The legal system needs to employ a few game hackers, the guys that exploit all the loopholes that the designers "didn't have time" to design out, apparently because it's cheaper to save 5 minutes at the start of the project no matter how many hundreds or thousands of hours of work it costs you long term, not to mention the cost in lost business due to your game getty a crappy rep for being exploitable to help them avoid such obvious griefing opportunities.
There, fixed that for you. You employ the guy that wrote WOWGlider, not the doofus who designed trust into the client in the first place.
There's no need to put the blame on the corporate body. Developers have mortgages too.
"So, Developer Danny, I notice that 8 out of your last 10 commits have had someone else's name on them. Can you explain to us what value you bring to SUN, and why we shouldn't just hire or reward the 3rd party contributors directly?"
It's not as trite as it sounds. Why would the best developers prioritise other peoples' patches over their own? And if you're not the best developer, what are you doing guarding the gates?
Unless you're suggesting that people switch to x64 XP, but nobody in their right mind would really suggest that.
Since XP64 apparently doesn't work, I'm sadly unable to use it to tell you that your mother sucks Satan's cock. Thank you for your non-attention.
Question: for what specific purpose do you or I actually need more than 3GB of RAM on XP? My usage tops out at 950MB even when compiling while playing GTA:SA, so my 2GB box already has one wasted RAM slot.
Nobody gives a damn. Really. We don't care. Not one bit. We don't care about the current limit, we won't care about the new one. Collect your campaign contributions, and fuck off downstairs to one of your many heavily subsidised pubs where you can light up your fags in peace, while passing laws against those same things for the rest of us. We. Just. Don't. Care.
[running a cabinet level agency] takes different skills.
It's such a shame that he'll be unable to learn them, what with being such a notorious doofus.
We should instead continue to appoint loyal political apparatchiks who - as we all know - can pick up all that silly old "science" stuff overnight, should they ever feel the need.
I honestly can't see how DRM has any material effect on album profit either way, because:
1) DRM is absolutely no barrier to it hitting P2P within seconds of its release.
2) For every raving Freeeeeeeeeeeedom loving nerd who withholds their money in outraged pique, there's ten thousand purchasing goobers who couldn't even spell DRM if you gifted them the D and R and hummed "Mmmmm" at them.
There may be an effect on overall earnings, in that giving it away might build goodwill for concert and moichandising sales, but it's intangible and largely a tenet of belief, like the Tooth Fairy or man friendly lesbians.
If you buy it, your head will swell to seven times its normal size. Your girlfriend will leave you and shack up with a rottweiler. The rottweiler will bite you in your swollen head, which will burst, showing your WOW machine with cursed pustulent ichor. The ensuing fire will kill you, the dog, your ex-girlfriend, and an entire troop of golden haired girl scouts trying to sell you cookies. Also, your corpse will posthumously contract cancer of the ass.
Add yet, even knowing this, every last single solitary WOW player on the face of the planet earth has already bought it.
No, because it doesn't do so in a way that might result result in the viewer possibly experiencing the Thoughtcrime of being sexually attracted to children which could result in them performing, commissioning or rewarding an act that may involve an actual child.
The only people who need to worry are those evil monsters who sexualise children, and portray them as precociously pubescent and sexually available.
So, that'll be... hmmm... the RIAA, MPAA, makeup companies, childrens' clothing manufacturers, and every parent that ever let their pre-consent daughter dress like that Hannah Montana tramp.
And why stop there? If you're under the age of consent but above the age of criminal responsibility, then surely you're responsible for your own actions? Arrest hot horny teenage girls for putting Thoughtcrime into the heads of poor innocent God-fearing men, is my new motto. We have a lot to learn from our friends and allies in Saudi Arabia.
Once you criminalise Thoughtcrime, victims are just icing.
This judgement is particularly interesting in that it prohibits material that could produce "demand", i.e. it possibly encourages something that might potentially be Thoughtcrime. Gosh.
Mmm, they look superficially similar, but the only one that's even remotely in the same ballpark is the Logitech Cordless Trackman Optical, and that's a poor substitute. Once you go Trackball Explorer, everything else is fiddly and shoddy and a literal pain to use.
I've enthused in detail above, but I'll give my wife the last word. She doesn't care about her computer hardware. She'll take whatever I give her. Doesn't care about the case or processor or RAM. Doesn't care about screens or printers or scanners or webcams. Cares a little about keyboards; likes them black, like her men. But once she'd "borrowed" my Trackball Explorer, it instantly and forever became her Trackball Explorer, and I had to score myself another one. Nobody touches it, not me, not the kids, not nobody, not no how.
I'm looking into medication, and possibly some form of secure accomodation. Then I'll have two Trackball Explorers.
You'd think those are competitors for the Microsoft Trackball Explorer, but having used them both (and a whole bunch of other trackballs over the years), they're not. They're not even close. Nothing that I've ever tried or seen is close.
Your point about finger vs thumb operated balls is absolutely correct, and I understand that some weird mutants actually like thumb balls. But the joy of the Trackball Explorer is that the ball is precisely under the first two fingers, the (big) buttons 1 and 2 and the (big) scroll wheel/button 3 are precisely under the thumb, and the (big) buttons 4 and 5 are precisely under the ring and little fingers, so it's got finger-ball ease and accuracy without the need to lift any digits, ever. The most movement you ever have to make is a (very) small thumb movement to click, much less than you have to make with a thumb ball.
The Cordless Trackman Optical is a nice try - it's what I'm using in the office - but the buttons are too small and fiddly, and the scroll wheel is in the wrong place, meaning you're back to finger lifting or unnatural extensions. It's not a patch on the Trackball Explorer which is truly ergonomic, and not in a bullshit marketing sense.
I hope you get a chance to try one some time. I have two, and I am seriously considering springing for another as a backup, at any price, while they're still available. They really are that good.
I'd imagine that the manufacturing in all cases is done by Wun Hung Lo Light Industry and Pre-Used Organs Conglomerate in China. Branding is largely superficial.
As an aside though, the Microsoft Explorer Trackball was a Microsoft custom job that Logitech have never produced a direct competitor for. I mention this because, being Microsoft, they killed it off despite its popularity in its niche. Used examples are now selling for $250 and rising on eBay, and there's even a market for cleaning kits and maintenance marketed specifically at this device; I doubt we'll ever see any particular Logitech branded pointing device being missed as much.
Uh... or get White Hat control servers in place that NUKE THE ZOMBIES FROM ORBIT?
Enough with the defence. Don't the NSA and DOD have people whose job this is? If they can't deal with Srizbi, how are they going to deal with a real attack?
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There, fixed that for you. You employ the guy that wrote WOWGlider, not the doofus who designed trust into the client in the first place.
There's no need to put the blame on the corporate body. Developers have mortgages too.
"So, Developer Danny, I notice that 8 out of your last 10 commits have had someone else's name on them. Can you explain to us what value you bring to SUN, and why we shouldn't just hire or reward the 3rd party contributors directly?"
It's not as trite as it sounds. Why would the best developers prioritise other peoples' patches over their own? And if you're not the best developer, what are you doing guarding the gates?
What's your usage right now?
And I have a magic stone that keeps elephants away. Do you see any elephants around here?
Since XP64 apparently doesn't work, I'm sadly unable to use it to tell you that your mother sucks Satan's cock. Thank you for your non-attention.
Question: for what specific purpose do you or I actually need more than 3GB of RAM on XP? My usage tops out at 950MB even when compiling while playing GTA:SA, so my 2GB box already has one wasted RAM slot.
Can you quantify that? What tasks are quicker to perform? What functionality is easier to find?
Nobody gives a damn. Really. We don't care. Not one bit. We don't care about the current limit, we won't care about the new one. Collect your campaign contributions, and fuck off downstairs to one of your many heavily subsidised pubs where you can light up your fags in peace, while passing laws against those same things for the rest of us. We. Just. Don't. Care.
So is a tennis racket, and a baseball bat. They need straps too, right?
Dude, he's a "former logistics and process consultant". He's way ahead of you.
It's such a shame that he'll be unable to learn them, what with being such a notorious doofus.
We should instead continue to appoint loyal political apparatchiks who - as we all know - can pick up all that silly old "science" stuff overnight, should they ever feel the need.
The content is free; you're paying for the convenience.
Really, how little do you value your time?
I honestly can't see how DRM has any material effect on album profit either way, because:
1) DRM is absolutely no barrier to it hitting P2P within seconds of its release.
2) For every raving Freeeeeeeeeeeedom loving nerd who withholds their money in outraged pique, there's ten thousand purchasing goobers who couldn't even spell DRM if you gifted them the D and R and hummed "Mmmmm" at them.
There may be an effect on overall earnings, in that giving it away might build goodwill for concert and moichandising sales, but it's intangible and largely a tenet of belief, like the Tooth Fairy or man friendly lesbians.
Exactly! Even a American should understand that Freedom is a newspeak synonym for Good.
It's OK, it's not like more than one person in a thousand will even read it. Heh, maybe that qualifies it as spam.
Well, Prophet Mohammed was a child molester, so I think he'd be on a sticky wicket here, so to speak.
If you buy it, your head will swell to seven times its normal size. Your girlfriend will leave you and shack up with a rottweiler. The rottweiler will bite you in your swollen head, which will burst, showing your WOW machine with cursed pustulent ichor. The ensuing fire will kill you, the dog, your ex-girlfriend, and an entire troop of golden haired girl scouts trying to sell you cookies. Also, your corpse will posthumously contract cancer of the ass.
Add yet, even knowing this, every last single solitary WOW player on the face of the planet earth has already bought it.
No, because it doesn't do so in a way that might result result in the viewer possibly experiencing the Thoughtcrime of being sexually attracted to children which could result in them performing, commissioning or rewarding an act that may involve an actual child.
The only people who need to worry are those evil monsters who sexualise children, and portray them as precociously pubescent and sexually available.
So, that'll be... hmmm... the RIAA, MPAA, makeup companies, childrens' clothing manufacturers, and every parent that ever let their pre-consent daughter dress like that Hannah Montana tramp.
And why stop there? If you're under the age of consent but above the age of criminal responsibility, then surely you're responsible for your own actions? Arrest hot horny teenage girls for putting Thoughtcrime into the heads of poor innocent God-fearing men, is my new motto. We have a lot to learn from our friends and allies in Saudi Arabia.
Once you criminalise Thoughtcrime, victims are just icing.
This judgement is particularly interesting in that it prohibits material that could produce "demand", i.e. it possibly encourages something that might potentially be Thoughtcrime. Gosh.
Mmm, they look superficially similar, but the only one that's even remotely in the same ballpark is the Logitech Cordless Trackman Optical, and that's a poor substitute. Once you go Trackball Explorer, everything else is fiddly and shoddy and a literal pain to use.
I've enthused in detail above, but I'll give my wife the last word. She doesn't care about her computer hardware. She'll take whatever I give her. Doesn't care about the case or processor or RAM. Doesn't care about screens or printers or scanners or webcams. Cares a little about keyboards; likes them black, like her men. But once she'd "borrowed" my Trackball Explorer, it instantly and forever became her Trackball Explorer, and I had to score myself another one. Nobody touches it, not me, not the kids, not nobody, not no how.
I'm looking into medication, and possibly some form of secure accomodation. Then I'll have two Trackball Explorers.
You'd think those are competitors for the Microsoft Trackball Explorer, but having used them both (and a whole bunch of other trackballs over the years), they're not. They're not even close. Nothing that I've ever tried or seen is close.
Your point about finger vs thumb operated balls is absolutely correct, and I understand that some weird mutants actually like thumb balls. But the joy of the Trackball Explorer is that the ball is precisely under the first two fingers, the (big) buttons 1 and 2 and the (big) scroll wheel/button 3 are precisely under the thumb, and the (big) buttons 4 and 5 are precisely under the ring and little fingers, so it's got finger-ball ease and accuracy without the need to lift any digits, ever. The most movement you ever have to make is a (very) small thumb movement to click, much less than you have to make with a thumb ball.
The Cordless Trackman Optical is a nice try - it's what I'm using in the office - but the buttons are too small and fiddly, and the scroll wheel is in the wrong place, meaning you're back to finger lifting or unnatural extensions. It's not a patch on the Trackball Explorer which is truly ergonomic, and not in a bullshit marketing sense.
I hope you get a chance to try one some time. I have two, and I am seriously considering springing for another as a backup, at any price, while they're still available. They really are that good.
Exactly! Except, without the spaceships.
I'd imagine that the manufacturing in all cases is done by Wun Hung Lo Light Industry and Pre-Used Organs Conglomerate in China. Branding is largely superficial.
As an aside though, the Microsoft Explorer Trackball was a Microsoft custom job that Logitech have never produced a direct competitor for. I mention this because, being Microsoft, they killed it off despite its popularity in its niche. Used examples are now selling for $250 and rising on eBay, and there's even a market for cleaning kits and maintenance marketed specifically at this device; I doubt we'll ever see any particular Logitech branded pointing device being missed as much.
Apology accepted.
Uh... or get White Hat control servers in place that NUKE THE ZOMBIES FROM ORBIT?
Enough with the defence. Don't the NSA and DOD have people whose job this is? If they can't deal with Srizbi, how are they going to deal with a real attack?