what on earth are you talking about? so some locksmith who spend 2 years to design a lock that a thief cracks in 2 minutes means that the thief spent 2 years and 8 hours to crack the lock? i'm sorry, but your logic is severely wanting.
take away the 2 years, the locksmith, the lock, and the thief is just well, a guy
That's silly, the "only for it to be cracked again in hours" is inaccurate, the 8 hours must be taken as an extensive of the time spent on the update as whole. You can't crack something that doesn't exist, so x hours/months/years was spent on the update + 8 hours extra to enable homebrew, its not like they remade the entire update from scratch just to enable homebrew. You give an uncredited amount of intelligence to a group of people who are merely enhancing/cracking/destroying (pick your favorite) other people's work.
Possibly I see your point, but mostly as an average American, the net effect on either candidate winning is incredibly minimal on my life. I'm still going to work as long as I have my job (the President does not control market forces with some magic wand, although the Treasury department does now), I'm still going to live in an incredibly dangerous city (Baltimore, how I love you), I'm still going to be much more interested in voting in a new mayor because they DIRECTLY affect my life in many many ways, and I'm still going to pay my taxes whether they be higher/lower/the same/paid in fluffy kittens.
I'd argue that you should be more interested in changing your local politics to be less dependent on the American political system but that's a childish point of view. Yes, American has a massive global footprint, yes that might be detrimental to you, but you're not viewing it from the average American stand point. Our global footprint doesn't lower the murder rate of Baltimore, or make the congestion off the beltway any better and since those most immediately concern me I'm naturally more intent on getting those fixed. I'd guess that for most people its a similar thought process.
Of course, those engineers would have plenty of time to fix the problems when they have to shut down after the investors bail out. Damn investors, they don't contribute anything anyway! Oh...
That means next season will be back for most shows. I wonder how this will relate to current season DVD releases. You would think they will be bundled with another season or sold as very low prices. Which ironically is the writer's shooting themselves in the foot, because even if they get more shares in dvd/download profits, they've made there be less to sell/download.
This whole strike is a farce. The WGA is sickening. I'm sure there are plenty of poor little writers out there who think this might actually help them, but I bet any deal ends up highly favoring the top end writers. I hope Eisner's comment about top dollar contracts being canceled is true. Teach them that whining for months and not working is not how you get more money.
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what on earth are you talking about? so some locksmith who spend 2 years to design a lock that a thief cracks in 2 minutes means that the thief spent 2 years and 8 hours to crack the lock? i'm sorry, but your logic is severely wanting. take away the 2 years, the locksmith, the lock, and the thief is just well, a guy
That's silly, the "only for it to be cracked again in hours" is inaccurate, the 8 hours must be taken as an extensive of the time spent on the update as whole. You can't crack something that doesn't exist, so x hours/months/years was spent on the update + 8 hours extra to enable homebrew, its not like they remade the entire update from scratch just to enable homebrew. You give an uncredited amount of intelligence to a group of people who are merely enhancing/cracking/destroying (pick your favorite) other people's work.
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Possibly I see your point, but mostly as an average American, the net effect on either candidate winning is incredibly minimal on my life. I'm still going to work as long as I have my job (the President does not control market forces with some magic wand, although the Treasury department does now), I'm still going to live in an incredibly dangerous city (Baltimore, how I love you), I'm still going to be much more interested in voting in a new mayor because they DIRECTLY affect my life in many many ways, and I'm still going to pay my taxes whether they be higher/lower/the same/paid in fluffy kittens. I'd argue that you should be more interested in changing your local politics to be less dependent on the American political system but that's a childish point of view. Yes, American has a massive global footprint, yes that might be detrimental to you, but you're not viewing it from the average American stand point. Our global footprint doesn't lower the murder rate of Baltimore, or make the congestion off the beltway any better and since those most immediately concern me I'm naturally more intent on getting those fixed. I'd guess that for most people its a similar thought process.
Exactly. Consequences seem to have become antiquated these days.
Of course, those engineers would have plenty of time to fix the problems when they have to shut down after the investors bail out. Damn investors, they don't contribute anything anyway! Oh...
That means next season will be back for most shows. I wonder how this will relate to current season DVD releases. You would think they will be bundled with another season or sold as very low prices. Which ironically is the writer's shooting themselves in the foot, because even if they get more shares in dvd/download profits, they've made there be less to sell/download. This whole strike is a farce. The WGA is sickening. I'm sure there are plenty of poor little writers out there who think this might actually help them, but I bet any deal ends up highly favoring the top end writers. I hope Eisner's comment about top dollar contracts being canceled is true. Teach them that whining for months and not working is not how you get more money.