It actually wasn't so bad on PocketPC/Windows Mobile PDAs and phones 4 to 7 years before the iPhone was introduced... when using Opera.
WM browsing was bad, although I admit I never tried Opera.
Microsoft definitely dropped the ball on that one (also they shot themselves in the foot with internet explorer).
Really? Really? Because I am familiar enough with several different alphabets, and they all have problems. English spelling (for example) is only somewhat related to pronunciation.
Chinese takes a ridiculous amount of effort to learn (although when you get it, you feel amazing). Of course, they both work, but
is the increase in stock buybacks. When a company starts buying back its own stock with the cash on hand, that means to me that the company cannot find a good place to invest that money.
For most companies I would agree with you, but Apple has something like $200billion in the bank. They could fund unicorns for the next century and still be ok financially. You have to do something with that money.
Don't laugh - the old guard rich used to actually have a set of ethics they lived by
When? When was this mythical time of ethics? By the late 1800s for sure the newspapers were corrupt.
But no, the New York times is not yet one of these vanity projects - and there are probably a few others.
The NYT does a lot of good reporting, there is no doubt about that. But they, like everyone else, choose what things to show and what not, and they choose based on their own biases and desires, and that is true even if their intentions are good.
They also became the de-facto source of news. If they liked a politician or a party then they would not cover it negatively. If a friend of the owners got in trouble there would be no reporting
Newspapers are corporations controlled by rich people.
There is definitely a market for quality. It's a smaller market, but it's there.
To keep the smallness of that market in perspective, I remind myself that this cat video got 91million views.
Frankly, I think traditional media is screwed; whether that's network entertainment, network news, newspapers, radio; you name it
Good. There is no reason newspapers (or anyone) should have so much influence over the political process. People complain about corporations and rich people having too much influence in politics, but newspapers are just as bad (if not worse), and are corporations controlled by rich people.
Compelling voices and stories, real and raw talent, new ideas that actually serve or delight an audience, brands that have meaning and ballast; these are things that matter in the next age of media.
My favourite is when I have a client who is in the process of throwing them out and they ask, "What will it cost to licence MariaDB." Then when they ask, "Can it handle our Enterprise database?" I will say, "Your $400,000 system has 40,000 rows of data in it. A $25 raspberry Pi could handle your needs." Then they ask about per seat licensing costs. "None." At this point I can see them fishing around in their heads for how they are going to be screwed; suddenly it dawns on them that the screwing is now over. They then go through a list of features that they have built up over time but couldn't afford. When they get the quote for those they pretty much throw up in disgust at how badly they had been treated over the years.
I'll bet it feels really good to help a client like that switch.
Or when people insist you "have to" use an IDE to write code, because more people use them than don't.
My problem with this is when the IDEs become obsolete. I had a project I built for OSX. I didn't touch it for a few years, then came back, and XCode was unable to open it anymore.
I had another project from the same era built with a Makefile. The same makefile still works today. So yeah, I'll be putting in extra effort to avoid IDEs that depend on proprietary file formats in the future.
That's a good principle in the opening game, but floating 500 minerals won't usually ruin your game unless someone attacks you at that exact moment (forgetting to build workers can keep you in bronze league, though).
Built SCVs automatically start harvesting, units are smarter on their own etc. All of that goes away in multiplayer matches.
Uh, bro, SCVs automatically start harvesting in multiplayer, too. Click on your command center and then right-click on a mineral patch, and they'll start going where you want.
The micro and mechanics in sc1 are much more difficult.
While I don't completely agree with the guy, I don't think he's completely wrong either. I don't think HOTS will be successful
HoTS is over, and it was successful. The most recent release of Starcraft was LoTV, and it was also a huge success. Furthermore, it's brought people back to the game who haven't played in nearly half a decade. Furthermore, LoTV is tons of fun.
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It actually wasn't so bad on PocketPC/Windows Mobile PDAs and phones 4 to 7 years before the iPhone was introduced... when using Opera.
WM browsing was bad, although I admit I never tried Opera.
Microsoft definitely dropped the ball on that one (also they shot themselves in the foot with internet explorer).
Bluing for whitening.
that I find it hard to fault any of them.
Really? Really? Because I am familiar enough with several different alphabets, and they all have problems. English spelling (for example) is only somewhat related to pronunciation.
Chinese takes a ridiculous amount of effort to learn (although when you get it, you feel amazing). Of course, they both work, but
is the increase in stock buybacks. When a company starts buying back its own stock with the cash on hand, that means to me that the company cannot find a good place to invest that money.
For most companies I would agree with you, but Apple has something like $200billion in the bank. They could fund unicorns for the next century and still be ok financially. You have to do something with that money.
To be fair, a lot of the emojis are rather useless.
Hey, iCar is a perfect match for Apple, it will only need one button!
And Apple stock is down 8% in the after-hours market.
Honestly it survived on the strength if its large, easy to use touch screen
And it was the first phone that made browsing the web un-miserable.
Doesn't anyone watch Citizen Kane anymore?
No. It has a lousy name, it should have been called, "You'll Never Believe What Happens Next With to this Man and Sweet Rosebud (wait for it)"
Don't laugh - the old guard rich used to actually have a set of ethics they lived by
When? When was this mythical time of ethics? By the late 1800s for sure the newspapers were corrupt.
But no, the New York times is not yet one of these vanity projects - and there are probably a few others.
The NYT does a lot of good reporting, there is no doubt about that. But they, like everyone else, choose what things to show and what not, and they choose based on their own biases and desires, and that is true even if their intentions are good.
They also became the de-facto source of news. If they liked a politician or a party then they would not cover it negatively. If a friend of the owners got in trouble there would be no reporting
Newspapers are corporations controlled by rich people.
There is definitely a market for quality. It's a smaller market, but it's there.
To keep the smallness of that market in perspective, I remind myself that this cat video got 91million views.
Frankly, I think traditional media is screwed; whether that's network entertainment, network news, newspapers, radio; you name it
Good. There is no reason newspapers (or anyone) should have so much influence over the political process. People complain about corporations and rich people having too much influence in politics, but newspapers are just as bad (if not worse), and are corporations controlled by rich people.
So what will matter in the next age of media?
Compelling voices and stories, real and raw talent, new ideas that actually serve or delight an audience, brands that have meaning and ballast; these are things that matter in the next age of media.
No, that's a pipe dream. Talent doesn't matter. Compelling stories don't matter. New ideas don't matter, and brands don't matter.Click here to find out the seven things that a mom discovered that matter!
"Quality news" has a real but small audience. Most people are looking for the next thing to click on to feed their buzzing squirrel brain.
The dictionary lists 'green' as a verb as well, so that seems to be an old usage (consider also, "browning" as a term used while cooking).
Same. California used to be nice and warm, but some parts have become unbearably hot during the summer,
What part of California is now unbearably hot that wasn't unbearably hot before?
My favourite is when I have a client who is in the process of throwing them out and they ask, "What will it cost to licence MariaDB." Then when they ask, "Can it handle our Enterprise database?" I will say, "Your $400,000 system has 40,000 rows of data in it. A $25 raspberry Pi could handle your needs." Then they ask about per seat licensing costs. "None." At this point I can see them fishing around in their heads for how they are going to be screwed; suddenly it dawns on them that the screwing is now over. They then go through a list of features that they have built up over time but couldn't afford. When they get the quote for those they pretty much throw up in disgust at how badly they had been treated over the years.
I'll bet it feels really good to help a client like that switch.
Or when people insist you "have to" use an IDE to write code, because more people use them than don't.
My problem with this is when the IDEs become obsolete. I had a project I built for OSX. I didn't touch it for a few years, then came back, and XCode was unable to open it anymore.
I had another project from the same era built with a Makefile. The same makefile still works today. So yeah, I'll be putting in extra effort to avoid IDEs that depend on proprietary file formats in the future.
oh, I see what you're getting at.
And I'm not quite sure where you're going with this, all I'm saying is that, in my mind, the last two AAA game of blizzard (Overwatch and HOTS)
Bro, HOTS is not the latest game from Blizzard.
That's a good principle in the opening game, but floating 500 minerals won't usually ruin your game unless someone attacks you at that exact moment (forgetting to build workers can keep you in bronze league, though).
Built SCVs automatically start harvesting, units are smarter on their own etc. All of that goes away in multiplayer matches.
Uh, bro, SCVs automatically start harvesting in multiplayer, too. Click on your command center and then right-click on a mineral patch, and they'll start going where you want.
The micro and mechanics in sc1 are much more difficult.
Wasn't the whole point about a computer beating a Go master that the game is so complex it can't be reduced into a tree search?
FWIW it was still a tree search, they just were more efficient at pruning than they were with the chess engine (much more efficient).
In my mind, if they don't get even close of DOTA2 and LOL number, it won't be a success and it won't survive for long.
Even starcraft 1 is still surviving and has a scene, heck, even smash brothers has a scene and has survived, so you're not thinking very clearly.
While I don't completely agree with the guy, I don't think he's completely wrong either. I don't think HOTS will be successful
HoTS is over, and it was successful. The most recent release of Starcraft was LoTV, and it was also a huge success. Furthermore, it's brought people back to the game who haven't played in nearly half a decade. Furthermore, LoTV is tons of fun.