Car analogy: You're complaining the the engine management computer insists on doing its fuel map calculations before responding to the throttle.
No. Not at all. What he is saying (at least what I think he is saying) is the ECU is insisting on checking the electric signal to the headlights, verifying that the DRM for the disc in the in-dash entertainment system is functioning correctly, and verifying that the brakes are still working, before it can bother to respond to the silly user input of pushing the throttle.
Having brakes that work is important. Having headlights that work is important. Having DRM that works is important (to someone anyways)... however, none of that is important (even the brakes!) in relation to pushing the throttle. Just fucking accelerate damnit. Seriously.
In the case of the 'vortex' device you link to, the argument is essentially that ~$1 worth of stamped metal could markedly improve the performance and fuel economy of most vehicles without other notable modifications.
What is even funnier is that the swirling effect is indeed effective against detonation in the cylinder and is ALREADY implemented as a "gouge" in the piston head.
Maybe. Or maybe it's because Americans on average eat too much, get too little exercise, and have a healthcare system that's setup only to treat the rich.
It is just too easy to point to any problem as a failure in the moral behavior of a person and say that moral failure exists uniformly across an entire population. Go fuck yourself.:)
Even if the general public isn't learning from history, TPTB certainly are.
What is TPTB and what narrative do I need to be following to know what it is? The closest I could get was something about The Pirate Bay. The Pediatrics Tuberculosis? Toilet Paper and Trivial Broadcasters? I am at a loss here.
The US employer style seems to be burn out your employees, then discard them. Might work fine for low end jobs that require little training and investment. It may well be that most of these low training low end jobs will be taken over by robots and other automation in the future.
All jobs in America except management jobs and artistic jobs are low end jobs that pay meager wages. Everyone not doing one of those two jobs is easily replaceable and unimportant... well, except doctor and lawyer and even those guys are easily replaceable as long as they are not running their own practice.
It pains me to say this. He did indeed murder numerous innocent people but his intent was NOT to murder innocent people. His intent was to fight back against what he saw as an oppressive government. Characterizing it as purely murder is a lie of omission.
Note that what I am saying is not an agreement of his actual results. Killing even one innocent person is a crime, even if all 168 were not innocent in his eyes. He even acknowledged his mistake when he found out that there was a childcare center in the building. Yeah, well, there is no going back now. All of those innocent people are dead and not coming back.:/
Steam IS the DRM. Let's see you play those DRM-free games without Steam running. Can't? Oh, so Steam needs to be running and it must have an internet connection or else it will refuse to run. Offline mode? Sure. Go ahead and try to use offline mode while you are traveling. What is that? Steam won't start in offline mode? Oh my. Have fun with your DRM-free games that you can not play because Steam is not DRM.
(Yes, I travel a lot. Yes, your efforts at claiming that Steam is not DRM cause me to feel bitterness.)
Steam itself is not DRM. My library contains lots of DRM free games. On the other hand it also contains certain games which come with the same DRM as the boxed version. If you want to make a point buy the DRM free indie games on Steam and and don't buy the DRM ridden ones.
Lies lies lies. Steam itself *IS* DRM. Let's see you play those supposedly "no DRM" games without a fucking internet connection. Go ahead and say offline mode is an option. It is NOT. It is a temporary grace period while you get your connection fixed.
Morals are a mental disease. I have yet to see a set of morals that do not devolve into incoherence when fully examined. Humans will act the way humans will act regardless of any null-definition words that you attach to their motivations and actions. There is plenty of murder, rape, betrayal, and deception in this world performed by humans of all moralities. Morals do not indicate nor control these behaviors and actions.
Regardless, I was referring to good and bad, not good and evil. Hell, some animals will not even enter their estrus cycle without rape. D'oh! How does that fit into a world of good and evil? Shall we all just damage our brains and lose all coherence?
Look, I know you want to live in some little world where there's no DRM and everything is the same but it's just not.
It has nothing to do with "my little world" or what I would think to be a utopia.
Commerce is a two way street. You keep your DRM and I will keep my money and we will both be unhappy. You get rid of your DRM and I will get rid of my money and we will both be happy. I am fine with whatever choice you make. I am just trying to help you a bit since I absolutely love to play games and have plenty of money to spend on them.
DRM is required and the people who make decisions on this are not idiots, no matter how smug you are about it.
Look, if you can find a way to prevent someone from distributing copies without that method becoming a burden to me, I really would not care about your "DRM" and I would buy your game. As it stands now, the DRM is nasty, rude, and affects me in ways that I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MONEY for. I used to buy games once a crack was released for it but with the advent of the more evil DRM schemes, I just do not even bother.
I notice that the pirate versions are less hassle but I do not even bother. Fuck it. I will play Team Fortress 2 or Eve online where the DRM does not affect me. Yes, steam has an online requirement but TF2 is an online game so the DRM does not affect me in that case. See? Making an online requirement to a game that does not need to be online definitely bothers me so that is not a silver bullet to YOUR redistribution problem either. See Starcraft 2 for an example. I frequently have no net access (which means no TF2 or Eve).
All I am saying is that the current schemes to stop illegal redistribution suck for me, a legitimate customer. That means I am no longer a customer. There are plenty of people who are willing to pay for their own abuse. As long as they are around, I guess you will be able to make some money. I really do not care.
Wow. No one I've ever met has said, "I would make more but I'd just get taxed more." No one.
I have seen it a few times, but not in the context that you are thinking. Every time I have seen it is when someone is close to a tax bracket and a small increase in pay will move them to a higher tax bracket for a net increase of almost nothing... or less.
Hm. Why can't abortion and lead both have effects at the same time? Surely this is not an either/or situation except insofar as an aborted human can not be affected by lead.
So because management can treat employees like shit, they will. Sounds like a bunch of great people. What ever happened to just being a pleasant person? You know, the whole "do unto others" thing. Yes, I know, making that widget is all that counts in this world. It is after all how you put food on the table.
What a miserable existence. I would rather be dead.
When I drive in unknown conditions I will frequently oscillate the steering wheel and feel how much resistance there is. Less resistance suggests less grip. I'll also ease on to the brake pedal to see if I can induce ABS, to help me understand where the braking limit is.
It scares the hell out of me to be a passenger in a car in poor conditions where the driver is not constantly verifying control and conditions. I respect your driving methods deeply.
I might add that when you are driving a car that you are not familiar with, take it to an empty space and make yourself lose control and recover it a few times so you know how the car behaves in out of control conditions. Test out the various inputs (brake, gas, steering wheel) in various combinations while out of control. This should help to prevent losing control in an emergency situation. As an added bonus, it is VERY fun to do.:)
So... How about NOT offering technical support? Release it into the wild and say if you use it on Linux, you are on your own. We tested it on a default Slackware 12 install with an AMD video card using proprietary drivers and it worked. Everything else is up to you. Bug reports will only be accepted from a Slackware 12 install.
Dolphins rape each other, perfectly natural. Not good.
Yes, it *is* good. It is only not good for us humans in a civilized society. It is only not good if you value personal choice over the survival of the species. We have that luxury now.
He made more than $400,000 in profits from his illegal wiretapping.
Bingo! We have a winner here. 5 years for stealing (yes, stealing) $400k is not terribly unreasonable. That works out to about $80k a year. Definitely a reasonable salary.
Your characterization of the average American is appalling. Most families can not afford a BMW for a parent, much less a kid. Just about the wealthiest person in the world lives in India. Why not make the same claim about Indians whining about their parents not buying them a BMW?
Get a sense of perspective. Try living amongst the people you criticize before you criticize them. Just because YOU happen to be surrounded by very healthy economic circumstances, that does not mean most are.
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Without the need for jobs, why tolerate the existence of the unwashed masses?
Car analogy: You're complaining the the engine management computer insists on doing its fuel map calculations before responding to the throttle.
No. Not at all. What he is saying (at least what I think he is saying) is the ECU is insisting on checking the electric signal to the headlights, verifying that the DRM for the disc in the in-dash entertainment system is functioning correctly, and verifying that the brakes are still working, before it can bother to respond to the silly user input of pushing the throttle.
Having brakes that work is important. Having headlights that work is important. Having DRM that works is important (to someone anyways)... however, none of that is important (even the brakes!) in relation to pushing the throttle. Just fucking accelerate damnit. Seriously.
In the case of the 'vortex' device you link to, the argument is essentially that ~$1 worth of stamped metal could markedly improve the performance and fuel economy of most vehicles without other notable modifications.
What is even funnier is that the swirling effect is indeed effective against detonation in the cylinder and is ALREADY implemented as a "gouge" in the piston head.
Here is an example:
http://media.caranddriver.com/images/12q4/482258/2014-chevrolet-corvette-lt1-v-8-vvt-di-piston-head-assembly-photo-482395-s-1280x782.jpg
My piston heads look different but you can get the idea.
Maybe. Or maybe it's because Americans on average eat too much, get too little exercise, and have a healthcare system that's setup only to treat the rich.
It is just too easy to point to any problem as a failure in the moral behavior of a person and say that moral failure exists uniformly across an entire population. Go fuck yourself. :)
Even if the general public isn't learning from history, TPTB certainly are.
What is TPTB and what narrative do I need to be following to know what it is? The closest I could get was something about The Pirate Bay. The Pediatrics Tuberculosis? Toilet Paper and Trivial Broadcasters? I am at a loss here.
The US employer style seems to be burn out your employees, then discard them. Might work fine for low end jobs that require little training and investment. It may well be that most of these low training low end jobs will be taken over by robots and other automation in the future.
All jobs in America except management jobs and artistic jobs are low end jobs that pay meager wages. Everyone not doing one of those two jobs is easily replaceable and unimportant... well, except doctor and lawyer and even those guys are easily replaceable as long as they are not running their own practice.
It pains me to say this. He did indeed murder numerous innocent people but his intent was NOT to murder innocent people. His intent was to fight back against what he saw as an oppressive government. Characterizing it as purely murder is a lie of omission.
Note that what I am saying is not an agreement of his actual results. Killing even one innocent person is a crime, even if all 168 were not innocent in his eyes. He even acknowledged his mistake when he found out that there was a childcare center in the building. Yeah, well, there is no going back now. All of those innocent people are dead and not coming back. :/
I have been noticing this a lot lately but I decided to offer this friendly little help to you:
depreciated is not the word you are wanting to use. The word that you actually want is deprecated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depreciation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation
Cheers :)
Unlikely. Microsoft sports a very aggressive corporate culture where if you don't use Microsoft for everything, you're "not a team player."
This would be a good idea if Microsoft would listen to the feedback from the employees. Think about how fucked up your processes are when the CEO himself complains and nothing changes: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/
Just batshit insane to have a culture of eating their own dog food when they will not listen to their own dogs talking about improvements.
Steam IS the DRM. Let's see you play those DRM-free games without Steam running. Can't? Oh, so Steam needs to be running and it must have an internet connection or else it will refuse to run. Offline mode? Sure. Go ahead and try to use offline mode while you are traveling. What is that? Steam won't start in offline mode? Oh my. Have fun with your DRM-free games that you can not play because Steam is not DRM.
(Yes, I travel a lot. Yes, your efforts at claiming that Steam is not DRM cause me to feel bitterness.)
Steam itself is not DRM. My library contains lots of DRM free games. On the other hand it also contains certain games which come with the same DRM as the boxed version. If you want to make a point buy the DRM free indie games on Steam and and don't buy the DRM ridden ones.
Lies lies lies. Steam itself *IS* DRM. Let's see you play those supposedly "no DRM" games without a fucking internet connection. Go ahead and say offline mode is an option. It is NOT. It is a temporary grace period while you get your connection fixed.
Steam itself IS DRM.
Morals are a mental disease. I have yet to see a set of morals that do not devolve into incoherence when fully examined. Humans will act the way humans will act regardless of any null-definition words that you attach to their motivations and actions. There is plenty of murder, rape, betrayal, and deception in this world performed by humans of all moralities. Morals do not indicate nor control these behaviors and actions.
Regardless, I was referring to good and bad, not good and evil. Hell, some animals will not even enter their estrus cycle without rape. D'oh! How does that fit into a world of good and evil? Shall we all just damage our brains and lose all coherence?
Look, I know you want to live in some little world where there's no DRM and everything is the same but it's just not.
It has nothing to do with "my little world" or what I would think to be a utopia.
Commerce is a two way street. You keep your DRM and I will keep my money and we will both be unhappy. You get rid of your DRM and I will get rid of my money and we will both be happy. I am fine with whatever choice you make. I am just trying to help you a bit since I absolutely love to play games and have plenty of money to spend on them.
DRM is required and the people who make decisions on this are not idiots, no matter how smug you are about it.
Look, if you can find a way to prevent someone from distributing copies without that method becoming a burden to me, I really would not care about your "DRM" and I would buy your game. As it stands now, the DRM is nasty, rude, and affects me in ways that I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MONEY for. I used to buy games once a crack was released for it but with the advent of the more evil DRM schemes, I just do not even bother.
I notice that the pirate versions are less hassle but I do not even bother. Fuck it. I will play Team Fortress 2 or Eve online where the DRM does not affect me. Yes, steam has an online requirement but TF2 is an online game so the DRM does not affect me in that case. See? Making an online requirement to a game that does not need to be online definitely bothers me so that is not a silver bullet to YOUR redistribution problem either. See Starcraft 2 for an example. I frequently have no net access (which means no TF2 or Eve).
All I am saying is that the current schemes to stop illegal redistribution suck for me, a legitimate customer. That means I am no longer a customer. There are plenty of people who are willing to pay for their own abuse. As long as they are around, I guess you will be able to make some money. I really do not care.
Wow. No one I've ever met has said, "I would make more but I'd just get taxed more." No one.
I have seen it a few times, but not in the context that you are thinking. Every time I have seen it is when someone is close to a tax bracket and a small increase in pay will move them to a higher tax bracket for a net increase of almost nothing... or less.
Hm. Why can't abortion and lead both have effects at the same time? Surely this is not an either/or situation except insofar as an aborted human can not be affected by lead.
So because management can treat employees like shit, they will. Sounds like a bunch of great people. What ever happened to just being a pleasant person? You know, the whole "do unto others" thing. Yes, I know, making that widget is all that counts in this world. It is after all how you put food on the table.
What a miserable existence. I would rather be dead.
When I drive in unknown conditions I will frequently oscillate the steering wheel and feel how much resistance there is. Less resistance suggests less grip. I'll also ease on to the brake pedal to see if I can induce ABS, to help me understand where the braking limit is.
It scares the hell out of me to be a passenger in a car in poor conditions where the driver is not constantly verifying control and conditions. I respect your driving methods deeply.
I might add that when you are driving a car that you are not familiar with, take it to an empty space and make yourself lose control and recover it a few times so you know how the car behaves in out of control conditions. Test out the various inputs (brake, gas, steering wheel) in various combinations while out of control. This should help to prevent losing control in an emergency situation. As an added bonus, it is VERY fun to do. :)
It creates jobs and gives every red-blooded male an excuse to double his tool collection
I have news for you: Every red blooded American male already has metric tools in his tool set. :)
In the west, we use Arabic numerals
Want to hear something funny? Arabs do not use Arabic numerals. Would that be considered irony? :)
The only thing that I can find that is close to the parents description is this:
http://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2005/03_01_2005/story03.htm
So... How about NOT offering technical support? Release it into the wild and say if you use it on Linux, you are on your own. We tested it on a default Slackware 12 install with an AMD video card using proprietary drivers and it worked. Everything else is up to you. Bug reports will only be accepted from a Slackware 12 install.
Dolphins rape each other, perfectly natural. Not good.
Yes, it *is* good. It is only not good for us humans in a civilized society. It is only not good if you value personal choice over the survival of the species. We have that luxury now.
Engineers are fungible. Lay them off when you do not need them and hire new ones when you do. What could possibly go wrong?
Signed,
MBA
He made more than $400,000 in profits from his illegal wiretapping.
Bingo! We have a winner here. 5 years for stealing (yes, stealing) $400k is not terribly unreasonable. That works out to about $80k a year. Definitely a reasonable salary.
Your "White Whine" is appalling.
Your characterization of the average American is appalling. Most families can not afford a BMW for a parent, much less a kid. Just about the wealthiest person in the world lives in India. Why not make the same claim about Indians whining about their parents not buying them a BMW?
Get a sense of perspective. Try living amongst the people you criticize before you criticize them. Just because YOU happen to be surrounded by very healthy economic circumstances, that does not mean most are.