Not if you're remotely managing a server via SSH whose physical machine is located at some godforsaken place far away. Sure, if all hell breaks loose then someone can go fix it, but it sure as hell ain't gonna be me. If sysadmins can set up failsafes to keep updates from going wrong just to avoid trekking down the street, I'm sure NASA can set up failsafes to avoid permanently losing an extremely expensive piece of hardware millions of miles away.
If you have an opportunity to learn something, learn it. Everything will be useful at some point in your life, and barring that will still enrich you as a person.
More specifically, math-wise, if you're going to college you may as well learn basic calculus, linear algebra, and statistics. How much you will actually use in a CS career is debateable, but that knowledge and especially UNDERSTANDING will help you many times in the long run.
There's a couple of problems with this. First of all, no one's taking away profit. New movies are still being made since BitTorrent first came out and since movies were pirated (basically forever); obviously they're turning a very VERY healthy profit. Second of all, you don't need a big budget to make a good movie. In fact, I'd argue that a big budget gets in the way of making good movies, since priorities start getting seriously warped once large numbers come into play. Finally, the pirates can't "win". That doesn't even make sense since they don't even have a goal. I guess you could call them getting a copy of a movie/DRM-cracked media "winning", in which case it's pretty much guaranteed then; the pirates "win". They're not trying to drive content creators out of business; in fact, many "pirates" are perfectly willing to pay and in some cases have paid; they just prefer having a non-DRM/free format/unrestricted/digital/&c. copy.
I'm not well versed in the current state of TV, but isn't HDMI a standard connector for monitors/TVs/displays of all sorts? "New gaming PC! Plug in a monitor or a TV! Play all games!" or something. It's true most people aren't tech savvy, but gamers at least have some idea what's going on (I hope). Plus there's flexibility in controller compatibility as well (assuming some basic arbitrary controller scheme, e.g. analog stick, d-pad 2 shoulder buttons, 4 face buttons, and let controller manufacturers worry about implementation and design, free competition should sort things out. If you like Xbox controller, go ahead. If you like PS3, go ahead. Any extra buttons (and existing buttons) you can map freely, &c. &c.).
You're assuming that I like entertainment that is not free and that it is not complete crap. It's the same argument as "People who are pirating this movie equals lost sales and money for us" that big media throws around so often nowadays. Sure, some of them would pay if they couldn't get it free, but most people will pay even if they could get it free, and most people who get it free wouldn't pay even if they couldn't get it free. You follow me?
wipe out businesses of a dozen other bystanders in the facility, seize stuff for months, or prevent businesses from starting back up
You're assuming that this isn't the entire point of a raid: Send a clear message to all businesses on the planet, "don't come in contact with anything near copyright violation, or we'll nuke the site from orbit for the lulz."
When Doctor Who started up again Demonoid torrents were the only way us USAians could see it *at all*. It probably helped Who and many other BBC shows get their American deals.
There is definitely advantages for content owners here whether they want to admit it or not.
Ha! You almost got me there. If I didn't know better, I'd think you were suggesting content owning corporation CEOs were intelligent.
The main advantages of consoles are: cheaper hardware when mass-produced, and a standard API/hardware platform for ease of development. However, this leads to the copyright/platform compatibility/obselesence problems you're talking about.
Now that VM technology is pretty robust, there's actually a way to make consoles obsolete. Create a freeware, opensource VM API a la Java (except BETTER, god damn), and have standard PC builds that manufacturers use (e.g. Gaming PC 100 Model A, Model B, Model C, at different price points and hardware levels). Devs can write games with this fictional VM, and publish specs like "High quality on Models B and C, low quality on Models A". Of course, Microsoft/Nintendo/Sony will fight to keep their little niches, but hopefully game devs, gamers, PC manufacturers will unite to make this happen.
IIRC BSD license basically says "do what you want, but credit us". There's nothing wrong with wanting credit for one's own work. If it's in public domain, however, people can just use it, and I believe it's not illegal to claim the work is yours, though they won't have licensing/ownership rights
actually use twitter? In my mind, all it is is vendor-locked-down RSS feeds for monkeys with short attention spans. Does that intersect with Apple's userbase at all?
I'm pretty sure that 1. it only aplies to people and 2. it only applies to criminal cases. Civil cases and charging property of a crime aren't eligible.
No, we who complain on the Internet are the minority who realize the sh*t going down. Let me as an American explain to you as a European how power is distributed in the US. Government has primary power, but everyone in government is paid off my corporations, who hold "secondary" power, in reality primary power. While technically US citizens vote for their representatives, most of America is not like us complaining on Slashdot, but the stereotypical white conservatives sitting in front of the TV with their neat little 4 people families washing away their brain fluids with media, which is paid for by the corporations. Come election time, guess what? they vote for the same people paid off by the corporations.
Make friends with IT, ask for zero-fill then reimage. Zero-fill guarantees nothing can be recovered, and I doubt IT would mind terribly (they might even be happy such a responsible and tech-savvy person as you exists!).
Also importantly, you'd need process/thread management, file system drivers, hardware drivers, sound libraries, etc. unless you plan on writing your own and including a copy for EACH game, resulting in a ton of overhead both cost-wise, maintenance-wise, memory-wise, duplication-of-effort-wise, &c.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless your preferred social experience is finding new social groups, you're pretty much boned.
That doesn't sound half-bad, actually. If more people did this, I'd wager the average IQ may actually rise this year!
but is posting intentionally provocative article titles a part of Slashdot culture?
Didn't you know? NASA uses python. https://xkcd.com/353/
Not if you're remotely managing a server via SSH whose physical machine is located at some godforsaken place far away. Sure, if all hell breaks loose then someone can go fix it, but it sure as hell ain't gonna be me. If sysadmins can set up failsafes to keep updates from going wrong just to avoid trekking down the street, I'm sure NASA can set up failsafes to avoid permanently losing an extremely expensive piece of hardware millions of miles away.
The problems you listed aren't the cars, but the people. Sounds like it's time to replace humans.
Ah, good ol' USPS tunneling. Someone needs to port that to Linux.
If you have an opportunity to learn something, learn it. Everything will be useful at some point in your life, and barring that will still enrich you as a person. More specifically, math-wise, if you're going to college you may as well learn basic calculus, linear algebra, and statistics. How much you will actually use in a CS career is debateable, but that knowledge and especially UNDERSTANDING will help you many times in the long run.
Look at US politics. US logic: Buying friends works all the time here, so why not internationally?
I can't be the only one who thinks something's seriously wrong here?
There's a couple of problems with this. First of all, no one's taking away profit. New movies are still being made since BitTorrent first came out and since movies were pirated (basically forever); obviously they're turning a very VERY healthy profit. Second of all, you don't need a big budget to make a good movie. In fact, I'd argue that a big budget gets in the way of making good movies, since priorities start getting seriously warped once large numbers come into play. Finally, the pirates can't "win". That doesn't even make sense since they don't even have a goal. I guess you could call them getting a copy of a movie/DRM-cracked media "winning", in which case it's pretty much guaranteed then; the pirates "win". They're not trying to drive content creators out of business; in fact, many "pirates" are perfectly willing to pay and in some cases have paid; they just prefer having a non-DRM/free format/unrestricted/digital/&c. copy.
I'm not well versed in the current state of TV, but isn't HDMI a standard connector for monitors/TVs/displays of all sorts? "New gaming PC! Plug in a monitor or a TV! Play all games!" or something. It's true most people aren't tech savvy, but gamers at least have some idea what's going on (I hope). Plus there's flexibility in controller compatibility as well (assuming some basic arbitrary controller scheme, e.g. analog stick, d-pad 2 shoulder buttons, 4 face buttons, and let controller manufacturers worry about implementation and design, free competition should sort things out. If you like Xbox controller, go ahead. If you like PS3, go ahead. Any extra buttons (and existing buttons) you can map freely, &c. &c.).
You're assuming that I like entertainment that is not free and that it is not complete crap. It's the same argument as "People who are pirating this movie equals lost sales and money for us" that big media throws around so often nowadays. Sure, some of them would pay if they couldn't get it free, but most people will pay even if they could get it free, and most people who get it free wouldn't pay even if they couldn't get it free. You follow me?
You know what they say, the best law enforcement agency is the one no one knows exists.
wipe out businesses of a dozen other bystanders in the facility, seize stuff for months, or prevent businesses from starting back up
You're assuming that this isn't the entire point of a raid: Send a clear message to all businesses on the planet, "don't come in contact with anything near copyright violation, or we'll nuke the site from orbit for the lulz."
FTFY
When Doctor Who started up again Demonoid torrents were the only way us USAians could see it *at all*. It probably helped Who and many other BBC shows get their American deals.
There is definitely advantages for content owners here whether they want to admit it or not.
Ha! You almost got me there. If I didn't know better, I'd think you were suggesting content owning corporation CEOs were intelligent.
The main advantages of consoles are: cheaper hardware when mass-produced, and a standard API/hardware platform for ease of development. However, this leads to the copyright/platform compatibility/obselesence problems you're talking about. Now that VM technology is pretty robust, there's actually a way to make consoles obsolete. Create a freeware, opensource VM API a la Java (except BETTER, god damn), and have standard PC builds that manufacturers use (e.g. Gaming PC 100 Model A, Model B, Model C, at different price points and hardware levels). Devs can write games with this fictional VM, and publish specs like "High quality on Models B and C, low quality on Models A". Of course, Microsoft/Nintendo/Sony will fight to keep their little niches, but hopefully game devs, gamers, PC manufacturers will unite to make this happen.
Yes, it can (because PS2 disks, thankfully and unlike e.g. Wii ones, are readable as-is on a PC).
Making an image is probably a good plan though, if only for the reduced seek times.
Which may or may not be legal, depending on who you ask, where you live, what forums you frequent, and how much money you have.
...porn? Just saying, all media adoption depends on porn.
IIRC BSD license basically says "do what you want, but credit us". There's nothing wrong with wanting credit for one's own work. If it's in public domain, however, people can just use it, and I believe it's not illegal to claim the work is yours, though they won't have licensing/ownership rights
actually use twitter? In my mind, all it is is vendor-locked-down RSS feeds for monkeys with short attention spans. Does that intersect with Apple's userbase at all?
I'm pretty sure that 1. it only aplies to people and 2. it only applies to criminal cases. Civil cases and charging property of a crime aren't eligible.
No, we who complain on the Internet are the minority who realize the sh*t going down. Let me as an American explain to you as a European how power is distributed in the US. Government has primary power, but everyone in government is paid off my corporations, who hold "secondary" power, in reality primary power. While technically US citizens vote for their representatives, most of America is not like us complaining on Slashdot, but the stereotypical white conservatives sitting in front of the TV with their neat little 4 people families washing away their brain fluids with media, which is paid for by the corporations. Come election time, guess what? they vote for the same people paid off by the corporations.
Make friends with IT, ask for zero-fill then reimage. Zero-fill guarantees nothing can be recovered, and I doubt IT would mind terribly (they might even be happy such a responsible and tech-savvy person as you exists!).
Remind me again, what's IE6?
Also importantly, you'd need process/thread management, file system drivers, hardware drivers, sound libraries, etc. unless you plan on writing your own and including a copy for EACH game, resulting in a ton of overhead both cost-wise, maintenance-wise, memory-wise, duplication-of-effort-wise, &c.