Their news embargo basically equaled a goddamn GAG ORDER
No, it didn't. It was sleazy, it was wrong, it was something that we should not tolerate from any gaming company, but it was part of the deal for a review copy up front and every respectable gaming review outlet turned them down. Yeah, you read that right.
The obvious solution to this kind of problem is to store old games as virtual machine snapshots.
Bah, humbug. If you want to replay the game in the future, download the cracked version that doesn't authenticate to anything. Then you can install it to a virtual machine with working drivers. Just buy it first, and make sure to buy the same SKU that the cracked version is based upon. That might not be an airtight legal defense, but at least it'll be clear that you were trying to do the Right^WLegal Thing(tm)
So is the question whether update downloads are encrypted? The ones for the Xbox and 360 aren't. Dunno about the 180. You can download them and unpack them with alternate tools. I would imagine that mostly the ones on the PC aren't either, but I haven't actually checked to see what it looks like when say STO downloads an update.
Once the files are laid down, though, it's only a matter of doing any necessary authentication, if your game has that sort of thing. And in theory, that can be patched out. The game assets are not being stored encrypted in any game I've played yet. You can rummage around the files if you can grok their formats. Again, given the example of STO, the assets are stored in
Personally, I find it all to be a bunch of bullcrap. Have you seen those voting districts that are along, squiggly lines that wander all over the place? Give me big squares, randomly generated with approval from a set of judges or something like that, and get the god damned legislators out of the district drawing business.
That's not the answer either. The answer is to tie them to geographical features which define "bioregions", sadly itself not a highly defined term. We can usually recognize 'em when we se 'em. All the people in a given bioregion have a natural confluence of interests, and arbitrary districting works against that.
Sometimes governments need to collapse sooner rather than later. Less dogs will be under the porch.
So you do not care if people are unable to read the message that you are trying to communicate.
If you are too stupid to parse out some bad characters which obviously all replace the same character, you are not my target audience. You are probably unable to comprehend simple concepts anyway, let alone anything worth discussing on slashdot.
Here in Spain, wind turbines have destroyed many beautiful natural landscapes
Oh yeah? Did it build whole cities in them that the country doesn't need? That worked out really well for China, so you decided to take on the approach at home. But I'm pretty sure the wind turbines haven't leaned over and scraped away any massive patches of natural habitat.
I know you're making that out like it's a bad thing, but I actually think it's a good strategy to hold out as long as you can, because the more time passes, the more likely technology will catch up and make clean up slightly less difficult.
If we leave the mess lying around for a long time where it can be distributed into the atmosphere like at Fukushima if something goes wrong, you mean. What a great idea! Let's create lots of those messes and see if any of them blow up! Whoops, in fact, something like half our messes are exactly like that. Same reactor design, usually sited someplace ignorant where it will flood, with a bunch of spent fuel sitting around on top of it... sometimes more than they had at Fukushima Daiichi.
Maybe at the same time they'll rethink the idea of the microtransaction-unlocked chests.
Oh, I'm sure they will. Perhaps they'll offer you the option to fill out surveys online to unlock them!
Stop giving these assholes money until they rein it in. They're assholes.
Your first sentience in your original post is fine. The rest of them make it very clear that you're not a programmer.
That was my whole fucking point. Congratulations on your reading comprehension skills, today. You get a gold star! I imagine you don't have too many gold star days. A programmer should be able to answer such a question immediately, even if the answer is "I don't have a favorite because..." and not just pulling something out of their ass.
I gave you two very substantive examples
There is no such thing, only substantive evidence, which test your examples fail. You've utterly failed to show anything whatsoever.
"more distributed" means more land use.
No, not it does not. It means integrating them into existing land use, in places where they're not used.
human labor is an astoundingly costly input, even just from an environmental perspective.
Nonsense.
Modernization of food production is the central thing that has raised the standard of living from the stone age to the present day
Bullshit. That's often said but never backed up. The Green Revolution has in fact diminished our ability to produce food without massive energy expenditure. We must go back to a closed cycle in which the crap is reused or we will continue to deplete our topsoil. The best the GR achieved anywhere in the world was delaying starvation, and in some places it may well have caused at least as much as it postponed. Take a look at India to see what's coming for the rest of us.
Yes, yes, i understand you - you don't understand me (and Greek, and Greek Orthodox theology!).
Well I'm glad I've articulated my position more successfully than you.
[B]ut you choose that theoretical accusation because i am Greek?
No, not at all. I wouldn't especially associate paedophilia with Greeks (the etymology of the term notwithstanding). Nor with homosexuality for that matter. Rather the particular infamy of that charge was meant to dramatise the intolerable situation we should descend into, once we were to abandon the ancient precept pertaining to onus.
To call someone an atheist is an accusations of the most heinous crime.
Only where it is a crime to be so enlightened. I think you might find more people might object to being called a paedophile than an atheist (even among believers).
[I]n the Greek Orthodox theology it's not even posible to be without God since... its not posible!
That may be so in G.O theology, but since we have not yet been able to discover God anywhere outside your head, we are getting a little ahead of ourselves to deem it impossible for anyone else to be without him. More to the point it would be a mistake overly to fall back to the Greek etymology of the term when it has a clear meaning (relating to personal belief) in the language we are speaking. Thus the OED defines the 'atheist' in the first sense to mean "One who denies or disbelieves the existence of a God." Nor need we even use the term. I'm not particularly wedded to the word 'atheist' and actually prefer, when challenged as to my religious affiliation, to call myself simply a 'non-believer.'
Goddsess? blasphemy!
Not to the goddess worshiper, it's not! God, Goddess, it's all the same to me. I just wanted to emphasise that we were speaking about some abstract human-like creator, not in particular that god that is in your head. In any case, being Greek orthodox you surely don't harbour the fervent anti-Marianism of the anglophone churches?
Agnostic: the blind and deaf theist! You - curable
Again the OED has 'agnostic' meaning: "A person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of immaterial things, especially of the existence or nature of God." Yes agnostics are blind, but unlike all the other blind people possess at least the humility to admit they do not know that which they cannot know.
As far as a cure, from my perspective, it is not I who needs to be cured. It is you who has fallen from the light of truth into the darkness of fable. Not that I should wish to cure you, mind. If a belief is capable of providing succor to a fellow sufferer in the vale of tears, far be it from me to disabuse them thereof. And in any case, were your beliefs to lead you to behave according to the highest ethical standards demanded by Jesus of his followers, (and I must say, I find it difficult to reconcile an admitted racism with those moral imperatives), I should have no ground to complain.
But now to the crux of the matter
So, because of the "contra principia negantem non est disputandum" YOU must accept that YOU are a theist (having God in you) else we cannot have a discusion!
You are exactly correct. Just as you are to me the barbarian who will not recognise the need to provide proof for your assertion that "God exists," so I am the wild man who regards what is for you axiomatic as the very thing to be established. There is then, on both those sides, little prospect of meaningful dialogue.
I hope at least that you may have benefited from practising your English with me.
What kind of surprises me is that Apple doesn't have their own skunkworks R&D for coming up with new technologies like sapphire screens or other key components. They could work out what they wanted and then farm it out to someone who can mass produce it. Sort of like the Bell Labs or IBM labs.
Under Jobs, Apple followed Jobs' vision. Without Jobs, Apple has no vision.
Probably they should have gone with JLG and BeOS instead.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
