Oh man. Ten years ago, the Bushies were here on slashdot telling everyone that if they have complaints about the way Dubya was running the country, they should just go to China, because apparently in order to find a comparison to make Bush look favorable, they had to sink as low as a communist dictatorship.
In my line of work, I'd kill for the opportunity to make my code 1.5 times faster!
Then wait a year and buy a new computer.
Heavily refactoring projects of this size rarely brings any benefit for the users, it's just technical masturbation. If you're lucky, you will after a few years end up with a project that does the same things as before, most likely it will have acquired some bugs as icing on the cake.
This was wrong when people said it about Netscape. It's still wrong now. It's just that the payoff is unfortunately in years and not months.
(with some allowance for those buying the game for others).
Therein lies the problem. Certainly some of the people who purchased it are buying it for other people.
They're going to fight hard to keep cops outside of the buildings where their members are murdering people.
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What if they (reasonably) believed it was a gift from someone else and have already purchased games for it?
It sounds to me like the retailer would not only be out of luck on the consoles, but would still owe people their games.
If I received a Vita in the mail from a retailer, this being the Holiday season, my first assumption would be that someone gave me a Vita, not that the retailer sent it to me accidentally. At that point, I'd probably buy some games for it and start using it. If the retailer then demanded it back, not only have I spent money buying games for it, I now have to spend the extra time packaging it to return it (and possibly the money, too). I don't owe them that inconvenience just because they sent me the wrong thing, and furthermore, they still owe me a game.
Most people get into programming in their childhood do it because they want to make games. Why did it take a research study to figure this out that writing games is less dry and dull than dumping someone into Java's cargo cult boilerplate class definitions and telling them to write hello world?
I would venture to say that making games is a good way to teach adults how to program, too.
I saw people making this exact argument over and over right here on slashdot. They aren't strawmen.
...now that the site works, does that mean that the law isn't flawed? Or are the people who made that argument just going to backtrack now?
BUT OMG ASTROTURF DEMOCRATS LIE REPUBLICANS TELL THE TRUTH BLARGH
You know what? We did vote for it. Let's see how it turns out rather than making wild predictions. If it fails, we own it. If it doesn't fail, we own it. The people paying you seem to be willing to pay any price in blood or money to make sure the Democrats fail. Why are they trying so hard to get rid of the law before it has a chance to work? Why not let it do its thing, and then when fire and brimstone rain from the sky, they can blame the Democrats and re-elect George Bush.
BUT OMG ASTROTURF DEMOCRATS LIE REPUBLICANS TELL THE TRUTH BLARGH
You know what? We did vote for it. Let's see how it turns out rather than making wild predictions. If it fails, we own it. If it doesn't fail, we own it. The people paying you seem to be willing to pay any price in blood or money to make sure the Democrats fail. Why are they trying so hard to get rid of the law before it has a chance to work? Why not let it do its thing, and then when fire and brimstone rain from the sky, they can blame the Democrats and re-elect George Bush.
Socialism has always resulted in a lower standard of living for the people it's purported to help
citation needed
their attitudes are closed-but-identifying-as-open
Sounds like the Minecraft modding community. Want to run a server with a bunch of mods? God forbid you automate your mod setup in some way; no, you have to make your players click stupid fucking linkbucks links and set the mods up themselves (which is delightfully error-prone) so the mod authors can make their hundredth of a cent per click. FSM forbid they just set up a donate link. Drudging through linkbucks and complicated manual setups are about respect, which apparently only works one way.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
