Another obvious difference is that buying a legal copy of a creative work does not in itself subject me to severely degraded system performance, wasting arbitrary amounts of bandwidth I'm already paying for on things I didn't ask for, or assorted security and privacy risks.
Unless the "creative work" is a computer game, of course.
I presume, from the (rather thin) description that your favorite websites are ones you go to more often, so they'll get more of those little chunks of money sent their way, no?
Because the actual choices are evil, evil, I-don't-know-you, never-heard-of-you, who-are-you and I-don't-care-enough-to-actually-check-who-the-choices-are.
And it's naive to assume that I-don't-know-you, never-heard-of-you, and who-are-you aren't just as evil, or at least as enthusiastically corruptible, as the scumbags we keep getting stuck with.
Though back in my day we didn't have the Internet or easymode, and I was much too sane to call a $3.99/minute ($294,829,482/second in today's money) "tip" line.
Back in the day before the day, the tipline was free, except for LD charges.
Other than that, I have pretty much the same history, I just couldn't pass up the "get off my lawn" moment.;)
Just how much control is given to the players? Creating our own quest lines and NPCs, etc is kind of obviously intended, but just how far down the rabbit hole can we go?
Can players define their own weapon/armor stats? What about models? Can players modify their rulesets to add, for example, new loot drop tables? How about new crafting professions?
And, actually a really important question: Is the digital release going to be available without Steam?
There have been plenty of those: legitimate, technical complaints about design flaws, suitability, and downright broken shit. Yet, somehow, that all seems to fall under the "Lul Change-hating luddite uniz nekbeard" response. So I really don't think we can take any proponents of systemd seriously, either.
Since Debian's not going to protect me from this svchost-cum-kitchen-sink abortion after all, looks like we're going to FreeBSD!
So Network Manager had to come in because init lacked the ability
You say that like it's a bad thing. Have you replaced your car because it doesn't chop carrots, yet? The init system didn't NEED to deal with the network settings, because it's a fucking init system, not a network manager.
Where the hell did this whole kitchen sinking mess come from?
Saying that "monolithic" means "single binary" or any of the other paraphrasings pretty much disqualifies anyone using that (incorrect) handwave from taking part in any real discussion of technical merits/flaws of the system. It's a double whammy of "don't know what the hell you're talking about", and "don't care to learn better, because you have brand loyalty to uphold."
Unfortunately, there's too many of them on both sides to let the grownups talk.
IIRC, the greens are the "energy efficient" drives, and I think they power themselves down when idle, and up when they come back into use, so the numbers can grow even if the machine hasn't been rebooted since the drive was first installed.
Hell, if nothing else, it means I can start writing.NET stuff for Linux, without dicking around with Mono, only to find out two weeks in that the piece I need isn't actually in Mono...
So hey, I'll keep watching for the poison pill, but between that and free VS? I'll give 'em a cookie this time.
If internet service was a free market, it wouldn't exist. All it would take is one douchebag with the right lot to say "fuck no, you can't put that [junction point/wiring box/exchange] on my property" and that's an entire neighborhood possibly off the grid. And most neighborhood have no shortage of those types.
(Link is a secondary source, references paywalled WSJ article, but the quotes are what I linked it for. I didn't read what the techdirt guy had to add to it)
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Look at your own sig very carefully, and think about it a little bit.
Another obvious difference is that buying a legal copy of a creative work does not in itself subject me to severely degraded system performance, wasting arbitrary amounts of bandwidth I'm already paying for on things I didn't ask for, or assorted security and privacy risks.
Unless the "creative work" is a computer game, of course.
I presume, from the (rather thin) description that your favorite websites are ones you go to more often, so they'll get more of those little chunks of money sent their way, no?
Because the actual choices are evil, evil, I-don't-know-you, never-heard-of-you, who-are-you and I-don't-care-enough-to-actually-check-who-the-choices-are.
And it's naive to assume that I-don't-know-you, never-heard-of-you, and who-are-you aren't just as evil, or at least as enthusiastically corruptible, as the scumbags we keep getting stuck with.
Saying you won't because there's little chance they'll win is a self-fulfilling prophecy
What about saying you won't because, in the end, you're not likely to see any appreciable difference anyway?
When the game board is made of toxic waste, going out and buying a new set of plastic tokens doesn't fix the whole "getting deathly sick" thing.
When are they going to pull the books from Amazon that have any subjects where a man is a pedophile, or a rapist?
Of course not. Those are approved stereotypes.
Though back in my day we didn't have the Internet or easymode, and I was much too sane to call a $3.99/minute ($294,829,482/second in today's money) "tip" line.
Back in the day before the day, the tipline was free, except for LD charges.
Other than that, I have pretty much the same history, I just couldn't pass up the "get off my lawn" moment. ;)
And perhaps the best one, Lewis's Law: Comments on any article about feminism justify feminism.
Apparently, Lewis is/was a feminist. In the rational universe, we call that "begging the question."
Just how much control is given to the players? Creating our own quest lines and NPCs, etc is kind of obviously intended, but just how far down the rabbit hole can we go?
Can players define their own weapon/armor stats? What about models?
Can players modify their rulesets to add, for example, new loot drop tables? How about new crafting professions?
And, actually a really important question: Is the digital release going to be available without Steam?
There have been plenty of those: legitimate, technical complaints about design flaws, suitability, and downright broken shit. Yet, somehow, that all seems to fall under the "Lul Change-hating luddite uniz nekbeard" response. So I really don't think we can take any proponents of systemd seriously, either.
Since Debian's not going to protect me from this svchost-cum-kitchen-sink abortion after all, looks like we're going to FreeBSD!
Get over yourself and your One True Way, Holier Than Thou attitude
Funny, that's my boilerplate response to GNOME these days.
So Network Manager had to come in because init lacked the ability
You say that like it's a bad thing. Have you replaced your car because it doesn't chop carrots, yet? The init system didn't NEED to deal with the network settings, because it's a fucking init system, not a network manager.
Where the hell did this whole kitchen sinking mess come from?
person who's decided to stop doing what they _wanted_ to do
Emphasis mine. No one else stopped them. There's a world of difference.
Saying that "monolithic" means "single binary" or any of the other paraphrasings pretty much disqualifies anyone using that (incorrect) handwave from taking part in any real discussion of technical merits/flaws of the system. It's a double whammy of "don't know what the hell you're talking about", and "don't care to learn better, because you have brand loyalty to uphold."
Unfortunately, there's too many of them on both sides to let the grownups talk.
I've gotten significant results with much smaller sample sizes (and I do mean statistically significant
With that kind of result distribution?
I don't really see how Bennett's keyboard diarrhea this week is anything remotely related to "News for Nerds"
They knew that Haselton's horrible grasp of statistics would prompt the nerds to click frantically to point out what a tool he is.
You read it again.
He's saying, there is no significant difference between the two groups. This contradicts the hypothesis
And everyone with a clue is saying that the conclusion doesn't hold, because the sample size is ridiculously, uselessly small.
IIRC, the greens are the "energy efficient" drives, and I think they power themselves down when idle, and up when they come back into use, so the numbers can grow even if the machine hasn't been rebooted since the drive was first installed.
That depends on what those rules turn out to be. Thus the "watch and see" part of my approach.
If you count ALL devices, Windows isn't even close to being the most widely used OS.
If you count ALL devices, you're just as clueless as those nitwits who thought tablets were going to make PCs a niche market again.
Hell, if nothing else, it means I can start writing .NET stuff for Linux, without dicking around with Mono, only to find out two weeks in that the piece I need isn't actually in Mono...
So hey, I'll keep watching for the poison pill, but between that and free VS? I'll give 'em a cookie this time.
If internet service was a free market, it wouldn't exist. All it would take is one douchebag with the right lot to say "fuck no, you can't put that [junction point/wiring box/exchange] on my property" and that's an entire neighborhood possibly off the grid. And most neighborhood have no shortage of those types.
I'm sensing a pro-corporate trend here.
Ya think, DiNozzo?
I'm just surprised we haven't given the bastards jus primae noctis yet.
I wasn't being hypothetical: The FCC has already put forward their "hybrid" approach. I've not read anything that says anyone called bullshit and they backed off it, though.
(Link is a secondary source, references paywalled WSJ article, but the quotes are what I linked it for. I didn't read what the techdirt guy had to add to it)
Everyone will pay more (but for better service)
Were you actually alive back then? "Better service" is not generally a characteristic often associated with Ma Bell.