Won't Sony sue him for adding functionality to the PS3 that didn't ship with it? Isn't the rule that they can only remove functionality after their precious little console ships?
Dude please, Chinese motorbikes are awesome. They just keep going and going.. I saw one there being held together with chicken wire, wood planks, and grass rope and still kicking along fine. I'd like to see a macbook do that!
As I'm sure you're aware, all Mac compatible accessories including the aforementioned 'chicken wire, wood planks, and grass rope' are specially designed for enduser delight and are therefore priced accordingly.
Mac: Hi, I'm a Mac.
PC: Hi, I'm a PC.
[Mac slows down and starts to crash]
Mac: Hey, what's happening to me?
[PC reaches over and starts tickling Mac]
PC: Stop crashing yourself! Stop crashing yourself!
Mac: This isn't supposed to happen! What's going on?
PC: Been there, done that. Get used to it.
Mac: Save me Stevie Won Kejobsie, save me!
You get what you pay for. Oh wait. Defend this one, Apple fans.
This is a 'Crisitunity' for Apple. They never do a good job addressing these things which is surprising considering they do such a great job with pre-sale marketing & PR.
Imagine if someone else came up with a "new refrigerator" and the efforts on maintaining the "new refrigerator" came to suck up 10% of the economy.
How big of an LCD will this fridge have? Will it have USB 3, Thunderbolt or Gigabit Ethernet? How about WiFi, a full Bluetooth implementation or this new fangled NFC stuff? Will my better half be able to hook up a scale that not only weighs me before I open the fridge but after to see exactly what I took out? Will a pre-recorded movie play that tells me I shouldn't be eating whatever I just took out, reminding me of my diet or just asking "are you going to bring me one, too?" What about commercials? "I see you're running low on Pepsi 3000! You should go buy some more Pepsi 3000! Now!! But wait, it's a long trip to the store and you may get thirsty - why not have a Pepsi 3000?" Will I then here her voice telling me "put that back! Have some fruit instead!"?
The major difference being the tube/valve industry was done in by the transistor - i.e. we had a viable replacement that was better. The problem with the transistor is that we don't (yet) have a viable replacement.
There's a big difference between then and now. We have a lot of people/companies/countries trying to drive the progress and development of new technologies. Small startups can play a role, or even become the new leaders; ungodly international conglomerates can 'change or die'. There's a brave new word out there... but there's always a brave new world out there. Now you young folks go get it and bring it back to those of us who are tired, cranky and complacent.
Your prediction of >7.5 with 80% likelihood the next 30 years is useless because it is an intentionally low-ball figure that doesn't give us any useful information abut the estimated stresses in the fault lines.
And yet predicting California is 'next' in line for a major quake is useless as well.
1) California is always 'on the brink' of another major quake, just like Alaska, Japan and even Chile.
2) Knowing that a major quake will happen 'some day in the somewhat near future' is worthless unless everyone in California is supposed to live each day as if it is the day of the big quake.
3) California has known about the potential earthquakes for a long time and have integrated the possibilities into their building codes and other public policies. All they need to do now is wait for someone to be right about which prediction is closest to the actual day of the anticipated event.
This is just more FUD being generated by Microsoft's shills.
And though it's intended effect is to tarnish Google's image/brand consumers really don't give a shit. They're going to buy an Android phone if they want one despite any copyright issues or what could turn out to be platform propaganda.
I think this is W7P's first shot across Android bow.
How is this company even worth $12 billion? Seriously, even first post at half off coupons aren't worth that.
It's not worth the money. We'll just have to wait for a Groupon link to the 'IPO Deal' where we can get 10 shares for the price of 4 if we buy them the day after tomorrow.
Ok, capitalism, blah, blah, blah... but can anybody tell me WHY are companies allowed to buy other companies?
Economies of scale should result in lower consumer prices (in theory), combined management, operations, IT, etc saves money, etc etc. If you want a world where companies can't buy other companies then we'll have a bunch of companies that go out of business. For example, YouTube could never make a profit if it had to pay for its own servers & bandwidth requirements. Piggybacking on Google it can and does generate a profit.
Send a message to a hitman saying "kill X and I will send you the results of any race horse of your choice". How's that for not being able to go back and kill your grandfather?
Just hope that someone else doesn't send a message back in time to kill the horse.
Oh, please. The MPAA is far too evil and closed-minded to ever get any consideration for this. The MPAA would still be viewed with suspicion if they donated a dollar to a homeless person or a million dollars to an orphanage. And by 'donated' I mean 'gave without suing them afterwards for depriving the MPAA of revenue that they believe was rightfully theirs'.
Google isn't solely made and used for distributing copyrighted content illegally. IsoHunt, as well as The Pirate Bay, is.
The Mob isn't exclusively used for selling counterfeit goods, so I guess they're not guilty of it?
Claiming Google isn't doing anything illegal but isoHunt is because it's all they do is crap. It's just that isoHunt doesn't have the deep pockets of a Google, Bing or Yahoo. If the MPAA thought they could win they'd be suing the big search engines too.
I think there's a big difference between trying to support IE 6 - a very old browser - and the entire IE bowser platform. I don't think it's realistic to ignore IE 9 (or 7 or 8 for the foreseeable future).
I'm impressed with the work, but it's still a little glitchy, slower to load and just not as blazing fast as Chrome.
And yet those of us who do web development and/or have clients who do will need to support it with CSS & javascript patches just like every other major browser on the market.
<sarcasm>But, but, can't I buy both? Why should I be forced to choose? Who makes these crazy rules governing what I can or can't buy relating to an iPad?</sarcasm>
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Won't Sony sue him for adding functionality to the PS3 that didn't ship with it? Isn't the rule that they can only remove functionality after their precious little console ships?
Since when is psychology a science?
Hmm, someone seems to have issues with psychology. Would you like to talk about it? ;-)
I'm just asking if he did or not. If he didn't, then why doesn't he provide us proof?
Did you happen to check the story on Scientific Papers? Perhaps you'll find your proof there?
Dude please, Chinese motorbikes are awesome. They just keep going and going.. I saw one there being held together with chicken wire, wood planks, and grass rope and still kicking along fine. I'd like to see a macbook do that!
As I'm sure you're aware, all Mac compatible accessories including the aforementioned 'chicken wire, wood planks, and grass rope' are specially designed for enduser delight and are therefore priced accordingly.
Mac: Hi, I'm a Mac.
PC: Hi, I'm a PC.
[Mac slows down and starts to crash]
Mac: Hey, what's happening to me?
[PC reaches over and starts tickling Mac]
PC: Stop crashing yourself! Stop crashing yourself!
Mac: This isn't supposed to happen! What's going on?
PC: Been there, done that. Get used to it.
Mac: Save me Stevie Won Kejobsie, save me!
You get what you pay for. Oh wait. Defend this one, Apple fans.
This is a 'Crisitunity' for Apple. They never do a good job addressing these things which is surprising considering they do such a great job with pre-sale marketing & PR.
Imagine if someone else came up with a "new refrigerator" and the efforts on maintaining the "new refrigerator" came to suck up 10% of the economy.
How big of an LCD will this fridge have? Will it have USB 3, Thunderbolt or Gigabit Ethernet? How about WiFi, a full Bluetooth implementation or this new fangled NFC stuff? Will my better half be able to hook up a scale that not only weighs me before I open the fridge but after to see exactly what I took out? Will a pre-recorded movie play that tells me I shouldn't be eating whatever I just took out, reminding me of my diet or just asking "are you going to bring me one, too?" What about commercials? "I see you're running low on Pepsi 3000! You should go buy some more Pepsi 3000! Now!! But wait, it's a long trip to the store and you may get thirsty - why not have a Pepsi 3000?" Will I then here her voice telling me "put that back! Have some fruit instead!"?
The major difference being the tube/valve industry was done in by the transistor - i.e. we had a viable replacement that was better. The problem with the transistor is that we don't (yet) have a viable replacement.
There's a big difference between then and now. We have a lot of people/companies/countries trying to drive the progress and development of new technologies. Small startups can play a role, or even become the new leaders; ungodly international conglomerates can 'change or die'. There's a brave new word out there ... but there's always a brave new world out there. Now you young folks go get it and bring it back to those of us who are tired, cranky and complacent.
Your prediction of >7.5 with 80% likelihood the next 30 years is useless because it is an intentionally low-ball figure that doesn't give us any useful information abut the estimated stresses in the fault lines.
And yet predicting California is 'next' in line for a major quake is useless as well.
1) California is always 'on the brink' of another major quake, just like Alaska, Japan and even Chile.
2) Knowing that a major quake will happen 'some day in the somewhat near future' is worthless unless everyone in California is supposed to live each day as if it is the day of the big quake.
3) California has known about the potential earthquakes for a long time and have integrated the possibilities into their building codes and other public policies. All they need to do now is wait for someone to be right about which prediction is closest to the actual day of the anticipated event.
This is just more FUD being generated by Microsoft's shills.
And though it's intended effect is to tarnish Google's image/brand consumers really don't give a shit. They're going to buy an Android phone if they want one despite any copyright issues or what could turn out to be platform propaganda.
I think this is W7P's first shot across Android bow.
How is this company even worth $12 billion? Seriously, even first post at half off coupons aren't worth that.
It's not worth the money. We'll just have to wait for a Groupon link to the 'IPO Deal' where we can get 10 shares for the price of 4 if we buy them the day after tomorrow.
Ok, capitalism, blah, blah, blah... but can anybody tell me WHY are companies allowed to buy other companies?
Economies of scale should result in lower consumer prices (in theory), combined management, operations, IT, etc saves money, etc etc. If you want a world where companies can't buy other companies then we'll have a bunch of companies that go out of business. For example, YouTube could never make a profit if it had to pay for its own servers & bandwidth requirements. Piggybacking on Google it can and does generate a profit.
Send a message to a hitman saying "kill X and I will send you the results of any race horse of your choice". How's that for not being able to go back and kill your grandfather?
Just hope that someone else doesn't send a message back in time to kill the horse.
Oh, please. The MPAA is far too evil and closed-minded to ever get any consideration for this. The MPAA would still be viewed with suspicion if they donated a dollar to a homeless person or a million dollars to an orphanage. And by 'donated' I mean 'gave without suing them afterwards for depriving the MPAA of revenue that they believe was rightfully theirs'.
...and why couldn't I go back and not screw up my first-ever first post?
Because it's not going to be magic, it's just going to be a time machine.
It's a trap!
If it's not it soon will be once I start uploading Uwe Boll movies under the title "The Tunnel: Director's Cut" ;-)
Google isn't solely made and used for distributing copyrighted content illegally. IsoHunt, as well as The Pirate Bay, is.
The Mob isn't exclusively used for selling counterfeit goods, so I guess they're not guilty of it?
Claiming Google isn't doing anything illegal but isoHunt is because it's all they do is crap. It's just that isoHunt doesn't have the deep pockets of a Google, Bing or Yahoo. If the MPAA thought they could win they'd be suing the big search engines too.
It's much easier to just add the sites to their blocked list than implement a throttling system.
Extra Extra! Apple may or may not be including something that has been previously rumored in their next iPhone! Won't somebody think of the children??
Isn't this the version that 200-line patch was slated for?
I'm pretty sure that's what "automatic process grouping" is.
I think there's a big difference between trying to support IE 6 - a very old browser - and the entire IE bowser platform. I don't think it's realistic to ignore IE 9 (or 7 or 8 for the foreseeable future).
if you are one of the 9% of Slashdot readers who actually uses IE.
I think that says it all...
Even though that sounds like a small percentage (and it kind of is) web developers cannot afford to ignore 9% (1 of 11) visitors to their sites.
I'm impressed with the work, but it's still a little glitchy, slower to load and just not as blazing fast as Chrome.
And yet those of us who do web development and/or have clients who do will need to support it with CSS & javascript patches just like every other major browser on the market.
That is very cool. I'll have that song stuck in my head for the rest of the night.
...when the iPad 3 is coming out in the fall?
<sarcasm>But, but, can't I buy both? Why should I be forced to choose? Who makes these crazy rules governing what I can or can't buy relating to an iPad?</sarcasm>