The big issue with DRM is that it' used for things that anyone can buy. That's its weakness. IT's also used to limit digital distribution. WHich is just 1's and 0' and as such, easy to duplicate by it's nature.
That's different then a custom device, that shoots a physical payload, to be used by a limied number of specific users
yes, we should have let Hitler continue his genocide. That remind's of something I read in a Pratchett Novel: “All this scrapping over something that happened thousands of years ago! I don’t know why they don’t get back to where they came from if they want to do that!”
“Most of ’em come from here now,” observed Nobby. Fred grunted his disdain for a mere fact of geography. “War, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?” he said. “Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?” “Abso—well, okay.” “Defending yourself against a totalitarian aggressor?” “All right, I’ll grant you that, but—” “Saving civilization from a horde of—” “It doesn’t do any good in the long run is what I’m saying, Nobby, if you’d listen for five seconds together,” said Fred Colon sharply. “Yeah, but in the long run, what does, Sarge?”
No, half of console players of female. You are missing the point, and the fact that you think women need different types of games kind of make you misogynistic in your thinking.
This whole thing is about attitude and attacks women get.
Lets talk about slasher movies.
These movies, by and large, are horrible misogynistic, and well love by women. When a woman points out that they are misogynistic, no one threatens to rape and kill her.
we can, but we should not. She isn't whining. She isn't talking about nerds at all. She is talking about the gaming culture; which is in a horrid state for women right now. perhaps you should stop whining and try to understand women get a lot of harrassment from the gaming community. And ant just kids calling them names in a MMORPG chat.
Frankly, I think it's a result of 'bros' getting into gaming in the 90s.
No, that's not what I am saying. With every technology, there is an early adopter, then a dip, then an increase. There are a number of reason for that. everything from cost or social perception or people just haven't thought about why it's good.
So your argument is current technology wont work for you therefore no one will get one?
Franchise law are there for a very good reason. Citizen were abused, cheated, and lied to pretty systemically. Fraud was rampant. That's why we ended up getting them in the first place. Maybe they are out data, OTOH I'm not convinced all the former corruption and cheat wont return with other companies. BTW, if they wanted to pander to big companies they would kill franchise laws. The auto industry sure would love to return to the 'we can do what we want and are not responsible ' days.
": I may have 15 years programming experience, but I still go to google to remind myself how to do foreach() in jquery ($.each(array, function(idx,obj))"
Apparently Google has allowed stupid people to get programming careers.
" Define sqrt(x) as something really evil like (x / rand()), and bury it deep." confirmed.
In general, I agree with you. Here is a personal anecdote fro the 1st day of the worse company I every worked for:
'Here is you desk and computer, and here is a stack of bugs, please start fixing them. No log on info, not knowledge of where the source code was, nothing. By the end of the day I fixed 50 bugs. Granted they where minor. By the end of the week I had fixed 2 bugs the other programmer had deemed, and I quote 'impossible to fix'.
month later, I saved them a bunch of customers, got the run time up to a month before reboot, as apposed to every 3-8 hours. Naturally, when they decide to trim the employee for resale, the kept the programmer who didn't even know how memory worked, and let me go. The person who fixed their shit. The moral of the story? when some hands you paper bug reports, says fix em and walks away on your fist day. Start looking for a job right then.
"because while they might not be formally-trained programmers, most have learned programming as a tool and they have the mathematical and scientific knowledge to apply algorithms to real world systems in finance, artificial intelligence, et cetera." I found that not to be true. I have worked with many extremely smart experts in their field, but there software was broken. When I consulted, I was often called in to work with those people. Every time there where serious flaws in the software. Often the result they were getting weren't the resolution they thought the were getting. There are numerous reasons for this: Not knowing how to evaluate libraries, not aware of memory techniques, or data import issues. Performance was often bad. Things taking 'over night' that should take 30 minutes.
A college degree is the highest probability you will get to do interesting work. It also means you have a wider set of experiences and interests. This is critical because being able to understand the business/industry is more important then the language you use.
Sure, you want to work at a boring company writing html that workd with every IE version of the last 10 years? Then you probably don't NEED a degree. You want to do robotics? areospace? actual computer science? get a degree. And learn many other subjects that you can. Be interesting.
The goal of prohibition was to reduce domestic violence. It did, it reduced it to almost 0%. It was repealed to make up for the loss in taxes from the great depression, not because it didn't accomplish it's goals. AS a side benefit, suicides were cut in half. This is all trivial too look up. Drugs: Some drug it has worked in limiting, others it hasn't. I never said it worked all the time.
Guns: Every country that has had a gun ban strongly enforced has had a reduction in homicides. Every. Single. One.
It's fallacious to think that because someone will do something under one circumstance, they will do it no matter what. It's far easier to shoot someone then the stab someone. Both physically and emotionally.
Do you really think that would \have stopped Russia separatists? It wouldn't have because they know the Ukraine wouldn't use them, or do you seriously believe the Ukraine would have used nukes on it's own soil?
If Russia threaten the Ukraine with nuclear force, then the US, and others, will step in.
The problem with that is most people don't realize that's what's going on. Frankly, I think she should have forced a veto in order to get more attention to those dumb asses.
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Feed the soldiers an additive in their food that puts a chemical in their saliva.
Use the saliva as activation every 24 hours.
piracy is the practice of attacking and robbing(theft) ships at sea.
so, I'm not sure what your getting at.
Piracy is also a term used for illegal distribution of copyrighted material, and as been used as such for 500 years.
You;re comparison to DRM is, well naive.
The big issue with DRM is that it' used for things that anyone can buy. That's its weakness. IT's also used to limit digital distribution. WHich is just 1's and 0' and as such, easy to duplicate by it's nature.
That's different then a custom device, that shoots a physical payload, to be used by a limied number of specific users
yes, we should have let Hitler continue his genocide. That remind's of something I read in a Pratchett Novel:
“All this scrapping over something that happened thousands of years ago! I don’t know why they don’t get back to where they came from if they want to do that!”
“Most of ’em come from here now,” observed Nobby.
Fred grunted his disdain for a mere fact of geography.
“War, Nobby. Huh! What is it good for?” he said.
“Dunno, Sarge. Freeing slaves, maybe?”
“Abso—well, okay.”
“Defending yourself against a totalitarian aggressor?”
“All right, I’ll grant you that, but—”
“Saving civilization from a horde of—”
“It doesn’t do any good in the long run is what I’m saying, Nobby, if you’d listen for five seconds together,” said Fred Colon sharply.
“Yeah, but in the long run, what does, Sarge?”
People whose spend there lives studying geo politics don't understand it very well.
I'd rather a device that 24 hours after the item has been vacated started send week, and intermittent 'ping'.
So we know there movements and location. And we can target it when its manned.
but they both have the weakness that they need a strong logistical support. So if a weapon was isolated too long, it would become useless.
No, half of console players of female.
You are missing the point, and the fact that you think women need different types of games kind of make you misogynistic in your thinking.
This whole thing is about attitude and attacks women get.
Lets talk about slasher movies.
These movies, by and large, are horrible misogynistic, and well love by women.
When a woman points out that they are misogynistic, no one threatens to rape and kill her.
we can, but we should not.
She isn't whining. She isn't talking about nerds at all. She is talking about the gaming culture; which is in a horrid state for women right now. perhaps you should stop whining and try to understand women get a lot of harrassment from the gaming community. And ant just kids calling them names in a MMORPG chat.
Frankly, I think it's a result of 'bros' getting into gaming in the 90s.
No, that's not what I am saying.
With every technology, there is an early adopter, then a dip, then an increase. There are a number of reason for that. everything from cost or social perception or people just haven't thought about why it's good.
So your argument is current technology wont work for you therefore no one will get one?
Franchise law are there for a very good reason. Citizen were abused, cheated, and lied to pretty systemically. Fraud was rampant. That's why we ended up getting them in the first place.
Maybe they are out data, OTOH I'm not convinced all the former corruption and cheat wont return with other companies.
BTW, if they wanted to pander to big companies they would kill franchise laws. The auto industry sure would love to return to the 'we can do what we want and are not responsible ' days.
because we(society) are in the post early adopter dip.
": I may have 15 years programming experience, but I still go to google to remind myself how to do foreach() in jquery ($.each(array, function(idx,obj))"
Apparently Google has allowed stupid people to get programming careers.
" Define sqrt(x) as something really evil like (x / rand()), and bury it deep."
confirmed.
So you don't do advanced math? That's fine, but that doesn't invalidate the use of the Ti.
"as well as higher liklihood of meltdown,"
Nope.
Fukushima's error was that they didn't raise the sea wall like many recommendations had told them too.
They whole design is different, it's not really comparable.
Can we get more companies doing these please?
In general, I agree with you. Here is a personal anecdote fro the 1st day of the worse company I every worked for:
'Here is you desk and computer, and here is a stack of bugs, please start fixing them.
No log on info, not knowledge of where the source code was, nothing.
By the end of the day I fixed 50 bugs.
Granted they where minor.
By the end of the week I had fixed 2 bugs the other programmer had deemed, and I quote 'impossible to fix'.
month later, I saved them a bunch of customers, got the run time up to a month before reboot, as apposed to every 3-8 hours.
Naturally, when they decide to trim the employee for resale, the kept the programmer who didn't even know how memory worked, and let me go. The person who fixed their shit.
The moral of the story? when some hands you paper bug reports, says fix em and walks away on your fist day. Start looking for a job right then.
"because while they might not be formally-trained programmers, most have learned programming as a tool and they have the mathematical and scientific knowledge to apply algorithms to real world systems in finance, artificial intelligence, et cetera."
I found that not to be true.
I have worked with many extremely smart experts in their field, but there software was broken. When I consulted, I was often called in to work with those people.
Every time there where serious flaws in the software. Often the result they were getting weren't the resolution they thought the were getting.
There are numerous reasons for this:
Not knowing how to evaluate libraries, not aware of memory techniques, or data import issues.
Performance was often bad. Things taking 'over night' that should take 30 minutes.
A college degree is the highest probability you will get to do interesting work.
It also means you have a wider set of experiences and interests. This is critical because being able to understand the business/industry is more important then the language you use.
Sure, you want to work at a boring company writing html that workd with every IE version of the last 10 years? Then you probably don't NEED a degree.
You want to do robotics? areospace? actual computer science? get a degree. And learn many other subjects that you can. Be interesting.
The goal of prohibition was to reduce domestic violence.
It did, it reduced it to almost 0%. It was repealed to make up for the loss in taxes from the great depression, not because it didn't accomplish it's goals.
AS a side benefit, suicides were cut in half. This is all trivial too look up.
Drugs:
Some drug it has worked in limiting, others it hasn't. I never said it worked all the time.
Guns:
Every country that has had a gun ban strongly enforced has had a reduction in homicides. Every. Single. One.
It's fallacious to think that because someone will do something under one circumstance, they will do it no matter what. It's far easier to shoot someone then the stab someone. Both physically and emotionally.
Answer this question?
Why are the banning them.
Then address that.
Do you really think that would \have stopped Russia separatists?
It wouldn't have because they know the Ukraine wouldn't use them, or do you seriously believe the Ukraine would have used nukes on it's own soil?
If Russia threaten the Ukraine with nuclear force, then the US, and others, will step in.
Ukrainian nuclear disarmament is a red herring.
False.
Bans have worked well many times.
" as in some cases"
Any case not involving bad faith? no? I thought not.
The problem with that is most people don't realize that's what's going on.
Frankly, I think she should have forced a veto in order to get more attention to those dumb asses.
I'll have Scotty redirect the Tachyon emitter to my sarcasm detector mains.
Sadly, there are people who would post what you posted without sarcasm.