The DHS is the worst idea to come out of Washington and that's a town that's pretty much only ever generated bad ideas. I'd rather be waterboarded than lift a finger to suport that particular government agency.
> Right. Which is exactly the sort of thing that engenders ill-will towards modders.
But what is the purpose of modding your console? If it's to allow them to cheat at online games, then I would argue that any ill-will is definitely earned.
I'm having a little trouble coming up with any other legitimate reason for modding.
IIR, Apple got rid of some legacy graphics support that those games needed to run (256-color mode, Rosetta support). I'd hate to blow $32 and have a bunch of games that were unplayable and eating up drive space.
If the Universe is a simulation, then it may be possible within our Universe to do the same thing.
Do we then owe it to our creations not to do some of the horrible things being done to us? War, Death, Famine, Disease, etc. If we do simulate those things and the beings we create are just as intelligent as us, it would seem that creating those same things in their Universe would make us as bad as the beings who are running the simulation for us.
We may not be able to influence our creator(s), but it seems like we could damn well make our own simulations far better than what we've been given.
So what, exactly, is linux to you? If you want a proprietary operating system with closed drivers, there are plenty. Bending over sideways for a paranoid corporation just to get high definition pornography in 3D on your notebook sounds like a real bad idea to me.
Depends on whether or not you want to further the mainstream adoption of Linux on the desktop by non-technical users.
Were I a corporation, this would be the point where I would determine that my development efforts for Linux have gone far enough until there is a high-enough percentage of usage to warrant further development.
Stop Bitching and complaining about every change in technology and get use to the the Damn thing.
I remember all the bitching and moaning about the Start Button when it was created. And now is is some God Sent UI that you can't live without.
If you get get Windows 8. you will figure it out shortly and you are back to normal.
Sure, but why should users put up with bad design? And why do we keep foisting it off on them?
The Windows 8 UI is good for touch devices, but is so completely the wrong metaphor for desktop that it's nigh unusable. The Windows 7 UI was good for desktops, but conversely, would be mostly wrong for touch devices.
Yet Microsoft insists on making everyone use the same UI for all devices, touch-enabled or not. It's a mistake that I think will teach them a very painful lesson - there is no One True User Interface.
Even Apple hasn't made that mistake and they've got the closest thing to a cross-platform unified UI that's available.
Why in the name of Oppenheimer did they fire the one guy who actually did his job, when everyone above and around him appeared to fail pretty seriously at theirs?
Admittedly, he didn't shoot anyone, which he was apparently entitled to do, but at the same time, he actually stopped any further mischief and was the only person (aside from the protesters) who didn't embarrass the whole nation.
It's a pity Joseph Heller isn't around to write his life story or something.
It's also your job to punish failure and merely "not re-electing" them is a pretty weak gesture, honestly.
These people ignored the law, destroyed the man's business, and handed the assets over to a foreign government who will never return them. How about I kick in your door in the middle of the night, steal all your assets and hand them over to the Chinese government and say it's punishment for all the slave labor that goes into producing half the goods you and your family use to survive?
Sorry, but I think it's time some people were very publicly named, shamed and imprisoned for not only their failure to follow the law, but the misinterpretation of it in the first place.
Public service is a privilege and the failure to properly exercise that privilege should, by definition, come with a higher punishment than standard crimes.
Seems I've been hearing that for the last month or so.
I keep expecting Mitt and Paul to get elected, then slip out of their disguises as Kang and Kodos.
I for one... ah, bugger it.
I think Kang and Kodos had more definite plans than these jokers.
It's like the Romney campaign read The Complete Opposite Of Getting Elected. They're politicians, I get that - a politician who doesn't leave himself room to maneuver gets eaten alive when the wind changes. But these guys are bringing new meaning to the word "vague".
...and it could just as easily be a case where the FBI requested this list from Blue Toad, or Blue Toad submitted this list as part of an investigation. All we know now is where the data likely originated -- which is precisely where everyone assumed it originated anyway (a single developer list).
It could also be that the developer got hacked w/o being involved with the FBI in any way, prior to the attack.
Which, on the whole, is a lot simpler explanation than a conspiracy theory.
Hawala works because it occurs inside a cultural and religious system that has strong penalties for not following thru. Bitcoin exchanges don't work because it's mainly run by a bunch of people who are completely against any oversight. They expect their word and their technical expertise to be the bond, without an ovarching cultural/religious framework to validate it.
Enron would have been very different if the perpetrators could have lost appendages for their malfeasance.
You should probably also mention that we're still in early iterations of tablet design and functionality - just as the laptop today is a supercomputer compared to early laptops, the tablets of the future will resemble nothing we use today (except maybe form factor).
Aside from just totally going out of business, Joyent has a commitment to honor. If we don't start holding companies to their word, they will walk all over us worse than they already do.
It may sound anti-business, but it's more "don't write checks your wallet can't cash". AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have all pulled that bullshit, as well as countless other companies and then weaseled out of it in the name of marketing, once they got their customers. Consumers may not be able to hold their feet to the fire, but we can damn well make sure we minimize the number of companies that try to pull marketing scams like that to get customers.
Besides, $500 is $500 and thats no small amount of money in these economic times.
They refuse to aggressively upgrade their infrastructure and instead pay their execs and shareholders with the money they could use to generate even more profits in the future.
I hope Google smashes them and I hope it's bloody and painful.
I've been considering that. Polo shirt w/cargo pants (darker, rather than lighter) is probably the easiest solution that bridges the gap. If you need to dress up more, just keep an pressed Oxford shirt handy and you should be good.
It's not just the crappy GM - I did read up on the system ahead of time.
My major issue is that, philosophically, the game pushes players into roles (tank, dps, healer) which is the same explicitly-stated breakdown as an MMO. The designers want to pigeonhole players into neat little boxes and the everything about 4th Ed follows from that standpoint. To me, it feels like an MMO on paper.
I also have a huge problem with the moneygrabbing aspect of it. Yes, Paizo, to a certain extent is doing the same thing, but it's their first edition of the game, so I apply a different rule. WotC intentionally broke the feel of compatibility in their game, pushed out expensive books and then, entirely too soon afterwards, are going to be pushing out yet another set of books.
Ultimately, I feel like WotC/Hasbro doesn't "get" it anymore. They're looking at their game systems from a strict "how-much-can-we-wallet-rape" standpoint.
All of this is my opinion, of course, but it leads me to think that I'm done with WotC for good.
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And I just recently got all my software updated to Intel, too.
I think they're doing in concert with the software manufacturers so they gouge us for replacement software to run on the new processors.
> so what does that say about Verizon's hiring standards for technically-minded people? Seriously?
Not a lot. Technical ability doesn't have anything to do with moral reasoning or empathy.
Arguably, you could make one of those pick-any-two triangles from that collection.
The DHS is the worst idea to come out of Washington and that's a town that's pretty much only ever generated bad ideas. I'd rather be waterboarded than lift a finger to suport that particular government agency.
> Right. Which is exactly the sort of thing that engenders ill-will towards modders.
But what is the purpose of modding your console? If it's to allow them to cheat at online games, then I would argue that any ill-will is definitely earned.
I'm having a little trouble coming up with any other legitimate reason for modding.
And the Huffington Post is still down!
And nothing of any value will be missed while it remains down.
Except we'll be forced to resort to Drudge for news.
Have those games been updated to run on 10.8?
IIR, Apple got rid of some legacy graphics support that those games needed to run (256-color mode, Rosetta support). I'd hate to blow $32 and have a bunch of games that were unplayable and eating up drive space.
If the Universe is a simulation, then it may be possible within our Universe to do the same thing.
Do we then owe it to our creations not to do some of the horrible things being done to us? War, Death, Famine, Disease, etc. If we do simulate those things and the beings we create are just as intelligent as us, it would seem that creating those same things in their Universe would make us as bad as the beings who are running the simulation for us.
We may not be able to influence our creator(s), but it seems like we could damn well make our own simulations far better than what we've been given.
I thought they were Republicans who want to legalize weed.
These days the Libertarians sound less crazy than the Republicans, thanks to the Teabaggers.
It hasn't always been that way.
So what, exactly, is linux to you? If you want a proprietary operating system with closed drivers, there are plenty. Bending over sideways for a paranoid corporation just to get high definition pornography in 3D on your notebook sounds like a real bad idea to me.
Depends on whether or not you want to further the mainstream adoption of Linux on the desktop by non-technical users.
Were I a corporation, this would be the point where I would determine that my development efforts for Linux have gone far enough until there is a high-enough percentage of usage to warrant further development.
Stop Bitching and complaining about every change in technology and get use to the the Damn thing.
I remember all the bitching and moaning about the Start Button when it was created. And now is is some God Sent UI that you can't live without.
If you get get Windows 8. you will figure it out shortly and you are back to normal.
Sure, but why should users put up with bad design? And why do we keep foisting it off on them?
The Windows 8 UI is good for touch devices, but is so completely the wrong metaphor for desktop that it's nigh unusable. The Windows 7 UI was good for desktops, but conversely, would be mostly wrong for touch devices.
Yet Microsoft insists on making everyone use the same UI for all devices, touch-enabled or not. It's a mistake that I think will teach them a very painful lesson - there is no One True User Interface.
Even Apple hasn't made that mistake and they've got the closest thing to a cross-platform unified UI that's available.
Why in the name of Oppenheimer did they fire the one guy who actually did his job, when everyone above and around him appeared to fail pretty seriously at theirs?
Admittedly, he didn't shoot anyone, which he was apparently entitled to do, but at the same time, he actually stopped any further mischief and was the only person (aside from the protesters) who didn't embarrass the whole nation.
It's a pity Joseph Heller isn't around to write his life story or something.
It's also your job to punish failure and merely "not re-electing" them is a pretty weak gesture, honestly.
These people ignored the law, destroyed the man's business, and handed the assets over to a foreign government who will never return them. How about I kick in your door in the middle of the night, steal all your assets and hand them over to the Chinese government and say it's punishment for all the slave labor that goes into producing half the goods you and your family use to survive?
Sorry, but I think it's time some people were very publicly named, shamed and imprisoned for not only their failure to follow the law, but the misinterpretation of it in the first place.
Public service is a privilege and the failure to properly exercise that privilege should, by definition, come with a higher punishment than standard crimes.
Awesome. Thanks.
Now, how about handing out some punishments to the people responsible, so they don't try this sort of bullshit again?
Seems I've been hearing that for the last month or so.
I keep expecting Mitt and Paul to get elected, then slip out of their disguises as Kang and Kodos.
I for one ... ah, bugger it.
I think Kang and Kodos had more definite plans than these jokers.
It's like the Romney campaign read The Complete Opposite Of Getting Elected. They're politicians, I get that - a politician who doesn't leave himself room to maneuver gets eaten alive when the wind changes. But these guys are bringing new meaning to the word "vague".
...and it could just as easily be a case where the FBI requested this list from Blue Toad, or Blue Toad submitted this list as part of an investigation. All we know now is where the data likely originated -- which is precisely where everyone assumed it originated anyway (a single developer list).
It could also be that the developer got hacked w/o being involved with the FBI in any way, prior to the attack.
Which, on the whole, is a lot simpler explanation than a conspiracy theory.
Hawala works because it occurs inside a cultural and religious system that has strong penalties for not following thru. Bitcoin exchanges don't work because it's mainly run by a bunch of people who are completely against any oversight. They expect their word and their technical expertise to be the bond, without an ovarching cultural/religious framework to validate it.
Enron would have been very different if the perpetrators could have lost appendages for their malfeasance.
You should probably also mention that we're still in early iterations of tablet design and functionality - just as the laptop today is a supercomputer compared to early laptops, the tablets of the future will resemble nothing we use today (except maybe form factor).
OK, so maybe not Sprint. I admit to not doing much research before posting that accusation against them.
I still maintain that one error doesn't invalidate my point, though. Give them an inch, and they'll take a mile or more.
Aside from just totally going out of business, Joyent has a commitment to honor. If we don't start holding companies to their word, they will walk all over us worse than they already do.
It may sound anti-business, but it's more "don't write checks your wallet can't cash". AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have all pulled that bullshit, as well as countless other companies and then weaseled out of it in the name of marketing, once they got their customers. Consumers may not be able to hold their feet to the fire, but we can damn well make sure we minimize the number of companies that try to pull marketing scams like that to get customers.
Besides, $500 is $500 and thats no small amount of money in these economic times.
Hmm, now what we need is a service that sells sweatshop services, with emphasis on features like age and technological ability of the workers ...
That was implied in the performance, you insensitive clod.
At least you had a performance. My performance died.
They refuse to aggressively upgrade their infrastructure and instead pay their execs and shareholders with the money they could use to generate even more profits in the future.
I hope Google smashes them and I hope it's bloody and painful.
I've been considering that. Polo shirt w/cargo pants (darker, rather than lighter) is probably the easiest solution that bridges the gap. If you need to dress up more, just keep an pressed Oxford shirt handy and you should be good.
No, but at some point, your hobby might turn into something that can make you money, and it's nice to be able to make the switch.
It's not just the crappy GM - I did read up on the system ahead of time.
My major issue is that, philosophically, the game pushes players into roles (tank, dps, healer) which is the same explicitly-stated breakdown as an MMO. The designers want to pigeonhole players into neat little boxes and the everything about 4th Ed follows from that standpoint. To me, it feels like an MMO on paper.
I also have a huge problem with the moneygrabbing aspect of it. Yes, Paizo, to a certain extent is doing the same thing, but it's their first edition of the game, so I apply a different rule. WotC intentionally broke the feel of compatibility in their game, pushed out expensive books and then, entirely too soon afterwards, are going to be pushing out yet another set of books.
Ultimately, I feel like WotC/Hasbro doesn't "get" it anymore. They're looking at their game systems from a strict "how-much-can-we-wallet-rape" standpoint.
All of this is my opinion, of course, but it leads me to think that I'm done with WotC for good.