You mistake your religous zealotry for pragmatism.
People who aren't Debian developers (or fanatical users) are the ones who'd hand over their soul for the next cool gimmick ("yes, I'll accept the condition of only running the software you let me, if you'll let me pay $200 for Halo 4! That game's so cool I don't need freedom!").
What!?! No, they're the ones who'd hand over some cash for a box of software. If you don't like the terms of that box, buy a different box of software, or download something else, or whatever.
Until the man starts forcing people to buy only MS approved systems and software, your fananticism is unwarranted.
Your problem is crappy netcode. Compare Q3 based games like MOHAA with, say HL. They both have the same information to send and update (the presentation may be different), but the older HL handles dial up users usually without borking the broadband users.
In MOHAA everyone is bogged down by high ping players. Why? There should be no difference in what the netcode has to do.
It doesn't matter anymore if a customer is pissed off about the quality of your product, there are 99 other ones in line behind him.
If you buy model X and it sucks, that won't stop me from purchasing X because nobody researches this stuff beforehand. I just go to the guy in the TV department and he points me to model X and I buy it.
That brings up an interesting point, what right do they have to sue anyone? According to them they are a trade orginization, they have never made or published a single song.
One would think that it would be up to the individual publishers to pursue legal action.
This is something I don't get. People don't get bent out of shape when you carry on a converstion with a live person in a restaurant, or a plane. But when you put that other person on a phone, it becomes offensive.
It's not that hard, you just remember it. Ya know, like all the other things you had to memorize in school. For crying out loud, how do you not remember something you type in every day.
"What to do? You're the IT people, you tell me!" We already did, you get this username and password thing, you see. Then you type it in and the computer knows who you are.
Argh! We're not talking about having to recite the Magna Carta here. A username and a password for each whatever. I can see if it's something you only use like once a year or something, but come on.
Even on windows you get screwed when the board maker won't make 2000/XP drivers because they stopped selling the board and went to the next one in less than a year after introducing it.
Not to mention how most boards are generic, using only dressed up reference drivers.
For everyday driving, anything less than a standard size pickup (like my F150, happens to be at just the right height) is too much of a pain, literally.
The big cars are ok too, but you still have to climb in and out of them, where I just sit down into the pickup. You probably do get slightly better mileage though.
I was about to post the same thing. Although I don't see where there is any hope in our time.
All the elements of the next dark age are in place, all it takes now is time and apathy on the part of our society. People don't want to do anything but consume.
And just why are these companies entitled to perpetual survival. They want an eternal free ride for getting one thing right or buying the rights to such a thing. It's corporatized socalism, not capitalism.
If anything we are drifting away from the ideals of free enterprise, governments bail out and protect corporations out of fear for the consequences of thier downfall instead of letting the market rid itself of what is no longer fit for survival.
Meanwhile, everyone is so convinced that we must be perfectly safe (which is of course, impossible) that rights are being handed up to the chopping block without anyone caring. We heve become totally obsessed with our safety, without reagard to any other priorities.
This is really an intelligence operation, and everyone knows that our spys listen to everything the think they need to, rights or no rights. That's whay they're called spys.
The really scary part is the inevietable push to give civilian law enforcement access to the same info. And in the current climate, I doubt saner heads can prevail. Haveing a bunch of your citizens killed has a way of putting a country into belt and suspenders mode.
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What unethical thing is Billy G doing that these other rich guys aren't?
Employing a crapload of programmers in his own country instead of the latest cheap labor country?
Putting other companies out of business for his own companies benefit? That's nothing new, and it's certainly not against what every business school teaches.
Using barriers to exit to lock in customers? Again, standard MBA teachings.
All of his high crimes are things that nobody would write an article about your average businessman doing.
I'm not saying that guy's any hero, but to crucify the guy for doing what most of his competetors would do if they were in the same place is lame.
Demanding his head on a stick for giving 20B when he could have given 40B (pulling numbers out of my ass) is very lame. Some would not have given it at all. (and some would have given more)
I know of plenty of people who do a piss poor job and I don't hear people saying they are the epitomie of evil.
And where is this stagnation? I see advances, maybe there would be more if someone else would have won early on, maybe not. OSS is making strides, with or without MS's help. Not all of thier software sucks goats either.
We're still down to the assertion that his riches make him evil, reagrdless of what he uses them for.
But I really don't find myself noticing that much. Possibly I've become used to seeing the same texture repeated n times. I guess you could have every entity have a dirtiness attribute that determind how it was rendered.
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People who aren't Debian developers (or fanatical users) are the ones who'd hand over their soul for the next cool gimmick ("yes, I'll accept the condition of only running the software you let me, if you'll let me pay $200 for Halo 4! That game's so cool I don't need freedom!").
What!?! No, they're the ones who'd hand over some cash for a box of software. If you don't like the terms of that box, buy a different box of software, or download something else, or whatever.Until the man starts forcing people to buy only MS approved systems and software, your fananticism is unwarranted.
Umm, yes actually. You just can't run all the software that you want. Palladium is crap, but not every vendor is MS.
Mfgrs make thier money on selling a physical product, if they give the design away for free, they get kinda hosed, now don't they.
In MOHAA everyone is bogged down by high ping players. Why? There should be no difference in what the netcode has to do.
If you buy model X and it sucks, that won't stop me from purchasing X because nobody researches this stuff beforehand. I just go to the guy in the TV department and he points me to model X and I buy it.
The market does nothing to punish poor quality.Plain old paper works, and is more secure.
Anything you can do to skew a paper ballot system also works for electronic voting.Even the old punch card system is fine if you have someone checking the card for * chads before dropping them in the box.
One would think that it would be up to the individual publishers to pursue legal action.
What up with that?
Since the RIAA/MPAA have become de-facto law enforcement agencies, the schools don't have much choice.
It's not that hard, you just remember it. Ya know, like all the other things you had to memorize in school. For crying out loud, how do you not remember something you type in every day.
"What to do? You're the IT people, you tell me!" We already did, you get this username and password thing, you see. Then you type it in and the computer knows who you are.Argh! We're not talking about having to recite the Magna Carta here. A username and a password for each whatever. I can see if it's something you only use like once a year or something, but come on.
Not to mention how most boards are generic, using only dressed up reference drivers.
Feh.The big cars are ok too, but you still have to climb in and out of them, where I just sit down into the pickup. You probably do get slightly better mileage though.
All the elements of the next dark age are in place, all it takes now is time and apathy on the part of our society. People don't want to do anything but consume.
And just why are these companies entitled to perpetual survival. They want an eternal free ride for getting one thing right or buying the rights to such a thing. It's corporatized socalism, not capitalism.If anything we are drifting away from the ideals of free enterprise, governments bail out and protect corporations out of fear for the consequences of thier downfall instead of letting the market rid itself of what is no longer fit for survival.
Meanwhile, everyone is so convinced that we must be perfectly safe (which is of course, impossible) that rights are being handed up to the chopping block without anyone caring. We heve become totally obsessed with our safety, without reagard to any other priorities.Feh.
The really scary part is the inevietable push to give civilian law enforcement access to the same info. And in the current climate, I doubt saner heads can prevail. Haveing a bunch of your citizens killed has a way of putting a country into belt and suspenders mode.
Hotblack quated as saying, "You call that a woofer??"
I can't count how many times I heard a professor say "don't optimize", "memory is cheap".
When everyone is more worried about making thier code pretty instead of efficient, well we get what we've got. Feh.You don't have to take offense every time someone finds an issue with your pet product.
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Never expected it here though...
Employing a crapload of programmers in his own country instead of the latest cheap labor country?
Putting other companies out of business for his own companies benefit? That's nothing new, and it's certainly not against what every business school teaches.Using barriers to exit to lock in customers? Again, standard MBA teachings.
All of his high crimes are things that nobody would write an article about your average businessman doing.I'm not saying that guy's any hero, but to crucify the guy for doing what most of his competetors would do if they were in the same place is lame.
Demanding his head on a stick for giving 20B when he could have given 40B (pulling numbers out of my ass) is very lame. Some would not have given it at all. (and some would have given more)Brand new, just fell off the truck....
And where is this stagnation? I see advances, maybe there would be more if someone else would have won early on, maybe not. OSS is making strides, with or without MS's help. Not all of thier software sucks goats either.
We're still down to the assertion that his riches make him evil, reagrdless of what he uses them for.Lemme see...
Giving money = good, but doesn't overcome the crime of being rich.
Being rich = evil
Being richest = satan
What would he have to do to abosolve himself of his horrid crimes (making a lot of money off crappy software)?
But I really don't find myself noticing that much. Possibly I've become used to seeing the same texture repeated n times. I guess you could have every entity have a dirtiness attribute that determind how it was rendered.