They couldn't have retracted the array rather than unilaterally letting it get destroyed? That's nonsense. And a "spark" from the array getting burned caused a completely separate area of the ship to burst into flames? There was no good reason for that to happen.
Good luck graduating with a physics degree if you think the "science" in that movie works at all.
You mean it'll be great until about half an hour in, when the crew arbitrarily decides to let their communications array get scorched without consulting their CO. And then their oxygen garden RANDOMLY bursts into flames...they divert from their mission and bicker like children...et cetera...
I will never understand how such a bullshit movie gets to call itself science fiction, let alone be called a "masterpiece" by anyone who has graduated high school.
...isn't the problem with data loss NOT that the only copy of the data is physically lost, but that a copy of the data is out in the wild? This product seems to miss the point entirely.
If a ball falls down it is because of gravity.
If it bounces back up it is because of gravity.
If comet flies into the solar system it is because of gravity.
If the comet slingshots around jupiter and permanently exits the solar system it is because of gravity.
If the tide rises it is because of gravity.
If the tide recedes it is because of gravity.
See how easy it is to gloss over the details and make something perfectly normal seem contradictory?
Our understanding of gravity far exceeds our understanding of climate science, so your comparison is bullshit. Lemme know when we figure out how to describe the climate using a simple equation though. Thanks for playing.
I agreed with you up until the part where you advised the OP to trash his reputation with his current company and dash all hopes of getting a positive reference in the future.
If OP's company were feeling apathetic or malicious toward him, they wouldn't be offering him a promotion. Clearly they think he's doing something right.
Even worse, they held my credit card number ransom. They said if I didn't send the old battery in after they sent me the replacement, they would charge me for a new one. Keep in mind that they logged onto my computer to check to see if my battery was indeed dead before confirming that it was covered under warranty, but they still didn't trust me enough to return a brick that they were just going to throw away/recycle. The doesn't even mention that they could have sent me an empty box and had me send them the dead battery first since it was dead and I couldn't use it anyway.
This is an unfair complaint--RMAs exist to protect the interests of the manufacturer. They kill the incentive to scam--if you could get a new piece of equipment without sending a broken one back in, warranty scams would be much more common.
On the other hand, there's no real ethical or legal excuse for pirating something, simply because you don't like the price of it. If you don't like the quality of the offering at the price it is offered, then don't buy it. It's quite simple.
I think you meant to say "don't bother with it" rather than "don't buy it."
By extension, if you're not willing to pay the price i.e. you don't value the item in question all that much, is it really worth your time at all? I tend to think the answer is no.
No, it's not understandable, it's idiotic at best. It's costing them money in the short run--many people won't buy the game--and consumer favor in the long run. They'd be making even more money if they weren't shoving their dicks up PC gamers' asses.
This kind of belligerence is what brought EA into its current decline, and Activision's non-Blizzard properties will surely follow suit in the next few years.
You're a troll because you don't have real opinions. You're just a moron if you don't think people are nuke-phobic, or if nuclear deterrence is "obsolete."
a) Yes they are. Just as one example, irradiated fruits are OFF THE MARKET because of consumer paranoia, even though there's no radioactive contamination of the fruit and the fruit lasts for weeks longer without preservatives.
b) Chernobyl DID fail because of stupid technical flaws. And we're not talking about third world countries (at least I'm not,) I was talking about the US.
c) Breeder reactors eat their own waste and produce plutonium, which I'm perfectly comfortable with the US possessing. As far as nuclear waste goes, its radioactivity is very low. Also, nuclear disarmament is a nice touchy-feely foreign policy, but losing our deterrent is bad. We could use the plutonium to make more weapons if we wanted; we're also running out of RTG material for sending stuff on long space missions.
It's really sad that people are still so nuke-phobic. My high school chemistry class in '05 explained why nuclear power really isn't dangerous unless people are catastrophically stupid (Chernobyl.) I got it, even with my primitive teenage brain--I think nuclear power is great. Why doesn't anyone else?
I'm sure this will only impact the Windows version of Firefox, as Firefox has traditionally followed the UI conventions of each of its platforms. It would be capitally stupid of them to impose the ribbon on a non-windows platform--for instance, no Mac OS X application that's taken seriously neglects to utilize, or unnecessarily duplicates, the menu bar. So I'm not terribly worried; in case I'm wrong, I'll happily use a different browser, or a skin, on Mac/Linux.
That's correct, but realtime multiplayer games these days are programmed with heuristics to resolve what "probably" happened. Halo 3 notably got this wrong when it was exposed that when two online players with low health both successfully melee attack each other, the player who meleed second (i.e. later) got the kill and survived.
These kinds of heuristics logically extend to games running over cloud services like OnLive. But frankly, the US internet infrastructure is not up to this task. At least, it's not affordable for the mass market.
That's not analogous at all. Bing is a search engine which is apparently tooled to boost Microsoft's agenda to the detriment of search result quality. Youtube is a website that is merely owned by a company that makes a web browser.
Why does it seem that everybody involved in these cases is an idiot? The RIAA lawyers, the defendants and their representation, the judges, the juries...they all sound like total stooges. How has everything gone so completely wrong?
You're completely wrong. If you were correct, I wouldn't be on-track to graduate in good standing from a university with the expectation of full-time employment afterwards. "Sorry, you don't write in cursive, you can't cope in today's working environment." Seriously, what a joke.
The only places I've needed handwriting in the last 4 years are exams, forms, in-class notes, and on whiteboards/projectors. And I gave up writing in cursive as soon as they stopped teaching it after 4th grade.
I've never come across this argument before. You're right in principle, but do you have a source to back up that it's true in fact as well?
I'll counter your anecdote with my own: I had Vista installed on my MacBook for about a month. Read: I installed it myself, no vendor crapware involved. Once I got fed up with the atrocious startup time I wiped it and switched to XP and it's much faster all-around.
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They couldn't have retracted the array rather than unilaterally letting it get destroyed? That's nonsense. And a "spark" from the array getting burned caused a completely separate area of the ship to burst into flames? There was no good reason for that to happen.
Good luck graduating with a physics degree if you think the "science" in that movie works at all.
You mean it'll be great until about half an hour in, when the crew arbitrarily decides to let their communications array get scorched without consulting their CO. And then their oxygen garden RANDOMLY bursts into flames...they divert from their mission and bicker like children...et cetera...
I will never understand how such a bullshit movie gets to call itself science fiction, let alone be called a "masterpiece" by anyone who has graduated high school.
...isn't the problem with data loss NOT that the only copy of the data is physically lost, but that a copy of the data is out in the wild? This product seems to miss the point entirely.
Never heard of hyperbole, eh?
Talking while driving or adjusting the radio isn't "supertasking." Do you want to ban drivers from speaking to their passengers too?
Our understanding of gravity far exceeds our understanding of climate science, so your comparison is bullshit. Lemme know when we figure out how to describe the climate using a simple equation though. Thanks for playing.
No, but there are none on 4chan either.
I agreed with you up until the part where you advised the OP to trash his reputation with his current company and dash all hopes of getting a positive reference in the future.
If OP's company were feeling apathetic or malicious toward him, they wouldn't be offering him a promotion. Clearly they think he's doing something right.
1. Install NoScript.
2. Blacklist google-analytics.com.
3. Stop whining.
This is an unfair complaint--RMAs exist to protect the interests of the manufacturer. They kill the incentive to scam--if you could get a new piece of equipment without sending a broken one back in, warranty scams would be much more common.
I think you meant to say "don't bother with it" rather than "don't buy it."
By extension, if you're not willing to pay the price i.e. you don't value the item in question all that much, is it really worth your time at all? I tend to think the answer is no.
No, it's not understandable, it's idiotic at best. It's costing them money in the short run--many people won't buy the game--and consumer favor in the long run. They'd be making even more money if they weren't shoving their dicks up PC gamers' asses.
This kind of belligerence is what brought EA into its current decline, and Activision's non-Blizzard properties will surely follow suit in the next few years.
You're a troll because you don't have real opinions. You're just a moron if you don't think people are nuke-phobic, or if nuclear deterrence is "obsolete."
I know you're just a troll, but...
a) Yes they are. Just as one example, irradiated fruits are OFF THE MARKET because of consumer paranoia, even though there's no radioactive contamination of the fruit and the fruit lasts for weeks longer without preservatives.
b) Chernobyl DID fail because of stupid technical flaws. And we're not talking about third world countries (at least I'm not,) I was talking about the US.
c) Breeder reactors eat their own waste and produce plutonium, which I'm perfectly comfortable with the US possessing. As far as nuclear waste goes, its radioactivity is very low. Also, nuclear disarmament is a nice touchy-feely foreign policy, but losing our deterrent is bad. We could use the plutonium to make more weapons if we wanted; we're also running out of RTG material for sending stuff on long space missions.
It's really sad that people are still so nuke-phobic. My high school chemistry class in '05 explained why nuclear power really isn't dangerous unless people are catastrophically stupid (Chernobyl.) I got it, even with my primitive teenage brain--I think nuclear power is great. Why doesn't anyone else?
I'm sure this will only impact the Windows version of Firefox, as Firefox has traditionally followed the UI conventions of each of its platforms. It would be capitally stupid of them to impose the ribbon on a non-windows platform--for instance, no Mac OS X application that's taken seriously neglects to utilize, or unnecessarily duplicates, the menu bar. So I'm not terribly worried; in case I'm wrong, I'll happily use a different browser, or a skin, on Mac/Linux.
Just a nitpick, but this will cease to be the case once we have solar panels in orbit.
More like IMBYP--In My Back Yard, Please!
Not to mention a certain government lab at the forefront of nuclear research in the world...
That's correct, but realtime multiplayer games these days are programmed with heuristics to resolve what "probably" happened. Halo 3 notably got this wrong when it was exposed that when two online players with low health both successfully melee attack each other, the player who meleed second (i.e. later) got the kill and survived.
These kinds of heuristics logically extend to games running over cloud services like OnLive. But frankly, the US internet infrastructure is not up to this task. At least, it's not affordable for the mass market.
Intel previously thought they'd be selling 6ghz processors by 2005 or so, so the GP's assessment is not far off.
That's not analogous at all. Bing is a search engine which is apparently tooled to boost Microsoft's agenda to the detriment of search result quality. Youtube is a website that is merely owned by a company that makes a web browser.
Why does it seem that everybody involved in these cases is an idiot? The RIAA lawyers, the defendants and their representation, the judges, the juries...they all sound like total stooges. How has everything gone so completely wrong?
You're completely wrong. If you were correct, I wouldn't be on-track to graduate in good standing from a university with the expectation of full-time employment afterwards. "Sorry, you don't write in cursive, you can't cope in today's working environment." Seriously, what a joke.
The only places I've needed handwriting in the last 4 years are exams, forms, in-class notes, and on whiteboards/projectors. And I gave up writing in cursive as soon as they stopped teaching it after 4th grade.
I've never come across this argument before. You're right in principle, but do you have a source to back up that it's true in fact as well?
I'll counter your anecdote with my own: I had Vista installed on my MacBook for about a month. Read: I installed it myself, no vendor crapware involved. Once I got fed up with the atrocious startup time I wiped it and switched to XP and it's much faster all-around.