Time to grow up there buddy. And realize that those of us outside of the US who pay attention to American politics might have a sharper eye of what's going on than you.
Never. Even when people counter protested them, they stood up against people who were being abusive towards them including the police. This is pretty much line and sinker material of the modern press. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to dig their head out of their ass.
That's funny, you might want to go look at what the "savior obama" has been up to in terms of throwing your freedoms into the fire while pissing all over the Constitution in ways that those "evil christians" can't do.
but the only real way to counter that message is to discuss both sides in the open so that the stupidity becomes evident to all but the most closed minded ideologues.
Good luck with that. No really, good luck. Because some messages are more important than others, and in turn will get a very *special* place in those free speech zones by the politically correct crowd, pushing out other points of view. Happens all the time up here in Canada, York University(Toronto) is a great example.
Cheers. Your rant is perfectly spot on for my feelings on/. these days. If I knew a good place to head, I'd make a suggestion but really there isn't anywhere. Well, I'm sure something will come along eventually. Until then, hunker down carry on and kick some ass when you need to.
Oh and I'm sure it'll get much worse than iphones, after all the hipsters have figured out what an android phone is. And those are now "cool" with them, and a much more desirable status symbol. Watch, you'll start hearing them talk about how open source is awesome, and they know how to sideload apps.
You might very well be disappointed. I have a few friends who work in retail at several B&M stores(walmart, bestbuy, EB), and if what they told me is true half or more of their preorder customers will not be getting their preorders because Nintendo didn't ship enough of these boxes out. Whether that holds true everywhere I can't say, but their rep said that a second shipment won't arrive for another 7-18 days.
Doesn't Valve/Steam essentially come with its form of account-based DRM and essentially focuses more on multiplayer games precisely because of this issue you've highlighted? Please someone correct me if I'm wrong. I don't actually have a Steam account.
The account itself is DRM, albeit a light version of it. Games are tied to your steam account currently, in the EU they're being forced to allow you to trade games I believe. I've heard a few things that there's a case doing the same here in Canada, but I couldn't actually find anything.
But nothing stops you from using multiplayer games at all, and really nothing stops you from modding your PC at all in any such form. Though there are a variety of different services to stop people from cheating such as valve-anticheat, punkbuster and so on for multiplayer and they work not too badly. There are sometimes, some nasty false positives though. Worst case is someone just gets tempbanned from the server, repeat offenders get permabanned.
How is it trolling to ask a question that any developer who's going to give serious consideration to this platform is going to ask?
Because/. has a very strong group think mentality these days as the number of technically minded people on the site has shifted away, leaving it a shell of it's former self. In turn, that leaves the fanboi's and trolls who disagree out for blood modding down anything they disagree with.
Simple, they're Israeli's and in turn Jews. In the mind of the anti-Israeli crowd(and especially the anti-Jew crowd. Anything they do is not defense, it's a "disproportionate response." See, any form of self defense is "too much" much like how there's been nearly 1000 rocket and mortar attacks on Israel since the 14th. While people scream and dance about that the rockets they're firing cause no damage. Yep, that's why in places like Sderot people build bomb shelters, and schools are hardened structures. Oh and why? Because rocket and mortar attacks are so common. Everyone there knows where the nearest shelter is.
In other cases, were Israel's response to decades of terrorist attacks was building a wall to keep snipers from shooting at cars from hills and buildings, or trying to sneak in with 15lbs of explosives strapped to themselves, packed with rusty nails coated in rat poison and blowing themselves up on a bus, cafe, or mall. Though that doesn't stop them from trying to send the mentally challenged to checkpoints and blowing them up by remote control. That one has been on the increase in the last few years.
Wait, let me guess for people reading about this. You haven't heard about any of it in the news.
Palestinians put civilians in harms way by putting launch sites on, near or in sensitive areas(schools, playgrounds, mosques and hospitals.) They go out of their way to use civilians as human shields. They store their munitions in places where it's illegal to do so(schools, mosques, and hospitals along with occupied civilian structures). Very long history of every factional, and terrorist power there doing this. And the "public" there voted the current generation of terrorists into power.
But for those not forgetting, since the 14th there's been over 1000 rocket and mortar attacks against Israel from them.
Considering that hollywood gets massive taxbreaks and have since the 1950's? Sounds fine to me, for all the cries from the left of the rich "needing to pay their fair share" the hollywood elite don't, and neither do movie, or TV production companies.
Peh. No one knows how to write neutral articles anymore. If the BBC had an ounce of journalistic integrity, it would have used "various technologies including, x, x, x, but not solely limited to them."
That was my first thought, that it was an inside job or serious help and an inside job. And to be honest you're not off on believing it either, there's an old bit in criminology where 70-80% of your theft comes from internal sources. Of that 70-80%, 40-50% of those people will steal regardless of whether or not they're going to get caught.
Seriously the entire organization needs to be launched into the sun, it's the only way to be sure.
When machines start translating languages on the fly, people will stop learning other languages and that's a bad thing.
That's not really true. I can speak English, German, a good bit of Japanese( know about 40% of the syntax). But it'll probably take me another 3 years or so to learn it. My uncle who travels to Japan regularly for work can't grasp it, can't wrap his head around it. . He struggled with english. Though his job requires him to be able to travel all around the world fixing million dollar machinery, setting it up, tearing it down and doing repairs.
Luckily in every place he's been, people have been exceptionally accommodating of this, especially in places where no one speaks english. Even if he could learn the language of wherever he was going, there's no way he'd be able to learn and grasp 90+ languages. And while english is the defacto business language(and it's taught pretty much everywhere) that doesn't stop cultural cross-communication issues either.
Machine language translations are a good way to allow people to talk, for those that can't, or unable to grasp another language. And it does get harder as you get older, and not everyone is lucky enough to live in a multilingual country or city-state like Singapore.
Before everyone jumps to conclusions, Class action lawsuits are nice for the law firms that pursue them, but rarely do much for the people that are part of the class.
I've been involved in several in my life and never saw more than a few bucks.
Yeah that's not really true. I was involved in the Fujitsu class action lawsuit here in Canada relating to defective HDD's, and received nearly $1000 as compensation for the dozen or so drives I had fail. This was over the actual value of the drives that I had purchased.
Not surprised. This type of stuff didn't really hit the mainstream press in Canada until Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn among others were trotted before the CHRC(canadian human rights commission) for "offending the sensibilities of muslims" for publishing the mohammad cartoons. In the end, it led to the HRC being disgraced and S.13 of the HRC being revoked by the government of Canada. Though provincial kangaroo courts still exist.
Sounds about right, I remember how cheap it was to get exceptionally good broadband. Hell, I remember driving through northern ohio and seeing 25/1 for $19/mo back in '05.
I was hoping I'd have access to FIOS this year, but not a chance. My places is on the edge of town in one of the gated communities. Though the ones over on the west side of town apparently do have FIOS now, it'll probably be another two yeas before those of us on the east side see anything.
Maybe I can lean on them when I head back down in a couple of weeks.
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Time to grow up there buddy. And realize that those of us outside of the US who pay attention to American politics might have a sharper eye of what's going on than you.
Odd, how come I keep hearing this 90% figure, but every time I look the number is actually 2-3%?
When has Chick-fil-A ever called for censorship?
Never. Even when people counter protested them, they stood up against people who were being abusive towards them including the police. This is pretty much line and sinker material of the modern press. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to dig their head out of their ass.
That's funny, you might want to go look at what the "savior obama" has been up to in terms of throwing your freedoms into the fire while pissing all over the Constitution in ways that those "evil christians" can't do.
Unless you're Apple. Then you file for a patent.
No you file two patents. One for rounded corners, the other for the corners you cut.
but the only real way to counter that message is to discuss both sides in the open so that the stupidity becomes evident to all but the most closed minded ideologues.
Good luck with that. No really, good luck. Because some messages are more important than others, and in turn will get a very *special* place in those free speech zones by the politically correct crowd, pushing out other points of view. Happens all the time up here in Canada, York University(Toronto) is a great example.
Cheers. Your rant is perfectly spot on for my feelings on /. these days. If I knew a good place to head, I'd make a suggestion but really there isn't anywhere. Well, I'm sure something will come along eventually. Until then, hunker down carry on and kick some ass when you need to.
Oh and I'm sure it'll get much worse than iphones, after all the hipsters have figured out what an android phone is. And those are now "cool" with them, and a much more desirable status symbol. Watch, you'll start hearing them talk about how open source is awesome, and they know how to sideload apps.
You might very well be disappointed. I have a few friends who work in retail at several B&M stores(walmart, bestbuy, EB), and if what they told me is true half or more of their preorder customers will not be getting their preorders because Nintendo didn't ship enough of these boxes out. Whether that holds true everywhere I can't say, but their rep said that a second shipment won't arrive for another 7-18 days.
Doesn't Valve/Steam essentially come with its form of account-based DRM and essentially focuses more on multiplayer games precisely because of this issue you've highlighted? Please someone correct me if I'm wrong. I don't actually have a Steam account.
The account itself is DRM, albeit a light version of it. Games are tied to your steam account currently, in the EU they're being forced to allow you to trade games I believe. I've heard a few things that there's a case doing the same here in Canada, but I couldn't actually find anything.
But nothing stops you from using multiplayer games at all, and really nothing stops you from modding your PC at all in any such form. Though there are a variety of different services to stop people from cheating such as valve-anticheat, punkbuster and so on for multiplayer and they work not too badly. There are sometimes, some nasty false positives though. Worst case is someone just gets tempbanned from the server, repeat offenders get permabanned.
How is it trolling to ask a question that any developer who's going to give serious consideration to this platform is going to ask?
Because /. has a very strong group think mentality these days as the number of technically minded people on the site has shifted away, leaving it a shell of it's former self. In turn, that leaves the fanboi's and trolls who disagree out for blood modding down anything they disagree with.
Palestinian "ceasefires" are half the number of rocket and mortar attacks, or trying to sneak people in to commit suicide bombings.
Simple, they're Israeli's and in turn Jews. In the mind of the anti-Israeli crowd(and especially the anti-Jew crowd. Anything they do is not defense, it's a "disproportionate response." See, any form of self defense is "too much" much like how there's been nearly 1000 rocket and mortar attacks on Israel since the 14th. While people scream and dance about that the rockets they're firing cause no damage. Yep, that's why in places like Sderot people build bomb shelters, and schools are hardened structures. Oh and why? Because rocket and mortar attacks are so common. Everyone there knows where the nearest shelter is.
In other cases, were Israel's response to decades of terrorist attacks was building a wall to keep snipers from shooting at cars from hills and buildings, or trying to sneak in with 15lbs of explosives strapped to themselves, packed with rusty nails coated in rat poison and blowing themselves up on a bus, cafe, or mall. Though that doesn't stop them from trying to send the mentally challenged to checkpoints and blowing them up by remote control. That one has been on the increase in the last few years.
Wait, let me guess for people reading about this. You haven't heard about any of it in the news.
Palestinians put civilians in harms way by putting launch sites on, near or in sensitive areas(schools, playgrounds, mosques and hospitals.) They go out of their way to use civilians as human shields. They store their munitions in places where it's illegal to do so(schools, mosques, and hospitals along with occupied civilian structures). Very long history of every factional, and terrorist power there doing this. And the "public" there voted the current generation of terrorists into power.
But for those not forgetting, since the 14th there's been over 1000 rocket and mortar attacks against Israel from them.
Considering that hollywood gets massive taxbreaks and have since the 1950's? Sounds fine to me, for all the cries from the left of the rich "needing to pay their fair share" the hollywood elite don't, and neither do movie, or TV production companies.
Useful protip: That wasn't super-conservative. That was RINO lite.
Peh. No one knows how to write neutral articles anymore. If the BBC had an ounce of journalistic integrity, it would have used "various technologies including, x, x, x, but not solely limited to them."
The GP is right that the article has a bias.
Sorry the proper and politically correct term would be "asian" like what's used in europe.
Original thought:
Fuck you.
Get your liberal nanny state out of the lives of others.
Yeah it's so hard for the democrats to shake the legacy of the KKK after all.
That was my first thought, that it was an inside job or serious help and an inside job. And to be honest you're not off on believing it either, there's an old bit in criminology where 70-80% of your theft comes from internal sources. Of that 70-80%, 40-50% of those people will steal regardless of whether or not they're going to get caught.
Seriously the entire organization needs to be launched into the sun, it's the only way to be sure.
When machines start translating languages on the fly, people will stop learning other languages and that's a bad thing.
That's not really true. I can speak English, German, a good bit of Japanese( know about 40% of the syntax). But it'll probably take me another 3 years or so to learn it. My uncle who travels to Japan regularly for work can't grasp it, can't wrap his head around it. . He struggled with english. Though his job requires him to be able to travel all around the world fixing million dollar machinery, setting it up, tearing it down and doing repairs.
Luckily in every place he's been, people have been exceptionally accommodating of this, especially in places where no one speaks english. Even if he could learn the language of wherever he was going, there's no way he'd be able to learn and grasp 90+ languages. And while english is the defacto business language(and it's taught pretty much everywhere) that doesn't stop cultural cross-communication issues either.
Machine language translations are a good way to allow people to talk, for those that can't, or unable to grasp another language. And it does get harder as you get older, and not everyone is lucky enough to live in a multilingual country or city-state like Singapore.
Before everyone jumps to conclusions,
Class action lawsuits are nice for the law firms that pursue them, but rarely do much for the people that are part of the class.
I've been involved in several in my life and never saw more than a few bucks.
Yeah that's not really true. I was involved in the Fujitsu class action lawsuit here in Canada relating to defective HDD's, and received nearly $1000 as compensation for the dozen or so drives I had fail. This was over the actual value of the drives that I had purchased.
Not surprised. This type of stuff didn't really hit the mainstream press in Canada until Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn among others were trotted before the CHRC(canadian human rights commission) for "offending the sensibilities of muslims" for publishing the mohammad cartoons. In the end, it led to the HRC being disgraced and S.13 of the HRC being revoked by the government of Canada. Though provincial kangaroo courts still exist.
Sounds about right, I remember how cheap it was to get exceptionally good broadband. Hell, I remember driving through northern ohio and seeing 25/1 for $19/mo back in '05.
I was hoping I'd have access to FIOS this year, but not a chance. My places is on the edge of town in one of the gated communities. Though the ones over on the west side of town apparently do have FIOS now, it'll probably be another two yeas before those of us on the east side see anything.
Maybe I can lean on them when I head back down in a couple of weeks.