Doesn't happen very often though - on a console the designers know exactly what their customer's gonna be playing with so can optimise their code for that hardware. On a PC anything can (and usually does) happen.
Well, the ancient Egyptians thought Pi was 3, and they built some pretty impressive stuff. Then again I guess a slightly inaccurate value of Pi didn't mess with the whips too much.
But if the fridge shuts down then - barring some hideously stupid design choices - you would probably have enough time to eject it before it went pop...
No, all you need is a country that is stuck with a set of totally one-sided treaties due to its Supremo sucking up you, and are now saddled with a bunch of unelected idiots that won't stand up for the rights of their people as they know they've got nothing to lose politically because they know they're going to lose the election that they're desperately trying to postpone.
But where you'd find a country in that kind of dire situation I don't know...
Because it was popular with the original geek crowd, who would get those references. Later geeks who don't just learn to laugh along at the right times and quote the right bits to make it look like they're in on the joke.
"But - wait another one. Linux. Linux just doesn't recognize Windows file permissions. Boot a system to Linux, you can copy anything from anywhere to anywhere else."
Hi, meet the DMCA. It makes circumventing a protection system illegal no matter how you do it. Copy a file that was only protected by windows permissions - that's illegal. Burn a CD (stripping off the DRM) - that's illegal. Invent a neat matter duplicator, put your music on a memory stick and duplicate it - that's illegal.
my roomba just made me more messy
drop some chips, fuck it
drop some cheerios, fuck it
Erm dude - just cos it's like having a live-in maid doesn't mean you get to take out your kinky maid fantasies on it. I mean do you seriously want to be the guy the new generation of "Well I was doing the hoovering in my dressing gown and it kind of slipped" excuses are based on?
Yet for all the bravado, you hide behind AC. I call bullshit, troll. If you were so AwsumKewl as you pretend you'd have no reason to be hiding your UID. Or reading/. for that matter. What happen? You pop a knee going for a long bomb you shouldn't have and am now condemmned to sitting at a computer in a body that is still 250Lb+ but not in a good way? Or are you a 98lb geek trying to act tough? C'mon, inquiring minds wanna know.
"The reported crime rate usually goes down in areas where the police are corrupt or where the mafia is in control."
There, fixed that for ya.
The reported rate goes down because in both circumstances the people in control have a vested interest in keeping crime statistics low, so there is serious under reporting of crimes.
Every few years something like this is suggested. Government likes nothing more than imposing its will on the people under the guise of "You don't know what's good for you, we do." as part of training us to just simply accept what they say without question.
Oooh, I like this. I'd love to see a judge hand down a ruling that once you've bought a film the media company is liable for replacement of damaged copies for the duration of the copyright...
Because the car manufacturer is selling you a product, not a restricted licence. Can't have it both ways - I either own the CD and have the rights to do _anything_ I like with it, or I'm licencing a service so they have to replace the media if damaged.
Sure it'll be backwards compatible. Complete with those unskippable "You wouldn't steal a car" ads, no scene selection/fast review (as they're not supported in the emulation), random freezing and drop-outs caused by the cheap-ass software emulation.
Backwards compatibility is industry speak for "Stay locked into our format, and pay extra for a feature that doesn't actually work properly so will force you to re-buy everything, keeping you locked in for another hardware generation."
Archer doesn't in the Enterprise episode where Sato has a transporter accident. He recognises...---... as SOS but gets confused when she tries something more complex.
Oh hell, I just admitted to having watched Enterprise didn't I. I'll go crawl back under a rock now...
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Doesn't happen very often though - on a console the designers know exactly what their customer's gonna be playing with so can optimise their code for that hardware. On a PC anything can (and usually does) happen.
Ron Paul? I thought it was Ron Jeremy. Ooops...
Well, the ancient Egyptians thought Pi was 3, and they built some pretty impressive stuff. Then again I guess a slightly inaccurate value of Pi didn't mess with the whips too much.
Nope, that's fine. Voiding ROTM doesn't even rank as Unimportant on the scale of things i'd like to avoid.
What, like "Say it with Roses"...?
But if the fridge shuts down then - barring some hideously stupid design choices - you would probably have enough time to eject it before it went pop...
No, all you need is a country that is stuck with a set of totally one-sided treaties due to its Supremo sucking up you, and are now saddled with a bunch of unelected idiots that won't stand up for the rights of their people as they know they've got nothing to lose politically because they know they're going to lose the election that they're desperately trying to postpone.
But where you'd find a country in that kind of dire situation I don't know...
Because it was popular with the original geek crowd, who would get those references. Later geeks who don't just learn to laugh along at the right times and quote the right bits to make it look like they're in on the joke.
I'm guessing that there might be ... difficulties ... getting a decent sized sample group in this case.
Maybe this should be the new benchmark for success - when Micro$oft starts complaining about you abusing your dominant position...
"But - wait another one. Linux. Linux just doesn't recognize Windows file permissions. Boot a system to Linux, you can copy anything from anywhere to anywhere else."
Hi, meet the DMCA. It makes circumventing a protection system illegal no matter how you do it. Copy a file that was only protected by windows permissions - that's illegal. Burn a CD (stripping off the DRM) - that's illegal. Invent a neat matter duplicator, put your music on a memory stick and duplicate it - that's illegal.
my roomba just made me more messy drop some chips, fuck it drop some cheerios, fuck it
Erm dude - just cos it's like having a live-in maid doesn't mean you get to take out your kinky maid fantasies on it. I mean do you seriously want to be the guy the new generation of "Well I was doing the hoovering in my dressing gown and it kind of slipped" excuses are based on?
Hi, welcome to SlashDot. You must be new here.
Hey, as long as you leave it at least 6 months between kills you could go on forever...
I beat people like you up in high school, when I wasn't drinking beer. Now I wear women's shoes.
There, fixed that for ya.
Yet for all the bravado, you hide behind AC. I call bullshit, troll. If you were so AwsumKewl as you pretend you'd have no reason to be hiding your UID. Or reading /. for that matter. What happen? You pop a knee going for a long bomb you shouldn't have and am now condemmned to sitting at a computer in a body that is still 250Lb+ but not in a good way? Or are you a 98lb geek trying to act tough? C'mon, inquiring minds wanna know.
"The reported crime rate usually goes down in areas where the police are corrupt or where the mafia is in control."
There, fixed that for ya.
The reported rate goes down because in both circumstances the people in control have a vested interest in keeping crime statistics low, so there is serious under reporting of crimes.
Every few years something like this is suggested. Government likes nothing more than imposing its will on the people under the guise of "You don't know what's good for you, we do." as part of training us to just simply accept what they say without question.
Oooh, I like this. I'd love to see a judge hand down a ruling that once you've bought a film the media company is liable for replacement of damaged copies for the duration of the copyright...
Because the car manufacturer is selling you a product, not a restricted licence. Can't have it both ways - I either own the CD and have the rights to do _anything_ I like with it, or I'm licencing a service so they have to replace the media if damaged.
Sure it'll be backwards compatible. Complete with those unskippable "You wouldn't steal a car" ads, no scene selection/fast review (as they're not supported in the emulation), random freezing and drop-outs caused by the cheap-ass software emulation.
Backwards compatibility is industry speak for "Stay locked into our format, and pay extra for a feature that doesn't actually work properly so will force you to re-buy everything, keeping you locked in for another hardware generation."
They're faithfully participating in a system which is institutionally insane
There, fixed that for ya.
Well, as long as nobody's eating rice pudding it'll all be fine...
Oh they do. It's just not the kind of hard-core _you're_ thinking of.
Oh hell, I just admitted to having watched Enterprise didn't I. I'll go crawl back under a rock now...