After doing this encouter with crazy lag, I suspect there is some sort of mercy algorithm that causes mobs to ignore high latency players. We had to work just to get aggro. Non-kited legionares were wandering around ignoring everyone.
Or perhaps they just turn off the mob AI or it never gets a chance to run when the server is choking.
Rights are not a gift given by a government. They are assertions, part of the contract with government, and define the line which crossed justifies rebellion.
The control of government power is a check to make sure rebellion is never necessary. Broad surveillence powers with no oversight are a threat against the people.
The secret do-not-fly list of American citizens. You lose.
Which is rather absurd considering that the purchasing power of Firefly fans or Arrested Development fans is probably far greater than that of "Haunted Houses Extreme Makeover".
When we really like a show, we ought to immediately start writing relevent corporations to tell them how much we love the show and how much money we have to spend. That would probably be more effective than a bunch of obssessives starting petitions and whining on messageboards. Producers are morons, but they can smell money and will follow it wherever it goes.
I see nothing in that EULA that prohibits benchmarks against Java.
People are missing the point anyway. The purpose of managed code is to make DRM unbreakable. Someday soon you will need explicit permission to generate machine code, enforced through the PKI mechanism they already have in place. To flip that "unsafe" switch you'll need a signed certificate, which Microsoft will only sign when you agree to their terms. If you want to see the future of "Trusted Computing", just look to the mobile space, already well on its way to that state of affairs.
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Rights are not arbitrary to the extent that the collective desires of all human beings are not arbitrary. I'd like to see how you "measure, learn, and understand" those rights without consulting that mob.
They should ban the accounts of every person who has received gold from an account that they ban as a gold farmer. But they'd never do that, because then they'd lose those players and their subscription fees.
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The government createth property, the government taketh it away.
In the natural world you only own what you can defend. It is this "popular mob" you fear so much that decides you actually have rights, and democracy is the mechanism by which that happens, and that mob enforces those rights with coercion through the instrument of government. Without that mob you are naked, starving, and vulnerable and your precious libertarian individualism is useless.
And if this great unwashed mob decides that the expense of health care should be shared, then that is its prerogative. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it theft or contrary to "freedom".
Outsourcing has nothing to do with the free market. If the world had a free market, people would be able to move to where the jobs are. Instead, the governments put up fences for people but fall over themselves to make it easy for the owning class to move the jobs where the people are most desperate.
If we really cared about competition, we could make the "brain drain" a matter of policy, bleeding India and China of its best scientists and programmers. Instead, we let them go to school here, but once they enter the workforce they are indentured to host companies who pay them ridiculously low salaries, under the thread of deportation if they complain. The rationale is to protect American jobs, but frankly I don't know any programmers who are afraid of an Indian taking his job in *America*. It isn't about competition, it's about saving money for the corporate bottom line.
To tell an American to suck it up and compete is to tell an American to accept the same standard of living of the region with the cheapest labor, because that is what they'll be paid. Unfortunately, that doesn't change the price of the goods here, even that wonderfully cheap crap sold at Wal-Mart will be beyond their means. So unless you're prepared to let Americans emmigrate to the third world and use our military prowess to install safe democratic governments in those places you have no business telling them to simply *accept* this betrayal.
A device that does everything that a PDA does is a PDA. Rebranding it a "smartphone", or giving it a keyboard does not change that fact.
Modern PDAs have more horsepower than desktop PCs ten years ago. There is nothing really new or innovative about the new "Origami" device, the market is simply following the logical conlcusion of having faster and cheaper hardware available. It is no longer necessary to use highly specialized embedded technology to produce PDAs. So they are not going away, it's just that the word now describes a small subset of everything they are capable of. We should now be calling them "handheld computers".
And, as the PC can do everything, these computers will do everything. Except, of course, they won't, because it isn't in the interest of traditional device manufacturers, service providers, and content producers to do so. Ask yourself, why was the ROKR limited to 100 songs? Why is stereo bluetooth conspicously missing from devices with hardware to support it?
What gives these busibodies more authority than the ESRB? They're just a bunch of self-appointed moralists, one group in a cause already crowded with nutjobs and fundamentalists. The ESRB has the support and recognition of most game producers and merchants who sell games. They admit the rating was a mistake because Rockstar deceived them, and they corrected that rating very quickly. The system worked, what are the whining about?
That's exactly the convoluted logic that an ambulence chasing lawyer would use. You blame the system for allowing people to exploit it. Do you give the same free pass to spammers and malware authors? "Don't blame these troubled youths, blame Jon Postel and Bill Gates!"
Government has no interest beyond justifying its own existence, everything beyond that is the agenda of individuals and specific groups. The boogymen you libertarians are so afraid of are the very people you idolize - the oligarchs who bought and paid for that government. The cards that "industry was dealt" are the cards they wanted all along, from the deck which they stacked.
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After doing this encouter with crazy lag, I suspect there is some sort of mercy algorithm that causes mobs to ignore high latency players. We had to work just to get aggro. Non-kited legionares were wandering around ignoring everyone.
Or perhaps they just turn off the mob AI or it never gets a chance to run when the server is choking.
Rights are not a gift given by a government. They are assertions, part of the contract with government, and define the line which crossed justifies rebellion.
The control of government power is a check to make sure rebellion is never necessary. Broad surveillence powers with no oversight are a threat against the people.
The secret do-not-fly list of American citizens. You lose.
Which is rather absurd considering that the purchasing power of Firefly fans or Arrested Development fans is probably far greater than that of "Haunted Houses Extreme Makeover".
When we really like a show, we ought to immediately start writing relevent corporations to tell them how much we love the show and how much money we have to spend. That would probably be more effective than a bunch of obssessives starting petitions and whining on messageboards. Producers are morons, but they can smell money and will follow it wherever it goes.
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I see nothing in that EULA that prohibits benchmarks against Java.
People are missing the point anyway. The purpose of managed code is to make DRM unbreakable. Someday soon you will need explicit permission to generate machine code, enforced through the PKI mechanism they already have in place. To flip that "unsafe" switch you'll need a signed certificate, which Microsoft will only sign when you agree to their terms. If you want to see the future of "Trusted Computing", just look to the mobile space, already well on its way to that state of affairs.
Rights are not arbitrary to the extent that the collective desires of all human beings are not arbitrary. I'd like to see how you "measure, learn, and understand" those rights without consulting that mob.
They should ban the accounts of every person who has received gold from an account that they ban as a gold farmer. But they'd never do that, because then they'd lose those players and their subscription fees.
The government createth property, the government taketh it away.
In the natural world you only own what you can defend. It is this "popular mob" you fear so much that decides you actually have rights, and democracy is the mechanism by which that happens, and that mob enforces those rights with coercion through the instrument of government. Without that mob you are naked, starving, and vulnerable and your precious libertarian individualism is useless.
And if this great unwashed mob decides that the expense of health care should be shared, then that is its prerogative. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it theft or contrary to "freedom".
Outsourcing has nothing to do with the free market. If the world had a free market, people would be able to move to where the jobs are. Instead, the governments put up fences for people but fall over themselves to make it easy for the owning class to move the jobs where the people are most desperate.
If we really cared about competition, we could make the "brain drain" a matter of policy, bleeding India and China of its best scientists and programmers. Instead, we let them go to school here, but once they enter the workforce they are indentured to host companies who pay them ridiculously low salaries, under the thread of deportation if they complain. The rationale is to protect American jobs, but frankly I don't know any programmers who are afraid of an Indian taking his job in *America*. It isn't about competition, it's about saving money for the corporate bottom line.
To tell an American to suck it up and compete is to tell an American to accept the same standard of living of the region with the cheapest labor, because that is what they'll be paid. Unfortunately, that doesn't change the price of the goods here, even that wonderfully cheap crap sold at Wal-Mart will be beyond their means. So unless you're prepared to let Americans emmigrate to the third world and use our military prowess to install safe democratic governments in those places you have no business telling them to simply *accept* this betrayal.
A device that does everything that a PDA does is a PDA. Rebranding it a "smartphone", or giving it a keyboard does not change that fact.
Modern PDAs have more horsepower than desktop PCs ten years ago. There is nothing really new or innovative about the new "Origami" device, the market is simply following the logical conlcusion of having faster and cheaper hardware available. It is no longer necessary to use highly specialized embedded technology to produce PDAs. So they are not going away, it's just that the word now describes a small subset of everything they are capable of. We should now be calling them "handheld computers".
And, as the PC can do everything, these computers will do everything. Except, of course, they won't, because it isn't in the interest of traditional device manufacturers, service providers, and content producers to do so. Ask yourself, why was the ROKR limited to 100 songs? Why is stereo bluetooth conspicously missing from devices with hardware to support it?
Bite me, Nazi. We defeated you 70 years ago, and we're going to keep defeating you, until every last vestige of your existence is pwned!
Why are social darwinists always so inferior?
I bet you're the type of person who goes around calling people "Care Bears".
Rock on, 10-hour day gamer! You win the contest to see whose time is the least valuable!
What, you mean like this?
You underestimate the power of teh dark side! Anything can be made into a moderation war!
It's like this:
Democrats are all about the Commie 64.
Republicans prefer the trailer Trash 80.
Atari people, like the Libertarians, are ineffectual whiners.
Don't mod me 'cause I speak the truth!
Good luck with that.
What gives these busibodies more authority than the ESRB? They're just a bunch of self-appointed moralists, one group in a cause already crowded with nutjobs and fundamentalists. The ESRB has the support and recognition of most game producers and merchants who sell games. They admit the rating was a mistake because Rockstar deceived them, and they corrected that rating very quickly. The system worked, what are the whining about?
That's exactly the convoluted logic that an ambulence chasing lawyer would use. You blame the system for allowing people to exploit it. Do you give the same free pass to spammers and malware authors? "Don't blame these troubled youths, blame Jon Postel and Bill Gates!"
Isn't slashdot supposed to be smarter than this? You see the word "political correctness" and your knee jerks the combo box to +1 Insightful?
Government has no interest beyond justifying its own existence, everything beyond that is the agenda of individuals and specific groups. The boogymen you libertarians are so afraid of are the very people you idolize - the oligarchs who bought and paid for that government. The cards that "industry was dealt" are the cards they wanted all along, from the deck which they stacked.
Government isn't the shooter, government is the gun, fool.
Congress isn't the shooter, congress is the gun, fool.
Oh God, their necks... they're not slender!!!
Wow, anti-intellectualism even on Slashdot... welcome to George Bush's America!
Nerf Ritualists!