I hate blizzard as much as the next guy, what they've done in WoD/Legion is a war crime, and I'm not sure why their designer and VP haven't been fired. It takes some brass balls to see your subscriber base drop off the charts, then simply stop talking about your subscribers and not telling your investors how badly you are managing things. String them all up and let the vultures at them.
That said, the anti-cheat arms race has been going on now for 20 years, and the defense side has never won. I don't think Blizzard can do anything effective. One way or another, someone will build a better cheat, it is impossible to stop. In fact at a certain level beating the cheat becomes more fun than the game, much like some "hackers" enjoy finding exploits just because they can, not because they intend to steal, defraud or vandalize.
So far all I hear are a bunch of "concerned" people with various naturistic hippybullshit beliefs, or unspecified concerns over "genetic modifications", ignoring the wide variety of things that are being done, and the fact that everything we eat has been genetically modified by cultivation or quicker means. We should not create new religions, prove it or it doesn't exist.
Presumably we, and various anti-trust lawyers are glued to this spat and munching popcorn. I'm certainly going to purchase my next phone based on music streaming services./sarcasm
Or, you know, we don't care. It's a little weird for Apple to be playing in this space (as a HW company), it's a little weird the way Spotify is framing their argument...to the point that I question if their service has any actual value (it certainly has no profits). I question if such services can turn a profit given the almighty power of copyright. It feels like there's a struggle for a few strips of bacon, and two lions are going to dual to the death for those two strips of bacon. And the winner will bleed to death with bacon breath.
Your shareholders can't demand you break the law, or even flirt with it.
No, they're not allowed to do that in the US either. For the most part, no one is breaking the law. The mechanisms they are using are fully legal, generally by exploiting legalisms that were intentionally left in the tax code for "generous campaign contributions". The butt-hurt feeling everyone has, that was their government selling them out, leaving these ways of not paying taxes everything thought they should be paying.
Now perhaps Google is breaking the law in these cases, that's for a court to figure out. I bet it's not so simple and clear cut. I have heard rumors however that Spain and France employ some extra-legal methods of dealing with these cases that involve some back scratching. And perhaps Google is going to pay a percentage of what it owes with a very disingenuous "My bad", and politicians are going to walk away talking about how they brought down the monster and somewhere some programs won't be paid for because the money doesn't exist.
Since when did Slashdot become a website for rich people who pay others to assemble technology systems for them at home?
I'm not sure, but it's always featured people with more money than brains who might require the services of geeks who can plug in some wires for rich people.
Amen, publishers are half as annoying as friends or family who post every exhale. The ones I'm thinking of have a million "friends" (read: people they met once, or their friends), have elevated visibility because one of those millions can be trolled in to liking one post or another on a consistent basis, and also use facebook to flog some idiotic business idea they have.
You cannot "unlike" them, you have no way of moderating their posts down, and often you cannot "unfriend" them without dealing with the social fallout. So you get swamped by shit you don't like, and eventually stop using facebook.
Why not lead by example by moving Google away from the bay area
I'm sure many of the employees will move, but the majority probably wouldn't. Forcing them to either retain a significant and expensive presence there, or lose the people who know how to keep the company going.
Similarly, opening up sites elsewhere makes a lot of sense if you can divide up the work and minimize communication. No one likes having half their team split geographically (particularly across many time zones).
Maybe selective speeding would be a good thing, like in documentary style tv shows where they feel the need to 'catch you up' after every commercial break. Speeding through those parts would increase my viewing pleasure.
I find it is incredibly useful from content that is deliberately trying to induce a strong enough emotional response to override the logical portion of the brain. Politicians and product reveals are the #1 thing I would like in a condensed (transcripted preferably) format.
OTOH content where I deliberately want my disbelief suspended, I wouldn't speed up, it would be defeating the point.
I guess whoever wrote this article didn't do very much research
They are paid to drain the inventory of existing Surface 3's and create an artificial demand for a product that probably will simply be refreshed shortly.
No, most reasonable people hate both candidates, so we really don't care. The election is already over, we lost. At this point if Charlie Sheen took over the presidency I'd be neither surprised nor especially disappointed, at least I know there'd be enough coke for us all, it's just a matter of taking it from him. #winning
How is "killed 49 people at a gay nightclub" any more informative than "killed 49 people at a nightclub".
It's informative about his motivations. It wasn't random, he was deliberately attacking gay people. That is useful to know to understand that particular crime.
The question you probably should have asked is what does it being a gay night club have to do with enhancing government spying privileges. Either enhancing spying to stop mass murders is OK or it is not. It doesn't matter what particular aspect of the victims set him off, some other nut job will have some other criteria for the same result. Throwing "gay" into the mix in this case may dampen the crime for the majority of people who are not gay, because they are now less afraid.
Regardless, this is just a power grab, and it is shut down however narrowly, yay.
By all accounts someone else is going to kill the headphone jack shortly too in the Android world. If rumors are to be believed, this phone will also demonstrate another reason why people want to kill the headphone jack that is useful (for many, not all). I personally think it is premature, but we will have to wait and see if they manage to stick the landing.
You could try the theramin. Kind of like with piano where you play the right hand first, then add the left, you want to start with automatic transmission before going to manual.
talking about the kind of stuff you can do from a DRAC/IPMI port.
As far as I know it was an attempt to remove the dedicated processor that powers DRAC/iLO and relocate it to the Intel Chipset. It is a win for Intel in that it helps Dell and HP relocate management features to Intel chipsets and vendor lock in (cockblocking AMD further), while also removing expensive custom ICs that themselves were often buggy and flakey.
It does have the ability to do some things that those solutions did not have the capability of doing at the time, some of those things are very good (much better power management), some very bad.
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I hate blizzard as much as the next guy, what they've done in WoD/Legion is a war crime, and I'm not sure why their designer and VP haven't been fired. It takes some brass balls to see your subscriber base drop off the charts, then simply stop talking about your subscribers and not telling your investors how badly you are managing things. String them all up and let the vultures at them.
That said, the anti-cheat arms race has been going on now for 20 years, and the defense side has never won. I don't think Blizzard can do anything effective. One way or another, someone will build a better cheat, it is impossible to stop. In fact at a certain level beating the cheat becomes more fun than the game, much like some "hackers" enjoy finding exploits just because they can, not because they intend to steal, defraud or vandalize.
So far all I hear are a bunch of "concerned" people with various naturistic hippybullshit beliefs, or unspecified concerns over "genetic modifications", ignoring the wide variety of things that are being done, and the fact that everything we eat has been genetically modified by cultivation or quicker means. We should not create new religions, prove it or it doesn't exist.
How does this affect anyone?
Presumably we, and various anti-trust lawyers are glued to this spat and munching popcorn. I'm certainly going to purchase my next phone based on music streaming services. /sarcasm
Or, you know, we don't care. It's a little weird for Apple to be playing in this space (as a HW company), it's a little weird the way Spotify is framing their argument...to the point that I question if their service has any actual value (it certainly has no profits). I question if such services can turn a profit given the almighty power of copyright. It feels like there's a struggle for a few strips of bacon, and two lions are going to dual to the death for those two strips of bacon. And the winner will bleed to death with bacon breath.
Where?
Exactly!
Your shareholders can't demand you break the law, or even flirt with it.
No, they're not allowed to do that in the US either. For the most part, no one is breaking the law. The mechanisms they are using are fully legal, generally by exploiting legalisms that were intentionally left in the tax code for "generous campaign contributions". The butt-hurt feeling everyone has, that was their government selling them out, leaving these ways of not paying taxes everything thought they should be paying.
Now perhaps Google is breaking the law in these cases, that's for a court to figure out. I bet it's not so simple and clear cut. I have heard rumors however that Spain and France employ some extra-legal methods of dealing with these cases that involve some back scratching. And perhaps Google is going to pay a percentage of what it owes with a very disingenuous "My bad", and politicians are going to walk away talking about how they brought down the monster and somewhere some programs won't be paid for because the money doesn't exist.
Since when did Slashdot become a website for rich people who pay others to assemble technology systems for them at home?
I'm not sure, but it's always featured people with more money than brains who might require the services of geeks who can plug in some wires for rich people.
Amen, publishers are half as annoying as friends or family who post every exhale. The ones I'm thinking of have a million "friends" (read: people they met once, or their friends), have elevated visibility because one of those millions can be trolled in to liking one post or another on a consistent basis, and also use facebook to flog some idiotic business idea they have.
You cannot "unlike" them, you have no way of moderating their posts down, and often you cannot "unfriend" them without dealing with the social fallout. So you get swamped by shit you don't like, and eventually stop using facebook.
We will transcend into beings of pure energy.
Silicon Valley hasn't been cheap any time in the past 30 years. It has always been an overpriced zoo, it just has money and momentum.
Why not lead by example by moving Google away from the bay area
I'm sure many of the employees will move, but the majority probably wouldn't. Forcing them to either retain a significant and expensive presence there, or lose the people who know how to keep the company going.
Similarly, opening up sites elsewhere makes a lot of sense if you can divide up the work and minimize communication. No one likes having half their team split geographically (particularly across many time zones).
Maybe selective speeding would be a good thing, like in documentary style tv shows where they feel the need to 'catch you up' after every commercial break. Speeding through those parts would increase my viewing pleasure.
I find it is incredibly useful from content that is deliberately trying to induce a strong enough emotional response to override the logical portion of the brain. Politicians and product reveals are the #1 thing I would like in a condensed (transcripted preferably) format.
OTOH content where I deliberately want my disbelief suspended, I wouldn't speed up, it would be defeating the point.
I guess whoever wrote this article didn't do very much research
They are paid to drain the inventory of existing Surface 3's and create an artificial demand for a product that probably will simply be refreshed shortly.
But curling tho
Sounds like they already did using a HW dongle. It's ok tho, they disabled it.
But most reasonable people actually like him.
No, most reasonable people hate both candidates, so we really don't care. The election is already over, we lost. At this point if Charlie Sheen took over the presidency I'd be neither surprised nor especially disappointed, at least I know there'd be enough coke for us all, it's just a matter of taking it from him. #winning
How is "killed 49 people at a gay nightclub" any more informative than "killed 49 people at a nightclub".
It's informative about his motivations. It wasn't random, he was deliberately attacking gay people. That is useful to know to understand that particular crime.
The question you probably should have asked is what does it being a gay night club have to do with enhancing government spying privileges. Either enhancing spying to stop mass murders is OK or it is not. It doesn't matter what particular aspect of the victims set him off, some other nut job will have some other criteria for the same result. Throwing "gay" into the mix in this case may dampen the crime for the majority of people who are not gay, because they are now less afraid.
Regardless, this is just a power grab, and it is shut down however narrowly, yay.
By all accounts someone else is going to kill the headphone jack shortly too in the Android world. If rumors are to be believed, this phone will also demonstrate another reason why people want to kill the headphone jack that is useful (for many, not all). I personally think it is premature, but we will have to wait and see if they manage to stick the landing.
No, but the rest of us are going to tell you what you can do with your "selfie stick" instead.
Plenty of cell phones will be sold with 3.5mm audio jacks.
Sounds like you smell a rat.
Muskrat Industries
- they won't even let reviewers see the movie its so bad.
Sounds like they gave themselves a 0 star rating and decided to save critics the time. How nice of them.
The sad part is people will still go see it, even though clearly even the producers know its a turd.
Also wealth, education levels, reproductive rates, lower crime in general, etc. Correlation is not causation, but man does it make for some headlines!
i would enjoy returning a shredded bag on my way out
You could try the theramin. Kind of like with piano where you play the right hand first, then add the left, you want to start with automatic transmission before going to manual.
talking about the kind of stuff you can do from a DRAC/IPMI port.
As far as I know it was an attempt to remove the dedicated processor that powers DRAC/iLO and relocate it to the Intel Chipset. It is a win for Intel in that it helps Dell and HP relocate management features to Intel chipsets and vendor lock in (cockblocking AMD further), while also removing expensive custom ICs that themselves were often buggy and flakey.
It does have the ability to do some things that those solutions did not have the capability of doing at the time, some of those things are very good (much better power management), some very bad.