gnomes philosophy has always been more options confuse people so software should have as few options as possible. it was a visceral reaction i think to the kde philosophy of the kde2.x and 3.x days of having as much customization as possible. but you are correct, the gnome development team is seriously out of touch with it's user base if it out right ignores patches repeatedly submitted by their own user base to add in what they view as 'critical functionality' an then are denied because it would go against said philosophy.
to be fair gnome had this for awhile. then removed it due to them thinking it 'confuses' people, back when gnome 2.0 was under their direction. they are just putting it back in.
yes it is the red scare of the 21st century. there are people who grew up in that time that don't like living without that. there are companies that base them selves on what this entails on a national level too.
except that evolution has been making more plants resistant to round-up then Monsanto has made. do they own them even though those same genes were made by nature? what about the insects and other pests that become resistant? do they own them as well because so far they have ruled that the patent follows the gene no mater what. if a human developed resistance to roundup would they own the human too?
No. they are looking for excuses other then the obvious reason. hopped up on nearly a decades worth of propaganda of these people being 'evil', and 'against our very way of life' etc him either alone or in a group. since many of the Afghanistan witnesses claim he was not alone. go out and slaughter a bunch of people for the fun of it. they want any reason to dismiss it from being pre-meditated.
as for why we are there and will continue to be there even in a less active role? we went in to chase out a certain group of people as the public reason. anyone who can read a map would see the country is valuable real estate if say the straight of Hormuz and the Pearson gulf is impassable for trade..
they don't want to because it earns them money. they don't care if the phone is stolen as long as it brings in revenue. a few pissed off people getting odd bills after the phone is stolen doesn't concern them, they can wait out any customer dispute till they just give up and pay.
different set up. those programs were non-for profit to use the lack of a better term. the arrangement was not made to seek a profit but to facilitate a goal.
in this instance though you have a for profit company being in complete charge of the design and construction of the vehicle and the u.s. government is merely a paying passenger like everyone else. with a profit motive there is the motivation to increase the profit margin, with such a motivation they start cutting corners. another poster compared this to the airlines trying disprove me but he/she does the opposite. if you knew that when you fly your flying on a plain that is past due on a maintenance check and has the bare minimum done to it to keep it barely flying due to the razor thin profit margins of the industry. you would not want to get on one. yet people do, day in and day out. a airplane crash is a lot easier to survive then a failure of atmospheric containment on a space ship. safety should NEVER take a back seat to profit in space travel.
mark my words, there will be a MASSIVE failure simply due to this and the entire media will be acting clueless about how it happened when it's completely obvious if you actually looked.
as funny as your trying to be, considering this is being made and run by a private corporation. and like all of them they have a financial 'interest' to cut corners. i would not be surprised if it's made of the space craft version of cardboard and duct tape.
as Neil Armstrong pointed out to congress, they value money over safety. and because of that, something is going to fail, and there won't be a backup because backup's cost money.
i personally will not be surprised that the first launch will end with everyone on board dying because some bean counter in spacex thought they could save a few $ by only putting in one seal on the doors and not two in case one failed.
tablets are being used to turn the computer from a content creation & consumption device. to just a consumption device no different then a tv or radio.
umm where do i go and buy a plasma window? or the materials that can handle the strain of this? nothing this thing is made of can be made by modern materials...
pokemon considered np hard. that's the simplest game i have played, it's just one big rock paper scissors simulator. the video game version's of the card game on the other hand were hard because the ai cheated, it had a pool of all possible cards from it's deck. you only had what you had chosen.
no the humble indie bundles are 'pay what you want' the fremium model is called fremium because it's nicer then the actual description. 'pay to win'. the fremium model is designed to give those who don't pay a lesser experience then those who willingly ignore simple addition and pay for a weapon here(10 dollars), a perk there (12 dollars), double experience(10 dollars), unlocking classes(15 dollars), etc.
any way, anyone who DOES pay only ONE cent on a 'pay what you want' IS ripping them off. since they are giving you full, unhindered my any sort of these rip off schemes, games. on the good faith you give them a good amount of money. I pay more then the average for linux which in it's self almost always almost double what window's users pay.
i know this is trying to be a troll but he is correct. the fremium model prey's on the inability of many people to not only add the micro transactions together. but also disrupts how people gauge the 'value' of the product by infusing emotional attachments into the mix.
that would not need to be done. any encryption offered by united states based commercial entities, as well as open source projects with clear u.s. government ties (s.e. linux) should be considered compromised. either with intentional back doors in the case of windows, you do know microsoft sells usb keys that bypass's window's own security measures to law enforcement. or intentional exploitable bugs just in case some other country is dumb enough to use the software to protect their sensitive data. thus stuff like ssl connections to websites etc will not be cared about in such a situation. so while you will still endlessly be able to use ssl to do web transactions and think your privacy is safe with eff's ssl everywhere. your isp's will be using deep packet inspection systems to scan for and block software such as this, if it uses non compromised encryption.
oh and to anyone who think's this is paranoia, please look at the early computer encryption history in regards to exports during the cold war. the united states government would not let any north american company export a computer that had encryption on it that did not have a backdoor or flaw in it just in case the ussr got a hold of it. heck they even convinced a Canadian company to put back doors on the systems they sold to the ussr and allied countries.
And that my good sir or madam, is the whole point of the change over! most if not all of the console makers as well as the studio's and publishers have looked at the multi billion dollar industry that the second hand game market has become. with the likes of game stop, Babbages, vintage stock, etc earning large profits off of re-selling games after the original owner has payed them when buying them and thought. hey how can we get a piece of this action.
so they have tried a few different things. some have draconian drm that tie the game to the machine as long as the registration servers exist. this works but it also pisses off the original owners because hardware failure and upgrades can render the game unplayable.
in the case of a resident evil game on the nintendo ds, the cartridge is coded not to delete or reset game data making the game only playable once. this also did not fly to well as many people like to play games over and over multiple times to find everything.
some others have tried online pass codes that are only good once, this allows the game to be sold at a second hand store but the new owner would then have to pay another 12 to 20 dollars to get a new code from the publisher. and on top of this they limit or shorten the 'single player' part of the game to make the product worthless without that code.
I am guessing then some bright but not necessarily nefarious executive took a look at major it software where the 'software as a service' idea was born and thought. 'hey why don't we do that too'. combine that with the idea of digital distribution and similar minded t.o.s. that steam has claiming physical ownership of the parts of the hard drive that steam and the games reside on, and you have the modern digital black hole of gaming.
you are correct in that today about 20 years after a nes cartridge was made you can go out, get a copy legally(as well as download roms of it.) and be able to play it at any time. the same can not be said in 20 years or so, or even as little as 3 to 5 years from now with the modern games.
Because there is a irony in this killing of the second hand market. while it increases the short term profits of these people by forcing more people to buy new or don't buy at all. it also kills what makes large franchises with staying power or gaming culture as a whole. not to mention with tie in to digital distribution services which in turn are solely reliant on the existence of a certain company to continue to run. the long term prospects of modern games to last very long is not very good. all it takes is valve for example to have a bad year or two and boom. steam goes down for good, same with games for windows aka xbox live though it may take more then a bad year or two. Sega isn't even a hardware company anymore, but i can still go out and buy any of their systems and the games run just fine.
this may be a surprise to you but the majority of linux distros have either firefox or chromium installed and not google chrome. the former does not support the api, and the latter is chrome with all the google extra's ripped out. like the built in pdf reader, built in flash plugin(you have to use the external one they are discontinuing.), and depending on version the 2d acceleration.
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gnomes philosophy has always been more options confuse people so software should have as few options as possible.
it was a visceral reaction i think to the kde philosophy of the kde2.x and 3.x days of having as much customization as possible. but you are correct, the gnome development team is seriously out of touch with it's user base if it out right ignores patches repeatedly submitted by their own user base to add in what they view as 'critical functionality' an then are denied because it would go against said philosophy.
to be fair gnome had this for awhile. then removed it due to them thinking it 'confuses' people, back when gnome 2.0 was under their direction. they are just putting it back in.
Join the unity or perish, PERISH, perish.
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yes it is the red scare of the 21st century. there are people who grew up in that time that don't like living without that. there are companies that base them selves on what this entails on a national level too.
except that evolution has been making more plants resistant to round-up then Monsanto has made. do they own them even though those same genes were made by nature?
what about the insects and other pests that become resistant? do they own them as well because so far they have ruled that the patent follows the gene no mater what.
if a human developed resistance to roundup would they own the human too?
lightly brushing against a officer can be considered assault or resisting arrest.
if a officer approaches you in a 'official' capacity your NOT allowed to touch him or her in any way shape or form or you face serious charges.
and still have less then 1/3 the hardware compatibility of linux or bsd.
take out the battery. something you can't do with a apple device strangely enough :P
one example is the there is a push to allow employers to cut benefits to those who hold different beliefs in any circumstance.
it's not going to be in chromium. chromium is chrome without those google specific features.
No. they are looking for excuses other then the obvious reason. hopped up on nearly a decades worth of propaganda of these people being 'evil', and 'against our very way of life' etc him either alone or in a group. since many of the Afghanistan witnesses claim he was not alone. go out and slaughter a bunch of people for the fun of it. they want any reason to dismiss it from being pre-meditated.
as for why we are there and will continue to be there even in a less active role? we went in to chase out a certain group of people as the public reason. anyone who can read a map would see the country is valuable real estate if say the straight of Hormuz and the Pearson gulf is impassable for trade..
same here! or Romney and his magic underwear, black skin is a sign of sign sin and enough faith can turn it white, religious organisation.
you failed to read the article. the tape drives they are talking about are plug and play. no special drivers.
That stuff like this is obsolete now that nsa and the cia outsourced themselves to facebook?
they don't want to because it earns them money. they don't care if the phone is stolen as long as it brings in revenue. a few pissed off people getting odd bills after the phone is stolen doesn't concern them, they can wait out any customer dispute till they just give up and pay.
different set up. those programs were non-for profit to use the lack of a better term. the arrangement was not made to seek a profit but to facilitate a goal.
in this instance though you have a for profit company being in complete charge of the design and construction of the vehicle and the u.s. government is merely a paying passenger like everyone else. with a profit motive there is the motivation to increase the profit margin, with such a motivation they start cutting corners. another poster compared this to the airlines trying disprove me but he/she does the opposite. if you knew that when you fly your flying on a plain that is past due on a maintenance check and has the bare minimum done to it to keep it barely flying due to the razor thin profit margins of the industry. you would not want to get on one. yet people do, day in and day out. a airplane crash is a lot easier to survive then a failure of atmospheric containment on a space ship. safety should NEVER take a back seat to profit in space travel.
mark my words, there will be a MASSIVE failure simply due to this and the entire media will be acting clueless about how it happened when it's completely obvious if you actually looked.
as funny as your trying to be, considering this is being made and run by a private corporation. and like all of them they have a financial 'interest' to cut corners. i would not be surprised if it's made of the space craft version of cardboard and duct tape.
as Neil Armstrong pointed out to congress, they value money over safety. and because of that, something is going to fail, and there won't be a backup because backup's cost money.
i personally will not be surprised that the first launch will end with everyone on board dying because some bean counter in spacex thought they could save a few $ by only putting in one seal on the doors and not two in case one failed.
tablets are being used to turn the computer from a content creation & consumption device. to just a consumption device no different then a tv or radio.
umm where do i go and buy a plasma window? or the materials that can handle the strain of this? nothing this thing is made of can be made by modern materials...
pokemon considered np hard.
that's the simplest game i have played, it's just one big rock paper scissors simulator.
the video game version's of the card game on the other hand were hard because the ai cheated, it had a pool of all possible cards from it's deck. you only had what you had chosen.
no the humble indie bundles are 'pay what you want' the fremium model is called fremium because it's nicer then the actual description. 'pay to win'. the fremium model is designed to give those who don't pay a lesser experience then those who willingly ignore simple addition and pay for a weapon here(10 dollars), a perk there (12 dollars), double experience(10 dollars), unlocking classes(15 dollars), etc.
any way, anyone who DOES pay only ONE cent on a 'pay what you want' IS ripping them off. since they are giving you full, unhindered my any sort of these rip off schemes, games. on the good faith you give them a good amount of money. I pay more then the average for linux which in it's self almost always almost double what window's users pay.
i know this is trying to be a troll but he is correct. the fremium model prey's on the inability of many people to not only add the micro transactions together. but also disrupts how people gauge the 'value' of the product by infusing emotional attachments into the mix.
that would not need to be done. any encryption offered by united states based commercial entities, as well as open source projects with clear u.s. government ties (s.e. linux) should be considered compromised. either with intentional back doors in the case of windows, you do know microsoft sells usb keys that bypass's window's own security measures to law enforcement. or intentional exploitable bugs just in case some other country is dumb enough to use the software to protect their sensitive data. thus stuff like ssl connections to websites etc will not be cared about in such a situation. so while you will still endlessly be able to use ssl to do web transactions and think your privacy is safe with eff's ssl everywhere. your isp's will be using deep packet inspection systems to scan for and block software such as this, if it uses non compromised encryption.
oh and to anyone who think's this is paranoia, please look at the early computer encryption history in regards to exports during the cold war. the united states government would not let any north american company export a computer that had encryption on it that did not have a backdoor or flaw in it just in case the ussr got a hold of it. heck they even convinced a Canadian company to put back doors on the systems they sold to the ussr and allied countries.
And that my good sir or madam, is the whole point of the change over!
most if not all of the console makers as well as the studio's and publishers have looked at the multi billion dollar industry that the second hand game market has become. with the likes of game stop, Babbages, vintage stock, etc earning large profits off of re-selling games after the original owner has payed them when buying them and thought. hey how can we get a piece of this action.
so they have tried a few different things. some have draconian drm that tie the game to the machine as long as the registration servers exist. this works but it also pisses off the original owners because hardware failure and upgrades can render the game unplayable.
in the case of a resident evil game on the nintendo ds, the cartridge is coded not to delete or reset game data making the game only playable once. this also did not fly to well as many people like to play games over and over multiple times to find everything.
some others have tried online pass codes that are only good once, this allows the game to be sold at a second hand store but the new owner would then have to pay another 12 to 20 dollars to get a new code from the publisher. and on top of this they limit or shorten the 'single player' part of the game to make the product worthless without that code.
I am guessing then some bright but not necessarily nefarious executive took a look at major it software where the 'software as a service' idea was born and thought. 'hey why don't we do that too'. combine that with the idea of digital distribution and similar minded t.o.s. that steam has claiming physical ownership of the parts of the hard drive that steam and the games reside on, and you have the modern digital black hole of gaming.
you are correct in that today about 20 years after a nes cartridge was made you can go out, get a copy legally(as well as download roms of it.) and be able to play it at any time. the same can not be said in 20 years or so, or even as little as 3 to 5 years from now with the modern games.
Because there is a irony in this killing of the second hand market. while it increases the short term profits of these people by forcing more people to buy new or don't buy at all. it also kills what makes large franchises with staying power or gaming culture as a whole. not to mention with tie in to digital distribution services which in turn are solely reliant on the existence of a certain company to continue to run. the long term prospects of modern games to last very long is not very good. all it takes is valve for example to have a bad year or two and boom. steam goes down for good, same with games for windows aka xbox live though it may take more then a bad year or two. Sega isn't even a hardware company anymore, but i can still go out and buy any of their systems and the games run just fine.
this may be a surprise to you but the majority of linux distros have either firefox or chromium installed and not google chrome. the former does not support the api, and the latter is chrome with all the google extra's ripped out. like the built in pdf reader, built in flash plugin(you have to use the external one they are discontinuing.), and depending on version the 2d acceleration.