Well the article is good enough to tell us which games to avoid due to horrible DRM. Maybe they're making some kind of 'level of DRM annoyingness' versus 'copies purchased' graph.
The biggest problem with 'one world order': Where does one go when they don't agree to the policies set forth by the one world order? What if I want to smoke a joint but it'll mean the death sentence if I do? What if they start basing their laws on Christian teachings, but I'm not Christian? What if I want to start a business somewhere the won't require me to hire equal numbers of all different races? I can't, because if the one world order decides it should be, then the world will be just that.
I don't mind countries forming defensive pacts or trade agreements. What I do mind is letting the people that can profit from those laws decide what should go in them.
This is all just a result of cell phone prices being outrageous to begin with. People wouldn't bother with insurance fraud to replace their phones if it wasn't going to cost them $500+ without renewing their plan. I mean without insurance all it takes is falling in the pool to set you back a few hundred dollars. With insurance you get taken for the same ride, just over time. And most companies won't let you have insurance without a contract agreement.
If we TRULY had competition on the market, a top-of-the-line cell phone would cost $300, and you could get capable but no frills cell phones for under $50. All of this without any kind of plan or contract, freely transferable between carriers that the phone supports.
They probably want to pick the most qualified worker rather than the most politically correct one. If they end up with an entire workforce full of white employees, perhaps an investigation should be done as to why there are no other qualified candidates in the area.
I wouldn't be surprised if the very people that have the gumption to fight and claw their way to CEOhood are exactly the kind of people that have no qualms about damning an entire country to failure just to get a few measly bucks and retire. While it should be written into contract, no CEO in their right mind would accept a contract that asked them to take personal responsibility for what is happening to the company. In fact, the more padded they are from the losses of the company, the more likely they are to take the job.
Something should be done about it, though. It's really not uncommon for someone higher up to make the decision to sell out, which almost always leads to the company becoming a shithole.
Hey, I can't run the installer, what's going on? *reads forums* What? Ubuntu doesn't support the latest Direct X? Fuck this, I'm going back to Windows.
If it can't phone home, it'll assume the worst. Instead of the program phoning the MS server to check and see if it's fake and needs to stop working, it phones the MS server to check and see if it's legit and needs to continue working as intended. That's my guess how it will work.
Toyota and Honda apparently don't test their software too well. They refuse to use conflict testing for some reason. That is, if multiple parts are giving impossibly different answers, such as engine full on brakes full on speed 80mph and not slowing down, the computer has to make a decision.
Of course, I heard this on Reddit so it could have been pulled out of someone's ass..
At least in one case, the brakes failed, the accelerator stuck, and the person didn't know how to turn the car off because it was a rental and used a push-button ignition. Also, they couldn't put it into neutral because it had a push-button shifter as well. People really should learn about the car before they drive it, but this is a monumental fuck-up on the part of Toyota. I think that we can do the push-button stuff CORRECTLY, but this isn't the way to do it.
I couldn't imagine a civilian having a real use for it unless it was just for target shooting. Even then, it would be a hassle. A police officer, though, I could envision it being useful for. Maybe instead of a ring, they could wear a necklace or something. Something that wasn't immediately visible to a criminal, and the police could be trained to back the fuck off if their gun got taken away from them.
So that's $5500 for submitting the bug for both. Nothing ethically wrong with that, because once someone has discovered/submitted it, it's really fair game.
It seems like every time we come out with a revolutionary new design for military equipment, either Russia or China copies it. For examples, see the American X-29 and the Russian Su-47. Also, http://www.seattlepi.com/national/spy301.shtml is relevant to this concept.
Surely not all of the heavy users are going to transfer over. AT&T will use a combination of punishment (You leave early, you pay your early termination fee, bitches!) and reward (stick with us and we'll take $x off of your bill!) to keep people. I have a feeling they were waiting until they were well over decent capacity to let people go, ensuring that they'll settle somewhere around decent capacity when the smoke clears.
I'm just saying that there are a variety of conditions that can affect the variety of conditions that your treatment is under. Maybe your MRI was misread or mislabeled. Every step between diagnosis and treatment adds one more layer of complexity between you and the cure.
Dangerous treatments are more dangerous than normal treatments, all around. For example, if someone presents with an uncomplicated infection, you prescribe them antibiotics. Let's say a five day pack of zithromax, also known as a Z-Pak. There are several ways this can be dangerous. For example, if you didn't ask them if they were allergic, they could turn out to be. Or if they didn't know they were, so they said no. Or if the pills in the pack are actually something else. Or if there's a misdiagnosis.
A few ways to be dangerous.
Each treatment with radiation therapy involves HUNDREDS of variables. You aren't just applying radiation to a perfectly spherical mass in the abdomen. You could be applying it to a starfish shaped glioblastoma multiforme tumor in the brain, knowing that if you miss some of it, it will just grow back and they'll die from it anyway. You could be applying it to a bone marrow tumor, but you want to save the remaining bone marrow. Each of these situations involves a radically different configuration of the machine. The difference between a treatment dose and a face melting dose is only a few notches on a knob.
A knob that might be overlooked by a radiologist who has worked for 16 hours straight because the other one is off having a baby.
The founders will pretty much be in control. I don't think it'll end up being, "Well, sir, the shareholders say that we have to eat all these babies because the Chinese are going to pay a million dollars to televise it. So I've brought you some forks and napkins. Bon apetit!"
The USA isn't the world police, even if they think they are. But you can't criticize them for taking steps to reduce the power of potential future opposition. China is responsible for a TON of industrial and scientific espionage. Companies are fully aware that their brand spanking new designs are being ripped off and sold for pennies on the dollar of their original price under different brand names, yet it's so much cheaper to send products to China to be produced that this doesn't deter them.
But it's not cheaper to run a website in China than it is to run it here in America. Internet-based companies won't tolerate the hacking and espionage that production-based companies do, because the internet-based companies have nothing to lose.
A company should never have to prove damages. That's a task that only citizens should have to undertake for daring to waste the court's time. But a company can 'make an example' of someone by suing them for two million without having to prove or even postulate at damages.
Don't listen to those people. You do NOT need sunlight to get vitamin D. Vitamin D is produced by your body when the high energy photons in sunlight break apart some chemical bonds in your skin and vitamin D is one of the results. However, it has also been isolated and produced externally for many decades. The vitamin D that you intake is almost as effective as the vitamin D produced by the sun.
This kind of thing isn't uncommon. Take a look at EA's practices especially with games like Battlefield 2142. Over 50% of the people that bought the game couldn't even PLAY it for almost a month because it didn't work on their PCs. This is with fresh installs of Windows, new drivers, etc. Eventually it was patched into a decent game but that took MONTHS.
The problem rarely lies with the development team. The problem usually lies with the managers/bean counters/marketing. Managers like to vastly overstate the coding capacity of their team because it makes them look good as managers and makes their employees look lackluster when they don't meet the demand. Bean counters like to rant and rave to management about how much extra money they could make and how much less money they'd have to pay their developers to release the game unfinished. Marketing likes to wait until two months before release and have management change the engine to something completely incompatible with all the work that has already been done and then promise gamers things that the engine was not set up to deliver.
300 players in a single match! Game will be playable on a Pentium 2! Five hundred hours of game play!
Counseling for being so stupid as to take some initiative and build something on his own. That's not what schools want to teach. Schools want to train the next generation of assembly line workers, Wal-Mart employees, and gas station attendants. Scratch that, they don't even want to do that, what they really want to do is make sure everyone meets the minimum requirements set by the state/federation so that they can continue to get funding.
Teachers, on the other hand, want so much more for the students than they themselves have the time or money to give.
What the government does to companies is makes it harder for them to compete with each other and harder for them to compete with countries outside of the United States. It also allows them to fuck consumers hard and fast. If we stop letting them fuck consumers, it will cost them money. If we make it to where they can compete, it will cost them money. If we make them more able to compete, it'll give them some money, but we'll be drinking concentrated sulfuric acid out of our drinking wells.
So what can we do? All we really have to do is endure. Eventually a good chunk of China will become contaminated with whatever they're dumping in their back yards (factories open, stay open for a few years, and then are forced to close because their polluted ground/water systems are killing the workers).
If they couldn't hack them directly, chances are the Chinese own the lines going into and out of Google. A man in the middle attack is easy when you own the middle.
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Well the article is good enough to tell us which games to avoid due to horrible DRM. Maybe they're making some kind of 'level of DRM annoyingness' versus 'copies purchased' graph.
The biggest problem with 'one world order': Where does one go when they don't agree to the policies set forth by the one world order? What if I want to smoke a joint but it'll mean the death sentence if I do? What if they start basing their laws on Christian teachings, but I'm not Christian? What if I want to start a business somewhere the won't require me to hire equal numbers of all different races? I can't, because if the one world order decides it should be, then the world will be just that.
I don't mind countries forming defensive pacts or trade agreements. What I do mind is letting the people that can profit from those laws decide what should go in them.
This is all just a result of cell phone prices being outrageous to begin with. People wouldn't bother with insurance fraud to replace their phones if it wasn't going to cost them $500+ without renewing their plan. I mean without insurance all it takes is falling in the pool to set you back a few hundred dollars. With insurance you get taken for the same ride, just over time. And most companies won't let you have insurance without a contract agreement.
If we TRULY had competition on the market, a top-of-the-line cell phone would cost $300, and you could get capable but no frills cell phones for under $50. All of this without any kind of plan or contract, freely transferable between carriers that the phone supports.
They probably want to pick the most qualified worker rather than the most politically correct one. If they end up with an entire workforce full of white employees, perhaps an investigation should be done as to why there are no other qualified candidates in the area.
I wouldn't be surprised if the very people that have the gumption to fight and claw their way to CEOhood are exactly the kind of people that have no qualms about damning an entire country to failure just to get a few measly bucks and retire. While it should be written into contract, no CEO in their right mind would accept a contract that asked them to take personal responsibility for what is happening to the company. In fact, the more padded they are from the losses of the company, the more likely they are to take the job.
Something should be done about it, though. It's really not uncommon for someone higher up to make the decision to sell out, which almost always leads to the company becoming a shithole.
Next up:
Free speech advocates are more violent than most criminals!
Okay. *upgrades to Ubuntu*
*tries to install Modern Warfare 2*
Hey, I can't run the installer, what's going on? *reads forums* What? Ubuntu doesn't support the latest Direct X? Fuck this, I'm going back to Windows.
If it can't phone home, it'll assume the worst. Instead of the program phoning the MS server to check and see if it's fake and needs to stop working, it phones the MS server to check and see if it's legit and needs to continue working as intended. That's my guess how it will work.
Toyota and Honda apparently don't test their software too well. They refuse to use conflict testing for some reason. That is, if multiple parts are giving impossibly different answers, such as engine full on brakes full on speed 80mph and not slowing down, the computer has to make a decision.
Of course, I heard this on Reddit so it could have been pulled out of someone's ass..
At least in one case, the brakes failed, the accelerator stuck, and the person didn't know how to turn the car off because it was a rental and used a push-button ignition. Also, they couldn't put it into neutral because it had a push-button shifter as well. People really should learn about the car before they drive it, but this is a monumental fuck-up on the part of Toyota. I think that we can do the push-button stuff CORRECTLY, but this isn't the way to do it.
I couldn't imagine a civilian having a real use for it unless it was just for target shooting. Even then, it would be a hassle. A police officer, though, I could envision it being useful for. Maybe instead of a ring, they could wear a necklace or something. Something that wasn't immediately visible to a criminal, and the police could be trained to back the fuck off if their gun got taken away from them.
So that's $5500 for submitting the bug for both. Nothing ethically wrong with that, because once someone has discovered/submitted it, it's really fair game.
It seems like every time we come out with a revolutionary new design for military equipment, either Russia or China copies it. For examples, see the American X-29 and the Russian Su-47. Also, http://www.seattlepi.com/national/spy301.shtml is relevant to this concept.
Surely not all of the heavy users are going to transfer over. AT&T will use a combination of punishment (You leave early, you pay your early termination fee, bitches!) and reward (stick with us and we'll take $x off of your bill!) to keep people. I have a feeling they were waiting until they were well over decent capacity to let people go, ensuring that they'll settle somewhere around decent capacity when the smoke clears.
I'm just saying that there are a variety of conditions that can affect the variety of conditions that your treatment is under. Maybe your MRI was misread or mislabeled. Every step between diagnosis and treatment adds one more layer of complexity between you and the cure.
Dangerous treatments are more dangerous than normal treatments, all around. For example, if someone presents with an uncomplicated infection, you prescribe them antibiotics. Let's say a five day pack of zithromax, also known as a Z-Pak. There are several ways this can be dangerous. For example, if you didn't ask them if they were allergic, they could turn out to be. Or if they didn't know they were, so they said no. Or if the pills in the pack are actually something else. Or if there's a misdiagnosis.
A few ways to be dangerous.
Each treatment with radiation therapy involves HUNDREDS of variables. You aren't just applying radiation to a perfectly spherical mass in the abdomen. You could be applying it to a starfish shaped glioblastoma multiforme tumor in the brain, knowing that if you miss some of it, it will just grow back and they'll die from it anyway. You could be applying it to a bone marrow tumor, but you want to save the remaining bone marrow. Each of these situations involves a radically different configuration of the machine. The difference between a treatment dose and a face melting dose is only a few notches on a knob.
A knob that might be overlooked by a radiologist who has worked for 16 hours straight because the other one is off having a baby.
The founders will pretty much be in control. I don't think it'll end up being, "Well, sir, the shareholders say that we have to eat all these babies because the Chinese are going to pay a million dollars to televise it. So I've brought you some forks and napkins. Bon apetit!"
The USA isn't the world police, even if they think they are. But you can't criticize them for taking steps to reduce the power of potential future opposition. China is responsible for a TON of industrial and scientific espionage. Companies are fully aware that their brand spanking new designs are being ripped off and sold for pennies on the dollar of their original price under different brand names, yet it's so much cheaper to send products to China to be produced that this doesn't deter them.
But it's not cheaper to run a website in China than it is to run it here in America. Internet-based companies won't tolerate the hacking and espionage that production-based companies do, because the internet-based companies have nothing to lose.
A company should never have to prove damages. That's a task that only citizens should have to undertake for daring to waste the court's time. But a company can 'make an example' of someone by suing them for two million without having to prove or even postulate at damages.
Don't listen to those people. You do NOT need sunlight to get vitamin D. Vitamin D is produced by your body when the high energy photons in sunlight break apart some chemical bonds in your skin and vitamin D is one of the results. However, it has also been isolated and produced externally for many decades. The vitamin D that you intake is almost as effective as the vitamin D produced by the sun.
This kind of thing isn't uncommon. Take a look at EA's practices especially with games like Battlefield 2142. Over 50% of the people that bought the game couldn't even PLAY it for almost a month because it didn't work on their PCs. This is with fresh installs of Windows, new drivers, etc. Eventually it was patched into a decent game but that took MONTHS.
The problem rarely lies with the development team. The problem usually lies with the managers/bean counters/marketing. Managers like to vastly overstate the coding capacity of their team because it makes them look good as managers and makes their employees look lackluster when they don't meet the demand. Bean counters like to rant and rave to management about how much extra money they could make and how much less money they'd have to pay their developers to release the game unfinished. Marketing likes to wait until two months before release and have management change the engine to something completely incompatible with all the work that has already been done and then promise gamers things that the engine was not set up to deliver.
300 players in a single match! Game will be playable on a Pentium 2! Five hundred hours of game play!
Counseling for being so stupid as to take some initiative and build something on his own. That's not what schools want to teach. Schools want to train the next generation of assembly line workers, Wal-Mart employees, and gas station attendants. Scratch that, they don't even want to do that, what they really want to do is make sure everyone meets the minimum requirements set by the state/federation so that they can continue to get funding.
Teachers, on the other hand, want so much more for the students than they themselves have the time or money to give.
Perhaps they've been coached into doing this? Like a conspiracy of some kind? Perhaps by lawyers?
What the government does to companies is makes it harder for them to compete with each other and harder for them to compete with countries outside of the United States. It also allows them to fuck consumers hard and fast. If we stop letting them fuck consumers, it will cost them money. If we make it to where they can compete, it will cost them money. If we make them more able to compete, it'll give them some money, but we'll be drinking concentrated sulfuric acid out of our drinking wells.
So what can we do? All we really have to do is endure. Eventually a good chunk of China will become contaminated with whatever they're dumping in their back yards (factories open, stay open for a few years, and then are forced to close because their polluted ground/water systems are killing the workers).
If they couldn't hack them directly, chances are the Chinese own the lines going into and out of Google. A man in the middle attack is easy when you own the middle.