People like to joke about the video game like nature of their mission - one can understand this thinking to a point.
On the ground combat it isn't - no one disputes that.
The drone pilots know they are killing people, and they get stressed over it like any one else would. They have to make operational decisions, and again - they know that they are ending lives. The distance matters not.
Yeah, they deserve medals for their particular skill-set.
But what harm? Does she articulate what the harm is?
Oh, that's right. Men look at women as objects of desire.
That must be bad. So immoral and demeaning, me and every other guy on the planet being hard wired to want sexual gratification from women. As if doing so harms women in some way.
Maybe what they are really afraid of is declining birth rates.
With more guys satisfying themselves with porn, there's less chance of pregnancy.
Not that I agree with a ban, at all. I'm simply pointing out reasoning that might not have made it to the public statements. We've heard arguments like this about pron before.
BTW, whatever happened to autopr0n? He used to have nice little site there.
Yeah, the corporate contract. I'm a software manager for a big faceless corporate entity.
I've tried to start my own web sites, but found that I can't compete with Facebook and Amazon, even with nifty SEO ideas to get me to the top of Google and Bing. It was fun learning though, and getting back to writing code - which my day job no longer allows.
I'm sure that my employer actually owns the IP now for those 2 little sites. Good luck with that.
More recently, I've returned to playing music as a hobby, and am finding that I'm decent at writing rock songs.. the music anyway.
Never thought about it before parent's post, but I wonder if my company owns my creative output too, even though it has nothing to do with technology.
Kind of a cool problem. I suppose that short of altering the moon's orbit, someone is going to have to build adjustments into the software... Would that even be possible? Such adjustments or approximations might invalidate results.
Oh the hell with it.... I'm tired of thinking logically today. I need a beer.
This is easy. make the fucking thing available for download every week. (I"m assuming it isn't). Charge $5.99 an ep, or offer a subscription for a full season.
Do something..... most people will indeed go the legal route and pay for the show. I would.
I don't want HBO, but I live at my buddy's house on Sunday nights when this show is on. I'd gladly pay for it.
The dummies running these media companies just don't get it.. even now after all these years they are still clueless.
Look at the Blood and Chrome debacle. Are you fracking kidding me? Sci-Fi** won't air THAT show? They're clueless if they think they won't get viewership and a secondary market for downloads.
But I hate em'. I hate automated phone response, and i hate self serv checkouts in stores, among other things. Specifically because they replace people.
I'm also not a big fan of the crowd in Chennai taking my calls either......
Experience: Director if IT Security for a large Social Media Product.
Objective: A position where I can apply my experience and lessons learned in a fast paced and dynamic environment, targeting a large customer base.::Hired:: By Facebook.
Ah but you see, people don't like talking to automation.
Even the friendly ones that get my account # right when I speak it in, are just plain freaky. It's not a replacement for a human interaction.. I like hearing the sound of a chuckle or some smalltalk while someone looks up my stuff. And these days, I feel good when it actually happens. It means that someone has a job.
I gave up. I got sick of being treated like a criminal every time I tried playing a game. "Insert CD 1 to play". What bullshit.
I can only register a game to 1 computer? Even more bullshit.
So I stopped.
That's right, I quit feeding the industry my $$$, years ago. I think the last game I bought was Unreal Tournament - when it was new.
I considered Spore when it was being hyped as something new and different. It wasn't. And the copy protection there gave new meaning to the words "stay away from that shit".
Fuck you game publishers. Now you get none of my money.
It's more well spent these days anyway. More money for books....
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People like to joke about the video game like nature of their mission - one can understand this thinking to a point.
On the ground combat it isn't - no one disputes that.
The drone pilots know they are killing people, and they get stressed over it like any one else would. They have to make operational decisions, and again - they know that they are ending lives. The distance matters not.
Yeah, they deserve medals for their particular skill-set.
What is the definition of a decent programming language?
It's a pretty ambiguous requirement.
C? Java? Python? Perl? Javascript?
Each is 'decent' in it's own way.
Another way to ask is this: What do you feel the shortcomings of the Excel VB language variant are?
Disco still sucks.
But what harm? Does she articulate what the harm is?
Oh, that's right. Men look at women as objects of desire.
That must be bad. So immoral and demeaning, me and every other guy on the planet being hard wired to want sexual gratification from women. As if doing so harms women in some way.
Maybe what they are really afraid of is declining birth rates.
With more guys satisfying themselves with porn, there's less chance of pregnancy.
Not that I agree with a ban, at all. I'm simply pointing out reasoning that might not have made it to the public statements. We've heard arguments like this about pron before.
BTW, whatever happened to autopr0n? He used to have nice little site there.
I suspect it won't be too long before someone figures out how to build it, and posts instructions.
Besides the fact that every consumer windows starting with XP is based upon the NT kernel, with the consumery stuff rewritten and layered on top.
The win 1 -> 3.11 -> 95 -> 98 -> ME line was retired, thankfully, after ME.
In this case one should trust the data. The CEO publishing said data knows his product, and that positive test cases are repeatable.
Gotta side with Tesla here.
(take THAT Mr Edison. ;)
Yeah, the corporate contract. I'm a software manager for a big faceless corporate entity.
I've tried to start my own web sites, but found that I can't compete with Facebook and Amazon, even with nifty SEO ideas to get me to the top of Google and Bing. It was fun learning though, and getting back to writing code - which my day job no longer allows.
I'm sure that my employer actually owns the IP now for those 2 little sites. Good luck with that.
More recently, I've returned to playing music as a hobby, and am finding that I'm decent at writing rock songs.. the music anyway.
Never thought about it before parent's post, but I wonder if my company owns my creative output too, even though it has nothing to do with technology.
It was the only way to be sure,
In Soviet Russia, game plays YOU.
Didn't he say something about a virus?????
Kind of a cool problem. I suppose that short of altering the moon's orbit, someone is going to have to build adjustments into the software... Would that even be possible? Such adjustments or approximations might invalidate results.
Oh the hell with it.... I'm tired of thinking logically today. I need a beer.
This is easy. make the fucking thing available for download every week. (I"m assuming it isn't). Charge $5.99 an ep, or offer a subscription for a full season.
Do something..... most people will indeed go the legal route and pay for the show. I would.
I don't want HBO, but I live at my buddy's house on Sunday nights when this show is on. I'd gladly pay for it.
The dummies running these media companies just don't get it.. even now after all these years they are still clueless.
Look at the Blood and Chrome debacle. Are you fracking kidding me? Sci-Fi** won't air THAT show? They're clueless if they think they won't get viewership and a secondary market for downloads.
**I refuse to use the new name.
NO. I'm not a fan of robots.
It sounds like a sci-fi statement, doesn't it?
But I hate em'. I hate automated phone response, and i hate self serv checkouts in stores, among other things. Specifically because they replace people.
I'm also not a big fan of the crowd in Chennai taking my calls either......
Experience: Director if IT Security for a large Social Media Product.
Objective: A position where I can apply my experience and lessons learned in a fast paced and dynamic environment, targeting a large customer base. ::Hired:: By Facebook.
Ah but you see, people don't like talking to automation.
Even the friendly ones that get my account # right when I speak it in, are just plain freaky. It's not a replacement for a human interaction.. I like hearing the sound of a chuckle or some smalltalk while someone looks up my stuff. And these days, I feel good when it actually happens. It means that someone has a job.
Forget China.
This explains what those pesky North Koreans have been doing... those aren't really propaganda cities you know......
End of post.
Former hard core gamer here.
I gave up. I got sick of being treated like a criminal every time I tried playing a game. "Insert CD 1 to play". What bullshit.
I can only register a game to 1 computer? Even more bullshit.
So I stopped.
That's right, I quit feeding the industry my $$$, years ago. I think the last game I bought was Unreal Tournament - when it was new.
I considered Spore when it was being hyped as something new and different. It wasn't. And the copy protection there gave new meaning to the words "stay away from that shit".
Fuck you game publishers. Now you get none of my money.
It's more well spent these days anyway. More money for books....
wideBlueSkies is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs.
Is very sad life, will probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry.
Are we pointing at Epsilon Erindi? Could we be reading the Great Machine?
Don't worry, they are here to serve us.
>>Something smells fishy to me.
I agree. A coverup must be in the works.
Hell, they can take some of the water too if that's what they want. We can use some more landmass around here.
Just leave us some of those cool looking walking missile launchers.