maybe a better metaphor for the history of life is 'survival of the laziest' or at least 'survival of the sluggish
BOW DOWN TO YOUR KING. And bring me another bag of Cheetos and a Coke, would you?
No, literally. I'm looking at a 2-Liter and a bag of Cheetos, Doritos, and Fritos -- all within reach right now. But the ice and chunky picante sauce is all gone, meh. This second though I'm eating some chocolate striped cookies for variation. Want some? Come closer and lick you monitor for a magical taste you just won't forget.
Even better, I just won my first game of PubG!! Playing on an Android phone. All against Bots. (And almost lost at that, but We refuse to acknowledge that.)
I'd played Fortnite before and even placed in the top 20 my first time playing!! That was because I traveled to the far side of the island where half of the people had died before I even touched the ground, and half of THAT died before I finished searching the first building. That gave me a nice inflated score by accident, so now I immediately die if I even start the game. (I'm no good, I admit; but it's matched me with people that can find the ANY key. I'm still figuring out how to build and how to swap guns while they're literally dancing all around me. Plebeians.)
I usually don't play multiplayer games because I don't want people to know how BAD I am. The computer doesn't care if I reload the game 20 times before accidentally winning. NetHack is my usual style, and I've never won at that -- over 20 years. Raiding a previous incantation of you grave IS pretty neat, though. But how come I'm so hard to kill after I'm dead?!!?
I've paid $250 (special) for a Xiaomi Mi MAX 2 a year ago -- it's wonderful. Android 7.1, 4G RAM, 64G storage, 2 SIMs or a SIM and a uSD, a 5.3A battery (it runs for over 2 days with me actually USING it) and a bloomin' big bright screen. The screen has a thin vertical bezel and is almost as big as Google's original Nexus screen released 6 years ago that had humongous edges everywhere.
It apparently has radios for GSM, but doesn't for CDMA (Verizon) which I knew before I bought it. I use my old CDMA phone as a hotspot for the Mi which works great.
The only thing "wrong" is that I can't insert a Verizon SIM (I could, but I think only data, not voice is there.) and can't use a VoiP system as the default dialer, or can't connect the dialer to the (any) VoiP app.
Google Voice does a good job of voice and SMS access though, so not really a problem. When this one finally breaks I'm buying another, period. My Moto G+5 lasts for over a day with the screen off and hotspot on, otherwise it goes for maybe 6 hours.
For that price, consumers get one book credit per month. Audiobooks will be accessible even after a subscription is cancelled.
Audible (now Amazon) has done this for years. I've got a lot of audiobooks and canceled my subscription years ago but still have access to all of them. (I have a local copy just in case.)
They're all DRMed, but the accessibility convenience and player portability is very good so for the most part is doesn't matter. (And, AHEM, the DRM isn't that hard to get around to play on odd devices.)
Since Amazon now owns Audible, they've linked audiobooks and ebooks together where you can start in one and switch to the other midstream and not lose your place.
Walmart will also start to sell so-called digital book cards that can be redeemed online for ebooks in 3500 stores.
That's new. Hope it works out, Amazon wouldn't dream of doing this.
not just while battling the fire... [or] throttle their service whenever the department isn't fighting a fire
I don't know about that, I can get pretty hot at times while looking at pr0n. And the more pic/videos, the better. Virtual Harems!
Also, I thought "Net Neutrality" was not artificially limiting the bandwidth of each data stream -- so for instance/example, Comcast giving NetFlix and Hulu 10 packets per second while packets traversing the "same exact link" get full bandwidth access to Comcast's video offerings. (Think of QoS applied to websites.)
Net Neutrality's got nothing on which plan you pick. If you throttle everything down after using 25G, fine.
That raises a question: If I throttle after 4G per month but I also buy and have the same vendor's (and THERE'S the rub) video service, is that video exempt from the bandwidth limit? (What do they call that? Zero rating? So it's actual used bandwidth but it doesn't count against your monthly usage.) Ahh, so bandwidth sent thru their network and to you ISN'T much of a problem, but bandwidth from "foreign sites" is.
I'm sorry, pipes are pipes, but there's a trick -- the internal connection to your system might be nice and fast, but it's the interconnects to the outside world -- everyone else -- that they want to limit. Like the new definition of a portal, the more they keep your packets inside of their networks, the more money they can extract from you. The more you use them to transition away, the less they earn AND they (ISPs) even have to pay for that privilege for their customers. (Think CompuServe or AOL. Stay connected to our computers here, don't go out THERE. You can, but don't. Please?)
assuming they wouldn't pay me back and I would take a 100% loss. If they do end up paying me back, that's a bonus.
YES. That's exacly the way to do it -- that way, you keep your friends. Otherwise if you're actually expecting them to pay you back and they don't, it'll tarnish your friendship. Just make sure they don't start avoiding YOU if they can't pay you back and they feel bad about it.
OTOH, don't be a sucker, either. Or if you insist, lend ME some money -- I'll pay it back to you Any Day Now.
Get off your fucking high horse already.
No one died and made you king
Maybe they did. Maybe he killed them in a game and so he's king there. Maybe he killed them in a game and so he's king HERE. Maybe he really IS the king right now. OMG I'M STUCK IN A COMPUTER GAME, SOMEONE GET ME OUT.
Oh, wait, I'm a NPC; that won't work, will it? Never mind.
First. World. Problems: We no longer waste paper to print archaic Mathematical tables
Whining that we don't have rotary telephones? Black and White televisions?
Morse Code. Kids today with their smart phones and texting. Emoticons? BAH! Back in my day we had Morse Code, where you learned how to read. We didn't need no stinkin' Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
Oh, and I heard about competitions between operators, where they would listen to the incoming text but delay writing down the message as long as possible, to see which one has the best operating short-term memory. Oh, never mind the bits coming in at insane speeds.
"Morse Code isn't being taught to radio operators in the Army... but it is being taught to those needing special radio skills"
Egypt Fights Terrorism By Censoring Web Sites, Threatening Jail Time For Accessing Them
INFORMATION wants to be free!
Apparently you do not wish the same.
So you have:
the Great Firewall of China, where you can't get there from here. (vs VPNs, offline)
You've got Egypt, where they're watching where you go. (DNS? Packet inspection? Web site logs?)
You've got Banned Books apparently in the US which removes or restricts access to paper books.
You've got the Index Librorum Prohibitorum from the Church which apparently isn't updated any more. (June 1966 maintained its moral force but no Spanish Inquisition visits.)
The Satanic Verses resulted in a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death.
I'm sure there are other lists out there (Holy Bible, Mein Kampf, others.) My, there's a lot of naughty ideas out there.
OTOH if you're actively promoting violence ("let's kill all of the bastards at noon tomorrow in the city") that's a little different.
The bazaar of ideas shouldn't exchange books and paper for bullets and knives. And it doesn't, only marginalized PEOPLE do. Maybe there's a reason you're marginalized. Maybe there's not. But I suspect it's much easier to become that way if you've got "nothing else to lose" and "the bastards are going to hear me now!"
Perhaps a very short skippable ad for a related show AT THE END of a season, especially at the end of an entire series. Yeah, that, maybe. "You liked this? Here's something similar." NOT random, similar.
If you start acting like cable TV, you'll end up just LIKE cable TV.
"That's a nice business I've got here, shame if something were to happen to it." I never realized the owner could do it to themselves. Dr Strangelove's hand at the end, I guess.
I can also confirm it [Ethics] was a worthless class
Underwater basket-weaving is more important and useful than an Ethics class.
You might not have seen everything yet (believe it or not for a 20 yo), but you should have picked up what's right and wrong from your parents years and years ago. Even a well-taught Ethics class would generate a "Sucks to be you" response.
Either you try to do the "golden rule/right thing" by other people even far far down the chain, or you don't. Sometimes they'll agree with you, sometimes they won't. Sometimes they'd disagree with you because they don't know all of the issues. ("Sometimes you'll feel like a nut,....") And SURPRISE: Not Every Single Thing You Do is Earth-shattering, either.
With Google China: is it better to give them easy access to locate some data, or not? Their leaders must think so (and also want to hide "uneventful" items.) Europe wants to hide old "eventful" items with the "Right to Be Forgotten." I disagree with the latter - if it's true, if it happens, it should be findable, a minute or a century old. Now if it's false (and proved to a court I guess) then the target article won't be there to start with or will have a correction, and so either Google will forget about it too or will have both items.
I don't know if Google China is ethical or not. Sorry, I didn't realize Google (or anyone) is in the ethics business. If they at least break-even and keep customers, they'll survive. If not, they won't. PEOPLE are ethical at best, I think companies only have ethical tenancies because of that. Just wait until Manna comes around.
All of the billionaires apparently have hidey-holes in New Zealand -- I wonder how ethical they'll all be. (Actually, I'd expect a lot initially -- they're all peers and equals or they wouldn't be there. Ethics will wake up once one of them is sick or wounded.)
I cannot stress enough that there is a middle ground,
Jesus Christ, a well-reasoned, insightful comment -- from under what rock did YOU come crawl out from?
We don't want your kind here, either you're WITH us or your AGAINST us. Thinking there's a middle ground for everybody to stand on. (Walks away) Ridiculous... my adrenaline high is fading away just thinking about it.
85 percent of Americans need to think more. Or some. Or any.
But it's easier to let someone else do it for you. Kinda like outsourcing your critical data into the cloud, where it's all backed up and secure (you hope) and available for anyone to use. (you hope NOT.)
this control becomes "deadened," such that accidentally pulling it in space would do nothing.
Cool, the whole thing looks neat. Too bad I'll never get to ride in it, as a pilot OR a passenger. (Well, maybe ashes, but I doubt I'd pass the fitness exam even then.)
That being said: After a successful launch and orbit insertion -- Musk: "Here, hold my beer and watch this! You just need to pull and turn it the other way and... "
Problem is, you can't legally broadcast on any of the WWV frequencies. And rightly so
Agree. Broadcasting on frequencies 2.5Mh, 5Mh, 10Mh, etc would bring the wrath of the FCC down on you. They're not for general public use.
HOWEVER: if those frequencies are suddenly unused by the government, I wouldn't mind having a small transmitter in the house on those freqs that would feed time to all of the radio clocks I currently have. A raspberry Pi, a GPS receiver module, and a pirate radio broadcasting signal sounds just about right. I'm not trying to reach the other side of the world or the country, I'm trying to reach the other side of the house -- no linear amplifiers needed. (Well, maybe if I got a much larger house.)
planning to vote for the opponent to simply stay home thinking the election has already been decided
OH -- you mean for national elections, not local. Yeah, Hawaii's always been screwed with that. Hours before their polls even close "the election's already been decided" by the mainland, and has been that way for years (decades.) I wonder why they bother to vote at all.
Until ALL polling stations close the shouldn't report early results or guestimates. That wouldn't fly though, all the newscasters would all have heads, bladders, or lungs exploded by then from them holding it in for so long
Over a decade ago I remember an article where ARPA? DoD? (someone with the resources and interest to do this) created a special limited CPU chip with "problems" and undocumented features. They gave them to different companies, and had their techs test to see if they could locate the problems.
I understand one was a root-escalation feature, and there were supposedly many others. The point was to see how many could be discovered by "the tech community" -- I presume they military was trying to figure out their exposure to the CPUs that THEY were getting. (see initial fight in Battlestar Galactica TNG where the human fleets are remotely shut down.)
You bought a single bouncy ball, not a prototype for building bouncy balls in general or cloning them en masse.
Many... people who have otherwise made video games a major part of their lives... wouldn't have been inspired to take that path if it wasn't for ROMs.
What!? They might have bumped across it anyway, or anyway they'll find something else to do. Maybe they'll like the new thing more, or maybe less.
Poor or non-western country. Yep. And I'm not going to be in SpaceXs space tourism stuff, either. Sucks to be poor and poorer. (Not that I'm either. I'm pretty sure that most (all?) of us in the US are in the top 10% of the world, if not 1%.) Worrying about how many genders there are is MUCH much easier when you have clean water, good food, are healthy, warm and safe than when you're literally dying from thrust and hunger in the rain.
Entire chapters of video game history would be lost if ROMs and emulation didn't preserve games where publishers failed to.
That's nice. Entire chapters of human history have been lost before, this won't be the first and won't be the last. News, 1 day ago: "Archaeologists fear biblical artifacts, monuments won't survive Yemen war." OH NOES, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game won't be around noes mores! Oh the humanity majors!
I have unpaid for copies of Nintendo ROMs. I'm literally looking at a video game console: Space Duel. Not a ROM dump -- a real, actual, physical, original working console. A friend of mine owns Joust in somehow like-new condition. I have a "licensed" copy of PacMan for the PC and an unlicensed one for a PC emulator. I'm sorry the sites are gone as well, but each "individual game template" IS theirs. And at least USED to, they don't have the reach to be everywhere in the world at once, or profits to even want to bother. Want to help them with that? Become a distributor.
It's culture only because we made it so (and probably addictive as well), but someone else does actually own it. (Depending on copyright and length of time maybe they shouldn't anymore, but that's a different argument.) Taken any aspirin? Used a Xerox lately? Seen a talking Mouse? Used your Clout recently? (That came from Visa 20 years ago; I still remember their commercials using it.) Language is easier to get away things than with physical (logical) objects -- especially if they can FIND you.
"But Information wants to be free." So what's your bank account number and mothers maiden name again? I'll be right back.
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maybe a better metaphor for the history of life is 'survival of the laziest' or at least 'survival of the sluggish
BOW DOWN TO YOUR KING. And bring me another bag of Cheetos and a Coke, would you?
No, literally. I'm looking at a 2-Liter and a bag of Cheetos, Doritos, and Fritos -- all within reach right now. But the ice and chunky picante sauce is all gone, meh. This second though I'm eating some chocolate striped cookies for variation. Want some? Come closer and lick you monitor for a magical taste you just won't forget.
Even better, I just won my first game of PubG!! Playing on an Android phone. All against Bots. (And almost lost at that, but We refuse to acknowledge that.)
I'd played Fortnite before and even placed in the top 20 my first time playing!! That was because I traveled to the far side of the island where half of the people had died before I even touched the ground, and half of THAT died before I finished searching the first building. That gave me a nice inflated score by accident, so now I immediately die if I even start the game. (I'm no good, I admit; but it's matched me with people that can find the ANY key. I'm still figuring out how to build and how to swap guns while they're literally dancing all around me. Plebeians.)
I usually don't play multiplayer games because I don't want people to know how BAD I am. The computer doesn't care if I reload the game 20 times before accidentally winning. NetHack is my usual style, and I've never won at that -- over 20 years. Raiding a previous incantation of you grave IS pretty neat, though. But how come I'm so hard to kill after I'm dead?!!?
I've paid $250 (special) for a Xiaomi Mi MAX 2 a year ago -- it's wonderful. Android 7.1, 4G RAM, 64G storage, 2 SIMs or a SIM and a uSD, a 5.3A battery (it runs for over 2 days with me actually USING it) and a bloomin' big bright screen. The screen has a thin vertical bezel and is almost as big as Google's original Nexus screen released 6 years ago that had humongous edges everywhere.
It apparently has radios for GSM, but doesn't for CDMA (Verizon) which I knew before I bought it. I use my old CDMA phone as a hotspot for the Mi which works great.
The only thing "wrong" is that I can't insert a Verizon SIM (I could, but I think only data, not voice is there.) and can't use a VoiP system as the default dialer, or can't connect the dialer to the (any) VoiP app.
Google Voice does a good job of voice and SMS access though, so not really a problem. When this one finally breaks I'm buying another, period. My Moto G+5 lasts for over a day with the screen off and hotspot on, otherwise it goes for maybe 6 hours.
For that price, consumers get one book credit per month. Audiobooks will be accessible even after a subscription is cancelled.
Audible (now Amazon) has done this for years. I've got a lot of audiobooks and canceled my subscription years ago but still have access to all of them. (I have a local copy just in case.)
They're all DRMed, but the accessibility convenience and player portability is very good so for the most part is doesn't matter. (And, AHEM, the DRM isn't that hard to get around to play on odd devices.)
Since Amazon now owns Audible, they've linked audiobooks and ebooks together where you can start in one and switch to the other midstream and not lose your place.
Walmart will also start to sell so-called digital book cards that can be redeemed online for ebooks in 3500 stores.
That's new. Hope it works out, Amazon wouldn't dream of doing this.
not just while battling the fire ... [or] throttle their service whenever the department isn't fighting a fire
I don't know about that, I can get pretty hot at times while looking at pr0n. And the more pic/videos, the better. Virtual Harems!
Also, I thought "Net Neutrality" was not artificially limiting the bandwidth of each data stream -- so for instance/example, Comcast giving NetFlix and Hulu 10 packets per second while packets traversing the "same exact link" get full bandwidth access to Comcast's video offerings. (Think of QoS applied to websites.)
Net Neutrality's got nothing on which plan you pick. If you throttle everything down after using 25G, fine.
That raises a question: If I throttle after 4G per month but I also buy and have the same vendor's (and THERE'S the rub) video service, is that video exempt from the bandwidth limit? (What do they call that? Zero rating? So it's actual used bandwidth but it doesn't count against your monthly usage.) Ahh, so bandwidth sent thru their network and to you ISN'T much of a problem, but bandwidth from "foreign sites" is.
I'm sorry, pipes are pipes, but there's a trick -- the internal connection to your system might be nice and fast, but it's the interconnects to the outside world -- everyone else -- that they want to limit. Like the new definition of a portal, the more they keep your packets inside of their networks, the more money they can extract from you. The more you use them to transition away, the less they earn AND they (ISPs) even have to pay for that privilege for their customers. (Think CompuServe or AOL. Stay connected to our computers here, don't go out THERE. You can, but don't. Please?)
assuming they wouldn't pay me back and I would take a 100% loss. If they do end up paying me back, that's a bonus.
YES. That's exacly the way to do it -- that way, you keep your friends. Otherwise if you're actually expecting them to pay you back and they don't, it'll tarnish your friendship. Just make sure they don't start avoiding YOU if they can't pay you back and they feel bad about it.
OTOH, don't be a sucker, either. Or if you insist, lend ME some money -- I'll pay it back to you Any Day Now.
Pai will have to recuse himself
He's a lawyer -- like he's going to let that happen.
Santa Clara Fire paid Verizon for "unlimited" data but suffered from heavy throttling until the department paid Verizon more
That's a really nice fire you've got there, shame if something were to happen to it.
Wait, WHAT? You want it to go out? Juuust a minute then.
Get off your fucking high horse already. No one died and made you king
Maybe they did. Maybe he killed them in a game and so he's king there. Maybe he killed them in a game and so he's king HERE. Maybe he really IS the king right now. OMG I'M STUCK IN A COMPUTER GAME, SOMEONE GET ME OUT.
Oh, wait, I'm a NPC; that won't work, will it? Never mind.
First. World. Problems: We no longer waste paper to print archaic Mathematical tables
Whining that we don't have rotary telephones? Black and White televisions?
Morse Code. Kids today with their smart phones and texting. Emoticons? BAH! Back in my day we had Morse Code, where you learned how to read. We didn't need no stinkin' Egyptian Hieroglyphics.
... but it is being taught to those needing special radio skills"
Oh, and I heard about competitions between operators, where they would listen to the incoming text but delay writing down the message as long as possible, to see which one has the best operating short-term memory. Oh, never mind the bits coming in at insane speeds.
"Morse Code isn't being taught to radio operators in the Army
I also got rid of [everything]. A small server does all that now.
BACKUP. At least the unique stuff that you don't want to lose, anyway.
Egypt Fights Terrorism By Censoring Web Sites, Threatening Jail Time For Accessing Them
INFORMATION wants to be free!
Apparently you do not wish the same.
So you have:
I'm sure there are other lists out there (Holy Bible, Mein Kampf, others.) My, there's a lot of naughty ideas out there. OTOH if you're actively promoting violence ("let's kill all of the bastards at noon tomorrow in the city") that's a little different.
The bazaar of ideas shouldn't exchange books and paper for bullets and knives. And it doesn't, only marginalized PEOPLE do. Maybe there's a reason you're marginalized. Maybe there's not. But I suspect it's much easier to become that way if you've got "nothing else to lose" and "the bastards are going to hear me now!"
""unskippable" ads? NO.
Perhaps a very short skippable ad for a related show AT THE END of a season, especially at the end of an entire series. Yeah, that, maybe. "You liked this? Here's something similar." NOT random, similar.
If you start acting like cable TV, you'll end up just LIKE cable TV.
"That's a nice business I've got here, shame if something were to happen to it." I never realized the owner could do it to themselves. Dr Strangelove's hand at the end, I guess.
I can also confirm it [Ethics] was a worthless class
Underwater basket-weaving is more important and useful than an Ethics class.
... .") And SURPRISE: Not Every Single Thing You Do is Earth-shattering, either.
You might not have seen everything yet (believe it or not for a 20 yo), but you should have picked up what's right and wrong from your parents years and years ago. Even a well-taught Ethics class would generate a "Sucks to be you" response.
Either you try to do the "golden rule/right thing" by other people even far far down the chain, or you don't. Sometimes they'll agree with you, sometimes they won't. Sometimes they'd disagree with you because they don't know all of the issues. ("Sometimes you'll feel like a nut,
With Google China: is it better to give them easy access to locate some data, or not? Their leaders must think so (and also want to hide "uneventful" items.) Europe wants to hide old "eventful" items with the "Right to Be Forgotten." I disagree with the latter - if it's true, if it happens, it should be findable, a minute or a century old. Now if it's false (and proved to a court I guess) then the target article won't be there to start with or will have a correction, and so either Google will forget about it too or will have both items.
I don't know if Google China is ethical or not. Sorry, I didn't realize Google (or anyone) is in the ethics business. If they at least break-even and keep customers, they'll survive. If not, they won't. PEOPLE are ethical at best, I think companies only have ethical tenancies because of that. Just wait until Manna comes around.
All of the billionaires apparently have hidey-holes in New Zealand -- I wonder how ethical they'll all be. (Actually, I'd expect a lot initially -- they're all peers and equals or they wouldn't be there. Ethics will wake up once one of them is sick or wounded.)
Sometimes when you need stuff, you need stuff, but it's an edge case.
Damn, you need that many razor-blades? How fast does your beard grow, anyway?
Mine grows like I have low-T but you must have max-T.
I cannot stress enough that there is a middle ground,
Jesus Christ, a well-reasoned, insightful comment -- from under what rock did YOU come crawl out from?
... my adrenaline high is fading away just thinking about it.
We don't want your kind here, either you're WITH us or your AGAINST us. Thinking there's a middle ground for everybody to stand on. (Walks away) Ridiculous
Then gender studies would be a free degree, if I understand the logic that started this thread. Seems fair.
Really?!? That's great! I already spend hours studying the opposite-sex gender, and now you'll pay for my subscription for PornHub? Cool!!
And if I might be so bold, I'd like to point out some fetish sites.
85 percent of Americans need to think more. Or some. Or any.
But it's easier to let someone else do it for you. Kinda like outsourcing your critical data into the cloud, where it's all backed up and secure (you hope) and available for anyone to use. (you hope NOT.)
Do you have stairs in your house?
I am protected.
Ever seen Doctor Who's Daleks -- The New Generation? Link
And don't tell me Siri hasn't noticed companies selling drones, Rooba's, and duct tape.
this control becomes "deadened," such that accidentally pulling it in space would do nothing.
Cool, the whole thing looks neat. Too bad I'll never get to ride in it, as a pilot OR a passenger. (Well, maybe ashes, but I doubt I'd pass the fitness exam even then.)
... "
That being said: After a successful launch and orbit insertion -- Musk: "Here, hold my beer and watch this! You just need to pull and turn it the other way and
Problem is, you can't legally broadcast on any of the WWV frequencies. And rightly so
Agree. Broadcasting on frequencies 2.5Mh, 5Mh, 10Mh, etc would bring the wrath of the FCC down on you. They're not for general public use.
HOWEVER: if those frequencies are suddenly unused by the government, I wouldn't mind having a small transmitter in the house on those freqs that would feed time to all of the radio clocks I currently have. A raspberry Pi, a GPS receiver module, and a pirate radio broadcasting signal sounds just about right. I'm not trying to reach the other side of the world or the country, I'm trying to reach the other side of the house -- no linear amplifiers needed. (Well, maybe if I got a much larger house.)
planning to vote for the opponent to simply stay home thinking the election has already been decided
OH -- you mean for national elections, not local. Yeah, Hawaii's always been screwed with that. Hours before their polls even close "the election's already been decided" by the mainland, and has been that way for years (decades.) I wonder why they bother to vote at all.
Until ALL polling stations close the shouldn't report early results or guestimates. That wouldn't fly though, all the newscasters would all have heads, bladders, or lungs exploded by then from them holding it in for so long
HEY, WAIT......
7 years of data to look forward to. ... The data from this probe will help tell the tale, if there are any of us left to crunch it.
Trump will be the 'last president'. Michael Moore, is that you?
by deviated_prevert. Yep, it is.
Over a decade ago I remember an article where ARPA? DoD? (someone with the resources and interest to do this) created a special limited CPU chip with "problems" and undocumented features. They gave them to different companies, and had their techs test to see if they could locate the problems.
I understand one was a root-escalation feature, and there were supposedly many others. The point was to see how many could be discovered by "the tech community" -- I presume they military was trying to figure out their exposure to the CPUs that THEY were getting. (see initial fight in Battlestar Galactica TNG where the human fleets are remotely shut down.)
Many ... people who have otherwise made video games a major part of their lives ... wouldn't have been inspired to take that path if it wasn't for ROMs.
What!? They might have bumped across it anyway, or anyway they'll find something else to do. Maybe they'll like the new thing more, or maybe less.
Poor or non-western country. Yep. And I'm not going to be in SpaceXs space tourism stuff, either. Sucks to be poor and poorer. (Not that I'm either. I'm pretty sure that most (all?) of us in the US are in the top 10% of the world, if not 1%.) Worrying about how many genders there are is MUCH much easier when you have clean water, good food, are healthy, warm and safe than when you're literally dying from thrust and hunger in the rain.
Entire chapters of video game history would be lost if ROMs and emulation didn't preserve games where publishers failed to.
That's nice. Entire chapters of human history have been lost before, this won't be the first and won't be the last. News, 1 day ago: "Archaeologists fear biblical artifacts, monuments won't survive Yemen war." OH NOES, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game won't be around noes mores! Oh the humanity majors!
I have unpaid for copies of Nintendo ROMs. I'm literally looking at a video game console: Space Duel. Not a ROM dump -- a real, actual, physical, original working console. A friend of mine owns Joust in somehow like-new condition. I have a "licensed" copy of PacMan for the PC and an unlicensed one for a PC emulator. I'm sorry the sites are gone as well, but each "individual game template" IS theirs. And at least USED to, they don't have the reach to be everywhere in the world at once, or profits to even want to bother. Want to help them with that? Become a distributor.
It's culture only because we made it so (and probably addictive as well), but someone else does actually own it. (Depending on copyright and length of time maybe they shouldn't anymore, but that's a different argument.) Taken any aspirin? Used a Xerox lately? Seen a talking Mouse? Used your Clout recently? (That came from Visa 20 years ago; I still remember their commercials using it.) Language is easier to get away things than with physical (logical) objects -- especially if they can FIND you.
"But Information wants to be free." So what's your bank account number and mothers maiden name again? I'll be right back.
It includes a high-powered, moon pie-shaped computer called the Lightpack.
But it's only visible once you have them on.
The Goggles -- they do nothing