That would make the most sense, IMO, and may be a legitimate grounds to invalidate the score, but not accuse of him deliberately cheating.
He had many other high scores that consisted of things like,
1. Scores proven to be impossible (e.g., they did things like modify the game code to remove all obstacles to get a fastest run possible) 2. Scores that were impossible increments (e.g., 1050 when the game increments by 100). 3. Scores that were improbably high (like many thousands of times higher than the next highest score).
For something that offered no significant monetary incentive, such as holding a video game record, I think it's improbable to the extreme that anyone would doctor a physical photograph simply to prove something so mundane.
Like, why can't we have world building AND a logical story line?
So true. And it's not like there's a shortage of great, coherent fantasy and sci-fi stories. Why don't they just turn to literature? Maybe they don't want to pay for the movie rights.
Every time I log in, most of the screen is taken up by this huge video that auto plays. It said "Bright" or something. It was so visually jarring and there is a screaming audio track on it too. I have begun to mute audio before opening Netflix, and close my eyes and press down button to escape the visual assault. Then the last viewed menu comes up. It wont be long before some idiot decides it would be a cool thing to autoplay all the icons to create "visual appeal" and interest.
With that kind of intrusive access to the customers it would be a big surprise if it is NOT a hit.
On one hand you are saying that the ads for Bright annoyed you so bad you took evasive measure to not see them. On the other hand you are saying these same ads are the reason Bright received so many positive reviews... ?
However the way they bought only Pebble's IP, and hired on it's Developers, not taking on the company itself, was just a dick move.
Maybe you should look at Pebble for the dick (or maybe just dumb) moves.
I feel like another company could have easily come in and actually done right and kept the brand going. Instead they let themselves be cannibalized by Fitbit.
They sure could have. We've since learned that they had buyout offers from Tag Heur, Intel (for $70m), and Citizen (for $740m). But the chose to grind the company into the dirt and sell for $40m. Fitbit was the only one that was offering at the end.
Pebble was also HUGE and had inlays into retail and big online stores. Fitbit could have EASILY utilized the branding and name.. but chose the cheap way out.
I am positive that Fitbit analyzed their business opportunities and made the choice which would net them the most profit (which is all that can be expected). Pebble closed it's doors for a reason. It wasn't profitable and is never going to compete against companies like Apple and Samsung. Fitbit on the other hand is a niche player specializing in activity monitoring / health devices. They have no interest in attempting to compete with a general purpose smartwatch.
Kinda stupid in that fitbit could have made a simple subscription model and generate a steady revenue without much effort , instead they are killing pebble.
Have you built an end-end device subscription service, and if so, was it "without much effort"?
Apple can fix this problem with a single phone call
Can, and won't.
Corporations will, by their nature, do what maximizes profits. Until the local laws change and they have to conform or be penalized, or until Apple's customers stop buying their products over it, things will continue as-is.
Anyone throwing their $1000 iPhones or their $3000 MBPs into the trash over this? No? Then nothing's changing.
It's like theres some group of people out there whjo make it their bussiness to rapidly notify all of us apple users or non-users that the company-that-can-do-no-wrong has a skid mark on it's shorts.
We care because the president told us those factory jobs would soon be moving back to the states, and we want to ensure our local workers are safe. That person that jumped to their death from the factory window could be your mother or uncle in a year, or less.
The difference is, most gamers don't play more than 8 hours a day - probably 4 or so would be more like the average.
Most gamers will be pretty upset when they sit down on a holiday and can't play because the systems are only setup to scale to 57% concurrent users. How do you sell a service with the caveat like that?
The other thing is this needs a shit ton of bandwidth. I subscribed to Nvidia's Geoforce NOW service. It pulled ~57MBit for a 1080p, 60fps game. That's not for everyone, and it makes gaming on even the best networks susceptible to intermittent problems. Pretty cool seeing your 7 inch tablet driving a 1080/60 game on your 65" screen though. Nvidia did a good job with it's gaming tablets, but that's a dead product now. Selling chips to Nintendo is a more lucrative business.
Get this wedge in now, this idea that some authority should have all the keys to the encryption kingdom, and it should be easier to keep it there when the next privacy scheme comes along.
When encryption is illegal, only criminals will employ encryption.
If I had to choose an inept party here, it would be the guy who is missing essential facts.
Don't you think it's a little harsh to blame me for Google's confusing product lineup? Regardless of Pichai's role, I think he deserves more of the blame than I do.
Sure, if you pay cash you usually pay the same price and get nothing - but it's still not free money.
Pay cash- same price, no cash back. Credit- same price, cash back.
Call it what you want. Prices are cheaper with credit cards with the cash back, and they are actually extending you an interest-free line of credit over the course of a month.
Nobody else really cares about this issue but your side...
There you go. My side is one where net neutrality exists. I know you'd like to paint me as a bleeding heart liberal. That's why you'll lose. There're extreme trolls like you on both sides, and in them middle, there's the 90% of us that are capable of thinking rationally about issues for what they are, not whether the person that sponsored them are blue or red.
I'm not the person you're baiting, but here's my answer: I will not. [Change my vote]
And that's why we'll lose. What Trump does well is get people fired up over hot button issues like immigration so they'll never turn sides to vote on the real issues, like net neutrality. You've been suckered.
I would lobby for NN... but there are too many other important policies that are even more important to make me switch and vote "Hillary/Oprah" over Trump.
Did you know, Hilary isn't running for office?
Making the US competitive, not being pushed around and taken as idiots (Iran Deal) in foreign policy... all good to.
Did you know, the world stage generally thinks Americans all all morons, and most foreign (and US, there are plenty of quotes to prove it) politicians think our leader is a moron? Who cares anyway, GO MERICA if they don't like it we'll nuke em right?
My wallet really likes the economy Trump has fostered.
Does it like his tax policy that every expert agrees will benefit corporations over the individual?
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That would make the most sense, IMO, and may be a legitimate grounds to invalidate the score, but not accuse of him deliberately cheating.
He had many other high scores that consisted of things like,
1. Scores proven to be impossible (e.g., they did things like modify the game code to remove all obstacles to get a fastest run possible)
2. Scores that were impossible increments (e.g., 1050 when the game increments by 100).
3. Scores that were improbably high (like many thousands of times higher than the next highest score).
For something that offered no significant monetary incentive, such as holding a video game record, I think it's improbable to the extreme that anyone would doctor a physical photograph simply to prove something so mundane.
The human race. You new here?
How do you figure that?
They built a rig that can play the game optimally and that's the best it can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh, hi blahplusplus. Switching to AC to troll? That's certainly not something that one of the stupid average human being would think of.
it's so bland
"Salty" is a taste.
Most people are stupid so movies would tend to reflect the intelligence of the average human being on our planet.
But not you, right? That much is obvious by the fact that you are spending your time posting on /.
Like, why can't we have world building AND a logical story line?
So true. And it's not like there's a shortage of great, coherent fantasy and sci-fi stories. Why don't they just turn to literature? Maybe they don't want to pay for the movie rights.
Every time I log in, most of the screen is taken up by this huge video that auto plays. It said "Bright" or something. It was so visually jarring and there is a screaming audio track on it too. I have begun to mute audio before opening Netflix, and close my eyes and press down button to escape the visual assault.
Then the last viewed menu comes up. It wont be long before some idiot decides it would be a cool thing to autoplay all the icons to create "visual appeal" and interest.
With that kind of intrusive access to the customers it would be a big surprise if it is NOT a hit.
On one hand you are saying that the ads for Bright annoyed you so bad you took evasive measure to not see them. On the other hand you are saying these same ads are the reason Bright received so many positive reviews... ?
Did you rate it positively, because of these ads?
However the way they bought only Pebble's IP, and hired on it's Developers, not taking on the company itself, was just a dick move.
Maybe you should look at Pebble for the dick (or maybe just dumb) moves.
I feel like another company could have easily come in and actually done right and kept the brand going. Instead they let themselves be cannibalized by Fitbit.
They sure could have. We've since learned that they had buyout offers from Tag Heur, Intel (for $70m), and Citizen (for $740m). But the chose to grind the company into the dirt and sell for $40m. Fitbit was the only one that was offering at the end.
Pebble was also HUGE and had inlays into retail and big online stores. Fitbit could have EASILY utilized the branding and name.. but chose the cheap way out.
I am positive that Fitbit analyzed their business opportunities and made the choice which would net them the most profit (which is all that can be expected). Pebble closed it's doors for a reason. It wasn't profitable and is never going to compete against companies like Apple and Samsung. Fitbit on the other hand is a niche player specializing in activity monitoring / health devices. They have no interest in attempting to compete with a general purpose smartwatch.
Kinda stupid in that fitbit could have made a simple subscription model and generate a steady revenue without much effort , instead they are killing pebble.
Have you built an end-end device subscription service, and if so, was it "without much effort"?
How many other companies do anything at all?
For all I know, most of them. Link your references otherwise.
who has some very corrupt businesspeople who will do anything to make enough money
You just described every nation in the world.
... the third world
China isn't the third world.
Apple can fix this problem with a single phone call
Can, and won't.
Corporations will, by their nature, do what maximizes profits. Until the local laws change and they have to conform or be penalized, or until Apple's customers stop buying their products over it, things will continue as-is.
Anyone throwing their $1000 iPhones or their $3000 MBPs into the trash over this? No? Then nothing's changing.
It's like theres some group of people out there whjo make it their bussiness to rapidly notify all of us apple users or non-users that the company-that-can-do-no-wrong has a skid mark on it's shorts.
We care because the president told us those factory jobs would soon be moving back to the states, and we want to ensure our local workers are safe. That person that jumped to their death from the factory window could be your mother or uncle in a year, or less.
It's not like it is hard to make sure business listings are correct every year.
Now that's funny.
The difference is, most gamers don't play more than 8 hours a day - probably 4 or so would be more like the average.
Most gamers will be pretty upset when they sit down on a holiday and can't play because the systems are only setup to scale to 57% concurrent users. How do you sell a service with the caveat like that?
The other thing is this needs a shit ton of bandwidth. I subscribed to Nvidia's Geoforce NOW service. It pulled ~57MBit for a 1080p, 60fps game. That's not for everyone, and it makes gaming on even the best networks susceptible to intermittent problems. Pretty cool seeing your 7 inch tablet driving a 1080/60 game on your 65" screen though. Nvidia did a good job with it's gaming tablets, but that's a dead product now. Selling chips to Nintendo is a more lucrative business.
Why don't you try it. I think you'll answer your own question.
Get this wedge in now, this idea that some authority should have all the keys to the encryption kingdom, and it should be easier to keep it there when the next privacy scheme comes along.
When encryption is illegal, only criminals will employ encryption.
a solution is "not so clear cut."
I'll say. There's that little problem of the number of seconds left in the life of the universe.
If I had to choose an inept party here, it would be the guy who is missing essential facts.
Don't you think it's a little harsh to blame me for Google's confusing product lineup? Regardless of Pichai's role, I think he deserves more of the blame than I do.
Sure, if you pay cash you usually pay the same price and get nothing - but it's still not free money.
Pay cash- same price, no cash back.
Credit- same price, cash back.
Call it what you want. Prices are cheaper with credit cards with the cash back, and they are actually extending you an interest-free line of credit over the course of a month.
Nobody else really cares about this issue but your side...
There you go. My side is one where net neutrality exists. I know you'd like to paint me as a bleeding heart liberal. That's why you'll lose. There're extreme trolls like you on both sides, and in them middle, there's the 90% of us that are capable of thinking rationally about issues for what they are, not whether the person that sponsored them are blue or red.
I'm not the person you're baiting, but here's my answer: I will not. [Change my vote]
And that's why we'll lose. What Trump does well is get people fired up over hot button issues like immigration so they'll never turn sides to vote on the real issues, like net neutrality. You've been suckered.
BUILD THE WALL. Right?
I would lobby for NN... but there are too many other important policies that are even more important to make me switch and vote "Hillary/Oprah" over Trump.
Did you know, Hilary isn't running for office?
Making the US competitive, not being pushed around and taken as idiots (Iran Deal) in foreign policy... all good to.
Did you know, the world stage generally thinks Americans all all morons, and most foreign (and US, there are plenty of quotes to prove it) politicians think our leader is a moron? Who cares anyway, GO MERICA if they don't like it we'll nuke em right?
My wallet really likes the economy Trump has fostered.
Does it like his tax policy that every expert agrees will benefit corporations over the individual?