I'm pointing out that the "argument" of 'no new content will be produced' is a lie. All manner of content would and has been produced regardless of monetary incentives.
>GTA IV and Spore are not done in free time by hobbyists.
If anything I'm wondering what point you are trying to make. That GTA IV wouldn't get produced does not imply that 'no new content will be produced'. If you have special requirements for what kind of new content is produced, then please rephrase.
>You want billionaires to decide what games get made?
Well, that's pretty much the order of things these days, though maybe saying millionaires suffice, or do you think Spore and GTA IV were greenlit by anything but the 'wealthy patrons' of our time?
If on the other hand you're saying that worthwhile games are in fact produced by hobbyists, say like Jonathan Blow's Braid, then I'm winning the argument for sure.
>What I do NOT understand is why those peole cannot see that if everyone does what they do, no new content will be produced.
Well, I don't think I have ever seen an explanation of how the imperative/compulsion to create gets overridden by the need to make money doing it.
I mean, our oldest paintings are something on the order of 30000 years old, are you trying to tell me they only got painted because the painter got paid and hade copyright protection?
I requested pretty much that almost exactly five years ago. Most comments then showed that people really didn't get it. Maybe they're more mature now. Maybe I'm just bad at communicating my ideas.
I hope that's something you have to explicitly enable, because I won't be upgrading if I'm forced into some horrible rich-text editor. I hate those. Colored text in different sizes, vertical bars instead of proper > quote indicators, and animated smileys, I crave these like I crave my penis falling off from leprosy.
BitTorrent Trademark Guidelines: "Misleading or Confusing People. If you are using any of our trademarks in a way that will cause people to get the wrong idea about BitTorrent's involvement in something, you should stop! If you have some reason why you think your proposed use isn't misleading or confusing, let's talk."
The fact that both a windows installation and most linux dists need to be useful for the common folk, you know, with security no-nos such ethernet and maybe even USB support. And no, hotgluing ports doesn't cut it.
Look, it'd be perfectly feasible to push Windows or GNU/Linux through a higher certification, but someone has got to pay for it and the market is infinitesimal.
>I don't know why the hacker community keeps bothering with breaking these DRM schemes.
It's an extremely rewarding intellectual pursuit. Some people do crosswords, some do pure math. Reverse-engineering, to me, is the pinnacle of engineering. The purest form.
There's never just one reason, nor one idea of whether or not it 'helps' the format (in this case), but you don't do it if you don't enjoy it, cause the pain (frustration) and suffering (hours and hours of tedious work) during the bad parts... you don't suffer through that if you don't get the high when you break through.
These DRM schemes especially are like challanges, calling you out. "Here's what we want you TO NOT DO.", nay, "Here's what you CAN'T DO."
Such challanges seldom go unanswered. It's human nature to answer the call.
As a starting point, I suggest this (draft) paper, because it's interesting, and short, flippant, and gets you thinking. The Camel has Two Humps
Learning to program is notoriously difficult. A substantial minority of students fails in every
introductory programming course in every UK university. Despite heroic academic effort, the
proportion has increased rather than decreased over the years. Despite a great deal of research
into teaching methods and student responses, we have no idea of the cause.
It has long been suspected that some people have a natural aptitude for programming, but
until now there has been no psychological test which could detect it. Programming ability
is not known to be correlated with age, with sex, or with educational attainment; nor has it
been found to be correlated with any of the aptitudes measured in conventional intelligence or
problem-solving-ability tests.
We have found a test for programming aptitude, of which we give details. We can predict success
or failure even before students have had any contact with any programming language with very
high accuracy, and by testing with the same instrument after a few weeks of exposure, with
extreme accuracy. We present experimental evidence to support our claim. We point out that
programming teaching is useless for those who are bound to fail and pointless for those who are
certain to succeed.
Some one should ask them, but I believe publishers would say that you don't as much buy as 'license' games. Of course, that's nothing the want people to think about...
>ATI hanging onto a somewhat insignificant market share.
C'mon, 17 million units shipped in a quarter and ~20% of the market is hardly 'a somewhat insignificant market share' in a market with four major players (Intel, nVidia, VIA).
For comparison, take Matrox, they have insignificant market share with about 100K/q
Go to tools->add-ons. Click on the 'Plugins' tab. Now scroll down to the plugins containing the string 'Flash' and press the button marked 'disable'. HTH. HAND.
While I agree that it's a bit pissy to imply that if you're not using boost in your c++ project, you're not 'modern', neither installation nor license ought to be much of an issue. The license is as clear cut as it can be:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
do so, all subject to the following:
The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
a source language processor.
C'mon, that ought to be pretty straight forward, even for a lawyer.
It's been a while since I checked out a new version, but most of Boost didn't need installation since it's mostly include files with templates. You just put them somewhere and include them. Now, there are some libraries (regexp iirc) that need to be compiled, but it builds out of the box on gcc for me.
If by customs you mean "Microsoft payola to Asus to give the XP version a head start" then sure... held up in customs. What's the excuse for the UK again, I forget?
The Vantage AES test doesn't seem to use the AES instructions on the Nano.
That's like having a 3D Graphics test not use a 3D Graphics API. Pretty worthless. If you're a geek and you buy a CPU with padlock, you are going to use padlock-aware encryption an hashing libraries/applications. I know I do.
It's soooo frustrating seeing review after review missing this.
>It seems they may be measuring the whole system load in comparing the efficiency of the processors
I think that's more fair as it's what's relevant to me as a customer of the end product; the computer.
Problem with the Atom side is that the chipsets used are crappy and use more than twice the energy of the CPU itself. So while the CPU might look great on paper, the actual products that use it does not have the fantastic battery times that you'd like (10h+)
These CPUs should be compared together with a viable chipset and memory subsystem combination. Add that up and there's the number you're interested in.
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>If not, what point were you attempting to make?
I'm pointing out that the "argument" of 'no new content will be produced' is a lie. All manner of content would and has been produced regardless of monetary incentives.
>GTA IV and Spore are not done in free time by hobbyists.
If anything I'm wondering what point you are trying to make. That GTA IV wouldn't get produced does not imply that 'no new content will be produced'. If you have special requirements for what kind of new content is produced, then please rephrase.
>You want billionaires to decide what games get made?
Well, that's pretty much the order of things these days, though maybe saying millionaires suffice, or do you think Spore and GTA IV were greenlit by anything but the 'wealthy patrons' of our time?
If on the other hand you're saying that worthwhile games are in fact produced by hobbyists, say like Jonathan Blow's Braid, then I'm winning the argument for sure.
>What I do NOT understand is why those peole cannot see that if everyone does what they do, no new content will be produced.
Well, I don't think I have ever seen an explanation of how the imperative/compulsion to create gets overridden by the need to make money doing it.
I mean, our oldest paintings are something on the order of 30000 years old, are you trying to tell me they only got painted because the painter got paid and hade copyright protection?
I requested pretty much that almost exactly five years ago. Most comments then showed that people really didn't get it. Maybe they're more mature now. Maybe I'm just bad at communicating my ideas.
I hope that's something you have to explicitly enable, because I won't be upgrading if I'm forced into some horrible rich-text editor. I hate those. Colored text in different sizes, vertical bars instead of proper > quote indicators, and animated smileys, I crave these like I crave my penis falling off from leprosy.
BitTorrent Trademark Guidelines: "Misleading or Confusing People. If you are using any of our trademarks in a way that will cause people to get the wrong idea about BitTorrent's involvement in something, you should stop! If you have some reason why you think your proposed use isn't misleading or confusing, let's talk."
>Heck-- crank up the competition for expereince index ratings, and the MFGs might actually start paying more attention to their drivers.
Yes, in no time at all we'd have special drivers that would detect being called for calculating the index, and just returning directly doing no work.
The fact that both a windows installation and most linux dists need to be useful for the common folk, you know, with security no-nos such ethernet and maybe even USB support. And no, hotgluing ports doesn't cut it.
Look, it'd be perfectly feasible to push Windows or GNU/Linux through a higher certification, but someone has got to pay for it and the market is infinitesimal.
>I don't know why the hacker community keeps bothering with breaking these DRM schemes.
It's an extremely rewarding intellectual pursuit. Some people do crosswords, some do pure math. Reverse-engineering, to me, is the pinnacle of engineering. The purest form.
There's never just one reason, nor one idea of whether or not it 'helps' the format (in this case), but you don't do it if you don't enjoy it, cause the pain (frustration) and suffering (hours and hours of tedious work) during the bad parts... you don't suffer through that if you don't get the high when you break through.
These DRM schemes especially are like challanges, calling you out. "Here's what we want you TO NOT DO.", nay, "Here's what you CAN'T DO."
Such challanges seldom go unanswered. It's human nature to answer the call.
(Good work, Oopho2ei et.al, I applaud you)
Did anyone say they never did?
<crickets>
Thought not.
Try not to be a conclusion jumping idiot.
the radicals and the terrorists win acceptance of the idea that they alone get to dictate how the world handles their pet delusion.
As a starting point, I suggest this (draft) paper, because it's interesting, and short, flippant, and gets you thinking. The Camel has Two Humps
but your society has jumped the shark.
>sold at retail
Some one should ask them, but I believe publishers would say that you don't as much buy as 'license' games. Of course, that's nothing the want people to think about...
Or given that TI is mentioned, maybe it's more likely to be about Rubin et.al's attack on TI's Digital Signature Transponder. See Security Analysis of a Cryptographically-Enabled RFID Device (paper) and/or article.
I assume they were going to demonstrate a MIFARE classic attack, on which papers are plentiful.
Autoscaling is to games as loudness war is to music.
>ATI hanging onto a somewhat insignificant market share.
C'mon, 17 million units shipped in a quarter and ~20% of the market is hardly 'a somewhat insignificant market share' in a market with four major players (Intel, nVidia, VIA).
For comparison, take Matrox, they have insignificant market share with about 100K/q
Good, learn from that and don't make that same mistake again!
Larrabee [...] will have roughly the same performance as a 2006 GPU from Nvidia or ATI.'
DOH!
>I do however use Flash. Any word on a flash fix?
Go to tools->add-ons. Click on the 'Plugins' tab. Now scroll down to the plugins containing the string 'Flash' and press the button marked 'disable'. HTH. HAND.
While I agree that it's a bit pissy to imply that if you're not using boost in your c++ project, you're not 'modern', neither installation nor license ought to be much of an issue. The license is as clear cut as it can be:
C'mon, that ought to be pretty straight forward, even for a lawyer.
It's been a while since I checked out a new version, but most of Boost didn't need installation since it's mostly include files with templates. You just put them somewhere and include them. Now, there are some libraries (regexp iirc) that need to be compiled, but it builds out of the box on gcc for me.
That's what they do. See picture.
If by customs you mean "Microsoft payola to Asus to give the XP version a head start" then sure... held up in customs. What's the excuse for the UK again, I forget?
The Vantage AES test doesn't seem to use the AES instructions on the Nano.
That's like having a 3D Graphics test not use a 3D Graphics API. Pretty worthless. If you're a geek and you buy a CPU with padlock, you are going to use padlock-aware encryption an hashing libraries/applications. I know I do.
It's soooo frustrating seeing review after review missing this.
>It seems they may be measuring the whole system load in comparing the efficiency of the processors
I think that's more fair as it's what's relevant to me as a customer of the end product; the computer.
Problem with the Atom side is that the chipsets used are crappy and use more than twice the energy of the CPU itself. So while the CPU might look great on paper, the actual products that use it does not have the fantastic battery times that you'd like (10h+)
These CPUs should be compared together with a viable chipset and memory subsystem combination. Add that up and there's the number you're interested in.
>And they don't think that inflation could have anything to do with the records being broken?
I hear The Dark Knight is breaking all kinds of records in Zimbabwe!