This. I'd buy it as a DS-plus (the 3D doesn't interest me at all but the nice build quality and substantial power bump are good), but 3 hour battery life is just ridiculous in a gaming device. Waiting for rev 2.
Right, and as noted, this is the case for all the major sport streaming services. So it's great if you're an out-of-market fan for all your teams, otherwise not so much.
Also, last time I checked, NFL Sunday Ticket was insanely expensive, like, more than paying for cable. Okay, you get more games, but that's more than your cable bill for _one sport_. I like to watch a range of stuff - NHL, CFL, NFL, MLB, golf, curling...about the only thing I _don't_ watch is basketball (no offence, bball fans, just not my cup of tea). It'd be insanely expensive to try and replicate that with streaming.
There's an 'easy' solution to that, which is metro-area-only carriers, a system most countries with wide open spaces develop eventually. Are there none of those in the U.S.?
"or other alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms."
so, no, it doesn't discriminate against other religions. You are now apparently free to propound absolutely any crackpot theory of origin you like in Texas universities and you can't be 'penalized' for it. Someone should probably propose a bill forbidding the universities from penalizing people who have non-standard theories of, say, multiplication, too!
Er, they didn't 'demand' anything. Canonical at first _actively offered_ the Banshee developers several choices, including the one they chose. Canonical then decided they didn't like the option the Banshee developers chose and effectively said 'er, sorry, we decided not to respect the choice we initially offered you'.
The thing is, it wasn't a 'counter-offer', as that implies that the Banshee devs offered it on their own initiative. That's not what happened. The initial move got Canonical some bad press, so they decided to offer some choices to the Banshee devs as a form of damage limitation. One of the choices was the 'disable the plugin by default' option discussed above. The Banshee devs picked that option. Then Canonical decided to go back on the choice they offered the Banshee devs and simply go ahead with their own idea after all. However you look at that, it's a shambles.
Um, that's a silly position, if you think about it. Your position is: if something doesn't break any actual rules, then it's totally fine. But I don't think you really believe that. It's not illegal, for instance, for me to cut in line in front of you at the supermarket. Does that mean it's not a dick move? No. It's still a dick move. Just because something isn't against whatever actual laws / rules are relevant to the situation doesn't mean it's automatically a perfectly good thing to do. No-one at all is claiming Canonical has violated any licenses or laws here; the criticism is that what they're doing is, well, a dick move. Not illegal, just crappy.
people buying those machines are mainly Japanese (and other Asian) people; for whatever reason, white people just don't seem to want to go to arcades any more.
West Coast cities with big Asian populations still have arcades; there's four or five in Vancouver, where I live, and they're pretty popular. Vancouver also still has tons of pool halls, interestingly. Also pretty Asian...
If you have Flash installed via nspluginwrapper, it shows two Flash entries, one saying "10.2.152 Up to Date", but the other saying "10.2 Potential Threat", with an explanation that it couldn't figure out the version precisely enough to be sure what it was. It counts this as a security threat. So that's a false positive right there.
"One of the supposed advantages of an app store is that you click one button and it installs and works seamlessly."
The same way Linux distributions have managed software via repositories for years, then? They don't seem to have any problem handling software under free licenses.
That's a nice explanation, but it doesn't explain why they replace the screw if you take it into an Apple store for servicing. It's not getting any more automated assembly at that point.
...just wait five years and all those silly old outmoded languages you use will turn out to be in huge demand when people realize they have legacy systems written in them that they can't easily replace. At that point, you will get paid way more than developers right out of college who know the latest hotness.
It all goes around and around...=)
this is happening already - people who know COBOL are in serious demand (and very highly paid) to maintain all sorts of gigantic legacy mainframe-based codebases which just can't be replaced at anything other than eye-watering expense.
Americans only don't live near train stations because America artificially subsidized *car* transportation, resulting in the ugly and hilariously inefficient acres and acres of dull wasteland suburbs in which you all live. America also heavily subsidizes air travel through all sorts of tax and regulation breaks granted to airports and airlines.
Amtrak has 'high speed' (just, just, barely, by international standards; it's nowhere near European, Japanese, or, yes, Chinese levels) trains on precisely one route: Washington to Boston (Acela). It hits a maximum of 150mph and averages 80mph. Compare Eurostar which maxes at 186mph and averages somewhere north of 105mph. No other Amtrak route is close to international 'high speed' standards. Usually this is because the standard of the track is not good enough to allow them to run very fast.
Amtrak services outside of the north east corridor also tend to be very infrequent and very unreliable; they have no priority over freight traffic outside of a very small defined journey window, so if the train gets held up for any reason, it will continue to get further and further behind schedule because it has to keep waiting for freight traffic which now has priority. There's almost no dedicated passenger rail track and freight traffic is quite heavy so it screws the hell out of the Amtrak schedules.
Despite all the above, I quite like Amtrak - but more or less *because* it feels like an enjoyably antiquated trip back in time to 1912. I quite enjoy travelling quite slowly and unpredictably on gigantic trains with acres of leg room and restaurant cars with waiter service, and I use it when it doesn't really matter if I wind up five hours late. But it's nowhere close to being a practical and reliable mode of transport for most people, as European and Asian high speed rail is.
"It's actually very different from how other countries work because of the centralized acquisition program."
Not really. Japan, for instance, did exactly the same thing throughout most of the 20th century, much more rapidly after the 1950s. The large private manufacturing companies in Japan were (and, to an extent, still are) directed by government agencies. Japanese industry was nothing like a free market during the entire period it developed into one of the world's largest players in heavy manufacturing and, later, electronics; the national government planned the entire process and directed the private companies which implemented the plan. The difference between the companies and the government, at the highest level, was pretty damn fuzzy and academic.
The process involved all the same things China is doing now; playing off individual companies from more technologically capable nations against each other for immediate benefit ('if WE don't sell this technique to the Japanese, Bloggs & Co sure will!'), reverse engineering, and so on. Nothing new at all. Fundamentally, as has already been pointed out, it comes down to 'intellectual property' being a very precarious and utterly notional concept which only works at all with extremely heavy-handed enforcement and everyone involved singing from the same hymn sheet. If you don't have that, it's just not going to work.
Rather than complain it's probably better to just get on with inventing even newer and better stuff. After all, if your competitors are always copying what you did last year while you have something better on the drawing board, you're still going to win, right?
um, people outside the UK may not be aware of it, but citing the Daily Mail as a reasonable source is approximately as sensible as citing Glenn Beck. (note that article perpetuates the whole bizarre thing about a condom breaking, which as has already been pointed out in this thread, is simply bullshit).
some people use a tiny amount of water and some have swimming pools, but even the ones with swimming pools don't really pay a *lot* for water.
a perfectly reasonable scheme would be, say, $40 per month for 100GB, then 10 cents per gigabyte. Or some variation on the theme of 'flat rate for a moderate amount of data, low per unit charge after that'. doesn't violate any net neutrality principles, as long as the ISP doesn't provide unmetered access to privileged content. supplies both moderate data consumers and grannies.
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This. I'd buy it as a DS-plus (the 3D doesn't interest me at all but the nice build quality and substantial power bump are good), but 3 hour battery life is just ridiculous in a gaming device. Waiting for rev 2.
Right, and as noted, this is the case for all the major sport streaming services. So it's great if you're an out-of-market fan for all your teams, otherwise not so much.
Also, last time I checked, NFL Sunday Ticket was insanely expensive, like, more than paying for cable. Okay, you get more games, but that's more than your cable bill for _one sport_. I like to watch a range of stuff - NHL, CFL, NFL, MLB, golf, curling...about the only thing I _don't_ watch is basketball (no offence, bball fans, just not my cup of tea). It'd be insanely expensive to try and replicate that with streaming.
Maybe not, but they probably know the difference between 'effect' and 'affect'.
"Of course the flip side is that poorly skilled people don't last long in finance"
2009 called, and would like to disagree.
'git blame' for laws? what a delicious idea!
There's an 'easy' solution to that, which is metro-area-only carriers, a system most countries with wide open spaces develop eventually. Are there none of those in the U.S.?
"My "cable TV" is netflix streaming + free OTA HD network channels + hulu."
Good luck seeing any live sports.
"or other alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms."
so, no, it doesn't discriminate against other religions. You are now apparently free to propound absolutely any crackpot theory of origin you like in Texas universities and you can't be 'penalized' for it. Someone should probably propose a bill forbidding the universities from penalizing people who have non-standard theories of, say, multiplication, too!
Er, they didn't 'demand' anything. Canonical at first _actively offered_ the Banshee developers several choices, including the one they chose. Canonical then decided they didn't like the option the Banshee developers chose and effectively said 'er, sorry, we decided not to respect the choice we initially offered you'.
The thing is, it wasn't a 'counter-offer', as that implies that the Banshee devs offered it on their own initiative. That's not what happened. The initial move got Canonical some bad press, so they decided to offer some choices to the Banshee devs as a form of damage limitation. One of the choices was the 'disable the plugin by default' option discussed above. The Banshee devs picked that option. Then Canonical decided to go back on the choice they offered the Banshee devs and simply go ahead with their own idea after all. However you look at that, it's a shambles.
Um, that's a silly position, if you think about it. Your position is: if something doesn't break any actual rules, then it's totally fine. But I don't think you really believe that. It's not illegal, for instance, for me to cut in line in front of you at the supermarket. Does that mean it's not a dick move? No. It's still a dick move. Just because something isn't against whatever actual laws / rules are relevant to the situation doesn't mean it's automatically a perfectly good thing to do. No-one at all is claiming Canonical has violated any licenses or laws here; the criticism is that what they're doing is, well, a dick move. Not illegal, just crappy.
people buying those machines are mainly Japanese (and other Asian) people; for whatever reason, white people just don't seem to want to go to arcades any more.
West Coast cities with big Asian populations still have arcades; there's four or five in Vancouver, where I live, and they're pretty popular. Vancouver also still has tons of pool halls, interestingly. Also pretty Asian...
If you have Flash installed via nspluginwrapper, it shows two Flash entries, one saying "10.2.152 Up to Date", but the other saying "10.2 Potential Threat", with an explanation that it couldn't figure out the version precisely enough to be sure what it was. It counts this as a security threat. So that's a false positive right there.
"One of the supposed advantages of an app store is that you click one button and it installs and works seamlessly."
The same way Linux distributions have managed software via repositories for years, then? They don't seem to have any problem handling software under free licenses.
That's a nice explanation, but it doesn't explain why they replace the screw if you take it into an Apple store for servicing. It's not getting any more automated assembly at that point.
It's 1997, and it wants its FUD back.
...just wait five years and all those silly old outmoded languages you use will turn out to be in huge demand when people realize they have legacy systems written in them that they can't easily replace. At that point, you will get paid way more than developers right out of college who know the latest hotness.
It all goes around and around...=)
this is happening already - people who know COBOL are in serious demand (and very highly paid) to maintain all sorts of gigantic legacy mainframe-based codebases which just can't be replaced at anything other than eye-watering expense.
"and geeks who like so many beaten house wives are simply unable to grow a pair"
indeed, most beaten house wives are certainly 'unable to grow a pair'.
sigh. old, tired arguments again.
Americans only don't live near train stations because America artificially subsidized *car* transportation, resulting in the ugly and hilariously inefficient acres and acres of dull wasteland suburbs in which you all live. America also heavily subsidizes air travel through all sorts of tax and regulation breaks granted to airports and airlines.
Amtrak has 'high speed' (just, just, barely, by international standards; it's nowhere near European, Japanese, or, yes, Chinese levels) trains on precisely one route: Washington to Boston (Acela). It hits a maximum of 150mph and averages 80mph. Compare Eurostar which maxes at 186mph and averages somewhere north of 105mph. No other Amtrak route is close to international 'high speed' standards. Usually this is because the standard of the track is not good enough to allow them to run very fast.
Amtrak services outside of the north east corridor also tend to be very infrequent and very unreliable; they have no priority over freight traffic outside of a very small defined journey window, so if the train gets held up for any reason, it will continue to get further and further behind schedule because it has to keep waiting for freight traffic which now has priority. There's almost no dedicated passenger rail track and freight traffic is quite heavy so it screws the hell out of the Amtrak schedules.
Despite all the above, I quite like Amtrak - but more or less *because* it feels like an enjoyably antiquated trip back in time to 1912. I quite enjoy travelling quite slowly and unpredictably on gigantic trains with acres of leg room and restaurant cars with waiter service, and I use it when it doesn't really matter if I wind up five hours late. But it's nowhere close to being a practical and reliable mode of transport for most people, as European and Asian high speed rail is.
"It's actually very different from how other countries work because of the centralized acquisition program."
Not really. Japan, for instance, did exactly the same thing throughout most of the 20th century, much more rapidly after the 1950s. The large private manufacturing companies in Japan were (and, to an extent, still are) directed by government agencies. Japanese industry was nothing like a free market during the entire period it developed into one of the world's largest players in heavy manufacturing and, later, electronics; the national government planned the entire process and directed the private companies which implemented the plan. The difference between the companies and the government, at the highest level, was pretty damn fuzzy and academic.
The process involved all the same things China is doing now; playing off individual companies from more technologically capable nations against each other for immediate benefit ('if WE don't sell this technique to the Japanese, Bloggs & Co sure will!'), reverse engineering, and so on. Nothing new at all. Fundamentally, as has already been pointed out, it comes down to 'intellectual property' being a very precarious and utterly notional concept which only works at all with extremely heavy-handed enforcement and everyone involved singing from the same hymn sheet. If you don't have that, it's just not going to work.
Rather than complain it's probably better to just get on with inventing even newer and better stuff. After all, if your competitors are always copying what you did last year while you have something better on the drawing board, you're still going to win, right?
um, people outside the UK may not be aware of it, but citing the Daily Mail as a reasonable source is approximately as sensible as citing Glenn Beck. (note that article perpetuates the whole bizarre thing about a condom breaking, which as has already been pointed out in this thread, is simply bullshit).
some people use a tiny amount of water and some have swimming pools, but even the ones with swimming pools don't really pay a *lot* for water.
a perfectly reasonable scheme would be, say, $40 per month for 100GB, then 10 cents per gigabyte. Or some variation on the theme of 'flat rate for a moderate amount of data, low per unit charge after that'. doesn't violate any net neutrality principles, as long as the ISP doesn't provide unmetered access to privileged content. supplies both moderate data consumers and grannies.
"A truly great idea is measured in profits."
That's probably the most depressing thing I've read all day.
"Sent from my CR-48"
We don't care. Stop being a twat.