Unless they can get Globalfoundries off the ground at 28nm or better, they won't be able to produce enough product to make any sales, with Nvidia and Apple hogging all the fabs' attention. Enjoy your $800 entry level GPUs and your $1000 midrange CPUs.
I used to install satellite antennas, and a large chunk of those installations were out in the countryside.
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but fuck non-agricultural country dwellers and any others whose jobs require them to be there. People who live in the country merely to avoid the city are a fucking cancer on society, and they constantly whine about all the stuff that "the city" or "the county" (to whom they pay little or no taxes) won't do for them. They moan about what an inconvenience living in the country is, and yet they wouldn't have it any other way.
Farmers and other contributing members of society I understand. Anyone who lives in the country out of anything but necessity can just fuck right off. Make them pay for it; they moan the loudest. The farmers never complained.
No, it's not. At all. If you want to be realistic, it's a lot more like your local utility company shutting off your gas because you were accused of stealing some propane from somebody else.
This is, sadly, the way it will likely go. Rather then a reasonable response, like "we already have laws against hackers, so how about you get better security", we'll probably get something closer to "PATRIOT ACT 2: WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING BOOGALOO"
Lulzsec's resounding accomplishment is that it will wake organizations up about the state of their security, and maybe even get us a few anti-negligence laws for the companies who think of security as an afterthought.
They argue that they can track any vehicle that is out in the public, so why not require them to set up a website that reports their whereabouts by the minute? Wonder if they'd change their minds...
"And anyway, it's not the war that's broken Washington's piggy bank," he adds, noting that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security account for far more spending than the $107 billion the Pentagon says it will spend in Afghanistan next year.
It's like saying "all these fancy dinners we going to aren't breaking the piggy bank. Our mortgage payment is twice as much as we spent going to four-star restaurants last month!"
I think most of the smart IT people are beginning to view the U.S. as a threat to their business. If U.S. investigative agencies can disrupt dozens, or even thousands, of innocent individuals and businesses with impunity, why the hell would anyone take the risk hosting in the U.S.?
News organizations are failing at due diligence these days. Gotta keep feeding those profit margins, no time for fact-checking, no calling up the UK census and asking about a breach. Nope, just release whatever you read on a random pastebin and fire away!
This is why I get breaking news from Twitter feeds. The journalism quality is just as good (or bad).
The one redeeming quality of Mercenaries 2 is that it has co-op, and it was actually pretty fun.
EA had it up cheaply a couple of months ago and I was about to pick up a couple of copies until I saw that they had shut down multiplayer. All they would have needed to do is let the players host their own servers.
This will be the ultimate fate of every game that makes you phone home or lacks dedicated servers. Want to play Neverwinter Nights/NWN2 with a friend? Tough. The master server went down.
I believe this is the first time, on the internet or otherwise, that someone implied that I was racist after taking a completely unrelated statement out of context. I implore you to read more than half of my sentence.
I don't want to sound like a tinfoil hatter (even if I do), but something tells me that these guys are contracted by the government because supporters of the Patriot Act are thinning in numbers.
I expected a link to The Onion. Truth is stranger than fic^H^H^H satire.
You know, I wonder if this is also driving internet trolling, since trolls can vacate a logical "win" at will. Trolls can additionally create false arenas in which people can rack up meaningless "wins".
Perhaps trolling is just the system balancing itself. There is an overabundance of people who cannot resist the urge to correct another person, which creates a natural predator-prey relationship for trolls.
Aldo: Here's the bubbly, boss. Snaps: Aldo, I'm shocked! You know liquor's against the law! Didn't you ever hear of Prohibition? Aldo: Heard of it? What do you think paid for this house?
A few scapegoats who may not even be connected to the actual hackers are going to prison because governments want appear to be capable of capturing them.
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Good games just aren't profitable enough.
Unless they can get Globalfoundries off the ground at 28nm or better, they won't be able to produce enough product to make any sales, with Nvidia and Apple hogging all the fabs' attention. Enjoy your $800 entry level GPUs and your $1000 midrange CPUs.
I used to install satellite antennas, and a large chunk of those installations were out in the countryside.
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but fuck non-agricultural country dwellers and any others whose jobs require them to be there. People who live in the country merely to avoid the city are a fucking cancer on society, and they constantly whine about all the stuff that "the city" or "the county" (to whom they pay little or no taxes) won't do for them. They moan about what an inconvenience living in the country is, and yet they wouldn't have it any other way.
Farmers and other contributing members of society I understand. Anyone who lives in the country out of anything but necessity can just fuck right off. Make them pay for it; they moan the loudest. The farmers never complained.
Being molested, xrayed, shown naked on a screen, and robbed is a small price to pay to keep terrorists from taking away my freedom!
No, it's not. At all. If you want to be realistic, it's a lot more like your local utility company shutting off your gas because you were accused of stealing some propane from somebody else.
Surely mean copying someone else's propane?
We could cut our military spending in half and still be the world's top spender. Shit, we could cut 90% and we'd still be in the top five.
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Glad to see it. Well, maybe not glad, since the paranoia is usually accompanied by wanton imprisonment and mass killings, a la Khmer Rouge.
This is, sadly, the way it will likely go. Rather then a reasonable response, like "we already have laws against hackers, so how about you get better security", we'll probably get something closer to "PATRIOT ACT 2: WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING BOOGALOO"
Lulzsec's resounding accomplishment is that it will wake organizations up about the state of their security, and maybe even get us a few anti-negligence laws for the companies who think of security as an afterthought.
They argue that they can track any vehicle that is out in the public, so why not require them to set up a website that reports their whereabouts by the minute? Wonder if they'd change their minds...
"And anyway, it's not the war that's broken Washington's piggy bank," he adds, noting that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security account for far more spending than the $107 billion the Pentagon says it will spend in Afghanistan next year.
It's like saying "all these fancy dinners we going to aren't breaking the piggy bank. Our mortgage payment is twice as much as we spent going to four-star restaurants last month!"
Collectively, twitter is faster and more accurate than news outlets.
I think most of the smart IT people are beginning to view the U.S. as a threat to their business. If U.S. investigative agencies can disrupt dozens, or even thousands, of innocent individuals and businesses with impunity, why the hell would anyone take the risk hosting in the U.S.?
Each of the clients who had their property seized without warrant should bring suit.
News organizations are failing at due diligence these days. Gotta keep feeding those profit margins, no time for fact-checking, no calling up the UK census and asking about a breach. Nope, just release whatever you read on a random pastebin and fire away!
This is why I get breaking news from Twitter feeds. The journalism quality is just as good (or bad).
The one redeeming quality of Mercenaries 2 is that it has co-op, and it was actually pretty fun.
EA had it up cheaply a couple of months ago and I was about to pick up a couple of copies until I saw that they had shut down multiplayer. All they would have needed to do is let the players host their own servers.
This will be the ultimate fate of every game that makes you phone home or lacks dedicated servers. Want to play Neverwinter Nights/NWN2 with a friend? Tough. The master server went down.
Not that it wouldn't be anything new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
I believe this is the first time, on the internet or otherwise, that someone implied that I was racist after taking a completely unrelated statement out of context. I implore you to read more than half of my sentence.
They're here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and they're all out of gum.
I don't want to sound like a tinfoil hatter (even if I do), but something tells me that these guys are contracted by the government because supporters of the Patriot Act are thinning in numbers.
I expected a link to The Onion. Truth is stranger than fic^H^H^H satire.
You know, I wonder if this is also driving internet trolling, since trolls can vacate a logical "win" at will. Trolls can additionally create false arenas in which people can rack up meaningless "wins".
Perhaps trolling is just the system balancing itself. There is an overabundance of people who cannot resist the urge to correct another person, which creates a natural predator-prey relationship for trolls.
Aldo: Here's the bubbly, boss.
Snaps: Aldo, I'm shocked! You know liquor's against the law! Didn't you ever hear of Prohibition?
Aldo: Heard of it? What do you think paid for this house?
Even if bitcoins fail, it will be a success in that at least a few more people will think about what's wrong with the Federal Reserve.
A few scapegoats who may not even be connected to the actual hackers are going to prison because governments want appear to be capable of capturing them.