I think this question is similar to asking a film critic why action movies do sell well at the box office.
Before you ask "So, why is the current generation of games giving so much importance to the realism in graphic games?", you should first ask the question "So, why is the current generation of games giving so much importance to the average person rather than a gamer who can appreciate it in multiple facets?"
And of course, that question is easily answered. Market.
"Logically (most) lawyers don't like to repersent rapists (for example) but they will when paid.."
While I'm all for lawyer bashing because IANAL and there are plenty of anecdotes that will probably back up your views and mod mine down, let's be reasonable here.
"Logically", no one became a lawyer because they "like to represent rapists", but because they believe in the rule of law, or feel that everyone deserves a right to defend themselves in court.
So it's more like, "Lawyers don't like to represent rapists, but they will because they live in a society where the accused have rights no matter what the crime."
Addendum to rub some salt in the wound: it's represent, not repersent.
A friend of mine who worked IT for a firm that provided processing for insurance companies told me that he constantly took hard drives home and had ready access to lots more. Why?
Because there was a storeroom, completely filled with hard drives ranging back to 10gig ones. The company has a policy that formatting the hard drives aren't enough, they have to be put through a machine where the entire hard drive is basically ripped apart and turned into screw sized scrap metal. The cost of this is roughly $20 per hard drive (iirc). At some point, it became cheaper just to warehouse them then actually destroy them.
New hard drives that were to be destroyed then didn't have such a priority to be wiped. "Oh, just leave it there for now, we'll throw it in the room later." If it went missing, no one really cared.
I took one look at the article before I questioned the source. Then I looked at the top of the page and see "Why is religious belief seen as a private eccentricity?" This is one of those religious "news" sites used to promote homophobia, fud, and fear of all things that aren't godly. Go read the rest of the articles on "the independent" and see if you can tell when you started riding in their think tank.
Garbage news article posted by garbage poster who doesn't take any time to verify any information. Thanks for linking us OUTRAGEOUS article, you btard.
While I agree the original author should have taken 30 seconds to look up figures on Wikipedia, does it really matter? There's quite a difference between a quarter million and millions when you're talking about dollars, but human civilian lives?
"Once they work out how to do this without a dedicated signal analyzer and neural network processing, it's the end of MAC spoofing on wireless networks."
I'm glad the terminator is helping us on this one. Fuck the dedicated signal analyzer, all we need is the learning computer.
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I think this question is similar to asking a film critic why action movies do sell well at the box office.
Before you ask "So, why is the current generation of games giving so much importance to the realism in graphic games?", you should first ask the question "So, why is the current generation of games giving so much importance to the average person rather than a gamer who can appreciate it in multiple facets?"
And of course, that question is easily answered. Market.
"Logically (most) lawyers don't like to repersent rapists (for example) but they will when paid.."
While I'm all for lawyer bashing because IANAL and there are plenty of anecdotes that will probably back up your views and mod mine down, let's be reasonable here.
"Logically", no one became a lawyer because they "like to represent rapists", but because they believe in the rule of law, or feel that everyone deserves a right to defend themselves in court.
So it's more like, "Lawyers don't like to represent rapists, but they will because they live in a society where the accused have rights no matter what the crime."
Addendum to rub some salt in the wound: it's represent, not repersent.
With Alienware's prices, I often wonder who is the thief.
A friend of mine who worked IT for a firm that provided processing for insurance companies told me that he constantly took hard drives home and had ready access to lots more. Why? Because there was a storeroom, completely filled with hard drives ranging back to 10gig ones. The company has a policy that formatting the hard drives aren't enough, they have to be put through a machine where the entire hard drive is basically ripped apart and turned into screw sized scrap metal. The cost of this is roughly $20 per hard drive (iirc). At some point, it became cheaper just to warehouse them then actually destroy them. New hard drives that were to be destroyed then didn't have such a priority to be wiped. "Oh, just leave it there for now, we'll throw it in the room later." If it went missing, no one really cared.
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I took one look at the article before I questioned the source. Then I looked at the top of the page and see "Why is religious belief seen as a private eccentricity?" This is one of those religious "news" sites used to promote homophobia, fud, and fear of all things that aren't godly. Go read the rest of the articles on "the independent" and see if you can tell when you started riding in their think tank. Garbage news article posted by garbage poster who doesn't take any time to verify any information. Thanks for linking us OUTRAGEOUS article, you btard.
Just imagine one of these installed at a gym.
While I agree the original author should have taken 30 seconds to look up figures on Wikipedia, does it really matter? There's quite a difference between a quarter million and millions when you're talking about dollars, but human civilian lives?
"Once they work out how to do this without a dedicated signal analyzer and neural network processing, it's the end of MAC spoofing on wireless networks." I'm glad the terminator is helping us on this one. Fuck the dedicated signal analyzer, all we need is the learning computer.
"Heh" -Linus Torvalds 05 Oct 1991
I love him for that..
In the future, if you get mugged, you're walking home naked.