Your argument is that Obama is not responsible because Republicans in congress are messing with his objectives.
1. Republicans don't have the 2/3 majority to override Obama's vetos 2. Obama isn't bothering to veto bad bills. Latest charade: that so-called Patent Reform bill.
It's interesting how in 2006 when the Democrats obtained a majority we still had shit bills continually coming out.
I could go on, but I don't have to. TFA is about ODNI taking interest in social network data mining. Basically, continuous investigation (aka spying) on all people, citizens or not. ODNI was created in 2004 (W's fault) as an support arm to the DNI (Director of National Intelligence), which is a cabinet-level position. The cabinet, as you should be aware, is a Presidential appointment (Obama's fault).
He may have campaigned on hope and change, and been elected on that, but, sir or madam, there has not been any change.
Is it really less efficient? As I understood it, the rotary engine gives an equivalent HP compared to a piston engine at a fraction of the displacement.
I'm an adult with faith but his complaint seems more than warranted.
Sounds less to do with the religion and more to do with those practicing it. What makes religion religion as opposed to a mere collection of rituals and superstitions are the people that indoctrinate. Sometimes they take a path of free knowledge and guidance, sometimes the path is to beat it into the heads of the young.
I know which of the two paths represent at worst a benign influence on human civilization and which path at best is responsible for intolerance and oppression.
[2]: I've built some specialty servers with some oddball hardware requirements, both with features, and stuff not wanted. Yes, one could order a Dell or HP PC, but it would take extremely heavy modifications, definitely voiding the warranty on the box. A custom built PC wouldn't have a warranty on the whole box, but components would still easily be RMA-ed.
I've never had to do that except recently. Had a really badly behaved video capture card from MSI. They were quick to point the finger at every other component in my system instead of admitting that maybe that $30 card really didn't do well what it promised on the box. I imagine if I had a HTPC by a big brand I might have gotten farther (maybe they would have blamed software and my configuration, but that's what System Restore is for).
Thankfully, the reseller was able to give a full refund. And if they wouldn't, my credit card company would have stepped in.
I don't necessarily agree with abolition because it's a bit of a fatalistic fix. Patents just need to be fixed.
They were great at encouraging invention during the early US. People that filed patents would use those patents and actually make stuff. Improvements could also be filed as separate patents and the US Patent Office sorted it out and kept things nice and tidy.
Today corporations are be considered as individual people and corporations own ideas. The state of technology today is such that most of the low-hanging fruit has been picked and you're just not going to be able to invent anything without massive funding and research. Companies have sprung up to hold onto patents with no intention of using them except to later sue someone who stumbles upon doing something obvious. Even the local-boy-done-good dream of every inventor where they come up with something, patent it, and own the market for the next umpteen years and set themselves and their family on easy street is no longer valid. China will just use your patent as a blueprint and out-compete you in volume, price, distribution, and profit.
These abuses need to be corrected so that maybe individual genius might once again be valued. This is probably why do-nothing sex-tape celebrities and sport-team stars keep capturing the imagination of our children and causing the negative effect of teaching them that only the superficial selfishness matters, instead of valuing ingenuity and intelligence that really could stand a chance at improving society and everyone's lives.
At least patents still have a finite shelf life, unlike copyright which keeps getting pushed into perpetuity.
in order for you to enjoy gaming on PSN, you must first agree to a EULA which automatically waives your right to enjoin a Class Action against Sony should their network be compromised again!? Are they expecting their network to be compromised again?? Is this legal??
Sony, you are a bunch of deluded fuckheads.
Also, they sound pretty confident of their new security setup, if you get my meaning.
I don't know what I'm doing for my job, and I would like you to do my research for me. Preferably your solution should be "open source", although I don't really know what that means, I just don't want to pay for it.
What's wrong with minimizing the financial impact of regulatory compliance?
Don't buy anything. What the hell do you need SATA 3.0 for? Your single SSD won't be that fast after you've used it a while. As usual, wait six months or a year and there will be much better hardware out there. Don't waste your money now.
If you always wait for the next big thing, you will wait forever. Sometimes you gotta pull the trigger. Personally if I'm comparing two boards equal in all things except SATA 2 versus SATA 3, unless research indicated it was a bad idea, I'd probably go for the more modern variant.
Can anyone say, "class action lawsuit"? It might not work, but if it's actually promising the performance of the spec and doesn't deliver that seems actionable to me (a legal lay person).
The only lawsuit I could see out of this is perhaps Marvell using the SATA-IO's copyrighted logos and terminology implying compliance when it actually doesn't. I can't seem to find any datasheets for 9172, but I'm not trying very hard.
Now, if the SATA III standard is so loose that it's still within specs... blame the spec, not the player.
Contributing back takes money and can be counter-productive for the community too - especially if it's introduces lots of buggy or bad code. Someone has to go through all of that.
Sounds like if someone is an idiot they shouldn't contribute anyway. The statement "only idiots don't give back" is inflammatory, but, if you take a step back at it, it's fine: nobody wants their contributions anyway.
That said, there are other ways to contribute to open source without having to code. Being an ambassador by raising awareness (kind of like a meatspace OSALT) and providing support with help is just as valuable as the greatest bug fix check-in.
You are SERIOUSLY comparing a meaningless cartoon to MLK's speech? Seriously?
One of the benefits of works entering the public domain is we allow history to determine the value of these things on our own, and use them as insight to another time. the storytellers of Beowulf, the authors Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, other great works I can't think of because I don't study them, all give insight to values of the cultures at the time they were written. They may not immediately have been earmarked as great works: it took history and the passage of time to make that happen. The upshot of things is that the ultimate value won't be determined in our lifetime.
A future enlightened society might see I Have a Dream as a speech merely stating something obvious (judge not by the color... etc etc), while they might see Steamboat Willie as a culture playing with technology (animation) like Mickey abuses those anthropomorphized cartoon animals aboard a period vessel. I'm being a little facetious here -- I don't really think centuries from now people will care more about Mickey Mouse than Martin Luther King -- but with perpetual copyright we'll never get to know because a copyright holder will forever determine who gets to consume it and protects it from derivative works of which it doesn't approve.
Imagine Beowulf if it's verbal story couldn't be retold. Consider books that would have been lost forever due to a conquering army (hell, how much was lost when the Library of Alexandria was burned to the ground). The best way to preserve data -- which is what art is at it's most objective -- is to allow people to freely and frequently copy it.
Eventually Disney will be receiving so much bad press for pushing copyright extensions that they will implode.
Complete nonsense. The average person doesn't care about public domain, sees no value in preserving the past, and regards those who use (and extend) our icons and stories as people who can't think of any original ideas instead of helping evolve cultural identity.
They wanted any computer equipment that may have had evidence relating to the investigation. The probable cause was that the IP address used was assigned to Mr. King's Internet connection, and Mr. King had entered into a legal agreement taking responsibility for the use of that connection, so it's probable that he knows what happened.
I guess because of OMGPRIVACY and OMGFUCKTHEPOLICE those sorts of facts get the boot.
So, they trace back the traffic to a Tor exit node and conclude that the owner is, contrary to the Tor Exit Notice, actually secretly keeping logs about activity going through it? If they wanted data, they could have done to him what they do other private entities like ISPs and Telcos. But they can't because they know how Tor works, and that he's not going to have anything of benefit for them.
This is just a way to discourage the use of Tor and run an otherwise not-guilty person through The System, enabled by whatever today's criminal boogeyman is.
Unless they know what they want and don't find it in your primary encrypted drive, in which case they'll continue to beat you. What, you don't think they also know about plausibly deniable encryption?
With pretty much every nation either already being a police state or quickly becoming one, I don't see any scenario in which they would actually avoid the sadistic pleasure of beating on a suspect, whether or not they really think they could get what they want.
Probably because the low-hanging fruit in making things cheaper usually involves slave wages in developing countries as opposed to a fair wage in industrialized nations.
Apparently China's best and brightest hackers need a GUI with drop-down menus and a big "Attack" button.
The sleeping dragon is strong indeed. I wonder if they have a "Pull trigger to fire" sticker on their rifles too.
For the same reason not every single soldier knows how to make a rifle from raw materials. It's up to the weapon designers to build it and make it simple for the ground troops to use.
Save the script-resistant sites (opponent military computers, etc) for the special ops, let the butts-in-seats brigade cause general casualties around the commercial non-hardened sites.
So I can spend 50 -60$ on a 20 hour game? Yeah, that's EXACTLY what I'm after. Sounds like a good way to keep development costs low and reap in more profit. I call bullsh*t on this.
+1
I don't mind a shorter game, but I better see a lower price tag as well.
That describes episodic gaming. The idea is a shorter game, a shorter development cycle (thanks to less content), and a smaller price (made possible by the shorter development cycle).
A gaming model, in short, that's almost completely dead.
No this is great! It'll be putting another tax on stupidity, the anti-nuclear crowd will have to pay for gas in their cars while we drive around at a tiny fraction of the cost! I don't like the carbon capping schemes I've seen so far but if we come up with a good one, that will hurt them even more! I'm all for it!
Nah, more like it will be outlawed for everyone after a scare campaign from the masses.
To play rare or impossible to find titles, just download the ROMs and use something like this to play it on the actual hardware: http://krikzz.com/severdrive.html
The problem with both of these issues, and IMO the point behind emulators, is that hardware does not have an infinite life. You're already seeing NES consoles out there with dead PPUs, controllers so worn that they're unusable, hell, I'd wager 90% of the machines out in the wild need their capacitors replaced. I'm picking on the NES, sure, but it's well along the path that all our beloved console stuff will travel down. There were a huge number produced, but that number is certainly not infinite. Eventually there will be no hardware to be had and the only way games for them will continue to exist is if they're virtualized in emulators.
On an aside, while I don't own any, I've heard that those with review and prototype carts out there won't even power them up in fear that they might discover the EEPROMs have degenerated and its contents have disappeared into entropy.
OP didn't claim it was dead. It sounded to me like he *wanted* it dead. Add me to that list please.
Wait, this is America, and people spent money in College learning it. Perhaps the government should subsidy the language and offer incentives to companies that hire these people...
- Dan.
My sarcasm detector needs calibration, but, in the meantime, those who spent money in college learning a language and not the concepts behind the language got ripped off. Give fish vs teach fishing and all that jazz.
Mostly a stupid article written by a guy who is mostly clueless. I love statements such as:
Try using DirectX 10 or later from C# for example.
Was this supposed to be something hard to accomplish or has the guy never heard of XNA Game Studio?
I love it. Check out the By line on the article, and then the page on Meet the Team
Ian Elliot
Specialist subjects: JavaScript, web programming,.NET programming
As a freelance consultant Ian is used to meeting challenges in a range of arenas and using all the tools and skills a programmer has in their armoury. He has written numerous articles for VSJ mainly on web development.
So, he's NOT a DirectX expert? Javascript is listed first? I call bullshit that he ever even tried to interop on DirectX.
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For the record, the hole was dug by that bloody moron called GWB
Wow, that bloody moron has been alive for over 150 years.
Your argument is that Obama is not responsible because Republicans in congress are messing with his objectives.
1. Republicans don't have the 2/3 majority to override Obama's vetos
2. Obama isn't bothering to veto bad bills. Latest charade: that so-called Patent Reform bill.
It's interesting how in 2006 when the Democrats obtained a majority we still had shit bills continually coming out.
I could go on, but I don't have to. TFA is about ODNI taking interest in social network data mining. Basically, continuous investigation (aka spying) on all people, citizens or not. ODNI was created in 2004 (W's fault) as an support arm to the DNI (Director of National Intelligence), which is a cabinet-level position. The cabinet, as you should be aware, is a Presidential appointment (Obama's fault).
He may have campaigned on hope and change, and been elected on that, but, sir or madam, there has not been any change.
Is it really less efficient? As I understood it, the rotary engine gives an equivalent HP compared to a piston engine at a fraction of the displacement.
I'm an adult with faith but his complaint seems more than warranted.
Sounds less to do with the religion and more to do with those practicing it. What makes religion religion as opposed to a mere collection of rituals and superstitions are the people that indoctrinate. Sometimes they take a path of free knowledge and guidance, sometimes the path is to beat it into the heads of the young.
I know which of the two paths represent at worst a benign influence on human civilization and which path at best is responsible for intolerance and oppression.
I for one WANT it to be used and enjoy the SPEED I gain from having all my pages cached in RAM where they appear instantly at the click of a button...
Idle RAM is useless and boasting how your system has 16gigawatts of unused RAM just serves to show me how small your epenis really is...
I put my swap file on a RAM drive. I'm the King of Cool. B)
[2]: I've built some specialty servers with some oddball hardware requirements, both with features, and stuff not wanted. Yes, one could order a Dell or HP PC, but it would take extremely heavy modifications, definitely voiding the warranty on the box. A custom built PC wouldn't have a warranty on the whole box, but components would still easily be RMA-ed.
I've never had to do that except recently. Had a really badly behaved video capture card from MSI. They were quick to point the finger at every other component in my system instead of admitting that maybe that $30 card really didn't do well what it promised on the box. I imagine if I had a HTPC by a big brand I might have gotten farther (maybe they would have blamed software and my configuration, but that's what System Restore is for).
Thankfully, the reseller was able to give a full refund. And if they wouldn't, my credit card company would have stepped in.
I don't necessarily agree with abolition because it's a bit of a fatalistic fix. Patents just need to be fixed.
They were great at encouraging invention during the early US. People that filed patents would use those patents and actually make stuff. Improvements could also be filed as separate patents and the US Patent Office sorted it out and kept things nice and tidy.
Today corporations are be considered as individual people and corporations own ideas. The state of technology today is such that most of the low-hanging fruit has been picked and you're just not going to be able to invent anything without massive funding and research. Companies have sprung up to hold onto patents with no intention of using them except to later sue someone who stumbles upon doing something obvious. Even the local-boy-done-good dream of every inventor where they come up with something, patent it, and own the market for the next umpteen years and set themselves and their family on easy street is no longer valid. China will just use your patent as a blueprint and out-compete you in volume, price, distribution, and profit.
These abuses need to be corrected so that maybe individual genius might once again be valued. This is probably why do-nothing sex-tape celebrities and sport-team stars keep capturing the imagination of our children and causing the negative effect of teaching them that only the superficial selfishness matters, instead of valuing ingenuity and intelligence that really could stand a chance at improving society and everyone's lives.
At least patents still have a finite shelf life, unlike copyright which keeps getting pushed into perpetuity.
in order for you to enjoy gaming on PSN, you must first agree to a EULA which automatically waives your right to enjoin a Class Action against Sony should their network be compromised again!?
Are they expecting their network to be compromised again??
Is this legal??
Sony, you are a bunch of deluded fuckheads.
Also, they sound pretty confident of their new security setup, if you get my meaning.
I don't know what I'm doing for my job, and I would like you to do my research for me. Preferably your solution should be "open source", although I don't really know what that means, I just don't want to pay for it.
What's wrong with minimizing the financial impact of regulatory compliance?
Don't buy anything. What the hell do you need SATA 3.0 for? Your single SSD won't be that fast after you've used it a while. As usual, wait six months or a year and there will be much better hardware out there. Don't waste your money now.
If you always wait for the next big thing, you will wait forever. Sometimes you gotta pull the trigger. Personally if I'm comparing two boards equal in all things except SATA 2 versus SATA 3, unless research indicated it was a bad idea, I'd probably go for the more modern variant.
Can anyone say, "class action lawsuit"? It might not work, but if it's actually promising the performance of the spec and doesn't deliver that seems actionable to me (a legal lay person).
The only lawsuit I could see out of this is perhaps Marvell using the SATA-IO's copyrighted logos and terminology implying compliance when it actually doesn't. I can't seem to find any datasheets for 9172, but I'm not trying very hard.
Now, if the SATA III standard is so loose that it's still within specs... blame the spec, not the player.
Contributing back takes money and can be counter-productive for the community too - especially if it's introduces lots of buggy or bad code. Someone has to go through all of that.
Sounds like if someone is an idiot they shouldn't contribute anyway. The statement "only idiots don't give back" is inflammatory, but, if you take a step back at it, it's fine: nobody wants their contributions anyway.
That said, there are other ways to contribute to open source without having to code. Being an ambassador by raising awareness (kind of like a meatspace OSALT) and providing support with help is just as valuable as the greatest bug fix check-in.
You are SERIOUSLY comparing a meaningless cartoon to MLK's speech? Seriously?
One of the benefits of works entering the public domain is we allow history to determine the value of these things on our own, and use them as insight to another time. the storytellers of Beowulf, the authors Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, other great works I can't think of because I don't study them, all give insight to values of the cultures at the time they were written. They may not immediately have been earmarked as great works: it took history and the passage of time to make that happen. The upshot of things is that the ultimate value won't be determined in our lifetime.
A future enlightened society might see I Have a Dream as a speech merely stating something obvious (judge not by the color... etc etc), while they might see Steamboat Willie as a culture playing with technology (animation) like Mickey abuses those anthropomorphized cartoon animals aboard a period vessel. I'm being a little facetious here -- I don't really think centuries from now people will care more about Mickey Mouse than Martin Luther King -- but with perpetual copyright we'll never get to know because a copyright holder will forever determine who gets to consume it and protects it from derivative works of which it doesn't approve.
Imagine Beowulf if it's verbal story couldn't be retold. Consider books that would have been lost forever due to a conquering army (hell, how much was lost when the Library of Alexandria was burned to the ground). The best way to preserve data -- which is what art is at it's most objective -- is to allow people to freely and frequently copy it.
Eventually Disney will be receiving so much bad press for pushing copyright extensions that they will implode.
Complete nonsense. The average person doesn't care about public domain, sees no value in preserving the past, and regards those who use (and extend) our icons and stories as people who can't think of any original ideas instead of helping evolve cultural identity.
They wanted any computer equipment that may have had evidence relating to the investigation. The probable cause was that the IP address used was assigned to Mr. King's Internet connection, and Mr. King had entered into a legal agreement taking responsibility for the use of that connection, so it's probable that he knows what happened.
I guess because of OMGPRIVACY and OMGFUCKTHEPOLICE those sorts of facts get the boot.
So, they trace back the traffic to a Tor exit node and conclude that the owner is, contrary to the Tor Exit Notice, actually secretly keeping logs about activity going through it? If they wanted data, they could have done to him what they do other private entities like ISPs and Telcos. But they can't because they know how Tor works, and that he's not going to have anything of benefit for them.
This is just a way to discourage the use of Tor and run an otherwise not-guilty person through The System, enabled by whatever today's criminal boogeyman is.
Unless they know what they want and don't find it in your primary encrypted drive, in which case they'll continue to beat you. What, you don't think they also know about plausibly deniable encryption?
With pretty much every nation either already being a police state or quickly becoming one, I don't see any scenario in which they would actually avoid the sadistic pleasure of beating on a suspect, whether or not they really think they could get what they want.
So the investigation would have to be finished before it could begin... great plan!
Police have had to have probable cause, including identifying what they want, before getting a warrant well before the internet even existed.
I guess because of OMGHACKERS and OMGKIDDIEPORN those sorts of principles get the boot.
Wow... who pissed in your Cheerios this morning?
Probably because the low-hanging fruit in making things cheaper usually involves slave wages in developing countries as opposed to a fair wage in industrialized nations.
Apparently China's best and brightest hackers need a GUI with drop-down menus and a big "Attack" button.
The sleeping dragon is strong indeed. I wonder if they have a "Pull trigger to fire" sticker on their rifles too.
For the same reason not every single soldier knows how to make a rifle from raw materials. It's up to the weapon designers to build it and make it simple for the ground troops to use.
Save the script-resistant sites (opponent military computers, etc) for the special ops, let the butts-in-seats brigade cause general casualties around the commercial non-hardened sites.
Police State training. When our generation are dead and gone, you will have this younger population come after us, raised with this invincible rage.
Fixed that for you.
Let's hope. Our generation can't pull themselves away from Starbucks and American Idol to give a shit about the state of our country.
So I can spend 50 -60$ on a 20 hour game? Yeah, that's EXACTLY what I'm after. Sounds like a good way to keep development costs low and reap in more profit. I call bullsh*t on this.
+1
I don't mind a shorter game, but I better see a lower price tag as well.
That describes episodic gaming. The idea is a shorter game, a shorter development cycle (thanks to less content), and a smaller price (made possible by the shorter development cycle).
A gaming model, in short, that's almost completely dead.
No this is great! It'll be putting another tax on stupidity, the anti-nuclear crowd will have to pay for gas in their cars while we drive around at a tiny fraction of the cost! I don't like the carbon capping schemes I've seen so far but if we come up with a good one, that will hurt them even more! I'm all for it!
Nah, more like it will be outlawed for everyone after a scare campaign from the masses.
If you want perfection, use the real games and the actual hardware, preferably with an RGB mod and a CRT display: http://www.chrismcovell.com/gotRGB/index.html
To play rare or impossible to find titles, just download the ROMs and use something like this to play it on the actual hardware: http://krikzz.com/severdrive.html
The problem with both of these issues, and IMO the point behind emulators, is that hardware does not have an infinite life. You're already seeing NES consoles out there with dead PPUs, controllers so worn that they're unusable, hell, I'd wager 90% of the machines out in the wild need their capacitors replaced. I'm picking on the NES, sure, but it's well along the path that all our beloved console stuff will travel down. There were a huge number produced, but that number is certainly not infinite. Eventually there will be no hardware to be had and the only way games for them will continue to exist is if they're virtualized in emulators.
On an aside, while I don't own any, I've heard that those with review and prototype carts out there won't even power them up in fear that they might discover the EEPROMs have degenerated and its contents have disappeared into entropy.
OP didn't claim it was dead. It sounded to me like he *wanted* it dead. Add me to that list please.
Wait, this is America, and people spent money in College learning it. Perhaps the government should subsidy the language and offer incentives to companies that hire these people...
- Dan.
My sarcasm detector needs calibration, but, in the meantime, those who spent money in college learning a language and not the concepts behind the language got ripped off. Give fish vs teach fishing and all that jazz.
Mostly a stupid article written by a guy who is mostly clueless. I love statements such as:
Try using DirectX 10 or later from C# for example.
Was this supposed to be something hard to accomplish or has the guy never heard of XNA Game Studio?
I love it. Check out the By line on the article, and then the page on Meet the Team
Ian Elliot
Specialist subjects: JavaScript, web programming, .NET programming
As a freelance consultant Ian is used to meeting challenges in a range of arenas and using all the tools and skills a programmer has in their armoury. He has written numerous articles for VSJ mainly on web development.
So, he's NOT a DirectX expert? Javascript is listed first? I call bullshit that he ever even tried to interop on DirectX.