Really? How many telescopes does SpaceX have in orbit? How many active probes does SpaceX have orbiting other planet, or on them for that matter? How many satellites has SpaceX put into orbit this year? SpaceX is doing some amazing stuff, but to pretend that they are ahead of NASA is just plain daft.
You're missing the point (which, for the record was mindlessly obvious). SpaceX, in their area of specialisation (ie propulsion/cargo delivery) are showing a whole lot more progress than NASA. All too easy to purposely misinterpret to get on your soapbox.
Sure, but you'd have to agree that they've been getting more and more audacious with their nonsense as the years have progressed. It is getting worse. We are regressing. (Australian Resident speaking here)
We're entering some sort of technological dark ages - the honeymoon period is now over.
The mainstream regulation committees have taken interest in these type of subjects and as usual, the ignorance/commercial interests is/are beginning to shine through.
Ahh, but is that unacceptable use of "infamous"?. If "random on the street" is your gauge, very little could be labeled such. Personally, I think your analogy is overstating it, rather than the summary. Ask a person using Mysql for production code about this issue. That is the gauge of infamy in this particular case.
Is this unacceptable? Maybe, maybe not.
Surely people rarely rely on latest versions of DBs for production code.
I'm not in the DB biz any more (and I wasn't really heavily into it when I was) but it seems to me you can't afford to be taking risks, using the latest versions.
We still have those bombs, remember?
What about that? I think it's still much more likely than the other options listed. It wouldn't end the Earth (nor would for example Gamma burst), but it would end the civilization and/or kill all humans.
--Coder
There are humans all over the place. In some cases you'd have detonate a bomb in one area to kill a couple of people. Seems unlikely. It'd be devastating but unlikely to occur in any civilisation destroying volume.
One of the best ways to explore motor control retention is to practice drumming. It is uncanny (and fascinating) how you can conquer a pattern requiring new and unfamiliar coordination with some proficiency, sleep, and the next day be much more capable (to the point of it often being trivial) of reproducing it. I think if more people understood just how easily the mind can be developed, we'd have a whole lot more proactive people in society. Stuff like this would be great for teaching kids confidence in their own abilities.
I realise they've merged but isn't it diluting the brand by associating stuff that is largely, out of their hands? Still, I guess the lure of cashing in on Blizzard's good name was too much.
From what I gather of the few posts I've read of his over the time, he prefers new and varied challenges and isn't overly enthusiastic about becoming an assembly line.
Not saying that would be what Microsoft would hire him for but he would be stifled working on microsoft only products.
Not to mention the fact that great hacker he might be, it might not be true that he has the right type of experience in mass production manufacturing in order to really aid them. The cost of these units is quite high. It would go down but the interest in one, considering price, would be at best, niche.
First of all, posting anonymously would be wise when you're making the point that you intend to pirate games to your hearts content - and I'm sure that was the motive in doing so. Not to mention the trivial nature of signing up for another account here, anyway.
Secondly, if you take the time to consider what is being said here, you will realise that prompt answers from Steam when they're after your money do not in any way indemnify them from other customer service nightmares. You can do a chargeback on them within a period of time so it is no gigantic surprise that they play nice in billing you. Furthermore, you're talking about communication with billing, as opposed to what is probably more specifically an account misbehaviour team issue and hence, another department and completely irrelevant to your own experiences with consist of a paltry 2 of the millions of customer interactions steam experience (but somehow using this massive sample allowing you to assume you're right and he's making it up).
All in all, I call bullshit on your weak reasoning.
Having done installs of modchips as a business (for old xbox) I can assure you, most people install modchips to play copied games, whether they be pirated or not. Infact, I don't think I'm a pessimist in saying for the most part, the motives are pirate based. This is, afterall, the mainstream and they are not about to chip a console for homebrew or for anything nerdy such as that.
If I had any doubts on that, the frequent mixture of subtle and unsubtle requests to purchase pirated games reassured me that I was quite correct in my judgement.
Bit of both, actually. Most often it has been known as a server chip. That being said there have been opterons that were more targeting desktop market. Generally opterons for desktop market had better cache or something to that effect compared to their regular retail brothers. Good example being the emergence of the opteron 165 which was a regular socket CPU that was known for excellent overclocking potential and definitely not priced for server market.
...but have since really lost momentum and competitiveness
Seven out of the top ten supercomputers in the latest top500 list have AMD in them, including the top two, so I don't really see the whole "AMD losing momentum and competitiveness.
It is incredibly short sighted to gauge company performance by supercomputing statistics. The reality is that AMD have been second best for quite some time now. This is retail. Not how many chips are in supercomputing top tens.
The truth is, they are not losing their competitiveness or their momentum, they're simply maintaining a fairly steady pace of being second best by a similar margin.
and you're truly worried about pirating, quit the futility and put out an online game. Sure, sounds like a mindlessly trivialised suggestion, but really, any online account based game has basically the least complained about, but most restrictive DRM running. You have zero ability to play anywhere but online after logging in and you don't complain about it. Genius.
Why do few people chip their xbox 360's? Because they are afraid of detection on xbox live. Same with the Wii. The only true, accepted DRM is one that protects online usage.
Not atall saying that there isn't a veritable mass of problems accompanying such a notion, just saying, look at what works, rather than this silly nonsense that makes almost no headway.
I think most people quickly realise that moderate workload accelerates a working day and thus, gets them out of there quicker.
Having done a few jobs in my time, I can testify programming is among the easier jobs I have done - in terms of getting through the day. Sure, sometimes it is incredibly frustrating, but sitting at a desk, listening to music and coding is for the most part, great.
But the people they outsource to are hideously lacking in knowledge of their role so anything out of the ordinary, such as your case is likely to make them crosseyed.
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Really? How many telescopes does SpaceX have in orbit? How many active probes does SpaceX have orbiting other planet, or on them for that matter? How many satellites has SpaceX put into orbit this year? SpaceX is doing some amazing stuff, but to pretend that they are ahead of NASA is just plain daft.
You're missing the point (which, for the record was mindlessly obvious). SpaceX, in their area of specialisation (ie propulsion/cargo delivery) are showing a whole lot more progress than NASA. All too easy to purposely misinterpret to get on your soapbox.
If you overly waste money on virtual items, you're probably edging towards the game being your first life.
Sure, but you'd have to agree that they've been getting more and more audacious with their nonsense as the years have progressed. It is getting worse. We are regressing. (Australian Resident speaking here)
We're entering some sort of technological dark ages - the honeymoon period is now over.
The mainstream regulation committees have taken interest in these type of subjects and as usual, the ignorance/commercial interests is/are beginning to shine through.
Ahh, but is that unacceptable use of "infamous"?. If "random on the street" is your gauge, very little could be labeled such. Personally, I think your analogy is overstating it, rather than the summary. Ask a person using Mysql for production code about this issue. That is the gauge of infamy in this particular case.
Even their criminality is impressively efficient :-)
Is this unacceptable? Maybe, maybe not. Surely people rarely rely on latest versions of DBs for production code. I'm not in the DB biz any more (and I wasn't really heavily into it when I was) but it seems to me you can't afford to be taking risks, using the latest versions.
We still have those bombs, remember? What about that? I think it's still much more likely than the other options listed. It wouldn't end the Earth (nor would for example Gamma burst), but it would end the civilization and/or kill all humans. --Coder
There are humans all over the place. In some cases you'd have detonate a bomb in one area to kill a couple of people. Seems unlikely. It'd be devastating but unlikely to occur in any civilisation destroying volume.
I will seriously kill myself if he likes Star Wars better than Star Trek.
No, but it's difficult to be excited in the pants earning a doctorate in archeology. (Unless, you're a necrosexual).
One of the best ways to explore motor control retention is to practice drumming. It is uncanny (and fascinating) how you can conquer a pattern requiring new and unfamiliar coordination with some proficiency, sleep, and the next day be much more capable (to the point of it often being trivial) of reproducing it. I think if more people understood just how easily the mind can be developed, we'd have a whole lot more proactive people in society. Stuff like this would be great for teaching kids confidence in their own abilities.
I realise they've merged but isn't it diluting the brand by associating stuff that is largely, out of their hands? Still, I guess the lure of cashing in on Blizzard's good name was too much.
When in doubt, use a ladder. Elevators cannot be trusted.
Maybe he can't afford to pay for increased costs of hosting far above his needs except for the odd mass link.
From what I gather of the few posts I've read of his over the time, he prefers new and varied challenges and isn't overly enthusiastic about becoming an assembly line.
Not saying that would be what Microsoft would hire him for but he would be stifled working on microsoft only products.
Not to mention the fact that great hacker he might be, it might not be true that he has the right type of experience in mass production manufacturing in order to really aid them. The cost of these units is quite high. It would go down but the interest in one, considering price, would be at best, niche.
First of all, posting anonymously would be wise when you're making the point that you intend to pirate games to your hearts content - and I'm sure that was the motive in doing so. Not to mention the trivial nature of signing up for another account here, anyway.
Secondly, if you take the time to consider what is being said here, you will realise that prompt answers from Steam when they're after your money do not in any way indemnify them from other customer service nightmares. You can do a chargeback on them within a period of time so it is no gigantic surprise that they play nice in billing you. Furthermore, you're talking about communication with billing, as opposed to what is probably more specifically an account misbehaviour team issue and hence, another department and completely irrelevant to your own experiences with consist of a paltry 2 of the millions of customer interactions steam experience (but somehow using this massive sample allowing you to assume you're right and he's making it up).
All in all, I call bullshit on your weak reasoning.
You could maybe keep your software. But will you be walking out with whatever higher achievement you are going for?
Key idea here being: Play Nice.
Having done installs of modchips as a business (for old xbox) I can assure you, most people install modchips to play copied games, whether they be pirated or not. Infact, I don't think I'm a pessimist in saying for the most part, the motives are pirate based. This is, afterall, the mainstream and they are not about to chip a console for homebrew or for anything nerdy such as that.
If I had any doubts on that, the frequent mixture of subtle and unsubtle requests to purchase pirated games reassured me that I was quite correct in my judgement.
That would come down to chipset, ram and HD performance also which would likely distort the question of which CPU would be the better choice.
Bit of both, actually. Most often it has been known as a server chip. That being said there have been opterons that were more targeting desktop market. Generally opterons for desktop market had better cache or something to that effect compared to their regular retail brothers. Good example being the emergence of the opteron 165 which was a regular socket CPU that was known for excellent overclocking potential and definitely not priced for server market.
...but have since really lost momentum and competitiveness
Seven out of the top ten supercomputers in the latest top500 list have AMD in them, including the top two, so I don't really see the whole "AMD losing momentum and competitiveness.
It is incredibly short sighted to gauge company performance by supercomputing statistics. The reality is that AMD have been second best for quite some time now. This is retail. Not how many chips are in supercomputing top tens.
The truth is, they are not losing their competitiveness or their momentum, they're simply maintaining a fairly steady pace of being second best by a similar margin.
and you're truly worried about pirating, quit the futility and put out an online game. Sure, sounds like a mindlessly trivialised suggestion, but really, any online account based game has basically the least complained about, but most restrictive DRM running. You have zero ability to play anywhere but online after logging in and you don't complain about it. Genius.
Why do few people chip their xbox 360's? Because they are afraid of detection on xbox live. Same with the Wii. The only true, accepted DRM is one that protects online usage.
Not atall saying that there isn't a veritable mass of problems accompanying such a notion, just saying, look at what works, rather than this silly nonsense that makes almost no headway.
I think most people quickly realise that moderate workload accelerates a working day and thus, gets them out of there quicker.
Having done a few jobs in my time, I can testify programming is among the easier jobs I have done - in terms of getting through the day. Sure, sometimes it is incredibly frustrating, but sitting at a desk, listening to music and coding is for the most part, great.
(Especially when you're not debugging).
Pie charts or the headsman.
But the people they outsource to are hideously lacking in knowledge of their role so anything out of the ordinary, such as your case is likely to make them crosseyed.
Don't worry - you've already got their attention.