Disproving an argument about the "general" case by citing a single, specific counterexample simply doesn't work.
However, I do agree that olive oil is fantastic. Paying double price for something that is ultimately a tiny fraction of my grocery budget is worth it in light of the better taste and the health benefits. It baffles me that more people don't use it. I know some people have real budget constraints, but not that many...
Ever tried to maintain archival backups for a petabyte-worth of data?
Yes, as a matter of fact. Definitely a lot of work is involved, but do you believe that you wouldn't need a team of document managers, millions of dollars worth of floor space, and expensive climate controlled facilities for archival of microfiche? You most certainly do. It's a lot of data. Period. No matter what you try to do with it, it's a lot of data. It's going to require a lot of resources. That's just a fact of life.
Anyway, noone in their right mind would choose microfiche for that type of data. If you're only storing plain text pages it's adequate (though I still don't think it would be the "right way to do it" in this day and age), but for photographic plates? Not going to work.
Microfiche is vastly overrated, in my opinion. My current project involves taking 2 floors worth of 30-50 year old microfiche and scanning it, OCRing it, and PDFing it. Yes it certainly does age. Quite poorly, in fact. The quality is absolutely terrible compared to the paper versions, some of it is stuck together, and indexing and cataloging it is a nightmare all of its own.
Yes, there are challenges in the digital world too, but most are easily surmountable given a little bit of common sense in understanding that digital is not magic. It doesn't mean you can "fire and forget". The documents will still require maintenance, cataloging, protection and monitoring. Format obsolescence is very nearly a nonissue, it is blown way out of proportion. That's where the "maintenance" comes in. The key benefit of digital is that you can and should losslessly upgrade your format whenever obsolescence is becoming a concern. Formats do not disappear overnight and suddenly everyone forgets what to do with them, you have plenty of time to make your transition if you're paying attention (which you must be: again, digital is not magic).
My very first CD burner was a yamaha 4x scsi drive. I bought this sucker more than 10 years ago, and to this day, it works. There's no reason why DVD drives have to be shit, especially not if they're used in a console where you can't just replace them.
4x does not put quite the same stress on the drive than 52x does. High performance parts are generally high maintenance.
Legally they can't stop you. You're welcome to release your game. The trick is, it will only run on modded hardware, same as any other homebrew game. They're not preventing you from *releasing* it, it just won't run on most hardware without the magical cryptographic signature that licensed games get.
So, they can't sue you to stop you from releasing it. But they don't need to, because it won't work anyway. And if you manage to break the cryptographic signature and release it in a manner that actually works, well, that's where the DMCA comes into play. Nintendo/Sony/et al. have all their bases covered.
Like a movie, role playing requires some suspension of disbelief. A hurdle in the way of that is still a hurdle, even if it is possible to get over it.
Catch the idiots, kick them out, then (most importantly) get rid of the cameras.
And that's why they call surveillance a slippery slope. Going down is all well and good, but when you want to go back to where you used to be it is very nearly impossible. Once those cameras are there, I don't think any force of willpower on earth will be able to get rid of them.
It's not a star, not the same way you get a star from a question block. It's an invincibility special ability. It's not quite the same as a regular star as it doesn't make you go faster, improve your handling, or allow you to drive with reduced penalty on grass/mud. It's just invincibilty + collision damage.
All of the AI players have their own special abilities, which fall into two basic categories. Mario and Luigi get invincibility, everyone else gets a tossable/droppable item (Banana, Fireball, Shell, etc) which they can use repeatedly.
It's not the same kind of cheating when a car mysteriously catches up to you at seemingly supersonic speed. In the former case, it's an obvious game mechanic. In the latter case, they're trying to be subtle about it and use it to cover up AI weakness, hopefully without you realizing that they're doing it.
Uh, I'm pretty sure the guy is referring to math like calculus, advanced geometry, statistics, etc. That has nothing to do with whether you can add integers and read a clock. And reading is still more important, because if you didn't read your contract how do you know whether you've done what you've agreed to do for that paycheque anyway?
Well, that won't be much of a problem. If we have hit or are very near peak oil, then no matter how much we burn we will never come close to the levels in the Cretaceous. I dunno about that. Have you heard of Methane clathrates?
There have been several cases where an eagerly anticipated game ran out of capital before it was "finished" and so it simply got canned. That sucks too. I would rather have a buggy release where I *can* buy it and as such hopefully fund some future patches, eventually resulting in a complete game. Worst case scenario at least there is a possibility that the community can come up with an unofficial patch.
So no, it's not really a very bad precedent at all as far as I'm concerned.
Ultima and Wizardry are two excellent and long-lived fantasy series that do not incorporate almost any of the standard fantasy cliches (except magic, which is almost a requirement of the genre -- it would kind of be historical fiction otherwise). You're right, however, that they do not seem to achieve quite as much in the way of popularity.
That would require *extremely long* exposures. You can't really up the sensitivity of the detector no matter how much money you throw at it. Good CCDs are already at the level of being able to record single photons, and it still takes hours or even days for some exposures. So what's a several hour exposure multiplied by a million pixels? Ouch is what it is.
The body should just pass any water it doesn't need straight to the bladder.
It does. Unfortunately it also dissolves any sodium it comes into contact with along the way, which then gets urinated out of your body. Sodium is incredibly important for your body to function, and you're rinsing out the small supply the body is able to keep, and you're not replacing it. Your body expects to get most of its water from food, which contains lots of sodium to replenish your supplies.
Maybe now would be a good time to dismiss the "8 glasses of water a day" myth as well. That's part of a quote from a doctor, who was explaining how much water an average person should take in in a day... but he was including food, which is usually 50-75% water. A glass or two of water is more than enough. More than that is dangerous.
It's YOUR problem, not anyone else's... If you don't like that, choose another language.
So basically you're admitting that it is PHP's fault, and that other languages don't have nearly as severe a problem with insecurity-by-default. I'll agree.
In a perfect language, a security hole should always be an error of commission, never an error of omission. No language is perfect, but in that respect, most are a damn sight closer than PHP.
There are two sides to that coin, you know. Aircraft designers tend to be extremely conservative, yes. But there's a reason for that.
Why do general aviation planes usually have extremely simplistic, 4-stroke big block engines with carbureators? Because they generally work. They do fail, but their failure modes are very well known, very obvious, and usually easy to fix. Those are important qualities, and I'm willing to bet that you underrate them. If you replaced the aircraft's engine with a modern fuel injected digitally controlled model, what happens if an injector clogs, or the computer goes insane? No one knows, and they're not eager to find out. If your carb ices, you can fix that. In-air, no less. It may be a less reliable design overall, but the failure modes are usually pretty tame. And that's worth a lot to an aircraft designer.
Taking one of your examples regarding the stall indicator/yoke... do you really want to take a piece of equipment which in correct operation is almost *never* going to get used, and hook it up to your primary controls? That's just *asking* for trouble. If the stall indicator ever gets jammed open (it is just a little metal flap after all, it's unlikely but possible), your "safety" measure may well crash the plane on its own.
It's not as easy as it looks. These people are not idiots, they simply have a lot of variables to consider and weigh. And they have a pretty solid track record behind them, too.
Because eventually XP won't run your new software, even though it's basically the same OS.
I'm still running 2000 and now I'm starting to discover apps (Photoshop CS3 for example) that make XP-only system calls for no apparent reason which I suspect is merely a ploy to insist that I and the many companies still running 2000 start to migrate up to XP or Vista.
You seem to know a lot more about this than the real scientists... maybe you should let them know!
Seriously though, you're as guilty as glossing over things as those you criticize. How do you expect these "great forests" to grow without any sunlight because the sky is constantly overcast? How will our crops grow?
But the real problem is, clouds don't just reflect sunlight, they also trap heat. And guess which one they are more effective at? You can take a look at our solar system for a clue: Mercury's peak temperature, despite being very close to the sun, with dark rock, no clouds, and no protective atmosphere, is still cooler than Venus, even though Venus is almost twice as far from the Sun and receives only 25% of the solar radiation. Clouds are part of global warming, not a solution. And even if they were a solution, they would be a very unpleasant one: almost all of our renewable energy is ultimately solar-based.
I never saw the show. I was skeptical at first, but I watched my friend's DVDs of it, and I was hooked. So now I am a fanboi (browncoat, thanks), and I never watched the show on Fox, nor have I ever claimed that I did. Do you actually know an abundance of people who claim to have watched the show when it aired on Fox? Seems strange that anyone would lie about that. It's not like Fox made it easy or tried hard to advertise it or anything.
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Disproving an argument about the "general" case by citing a single, specific counterexample simply doesn't work.
However, I do agree that olive oil is fantastic. Paying double price for something that is ultimately a tiny fraction of my grocery budget is worth it in light of the better taste and the health benefits. It baffles me that more people don't use it. I know some people have real budget constraints, but not that many...
Ever tried to maintain archival backups for a petabyte-worth of data?
Yes, as a matter of fact. Definitely a lot of work is involved, but do you believe that you wouldn't need a team of document managers, millions of dollars worth of floor space, and expensive climate controlled facilities for archival of microfiche? You most certainly do. It's a lot of data. Period. No matter what you try to do with it, it's a lot of data. It's going to require a lot of resources. That's just a fact of life.
Anyway, noone in their right mind would choose microfiche for that type of data. If you're only storing plain text pages it's adequate (though I still don't think it would be the "right way to do it" in this day and age), but for photographic plates? Not going to work.
Microfiche is vastly overrated, in my opinion. My current project involves taking 2 floors worth of 30-50 year old microfiche and scanning it, OCRing it, and PDFing it. Yes it certainly does age. Quite poorly, in fact. The quality is absolutely terrible compared to the paper versions, some of it is stuck together, and indexing and cataloging it is a nightmare all of its own.
Yes, there are challenges in the digital world too, but most are easily surmountable given a little bit of common sense in understanding that digital is not magic. It doesn't mean you can "fire and forget". The documents will still require maintenance, cataloging, protection and monitoring. Format obsolescence is very nearly a nonissue, it is blown way out of proportion. That's where the "maintenance" comes in. The key benefit of digital is that you can and should losslessly upgrade your format whenever obsolescence is becoming a concern. Formats do not disappear overnight and suddenly everyone forgets what to do with them, you have plenty of time to make your transition if you're paying attention (which you must be: again, digital is not magic).
Indeed, isn't it a fantastic book?
I keep telling people to read it. Sooner or later, everbody listens to Reason...
My very first CD burner was a yamaha 4x scsi drive. I bought this sucker more than 10 years ago, and to this day, it works. There's no reason why DVD drives have to be shit, especially not if they're used in a console where you can't just replace them.
4x does not put quite the same stress on the drive than 52x does. High performance parts are generally high maintenance.
What's wrong with a Commodore 64? Some of us were writing programs when you were still in diapers, kid.
Legally they can't stop you. You're welcome to release your game. The trick is, it will only run on modded hardware, same as any other homebrew game. They're not preventing you from *releasing* it, it just won't run on most hardware without the magical cryptographic signature that licensed games get.
So, they can't sue you to stop you from releasing it. But they don't need to, because it won't work anyway. And if you manage to break the cryptographic signature and release it in a manner that actually works, well, that's where the DMCA comes into play. Nintendo/Sony/et al. have all their bases covered.
Like a movie, role playing requires some suspension of disbelief. A hurdle in the way of that is still a hurdle, even if it is possible to get over it.
Catch the idiots, kick them out, then (most importantly) get rid of the cameras.
And that's why they call surveillance a slippery slope. Going down is all well and good, but when you want to go back to where you used to be it is very nearly impossible. Once those cameras are there, I don't think any force of willpower on earth will be able to get rid of them.
It's not a star, not the same way you get a star from a question block. It's an invincibility special ability. It's not quite the same as a regular star as it doesn't make you go faster, improve your handling, or allow you to drive with reduced penalty on grass/mud. It's just invincibilty + collision damage.
All of the AI players have their own special abilities, which fall into two basic categories. Mario and Luigi get invincibility, everyone else gets a tossable/droppable item (Banana, Fireball, Shell, etc) which they can use repeatedly.
It's not the same kind of cheating when a car mysteriously catches up to you at seemingly supersonic speed. In the former case, it's an obvious game mechanic. In the latter case, they're trying to be subtle about it and use it to cover up AI weakness, hopefully without you realizing that they're doing it.
Uh, I'm pretty sure the guy is referring to math like calculus, advanced geometry, statistics, etc. That has nothing to do with whether you can add integers and read a clock. And reading is still more important, because if you didn't read your contract how do you know whether you've done what you've agreed to do for that paycheque anyway?
There have been several cases where an eagerly anticipated game ran out of capital before it was "finished" and so it simply got canned. That sucks too. I would rather have a buggy release where I *can* buy it and as such hopefully fund some future patches, eventually resulting in a complete game. Worst case scenario at least there is a possibility that the community can come up with an unofficial patch.
So no, it's not really a very bad precedent at all as far as I'm concerned.
Oil and Gas: We have 'em, you don't. Good luck!
Ultima and Wizardry are two excellent and long-lived fantasy series that do not incorporate almost any of the standard fantasy cliches (except magic, which is almost a requirement of the genre -- it would kind of be historical fiction otherwise). You're right, however, that they do not seem to achieve quite as much in the way of popularity.
Almost everybody I know that has mp3's on their computer have atleast one ( generally hundreds or thousands ) that they havent paid for.
I also have a lot of CDs, tapes, and vinyl I bought and don't (or can't) listen to. It evens out.
You never know, they might deadlock each other.
That would require *extremely long* exposures. You can't really up the sensitivity of the detector no matter how much money you throw at it. Good CCDs are already at the level of being able to record single photons, and it still takes hours or even days for some exposures. So what's a several hour exposure multiplied by a million pixels? Ouch is what it is.
The body should just pass any water it doesn't need straight to the bladder.
It does. Unfortunately it also dissolves any sodium it comes into contact with along the way, which then gets urinated out of your body. Sodium is incredibly important for your body to function, and you're rinsing out the small supply the body is able to keep, and you're not replacing it. Your body expects to get most of its water from food, which contains lots of sodium to replenish your supplies.
Maybe now would be a good time to dismiss the "8 glasses of water a day" myth as well. That's part of a quote from a doctor, who was explaining how much water an average person should take in in a day... but he was including food, which is usually 50-75% water. A glass or two of water is more than enough. More than that is dangerous.
It's YOUR problem, not anyone else's ... If you don't like that, choose another language.
So basically you're admitting that it is PHP's fault, and that other languages don't have nearly as severe a problem with insecurity-by-default. I'll agree.
In a perfect language, a security hole should always be an error of commission, never an error of omission. No language is perfect, but in that respect, most are a damn sight closer than PHP.
There are two sides to that coin, you know. Aircraft designers tend to be extremely conservative, yes. But there's a reason for that.
Why do general aviation planes usually have extremely simplistic, 4-stroke big block engines with carbureators? Because they generally work. They do fail, but their failure modes are very well known, very obvious, and usually easy to fix. Those are important qualities, and I'm willing to bet that you underrate them. If you replaced the aircraft's engine with a modern fuel injected digitally controlled model, what happens if an injector clogs, or the computer goes insane? No one knows, and they're not eager to find out. If your carb ices, you can fix that. In-air, no less. It may be a less reliable design overall, but the failure modes are usually pretty tame. And that's worth a lot to an aircraft designer.
Taking one of your examples regarding the stall indicator/yoke... do you really want to take a piece of equipment which in correct operation is almost *never* going to get used, and hook it up to your primary controls? That's just *asking* for trouble. If the stall indicator ever gets jammed open (it is just a little metal flap after all, it's unlikely but possible), your "safety" measure may well crash the plane on its own.
It's not as easy as it looks. These people are not idiots, they simply have a lot of variables to consider and weigh. And they have a pretty solid track record behind them, too.
Because eventually XP won't run your new software, even though it's basically the same OS.
I'm still running 2000 and now I'm starting to discover apps (Photoshop CS3 for example) that make XP-only system calls for no apparent reason which I suspect is merely a ploy to insist that I and the many companies still running 2000 start to migrate up to XP or Vista.
RAID-0 is striping. RAID-0 a tongue-in-cheek way of saying "Zero RAID" or "Not RAID". It's not redundant at all.
You meant to say RAID-1 (mirroring), I'm sure.
Most shooting game companies are based in Texas, eh? To quote South Park,
"Horrific deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!"
There are various definitions of "conservative", it's not all about the guns.
You seem to know a lot more about this than the real scientists... maybe you should let them know!
Seriously though, you're as guilty as glossing over things as those you criticize. How do you expect these "great forests" to grow without any sunlight because the sky is constantly overcast? How will our crops grow?
But the real problem is, clouds don't just reflect sunlight, they also trap heat. And guess which one they are more effective at? You can take a look at our solar system for a clue: Mercury's peak temperature, despite being very close to the sun, with dark rock, no clouds, and no protective atmosphere, is still cooler than Venus, even though Venus is almost twice as far from the Sun and receives only 25% of the solar radiation. Clouds are part of global warming, not a solution. And even if they were a solution, they would be a very unpleasant one: almost all of our renewable energy is ultimately solar-based.
I never saw the show. I was skeptical at first, but I watched my friend's DVDs of it, and I was hooked. So now I am a fanboi (browncoat, thanks), and I never watched the show on Fox, nor have I ever claimed that I did. Do you actually know an abundance of people who claim to have watched the show when it aired on Fox? Seems strange that anyone would lie about that. It's not like Fox made it easy or tried hard to advertise it or anything.