One shot in the right location makes the body armor worthless.
If they're all standing out there not moving, it makes it much easier to put a shot under their arm and kill them, armor or no armor. Or the neck. Both those locations are great for kill shots.
I shot to the face, regardless of whats covering it is going to take you out for a while just from the energy in the bullet being dissipated.
They aren't invincible, not anywhere close. Get a clue, you don't know much about firearms and warfare.
Now if they'd just make a speedpad that didn't feel like ass, you'd have a winner.
I love the idea, but got those are the cheapest feeling devices I've ever used. They look like the old built strong enough to throw against the wall video game controllers from years ago, but they feel so horrible to actually use. Every button on it requires too much force in just the direction in order for the button to move, and if you don't push it just right, you need so much force that you're completely distracted by it.
I bought a second one just to make sure it wasn't just a bad build on the first one, nope, the both suck equally.
Fortunately, digital foot pedels are like 20 years old at this point, so this isn't exactly first generation hardware. This is definately a first generation implementation by a company that does marketing that is either clearly a lye, or indicates they have absolutely no experience in computers... otherwise they'd be aware of all the other existing implementations of the same thing that came before them.
Either way you look at it, no informed person would buy from this company at this point in time.
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I've had USB rudder pedals for flight simulators since the late1990's.
The only way this is new is if they mean this exact specific device.
The actual idea, the implementation and everything that goes along with it have been around for far longer than USB.
I had game port rudder peddles before they were USB. Nothing new here.
And in that case, the phone tells you how to fix it...
Delete the app thats failing to install from the start pages, and download it again again, or sync with a PC.
Theres no need to look elsewhere, they made the effort to deal with those problems to make users lives easier, and they know the apps will install because they try the apps first.
Android is an iOS copy, but its a copy of all the wrong shit, with a couple of exceptions where they copied the right shit but utterly failed to get the essence of what they were copying. Don't feel bad, Microsoft and RIM did the exact same thing, only they fucked the copying up even more than Android
To do that on an iPad would have required an iPad 1, jailbreaking and an expensive camera kit option.
Or... you could just sync the iPad with the laptop/desktop you used to put the movie on the SD card... Its not like the movie magically appeared on the card, it got there because you put it there... so instead of putting it there, you would have put it on the ipad.
When you get to the hotel, your ipad will be happy to play them over hdmi, mine certainly doesn't have a problem with it.
I can throw music and pictures on there without iTunes.
Okay, so you can use another app instead of iTunes, but you're still using an app.
I can remote control my PCs without installing anything, because RemoteRDP is a great remote desktop program that uses Microsoft's built-in protocol. Most of the popular games and apps are on both anyway and there are more every day.
Let me give you a hint, I was doing that on iOS before android was a thought in someones mind, I can't even think of an OS without RDP support.
Basically, your entire post wreaks of fanboy. Yes, you do have a couple legitimate things that your device can do over an iPad, but from a practical perspective those things are trivial and I'm not going to point out the things the iPad does better since it clearly won't matter to you, you've decided. Its just a shame you decided for the wrong reasons. Being a fanboy is a reason, but its a shitty one.
In fact I regularly see people give out grossly unfair 1 star ratings.
Yes, and there are some white men who are good at basketball, some black men who aren't, and some asians who can actually drive and aren't math gods.
But just like what you bring up, they are exceptions to the generalization. There are always exceptions to the rule. One day you'll figure that out and learn to throw out the exceptions when you're trying to have a general conversation. Either that or you'll spend all your time arguing about exceptions and never get anywhere.
Really? Then why did you buy a device where the phone is a secondary function? Seems like it would have made sense to by a device where the phone was the primary function.
OMG, one of my customers is using a slow Pentium 4!
That slow pentium 4 is still capable of actually being useful as 'slow' in PCs now days is still incredibly fast.
On a phone however the difference between fast and slow is trivial, so a slow phone is far more noticeable.
Of course, I could rant and rave about how the fact that someone notices their phone is slow already shows the whole thing is built wrong, but that'd take too long.
Froyo and Gingerbread and Honeycomb
Really? 3 different versions are as good as iOS... then why are there 3 versions? The funny part is that you say froyo and gingerbread are on par... then why did they make gingerbread?
Heres a hint, they aren't on par, they aren't even on the same course, though they are the only ones in the same state at the moment.
Just curious, how many apps have you written for multiple phone OSes?
I'm not the author of the story, but I have two OSes that I currently have active software for sale on, and a few others under my belt from past items. $200 says you don't even write code, and no, your little python script doesn't count.
If anyone bothered to look at the App on the App store to verify it, they'd see that his current version has a little over 450 reviews, not 4000... making a typo and 400 sound much more correct.
People are generally too pussy or to mad to rate properly.
In this day and age, where everyone wants to be nice to everyone, and most people have self-esteem issues so they want everyone else in the world to like them, no one gives accurate reviews. You'll get 4 starts for a shitty app just cause no one wants to make the developer feel bad.
This is a well known and established fact.
A 1-10 scale is more like a 6/7-10 scale if they are good about it, really its probably a 8/9 out of 10 scale.
Sure, SOME people rate accurately, but that one in a 100k gets drowned out immediately.
Yes, but has it been out for a year on the iPhone and 2 months on Android? If thats the cause, the android version IS selling faster at this point.
Statistics you don't understand aren't useful. Please try to understand the statistics you're looking at before you talk about how great/evil/right/wrong they are.
Time sensitive code doesn't need to be written in Assembly anymore, or even in a compiled language.
Its always awesome when people who have never written a line of code in their lives tell others how to write code.
Assembly is used all over the place. Using a webkit based browser on x86? You're using assembly. Use SSL in ANY browser, you know, like when you logged into slashdot. Guess what? Assembly for the encryption algorithms... so its fast. I could go on for days with examples of things still written in assembly because they need to be fast.
I'm going to assume you use Linux, I suggest you take a good look at the source tree before you make any more retarded statements like this one.
The cloud bubble is no more likely to burst then the hardrive bubble is likely to burst.
The cloud is how things will be done, I suggest you get used to it.
Well, in an earlier post I assumed you were older, but it appears you're using someone elses account for the lower UID... however, you don't seem to know much about computing history.
This is hardly the first cloud bubble, it will burst like all the others for all the same reasons. Then we'll do it the right way for a while, and some things will work properly by being a mix of both, then in 5-10 years, we'll be getting all clouding again, probably with a new name.
This has all happened before and it will all happen again.
The trick is getting through their NAT or firewall.
Getting an open port on the users browser can be accomplished in many many ways, Google already uses plugins to provide video and voice in browsers such as safari and IE.
No, Firefox would be the geeks choice, didn't think that part was hard to understand since I didn't mention any other browsers and was refering to how they were pissing off their target audience of geeks.
I don't find Chrome that impressive either, its annoying on many many levels, and for as you said, many of the exact same reasons as firefox. It is obviously managed about 6-7 billion times better than firefox since it actually functions as a decent browser.
I've yet to run into a chrome bug, not saying they don't exist, just that I don't see them. Meanwhile I can start any version of firefox in the last year and spot bugs before the first page loads.
Google DOES actually appear to fix bugs... FF says 'YEA WE FIXED 10 BUGS IN 5 and added new features'... 10 bugs eh? Well considering you just added a few thousand new ones because you rushed shit to market, let me just tell you how excited I am that they only added 3990 instead of 4000 new bugs to their bug tracker, thats awesome... lets look at how much people cared about the bugs they fixed... none. Awesome, good job guys, really doing your job.
FF is essentially trying to copy Chrome anyway, the difference is, Chrome has direction and people forcing it to get in that direction since Google wants to make some cash... Mozilla on the other hand has a bunch of old developers who do whatever the fuck they want when they want how they want and if it doesn't suit them, they don't do it, but they keep taking a paycheck for it. So instead of a usable browser we get absolutely retarded shit like a new theming engine!... cause they never could be bothered to fix the buggy ass implementation they already have.
Mozilla doesn't fix bugs. When they find them, their solution is to reinvent the wheel, poorly, with more bugs than before, and to try and impress people by saying 'look we made it so much better!!!' while ignoring the fact that while its so much better, its still not even up to Microsofts standard level of crap, and they'll repeat how they made it better for a few revisions and its 90% faster, but still slower than anything else by miles.
Much like Netscape, they can't write code for shit, and if you've seen the Mozilla code base, you'd realize they can't write code for shit. We used to use Gecko for rending HTML in our apps across multiple platforms... used to use it... then I got tired of being high all the time since I couldn't stand to deal with their crappy mess of software any other way. Again, webkit delivers the better solution, not because its 'better' overally from a technical perspective, but because its better in that its actually useful in reality, not in theory, if you sleep with the right mozilla developer and pay him enough to fix the documentation and/or bugs so their code works outside of one tiny little environment with 9 billion dependencies.
Yes, I'm ranting, but having dealt with Gecko embedding over a 3 year period, I believe I have a solid technical knowledge of the code base and how it compares to others like it... I can't understand why ANYONE would write code for it or embed Gecko without getting paid far more than they are worth.
Firefox as a whole is relatively speaking not very buggy. It certainly is less so than IE or Safari (at least I don't hit any noticeable Firefox bugs on a daily basis but Safari regularly crashes [windows] and IE dev tools have so many problems that they are nearly impossible to use).
So you've clearly never used any of the browser you mention for more than 30 seconds...
Well, guess who didn't get invited to the cool parties because the invite went out over MySpace?
You weren't important enough for anyone to tell you... and you think having a facebook/myspace account would have changed that?
I don't know about you, but I went to parties where I was actually wanted, and someone made an effort to tell me about it.
Sounds like the kind of parties you're talking about were just popularity contests.
If you aren't important enough that they would call you or send you an email, you weren't their friends and you weren't worth the invite. Sucks, but thats just reality.
Would being on facebook/myspace have helped your social life? No. If they wanted you to be part of it, they would have put more effort into asking you.
So heres the moral of the story: You aren't special and Facebook/MySpace won't change the fact that you didn't matter to those people enough to get an invitation.
Wow, she's been known for putting stupid crap like this into perspective since well before she got 'old'. She's generally well recognized for pointing out the obvious that no one else has the balls to say even if it makes her look bad or means she's making someone else look bad.
In short, that rich old lady seems to have a better grasp on the world than you do, you might want to listen to her.
New technology doesn't make it new, its just a new way to do the same old things. Facebook is really about the same as posting stuff on a church bulletin board 50 years ago. Sure the content is different and wouldn't be something you'd show in church probably, but its not really any different.
Youd think someone whos been around as long as you have would have JUST a LITTLE bit of wisdom of his own.
so all of us who use it as as tool to improve are lives are the losers?
To put it bluntly, if Facebook improves your life you are most certainly a loser in every conceivable way.
If you have a medical condition, or you happen to be a soldier away from home, then its different.
If you are just too socially inept to function in the real world however, then yes, you qualify as a loser. You'll get a fuckton closer to not being a loser when you stop trying to make excuses for being a loser.
How do I know YOU specifically are a loser? You responded to his post. It struck a nerve with you. If it didn't feel personal to you, you wouldn't have bothered.
You responded because YOU think your the loser he describes.
My dad most certainly was my best friend until my wife. I probably wouldn't need to deny him though, he was smart/wise enough to know there were times when dad had to not be dad. Of course, the only thing in my life that I've actually got punished for by my father was lying to him. Even having been bailed out of jail multiple times when I was a little G didn't get me punished unless I lied to him, so its not like he doesn't know all the crazy shit I did anyway.
Of course, when I realized that lying to him was pointless because he was way smarter and wiser (i.e. he did all this shit when he was a kid and dealt with my 4 older siblings before me, he KNEW before I did half the time!) I stopped lying to him and started listening to him. Thank god I did, I'm still a douche in a lot of ways, but oh my god it could have been much worse.
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One shot in the right location makes the body armor worthless.
If they're all standing out there not moving, it makes it much easier to put a shot under their arm and kill them, armor or no armor. Or the neck. Both those locations are great for kill shots.
I shot to the face, regardless of whats covering it is going to take you out for a while just from the energy in the bullet being dissipated.
They aren't invincible, not anywhere close. Get a clue, you don't know much about firearms and warfare.
Now if they'd just make a speedpad that didn't feel like ass, you'd have a winner.
I love the idea, but got those are the cheapest feeling devices I've ever used. They look like the old built strong enough to throw against the wall video game controllers from years ago, but they feel so horrible to actually use. Every button on it requires too much force in just the direction in order for the button to move, and if you don't push it just right, you need so much force that you're completely distracted by it.
I bought a second one just to make sure it wasn't just a bad build on the first one, nope, the both suck equally.
Fortunately, digital foot pedels are like 20 years old at this point, so this isn't exactly first generation hardware. This is definately a first generation implementation by a company that does marketing that is either clearly a lye, or indicates they have absolutely no experience in computers ... otherwise they'd be aware of all the other existing implementations of the same thing that came before them.
Either way you look at it, no informed person would buy from this company at this point in time.
I've had USB rudder pedals for flight simulators since the late1990's.
The only way this is new is if they mean this exact specific device.
The actual idea, the implementation and everything that goes along with it have been around for far longer than USB.
I had game port rudder peddles before they were USB. Nothing new here.
And in that case, the phone tells you how to fix it ...
Delete the app thats failing to install from the start pages, and download it again again, or sync with a PC.
Theres no need to look elsewhere, they made the effort to deal with those problems to make users lives easier, and they know the apps will install because they try the apps first.
Android is an iOS copy, but its a copy of all the wrong shit, with a couple of exceptions where they copied the right shit but utterly failed to get the essence of what they were copying. Don't feel bad, Microsoft and RIM did the exact same thing, only they fucked the copying up even more than Android
To do that on an iPad would have required an iPad 1, jailbreaking and an expensive camera kit option.
Or ... you could just sync the iPad with the laptop/desktop you used to put the movie on the SD card ... Its not like the movie magically appeared on the card, it got there because you put it there ... so instead of putting it there, you would have put it on the ipad.
When you get to the hotel, your ipad will be happy to play them over hdmi, mine certainly doesn't have a problem with it.
I can throw music and pictures on there without iTunes.
Okay, so you can use another app instead of iTunes, but you're still using an app.
I can remote control my PCs without installing anything, because RemoteRDP is a great remote desktop program that uses Microsoft's built-in protocol. Most of the popular games and apps are on both anyway and there are more every day.
Let me give you a hint, I was doing that on iOS before android was a thought in someones mind, I can't even think of an OS without RDP support.
Basically, your entire post wreaks of fanboy. Yes, you do have a couple legitimate things that your device can do over an iPad, but from a practical perspective those things are trivial and I'm not going to point out the things the iPad does better since it clearly won't matter to you, you've decided. Its just a shame you decided for the wrong reasons. Being a fanboy is a reason, but its a shitty one.
Its perfectly linear. Do you not have any idea how averages work?
In fact I regularly see people give out grossly unfair 1 star ratings.
Yes, and there are some white men who are good at basketball, some black men who aren't, and some asians who can actually drive and aren't math gods.
But just like what you bring up, they are exceptions to the generalization. There are always exceptions to the rule. One day you'll figure that out and learn to throw out the exceptions when you're trying to have a general conversation. Either that or you'll spend all your time arguing about exceptions and never get anywhere.
I am more interested in the actual phone.
Really? Then why did you buy a device where the phone is a secondary function? Seems like it would have made sense to by a device where the phone was the primary function.
Yea, blaming someone else because you didn't do your job is always the sign of a winner.
The carpenter could refuse to build the house you know, he/she does have free will.
Blaming it on management is just an attempt to hide the fact that you were unable to show your manager why what they wanted was a bad idea.
OMG, one of my customers is using a slow Pentium 4!
That slow pentium 4 is still capable of actually being useful as 'slow' in PCs now days is still incredibly fast.
On a phone however the difference between fast and slow is trivial, so a slow phone is far more noticeable.
Of course, I could rant and rave about how the fact that someone notices their phone is slow already shows the whole thing is built wrong, but that'd take too long.
Froyo and Gingerbread and Honeycomb
Really? 3 different versions are as good as iOS ... then why are there 3 versions? The funny part is that you say froyo and gingerbread are on par ... then why did they make gingerbread?
Heres a hint, they aren't on par, they aren't even on the same course, though they are the only ones in the same state at the moment.
Just curious, how many apps have you written for multiple phone OSes?
I'm not the author of the story, but I have two OSes that I currently have active software for sale on, and a few others under my belt from past items. $200 says you don't even write code, and no, your little python script doesn't count.
Because 4000 is a typo.
If anyone bothered to look at the App on the App store to verify it, they'd see that his current version has a little over 450 reviews, not 4000 ... making a typo and 400 sound much more correct.
A 1 to 5 scale is really a 4-5 scale.
People are generally too pussy or to mad to rate properly.
In this day and age, where everyone wants to be nice to everyone, and most people have self-esteem issues so they want everyone else in the world to like them, no one gives accurate reviews. You'll get 4 starts for a shitty app just cause no one wants to make the developer feel bad.
This is a well known and established fact.
A 1-10 scale is more like a 6/7-10 scale if they are good about it, really its probably a 8/9 out of 10 scale.
Sure, SOME people rate accurately, but that one in a 100k gets drowned out immediately.
Yes, but has it been out for a year on the iPhone and 2 months on Android? If thats the cause, the android version IS selling faster at this point.
Statistics you don't understand aren't useful. Please try to understand the statistics you're looking at before you talk about how great/evil/right/wrong they are.
Time sensitive code doesn't need to be written in Assembly anymore, or even in a compiled language.
Its always awesome when people who have never written a line of code in their lives tell others how to write code.
Assembly is used all over the place. Using a webkit based browser on x86? You're using assembly. Use SSL in ANY browser, you know, like when you logged into slashdot. Guess what? Assembly for the encryption algorithms ... so its fast. I could go on for days with examples of things still written in assembly because they need to be fast.
I'm going to assume you use Linux, I suggest you take a good look at the source tree before you make any more retarded statements like this one.
The cloud bubble is no more likely to burst then the hardrive bubble is likely to burst.
The cloud is how things will be done, I suggest you get used to it.
Well, in an earlier post I assumed you were older, but it appears you're using someone elses account for the lower UID ... however, you don't seem to know much about computing history.
This is hardly the first cloud bubble, it will burst like all the others for all the same reasons. Then we'll do it the right way for a while, and some things will work properly by being a mix of both, then in 5-10 years, we'll be getting all clouding again, probably with a new name.
This has all happened before and it will all happen again.
The trick is getting through their NAT or firewall.
Getting an open port on the users browser can be accomplished in many many ways, Google already uses plugins to provide video and voice in browsers such as safari and IE.
No, Firefox would be the geeks choice, didn't think that part was hard to understand since I didn't mention any other browsers and was refering to how they were pissing off their target audience of geeks.
I don't find Chrome that impressive either, its annoying on many many levels, and for as you said, many of the exact same reasons as firefox. It is obviously managed about 6-7 billion times better than firefox since it actually functions as a decent browser.
I've yet to run into a chrome bug, not saying they don't exist, just that I don't see them. Meanwhile I can start any version of firefox in the last year and spot bugs before the first page loads.
Google DOES actually appear to fix bugs ... FF says 'YEA WE FIXED 10 BUGS IN 5 and added new features' ... 10 bugs eh? Well considering you just added a few thousand new ones because you rushed shit to market, let me just tell you how excited I am that they only added 3990 instead of 4000 new bugs to their bug tracker, thats awesome ... lets look at how much people cared about the bugs they fixed ... none. Awesome, good job guys, really doing your job.
FF is essentially trying to copy Chrome anyway, the difference is, Chrome has direction and people forcing it to get in that direction since Google wants to make some cash ... Mozilla on the other hand has a bunch of old developers who do whatever the fuck they want when they want how they want and if it doesn't suit them, they don't do it, but they keep taking a paycheck for it. So instead of a usable browser we get absolutely retarded shit like a new theming engine! ... cause they never could be bothered to fix the buggy ass implementation they already have.
Mozilla doesn't fix bugs. When they find them, their solution is to reinvent the wheel, poorly, with more bugs than before, and to try and impress people by saying 'look we made it so much better!!!' while ignoring the fact that while its so much better, its still not even up to Microsofts standard level of crap, and they'll repeat how they made it better for a few revisions and its 90% faster, but still slower than anything else by miles.
Much like Netscape, they can't write code for shit, and if you've seen the Mozilla code base, you'd realize they can't write code for shit. We used to use Gecko for rending HTML in our apps across multiple platforms ... used to use it ... then I got tired of being high all the time since I couldn't stand to deal with their crappy mess of software any other way. Again, webkit delivers the better solution, not because its 'better' overally from a technical perspective, but because its better in that its actually useful in reality, not in theory, if you sleep with the right mozilla developer and pay him enough to fix the documentation and/or bugs so their code works outside of one tiny little environment with 9 billion dependencies.
Yes, I'm ranting, but having dealt with Gecko embedding over a 3 year period, I believe I have a solid technical knowledge of the code base and how it compares to others like it ... I can't understand why ANYONE would write code for it or embed Gecko without getting paid far more than they are worth.
Firefox as a whole is relatively speaking not very buggy. It certainly is less so than IE or Safari (at least I don't hit any noticeable Firefox bugs on a daily basis but Safari regularly crashes [windows] and IE dev tools have so many problems that they are nearly impossible to use).
So you've clearly never used any of the browser you mention for more than 30 seconds ...
Well, guess who didn't get invited to the cool parties because the invite went out over MySpace?
You weren't important enough for anyone to tell you ... and you think having a facebook/myspace account would have changed that?
I don't know about you, but I went to parties where I was actually wanted, and someone made an effort to tell me about it.
Sounds like the kind of parties you're talking about were just popularity contests.
If you aren't important enough that they would call you or send you an email, you weren't their friends and you weren't worth the invite. Sucks, but thats just reality.
Would being on facebook/myspace have helped your social life? No. If they wanted you to be part of it, they would have put more effort into asking you.
So heres the moral of the story: You aren't special and Facebook/MySpace won't change the fact that you didn't matter to those people enough to get an invitation.
Wow, she's been known for putting stupid crap like this into perspective since well before she got 'old'. She's generally well recognized for pointing out the obvious that no one else has the balls to say even if it makes her look bad or means she's making someone else look bad.
In short, that rich old lady seems to have a better grasp on the world than you do, you might want to listen to her.
New technology doesn't make it new, its just a new way to do the same old things. Facebook is really about the same as posting stuff on a church bulletin board 50 years ago. Sure the content is different and wouldn't be something you'd show in church probably, but its not really any different.
Youd think someone whos been around as long as you have would have JUST a LITTLE bit of wisdom of his own.
so all of us who use it as as tool to improve are lives are the losers?
To put it bluntly, if Facebook improves your life you are most certainly a loser in every conceivable way.
If you have a medical condition, or you happen to be a soldier away from home, then its different.
If you are just too socially inept to function in the real world however, then yes, you qualify as a loser. You'll get a fuckton closer to not being a loser when you stop trying to make excuses for being a loser.
How do I know YOU specifically are a loser? You responded to his post. It struck a nerve with you. If it didn't feel personal to you, you wouldn't have bothered.
You responded because YOU think your the loser he describes.
And that goes back to my original statement ...
My dad most certainly was my best friend until my wife. I probably wouldn't need to deny him though, he was smart/wise enough to know there were times when dad had to not be dad. Of course, the only thing in my life that I've actually got punished for by my father was lying to him. Even having been bailed out of jail multiple times when I was a little G didn't get me punished unless I lied to him, so its not like he doesn't know all the crazy shit I did anyway.
Of course, when I realized that lying to him was pointless because he was way smarter and wiser (i.e. he did all this shit when he was a kid and dealt with my 4 older siblings before me, he KNEW before I did half the time!) I stopped lying to him and started listening to him. Thank god I did, I'm still a douche in a lot of ways, but oh my god it could have been much worse.
Uhm, maybe they could friend me? Wink Wink
Thats probably the best response to a childish tit for tat string I've seen yet. Priceless ending. I'd mod up if I hadn't posted :)