In that same Farewell Address where Eisenhower warned about the rise of the military-industrial complex, he also warned of the rise of a scientific-technological elite.
Naturally, the guys in the lab brush that part off.
Well, 'people on the inside' easily figure out what is meant. The regular folks just back slowly out of the room. That's appealing for people 'on the inside' who want to remain an elite.
I worked at a Medical Device company where they were in the process of digging out from implementing an important interface device on Embedded OS/2. Believe me, they wished they had used Embedded NT.
Also a problem is that smokers tend to saturate their system completely with the insecticide toxins (nicotine is an insecticide that plants naturally evolved). Traditional tobacco and medicinal users smoke occasionally.
That 'rummy' smell of a pickled alcoholic is similar to the saturated nicotine smell of a cigarette addict.
The AAA titles that I have noticed recently cost the same $59.99 on the consoles that they do on the PC.
The little crap games available on Mobile are a whole different category. Most of them are not worth the $0.99 that is charged for them. There is another category of $7.99 games on mobile, but those are almost always just ports from console games by the big publishers.
Believe me, some of us have searched long and hard for anything worth playing on 'mobile' that is in app stores. It gets to the point where you search for ONLY games that you can pay for once and just play, because the 'free' games are either spam or microtransaction hell.
In the article summary, the first reference is to 'phones and tablets vs. consoles' but then the whole rest of the summary is about 'mobile versus PCs'.
Am I to take from this that kids play games on mobile first, and consoles are just plain over, so the only thing to compare mobile gaming against is PC gaming?
It's unclear, because the way I view it is that there are three categories of gaming: Mobile, Console, and PC gaming.
When I hang out at the kind of place that favors Console gaming (Gamestop or used gaming shots that sell disks and carts) console gaming seems to be 'on top.' When I go to an appstore it's apparent that lots of games (many of them really crappy and suboptimal because who wants to rub their knuckles against a flat piece of glass for hours?) are available on Mobile. When I visit a website like Steam or Gog.com, it becomes apparent there is a thriving market for PC games.
Some of the places where 'water is scarce' are places where people want to live in traditional suburban tract housing with green lawns that they mow weekly, because television and modern culture tells them that is the way they have to live. These are also places where there are vast tracts of what was desert before but by piping all the water up and onto the land they have become major food producing areas.
The place where I live in the middle of the continent is very capable of growing things like tomatos and fruit, but because the scale-of-economy favors these places were deserts are turned into cropland, we're mostly growing corn to turn into alcohol for fuel because the government mandates that gas have alcohol in it.
It's a big fucked up mess and central to that is always 'big government' or 'big business' (am I being redundant?) redefining the rules and changing our practices.
Or we could stop believing there is even a True Nature Of The Universe in the first place
But... but.. the singularity! There are billionaires out there who want something even MORE to achieve. Think of their feelings when you make hurtful assertions like the above.
You have apparently not been around long enough to know that comment mark-downs and mark-ups are not a meritocracy. Sometimes comments are marked down just to remove them from the main view of people who've set their threshold up to not see off-topic comments. Your 'karma' shouldn't matter, as you said. Why does it matter enough to you to even make a second off-topic comment?
Then we're treated to the entire BJ lie once again - as if the person who brought it up has any idea what actually transpired.
Systematic sexual harassment at the workplace. If every 16 year old female who has sex with a 19 year old male was 'raped' then the law should be enforced evenly. When a Chief Executive engages in sexual relations with a subordinate, the power dynamic is clearly in play.
Why do the rules change when the horndog happens to be a Liberal hero?
The problem is, neither Sanders/Warren nor Trump/Fiorina are beholden to the big corporate donors who control both the mainstream Democrats and the mainstream Republicans. It's a direct threat to the C-level fuckers who run things.
The US Chamber of Commerce want Bush. Wall Street wants Clinton. Both bodies really find either candidate acceptable.
But there are squealing babies in the ghettos to feed? How can you justify building the machinery to make food for them, when what's just needed is to dump today's food on them, which was made... somewhere else... ?
In other words: using mechanical equipment to fuck up areas of land that were better off before the 'jeep' arrived. You don't need to get up off your swivel chair or take your hands off the keyboard to know that.
What we need more of is tire-spiking, where 4-wheeler enthusiasts use chains and winches to pull stranded wrecks out of the muddy entry-points of said land.
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In that same Farewell Address where Eisenhower warned about the rise of the military-industrial complex, he also warned of the rise of a scientific-technological elite.
Naturally, the guys in the lab brush that part off.
Well, 'people on the inside' easily figure out what is meant. The regular folks just back slowly out of the room. That's appealing for people 'on the inside' who want to remain an elite.
Sorry, there probably won't ever be a version of iOS for the Raspberry Pi.
I worked at a Medical Device company where they were in the process of digging out from implementing an important interface device on Embedded OS/2. Believe me, they wished they had used Embedded NT.
When they write a port for my old iPod Touches I will be elated. It would be nice to have a port for my SE/30, too, but I'm not that hopeful.
You can run NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi, you know. There's no reason to screw around.
Also a problem is that smokers tend to saturate their system completely with the insecticide toxins (nicotine is an insecticide that plants naturally evolved). Traditional tobacco and medicinal users smoke occasionally.
That 'rummy' smell of a pickled alcoholic is similar to the saturated nicotine smell of a cigarette addict.
I just spent $175 on a middle-grade graphics card, rather than spending $300 on an Xbone. I suppose I have voted with my money.
The AAA titles that I have noticed recently cost the same $59.99 on the consoles that they do on the PC.
The little crap games available on Mobile are a whole different category. Most of them are not worth the $0.99 that is charged for them. There is another category of $7.99 games on mobile, but those are almost always just ports from console games by the big publishers.
Believe me, some of us have searched long and hard for anything worth playing on 'mobile' that is in app stores. It gets to the point where you search for ONLY games that you can pay for once and just play, because the 'free' games are either spam or microtransaction hell.
In the article summary, the first reference is to 'phones and tablets vs. consoles' but then the whole rest of the summary is about 'mobile versus PCs'.
Am I to take from this that kids play games on mobile first, and consoles are just plain over, so the only thing to compare mobile gaming against is PC gaming?
It's unclear, because the way I view it is that there are three categories of gaming: Mobile, Console, and PC gaming.
When I hang out at the kind of place that favors Console gaming (Gamestop or used gaming shots that sell disks and carts) console gaming seems to be 'on top.' When I go to an appstore it's apparent that lots of games (many of them really crappy and suboptimal because who wants to rub their knuckles against a flat piece of glass for hours?) are available on Mobile. When I visit a website like Steam or Gog.com, it becomes apparent there is a thriving market for PC games.
Some of the places where 'water is scarce' are places where people want to live in traditional suburban tract housing with green lawns that they mow weekly, because television and modern culture tells them that is the way they have to live. These are also places where there are vast tracts of what was desert before but by piping all the water up and onto the land they have become major food producing areas.
The place where I live in the middle of the continent is very capable of growing things like tomatos and fruit, but because the scale-of-economy favors these places were deserts are turned into cropland, we're mostly growing corn to turn into alcohol for fuel because the government mandates that gas have alcohol in it.
It's a big fucked up mess and central to that is always 'big government' or 'big business' (am I being redundant?) redefining the rules and changing our practices.
Ah, that makes it even more clear: One Big Government needs to step in. Otherwise We Are All Doomed.
You should definitely point to the specific graph, to prove that you're not just another flack who is tossing shit around that you barely understand.
We can't all just repeat the summaries that we read on the websites that favor our chosen 'position' on the matter.
Or, rather, we can do just that.
Or we could stop believing there is even a True Nature Of The Universe in the first place
But... but.. the singularity! There are billionaires out there who want something even MORE to achieve. Think of their feelings when you make hurtful assertions like the above.
You have apparently not been around long enough to know that comment mark-downs and mark-ups are not a meritocracy. Sometimes comments are marked down just to remove them from the main view of people who've set their threshold up to not see off-topic comments. Your 'karma' shouldn't matter, as you said. Why does it matter enough to you to even make a second off-topic comment?
We're letting somebody like you define conservationism now?
Really?
Fuck off, buddy. It would be easy to engage in the discussion, but fuck off.
Then we're treated to the entire BJ lie once again - as if the person who brought it up has any idea what actually transpired.
Systematic sexual harassment at the workplace. If every 16 year old female who has sex with a 19 year old male was 'raped' then the law should be enforced evenly. When a Chief Executive engages in sexual relations with a subordinate, the power dynamic is clearly in play.
Why do the rules change when the horndog happens to be a Liberal hero?
I wouldn't say it is exactly like Lewinsky.
There is no evidence that Hillary Clinton has engaged in systematic sexual harassment in the workplace. That was her husband Bill's gig.
The problem is, neither Sanders/Warren nor Trump/Fiorina are beholden to the big corporate donors who control both the mainstream Democrats and the mainstream Republicans. It's a direct threat to the C-level fuckers who run things.
The US Chamber of Commerce want Bush. Wall Street wants Clinton. Both bodies really find either candidate acceptable.
But there are squealing babies in the ghettos to feed? How can you justify building the machinery to make food for them, when what's just needed is to dump today's food on them, which was made... somewhere else... ?
atrociously
It's so easy to detect adjective abuse and know who the Apple shills are.
Is it step 4. where you remove systemd, or is that an appendix to the main procedure?
My point was to fuck the advertisers. With a broken coke bottle if easily possible.
If preventing things is the default action, you deserve for your 'end users' to hate you.
In other words: using mechanical equipment to fuck up areas of land that were better off before the 'jeep' arrived. You don't need to get up off your swivel chair or take your hands off the keyboard to know that.
What we need more of is tire-spiking, where 4-wheeler enthusiasts use chains and winches to pull stranded wrecks out of the muddy entry-points of said land.