War has changed. Its no longer about nations, ideologies, ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles fought by mercenaries and machines. War and its consumption of life has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodys enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, Infomation control, Emotion control, Battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control.
The fact is managing resources isn't as essential anymore for software to work. You can write software which is constantly dividing and the user wouldn't notice any slow down. Nowadays the biggest (well, most sensible) requirement is modularity for future growth of the software. Companies look for people who can write code which will be useful to the company over and over again. They don't want to hire programmers who will be completely rewriting projects every time the spec changes. This is the current state of typical software companies writing apps for businesses. Resource management isn't usually considered when hiring a new dev unless they're developing something high performance or low level.
I've had knowledge of the business process since I was 4 and said knowledge has expanded massively over the years. I was programming using assembly language before I started school. I have created many well known software titles from nothing and many companies rely on these titles. I've cracked any encryption thrown at me and managed to recover files from a hard drive that had been zeroed out. I'm worth 124 billion dollars and Presidents have asked me for advice on many occasions (unfortunately not recently). I am capable of stopping time with my mind and I can fly. I have saved children from burning buildings and put wanted criminals into the buildings. I retired aged 12 but the whole world begged me to come out retirement as when my influence disappeared there economy started to tumble. I have been banned from the Olympic Games because I consistently would win every medal and spoil it for everyone else. There is a contract out on my life because I have invented a type of vehicle which actually reduces the carbon in the air and runs on love. The HLC actually malfunctioned the other day but I stopped the black hole from expanding with my bare hands. God once made a mistake and destroyed the world. He asked for my help in recreating the Earth and I did it in 20 minutes, not 6 days like him.
I believe the Kirk situation was actually covered in an episode of TOS where a computer explains why the captain shouldn't be leaving on the away mission. They got rid of the computer though
The bike analogy was apt. If you take my bandwidth, you're denying me the use of that bandwidth. Just because there's enough bandwidth (unless the connection is being hammered) so that it's not as noticeable, does not mean it's a lesser crime.
The BBC's not all bad. I think the biggest benefit is the pushing forward of standards such as producing most programs in widescreen and now in HD. Also they're supporting a new free satellite system and attempting to defend Freeview from the government who'd rather sell off bandwidth and force high definition transmissions into existing bandwidth.
I'm planning to get the Simpsons box set when all the seasons are completed, but I own the Futurama Complete Collection which is of massive quality. I put this down to the creators taking care and wanting to put out a nice product for people to want to buy. The industry execs however have decided that even though I've paid for a legitimate copy, I have to be forced to sit through an unskippable warning about how bad piracy is and that you can't copy the DVD. From my point of view I've not copied the DVD and I should be rewarded by having an untainted product.
It is an insult to the people who buy things legitimatly that they get these messages (and a short video about downloading on the latest Family Guy box sets) when obviously they're the type of people who will pay for DVDs. The pirate is most likely to strip out this content because A) it reduces the file size, and B) it's very annoying.
It is my opinion that the warnings and videos are useless and should be not be put on DVDs and it just reduces the overall quality, making the DVD a less desirable product.
you hit the nail on the head when you said it's too early to tell. Sony can't decide at this point which product is the winner. That's like Al Gore saying he's the president just because he's got the most votes.
(yes bad analogy, I was going to say something serious but that came into my head)
It's very simple. A music track can be played on many systems very easily, infact there's already a format (mp3) which I'd assume that all portable music players will play. Playstation Games are complex things which require specific hardware. The difference between requiring a supported music format and games which play on every system is huge. Try telling Sony to produce a working version of GTA San Andreas for the Nintendo DS (I know Sony don't make GTA, it's just an example of being required to produce for all systems).
With music, the final format is independent of how the music was made, what system it was designed for etc. With games and software, the format and end system is usually part of the design process very early on, meaning that if multiple systems were required to be supported then the design process would have to change. Which in my opinion is a much bigger ask than getting a song sold as an mp3 rather than AAC or whatever iTunes uses.
According to some comments on a webpage posted earlier in the thread (hunt for it), people have been incorrectly accused of having non-genuine versions of Windows when they actually have completly paid for versions. If this is true then one day turning on their computer to find it's formated and not working will probably piss them off, even more if they realise it was Microsoft that did it. Also someone might deside to write some malware which fools the program into telling Microsoft that the copy of Windows is pirated, a while later Microsoft will go ahead and do the damage for them.
Whether or not Windows is or isn't the best OS to have, these people chose to pay their money to Microsoft and the excuse "It'll teach some pirates a lesson" is not enough to waste their time and money.
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War has changed. Its no longer about nations, ideologies, ethnicity. It's an endless series of proxy battles fought by mercenaries and machines. War and its consumption of life has become a well-oiled machine. War has changed. ID-tagged soldiers carry ID-tagged weapons, use ID-tagged gear. Nanomachines inside their bodys enhance and regulate their abilities. Genetic control, Infomation control, Emotion control, Battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control.
Don't be your neighbour and come to you with distressing problems because you'll just laugh at me?
looks like a James Bond advert for an iPod from the early 90s
Holy crap! you don't have any tinfoil hats?! You're already doomed
It will be implemented on the year of the Linux desktop
The fact is managing resources isn't as essential anymore for software to work. You can write software which is constantly dividing and the user wouldn't notice any slow down. Nowadays the biggest (well, most sensible) requirement is modularity for future growth of the software. Companies look for people who can write code which will be useful to the company over and over again. They don't want to hire programmers who will be completely rewriting projects every time the spec changes. This is the current state of typical software companies writing apps for businesses. Resource management isn't usually considered when hiring a new dev unless they're developing something high performance or low level.
at least nobody misunderestimated it
Or Matt Drudge
Or species if it had been a dog
I've had knowledge of the business process since I was 4 and said knowledge has expanded massively over the years. I was programming using assembly language before I started school. I have created many well known software titles from nothing and many companies rely on these titles. I've cracked any encryption thrown at me and managed to recover files from a hard drive that had been zeroed out. I'm worth 124 billion dollars and Presidents have asked me for advice on many occasions (unfortunately not recently). I am capable of stopping time with my mind and I can fly. I have saved children from burning buildings and put wanted criminals into the buildings. I retired aged 12 but the whole world begged me to come out retirement as when my influence disappeared there economy started to tumble. I have been banned from the Olympic Games because I consistently would win every medal and spoil it for everyone else. There is a contract out on my life because I have invented a type of vehicle which actually reduces the carbon in the air and runs on love. The HLC actually malfunctioned the other day but I stopped the black hole from expanding with my bare hands. God once made a mistake and destroyed the world. He asked for my help in recreating the Earth and I did it in 20 minutes, not 6 days like him.
I believe the Kirk situation was actually covered in an episode of TOS where a computer explains why the captain shouldn't be leaving on the away mission. They got rid of the computer though
The bike analogy was apt. If you take my bandwidth, you're denying me the use of that bandwidth. Just because there's enough bandwidth (unless the connection is being hammered) so that it's not as noticeable, does not mean it's a lesser crime.
The BBC's not all bad. I think the biggest benefit is the pushing forward of standards such as producing most programs in widescreen and now in HD. Also they're supporting a new free satellite system and attempting to defend Freeview from the government who'd rather sell off bandwidth and force high definition transmissions into existing bandwidth.
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It is an insult to the people who buy things legitimatly that they get these messages (and a short video about downloading on the latest Family Guy box sets) when obviously they're the type of people who will pay for DVDs. The pirate is most likely to strip out this content because A) it reduces the file size, and B) it's very annoying.
It is my opinion that the warnings and videos are useless and should be not be put on DVDs and it just reduces the overall quality, making the DVD a less desirable product.
you hit the nail on the head when you said it's too early to tell. Sony can't decide at this point which product is the winner. That's like Al Gore saying he's the president just because he's got the most votes. (yes bad analogy, I was going to say something serious but that came into my head)
what is this "tired of porn" you speak of?
How is it useful if it doesn't solve the problem? Buying a mac mini != building a SFF PC
I saw an episode of CSI yesterday and they were using a plasma screen as a display for a computer, big no-no!
about 40 rods/hogshead
I agree, I prefer not to reveal that I've been touching up things with the gimp.. It makes people uncomfortable.
With music, the final format is independent of how the music was made, what system it was designed for etc. With games and software, the format and end system is usually part of the design process very early on, meaning that if multiple systems were required to be supported then the design process would have to change. Which in my opinion is a much bigger ask than getting a song sold as an mp3 rather than AAC or whatever iTunes uses.
Whether or not Windows is or isn't the best OS to have, these people chose to pay their money to Microsoft and the excuse "It'll teach some pirates a lesson" is not enough to waste their time and money.
Being funny wont help your karma.. but you dont need to worry about that
Is 8x the fastest FF speed for TiVo? My Sky+ can go up to 30x according to the little dial in the corner.