30 years seems fair, fewer people would go into the music business if they had no way of providing for their loved ones if they died an untimely death. 30 years seems reasonable, provided it's 30 years after creation. At this point we'd have the entire catalog of Louis Armostrong, most of Miles Davis' stuff, every movie that Murnau ever made. Not to mention that the Beastie Boys could go back to sampling and perhaps try to top Paul's Boutique.
Crossover is OTOH pretty easy, and getting easier what with the inclusion of C4P in recent releases. It's a bit of an investment, but in my experience it does a pretty good job. In some ways better than Windows native, as you don't have to worry as much about apps interacting with each other.
Admittedly, it's not perfect, and many apps don't run at all or run imperfectly, but it is a possibility.
Mistake? The only mistake they made in that respect was not requiring carriers and handset devs to disclose what they've locked. Other than that it's perfectly fine. What wasn't fine was realizing after I bought the phone just how locked down it was.
It does, I've had my Nexus one for quite a while now, and it's definitely not what I would consider a PoS at this point. It's not the greatest phone out there, but it's hardly a PoS as the GP suggests. As you imply, you just have to be mindful about the future like with any other technology if you're going to be so picky.
Depends which country, but I don't think that it's entirely Google's fault, there are complications such as handling cross border banking transactions. I suspect that it probably has to do with Googlecheck out only being within the US. But, I could be wrong, I suspect that they're reluctant to add too many areas that aren't covered by their checkout system.
$70 is 30% less than $100. You're like one of those feminists that rounds 1/3 up to all and 1/5 down to zero without giving any justification for doing so.
Not going to happen. The carriers for whatever reason don't use the same spectrum, you've got Verizon and Sprint on CDMA, but even the GSM providers AT&T and T-mobile use different spectrum for their 3G service.
That's why I returned my Backflip and went with a Nexus One. It still has locked in apps by default, but you can easily unlock it and remove them if you wish. But even if you don't the phone feels a lot less bloated. Unfortunately, the 2.2 update seems to have borked the wifi a bit. Wondering when Google will care enough to fix it, especially considering that Cyanogen has already fixed it.
Not that I like the practice, but they do get paid to include those apps. Which theoretically lowers the price you pay. Not sure if it really does, but the profit margin on Dell computers, at least the cheap ones, is practically non-existent. I'm not sure what it is, but I've heard about $20. In total they recently made $17m on $3.2b in sales, so it's probably something miniscule like that.
Perhaps the law shouldn't require you to be 18 to purchase explicit magazines. Around here kids at age 13 gain age of majority over health decisions and at age 16 are considered adults for the purpose of sex, perhaps there's something fundamentally wrong that they're not allowed to buy explicit magazines. Granted I can see an argument against letting them have hardcore porn or BDSM publications, but for playboy?
Or more likely the bartender is violating the law. Around here they aren't given a choice, they have to do it. Now they don't generally bother to do it if they've carded somebody in the past and know that they're of age, but they are legally required to do it up to a pretty absurd age.
The issue isn't being popular, the issue is what do you have to do to become popular. Dumb it down enough and you can be the next Windows, but the problem really becomes at what point is the extra market share too expensive to be worthwhile.
I think the issue is that they focus on it to the detriment of things like proper bluetooth support. Last I checked which was recently, you couldn't log on at all to Ubuntu using a bluetooth keyboard. And from what I gather that's been broken for quite a while. It's all well and good to make things accessible, but if you don't fix things like that, then where are you?
To be fair, unlike those other fights, Protestants versus Catholics is a pretty important one. Religion as we know it, at least in the Christian parts, was seriously shaken up by the reformation. Even the Catholic church which insists upon being the one true Christian faith, was forced to make serious changes some of which are still being debated nearly 500 years later.
Wow, I cannot imagine how on earth you got those points. First off, you don't just remove all the troops in a couple days, the results of doing such an ill advised troop withdrawal tends to be catastrophic. Just look at what happened when we basically did that in Vietnam. Secondly, it's not just a matter of renaming the mission, they're there under a completely different mandate. By your logic, Operation Desert Storm is almost into its second decade.
Yeah that's right, enforcing the no fly zone is just a renaming of the war to keep it from being debated as a war, right?
Probably, because the wars were winding down. Wars tend to get less attention as they wind down. There are exceptions, but the reality is that Iraq was starting to wind down and consequently there wasn't the need to do a huge amount of protest. But there was also the issue of time, when Obama took office, the war was hardly the only mess he got stuck with, people tend to focus on the things with the most immediate impact as in the economy.
I realize that the right needs to invent conspiracies to drive it, but give me a break, at some point it's just sad. Sort of like that "conspiracy" to remove the w keys from all the keyboards that didn't really happen.
That's not apples to apples with the comparison. This study doesn't say anything about morality, it just says that video games appear to improve a person's probabilistic inference. Meaning that while they still might be apt to gun down innocent civilians, it's less likely that they'll do it accidentally.
Morality is a completely different portion of the brain than what they're studying here.
Eh, it's got nothing to do with video games. You can train the brain to do the same thing without the video games. It's how I managed to get so good at catching things with my non-dominant hand. Visualization exercises are what does it, the video game is just a tool to make the visualization happen.
They're asserting that action games help with both speed and accuracy. They're suggesting that it's based upon "probabilistic inference" basically a process similar to card counting in black jack.
The main problem with that is that you're only training the brain to deal with certain types of stimulus, primarily visual and auditory. It's definitely a real phenomenon, but I'm thinking that they're overstating it and I doubt very much that it extends much beyond a narrow range of tasks.
It's a dubious study, Marines do that through extensive drilling, taking as much thought out of the process as possible. Rather than have to think about how to do it, they've trained so much on a lot of it that they can skip the thinking and get right to the doing. Cuts a half second or so easy.
Beyond that though, the study is a bit of bunk. Video games require a specific kind of focus, concentration and thought. It definitely doesn't help with anything that requires physical coordination beyond the portions of the body used. Nor does it help with tasks that require communication, beyond what's possible in game. And it certainly doesn't help with situations where the situation isn't rule base.
We're luckier than that here. We've got dial-up, cable, DSL or Clear. But the prices are not particularly good. I'm tempted to give clear a shot because for something like $75 a month, I get both home and mobile without a cap and possibly at a speed that matches what I'm getting now.
But in general, there's no competition here either. And for some inexplicable reason despite having a huge amount of dark fiber available, the speeds are pathetic compared with some other places. Even the cable company tops out at 12mbps when factoring in their cheating.
But, they aren't upgrading their equipment. I mean the available speeds here haven't changed in years. Back in 2000, the cable modem was giving me 4mbps, and now my DSL is promising 5Mbps. Which is the top speed available from Qwest. Supposedly, Speakeasy can do 10mbps, for way over a hundred a month.
I'd be ecstatic if the price weren't going down because the speeds were going up so drastically, but around here, despite all the IT companies, the speeds have been stagnant for years.
Supposedly, a part of the problem is that Qwest sold of its wireless unit, but considering the amount of a dark fiber under Seattle, there's really no excuse for the slow speeds.
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30 years seems fair, fewer people would go into the music business if they had no way of providing for their loved ones if they died an untimely death. 30 years seems reasonable, provided it's 30 years after creation. At this point we'd have the entire catalog of Louis Armostrong, most of Miles Davis' stuff, every movie that Murnau ever made. Not to mention that the Beastie Boys could go back to sampling and perhaps try to top Paul's Boutique.
Performance wise it really depends, between OSes on the same architecture, not likely, between different architectures, almost certainly.
To be fair, the last time they did anything like that it was between X86, Alpha and PowerPC.
You might try easy peasy, I haven't had any trouble with it on my Eee PC 900.
Crossover is OTOH pretty easy, and getting easier what with the inclusion of C4P in recent releases. It's a bit of an investment, but in my experience it does a pretty good job. In some ways better than Windows native, as you don't have to worry as much about apps interacting with each other.
Admittedly, it's not perfect, and many apps don't run at all or run imperfectly, but it is a possibility.
They give you viruses as well if you're not careful.
Mistake? The only mistake they made in that respect was not requiring carriers and handset devs to disclose what they've locked. Other than that it's perfectly fine. What wasn't fine was realizing after I bought the phone just how locked down it was.
It does, I've had my Nexus one for quite a while now, and it's definitely not what I would consider a PoS at this point. It's not the greatest phone out there, but it's hardly a PoS as the GP suggests. As you imply, you just have to be mindful about the future like with any other technology if you're going to be so picky.
Depends which country, but I don't think that it's entirely Google's fault, there are complications such as handling cross border banking transactions. I suspect that it probably has to do with Googlecheck out only being within the US. But, I could be wrong, I suspect that they're reluctant to add too many areas that aren't covered by their checkout system.
$70 is 30% less than $100. You're like one of those feminists that rounds 1/3 up to all and 1/5 down to zero without giving any justification for doing so.
Not going to happen. The carriers for whatever reason don't use the same spectrum, you've got Verizon and Sprint on CDMA, but even the GSM providers AT&T and T-mobile use different spectrum for their 3G service.
That's why I returned my Backflip and went with a Nexus One. It still has locked in apps by default, but you can easily unlock it and remove them if you wish. But even if you don't the phone feels a lot less bloated. Unfortunately, the 2.2 update seems to have borked the wifi a bit. Wondering when Google will care enough to fix it, especially considering that Cyanogen has already fixed it.
Not that I like the practice, but they do get paid to include those apps. Which theoretically lowers the price you pay. Not sure if it really does, but the profit margin on Dell computers, at least the cheap ones, is practically non-existent. I'm not sure what it is, but I've heard about $20. In total they recently made $17m on $3.2b in sales, so it's probably something miniscule like that.
Perhaps the law shouldn't require you to be 18 to purchase explicit magazines. Around here kids at age 13 gain age of majority over health decisions and at age 16 are considered adults for the purpose of sex, perhaps there's something fundamentally wrong that they're not allowed to buy explicit magazines. Granted I can see an argument against letting them have hardcore porn or BDSM publications, but for playboy?
Or more likely the bartender is violating the law. Around here they aren't given a choice, they have to do it. Now they don't generally bother to do it if they've carded somebody in the past and know that they're of age, but they are legally required to do it up to a pretty absurd age.
The issue isn't being popular, the issue is what do you have to do to become popular. Dumb it down enough and you can be the next Windows, but the problem really becomes at what point is the extra market share too expensive to be worthwhile.
I think the issue is that they focus on it to the detriment of things like proper bluetooth support. Last I checked which was recently, you couldn't log on at all to Ubuntu using a bluetooth keyboard. And from what I gather that's been broken for quite a while. It's all well and good to make things accessible, but if you don't fix things like that, then where are you?
To be fair, unlike those other fights, Protestants versus Catholics is a pretty important one. Religion as we know it, at least in the Christian parts, was seriously shaken up by the reformation. Even the Catholic church which insists upon being the one true Christian faith, was forced to make serious changes some of which are still being debated nearly 500 years later.
Wow, I cannot imagine how on earth you got those points. First off, you don't just remove all the troops in a couple days, the results of doing such an ill advised troop withdrawal tends to be catastrophic. Just look at what happened when we basically did that in Vietnam. Secondly, it's not just a matter of renaming the mission, they're there under a completely different mandate. By your logic, Operation Desert Storm is almost into its second decade.
Yeah that's right, enforcing the no fly zone is just a renaming of the war to keep it from being debated as a war, right?
Probably, because the wars were winding down. Wars tend to get less attention as they wind down. There are exceptions, but the reality is that Iraq was starting to wind down and consequently there wasn't the need to do a huge amount of protest. But there was also the issue of time, when Obama took office, the war was hardly the only mess he got stuck with, people tend to focus on the things with the most immediate impact as in the economy.
I realize that the right needs to invent conspiracies to drive it, but give me a break, at some point it's just sad. Sort of like that "conspiracy" to remove the w keys from all the keyboards that didn't really happen.
That's not apples to apples with the comparison. This study doesn't say anything about morality, it just says that video games appear to improve a person's probabilistic inference. Meaning that while they still might be apt to gun down innocent civilians, it's less likely that they'll do it accidentally.
Morality is a completely different portion of the brain than what they're studying here.
Eh, it's got nothing to do with video games. You can train the brain to do the same thing without the video games. It's how I managed to get so good at catching things with my non-dominant hand. Visualization exercises are what does it, the video game is just a tool to make the visualization happen.
They're asserting that action games help with both speed and accuracy. They're suggesting that it's based upon "probabilistic inference" basically a process similar to card counting in black jack.
The main problem with that is that you're only training the brain to deal with certain types of stimulus, primarily visual and auditory. It's definitely a real phenomenon, but I'm thinking that they're overstating it and I doubt very much that it extends much beyond a narrow range of tasks.
It's a dubious study, Marines do that through extensive drilling, taking as much thought out of the process as possible. Rather than have to think about how to do it, they've trained so much on a lot of it that they can skip the thinking and get right to the doing. Cuts a half second or so easy.
Beyond that though, the study is a bit of bunk. Video games require a specific kind of focus, concentration and thought. It definitely doesn't help with anything that requires physical coordination beyond the portions of the body used. Nor does it help with tasks that require communication, beyond what's possible in game. And it certainly doesn't help with situations where the situation isn't rule base.
We're luckier than that here. We've got dial-up, cable, DSL or Clear. But the prices are not particularly good. I'm tempted to give clear a shot because for something like $75 a month, I get both home and mobile without a cap and possibly at a speed that matches what I'm getting now.
But in general, there's no competition here either. And for some inexplicable reason despite having a huge amount of dark fiber available, the speeds are pathetic compared with some other places. Even the cable company tops out at 12mbps when factoring in their cheating.
But, they aren't upgrading their equipment. I mean the available speeds here haven't changed in years. Back in 2000, the cable modem was giving me 4mbps, and now my DSL is promising 5Mbps. Which is the top speed available from Qwest. Supposedly, Speakeasy can do 10mbps, for way over a hundred a month.
I'd be ecstatic if the price weren't going down because the speeds were going up so drastically, but around here, despite all the IT companies, the speeds have been stagnant for years.
Supposedly, a part of the problem is that Qwest sold of its wireless unit, but considering the amount of a dark fiber under Seattle, there's really no excuse for the slow speeds.