After sending up old John Glenn, NASA already lost any remaining credibility anyway. May as well send her up too--along with a monkey, a celebrity, and an athlete (I've even already arranged everyone in declining order of intelligence for them).
You joke, but all that get-tough-on-crime stuff in the 80's did have some beneficial effects--though whether it was worth the trade-off or not is up for debate. Crime rates have dropped drastically (especially in cities) since then--among both adults and with an even more drastic drop among juveniles (more adult scum in prison means less kids being born to scum or raised by scum and becoming scum themselves).
Now personally, I would rather the world chide us a bit for a high prison population than to go back to the way it was in the 70's in places like NYC. It's all well-and-good for Finland to look down on us for it, but Finland doesn't have to deal with a MUCH larger minority and impoverished population who are way more prone to crime than your average European suburbanite. Let's see how Finland behaves when we ship over the 20% of our population of children living in poverty. Let's see if Finland is so liberal on crime when we up their black and hispanic populations to 30% (like in the U.S.) of their total population instead of the 0.5% it currently is.
I'm not saying it's *my* concern. Frankly, I just assume that every single game "journalist" is nothing more than a paid shill for whatever company happens to be buying ads that week. But it *is* the major concern of most of the gamergate crowd. And they're being unfairly slandered as just a bunch of misogynists and fascists by the very "journalists" who have every reason to distract their readers away from the real issue.
But only when a game designer's jilted ex-boyfriend posts hearsay about it. AAA publishers were doing worse shit all the times but there was no uproar of this intensity.
You must be too young to remember the uproar over the Kane & Lynch/Gamespot incident from a few years back. There have been plenty of other similar explosions over the years, and none of them involved sexism that I recall. But you keep believing all the embarrassed game journalists who keep saying "The ethics of game journalism are just fine, no need to...HEY LOOK OVER THERE, IT'S SEXISM!!!!"
Remember all the hype for Destiny before it's release? It was all bought and paid for with Bungie's HUGE ad-buy budget (we're talking north of $100 million spent just for the hype alone).
Then, a week or two after release, all those same magazines (IGN, Gamespot, etc.) who were two weeks earlier hyping Destiny as the GREATEST THING EVER in their "Previews" and "Games We're SUPER Psyched About!" sections sheepishly release mediocre reviews (too late for all their readers who already bought it based on all their hype, of course).
It's about unethical journalists. And those same journalists have been trying for weeks now to deflect this focus away from them and pretend it's about sexism, changing gamer culture, etc. so they themselves don't have to answer for a decades-long games journalism tradition of "journalists" being in bed with the very companies they're supposed to be covering (through advertising, bribes, press releases disguised as "previews," etc.)
No, in MY movie the real hero is Jeremy Hammond the guy who exposed the scumbag dealings in the Statfor emails and who is currently serving 10 years because of this motherfucker.
Sabu is the Judas of my movie, a coward who will never ever be able to get the taste of FBI dick out of his mouth.
And THIS is why you should always be suspicious of the guy in your cause who always seems to be screaming the loudest for the most radical (and illegal) stuff, yet whose own operations always seem to end up sabotaged.
Hey, $200-$300 a month is damned good money if you're some developer in India throwing out dozens of cheap knockoffs a month, like "Upset Birds" and "Planks vs. Zombies."
Apple behaves in mysterious ways. Perhaps you need to look into your heart and ask yourself if you have truly invited Steve into your heart and are truly following his teachings in your software development. If you do this, and then come back and make true penitence to Apple for this blasphemous post, then Steve will welcome you back into the Kingdom.
Hell, that was in an era when the Comstock Laws made it legal for the Postal Service to search through your mail to make sure you weren't sending information on contraception. And when supporting "anarchism" or "Bolshevism" could get you thrown in prison. And when supporting a mine strike could get you killed.
Yeah, but minimum requirements are usually on the application side of things and say "If you want to run this latest version of the software you'll need a relatively new computer to do it." That's a lot different than saying "This software will no longer read any legacy files from older versions, it will no longer work the same way it used to, it will no longer be compatible with the OS's it used to work with" etc.
Yeah, I'm sure programmers around the world would just love to throw all their legacy code out and start fresh with solid new code, and say "Fuck compatibility!" "Fuck interoperability!" But in the real world, no one is going to buy a version of Windows that doesn't work with any older Windows software. No one is going to "upgrade" to a new version of a program that won't even import files from the previous version, or support older add-ons that the company/consumer paid good money for. No one is going to accept "Our programmers got tired of kludging in the legacy code" as an excuse for why Photoshop CS200 can no longer read files from Photoshop CS199 or earlier.
Yes, and this is precisely WHY programmers don't get to make those decisions. Someone who actually understands the customers and the business has to come in and set boundaries. It's all well and good for the OP to call for radical change, but a real-world manager has to come in an some point and say "Look guys, if you want to be revolutionaries, go somewhere else. We are here to sell software to customers who don't give a shit about your revolution."
Not to mention the fact that, even without cash, criminals will still trade in jewelry and other valuable items. Clearly, Finland should ban those as well.
He's saying that compatibility is not (or rather, should not be) the sole consideration.
In that case, he's making a needless argument, because that has NEVER been the sole consideration with any software development project, and never will be.
It's funny, when I was a kid, I had seen so many scifi movies, games, books, etc. where the characters who crash-landed or got attacked by aliens always seemed to have weapons on board. So I just assumed that every NASA or Soviet space capsule had weapons on board. I guess I was at least partially right. I wonder if any of NASA's splash-down pods had emergency fishing poles.;-)
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After sending up old John Glenn, NASA already lost any remaining credibility anyway. May as well send her up too--along with a monkey, a celebrity, and an athlete (I've even already arranged everyone in declining order of intelligence for them).
To accomplish NASA's main mission these days: PR.
Hey, someone has to keep the U.S. and Europe supplied with electronics that we used to make here.
To be fair, money IS speech, according to SCoTUS.
LOL. forgot about that. Next time I get busted for buying a hooker, I'm going to tell the cop I was just speaking with her.
You joke, but all that get-tough-on-crime stuff in the 80's did have some beneficial effects--though whether it was worth the trade-off or not is up for debate. Crime rates have dropped drastically (especially in cities) since then--among both adults and with an even more drastic drop among juveniles (more adult scum in prison means less kids being born to scum or raised by scum and becoming scum themselves).
Crime rate in the U.S.
Now personally, I would rather the world chide us a bit for a high prison population than to go back to the way it was in the 70's in places like NYC. It's all well-and-good for Finland to look down on us for it, but Finland doesn't have to deal with a MUCH larger minority and impoverished population who are way more prone to crime than your average European suburbanite. Let's see how Finland behaves when we ship over the 20% of our population of children living in poverty. Let's see if Finland is so liberal on crime when we up their black and hispanic populations to 30% (like in the U.S.) of their total population instead of the 0.5% it currently is.
No. Lobbying involves talking and bribery involves illegal money.
Oh, to be so young and naive again. Yes, little Jimmy, lobbying just involves talking--and Santa Claus is real too.
I'm not saying it's *my* concern. Frankly, I just assume that every single game "journalist" is nothing more than a paid shill for whatever company happens to be buying ads that week. But it *is* the major concern of most of the gamergate crowd. And they're being unfairly slandered as just a bunch of misogynists and fascists by the very "journalists" who have every reason to distract their readers away from the real issue.
But only when a game designer's jilted ex-boyfriend posts hearsay about it. AAA publishers were doing worse shit all the times but there was no uproar of this intensity.
You must be too young to remember the uproar over the Kane & Lynch/Gamespot incident from a few years back. There have been plenty of other similar explosions over the years, and none of them involved sexism that I recall. But you keep believing all the embarrassed game journalists who keep saying "The ethics of game journalism are just fine, no need to...HEY LOOK OVER THERE, IT'S SEXISM!!!!"
Remember all the hype for Destiny before it's release? It was all bought and paid for with Bungie's HUGE ad-buy budget (we're talking north of $100 million spent just for the hype alone).
Then, a week or two after release, all those same magazines (IGN, Gamespot, etc.) who were two weeks earlier hyping Destiny as the GREATEST THING EVER in their "Previews" and "Games We're SUPER Psyched About!" sections sheepishly release mediocre reviews (too late for all their readers who already bought it based on all their hype, of course).
It's about unethical journalists. And those same journalists have been trying for weeks now to deflect this focus away from them and pretend it's about sexism, changing gamer culture, etc. so they themselves don't have to answer for a decades-long games journalism tradition of "journalists" being in bed with the very companies they're supposed to be covering (through advertising, bribes, press releases disguised as "previews," etc.)
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No, in MY movie the real hero is Jeremy Hammond the guy who exposed the scumbag dealings in the Statfor emails and who is currently serving 10 years because of this motherfucker.
Sabu is the Judas of my movie, a coward who will never ever be able to get the taste of FBI dick out of his mouth.
I really think it's disparaging to call the UK government the lapdogs of the U.S.
I mean, it's really not fair to lapdogs. They at least have SOME dignity.
And THIS is why you should always be suspicious of the guy in your cause who always seems to be screaming the loudest for the most radical (and illegal) stuff, yet whose own operations always seem to end up sabotaged.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, I'm looking in your direction.
Hey, $200-$300 a month is damned good money if you're some developer in India throwing out dozens of cheap knockoffs a month, like "Upset Birds" and "Planks vs. Zombies."
Apple behaves in mysterious ways. Perhaps you need to look into your heart and ask yourself if you have truly invited Steve into your heart and are truly following his teachings in your software development. If you do this, and then come back and make true penitence to Apple for this blasphemous post, then Steve will welcome you back into the Kingdom.
during WWI and WWII they matched and in some fields outdid the allies in technology and scientific research
Yeah, they built some of the best ovens in the world.
Hell, that was in an era when the Comstock Laws made it legal for the Postal Service to search through your mail to make sure you weren't sending information on contraception. And when supporting "anarchism" or "Bolshevism" could get you thrown in prison. And when supporting a mine strike could get you killed.
...unless you're willing to hold your nose on where you get your rocket scientists.
Speaking of which, you really should return that to John Holmes' casket.
Yeah, but minimum requirements are usually on the application side of things and say "If you want to run this latest version of the software you'll need a relatively new computer to do it." That's a lot different than saying "This software will no longer read any legacy files from older versions, it will no longer work the same way it used to, it will no longer be compatible with the OS's it used to work with" etc.
Yeah, I'm sure programmers around the world would just love to throw all their legacy code out and start fresh with solid new code, and say "Fuck compatibility!" "Fuck interoperability!" But in the real world, no one is going to buy a version of Windows that doesn't work with any older Windows software. No one is going to "upgrade" to a new version of a program that won't even import files from the previous version, or support older add-ons that the company/consumer paid good money for. No one is going to accept "Our programmers got tired of kludging in the legacy code" as an excuse for why Photoshop CS200 can no longer read files from Photoshop CS199 or earlier.
Yes, and this is precisely WHY programmers don't get to make those decisions. Someone who actually understands the customers and the business has to come in and set boundaries. It's all well and good for the OP to call for radical change, but a real-world manager has to come in an some point and say "Look guys, if you want to be revolutionaries, go somewhere else. We are here to sell software to customers who don't give a shit about your revolution."
Not to mention the fact that, even without cash, criminals will still trade in jewelry and other valuable items. Clearly, Finland should ban those as well.
He's saying that compatibility is not (or rather, should not be) the sole consideration.
In that case, he's making a needless argument, because that has NEVER been the sole consideration with any software development project, and never will be.
It's funny, when I was a kid, I had seen so many scifi movies, games, books, etc. where the characters who crash-landed or got attacked by aliens always seemed to have weapons on board. So I just assumed that every NASA or Soviet space capsule had weapons on board. I guess I was at least partially right. I wonder if any of NASA's splash-down pods had emergency fishing poles. ;-)