In 2011, Erdoan ordered the tearing-down of the Statue of Humanity, a Turkish-Armenian friendship monument in Kars, which was commissioned in 2006 and represented a metaphor of the rapprochement of the two countries after many years of dispute over the events of 1915. Erdoan justified the removal by stating that the monument was offensively close to the tomb of an 11th-century Islamic scholar,
Here's the hard truth about the music industry's "war on piracy". It's not about piracy, it's about killing the indie scene so the incumbent labels are the only source for music. It's purely anti-competitive, full-stop.
So really, by downloading big label movies, you are sort of like a freedom fighter. Fighting for the poor helpless indie labels.
If big-label media wasn't listed on torrent sites, big label media wouldn't care. That, and there are many, MANY outlets for indie musicians to distribute their music that are much better than a crappy malware-ridden torrent site.
When you were sucking at mommy's breast until you were 14, no one told you there might be people in this world that might disagree with you huh? Must be hard for you.
I am willing to pay money to watch TV without ads...or if I don't want to pay I am willing to watch TV for free with ads. I will not pay money for TV and watch ads...
Good. Pay for TY Red. No ads. Oops, what will you do with your outrage now?
I don't care who anybody blames, the user did it to themselves when they gave up control of their devices.
How do you expect YT to keep the lights on if everyone just consumes the content without watching ads (or paying for Red?). Oh, I got it. YOU want to take the content without compensating, and leech of the people that do support the site.
Brilliant plan! As long as there are suckers like me that pay for the content, you are golden.
and YouTube decided that having their content, plus ads, was more important than sticking to their guns and offering their customers (the people who actually pay money for the service) an ads-free experience.
So true. Youtube ought to stick to their guns and provide you with free services and receive no compensation. It's basically free to run the data centers and pay the engineers that support Youtube anyway. Assholes.
On that topic, team building events. I generally enjoy all my coworkers, but after spending 8-10 hours a day with them, the last thing I want to do for relaxation spend MORE time with them.
This seems to happen whenever an OSS project goes mainstream and someone decides they want to be "respected" by the evil jerks who created the situation that led to the OSS project being created in the first place.
I think what you meant is that the devs get tired of toiling in poverty. They are (rightly) discovering that to get paid for their work they need to have some semblance of legitimacy. What have they got to lose?
Now you spend $400 on a console that has 6 separate models
2 models.
your version might not play the game without long-ass load times
No evidence of that.
so you have to spend $600 more for the new one
They have not released the price of Scorpio. I doubt it'll be $600. And if you are happy with your current console running 1080p60, great.
Then they make it modular, so you have to keep buying RAM and GPU modules to upgrade for $200 every several months.
No, they aren't doing that.
The console also eats 245W of power, so playing for 4 hours per day is like an extra 15% on your electricity bill.
That's the console's fault? If you want better performance, the power requirement is higher. If you don't, stick with a lesser performing console. P.S., 245W is very reasonable for a gaming setup.
You seem to be implying that makes you have some sort of inside knowledge, but it's quite the opposite. How subjective are you to how normal people view and perceive VR when it's your job day in and out?
It will see wide use in arcades, architecture visualization etc. The tracking tech itself will go on to see use in many industries. Think Lighthouse guided Roombas, etc
So everything other than the use case we are discussing here: console gaming?
It's different because you can work in your pajamas if you want to
There are plenty of dev jobs where you can wear whatever you want. I wear sweats or shorts and t-shirts / hoodies to work every day. I doubt I'm inline for any promotion to upper management, but I'm comfortable. I'm sure I could wear pajamas if I wanted.
hackathons for my company. The people that win come in with a pre-built solution of some sort, and then do some thin integration with whatever the sponsor is pushing. They carry that same solution around to every hackathon and use it over and over again. The idea that people come in with a blank slate and pull ideas out of their ass then write 10k lines of code to back it up is false. It's much less impressive than you might think looking at it from the outside.
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What's the specific lesson that's so important here?
Did I say there was a lesson? Of course you are assuming I'm making so anti-Turk or pro-Armenian statement. I'm not.
The so-called "cliche" phrase we are talking about means this: don't do the same stupid shit repeatedly. I learned that when I was around 4 years old.
Stop blaming the bow and take responsibility for your actions.
Does it change things if I'm drunk while shooting the bow? I think it does.
If you can stop a missile with a bullet, do it!
Or, if you can stop a bullet with the largest non-nuclear armament ever deployed in combat, do it!
One side can kill the other without facing death themselves
The men that make decisions regarding war have always been able to do so without facing death themselves. Nothing new here.
Digging up historical grievances helps no one.
Ahem.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
It has nothing to do with them being Muslims
Are you sure?
In 2011, Erdoan ordered the tearing-down of the Statue of Humanity, a Turkish-Armenian friendship monument in Kars, which was commissioned in 2006 and represented a metaphor of the rapprochement of the two countries after many years of dispute over the events of 1915. Erdoan justified the removal by stating that the monument was offensively close to the tomb of an 11th-century Islamic scholar,
Here's the hard truth about the music industry's "war on piracy". It's not about piracy, it's about killing the indie scene so the incumbent labels are the only source for music. It's purely anti-competitive, full-stop.
So really, by downloading big label movies, you are sort of like a freedom fighter. Fighting for the poor helpless indie labels.
If big-label media wasn't listed on torrent sites, big label media wouldn't care. That, and there are many, MANY outlets for indie musicians to distribute their music that are much better than a crappy malware-ridden torrent site.
When you were sucking at mommy's breast until you were 14, no one told you there might be people in this world that might disagree with you huh? Must be hard for you.
I am willing to pay money to watch TV without ads...or if I don't want to pay I am willing to watch TV for free with ads. I will not pay money for TV and watch ads...
Good. Pay for TY Red. No ads. Oops, what will you do with your outrage now?
I don't care who anybody blames, the user did it to themselves when they gave up control of their devices.
How do you expect YT to keep the lights on if everyone just consumes the content without watching ads (or paying for Red?). Oh, I got it. YOU want to take the content without compensating, and leech of the people that do support the site.
Brilliant plan! As long as there are suckers like me that pay for the content, you are golden.
and YouTube decided that having their content, plus ads, was more important than sticking to their guns and offering their customers (the people who actually pay money for the service) an ads-free experience.
So true. Youtube ought to stick to their guns and provide you with free services and receive no compensation. It's basically free to run the data centers and pay the engineers that support Youtube anyway. Assholes.
Pros: potentially higher productivity
Cons: actually lower productivity.
Integral to working from home are collaboration tools
You know the absolute best collaboration tool? Turning your head and speaking.
On that topic, team building events. I generally enjoy all my coworkers, but after spending 8-10 hours a day with them, the last thing I want to do for relaxation spend MORE time with them.
I say what I mean.
Okay, then you were just wrong then. My mistake.
This seems to happen whenever an OSS project goes mainstream and someone decides they want to be "respected" by the evil jerks who created the situation that led to the OSS project being created in the first place.
I think what you meant is that the devs get tired of toiling in poverty. They are (rightly) discovering that to get paid for their work they need to have some semblance of legitimacy. What have they got to lose?
What does using a (binary) plugin or not got to do with open source?
it isn't even worth it to me to bother commenting in these stories any more.
Yet you manage to show up with multiple comments in every thread I read here. Interesting.
The Year of the Linux Entertainment System(tm).
Now you spend $400 on a console that has 6 separate models
2 models.
your version might not play the game without long-ass load times
No evidence of that.
so you have to spend $600 more for the new one
They have not released the price of Scorpio. I doubt it'll be $600. And if you are happy with your current console running 1080p60, great.
Then they make it modular, so you have to keep buying RAM and GPU modules to upgrade for $200 every several months.
No, they aren't doing that.
The console also eats 245W of power, so playing for 4 hours per day is like an extra 15% on your electricity bill.
That's the console's fault? If you want better performance, the power requirement is higher. If you don't, stick with a lesser performing console. P.S., 245W is very reasonable for a gaming setup.
Then the console idles at 30W all the time
Try turning it off.
But your ASSumption is wrong.
Oh I see what you did there! What are you like 6 years old?
VR dev checking in.
You seem to be implying that makes you have some sort of inside knowledge, but it's quite the opposite. How subjective are you to how normal people view and perceive VR when it's your job day in and out?
It will see wide use in arcades, architecture visualization etc. The tracking tech itself will go on to see use in many industries. Think Lighthouse guided Roombas, etc
So everything other than the use case we are discussing here: console gaming?
It's different because you can work in your pajamas if you want to
There are plenty of dev jobs where you can wear whatever you want. I wear sweats or shorts and t-shirts / hoodies to work every day. I doubt I'm inline for any promotion to upper management, but I'm comfortable. I'm sure I could wear pajamas if I wanted.
hackathons for my company. The people that win come in with a pre-built solution of some sort, and then do some thin integration with whatever the sponsor is pushing. They carry that same solution around to every hackathon and use it over and over again. The idea that people come in with a blank slate and pull ideas out of their ass then write 10k lines of code to back it up is false. It's much less impressive than you might think looking at it from the outside.
A 65" screen with a soundbar does not equal a Home Theater.
There's no spec sheet for a home theater, it's whatever someone is happy with. My 65" TV and 2.1 soundbar are more than adequate.