No, they really didn't think it through. Like all script kiddies, they do it because getting metasploit and/or hanging around irc channels for weeks means you eventually use someone elses work to temporarily control a twitter account, take shit there and make yourself look like something of a tool, and then lose control of the account. I guess some people are born to die virgins.
If you have to touch it, touch it then get it online. In the UK you get extra rights to return stuff you buy online over the rights you get when buying from a store. For some reason a colleague bought a laptop from a shop which turned out, when they got home, to have dead pixels. They had to go back to the shop to complain and then have an argument with whoever happened to be working on the shop that day about how many dead pixels are acceptable. When I'm spending hundreds of pounds I can tell you that the only number I find acceptable is zero. If he'd bought it online he could have returned it for a full refund without even having to give a reason. I have no idea why people put themselves though all that time wasting, inconvenience and expense.
I like xkcd but when I looked at this strip (the day it was posted) there was nothing there, nor was there anything to make clear I should watch for hourly updates. I'm not sure why anyone would assume that..
Sen. Elbert Guillory, D-Opelousas, said he had reservations with repealing the act after a spiritual healer correctly diagnosed a specific medical ailment he had. He said he thought repealing the act could "lock the door on being able to view ideas from many places, concepts from many cultures."
"Yet if I closed my mind when I saw this man -- in the dust, throwing some bones on the ground, semi-clothed -- if I had closed him off and just said, 'That's not science. I'm not going to see this doctor,' I would have shut off a very good experience for myself," Guillory said.
But the web was shit in the late 1990s! I don't want to go back there. And TV today? The Thick of it, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Battlestar... we can watch TV on phones, tablets, laptops.
You're wrong, something Apple is learning. The larger Samsung Android devices - S3, Note etc, are flying off the shelves. Nobody gives a shit what other people think of their phones (i've only ever see knobheads in suits using bluetooth headsets), and for many people the phone part of a smartphone is not used as much as the browsing/emailing/social media side of things, so the larger screen has no downsides.
There's a lot of this in the press at the mo. They've done a good job. Handling the press, that is. They've already lost to Android and iOs. Let's just hope all those corporate sales hold out.
That's an epic logic fail. Most people don't rape or murder, but that's no reason to disband the police.
Most people don't have a problem with always-online on smartphones, and I expect that very few people will even notice if new consoles are always-on too, much less care. They'll probably be happy that you can buy a game online and play it straight away and not faff about with bits of plastic, and developers should experience a drop in piracy (though I doubt it'll stop it completely).
You're right, of course. From now on, whenever I talk about a faulty compiler emitting an illegal opcode, I'll be sure to add the comment "Note: whilst I'm describing this compiler output as illegal, as I believe it's unlikely to result in the desired execution of your application, whether or not it technically constitutes a breach of criminal or civil law in your jurisdiction is difficult to tell without further investigation. I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice", just to be safe.
> Language is like that: sometimes words have multiple meanings.
That's why it makes sense to be clear in what one is saying. When talking about the Prime Minister proposing stopping something in one situation which is already illegal/constrained in other situations, and where the preceeding sentence has already (incorrectly) stated that something is 'banned', the use of the word 'illegal' is not quite as unambiguous as it could perhaps be.
I love change - as soon as I saw Unity I changed to using Linux Mint.
Seriously, I have no idea why people think the only criticism of Unity is that it's different. People say "at first I didn't like it, but..". Well, a whole lot of people instead said "at first I didn't like it, so...".
It makes no sense to say something is illegal over one network. Something is illegal or it's not. It's also not true, at least on GiffGaff, which uses O2's network. You do have to prove you're over 18 - this has nothing to do with the law.
There's problems with the dev machines and environments, changing specs (including specs which are just stupid and need changing by someone with some sort of clue, rather than an overpaid 'analyst' who's just cutting and pasting stuff they don't understand from other people's documents), unforeseen problems during development, resourcing difficulties - all for a fuckwit of a manager with no technical experience who just wants a number they can enter into an email.
> since China was the last big pool of cheap human labor
We've not even started. Africa. To say nothing of Mexico, Indonesia etc. Africa - once we've sorted out the religious fuckwittery and corruption - will be massive.
âThe concept took around 3 years to materialize and with the validation and iteration stage â receiving a great response the prototyping is currently going on.
Sounds like it was written by the arse hole with the thick accent who keeps phoning me at home and asking me about loans.
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No, they really didn't think it through. Like all script kiddies, they do it because getting metasploit and/or hanging around irc channels for weeks means you eventually use someone elses work to temporarily control a twitter account, take shit there and make yourself look like something of a tool, and then lose control of the account. I guess some people are born to die virgins.
If you have to touch it, touch it then get it online. In the UK you get extra rights to return stuff you buy online over the rights you get when buying from a store. For some reason a colleague bought a laptop from a shop which turned out, when they got home, to have dead pixels. They had to go back to the shop to complain and then have an argument with whoever happened to be working on the shop that day about how many dead pixels are acceptable. When I'm spending hundreds of pounds I can tell you that the only number I find acceptable is zero. If he'd bought it online he could have returned it for a full refund without even having to give a reason. I have no idea why people put themselves though all that time wasting, inconvenience and expense.
YouTube spends most of its time saying 'buffering'; something I've never experienced with netflix. That's got to save a lot of bandwidth.
Not clear enough. I waited 20 seconds. Clearly I wasn't going to wait for half an hour.
I like xkcd but when I looked at this strip (the day it was posted) there was nothing there, nor was there anything to make clear I should watch for hourly updates. I'm not sure why anyone would assume that..
> Some glasses are even considered attractive -- think Sarah Palin's famous glasses.
LOL!
No, it was drug dealers and suits, then nerds.
Sen. Elbert Guillory, D-Opelousas, said he had reservations with repealing the act after a spiritual healer correctly diagnosed a specific medical ailment he had. He said he thought repealing the act could "lock the door on being able to view ideas from many places, concepts from many cultures."
"Yet if I closed my mind when I saw this man -- in the dust, throwing some bones on the ground, semi-clothed -- if I had closed him off and just said, 'That's not science. I'm not going to see this doctor,' I would have shut off a very good experience for myself," Guillory said.
But the web was shit in the late 1990s! I don't want to go back there. And TV today? The Thick of it, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Battlestar... we can watch TV on phones, tablets, laptops.
You're wrong, something Apple is learning. The larger Samsung Android devices - S3, Note etc, are flying off the shelves. Nobody gives a shit what other people think of their phones (i've only ever see knobheads in suits using bluetooth headsets), and for many people the phone part of a smartphone is not used as much as the browsing/emailing/social media side of things, so the larger screen has no downsides.
There's a lot of this in the press at the mo. They've done a good job. Handling the press, that is. They've already lost to Android and iOs. Let's just hope all those corporate sales hold out.
That's an epic logic fail. Most people don't rape or murder, but that's no reason to disband the police.
Most people don't have a problem with always-online on smartphones, and I expect that very few people will even notice if new consoles are always-on too, much less care. They'll probably be happy that you can buy a game online and play it straight away and not faff about with bits of plastic, and developers should experience a drop in piracy (though I doubt it'll stop it completely).
I believe that's his point. They play the game, and one day they stop playing it and move on.
Not everyone sells old games.
All gamers have an Internet connection so most of them aren't going to care.
> I can't imagine why they'd use BitTorrent, aside from the fact that BitTorrent gets
> you a few headlines.
"Hmm...this one says `7 minutes`...and this one says `116 minutes`....where to click...."
I'm interested in the funding of these reports.
You're right, of course. From now on, whenever I talk about a faulty compiler emitting an illegal opcode, I'll be sure to add the comment "Note: whilst I'm describing this compiler output as illegal, as I believe it's unlikely to result in the desired execution of your application, whether or not it technically constitutes a breach of criminal or civil law in your jurisdiction is difficult to tell without further investigation. I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice", just to be safe.
> Language is like that: sometimes words have multiple meanings.
That's why it makes sense to be clear in what one is saying. When talking about the Prime Minister proposing stopping something in one situation which is already illegal/constrained in other situations, and where the preceeding sentence has already (incorrectly) stated that something is 'banned', the use of the word 'illegal' is not quite as unambiguous as it could perhaps be.
> He has the problem that people hate change
I love change - as soon as I saw Unity I changed to using Linux Mint.
Seriously, I have no idea why people think the only criticism of Unity is that it's different. People say "at first I didn't like it, but..". Well, a whole lot of people instead said "at first I didn't like it, so...".
It makes no sense to say something is illegal over one network. Something is illegal or it's not. It's also not true, at least on GiffGaff, which uses O2's network. You do have to prove you're over 18 - this has nothing to do with the law.
There's problems with the dev machines and environments, changing specs (including specs which are just stupid and need changing by someone with some sort of clue, rather than an overpaid 'analyst' who's just cutting and pasting stuff they don't understand from other people's documents), unforeseen problems during development, resourcing difficulties - all for a fuckwit of a manager with no technical experience who just wants a number they can enter into an email.
> since China was the last big pool of cheap human labor
We've not even started. Africa. To say nothing of Mexico, Indonesia etc. Africa - once we've sorted out the religious fuckwittery and corruption - will be massive.
âThe concept took around 3 years to materialize and with the validation and iteration stage
â receiving a great response the prototyping is currently going on.
Sounds like it was written by the arse hole with the thick accent who keeps phoning me at home and asking me about loans.
To make money, one would assume.
So what's their problem? Can't they just torture and frame people as usual?