"He's not in it for making money at all costs at the expense of others, he's already got tons of money."
The general sentiment is nice but this only reminds me of this:
Lisa: Dad, I think he's an ivory dealer! His boots are ivory, his hat is ivory, and I'm pretty sure that check is ivory. Homer: Lisa, a guy who's got lots of ivory is less likely to hurt Stampy than a guy whose ivory supplies are low.
I'd agree if philosophy was more formalised like math but unfortunatly it isn't. Philosophers throw in placeholders for the word magic like "qualia" and then base their entire arguments on them.
Godel and Turing are important to your understanding of thought and what is knowable. Most philosophers not so much.
A study of the science of psychology,perception and neurology(ie actual reality based on experiments) is orders of magnitude more valuable than the vague ideas of men who thought the heart was the seat of consciousness who wouldn't dream of actually testing their ideas.
If it were any lower than 50% I might agree with you but if there was a massive need going unmet you'd expect some kind of difference, 40%, 45% some kind of impact. If the movies didn't appeal to women as much as men you'd expect to see less women than men going to the movies. if books didn't appeal to women as much as men then you'd expect less books to be bought be women.
now there can still be holes in the market or you can manufacture them by tying things in with other media like how true blood and twilight dragged in more customers by going after traditional consumers of other media but that works with both sexes.
but no. dismiss it and make a snide little remark implying I'm sexist for pointing out that a company is simply trying to convince people their worthless services are more valuable than they really are. The point you seem willfully blind to is that gaming is not male dominated because 50% of the gamers are already female.
Except that your premise is wrong. from TFA: "Market representation for women has grown to 50 percent overall, with console use rising significantly in the past two years"
Half the people who play games are girls, they're not forced to play them, since games are for fun they're playing them to have fun and given that as many women as men choose to play these games to have fun it would suggest that they're already catering to real women just as well as to men.
You've been conned just as the writer of the article intended. you were convinced that there's some kind of need that isn't being fulfilled when it really is.
Interpret sells its services to game publishers so they have an interest in convincing you that their services are needed when they really aren't.
Yes, it can take many forms, for example if big company X and big company Y are both losing market share to small companies A though W they both lobby to support a measure requiring that every company in the field should have to file a fuckton of paperwork but they make sure it's a fixed cost per company in the field. say 100K. (but it's for the sake of accountability or safety or some other nice sounding thing, doesn't really matter if it's not useful at all)
for the big companies it makes little difference since they're making millions and millions but suddenly all the small guys who were only making 50K each get pushed out of the market.
X and Y absorb the market share of A through W . They more than make back the cost of that extra 100K. They then raise their prices even more since they're no longer having the problems with competition.
which isn't a problem in any way shape or form since it's not the only forum where people can discuss the matter and get the information.
It's not got a monopoly on anything, it is however well suited to the use people are putting it to.
People can send in their opinions over private networks, they're perfectly free to, and there is zero problem with that. They may use private mail carriers, they may use private phone networks and they may use other websites.
If facebook was the only way to discuss this and had a monopoly I'd be agreeing with you but it doesn't. It just happens to be a good tool for the job.
as opposed to discussion on private phone company lines, discussion in letters sent through private mail carriers, discussions held in private or public venues which just happen to be in physical locations where lots of people are too far away from.
facebook is a private network like the phone network and it's only one of the ways you can access the same info.
I don't even like facebook and I can see these guys are morons.
you're the only one making up these delusions about monopolies.
facebook is one of the ways you can get the information, it's so convenient for the purpose for most people that most of the people taking advantage of the service are doing so through facebook.
you're perfectly free to drag your lazy ass cursor up to the address bar and drag your chubby chettos encrusted fingers to keyboard and type in the address of their actual website and you'll get the information, you just won't be able to see the comments posted by people on facebook... or the comments of people who mailed/emailed in their views.... or the people who phoned in.... or the people who turned up to public meetings on the subject.
it will be hard for you anyway poor thing what with your reading and comprehension problems.
the constitutional council's weekly meetings are broadcast live not only on the council's website, but on the social network as well. 'It is possible to register through other means, but most of the discussion takes place via Facebook,'
the material is available through their own website and other means as well, they're simply using facebook as one of the channels by which people can get information and discuss the matter.
Should probably qualify that: the waste from *some* of the 4th gen designs would be no more radioactive than the natural ore the fuel came from within 200-500 years.
scuttling ships full of dangerous waste is pretty terrible even if it's not radioactive. There's no shortage of non nuclear mutagens which aren't radioactive and they'll fuck you up just as badly, there's no shortage of industrial wastes which don't have any half life at all.
it's more disgusting that this appears to only really be getting attention when the word nuclear is attached.
Dan would later learn that there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. There were even free debugging tools available on CD or downloadable over the net. But ordinary users started using them to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge ruled that this had become their principal use in actual practice. This meant they were illegal; the debuggers' developers were sent to prison.
Programmers still needed debugging tools, of course, but debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers. The debugger Dan used in software class was kept behind a special firewall so that it could be used only for class exercises.
If your data is hosted in "the cloud" and some of that cloud happens to be within the jurisdiction of some random government X.
your cloud provider cooperates with law enforcement.
often there are things which you can't encrypt which are running on the cloud or passing through the cloud and sometimes they will provide information useful in further compromising your systems or data.
government X wants to promote the interests of companies in their own country so they issue a warrant for data in a certain data-centre and your cloud provider goes along with it as much as they are able. government X then passes on everything they could scrape off the servers to your competitors within their country.
now personally I'd prefer that government X was my own government to make this less likely.
The individual product still gets copyright protection forever so the loss of patent only means that they can't exclude *everyone* from competing with their own products using their own code written from scratch.
Patents are a terrible fit for software and should never have been applied to it in the first place. Copyright provides plenty of protection.
You do know alcohol can still be in your system, slowing you reactions and making you unfit to drive even after you've got 5 or 6 hours sleep on someones couch right?
A pint or 2 will be well out of your system the next morning, a half bottle of tequila and 6 beers not so much.
Unfortunately the line between important shady stuff which the pubic should know and what would hurt them to know is very blurry. You're also not only talking about one country.
For example: meetings with politicians in other states where they give US intelligence staff regular updates may be dull and uninteresting to US citizens. Recently some cables hit the news: they were about politicians in my country meeting with US embassy staff and quite clearly show them saying one thing in private while at the same time they were outright lying to their voters. and this wasn't military stuff.
Senior members of some of our political parties were giving better information to the US than to the people they were supposed to represent.
"the harm the leak will cause" is subjective.
if you're from the US you might not want the world to see this as the backlash might make it harder for american politicians. If you're not american then you might be interested in your own representatives putting american interests ahead of your own.
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"He's not in it for making money at all costs at the expense of others, he's already got tons of money."
The general sentiment is nice but this only reminds me of this:
Lisa: Dad, I think he's an ivory dealer! His boots are ivory, his hat is ivory, and I'm pretty sure that check is ivory.
Homer: Lisa, a guy who's got lots of ivory is less likely to hurt Stampy than a guy whose ivory supplies are low.
I think there's some old quote along the lines of the guy who owns 20% of the company owns exacty as much as the guy who owns 80% wants him to.
Options without an utterly ironclad shareholders agreement are worth exactly zero.
Even with one they're barely worth more.
I'd agree if philosophy was more formalised like math but unfortunatly it isn't. Philosophers throw in placeholders for the word magic like "qualia" and then base their entire arguments on them.
Godel and Turing are important to your understanding of thought and what is knowable.
Most philosophers not so much.
A study of the science of psychology ,perception and neurology(ie actual reality based on experiments) is orders of magnitude more valuable than the vague ideas of men who thought the heart was the seat of consciousness who wouldn't dream of actually testing their ideas.
If it were any lower than 50% I might agree with you but if there was a massive need going unmet you'd expect some kind of difference, 40%, 45% some kind of impact.
If the movies didn't appeal to women as much as men you'd expect to see less women than men going to the movies. if books didn't appeal to women as much as men then you'd expect less books to be bought be women.
now there can still be holes in the market or you can manufacture them by tying things in with other media like how true blood and twilight dragged in more customers by going after traditional consumers of other media but that works with both sexes.
but no.
dismiss it and make a snide little remark implying I'm sexist for pointing out that a company is simply trying to convince people their worthless services are more valuable than they really are.
The point you seem willfully blind to is that gaming is not male dominated because 50% of the gamers are already female.
Except that your premise is wrong.
from TFA:
"Market representation for women has grown to 50 percent overall, with console use rising significantly in the past two years"
Half the people who play games are girls, they're not forced to play them, since games are for fun they're playing them to have fun and given that as many women as men choose to play these games to have fun it would suggest that they're already catering to real women just as well as to men.
You've been conned just as the writer of the article intended.
you were convinced that there's some kind of need that isn't being fulfilled when it really is.
Interpret sells its services to game publishers so they have an interest in convincing you that their services are needed when they really aren't.
The report was published by a company which provides "research and consulting services" to game publishers.
They''re not going to publish a report saying "actually our services are not needed and we're a waste of money".
Yes, it can take many forms, for example if big company X and big company Y are both losing market share to small companies A though W they both lobby to support a measure requiring that every company in the field should have to file a fuckton of paperwork but they make sure it's a fixed cost per company in the field.
say 100K.
(but it's for the sake of accountability or safety or some other nice sounding thing, doesn't really matter if it's not useful at all)
for the big companies it makes little difference since they're making millions and millions but suddenly all the small guys who were only making 50K each get pushed out of the market.
X and Y absorb the market share of A through W . They more than make back the cost of that extra 100K. They then raise their prices even more since they're no longer having the problems with competition.
nicely done, until the last line I was having a bit of a problem with poes law.
which isn't a problem in any way shape or form since it's not the only forum where people can discuss the matter and get the information.
It's not got a monopoly on anything, it is however well suited to the use people are putting it to.
People can send in their opinions over private networks, they're perfectly free to, and there is zero problem with that.
They may use private mail carriers, they may use private phone networks and they may use other websites.
If facebook was the only way to discuss this and had a monopoly I'd be agreeing with you but it doesn't.
It just happens to be a good tool for the job.
as opposed to discussion on private phone company lines, discussion in letters sent through private mail carriers, discussions held in private or public venues which just happen to be in physical locations where lots of people are too far away from.
facebook is a private network like the phone network and it's only one of the ways you can access the same info.
I don't even like facebook and I can see these guys are morons.
you're the only one making up these delusions about monopolies.
facebook is one of the ways you can get the information, it's so convenient for the purpose for most people that most of the people taking advantage of the service are doing so through facebook.
you're perfectly free to drag your lazy ass cursor up to the address bar and drag your chubby chettos encrusted fingers to keyboard and type in the address of their actual website and you'll get the information, you just won't be able to see the comments posted by people on facebook... or the comments of people who mailed/emailed in their views.... or the people who phoned in.... or the people who turned up to public meetings on the subject.
it will be hard for you anyway poor thing what with your reading and comprehension problems.
You can choose to actually read.
the constitutional council's weekly meetings are broadcast live not only on the council's website, but on the social network as well. 'It is possible to register through other means, but most of the discussion takes place via Facebook,'
the material is available through their own website and other means as well, they're simply using facebook as one of the channels by which people can get information and discuss the matter.
Which is perfectly reasonable.
"Why? Because it was advertised everywhere that IceSave was a solid bank with a triple A rating."
Out of interest have the rating agencies in question been sued into the ground for giving stunningly bad advice yet?
Should probably qualify that: the waste from *some* of the 4th gen designs would be no more radioactive than the natural ore the fuel came from within 200-500 years.
scuttling ships full of dangerous waste is pretty terrible even if it's not radioactive.
There's no shortage of non nuclear mutagens which aren't radioactive and they'll fuck you up just as badly, there's no shortage of industrial wastes which don't have any half life at all.
it's more disgusting that this appears to only really be getting attention when the word nuclear is attached.
god damn I posted that above but I just saw you posted this before me.
Dan would later learn that there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. There were even free debugging tools available on CD or downloadable over the net. But ordinary users started using them to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge ruled that this had become their principal use in actual practice. This meant they were illegal; the debuggers' developers were sent to prison.
Programmers still needed debugging tools, of course, but debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers. The debugger Dan used in software class was kept behind a special firewall so that it could be used only for class exercises.
Fuck stallman and his depressing tendency to be right when he's cynical.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
depressing bit: I had a copy of ncat on a drive I scanned with an AV scanner.
It threw up a big warning telling me that ncat was a trojan.
If your data is hosted in "the cloud" and some of that cloud happens to be within the jurisdiction of some random government X.
your cloud provider cooperates with law enforcement.
often there are things which you can't encrypt which are running on the cloud or passing through the cloud and sometimes they will provide information useful in further compromising your systems or data.
government X wants to promote the interests of companies in their own country so they issue a warrant for data in a certain data-centre and your cloud provider goes along with it as much as they are able.
government X then passes on everything they could scrape off the servers to your competitors within their country.
now personally I'd prefer that government X was my own government to make this less likely.
The individual product still gets copyright protection forever so the loss of patent only means that they can't exclude *everyone* from competing with their own products using their own code written from scratch.
Patents are a terrible fit for software and should never have been applied to it in the first place. Copyright provides plenty of protection.
better than the body simply being missing with no clues.
Bodies would be damaged by scavengers anyway.
that wasn't really what I meant: if you pay your TV/radio licence and then use your legal radio to tune into Pirate FM are you breaking the law?
You do know alcohol can still be in your system, slowing you reactions and making you unfit to drive even after you've got 5 or 6 hours sleep on someones couch right?
A pint or 2 will be well out of your system the next morning, a half bottle of tequila and 6 beers not so much.
that's really very surprising. If you have any more info on this I'd be interested.
Unfortunately the line between important shady stuff which the pubic should know and what would hurt them to know is very blurry.
You're also not only talking about one country.
For example: meetings with politicians in other states where they give US intelligence staff regular updates may be dull and uninteresting to US citizens.
Recently some cables hit the news: they were about politicians in my country meeting with US embassy staff and quite clearly show them saying one thing in private while at the same time they were outright lying to their voters.
and this wasn't military stuff.
Senior members of some of our political parties were giving better information to the US than to the people they were supposed to represent.
"the harm the leak will cause" is subjective.
if you're from the US you might not want the world to see this as the backlash might make it harder for american politicians. If you're not american then you might be interested in your own representatives putting american interests ahead of your own.