You need to ask yourself: would your opinion change if the suggested technology was all based on linux and open source software?
Do you disagree with it on the premise that you disagree with the fundamentals of it, or do you disagree with it because it's someone from Microsoft making the assertion?
By the time they get their asses in gear to ban botters, the damage is already done. It takes months - sometimes years for Blizzard to actually take action. Even when the person botting is obvious and blatant.
I'm all for clicky keyboards, but when your keyboard is priced at nearly $600 you can guarantee it's going to fail. No qwerty keyboard on the planet is worth $600.
3) have to put up with clueless cue-card-reading tech support
4) have to wait inordinately long periods of time to talk to someone
Want happier customers? Don't fuck them around. If mistakes are made, own up to it and make it right. Above all, train your staff well so they actually understand what they're supporting.
You're assuming the problem is genetic in nature instead of a learned behaviour. In cases like this it doesn't matter if the genes are passed on or not. They're not a factor.
Hacking the Keurig is as easy as Hollywood style bomb defusing. You open it and literally cut the green wire. It takes less than 5 minutes and removes all restrictions.
I don't get why the Pope is even relevant to the conversation. The Vatican has absolutely no power to implement policy in these matters, their opinions on the issue - good or bad - shouldn't have any sway on anything.
This is what happens when you take an operating system that is meant to be used with a touch screen, and try to shoehorn in traditional gaming support. You wind up with a mediocre product. Couple that with the fact that you wind up having to rebuy all the android games you have which would work with it and it's no surprise that people said "thanks, but no thanks". The nvidia shield was a better idea because it accommodates both spaces at the same time.
This doesn't change the fact that you're an idiot stuck in the past. The fact that half your arguments are flat out stupid, and the other half are flat out wrong shows me you're the one incapable of thinking critically.
"I know what technology is worth purchasing and using. Smartphones are not one of those technologies."
over a billion people disagree with you.
"They've been nothing much more than a marketing gimmick"
You either don't understand what one is capable of, or your'e too stupid to see the possibilities.
"a dangerous distraction for those on the road"
Because this is something we all do right? Use our phones on the road? Because one can do a thing it does not follow that one must do a thing. Really try to apply those critical thinking skills.
"Base fucking line price for a phone now days without contract runs you almost $500"
You're looking at the wrong phones. I can name at least 3 which came out well under $500.
" I can get portable computer hardware ten times as powerful for the same price that actually performs multitasking."
Android multitasks (more of your ignorance) and a phone fits in your pocket. The "10 times more powerful" computer hardware won't, and often doesn't come equipped with a cell transmitter unless you buy that separately.
I'm not even going to bother with the whole iphone example, it smacks of fucking idiocy and ignorance.
"ABSOLUTELY FUCKING USELESS. Meanwhile, I can do the same thing with a laptop, and I NEVER have to worry about losing the webpage when I go look at another program. And I haven't SINCE THE DAYS OF THE PENTIUM 2."
Good god, you really DO live in the past.
"Smartphones are poorly-designed, loaded with gimmicks, and for the price you pay, you get absolutely shit performance and usability in comparison to any other piece of real computer hardware near the same price."
Two different devices designed for entirely different use cases. It's obvious your experience and understanding is so minimal it can't even be taken seriously. You really are a complete idiot. Luddites need to shuffle off this mortal coil so we don't have to listen to them whine any more.
My bat works better, is more form fitting to my hand, and achieves greater velocity in a swing. It's not surprising you refuse to use the right tool for the job. Seems like the order of the day for people here.
Point being? My cellphone works while the power is out too. Making that argument is just stupid beyond all reason.
You guys can be idiots together. You act as if smartphones somehow don't do their jobs, or that they're all massively unstable which is total bullshit. The fact is, they do the job the legacy phones do, and more. They do it reliably too, despite what you'd like to believe.
I don't have to reboot. My phone works 100% of the time. I'm not sure what strange world you live in where smartphones are "not reliable", but it's certainly not this one.
Anything using the.net runtime is using significant amounts of windows assets. Just because you can't outright see it doesn't mean you're not using someone else's work. While we're at it, you're also using a compiler and an IDE you probably had nothing to do with the creation of.
Now throw in all the building repairs, property maintenance, land taxes, etc. It's going to be a ridiculously long time before there's any return, if ever.
It's more like a charitable act than a sound business decision.
I appreciate the end result, but it would be so much better if he was doing this because he wanted to do it and not as a revenge tactic to spite his neighbours. Even though they say that's not what it's about, that's really what this reads like, and I worry that the tenants might be the ones that pay the price because George decided to start a small war with them.
I'm not sure how he expects to raise 30B on something that only benefits one specific demographic. All successful kickstarter campaigns are for products that could potentially benefit anyone willing to plunk down their money.
He's one person. Frankly his views on software are outmoded, outdated, and far too rigid. He's not really the advocate I want any more because he's too much like a zealot.
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You need to ask yourself: would your opinion change if the suggested technology was all based on linux and open source software?
Do you disagree with it on the premise that you disagree with the fundamentals of it, or do you disagree with it because it's someone from Microsoft making the assertion?
By the time they get their asses in gear to ban botters, the damage is already done. It takes months - sometimes years for Blizzard to actually take action. Even when the person botting is obvious and blatant.
I'm all for clicky keyboards, but when your keyboard is priced at nearly $600 you can guarantee it's going to fail. No qwerty keyboard on the planet is worth $600.
Seriously, people get pissed when you:
1) don't get what they paid for
2) get lied to
3) have to put up with clueless cue-card-reading tech support
4) have to wait inordinately long periods of time to talk to someone
Want happier customers? Don't fuck them around. If mistakes are made, own up to it and make it right. Above all, train your staff well so they actually understand what they're supporting.
You're assuming the problem is genetic in nature instead of a learned behaviour. In cases like this it doesn't matter if the genes are passed on or not. They're not a factor.
If this had a cell reciever/transmitter I'd be sold. Of course, it'd then be $400 for no apparently logical reason.
Hacking the Keurig is as easy as Hollywood style bomb defusing. You open it and literally cut the green wire. It takes less than 5 minutes and removes all restrictions.
Video explanation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I don't get why the Pope is even relevant to the conversation. The Vatican has absolutely no power to implement policy in these matters, their opinions on the issue - good or bad - shouldn't have any sway on anything.
This is what happens when you take an operating system that is meant to be used with a touch screen, and try to shoehorn in traditional gaming support. You wind up with a mediocre product. Couple that with the fact that you wind up having to rebuy all the android games you have which would work with it and it's no surprise that people said "thanks, but no thanks". The nvidia shield was a better idea because it accommodates both spaces at the same time.
>What value do we get with VR that we don't get with regular TV or monitors?
Immersion. This is not the same as privacy, and anyone who has tried recent VR will tell you there's a big difference.
This doesn't change the fact that you're an idiot stuck in the past. The fact that half your arguments are flat out stupid, and the other half are flat out wrong shows me you're the one incapable of thinking critically.
"I know what technology is worth purchasing and using. Smartphones are not one of those technologies."
over a billion people disagree with you.
"They've been nothing much more than a marketing gimmick"
You either don't understand what one is capable of, or your'e too stupid to see the possibilities.
"a dangerous distraction for those on the road"
Because this is something we all do right? Use our phones on the road? Because one can do a thing it does not follow that one must do a thing. Really try to apply those critical thinking skills.
"Base fucking line price for a phone now days without contract runs you almost $500"
You're looking at the wrong phones. I can name at least 3 which came out well under $500.
" I can get portable computer hardware ten times as powerful for the same price that actually performs multitasking."
Android multitasks (more of your ignorance) and a phone fits in your pocket. The "10 times more powerful" computer hardware won't, and often doesn't come equipped with a cell transmitter unless you buy that separately.
I'm not even going to bother with the whole iphone example, it smacks of fucking idiocy and ignorance.
"ABSOLUTELY FUCKING USELESS. Meanwhile, I can do the same thing with a laptop, and I NEVER have to worry about losing the webpage when I go look at another program. And I haven't SINCE THE DAYS OF THE PENTIUM 2."
Good god, you really DO live in the past.
"Smartphones are poorly-designed, loaded with gimmicks, and for the price you pay, you get absolutely shit performance and usability in comparison to any other piece of real computer hardware near the same price."
Two different devices designed for entirely different use cases. It's obvious your experience and understanding is so minimal it can't even be taken seriously. You really are a complete idiot. Luddites need to shuffle off this mortal coil so we don't have to listen to them whine any more.
My bat works better, is more form fitting to my hand, and achieves greater velocity in a swing. It's not surprising you refuse to use the right tool for the job. Seems like the order of the day for people here.
Point being? My cellphone works while the power is out too. Making that argument is just stupid beyond all reason.
You guys can be idiots together. You act as if smartphones somehow don't do their jobs, or that they're all massively unstable which is total bullshit. The fact is, they do the job the legacy phones do, and more. They do it reliably too, despite what you'd like to believe.
I don't have to reboot. My phone works 100% of the time. I'm not sure what strange world you live in where smartphones are "not reliable", but it's certainly not this one.
Don't call this alien. It's not alien if it lives here. It's terrestrial.
Anything using the .net runtime is using significant amounts of windows assets. Just because you can't outright see it doesn't mean you're not using someone else's work. While we're at it, you're also using a compiler and an IDE you probably had nothing to do with the creation of.
We get it, you're an idiot stuck in the past. I'm sure we can find you a rotary phone for your home too while we're at it.
$350 for a working dev kit is expensive? You and I must live in vastly different worlds.
But not before storing this metadata along with your present location and any other personal information they can get you to give them access to.
When will people learn?
Now throw in all the building repairs, property maintenance, land taxes, etc. It's going to be a ridiculously long time before there's any return, if ever.
It's more like a charitable act than a sound business decision.
I appreciate the end result, but it would be so much better if he was doing this because he wanted to do it and not as a revenge tactic to spite his neighbours. Even though they say that's not what it's about, that's really what this reads like, and I worry that the tenants might be the ones that pay the price because George decided to start a small war with them.
I'm not sure how he expects to raise 30B on something that only benefits one specific demographic. All successful kickstarter campaigns are for products that could potentially benefit anyone willing to plunk down their money.
It won't matter. Initial negative experience will color all future opinions. Apple really screwed the pooch on this one.
I was beginning to write a lengthy rebuttal, but then I realized something fundamentally important.
You're absolutely correct.
He's one person. Frankly his views on software are outmoded, outdated, and far too rigid. He's not really the advocate I want any more because he's too much like a zealot.