The problem is that web app APIs can change at a moment's notice, without any announcement, and all the developers who depended on the API will be left out in the cold.
While that's true, if they do it too often and to too great an extent they'll lose developers to some other platform; if the apps start breaking without replacement, users will start to leave for other sites. Facebook (as big as it is) is nothing without its userbase.
Now, I realize the general public likes special effects and expects them in movies. However, to go back to the original point of variety being required, can we include these "old style" movies again?
They do still exist - the last film I saw in the cinema was Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy for example.
You do realize you are posting in a thread about - why people are not going to the movies...
He didn't say "don't go to the movies", he said "don't go to 3D movies". Perhaps it's different in the States, but here in the UK I'm not aware of any films that were only being shown in 3D.
Just out of interest, do you have a source for that 50% figure? I've googled (as much as I can given I'm at work) and can't find any statistics at all.
If you put down PA to Steven Hawking on your resume, a lot of future employers will just read PA.
That really depends on which future employers you're applying to, now doesn't it? Seems to me the ones that would read "PA" and miss "to Stephen Hawking" wouldn't be the ones that people applying for this job would be applying to in the future.
No, only those who legitimately have a copy of the binary must be provided with the source on demand; no one else has any right to it. (Though of course anyone with the source can give it to anyone else as they see fit)
I'll admit it's been a long time since I played the original Syndicate, and my memory isn't the best, but I seem to remember sending a team of 4 highly-augmented cyborg agents out with mini-guns to mow down bad guys and civilians alike; seems kinda violent to me. Sure, you didn't have ultra-realistic graphics, but books generally contain no graphics and can still be plenty violent.
That's not to say that I don't expect this new game to be a travesty of course.
As much as I'm for privacy, it's not like providing a copy of your passport is providing anything that Google doesn't have on you anyway.
Well for one thing, it's providing them with the fact that I have a passport. It's also giving them a copy of my likeness, which they don't currently have, and I'm pretty sure they don't have my place of birth either.
I'm not so much arguing against you, but the "oh they have that info anyway" thing a) isn't necessarily true and b) isn't really the point.
I applied for and received a new credit card with a provider here in the UK a couple of years ago (name omitted). A few days later someone phoned me, claiming to be from them, wanting to discuss something about my card - but first I needed to answer a couple of security questions to confirm my identity.
I challenged him to confirm his identity; all he did was reaffirm his claim to be calling from my card provider but without offering any proof beyond that. I refused to proceed, pointing out that I had no proof that he was who he claimed to be, and asked if it could be done online via their account access website. He eventually hung up.
The thing is, I expect he probably was telling the truth, but with no proof there was no way in hell I was dealing with him.
They can't, just like they can't be 100% sure that repressive regimes won't find ways around this restriction. That doesn't mean it's not still right to take a stand.
Unless it's changed recently (I've not had mod points in years) yes you can. You can't mod in a story you've commented in, but you can comment in a story you've modded in; it just undoes all your moderation. I've had moderations to my comments undone a few times because of it.
So, in order to mount an attack on a power station all I have to do is phone up a few minutes ahead of time claiming my squad is with Greenpeace? Still doesn't sound terribly secure to me.
Even in the UK there are guns legally owned by private citizens - almost every farmer in the country has at least one shotgun for example. The police across Europe are routinely armed, of course some people get shot breaking in to places.
That's as may be, but personally I've started switching from Google to Bing as I'm getting tired of Google automatically "correcting" my searches for me. 90% of the time I really did mean to type what I typed, and the "correction" brings back irrelevant results. (Yes, I know about Verbatim, but unless it can be switched on by default the extra clicks to enable it *every single time* are just too much for me)
I don't know about the protection from rogue commands (it may simply be impractical or impossible for any other agency to transmit to them now), but as for the data collection question - who cares if someone else does receive the data? It in no way prevents NASA from also receiving it.
My parents used to own a newsagent's and you are correct - unsold magazines were returned to the distributor for a refund. This is going back about 7 years mind, but I'd be surprised if the situation had changed since.
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The problem is that web app APIs can change at a moment's notice, without any announcement, and all the developers who depended on the API will be left out in the cold.
While that's true, if they do it too often and to too great an extent they'll lose developers to some other platform; if the apps start breaking without replacement, users will start to leave for other sites. Facebook (as big as it is) is nothing without its userbase.
I'm old enough to remember when films had intermissions during which this happened. (And I'm not even 40 yet!)
Now, I realize the general public likes special effects and expects them in movies. However, to go back to the original point of variety being required, can we include these "old style" movies again?
They do still exist - the last film I saw in the cinema was Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy for example.
You do realize you are posting in a thread about - why people are not going to the movies...
He didn't say "don't go to the movies", he said "don't go to 3D movies". Perhaps it's different in the States, but here in the UK I'm not aware of any films that were only being shown in 3D.
Just out of interest, do you have a source for that 50% figure? I've googled (as much as I can given I'm at work) and can't find any statistics at all.
If you put down PA to Steven Hawking on your resume, a lot of future employers will just read PA.
That really depends on which future employers you're applying to, now doesn't it? Seems to me the ones that would read "PA" and miss "to Stephen Hawking" wouldn't be the ones that people applying for this job would be applying to in the future.
No, only those who legitimately have a copy of the binary must be provided with the source on demand; no one else has any right to it. (Though of course anyone with the source can give it to anyone else as they see fit)
It's called natural selection. Best to just let it happen.
...while hoping you don't get caught in the crossfire or splash damage...
They can't get married, but they can partner or merge with, or buy out, other corporations; that would be the equivalent at least conceptually.
Men aren't sluts, they're womanisers.
Like it or not, English is gender-discriminatory at least in so far as there are specific words for the male and female versions of some things.
I'll admit it's been a long time since I played the original Syndicate, and my memory isn't the best, but I seem to remember sending a team of 4 highly-augmented cyborg agents out with mini-guns to mow down bad guys and civilians alike; seems kinda violent to me. Sure, you didn't have ultra-realistic graphics, but books generally contain no graphics and can still be plenty violent.
That's not to say that I don't expect this new game to be a travesty of course.
readers who actually have some science education should be infer to understand what they really mean
is not well-formed.
As much as I'm for privacy, it's not like providing a copy of your passport is providing anything that Google doesn't have on you anyway.
Well for one thing, it's providing them with the fact that I have a passport. It's also giving them a copy of my likeness, which they don't currently have, and I'm pretty sure they don't have my place of birth either.
I'm not so much arguing against you, but the "oh they have that info anyway" thing a) isn't necessarily true and b) isn't really the point.
I applied for and received a new credit card with a provider here in the UK a couple of years ago (name omitted). A few days later someone phoned me, claiming to be from them, wanting to discuss something about my card - but first I needed to answer a couple of security questions to confirm my identity.
I challenged him to confirm his identity; all he did was reaffirm his claim to be calling from my card provider but without offering any proof beyond that. I refused to proceed, pointing out that I had no proof that he was who he claimed to be, and asked if it could be done online via their account access website. He eventually hung up.
The thing is, I expect he probably was telling the truth, but with no proof there was no way in hell I was dealing with him.
If that name is paedophile, or rapist, or similar then you might find that actually names can do a great deal of damage to a person.
Hate the game, not the players.
If the players refused to play then there would be no game. I choose to hate both.
They can't, just like they can't be 100% sure that repressive regimes won't find ways around this restriction. That doesn't mean it's not still right to take a stand.
Unless it's changed recently (I've not had mod points in years) yes you can. You can't mod in a story you've commented in, but you can comment in a story you've modded in; it just undoes all your moderation. I've had moderations to my comments undone a few times because of it.
So, in order to mount an attack on a power station all I have to do is phone up a few minutes ahead of time claiming my squad is with Greenpeace? Still doesn't sound terribly secure to me.
Even in the UK there are guns legally owned by private citizens - almost every farmer in the country has at least one shotgun for example. The police across Europe are routinely armed, of course some people get shot breaking in to places.
Insightful gives karma (not that that matters to an AC), Funny does not.
except where it concerns people on the ground in those countries
You do realise that Google has offices in the EU, don't you?
That's as may be, but personally I've started switching from Google to Bing as I'm getting tired of Google automatically "correcting" my searches for me. 90% of the time I really did mean to type what I typed, and the "correction" brings back irrelevant results. (Yes, I know about Verbatim, but unless it can be switched on by default the extra clicks to enable it *every single time* are just too much for me)
I don't know about the protection from rogue commands (it may simply be impractical or impossible for any other agency to transmit to them now), but as for the data collection question - who cares if someone else does receive the data? It in no way prevents NASA from also receiving it.
My parents used to own a newsagent's and you are correct - unsold magazines were returned to the distributor for a refund. This is going back about 7 years mind, but I'd be surprised if the situation had changed since.