This is mostly associated with nicotine but ignores it's addictive properties. http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/drugs-alcohol/nicotine-health-benefits.htm While it may have some minor health benefits, unless I see people only wearing the patch for that reason, and a method to deal with addiction, it's still not remotely in the same class as the other stuff.
Except most things have some kind of benefit. Even alcohol has health benefits in certain quantities. You can also enjoy alcohol responsibly. There is no responsible way to enjoy cigarettes.
I think as long as it's simple enough it would. If integration was trivial, and it should be, then there would be no reason not to add it. Especially if it was supported on non-jailbroken phones.
That depends on the market. Here in Korea people have no issues carrying around the antenna for their DMB phones to attach when they want to watch TV on the train or something like that. You might not want to take it with you all the time, but that's fine. It would work if it could be supported generically. e.g. the D-PAD could be given a variable in the game, so the device knows to take over for it, same with up to 4 buttons. It could be a trivial change for developers. basically all they would add would be something like: if the device is present, don't display the dpad/button overlay most of these games only ever have 1-3 buttons just attach a specific variable to each one that would match the device that the device would check for and done
http://icontrolpad.com/node/22 it's not made for general use. They need to make something that's actually supported and usable. it's also a bit of an overkill on shape. I was thinking of something that just extended off the end, something simpler. This is more of a luxury model.
There are some game styles for which it's okay, but mostly no.. they're terrible. I do game on my iphone, but it's more about convenience and boredom than preference. You know there are 3rd party companies making dock devices for the iphone, a Korean company here makes a DMB receiver that you can plug in to receive TV service in various countries. I heard there is a GPS device you can get that goes around your iphone. Why doesn't some company make a wrapper than has a D-pad and 4 buttons on it. Devs could make to it as an alternative input, it would be huge. Trivial to carry around if you've carrying a bag, and certainly not any more bulky than some of the other stuff. You could even combine it with a full wrap around case. so that you could leave it together sometimes rather than always take it apart. You might be looking at adding what? 1.5-2" to the overall length but not really anything to the width. (yes inevitable spam jokes)
- Touchscreens are sexy but impractical. They're imprecise without a stylus, awkward to hold, and you have to obscure your view of the action to effect a control.
This one appears to have buttons on it so you'll likely be using the buttons far more than the touchscreen itself. The touch screen will likely be for quicker things, switching inventory, a quick potion, etc. Not something that requires pixel perfect precision and there likely won't be any action going on on the touch screen.
Shouldn't this be easy to track? with the transaction ID, can't they see who bought the points in-game. Then find out if it belongs to an ipod or an iphone. If it belongs to an iphone couldn't they track that done and find out who owns it?
I've been extremely disappointed with this season and last. Matt Smith has done absolutely nothing for me. While Tennant quickly won me over, I've given Smith plenty of time to find his groove and have zero excitement about the stories like I had with the last doctor.
It's a shame as we're getting to the end of the regenerations, but they need to do something to give some life back to this franchise, it's a shame it's going down the toilet so fast.
When I was young, we'd raise 2-3 pigs over the summer and that would provide pork for most of the rest of the year. If he's only killing them to appreciate it, it takes but a couple of minutes to shoot them and slit their throats. There is no reason he couldn't go out for a weekend, take down a cow and a couple pigs and stock the freezer at home.
but it generally will not stand-up unless there is some kind of a BLP issue. Yes, I suppose you could try to cherry pick an example of some contentious editor on some article, but it is not the standard.
I'm beginning to think there are really only 1 or 2 people working at/. and they just user different names to try and keep the heat off them.. it might just be kdawson left at this point because there is no way there could be anyone else there and they let him anywhere near a keyboard unattended.
And yet here you still are. Why would I care about./'s usage? Aren't we talking about Wikipedia? Don't worry by the time your big-boy balls come in you'll learn to follow a conversation.
So really the tl;dr version is that you admit you're a hypocritical douchebag troll. You deride Wikipedia both for it's inaccuracies and for its requirement that you provide sources. You made a claim you didn't back it up you were given ample opportunity to do so and now continue under the guise that it's beneath you to support the bullshit you spew. You must be related to glenn beck or bill o'reilly. you could only be more obvious if you broke out the magic markers and scribbled it across your face.
In the future I'd suggest dialing it up beyond "3 year old tantrum in a department store" when you're caught with your pants around your ankles.
And yet I'm still waiting for the evidence to support the claim you made. You know the stuff that would make you look like anything but a tired old troll with an axe to grind. You made the claim and avoid supporting it and yet call out wikipedia for it's inaccuracy and bias. Then resort to unpleasentries when called on it. I believe there is a term for that. It's hypocritical douchebag. Just because you managed to get onto daddies slashdot account while he is out cleaning up your big-boy mess hardly makes you some kind of authority child
Your claim was that wikipedia was a bunch of 13 year olds, I asked you back it up, you've failed, which tells me you're just grinding an axe rather than trying to make a legitimate complaint. That taints any legitimate complaints you might have. Hyperbole serves no one. Wikipedia is never supposed to be a source itself. If you want sources, you go to the pages that are linked in support of information written on wikipedia. As for being wildly inaccurate, studies have been done to show that that is not true, studies which have been posted on this site, further evidence you're just grinding an axe. and actually it was wikipedia that profiled it's use, NYtimes just reported it,
Valid responses were received from respondents between 10 – 85 years. Overall, the average age of the Wikipedians that participated in the survey is 25.22 years. Half of the respondents are younger than 22 years. The most frequent age that can be observed within the respondents is 18 years. Splitting the respondents in four equally large age groups shows that 25% are younger than 18 years old, 25% are between 18 and 22, a further 25% are between 22 and 30 (e.g. half of the respondents are between 18 and 30 years) and the remaining 25% are between 30 and 85 years old..
The problem is is that if it's not as convenient as what we have now..why use it? The cashier can override and just punch in the price if they need to.
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This is mostly associated with nicotine but ignores it's addictive properties.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/drugs-alcohol/nicotine-health-benefits.htm
While it may have some minor health benefits, unless I see people only wearing the patch for that reason, and a method to deal with addiction, it's still not remotely in the same class as the other stuff.
Except most things have some kind of benefit. Even alcohol has health benefits in certain quantities. You can also enjoy alcohol responsibly. There is no responsible way to enjoy cigarettes.
I think as long as it's simple enough it would. If integration was trivial, and it should be, then there would be no reason not to add it. Especially if it was supported on non-jailbroken phones.
That depends on the market. Here in Korea people have no issues carrying around the antenna for their DMB phones to attach when they want to watch TV on the train or something like that. You might not want to take it with you all the time, but that's fine. It would work if it could be supported generically. e.g. the D-PAD could be given a variable in the game, so the device knows to take over for it, same with up to 4 buttons. It could be a trivial change for developers.
basically all they would add would be something like:
if the device is present, don't display the dpad/button overlay
most of these games only ever have 1-3 buttons
just attach a specific variable to each one that would match the device that the device would check for and done
http://icontrolpad.com/node/22
it's not made for general use. They need to make something that's actually supported and usable.
it's also a bit of an overkill on shape. I was thinking of something that just extended off the end, something simpler. This is more of a luxury model.
There are some game styles for which it's okay, but mostly no.. they're terrible. I do game on my iphone, but it's more about convenience and boredom than preference. You know there are 3rd party companies making dock devices for the iphone, a Korean company here makes a DMB receiver that you can plug in to receive TV service in various countries.
I heard there is a GPS device you can get that goes around your iphone. Why doesn't some company make a wrapper than has a D-pad and 4 buttons on it. Devs could make to it as an alternative input, it would be huge. Trivial to carry around if you've carrying a bag, and certainly not any more bulky than some of the other stuff.
You could even combine it with a full wrap around case. so that you could leave it together sometimes rather than always take it apart.
You might be looking at adding what? 1.5-2" to the overall length but not really anything to the width. (yes inevitable spam jokes)
This one appears to have buttons on it so you'll likely be using the buttons far more than the touchscreen itself. The touch screen will likely be for quicker things, switching inventory, a quick potion, etc. Not something that requires pixel perfect precision and there likely won't be any action going on on the touch screen.
Shouldn't this be easy to track? with the transaction ID, can't they see who bought the points in-game. Then find out if it belongs to an ipod or an iphone. If it belongs to an iphone couldn't they track that done and find out who owns it?
Wow. You're kind of a moron.
I've been extremely disappointed with this season and last. Matt Smith has done absolutely nothing for me. While Tennant quickly won me over, I've given Smith plenty of time to find his groove and have zero excitement about the stories like I had with the last doctor.
It's a shame as we're getting to the end of the regenerations, but they need to do something to give some life back to this franchise, it's a shame it's going down the toilet so fast.
slashdot gets to the story..
When I was young, we'd raise 2-3 pigs over the summer and that would provide pork for most of the rest of the year. If he's only killing them to appreciate it, it takes but a couple of minutes to shoot them and slit their throats. There is no reason he couldn't go out for a weekend, take down a cow and a couple pigs and stock the freezer at home.
but it generally will not stand-up unless there is some kind of a BLP issue. Yes, I suppose you could try to cherry pick an example of some contentious editor on some article, but it is not the standard.
I'm beginning to think there are really only 1 or 2 people working at /. and they just user different names to try and keep the heat off them..
it might just be kdawson left at this point because there is no way there could be anyone else there and they let him anywhere near a keyboard unattended.
only if they're spewing garbage and not providing sources
And yet here you still are. Why would I care about ./'s usage? Aren't we talking about Wikipedia? Don't worry by the time your big-boy balls come in you'll learn to follow a conversation.
So really the tl;dr version is that you admit you're a hypocritical douchebag troll. You deride Wikipedia both for it's inaccuracies and for its requirement that you provide sources. You made a claim you didn't back it up you were given ample opportunity to do so and now continue under the guise that it's beneath you to support the bullshit you spew. You must be related to glenn beck or bill o'reilly. you could only be more obvious if you broke out the magic markers and scribbled it across your face.
In the future I'd suggest dialing it up beyond "3 year old tantrum in a department store" when you're caught with your pants around your ankles.
And yet I'm still waiting for the evidence to support the claim you made. You know the stuff that would make you look like anything but a tired old troll with an axe to grind. You made the claim and avoid supporting it and yet call out wikipedia for it's inaccuracy and bias. Then resort to unpleasentries when called on it. I believe there is a term for that. It's hypocritical douchebag. Just because you managed to get onto daddies slashdot account while he is out cleaning up your big-boy mess hardly makes you some kind of authority child
Your claim was that wikipedia was a bunch of 13 year olds, I asked you back it up, you've failed, which tells me you're just grinding an axe rather than trying to make a legitimate complaint. That taints any legitimate complaints you might have.
Hyperbole serves no one.
Wikipedia is never supposed to be a source itself. If you want sources, you go to the pages that are linked in support of information written on wikipedia.
As for being wildly inaccurate, studies have been done to show that that is not true, studies which have been posted on this site, further evidence you're just grinding an axe.
and actually it was wikipedia that profiled it's use, NYtimes just reported it,
But no.. keep pretending you're not here to grind an axe.
http://www.wikipediasurvey.org/docs/Wikipedia_Overview_15March2010-FINAL.pdf
and there conclusion was not that the bulk of editors was 13 years old.
sounds like someone has sour grapes about something..
Who is going to start it? I'll sign..
While wikipedia is interesting, it's got far too many issues to try and put it in that category.
Care to back up your assertion that wikipedia is nothing but "a bunch of 13-year-olds"?
How many of those edits are by butt-hurt cry babies upset that their special snowflake got deleted?
You know, since you want to break it down and all
Trying to figure that out is impossible. Even a pirate likely couldn't honestly answer if they would have otherwise bought a game they just pirated.
The problem is is that if it's not as convenient as what we have now..why use it?
The cashier can override and just punch in the price if they need to.
You'll get both. don't be so naive. Harper has his majority now, Canada is completely fucked.