It won't be pretty for anyone colonizing any other planet either. We're here through thousands and thousands of years of evolving to our environment, almost through pure luck. No asteroid 65 million years ago? We probably never would have come to be.
The scenario will go something like this: Earth one day becomes too hostile for us. Everyone dies and/or escapes into orbit. People living in orbital, spinning habitats will attempt to search for a similar-to-Earth planet. Heck! Maybe they even find one. Double heck! We actually make it there! Guess what, it may be similar to Earth, but it won't be Earth. And we'll die there too.
We just need to stop being so goddamn selfish by thinking the Universe is ours for the taking. We're highly adapted to our rock. We're not getting off. Why am I so sure? Just look up. It's quiet isn't it?
Ever since we upgrade to 365 I get prompted 100 times a day for my password. Regardless if I ask it to remember. Regardless of any workarounds. Everyone here hates it too.
I don't understand paying so much money for a product that works progressively worse with each iteration.
They're the ones signing the paychecks. So yes. Nobody will want to hire you if all you do is scream loudly when the company doesn't adhere to your values.
Anon is right. Just get another job, endure, or try moving up in the company and push your own morals onto everyone else once you get there, see how well that goes for you.
I disagree. He was faced with a firing squad to make an example.
Chances are, if he didn't do the supplying, someone else would have. Or some other method would have been used. The Nazi party's intent was pretty much established at that point, only force was going to stop them. Maybe the guy had no choice, or you know, bad things would happen to his family, for example. Maybe the guy was actually fucking maniacal, then he did deserve it? I don't know.
Multiple sides to every story though. It's important we remember that.
It's like a game of poker. You make money by exploiting another player's poor decision making. Sitting at a table full of knowledgeable poker players is advantageous to no one except the house (society in this case?)
Hence why education is the only way out of the clusterfuck of a society we live in today. That way, all the players are contributing to a common goal, whether they like it or not, instead of trying to enrich themselves.
That wouldn't be a patch. There was no "bug" to begin with. They simply implemented the "TargetHellFireMissile()" function and tried to push it onto your code-base.
The fact that we don't get source code for PC games that we've all bought is also a big pisser, which is why we have to resort to revese engineering and emulation, if we'd gotten the source code with the games we were paying for every game that has been created for PC would not need an emulator and could be enhanced and updated.
I mean, aside from being an ass to whomever you replied to, who was effectively agreeing with you; you want companies to give you their secret sauce that they spent millions on developing, for the price you pay for a game? It's bad enough the Chinese are making cheap knockoffs of everything already.
The progress we see in games is driven in large part by the fact these companies take huge gambles developing their AAA games. Obviously this is happening less and less, where everything is getting rehashed, but it does not take away from my point.
putting *any* working files on an external drive is foolish
If you're not very tech oriented, there's no way you'll know that. A normal person looks at an external drive and assumes it is the same as his own internal drive, minus being external. And there's nothing wrong with that assumption.
I always thought that "slow time" torture mechanism from Black Mirror was the most effective way to punish. There's a reason people stuck in their heads sometimes commit suicide. Imagine not even being able to do that, for what seems like forever.
Meh, re-read. I just attacked your last point and nothing else, through my own boredom. You'll notice very large gaps in my commenting on here. I get bored sometimes... The fact you felt personally attacked by so many of my comments is sad. I'm sorry for you.
People buy from Nintendo because they as kids loved it and the characters never really went away. My first two sentences were out of line but I stand by pretty much the remainder of it. Nobody said you had to agree with me...
Oh, I guess you did on that one point. Cool!
I AM curious where you got this impression, though:
"I have nothing against people hacking these systems and doing what they're doing."
Seems to me that you apparently do have something against these people according to what you are saying.
You want them to develop smash titles like Super Mario and give them for free?
They're protecting their IP. It may seem scummy to you, but you wouldn't like it either if you tried to make a living off your games you made at your expense, then have people break your platform just so they can have it for free.
There's nothing wrong with paying for entertainment. Every company has done dick moves of course, and I don't necessarily agree with everything Nintendo does; but at some point people are just acting like the self-entitled pricks that they have shown themselves to be.
I have nothing against people hacking these systems and doing what they're doing. There's something to be said about the ingenuity of some of these work-arounds and just the knowledge some of these folks have. But I have no sympathy for them when Nintendo turns around and does something about it either. Heck, I'm sure the hackers don't either! Keeps the game interesting:)
The only people who truly complain are the kids who want everything for free.
You're insane if you think their skillset is limited to Nintendo and not being used in "the real world" Oh ignorance, maybe you one day go away and make us that much more insightful.
The RDR franchise wasn't even a concept back then.
I don't believe that for one second. You can't tell nobody looked at GTA and went "Holy crap this would sell a buttload in the states if it was in a western format!" There's probably a concept of GTA-themed games for everything you can think of, from Feudal Age Japan to Roman Empire-style.
Because idiots will look at it and figure something out in their heads what the AI was trying to convey when it made the art. Then they'll try to sell it as such; at which point some other idiot comes up and buys it to show all of his other idiot friends how classy he is.
Slashdot Mirror
I think you're arguing for the sake of arguing.
Glad I'm not the only one thinking this.
Cheers mate.
Bombard the moon with asteroids first, then colonize the moon.
If you need to say it, it's likely too late for him.
We're tied to Earth.
It won't be pretty for anyone colonizing any other planet either. We're here through thousands and thousands of years of evolving to our environment, almost through pure luck. No asteroid 65 million years ago? We probably never would have come to be.
The scenario will go something like this:
Earth one day becomes too hostile for us. Everyone dies and/or escapes into orbit. People living in orbital, spinning habitats will attempt to search for a similar-to-Earth planet. Heck! Maybe they even find one. Double heck! We actually make it there! Guess what, it may be similar to Earth, but it won't be Earth. And we'll die there too.
We just need to stop being so goddamn selfish by thinking the Universe is ours for the taking. We're highly adapted to our rock. We're not getting off.
Why am I so sure? Just look up. It's quiet isn't it?
Sure.
Except don't expect to respawn when you die.
Jokes are hard, I heard.
Ever since we upgrade to 365 I get prompted 100 times a day for my password. Regardless if I ask it to remember. Regardless of any workarounds.
Everyone here hates it too.
I don't understand paying so much money for a product that works progressively worse with each iteration.
Our friend at Veritasium does an excellent job breaking this down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They're the ones signing the paychecks. So yes.
Nobody will want to hire you if all you do is scream loudly when the company doesn't adhere to your values.
Anon is right. Just get another job, endure, or try moving up in the company and push your own morals onto everyone else once you get there, see how well that goes for you.
I disagree.
He was faced with a firing squad to make an example.
Chances are, if he didn't do the supplying, someone else would have. Or some other method would have been used. The Nazi party's intent was pretty much established at that point, only force was going to stop them. Maybe the guy had no choice, or you know, bad things would happen to his family, for example. Maybe the guy was actually fucking maniacal, then he did deserve it? I don't know.
Multiple sides to every story though. It's important we remember that.
It's like a game of poker.
You make money by exploiting another player's poor decision making.
Sitting at a table full of knowledgeable poker players is advantageous to no one except the house (society in this case?)
Hence why education is the only way out of the clusterfuck of a society we live in today. That way, all the players are contributing to a common goal, whether they like it or not, instead of trying to enrich themselves.
That wouldn't be a patch. There was no "bug" to begin with. They simply implemented the "TargetHellFireMissile()" function and tried to push it onto your code-base.
Sorry, slow day over here.
You're cute if you think Trump's the only President who ever considered torture.
The fact that we don't get source code for PC games that we've all bought is also a big pisser, which is why we have to resort to revese engineering and emulation, if we'd gotten the source code with the games we were paying for every game that has been created for PC would not need an emulator and could be enhanced and updated.
I mean, aside from being an ass to whomever you replied to, who was effectively agreeing with you; you want companies to give you their secret sauce that they spent millions on developing, for the price you pay for a game? It's bad enough the Chinese are making cheap knockoffs of everything already.
The progress we see in games is driven in large part by the fact these companies take huge gambles developing their AAA games. Obviously this is happening less and less, where everything is getting rehashed, but it does not take away from my point.
putting *any* working files on an external drive is foolish
If you're not very tech oriented, there's no way you'll know that.
A normal person looks at an external drive and assumes it is the same as his own internal drive, minus being external. And there's nothing wrong with that assumption.
That scum is getting off light in my opinion.
I always thought that "slow time" torture mechanism from Black Mirror was the most effective way to punish.
There's a reason people stuck in their heads sometimes commit suicide. Imagine not even being able to do that, for what seems like forever.
He even went so far as to get his moderator friends to make himself look good and me bad.
Oh internet. Sad.
If you can't imagine GTA in a Roman Empire theme, there's nothing further I can do for your imagination.
Meh, re-read. I just attacked your last point and nothing else, through my own boredom. You'll notice very large gaps in my commenting on here. I get bored sometimes... The fact you felt personally attacked by so many of my comments is sad. I'm sorry for you.
People buy from Nintendo because they as kids loved it and the characters never really went away. My first two sentences were out of line but I stand by pretty much the remainder of it. Nobody said you had to agree with me...
Oh, I guess you did on that one point. Cool!
I AM curious where you got this impression, though:
"I have nothing against people hacking these systems and doing what they're doing."
Seems to me that you apparently do have something against these people according to what you are saying.
What did I say... exactly?
Grumpy ol' fuck aren't ya? Assuming my career and everything.
Fuck. Put it that way and you might get more people onboard to fight this.
You want them to develop smash titles like Super Mario and give them for free?
They're protecting their IP. It may seem scummy to you, but you wouldn't like it either if you tried to make a living off your games you made at your expense, then have people break your platform just so they can have it for free.
There's nothing wrong with paying for entertainment. Every company has done dick moves of course, and I don't necessarily agree with everything Nintendo does; but at some point people are just acting like the self-entitled pricks that they have shown themselves to be.
I have nothing against people hacking these systems and doing what they're doing. There's something to be said about the ingenuity of some of these work-arounds and just the knowledge some of these folks have. But I have no sympathy for them when Nintendo turns around and does something about it either. Heck, I'm sure the hackers don't either! Keeps the game interesting :)
The only people who truly complain are the kids who want everything for free.
You're insane if you think their skillset is limited to Nintendo and not being used in "the real world"
Oh ignorance, maybe you one day go away and make us that much more insightful.
The RDR franchise wasn't even a concept back then.
I don't believe that for one second. You can't tell nobody looked at GTA and went "Holy crap this would sell a buttload in the states if it was in a western format!"
There's probably a concept of GTA-themed games for everything you can think of, from Feudal Age Japan to Roman Empire-style.
Please.
Because idiots will look at it and figure something out in their heads what the AI was trying to convey when it made the art. Then they'll try to sell it as such; at which point some other idiot comes up and buys it to show all of his other idiot friends how classy he is.
For fuck sakes society... why....