Could you please tell me what that is in metric time? These crazy 60 second minutes and 60 minute hours are too confusing. It might have been ok for the Summarians, but it's time to use a modern unit divisible by 10.
You seem to be operating under the premise that Apple is a Software company like Microsoft. They're not. They're a hardware company like HP or Dell. That the operating system they provide with their hardware is their own creation is irrelevant, and they're under no obligation, moral or otherwise, to provide support for any platform that they didn't sell.
That they're disabling support for the Atom platform is irrelevant. They're disabling support for a platform that they don't sell. The EULA that comes with their software specifically prohibits your using that platform in the first place, so if you were using their software legitimately, it shouldn't affect you. If it does affect you, too bad.
I'm always excited when another company introduces DRM into my life too!
Seeing as you're sitting calmly at a computer and you still didn't consider turning the damn engine off as a possibility before aiming for something to crash into, it kind of begs the question as to why you think people panicking in a runaway car at 100 mph would be more cogent than they were.
Turning the engine off is a secondary priority to me. Regaining control of the car is the primary objective. I value preventing loss of human life more than an intact engine. I can replace an engine for less than $10K max (and I have insurance to cover that), there is no price on human life for me.
because everyone is always so clear headed when their vehicle suddenly accelerates for no clear reason,and\or has the time to calm down before they collide with something.
Way to prove the grandparent's point!
Seriously, if my car were to accelerate without warning, the first thing I would do would be to push down the clutch. The second would be to apply the brake. And if that didn't work, I would pull the emergency brake. Meanwhile, aim for something soft without people in it.
If you can't mentally run through that four step list in a throttle malfunction, you shouldn't be driving. I mean, come on...The first two actions should be instinctual, panic or not.
Why the hell can't presidents get their heads around the idea of "spend less than you take in"? It's not that hard, any responsible adult can do it. I suppose when you never have to live in the real world you don't have to learn these things.
Two reason why they can't:
1. Presidents are expected to do big things, which requires them to spend money. If they don't start big projects, the fear is that the public will think they are doing nothing and vote them out of office.
2. There is no bonus in government for fiscal responsibility. These guys are in office for 8 years max and they have both an agenda and political favors owed. They don't give a shit about the budget. They just want to complete their agenda, go down in history for being amazing, and then pass the debt off to the next sucker.
In the real world, you have to live with your fiscal responsibility forever. But these guys are playing with everyone else's money. When it is all spent, they retire on their millions of dollars raised from public speaking.
Your snotty comment would have teeth except that the US was the first country to put men on the moon (using imperial units) and has a very long and successful space exploration history compared to that of other countries.
NASA has only had two mishaps due to units conversion errors and these both occurred AFTER they started moving to metric. Their space program and code libraries are 50 years old, so it may take a few years to get all the conversion bugs out.
Of course, another viewpoint is that things worked better when they just stuck with the imperial system, hmmmmmmmm?
And I am sure that the people who actually rely on GPS (boats, planes, backcountry travelers, military) will continue to use standalone receivers. History has shown that there is never a cell tower where you really need it and if it is there, you won't have reception when the shit hits the fan.
The rest of us who just like to fruit out with GPS when we really don't need it will happily continue doing so on our cell phones.
Way to motivate him to finish strong in his last untenured year.
In all seriousness, it gets better. You can really tone it down after you get tenure. Keep the hours you want, tell the funding sponsors you hate to piss off, and investigate the projects you want...
This 'new' rocket is basically a solid booster from the space shuttle, that needs to be extended with a 5th segment, but it now flies with a 5th dummy segment. On top of that is more dummy weight. This is just a test of an existing and older booster. Now why do you think there is some kind of competition in rocketry that the US can be number one in? Or are you just happy you or your parents paid taxes for this upcoming show?
Or am I a 'hater' because I a a little sceptic about this project of NASA because you cannot understand discourse? Personally, I am much more impressed with SpaceX and Armadillo, who seem to come up with nice projects for much less money. Wasn't there a new SpaceX big rocket on the launchpad soon?
That's it. Keep knocking NASA, who is able to consistently put payloads in space with decreasing and inconsistent funding from the Congress that we elect and with increasing red tape... again from the government we elect.
I don't know why you are impressed with SpaceX... NASA was producing superior products to them in the 1960's. They talk a good game, but how many payloads have they put into orbit? 1? All of their launchers have payloads that are a fraction of that of the shuttle or Ares 1, except the Falcon 9 heavy lift, which they have not fielded. They are simply using technology established by NASA and avoiding the government red tap to reduce costs.
Want to see more cool stuff come out of NASA? Make Congress stop changing their mission every 4 years and give them a consistent budget so they can plan properly.
Remember when buying cable meant you didn't have to watch ads? When that was one of the big selling points of buying cable in the first place? I do.
Rock on! I remember the good old days. I learned my lesson with cable too.
If I pay for media nowdays, I expect it not to have any commercials. If you let them open the advertising door, it starts with a few dollars a month and a few ads... and a few years later you have 30% ads and "taxes" and "taxes" on top of that few dollars a month, which increased due to energy costs and other BS.
Hulu has it's problems, but I use it because dealing with them is worth the effort. But I would not whip out my credit card for the current performance I get from Hulu, even if the cost per show was $1. If they want to charge, the ads better disappear and the video quality better go up... and I doubt they will be making money then.
I find it ironic that until about 1000 years ago, the Chinese were inventing some serious shit! I mean paper, gunpowder, the compass, printing, paper money, the toothbrush... the list goes on and on.
I guess one day they just blew their mental loads and decided that it was easier to steal other nations' technologies. Or maybe they figure they have already contributed enough to civilization and now they deserve to reap the benefits.
Whatever. Not every country is as prudish as America wants to be. Nevermind all the dancers in cages at the Hollywood clubs.
Personally, the fact that they had "go-go dancers" just makes me respect Yahoo a little bit more. The fact that they don't have the balls to tell people who have a problem with it to fuck off makes me respect them a little bit less. All in all, it's a wash.
It's one of those things in the UK - if you have a business and want to play music to your customers you have to pay a flat royalty fee of around 65 pounds each year. There was a local business (hairdresser) who had kept the radio in the front room and hadn't been paying this fee for 20 years, and was forced to go into liquidation over this.
We have enforcement organizations like that in the US too. We call them the Mafia.
I don't understand how they can make you pay for collecting and translating electromagnetic radiation that is incident upon your property. If they don't like you having their signal, they should stop distributing it for free or provide you with ad-free music for a fee.
I think that the steering wheel could be replaced with a joystick axis easily. I am concerned however, that it would be a lot harder for people to get used to gas and brake petals replaced with a joystick axis. For non-gamers it would be like trying to learn how to play FPS games for the first time with a mouse as the controller.
Also, currently the petals naturally return to the idle position when released and give pressure feedback when pressed. This is partially a safety issue as the car slows down if you pass out, stop paying attention, etc.
Would a joystick do that too? Is it healthy for your wrist to hold a joystick in a position for a long time with it exerting pressure on your body... after using a computer mouse and keyboard all day?
If anything, I would rather see simultaneous throttle gas/break hand controls AND gas/brake petals. The petals should get priority, while the hand control allows for an alternative control mechanism on long trips.
This is all dumb anyway. The real end game is to have the computer entirely control the car. That is what will eventually make driving more comfortable for the driver.
Airplanes can fly themselves, yet they have not been around as long as cars. It is high time that industry and government invest in autonomous control of automobiles... if only for lethal speeds above 40 mpg.
It sounds good to me too. Other countries gaining scientific and technological savvy increases the chances of discoveries advancing the quality of life for all humans.
Especially since the US isn't performing as well as it used to now that high percentage of underperforming American youths have the same entitled mentality that you demonstrated in your post.
This might be news to you, but America is not a communist country. You don't get a good job here just because you are alive and a citizen. You actually have to have qualifications and work hard. Cheers, dipshit.
Why do I need to be clearer? The article is about Verizon challenging the iPhone with the Motorola Droid, which is a cell phone. To a normal human being with normal reasoning skills, this would imply that we are talking about Verizon Wireless... which is owned by Vodafone.
... but I am guessing you aren't a normal human. Are you a lawyer or do you work for one of the Verizons?
From a hardware standpoint, the Pre is pretty impressive
Except that it is made out of plastic and it flexes, so it feels flexy and looks cheap next to the aluminum and glass iPhone. Not knocking it, that is just a lot of peoples' complaints.
But it failed because 'it lacked the Verizon network'? What is this supposed to mean?
Verizon and AT&T are the largest US mobile carriers in the US in terms of numbers of subscribers (around 60 million). Sprint is a few million people behind and some of their former customers are still annoyed with their customer service. Verizon is also owned by Vodaphone, which has a much larger international market presence.
To extend your analogy to life... Do you think that life should be as enjoyable as possible for you at the expense of others?
Reading a book or playing a single player game is something you are doing completely alone, so feel free to do whatever you want.
But when you are playing a MMORPG like WoW (where the keywords are "massively multiplayer online" and "world," you are playing with a community of other people, and by cheating, you are effectively fucking over the members of the community that do not cheat.
If you have never played a MMORPG I know it sounds silly. I didn't really understand it myself until I spent some time playing WoW. But when you have a few free months and $200 extra dollars, try leveling a WoW toon to the level cap, farming for gold, mats and gear. It is pretty fun, but there are definitely long and tedious parts of leveling... they even have a term for it called "grinding" because that is what your teeth are doing. And collecting materials is called "farming."
Neither of those descriptor verbs sound exciting because they aren't. Then can be relaxing, unless you have a really busy raiding schedule and then you need to spend extra hours "playing" to get supplies to raid the next day. At that point it can be a chore. And for the people who do it as the Blizzard intended, it can be frustrating when someone buys stolen gold (possibly from your character!) or uses a bot to save themselves time.
As others have said, widespread use of this causes in game inflation... requiring you to spend even MORE time farming to get what you need.
So I am not trying to be rude, but until you have played one of those community-based games for a while (or spent a lot of time around someone who does) you really can't have formed an educated opinion on the matter. And as far as playing to have fun, that is what everyone is trying to do. But the online aspect of games has the potential to definitely make things more fun, but it also can introduce cheaters and griefers who want to have fun at the expense of others... either explicitly or implicitly.
The parent post is so naive and self-centered that I can't believe that it was modded up as insightful.
The poster's logic is that buying gold and using bots doesn't hurt anyone and helps me out so it isn't really cheating....
Let me help out out. Blizzard says those two activities are cheating and, like it or not, Blizzard is the Dungeon Master. There's your definition right there. Not to mention that they can ban you if they catch you doing either one.
You say that your cheating doesn't hurt anyone... what about the other fair players that have to invest 10 times more personal time in the game than you to get to the level cap and make enough gold to equip themselves? What about the people your "purchased" gold was stolen from? What about the items your farming bots took that could have been given to actual player-controlled toons in the farming areas farming the area at the same time as you? In all cases, you are inconveniencing real life humans because you are too lazy or greedy to play fair.
You need a real world analogy to drive the point home? It's like buying a term paper off the internet, copying test answers off the guy next to you, or paying someone to rob someone else. You're staying competitive with people who are working harder than you by sucking off them so you can have more free time for yourself.
You're acting unfairly to gain an advantage over other players: That is the definition of cheating. And remember that time is money, friend!
so if im like...duhhh.. i dunno like lets say 24.. and it's been on the air like.. duhhhh... 20 yrs..... wouldn't that mean that i grew up with this shit... and uh... you know prolly watched more episodes then u ever did?
You're really 24? You type like you are 12 and crippled both mentally (duhhh) and physically (no shift key)!
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Could you please tell me what that is in metric time? These crazy 60 second minutes and 60 minute hours are too confusing. It might have been ok for the Summarians, but it's time to use a modern unit divisible by 10.
12.5 mm per microsecond.
Thanks for playing.
You seem to be operating under the premise that Apple is a Software company like Microsoft. They're not. They're a hardware company like HP or Dell. That the operating system they provide with their hardware is their own creation is irrelevant, and they're under no obligation, moral or otherwise, to provide support for any platform that they didn't sell.
That they're disabling support for the Atom platform is irrelevant. They're disabling support for a platform that they don't sell. The EULA that comes with their software specifically prohibits your using that platform in the first place, so if you were using their software legitimately, it shouldn't affect you. If it does affect you, too bad.
I'm always excited when another company introduces DRM into my life too!
Seeing as you're sitting calmly at a computer and you still didn't consider turning the damn engine off as a possibility before aiming for something to crash into, it kind of begs the question as to why you think people panicking in a runaway car at 100 mph would be more cogent than they were.
Turning the engine off is a secondary priority to me. Regaining control of the car is the primary objective. I value preventing loss of human life more than an intact engine. I can replace an engine for less than $10K max (and I have insurance to cover that), there is no price on human life for me.
because everyone is always so clear headed when their vehicle suddenly accelerates for no clear reason,and\or has the time to calm down before they collide with something.
Way to prove the grandparent's point!
Seriously, if my car were to accelerate without warning, the first thing I would do would be to push down the clutch. The second would be to apply the brake. And if that didn't work, I would pull the emergency brake. Meanwhile, aim for something soft without people in it.
If you can't mentally run through that four step list in a throttle malfunction, you shouldn't be driving. I mean, come on...The first two actions should be instinctual, panic or not.
Agreed!
NASA really administered this contest poorly. At a minimum, the prize money should have been equal and in my opinion, not even that would be fair.
It is really frustrating when the "judges" make rules allowances late in the game.
Why the hell can't presidents get their heads around the idea of "spend less than you take in"? It's not that hard, any responsible adult can do it. I suppose when you never have to live in the real world you don't have to learn these things.
Two reason why they can't:
1. Presidents are expected to do big things, which requires them to spend money. If they don't start big projects, the fear is that the public will think they are doing nothing and vote them out of office.
2. There is no bonus in government for fiscal responsibility. These guys are in office for 8 years max and they have both an agenda and political favors owed. They don't give a shit about the budget. They just want to complete their agenda, go down in history for being amazing, and then pass the debt off to the next sucker.
In the real world, you have to live with your fiscal responsibility forever. But these guys are playing with everyone else's money. When it is all spent, they retire on their millions of dollars raised from public speaking.
But honestly, this discussion would not be nearly as amusing without the paranoia of /. getting turned up to 11.
Paranoia my ass! Can't you read man? They want us to help them develop methods to control us!!!
The best thing we can do is take those balloons out or put up a lot of extra red balloons on test day.
The new stories will either be good and read, or bad and ignored. Why is this a problem?
Asimov didn't leave a clause in his will forbidding the writing of new stories about his stories and he isn't going to be an author on the new ones.
His fans need to chill the hell out. Because the dude is dead and isn't going to be producing any more good stories. Maybe someone else can.
Your snotty comment would have teeth except that the US was the first country to put men on the moon (using imperial units) and has a very long and successful space exploration history compared to that of other countries.
NASA has only had two mishaps due to units conversion errors and these both occurred AFTER they started moving to metric. Their space program and code libraries are 50 years old, so it may take a few years to get all the conversion bugs out.
Of course, another viewpoint is that things worked better when they just stuck with the imperial system, hmmmmmmmm?
You must have missed the Slashdot story titled Standalone GPS Receivers Going the Way of the Dodo that was posted 4 months ago.
And I am sure that the people who actually rely on GPS (boats, planes, backcountry travelers, military) will continue to use standalone receivers. History has shown that there is never a cell tower where you really need it and if it is there, you won't have reception when the shit hits the fan.
The rest of us who just like to fruit out with GPS when we really don't need it will happily continue doing so on our cell phones.
We're not really looking for advice from Australia. We're just scoping out the Aussie infrastructure for our upcoming invasion.
Way to motivate him to finish strong in his last untenured year.
In all seriousness, it gets better. You can really tone it down after you get tenure. Keep the hours you want, tell the funding sponsors you hate to piss off, and investigate the projects you want...
Unless you want full professor! :)
This 'new' rocket is basically a solid booster from the space shuttle, that needs to be extended with a 5th segment, but it now flies with a 5th dummy segment. On top of that is more dummy weight. This is just a test of an existing and older booster. Now why do you think there is some kind of competition in rocketry that the US can be number one in? Or are you just happy you or your parents paid taxes for this upcoming show? Or am I a 'hater' because I a a little sceptic about this project of NASA because you cannot understand discourse? Personally, I am much more impressed with SpaceX and Armadillo, who seem to come up with nice projects for much less money. Wasn't there a new SpaceX big rocket on the launchpad soon?
That's it. Keep knocking NASA, who is able to consistently put payloads in space with decreasing and inconsistent funding from the Congress that we elect and with increasing red tape... again from the government we elect.
I don't know why you are impressed with SpaceX... NASA was producing superior products to them in the 1960's. They talk a good game, but how many payloads have they put into orbit? 1? All of their launchers have payloads that are a fraction of that of the shuttle or Ares 1, except the Falcon 9 heavy lift, which they have not fielded. They are simply using technology established by NASA and avoiding the government red tap to reduce costs.
Want to see more cool stuff come out of NASA? Make Congress stop changing their mission every 4 years and give them a consistent budget so they can plan properly.
The Mayan civilization ended around 1000 years ago. They already had their doomsday. So why are we worrying about their calendar?
Remember when buying cable meant you didn't have to watch ads? When that was one of the big selling points of buying cable in the first place? I do.
Rock on! I remember the good old days. I learned my lesson with cable too.
If I pay for media nowdays, I expect it not to have any commercials. If you let them open the advertising door, it starts with a few dollars a month and a few ads... and a few years later you have 30% ads and "taxes" and "taxes" on top of that few dollars a month, which increased due to energy costs and other BS.
Hulu has it's problems, but I use it because dealing with them is worth the effort. But I would not whip out my credit card for the current performance I get from Hulu, even if the cost per show was $1. If they want to charge, the ads better disappear and the video quality better go up... and I doubt they will be making money then.
didn't invent itself.
I find it ironic that until about 1000 years ago, the Chinese were inventing some serious shit! I mean paper, gunpowder, the compass, printing, paper money, the toothbrush... the list goes on and on.
I guess one day they just blew their mental loads and decided that it was easier to steal other nations' technologies. Or maybe they figure they have already contributed enough to civilization and now they deserve to reap the benefits.
Whatever. Not every country is as prudish as America wants to be. Nevermind all the dancers in cages at the Hollywood clubs.
Personally, the fact that they had "go-go dancers" just makes me respect Yahoo a little bit more. The fact that they don't have the balls to tell people who have a problem with it to fuck off makes me respect them a little bit less. All in all, it's a wash.
It's one of those things in the UK - if you have a business and want to play music to your customers you have to pay a flat royalty fee of around 65 pounds each year. There was a local business (hairdresser) who had kept the radio in the front room and hadn't been paying this fee for 20 years, and was forced to go into liquidation over this.
We have enforcement organizations like that in the US too. We call them the Mafia.
I don't understand how they can make you pay for collecting and translating electromagnetic radiation that is incident upon your property. If they don't like you having their signal, they should stop distributing it for free or provide you with ad-free music for a fee.
I think that the steering wheel could be replaced with a joystick axis easily. I am concerned however, that it would be a lot harder for people to get used to gas and brake petals replaced with a joystick axis. For non-gamers it would be like trying to learn how to play FPS games for the first time with a mouse as the controller.
Also, currently the petals naturally return to the idle position when released and give pressure feedback when pressed. This is partially a safety issue as the car slows down if you pass out, stop paying attention, etc.
Would a joystick do that too? Is it healthy for your wrist to hold a joystick in a position for a long time with it exerting pressure on your body... after using a computer mouse and keyboard all day?
If anything, I would rather see simultaneous throttle gas/break hand controls AND gas/brake petals. The petals should get priority, while the hand control allows for an alternative control mechanism on long trips.
This is all dumb anyway. The real end game is to have the computer entirely control the car. That is what will eventually make driving more comfortable for the driver. Airplanes can fly themselves, yet they have not been around as long as cars. It is high time that industry and government invest in autonomous control of automobiles... if only for lethal speeds above 40 mpg.
Do you mean the rest of us Americans?
It sounds good to me too. Other countries gaining scientific and technological savvy increases the chances of discoveries advancing the quality of life for all humans.
Especially since the US isn't performing as well as it used to now that high percentage of underperforming American youths have the same entitled mentality that you demonstrated in your post.
This might be news to you, but America is not a communist country. You don't get a good job here just because you are alive and a citizen. You actually have to have qualifications and work hard. Cheers, dipshit.
Why do I need to be clearer? The article is about Verizon challenging the iPhone with the Motorola Droid, which is a cell phone. To a normal human being with normal reasoning skills, this would imply that we are talking about Verizon Wireless... which is owned by Vodafone.
... but I am guessing you aren't a normal human. Are you a lawyer or do you work for one of the Verizons?
From a hardware standpoint, the Pre is pretty impressive
Except that it is made out of plastic and it flexes, so it feels flexy and looks cheap next to the aluminum and glass iPhone. Not knocking it, that is just a lot of peoples' complaints.
But it failed because 'it lacked the Verizon network'? What is this supposed to mean?
Verizon and AT&T are the largest US mobile carriers in the US in terms of numbers of subscribers (around 60 million). Sprint is a few million people behind and some of their former customers are still annoyed with their customer service. Verizon is also owned by Vodaphone, which has a much larger international market presence.
To extend your analogy to life... Do you think that life should be as enjoyable as possible for you at the expense of others?
Reading a book or playing a single player game is something you are doing completely alone, so feel free to do whatever you want.
But when you are playing a MMORPG like WoW (where the keywords are "massively multiplayer online" and "world," you are playing with a community of other people, and by cheating, you are effectively fucking over the members of the community that do not cheat.
If you have never played a MMORPG I know it sounds silly. I didn't really understand it myself until I spent some time playing WoW. But when you have a few free months and $200 extra dollars, try leveling a WoW toon to the level cap, farming for gold, mats and gear. It is pretty fun, but there are definitely long and tedious parts of leveling... they even have a term for it called "grinding" because that is what your teeth are doing. And collecting materials is called "farming."
Neither of those descriptor verbs sound exciting because they aren't. Then can be relaxing, unless you have a really busy raiding schedule and then you need to spend extra hours "playing" to get supplies to raid the next day. At that point it can be a chore. And for the people who do it as the Blizzard intended, it can be frustrating when someone buys stolen gold (possibly from your character!) or uses a bot to save themselves time.
As others have said, widespread use of this causes in game inflation... requiring you to spend even MORE time farming to get what you need.
So I am not trying to be rude, but until you have played one of those community-based games for a while (or spent a lot of time around someone who does) you really can't have formed an educated opinion on the matter. And as far as playing to have fun, that is what everyone is trying to do. But the online aspect of games has the potential to definitely make things more fun, but it also can introduce cheaters and griefers who want to have fun at the expense of others... either explicitly or implicitly.
The parent post is so naive and self-centered that I can't believe that it was modded up as insightful.
The poster's logic is that buying gold and using bots doesn't hurt anyone and helps me out so it isn't really cheating....
Let me help out out. Blizzard says those two activities are cheating and, like it or not, Blizzard is the Dungeon Master. There's your definition right there. Not to mention that they can ban you if they catch you doing either one.
You say that your cheating doesn't hurt anyone... what about the other fair players that have to invest 10 times more personal time in the game than you to get to the level cap and make enough gold to equip themselves? What about the people your "purchased" gold was stolen from? What about the items your farming bots took that could have been given to actual player-controlled toons in the farming areas farming the area at the same time as you? In all cases, you are inconveniencing real life humans because you are too lazy or greedy to play fair.
You need a real world analogy to drive the point home? It's like buying a term paper off the internet, copying test answers off the guy next to you, or paying someone to rob someone else. You're staying competitive with people who are working harder than you by sucking off them so you can have more free time for yourself.
You're acting unfairly to gain an advantage over other players: That is the definition of cheating. And remember that time is money, friend!
so if im like ...duhhh .. i dunno like lets say 24 .. and it's been on the air like .. duhhhh ... 20 yrs ..... wouldn't that mean that i grew up with this shit... and uh ... you know prolly watched more episodes then u ever did?
You're really 24? You type like you are 12 and crippled both mentally (duhhh) and physically (no shift key)!