PostOnce

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by PostOnce 8y ago
The story already opens with an unarmed man in the shower in his own home being repeatedly tased. If your problem is you're punching people in the head too often, the solution isn't to wear soft gloves, it's to stop punching
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by PostOnce 8y ago
MIT student: reinvents wheel MIT press office: "MIT researchers develop matter transporter"
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Can't wait for the mergers & acquisitions that leave one guy owning the autonomous farm, autonomous delivery trucks, self-checkout-only supermarkets, and bank that issues the card you use to pay for it. Also, he's your boss.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
You can opt out in the beginning, but later it becomes a monopoly. You can't even buy a game on a DVD anymore without it requiring Steam to install, activate, and play. So, in theory, if they succeed, it won't be optional anymore.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
This will be adding those problems (centralization of services, recurring costs to play your existing games, and to play multiplayer) where they don't already exist. PC game companies are already making single player games that run on
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by PostOnce 8y ago
The issue is that it doesn't have to be that way, didn't used to be that way, and isn't that way for pirates. Just because it's the state of affairs doesn't mean it's acceptable. Consoles are arguably a better
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Offline meaning single player, streaming not withstanding, that's a lot of crap to go through (managing and maintaining many accounts and clients) to boot into a game that you're going to play by yourself (not multiplayer), and a
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Rather I'm not happy with the foreboding. I really like video games, and they keep getting worse... not the games themselves, but everything around them (due to "business" concerns), such as my above concerns, and IAP/DL
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Does this mean I'll now need a Steam, Uplay, and Google account all simultaneously logged in to play an offline game by myself? And if something goes wrong, I can expect absolutely zero tech support? And I'll lose access to all my
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Let's talk purely about piracy for a second, as a legitimate use for legitimate owners, based on something that happened to me a couple of days ago: I own two copies of this game, From Dust (which is fantastic, by the creator of Anothe
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by PostOnce 8y ago
This is deeper than I expected and one of the better articles on game design I have ever read, and I have read many. What I'm saying is that if you came to the comments to find out whether it's worth reading, it is.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
If they charged money, they'd never get famous and you'd never hear about them.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
His counterpoint appears to apply only to individuals and small bands; without density we never achieve industry, which brings us, well, the modern world and all its medicine, internet, refrigeration ... satellite-based forewarning of enorm
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by PostOnce 8y ago
I provided some evidence (billions of people have been eating many kinds of grains since the dawn of agriculture). The Semmelweis effect is regarding rejecting new evidence -- and yet you provide no evidence, while dismissing mine. Perhaps
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by PostOnce 8y ago
"Some folks" sincerely believe vaccines cause autism. "Some folks" believe the earth is flat. I don't care what "some folks" beliefs are, I care about the ground truth. It doesn't take a lot of equipm
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Humans are very much equipped to eat grains, we built agriculture, and thus the whole of civilization, on top of cereal grains like rice, wheat, and corn. Grains are the staples of most cultures. What are you talking about? Some hand-wavy p
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by PostOnce 8y ago
if useless quips are fun then maybe the appropriate venue is elsewhere? Pointless quips add something else we have to scroll past to learn anything or find something interesting. The goal is more wheat not more chaff. "this was interes
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by PostOnce 8y ago
firefox has both profiles (for actual different users) and containers for isolating stuff (i.e. a sub-profile) for a single user. The containers have a great UI/UX. I'm looking at the profile stuff now (after having not in years)
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by PostOnce 8y ago
The average user probably wouldn't know the difference, since a computer is a browser and an office suite -- but there's no real incentive to sell anyone Linux? It wouldn't make anyone much more money, so what company would b
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by PostOnce 8y ago
I feel like some of the comments here are neglecting the fact that the average designer (as with all things) is mediocre, just as the average book isn't a great read, the average logo isn't iconic. Nor does the average plumbing bu
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by PostOnce 8y ago
decoding in software is fine (computers are fast, batteries usually aren't a concern for TV connected stuff) for a huge number of people who watch movies, it's the bandwidth and disk space savings we crave, or at least that's
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Turns out partially enslaving high school children for $5000 for eight years generates some backlash. And to think, that from a guy who is already set for life; what does it say about a person if they're already rich and entertain them
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Is it a "Master's Degree" or is it an "Online Master's Degree" because they keep saying online, and OMS instead of MS, etc. I suspect that will be stigmatic, or is already. If that is the case, then why waste $
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Have you really ripped them off if you already bought the game in the 80s? Should you have to buy it on a new platform to play it again, if your computer is perfectly capable? Should you have to buy ROM dumping equipment? What's the di
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by PostOnce 8y ago
you keep talking in dollars and not hours if the fine is "one week of income" and you don't want to lose a week then you won't speed if a speeding ticket was 5 cents everyone would speed every day... and this is the stat
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by PostOnce 8y ago
This could backfire, looking hard for improvements where there are none leads to change for change's sake where the change might be inferior. We've all found later versions of stuff inferior to the original, sometimes wildly and p
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by PostOnce 8y ago
with an entry-level GPU and slow RAM that works with an i5-2500k, i can play every modern game i have tried on high. Nothing about me opening a text editor, interpreting most code, or compiling the occasional thing require anywhere near tha
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Filters come in various forms, search history, language, location, OS, account-based history, etc. Filtering my results based on my location is still a filter bubble. Filtering it based on anything, and not just showing me exactly the same
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by PostOnce 8y ago
They specifically advertise that they don't lock you into a filter bubble. A geo-bubble is a filter bubble.
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by PostOnce 8y ago
Palm Pilot & friends (back to newton and earlier?) had the same stylus and resistive touchscreen for quite a few years before the DS, and the Palm at least sold millions of units, and they had a cellphone model a long time before the iP

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