I used to love 2d scrollers - now I'm 34, not so much,
Seriously, I think this is the problem with Mario etc - game companies are trying to concentrate on their IP when it's just irrelevant. I don't care if the characters in the game are well known - often I will shy away from franchises, just because they are franchises. Perhaps this is just me being subconsciously anti-establishment, but I buy what I want, and Mario is not it.
I have the Assassin's Creed series to go through that I got in a deal on steam - currently I'm too busy playing TOME
Europe is quite far north compared to the US, so the extra daylight in summer (and the lack of it in winter) really makes people want to make the most of the summer generally, and August especially (warmest).
I think this is much more of a cultural thing - The more northerly countries (UK, Scandinavia) don't have anywhere near as much of a "shut down for August" mentality as those in southern Europe. I like in the UK, and most places I've worked don't allow people to take time off when other people are off unless they have booked a long time in advance. Most people are sympathetic, if they don't have children, and leave the school holidays for those with kids (unless they need some dates specifically). Holidays are cheaper outside of prime season, too.
As to how far north it is - parts of France hit 42 degrees earlier this week.
Plagiarism is not copyright infringement. They are two entirely different things. You can plagiarise something that is in the public domain, for example, which has no copyright.
Some of the online definitions of the word claim that to plagiarise, you must have stolen or used without the author's authority. Others (and I) disagree - it's perfectly possible to plagiarise something that is in the public domain which is written anonymously. You can't steal something you have every right to use. Plagiarism happens when you pass off the works as your own, it's nothing to do with how you obtain the work in my opinion. Copying a classmate's assignment is usually considered plagiarism, despite the fact that nothing was stolen or used without the author's consent.
Buying something, then printing it as your own is still plagiarism, even if you have the permission of the author to do so. If the author's consent were a pivotal issue, terms like self-plagiarism would be nonsensical.
Extreme resolutions is a lot more about prestige than utility
No, no they're not. You're calling them "extreme", when in fact they've been around for years. Higher resolutions are just better. There are no disadvantages to higher resolutions, and there are many advantages. This is not an ePeen contest, it's just fact.
As proof : Vista crashes to blue screen on my motherboard (nvidia) with 4gb of ram or above, on install. No warning errors, not a helpful blue screen (though you can't hold it either, because it's on install), it just blue screens and reboots. The solution is to install with 2gb, apply the hotfix (or SP1 and/or 2), put your other ram in, then reboot. Dunno what the solution would be if you only have 4gb sticks. This was not an isolated case - everyone with nvidia and 4gb of RAM had this bug.
That being said, after that hurdle was overcome, Vista has been great for me.
What did users complain about with Vista? UAC. They hated that every five minutes all your colours went grey, and you couldn't continue without clicking yes on a box in the middle of the screen.
That never happened. It happened when installing drivers, programs, everything, because it should happen. Perhaps people got a bad impression early on because that's when they were installing the programs.
UAC is fine. It only throws up when you're trying to something you should need administration privileges to do. Which happens about once a week for me.
Vista was the ME of NT (ie, bloody awful). 7 is a fairly decent platform. By that I mean, I haven't had a kernel crash in over a year of using it on a daily basis, and that is saying something.
Did you ever use Vista? It got horrendously bad press because it was dog slow on crap machines. It should never have been installed on them.
I'm still using it, and have had over 6 months uptime. 7 might be better, but Vista was only catastrophic because it was run on low end hardware and had every possible service enabled as default. That's Microsoft's fault, completely, but Vista isn't the turd you make it out to be.
So here is the deal, I get a worse user interface, get to pay more for an operating system that offers virtually no benefit. Man I am so glad I shifting to OSX and Linux around the time Windows 8 was announced and released to devs. This is going to bite them in the ass and IMO with what I am experiencing with OSX and Linux, Microsoft really does suck!
Don't fucking use it then as you obviously have done. Why the hell are you complaining about an OS you're not going to use?
I'm still running Vista, which was slated by just about everyone. It's stable, runs what I want, and I really can't complain about it. Dropping a few services makes performance comparable to 7, and I've got a decent system anyway that doesn't suffer from slowdown because of Vista being a hog. I've had about 6 months uptime on this system, which I use for gaming, work, surfing, etc.
If you don't want to use the software, why are you moaning about it? I'm not going to use it, either - there's no reason for me to upgrade at the moment.
As much as I am in favour of the intent of this law (restricting access to people you don't to access your browsing habits), it's not working in the slightest, and it was _never_ going to work.
Firstly, people don't want it (popups asking if they want cookies enabled are annoying and counterproductive)
Secondly, no one is actually complying with the law, including governmental bodies.
Thirdly, the internet is global now (wait, when did that happen?)
All that, and like parent said, cookies are a good thing in lots of cases.
There are plenty of deeply flawed people out there who would break it just to break something that was important, damn the consequences.
Why is this modded insightful? Are we this fucking cynical now?
I have never, ever, once in my life seen someone break something that was important deliberately. Perhaps I'm naive (I don't think so, I've got plenty on my criminal record), but seriously - I've never personally seen someone do this.
Yes, sometimes people break insignificant things to make a point - but seriously, when did you see someone break something important just for the sake of it?
Political motivations. Plenty of hackers around the world would love to make the US government look incompetent - destroying a very expensive scientific mission like Curiosity, especially one for which there is such a high level of public awareness, would achieve that aim. No need to even hack it with precision (Amusing as it would be if the next image returned was Goatse), just fill the firmware with garbage and brick it.
No - I'd argue very few hackers would want to destroy a mission like Curiosity. Many would love to try and take it over, but very very few would want to destroy it.
This looks to me almost like the stereotypical attitude many people have of the US : They're either for us, or against us. The world doesn't work like that. Basically, everyone in the world is supportive of exploratory missions to mars. Even people who hate US international politics. Because it's a good thing. Anyone who fucks it up is a pariah, gets outed, and looks like a moron.
That doesn't mean that someone won't be willing to try and fuck it up (there will be some), but there will be few with the knowledge to be able to fuck it up. If anyone does fuck it up, their cause will be hurt. Deliberate sabotage of scientific projects goes down really badly with most people, unless there is a good reason.
Being skeptical of claims is normal, in my opinion. Getting 7/8ths up Everest by height is nothing compared to getting 8/8ths up it. You can walk up most of everest easily.
Now I know how bibles get written.
This is what annoys me, because you must be just trolling here. It's not that I hate the bible, but you're claiming the exact opposite of what Havenwar was saying. No one is stuck in their beliefs, they just need a little evidence rather than faith.
I've only come back to this discussion after reviewing mine, and I can say you have no idea how to have a debate. If you believe what you're saying, you're deluded. If you don't it may come back to haunt you.
It's not that odd - the Nile delta is only a small strip of land compared to the countryside around it. It sustained one of the longest civilizations in history, in a desert region.
Also, the coast is key in many situations. If you can get water off the land, and you're on the coast, you generally should be ok for food.
I can control my heartbeat at will, to some degree. If my heart gets a massive blockage in it, I won't be able to think it out.
Mothers don't lift overturned vehicles, they lever them on pivots - an overturned vehicle is relatively easy to move around comparative to to weight it is, because it's sitting on it's top.
Perpetuating the myth that mothers can do extraordinary feats in times of crisis slams guilt on those mothers that did not manage to save their child when then did all they could.
Pandering to people's preconceptions isn't good either - see the whole sugar/hyperactivity link in children (hint - it doesn't exist). Lowering sugar in most people's diets is a very good thing, but not because of allergies or intolerances.
And nothing will come of it. The police will continue to do things exactly as they are now, and we'll continue to lose more of our privacy and civil rights every day.
Privacy is not the issue, really here, IMO. If you're driving down the road in a government sanctioned car, you've already told them where you live and what you're doing. The problem is fake numberplates - anyone with the same car can just copy your numberplates. Then all the governmental issues get tracked backed to you. The speeding tickets, etc.
Where do graphics cards that pump audio out fit in here? I only noticed my card (gtx460) was putting out sound when I changed my monitor to my TV, didn't connect the sound, and it made me jump out of my skin.
I've since just used the dvi-hdmi cable for everything - not bothered with the motherboard sound.
Yep. As long as he was being paid by GS to write that code, it belongs to them. I know that most programmers don't like this idea, but that's the way IP works in this world. I think it sucks too. But from a business perspective, how else do they "get an edge" on their competitors, if they have the same software?
I consider myself relatively extreme in terms of what I think copyright laws should be - but surely if someone pays you to write code for them, that code is theirs. If you write something for someone, and get paid as you were supposed to, how can you claim the copyright is yours?
The way copyright works here doesn't suck, IMO. If employees could claim copyright on code they'd done within a company, they'd be able to withdraw that code when they leave the company, which would be massively counterproductive for everyone else within the company trying to clean up the mess. And this would happen every time an employee moved and asserted their copyright.
Not having copyright on what you are paid to write on company time does not suck.
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I used to love 2d scrollers - now I'm 34, not so much,
Seriously, I think this is the problem with Mario etc - game companies are trying to concentrate on their IP when it's just irrelevant. I don't care if the characters in the game are well known - often I will shy away from franchises, just because they are franchises. Perhaps this is just me being subconsciously anti-establishment, but I buy what I want, and Mario is not it.
I have the Assassin's Creed series to go through that I got in a deal on steam - currently I'm too busy playing TOME
Europe is quite far north compared to the US, so the extra daylight in summer (and the lack of it in winter) really makes people want to make the most of the summer generally, and August especially (warmest).
I think this is much more of a cultural thing - The more northerly countries (UK, Scandinavia) don't have anywhere near as much of a "shut down for August" mentality as those in southern Europe. I like in the UK, and most places I've worked don't allow people to take time off when other people are off unless they have booked a long time in advance. Most people are sympathetic, if they don't have children, and leave the school holidays for those with kids (unless they need some dates specifically). Holidays are cheaper outside of prime season, too.
As to how far north it is - parts of France hit 42 degrees earlier this week.
Plagiarism is the *wrongful* appropriation of literary content.
So buying an article online and submitting it as your own is not plagiarism?
Plagiarism is not copyright infringement. They are two entirely different things. You can plagiarise something that is in the public domain, for example, which has no copyright.
Some of the online definitions of the word claim that to plagiarise, you must have stolen or used without the author's authority. Others (and I) disagree - it's perfectly possible to plagiarise something that is in the public domain which is written anonymously. You can't steal something you have every right to use. Plagiarism happens when you pass off the works as your own, it's nothing to do with how you obtain the work in my opinion. Copying a classmate's assignment is usually considered plagiarism, despite the fact that nothing was stolen or used without the author's consent.
Buying something, then printing it as your own is still plagiarism, even if you have the permission of the author to do so. If the author's consent were a pivotal issue, terms like self-plagiarism would be nonsensical.
I've been a utorrent user since it started almost. Switched to Vuze recently, for many reasons.
the only point you've proven is that you're a fanboi who failed IQ test.
The only people who fail an IQ test are those who think they can fail an IQ test.
Extreme resolutions is a lot more about prestige than utility
No, no they're not. You're calling them "extreme", when in fact they've been around for years. Higher resolutions are just better. There are no disadvantages to higher resolutions, and there are many advantages. This is not an ePeen contest, it's just fact.
Higher resolutions are better.
As proof : Vista crashes to blue screen on my motherboard (nvidia) with 4gb of ram or above, on install. No warning errors, not a helpful blue screen (though you can't hold it either, because it's on install), it just blue screens and reboots. The solution is to install with 2gb, apply the hotfix (or SP1 and/or 2), put your other ram in, then reboot. Dunno what the solution would be if you only have 4gb sticks. This was not an isolated case - everyone with nvidia and 4gb of RAM had this bug.
That being said, after that hurdle was overcome, Vista has been great for me.
What did users complain about with Vista? UAC. They hated that every five minutes all your colours went grey, and you couldn't continue without clicking yes on a box in the middle of the screen.
That never happened. It happened when installing drivers, programs, everything, because it should happen. Perhaps people got a bad impression early on because that's when they were installing the programs.
UAC is fine. It only throws up when you're trying to something you should need administration privileges to do. Which happens about once a week for me.
Vista was the ME of NT (ie, bloody awful). 7 is a fairly decent platform. By that I mean, I haven't had a kernel crash in over a year of using it on a daily basis, and that is saying something.
Did you ever use Vista? It got horrendously bad press because it was dog slow on crap machines. It should never have been installed on them.
I'm still using it, and have had over 6 months uptime. 7 might be better, but Vista was only catastrophic because it was run on low end hardware and had every possible service enabled as default. That's Microsoft's fault, completely, but Vista isn't the turd you make it out to be.
ME on the other hand, I agree with.
It's not meant to be funny, it's meant to show the similarity between this and previous operating systems. No one claimed that Vista was XP SP4
So here is the deal, I get a worse user interface, get to pay more for an operating system that offers virtually no benefit. Man I am so glad I shifting to OSX and Linux around the time Windows 8 was announced and released to devs. This is going to bite them in the ass and IMO with what I am experiencing with OSX and Linux, Microsoft really does suck!
Don't fucking use it then as you obviously have done. Why the hell are you complaining about an OS you're not going to use?
I'm still running Vista, which was slated by just about everyone. It's stable, runs what I want, and I really can't complain about it. Dropping a few services makes performance comparable to 7, and I've got a decent system anyway that doesn't suffer from slowdown because of Vista being a hog. I've had about 6 months uptime on this system, which I use for gaming, work, surfing, etc.
If you don't want to use the software, why are you moaning about it? I'm not going to use it, either - there's no reason for me to upgrade at the moment.
As much as I am in favour of the intent of this law (restricting access to people you don't to access your browsing habits), it's not working in the slightest, and it was _never_ going to work.
Firstly, people don't want it (popups asking if they want cookies enabled are annoying and counterproductive)
Secondly, no one is actually complying with the law, including governmental bodies.
Thirdly, the internet is global now (wait, when did that happen?)
All that, and like parent said, cookies are a good thing in lots of cases.
There are plenty of deeply flawed people out there who would break it just to break something that was important, damn the consequences.
Why is this modded insightful? Are we this fucking cynical now?
I have never, ever, once in my life seen someone break something that was important deliberately. Perhaps I'm naive (I don't think so, I've got plenty on my criminal record), but seriously - I've never personally seen someone do this.
Yes, sometimes people break insignificant things to make a point - but seriously, when did you see someone break something important just for the sake of it?
Political motivations. Plenty of hackers around the world would love to make the US government look incompetent - destroying a very expensive scientific mission like Curiosity, especially one for which there is such a high level of public awareness, would achieve that aim. No need to even hack it with precision (Amusing as it would be if the next image returned was Goatse), just fill the firmware with garbage and brick it.
No - I'd argue very few hackers would want to destroy a mission like Curiosity. Many would love to try and take it over, but very very few would want to destroy it.
This looks to me almost like the stereotypical attitude many people have of the US : They're either for us, or against us. The world doesn't work like that. Basically, everyone in the world is supportive of exploratory missions to mars. Even people who hate US international politics. Because it's a good thing. Anyone who fucks it up is a pariah, gets outed, and looks like a moron.
That doesn't mean that someone won't be willing to try and fuck it up (there will be some), but there will be few with the knowledge to be able to fuck it up. If anyone does fuck it up, their cause will be hurt. Deliberate sabotage of scientific projects goes down really badly with most people, unless there is a good reason.
You're so confused.... seriously.
Being skeptical of claims is normal, in my opinion. Getting 7/8ths up Everest by height is nothing compared to getting 8/8ths up it. You can walk up most of everest easily.
Now I know how bibles get written.
This is what annoys me, because you must be just trolling here. It's not that I hate the bible, but you're claiming the exact opposite of what Havenwar was saying. No one is stuck in their beliefs, they just need a little evidence rather than faith.
I've only come back to this discussion after reviewing mine, and I can say you have no idea how to have a debate. If you believe what you're saying, you're deluded. If you don't it may come back to haunt you.
It's not that odd - the Nile delta is only a small strip of land compared to the countryside around it. It sustained one of the longest civilizations in history, in a desert region.
Also, the coast is key in many situations. If you can get water off the land, and you're on the coast, you generally should be ok for food.
If I want to isolate some of my genes, and someone has a patent on the process used to do it, what do I do?
Your evidence that the mind controls the body is that you grandmother died 2 years after your grandfather.
Well, case closed, I guess.
I can control my heartbeat at will, to some degree. If my heart gets a massive blockage in it, I won't be able to think it out.
Mothers don't lift overturned vehicles, they lever them on pivots - an overturned vehicle is relatively easy to move around comparative to to weight it is, because it's sitting on it's top.
Perpetuating the myth that mothers can do extraordinary feats in times of crisis slams guilt on those mothers that did not manage to save their child when then did all they could.
Pandering to people's preconceptions isn't good either - see the whole sugar/hyperactivity link in children (hint - it doesn't exist). Lowering sugar in most people's diets is a very good thing, but not because of allergies or intolerances.
And nothing will come of it. The police will continue to do things exactly as they are now, and we'll continue to lose more of our privacy and civil rights every day.
Privacy is not the issue, really here, IMO. If you're driving down the road in a government sanctioned car, you've already told them where you live and what you're doing. The problem is fake numberplates - anyone with the same car can just copy your numberplates. Then all the governmental issues get tracked backed to you. The speeding tickets, etc.
Many video cards now put audio out too - I've got an old DVI to HDMI cable from the back of mine, and it's spitting out audio happily.
Where do graphics cards that pump audio out fit in here? I only noticed my card (gtx460) was putting out sound when I changed my monitor to my TV, didn't connect the sound, and it made me jump out of my skin.
I've since just used the dvi-hdmi cable for everything - not bothered with the motherboard sound.
Yep. As long as he was being paid by GS to write that code, it belongs to them. I know that most programmers don't like this idea, but that's the way IP works in this world. I think it sucks too. But from a business perspective, how else do they "get an edge" on their competitors, if they have the same software?
I consider myself relatively extreme in terms of what I think copyright laws should be - but surely if someone pays you to write code for them, that code is theirs. If you write something for someone, and get paid as you were supposed to, how can you claim the copyright is yours?
The way copyright works here doesn't suck, IMO. If employees could claim copyright on code they'd done within a company, they'd be able to withdraw that code when they leave the company, which would be massively counterproductive for everyone else within the company trying to clean up the mess. And this would happen every time an employee moved and asserted their copyright.
Not having copyright on what you are paid to write on company time does not suck.