I recently had a chance to play with a Playbook. It's a great piece of hardware. It's a great machine for $169. If somebody could get Android 4 running on it, these things technically should outperform anything else in it's price class.
Sure, men/boys can become addicted to porn, and/or video games, and yes it's a problem that can ruin their lives. However it's no different than alcohol or drug addiction. Both types can hinder your social development making you less desirable to the opposite sex, less likely to procreate, etc. The thing is that porn/video games/beer/marijuana all are perfectly healthy in small doses. It's only when it becomes an addiction is there a problem, and there is no reason to think that a porn/video game addiction is any worse for the future of the human race than alcohol/drug addition. So, let's not get too excited here.
A computer is a very specific electronic tool. Why does it require its own department? Universities don't have a "Automobile Science" dept. They don't have a 'Radio Science" dept. They don't have a "Television Science" dept. They don't have a "Pharmaceutical Science" dept. If you want to enter those fields, you study mechanical, or electrical, or chemical engineering, etc. Isn't a good Computer Science degree an engineering degree consisting of mathematics and electrical engineering and some software engineering principles thrown in? I'm not sure Computer Science needs it's own department. A computer science department is really a relic of an older time when people thought computers were made of pixie dust and performed magic. In reality it's just math and electrical engineering.
"Since ISPs are the Internet's gatekeepers".
That's the problem. There is no gate. You can't tell us they are the gatekeepers when there is no gate to being with. The internet doesn't work that way, although these morons at the ISPs seem to think it does.
Toyota took years to finally acknowledge the problem with the gas pedals and floor mats causing unintended acceleration and even that was after several people died.
I think three weeks is pretty darn good, IMO.
Led Zeppelin is next on Matt's playlist, but his children are convinced that the sharks will be fans of the White Stripes and Wolfmother.
The White Stripes and Woflmother are certainly no AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. It doesn't take a million years of evolution to know that The White Stripes really aren't that good.
Well thank goodness that I can still buy the DVDs of "Clerks" which features a woman having sex with a dead man, and "Clerks II" which actually shows a man having sex with a donkey. God bless Kevin Smith.
Is it really necessarily to require every student to have a laptop in order to learn?
Albert Einstein didn't have a laptop in school.
Ben Franklin didn't have a laptop in school.
Stephen Hawking didn't have a laptop in school.
Thomas Edison didn't have a laptop in school.
Nikola Tesla didn't have a laptop in school.
Even Bill Gates didn't have a laptop in school.
They turned out okay.
I do believe that Apple will move OS X to this type of software distribution model. To see it in action all they have to do it look at console gaming. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft require that every line of code you want to run on their machines passes through them first, at which time they take a licensing fee. We have been putting up with that for years, of course.
What we love about our personal computers is that we aren't locked down like the game consoles are. However if you are Apple, you are looking at the consoles and their software licensing fees, and wondering how you can get a piece of that pie.
The question is not "why?" but it's "why not?". If Nintendo thinks there are few people left on the planet who have not yet bought a DS (like me for instance), then why shouldn't try to make a product that fills that niche? Why not?
If they really want to get the attention of older gamers they should make a "Classic NES" edition like they did with the GBA. That's the only handheld system I own.
"This is the true story... of six strangers... picked to live in a space shuttle...work together and have their lives taped... to find out what happens... when people stop being polite... and start getting real...The Real Mars." Coming to MTV, Fall of 2031.
People trade their games to Gamestop because they don't want the hassle of selling them online. For instance, maybe they are just a kid, and their parents won't help, or maybe they just don't trust the internet.
If you are going to go to the hassle of putting it online and then shipping it, why not just put it on ebay and make three times what Amazon would give you? I did a quick search of a few games, and Amazon's trade in value is still about a third of what you could get on ebay. I think Amazon is missing the point.
Plenty of people are able to find the movies on torrent sites and see it before it's theatrical release. Of course that leaves Netflix with a moral dilemma: Do they let people leave reviews knowing that they saw it illegally? (well not illegal, but you know what I mean)
For example, horror movie website, bloody-disgusting.com has recently disabled the user review area for movies that have not been released yet. One example is "Let the Right One In", where many users were able to get some glowing reviews in before the mods could turn off access.
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I recently had a chance to play with a Playbook. It's a great piece of hardware. It's a great machine for $169. If somebody could get Android 4 running on it, these things technically should outperform anything else in it's price class.
Sure, men/boys can become addicted to porn, and/or video games, and yes it's a problem that can ruin their lives. However it's no different than alcohol or drug addiction. Both types can hinder your social development making you less desirable to the opposite sex, less likely to procreate, etc. The thing is that porn/video games/beer/marijuana all are perfectly healthy in small doses. It's only when it becomes an addiction is there a problem, and there is no reason to think that a porn/video game addiction is any worse for the future of the human race than alcohol/drug addition. So, let's not get too excited here.
A computer is a very specific electronic tool. Why does it require its own department? Universities don't have a "Automobile Science" dept. They don't have a 'Radio Science" dept. They don't have a "Television Science" dept. They don't have a "Pharmaceutical Science" dept. If you want to enter those fields, you study mechanical, or electrical, or chemical engineering, etc. Isn't a good Computer Science degree an engineering degree consisting of mathematics and electrical engineering and some software engineering principles thrown in? I'm not sure Computer Science needs it's own department. A computer science department is really a relic of an older time when people thought computers were made of pixie dust and performed magic. In reality it's just math and electrical engineering.
Sure, it reinserts itself, but when it's finished does it take itself out, flip it to the other side, and then reinsert itself again?
"Since ISPs are the Internet's gatekeepers". That's the problem. There is no gate. You can't tell us they are the gatekeepers when there is no gate to being with. The internet doesn't work that way, although these morons at the ISPs seem to think it does.
This idea ranks right up there with the "Jump to Conclusions" mat. Nice job Warner Bros.
I believe his quote was "MP2 should be enough for anyone."
"16TB ought to be enough for anybody."
Toyota took years to finally acknowledge the problem with the gas pedals and floor mats causing unintended acceleration and even that was after several people died. I think three weeks is pretty darn good, IMO.
The White Stripes and Woflmother are certainly no AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. It doesn't take a million years of evolution to know that The White Stripes really aren't that good.
So Assange is getting a taste of his own medicine. You know what they say "What goes around, cums around." ... or something like that.
Well thank goodness that I can still buy the DVDs of "Clerks" which features a woman having sex with a dead man, and "Clerks II" which actually shows a man having sex with a donkey. God bless Kevin Smith.
It's War of the Worlds 2010.
Is it really necessarily to require every student to have a laptop in order to learn?
Albert Einstein didn't have a laptop in school.
Ben Franklin didn't have a laptop in school.
Stephen Hawking didn't have a laptop in school.
Thomas Edison didn't have a laptop in school.
Nikola Tesla didn't have a laptop in school.
Even Bill Gates didn't have a laptop in school.
They turned out okay.
Reportedly, Toshiba just couldn't compete with Sony's new "Blu-Bulb" technology.
I do believe that Apple will move OS X to this type of software distribution model. To see it in action all they have to do it look at console gaming. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft require that every line of code you want to run on their machines passes through them first, at which time they take a licensing fee. We have been putting up with that for years, of course. What we love about our personal computers is that we aren't locked down like the game consoles are. However if you are Apple, you are looking at the consoles and their software licensing fees, and wondering how you can get a piece of that pie.
The question is not "why?" but it's "why not?". If Nintendo thinks there are few people left on the planet who have not yet bought a DS (like me for instance), then why shouldn't try to make a product that fills that niche? Why not?
If they really want to get the attention of older gamers they should make a "Classic NES" edition like they did with the GBA. That's the only handheld system I own.
The "final value fees" must have been enormous. I hope Andreessen didn't pay using Paypal.
"This is the true story... of six strangers... picked to live in a space shuttle...work together and have their lives taped... to find out what happens... when people stop being polite... and start getting real...The Real Mars." Coming to MTV, Fall of 2031.
People trade their games to Gamestop because they don't want the hassle of selling them online. For instance, maybe they are just a kid, and their parents won't help, or maybe they just don't trust the internet.
If you are going to go to the hassle of putting it online and then shipping it, why not just put it on ebay and make three times what Amazon would give you? I did a quick search of a few games, and Amazon's trade in value is still about a third of what you could get on ebay.
I think Amazon is missing the point.
If you think 7 versions is bad, Linux has "hundreds" and apparently Torvalds likes it that way.
To quote Linus:
"I think multiple distributions aren't just a good thing, I think it's something absolutely required. We have hundreds of distros, and a lot of them are really for niche markets."
You can take that same statement and apply to Windows. So let's not be the pot calling the kettle black.
Plenty of people are able to find the movies on torrent sites and see it before it's theatrical release. Of course that leaves Netflix with a moral dilemma: Do they let people leave reviews knowing that they saw it illegally? (well not illegal, but you know what I mean)
For example, horror movie website, bloody-disgusting.com has recently disabled the user review area for movies that have not been released yet. One example is "Let the Right One In", where many users were able to get some glowing reviews in before the mods could turn off access.
Well, obviously whoever smelt' it dealt it.
Leave it to Apple to reinvent the wheel...
Somewhere in there I see the plot of the next James Bond movie...