All the non-fanboys called it out. Apple would pull a childish prank and the Judge would not find it remotely funny and give a tougher sentence.
The only question is how long it takes Apple to grow up.
All they achieved is to drag it out and now they got to display it on the front page. Go ahead, make another mess out of it. Judges LOVE to laugh. Because they always get to have the last one.
The funny thing is that if they had just complied, nobody would have cared. Now they get another round of articles all over the world to point how petty Apple is and how afraid they are of Samsung products.
The Dutch are perfectly willing to help the US build solutions. They were willing before Katrina and Sandy and they are willing after. After Katrina, the dutch saved New Orleans from further disaster, will New York be the same?
You must get really tired of all those people going "wooosh" at you. Wooosh, WOOOSH!
Enterprise Kahn.
Google it, then hit ebay to see if you can score a sense of humor. British made ones are the best. Even if they put such a drain on your system that your taste buds and sex drive will decline. But at least you will get a geek joke on a geek site.
Pixar is the one who produced the movies you talked about, not Disney. Pixar operates very independently from Disney, they demanded to. Pixar does not make Disney movies, it makes Pixar movies.
And the reason everyone sees the great Pixar movies as being the prime output of Disney animation? Because their own animation has lost all credibility.
And the point really isn't whether Disney can or cannot make movies, it is about whether they can make a Star Wars movie.
Yes, they can make the prequels, they proven that with Pirates of the Carribean. What didn't I like about the prequels? It went to wildly from slapstick to hard action (Jar Jar Binks and the killing of the Jedi children) same as the nasty scene with the hanged kids in PotC which just didn't find in what seemed at first to be a action-comedy Indiana Jones style movie.
Disney had problems with this before, light action movies that tried to seem hard to get the older teens by including nastiness which didn't fit.
The whole family movie, which what Star Wars was, is actually very hard to make. Something that EVERYONE in the family likes. Disney has made for a while some animated movies were as a parent you weren't totally hating every minute but few adults would see them if their kids didn't make them. Star Wars was something audiences of all ages, with and without kids, went to see. That is something I don't see Disney doing, for that matter, few have done it since.
Bumbling Fett was a the baddies bumbling side-kick who as a plot device captures the hero through inexplicable means and then screws it up. Inexplicable bit, none of the Imperials asked WHY Boobie Fett wanted to be left behind drifting in space with the rest of their carbage? A smuggler has no detector for noticing another craft suddenly powering up at close range?
The extended universe made "killed in seconds by a blind smuggler" Fett into somekind of unstoppable killing machine... the same extended universe that turned action adventure into 30 something soap.
Oh yeah, how can I not be pleased. The most evil company in the world, who totally destroyed the Muppets, destroys anime every chance it gets and even does a hatchet job on its own products like Pirates of Auschwitz, WTF was that movie about? You think you go see a nice adventure movie, you get a scene that would have been censored out of Shindlers List. It could have been a Korean film for its going from light comedy to stuff even the Swedes need to sit down to digest in a movie.
As for merchandising the hell out of a movie, Disney invented that, they made some good serious movies but lets face it, Star Wars is going to get their cartoon treatment. Remember Pocahontas? Well, now imagine that being done to Star Wars. Not only won't Han Solo not shoot first, he won't shoot at all, the baddy will die (but not to visibly) by some hilarious accident created by his own stupidity possibly with the aid of a bumbling side-kick.
Star Wars was as popular as it was because it managed to steer a fine line between the "OMG, son, cover MY EYES" of PoftheC hardness and the total fluff of disney toons. You can't veer from it to far in either direction without loosing the Star Wars feeling.
Jar Jar Binks and the massacre of child jedi's shows this. Jar Jar Binks was to goofy and the massacre of kids so starkly shown removes ANY sympathy whatsoever you might feel for the "hero". Yes, the original Darth Vader blew up an entire planet which no doubt housed billions of kids some gutsy but cute orphans playing with a kitten BUT YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS. So DV was bad but not gobsmacking evil where the only character development you want to see is the character dying.
The movie "Pirates" with Walter Matthau had the same problem, the audience wanted a light hearted action movie, they got a dirty gritty pirate movie were the lead characters just ain't nice. Real pirates ain't nice and so neither was captain Red. You can argue whether Pirates is a good or bad movie but you can't argue is that this is not what the audience wanted.
Star Wars is light adventure, the heroes are heroes, the baddies are bad, one of the heroes gets the girl and everything is alright. THAT IS STAR WARS. Not to scary for kids, not to tame for adults. When people claim that of course you don't like the prequels, you grew up from being 6 years old... they forget. EVERYONE liked Star Wars. It wasn't a kid movie at the time of launch. Adults saw it too.
Some fans have retconned the series themselves. Handsup anyone who thought Boobie Fett was cool... DID YOU SEE THE SAME MOVIE? He is the classic bumbling side-kick to the baddie, he gets wiped in the first fight in seconds. Yes, he does capture the hero, the baddies side-kick always does this and then screws it up, you never watched cartoons before? Yet Bumble Fett is now in fanfiction and the extended universe some unstoppable killing machine equel to Vader. Except why would an equel be so easily threathened? Nah, retconning doesn't need logic.
This has created a view of Star Wars that is so varied, no new movie could possibly satisfy. It is the reason recent Star Wars games have no lived up to the potential of the license.
I severely doubt Disney will make anything worth watching out of all this. They will try to wrap a Star Wars skin around what they think sells right now. "Star Wars: Twilight" anyone? Moody Sith in high school? Don't think that someone at Evil HQ isn't writing a draft for it.
So by your definition, no European country is socialist but Japan and Korea are? You are aware that tech giants like Sony and Samsung have been and Samsung still is closely tied to their respective states?
And government does not control industry in Europe.
Get your head of Ann Rice drivel and look at the real world.
Google is going to cave in, they will strike a deal and once that deal is struck, everyone else will want the same deal and Google will find that it giving in for short term profits becomes very expensive in the long run.
If google gives money for indexing news sites, then why not slashdot? Why not my hobby site? Google would be wise to hold out on this but a publically traded company needs to show growth figures each month and dropping out of part of the market for long term gain, that is not on.
Currently your PC is a rather dumb tool, a useful tool but dumb. The fantasy is that stuff like Siri makes computers actually useful other then for finding cat pictures. Because outside work related coding and some gaming, I don't use my PC for much that other devices couldn't also do. Yes, I watch movies on it but I can watch movies on a projector if they still sell them. I can play music on a wax cylinder.
Yes, there are some small advantages but not nearly as many as you would like.
Play romantic music computer... no not the safety dance... yes dancing is romantic but not the safety dance.
Really, try to get a computer to do something as simple as understand mood and play the right music. That is what a MY computer could do, I think. Be more then a tool but an actual help. Not just enable me to with effort get things done (make manual playlist with the right mood music, then select play music when I am in the mood) but actually do stuff for me.
But I don't see how more cores could help. Big Blue got cores coming out its nose and it can't make a playlist based on my mood anymore then a C64 could.
The US is a socialist nation and has been so for decades if not at least a century and more.
Any nation with a social security system, is socialist. It don't matter if it is a good system or a bad one. You got it, your a pinko. The US got it, so they are all pinko's.
Any true capitalist nation, and there exist none, would not have a social system as it would be entirely private property with a tiny state collecting just enough by magic to do the bare minimum of centralized tasks, like the army. And even there, it would play a small role, relying more on private armies owned by those who can afford them to protect them. After all, why should I pay taxes to protect your property?
It is no surprise that the fantasy land Romney and his kin dream about has never been realized, it can't be realized in a modern society. Take something as simple as a fire service, in a backwards rural place you can afford to let the house of someone who didn't pay for fire insurance burn down, do that in apartment block in a major city and you have some real problem. You MUST put out your neighbors fire, to save our own ass but why should I pay to put your neighbors fire out to save your ass?
Far simpler to just organize a collective fire service payed out of common funds paid for by all according to their capability and service given to their needs. COMMUNIST!
A while ago slate had an article about how a businessman was sure Romney would win if only Businessmen could vote and how it would be nice if the country was run like a business. The moron.
Steve Jobs was a businessman, how would you like him running the country? First off, you won't have a second say because business doesn't run a popularity contest to determine the leader, the workers have no fote and USA Inc. you would be a worker, one of 360 million and the country only needs about 100 million workers. What do you do with surplus workers? Right, you evict them from the premises. Since Mexico Inc and Canada Inc ain't hiring that leaves one spot, hope you can swim really well dear redundant civilian.
Also, I am fairly certain Steve Jobs would not allow people to run small businesses from their office desks, no business would allow 4 competing divisions to do exactly the same thing, so why would USA Inc need 4 telecoms?
In the end, the only workable system is one where you have a large inefficient government trying damn hard to compensate for humans being lousy human beings. You wouldn't need rent control, if landlords build affordable housing. You don't need social security if companies hire for life (japan tried this, until it fell apart).
The funny thing is that America tried the free unregulated every man for himself approach in the Wild West days. People couldn't bring civilization fast enough to get rid of it and introduce socialist ideas to take the rough edges of life.
Read up on capitalism on wikipedia, the true capitalism is so unworkable, only the watered down socialist forms are discussed.
I will warn you to keep the arrogant attitudes at home though, pricks are frowned upon here and it's a very big place.. easy to get lost if you get my meaning.
Message received loud and clear: your insane. Duly noted.
That is why when I installed steam recently for the first time, I encountered two errors, both with extensive user provided workarounds involving rebooting in special mode to get around rights issues. On perfectly normal PC with perfectly normal Windows 7 64 bit.
Companies like Valve maintain expensive banks of PC's just to test all the countless configurations possible and STILL fail to deal with all of them as the extensive work arounds available to deal with a INSTALLER show.
Compared with that, Linux is FAR easier. With Linux Valve gets EXTENSIVE support from volunteers eager to help Valve out. With MS they can go die.
The fact that Ubuntu for FREE just works so often when paid for Windows so often does not, shows this. Linux sure has its moments but I can always find help to fix it and so can Valve. With windows? re-install. That is your payed for MS support.
I think Valve will be smart enough to create a default distro which works on listed hardware and for everything else, the community will find an answer. If they can get Linux running on a GBA, everything else is simple. Linux community is one who takes "doesn't work, can't work, the universe will explode if you try" as a challenge. Hell, right now, with no official support, you can run many games just fine with just Wine thanks to users helping users.
Given that I need pixel perfect precision, why won't I just zoom with the scroll wheel on the mouse and keep my hand comfortably rested on the desk, instead of lifting it all the way up (and I got 3 30inch monitors) to touch my screen, then wipe it off finger marks and rest it again on the mouse?
As for rotating... you might be amazed at how often I have felt no need or desire to rotate anything whatsoever on a computer screen. I have however felt the need to hit small links, select text quickly and easily and right-click on stuff.
Please, can one of the people with a touch screen and a screen setup that is NOT on laptop heights but work-safety recommended heights with large multiple monitors (and there are no affordable large resolution touch screens or even "oh my god I could buy a car for that" ones) tell me how holding my hand above eye height for input is easier, faster and more comfortable?
I will even accept that lots of smudges on your screen might have some kind of desirability to some.
Oh, and third, starting a career in education right now is really really tough. Even those who aren't just in it for an easy career can't find jobs because school districts are still paying the outrageous salaries of more tenured teachers.
Keep on contradicting yourself. Either the pay is good or it is bad. Can't be both at the same time, well except in Romney land.
So... you consider 80k to pay for living in NYC quite good pay, when you got a Masters degree?
You got to be fucking kidding me, that is low pay for a tech flunkie.
And you contract yourself, how many teachers for lower grades got a Masters degree?
My bet is your a republican by the ease by which you select among several made up statistics to combine in a non-existing entity which you claim to represent everything.
Proof me wrong, become a teacher if the pay is so good and the vacations that long, you would have to be an idiot not to switch. So why haven't you? Because you know you are pulling stats out of your ass?
Hey Samzenpus, when you hit rock bottom, STOP DIGGING!
Sure, I can see it now. 2000 kids in high-school, no teachers.
After the break, can monkeys be employed as caretakers for banana plantations. Next week an in-depth look at the results of giving the lunatics the keys to the asylum, test case: slashdot.
For those who are terminally stupid/libertarians, most people need oversight at least part of the time. Give kids a tablet and they will indeed use it, just as easily as my generation used a dictionary. To look up dirty words and hitting other kids with.
Yes some kids will indulge in self-study without encouragement, these kids need teachers most of all, to stop the other kids from beating them up.
A tablet is not anymore a teacher then a TV is a baby sitter.
Anyway, I wasn't talking about the consolfication of SimCity in particular but the consolfication of PC games in general, like Deus Ex and the most recent travesty, XCOM: Enemy Unknown. And yes I spelled that name correctly, I know the original was UFO: Enemy Unknow, that is how bad the consolfication hit.
I can indeed, but they can't install it. People can play Angry Birds on a iPhone after a demonstration on a Android phone. You can't install a 3DS game on a Vita.
When the Germans got a list of tax-evaders, they prosecuted them. When the Greeks got a list of tax-evaders, they prosecuted the publisher of the list.
The Greeks have since they joined the EU never contributed a single dime, they have ALWAYS been a drain and now they want even more money. They should NEVER have been let into the EU, in fact the EU should have stopped north of France. The Benelux and maybe Germany and the Scandinavian countries, they share a common culture, the protestant work ethic. It is no surprise that the problems are with ALL the southern EU nations and the red headed catholics, the Irish.
There is a gigantic difference in culture you just can't cross with ideals.
Taxes on cars and petrol do not COVER the costs or roads. Not even close. Roads are expensive. The car is NOT a milk cow as many believe, the car is in fact heavily subsidized from general taxes.
Just look at the public figures for the relevant department in your country. X + Y income from fuel and road taxes. Z expenditure. If Z is higher, then cars don't pay for roads, tax payers do. But everyone needs roads so that is okay. Just stop bleating how your fuel tax pays for everything, it doesn't.
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Read Steve Jobs biography, and Steve Ballmers chair throwing. Companies have no feelings, the people that run them do.
All the non-fanboys called it out. Apple would pull a childish prank and the Judge would not find it remotely funny and give a tougher sentence.
The only question is how long it takes Apple to grow up.
All they achieved is to drag it out and now they got to display it on the front page. Go ahead, make another mess out of it. Judges LOVE to laugh. Because they always get to have the last one.
The funny thing is that if they had just complied, nobody would have cared. Now they get another round of articles all over the world to point how petty Apple is and how afraid they are of Samsung products.
The Dutch are perfectly willing to help the US build solutions. They were willing before Katrina and Sandy and they are willing after. After Katrina, the dutch saved New Orleans from further disaster, will New York be the same?
And if you think the US is stupid for waiting until AFTER a disaster to do something, http://www.deltawerken.com/89
The Delta Works weren't started until AFTER the flood.
Humans are lazy.
You must get really tired of all those people going "wooosh" at you. Wooosh, WOOOSH!
Enterprise Kahn.
Google it, then hit ebay to see if you can score a sense of humor. British made ones are the best. Even if they put such a drain on your system that your taste buds and sex drive will decline. But at least you will get a geek joke on a geek site.
The dutch "Spits" newspaper had it on the front page, under a headline with said "Hoaxing with Sandy"
So I thought it was a hoax example... and then it turned out it was no hoax.
http://krant.spitsnieuws.nl/spits/_main_/2012/10/31/001/index.html
Pixar is the one who produced the movies you talked about, not Disney. Pixar operates very independently from Disney, they demanded to. Pixar does not make Disney movies, it makes Pixar movies.
And the reason everyone sees the great Pixar movies as being the prime output of Disney animation? Because their own animation has lost all credibility.
And the point really isn't whether Disney can or cannot make movies, it is about whether they can make a Star Wars movie.
Yes, they can make the prequels, they proven that with Pirates of the Carribean. What didn't I like about the prequels? It went to wildly from slapstick to hard action (Jar Jar Binks and the killing of the Jedi children) same as the nasty scene with the hanged kids in PotC which just didn't find in what seemed at first to be a action-comedy Indiana Jones style movie.
Disney had problems with this before, light action movies that tried to seem hard to get the older teens by including nastiness which didn't fit.
The whole family movie, which what Star Wars was, is actually very hard to make. Something that EVERYONE in the family likes. Disney has made for a while some animated movies were as a parent you weren't totally hating every minute but few adults would see them if their kids didn't make them. Star Wars was something audiences of all ages, with and without kids, went to see. That is something I don't see Disney doing, for that matter, few have done it since.
Hire Pixar to make the movie.
Problem solved.
Bumbling Fett was a the baddies bumbling side-kick who as a plot device captures the hero through inexplicable means and then screws it up. Inexplicable bit, none of the Imperials asked WHY Boobie Fett wanted to be left behind drifting in space with the rest of their carbage? A smuggler has no detector for noticing another craft suddenly powering up at close range?
The extended universe made "killed in seconds by a blind smuggler" Fett into somekind of unstoppable killing machine... the same extended universe that turned action adventure into 30 something soap.
Oh yeah, how can I not be pleased. The most evil company in the world, who totally destroyed the Muppets, destroys anime every chance it gets and even does a hatchet job on its own products like Pirates of Auschwitz, WTF was that movie about? You think you go see a nice adventure movie, you get a scene that would have been censored out of Shindlers List. It could have been a Korean film for its going from light comedy to stuff even the Swedes need to sit down to digest in a movie.
As for merchandising the hell out of a movie, Disney invented that, they made some good serious movies but lets face it, Star Wars is going to get their cartoon treatment. Remember Pocahontas? Well, now imagine that being done to Star Wars. Not only won't Han Solo not shoot first, he won't shoot at all, the baddy will die (but not to visibly) by some hilarious accident created by his own stupidity possibly with the aid of a bumbling side-kick.
Star Wars was as popular as it was because it managed to steer a fine line between the "OMG, son, cover MY EYES" of PoftheC hardness and the total fluff of disney toons. You can't veer from it to far in either direction without loosing the Star Wars feeling.
Jar Jar Binks and the massacre of child jedi's shows this. Jar Jar Binks was to goofy and the massacre of kids so starkly shown removes ANY sympathy whatsoever you might feel for the "hero". Yes, the original Darth Vader blew up an entire planet which no doubt housed billions of kids some gutsy but cute orphans playing with a kitten BUT YOU DIDN'T SEE THIS. So DV was bad but not gobsmacking evil where the only character development you want to see is the character dying.
The movie "Pirates" with Walter Matthau had the same problem, the audience wanted a light hearted action movie, they got a dirty gritty pirate movie were the lead characters just ain't nice. Real pirates ain't nice and so neither was captain Red. You can argue whether Pirates is a good or bad movie but you can't argue is that this is not what the audience wanted.
Star Wars is light adventure, the heroes are heroes, the baddies are bad, one of the heroes gets the girl and everything is alright. THAT IS STAR WARS. Not to scary for kids, not to tame for adults. When people claim that of course you don't like the prequels, you grew up from being 6 years old... they forget. EVERYONE liked Star Wars. It wasn't a kid movie at the time of launch. Adults saw it too.
Some fans have retconned the series themselves. Handsup anyone who thought Boobie Fett was cool... DID YOU SEE THE SAME MOVIE? He is the classic bumbling side-kick to the baddie, he gets wiped in the first fight in seconds. Yes, he does capture the hero, the baddies side-kick always does this and then screws it up, you never watched cartoons before? Yet Bumble Fett is now in fanfiction and the extended universe some unstoppable killing machine equel to Vader. Except why would an equel be so easily threathened? Nah, retconning doesn't need logic.
This has created a view of Star Wars that is so varied, no new movie could possibly satisfy. It is the reason recent Star Wars games have no lived up to the potential of the license.
I severely doubt Disney will make anything worth watching out of all this. They will try to wrap a Star Wars skin around what they think sells right now. "Star Wars: Twilight" anyone? Moody Sith in high school? Don't think that someone at Evil HQ isn't writing a draft for it.
Brazil has basically the same story and there Google seemed to be giving in.
I also remember their strong stance on pulling out of China rather then giving in. They are still in China.
So by your definition, no European country is socialist but Japan and Korea are? You are aware that tech giants like Sony and Samsung have been and Samsung still is closely tied to their respective states?
And government does not control industry in Europe.
Get your head of Ann Rice drivel and look at the real world.
Google is going to cave in, they will strike a deal and once that deal is struck, everyone else will want the same deal and Google will find that it giving in for short term profits becomes very expensive in the long run.
If google gives money for indexing news sites, then why not slashdot? Why not my hobby site? Google would be wise to hold out on this but a publically traded company needs to show growth figures each month and dropping out of part of the market for long term gain, that is not on.
Currently your PC is a rather dumb tool, a useful tool but dumb. The fantasy is that stuff like Siri makes computers actually useful other then for finding cat pictures. Because outside work related coding and some gaming, I don't use my PC for much that other devices couldn't also do. Yes, I watch movies on it but I can watch movies on a projector if they still sell them. I can play music on a wax cylinder.
Yes, there are some small advantages but not nearly as many as you would like.
Play romantic music computer... no not the safety dance... yes dancing is romantic but not the safety dance.
Really, try to get a computer to do something as simple as understand mood and play the right music. That is what a MY computer could do, I think. Be more then a tool but an actual help. Not just enable me to with effort get things done (make manual playlist with the right mood music, then select play music when I am in the mood) but actually do stuff for me.
But I don't see how more cores could help. Big Blue got cores coming out its nose and it can't make a playlist based on my mood anymore then a C64 could.
The US is a socialist nation and has been so for decades if not at least a century and more.
Any nation with a social security system, is socialist. It don't matter if it is a good system or a bad one. You got it, your a pinko. The US got it, so they are all pinko's.
Any true capitalist nation, and there exist none, would not have a social system as it would be entirely private property with a tiny state collecting just enough by magic to do the bare minimum of centralized tasks, like the army. And even there, it would play a small role, relying more on private armies owned by those who can afford them to protect them. After all, why should I pay taxes to protect your property?
It is no surprise that the fantasy land Romney and his kin dream about has never been realized, it can't be realized in a modern society. Take something as simple as a fire service, in a backwards rural place you can afford to let the house of someone who didn't pay for fire insurance burn down, do that in apartment block in a major city and you have some real problem. You MUST put out your neighbors fire, to save our own ass but why should I pay to put your neighbors fire out to save your ass?
Far simpler to just organize a collective fire service payed out of common funds paid for by all according to their capability and service given to their needs. COMMUNIST!
A while ago slate had an article about how a businessman was sure Romney would win if only Businessmen could vote and how it would be nice if the country was run like a business. The moron.
Steve Jobs was a businessman, how would you like him running the country? First off, you won't have a second say because business doesn't run a popularity contest to determine the leader, the workers have no fote and USA Inc. you would be a worker, one of 360 million and the country only needs about 100 million workers. What do you do with surplus workers? Right, you evict them from the premises. Since Mexico Inc and Canada Inc ain't hiring that leaves one spot, hope you can swim really well dear redundant civilian.
Also, I am fairly certain Steve Jobs would not allow people to run small businesses from their office desks, no business would allow 4 competing divisions to do exactly the same thing, so why would USA Inc need 4 telecoms?
In the end, the only workable system is one where you have a large inefficient government trying damn hard to compensate for humans being lousy human beings. You wouldn't need rent control, if landlords build affordable housing. You don't need social security if companies hire for life (japan tried this, until it fell apart).
The funny thing is that America tried the free unregulated every man for himself approach in the Wild West days. People couldn't bring civilization fast enough to get rid of it and introduce socialist ideas to take the rough edges of life.
Read up on capitalism on wikipedia, the true capitalism is so unworkable, only the watered down socialist forms are discussed.
I will warn you to keep the arrogant attitudes at home though, pricks are frowned upon here and it's a very big place.. easy to get lost if you get my meaning.
Message received loud and clear: your insane. Duly noted.
That is why when I installed steam recently for the first time, I encountered two errors, both with extensive user provided workarounds involving rebooting in special mode to get around rights issues. On perfectly normal PC with perfectly normal Windows 7 64 bit.
Companies like Valve maintain expensive banks of PC's just to test all the countless configurations possible and STILL fail to deal with all of them as the extensive work arounds available to deal with a INSTALLER show.
Compared with that, Linux is FAR easier. With Linux Valve gets EXTENSIVE support from volunteers eager to help Valve out. With MS they can go die.
The fact that Ubuntu for FREE just works so often when paid for Windows so often does not, shows this. Linux sure has its moments but I can always find help to fix it and so can Valve. With windows? re-install. That is your payed for MS support.
I think Valve will be smart enough to create a default distro which works on listed hardware and for everything else, the community will find an answer. If they can get Linux running on a GBA, everything else is simple. Linux community is one who takes "doesn't work, can't work, the universe will explode if you try" as a challenge. Hell, right now, with no official support, you can run many games just fine with just Wine thanks to users helping users.
Given that I need pixel perfect precision, why won't I just zoom with the scroll wheel on the mouse and keep my hand comfortably rested on the desk, instead of lifting it all the way up (and I got 3 30inch monitors) to touch my screen, then wipe it off finger marks and rest it again on the mouse?
As for rotating... you might be amazed at how often I have felt no need or desire to rotate anything whatsoever on a computer screen. I have however felt the need to hit small links, select text quickly and easily and right-click on stuff.
Please, can one of the people with a touch screen and a screen setup that is NOT on laptop heights but work-safety recommended heights with large multiple monitors (and there are no affordable large resolution touch screens or even "oh my god I could buy a car for that" ones) tell me how holding my hand above eye height for input is easier, faster and more comfortable?
I will even accept that lots of smudges on your screen might have some kind of desirability to some.
Oh, and third, starting a career in education right now is really really tough. Even those who aren't just in it for an easy career can't find jobs because school districts are still paying the outrageous salaries of more tenured teachers.
Keep on contradicting yourself. Either the pay is good or it is bad. Can't be both at the same time, well except in Romney land.
So... you consider 80k to pay for living in NYC quite good pay, when you got a Masters degree?
You got to be fucking kidding me, that is low pay for a tech flunkie.
And you contract yourself, how many teachers for lower grades got a Masters degree?
My bet is your a republican by the ease by which you select among several made up statistics to combine in a non-existing entity which you claim to represent everything.
Proof me wrong, become a teacher if the pay is so good and the vacations that long, you would have to be an idiot not to switch. So why haven't you? Because you know you are pulling stats out of your ass?
Hey Samzenpus, when you hit rock bottom, STOP DIGGING!
Sure, I can see it now. 2000 kids in high-school, no teachers.
After the break, can monkeys be employed as caretakers for banana plantations. Next week an in-depth look at the results of giving the lunatics the keys to the asylum, test case: slashdot.
For those who are terminally stupid/libertarians, most people need oversight at least part of the time. Give kids a tablet and they will indeed use it, just as easily as my generation used a dictionary. To look up dirty words and hitting other kids with.
Yes some kids will indulge in self-study without encouragement, these kids need teachers most of all, to stop the other kids from beating them up.
A tablet is not anymore a teacher then a TV is a baby sitter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity_Societies
Read it and weep.
Anyway, I wasn't talking about the consolfication of SimCity in particular but the consolfication of PC games in general, like Deus Ex and the most recent travesty, XCOM: Enemy Unknown. And yes I spelled that name correctly, I know the original was UFO: Enemy Unknow, that is how bad the consolfication hit.
I can indeed, but they can't install it. People can play Angry Birds on a iPhone after a demonstration on a Android phone. You can't install a 3DS game on a Vita.
When the Germans got a list of tax-evaders, they prosecuted them. When the Greeks got a list of tax-evaders, they prosecuted the publisher of the list.
The Greeks have since they joined the EU never contributed a single dime, they have ALWAYS been a drain and now they want even more money. They should NEVER have been let into the EU, in fact the EU should have stopped north of France. The Benelux and maybe Germany and the Scandinavian countries, they share a common culture, the protestant work ethic. It is no surprise that the problems are with ALL the southern EU nations and the red headed catholics, the Irish.
There is a gigantic difference in culture you just can't cross with ideals.
Taxes on cars and petrol do not COVER the costs or roads. Not even close. Roads are expensive. The car is NOT a milk cow as many believe, the car is in fact heavily subsidized from general taxes.
Just look at the public figures for the relevant department in your country. X + Y income from fuel and road taxes. Z expenditure. If Z is higher, then cars don't pay for roads, tax payers do. But everyone needs roads so that is okay. Just stop bleating how your fuel tax pays for everything, it doesn't.