Meetings are sometimes the most exhaustive part of my work day. Maybe *that's* why we all bitch about them so much - it takes work for us socially dysfunctional nerds to communicate our ideas in a socially acceptable way.
Also, the meetings that aren't intensive are a good break from the daily grind.
I can sympathize with the anti-meeting sentiment, but it's not always the case.
The reality is that a correctly obfuscated Flash binary, or one compiled to C first, won't be noticeable to Apple. Apple's licensing doesn't prevent Adobe from releasing the tools; it prevents developers from attempting to submit these applications for fear of being rejected.
While Adobe probably won't get any enterprise business that way (as big companies shy away from things that could put them in litigious situations), they'd still be pissing off Apple and Apple would not sue against hundreds of small-time developers.
IMO, Adobe could even engineer and market their product in such a way that it does not 'encourage' breaking of the license. "Generate starter Objective C code, which can be integrated into your application!" It's probably a lot more development work on their end, but they're not the first ones to have to go through development hell to get around Apple's arbitrary rules.
Power = heat. Their very first point in the article...
1. Low power components: (45W CPU, no optical drive or HDD, nothing extra) less power means less heat generated in the first place, thus less for fans to need to remove.
Even for the people who don't use this feature, the update diminishes the value of their console, as non-updated consoles will inevitably resell for more.
It's easy to point fingers and say "oh we got a bunch of fake whiners here!" but the reality is that, even if you don't use this feature, Sony should not have the right to remove it.
Oh sure, first it's 30 titles, now it's "it has to also be co-op".
I don't have time for this nonsense. I'm sure you play some great split-screen games.
All I can tell you is that more often than not, I've encountered 360 games I had presumed would play locally and only play online. Games where you would either expect it from the series or genre, or where the Wii version has local multiplayer.
So the fact that I can't play the games that I **desire and expect** to be able to is more important than rambling off a list of B or C titles that I don't want to play! The trend is there, and I can only imagine it getting worse unless motion sensing controllers take off on the PS3/360.
Many big name titles already don't support split screen on the 360 or PS3, because they realized their market is in online gaming with really good graphics. The Wii just doesn't count in this discussion, but yes it still serves that niche you speak of.
I forayed into console gaming. Found it fun, easy, and enjoyable until Sony and Microsoft became complete asshats. Going back to the ol' PC.
The console makers keep shooting themselves in the foot. I'm going to build a gaming HTPC soon. I can't buy both PSN and XBL content because I don't want to update my consoles and lose features, get banned, etc.
There are tons of people who won't update now, and who consequentially won't buy stuff off PSN.
Seriously, how fucking stupid can Sony be?
Now I have a 360 and two PS3s that aren't going to get updated anytime soon... and consequentially won't be buying content on their networks. GOOD JOB, GUYS!!!
You know, they probably wouldn't buy the stuff, either. It's like having a piece of cake... yeah, it would be nice to have right now, but not enough to actually pay money and go out and get it myself. If someone else gets it, well, that makes it a bit easier! Maybe at some point you can find a price/convenience model that will please them, but that's yet to be discovered, obviously.
I'm planning on watching the rebuttal to Supersize Me at some point: http://www.fathead-movie.com/ Supposedly the dude loses weight by... eating at a fast food restaurant every day. Just by cutting out the carbs.
High fat versus low fat... high carbohydrate versus low carbohydrate... the problem is probably better defined as incorrect portion sizing. High fat or high carbohydrate foods are only themselves the problem when you give them to a mindless animal that has a stomach evolved to pack in as much as it can when given to it. When you give a dog five pounds of bacon, it will eat as much as its stomach can hold.
When you give a human five pounds of bacon, they'll eat a little of it and then not be hungry for 4 hours. Give them crackers or candy, and they will eat a lot more. We are not dogs.
I know why we blame fat, carbohydrates and foods that are high in them. It's because we don't want to acknowledge that the problem is our own self control and dietary understanding.
The problem is genetics, hormones, and a *little* actual self-determination. The foods we eat change our hormones, which change our behavior, which changes our body size, which changes our input demand. It's all related.
In my youth I would eat a whole large deep dish pepperoni pizza. I can still eat that much, I just recognize that my caloric needs when it comes to pizzas is two slices for a meal. I understand some people have lower sensitivity dopamine receptors but that's just how you were born and you should deal with it.
Hey, perhaps from eating all that crappy food when you were little, you ruined your dopamine and insulin sensitivity. Also, I bet you couldn't eat a whole deep dish pizza if it were all cheese and pepperoni. Cut out the carbs and you have a simple, satiable, easy-to-follow solution for weight loss.
After 5 years at a fairly large company that only hires the best, I haven't met the math nerd. Only the programming geek. And they aren't always the quickest programmers. We've got to dispel this silly notion that you must like anime and play WOW to be a programmer.
The line noise of using a standard, run-of-the-mill audio device to input audio is just ridiculous. If you're really doing something that 'matters' with the line-in, you should consider professional/semi-professional audio equipment anyway, along the lines of probably a USB sound input device.
And how many South Korean bank accounts do you have? I swear I haven't seen an IE-only site in several years now. Except on my work's intranet, but that's a different story.
I'm not too bothered by the acting. I find it pretty good, actually. But the lips often don't match up, and what's with all the "unh", "ahh", etc. grunting and pouting noises? That's the part that really annoys me. It's like the characters do that instead of possible lines of dialog. "Let's write this whole section in grunts so we don't have to re-do it for the English market."
He has to maintain the status quo on many issues, lest he be too 'radical'. Now, on to some deeper commentary-
If there's one thing about President Obama that I'm sure about, it's that he is smart and knows when to pick his battles. He doesn't need the insurance industry *and* the entertainment industries against him right now. He needs to pick off special interests one by one, and not all at once, lest they gang up on him. Which, I think, may be why they aren't completely shafting the pharmaceutical industry in health care reform.
Perhaps when this copyright act is closer to being a done deal he can change his tune, but let's all remember that nothing has happened yet. Politics change with the landscape, and there are certainly more pressing issues to confront right now.
Uh, most of us are limited to watching blu-rays on our PS3s, anyway. Not that I'll do this, because I like owning the discs, but... Plus, I can just download the 720p ripped version and play *that* on my PS3, if the movie isn't worth it or I haven't seen it yet.
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... seriously? http://gamefaqs.org/
Perhaps that is why people tend to stray into the other lane when driving/talking on the cell.
Uh, I tend to make incoherent sentences and stop listening when driving gets interesting. lol I schedule "talking" with a higher nice value.
Meetings are sometimes the most exhaustive part of my work day. Maybe *that's* why we all bitch about them so much - it takes work for us socially dysfunctional nerds to communicate our ideas in a socially acceptable way.
Also, the meetings that aren't intensive are a good break from the daily grind.
I can sympathize with the anti-meeting sentiment, but it's not always the case.
The reality is that a correctly obfuscated Flash binary, or one compiled to C first, won't be noticeable to Apple. Apple's licensing doesn't prevent Adobe from releasing the tools; it prevents developers from attempting to submit these applications for fear of being rejected.
While Adobe probably won't get any enterprise business that way (as big companies shy away from things that could put them in litigious situations), they'd still be pissing off Apple and Apple would not sue against hundreds of small-time developers.
IMO, Adobe could even engineer and market their product in such a way that it does not 'encourage' breaking of the license. "Generate starter Objective C code, which can be integrated into your application!" It's probably a lot more development work on their end, but they're not the first ones to have to go through development hell to get around Apple's arbitrary rules.
Power = heat. Their very first point in the article...
1. Low power components: (45W CPU, no optical drive or HDD, nothing extra) less power means less heat generated in the first place, thus less for fans to need to remove.
lol @ rage quit.
This guy is paid by Adobe? hahaha
Even for the people who don't use this feature, the update diminishes the value of their console, as non-updated consoles will inevitably resell for more.
It's easy to point fingers and say "oh we got a bunch of fake whiners here!" but the reality is that, even if you don't use this feature, Sony should not have the right to remove it.
Oh sure, first it's 30 titles, now it's "it has to also be co-op".
I don't have time for this nonsense. I'm sure you play some great split-screen games.
All I can tell you is that more often than not, I've encountered 360 games I had presumed would play locally and only play online. Games where you would either expect it from the series or genre, or where the Wii version has local multiplayer.
So the fact that I can't play the games that I **desire and expect** to be able to is more important than rambling off a list of B or C titles that I don't want to play! The trend is there, and I can only imagine it getting worse unless motion sensing controllers take off on the PS3/360.
Many big name titles already don't support split screen on the 360 or PS3, because they realized their market is in online gaming with really good graphics. The Wii just doesn't count in this discussion, but yes it still serves that niche you speak of.
I forayed into console gaming. Found it fun, easy, and enjoyable until Sony and Microsoft became complete asshats. Going back to the ol' PC.
The console makers keep shooting themselves in the foot. I'm going to build a gaming HTPC soon. I can't buy both PSN and XBL content because I don't want to update my consoles and lose features, get banned, etc.
There are tons of people who won't update now, and who consequentially won't buy stuff off PSN.
Seriously, how fucking stupid can Sony be?
Now I have a 360 and two PS3s that aren't going to get updated anytime soon... and consequentially won't be buying content on their networks. GOOD JOB, GUYS!!!
Time to build a gaming PC.
You know, they probably wouldn't buy the stuff, either. It's like having a piece of cake... yeah, it would be nice to have right now, but not enough to actually pay money and go out and get it myself. If someone else gets it, well, that makes it a bit easier! Maybe at some point you can find a price/convenience model that will please them, but that's yet to be discovered, obviously.
I'm planning on watching the rebuttal to Supersize Me at some point: http://www.fathead-movie.com/
Supposedly the dude loses weight by... eating at a fast food restaurant every day. Just by cutting out the carbs.
High fat versus low fat ... high carbohydrate versus low carbohydrate ... the problem is probably better defined as incorrect portion sizing. High fat or high carbohydrate foods are only themselves the problem when you give them to a mindless animal that has a stomach evolved to pack in as much as it can when given to it. When you give a dog five pounds of bacon, it will eat as much as its stomach can hold.
When you give a human five pounds of bacon, they'll eat a little of it and then not be hungry for 4 hours. Give them crackers or candy, and they will eat a lot more. We are not dogs.
I know why we blame fat, carbohydrates and foods that are high in them. It's because we don't want to acknowledge that the problem is our own self control and dietary understanding.
The problem is genetics, hormones, and a *little* actual self-determination. The foods we eat change our hormones, which change our behavior, which changes our body size, which changes our input demand. It's all related.
In my youth I would eat a whole large deep dish pepperoni pizza. I can still eat that much, I just recognize that my caloric needs when it comes to pizzas is two slices for a meal. I understand some people have lower sensitivity dopamine receptors but that's just how you were born and you should deal with it.
Hey, perhaps from eating all that crappy food when you were little, you ruined your dopamine and insulin sensitivity. Also, I bet you couldn't eat a whole deep dish pizza if it were all cheese and pepperoni. Cut out the carbs and you have a simple, satiable, easy-to-follow solution for weight loss.
After 5 years at a fairly large company that only hires the best, I haven't met the math nerd. Only the programming geek. And they aren't always the quickest programmers. We've got to dispel this silly notion that you must like anime and play WOW to be a programmer.
Same thing, different parts.
The line noise of using a standard, run-of-the-mill audio device to input audio is just ridiculous. If you're really doing something that 'matters' with the line-in, you should consider professional/semi-professional audio equipment anyway, along the lines of probably a USB sound input device.
Oh, right, because they're just itching to end up in the hospital to spend all that gu'ment money.
Don't worry; this is step 1. Now that a precedence has been set for health care reform, it will be amended and perfected later.
And how many South Korean bank accounts do you have? I swear I haven't seen an IE-only site in several years now. Except on my work's intranet, but that's a different story.
I'm not too bothered by the acting. I find it pretty good, actually. But the lips often don't match up, and what's with all the "unh", "ahh", etc. grunting and pouting noises? That's the part that really annoys me. It's like the characters do that instead of possible lines of dialog. "Let's write this whole section in grunts so we don't have to re-do it for the English market."
He has to maintain the status quo on many issues, lest he be too 'radical'. Now, on to some deeper commentary-
If there's one thing about President Obama that I'm sure about, it's that he is smart and knows when to pick his battles. He doesn't need the insurance industry *and* the entertainment industries against him right now. He needs to pick off special interests one by one, and not all at once, lest they gang up on him. Which, I think, may be why they aren't completely shafting the pharmaceutical industry in health care reform.
Perhaps when this copyright act is closer to being a done deal he can change his tune, but let's all remember that nothing has happened yet. Politics change with the landscape, and there are certainly more pressing issues to confront right now.
Uh, most of us are limited to watching blu-rays on our PS3s, anyway. Not that I'll do this, because I like owning the discs, but...
Plus, I can just download the 720p ripped version and play *that* on my PS3, if the movie isn't worth it or I haven't seen it yet.
So I agree there that their pricing is dubious.
Hay man, don't put words in her mouth. You don't know what it's like being a 3 year old with terrible parents. We'll never know the truth.
She aimed the gun at herself! She was obviously depressed and because she was living with retards.
The stepchild is the one that aimed the gun at herself. Seriously, even if it were a toy gun... what kind of game was she playing?