Well we cannot all be as cool as you. I'm sure you are much better and more impressive public speaker than he is.
I would assume the poster is a better and more impressive public speaker than Bill Nye. I don't know who the poster is, but Bill Nye is an obnoxious fuck-tard who sets the bar so low. I'd rather listen to a 1980's speech synthesizer reading the phone book for 10 hours than listen to any of Bill Nye's content for 10 minutes. I'll probably learn more science from the former too.
Every year, ever phone wants to brag "best camera ever". Yet the phone cameras going back the last few years of every flag ship model are all so close together who really gives a damn?
And they are all total garbage even next to a 10 year old DSLR kit you can pick up for $100 on ebay. Are phone cameras really worth so much bragging?
I disagree. You know right from the start that it's only an illusion of choices matter. It's like a slightly more interactive TV watching experience. The games are exactly as repayable as a DVD of a TV season is re-watchable. But you know that when you buy it.
Evernote was dead the day they switched to a subscription model. It is just insane that anyone pays as much for a notetaking app with a few gig of cloud storage as MS charges for Office365 with TB of cloud storage.
The sooner evernote finishes its death rattle and vanishes from the planet the better, before other devs think their business model has some merit.
I could make up a billion digital tokens, sell 10 of them for $100 each. Then my "market cap" is $100 Billion....then when my tokens fall to 0, that's $100 Billion in value wiped out. At least the way these people are pretending things work.
This article is not about backup methodology. It's about storing your files *only* in MS cloud servers, trusting them 100% to safely back it up and make it available whenever you need it. Ignoring that your own internet might not have 100% uptime either.
With local storage being so insanely cheap these days, it's just an idiotic idea that only benefits MS.
Never "buy" content from any of these online streaming services. It's all rented and always has been. And not just Apple.
This is the "victim's" fault for not understanding what he was doing, this was obvious from day one. But people argue how much better and easier it is than old fashioned discs. And they will continue to "buy" into these pay per view streaming services.
In a world where 14TB hard drives are under $500, 10TB hard drives are under $300, and small hard drives are under $40, and all are much, much faster than internet storage....why the hell would anyone be stupid enough to think this is a good idea?
Even 1TB SSDs are below $150 and good brands at $160. Even for an ultrabook user, you'd have to be an idiot to want this.
Interestingly, I can have all the people I care about watch with me in my own home from comfortable recliners. The only social aspect of a theatre I don't get is idiots talking, lighting up their cellphones, and kicking my chair backs. If I can meet them at a cinema, I can meet them at my house. The snacks are better and cheaper, we can break out some beers, and we don't even needs to sit through 20 minutes of commercials before the movie starts.
Plus if the movie sucks, we can switch to something else easily.
You can play a game with Magic cards and enjoy looking at Beanie Babies on your shelf while holding them as a speculative investment. Bitcoin is literally useless.
That's fair, I have a Rift, the hardware is great but I don't use it much because there's not much fun to do with it after several hours of demos. I am optimistic it will change so I don't mean to beat up on the product itself.
I was hyped to buy it, literally with credit card in hand when it went live. I dropped the credit card when I saw the price. I picked it up last summer during the "summer of rift" promo for $400 with oculus touch. I'd have to say it was worth it at that price, thought a day late and a dollar short. It should have launched at that price and with touch. Palmer even managed to blow that promo though; it was when they blew out the last of the original kits with the xbone controller and remot, but you didn't know what you'd get when you ordered it. Same price, same order link, some people get a lot more hardware. And Oculus support just said you'll get what you get. Ordering from Oculus didn't have sales tax, I ended up buying it at Best Buy and paying the tax just to ensure I got the better bundle.
Tl;dr. Rift is a great product, Oculus is a shit company, and Palmer Lucky is a clueless shit who doesn't know how to run a company, deliver a product, or anything about VR.
Is Palmer Luckey talking about Magic Leap or Oculus Rift rift here?
The way he blew the Rift launch is one of the most epic failures in tech history. To start with so much hype and so much VC and such a market lead. Then to putter around wasting years, pissing off the fanbase with constant delays and a complete lack of communication, string people along expecting a launch any day a year before the product hit the street. Then to release it at more than double the price he had said it would cost and completely kill the early adoption, handing the market to the competition that was at one point years behind. Only to have repeated price cuts the first year as nobody cared to buy at his insanely high price point. And let's not forget him selling out to facebook in the middle of all this.
Palmer Lucky has got to be one of the last people anyone should be listening to in the VR industry.
If if that were true (which it isn't, as other have effectively responded), the best argument you can come up with in defence of bit coin is that two wrongs make a right?
here is nothing about homeopathy that can be construed as having anything at all to do with the scientific method.
Homeopathy is a complete scam that abuses scientific jargon to sound credible and intelligent to victims who have little understanding of science. That's exactly what pseudoscience is. Just like magnets on the fuel line improving gas mileage, crystal shakras, magnetic water filters, etc. That's pseudoscience.
But the kickbacks to the politicians making these decisions are they same for the factory or data centre. So the two type of facility are of identical benefit as far as they're concerned.
As far as these ROMs, I had an original NES back in the 80's, I had a large collections of games I paid full price for back then, that are long since disposed of, broken, thrown in the garbage whatever. Why should Nintendo care if I want to fire up a 30 year game to play for 30 minutes to stroke my nostalgia before going back to a modern game. It's not like I'd pay enough for the experience to be worth their while.
On the other hand, I have 2 kids who are too young for a game console right now. I was already planning to buy them whatever comes after the switch in 3-6 years. Now I have such a bad feeling towards Nintendo I really don't see that happening. They can play PC games with me.
I live in a city of about 1.5 million people. 7% of our municipal budget goes to the library system. As you can tell from my earlier post, I'm happy for every cent invested that way. I think that's such an important indicator of the quality of life and people in a place. The nearby "big city" of 5 million people 30 miles away wastes most of its money on project housing and social programs. The libraries are treated similar, horribly underfunded hangouts for people who can't afford to be anywhere else. They look and smell like homeless shelters and people live in the bathrooms. The best part is we pay less taxes where I am.
It's not fair to say the content is available on the internnet.
Much of the content my library offers is in the form of access to very expensive online data services that are offered for free to library patrons. There's well over 100 services I get free at my library. I have free access to Lynda.com which would otherwise cost around $30/month. The city's largest newspaper has an online archive of every page they printed going back to the mid 19'th century. They charge $100/year for access. Or free at the library. And that's only 2 of the services.
I can borrow just about any new release DVD for free within a month of release date.
My library offers access to high end 3D printers at a cost of 3 cents/gram. Just order online by uploading your stl files, and pick up at the branch in a few days. And considering I don't have to pay for spoiled prints or babysit a wonky $500 printer, their price is actually fantastic. I haven't used them yet, but they also have a CNC milling machine and vinyl cutting machine that can be used on the same basis.
They also have a video studio greenroom I can use for free and a music recording studio I can I use for free. I can borrow a gopro camera for free too.
Oh yeah, I think my library also gives me access to books and magazines for free. I guess, maybe, amazon could help with that one. Though I do take issue with the article saying amazon ebooks can replace real books. I read around 100 books a year, I haven't read an ebook in over 10 years, I didn't like the experience then and I don't think I'd like it now.
And especially with Amazon. I remember shortly after Kindle came out, they remotely deleted all the George Orwell books people had bought for their kindles when the publisher changed their mind about licensing the books. If I buy a print book, Amazon can't (legally, yet) break into my home and take back the book when they change their mind about selling it. For that reason alone, I will *never* use amazon for ebooks.
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Most newspapers these days do nothing but repost trending topics from social media and impart their own lies and biases to boot.
Why wouldn't most people go directly to social media to get the same information sooner and with less spin?
Journalism is dead. Honest and accurate reporting is a lot of work and it doesn't make much money anymore.
Well we cannot all be as cool as you. I'm sure you are much better and more impressive public speaker than he is.
I would assume the poster is a better and more impressive public speaker than Bill Nye. I don't know who the poster is, but Bill Nye is an obnoxious fuck-tard who sets the bar so low. I'd rather listen to a 1980's speech synthesizer reading the phone book for 10 hours than listen to any of Bill Nye's content for 10 minutes. I'll probably learn more science from the former too.
Windows as as service only has one effect on me. It keeps me using macs no matter how crippled and overpriced they become. And I hate MS for that.
Every year, ever phone wants to brag "best camera ever". Yet the phone cameras going back the last few years of every flag ship model are all so close together who really gives a damn?
And they are all total garbage even next to a 10 year old DSLR kit you can pick up for $100 on ebay. Are phone cameras really worth so much bragging?
I disagree. You know right from the start that it's only an illusion of choices matter. It's like a slightly more interactive TV watching experience. The games are exactly as repayable as a DVD of a TV season is re-watchable. But you know that when you buy it.
Evernote was dead the day they switched to a subscription model. It is just insane that anyone pays as much for a notetaking app with a few gig of cloud storage as MS charges for Office365 with TB of cloud storage.
The sooner evernote finishes its death rattle and vanishes from the planet the better, before other devs think their business model has some merit.
It's a form of myopia most multi-millionaire CEOs in Silicon Valley seem to have.
Exactly this.
I could make up a billion digital tokens, sell 10 of them for $100 each. Then my "market cap" is $100 Billion....then when my tokens fall to 0, that's $100 Billion in value wiped out. At least the way these people are pretending things work.
This article is not about backup methodology. It's about storing your files *only* in MS cloud servers, trusting them 100% to safely back it up and make it available whenever you need it. Ignoring that your own internet might not have 100% uptime either.
With local storage being so insanely cheap these days, it's just an idiotic idea that only benefits MS.
Never "buy" content from any of these online streaming services. It's all rented and always has been. And not just Apple.
This is the "victim's" fault for not understanding what he was doing, this was obvious from day one. But people argue how much better and easier it is than old fashioned discs. And they will continue to "buy" into these pay per view streaming services.
In a world where 14TB hard drives are under $500, 10TB hard drives are under $300, and small hard drives are under $40, and all are much, much faster than internet storage....why the hell would anyone be stupid enough to think this is a good idea?
Even 1TB SSDs are below $150 and good brands at $160. Even for an ultrabook user, you'd have to be an idiot to want this.
Interestingly, I can have all the people I care about watch with me in my own home from comfortable recliners. The only social aspect of a theatre I don't get is idiots talking, lighting up their cellphones, and kicking my chair backs. If I can meet them at a cinema, I can meet them at my house. The snacks are better and cheaper, we can break out some beers, and we don't even needs to sit through 20 minutes of commercials before the movie starts.
Plus if the movie sucks, we can switch to something else easily.
I'm on to Sony now. This is nothing more than a thinly veiled cover for much more invasive DRM crap.
It doesn't matter to me anyway. My home has been Sony free for 10 years and I will never allow another Sony product into my home.
You can play a game with Magic cards and enjoy looking at Beanie Babies on your shelf while holding them as a speculative investment. Bitcoin is literally useless.
That's fair, I have a Rift, the hardware is great but I don't use it much because there's not much fun to do with it after several hours of demos. I am optimistic it will change so I don't mean to beat up on the product itself.
I was hyped to buy it, literally with credit card in hand when it went live. I dropped the credit card when I saw the price. I picked it up last summer during the "summer of rift" promo for $400 with oculus touch. I'd have to say it was worth it at that price, thought a day late and a dollar short. It should have launched at that price and with touch. Palmer even managed to blow that promo though; it was when they blew out the last of the original kits with the xbone controller and remot, but you didn't know what you'd get when you ordered it. Same price, same order link, some people get a lot more hardware. And Oculus support just said you'll get what you get. Ordering from Oculus didn't have sales tax, I ended up buying it at Best Buy and paying the tax just to ensure I got the better bundle.
Tl;dr. Rift is a great product, Oculus is a shit company, and Palmer Lucky is a clueless shit who doesn't know how to run a company, deliver a product, or anything about VR.
Is Palmer Luckey talking about Magic Leap or Oculus Rift rift here?
The way he blew the Rift launch is one of the most epic failures in tech history. To start with so much hype and so much VC and such a market lead. Then to putter around wasting years, pissing off the fanbase with constant delays and a complete lack of communication, string people along expecting a launch any day a year before the product hit the street. Then to release it at more than double the price he had said it would cost and completely kill the early adoption, handing the market to the competition that was at one point years behind. Only to have repeated price cuts the first year as nobody cared to buy at his insanely high price point. And let's not forget him selling out to facebook in the middle of all this.
Palmer Lucky has got to be one of the last people anyone should be listening to in the VR industry.
If if that were true (which it isn't, as other have effectively responded), the best argument you can come up with in defence of bit coin is that two wrongs make a right?
But heating, distilling, and UV treating the water might sterilize out all the memory storing properties of the water.
here is nothing about homeopathy that can be construed as having anything at all to do with the scientific method.
Homeopathy is a complete scam that abuses scientific jargon to sound credible and intelligent to victims who have little understanding of science. That's exactly what pseudoscience is. Just like magnets on the fuel line improving gas mileage, crystal shakras, magnetic water filters, etc. That's pseudoscience.
A man asked his doctor how long he was going live.
The doctor asked if he drank, smoked, did drugs, or partied.
The man answer ed no.
The doctor said "then why do you care how long you're going to live?".
But the kickbacks to the politicians making these decisions are they same for the factory or data centre. So the two type of facility are of identical benefit as far as they're concerned.
The sheep just don't care enough.
As far as these ROMs, I had an original NES back in the 80's, I had a large collections of games I paid full price for back then, that are long since disposed of, broken, thrown in the garbage whatever. Why should Nintendo care if I want to fire up a 30 year game to play for 30 minutes to stroke my nostalgia before going back to a modern game. It's not like I'd pay enough for the experience to be worth their while.
On the other hand, I have 2 kids who are too young for a game console right now. I was already planning to buy them whatever comes after the switch in 3-6 years. Now I have such a bad feeling towards Nintendo I really don't see that happening. They can play PC games with me.
Car-sized...300 times hotter...nothing about how close the probe will get or what temperatures it will endure.
How can they use that many words yet manage to say absolutely nothing?
I live in a city of about 1.5 million people. 7% of our municipal budget goes to the library system. As you can tell from my earlier post, I'm happy for every cent invested that way. I think that's such an important indicator of the quality of life and people in a place. The nearby "big city" of 5 million people 30 miles away wastes most of its money on project housing and social programs. The libraries are treated similar, horribly underfunded hangouts for people who can't afford to be anywhere else. They look and smell like homeless shelters and people live in the bathrooms. The best part is we pay less taxes where I am.
It's not fair to say the content is available on the internnet.
Much of the content my library offers is in the form of access to very expensive online data services that are offered for free to library patrons. There's well over 100 services I get free at my library. I have free access to Lynda.com which would otherwise cost around $30/month. The city's largest newspaper has an online archive of every page they printed going back to the mid 19'th century. They charge $100/year for access. Or free at the library. And that's only 2 of the services.
I can borrow just about any new release DVD for free within a month of release date.
My library offers access to high end 3D printers at a cost of 3 cents/gram. Just order online by uploading your stl files, and pick up at the branch in a few days. And considering I don't have to pay for spoiled prints or babysit a wonky $500 printer, their price is actually fantastic. I haven't used them yet, but they also have a CNC milling machine and vinyl cutting machine that can be used on the same basis.
They also have a video studio greenroom I can use for free and a music recording studio I can I use for free. I can borrow a gopro camera for free too.
Oh yeah, I think my library also gives me access to books and magazines for free. I guess, maybe, amazon could help with that one. Though I do take issue with the article saying amazon ebooks can replace real books. I read around 100 books a year, I haven't read an ebook in over 10 years, I didn't like the experience then and I don't think I'd like it now.
And especially with Amazon. I remember shortly after Kindle came out, they remotely deleted all the George Orwell books people had bought for their kindles when the publisher changed their mind about licensing the books. If I buy a print book, Amazon can't (legally, yet) break into my home and take back the book when they change their mind about selling it. For that reason alone, I will *never* use amazon for ebooks.