I think the challenge for this device was to bring the price down to $200. Which means reduced storage. It is easy enough now to use cloud drives/music to avoid the necessity of of having the bulk of your library local. This tablet can compete with the Kindle Fire as a result, and it will greatly increase the footprint of Android in the tablet space. When the leading product is literally three times the price or the the aging model is double the price for the same storage, it begins to look pretty good. If you need to have your entire catalog of files locally, then this may not be the device you want/need.
As cheap as they could of added an SD slot, i'm not understanding why they wouldn't.
Unless of course, they think this will keep peeps from rooting the machine...
"While Americans worry every year about getting a flu shot or preventing HIV/AIDS, the deadlier silent killer is actually Hepatitis C, killing over 15,000..."
So nobody should ever have more money than anyone else?
No one should have to live like an animal while other people have more wealth then they need.
If the USA actually took care of it's people, it would find that a lot of the lesser crimes would stop, as people wouldn't feel the need to steal or do crimes to feed their family. Instead, the USA spends in money in useless crap like wars and terrorizing it's people (like at the airports via the TSA), and making laws that give that 1% more money and power.
"We the people" ya, right. "Home of the Free" not anymore.
The 36 people in this article isn't a very large number... A lot of the people that play Pokemon today are actually in our 20s. Addictive? Perhaps a little. But the games have gotten a lot more elaborate than they have in the past. It's more than just collecting them all now, it's about the literally hundreds of things to do in each of the worlds, the oh-so difficult Battle Frontier which very few have beaten, the Breeding to get Pokemon with higher stats and moves not normally known by a particular species, EV training, the mini games, random quests, all of the post-game quests, harvest-moon style farming, and of course, catching them all... Not to mention all of the new multiplayer aspects, like the launcher battles in Black and White (The newest games) which add a whole new depth to battles.
tl;dr I am a Pokemon nut, this article misleads about the general state of the Pokemon franchise, and the age a majority of us are.
I'm in my 40's and I've been playing Pokemon since it came out. Now they got the Trading Card Game Online (http://www.pokemontcg.com), which isn't too bad (always like the Gameboy Color Pokemon Trading Card Game). Got the various Pokemon games for my various consoles that I play on the occasion. All in all, it's not a bad game, could be better, could be a lot worse.
What I don't understand is, Pokemon would make a very fun MMORPG. Why isn't there one? Seems to me they have missed out big time.
What should you put in a time capsule? Anything non-perishable that might mean something to you. Consider people recovering their time-capsules from 25 years ago. There might be a 5.25 floppy in there with someone's favorite childhood game. It may be difficult to play the game but the floppy disk's texture, smell, and label will bring back the memories. If you're going to store media you may find that in 25 years the data on it may be a pain in the ass to retrieve but the object itself will mean something. I also suggest media that you've used a lot. For example if you've been using a particular usb drive for the last year and it's time to upgrade put the old one in the capsule. 25 years from now the memories of using it are likely to bring you back more than the data that's on it.
I have picked up 25+ year old computer systems that work fine. Floppies that are that old, still retaining the info and working. And we are talking like sitting in an attic or garage or basement for many years. Not only do I and many others have systems that can read the info from 25+ years ago, i'm sure if you put stuff on CD/DVD's and maybe a thumbdrive, peeps will be able to get to it to check out.
Let's face it, when it comes to history, man judges it based on where we are at. We think people are stupid because they lived in the past and they didn't have modern plumbing or an iPad, or anything like that. bah.
Why wouldn't someone think of making a bra 500 years ago? 1000 years ago? Fuck, man has been around for millions of years, and been making their own clothes for that long. How hard is it to come up with a bra design? Not fucking very. Underwire, ya, I can see that being a modern invention, but the bra? Nope.
People were just as smart as we are now (based on most the world, that isn't saying much, i'm sure), and they solved the same fucking problems we did. If we could travel back in time, we'd be surprised by all the stuff we think are "modern" inventions aren't.
Truth is, man is very conceited and thinks he's all that, when in fact, we've been all that for 1000's of years. We aren't doing anything new.
Gloves are nothing but hygiene theatre. Human hands, regularly washed are cleaner than gloves that haven't been changed. You're less likely to feel contamination on your gloves than on your hands, so you're likely to change gloves less often than you'd wash hands.
Spoken like someone who has never actually worked in a kitchen wearing gloves.
The gloves are cheap as all fucking hell, you have to change them regularly. If you are making stuff, they get shit on them and don't stay on as good. they get wet, they don't stay on as good.
Of course, there are different types of gloves, the loose fitting ones, which are more popular in restaurtants and the nice tight fitting ones you find in hospitals or doing janitor work. Of course, depending on how cheap your boss is, on which ones you end up with.
And you are still supposed to wash your hands all the time.
It's not designed to work on the nuts, it's designed to work on the ones the nuts are trying to recruit.
Right... the nuts are working on stirring up the mark's religious fervor, and inserting "Penis" in the middle of the conversation sort of ruins the mood.
Doesn't this tool come packed with a spyware toolbar?
I heard someone say that, I downloaded my copy from download.com and while I had a choice to install something else, I unchecked them and it didn't install anything but the game.
I'm pretty sure the people that got "spyware" probably user errored it on their system.
The game? meh.
Quake type games were fun back in the 90's, but I'm older now and need something more sophisticated.
Guard that 2nd amendment right people, since you are dealing with people that are armed to the teeth and have no issues killing civilians. Simply look at the body counts in the Middle East, Africa. Do so with unbiased corporate owned media, or check numerous sources.
Do you honestly think that you could fight the U.S. government with any amount of weapons you as an individual, or even organized with your buddies, could ever accumulate? Were you not paying attention to stories about Ruby Ridge, Waco, etc.? Or hell, for that matter, the Civil War?
I always have to laugh when I see this "We might need to fight the government!" argument people make about the Second Amendment. If it ever comes to the point where we have to have an armed revolution, your little pop guns aren't going to do diddly against our domestic police forces. The only way it would ever happen is for individuals that make up the police forces (that is, the police, National Guard, Coast Guard, and other domestic security agencies) to be on your side.
You would be "removed" before you ever got to the point where you could seriously fight the government. If you're lucky, that means you'd be shipped somewhere like Guantanamo Bay (or more likely, extraordinary rendered to some godforsaken hellhole where they torture people).
If you're going to change the government, you're going to have to do it by changing the hearts and minds of the U.S. citizenry to elect people who are willing to change the laws and give up some of the power the State has accumulated over the centuries. Not an easy task, I'll grant you, and many people believe that that will never happen. But if not, well, you're going to have to accept what we're stuck with today because armed revolution is not, nor will it ever be, the answer.
Well, don't complain when they come and get you because you choose to do nothing. And they will come to get you. No one is safe.
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Well, most usenet servers take down DMCA requests.
UFC stuff is an example of it. usually gone on most the server 3ish hours after it's posted.
Oddly enough, that is pretty much the only thing I find like that.
Not that I download copyrighted materials, that would be illegal. (or Civil Disobedience.)
So you mean to say, releasing a new phone every year cuts into selling the old phones?
I never got a college degree but even I knew that.
And we say, WoW sucks, because it does suck.
It's the Kindergarten of MMORPG's.
When you WoW players want to grow up, come join a better MMORPG, like EQ2 or something.
We just had a big update to our PVP server, come get killed by me.
I bet we'll find a bunch of cops using this as an excuse to take away your camera...
The U.S. Government and Isreal Government for illegal performance of copyrighted materal.
Fuck Off
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... Nobody really likes foreign troops, and when those include women carrying guns and driving, it causes certain kinds of mind to explode.
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Spoken like a member of the He-mans Woman Hater Club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBIC8JTQMMQ
The US has already lost it's war on terror - its government and its citizens live in terror every moment of every day.
The worst part is the government fears its citizens and the citizens fear their government.
The U.S.A. Government is the terrorist.
They terrorize their citizens, they terrorize the citizens of other countries.
You ask, how are they terrorist? Because they have been preaching and using fear to pass laws that limits our rights. Worse, we are letting them.
You want to stand up to the terrorist problem? Start with the government.
Their lawyers must be drunk or something...
It was too nice to be written by lawyers.
I think the challenge for this device was to bring the price down to $200. Which means reduced storage. It is easy enough now to use cloud drives/music to avoid the necessity of of having the bulk of your library local. This tablet can compete with the Kindle Fire as a result, and it will greatly increase the footprint of Android in the tablet space. When the leading product is literally three times the price or the the aging model is double the price for the same storage, it begins to look pretty good. If you need to have your entire catalog of files locally, then this may not be the device you want/need.
As cheap as they could of added an SD slot, i'm not understanding why they wouldn't.
Unless of course, they think this will keep peeps from rooting the machine...
"While Americans worry every year about getting a flu shot or preventing HIV/AIDS, the deadlier silent killer is actually Hepatitis C, killing over 15,000 ..."
The flu kills each year an average number of 25000-36000 people in the US, depending on the statistics.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.htm
the flu kills more then terrorist, yet we spend more money defending against terrorist.
wtf?
"wealth inequality"
So nobody should ever have more money than anyone else?
No one should have to live like an animal while other people have more wealth then they need.
If the USA actually took care of it's people, it would find that a lot of the lesser crimes would stop, as people wouldn't feel the need to steal or do crimes to feed their family. Instead, the USA spends in money in useless crap like wars and terrorizing it's people (like at the airports via the TSA), and making laws that give that 1% more money and power.
"We the people" ya, right. "Home of the Free" not anymore.
Well... Even to this day Pokemon is the second best selling franchise out there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Selling_Video_Game_Franchises
The 36 people in this article isn't a very large number... A lot of the people that play Pokemon today are actually in our 20s. Addictive? Perhaps a little. But the games have gotten a lot more elaborate than they have in the past. It's more than just collecting them all now, it's about the literally hundreds of things to do in each of the worlds, the oh-so difficult Battle Frontier which very few have beaten, the Breeding to get Pokemon with higher stats and moves not normally known by a particular species, EV training, the mini games, random quests, all of the post-game quests, harvest-moon style farming, and of course, catching them all... Not to mention all of the new multiplayer aspects, like the launcher battles in Black and White (The newest games) which add a whole new depth to battles.
tl;dr I am a Pokemon nut, this article misleads about the general state of the Pokemon franchise, and the age a majority of us are.
I'm in my 40's and I've been playing Pokemon since it came out. Now they got the Trading Card Game Online (http://www.pokemontcg.com), which isn't too bad (always like the Gameboy Color Pokemon Trading Card Game). Got the various Pokemon games for my various consoles that I play on the occasion. All in all, it's not a bad game, could be better, could be a lot worse.
What I don't understand is, Pokemon would make a very fun MMORPG. Why isn't there one? Seems to me they have missed out big time.
Were these people on US soil when they performed these acts?
Am I the only US citizen that is concerned about this?
Is Saudi Arabia now able to extradite me because I read playboy?
When Saudi owns on the only oil in the world, yes, the U.S.A. Government would hand you over in a second.
As it stands now, no, they won't. Give it another 10 years.
What should you put in a time capsule? Anything non-perishable that might mean something to you. Consider people recovering their time-capsules from 25 years ago. There might be a 5.25 floppy in there with someone's favorite childhood game. It may be difficult to play the game but the floppy disk's texture, smell, and label will bring back the memories. If you're going to store media you may find that in 25 years the data on it may be a pain in the ass to retrieve but the object itself will mean something. I also suggest media that you've used a lot. For example if you've been using a particular usb drive for the last year and it's time to upgrade put the old one in the capsule. 25 years from now the memories of using it are likely to bring you back more than the data that's on it.
I have picked up 25+ year old computer systems that work fine. Floppies that are that old, still retaining the info and working. And we are talking like sitting in an attic or garage or basement for many years. Not only do I and many others have systems that can read the info from 25+ years ago, i'm sure if you put stuff on CD/DVD's and maybe a thumbdrive, peeps will be able to get to it to check out.
Let's face it, when it comes to history, man judges it based on where we are at. We think people are stupid because they lived in the past and they didn't have modern plumbing or an iPad, or anything like that. bah.
Why wouldn't someone think of making a bra 500 years ago? 1000 years ago? Fuck, man has been around for millions of years, and been making their own clothes for that long. How hard is it to come up with a bra design? Not fucking very. Underwire, ya, I can see that being a modern invention, but the bra? Nope.
People were just as smart as we are now (based on most the world, that isn't saying much, i'm sure), and they solved the same fucking problems we did. If we could travel back in time, we'd be surprised by all the stuff we think are "modern" inventions aren't.
Truth is, man is very conceited and thinks he's all that, when in fact, we've been all that for 1000's of years. We aren't doing anything new.
Gloves are nothing but hygiene theatre. Human hands, regularly washed are cleaner than gloves that haven't been changed. You're less likely to feel contamination on your gloves than on your hands, so you're likely to change gloves less often than you'd wash hands.
Spoken like someone who has never actually worked in a kitchen wearing gloves.
The gloves are cheap as all fucking hell, you have to change them regularly. If you are making stuff, they get shit on them and don't stay on as good. they get wet, they don't stay on as good.
Of course, there are different types of gloves, the loose fitting ones, which are more popular in restaurtants and the nice tight fitting ones you find in hospitals or doing janitor work. Of course, depending on how cheap your boss is, on which ones you end up with.
And you are still supposed to wash your hands all the time.
Seems to me MS is on a roll...
That's Clueful, he fights for the iUsers.
and to be out of mod points, damn you MCP!!!!
Right... the nuts are working on stirring up the mark's religious fervor, and inserting "Penis" in the middle of the conversation sort of ruins the mood.
or vagina
and i can get me a free copy of Windows 8 that i can turn around and sell on craigslist, like I did for Windows 7 release.
Somebody better go get a patent for playing an air guitar before one of these corps do.
Doesn't this tool come packed with a spyware toolbar?
I heard someone say that, I downloaded my copy from download.com and while I had a choice to install something else, I unchecked them and it didn't install anything but the game.
I'm pretty sure the people that got "spyware" probably user errored it on their system.
The game? meh.
Quake type games were fun back in the 90's, but I'm older now and need something more sophisticated.
hey protect their own innovations to an extent they deem reasonable
I'm pretty sure they didn't "innovate" a rectangle with rounded corners.
Hell no, Chiclets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiclets are rectangular and have rounded corners, and have been around since 1906.
Guard that 2nd amendment right people, since you are dealing with people that are armed to the teeth and have no issues killing civilians. Simply look at the body counts in the Middle East, Africa. Do so with unbiased corporate owned media, or check numerous sources.
Do you honestly think that you could fight the U.S. government with any amount of weapons you as an individual, or even organized with your buddies, could ever accumulate? Were you not paying attention to stories about Ruby Ridge, Waco, etc.? Or hell, for that matter, the Civil War?
I always have to laugh when I see this "We might need to fight the government!" argument people make about the Second Amendment. If it ever comes to the point where we have to have an armed revolution, your little pop guns aren't going to do diddly against our domestic police forces. The only way it would ever happen is for individuals that make up the police forces (that is, the police, National Guard, Coast Guard, and other domestic security agencies) to be on your side.
You would be "removed" before you ever got to the point where you could seriously fight the government. If you're lucky, that means you'd be shipped somewhere like Guantanamo Bay (or more likely, extraordinary rendered to some godforsaken hellhole where they torture people).
If you're going to change the government, you're going to have to do it by changing the hearts and minds of the U.S. citizenry to elect people who are willing to change the laws and give up some of the power the State has accumulated over the centuries. Not an easy task, I'll grant you, and many people believe that that will never happen. But if not, well, you're going to have to accept what we're stuck with today because armed revolution is not, nor will it ever be, the answer.
Well, don't complain when they come and get you because you choose to do nothing. And they will come to get you. No one is safe.