I don't agree. Agnosticism is just weak atheism, and only relevant if you ascribe special importance to some religions and their gods. Otherwise, what's the point of being agnostic about EVERYTHING you can't know whether it exists or not? It's nonsense. "Oh, I'm an agnostic about the invisible pink unicorn (blessed be her holy hooves), and about Kropal the mighty God of Making Holes in Socks, and about Thor and about Klaatu and about Mohammed and about Jesus and about Cats being the avatars of our master race and about...".
Anyone who can seriously invent a god and then say that the only scientific viewpoint is to be agnostic about it (because you know, who knows, right?), is just hiding behind their mother's skirts.
>People in general don't just suddenly switch from non-religious to religious.
Sure they do. They're born athiests, and take up their parents uninformed beliefs so early that no amount of post-infection reason can turn them non-religious.
Cool. And when I find you lying in the street having a heart-attack or stroke, I'll just stand there and stare at you because I have no phone on account of there being no contract that was actually usable.
Communication is too important to be left to the "invisible hand". You sound like someone who just had their first economy class and is high on free market ideals.
Because they collude and no telco will offer the service that people want at a reasonable price, that's why. Also, telcos and ISPs shouldn't be allowed to interfere with traffic in any way shape or form beyond what's necessary to make sure it's delivered to its proper destination.
The "VideoCore IV" (aka BCM2763) is hardly mentioned, so the answer is that this document doesn't include the interesting parts. When they say it could be used to port a new OS to the chip, that port wouldn't include any interesting [accelerated] video output.
I'll take this opportunity to state again, publicly, that I have multiple encrypted disks, partitions and files to which I no longer know the password.
Well, if the FBI and the Yard does not have anything to hide, then why are they so upset about being listened in on? They LOVE to live in a surveillance society so much that they're the primary force in bringing it to be!
Perhaps the lesson is rather that Anon isn't ONLY made up of scriptkiddies. I know, goes against the talking points, but at some point they do get a bit tired.
By far the biggest hurdle to overcome is people's apathy.
Also why all this talk about guns and "the gov'ment coming for my guns!" is irrelevant. Everyone know that the only thing that could turn those guns against the governement is if they came for them specifically.
There been some shrinking of the "Judiciary Committee’s list of SOPA supporters", perhaps due to cold water? Compare this list (439 entries, dec 21) with the 'official' list (142 entries, dec 23).
Also, every time some actor tweets anti-SOPA sentiment, make sure to point out to them that the Screen Actors Guild are official SOPA supporters according to the judiciary.
So where does this 'DNS blocking' nonsense end? Well, since it's trivial to set up, all that will happen is that we will have a "Freedom DNS" layer out there. How do you stop that? I guess you could try and block those IPs. Okay, so you layer it on top of a DHT say. Now what? Either you continue to 'whack a mole', or you make it illegal to look up some numbers on the internet.
That's the end point of this, another crazy 'these bits are special and you're not allowed to see/copy/think about them' law. This can only end with more freedom thrown handcuffed into the cellar while corporate interests are getting blowjobs from eager politicians mubling incoherently about 'the children and the jobs'.
At some point there's going to be a physical reaction to this insanity. Just keep pumping up the pressure.
I work at a multi-national rooted in scandinavia. I deal daily with teams all over europe and asia. Very roughly, management and code quality reflects the PDI. Frankly, developers are treated like shit in some of the "top" places. If a good developer leaves, management doesn't care, because to them being a good developer is far less important than being a subservient one. Developers have no freedom to advance their own ideas, and they get none of the perks they can see management enjoy regularly, such as travel to conferences.
Before my last trip out there, I was emailed an Organizational Chart. I'm not sure what I was supposed to do with it, but someone thought it important.
Maybe I was the last one. I cancelled my AC:R CE preorder yesterday. Tired of these guys spitting in my face while accepting my premium day-0 dollars. No more.
They're like, to borrow a similie, the suicide jumper standing at the top of a tall building, threatening to jump while shouting incoherently. Except they never fucking jump! They just hang around the edge, trying to get attention from passers by. By lamely taunting them. "You sir, you're a THIEF and I'm going to JUMP! That's right.. walk away.. theif! I'm JUMPING?! YOU HEAR ME?"
Look, if you don't want to develop actual PC games that PC gamers like, then we're all OK with you bowing out. One day your "innovative" DRM has cured the piracy problem and you're very happy, the next day 95% of your customers are thieves and to blame for games not being released. Okay... but either way, if you don't like it WHY DON'T YOU FUCKING STOP? Just fucking leap already you schizophrenic pieces of shit! That way you don't have to complain about piracy any more, in your non-piracy console nirvana where all the money is.
I'm sure if it's like you say, that there are no money in the PC market, then your stock should rise once you declare your intention to stop developing PC titles. Right? SO WHY DON'T YOU?
You've taken your dump. Now take your spades and pot and get out of the fucking sandbox.
Next time someone bring up "the self-entitled whiny PC-gamers", think about these guys. Right, us players are the whiners?
No, it's not a good point, because if the basic Internet was such encumbered, it would never have grown as fast, and that delay would would be a real cost on the REVOLUTION that instant global communication brought not only to "basic research and development", but the world.
We might have been ten years behind, with people still using dial-up while companies paid through the nose for the ability to email. The idea that a global system of levies would get pumped back into basic research is LAUGHABLE. There'd be HUGE overhead in collecting, and all the money would go right back to 'enforcement' and shit that has nothing to do with research or the betterment of human kind.
A netburst P4 is a horrible CPU to use today. They were always slow and power-hungry compared to contemporary offerings, and compared to a modern $50 CPU they're GOD DAMNED AWFUL. Running one today is like running a car from the 70s.
Some say Convergence is the answer. I haven't been able to make it work, personally, so it's probably not ready for prime-time. Also, I don't like the name.
About three years ago I wrote a post on the Sony forums where I tried to offer up some suggestions for how I felt they could improve on the PS3 firmware with a minimum of effort. One of those suggestions was to "Encourage mouse support in games". I'll spoil the first two answers I got:
Write a book why dont u
and
use a mouse to play games wth?
and just as a bonus, another one...
btw PS3 not a pc game no mouse
... and so on and so worth for a page or two. That's where I gave up trying to communicate with Sony.
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I don't agree. Agnosticism is just weak atheism, and only relevant if you ascribe special importance to some religions and their gods. Otherwise, what's the point of being agnostic about EVERYTHING you can't know whether it exists or not? It's nonsense. "Oh, I'm an agnostic about the invisible pink unicorn (blessed be her holy hooves), and about Kropal the mighty God of Making Holes in Socks, and about Thor and about Klaatu and about Mohammed and about Jesus and about Cats being the avatars of our master race and about ...".
Anyone who can seriously invent a god and then say that the only scientific viewpoint is to be agnostic about it (because you know, who knows, right?), is just hiding behind their mother's skirts.
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>People in general don't just suddenly switch from non-religious to religious.
Sure they do. They're born athiests, and take up their parents uninformed beliefs so early that no amount of post-infection reason can turn them non-religious.
Hence the infection spreads...
Cool. And when I find you lying in the street having a heart-attack or stroke, I'll just stand there and stare at you because I have no phone on account of there being no contract that was actually usable.
Communication is too important to be left to the "invisible hand". You sound like someone who just had their first economy class and is high on free market ideals.
Because they collude and no telco will offer the service that people want at a reasonable price, that's why. Also, telcos and ISPs shouldn't be allowed to interfere with traffic in any way shape or form beyond what's necessary to make sure it's delivered to its proper destination.
The "VideoCore IV" (aka BCM2763) is hardly mentioned, so the answer is that this document doesn't include the interesting parts. When they say it could be used to port a new OS to the chip, that port wouldn't include any interesting [accelerated] video output.
I'll take this opportunity to state again, publicly, that I have multiple encrypted disks, partitions and files to which I no longer know the password.
Well, if the FBI and the Yard does not have anything to hide, then why are they so upset about being listened in on? They LOVE to live in a surveillance society so much that they're the primary force in bringing it to be!
You should ALWAYS listen to what the police say.
Perhaps the lesson is rather that Anon isn't ONLY made up of scriptkiddies. I know, goes against the talking points, but at some point they do get a bit tired.
.. then I applaud you. Thank you.
By far the biggest hurdle to overcome is people's apathy.
Also why all this talk about guns and "the gov'ment coming for my guns!" is irrelevant. Everyone know that the only thing that could turn those guns against the governement is if they came for them specifically.
Eroding every OTHER right? Not a problem.
Truly guns are the opiate of the masses.
Wouldn't mind them helping with awareness of the RWA, where publishers are basically trying to make public access policies illegal. Read more here.
You can do a lot with QR codes that have no destination at all, they are not restricted to web links.
Like game levels.
There been some shrinking of the "Judiciary Committee’s list of SOPA supporters", perhaps due to cold water? Compare this list (439 entries, dec 21) with the 'official' list (142 entries, dec 23).
Beyond the law firms that have complained, I can't help but note that Electronic Arts aren't in the PDF.
Also, every time some actor tweets anti-SOPA sentiment, make sure to point out to them that the Screen Actors Guild are official SOPA supporters according to the judiciary.
So where does this 'DNS blocking' nonsense end? Well, since it's trivial to set up, all that will happen is that we will have a "Freedom DNS" layer out there. How do you stop that? I guess you could try and block those IPs. Okay, so you layer it on top of a DHT say. Now what? Either you continue to 'whack a mole', or you make it illegal to look up some numbers on the internet.
That's the end point of this, another crazy 'these bits are special and you're not allowed to see/copy/think about them' law. This can only end with more freedom thrown handcuffed into the cellar while corporate interests are getting blowjobs from eager politicians mubling incoherently about 'the children and the jobs'.
At some point there's going to be a physical reaction to this insanity. Just keep pumping up the pressure.
Just so you know, Microsoft is following in their footsteps.
I work at a multi-national rooted in scandinavia. I deal daily with teams all over europe and asia. Very roughly, management and code quality reflects the PDI. Frankly, developers are treated like shit in some of the "top" places. If a good developer leaves, management doesn't care, because to them being a good developer is far less important than being a subservient one. Developers have no freedom to advance their own ideas, and they get none of the perks they can see management enjoy regularly, such as travel to conferences.
Before my last trip out there, I was emailed an Organizational Chart. I'm not sure what I was supposed to do with it, but someone thought it important.
How can it look communist? They're using money to incentivise desired behavior. What could be more capitalistic than that? :-p
Maybe I was the last one. I cancelled my AC:R CE preorder yesterday. Tired of these guys spitting in my face while accepting my premium day-0 dollars. No more.
They're like, to borrow a similie, the suicide jumper standing at the top of a tall building, threatening to jump while shouting incoherently. Except they never fucking jump! They just hang around the edge, trying to get attention from passers by. By lamely taunting them. "You sir, you're a THIEF and I'm going to JUMP! That's right.. walk away.. theif! I'm JUMPING?! YOU HEAR ME?"
Look, if you don't want to develop actual PC games that PC gamers like, then we're all OK with you bowing out. One day your "innovative" DRM has cured the piracy problem and you're very happy, the next day 95% of your customers are thieves and to blame for games not being released. Okay... but either way, if you don't like it WHY DON'T YOU FUCKING STOP? Just fucking leap already you schizophrenic pieces of shit! That way you don't have to complain about piracy any more, in your non-piracy console nirvana where all the money is.
I'm sure if it's like you say, that there are no money in the PC market, then your stock should rise once you declare your intention to stop developing PC titles. Right? SO WHY DON'T YOU?
You've taken your dump. Now take your spades and pot and get out of the fucking sandbox.
Next time someone bring up "the self-entitled whiny PC-gamers", think about these guys. Right, us players are the whiners?
No, it's not a good point, because if the basic Internet was such encumbered, it would never have grown as fast, and that delay would would be a real cost on the REVOLUTION that instant global communication brought not only to "basic research and development", but the world.
We might have been ten years behind, with people still using dial-up while companies paid through the nose for the ability to email. The idea that a global system of levies would get pumped back into basic research is LAUGHABLE. There'd be HUGE overhead in collecting, and all the money would go right back to 'enforcement' and shit that has nothing to do with research or the betterment of human kind.
This is a joke. The whole idea is pure idiocy.
A netburst P4 is a horrible CPU to use today. They were always slow and power-hungry compared to contemporary offerings, and compared to a modern $50 CPU they're GOD DAMNED AWFUL. Running one today is like running a car from the 70s.
>Mr. Awlaki was known for his ability to couch extremist views in ways that appealed to Western youth.
Some say Convergence is the answer. I haven't been able to make it work, personally, so it's probably not ready for prime-time. Also, I don't like the name.
About three years ago I wrote a post on the Sony forums where I tried to offer up some suggestions for how I felt they could improve on the PS3 firmware with a minimum of effort. One of those suggestions was to "Encourage mouse support in games". I'll spoil the first two answers I got:
and
and just as a bonus, another one...
... and so on and so worth for a page or two. That's where I gave up trying to communicate with Sony.