Keynes was right, we should all have a standard of living 8x as much today. Unfortunately he just didn't allow for the greedy superrich motherfuckers being able to keep it all to themselves.
Thank you that was very insightful and informative...and it just goes to show what a bunch of ignorant, mindless sheep still living in the dark ages most muslims really (still) are.
I admit I haven't tried downloading a supposedly cracked game for years, but even back in the day it was at best maybe a 1-in-10 success between downloading something that claimed to be a "l33t full 100%haxored game" to actually getting what it claimed to be. Most of the time you'd get something that obviously wouldnt even run and/or was just basically a bundle of virusses and trojans that would take a dump all over your PC. Even though I haven't personally tried, I can't imagine these days that success rate is anything but a whole lot worse, and even trying is more dangerous. Basically its just not worth it. Honestly I'd rather just buy whatever game I want off steam, at least that way you also get a reasonable level of peace of mind about what it really is that you're actually installing on your PC.
Sorry but thats clueless. After also buying the season pass, Fallout 4 cost over $100 and it isn't coming down anytime soon. Sure I could wait a year or more and save maybe save $20 but I'm not that much of a tightwad. Its going to be probably 5 years if ever, before Fallout4 hits your $14 number. Skyrim is still 19.99 on steam. and it was released in 2011.
This sounds like you're really struggling to find a particular rare interdependent sequence of events (on plane/low battery/previous version of app immediately not supported/app size limit in place and update just too big) just to defend your point. Tha flat batterry is all on you. Be better prepared next time. As is the app size limit because at least on android its off by default so you must have set it at some point. I will not say that no developers ever break immediately previous versions from running as soon as an update comes out, but its a fucking stupid thing to do so seems unlikely someone with a professional app woud do that. and if in this case its true, I for one would stop using that app since clearly the developer is clueless. I also dont believe that if you had enough power to run a web app, you couldn't also have done an update when you got on the ground. Even assuming you actually did encounter a rare confluence of several events where the current approach could be better otherwise, using that as sufficient argument that all apps would be better off as a web-type interface makes no sense.
>> Updating apps is a pain that users often ignore,
Dude enough with the unrealistic strawman. On Android, OSX, Windows and Linux at least, you can set updates to happen completely automatically, or at worst you just have to hit OK to authorize the available update its notifying you about. How is that really a pain?
Sorry but apps through browsers totally suck for usability in comparison to local apps. Apart from anything else there's the whole complete dependency on being connected thing, then there's all the massive extra lag because every interaction and UI update are now doing GETS/POSTS to a remote backend, Then there's all the unnecessary extra data usage and extra battery usage as a consequence which are both very real factors for mobiles. Browser apps are even a bad idea on desktops. We just "upgraded" to Office365 at work. What a complete fucking laggy mess and giant step backwards in productivity and usability that is, mostly because its obviously implemented as some sort of browser-based app now. I'd bet it just because some clueless moron like you at Microsoft thinks "moar web=== kool"
Again the Americans are wrong. One doesn't say "I'm learning mathematic", the correct form is "I'm learning mathematics".Since clearly mathematics is a plural, the proper contraction is maths, not math.
Thats always been their whole strategy: let other innovate and them move in when the marketplace is already mature. Wierdley they always do that with a sub-standard copy of whats already been done better by the innovator, and unfortunately somehow stay in business.
They don't. Their phone division has always been a massive financial liability. Its just that Microsoft is literally obsessed with the thought of getting into phones. Any other company acting like their phone division but without their massive safety net would have gone bust 5 times over by now.
No one WANTS a Microsoft-branded anything. The only reason anyone still uses Microsoft products is because: 1) it came preinstalled on your new computer. 2) Most workplace IT managers only know Windows so automatically force it onto everyone's work computers.
Unfortunately I think your kid is rare enough to be considered an anomaly these days. Looking around at our culture, I honestly wonder where the next generation of "natural" engineers will come from. Sadly almost certainly not the US.
Its an American thing. Wierdly they seem to feel the need to additionally pluralise the word Lego. As a Brit living in the US, the first time I heard it called "Legos" sounded ignorant to me, until I realised its cultural so I gave up worrying about it.
I'm also one of us that remember dicking about with electronics and designing/building/programming early computers at home... That culture of exploration seems to have died with us. I have a 10 year old son. Neither him or any of his friends or school mates are interested in anything that isn't completely pre-packaged, comes with full instructions, and is 100% convenient. If anything requires any creative thinking or even any slight effort on his part, it just gets left unfinished in a drawer. Sadly I think thanks to the sick liberal values in society and promoted by mass media, this level of laziness and total absence of scientific curiosity is completely typical of the current generation of at least middle class US kids now, and simple market demand explains the complete lack of electronic sets, chemistry sets etc in toy stores these days.
>> What does it mater if its a computer or a person (labour).
Because if you outsource something for long enough your own population loses those skills and all you end up with is an entire population of project managers who can't compete in the world market for anything other than project management. Then your whole economy goes even more to shit.
I'm with you bro, and already doing it. I refuse to buy any new GM product just because you can't even get any Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, or GMC vehicle without Onstar now.
I saw some metric that said all DDOS's and spam emailing going on at any one time accounts for over 60% of the entire traffic on the internet. Admittedly I'm guessing but I would bet money on getting rid of most of that will have a far more significant positive effect on your gaming ping than a small negative one from your router needing to confirm the originating address of packets.
Well the internet bascially started out on the priciples of an academic community, which presumed some level of basic intelligence and cooperation between its users. They probably couldn't even conceive of users that would actively try to act like they had microscopic penisses.
I laugh at the way they act like theyr'e some kind of 'l33t hax0rs' and they talk all about security of Microsoft/Sonys networks, but all they're doing is some lame skript kiddy DDOS that doesnt actually penetrate any security at all.
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Keynes was right, we should all have a standard of living 8x as much today. Unfortunately he just didn't allow for the greedy superrich motherfuckers being able to keep it all to themselves.
Thank you that was very insightful and informative. ..and it just goes to show what a bunch of ignorant, mindless sheep still living in the dark ages most muslims really (still) are.
I admit I haven't tried downloading a supposedly cracked game for years, but even back in the day it was at best maybe a 1-in-10 success between downloading something that claimed to be a "l33t full 100%haxored game" to actually getting what it claimed to be. Most of the time you'd get something that obviously wouldnt even run and/or was just basically a bundle of virusses and trojans that would take a dump all over your PC. Even though I haven't personally tried, I can't imagine these days that success rate is anything but a whole lot worse, and even trying is more dangerous.
Basically its just not worth it. Honestly I'd rather just buy whatever game I want off steam, at least that way you also get a reasonable level of peace of mind about what it really is that you're actually installing on your PC.
Sorry but thats clueless.
After also buying the season pass, Fallout 4 cost over $100 and it isn't coming down anytime soon.
Sure I could wait a year or more and save maybe save $20 but I'm not that much of a tightwad.
Its going to be probably 5 years if ever, before Fallout4 hits your $14 number. Skyrim is still 19.99 on steam. and it was released in 2011.
>>> at least for now, doesn't appear to offer a version with Windows 10 pre-installed.
Anybody that sees that as a disadvantage needs their head examining.
>> Will Advanced AI Spell the End of Lawyers?
NO, because the moment it starts acting like it could, they will find a reason to make a law against it.
This sounds like you're really struggling to find a particular rare interdependent sequence of events (on plane/low battery/previous version of app immediately not supported/app size limit in place and update just too big) just to defend your point.
Tha flat batterry is all on you. Be better prepared next time. As is the app size limit because at least on android its off by default so you must have set it at some point.
I will not say that no developers ever break immediately previous versions from running as soon as an update comes out, but its a fucking stupid thing to do so seems unlikely someone with a professional app woud do that. and if in this case its true, I for one would stop using that app since clearly the developer is clueless.
I also dont believe that if you had enough power to run a web app, you couldn't also have done an update when you got on the ground.
Even assuming you actually did encounter a rare confluence of several events where the current approach could be better otherwise, using that as sufficient argument that all apps would be better off as a web-type interface makes no sense.
>> Updating apps is a pain that users often ignore,
Dude enough with the unrealistic strawman.
On Android, OSX, Windows and Linux at least, you can set updates to happen completely automatically, or at worst you just have to hit OK to authorize the available update its notifying you about. How is that really a pain?
Sorry but apps through browsers totally suck for usability in comparison to local apps.
Apart from anything else there's the whole complete dependency on being connected thing, then there's all the massive extra lag because every interaction and UI update are now doing GETS/POSTS to a remote backend, Then there's all the unnecessary extra data usage and extra battery usage as a consequence which are both very real factors for mobiles.
Browser apps are even a bad idea on desktops. We just "upgraded" to Office365 at work. What a complete fucking laggy mess and giant step backwards in productivity and usability that is, mostly because its obviously implemented as some sort of browser-based app now. I'd bet it just because some clueless moron like you at Microsoft thinks "moar web=== kool"
Again the Americans are wrong.
One doesn't say "I'm learning mathematic", the correct form is "I'm learning mathematics".Since clearly mathematics is a plural, the proper contraction is maths, not math.
You must be one hardcore MS fanboi, because I've (had to) use both and its very clear that Lumia totally sucks compared to Android.
Thats always been their whole strategy: let other innovate and them move in when the marketplace is already mature. Wierdley they always do that with a sub-standard copy of whats already been done better by the innovator, and unfortunately somehow stay in business.
They don't. Their phone division has always been a massive financial liability. Its just that Microsoft is literally obsessed with the thought of getting into phones.
Any other company acting like their phone division but without their massive safety net would have gone bust 5 times over by now.
No one WANTS a Microsoft-branded anything.
The only reason anyone still uses Microsoft products is because:
1) it came preinstalled on your new computer.
2) Most workplace IT managers only know Windows so automatically force it onto everyone's work computers.
Unfortunately I think your kid is rare enough to be considered an anomaly these days.
Looking around at our culture, I honestly wonder where the next generation of "natural" engineers will come from. Sadly almost certainly not the US.
Its an American thing. Wierdly they seem to feel the need to additionally pluralise the word Lego. As a Brit living in the US, the first time I heard it called "Legos" sounded ignorant to me, until I realised its cultural so I gave up worrying about it.
I'm also one of us that remember dicking about with electronics and designing/building/programming early computers at home...
That culture of exploration seems to have died with us.
I have a 10 year old son. Neither him or any of his friends or school mates are interested in anything that isn't completely pre-packaged, comes with full instructions, and is 100% convenient. If anything requires any creative thinking or even any slight effort on his part, it just gets left unfinished in a drawer.
Sadly I think thanks to the sick liberal values in society and promoted by mass media, this level of laziness and total absence of scientific curiosity is completely typical of the current generation of at least middle class US kids now, and simple market demand explains the complete lack of electronic sets, chemistry sets etc in toy stores these days.
I dont mind being called any of those things, just please dont call me a coder.
>> What does it mater if its a computer or a person (labour).
Because if you outsource something for long enough your own population loses those skills and all you end up with is an entire population of project managers who can't compete in the world market for anything other than project management. Then your whole economy goes even more to shit.
I'm with you bro, and already doing it.
I refuse to buy any new GM product just because you can't even get any Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, or GMC vehicle without Onstar now.
Is it really just me that wishes car manufacturers would make even just one new model without all this unnecessary crap in it?
I saw some metric that said all DDOS's and spam emailing going on at any one time accounts for over 60% of the entire traffic on the internet.
Admittedly I'm guessing but I would bet money on getting rid of most of that will have a far more significant positive effect on your gaming ping than a small negative one from your router needing to confirm the originating address of packets.
you could equally argue that its just the lack of traffic shaping that makes DDOS attacks possible.
Well the internet bascially started out on the priciples of an academic community, which presumed some level of basic intelligence and cooperation between its users. They probably couldn't even conceive of users that would actively try to act like they had microscopic penisses.
I laugh at the way they act like theyr'e some kind of 'l33t hax0rs' and they talk all about security of Microsoft/Sonys networks, but all they're doing is some lame skript kiddy DDOS that doesnt actually penetrate any security at all.