I don't believe that all religious people are stupid per se, but it is obviously a human trait to invent invisible or visible friends/masters for themselves, otherwise we wouldn't have so many religions. The fact that so many religions conflict with each others' beliefs show that at least some of them must be made up, or if they're all real, that some gods are just lying bastards that you shouldn't worship.
This isn't about the internet. It's just basic human behaviour. Look at religion for an example of the same types of thinking for the last few thousand years. Any time one of the basic beliefs of a religion is proven false, they either route around it or ignore it.
The summary is talking about using a general solution (tablet) for gaming.
As for gaming boxes being "poorly equipped to be a general solution", the PS3 and Xbox are like an iPad on steroids. They are very powerful and had app stores before the iPhone even existed. They're very well equipped, it's just that Sony and MS probably don't want their games consoles eating into the PC market. In Sony's case they would lose out on hardware sales, in MS' case they'd lose out on Windows/Office sales..
Rock Band games could still be "the thing" if they didn't oversaturate the market, and pump out expensive new peripherals (that you need if you want to get the full features of the game) each generation.
Hype will brew sure, but mobile games won't just die away after the hype has died down (same as Rock Band will probably still be going in a couple of years time, even if Activision have done their best to destroy Guitar Hero). The market has always been there, just that a lot of people were stuck playing "Snake".
I suspect the iPad 2 is more powerful than the Apple TV. Why would that be your "console"? And if you think there's a big market for board games on PC then.. oh, why do I even bother..
How can you be sure that they can't see the data though? Even if their current server software can't, what's to stop them changing the system so that it's possible? I'm not the tinfoil hat type, as in our company has BBs and I doubt anyone would even be interested in out email, but I always find that claim that RIM can't see the mails a little silly..
All smartphones can do that these days.. my winmo phone could do it 6 years ago, and my Android can do it now, as long as the server supports push functionality.
How was their security any better than an Exchange https connection? People always go on about Blackberry security being amazing, but I just don't see it, for exactly the reasons you say and more. If you're relying on 3rd party servers, you run the risk of them selling out, being hacked, going bankrupt and someone seizing their servers, etc.
Don't see how the security is any better than a direct https link between Exchage and your phone. Going through 3rd party servers means plenty of risk of exploits in future even if things are fine just now. The best thing they have going for them is their cheap international roaming costs IMO.
There are no translations available or I'd buy them. It's a book about Parkour by David Belle.. I'm just interested in basic history and his opinions rather than flowery language or whatever. If there is much discussion of technique it might be really hard to understand though - I auto-translated a French tutorial on rolling before, and it would just read as gibberish to someone who didn't already have a good idea of the technique.
Definitely, weirdly I was wondering this afternoon if Goggles can already do OCR and translation on full pages of text.. I have a French book that I'd love to read, but I have basically no French!
Not really. I would asume it doesn't magcally become a standard 800 pixel wide display in 2D mode. Each eye will still only see a 400 pixels wide display, but each will show the same image.
Sure, Psychology is a very interesting subject that is useful for understanding many things in life, but how does a generic English degree help a soldier? And are you serious about Physicists not understanding the Scientific Method? We were taught it in high school.
Well, yes. A lot of what I know about computing is self taught from a lifetime of interest in programming. I taught myself to play drums and guitar from books or online resources. I only pursued a degree because I knew that employers tend to find that kind of thing important.
Here in Scotland, education is very cheap, and you don't even have to pay off your student loans unless you are currently earning above a certain threshold. You could be a perpetual student if that's your thing. I don't think it's my attitude or education system that's the problem here, it just sounds like American Unis are a rip-off.
The better way to do this is have tuition be FREE for all students that get accepted, but the university gets a % of their pay for the next 10 years or something. This would be a heavy incentive to recruit excellent students and send them into high paying fields. It would also mean that fields that are high paying for bad reasons (business stuff) would get flooded and the price would drop to more accurate levels.
That's kind of how things are done here in Scotland. We still had to pay a graduation fee (introduced the year I graduated amazingly enough:/ ), but tuition is free. We get student loans which are then paid back depending on how much we earn. While you earn under something like £14,000 a year, or after you hit 40 (I think) you don't need to pay it back.
For goodness sake it could make English the most expensive degree in the U.S.A.
And that would be the point. It's a pretty useless degree unless you're planning on becoming an English teacher. If you're planning on getting a job in journalism or creative writing for example, there are degrees tailored towards that.
WTF? I donated to that too, thought it was still ongoing. I was pretty pissed off with him for starting to hack the PS3 (getting other OS removed in the process) then dropping it. When I saw he was going to fight, I had more respect for him and donated. Seems I was right to just think of him as a douche..
Yes, that's pretty atrocious. I have an original DS and original PSP, and the PSP battery life is pretty appalling, especially when using game discs rather than downloads. I could quite easily play a game for 8 hours straight if I really had nothing better to do. In the case of any 8+ hour car trips, it would likely be me driving though.
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I don't believe that all religious people are stupid per se, but it is obviously a human trait to invent invisible or visible friends/masters for themselves, otherwise we wouldn't have so many religions. The fact that so many religions conflict with each others' beliefs show that at least some of them must be made up, or if they're all real, that some gods are just lying bastards that you shouldn't worship.
Which government or faction would have to something to gain if people believe that?
Racist bastards?
This isn't about the internet. It's just basic human behaviour. Look at religion for an example of the same types of thinking for the last few thousand years. Any time one of the basic beliefs of a religion is proven false, they either route around it or ignore it.
The summary is talking about using a general solution (tablet) for gaming.
As for gaming boxes being "poorly equipped to be a general solution", the PS3 and Xbox are like an iPad on steroids. They are very powerful and had app stores before the iPhone even existed. They're very well equipped, it's just that Sony and MS probably don't want their games consoles eating into the PC market. In Sony's case they would lose out on hardware sales, in MS' case they'd lose out on Windows/Office sales..
Rock Band games could still be "the thing" if they didn't oversaturate the market, and pump out expensive new peripherals (that you need if you want to get the full features of the game) each generation.
Hype will brew sure, but mobile games won't just die away after the hype has died down (same as Rock Band will probably still be going in a couple of years time, even if Activision have done their best to destroy Guitar Hero). The market has always been there, just that a lot of people were stuck playing "Snake".
I suspect the iPad 2 is more powerful than the Apple TV. Why would that be your "console"? And if you think there's a big market for board games on PC then.. oh, why do I even bother..
Or antivirus on the email server, pretty sure there are Linux solutions for that.
Can't say I've ever noticed that. If the font is too small I just press control and scroll the mouse wheel up (or control-plus)
Chrome is excellent on Linux. FF definitely more sluggish.
Okay, but smartphones also work on wifi! You could use push email, IM, IRC, etc if you wanted.
How can you be sure that they can't see the data though? Even if their current server software can't, what's to stop them changing the system so that it's possible? I'm not the tinfoil hat type, as in our company has BBs and I doubt anyone would even be interested in out email, but I always find that claim that RIM can't see the mails a little silly..
All smartphones can do that these days.. my winmo phone could do it 6 years ago, and my Android can do it now, as long as the server supports push functionality.
How was their security any better than an Exchange https connection? People always go on about Blackberry security being amazing, but I just don't see it, for exactly the reasons you say and more. If you're relying on 3rd party servers, you run the risk of them selling out, being hacked, going bankrupt and someone seizing their servers, etc.
Don't see how the security is any better than a direct https link between Exchage and your phone. Going through 3rd party servers means plenty of risk of exploits in future even if things are fine just now. The best thing they have going for them is their cheap international roaming costs IMO.
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It appears that there is a Facebook group where people are putting up translations of small parts of it now.
He meant "modern programmers" in his second sentence. Pretty obvious.
There are no translations available or I'd buy them. It's a book about Parkour by David Belle.. I'm just interested in basic history and his opinions rather than flowery language or whatever. If there is much discussion of technique it might be really hard to understand though - I auto-translated a French tutorial on rolling before, and it would just read as gibberish to someone who didn't already have a good idea of the technique.
Definitely, weirdly I was wondering this afternoon if Goggles can already do OCR and translation on full pages of text.. I have a French book that I'd love to read, but I have basically no French!
Not really. I would asume it doesn't magcally become a standard 800 pixel wide display in 2D mode. Each eye will still only see a 400 pixels wide display, but each will show the same image.
Sure, Psychology is a very interesting subject that is useful for understanding many things in life, but how does a generic English degree help a soldier? And are you serious about Physicists not understanding the Scientific Method? We were taught it in high school.
Well, yes. A lot of what I know about computing is self taught from a lifetime of interest in programming. I taught myself to play drums and guitar from books or online resources. I only pursued a degree because I knew that employers tend to find that kind of thing important.
Here in Scotland, education is very cheap, and you don't even have to pay off your student loans unless you are currently earning above a certain threshold. You could be a perpetual student if that's your thing. I don't think it's my attitude or education system that's the problem here, it just sounds like American Unis are a rip-off.
The better way to do this is have tuition be FREE for all students that get accepted, but the university gets a % of their pay for the next 10 years or something. This would be a heavy incentive to recruit excellent students and send them into high paying fields. It would also mean that fields that are high paying for bad reasons (business stuff) would get flooded and the price would drop to more accurate levels.
That's kind of how things are done here in Scotland. We still had to pay a graduation fee (introduced the year I graduated amazingly enough :/ ), but tuition is free. We get student loans which are then paid back depending on how much we earn. While you earn under something like £14,000 a year, or after you hit 40 (I think) you don't need to pay it back.
For goodness sake it could make English the most expensive degree in the U.S.A.
And that would be the point. It's a pretty useless degree unless you're planning on becoming an English teacher. If you're planning on getting a job in journalism or creative writing for example, there are degrees tailored towards that.
WTF? I donated to that too, thought it was still ongoing. I was pretty pissed off with him for starting to hack the PS3 (getting other OS removed in the process) then dropping it. When I saw he was going to fight, I had more respect for him and donated. Seems I was right to just think of him as a douche..
Yes, that's pretty atrocious. I have an original DS and original PSP, and the PSP battery life is pretty appalling, especially when using game discs rather than downloads. I could quite easily play a game for 8 hours straight if I really had nothing better to do. In the case of any 8+ hour car trips, it would likely be me driving though.