Comment Damn (Score 1) 198
I was working there last year. Why couldn't you visit then?!
I was working there last year. Why couldn't you visit then?!
I think people find it "creepy" because they've never done it. If it was implemented well on most computers, people would get so accustomed and welcome to it that it would be a huge step back for them to go back to manual input.
Yes, but would it be cheaper to print a page with a skin cartridge or with an ink cartridge?
As you said,
Word of mouth is probably the worst way to find out about a product.
I liked the Watchmen, so I probably won't be listening to your advice on games or movies.
Maybe you just have very different tastes from everybody else in this community. I usually like movies that are recommended to me by my friends, and often movies that other people on Slashdot like.
Yeah, it is the same situation. I was responding to the parent poster who said that this system will create a resurgence of indie developers taking risks and it will do no such thing. It will just be more of the same but on a different medium.
Yep, that's where a lot of money is at... and that's who iPhone games will be targeting. The grandparent poster was claiming that this would be a resurgence of indie, risk taking content and it's no such thing. It's just the creation of it's own mobile genre of games with their pros and cons.
I don't know if you've seen what's on the app store, but it's not games which take risks. There's a 1000 variations on Angry Birds, Doodle Jump and Bejeweled. I wouldn't call something like Fruit Ninja a risky proposition in terms of game design. Fact is, you need a fairly decent budget in order to make some really compelling content. iPhone games are fun for anywhere from a few minutes to a couple hours, but I've played a lot of iPhone games and none have come close to being a truly great gaming experience. Low budgets and really low priced games just mean that people will be making short arcade games that can be played for 30 seconds at a time and will have a limited number of characters, backgrounds and animations because that looks to be the golden ratio of where it's worth it for a developer to make a $.99 game and for it to sell enough copies to people who want a game to play on the toilet.
I completely agree with you. I went to decent public schools in NY and I still didn't understand evolution until I took it upon myself to read more about it after college. The only thing that the teachers mentioned about evolution being true was the fossil record but that's only 1 of the many pieces of evidence that we have supporting evolutionary theory. They didn't teach us about the predictive nature of evolutionary theory or about many of the defects in existing animal species that are remnants of our biological history - such as the circuitous route that the laryngeal nerve takes in humans and especially so in giraffes. To hear it taught in school, you'd think only paleontologists are responsible for evolutionary theory.
I'm sure they could come up with better patents than some humans have.
There are people nostalgic about anything, but this is a very good move. Who knows how much paper and other resources is wasted printing those damn things every year.
They probably used aggregate data from the relationship status as opposed to wall status. You can't really misconstrue the message between "Joe is in a relationship with Jane" to "Joe set his relationship status to single"
The average "ugly girl" in today's world likely looks much, much better in comparison.
Just to make it clear, do you mean "ugly" as in "movie ugly" or "ugly ugly?"
if robots are doing everything, then why are we important?
Cause we built the fucking robots, that's why! What's so grand about humanity at the moment? We eat, shit, and sleep just like every other animal. We've constructed amazing cities and technologies, mostly for the primal purposes of advancing individual stature in society or getting laid, and all of which will be gone and forgotten in a 100 million years - if I were to be optimistic. The only way that humans will achieve immortality among the cosmos is if we create lifeforms that will aid us in that task, and if we succeed in building these robots to the level that we require of them, then they will join our society as equals.
you're getting this stuff for free. You watch YouTube videos for free. This stuff costs Google money to provide you this free service and it has been subsidizing it for you with it's vast amounts of money for years. Is it really that much to ask for you to either watch the commercial that it plays or if you don't want to then pay a couple bucks to continue watching it for free? Online consumers are some seriously spoiled people.
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