Man, you're so right: Fox News will totally sabotage Obama's re-election chances over this! News of the complete disaster which is the president's foreign policy will be bumped below the fold for 24-hour coverage of "office no one cares about"!
No one in either party's base gives a fuck about the gender or orientation of the holder of some office they've never heard of and will never care about. Maybe a few geeks care about this? Maybe?
Fanning the flames only makes it worse, is the thing. To most people, left and right, it simply doesn't matter. Let it be. Deny the stage those who want your gender or whatever the only thing that's important about you. End the conversation, deflate the energy, lets things that shouldn't matter lie there and not matter.
You've seen PAR files presumably? The same could easily be done on a filesystem-level basis (and I imagine, somewhere, already is for some specialist niche).
While all hard drives now do their own Hamming error correction (or something better), RAID2 is the same idea for "raw" storage that doesn't: you write explicit ECCs to redundant volumes to allow recovery from both drive loss and bad sectors.
RAID5 with modern drives gives all the same resiliency, as the drives do the block-level ECC themselves, so you never see RAID2. But for a pile of flash memory, that's the filesystem-level equivalent of PAR files.
Thanks - a real example! Wow, to me "300" does not sound like a large number for a computer. My mind boggles at how anyone could write code that bad - the AI must be written in some wildly inappropriate language? Or the developer just didn't care about perf and never got a bug assigned as they didn't QA at that scale? Nah, he got the bug and the game shipped with it, of course.
I've never seen a gaming-related benchmark where the slowest new desktop CPU you could buy wasn't "enough".
Can you give me an example of a modern game (other than minecraft) where the difference between 2x2 GHz and 8x4 GHz CPUs would be human-noticeable?
When I think "next gen games" I think games written for mobile platforms that look like flash games and would have run on my C64, What specifically did you have in mind?
Detroit failed because of those policies that drove the tax base away. Yes, that is entirely the city's fault. No one has any moral obligation whatsoever to live in any given place. Quite the reverse: it's the city leadership's job to make the city inviting. But Detroit chose a different path.
Tax laws are a big part of what makes both people and businesses want to come or go, balanced by the degree to which those tax dollars actually make the city a better place (the absence of corruption). A city seeking prosperity needs to remember that. You can tax all the things, and give all the money to your friends - but not forever.
With steam you gotta wait for steam itself to update, then mandatory updates to the game before first launch.
All of which you did when you downloaded the game in the first place.
Then every time you play you have to waaaait for steam to launch first.
Which is why I prefer GOG. But almost no one's willing to sell their games there, and Steam would be equally empty if it were the same as GOG. Steam does a great service in convincing many smaller studios that Steam is "enough DRM," no need for more. (EA can go fuck itself.) It's not like these guys would be on GOG if Steam vanished - they'd be a wilderness of homegrown distribution platforms with DRM licensed from one of the really evil companies.
..to do what? I've long stopped caring about this stuff. It seems to solve no real problems out there.
Well, I use my CPU to transcode media files, so I might get one. But for gaming? When will CPU ever matter for gaming, unless your running some terribly-written Java game?
Of course you have to be online the first time you launch it, just like you have to be online to download the game. That's not actually a burden.
Steam offline mode has had issues over the years, and I still don't trust it, but having to be online the first time you ever launch a game is the least annoying copy protection possible. There's a freaking checkbox in Steam to launch a game as soon as the download is complete, for goodness sake, so you don't even need to babysit it to do that first launch.
He was laid off with all the QA guys. He got a nice severance package though.
It sounds like you've memorized your multiplication tables, but are ardently proclaiming that you didn't. There are many different ways to commit something to memory, but one way or another you need to know what the product of any two 1-digit numbers is without reaching for a calculator, or spending any time thinking about it.
The government airbag mandate injured many and killed a few children and elderly. That's not at all unclear. Airbags became safe about the same time the car companies were originally intending to bring them to production. The government did only harm.
But I'm guessing that for you, safety is a smokescreen, that your actual agenda is "more government control is always good", and so my argument that "but it kills children" is irrelevant. It did in fact increase government control, so to you nothing else matters in counting it a victory, yes?
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
