The passengers aren't _doing_ anything. You don't need a license to sit in a chair for 8 hours. Skydivers don't jump out of planes in the middle of a city. When they do (for stunts and such) they generally have to get a permit. The FAA isn't being a dick, they're regulating a flying object that if it fell from the sky might kill somebody. This isn't rocket science, heck we regulate those for the same damn reasons. Do you not know what Terminal Velocity is? Haven't you heard the bit about the penny dropped from the Empire State Building. You know, regulators aren't all just jerks with sticks up their butt lookin' to ruin your fun. There's a reason you're not suppose to dive in shallow water. Lord, the stuff that gets modded up on/. these days...
are also big enough to go through the processes to properly train their people to ensure they're not causing disasters. Larger drones used for commercial purposes are, well, larger. If one of those toys you buy at Wal-Mart falls out of the sky I'm not so worried. Worst you do is dent my car. If a big commercial drone falls you don't dent it, you wreak it.
You see, regulation is _hard_. It's hard because everytime you write a regulation there's a thousand yahoos lookin' for a loop hole. It's like the monkeys and Shakespeare, get enough of 'em and and sooner or later they'll pull it off. So you get crap like "No drones for commercial use" because it's the only reliable way to regulate them, and regulating them is good for the mentioned wreaked car reasons.
As for GE, for Pete's sake's people stop electing far right ass hats. Then we can go back to a 90% top tier tax rate. Yeah, you balk now, but if we try taking 90% by the time they're done with the loopholes we might get 5%...
All of them take 5%-10% of your base revenue if you're games a success. I'm not saying it's not worth it; and it's nice that if you're breaking into the industry you can work with professional grade tools. But I can certainly see people wanting a truly free solution.
it's pretty well documented that Pearl Harbor was a conspiracy. There's also a lot of weird goings on after 9/11. Like how much of a pass on everything the Saudi's got.
Now, we're probably never going to find out if there was anything going on. Personally I think some folks were hoping for a minor terrorist incident to scare the rubes back into line and got more than they expected. It doesn't really matter. What we should take away from 9/11 was that after it happened we panicked and let the powers that be run roughshod over us all. The world didn't change after 9/11 because of 9/11. It was a tragedy, but nothing truly major was lost. We let it change after that when we let fear and anger get the best of us.
wealthy and upper middle class will be given a free pass and go into treatment. The poor will be locked up and the middle class will just have their financial lives destroyed from the high cost of defense. Both UK & US justice systems have enough leeway built into them to protect the people who matter and the rest? Well, by definition they don't matter...
True, but it's not like Chromium isn't open source. If you don't like it, fork it or at least submit a patch to remove tsync support. From some comments in the thread this sounds like a performance issue. It's there to improve multi-threading. I remember the good old days of Desktop Linux when it out performed my Win9x installs on the same hardware by a significant margin. I miss those days, and I wouldn't mind someone bringing them back.
True, but there's not really any downside to it. The put someone away for 10 years for pulling the latest Britney Spears magnum opus and it's going to have an effect. A pretty large one I'd say. Sure, it won't completely stop the behavior, but it'll slow it. Plus, what's the downside to the record labels and movie studios? Tough on Crime _always_ plays well with the base. The UK and US both are scared shirtless of Yaboos and the like. Or at least the people who vote are (doesn't count if you don't vote and young people don't). Heck, not sure about the UK but in America our white collar prisons are privately run and most of the tops 1% own stock in the companies. Plus we do prison labor in parts of the South (Elon Musk's company just got caught using it to build solar panels, I wish I could say it's a scandal but nobody cares).
Less piracy, more profit for their prisons and they get to tell the base how tough on crime they are? It's a net win for the ruling class.
that the US _wasn't_ a bunch of backwards savages. See, this is a common mistake people make. Assuming because someone takes the moral high ground that they're not willing to admit their faults. As an American let me step in here to say we're just as awful, possibly worse. The stuff we did (and continue to do) to the Middle East and South America (I hear we're back to trying to destabilize Venezuela) makes this crap look like small potatoes. And don't forget our last Vice President brought back torture as a legitimate tool for information gathering.
the incident was 6 years ago, and FF has been struggling for longer than that. Losing Google and the revenue it brought was a big blow. I felt like they wanted him out and used that as an excuse. Not that people don't lose their jobs over stupid things all the time. It's just odd to see it happen to someone so high up. Usually their above all that.
There's still a tonne of things that Firefox does for extension authors like myself to make our lives easier. I've been toying with a Chrome port of my plugin but it's been slow going since there's so much networking stuff Firefox does for me that Chrome doesn't yet (and maybe never will). Heck, I can't even use the "let" keyword yet without hacking into Chrome's config...
There should have been plenty of businesses to buy up and use that hardware. There's never a shortage of people that could put computer hardware to good use. otoh I've seen economists talking about how in the 70s businesses spent 40 cents of every dollar on investment and now it's like 10 cents, with the rest going into the shareholders/investor's pockets, so it's possible we're just seeing the effect of run away parasitism sucking all the capital out of our economy (I think the quote was something like:"Finance used to be a way to get money into productive businesses, now it's a way to get money out").
But I think it's more likely that a lack of demand for Sun hardware existed. If you're selling something for 1/10 retail it's because nobody really wants it...
Sun was run out of business by cheap Intel hardware + free Linux devouring their core business (expensive high performance workstations and servers). Nobody makes money on Java. Even IBM doesn't. They make money hiring out cheap Indian programmers. That didn't leave Sun a viable product. Intel hardware + Linux (Lintel?) got too cheap too fast. It didn't matter if you're Sun box was 10x faster. I could roll out 100 Lintel boxes for 1/10 the price.
at least not in early builds. It was MDI (multiple document interface). Maybe it was in betas or something, but back when tabs were first introduced in Firefox Opera still had an MDI interface. I remember trying it and being frustrated with how clumsy MDI was for changing between pages...
to bring the cheese. Most competitive tournaments are chock fully of expensive as hell lists. It's not like League of Legends where cheap unites are competitive. You'll get blown off the table by $150 Knight Titans and $90 Riptides if you bring an elcheapo army built from the starter sets.
is "Race to the Bottom", not "competitive workforce". It's a matter of perspective really. You're one of the lucky winners. If you had the wind knocked out of you by a few more rounds of offshoring though things might turn out differently for you.
I didn't say humanity was going away. I said that a substantial amount of the population was going to be stuck living in abject poverty for 50/60 years until our economy somehow catches up and finds new jobs for them. This is what happened when the Industrial revolution hit. A whole lot of completely unnecessary Human suffering...
it pretty much _did_ happen. There was a 60 year period during the industrial revolution when millions were put out of work and tossed to the wayside. There's a reason why Luddites existed. They weren't forward think people. They were Luddites for Pete's sake. They were living in the misery caused by a lack of jobs in their day.
The industrial revolution caused massive unemployment, and it took the economy 60 years to catch up and start creating new jobs. If you lived after that period things got better as new tech created new jobs. If you lived during that period and weren't born wealthy life was Nasty, Brutish and Short. I'd like to skip that cycle this time.
Oh and there's one other thing: we're better at automation this time. So there's a good time the cycle will last a _lot_ longer. e.g. instead of 60 years of poverty we might be looking at 100, 200 or more while we wait for Star Trek style replicators and massive population declines to fix things.
Right, but the conversation that's being had around this is what are we going to do with all these people that we don't need anymore. Sure, we can say that the economy will catch up, but that might take 50, 60 years. In the meantime we'll have 2 or 3 lost generations who live in terrifying abject poverty. It'd be nice if this time around we did something about that...
Um... All the "Virtua" games are developed in house. Freakin' Reiko Kodama (google her) made Seventh Dragon. They might not have made their last few racers but it's pretty clear from the graphics/style they had heavy input on all of them. Forza, made by the same studio as Outrun 2/2006 is a wildly different game. Yakuza's pure Sega too.
OTOH you can see what happened when they tried the "hands off" approach with Aliens: Colonial Marines. The got taken for a ride. Too bad. After Gearbox patched it the game was a solid 5. Ok, playable, and kinda fun if you're an Alien's fanboy. Of course, the patch was larger than the base game, so there is that.
that have actually been perverted. Say what you will about Obamacare but there's no part about that law that isn't functioning as intended. Maybe you disagree with the intent of the law, but it's doing exactly what it was written to.
You're problem isn't with the laws, it's with the yahoos writing them.
and all those videos of the cut scenes from Armored Core getting passed off as gameplay. Hell, there were videos of George Lucas saying the PS2 could render Episode I. I knew tonnes and tonnes of people who bought Sony's hype and didn't get a Dreamcast.
And as someone who's burned discs in 2001 I wouldn't call piracy on the Dreamcast easy. You needed specific burning software, good quality discs and the know how to find isos. You've just taken out 95% of the market for piracy.
On the other hand Sega's Dreamcast marketing was terrible. They had the best looking games of all time and what did they do? Sonic rappin' with NBA Stars... Dear lord, what a mess.
where the heck have you been. Here's a list of just some of the excellent games Sega made since the Dreamcast:
Virtua Fighter 4
Outrun 2/2006
Virtua On Marz
Yakuza (multiple games)
Aliens vs Predator
Aliens: Isolation
The entire Total War Series
Sonic Colors
Sonic Generations
Hell Yeah: Wrath of the Undead Rabbit
Project Diva
Seventh Dragon.
I could go on. Yeah, Sega let some stinkers. But so did EA. See my post elsewhere in the thread for what really killed them.
for all the complaining about how bad Sonic Boom is people forget that Sonic 2006 was wildly profitable. From a business standpoint it's hard to argue with that. Sonic Boom is awful, but not much worse/glitchy than 2006 was. Then there's Aliens:Colonial Marines. Gear Box ripped them off. Period. It's painfully obvious that they took Sega's money and spent it on Borderlands 2. It would cost more to litigate that than Sega would ever get back though, so they're screwed. You could argue Sega should have kept a closer eye on Gearbox, but games like Aliens:CM were Gearbox's bread and butter. It's ridiculous that they'd pull that on Sega, since it pretty much burns every bridge they'll ever have in the industry. But then again who would have thought something as mediocre as Borderlands (which I like, but let's face it, it's just really, really OK) would be one of the biggest games of last gen.
So what else has Sega done wrong since the Saturn? Yes, the Saturn/32x were epic, epic failures. I guess there was Shenmue, but honestly that could have been it's generation's Grand Theft Auto.
Now, what's _really_ killing Sega is the same thing that's killing _all_ Japanese game makers: US and European companies are eating them alive. Heck, bloody Farcry 4 is selling well in Japan. Meanwhile Final Fantasy games are doing so-so.
There's a video blog that did a good video on it, I think it's here but I might have the wrong video. Either way the kinds of games the Japanese did best have been taken over by the likes of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.
Actually it's suppose to be about not losing knowledge. It's not a reward. It's a social contract. You agree to make your knowledge available for all to use with only limited restrictions and in return we grant you a limited time monopoly. This way knowledge doesn't get locked up behind a guild system. When all this stuff was created guilds were still active and fresh in people's minds...
The drivers are happy because they're healthy. They're making about $12 bucks an hour after the cost of driving is factored in. That's not enough to buy health care but it is enough to disqualify most from the subsidies. At those wages their paycheck to paycheck, and a car wreck with an uninsured driver away from disaster. Speaking of insurance those drivers aren't anywhere near as well insured as a traditional taxicab driver, which is another reason they can out compete taxis.
But there's another nasty side of Uber we haven't seen yet, which is that as work becomes more and more scarce you're going to see more and more people turning to it to pay rent. It's not so much the sharing economy as the desperation economy. That's the rub. Right now there are some drivers doing OK because $12/hour seems like a lot as long as nothing goes wrong, and there's plenty to replace them when it does. But it's a larger part of the race to the bottom that the modern world's caught up in...
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The passengers aren't _doing_ anything. You don't need a license to sit in a chair for 8 hours. Skydivers don't jump out of planes in the middle of a city. When they do (for stunts and such) they generally have to get a permit. The FAA isn't being a dick, they're regulating a flying object that if it fell from the sky might kill somebody. This isn't rocket science, heck we regulate those for the same damn reasons. Do you not know what Terminal Velocity is? Haven't you heard the bit about the penny dropped from the Empire State Building. You know, regulators aren't all just jerks with sticks up their butt lookin' to ruin your fun. There's a reason you're not suppose to dive in shallow water. Lord, the stuff that gets modded up on /. these days...
are also big enough to go through the processes to properly train their people to ensure they're not causing disasters. Larger drones used for commercial purposes are, well, larger. If one of those toys you buy at Wal-Mart falls out of the sky I'm not so worried. Worst you do is dent my car. If a big commercial drone falls you don't dent it, you wreak it.
You see, regulation is _hard_. It's hard because everytime you write a regulation there's a thousand yahoos lookin' for a loop hole. It's like the monkeys and Shakespeare, get enough of 'em and and sooner or later they'll pull it off. So you get crap like "No drones for commercial use" because it's the only reliable way to regulate them, and regulating them is good for the mentioned wreaked car reasons.
As for GE, for Pete's sake's people stop electing far right ass hats. Then we can go back to a 90% top tier tax rate. Yeah, you balk now, but if we try taking 90% by the time they're done with the loopholes we might get 5%...
All of them take 5%-10% of your base revenue if you're games a success. I'm not saying it's not worth it; and it's nice that if you're breaking into the industry you can work with professional grade tools. But I can certainly see people wanting a truly free solution.
it's pretty well documented that Pearl Harbor was a conspiracy. There's also a lot of weird goings on after 9/11. Like how much of a pass on everything the Saudi's got.
Now, we're probably never going to find out if there was anything going on. Personally I think some folks were hoping for a minor terrorist incident to scare the rubes back into line and got more than they expected. It doesn't really matter. What we should take away from 9/11 was that after it happened we panicked and let the powers that be run roughshod over us all. The world didn't change after 9/11 because of 9/11. It was a tragedy, but nothing truly major was lost. We let it change after that when we let fear and anger get the best of us.
wealthy and upper middle class will be given a free pass and go into treatment. The poor will be locked up and the middle class will just have their financial lives destroyed from the high cost of defense. Both UK & US justice systems have enough leeway built into them to protect the people who matter and the rest? Well, by definition they don't matter...
True, but it's not like Chromium isn't open source. If you don't like it, fork it or at least submit a patch to remove tsync support. From some comments in the thread this sounds like a performance issue. It's there to improve multi-threading. I remember the good old days of Desktop Linux when it out performed my Win9x installs on the same hardware by a significant margin. I miss those days, and I wouldn't mind someone bringing them back.
True, but there's not really any downside to it. The put someone away for 10 years for pulling the latest Britney Spears magnum opus and it's going to have an effect. A pretty large one I'd say. Sure, it won't completely stop the behavior, but it'll slow it. Plus, what's the downside to the record labels and movie studios? Tough on Crime _always_ plays well with the base. The UK and US both are scared shirtless of Yaboos and the like. Or at least the people who vote are (doesn't count if you don't vote and young people don't). Heck, not sure about the UK but in America our white collar prisons are privately run and most of the tops 1% own stock in the companies. Plus we do prison labor in parts of the South (Elon Musk's company just got caught using it to build solar panels, I wish I could say it's a scandal but nobody cares).
Less piracy, more profit for their prisons and they get to tell the base how tough on crime they are? It's a net win for the ruling class.
that the US _wasn't_ a bunch of backwards savages. See, this is a common mistake people make. Assuming because someone takes the moral high ground that they're not willing to admit their faults. As an American let me step in here to say we're just as awful, possibly worse. The stuff we did (and continue to do) to the Middle East and South America (I hear we're back to trying to destabilize Venezuela) makes this crap look like small potatoes. And don't forget our last Vice President brought back torture as a legitimate tool for information gathering.
the incident was 6 years ago, and FF has been struggling for longer than that. Losing Google and the revenue it brought was a big blow. I felt like they wanted him out and used that as an excuse. Not that people don't lose their jobs over stupid things all the time. It's just odd to see it happen to someone so high up. Usually their above all that.
There's still a tonne of things that Firefox does for extension authors like myself to make our lives easier. I've been toying with a Chrome port of my plugin but it's been slow going since there's so much networking stuff Firefox does for me that Chrome doesn't yet (and maybe never will). Heck, I can't even use the "let" keyword yet without hacking into Chrome's config...
There should have been plenty of businesses to buy up and use that hardware. There's never a shortage of people that could put computer hardware to good use. otoh I've seen economists talking about how in the 70s businesses spent 40 cents of every dollar on investment and now it's like 10 cents, with the rest going into the shareholders/investor's pockets, so it's possible we're just seeing the effect of run away parasitism sucking all the capital out of our economy (I think the quote was something like:"Finance used to be a way to get money into productive businesses, now it's a way to get money out").
But I think it's more likely that a lack of demand for Sun hardware existed. If you're selling something for 1/10 retail it's because nobody really wants it...
Sun was run out of business by cheap Intel hardware + free Linux devouring their core business (expensive high performance workstations and servers). Nobody makes money on Java. Even IBM doesn't. They make money hiring out cheap Indian programmers. That didn't leave Sun a viable product. Intel hardware + Linux (Lintel?) got too cheap too fast. It didn't matter if you're Sun box was 10x faster. I could roll out 100 Lintel boxes for 1/10 the price.
at least not in early builds. It was MDI (multiple document interface). Maybe it was in betas or something, but back when tabs were first introduced in Firefox Opera still had an MDI interface. I remember trying it and being frustrated with how clumsy MDI was for changing between pages...
to bring the cheese. Most competitive tournaments are chock fully of expensive as hell lists. It's not like League of Legends where cheap unites are competitive. You'll get blown off the table by $150 Knight Titans and $90 Riptides if you bring an elcheapo army built from the starter sets.
is "Race to the Bottom", not "competitive workforce". It's a matter of perspective really. You're one of the lucky winners. If you had the wind knocked out of you by a few more rounds of offshoring though things might turn out differently for you.
I didn't say humanity was going away. I said that a substantial amount of the population was going to be stuck living in abject poverty for 50/60 years until our economy somehow catches up and finds new jobs for them. This is what happened when the Industrial revolution hit. A whole lot of completely unnecessary Human suffering...
it pretty much _did_ happen. There was a 60 year period during the industrial revolution when millions were put out of work and tossed to the wayside. There's a reason why Luddites existed. They weren't forward think people. They were Luddites for Pete's sake. They were living in the misery caused by a lack of jobs in their day.
The industrial revolution caused massive unemployment, and it took the economy 60 years to catch up and start creating new jobs. If you lived after that period things got better as new tech created new jobs. If you lived during that period and weren't born wealthy life was Nasty, Brutish and Short. I'd like to skip that cycle this time.
Oh and there's one other thing: we're better at automation this time. So there's a good time the cycle will last a _lot_ longer. e.g. instead of 60 years of poverty we might be looking at 100, 200 or more while we wait for Star Trek style replicators and massive population declines to fix things.
Right, but the conversation that's being had around this is what are we going to do with all these people that we don't need anymore. Sure, we can say that the economy will catch up, but that might take 50, 60 years. In the meantime we'll have 2 or 3 lost generations who live in terrifying abject poverty. It'd be nice if this time around we did something about that...
Um... All the "Virtua" games are developed in house. Freakin' Reiko Kodama (google her) made Seventh Dragon. They might not have made their last few racers but it's pretty clear from the graphics/style they had heavy input on all of them. Forza, made by the same studio as Outrun 2/2006 is a wildly different game. Yakuza's pure Sega too.
OTOH you can see what happened when they tried the "hands off" approach with Aliens: Colonial Marines. The got taken for a ride. Too bad. After Gearbox patched it the game was a solid 5. Ok, playable, and kinda fun if you're an Alien's fanboy. Of course, the patch was larger than the base game, so there is that.
that have actually been perverted. Say what you will about Obamacare but there's no part about that law that isn't functioning as intended. Maybe you disagree with the intent of the law, but it's doing exactly what it was written to.
You're problem isn't with the laws, it's with the yahoos writing them.
and all those videos of the cut scenes from Armored Core getting passed off as gameplay. Hell, there were videos of George Lucas saying the PS2 could render Episode I. I knew tonnes and tonnes of people who bought Sony's hype and didn't get a Dreamcast.
And as someone who's burned discs in 2001 I wouldn't call piracy on the Dreamcast easy. You needed specific burning software, good quality discs and the know how to find isos. You've just taken out 95% of the market for piracy.
On the other hand Sega's Dreamcast marketing was terrible. They had the best looking games of all time and what did they do? Sonic rappin' with NBA Stars... Dear lord, what a mess.
where the heck have you been. Here's a list of just some of the excellent games Sega made since the Dreamcast:
Virtua Fighter 4
Outrun 2/2006
Virtua On Marz
Yakuza (multiple games)
Aliens vs Predator
Aliens: Isolation
The entire Total War Series
Sonic Colors
Sonic Generations
Hell Yeah: Wrath of the Undead Rabbit
Project Diva
Seventh Dragon.
I could go on. Yeah, Sega let some stinkers. But so did EA. See my post elsewhere in the thread for what really killed them.
for all the complaining about how bad Sonic Boom is people forget that Sonic 2006 was wildly profitable. From a business standpoint it's hard to argue with that. Sonic Boom is awful, but not much worse/glitchy than 2006 was. Then there's Aliens:Colonial Marines. Gear Box ripped them off. Period. It's painfully obvious that they took Sega's money and spent it on Borderlands 2. It would cost more to litigate that than Sega would ever get back though, so they're screwed. You could argue Sega should have kept a closer eye on Gearbox, but games like Aliens:CM were Gearbox's bread and butter. It's ridiculous that they'd pull that on Sega, since it pretty much burns every bridge they'll ever have in the industry. But then again who would have thought something as mediocre as Borderlands (which I like, but let's face it, it's just really, really OK) would be one of the biggest games of last gen.
So what else has Sega done wrong since the Saturn? Yes, the Saturn/32x were epic, epic failures. I guess there was Shenmue, but honestly that could have been it's generation's Grand Theft Auto.
Now, what's _really_ killing Sega is the same thing that's killing _all_ Japanese game makers: US and European companies are eating them alive. Heck, bloody Farcry 4 is selling well in Japan. Meanwhile Final Fantasy games are doing so-so.
There's a video blog that did a good video on it, I think it's here but I might have the wrong video. Either way the kinds of games the Japanese did best have been taken over by the likes of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.
Actually it's suppose to be about not losing knowledge. It's not a reward. It's a social contract. You agree to make your knowledge available for all to use with only limited restrictions and in return we grant you a limited time monopoly. This way knowledge doesn't get locked up behind a guild system. When all this stuff was created guilds were still active and fresh in people's minds...
The drivers are happy because they're healthy. They're making about $12 bucks an hour after the cost of driving is factored in. That's not enough to buy health care but it is enough to disqualify most from the subsidies. At those wages their paycheck to paycheck, and a car wreck with an uninsured driver away from disaster. Speaking of insurance those drivers aren't anywhere near as well insured as a traditional taxicab driver, which is another reason they can out compete taxis.
But there's another nasty side of Uber we haven't seen yet, which is that as work becomes more and more scarce you're going to see more and more people turning to it to pay rent. It's not so much the sharing economy as the desperation economy. That's the rub. Right now there are some drivers doing OK because $12/hour seems like a lot as long as nothing goes wrong, and there's plenty to replace them when it does. But it's a larger part of the race to the bottom that the modern world's caught up in...