Posts by Rattus Rattus 1068 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Oct 2009
Huh, I wouldn't have thought so with all the exceptions and special cases. I'm a native English speaker who is presently learning Japanese and one of the things that has amazed me about that language is the simplicity and regularity of the grammar in comparison to English grammar. What would you consider a language with complicated grammar then?
No cable SERVICE. As in cable TV. Which, ironically, would include a (cable-less) satellite service such as Sky. No Foxtel, or free to air TV, or any of that shite. Not even a subscription to any of the TV broadcasters' digital services like Stan or Netflix. I did not mention the complete absence of any physical cables. I do subscribe to Crunchyroll if that counts.
Tch, I wouldn't do that. It's a nice large screen handy for streaming things from my desktop when I'd rather relax on the couch - games, Youtube, anime, etc. What I don't have, and haven't for over two decades, is any kind of antenna or cable service. TV set, yes, TV "service", no.
That's not a problem, that's a feature. A lot of people, even most people, simply aren't going to pay attention to ads. That's something advertisers need to accept. They fire off a wide spray in order to catch the relatively small handful who will pay attention. The rest of us are not your audience.
Sadly, I do understand it. It translates as "I am an obnoxious git whose only tiny ray of joy in an otherwise miserable life is to denigrate others. I hang around on pickup-ar(se)tist forums thinking of myself as an 'alpha', mostly because I don't know the rest of the Greek alphabet. I also post anonymously for fear of someone connecting my selfish viewpoints to my identity because I don't have the courage to defend my beliefs in person."
I had a cracked power connector on an SSD which I had not noticed and after some movement due to other fiddling inside it let the 12v line short across the connector itself. The insulation on the wires leading from the power supply immediately burst into flame and melted most of the rest of the wires. I yanked power to the machine right away and waited for the smoke to dissipate and the wires to cool down. Fortunately I had a spare power supply which I swapped in to see if there was anything salvageable of the box. Surprisingly it booted straight up, everything worked apart from the SSD (which wasn't even the boot drive, I have another SSD for that), and all I needed to do was finish properly connecting the power!
Apart from the obvious "give us back control" that everyone has been saying, as well as "make it not so damn ugly", I'll add "stop pretending everything is happening on a mobile device". Give us an actual desktop OS, the desktop and mobile use cases are just too damn different for this one-size-doesn't-quite-fit-all.
Of course! I was wondering who he reminded me of. He's like a brightly coloured Stanley the Plaid!
...if iPads are getting progressively cheaper and improving hardware with each version, there's really only one question to ask: Can I install Android on it?
In all seriousness, though, we really need tablets to become commodified just like PC hardware. Buy according to size, RAM, processing power, budget, etc, and pop whichever OS and software you like on there.
"Just because some disagrees with you politically, don't assume they're unintelligent or uneducated"
I never assume that someone is unintelligent or uneducated merely because they disagree with me politically. I assume it when they demonstrate they are unintelligent or uneducated. It's hardly my fault that the two frequently coincide.
"pushing out one of the blanks for an ISA/VESA slot"
Ouch, the worst cut I ever got from a case was from the very same thing. I still have a good two centimetre scar on my thumb. On the plus side, that PC accepted my blood sacrifice and was the only one to never give me any trouble for its entire operational lifespan.
Ponyfinder is a thing, you know. Though I hear Savage Worlds is actually a better ruleset for running Pony games.
Nope, Australia. Where our health care system work extremely well. Of course our neoliberal party bleats abouty it being unsustainable, but thet's the same line they trot out about every kind of public infrastructure they can't sell to the highest bidder. They've tried to destroy it ever since it was introduced by Labor but it's been so popular and successful they cannot.
Incidentally, you are mischaracterising the NHS. But that is unsurprising, all your posts show you are a selfish neoliberal yourself.
That sounds like an excellent argument for private health insurance to be completely abolished and all health care to become entirely government-run. Remove the profit motive, remove the high costs, spend a little tax money, everyone wins! Except the wealthy clamouring for ever lower taxes and reduction of assistance to poor people. But fuck them, selfish pricks that they are.
The Affordable Care Act has absolutely nothing to do with socialised healthcare, your Republican idiots ensured that.
I'm so glad I don't have to rely on the utterly insane US lack-of-healthcare system, I am fortunate enough to live in a country that DOES have an extremely successful socialised health system.
I believe them, I am quite sure the system WAS in fact "working as intended". They key is that the "intention" wasn't to treat the Department's customers fairly or even to locate welfare cheats. It was to terrify the poor and impress upon them just how powerless they are, as well as to claw as much money as could be gotten away with out of their bank accounts, in keeping with the Coalition's policy of riding upon the backs of the poor.
OF COURSE it's more expensive. It's always more expensive initially to do a job right in the first place. Maintenance costs over time are what makes FTTN the costlier option in the long term.
So, in areas that are already supposedly "adequately served" (hohoho) when are the suppliers going to be forced to match NBN's pricing and packages? I'm getting pretty damn tired of paying roughly double the price all the surrounding suburbs pay for internet while getting worse service. Yes, worse than the NBN if you can credit it. "Adequately served", what bullshit.
If you're just starting out, why don't you have a day job? Success takes time. Building up a fanbase takes time. As you build a good relationship with your fans you can expect to see piracy dramatically drop off as fans CHOOSE to support you in your artistic endeavours.
Some people will, always. Those people are not your customers and there is nothing to be gained in throwing good money after bad in an effort to lock out this tiny percentage, especially using methods that cost you money and alienate a large proportion of your paying customers. That's called cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. Incidentally, I bought World of Goo, was a fun game.
If you want examples why not look at one of the biggest and best known ones? CD Projekt, makers of The Witcher games and the brains behind GoG.com. They are raking it in hand-over-fist because (a) they release good stuff, (b) they won't use DRM and they make sure people know that, and (c) they don't get all bent out of shape over the small handful that won't pay for their games. They even released patches to remove Steam's DRM from their games, just out of principle. THIS is how you build a loyal fan base in the modern age.
Admittedly, it is a bit more difficult for first-time releases such as the World of Goo guy. If you are completely unknown, you won't have much of a fan base to start with. That needs to be built up over multiple releases.
Rubbish, Charles. CONVENIENCE beats free. Fandom and the desire to support your favourite content creators ALSO beats free. All an artist has to do is build a relationship with their fans, and provide their works in an easy to use, easy to transfer manner. Of course, that won't keep the coke train running for the increasingly-irrelevant middlemen. Tough shit for them.
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