenchcoat and 20 guns is no big deal because the airport is "secure", right? Wrong, because part of the security is keeping the fucker with a trenchcoat and guns outside the airport and away from the planes.
Corporate espionage is real. It happens. If you've got a contract with some Chinese company, it's already happened to you even if you don't know it yet. If you're the leader in your industry, or even second tier with some interesting patents or designs, someone is looking to get their hands on them.
Imagine if you will a company that implements this. No USB storage allowed. Users cry bloody murder. A ton of whining and groaning. Nobody thinking to ask WHY it happened - because someone in the middle level of the company, someone who had been one of those espionage artists getting paid money to steal trade secrets, carted off sensitive material in a USB stick.
If I'm buying a machine for hardcore gaming, the CPU isn't the bottleneck, the GPU is. Save the money, buy a CPU in the $150-200 range, get a really good GPU.
If I'm buying a machine for other purposes (Mythbox or Myth frontend), again, the CPU isn't of concern. You can actually make a perfect Myth frontend out of an old Dell 620 or 820 laptop if you feel like it. Or you can make something really freaking quiet with 8GB of RAM for around $400 given the processors in the $100-150 range.
Now if you're stupid enough to spend $1000 on a processor to build your rig, be my guest and buy Intel. But by that point you're probably wasting (yes I mean WASTING) a ton of money with a needless SLI setup and other unnecessarily expensive components.
It gets worse than that. You get the Verizon Wireless Concert Series on the Coca-Cola Stage at the Sun Life Stadium for the Disney Halftime Show starring The Who brought to you by Carl's Jr at the Super Bowl...
I drive a 14 year old car, currently. I got it when it was 4 years old (my previous car had finally failed in a way too expensive to be worth maintaining even should I acquire the no-longer-made parts from a scrapyard).
What did this mean? I upgraded from a car getting 24 mpg to a car getting 28 mpg. Keep in mind, this was a late 1990s model car.
Given the amount of energy that goes into merely making cars, we'd be doing a lot better if auto makers were required to keep repair parts in production longer.
AMD's gotten my money every time because their midrange chips beat the pants off Intel's performance, dollar for dollar, every time. If I spend $2-300 on my chip, I get more performance from the AMD.
As for why they'd do this, though, I'd think it's simple. Why sell the customer a $200 chip with a fan included, when you can ship a lot more chips in smaller packaging, still sell for $200, and get the customer to pay $30 for the formerly "stock" heatsink on top of it?
Actually no, I'm just tired of dumbass Tea Partiers leaving a mess of shattered cans in the back corner of my backyard (shared fence) and scaring the shit out of my dog.
The High Court also addresses cases where two jurisdictions have a differing ruling on something relating to federal law (say, if the 9th circuit and 7th circuit each rule opposite ways).
But you can't appeal a Supreme Court decision. They're the final authority. The "high court" IS the Supreme Court.
Typically, this happens in about 15 minutes in a furnace flowing with argon and hydrogen gas and turned up to 1,050 degrees Celsius.
So, about the standard cooking procedure for your usual barefoot-and-pregnant Texas housewife these days, while Husband Bubba the Tea Partier and his buddies are shooting guns at empty beer cans in the backyard and making more empty beer cans to shoot at?
Why not just connect your laptop to your smartphone by tethering to get a reliable connection and play?
No, you're just an asshole who's never tried to get a reliable connection out of a tethered phone anywhere but the center of a major city.
The reality is, the moment you are outside the 'OMG THEY MICROWAVE MY BRAIN' level downtown tower range, you're lucky to just get enough random connection bursts at lowest speed to receive the occasional email and text message.
It motivates people to get online and play within the economy and the world. You don't play MMO's as single player either, Blizzard has obviously designed the game more like an MMO than a traditional game. You don't complain about lack of single player in MMO games either, do you?
And my answer is: fuck you. I don't WANT to "get online and play within the economy."
I don't want to be online and have a bunch of 6-year-olds shouting "gay" and "fag" in my game. If I wanted to do that, I'd get on Xbox Live. Hell, even when I played City of Heroes I played mostly with the sound turned off and my stereo on in the background, and I only opened a chat channel long enough to look for a group. There was always some asshole on there, usually connected to a griefer guild set up by some weirdo named "Doheny", who was spewing nonstop profanity over their global chat channels anyways.
Diablo 3 is supposed to be a single-player game, according to the specs they put forth. A "single-player game" that requires me to be online for "the economy" is not a single-player game and they should be hit with false advertising charges.
No, it died when those shitheaded SOB's at Activision bought Vivendi and created "Activision/Blizzard."
The "Always-On Requirement" is the kind of shit that comes out of the heads of the PHB-style suits who've been running franchise after franchise into the ground over at Activision.
As for "Who would want to play single player"? ME. I don't really care too much about the "multiplayer experience." I'll play the game on my own and that's fine.
Moving on up, you have people with ridiculously throttled connections. You have people who are living in remote locations who don't have consistent connections (a friend of mine is an oilfield services engineer, trust me, you don't get shit for a connection when you are out on a rig). You have people who are traveling on a laptop and don't have a free wi-fi connection nearby. You have servicemen and women in the armed forces. You have people who may have an "always-on" service but are in one of those fringe areas where TW, Cox, Comcast, etc don't give a crap about service and take weeks to repair any problems.
There are too many reasons NOT to do what Blizzard did and I hope they get a rude awakening at the sales counter. Every copy of Diablo 3 should have a 5-inch fucking sticker added to the front labeled with "NO SINGLE PLAYER. FUCK YOU. SIGNED BLIZZARD."
It's a more telling commentary that no other nation is willing to stand up to the thieving, lying, completely dishonest Chinese and their "business practices."
Basically, that's already done. NES-on-a-CHIP and SNES-on-a-chip solutions can be found at any anime convention; if you want a really cheap, crappy version you can go to your local shopping mall around christmas and find some really sleazy-skeezy looking Indian or Latino guy hawking the GameStation3D, which has "10,000 games in one" (actually probably about 50 NES and 50 SNES roms with the game numbers on a repeating loop) all crammed into a base station and badly fashioned Chinese-made "controller" where half the buttons don't work. He may also be selling something like this or something like this crappy-ass GBA ripoff called a 'PVP'.
Read my original post two up from there, you fucking idiot. There's a reason it's called a THREAD. Start from the goddamn beginning instead of being a brain-dead bucktoothed trailer-trash republican.
Wow. You just... don't have any reading comprehension skills at all do you?
What exactly are you alleging that these "robber barons" are doing to force people to use more water?
They outlawed installing Greywater systems, which would allow for significant (around 30-40%) reduction of water usage by recycling the water that goes from sink and shower and laundry drains to be used for watering yard and gardens.
Republican legislature sold off our water company to the private hands of a Republican a decade ago. Then they passed the law he asked for outlawing various conservation measures.
It's your local utility company/ies that are raping you.
Wow. Republicans are 0 for 3 on reading comprehension.
The Republican-controlled state legislature sold our local water utility into the "private" hands of a prominent Republican a decade ago. When I say "prominent Republican", I mean "guy who donates the absolute max to every Republican he can, donates the absolute max to the local party, and runs a 501(c) slush fund on top of that."
A year later, the new price-gouging structure (which bumped up everyone's bill by 50% at bare minimum unless you only bathe once every other day and never water anything) went into effect.
So yes, I have ample reason to blame the Republicans, because everyone involved in the entire fucking corrupt deal is a Republican.
The "1000" rate is 2,000 gallons behind the average monthly usage for the area. We wind up using more than that during times when we have to do things like water our foundation (but watering the foundation beats the hell out of cracked walls and $10k or more for foundation repair).
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Not to mention that any user can root the iOS device, trivially. "Jailbreak" is fine if you're a home user chafing at Apple's restrictions, but rooted devices are a fucking nightmare if you're corporate security trying to make sure that things don't join the network loaded full of intrusion tools.
And I can hear the cries from dickwads, just like the last time we had this discussion, "well just make your network secure then and you won't care what's on it and I can run what I want." By that logic if we have a "secure" airport, as you said, a guy with a trenchcoat and 20 guns is no big deal because the airport is "secure", right? Wrong, because part of the security is keeping the fucker with a trenchcoat and guns outside the airport and away from the planes.
Corporate espionage is real. It happens. If you've got a contract with some Chinese company, it's already happened to you even if you don't know it yet. If you're the leader in your industry, or even second tier with some interesting patents or designs, someone is looking to get their hands on them.
Imagine if you will a company that implements this. No USB storage allowed. Users cry bloody murder. A ton of whining and groaning. Nobody thinking to ask WHY it happened - because someone in the middle level of the company, someone who had been one of those espionage artists getting paid money to steal trade secrets, carted off sensitive material in a USB stick.
So you're saying that a graphics card company just *might* have tried to get a company writing a largely-used benchmark in their favor.
Not that it's ever happened before... *coughintelnvidiacough*...
If I'm buying a machine for hardcore gaming, the CPU isn't the bottleneck, the GPU is. Save the money, buy a CPU in the $150-200 range, get a really good GPU.
If I'm buying a machine for other purposes (Mythbox or Myth frontend), again, the CPU isn't of concern. You can actually make a perfect Myth frontend out of an old Dell 620 or 820 laptop if you feel like it. Or you can make something really freaking quiet with 8GB of RAM for around $400 given the processors in the $100-150 range.
Now if you're stupid enough to spend $1000 on a processor to build your rig, be my guest and buy Intel. But by that point you're probably wasting (yes I mean WASTING) a ton of money with a needless SLI setup and other unnecessarily expensive components.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-processor-core-i3-athlon-ii,2666-11.html
Keep going.
If you don't want to pay an arm and a leg, AMD's still the place to go.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dual-core-stress-test,1049-29.html
Proving you're full of shit.
It gets worse than that. You get the Verizon Wireless Concert Series on the Coca-Cola Stage at the Sun Life Stadium for the Disney Halftime Show starring The Who brought to you by Carl's Jr at the Super Bowl...
I have to agree. Aaron Barr's dishonesty seems to know very few bounds. I'd be happier if a lot of people like him suddenly found themselves jobless.
Hit a nerve, did I?
I drive a 14 year old car, currently. I got it when it was 4 years old (my previous car had finally failed in a way too expensive to be worth maintaining even should I acquire the no-longer-made parts from a scrapyard).
What did this mean? I upgraded from a car getting 24 mpg to a car getting 28 mpg. Keep in mind, this was a late 1990s model car.
Given the amount of energy that goes into merely making cars, we'd be doing a lot better if auto makers were required to keep repair parts in production longer.
No kidding. How long till the bags of money start flowing into congressional hands quietly, again?
This is the Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension Act all over again.
If you're buying a car every 2.5 years, you really are a wasteful asshole, you know that?
AMD's gotten my money every time because their midrange chips beat the pants off Intel's performance, dollar for dollar, every time. If I spend $2-300 on my chip, I get more performance from the AMD.
As for why they'd do this, though, I'd think it's simple. Why sell the customer a $200 chip with a fan included, when you can ship a lot more chips in smaller packaging, still sell for $200, and get the customer to pay $30 for the formerly "stock" heatsink on top of it?
Actually no, I'm just tired of dumbass Tea Partiers leaving a mess of shattered cans in the back corner of my backyard (shared fence) and scaring the shit out of my dog.
You know. Assholes like this guy.
Tea Partiers. NO respect for their neighbors. Or women. Or minorities.
The High Court also addresses cases where two jurisdictions have a differing ruling on something relating to federal law (say, if the 9th circuit and 7th circuit each rule opposite ways).
But you can't appeal a Supreme Court decision. They're the final authority. The "high court" IS the Supreme Court.
At first glance I thought it said "US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fucking."
Then again, since that activity is usually done with the lights off, it'd probably save electricity if more people were doing it.
From TFA:
Typically, this happens in about 15 minutes in a furnace flowing with argon and hydrogen gas and turned up to 1,050 degrees Celsius.
So, about the standard cooking procedure for your usual barefoot-and-pregnant Texas housewife these days, while Husband Bubba the Tea Partier and his buddies are shooting guns at empty beer cans in the backyard and making more empty beer cans to shoot at?
Why not just connect your laptop to your smartphone by tethering to get a reliable connection and play?
No, you're just an asshole who's never tried to get a reliable connection out of a tethered phone anywhere but the center of a major city.
The reality is, the moment you are outside the 'OMG THEY MICROWAVE MY BRAIN' level downtown tower range, you're lucky to just get enough random connection bursts at lowest speed to receive the occasional email and text message.
It motivates people to get online and play within the economy and the world. You don't play MMO's as single player either, Blizzard has obviously designed the game more like an MMO than a traditional game. You don't complain about lack of single player in MMO games either, do you?
And my answer is: fuck you. I don't WANT to "get online and play within the economy."
I don't want to be online and have a bunch of 6-year-olds shouting "gay" and "fag" in my game. If I wanted to do that, I'd get on Xbox Live. Hell, even when I played City of Heroes I played mostly with the sound turned off and my stereo on in the background, and I only opened a chat channel long enough to look for a group. There was always some asshole on there, usually connected to a griefer guild set up by some weirdo named "Doheny", who was spewing nonstop profanity over their global chat channels anyways.
Diablo 3 is supposed to be a single-player game, according to the specs they put forth. A "single-player game" that requires me to be online for "the economy" is not a single-player game and they should be hit with false advertising charges.
No, it died when those shitheaded SOB's at Activision bought Vivendi and created "Activision/Blizzard."
The "Always-On Requirement" is the kind of shit that comes out of the heads of the PHB-style suits who've been running franchise after franchise into the ground over at Activision.
As for "Who would want to play single player"? ME. I don't really care too much about the "multiplayer experience." I'll play the game on my own and that's fine.
Moving on up, you have people with ridiculously throttled connections. You have people who are living in remote locations who don't have consistent connections (a friend of mine is an oilfield services engineer, trust me, you don't get shit for a connection when you are out on a rig). You have people who are traveling on a laptop and don't have a free wi-fi connection nearby. You have servicemen and women in the armed forces. You have people who may have an "always-on" service but are in one of those fringe areas where TW, Cox, Comcast, etc don't give a crap about service and take weeks to repair any problems.
There are too many reasons NOT to do what Blizzard did and I hope they get a rude awakening at the sales counter. Every copy of Diablo 3 should have a 5-inch fucking sticker added to the front labeled with "NO SINGLE PLAYER. FUCK YOU. SIGNED BLIZZARD."
It's a more telling commentary that no other nation is willing to stand up to the thieving, lying, completely dishonest Chinese and their "business practices."
Basically, that's already done. NES-on-a-CHIP and SNES-on-a-chip solutions can be found at any anime convention; if you want a really cheap, crappy version you can go to your local shopping mall around christmas and find some really sleazy-skeezy looking Indian or Latino guy hawking the GameStation3D, which has "10,000 games in one" (actually probably about 50 NES and 50 SNES roms with the game numbers on a repeating loop) all crammed into a base station and badly fashioned Chinese-made "controller" where half the buttons don't work. He may also be selling something like this or something like this crappy-ass GBA ripoff called a 'PVP'.
Read my original post two up from there, you fucking idiot. There's a reason it's called a THREAD. Start from the goddamn beginning instead of being a brain-dead bucktoothed trailer-trash republican.
Wow. You just... don't have any reading comprehension skills at all do you?
What exactly are you alleging that these "robber barons" are doing to force people to use more water?
They outlawed installing Greywater systems, which would allow for significant (around 30-40%) reduction of water usage by recycling the water that goes from sink and shower and laundry drains to be used for watering yard and gardens.
Ahem.
Republican legislature sold off our water company to the private hands of a Republican a decade ago. Then they passed the law he asked for outlawing various conservation measures.
We have "private water" bought and bribed for.
It's your local utility company/ies that are raping you.
Wow. Republicans are 0 for 3 on reading comprehension.
The Republican-controlled state legislature sold our local water utility into the "private" hands of a prominent Republican a decade ago. When I say "prominent Republican", I mean "guy who donates the absolute max to every Republican he can, donates the absolute max to the local party, and runs a 501(c) slush fund on top of that."
A year later, the new price-gouging structure (which bumped up everyone's bill by 50% at bare minimum unless you only bathe once every other day and never water anything) went into effect.
So yes, I have ample reason to blame the Republicans, because everyone involved in the entire fucking corrupt deal is a Republican.
The "1000" rate is 2,000 gallons behind the average monthly usage for the area. We wind up using more than that during times when we have to do things like water our foundation (but watering the foundation beats the hell out of cracked walls and $10k or more for foundation repair).