I am not a business owner or a blue collar worker. I like that I am able to buy a nice tv for a good price.
If the American public hated free trade so much, they could just choose to buy American, and refuse to buy foreign products. Nobody actually does that, because if given free choice people want better products for a better price. The role of government isn't to take away that option and force people to waste their money supporting/subsidizing Zenith.
Tech absolutely is there. s6 runs 3d stereo movies, right?
And watching squash in 3D the way you imagine sounds like the WORST! You'd constantly be looking around, it would be impossible to follow the action. I love 3D video. But I think they best way to handle it is when the action is generally in one area, and the 3D allows for either atmosphere, or an entirely different area of focus. It's like being in the audience at a concert...even if you generally keep your eyes forward at the singer, it's cool to be able to see the details of the space you're in, or tracking the singer as he moves around the stage. You don't want to be constantly turning around to try to catch a view of the singer.
If you're interested in technology and have money, you buy a new computer from time to time. If you're poor and interested in technology, you post on an old computer (that you use to collect welfare benefits) from the comfort of your parent's basement.
Isn't this business working hours for you all? Shouldn't you be off looking for proper employment?
They need to admit that Homebrew made them popular
Nintendo is popular because of homebrew? Nintendo, the maker of Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, etc.? Just when I thought Slashdot couldn't get its head any further up its own ass...
It kind of sucks the battery isn't replaceable, but surely it will last longer than a year. I've never noticed battery degradation with cell phones. Maybe after 5 years it's a problem? I'd guess not, though.
They've sold 20 million XBox One. Your getting the wrong conclusions from your evidence. From 1982-2012, sales went first away from mom&pop stores, and then towards online purchases.
Also, I think you've just gotten older. You get sentimental over games from when you were a kid...Kids don't play Quake anymore, of course they could. The game is dated, the model has been improved upon.
He's a nutcase, the FBI (along with anybody else who knows who the guy is) didn't take him seriously. All he proved is that he can make statements that match the Slashdot groupthink.
Single point 360 cameras are still pretty expensive. Even basic models are in the $300-$400 range. Adding a second set of lenses would make it even larger and more expensive. And single point 360 is still really cool, I'm not sure how much going stereoscopic would add to the effect. I certainly wouldn't call it "essential."
Engineers don't collect royalties on bridges in the first place, unless they have some insane contract. They don't own the bridge, they designed it under contract for people with lots of money (who do own it). The children of the people who own the bridge can, in fact, keep collecting money. The Rockefeller family is still tremendously wealthy.
Copyrights are legally property, the same as sports cars or collectible stamps or gold bricks or bridges. If the parent dies, he can leave the copyright to his children in his will, same as any other property. This ability to sell the rights to the song is responsible for basically every single piece of culture you enjoy. The Beatles sold the copyright to their music: it wouldn't have been practical for them to sell tapes of their music after their shows. The reason they were able to sell music in the first place was because of the copyright system.
I use Pages, which comes with the Mac (not a Communist). I tried out LibreOffice by loading up a super-simple Pages document, really it's just a text document with a few lines bolded or using different fonts. In LibreOffice, every line is a new page, so my simple text document renders as 38 pages long! Why even offer Pages compatibility if it fails such a simple test?
It makes major failures in rendering keynote files (Mac Powerpoint) and small mistakes rendering Powerpoint. With.docx, just looked at a single page and it couldn't handle an embedded grid, but is otherwise OK.
User interface is uglier than sin. Really, if you care, just pay the Microsoft Office tax, or maybe Google Office. Apple Office products are OK for simple stuff and (for my rather basic uses) render Powerpoints and Word files with absolutely no problem.
1% a day, with 250 trading days a year, would be equivalent to making your money increase by a factor of about thirteen over the course of a year. You are the world's genius investor and should go right back at it; surely you could retire after a year or two.
If the free version is just as good and just as easily available, approximately nobody would pay for a similar sevice. Hulu and Netflix are great, sure. But if bittorrents (and the like) had never been prosecuted, and you could just get the popcorn time app for your ipad and watch whatever you want, what sort of idiot would pay?
Even now, with threats of prosecution, and sketchy websites with advertisements for Russian brides, and a good chance of viruses, and the need for technical know-how, bittorrents are still a larger percentage of internet traffic than, say, Hulu, or Amazon Prime Video. Imagine how much higher it would be if it hadn't been for the legal prosecution.
So basically the plan is to cover the pavement with glass, that will need to stay clean to let the sunlight through. I see no possible problem with any of this.
So their reasons boil down to: 1) You can't have a cable hundreds of feet long without some kind of signal booster. 2) It comes out when you tug on it.
Jesus Christ I can imagine some video nerds are really upset that they can't send their DVD output to the guy across the street without a $20 booster device, but for normal people these are complete non issues.
Great post Mr. Slashdot weirdo! Some more good ideas! Put poison in the water supply! Burn down the mayor's office! Throw acid in the face of the Mona Lisa! Cut the power lines!
Well they are based on conspiracies that were proven to be untrue. Presumably, conspiracies that were never uncovered aren't factored into his equations. It could be that the vast majority of conspiracies "work," and stay secret forever.
Slashdot Mirror
Japanese Slashdot, maybe?
I am not a business owner or a blue collar worker. I like that I am able to buy a nice tv for a good price.
If the American public hated free trade so much, they could just choose to buy American, and refuse to buy foreign products. Nobody actually does that, because if given free choice people want better products for a better price. The role of government isn't to take away that option and force people to waste their money supporting/subsidizing Zenith.
Tech absolutely is there. s6 runs 3d stereo movies, right?
And watching squash in 3D the way you imagine sounds like the WORST! You'd constantly be looking around, it would be impossible to follow the action. I love 3D video. But I think they best way to handle it is when the action is generally in one area, and the 3D allows for either atmosphere, or an entirely different area of focus. It's like being in the audience at a concert...even if you generally keep your eyes forward at the singer, it's cool to be able to see the details of the space you're in, or tracking the singer as he moves around the stage. You don't want to be constantly turning around to try to catch a view of the singer.
See a lot of poor people posting here.
If you're interested in technology and have money, you buy a new computer from time to time. If you're poor and interested in technology, you post on an old computer (that you use to collect welfare benefits) from the comfort of your parent's basement.
Isn't this business working hours for you all? Shouldn't you be off looking for proper employment?
My memory may fail me, but I think it was at least two years between the first iPad and the first solid competition, I think a Samsung with a stylus.
Samsung Tab came out the same year as the iPad (2010). It was basically the same idea as an iPad.
I knew somebody who got the Tab 2.0 that got released the next year, it was a budget product, but it was fine for browsing, movies, etc.
Actually, I got a $100 generic Chinese tablet in 2011. It really sucked and I returned it, but it was usable.
They need to admit that Homebrew made them popular
Nintendo is popular because of homebrew? Nintendo, the maker of Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, etc.? Just when I thought Slashdot couldn't get its head any further up its own ass...
The $450 model, you mean?
Blackberry stopped being popular because it sucked and the iPhone didn't, not because of some 2010 Middle East decision.
It kind of sucks the battery isn't replaceable, but surely it will last longer than a year. I've never noticed battery degradation with cell phones. Maybe after 5 years it's a problem? I'd guess not, though.
They've sold 20 million XBox One. Your getting the wrong conclusions from your evidence. From 1982-2012, sales went first away from mom&pop stores, and then towards online purchases.
Also, I think you've just gotten older. You get sentimental over games from when you were a kid...Kids don't play Quake anymore, of course they could. The game is dated, the model has been improved upon.
I remember this exact same post from the same time last year!
He's a nutcase, the FBI (along with anybody else who knows who the guy is) didn't take him seriously. All he proved is that he can make statements that match the Slashdot groupthink.
Single point 360 cameras are still pretty expensive. Even basic models are in the $300-$400 range. Adding a second set of lenses would make it even larger and more expensive. And single point 360 is still really cool, I'm not sure how much going stereoscopic would add to the effect. I certainly wouldn't call it "essential."
Engineers don't collect royalties on bridges in the first place, unless they have some insane contract. They don't own the bridge, they designed it under contract for people with lots of money (who do own it). The children of the people who own the bridge can, in fact, keep collecting money. The Rockefeller family is still tremendously wealthy.
Copyrights are legally property, the same as sports cars or collectible stamps or gold bricks or bridges. If the parent dies, he can leave the copyright to his children in his will, same as any other property. This ability to sell the rights to the song is responsible for basically every single piece of culture you enjoy. The Beatles sold the copyright to their music: it wouldn't have been practical for them to sell tapes of their music after their shows. The reason they were able to sell music in the first place was because of the copyright system.
If you got 10GB for $10 in 2006 I am in serious awe of your bargain-finding skills.
I use Pages, which comes with the Mac (not a Communist). I tried out LibreOffice by loading up a super-simple Pages document, really it's just a text document with a few lines bolded or using different fonts. In LibreOffice, every line is a new page, so my simple text document renders as 38 pages long! Why even offer Pages compatibility if it fails such a simple test?
It makes major failures in rendering keynote files (Mac Powerpoint) and small mistakes rendering Powerpoint. With .docx, just looked at a single page and it couldn't handle an embedded grid, but is otherwise OK.
User interface is uglier than sin. Really, if you care, just pay the Microsoft Office tax, or maybe Google Office. Apple Office products are OK for simple stuff and (for my rather basic uses) render Powerpoints and Word files with absolutely no problem.
Just thought I'd give an example from a highly esteemed British newspaper because this is Slashdot and nobody believes anything unless it goes along with the "The US does it wrong!" groupthink.
Not really... In the US it's a hard rule, in the UK it's not a hard rule but collective nouns are singular 99% of the time.
1% a day, with 250 trading days a year, would be equivalent to making your money increase by a factor of about thirteen over the course of a year. You are the world's genius investor and should go right back at it; surely you could retire after a year or two.
If the free version is just as good and just as easily available, approximately nobody would pay for a similar sevice. Hulu and Netflix are great, sure. But if bittorrents (and the like) had never been prosecuted, and you could just get the popcorn time app for your ipad and watch whatever you want, what sort of idiot would pay?
Even now, with threats of prosecution, and sketchy websites with advertisements for Russian brides, and a good chance of viruses, and the need for technical know-how, bittorrents are still a larger percentage of internet traffic than, say, Hulu, or Amazon Prime Video. Imagine how much higher it would be if it hadn't been for the legal prosecution.
Hey grandpa: use a streaming service!
And personally I find streaming off Plex a lot more convenient than fiddling about the SD cards.
So basically the plan is to cover the pavement with glass, that will need to stay clean to let the sunlight through. I see no possible problem with any of this.
So their reasons boil down to:
1) You can't have a cable hundreds of feet long without some kind of signal booster.
2) It comes out when you tug on it.
Jesus Christ I can imagine some video nerds are really upset that they can't send their DVD output to the guy across the street without a $20 booster device, but for normal people these are complete non issues.
Great post Mr. Slashdot weirdo! Some more good ideas!
Put poison in the water supply!
Burn down the mayor's office!
Throw acid in the face of the Mona Lisa!
Cut the power lines!
Hey do you have some anarchy text files!!!!!!
Well they are based on conspiracies that were proven to be untrue. Presumably, conspiracies that were never uncovered aren't factored into his equations. It could be that the vast majority of conspiracies "work," and stay secret forever.