It's not about 'think of the children.' Read the article. It's about protecting women's rights. It comes from the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Some feminist groups oppose porn, for various reasons. The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality is one of those.
Among other things, if you read the article, they feel pornography encourages the culture that allows women to make less money than men.
Thankfully, there are nations that have already banned pornography and are hailed as beacons of Woman's Rights, like Saudi Araba, Egypt, China, North Korea, Guyana, and Botswana.
If I wanted to slack off and pretend to work (like the rest of the team would ever let that happen!), I'd simply fire up the VPN, then have some small program randomly open and close certain binaries on the remote servers, etc.
At work? Meh - I could slack off very easily by simply walking around a lot carrying papers, chatting with friends, or whatever. Far too many ways to slack off in a cube farm.
Problem is, when I was telecommuting? I was too busy on the phone in conferences w/ remote company clients, had deadlines to meet, and in IM sessions with other team members helping them out (and getting help). Because I worked on the servers, I had VPN open from 8am to 6pm on most days... working. Now, I show up at 8, then leave at 5.
The metrics don't have to be so obtuse. Your employees are assigned to projects and they're held accountable on being able to deliver, and having managers on the ball enough to recognize that 25 day estimate for modifying text on a dialog box is bullshit, and a 5 day estimate to make web systems be able to print blueberry waffles at users homes is impossible.
VPN logins, butts in seats, donuts missing from the lounge are numbers that don't really matter.
There are different norms in the world, like hands above the table or below. In Europe you have your hands above the table, but in the US you have your hands blow.
How can you have your hands below the table when you're eating? I don't understand.
Pie eating contest. Although I hear hands are most often tied behind the back.
Cutting the meat all at once allows the fork to be inserted once and several slices of meat cut in succession.
In the typical use case, the efficiency gain is illusory because the fork must still be inserted into each slice afterwards in order to transfer it to the mouth (where the fork will be efficiently removed). Nevertheless, the Stationary Fork algorithm is of importance when the meat slices must are to subsequently be processed in a distributed fashion by multiple forks and/or mouths.
Can you provide a proof of this algorithm and it's Big O notation, for all possible meat cuts of N grams?
Thanks for the review. Everything you've written makes MIT sound like an excellent school. One where you go to do some serious learnings, instead of just fuck around.
What other universities are like this?
Wow, you must be a blast at parties.
I'd rather go to parties that cost a six pack of beer instead of $42K a year.
Gotta say, this is perhaps the first time in my life I've ever wished to live in Kentucky, preferably in Rand Paul's district. Although I'm glad my Senator (Marco Rubio) is standing with him.
Remember when everybody was screaming about bandwidth caps and the need for government to regulate them out of existence?
This is why that regulation was a bad idea.
1GB/free and 10GB/$10 is highly disruptive to the major cable cartel. It is also extraordinarily beneficial for low income or student subscribers. This is innovation. We need more competition, not more regulations treating the symptoms of the lack of competition in most markets.
We just wanted the government to enforce that the duopoly doesn't get to redefine the term "unlimited" just because it was starting to become inconvenient.
Right.... because "clones" can't gain traction when they're done better, or less expensively, or more conveniently. Facebook is a MySpace clone . Microsoft Word is essentially a WordPerfect Clone. The list goes on.
Facebook, Myspace, Word, WordPerfect... none of which are games.
"What really annoys me is the absolute limit of what I can do to these bastards is not give them money."
Son, this is the United States. Sue the fuck out of them like I did.
I won pretty easily, go find yourself a competent lawyer.
And go read the Anti-tying provisions of the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act while you're in that lawyer's office.
How many EA products can you find that could reasonably match that violation of anti-tying provisions? (I'll give you a hint, any single-player game that REQUIRES an online connection.)
Now get to work.
There is no obligation in the US to provide a warranty. If a company does not offer one, they do not have to comply with Magnuson–Moss. Plus, every EULA pretty much states they provide no warranty. You might argue that the EULA is not legally enforceable as a contract, but even then it's still a declaration that they don't provide a warranty.
I know, I know, if you had your way, you'd literally cremate all the executives at EA while they were still living and screaming just to satisfy your rampant immature hatred. But, the rage would still be there, you'd force yourself not to forget it, you wouldn't understand it, and ultimately you'd demand they be brought back to life so you can do it again and again, getting angrier and angrier each time you keep remembering it.
Say, that would make a great game.
Perhaps they could do a microtransaction for each ressurection, and different implements of death could be DLC. And of course you'd have to have an always-on connection so you can share your killings with your friends on Facebook.
If you get enough people wound up about something, you can get the backing and momentum to really have an effect.
I don't get it. If you hate EA, why do you give a shit? You're getting upset because a company isn't doing something you wish they would do? Who gives a fuck? You're not buying their shit anyway.
It's like you've gone all obsessive about a beautiful but super-cunty woman and you hate her SOOO bad because she won't give you a blow job, so you rant and rave about it. That's mental illness, bub.
That's a pretty good analogy with the woman, because as we all know, there are plenty of fish in the sea.
However, due to excessively long copyright and trademark terms, when it comes to games, there are no other fish in the sea. The only people making SimCity games are EA. If you want to play another SimCity game, you're going to have to go to EA.
Are there city simulation competitors? Sure, but if they ever get any financial traction at all expect EA to go after them with lawyers akimbo. Even if they could get away with it, people will just always regard them as a SimCity clone. Even John Carmack admits that "you're just never as big when you're second in line." [cite]
And good luck with that. ASCAP gets a fee from damn near every establishment where you might want to perform your music, just in case somebody uses something that is covered by the ASCAP license. Radio access is basically non-existent without a contract with a major label.
THIS is the point. You can argue that artists are signing up with a label by choice, but really it's a choice between trying to support yourself with your craft and eating half of your instant ramen in the morning so you get to eat the rest that night.
The point behind RIAA and MPAA (MAFIAA) was to establish a distribution cartel, thereby creating a system where the only way to play is to play with them.
The next big trend: "premium" support. Free access to a "community" support forum, where other users -- for free -- may or may not help. Then for bigger problems you can call a 1-900 number, or a 1-800 number to pay up with a credit card per incident. Maybe the Premium box set versions of their games includes one free incident resolution (expires 3 months from purchase, no guarantee they will actually fix the issue).
I know you all love being able to fire at will in the US, but you must still stick to basic contract law?
The standard for "unconscionable" terms in the US is much higher than elsewhere in the civilized world. Therefore, sections that say that terms may change unilaterally by the employer and terms that if any aspect later turns out to be unenforceable the rest of the contract is still valid are legal, celebrated by the power brokers, and boilerplate.
The best usage for StackOverflow answers, in my opinion, is basically as a "see also" cheat sheet. Phrase a question in English, with details, in Google and you might find one already there. Else, post it and someone will give an answer with the magic words to follow up on.
Someone wanting to learn about security in Windows might not know what a token is, a casual DBMS user might not realize Oracle can do tree walks with some very non-standard SQL without having to write stored code, someone might not know they need a red-black tree to elegantly solve their particular problem.
It's the place I go when there I don't know things and I don't know what exactly I don't know. Armed with what I know I don't know, I can then do further research to do things the right way, although many I work with^W^Wknow will just stop right there and copy/paste teh codez, to their own peril.
What we need is an iPocketwatch. Make it fit into old gold watch cases and work as a cell phone.
I wouldn't buy one, but every suit in the world would be all over it. Hipsters perhaps, depends on how that herd stampedes next.
You woke up a few neurons I was trying to kill with alcohol.
Apple products position themselves as trendy, luxury items that you can't live without, right? Isn't the trendy luxury watch market already crowded by fancy five-figure watches? I expect the iWatch to take as much of that market as the digital watch did.
The thing that gets me is how Obama got away with raising a regressive tax like the payroll tax and didn't get slaughtered in the media for raising taxes on the poor and middle class.
Because he's Barrack "Not Bush" Obama. Extending the Patriot Act, being just fine with warrantless wiretapping mere days after his 2009 inauguration, signing authorizations to murder American citizens by remote without due process.
It's not the ideas the media and complicit bleeding heart public was opposed to, just the man -- and his Republican label -- that "stole" the 2000 election and "masterminded" 9/11.
So what you're saying is that if there wasn't any government, the small guys would be able to stop the big guys from shitting all over their air, water or land? Because without something like the already pathetic EPA, I just don't see that happening and think you're full of shit. Also, it's one of those things that just can't magically be undone after your little free market experiment falls flat on its face.
Can you not tell the difference between criticism of government protection of polluters and criticism of the existence of government?
I've never heard someone so vehemently defend mediocrity and taking lazy shortcuts in their job. It's clear the company you work for, that tolerates such nonsense, doesn't really want the best and brightest.
From reading the Feinstein bill, it appears most any semi-automatic weapon could potentially be banned, allowing only single shot, bolt action (rifles) or revolvers (handguns) weapons.
And when the next maniac lets loose with some of the remaining "legal" weapons, which is an absolute certainty, count on the rest of the guns being banned. That's how the UK did it.
My basement got robbed, they stole an (relatively expensive) bycicle... and a bag of potting soil. Still wondering how valuable they thought the potting soil would be.
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It's not about 'think of the children.' Read the article. It's about protecting women's rights. It comes from the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Some feminist groups oppose porn, for various reasons. The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality is one of those.
Among other things, if you read the article, they feel pornography encourages the culture that allows women to make less money than men.
Thankfully, there are nations that have already banned pornography and are hailed as beacons of Woman's Rights, like Saudi Araba, Egypt, China, North Korea, Guyana, and Botswana.
That's the problem using any metric, really...
If I wanted to slack off and pretend to work (like the rest of the team would ever let that happen!), I'd simply fire up the VPN, then have some small program randomly open and close certain binaries on the remote servers, etc.
At work? Meh - I could slack off very easily by simply walking around a lot carrying papers, chatting with friends, or whatever. Far too many ways to slack off in a cube farm.
Problem is, when I was telecommuting? I was too busy on the phone in conferences w/ remote company clients, had deadlines to meet, and in IM sessions with other team members helping them out (and getting help). Because I worked on the servers, I had VPN open from 8am to 6pm on most days... working. Now, I show up at 8, then leave at 5.
The metrics don't have to be so obtuse. Your employees are assigned to projects and they're held accountable on being able to deliver, and having managers on the ball enough to recognize that 25 day estimate for modifying text on a dialog box is bullshit, and a 5 day estimate to make web systems be able to print blueberry waffles at users homes is impossible.
VPN logins, butts in seats, donuts missing from the lounge are numbers that don't really matter.
There are different norms in the world, like hands above the table or below. In Europe you have your hands above the table, but in the US you have your hands blow.
How can you have your hands below the table when you're eating? I don't understand.
Pie eating contest. Although I hear hands are most often tied behind the back.
Cutting the meat all at once allows the fork to be inserted once and several slices of meat cut in succession.
In the typical use case, the efficiency gain is illusory because the fork must still be inserted into each slice afterwards in order to transfer it to the mouth (where the fork will be efficiently removed). Nevertheless, the Stationary Fork algorithm is of importance when the meat slices must are to subsequently be processed in a distributed fashion by multiple forks and/or mouths.
Can you provide a proof of this algorithm and it's Big O notation, for all possible meat cuts of N grams?
Thanks for the review. Everything you've written makes MIT sound like an excellent school. One where you go to do some serious learnings, instead of just fuck around.
What other universities are like this?
Wow, you must be a blast at parties.
I'd rather go to parties that cost a six pack of beer instead of $42K a year.
Gotta say, this is perhaps the first time in my life I've ever wished to live in Kentucky, preferably in Rand Paul's district. Although I'm glad my Senator (Marco Rubio) is standing with him.
Major exception to your rule: sex. So long as you don't get an infection from it. I have yet to hear any study suggest that sex is bad for you.
Not so. Sex can exasperate existing conditions and lead to heart attack or stroke. What a way to go, though.
Remember when everybody was screaming about bandwidth caps and the need for government to regulate them out of existence?
This is why that regulation was a bad idea.
1GB/free and 10GB/$10 is highly disruptive to the major cable cartel. It is also extraordinarily beneficial for low income or student subscribers. This is innovation. We need more competition, not more regulations treating the symptoms of the lack of competition in most markets.
We just wanted the government to enforce that the duopoly doesn't get to redefine the term "unlimited" just because it was starting to become inconvenient.
Right.... because "clones" can't gain traction when they're done better, or less expensively, or more conveniently. Facebook is a MySpace clone . Microsoft Word is essentially a WordPerfect Clone. The list goes on.
Facebook, Myspace, Word, WordPerfect... none of which are games.
And if SimCity were available on Steam and not Origin, you might have an argument.
They used to be, before Origin launched and EA took them down from Steam.
"What really annoys me is the absolute limit of what I can do to these bastards is not give them money."
Son, this is the United States. Sue the fuck out of them like I did.
I won pretty easily, go find yourself a competent lawyer.
And go read the Anti-tying provisions of the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act while you're in that lawyer's office.
How many EA products can you find that could reasonably match that violation of anti-tying provisions? (I'll give you a hint, any single-player game that REQUIRES an online connection.)
Now get to work.
There is no obligation in the US to provide a warranty. If a company does not offer one, they do not have to comply with Magnuson–Moss. Plus, every EULA pretty much states they provide no warranty. You might argue that the EULA is not legally enforceable as a contract, but even then it's still a declaration that they don't provide a warranty.
I know, I know, if you had your way, you'd literally cremate all the executives at EA while they were still living and screaming just to satisfy your rampant immature hatred. But, the rage would still be there, you'd force yourself not to forget it, you wouldn't understand it, and ultimately you'd demand they be brought back to life so you can do it again and again, getting angrier and angrier each time you keep remembering it.
Say, that would make a great game.
Perhaps they could do a microtransaction for each ressurection, and different implements of death could be DLC. And of course you'd have to have an always-on connection so you can share your killings with your friends on Facebook.
If you get enough people wound up about something, you can get the backing and momentum to really have an effect.
I don't get it. If you hate EA, why do you give a shit? You're getting upset because a company isn't doing something you wish they would do? Who gives a fuck? You're not buying their shit anyway.
It's like you've gone all obsessive about a beautiful but super-cunty woman and you hate her SOOO bad because she won't give you a blow job, so you rant and rave about it. That's mental illness, bub.
That's a pretty good analogy with the woman, because as we all know, there are plenty of fish in the sea.
However, due to excessively long copyright and trademark terms, when it comes to games, there are no other fish in the sea. The only people making SimCity games are EA. If you want to play another SimCity game, you're going to have to go to EA.
Are there city simulation competitors? Sure, but if they ever get any financial traction at all expect EA to go after them with lawyers akimbo. Even if they could get away with it, people will just always regard them as a SimCity clone. Even John Carmack admits that "you're just never as big when you're second in line." [cite]
And good luck with that. ASCAP gets a fee from damn near every establishment where you might want to perform your music, just in case somebody uses something that is covered by the ASCAP license. Radio access is basically non-existent without a contract with a major label.
THIS is the point. You can argue that artists are signing up with a label by choice, but really it's a choice between trying to support yourself with your craft and eating half of your instant ramen in the morning so you get to eat the rest that night.
The point behind RIAA and MPAA (MAFIAA) was to establish a distribution cartel, thereby creating a system where the only way to play is to play with them.
No, GP has it right, didn't you know that for every copy of SimCity 5 that is sold, EA provision and install an additional server into their cloud.
Is that where all those old Atom netbooks are going?
The next big trend: "premium" support. Free access to a "community" support forum, where other users -- for free -- may or may not help. Then for bigger problems you can call a 1-900 number, or a 1-800 number to pay up with a credit card per incident. Maybe the Premium box set versions of their games includes one free incident resolution (expires 3 months from purchase, no guarantee they will actually fix the issue).
I know you all love being able to fire at will in the US, but you must still stick to basic contract law?
The standard for "unconscionable" terms in the US is much higher than elsewhere in the civilized world. Therefore, sections that say that terms may change unilaterally by the employer and terms that if any aspect later turns out to be unenforceable the rest of the contract is still valid are legal, celebrated by the power brokers, and boilerplate.
The best usage for StackOverflow answers, in my opinion, is basically as a "see also" cheat sheet. Phrase a question in English, with details, in Google and you might find one already there. Else, post it and someone will give an answer with the magic words to follow up on.
Someone wanting to learn about security in Windows might not know what a token is, a casual DBMS user might not realize Oracle can do tree walks with some very non-standard SQL without having to write stored code, someone might not know they need a red-black tree to elegantly solve their particular problem.
It's the place I go when there I don't know things and I don't know what exactly I don't know. Armed with what I know I don't know, I can then do further research to do things the right way, although many I work with^W^Wknow will just stop right there and copy/paste teh codez, to their own peril.
Came to say this.
What we need is an iPocketwatch. Make it fit into old gold watch cases and work as a cell phone.
I wouldn't buy one, but every suit in the world would be all over it. Hipsters perhaps, depends on how that herd stampedes next.
You woke up a few neurons I was trying to kill with alcohol.
Apple products position themselves as trendy, luxury items that you can't live without, right? Isn't the trendy luxury watch market already crowded by fancy five-figure watches? I expect the iWatch to take as much of that market as the digital watch did.
The thing that gets me is how Obama got away with raising a regressive tax like the payroll tax and didn't get slaughtered in the media for raising taxes on the poor and middle class.
Because he's Barrack "Not Bush" Obama. Extending the Patriot Act, being just fine with warrantless wiretapping mere days after his 2009 inauguration, signing authorizations to murder American citizens by remote without due process.
It's not the ideas the media and complicit bleeding heart public was opposed to, just the man -- and his Republican label -- that "stole" the 2000 election and "masterminded" 9/11.
- use an ISP that doesn't participate in the system. A list of participating ISPs is on wikipedia.
Most places in the US have a duopoly of two companies from that list.
and in fact government protection of polluters has been a consistent feature in wide-scale environmental problems.
So what you're saying is that if there wasn't any government, the small guys would be able to stop the big guys from shitting all over their air, water or land? Because without something like the already pathetic EPA, I just don't see that happening and think you're full of shit. Also, it's one of those things that just can't magically be undone after your little free market experiment falls flat on its face.
Can you not tell the difference between criticism of government protection of polluters and criticism of the existence of government?
I've never heard someone so vehemently defend mediocrity and taking lazy shortcuts in their job. It's clear the company you work for, that tolerates such nonsense, doesn't really want the best and brightest.
And with that, they'll get what they deserve.
My basement got robbed, they stole an (relatively expensive) bycicle... and a bag of potting soil. Still wondering how valuable they thought the potting soil would be.
Maybe they also ran a grow house?