>This really demonstrates that the key to a successful ~~kick starter~~ anything is popularity, not quality.
It doesn't matter how good you are, nobody will know about you, and you won't sell anything if you're a nobody.
Next, before this got too much funding it was an excellent idea to invest in. Cards Against Humanity is a multimillion dollar selling game. Smart-assed card games are a very popular genre.
And despite what you've been told, that's exactly what people want. People want you to be creative once and create something new, then they want you to stop because familiarity is what people buy.
>drives which can't be "flashed" without setting a physical switch/jumper.
Protects existing kit from updates, but we have heard of supposed intercept programs by the NSA where they capture your hardware in shipping and replace it.
I'm not the AC trolling you above, but he does have a point. This is my second account. Way, way, way back when the supreme leaders of Slashdot deleted their password database playing with MySQL on the server live. The ISP that had my original email for my./ login had went out of business and I didn't bother making another account for a long time.
If resources were not limited then aggression wouldn't be needed, and we live in a time that is close to that point, but it's kind of silly to think things will remain that way. The world can throw many nasty scenarios at us with little notice. Forming packs of aggression, tribes, city states, nations does make sense. We will be nicer to each other and fight everyone else. With this combined force we will monopolize resources for our own use. That is the only power a government has, the power of force. I mean, even what you typed has flaws. How are you suppose to pick which choices to make with limited resources, competition and aggression go hand in hand with humanity.
If an alien craft crashed to earth with 'warp' powers and, uh, didn't manage to blow a hole the size of New York in the crust, why could humans not copy its technologies to travel light years and still remain agressive? Don't assume there is just one way to the stars.
>Consider, we could wipe out our unemployment problem RIGHT NOW if the average work week was cut to 35 hours a week
Well, a lot of people are getting their work cut below that point, but with none of the benefits. Part time employees with no health benefits are a growing sector. Of course this is matched by a smaller amount of salaried employees having to work even more hours. Worst of both situations : /
>Never understood why it is a common children sport in the states to shoot Squirrels.
You've never seen one eat the insulation and wiring in a house then. They are rodents, and just like other rodents are very destructive if their numbers grow too large.
>We all know what murder is, we know what immolation and decapitation are, a video showing these things does not add anything
And yet the U.S. government bans pictures of our own solders killed in wars, and has done so for a long time. This is because when most people see the horrors of war, they are rather against it. This is not just a simple issue of "hide it and it goes away", groups like ISIS are a systemic problem and aren't just going away because we don't show their message.
They don't need exposed to it, but at the same time, it's not going to ruin the rest of their life either. Explaining how 'real life' works to children is very important, not hiding it from them. When me and my daughter were walking down a sidewalk beside the road there was some animal that had been rather brutally crushed by a car. I didn't try to shelter her from it. I just told her, this is what happens if you run out in front of cars. Now when she is with other kids and they walk close to the road she does a good job explaining to them that it's a really bad idea to do that.
A well trained shooter does two in the chest and one in the head. I know a man that died trying to stop a courthouse shooter by shooting center mass. Unfortunately the shooter was wearing body armor.
Some of the time older programs work, and other times they don't. Take some ancient version of Advantage database server, or a whole pile of proprietary DBs. Installing older versions on newer Windows is almost certain to break. Many have copy protection schemes that make assumptions on how Windows operates.
>I agree that computers "don't get slower", they are always the same speed as the day you bought them, that software "doesn't get worse", it's the same software as the day you bought it. I get the comparative nature of this.
This is true, but at the same time growth in data sets can make this not true too. Start out with a customer database that has a limited number of fields and it works great, everything hot fits in cache, most of the database fits in memory. Then as the years go buy you need to store more information. You add more columns, for things like email, websites, whatever else you can think of. All of the sudden your it doesn't fit in cache and you get a dramatic slowdown. You decide to live with it rather then spend $10,000+ to upgrade. You add many more customers, now the data doesn't fit in memory and you're going to disk and swap. I see this happen in real life quite often with large companies that take 10+ seconds to look up customer records.
Software doesn't change, but data does. And the data makes or breaks the system.
Never is a long time. Next, you are a poor risk assessor. If a bug exist, but is not found by you that does not mean it has not been used or exploited by someone else.
At one point you spent huge sums of money on memory, or a smaller large pile of money on lots of drives if you were in the moderate sized database world. With SSD you get excellent performance at a cost that ends up being far cheaper than disk per IOP. There are many applications where flash is replacing both memory and disk.
The difference between your pre-90 car and a car now, is you were much less likely to walk away if your old car got hit. New cars are made of plastic crumply stuff on purpose. They are cheaper to replace than body parts. RICO wouldn't go anywhere, they'd just show they are trying to meet safety standards.
It would have to happen at the CPE. Otherwise bots would get smarter, and in places like residential connections if your IP was 8.8.8.8 you just fake coming from 8.8.8.10 which is legitimate for the ISP to send traffic from, but would implicate the wrong customer when it came to blocking.
And they are not going to. A sizable percentage of an ISPs customers have some kind of bot on it. Since almost everyone these days has a NAT router if one computer out of ten has a bot on it, the entire network goes down. Customers get pissed. Bills don't get paid. Long arguments with tech support over who's problem it is. Some of these bots are wireless clients that move around too.
Or, they can do what they are doing now and neglect the problem. My money is on the continued neglect except in the worst of cases.
Thinking that governments have not, are not, and will not adjust children for their own means is slightly maladjusted in itself.
>My program for educating youth is hard weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order, a new youth will grow up, before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless and cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyesThat is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domesticationThat is how I will create the New Order.
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>This really demonstrates that the key to a successful ~~kick starter~~ anything is popularity, not quality.
It doesn't matter how good you are, nobody will know about you, and you won't sell anything if you're a nobody.
Next, before this got too much funding it was an excellent idea to invest in. Cards Against Humanity is a multimillion dollar selling game. Smart-assed card games are a very popular genre.
>His comics kind of all follow the same formula.
And despite what you've been told, that's exactly what people want. People want you to be creative once and create something new, then they want you to stop because familiarity is what people buy.
>drives which can't be "flashed" without setting a physical switch/jumper.
Protects existing kit from updates, but we have heard of supposed intercept programs by the NSA where they capture your hardware in shipping and replace it.
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
I'm not the AC trolling you above, but he does have a point. This is my second account. Way, way, way back when the supreme leaders of Slashdot deleted their password database playing with MySQL on the server live. The ISP that had my original email for my ./ login had went out of business and I didn't bother making another account for a long time.
If resources were not limited then aggression wouldn't be needed, and we live in a time that is close to that point, but it's kind of silly to think things will remain that way. The world can throw many nasty scenarios at us with little notice. Forming packs of aggression, tribes, city states, nations does make sense. We will be nicer to each other and fight everyone else. With this combined force we will monopolize resources for our own use. That is the only power a government has, the power of force. I mean, even what you typed has flaws. How are you suppose to pick which choices to make with limited resources, competition and aggression go hand in hand with humanity.
If an alien craft crashed to earth with 'warp' powers and, uh, didn't manage to blow a hole the size of New York in the crust, why could humans not copy its technologies to travel light years and still remain agressive? Don't assume there is just one way to the stars.
>Consider, we could wipe out our unemployment problem RIGHT NOW if the average work week was cut to 35 hours a week
Well, a lot of people are getting their work cut below that point, but with none of the benefits. Part time employees with no health benefits are a growing sector. Of course this is matched by a smaller amount of salaried employees having to work even more hours. Worst of both situations : /
>Never understood why it is a common children sport in the states to shoot Squirrels.
You've never seen one eat the insulation and wiring in a house then. They are rodents, and just like other rodents are very destructive if their numbers grow too large.
OMG, my solar plant blew up. Someone get a mop.
Versus
OMG my nuclear power plant blew up, run for your lives.
Even new nuke plants have issues with waste.
>We all know what murder is, we know what immolation and decapitation are, a video showing these things does not add anything
And yet the U.S. government bans pictures of our own solders killed in wars, and has done so for a long time. This is because when most people see the horrors of war, they are rather against it. This is not just a simple issue of "hide it and it goes away", groups like ISIS are a systemic problem and aren't just going away because we don't show their message.
They don't need exposed to it, but at the same time, it's not going to ruin the rest of their life either. Explaining how 'real life' works to children is very important, not hiding it from them. When me and my daughter were walking down a sidewalk beside the road there was some animal that had been rather brutally crushed by a car. I didn't try to shelter her from it. I just told her, this is what happens if you run out in front of cars. Now when she is with other kids and they walk close to the road she does a good job explaining to them that it's a really bad idea to do that.
If you think we were told the truth when it came to people voting in these laws, I have a bridge to sell you.
A well trained shooter does two in the chest and one in the head. I know a man that died trying to stop a courthouse shooter by shooting center mass. Unfortunately the shooter was wearing body armor.
Some of the time older programs work, and other times they don't. Take some ancient version of Advantage database server, or a whole pile of proprietary DBs. Installing older versions on newer Windows is almost certain to break. Many have copy protection schemes that make assumptions on how Windows operates.
>I agree that computers "don't get slower", they are always the same speed as the day you bought them, that software "doesn't get worse", it's the same software as the day you bought it. I get the comparative nature of this.
This is true, but at the same time growth in data sets can make this not true too. Start out with a customer database that has a limited number of fields and it works great, everything hot fits in cache, most of the database fits in memory. Then as the years go buy you need to store more information. You add more columns, for things like email, websites, whatever else you can think of. All of the sudden your it doesn't fit in cache and you get a dramatic slowdown. You decide to live with it rather then spend $10,000+ to upgrade. You add many more customers, now the data doesn't fit in memory and you're going to disk and swap. I see this happen in real life quite often with large companies that take 10+ seconds to look up customer records.
Software doesn't change, but data does. And the data makes or breaks the system.
Never is a long time. Next, you are a poor risk assessor. If a bug exist, but is not found by you that does not mean it has not been used or exploited by someone else.
At one point you spent huge sums of money on memory, or a smaller large pile of money on lots of drives if you were in the moderate sized database world. With SSD you get excellent performance at a cost that ends up being far cheaper than disk per IOP. There are many applications where flash is replacing both memory and disk.
The difference between your pre-90 car and a car now, is you were much less likely to walk away if your old car got hit. New cars are made of plastic crumply stuff on purpose. They are cheaper to replace than body parts. RICO wouldn't go anywhere, they'd just show they are trying to meet safety standards.
If you believe that, then you should watch this.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_...
This has problems too. What if someone outside of your ISPs network fakes your IP? What if another computer inside your ISP network fakes your IP?
It would have to happen at the CPE. Otherwise bots would get smarter, and in places like residential connections if your IP was 8.8.8.8 you just fake coming from 8.8.8.10 which is legitimate for the ISP to send traffic from, but would implicate the wrong customer when it came to blocking.
And they are not going to. A sizable percentage of an ISPs customers have some kind of bot on it. Since almost everyone these days has a NAT router if one computer out of ten has a bot on it, the entire network goes down. Customers get pissed. Bills don't get paid. Long arguments with tech support over who's problem it is. Some of these bots are wireless clients that move around too.
Or, they can do what they are doing now and neglect the problem. My money is on the continued neglect except in the worst of cases.
Thinking that governments have not, are not, and will not adjust children for their own means is slightly maladjusted in itself.
>My program for educating youth is hard weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order, a new youth will grow up, before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless and cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyesThat is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domesticationThat is how I will create the New Order.