"You seem the sort to easily fall for bullshit marketing terms. Or are you seriously suggesting computer processors should be marketed as "fast", "super fast", "mega fast", "ultra fast", "super mega fast", "mega ultra fast", "super mega ultra fast", "super mega ultra faster", etc? I mean, that avoids meaningless numbers, and each step is fairly pointless for human comprehension of speed.
You've completely managed to avoid understanding any of Apple's very successful marketing. I mean, you missed the boat ENTIRELY. Talking about relative processor speeds is completely off the table. Mhz, GB, dpi - these things are absent from their marketing for a very good reason. Not even the geeks need it in the advertising. If they want it, they can look it up on the web site.
Apple's marketing is squarely focused on what you can accomplish with the device.
They have the tiny slice that the governments allow. If you're American, try blabbing classified secrets. On the more ridiculous side, see how far you get reciting passages from "Fifty Shades of Grey" in a classroom of grade 7 studies. Maybe engage in some hate speech. How about slander and libel? Basically, whatever the government is comfortable with you having, you can have.
Well sure. But my "incredibly tiny" point still holds. Even with a 6 foot radius after dispersion, it's still a six foot beam into a vast sky, somehow accidentally intersecting an aircraft and against all odds making a pronounced entry into the cockpit. It's not going to happen.
"One of the most natural things in the world a kid with a lazer pointer will do is shine it straight up into the sky."
Good lord.
First of all, the odds that a kid would shine a laser into the sky and accidentally hit an aircraft are... well, stupendously low. The laser point is incredibly tiny, and the sky is incredibly large. And the slightest movement of the hand holding the laser has huge implications at the distance where an aircraft would intersect it. If it's not trained and held on the target, it would never be noticed.
I got my $60 out of it, and so did almost everybody who's bitching about it. I don't know where anybody got this idea that their one-time payment (that has become progressively cheaper as it failed to increase with inflation) should give them hundreds of hours of entertainment.
If you check your played time and it's over 100 hours, maybe you should stop whining about how crappy you think it is, because clearly your bitchy brain and your gaming brain are having an argument.
Actually, the old man in me wishes the entire gaming community would benefit from a complete media blackout when it comes to video games. Then they can buy a game without expectations, enjoy it without absorbing the negative crap from other gamers, and be satisfied.
Can the author of this editorial kindly explain why there are numerous profitable applications for Windows, during the XP era?
Simple. The publisher themselves often included the security that the O/S did not - things like serial numbers, key generation, and call-home authentication. Also, the market for Windows apps is vast enough that people can profit even if a small number of users pay up.
So perhaps android apps might sell more if you had to get a serial number derived from your device's unique identifier, and supplied by the software publisher... but maybe it would sell less instead.
Certification is not declaration of an absence of bugs. They're not going to regression test your entire app, or pull apart your entire source tree and make sure you didn't screw up - certainly not for just 5 figures.
After waiting and trying and waiting and trying and waiting and trying... finally conversion to 6GB mkv with full DTS works reliably. I converted my library of 600+ blu rays over the last few weeks.
Using the GPU I get about 70fps, and I've watched about 15 of the movies without noticing any problems at all.
I flat out gave up with trying to support my fricking PS3.
Assuming it's not vaporware, it's a little late to the party. I predict next year there'll be better screens yet. Look at me go.
Anyways, they're sticking it in golf stroke training systems and carwash controls, so maybe they'll find a niche. But as for tablets, wake me when one thrives for a couple of months in the market.
All those people accusing half the internet of being paid shills have finally actually caught one. Even if it's a "stopped clock" moment, it fuels the fire.
"I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don't like it, what's with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies, maybe you don't like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?""
"Well, if you are into the whole social network hype, you kind of deserve to get tracked and ripped off. You basically asked for it yourself."
And if you got a telephone, you deserve to be called by telemarketers and scam artists. And if you got a car you deserve to be carjacked. And if you have electricy you deserve to be electrocuted.
You basically asked for it yourself. Those are all possible consequences of choosing those products.
Stay in your luddite cave and disconnect. Toodles.
The only way to "prove" it would be to identify a definitive proving mechanism, and nobody has done so. No computer simulations have been able to solve it, nor have any participants. That's going to be as good as it gets.
I'm sure you've heard from people who are far more rabid in their disdain for this legislation than I, and you've likely heard all of the arguments against it.
I will therefore restrict myself to declaring that, should this legislation pass, I will not be voting for you in the future. That is an unconditional promise.
Slashdot Mirror
"You seem the sort to easily fall for bullshit marketing terms. Or are you seriously suggesting computer processors should be marketed as "fast", "super fast", "mega fast", "ultra fast", "super mega fast", "mega ultra fast", "super mega ultra fast", "super mega ultra faster", etc? I mean, that avoids meaningless numbers, and each step is fairly pointless for human comprehension of speed.
You've completely managed to avoid understanding any of Apple's very successful marketing. I mean, you missed the boat ENTIRELY. Talking about relative processor speeds is completely off the table. Mhz, GB, dpi - these things are absent from their marketing for a very good reason. Not even the geeks need it in the advertising. If they want it, they can look it up on the web site.
Apple's marketing is squarely focused on what you can accomplish with the device.
"I'll give you that Linux is the cheapest and least restrictive."
:)
Linux is absolutely the most restrictive. They insist you run linux, which bars 95+% of users from participating.
They have the tiny slice that the governments allow. If you're American, try blabbing classified secrets. On the more ridiculous side, see how far you get reciting passages from "Fifty Shades of Grey" in a classroom of grade 7 studies. Maybe engage in some hate speech. How about slander and libel? Basically, whatever the government is comfortable with you having, you can have.
Well sure. But my "incredibly tiny" point still holds. Even with a 6 foot radius after dispersion, it's still a six foot beam into a vast sky, somehow accidentally intersecting an aircraft and against all odds making a pronounced entry into the cockpit. It's not going to happen.
"One of the most natural things in the world a kid with a lazer pointer will do is shine it straight up into the sky."
Good lord.
First of all, the odds that a kid would shine a laser into the sky and accidentally hit an aircraft are... well, stupendously low. The laser point is incredibly tiny, and the sky is incredibly large. And the slightest movement of the hand holding the laser has huge implications at the distance where an aircraft would intersect it. If it's not trained and held on the target, it would never be noticed.
So, "no" to whatever point you're making.
"Am I too old to retrain?" "Am I pretty?" "I think I'm fat. Do you think I'm fat?"
Geez. "No, you're just wonderful. You don't need to retrain. Just be yourself."
I got my $60 out of it, and so did almost everybody who's bitching about it. I don't know where anybody got this idea that their one-time payment (that has become progressively cheaper as it failed to increase with inflation) should give them hundreds of hours of entertainment.
If you check your played time and it's over 100 hours, maybe you should stop whining about how crappy you think it is, because clearly your bitchy brain and your gaming brain are having an argument.
Actually, the old man in me wishes the entire gaming community would benefit from a complete media blackout when it comes to video games. Then they can buy a game without expectations, enjoy it without absorbing the negative crap from other gamers, and be satisfied.
Can the author of this editorial kindly explain why there are numerous profitable applications for Windows, during the XP era?
Simple. The publisher themselves often included the security that the O/S did not - things like serial numbers, key generation, and call-home authentication. Also, the market for Windows apps is vast enough that people can profit even if a small number of users pay up.
So perhaps android apps might sell more if you had to get a serial number derived from your device's unique identifier, and supplied by the software publisher... but maybe it would sell less instead.
Certification is not declaration of an absence of bugs. They're not going to regression test your entire app, or pull apart your entire source tree and make sure you didn't screw up - certainly not for just 5 figures.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21464
I do not own 600 blu rays. That was supposed to be 200+.
After waiting and trying and waiting and trying and waiting and trying... finally conversion to 6GB mkv with full DTS works reliably. I converted my library of 600+ blu rays over the last few weeks.
Using the GPU I get about 70fps, and I've watched about 15 of the movies without noticing any problems at all.
I flat out gave up with trying to support my fricking PS3.
"America! Fuck you!"
Fair enough. Well put.
...for every other gift you receive with origins you might disagree with, be it sneakers from overseas or any form of plastic.
Assuming it's not vaporware, it's a little late to the party. I predict next year there'll be better screens yet. Look at me go.
Anyways, they're sticking it in golf stroke training systems and carwash controls, so maybe they'll find a niche. But as for tablets, wake me when one thrives for a couple of months in the market.
...I can only hope it means a decreased presence in North America. Good riddance.
All those people accusing half the internet of being paid shills have finally actually caught one. Even if it's a "stopped clock" moment, it fuels the fire.
"I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you
But I get the feeling that you don't like it, what's with all the screaming?
You like monkeys, you like ponies, maybe you don't like monsters so much
Maybe I used too many monkeys
Isn't it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?""
- Jonathan Coulton, Skullcrusher Mountain
"Well, if you are into the whole social network hype, you kind of deserve to get tracked and ripped off. You basically asked for it yourself."
And if you got a telephone, you deserve to be called by telemarketers and scam artists. And if you got a car you deserve to be carjacked. And if you have electricy you deserve to be electrocuted.
You basically asked for it yourself. Those are all possible consequences of choosing those products.
Stay in your luddite cave and disconnect. Toodles.
The only way to "prove" it would be to identify a definitive proving mechanism, and nobody has done so. No computer simulations have been able to solve it, nor have any participants. That's going to be as good as it gets.
...screw it. FUCK YOU, you pricks. Hey... I didn't read the article first... Well hot damn! I'm finally a slashdotter after so many years!
...lest they get sued by "big insecticide".
...and what a wasteland of failure lies before us... :)
Failure to envision appropriate and unique uses for the device is a failure of your imagination - not a failure of the device. There are plenty.
I'd like to take a moment to address the question of C-11. I have, in fact, read it in its entirety, since media coverage is never without bias.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Docid=5144516&file=4
I'm sure you've heard from people who are far more rabid in their disdain for this legislation than I, and you've likely heard all of the arguments against it.
I will therefore restrict myself to declaring that, should this legislation pass, I will not be voting for you in the future. That is an unconditional promise.
Yours,
Petersko