"3. He claims it was high budget but the results, if you've watched the pilot, says otherwise...In other words is was terrible beyond measure."
Master of understatement there. I've seen better stuff done by highschoolers in the early 1980s with a budget of less than $50 in only a week. (No lie, it was some friends of mine.)
This was obviously a simple attempt at securing a cash grab and was done in bad faith and what I suspect is very questionable validity in the first place.
Sadly, not any more. Besides, they're are a greedy bunch of trolls that see a possible jackpot just barely out of reach and are doing everything they can to get their grubby claws on it.
I see you have a lot of replies, but the short version is that effective full body armor, such as a full compliment of Dragonscale, is insanely expensive, while a box of handgun ammo is cheap. Combine that with swaggering cowards, a zero tolerance policy, as well as a lack of actual repercussions, and you end up with police based death squads who shoot first before even identifying if it's an actual threat.
The smallest coin in the USA is the 1 cent coin, yet all gas stations have their prices end with 9 tenths of a cent. (Obviously they automatically round it up and keep it. Essentially it's a real world version of the stealing a fraction of a cent scam that has been used in movies for a very long time.)
Remote access to update software on your car. You mean remote access for someone trying to screw with your car. I guess they're going to have to add some new entries under 'wardriving'.
Like everything else that can be abused, if it can, it will be, and this one is so much easier than actually having to get physical access to the car first...
That's what the government is working on, if it wasn't regulated they never would have bothered spending money to test it, nor could they bring charges up against them to get them to follow the rules and/or penalize them. So YES, it is working out, it's just too bad it wasn't caught earlier or that the scum that violated the rules in the first place didn't have functional ethics and morals that would prevent them from doing this kind of crap in the first place.
Yes, I used to have to edit some of those. Well, real ones, not the trojans of course, those I just destroyed and had to clean up the mess the users were responsible for.
When I was a kid in the 80s we figured out we could identify who wrote a particular piece of software by looking at it's code. Those individualistic and identifiable features we used in the argument over programming being an art or a science when we wanted to support the art side.
If consumers end up getting anything, at best it'll probably be an old game download 3 years from now. Those kinds of lawsuits or corporate "apologies" never seem to be worth it, and yet an old game is still far better than most of them, just look at Sony's "apologies" to it's users.
I don't hold Nvidia in high regard, but it's still higher than ATI, and besides, how many other graphics vendors do gamers have to go to? (And before you say it, Intel is only the choice of idiots when it comes to graphics for gamers. Maybe someday they'll get their header out of their asterisk, but it hasn't happened yet.)
Thanks for falling into the racist slurs to really drive your point out to lunch and not come back.
Hey, I bet if you gave our ancestors the new OS interface they'd totally freak! In my opinion, if something works, why replace it with something that doesn't.:P
If you are talking about microsoft, they do what the boss tells them, or piddle around achieving nothing. If you mean the rest of the business world, they didn't. Drove microsoft crazy trying to get them to move from Win 7 & Win XP to Win 8. For the most part, it failed.
So, are you arguing against using something that's perfect, or are you attempting to type sarcastically to indicate that a plutocracy is about as capable of creating anything useful, much less perfect, as a dog is of balancing the national budget?
You know, we really need a sarcasm font or some other means to obviously indicate sarcasm. I'd love to say we can usually get it from the basic context of the text, but damn, have you talked to some of these people out there? It's amazing how many of them cling to bizarre concepts that they try to foist on people as being real that nobody else would even consider. For one well known example, though not relevant to UIs or MS, the world is only 6000 years old. Screw that, I've held man made objects a lot older than that!
Well, you can make an argument for Start and Stop going together without eating up more desktop real estate and for the Stop to be a subsequent option under the Start might be reasonable since you have to start before you can stop. On the other hand, I prefer to go with the idea that it was just so much better than the second choice on their list, "The Tome of Ignorance and Incomprehensibility" that numerous bots, err, people on the internet suggested.:P
Any grade schooler should know what DNA is and not be fooled by that. Any high schooler should have enough education that they won't fall for the Dihydrogen Monoxide gag either. Sadly, that is not the case in this country. And you wonder why the other countries keep laughing at us behind our borders.
Traditional breeding yields crops with numerous unwanted and unidentified genes while genetic engineering only brings in the targeted genes. Genetic engineering does however allow for the genes to come from extremely dissimilar sources though the designs prefer to avoid such extreme options when they can. As to viruses, all bets are off since we already know that viruses shuffle genes from all kinds of species whenever they damn well want to because they are viruses and don't give a damn. It's amazing how much horizontal gene transfer they are finding in nature. By the way, in case you weren't aware, they've found a lot of dna in humans that they believe was put there by viruses.
Stick a geiger counter up to your flesh and it will start ticking away. Every living thing is radioactive due to intake of carbon 14. That's why they can carbon 14 date dead things, they stop taking in carbon 14 so the levels drop at a consistent known rate. Of course the sun is radioactive as well, take a background reading during the day and compare it to the night. Still you have radiation at night because the entire universe is one giant radiation bath. Still, if you mention any level of radiation, even something smaller than what you yourself give off, lots of people go into an ignorant panic. It's the same with many things.
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"3. He claims it was high budget but the results, if you've watched the pilot, says otherwise...In other words is was terrible beyond measure."
Master of understatement there.
I've seen better stuff done by highschoolers in the early 1980s with a budget of less than $50 in only a week.
(No lie, it was some friends of mine.)
This was obviously a simple attempt at securing a cash grab and was done in bad faith and what I suspect is very questionable validity in the first place.
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Sadly, not any more.
Besides, they're are a greedy bunch of trolls that see a possible jackpot just barely out of reach and are doing everything they can to get their grubby claws on it.
I see you have a lot of replies, but the short version is that effective full body armor, such as a full compliment of Dragonscale, is insanely expensive, while a box of handgun ammo is cheap. Combine that with swaggering cowards, a zero tolerance policy, as well as a lack of actual repercussions, and you end up with police based death squads who shoot first before even identifying if it's an actual threat.
The smallest coin in the USA is the 1 cent coin, yet all gas stations have their prices end with 9 tenths of a cent. (Obviously they automatically round it up and keep it. Essentially it's a real world version of the stealing a fraction of a cent scam that has been used in movies for a very long time.)
Remote access to update software on your car.
You mean remote access for someone trying to screw with your car.
I guess they're going to have to add some new entries under 'wardriving'.
Like everything else that can be abused, if it can, it will be, and this one is so much easier than actually having to get physical access to the car first...
That's what the government is working on, if it wasn't regulated they never would have bothered spending money to test it, nor could they bring charges up against them to get them to follow the rules and/or penalize them. So YES, it is working out, it's just too bad it wasn't caught earlier or that the scum that violated the rules in the first place didn't have functional ethics and morals that would prevent them from doing this kind of crap in the first place.
I think have to agree with you there, especially with regards to marketing weasels.
I don't have the patience for that, but it is funny.
Yes, I used to have to edit some of those. Well, real ones, not the trojans of course, those I just destroyed and had to clean up the mess the users were responsible for.
When I was a kid in the 80s we figured out we could identify who wrote a particular piece of software by looking at it's code. Those individualistic and identifiable features we used in the argument over programming being an art or a science when we wanted to support the art side.
If consumers end up getting anything, at best it'll probably be an old game download 3 years from now. Those kinds of lawsuits or corporate "apologies" never seem to be worth it, and yet an old game is still far better than most of them, just look at Sony's "apologies" to it's users.
I don't hold Nvidia in high regard, but it's still higher than ATI, and besides, how many other graphics vendors do gamers have to go to?
(And before you say it, Intel is only the choice of idiots when it comes to graphics for gamers. Maybe someday they'll get their header out of their asterisk, but it hasn't happened yet.)
Thanks for falling into the racist slurs to really drive your point out to lunch and not come back.
:P
Hey, I bet if you gave our ancestors the new OS interface they'd totally freak!
In my opinion, if something works, why replace it with something that doesn't.
If you are talking about microsoft, they do what the boss tells them, or piddle around achieving nothing.
If you mean the rest of the business world, they didn't. Drove microsoft crazy trying to get them to move from Win 7 & Win XP to Win 8. For the most part, it failed.
I bet they're CRTs as well. ;)
Can't be, his bulb burned out years ago. :P
So, are you arguing against using something that's perfect, or are you attempting to type sarcastically to indicate that a plutocracy is about as capable of creating anything useful, much less perfect, as a dog is of balancing the national budget?
You know, we really need a sarcasm font or some other means to obviously indicate sarcasm. I'd love to say we can usually get it from the basic context of the text, but damn, have you talked to some of these people out there? It's amazing how many of them cling to bizarre concepts that they try to foist on people as being real that nobody else would even consider. For one well known example, though not relevant to UIs or MS, the world is only 6000 years old. Screw that, I've held man made objects a lot older than that!
Well, you can make an argument for Start and Stop going together without eating up more desktop real estate and for the Stop to be a subsequent option under the Start might be reasonable since you have to start before you can stop. :P
On the other hand, I prefer to go with the idea that it was just so much better than the second choice on their list, "The Tome of Ignorance and Incomprehensibility" that numerous bots, err, people on the internet suggested.
Agreed.
I'm not thrilled about cloud because it's nothing more than Big Iron with whitewash on it, except this time, it's somebody elses iron.
Any grade schooler should know what DNA is and not be fooled by that.
Any high schooler should have enough education that they won't fall for the Dihydrogen Monoxide gag either.
Sadly, that is not the case in this country.
And you wonder why the other countries keep laughing at us behind our borders.
Traditional breeding yields crops with numerous unwanted and unidentified genes while genetic engineering only brings in the targeted genes.
Genetic engineering does however allow for the genes to come from extremely dissimilar sources though the designs prefer to avoid such extreme options when they can. As to viruses, all bets are off since we already know that viruses shuffle genes from all kinds of species whenever they damn well want to because they are viruses and don't give a damn. It's amazing how much horizontal gene transfer they are finding in nature.
By the way, in case you weren't aware, they've found a lot of dna in humans that they believe was put there by viruses.
I think you meant beatnik. The modern beatnik, err, hipster doesn't do the finger snapping anymore. :P
Stick a geiger counter up to your flesh and it will start ticking away. Every living thing is radioactive due to intake of carbon 14.
That's why they can carbon 14 date dead things, they stop taking in carbon 14 so the levels drop at a consistent known rate.
Of course the sun is radioactive as well, take a background reading during the day and compare it to the night. Still you have radiation at night because the entire universe is one giant radiation bath.
Still, if you mention any level of radiation, even something smaller than what you yourself give off, lots of people go into an ignorant panic.
It's the same with many things.
Valid point.