I basically agree that crazy people be crazy and will do crazy shit, but that doesn't mean making guns illegal (and/or restricting other potentially dangerous items) won't have an effect. It's supply and demand; reducing the supply of potentially dangerous things won't eliminate the demand but it will indeed affect the number "customers" who "purchase". The question is whether restrictions could be reasonable or effective, as well as whether other measures (education, catching people early, changing culture, etc.) are reasonable or effective.
Nuclear weapons are the most lethal mass murder weapon as yet. They are obviously not comparable to guns, but neither are explosives. The questions that matter are whether (a) the prevalence of guns, and the effects of loose gun laws, increase gun-related violence and (b) whether increased gun control can reduce overall human suffering and if so, whether it would be worth it.
Yeah, you'd think you'd have to work up to that sort of thing. It's too complex an action for it to just come out of someone at random; it's the result of long-term turmoil and a damaged pysche.
Honestly I'm more concerned with escaping the heat death of the universe (or big crunch or whatever the end turns out to be). Other than time travel or interdimensional travel I am not sure it will work out too well. Perhaps if we have become digital entities by that point then we can encode ourselves into something that will survive until the next iteration.
Economics existed before money, I promise you that. Nobody is going to do work that doesn't feed them because they will fucking die. If you require a citation for that then you need to get help.
pretending the propagation of locked down software is ok
So you're for freedom from DRM but against freedom in general, eh? Companies can protect their software if they like, and people can buy that software if they like. Neither of those is "not OK". Nobody is forcing you to support this bundle.
A tendency for free software groups to support privacy protection efforts does not mean "free software" = "software that respects your privacy". There is an immense craptonne of free software that uses your data in ways similar to this.
C# code is generally much more cross-platform than C++ code, which is what's used for "hardcore" games. While what you've said applies to plenty of other games, said hardcore games tend to do their own memory management and other low-level operations that are completely architecture specific. The newest, most hardware intensive games don't use generalized cross-platform engines because those engines just don't have the same performance. For that market segment, competition is at the bleeding edge where you need specific optimizations to squeeze the most out of what you have. For better or for worse, that will never change as long as some consumers demand the most advanced games they can possibly get and it's profitable to make them.
You do realize that the x86 platform has the same problems, right? The speed of individual cores backtracked quite a bit and is now increasing much more slowly than it was prior to the P4. The fact that most games can't do shit with multiple cores needs to change. There are studios that can and will do it and leave behind everyone else trapped to a single core. This is not to say that ARM doesn't have its problems, just that you're an idiot.
Hmm I think I misjudged which post you were replying to, my bad and please ignore. I need to figure out how to keep/. from resetting my comment view settings.
Retardedly conflating different definitions of the word "pirate" isn't an argument. Filesharers generally seem to embrace the word "pirate" so go fuck yourself.
Exactly. Theft is an immediate loss of (a) the property itself (b) all rights to the property (c) the potential revenue made from selling the property (d) any other uses of the property.
Uploading only deprives the rights holder of (b). Downloading deprives the rights holder of a small amount of (c) in addition to (b).
A single act of piracy is much less damaging than a single act of theft. The problem occurs due to the fact that piracy is much simpler to do and also get away. In aggregate, it might be worse (I don't know).
Being charged for something you take out of a store is normal. How the fuck does "honesty" come into play? It's not dishonest to keep something you paid for, and returning something you paid for isn't "honest".
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I basically agree that crazy people be crazy and will do crazy shit, but that doesn't mean making guns illegal (and/or restricting other potentially dangerous items) won't have an effect. It's supply and demand; reducing the supply of potentially dangerous things won't eliminate the demand but it will indeed affect the number "customers" who "purchase". The question is whether restrictions could be reasonable or effective, as well as whether other measures (education, catching people early, changing culture, etc.) are reasonable or effective.
Nuclear weapons are the most lethal mass murder weapon as yet. They are obviously not comparable to guns, but neither are explosives. The questions that matter are whether (a) the prevalence of guns, and the effects of loose gun laws, increase gun-related violence and (b) whether increased gun control can reduce overall human suffering and if so, whether it would be worth it.
I think chad understood that, the "advocating for thought crime" is tongue-in-cheek.
What hoopla? How does this conflict with the idea that he was crazy?
You're the only one saying that as far as I can see. Perhaps you're just afraid of saying it straight up without the false quotes....
Yeah, you'd think you'd have to work up to that sort of thing. It's too complex an action for it to just come out of someone at random; it's the result of long-term turmoil and a damaged pysche.
This. If you go in assume that roads made for driving are empty then you might as well be blind and drive drunk.
I think Exar Kun tripped you up there, you meant "use the force of" not "use the Force to". But I agree wholeheartedly.
Honestly I'm more concerned with escaping the heat death of the universe (or big crunch or whatever the end turns out to be). Other than time travel or interdimensional travel I am not sure it will work out too well. Perhaps if we have become digital entities by that point then we can encode ourselves into something that will survive until the next iteration.
The Japanese are already planning to invade North Korea and raid the unicorn lair.
Economics existed before money, I promise you that. Nobody is going to do work that doesn't feed them because they will fucking die. If you require a citation for that then you need to get help.
pretending the propagation of locked down software is ok
So you're for freedom from DRM but against freedom in general, eh? Companies can protect their software if they like, and people can buy that software if they like. Neither of those is "not OK". Nobody is forcing you to support this bundle.
I do that every single time.
A tendency for free software groups to support privacy protection efforts does not mean "free software" = "software that respects your privacy". There is an immense craptonne of free software that uses your data in ways similar to this.
C# code is generally much more cross-platform than C++ code, which is what's used for "hardcore" games. While what you've said applies to plenty of other games, said hardcore games tend to do their own memory management and other low-level operations that are completely architecture specific. The newest, most hardware intensive games don't use generalized cross-platform engines because those engines just don't have the same performance. For that market segment, competition is at the bleeding edge where you need specific optimizations to squeeze the most out of what you have. For better or for worse, that will never change as long as some consumers demand the most advanced games they can possibly get and it's profitable to make them.
You do realize that the x86 platform has the same problems, right? The speed of individual cores backtracked quite a bit and is now increasing much more slowly than it was prior to the P4. The fact that most games can't do shit with multiple cores needs to change. There are studios that can and will do it and leave behind everyone else trapped to a single core. This is not to say that ARM doesn't have its problems, just that you're an idiot.
Any Android *games* more complicated than that. There are very very few apps that need the NDK and aren't games.
Hmm I think I misjudged which post you were replying to, my bad and please ignore. I need to figure out how to keep /. from resetting my comment view settings.
That's not an exception to the games he was talking about, virtually all of which are architecture-dependent and closed source.
I was with you until "rightfully". Fuck you.
Step9: Enjoy the extra cash stolen from taxpayers (refer to Step2).
You can't even spell a word ("word") you're looking at while typing it, you're not one to talk.
Retardedly conflating different definitions of the word "pirate" isn't an argument. Filesharers generally seem to embrace the word "pirate" so go fuck yourself.
Exactly. Theft is an immediate loss of (a) the property itself (b) all rights to the property (c) the potential revenue made from selling the property (d) any other uses of the property.
Uploading only deprives the rights holder of (b). Downloading deprives the rights holder of a small amount of (c) in addition to (b).
A single act of piracy is much less damaging than a single act of theft. The problem occurs due to the fact that piracy is much simpler to do and also get away. In aggregate, it might be worse (I don't know).
Being charged for something you take out of a store is normal. How the fuck does "honesty" come into play? It's not dishonest to keep something you paid for, and returning something you paid for isn't "honest".