For those who want features that Apple doesn't provide, there are other options. I see no point in complaining that a device doesn't do what you want if you're never going to buy one in the first place, buy something else.
The tired old shut-down of criticism, "if you don't like it, you don't have to buy one" leading to "if you're not going to buy it, don't criticise".
The latter takes the original point (valid) and extends it in a totally invalid way. Of course people are entitled to criticise what they aren't buying, and to explain what they don't like about it. Others are entitled to consider or ignore this opinion, but not to expect them to shut up about it.
Well, to be fair, IIRC the Mega-CD had no standout "killer" games- or even particularly notable ones- to justify upgrading.
And at the time of the 32X's launch (at least in the UK), the Saturn was already due for release in the not-so-distant future, so I doubt many people would have been willing to shell out for something that was obviously already on borrowed time at launch.
"They saying "If you find a job you love you will never work a day in your life." is false. There will be boring parts or parts that you will not enjoy for your job."
I dunno. Tell that to the guy that auditions new pr0n talent.
I'd think you'd never get tired of the 'screening' process for new chicks cuming in the office to get into the biz.
Except that the real-life version of that job (or its closest match) probably still includes some other tedious secondary aspects or tasks that ideally they'd rather not be doing. Doesn't mean that they don't like their job overall, simply that "there will be boring parts [however minor] or parts that they will not enjoy".
And even the fantasised-about "perfect" version of that job with an endless parade of porn star beauties would probably lose its lustre a bit for most people after a while. That's human beings for you.
The fact that [PDF] offers script execution is pretty baffling.
No, it's not. Adobe need to keep adding new features to the format (whether they're a good idea or not) in order to give them an excuse to sell people newer versions of Acrobat and the like.
I have an Orange SIM or two with £5 on them from a free off a while back (hopefully they've not expired...)
Unfortunately, they have a habit of doing this. I grabbed a load of free SIMs a while ago so I had some that people visiting from aboard could pop into their phones and call me cheaply with. When I came to use them, they were no longer valid (the network rejected them).
Not entirely defending them, but perhaps what you're doing (i.e. accumulating them with the intention of future use) wasn't really what the network wanted and they deactivated the ones that hadn't already been used after a given period of time. I suspect (though I can't think of a specific reason) that there may be the potential for fraud with SIMs that are out there for an arbitrary period of time before they come into use, but that's just a gut feeling on my part.
AOL became a useless company once they switched from sending out free reusable floppies to non-useful CD coasters.
Actually, they were useful... as coasters. No, really, I *did* use them as coasters(!) though neither they nor anyone else's ISP promo CDs ever actually encouraged me to sign up for anything.
The Amiga OS was also much cleaner and more modern than MS-DOS, which was a messy and needlessly complex series of tacked-on workarounds and hacky modifications to what was basically a 16-bit ripoff of an 8-bit operating system (CP/M), with a separate GUI glued on top.
The fact that the Amiga supported proper pre-emptive multitasking which Windows didn't do for the better part of a decade is one glaring example. Even when the raw PC hardware caught up with and eventually passed the Amiga's in the early 1990s, it was still let down by a messy, anachronistic OS.
No, he said that he is blocking "a specific Asian country".
Fine, be a racist asshole
How do you know he was doing it to be racist? Perhaps there were significant problems almost exclusively associated with usage/abuse from a particular country that would justify blocking it.
Bottom line is that I don't even know if I'm playing Devil's advocate here, because there isn't really enough info in the original to determine if he's being a racist dick or not. And nor is there enough info to point the finger and yell "racist!"- every time someone does so on Slashdot when there is a hint of by-area blocking just makes them sound like the boy that cried wolf.
30 frames-per-second isn't that much different to 24, in fact as far as I know many US shows shot on film did so at 30fps. Perhaps you're thinking of traditional interlaced video which has 50 or 60 *fields*- i.e. half-frames- per second (which isn't the same as 25/30 frames, due to the fact that objects can have moved between one field and the next, so you really get 50/60 hz temporal resolution, albeit not at "full" spatial resolution).
Of course, if you shot film at 50 or 60 full frames per second, you'd also get increased motion fluidity and a more "video" look.
Your first statement is right on: it is now being recognized that a 2D film is more realistic than a 3D one, which adds an artificial theatrical effect that pulls you right out of the storytelling. This is why so many directors hate it.
Interesting point here; people seem to prefer the more "juddery" 24/25 frames-per-second look of film to the theoretically more realistic 50/60 fields-per-second of traditional video.
I've heard people complaining about TVs that interpolate extra frames, saying that they make film-based material look like a cheap soap opera. That's (I assume) because the extra frames make it look more like video.
Now, it's possible that people just associate the reduced motion-fluidity with film and therefore prefer it. But I remember when I was a kid watching some programme and thinking it looked... different. It was hard to explain, but it felt undefinably "distant". For some reason I remembered that- and later on I realised that it was probably because, despite being a studio-based show (that would normally be shot on video), it had been done on film.
In short, I suspect that people prefer film because it *does* have a less realistic, "distancing" effect, and while I haven't seen any 3D films in the cinema, I suspect that its increased "realism" *might* counter-intuitively work against it for similar reasons.
If each fork represents a patent, all the philosophers have picked up a fork and now are unable to eat because they don't have enough forks to make a smartphone.
Er.... yeah.
Unfortunately, you're likely to get sued because BadAnalogyGuy owns the patent on making very bad analogies on Slashdot.:-)
A remote mountain in Nepal has better 3G service than San Francisco, a large progressive city in "the world's only superpower"...
Aside from the fact that- as the other reply pointed out- this only applies to one, very well-known "remote mountain", there's also the fact that signal coverage within cities is generally much harder and patchier than it is on a mountain where the only major obstacle is... the mountain itself.
As soon as Murdoch bought the site it tanked completely. Now obviously those two things aren't entirely connected.
Yes they are.
That's the day I stopped logging in.
(Assumed implication being that you stopped using MySpace because Murdoch bought it).
I can't figure out if you're being serious here. Are you actually suggesting that you think your decision to leave for that reason is significant in the scheme of things (i.e. millions of users) or even that it reflects the reasons for everyone else leaving?
Because- much as I think Murdoch is worthless scum and understand your reasons- it's egotistical or deluded to believe that either of these is the case. Sorry to say that I doubt the vast majority of its users gave a toss about him buying MySpace per se.
Maybe he did something that caused people to leave, or maybe the seeds of its destruction were already sown by the time it had been sold. But I doubt most people left directly because they didn't like Murdoch- you're not typical.
The irony is that the first page *is* from 1996, yet doesn't feature the uber-90s/early-web non-scrolling fixed background pattern.
Whereas, after that aspect of web design had apparently died out by the millennium (because it was obviously horrid, I'd assumed), the first place I see it on a new page in years is... MySpace. Along with lots of other Geocities:The Next Generation style tackiness.
Actually nobody even needs to live, they may want to but they don't need to do so.
Well, if you want to follow that to its logical conclusion (which I'd argue you already have, but didn't recognise it), one could argue that any "need" is meaningless, since it can only be defined in terms of the human (or whatever!) wish to survive.
I have thought about it to it's logical conclusion.
I don't think you have. If you had, you'd have realised that all "needs" ultimately relate to survival- the ultimate "need"- and if one dismisses that, then the word and concept itself is meaningless as is your assertion that "nobody even needs to live" (i.e. it renders itself meaningless!)
Perhaps one exists because one is "needed" by other people? No. They do not- by the above definition- "need" to exist either.
I'm realise this might sound like I'm reducing human existence to a logical (if not pedantic) argument- it's actually the opposite. Yes, it's true that the "need" to survive is ultimately a human-imposed axiom... but it's only if one dismisses that that it becomes meaningless.
As stated in the post you replied to I am disabled
With respect- and I'm sure you don't need my condescension- I don't see that it changes the facts being argued here.
Actually nobody even needs to live, they may want to but they don't need to do so.
Well, if you want to follow that to its logical conclusion (which I'd argue you already have, but didn't recognise it), one could argue that any "need" is meaningless, since it can only be defined in terms of the human (or whatever!) wish to survive.
Or perhaps it saw that the party was being held on a Sunday night, knew it had work to go to the next day and decided not to go.
Meanwhile, Apple (which had a great time and was the life of the party) turned up at work late, badly hungover and looking like death. After failing the drugs test, it was finally let go by the Company, around the (same time that Microsoft was given that promotion) and went into a sad decline, never able to move on from its college partying days and accept that its popularity with the cool college kids didn't mean long term success.
Err... to be honest, that sounds like there should be a metaphor in there, but on reflection I doubt it. It was just my extrapolation of one colloquial expression to the point of drivel. Sorry folks:-/
The Vista Hybrid was a bad move though. It was one thing to get the "allow" or "deny" prompt when you started one but getting the prompt when you hit the brakes was a little unsettling.
A more serious problem was that this was often followed by the system crashing.
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Can you please explain the advantage of ARM over X86 in the server room because this one has me scratching my head.
Perhaps the type of "servers" they had in mind were more akin to the SheevaPlug.
For those who want features that Apple doesn't provide, there are other options. I see no point in complaining that a device doesn't do what you want if you're never going to buy one in the first place, buy something else.
The tired old shut-down of criticism, "if you don't like it, you don't have to buy one" leading to "if you're not going to buy it, don't criticise".
The latter takes the original point (valid) and extends it in a totally invalid way. Of course people are entitled to criticise what they aren't buying, and to explain what they don't like about it. Others are entitled to consider or ignore this opinion, but not to expect them to shut up about it.
Sega tried that with the Mega-CD and 32X...
Well, to be fair, IIRC the Mega-CD had no standout "killer" games- or even particularly notable ones- to justify upgrading.
And at the time of the 32X's launch (at least in the UK), the Saturn was already due for release in the not-so-distant future, so I doubt many people would have been willing to shell out for something that was obviously already on borrowed time at launch.
"They saying "If you find a job you love you will never work a day in your life." is false. There will be boring parts or parts that you will not enjoy for your job."
I dunno. Tell that to the guy that auditions new pr0n talent. I'd think you'd never get tired of the 'screening' process for new chicks cuming in the office to get into the biz.
Except that the real-life version of that job (or its closest match) probably still includes some other tedious secondary aspects or tasks that ideally they'd rather not be doing. Doesn't mean that they don't like their job overall, simply that "there will be boring parts [however minor] or parts that they will not enjoy".
And even the fantasised-about "perfect" version of that job with an endless parade of porn star beauties would probably lose its lustre a bit for most people after a while. That's human beings for you.
The fact that [PDF] offers script execution is pretty baffling.
No, it's not. Adobe need to keep adding new features to the format (whether they're a good idea or not) in order to give them an excuse to sell people newer versions of Acrobat and the like.
I have an Orange SIM or two with £5 on them from a free off a while back (hopefully they've not expired...)
Unfortunately, they have a habit of doing this. I grabbed a load of free SIMs a while ago so I had some that people visiting from aboard could pop into their phones and call me cheaply with. When I came to use them, they were no longer valid (the network rejected them).
Not entirely defending them, but perhaps what you're doing (i.e. accumulating them with the intention of future use) wasn't really what the network wanted and they deactivated the ones that hadn't already been used after a given period of time. I suspect (though I can't think of a specific reason) that there may be the potential for fraud with SIMs that are out there for an arbitrary period of time before they come into use, but that's just a gut feeling on my part.
AOL became a useless company once they switched from sending out free reusable floppies to non-useful CD coasters.
Actually, they were useful... as coasters. No, really, I *did* use them as coasters(!) though neither they nor anyone else's ISP promo CDs ever actually encouraged me to sign up for anything.
The Amiga OS was also much cleaner and more modern than MS-DOS, which was a messy and needlessly complex series of tacked-on workarounds and hacky modifications to what was basically a 16-bit ripoff of an 8-bit operating system (CP/M), with a separate GUI glued on top.
The fact that the Amiga supported proper pre-emptive multitasking which Windows didn't do for the better part of a decade is one glaring example. Even when the raw PC hardware caught up with and eventually passed the Amiga's in the early 1990s, it was still let down by a messy, anachronistic OS.
doubt a significant amount of material will be carried into the female in the seaman.
What exactly is this seaman doing?
Shagging rabbits, obviously! This is what sailors will resort to when you don't allow women on board a ship.
You block asia?
No, he said that he is blocking "a specific Asian country".
Fine, be a racist asshole
How do you know he was doing it to be racist? Perhaps there were significant problems almost exclusively associated with usage/abuse from a particular country that would justify blocking it.
Bottom line is that I don't even know if I'm playing Devil's advocate here, because there isn't really enough info in the original to determine if he's being a racist dick or not. And nor is there enough info to point the finger and yell "racist!"- every time someone does so on Slashdot when there is a hint of by-area blocking just makes them sound like the boy that cried wolf.
Is this their new database code name?
They only bought Andre the Giant because they wanted to get their hands on his posse.
30 frames-per-second isn't that much different to 24, in fact as far as I know many US shows shot on film did so at 30fps. Perhaps you're thinking of traditional interlaced video which has 50 or 60 *fields*- i.e. half-frames- per second (which isn't the same as 25/30 frames, due to the fact that objects can have moved between one field and the next, so you really get 50/60 hz temporal resolution, albeit not at "full" spatial resolution).
Of course, if you shot film at 50 or 60 full frames per second, you'd also get increased motion fluidity and a more "video" look.
Your first statement is right on: it is now being recognized that a 2D film is more realistic than a 3D one, which adds an artificial theatrical effect that pulls you right out of the storytelling. This is why so many directors hate it.
Interesting point here; people seem to prefer the more "juddery" 24/25 frames-per-second look of film to the theoretically more realistic 50/60 fields-per-second of traditional video.
I've heard people complaining about TVs that interpolate extra frames, saying that they make film-based material look like a cheap soap opera. That's (I assume) because the extra frames make it look more like video.
Now, it's possible that people just associate the reduced motion-fluidity with film and therefore prefer it. But I remember when I was a kid watching some programme and thinking it looked... different. It was hard to explain, but it felt undefinably "distant". For some reason I remembered that- and later on I realised that it was probably because, despite being a studio-based show (that would normally be shot on video), it had been done on film.
In short, I suspect that people prefer film because it *does* have a less realistic, "distancing" effect, and while I haven't seen any 3D films in the cinema, I suspect that its increased "realism" *might* counter-intuitively work against it for similar reasons.
If each fork represents a patent, all the philosophers have picked up a fork and now are unable to eat because they don't have enough forks to make a smartphone.
Er.... yeah.
:-)
Unfortunately, you're likely to get sued because BadAnalogyGuy owns the patent on making very bad analogies on Slashdot.
A remote mountain in Nepal has better 3G service than San Francisco, a large progressive city in "the world's only superpower"...
Aside from the fact that- as the other reply pointed out- this only applies to one, very well-known "remote mountain", there's also the fact that signal coverage within cities is generally much harder and patchier than it is on a mountain where the only major obstacle is... the mountain itself.
There are only so many ways to describe the form factor of the ipad. Tablet, slate, pad, and... what else?
"Jobsian Fondle Slab" was one I quite liked...
unexploded WW2 shells, some walmart bullets, a kid with braces. An arm with a tattoo. A hamster that ingested iron shavings.
Raindrops on roses. Whiskers on kittens. Bright copper kettles. Warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages tied up with strings.
As soon as Murdoch bought the site it tanked completely. Now obviously those two things aren't entirely connected.
Yes they are. That's the day I stopped logging in.
(Assumed implication being that you stopped using MySpace because Murdoch bought it).
I can't figure out if you're being serious here. Are you actually suggesting that you think your decision to leave for that reason is significant in the scheme of things (i.e. millions of users) or even that it reflects the reasons for everyone else leaving?
Because- much as I think Murdoch is worthless scum and understand your reasons- it's egotistical or deluded to believe that either of these is the case. Sorry to say that I doubt the vast majority of its users gave a toss about him buying MySpace per se.
Maybe he did something that caused people to leave, or maybe the seeds of its destruction were already sown by the time it had been sold. But I doubt most people left directly because they didn't like Murdoch- you're not typical.
The irony is that the first page *is* from 1996, yet doesn't feature the uber-90s/early-web non-scrolling fixed background pattern.
Whereas, after that aspect of web design had apparently died out by the millennium (because it was obviously horrid, I'd assumed), the first place I see it on a new page in years is... MySpace. Along with lots of other Geocities:The Next Generation style tackiness.
I find it hard to believe it took Apple this long to notice and then address supposed issues with light leakage
I thought "light leakage" was a side effect of Alli?
This explains how Steve Jobs lost all that weight...
That's not an analogy. You fail to live up to your Reddit namesake.
That's a different guy.
Er, yes. Given that namesake means "a person with the same name as another", that *should* be the case anyway. :-)
Actually nobody even needs to live, they may want to but they don't need to do so.
Well, if you want to follow that to its logical conclusion (which I'd argue you already have, but didn't recognise it), one could argue that any "need" is meaningless, since it can only be defined in terms of the human (or whatever!) wish to survive.
I have thought about it to it's logical conclusion.
I don't think you have. If you had, you'd have realised that all "needs" ultimately relate to survival- the ultimate "need"- and if one dismisses that, then the word and concept itself is meaningless as is your assertion that "nobody even needs to live" (i.e. it renders itself meaningless!)
Perhaps one exists because one is "needed" by other people? No. They do not- by the above definition- "need" to exist either.
I'm realise this might sound like I'm reducing human existence to a logical (if not pedantic) argument- it's actually the opposite. Yes, it's true that the "need" to survive is ultimately a human-imposed axiom... but it's only if one dismisses that that it becomes meaningless.
As stated in the post you replied to I am disabled
With respect- and I'm sure you don't need my condescension- I don't see that it changes the facts being argued here.
Actually nobody even needs to live, they may want to but they don't need to do so.
Well, if you want to follow that to its logical conclusion (which I'd argue you already have, but didn't recognise it), one could argue that any "need" is meaningless, since it can only be defined in terms of the human (or whatever!) wish to survive.
Windows Phone 7 : Too Late to the party ...
Or perhaps it saw that the party was being held on a Sunday night, knew it had work to go to the next day and decided not to go.
:-/
Meanwhile, Apple (which had a great time and was the life of the party) turned up at work late, badly hungover and looking like death. After failing the drugs test, it was finally let go by the Company, around the (same time that Microsoft was given that promotion) and went into a sad decline, never able to move on from its college partying days and accept that its popularity with the cool college kids didn't mean long term success.
Err... to be honest, that sounds like there should be a metaphor in there, but on reflection I doubt it. It was just my extrapolation of one colloquial expression to the point of drivel. Sorry folks
Microsoft to stop making automobiles.
The Vista Hybrid was a bad move though. It was one thing to get the "allow" or "deny" prompt when you started one but getting the prompt when you hit the brakes was a little unsettling.
A more serious problem was that this was often followed by the system crashing.