For $500M you could have built and deployed the system ($40M?)
Making project and construction estimates while not only not knowing the scope, but none of the requirements? I take it you spend your days posting on Slashdot because you're an unemployed project manager who ran your company into the ground?
Of course it depends. You can bend statistics to mean what you want them to which is why we look at the primary purpose of an activity.
The space shuttle's primary purpose was not to commute, it's to get something somewhere so deaths per person / equipment would be a suitable metric. Quite unlike say powerplants which we don't build just for shits and giggles, but rather to generate power.
But sure we don't like deaths. Let's play with your metrics. A nuclear plant spewing its contents have devastated a small amount of land in a couple of countries. Most other power sources are in the process of devastating the planet, or in the case of coal and oil have devastated far more physical land through mining and through various accidents from tailings storage than nuclear has, oh and let's not forget the people killed and the environment made unlivable through hydro both in normal operation and when it goes wrong.
I hope you remember "metric shopping" when you think about solar and wind during a windstill night.
But common, this is lame. Let's go full penis measuring. Why not go for individual structures measured, or number of birds killed in flight, or number of annoyed janitors brushing dust off PV panels. I mean the only thing we can really agree on is that whatever narrative "the other side" is using is a shitty metric.
By the way my post contained more words than yours so clearly it's the better post too.
For the same reason that the rest of the world controls people's behaviour in the USA. Extradition treaties are not one sided and the typical condition for extradition to be successful is that the alleged crime is a crime in both the country where it took place and the extraditing country.
Examples include secret recordings, trespassing, and taking prohibited photographs.
All of which frequently results in people being charged for the crimes they committed in the name of journalism.
For example, it would be impossible to report on some of the things that happen in North Korea if journalists obeyed all NK laws.
There's a big difference between assuming a leaking site is a wholly independent organisation, and journalistic activism which in NK would firstly be illegal, and secondly wouldn't make them wholly independent.
Repeat after me: Wikileaks is not journalism, it's a dump for obtained information.
I recall a few years ago when the VW scandal first came out that VW kept claiming that it was due to "rogue engineers".
As someone who works in Germany, there's no such thing as a rogue engineer. Getting a frigging pencil from the storage cupboard requires multiple levels of independent signoff, paper forms, and a data entry clerk to keep the system in check.
You do remember that the ocean contains vastly more rocket parts from Saturn V, Atlas, Delta, and Titan boosters, right? Picking on the one company that actually tries to keep their trash out of the ocean is pathetic.
No let's pick on this company. How dare they try and prevent equipment from landing in the ocean where it provides wonderful artificial reefs which have been shown time and time again to benefit ocean life in what is otherwise a wasteland.
Comparing two utter fails from Microsoft to enter a market in which they briefly existed only to lose money, to one of their greatest successes is... disingenuous.
If by "just fine", you mean that it works for a short time until a new login is required.
Even on fairly decent holidays with a portable device I've never been without internet long enough for this to be a problem. So yeah, just fine is the right phrase without a need for qualifying quotes.
It must also be "just fine" that you have to go through their service to sell a game and disassociate it from your account, if they allow resale at all.
Well yes. That has nothing to do with it being part of a disc release or an internet download. Please leave your complaints for a story in which they are relevant.
Microsoft already faced huge backlash over trying to make XBox One online only.
Sega faced backlash about the use of CDs instead of cartridges. The thing is times change, technology changes, and consumer acceptance changes.
1999 me: An online game? WTF Do you have any idea how long it would take me to download that 650MB game over my internet! 2019 me: 45GB download... better be quick when I make my coffee while it's downloading or the game will start without me.
If the entire EU is blocked from accessing all content on Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and every other social media and news site, they'll get the hint and re-think these ridiculous polices.
If the EU is blocked from doing this the company executives will get a very unkind hint from shareholders about activism and cutting off the largest western customer base in the world.
It pays when you're angry at someone to shot them, not yourself.
Seriously? They named it "ROOMZZ"? That sounds like a cell phone from 15 years ago or a sound my daughter would make to imitate a car noise.
And? That's better worse than what? The most popular electric car in Europe is named Zoe. From the same company that brought you the Twizzy and the Twingo. A popular city car is called ForFour, and ForTwo depending on how many seats it has. That's to say nothing of American ingenuity naming their car "Ka". Hell some car companies openly mock themselves in their own ads like the quite popular Dacia Duster. In Germany they are running the advert: "What car does you father drive?" "Dass da!" (German for "this one"). "Which one?" "DUSTER".
Shitty names are par for the course for car companies.
Yeah except a messaging system providing encrypted services to billions of people around the world which is in some countries used as an exclusive form of communication and has been shown to not bow down to government pressure to sell out users.
Next time don't engage that anti Facebook section of your brain and you may see how stupid your comment was.
I will decide all my vaccination for me, by my self.
At the time when this is being decided you haven't even made the decision not to shit your own diaper yet. You ain't deciding shit for yourself, you're only deciding if you're putting your children's lives on the line.
Sweet. What's your view on the shape of the earth, the moon landing, carbon dating, climate change? I mean you're clearly not a man of science. But the good thing is since gravity is just a theory can you do us all a favour and ignore that theory and float the fuck away? Thanks.
So a guy has a drinking problem and disrespect for the law and you condemn him to struggling mobility. I do wonder what happens when he loses that job that he can't get to, I'm sure he'll remain an upstanding citizen from that point forward.
That's the amazing thing about the USA. In most parts of the world when people hit rock bottom they are rehabilitated and bought back to society. In the USA we make sure to try and kick them in the face whenever they get up. Then we wonder why these people are anti-social.
The last time we got ideas that didn't make it into the original movies we ended up with Jar Jar. No sorry I lie. That came out before he decided to "add" to the original movies. I wish no one told him computer animation was possible.
Why is it remarkable? Is it because it is weird since the G of GPL already means GNU?
Yeah but the G in GNU means GNU so what we've really got here is the GNU Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix {caught buffer overflow exception} GNU Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix {caught buffer overflow exception} Proprietary License.... Version THREE!
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What makes you think speedy isn't needed? You need larger because games are getting larger (in size) but expect loading times to remain the same?
For $500M you could have built and deployed the system ($40M?)
Making project and construction estimates while not only not knowing the scope, but none of the requirements? I take it you spend your days posting on Slashdot because you're an unemployed project manager who ran your company into the ground?
Of course it depends. You can bend statistics to mean what you want them to which is why we look at the primary purpose of an activity.
The space shuttle's primary purpose was not to commute, it's to get something somewhere so deaths per person / equipment would be a suitable metric. Quite unlike say powerplants which we don't build just for shits and giggles, but rather to generate power.
But sure we don't like deaths. Let's play with your metrics. A nuclear plant spewing its contents have devastated a small amount of land in a couple of countries. Most other power sources are in the process of devastating the planet, or in the case of coal and oil have devastated far more physical land through mining and through various accidents from tailings storage than nuclear has, oh and let's not forget the people killed and the environment made unlivable through hydro both in normal operation and when it goes wrong.
I hope you remember "metric shopping" when you think about solar and wind during a windstill night.
But common, this is lame. Let's go full penis measuring. Why not go for individual structures measured, or number of birds killed in flight, or number of annoyed janitors brushing dust off PV panels. I mean the only thing we can really agree on is that whatever narrative "the other side" is using is a shitty metric.
By the way my post contained more words than yours so clearly it's the better post too.
For the same reason that the rest of the world controls people's behaviour in the USA. Extradition treaties are not one sided and the typical condition for extradition to be successful is that the alleged crime is a crime in both the country where it took place and the extraditing country.
So no, the US isn't controlling shit.
Examples include secret recordings, trespassing, and taking prohibited photographs.
All of which frequently results in people being charged for the crimes they committed in the name of journalism.
For example, it would be impossible to report on some of the things that happen in North Korea if journalists obeyed all NK laws.
There's a big difference between assuming a leaking site is a wholly independent organisation, and journalistic activism which in NK would firstly be illegal, and secondly wouldn't make them wholly independent.
Repeat after me: Wikileaks is not journalism, it's a dump for obtained information.
I browse at -1 for the same reason I read the Daily Mail. It's important to be reminded that the world is full of stupid fuckwits.
Please give me simple applications that do nothing unless *I SPECIFICALLY ASK THEM TO*!!!!
Thinking for yourself? What is this, 90s computing?
I recall a few years ago when the VW scandal first came out that VW kept claiming that it was due to "rogue engineers".
As someone who works in Germany, there's no such thing as a rogue engineer. Getting a frigging pencil from the storage cupboard requires multiple levels of independent signoff, paper forms, and a data entry clerk to keep the system in check.
Hey I played Kerbel I'm qwalified!
You do remember that the ocean contains vastly more rocket parts from Saturn V, Atlas, Delta, and Titan boosters, right? Picking on the one company that actually tries to keep their trash out of the ocean is pathetic.
No let's pick on this company. How dare they try and prevent equipment from landing in the ocean where it provides wonderful artificial reefs which have been shown time and time again to benefit ocean life in what is otherwise a wasteland.
Comparing two utter fails from Microsoft to enter a market in which they briefly existed only to lose money, to one of their greatest successes is... disingenuous.
If by "just fine", you mean that it works for a short time until a new login is required.
Even on fairly decent holidays with a portable device I've never been without internet long enough for this to be a problem. So yeah, just fine is the right phrase without a need for qualifying quotes.
It must also be "just fine" that you have to go through their service to sell a game and disassociate it from your account, if they allow resale at all.
Well yes. That has nothing to do with it being part of a disc release or an internet download. Please leave your complaints for a story in which they are relevant.
Huh? Why would that be? Offline gaming works just fine on other platforms.
Microsoft already faced huge backlash over trying to make XBox One online only.
Sega faced backlash about the use of CDs instead of cartridges. The thing is times change, technology changes, and consumer acceptance changes.
1999 me: An online game? WTF Do you have any idea how long it would take me to download that 650MB game over my internet! ... better be quick when I make my coffee while it's downloading or the game will start without me.
2019 me: 45GB download
As a content provider my self (photographer)
I'm sure the thought of people providing you advertising, access to customers and then paying you as well gives you a massive stiffy.
If the entire EU is blocked from accessing all content on Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and every other social media and news site, they'll get the hint and re-think these ridiculous polices.
If the EU is blocked from doing this the company executives will get a very unkind hint from shareholders about activism and cutting off the largest western customer base in the world.
It pays when you're angry at someone to shot them, not yourself.
I too name vehicles after letters that I draw in Scrabble.
So you're the idiot that named the Ford "Ka" ?
Seriously? They named it "ROOMZZ"? That sounds like a cell phone from 15 years ago or a sound my daughter would make to imitate a car noise.
And? That's better worse than what? The most popular electric car in Europe is named Zoe. From the same company that brought you the Twizzy and the Twingo. A popular city car is called ForFour, and ForTwo depending on how many seats it has. That's to say nothing of American ingenuity naming their car "Ka". Hell some car companies openly mock themselves in their own ads like the quite popular Dacia Duster. In Germany they are running the advert: "What car does you father drive?" "Dass da!" (German for "this one"). "Which one?" "DUSTER".
Shitty names are par for the course for car companies.
I'm more included to congratulate Nissan and Renault.
Why? Was their primary goal to drive heavy competition and development in renewables?
Yeah except a messaging system providing encrypted services to billions of people around the world which is in some countries used as an exclusive form of communication and has been shown to not bow down to government pressure to sell out users.
Next time don't engage that anti Facebook section of your brain and you may see how stupid your comment was.
I will decide all my vaccination for me, by my self.
At the time when this is being decided you haven't even made the decision not to shit your own diaper yet. You ain't deciding shit for yourself, you're only deciding if you're putting your children's lives on the line.
I think herd immunity is bullshit...
Sweet. What's your view on the shape of the earth, the moon landing, carbon dating, climate change? I mean you're clearly not a man of science. But the good thing is since gravity is just a theory can you do us all a favour and ignore that theory and float the fuck away? Thanks.
So a guy has a drinking problem and disrespect for the law and you condemn him to struggling mobility. I do wonder what happens when he loses that job that he can't get to, I'm sure he'll remain an upstanding citizen from that point forward.
That's the amazing thing about the USA. In most parts of the world when people hit rock bottom they are rehabilitated and bought back to society. In the USA we make sure to try and kick them in the face whenever they get up. Then we wonder why these people are anti-social.
The last time we got ideas that didn't make it into the original movies we ended up with Jar Jar. No sorry I lie. That came out before he decided to "add" to the original movies. I wish no one told him computer animation was possible.
Why is it remarkable? Is it because it is weird since the G of GPL already means GNU?
Yeah but the G in GNU means GNU so what we've really got here is the GNU Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix {caught buffer overflow exception} GNU Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix Not Unix {caught buffer overflow exception} Proprietary License. ... Version THREE!