I disagree. Service packs are just patch-sets that are bundled together. The patches themselves are primarily because the software was broken. Selling someone something that's broken and not fixing it is often seen as a 'bad idea'... so delivering free upgrades that fix these problems is a 'good idea'. Once the OS is no longer supported, you're expected to upgrade no matter how broken it still is, but that's many moons away.
Try having an RN for a mother -- I'd go home scraped and bloody and she'd say "that's nothing, you shoulda seen the guy who came in last night after hitting a transport truck on his motorbike."
Then she'd remind me to disinfect and clean out the dirt good with stories of infections.
Bahaha... as opposed to hands? How many people die every year from hand-inflicted injuries? Those would be punching, poking, choking, etc. Hands are lethal. You wanna ban those too? PS guns work really poorly without hands.
Guns don't kill people... people kill people. To be fair, I don't believe in carrying a loaded weapon with you for no reason anywhere -- mostly because as prison guards know, a criminal is more likely to use it against you than you are to use it first.
I've seen many studies that show allowing children to play without obvious supervision creates leadership and self-reliance in a way that never develops if always supervised. Children who know they're being watched don't play in the same way and don't therefore learn in the same way as children who play unsupervised, especially together, where they need to assert themselves, make decisions and try to win arguments without a parent stepping in.
I can't say the forest itself is helpful -- putting a bunch of kids in a room with no adults and a bunch of stuff to do is probably just as functional.
You don't have a single counter-example to the fact that exposure leads to better immunity. That's how vaccines work, and its how your body naturally fights off most infections. Protecting yourself from them doesn't help you at all in the long run unless you can prevent your body from ever being exposed to any pathogen. In the long run, you're better off having eaten dirt as a child than being in a bubble.
I refuse to coddle my child and my wife and I agree on raising her to be independent thinking and able to understand the world. We discuss world politics with her in brief to help her understand issues brought up in movies and TV or in books she's reading and encourage her to go out and play on her own rather than being sheltered.
Between karate and gymnastics she gets plenty of exercise but she's outside more often than in (and still loves the PS3 and DS). There's plenty to be said for blaming parents, and I'm quite open to doing it -- you either let go and let your child grow up or you coddle them and shelter them and let them become useless blobs.
I try to explain why I let my child walk to school on her own to other parents, why she plays outside in the rain, or why I've taught her to use knives (cooking), the stove, and a power drill before age ten. In all honesty, its not that much effort; its certainly less work than constantly guiding and micromanaging her every minute.
Of course, I'm also Canadian, so this isn't about me at all.
You do realize that hype leads to sales, and the feedback loop was so short that many people bought the game without realizing how underwhelming it was because the hype was so high.
The GP is right by most accounts I've read -- Diablo 3 doesn't live up to the hype it received, even though it sold really well initially, which simply means there are a lot of disgruntled people who bought it and can't get refunds.
No offense but The 360 hasn't made MS a pile of money. Look up their books -- the gaming division has nearly sunk them many times over. Its their office suite that keeps them afloat at all.
ASUS announced multiple new tablets running Windows8 just a week or two ago, and now Microsoft pops up with a device that puts those to shame. You really think ASUS is thrilled with its Win8 investment now? Might as well ditch and go back to making Android tablets.
Repeat after me... "sir, you hired me because I know more about computers than you do. Please let me make these decisions and help you make more money by doing it the best I can. If I'm wrong and it doesn't work out for you, deal with me at that point. Until then, please let me do the job you hired me to do."
You don't have to root it at all -- the Nexus S is easily updated to official Google firmware so you can avoid this issue. I did it, so have many others:
56 lines short vertically isn't much; and given that the screens were all square at the time, its effectively the same resolution if you cut off the inivisible portions of a 1920x1080 display.
1920 is 1.5x wider than 1280, while a 16:9 screen is 1.33 times wider than a 4:3 screen.
The equivalent resolution, had a modern 1080p screen been cut to the same ratio, would be 1440x1080 which is only 18% higher.
I still don't understand why Adobe hasn't in fact -- porting Photoshop to Linux could be very profitable when you consider the TCO issue of OS costs to the end user.
To enhance this point; its the same problem as car manufacturers claiming you need to get all your repairs done by one of their authorized technicians. With closed source software, that's effectively the case; very very few people are capable of fixing closed source software from the outside (thank God for hackers), but with open source, any programmer can be asked for help.
Users make no such decision because they aren't even aware it exists. That's like asking people to make informed medical decisions about the drugs they take -- they're not even close to being educated in drug side effects and contra-indications to make an informed choice, they need regulators and doctors and pharmacists. The computer world is no different; expecting every user to be a functional pharmacist and diagnostician in software is ridiculous. Sure, its often true within the geek community, but the vast majority of users expect computers to 'just work' like you expect a bottle of Tylenol not to contain arsenic.
How old are you exactly? I remember teaching Wordperfect 4.x on DOS 3.x and Ctrl-H is and always will be backspace. I still use it on occasion in command-prompts where delete/backspace is improperly mapped.
Agreed; I sit 9 feet from a 103" DLP screen in my livingroom for all my gaming. Its a great resolution to distance ratio, also fills most of the field of vision well.
Part of the problem is that Windows has traditionally handled resolution scaling very poorly as well. So long as everyone had 800x600 displays, Windows 95 worked great, Windows XP loved 1024x768 and so on. With everyone on the same resolution, all those software writers who don't understand scalable fonts and layouts have it much easier.
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I disagree. Service packs are just patch-sets that are bundled together. The patches themselves are primarily because the software was broken. Selling someone something that's broken and not fixing it is often seen as a 'bad idea' ... so delivering free upgrades that fix these problems is a 'good idea'. Once the OS is no longer supported, you're expected to upgrade no matter how broken it still is, but that's many moons away.
It better chain-load memtest86 and my AVG anti-virus rescue partition ... this is just silly for Linux users.
Try having an RN for a mother -- I'd go home scraped and bloody and she'd say "that's nothing, you shoulda seen the guy who came in last night after hitting a transport truck on his motorbike."
Then she'd remind me to disinfect and clean out the dirt good with stories of infections.
Bahaha ... as opposed to hands? How many people die every year from hand-inflicted injuries? Those would be punching, poking, choking, etc. Hands are lethal. You wanna ban those too? PS guns work really poorly without hands.
Guns don't kill people ... people kill people. To be fair, I don't believe in carrying a loaded weapon with you for no reason anywhere -- mostly because as prison guards know, a criminal is more likely to use it against you than you are to use it first.
I've seen many studies that show allowing children to play without obvious supervision creates leadership and self-reliance in a way that never develops if always supervised. Children who know they're being watched don't play in the same way and don't therefore learn in the same way as children who play unsupervised, especially together, where they need to assert themselves, make decisions and try to win arguments without a parent stepping in.
I can't say the forest itself is helpful -- putting a bunch of kids in a room with no adults and a bunch of stuff to do is probably just as functional.
You don't have a single counter-example to the fact that exposure leads to better immunity. That's how vaccines work, and its how your body naturally fights off most infections. Protecting yourself from them doesn't help you at all in the long run unless you can prevent your body from ever being exposed to any pathogen. In the long run, you're better off having eaten dirt as a child than being in a bubble.
Here's an article if you want to do some reading though: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex_health/2010/03/which_dirt_should_your_baby_eat.html
I refuse to coddle my child and my wife and I agree on raising her to be independent thinking and able to understand the world. We discuss world politics with her in brief to help her understand issues brought up in movies and TV or in books she's reading and encourage her to go out and play on her own rather than being sheltered.
Between karate and gymnastics she gets plenty of exercise but she's outside more often than in (and still loves the PS3 and DS). There's plenty to be said for blaming parents, and I'm quite open to doing it -- you either let go and let your child grow up or you coddle them and shelter them and let them become useless blobs.
I try to explain why I let my child walk to school on her own to other parents, why she plays outside in the rain, or why I've taught her to use knives (cooking), the stove, and a power drill before age ten. In all honesty, its not that much effort; its certainly less work than constantly guiding and micromanaging her every minute.
Of course, I'm also Canadian, so this isn't about me at all.
You do realize that hype leads to sales, and the feedback loop was so short that many people bought the game without realizing how underwhelming it was because the hype was so high.
The GP is right by most accounts I've read -- Diablo 3 doesn't live up to the hype it received, even though it sold really well initially, which simply means there are a lot of disgruntled people who bought it and can't get refunds.
No offense but The 360 hasn't made MS a pile of money. Look up their books -- the gaming division has nearly sunk them many times over. Its their office suite that keeps them afloat at all.
ASUS announced multiple new tablets running Windows8 just a week or two ago, and now Microsoft pops up with a device that puts those to shame. You really think ASUS is thrilled with its Win8 investment now? Might as well ditch and go back to making Android tablets.
Precisely.
Repeat after me ... "sir, you hired me because I know more about computers than you do. Please let me make these decisions and help you make more money by doing it the best I can. If I'm wrong and it doesn't work out for you, deal with me at that point. Until then, please let me do the job you hired me to do."
You don't have to root it at all -- the Nexus S is easily updated to official Google firmware so you can avoid this issue. I did it, so have many others:
http://webtrickz.com/guide-to-update-samsung-galaxy-nexus-yakjuxw-to-android-4-0-4-and-get-future-updates-from-google/
56 lines short vertically isn't much; and given that the screens were all square at the time, its effectively the same resolution if you cut off the inivisible portions of a 1920x1080 display.
1920 is 1.5x wider than 1280, while a 16:9 screen is 1.33 times wider than a 4:3 screen.
The equivalent resolution, had a modern 1080p screen been cut to the same ratio, would be 1440x1080 which is only 18% higher.
Obviously your own post didn't register with you.
You made a point about not making friends when stating that a company is being unethical.
My point quite clearly was that one should still point out unethical behaviour when its true, whether it makes friends or not.
Work on the daftness.
It doesn't earn friends when you do it to tobacco or oil companies either; would that stop you?
I still don't understand why Adobe hasn't in fact -- porting Photoshop to Linux could be very profitable when you consider the TCO issue of OS costs to the end user.
To enhance this point; its the same problem as car manufacturers claiming you need to get all your repairs done by one of their authorized technicians. With closed source software, that's effectively the case; very very few people are capable of fixing closed source software from the outside (thank God for hackers), but with open source, any programmer can be asked for help.
Users make no such decision because they aren't even aware it exists. That's like asking people to make informed medical decisions about the drugs they take -- they're not even close to being educated in drug side effects and contra-indications to make an informed choice, they need regulators and doctors and pharmacists. The computer world is no different; expecting every user to be a functional pharmacist and diagnostician in software is ridiculous. Sure, its often true within the geek community, but the vast majority of users expect computers to 'just work' like you expect a bottle of Tylenol not to contain arsenic.
You're inventing strawmen.
The issue of software ownership exists -- I buy software from you, and I can't see how it works, then I'm being screwed.
Whether I could or should write it myself doesn't eliminate the above problem at all.
You actually just complained about a lack of open source video drivers from the hardware companies, you just didn't realize it.
How old are you exactly? I remember teaching Wordperfect 4.x on DOS 3.x and Ctrl-H is and always will be backspace. I still use it on occasion in command-prompts where delete/backspace is improperly mapped.
There are a few good display calculators online to calculate what you're looking for, like this one:
http://bhtooefr.org/displaycalc.htm
Try it out with resolutions and distances you already know you like to compare.
Agreed; I sit 9 feet from a 103" DLP screen in my livingroom for all my gaming. Its a great resolution to distance ratio, also fills most of the field of vision well.
My old 15" CRT *many moons* ago had nearly 1080p resolutions. A little sad really...
http://reviews.cnet.com/crt-monitors/adi-microscan-4p/4507-3175_7-143958.html for those who don't believe me.
Part of the problem is that Windows has traditionally handled resolution scaling very poorly as well. So long as everyone had 800x600 displays, Windows 95 worked great, Windows XP loved 1024x768 and so on. With everyone on the same resolution, all those software writers who don't understand scalable fonts and layouts have it much easier.