Yeah, I'm aware of those, but I'm not talking butts in odd places, I'm betting there will be creatures that look like gigantic talking dicks. That's it, just a giant dick with feet, hands, and a mouth.
I don't understand what that's supposed to even mean. If you're not playing with other people, what does being online get you? Downloadable content? Haven't games been doing that for years? What's so revolutionary here? It's not so much revolutionary as in providing a completely new technology, as it's revolutionary in combining a number of existing technologies in a way that's never been done precisely the same way. The online portion comes from the fact that the other creatures your creature will compete against in the world will be more or less randomly selected (you can specifically select them as well) from the pool of creatures created by other players. It's sort of like as if instead of having a bunch of NPCs in a game you instead interact with all the characters created by other players. The catch is that the creatures aren't controlled by other players, merely designed by them. Really kind of a cool idea. Think of it as the ultimate downloadable content, where it's not just a bonus, it's a core part of the game.
Yeah, pretty much confirmed at this point. The article says it's more or less ready to ship, they're just ironing out a few bugs and adding a bit of polish at this point. Of course, that whole exporting and importing of other creatures thing I think will either make or break this game. Personally I bet that within a month of the release there are already at least 6 races designed to look like genitalia due primarily to the greater internet fuckwad theory.
I don't have time right now to properly reply to you, but I'll get to it at some point. For now I can basically summarize my point by saying you seem to have developed some rather warped and unfounded views on what constitutes a relationship between men and women. A healthy relationship is not a dominate submissive thing as you imply, in which the male shows "love" by dominating the female. It's that opinion that leads me to call you a neanderthal. Relationships are about give and take, they exist for the betterment of the individuals involved to allow them to pool resources and to enjoy each others company. One may argue that holding a door for someone shows respect, however it applies equally no matter the sex. Women do not have relationships because they need some sort of protection and to say as much smacks of locker-room bravado and posturing.
FYI to anyone using the new comment system, it seems to break the threading a bit so replies often look like they're attached to the wrong message. For the correct context of my post click the parent link, as right now it looks like I'm responding to the guy who posted something about paedobear but I'm not.
Take these in reverse order. First, there's some legal paperwork that porno companies need to keep on file for a number of years that basically documents the age of all the "actors" in their movies. That's how they verify the ages. As for amateur and anonymous videos, no idea, I think it's more of a case of "if it looks illegal, they'll consider it illegal". Second, it's pretty common in Japan to have sexual manga and anime with characters that are very young looking, so much so there's a specific word for that style (analogous to lolita here, although lolita in japan has a different meaning). It's not precisely CGI, but it's probably close enough to draw a parallel. That being said, I don't think there's anything "official" (that is, commercial) in that category, and anything where the characters look a bit youngish usually has a disclaimer that anyone depicted is in fact of age even if they look 12.
Hmm... I think we need a new term for posts like this, troll just doesn't cut it. I hereby dub this guy a Neanderthal. And please, can we skip the insensitive clod meme.
Could be an even finer point, as it's theoretically possible that someone could be aroused by images or depictions of something, without actually wishing to do that same thing themselves. I'm not sure if in practice that's true though. Any psychology majors ever heard of someone being turned on by something that they didn't actually wish to partake in themselves?
Anything that creates a market for the sexual abuse of children must be considered a crime-- even if the market's currency is "internet karma." Not that I necessarily agree or disagree with your point, but your argument is a bit flawed. Based on that logic looking at pictures of illegal acts would thus be illegal. It could be argued there's a market for pictures of accidents and death (certainly several sites dedicated to it, that whole train-wreck phenomena), in which the pictures may or may not be of a crime scene, but viewing of those pictures is not considered illegal. There are fetish sites out there that claim to have videos of people being raped (obviously staged as they're licensed, but that's irrelevant to the argument) as well as some genuine rape videos, but viewing of those videos is also not considered illegal. Sorry, but your argument simply does not stand up.
I propose that we create legislation that mandates upload-only connections. ... well, that's rather pointless. I'm just trying to picture what that would be... digital billboard? Couldn't request content because that would require a "download" on the part of the server, so it would just have to broadcast its content constantly and hope someone went looking for it. Sorry, the internet just isn't setup for that kind of thing, all internet connections are inherently bi-directional. At best you could block unsolicited inbound connections, but many peoples firewalls and routers already do that.
then, 4chan isn't helping. Has 4chan in its entire history ever done anything that could be described as "helping"?
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What has happened over the past few decades is that companies have begun to focus on the short term profits. So they will cut costs/workers in order to make the numbers for this quarter look good. Even if they know that the money they are saving is going to hurt profits next year. Interesting the way that correlates to a previous post about a lot of CEOs and upper management being sociopaths or psychopaths. One of the key traits listed for sociopaths and psychopaths is an inability to plan for the long term and a need for immediate gratification. Maybe the corporate focus on short term profits at the cost of long term is a reflection of this?
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Depends on how you look at it. Initially companies, and even corporations are about producing something. The problem is that once a company goes public the board of directors, effectively the one's in charge of the company, are the ones most invested in the stock of the company. To them, the value of the company is the value of its stock, which in turn is evaluated based on profit reports. It becomes a destructive cycle in which the stock holders pressure the directors to raise stock prices, which in turn leads the directors to try to raise profits. The simplest ways to raise profits in the short term, are often the most self destructive in the long term, where as a more moderated approach would yield better long term profits.
It's worse then that. Ambiguous laws, as laid out in TFA, are the bread and butter of lawyers. Getting a loophole filled and badly written law on the books is like printing money for law firms. Further, most politicians are either ex-lawyers, or have strong connections (usually family) in law. To expect anything to actually get passed that would help to clarify the legal process is failing to understand that the people who would be most hurt by that legislation are the ones responsible for passing it. Simply never going to happen, short of a complete overthrow of our government and/or a top to bottom replacement of all public officials (technically different, practically the same thing).
According to the article he's specifically not claiming anything. What he is claiming, is that he has a device, that seems to accelerate a motor using magnets in a way that hasn't been explained yet. He's actually more interested in if it can make current electric motors more efficient, not if it's some magical "free energy" device. It will be interesting to find out what's behind the apparent effect of this thing. At this point there's really one of three possible outcomes. One, it could be some error in his test setup, it follows all the rules, he's just measuring wrong. Second, it follows all the rules, but exploits some new principle we were unaware of till now. And lastly it breaks current rules and we need to make some adjustments to them. I'm betting one is most likely, although the second is a strong possibility as well. As for the third outcome, I'd give it a 0.0001% chance.
Doing something new is always "more difficult" then doing something you already know how to do. The real point here is, is it more difficult to do something new on Windows, or something new on Linux? Often times it's actually easier on Linux, not because it's simple, but because finding something that actually does what you want on Windows can be such an unbelievable nightmare. Yes, with Linux you'll probably have to read some arcane manual and recite a magic incantation you got from some forum somewhere (often the first hit when you search for the error on google), but in Windows you usually have 2 choices, search for a week to find something that does almost exactly what you want, or buy whatever overpriced piece of software does 50% of what you want and live with a bunch of workarounds. This is really what the "more difficult" discussion is about, it's not about how difficult it is to do something you do all the time in windows/linux, that's always going to be "more difficult" in the opposite of whatever OS you normally use, it's about how difficult it is to do something totally new. Ultimately of course the decision to switch OS comes down to a number of factors, among them if there's any software you "can not live without" and which has no compelling alternatives, is the difficultly of doing something new greater then the difficultly of relearning how to do the things you normally do, and does the new OS do everything you need it to.
The pic was fake as it said in the article. They just made a quick mockup to have something to put in the article. However, it also says that the source of the rumor was someone inside Sony so I wouldn't be so quick to discredit it. Another thing to consider is the fact that the console has already been redesigned a number of times on the inside, just not the outside. We already know for a fact that the 3 or 4 versions out now all have slightly different hardware inside (they removed the hardware PS2 emulation from the later models). I really don't see it being that big a deal for them to incorporate the new smaller chipset (with smaller heatsink requirements), the removed PS2 hardware, and the slimmer BlueRay reader, into a slightly smaller body. Surely all that slimmed down hardware taken as a whole has to knock off some space requirements.
[But does it] work under Linux Work? Why on Earth would the RIAA care if it works? In fact it's better if it doesn't work at all, less chance of people cracking it.
Seriously, it makes me wonder why these people are even let out in public without chaperons. At the very least they should have a lawyer and someone technical around at all time. The technical guy to hopefully whisper "uh, that won't work, and it's a bad idea" in their ear every time they come up with one of these stupid ideas, and the lawyer to say "that's not our official opinion, and this is all off the record" every time one of these guys opens their mouths.
Also, don't think I am picking on you for it, but SSH timeout is almost worthless. All it does is slow you down a small bit. Yes, if I fail login three times, it will boot that session, but unless you have other things set up for reporting/detection and response (again something that you most likely have to pay for), all that needs to happen is that script run continuously, establishing a new session each time, until it sees a prmopt appear. Fail2Ban will fix that for you.
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Yeah, I'm aware of those, but I'm not talking butts in odd places, I'm betting there will be creatures that look like gigantic talking dicks. That's it, just a giant dick with feet, hands, and a mouth.
Yeah, pretty much confirmed at this point. The article says it's more or less ready to ship, they're just ironing out a few bugs and adding a bit of polish at this point. Of course, that whole exporting and importing of other creatures thing I think will either make or break this game. Personally I bet that within a month of the release there are already at least 6 races designed to look like genitalia due primarily to the greater internet fuckwad theory.
I don't have time right now to properly reply to you, but I'll get to it at some point. For now I can basically summarize my point by saying you seem to have developed some rather warped and unfounded views on what constitutes a relationship between men and women. A healthy relationship is not a dominate submissive thing as you imply, in which the male shows "love" by dominating the female. It's that opinion that leads me to call you a neanderthal. Relationships are about give and take, they exist for the betterment of the individuals involved to allow them to pool resources and to enjoy each others company. One may argue that holding a door for someone shows respect, however it applies equally no matter the sex. Women do not have relationships because they need some sort of protection and to say as much smacks of locker-room bravado and posturing.
That takes care of the first example, but what about the second one for things like rape fetish videos?
This can be explained using this handy formula: link
FYI to anyone using the new comment system, it seems to break the threading a bit so replies often look like they're attached to the wrong message. For the correct context of my post click the parent link, as right now it looks like I'm responding to the guy who posted something about paedobear but I'm not.
Take these in reverse order. First, there's some legal paperwork that porno companies need to keep on file for a number of years that basically documents the age of all the "actors" in their movies. That's how they verify the ages. As for amateur and anonymous videos, no idea, I think it's more of a case of "if it looks illegal, they'll consider it illegal". Second, it's pretty common in Japan to have sexual manga and anime with characters that are very young looking, so much so there's a specific word for that style (analogous to lolita here, although lolita in japan has a different meaning). It's not precisely CGI, but it's probably close enough to draw a parallel. That being said, I don't think there's anything "official" (that is, commercial) in that category, and anything where the characters look a bit youngish usually has a disclaimer that anyone depicted is in fact of age even if they look 12.
Hmm... I think we need a new term for posts like this, troll just doesn't cut it. I hereby dub this guy a Neanderthal. And please, can we skip the insensitive clod meme.
Could be an even finer point, as it's theoretically possible that someone could be aroused by images or depictions of something, without actually wishing to do that same thing themselves. I'm not sure if in practice that's true though. Any psychology majors ever heard of someone being turned on by something that they didn't actually wish to partake in themselves?
In this case, I think my sig says it all.
Depends on how you look at it. Initially companies, and even corporations are about producing something. The problem is that once a company goes public the board of directors, effectively the one's in charge of the company, are the ones most invested in the stock of the company. To them, the value of the company is the value of its stock, which in turn is evaluated based on profit reports. It becomes a destructive cycle in which the stock holders pressure the directors to raise stock prices, which in turn leads the directors to try to raise profits. The simplest ways to raise profits in the short term, are often the most self destructive in the long term, where as a more moderated approach would yield better long term profits.
It's worse then that. Ambiguous laws, as laid out in TFA, are the bread and butter of lawyers. Getting a loophole filled and badly written law on the books is like printing money for law firms. Further, most politicians are either ex-lawyers, or have strong connections (usually family) in law. To expect anything to actually get passed that would help to clarify the legal process is failing to understand that the people who would be most hurt by that legislation are the ones responsible for passing it. Simply never going to happen, short of a complete overthrow of our government and/or a top to bottom replacement of all public officials (technically different, practically the same thing).
According to the article he's specifically not claiming anything. What he is claiming, is that he has a device, that seems to accelerate a motor using magnets in a way that hasn't been explained yet. He's actually more interested in if it can make current electric motors more efficient, not if it's some magical "free energy" device. It will be interesting to find out what's behind the apparent effect of this thing. At this point there's really one of three possible outcomes. One, it could be some error in his test setup, it follows all the rules, he's just measuring wrong. Second, it follows all the rules, but exploits some new principle we were unaware of till now. And lastly it breaks current rules and we need to make some adjustments to them. I'm betting one is most likely, although the second is a strong possibility as well. As for the third outcome, I'd give it a 0.0001% chance.
You keep banana that movie. I do not think it means what you think it leaflets. Dear FiloEleven
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Doing something new is always "more difficult" then doing something you already know how to do. The real point here is, is it more difficult to do something new on Windows, or something new on Linux? Often times it's actually easier on Linux, not because it's simple, but because finding something that actually does what you want on Windows can be such an unbelievable nightmare. Yes, with Linux you'll probably have to read some arcane manual and recite a magic incantation you got from some forum somewhere (often the first hit when you search for the error on google), but in Windows you usually have 2 choices, search for a week to find something that does almost exactly what you want, or buy whatever overpriced piece of software does 50% of what you want and live with a bunch of workarounds. This is really what the "more difficult" discussion is about, it's not about how difficult it is to do something you do all the time in windows/linux, that's always going to be "more difficult" in the opposite of whatever OS you normally use, it's about how difficult it is to do something totally new. Ultimately of course the decision to switch OS comes down to a number of factors, among them if there's any software you "can not live without" and which has no compelling alternatives, is the difficultly of doing something new greater then the difficultly of relearning how to do the things you normally do, and does the new OS do everything you need it to.
The pic was fake as it said in the article. They just made a quick mockup to have something to put in the article. However, it also says that the source of the rumor was someone inside Sony so I wouldn't be so quick to discredit it. Another thing to consider is the fact that the console has already been redesigned a number of times on the inside, just not the outside. We already know for a fact that the 3 or 4 versions out now all have slightly different hardware inside (they removed the hardware PS2 emulation from the later models). I really don't see it being that big a deal for them to incorporate the new smaller chipset (with smaller heatsink requirements), the removed PS2 hardware, and the slimmer BlueRay reader, into a slightly smaller body. Surely all that slimmed down hardware taken as a whole has to knock off some space requirements.
This fits in well with the rumors of a slim version of the PS3 in the works. See here for more details.
Seriously, it makes me wonder why these people are even let out in public without chaperons. At the very least they should have a lawyer and someone technical around at all time. The technical guy to hopefully whisper "uh, that won't work, and it's a bad idea" in their ear every time they come up with one of these stupid ideas, and the lawyer to say "that's not our official opinion, and this is all off the record" every time one of these guys opens their mouths.