Not even close, man. The concept of the phrase "mini computer" has far more in common now with small form factor computers than that old device from the 60s with a similar name.
I don't think anyone could reasonably confuse the two and assume there is a relation.
No, not really. Comparing iOS and Android directly on performance is silly. They're two totally different ecosystems and hard performance numbers don't change much. That's like a typical user picking a Mac or Windows PC because one performs 5% better at random tasks, ignoring the fact that the offerings between each machine is radically different and pure performance numbers are only a tiny part of the whole picture.
Apple has no reason to cheat because they have no competition that merits the risk of cheating on. It might have been a different story had iOS hardware been available from multiple vendors.
I understand your rationale, but I think the Half-Life franchise has managed to maintain a level of interest on par or greater than franchises like Duke Nukem. Sure there are many who moved on, but it has been shown time and time again that there is still a very large following for the franchise to resume. It might not be all the same individuals from back in the day but it will definitely thrive if and when it comes out.
The robotic version was made for nuclear decommission. There is no operator in the vicinity in that situation. The video here is just demonstrating the same laser beam technology with a mounted pistol grip for manual use.
"My friend owns a monster." -- You friend owns what? I don't think you meant a monster. -- "eh, you know, a very big dangerous jungle cat" -- oh, like a lion -- "not a lion, it has stripes" -- oh, a tiger.
Do you frequently converse with machine translators that elaborate the meaning of their mistranslations? Would be interested in knowing which one is capable of that. See when I use them it's what-you-see-is-what-you-get and I have to pick at the original source text with a dictionary to learn monster actually means tiger. That they can nonchalantly narrow the meaning down for you in a Star Trek-esque computer conversation is leaps and bounds ahead of what I'm used to!
Sarcasm aside for a moment, you're actually complaining that machine translators may eventually get so convincing that you might not even notice the errors anymore? Really? Sign me up for that scenario. Nothing should replace native translators anyway for precision work.
Jeeze, did you even read the article you linked when pointing out heroin as the big bad or did you just look for the first article that had a bar graph with heroin seemingly on the top? It basically contradicts your entire attitude about heroin, and reaffirms the thought process of the person you're quoting, even if it was an exaggeration.
Here, let me quote something from your own link:
Firstly, the harms of a given drug will depend upon its legal status. The best way to demonstrate this point is with heroin, which is placed at the top of the Lancet-scale as the most harmful of all drugs. For street heroin this may well be the appropriate placing, but, if we are being scientific here, it is imperative to separate out the harms that follow from use of the drug per se, and the health and social harms exacerbated or created specifically by the drug's use within an illegal market. These, lets call them 'prohibition harms', include:
* Contaminated/cut product (poisoning, infection risks) * Dirty/shared needles (Hep C / HIV risk) * Vast quantities of low level acquisitive property crime to support a habit: illegal markets inflate the cost of an essentially worthless agricultural product to one that is worth more than its weight in gold. People on prescriptions don't have to nick stuff. * Street prostitution (see above) * Street dealing, drug-gang violence and turf wars * Drug litter (needles in the gutter etc)
More useful would have been to rank both illegal street heroin, associated with the above harms which aren't going to help its ranking much, and prescribed pharmaceutical heroin, associated with none of the above harms. The latter would certainly be considerably further down the scale. Luckily, we can theoretically do this with heroin as both legal and illegal markets exist simultaneously in the UK, although the number of prescribed users (approx 400) is rather eclipsed by the number of illicit users (approx 250,000+). It’s a great shame the authors of this study failed to make that comparison (we do, confusingly, get 'street methadone' in the ranking, but not the prescription variety).
The harms from heroin don't generally come from heroin itself, but from the unsafe creation and use pervasive of today's users as a result of being illegal.
That's squarely in the realm of the developers. Valve doesn't do any such compatibility work on third party games. If the developers don't upload or update the runtime files, for example patches for older games to run on modern operating systems, the game will not launch properly from Steam. We already see this in many older titles that have to specifically warn that XP, Vista, or 7 might not be a suitable OS for such games because the developers can't be bothered to or otherwise can't create a patch for modern operating systems.
As much as I find Apple a disagreeable company, you really should have known better than to install a beta-quality OS on your phone. I don't think Google would have personally done any different in this instance, though it may have been easier to reverse yourself.
I just wish viewing photos with stock software on Android wasn't so goddamn limited to the GPU texture size limits on the device. My 7 year old dell PDA can view images in their full quality through creative use of screen space, instead of keeping the whole image loaded in a downsized capacity where zooming in just shows a bunch of muddled pixels stretched across the screen.
I don't think "switching to SteamOS" is even the point of the OS. Sounds like it's basically just an open OS primarily designed for steam branded hardware. I'm sure there will be nothing preventing others from using it in more traditional setting but I don't think Valve expects that to be a big thing.
You can't use irrelevant laws in your search for greater government transparency. That would make you no better than the government using laws to keep its people down.
Do you actually know the purpose of whistleblowing laws? You think it is designed to protect people who leak random classified information of no consequence to the law?
Let me ask you: if you had a friend who you knew was sleeping in a carport, wouldn't you offer them a bed - or at least whatever space you do have? If your answer is "it depends on", then many of the things you are about to say tend to be traits common in someone with mental illness.
Is it really that simple, though? Sure if I learned a friend of mine was homeless I would offer them a couch to crash on until they got back on their feet but this is also only possible due to my lifestyle. If I had a family to worry about, this might not be such an easy commitment to make, let alone the added cost of taking care of a homeless person no matter who they are with potentially no foreseeable fix in sight.
No distinction is necessary. Out of all of those "ambiguities", none of them are also states named California. Baja California is Baja Califonria. Not California. You can stop being a pedant now.
Indeed. The worst situation was when I called in a pickup, and the Taxi driver outright lies to dispatch saying I wasn't there so they can avoid actually picking me up. I was at a large stadium in the middle of the night, standing at the entrance to the parking lot. There was one way into the parking lot. I was the only person there. He then told dispatch that I wasn't there. Cabbies deserve to be fired over this crap.
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Not even close, man. The concept of the phrase "mini computer" has far more in common now with small form factor computers than that old device from the 60s with a similar name.
I don't think anyone could reasonably confuse the two and assume there is a relation.
No, not really. Comparing iOS and Android directly on performance is silly. They're two totally different ecosystems and hard performance numbers don't change much. That's like a typical user picking a Mac or Windows PC because one performs 5% better at random tasks, ignoring the fact that the offerings between each machine is radically different and pure performance numbers are only a tiny part of the whole picture.
Apple has no reason to cheat because they have no competition that merits the risk of cheating on. It might have been a different story had iOS hardware been available from multiple vendors.
Injustice spotted.
Yesterday, in fact.
I understand your rationale, but I think the Half-Life franchise has managed to maintain a level of interest on par or greater than franchises like Duke Nukem. Sure there are many who moved on, but it has been shown time and time again that there is still a very large following for the franchise to resume. It might not be all the same individuals from back in the day but it will definitely thrive if and when it comes out.
Of course, getting die-hard Half-Life fans out of the woodwork and interested after all this time might be difficult.
Somehow, I doubt that.
Halloween must have sucked for you when you were a kid.
The robotic version was made for nuclear decommission. There is no operator in the vicinity in that situation. The video here is just demonstrating the same laser beam technology with a mounted pistol grip for manual use.
"My friend owns a monster." -- You friend owns what? I don't think you meant a monster. -- "eh, you know, a very big dangerous jungle cat" -- oh, like a lion -- "not a lion, it has stripes" -- oh, a tiger.
Do you frequently converse with machine translators that elaborate the meaning of their mistranslations? Would be interested in knowing which one is capable of that. See when I use them it's what-you-see-is-what-you-get and I have to pick at the original source text with a dictionary to learn monster actually means tiger. That they can nonchalantly narrow the meaning down for you in a Star Trek-esque computer conversation is leaps and bounds ahead of what I'm used to!
Sarcasm aside for a moment, you're actually complaining that machine translators may eventually get so convincing that you might not even notice the errors anymore? Really? Sign me up for that scenario. Nothing should replace native translators anyway for precision work.
Jeeze, did you even read the article you linked when pointing out heroin as the big bad or did you just look for the first article that had a bar graph with heroin seemingly on the top? It basically contradicts your entire attitude about heroin, and reaffirms the thought process of the person you're quoting, even if it was an exaggeration.
Here, let me quote something from your own link:
Firstly, the harms of a given drug will depend upon its legal status. The best way to demonstrate this point is with heroin, which is placed at the top of the Lancet-scale as the most harmful of all drugs. For street heroin this may well be the appropriate placing, but, if we are being scientific here, it is imperative to separate out the harms that follow from use of the drug per se, and the health and social harms exacerbated or created specifically by the drug's use within an illegal market. These, lets call them 'prohibition harms', include:
* Contaminated/cut product (poisoning, infection risks)
* Dirty/shared needles (Hep C / HIV risk)
* Vast quantities of low level acquisitive property crime to support a habit: illegal markets inflate the cost of an essentially worthless agricultural product to one that is worth more than its weight in gold. People on prescriptions don't have to nick stuff.
* Street prostitution (see above)
* Street dealing, drug-gang violence and turf wars
* Drug litter (needles in the gutter etc)
More useful would have been to rank both illegal street heroin, associated with the above harms which aren't going to help its ranking much, and prescribed pharmaceutical heroin, associated with none of the above harms. The latter would certainly be considerably further down the scale. Luckily, we can theoretically do this with heroin as both legal and illegal markets exist simultaneously in the UK, although the number of prescribed users (approx 400) is rather eclipsed by the number of illicit users (approx 250,000+). It’s a great shame the authors of this study failed to make that comparison (we do, confusingly, get 'street methadone' in the ranking, but not the prescription variety).
The harms from heroin don't generally come from heroin itself, but from the unsafe creation and use pervasive of today's users as a result of being illegal.
That's squarely in the realm of the developers. Valve doesn't do any such compatibility work on third party games. If the developers don't upload or update the runtime files, for example patches for older games to run on modern operating systems, the game will not launch properly from Steam. We already see this in many older titles that have to specifically warn that XP, Vista, or 7 might not be a suitable OS for such games because the developers can't be bothered to or otherwise can't create a patch for modern operating systems.
As much as I find Apple a disagreeable company, you really should have known better than to install a beta-quality OS on your phone. I don't think Google would have personally done any different in this instance, though it may have been easier to reverse yourself.
I just wish viewing photos with stock software on Android wasn't so goddamn limited to the GPU texture size limits on the device. My 7 year old dell PDA can view images in their full quality through creative use of screen space, instead of keeping the whole image loaded in a downsized capacity where zooming in just shows a bunch of muddled pixels stretched across the screen.
Not for PC games it doesn't, unless you also crack your games.
Why exactly would you exclude ever using any older hardware in a new computer...?
I don't think "switching to SteamOS" is even the point of the OS. Sounds like it's basically just an open OS primarily designed for steam branded hardware. I'm sure there will be nothing preventing others from using it in more traditional setting but I don't think Valve expects that to be a big thing.
You can't use irrelevant laws in your search for greater government transparency. That would make you no better than the government using laws to keep its people down.
Do you actually know the purpose of whistleblowing laws? You think it is designed to protect people who leak random classified information of no consequence to the law?
Let me ask you: if you had a friend who you knew was sleeping in a carport, wouldn't you offer them a bed - or at least whatever space you do have? If your answer is "it depends on", then many of the things you are about to say tend to be traits common in someone with mental illness.
Is it really that simple, though? Sure if I learned a friend of mine was homeless I would offer them a couch to crash on until they got back on their feet but this is also only possible due to my lifestyle. If I had a family to worry about, this might not be such an easy commitment to make, let alone the added cost of taking care of a homeless person no matter who they are with potentially no foreseeable fix in sight.
So I'm to understand you just learned how advertising on the Internet works today and couldn't wait to share your knowledge, yeah?
No distinction is necessary. Out of all of those "ambiguities", none of them are also states named California. Baja California is Baja Califonria. Not California. You can stop being a pedant now.
Indeed. The worst situation was when I called in a pickup, and the Taxi driver outright lies to dispatch saying I wasn't there so they can avoid actually picking me up. I was at a large stadium in the middle of the night, standing at the entrance to the parking lot. There was one way into the parking lot. I was the only person there. He then told dispatch that I wasn't there. Cabbies deserve to be fired over this crap.
Yes, yes it did.
I don't. Someone you don't like doing a good thing is still a good thing.
A child's "addiction" to tech and alcoholism are not even remotely in the same ballpark.