I don't know how so many people are able to drive in traffic, given how scared people get by the most unlikely things. Only 30% of the Earth's surface is land, and we only inhabit a fraction of that. I'll take my chances. Let's see what this tech can actually do.
I sure as hell hope so. Death to all interfaces that use external pins. Well, CPUs I don't really care since I don't have to swap those out much anymore, but for drive cables and external cabling they are just an unnecessary pain, especially SCSI.
If my Droid wasn't a Verizon exclusive, I probably would have gone with Sprint for the awesome pricing and good coverage. Hell, after years of AT&T's abysmal service quality, almost anything would have been an improvement in that area, but Verizon's pricing REALLY leaves something to be desired, so Sprint definitely dominates in that area.
I'm sure that there are plenty of US businesses that operate in the same fashion. They just aren't publicly owned corporations. Once a company goes public, its financial viability immediately becomes beholden to the shareholders. If they aren't happy then your stock price plummets and another company buys you out, sets your employees to pasture, and uses your logo for their own products.
That said, private companies that are not contractually obligated to venture capital agreements or other external restrictions, and those who invest in these private companies, are perfectly capable of basing their decisions on any sort of financial, moral, or social standards that they like, as long as the lease gets paid.
True, but I'm not reading about people being tortured and murdered every single day for the sake of illegal trade in cigarettes and booze, or how billions upon billions of dollars of tax money (well, mostly additional deficit) are spent at the federal and state levels every year on preventing people from smoking cigarettes and drinking booze. Admittedly, there is some expense on programs designed to dissuade tobacco and alcohol usage, but nothing even close to that spent enforcing prohibition.
Government manipulation of markets for the purpose of moral engineering, whether it be through "sin taxes" or prohibition, will always result in a black market. The prohibition black market just offers much higher profit margins since there is no opportunity for a legal industry to develop and take advantage of R&D and economies of scale, so prohibition-based economies are always dominated by the most ruthless.
Essentially prohibition allows us to pay billions for the privilege of filling our neighborhoods with suffering, while excessive taxation cuts into the profit margins of industries that serve affected products and exacts a greater financial burden on consumers who have less disposable income.
I knew because I had used an iPhone previously, but yeah, it isn't something that most Droid users are even going to get without that prior experience. The recognition on the Droid is perfectly good as it is. If Google or someone else can improve on the experience with a software update then so much the better. I'd love to see it because better tracking would be welcome but if it turns out to be a hardware restriction then so be it. Still a great phone and I'm much happier for replacing the iPhone with it.
I personally would like my Droid to be better at tracking my finger movements, so I'm hoping that this is just a software issue that will be resolved in a future (not too future;)) update. If not then no big shakes since it still works great for me and is a small compromise for the advantages, but I did like the iPhone's tracking better.
I use Dolphin for my browser and it supports multi-touch pinch zooming. Possibly other multi-touch functions as well, but nothing I've come across or found myself needing.
Biggest problem for me with that, and really all motion control schemes, is the lack of tactile feedback. Hence why Wii swordfighting games have, and will continue to, suck. At least with a golf game, you expect the club to keep moving in the same direction and speed even though you can't feel the contact with the ball.
My Droid has haptic feedback to provide some sort of feedback mechanism, but I would probably hate using a full sized keyboard that operated in the same way, so thumping on my desk is right out. If someone comes along with a tech that works like those holograms that were reported on a while back that provided tactile feedback, then we'd be in business.
Yeah, I'd almost given up on 3D viewing after so many false starts. But after seeing Up, Avatar, and a live-action extreme sports flick all in 3D and all benefiting greatly from the tech, it has now become good enough for me to prepare to pick up the gear needed to have it in my home. Will there still be shit content? Of course; lord knows that there's plenty of shitty CGI released on a regular basis even though that has gotten good enough to nail almost anything (except those eyes; keep working on it, folks). 3D tech has progressed far enough that it is now a benefit when done right, and now the content creators will be able to stretch their legs since the early adopters who have gotten it right have provided plenty of examples.
Yeah, that PC can be built with little training if you hand that person the exact collection of parts that they will be assembling and then supervise them. Picking parts, on the other hand, is a whole other ball of wax. I'm a systems engineer whose job it is to keep apprised of new PC technologies and yet it took me quite a while to determine the final configuration for my latest build. There are a crapton of different options for most components, which is awesome for those of us who spend a lot of time learning about them as we can get exactly what we are looking for, but it is totally intimidating to the vast majority of people who can only tell you what kind of computer they have by the brand name of the case.
So the entire premise for your calling of bullshit on the OPs post is that your only concern is international travel, which he didn't address. Thank you for your contribution of absolutely nothing other than your own overblown sense of importance.
Bingo. In Planetside, there is no defined role that characters need to take; even skill allocations don't limit a player to a single job. The best healing in the game is just a secondary trait for anyone above BR 3 or so. Any infantryman can go from the most powerful anti-air weapon to the most powerful anti-armor weapon to the most powerful anti-infantry weapon in the span of a minute simply by switching vehicles. The BFR, possessing the strongest armor in the game, can be dropped by a really crafty and properly outfitted infantryman (not likely in most cases, but it has been done). The "weakest" outfit in the game, a stealther who can remain nearly invisible but has the protection of paper mache, can tear entire bases apart with skill and luck. Yes, there are specific 1v1 matchups that are likely to result in a predictable win (Skyguard AA gun versus Mosquito flyer or Vanguard MBT versus infantry), but nothing is ever guaranteed. Hell, I've dropped a couple of main battle tanks using an anti-aircraft MAX unit; took about 15 minutes and a whole lot of run-and-gun in each case, but very satisfying when finally done.:)
Depends on the game. On my Core i7 box with 8 GB of RAM, there aren't too many games out there that require the undivided attention of my computer, or even a significant fraction of its attention. Especially any game that I would consider running in a VM.
Then those customers should be happy. AT&T is providing the same level of service that they have been providing to their customers for a couple of years at the same price point. I finally left AT&T a little over a month ago after five years of using their service on my work phone and had no idea how bad they actually were until now. I figured all of the poor connectivity and dropped calls was either because of the phone I was using or a natural result of using a mobile phone. Turns out I was wrong on both counts.
"For whatever reason, this professor took it personally."
Hrm, was it the part about stabbing, "a certain someone in the throat with a trocar," or maybe the part about spending, "the evening updating my 'Death List #5' and making friends with the crematory guy," all in the context of, "looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy?" And yet the dumb bitch actually doesn't get it. Being pissy is one thing, making very specific public remarks about killing someone and disposing of the body, on the other hand, pretty much guarantees a visit by the po-po, and not to pat you on your angsty little head and tell you it's going to be OK.
I don't know what a Mamut is, but it sounds like something that is pretty much impossible to kill with bare hands. Therefore there wouldn't be any large groups of humans who would battle Mamuts in hand-to-hand combat on a regular basis, thereby making those humans who are capable of winning in such contests the primary breeders and thus promoting those genetic traits that provided the necessary advantage to win. Similarly, no human has ever been able to build a structure using one ton stones by themselves, except through the use of tools. That would actually promote the evolution of tool-using capabilities rather than brute strength, which is the trait that I presume you were alluding to given the subject of the article. Similarly with the beheading of saber tooth tigers.
The human body is an astounding machine, but it has a lot of "disadvantages" that have been necessitated for efficiency, such as limiting mass for the sake of greater fuel efficiency and mobility. A vastly increased muscle mass is only viable as long as nutrition is readily available, which it just so happens to be in most industrialized nations right now. However, widespread scarcity has been the rule for most of humanity throughout the ages so there is no reason why anyone should have expected that such development would have taken place before now. Even now with the huge caloric availability that we have, there is still no reason why this sort of extreme increase in musculature would be naturally bred into humans since raw strength is even less of a major measure of fitness as it pertains to evolution than ever before.
Point being that just because we haven't evolved the massive strength gains sought by the product being tested, it doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't biologically viable. We just haven't had an evolutionary need to do so the slow, natural way.
I'm hoping that Google will keep accumulating power until they can go head-to-head with the US government. If I have to have some monolithic entity trying to track my every move, I'm backing the one that actually seems to know what in the fuck it is doing.
Bingo. Despite having far less total apps in the Android Marketplace than in the iTunes store, and despite the fact that the Android Marketplace layout kinda sucks (seriously guys, having limited categorization, limited filtering, and basic search in a collection of 10,000+ that can only be browsed on a phone is a pretty dick move), I have had no problem with finding free apps that do exactly what I want. I've paid for extra functionality in a couple of apps that go above and beyond (both pro versions of apps that also have free versions that I tried for a few days first, hint, hint) but when free comes through then free almost always wins. Don't expect money for mediocrity; if I wanted my Droid to fart, I'd carry it in my back pocket and head to Taco Bell.
They could ban you because you are using a modded Xbox, or because you used a dirty word in chat, or because saw your cam feed and they think you're ugly. Xbox Live membership isn't a government program, so they can use pretty much any reason whatsoever to ban you or your console from using the service. Hell, even the protected statuses like sex, race, or religion aren't protected for private services that receive no government funding.
The offline usability angle may have some merit if Microsoft can't sell the court on the idea that Live access is necessary to have those features once they are enabled. The loss of account time that had already been paid for may also be actionable despite the claim that the account is still usable with another console, due to Microsoft knowingly introducing the expensive barrier to reentry of having to acquire another Xbox in order to use that remaining service time.
It is the ultimate in language efficiency. What began as, "My word is my bond," in classic English vernacular became reduced to, "Word is bond," within classic hip-hop vernacular. Further familiarity allowed the final consolidation to the now-common place expression, "Word."
On a side note, a fledgling attempt to reduce this to an extreme level was attempted in the early 2000s, but was soon abandoned as a fruitless endeavor when it was realized that nothing having positive connotation could ever be called, "W."
Your Walmart is a radically different place than any Walmart that I've ever had the misfortune of wandering into. Typically, a chick bending over in Walmart requires the use of safety harnesses, traffic cops, and hazmat gear.
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I don't know how so many people are able to drive in traffic, given how scared people get by the most unlikely things. Only 30% of the Earth's surface is land, and we only inhabit a fraction of that. I'll take my chances. Let's see what this tech can actually do.
I sure as hell hope so. Death to all interfaces that use external pins. Well, CPUs I don't really care since I don't have to swap those out much anymore, but for drive cables and external cabling they are just an unnecessary pain, especially SCSI.
If my Droid wasn't a Verizon exclusive, I probably would have gone with Sprint for the awesome pricing and good coverage. Hell, after years of AT&T's abysmal service quality, almost anything would have been an improvement in that area, but Verizon's pricing REALLY leaves something to be desired, so Sprint definitely dominates in that area.
I'm sure that there are plenty of US businesses that operate in the same fashion. They just aren't publicly owned corporations. Once a company goes public, its financial viability immediately becomes beholden to the shareholders. If they aren't happy then your stock price plummets and another company buys you out, sets your employees to pasture, and uses your logo for their own products.
That said, private companies that are not contractually obligated to venture capital agreements or other external restrictions, and those who invest in these private companies, are perfectly capable of basing their decisions on any sort of financial, moral, or social standards that they like, as long as the lease gets paid.
True, but I'm not reading about people being tortured and murdered every single day for the sake of illegal trade in cigarettes and booze, or how billions upon billions of dollars of tax money (well, mostly additional deficit) are spent at the federal and state levels every year on preventing people from smoking cigarettes and drinking booze. Admittedly, there is some expense on programs designed to dissuade tobacco and alcohol usage, but nothing even close to that spent enforcing prohibition.
Government manipulation of markets for the purpose of moral engineering, whether it be through "sin taxes" or prohibition, will always result in a black market. The prohibition black market just offers much higher profit margins since there is no opportunity for a legal industry to develop and take advantage of R&D and economies of scale, so prohibition-based economies are always dominated by the most ruthless.
Essentially prohibition allows us to pay billions for the privilege of filling our neighborhoods with suffering, while excessive taxation cuts into the profit margins of industries that serve affected products and exacts a greater financial burden on consumers who have less disposable income.
Yeah, there was way too much common sense in that posting to have anything to do with our legal system.
I knew because I had used an iPhone previously, but yeah, it isn't something that most Droid users are even going to get without that prior experience. The recognition on the Droid is perfectly good as it is. If Google or someone else can improve on the experience with a software update then so much the better. I'd love to see it because better tracking would be welcome but if it turns out to be a hardware restriction then so be it. Still a great phone and I'm much happier for replacing the iPhone with it.
I personally would like my Droid to be better at tracking my finger movements, so I'm hoping that this is just a software issue that will be resolved in a future (not too future ;)) update. If not then no big shakes since it still works great for me and is a small compromise for the advantages, but I did like the iPhone's tracking better.
I use Dolphin for my browser and it supports multi-touch pinch zooming. Possibly other multi-touch functions as well, but nothing I've come across or found myself needing.
Biggest problem for me with that, and really all motion control schemes, is the lack of tactile feedback. Hence why Wii swordfighting games have, and will continue to, suck. At least with a golf game, you expect the club to keep moving in the same direction and speed even though you can't feel the contact with the ball.
My Droid has haptic feedback to provide some sort of feedback mechanism, but I would probably hate using a full sized keyboard that operated in the same way, so thumping on my desk is right out. If someone comes along with a tech that works like those holograms that were reported on a while back that provided tactile feedback, then we'd be in business.
Yeah, I'd almost given up on 3D viewing after so many false starts. But after seeing Up, Avatar, and a live-action extreme sports flick all in 3D and all benefiting greatly from the tech, it has now become good enough for me to prepare to pick up the gear needed to have it in my home. Will there still be shit content? Of course; lord knows that there's plenty of shitty CGI released on a regular basis even though that has gotten good enough to nail almost anything (except those eyes; keep working on it, folks). 3D tech has progressed far enough that it is now a benefit when done right, and now the content creators will be able to stretch their legs since the early adopters who have gotten it right have provided plenty of examples.
Yeah, that PC can be built with little training if you hand that person the exact collection of parts that they will be assembling and then supervise them. Picking parts, on the other hand, is a whole other ball of wax. I'm a systems engineer whose job it is to keep apprised of new PC technologies and yet it took me quite a while to determine the final configuration for my latest build. There are a crapton of different options for most components, which is awesome for those of us who spend a lot of time learning about them as we can get exactly what we are looking for, but it is totally intimidating to the vast majority of people who can only tell you what kind of computer they have by the brand name of the case.
So the entire premise for your calling of bullshit on the OPs post is that your only concern is international travel, which he didn't address. Thank you for your contribution of absolutely nothing other than your own overblown sense of importance.
Bingo. In Planetside, there is no defined role that characters need to take; even skill allocations don't limit a player to a single job. The best healing in the game is just a secondary trait for anyone above BR 3 or so. Any infantryman can go from the most powerful anti-air weapon to the most powerful anti-armor weapon to the most powerful anti-infantry weapon in the span of a minute simply by switching vehicles. The BFR, possessing the strongest armor in the game, can be dropped by a really crafty and properly outfitted infantryman (not likely in most cases, but it has been done). The "weakest" outfit in the game, a stealther who can remain nearly invisible but has the protection of paper mache, can tear entire bases apart with skill and luck. Yes, there are specific 1v1 matchups that are likely to result in a predictable win (Skyguard AA gun versus Mosquito flyer or Vanguard MBT versus infantry), but nothing is ever guaranteed. Hell, I've dropped a couple of main battle tanks using an anti-aircraft MAX unit; took about 15 minutes and a whole lot of run-and-gun in each case, but very satisfying when finally done. :)
Free beer is not only morally responsible, it's a moral imperative!
Depends on the game. On my Core i7 box with 8 GB of RAM, there aren't too many games out there that require the undivided attention of my computer, or even a significant fraction of its attention. Especially any game that I would consider running in a VM.
Then those customers should be happy. AT&T is providing the same level of service that they have been providing to their customers for a couple of years at the same price point. I finally left AT&T a little over a month ago after five years of using their service on my work phone and had no idea how bad they actually were until now. I figured all of the poor connectivity and dropped calls was either because of the phone I was using or a natural result of using a mobile phone. Turns out I was wrong on both counts.
"For whatever reason, this professor took it personally."
Hrm, was it the part about stabbing, "a certain someone in the throat with a trocar," or maybe the part about spending, "the evening updating my 'Death List #5' and making friends with the crematory guy," all in the context of, "looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy?" And yet the dumb bitch actually doesn't get it. Being pissy is one thing, making very specific public remarks about killing someone and disposing of the body, on the other hand, pretty much guarantees a visit by the po-po, and not to pat you on your angsty little head and tell you it's going to be OK.
Sure, on ThinkGeek.com.
I don't know what a Mamut is, but it sounds like something that is pretty much impossible to kill with bare hands. Therefore there wouldn't be any large groups of humans who would battle Mamuts in hand-to-hand combat on a regular basis, thereby making those humans who are capable of winning in such contests the primary breeders and thus promoting those genetic traits that provided the necessary advantage to win. Similarly, no human has ever been able to build a structure using one ton stones by themselves, except through the use of tools. That would actually promote the evolution of tool-using capabilities rather than brute strength, which is the trait that I presume you were alluding to given the subject of the article. Similarly with the beheading of saber tooth tigers.
The human body is an astounding machine, but it has a lot of "disadvantages" that have been necessitated for efficiency, such as limiting mass for the sake of greater fuel efficiency and mobility. A vastly increased muscle mass is only viable as long as nutrition is readily available, which it just so happens to be in most industrialized nations right now. However, widespread scarcity has been the rule for most of humanity throughout the ages so there is no reason why anyone should have expected that such development would have taken place before now. Even now with the huge caloric availability that we have, there is still no reason why this sort of extreme increase in musculature would be naturally bred into humans since raw strength is even less of a major measure of fitness as it pertains to evolution than ever before.
Point being that just because we haven't evolved the massive strength gains sought by the product being tested, it doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't biologically viable. We just haven't had an evolutionary need to do so the slow, natural way.
I'm hoping that Google will keep accumulating power until they can go head-to-head with the US government. If I have to have some monolithic entity trying to track my every move, I'm backing the one that actually seems to know what in the fuck it is doing.
Bingo. Despite having far less total apps in the Android Marketplace than in the iTunes store, and despite the fact that the Android Marketplace layout kinda sucks (seriously guys, having limited categorization, limited filtering, and basic search in a collection of 10,000+ that can only be browsed on a phone is a pretty dick move), I have had no problem with finding free apps that do exactly what I want. I've paid for extra functionality in a couple of apps that go above and beyond (both pro versions of apps that also have free versions that I tried for a few days first, hint, hint) but when free comes through then free almost always wins. Don't expect money for mediocrity; if I wanted my Droid to fart, I'd carry it in my back pocket and head to Taco Bell.
They could ban you because you are using a modded Xbox, or because you used a dirty word in chat, or because saw your cam feed and they think you're ugly. Xbox Live membership isn't a government program, so they can use pretty much any reason whatsoever to ban you or your console from using the service. Hell, even the protected statuses like sex, race, or religion aren't protected for private services that receive no government funding.
The offline usability angle may have some merit if Microsoft can't sell the court on the idea that Live access is necessary to have those features once they are enabled. The loss of account time that had already been paid for may also be actionable despite the claim that the account is still usable with another console, due to Microsoft knowingly introducing the expensive barrier to reentry of having to acquire another Xbox in order to use that remaining service time.
It is the ultimate in language efficiency. What began as, "My word is my bond," in classic English vernacular became reduced to, "Word is bond," within classic hip-hop vernacular. Further familiarity allowed the final consolidation to the now-common place expression, "Word."
On a side note, a fledgling attempt to reduce this to an extreme level was attempted in the early 2000s, but was soon abandoned as a fruitless endeavor when it was realized that nothing having positive connotation could ever be called, "W."
Your Walmart is a radically different place than any Walmart that I've ever had the misfortune of wandering into. Typically, a chick bending over in Walmart requires the use of safety harnesses, traffic cops, and hazmat gear.