Wrong analogy - bacteria has killed a lot of people, and I'm going to assume it is all bad and insist we stamp out all bacteria, even the kinds they say is "good" - there is no such thing.
Anyhow, putting "socialist" in the name has had an epic fail history of actually implementing socialism (as in the economic system). In the early-to-mid 1900s, most were just fronts for pushing fascism and avoid communism. In the late 1900s on, the word has been used chiefly in the United States to mean a welfare state, which coupled with hatred of the older, failed use that ended in fascism, has made it particularly vitriolic.
True - the economic system of socialism (which works pretty well for co-ops everywhere) gets slandered all over the place when the political system of Social Democracy or Social corporatism or the economic system Welfare Capitalism and/or the concept of welfare state is meant.
Al the states have laws that state that the citizens must declare their out of state purchases and pay taxes voluntarily.
bzzt. Alaska, Montana, New Hampshire, Delaware, Oregon have no sales tax. To them this would be a new tax. In fact, I've read Oregon rebates tax paid out of state.
Several states, including mine, have an exemption from having to pay Use Tax for catalog and online purchases under a certain dollar amount or for certain types of purchased goods, for instance, food or clothing. How does the retailer know even what items to tax? So now not only do the retailers have to keep track of almost 10000 different tax rates (that I heard change at the rate of 120 a day), but also if the item is even taxable in that state? This is an absolute nightmare for any small business, and will effectively kill any small online retailer. Of course Amazon and Best Buy support it - it will kill off any competition and make them even bigger.
Yes, is true, but I think there is a bit of a loophole. If you set up a PayPal like system in the Cayman Islands, you could funnel money into it (your "bank") and then because taxation is from the point of purchase (buyer's address) not the point of delivery, you could bypass tax law by making all purchases through that location. Basically, purchase by proxy through a Cayman's web site. The caveat is whether you owe gift tax or if it considered an overseas purchase, but once again you're right back in the unpaid Use Tax problem they are attempting to fix.
Also the average tax jurisdictions is thought to be about 9800, though there is a highball number in the 19000s. The real problem is there are something like 120 changes a day on average according to a news report I saw on it. If you have the resources to track 9800 different jurisdictions and 120 changes a day without a major impact to your bottom line, well I commend you Wal-Mart, but most businesses don't.
I concur - and the price never changes. I had to replace the computer in my now 14 year old car (it was 12 at the time) at a cost of $1600 for the computer and another $600 for installation and software programming (unfortunately, it was an emergency repair and I didn't have the luxury to shop around). Incidentally, the part still lists for $1600 two years later (but can be found for around $1000 online). Revision C came 8 years ago, and the part hasn't been revised since. I'm fairly certain there is a good $1500 markup on that.
Only they are failing to compete with $20 cards as well, and their best offering is smoked by SOC (sorry, lingo - System On a Chip) like the AMD A10 in the graphics department.
They probably use the SIMD instruction set (aka SSE, formerly MMX) for parallelization. Honestly, I'd rather write to a GPU using a common language, but parallel technology does exist on the CPU. Inflexible, single purpose parallel instructions, but ones that would work for that task.
Or try WINE on Android if it exists yet and try the Windows version (heard it was in development, probably nowhere near ready for prime time though)...
Yeppers, kinda hard to hide your age when you're a member of the 4 digit Id club (close to site founding in 1997 or 16 years ago). Even us 5 digiters are pretty creaky.
The only person that would call opponents "14 year old basement dwellers" are 14 year old basement dwellers. Whoever elected a 14 year old to congress is an idiot.
Congressman, you've been called. Score -5, Troll for you.
yeah - I get silent collusion, with Century Link not even trying to compete with Comcast and the only reason they have anything newer than 15 years old in the CLEC is because they bought it off a failed carrier in a fire sale (I believe from the remnants of Rhythms, though they also bought some Northpoint equipment from what I recall).
Jay said the Diablo 3 always on requirement was built in from the start because they initially planned the game as a MMO, not for DRM reasons. When the MMO requirement was dropped, the networking and infrastructure code was already done and it would have been a lot more work (and many months of delays) to pull it out. As a developer, I have seen similar decisions made for business reasons, including hiding features that are essentially finished rather than expose a very nasty bug to customers because it is too difficult to fix before a fixed release date (despite 99% of the feature working great and the bug easily avoidable with some training).
What really killed us (indies in the old days - I was a shareware author) was lack of publishers. Shareware was perhaps before its time, and I think the Id model was good (ala Doom), where you download the game and get a disk for the levels, but the way I distributed - network only, was killed by lack of high speed downloading and a lot of piracy. The studio I worked for after I used my shareware to get my foot in the door developed tier-2 games (budget ala Deer Hunter), but that market largely was absorbed into the larger studios or killed off as time went on. The title I worked on was classified as a tier-2+ game due to having acquired a major licensing agreement with a well known brand. Unfortunately, even saying who I worked for or who published it would violate numerous NDAs (this is pre-GoD games, so dev studios went uncredited). I don't know what the statute of limitations is on those things, but I assume perpetuity.
That said, I did EVERYTHING on my game - I am a decent if unspectacular artist, a decent musician, a programmer, did my own sound, didn't need mocap, though I did do animations (in sprites), and marketed mainly though college download sites. It made me about $55000 over about 10 years (it was free after 6, but donations to keep website alive netted a few k) and probably incurred about $40k in expenses before being hosted on a free site.
Alejandro chorus: IV-I-V-vi Poker Face vi-IV-I-V others are similar or the same (one uses a closely related minor instead, as I recall) - the cycle is identical, it just starts on a different chord.
I remember hearing somewhere that 36% of pop music used that progression (or maybe it was #1 songs for a specific year). Axis of Awesome makes fun of it. Rob Paravonian nailed it in his Pachelbel rant (as a fellow cellist that plays guitar that had gone on a similar rant, beautifully done).
Not to mention exemptions - some states have exemptions on catalog and internet sales below a certain amount. And the correct way to tax internet sales is 100% identification of where the buyer lives so you can apply those city and county level taxes. This is next to impossible due to proxies and anonymous accounts. I also want to know exactly how they plan to prevent double taxation since I already owe (and am one of the few that pay) Use Tax in my state. If they don't make it exempt to use tax, I see a lawsuit.
My thoughts exactly. The day CenturyLink offers me speeds over 8Mbps for less than $90/month is the day Comcast drops prices for 20Mbps access below $50 (with Cable - it costs more if you don't bundle). If you think wireless is better, think again - they charge $10 per megabyte generally, and the ones that don't have really shitty service where I am. It is lose-lose-lose to the monopolies here.
Well Ubuntu is moving to Unity on Wayland (instead of X, but Wayland can run x windows inside), so that is a bit of a shift. I never really loved Unity (like you, I prefer MATE), but I understand that it is targeting a younger generation than mine.
As for Windows 8, I like it, but conditionally - with a touch screen, it works great. Without a touch screen, it is incredibly frustrating at times. I haven't had enough time to use it to become intimately familiar yet, but I will have to at some point because my job requires it.
You may be able to get it, but no security patches will go in. My mac is a B&W G3 upgraded to a G4/600 and it hasn't been patched by Apple in at least 6 years (when X.4 support ended). I have manually patched quite a bit of it, but usually I run Yellow Dog Linux on it.
Actually, I believe the statement is correct for older phones - pretty sure that wasn't there on my Droid X, but my new phone certainly has it. Not that it matters in my case, as I can't tunnel into my work network without dual identification on the device (a requirement of corporate security), but it would work on my home network if I had a need to set up VPN (I use ssh tunneling usually... could set that up on my phone I guess...).
heh - my IT guy at school (I was an assistant manager/TA for several labs) hated supporting macs with a passion, so I usually did the support. He also was a piss poor PC supporter, so I usually found and fixed viruses students constantly installed (either intentionally or not - and I know there were some intentional) because it would take him a month to get in and do it because of his "80 hour weeks" (every time I saw him, he was chatting or doing nothing). The next year after I graduated, the school went heavily to Linux (and I imagine the virus nightmare was horrible without me taking initiative and fixing them).
I went from being a Windows hater to being very platform agnostic at that job. I worked on Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and IRIX (IRIX was on its last legs, but I have fond memories... always liked the obscure variants, and I supported many at my first post-college job).
People say they won't buy the game because of the DRM, but enough still do that it doesn't matter to the publisher - they've protected sales and stopped piracy and it made them money. Sometimes you need to find a different answer - as a developer in the 1990s, we weren't allowed to put our studio name anywhere on the box because it "diluted the brand" of the publisher. Enough developers got ticked enough at this that the founded GoD Games (Gathering of Developers) and that was enough to force change in the industry (they eventually were bought by Take 2). The only title I ever worked on was on one of those unbranded boxes.
China has stealth aircraft and bombers, a more prolific nuclear program than the United States, several centers with very reliable high speed internet that is better than most Americans (Beijing and Shanghai in particular), and spends the second most money on military in the world, albeit badly dwarfed by the United States (albeit most work is 1/3 to 1/4 the cost). If they aren't a super power, then Russia isn't, either.
How do you start a war when there is either the side of Kim Jong Un, or prison camp? If you try to make any other side, big brother will sniff you out and throw you in prison camp where you and your next 2 generations of children will live and die. That is the NK way. Stalinism is very effective in eradicating dissent.
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Wrong analogy - bacteria has killed a lot of people, and I'm going to assume it is all bad and insist we stamp out all bacteria, even the kinds they say is "good" - there is no such thing.
Anyhow, putting "socialist" in the name has had an epic fail history of actually implementing socialism (as in the economic system). In the early-to-mid 1900s, most were just fronts for pushing fascism and avoid communism. In the late 1900s on, the word has been used chiefly in the United States to mean a welfare state, which coupled with hatred of the older, failed use that ended in fascism, has made it particularly vitriolic.
True - the economic system of socialism (which works pretty well for co-ops everywhere) gets slandered all over the place when the political system of Social Democracy or Social corporatism or the economic system Welfare Capitalism and/or the concept of welfare state is meant.
bzzt. Alaska, Montana, New Hampshire, Delaware, Oregon have no sales tax. To them this would be a new tax. In fact, I've read Oregon rebates tax paid out of state.
Several states, including mine, have an exemption from having to pay Use Tax for catalog and online purchases under a certain dollar amount or for certain types of purchased goods, for instance, food or clothing. How does the retailer know even what items to tax? So now not only do the retailers have to keep track of almost 10000 different tax rates (that I heard change at the rate of 120 a day), but also if the item is even taxable in that state? This is an absolute nightmare for any small business, and will effectively kill any small online retailer. Of course Amazon and Best Buy support it - it will kill off any competition and make them even bigger.
Yes, is true, but I think there is a bit of a loophole. If you set up a PayPal like system in the Cayman Islands, you could funnel money into it (your "bank") and then because taxation is from the point of purchase (buyer's address) not the point of delivery, you could bypass tax law by making all purchases through that location. Basically, purchase by proxy through a Cayman's web site. The caveat is whether you owe gift tax or if it considered an overseas purchase, but once again you're right back in the unpaid Use Tax problem they are attempting to fix.
Also the average tax jurisdictions is thought to be about 9800, though there is a highball number in the 19000s. The real problem is there are something like 120 changes a day on average according to a news report I saw on it. If you have the resources to track 9800 different jurisdictions and 120 changes a day without a major impact to your bottom line, well I commend you Wal-Mart, but most businesses don't.
I concur - and the price never changes. I had to replace the computer in my now 14 year old car (it was 12 at the time) at a cost of $1600 for the computer and another $600 for installation and software programming (unfortunately, it was an emergency repair and I didn't have the luxury to shop around). Incidentally, the part still lists for $1600 two years later (but can be found for around $1000 online). Revision C came 8 years ago, and the part hasn't been revised since. I'm fairly certain there is a good $1500 markup on that.
Only they are failing to compete with $20 cards as well, and their best offering is smoked by SOC (sorry, lingo - System On a Chip) like the AMD A10 in the graphics department.
They probably use the SIMD instruction set (aka SSE, formerly MMX) for parallelization. Honestly, I'd rather write to a GPU using a common language, but parallel technology does exist on the CPU. Inflexible, single purpose parallel instructions, but ones that would work for that task.
Or try WINE on Android if it exists yet and try the Windows version (heard it was in development, probably nowhere near ready for prime time though)...
Yeppers, kinda hard to hide your age when you're a member of the 4 digit Id club (close to site founding in 1997 or 16 years ago). Even us 5 digiters are pretty creaky.
The only person that would call opponents "14 year old basement dwellers" are 14 year old basement dwellers. Whoever elected a 14 year old to congress is an idiot.
Congressman, you've been called. Score -5, Troll for you.
yeah - I get silent collusion, with Century Link not even trying to compete with Comcast and the only reason they have anything newer than 15 years old in the CLEC is because they bought it off a failed carrier in a fire sale (I believe from the remnants of Rhythms, though they also bought some Northpoint equipment from what I recall).
Jay said the Diablo 3 always on requirement was built in from the start because they initially planned the game as a MMO, not for DRM reasons. When the MMO requirement was dropped, the networking and infrastructure code was already done and it would have been a lot more work (and many months of delays) to pull it out. As a developer, I have seen similar decisions made for business reasons, including hiding features that are essentially finished rather than expose a very nasty bug to customers because it is too difficult to fix before a fixed release date (despite 99% of the feature working great and the bug easily avoidable with some training).
What really killed us (indies in the old days - I was a shareware author) was lack of publishers. Shareware was perhaps before its time, and I think the Id model was good (ala Doom), where you download the game and get a disk for the levels, but the way I distributed - network only, was killed by lack of high speed downloading and a lot of piracy. The studio I worked for after I used my shareware to get my foot in the door developed tier-2 games (budget ala Deer Hunter), but that market largely was absorbed into the larger studios or killed off as time went on. The title I worked on was classified as a tier-2+ game due to having acquired a major licensing agreement with a well known brand. Unfortunately, even saying who I worked for or who published it would violate numerous NDAs (this is pre-GoD games, so dev studios went uncredited). I don't know what the statute of limitations is on those things, but I assume perpetuity.
That said, I did EVERYTHING on my game - I am a decent if unspectacular artist, a decent musician, a programmer, did my own sound, didn't need mocap, though I did do animations (in sprites), and marketed mainly though college download sites. It made me about $55000 over about 10 years (it was free after 6, but donations to keep website alive netted a few k) and probably incurred about $40k in expenses before being hosted on a free site.
Alejandro chorus: IV-I-V-vi
Poker Face vi-IV-I-V
others are similar or the same (one uses a closely related minor instead, as I recall) - the cycle is identical, it just starts on a different chord.
I remember hearing somewhere that 36% of pop music used that progression (or maybe it was #1 songs for a specific year). Axis of Awesome makes fun of it. Rob Paravonian nailed it in his Pachelbel rant (as a fellow cellist that plays guitar that had gone on a similar rant, beautifully done).
Not to mention exemptions - some states have exemptions on catalog and internet sales below a certain amount. And the correct way to tax internet sales is 100% identification of where the buyer lives so you can apply those city and county level taxes. This is next to impossible due to proxies and anonymous accounts. I also want to know exactly how they plan to prevent double taxation since I already owe (and am one of the few that pay) Use Tax in my state. If they don't make it exempt to use tax, I see a lawsuit.
My thoughts exactly. The day CenturyLink offers me speeds over 8Mbps for less than $90/month is the day Comcast drops prices for 20Mbps access below $50 (with Cable - it costs more if you don't bundle). If you think wireless is better, think again - they charge $10 per megabyte generally, and the ones that don't have really shitty service where I am. It is lose-lose-lose to the monopolies here.
I've known people that worked for FGU, both with good success and bad - good luck to you
Well Ubuntu is moving to Unity on Wayland (instead of X, but Wayland can run x windows inside), so that is a bit of a shift. I never really loved Unity (like you, I prefer MATE), but I understand that it is targeting a younger generation than mine.
As for Windows 8, I like it, but conditionally - with a touch screen, it works great. Without a touch screen, it is incredibly frustrating at times. I haven't had enough time to use it to become intimately familiar yet, but I will have to at some point because my job requires it.
You may be able to get it, but no security patches will go in. My mac is a B&W G3 upgraded to a G4/600 and it hasn't been patched by Apple in at least 6 years (when X.4 support ended). I have manually patched quite a bit of it, but usually I run Yellow Dog Linux on it.
Actually, I believe the statement is correct for older phones - pretty sure that wasn't there on my Droid X, but my new phone certainly has it. Not that it matters in my case, as I can't tunnel into my work network without dual identification on the device (a requirement of corporate security), but it would work on my home network if I had a need to set up VPN (I use ssh tunneling usually... could set that up on my phone I guess...).
heh - my IT guy at school (I was an assistant manager/TA for several labs) hated supporting macs with a passion, so I usually did the support. He also was a piss poor PC supporter, so I usually found and fixed viruses students constantly installed (either intentionally or not - and I know there were some intentional) because it would take him a month to get in and do it because of his "80 hour weeks" (every time I saw him, he was chatting or doing nothing). The next year after I graduated, the school went heavily to Linux (and I imagine the virus nightmare was horrible without me taking initiative and fixing them).
I went from being a Windows hater to being very platform agnostic at that job. I worked on Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, and IRIX (IRIX was on its last legs, but I have fond memories... always liked the obscure variants, and I supported many at my first post-college job).
I'm sure they'll say if solar isn't good enough, we should use (solar) wind power :P
People say they won't buy the game because of the DRM, but enough still do that it doesn't matter to the publisher - they've protected sales and stopped piracy and it made them money. Sometimes you need to find a different answer - as a developer in the 1990s, we weren't allowed to put our studio name anywhere on the box because it "diluted the brand" of the publisher. Enough developers got ticked enough at this that the founded GoD Games (Gathering of Developers) and that was enough to force change in the industry (they eventually were bought by Take 2). The only title I ever worked on was on one of those unbranded boxes.
China has stealth aircraft and bombers, a more prolific nuclear program than the United States, several centers with very reliable high speed internet that is better than most Americans (Beijing and Shanghai in particular), and spends the second most money on military in the world, albeit badly dwarfed by the United States (albeit most work is 1/3 to 1/4 the cost). If they aren't a super power, then Russia isn't, either.
How do you start a war when there is either the side of Kim Jong Un, or prison camp? If you try to make any other side, big brother will sniff you out and throw you in prison camp where you and your next 2 generations of children will live and die. That is the NK way. Stalinism is very effective in eradicating dissent.