"Hmm. How can I improve this clever and understated mathematical pun? Oh, I know, I'll apply the subtlety of a political cartoon where a big bag of money is labelled 'money' to it!"
URL shorteners are necessary because useful URLs are already often not human readable, and even when they are, are much harder to communicate to others than a short string of garbage.
This is partly due to how The Business Model caused this technology to be used in unanticipated ways. Every website is obsessed with its front page and hates when you link to anything else, because they might get less or no ad revenue if their content is actually useful to people who haven't visited it. They don't give a fuck what Sir Tim thinks they should be doing.
The board members of a Chinese steel company know exactly as much about running an American school as the American administrators who turned it into a degree mill for Chinese people and a daycare for American Boomers' "adult" children.
Your position is a key piece of information when negotiating, a piece that Americans almost never have because of this custom. The only reason you should WANT your salary to be a secret is that you think you make the most compared to your peers. That or tax evasion.
Interesting. I wonder if there's a reason they didn't just put this in Google maps. Is it possible that it being a military system means they'd need permission or something? Also, does GMRS avoid easily confused characters?
I saw in another thread that plus codes apparently get more precision out of fewer characters. That would make it easier to memorize.
Whatever, man. You seem really emotionally invested in declaring PC gaming irreparably doomed despite it being in basically its third golden age. There are already alternatives, should they become necessary.
They were suggested, and not even by MS itself. Forcing certain updates is a good thing. Since starting to do it, MS hasn't made good choices about how or when to do that, but the idea is still sound as a way to enforce better security.
No, I did not mean to imply that Google didn't try to push the Play Store. What I was saying is that it wasn't the sole focus of their efforts, and didn't need to be. They created Android, so the Play Store would've been the default regardless.
Windows hasn't been a shell for decades, I'm well aware of that. My point in bringing that up is that Windows wasn't created ex nihilo. Even as it has become the overwhelmingly dominant force on PCs, this piece of its history has ensured that there are functional alternatives and strong incentives for backward compatibility. They have dropped some legacy support over the years, but that's generally well after it's sensible to do so for reasons other than getting people to buy new shit.
Each time they release, they try new ways to impose control on developers. Each time, their efforts fail totally. It's not just the existence of space outside the Windows store that matters; it's the fact that most developers are already in that other space, and have no reason to move. If MS tried to force that issue, the majority of devs of all sizes would be more likely to move to Linux at this point.
Changing a platform is not the same as creating one. Android is all about the Play Store because Google was creating a completely new ecosystem. Things were naturally biased towards them, even if they didn't try to make it that way. The first Windows was just a shell on top of DOS, which was itself just one of many OSes that were basically competing in the same space. That's how far back this legacy extends, and how little control MS has over it. Some of that old stuff still matters, and the fact it existed the way it did ensured that development outside of MS's preferred paradigm won't go anywhere.
I started this whole conversation by saying that large commercial entities were going to go along with this garbage. Of course they are. They're already like this. There's still plenty of space for smaller devs. They already exist, and have several successful distribution platforms to choose from that have no interest in caving to MS's bullshit.
This can't really be overstated: MS already tried to get away with this, with the Windows Store and UWP, and they lost before they really even began in earnest. The only way to impose that kind of control on the market is to make their product useless. They have too much competition for that.
Android is the way it is despite not being locked down for reasons that don't apply to PCs. This platform simply cannot be forced into a service-only model.
I know for a fact that people care about the back catalog because DOSbox exists. Hell, what's the first thing people try to do with literally any computer? They run Doom on it.
Every piece of historic evidence suggests that they will succeed in making titles by massive corporations this way. As long as Windows still allows any code that isn't from a digital storefront to be run, which they must or else their market share will evaporate immediately, people will be able to make games of their own.
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"Hmm. How can I improve this clever and understated mathematical pun? Oh, I know, I'll apply the subtlety of a political cartoon where a big bag of money is labelled 'money' to it!"
Pretty easy to enforce when you don't allow new homes to be built anywhere.
Welcome to 10 years ago, people who don't give a shit about videogames.
This is like claiming you've hacked a glass to be able to hold water.
URL shorteners are necessary because useful URLs are already often not human readable, and even when they are, are much harder to communicate to others than a short string of garbage.
This is partly due to how The Business Model caused this technology to be used in unanticipated ways. Every website is obsessed with its front page and hates when you link to anything else, because they might get less or no ad revenue if their content is actually useful to people who haven't visited it. They don't give a fuck what Sir Tim thinks they should be doing.
"It" is not a music school. "It" is a trend of schools coming up for sale around the nation, as the title of the summary says.
The board members of a Chinese steel company know exactly as much about running an American school as the American administrators who turned it into a degree mill for Chinese people and a daycare for American Boomers' "adult" children.
People don't act this way because they aren't robots who have been programmed with a game theorist's uselessly specialized definition of rationality.
Your position is a key piece of information when negotiating, a piece that Americans almost never have because of this custom. The only reason you should WANT your salary to be a secret is that you think you make the most compared to your peers. That or tax evasion.
Interesting. I wonder if there's a reason they didn't just put this in Google maps. Is it possible that it being a military system means they'd need permission or something? Also, does GMRS avoid easily confused characters?
I saw in another thread that plus codes apparently get more precision out of fewer characters. That would make it easier to memorize.
So what happens when somebody builds a floating city? More practically, I might want to send something to an oil rig worker.
Does MGRS consistently provide similar codes for nearby areas? Can you give an 8-digit code to get 10x10, or are you stuck at that more awkward jump?
I think they only talked about India because that's where it's most relevant to the urban population. Send a postcard to 87J8FPCW+HF sometime. :V
Lat+long is a point, not an area. If you want to know why that's a problem, see how your GPS directions deal with a mall parking lot.
Reppin the 87J8FP, y'all know how we do
Whatever, man. You seem really emotionally invested in declaring PC gaming irreparably doomed despite it being in basically its third golden age. There are already alternatives, should they become necessary.
They were suggested, and not even by MS itself. Forcing certain updates is a good thing. Since starting to do it, MS hasn't made good choices about how or when to do that, but the idea is still sound as a way to enforce better security.
But these guys had to go and invent Navi. Wonderful.
No, I did not mean to imply that Google didn't try to push the Play Store. What I was saying is that it wasn't the sole focus of their efforts, and didn't need to be. They created Android, so the Play Store would've been the default regardless.
Windows hasn't been a shell for decades, I'm well aware of that. My point in bringing that up is that Windows wasn't created ex nihilo. Even as it has become the overwhelmingly dominant force on PCs, this piece of its history has ensured that there are functional alternatives and strong incentives for backward compatibility. They have dropped some legacy support over the years, but that's generally well after it's sensible to do so for reasons other than getting people to buy new shit.
Each time they release, they try new ways to impose control on developers. Each time, their efforts fail totally. It's not just the existence of space outside the Windows store that matters; it's the fact that most developers are already in that other space, and have no reason to move. If MS tried to force that issue, the majority of devs of all sizes would be more likely to move to Linux at this point.
Changing a platform is not the same as creating one. Android is all about the Play Store because Google was creating a completely new ecosystem. Things were naturally biased towards them, even if they didn't try to make it that way. The first Windows was just a shell on top of DOS, which was itself just one of many OSes that were basically competing in the same space. That's how far back this legacy extends, and how little control MS has over it. Some of that old stuff still matters, and the fact it existed the way it did ensured that development outside of MS's preferred paradigm won't go anywhere.
I started this whole conversation by saying that large commercial entities were going to go along with this garbage. Of course they are. They're already like this. There's still plenty of space for smaller devs. They already exist, and have several successful distribution platforms to choose from that have no interest in caving to MS's bullshit.
This can't really be overstated: MS already tried to get away with this, with the Windows Store and UWP, and they lost before they really even began in earnest. The only way to impose that kind of control on the market is to make their product useless. They have too much competition for that.
Android is the way it is despite not being locked down for reasons that don't apply to PCs. This platform simply cannot be forced into a service-only model.
I know for a fact that people care about the back catalog because DOSbox exists. Hell, what's the first thing people try to do with literally any computer? They run Doom on it.
Android didn't have decades of back catalog. MS can't pave over its own history and hope to keep the market share.
Every piece of historic evidence suggests that they will succeed in making titles by massive corporations this way. As long as Windows still allows any code that isn't from a digital storefront to be run, which they must or else their market share will evaporate immediately, people will be able to make games of their own.
This is an interactive medium. If it's not playable, it's not fucking preserved! That's not blurry at all!