I'm betting the Venn Diagram is pretty tiny when you combine "People Who Read the Gaming Section of Slashdot" with "People Who Have Never Heard of the Tycoon Games" and "People Who Can't Infer Simple Concepts from Context" and "People Who Find It Easier to Bitch In the Message Section Rather than Click on TFA".
What part about the title "Game Dev Tycoon" leaves you wondering what the subject matter of the game is? Even if that didn't make any synapses flash, the last sentence should have done it: "...players started noticing widespread piracy of their games in the game development simulator."
See that "game development simulator" bit? Combine that with the title and let your brain run wild.
Yeah, I was in the same position myself for a few years, but I opted for a ultra-book. I didn't do video work, though - mostly MATLAB and an in-house programming language. The power of a netbook would have been fine for the programming, but none of them had decent screens. For MATLAB, the netbooks were straight out. Even MS Office VBA macros can be tough to tolerate on a netbook - though that must be a screen problem since I was using those on a 486 back in the day:)
I do want general computation. Did you miss the part where I have a workstation and server? I also have a laptop. I don't currently have a Linux desktop going, but I do have a mix of Windows, MacOS, and FreeBSD running at the moment. Thing is, I've experimented with general-purpose OS cheap computers, and the hardware is not really suited for the purpose. You are more effective using the crappy hardware to access the good stuff if you can't be sitting in front of the good stuff. I've tried Linux on a craptop, and it was... crappy. I'm not sure Android would be much better, but at least it is designed around crappy hardware. Doing video conversion on a craptop is something best left to masochists. In theory it sounds like a good idea, but something that would take maybe 10 minutes on a fast workstation would take an hour or more on an Atom. Even a plain old i3 simply crushes an Atom.
I'd be very, very sad if I couldn't run a variety of OSs on my workstations or laptops, but I'm not really shedding a tear if my Kindle only runs Android. The fact that a ChromeBook will not run Windows does not distress me.
Why would anyone want to encode video on an Atom? I have an 8-year-old computer that would win that competition. At this point in time, a $200 netbook computer is not going to be great for content creation. Ante up to $400 and you'll have something more reasonable. I'm not sure there's a big market for netbooks anymore - most are probably better off getting a tablet and then buying a keyboard for it.
Clouds let me access all my stuff from everywhere that has an internet connection, which is increasingly everywhere. Local cache solves the intermittent connectivity issue. Clouds let me backup off-site for about $100/year, which is comparable in cost to running my basement server.
Dumb graphic terminals let me see a common desktop from everywhere. No more installing apps on lab computers - just remote in to my desktop. No more bringing a separate work laptop home, just hop on the VPN and remote desktop. It saves me a ton of time and effort. I don't even need to install MS Office or Matlab at home anymore.
iPods and their descendants are great for media consumption. You don't need a laptop to watch Youtube or to share pet photos on Facebook. They are so cheap that every member of the family can have one. The need for multiple PCs - and even multiple TVs - has eroded in a way I would not have anticipated. They've even replaced camcorders - I was one of perhaps only a dozen parents at the last dance recital still sporting a camcorder... almost everyone else was recording the performance with their phone or even a full sized iPad. (It was actually pretty comical looking.)
Most working musicians can barely cover their bar tabs with the money they make performing.
Most working musicians don't sell many albums, either.
And the musicians that "make it big" have to satisfy their initial contracts with a bunch of albums before they can renegotiate better terms. Groups like TLC initially made very little money from album sales, despite setting sales records for their record company.
Look up the 23rd word on page 9 of the user manual.
(I had a copied version of one game - I'm forgetting the name - but you could often get the game going by guessing common words like "the" or "and". You have loads of time, but very little money when you are 12 years old.)
Those who wanted a theocracy during the Iranian revolution were a minority, still Iran became a theocracy.
Iran was a dictatorship, not a democratic republic like France. It was pretty easy to get support for the revolution when the alternative was the Shah. Further, Iran is ethnically pretty homogeneous. Same thing for the Arab Spring - not one of those countries was anything resembling a democracy. Nor was Czarist Russia. Your best example, Mussolini, was not brought to power by an ethnic or religious minority. Even if he were, he was installed not through an election, but by coup d'état. The king at the time (Italy was a monarchy) refused to rubber-stamp the existing Prime Ministers plans for martial law and forced his resignation. The king then installed Mussolini.
But they are 50% of certain states, and represent a sizable minority in huge regions of the country - so it's a difficult comparison to make. In any event, at no point in US history has the black population exerted their will upon the majority - in fact, until recent improvement over the last 40 years or so, they were chronically underrepresented. And the islamic population is at about 50% lower in France than the black population in the US. It's safe to say that they wield little-to-no political power that they could use to subjugate the majority. And even further, nowhere near 100% of that small population wants Sharia.
The total Islamic population of France is probably under 10% - the total African and Islamic-descended population is under 15%. Even if ALL of those people wanted Sharia, they would be a tiny minority. I'm calling you on your thesis.
Your cost per month goes down once the phone is paid off. Alternately, you can buy (or bring) your phone and pay less each month. No other US carrier offers this unless you go prepay.
I didn't say "teachers". I would expect teachers to be much more savvy about copyright in the classroom than the population at large. I'd be surprised if you could make it through a masters in education without the topic coming up at least a few times.
You can read it. You can set up a lab full of computers and instruct all of the students to read it individually. But throw that puppy on an overhead, and it's a "performance".
Without government rules like this, how could commerce even function?
I disagree. People are surprised to learn that showing a movie to a bunch of school kids is "a performance". People violate the law all the time and don't even realize it, because you have to be an expert to learn all of the intricacies of copyright law. I really don't understand why we apply it to non-commercial use.
What advantage does this hold over existing "peer to peer" solutions like rsync or Unison? Is it just speed? I imagine that each additional update will speed up until downstream bandwidth is exhausted. If you have symmetric up/down, then there would be no speed advantage.
Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love...Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.... I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake... But I... I do deny them my essence.
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I'm betting the Venn Diagram is pretty tiny when you combine "People Who Read the Gaming Section of Slashdot" with "People Who Have Never Heard of the Tycoon Games" and "People Who Can't Infer Simple Concepts from Context" and "People Who Find It Easier to Bitch In the Message Section Rather than Click on TFA".
You seriously aren't familiar with the "Tycoon" type of games? Or did I just feed a troll?
What part about the title "Game Dev Tycoon" leaves you wondering what the subject matter of the game is? Even if that didn't make any synapses flash, the last sentence should have done it: "...players started noticing widespread piracy of their games in the game development simulator."
See that "game development simulator" bit? Combine that with the title and let your brain run wild.
Yeah, I was in the same position myself for a few years, but I opted for a ultra-book. I didn't do video work, though - mostly MATLAB and an in-house programming language. The power of a netbook would have been fine for the programming, but none of them had decent screens. For MATLAB, the netbooks were straight out. Even MS Office VBA macros can be tough to tolerate on a netbook - though that must be a screen problem since I was using those on a 486 back in the day :)
I do want general computation. Did you miss the part where I have a workstation and server? I also have a laptop. I don't currently have a Linux desktop going, but I do have a mix of Windows, MacOS, and FreeBSD running at the moment. Thing is, I've experimented with general-purpose OS cheap computers, and the hardware is not really suited for the purpose. You are more effective using the crappy hardware to access the good stuff if you can't be sitting in front of the good stuff. I've tried Linux on a craptop, and it was... crappy. I'm not sure Android would be much better, but at least it is designed around crappy hardware. Doing video conversion on a craptop is something best left to masochists. In theory it sounds like a good idea, but something that would take maybe 10 minutes on a fast workstation would take an hour or more on an Atom. Even a plain old i3 simply crushes an Atom.
I'd be very, very sad if I couldn't run a variety of OSs on my workstations or laptops, but I'm not really shedding a tear if my Kindle only runs Android. The fact that a ChromeBook will not run Windows does not distress me.
Why would anyone want to encode video on an Atom? I have an 8-year-old computer that would win that competition. At this point in time, a $200 netbook computer is not going to be great for content creation. Ante up to $400 and you'll have something more reasonable. I'm not sure there's a big market for netbooks anymore - most are probably better off getting a tablet and then buying a keyboard for it.
Clouds let me access all my stuff from everywhere that has an internet connection, which is increasingly everywhere. Local cache solves the intermittent connectivity issue. Clouds let me backup off-site for about $100/year, which is comparable in cost to running my basement server.
Dumb graphic terminals let me see a common desktop from everywhere. No more installing apps on lab computers - just remote in to my desktop. No more bringing a separate work laptop home, just hop on the VPN and remote desktop. It saves me a ton of time and effort. I don't even need to install MS Office or Matlab at home anymore.
iPods and their descendants are great for media consumption. You don't need a laptop to watch Youtube or to share pet photos on Facebook. They are so cheap that every member of the family can have one. The need for multiple PCs - and even multiple TVs - has eroded in a way I would not have anticipated. They've even replaced camcorders - I was one of perhaps only a dozen parents at the last dance recital still sporting a camcorder... almost everyone else was recording the performance with their phone or even a full sized iPad. (It was actually pretty comical looking.)
Most working musicians can barely cover their bar tabs with the money they make performing.
Most working musicians don't sell many albums, either.
And the musicians that "make it big" have to satisfy their initial contracts with a bunch of albums before they can renegotiate better terms. Groups like TLC initially made very little money from album sales, despite setting sales records for their record company.
Look up the 23rd word on page 9 of the user manual.
(I had a copied version of one game - I'm forgetting the name - but you could often get the game going by guessing common words like "the" or "and". You have loads of time, but very little money when you are 12 years old.)
Those who wanted a theocracy during the Iranian revolution were a minority, still Iran became a theocracy.
Iran was a dictatorship, not a democratic republic like France. It was pretty easy to get support for the revolution when the alternative was the Shah. Further, Iran is ethnically pretty homogeneous. Same thing for the Arab Spring - not one of those countries was anything resembling a democracy. Nor was Czarist Russia. Your best example, Mussolini, was not brought to power by an ethnic or religious minority. Even if he were, he was installed not through an election, but by coup d'état. The king at the time (Italy was a monarchy) refused to rubber-stamp the existing Prime Ministers plans for martial law and forced his resignation. The king then installed Mussolini.
France killed their monarchy.
Blacks make up about 13% of the US population
But they are 50% of certain states, and represent a sizable minority in huge regions of the country - so it's a difficult comparison to make. In any event, at no point in US history has the black population exerted their will upon the majority - in fact, until recent improvement over the last 40 years or so, they were chronically underrepresented. And the islamic population is at about 50% lower in France than the black population in the US. It's safe to say that they wield little-to-no political power that they could use to subjugate the majority. And even further, nowhere near 100% of that small population wants Sharia.
The total Islamic population of France is probably under 10% - the total African and Islamic-descended population is under 15%. Even if ALL of those people wanted Sharia, they would be a tiny minority. I'm calling you on your thesis.
Your cost per month goes down once the phone is paid off. Alternately, you can buy (or bring) your phone and pay less each month. No other US carrier offers this unless you go prepay.
I didn't say "teachers". I would expect teachers to be much more savvy about copyright in the classroom than the population at large. I'd be surprised if you could make it through a masters in education without the topic coming up at least a few times.
You can read it. You can set up a lab full of computers and instruct all of the students to read it individually. But throw that puppy on an overhead, and it's a "performance".
Without government rules like this, how could commerce even function?
By the way, here's a 5-part series on how simple copyright is in education.
Good. Now define "educational".
This isn't hard.
I disagree. People are surprised to learn that showing a movie to a bunch of school kids is "a performance". People violate the law all the time and don't even realize it, because you have to be an expert to learn all of the intricacies of copyright law. I really don't understand why we apply it to non-commercial use.
Collisions? Are switches that expensive?
Most of them have a way to attach to the back of the set.
Apple TV
ROKU
What advantage does this hold over existing "peer to peer" solutions like rsync or Unison? Is it just speed? I imagine that each additional update will speed up until downstream bandwidth is exhausted. If you have symmetric up/down, then there would be no speed advantage.
I love the reference, but man, that was fluoride!
From TFA: