Did you read the fucking comment, or just zoom in on a word and start mouthing off? The programs MUST go through a certification process that will catch most of the bugs, and the SHA-1 hash is to ensure that the code remains the same. So the benefit from creating casion-biased bugs is probably less than the potential cost of getting caught.... so yeah, when you hit that "reply" button in the future, actually read the fucking comment instead of just scanning for keywords, ok?
I doubt there are that many, largely because it would be pretty stupid to risk losing your license to operate a machine that, simply by the laws of probability, will almost make money. In the places where these things operate they usually have to undergo some pretty stringent testing to make sure the odds of winning are as close to "real" poker as possible. TFA even mentions them undergoing random spot inspections where they take a SHA-1 hash of the machine data and compare it with what is registered....
The rich benefit disproportionately from taxes, and thus should pay an amount proportionate to the benefit they get, which currently they do not do, they pay waaaaaaaay too little compared to what they are getting in return.
Then you haven't been very many places in Europe. There are lots of places in rural Bavaria where the closest store is over 10 km away and having a car(esp. in the winter) is basically a necessity. Now as a % it's must less than the US, but it's certainly not 0.
Only Americans would hire people based on age, fashion, looks, basically anything but real skill. I'm glad I don't live in that hell-hole.
You are a complete moron who fails to understand human beings(here's a hint dumbshit, Europeans are even more formal than Americans). People judge eachother on age, fashion, and looks pretty much wherever there are people. But don't let the facts get in the way of your self-righteousness.
Your plan has but one flaw, unfortunately now that Samuel L. Jackson has decided to become a silicon valley entrepreneur(kickyourmotherfuckingass.com), those poor snakes don't stand a chance.
Yes I know that I should have used the plural form of the verb since the subject was plural, but I intentionally used the exact same format as the original article to prove my point... You know this wacky thing called "communication". You should try it sometime.
Cost is only part of the equation though, you also have to factor in the impact any new construction will have on existing traffic. Infrastructure often becomes a victim of it's own success, these bridges aren't decaying because nobody uses them, they are decaying because they are being used all the time. Closing a bridge, even temporarily, will cause a massive amount of havoc so even if you had the funds, there is a huge disincentive to upgrade the infrastructure(usually until it's too late).
Unfortunately when it comes to physical infrastructure, redundancy is often just not possible.
Even then that might not necessarily prove anything(it might not even prove that the problem is in the US). They didn't post any tracking data(if they had any), so it's incredibly difficult to pinpoint exactly where the holdup was. For instance the hold-up could have been customs(Either on the German side or the US side), and shipping with a different carrier might mean that it goes through a different customs office which could skew the data. An interesting experiment, but their lack of rigor does not really lend a whole lot of creedance to their conclusion(and explicitly fingering USPS is certainly not warranted given the evidence they have presented).
The authors biggest complaint about OAuth is that it doesn't do what it was never designed to do....and this is a problem because....? It was never designed for enterprise-level permissions management(there are plenty of other solutions for that). And his solution(copying and pasting tokens) is worse than the disease. It would be easier to go phishing with copied and pasted tokens than it is with OAuth where the login is automatic and tokens/applications can be revoked by the site that manages the account....
I think someone is just bitter and decided to take it out on a protocol.
Yeah, except for the fact that Windows, esp. Windows server never "worked", so your point is moot. Linux, aside from the GUI, is as stable as stable can get, try getting uptime measured in years on a Windows box.
Can't speak for Icaza but for me personally, the trend towards making the Linux desktop "easier to use" has had me running away from the platform as a Desktop.... the problem is if you are going to make a GUI(and as a result make command line configuration more difficult), that GUI better damn well work. And at least with the desktop managers I have tried, it doesn't. So I find myself constantly trying to figure out what they changed from the previous version(that isn't working in the current version), and of course constantly changing where things are located etc. doesn't help.
If you are going to change the desktop experience in order to make it "easier to use", you damn well better get it right, or else not only do you fail to capture a new audience, you end up alienating the current user base. That seems to be what Gnome has done.
For me personally I develop on a mac, and run my test and prod on Linux(I've tried OS X as a server, and ironically it seems to suffer the same problems as a server as Linux does as a Desktop, they tried to make it "easier to use", but didn't get the abstraction right and the result is a mess).
I was recently put in the unfortunate position of having to develop a PHP app, and I tried doing everything on Fedora 18 with Gnome, and.... that was just plain frustrating. The installer tried to be "easy to use", but often failed, the system got stuck in reboot but I couldn't figure out what service was failing because I couldn't get it to not show that stupid startup animation and instead show me the boot log etc. Eventually I got the machine booted and then just ssh into it from my Mac, much less frustrating.
Bottom line: don't make Linux "easier to use" by breaking a bunch of shit.
The markedly weaker yen(which has dropped about 20% against the dollar so far this year) is probably also playing into the decision. Most commodities are still priced in dollars meaning that the cost to the consumer, in yen, is increasing quite rapidly thus increasing the political pressure to bring energy costs down. The simplest way to do that is to restart the nuke plants....
Thats not what the GP was implying(I think), his point, and it's a very good one, is that games are relatively stand-alone products, Game X and Game Y have very little effect on each other, even if they share an engine/assets. If Game Y decides to go with a new version of the engine, Game X can either upgrade or continue to function with the older version of the engine, so Y's decision to upgrade has basically 0 effect. However, in a company that say provides web services, the decision to change how the payment interface works can have an impact on every single other subsystem. These systems are much inter-connected and need some sort of centralized control meaning that Valve's system probably would not work nearly as well.
And much like Battletoads Groupon seemed really cool at first, only to get frustratingly difficult very quickly to the point that most people just gave up.
Is that really the only objection though? Up until photography painting really served 2 different(though sometimes overlapping) purposes:
1. A visual depiction of reality(or things that at the very least look relatively realistic), for example portraits etc.
2. As an artistic medium
Now if you really look at painting as being primarily about the former, then the argument could be made that photography really isn't a "skill", you point the camera at something and hit a button and poof, you have captured reality. To those people photography certainly requires much less skill than actually painting something. However if you consider (post-photography) painting as primarily an artistic medium, one in which you can express your thoughts then photography is art in the very same way painting is art. You are looking for the best way to frame your ideas using real objects as your medium.
Um, what do you think most of the people who sold the retailers those used games do with the money they get? I would imagine(though obviously hard data is hard to come buy) that the vast majority of them *gasp* buy new games with the cash, or just trade them in directly for a new game. You know, like basically every car dealership ever....
I never understood the obsession with introducing people to programming using a programming language. You basically cannot do anything "out of the box" without first covering a wide amount of topics(including storage, ie variables, types etc). This is enough to turn a large # of people off, so why not start with tools that allow you to write "programs" without having to worry about types, variables etc. we already have such tools, they are called sed and awk(and others) most of what your average Joe is going to want to "program" is some simple text parsing/ manipulation programs anyway, so why does he need to know what an "array" is or what an interpreter/compiler is. You can do some pretty amazing things with a couple of bash commands, why not start with them? Your average Joe can accomplish a lot more in 5 minutes of learning sed than he could by studying PERL, or worse, Python(shudder)
The other interesting stat to note on that page is the # of marriages is actually dropping as well, which probably at least partially explains the drop in divorce rates(correlation is necessary but not sufficient for causation blah blah blah), in 2000, there # of divorces was about 41% of the number of marriages, in 2010 it dipped down to 37%, as both the # of divorces and the number of marriages fell... and while there are obvious blips, that seems to be the trend.
The US isn't the only place that this is happening though. Italy and Japan which have the lowest and second lowest divorce rates in the G7, respectively, are also seeing large drops in the # of people getting married, and thus have the lowest and second lowest rates of getting married in the G7....and of course are also facing severe population shortages. As less and less cultural importance gets placed on marriage in the US, I think the divorce rates will continue to fall as fewer and fewer people rush into marriage imagining it will solve all of their problems.
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Did you read the fucking comment, or just zoom in on a word and start mouthing off? The programs MUST go through a certification process that will catch most of the bugs, and the SHA-1 hash is to ensure that the code remains the same. So the benefit from creating casion-biased bugs is probably less than the potential cost of getting caught.... so yeah, when you hit that "reply" button in the future, actually read the fucking comment instead of just scanning for keywords, ok?
I doubt there are that many, largely because it would be pretty stupid to risk losing your license to operate a machine that, simply by the laws of probability, will almost make money. In the places where these things operate they usually have to undergo some pretty stringent testing to make sure the odds of winning are as close to "real" poker as possible. TFA even mentions them undergoing random spot inspections where they take a SHA-1 hash of the machine data and compare it with what is registered....
The rich benefit disproportionately from taxes, and thus should pay an amount proportionate to the benefit they get, which currently they do not do, they pay waaaaaaaay too little compared to what they are getting in return.
Then you haven't been very many places in Europe. There are lots of places in rural Bavaria where the closest store is over 10 km away and having a car(esp. in the winter) is basically a necessity. Now as a % it's must less than the US, but it's certainly not 0.
Well considering their coat of arms they are probably used to getting trolled....
Only Americans would hire people based on age, fashion, looks, basically anything but real skill. I'm glad I don't live in that hell-hole.
You are a complete moron who fails to understand human beings(here's a hint dumbshit, Europeans are even more formal than Americans). People judge eachother on age, fashion, and looks pretty much wherever there are people. But don't let the facts get in the way of your self-righteousness.
You've never seen The Simpsons?
Your plan has but one flaw, unfortunately now that Samuel L. Jackson has decided to become a silicon valley entrepreneur(kickyourmotherfuckingass.com), those poor snakes don't stand a chance.
Yes I know that I should have used the plural form of the verb since the subject was plural, but I intentionally used the exact same format as the original article to prove my point... You know this wacky thing called "communication". You should try it sometime.
Has "Has X peaked?" articles peaked?
Cost is only part of the equation though, you also have to factor in the impact any new construction will have on existing traffic. Infrastructure often becomes a victim of it's own success, these bridges aren't decaying because nobody uses them, they are decaying because they are being used all the time. Closing a bridge, even temporarily, will cause a massive amount of havoc so even if you had the funds, there is a huge disincentive to upgrade the infrastructure(usually until it's too late).
Unfortunately when it comes to physical infrastructure, redundancy is often just not possible.
Even then that might not necessarily prove anything(it might not even prove that the problem is in the US). They didn't post any tracking data(if they had any), so it's incredibly difficult to pinpoint exactly where the holdup was. For instance the hold-up could have been customs(Either on the German side or the US side), and shipping with a different carrier might mean that it goes through a different customs office which could skew the data. An interesting experiment, but their lack of rigor does not really lend a whole lot of creedance to their conclusion(and explicitly fingering USPS is certainly not warranted given the evidence they have presented).
The authors biggest complaint about OAuth is that it doesn't do what it was never designed to do....and this is a problem because....? It was never designed for enterprise-level permissions management(there are plenty of other solutions for that). And his solution(copying and pasting tokens) is worse than the disease. It would be easier to go phishing with copied and pasted tokens than it is with OAuth where the login is automatic and tokens/applications can be revoked by the site that manages the account....
I think someone is just bitter and decided to take it out on a protocol.
You just push the button for a keyboard, hoping that it will fall on top of the mouse you wanted and dislodge it.
and yet they STILL won't let you carry on RC cars. Fascists.
Yeah, except for the fact that Windows, esp. Windows server never "worked", so your point is moot. Linux, aside from the GUI, is as stable as stable can get, try getting uptime measured in years on a Windows box.
Can't speak for Icaza but for me personally, the trend towards making the Linux desktop "easier to use" has had me running away from the platform as a Desktop.... the problem is if you are going to make a GUI(and as a result make command line configuration more difficult), that GUI better damn well work. And at least with the desktop managers I have tried, it doesn't. So I find myself constantly trying to figure out what they changed from the previous version(that isn't working in the current version), and of course constantly changing where things are located etc. doesn't help.
If you are going to change the desktop experience in order to make it "easier to use", you damn well better get it right, or else not only do you fail to capture a new audience, you end up alienating the current user base. That seems to be what Gnome has done.
For me personally I develop on a mac, and run my test and prod on Linux(I've tried OS X as a server, and ironically it seems to suffer the same problems as a server as Linux does as a Desktop, they tried to make it "easier to use", but didn't get the abstraction right and the result is a mess).
I was recently put in the unfortunate position of having to develop a PHP app, and I tried doing everything on Fedora 18 with Gnome, and.... that was just plain frustrating. The installer tried to be "easy to use", but often failed, the system got stuck in reboot but I couldn't figure out what service was failing because I couldn't get it to not show that stupid startup animation and instead show me the boot log etc. Eventually I got the machine booted and then just ssh into it from my Mac, much less frustrating.
Bottom line: don't make Linux "easier to use" by breaking a bunch of shit.
The markedly weaker yen(which has dropped about 20% against the dollar so far this year) is probably also playing into the decision. Most commodities are still priced in dollars meaning that the cost to the consumer, in yen, is increasing quite rapidly thus increasing the political pressure to bring energy costs down. The simplest way to do that is to restart the nuke plants....
Thats not what the GP was implying(I think), his point, and it's a very good one, is that games are relatively stand-alone products, Game X and Game Y have very little effect on each other, even if they share an engine/assets. If Game Y decides to go with a new version of the engine, Game X can either upgrade or continue to function with the older version of the engine, so Y's decision to upgrade has basically 0 effect. However, in a company that say provides web services, the decision to change how the payment interface works can have an impact on every single other subsystem. These systems are much inter-connected and need some sort of centralized control meaning that Valve's system probably would not work nearly as well.
And much like Battletoads Groupon seemed really cool at first, only to get frustratingly difficult very quickly to the point that most people just gave up.
Is that really the only objection though? Up until photography painting really served 2 different(though sometimes overlapping) purposes:
1. A visual depiction of reality(or things that at the very least look relatively realistic), for example portraits etc.
2. As an artistic medium
Now if you really look at painting as being primarily about the former, then the argument could be made that photography really isn't a "skill", you point the camera at something and hit a button and poof, you have captured reality. To those people photography certainly requires much less skill than actually painting something. However if you consider (post-photography) painting as primarily an artistic medium, one in which you can express your thoughts then photography is art in the very same way painting is art. You are looking for the best way to frame your ideas using real objects as your medium.
Um, what do you think most of the people who sold the retailers those used games do with the money they get? I would imagine(though obviously hard data is hard to come buy) that the vast majority of them *gasp* buy new games with the cash, or just trade them in directly for a new game. You know, like basically every car dealership ever....
I never understood the obsession with introducing people to programming using a programming language. You basically cannot do anything "out of the box" without first covering a wide amount of topics(including storage, ie variables, types etc). This is enough to turn a large # of people off, so why not start with tools that allow you to write "programs" without having to worry about types, variables etc. we already have such tools, they are called sed and awk(and others) most of what your average Joe is going to want to "program" is some simple text parsing/ manipulation programs anyway, so why does he need to know what an "array" is or what an interpreter/compiler is. You can do some pretty amazing things with a couple of bash commands, why not start with them? Your average Joe can accomplish a lot more in 5 minutes of learning sed than he could by studying PERL, or worse, Python(shudder)
The other interesting stat to note on that page is the # of marriages is actually dropping as well, which probably at least partially explains the drop in divorce rates(correlation is necessary but not sufficient for causation blah blah blah), in 2000, there # of divorces was about 41% of the number of marriages, in 2010 it dipped down to 37%, as both the # of divorces and the number of marriages fell... and while there are obvious blips, that seems to be the trend.
The US isn't the only place that this is happening though. Italy and Japan which have the lowest and second lowest divorce rates in the G7, respectively, are also seeing large drops in the # of people getting married, and thus have the lowest and second lowest rates of getting married in the G7....and of course are also facing severe population shortages. As less and less cultural importance gets placed on marriage in the US, I think the divorce rates will continue to fall as fewer and fewer people rush into marriage imagining it will solve all of their problems.
Some "Limited Edition", doesn't even come with a free Gordon Moore in battle uniform statue....