It's too easy to find Pokemon. Currently the game is mainly about collecting all the Pokemon and once you have majority of them there it not much left to do.
Any Pokemon can be found in just about any area given enough time, this kills the exploring concept. Non-common Pokemon should only be found in different geographic areas taking into account thinks like climate, water sources, forested vs plains vs desert.
Too many Pokestops that are way too close together making it easy to walk in small circles and again limiting the need to explore other areas.
Unfair advantage for people in major cities vs normal cities vs rural areas.
Pokestops and pokemon seem to be clustered in downtown areas.
Walking trails in many parks (which do show up as trails on the map) have nothing which I found to be very disappointing and again limits the need to explore.
The game is way too easy for people to play using "drive by and pull over" techniques.
Cheating got way out of hand. Gyms retaken minutes after I took them with no other person in visible site and all the other cheating.
Too easy to level up from 1-20.
Stops resetting after 5 minutes reduce the need to explore and continuously provide items and xp, they should only reset once a day.
All that said, any new game is going to have it's initial spike, drop, and level off with a slow decline and smaller spikes as new content is released. This decline should not be unexpected. However the company could have done a better job to take advantage of the initial spike so it last as long as possible.
Years ago I could go into a Radio Shack with a broken piece of equipment or questions about some needed part and the employees had the knowledge to help me. It was a place to go and check out all the new cool gadgets. But they changed, the staff no longer knows anything besides how to work the cash register and there is nothing impressive in the store that makes me want to go check it out and possibly buy something. If I have to do the research myself to figure out what I need or how to fix something then I'm going to just order whatever i need online cause it will always be cheaper.
They should be selling raspberry pie's and custom build kits, robotic kits (not kids toys) and all sorts of cool stuff for us nerds to play around with. Instead they tried to sell cell phones when phone carriers all have their own shops right next door. Why would I buy a phone from radio shack when I can go next door and get it from the phone carrier who is the one who will be providing me with support on my phone.
What are they now, a tech store (don't think so), a phone store (fail), a kids toy store? Nobody knows what their brand stands for anymore.
I agree with other posters, go back to being a high tech hobbyist store and get staff that are as excited to play/build the gadgets as their customers will be.
Make all cell phones and land line phone carriers provide (without charging more) more advanced answering services such that when anybody calls a user customized recording will say "If this is a personal call press 7 or business call press 2, if this is a telemarketer press 6 or hold on to leave a message (which will automatically get deleted after 7 days if not listened too). Only if the correct response is selected will the call actually ring out to the person's phone. The correct number to press can be randomized and since the recording is customized by the owner of the phone, it would be hard for simple speech recognition to figure out the correct response. Also have features to only allow calls to go through to the phone if the phone number is recognized by the phones contact list. Otherwise all calls should go to voice mail.
Can you play those carnival games where you compete with other players/pissers by hitting a target with your "water gun" which causes your horse to move down the racetrack or to blow up a balloon
Fault of the Hotel, Credit Card information should NOT be accessible to ANY staff member after the initial swipe into the computer system.
Get some software that immediately encrypts the credit card information at check-in and does not allow anybody to view the unencrypted information after that.
AT&T is always screwing me me also. I have 4 phones and I have the parental controls on 3 of these phones that is suppose to block all internet access and any additional charges. I pay $5 for each phone to have this service. But each month I noticed a couple cents being charged for download fees on these 3 phones. The only reason I pay for the dam parental control is because they tell me I cannot block internet access without also blocking picture messages. I pay for unlimited messing with includes picture messages. This is bullshit, they should be able to block internet without blocking picture messages. When I talk to them about this, they just try to sell me unlimited internet access for each of my phone...I don't want internet access, i want it turned off.
I don't think the label ever bothered me, I knew to peel it off.
Now if you start burning the outside layer of citrus It will be a pain to peel the rind for use in cooking. Peeling a label off does not ruin the rind, but I would not want lazer burned rind used for flavoring any of my desserts.
I agree with the solution to remove the driver, the car should drive itself.
In the meantime the FCC should require all communication devices have a method to block usage within a small radius with the exception of 911 calls. Then cars (front seat only), schools (Kids spend more time texting during class than they do paying attention), federal buildings, and other locations can essentially disable the ability to use any communication device.
Off-Topic a bit, but I think all positions should allow for a vote of no-confidence for any of the runners. That way people don't have to vote for "the best of 2 evils".
If the tally of no-confidence votes is greater than the tally for any individual: - A new election should be held within 3 months - Candidates from the original election are disqualified from subsequent no-confidence elections. - In the meantime, depending on the position, another qualified person will hold the acting title. Congress will determine who the acting positions are on the federal level, and each State and County will need to set up rules for determining this.
This is why legislature needs to seek out experts in the field before blindly passing laws.
But for some reason it appears when technology is related, they are not consulting with experts, or at least not the correct experts.
Anyway its all about politics and making yourself look good. The average voter does not know much about technology so all they hear is that their legislator voted in favor of something that might help "protect children".
With your example of farm animals, the public really does not care either way about farm animals unless they are farmers, so their is no media attention drawn to it.
The public does care when you pull in the catch phrase of "to protect children", but the public does not have the technical understanding to know if the proposed legislation achieves its goal, nor does it understand any other negative impacts the proposed legislation may impose.
Imagine what the media would do to a legislator that voted against, even if the person had good reasoning for voting against like the goal would not really be achieved and the proposed legislation would result in freedom of speech limitation. The media will not present the world with the information and reasoning behind why the vote against was made (and 90% of the world would not even be able to comprehend it), instead the media will say "hey this guy voted against something to protect children" and that person can forget about ever getting elected again.
Protecting children is important, but we must ensure legislation made for this purpose truly has the potential to achieve this goal while also not overly infringing on our freedoms.
ok, so how do you compress the window partition and setup a dual boot.
Please send me instructions, I think I'm one of the only slashdot'er still using Windows.
Dudas said that the average examiner salary is in six figures, and that the agency can offer competitive salaries for college graduates. The USPTO, headquartered in Alexandria, Va., is also flexible on workplace location-85 percent of trademark examiners work from home and currently 10 percent of patent examiners are working remotely.
Its pretty clear why they suck.
They pay their employees way too much, likely because they expect their employees to have extensive legal knowledge.
They allow their employees to work from home, thus reducing the cooperation.
I suspect their is a lot of corruption and bribery.
I'm honestly not sure how they are structured, but I think they could do better splitting up into departments based on the type of product being patent. Then hiring lower paid researchers ($30-$60k range) who have knowledge in those products and who can easily identify a product that people in the field would consider a unique invention or as something that might be commonly knowledge or otherwise unpatentable. Then each department would have a group of supporting legal experts to further review the patent if it make it to them.
I don't understand why banks and other sites where high security is important, don't utilize a randomizer to enter a secret 4-digit passkey in addition to your password.
Let me clarify
Simply displaying image that looks like a keypad with numbers 0,1,2...9 in random position. User needs to click on the position to enter their 4 digit key, between each digit clicked, the keypad's random positions are changed. If this is done in addition to a full password you gain a lot of security. A keylogger may record the position you clicked, but since each visit to the website displays the digits 0-9 in a different location, the logged click position does not help. Granted 4 digits can be cracked by simply trying all combinations, but you can further increase security by increasing the number of digits required, or even using a fully randomized keyboard with the full alphabet and other special keys.
Now a hacker would need a keylogger in addition to screen captures. And it would be much easier for virus scans to pickup an illicit program that is trying to capture screen images and send them since image files are much larger.
Sure, its possible to see our past.
I'm not sure about being able to send a mirror far enough out there.
The best chance we have would be to find some way of capturing reflected light and interpreting it. So light leaving the Earth might reach many light years away and then his some large planet with good light reflective attributes, thus bouncing the light back towards us. Granted with the movement of the universe, solar system, and Earth itself, it would be be unlikely that any reflected light from that far away would make its way back to Earth's current or future location.
Hopefully I'm not completely wrong and this was done...
Why didn't any of the Mars landers have a collector with a high-power microscope and perhaps a digger to look in the soil. Then we can get back good images capable of capturing single-cell organisms from each of the location the rovers went too.
700 interns, 21% of students just coming out of college with a Phd.
Where are the programmers with real-life experience. The ones who really know what it is really like.
Sounds like a big, overrun college to me, with professors who try to teach stuff they really don't know about, and students who soak up the crap. When time comes to work in a real environment, they fall apart.
Perhaps the Hezbollah are only pretending to have broken the code to gain media attention and bragging rights and to fake them out, thus forcing them to limit their communication channels and to spend resources upgrading their encryption.
there will always be other improvements to make a game seem more real. These will continue to get in the way of true gameplay, and only the rare games will find ways of breaking this chain.
One the visual is near true site, they will move to adding other sense information. Some companies have already started work on computer devices that add smells during gameplay. Once visuals, sounds, and smell is perfected, they industry will move onto motion. We already see this in many arcade games such as Dance Revolutions and flight simulators. Vibrating joysticks will be replaced with miniture pods the side of a small office cubicle that will offer 360 degree visuals along with full flight simulator motion. The next step will improve on touch, at this point technology may be ready to directly link to the brain and send sensory impulses.
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I've done a lot of researching looking for a good left-handed mouse and I have not been able to find a single one that meets my needs. I am stuck using a nuetral mouse. From what I have seen, all mice made today are either made specifically to fit a right handed user, or made to work with both right-handed users and left-handed users. These duel handed mice are not very comfortable and do not have the additional buttons us gamers need. In some cases they will include extra buttons, but the buttons will be positions for best use on a right-handed person. So a left-handed person would have trouble using side buttons.
I would really like to see a true left-handed mouse that have a little more than just 2 standard buttons.
Here is what I would like:
Shaped to fit a left-handed person only.
Buttons positions for best user by a left-handed person.
wireless
optical or laser with good dpi and great response.
At least 5 buttons pluss scroll wheel.
If anybody knows of a mouse out there that fits this descriptions, please let me know!
Although I enjoy the game a lot, since your mentioning the number of sales and players online, the server and lag issues (due to way more people than expected) should also be mentioned.
It appears that they sold way more than they were prepared to handle, and have a lot of work to get thier support staff and servers up to par to handle the load.
I also believe they will have trouble holding the number of subscribers for more than 6 months. Seeing as many people have already maxed out thier character.
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It's too easy to find Pokemon. Currently the game is mainly about collecting all the Pokemon and once you have majority of them there it not much left to do.
Any Pokemon can be found in just about any area given enough time, this kills the exploring concept. Non-common Pokemon should only be found in different geographic areas taking into account thinks like climate, water sources, forested vs plains vs desert.
Too many Pokestops that are way too close together making it easy to walk in small circles and again limiting the need to explore other areas.
Unfair advantage for people in major cities vs normal cities vs rural areas.
Pokestops and pokemon seem to be clustered in downtown areas.
Walking trails in many parks (which do show up as trails on the map) have nothing which I found to be very disappointing and again limits the need to explore.
The game is way too easy for people to play using "drive by and pull over" techniques.
Cheating got way out of hand. Gyms retaken minutes after I took them with no other person in visible site and all the other cheating.
Too easy to level up from 1-20.
Stops resetting after 5 minutes reduce the need to explore and continuously provide items and xp, they should only reset once a day.
All that said, any new game is going to have it's initial spike, drop, and level off with a slow decline and smaller spikes as new content is released. This decline should not be unexpected. However the company could have done a better job to take advantage of the initial spike so it last as long as possible.
Years ago I could go into a Radio Shack with a broken piece of equipment or questions about some needed part and the employees had the knowledge to help me. It was a place to go and check out all the new cool gadgets. But they changed, the staff no longer knows anything besides how to work the cash register and there is nothing impressive in the store that makes me want to go check it out and possibly buy something. If I have to do the research myself to figure out what I need or how to fix something then I'm going to just order whatever i need online cause it will always be cheaper. They should be selling raspberry pie's and custom build kits, robotic kits (not kids toys) and all sorts of cool stuff for us nerds to play around with. Instead they tried to sell cell phones when phone carriers all have their own shops right next door. Why would I buy a phone from radio shack when I can go next door and get it from the phone carrier who is the one who will be providing me with support on my phone. What are they now, a tech store (don't think so), a phone store (fail), a kids toy store? Nobody knows what their brand stands for anymore. I agree with other posters, go back to being a high tech hobbyist store and get staff that are as excited to play/build the gadgets as their customers will be.
Make all cell phones and land line phone carriers provide (without charging more) more advanced answering services such that when anybody calls a user customized recording will say "If this is a personal call press 7 or business call press 2, if this is a telemarketer press 6 or hold on to leave a message (which will automatically get deleted after 7 days if not listened too). Only if the correct response is selected will the call actually ring out to the person's phone. The correct number to press can be randomized and since the recording is customized by the owner of the phone, it would be hard for simple speech recognition to figure out the correct response. Also have features to only allow calls to go through to the phone if the phone number is recognized by the phones contact list. Otherwise all calls should go to voice mail.
Can you play those carnival games where you compete with other players/pissers by hitting a target with your "water gun" which causes your horse to move down the racetrack or to blow up a balloon
Fault of the Hotel, Credit Card information should NOT be accessible to ANY staff member after the initial swipe into the computer system. Get some software that immediately encrypts the credit card information at check-in and does not allow anybody to view the unencrypted information after that.
Pass through the airport scanners a few times and you'll see the drives start to fail
AT&T is always screwing me me also. I have 4 phones and I have the parental controls on 3 of these phones that is suppose to block all internet access and any additional charges. I pay $5 for each phone to have this service. But each month I noticed a couple cents being charged for download fees on these 3 phones. The only reason I pay for the dam parental control is because they tell me I cannot block internet access without also blocking picture messages. I pay for unlimited messing with includes picture messages. This is bullshit, they should be able to block internet without blocking picture messages. When I talk to them about this, they just try to sell me unlimited internet access for each of my phone...I don't want internet access, i want it turned off.
I don't think the label ever bothered me, I knew to peel it off. Now if you start burning the outside layer of citrus It will be a pain to peel the rind for use in cooking. Peeling a label off does not ruin the rind, but I would not want lazer burned rind used for flavoring any of my desserts.
I agree with the solution to remove the driver, the car should drive itself. In the meantime the FCC should require all communication devices have a method to block usage within a small radius with the exception of 911 calls. Then cars (front seat only), schools (Kids spend more time texting during class than they do paying attention), federal buildings, and other locations can essentially disable the ability to use any communication device.
Off-Topic a bit, but I think all positions should allow for a vote of no-confidence for any of the runners. That way people don't have to vote for "the best of 2 evils".
If the tally of no-confidence votes is greater than the tally for any individual:
- A new election should be held within 3 months
- Candidates from the original election are disqualified from subsequent no-confidence elections.
- In the meantime, depending on the position, another qualified person will hold the acting title. Congress will determine who the acting positions are on the federal level, and each State and County will need to set up rules for determining this.
This is why legislature needs to seek out experts in the field before blindly passing laws. But for some reason it appears when technology is related, they are not consulting with experts, or at least not the correct experts. Anyway its all about politics and making yourself look good. The average voter does not know much about technology so all they hear is that their legislator voted in favor of something that might help "protect children". With your example of farm animals, the public really does not care either way about farm animals unless they are farmers, so their is no media attention drawn to it. The public does care when you pull in the catch phrase of "to protect children", but the public does not have the technical understanding to know if the proposed legislation achieves its goal, nor does it understand any other negative impacts the proposed legislation may impose. Imagine what the media would do to a legislator that voted against, even if the person had good reasoning for voting against like the goal would not really be achieved and the proposed legislation would result in freedom of speech limitation. The media will not present the world with the information and reasoning behind why the vote against was made (and 90% of the world would not even be able to comprehend it), instead the media will say "hey this guy voted against something to protect children" and that person can forget about ever getting elected again. Protecting children is important, but we must ensure legislation made for this purpose truly has the potential to achieve this goal while also not overly infringing on our freedoms.
ok, so how do you compress the window partition and setup a dual boot. Please send me instructions, I think I'm one of the only slashdot'er still using Windows.
I don't understand why banks and other sites where high security is important, don't utilize a randomizer to enter a secret 4-digit passkey in addition to your password. Let me clarify Simply displaying image that looks like a keypad with numbers 0,1,2...9 in random position. User needs to click on the position to enter their 4 digit key, between each digit clicked, the keypad's random positions are changed. If this is done in addition to a full password you gain a lot of security. A keylogger may record the position you clicked, but since each visit to the website displays the digits 0-9 in a different location, the logged click position does not help. Granted 4 digits can be cracked by simply trying all combinations, but you can further increase security by increasing the number of digits required, or even using a fully randomized keyboard with the full alphabet and other special keys. Now a hacker would need a keylogger in addition to screen captures. And it would be much easier for virus scans to pickup an illicit program that is trying to capture screen images and send them since image files are much larger.
Sure, its possible to see our past. I'm not sure about being able to send a mirror far enough out there. The best chance we have would be to find some way of capturing reflected light and interpreting it. So light leaving the Earth might reach many light years away and then his some large planet with good light reflective attributes, thus bouncing the light back towards us. Granted with the movement of the universe, solar system, and Earth itself, it would be be unlikely that any reflected light from that far away would make its way back to Earth's current or future location.
Hopefully I'm not completely wrong and this was done...
Why didn't any of the Mars landers have a collector with a high-power microscope and perhaps a digger to look in the soil. Then we can get back good images capable of capturing single-cell organisms from each of the location the rovers went too.
700 interns, 21% of students just coming out of college with a Phd.
Where are the programmers with real-life experience. The ones who really know what it is really like.
Sounds like a big, overrun college to me, with professors who try to teach stuff they really don't know about, and students who soak up the crap. When time comes to work in a real environment, they fall apart.
Perhaps the Hezbollah are only pretending to have broken the code to gain media attention and bragging rights and to fake them out, thus forcing them to limit their communication channels and to spend resources upgrading their encryption.
there will always be other improvements to make a game seem more real. These will continue to get in the way of true gameplay, and only the rare games will find ways of breaking this chain. One the visual is near true site, they will move to adding other sense information. Some companies have already started work on computer devices that add smells during gameplay. Once visuals, sounds, and smell is perfected, they industry will move onto motion. We already see this in many arcade games such as Dance Revolutions and flight simulators. Vibrating joysticks will be replaced with miniture pods the side of a small office cubicle that will offer 360 degree visuals along with full flight simulator motion. The next step will improve on touch, at this point technology may be ready to directly link to the brain and send sensory impulses.
Actually, I've done a lot of researching looking for a good left-handed mouse and I have not been able to find a single one that meets my needs. I am stuck using a nuetral mouse. From what I have seen, all mice made today are either made specifically to fit a right handed user, or made to work with both right-handed users and left-handed users. These duel handed mice are not very comfortable and do not have the additional buttons us gamers need. In some cases they will include extra buttons, but the buttons will be positions for best use on a right-handed person. So a left-handed person would have trouble using side buttons. I would really like to see a true left-handed mouse that have a little more than just 2 standard buttons. Here is what I would like: Shaped to fit a left-handed person only. Buttons positions for best user by a left-handed person. wireless optical or laser with good dpi and great response. At least 5 buttons pluss scroll wheel. If anybody knows of a mouse out there that fits this descriptions, please let me know!
Although I enjoy the game a lot, since your mentioning the number of sales and players online, the server and lag issues (due to way more people than expected) should also be mentioned.
It appears that they sold way more than they were prepared to handle, and have a lot of work to get thier support staff and servers up to par to handle the load.
I also believe they will have trouble holding the number of subscribers for more than 6 months. Seeing as many people have already maxed out thier character.