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If those counts as hybrids then so do DA:O and any party RPG, which inevitably interrupts the usual game to handle battles.
In fact DA:O has three different games: 1. Interactive full-motion video. This is the only place you can change the outcome of quests, or really anything in the game 2. A game where you move around non-consequentially on a map (the so-called RPG part) 3. A tactical combat game.
The problem is that most of the competitors are making their tablets upgradable. You need to realize that the cheapest Apple models are actually competitively priced, it is the higher-end models that turn the huge profits. A competitor that supports an SD-card slot will never be able to afford as cheap low-end models as Apple, but on typical models, and higher ends models, they will be a great deal cheaper than Apple.
The trick here is psychological warfare. Apple knows prices are usually compared between the cheapest models, not between typical or comparable models, therefor they are taking the strategic tax of disabling any upgrade options, to effectively troll any price comparison.
I always thought the open mouth resting position was an artifact from the original purpose of these robots. It seems a lot more "natural" on uhm.. androids of young japanese woman.
I think part of the problem is that flamebaiting and trolling are both called trolling these days. True trolls are not possible to argue with, but if we are talking about fanboys, smartasses or anybody who is pissed off or having brain-fast, then it might make sense to engange and disarm them.
But well-balanced mind-wresting is difficult and tiring. This is what you do at work when dealing with annoying colleagues or customers, or at home when dealing with family or friends that don't mix. Not something you do on slashdot.
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Isn't this essential the Ars Technica's article translated to german, and then translated back to english?
Comparing any of these other devices to an iPod touch is like comparing a pocket calculator with a personal computer. I doubt you complain that PCs are too expensive compared to your TI. Different beasts for different objectives with different price points. Here's a little secret. The iPod touch is not an mp3 player, it's really a mobile computer that happens to have a built-in music app. If all you want is an mp3 player with the best quality these mp3 players might be the best choice. If you want a mobile computer, you've only listed the iPod touch...
:)
Let's try this: Which device allows you to upgrade it, much like a PC? Which device allows you to install any program you like? Which device uses standard PC periphirals like USB disks? Which device can peer with a PC and exchange data on equal terms using standard protocols?
I will give you a hint: It is not the iPod touch. The iPod might have more powerfull CPU than the cheap competitors, but it is castrated and is unlike what you say JUST BE AN MP3 player. Other MP3 players are much more than MP3 players and are more like a mobile computers, an iPod is not.
To be a distribution would so of imply that it is being distributed. Android is trying to be an operating system, not a distribution of an operating system.
No, I think you misunderstood the term "Strategy Tax", it is not a tax on the user, it is a tax on the company. Through business decisions they are preventing themselves from producing the best possible product. As long as their product is attractive enough, that is not an actual problem, but it does leave room for competitors to provide something they don't. Apple hasn't taken a hit from strategy tax yet, but strategy tax has come back to bite microsoft several times, and it is mainly a term used internally in microsoft for the hidden costs of strategic business decisions.
In case you haven't noticed, Apple's been working towards getting rid of removable media for a long time.
No, I hadn't noticed. Is that the new spin? Well, it's nice. Now enable USB and bluetooth filetransfer and I would believe it, otherwise I am going to stick with my strategy tax idea, because strategy tax explains disabled filetransfer (to support iTunes).
Forever. It is a strategy tax. Adding SDHC would make the lower end models compete with high-end models, and Apple prices the low-end models competively, but they make the profit on the high-end models that are much more expensive than expanding the low-end models would cost. 32Gbyte SDHC($50) plus a 3G modem($20) cost a lot less than the $330 price difference.
If they added SDHC-readers they would either have to raise prices on the low-end, or reduce the profit margins on the high-end.
Not that that makes it okay, I still resent them for it, but it makes perfect business sense, and this is no point in dreaming unless they are put under more customer pressure.
In fact a pretty easy job. If the job really involves trying to improve cooperation, the job is essential to tell MS: If you want their cooperation, you should stop trying to murder them.
Of course if the job is to make open source cooperate more in getting murdered, things might be more difficult.
Seriously, is it common (in the states) to "own" your employees even when they are not at work?
No, that would be slavery. You can not own your employees outside of working hours, but they would probably like to pretend they can and back the policy up with the threat of firing you even if the rule of law doesn't apply.
Even when software patents have not been allowed, H.264 and MP3 before has still managed to get patented in many EU countries. The no software patent clause only applies to small companies and private persons.
I don't think they ignored the US market. The story I've heard was that they pissed of all the carriers back in the 1990s by rejecting to deliberately criple their phones. They have since warmed up and produced the cripled phones necessary for the US market, but the carriers still doesn't like them.
Instrumented binaries are not currently faster than interpreters, they are useful for debugging and auditing, but they are not quite native in performance. With CPU having virtual machine extensions these days, virtual machines have performance similar to non-virtual machines, and would in my mind make more sense. Then again I am not sure what Google are doing. It sounds like they are just OS sandboxing it, like running the browser in chroot as the nobody user.
True, except I don't consider spatial memory and image memory to be the same.
First of all spatial memory provides a constant stream of clues. That is you have a current view that you can use as a key to the next assiocation, if you try to remember an image you usually have a one clue -> all details relation. You can fix that by making strings of associations, but that is the memory tricks we are talking about.
I consider remembering numbers and images equally hard because both has a single context to a lot of details relationship, and to remember many of the details you need all kinds of tricks.
People have different difficulty of remembering certain details, some remember dates, some smells, some people, some emotions, so when having to improve your memory you would usually use something that you are natural good at remembering.
Which means he has a good memory of images, and can use that to remember other things like numbers. What if you don't have a good memory of images, and in fact find it harder to remember images than numbers?
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If those counts as hybrids then so do DA:O and any party RPG, which inevitably interrupts the usual game to handle battles.
In fact DA:O has three different games:
1. Interactive full-motion video. This is the only place you can change the outcome of quests, or really anything in the game
2. A game where you move around non-consequentially on a map (the so-called RPG part)
3. A tactical combat game.
Whoooo
The problem is that most of the competitors are making their tablets upgradable. You need to realize that the cheapest Apple models are actually competitively priced, it is the higher-end models that turn the huge profits. A competitor that supports an SD-card slot will never be able to afford as cheap low-end models as Apple, but on typical models, and higher ends models, they will be a great deal cheaper than Apple.
The trick here is psychological warfare. Apple knows prices are usually compared between the cheapest models, not between typical or comparable models, therefor they are taking the strategic tax of disabling any upgrade options, to effectively troll any price comparison.
I am pretty sure the new CEO can get his old job at Microsoft back in case this one goes bust. So at least one person at Nokia still has his plan B.
I always thought the open mouth resting position was an artifact from the original purpose of these robots. It seems a lot more "natural" on uhm.. androids of young japanese woman.
I think part of the problem is that flamebaiting and trolling are both called trolling these days. True trolls are not possible to argue with, but if we are talking about fanboys, smartasses or anybody who is pissed off or having brain-fast, then it might make sense to engange and disarm them.
But well-balanced mind-wresting is difficult and tiring. This is what you do at work when dealing with annoying colleagues or customers, or at home when dealing with family or friends that don't mix. Not something you do on slashdot.
Isn't this essential the Ars Technica's article translated to german, and then translated back to english?
Let's try this:
Which device allows you to upgrade it, much like a PC?
Which device allows you to install any program you like?
Which device uses standard PC periphirals like USB disks?
Which device can peer with a PC and exchange data on equal terms using standard protocols?
I will give you a hint: It is not the iPod touch. The iPod might have more powerfull CPU than the cheap competitors, but it is castrated and is unlike what you say JUST BE AN MP3 player. Other MP3 players are much more than MP3 players and are more like a mobile computers, an iPod is not.
To be a distribution would so of imply that it is being distributed. Android is trying to be an operating system, not a distribution of an operating system.
No, I think you misunderstood the term "Strategy Tax", it is not a tax on the user, it is a tax on the company. Through business decisions they are preventing themselves from producing the best possible product. As long as their product is attractive enough, that is not an actual problem, but it does leave room for competitors to provide something they don't. Apple hasn't taken a hit from strategy tax yet, but strategy tax has come back to bite microsoft several times, and it is mainly a term used internally in microsoft for the hidden costs of strategic business decisions.
No, I hadn't noticed. Is that the new spin? Well, it's nice. Now enable USB and bluetooth filetransfer and I would believe it, otherwise I am going to stick with my strategy tax idea, because strategy tax explains disabled filetransfer (to support iTunes).
I think it only allows picture transfers. So useful for getting images from the camera, not useful for storing or transfering anything else.
Forever. It is a strategy tax. Adding SDHC would make the lower end models compete with high-end models, and Apple prices the low-end models competively, but they make the profit on the high-end models that are much more expensive than expanding the low-end models would cost. 32Gbyte SDHC($50) plus a 3G modem($20) cost a lot less than the $330 price difference.
If they added SDHC-readers they would either have to raise prices on the low-end, or reduce the profit margins on the high-end.
Not that that makes it okay, I still resent them for it, but it makes perfect business sense, and this is no point in dreaming unless they are put under more customer pressure.
An USB-pen might do it for only FAT systems since that is defacto standard for pen-drives, but I don't think any hardware actually does that.
3) Don't use Flash
4) Don't use Java
Interesting what they have unpublished 0-day exploits for.
In fact a pretty easy job. If the job really involves trying to improve cooperation, the job is essential to tell MS: If you want their cooperation, you should stop trying to murder them.
Of course if the job is to make open source cooperate more in getting murdered, things might be more difficult.
Then your contract is invalid, or at least that clause of it. If the company makes any moves to enforce that policy, report it to the union.
No, that would be slavery. You can not own your employees outside of working hours, but they would probably like to pretend they can and back the policy up with the threat of firing you even if the rule of law doesn't apply.
Even when software patents have not been allowed, H.264 and MP3 before has still managed to get patented in many EU countries. The no software patent clause only applies to small companies and private persons.
He was talking about marketing and market perception not about reality.
I don't think they ignored the US market. The story I've heard was that they pissed of all the carriers back in the 1990s by rejecting to deliberately criple their phones. They have since warmed up and produced the cripled phones necessary for the US market, but the carriers still doesn't like them.
Instrumented binaries are not currently faster than interpreters, they are useful for debugging and auditing, but they are not quite native in performance. With CPU having virtual machine extensions these days, virtual machines have performance similar to non-virtual machines, and would in my mind make more sense. Then again I am not sure what Google are doing. It sounds like they are just OS sandboxing it, like running the browser in chroot as the nobody user.
True, except I don't consider spatial memory and image memory to be the same.
First of all spatial memory provides a constant stream of clues. That is you have a current view that you can use as a key to the next assiocation, if you try to remember an image you usually have a one clue -> all details relation. You can fix that by making strings of associations, but that is the memory tricks we are talking about.
I consider remembering numbers and images equally hard because both has a single context to a lot of details relationship, and to remember many of the details you need all kinds of tricks.
People have different difficulty of remembering certain details, some remember dates, some smells, some people, some emotions, so when having to improve your memory you would usually use something that you are natural good at remembering.
Which means he has a good memory of images, and can use that to remember other things like numbers. What if you don't have a good memory of images, and in fact find it harder to remember images than numbers?
You have something that takes forever to parse and read.
Compared to C++ style:
primaryView.put(SearchBox->textPane)
More precise, less duplication, faster to read.
Not part of "Continental Europe". Nobody would claim they are not part of Europe.