Not just because this builds rapport with the community, but also because debian developers playing lots of Valve games will be debian developers with lots of firsthand exposure to any bugs or areas that could be improved; and the best work often comes from someone scratching a personal itch. Valve plays the game well (no pun intended).
I think most people will find the idea of owning a car that has features they can't use without paying monthly for completely asinine; to say nothing of the big brother implications. Ideas like this are thought up by people with big dollar signs in their eyes, rather than the consumer in mind; despite what they may claim.
Reasons like this are why Vavle's push is good for the entire Linux community and not just gamers. I see a lot of naysaying about SteamOS, but what really speaks to me is the number of gears that are beginning to turn.
This of course is turning into debates about texting and gun control, but in the end it's just a story about a loony old man who had a SEVERE overreaction to someone being an inconsiderate jerk. He will probably regret it for what remains of his life unless he has gone completely off his rocker; in which case the main debate will once again be about how to keep guns out of the hands of such people. Everyone needs to stop raving about the gun apocalypse and how America is going to hell in a handbasket. Overall gun homicides are down by half since the early 90s. Don't get me wrong; events like this are still tragic and we need to try to prevent them, but we need to stay rational and remember that knee-jerk reactions to tragedies are what gave us the Patriot Act and an out-of-control NSA. Of course this is still a politically charged topic and I will likely get flamed, so......... flame on I guess.
Scrimping and saving? You seem to have completely missed what I said. If she wants to buy a wedding cake with her own money, who cares. I said that she bought the wedding cake WITH. HER. FOOD. STAMPS. The purpose of this program is to help feed people who can't afford to feed themselves, NOT TO HELP THEM HOST FREAKING WEDDINGS.
Seriously, all it takes is a couple months working at Wal-Mart to know that this is extremely short-sighted. Abuse of the system isn't just a here and there thing. What is truly rare is someone who isn't obese using their EBT card to buy healthy food; at least that's how it is in my area. It's just one disgusting fatass after another pushing cartloads of junk food and candy. What really needs to happen isn't reductions to the program, but severe restrictions on what kinds of items they can buy. I know a cashier that once had a customer who used her EBT card to buy a wedding cake. You heard me right. A GODDAMN WEDDING CAKE. Then of course at least half of them buy their crap food with food stamps and then proceed to spend $100 cash on booze and cigarettes. I am not exaggerating. You actually expect me to believe that the food stamp system as it currently is reduces health care costs? I beg to differ.
Hence why I advise people to install AdBlock on their browsers. The way things have been for the pas few years, it's probably more effective than antivirus software. (Before you flame me, I am speaking tongue-in-cheek. You really should have both.)
You know, I almost would have agreed with this view; but all in all I have to disagree. The entire world should be having this debate, not just the U.S. Countries that are raging about it will have that much more pressure to practice what they preach. Hence why Putin recently sypathized with the NSA's position. He doesn't want to be accused of double standards when the heat is on his own government later There is indeed justification for spying on Russia and China; since they are spying on us after all, but the foreign spying is out of control as well. Why are we tapping Angela Merkel's phone, for instance? What is the purpose in that? Why can't our government get over the fact that the cold war ended over 20 years ago? Not only that, but wouldn't the NSA be more effective at it's job if it focused on targets that are actually justified, instead of spying on everyone and everything just because they can?
After the previous "Likely unconstitutional" ruling, it was only a matter of time before any momentum counter to the "everybody's a terrorist and that gives us an excuse to do whatever we want" point of view was stopped in its tracks. I'm not surprised this happened and I am even less surprised that his NSA-fellating ruling sounds like it was written for him.
I first learned Unix in school from a classic GUI-hating Unix veteran, and my line of thought was typical of anyone who had grown up on DOS and Windows. "What a pain. This is so archaic. Why do I have to bother with this?" Eventually, though, it started to fascinate me. It was like I was truly learning to use a computer for the first time. Maybe it was just the geeky hacker feel of scrolling white text on a black background. When I was taking Windows Server courses a couple semesters later, I was really beginning to miss the simple flexibility of a command prompt; now that I had experienced the alternative of pumping a mouse cursor through an endless torrent of snap-ins and pop-up menus. When I first started tinkering with various Linux distros around the same time, there was no turning back. I still had a graphical interface which a lot of things obviously require, but any time I needed to I could open a terminal and interact with the system directly. I was enthusiastic about Powershell when it first came around, but got turned off of it pretty quick. Even if MS didn't change the freaking syntax with every service pack, it just isn't the same.
Indeed. Do they actually expect us to believe that this kind of power will never be abused? Even if they could convince us that the hundreds or even thousands of people who have access to this system are all completely trustworthy and have only our best interests at heart (I doubt even a significant fraction of them are); as soon as some corrupt megalomaniacs come into power(worse ones, I mean), there it is; all nice and packaged up for the taking. There might as well be a giant red button labeled "Transform into oppressive, Orwellian police state" with a bunch of jerks standing around it saying "Nobody is going to push it. Honest;)".
If I had a dollar for every broken power jack I have seen and/or replaced, I would buy Apple's MagSafe patent. Seriously though, it will probably be something that will vary in quality depending on the manufacturer. I just hope they all adopt it so we don't have to deal with this mess anymore.
The hilarious part is that the ragtag piracy groups manage to offer a superior product to anything offered by the actual studios or their affiliates; all while evading attempts by the studios and governments to shut them down.
I really should let this go at this point, but I didn't read your comment until now. Why are you assuming that I am from the UK? Seriously, I am genuinely curious. (FYI I am from the US. Never even been to the UK.)
Well said. Of course the NSA's defense to that will be all of the horrible terrorist plots that they have supposedly foiled; which is, of course, a steaming pile of bullcrap, but that is the vague defense they always resort to. Every day I cringe to see how much of the budget is spent on this nonsense while actual important things like education and research are left to wither and die.
As it currently stands, they are gathering more data than they could conceivably know what to do with. Wouldn't they be more effective if they only target actual suspects? No matter how many colossal data centers they build or how many employees they hire, there is no way to effectively put that much data to use. It seems to me that the NSA cares less about being good at what they do and more about collecting more and more data just because they are addicted to the power it gives them. When the NSA chief models his "war room" after the freaking bridge from Star Trek, it says a lot about his mindset on the whole thing. Seriously, I bet that most of their ideas start with something like "Hey, wouldn't it be awesome if we could just tap Google's data center links and get ALL their data?". Everyone has these sorts of fantasies at their jobs; the difference being that the NSA can then proceed to actually DO them because they have been given a blank check to do whatever they want with as much taxpayer money as they need to make it happen. This is getting beyond ridiculous.
I didn't realize that it was such a soul-crushing, career destroying endeavor to slap a return label on something and drop it off; or to make a 5-minute phone call to arrange a pickup at a convenient time, which it sounds like Zawi was willing to do. I'm sorry but you really seem to be grasping at straws.
I don't give a flying crap because this isn't about the law. It's about common decency. You would be cursing said law instead of citing it if the same thing had happened to you.
Mistakes happen. They weren't expecting them so it shouldn't be too heartbreaking to return them. I'll probably get flamed for this, but you have to be one self-entitled little twerp to expect to be able to keep it. As long as Zawi pays for shipping they have every right to want them back. If you mistakenly shipped something expensive to the wrong address, would you be miffed if they refused to return it? Who wouldn't?
It's reasons like this that Google decided to blaze this trail in the first place. Stunts like this pulled by incumbents are often enough to kill smaller startups and projects, whereas it will likely only be a hindrance for Google.
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Not just because this builds rapport with the community, but also because debian developers playing lots of Valve games will be debian developers with lots of firsthand exposure to any bugs or areas that could be improved; and the best work often comes from someone scratching a personal itch. Valve plays the game well (no pun intended).
I think most people will find the idea of owning a car that has features they can't use without paying monthly for completely asinine; to say nothing of the big brother implications. Ideas like this are thought up by people with big dollar signs in their eyes, rather than the consumer in mind; despite what they may claim.
Reasons like this are why Vavle's push is good for the entire Linux community and not just gamers. I see a lot of naysaying about SteamOS, but what really speaks to me is the number of gears that are beginning to turn.
I'm sure the NSA will have about as much trouble getting to that as they did getting into other companies' data centers.
This of course is turning into debates about texting and gun control, but in the end it's just a story about a loony old man who had a SEVERE overreaction to someone being an inconsiderate jerk. He will probably regret it for what remains of his life unless he has gone completely off his rocker; in which case the main debate will once again be about how to keep guns out of the hands of such people. Everyone needs to stop raving about the gun apocalypse and how America is going to hell in a handbasket. Overall gun homicides are down by half since the early 90s. Don't get me wrong; events like this are still tragic and we need to try to prevent them, but we need to stay rational and remember that knee-jerk reactions to tragedies are what gave us the Patriot Act and an out-of-control NSA. Of course this is still a politically charged topic and I will likely get flamed, so......... flame on I guess.
Scrimping and saving? You seem to have completely missed what I said. If she wants to buy a wedding cake with her own money, who cares. I said that she bought the wedding cake WITH. HER. FOOD. STAMPS. The purpose of this program is to help feed people who can't afford to feed themselves, NOT TO HELP THEM HOST FREAKING WEDDINGS.
Seriously, all it takes is a couple months working at Wal-Mart to know that this is extremely short-sighted. Abuse of the system isn't just a here and there thing. What is truly rare is someone who isn't obese using their EBT card to buy healthy food; at least that's how it is in my area. It's just one disgusting fatass after another pushing cartloads of junk food and candy. What really needs to happen isn't reductions to the program, but severe restrictions on what kinds of items they can buy. I know a cashier that once had a customer who used her EBT card to buy a wedding cake. You heard me right. A GODDAMN WEDDING CAKE. Then of course at least half of them buy their crap food with food stamps and then proceed to spend $100 cash on booze and cigarettes. I am not exaggerating. You actually expect me to believe that the food stamp system as it currently is reduces health care costs? I beg to differ.
Hence why I advise people to install AdBlock on their browsers. The way things have been for the pas few years, it's probably more effective than antivirus software. (Before you flame me, I am speaking tongue-in-cheek. You really should have both.)
You know, I almost would have agreed with this view; but all in all I have to disagree. The entire world should be having this debate, not just the U.S. Countries that are raging about it will have that much more pressure to practice what they preach. Hence why Putin recently sypathized with the NSA's position. He doesn't want to be accused of double standards when the heat is on his own government later There is indeed justification for spying on Russia and China; since they are spying on us after all, but the foreign spying is out of control as well. Why are we tapping Angela Merkel's phone, for instance? What is the purpose in that? Why can't our government get over the fact that the cold war ended over 20 years ago? Not only that, but wouldn't the NSA be more effective at it's job if it focused on targets that are actually justified, instead of spying on everyone and everything just because they can?
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After the previous "Likely unconstitutional" ruling, it was only a matter of time before any momentum counter to the "everybody's a terrorist and that gives us an excuse to do whatever we want" point of view was stopped in its tracks. I'm not surprised this happened and I am even less surprised that his NSA-fellating ruling sounds like it was written for him.
I first learned Unix in school from a classic GUI-hating Unix veteran, and my line of thought was typical of anyone who had grown up on DOS and Windows. "What a pain. This is so archaic. Why do I have to bother with this?" Eventually, though, it started to fascinate me. It was like I was truly learning to use a computer for the first time. Maybe it was just the geeky hacker feel of scrolling white text on a black background. When I was taking Windows Server courses a couple semesters later, I was really beginning to miss the simple flexibility of a command prompt; now that I had experienced the alternative of pumping a mouse cursor through an endless torrent of snap-ins and pop-up menus. When I first started tinkering with various Linux distros around the same time, there was no turning back. I still had a graphical interface which a lot of things obviously require, but any time I needed to I could open a terminal and interact with the system directly. I was enthusiastic about Powershell when it first came around, but got turned off of it pretty quick. Even if MS didn't change the freaking syntax with every service pack, it just isn't the same.
Indeed. Do they actually expect us to believe that this kind of power will never be abused? Even if they could convince us that the hundreds or even thousands of people who have access to this system are all completely trustworthy and have only our best interests at heart (I doubt even a significant fraction of them are); as soon as some corrupt megalomaniacs come into power(worse ones, I mean), there it is; all nice and packaged up for the taking. There might as well be a giant red button labeled "Transform into oppressive, Orwellian police state" with a bunch of jerks standing around it saying "Nobody is going to push it. Honest ;)".
If I had a dollar for every broken power jack I have seen and/or replaced, I would buy Apple's MagSafe patent. Seriously though, it will probably be something that will vary in quality depending on the manufacturer. I just hope they all adopt it so we don't have to deal with this mess anymore.
The hilarious part is that the ragtag piracy groups manage to offer a superior product to anything offered by the actual studios or their affiliates; all while evading attempts by the studios and governments to shut them down.
I almost forgot why I don't purchase individual videos that don't give me either a tangible copy or an actual file download. Now I remember!
I really should let this go at this point, but I didn't read your comment until now. Why are you assuming that I am from the UK? Seriously, I am genuinely curious. (FYI I am from the US. Never even been to the UK.)
Well said. Of course the NSA's defense to that will be all of the horrible terrorist plots that they have supposedly foiled; which is, of course, a steaming pile of bullcrap, but that is the vague defense they always resort to. Every day I cringe to see how much of the budget is spent on this nonsense while actual important things like education and research are left to wither and die.
As it currently stands, they are gathering more data than they could conceivably know what to do with. Wouldn't they be more effective if they only target actual suspects? No matter how many colossal data centers they build or how many employees they hire, there is no way to effectively put that much data to use. It seems to me that the NSA cares less about being good at what they do and more about collecting more and more data just because they are addicted to the power it gives them. When the NSA chief models his "war room" after the freaking bridge from Star Trek, it says a lot about his mindset on the whole thing. Seriously, I bet that most of their ideas start with something like "Hey, wouldn't it be awesome if we could just tap Google's data center links and get ALL their data?". Everyone has these sorts of fantasies at their jobs; the difference being that the NSA can then proceed to actually DO them because they have been given a blank check to do whatever they want with as much taxpayer money as they need to make it happen. This is getting beyond ridiculous.
I didn't realize that it was such a soul-crushing, career destroying endeavor to slap a return label on something and drop it off; or to make a 5-minute phone call to arrange a pickup at a convenient time, which it sounds like Zawi was willing to do. I'm sorry but you really seem to be grasping at straws.
I don't give a flying crap because this isn't about the law. It's about common decency. You would be cursing said law instead of citing it if the same thing had happened to you.
Mistakes happen. They weren't expecting them so it shouldn't be too heartbreaking to return them. I'll probably get flamed for this, but you have to be one self-entitled little twerp to expect to be able to keep it. As long as Zawi pays for shipping they have every right to want them back. If you mistakenly shipped something expensive to the wrong address, would you be miffed if they refused to return it? Who wouldn't?
Hence why I plan to replace XBMC with it eventually. I can't wait to see what it matures into.
Indeed. People really ought to look at it as a gaming equivalent of XBMC or something along those lines.
It's reasons like this that Google decided to blaze this trail in the first place. Stunts like this pulled by incumbents are often enough to kill smaller startups and projects, whereas it will likely only be a hindrance for Google.