By the time you come around to reselling the game, it will have been available cheaply and everyone will already have it. You're not going to get much for it. I've seen "used" games in stores that are about 90% of the price of the new version too..
If you must have X game, and you reckon you're going to want to sell it again pretty soon, then renting is the best idea IMO. These days I'm only really happy to pay full price for open world type games that will give me at least a week's worth of gameplay. The rest of the time, I rent or wait until the price comes down:)
I didn't even have to think about it as I was gaming on consoles for the last few years. Now that I'm also doing PC gaming again.. I've found that I don't really care any more unfortunately, as long as it doesn't go so far as to fuck up my PC.
Anyway, I don't think this is a "rootkit", is it? It's a browser plugin. It should be described as malware. I thought a rootkit was something that got so deep into your system that it basically patched OS/kernel functions to hide its presence?
When Steam games are already so insanely cheap during the sales - often much cheaper than used games, who really cares about reselling them? You'd probably only get something like $10 for 100 games if you tried that. Personally I'd rather have the possibility of playing the games again someday - sometimes I get the urge to go back and play the classics.
Anyone writing an application and linking into a library, or even writing software that requires an OS to run it is already "exploiting" someone else's code. It doesn't make sense to reproduce the effort if you don't need to. There may be some cases where you want to, like to learn more about how things work by making your own version, but in most cases it makes no sense to waste time re-doing everything yourself. So don't let your brain think of it as stealing if the license permits re-using the code. Sharing is how we're able to make awesome ideas become a reality so quickly these days.
Not all nerds are weak. A guy in my CompSci course actually worked as a bouncer. Really nice guy too - not just someone who was out to beat people up. A bunch of drunken nerds could take a single bouncer if they actually had the motivation. Bouncers tend to have backup though.
Judging from my flatmate, I'd say it's Day Z. I'd count as a nerd in some people's books, but I never found WoW or Starcraft or any other Blizzard games particularly interesting... I guess maybe I'm a kind of hipster nerd.
You can get tablets with mobile data connections. You can make and receive calls and texts with Skype. Problem solved?:)
I loved the 5" screen on my Dell Streak, especially for typing on the keyboard in landscape mode - although yes the device was just a tiny big too big to be comfortable carrying in a jeans pocket. I now have a HTC One S with a 4.3" screen. It fits in jeans nicely even with a case on. I definitely wouldn't want to have anything with an even smaller screen though..
That's an impressively high density of tired cliches you have there.
This attack likely would have happened no matter if the audience were all armed. However, the more dangerous ranged weapons that are available to the public, the more victims a mentally unbalanced person can potentially claim before being taken out themselves.
You rarely get mass shootings like that here in the UK, because hardly anyone has access to, or even an interest in, guns. The last serious incident was in 2010, but the only other ones before that were in 1996 and 1987.
Well Areo are a subscription service. If they're "stealing" business from the cable company, then they have to do something to compete, or die. In the cable company's case, I guess it could require reducing their monthly costs. Individual channel's could look at providing a streaming service too. I'm not sure if they pay the cable companies or the cable companies pay them tbh.
Why include a TV tuner, FM radio, etc if you can get all of that over a normal network connection? Doing things that way means that you can get TV on any of your devices, not just the ones that have been built for it, or that you've hooked up to a USB receiver or whatever. I think what they're doing sounds like a good idea. If the cable companies or networks are upset, they should look into streaming their stuff directly online via a subscriber service.
I am not sure how BBOS handles it, but to not do it that way would be stupid.
Any time I've used Blackberry software on the desktop, server or phone I've thought it was stupid. I wouldn't put it past them.
Blackberry may have made mobile email popular, but that is irrelevant now. The only thing that they still do best (as far as I can tell) is provide cheap roaming costs.
I have hardly bought any content for my tablet. Sure I have tried out a few games (which also run on my phone), but I mostly use it for web browsing, email, youtube, and reading Kindle books. The tablet certainly wasn't cheap either, it cost around the same as an iPad or maybe slightly more.
I find it pretty weird that the summary suggests that there aren't already serious competitors to the iPad. I'm very happy with my Xoom.
I do think the screen on the iPad 3 is very nice. I was even considering buying one, but in use I just find it a pain in the ass: I'm very used to having a convenient "back" button in Android. It even works to go back to the previous application that you were using. For example if you tap on a youtube link in the browser, it takes you to the youtube app - tap "back", and you will be back where you were in the browser.
If anyone can tell me a good way to deal with this kind of thing in iOS then I'd be happy to hear it and give iOS another go - but as far as I can tell individual applications often have their own style of UI that means that there isn't always a standard way of moving back to previous screens, and it really just spoils the flow of using the device for me.
I'm not sure if simply having a better screen would be enough to convince me to upgrade from my Xoom yet though, considering it's running Android 4.1 pretty nicely.
It's incredibly dumb. Even without the whole spying on your history thing, what happens if you misconfigure your router? How do they expect you to fix the configuration when you lose your internet connection? Not everyone has a smartphone.
Using your scheme, we'd have most guilty people going free just because the jury are scared they may have to face the same punishment. And the more heinous your crime, the more likely you are to go free.
That doesn't explain anything, it just shows how stupid the author is. We are not in a closed system, and he admits that. So we're not violating the second law. Duh.
Who cares how "improbable" it is for life to have started up randomly and evolved? All it takes is for it to happen one time in any of the perhaps billions of Universes that have existed or do exist, and here we are asking the questions and making up thousands of gods that are suspiciously similar to ourselves.
But there are a lot of people like me who waver between Windows and Linux simply because of games. I went Linux and PS3 only at home for a few years there, but gave in and got a Windows 7 gaming machine recently to play Skyrim in really high quality, and play a few PC-only games that I'd missed out on over the time.
If people could do everything on Linux that they can on Windows, but without any license cost, guess which they're going to choose? Windows 7 is okay, but the Linux desktop has been making leaps and bounds over the last few years, and there isn't really much difference between Windows, OSX and the top Linux distros right now.
He's completely right about diet and exercise though. Heart disease/atherosclerosis is the biggest cause of death in the US, ever since the government started telling people that fat was bad, and everyone started getting the majority of their energy from sugary crap instead.
For example, asking for directions to the nearest ATM, there is no way to store a list of Points of Interest for the entire world, I doubt you could even store all the points of interest for a large city.
What kind of information are you expecting to store? I'd think even if you stored the coordinates of every ATM, shop, trashcan, etc, you'd have a few hundred MB at most. Detailed satellite imagery for a city would only be a few GB too.
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Wasn't that much worse? The window manager was fucking horrible compared to the Macs and Amigas that I was used to..
By the time you come around to reselling the game, it will have been available cheaply and everyone will already have it. You're not going to get much for it. I've seen "used" games in stores that are about 90% of the price of the new version too..
If you must have X game, and you reckon you're going to want to sell it again pretty soon, then renting is the best idea IMO. These days I'm only really happy to pay full price for open world type games that will give me at least a week's worth of gameplay. The rest of the time, I rent or wait until the price comes down :)
I didn't even have to think about it as I was gaming on consoles for the last few years. Now that I'm also doing PC gaming again.. I've found that I don't really care any more unfortunately, as long as it doesn't go so far as to fuck up my PC.
Anyway, I don't think this is a "rootkit", is it? It's a browser plugin. It should be described as malware. I thought a rootkit was something that got so deep into your system that it basically patched OS/kernel functions to hide its presence?
I wouldn't say Blackberry "dominates" in the UK. Blackberrys are still around, but they're fighting a losing battle. Because they're shit.
When Steam games are already so insanely cheap during the sales - often much cheaper than used games, who really cares about reselling them? You'd probably only get something like $10 for 100 games if you tried that. Personally I'd rather have the possibility of playing the games again someday - sometimes I get the urge to go back and play the classics.
Anyone writing an application and linking into a library, or even writing software that requires an OS to run it is already "exploiting" someone else's code. It doesn't make sense to reproduce the effort if you don't need to. There may be some cases where you want to, like to learn more about how things work by making your own version, but in most cases it makes no sense to waste time re-doing everything yourself. So don't let your brain think of it as stealing if the license permits re-using the code. Sharing is how we're able to make awesome ideas become a reality so quickly these days.
Not all nerds are weak. A guy in my CompSci course actually worked as a bouncer. Really nice guy too - not just someone who was out to beat people up. A bunch of drunken nerds could take a single bouncer if they actually had the motivation. Bouncers tend to have backup though.
Yeah, well that's because I'm doing it before it's cool.
Judging from my flatmate, I'd say it's Day Z. I'd count as a nerd in some people's books, but I never found WoW or Starcraft or any other Blizzard games particularly interesting... I guess maybe I'm a kind of hipster nerd.
You can get tablets with mobile data connections. You can make and receive calls and texts with Skype. Problem solved? :)
I loved the 5" screen on my Dell Streak, especially for typing on the keyboard in landscape mode - although yes the device was just a tiny big too big to be comfortable carrying in a jeans pocket. I now have a HTC One S with a 4.3" screen. It fits in jeans nicely even with a case on. I definitely wouldn't want to have anything with an even smaller screen though..
That's an impressively high density of tired cliches you have there.
This attack likely would have happened no matter if the audience were all armed. However, the more dangerous ranged weapons that are available to the public, the more victims a mentally unbalanced person can potentially claim before being taken out themselves.
You rarely get mass shootings like that here in the UK, because hardly anyone has access to, or even an interest in, guns. The last serious incident was in 2010, but the only other ones before that were in 1996 and 1987.
That was in reference to the sheet, not the paste. Presumably the same thickness rules don't apply there.
Well Areo are a subscription service. If they're "stealing" business from the cable company, then they have to do something to compete, or die. In the cable company's case, I guess it could require reducing their monthly costs. Individual channel's could look at providing a streaming service too. I'm not sure if they pay the cable companies or the cable companies pay them tbh.
Why include a TV tuner, FM radio, etc if you can get all of that over a normal network connection? Doing things that way means that you can get TV on any of your devices, not just the ones that have been built for it, or that you've hooked up to a USB receiver or whatever. I think what they're doing sounds like a good idea. If the cable companies or networks are upset, they should look into streaming their stuff directly online via a subscriber service.
I am not sure how BBOS handles it, but to not do it that way would be stupid.
Any time I've used Blackberry software on the desktop, server or phone I've thought it was stupid. I wouldn't put it past them.
Blackberry may have made mobile email popular, but that is irrelevant now. The only thing that they still do best (as far as I can tell) is provide cheap roaming costs.
Thankyou for your valuable insights.
I have hardly bought any content for my tablet. Sure I have tried out a few games (which also run on my phone), but I mostly use it for web browsing, email, youtube, and reading Kindle books. The tablet certainly wasn't cheap either, it cost around the same as an iPad or maybe slightly more.
I find it pretty weird that the summary suggests that there aren't already serious competitors to the iPad. I'm very happy with my Xoom.
I do think the screen on the iPad 3 is very nice. I was even considering buying one, but in use I just find it a pain in the ass: I'm very used to having a convenient "back" button in Android. It even works to go back to the previous application that you were using. For example if you tap on a youtube link in the browser, it takes you to the youtube app - tap "back", and you will be back where you were in the browser.
If anyone can tell me a good way to deal with this kind of thing in iOS then I'd be happy to hear it and give iOS another go - but as far as I can tell individual applications often have their own style of UI that means that there isn't always a standard way of moving back to previous screens, and it really just spoils the flow of using the device for me.
I'm not sure if simply having a better screen would be enough to convince me to upgrade from my Xoom yet though, considering it's running Android 4.1 pretty nicely.
You don't sound like you've used Linux on the desktop anytime in the last 5 years
It's incredibly dumb. Even without the whole spying on your history thing, what happens if you misconfigure your router? How do they expect you to fix the configuration when you lose your internet connection? Not everyone has a smartphone.
I breathe fluid all the time :)
What if they find a guilty person innocent?
Using your scheme, we'd have most guilty people going free just because the jury are scared they may have to face the same punishment. And the more heinous your crime, the more likely you are to go free.
That doesn't explain anything, it just shows how stupid the author is. We are not in a closed system, and he admits that. So we're not violating the second law. Duh.
Who cares how "improbable" it is for life to have started up randomly and evolved? All it takes is for it to happen one time in any of the perhaps billions of Universes that have existed or do exist, and here we are asking the questions and making up thousands of gods that are suspiciously similar to ourselves.
But there are a lot of people like me who waver between Windows and Linux simply because of games. I went Linux and PS3 only at home for a few years there, but gave in and got a Windows 7 gaming machine recently to play Skyrim in really high quality, and play a few PC-only games that I'd missed out on over the time.
If people could do everything on Linux that they can on Windows, but without any license cost, guess which they're going to choose? Windows 7 is okay, but the Linux desktop has been making leaps and bounds over the last few years, and there isn't really much difference between Windows, OSX and the top Linux distros right now.
He's completely right about diet and exercise though. Heart disease/atherosclerosis is the biggest cause of death in the US, ever since the government started telling people that fat was bad, and everyone started getting the majority of their energy from sugary crap instead.
For example, asking for directions to the nearest ATM, there is no way to store a list of Points of Interest for the entire world, I doubt you could even store all the points of interest for a large city.
What kind of information are you expecting to store? I'd think even if you stored the coordinates of every ATM, shop, trashcan, etc, you'd have a few hundred MB at most. Detailed satellite imagery for a city would only be a few GB too.