Assuming they didn't violate any laws, they aren't "cheating". Go talk to your legislator if you are upset. People enjoy keeping money hey earn.
Also, this type of article should be filed under Slashdot/NPR, as it's about harping on certain political agendas -- let's gather together and reinforce our anger/banding-together memes. AKA politics as intended.
Welcome to Oregon Trail! Please enter your name: Jimmy Welcome, Jimmy! Jimmy, you have 3.9 million people. How much do you wish to spend per person for a computer government medical insurance system from a contractor? > $17 The contractor screws up, drags ass, and whines for more money. Pay? > Sheee...no >I don't nderstand. > No
It's my understanding it's only illegal to stand there and say, "There's a drug house right over there", complete with pricing information, if I am a part of their operation, or trying to promote it.
Ya know what the solution is to this "race to the bottom"?
Government price supports. Create an artificial shortage on how fast their servers can sell and distribute games by buying hundreds of copies a second and downloading them all.
"We are the world. We are the children. We can come to make a better place so let's not givin'."
That's why the ass said it while outgoing -- he knew he'd be fired.
"They were right to detain and hassle (journalists)". I'll side with a journalist, even yellow scumbuckets, over people deliberately building tools of tyrrany which, history shows, will inevitably be abused in the service of dictatorship.
It's not so much regulation and police protection they are worried about as it is all the extra BS yokels like you seem to think necessarily and properly come along with it like outrageous taxes for bloated, bloviated pop politics (basically a power-hungry politician taking heir money to hand to people who vote for him AKA help him seize power through the abstraction of might makes right called The Vote), overly intrusive monitoring, and outlawing of legitimate business (see bloviating preening power seekers above.)
No, all that extra stuff does not follow, or DNF in scientific terms. A secure and safe business environment includes disallowing rent-seeking and confiscatory tax rates which make the economic impact little different from corrupt places like Russia, Mexico, and a hundred other countries where kickbacks are required to get anything done.
- Does he roar flames? - Does she have tentacles growing out of her? - Do things start flying around the doctor's office while the baby gets a wincing, colicky-like face?
People have no problem opening their yappers about politics because they "worked on something broadly similar in the past, in their mind, which worked fine, in their mind", and nobody bats an eye.
Young ones, stop using "one-click purchases" as the poster child for bad patents.
I lived through that era, having been a programmer already for 10+ years. After being scared shitless by editors which happily exited without asking if you wanted to save, yes they really existed, programmers slapped confirmation boxes on everything.
NOooooooooo way in holy hell would you ever charge and ship without confirmation..
So it may be bad because of precedence, or it may be bad because of other things, but "obviousness" sure as hell ain't one of 'em.
> 'It's a last-minute PR move on their part, and they're trying to use youth unfairly to create a better brand image in the city,'
dot dot dot said someone who doesn't realize that's exactly what their own heart-warming party does for a living when seeking power to dominate others.
> I don't mean to say coal and oil are safer - they kill far more when used as intended.
They save magnitudes more through modern lifestyles than they cost. You can't pick and choose and say "lookee at the deaths!" while ignoring what it saves...vs. dirt-floored existence.
And as opposed to The Other Man, who will use police to stop people from doing this, and selling saplings because they haven't plowed through permits and regulations, and haven't donated to The Other Man's political party, or at least bought 20,000 copies of his inane book and shoved it into a warehouse as a legal way to launder and funnel money into The Other Man's pocket.
"It costs money to develop and keep a game running, just like those fancy decorations and free drinks at a casino; whales, like gambling addicts, subsidize fun for everyone else.'"
Except video game players are more accurately described, than even casino players, as whales.
"Joe, my graduate student, find the shortest path between them"
sounds like a damned powerful anguage to me.
The ultimate is an AI, "Go Do X", where X Is an arbitrarily complicated and fuzzy problem, described in natural language.
For example, "AI, go assemble a list of all known pictures of Cara Delevigne and Michelle Rodriguez, sorted with most romantic or intimate at the top."
Do you deny that would be an awesome and powerful and beautiful language capable of analyzing the deepest and most important issues known to Mankind?
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Assuming they didn't violate any laws, they aren't "cheating". Go talk to your legislator if you are upset. People enjoy keeping money hey earn.
Also, this type of article should be filed under Slashdot/NPR, as it's about harping on certain political agendas -- let's gather together and reinforce our anger/banding-together memes. AKA politics as intended.
Welcome to Oregon Trail!
Please enter your name: Jimmy
Welcome, Jimmy!
Jimmy, you have 3.9 million people.
How much do you wish to spend per person for a computer government medical insurance system from a contractor?
> $17
The contractor screws up, drags ass, and whines for more money. Pay?
> Sheee...no
>I don't nderstand.
> No
It's my understanding it's only illegal to stand there and say, "There's a drug house right over there", complete with pricing information, if I am a part of their operation, or trying to promote it.
Ya know what the solution is to this "race to the bottom"?
Government price supports. Create an artificial shortage on how fast their servers can sell and distribute games by buying hundreds of copies a second and downloading them all.
"We are the world. We are the children. We can come to make a better place so let's not givin'."
Dude's right, though -- it is kind of like Fox News on Obama.
That's why the ass said it while outgoing -- he knew he'd be fired.
"They were right to detain and hassle (journalists)". I'll side with a journalist, even yellow scumbuckets, over people deliberately building tools of tyrrany which, history shows, will inevitably be abused in the service of dictatorship.
-1: Stupid, maybe. It is impossible for the first post to be redundant.
Tom thinks I'm hot.
"Thanks, Obama!"
Seriously, remember these politicians lose fewer votes cancelling this stuff than they do reducing SS payments 0.0000001%.
It's not so much regulation and police protection they are worried about as it is all the extra BS yokels like you seem to think necessarily and properly come along with it like outrageous taxes for bloated, bloviated pop politics (basically a power-hungry politician taking heir money to hand to people who vote for him AKA help him seize power through the abstraction of might makes right called The Vote), overly intrusive monitoring, and outlawing of legitimate business (see bloviating preening power seekers above.)
No, all that extra stuff does not follow, or DNF in scientific terms. A secure and safe business environment includes disallowing rent-seeking and confiscatory tax rates which make the economic impact little different from corrupt places like Russia, Mexico, and a hundred other countries where kickbacks are required to get anything done.
"Text" is not text on Slashdot. You cannoy begin a sentence with an elipsis, which is useful in certain sarcasms.
Jesus, how hard is it?
- Does he roar flames?
- Does she have tentacles growing out of her?
- Do things start flying around the doctor's office while the baby gets a wincing, colicky-like face?
The languages are almost all identical as block-structured languages. The nerd in me cannot grant rhetorical license on that one.
People have no problem opening their yappers about politics because they "worked on something broadly similar in the past, in their mind, which worked fine, in their mind", and nobody bats an eye.
Young ones, stop using "one-click purchases" as the poster child for bad patents.
I lived through that era, having been a programmer already for 10+ years. After being scared shitless by editors which happily exited without asking if you wanted to save, yes they really existed, programmers slapped confirmation boxes on everything.
NOooooooooo way in holy hell would you ever charge and ship without confirmation..
So it may be bad because of precedence, or it may be bad because of other things, but "obviousness" sure as hell ain't one of 'em.
What's this icky nerd stuff doing on a political web site like Slashdot?
> 'It's a last-minute PR move on their part, and they're trying to use youth unfairly to create a better brand image in the city,'
dot dot dot said someone who doesn't realize that's exactly what their own heart-warming party does for a living when seeking power to dominate others.
> I don't mean to say coal and oil are safer - they kill far more when used as intended.
They save magnitudes more through modern lifestyles than they cost. You can't pick and choose and say "lookee at the deaths!" while ignoring what it saves...vs. dirt-floored existence.
I like my coffee like I like my Secret Service agents -- black helicopters.
And as opposed to The Other Man, who will use police to stop people from doing this, and selling saplings because they haven't plowed through permits and regulations, and haven't donated to The Other Man's political party, or at least bought 20,000 copies of his inane book and shoved it into a warehouse as a legal way to launder and funnel money into The Other Man's pocket.
99% of bullets would save the vast majority of people historocally who have been shot at.
Even if you multiply it by number of bacteria, most infections require invasion by hundreds to "take", and not a single one, IIRC.
We must not let useless western lawyerlyism get in the way here and instead let outcomes improvements guide us, rather than lawsuits.
Except video game players are more accurately described, than even casino players, as whales.
California cop: Hafta make my quota...hafta make my quota... Hey you! Is that a phone?
Driver 1: No, it's a handheld GPS device.
Cop: Oh. Hey you over there! Is that a phone?
Driver 2: No, it's a handheld navigation system.
Cop: Oh. Hey, you, is that a phone?
Driver 3: No, it's a handheld telescoping built-in pleasure device.
A programming language with primitives like:
"Compile a list of all European Capitals"
and
"Joe, my graduate student, find the shortest path between them"
sounds like a damned powerful anguage to me.
The ultimate is an AI, "Go Do X", where X Is an arbitrarily complicated and fuzzy problem, described in natural language.
For example, "AI, go assemble a list of all known pictures of Cara Delevigne and Michelle Rodriguez, sorted with most romantic or intimate at the top."
Do you deny that would be an awesome and powerful and beautiful language capable of analyzing the deepest and most important issues known to Mankind?
> Ghana...(looks like 17-inchers)
There's a politically incorrect joke in there somewhere, I'm sure of it.