nowadays all major games(dragon age, mass effect 2, battlefield bad company 2, etc..) uses my dual core at 100%
ORLY? 100%, you say? Presumably the games are running SETI@home or similar to eat up cycles while waiting for the GPU or the other core to finish. That's very kind of them.
Now all that remains is for everybody and their dog to create their own Dragon Rider Teen Vampire Pirate themed fork, run a yo-yo server (it's up, it's down...) on their home ADSL, and watch it die in a spread out whimper of indifference.
Speaking of merit based hiring, how poor must your prospects be if the only place you can find employment is the Department of Labor? Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't do anything, oversee.
I've been using a Cognitive Dissonance Meter for longer that most people, and it's just gone off the scale. No, you can't see it. It's myCognitive Dissonance Meter. You'll just have to trust me.
And there's more.
Sure there is. There's the USADA finding synthetic testosterone in 4 out of 7 'B' samples, while Landis' coterie of lawyers wailed how unfair it was to run the synthetic tests on his B samples when his other A samples had shown clean. That's like complaining that the cops found weed in your glove compartment when you hadn't left any lying out on the dash.
After all, there's no way that their malware tool could have spotted it, or the update could have checksummed the files before patching them.
If they put half as much effort into their anti-malware activities as they do into their DRM regime, the world would be a better place. We'd all have unicorns, and a pot of gold.
Unfortunately, there isn't a mod for "Tiresome Bleeding Obvious Opinion that Every 2nd Poster Will Feel Compelled to Share", so we have to go with Redundant
Google are just playing the coquette. They'll give it up all right, they'll give it up hard, but for the sake of their reputation, they want three dates, flowers, and a subpoena first.
Bear in mind that they're up against Kiwi Camara, hotshot pro-bona wunderkind, whose primary interest (at this point in his career) is in making a name for himself by tilting at windmills. You want proof? His other client is Psystar. Neither side (and I mean the RIAA vs Camara, not Thomas-Rasset, who is irrelevant at this point) has anything to lose and potentially something to gain by keeping this going indefinitely.
I've gone Monodevelop and C#, and there's not much about Visual Studio that I'm missing. Thus far, cross platform compatibility seems fine too. Develop on Linux, deploy on Windows feels slightly kinky, but I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
How many of the taserings reported above did you read about "for weeks after"? The beauty of taser is that it's the perfect punishment and compliance tool. No big bruises, no lasting damage except in rare cases, where the excuse is always "underlying medical condition".
(Some) Plod who don't have them say they don't want them. Plod who have them love them, and will never go back. Police PR is about covering up their actions, not about altering them.
If you owned a farm, sure, you food was healthier. But the same applies now. If you lived in a town or city 100 years ago, food was expensive, adulterated, spoiled and in short supply. M'kay?
Crib notes: when people say "global government", they mean the fantasy Utopian government that they would run, not the government that you would run. Basically, the United Federation of Planets, only with more constitutionally protected access to warez and porn.
Swings and roundabouts. They put a lot of effort into tying the hardware and OS, but then largely trust their customers to do the right thing after that.
I guess they reckon that it pays to not treat their paying customers like thieves and liars. Case in point, a workmate just bought a new MiniMax external drive for his Mac from the Apple Store. When it was delivered, he opened it up and found a few small smudges marks on the case that indicated it was a refurb. He called up the local store, and within minutes, they had apologised profusely, dispatched a new box, and booked a courier to collect his refurb, and asked him if there was anything else they could do for him (and meant it).
I know that's not strictly relevant to licensing, but it illustrates that once Apple have your money, they don't feel that it gives them free reign to ass-pound you when you have an issue. Contrast that with MS who once tried to bill me for "support" when I took the time to report a bug in their msvc compiler, for their benefit.
If you don't like the "we can do anything we want to you at any time" EULA, then the solution is to switch to and support a different OS, not to bitch and moan about the EULA that you chose to accept.
Presumably there's a jurisdiction somewhere where it's illegal for police to perform that sort of entrapment, or where downloading (and thus creating a copy) is a strict liability offence with no get-out for law enforcement. Clap them in irons, says I, and transport them there to answer for their foul crimes.
Mmm hmm. As we all know, before copy rights, nobody ever said, sang or wrote anything down for fear that their work would simply be stolen from them without recompense. It's a miracle that we ever developed fire without a robust system of intellectual property.
You know that 2/3 of the phrase "trust but verify" is meaningless oxymoronic bullshit designed to mask the harshness of the only significant word, right? Like "strong but sensitive" or "sexy but geeky".
They legally can not currently use genetic testing to prevent you from getting a job or insurance
Fixed that for you. It's really just a question of how much lobbyists will have to pay to be allowed to do end runs around GINA. For a baby born now, they've got 70+ years to manage it.
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ORLY? 100%, you say? Presumably the games are running SETI@home or similar to eat up cycles while waiting for the GPU or the other core to finish. That's very kind of them.
Now all that remains is for everybody and their dog to create their own Dragon Rider Teen Vampire Pirate themed fork, run a yo-yo server (it's up, it's down...) on their home ADSL, and watch it die in a spread out whimper of indifference.
Speaking of merit based hiring, how poor must your prospects be if the only place you can find employment is the Department of Labor? Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't do anything, oversee.
I've been using a Cognitive Dissonance Meter for longer that most people, and it's just gone off the scale. No, you can't see it. It's myCognitive Dissonance Meter. You'll just have to trust me.
Sure there is. There's the USADA finding synthetic testosterone in 4 out of 7 'B' samples, while Landis' coterie of lawyers wailed how unfair it was to run the synthetic tests on his B samples when his other A samples had shown clean. That's like complaining that the cops found weed in your glove compartment when you hadn't left any lying out on the dash.
I know, it's totally bogus how those underhand Frenchies must have infiltrated the United States Anti-Doping Agency which found synthetic testosterone in 4 out of 7 of Landis' B samples. Will they stop at nothing to sully the names of honourable American athletes?
After all, there's no way that their malware tool could have spotted it, or the update could have checksummed the files before patching them.
If they put half as much effort into their anti-malware activities as they do into their DRM regime, the world would be a better place. We'd all have unicorns, and a pot of gold.
Unfortunately, there isn't a mod for "Tiresome Bleeding Obvious Opinion that Every 2nd Poster Will Feel Compelled to Share", so we have to go with Redundant
Careful now: did you check you were in a Free Speech Zone before you wrote that?
I mean, I'm assuming that it detects that dark skinned guy driving the Avocados Primeros y Armas Nucleares truck across the border from Mexico, right?
Hint: you're Billy. We're all Billy.
Google are just playing the coquette. They'll give it up all right, they'll give it up hard, but for the sake of their reputation, they want three dates, flowers, and a subpoena first.
Bear in mind that they're up against Kiwi Camara, hotshot pro-bona wunderkind, whose primary interest (at this point in his career) is in making a name for himself by tilting at windmills. You want proof? His other client is Psystar. Neither side (and I mean the RIAA vs Camara, not Thomas-Rasset, who is irrelevant at this point) has anything to lose and potentially something to gain by keeping this going indefinitely.
I've gone Monodevelop and C#, and there's not much about Visual Studio that I'm missing. Thus far, cross platform compatibility seems fine too. Develop on Linux, deploy on Windows feels slightly kinky, but I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
2005 would like its analysis back. Tasers are now being issued and used by street Plod in many forces.
How many of the taserings reported above did you read about "for weeks after"? The beauty of taser is that it's the perfect punishment and compliance tool. No big bruises, no lasting damage except in rare cases, where the excuse is always "underlying medical condition".
(Some) Plod who don't have them say they don't want them. Plod who have them love them, and will never go back. Police PR is about covering up their actions, not about altering them.
If you owned a farm, sure, you food was healthier. But the same applies now. If you lived in a town or city 100 years ago, food was expensive, adulterated, spoiled and in short supply. M'kay?
Crib notes: when people say "global government", they mean the fantasy Utopian government that they would run, not the government that you would run. Basically, the United Federation of Planets, only with more constitutionally protected access to warez and porn.
Swings and roundabouts. They put a lot of effort into tying the hardware and OS, but then largely trust their customers to do the right thing after that.
I guess they reckon that it pays to not treat their paying customers like thieves and liars. Case in point, a workmate just bought a new MiniMax external drive for his Mac from the Apple Store. When it was delivered, he opened it up and found a few small smudges marks on the case that indicated it was a refurb. He called up the local store, and within minutes, they had apologised profusely, dispatched a new box, and booked a courier to collect his refurb, and asked him if there was anything else they could do for him (and meant it).
I know that's not strictly relevant to licensing, but it illustrates that once Apple have your money, they don't feel that it gives them free reign to ass-pound you when you have an issue. Contrast that with MS who once tried to bill me for "support" when I took the time to report a bug in their msvc compiler, for their benefit.
In my day, we called this stuff Core Wars, and we kept our viruses in jars and shook them to make them fight.
If you don't like the "we can do anything we want to you at any time" EULA, then the solution is to switch to and support a different OS, not to bitch and moan about the EULA that you chose to accept.
Presumably there's a jurisdiction somewhere where it's illegal for police to perform that sort of entrapment, or where downloading (and thus creating a copy) is a strict liability offence with no get-out for law enforcement. Clap them in irons, says I, and transport them there to answer for their foul crimes.
Mmm hmm. As we all know, before copy rights, nobody ever said, sang or wrote anything down for fear that their work would simply be stolen from them without recompense. It's a miracle that we ever developed fire without a robust system of intellectual property.
You know that 2/3 of the phrase "trust but verify" is meaningless oxymoronic bullshit designed to mask the harshness of the only significant word, right? Like "strong but sensitive" or "sexy but geeky".
What a curious definition of "promote" we've arrived at.
Fixed that for you. It's really just a question of how much lobbyists will have to pay to be allowed to do end runs around GINA. For a baby born now, they've got 70+ years to manage it.
If you're selling your books as bits, then "making it into a book" is a software process. The proof reader can do it as an incidental step.
Technical works are statistically insignificant.