And once they have the infrastructure in place, they'll start making it opt in for political sites, overseas news sites etc, all in the name of protecting you somehow until they have a nice list of what nasty stuff you like to get up to then wham, you're in jail for thinking stuff the government don't want you thinking.
I've worked in the magazine industry before and basically, your advertising should cover all costs. Subs etc are just icing on the cake. Out the things our DRM free and concentrate on raising ad revenue.
The police set up vans with cameras that scan the number plates of all the cars that go down the street that day, cross ref for road tax, MOT and/or insurance and send out automated fines if any aren't in order.
HFT is a symptom of a deeply broken system. We need to really start to recognise that profit isn't all and long term stewardship of our instituitions and systems is key to our long term quality of live. For everyone.
FLAC may be lossless but it's still no guarantee of super HiFi. You've still got the DAC, amp and speakers to worry about. People often assume because it's FLAC, it is the acme of quality even played back on an iPod with Apple headphones. Ain't so.
> E.T. was a commercial failure
Not really. It sold 1.5m units. It's just they actually made way too many. It was a failure only inasmuch as they paid too much for the licence and made too many. In terms of sales it did OK.
Strictly speaking, I started with a TI 50 step programmable calculator in the late 70's but I would say for me, it really started when I got an Atari 400 and used to type in the game listings from Computer & Video Games mag in the UK. When the game wouldn't work, I'd compare my version with the magazine and after a while got to recognise what commands did what. Then I got a book on Basic and learned it properly. I also picked up 6502 assembler. Then I moved on to Lattice C & 68k assembler on the Atari ST. Having fought off doing IT as a job for 10+ years I eventually went for it and moved on to VB4 then VB6, did my MSCD courses and exams, added maybe 5 or 6 operating systems and at last count about 20 more languages of varying levels of obscurity.
Along the way, I've read an awful lot of books, studied other people's code and so on. Apart from the 1 year spent on MCSD/VB6 it was all self taught but I think the amount of experience picked up along the way has meant I'm pretty decent within the areas I work in.
I basically write finanancial software - databases, billing systems etc. I *like* documenting, write structured heavily commented and pretty much bullet proof code. Generally, if there's a bug, it's down to vague design or me misunderatanding the design rather than code errors per-se.
>and the thing that hacked the 300D into something fancier)
That would be the 10D. I had that hack in my 300D. Not all features of the 10D worked as the hardware simply wasn't there but many did and it added some nice new features.
I live in a UK village which recently got upgraded to a 21C exchange and I'm getting 1.5 megabytes a second down now. Up/down speed doubled overnight for the same price. They're getting there.
I remember an 80's movie called Prime Risk where some girl is working on an ATM hack then realises terrorists are already in the system planning to blow up key data nodes to bring the banking system to its knees. Iliked it because she used an Atari 800/810 disk drive for everything but it was still an OK film from memory.
Which describes every large software project implemented by a non-software company, ever.
We've got the opposite problem, Everything is overengineered, modular, documented to death and scalable but 9/10 times the code base is never touched again for a decade then it's replaced. Might as well of thrown it together and saved 40% of the development costs.
Much as it pains me to say it, being a major non GMO fan, you're not far wrong. It's the business practices, rush to market, lack of controls etc that's the issue but I suspect that's not going to go away any time soon.
Obviously criminals can get them where they're illegal but if the supply isn't there, less guns. If the crims can buy a 3D printer and start making their own, we have a problem. It's not a hard concept.
And does their name begin with M? Also, when does this obsession with profit and short termism start to wane over long term stewardship? As a species, we are getting so fucked up. In history we used to wonder how once great nations could possibly collapse back to nothing, well here it is on a global scale.
What about countries where firearms are illegal or strictly controlled? Great, now our sundry criminals will be able to get guns made to order. Way to go with extreme irresponsibility. Hope you can live with the blood on your hands.
As a long term Xbox user, I can safely say that between the need for an always on connection plus the blocking of 2nd hand games AND the increase of per game costs forecast, I'm not going to be buying their next gen Xbox any time soon if at all. I love the 360 but whatever the 720 gets called is a huge turn off for me because of these issues.
Yep, you're right. I knew there was the pirate name versus the release one but going from memory I was thinking Jedi/Jaggy and totally forgot the whole Fractalus bit.
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>It doesn't matter. Jack Tramiel's Mastercard limit is $230M.
The late Jack Tramiel.
And once they have the infrastructure in place, they'll start making it opt in for political sites, overseas news sites etc, all in the name of protecting you somehow until they have a nice list of what nasty stuff you like to get up to then wham, you're in jail for thinking stuff the government don't want you thinking.
I've worked in the magazine industry before and basically, your advertising should cover all costs. Subs etc are just icing on the cake. Out the things our DRM free and concentrate on raising ad revenue.
The Black Hole?
The police set up vans with cameras that scan the number plates of all the cars that go down the street that day, cross ref for road tax, MOT and/or insurance and send out automated fines if any aren't in order.
quality of *life*. Doh.
HFT is a symptom of a deeply broken system. We need to really start to recognise that profit isn't all and long term stewardship of our instituitions and systems is key to our long term quality of live. For everyone.
FLAC may be lossless but it's still no guarantee of super HiFi. You've still got the DAC, amp and speakers to worry about. People often assume because it's FLAC, it is the acme of quality even played back on an iPod with Apple headphones. Ain't so.
> E.T. was a commercial failure
Not really. It sold 1.5m units. It's just they actually made way too many. It was a failure only inasmuch as they paid too much for the licence and made too many. In terms of sales it did OK.
Strictly speaking, I started with a TI 50 step programmable calculator in the late 70's but I would say for me, it really started when I got an Atari 400 and used to type in the game listings from Computer & Video Games mag in the UK. When the game wouldn't work, I'd compare my version with the magazine and after a while got to recognise what commands did what. Then I got a book on Basic and learned it properly. I also picked up 6502 assembler. Then I moved on to Lattice C & 68k assembler on the Atari ST. Having fought off doing IT as a job for 10+ years I eventually went for it and moved on to VB4 then VB6, did my MSCD courses and exams, added maybe 5 or 6 operating systems and at last count about 20 more languages of varying levels of obscurity. Along the way, I've read an awful lot of books, studied other people's code and so on. Apart from the 1 year spent on MCSD/VB6 it was all self taught but I think the amount of experience picked up along the way has meant I'm pretty decent within the areas I work in. I basically write finanancial software - databases, billing systems etc. I *like* documenting, write structured heavily commented and pretty much bullet proof code. Generally, if there's a bug, it's down to vague design or me misunderatanding the design rather than code errors per-se.
>and the thing that hacked the 300D into something fancier)
That would be the 10D. I had that hack in my 300D. Not all features of the 10D worked as the hardware simply wasn't there but many did and it added some nice new features.
I live in a UK village which recently got upgraded to a 21C exchange and I'm getting 1.5 megabytes a second down now. Up/down speed doubled overnight for the same price. They're getting there.
Makes mental note to buy www.shareyouroaktree.com domain . Could be a money spinner. Bwahahahah!
I remember an 80's movie called Prime Risk where some girl is working on an ATM hack then realises terrorists are already in the system planning to blow up key data nodes to bring the banking system to its knees. Iliked it because she used an Atari 800/810 disk drive for everything but it was still an OK film from memory.
We've got the opposite problem, Everything is overengineered, modular, documented to death and scalable but 9/10 times the code base is never touched again for a decade then it's replaced. Might as well of thrown it together and saved 40% of the development costs.
Well I thought it was a good post, especially the GSV reference. if I had mod points you'd get some.
Modded down huh? Looks like the Monsanto shills are out in force today like the Scientologists ones are on here from time to time.
So this guy says we need to make more food? Is this so it can just be thrown away like we do currently? http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/half-of-the-worlds-food-is-just-thrown-away-8445261.html
Maybe if we did a better job of using what we make, this would be a total non problem (not that it is anyway, unless your a Monsanto salesman)
Much as it pains me to say it, being a major non GMO fan, you're not far wrong. It's the business practices, rush to market, lack of controls etc that's the issue but I suspect that's not going to go away any time soon.
Obviously criminals can get them where they're illegal but if the supply isn't there, less guns. If the crims can buy a 3D printer and start making their own, we have a problem. It's not a hard concept.
And does their name begin with M? Also, when does this obsession with profit and short termism start to wane over long term stewardship? As a species, we are getting so fucked up. In history we used to wonder how once great nations could possibly collapse back to nothing, well here it is on a global scale.
What about countries where firearms are illegal or strictly controlled? Great, now our sundry criminals will be able to get guns made to order. Way to go with extreme irresponsibility. Hope you can live with the blood on your hands.
As a long term Xbox user, I can safely say that between the need for an always on connection plus the blocking of 2nd hand games AND the increase of per game costs forecast, I'm not going to be buying their next gen Xbox any time soon if at all. I love the 360 but whatever the 720 gets called is a huge turn off for me because of these issues.
Yep, you're right. I knew there was the pirate name versus the release one but going from memory I was thinking Jedi/Jaggy and totally forgot the whole Fractalus bit.