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I played the game a little. There's a few minor things that annoyed me about it, like the wishy washy lame theme / atmosphere they're going for. It's so over done that it makes me want to vomit. "Guardians", "Light", " Darkness", and "The Traveller".

Random cool things and names thrown together haphazardly.

The competitive multiplayer isn't great considering the way their load out system works. It's just a game of rock paper scissors and whoever was lucky enough to start out with the gun that will beat your gun wins.

I feel like they have the makings of a good game, but they really need to polish this up.

I thought it was common knowledge that it was fake info...lol.

I'm glad that music discovery is becoming more of a focus for YouTube. Found Sithu Aye just because of that alone.

They aren't mad because the project "failed" (I put that in quotes because it didn't exactly fail, just rather, never happened).

They are mad because she took that money and donated it to a "charity". That wasn't her money to give to that charity. If she had used it on the kickstarter project and ran out of money and couldn't finish, that's fine. That can happen. But she basically stole money that was earmarked for something and gave it away to something entirely unrelated.

This is just as bad as those guys who successfully kickstart a project, and then blow the money on a new car. Hell, even the car could be "justified" by them saying it was somehow needed for the project. She just straight up decided "Nope, I'll just donate this money here".

That is the problem. Not to mention the Kickstarter ToS, as posted by @Brughc specifically states that she must fulfill the rewards before her legal obligation is considered complete. She breached that obligation, which constitutes a contract between herself, kickstarter, and each backer.

That's great. I had no idea there was a legal obligation on her.

When comparing the US it's better to do it by state. Each state has different things and it's only across the board when it's a federal thing. For the most part states have a lot of liberty.

 

I could say in California you have weed, free healthcare, avocados and fresh produce, access to the 8th largest economy in the world and technology. I hesitate to put the last one but I've been to other parts of states where technology wasn't as common. The classrooms were ancient looking. Plus if you get accepted to a university and you're poor the state gives you grants. We also have a new model for business taxation that should further enrich the state. Basically if you sell something here, you pay taxes here, regardless of what state your company is located in. More states should have that.

 

Edit: I think that we have some great consumer protections. I know you guys have a lot of those too. It just seems like your current set up is enforced by big business. I can say that of my country at the federal level, but it does not look that way to me at the state level.

 

Never underestimate the power of British banter. 

Is it arrogance when you are better than those you compare yourself to? Reed never should have been up for consideration as CEO. His track record before that was spotty. They should have merged with Nvidia instead of trying to buy out ATI. We'd have x86 CUDA APUs with some kick had AMD made the right decision. Even though Huang is an asshole, he had the money AMD desperately needed to keep both GloFo and its x86 operations afloat, and Nvidia had the engineers AMD lacked for SOC development.

If I had been CEO of AMD for the last 8 years, Intel would be in pain, and ATI would still be wholly canadian and as strong as it would have been.

Looking from the outside and in hindsight makes it far easier than being in their shoes at the exact time. I'm sure there is plenty of information that went into their decisions that we, as the public, are not privy to. Had you been a CEO I'm sure there can be repercussions and consequences to your decisions that you would not have been able to foresee.

Also, cheers for the loaded question. I'm disputing whether you actually are better than him. Have a little fucking self awareness, please.

"this is my own private domicile, and I will not be harassed... BITCH".

Need I remind you of the many bad decisions AMd has made which have landed it miles in debtand ruined many business, community, and world-wide relationships with its partners and customers?

I'm as qualified. You don't need a degree to be a logician and extrapolate the effects of decisions. You just need a brain and a solid foundation in logic, economics, and psychology. AMD is exuding weakness, losing money and market share in CPU and GPU land, and then goes and pulls this stunt? I'm more qualified to be AMD's CEO than Rory Reed ever was.

The sheer arrogance this exudes can not be understated...

Honestly I'll just say it. I quite like Google+. While managing accounts absolutely sucks, the actual network isn't too bad. Some of the communists are great, friendly and helpful, like the c++ community and the gaming community, and I enjoy the amount of control you have over who sees what.

It has some huge issues though like the follow system which does need some extra explanation, but beyond that I've just seen most of the hate come from having to merge YouTube and since then everyone else just jumped on the bandwagon.

Even after the failure and abandonment of the project and their company, they continues to seek attention. Some people are just plain stupid, regardless of whether or not they're male or female.

I don't think it's stupidity, I think it's malice. Someone made a great post summarising the events with relevant links, and unless she is entirely delusional it would seem clear that she is a dishonest individual attempting to gain attention through controversy. No doubt a backward site such as Gawker or Polygon will pick this up and run with it in the name of being "progressive" (and thus I began to hate the word progressive unless it was followed by "metal").

Any idea what engine this is using? It looks old to me. The particle effects and the character models. Might just be me though.

I am put off by the OS, It just wont have the software and applications support.... which basically makes it a no buy for me

You can run Android apps to some degree but even so...

I'm not sure if this qualifies as "tech news". Might belong in "general" but whatever.

I got a few questions about his "The Dream Smartphone". I won't ask them since I don't visit reddit but maybe someone will read this, agree with me and ask him.

It feels like he was basically describing the Note 4 but forced himself to pick parts from all manufacturers to not piss off any potential fanboys.

He says he wants the body of the M8, but then he not only changes the shape of the body to be like a Note 4, but also changes the material to what Nokia uses on their Lumia phones. So what's left of the M8? He could have rephrased it to "I want the Note 4 body but made out of the same plastic as the Lumia phones".

The CPU, GPU, RAM and battery are the same as the Note 4.

The camera is the same as the Note 4.

The screen choice didn't make any sense because the screen on the LG G3 is pretty bad at everything except resolution. The Note 4's screen is amazing at everything including resolution. He should have picked the Note 4's screen. In fact, I am pretty sure he even said the Note 4 had the best screen of any smartphone in one of his videos, so why isn't that in his dream phone?

So what's left? The image processing from the iPhone? With the new Camera2 API in Lollipop we will hopefully get some amazing third party camera apps that will allow you to do even better post processing than the iPhone.

I am not trying to say that I think the Note 4 is the best phone or anything like that, but to me it seems like Marques was describing the Note 4 in his video while trying to please fans of all brands.

Yeah, that was a really odd video. I suspect you're right that he wanted to avoid accusations of fanboyism, but if he liked most of the Note 4's features I think he should have been honest about it.

It was made in collaboration with the Verge I think, so maybe they had something to do with it. (Supposedly they made their Android reviews more positive in an attempt to alleviate all the accusations of iVerge, at the expense of truth).

I've never really been a fan of the iPad design (I'm sorry, but metal for a tablet just doesn't feel good in the hand). Good on Nokia for trying though.

Also. Can't stop laughing at the annotations: "BS" and "PBS" (bullshit and pseudo bullshit, respectively).

The thing that had been on my mind is that it took us a long time to continually refine classical computer architecture to get to where we are with it.

Quantum computing right now is in its infancy, and, as far as I know, has potential to be a lot faster than classical architecture in certain regards. When it eventually does become mainstream, I'm worried what it will mean for software developers and computer languages.

Linus merely adopted the news

I WAS BORN IN IT

Mmmoulded by it.

T-Mobile is quite ridiculous here in the UK.

I don't think Android moves many apps completely into RAM because it's never that lightning fast in opening up apps. I guess what you were trying to say was that Android stores that particular session in RAM which happens to be the main function of a RAM. I didn't read your article but I'm just replying to what you wrote

I quoted the article. This is what android does. It purposely fills up memory as unused ram is considered to be wasted ram. It then clears the ram whenever an app requests more memory.

Oh my word the comments here are ridiculous.

It's essentially in beta. Do you want to know why the price was high? They only wanted a small amount of *committed* people to try it.

It's a new and rather revolutionary product that is going to take a lot of time for society to get used to, so they didn't want to sell a bunch of units when there are many bugs and such to sort out.

When it's ready for release it will cost around the same as a smartphone.

Pretty much all the other criticisms are based off of this (low adoption because of price, small market due to price.)

It seems fake, and a lazy attempt at that.

Anyway. We all know anyone who tries leaving Ubisoft ends up in the hole ubisoft is digging

Since I've been playing civ I can't help but notice real world parallels to the game.

Damnit China, get your spies out of Washington and try getting some mercantile city state allies.

There is also this to consider:

http://www.howtogeek.com/127388/htg-explains-why-you-shouldnt-use-a-task-killer-on-android/

Proponents of task killers notice that Android is using a lot of RAM – in fact, Android stores a lot of apps in its memory, filling up the RAM! However, that isn’t a bad thing. Apps stored in your RAM can be quickly switched to without Android having to load them from its slower storage.

Empty RAM is useless. Full RAM is RAM that is being put to good use for caching apps. If Android needs more memory, it will force-quit an app that you haven’t used in a while – this all happens automatically, without installing any task killers.

Task killers think they know better than Android. They run in the background, automatically quitting apps and removing them from Android’s memory. They may also allow you to force-quit apps on your own, but you shouldn’t have to do this.

Task killers aren’t just useless – they can reduce performance. If a task killer removes an app from your RAM and you open that app again, the app will be slower to load as Android is forced to load it from your device’s storage. This will also use more battery power than if you just left the app in your RAM in the first place. Some apps will automatically restart after the task killer quits them, using more CPU and battery resources.

Whether RAM is empty or full, it takes the same amount of battery power – decreasing the amount of apps stored in RAM won’t improve your battery power or offer more CPU cycles.

Finally: ART. It has supposedly a better garbage collector and anandtech found a significant improvement.

It was rolling out for the N7 on November 12. I still haven't got it yet though, so I'm quite annoyed about that.

I'd rather wait than miss a step and mess up my device.

On a side note, how come an OTA update can just be downloaded and installed while trying to go and download it yourself and install it requires many more hoops to jump through?

What's the difference?

It hasn't been. It has literally come out today for the N4 and N7.

It was rolling out for the N7 on November 12. I still haven't got it yet though, so I'm quite annoyed about that.