Indeed. If you arrested for looting etc, and your facebook says "I'm gonna burn some shit and grab me a new TV", then IMHO you deserve what you get (with proper warrants, of course).
So how about you go on a trip and then - without notice - suddenly find you can't come home to your job, friends, and possibly family for 3 months. Does it really matter if it's a BAN or a PAUSE to you in that case. Suddenly you're 1000 miles away from home and all you've got on you is your suitcase which was packed for a weekend. Sound like a good deal to you?
Honestly? You're not going to change much by pointing out what an a**hole your government is. While it might not be the moral high-ground, it just might be more productive to attempt to effect influence from a position close to or within government, as opposed to complaining pointlessly from without.
Of course this is a coordinated effort - so it may have more effect than any lone wolf might - but thus far the administration does't seem overly receptive to anything they deem as "opposition."
I know you're suggesting right in the boss's home, but be careful what you ask for.
Given that here in Canada there were many cases of people coming in on TFSW (Temp Foreign Service Workers) that *were* being housed in accommodation provided by the employer/manager, it makes things even worse. Bosses were playing fast-and-loose with rent VS pay. Screwing employees on rent. Cramming unreasonable/illegal numbers of people into a dwelling, and basically playing both employer and slumlord at the same time.
or you could be rich by now from the proceeds of your discrimination lawsuit
Right. Because it's a slam-dunk case when somebody says something discriminatory in front of no witnesses but the complainant and without any paper-trail or recording...
Bringing a suit is easy. Proving it not so much, especially if you have limited financial resources.
It doesn't have to be a large part of their workforce, just key important positions.
I'm Canadian and thus not affected by this directly, but I have worked in places where co-workers in important places came in as refugees from the affected countries, notably one co-worker who is damn good at his job and whom without him I'm sure there would be issues. He's not even Muslim himself (awesome guy, one of his favourite things about Canada is bacon). It would have sucked if he was suddenly barred from re-entering the country after being away from holidays. How would YOUR organisation be affected if even 2-5 people in key positions happened to be blocked from entering the country for a month or three? Probably more than you think.
Add to that people who would be unexpectedly separated from family etc and it's really a huge clusterf***. The last thing you want to find out after being out-of-country on a business trip is "hey, you can't come back because the sh*thole you escaped from is now on a blacklist, even though you hate everything they stand for and that's why you left."
people who migrate to Linux end up buying AMD as it's a much better experience
Not 100% sure about this. People who know about drivers might do so, but not that many years ago NVidia was the better choice in many cases because both vendors only offered proprietary drivers for a lot of cards and AMD's were somewhat dodgy compared to NV's.
I also seem to recall reading that when you sleep (properly), your brain also gets flooded with cerebrospinal fluid, which cleans a type of "plaque" from between pathways in the brain. This plaque has been seen as possibly contributing to various mental/cognitive degenerative conditions
I can't find the exact thing I read previously, but here appears to be an article on it.
It's not entrapment, because they're not inducing people to do something they wouldn't already do. Just like if they have a fake prostitute or drug-dealer who is actually a cop. If you walk up and ask for services, you're busted. If they don't approach you and start offering rather enthusiastically, it's not entrapment.
Now if they start sending people with banner ads "hey come to nasty site X", running sketchy redirects from legit adult sites, etc, then THAT is entrapment. People who went to the site willingly without anything other than it being available were not entrapped.
The moral implications of hosting a site with such filth is an issue, but again doesn't meet the standard for entrapment.
"Nvidia releases day 1 support drivers even on Linux"
Yes and no. They may release drivers but it doesn't necessarily mean it will work on your kernel or Xorg version. The biggest issue I've had with the closed-source drivers is not when the cards come out, but rather when there's a change to the kernel or X which causes the driver to no longer compile the stub correctly. It's one of the reasons I went with an AMD card this round as the in-kernel driver seems to do nicely since they started contributing to development and is more likely to survive through upgrade cycles.
This is a problem on windows too, however, especially with Microsoft pimping Win10 and pushing vendors to no longer support the older OS versions. I don't just want a card that will work on Day 1. I want a card that will work 2-5 years from now, even if it's not the fastest one around.
If it's for an actual friend, just let him/her login to steam once on your system (with the perquisite card) for the initial install/verification. If will kill resales though.
Still a douchy move from NVidia. Also, I'm not sure how this affects the game publisher. I'm pretty sure that Nvidia (or AMD for their promos) is giving some form of kickback to the publisher for the coupons they include with cards. Hell, they aren't even for full games a lot of the time but rather discounts these days.
Yup. My understanding that a lot of this was done under pressure from a certain vendor whose name starts with a big "I". Many of the HP systems may have also happened to have systems running with AMD chipsets and AMD/NVidia graphics card, so it was a screw-you from both MS and the Intel.
I don't know about "device makers", but when it came to PC systems builders there have been a lot of minimum spec issues during the launch of Vista/Win-7, especially when some PC makers were shipping "Vista/Win7-ready" PC's with 1GB of RAM and a Norton Systemworks suite plus a bunch of other garbage that basically had them half a gig or more into swap on boot.
Honestly, I like the idea of a heart-rate monitor, but when I'm looking for a wearable, the first thing I want is a) A watch. I like the idea of a good looking watch (stainless steel etc etc), and something that I can just quickly glance at my wrist and check time, and it doesn't need to be charged every day. I had a Pebble - good battery life but a bit plasticy looking - and was *REALLY* looking forward to their Time 2.0 for this.
b) Second is of course smartwatch features. Stuff like getting messages, and at least some basic others like controlling music and denying calls, etc
c) Finally, a fitness tracker would be nice to have, with the basic functionality of a heart-rate monitor. Again the newer Pebble would have had this. Alas, 'twas not to be.
It really seems we're trying to tag smart functionality onto health devices, or watch functionality onto a smart device. It should be the other way around.
Yup. Even today those games have a warm place in my heart. Certainly I hold RW in higher regard than the "Two Guys from Andromeda", which - despite half a million bucks and a "delivery date" of Feb 2013 - still have yet to produce anything more than some tiny side-games.
If you look at some of the history of her games, she's been producing since 1980 (despite a "retirement" in 99), and when other companies were still dropping a few hundred k to produce she managed to pull through with big-budget Phantasmagoria (4.5x the original budget but they kept plugging, ultimately making more than double their spend back in profit and producing a damn cool game for the time).
A lot of places in Asia seem to be in the prehistoric age when it comes to Internet tech.
Korea has similar issues with a bunch of banking and government sites. I think just in the last year many have fixed it, but my wife has had a f*** of a time because many of those sites required IE6 and ActiveX (for their "security" plugins, ironically). If you're in Korea it's a bit less of an issue because you can just drop by the bank or gov't agency, but it's especially a pain for anyone overseas.
Both. There are certain groups of them that have been getting away with a lot up until recently. They're probably going to be rather unhappy for the next 4+ years.
Meanwhile, there are other groups who haven't been so successful, but are probably going to be furthering their own lame agenda's under the current administration.
Both groups have crybullies, but the current ones have had a pretty long run up until now.
I think you're missing my point which was that while idiots exist on both sides, a certain number of them have been getting away with pushing bullshit (like censorship) through because when anyone opposes them, they're being oppressed. Until recently, they've been getting away with quite a bit. This is no longer likely to be true.
Unfortunately it does seem that some other groups of idiots will likely be getting away with stupid stuff that until now they've been called-to-task for, but politics seems to be like that (both sides have idiots, but on any given side they're considered "my idiots" and thus given more leeway).
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What, his ass? Because that's the only place this could come from.
What next? "He was a really nice guy and he wouldn't have shot all those people and himself if not for that high-powered rifle"
And for some reason those guns will be unable to target any Russian vessels...
Indeed. If you arrested for looting etc, and your facebook says "I'm gonna burn some shit and grab me a new TV", then IMHO you deserve what you get (with proper warrants, of course).
So how about you go on a trip and then - without notice - suddenly find you can't come home to your job, friends, and possibly family for 3 months. Does it really matter if it's a BAN or a PAUSE to you in that case. Suddenly you're 1000 miles away from home and all you've got on you is your suitcase which was packed for a weekend. Sound like a good deal to you?
Honestly? You're not going to change much by pointing out what an a**hole your government is. While it might not be the moral high-ground, it just might be more productive to attempt to effect influence from a position close to or within government, as opposed to complaining pointlessly from without.
Of course this is a coordinated effort - so it may have more effect than any lone wolf might - but thus far the administration does't seem overly receptive to anything they deem as "opposition."
I know you're suggesting right in the boss's home, but be careful what you ask for.
Given that here in Canada there were many cases of people coming in on TFSW (Temp Foreign Service Workers) that *were* being housed in accommodation provided by the employer/manager, it makes things even worse. Bosses were playing fast-and-loose with rent VS pay. Screwing employees on rent. Cramming unreasonable/illegal numbers of people into a dwelling, and basically playing both employer and slumlord at the same time.
or you could be rich by now from the proceeds of your discrimination lawsuit
Right. Because it's a slam-dunk case when somebody says something discriminatory in front of no witnesses but the complainant and without any paper-trail or recording...
Bringing a suit is easy. Proving it not so much, especially if you have limited financial resources.
It doesn't have to be a large part of their workforce, just key important positions.
I'm Canadian and thus not affected by this directly, but I have worked in places where co-workers in important places came in as refugees from the affected countries, notably one co-worker who is damn good at his job and whom without him I'm sure there would be issues. He's not even Muslim himself (awesome guy, one of his favourite things about Canada is bacon). It would have sucked if he was suddenly barred from re-entering the country after being away from holidays.
How would YOUR organisation be affected if even 2-5 people in key positions happened to be blocked from entering the country for a month or three? Probably more than you think.
Add to that people who would be unexpectedly separated from family etc and it's really a huge clusterf***. The last thing you want to find out after being out-of-country on a business trip is "hey, you can't come back because the sh*thole you escaped from is now on a blacklist, even though you hate everything they stand for and that's why you left."
people who migrate to Linux end up buying AMD as it's a much better experience
Not 100% sure about this. People who know about drivers might do so, but not that many years ago NVidia was the better choice in many cases because both vendors only offered proprietary drivers for a lot of cards and AMD's were somewhat dodgy compared to NV's.
Providing your password to a third-party is dumb (and often a breach of contract) in most cases.
There are Steam API's that allow one to login via an OpenAuth interface however (does not provide the password to the third-party).
I'm not a brain scientist, but basically sounds something like Plax for the ol' grey matter.
I also seem to recall reading that when you sleep (properly), your brain also gets flooded with cerebrospinal fluid, which cleans a type of "plaque" from between pathways in the brain. This plaque has been seen as possibly contributing to various mental/cognitive degenerative conditions
I can't find the exact thing I read previously, but here appears to be an article on it.
It's not entrapment, because they're not inducing people to do something they wouldn't already do. Just like if they have a fake prostitute or drug-dealer who is actually a cop. If you walk up and ask for services, you're busted. If they don't approach you and start offering rather enthusiastically, it's not entrapment.
Now if they start sending people with banner ads "hey come to nasty site X", running sketchy redirects from legit adult sites, etc, then THAT is entrapment. People who went to the site willingly without anything other than it being available were not entrapped.
The moral implications of hosting a site with such filth is an issue, but again doesn't meet the standard for entrapment.
Perhaps they could choose another abbreviations, as GVfs has for a long time been used for the Gnome Virtual Filesystem
"Nvidia releases day 1 support drivers even on Linux"
Yes and no. They may release drivers but it doesn't necessarily mean it will work on your kernel or Xorg version. The biggest issue I've had with the closed-source drivers is not when the cards come out, but rather when there's a change to the kernel or X which causes the driver to no longer compile the stub correctly. It's one of the reasons I went with an AMD card this round as the in-kernel driver seems to do nicely since they started contributing to development and is more likely to survive through upgrade cycles.
This is a problem on windows too, however, especially with Microsoft pimping Win10 and pushing vendors to no longer support the older OS versions.
I don't just want a card that will work on Day 1. I want a card that will work 2-5 years from now, even if it's not the fastest one around.
If it's for an actual friend, just let him/her login to steam once on your system (with the perquisite card) for the initial install/verification. If will kill resales though.
Still a douchy move from NVidia. Also, I'm not sure how this affects the game publisher. I'm pretty sure that Nvidia (or AMD for their promos) is giving some form of kickback to the publisher for the coupons they include with cards. Hell, they aren't even for full games a lot of the time but rather discounts these days.
Yup. My understanding that a lot of this was done under pressure from a certain vendor whose name starts with a big "I". Many of the HP systems may have also happened to have systems running with AMD chipsets and AMD/NVidia graphics card, so it was a screw-you from both MS and the Intel.
I don't know about "device makers", but when it came to PC systems builders there have been a lot of minimum spec issues during the launch of Vista/Win-7, especially when some PC makers were shipping "Vista/Win7-ready" PC's with 1GB of RAM and a Norton Systemworks suite plus a bunch of other garbage that basically had them half a gig or more into swap on boot.
If it's running in "the cloud" I doubt people will be playing games on it anyhow. Some things are best done locally with appropriate hardwar.e
Honestly, I like the idea of a heart-rate monitor, but when I'm looking for a wearable, the first thing I want is
a) A watch. I like the idea of a good looking watch (stainless steel etc etc), and something that I can just quickly glance at my wrist and check time, and it doesn't need to be charged every day. I had a Pebble - good battery life but a bit plasticy looking - and was *REALLY* looking forward to their Time 2.0 for this.
b) Second is of course smartwatch features. Stuff like getting messages, and at least some basic others like controlling music and denying calls, etc
c) Finally, a fitness tracker would be nice to have, with the basic functionality of a heart-rate monitor. Again the newer Pebble would have had this. Alas, 'twas not to be.
It really seems we're trying to tag smart functionality onto health devices, or watch functionality onto a smart device. It should be the other way around.
Yup. Even today those games have a warm place in my heart. Certainly I hold RW in higher regard than the "Two Guys from Andromeda", which - despite half a million bucks and a "delivery date" of Feb 2013 - still have yet to produce anything more than some tiny side-games.
If you look at some of the history of her games, she's been producing since 1980 (despite a "retirement" in 99), and when other companies were still dropping a few hundred k to produce she managed to pull through with big-budget Phantasmagoria (4.5x the original budget but they kept plugging, ultimately making more than double their spend back in profit and producing a damn cool game for the time).
Or anything that hasn't been converted to hard-copy. I doubt the devices record on ROM media directly.
A lot of places in Asia seem to be in the prehistoric age when it comes to Internet tech.
Korea has similar issues with a bunch of banking and government sites. I think just in the last year many have fixed it, but my wife has had a f*** of a time because many of those sites required IE6 and ActiveX (for their "security" plugins, ironically). If you're in Korea it's a bit less of an issue because you can just drop by the bank or gov't agency, but it's especially a pain for anyone overseas.
Both. There are certain groups of them that have been getting away with a lot up until recently. They're probably going to be rather unhappy for the next 4+ years.
Meanwhile, there are other groups who haven't been so successful, but are probably going to be furthering their own lame agenda's under the current administration.
Both groups have crybullies, but the current ones have had a pretty long run up until now.
I think you're missing my point which was that while idiots exist on both sides, a certain number of them have been getting away with pushing bullshit (like censorship) through because when anyone opposes them, they're being oppressed. Until recently, they've been getting away with quite a bit. This is no longer likely to be true.
Unfortunately it does seem that some other groups of idiots will likely be getting away with stupid stuff that until now they've been called-to-task for, but politics seems to be like that (both sides have idiots, but on any given side they're considered "my idiots" and thus given more leeway).