I'll probably buy a whole new gaming computer just to play this game.
And I will probably only play the game once some nice cracker cracks it. Because I don't support gaming companies that support DRM.
Wow, big word "jingoist". That's impressive. -1 Troll. Where are the moderators? If you use a big word like "jingoist" and then follow it with "you ignorant fuck" then apparently all sense is lost.
Unions are like any other special interest group in this country, they never know when to quit. They cut off workers at the knees, imposing unreasonable dues and ridiculous work requirements. They are a true, government enforced dictatorship. Everywhere they go jobs are lost. Welcome to America, the country that used to have manufacturing jobs - thanks to the unions. GM, for example, has to add $3,000 for each vehicle they sell, just to pay insane union pensions. Do unions care that GM can't sell cars because of this? No. Is it ever suggested that maybe worker wages should go down so the company can stay in business? No.
Intelligent people don't join unions. This is because intelligent people don't fall for the sucker-dream of unbiased advocates who are "on my side". We happen to be our own advocates, thank you very much. As long as we don't live in a dictatorship that requires people to buy things then union advocates will be powerless to help. A union can force a company to pay an employee a certain rate, but it cannot force the market to pay the company.
I bought a Wii ONLY because it could be cracked. We wanted a way to watch Netflix and could've afforded the PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii. I bought the Wii because it was easy to crack - no hardware needed. I haven't bought a console before this since.... the super nintendo (really.) Me and my wife just don't play games (we're twenty somethings, not old fogies.) We bought the Wii for Netflix. The fact that I cracked it and burned some games I don't own doesn't hurt any game studio. Because we NEVER WOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE GAME OR THE SYSTEM in the first place. If anything it might turn us non-gamers who would never spend money on something into gamers.
Seriously, you must be new here. Flash is a proprietary closed-source hunk of binary that we're stuck with. This is the reason most people on Slashdot hate it. We can't fix it, and it has regular unfixable problems on every platform I've used it on. It's so bad that most browsers have had to re-engineer their plug-in system to prevent Flash from taking down the browser. Not to mention the regular and horrible security holes, the fact that it bypasses browser cookie policy with it's LSOs (newsflash: not in HTML5.)
Yes, HTML5 might eventually become an advertisers dream but that's what AdBlock is for. At least it will be free, open and standards based. The day that the Flash plug-in is not needed will be a great day. I can't imagine why anyone would champion it. All it is is one less Adobe product you have to buy as a developer.
A corporation exists to make a profit. They're not generally social clubs. It is impossible to tax them, impossible to impose any fees or liabilities that are not directly passed on to ordinary citizens. Usually it's the poorest who get... stuffed when this happens. Politicians rely on people not realizing this and so they try to demonize the corporations in order to grow their own power base. Go to any state capital and look at all the damn golf courses, ultra-premium bistros and cafes, fine wine shops and cigar stores. These are where our "representatives" get their rocks off to cheap hookers, coke habits and all expense paid vacations. Paid for by corrupt corporations who are generally up to no good, I might add. Corporations do all kinds of horrible things, because people do all kinds of horrible things. The same people who are in the corporations and the golf courses are at the political circle jerks and occasional inconveniences called "campaigns." But please, don't blame the corporations for passing on costs of doing business. A business will do this, or the investors behind it will decided to pull the plug and dissolve the business. Blame the assholes who are blaming the corporations - your local, state and federal representatives. These are the pigs who we hired as advocates. The same pigs that have been eating the food and shitting in the pond.
51% of the population is female. A good number of those women are incredibly ugly but rely on a vagina monopoly to get artificially higher benefits from their men. If guys were able to just go out and sleep with good looking women then they would reconsider marrying their ugly-domineering American women and would stop blowing so much money on them. This is why prostitution is illegal, it competes with legal prostitution, which is called marriage. It equalizes the power struggle between men and women.
I happen to be married to an awesome woman, btw. Just because social norms are that way doesn't mean you can't be happy. I married her because I love her, but I am under no delusions that if I stopped paying for her housing, food, chocolate and occasional roses then I would masturbate a good deal more. See what I mean about equality? She's got all kinds of reasons to keep prostitution illegal. Men are willing to pay such a high price because they have nowhere else to go - monopoly. Yes, I could just remain in the dating scene but you can only do that for so long before the women find out you'll not commit to the terms and issue an embargo on vaginal access.
There's no romanticism in this, but damn is it ever true. The really brilliant part is that women enjoy sex too.
People in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries *did* know what metallic systems were like, and they
created what we have now to fix that! Now they're dead, and not around to tell you young whippersnappers
what it was like.
Actually, I've always thought that if I was a corporate banker who was able to put together a shady private corporation that would allow me to print money legally then I would try to convince everyone this was the best course.. Wouldn't you? Print money! And then loan that money to whoever I wanted to for real interest. This is what the biggest banks do.
I'm saying, I don't think it due to problems with the previous system that the current system was designed. Except perhaps that the government never had very much money because it had to tax it to get it before. Did all those founding Federal Reserve bankers seem to be community minded altruists? No?/thread
I turned it off after Hulu.com and netflix became the cheaper way to go. It's not likely to come back. And... I think I have a radio in my 8 track.... somewhere.
LOL, yeah, I don't have an 8 track. I've never even seen one.
I think that labeling groups of people as "unproductive" is very hard to do. It's based around a bias and a hind-brained jealousy. "Those people in the suits upstairs just sit around and drink coffee and push paper around, yet they get paid the big bucks! How unproductive!" Anyone who points out that most of them are quite brilliant people with MBAs from expensive colleges and extensive knowledge about their industry is written off as "one of them" or "deluded." You can't really have an intelligent discussion with someone who is infected with this religion because like any religion it's irrational and founded mostly on fear and hatred. OMG Corporashuns!
Unfortunately the world is much more complicated than that. Most business people perform the most critical, high risk and toughest jobs in the company. They make sure that everything is working. This is management and it's much harder than doing anything else. Because without nothing will happen. And as anyone who's had bad managers knows, it's really easy to fuck up.
American here, so I can't verify that although homestarrunner.com and anything that is pure flash runs great for me. YouTube seems to do pretty well too, at least for me. The point is that it is a smart phone OS that already has Flash and has for some time. It's blindingly ignorant to claim otherwise.
I don't particularly care if the guy would've just said Android is finally getting Flash. I would've applauded that. Just don't claim to be first at something when you're not. It makes you look like an ass.
on Google's giant hairy man-breasted teat. To quote from TFA:
>> Android 2.2 will be the first mobile operating system that will have native flash support.
Excuse me, you mean that Android will finally get Flash, following in the footsteps of the non-corporate bastardized Maemo for Nokia N900 smart phone which has had native flash support for months, if not a year. Obviously this Google fanboi didn't want to pass the word along. After all, somebody might go out and buy a phone you can get flash on TODAY. Instead of in some indefinite time in the future, for a phone that's locked down to the bastards at Sprint. Ehhhh.
Actually, market forces are at work here perfectly. You are apparently valuing the service enough to pay for it. Therefore it has a fair price. Just because something is free doesn't mean you shouldn't sell it to somebody else for a profit. You sir, don't appear to know much about business. Besides, theoretically the whole system is free after it's set up - that still doesn't count the HUGE capital investment somebody had to make to build the damn thing. I think the important thing to remember is that businesses are out to make a profit, which means taking in more money than you put out. There's nothing immoral about that. If they charged $25 a text message then I would not use their service, but that's up to them.
Oh and I use T-Mobile anyway, btw. Which is $59 for unlimited everything. And it works great for my N900, which isn't locked down by the bastard Jobs. I'm voting with my feet against these pigs. Down with AT&T & Apple. Arrrr! Matey!
Me too man, me too. If a site uses flash then I'm out of there, honestly. I recently was buying car insurance and I actually avoided a provider because of their horrible flash interface that made the site almost unusable. Like most crappy flash sites it:
1. Used non-standard controls that responded poorly, slowly and inconsistently.
2. Was insanely slow on my netbook with unneeded page transitions that annoyed and got in the way of the experience.
3. Looked like a My Space page mated with a stapler manufacturers website.
This is a consistent theme with Flash. They take some small amount of easily understood and presentable data and they make it a chore to find. Forgive me but.. Flash is Symbol-ism over substance.
In most cases that's not meddling, it's looking out for its own interest. There was plenty of meddling on the part of Russia. It was called USSR. In fact all countries under its jurisdiction were under an iron law that many died from. Including genocide against non-Russian.
You know, I think the phrase "being in the closet" implicitly implies a state of mind that is a fruit of cultural propaganda. Who is to say that a gay man isn't supposed to just act heterosexual? There's some kind of perception that gay guys need to dress like Mr Slave or they're "in the closet." I know several guys who are gay and you would never know it. I think that's fine. They're really normal people, heterosexuals don't go around flaunting their sexuality, so do they.
/ I'm not gay // I'm on a never ending quest to save my girlfriend.
As a huge fan of Sirius I fought with the ever present problem of never being able to listen without a Sirius receiver. When they came out with the Sirius Internet streaming I was ecstatic! I joyfully fired up my Nokia N95 and tried to go to Sirius.com. It does not work. A service I payed $15.00 a month for would not let me listen to the product. So I went through all the trouble of setting up Orb and uSirius and running a transcoding station at my home PC - just to listen on my mobile. But it just wasn't practical.
I turned off my Sirius service. Everywhere.
The minute those morons can get their act together and stream in a platform independent way I'll be back.
Technically, isn't the role of a monk partly giving the student a hard time? I studied under a Zen master and he generally spent most of the time giving me shit, which translated into challenging my preconceptions.
I think mainly he did it for his own personal gratification, actually. But to this day I crack a little bit of a smile at the notion of him pretending to not understand sarcasm, just to perplex me.
At the moment I remember him fondly, at the time I wanted to kill him.
I'm a long-time perl fan and I recently began learning Ruby since it seems to have more jobs available (for RoR websites.) It's not terribly impressive, although I think code can be written more compactly than even Perl. It is many times
slower than Perl for almost anything.
The real language that has stolen my keyboard is PHP5. Even though it seems to unite all the negative features of Perl, embperl, Python, Java and C++, I'm still intrigued. It seems to be a language which cannot be written cleanly. It can never look beautiful to any eye but that of a PHP programmer. And yet, I love you PHP5, you dirty dirty girl.
Anyway, it seems like web people are moving from Perl5 to PHP and sysadmins are moving to Python or Ruby. Although most are remaining versed in Perl, a language which has had more lines written in it than Python, Smalltalk, Eiffel and Ruby combined.
No. "Perl or Python?" is exactly like a battle between Smalltalk or MC680x0 machine code. You can do many things in assembler, but it's technically impossible for anything to be written in machine code, it's just to much like line noise. And as we all know, machine code is often written in assembler. Which is indented using tabs, which leaves python out as well.
It's just so unsolvable.
Once upon a time I worked as a salesman at Sears. Anyway, I had a guy storm out of the store because I refused to discount a television if he didn't take the remote. This was in the late 90's by the way, not the late 70s.
I agree with your analysis of the causes and possible solutions during the Great Depression. Unfortunately, I think drinking well known as the best solution for a hangover.
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I'll probably buy a whole new gaming computer just to play this game. And I will probably only play the game once some nice cracker cracks it. Because I don't support gaming companies that support DRM.
Wow, big word "jingoist". That's impressive. -1 Troll. Where are the moderators? If you use a big word like "jingoist" and then follow it with "you ignorant fuck" then apparently all sense is lost.
Unions are like any other special interest group in this country, they never know when to quit. They cut off workers at the knees, imposing unreasonable dues and ridiculous work requirements. They are a true, government enforced dictatorship. Everywhere they go jobs are lost. Welcome to America, the country that used to have manufacturing jobs - thanks to the unions. GM, for example, has to add $3,000 for each vehicle they sell, just to pay insane union pensions. Do unions care that GM can't sell cars because of this? No. Is it ever suggested that maybe worker wages should go down so the company can stay in business? No.
Intelligent people don't join unions. This is because intelligent people don't fall for the sucker-dream of unbiased advocates who are "on my side". We happen to be our own advocates, thank you very much. As long as we don't live in a dictatorship that requires people to buy things then union advocates will be powerless to help. A union can force a company to pay an employee a certain rate, but it cannot force the market to pay the company.
I bought a Wii ONLY because it could be cracked. We wanted a way to watch Netflix and could've afforded the PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii. I bought the Wii because it was easy to crack - no hardware needed. I haven't bought a console before this since.... the super nintendo (really.) Me and my wife just don't play games (we're twenty somethings, not old fogies.) We bought the Wii for Netflix. The fact that I cracked it and burned some games I don't own doesn't hurt any game studio. Because we NEVER WOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE GAME OR THE SYSTEM in the first place. If anything it might turn us non-gamers who would never spend money on something into gamers.
Seriously, you must be new here. Flash is a proprietary closed-source hunk of binary that we're stuck with. This is the reason most people on Slashdot hate it. We can't fix it, and it has regular unfixable problems on every platform I've used it on. It's so bad that most browsers have had to re-engineer their plug-in system to prevent Flash from taking down the browser. Not to mention the regular and horrible security holes, the fact that it bypasses browser cookie policy with it's LSOs (newsflash: not in HTML5.)
Yes, HTML5 might eventually become an advertisers dream but that's what AdBlock is for. At least it will be free, open and standards based. The day that the Flash plug-in is not needed will be a great day. I can't imagine why anyone would champion it. All it is is one less Adobe product you have to buy as a developer.
A corporation exists to make a profit. They're not generally social clubs. It is impossible to tax them, impossible to impose any fees or liabilities that are not directly passed on to ordinary citizens. Usually it's the poorest who get... stuffed when this happens. Politicians rely on people not realizing this and so they try to demonize the corporations in order to grow their own power base. Go to any state capital and look at all the damn golf courses, ultra-premium bistros and cafes, fine wine shops and cigar stores. These are where our "representatives" get their rocks off to cheap hookers, coke habits and all expense paid vacations. Paid for by corrupt corporations who are generally up to no good, I might add. Corporations do all kinds of horrible things, because people do all kinds of horrible things. The same people who are in the corporations and the golf courses are at the political circle jerks and occasional inconveniences called "campaigns." But please, don't blame the corporations for passing on costs of doing business. A business will do this, or the investors behind it will decided to pull the plug and dissolve the business. Blame the assholes who are blaming the corporations - your local, state and federal representatives. These are the pigs who we hired as advocates. The same pigs that have been eating the food and shitting in the pond.
51% of the population is female. A good number of those women are incredibly ugly but rely on a vagina monopoly to get artificially higher benefits from their men. If guys were able to just go out and sleep with good looking women then they would reconsider marrying their ugly-domineering American women and would stop blowing so much money on them. This is why prostitution is illegal, it competes with legal prostitution, which is called marriage. It equalizes the power struggle between men and women.
I happen to be married to an awesome woman, btw. Just because social norms are that way doesn't mean you can't be happy. I married her because I love her, but I am under no delusions that if I stopped paying for her housing, food, chocolate and occasional roses then I would masturbate a good deal more. See what I mean about equality? She's got all kinds of reasons to keep prostitution illegal. Men are willing to pay such a high price because they have nowhere else to go - monopoly. Yes, I could just remain in the dating scene but you can only do that for so long before the women find out you'll not commit to the terms and issue an embargo on vaginal access.
There's no romanticism in this, but damn is it ever true. The really brilliant part is that women enjoy sex too.
People in the late 19th and early 20th centuries *did* know what metallic systems were like, and they created what we have now to fix that! Now they're dead, and not around to tell you young whippersnappers what it was like.
Actually, I've always thought that if I was a corporate banker who was able to put together a shady private corporation that would allow me to print money legally then I would try to convince everyone this was the best course.. Wouldn't you? Print money! And then loan that money to whoever I wanted to for real interest. This is what the biggest banks do.
I'm saying, I don't think it due to problems with the previous system that the current system was designed. Except perhaps that the government never had very much money because it had to tax it to get it before. Did all those founding Federal Reserve bankers seem to be community minded altruists? No? /thread
I turned it off after Hulu.com and netflix became the cheaper way to go. It's not likely to come back. And... I think I have a radio in my 8 track.... somewhere. LOL, yeah, I don't have an 8 track. I've never even seen one.
You sir are my hero.
I think that labeling groups of people as "unproductive" is very hard to do. It's based around a bias and a hind-brained jealousy. "Those people in the suits upstairs just sit around and drink coffee and push paper around, yet they get paid the big bucks! How unproductive!" Anyone who points out that most of them are quite brilliant people with MBAs from expensive colleges and extensive knowledge about their industry is written off as "one of them" or "deluded." You can't really have an intelligent discussion with someone who is infected with this religion because like any religion it's irrational and founded mostly on fear and hatred. OMG Corporashuns!
Unfortunately the world is much more complicated than that. Most business people perform the most critical, high risk and toughest jobs in the company. They make sure that everything is working. This is management and it's much harder than doing anything else. Because without nothing will happen. And as anyone who's had bad managers knows, it's really easy to fuck up.
American here, so I can't verify that although homestarrunner.com and anything that is pure flash runs great for me. YouTube seems to do pretty well too, at least for me. The point is that it is a smart phone OS that already has Flash and has for some time. It's blindingly ignorant to claim otherwise.
I don't particularly care if the guy would've just said Android is finally getting Flash. I would've applauded that. Just don't claim to be first at something when you're not. It makes you look like an ass.
on Google's giant hairy man-breasted teat. To quote from TFA:
>> Android 2.2 will be the first mobile operating system that will have native flash support.
Excuse me, you mean that Android will finally get Flash, following in the footsteps of the non-corporate bastardized Maemo for Nokia N900 smart phone which has had native flash support for months, if not a year. Obviously this Google fanboi didn't want to pass the word along. After all, somebody might go out and buy a phone you can get flash on TODAY. Instead of in some indefinite time in the future, for a phone that's locked down to the bastards at Sprint. Ehhhh.
Actually, market forces are at work here perfectly. You are apparently valuing the service enough to pay for it. Therefore it has a fair price. Just because something is free doesn't mean you shouldn't sell it to somebody else for a profit. You sir, don't appear to know much about business. Besides, theoretically the whole system is free after it's set up - that still doesn't count the HUGE capital investment somebody had to make to build the damn thing. I think the important thing to remember is that businesses are out to make a profit, which means taking in more money than you put out. There's nothing immoral about that. If they charged $25 a text message then I would not use their service, but that's up to them.
Oh and I use T-Mobile anyway, btw. Which is $59 for unlimited everything. And it works great for my N900, which isn't locked down by the bastard Jobs. I'm voting with my feet against these pigs. Down with AT&T & Apple. Arrrr! Matey!
Me too man, me too. If a site uses flash then I'm out of there, honestly. I recently was buying car insurance and I actually avoided a provider because of their horrible flash interface that made the site almost unusable. Like most crappy flash sites it: 1. Used non-standard controls that responded poorly, slowly and inconsistently. 2. Was insanely slow on my netbook with unneeded page transitions that annoyed and got in the way of the experience. 3. Looked like a My Space page mated with a stapler manufacturers website. This is a consistent theme with Flash. They take some small amount of easily understood and presentable data and they make it a chore to find. Forgive me but.. Flash is Symbol-ism over substance.
Java doesn't dominate anything, Java mumbles under its breath that that is its stapler and it's going to burn everything down.
In most cases that's not meddling, it's looking out for its own interest. There was plenty of meddling on the part of Russia. It was called USSR. In fact all countries under its jurisdiction were under an iron law that many died from. Including genocide against non-Russian.
You know, I think the phrase "being in the closet" implicitly implies a state of mind that is a fruit of cultural propaganda. Who is to say that a gay man isn't supposed to just act heterosexual? There's some kind of perception that gay guys need to dress like Mr Slave or they're "in the closet." I know several guys who are gay and you would never know it. I think that's fine. They're really normal people, heterosexuals don't go around flaunting their sexuality, so do they.
// I'm on a never ending quest to save my girlfriend.
/ I'm not gay
As a huge fan of Sirius I fought with the ever present problem of never being able to listen without a Sirius receiver. When they came out with the Sirius Internet streaming I was ecstatic! I joyfully fired up my Nokia N95 and tried to go to Sirius.com. It does not work. A service I payed $15.00 a month for would not let me listen to the product. So I went through all the trouble of setting up Orb and uSirius and running a transcoding station at my home PC - just to listen on my mobile. But it just wasn't practical. I turned off my Sirius service. Everywhere. The minute those morons can get their act together and stream in a platform independent way I'll be back.
Technically, isn't the role of a monk partly giving the student a hard time? I studied under a Zen master and he generally spent most of the time giving me shit, which translated into challenging my preconceptions.
I think mainly he did it for his own personal gratification, actually. But to this day I crack a little bit of a smile at the notion of him pretending to not understand sarcasm, just to perplex me.
At the moment I remember him fondly, at the time I wanted to kill him.
Look at actual available jobs. Not silly popularity contests. Do you honestly believe Delphi is more common than Javascript??
I'm a long-time perl fan and I recently began learning Ruby since it seems to have more jobs available (for RoR websites.) It's not terribly impressive, although I think code can be written more compactly than even Perl. It is many times slower than Perl for almost anything.
The real language that has stolen my keyboard is PHP5. Even though it seems to unite all the negative features of Perl, embperl, Python, Java and C++, I'm still intrigued. It seems to be a language which cannot be written cleanly. It can never look beautiful to any eye but that of a PHP programmer. And yet, I love you PHP5, you dirty dirty girl.
Anyway, it seems like web people are moving from Perl5 to PHP and sysadmins are moving to Python or Ruby. Although most are remaining versed in Perl, a language which has had more lines written in it than Python, Smalltalk, Eiffel and Ruby combined.
No. "Perl or Python?" is exactly like a battle between Smalltalk or MC680x0 machine code. You can do many things in assembler, but it's technically impossible for anything to be written in machine code, it's just to much like line noise. And as we all know, machine code is often written in assembler. Which is indented using tabs, which leaves python out as well. It's just so unsolvable.
Once upon a time I worked as a salesman at Sears. Anyway, I had a guy storm out of the store because I refused to discount a television if he didn't take the remote. This was in the late 90's by the way, not the late 70s.
I agree with your analysis of the causes and possible solutions during the Great Depression. Unfortunately, I think drinking well known as the best solution for a hangover.
I'm from Missouri (and happen to speak the St. Louis variation of the Bostonian dialect) and we don't say farty far, you insensitive clod! It sounds more like "forty far". Which you drive down to get your warsher, from tha super Wal-Marts. Of course, you can listen to the dialect yourself.