Every agency does this all the time. Whenever there's budget problems in any city, it's always police and fire departments that are first on the chopping block.
GEORGE: Ah you have no idea of the magnitude of this thing. If she is allowed to infiltrate this world, then George Costanza as you know him, ceases to exist! You see, right now, I have Relationship George, but there is also Independent George. That's the George you know, the George you grew up with -- Movie George, Coffee shop George, Liar George, Bawdy George.
JERRY: I, I love that George.
GEORGE: Me Too! And he's dying Jerry! If Relationship George walks through this door, he will kill Independent George! A George, divided against itself, cannot stand!
It's not a vanishingly small proportion. It's enough software that one can never use proprietary software and not miss out on much. You are right that proprietary software has produced a lot of quality software. But I don't see any reason why it would get worse when the end user has the ability to pay people to fix bugs and add features he needs.
And personally, I don't care to play games that have uber top secret techniques coded in the engine. I care to play games that are fun.
If you care so much about small businesses, lobby for single payer. The ACA is an abomination, but better than the atrocity it is replacing. Single payer is the only civilized option.
The physical instance of a pattern of magnetic domains on a disk is absolutely property. If it's on my disk, it's my property. If I sell it, it's no longer my property. It's not that hard to understand.
Everything should be free as in freedom because you should be free to repair, modify, and copy your own property as you see fit. It's about what sort of rights we will retain in the new information age.
The crackers would be more likely to crack the one with DRM, because there's nothing to crack on the DRM free copy. Cracking is a game to these people, with nothing to crack there's no fun.
It wasn't DOOM. DOOM is an arcade FPS, not a survival horror game. DOOM is Robotron 2084 in a first person perspective. Serious Sam 2 or Painkiller did DOOM better than DOOM 3 did.
Are you suggesting the US just eliminate these organizations
Yes.
The problem is that regulations were written to benefit the largest and most politically influential banks.
The answer is not deregulation, but better regulation.
Solar energy subsidies dwarf the above by near orders of magnitude. Do you think those subsidies should cease as well?
No, because Solar is not an established industry.
We could do the above for the common good, but it is not enough *significantly* cut taxes.
We don't need to cut taxes. Taxes are at historical lows, and the economy has boomed under much higher tax rates. Taxes should be, at a minimum, what they were under Clinton.
Apparently Bertrand Russell was a fool. Who knew?
The only foolish part of his statement was limiting it to Christians. It's not just the Christian religion, not just religion in general, but magical thinking that is prevents progress.
Slim consoles are nothing unusual, but they're usually released before the next generation console as a ploy to extend the life of the hardware. The last time that I'm aware of a console manufacturer releasing a slim console after their next-gen console shipped was the Atari 2600 Jr, released in 1985, 3 years after the 5200 was released. In that case the 5200 was such a bomb that Atari needed to buy time for the 7800 to get released. I'm not sure what Nintendo's strategy is here, they already dominate the low end console market.
You're begging the question by putting "the supply is limited" in the advantages column. If monetary policy works, then finite supply of currency is a disadvantage.
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Education might lose funding. The point is that education is used as a distraction to keep them from having to cut pork.
Every agency does this all the time. Whenever there's budget problems in any city, it's always police and fire departments that are first on the chopping block.
InXile? Last thing they did was Choplifter HD, just this year. Before that, Hunted: Demon's Forge in 2011.
As for Chris Roberts, the last major game he did was Freelancer which was late, but ultimately delivered. I'd expect Star Citizen to be similar.
GEORGE: Ah you have no idea of the magnitude of this thing. If she is allowed to infiltrate this world, then George Costanza as you know him, ceases to exist! You see, right now, I have Relationship George, but there is also Independent George. That's the George you know, the George you grew up with -- Movie George, Coffee shop George, Liar George, Bawdy George.
JERRY: I, I love that George.
GEORGE: Me Too! And he's dying Jerry! If Relationship George walks through this door, he will kill Independent George! A George, divided against itself, cannot stand!
I'd rather get kicked in the nuts.
Landmarks are shit. If you can't offer me street names and cardinal directions, don't even bother. I'll just google map your address.
Neither. It's a troll, but it's not very clever.
It's not a vanishingly small proportion. It's enough software that one can never use proprietary software and not miss out on much. You are right that proprietary software has produced a lot of quality software. But I don't see any reason why it would get worse when the end user has the ability to pay people to fix bugs and add features he needs.
And personally, I don't care to play games that have uber top secret techniques coded in the engine. I care to play games that are fun.
If you care so much about small businesses, lobby for single payer. The ACA is an abomination, but better than the atrocity it is replacing. Single payer is the only civilized option.
The US is not a civilized country. Nor the UK it seems.
Millions of people can and have benefited from the ability of a vanishingly small proportion of the population to modify software freely.
The physical instance of a pattern of magnetic domains on a disk is absolutely property. If it's on my disk, it's my property. If I sell it, it's no longer my property. It's not that hard to understand.
NASA has a tiny budget compared to military and intelligence
That's the problem. Education and science always take a back seat to warfare. It doesn't have to be that way.
Everything should be free as in freedom because you should be free to repair, modify, and copy your own property as you see fit. It's about what sort of rights we will retain in the new information age.
You only need a friend with another copy and the ability to run md5sum to know if there's a hidden tracking mechanism.
The crackers would be more likely to crack the one with DRM, because there's nothing to crack on the DRM free copy. Cracking is a game to these people, with nothing to crack there's no fun.
This is where GOG.com did well I think, they specialize in older games that no one really cares about pirating
Old games are more popular than you think. I know of at least two torrent trackers that specialize in nothing but old games.
Their company is profitable. They get to make a living repackaging old dos games! How can that not be a win?
It wasn't DOOM. DOOM is an arcade FPS, not a survival horror game. DOOM is Robotron 2084 in a first person perspective. Serious Sam 2 or Painkiller did DOOM better than DOOM 3 did.
Are you suggesting the US just eliminate these organizations
Yes.
The problem is that regulations were written to benefit the largest and most politically influential banks.
The answer is not deregulation, but better regulation.
Solar energy subsidies dwarf the above by near orders of magnitude. Do you think those subsidies should cease as well?
No, because Solar is not an established industry.
We could do the above for the common good, but it is not enough *significantly* cut taxes.
We don't need to cut taxes. Taxes are at historical lows, and the economy has boomed under much higher tax rates. Taxes should be, at a minimum, what they were under Clinton.
Apparently Bertrand Russell was a fool. Who knew?
The only foolish part of his statement was limiting it to Christians. It's not just the Christian religion, not just religion in general, but magical thinking that is prevents progress.
Slim consoles are nothing unusual, but they're usually released before the next generation console as a ploy to extend the life of the hardware. The last time that I'm aware of a console manufacturer releasing a slim console after their next-gen console shipped was the Atari 2600 Jr, released in 1985, 3 years after the 5200 was released. In that case the 5200 was such a bomb that Atari needed to buy time for the 7800 to get released. I'm not sure what Nintendo's strategy is here, they already dominate the low end console market.
Socket 7: 133MHz Pentium to 200MHz pentium MMX
Socket 370: 400MHz celeron to 800MHz PIII
Socket A: Athlon XP 1800+ to XP 2600+
LGA775: E4500 to E8200
When was the last time you upgraded a CPU and didn't get a new motherboard? Never?
Always. I have never owned a PC in which I have not upgraded the CPU at least once.
AMD is down, but not out yet. A boneheaded move like this for Intel could be a boon for AMD.
You're begging the question by putting "the supply is limited" in the advantages column. If monetary policy works, then finite supply of currency is a disadvantage.