More like "you bought this game and now we're going to charge you again to really be able to continue playing it." Well if the future these publishers want is games-are-a-service, then the games are not worth $60 anymore.. they're closer to $0.25
Rational adults know that just because a kid says something bad about a teacher doesn't mean the student's out to do the teacher harm. So why do most school policies nowadays attribute any attitude short of sunshine and happy unicorns to be evidence of mental problems worthy of nuke-it-from-orbit 'solutions'? The most obvious conclusion is that it's the school trying to save face when the student gets too close to the truth for their comfort, so they play out the zomg-columbine excuse. The fact is, the teachers that get the majority of the jeers from students often deserve it, and since most often the student complaints get buried under piles of bureaucratic and jingoistic fallacy (arg from authority usually) whether they're legitimate or not, students resort to other means of expression. In many ways, this is the equivalent of employers using the law (and contracts) to dictate more and more of what employees may do outside of work..
I swear, it's like every institution in this country is looking to get their hands on as much of everyone's freedom as possible, with the schools becoming the front lines for indoctrination. Too bad. I guess expression is only to be tolerated when authority has the mouthpiece most of the time and gets to set the politically correct boundaries for everyone else. It's truly a shame how hard and how fast liberty has fallen in this country. The stipulations for when and where we may exercise our rights have become more and more byzantine and the fine print is getting ever more fine as the power hungry chip away..
..and that's the problem: 'social' movements never offer anything as a solution.. they just demand sacrifice. here in america we have that on the left and 'lower taxes for the wealthy' on the right.. it's a shitty, non sequitur choice.
that's not true. we had a lot more privacy because ubiquitous surveillance was expensive so it could only be applied to a few people at a time.. of course, we made up for that by spreading paranoia about the capabilities of 'dear leaders' to compensate.
the state and private enterprise routinely pass data back and forth between the barrier to get around the regs.. it's a hybrid situation so blaming just one of them is pointless..
what? talk about misrepresenting the truth. police lobbies are no better. they are pushing to make filming officers in public illegal so that the police can make up events in politically convenient ways. that way beat officers can play up the 'serve and protect' image while acting out their high school bullying days with state backing.. yeah, no thanks. at least with criminals, I know what they want, so they're easy to avoid. the bully cop just wants to get away with doing as little work as possible while having fun at citizens' expense when the opportunity arises. woe unto you if he's bored and/or lazy and you're the easiest target, or if your situation forces him to do some extra paperwork because he's just as likely to 'serve and protect' you right into an arrest...and yes this is a lot more common than police (or their sackriders) will admit because police work attracts bully mentalities, crusaders, and other mental delinquents. in cases like OWS, these mentalities go way overboard and more often incite violence than quell it.
I don't know whether OWS is behaving like you say en masse, but the cops (and by ext public officials) are no better, and these new 'non lethal' weapons just loosen the ropes on these guard dog mentalities even more..
at some point society needs to accept the truth, whatever it is...and parents need to teach kids how to handle the truth instead of filling their heads with bs. most guys find thin girls more attractive because they are healthier.. encouraging overweight people to be comfortable with it just to appease feelings is not a good idea for anyone, and is another example of today's cultures demanding that feelings take precedence over facts.
Yes because others are responsible for your oversensitivity? get a fucking spine.. when someone calls you something, ignore it. it's a fallacy. these are kindergarten lessons, people.
no need for sexism. the argument could be made that women unfriend more often due to less control over emotional impulsivity. when women severe social ties, it's often a lot more dramatic than men.
..which is great.. however now instead of reinventing functions, we're reinventing whole damn apis for the sake of market grabs (java/.net/python/ruby/etc). instead of a cd burning utility taking maybe a meg on the hd and a few megs of shared resource while running, it takes 200MB on the hd, and 60+ of ram just to load its stupid, redundant runtime.
no.. reasonably fair would be for the money to come from the involved politicians' paychecks. make bad decisions, get docked pay, or fired, just like the rest of the voting block.
not really since the voters can't be responsible for every single decision politicians make. voters aren't making the decisions themselves, and their choices are limited by the parties in the first place.
one other thing, closed licenses are also 'ideological' in the sense they enforce particular expectations on users (you must pay for this, zomg pay my kids yale tuition, etc) which produce a world view on how they can empower themselves with the software.
..and the GPLv3 was created just to prevent such end-run-arounds like 'tivoization.' what's the use of open source software when it's run with signed kernels/systems that keep the user it's supposed to empower out of the hardware?
Mozilla is funded by google. if anything they are a counterexample to your 'zomg have to pay the programmers right?' false dilemma.
the lameness of those standards are caused by the obviousness of most patents in the first place. if gsm (and the rest) wasn't patented, there'd BE one world standard already. instead we have four or five completely incompatible standards, and service is still a ripoff.
the FOSS authors prohibit for the same reasons the patent holders claim: to prevent abuse. the FOSS guys are often shafted by binary only blobs for hardware drivers that make debugging things difficult or impossible, and the closed guys don't want their old products competing with their lightly patched new ones so they don't mind this. they love artificial scarcity.
If you want to complain about the ideological 'purity' of the FOSS guys, then you must also complain about the 'purity' of the patent trolls, because it's a equal-opposite reaction. They are the ones who claim they want to lock down every piece of electronics that uses software for the sake of 'respecting creator rights', even if that software becomes abusive to the people who bought the products in the first place.
flash is a bloated mess. might as well use java/.net at that point, but even guis built on these lag noticably more than native. how about using existing toolkits that target your platforms? if you want a wrapper, use something like wxwidgets. if your goal is something that wxwidgets won't handle well, then maybe your application's needs are specific enough to warrant explicit targeting of platforms (ie a windows target, a *nix target, etc).
problem is, once you have to give that 'dumbass' warning, it's too late. I don't think employers have the right to demand this. operating an account in the company's name is one thing, but operating it for the sake of the employer under my own is VERY different.
fortunately the law is supposed to be based on what was DONE, not what could've been done.. of course, that limits the power of overreaching police forces and the egos of cowardly politicians so maybe not anymore..
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sorry, the other point being that indian giving is not a way to retain loyal customers.
More like "you bought this game and now we're going to charge you again to really be able to continue playing it." Well if the future these publishers want is games-are-a-service, then the games are not worth $60 anymore.. they're closer to $0.25
what about those of us who paid for a complete game? are we subject to 'freemium' now too? what a ripoff..
Rational adults know that just because a kid says something bad about a teacher doesn't mean the student's out to do the teacher harm. So why do most school policies nowadays attribute any attitude short of sunshine and happy unicorns to be evidence of mental problems worthy of nuke-it-from-orbit 'solutions'? The most obvious conclusion is that it's the school trying to save face when the student gets too close to the truth for their comfort, so they play out the zomg-columbine excuse. The fact is, the teachers that get the majority of the jeers from students often deserve it, and since most often the student complaints get buried under piles of bureaucratic and jingoistic fallacy (arg from authority usually) whether they're legitimate or not, students resort to other means of expression. In many ways, this is the equivalent of employers using the law (and contracts) to dictate more and more of what employees may do outside of work..
I swear, it's like every institution in this country is looking to get their hands on as much of everyone's freedom as possible, with the schools becoming the front lines for indoctrination. Too bad. I guess expression is only to be tolerated when authority has the mouthpiece most of the time and gets to set the politically correct boundaries for everyone else. It's truly a shame how hard and how fast liberty has fallen in this country. The stipulations for when and where we may exercise our rights have become more and more byzantine and the fine print is getting ever more fine as the power hungry chip away..
..and that's the problem: 'social' movements never offer anything as a solution.. they just demand sacrifice. here in america we have that on the left and 'lower taxes for the wealthy' on the right.. it's a shitty, non sequitur choice.
excellent entailment abilities, sense of direction, and imagination are all still hallmarks of a strong mind. they are not sundials in a watch age.
Chill people, the world is a pretty good place.
applying your subjective experience to everyone else, in spite of differing experiences and environments, is arrogant to say the least..
hahahahah.. riiight.. until your government lackies hand over your data to the US government (or its corporations) like the lapdogs they are..
that's not true. we had a lot more privacy because ubiquitous surveillance was expensive so it could only be applied to a few people at a time.. of course, we made up for that by spreading paranoia about the capabilities of 'dear leaders' to compensate.
the state and private enterprise routinely pass data back and forth between the barrier to get around the regs.. it's a hybrid situation so blaming just one of them is pointless..
what? talk about misrepresenting the truth. police lobbies are no better. they are pushing to make filming officers in public illegal so that the police can make up events in politically convenient ways. that way beat officers can play up the 'serve and protect' image while acting out their high school bullying days with state backing.. yeah, no thanks. at least with criminals, I know what they want, so they're easy to avoid. the bully cop just wants to get away with doing as little work as possible while having fun at citizens' expense when the opportunity arises. woe unto you if he's bored and/or lazy and you're the easiest target, or if your situation forces him to do some extra paperwork because he's just as likely to 'serve and protect' you right into an arrest. ..and yes this is a lot more common than police (or their sackriders) will admit because police work attracts bully mentalities, crusaders, and other mental delinquents. in cases like OWS, these mentalities go way overboard and more often incite violence than quell it.
I don't know whether OWS is behaving like you say en masse, but the cops (and by ext public officials) are no better, and these new 'non lethal' weapons just loosen the ropes on these guard dog mentalities even more..
you've already forgotten what it means to be a teenager.. once she hits that age, her peers become the ones she tries to live up to, not her parents.
maybe she is ugly and dumb?
at some point society needs to accept the truth, whatever it is...and parents need to teach kids how to handle the truth instead of filling their heads with bs. most guys find thin girls more attractive because they are healthier.. encouraging overweight people to be comfortable with it just to appease feelings is not a good idea for anyone, and is another example of today's cultures demanding that feelings take precedence over facts.
Yes because others are responsible for your oversensitivity? get a fucking spine.. when someone calls you something, ignore it. it's a fallacy. these are kindergarten lessons, people.
no need for sexism. the argument could be made that women unfriend more often due to less control over emotional impulsivity. when women severe social ties, it's often a lot more dramatic than men.
..which is great.. however now instead of reinventing functions, we're reinventing whole damn apis for the sake of market grabs (java/.net/python/ruby/etc). instead of a cd burning utility taking maybe a meg on the hd and a few megs of shared resource while running, it takes 200MB on the hd, and 60+ of ram just to load its stupid, redundant runtime.
no.. reasonably fair would be for the money to come from the involved politicians' paychecks. make bad decisions, get docked pay, or fired, just like the rest of the voting block.
not really since the voters can't be responsible for every single decision politicians make. voters aren't making the decisions themselves, and their choices are limited by the parties in the first place.
still the government's fault since it sets the rules..esp concerning passports.
one other thing, closed licenses are also 'ideological' in the sense they enforce particular expectations on users (you must pay for this, zomg pay my kids yale tuition, etc) which produce a world view on how they can empower themselves with the software.
..and the GPLv3 was created just to prevent such end-run-arounds like 'tivoization.' what's the use of open source software when it's run with signed kernels/systems that keep the user it's supposed to empower out of the hardware?
Mozilla is funded by google. if anything they are a counterexample to your 'zomg have to pay the programmers right?' false dilemma.
the lameness of those standards are caused by the obviousness of most patents in the first place. if gsm (and the rest) wasn't patented, there'd BE one world standard already. instead we have four or five completely incompatible standards, and service is still a ripoff.
the FOSS authors prohibit for the same reasons the patent holders claim: to prevent abuse. the FOSS guys are often shafted by binary only blobs for hardware drivers that make debugging things difficult or impossible, and the closed guys don't want their old products competing with their lightly patched new ones so they don't mind this. they love artificial scarcity.
If you want to complain about the ideological 'purity' of the FOSS guys, then you must also complain about the 'purity' of the patent trolls, because it's a equal-opposite reaction. They are the ones who claim they want to lock down every piece of electronics that uses software for the sake of 'respecting creator rights', even if that software becomes abusive to the people who bought the products in the first place.
flash is a bloated mess. might as well use java/.net at that point, but even guis built on these lag noticably more than native. how about using existing toolkits that target your platforms? if you want a wrapper, use something like wxwidgets. if your goal is something that wxwidgets won't handle well, then maybe your application's needs are specific enough to warrant explicit targeting of platforms (ie a windows target, a *nix target, etc).
problem is, once you have to give that 'dumbass' warning, it's too late. I don't think employers have the right to demand this. operating an account in the company's name is one thing, but operating it for the sake of the employer under my own is VERY different.
fortunately the law is supposed to be based on what was DONE, not what could've been done.. of course, that limits the power of overreaching police forces and the egos of cowardly politicians so maybe not anymore..