I don't care of someone votes for Trump, or for Hillary either. However given them $1.25 is a terrible waste of money. The smart investor would say "screw it, I'm spending my money on a ballot initiative instead of either of those bozos".
Well, politicians change opinions often. Even Trump who is only marginally a politician. However most politicians change their opinions when public opinions change. Trump on the other hand changes his opinions every time he wakes up from a nap.
Not a Hillary fan, but you would at least hope that politicians are able to change their minds when the general public changes their minds as well. Do you really want a politician out there who say "I was in favor eugenics in 1936, and I'm not going to change my mind just because it's 2016!" Sometimes being incalcitrant is a bad personality trait, and sometimes flip-flopping is what smart people do. Of course this argument doesn't fly for the sorts of people who feel there is a cultural war going on, and that being gay is evil yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Cygwin mostly uses a thick compatibility layer that slows things down a lot but makes things really compatible with Unix, such that you need no or minimal effort to get off the shelf unix software to run under it. So it's great in the sense that you get what you expect, but it always feels just a wee bit slow.
True. But where I am in south bary area it feels like there's no policing of the camps. That doesn't necessarily mean shooing them away, but it does mean dealing with the few who are stealing from nearby homes or stores. There was one couple who set up a home on a side walk, plopped down a sofa and dresser and took over. There are definitely some drug deals going on in some of the camps near me.
This feels different from the homeless situation even from a couple of years ago. Camps seem to spring up suddenly. I wonder if there's been a move to shoo people away from downtown areas. Meaning they're in residential areas and far away from any homeless shelters or services or public restrooms.
There are a lot of DRM free games on GOG. Games designed from day one to be DRM free. And not just older games recycled through the time machine, but brand new releases. Witcher 3, Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity, etc. And there's plenty of pre-order activity on GOG.com, and quite a few are designed up front to be for pc, mac, and linux.
They treat games like necessities because there is a set of gamers that treat it that way. They'll jump through all sorts of hoops to get access to the games, signing up for special accounts on the publisher's web site or even paying for that right, and then end up playing the game for a week at which point there's another must-have game around the corner. Game publishers are generally not aiming at the discerning consumer market segment, they're too busy raking in the profits from this year's Assassin's Quest #27.
DRM is worse than mere copy protection. If the servers go down then you lose your game, movie, music, etc. If course many producers like that idea, it means more sales!
These days with games however the primary purpose of DRM is not to prevent piracy (producers would have to be morons to think it would do that) but instead to prevent resales. Ie, if you buy the game they want to forbid you from ever selling the game, giving away the game, lending it for a few months, etc. That cuts into their sales and so is more evil in their eyes than a pirate who will never be their customer anyway. DRM is about control.
But Shadow Warrior is not the first, and not even one of the first. We've had DRM free games for a long time. Just not so common for a very high profile game to also be DRM and to brag about it publicly (especially on Steam, the DRM kingpin).
Absolutely. the macbook is the only laptop I've ever found that was useful. And I wasn't even an Apple fan when I started using them. Everything else I've used I've had to bring a secondary mouse with it when it wasn't docked. Even recently I assumed things got better on Windows but it's just as messed up as ever.
PC makers like commodity parts. Trimmed down features, hacks, or substandard components that the industry eventually standardizes around. IDE, VLB, fear of SCSI, embracing USB and its higher speed hacks instead of something more reasonable like FireWire, etc.
On the other hand I don't really trust Microsoft pushing another one of their standards. I'd rather a group of people make a standard than the company that makes a living destroying standards.
The PC industry has always been about the cheapest crap they can get away with in order to preserve their tiny margins. No one does any independent R&D, so they rely on a fumbling company like microsoft to do it for them.
AP is probably the most reliable news outlet out there. They don't do editorializing for one. They do make mistakes but they correct those mistakes. Their customers are news media outlets, not the end users, so they're not stocked up on sensationalism to boost their readership like cable tv.
Of course anything coming out this close to the election may as well just be considered a lie by default. From BOTH campaigns. Anyone who feels that their candidate never lies and the other candidate only lies is too stupid to safely vote. If we stopped treating all of this like a high school student council popularity contest we might actually be able to make democracy work.
Makes sense, as every word from Trump is a lie so that's pretty easy to fact check. That means more time to spend investigating what Hillary says. Or are you one of those gullible people who believe that the media is biased against Trump despite the media actually greatly assistingTrump's campaign by repeating every damn stupid thing that he says? He'd never have made it through the primaries if the mainstream media weren't so obsessed with him.
Huh, you put your files that you create on your computer onto your computer. Tada, hosted! Of course no one else can see them, that means they're safer that way! Your phone can't see them but so what, phones are insecure by design and full of spyware so you don't want to share your files with your phone anyway.
I can think of several questions for a Dennis Ritchie zombie process. The only think I would want to ask a living Shkreli is if he realizes he is a douchebag or is ignorant of this.
CEO is democrat means nothing whatsoever as far as the relevant politics goes. A binary left vs right, democrat vs republican, or liberal vs conservative is simplistic kindergarten style of thinking. Companies give campaign donations to help out their own bottom line regardless of how they feel about other political issues. This is why they shotgun the money to whoever is on the relevant committees regardless of the party.
At least as far as using the corporation's money. The CEOs may donate their own personal money to various political causes of course, like with the Koch brothers (though their company is privately held they can't just dip into its coffers for these purposes).
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I don't care of someone votes for Trump, or for Hillary either. However given them $1.25 is a terrible waste of money. The smart investor would say "screw it, I'm spending my money on a ballot initiative instead of either of those bozos".
Well, politicians change opinions often. Even Trump who is only marginally a politician. However most politicians change their opinions when public opinions change. Trump on the other hand changes his opinions every time he wakes up from a nap.
Not a Hillary fan, but you would at least hope that politicians are able to change their minds when the general public changes their minds as well. Do you really want a politician out there who say "I was in favor eugenics in 1936, and I'm not going to change my mind just because it's 2016!" Sometimes being incalcitrant is a bad personality trait, and sometimes flip-flopping is what smart people do. Of course this argument doesn't fly for the sorts of people who feel there is a cultural war going on, and that being gay is evil yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
So clearly orchestrated by the DNC? Stupid partisans believe any old shit that's fed up to them.
Cygwin mostly uses a thick compatibility layer that slows things down a lot but makes things really compatible with Unix, such that you need no or minimal effort to get off the shelf unix software to run under it. So it's great in the sense that you get what you expect, but it always feels just a wee bit slow.
True. But where I am in south bary area it feels like there's no policing of the camps. That doesn't necessarily mean shooing them away, but it does mean dealing with the few who are stealing from nearby homes or stores. There was one couple who set up a home on a side walk, plopped down a sofa and dresser and took over. There are definitely some drug deals going on in some of the camps near me.
This feels different from the homeless situation even from a couple of years ago. Camps seem to spring up suddenly. I wonder if there's been a move to shoo people away from downtown areas. Meaning they're in residential areas and far away from any homeless shelters or services or public restrooms.
GOG.com provides convenience and disconts as well, without DRM.
They tooted the horn on Steam because that was where the question was asked.
There are a lot of DRM free games on GOG. Games designed from day one to be DRM free. And not just older games recycled through the time machine, but brand new releases. Witcher 3, Wasteland 2, Pillars of Eternity, etc. And there's plenty of pre-order activity on GOG.com, and quite a few are designed up front to be for pc, mac, and linux.
They treat games like necessities because there is a set of gamers that treat it that way. They'll jump through all sorts of hoops to get access to the games, signing up for special accounts on the publisher's web site or even paying for that right, and then end up playing the game for a week at which point there's another must-have game around the corner. Game publishers are generally not aiming at the discerning consumer market segment, they're too busy raking in the profits from this year's Assassin's Quest #27.
DRM is worse than mere copy protection. If the servers go down then you lose your game, movie, music, etc. If course many producers like that idea, it means more sales!
These days with games however the primary purpose of DRM is not to prevent piracy (producers would have to be morons to think it would do that) but instead to prevent resales. Ie, if you buy the game they want to forbid you from ever selling the game, giving away the game, lending it for a few months, etc. That cuts into their sales and so is more evil in their eyes than a pirate who will never be their customer anyway. DRM is about control.
But Shadow Warrior is not the first, and not even one of the first. We've had DRM free games for a long time. Just not so common for a very high profile game to also be DRM and to brag about it publicly (especially on Steam, the DRM kingpin).
Absolutely. the macbook is the only laptop I've ever found that was useful. And I wasn't even an Apple fan when I started using them. Everything else I've used I've had to bring a secondary mouse with it when it wasn't docked. Even recently I assumed things got better on Windows but it's just as messed up as ever.
PC makers like commodity parts. Trimmed down features, hacks, or substandard components that the industry eventually standardizes around. IDE, VLB, fear of SCSI, embracing USB and its higher speed hacks instead of something more reasonable like FireWire, etc.
On the other hand I don't really trust Microsoft pushing another one of their standards. I'd rather a group of people make a standard than the company that makes a living destroying standards.
The PC industry has always been about the cheapest crap they can get away with in order to preserve their tiny margins. No one does any independent R&D, so they rely on a fumbling company like microsoft to do it for them.
Either that or this guy was stubborn and insisted that the wi-fi turn it on even though it took 11 hours.
AP is probably the most reliable news outlet out there. They don't do editorializing for one. They do make mistakes but they correct those mistakes. Their customers are news media outlets, not the end users, so they're not stocked up on sensationalism to boost their readership like cable tv.
Of course anything coming out this close to the election may as well just be considered a lie by default. From BOTH campaigns. Anyone who feels that their candidate never lies and the other candidate only lies is too stupid to safely vote. If we stopped treating all of this like a high school student council popularity contest we might actually be able to make democracy work.
You think the voters should actually be required to think? What sort of un-American euro-pansy drivel is that?
Makes sense, as every word from Trump is a lie so that's pretty easy to fact check. That means more time to spend investigating what Hillary says. Or are you one of those gullible people who believe that the media is biased against Trump despite the media actually greatly assistingTrump's campaign by repeating every damn stupid thing that he says? He'd never have made it through the primaries if the mainstream media weren't so obsessed with him.
Huh, you put your files that you create on your computer onto your computer. Tada, hosted! Of course no one else can see them, that means they're safer that way! Your phone can't see them but so what, phones are insecure by design and full of spyware so you don't want to share your files with your phone anyway.
I can think of several questions for a Dennis Ritchie zombie process. The only think I would want to ask a living Shkreli is if he realizes he is a douchebag or is ignorant of this.
And if the wi-fi doesn't work, a sane machine would at least have a power button to turn it on manually. Wi-fi only though is a silly idea.
Has nothing to do with wifi though. The only reason to have wifi is if you're a hipster dork.
We need a grammar scientist, stat!
Though it does seem more realistic than their current plan of taking over New Hampshire.
When the summary says 'scientists', I mentally see air-quotes around that word.
CEO is democrat means nothing whatsoever as far as the relevant politics goes. A binary left vs right, democrat vs republican, or liberal vs conservative is simplistic kindergarten style of thinking. Companies give campaign donations to help out their own bottom line regardless of how they feel about other political issues. This is why they shotgun the money to whoever is on the relevant committees regardless of the party.
At least as far as using the corporation's money. The CEOs may donate their own personal money to various political causes of course, like with the Koch brothers (though their company is privately held they can't just dip into its coffers for these purposes).
Or they'll spend 2.3 Billion on lobbyists to get the FCC dismantled and replaced with a unregulated market.
They probably spend that much each year on their executive retreats in Cancun.