I could give you about a thousand reasons why using Android for a game console is stupid idea when you could just as easily use a standard distro as the base. The graphics subsystem, which is vitally important to games, being the biggest part of android that sucks ass would be a good starting point for why you wouldn't use Android.
Right, because the stopped making new clones... kind of how Apple stopped making computers after they sold me one.
Stormtroopers are still clones, hence Lea's comment to Luke 'a little short for a storm trooper, aren't you?'
I guess you ignored the different ages shown in the prequel as well at the clone factory, they weren't all the same age, ever. Replacements were part of the program from day one.
Just for reference, when you use such a word, you make the impression that you're nothing more than an ignorant arrogant prick. Regardless of what the rest of your post says, you're written off as a waste of everyones time. You might as well throw in some racial slurs as well as your doing the same thing, just towards intelligence rather than skin color.
Your use of the word just shows how much of a douche you are. On this site, its about like walking into a Black Panthers meeting and saying 'you niggers are dumb', it really makes it clear how ignorant you are.
Usually doing something faster DOES indeed mean it being over in less time. I have no idea what other kinds of "faster" you know of.
Example: A 24 hour endurance race ends in 24 hours regardless of how much faster you go. Of course, to be pedantic, thats not strictly true either, I don't know the number but there is actually a milage number that goes with that 24 hours that they'll stop at if its done before then so technically its possible for it to mean less time, but in general the time involved is constant regardless of speed.
Yes, eye rolls are an appropriate response for this comment.
Why would I care if text renders in 100 microseconds or 300?
Render a full page of text, scrolling (without doing proper backing stores so you actually have to re-render everything for each movement, yes, there are apps that do this!) Then you'll understand that even though most people think its about battery life (and it is for the most part) every tiny bit of latency you can get out of the rendering pipeline is important to how the system 'feels'.
I may not be able to visually or aurally detect distinct frames, but I can still 'feel' a big perceived difference.
I suppose your argument is that OO.org is 'better' and that Linux is superior because they are OSS, rather than they do the job I need them to do better, correct?
Go back to using a screwdriver to hammer a nail into your tire.
Developers ARE finding other business models and you aren't hearing them. You've got your fingers in your ears, eyes closed and you're screaming 'I can't hear you!'
When you open your eyes next time what you'll have no paid apps to pirate.
Read the freaking story title for fucks sake.
Why support the people who scream 'give me for free!!' when instead you can support people that are happy to blow money on fart apps.
I can't help but think this will teach you exactly what 'you get what you pay for' actually means.
Informative is such the perfect mod for your post, I hope other developers find your post as informative of Android users line of thought as I have.
If OSS with a donation worked as well currently EA, Blizzard, Valve, ID and every other developer on the planet would do the same. Why do you propose such silly questions when it clearly doesn't work to generate more revenue since the greedy bastards aren't doing it.
Its far more profitable to get money up front, then get some more for DLC so the game actually feels complete. You certainly don't give out the source, someone else could make a better version and give it away for free until it becomes more popular and then start charging. Hence the price will always go to 0 as someone out there will make some mods for free, there are plenty of kids who are more than capable and live at home with no costs and plenty of time. They just can't create a really coherent work of art like a game from scratch in the limited time they have.
I agree, I'm fairly certain that given a database with all the reviews from all reviewers, you could figure out the weighted values of the various reviews with a query, not even a particularly complex one if using SQL.
So I can never become a judge now because I can not be impartial on most cases.
Correct. Nor can you be in a jury either. You'd be thrown off fairly quickly as the lawyers on BOTH sides don't want you in the jury to fuck it up.
I'm fairly certain you have no idea how our legal system works nor how it is supposed to work.
The fact that you're such a dick that you're flat out saying you're unwilling to even try to be impartial shows you lack the maturity for the position as well. You simply don't understand the world well enough to be qualified for the position in general, yet like most you think that makes you even more qualified. You're just an arrogant douche who thinks your way is the only way. You're wrong, and fortunately ever legal system on the planet has pretty much been setup to throw your type out of the equation as quickly as possible.
Funny, Microsoft sold a Xbox that was an optimized PC with a bootable DVD and it took them hundreds of millions of dollars and several years to get a seat at the big boys table, I kind of be surprised if running Linux magically made it happen for no other readily apparent reason. I doubt I would be alone in that line of thought.
Apple troll here... no, I want Steam for Linux because maybe it means they'll fix the retarded god damn case sensitivity issues that it has. You can't use steam on a case sensitive file system, which by default, Macs are insensitive from the store, but those of us techies who do real unix work reformat as case sensitive for obvious reasons. So to use Steam, I have to create a disk image with a case insensitive filesystem, then create a fuckton of symlinks in all lower case to get it to work.
All this because apparently some stupid fuck instead of Valve though that you should lowercase paths for some reason, but only in certain places! In some places you just leave it like it was!
That said, I appreciate all cross platform apps more than single platform apps when the option exists, in my experience as a developer, running your code on multiple OSes or architectures tends to expose bugs you never would have seen otherwise. Just stupid little API inconsistencies and such.
Seriously, why do you guys keep thinking that anarchy is going to suddenly rule the world because of better communications? The fact that you even posit the idea shows you aren't qualified to be talking about it.
All this is about is anarchy, not democracy. You think it'll stop wars because people don't like senseless violence? What about the guys that DO LIKE WARS? What about the soldiers that sign up so they CAN LEGALLY KILL PEOPLE? Do you really not think this happens?
Why do these idiotic stories promoting the mob mentality make it to slashdot? Are you guys too stupid to read the site you're posting to? There isn't a single story posted where there is a common consensus that everyone agrees on, and this shit is really irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, and you think some random group of people are going to be different?
Let me give you a hint, if this were to happen, you would be someones bitch because the smarter more dominate people will STILL end up in control of the mob as MOST people NEED to be lead and don't want to think about hard problems for themselves, which is why democracy fails all the time anyway and the closest functional (debatable) variant is a representitive republic. You can not show me one example of a functional democracy, but I can show you plenty of failed ones even with all the modern communications and software we have... just look at california where everyone votes themselves new services, extra city/state provided benefits AND at the same time... tax breaks. Utter failure.
If you think this is like Audio IRC and that thats a good thing than I say you've never used IRC in the way you're suggesting. You might have used some network with nick/chan serve and such, but theres no way you'd think this was a good idea had you spent any time on EFnet in the late 90s before all the crap they did to combat takeovers. Considering that chan/nick serves make it not a democracy (a select few people decide how they work, not you) you have to be pretty ignorant to think it'd be even identical anyway.
ANARCHY IS NOT A VALID WAY OF LOOKING AT GOVERNMENTS NO MATTER HOW GREAT YOU THINK IT IS. EVERYONE WILL NOT JUST GET ALONG. WE ARE NOT CLONES, SOME OF US ARE BETTER AT SOME THINGS THAN OTHERS. You for instance, and anyone thinking this is a good idea, would make absolutely shitty leaders, planners, or executive officers at a company. Its hard to argue that you're good for much anything if you can understand how anarchy fails, but I'm sure you have some redeeming quality that could be used.
Intent weighs into level of punishment, not guilt or innocence.
Murder versus manslaughter is a matter of intent versus accident, or some intent versus no intent what so ever, but still doing something they shouldn't have been doing that resulted in death.
I'm sure you'll say the same thing when first responders don't get dispatched because they weren't given priority and Amazon wanted to ship 10 more kindles to the morons buying them.
What the answer should be is: No, emergency services and national security interests run on their own dedicated equipment, exclusively for their use.
You do realize that AC does nothing more than TRANSPORT HEAT FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER, right? The only new heat added is the little bit that the fans and compressors put off themselves, which isn't enough to make toast on any modern efficient unit.
I'm not sure where you live, but no where on the planet Earth has the temperature that is 10 degrees high than anytime you've been around for.
GW at its worse predicts a couple degrees every 50 years, your claiming 10-20 in a few decades?
Don't be so stupid, unless you live in newly formed Ethiopian desert, your entirely full of shit. If you do live in the desert, just slightly less full of shit, but your eyes are certainly brown
Naw, we run real OSes on our Macs, so we don't actually have a problem playing the better supported windows version.
Since Steam and most games are broken and don't work on case sensitive file systems, running Steam on a properly configured Mac requires a case insensitive disk image mounted and half a dozen sum links just to get it to run. So it's far too obnoxious to be considered a viable platform on OSX and also unlikely to ever be useful for anything other than a dedicated server launcher on mac
News isn't 'shifting to social', what you call news from 'social' isn't news, just like HuffPo isn't news, its 100% sensationalism and outright fraud in almost every case.
Real news is still handled by real journalists, of which, HuffPo has never seen one, sorry.
The only people who think 'news is shifting to social' are people who are 'in the social news business' and high school kids who read an article, well most of an article on a blog. You guys stand right next to the SEO guys on the worthless wagon pushing something that no one needs except yourselves to stay a float since you don't actually provide anything useful.
Just because you happen to be riding a fad doesn't mean you actually are useful or respected in any way, its really sad that you can't see that, which is also an indication of how your sort of rag isn't actual journalism.
And the reality of it is, any non-geek wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Just because you instantly recognize the difference since its something that you have have within your knowledge domain doesn't mean my mom or dad can.
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I'd wager its more the Ouya guys who are talking about OnLive, it leaves them even LESS to do to make their silly scam seem real.
I could give you about a thousand reasons why using Android for a game console is stupid idea when you could just as easily use a standard distro as the base. The graphics subsystem, which is vitally important to games, being the biggest part of android that sucks ass would be a good starting point for why you wouldn't use Android.
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Right, because the stopped making new clones ... kind of how Apple stopped making computers after they sold me one.
Stormtroopers are still clones, hence Lea's comment to Luke 'a little short for a storm trooper, aren't you?'
I guess you ignored the different ages shown in the prequel as well at the clone factory, they weren't all the same age, ever. Replacements were part of the program from day one.
dullards,
Just for reference, when you use such a word, you make the impression that you're nothing more than an ignorant arrogant prick. Regardless of what the rest of your post says, you're written off as a waste of everyones time. You might as well throw in some racial slurs as well as your doing the same thing, just towards intelligence rather than skin color.
Your use of the word just shows how much of a douche you are. On this site, its about like walking into a Black Panthers meeting and saying 'you niggers are dumb', it really makes it clear how ignorant you are.
Usually doing something faster DOES indeed mean it being over in less time. I have no idea what other kinds of "faster" you know of.
Example: A 24 hour endurance race ends in 24 hours regardless of how much faster you go. Of course, to be pedantic, thats not strictly true either, I don't know the number but there is actually a milage number that goes with that 24 hours that they'll stop at if its done before then so technically its possible for it to mean less time, but in general the time involved is constant regardless of speed.
Yes, eye rolls are an appropriate response for this comment.
Why would I care if text renders in 100 microseconds or 300?
Render a full page of text, scrolling (without doing proper backing stores so you actually have to re-render everything for each movement, yes, there are apps that do this!) Then you'll understand that even though most people think its about battery life (and it is for the most part) every tiny bit of latency you can get out of the rendering pipeline is important to how the system 'feels'.
I may not be able to visually or aurally detect distinct frames, but I can still 'feel' a big perceived difference.
I suppose your argument is that OO.org is 'better' and that Linux is superior because they are OSS, rather than they do the job I need them to do better, correct?
Go back to using a screwdriver to hammer a nail into your tire.
Developers ARE finding other business models and you aren't hearing them. You've got your fingers in your ears, eyes closed and you're screaming 'I can't hear you!'
When you open your eyes next time what you'll have no paid apps to pirate.
Read the freaking story title for fucks sake.
Why support the people who scream 'give me for free!!' when instead you can support people that are happy to blow money on fart apps.
I can't help but think this will teach you exactly what 'you get what you pay for' actually means.
Informative is such the perfect mod for your post, I hope other developers find your post as informative of Android users line of thought as I have.
Yes, you are, and you are incredibly naive. What kind of games do you expect if NO ONE pays for them?
If OSS with a donation worked as well currently EA, Blizzard, Valve, ID and every other developer on the planet would do the same. Why do you propose such silly questions when it clearly doesn't work to generate more revenue since the greedy bastards aren't doing it.
Its far more profitable to get money up front, then get some more for DLC so the game actually feels complete. You certainly don't give out the source, someone else could make a better version and give it away for free until it becomes more popular and then start charging. Hence the price will always go to 0 as someone out there will make some mods for free, there are plenty of kids who are more than capable and live at home with no costs and plenty of time. They just can't create a really coherent work of art like a game from scratch in the limited time they have.
Heh, ironic, the Germans are once again beating down the Jews eh? Guess we should have listened in the 30s and 40s.
If you're panties are all in a bunch because of what I just wrote, get over yourself, its a fucking joke :)
I agree, I'm fairly certain that given a database with all the reviews from all reviewers, you could figure out the weighted values of the various reviews with a query, not even a particularly complex one if using SQL.
So I can never become a judge now because I can not be impartial on most cases.
Correct. Nor can you be in a jury either. You'd be thrown off fairly quickly as the lawyers on BOTH sides don't want you in the jury to fuck it up.
I'm fairly certain you have no idea how our legal system works nor how it is supposed to work.
The fact that you're such a dick that you're flat out saying you're unwilling to even try to be impartial shows you lack the maturity for the position as well. You simply don't understand the world well enough to be qualified for the position in general, yet like most you think that makes you even more qualified. You're just an arrogant douche who thinks your way is the only way. You're wrong, and fortunately ever legal system on the planet has pretty much been setup to throw your type out of the equation as quickly as possible.
WHAT impartiality, the statements make it clear that he isn't impartial and has already decided who is wrong.
He stepped down because its pretty freaking obvious he is exactly the WRONG person for the job.
Funny, Microsoft sold a Xbox that was an optimized PC with a bootable DVD and it took them hundreds of millions of dollars and several years to get a seat at the big boys table, I kind of be surprised if running Linux magically made it happen for no other readily apparent reason. I doubt I would be alone in that line of thought.
Apple troll here ... no, I want Steam for Linux because maybe it means they'll fix the retarded god damn case sensitivity issues that it has. You can't use steam on a case sensitive file system, which by default, Macs are insensitive from the store, but those of us techies who do real unix work reformat as case sensitive for obvious reasons. So to use Steam, I have to create a disk image with a case insensitive filesystem, then create a fuckton of symlinks in all lower case to get it to work.
All this because apparently some stupid fuck instead of Valve though that you should lowercase paths for some reason, but only in certain places! In some places you just leave it like it was!
That said, I appreciate all cross platform apps more than single platform apps when the option exists, in my experience as a developer, running your code on multiple OSes or architectures tends to expose bugs you never would have seen otherwise. Just stupid little API inconsistencies and such.
Seriously, why do you guys keep thinking that anarchy is going to suddenly rule the world because of better communications? The fact that you even posit the idea shows you aren't qualified to be talking about it.
All this is about is anarchy, not democracy. You think it'll stop wars because people don't like senseless violence? What about the guys that DO LIKE WARS? What about the soldiers that sign up so they CAN LEGALLY KILL PEOPLE? Do you really not think this happens?
Why do these idiotic stories promoting the mob mentality make it to slashdot? Are you guys too stupid to read the site you're posting to? There isn't a single story posted where there is a common consensus that everyone agrees on, and this shit is really irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, and you think some random group of people are going to be different?
Let me give you a hint, if this were to happen, you would be someones bitch because the smarter more dominate people will STILL end up in control of the mob as MOST people NEED to be lead and don't want to think about hard problems for themselves, which is why democracy fails all the time anyway and the closest functional (debatable) variant is a representitive republic. You can not show me one example of a functional democracy, but I can show you plenty of failed ones even with all the modern communications and software we have ... just look at california where everyone votes themselves new services, extra city/state provided benefits AND at the same time ... tax breaks. Utter failure.
If you think this is like Audio IRC and that thats a good thing than I say you've never used IRC in the way you're suggesting. You might have used some network with nick/chan serve and such, but theres no way you'd think this was a good idea had you spent any time on EFnet in the late 90s before all the crap they did to combat takeovers. Considering that chan/nick serves make it not a democracy (a select few people decide how they work, not you) you have to be pretty ignorant to think it'd be even identical anyway.
ANARCHY IS NOT A VALID WAY OF LOOKING AT GOVERNMENTS NO MATTER HOW GREAT YOU THINK IT IS. EVERYONE WILL NOT JUST GET ALONG. WE ARE NOT CLONES, SOME OF US ARE BETTER AT SOME THINGS THAN OTHERS. You for instance, and anyone thinking this is a good idea, would make absolutely shitty leaders, planners, or executive officers at a company. Its hard to argue that you're good for much anything if you can understand how anarchy fails, but I'm sure you have some redeeming quality that could be used.
Intent weighs into level of punishment, not guilt or innocence.
Murder versus manslaughter is a matter of intent versus accident, or some intent versus no intent what so ever, but still doing something they shouldn't have been doing that resulted in death.
I'm sure you'll say the same thing when first responders don't get dispatched because they weren't given priority and Amazon wanted to ship 10 more kindles to the morons buying them.
What the answer should be is: No, emergency services and national security interests run on their own dedicated equipment, exclusively for their use.
Fox news has WAY more integrity than slashdot, which is pretty hard to do considering Fox news doesn't have any at all.
You do realize that AC does nothing more than TRANSPORT HEAT FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER, right? The only new heat added is the little bit that the fans and compressors put off themselves, which isn't enough to make toast on any modern efficient unit.
I'm not sure where you live, but no where on the planet Earth has the temperature that is 10 degrees high than anytime you've been around for.
GW at its worse predicts a couple degrees every 50 years, your claiming 10-20 in a few decades?
Don't be so stupid, unless you live in newly formed Ethiopian desert, your entirely full of shit. If you do live in the desert, just slightly less full of shit, but your eyes are certainly brown
Naw, we run real OSes on our Macs, so we don't actually have a problem playing the better supported windows version.
Since Steam and most games are broken and don't work on case sensitive file systems, running Steam on a properly configured Mac requires a case insensitive disk image mounted and half a dozen sum links just to get it to run. So it's far too obnoxious to be considered a viable platform on OSX and also unlikely to ever be useful for anything other than a dedicated server launcher on mac
News isn't 'shifting to social', what you call news from 'social' isn't news, just like HuffPo isn't news, its 100% sensationalism and outright fraud in almost every case.
Real news is still handled by real journalists, of which, HuffPo has never seen one, sorry.
The only people who think 'news is shifting to social' are people who are 'in the social news business' and high school kids who read an article, well most of an article on a blog. You guys stand right next to the SEO guys on the worthless wagon pushing something that no one needs except yourselves to stay a float since you don't actually provide anything useful.
Just because you happen to be riding a fad doesn't mean you actually are useful or respected in any way, its really sad that you can't see that, which is also an indication of how your sort of rag isn't actual journalism.
And the reality of it is, any non-geek wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
Just because you instantly recognize the difference since its something that you have have within your knowledge domain doesn't mean my mom or dad can.