*I understand your point at take it as you made it.
Language compatibility, and VM/Native are really two different issues. They are heavily correlated, but one does not cause the other.
By forgoing language compatibility, software is prevented from being cross OS compatible at the development stage. "Native" code on the other hand locks the OS into a particular piece of hardware. It frequently seems like a good idea when products are first released, but after a few years, any speed improvement that was gained is lost do to the platform being held back to legacy hardware.
It may be dumb luck. What you have to keep in mind is that the margin of error necessary might be so high that even a good engineer cannot narrow it down to a small number. In this case, it could be the durability necessary to get the rover to run for a month is the exact same durability that would allow it to run for years.
The fact that tons of other games were produced, and stores committed years of very valuable shelf space to them is pretty good proof that you are completely wrong that no one bought anything beyond Wii sports.
A certain segment likes to claim that no one ever played their Wii, but that is clearly not correct. If no one played their Wii, no one would have bought games. The companies making games would have seen that every game after the initial release just sat on store shelves. Game development would have died out withing 12 months. Retail stores would have seen that they never sold any Wii games, and would have stopped using valuable shelf space for them.
That has not happened. Go into any Toys R Us, Target, Costco, Gamestop, K-Mart, WalMart, etc... They all have very large Wii sections. This is even now when the Wii is at the end of it's life, and it's successor has already been announced. Making the claim that all of these stores have been dedicating huge amounts of valuable shelf space to a product line that doesn't sell is a might extraordinary claim, and thus needs more evidence than an anecdote from members of a minority group.
My own anecdote is that I got my household a 360 for Christmas this year. On Christmas day, we spent about 45 minutes enjoying the 360, and appreciating how cool the Kinect is. We then spent about 3 hours playing Fortune Street on the Wii.
Your comparing school to old school gaming where you could actually lose. School is more like MMORPGs. Nobody "loses" no matter how bad they are, and winning just means you spent enough time grinding.
More likely, we are like your neighbor that lives 2 block down, and stays inside all the time. Sure you know they are their, but have you taken the time to go and introduce yourself? There are people and places all around us that we don't interact with. Why would that be any different when one leaves their star system.
Heck. In my first home, I had one cupboard that I looked in once when I bought the house, nailed it shut, and never saw the inside again until I remolded the kitchen 6 years later.
That the prosecutor is biased hand no cas and Google settled out of court. Although I would think that spending less on the settlement than it would cost you to fight it out isn't a "strange" reason.
For the same reason that humans need to exist at all. They don't. Of course, if we go with only having humans in places that they are needed, then we might as well start purging every last human down here.
Sounds like a poorly designed study if it's goal was to determine whether polygamy is healthy or not. Of the 8 or 9 polygamous families (about 2/3 being FFM and 1/3 being MMF), I have known, none of them seems scarred. The women were always outgoing, and clearly had no problem speaking their mind, and appear happy.
Pulling the subjects exclusively from an ultra religious group makes for a poor sample group. None of the polygamous families I have known were Mormon. Of course, if the article was worded it as you did, we can dismiss it entirely. Unless you just wrote your point poorly, the article claims that all women are scarred, and it is worse in polygamous marriages. The claim that all married women are scarred is a pretty bold statement that implies paring with a man is inherently bad. This implies that the article started with a conclusion and worked back from there.
I feel bad for you. It is sad when people define their relationships based on the pattern of vibrations that are used to indicate you are talking about it. The only reason I suggested the name of the secular relationship be changed is because I expect religious types to be the irrational ones, and thus the ones that define their relationships by sound waves.
Concerning the MegaUpload-Universal lawsuit, it is irrelevant if MegaUpload has committed copyright violations in other areas. More likely, Universal has people in government that made it clear to MegaUpload that the amount of time they spend locked up will be dependent on whether they continue the unrelated lawsuit. This is the way organized crime works. They make thinly veiled threats.
I would say that disallowing native code is a correct move by MS. We are in a post native code world. Most people just haven't realized it yet. Processors are fast enough today that the emulation layer is just not that big of a hit. Banging hardware was necessary in the 80's. It made sense sometimes in the 90's for tight loops. Today, native code should be reserved for a few niche uses.
You are like the guy that insults people who go to an 10-Minute Oil Change instead of changing their oil themselves. There is no virtue in spending hours changing your oil when in 15-20 minutes you can have it changed by someone else faster, cleaner, cheaper, and easier. It doesn't make someone retarded because they chose the easier path. It isn't though a lack of knowledge or skill that I make the decision to have my oil changed by someone else. It is because I do have knowledge.
Like wise, most people's distaste for WinCE is not because of a lack of education or skill. It is because they HAVE knowledge, and use it that they shun WinCE. Using WinCE is like changing your own oil. Sure, you can do most stuff. It will be messy, take a bunch of time, you have to make sure that your getting the right products to put into it. Or, you can get iOS or Android devices where you end up with the same end product in less time and less mess.
Heck, today if I want a Windows style interface, I will just install Splashtop Streamer on my desktop, the Splashtop client on my Android phone, and use Windows. Heck, from the same Android device, I can use OSX too. It works just as well on the iPhone. If I need Linux, I go the VNC route.
Cellular coverage is good enough now, and WiFi access prevalent enough that anything that doesn't work great with a simplified finger oriented interface, is easier and more functionally used via a remote desktop solution.
I think the OP is confused about what should be called 'retarded'. There is no virtue in having a bad interface. WinCE had a bad interface. The stylus wasn't a better tool in most cases. It was what we used because the interface failed. WinCE also failed at offering "business" use. Android, and even iOS have far more and better business tools than WinCE did.
Another big failing with WinCE was that it's compatibility with itself was horrendous. If you bought an application that said it was WinCE compatible, there was a very good chance you couldn't run it on your device. Apple solved this by having stricter APIs and a very limited set of hardware. Android solved this by visualizing the processor. When WinCE was released, the Apple path of limited hardware was really the only path MS could have taken for compatibility, as the hardware wasn't up to snuff yet for emulation. I suspect the didn't do that because it was in direct opposition to how they made their fortune.
So, your a self declared troll, you call people assholes who call out the stupid BS you spew and you find it tiresome when people don't respond to your trolling the way you hope. You have decided that this makes me a jerk. Check.
Books that bypass traditional publishers are on par with TV shows that bypass Hollywood. Sure it can happen. If you know where to look, you can find it. Most people will rarely if ever be faced with it.
Text books are not a situation where academia is a victim of vampiric commercial textbook. Academia is the evil entity here. It isn't the publishers that decide a new edition is necessary. It is the professors, and the colleges let them. Most of the textbooks are already written by professors. There is a limited number of venues for their sales, and the individuals that make the buying decision are not the people that pay the money. Not only would it be trivial for textbook writers to bypass the commercial publishers, it always has been.
You acknowledge that DHMO is a parody, yet you use the exact same flawed logic and think it is right. That doesn't make me an ass. It makes you aggressively stupid.
You are trying to split hairs on the language. When you say something that is funny, you are telling a joke. Getting "pissed" off because someone calls you out on it doesn't stop you from being a lair. it doesn't make the other person a liar. It makes you an aggressive asshole liar that thinks being aggressive makes your stupidity not count.
I go back to the beginning and say that the only funny thing about your comment was how stupid someone would have to be to think there was any validity to it. You clearly believed it was a valid statement. You saw it as a "It's funny because it's true" style statement. It is only "true" in it is in the "too stupid to understand that there are only 118 known elements" way.
In case you didn't get it. The entire DHMO joke is to make fun of people EXACTLY like you.
You would also have to address the idea of starting a lawsuit, and just before you go to court, dropping the case, leaving the defendant with huge legal fees they can not pay. This is already being done.
I don't know how it is handled in other countries, but I would expect a lawyer to take all cases 'on contingency' with a fee of $5000 an hour. They get to charge unrealistic fees if they win, and don't have to worry about losing business since the person deciding to hire them is not going to be the one paying $5k an hour.
Two problems. Publishing is just as bad as Hollywood, and reading does not make you smarter. Halequin romance novels and Penthouse forum are not going to raise man to some higher plane of existence.
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*I understand your point at take it as you made it.
Language compatibility, and VM/Native are really two different issues. They are heavily correlated, but one does not cause the other.
By forgoing language compatibility, software is prevented from being cross OS compatible at the development stage. "Native" code on the other hand locks the OS into a particular piece of hardware. It frequently seems like a good idea when products are first released, but after a few years, any speed improvement that was gained is lost do to the platform being held back to legacy hardware.
It may be dumb luck. What you have to keep in mind is that the margin of error necessary might be so high that even a good engineer cannot narrow it down to a small number. In this case, it could be the durability necessary to get the rover to run for a month is the exact same durability that would allow it to run for years.
I'm with you. Pretty much everything I own. If it doesn't arrive broken brand new, it pretty much runs for many times it's warranty period.
The fact that tons of other games were produced, and stores committed years of very valuable shelf space to them is pretty good proof that you are completely wrong that no one bought anything beyond Wii sports.
A certain segment likes to claim that no one ever played their Wii, but that is clearly not correct. If no one played their Wii, no one would have bought games. The companies making games would have seen that every game after the initial release just sat on store shelves. Game development would have died out withing 12 months. Retail stores would have seen that they never sold any Wii games, and would have stopped using valuable shelf space for them.
That has not happened. Go into any Toys R Us, Target, Costco, Gamestop, K-Mart, WalMart, etc... They all have very large Wii sections. This is even now when the Wii is at the end of it's life, and it's successor has already been announced. Making the claim that all of these stores have been dedicating huge amounts of valuable shelf space to a product line that doesn't sell is a might extraordinary claim, and thus needs more evidence than an anecdote from members of a minority group.
My own anecdote is that I got my household a 360 for Christmas this year. On Christmas day, we spent about 45 minutes enjoying the 360, and appreciating how cool the Kinect is. We then spent about 3 hours playing Fortune Street on the Wii.
The Wii was terrible like the 2600 was terrible.
Your comparing school to old school gaming where you could actually lose. School is more like MMORPGs. Nobody "loses" no matter how bad they are, and winning just means you spent enough time grinding.
More likely, we are like your neighbor that lives 2 block down, and stays inside all the time. Sure you know they are their, but have you taken the time to go and introduce yourself? There are people and places all around us that we don't interact with. Why would that be any different when one leaves their star system.
Heck. In my first home, I had one cupboard that I looked in once when I bought the house, nailed it shut, and never saw the inside again until I remolded the kitchen 6 years later.
Most people didn't know that we had not seen other planets until fairly recently.
That the prosecutor is biased hand no cas and Google settled out of court. Although I would think that spending less on the settlement than it would cost you to fight it out isn't a "strange" reason.
For the same reason that humans need to exist at all. They don't. Of course, if we go with only having humans in places that they are needed, then we might as well start purging every last human down here.
Sounds like a poorly designed study if it's goal was to determine whether polygamy is healthy or not. Of the 8 or 9 polygamous families (about 2/3 being FFM and 1/3 being MMF), I have known, none of them seems scarred. The women were always outgoing, and clearly had no problem speaking their mind, and appear happy.
Pulling the subjects exclusively from an ultra religious group makes for a poor sample group. None of the polygamous families I have known were Mormon. Of course, if the article was worded it as you did, we can dismiss it entirely. Unless you just wrote your point poorly, the article claims that all women are scarred, and it is worse in polygamous marriages. The claim that all married women are scarred is a pretty bold statement that implies paring with a man is inherently bad. This implies that the article started with a conclusion and worked back from there.
I feel bad for you. It is sad when people define their relationships based on the pattern of vibrations that are used to indicate you are talking about it. The only reason I suggested the name of the secular relationship be changed is because I expect religious types to be the irrational ones, and thus the ones that define their relationships by sound waves.
Concerning the MegaUpload-Universal lawsuit, it is irrelevant if MegaUpload has committed copyright violations in other areas. More likely, Universal has people in government that made it clear to MegaUpload that the amount of time they spend locked up will be dependent on whether they continue the unrelated lawsuit. This is the way organized crime works. They make thinly veiled threats.
I would say that disallowing native code is a correct move by MS. We are in a post native code world. Most people just haven't realized it yet. Processors are fast enough today that the emulation layer is just not that big of a hit. Banging hardware was necessary in the 80's. It made sense sometimes in the 90's for tight loops. Today, native code should be reserved for a few niche uses.
You are like the guy that insults people who go to an 10-Minute Oil Change instead of changing their oil themselves. There is no virtue in spending hours changing your oil when in 15-20 minutes you can have it changed by someone else faster, cleaner, cheaper, and easier. It doesn't make someone retarded because they chose the easier path. It isn't though a lack of knowledge or skill that I make the decision to have my oil changed by someone else. It is because I do have knowledge.
Like wise, most people's distaste for WinCE is not because of a lack of education or skill. It is because they HAVE knowledge, and use it that they shun WinCE. Using WinCE is like changing your own oil. Sure, you can do most stuff. It will be messy, take a bunch of time, you have to make sure that your getting the right products to put into it. Or, you can get iOS or Android devices where you end up with the same end product in less time and less mess.
Heck, today if I want a Windows style interface, I will just install Splashtop Streamer on my desktop, the Splashtop client on my Android phone, and use Windows. Heck, from the same Android device, I can use OSX too. It works just as well on the iPhone. If I need Linux, I go the VNC route.
Cellular coverage is good enough now, and WiFi access prevalent enough that anything that doesn't work great with a simplified finger oriented interface, is easier and more functionally used via a remote desktop solution.
I think the OP is confused about what should be called 'retarded'. There is no virtue in having a bad interface. WinCE had a bad interface. The stylus wasn't a better tool in most cases. It was what we used because the interface failed. WinCE also failed at offering "business" use. Android, and even iOS have far more and better business tools than WinCE did.
Another big failing with WinCE was that it's compatibility with itself was horrendous. If you bought an application that said it was WinCE compatible, there was a very good chance you couldn't run it on your device. Apple solved this by having stricter APIs and a very limited set of hardware. Android solved this by visualizing the processor. When WinCE was released, the Apple path of limited hardware was really the only path MS could have taken for compatibility, as the hardware wasn't up to snuff yet for emulation. I suspect the didn't do that because it was in direct opposition to how they made their fortune.
And sometimes it's because the textbook was written by the professor who gets a cut on every sale.
So, your a self declared troll, you call people assholes who call out the stupid BS you spew and you find it tiresome when people don't respond to your trolling the way you hope. You have decided that this makes me a jerk. Check.
Books that bypass traditional publishers are on par with TV shows that bypass Hollywood. Sure it can happen. If you know where to look, you can find it. Most people will rarely if ever be faced with it.
Text books are not a situation where academia is a victim of vampiric commercial textbook. Academia is the evil entity here. It isn't the publishers that decide a new edition is necessary. It is the professors, and the colleges let them. Most of the textbooks are already written by professors. There is a limited number of venues for their sales, and the individuals that make the buying decision are not the people that pay the money. Not only would it be trivial for textbook writers to bypass the commercial publishers, it always has been.
You acknowledge that DHMO is a parody, yet you use the exact same flawed logic and think it is right. That doesn't make me an ass. It makes you aggressively stupid.
You are trying to split hairs on the language. When you say something that is funny, you are telling a joke. Getting "pissed" off because someone calls you out on it doesn't stop you from being a lair. it doesn't make the other person a liar. It makes you an aggressive asshole liar that thinks being aggressive makes your stupidity not count.
I go back to the beginning and say that the only funny thing about your comment was how stupid someone would have to be to think there was any validity to it. You clearly believed it was a valid statement. You saw it as a "It's funny because it's true" style statement. It is only "true" in it is in the "too stupid to understand that there are only 118 known elements" way.
In case you didn't get it. The entire DHMO joke is to make fun of people EXACTLY like you.
Cracked has become surprisingly insightful lately. Not just this article, but on tons of them. Who would have expected that!
You would also have to address the idea of starting a lawsuit, and just before you go to court, dropping the case, leaving the defendant with huge legal fees they can not pay. This is already being done.
I don't know how it is handled in other countries, but I would expect a lawyer to take all cases 'on contingency' with a fee of $5000 an hour. They get to charge unrealistic fees if they win, and don't have to worry about losing business since the person deciding to hire them is not going to be the one paying $5k an hour.
Interesting. I was not familiar with Sulla.
Two problems. Publishing is just as bad as Hollywood, and reading does not make you smarter. Halequin romance novels and Penthouse forum are not going to raise man to some higher plane of existence.