It comes and goes. Lately I've seen a lot more of it. Modding hardware, improving it, fixing things, build your own, etc. The hobby electronics/diy/maker thing is popular right now. As far as trends go, I'd say it's a pretty good one, and I hope it sticks around.
NOW we're talking. Do those exist?
It reminds me of this guys project...
http://www.tricorderproject.org/tricorder-mark2.html
I assumed that's part of what the $99 is for.
That's not done by cutting corners: the editorial process is thorough, and they use rigorous peer-review.
Some of these make sense. If you're downloading a torrent the bar tells you percentage of bytes received from total, so it never regresses. What changes is the "estimated time remaining". And that's fine... conditions change (peer count, transfer speeds, etc).
The file copy ones used to drive me nuts. If I'm moving files from one source to one destination, you'd think the transfer speeds would be pretty consistent and the time estimates pretty accurate. I can't pretend to know why they used to be so bad, but they do seem better now.
It's here so people can troll. I'm sure anything that mentions religion gets a billion views and comments.
But it is kinda interesting, I guess. The article says it hasn't happened since 1415.
And their IE commercials. Which I have to admit, are clever. I hope the ad firm that did them made good money off em.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkM6RJf15cg
Still won't touch IE, but I laugh at the commercials.
That's fraudulent and potentially lawsuit worthy. Ain't gunna happen over a regular package.
Maybe a bigger problem is shockwatch patches can cost $3 each. It makes sense for expensive packages,but not your $10 amazon.com order with free shipping.
Though to be fair, now figure out what a bluetooth dongle is going to cost.
And it's a fairly transparent slashvertisement.
Agreed. If they're going to do that, the, "New submitter markfeffer, Senior Editor at Dice, writes [...]" part was at least an honest way to handle it.
Maybe they should add the disclaimer at the bottom like we used to have for parent and sibling companies, too.
I'm sure these meters make mistakes both ways right? Occasionally under counting.
From the article:
"They are wrong by missing numbers by one way or another - sometimes it's over reporting, but more frequently the error is under reporting," he said. Under reporting should be a relief to those facing overage charges or service termination for going over their meters, but if the meters aren't counting the data properly, it is still a problem.
If you know of any competing device that's anything like the Ouya but better spec'd, please do let me know.
I do see some bare boards matching your description at $250 without an enclosure, power, console style UI and curated store, or controller of any sort. I think we can agree that's not even close to what we're talking about, though.
And either way, there's no reason to get angry about it. If there's a compelling alternative I'd like to know about it.
Something about slashdot makes it really combative. I don't know if it's the karma system, us, or something else. But if you say something people see, no matter how rational, someone is going to disagree just to disagree, and it's probably going to be a little nasty.
Like you said, that usually starts with someone tilting at some inconsequential and opportunistic BS taken out of context. A couple mod points later the whole thread is off the rails. It's pretty irritating and I doubt most of us actually converse like this in the real world. We'd get laughed at or punched.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
