I live in Paris (i.e. square meters cost a lot), there is no way I will pile up DVDs in the house.
Are you serious?!? Rationalize much?
I live in Manhattan where square meters also cost a lot. I have 100 DVDs sitting in front of me. They are on a spool which is a huge 7 inches tall. Given DVDs have a diameter of 12cm and there's a bit under half an inch of spool base sticking out all round, we have a box 14.5 cm x 14.5cm x 18cm.
You don't have room for such a "pile"? You could hang it from the ceiling, taking up no square meters. I'm sure you have 15cm of shelf width somewhere in that house
Imitating is fine and does in fact produce lots. It's what students spend years doing - replicating work that has already been done. Or do you think that each computer science student is forging new ground in finite automata and that physics students are developing the mathematics needed for relativity?
There's a huge difference between knowing that something can be done and knowing how to do it. There's a huge difference between knowing how to do something and actually doing it. If you want to build on it and make advances replicating what has already been done is the best first step. It's how you build up the know how and experience - with the huge advantage that you actually know it is possible.
Just because it is harder for someone doesn't change that it's hypocritical for them to rant that others should do something while refusing to themselves. America didn't always have that statement of principles - it took people declaring them and fighting a war against one of the super powers of the time (while allied with another super power mind you, otherwise it might not have worked out as much).
Of course not, you can of course sell the access code (since you haven't used) with your used game or to someone who bought a used game elsewhere. Though it's a hard transaction to make since you can't test the code works without using up that once only use.
Tape backups are trivial to encrypt - the tape just stores data after all and doesn't care if you encrypted it before the tape sees it. Or turn on the encryption option and hope the vendor didn't screw it up.
Now of course once you have encrypted backups the encryption keys become very important. Losing them at the same time as you lose data you need restored (because you lost the machine where you kept them for one simple retarded scenario) puts you in a world of hurt - so there's some costs/benefits to consider.
But it is technically trivial, so if you are using Axway for anything it's probably time to find a competent vendor.
Oh and what idiot decided to link a quote to the article that doesn't contain the quote?!?
I didn't say you were a theist, not sure where you pulled that from...
So what shouldn't be decided by investigating the evidence and doing your best to determine what the effect of different choices will be? What areas should we just wing it and guess?
You know they aren't going to stop selling it, right? So you can wait and see how the modding community goes and then buy it (likely after it has been discounted too).
That's a steal, at the usual conversions it's be $120 USD in Oz. I guess they must have worked out the pricing before the AUD began its trip back down.
Because the shouldn't treat something that is marketed as a game and sold as game to the public as a game? Just give it a free pass and provide no information to their readers/viewers on whether they might like to buy it?
It's $60 on steam. That seems very much like a game up for sale to me. It has Bethesda written on it as well, very much a game maker.
So you seriously think that because it also serves as a tech demo the gaming press should just ignore that it is presented and marketed as a game, and a AAA priced one at that. Just pretend it isn't?
Yes it would be much better to just make shit up and go from there.
Car crashes killing too many people. I know rather doing stupid science and doing some crash tests with various types of safety systems let's just mandate that everyone must keep one eye closed when in a car because I am certain that will fix it.
Economy crashing, rather than trying to construct some theories on how the economy works from prior data and updating as we get new data lets just tax everyone who earns less than $100,000 at 90% and everyone who earns $100,000 or more at 2% because Jesus came to me in a vision and told me that will fix everything.
You can't go as far as "only", given this sequence:
The Operative: I want to resolve this like civilized men. I'm not threatening you. I'm unarmed. Mal: Good. [pulls gun and shoots Operative in the chest, grabs Inara and gets ready to leave]
He thinks it's a quote from a fictional character and being older than 6 doesn't have to 100% agree with the philosophy of said fictional character in order to enjoy the story or think it has some sort of artistic merit.
They offer exactly what you want: no 3G, e-Ink non-touch screen, battery life measured in months. So they've "lost the point" because they also offer other options for people who have slightly different requirements?
And you classify a wifi-only, e-Ink, non-touch screen device as a "multimedia network connected tablet"? Wow just what are the new Kindles in the parallel universe you must live in?
The device marketed as not having a touch screen doesn't have a touch screen keyboard. Nobody could have guessed that from the fact that is doesn't have a fucking touch screen.
Torrenting a book seems remarkably pointless to me. In fact torrenting stuff in general seem silly. Just not because of what I would earn if I was at work in the two minutes involved:)
Which has exactly nothing to do with the original claim which related it to "hourly income" when in fact the value of "after hours time" is more dependant on how many hours are worked (since the more worked the less you have).
And I really doubt it makes a different in the scheme of things whether you kick of a torrent download, or read the ingredient list on the back of the cornflakes, or just stare out the window while you wait for your toast to toast.
If you make $15 Aussie dollars an hour, minimum wage, then $2 represents about eight minutes of your time. If you spent more than eight minutes bringing up the highly overloaded Pirate Bay page, finding a correct torrent, loading the torrent into uTorrent, downloading the file, moving it around on your NAS, putting it into iTunes, getting the book's coverart then syncing it to your iPhone, then yeah you pretty much just robbed yourself.
That's only true if you have a job that allows you to work additional hours at your whim and in those 8 minute batches and pays you for them, that involves no additional traveling/etc time to work those hours, and for which you pay no taxes on said wages.
My job for example doesn't meet two of those. I'm on a salary if I work back an extra 5 minutes one day I get exactly $0 extra pay. And I pay taxes on what they do pay me.
In fact I'm willing bet most people don't have a job that lets them work for a few minutes one Saturday while waiting for breakfast to cook, And hence spending 2 minutes kicking off a torrent to do the downloading while they're out doing whatever on Saturday isn't robbing themselves.
If you got into college you should be able to read the thing yourself. If you are dumb enouh to sign the terms mentioned above then you can't afford not to pay one (or choose an area where the landlord pays it)...
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I live in Paris (i.e. square meters cost a lot), there is no way I will pile up DVDs in the house.
Are you serious?!? Rationalize much?
I live in Manhattan where square meters also cost a lot. I have 100 DVDs sitting in front of me. They are on a spool which is a huge 7 inches tall. Given DVDs have a diameter of 12cm and there's a bit under half an inch of spool base sticking out all round, we have a box 14.5 cm x 14.5cm x 18cm.
You don't have room for such a "pile"? You could hang it from the ceiling, taking up no square meters. I'm sure you have 15cm of shelf width somewhere in that house
Imitating is fine and does in fact produce lots. It's what students spend years doing - replicating work that has already been done. Or do you think that each computer science student is forging new ground in finite automata and that physics students are developing the mathematics needed for relativity?
There's a huge difference between knowing that something can be done and knowing how to do it. There's a huge difference between knowing how to do something and actually doing it. If you want to build on it and make advances replicating what has already been done is the best first step. It's how you build up the know how and experience - with the huge advantage that you actually know it is possible.
So what?
Just because it is harder for someone doesn't change that it's hypocritical for them to rant that others should do something while refusing to themselves. America didn't always have that statement of principles - it took people declaring them and fighting a war against one of the super powers of the time (while allied with another super power mind you, otherwise it might not have worked out as much).
You only just noticed that you have higher gas prices in europe than america? Well you are a special kind of retarded aren't you.
Of course not, you can of course sell the access code (since you haven't used) with your used game or to someone who bought a used game elsewhere. Though it's a hard transaction to make since you can't test the code works without using up that once only use.
Taking twice as long to do a backup is hardly catching fire.
So they catch fire if you feed them already encrypted data I take it?
Tape backups are trivial to encrypt - the tape just stores data after all and doesn't care if you encrypted it before the tape sees it. Or turn on the encryption option and hope the vendor didn't screw it up.
Now of course once you have encrypted backups the encryption keys become very important. Losing them at the same time as you lose data you need restored (because you lost the machine where you kept them for one simple retarded scenario) puts you in a world of hurt - so there's some costs/benefits to consider.
But it is technically trivial, so if you are using Axway for anything it's probably time to find a competent vendor.
Oh and what idiot decided to link a quote to the article that doesn't contain the quote?!?
I didn't say you were a theist, not sure where you pulled that from...
So what shouldn't be decided by investigating the evidence and doing your best to determine what the effect of different choices will be? What areas should we just wing it and guess?
batman.
Because most people have a job. And $200 is not bank breaking for a lot of people. And because they don't give a shit about a walled garden.
Yes, but you won't make a difference (unless you happen to be doing the modding of course) by buying it or not buying it now.
You know they aren't going to stop selling it, right? So you can wait and see how the modding community goes and then buy it (likely after it has been discounted too).
That's a steal, at the usual conversions it's be $120 USD in Oz. I guess they must have worked out the pricing before the AUD began its trip back down.
Because the shouldn't treat something that is marketed as a game and sold as game to the public as a game? Just give it a free pass and provide no information to their readers/viewers on whether they might like to buy it?
It's $60 on steam. That seems very much like a game up for sale to me. It has Bethesda written on it as well, very much a game maker.
So you seriously think that because it also serves as a tech demo the gaming press should just ignore that it is presented and marketed as a game, and a AAA priced one at that. Just pretend it isn't?
Yes it would be much better to just make shit up and go from there.
Car crashes killing too many people. I know rather doing stupid science and doing some crash tests with various types of safety systems let's just mandate that everyone must keep one eye closed when in a car because I am certain that will fix it.
Economy crashing, rather than trying to construct some theories on how the economy works from prior data and updating as we get new data lets just tax everyone who earns less than $100,000 at 90% and everyone who earns $100,000 or more at 2% because Jesus came to me in a vision and told me that will fix everything.
Please remove all the arsenic from your body. And don't eat anything with arsenic in it.
You can't go as far as "only", given this sequence:
The Operative: I want to resolve this like civilized men. I'm not threatening you. I'm unarmed.
Mal: Good. [pulls gun and shoots Operative in the chest, grabs Inara and gets ready to leave]
He thinks it's a quote from a fictional character and being older than 6 doesn't have to 100% agree with the philosophy of said fictional character in order to enjoy the story or think it has some sort of artistic merit.
They offer exactly what you want: no 3G, e-Ink non-touch screen, battery life measured in months. So they've "lost the point" because they also offer other options for people who have slightly different requirements?
And you classify a wifi-only, e-Ink, non-touch screen device as a "multimedia network connected tablet"? Wow just what are the new Kindles in the parallel universe you must live in?
The device marketed as not having a touch screen doesn't have a touch screen keyboard. Nobody could have guessed that from the fact that is doesn't have a fucking touch screen.
Torrenting a book seems remarkably pointless to me. In fact torrenting stuff in general seem silly. Just not because of what I would earn if I was at work in the two minutes involved :)
Which has exactly nothing to do with the original claim which related it to "hourly income" when in fact the value of "after hours time" is more dependant on how many hours are worked (since the more worked the less you have).
And I really doubt it makes a different in the scheme of things whether you kick of a torrent download, or read the ingredient list on the back of the cornflakes, or just stare out the window while you wait for your toast to toast.
If you make $15 Aussie dollars an hour, minimum wage, then $2 represents about eight minutes of your time. If you spent more than eight minutes bringing up the highly overloaded Pirate Bay page, finding a correct torrent, loading the torrent into uTorrent, downloading the file, moving it around on your NAS, putting it into iTunes, getting the book's coverart then syncing it to your iPhone, then yeah you pretty much just robbed yourself.
That's only true if you have a job that allows you to work additional hours at your whim and in those 8 minute batches and pays you for them, that involves no additional traveling/etc time to work those hours, and for which you pay no taxes on said wages.
My job for example doesn't meet two of those. I'm on a salary if I work back an extra 5 minutes one day I get exactly $0 extra pay. And I pay taxes on what they do pay me.
In fact I'm willing bet most people don't have a job that lets them work for a few minutes one Saturday while waiting for breakfast to cook, And hence spending 2 minutes kicking off a torrent to do the downloading while they're out doing whatever on Saturday isn't robbing themselves.
If you got into college you should be able to read the thing yourself. If you are dumb enouh to sign the terms mentioned above then you can't afford not to pay one (or choose an area where the landlord pays it)...