Obviously not, or we'd all be using Google+. Facebook handled that properly. I wasn't given timeline until the very final last day. Facebook staggered the roll out. Some people go it, some were delayed significantly hoping they never would, Facebook has to do something monumental that affects basically all users site-wide in a significant way at once. And a new service has to be standing there going "Hey here I am!" when that happens. Google+ has already been launched, and it really didn't get the traction it wanted or needed. They also had plenty of their own snafus when they launched, like completely breaking other services because I was logged into Google+
that's the point. Myspace and Facebook have been trendy despite good alternatives. Trendy doesn't mean frequently changing.
They're fickle in that what they want changes constantly. Not the service itself. It might be chalked up to loyalty as much as sheep mentality. Everyone else is here so I'll be here too. One day they say privacy is important but when facebook messes with the privacy settings, suddenly they change their mind.
100 million wasn't "extreme" at the time? What we consider "extreme" on facebook right now might be eclipsed by another service in the future.
People are fickle and trendy..despite all the time they've put into facebook, if the right thing comes along at the right time and Facebook does something monumentally foolish, that perfect storm really hasn't happened yet. Google+ really should have been kept in the wings, tested and waiting for Facebook to just completely screw the pooch. Until then it really had no chance at all, nothing really does.
The thing is though, if someone wants to take down facebook they need to be the only other game in town. There really can only be one big social network at once, unless you've got complete duplication between them, but most people don't want to do that. If facebook screws up somehow and several competitors try and take over at once, and each of them takes a few users, what's going to happen is that eventually everyone will gravitate towards one of the networks. It is inevitable. Everyone needs to be together for it to be successful. However the chaos surrounding several competitors stepping in if Facebook leaves itself vulnerable will really only benefit facebook. A fractured user base means people will just turn around and go back to Facebook, unless facebook does something completely whacky like decide to start with monthly subscriptions or something. That would permanently drive people away.
iPods are another story.. I hardly see anywhere near as many of them now that smartphones are all the rage. Smartphones have completely replaced the basic iPod. About the only benefit you get out of an ipod these days is if you're using a shuffle while exercising. For most people it's more convenient to carry a single device, and outside of the iphone changeable batteries are usually sufficient, and at least with the iphone you can get those external batteries to charge it up if you need to.
EA has a habit of doing this on systems they don't like or want to support. before they killed off NHL on the PC (fuck them for that) they released absolutely horrible versions of the game on the PC claiming it was because of "piracy" when it was really just about terribly production values. Their last version on the PC was a PS2 port when the Xbox 360 and PS3 were getting far superior versions because EA claimed the PC was not "next generation"
The fact that EA is a dirty lying company really isn't news.
No, the worst was a website here in Korea. they asked you to enter a password of 6-10 characters, but the text field didn't have a limit for some reason. when you put in a password longer than 10 characters it took it, and created your account when you tried to login, it would generate a DB error if you tried to input your longer than 10 character password. if you input only the first 10 characters it would fail to login couple this with the fact that 99.9% of websites in Korea, for some god awful reason, give you no means of contacting support without logging in, and that under Korea's real name system you were basically allowed 1 account per person..
They really don't enforce it. We have a regional group, fairly popular, thousands of members, occasionally people set up a business, create an account for the business under its name (as a personal account not a page, which is against facebooks policy) and use it to post ads in the group. Despite repeatedly reporting these people to facebook for spam (like upwards of 20-30 reports per individual) and reporting the profiles to facebook as being against policy some of these accounts have been there for months and months and months. Even if they get banned from the group, they just pop up in other similar regional groups making the same ads about whatever it is they've got going on.
I can't really see the point of facebook making these kinds of policies if they just don't really care to enforce them. Why bother taking user reports if you're not actually going to get your act together and do something about them?
When the account name is something like "Botswana Travel Deals!" and their timeline cover photo is nothing but a giant ad (also against the facebook policies) and they just leave it there for 6-8+ months..
No one uses the google app anyway. Google does a crap job in Korea. they're maps are inaccurate missing streets, etc. They've had to play catch up for years and never really caught up. The local companies provide far better apps. No one is losing anything here.
All the pictures seem to show something much larger than that in them. they've got this big things hanging around their necks.
The reality is very little has been realized. Speech recognition is still hit and miss and it also doesn't quite function like it does in the show. In the show they could be having a conversation and then access the computer. the magic in the show was that they could use the word computer without the computer going "what what what?" every 10 seconds.
Perhaps if you analyzed voice stress and level you might be able to start picking out when people are trying to talk directly to the computer rather than just mention the word computer.
Despite Sony's protestations they knew very well that piracy was a big mover of hardware. I think a lot of people over-estimate the draw of homebrew though. While a few certainly use it, I think it's more of a geek's wet dream that hundreds of thousands are clamouring for a PSVita simply to run homebrew. The homebrew hack however, will likely lead to piracy at some point down the road. You will probably see a large upswing in sales at that time.
I'd go out on a limb and guess you're going to have a hard time claiming the semen inside her came from incidental contact.
While you might be able to argue about DNA on a front door knob, or on someone's hand if you'd had cause to shake their hand before, but there are plenty of situations where the question of how is answered only by involvement in the crime itself.
What's worse is when you're transferring. If you have any liquids left and you have to go through security again, you lose it..even when it's in the contained transfer area. So stupid. After making a very long international flight with many transfers, we often had to through security again, despite just coming off a plane, and not exiting the security area. Even the small bottles of water they give you on the plane itself got confiscated. It's pure fucking idiocy .
I've been posting this link since it came out. This was originally written on a website called "pointless waste of time". I guess cracked bought them. Anyway, point 1, 5 years ago called this:
Two, as developers have lamented, the guts of the new consoles are geared to make the gaming equivalent of dumb blondes. It has to do with the fact that both the XBox 360 and the PS3's Cell CPU use "in-order" processing, which, to greatly simplify, means they've intentionally crippled the ability to make clever A.I. and dynamic, unpredictable, wide-open games in favor of beautiful water reflections and explosion debris that flies through the air prettily.
As Canada is the only nation on the planet insane enough to ban walkers (with possession carrying a harsher penalty than negligent driving), these would likely fall under the ban of infant mobility devices.
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actually, All those eons ago someone was talking about the "reality" of the Onlive service. They claimed the reality was that it was good. As if that was fact, I simply stated that it wasn't reality and the reality was that the majority of users and reporters who have dealt with the service found it to be unacceptable. The question about use came after that. I also clearly stated in my original post, that it was "Reported" I never claimed it as a be all and end all fact, nor even as my own opinion formed on experience. To be honest I doubt you could even carry this conversation in simple English. You've clearly got some serious issues even with foundation level English. I know Onlive won't work for me because I'm opposed to it on a philosophical level. It's only convenient that it fails on a technical level as well. You can carry on all you want, people form valid opinions about things all the time without actually trying them. That's why we have things like user reviews, news reports, discussions, etc. Otherwise people would have to buy every product in the world to figure out which one they should use. Your issues seems to extend well beyond a failure at communication you just don't seem to comprehend how life works on a day to day basis. But don't worry, someday you'll either get there, or the government will step in and send some elderly caretaker to stop by each day and prepare your meals for you.
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What tantrum? Do you even know what words mean? so far I haven't seen any evidence that you do.
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The majority are negative. That includes user opinions which don't get listed on Wikipedia. Just because there is one good opinion doesn't make it good. A quick google search shows me the overwhelming amount of opinions are negative. Honestly, the experience of someone who fails at basic things like communication really doesn't get much weight on the pile.
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The system is that I go out and aggregate the opinions. It is impossible for me to try Onlive without spending a very large sum of money, probably at least $1500. Your positive opinion is a drop in the bucket against all the negative ones out there that come from multiple types of sources, so no, it's not a compelling argument to suddenly start liking Onlive.
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" Unless you've tried the service you have no idea if it's any good for you or not." That is a fact
If only the world had some kind of large information sharing service where people could learn about things without the need physically touch or travel and interact with every subject in person.. the person who created something like that would really be on to a great idea!
You admit that a lot of people aren't happy with Onlive. So we have the people posting just as you are who are unhappy, we have the journalists, we have the screenshots, we have the laws of physics, we have the state of internet service in the current markets, and we're supposed to take some random lone ranger's voice on slashdot? Right.. compelling argument.
Bioware to stop being a joke of a company and return to their former quality.
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Not really, because the public's reaction mirrors that of the journalists. You're basically trying to invent a giant conspiracy to bury Onlive at this point to excuse it. The bend over backwards we'd have to do to excuse all the evidence to the contrary becomes much less likely the more complicated it gets. We've got journalists, we've got players, we've got screen shots, we've got the fact that we know some companies pay to plant good reviews, and we also know that there are genuine good reviews and coverage of other products on the net. That's far too many factors conspiring to generate a negative view of the product for it to be some kind of coincidence.
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Obviously not, or we'd all be using Google+. Facebook handled that properly. I wasn't given timeline until the very final last day. Facebook staggered the roll out. Some people go it, some were delayed significantly hoping they never would,
Facebook has to do something monumental that affects basically all users site-wide in a significant way at once.
And a new service has to be standing there going "Hey here I am!" when that happens.
Google+ has already been launched, and it really didn't get the traction it wanted or needed. They also had plenty of their own snafus when they launched, like completely breaking other services because I was logged into Google+
that's the point. Myspace and Facebook have been trendy despite good alternatives.
Trendy doesn't mean frequently changing.
They're fickle in that what they want changes constantly. Not the service itself. It might be chalked up to loyalty as much as sheep mentality. Everyone else is here so I'll be here too. One day they say privacy is important but when facebook messes with the privacy settings, suddenly they change their mind.
100 million wasn't "extreme" at the time?
What we consider "extreme" on facebook right now might be eclipsed by another service in the future.
People are fickle and trendy..despite all the time they've put into facebook, if the right thing comes along at the right time and Facebook does something monumentally foolish, that perfect storm really hasn't happened yet. Google+ really should have been kept in the wings, tested and waiting for Facebook to just completely screw the pooch. Until then it really had no chance at all, nothing really does.
The thing is though, if someone wants to take down facebook they need to be the only other game in town. There really can only be one big social network at once, unless you've got complete duplication between them, but most people don't want to do that. If facebook screws up somehow and several competitors try and take over at once, and each of them takes a few users, what's going to happen is that eventually everyone will gravitate towards one of the networks. It is inevitable. Everyone needs to be together for it to be successful. However the chaos surrounding several competitors stepping in if Facebook leaves itself vulnerable will really only benefit facebook. A fractured user base means people will just turn around and go back to Facebook, unless facebook does something completely whacky like decide to start with monthly subscriptions or something. That would permanently drive people away.
iPods are another story.. I hardly see anywhere near as many of them now that smartphones are all the rage. Smartphones have completely replaced the basic iPod. About the only benefit you get out of an ipod these days is if you're using a shuffle while exercising. For most people it's more convenient to carry a single device, and outside of the iphone changeable batteries are usually sufficient, and at least with the iphone you can get those external batteries to charge it up if you need to.
EA has a habit of doing this on systems they don't like or want to support. before they killed off NHL on the PC (fuck them for that)
they released absolutely horrible versions of the game on the PC claiming it was because of "piracy" when it was really just about terribly production values. Their last version on the PC was a PS2 port when the Xbox 360 and PS3 were getting far superior versions because EA claimed the PC was not "next generation"
The fact that EA is a dirty lying company really isn't news.
There are already drugs which leave the body extremely quickly and leave no trace.
Here in Korea Daum and Naver absolutely shame Google. Google isn't even competition here.
Google's maps lack detail (entire streets missing) and features. Like real time bus data.
No, the worst was a website here in Korea.
they asked you to enter a password of 6-10 characters, but the text field didn't have a limit for some reason.
when you put in a password longer than 10 characters it took it, and created your account
when you tried to login, it would generate a DB error if you tried to input your longer than 10 character password. if you input only the first 10 characters it would fail to login
couple this with the fact that 99.9% of websites in Korea, for some god awful reason, give you no means of contacting support without logging in, and that under Korea's real name system you were basically allowed 1 account per person..
you were effectively locked out of the site.
They really don't enforce it.
We have a regional group, fairly popular, thousands of members, occasionally people set up a business, create an account for the business under its name (as a personal account not a page, which is against facebooks policy) and use it to post ads in the group. Despite repeatedly reporting these people to facebook for spam (like upwards of 20-30 reports per individual) and reporting the profiles to facebook as being against policy some of these accounts have been there for months and months and months. Even if they get banned from the group, they just pop up in other similar regional groups making the same ads about whatever it is they've got going on.
I can't really see the point of facebook making these kinds of policies if they just don't really care to enforce them. Why bother taking user reports if you're not actually going to get your act together and do something about them?
When the account name is something like "Botswana Travel Deals!" and their timeline cover photo is nothing but a giant ad (also against the facebook policies) and they just leave it there for 6-8+ months..
reads like it was written by a 1st year PR student.
No one uses the google app anyway. Google does a crap job in Korea. they're maps are inaccurate missing streets, etc. They've had to play catch up for years and never really caught up. The local companies provide far better apps. No one is losing anything here.
All the pictures seem to show something much larger than that in them.
they've got this big things hanging around their necks.
The reality is very little has been realized. Speech recognition is still hit and miss and it also doesn't quite function like it does in the show. In the show they could be having a conversation and then access the computer. the magic in the show was that they could use the word computer without the computer going "what what what?" every 10 seconds.
Perhaps if you analyzed voice stress and level you might be able to start picking out when people are trying to talk directly to the computer rather than just mention the word computer.
Despite Sony's protestations they knew very well that piracy was a big mover of hardware. I think a lot of people over-estimate the draw of homebrew though. While a few certainly use it, I think it's more of a geek's wet dream that hundreds of thousands are clamouring for a PSVita simply to run homebrew. The homebrew hack however, will likely lead to piracy at some point down the road. You will probably see a large upswing in sales at that time.
When is the US going to invade England and restore freedom?
Of course they're hoping to find the perp, but if they don't, they hope they'll find a family member or two as a backup plan.
I'd go out on a limb and guess you're going to have a hard time claiming the semen inside her came from incidental contact.
While you might be able to argue about DNA on a front door knob, or on someone's hand if you'd had cause to shake their hand before, but there are plenty of situations where the question of how is answered only by involvement in the crime itself.
What's worse is when you're transferring. If you have any liquids left and you have to go through security again, you lose it..even when it's in the contained transfer area. So stupid.
After making a very long international flight with many transfers, we often had to through security again, despite just coming off a plane, and not exiting the security area. Even the small bottles of water they give you on the plane itself got confiscated. It's pure fucking idiocy .
http://www.cracked.com/article_15748_a-gamers-manifesto.html
I've been posting this link since it came out. This was originally written on a website called "pointless waste of time". I guess cracked bought them. Anyway, point 1, 5 years ago called this:
As Canada is the only nation on the planet insane enough to ban walkers (with possession carrying a harsher penalty than negligent driving), these would likely fall under the ban of infant mobility devices.
actually, All those eons ago someone was talking about the "reality" of the Onlive service. They claimed the reality was that it was good. As if that was fact, I simply stated that it wasn't reality and the reality was that the majority of users and reporters who have dealt with the service found it to be unacceptable. The question about use came after that. I also clearly stated in my original post, that it was "Reported" I never claimed it as a be all and end all fact, nor even as my own opinion formed on experience.
To be honest I doubt you could even carry this conversation in simple English. You've clearly got some serious issues even with foundation level English. I know Onlive won't work for me because I'm opposed to it on a philosophical level. It's only convenient that it fails on a technical level as well. You can carry on all you want, people form valid opinions about things all the time without actually trying them. That's why we have things like user reviews, news reports, discussions, etc. Otherwise people would have to buy every product in the world to figure out which one they should use. Your issues seems to extend well beyond a failure at communication you just don't seem to comprehend how life works on a day to day basis. But don't worry, someday you'll either get there, or the government will step in and send some elderly caretaker to stop by each day and prepare your meals for you.
What tantrum? Do you even know what words mean?
so far I haven't seen any evidence that you do.
The majority are negative. That includes user opinions which don't get listed on Wikipedia. Just because there is one good opinion doesn't make it good. A quick google search shows me the overwhelming amount of opinions are negative. Honestly, the experience of someone who fails at basic things like communication really doesn't get much weight on the pile.
You're not very good at language are you? You don't know how to use the word "we" and you also can't follow basic logic in forming conclusions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We#Atypical_uses_of_we
The system is that I go out and aggregate the opinions. It is impossible for me to try Onlive without spending a very large sum of money, probably at least $1500. Your positive opinion is a drop in the bucket against all the negative ones out there that come from multiple types of sources, so no, it's not a compelling argument to suddenly start liking Onlive.
If only the world had some kind of large information sharing service where people could learn about things without the need physically touch or travel and interact with every subject in person..
the person who created something like that would really be on to a great idea!
You admit that a lot of people aren't happy with Onlive. So we have the people posting just as you are who are unhappy, we have the journalists, we have the screenshots, we have the laws of physics, we have the state of internet service in the current markets, and we're supposed to take some random lone ranger's voice on slashdot? Right.. compelling argument.
Bioware to stop being a joke of a company and return to their former quality.
Not really, because the public's reaction mirrors that of the journalists. You're basically trying to invent a giant conspiracy to bury Onlive at this point to excuse it. The bend over backwards we'd have to do to excuse all the evidence to the contrary becomes much less likely the more complicated it gets. We've got journalists, we've got players, we've got screen shots, we've got the fact that we know some companies pay to plant good reviews, and we also know that there are genuine good reviews and coverage of other products on the net. That's far too many factors conspiring to generate a negative view of the product for it to be some kind of coincidence.