This is why I stick to retro games. Sure, sometimes the reviews are colored with nostalgia, but it's also easier to see in hindsight which games have stood the test of time. There's no longer any time pressure to get a review out the door, and the reviewers are doing it for the love of gaming, not to get paid. The result is a much higher quality level of material coming out of the retro gaming community than modern gaming.
Fair point but I don't for a moment imagine any games reviewers play the game to the end.
The AVGN at least makes a serious effort to play through the games he reviews, and he's not even a real reviewer. And those games are much harder than current games too. If a parody reviewer is putting in more work than published journalists, that really speaks to the poor state of games journalism.
When it comes to games, you'll find better journalism on blogs than in printed media. No periodical I'm aware of comes close to HG101 or Armchair Arcade for instance.
When I hear the phrase "dated design" I think of such cliches as lives, checkpoint save systems, limited pausing in single player titles, and other "wow that's annoying" mechanics that I can't imagine were ever considered to be a good idea.
That's not dated design, that's classic design. Games should be difficult so that there's a feeling of accomplishment when completing them. Giving the player infinite lives or requiring save scumming is just broken design.
A boss that adapts to your strategy and forces you to adapt your own in order to win is hard. A boss with 100000000000 hp and the ability to one shot you if you stand still for 0.1 seconds is stupid.
Consider that it's not the game that's bad, but you. I'm pretty sure I'll never beat DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou, that doesn't mean it's a bad game. I'm just not hardcore enough. For those who are, it rocks their world. And even if I never beat it, it's still great fun to play.
for example, mass effect 1&2 were praised a lot on these journos - but none of them critiqued the blatant flaws in the game, so I'm pretty sure the next iteration will just expand more on those flaws(it's just a tunnel shooter disquised as a kotor clone).
That's not a flaw, that's by design. If you expected anything but a KOTOR clone from ME, you are just foolish. KOTOR was an awesome game based on an awesome formula. I will play anything built on that formula and be delighted with it.
From what I can tell, Wayland is going to be a massive regression in actual usability and power of the open source GUI stack in favour of something that's shiny but seriously lacking in substance.
Sounds like everything else Ubuntu has done. I really hope this doesn't infect the rest of the open source unix ecosystem.
What about window managers? Is my X11 based window manager going to manage window decorations for my Wayland applications? Does Wayland even have window managers?
I believe the exemption in question was enacted in 2006. This is the relevant exeception, right?
The Librarian of Congress, on the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, has announced the classes of works subject to the exemption from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. Persons making noninfringing uses of the following six classes of works will not be subject to the prohibition against circumventing access controls (17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1)) during the next three years.
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5. Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network.
Exactly what part of that exemption do you read to imply that you cannot sell a device legally unlocked?
Are there any Wayland native apps yet? Without those, all you have is a pretty interface and nothing to do with it. Sure, you can provide backwards compatibility by running an X server on top of Wayland, but then what was the point of dumping X.org?
The X11R6 protocol has been around for a long time, because it's good at what it does. By dumping the X protocol along with the X.org server they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
If you have files that you don't want the world to see, why are they world readable? Properly set your UNIX permissions and the settings of the FTP server don't matter.
Really? I thought that they used gravity to determine the approximate mass of the galaxy, and then subtracted the amount of visible matter to yield the amount of dark matter. If that's how they did it, then increasing the amount of visible matter would have to decrease the amount of dark matter.
If the thefts are taking place in broad daylight, supported by your own government, without any sort of due process, then you might want to consider that bunker.
But in the end, it was widely announced and advertised. It wasn't done under the cover of secrecy and they at least gave reasons as to why they were seized.
Which is why nobody takes feminism seriously anymore. Feminists have accomplished nearly all their goals, and what's left is overreaching insanity like this. They are no longer fighting for women as much as they are fighting against men. Turning innocent men into rapists by redefining the term doesn't do anyone any good. Actually, diluting the term rape by applying it to regrettable sex is quite favorable to the actual rapists out there.
So listen, this position is without merit. It doesn't help anyone, and it hurts the people you hate the most. This is obvious to anyone with a functioning sense of justice. The problem is that some people have made their living fighting against men, and they don't know when to stop.
All men have consciences. Some apply them inconsistently. That may be a personal failing of Assange, I don't know. What's important is the data not the man.
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This is why I stick to retro games. Sure, sometimes the reviews are colored with nostalgia, but it's also easier to see in hindsight which games have stood the test of time. There's no longer any time pressure to get a review out the door, and the reviewers are doing it for the love of gaming, not to get paid. The result is a much higher quality level of material coming out of the retro gaming community than modern gaming.
Fair point but I don't for a moment imagine any games reviewers play the game to the end.
The AVGN at least makes a serious effort to play through the games he reviews, and he's not even a real reviewer. And those games are much harder than current games too. If a parody reviewer is putting in more work than published journalists, that really speaks to the poor state of games journalism.
When it comes to games, you'll find better journalism on blogs than in printed media. No periodical I'm aware of comes close to HG101 or Armchair Arcade for instance.
When I hear the phrase "dated design" I think of such cliches as lives, checkpoint save systems, limited pausing in single player titles, and other "wow that's annoying" mechanics that I can't imagine were ever considered to be a good idea.
That's not dated design, that's classic design. Games should be difficult so that there's a feeling of accomplishment when completing them. Giving the player infinite lives or requiring save scumming is just broken design.
A boss that adapts to your strategy and forces you to adapt your own in order to win is hard. A boss with 100000000000 hp and the ability to one shot you if you stand still for 0.1 seconds is stupid.
Consider that it's not the game that's bad, but you. I'm pretty sure I'll never beat DoDonPachi Dai Ou Jou, that doesn't mean it's a bad game. I'm just not hardcore enough. For those who are, it rocks their world. And even if I never beat it, it's still great fun to play.
for example, mass effect 1&2 were praised a lot on these journos - but none of them critiqued the blatant flaws in the game, so I'm pretty sure the next iteration will just expand more on those flaws(it's just a tunnel shooter disquised as a kotor clone).
That's not a flaw, that's by design. If you expected anything but a KOTOR clone from ME, you are just foolish. KOTOR was an awesome game based on an awesome formula. I will play anything built on that formula and be delighted with it.
From what I can tell, Wayland is going to be a massive regression in actual usability and power of the open source GUI stack in favour of something that's shiny but seriously lacking in substance.
Sounds like everything else Ubuntu has done. I really hope this doesn't infect the rest of the open source unix ecosystem.
What about window managers? Is my X11 based window manager going to manage window decorations for my Wayland applications? Does Wayland even have window managers?
Until you try to run them with the -display flag.
Citation Needed.
I believe the exemption in question was enacted in 2006. This is the relevant exeception, right?
Exactly what part of that exemption do you read to imply that you cannot sell a device legally unlocked?
Just provide an X server on top of the Wayland graphics engine, and continue to use your old X apps.
Then why ditch Xorg?
Are there any Wayland native apps yet? Without those, all you have is a pretty interface and nothing to do with it. Sure, you can provide backwards compatibility by running an X server on top of Wayland, but then what was the point of dumping X.org?
The X11R6 protocol has been around for a long time, because it's good at what it does. By dumping the X protocol along with the X.org server they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
It's right next to the part empowering the judge to instruct the jury otherwise.
The jury has one purpose.
This is a myth. The founding fathers were quite clear that the jury has the power to judge both the facts and the law.
If you have files that you don't want the world to see, why are they world readable? Properly set your UNIX permissions and the settings of the FTP server don't matter.
OK, enlighten me. What information do they have about me that I have not chosen to give them?
Really? I thought that they used gravity to determine the approximate mass of the galaxy, and then subtracted the amount of visible matter to yield the amount of dark matter. If that's how they did it, then increasing the amount of visible matter would have to decrease the amount of dark matter.
Obviously what they meant was "Exo-scale" computing. Which is, of course, computing technology received from extraterrestrial reptilians.
It is opt in. They don't have any info on you that you do not provide to them.
If the thefts are taking place in broad daylight, supported by your own government, without any sort of due process, then you might want to consider that bunker.
But in the end, it was widely announced and advertised. It wasn't done under the cover of secrecy and they at least gave reasons as to why they were seized.
So in your eyes, theft is ok if it's brazen?
I see you've never asked a politician why pot is illegal.
No, that's exactly why we have wills. It's not to respect the rights of the dead, but it's a convenient way to resolve disputes between the living.
Which is why nobody takes feminism seriously anymore. Feminists have accomplished nearly all their goals, and what's left is overreaching insanity like this. They are no longer fighting for women as much as they are fighting against men. Turning innocent men into rapists by redefining the term doesn't do anyone any good. Actually, diluting the term rape by applying it to regrettable sex is quite favorable to the actual rapists out there.
So listen, this position is without merit. It doesn't help anyone, and it hurts the people you hate the most. This is obvious to anyone with a functioning sense of justice. The problem is that some people have made their living fighting against men, and they don't know when to stop.
All men have consciences. Some apply them inconsistently. That may be a personal failing of Assange, I don't know. What's important is the data not the man.
There's a difference between not treating women with respect and raping them.