and if i'm currently trying 5-6 games just acquired from that famous bin, and whant to show some of them to my friend? or play some older glory that easily sit on my hard disk for years pending the right moment of nostalgia?
and some fucking drm added to the simple disk check of some game isn't easily evaded with daemon tools...
and the disk of my laptop is huge but not infinite! 10 games that occupy 4-5 GB each and the corresponding dvd iso are already 50GB!
not counting that this disck ckeck is really stupid! as you told many are simply avoidable with daemontools so totally ineffective but still much annoying to the paying customer!
after a year of playing only games from gog.com some time ago i ransacket a discounted old game bin, and i really regretted it!
i even rebuyed some game on gog to avoid the hassle of switching cd/dvd every time i want to play a game!
its even more annoying on a laptop where you whant to play a game everywhere, and you have 250GB of hard disk so you have tens of games installed, but i really don't whant the hassle of having to carry 10/20 cdrom if i ever want to game!
mostly with you, only problem with your text is that often the authors (expecially in the music industry) aren't the copyright holders... or have some draconian contract that practically leave them as if they werent.
If a dept feels they're understaffed, they must first evaluate the workload and determine if the implementation is unnecessarily causing extra work . Then correct the root issues (possibly hiring contractors for the interim) and reevaluate.
unfortunately the core problem is the fucking stupid users, no way to smat them up, nor to sack them...
the second problem is the presence of more than 100 different programs, about 2 to 15 are to install in every single station in seemly random assortment that vary wildly depending on the single user... no way to solve that either.
the third is a continuous spawning of new programs or functionality to implement the week before, so that you hastily put something up, than have to spend 5 time that time to correct, expand, modify, document ecc... all between a problem and an emergency
without those 3 problem there would be less than 1/5 of the problem... end personal needed.
now there is 4.5 tecnician, and 2.5 administrative to manage about 50-60 servers (half linux half win) and about 500 users on windows pc
Are the Italians that desperate to stop the video of Berlusconi being thumped being available around the world?:)
unfortunately we (the reasonably well informed citizen) certainly doesn't need another video on berlusconi...
it's the 70-90% of the population that live completely oblivious of the truckload of crime, corruption and assault to the constitution that the berlusconi's government represent. and that's because they are completely nubed by the tv and various papers submitted to berlusconi control...
I understand profit, that's why we're in business, to make money. But charging more for something just because the consumer is willing to pay more for it... I guess that crosses the ethical line for me.
That's not supply and demand, it's not because it's any better than the other, it's not because its more expensive to make. You're just doing it because you can, and I call that greed.
that's where the theory of capitalism fail, if every laptop owner know that it has been ripped of money for nothing in return than, maybe, market would work (and low the price),
but the main component that influence the market today are publicity and obfuscation of real characteristics and flaws of product
not informed comparison of products, where intelligent and informed people could decide if they want more reliable, more durable or cheaper product of a certain kind and, buying it, influence the market production.
Time, time, time, and time again, history has shown that you can run a business that people like and make money, or you can be a greedy monster and make money. It works for some time, but will those businesses be around in 100 years?
true, but unfortunately the business is ruled not by the desire to still be there the next century, but to show a profit the next quarter...
and if some branch of the multinational screw up greatly and die in few years... that bother only the employee not the top manager that go to manage some other establishment!
the analogy of the good king and bad king had much to it, the good king typically is also relatively good father that want to leave a good reign to his children, the bad one typically (not necessarily so but usually) is a person lusting for power, now and for himself the remote future doesn't matter.
so now we really need a good king of earth to care for the whole planet, ecologically and economically:)
except everyone in europe should be able to sell his video in england,
but if he doesn't know of a standard required there and it sell his product and then will be brought to tribunal for not following the law, you see were the problem is....
same here, I started muting the tv set and averting the eyes every time advertising appear and adblocking end are many years that i'm over sensitive to those invading ads that everyone talk about...
the major problem in your sentences is the word "chose",
evolution is a result of a lot of different events and none of them is sentient nor is the total of them,
so "choosing" an non redundant path isn't something that a "sentient" evolution logically do, it's simply a frequent occurrence because more simple solution to a problem tend to have easier time survive and reproduce.
not counting on the fact that the location were my 15 friend and i gater to play at CoD4 doesn't have any adsl
but it's the only location were we could gather to play because none of our homes had enough space and none had the capability to support the energy drain of 16 modern pc!!!
and hardly 1/2 of us will play from our homes because it's a pleasant occasion to gather, and insults via Voip aren't so much satisfactory!:)
so no lan -> no gathering -> no playing -> no buying
as 99.9324%* of the files that were downloaded were unwanted garbage.
*This figure is completely fictional, and was pulled out of my arse.
not so fictional unfortunately!
in the mail server that I administer there are about 80/90.000 connection to send mail every day, of those only about 2.000 weren't blocked by the greylist. of those 2000 at least 10% were blocked on the first mail server as spam or virus and then at least another 10% is blocked on the final server for the same causes.
so no more than 1600 mail/day were legittimate (or at least not filtered out, because many spam still pass) and that comprise the locally generated mail (the ones that doesn't have spam or virus except for the occasional epidemic...)
so at least 78400/80000 = 98% were spam (or virus), excluding the locally generated mail at least 99% of the mail coming in from internet is certainly unwanted!
I want be surprised if only 0.5% or less were truly legitimate working mail and not unusefull mailing list never cancelled...
The only way a place like GameStop would go out of business is if *all* game distribution switched to an online model. That isn't going to happen as long as people want to play games on devices that are not online.
well, steam isn't the only alternative, there are reasonable people like at www.gog.com that sell you downloadable games that will never require an internet connection (except for the first download)
and in few year there will hardly be any device without any possibility of on lyne interaction or at least possibility to simply plug in an usb key with the file downloaded elsewere...
they are after the first part of the taxes, directly detracted from the salary, then there are the ones at the end of the year, the ones on the propriety of house, the one on garbage and some other minor...
but if yours is cut in half there is not an astonish difference as i initially thought. between all the kind of taxes it's about 50-55% in taxes.
that's for the most of the population.
theoretically the more rich have more severe taxes, but they usually have hired professional able to find loophole to pay much less:(
here in Italy 1200-1300 euro/month are much more the norm!
that's for people with some specialization, and after a lot of taxation were already applied by the employer on before the paycheck.
but there were still many different taxes at the end of the year and our local version of VAT (called IVA) it's more frequently at 20% (with some goods at less, like 4%)
but if you became (for example) a fat bloat practically paralysed, unable to do any work of any kind that could benefit the society and without money to sustain yourself does society leave you to die?
or someone (friend, relatives, church, neighbour, charity,... ) pay for you in time, sweat or money?
much more likely the latter than the former...
so in 99% of the cases your self destruction is a cost for the society (even if you commit suicide or die there are the cost to dispose of the corpse...) at no added benefit.
you could never be totally separated and independent from the society, unless you live like an Inuit of a long time ago, so you have some privileges and some responsibility, that you want it or not.
Do you honestly think that it's a proper role for Government to "fix" the behavior of it's citizenry, when said behavior harms nobody whom doesn't engage in it?
well, theoretically no, the people themselves should self regulate and help neighbour and family regulate themselves.
but evidently it hasn't functioned.
so, albeit I doubt this tax is a solution to the problem, I definitely support some kind of intervention.
granted, I'm not from the USA, but from Italy where usually there is a much better culinary tradition. but even here we start to see a lot of really fat child and even mecdonald addicted ones...
contrary to the USA we have public healthcare, so if many stupid people gorge themselves at mcdonald and became really fat and with a ton of health problems that need medical cares I pay for them too!
and making a server for every game area (with a way to move seamlessly from one area/server to another ) instead of many instance of the same server with every area on it?
Because you must think that it's better to perish in a gas chamber after months of humiliating existence in a concentration camp then to die fighting next to your comrades
because about no one know what will happen to him when he was rounded up.
the majority of the world (and of the german themselves) discovered it only when the allied soldier conquered the camps.
so resit to the death or be "simply" relocate was the choice of the moment for most (if they had weapon and time to use them) if they know at all that something will happen and what could it been.
reading your post i immediately thought of many crimes done by stupid USA military against italians. in all those cases the culprit were never estradited to italy.
for reference to those cases, i doesn't remember details but maybe a bit of googling could help...
1) some 20+ year ago some brash stupid topgun flowed their fighter a bit too near some civilian zones, cutting the cable of a chairlift killing some tens of people... cernis case (if i remember correctly)
2) during the last iraqi invasion an italian secret service agent nogotiate to free an italian hostage, when they were on the car to the airport the solder at a roadblock fired a lot on the car killing the agent and another of the passengers. calipary case
the government of italy rarely posed itself directly against the mafia in the last 15-20+ years expecially the various berlusconi's ones
a friend of mine told me on a completely unintended act against mafia that happened during the first Iraqi invasion, when a lot of italian military where on the road of a major Italian city of the south when it was used by the USA as a jump point for the invasion.
with so much military on the streets the lowly mafia agents that usually goes to ask pizzo from the various commercial activity never presented. the population (or at least the owner of these small business) were so thankfull that he and his fellow soldier were unable to pay for any service in those bar and kiosk...
that's a kind of act that the government could do versus the mafia (or one of his aspects)
the berlusconi's government instead used the military as a show-piece that the government is taking some action during the last summer escalation of raping (at least escalation in the media, doesn't know if it were for real) distributing them in the various major city (of the nord where there are much less if any mafia) to make a work they were not prepared to (role of the various police forces).
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your gas price IS quite reasonable!
here in italy you currently pay about 1.3 euros/liter
considering 1 euros about 1.33 dollar and 1 liter about 1/3.8 gallon
so its about 2 dollar for 1/3.8 gallon or about than 7.5 dollar/gallon
and it has gone higher...
and if i'm currently trying 5-6 games just acquired from that famous bin, and whant to show some of them to my friend? or play some older glory that easily sit on my hard disk for years pending the right moment of nostalgia?
and some fucking drm added to the simple disk check of some game isn't easily evaded with daemon tools...
and the disk of my laptop is huge but not infinite! 10 games that occupy 4-5 GB each and the corresponding dvd iso are already 50GB!
not counting that this disck ckeck is really stupid! as you told many are simply avoidable with daemontools so totally ineffective but still much annoying to the paying customer!
mostly acceptable??? NO!
its the first type to eradicate nowadays!
after a year of playing only games from gog.com some time ago i ransacket a discounted old game bin, and i really regretted it!
i even rebuyed some game on gog to avoid the hassle of switching cd/dvd every time i want to play a game!
its even more annoying on a laptop where you whant to play a game everywhere, and you have 250GB of hard disk so you have tens of games installed, but i really don't whant the hassle of having to carry 10/20 cdrom if i ever want to game!
mostly with you, only problem with your text is that often the authors (expecially in the music industry) aren't the copyright holders...
or have some draconian contract that practically leave them as if they werent.
If a dept feels they're understaffed, they must first evaluate the workload and determine if the implementation is unnecessarily causing extra work . Then correct the root issues (possibly hiring contractors for the interim) and reevaluate.
unfortunately the core problem is the fucking stupid users, no way to smat them up, nor to sack them...
the second problem is the presence of more than 100 different programs, about 2 to 15 are to install in every single station in seemly random assortment that vary wildly depending on the single user...
no way to solve that either.
the third is a continuous spawning of new programs or functionality to implement the week before, so that you hastily put something up, than have to spend 5 time that time to correct, expand, modify, document ecc...
all between a problem and an emergency
without those 3 problem there would be less than 1/5 of the problem... end personal needed.
now there is 4.5 tecnician, and 2.5 administrative to manage about 50-60 servers (half linux half win) and about 500 users on windows pc
Are the Italians that desperate to stop the video of Berlusconi being thumped being available around the world? :)
unfortunately we (the reasonably well informed citizen) certainly doesn't need another video on berlusconi...
it's the 70-90% of the population that live completely oblivious of the truckload of crime, corruption and assault to the constitution that the berlusconi's government represent.
and that's because they are completely nubed by the tv and various papers submitted to berlusconi control...
I understand profit, that's why we're in business, to make money. But charging more for something just because the consumer is willing to pay more for it... I guess that crosses the ethical line for me.
That's not supply and demand, it's not because it's any better than the other, it's not because its more expensive to make. You're just doing it because you can, and I call that greed.
that's where the theory of capitalism fail, if every laptop owner know that it has been ripped of money for nothing in return
than, maybe, market would work (and low the price),
but the main component that influence the market today are publicity and obfuscation of real characteristics and flaws of product
not informed comparison of products, where intelligent and informed people could decide if they want more reliable, more durable or cheaper product of a certain kind and, buying it, influence the market production.
no, that's what happen if you use all your uranium and plutonium for atomic bombs :)
Time, time, time, and time again, history has shown that you can run a business that people like and make money, or you can be a greedy monster and make money. It works for some time, but will those businesses be around in 100 years?
true, but unfortunately the business is ruled not by the desire to still be there the next century, but to show a profit the next quarter...
and if some branch of the multinational screw up greatly and die in few years... that bother only the employee not the top manager that go to manage some other establishment!
the analogy of the good king and bad king had much to it, the good king typically is also relatively good father that want to leave a good reign to his children, the bad one typically (not necessarily so but usually) is a person lusting for power, now and for himself the remote future doesn't matter.
so now we really need a good king of earth to care for the whole planet, ecologically and economically :)
except everyone in europe should be able to sell his video in england,
but if he doesn't know of a standard required there and it sell his product and then will be brought to tribunal for not following the law, you see were the problem is....
same here, I started muting the tv set and averting the eyes every time advertising appear and adblocking end are many years that i'm over sensitive to those invading ads that everyone talk about...
the major problem in your sentences is the word "chose",
evolution is a result of a lot of different events and none of them is sentient nor is the total of them,
so "choosing" an non redundant path isn't something that a "sentient" evolution logically do, it's simply a frequent occurrence because more simple solution to a problem tend to have easier time survive and reproduce.
munckin rulez :)
with some reservation in some areas i certainly undersign it!
not counting on the fact that the location were my 15 friend and i gater to play at CoD4 doesn't have any adsl
but it's the only location were we could gather to play because none of our homes had enough space and none had the capability to support the energy drain of 16 modern pc!!!
and hardly 1/2 of us will play from our homes because it's a pleasant occasion to gather, and insults via Voip aren't so much satisfactory! :)
so no lan -> no gathering -> no playing -> no buying
as 99.9324%* of the files that were downloaded were unwanted garbage.
*This figure is completely fictional, and was pulled out of my arse.
not so fictional unfortunately!
in the mail server that I administer there are about 80/90.000 connection to send mail every day, of those only about 2.000 weren't blocked by the greylist.
of those 2000 at least 10% were blocked on the first mail server as spam or virus and then at least another 10% is blocked on the final server for the same causes.
so no more than 1600 mail/day were legittimate (or at least not filtered out, because many spam still pass) and that comprise the locally generated mail (the ones that doesn't have spam or virus except for the occasional epidemic...)
so at least 78400/80000 = 98% were spam (or virus), excluding the locally generated mail at least 99% of the mail coming in from internet is certainly unwanted!
I want be surprised if only 0.5% or less were truly legitimate working mail and not unusefull mailing list never cancelled...
The only way a place like GameStop would go out of business is if *all* game distribution switched to an online model. That isn't going to happen as long as people want to play games on devices that are not online.
well, steam isn't the only alternative, there are reasonable people like at www.gog.com that sell you downloadable games that will never require an internet connection (except for the first download)
and in few year there will hardly be any device without any possibility of on lyne interaction or at least possibility to simply plug in an usb key with the file downloaded elsewere...
they are after the first part of the taxes, directly detracted from the salary, then there are the ones at the end of the year, the ones on the propriety of house, the one on garbage and some other minor...
but if yours is cut in half there is not an astonish difference as i initially thought. between all the kind of taxes it's about 50-55% in taxes.
that's for the most of the population.
theoretically the more rich have more severe taxes, but they usually have hired professional able to find loophole to pay much less :(
average income at 2500 Euro/month?????
where do you live?
or to be more precise, where do I live!!!
here in Italy 1200-1300 euro/month are much more the norm!
that's for people with some specialization, and after a lot of taxation were already applied by the employer on before the paycheck.
but there were still many different taxes at the end of the year and our local version of VAT (called IVA)
it's more frequently at 20% (with some goods at less, like 4%)
but if you became (for example) a fat bloat practically paralysed, unable to do any work of any kind that could benefit the society and without money to sustain yourself does society leave you to die?
or someone (friend, relatives, church, neighbour, charity, ... ) pay for you in time, sweat or money?
much more likely the latter than the former...
so in 99% of the cases your self destruction is a cost for the society (even if you commit suicide or die there are the cost to dispose of the corpse...) at no added benefit.
you could never be totally separated and independent from the society, unless you live like an Inuit of a long time ago, so you have some privileges and some responsibility, that you want it or not.
Do you honestly think that it's a proper role for Government to "fix" the behavior of it's citizenry, when said behavior harms nobody whom doesn't engage in it?
well, theoretically no, the people themselves should self regulate and help neighbour and family regulate themselves.
but evidently it hasn't functioned.
so, albeit I doubt this tax is a solution to the problem, I definitely support some kind of intervention.
granted, I'm not from the USA, but from Italy where usually there is a much better culinary tradition. but even here we start to see a lot of really fat child and even mecdonald addicted ones...
contrary to the USA we have public healthcare, so if many stupid people gorge themselves at mcdonald and became really fat and with a ton of health problems that need medical cares I pay for them too!
and making a server for every game area (with a way to move seamlessly from one area/server to another ) instead of many instance of the same server with every area on it?
Because you must think that it's better to perish in a gas chamber after months of humiliating existence in a concentration camp then to die fighting next to your comrades
because about no one know what will happen to him when he was rounded up.
the majority of the world (and of the german themselves) discovered it only when the allied soldier conquered the camps.
so resit to the death or be "simply" relocate was the choice of the moment for most (if they had weapon and time to use them) if they know at all that something will happen and what could it been.
reading your post i immediately thought of many crimes done by stupid USA military against italians. in all those cases the culprit were never estradited to italy.
for reference to those cases, i doesn't remember details but maybe a bit of googling could help...
1) some 20+ year ago some brash stupid topgun flowed their fighter a bit too near some civilian zones, cutting the cable of a chairlift killing some tens of people... cernis case (if i remember correctly)
2) during the last iraqi invasion an italian secret service agent nogotiate to free an italian hostage, when they were on the car to the airport the solder at a roadblock fired a lot on the car killing the agent and another of the passengers. calipary case
the government of italy rarely posed itself directly against the mafia in the last 15-20+ years expecially the various berlusconi's ones
a friend of mine told me on a completely unintended act against mafia that happened during the first Iraqi invasion, when a lot of italian military where on the road of a major Italian city of the south when it was used by the USA as a jump point for the invasion.
with so much military on the streets the lowly mafia agents that usually goes to ask pizzo from the various commercial activity never presented.
the population (or at least the owner of these small business) were so thankfull that he and his fellow soldier were unable to pay for any service in those bar and kiosk...
that's a kind of act that the government could do versus the mafia (or one of his aspects)
the berlusconi's government instead used the military as a show-piece that the government is taking some action during the last summer escalation of raping (at least escalation in the media, doesn't know if it were for real) distributing them in the various major city (of the nord where there are much less if any mafia) to make a work they were not prepared to (role of the various police forces).