under some definitions of network neutrality, various useful traffic shaping
QoS falls under no one's definition of network neutrality. Those who conflate QoS with network neutrality are engaging in FUD. They are deliberately confusing the nomenclature in order to scare people away from true network neutrality.
This ignores the Coolidge Effect. Shortly, novelty leads to better sex. To quote the wiki:
The term comes from an old joke, according to which U.S. President Calvin Coolidge and his wife allegedly visited a poultry farm. During the tour, Mrs. Coolidge inquired of the farmer how his farm managed to produce so many fertile eggs with such a small number of roosters. The farmer proudly explained that his roosters performed their duty dozens of times each day.
"Tell that to Mr. Coolidge," pointedly replied the First Lady.
The President, overhearing the remark, asked the farmer, "Does each rooster service the same hen each time?"
"No," replied the farmer, "there are many hens for each rooster."
"Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge," replied the President.
KDE is more than just a desktop Environment, it's a whole programming library and philosophy that unifies a family of applications, so they can interoperate, exchange data, and work together as well as you do.
But in doing all that, it does too much. The UNIX philosophy is "do one thing, and do it well". KDE has some great features, like KIO-slaves. But the GUI layer is exactly the wrong place to put such a feature. It's completely useless to any command line application.
That's a problem that keeps me from using KDE. If I get hooked on KDE specific features, I'm locked in to KDE. If I use modular, stand alone software that follows the UNIX philosophy, I'm good to go whatever environment I find myself in.
To be fair, at one point it was pretty standard to put the accuser in a case like that more on trial than the accused.
What's wrong with that? If you're talking about depriving a man of several years, if not decades, of his life, potentially subjecting him to rape in prison, and branding him for life after his release, shouldn't we be damn sure the accuser has their story straight?
Mr. Assange had a clear choice and clearly he's made it. This choice was whether or not sacrificing the lives of others for your own political objectives is moral course of action.
That's the same choice Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama had.
Some people go through life without ever reading Homer or listening to Bach. I'm sure they don't feel that they're missing out on much either. Doom is that kind of foundational work that crystallizes what's great about what came before, and influenced everything that came after. If you like movies, you owe it to yourself to watch Hitchcock and Kurosawa. If you like games, you owe it to yourself to play Doom. If you don't like games, skip it, no biggie.
I don't see how this provides any data against that argument. Yes, the piracy rate of this game is high. That doesn't suggest that they would have sold more copies with DRM.
With a 90% piracy rate on DRM free games, clearly catering to your paying customers is working out pretty well. What was the successful piracy rate on these very locked down games again?
Making a game attractive to paying customers makes it attractive to pirates as well. The piracy rate tells you nothing important. A super effective DRM could reduce the piracy rate by 99%, but if it costs you one paying customer it's worthless.
These excuses don't hold up in the market anymore. The data is conclusive: people are cheap and will pirate it if there's an easy way to do so.
And if it's not easy to do so they're cheap so they'll just pirate something else instead of buying your game. Paying customers are cheap too, and if they see that the cracked version is better than the DRM'd version (as is often the case) there's a good chance they'll pirate it instead.
The numbers here really aren't in debate. The piracy rate is around 90%, so what? Deterring pirates is not the same thing as earning customers. DRM puts the former over the latter, when the latter is the only thing that matters.
So.. the people who are willing to support the things they love economically will get games. The people who aren't, won't. What is the problem here? Sounds like the free market working.
The sad thing is that PC publishers will destroy their own gaming platform by breaking their games, instead of catering to their paying customers. Good example is Modern Warfare 2 which was heavily "consolised" and you have to admit, not having dedicated servers and everything else sucks.
Penrose is a physicist, not a cognitive scientist. There's no reason to believe anything the brain does requires anything but classical mechanics and basic chemistry.
As a great man once said, "Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorence on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time."
A right you cannot exercise is one you don't have. You're making the exact same mistake Marie Antoinette made when she (apocryphally) said "Let them eat cake." Keep making that mistake and your kind will earn the same fate.
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under some definitions of network neutrality, various useful traffic shaping
QoS falls under no one's definition of network neutrality. Those who conflate QoS with network neutrality are engaging in FUD. They are deliberately confusing the nomenclature in order to scare people away from true network neutrality.
This ignores the Coolidge Effect. Shortly, novelty leads to better sex. To quote the wiki:
If you count all the protons, neutrons and electrons before and after the chemical reaction, they're all still there.
But the mass is not.
KDE is more than just a desktop Environment, it's a whole programming library and philosophy that unifies a family of applications, so they can interoperate, exchange data, and work together as well as you do.
But in doing all that, it does too much. The UNIX philosophy is "do one thing, and do it well". KDE has some great features, like KIO-slaves. But the GUI layer is exactly the wrong place to put such a feature. It's completely useless to any command line application.
That's a problem that keeps me from using KDE. If I get hooked on KDE specific features, I'm locked in to KDE. If I use modular, stand alone software that follows the UNIX philosophy, I'm good to go whatever environment I find myself in.
Right, because the Taliban wouldn't have killed anyone if it weren't for Wikileaks.
Bet you can't tell where my fingers were.
Beyond a reasonable doubt is the legal standard required for conviction. Probable cause is the standard required for arrest.
1) they are dead, so they can no longer continue their idiotic policies. Therefore, there is no use continuing to sling vitriol.
But plenty of reason to celebrate.
2) because like them or not, they are people, and therefore they have family members that (presumably) love them despite their flaws.
If you love an evil piece of shit, you are an evil piece of shit. Dealing with people that hate the piece of shit you love is fair punishment.
To be fair, at one point it was pretty standard to put the accuser in a case like that more on trial than the accused.
What's wrong with that? If you're talking about depriving a man of several years, if not decades, of his life, potentially subjecting him to rape in prison, and branding him for life after his release, shouldn't we be damn sure the accuser has their story straight?
Mr. Assange had a clear choice and clearly he's made it. This choice was whether or not sacrificing the lives of others for your own political objectives is moral course of action.
That's the same choice Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama had.
Some people go through life without ever reading Homer or listening to Bach. I'm sure they don't feel that they're missing out on much either. Doom is that kind of foundational work that crystallizes what's great about what came before, and influenced everything that came after. If you like movies, you owe it to yourself to watch Hitchcock and Kurosawa. If you like games, you owe it to yourself to play Doom. If you don't like games, skip it, no biggie.
Do you save more carbon buying a new Hybrid vehicle that takes energy to manufacture, or keeping your old clunker on the road?
I think I'd be just fine with $512,000.
I don't see how this provides any data against that argument. Yes, the piracy rate of this game is high. That doesn't suggest that they would have sold more copies with DRM.
With a 90% piracy rate on DRM free games, clearly catering to your paying customers is working out pretty well. What was the successful piracy rate on these very locked down games again?
Making a game attractive to paying customers makes it attractive to pirates as well. The piracy rate tells you nothing important. A super effective DRM could reduce the piracy rate by 99%, but if it costs you one paying customer it's worthless.
These excuses don't hold up in the market anymore. The data is conclusive: people are cheap and will pirate it if there's an easy way to do so.
And if it's not easy to do so they're cheap so they'll just pirate something else instead of buying your game. Paying customers are cheap too, and if they see that the cracked version is better than the DRM'd version (as is often the case) there's a good chance they'll pirate it instead.
The numbers here really aren't in debate. The piracy rate is around 90%, so what? Deterring pirates is not the same thing as earning customers. DRM puts the former over the latter, when the latter is the only thing that matters.
So.. the people who are willing to support the things they love economically will get games. The people who aren't, won't. What is the problem here? Sounds like the free market working.
The sad thing is that PC publishers will destroy their own gaming platform by breaking their games, instead of catering to their paying customers. Good example is Modern Warfare 2 which was heavily "consolised" and you have to admit, not having dedicated servers and everything else sucks.
Penrose is a physicist, not a cognitive scientist. There's no reason to believe anything the brain does requires anything but classical mechanics and basic chemistry.
Don't confuse what Obama is doing with what Bush did.
Bush committed a crime by suborning those illegal wiretaps.
And Obama is continuing the illegal wiretaps. "Bush did it first" is not a defense.
Obama is trying to avoid having to prosecute Bush and his administration for that crime, and to avoid having the government sued over what Bush did.
By digging the hole deeper? That may or may not be his intent. Either way it's no less contemptible.
But when it comes right down to it, and he can't avoid it, that's what will happen.
You're living in a dream world. Nobody is going to be prosecuted for the crimes of the Bush administration.
I follow the news. I'm pretty immune at this point to rehearsed and empty words from sociopaths.
As a great man once said, "Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorence on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time."
lot of behind-the-scenes scurrying.
Like cockroaches when you flip the light switch.
You're right. Since we no longer have a free state, there's no need to secure it with a well regulated militia.
A right you cannot exercise is one you don't have. You're making the exact same mistake Marie Antoinette made when she (apocryphally) said "Let them eat cake." Keep making that mistake and your kind will earn the same fate.