Traditional video games will not disappear tomorrow. It is a multibillion-dollar business, with shooters like Battlefield its most enduring category.
The funny thing is that the "AAA" games they refer to as traditional video games are much less traditional than the mobile games they think are usurping. Games from the Atari 2600 era to the SNES era resemble mobile games much more than they do "AAA" games.
Just because *you* don't see a useful purpose does not exist.
Then demonstrate that a useful purpose exists with actual data. Yeah yeah, "market liquidity". Why do markets need to be liquid on the microsecond scale? Prove that there is a benefit to this.
And, just because a useful purpose may not exist, does not mean it should be outlawed.
It should be outlawed because it steals money from people who are investing in companies that do serve a useful purpose. Any money that ends up in the hands of arbitrageurs is money that would otherwise have ended up in the pockets of actual investors. Since no useful service is being performed, that might as well be fraud.
How about we outlaw your watching American Idol and facebooking as well, since it does not serve a useful purpose?
Because I'm not taking anything from anyone when I do that.
If I was aborted, I'd never experience the loss. Death is scary. But if there was never any me to experience anything, there would be no fear.
Besides, if I was aborted in favor of a healthy fetus, that person would be in favor of aborting fetuses with genetic defects, for the exact reason you think I should be against it.
This line of reasoning is nonsensical. Out of the millions of sperm in an ejaculate, only one gets to fertilize an egg. The flap of a butterfly's wing could change which sperm fertilizes the egg, and could have prevented my existence. Should I be against butterflies now?
Test yourself, and test fetuses. Procreation without genetic testing in this day and age is terribly irresponsible. But if you're going to help tidy up the gene pool, you have to do the testing before you procreate.
Coal isn't quite pure carbon. There's oxygens and the occasional nitrogens in the structure too. Graphite is pure carbon, except for hydrogens at the edges.
pure carbon is not especially flammable (eg: diamonds)
Pure carbon is quite flammable. Try check out the MSDS for graphite. The problem with diamonds is their surface area is relatively low, but you can burn them slowly with a hot enough flame and high enough concentration of oxygen.
Great, so now it's not just one battery pack in the back that's a fire risk, the whole exterior of the car could spontaneously combust at any moment. Oh, and good bye independant body shops.
How well does Xen work at virtualizing graphics cards for gaming? I know "vga passthrough" exists, is it stable and performant? I assume I need to dedicate a graphics card for Windows?
The math behind public key encryption is still secure. When PKI fails, it is due to bad key management. OTP has the same problem, pad management. The beauty of public key encryption is that it doesn't matter who eavesdrops on your public key, you don't have to prearrange anything with anyone. OTP does not have the same advantages, and keeping your pad secure is every bit as difficult as keeping your private key secure.
You can't do one without the other. If you give legitimate users the means to avoid illegal access, you give criminals the means to avoid legal access.
I'm not afraid of terrorists, I'm afraid of my own government. The threat from terrorism is negligible. The very real damage done by bad government is overwhelming. The only weapon we have in the fight against corruption is journalism, and Greenwald is the only real journalist we have left.
"democratically elected" in a democracy where congress has a 10% approval rate, and a 90% incumbency rate. "law enforcement" by a government that can't even obey its own laws. "judicial approval" by secret courts ruling on secret evidence and secret laws.
None of those things you wish were true about America are actually true. We are a nation ruled by thugs. It's not criminals we need to be secure against, it's our own government.
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Did you learn to live with a 640k limit on address space?
That's an arbitrary technical limitation. Global warming is physical chemistry.
The funny thing is that the "AAA" games they refer to as traditional video games are much less traditional than the mobile games they think are usurping. Games from the Atari 2600 era to the SNES era resemble mobile games much more than they do "AAA" games.
Just because *you* don't see a useful purpose does not exist.
Then demonstrate that a useful purpose exists with actual data. Yeah yeah, "market liquidity". Why do markets need to be liquid on the microsecond scale? Prove that there is a benefit to this.
And, just because a useful purpose may not exist, does not mean it should be outlawed.
It should be outlawed because it steals money from people who are investing in companies that do serve a useful purpose. Any money that ends up in the hands of arbitrageurs is money that would otherwise have ended up in the pockets of actual investors. Since no useful service is being performed, that might as well be fraud.
How about we outlaw your watching American Idol and facebooking as well, since it does not serve a useful purpose?
Because I'm not taking anything from anyone when I do that.
I've got three of them, they all work. Snip pin 4 on the CIC, and clean the cart connector and you're good to go.
Yes Mario Brothers is still copyrighted, but short of emulation you simply can't actually play it anymore even if it was free.
Sure you can. Most NESs still work nearly 30 years later.
In both case you are redistributing something to which you have no right to do so.
No, you are communicating information to someone which is prohibited by law.
Ah, a perl user. my $my;
If I was aborted, I'd never experience the loss. Death is scary. But if there was never any me to experience anything, there would be no fear.
Besides, if I was aborted in favor of a healthy fetus, that person would be in favor of aborting fetuses with genetic defects, for the exact reason you think I should be against it.
This line of reasoning is nonsensical. Out of the millions of sperm in an ejaculate, only one gets to fertilize an egg. The flap of a butterfly's wing could change which sperm fertilizes the egg, and could have prevented my existence. Should I be against butterflies now?
He's neither a traitor nor is he a defector.
Indeed. He is a refugee.
Super Mario Brothers ran at a steady framerate on a 1.7mhz 6502. This doesn't run smoothly on my 2.6ghz Core2Duo. Is this progress?
They should hook a hose up to the Americans and use their fat as fuel.
Test yourself, and test fetuses. Procreation without genetic testing in this day and age is terribly irresponsible. But if you're going to help tidy up the gene pool, you have to do the testing before you procreate.
I don't care where the rich go for healthcare. I care that the poor who live and work here are well cared for.
She wasn't very smart was she?
There is a reason why people travel from all over the world come here for the best care.
Yeah, because they're rich. Now what are we going to do about everyone else?
Coal isn't quite pure carbon. There's oxygens and the occasional nitrogens in the structure too. Graphite is pure carbon, except for hydrogens at the edges.
pure carbon is not especially flammable (eg: diamonds)
Pure carbon is quite flammable. Try check out the MSDS for graphite. The problem with diamonds is their surface area is relatively low, but you can burn them slowly with a hot enough flame and high enough concentration of oxygen.
Great, so now it's not just one battery pack in the back that's a fire risk, the whole exterior of the car could spontaneously combust at any moment. Oh, and good bye independant body shops.
How well does Xen work at virtualizing graphics cards for gaming? I know "vga passthrough" exists, is it stable and performant? I assume I need to dedicate a graphics card for Windows?
The math behind public key encryption is still secure. When PKI fails, it is due to bad key management. OTP has the same problem, pad management. The beauty of public key encryption is that it doesn't matter who eavesdrops on your public key, you don't have to prearrange anything with anyone. OTP does not have the same advantages, and keeping your pad secure is every bit as difficult as keeping your private key secure.
USENET never had this problem.
You can't do one without the other. If you give legitimate users the means to avoid illegal access, you give criminals the means to avoid legal access.
It's already come to that, and it's been to SCOTUS and upheld. Hiibel vs Nevada
I'm not afraid of terrorists, I'm afraid of my own government. The threat from terrorism is negligible. The very real damage done by bad government is overwhelming. The only weapon we have in the fight against corruption is journalism, and Greenwald is the only real journalist we have left.
"democratically elected" in a democracy where congress has a 10% approval rate, and a 90% incumbency rate.
"law enforcement" by a government that can't even obey its own laws.
"judicial approval" by secret courts ruling on secret evidence and secret laws.
None of those things you wish were true about America are actually true. We are a nation ruled by thugs. It's not criminals we need to be secure against, it's our own government.