They may have a reason that seems insignificant to the end user, but you don't get to be the biggest company on the planet by making decisions like this for no reason.
1) Apple is not the biggest company on the planet.
2) Succesful people make really dumb decisions all the time, because their success has blinded them to risks. This is known as hubris. Not understanding that getting succesful and staying succesful are separate skills has been the downfall of too many people, companies and entire nations to count.
Don't worry - we'll be increasing energy prices and exporting our pollution to China, now that Obama has a new agreement to do just that. So we'll get even more unemployed to buy even more cheap crap from Walmart, and they can hire even more 29-hour-per-week part-timers that will live on food stamps and heavy subsidies from Obamacare.
So what would you prefer? Competing on price with Chinese labor, in which case those employed in manufacturing will also fall on food stamps and Walmart crap? Or perhaps you'd like to breath smog, like the Chinese are doing thanks to their lack of pollution controls?
Economy is going to stay in a death spiral as long as supply exceeds demand. And since demand depends on supply - closing a factory means less people who can afford anything, which leads to more factories closing, and so on - the only way to stop the spiral is to pay a greater proportion of earnings as wages. And the only way to do that without tragedy of the commons rising its ugly head is to force the issue through mandating a higher minimum wage. An unconditional citizen pay would be even better, since it would guarantee a cycle-independent baseline demand, but is unlikely to pass until the conomy completely crashes, which a modern nation is unlikely to survive.
Ultimately, we're seeing the effects of pre-industrial economic model being pushed beyond its limits. Free market is a fine tool for adjusting resource usage for optimal outcome, but labor is not just another resource due to the feedback effect it has to demand, and capitalism simply can't deal with a situation where it's no longer the resource that limits output. Our economy is dying due to being unable to cope with increased productivity. Oh the irony.
Except greater gas consumption and the associated pollution. But hey, profits are private, costs are public, right?
lower prices on anything is always a positive.
So you'd prefer Iran to have been able to afford the price of acquiring weapons-grade plutonium? Or perhaps you'd celebrate a pay cut for yourself?
we as a group are saving billions a day after a very long recession.
You, as a group, are externalizing costs and setting yourself up for an even harder fall when the next price hike comes.
The gas prices are still not low enough to help those who need it most, the poor and lower middle class.
Higher minimum wage and unemployment benefits would do a lot more to help the poor while avoiding the problems associated with direct and indirect gasoline subsidies, which is what ignoring pollution ultimately amounts to.
To do this, report everything that is remotely political as "extremist" and "radicalizing".
Which makes it pretty trivial to prove you're acting in bad faith. Off to the prison you go.
Alternatively, if everything is flagged as "extremist" it's simply used as an excuse to censor anything the system doesn't like, and shift blame to Joe Anonymous if there's a backlash. It's convenient to have a system where everyone's a criminal and all information classified.
When the politicians themselves are the targets of their bad law, they just might take a hint.
No, they won't. They'll blame everyone and everything except themselves. Admitting you are wrong is hard enough for Joe Average, so I can only imagine what it'd take for someone who's entire identity is built around being a master of the universe. And that's assuming the law was passed in good faith to begin with, rather than as a part of the ongoing campaign to destroy democracy and restore absolute dictatorship.
In other words, free speech is considered so sacrosanct in US that when the government want so suppress it, they have to use extralegal (in fact, illegal, should it be discovered) means.
And when they're caught, the punishment is?...
Freedom of speech can be forcefully suppressed, but it turns out it's a lot more efficient to simply get the public so used to corruption no one cares anymore. Assasination, torture, kidnapping, spying; those are just another day in Home of the Free. Watergate destroyed Nixon; neither Snowden nor Manning leaks caused any effect, at least in America.
But no single-player game engine will ever work for a MMO game, due to the need of many objects in motion at once.
Well, since an "object" is just a list of primitives from the GPUs point of view, you could use a single object that renders into multiple physically separate triangle meshes, and use a texture lookup in the vertex shader to get their individual transform matrixes. Then just update the texture to move the meshes. That way you could, in theory, draw all objects (or really triangles) that use the same shader with a single draw command.
Obviously, this makes it harder to make objects appear or disappear, but sending vertices of unused "slots" to somewhere near infinity and breaking the primitive list into reasonable separately-rendered chunks, combined with a dedicated allocator, should reach a reasonable balance.
Human window washers must be cheaper than self-cleaning glass or robots.
Not necessarily. An office with a "very expensive view" is a status symbol. So is a servant. Just like having an automaton wash your windows appeals to a certain kind of personality, having an actual human being do so appeals to another.
People who only care about the cost don't rent offices in skyscrapers and if they would, they'd just let the windows stay dirty.
Any game journalist who signs a review embargo agreement is a part of the problem.
But then again, so is any gamer who buys a game before reviews are available. It's doesn't exactly take Sherlock Holmes to deduce that a company that doesn't want their product reviewed is probably not competing on quality.
That this is an AAA game and part of a succesful series simply makes things worse, since it means if the company wants to push some anti-consumer move - a new form of DRM, in-game advertisements, whatever - they'll do it here and trust the brand to overcome the backlash to normalize it.
Really? That's what you got out of my post? You just go looking for fights, don't you?
Ah, the Wounded Gazelle Gambit, aka playing a victim. That works a lot better when every message isn't on public record, you know. Inlcuding the one which began this thread by writing "Unless you contribute to a political cause they don't like", emphasis mine.
You do know that "contribute" means "to help bring about a result" - in other words, to actively further some goal - and is very different from merely holding an opinion, right?
There's a far cry from intolerance, which is an opinion, and beating someone up, which is an action.
No one cares about your opinions, only actions you take. In fact no one can even know your opinions unless you take some action about them. The only difference between controlling someone by beating them up and getting your opinions about their allowed behaviour enshrined in law is that the latter is more efficient. And while that can be justifiable in some cases, public opinion is thankfully beginning to find using the law as your personal gay-basher, overtly or subtly, as not being one of them.
Got-damn you're dense. Since when is holding an opinion an attack on someone?
Seriously, put that gazelle out of its misery. I doubt you're really fooling even yourself.
Umm, why in $diety's name do you need 230 tabs open? You cannot possibly use that many efficiently. It's a scientific fact that you cannot multitask worth anything (no one can).
Well, research would be an obvious candidate. You want to keep all related pages open until you're done, in case you need to reference them in light of new information.
See, people have the right to be intolerant, and begrudging them that right is, plain and simple, as bigoted as denying any other right for any other reason.
Victims should just stand there quietly and let the bully beat them up, otherwise they're just as bad, dammit!
That, of course, is on top of being entirely hypocritical, being intolerant of intolerance, and such.
There is nothing hypocritical of being intolerant of intolerance. Rejecting someone else's claim to authority over how you live is not the same as claiming authority over them.
You see, "tolerance" is simply a shorthand for a vision of the world where people are free to live as they will, while intolerance is ultimately about excersizing power over them. In other words, tolerance is about liberty and intolerance is about authoritarianism. And no amount of rhetoric bullshit is going to put those fighting for tyranny and those fighting against it on even moral footing.
You don't have to agree with someone else's opinion in order to allow them to have it.
So basically, it's okay for a homophobe to use whatever power is in his disposal to harm other people based on his beliefs, but it's not okay for his victims or their allies to fight back?
Have you ever noticed how on Star Trek, when they really need to pull off some tricky, urgent bit of programming, they quit talking to the computer and start typing?
That's because Star Trek is a tv series, and as such follows the rules of drama rather than physics or logic. Having the characters randomly tap a touchscreen rather than speaking aloud lets the writers avoid specifying the details of the commands given, sparing the audience pointless technobabble and freeing the dialogue for drama.
Tor anonymous services sound quite similar to Freenet, but the latter is built for this from the bottom up rather than having it added on later.
Freenet has three big weaknesses compared to Tor:
1) High latency. While you can "browse" it, via fproxy that comes enabled with standard distribution, it can take minutes for a page to even begin loading.
2) Insecurity. Freenet doesn't establish connections between computers, it can only insert and retrieve files. Consequently, you can't build web services, but must rely on reqular apps running on user computer, with all the obvious security implications.
3) Insecurity again. Last I checked, fproxy's filter tried to enumerate badness rather than just let through proven-safe HTML. It had to, because it couldn't actually parse HTML, because that would require people to write correct HTML, and that would be an unreasonable deal-breaker requirement, according to Freenet developer(s). True, you don't have to use fproxy, but it's a pretty troubling attitude for developer(s) of security-related products.
In Freenet, files are stored as encrypted blocks distributed across all freenet nodes, and files are retrieved by hashes. I don't think there's anything like gatekeeper nodes here - the only nodes that know that they host a given block is that node itself (and even it doesn't know what that block contains).
The host can't take its datastore and simply list the keys and contents of the blocks there, but it can take a known key and check whether it has the corresponding block - and, if it does, it can decrypt the contents of that block.
burning, what ever you are burning, only depends on the actual usage/need of energy
You need more energy after exercising than before because your body is repairing itself. Which is something I find it very hard to believe anyone who has ever exercised even a single time in their life wouldn't know from experience.
How about Jesus saying, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." It's the same thing. If you think something should be a certain way, then it's up to you to follow your conscience. Not say, "Oh well, it can't be helped, might as well profit from these slaves."
What if you're the slave? Do you have the ethical duty to help your owner to keep you in chains? Because it seems that unlike with profiting from slavery, the cheating by ordinary people is simply restoring the playing field into a more level configuration.
Because at 6GHz, light speed becomes a limit as well: If, speaking in round numbers, light travels ~300,000,000 meters per second, then it takes 3.33x10^-9 seconds for it to travel one meter. At 6GHz, light travels 50cm per clock cycle.
300,000,000 / 6,000,000,000 = 0.05. So 5 cm, not 50.
We've been fighting imaginary threats to democracy for 13-14 years now; why not another one?
I was once playing one of those stealth-based games. As I sneaked behind the guards, one asked the other: "yeah, but why do they tell us which way to face?" or something to that effect.
No idea why your comment reminded me of that. Weird.
He must have been a remarkable individual, then, to go against his own financial interests to do right by his nation. Contrast this with the Confederacy who's legacy - aside from a pile of corpses - was doing to the concept of "state's rights" what Nazis did to the swastika, all so their wealthy could avoid paying their workers.
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Look, no matter what you think of systemd, rewriting it in Visual Basic would not be an improvement.
Their actions managed to further their cause. So they might be twats, but hardly idiots. And that means they'll act like twats again the next time.
You don't meet many people who want to work with tools other than what they're used to, in any field.
1) Apple is not the biggest company on the planet.
2) Succesful people make really dumb decisions all the time, because their success has blinded them to risks. This is known as hubris. Not understanding that getting succesful and staying succesful are separate skills has been the downfall of too many people, companies and entire nations to count.
So what would you prefer? Competing on price with Chinese labor, in which case those employed in manufacturing will also fall on food stamps and Walmart crap? Or perhaps you'd like to breath smog, like the Chinese are doing thanks to their lack of pollution controls?
Economy is going to stay in a death spiral as long as supply exceeds demand. And since demand depends on supply - closing a factory means less people who can afford anything, which leads to more factories closing, and so on - the only way to stop the spiral is to pay a greater proportion of earnings as wages. And the only way to do that without tragedy of the commons rising its ugly head is to force the issue through mandating a higher minimum wage. An unconditional citizen pay would be even better, since it would guarantee a cycle-independent baseline demand, but is unlikely to pass until the conomy completely crashes, which a modern nation is unlikely to survive.
Ultimately, we're seeing the effects of pre-industrial economic model being pushed beyond its limits. Free market is a fine tool for adjusting resource usage for optimal outcome, but labor is not just another resource due to the feedback effect it has to demand, and capitalism simply can't deal with a situation where it's no longer the resource that limits output. Our economy is dying due to being unable to cope with increased productivity. Oh the irony.
I'm pretty sure financial institutions are closed on Sundays.
Except greater gas consumption and the associated pollution. But hey, profits are private, costs are public, right?
So you'd prefer Iran to have been able to afford the price of acquiring weapons-grade plutonium? Or perhaps you'd celebrate a pay cut for yourself?
You, as a group, are externalizing costs and setting yourself up for an even harder fall when the next price hike comes.
Higher minimum wage and unemployment benefits would do a lot more to help the poor while avoiding the problems associated with direct and indirect gasoline subsidies, which is what ignoring pollution ultimately amounts to.
Which makes it pretty trivial to prove you're acting in bad faith. Off to the prison you go.
Alternatively, if everything is flagged as "extremist" it's simply used as an excuse to censor anything the system doesn't like, and shift blame to Joe Anonymous if there's a backlash. It's convenient to have a system where everyone's a criminal and all information classified.
No, they won't. They'll blame everyone and everything except themselves. Admitting you are wrong is hard enough for Joe Average, so I can only imagine what it'd take for someone who's entire identity is built around being a master of the universe. And that's assuming the law was passed in good faith to begin with, rather than as a part of the ongoing campaign to destroy democracy and restore absolute dictatorship.
And when they're caught, the punishment is?...
Freedom of speech can be forcefully suppressed, but it turns out it's a lot more efficient to simply get the public so used to corruption no one cares anymore. Assasination, torture, kidnapping, spying; those are just another day in Home of the Free. Watergate destroyed Nixon; neither Snowden nor Manning leaks caused any effect, at least in America.
Well, since an "object" is just a list of primitives from the GPUs point of view, you could use a single object that renders into multiple physically separate triangle meshes, and use a texture lookup in the vertex shader to get their individual transform matrixes. Then just update the texture to move the meshes. That way you could, in theory, draw all objects (or really triangles) that use the same shader with a single draw command.
Obviously, this makes it harder to make objects appear or disappear, but sending vertices of unused "slots" to somewhere near infinity and breaking the primitive list into reasonable separately-rendered chunks, combined with a dedicated allocator, should reach a reasonable balance.
Not necessarily. An office with a "very expensive view" is a status symbol. So is a servant. Just like having an automaton wash your windows appeals to a certain kind of personality, having an actual human being do so appeals to another.
People who only care about the cost don't rent offices in skyscrapers and if they would, they'd just let the windows stay dirty.
But then again, so is any gamer who buys a game before reviews are available. It's doesn't exactly take Sherlock Holmes to deduce that a company that doesn't want their product reviewed is probably not competing on quality.
That this is an AAA game and part of a succesful series simply makes things worse, since it means if the company wants to push some anti-consumer move - a new form of DRM, in-game advertisements, whatever - they'll do it here and trust the brand to overcome the backlash to normalize it.
Ah, the Wounded Gazelle Gambit, aka playing a victim. That works a lot better when every message isn't on public record, you know. Inlcuding the one which began this thread by writing "Unless you contribute to a political cause they don't like", emphasis mine.
You do know that "contribute" means "to help bring about a result" - in other words, to actively further some goal - and is very different from merely holding an opinion, right?
No one cares about your opinions, only actions you take. In fact no one can even know your opinions unless you take some action about them. The only difference between controlling someone by beating them up and getting your opinions about their allowed behaviour enshrined in law is that the latter is more efficient. And while that can be justifiable in some cases, public opinion is thankfully beginning to find using the law as your personal gay-basher, overtly or subtly, as not being one of them.
Seriously, put that gazelle out of its misery. I doubt you're really fooling even yourself.
Well, research would be an obvious candidate. You want to keep all related pages open until you're done, in case you need to reference them in light of new information.
Victims should just stand there quietly and let the bully beat them up, otherwise they're just as bad, dammit!
There is nothing hypocritical of being intolerant of intolerance. Rejecting someone else's claim to authority over how you live is not the same as claiming authority over them.
You see, "tolerance" is simply a shorthand for a vision of the world where people are free to live as they will, while intolerance is ultimately about excersizing power over them. In other words, tolerance is about liberty and intolerance is about authoritarianism. And no amount of rhetoric bullshit is going to put those fighting for tyranny and those fighting against it on even moral footing.
So basically, it's okay for a homophobe to use whatever power is in his disposal to harm other people based on his beliefs, but it's not okay for his victims or their allies to fight back?
Except me. Switching to 64bit would likely solve the problem Firefox becoming unstable and crashing after using 2GB of memory.
Nothing really requires 64 bits, but more and more programs would benefit from it.
That's because Star Trek is a tv series, and as such follows the rules of drama rather than physics or logic. Having the characters randomly tap a touchscreen rather than speaking aloud lets the writers avoid specifying the details of the commands given, sparing the audience pointless technobabble and freeing the dialogue for drama.
Freenet has three big weaknesses compared to Tor:
1) High latency. While you can "browse" it, via fproxy that comes enabled with standard distribution, it can take minutes for a page to even begin loading.
2) Insecurity. Freenet doesn't establish connections between computers, it can only insert and retrieve files. Consequently, you can't build web services, but must rely on reqular apps running on user computer, with all the obvious security implications.
3) Insecurity again. Last I checked, fproxy's filter tried to enumerate badness rather than just let through proven-safe HTML. It had to, because it couldn't actually parse HTML, because that would require people to write correct HTML, and that would be an unreasonable deal-breaker requirement, according to Freenet developer(s). True, you don't have to use fproxy, but it's a pretty troubling attitude for developer(s) of security-related products.
The host can't take its datastore and simply list the keys and contents of the blocks there, but it can take a known key and check whether it has the corresponding block - and, if it does, it can decrypt the contents of that block.
You need more energy after exercising than before because your body is repairing itself. Which is something I find it very hard to believe anyone who has ever exercised even a single time in their life wouldn't know from experience.
You mean like this?
It's about profit. That explains all your observations quite nicely.
What if you're the slave? Do you have the ethical duty to help your owner to keep you in chains? Because it seems that unlike with profiting from slavery, the cheating by ordinary people is simply restoring the playing field into a more level configuration.
300,000,000 / 6,000,000,000 = 0.05. So 5 cm, not 50.
I was once playing one of those stealth-based games. As I sneaked behind the guards, one asked the other: "yeah, but why do they tell us which way to face?" or something to that effect.
No idea why your comment reminded me of that. Weird.
He must have been a remarkable individual, then, to go against his own financial interests to do right by his nation. Contrast this with the Confederacy who's legacy - aside from a pile of corpses - was doing to the concept of "state's rights" what Nazis did to the swastika, all so their wealthy could avoid paying their workers.