Wouldn't it be nice if you could go and download all the ported games that you originally bought for Windows? It would give them a good indication of which Windows purchasers really wanted to have a Linux version in the first place, but only bought the Windows version because a Linux version didn't exist. It would probably show quite a bit of goodwill towards the customers. New game sales should be this way as well. Purchase 1 version, run it on whichever platform is supported.
What's interesting is that if you talk about running or weight lifting, we've pretty much come to the conclusion that men are better simply because they are men, and it has nothing to do with socialization. We also pretty much know that certain races are better at sprinting (in general, not in every individual case) and it's simply by nature, and nothing to do with socialization or upbringing. However, if you start to talk about anything intellectual, it's quite taboo to say that it might be nature that is causing such large disparities between races or genders.
I think that only worked so well for the browser because MS let IE stagnate for so long. I don't think they are doing the same with DirectX. DirectX continues to evolve and stay up to date. It's one thing to convince the non-programmer, general computer user to keep using mediocre tools, it's a whole other story to try and get developers to do the same.
Most people who are good at math also have very little ability to teach it, because it comes so naturally to them. Think about it this way. If you ask singers how to sing better, most of them would probably have no idea how to help you sing better, or what they were doing to make themselves sing so well. They just can, and they've been doing it since they were 3. Same goes for most people who are good at math. There are some people who are good at math who can also teach it, but I don't believe that the two skills are related in any way. Being extremely good at math might even be a hindrance. I know I tried to help a few friends in highschool with math, and I was very unsuccessful. I couldn't wrap my head around what people found so hard about basic algebra.
Yeah, but Vancouver is one of the warmest places in the country. If you live in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary, or just about anywhere other than Vancouver, it can get pretty cold in winter.
Yep. Most touch screens don't work with gloves. e-readers don't work in the cold. an many other devices simply fail because they were "designed by Apple in California" or with the expectations that everybody has a good internet connection. Why do I have to clear off 4 GB of space (25% of total space) on my iDevice so that they can fix a small vulnerability with SSL on IOS?
What about all the other courses that are required for the degree, like algebra, calculus, discrete math, technical writing, and other electives like psychology, history, business management, or biology. All of these, while not directly applicable, are definitely useful, and should not be ignored.
Its hard to say if 90% really means 10% false positive rate. It might mean 0% false positive but that 10% of people who will get Alzheimer's will not show up positive on the test. Think about pregnancy tests. If it shows positive, you most likely are. If it's negative, there's chance you might still be pregnant.
Its also worth mentioning that when developing Window 8 apps that this variable size app paradigm is baked into the UI design, and as a developer they make it really easy to work at a variety of screen widths. Which make it easy for your app to be run on windows phone. Since the phone is basically the same as the app running on desktop with the minimum width.
Well, perhaps the tax rate wouldn't have to be so high, but it could still be based on income. Maybe 0.5% or lower. Maybe grocery stores would have to raise their prices a bit to pay the tax, but that would affect all grocery stores, so they would all raise prices accordingly.
Why is perhaps why businesses should get taxed on income (aka revenue) like the rest of the tax payers. If I was only taxed on what I couldn't end up spending at the end of the year, I'd have to pay a lot less tax. Actually, I'd make sure that I spent almost all my money (on things that will appreciate in value), which is what businesses end up doing to get around paying taxes.
I think that depends on the item. There's many items in the dollar store that are specifically made for the dollar store and are continually restocked. They may not be as high quality as similar items sold in other stores but I guarantee that the producer, and everybody else in the chain is making money off these items.
There's about 500 reasons to purchase a Surface 2 vs. a Surface Pro. The Surface Pro is nice, but it costs $500 more. As far as domains go, that really isn't much concern to home users. It's also not much of a concern over the other ARM based tablets since none of the ARM based tablets (Windows RT, Android, iPad) run windows legacy apps. Personally, I find that my Surface 2 is at least, if not more capable than an iPad or Android tablet. It doesn't have quite the same number of games, but other than that, it performs all the same features, or at least all the stuff that I want to do with a tablet. It also has a lot of built in functionality out of the box, which means I don't have to download apps to have things like a file manager, or connect to shared folders.
Sure a lot of the cheap games are terrible, but there's some pretty good stuff out there for cheap. $2.99 for Rayman Jungle (MS Surface 2) run was one of my recent purchases I'm pretty happy with. There's way more playability to that game than a lot of recent console games which cost upwards of $60. It's kind of a repetitive game, but each level is unique, and there's not point where they ask you to spend more money.
To be fair, that's exactly what they are doing with their Windows RT tablets. The only way to load software on is with the Windows Store, and the only browser available is IE. Although I guess one could make a different browser available through the app store.
This is the point that a lot a lot of people seem to be missing when they talk about digital sales of music, movies, games, and books. The cost of the physical product is essentially zero. If you want proof, go down to your local dollar store, where you can buy any of these items for $1. That $1 pays for somebody to produce that book/dvd/cd (and many other items of similar complexity), ship it to the warehouse, ship it to the store, and pay for all the employees handling the product along the way. With Apple and other online stores taking 30% of the final sale, selling digital products may even get less money for the original creators of the product.
My ISP gave me a WiFi accessible cable modem. I leave it on for my friends to connect to when they come over. All my equipment connects to another router behind the cable modem.
While I probably didn't pick the best example, as looking at the graphs of sin(x) and cos(x) you can see that one is the derivative of the other, there are plenty of more complicated rules out there. Polynomials are quite easy as well. But once you get into more complicated functions applying all the rules can be frustrating. Often the questions are more about reducing a function to something else that's easily derivable than about how to actually find the derivative.
Doing hands on geometrical calculus is easy, and can be understood quite easily. What's I actually found difficult, was not the concept, but the memorization of how go obtain the integral or derivative of a functions. So many rules, that seemingly had no logic to them. The derivative of sin(x) is cos(x). Why? most students probably couldn't tell you that. Looking at a proof I found, it actually seems quite non-obvious, and not something most beginner calculus students could figure out on their own.
Although I don't really agree with paying women less on the chance that they might get pregnant and take 6-12 months off work, I certainly see it as a very real problem. In many fields, people aren't instantaneously replaceable. You can't just call in a replacement for someone and they are instantly as productive as the person they are replacing. Plus, the other employees who must help train them lose efficiency as well. And then there's the time spent having the old employee catch up after they come back. I don't have any hard data, but in a technical role, I would say that over the course of somebody taking a year off, 3 months (minimum) of work would be completely lost, due to training the new person and catching up the original employee. That' a huge expense for businesses.
I have the Surface 2, and I have to say I like it better than the iPad, even with the limited app selection. I like that I can browse my shared folders without installing an app. I like that I can put an SD card in for extra storage. I like that it has full USB and I can plug in a variety of devices. The browser is great. Apart from a few games, I haven't found a need for a lot of apps because it comes with a lot of functionality built in.
Doesn't really surprise me. There's a few reasons that gamepads for consoles cost $40+, and one if them is because it costs a lot to make a quality game pad. If MadCatz and others could make a quality gamepad and undercut the first party guys, you know they would, but instead the only way to undercut the first party controllers is to make them terrible. I knew from the outset of the project that they wouldn't be able to provide a good Android box and controller for $100. Looking at the price of the components seperately, I was pretty sure they wouldn't be able to make that work financially.
They should just have the employees picked up from privately owned locations whenever possible. I'm sure malls and stuff would like the extra foot traffic especially from Google employees who would probably have a little disposable income.
My old iPod still works with my old iPod dock, but the new iPod, iPhone, and iPad will no longer work with my old dock. If my old iPod stops working, i'll have to buy a new dock just to hook up my new devices.
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Wouldn't it be nice if you could go and download all the ported games that you originally bought for Windows? It would give them a good indication of which Windows purchasers really wanted to have a Linux version in the first place, but only bought the Windows version because a Linux version didn't exist. It would probably show quite a bit of goodwill towards the customers. New game sales should be this way as well. Purchase 1 version, run it on whichever platform is supported.
What's interesting is that if you talk about running or weight lifting, we've pretty much come to the conclusion that men are better simply because they are men, and it has nothing to do with socialization. We also pretty much know that certain races are better at sprinting (in general, not in every individual case) and it's simply by nature, and nothing to do with socialization or upbringing. However, if you start to talk about anything intellectual, it's quite taboo to say that it might be nature that is causing such large disparities between races or genders.
I think that only worked so well for the browser because MS let IE stagnate for so long. I don't think they are doing the same with DirectX. DirectX continues to evolve and stay up to date. It's one thing to convince the non-programmer, general computer user to keep using mediocre tools, it's a whole other story to try and get developers to do the same.
Most people who are good at math also have very little ability to teach it, because it comes so naturally to them. Think about it this way. If you ask singers how to sing better, most of them would probably have no idea how to help you sing better, or what they were doing to make themselves sing so well. They just can, and they've been doing it since they were 3. Same goes for most people who are good at math. There are some people who are good at math who can also teach it, but I don't believe that the two skills are related in any way. Being extremely good at math might even be a hindrance. I know I tried to help a few friends in highschool with math, and I was very unsuccessful. I couldn't wrap my head around what people found so hard about basic algebra.
Yeah, but Vancouver is one of the warmest places in the country. If you live in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary, or just about anywhere other than Vancouver, it can get pretty cold in winter.
Yep. Most touch screens don't work with gloves. e-readers don't work in the cold. an many other devices simply fail because they were "designed by Apple in California" or with the expectations that everybody has a good internet connection. Why do I have to clear off 4 GB of space (25% of total space) on my iDevice so that they can fix a small vulnerability with SSL on IOS?
What about all the other courses that are required for the degree, like algebra, calculus, discrete math, technical writing, and other electives like psychology, history, business management, or biology. All of these, while not directly applicable, are definitely useful, and should not be ignored.
Its hard to say if 90% really means 10% false positive rate. It might mean 0% false positive but that 10% of people who will get Alzheimer's will not show up positive on the test. Think about pregnancy tests. If it shows positive, you most likely are. If it's negative, there's chance you might still be pregnant.
Its also worth mentioning that when developing Window 8 apps that this variable size app paradigm is baked into the UI design, and as a developer they make it really easy to work at a variety of screen widths. Which make it easy for your app to be run on windows phone. Since the phone is basically the same as the app running on desktop with the minimum width.
Well, perhaps the tax rate wouldn't have to be so high, but it could still be based on income. Maybe 0.5% or lower. Maybe grocery stores would have to raise their prices a bit to pay the tax, but that would affect all grocery stores, so they would all raise prices accordingly.
Why is perhaps why businesses should get taxed on income (aka revenue) like the rest of the tax payers. If I was only taxed on what I couldn't end up spending at the end of the year, I'd have to pay a lot less tax. Actually, I'd make sure that I spent almost all my money (on things that will appreciate in value), which is what businesses end up doing to get around paying taxes.
I think that depends on the item. There's many items in the dollar store that are specifically made for the dollar store and are continually restocked. They may not be as high quality as similar items sold in other stores but I guarantee that the producer, and everybody else in the chain is making money off these items.
There's about 500 reasons to purchase a Surface 2 vs. a Surface Pro. The Surface Pro is nice, but it costs $500 more. As far as domains go, that really isn't much concern to home users. It's also not much of a concern over the other ARM based tablets since none of the ARM based tablets (Windows RT, Android, iPad) run windows legacy apps. Personally, I find that my Surface 2 is at least, if not more capable than an iPad or Android tablet. It doesn't have quite the same number of games, but other than that, it performs all the same features, or at least all the stuff that I want to do with a tablet. It also has a lot of built in functionality out of the box, which means I don't have to download apps to have things like a file manager, or connect to shared folders.
Sure a lot of the cheap games are terrible, but there's some pretty good stuff out there for cheap. $2.99 for Rayman Jungle (MS Surface 2) run was one of my recent purchases I'm pretty happy with. There's way more playability to that game than a lot of recent console games which cost upwards of $60. It's kind of a repetitive game, but each level is unique, and there's not point where they ask you to spend more money.
To be fair, that's exactly what they are doing with their Windows RT tablets. The only way to load software on is with the Windows Store, and the only browser available is IE. Although I guess one could make a different browser available through the app store.
This is the point that a lot a lot of people seem to be missing when they talk about digital sales of music, movies, games, and books. The cost of the physical product is essentially zero. If you want proof, go down to your local dollar store, where you can buy any of these items for $1. That $1 pays for somebody to produce that book/dvd/cd (and many other items of similar complexity), ship it to the warehouse, ship it to the store, and pay for all the employees handling the product along the way. With Apple and other online stores taking 30% of the final sale, selling digital products may even get less money for the original creators of the product.
My ISP gave me a WiFi accessible cable modem. I leave it on for my friends to connect to when they come over. All my equipment connects to another router behind the cable modem.
While I probably didn't pick the best example, as looking at the graphs of sin(x) and cos(x) you can see that one is the derivative of the other, there are plenty of more complicated rules out there. Polynomials are quite easy as well. But once you get into more complicated functions applying all the rules can be frustrating. Often the questions are more about reducing a function to something else that's easily derivable than about how to actually find the derivative.
Doing hands on geometrical calculus is easy, and can be understood quite easily. What's I actually found difficult, was not the concept, but the memorization of how go obtain the integral or derivative of a functions. So many rules, that seemingly had no logic to them. The derivative of sin(x) is cos(x). Why? most students probably couldn't tell you that. Looking at a proof I found, it actually seems quite non-obvious, and not something most beginner calculus students could figure out on their own.
Although I don't really agree with paying women less on the chance that they might get pregnant and take 6-12 months off work, I certainly see it as a very real problem. In many fields, people aren't instantaneously replaceable. You can't just call in a replacement for someone and they are instantly as productive as the person they are replacing. Plus, the other employees who must help train them lose efficiency as well. And then there's the time spent having the old employee catch up after they come back. I don't have any hard data, but in a technical role, I would say that over the course of somebody taking a year off, 3 months (minimum) of work would be completely lost, due to training the new person and catching up the original employee. That' a huge expense for businesses.
I have the Surface 2, and I have to say I like it better than the iPad, even with the limited app selection. I like that I can browse my shared folders without installing an app. I like that I can put an SD card in for extra storage. I like that it has full USB and I can plug in a variety of devices. The browser is great. Apart from a few games, I haven't found a need for a lot of apps because it comes with a lot of functionality built in.
Doesn't really surprise me. There's a few reasons that gamepads for consoles cost $40+, and one if them is because it costs a lot to make a quality game pad. If MadCatz and others could make a quality gamepad and undercut the first party guys, you know they would, but instead the only way to undercut the first party controllers is to make them terrible. I knew from the outset of the project that they wouldn't be able to provide a good Android box and controller for $100. Looking at the price of the components seperately, I was pretty sure they wouldn't be able to make that work financially.
They should just have the employees picked up from privately owned locations whenever possible. I'm sure malls and stuff would like the extra foot traffic especially from Google employees who would probably have a little disposable income.
And we all know how well outsourcing works out for everyone.....
My old iPod still works with my old iPod dock, but the new iPod, iPhone, and iPad will no longer work with my old dock. If my old iPod stops working, i'll have to buy a new dock just to hook up my new devices.