The main reason why is that I dont want to have a dependency on the internet.
Partly its about just not wanting to have to be connected to play. What if I want to play where there is no internet, such as on an airplane or while camping etc. Also now you are subject to issues like available bandwidth, latency etc.
Also if the game is running in the cloud, it means I relinquish all control about what they do with the game, i.e. direction they take it in with patches etc,
Also with a local copy I am insulated if the parent company just suddenly goes out of business or even just decides to turn off the master server one day for business reasons.
Companies like Microsoft have already proven they will do that at the drop of the hat, and that they absolutely dont care about how many users it inconveneinces. I guess mostly because there are always people like you that will forget and come right back.
There's also privacy issues. I really dont want some company collectiing and marketing any stats the game can collect about me.
None of this is a problem if you have a binary running locally that doesnt need to use the internet.
I dont see any advantage of having a single user game running in the cloud. It seems all the advantages work for the benefit of the gaming company, and none for me.
You don't say how many hours a week you work for your $16k, but I'm assuming you work full-time so lets say at least 40, so your income is just above the US legal minimum wage of $7.25/hr (just over $15k P.A).
If you're only making close to minimum wage in the US, that suggests you dont have (or choose not to capitalise on) any marketable skills. Just moving to Malaysia wont change your relative lack of skills. Just being an American citizen on its own is not a magic ticket to earn more money than a local. So with no skills you will only be good for minimum wage there too, which is apparently about $72/week at most.
If you do decide to go there, good luck ever affording to do anything else (including leave) ever again.
my personal experience is that voice recognition systems are slow. buggy and practically never give me the options I actually want. As a Brit living in the USA I cant tell you how annoying it is that I have to put on a very exaggerated nasally American accent to make those things even understand me.
Besides, I nearly always end up eventually talking to a real person anyway so IMHO they are just a total waste of cellphone and life minutes.
>>>... this prize will re-energize the medical field to continue their endeavors to research and battle cancer, Parkinsonâ(TM)s disease and diabetes, among other medical maladies.
Great just what we need (not), just like the Gates foundation and pretty much every "charity" out there, yet another funding source for destroying natural slelection in humans uand extending peoples lives even though we are already very good at making more people to the point where its arguable that there are already too many people on the planet.
Medical research is already a shrewd racket that just focusses on patents and symptom-supressing drugs rather than actual cures because actual cures would remove the repeat business.
I for one would like to see more money going to other more urgent and/or altruistic causes. Environmental research, theoretical physics, space, etc.
One reason I prefer Android is that it gives people the option to write/run their own apps too. Why not develop your own version of the iPhone-only software you need? Not only would you get _exactly_ what you want, but if it fills a demand, you could make some money from having it on the the Play store.
I know the research into health hazards of cell phone radiation is inconclusive at best, but I personally cant believe there are no bad side-effects, so I for one wouldn't be happy with the idea of a phone strapped to the same spot on my wrist long term.
Modern sea mines are programmed with target profiles based on passive audio and magnetic signatures. They can not only be programmed to single out a specific class of vessel, but even a single vessel within a class.
One thing in moving to the US from UK I've noticed is how relatively low quality everything seems to be made in the US. Everything is designed cheap and weak and falls apart quickly. This apparently also extends to software development. All the US companies I've worked at have been completely happy with very crap code as long as its done fast. I've not really seen anything like it in my previous 25 years of software contracting all over the EU. In fact the mentality there is the direct opposite. The mantra I'm more used to is that rework costs about 10X the cost of getting it right the first time so work smart. I still can't believe this incredibly short term 'get it out quick' view in the US really pays off more, but as everyone over here seems to do it, I guess it must, at least for US markets.
Annoyingly, Mint now uses nouveau by default. On all 3 of my nvidia-based PCs Noveau causes a hard lock up within a few seconds of the window manager starting up. One of my PCs has a GTX 580 another has a gt 520, and the 3rd is a laoptop with an older nvidia mbedded chipset, so I've given it a good range of GPU ages/levels to work on but it fails on all 3.
All problems go away immediately I replace nouveau with nvidia's binary blob driver.
Its even more of a bitch if you want to install Mint Debian because the installer locks up hard (before you can even get a shell up to uninstall nouveau). They've annoyingly also removed any non-graphical install options from the grub menu.
The net effect is you cant install Mint Debian on any nvida-based platform as there's no way to avoid nouveau getting started at boot and locking up the box well before the desktop runs.
I guess I could have hand-customised the installer ISO image to use nvidia instead of nouveau, then burnt another CD but I simply ran out of patience.
Maybe right now, but there's nothing stopping them making future access to Android source/updates contingent on some new agreement. In fact I would think this obvious loophole will get closed pretty quickly if they're serious.
This move seems totally contrary to Google's corporate ethos thus far. They must know this is going to piss off a significant number of loyal customers. I'm REALLY hoping this isn't the first sign of Google joining the same rights-bully club that Microsoft and Apple are big members of.
Just a thought but I'm wondering if this change might be (the first part of) a bitter pill Google chose to swallow, say as a prerequisite of Hollywood/MPAA/RIAA to get the same level of access to the DRM inner sanctum that Apple and Microsoft already have.
None of the Apple patents are inventive, creative or novel. They are all freaking obvious and all probably have a large amount of prior art. The fact that defense of such lame patents can get this far at all is a travesty.
My undertanding is that E15 also eats rubber and plastic quickly, so think all your seals, hoses, fuel pump etc.
Even if your guess is right (and I am a long way from convinced you're right), that valve seats etc wont get more harmed by burning E15, just the side-effects of long-term running with incorrect timing (i.e. caused by unnig E15 with any ECU not explicitly rpogrammed for it) will surely wear out your engine much quicker.
As for the potential for damage, you only have to imagine the increased danger of a corroded fuel hose leaking fuel onto a hot exhaust manifold, or an engine running with bits of corroded plastic or seal floating about inside.
Everything I've read that isnt US government controlled says that that adding any ethanol at all to gasoline has no actual benefits and a lot of disadvantages.
The reality is that even the existence of E10 or any etahnol in our fuel at all is just the US government selling out to the corn lobby in return for campaign funding. E15 is beyond sane.
Because for some reason, the US seems think everyone should be disproportionately concerned about Israel. I guess thats an indicator of the degree of Jewish money/power/influence over the government and media in the USA.
Sounds to me like the real issue is that you dont want to relinquish any control of what you perceive is your brainchild.
You need to learn how to delegate upwards so you keep the MBA types busy on trivial crap while you get on with the real design/engineering work.
The secret here is to understand that all MBA types are all the same: They all know nothing about the actual products and are cluleless in every respect other than to repeatedly use the one tool they were told at MBA school, which is 'Reduce anything and everything to a well-defined process'. This thinking was originally intended only to try and make repeat-process environments (think production lines) more efficient and doesn't work at all with any creative process (e.g. software development) however the MBA's dont understand creativity because they never had any themselves so cant identify it in others. And because they dont know anything other than their one tool, they will just repeatedly do the same thing over and over even when its clearly not working. When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Knowing this, you can use it against them. Actively encourage them to go down a massive time wasting project of over analyzing everything to come up with a well-defined process. It will be an easy sell because they will want to do that anyway. We already know that will inevitably fail to achieve anything positive but you will look good because you apparently cooperated with the MBAs, they will look bad because they wasted man years and failed to achieve anything productive.
The only real trick is to make sure that encouraging them doesn't take too much of your own time so you can actually still do the real work, and that you never actually implement any of their process suggestions, otherwise your time and productivity will all quickly get sucked up into just running the endless bureaucracy.
You're on a road trip driving on an empty road in the middle of nowhere, and you desperately need a pee. There isnt a town or anything at all for at least 50 miles and theres no way you can hang on that far anyway. You finally have to pull over to the side of the road and take care of business. Unfortunately a cop car goes by at the wrong moment and he spotted you, turns around and arrests you for peeing in a public place. Congratulations you are now a registered sex offender. Thats how easy it is and how fucked up the system really is.
If resorting to factually incorrect personal attacks is really your best defense then you clearly must have no actual point that stends on its own merit.
Please explain to me how knowing tHiggs exists suddenly gives us "a virtually unlimited energy source that could power a massive spacecraft and also propel it close to the speed of light".
I consider the real sickness here is the wierdness that is the mind of apparently most Hollywood stars. I mean why do they apparently all carry nude pictures of themselves on their phones? Especially even knowing that phones can be hacked. I can smell the Paris Hilton effect in action.... There is no such thing as bad publicity.
At what point do we taxpayers say enough is enough? The LHC was crazy expensive to build and to run. They still havent definitively found a Higgs particle which is pretty much what it was built for, yet now after just 3 years its aparently already declared useless?
At the end of the day, so freaking what if they do or don't definitively find a Higgs particle. How will that knowledge improve normal people's lives in any practical way that justifies the massive cost?
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The main reason why is that I dont want to have a dependency on the internet.
Partly its about just not wanting to have to be connected to play. What if I want to play where there is no internet, such as on an airplane or while camping etc. Also now you are subject to issues like available bandwidth, latency etc.
Also if the game is running in the cloud, it means I relinquish all control about what they do with the game, i.e. direction they take it in with patches etc,
Also with a local copy I am insulated if the parent company just suddenly goes out of business or even just decides to turn off the master server one day for business reasons.
Companies like Microsoft have already proven they will do that at the drop of the hat, and that they absolutely dont care about how many users it inconveneinces. I guess mostly because there are always people like you that will forget and come right back.
There's also privacy issues. I really dont want some company collectiing and marketing any stats the game can collect about me.
None of this is a problem if you have a binary running locally that doesnt need to use the internet.
I dont see any advantage of having a single user game running in the cloud. It seems all the advantages work for the benefit of the gaming company, and none for me.
I for one won't ever buy any games that run in the cloud and/or you have to play through a browser.
You don't say how many hours a week you work for your $16k, but I'm assuming you work full-time so lets say at least 40, so your income is just above the US legal minimum wage of $7.25/hr (just over $15k P.A).
If you're only making close to minimum wage in the US, that suggests you dont have (or choose not to capitalise on) any marketable skills. Just moving to Malaysia wont change your relative lack of skills. Just being an American citizen on its own is not a magic ticket to earn more money than a local. So with no skills you will only be good for minimum wage there too, which is apparently about $72/week at most.
If you do decide to go there, good luck ever affording to do anything else (including leave) ever again.
my personal experience is that voice recognition systems are slow. buggy and practically never give me the options I actually want. As a Brit living in the USA I cant tell you how annoying it is that I have to put on a very exaggerated nasally American accent to make those things even understand me.
Besides, I nearly always end up eventually talking to a real person anyway so IMHO they are just a total waste of cellphone and life minutes.
>>> ... this prize will re-energize the medical field to continue their endeavors to research and battle cancer, Parkinsonâ(TM)s disease and diabetes, among other medical maladies.
Great just what we need (not), just like the Gates foundation and pretty much every "charity" out there, yet another funding source for destroying natural slelection in humans uand extending peoples lives even though we are already very good at making more people to the point where its arguable that there are already too many people on the planet.
Medical research is already a shrewd racket that just focusses on patents and symptom-supressing drugs rather than actual cures because actual cures would remove the repeat business.
I for one would like to see more money going to other more urgent and/or altruistic causes. Environmental research, theoretical physics, space, etc.
One reason I prefer Android is that it gives people the option to write/run their own apps too.
Why not develop your own version of the iPhone-only software you need?
Not only would you get _exactly_ what you want, but if it fills a demand, you could make some money from having it on the the Play store.
I know the research into health hazards of cell phone radiation is inconclusive at best, but I personally cant believe there are no bad side-effects, so I for one wouldn't be happy with the idea of a phone strapped to the same spot on my wrist long term.
Modern sea mines are programmed with target profiles based on passive audio and magnetic signatures.
They can not only be programmed to single out a specific class of vessel, but even a single vessel within a class.
One thing in moving to the US from UK I've noticed is how relatively low quality everything seems to be made in the US. Everything is designed cheap and weak and falls apart quickly.
This apparently also extends to software development. All the US companies I've worked at have been completely happy with very crap code as long as its done fast. I've not really seen anything like it in my previous 25 years of software contracting all over the EU. In fact the mentality there is the direct opposite. The mantra I'm more used to is that rework costs about 10X the cost of getting it right the first time so work smart.
I still can't believe this incredibly short term 'get it out quick' view in the US really pays off more, but as everyone over here seems to do it, I guess it must, at least for US markets.
Annoyingly, Mint now uses nouveau by default. On all 3 of my nvidia-based PCs Noveau causes a hard lock up within a few seconds of the window manager starting up. One of my PCs has a GTX 580 another has a gt 520, and the 3rd is a laoptop with an older nvidia mbedded chipset, so I've given it a good range of GPU ages/levels to work on but it fails on all 3.
All problems go away immediately I replace nouveau with nvidia's binary blob driver.
Its even more of a bitch if you want to install Mint Debian because the installer locks up hard (before you can even get a shell up to uninstall nouveau). They've annoyingly also removed any non-graphical install options from the grub menu.
The net effect is you cant install Mint Debian on any nvida-based platform as there's no way to avoid nouveau getting started at boot and locking up the box well before the desktop runs.
I guess I could have hand-customised the installer ISO image to use nvidia instead of nouveau, then burnt another CD but I simply ran out of patience.
Maybe right now, but there's nothing stopping them making future access to Android source/updates contingent on some new agreement. In fact I would think this obvious loophole will get closed pretty quickly if they're serious.
This move seems totally contrary to Google's corporate ethos thus far. They must know this is going to piss off a significant number of loyal customers. I'm REALLY hoping this isn't the first sign of Google joining the same rights-bully club that Microsoft and Apple are big members of.
Just a thought but I'm wondering if this change might be (the first part of) a bitter pill Google chose to swallow, say as a prerequisite of Hollywood/MPAA/RIAA to get the same level of access to the DRM inner sanctum that Apple and Microsoft already have.
None of the Apple patents are inventive, creative or novel. They are all freaking obvious and all probably have a large amount of prior art.
The fact that defense of such lame patents can get this far at all is a travesty.
...and of course there's no way that the family could have put it there themselves. Say in order to make a shit load of money by suing Gamestop.
>> why are people voting for a party for which the very act of governing seems too fucking hard?
Because the American voters have all been programmed by the media to vote against what they don't want instead of for what they do want.
The only conclusion of repeated cycles of that can be a 2 party system where both sides are ineffective. Thats exactly where the US is at now.
>> There's no inherent bias in "This is a picture of milk thistle"
Sorry but there is. What format is the image stored in?
My undertanding is that E15 also eats rubber and plastic quickly, so think all your seals, hoses, fuel pump etc.
Even if your guess is right (and I am a long way from convinced you're right), that valve seats etc wont get more harmed by burning E15, just the side-effects of long-term running with incorrect timing (i.e. caused by unnig E15 with any ECU not explicitly rpogrammed for it) will surely wear out your engine much quicker.
As for the potential for damage, you only have to imagine the increased danger of a corroded fuel hose leaking fuel onto a hot exhaust manifold, or an engine running with bits of corroded plastic or seal floating about inside.
Everything I've read that isnt US government controlled says that that adding any ethanol at all to gasoline has no actual benefits and a lot of disadvantages.
The reality is that even the existence of E10 or any etahnol in our fuel at all is just the US government selling out to the corn lobby in return for campaign funding. E15 is beyond sane.
Because for some reason, the US seems think everyone should be disproportionately concerned about Israel.
I guess thats an indicator of the degree of Jewish money/power/influence over the government and media in the USA.
Sounds to me like the real issue is that you dont want to relinquish any control of what you perceive is your brainchild.
You need to learn how to delegate upwards so you keep the MBA types busy on trivial crap while you get on with the real design/engineering work.
The secret here is to understand that all MBA types are all the same: They all know nothing about the actual products and are cluleless in every respect other than to repeatedly use the one tool they were told at MBA school, which is 'Reduce anything and everything to a well-defined process'.
This thinking was originally intended only to try and make repeat-process environments (think production lines) more efficient and doesn't work at all with any creative process (e.g. software development) however the MBA's dont understand creativity because they never had any themselves so cant identify it in others. And because they dont know anything other than their one tool, they will just repeatedly do the same thing over and over even when its clearly not working. When all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Knowing this, you can use it against them.
Actively encourage them to go down a massive time wasting project of over analyzing everything to come up with a well-defined process. It will be an easy sell because they will want to do that anyway. We already know that will inevitably fail to achieve anything positive but you will look good because you apparently cooperated with the MBAs, they will look bad because they wasted man years and failed to achieve anything productive.
The only real trick is to make sure that encouraging them doesn't take too much of your own time so you can actually still do the real work, and that you never actually implement any of their process suggestions, otherwise your time and productivity will all quickly get sucked up into just running the endless bureaucracy.
You're on a road trip driving on an empty road in the middle of nowhere, and you desperately need a pee. There isnt a town or anything at all for at least 50 miles and theres no way you can hang on that far anyway.
You finally have to pull over to the side of the road and take care of business. Unfortunately a cop car goes by at the wrong moment and he spotted you, turns around and arrests you for peeing in a public place. Congratulations you are now a registered sex offender. Thats how easy it is and how fucked up the system really is.
If resorting to factually incorrect personal attacks is really your best defense then you clearly must have no actual point that stends on its own merit.
Please explain to me how knowing tHiggs exists suddenly gives us "a virtually unlimited energy source that could power a massive spacecraft and also propel it close to the speed of light".
>> There's nothing wrong with having nude photos of yourself. Why is that sick? Weird?
ok so name one sane reason for having nude photos of yourself on your phone.
I consider the real sickness here is the wierdness that is the mind of apparently most Hollywood stars.
I mean why do they apparently all carry nude pictures of themselves on their phones? Especially even knowing that phones can be hacked.
I can smell the Paris Hilton effect in action.... There is no such thing as bad publicity.
At what point do we taxpayers say enough is enough? The LHC was crazy expensive to build and to run. They still havent definitively found a Higgs particle which is pretty much what it was built for, yet now after just 3 years its aparently already declared useless?
At the end of the day, so freaking what if they do or don't definitively find a Higgs particle. How will that knowledge improve normal people's lives in any practical way that justifies the massive cost?