After the recent financial collapse I assume all banks are criminal. The bank data could consist of nothing but account numbers and the resulting fraud would cause but a tiny fraction of the damage the fraudsters on Wall Street committed. In the worst case scenario Assange is still better than the people our government not only allows to operate, but protects and even welcomes into their ranks.
But we'll have to wait and see exactly what the bank data entails. Until then, lets discuss the fact that the Press has acted far more irresponsibly in the past decade than Assange has. Why do they not draw the ire Assange does? Perhaps the objections are not as much about journalistic integrity as they are about protecting those in power?
Assange is not behaving like an ethical member of the press.
The press is not behaving like an ethical member of the press. The failure of the press in the last decade to act as anything except a mouthpiece for the US government and the special interests that control it has caused far more damage to this country and the world than anything Assange could dream of. It's time for the pendulum to swing the other way.
He has threatened to leak even more information about financial institutions. Folks, he is potentially threatening to hurt your own financial futures for his personal gain
If your financial future is at risk, it's not Assange who did it. It's the criminals who run the banking institutions. They need to be exposed to protect your financial future.
there are many times I can remember gaming where those blind spots in movement would be fatal to my character. And I'm willing to bet that for top tier gamers that the little bit of extra time on the digital stick is meaningful.
You will not find a single expert at arcade shmups or fighters that prefers an analog joystick over a digital joystick.
Yet, financially supporting an organization deemed "terrorist" by the government is not a function of free speech.
VERBALLY supporting a terrorist organization is not free speech in the US anymore. The Supreme Court has ruled that even providing advice on completely legal topics counts as "material support" of terrorism.
He said "flirt" not "fuck". There's nothing wrong with a little flirting, even if the wife gets upset when she finds out. The problem in that case is not he flirting, but the controlling relationship.
"If you've done nothing wrong, you won't get caught".
Easily disproven. People go to jail for cannabis possession all the time.
Yes. The D-pad (along with the digital joystick) are the most precise input mechanisms around. They allow you to go in precisely 8 directions at precisely one speed with no error. And you can change between them instantaneously.
Compare an analog joystick that allows you to move in many directions, but with more error. If you want to move at 45 degrees, you might end up going at 40 degrees and having to correct. It also takes time to sweep the joystick from one direction to another, and all those intermediate values are sent as input.
Don't get me wrong, analog controls are useful too, but you wouldn't want to play MegaMan with them.
If you want to play a game designed for the d-pad, then you should play that game on the proper platform.
Agreed. For a great many great games that platform is not going to be a phone.
Cell phones are all but required these days. Gaming platforms, not so much.
I've never owned a cell phone, but I have a DS in my pocket right now. It would take some damn good games to get me to buy a cell phone, but because of the controls few great games are possible.
The physical d-pad is slowly becoming the niche rather than the norm, and hard core gamers are just going to have to deal with it.
Probably true. Quality is almost always a niche interest. Gamers might in fact be moving to cell phones, that doesn't mean it's a good thing for games, or gamers.
Nonsense. Consider any console shmup for instance. No auto-aim and very tight controls. D-pads are superior for these types of games because they allow you absolute certainty over what the game is doing. Press the button for a certain amount of time, and you will move a known distance. Analog controls like a touchpad or mouse allow you more options for movement, but less precision in making that movement.
Sure there will be dpad games for the hard core, but the majority will play touchscreen games on the go.
Which is exactly why cellphone gaming will be dominated by crappy casual games and the better games will remain on dedicated handhelds.
Back in the day, getting an album on tape and letting all your friends borrow it so they could copy it was an act of altruism. P2P is that, just more efficient.
The flash carts do allow writing to the SD card from the DS. There's homebrew that does it. That probably doesn't hold up for whatever memory space they're using to load the ROMs from though. In any case, this will be worked around with a ROM patch in no time.
It's not that ethylene is bad, it's that ripening off the vine sucks. You're stuck with the amount of flavor when picked, ethylene just softens the fruit. On the vine the fruit can keep adding flavor as it softens. Strawberries are really only good ripened on the vine and eaten within 24 hours of being picked. Anything else is a pale imitation.
Those are all from Nippon Ichi, a very niche publisher of very Japanese RPGs. If you like traditional turn based JRPGs with anime styling, give them a shot, they could use the business.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that anything useful can be useful to terrorists. If that were a reason not to do something, we'd never do anything at all.
I would watch Zero Punctuation, if he used some punctuation. Yeah, I know that's his shtick, but it's annoying as all hell. That dude needs to calm down and take a breath. Watching Zero Punctuation is a lot like having a damn little yippie dog humping your ankle for four minutes.
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After the recent financial collapse I assume all banks are criminal. The bank data could consist of nothing but account numbers and the resulting fraud would cause but a tiny fraction of the damage the fraudsters on Wall Street committed. In the worst case scenario Assange is still better than the people our government not only allows to operate, but protects and even welcomes into their ranks.
But we'll have to wait and see exactly what the bank data entails. Until then, lets discuss the fact that the Press has acted far more irresponsibly in the past decade than Assange has. Why do they not draw the ire Assange does? Perhaps the objections are not as much about journalistic integrity as they are about protecting those in power?
Assange is not behaving like an ethical member of the press.
The press is not behaving like an ethical member of the press. The failure of the press in the last decade to act as anything except a mouthpiece for the US government and the special interests that control it has caused far more damage to this country and the world than anything Assange could dream of. It's time for the pendulum to swing the other way.
He has threatened to leak even more information about financial institutions. Folks, he is potentially threatening to hurt your own financial futures for his personal gain
If your financial future is at risk, it's not Assange who did it. It's the criminals who run the banking institutions. They need to be exposed to protect your financial future.
Terrorism is coercion through FEAR
Which aptly describes the practice of the American government for at least the past 30 years.
You have got to be freaking kidding me. Type "NATO" using the shift key. Go ahead, I'll wait.
NATOnatoNATOnatoNATOnatoNATOnato
No capslock, no problem. You must have little girlie hands.
there are many times I can remember gaming where those blind spots in movement would be fatal to my character. And I'm willing to bet that for top tier gamers that the little bit of extra time on the digital stick is meaningful.
You will not find a single expert at arcade shmups or fighters that prefers an analog joystick over a digital joystick.
Yet, financially supporting an organization deemed "terrorist" by the government is not a function of free speech.
VERBALLY supporting a terrorist organization is not free speech in the US anymore. The Supreme Court has ruled that even providing advice on completely legal topics counts as "material support" of terrorism.
Sounds like Google is discriminating against Mexicans.
He said "flirt" not "fuck". There's nothing wrong with a little flirting, even if the wife gets upset when she finds out. The problem in that case is not he flirting, but the controlling relationship.
"If you've done nothing wrong, you won't get caught".
Easily disproven. People go to jail for cannabis possession all the time.
Yes. The D-pad (along with the digital joystick) are the most precise input mechanisms around. They allow you to go in precisely 8 directions at precisely one speed with no error. And you can change between them instantaneously.
Compare an analog joystick that allows you to move in many directions, but with more error. If you want to move at 45 degrees, you might end up going at 40 degrees and having to correct. It also takes time to sweep the joystick from one direction to another, and all those intermediate values are sent as input.
Don't get me wrong, analog controls are useful too, but you wouldn't want to play MegaMan with them.
If you want to play a game designed for the d-pad, then you should play that game on the proper platform.
Agreed. For a great many great games that platform is not going to be a phone.
Cell phones are all but required these days. Gaming platforms, not so much.
I've never owned a cell phone, but I have a DS in my pocket right now. It would take some damn good games to get me to buy a cell phone, but because of the controls few great games are possible.
The physical d-pad is slowly becoming the niche rather than the norm, and hard core gamers are just going to have to deal with it.
Probably true. Quality is almost always a niche interest. Gamers might in fact be moving to cell phones, that doesn't mean it's a good thing for games, or gamers.
Nonsense. Consider any console shmup for instance. No auto-aim and very tight controls. D-pads are superior for these types of games because they allow you absolute certainty over what the game is doing. Press the button for a certain amount of time, and you will move a known distance. Analog controls like a touchpad or mouse allow you more options for movement, but less precision in making that movement.
Sure there will be dpad games for the hard core, but the majority will play touchscreen games on the go.
Which is exactly why cellphone gaming will be dominated by crappy casual games and the better games will remain on dedicated handhelds.
This might work for some genres but the staples of gaming, platformers, shooters, etc, require the precise control of a d-pad.
I'm sick of being politically correct.
iThink iHave an iDea.
Mistaking incompetence for evil is a common mistake.
Incompetence is a common vector for evil.
Back in the day, getting an album on tape and letting all your friends borrow it so they could copy it was an act of altruism. P2P is that, just more efficient.
The flash carts do allow writing to the SD card from the DS. There's homebrew that does it. That probably doesn't hold up for whatever memory space they're using to load the ROMs from though. In any case, this will be worked around with a ROM patch in no time.
It's not that ethylene is bad, it's that ripening off the vine sucks. You're stuck with the amount of flavor when picked, ethylene just softens the fruit. On the vine the fruit can keep adding flavor as it softens. Strawberries are really only good ripened on the vine and eaten within 24 hours of being picked. Anything else is a pale imitation.
Autodidacts are recruiting your children on the web!
Wikileaks takes donations by mail. Buy a postal money order with cash and drop it in a box with no return address.
Those are all from Nippon Ichi, a very niche publisher of very Japanese RPGs. If you like traditional turn based JRPGs with anime styling, give them a shot, they could use the business.
A subpoena is not a warrant. The 4th amendment requires warrants issued with probable cause.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that anything useful can be useful to terrorists. If that were a reason not to do something, we'd never do anything at all.
Dropping packages is a significantly worse failure mode than dropping packets.
I would watch Zero Punctuation, if he used some punctuation. Yeah, I know that's his shtick, but it's annoying as all hell. That dude needs to calm down and take a breath. Watching Zero Punctuation is a lot like having a damn little yippie dog humping your ankle for four minutes.