In the second video, towards the end, after the long long long marketing spiel, he finally explains why this technology sucks.
If a person in one of the rooms points at a person in another room, the people in the other two rooms can't tell who is being pointed at. So "you're fired!" gets very confusing very quickly.
I've been in nose dives before.. it's awesome fun. Everyone is screaming and the assholes who refuse to keep their seatbelt fastened while seated quickly learn the *reason* why they request you to do this.
People pay good money for this experience, and with a little malfunction or two they give it to you for free. When you throw in the fact that you could very well be experiencing the last few minutes of your short pathetic little life - you can't get a better adrenaline rush.
I don't largely disagree with you, but in the last few years the personal computer has evolved into the personal entertainment device. Where 10 years ago I would sit down at my PC and program for my fun, now there is so much distraction that I have to unplug to get any work done. The consumption culture in this latest generation has blossomed to such an extent that the idea that one might be forced to learn something, be it on a computer or elsewhere, has become a drag.
Which is why I say these computers are being given to the wrong age group.
Ok, other than ignoring your lack of reading comprehension.. let's discuss your disgusting consumer point of view of credit.
You don't use debt to buy toys.
If I'm a business man and I want to build an office building, it's not because I'd really like some neat place to hang out. It's because I expect to be able to rent the office space and recover my investment. Now, should I save up all my pennies for the next 60 years, buy the office building with cash and then wait 15 years to recover my investment and then die? Or should I go and get some money from people who already have it? The building gets built, the renters can move in and the economy keeps moving forward at a sane pace.
Things I didn't mention: every now and then someone will convince an investor to build a property that makes no sense and the renters will not show up, they'll go broke, the property will be auctioned and the investor will lose part or all of their investment. There's risk involved, yes. But what's the alternative? The people who want to rent the property get together and build it? What if they guessed wrong about their future needs for an office building? There's still risk, it's just someone else who is carrying it now.
There's responsible lending and there's irresponsible lending.. That is not the issue. The Liberal government doesn't see a need for lending. They don't see a need for development. As far as they're concerned, we're already developed.
Umm.. no. See, you're a sucker and you believe that a national debt is a bad thing. It's not. A developing nation (and that's what we are) should be in debt. We should be growing and credit is how you do that at a viable pace. We're falling behind because the Liberals think we're just fine the way we are now. It's the same with the aussie dollar. The Liberals want it high so the surplus has buying power on the international market.. Labor wants it low because exports and foreign investment are the only way a developing nation can grow its economy.
The collective delusion of Australians that we're a first world country is the problem here.
Fear spreading is as popular a past time here in Australia as it is in the rest of the world. Widespread filtering would not only be easily detectable and ineffectual but it would also be defeated by public outcry. It won't happen.
Microsoft will be forthcoming with massive discounts 5 minutes before the deal with RedHat is signed and our government will renege on any promises they made.
It's the traditional "what do you mean we don't get a discount? Well, ya know, Open Source is getting more and more acceptable..."
In criminal cases they send the police to kick down the door of the accused, and they present such evidence as "we caught him red handed".
They get the name and address of the accused, not by an absentee discovery order, but by a search warrant. Or, with new legislation that is likely to follow, by just looking up the data that ISPs are required to retain without even the need for a warrant.
This is what happens when you appoint a Czar.. a fuckin' WAR is declared and any allusions that people have about their rights go quickly out the window.
What part of this is still beyond your comprehension? There is no damage. The only way the copyright owners can sell their warez is by creating artificial scarcity. They've failed to do this by consent. They've failed to do this by technological means. They've failed to do this by nefarious litigation. Now they've turned to criminal penalties. Soon the jackboots will be at the door.
They are successful. So long as you remember that the goal is to make the police force so big that a dictator can rely on them to keep the population in check.
BTW, if we weren't all criminals yesterday, and we're aren't all criminals now, you can be sure we will all be criminals soon.
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It's be fucking nice if they did release source code. What's the harm? Carmack did it.
Way to totally miss the point. A "space shooter" is not an FPS set in space. It's a game where you fly around and shoot things in space.
Some idiot called this a "space shooter". If this is a space shooter then so was Doom 2.
Freelancer is a space shooter.
In the second video, towards the end, after the long long long marketing spiel, he finally explains why this technology sucks.
If a person in one of the rooms points at a person in another room, the people in the other two rooms can't tell who is being pointed at. So "you're fired!" gets very confusing very quickly.
FAIL.
put the jet into a 197-meter nosedive.
I've been in nose dives before.. it's awesome fun. Everyone is screaming and the assholes who refuse to keep their seatbelt fastened while seated quickly learn the *reason* why they request you to do this.
People pay good money for this experience, and with a little malfunction or two they give it to you for free. When you throw in the fact that you could very well be experiencing the last few minutes of your short pathetic little life - you can't get a better adrenaline rush.
You're comparing apples and oranges here.. this reeks of opportunistic advocacy.
I don't largely disagree with you, but in the last few years the personal computer has evolved into the personal entertainment device. Where 10 years ago I would sit down at my PC and program for my fun, now there is so much distraction that I have to unplug to get any work done. The consumption culture in this latest generation has blossomed to such an extent that the idea that one might be forced to learn something, be it on a computer or elsewhere, has become a drag.
Which is why I say these computers are being given to the wrong age group.
Ok, other than ignoring your lack of reading comprehension.. let's discuss your disgusting consumer point of view of credit.
You don't use debt to buy toys.
If I'm a business man and I want to build an office building, it's not because I'd really like some neat place to hang out. It's because I expect to be able to rent the office space and recover my investment. Now, should I save up all my pennies for the next 60 years, buy the office building with cash and then wait 15 years to recover my investment and then die? Or should I go and get some money from people who already have it? The building gets built, the renters can move in and the economy keeps moving forward at a sane pace.
Things I didn't mention: every now and then someone will convince an investor to build a property that makes no sense and the renters will not show up, they'll go broke, the property will be auctioned and the investor will lose part or all of their investment. There's risk involved, yes. But what's the alternative? The people who want to rent the property get together and build it? What if they guessed wrong about their future needs for an office building? There's still risk, it's just someone else who is carrying it now.
By most traditional measures (GDP per capita, GNI per capita, etc.)
Look for the bias.
If you RTFA you'd see the option being considered is RedHat.. I bet it's not even Fedora.
There's responsible lending and there's irresponsible lending.. That is not the issue. The Liberal government doesn't see a need for lending. They don't see a need for development. As far as they're concerned, we're already developed.
touché
Umm.. no. See, you're a sucker and you believe that a national debt is a bad thing. It's not. A developing nation (and that's what we are) should be in debt. We should be growing and credit is how you do that at a viable pace. We're falling behind because the Liberals think we're just fine the way we are now. It's the same with the aussie dollar. The Liberals want it high so the surplus has buying power on the international market.. Labor wants it low because exports and foreign investment are the only way a developing nation can grow its economy.
The collective delusion of Australians that we're a first world country is the problem here.
They're giving these laptops to High School students.. the project has already failed.
Wither the state.
That's a good thing. The reign of Scrooge McHoward left us economically poor and the treasury bulging with cash. We are not the British Empire.
The word is too.
Fear spreading is as popular a past time here in Australia as it is in the rest of the world. Widespread filtering would not only be easily detectable and ineffectual but it would also be defeated by public outcry. It won't happen.
Microsoft will be forthcoming with massive discounts 5 minutes before the deal with RedHat is signed and our government will renege on any promises they made.
It's the traditional "what do you mean we don't get a discount? Well, ya know, Open Source is getting more and more acceptable..."
Unfortunately, the moral imperative for schools to use exclusively Free Software is not even a consideration here.
Since very little is manufactured in the USA any more, one of the few things we have to sell to the outside world is our IP, so we have to protect it.
Since the USA doesn't make sense anymore they have to project non-sense.
In criminal cases they send the police to kick down the door of the accused, and they present such evidence as "we caught him red handed".
They get the name and address of the accused, not by an absentee discovery order, but by a search warrant. Or, with new legislation that is likely to follow, by just looking up the data that ISPs are required to retain without even the need for a warrant.
This is what happens when you appoint a Czar.. a fuckin' WAR is declared and any allusions that people have about their rights go quickly out the window.
Civil damages require civil remediation.
wow, after all this, you're still a sucker.
What part of this is still beyond your comprehension? There is no damage. The only way the copyright owners can sell their warez is by creating artificial scarcity. They've failed to do this by consent. They've failed to do this by technological means. They've failed to do this by nefarious litigation. Now they've turned to criminal penalties. Soon the jackboots will be at the door.
They are successful. So long as you remember that the goal is to make the police force so big that a dictator can rely on them to keep the population in check.
BTW, if we weren't all criminals yesterday, and we're aren't all criminals now, you can be sure we will all be criminals soon.
For 2007, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists listed the U.S. with about 5,400 total nuclear warheads.
So that means each warhead is worth about $1,879,741,432 each.
The article also happens to be wrong. The ruling was made by The Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
He doesn't actually say anything in that book.