that the yahoos who have to maintain your code 5 years from
If you're maintaining code from a prototype in 5 years, I submit that your manager has you doing meaningless busy work to keep you away from the important stuff.
Except for the part where the "secret police" you're talking about doesnt lock people up without charges, or for what htey say: we still have habeas corpus, the 4th amendment, the first amendment, and the ability to vote.
Well, yeah. Unless you're a suspected "terrorist", at least. For that, we have Gitmo and extrajudical execution via drone strike.
You mean those things that are selectively applied based on money, connections, and political expedience? Your vaunted "rule of law" is either a delusion, or leaves much to be desired.
I expect that's more due to increased competition compared to the mid-90s, since there wasn't much in the way of "official" tech support without a service contract or per-incident charge, even back then.
Except it's practically never reduced the cost of software to the customer. It just, as sibling post points out, reduces the cost of the software to the publisher: the customer pays the same, and the publisher pockets the difference.
What's reduced for the customer is the *value* of the software, especially if it's something brand-spanking-new and you know there aren't legions of other users out there who have figured out its "eccentricities" already.
That's 2 out of three deal-breakers addressed. Good on them. Now, have they fixed the always-on connection bullshit - and no one better give me any of that shit about it not being possible, just give me D3: PS3 edition on my PC, and they'll have my $60 they could have had on launch day if they weren't dicks.
Considering you can't even keep track of the posts and posters you're responding to (I didn't say anything about anarchy or police states, e.g.), much less avoid the most elementary logical flaws, you probably shouldn't be calling people moronic...
Without the government, there would be NO last mile cable. They're the ones who use "eminent domain" to stop the crotchety old man on the corner from refusing to sell access at any price, and forcing homeowners to perpetually suffer ugly PVC pipes to stick out of their front lawns.
The government is already involved at this level. All they have to do is call that "last mile" a public utility rather than handing off monopolies to whoever gives them the best blowjob.
Not quite as harsh, but that's pretty much the same progression that killed my interest in the series. After waiting 5 years just to get the steaming pile of A Feast For Crows, it started getting annoying. Somewhere in the next six years of waiting for the "good half" of the book (his excuse at the time of AFFC was that the book was too big for binding and would have to be split), seeing him bitch and moan on his blog, and so on, I questioned whether I really had any emotional investment left in that particular crapsack world.
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I don't know. It makes me want to reach for the "Transmit self destruct code" button...
that the yahoos who have to maintain your code 5 years from
If you're maintaining code from a prototype in 5 years, I submit that your manager has you doing meaningless busy work to keep you away from the important stuff.
Back in the day, that sort of bullshit got your servers epoxied onto the DNSBL for a good long time, if not forever. /nostalgia
Jesus Christ, Gibson's writing hasn't changed in fifteen years.
What's the web equivalent of "chewing the scenery?"
Then it's not a paraphrase. :)
Except for the part where the "secret police" you're talking about doesnt lock people up without charges, or for what htey say: we still have habeas corpus, the 4th amendment, the first amendment, and the ability to vote.
Well, yeah. Unless you're a suspected "terrorist", at least. For that, we have Gitmo and extrajudical execution via drone strike.
When people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have tyranny."
Was that a typo? The second "tyranny" should be "liberty."
When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny - Thomas Jefferson
Sounds like a plus to me.
Neither, I'm just calling bullshit on your "rule of law" fappery.
You mean those things that are selectively applied based on money, connections, and political expedience? Your vaunted "rule of law" is either a delusion, or leaves much to be desired.
Its only bad if you want to live in rule of law or democracy.
What does Congress have to do with this mythical "rule of law" you guys are so fond of bringing up?
Cynicism is idealism that's had time to curdle.
Clearly you've never had your cat in your lap at the onset of a sudden summer thunderstorm...
I expect that's more due to increased competition compared to the mid-90s, since there wasn't much in the way of "official" tech support without a service contract or per-incident charge, even back then.
Except it's practically never reduced the cost of software to the customer. It just, as sibling post points out, reduces the cost of the software to the publisher: the customer pays the same, and the publisher pockets the difference.
What's reduced for the customer is the *value* of the software, especially if it's something brand-spanking-new and you know there aren't legions of other users out there who have figured out its "eccentricities" already.
Not really "win-win" in any sense of the idiom...
That's 2 out of three deal-breakers addressed. Good on them. Now, have they fixed the always-on connection bullshit - and no one better give me any of that shit about it not being possible, just give me D3: PS3 edition on my PC, and they'll have my $60 they could have had on launch day if they weren't dicks.
Considering you can't even keep track of the posts and posters you're responding to (I didn't say anything about anarchy or police states, e.g.), much less avoid the most elementary logical flaws, you probably shouldn't be calling people moronic...
Without the government, there would be NO last mile cable. They're the ones who use "eminent domain" to stop the crotchety old man on the corner from refusing to sell access at any price, and forcing homeowners to perpetually suffer ugly PVC pipes to stick out of their front lawns.
The government is already involved at this level. All they have to do is call that "last mile" a public utility rather than handing off monopolies to whoever gives them the best blowjob.
Yeah, because ISPs are just blowing us away with "innovation" now.
The only place "innovation" has happened in the US TeleCom industry in the last decade has been in the legal and billing departments.
Do you want Citizens United? Because that's how you get Citizens United.
Not quite as harsh, but that's pretty much the same progression that killed my interest in the series. After waiting 5 years just to get the steaming pile of A Feast For Crows, it started getting annoying. Somewhere in the next six years of waiting for the "good half" of the book (his excuse at the time of AFFC was that the book was too big for binding and would have to be split), seeing him bitch and moan on his blog, and so on, I questioned whether I really had any emotional investment left in that particular crapsack world.
Turns out, I didn't.
Maybe now tepples can stop rehashing the same point on every article in games.slashdot ;)
No. Just very, very thorough. ;)
Well, they keep our business plentiful (even if we want to kill them ten times a day) right?
Wow, you're greedy. I just want to get to kill them once, then I'd be happy.
I'd say he DOES have a handle on something; There's something masturbatory about his attitude towards breaking other code.