In 2011, for example, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study by Stolarz-Skrzypek et al. that found only a weak correlation between salt and blood pressure
The rootkit thing happened like 8 years ago on a few select CDs. It was before there was an Anonymous, and Slashdot still whines about it every time Sony comes up, even peripherally. So it's not like they slipped it in under the radar.
You're being disingenuous. If the OS needs to be updated, all you really do is drop in the CD and press play. If the OS needs updating (which might happen once every year or two) it happens automatically. It can't at all be compared to the complexity of building and operating a game computer.
What the heck. It wasn't like one guy built a particle accelerator in his basement and discovered the Higgs boson. It took a large team of scientists and a large research infrastructure, which is what the article is about.
He also hold the record for Tetris on a Gameboy. When Nintendo Power magazine stopped accepting his high scores (he'd confirm by mailing in Polaroids of the screen), he started submitting his name spelled backwards.
You do that mainly with hardware and with customer service.
But the hardware is all reaching towards one end goal: a big screen, fast enough, good resolution, not too big. Sure there's some room for variation, like maybe one has a larger battery at the expense of weighing an extra half an ounce, but there's really not not much to differentiate.
Soon, generic Chinese manufacturers will be able to make a phone that has a big screen, is fast enough, has good resolution, and isn't too big. It will load the same Android OS as everybody else. And it will be priced as a commodity. Nobody will pay more because they like the custom look better.
And customer service? I've never had to deal with a phone's customer service, ever. If it's a factor at all, it's a very small one.
Don't 60 year olds buy things? Every age demographic buys windows 8 and iphones, this isn't some youth movement where it makes sense to say "when I was young it was all better."
Anyway, the examples you list are very minor and not even a big deal. I like windows 8 fine, although I use a Mac. My girlfriend prefers the new iphone maps, although I'm aware plenty of people disagree. They pale in comparison to products that actually hurt people, like cars with known, dangerous design flaws or amphetamine diet pills or watches with Radium. Surely when you were young there were products which changed in ways that many people didn't particularly care for, but were ultimately not considered important and still sold. For instance, a '72 Mustang doesn't look as cool as a '71 Mustang.
Get some perspective! Windows 8 look like a stupid tablet, whine whine whine!
Tell Upton Sinclair that 21st century business practices are a new form of evil, because Apple's new maps application included with their cell phones isn't quite as good.
It's not like Home PCs being commonplace us anything new. It's not like the essential similarity of consoles and home PCs is anything new. It's not like the advantages for the PCs are anything new. You could have written basically the exact same essay 15 years ago. And yet in that time, Consoles have remained popular, because
1) Nobody wants to attach their PC to their TV 2) Consoles are a hell of a lot simpler to use than a PC, you don't have to think about anti-virus programs and you can just hit the power button to turn it off. 3) Consoles don't require you to bother about which graphics card+etc. you want 4) Having every game be built around a gamepad is perceived as better (XBox/PS3 could easily add a keyboard + mouse combo if they wanted) 5) Piracy rates on Computers are much higher, discouraging game development.
If PC gaming was so much better, gamers would all be playing PC games and developers would be catering to that audience.
They're seven year old hardware, where the games ultimately look about the same (if not as good) as with a modern PC. While of course the PC would win the Pepsi challenge, it's a hell of a lot smaller difference than (say) PS2 v. PS1.
Wait a minute. You say the winner of the last three console wars was the cheapest, and then admit that the PS1 wasn't the cheapest, the PS2 wasn't the cheapest, and the Gamecube won because it sold the most, even though there were no games for it and people who are into games have basically ignored it for the last four years?
Why even make a point, which you yourself immediately contradict with facts?
The article is right on, but Microsoft didn't do anything wrong here. They didn't make touching the screen a necessary or preferred way of dealing with the operating system, they didn't make it necessary for programs. They just upgraded OS support for touch. And what's wrong with that? Sure for most applications it's not necessary, but maybe 1% of programs can use it and for these programs it's a good thing, too. It also lets PCs run tablet apps if they want to, without clunky finger - mouse converters.
Well in the "life lessons from a science fiction" category, he also quotes a science fiction story with an opposite message, where he realized a greater good beyond an individual's personal interests.
But what you're saying would only apply if there were variations between the Dead Sea Scrolls and modern texts. Perhaps people could understand the evolution of the documents, and a greater understanding of the bible.
However these are exact copies of texts that are already commonplace. Wikipedia says, 40% Old Testament, 30% Apocrypha (that were already known), and 30% religious commentaries by some unknown Jewish or Christian sect.
They aren't at all controversial, they say basically nothing about Catholicism. For the most part, they're just really old copies of a book. If you found a 1,800 year old copy of Virgil's Aenid, that would be pretty neat, but it wouldn't have anything new or controversial to say about the epic.
You don't need to speak Hebrew - everything has been translated and annotated. It's an easy Google to get the documents online, Penguin Books has a 7th edition of a complete translation. There isn't anything in the scrolls that would be of special interest to sci-fi (at least, no more than a standard Old Testament/collection of apocrypha).
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http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Hypertension/36248
In 2011, for example, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study by Stolarz-Skrzypek et al. that found only a weak correlation between salt and blood pressure
Right, I'm sure you're speaking from your vast knowledge of the health of Tibetan people.
This isn't true. In 1998-2000 the government ran at a surplus, before that in 1969. Before the New Deal, the government frequently ran at a surplus.
Sledge Hammer: No, I prefer to get my information from more reliable sources, like rumor and small children.
In general, though, the unsubstantiated recollections of small children wouldn't be enough to put somebody to death.
Are you 14? Your attacks on gamers who like different games, and an ad hominem attack on John Carmack, are both pretty much embarrassing.
Maybe he meant how it's down almost 90% from 5 years ago.
The rootkit thing happened like 8 years ago on a few select CDs. It was before there was an Anonymous, and Slashdot still whines about it every time Sony comes up, even peripherally. So it's not like they slipped it in under the radar.
You're being disingenuous. If the OS needs to be updated, all you really do is drop in the CD and press play. If the OS needs updating (which might happen once every year or two) it happens automatically. It can't at all be compared to the complexity of building and operating a game computer.
And word on the streets on the time was that XBox would be DC compatible, as the DC hardware had been reduced to a single chip.
What the heck. It wasn't like one guy built a particle accelerator in his basement and discovered the Higgs boson. It took a large team of scientists and a large research infrastructure, which is what the article is about.
He also hold the record for Tetris on a Gameboy. When Nintendo Power magazine stopped accepting his high scores (he'd confirm by mailing in Polaroids of the screen), he started submitting his name spelled backwards.
You do that mainly with hardware and with customer service.
But the hardware is all reaching towards one end goal: a big screen, fast enough, good resolution, not too big. Sure there's some room for variation, like maybe one has a larger battery at the expense of weighing an extra half an ounce, but there's really not not much to differentiate.
Soon, generic Chinese manufacturers will be able to make a phone that has a big screen, is fast enough, has good resolution, and isn't too big. It will load the same Android OS as everybody else. And it will be priced as a commodity. Nobody will pay more because they like the custom look better.
And customer service? I've never had to deal with a phone's customer service, ever. If it's a factor at all, it's a very small one.
Don't 60 year olds buy things? Every age demographic buys windows 8 and iphones, this isn't some youth movement where it makes sense to say "when I was young it was all better."
Anyway, the examples you list are very minor and not even a big deal. I like windows 8 fine, although I use a Mac. My girlfriend prefers the new iphone maps, although I'm aware plenty of people disagree. They pale in comparison to products that actually hurt people, like cars with known, dangerous design flaws or amphetamine diet pills or watches with Radium. Surely when you were young there were products which changed in ways that many people didn't particularly care for, but were ultimately not considered important and still sold. For instance, a '72 Mustang doesn't look as cool as a '71 Mustang.
Get some perspective! Windows 8 look like a stupid tablet, whine whine whine!
Tell Upton Sinclair that 21st century business practices are a new form of evil, because Apple's new maps application included with their cell phones isn't quite as good.
Usually I'd let this sort of thing go, but that should be "unless you're smart."
It's not like Home PCs being commonplace us anything new. It's not like the essential similarity of consoles and home PCs is anything new. It's not like the advantages for the PCs are anything new. You could have written basically the exact same essay 15 years ago. And yet in that time, Consoles have remained popular, because
1) Nobody wants to attach their PC to their TV
2) Consoles are a hell of a lot simpler to use than a PC, you don't have to think about anti-virus programs and you can just hit the power button to turn it off.
3) Consoles don't require you to bother about which graphics card+etc. you want
4) Having every game be built around a gamepad is perceived as better (XBox/PS3 could easily add a keyboard + mouse combo if they wanted)
5) Piracy rates on Computers are much higher, discouraging game development.
If PC gaming was so much better, gamers would all be playing PC games and developers would be catering to that audience.
They're seven year old hardware, where the games ultimately look about the same (if not as good) as with a modern PC. While of course the PC would win the Pepsi challenge, it's a hell of a lot smaller difference than (say) PS2 v. PS1.
Wait a minute. You say the winner of the last three console wars was the cheapest, and then admit that the PS1 wasn't the cheapest, the PS2 wasn't the cheapest, and the Gamecube won because it sold the most, even though there were no games for it and people who are into games have basically ignored it for the last four years?
Why even make a point, which you yourself immediately contradict with facts?
The article is right on, but Microsoft didn't do anything wrong here. They didn't make touching the screen a necessary or preferred way of dealing with the operating system, they didn't make it necessary for programs. They just upgraded OS support for touch. And what's wrong with that? Sure for most applications it's not necessary, but maybe 1% of programs can use it and for these programs it's a good thing, too. It also lets PCs run tablet apps if they want to, without clunky finger - mouse converters.
Well in the "life lessons from a science fiction" category, he also quotes a science fiction story with an opposite message, where he realized a greater good beyond an individual's personal interests.
But what you're saying would only apply if there were variations between the Dead Sea Scrolls and modern texts. Perhaps people could understand the evolution of the documents, and a greater understanding of the bible.
However these are exact copies of texts that are already commonplace. Wikipedia says, 40% Old Testament, 30% Apocrypha (that were already known), and 30% religious commentaries by some unknown Jewish or Christian sect.
They aren't at all controversial, they say basically nothing about Catholicism. For the most part, they're just really old copies of a book. If you found a 1,800 year old copy of Virgil's Aenid, that would be pretty neat, but it wouldn't have anything new or controversial to say about the epic.
Why is it that most successful people believe in God, but most basement dwellers who live on the internet are atheists?
You don't need to speak Hebrew - everything has been translated and annotated. It's an easy Google to get the documents online, Penguin Books has a 7th edition of a complete translation. There isn't anything in the scrolls that would be of special interest to sci-fi (at least, no more than a standard Old Testament/collection of apocrypha).
Google, this is an easy thing to do. I can't guarantee this site but: https://gurde.com/2012/08/how-to-android-jelly-bean-4-1-1-on-galaxy-s-i9000/ is the first result I got.
What sort of terrible smart phone do you have that sucks at web browsing?
The kind with the screen less than 5 inches across, perhaps.