One other thing that Apple did very well is not only asking, but making sure that apps can function as well as can be expected when they get denied the requested resources. Compare this to Android where apps will often times crash if you deny them any of the requested permissions.
This, exactly this. Having worked on a military base I can tell you that for a lot of teenagers, the military is the only way into what resembles a middle class lifestyle. If you look at the entire benefits package, the military pays more to an 18 year old then they could possibly get anywhere in the private sector save for *maybe* oil rigs or the energy fields of North Dakota. It's also the only chance many of them will ever get to see places like Europe or east asia(Of course a large # of them treat those places like their own personal playground, but that's another story)
. While this is true, food retailing(not really going to go into production, which is a separate story) is actually one of the most competitive industries in the US. Competition forces companies to provide decent service at very low margins(1-2% in some cases). If the broadband industry were more like the food distribution industry then we wouldn't even have to discuss a government take-over.
I specifically mentioned food production as a separate issue, I was merely talking about the distribution network(ie grocery stores) being very efficient because they have to be. Margins of 1% on cheap stuff is in a lot of ways even more impressive than margins of 1% on more expensive items.
Yup, the government should step in when private industry is either unwilling or unable to provide essential services at a reasonable cost, the keywords being essential and reasonable. Case in point roads.
The macroeconomic costs of having all roads be private would be huge. There would be a lot of lost productivity(not to mention fuel wastage) just on the collection of tolls. And of course anyone who owns property anywhere could find themselves at the mercy of a private interest who can essentially blackmail them by cutting off access to their home or business. Another example of an essential service where the government should, and in most rich places in the world, has intervened is insurance. The fact that the US pays so much more for getting so much less than countries with private health care systems has shown that private industry is either unwilling or unable to provide insurance at reasonable cost, and thus it must be taken away from them. Same with broadband, if US providers don't prove they are capable of *gasp* actually providing a decent service at a decent price then the government should step in. Broadband is in the new economy an "essential service", essentially the "roads" of the internet.
The classic straw man argument is of course "well then why doesn't the government run food stores? Everyone needs food!". While this is true, food retailing(not really going to go into production, which is a separate story) is actually one of the most competitive industries in the US. Competition forces companies to provide decent service at very low margins(1-2% in some cases). If the broadband industry were more like the food distribution industry then we wouldn't even have to discuss a government take-over.
If it was an NSA bug why does it only affect the newest version of the OS, the version that still comprises a minority of OS X users out there. If the NSA had the power to insert a bug like that into Apple's codebase don't you think they would have made it work on more computers? 10.8 has had security updates come out after the release of Mavericks, so if the NSA was so powerful as to be able to get buggy code into Mavericks, why didn't they backport it to older versions of the OS?
Yet another reason not to use windows. The other commercial OS has supported multiple languages for free for over a decade.... Windows UTF-8 support is a joke and it causes me a lot of grief. I really wish my company would go all Google and ban windows but alas they have not. Using windows really is like jumping in a time machine, you can see what computing was like 15 years ago.
"Expanding the currencyâ(TM)s reach is also a potential win for Amazon, which wants to create an end-to-end ecosystem for app developers."
Um, no, that's not the main reason Amazon created the coins, esp. since the app developers see the same amount of cash regardless of how the user paid. The reason Amazon likes the coins instead of making a bunch of 99 cent charges to a credit card is simple:
1. Charging $10 once to a credit card is cheaper to Amazon than charging $1 10 times.
2. Lock-in, this is the traditional "gift card" route, any money put into the Amazon coin ecosystem will eventually have to be used on an Amazon good/service. If you buy $100 in coins but only use $80, well tough. This has nothing to do with creating a huge ecosystem where the coins can be traded freely for goods and services that have nothing to do with Amazon.
And your basis for saying this is what exactly? You seem to state your case like it's fact, when you just seem to hate a group of individuals with different preferences than you. Guess what, not everyone has the same priorities you do, and you are not the smartest person on the planet. I know you think you are, but you aren't. Do you claim that all food you don't like is worthless garbage for the unwashed masses? If you do, my guess is you eat a lot of dinners alone. Get over yourself.
One downside to that model if you are a star is that you basically get paid the same as everyone else no matter how much they fuck up and how good you are.... Depending on the company there are some places that will give you a better bonus, but for the most part it's all the same. It's much better to be a fuck-up there than it is in the US, much worse to be a star, for the middle of the road people it doesn't matter too much.
Look at this the other way. Lets say you sell something you warrant to work for three years. Some four years later, there's some kind of security flaw - why should the company not need some extra funds to develop a fix? To my mind this change is something that will lead to better support for older products, because you can keep on paying and demanding fixes for your payments...
Car analogy! Have you ever heard of a safety recall? You will note that it isn't only new vehicles, or vehicles still under warranty that get recalled. It's ALL the defective vehicles, and the manufacturer has to pay for the repairs. Why you may ask? Because they designed something that is faulty and thus poses a risk not only to the people who bought the car, but to everyone else on the road. Why should software security be any different? If you get compromised, it doesn't just affect you, it can potentially affect a lot of other people.
Now of course for bugs that aren't security related you maybe have a point, if the back seat cupholder tends to break in a car the manufacturer may not be held reliable to fix it, as it doesn't pose a safety risk, but of course not fixing it is sort of a dick move....
Homer:Marge, every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain, Remember that time I learned how to make wine and forgot how to drive? Marge:Thats because you were drunk. Homer:And how
If any company can realize streaming gaming it's Amazon, largely because they can take advantage of their existing infrastructure of warehouses to maximize the # of customers that can actually use the service(not to mention their huge computing infrastructure). Previous attempts failed in part because they could only provide service to a few metropolitan areas due to latency issues. Buying buildings in a lot of different places and managing compute services in those places is pretty capital intensive, but at the same time thats the ONLY way to make streaming possible. Couple this with the fact that Amazon is getting aggressively into groceries, which means even more distribution centers, and you have a recipe for being able to actually make streaming possible...maybe. But if anyone can do it, Amazon can.
You also have to look at this from a business perspective. Google doesn't make money off of Chrome, Chrome is a tool that "gets people in the store" as it were, i.e. helps people use Google products. Their goal isn't to make the best browser, it's to make a browser that is the most capable at using Google products.
To that end, supporting esoteric features that aren't in use in any Google pages is basically a money sink. It requires time to develop and maintain, and makes changes harder, so it's obviously in Google's best interest to get rid of them. Whether or not that will blow up in their face is another issue....
This is a cultural difference, Japanese developers believe gamers want to work for / earn their fun rather than be given it easily. Western audiences generally disagree but the games are popular in Japan.
Huh? JRPGs were actually quite popular during the mid-90s up until about the previous console generation. If you look at the top grossing video games of all time you see that there are quite a few JRPGs on the list, and it certainly wasn't only Japan that was buying them. But take a closer look at the year, you will see that almost all of them were released between 1994 and 2004. Then compare it to all the other genres. You will see a much more diverse range of years. Now granted the pre-16 bit RPGs can be given a bit of a pass since technological limitations really limited gameplay, but what about modern JRPGs, why have their sales basically tanked?
I think it's largely because they simply haven't kept up with the times. It has nothing to do with "working"/"earning" your reward, there are plenty of puzzle games that are incredibly popular in both Japan and the west that certainly make you "earn" your rewards. And it isn't that "Japanese" made games are unpopular, there are a lot of recent entries in the best seller lists that are made in Japan, just not RPGs. No, the OP was right, the problem with JRPGs is that they simply haven't kept up with the times. Modern hardware offers the capacity to make incredibly engaging experiences, but all most JRPGs do is just make the same grindy experience that we had 20 years ago, but shinier. They need to really shake up their formula or else they will basically never be able to expand beyond their own small devoted fan base.
I wonder if they are going to mandate chest x-rays for anyone coming back to space in order to look for any "abnormalities" they may have picked up out there.
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One other thing that Apple did very well is not only asking, but making sure that apps can function as well as can be expected when they get denied the requested resources. Compare this to Android where apps will often times crash if you deny them any of the requested permissions.
Substitute decade with 2 centuries then get back to me.
This, exactly this. Having worked on a military base I can tell you that for a lot of teenagers, the military is the only way into what resembles a middle class lifestyle. If you look at the entire benefits package, the military pays more to an 18 year old then they could possibly get anywhere in the private sector save for *maybe* oil rigs or the energy fields of North Dakota. It's also the only chance many of them will ever get to see places like Europe or east asia(Of course a large # of them treat those places like their own personal playground, but that's another story)
That means if you deduct the wartime finding for Iran and Afghanistan
Um, do you know something we dont?
And yet you didn't actually read it, now did you?
. While this is true, food retailing(not really going to go into production, which is a separate story) is actually one of the most competitive industries in the US. Competition forces companies to provide decent service at very low margins(1-2% in some cases). If the broadband industry were more like the food distribution industry then we wouldn't even have to discuss a government take-over.
I specifically mentioned food production as a separate issue, I was merely talking about the distribution network(ie grocery stores) being very efficient because they have to be. Margins of 1% on cheap stuff is in a lot of ways even more impressive than margins of 1% on more expensive items.
Yup, the government should step in when private industry is either unwilling or unable to provide essential services at a reasonable cost, the keywords being essential and reasonable. Case in point roads.
The macroeconomic costs of having all roads be private would be huge. There would be a lot of lost productivity(not to mention fuel wastage) just on the collection of tolls. And of course anyone who owns property anywhere could find themselves at the mercy of a private interest who can essentially blackmail them by cutting off access to their home or business. Another example of an essential service where the government should, and in most rich places in the world, has intervened is insurance. The fact that the US pays so much more for getting so much less than countries with private health care systems has shown that private industry is either unwilling or unable to provide insurance at reasonable cost, and thus it must be taken away from them. Same with broadband, if US providers don't prove they are capable of *gasp* actually providing a decent service at a decent price then the government should step in. Broadband is in the new economy an "essential service", essentially the "roads" of the internet.
The classic straw man argument is of course "well then why doesn't the government run food stores? Everyone needs food!". While this is true, food retailing(not really going to go into production, which is a separate story) is actually one of the most competitive industries in the US. Competition forces companies to provide decent service at very low margins(1-2% in some cases). If the broadband industry were more like the food distribution industry then we wouldn't even have to discuss a government take-over.
If it was an NSA bug why does it only affect the newest version of the OS, the version that still comprises a minority of OS X users out there. If the NSA had the power to insert a bug like that into Apple's codebase don't you think they would have made it work on more computers? 10.8 has had security updates come out after the release of Mavericks, so if the NSA was so powerful as to be able to get buggy code into Mavericks, why didn't they backport it to older versions of the OS?
Yet another reason not to use windows. The other commercial OS has supported multiple languages for free for over a decade.... Windows UTF-8 support is a joke and it causes me a lot of grief. I really wish my company would go all Google and ban windows but alas they have not. Using windows really is like jumping in a time machine, you can see what computing was like 15 years ago.
Um, if you are measuring an engineers output by the # of hours he works then you are an idiot, pure and simple.
From TFA:
"Expanding the currencyâ(TM)s reach is also a potential win for Amazon, which wants to create an end-to-end ecosystem for app developers."
Um, no, that's not the main reason Amazon created the coins, esp. since the app developers see the same amount of cash regardless of how the user paid. The reason Amazon likes the coins instead of making a bunch of 99 cent charges to a credit card is simple:
1. Charging $10 once to a credit card is cheaper to Amazon than charging $1 10 times.
2. Lock-in, this is the traditional "gift card" route, any money put into the Amazon coin ecosystem will eventually have to be used on an Amazon good/service. If you buy $100 in coins but only use $80, well tough. This has nothing to do with creating a huge ecosystem where the coins can be traded freely for goods and services that have nothing to do with Amazon.
And your basis for saying this is what exactly? You seem to state your case like it's fact, when you just seem to hate a group of individuals with different preferences than you. Guess what, not everyone has the same priorities you do, and you are not the smartest person on the planet. I know you think you are, but you aren't. Do you claim that all food you don't like is worthless garbage for the unwashed masses? If you do, my guess is you eat a lot of dinners alone. Get over yourself.
I knew I shouldn't have ejaculated all over the display model before stealing that TV.
What month do you think comes after Smarch?
One downside to that model if you are a star is that you basically get paid the same as everyone else no matter how much they fuck up and how good you are.... Depending on the company there are some places that will give you a better bonus, but for the most part it's all the same. It's much better to be a fuck-up there than it is in the US, much worse to be a star, for the middle of the road people it doesn't matter too much.
Look at this the other way. Lets say you sell something you warrant to work for three years. Some four years later, there's some kind of security flaw - why should the company not need some extra funds to develop a fix? To my mind this change is something that will lead to better support for older products, because you can keep on paying and demanding fixes for your payments...
Car analogy! Have you ever heard of a safety recall? You will note that it isn't only new vehicles, or vehicles still under warranty that get recalled. It's ALL the defective vehicles, and the manufacturer has to pay for the repairs. Why you may ask? Because they designed something that is faulty and thus poses a risk not only to the people who bought the car, but to everyone else on the road. Why should software security be any different? If you get compromised, it doesn't just affect you, it can potentially affect a lot of other people.
Now of course for bugs that aren't security related you maybe have a point, if the back seat cupholder tends to break in a car the manufacturer may not be held reliable to fix it, as it doesn't pose a safety risk, but of course not fixing it is sort of a dick move....
Obligatory Simpsons:
Homer:Marge, every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain, Remember that time I learned how to make wine and forgot how to drive?
Marge:Thats because you were drunk.
Homer:And how
Here is one of the messages containing a test answer:
"When they ask ' How about Global Thermonuclear War?', answer NO!"
You would think that would be obvious, but.
if you dealt it and !on date then blame dog else blame easiest scapegoat/person you don't like
If any company can realize streaming gaming it's Amazon, largely because they can take advantage of their existing infrastructure of warehouses to maximize the # of customers that can actually use the service(not to mention their huge computing infrastructure). Previous attempts failed in part because they could only provide service to a few metropolitan areas due to latency issues. Buying buildings in a lot of different places and managing compute services in those places is pretty capital intensive, but at the same time thats the ONLY way to make streaming possible. Couple this with the fact that Amazon is getting aggressively into groceries, which means even more distribution centers, and you have a recipe for being able to actually make streaming possible...maybe. But if anyone can do it, Amazon can.
You also have to look at this from a business perspective. Google doesn't make money off of Chrome, Chrome is a tool that "gets people in the store" as it were, i.e. helps people use Google products. Their goal isn't to make the best browser, it's to make a browser that is the most capable at using Google products.
To that end, supporting esoteric features that aren't in use in any Google pages is basically a money sink. It requires time to develop and maintain, and makes changes harder, so it's obviously in Google's best interest to get rid of them. Whether or not that will blow up in their face is another issue....
What resource shall we queue up next in our sky-is-falling headline of-the-week?
All of them, until we reach "peak human", which should be by 2050 according to current predictions.
This is a cultural difference, Japanese developers believe gamers want to work for / earn their fun rather than be given it easily. Western audiences generally disagree but the games are popular in Japan.
Huh? JRPGs were actually quite popular during the mid-90s up until about the previous console generation. If you look at the top grossing video games of all time you see that there are quite a few JRPGs on the list, and it certainly wasn't only Japan that was buying them. But take a closer look at the year, you will see that almost all of them were released between 1994 and 2004. Then compare it to all the other genres. You will see a much more diverse range of years. Now granted the pre-16 bit RPGs can be given a bit of a pass since technological limitations really limited gameplay, but what about modern JRPGs, why have their sales basically tanked?
I think it's largely because they simply haven't kept up with the times. It has nothing to do with "working"/"earning" your reward, there are plenty of puzzle games that are incredibly popular in both Japan and the west that certainly make you "earn" your rewards. And it isn't that "Japanese" made games are unpopular, there are a lot of recent entries in the best seller lists that are made in Japan, just not RPGs. No, the OP was right, the problem with JRPGs is that they simply haven't kept up with the times. Modern hardware offers the capacity to make incredibly engaging experiences, but all most JRPGs do is just make the same grindy experience that we had 20 years ago, but shinier. They need to really shake up their formula or else they will basically never be able to expand beyond their own small devoted fan base.
Bees love decorating their house with plastic garbage too? How long before we get a site dedicated to white-trash bees
I wonder if they are going to mandate chest x-rays for anyone coming back to space in order to look for any "abnormalities" they may have picked up out there.
There were(key word being were) some other companies that "didn't do low margin" such as SGI and Sun. I wonder where they are now...