Don't forget the "its a rounded square" patent, gotta love that one. WTF do you think you are gonna make a tablet shaped like? A triangle? You kinda have to build those things around the screen which is...drumroll...a rounded square!
sadly as we have seen with GMOs they WILL get around this, soon i wouldn't be surprised if people's DNA ended up covered by patents. Our entire patent and copyright system is royally fucked and needs to be tossed out and a new system built from the ashes because this one? All it does is reward entrenched multinationals who have the money to keep a law dept just for trolling. in the end i believe Apple, MSFT, and Google (with a locked down TiVo'ed Android) will split the web between them, and Monstanto will own anything biological. I have seen the future folks, and its some scary shit let me tell you. Hope you can become one of the top 5% because otherwise you are SOL.
Except the DON'T have a say, unless they say what the corps want! Look at Maine, where the ones counting the votes for rep handed them over only to watch the numbers magically change until Romney won. there are a ton of Youtube videos of the guys that actually were in charge saying 'That's not the numbers we handed them, they are not even close and we told them that" but do you see an investigation into rigging? any screaming by the MSM? Nope, not a chance.
I'm sorry friend but the game is rigged, if it looked like someone who wasn't a shill was gonna win the votes would just disappear down a rathole. Don't think it could happen? look up the history of LBJ where they rigged the election so that he could be elected to congress. Hell in Chicago Mickey mouse and several dead mobsters voted in the last election!
I have to say i find Oakgout to be pretty damned funny AND sad at the same time because of all the people to accuse of being the same person? hell we aren't even in the same time zone! We are as opposite as opposite can be but it DOES serve to illustrate what kind of madness is going on inside his head, as its a classic case of "Persecution syndrome" where they get it in their heads that "They MUST be after me, I'm too dangerous, that's what it is! I know THE TRUTH and they are out to get me for it!"
While I have to laugh at the sheer batshit lunacy of it all the sad part is one day he'll just disappear off of here and we'll not know why, when in reality he'll have hurt someone or himself and been locked away. That is what i think happened to our last resident crazy BTW, I think old Twitter succumbed to his madness and probably hurt somebody and is now in jail or a padded room, damned sad, hate to see anybody get THAT batshit.
Now if you'll excuse me I gotta go look at the tiger sales, my business has been so good lately that after i fix up my dad with a new router I'm gonna pick out my oldest a new Hexacore kit. He is so excited as this will be the first time he has the #1 PC in the family, as its even faster than my hexacore. But I figured that I have been #1, his little bro has been #1, now its his turn. Already got him an HD4850 ($50 at Geeks BTW, great cards and dirt cheap) and when I slap that Hexacore together he is gonna chew through SW:TOR like shit through a goose. BTW the hexacore kit is like $300 after MIR, really sweet deal and I have to say i fricking LOVE my hexacore, that bad boy rips a DVD to AVI in less than 14 minutes flat, just gotta love it. be sure to laugh at Oakgrout for me LOL Peace.
Where EXACTLY did you see myself or anyone in this thread say that "It's good, but I feel bad admitting that" or anything similar? And I'm sorry but it DOES ruin entire genres because like the iPhone the corps only look at "how much it can be like a Bay movie" instead of "Is this good action? A good story? IS it sellable?" PLEASE watch the review I linked to because what you are using is the exact. same. excuse that he answers in the video, the "Dude, everything doesn't have to be art, I just want to turn my brain off and watch robots fight" and he answers that by pointing out all the different ways that it fails in even this simple task of making a robot fighting movie by suddenly having a bunch of dudebros that haven't been seen EVER before and who the audience don't give a shit about suddenly show up and take over. As he put it it would be like in the third act of Dark Knight suddenly the marines show up and say "Yo Batman, step aside bro and let the REAL heroes handle it".
In the end its insulting, the story is crap,and even the supposed "stars" of the movie and the whole damned reason anybody goes to see a fucking transformers movie is shoved off stage for most of the fights so bay can dry hump the pentagon with more propaganda "rah rah US military!" bullshit. You can make a GOOD dumb action movie and you can make an absolute shite on a moldy roll action movie and Bay's tripe is firmly in the latter. Hell I'd put him right up there with Lucas on giving the audience the finger and refusing to even give the audience what they came for, which in the case of TF3 is robots beating the shit out of each other. want a good movie with robots fighting watch Real Steel, its actually good.
Sorry friend but Apple doesn't have a prayer, and here is why: Jobs made it VERY clear years ago he had no desire to sell to the "poor unwashed' and that has carried over to this very day. I just recently sold yet another monster Windows PC, you know how much it cost INCLUDING my profit margin, which wasn't light? $520. That's it, for SIX cores, EIGHT gigs of RAM, 500Gb HDD, DVD Burner and Win 7 HP X64. Now you can't even get a machine half that powerful for $1000 in Apple land and that is how they LIKE it. Now frankly it doesn't matter if YOU think its cheap, the average person in America is making around $37k, don't take my word for it BTW, ask those you are in line with at the grocery store or the bank what they make a year, most will be happy to tell you. When you make $37k or less you simply aren't gonna spend a grand on an underpowered machine and NO the iPad can't replace the desktop for a good 85% of the population and NO the iPhone don't cut it either, as there is always ONE application they consider a "must have" that don't run on Apple, be it Quicken/QB, the app that came with their printer, hell I even have one customer I had to keep a NOS 2GHz PC running for as he slowly converted from Xres to Corel Draw.
Look I'm not saying Apple is bad for this, in fact I'd argue its a damned smart move. look at what happened when Porsche tried to sell a Camaro priced Boxster, it damned near killed the company as it killed the "cool" factor of owning a Porsche. If you could buy an Apple desktop for the same price i can whip off a monster, or even for roughly the same price you can get one at HP or Dell THEN you might have a point. But that will never ever happen friend and you know this.
In the end da Feet can tell you the future, just let me dig out my crystal ball.....OEMs demand Win 7 downgrade rights, MSFT caves to keep them from bolting to Android or buying their own Linux distros, Win 8 fizzles on tablets but nobody cares because Windows 7 is supported until 2020 and moreover "just works" with all their stuff so to Joe consumer nothing has changed. In fact all Win 8 has done is made guys like me more money as consumers get spooked and have me build a monster so they can ride out the Win 8 crapfest without needing a new PC. In fact I've done well enough that after I get done setting up my dad's new router tomorrow I'm buying a new 6 core for the oldest to go with the quad i just built for the youngest. I figured with one on Hexacore and the other on quad I and myself on hexacore we can just ride out Win 8 while still gaming and having a great old time. Don't worry about us MSFT, you keep pushing that cell phone UI, and i'll keep making money off those that don't want it, deal?
You know what that M$ shit makes you sound like? This guy that's what. you could post the most insightful exposition on the current state of MSFT in the software arena but 90%+ aren't even gonna see it because they see M$ and think "Douchenozzle fanboi" and walk right on past. There are plenty of abbreviations that are NOT from 1993, use MS, MSFT MSoft, whatever but the stupid M$ bit hasn't been applicable since DOS died in 1999. Eat some fruit, get some sun, quit acting like a douche, kay?
As for TFA duh! To use a/. car analogy do you think Ford would want their employees using company funds to buy Chevys? hell no, its called supporting your company and eating your own dog food. What they do with their OWN money is nobody's business, what they do with company funds very much IS the business of the company.
Sadly friend you have described the "busted shitter dilemma" which many have run into and simply didn't know it. I think if everyone would accept that name, which I believe perfectly sums up the problem, then at least the community would know WHY things simply don't work, even if they will never fix them.
You see the very name of the thing describes why you can't fix it, with the GPL model you simply can't make money on the desktop, they've tried everything from proprietary bits (Xandros) to selling hardware (gOS and Canonical) to selling "membership privileges" (Mandriva and Linspire) and none of it works. And what the community simply fails to grasp is human nature. Humans will create new things (1 and 4 on your list) because that is FUN, its exciting, humans are naturally creative creatures and so will do this for free. What they will NOT do is shitty thankless work like documenting, regression testing, spending ages conforming their already made program to a UI standard, bug testing, as I said for every single creative job you need done there is 100 that is about as fun and exciting as being the guy that cleans the puke at the chuck E Cheese. does the community HONESTLY think they could get someone to clean their turd filled busted shitter for free? of course not yet the entire premise of making Linux into a desktop depends on thousands of completely unpaid volunteers doing just that, wasting years of their lives on boring, lousy, dreary, thankless work.
Oh and for the one that complained about my commas, I was told I needed to cut back on commas so damned if you do and all that. But it does make for a good example, as since i'm typing this for free i'm certainly not gonna waste time looking for every possible punctuation error,and the community expects someone is gonna write ALL those docs, which is a long, slow, boring job that good doc writers get paid damned good money to do for...what? Someone to say "What? oh yeah thanks"? Not gonna happen. Hell I would argue that writing the docs ought to be a job that even the non coders could do and yet you still can't get them done. What makes you think you're gonna get those jobs where it takes years of schooling and experience to even be qualified to attempt it and that are gonna take years to complete, like a new driver model or rock solid sound subsystem? Not gonna happen.
Because MSFT cut them a HONKING fat check and Google wouldn't pay them shit?
Lets cut through the bullshit and FUD, okay? the problem is NOT WinPhone, the problem is Ballmer is as shitty a CEO as the fucking Pepsi guy was at Apple and if it wasn't for the sacred trilogy of Windows, Office, and the X360 (which they are now making a couple a billion a year on) he would have completely killed the company and now he is gonna torpedo the first and most sacred of the trilogy because he has such a fucking hard on for Apple he probably has an iPad under his pillow.
Here is the problem with WinPhone in a nutshell...it ain't Windows. that's it, Ballmer has no damned clue what to do with anything that he can't shove his "Win Live 3.0.NET Cloud Zure Home Edition" branding onto and in mobile that shit just ain't gonna work. They could make WinPhone a hit tomorrow simply by spinning off the company, renaming it Metro and have NOTHING of the Windows branding anywhere near it. Instead first they had WinMo, which had a teeny tiny start menu which made NO damned sense, then WinPhone which they covered in Windows branding trying to fool the customer into thinking it had something to do with Windows 7, but instead it just confused people, and finally you're gonna have Windows 8 ARM which will have the Windows name but won't run Windows programs....can you smell that? This stench of death and fail that is leaking from the MSFT mobile division like the fetid air surrounding a porta potty at a chili cookoff?
The only nice thing I can say about Windows mobile "strategy" is maybe it'll finally get that sweaty idiot fired, I mean nobody has had the sheer mind numbing stupidity to fuck with the sacred cows, especially not Windows, and here is hoping that taking a big dump on the Windows brand will be the final straw that gets the shareholders to chunk his dumb ass. ARM IS NOT X86 okay MSFT? Quit trying to tie the Windows branding which has fuck all to do with ARM into the mobile branding! Either accept you are the new IBM, with mature and stable markets and just kick back and enjoy that monthly visit from the money truck or bite the damned bullet already, spin off mobile so they aren't bogged down by 30+ years of Windows, let them dump the windows brand and innovate. Because I bet if you handed people a nice Nokia smartphone and said "Here try the new metro phone' they would probably like it, but when you tie the Windows brand into it they immediately start thinking "Why would I want Windows on my phone?" which of course they don't, so they pass you by. When you spin them off spend about 100 million of that assload of cash you are sitting on to buy some of the top mobile game and application houses and have them be metro phone exclusives, so you'll have some apps that aren't just the same old shit, who knows you may get lucky and have them make the next angry birds. But all you are doing now is pissing money down a rat hole MSFT, hell even little shop owners like me could do better than what you are doing, its a strategy that stinks of failure and desperation and that don't sell handsets!
I have shown Metro and even let them play with the thing to over 200 customers now, average folks like Suzy the checkout girl and Brian the backhoe operator and you know what? THEY HATE IT. Not just unfamilar, not just unsure, but HATE IT and want nothing to do with it! Now folks I have had just about every alpha and beta of Windows since Win2K and I have NEVER gotten that kind of response ever, not even with WinME or Vista. With ME they thought it looked nice...until it BSODed of course (stupid mixing of VXD and WDM drivers!) and with Vista they thought it looked "cool"...until they saw how damned slow it was on the then current hardware, but this? they fucking HATE it, they loathe it, they have NO desire to run it, in fact here is the closest i got to a "compliment" for Metro, by a LOL customer named Ms Pipkin: "Why that's a nice looking cell phone picture...is that Android? I hear that's nice...what do you mean Windows? Windows what? Why that is stupid! Why do I want a cell phone on my computer?"
You know they are fucked when the only questions I got about win 8 wasn't any of the ones before like "How does it run?" or "Does the stuff I use run on it?" but instead "But YOU can still get me Windows 7 if I need another one, right? You got some source, right?". Hell I wish I could find the video again from the little Yahoo shill girl, they give her any crap product and she is always "You should buy it! Buy it now! No seriously you should go out and buy it now!" and when they gave her Windows 8 her video was "Uhhhh...maybe you should wait until you get something with touch before you buy Windows 8? Yeah that's what you should do, buy a tablet and THEN buy Windows 8!" which for her is "My eyes! The goggles they do nothing!". I mean that's fricking sad when the girl that got giddy over a universal remote can't even muster enough perky to shill for your product and has this kind of...lost and confused look on her face through the entire video, damn it was funny!
This is what always amazed me about the paper tigers, they would have all this book smarts but simple problem solving was like giving a chimp a wrench and expecting him to build an atom bomb. How one could be so highly intelligent in acquiring the knowledge but so damned shitty at actually applying it is beyond me, but I literally had better luck with grabbing some college kid that had been working at Geek Squad than some of the paper tigers. Sure they didn't know the technical names for some thing but if you gave them a problem they didn't just stand there sniffing their own farts, they went and researched the problem, learned how to fix the problem, then went ahead and did it. You'd think basic logic flow and troubleshooting would be so damned obvious but I guess not, because some of these yo-yos i couldn't even trust to install a NIC card without fucking shit up.
The average commute in my area is 45-60 miles each way, and it rains about 1/3rd of the year. wanna rethink that position? That might work in AZ or NM, but it sure as hell won't work in states like AR, LA, or MS.
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Se...well I'd say transformers 3 but pretty much anything Bay does if he can squeeze in some muscle bound dudebros in camo he is sooo going for it. I have to agree with Movie Bob over at Zero Punctuation that Bay likes to dry hump the Pentagon WAY too damned much.
I'm sure I'll get cursed for pointing out the emperor's winkie is flapping in the breeze but I'll be happy to answer that, its the "busted shitters" that frankly ruin Linux. oh Linux is a nice IDEA, kinda like how communism with everyone taking care of everyone else for the betterment of all is a nice idea, it just doesn't really work in practice.
For examples there is the docs that are at best an arcane list of CLI commands with fuck all explanation of what they are or at worst a "to do" placeholder, there is Pulseaudio which even the strongest Linux advocate will get the shivers just thinking about, there is the broken driver model which causes things that don't SEEM to be connected to seriously fuck each other up, which seems to hit pulse worse than most but wireless gets shat on frequently as well, there is the insane release schedule which obviously gives the developers ZERO time for regression testing or QA, not that they are gonna do that shit for free anyway, there are the bugs that have been around for years and will obviously NEVER be fixed, please see any distro bug trackers for quite a few, there is the badly inconsistent UI which I would argue is caused by developers just being itch scratchers since they aren't getting paid and therefor don't have to give a fuck what you think, therefor some programs behave like Windows, with Win hotkeys and Win layouts, many rip off Mac horribly which is fucking sad because OSX is a APPLICATION BASED NOT WINDOWS BASED therefor ripping it off for an OS based on Windows (the document format not the OS) makes no fucking sense, and finally there is the old school Unix conventions just to throw the occasional curveball, and finally there is the leaning on CLI as a crutch, whereas in OSX or Win 7 one could remove the CLI completely and have a 100% functional OS that I would argue more than 95% of the population would never even notice CLI was removed with Linux thanks to its actually being a server OS and NOT a desktop OS at heart if you remove CLI you've completely destroyed the OS and many distros won't even boot.
Now cue the nutjobs who will swear I'm secretly a M$ Ninja robot built by Cyberdyne and plugged into a computer under Redmond, coming off as nothing more than total losers when the simple fact is you can't change reality and numbers don't lie. To get Linux up to the same level as OSX and Windows will require north of 100 million dollars because NOBODY and I do mean NOBODY is gonna take on the above problems i named, because it will take years of boring as fuck lousy shitty work that nobody willl do for free which is the essence of the busted shitter dilemma. You see you can get humans to create for free, because we like to do this, what you can NOT get humans to do is come fix that turd filled busted overflowing crapper stinking up the joint for nothing and for every creative job that needs doing you have 100 that are the equivalent of the guy that cleans up the puke at the Chuck E Cheese.
Apple and MSFT have to pay millions upon millions of dollars to get their own busted shitters fixed, which is why you can take a bog standard desktop, install XP/Vista/7 RTM, update it through all those patches and service packs and have ALL the drivers 100% functional. Its not magic, its millions of dollars spent on regression testing and working with OEMs and first party drivers and a shitload of hard nasty thankless work that ends up with something people take for granted. With Linux because of all those busted shitters the support costs will bankrupt you which is why we retailers won't carry your product. I have several XP machines that have been in the field for over 8 years bug free, in fact the machine I'm typing this on is a circa 2004 AMD Sempron still running the default XP install that I kept when a customer traded it in because it was so low powered and quiet it made for a great nettop. Compare this to Linux where I've tried LTS to LTS, LTS to regular, and regular to regular and have YET to
But you are missing the point, Bay puts out schlock, schlock makes an assload of money, next year we are ass deep in schlock and any movie with a brain is screwed because it doesn't look like Bay schlock. Its like how we were practically buried for a time in what i call "Yo dudebro, guns" movies. The ones were the trailers always start off 'In a world', such as 'In a world without law, one man with bigger muscles and even bigger guns will tip the scales'. Try watching this review as it will help you to understand.
Poor Billy, he's gonna be stuck with that dumb quote that ain't even his forever. I wonder how many times a year he gets asked about that thing? Its like poor old Robert Wuhl who bitches that he did Batman and all this other stuff and to this day what do people ask him when they meet him on the street? "Hey can you still fart Volare?" that quote is Billy's Volare hell I wouldn't be surprised if his gravestone said 'I never said anything about 640k dammit!"
Insightful? Really? Have we met? Hi this is the USA the most sue happy place on earth! if you don't have every damned thing with a bazillion pages of lawyerese full of CYA and you have MSFT money? Prepare to have you ass hit harder than a Bangkok whore on coupon day. like it or not the laws are written by lawyers who naturally want more business. you don't dot them Is or cross them Ts then SOMEBODY will nail your ass if you got cash, and MSFT has got cash. I bet if you look at Apple and Google business contracts they are just as long, simply for CYA reasons, its just how we roll here like it or not.
And since when can MSFT not sell what it wants to who it wants? if I own a company I can decide to sell to Joe but not to Bob, as long as i'm not doing it because of race/creed/religion/etc so if I am friends with joe and want to give him a better deal WTF is it any of bob's business? if he don't like the terms he is welcome to talk to Apple or build his own Linux. I am getting so damned tired of this "Waah we don't like the way you do business so we should get to do what we want waaah!" bullshit. you want the product, you pay what the owner says to pay, don't like it? Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
I have a question: How do you keep the scummy people from ruining it? Because the few times I've ridden on public transport in the USA its been like riding on a prison bus only worse because the prison bus at least has armed guards. We are talking junkies, nuts, filthy hobos, real scum of the fucking earth on those things, yet I hear in the EU your buses are clean and actually pleasant to ride on, so how do you do it?
The problem is simply this.....electric cars don't work, they aren't economically feasible ATM. Even with government subsidies the Volt is over $40,000 and i bet if you look the biggest use of gasoline is the working poor who sure as hell can't afford to get rid of that 99 Explorer they have paid for for some vehicle that costs $40k and will need the $17k+ batteries replaced in less than 7 years without the vehicle being stowed in a garage (which most poor don't got).
And please don't bring up public transport because 1.-in many areas like pretty much the entire rural states it simply doesn't exist and wouldn't be economically feasible to build, and 2.-Buses quickly become overrun with the scummiest of the scum so nobody wants to ride them. i know in my home state I'd rather ride on a prison bus than take public transport, at least the prison bus has armed guards.
so you are looking at a couple of choices, you 1.-pay trillions in taxes to give the masses electric cars AND you pay trillions to replace the batteries they can't afford when they die, or 2.-you pay trillions for public transport AND trillions more in both security and in keeping lines in rural areas open. Since neither of these will actually be possible thanks to the states being broke and the majority of a certain party signing Grover Norquist's 'No new taxes on teh rich EVAR!" pledge I simply do not see how non fossil fuels are suppose to replace boots on the ground in either the short OR the medium term. Doesn't mean we shouldn't be paying for research, after all some scientist may come up with a super cheap battery tech that will make it work, but right now the math just doesn't compute, sorry.
Sure you can friend, come to AR! here we have hollows up the butt where the wind whips like a mother, and with a depressed economy we'll be happy to tear shit down left and right! Rich folks don't want that shit, bring it to us, we bust our asses and are cheap too! Why these companies don't come to the south where folks are more than willing to work with them without all that NIMBY shit I'll never know, but you want wind come to the Ozarks, its wind city!
Question: Do you think the games made you a better shot? I have often wondered this, as i have noticed my shooting scores have gone up after playing FPSes, its like I can judge spatial relations a little better after blasting away for a few hours. Of course I've never shot anything bigger than.44 Magnum so i don't know if it would be the same with say a Ma deuce (always wanted to fire one of those) but I would assume the result would be similar.
Are you kidding? One of the R candidates for president has tied his entire campaign to....drumroll....keeping adults from watching porn! Yep, because with American boys dying for corps in hellholes and our country bleeding jobs and having a dead economy THAT is the issue, worrying about whether or not joe and jane public can see a blowjob.
Let's face it folks, if you are vote you are just wasting your time as the whole thing is now nothing more than a puppet show. anybody who gets a chance at national office has been bought and paid for by the corps so all they are gonna do is pander until they get elected and then kiss the ring of the multinationals. As the late great Bill Hicks said so many years ago "I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well I believe the puppet on the right has my interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there is one guy controlling BOTH puppets!" and that is all we get, like pro wrestling, its just a puppet show to make the masses feel they have a say which of course they don't. When you have a former congressman like Chris Dodd go on national TV and OPENLY BRAG about serious crimes like bribery? and nothing gets done and the POTUS even ignores the will of the people and refuses to prosecute? give it up, the game is over, just grab as much as you can before the whole thing falls down.
I want that new Mechwarrior game from Smith and Tinker, hell I want someone to release the code for the old MW games so i can get the damned things to run on X64 Win 7! Man I miss those things, i use to make those Shadowcat twerps soooo damned pissed. i had my mech stripped down to the bare metal and loaded up with nothing but the biggest fucking guns it would hold. No lasers, no missiles, no jumpjets or heatsinks, just really big fucking cannons. I only got one shot but wooo mama, i hit you and it was all over, anything smaller than an assault was tofu and even the assault and heavy would be hurting. I had 6 guys I played with and we had it set up like the big blue blanket of WWII, mine and another big gun taking the place of the carriers, 3 mediums covering our sides and back, and a light in the front for early warning and harassment, man that was fun.
But this looks like battlebots NOT mechs, mechs you climb into. Now personally I'd love to see a REAL mech battle but i bet the insurance alone would kill any chance of getting it off the ground. Well that and when a couple of contestants lost body parts i doubt you'd get anybody who wanted to compete anymore.
You entire premise makes no sense, why does one need to JUTIFY as you put it anything? if you want justification how about for the harm it does to society which i already pointed out? Or how about treating others with decency and respect will often get YOU treated with decency and respect in return? How about common fucking sense? Do they not exist in your world? Apparently not, since you just seem to be incapable of even picturing a world where we don't need sky bullies to live decent lives. BTW have you stoned an adulterer today? your book says you should, you are disobeying your God if you do not, and that is a sin, so have you? This is one thing i give the Muslims credit for, at least they do follow their own book. Christians treat the bible like a salad bar, a little of this, a little of that, i can understand why as it allows your mullahs to justify anything they want the sheep to do.
But your entire premise is frankly absurd, the desire for a decent life has nothing to do with a sky bully, its simply a part of the general population, just as we love to feel creative and we like to feel loved. its simply a part of who we are and nobody needs a fucking book to tell them bashing somebody's head in isn't nice, because unless you are a sicko it doesn't make you feel good to do such a thing. And I can give you example after example of sickos in EVERY religion showing again doesn't have a damned thing to do with a sky bully, just some are born with a head full of bad wiring, that's all.
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Don't forget the "its a rounded square" patent, gotta love that one. WTF do you think you are gonna make a tablet shaped like? A triangle? You kinda have to build those things around the screen which is...drumroll...a rounded square!
sadly as we have seen with GMOs they WILL get around this, soon i wouldn't be surprised if people's DNA ended up covered by patents. Our entire patent and copyright system is royally fucked and needs to be tossed out and a new system built from the ashes because this one? All it does is reward entrenched multinationals who have the money to keep a law dept just for trolling. in the end i believe Apple, MSFT, and Google (with a locked down TiVo'ed Android) will split the web between them, and Monstanto will own anything biological. I have seen the future folks, and its some scary shit let me tell you. Hope you can become one of the top 5% because otherwise you are SOL.
Except the DON'T have a say, unless they say what the corps want! Look at Maine, where the ones counting the votes for rep handed them over only to watch the numbers magically change until Romney won. there are a ton of Youtube videos of the guys that actually were in charge saying 'That's not the numbers we handed them, they are not even close and we told them that" but do you see an investigation into rigging? any screaming by the MSM? Nope, not a chance.
I'm sorry friend but the game is rigged, if it looked like someone who wasn't a shill was gonna win the votes would just disappear down a rathole. Don't think it could happen? look up the history of LBJ where they rigged the election so that he could be elected to congress. Hell in Chicago Mickey mouse and several dead mobsters voted in the last election!
I have to say i find Oakgout to be pretty damned funny AND sad at the same time because of all the people to accuse of being the same person? hell we aren't even in the same time zone! We are as opposite as opposite can be but it DOES serve to illustrate what kind of madness is going on inside his head, as its a classic case of "Persecution syndrome" where they get it in their heads that "They MUST be after me, I'm too dangerous, that's what it is! I know THE TRUTH and they are out to get me for it!"
While I have to laugh at the sheer batshit lunacy of it all the sad part is one day he'll just disappear off of here and we'll not know why, when in reality he'll have hurt someone or himself and been locked away. That is what i think happened to our last resident crazy BTW, I think old Twitter succumbed to his madness and probably hurt somebody and is now in jail or a padded room, damned sad, hate to see anybody get THAT batshit.
Now if you'll excuse me I gotta go look at the tiger sales, my business has been so good lately that after i fix up my dad with a new router I'm gonna pick out my oldest a new Hexacore kit. He is so excited as this will be the first time he has the #1 PC in the family, as its even faster than my hexacore. But I figured that I have been #1, his little bro has been #1, now its his turn. Already got him an HD4850 ($50 at Geeks BTW, great cards and dirt cheap) and when I slap that Hexacore together he is gonna chew through SW:TOR like shit through a goose. BTW the hexacore kit is like $300 after MIR, really sweet deal and I have to say i fricking LOVE my hexacore, that bad boy rips a DVD to AVI in less than 14 minutes flat, just gotta love it. be sure to laugh at Oakgrout for me LOL Peace.
Where EXACTLY did you see myself or anyone in this thread say that "It's good, but I feel bad admitting that" or anything similar? And I'm sorry but it DOES ruin entire genres because like the iPhone the corps only look at "how much it can be like a Bay movie" instead of "Is this good action? A good story? IS it sellable?" PLEASE watch the review I linked to because what you are using is the exact. same. excuse that he answers in the video, the "Dude, everything doesn't have to be art, I just want to turn my brain off and watch robots fight" and he answers that by pointing out all the different ways that it fails in even this simple task of making a robot fighting movie by suddenly having a bunch of dudebros that haven't been seen EVER before and who the audience don't give a shit about suddenly show up and take over. As he put it it would be like in the third act of Dark Knight suddenly the marines show up and say "Yo Batman, step aside bro and let the REAL heroes handle it".
In the end its insulting, the story is crap,and even the supposed "stars" of the movie and the whole damned reason anybody goes to see a fucking transformers movie is shoved off stage for most of the fights so bay can dry hump the pentagon with more propaganda "rah rah US military!" bullshit. You can make a GOOD dumb action movie and you can make an absolute shite on a moldy roll action movie and Bay's tripe is firmly in the latter. Hell I'd put him right up there with Lucas on giving the audience the finger and refusing to even give the audience what they came for, which in the case of TF3 is robots beating the shit out of each other. want a good movie with robots fighting watch Real Steel, its actually good.
Sorry friend but Apple doesn't have a prayer, and here is why: Jobs made it VERY clear years ago he had no desire to sell to the "poor unwashed' and that has carried over to this very day. I just recently sold yet another monster Windows PC, you know how much it cost INCLUDING my profit margin, which wasn't light? $520. That's it, for SIX cores, EIGHT gigs of RAM, 500Gb HDD, DVD Burner and Win 7 HP X64. Now you can't even get a machine half that powerful for $1000 in Apple land and that is how they LIKE it. Now frankly it doesn't matter if YOU think its cheap, the average person in America is making around $37k, don't take my word for it BTW, ask those you are in line with at the grocery store or the bank what they make a year, most will be happy to tell you. When you make $37k or less you simply aren't gonna spend a grand on an underpowered machine and NO the iPad can't replace the desktop for a good 85% of the population and NO the iPhone don't cut it either, as there is always ONE application they consider a "must have" that don't run on Apple, be it Quicken/QB, the app that came with their printer, hell I even have one customer I had to keep a NOS 2GHz PC running for as he slowly converted from Xres to Corel Draw.
Look I'm not saying Apple is bad for this, in fact I'd argue its a damned smart move. look at what happened when Porsche tried to sell a Camaro priced Boxster, it damned near killed the company as it killed the "cool" factor of owning a Porsche. If you could buy an Apple desktop for the same price i can whip off a monster, or even for roughly the same price you can get one at HP or Dell THEN you might have a point. But that will never ever happen friend and you know this.
In the end da Feet can tell you the future, just let me dig out my crystal ball.....OEMs demand Win 7 downgrade rights, MSFT caves to keep them from bolting to Android or buying their own Linux distros, Win 8 fizzles on tablets but nobody cares because Windows 7 is supported until 2020 and moreover "just works" with all their stuff so to Joe consumer nothing has changed. In fact all Win 8 has done is made guys like me more money as consumers get spooked and have me build a monster so they can ride out the Win 8 crapfest without needing a new PC. In fact I've done well enough that after I get done setting up my dad's new router tomorrow I'm buying a new 6 core for the oldest to go with the quad i just built for the youngest. I figured with one on Hexacore and the other on quad I and myself on hexacore we can just ride out Win 8 while still gaming and having a great old time. Don't worry about us MSFT, you keep pushing that cell phone UI, and i'll keep making money off those that don't want it, deal?
You know what that M$ shit makes you sound like? This guy that's what. you could post the most insightful exposition on the current state of MSFT in the software arena but 90%+ aren't even gonna see it because they see M$ and think "Douchenozzle fanboi" and walk right on past. There are plenty of abbreviations that are NOT from 1993, use MS, MSFT MSoft, whatever but the stupid M$ bit hasn't been applicable since DOS died in 1999. Eat some fruit, get some sun, quit acting like a douche, kay?
As for TFA duh! To use a /. car analogy do you think Ford would want their employees using company funds to buy Chevys? hell no, its called supporting your company and eating your own dog food. What they do with their OWN money is nobody's business, what they do with company funds very much IS the business of the company.
Sadly friend you have described the "busted shitter dilemma" which many have run into and simply didn't know it. I think if everyone would accept that name, which I believe perfectly sums up the problem, then at least the community would know WHY things simply don't work, even if they will never fix them.
You see the very name of the thing describes why you can't fix it, with the GPL model you simply can't make money on the desktop, they've tried everything from proprietary bits (Xandros) to selling hardware (gOS and Canonical) to selling "membership privileges" (Mandriva and Linspire) and none of it works. And what the community simply fails to grasp is human nature. Humans will create new things (1 and 4 on your list) because that is FUN, its exciting, humans are naturally creative creatures and so will do this for free. What they will NOT do is shitty thankless work like documenting, regression testing, spending ages conforming their already made program to a UI standard, bug testing, as I said for every single creative job you need done there is 100 that is about as fun and exciting as being the guy that cleans the puke at the chuck E Cheese. does the community HONESTLY think they could get someone to clean their turd filled busted shitter for free? of course not yet the entire premise of making Linux into a desktop depends on thousands of completely unpaid volunteers doing just that, wasting years of their lives on boring, lousy, dreary, thankless work.
Oh and for the one that complained about my commas, I was told I needed to cut back on commas so damned if you do and all that. But it does make for a good example, as since i'm typing this for free i'm certainly not gonna waste time looking for every possible punctuation error,and the community expects someone is gonna write ALL those docs, which is a long, slow, boring job that good doc writers get paid damned good money to do for...what? Someone to say "What? oh yeah thanks"? Not gonna happen. Hell I would argue that writing the docs ought to be a job that even the non coders could do and yet you still can't get them done. What makes you think you're gonna get those jobs where it takes years of schooling and experience to even be qualified to attempt it and that are gonna take years to complete, like a new driver model or rock solid sound subsystem? Not gonna happen.
Because MSFT cut them a HONKING fat check and Google wouldn't pay them shit?
Lets cut through the bullshit and FUD, okay? the problem is NOT WinPhone, the problem is Ballmer is as shitty a CEO as the fucking Pepsi guy was at Apple and if it wasn't for the sacred trilogy of Windows, Office, and the X360 (which they are now making a couple a billion a year on) he would have completely killed the company and now he is gonna torpedo the first and most sacred of the trilogy because he has such a fucking hard on for Apple he probably has an iPad under his pillow.
Here is the problem with WinPhone in a nutshell...it ain't Windows. that's it, Ballmer has no damned clue what to do with anything that he can't shove his "Win Live 3.0 .NET Cloud Zure Home Edition" branding onto and in mobile that shit just ain't gonna work. They could make WinPhone a hit tomorrow simply by spinning off the company, renaming it Metro and have NOTHING of the Windows branding anywhere near it. Instead first they had WinMo, which had a teeny tiny start menu which made NO damned sense, then WinPhone which they covered in Windows branding trying to fool the customer into thinking it had something to do with Windows 7, but instead it just confused people, and finally you're gonna have Windows 8 ARM which will have the Windows name but won't run Windows programs....can you smell that? This stench of death and fail that is leaking from the MSFT mobile division like the fetid air surrounding a porta potty at a chili cookoff?
The only nice thing I can say about Windows mobile "strategy" is maybe it'll finally get that sweaty idiot fired, I mean nobody has had the sheer mind numbing stupidity to fuck with the sacred cows, especially not Windows, and here is hoping that taking a big dump on the Windows brand will be the final straw that gets the shareholders to chunk his dumb ass. ARM IS NOT X86 okay MSFT? Quit trying to tie the Windows branding which has fuck all to do with ARM into the mobile branding! Either accept you are the new IBM, with mature and stable markets and just kick back and enjoy that monthly visit from the money truck or bite the damned bullet already, spin off mobile so they aren't bogged down by 30+ years of Windows, let them dump the windows brand and innovate. Because I bet if you handed people a nice Nokia smartphone and said "Here try the new metro phone' they would probably like it, but when you tie the Windows brand into it they immediately start thinking "Why would I want Windows on my phone?" which of course they don't, so they pass you by. When you spin them off spend about 100 million of that assload of cash you are sitting on to buy some of the top mobile game and application houses and have them be metro phone exclusives, so you'll have some apps that aren't just the same old shit, who knows you may get lucky and have them make the next angry birds. But all you are doing now is pissing money down a rat hole MSFT, hell even little shop owners like me could do better than what you are doing, its a strategy that stinks of failure and desperation and that don't sell handsets!
I have shown Metro and even let them play with the thing to over 200 customers now, average folks like Suzy the checkout girl and Brian the backhoe operator and you know what? THEY HATE IT. Not just unfamilar, not just unsure, but HATE IT and want nothing to do with it! Now folks I have had just about every alpha and beta of Windows since Win2K and I have NEVER gotten that kind of response ever, not even with WinME or Vista. With ME they thought it looked nice...until it BSODed of course (stupid mixing of VXD and WDM drivers!) and with Vista they thought it looked "cool"...until they saw how damned slow it was on the then current hardware, but this? they fucking HATE it, they loathe it, they have NO desire to run it, in fact here is the closest i got to a "compliment" for Metro, by a LOL customer named Ms Pipkin: "Why that's a nice looking cell phone picture...is that Android? I hear that's nice...what do you mean Windows? Windows what? Why that is stupid! Why do I want a cell phone on my computer?"
You know they are fucked when the only questions I got about win 8 wasn't any of the ones before like "How does it run?" or "Does the stuff I use run on it?" but instead "But YOU can still get me Windows 7 if I need another one, right? You got some source, right?". Hell I wish I could find the video again from the little Yahoo shill girl, they give her any crap product and she is always "You should buy it! Buy it now! No seriously you should go out and buy it now!" and when they gave her Windows 8 her video was "Uhhhh...maybe you should wait until you get something with touch before you buy Windows 8? Yeah that's what you should do, buy a tablet and THEN buy Windows 8!" which for her is "My eyes! The goggles they do nothing!". I mean that's fricking sad when the girl that got giddy over a universal remote can't even muster enough perky to shill for your product and has this kind of...lost and confused look on her face through the entire video, damn it was funny!
This is what always amazed me about the paper tigers, they would have all this book smarts but simple problem solving was like giving a chimp a wrench and expecting him to build an atom bomb. How one could be so highly intelligent in acquiring the knowledge but so damned shitty at actually applying it is beyond me, but I literally had better luck with grabbing some college kid that had been working at Geek Squad than some of the paper tigers. Sure they didn't know the technical names for some thing but if you gave them a problem they didn't just stand there sniffing their own farts, they went and researched the problem, learned how to fix the problem, then went ahead and did it. You'd think basic logic flow and troubleshooting would be so damned obvious but I guess not, because some of these yo-yos i couldn't even trust to install a NIC card without fucking shit up.
The average commute in my area is 45-60 miles each way, and it rains about 1/3rd of the year. wanna rethink that position? That might work in AZ or NM, but it sure as hell won't work in states like AR, LA, or MS.
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Se...well I'd say transformers 3 but pretty much anything Bay does if he can squeeze in some muscle bound dudebros in camo he is sooo going for it. I have to agree with Movie Bob over at Zero Punctuation that Bay likes to dry hump the Pentagon WAY too damned much.
I'm sure I'll get cursed for pointing out the emperor's winkie is flapping in the breeze but I'll be happy to answer that, its the "busted shitters" that frankly ruin Linux. oh Linux is a nice IDEA, kinda like how communism with everyone taking care of everyone else for the betterment of all is a nice idea, it just doesn't really work in practice.
For examples there is the docs that are at best an arcane list of CLI commands with fuck all explanation of what they are or at worst a "to do" placeholder, there is Pulseaudio which even the strongest Linux advocate will get the shivers just thinking about, there is the broken driver model which causes things that don't SEEM to be connected to seriously fuck each other up, which seems to hit pulse worse than most but wireless gets shat on frequently as well, there is the insane release schedule which obviously gives the developers ZERO time for regression testing or QA, not that they are gonna do that shit for free anyway, there are the bugs that have been around for years and will obviously NEVER be fixed, please see any distro bug trackers for quite a few, there is the badly inconsistent UI which I would argue is caused by developers just being itch scratchers since they aren't getting paid and therefor don't have to give a fuck what you think, therefor some programs behave like Windows, with Win hotkeys and Win layouts, many rip off Mac horribly which is fucking sad because OSX is a APPLICATION BASED NOT WINDOWS BASED therefor ripping it off for an OS based on Windows (the document format not the OS) makes no fucking sense, and finally there is the old school Unix conventions just to throw the occasional curveball, and finally there is the leaning on CLI as a crutch, whereas in OSX or Win 7 one could remove the CLI completely and have a 100% functional OS that I would argue more than 95% of the population would never even notice CLI was removed with Linux thanks to its actually being a server OS and NOT a desktop OS at heart if you remove CLI you've completely destroyed the OS and many distros won't even boot.
Now cue the nutjobs who will swear I'm secretly a M$ Ninja robot built by Cyberdyne and plugged into a computer under Redmond, coming off as nothing more than total losers when the simple fact is you can't change reality and numbers don't lie. To get Linux up to the same level as OSX and Windows will require north of 100 million dollars because NOBODY and I do mean NOBODY is gonna take on the above problems i named, because it will take years of boring as fuck lousy shitty work that nobody willl do for free which is the essence of the busted shitter dilemma. You see you can get humans to create for free, because we like to do this, what you can NOT get humans to do is come fix that turd filled busted overflowing crapper stinking up the joint for nothing and for every creative job that needs doing you have 100 that are the equivalent of the guy that cleans up the puke at the Chuck E Cheese.
Apple and MSFT have to pay millions upon millions of dollars to get their own busted shitters fixed, which is why you can take a bog standard desktop, install XP/Vista/7 RTM, update it through all those patches and service packs and have ALL the drivers 100% functional. Its not magic, its millions of dollars spent on regression testing and working with OEMs and first party drivers and a shitload of hard nasty thankless work that ends up with something people take for granted. With Linux because of all those busted shitters the support costs will bankrupt you which is why we retailers won't carry your product. I have several XP machines that have been in the field for over 8 years bug free, in fact the machine I'm typing this on is a circa 2004 AMD Sempron still running the default XP install that I kept when a customer traded it in because it was so low powered and quiet it made for a great nettop. Compare this to Linux where I've tried LTS to LTS, LTS to regular, and regular to regular and have YET to
But you are missing the point, Bay puts out schlock, schlock makes an assload of money, next year we are ass deep in schlock and any movie with a brain is screwed because it doesn't look like Bay schlock. Its like how we were practically buried for a time in what i call "Yo dudebro, guns" movies. The ones were the trailers always start off 'In a world', such as 'In a world without law, one man with bigger muscles and even bigger guns will tip the scales'. Try watching this review as it will help you to understand.
Poor Billy, he's gonna be stuck with that dumb quote that ain't even his forever. I wonder how many times a year he gets asked about that thing? Its like poor old Robert Wuhl who bitches that he did Batman and all this other stuff and to this day what do people ask him when they meet him on the street? "Hey can you still fart Volare?" that quote is Billy's Volare hell I wouldn't be surprised if his gravestone said 'I never said anything about 640k dammit!"
Insightful? Really? Have we met? Hi this is the USA the most sue happy place on earth! if you don't have every damned thing with a bazillion pages of lawyerese full of CYA and you have MSFT money? Prepare to have you ass hit harder than a Bangkok whore on coupon day. like it or not the laws are written by lawyers who naturally want more business. you don't dot them Is or cross them Ts then SOMEBODY will nail your ass if you got cash, and MSFT has got cash. I bet if you look at Apple and Google business contracts they are just as long, simply for CYA reasons, its just how we roll here like it or not.
And since when can MSFT not sell what it wants to who it wants? if I own a company I can decide to sell to Joe but not to Bob, as long as i'm not doing it because of race/creed/religion/etc so if I am friends with joe and want to give him a better deal WTF is it any of bob's business? if he don't like the terms he is welcome to talk to Apple or build his own Linux. I am getting so damned tired of this "Waah we don't like the way you do business so we should get to do what we want waaah!" bullshit. you want the product, you pay what the owner says to pay, don't like it? Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
plus another 8 open from SoFurry
Ya know, we probably could have done without that particular piece of information, just sayin.
I have a question: How do you keep the scummy people from ruining it? Because the few times I've ridden on public transport in the USA its been like riding on a prison bus only worse because the prison bus at least has armed guards. We are talking junkies, nuts, filthy hobos, real scum of the fucking earth on those things, yet I hear in the EU your buses are clean and actually pleasant to ride on, so how do you do it?
The problem is simply this.....electric cars don't work, they aren't economically feasible ATM. Even with government subsidies the Volt is over $40,000 and i bet if you look the biggest use of gasoline is the working poor who sure as hell can't afford to get rid of that 99 Explorer they have paid for for some vehicle that costs $40k and will need the $17k+ batteries replaced in less than 7 years without the vehicle being stowed in a garage (which most poor don't got).
And please don't bring up public transport because 1.-in many areas like pretty much the entire rural states it simply doesn't exist and wouldn't be economically feasible to build, and 2.-Buses quickly become overrun with the scummiest of the scum so nobody wants to ride them. i know in my home state I'd rather ride on a prison bus than take public transport, at least the prison bus has armed guards.
so you are looking at a couple of choices, you 1.-pay trillions in taxes to give the masses electric cars AND you pay trillions to replace the batteries they can't afford when they die, or 2.-you pay trillions for public transport AND trillions more in both security and in keeping lines in rural areas open. Since neither of these will actually be possible thanks to the states being broke and the majority of a certain party signing Grover Norquist's 'No new taxes on teh rich EVAR!" pledge I simply do not see how non fossil fuels are suppose to replace boots on the ground in either the short OR the medium term. Doesn't mean we shouldn't be paying for research, after all some scientist may come up with a super cheap battery tech that will make it work, but right now the math just doesn't compute, sorry.
Sure you can friend, come to AR! here we have hollows up the butt where the wind whips like a mother, and with a depressed economy we'll be happy to tear shit down left and right! Rich folks don't want that shit, bring it to us, we bust our asses and are cheap too! Why these companies don't come to the south where folks are more than willing to work with them without all that NIMBY shit I'll never know, but you want wind come to the Ozarks, its wind city!
Question: Do you think the games made you a better shot? I have often wondered this, as i have noticed my shooting scores have gone up after playing FPSes, its like I can judge spatial relations a little better after blasting away for a few hours. Of course I've never shot anything bigger than .44 Magnum so i don't know if it would be the same with say a Ma deuce (always wanted to fire one of those) but I would assume the result would be similar.
Are you kidding? One of the R candidates for president has tied his entire campaign to....drumroll....keeping adults from watching porn! Yep, because with American boys dying for corps in hellholes and our country bleeding jobs and having a dead economy THAT is the issue, worrying about whether or not joe and jane public can see a blowjob.
Let's face it folks, if you are vote you are just wasting your time as the whole thing is now nothing more than a puppet show. anybody who gets a chance at national office has been bought and paid for by the corps so all they are gonna do is pander until they get elected and then kiss the ring of the multinationals. As the late great Bill Hicks said so many years ago "I believe the puppet on the left shares MY beliefs, well I believe the puppet on the right has my interests at heart...hey wait a minute, there is one guy controlling BOTH puppets!" and that is all we get, like pro wrestling, its just a puppet show to make the masses feel they have a say which of course they don't. When you have a former congressman like Chris Dodd go on national TV and OPENLY BRAG about serious crimes like bribery? and nothing gets done and the POTUS even ignores the will of the people and refuses to prosecute? give it up, the game is over, just grab as much as you can before the whole thing falls down.
I want that new Mechwarrior game from Smith and Tinker, hell I want someone to release the code for the old MW games so i can get the damned things to run on X64 Win 7! Man I miss those things, i use to make those Shadowcat twerps soooo damned pissed. i had my mech stripped down to the bare metal and loaded up with nothing but the biggest fucking guns it would hold. No lasers, no missiles, no jumpjets or heatsinks, just really big fucking cannons. I only got one shot but wooo mama, i hit you and it was all over, anything smaller than an assault was tofu and even the assault and heavy would be hurting. I had 6 guys I played with and we had it set up like the big blue blanket of WWII, mine and another big gun taking the place of the carriers, 3 mediums covering our sides and back, and a light in the front for early warning and harassment, man that was fun.
But this looks like battlebots NOT mechs, mechs you climb into. Now personally I'd love to see a REAL mech battle but i bet the insurance alone would kill any chance of getting it off the ground. Well that and when a couple of contestants lost body parts i doubt you'd get anybody who wanted to compete anymore.
You entire premise makes no sense, why does one need to JUTIFY as you put it anything? if you want justification how about for the harm it does to society which i already pointed out? Or how about treating others with decency and respect will often get YOU treated with decency and respect in return? How about common fucking sense? Do they not exist in your world? Apparently not, since you just seem to be incapable of even picturing a world where we don't need sky bullies to live decent lives. BTW have you stoned an adulterer today? your book says you should, you are disobeying your God if you do not, and that is a sin, so have you? This is one thing i give the Muslims credit for, at least they do follow their own book. Christians treat the bible like a salad bar, a little of this, a little of that, i can understand why as it allows your mullahs to justify anything they want the sheep to do.
But your entire premise is frankly absurd, the desire for a decent life has nothing to do with a sky bully, its simply a part of the general population, just as we love to feel creative and we like to feel loved. its simply a part of who we are and nobody needs a fucking book to tell them bashing somebody's head in isn't nice, because unless you are a sicko it doesn't make you feel good to do such a thing. And I can give you example after example of sickos in EVERY religion showing again doesn't have a damned thing to do with a sky bully, just some are born with a head full of bad wiring, that's all.