I don't know what you're using, but I find Spotify, Netflix, LoveFilm, and Steam way more convenient than torrenting. Their libraries aren't 100%, but they're pretty good. For the rest, I torrent or buy/rent stupid plastic discs..
Why do you think that voting for one of say 10 parties (though I think right now it's actually 2 party government) is going to help decide on really specific issues like this one? And what happens when you vote purely because of this one issue, and it turns out that you have put the next set of Nazis into power just because you chose a party that hates international relations? I'd think 99% of politicians want to keep close ties to the US.
I think you're missing the part where that's a freaking 787, and not a "flying car". That's a bit like saying driving a Bugatti Veyron is economical fine because buses are very fuel efficient when you take all the passengers into account.
Why waste time batting around terrible ideas that make you sound like a delinquent?
You mean ideas like the Earth revolves around the Sun, or we evolved from other animals? We bat around these ideas simply because they're fun thought experiments.. and in some cases maybe lead to actual interesting progress in the realm of computing.. I doubt there are many people here who really would be dickish enough to even want to break the rover though. Maybe take it for a joy ride.
I've had a couple of Kindles actually, but I prefer my tablet when indoors.
Laptops can sleep, but they take longer to wake up, won't last a couple of weeks on standby, aren't as convenient to hold, take up more space (or at least would be lot more difficult to get a decent stand for if you want it within reach but still not getting in the way), etc. Read my comment again. I've got a desktop, laptop, netbook, smartphone, tablet, and had a Kindle (it broke, it's definitely not as durable as my tablet). I generally prefer using my tablet while at home.
The thing about the "high-end" market is that cost is less of an issue. If you're paying $800 for a smartphone or tablet, you want to make sure it does what you want. You're not desperate about saving $20 (if you are, you really shouldn't be spending $800 right now).
The thing is that Apple design for the lowest common denominator. People do want to buy them. They don't really know that they're missing out on any features, so they don't care.
The only thing I like about the iPad 3 over my Xoom is the awesome display. It isn't worth putting up with iOS for though. There are full HD Android tablets out now, which would be really nice for reading ebooks - but I'm trying to resist purchasing one when my Xoom already "does the job", and is even running Jellybean..
I don't believe there actually is a tablet market. Just an iPad market. No one wants tablets, just something that makes them look cool and hip. Like everyone else.
What the hell are you talking about? As someone else said, I rarely take mine outside. When I do it's as an ebook reader for inter-city journeys, and I don't care who sees it or not.
At home I leave my tablet on my coffee table, and it's notification light flashes when I get mail or other notifications that I want to see. Handy. I can leave it there for days without charging it, yet it's ready to use immediately at the press of a button. Laptops can't match that convenience. Nor can they match the comfort of the form factor for reading. I sometimes read books on it for hours at a time. I like catching up with my YouTube subscriptions on it despite my desktop PC being hooked up to a 40" TV. Sure, nobody "needs" a tablet anymore than most people really "need" a laptop or a smartphone, but they are great devices.
I take it you've never had stress cause or exacerbate a health problem? I've had a few periods in my life where I've been massively stressed out and my hands and face break out in dry patches.
Relationship problems and breakups can give me feelings of physical pain (not really in short term ones, but with lines that have gone on for more than say 6 months). And still I can't imagine how horrible it would feel to lose someone after being married for 50 years. It's not so much a will to die, as an inability to cope with stress, which can lead to things like poor quality sleep and lowered immune system function, etc.. a positive attitude helps fight these things, so an "I don't care any more" attitude could be the difference between life and death..
Probably the survival instinct isn't quite so strong for those that have already raised their kids either.
I used to get it fairly regularly, but then I started eating more healthily. The couple of times I've had it this year have been after eating refined carbs/sugary stuff. Those foods cause inflammation and cause you to retain more water.
But the real problem issue here isn't even the buggy software IMO. It was the way the software was put into place, not monitored, and nobody was ready to just shut it off if it started going haywire. According to the article I read, Knight hadn't even noticed a problem themselves - it was pointed out to them by the stock exchange that they were doing a very high amount of trades compared to usual, and it still took them half an hour or more to shut everything down. There should have literally been a big red STOP button in place to shut things down if they went wrong.
And that's a great thing! When I'm driving, I always feel a weird pressure to be as efficient as I can, to get there as fast as possible. When I'm a passenger, I really am in no rush. An ebook reader and a good stereo are all you need to make you not care that you're being driven around by robograndma.
I'm one of the least business interested type techies you can have, but even I would know that the most important thing when doing stock exchange software is making sure that it's not doing anything retarded, and cutting it off immediately if it does. That's the type of thing that terrifies the hell out of me, and why I wouldn't really want to get involved in financial programming without a lot of supervision. Then again, maybe that means that some of the programmers who go to work for these places are idiots who don't think about consequences..
From the article I read recently, they had just put a new system into place, but they weren't even watching what it did, and had no "kill switch" in place to stop it immediately if it started acting up. Crazy. Maybe the programmers screwed up, but whoever was supervising the installation and running of the thing was a moron.
Well, while the Dunning-Kruger effect is real, maybe those 80% are having a lot less accidents than the other 20%. People don't often get pointed out for being accident free, but accidents are posted all over the news and newspapers, so no wonder people might consider themselves good drivers in this case.
Myself I've been told by a Police driving instructor while doing an advanced/defensive driving course that I was better than most police drivers (as far as the first week of their training goes - we obviously didn't go to the breaking the speed limit stage), so I can safely say it without worrying I'm misjudging;) I did have accidents where I was at fault when I was younger, but I like to think I learned my lesson, and doing the advanced driving course definitely improved my observational skills and general attitude to driving.
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I don't know what you're using, but I find Spotify, Netflix, LoveFilm, and Steam way more convenient than torrenting. Their libraries aren't 100%, but they're pretty good. For the rest, I torrent or buy/rent stupid plastic discs..
I'm pretty sure we'd still have plenty of online gaming too.
Why do you think that voting for one of say 10 parties (though I think right now it's actually 2 party government) is going to help decide on really specific issues like this one? And what happens when you vote purely because of this one issue, and it turns out that you have put the next set of Nazis into power just because you chose a party that hates international relations? I'd think 99% of politicians want to keep close ties to the US.
I think you're missing the part where that's a freaking 787, and not a "flying car". That's a bit like saying driving a Bugatti Veyron is economical fine because buses are very fuel efficient when you take all the passengers into account.
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Why waste time batting around terrible ideas that make you sound like a delinquent?
You mean ideas like the Earth revolves around the Sun, or we evolved from other animals? We bat around these ideas simply because they're fun thought experiments.. and in some cases maybe lead to actual interesting progress in the realm of computing.. I doubt there are many people here who really would be dickish enough to even want to break the rover though. Maybe take it for a joy ride.
I've had a couple of Kindles actually, but I prefer my tablet when indoors.
Laptops can sleep, but they take longer to wake up, won't last a couple of weeks on standby, aren't as convenient to hold, take up more space (or at least would be lot more difficult to get a decent stand for if you want it within reach but still not getting in the way), etc. Read my comment again. I've got a desktop, laptop, netbook, smartphone, tablet, and had a Kindle (it broke, it's definitely not as durable as my tablet). I generally prefer using my tablet while at home.
The thing about the "high-end" market is that cost is less of an issue. If you're paying $800 for a smartphone or tablet, you want to make sure it does what you want. You're not desperate about saving $20 (if you are, you really shouldn't be spending $800 right now).
The thing is that Apple design for the lowest common denominator. People do want to buy them. They don't really know that they're missing out on any features, so they don't care.
The only thing I like about the iPad 3 over my Xoom is the awesome display. It isn't worth putting up with iOS for though. There are full HD Android tablets out now, which would be really nice for reading ebooks - but I'm trying to resist purchasing one when my Xoom already "does the job", and is even running Jellybean..
I don't believe there actually is a tablet market. Just an iPad market. No one wants tablets, just something that makes them look cool and hip. Like everyone else.
What the hell are you talking about? As someone else said, I rarely take mine outside. When I do it's as an ebook reader for inter-city journeys, and I don't care who sees it or not.
At home I leave my tablet on my coffee table, and it's notification light flashes when I get mail or other notifications that I want to see. Handy. I can leave it there for days without charging it, yet it's ready to use immediately at the press of a button. Laptops can't match that convenience. Nor can they match the comfort of the form factor for reading. I sometimes read books on it for hours at a time. I like catching up with my YouTube subscriptions on it despite my desktop PC being hooked up to a 40" TV. Sure, nobody "needs" a tablet anymore than most people really "need" a laptop or a smartphone, but they are great devices.
Does that make OSX the Linux of the Windows world? What a weird analogy..
I take it you've never had stress cause or exacerbate a health problem? I've had a few periods in my life where I've been massively stressed out and my hands and face break out in dry patches.
Relationship problems and breakups can give me feelings of physical pain (not really in short term ones, but with lines that have gone on for more than say 6 months). And still I can't imagine how horrible it would feel to lose someone after being married for 50 years. It's not so much a will to die, as an inability to cope with stress, which can lead to things like poor quality sleep and lowered immune system function, etc.. a positive attitude helps fight these things, so an "I don't care any more" attitude could be the difference between life and death..
Probably the survival instinct isn't quite so strong for those that have already raised their kids either.
I wonder how the placebo effect's "potency" varies from culture to culture?
I used to get it fairly regularly, but then I started eating more healthily. The couple of times I've had it this year have been after eating refined carbs/sugary stuff. Those foods cause inflammation and cause you to retain more water.
But the real problem issue here isn't even the buggy software IMO. It was the way the software was put into place, not monitored, and nobody was ready to just shut it off if it started going haywire. According to the article I read, Knight hadn't even noticed a problem themselves - it was pointed out to them by the stock exchange that they were doing a very high amount of trades compared to usual, and it still took them half an hour or more to shut everything down. There should have literally been a big red STOP button in place to shut things down if they went wrong.
Subject VortexCortex has proven to be too devious. Advise termination and restarting simulation with inverted personality profile.
And that's a great thing! When I'm driving, I always feel a weird pressure to be as efficient as I can, to get there as fast as possible. When I'm a passenger, I really am in no rush. An ebook reader and a good stereo are all you need to make you not care that you're being driven around by robograndma.
Since the demise of the CRT, I suppose that's true..
I'm one of the least business interested type techies you can have, but even I would know that the most important thing when doing stock exchange software is making sure that it's not doing anything retarded, and cutting it off immediately if it does. That's the type of thing that terrifies the hell out of me, and why I wouldn't really want to get involved in financial programming without a lot of supervision. Then again, maybe that means that some of the programmers who go to work for these places are idiots who don't think about consequences..
Rather than destroying the Earth or the Universe, it would be much more efficient just to kill yourself.. the end result is the same for you.
From the article I read recently, they had just put a new system into place, but they weren't even watching what it did, and had no "kill switch" in place to stop it immediately if it started acting up. Crazy. Maybe the programmers screwed up, but whoever was supervising the installation and running of the thing was a moron.
Well, while the Dunning-Kruger effect is real, maybe those 80% are having a lot less accidents than the other 20%. People don't often get pointed out for being accident free, but accidents are posted all over the news and newspapers, so no wonder people might consider themselves good drivers in this case.
Myself I've been told by a Police driving instructor while doing an advanced/defensive driving course that I was better than most police drivers (as far as the first week of their training goes - we obviously didn't go to the breaking the speed limit stage), so I can safely say it without worrying I'm misjudging ;) I did have accidents where I was at fault when I was younger, but I like to think I learned my lesson, and doing the advanced driving course definitely improved my observational skills and general attitude to driving.
Maybe they just mean they can make you hurt like hell. 50KG is a lot to support on your fingertips.