The new connector itself is pure rumor. So they don't publish the specs on a rumored connector of a product they haven't even announced or given any clear indication it will exist at all ? Some days it really feel like all Apple Haters and Fanboys are like teenagers gossiping about their favorite star.
gratis on contract that's like unlimited data up to 500Mb, unlimited 1500 SMS, free call after connection fee,... If you want to make price comparison, either compare the sim-free version or the total cost of contract. Otherwise, hey my bank offered my mobile phone for free with an extra 6GBP cashback. I just had to show my credit card at the shop and type the 4 digit number my bank sent me.
Credit Rating measure you capacity and willingness. From an investor point of view it does not really matter if you are not paying off your debt because you can't or because you don't want.
That is the most difficult pairing you can make unfortunately. Either you put the vet as the driver and the junior will simply not follow or get bored. Or you let the junior drive and then it becomes a dictation. In both case, the junior brain shut down and it relies on what's written/dictated and stop thinking for himself.
You want junior dev to struggle a bit on their own so they have the opportunity to evaluate various options. That process is enhanced in pair with another junior developer. Immediate feedback from a more senior dev is in my experience slowing the learning process and killing the creativity of the junior.
Just go back and focus on just the fact that Groklaw present properly and forget the pro-Samsung bias of their opinion. The whole trial was a circus. The judge did not do a bad job at all. She did a crappy job if you happen to side with either Samsung or Apple.
Both companies have used weird tactics that happen to be legal only because they are sometime done in good faith. Remember, that is highly paid whole team of very experienced, very expensive lawyer with unlimited budget. All the little, "was late", "were not aware", "thought it was ok", "mistake",... is just bullshit, plain calculated risks. This whole affair makes the chewbacca defense look like an actual legal strategy in the US.
There is plenty of stuff that are not working in EU as they do in the US, however/. is a US centric site and therefore focus on the not working part of the US and what is better outside. EU centric sites do the opposite.
Try to think for yourself. If you just want the warm feeling that the US is the best place in the world and nobody else does anything better, just open the TV news channel lined up with you existing opinion and shut down your critical thinking.
Exactly this. Apple should win against Samsung and Google should win against Apple. Banning both Samsung and Apple products in the US at the same time would be the perfect wake up call.
Think of all the women that see their husband/boyfriend showing in public with 7" tablet in their pant's pockets. Seeing how Apple is fashion conscious, I would not be surprised if they made sure that an hypothetical iPad mini just barely does not fit.
Just like anything about Apple, people make up rumor based on what the rest of the market is doing or past behavior. Every year there have been rumor of an iPad mini and before phone with XL screen like the Galaxy were successful there were rumor of iPhone nano.
Sure I like a good piece of tech gossip, but analysis based on opinions about rumors that will inevitably end up in ePenis fight between Android and Apple fanboys are getting tiring.
How that would make all the other companies in the sector that also have a bs patents portfolio but chose to cross license it instead ? We were told/sold in the past that big companies only got patent to defend themselves - you know, for the greater good. That is false, they use their patent portfolio to intimidate (cross license or we sue) and raise the barrier of entry in the market.(better not enter our market until you can pay the ticket in)
Since Apple has started suing other companies instead of cross-licensing like a good boy, it seems that there are lawsuits left and right between all the big players.
In/. parlance, that makes a flamebait, not a troll.
High level exec would have known of the coming IPO. Most of those who planned to leave have probably delayed their departure until after the IPO.
In other sectors it is common to have departure at all levels after the bonus, not really because they think that the bonus sucks, just because "you don't quit before bonus time". That is not really a proof of anything at all.
For a lot of people not on holiday, you have it reversed: they probably spend 10-12 hours a day on a computer screen and half an hour reading a book while commuting. E-Ink is useful for power reader, reading book for hours rather than watching TV or browsing internet after works - if they were anywhere close to being the majority, the world would be a very different place.
You probably tried the game very early after it was released. Now the gold AH is literally filled with cheap stuff. Only the very best item is really expensive (i.e. several millions). My wife and I faced the same difficulties you were having in Hell. We spent something like 50K gold and 1 hour digging in the AH and we were good to go until Act 4. It costed a bit more to get inferno level gear, but currently the most expensive piece of kit I have is about 30K and it is going alright through Act 2. That is much that I would have expected remembering D2.
Every decision after that became suspect. The drop rates, the difficulty levels, even the layouts of the maps. Everything can (and has been) designed to push people towards the RMT AH. They have a direct economic incentive to do so.
And yet they took decision that undermine RM AH significantly. In the gold AH, the 10 auctions max, 38 hours minimum wait time, means that you need a lot of time to extract maximum value from your loot. That means that you can find lots of cheap ( = 50K gold and below) that are dumped on the AH all the time. Inflation on good objects (the ones you need to kill diablo in inferno) is quite limited - I spent less than 100K gold to be fully geared for inferno act 1 and 2, that is a quantity of gold that you get by playing normally through the game (didn't do any farming, never used the AH until Act 3 hell)
You only need the real money AH to buy the very very best objects in the game, but there is really no gameplay need. Blizzard could have done a lot more if they really wanted to drive people to the real money AH.
Let me clarify further: Diablo 3 is an extremely shitty game that not only is overpriced by about 3x, but then seeks to monetize even further with it's online crapola.
Diablo 3 is almost the same as Diablo 2 pre-LoD with better graphics and a gameplay rebalanced toward more casual players than hardcore one:
- No need to spend 40+ hours to try a new build.
- An gold auction house (i.e. game money, not real $) to buy high level object without excessive grinding or spending hours in forum to find price, descriptions and reliable vendors.
Of course the guy still playing Diablo 2 today, Diablo 3 will feel dumbed down and "no elitist" enough. I played Diablo 2 as an obsessive gamer student. I appreciate that now that I work and have a family, Diablo 3 allows me (and my wife) to access high level of content without spending unreasonable amount of time. If the compromised is some pissed gold farmer and hardcore player - that's a good trade to me.
There are other cheaper great game out there like torchlight. But let's also be clear, most people complaining about the price of the game have spent 100+ hours on it. That makes it far cheaper than a lot of other activities.
It is reasonable to complain about the always-on connection - but really, in 2012, that is more a question of principle than a real constraint.
That is indeed a question of principle. Lots of consumer regulation are not (should not be) thought with the business in mind, but with the customer in mind. You cannot sell dangerous product, make false advertisement, lie in the ingredient list, and... you cannot profit from your product resale. There is no point arguing if this is good for business or not, that is beside the point.
Of course, we may open the discussion if first sale doctrine is still actually relevant, but the profit margin of game studio and there relatively insignificant impact on economy compared to cars and house market and nobody seem to complain about those ones.
Apparently yes... every time the community is in shock and upset. Half the comment so far are replying to this stupid and weak post.
Wake up, this is just an evolution of the "First Post" troller that found a new way to have the/. community actively react to their post again. This is a troll, this is not an genuine opinion, not a MS shill (let's be serious for a moment), the author probably does not give a shit about MS or Android or Apple, he is just a troll that gets his kick at all the outrage he caused on/.
If you do that also with movies, music and tv, you end up wondering why the movies/games/music studio are so upset with pirating. Since I stopped pirating, I gradually stopped consuming - not by lack of fund, just by lack of exposure. Then by lack of time once you found what to do in your free time. I have become much worse than a pirate: I'm so little interested in their stuff that I won't even spend 5min to get it for free.
All of that result in something called social peace that is great for both the rich and the poor. That is a lot more enjoyable to be rich in a country that you can actually enjoy fully, with people and employee you can reasonably trust.
"hardship" as in going back 300 years and telling the native american that creating the US will be "hardship" at first but eventually one of the greatest country on earth will emerge.
Seriously, there is a deep and fundamental disconnect between the society you describe and today society. Today society is not even aspiring to the things you describe. It seeks to maximise profit, even in countries like China and Russia. In the US/EU there are stories to scare children about the consequences of not being a hardworker. And then, technically, the vast majority of the money is actually debt that need to be repaid with interest - status quo (working less to do the same) is defaulting on your debt at some point. So yeah, winter is coming. Hopefully, not my generation. Hopefully not my children generation.
There is no shortage if you do not want to buy the high-end. When you lower the screen size, everything else in the mobile in scaled down: screen quality, CPU, memory, features,... I would not mind buying a 4in Galaxy SIII. (you know an actual little brother of the S3, not some weird sibling labelled Galaxy only for marketing reasons)
At least, unlike sofware and business process, a lot of money is invested in research to know what gene does what and that knowledge has actual value for the society. Unfortunately, once it is known, there is no competitive advantage to have found it: anybody can produce test or other stuff based on it.
If you want such fundamental research to happen you either need to give the private company that does it some way to recover the cost (like patents) or you fund it. Government funding is not as popular nowadays as it was 50 years ago and other mechanisms than patent are even worse (government license, custom regulations,...)
Lot of people do their website in WordPress or similar which contain a wysiwyg editor. Similarly, for large website, the information is created using a variety of tools, and not straight in HTML. Web designers use stuff like dreamweaver. Only web developer develop HTML by hand, and even then, they mostly design HTML shells and templates, with the real content pumped from the database or some other system.
Granted, the gp example is not the best, but there is a parallel: it is not the 90's and although the web forces everybody to use HTML and CSS to publish on the web, only the the tiny minority of the content producer will ever even look (or know) what HTML or CSS look like.
You are weakening your own argument - what did you really expect ? You could have waited 5 min and found one of the countless examples of multithreading being unambiguously useful.
Is torrenting video the best example you can come up with ? That is like, a hood extractor in the kitchen is great to smoke without getting the pot smell all around the house.
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The new connector itself is pure rumor. So they don't publish the specs on a rumored connector of a product they haven't even announced or given any clear indication it will exist at all ? Some days it really feel like all Apple Haters and Fanboys are like teenagers gossiping about their favorite star.
S3 gratis on contract
gratis on contract that's like unlimited data up to 500Mb, unlimited 1500 SMS, free call after connection fee, ... If you want to make price comparison, either compare the sim-free version or the total cost of contract. Otherwise, hey my bank offered my mobile phone for free with an extra 6GBP cashback. I just had to show my credit card at the shop and type the 4 digit number my bank sent me.
Credit Rating measure you capacity and willingness. From an investor point of view it does not really matter if you are not paying off your debt because you can't or because you don't want.
That is the most difficult pairing you can make unfortunately. Either you put the vet as the driver and the junior will simply not follow or get bored. Or you let the junior drive and then it becomes a dictation. In both case, the junior brain shut down and it relies on what's written/dictated and stop thinking for himself.
You want junior dev to struggle a bit on their own so they have the opportunity to evaluate various options. That process is enhanced in pair with another junior developer. Immediate feedback from a more senior dev is in my experience slowing the learning process and killing the creativity of the junior.
Just go back and focus on just the fact that Groklaw present properly and forget the pro-Samsung bias of their opinion. The whole trial was a circus. The judge did not do a bad job at all. She did a crappy job if you happen to side with either Samsung or Apple.
Both companies have used weird tactics that happen to be legal only because they are sometime done in good faith. Remember, that is highly paid whole team of very experienced, very expensive lawyer with unlimited budget. All the little, "was late", "were not aware", "thought it was ok", "mistake", ... is just bullshit, plain calculated risks. This whole affair makes the chewbacca defense look like an actual legal strategy in the US.
There is plenty of stuff that are not working in EU as they do in the US, however /. is a US centric site and therefore focus on the not working part of the US and what is better outside. EU centric sites do the opposite.
Try to think for yourself. If you just want the warm feeling that the US is the best place in the world and nobody else does anything better, just open the TV news channel lined up with you existing opinion and shut down your critical thinking.
Exactly this. Apple should win against Samsung and Google should win against Apple. Banning both Samsung and Apple products in the US at the same time would be the perfect wake up call.
Think of all the women that see their husband/boyfriend showing in public with 7" tablet in their pant's pockets. Seeing how Apple is fashion conscious, I would not be surprised if they made sure that an hypothetical iPad mini just barely does not fit.
Just like anything about Apple, people make up rumor based on what the rest of the market is doing or past behavior. Every year there have been rumor of an iPad mini and before phone with XL screen like the Galaxy were successful there were rumor of iPhone nano.
Sure I like a good piece of tech gossip, but analysis based on opinions about rumors that will inevitably end up in ePenis fight between Android and Apple fanboys are getting tiring.
Some people are even actively mocking that state of affair: http://day4.se/how-we-screwed-almost-the-whole-apple-community/
How that would make all the other companies in the sector that also have a bs patents portfolio but chose to cross license it instead ? We were told/sold in the past that big companies only got patent to defend themselves - you know, for the greater good. That is false, they use their patent portfolio to intimidate (cross license or we sue) and raise the barrier of entry in the market.(better not enter our market until you can pay the ticket in)
Since Apple has started suing other companies instead of cross-licensing like a good boy, it seems that there are lawsuits left and right between all the big players. In /. parlance, that makes a flamebait, not a troll.
High level exec would have known of the coming IPO. Most of those who planned to leave have probably delayed their departure until after the IPO.
In other sectors it is common to have departure at all levels after the bonus, not really because they think that the bonus sucks, just because "you don't quit before bonus time". That is not really a proof of anything at all.
For a lot of people not on holiday, you have it reversed: they probably spend 10-12 hours a day on a computer screen and half an hour reading a book while commuting. E-Ink is useful for power reader, reading book for hours rather than watching TV or browsing internet after works - if they were anywhere close to being the majority, the world would be a very different place.
You probably tried the game very early after it was released. Now the gold AH is literally filled with cheap stuff. Only the very best item is really expensive (i.e. several millions). My wife and I faced the same difficulties you were having in Hell. We spent something like 50K gold and 1 hour digging in the AH and we were good to go until Act 4. It costed a bit more to get inferno level gear, but currently the most expensive piece of kit I have is about 30K and it is going alright through Act 2. That is much that I would have expected remembering D2.
Every decision after that became suspect. The drop rates, the difficulty levels, even the layouts of the maps. Everything can (and has been) designed to push people towards the RMT AH. They have a direct economic incentive to do so.
And yet they took decision that undermine RM AH significantly. In the gold AH, the 10 auctions max, 38 hours minimum wait time, means that you need a lot of time to extract maximum value from your loot. That means that you can find lots of cheap ( = 50K gold and below) that are dumped on the AH all the time. Inflation on good objects (the ones you need to kill diablo in inferno) is quite limited - I spent less than 100K gold to be fully geared for inferno act 1 and 2, that is a quantity of gold that you get by playing normally through the game (didn't do any farming, never used the AH until Act 3 hell)
You only need the real money AH to buy the very very best objects in the game, but there is really no gameplay need. Blizzard could have done a lot more if they really wanted to drive people to the real money AH.
Let me clarify further: Diablo 3 is an extremely shitty game that not only is overpriced by about 3x, but then seeks to monetize even further with it's online crapola.
Diablo 3 is almost the same as Diablo 2 pre-LoD with better graphics and a gameplay rebalanced toward more casual players than hardcore one:
- No need to spend 40+ hours to try a new build.
- An gold auction house (i.e. game money, not real $) to buy high level object without excessive grinding or spending hours in forum to find price, descriptions and reliable vendors.
Of course the guy still playing Diablo 2 today, Diablo 3 will feel dumbed down and "no elitist" enough. I played Diablo 2 as an obsessive gamer student. I appreciate that now that I work and have a family, Diablo 3 allows me (and my wife) to access high level of content without spending unreasonable amount of time. If the compromised is some pissed gold farmer and hardcore player - that's a good trade to me.
There are other cheaper great game out there like torchlight. But let's also be clear, most people complaining about the price of the game have spent 100+ hours on it. That makes it far cheaper than a lot of other activities.
It is reasonable to complain about the always-on connection - but really, in 2012, that is more a question of principle than a real constraint.
Suck it the hell up.
That is indeed a question of principle. Lots of consumer regulation are not (should not be) thought with the business in mind, but with the customer in mind. You cannot sell dangerous product, make false advertisement, lie in the ingredient list, and ... you cannot profit from your product resale. There is no point arguing if this is good for business or not, that is beside the point.
Of course, we may open the discussion if first sale doctrine is still actually relevant, but the profit margin of game studio and there relatively insignificant impact on economy compared to cars and house market and nobody seem to complain about those ones.
You all really do think we're stupid, huh?
Apparently yes ... every time the community is in shock and upset. Half the comment so far are replying to this stupid and weak post.
Wake up, this is just an evolution of the "First Post" troller that found a new way to have the /. community actively react to their post again. This is a troll, this is not an genuine opinion, not a MS shill (let's be serious for a moment), the author probably does not give a shit about MS or Android or Apple, he is just a troll that gets his kick at all the outrage he caused on /.
If you do that also with movies, music and tv, you end up wondering why the movies/games/music studio are so upset with pirating. Since I stopped pirating, I gradually stopped consuming - not by lack of fund, just by lack of exposure. Then by lack of time once you found what to do in your free time. I have become much worse than a pirate: I'm so little interested in their stuff that I won't even spend 5min to get it for free.
All of that result in something called social peace that is great for both the rich and the poor. That is a lot more enjoyable to be rich in a country that you can actually enjoy fully, with people and employee you can reasonably trust.
At first, there will be hardship.
"hardship" as in going back 300 years and telling the native american that creating the US will be "hardship" at first but eventually one of the greatest country on earth will emerge.
Seriously, there is a deep and fundamental disconnect between the society you describe and today society. Today society is not even aspiring to the things you describe. It seeks to maximise profit, even in countries like China and Russia. In the US/EU there are stories to scare children about the consequences of not being a hardworker. And then, technically, the vast majority of the money is actually debt that need to be repaid with interest - status quo (working less to do the same) is defaulting on your debt at some point. So yeah, winter is coming. Hopefully, not my generation. Hopefully not my children generation.
There is no shortage if you do not want to buy the high-end. When you lower the screen size, everything else in the mobile in scaled down: screen quality, CPU, memory, features, ... I would not mind buying a 4in Galaxy SIII. (you know an actual little brother of the S3, not some weird sibling labelled Galaxy only for marketing reasons)
At least, unlike sofware and business process, a lot of money is invested in research to know what gene does what and that knowledge has actual value for the society. Unfortunately, once it is known, there is no competitive advantage to have found it: anybody can produce test or other stuff based on it.
If you want such fundamental research to happen you either need to give the private company that does it some way to recover the cost (like patents) or you fund it. Government funding is not as popular nowadays as it was 50 years ago and other mechanisms than patent are even worse (government license, custom regulations, ...)
Lot of people do their website in WordPress or similar which contain a wysiwyg editor. Similarly, for large website, the information is created using a variety of tools, and not straight in HTML. Web designers use stuff like dreamweaver. Only web developer develop HTML by hand, and even then, they mostly design HTML shells and templates, with the real content pumped from the database or some other system.
Granted, the gp example is not the best, but there is a parallel: it is not the 90's and although the web forces everybody to use HTML and CSS to publish on the web, only the the tiny minority of the content producer will ever even look (or know) what HTML or CSS look like.
You are weakening your own argument - what did you really expect ? You could have waited 5 min and found one of the countless examples of multithreading being unambiguously useful.
Is torrenting video the best example you can come up with ? That is like, a hood extractor in the kitchen is great to smoke without getting the pot smell all around the house.