For external storage the performance gains are unlikely to be enough for most people to care and spend the extra money, especially once USB gets its shit together and provides enough power to run HDDs without an extra power supply.
And especially as, at some point you just get a NAS / SAN for roughly the same that a TB array would have cost, and now you have shared network storage.
BES was always finicky, but generally issues I recall seeing tended to be self inflicted. Im not sure what you mean by "they changed cryptography keys"-- the entire point of the BES is that the company alone holds the per-device keys, and if they change its because someone did something with their profile.
Calling BES awful when there basically werent any viable competitors for ~10 years is a bit ridiculous. Sure there was activesync, but that was even more finicky and screwed up, and until recently (last ~5 years) anything else was just a nightmare to manage. Anyone ever have the joy of trying to get an iPhone 3 hooked up to a server with a self-signed cert?
Im pretty obviously against those too. Im not clear what point you were trying to make, or if that was supposed to contradict me.
Im of the opinion that ALL public sector unions should be illegal / disbanded, honestly-- it ignores the primary reason for a union in the first place.
Biodegradable mines are a red herring. Theyre almost certain to be more expensive and less reliable, and when you're in an armed conflict you tend not to care about such things as "biodegradable" or "what happens after the war".
Generally its easier to audit who was using a computerized drone control system than it is to figure out what, exactly, happened in the front lines of a war zone. I say "generally", which is to say "always".
The point is that massacres like Mai Lai are caused when soldiers go a bit nutty due to the emotional stress of seeing their friends cut down by an insurgent resistance. That stress isnt going to be there if you're a remote operator, and youre generally going to be much better supervised by pencil-pushers as a drone operator than as an infantryman in a hostile country.
Just that, humans are capable of refusing to do these things. Robots aren't.
And as history shows us, humans dont. Forget about the holocaust, the cultural revolution, the soviet purges? Humans go with the crowd, especially in emotionally charged situations. Anything that brings down the emotion and brings some sanity to combat situations is a good thing.
Someone completely skipped the day in school where they went over how the rational actor model works. Luckily, it tends to hold up pretty well in day to day life.
TL;DR your scenario is ridiculously contrived and implausible.
You've nailed it. This is simply to make people buy the newer games.
Not buying it. If BF1942 has been online all this time, its kind of hard to accept your statement.
Its because GameSpy went offline, and they dont think its worth the effort to patch those games. That too may be a problem for some of the more recent games, but some of the complaints about this are ridiculous.
It could very well be the case that running a private server requires running leaked code from blizzard servers, or else reverse engineering some code (which is almost always verboten according the client EULA).
All of these complaint posts are ignorant. Several of the games there have no DLC (BF1942, BF2, MOHAA, etc). They also allow dedicated servers.
Would be nice if those most vocal about complaining about abuses would actually take the 3 seconds to see if an abuse is happening, but then this is the internet and ignorant outrage reigns supreme.
Apparently he hasnt even looked at history. Unions have a pretty shady history, whether private or public sector. Things like fighting merit based pay, encouraging striking union members to sabotage company resources, ostracising / attacking workers who are against unionization... it stinks of protectionism and mafia-like behavior.
It is wearying to see people shout for unions as if theyre a panacea or dont have scores of their own issues. Anyone remember the thuggish behavior of the Verizon unions a few summers back, where they were pissed that their non-profitable department was not making as much as other, profitable departments? To prove their point, they went around slicing through fiber lines... one might almost dismiss the "verizon reps say" as just a smear campaign, except for all of the tech support calls I got during that time from verizon business customers whose internet mysteriously went out right as the strike was underway. Thats not suspicious, at all....
Unions did great things in the past, but these days they seem to be champions of vastly inflated salaries and fighting merit-based pay whenever possible. No way, no how, no thanks, Im doing quite fine in my merit-based, capitalist run industry. I've had quite enough of "workers unite" talk for a lifetime.
I might be onboard with the global warming thing, if I didnt throw my hands up in disgust and close the tab every time I tried to have a discussion on it. Kind of hard to place any stock in anything anyone says when they follow it up with a screed about how stupid you must be for being conservative.
One of the big problems here is that everyone feels the need to have a strong opinion on this, and often use websites-- which are terribly poor sources. I could find as many sources that contridict that, that say that the solar system is geocentric, etc etc.
Notably, a website with a non-neutral name like that is going to tend to be a particularly poor source; it very obviously has a bias and skin in the game, so regardless of whether it is posting true things or not it cant be considered credible.
How does it compare to volcanic events? I had understood single volcanic "burps" put out years worth of CO2 at once-- dont ask for a source, this is a dimly remembered fact.
I think hes making the basic point that the hivemind can be wrong, and "everyone thinks this" is not always the best argument for something. Heck, hundreds of millions also thought communism was the way forward, that doesnt make it right.
Its not as simple as "theres data", either, because the data existing, being interpreted properly, and being known are entirely different things.
Dont forget scores of posts purporting to love reason and rational argument, but follow up with a hateful rant about how stupid and retarded conservatives are. Bonus points for broad generalizations and ad hominems!
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For external storage the performance gains are unlikely to be enough for most people to care and spend the extra money, especially once USB gets its shit together and provides enough power to run HDDs without an extra power supply.
And especially as, at some point you just get a NAS / SAN for roughly the same that a TB array would have cost, and now you have shared network storage.
BES was always finicky, but generally issues I recall seeing tended to be self inflicted. Im not sure what you mean by "they changed cryptography keys"-- the entire point of the BES is that the company alone holds the per-device keys, and if they change its because someone did something with their profile.
Calling BES awful when there basically werent any viable competitors for ~10 years is a bit ridiculous. Sure there was activesync, but that was even more finicky and screwed up, and until recently (last ~5 years) anything else was just a nightmare to manage. Anyone ever have the joy of trying to get an iPhone 3 hooked up to a server with a self-signed cert?
Right, and I think BF1942 is still the best thing ever (#WakeIsland4Lyfe). But expecting an update for a 12 year old game is a bit much.
Im pretty obviously against those too. Im not clear what point you were trying to make, or if that was supposed to contradict me.
Im of the opinion that ALL public sector unions should be illegal / disbanded, honestly-- it ignores the primary reason for a union in the first place.
A lot of unions do this stuff. Never heard of the teamsters?
It tends to be remarkable when Unions ARENT thuggish, honestly.
Who holds that sovereign responsible? The "international court"? Good luck with that if its the US, Russia, or China.
Biodegradable mines are a red herring. Theyre almost certain to be more expensive and less reliable, and when you're in an armed conflict you tend not to care about such things as "biodegradable" or "what happens after the war".
Generally its easier to audit who was using a computerized drone control system than it is to figure out what, exactly, happened in the front lines of a war zone. I say "generally", which is to say "always".
The point is that massacres like Mai Lai are caused when soldiers go a bit nutty due to the emotional stress of seeing their friends cut down by an insurgent resistance. That stress isnt going to be there if you're a remote operator, and youre generally going to be much better supervised by pencil-pushers as a drone operator than as an infantryman in a hostile country.
Just that, humans are capable of refusing to do these things. Robots aren't.
And as history shows us, humans dont. Forget about the holocaust, the cultural revolution, the soviet purges? Humans go with the crowd, especially in emotionally charged situations. Anything that brings down the emotion and brings some sanity to combat situations is a good thing.
Someone completely skipped the day in school where they went over how the rational actor model works. Luckily, it tends to hold up pretty well in day to day life.
TL;DR your scenario is ridiculously contrived and implausible.
Auto-targetting weapons exist and have for some time. CIWS and Phalanx, for starters.
Anyone citing them also has a serious lack of understanding in how programming works.
Hey I know we should create 3 laws of software to be implemented in all code thats written:
I think I just solved the problem of software bugs!
How did our red lines on chemical weapon usage work out in syria? How bout those redlines in crimea?
You've nailed it. This is simply to make people buy the newer games.
Not buying it. If BF1942 has been online all this time, its kind of hard to accept your statement.
Its because GameSpy went offline, and they dont think its worth the effort to patch those games. That too may be a problem for some of the more recent games, but some of the complaints about this are ridiculous.
Some of those games I can understand the outrage for, but BF1942 and MOHAA are roughly as old as Windows XP. Its time to lay it to rest :(
It could very well be the case that running a private server requires running leaked code from blizzard servers, or else reverse engineering some code (which is almost always verboten according the client EULA).
All of these complaint posts are ignorant. Several of the games there have no DLC (BF1942, BF2, MOHAA, etc). They also allow dedicated servers.
Would be nice if those most vocal about complaining about abuses would actually take the 3 seconds to see if an abuse is happening, but then this is the internet and ignorant outrage reigns supreme.
Bf1942 and MOHAA DO let you run your own servers. Thats not the issue: How do you find those dedicated servers?
Apparently he hasnt even looked at history. Unions have a pretty shady history, whether private or public sector. Things like fighting merit based pay, encouraging striking union members to sabotage company resources, ostracising / attacking workers who are against unionization... it stinks of protectionism and mafia-like behavior.
It is wearying to see people shout for unions as if theyre a panacea or dont have scores of their own issues. Anyone remember the thuggish behavior of the Verizon unions a few summers back, where they were pissed that their non-profitable department was not making as much as other, profitable departments? To prove their point, they went around slicing through fiber lines... one might almost dismiss the "verizon reps say" as just a smear campaign, except for all of the tech support calls I got during that time from verizon business customers whose internet mysteriously went out right as the strike was underway. Thats not suspicious, at all....
Unions did great things in the past, but these days they seem to be champions of vastly inflated salaries and fighting merit-based pay whenever possible. No way, no how, no thanks, Im doing quite fine in my merit-based, capitalist run industry. I've had quite enough of "workers unite" talk for a lifetime.
I might be onboard with the global warming thing, if I didnt throw my hands up in disgust and close the tab every time I tried to have a discussion on it. Kind of hard to place any stock in anything anyone says when they follow it up with a screed about how stupid you must be for being conservative.
One of the big problems here is that everyone feels the need to have a strong opinion on this, and often use websites-- which are terribly poor sources. I could find as many sources that contridict that, that say that the solar system is geocentric, etc etc.
Notably, a website with a non-neutral name like that is going to tend to be a particularly poor source; it very obviously has a bias and skin in the game, so regardless of whether it is posting true things or not it cant be considered credible.
How does it compare to volcanic events? I had understood single volcanic "burps" put out years worth of CO2 at once-- dont ask for a source, this is a dimly remembered fact.
I think hes making the basic point that the hivemind can be wrong, and "everyone thinks this" is not always the best argument for something. Heck, hundreds of millions also thought communism was the way forward, that doesnt make it right.
Its not as simple as "theres data", either, because the data existing, being interpreted properly, and being known are entirely different things.
Dont forget scores of posts purporting to love reason and rational argument, but follow up with a hateful rant about how stupid and retarded conservatives are. Bonus points for broad generalizations and ad hominems!