Actually there is no need to introduce artificial scarcity, the scarcity here is the writer's time. Writers should be paid for writing rather than having readers tracked for charging. The analogy is having restrictions on sitting in chairs unless we pay a per/minute sitting fee, plus of course having a policemen in everyhome to ensure there is no uncontrolled sitting..
WTF is worng with the human body? It should let me do what I do, not what my great great great great grand fathers did. For all the virtues that are claimed about exercice the fact remains it is a bother...
Please doctors, just fix the whole excercise problem. But fix the sleeping problem first, that easly consumes more lifetimes than excercise all types of cancer combined.
Lately it seems that the only use case studied is the "check facebook|manage photos|post to twitter" triad. I have two monitors with multiple desktops (on-demand desktop creation being one of the reasons I stuck with Gnome-Shell despite it's short comings).
I don't want maximized windows all the time. Not even when I only use one window.
Jaffe said, he believes that it's important to attach a game to strong IP, because that's a way that the player can connect to and relate to a product.
Did he use "strong IP" to refer to plot and characters? It doesn't surprise me that a person who refers to works of art as mere "IP" doesn't get games and won't get any respect from me. I'd make sure I never have to sufer playing one of his "IP".
I'd like that some could explain me again how the free distribution of CP damanges the CP industry, but the free distribution of movies and music hurt the movies and music industries? After all if no transnational corporation gets paid for it no body would make it right?
That's not the problem, when he talked about "third-party tools" for mounting ISO files, he was refering to Gnome/KDE/XFCE/LXDE/ROX or essentially any modern desktop environment of the kinds that always come with all desktop distributions of Linux. All of them.
In other words this ASSHOLE is comparing a bare linux environment to a whole Win8 stack and dismissing EVERY SINGLE desktop Linux, as criples that need third-party tools, ignoring that those "tools" are part of all standard distributions including configuration and support.
THAT is the problem, that's the most decieving thing I seen from MS since the "Office Open" fiasco and that was quite a while ago.
I agree, it was flammish to say JS has inferior abstractions. It DOES have LESS abstractions. But the few it has are actually more powerful and general than Java's. In other words JS is more orthogonal than Java, you do more with less, which is a good thing, and I say this as a harsh critic of JS!
But typechecking is one of those things that, while dynamic programmers like me shrug, does make a lot more sense than I usually accept. If static type checking is for you, JS isn't. However it is possible to compile Java to JS, there are several implementations but the best one is Google's Google Web Toolkit which is exactly that. A Java environment that compiles to Javascript.
Seems like the most obvious question but does this run on Linux? Also, does Gnash, or any other free implementation of the flash plugin offer this too?
So, when I first joined the discussion without R'ing'TFA as per tradition, I was under the impression that the locked portion was integral to the plot. However it seems the content is on disk, not DLC, and yes it makes a difference, it reeks to much like those read-once books you see in distopian novels.
The situation is really lamentable. My parents inherited tons of books from my grandparents, my parents added more books of theirs and also a lot of vynil discs, and cassete tapes, and I'm going to pass on a lot of game catridges and CDs to the next generation. This is the family library, and not only it looks nice, it is actually one of the foundments of society.
My childs won't inherit anything to my grandchilds. Anything that I didn't give them at least. They won't have anything to claim their own, at least culturally. You can still see my first save file in my catridge of Zelda a Link to the Past. My grandchilds will inherit a Google+ account with a license to play an encrypted copy of Skyward Sword and even that account will lock up when behavioral filters detect the user isn't authentic.
But I disgress.
So, yes users shouldn't be locked out of content already on disc, I do think it makes a difference between DLC and locked content on disc. For reference, Rockstar was accoused of distributing porn for a tasteless minigame that was locked and coundn't be unlocked in any way except by hacking. If distributing locked, secret content still counts as distributig it, then selling me locked content still means I bought such content and reserve the right to unlock it at my discresion.
Actually yes. It involved deception. When you buy a game, there is a reasonable expectation that you will be able to play everything that is in the disc. More over, there is an expectation that you will get a "complete experince".
It's kinda like if you bought out The Dark Knight only to find that the last 15 minutes are locked by a subscription system. Or like going to see a movie and then just before the last part the managers ask you for an extra fee to see the end.
This is the kind of thing that you would expect to be informed beforehand. So while it isn't a crime, it deserves all the backslash it can get, I hope you are not suggesting that the gamers should shush about this.
I don't believe in your psychic powers to know what user account is a puppet of another user.
Fuck, even if it is a shill, it could be a different shill. It's not just you, lately I have seen lots of these post claiming to know the original account of another account, mostly (defending Google products incidentally, but I'm not about accusing them of astroturfing).
The problem isn't null per se, but the fact that they are out of place in an statically typed language without union types. Even then the niffty thing about union types is that the compilers prevents you from calling methods on them untill you deunionize them. You can make, for intance, a C++ compiler that always checks if an object could be null before calling operations on them. It helps if it gives you a nice syntax to deunionize them, but it's not nessecary, but you still need union types.
A simpler alternative, used in C# is to use "Nulleable" types, that is, an specific kind of union types that only consider the null case, in other words "Either an X or Null". So in C# you can say:
int? foo; From there you can do anythig you want with foo unless they are int operations. You can return it, pass it around, whatever. But before adding or substracting it you must check for type first.
Mathematically speaking. A list of type <A> should only contains elements of type <A>. Null is not type <A> so it doesn't belong there to begin with. Of course a sentinel value like "NullListElement" doesn't actually reflect the intent of the program, and conceptually it's pretty bad too.
The real WTF here is that we are talking about implementing linked lists. This is a solved problem and nobody outside college should spend anytime implementing them again.
Ditto and if someone is in a position to complain it would be Mozilla since integrated search should be a browser feature, not a website feature, and they aren't complaining, because it's stupid.
Blubbled search is not even a feature I want, much less expand.
Are you implying that the US has a democratic government because they listen to massive outcries from the population? In that case even monarchy could be described as democracy because even kings used to take the possibility of mass rebellion into consideration.
Sorry but no, a democratic government is one that works for the interest of the population as part of its normal operation, not just under extreme circumstances. The problem is that you can't keep a large percent of the population engaged politically for that long. I know the saying "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance" but if I have to watch my representatives 24/7 just to make sure they aren't working against my interests they are simply not doing their work of, you know, representing me.
The system is broken because representatives don't represent their people. It just is. Just imagine what difference it would made if after their period ended, a vote was raised to judge how well a senator represented their state, and if they didn't follow campaign promises or made some really unpopular choices they faced jail time. I'm sure a lot of unpopular laws wouldn't have passed in the first place.
I have better system in mind, but that just one example of how could you improve on the current system.
Except it is not their obligation to stop people from uploading material they don't "own". Nor is it ilegal to upload content that you aren't the copyright holder, nor is it illegal to distribute files over the internet, nor is it to host it.
What is ilegal is to a) publish links to content for wich you don't have distribution rights, which MegaUpload generally didn't. Some of their users did, some of the time. Using channels such as blogs. Which is why SOPA/PIPA wants to make it a crime to publish blogs unless tightly controlled by the media industry.
b) Refusing to comply with DMCA take down notices. Which they also didn't.
And this is the really bad thing, that they were arrested despite obeying the law. This is illegal. Now, you can claim that MegaUpload founders are merelly following the letter of the law and abusing safe harbor provisions. As if US media industry wasn't abusing those laws right and left! They basically acted following their own laws.
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That describes a dome not a sphere, selective interpretation at it's best.
*sigh* I miss subtle trolls.
Actually they are working on getting paid by every mind that didn't touch other people's works too:
http://bethestory.com/2005/11/21/storyline-patents
Actually there is no need to introduce artificial scarcity, the scarcity here is the writer's time. Writers should be paid for writing rather than having readers tracked for charging. The analogy is having restrictions on sitting in chairs unless we pay a per/minute sitting fee, plus of course having a policemen in everyhome to ensure there is no uncontrolled sitting..
Actually the purpose is to crush the competition, gain control on innovations and facilitate a police state. Reducing piracy is icing on the cake.
WTF is worng with the human body? It should let me do what I do, not what my great great great great grand fathers did. For all the virtues that are claimed about exercice the fact remains it is a bother...
Please doctors, just fix the whole excercise problem. But fix the sleeping problem first, that easly consumes more lifetimes than excercise all types of cancer combined.
This.
Lately it seems that the only use case studied is the "check facebook|manage photos|post to twitter" triad. I have two monitors with multiple desktops (on-demand desktop creation being one of the reasons I stuck with Gnome-Shell despite it's short comings).
I don't want maximized windows all the time. Not even when I only use one window.
Utterly disgusting is how I find this statement:
Did he use "strong IP" to refer to plot and characters? It doesn't surprise me that a person who refers to works of art as mere "IP" doesn't get games and won't get any respect from me. I'd make sure I never have to sufer playing one of his "IP".
Not joking, yes, that's what I did last two times I visited the US.
Stepping aside from Reddit's issue.
I'd like that some could explain me again how the free distribution of CP damanges the CP industry, but the free distribution of movies and music hurt the movies and music industries? After all if no transnational corporation gets paid for it no body would make it right?
Or NOT. UHmm it seems this wasn't exactly MS's lie, but uh? TFA doesn't make it clear.
That's not the problem, when he talked about "third-party tools" for mounting ISO files, he was refering to Gnome/KDE/XFCE/LXDE/ROX or essentially any modern desktop environment of the kinds that always come with all desktop distributions of Linux. All of them.
In other words this ASSHOLE is comparing a bare linux environment to a whole Win8 stack and dismissing EVERY SINGLE desktop Linux, as criples that need third-party tools, ignoring that those "tools" are part of all standard distributions including configuration and support.
THAT is the problem, that's the most decieving thing I seen from MS since the "Office Open" fiasco and that was quite a while ago.
I agree, it was flammish to say JS has inferior abstractions. It DOES have LESS abstractions. But the few it has are actually more powerful and general than Java's. In other words JS is more orthogonal than Java, you do more with less, which is a good thing, and I say this as a harsh critic of JS!
But typechecking is one of those things that, while dynamic programmers like me shrug, does make a lot more sense than I usually accept. If static type checking is for you, JS isn't. However it is possible to compile Java to JS, there are several implementations but the best one is Google's Google Web Toolkit which is exactly that. A Java environment that compiles to Javascript.
Seems like the most obvious question but does this run on Linux? Also, does Gnash, or any other free implementation of the flash plugin offer this too?
Extirmenatus! For Emporer!
So, when I first joined the discussion without R'ing'TFA as per tradition, I was under the impression that the locked portion was integral to the plot. However it seems the content is on disk, not DLC, and yes it makes a difference, it reeks to much like those read-once books you see in distopian novels.
The situation is really lamentable. My parents inherited tons of books from my grandparents, my parents added more books of theirs and also a lot of vynil discs, and cassete tapes, and I'm going to pass on a lot of game catridges and CDs to the next generation. This is the family library, and not only it looks nice, it is actually one of the foundments of society.
My childs won't inherit anything to my grandchilds. Anything that I didn't give them at least. They won't have anything to claim their own, at least culturally. You can still see my first save file in my catridge of Zelda a Link to the Past. My grandchilds will inherit a Google+ account with a license to play an encrypted copy of Skyward Sword and even that account will lock up when behavioral filters detect the user isn't authentic.
But I disgress.
So, yes users shouldn't be locked out of content already on disc, I do think it makes a difference between DLC and locked content on disc. For reference, Rockstar was accoused of distributing porn for a tasteless minigame that was locked and coundn't be unlocked in any way except by hacking. If distributing locked, secret content still counts as distributig it, then selling me locked content still means I bought such content and reserve the right to unlock it at my discresion.
Actually yes. It involved deception. When you buy a game, there is a reasonable expectation that you will be able to play everything that is in the disc. More over, there is an expectation that you will get a "complete experince".
It's kinda like if you bought out The Dark Knight only to find that the last 15 minutes are locked by a subscription system. Or like going to see a movie and then just before the last part the managers ask you for an extra fee to see the end.
This is the kind of thing that you would expect to be informed beforehand. So while it isn't a crime, it deserves all the backslash it can get, I hope you are not suggesting that the gamers should shush about this.
Don't forget about soft bribing, the art of offering jobs in the same industry you are regulating and other sorts of collateral benefits.
I don't believe in your psychic powers to know what user account is a puppet of another user.
Fuck, even if it is a shill, it could be a different shill. It's not just you, lately I have seen lots of these post claiming to know the original account of another account, mostly (defending Google products incidentally, but I'm not about accusing them of astroturfing).
Bullshit I don't believe in the supernatural.
The problem isn't null per se, but the fact that they are out of place in an statically typed language without union types. Even then the niffty thing about union types is that the compilers prevents you from calling methods on them untill you deunionize them. You can make, for intance, a C++ compiler that always checks if an object could be null before calling operations on them. It helps if it gives you a nice syntax to deunionize them, but it's not nessecary, but you still need union types.
A simpler alternative, used in C# is to use "Nulleable" types, that is, an specific kind of union types that only consider the null case, in other words "Either an X or Null". So in C# you can say:
int? foo;
From there you can do anythig you want with foo unless they are int operations. You can return it, pass it around, whatever. But before adding or substracting it you must check for type first.
Mathematically speaking. A list of type <A> should only contains elements of type <A>. Null is not type <A> so it doesn't belong there to begin with. Of course a sentinel value like "NullListElement" doesn't actually reflect the intent of the program, and conceptually it's pretty bad too.
The real WTF here is that we are talking about implementing linked lists. This is a solved problem and nobody outside college should spend anytime implementing them again.
Ditto and if someone is in a position to complain it would be Mozilla since integrated search should be a browser feature, not a website feature, and they aren't complaining, because it's stupid.
Blubbled search is not even a feature I want, much less expand.
Roger that.
I guess I'll get him at the next Google related article.
Are you implying that the US has a democratic government because they listen to massive outcries from the population? In that case even monarchy could be described as democracy because even kings used to take the possibility of mass rebellion into consideration.
Sorry but no, a democratic government is one that works for the interest of the population as part of its normal operation, not just under extreme circumstances. The problem is that you can't keep a large percent of the population engaged politically for that long. I know the saying "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance" but if I have to watch my representatives 24/7 just to make sure they aren't working against my interests they are simply not doing their work of, you know, representing me.
The system is broken because representatives don't represent their people. It just is. Just imagine what difference it would made if after their period ended, a vote was raised to judge how well a senator represented their state, and if they didn't follow campaign promises or made some really unpopular choices they faced jail time. I'm sure a lot of unpopular laws wouldn't have passed in the first place.
I have better system in mind, but that just one example of how could you improve on the current system.
Except it is not their obligation to stop people from uploading material they don't "own". Nor is it ilegal to upload content that you aren't the copyright holder, nor is it illegal to distribute files over the internet, nor is it to host it.
What is ilegal is to a) publish links to content for wich you don't have distribution rights, which MegaUpload generally didn't. Some of their users did, some of the time. Using channels such as blogs. Which is why SOPA/PIPA wants to make it a crime to publish blogs unless tightly controlled by the media industry.
b) Refusing to comply with DMCA take down notices. Which they also didn't.
And this is the really bad thing, that they were arrested despite obeying the law. This is illegal. Now, you can claim that MegaUpload founders are merelly following the letter of the law and abusing safe harbor provisions. As if US media industry wasn't abusing those laws right and left! They basically acted following their own laws.