He made these comments many many months after people started talking about this, and it's probable he only did it now because the criticism was getting to a point where it was beginning to affect their other business.
Yeah, I'm sure that abandoning the Chinese market would be just a blip compared to the repercussions they were feeling from internet idealists. He's simply bowing to market pressure when he talks about throwing away billions in potential revenue.
I never said cable tv sucks, I just don't think that the shows you listed is really what I think of when I think of "alternative programming."
When I think 'alternative programming,' I think of the public access cable shows you used to see every 2 weeks when the cable company was forced to provide time for community-produced content, not six hundred different shows starring British people showing us how to reupholster a divan.
from TFA: "Because HD radio builds on existing listening habits, and requires only a modest hardware upgrade, it could be the vehicle for the dissemination of truly alternative programming."
They said the same thing about cable TV.
As long as the FCC keeps such a tight rein on who gets to set up a transmitter, we'll always have the same schlock on the radio, HD or otherwise.
I much preferred the Qualcomm PDQ to the treo. NORMAL cellphone dialing pad for cellphone stuff, and it flipped open to give you a regular Palm, not a trimmed down one with the graffiti area replaced by an unusably small keyboard.
That was the one where the dialpad was basically a cover that sat on top of the touchscreen and the buttons simply pushed down onto the screen, right? That was a nice design and I'd welcome it on the new treos.
The treo keyboard is far from unusable for me, and I've got pretty fat fingers. It -looks- bad, I'll give you that, but it is in fact very functional. I was pretty good with graffiti, and I can type on the treo keypad about 50% faster than I can write graffiti.
As for the click wheel, it's what's made the ipod so good. It's an excellent interface widget. Abandoning it would be a huge mistake.
The Nintendo president also talked a bit about developers creating original games for the Virtual Console on Wii, much like Xbox Live Arcade. "When creating a packaged game to be priced at 5,000 yen, developers tend to feel the need to create a rich game. Yet it is possible to create a reasonably entertaining game in 2 months with a team of three. Offering such games for 500 yen over a network could lead to a reasonable number of people purchasing it. By offering an environment that allows this, we hope to encourage more developers to pursue basic yet enjoyable gameplay," he said"
hell yeah. Hope it turns out the way he makes it sound.
By that logic, there should be no corruption in China. And yet to do business there requires bribing pretty much everyone you come into contact with, their sister and their cousins.
China executes peasants for stealing food, not party officials for taking bribes.
Mexicans are fine. We just ask that they go through the actual legal immigration process, just like the Irish, Italians, Chinese, Poles, and everyone else did.
I haven't shot a lot of shotguns, but in my memory, a 12 gauge and a 410 both sound pretty much the same.
If I was gonna get a shotgun for home defense, it'd be something light, because I have no desire to injure my neighbors when a stray pellet goes through the drywall. Just my 2 cents.
(a) the issue of national security isn't that we're afraid migrant workers will sneak in and somehow steal our freedom, it's that we're afraid someone can easily smuggle [explosives|bioweapons|killer monkeys] across an incredibly porous border, and it's a legitimate concern.
(b) xenophobia is a baseless fear of outsiders. I don't think anyone here is -afraid- of illegal immigrants, I think we're -upset- with them and want them to obey the rules. Following your logic, someone who sends their misbehaving child to their room is pedophobic.
"They're a lot cheaper than boats or fancy cars, and they work a lot better."
I dunno, I'd wager my car works a lot better as a car than that Alienware does. Looking at the photos, I don't think it'd seat more than two.
I'll be here all week, folks.
Seriously tho, my point is that they're bad at being laptops: short battery life, weighs a ton. I guess some people just like spending money, and that's fine, but I guess what I'm saying is that I'm surprised at the (apparent) number of people who think it's a good laptop.
I don't understand why people buy super-high-end performance laptops. You pay a huge power, weight and cost premium for a laptop that will be top-o-the-line for very little time, and you can't upgrade it when that time passes.
I guess I can imagine some niche markets - demo machines for software salesmen, stuff like that where a desktop is absolutely infeasible, but sheesh.
(a) 'most,' the last time I checked was like 60%. If I was president and I did something 40% of the people disapproved of, I'd be wanting to sweep it under the rug too.
(b) building the callgraph -is- questionable, all by itself, whether or not 60% of our nation is made up of idiots that can't feel the water they're sitting in starting to boil.
I think everyone here can agree vb6 is over. Even Microsoft. But the notion that VB 'has no place in the enterprise' is ludicrous. Simply because the VB syntax offends your delicate sensibilities doesn't make it a bad choice for everyone, especially the legions of existing VB programmers.
Visual Basic (especially VB6) have no place in the enterprise.
this is seriously one of the funniest things I've read on slashdot in the last week. For the canonical car analogy, it's like saying sheet metal has no place in modern automobiles.
I could have sworn I replied to this earlier. Probably the NSA deleting my posts -_^
1) The only "guesswork" involved in the cited article is that potential terrorists comprise only a very small proportion of the total population of the United States, a perfectly reasonable assumption. The rest follows from Bayes Theorem, and a wide range of assumed probability of detection values used for illustration of their point.
But that's the thing. The only hard number that makes any of it interesting is a complete unknown. Nobody outside (and perhaps inside) the NSA has any idea how effective it is. The article just throws some numbers around and says "could be this, could be that, neither are real great." You could state that without dragging in the machinery of Bayesian analysis, which just as much certainty. The author is hiding behind meaningless numbers.
And, of course, none of it matters. The calltracing is simply one tool of many. It's like saying "Hammers are worthless in construction because no matter how good the hammer is, you still can't build a house with it." It's completely disingenuous.
2)If there are other factors in identifying potential terrorists, then is should be easy to actually obey the lay and obtain a WARRANT.
Sure. Don't get me wrong. What's happening is, in my mind, the single biggest threat to America since... I dunno, since ever. It's unconcionable and completely wrong. I just decline to deal in psudoscience mumbojumbo to show how the NSA is evil. They don't need any help on that front.
I don't believe it. The NSA is already having trouble mining the callgraph data. Terabytes a day of recorded calls is more trouble than it's worth. Most of the time simply knowing who talked to who and when it enough.
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the 'white people' channel is whatever channel 'Friends' is showing on.
Yeah, I'm sure that abandoning the Chinese market would be just a blip compared to the repercussions they were feeling from internet idealists. He's simply bowing to market pressure when he talks about throwing away billions in potential revenue.
I never said cable tv sucks, I just don't think that the shows you listed is really what I think of when I think of "alternative programming."
When I think 'alternative programming,' I think of the public access cable shows you used to see every 2 weeks when the cable company was forced to provide time for community-produced content, not six hundred different shows starring British people showing us how to reupholster a divan.
from TFA: "Because HD radio builds on existing listening habits, and requires only a modest hardware upgrade, it could be the vehicle for the dissemination of truly alternative programming."
They said the same thing about cable TV.
As long as the FCC keeps such a tight rein on who gets to set up a transmitter, we'll always have the same schlock on the radio, HD or otherwise.
DO NOT QUESTION DVORAK!
no thanks, I'm trying to quit.
I hear they have those now.
I much preferred the Qualcomm PDQ to the treo. NORMAL cellphone dialing pad for cellphone stuff, and it flipped open to give you a regular Palm, not a trimmed down one with the graffiti area replaced by an unusably small keyboard.
That was the one where the dialpad was basically a cover that sat on top of the touchscreen and the buttons simply pushed down onto the screen, right? That was a nice design and I'd welcome it on the new treos.
The treo keyboard is far from unusable for me, and I've got pretty fat fingers. It -looks- bad, I'll give you that, but it is in fact very functional. I was pretty good with graffiti, and I can type on the treo keypad about 50% faster than I can write graffiti.
As for the click wheel, it's what's made the ipod so good. It's an excellent interface widget. Abandoning it would be a huge mistake.
I'd rather it be combined with a treo, but Blackberry is fine too.
Seriously, it can't be that hard. Shit, I'm about 2 weeks from buying a nano and just duct taping it to the back of my treo.
I can't imagine how neat an Appleified treo with a wheel control grafted onto the back of it would be.
The Nintendo president also talked a bit about developers creating original games for the Virtual Console on Wii, much like Xbox Live Arcade. "When creating a packaged game to be priced at 5,000 yen, developers tend to feel the need to create a rich game. Yet it is possible to create a reasonably entertaining game in 2 months with a team of three. Offering such games for 500 yen over a network could lead to a reasonable number of people purchasing it. By offering an environment that allows this, we hope to encourage more developers to pursue basic yet enjoyable gameplay," he said"
hell yeah. Hope it turns out the way he makes it sound.
By that logic, there should be no corruption in China. And yet to do business there requires bribing pretty much everyone you come into contact with, their sister and their cousins.
China executes peasants for stealing food, not party officials for taking bribes.
http://kinesis-ergo.com/advantage_pro.htm
it's a nicer keyboard, it's hardware programmable, it's ergo-friendly and it'll scare strangers away from your terminal.
Sure, it's expensive, but for something my hands are on 8-10 hours a day, I don't mind paying for Quality.
I mean when you rack it, not when you shoot it.
Mexicans are fine. We just ask that they go through the actual legal immigration process, just like the Irish, Italians, Chinese, Poles, and everyone else did.
I haven't shot a lot of shotguns, but in my memory, a 12 gauge and a 410 both sound pretty much the same.
If I was gonna get a shotgun for home defense, it'd be something light, because I have no desire to injure my neighbors when a stray pellet goes through the drywall. Just my 2 cents.
(a) the issue of national security isn't that we're afraid migrant workers will sneak in and somehow steal our freedom, it's that we're afraid someone can easily smuggle [explosives|bioweapons|killer monkeys] across an incredibly porous border, and it's a legitimate concern.
(b) xenophobia is a baseless fear of outsiders. I don't think anyone here is -afraid- of illegal immigrants, I think we're -upset- with them and want them to obey the rules. Following your logic, someone who sends their misbehaving child to their room is pedophobic.
is that it finally gives me an excuse to tag something 'ohshit killermolasses'
ayup.
Given the amount of corruption in China, I'd be really surprised if the dam wasn't filled with straw at some point instead of concrete.
The entire thing is a disaster of epic proportions just waiting to happen.
"They're a lot cheaper than boats or fancy cars, and they work a lot better."
I dunno, I'd wager my car works a lot better as a car than that Alienware does. Looking at the photos, I don't think it'd seat more than two.
I'll be here all week, folks.
Seriously tho, my point is that they're bad at being laptops: short battery life, weighs a ton. I guess some people just like spending money, and that's fine, but I guess what I'm saying is that I'm surprised at the (apparent) number of people who think it's a good laptop.
I don't understand why people buy super-high-end performance laptops. You pay a huge power, weight and cost premium for a laptop that will be top-o-the-line for very little time, and you can't upgrade it when that time passes.
I guess I can imagine some niche markets - demo machines for software salesmen, stuff like that where a desktop is absolutely infeasible, but sheesh.
(a) 'most,' the last time I checked was like 60%. If I was president and I did something 40% of the people disapproved of, I'd be wanting to sweep it under the rug too.
(b) building the callgraph -is- questionable, all by itself, whether or not 60% of our nation is made up of idiots that can't feel the water they're sitting in starting to boil.
I think everyone here can agree vb6 is over. Even Microsoft. But the notion that VB 'has no place in the enterprise' is ludicrous. Simply because the VB syntax offends your delicate sensibilities doesn't make it a bad choice for everyone, especially the legions of existing VB programmers.
this is seriously one of the funniest things I've read on slashdot in the last week. For the canonical car analogy, it's like saying sheet metal has no place in modern automobiles.
And, of course, none of it matters. The calltracing is simply one tool of many. It's like saying "Hammers are worthless in construction because no matter how good the hammer is, you still can't build a house with it." It's completely disingenuous.
Sure. Don't get me wrong. What's happening is, in my mind, the single biggest threat to America sinceI don't believe it. The NSA is already having trouble mining the callgraph data. Terabytes a day of recorded calls is more trouble than it's worth. Most of the time simply knowing who talked to who and when it enough.