Because it's not the octane rating that's the problem.
And you've missed the point.
We've had lead replacements in fuels for Mogas for years. Joe has a good point with Ethanol but Ethanol is an additive to lower the cost of Mogas, not required for unleaded Mogas. Many nations still have RON 98, 95 and even 91 with no ethanol. The point is identifying what is preventing the use of unleaded fuels and fixing that... The FAA want to do this in six years.
Sadly, that's at least once per day. The Xbox 1 is going to require to phone home once every 24 hours according to what they've been saying.
So I'm hoping the option to buy the PS4 and never connect it to a network will be viable.
Going to Sony because Microsoft is too abusive is like asking to move cells because Bubba doesn't use Lube and you've heard Joey Ray does. In the end, you're still in prison and you're still taking it up the arse.
Does England also have a 2nd Amendment? Do citizens have as many guns as they do in the U.S.?
And this is why police feel they dont need to carry guns. Improvements in non/less-lethal technologies as well as a society where gun violence is not glorified means that more English cops _CHOOSE_ not to carry firearms. I cant fathom how you think this is a bad thing(TM).
Also, not sure if its the same in the UK but there's less paperwork for discharging a tazer or using mace than there is for discharging a firearm. Aussie cops tend to carry one of each.
Whilst it is a case of diminishing returns, sure... but...
If i have to wait AT ALL for my machine to do something it is wasted time in my life I will never get back. Until everything I do on the machine is INSTANT, i'll take any speed improvements they can provide, thanks.
Right.
Way to miss the point. For the most part, the time you spend waiting isn't for disk I/O. It's not about diminishing returns, rather it's ineffective as it's not the bottleneck.
Anyway, as the OP said, I highly doubt you'd be able to tell the difference in a blind test. The only people it would matter to are people who have disk operations that are measured in hours.
Also, you have some serious problems if you cant wait 30 seconds for anything. Seriously, people suffering from ADHD tend to have more patience than that. However as someone who sells high priced items that provide minimal gain, I like suckers like you.
Or the police could do their job and arrest people who steal phones. They have a constant stream of evidence when the phone is on, and turn by turn directions to the thief's location. The thieves are being handed to them on a silver platter.
Erm...
Thats because thieves dont use the crap they steal. They sell it for cash. The only data that the police can collect is that of the suckers who bought it.
It kind of scares me how naive some/.ers are. I know we're not the most socially astute, but this is pretty damn basic.
The apple accounts can be disabled. That still falls well within their control.
This still doesn't make Apples war on jailbreaking make sense.
Thieves rarely use what they steal (well, that can be tracked), they sell it off as soon as possible. Is a person who steals a Merc in Berlin going to drive it around Munich himself? Hell no, he's going to drive it into Poland and hock it for cold hard Euro's. Same with phone thieves, they wont care if it can be bricked because they will offload it for money rather than use it.
Also never underestimate the number of suckers who will buy cheap Apple products without even considering it wont work (See: p-p-p-p-p-power book).
But this is all just a clever ruse for Apple to enforce their control on LEGIT users who have PAID for their device. They dont care about stolen phones.
So in 6 years, the FAA expects 167,000 aircraft owners to swap the engines in their aircraft for an unleaded engine?
No, and you can tell this from the first line in TFS: "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this week put out a call to fuel producers to offer options that would safely let general aviation aircraft stop using leaded fuel by 2018."
They want fuel producers to offer options that will meet the need of aircraft that are currently dependent on leaded fuel to operate properly without lead.
You can get RON-100 fuel for automotive engines that are lead free, why cant the same be done for Avgas?
While the speed sounds impressive on paper, SSDs are really already going beyond what is needed for storage speeds. You can try this by upgrading from a SATA II to SATA III SSD yourself. I've done that, and I even went from a slow one (WD SiliconEdge Blue) to a fast one (Samsung 840 Pro). Actual difference in system performance? Eh, I doubt I could tell you which was which in a blind test.
The big numbers are mostly dick-waving in a desktop setup. I think the advantages offered by a storage connector and controller are likely to outweigh speed.
This,
In sports car communities this is called "Hard Parking". People who modify their cars, intakes, cat-backs, chips, so on and so forth but never actually take it out on the track. They compare dyno scores and talk about how their latest tuning netted them an extra 5 bhp between taking photo's of their never-tracked car. For those of us who aren't hard parkers, I have to say it's a lot more fun taking an unmodified S13 around a track than sitting on a dynamometer in a highly modified WRX STI (I.E. I'd rather be using my computer than benchmarking it).
Moving from spinning disk to SSD nets real world performance benefits, but moving from SATA 2 to SATA 3 only shows real world benefits in niche applications (I.E. image processing, build/test, crap that already takes hours due to I/O requirements).
Both in traditional storage and cards that allow you mount volatile RAM as a HDD. Long before the age of SSD's friend had one of these drives with 4 x 2 GB sticks to form an 8 GB drive (at the time a 500 GB drive was the largest commercially available, XP service pack 2 was causing great consternation and people used Friendster). These never took off because.
SATA has a huge legacy, is cheap to produce and numerous. SATA III has a transfer rate of 600mbs which is faster than most drives that people will use and definitely faster than most application. Unlike moving from spinning disk to SSD, this wont have a noticeable performance difference to the end user.
Reading up on this, it sounds like they just used SATA 3.2 Express, which means fortunately Apple wont be able to control it... But still, no doubt Apple did this so they can make it hard and more expensive to replace a HDD in a Mac by making it difficult for 3rd parties to build compatible components.
"A phone can replace a camera," how cute.... Please take a photo with your camera that even approaches what you see on 500px.com
Next you will say something silly like "a phone can replace a video camera"....
I'm yet to see a shot from a phone that can match my Canon Ixus 230HS... A point and shoot camera (albeit, a good P&S).
Phones have terrible focusing and poor lenses. You might be able to take a semi decent shot in a pinch but forget action, low light, close up and distance shots. Also yet to see a phone that gets into the camera application faster than my P&S does a cold start.
Camera's in phones have the same problem as screwdrivers on swiss army knives, they'll do in a pinch but are nowhere near as good as a proper screwdriver. A case of "jack of all trades, master of none", so if I'm going somewhere I'll expect to take photos... I'll take a proper camera.
Apple aren't going to partner with Google because Google would have them over a barrel with respect to mapping on iOS.
What you mean to say here is:
"Apple aren't going to partner with Google because they dont want to pay a fair and reasonable price for access to Google's data".
All Google asked Apple for was branding and giving the users the option of using Latitude (on Android it's default is set to off and opt out, so it would have been the same on Iphone). Apple was the one that refused to play nice with others.
I worked on GIS systems back in the early '90s and it wasn't trivial then with the small amount of data available. I can only imagine that its got worse as the data set sizes have increased.
It hasn't gotten better. The tools for merging disparate datasets have gotten better (ArcMap/ArcInfo is still shit, but not as shit as it was before) but the amount of data has and the differences between datasets have increased a lot.
The good part is, you no longer need to spend $6000 on a GIS workstation to run ArcInfo... you can easily run it on a $1500 PC, a $2000 PC will be the ducks nuts.
In my city (1.8 million, so not small) Apple Maps consistently fails to find places that all other mapping applications have been able to find reliably for years, it will direct you down streets that have a lot of roundabouts as opposed to a slightly longer but straight route, it's completely traffic, speed limit and roadworks unaware for my entire city... Roadworks and Speed limits are published by the dept of transport so this isn't secret info. Last time I used it to find a train station, it put me two streets away from the rail line and 4 KM away from the station.
Anyone I know with an Iphone switched back to Google Maps as soon as it was released.
Even if you don't like his style if given a decent role frankly any halfway decent actor can put in a decent performance, look at Ferrell in the remake of The Producer
No, Ferrell still sucked in that. He utterly sucked at being a stereotypical German.
And I'm a fan Mel Brooks' comedy, as stupid as it is (almost to the point of being slapstick) it's normally extremely well executed (thinking along the line of Spaceballs).
And I do find it ironic that you are complaining about hacks
Ah yes, here the Puritan fanboyism comes into play.
Also, I find it extremely ironic that you're commenting on talent when you claim Will Ferrell has any.
To be frank, Star Trek is in much better hands with JJ Abrams than it was for a decade with Brannon/Braga. If you've actually seen Star Trek (either of them) you'd realise it was quite good. It's no Merchant Ivory but it's a very entertaining film work and nothing Ferrell has ever done has come within light years of Abrams and Abrams isn't particularly talented.
"meh put lots of splosions
Yep, you haven't seen the new Star Trek.
As far as action films go, there are very few explosions and fire fights. No more than some episodes of TNG, less than season 6 of DS9.
Right Wing governments always increase surveillance under the guise of "Law and Order" and decrease liberties with the by-line "Good citizens have nothing to fear"
FTFY
Re-FTFY
Anarchy doesn't improve civil rights either (that basically eliminated all civil rights). Progressive governments do. Progressive governments tend to be more centrist and slightly left, conservatives tend to be more right wing.
And the USSR was right wing? You are easily fooled by propaganda. The leaning of the government is not relevent information.
And that doesn't disprove my point.
You think I'm easily fooled, you couldn't even manage to do a proper thought terminating cliche (trying the old black and white thinking mixed with a bit of "if you're not with us"). I hate to think how easily fooled you are.
Been expecting it ever since they voted in conservatives. Right wing governments always increase surveillance under the guise of "Law and Order" and decrease liberties with the by-line "Good citizens have nothing to fear". All of this is done "for the children". If the state declares the child to be the most precious resource of the state, the people will accept any deprivation of liberty. It's not like an ultra-nationalist German politician didn't write a book on this in the 30's (or a leftist British author wrote a satirical version in the 40's).
I am asking because beer companies discovered that their most avid customers couldn't taste the difference between their products and their competitors products.
Crap beer tastes similar to other crap beer?
I'm shocked at that revelation. Truly shocked.
Here's another grand revelation for you... People who buy mainstream beer buy it because it's cheap, not because it tastes good.
I'm willing to bet the beers in that test were 1. US mainstream beers. 2. Lagers. First off, the rest of the beer drinking world refers to #1 as "sex in a canoe" because it tastes "fucking close to water"* and as for #2 Lagers are designed to have no taste. Now comparing a semi-decent pilsner to a semi-decent pale ale, you'd have to be a pack a day smoker not to notice a difference although you'd need some rudimentary beer drinking experience to tell which one is which.
* To be 100% fair, "mainstream" beers in most countries are crap. They're designed not to have a taste so they dont offend anyone.
If there is one thing that needs more objectivity its wine tasting.
Too often the results are the opinion of the person who bought the bottle, and too seldom is there truly blind taste testing by people not already familiar with the vintage.
So they should invent a device that can detect a pack of Winnie Red's (Cheap but powerful cigarettes) and recommend a box of 4 penny dark (cheap red wine) as they wont taste anything anyway?
But their only moral standing is their support of the monarchy. Without that, all they have is guns. It works either way, but the latter gives cause for their power to be challenged.
You haven't been to Thailand have you?
The Thai military have, in the past openly deposed a government supported by the King. The King had his statements retroactively changed.
They dont need legitimacy, they have it already. The majority of the country doesn't care who rules as long as they can go about their daily lives. This is because the majority of the country is very poor. "Moral Standing" falls under "First World Problems". No-one is really going to fight them for 500 Baht (which is the going rate for a "protester" in Thailand) when they have no real interest in the fight. Thais are happy enough to live with highly corrupt governments (and have done so ever since the King gave up absolute rule in the 30's).
This would more be the work of an overzealous commander angling for a promotion. Nepotism is rife in the Thai military, there are only three ways up, be rich, be the son of someone important or be ingratiated to someone important. Occams razor simply says this is a low ranking colonel trying to raise his profile.
I have not had a nintendo console since the NES, kiddo. I have a PS3 and will likely get a PS4.
This is the only reason that the Playstation still exist... Blind fanboyism.
My Console anthology.
- Atari 2600
- SNES
- N64
- PS2
- Xbox
- Wii
After the N64, I pretty much turned to PC gaming full time. Consoles just weren't worth it. I owned a grand total of 3 games for the Xbox and PS2 put together. I bought 1 of those games and the other 2 I got free with the Xbox. The Xbox actually had a good life after I hacked it and turned it into a media centre but a gaming machine it was not. The PS2 was a crappy DVD player, went into the bin after I bought a cheap DVD player that worked 100 times better. The Wii is a console I use for playing with friends, most of my gaming still occurs on the PC.
The N64 was pretty much the death of the console, they'd tried too hard to turn it into a PC. Consoles make terrible PC's with horrific RAM limitations, terrible load times and control schemes so annoying I want to claw my eyes out. The Wii was the rebirth of the console, it featured console games that were fun to play, gameplay and genres that were so simple they were actually better on consoles than on the PC. Eventually mobile gaming on Android/IOS will kill off the non-fanboy console crowd and the fanboys wont be numerous enough to keep the Xbox or Playstation alive.
Steam also sells games for super cheap. I buy my games for steam on disk, so if it ever disappears I can run the game with cracks. This is not a feature that consoles seem to offer.
This,
All non-Valve Steam games are just regular game executables with a link to start them in Steam. I'm yet to find one I cant play directly from the.exe without Steam (I'm sure there will be some, but none that I own). Even without the disks, I can open Steam backup files and extract the games inside.
Steam knows it's easy for us to crack and bypass their controls. They dont care as their business model does not rely on locking us down.
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Because it's not the octane rating that's the problem.
And you've missed the point.
We've had lead replacements in fuels for Mogas for years. Joe has a good point with Ethanol but Ethanol is an additive to lower the cost of Mogas, not required for unleaded Mogas. Many nations still have RON 98, 95 and even 91 with no ethanol. The point is identifying what is preventing the use of unleaded fuels and fixing that... The FAA want to do this in six years.
Sadly, that's at least once per day. The Xbox 1 is going to require to phone home once every 24 hours according to what they've been saying.
So I'm hoping the option to buy the PS4 and never connect it to a network will be viable.
Going to Sony because Microsoft is too abusive is like asking to move cells because Bubba doesn't use Lube and you've heard Joey Ray does. In the end, you're still in prison and you're still taking it up the arse.
Does England also have a 2nd Amendment? Do citizens have as many guns as they do in the U.S.?
And this is why police feel they dont need to carry guns. Improvements in non/less-lethal technologies as well as a society where gun violence is not glorified means that more English cops _CHOOSE_ not to carry firearms. I cant fathom how you think this is a bad thing(TM).
Also, not sure if its the same in the UK but there's less paperwork for discharging a tazer or using mace than there is for discharging a firearm. Aussie cops tend to carry one of each.
Whats wrong with IMEI blacklisting.
Only works across whatever region(s) share blacklists.
This, steal phone in Detroit, sell in El Salvador... Cheap international shipping makes this easy.
Anything you can get to run on ARM v7.
You'll have to compile it yourself, find or write your own drivers... No-one said it was easy, we just said it can be done.
Whilst it is a case of diminishing returns, sure... but...
If i have to wait AT ALL for my machine to do something it is wasted time in my life I will never get back. Until everything I do on the machine is INSTANT, i'll take any speed improvements they can provide, thanks.
Right.
Way to miss the point. For the most part, the time you spend waiting isn't for disk I/O. It's not about diminishing returns, rather it's ineffective as it's not the bottleneck.
Anyway, as the OP said, I highly doubt you'd be able to tell the difference in a blind test. The only people it would matter to are people who have disk operations that are measured in hours.
Also, you have some serious problems if you cant wait 30 seconds for anything. Seriously, people suffering from ADHD tend to have more patience than that. However as someone who sells high priced items that provide minimal gain, I like suckers like you.
Or the police could do their job and arrest people who steal phones. They have a constant stream of evidence when the phone is on, and turn by turn directions to the thief's location. The thieves are being handed to them on a silver platter.
Erm...
/.ers are. I know we're not the most socially astute, but this is pretty damn basic.
Thats because thieves dont use the crap they steal. They sell it for cash. The only data that the police can collect is that of the suckers who bought it.
It kind of scares me how naive some
The apple accounts can be disabled. That still falls well within their control.
This still doesn't make Apples war on jailbreaking make sense.
Thieves rarely use what they steal (well, that can be tracked), they sell it off as soon as possible. Is a person who steals a Merc in Berlin going to drive it around Munich himself? Hell no, he's going to drive it into Poland and hock it for cold hard Euro's. Same with phone thieves, they wont care if it can be bricked because they will offload it for money rather than use it.
Also never underestimate the number of suckers who will buy cheap Apple products without even considering it wont work (See: p-p-p-p-p-power book).
But this is all just a clever ruse for Apple to enforce their control on LEGIT users who have PAID for their device. They dont care about stolen phones.
... you can still buy Android phones. Even Samsungs. Go figure.
All that proves is that they're not very good at it.
No, and you can tell this from the first line in TFS: "The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) this week put out a call to fuel producers to offer options that would safely let general aviation aircraft stop using leaded fuel by 2018."
They want fuel producers to offer options that will meet the need of aircraft that are currently dependent on leaded fuel to operate properly without lead.
You can get RON-100 fuel for automotive engines that are lead free, why cant the same be done for Avgas?
While the speed sounds impressive on paper, SSDs are really already going beyond what is needed for storage speeds. You can try this by upgrading from a SATA II to SATA III SSD yourself. I've done that, and I even went from a slow one (WD SiliconEdge Blue) to a fast one (Samsung 840 Pro). Actual difference in system performance? Eh, I doubt I could tell you which was which in a blind test.
The big numbers are mostly dick-waving in a desktop setup. I think the advantages offered by a storage connector and controller are likely to outweigh speed.
This,
In sports car communities this is called "Hard Parking". People who modify their cars, intakes, cat-backs, chips, so on and so forth but never actually take it out on the track. They compare dyno scores and talk about how their latest tuning netted them an extra 5 bhp between taking photo's of their never-tracked car. For those of us who aren't hard parkers, I have to say it's a lot more fun taking an unmodified S13 around a track than sitting on a dynamometer in a highly modified WRX STI (I.E. I'd rather be using my computer than benchmarking it).
Moving from spinning disk to SSD nets real world performance benefits, but moving from SATA 2 to SATA 3 only shows real world benefits in niche applications (I.E. image processing, build/test, crap that already takes hours due to I/O requirements).
Both in traditional storage and cards that allow you mount volatile RAM as a HDD. Long before the age of SSD's friend had one of these drives with 4 x 2 GB sticks to form an 8 GB drive (at the time a 500 GB drive was the largest commercially available, XP service pack 2 was causing great consternation and people used Friendster). These never took off because.
- Performance benefits weren't useful outside niche applications.
- They simply weren't practical.
SATA has a huge legacy, is cheap to produce and numerous. SATA III has a transfer rate of 600mbs which is faster than most drives that people will use and definitely faster than most application. Unlike moving from spinning disk to SSD, this wont have a noticeable performance difference to the end user.
Reading up on this, it sounds like they just used SATA 3.2 Express, which means fortunately Apple wont be able to control it... But still, no doubt Apple did this so they can make it hard and more expensive to replace a HDD in a Mac by making it difficult for 3rd parties to build compatible components.
"A phone can replace a camera," how cute.... Please take a photo with your camera that even approaches what you see on 500px.com
Next you will say something silly like "a phone can replace a video camera"....
I'm yet to see a shot from a phone that can match my Canon Ixus 230HS... A point and shoot camera (albeit, a good P&S).
Phones have terrible focusing and poor lenses. You might be able to take a semi decent shot in a pinch but forget action, low light, close up and distance shots. Also yet to see a phone that gets into the camera application faster than my P&S does a cold start.
Camera's in phones have the same problem as screwdrivers on swiss army knives, they'll do in a pinch but are nowhere near as good as a proper screwdriver. A case of "jack of all trades, master of none", so if I'm going somewhere I'll expect to take photos... I'll take a proper camera.
Apple aren't going to partner with Google because Google would have them over a barrel with respect to mapping on iOS.
What you mean to say here is:
"Apple aren't going to partner with Google because they dont want to pay a fair and reasonable price for access to Google's data".
All Google asked Apple for was branding and giving the users the option of using Latitude (on Android it's default is set to off and opt out, so it would have been the same on Iphone). Apple was the one that refused to play nice with others.
I worked on GIS systems back in the early '90s and it wasn't trivial then with the small amount of data available. I can only imagine that its got worse as the data set sizes have increased.
It hasn't gotten better. The tools for merging disparate datasets have gotten better (ArcMap/ArcInfo is still shit, but not as shit as it was before) but the amount of data has and the differences between datasets have increased a lot.
The good part is, you no longer need to spend $6000 on a GIS workstation to run ArcInfo... you can easily run it on a $1500 PC, a $2000 PC will be the ducks nuts.
Sample size of 1, registered.
In my city (1.8 million, so not small) Apple Maps consistently fails to find places that all other mapping applications have been able to find reliably for years, it will direct you down streets that have a lot of roundabouts as opposed to a slightly longer but straight route, it's completely traffic, speed limit and roadworks unaware for my entire city... Roadworks and Speed limits are published by the dept of transport so this isn't secret info. Last time I used it to find a train station, it put me two streets away from the rail line and 4 KM away from the station.
Anyone I know with an Iphone switched back to Google Maps as soon as it was released.
No, Ferrell still sucked in that. He utterly sucked at being a stereotypical German.
And I'm a fan Mel Brooks' comedy, as stupid as it is (almost to the point of being slapstick) it's normally extremely well executed (thinking along the line of Spaceballs).
Ah yes, here the Puritan fanboyism comes into play.
Also, I find it extremely ironic that you're commenting on talent when you claim Will Ferrell has any.
To be frank, Star Trek is in much better hands with JJ Abrams than it was for a decade with Brannon/Braga. If you've actually seen Star Trek (either of them) you'd realise it was quite good. It's no Merchant Ivory but it's a very entertaining film work and nothing Ferrell has ever done has come within light years of Abrams and Abrams isn't particularly talented.
Yep, you haven't seen the new Star Trek.
As far as action films go, there are very few explosions and fire fights. No more than some episodes of TNG, less than season 6 of DS9.
Right Wing governments always increase surveillance under the guise of "Law and Order" and decrease liberties with the by-line "Good citizens have nothing to fear"
FTFY
Re-FTFY
Anarchy doesn't improve civil rights either (that basically eliminated all civil rights). Progressive governments do. Progressive governments tend to be more centrist and slightly left, conservatives tend to be more right wing.
And the USSR was right wing? You are easily fooled by propaganda. The leaning of the government is not relevent information.
And that doesn't disprove my point.
You think I'm easily fooled, you couldn't even manage to do a proper thought terminating cliche (trying the old black and white thinking mixed with a bit of "if you're not with us"). I hate to think how easily fooled you are.
BTW, you didn't even spell "relevant" correctly.
And this surprises who, exactly?
Been expecting it ever since they voted in conservatives. Right wing governments always increase surveillance under the guise of "Law and Order" and decrease liberties with the by-line "Good citizens have nothing to fear". All of this is done "for the children". If the state declares the child to be the most precious resource of the state, the people will accept any deprivation of liberty. It's not like an ultra-nationalist German politician didn't write a book on this in the 30's (or a leftist British author wrote a satirical version in the 40's).
I am asking because beer companies discovered that their most avid customers couldn't taste the difference between their products and their competitors products.
Crap beer tastes similar to other crap beer?
I'm shocked at that revelation. Truly shocked.
Here's another grand revelation for you... People who buy mainstream beer buy it because it's cheap, not because it tastes good.
I'm willing to bet the beers in that test were 1. US mainstream beers. 2. Lagers. First off, the rest of the beer drinking world refers to #1 as "sex in a canoe" because it tastes "fucking close to water"* and as for #2 Lagers are designed to have no taste. Now comparing a semi-decent pilsner to a semi-decent pale ale, you'd have to be a pack a day smoker not to notice a difference although you'd need some rudimentary beer drinking experience to tell which one is which.
* To be 100% fair, "mainstream" beers in most countries are crap. They're designed not to have a taste so they dont offend anyone.
Some either we locals are getting ripped off at the checkout, or Yanks have less discerning palates.
Or?
Both statements are true.
If there is one thing that needs more objectivity its wine tasting.
Too often the results are the opinion of the person who bought the bottle, and too seldom is there truly blind taste testing by people not already familiar with the vintage.
So they should invent a device that can detect a pack of Winnie Red's (Cheap but powerful cigarettes) and recommend a box of 4 penny dark (cheap red wine) as they wont taste anything anyway?
But their only moral standing is their support of the monarchy. Without that, all they have is guns. It works either way, but the latter gives cause for their power to be challenged.
You haven't been to Thailand have you?
The Thai military have, in the past openly deposed a government supported by the King. The King had his statements retroactively changed.
They dont need legitimacy, they have it already. The majority of the country doesn't care who rules as long as they can go about their daily lives. This is because the majority of the country is very poor. "Moral Standing" falls under "First World Problems". No-one is really going to fight them for 500 Baht (which is the going rate for a "protester" in Thailand) when they have no real interest in the fight. Thais are happy enough to live with highly corrupt governments (and have done so ever since the King gave up absolute rule in the 30's).
This would more be the work of an overzealous commander angling for a promotion. Nepotism is rife in the Thai military, there are only three ways up, be rich, be the son of someone important or be ingratiated to someone important. Occams razor simply says this is a low ranking colonel trying to raise his profile.
"and anyone in your home can play the game on your system." -- why, the hell, is that considered a feature!?
Because there are blurbs marketing must fill and this is the best they could come up with.
I have not had a nintendo console since the NES, kiddo. I have a PS3 and will likely get a PS4.
This is the only reason that the Playstation still exist... Blind fanboyism.
My Console anthology.
- Atari 2600
- SNES
- N64
- PS2
- Xbox
- Wii
After the N64, I pretty much turned to PC gaming full time. Consoles just weren't worth it. I owned a grand total of 3 games for the Xbox and PS2 put together. I bought 1 of those games and the other 2 I got free with the Xbox. The Xbox actually had a good life after I hacked it and turned it into a media centre but a gaming machine it was not. The PS2 was a crappy DVD player, went into the bin after I bought a cheap DVD player that worked 100 times better. The Wii is a console I use for playing with friends, most of my gaming still occurs on the PC.
The N64 was pretty much the death of the console, they'd tried too hard to turn it into a PC. Consoles make terrible PC's with horrific RAM limitations, terrible load times and control schemes so annoying I want to claw my eyes out. The Wii was the rebirth of the console, it featured console games that were fun to play, gameplay and genres that were so simple they were actually better on consoles than on the PC. Eventually mobile gaming on Android/IOS will kill off the non-fanboy console crowd and the fanboys wont be numerous enough to keep the Xbox or Playstation alive.
Steam also sells games for super cheap. I buy my games for steam on disk, so if it ever disappears I can run the game with cracks. This is not a feature that consoles seem to offer.
This,
.exe without Steam (I'm sure there will be some, but none that I own). Even without the disks, I can open Steam backup files and extract the games inside.
All non-Valve Steam games are just regular game executables with a link to start them in Steam. I'm yet to find one I cant play directly from the
Steam knows it's easy for us to crack and bypass their controls. They dont care as their business model does not rely on locking us down.