According to a documentary I watched before this aired, they DID put feedback in and specifically mentioned this very problem. I guess they either took it out (possibly because of time-constraints or even rules about live play), or it malfunctioned.
If you're part of a revolution, being able to communicate digitally with your local peers is just as important as being able to communicate with someone at the other end of the world. Cheap plugs that build/connect a wireless mesh network could achieve that goal. I feel like most people in this thread aren't thinking big enough. The revolution isn't happening in the outback, think "central and crowded". The main problem might be getting one plug to cover enough area that it network can form at all, but should be a solvable problem. They'd also have to be configurable enough to be resilient to any cheap/directed attack (so not using a hard-coded frequency, whatever)
You shouldn't be surprised, because typically these bounties state that you get some percentage of the money collected as damages through a court, but most cases are never reach that state, they're settled out of court. The idea that you can "turn someone in and become rich" is but a dream; in all likelihood you'll never see a dime. You'll just be that guy.
I see a pattern wrt fraudsters who go out and tell the press that they suddenly fear for their very lives from the people they've previously felt so good about extorting. This guy is doing it, and Darl McBride was doing it. Same pattern. Both use hyperbole without evidence, and they never contact the authorities, just the press. A press who then, disgustingly, report what the scumbags said verbatim without reflection.
"Unless this Court enjoins Defendants' unlawful conduct, hackers will succeed in their attempts to ensure that pirated software can be run on the PS3 System, resulting in the destruction of SCEA's business."
"The explanation was broadcast live through multiple video and audio streams on the Internet [...] including in California"
There's also the bit about Californian jurist. because someone used github. It's like if I would claim jurist. on an american because they use IKEA furniture.
No doubt with Berlusconi owning TV stations and setting policy, there are all sorts of gravy flowing from tax payers to TV stations for google to now tap into? Make lemonade!
I mean, IF there were something like "tax break if you show more than X hours of educational material in a year", google need just apply RIAA mathematics to show that they show positive infinity hours of educational material in a year.
But that's NOT how publishers see it nowadays. XBox360 is considered the premier FPS/3PS platform, vastly outselling (the important metric to pubs) PCs and getting games that never even hit the PC (such as the latest Halos)
What this shows, assuming the numbers haven't been fudged somehow, is what we all knew; PC players are more mature.
(I'm with the rest of the sane world, FPSes on Consoles make no sense whatsoever as long as they reject the mouse, which they do because they're ASSHOLES)
Since the only thing I really never want and haven't been able to control using the built-in options, are those annoying ad-things which highlight words, I've been using a user-javascript in Opera with a hook to detect and disable them. Sure, I need to manually update it a couple of times per year, but no big deal.
To use, find/set your user javascript directory under "prefs->advanced->content->javascript options" and just drop the file there.
Only took seven years, but now I'm using them and liking them. Would probably prefer them to expand vertically instead of horizontally, and while I realize it's a niche-request and might not work well in practice, I'd still like the ability to automatically redirect pages into groups using regex against title/url/whatever.
I have one rule about C++ complaints; I don't listen to them unless the person behind them indicate that they've actually read "The Design & Evolution".
Too much like listening to high-schoolers discussing "2.999... is 3" or doors with goats behind them otherwise.
We already have many other browsers with the "other" type of interface. Why make Opera an also-run? I use opera because I like the interface. I like having my mail view up in the side panel to the left of my browser windows, with my tabs at the bottom. I don't get what's so odd about the interface.
Just more crying about things being slightly different, just like we hear about Blender and GIMP.
You are right in most of what you wrote, but I must take issue with this:
>At worst, the US would simply null the debt and stop trading with them causing little trouble in the US and ruin in China.
If you think that would cause "little trouble in the US" then I think you're extraordinarly naive. The Economy of the World of built on trust, if the US were to say "screw you, we won't honor our oblications wrt US treasury bonds"... let's just say the ramifications would be extraordinarily bad for the US and the world. But mostly for the US.
Also, given the recent CDO fiasco, I wouldn't dare speak of the US vs China relation in such simplistic terms as "We owe them so much it's their problem".
I guess the next step is writing a novel using a hexeditor?
I get using a simple editor to not get down in layout/font issues, but I don't get using ed over vim (or emacs or any other simple text editor). This story failed to sell me on the concept. Is the idea that because it's hard to navigate in ed, you're not tempted to rewrite during the first pass? Seems a bit weak, you should probably have the mental power to just not do that.
As a customer I find it distasteful that for the last three years (about) the PS3 have been devoid of piracy while the XBox 360 have not, yet there is no discernible difference in game price between the two platforms, and to celebrate three years of no piracy, Sony's been busy removing features from the console. So explain to me why I should care about piracy on the PS3? There are no negatives for me. If it becomes widespread it's likely prices on originals will DROP (yes, really. See also "PC Gaming"), and it'll also probably open up the features Sony removed and add more -- maybe a good media player will appear, you know, the kind Sony should have been giving is if they weren't totally schizofrenic (mp3 bad! mp3 players good!, etc). For a consumer, even one that isn't going to actually use copies, it seems like a win. More piracy equals more features and less expensive games.
Besides, both platforms are already too old to be destroyed by it.
Game development is all about limits. Texture limits, vertex/poly limits, limits in flexibility of animation systems, limits in complexity of shaders, limits in number of light emitters, limits in number of objects, limits in drawing distances, limits in lighting and shading models, limits to how you can use transparent surfaces, etc. These limits are pushed for every generation, but they're still there.
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According to a documentary I watched before this aired, they DID put feedback in and specifically mentioned this very problem. I guess they either took it out (possibly because of time-constraints or even rules about live play), or it malfunctioned.
Which is exactly what is always said when progress is demonstrated in the very wide field that is AI. We got to go there before we can go THERE.
If you're part of a revolution, being able to communicate digitally with your local peers is just as important as being able to communicate with someone at the other end of the world. Cheap plugs that build/connect a wireless mesh network could achieve that goal. I feel like most people in this thread aren't thinking big enough. The revolution isn't happening in the outback, think "central and crowded". The main problem might be getting one plug to cover enough area that it network can form at all, but should be a solvable problem. They'd also have to be configurable enough to be resilient to any cheap/directed attack (so not using a hard-coded frequency, whatever)
You shouldn't be surprised, because typically these bounties state that you get some percentage of the money collected as damages through a court, but most cases are never reach that state, they're settled out of court. The idea that you can "turn someone in and become rich" is but a dream; in all likelihood you'll never see a dime. You'll just be that guy.
I see a pattern wrt fraudsters who go out and tell the press that they suddenly fear for their very lives from the people they've previously felt so good about extorting. This guy is doing it, and Darl McBride was doing it. Same pattern. Both use hyperbole without evidence, and they never contact the authorities, just the press. A press who then, disgustingly, report what the scumbags said verbatim without reflection.
> It is just like the police using bait cars to catch car thieves.
Of course that, "crime provocation", is illegal in some countries. Yes, for the police too.
"Unless this Court enjoins Defendants' unlawful conduct, hackers will succeed in their attempts to ensure that pirated software can be run on the PS3 System, resulting in the destruction of SCEA's business."
"The explanation was broadcast live through multiple video and audio streams on the Internet [...] including in California"
There's also the bit about Californian jurist. because someone used github. It's like if I would claim jurist. on an american because they use IKEA furniture.
That's great for those who want it, but how about those of us who'd rather bang closer to the metal?
People wont change while theres nothing better to change to...
I see some nerds switching to http://duckduckgo.com/
No doubt with Berlusconi owning TV stations and setting policy, there are all sorts of gravy flowing from tax payers to TV stations for google to now tap into? Make lemonade! I mean, IF there were something like "tax break if you show more than X hours of educational material in a year", google need just apply RIAA mathematics to show that they show positive infinity hours of educational material in a year.
I'd settle for AES using a pre-shared key.
But that's NOT how publishers see it nowadays. XBox360 is considered the premier FPS/3PS platform, vastly outselling (the important metric to pubs) PCs and getting games that never even hit the PC (such as the latest Halos)
What this shows, assuming the numbers haven't been fudged somehow, is what we all knew; PC players are more mature.
(I'm with the rest of the sane world, FPSes on Consoles make no sense whatsoever as long as they reject the mouse, which they do because they're ASSHOLES)
They "fix" this by linking intent to it. This way they can enforce it completely arbitrary.
Since the only thing I really never want and haven't been able to control using the built-in options, are those annoying ad-things which highlight words, I've been using a user-javascript in Opera with a hook to detect and disable them. Sure, I need to manually update it a couple of times per year, but no big deal. To use, find/set your user javascript directory under "prefs->advanced->content->javascript options" and just drop the file there.
Only took seven years, but now I'm using them and liking them. Would probably prefer them to expand vertically instead of horizontally, and while I realize it's a niche-request and might not work well in practice, I'd still like the ability to automatically redirect pages into groups using regex against title/url/whatever.
The military as a whole would be better off, and you'd be free to explore your insecurities. Win-Win!
7) lower uid than you on slashdot.
I have one rule about C++ complaints; I don't listen to them unless the person behind them indicate that they've actually read "The Design & Evolution".
Too much like listening to high-schoolers discussing "2.999... is 3" or doors with goats behind them otherwise.
We already have many other browsers with the "other" type of interface. Why make Opera an also-run? I use opera because I like the interface. I like having my mail view up in the side panel to the left of my browser windows, with my tabs at the bottom. I don't get what's so odd about the interface.
Just more crying about things being slightly different, just like we hear about Blender and GIMP.
You are right in most of what you wrote, but I must take issue with this:
>At worst, the US would simply null the debt and stop trading with them causing little trouble in the US and ruin in China.
If you think that would cause "little trouble in the US" then I think you're extraordinarly naive. The Economy of the World of built on trust, if the US were to say "screw you, we won't honor our oblications wrt US treasury bonds"... let's just say the ramifications would be extraordinarily bad for the US and the world. But mostly for the US.
Also, given the recent CDO fiasco, I wouldn't dare speak of the US vs China relation in such simplistic terms as "We owe them so much it's their problem".
I guess the next step is writing a novel using a hexeditor?
I get using a simple editor to not get down in layout/font issues, but I don't get using ed over vim (or emacs or any other simple text editor). This story failed to sell me on the concept. Is the idea that because it's hard to navigate in ed, you're not tempted to rewrite during the first pass? Seems a bit weak, you should probably have the mental power to just not do that.
Nothing happened to McBride, he was already delusional BEFORE the SCO suits.
Allow me to advocate for the devil.
As a customer I find it distasteful that for the last three years (about) the PS3 have been devoid of piracy while the XBox 360 have not, yet there is no discernible difference in game price between the two platforms, and to celebrate three years of no piracy, Sony's been busy removing features from the console. So explain to me why I should care about piracy on the PS3? There are no negatives for me. If it becomes widespread it's likely prices on originals will DROP (yes, really. See also "PC Gaming"), and it'll also probably open up the features Sony removed and add more -- maybe a good media player will appear, you know, the kind Sony should have been giving is if they weren't totally schizofrenic (mp3 bad! mp3 players good!, etc). For a consumer, even one that isn't going to actually use copies, it seems like a win. More piracy equals more features and less expensive games.
Besides, both platforms are already too old to be destroyed by it.
Game development is all about limits. Texture limits, vertex/poly limits, limits in flexibility of animation systems, limits in complexity of shaders, limits in number of light emitters, limits in number of objects, limits in drawing distances, limits in lighting and shading models, limits to how you can use transparent surfaces, etc. These limits are pushed for every generation, but they're still there.
That's like a cheat-sheet for The Larry King Game