Which implies he wasn't very interested in the game to begin with and likely to just pirate it anyway. Seriously if downloading the game is what turns you off buying it they are probably lucky not to have you as a customer, because you're just going to be full of complaints.
Or you legitimate live in the bush without internet.
Maybe that's why the whole AAA industry is moaning about profits dropping.
If you think that's the reason then you're not a gamer. Have you had a look at AAA titles in the past year? Gamers have happily put up with DRM, microtransactions, large downloads, and stupid workarounds for years. AAA industry profits are in the shitter because for the past 2 years they've produced one horrible turd of an buggy escaped from lab beta masquerading as game after another.
Xcalc does the exact same functions and its not even 40 kilobytes!
My 4TB of disk space and 32GB of ram thanks you for your efficiency.
Seriously though just because it isn't suitable for use in a lite distro on challenged hardware doesn't mean it doesn't have a purpose. Your example uses a nice standard Xcalc, but pick something which has a lot of dependencies and quick development cycle with constantly added features and you're in for a world of hurt if you happen to want to run the latest version without the distro maintainer's "approval".
Slashdot: Where we are happy waiting months to fix PC software on standard systems, but have to have Android 9.0 on our non-standardised hardware *now*.
And? Not all 500MB is loaded at once, so they don't take massive amounts of RAM, and HDD is cheap. Docker and snap may not be suitable for lite distributions, but having seen Linux systems where aptitude gets so fucking out of control that a format was in order due to the addition of non standard repositories because someone dares not to want to wait for the blessing of a maintainer to run the latest version of some software, I see the point.
As soon as "cashless" becomes a reality, police won't have to lift a finger to arrest anyone accused of a crime. They'll just turn off his phone. The suspect will turn himself in to avoid starvation.
Yes because "cashless" is an all encompassing word that not only hands police powers they don't have, but also implies the specific solution to replace cash is to use a phone, and naturally why would you stop there when you could just add a slippery slope fallacy to properly round out your post.
I guess moderators gave you +insightful because Slashdot doesn't have "incredibly stupid" as a moderation option.
A portion of stores I do business with are cashless. I haven't carried cash on me in years. All supermarkets I go to have cash free lanes with the option of a few select slow lines where I pay cash. I transfer money and split bills between my friends with my phone. I am a millennial.
2. Predict they will change only a little.
Abolishing the few remaining cash lanes changes things a little. The remaining businesses not already cashless going cashless changes things a little. I will remain a millennial so that doesn't change.
Sounds like a pretty solid and realistic prediction to me, I'm less than a quarter in to my life and I've seen the world shift in very dramatic ways to cashless transactions to the point where finding a business that doesn't support cashless transactions (including small stuff like buying a coffee from a food van standing outside a festival) is an incredibly oddity. It stands to reason that cash will disappear from this world before I do (accidents or sudden medical interventions not withstanding).
Use of Credit and Debit cards adds an enormous additional cost to the merchant and, ultimately, to the consumer -- usually just shy of 5%.
No. Use of credit cards add 5%. Use of debit cards add almost nothing. Abolishing cash on the other hand saves a shitton. You don't think handling, counting, trips to the bank, float management, safety, and security come for free do you?
There's a reason that *businesses* are the ones pushing to go cashless and it's not because they like paying fees.
And I donâ(TM)t trust those people even a little bit.
Funny, that's precisely what they say about people paying cash. What are you hiding? "I don't trust you since you're clearly doing drugs and dodging taxes, otherwise you wouldn't be paying cash."
Side note: The only time these days I actually use cash is to pay a labourer who doesn't want to do the job on the books...
Because one doesn't follow the other. Cashless != Credit Card, and I don't fork over anything (both directly in fees, or indirectly in product costs) much less a "few percent of my income".
Cashless economies do not list Credit Cards as the alternatives. We use debit cards, direct debit transactions, custom bank based payment methods, and for some rare cases, crypto currencies.
There's a big difference between being ignorant, and just not giving a shit. Brie Larson is a SJW arse, the movie however was decent and not seeing it due to something irrelevant to the movie itself doesn't achieve anything.
And then found, announced and corrected the problem which occurred due to a very recent change. That is precisely how credibility works. Also they didn't say all the original votes were bots, but given site participation it was obvious that 90% of them were.
Now please, stop frothing at the mouth, smoke some weed, do some yoga, or do whatever it is you do to relax after you nerd rage over nothing.
No you won't. You'd complain, you'd be ignored, and then you'd capitulate and download the pat... errr... game because ultimately you've parted with money as a signal that you actually want to play it. And the reality is a download is a minor annoyance.
People are very tough online when they don't have any skin in the game.
Agree and they would get the benefit of doubt if this was the first time a patch was this size. Unfortunately it's actually a very real trend, not just a once off with Tony Hawk. Fallout 76 also had a day-one patch that was actually larger than the total install size of the pre-patch game.
Game assets need to be downloaded.
When most assets need to be redownloaded it's no longer a patch, it's a complete re-issue.
Only an ignorant Congressman who has never seen a sunrise could possibly call it Daylight *Saving* Time.
Actually you can thank an entomologist from New Zealand for the definition, and then thank god that your "ignorant" congressmen don't make up new words for existing defined concepts further causing confusion all to pander to a few Cranky Old Pedants.
any school district that wanted to could simply change their hours. Then nearly everyone could get the schedule that they want.
You say you're a cranky old engineer but apparently you think that everyone in the country is a school student. Curios. A tad "ignorant" making your post ironic. But more than anything curious.
It was total hell. Children went to school in pitch darkness and bitter cold, and people drove to work in the dark. I can't imagine who would want this again.
Ready everyone? One. Two. Three.: "awwwwww"
Please let me drive to work in the dark, fuck driving anytime the sun is close to the horizon. It's dangerous.
Robot: (noun) a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically.
Idiot: (noun) a person who reads dictionary definition 1 and completely ignores the very much relevant definitions 2 and 3 from the same dictionary. Supreme Idiot: (noun) a person who wouldn't even need to go to definition 2 and instead would be proven wrong by definition 1.1. iggymanz: (proper noun) Pseudo-name of a supreme idiot who quotes one dictionary only to find he would be proven wrong by selecting another dictionary and still stopping at definition 1.
If they don't want to be taken for idiots then perhaps they could open up a bit on what really happened.
Why? Answering to the court of public opinion is only likely to get them in trouble should they ever have to answer to an actual court. The university doesn't own anyone a comment on someone's sob story to the media.
It sounds like the student was called to answer for her supposed crimes while not given any time to build a defense.
I've been on the university side of this discussion and I call bullshit. Expulsion is no swift matter, and a claim like this most definitely will have gone through multiple levels of escalation over months.
She probably forgot about the weekend trip until she dug into her schedule for the months prior. Do you remember where you spent every weekend for the past year? When she did bring up evidence in her defense then they dismissed it as something she likely doctored.
Oh? Weren't you just saying the university should open up on what "really" happened? It sounds like you already made up your mind based on one person's story. Her story really has you wrapped around her finger.
Apparently librarian has the power to create network administration accounts so I suspect we're not dealing with a paragon of information security here.
We're talking about an academic institution here. There's no higher authority than that of the librarian. I'm not even being funny here, I once saw the Chancellor of the IT school at our university walk through the library talking to a local politician (opposition at the time), and they got shushed by the librarian, apologised and left.
She's Canadian, Canadians aren't used to suing, especially in another country when broke.
Canadians are a lot of things, but pushovers that fold in the face of a life altering event when they have a solid case in their favour is not one of them. This isn't a case of being American or not. The legal system exists for exactly this reason, and not for reasons Americans often use it for. The fact we got a sob story instead doesn't speak in her favour, Canadian or not.
Yes, she is now. Let me guess, you think this all happened in an afternoon: allegation, decision, cancellation, and on a flight out of the country. No way that would be drawn out for weeks right?
also she's penniless in debt and has no earning potential now, things required to hire lawyers and prove her case, obtain justice. You know, the monied justice problem?
Indeed she is. So she a) has nothing to lose, and b) has a lot to gain if she were capable of winning. Are you not familiar with the way America's legal system actually works? It's gambling. When you have nothing to lose, and have a solid case your odds are far better than that of the house.
What you personally believe based on a single half-assed article about it just proves uninformed opines are the rule, not the exception.
I personally played the devils advocate and presented logical claim not analysed in TFA. You dismissed it based on belief of an article you inself call into question. That level of self awareness followed by complete alignment with one sided media is fascinating. Do you have a split personality disorder and change personalities mid sentence?
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Or maybe he just wouldn't buy it.
Which implies he wasn't very interested in the game to begin with and likely to just pirate it anyway. Seriously if downloading the game is what turns you off buying it they are probably lucky not to have you as a customer, because you're just going to be full of complaints.
Or you legitimate live in the bush without internet.
Maybe that's why the whole AAA industry is moaning about profits dropping.
If you think that's the reason then you're not a gamer. Have you had a look at AAA titles in the past year? Gamers have happily put up with DRM, microtransactions, large downloads, and stupid workarounds for years. AAA industry profits are in the shitter because for the past 2 years they've produced one horrible turd of an buggy escaped from lab beta masquerading as game after another.
Xcalc does the exact same functions and its not even 40 kilobytes!
My 4TB of disk space and 32GB of ram thanks you for your efficiency.
Seriously though just because it isn't suitable for use in a lite distro on challenged hardware doesn't mean it doesn't have a purpose. Your example uses a nice standard Xcalc, but pick something which has a lot of dependencies and quick development cycle with constantly added features and you're in for a world of hurt if you happen to want to run the latest version without the distro maintainer's "approval".
Slashdot: Where we are happy waiting months to fix PC software on standard systems, but have to have Android 9.0 on our non-standardised hardware *now*.
500MB applications! YAY!
And? Not all 500MB is loaded at once, so they don't take massive amounts of RAM, and HDD is cheap. Docker and snap may not be suitable for lite distributions, but having seen Linux systems where aptitude gets so fucking out of control that a format was in order due to the addition of non standard repositories because someone dares not to want to wait for the blessing of a maintainer to run the latest version of some software, I see the point.
The thing about projects like Devuan is they are almost wholly reliant on the base project. Devuan dies without Debian.
So what you're saying is they need all the help they can get.
As soon as "cashless" becomes a reality, police won't have to lift a finger to arrest anyone accused of a crime. They'll just turn off his phone. The suspect will turn himself in to avoid starvation.
Yes because "cashless" is an all encompassing word that not only hands police powers they don't have, but also implies the specific solution to replace cash is to use a phone, and naturally why would you stop there when you could just add a slippery slope fallacy to properly round out your post.
I guess moderators gave you +insightful because Slashdot doesn't have "incredibly stupid" as a moderation option.
I'll bite:
1. Start with things as they are
A portion of stores I do business with are cashless.
I haven't carried cash on me in years.
All supermarkets I go to have cash free lanes with the option of a few select slow lines where I pay cash.
I transfer money and split bills between my friends with my phone.
I am a millennial.
2. Predict they will change only a little.
Abolishing the few remaining cash lanes changes things a little.
The remaining businesses not already cashless going cashless changes things a little.
I will remain a millennial so that doesn't change.
Sounds like a pretty solid and realistic prediction to me, I'm less than a quarter in to my life and I've seen the world shift in very dramatic ways to cashless transactions to the point where finding a business that doesn't support cashless transactions (including small stuff like buying a coffee from a food van standing outside a festival) is an incredibly oddity. It stands to reason that cash will disappear from this world before I do (accidents or sudden medical interventions not withstanding).
Use of Credit and Debit cards adds an enormous additional cost to the merchant and, ultimately, to the consumer -- usually just shy of 5%.
No. Use of credit cards add 5%. Use of debit cards add almost nothing. Abolishing cash on the other hand saves a shitton. You don't think handling, counting, trips to the bank, float management, safety, and security come for free do you?
There's a reason that *businesses* are the ones pushing to go cashless and it's not because they like paying fees.
And I donâ(TM)t trust those people even a little bit.
Funny, that's precisely what they say about people paying cash. What are you hiding? "I don't trust you since you're clearly doing drugs and dodging taxes, otherwise you wouldn't be paying cash."
Side note: The only time these days I actually use cash is to pay a labourer who doesn't want to do the job on the books ...
Because one doesn't follow the other. Cashless != Credit Card, and I don't fork over anything (both directly in fees, or indirectly in product costs) much less a "few percent of my income".
Cashless economies do not list Credit Cards as the alternatives. We use debit cards, direct debit transactions, custom bank based payment methods, and for some rare cases, crypto currencies.
Unlike this crappy AC I don't subscribe to the instant slippery slope fallacy where every technical innovate will bring about the End Of Days (TM).
Congratulations on sticking to cash and paper receipts. I don't bother, and no one is forcing me to spend anything.
That or the world will migrate to Bitcoin I suppose...
This is a tech forum. Please leave unrealistic fantasy for comments on stories about cold fusion.
There's a big difference between being ignorant, and just not giving a shit. Brie Larson is a SJW arse, the movie however was decent and not seeing it due to something irrelevant to the movie itself doesn't achieve anything.
So much for credibility.
And then found, announced and corrected the problem which occurred due to a very recent change. That is precisely how credibility works.
Also they didn't say all the original votes were bots, but given site participation it was obvious that 90% of them were.
Now please, stop frothing at the mouth, smoke some weed, do some yoga, or do whatever it is you do to relax after you nerd rage over nothing.
No you won't. You'd complain, you'd be ignored, and then you'd capitulate and download the pat... errr... game because ultimately you've parted with money as a signal that you actually want to play it. And the reality is a download is a minor annoyance.
People are very tough online when they don't have any skin in the game.
Agree and they would get the benefit of doubt if this was the first time a patch was this size. Unfortunately it's actually a very real trend, not just a once off with Tony Hawk. Fallout 76 also had a day-one patch that was actually larger than the total install size of the pre-patch game.
Game assets need to be downloaded.
When most assets need to be redownloaded it's no longer a patch, it's a complete re-issue.
so they will use support extortion and will probably "leak" security holes out to Wannacry's programmers
Does your carer know you're off your meds?
Only an ignorant Congressman who has never seen a sunrise could possibly call it Daylight *Saving* Time.
Actually you can thank an entomologist from New Zealand for the definition, and then thank god that your "ignorant" congressmen don't make up new words for existing defined concepts further causing confusion all to pander to a few Cranky Old Pedants.
any school district that wanted to could simply change their hours. Then nearly everyone could get the schedule that they want.
You say you're a cranky old engineer but apparently you think that everyone in the country is a school student. Curios. A tad "ignorant" making your post ironic. But more than anything curious.
I was a kid (in Washington State, no less) the last time the US as a whole tried this... and I don’t remember it being problematic for me.
Bullshit. I have it under good authority from slashdot posters that as a child you were raped, killed, and generally couldn't handle the dark.
It was total hell. Children went to school in pitch darkness and bitter cold, and people drove to work in the dark. I can't imagine who would want this again.
Ready everyone? One. Two. Three.: "awwwwww"
Please let me drive to work in the dark, fuck driving anytime the sun is close to the horizon. It's dangerous.
The word either doesn't apply to >7, a fact you could get from the summary. When trolling it pays not to appear to be really stupid.
No it is not a robot, does not meet the Oxford definition of one I posted.
Maybe you should try reading more than one line out of the dictionary.
Robot: (noun) a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically.
Idiot: (noun) a person who reads dictionary definition 1 and completely ignores the very much relevant definitions 2 and 3 from the same dictionary.
Supreme Idiot: (noun) a person who wouldn't even need to go to definition 2 and instead would be proven wrong by definition 1.1.
iggymanz: (proper noun) Pseudo-name of a supreme idiot who quotes one dictionary only to find he would be proven wrong by selecting another dictionary and still stopping at definition 1.
If they don't want to be taken for idiots then perhaps they could open up a bit on what really happened.
Why? Answering to the court of public opinion is only likely to get them in trouble should they ever have to answer to an actual court. The university doesn't own anyone a comment on someone's sob story to the media.
It sounds like the student was called to answer for her supposed crimes while not given any time to build a defense.
I've been on the university side of this discussion and I call bullshit. Expulsion is no swift matter, and a claim like this most definitely will have gone through multiple levels of escalation over months.
She probably forgot about the weekend trip until she dug into her schedule for the months prior. Do you remember where you spent every weekend for the past year? When she did bring up evidence in her defense then they dismissed it as something she likely doctored.
Oh? Weren't you just saying the university should open up on what "really" happened? It sounds like you already made up your mind based on one person's story. Her story really has you wrapped around her finger.
Apparently librarian has the power to create network administration accounts so I suspect we're not dealing with a paragon of information security here.
We're talking about an academic institution here. There's no higher authority than that of the librarian. I'm not even being funny here, I once saw the Chancellor of the IT school at our university walk through the library talking to a local politician (opposition at the time), and they got shushed by the librarian, apologised and left.
She's Canadian, Canadians aren't used to suing, especially in another country when broke.
Canadians are a lot of things, but pushovers that fold in the face of a life altering event when they have a solid case in their favour is not one of them. This isn't a case of being American or not. The legal system exists for exactly this reason, and not for reasons Americans often use it for. The fact we got a sob story instead doesn't speak in her favour, Canadian or not.
Well, she's in CANADA
Yes, she is now. Let me guess, you think this all happened in an afternoon: allegation, decision, cancellation, and on a flight out of the country. No way that would be drawn out for weeks right?
also she's penniless in debt and has no earning potential now, things required to hire lawyers and prove her case, obtain justice. You know, the monied justice problem?
Indeed she is. So she a) has nothing to lose, and b) has a lot to gain if she were capable of winning. Are you not familiar with the way America's legal system actually works? It's gambling. When you have nothing to lose, and have a solid case your odds are far better than that of the house.
What you personally believe based on a single half-assed article about it just proves uninformed opines are the rule, not the exception.
I personally played the devils advocate and presented logical claim not analysed in TFA. You dismissed it based on belief of an article you inself call into question. That level of self awareness followed by complete alignment with one sided media is fascinating. Do you have a split personality disorder and change personalities mid sentence?