I'm wondering how much it costs to add bluetooth to a device. I mean... them bluetooth headsets have it in, hell even the dinky little $12 'bluetooth speakers' you can park next to your iThing have it in...
What in the world possessed them to release a device that doesn't have bleutooth?
The Bluetooth hardware is cheap, it's Bluetooth certification that gets expensive.
I have a friend who works as a teacher in a rural town of Australia. Most of the kids couldn't give a shit, as a result they do badly.
The OP is clearly not Australian.
They also have no idea what they're on about.
Most places in Rural Australia are quite well to do... They have to be to survive because of their remoteness and the centralisation of services in Australia (living 300 KM from the nearest major city makes things expensive, try living 1500 KM from one, your milk has to be delivered by air. A lot of Americans (Europeans and Asians too) have no clue about the vast distances here in Australia, they think "Rural Australia" is like rural Kentucky, you're never more than an hour or 2's drive from somewhere... I used to live in the Pilbara, you're an hours drive from the next town and that's the same as your town, if you want to get to somewhere with more services, it's six hours, the nearest city with is 12 hours, if you want to get to the state capital, settle in for a 16 hour drive at 120 KPH.
So I'm calling bullshit on the AC's "rural" Australia bollocks.
Most of Australia's poor live in it's cities. These people, thanks to Australia's excellent public education system get the same opportunities as people born into money. If you get the marks to go into university, no problem in Australia no matter how poor you are.
Getting a good education in Australia is based on how hard you try. Now the AC and others have tried making a false equivalence between not having an opportunity and not caring. Australia and Europe are case in point against this. People who dont care about their education come from all socio-economic backgrounds, not just poor and when access to education is somewhat equal and fair and the poor aren't the worst where it comes to not caring about an education. When an opportunity exists to better ones self, you'll find the most disadvantaged are the most likely to take them to the fullest extent. The middle class in Australia is the socio-economic background that is most likely not to care about their or their children education.
Or if you would prefer it in "Strayian",
I hate to be That Guy, but the English to which you refer is only "standard" among Commonwealth countries, and is not a global one.
As well as former commonwealth countries and most countries that speak English as a second language... Well that's most of the world.
Neither of us would presume to instruct our colleagues on the Indian subcontinent, for example,
That is because our colleagues in the subcontinent speak Hindi as a primary language and British English as a secondary language. If you ignore their speech mannerisms which come from their native language and focus on their written skills, you'll find they utilise British English with all the U's and possessive pronouns that are entailed within.
Accept it, British English is the de facto standard of English in the world. The only places I've seen that practice US English are countries that were more or less colonised by them, such as the Philippines.
I haven't played the game yet but I find it funny that there is the criticism of the story and characters. I know these things are expected of modern games but, given the heritage of this game, I would never expect a good story but i would expect some fun shooter action. Wolfenstein comes from a time when, "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."
I think Eurogamer were just trying to find criticism for criticism's sake.
I fully expect the story to be cringeworthy, but I'm not buying the game for the story. I view games like Wolfenstein like action movies, a game where I can turn my brain off and enjoy it. Enough story to make the movie make sense, but not so much story that I need to bother keeping up with it.
So I expect it to be standard action movie fare, kill the bad guys, get the prize, fade to some classic rock or 80's jazz.
I think it's sad that I find the above formula so hard to find in modern games.
You'll find a lot of these engines have timing chains which last the lifetime of the car. The Japanese know how to build an engine to last, even an interference design. I agree about the diesels, they've gone very cheap and commodity but Europe has a thing about making you replace your car every 5 years. A 90's Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla will keep going for 500,000+ KM if you change the timing belt every 100,000 K's. Nissan cars with the SR20DET have run since 1989 on the original engine because they had chains instead of belts.
Dude, Nissan cars with the CA18DET are still running and they have belts, not chains. It's not because the SR has a chain, it's because it's a great goddamned motor. Ditto for the KA. Which, by the way, has timing chain guide failure problems which must be corrected or it will grenade itself one day at high RPM. But the SR has been gone for a long time...
I meant to say the SR20's are running for 20+ years on the original chain.
Some motors have timing chain issues due to port design, the GM Alloytech (High Feature V6) is a prime example. The chains have such serious issues they need to be replaced at 100,000 K's. However, issues like this are not typical for all timing chain motors. Most timing chains last the life time of the motor... which can be over 40 years in some cases.
Do not bail out GM and its subsidiaries and daughter companies like a chump like the German government did for Opel. You will get screwed in the worst possible way and GM will still close shop and move east the second they don't need your free guarantees anymore.
This is exactly what they did in Australia.
Government turns the taps off on the tax money, Holden (GM's Australian brand) starts shutting down all factories. Oh sorry, unless you subsidise us to the tune of half a billion a year, we cant stay.
Should of happened years ago. Open up grey imports on cars so we can pay Japanese and UK prices on cars.
Fantastic engines would be those 4-cylinder Toyota, Subaru or Honda engines that run efficiently for 200K miles, or diesel engines from mercedes or volvo that can go 500K
Neither exists any more. Those Japanese engines are all interference designs with timing belts now, and the diesels that would make those kind of miles without major mishap are long, long gone.
You'll find a lot of these engines have timing chains which last the lifetime of the car. The Japanese know how to build an engine to last, even an interference design. I agree about the diesels, they've gone very cheap and commodity but Europe has a thing about making you replace your car every 5 years. A 90's Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla will keep going for 500,000+ KM if you change the timing belt every 100,000 K's. Nissan cars with the SR20DET have run since 1989 on the original engine because they had chains instead of belts.
I cant say the same for a Holden (GM) car. A 2004 Holden Astra is a car to avoid like the plague. A 2010 Holden Cruze is still a car to avoid. Hell, I dont even want to get into a 2014 Holden Barina (Spark).
buut.. the gm engines are fantastic for buying in a box and having large amounts of aftermarket options. so they're great for building a weekend drag racer.
The one good thing you can say about GM engines is that they are easy to fix. Which is a very good thing because they break often.
A Honda K20 will be more difficult to fix, but chances are it will never need to be opened in it's lifetime. Same with a Toyota 2GR.
If you really want a weekend racer, a Honda K20 with a supercharger kit or Nissan SR20DET with a bigger turbo will be cheaper, easier to fit and more reliable. Most kit cars end up being built on Mazda MX-5s (Miatas) because they are that damned reliable as well as being light. However if reliability is not a concern, you cant go past a Mazda 20B rotary for racing fun.
They also have some fantastic engines. The down side is everything else.
You've lost me here. I dont know how GM only manages to get 300 KW out of a 6.2L V8 LS1. Europeans get more than that out of 4.5L V8's. Every other engine they make is pretty weak, both mechanically and performance wise.
The 3.5L alloytec (AKA: High Feature V6) became known for timing chain failures after just a few years, as such they need replacement at 100,000 KM like a timing belt. This is bad because timing chains are meant to last the life of an engine. A 20 yr old Nissan SR20DET will be running like a boss on it's original chain and they haven't made an SR20 in 11 years.
My mum unfortunately owns a Holden Cruze (Chevy in the states and Vauxhall in the UK) and I can believe that the engine is the best part of it.... but the engine is still complete shit.
They are also well-known for paint failure.
I guess they use different paint in the US, because the best thing you can say about a 15 yr old Holden (GM's brand in Oz) is that the paintwork is still good.
On the other hand, the first amendment says congress shall make no laws abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
In this case, it is pretty clear what the intent was. Congress is not to make any laws. It doesn't say that you cannot contract your speech rights away with a third party or that the loss of free speech in any way is prohibited.
Free speech in it's purest form means the government cant arrest you for what you say about the government. After that it gets open to interpretation.
However free speech does not protect you from criticism, nor doe it give you free license to say whatever you want wherever you want. There are restrictions on speech (the infamous "fire in a crowded theatre" example) and it does not protect you from the consequences of your speech.
Whilst I fully support your right to criticise other individuals and companies criticism must be truthful and accurate. Sadly most people who write criticism online are utterly incapable of this. Small complaints that may be easily addressed get blown completely out of proportion and much of it is outright fabrication because the critic is being emotive rather than rational. This gets to the point where people dont want their complaint redressed, rather they just want to hurt the company they feel wronged them. This is the secondary reason I dont rely on review sites like Yelp or Trip Advisor, the reviews are emotive rubbish and have no details (the main reason is because I'm not their client, I'm their product. Their client are the advertisers so the site will do what the advertisers demand, which is not in my interest).
I feel that some people go to far with criticism and enter the world of slander, companies and individuals should have the right to defend against this.
As I said, I fully support your right to criticise, but the people you criticise have the right of reply.
Where people are still dumb enough to buy phones on contract. Every other country, civilized or not, the people pay for the phone and buy the service they need
This is a symptom of the credit addiction prevalent in the US and becoming a serious problem in my own nation, Australia.
Rather than paying with their own money which may mean *gasp* saving up for what you want, they get everything on credit and pay for it over time which means creditors can add extra charges, interest and gives the purchaser less negotiating power with the merchant. However it satisfies the "I want it now, daddy, I want it Nooooooooww" crowd who are not only oblivious to the long term costs of credit, they're so dependent on credit they'll actually defend it and attack people who point out the obvious flaws.
Fortunately in Oz, I can still get a Pre-Paid (Pay As You Go) plan with our most expensive telco, Telstra for $30 a month that gives me enough phone calls and SMS (to be fair, I hardly use any of it) and between 400 MB and 1 GB of data (to which I use quite a bit).
I imagine even the Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy faded away if you took it 'out of range.'
I got the sense that in Adams's vision of "The Guide" all the data was locally cached.
Adams thought of "The Guide" as a set of encyclopaedias in a small device rather than a client for a server. This is why the Guide was always compared to Encyclopaedia Galactica which is a play on words for Encyclopaedia Britannica (which before the intertubes was a popular brand of encyclopaedia in British English nations).
A 27 year old Swede can look forward to 40% of the salary as a pension. A Greek 120%.
You are aware that that is one of the main reasons that Greece was so thoroughly fucked by the financial crisis? One of the main reasons why such a large proportion of Greeks had no jobs at all for years?
The main reason that Greece's economy ended up so fucked was the high level of tax evasion there. It's that a lot of Greek's didn't have jobs, its that they didn't have jobs on paper to avoid paying tax.
If heavier penalties fixed anything, nobody in the USA would do drugs or drive drunk.
Penalties are pointless if they aren't enforced.
The US has a problem with bad drivers (not just drunk/drug drivers, but terrible driving overall) because the laws are not enforced in any meaningful fashion.
I don't think most admins are worried about losing their job, I think they are worried about cloud services going down or disappearing and having nothing they can do about it,
Which will still be blamed on them, thus completing the job loss cycle.
Text messages cost money on a lot of plans. Data is much cheaper.
This isn't really a problem in a lot of countries.
However it's absolutely no excuse for messing with peoples texts.
Apple can prioritise their own proprietary messaging method/protocol over the standard one, but if they dont automatically fail back to the standard method when it fails there is a failure or someone leaves the system then Apple have created a problem that Apple needs to fix.
If Google did this, people would be up in arms over it. Why does Apple get defended?
That's like expecting help from your priest when you tell him you're going to convert to Islam!
Some religions require this. You certainly cant leave the Mormon religion without their permission. You can stop practising, but they still consider you a Mormon.
Now they'll finally have enough money to hire decent writers!
BattleField 4 (BF4)... (a sore spot)
Origin and Dice had the money, then dropped the ball in so many ways, that many are quitting BF4 or going back to BF3. Between the connection issues, bad color, unbelievable issues on a patch; things that would work prior don't anymore. It's become: christ! what the hell are up going to break this time.
You mean EA and DICE.
I loved the Battlefield series, from 1942 all the way to BFBC 2. Even the bad games like BF:Vietnam and BF2142 weren't that bad... until Battlefield 3.
BF3 broke the gameplay shockingly, the weapon upgrades were horribly overpowered and you'd get XP no matter what you did, so basically someone who was bad at the game just had to keep sucking until they got the heavy barrel.
I played it for about 3 days and gave up. The final straw was a month later when I decided to give it another go and Origin decided I needed to download the entire game client again. I uninstalled BF3 and Origin along with it. EA killed the Battlefield series with BF3, BF4 was just a withered corpse.
I hope he has 50 kaypros or whatever stored in nitrogen somewhere... that can't go on forever.
I don't see why not. DOS runs fine on modern machines. At some point he may have to switch to emulation, but IA32 emulators should be around for a very very long time.
I think you could keep a DOS computer running for the rest of G R.R. Martin's natural life... I think I could keep one running for the rest of my natural life and I'm in my 30's. Hardware was a lot less complex and a bit more over-engineered than it is today. Computers weren't low cost commodity items back then.
However, I dont think emulation is the right way to replace a dos computer, virtualisation is better. You can install DOS in a VMWare VM easily, whilst emulation like DOSBOX is very good, its still has some issues, a VM will get around most, if not all issues you have with dosbox.
But I'd bet the reason G R.R. Martin has 2 computers with one elusively for writing is more about a habit than an OS. I think he wants his writing computer to be free of distractions and separate from his general use/entertainment computer.
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I'm wondering how much it costs to add bluetooth to a device. I mean... them bluetooth headsets have it in, hell even the dinky little $12 'bluetooth speakers' you can park next to your iThing have it in...
What in the world possessed them to release a device that doesn't have bleutooth?
The Bluetooth hardware is cheap, it's Bluetooth certification that gets expensive.
The OP is clearly not Australian.
They also have no idea what they're on about.
Most places in Rural Australia are quite well to do... They have to be to survive because of their remoteness and the centralisation of services in Australia (living 300 KM from the nearest major city makes things expensive, try living 1500 KM from one, your milk has to be delivered by air. A lot of Americans (Europeans and Asians too) have no clue about the vast distances here in Australia, they think "Rural Australia" is like rural Kentucky, you're never more than an hour or 2's drive from somewhere... I used to live in the Pilbara, you're an hours drive from the next town and that's the same as your town, if you want to get to somewhere with more services, it's six hours, the nearest city with is 12 hours, if you want to get to the state capital, settle in for a 16 hour drive at 120 KPH.
So I'm calling bullshit on the AC's "rural" Australia bollocks.
Most of Australia's poor live in it's cities. These people, thanks to Australia's excellent public education system get the same opportunities as people born into money. If you get the marks to go into university, no problem in Australia no matter how poor you are.
Getting a good education in Australia is based on how hard you try. Now the AC and others have tried making a false equivalence between not having an opportunity and not caring. Australia and Europe are case in point against this. People who dont care about their education come from all socio-economic backgrounds, not just poor and when access to education is somewhat equal and fair and the poor aren't the worst where it comes to not caring about an education. When an opportunity exists to better ones self, you'll find the most disadvantaged are the most likely to take them to the fullest extent. The middle class in Australia is the socio-economic background that is most likely not to care about their or their children education. Or if you would prefer it in "Strayian",
The AC wouldn't know his arse from his elbow.
I hate to be That Guy, but the English to which you refer is only "standard" among Commonwealth countries, and is not a global one.
As well as former commonwealth countries and most countries that speak English as a second language... Well that's most of the world.
Neither of us would presume to instruct our colleagues on the Indian subcontinent, for example,
That is because our colleagues in the subcontinent speak Hindi as a primary language and British English as a secondary language. If you ignore their speech mannerisms which come from their native language and focus on their written skills, you'll find they utilise British English with all the U's and possessive pronouns that are entailed within.
Accept it, British English is the de facto standard of English in the world. The only places I've seen that practice US English are countries that were more or less colonised by them, such as the Philippines.
WiFi at N600 speeds or better should be fine for something like civ.
Given how slow Civ is on a modern gaming rig, dial up should be fine for streaming Civ in real time.
WW2 was started by Germans, not by Nazis from space.
FYI, the formal declaration of war was issued by the British, by Neville "I have a piece of paper" Chamberlain's government no less.
Historically, the declaration by the British on the 3rd of September 1939 was considered the start of WW2.
I haven't played the game yet but I find it funny that there is the criticism of the story and characters. I know these things are expected of modern games but, given the heritage of this game, I would never expect a good story but i would expect some fun shooter action. Wolfenstein comes from a time when, "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."
I think Eurogamer were just trying to find criticism for criticism's sake.
I fully expect the story to be cringeworthy, but I'm not buying the game for the story. I view games like Wolfenstein like action movies, a game where I can turn my brain off and enjoy it. Enough story to make the movie make sense, but not so much story that I need to bother keeping up with it.
So I expect it to be standard action movie fare, kill the bad guys, get the prize, fade to some classic rock or 80's jazz.
I think it's sad that I find the above formula so hard to find in modern games.
You'll find a lot of these engines have timing chains which last the lifetime of the car. The Japanese know how to build an engine to last, even an interference design. I agree about the diesels, they've gone very cheap and commodity but Europe has a thing about making you replace your car every 5 years. A 90's Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla will keep going for 500,000+ KM if you change the timing belt every 100,000 K's. Nissan cars with the SR20DET have run since 1989 on the original engine because they had chains instead of belts.
Dude, Nissan cars with the CA18DET are still running and they have belts, not chains. It's not because the SR has a chain, it's because it's a great goddamned motor. Ditto for the KA. Which, by the way, has timing chain guide failure problems which must be corrected or it will grenade itself one day at high RPM. But the SR has been gone for a long time...
I meant to say the SR20's are running for 20+ years on the original chain.
Some motors have timing chain issues due to port design, the GM Alloytech (High Feature V6) is a prime example. The chains have such serious issues they need to be replaced at 100,000 K's. However, issues like this are not typical for all timing chain motors. Most timing chains last the life time of the motor... which can be over 40 years in some cases.
When it comes to robots, most of us are a bunch of Jon Snow know-nothings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Whilst his journalistic achievements are impressive, you can still assert he knows nothing about robotics.
Do not bail out GM and its subsidiaries and daughter companies like a chump like the German government did for Opel. You will get screwed in the worst possible way and GM will still close shop and move east the second they don't need your free guarantees anymore.
This is exactly what they did in Australia.
Government turns the taps off on the tax money, Holden (GM's Australian brand) starts shutting down all factories. Oh sorry, unless you subsidise us to the tune of half a billion a year, we cant stay.
Should of happened years ago. Open up grey imports on cars so we can pay Japanese and UK prices on cars.
Fantastic engines would be those 4-cylinder Toyota, Subaru or Honda engines that run efficiently for 200K miles, or diesel engines from mercedes or volvo that can go 500K
Neither exists any more. Those Japanese engines are all interference designs with timing belts now, and the diesels that would make those kind of miles without major mishap are long, long gone.
You'll find a lot of these engines have timing chains which last the lifetime of the car. The Japanese know how to build an engine to last, even an interference design. I agree about the diesels, they've gone very cheap and commodity but Europe has a thing about making you replace your car every 5 years. A 90's Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla will keep going for 500,000+ KM if you change the timing belt every 100,000 K's. Nissan cars with the SR20DET have run since 1989 on the original engine because they had chains instead of belts.
I cant say the same for a Holden (GM) car. A 2004 Holden Astra is a car to avoid like the plague. A 2010 Holden Cruze is still a car to avoid. Hell, I dont even want to get into a 2014 Holden Barina (Spark).
buut.. the gm engines are fantastic for buying in a box and having large amounts of aftermarket options. so they're great for building a weekend drag racer.
The one good thing you can say about GM engines is that they are easy to fix. Which is a very good thing because they break often.
A Honda K20 will be more difficult to fix, but chances are it will never need to be opened in it's lifetime. Same with a Toyota 2GR.
If you really want a weekend racer, a Honda K20 with a supercharger kit or Nissan SR20DET with a bigger turbo will be cheaper, easier to fit and more reliable. Most kit cars end up being built on Mazda MX-5s (Miatas) because they are that damned reliable as well as being light. However if reliability is not a concern, you cant go past a Mazda 20B rotary for racing fun.
You've lost me here. I dont know how GM only manages to get 300 KW out of a 6.2L V8 LS1. Europeans get more than that out of 4.5L V8's. Every other engine they make is pretty weak, both mechanically and performance wise. The 3.5L alloytec (AKA: High Feature V6) became known for timing chain failures after just a few years, as such they need replacement at 100,000 KM like a timing belt. This is bad because timing chains are meant to last the life of an engine. A 20 yr old Nissan SR20DET will be running like a boss on it's original chain and they haven't made an SR20 in 11 years. My mum unfortunately owns a Holden Cruze (Chevy in the states and Vauxhall in the UK) and I can believe that the engine is the best part of it.... but the engine is still complete shit.
I guess they use different paint in the US, because the best thing you can say about a 15 yr old Holden (GM's brand in Oz) is that the paintwork is still good.
Free speech in it's purest form means the government cant arrest you for what you say about the government. After that it gets open to interpretation.
However free speech does not protect you from criticism, nor doe it give you free license to say whatever you want wherever you want. There are restrictions on speech (the infamous "fire in a crowded theatre" example) and it does not protect you from the consequences of your speech.
Whilst I fully support your right to criticise other individuals and companies criticism must be truthful and accurate. Sadly most people who write criticism online are utterly incapable of this. Small complaints that may be easily addressed get blown completely out of proportion and much of it is outright fabrication because the critic is being emotive rather than rational. This gets to the point where people dont want their complaint redressed, rather they just want to hurt the company they feel wronged them. This is the secondary reason I dont rely on review sites like Yelp or Trip Advisor, the reviews are emotive rubbish and have no details (the main reason is because I'm not their client, I'm their product. Their client are the advertisers so the site will do what the advertisers demand, which is not in my interest).
I feel that some people go to far with criticism and enter the world of slander, companies and individuals should have the right to defend against this.
As I said, I fully support your right to criticise, but the people you criticise have the right of reply.
Where people are still dumb enough to buy phones on contract. Every other country, civilized or not, the people pay for the phone and buy the service they need
This is a symptom of the credit addiction prevalent in the US and becoming a serious problem in my own nation, Australia.
Rather than paying with their own money which may mean *gasp* saving up for what you want, they get everything on credit and pay for it over time which means creditors can add extra charges, interest and gives the purchaser less negotiating power with the merchant. However it satisfies the "I want it now, daddy, I want it Nooooooooww" crowd who are not only oblivious to the long term costs of credit, they're so dependent on credit they'll actually defend it and attack people who point out the obvious flaws.
Fortunately in Oz, I can still get a Pre-Paid (Pay As You Go) plan with our most expensive telco, Telstra for $30 a month that gives me enough phone calls and SMS (to be fair, I hardly use any of it) and between 400 MB and 1 GB of data (to which I use quite a bit).
I imagine even the Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy faded away if you took it 'out of range.'
I got the sense that in Adams's vision of "The Guide" all the data was locally cached.
Adams thought of "The Guide" as a set of encyclopaedias in a small device rather than a client for a server. This is why the Guide was always compared to Encyclopaedia Galactica which is a play on words for Encyclopaedia Britannica (which before the intertubes was a popular brand of encyclopaedia in British English nations).
A 27 year old Swede can look forward to 40% of the salary as a pension. A Greek 120%.
You are aware that that is one of the main reasons that Greece was so thoroughly fucked by the financial crisis? One of the main reasons why such a large proportion of Greeks had no jobs at all for years?
The main reason that Greece's economy ended up so fucked was the high level of tax evasion there. It's that a lot of Greek's didn't have jobs, its that they didn't have jobs on paper to avoid paying tax.
These people are just arseholes who only want to get out of paying a fare. There is nothing political about their actions, they're entirely selfish.
It would not matter to them if the public transport system was government run like in Sweden or mostly private like in Singapore.
With heavier penalties, it would not work.
If heavier penalties fixed anything, nobody in the USA would do drugs or drive drunk.
Penalties are pointless if they aren't enforced.
The US has a problem with bad drivers (not just drunk/drug drivers, but terrible driving overall) because the laws are not enforced in any meaningful fashion.
I don't think most admins are worried about losing their job, I think they are worried about cloud services going down or disappearing and having nothing they can do about it,
Which will still be blamed on them, thus completing the job loss cycle.
Text messages cost money on a lot of plans. Data is much cheaper.
This isn't really a problem in a lot of countries.
However it's absolutely no excuse for messing with peoples texts.
Apple can prioritise their own proprietary messaging method/protocol over the standard one, but if they dont automatically fail back to the standard method when it fails there is a failure or someone leaves the system then Apple have created a problem that Apple needs to fix.
If Google did this, people would be up in arms over it. Why does Apple get defended?
Help them switch AWAY FROM Apple?
That's like expecting help from your priest when you tell him you're going to convert to Islam!
Some religions require this. You certainly cant leave the Mormon religion without their permission. You can stop practising, but they still consider you a Mormon.
Go to the website and do it there?
Samsung has a nice right up on how to resolve the problem using any number of methods:
http://www.samsung.com/us/supp...
Have you people not heard of Google?
Apple has no idea how to fix it, but Samsung has several.
Amazing that. I wonder if Apple will post the same support article in 6-12 months time and sue Samsung for patent infringement.
Now they'll finally have enough money to hire decent writers!
BattleField 4 (BF4)... (a sore spot)
Origin and Dice had the money, then dropped the ball in so many ways, that many are quitting BF4 or going back to BF3. Between the connection issues, bad color, unbelievable issues on a patch; things that would work prior don't anymore. It's become: christ! what the hell are up going to break this time.
You mean EA and DICE.
I loved the Battlefield series, from 1942 all the way to BFBC 2. Even the bad games like BF:Vietnam and BF2142 weren't that bad... until Battlefield 3.
BF3 broke the gameplay shockingly, the weapon upgrades were horribly overpowered and you'd get XP no matter what you did, so basically someone who was bad at the game just had to keep sucking until they got the heavy barrel.
I played it for about 3 days and gave up. The final straw was a month later when I decided to give it another go and Origin decided I needed to download the entire game client again. I uninstalled BF3 and Origin along with it. EA killed the Battlefield series with BF3, BF4 was just a withered corpse.
Why do people still pay money for software performing most basic tasks like Word 365? Nowadays, they have millions of alternatives.
Most people dont. The last time I actually bought Office was when I got offered it for $15 through work.
Businesses buy Office, they pay $50 a year per license and the PHB's have been suckered in by MS marketing.
I hope he has 50 kaypros or whatever stored in nitrogen somewhere... that can't go on forever.
I don't see why not. DOS runs fine on modern machines. At some point he may have to switch to emulation, but IA32 emulators should be around for a very very long time.
I think you could keep a DOS computer running for the rest of G R.R. Martin's natural life... I think I could keep one running for the rest of my natural life and I'm in my 30's. Hardware was a lot less complex and a bit more over-engineered than it is today. Computers weren't low cost commodity items back then.
However, I dont think emulation is the right way to replace a dos computer, virtualisation is better. You can install DOS in a VMWare VM easily, whilst emulation like DOSBOX is very good, its still has some issues, a VM will get around most, if not all issues you have with dosbox.
But I'd bet the reason G R.R. Martin has 2 computers with one elusively for writing is more about a habit than an OS. I think he wants his writing computer to be free of distractions and separate from his general use/entertainment computer.