Has the concept of handing keys over when you hand a prisoner over never occured to them? Why does the arresting officer need his keys if he doesn't have his cuffs any more? Hand them over, and then just check out a new matching set from the duty officer next time you leave the building.
You must be new to this world.
See, in this world, when you have jobs that require small parts to be kept with the larger part, and you need to hand those off between people, shit is going to get lost.
In other words, the cops are busy doing stuff, trying to remember to keep a set of keys with each pair of handcuffs is going to be impossible. They will still require a master key for when the other keys get lost (which will happen all the time), or they will have to destroy them to remove them, which will cost even more to replace.
Nokia Lumia does not cost $49 to customers. It costs (and makes profit of) $49 + whatever mobile operators make during the two year contract. God americans are stupid if they still go for this marketing trick. Even Slashdot runs bullshit story like this!!
On top of that Nokia is trying to capture US market, so they can spend more on it while they generate revenue from rest of the world.
Well, based on your name I'm guessing your trolling, but you missed the point.
The article is saying that it cost $450 to marktet the sale of the $49 phone. so, on top of whatever it cost to make the phone, it also cost $450 to sell that 1 phone.
This isn't a marketing trick, it's about how fucking much advertising money is spent to sell this $49 phone. In all honestly, it would be smarter to just give the phone away and hope that people decide to use it for the 1-2 years contract.
Shit, i'm not even thinking. I have no idea who is going to make money off this phone, 'cept for maybe the phone carriers. Nokia isn't making any money, MS isn't making any money.
Nokia Lumia does not cost $49 to customers. It costs (and makes profit of) $49 + whatever mobile operators make during the two year contract. God americans are stupid if they still go for this marketing trick. Even Slashdot runs bullshit story like this!!
On top of that Nokia is trying to capture US market, so they can spend more on it while they generate revenue from rest of the world.
Well, based on your name I'm guessing your trolling, but you missed the point.
The article is saying that it cost $450 to marktet the sale of the $49 phone. so, on top of whatever it cost to make the phone, it also cost $450 to sell that 1 phone.
This isn't a marketing trick, it's about how fucking much advertising money is spent to sell this $49 phone. In all honestly, it would be smarter to just give the phone away and hope that people decide to use it for the 1-2 years contract.
Ouya will be just as secure as any other Android-powered device. In fact, because all the paid content will require authentication with Ouya's servers, we have an added layer of security. Hacking and openness are about getting what you want to do with the hardware. Rooting the device won't give you any more access to the software.
Since this company doesn't understand the meaning of rooting, or openness, they are going to be very disappointed.
Also, it makes me think you'll need to buy the apps that work thru Ouya, via Ouya, for them to authenticate it. So I'm guessing if you already own 3 versions of Angry Birds, you'll need to buy another to play it on the Ouya.
Anyways, when you make an item like this, doing a loss on hardware sales is stupid. You make it cheap enough that you can either break even, or make a small profit on the hardware sold. Add in a Xbox Live type Online System, with adds and lots of content, and make you're money that way. But keep it cheap. You do NOT need triple AAA titles, like Call of Duty on this thing, just fun time wasters, not unlike the stuff that Nintendo does.
Grab your niche and be happy with that, don't try to be everything, like pretty much, everyone else tries to do these days.
Does this smack anyone else as really immature? It reminds me of siblings threatening to tell your parents about something. Or telling the teacher if someone is picking on you in school. Do they honestly think this is a worthy use of their police resources by having a thin skin and crying to the police about every random person that says something about them on the internet?
You must be new to the internet, there is a lot of people like that online.
There are a lot of people that, for one reason or another, already have to wear glasses to see normally. Try wearing glasses on top of your prescription glasses to watch a movie for 2 and a half hours, then see how *you* feel.
So you'd try to hold your head 100% perfectly still during the entire game?;)...dude, you're SO not a gamer.
Spoken like someone who hasn't actually played in games with 3D glasses.
I have, and I can tell you, it's totally cool moving my head around. Shit, when I'm playing Need For Speed World, in 3D, i'm moving my whole body around in my chair trying to avoid crashes and turns, and guess what?
The 3D technology isn't really 3D, it's just a 2D illusion, technically you perceive it as 3d, but if you MOVE your HEAD from SIDE to SIDE - the weakness becomes apparant, you simply can't look around, nor past anything...so it's not really 3D...
You are watching a fucking flat screen. You cant' look side to side, or around it when it's fucking 2D, so how is that bad?
Ya, 3D is a gimmick, it's a way of making flat images appear 3D, it's not a magical piece of technology that turns 2D into real 3D.
swear to god we got so many fucking twats on this article that don't know shit about 3D and what it is.
Most of you are bashing it for non reason. I'm beginning to doubt that most of you have even gone to see a 3D movie, let alone check one out at someone home.
Ya, TV's don't need 3D built into them, I agree with that, it is a grab by manufactors to make more money on TV's. But, it seems that most of you are jumping on the 3D sucks bandwagon without actually bothering to experience it fully for yourselves, in the different scenarios.
No, this isn't groupthink. There's some of us who simply can't stand "3D" because it's a terrible technology that gives us splitting headaches and migraines. I just happen to be part of that crowd. Then again, the longer I watch it the close I move from headache to migraine, to: "Why am I on the floor and throwing up."
Great stuff.
I find this amusing.
Here i am, prone to motion sickness, yet 3D movies don't make me cry like a little girl and start puking. Like many people who aren't prone to motion sickness would say to me, I now say to you. "Man the fuck up, you stupid little bitch and grow some balls."
3D content creators seem to ignore the reason we evolved 3D vision -- to navigate rapidly in real 3D space and to range-find..
Which brings up the two things I'd like to be able to watch in 3D: sports and computer games - but in order for it to be watchable they first need to solve the convergence/parallax issues mentioned upthread. I don't see that happening outside of holographic glasses anytime soon.
I don't know about the sports, but 3D works in games, the problem is, most developers don't develop the game with 3D in mind. That is, making sure it looks good in 3D without having ghosting and stuff on the wrong plane. Unlike a movie, you can adjust the convergence & parallax settings in games (actually, I can probably adjust it for movies also with my setup, but i don't actually watch 3D movies). Games that do the 3D good, look great. Seriously, fucking great and make the game really fun to play. I have Nvidia's 3D Vision and everyone that has seen it and tried it, loves to play games with it.
My 6 year old daughter asked her older brother a rhetorical question. He started to answer and she stopped him and said "It was a retardical question!"
The Windows installer will also try to install the crawler toolbar. Supposedly it lets you uncheck the boxes but they are checked by default. This is BAD behavior in my opinion. If they want to recommend it and leave them unchecked to start with (i.e. you must opt IN not OUT) that is acceptable.
OMFG, the cloud. I got to have or do the cloud. Magic Ponies in the cloud!!!!
Seriously, wtf do you really need the cloud for? Is it going to magically sync all your different data together so you can access it all the time?
No, seriously, do you think it's going to sync all your data so you can use it and access it anywhere?
No, it's not. Sure, you can access you data anywhere, but duder, we've been doing that for a couple of decades now, way to join the late train. Unfortunately, the various corporations don't want to agree to standards, so having docs/apps/whatever working with everything isn't in the "rape as much money as we can" business plan. so nothing is going to change.
Now let's look at the Megaupload thingy. That was cloud storage, file lockers. It's not around now, is it? That is what happens to clouds, the winds blow them away. The wind? Oh ya, in this case, that's the good old USA Government, working for their Pimps, the Music/Movie Industry. You think that can't happen to any "cloud" servers? Think again. OMG, Terrorist used that server, Child porn was on that server, boom! You're data, which has nothing to do with those 2 things, is gone also. Hope you make a backup. Oh, wait, the cloud was magically supposed to back it up for you?
Cloud has been around for awhile, but we called it what it was, the internet.
Microsoft has made it pretty damn clear that their hopes and dreams for XBox is a media center more than just a game console. The games are still there though, and if it bothers you that much, just go to one of the dozen or so other gaming platforms available to you. Is there anything on Live these days that is really that unique of an experience?
hmm, my media center doesn't cost me a monthly fee, nor does it show me advertisement, so I wonder, who's media center are they trying to compete with.
For the record, I haven't updated my xbox 360 ever since i got it 3 or so years ago.
With Xbox Live you pay to receive ads. With PSN, you don't pay a dime and still get online gaming.
While I'm acting smug as a PS3 owner, who doesn't have to put up with Microsoft's bullshit, I have to wonder just how much longer Sony's offering will last.
Why is it so weird that they're doing this? If you went into a bar and talked to folks about having sex with the underage, and someone overheard you, there's a chance that you'd get your ass handed to you, as well as have the cops called to take you away. What's different about facebook doing it? And who the hell relinquishes such personal, and incriminating information on a public server? I know it's not a public server, but it works just like a public bar that's privately owned.
Damn, you are stupid, no wonder you posted as an anonymous coward.
You are in a bar, and talking about the underage girl you bang, guess what? Nothing is going to happen. Why? Because you are in a bar, you are probably drunk and others are drunk around you. You hear a lot of claims in a bar and guess what? Most of them are bullshit.
I used to fuck underage girls when I was over 18, you going to get me arrested? Good luck with that.
It's my personal opinion that facebook is going too far. Not only do they mine data about you to sell for money, they now are going to be monitor what you say?
After all, the government and corporations are fuck buddies, giving them better access would be part of the deal.
How about this, the government makes a fucking cloud server, make sure it's up to the security they want, and open it up for the public to use, instead of relying on a corporation who only cares about making as much money as possible for the 1%ers.
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Has the concept of handing keys over when you hand a prisoner over never occured to them? Why does the arresting officer need his keys if he doesn't have his cuffs any more? Hand them over, and then just check out a new matching set from the duty officer next time you leave the building.
You must be new to this world.
See, in this world, when you have jobs that require small parts to be kept with the larger part, and you need to hand those off between people, shit is going to get lost.
In other words, the cops are busy doing stuff, trying to remember to keep a set of keys with each pair of handcuffs is going to be impossible. They will still require a master key for when the other keys get lost (which will happen all the time), or they will have to destroy them to remove them, which will cost even more to replace.
Nokia Lumia does not cost $49 to customers. It costs (and makes profit of) $49 + whatever mobile operators make during the two year contract. God americans are stupid if they still go for this marketing trick. Even Slashdot runs bullshit story like this!!
On top of that Nokia is trying to capture US market, so they can spend more on it while they generate revenue from rest of the world.
Well, based on your name I'm guessing your trolling, but you missed the point.
The article is saying that it cost $450 to marktet the sale of the $49 phone. so, on top of whatever it cost to make the phone, it also cost $450 to sell that 1 phone.
This isn't a marketing trick, it's about how fucking much advertising money is spent to sell this $49 phone. In all honestly, it would be smarter to just give the phone away and hope that people decide to use it for the 1-2 years contract.
Shit, i'm not even thinking. I have no idea who is going to make money off this phone, 'cept for maybe the phone carriers. Nokia isn't making any money, MS isn't making any money.
Nokia Lumia does not cost $49 to customers. It costs (and makes profit of) $49 + whatever mobile operators make during the two year contract. God americans are stupid if they still go for this marketing trick. Even Slashdot runs bullshit story like this!!
On top of that Nokia is trying to capture US market, so they can spend more on it while they generate revenue from rest of the world.
Well, based on your name I'm guessing your trolling, but you missed the point.
The article is saying that it cost $450 to marktet the sale of the $49 phone. so, on top of whatever it cost to make the phone, it also cost $450 to sell that 1 phone.
This isn't a marketing trick, it's about how fucking much advertising money is spent to sell this $49 phone. In all honestly, it would be smarter to just give the phone away and hope that people decide to use it for the 1-2 years contract.
Ouya will be just as secure as any other Android-powered device. In fact, because all the paid content will require authentication with Ouya's servers, we have an added layer of security. Hacking and openness are about getting what you want to do with the hardware. Rooting the device won't give you any more access to the software.
Since this company doesn't understand the meaning of rooting, or openness, they are going to be very disappointed.
Also, it makes me think you'll need to buy the apps that work thru Ouya, via Ouya, for them to authenticate it. So I'm guessing if you already own 3 versions of Angry Birds, you'll need to buy another to play it on the Ouya.
Anyways, when you make an item like this, doing a loss on hardware sales is stupid. You make it cheap enough that you can either break even, or make a small profit on the hardware sold. Add in a Xbox Live type Online System, with adds and lots of content, and make you're money that way. But keep it cheap. You do NOT need triple AAA titles, like Call of Duty on this thing, just fun time wasters, not unlike the stuff that Nintendo does.
Grab your niche and be happy with that, don't try to be everything, like pretty much, everyone else tries to do these days.
I don't understand why he didn't take this to the police.
It was assault on him, he has pictures, witnesses. Looks bad on France when tourist are getting attack.
But I don't know, I'm not stupid enough to go to France.
Unless of course, the people that attacked him were cops, and they just react like American cops when being filmed.
Show me SOMETHING that is made inthe USA.
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Marijuana is usually grown locally.
Meth is usually made locally.
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A whole $50? What is that like.... a couple of drinks at Starbucks?
Only if you don't leave a tip.
Does this smack anyone else as really immature? It reminds me of siblings threatening to tell your parents about something. Or telling the teacher if someone is picking on you in school. Do they honestly think this is a worthy use of their police resources by having a thin skin and crying to the police about every random person that says something about them on the internet?
You must be new to the internet, there is a lot of people like that online.
Wonder when Apple is going to send over hire goons (thugs) to get their point across?
There are a lot of people that, for one reason or another, already have to wear glasses to see normally. Try wearing glasses on top of your prescription glasses to watch a movie for 2 and a half hours, then see how *you* feel.
Dumbass.
Get contact lenses.
Dumbass.
Killed any interest in it for me.
That's what she said.
So you'd try to hold your head 100% perfectly still during the entire game? ;) ...dude, you're SO not a gamer.
Spoken like someone who hasn't actually played in games with 3D glasses.
I have, and I can tell you, it's totally cool moving my head around. Shit, when I'm playing Need For Speed World, in 3D, i'm moving my whole body around in my chair trying to avoid crashes and turns, and guess what?
IT DOES NOT AFFECT MY 3D GAME AT ALL.
The 3D technology isn't really 3D, it's just a 2D illusion, technically you perceive it as 3d, but if you MOVE your HEAD from SIDE to SIDE - the weakness becomes apparant, you simply can't look around, nor past anything...so it's not really 3D...
You are watching a fucking flat screen. You cant' look side to side, or around it when it's fucking 2D, so how is that bad?
Ya, 3D is a gimmick, it's a way of making flat images appear 3D, it's not a magical piece of technology that turns 2D into real 3D.
swear to god we got so many fucking twats on this article that don't know shit about 3D and what it is.
Most of you are bashing it for non reason. I'm beginning to doubt that most of you have even gone to see a 3D movie, let alone check one out at someone home.
Ya, TV's don't need 3D built into them, I agree with that, it is a grab by manufactors to make more money on TV's. But, it seems that most of you are jumping on the 3D sucks bandwagon without actually bothering to experience it fully for yourselves, in the different scenarios.
No, this isn't groupthink. There's some of us who simply can't stand "3D" because it's a terrible technology that gives us splitting headaches and migraines. I just happen to be part of that crowd. Then again, the longer I watch it the close I move from headache to migraine, to: "Why am I on the floor and throwing up."
Great stuff.
I find this amusing.
Here i am, prone to motion sickness, yet 3D movies don't make me cry like a little girl and start puking. Like many people who aren't prone to motion sickness would say to me, I now say to you. "Man the fuck up, you stupid little bitch and grow some balls."
Justice is served.
3D content creators seem to ignore the reason we evolved 3D vision -- to navigate rapidly in real 3D space and to range-find. .
Which brings up the two things I'd like to be able to watch in 3D: sports and computer games - but in order for it to be watchable they first need to solve the convergence/parallax issues mentioned upthread. I don't see that happening outside of holographic glasses anytime soon.
I don't know about the sports, but 3D works in games, the problem is, most developers don't develop the game with 3D in mind. That is, making sure it looks good in 3D without having ghosting and stuff on the wrong plane. Unlike a movie, you can adjust the convergence & parallax settings in games (actually, I can probably adjust it for movies also with my setup, but i don't actually watch 3D movies). Games that do the 3D good, look great. Seriously, fucking great and make the game really fun to play. I have Nvidia's 3D Vision and everyone that has seen it and tried it, loves to play games with it.
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They want me to buy Star Wars again even though I bought it on VHS back in the 80's!? (and bought the LaserDisc, the DVD set, the Blu-Ray box...)
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Sounds to me like you will be buying whatever new version Star Wars gets released in, based on your past experience...
My 6 year old daughter asked her older brother a rhetorical question. He started to answer and she stopped him and said "It was a retardical question!"
The wisdom of children.
The Windows installer will also try to install the crawler toolbar. Supposedly it lets you uncheck the boxes but they are checked by default. This is BAD behavior in my opinion. If they want to recommend it and leave them unchecked to start with (i.e. you must opt IN not OUT) that is acceptable.
Isn't that against the law in some states?
OMFG, the cloud. I got to have or do the cloud. Magic Ponies in the cloud!!!!
Seriously, wtf do you really need the cloud for? Is it going to magically sync all your different data together so you can access it all the time?
No, seriously, do you think it's going to sync all your data so you can use it and access it anywhere?
No, it's not. Sure, you can access you data anywhere, but duder, we've been doing that for a couple of decades now, way to join the late train.
Unfortunately, the various corporations don't want to agree to standards, so having docs/apps/whatever working with everything isn't in the "rape as much money as we can" business plan. so nothing is going to change.
Now let's look at the Megaupload thingy. That was cloud storage, file lockers. It's not around now, is it? That is what happens to clouds, the winds blow them away. The wind? Oh ya, in this case, that's the good old USA Government, working for their Pimps, the Music/Movie Industry. You think that can't happen to any "cloud" servers? Think again. OMG, Terrorist used that server, Child porn was on that server, boom! You're data, which has nothing to do with those 2 things, is gone also. Hope you make a backup. Oh, wait, the cloud was magically supposed to back it up for you?
Cloud has been around for awhile, but we called it what it was, the internet.
Microsoft has made it pretty damn clear that their hopes and dreams for XBox is a media center more than just a game console. The games are still there though, and if it bothers you that much, just go to one of the dozen or so other gaming platforms available to you. Is there anything on Live these days that is really that unique of an experience?
hmm, my media center doesn't cost me a monthly fee, nor does it show me advertisement, so I wonder, who's media center are they trying to compete with.
For the record, I haven't updated my xbox 360 ever since i got it 3 or so years ago.
... Why do xbox users put up with this?
The same reason that console users think that using a gamepad to play a fps shooter is the way to go.
In other words, most 360 (console) gamers are idiots.
So what is exactly is suffering for gaming? Has the hardware been gimped? ...
yes, the Xbox 360 has gimped hardware, since it was first released, and they never fixed it.
But hey, it's good enough for 5 more years according to MS.
With Xbox Live you pay to receive ads. With PSN, you don't pay a dime and still get online gaming.
While I'm acting smug as a PS3 owner, who doesn't have to put up with Microsoft's bullshit, I have to wonder just how much longer Sony's offering will last.
Knowing Sony not long...
Why is it so weird that they're doing this? If you went into a bar and talked to folks about having sex with the underage, and someone overheard you, there's a chance that you'd get your ass handed to you, as well as have the cops called to take you away. What's different about facebook doing it? And who the hell relinquishes such personal, and incriminating information on a public server? I know it's not a public server, but it works just like a public bar that's privately owned.
Damn, you are stupid, no wonder you posted as an anonymous coward.
You are in a bar, and talking about the underage girl you bang, guess what? Nothing is going to happen. Why? Because you are in a bar, you are probably drunk and others are drunk around you. You hear a lot of claims in a bar and guess what? Most of them are bullshit.
I used to fuck underage girls when I was over 18, you going to get me arrested? Good luck with that.
It's my personal opinion that facebook is going too far. Not only do they mine data about you to sell for money, they now are going to be monitor what you say?
Where does it stop?
Think of the children.
Think of the terrorist.
Fuck that, fuck facebook.
After all, the government and corporations are fuck buddies, giving them better access would be part of the deal.
How about this, the government makes a fucking cloud server, make sure it's up to the security they want, and open it up for the public to use, instead of relying on a corporation who only cares about making as much money as possible for the 1%ers.