The first thought I had was that I hope they don't do it because it'll only be used to invade our privacy.

LK

Do you really need an explanation, considering you just shot down their drone?

Doesn't even have to be LOGO these days:

#!/bin/python
import turtle
turtle.shape("turtle")
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.right(90)
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.right(90)
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.right(90)
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.exitonclick()

It's turtle.pendown all the way down.

Thats PervECT!

For the binaries groups? Obsessive gotta-collect-all-the-media pirates, mostly.

My ISP doesn't have their own netnews server anymore. At first they farmed it out to a third party but still included the service, but then they dropped it entirely.

I've been looking around for a service that suits my needs, I don't need/want binaries and I don't want to have to pay whatever month to something like Giganews to help bankroll the piracy for everyone else.

You CAN post YouTube comments using the old pre google+ identity. You have to manually switch it to the old identity in settings. See that little icon with your name attached on the upper right of the YouTube main page? Click it and you can tell it to use the old identity. Every once in a while in the past they'd switch it back but they haven't done it in a while.

But we shouldn't have had to do that.

Microsoft IS worse than Sony, always has been. Some divisions of Sony might have a "minor" in evil, but Microsoft has a Double-major in evil, a Minor in evil and is professional chair throwing extend embrace extinguish brand evil.

So PC centric developers are holding games hostage as well, right?

You don't pay less, you "spend" less, there's a difference. PC gaming is some Ian in the UK or Ivan in Russia spending all his quid or rubles on a PC, and then pirating all his stuff instead of paying less for hardware and then having money for games.

Or you have the guys playing nothing but one map in something like CS/LoL over and over and over and then BRAGGING that they don't buy games.

And then some people wondering why the PC release of multi-platform releases is an afterthought.

Here, let me give you an anecdote, do you know how Gaijin the developers of war thunder finish funding that game's development? They did a console game that was basically a pre-test of War Thunder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

They openly said that without that game, there would have been no War Thunder.

That's right you do, but it leads to:

Mods exist because BRICers and Second Worlders are too cheap to buy games. Gamers who play nothing but free mods are why the PC is an afterthought. Sure there may be a few patches as well, but mods are the favorite of gamers who care more about free-as-in-beer than anything else.

Servers are a continuing expense that cost money to run don't they? PC gamers pay for WoW or EVE subscriptions, right? So they're idiots too because all games should have free multiplayer? PS+ isn't just multiplayer, there are other benefits as well, besides, it's less than one game a year. $49.95. Yeah yeah, spend $$$ on an overpriced video card but $49.95 a year is too much to help pay for server costs.

What interface is that? Who gets to say an interface is wrong? Isn't choice of UI a good thing? Some people might prefer a certain UI some might prefer something different. After all there are mods that change the UI in PC games, isn't there? And if it's controls that you're actually referring to, who says I can't use different controls?

I don't do that, only idiot shooter and sports game only dudebro gamers do that.

While I wouldn't say that Windows is an OS for stupid people. I do think that just because one can game on a badly designed general purpose OS like Windows...doesn't mean one should.

Remember that systems like Watson are not programmed

Pretty funny, I'm almost certain somebody had to program it to learn. You give computers too much credit. They only do what you tell them to.

Sure there's a reason. Gaming without Microsoft/Windows, at least if you go Sony or Nintendo. There's also the console exclusive games that have never had a PC release. And the consoles are designed specifically for gaming, you don't have to worry about AVG or whatever deciding it wants to run a scan when you're playing, you don't have to worry about the OS monitoring a print spooler, and all the other things Windows does that isn't gaming.

Console gaming is gaming without the hassle.

Besides, PC gamers only "think" they are the master race. PC gamers are actually the cheapskate piracy lovin bourgeois scum of gaming. Filthy PC gamers right there at the bottom with phone gamers and those filthy dudebro console gamers who only play shooters and sports games

RAID10 for nearline storage ?

More research required, methinks.

Which is why this is pretty stupid. H.264 is "good enough" for most things. Particularly as bandwidth continues to grow. A more efficient encoding scheme would be nice, but it isn't necessary. We can already do 1080p60 video over most net connections with reasonable quality.

So H.265 will have to be appealing not only in terms of bandwidth saved, but in terms of cost. Companies won't move to use it if they have to pay a bunch extra for the privilege. They'll just keep using H.264 and more bandwidth.

And since it's not, then you'd be a typical uninformed jury member who has made up his mind based on what one media source says about something.

As others have noted, this is not an "official document" and the statutes are not subject to copyright. It's a bunch of third party commentary about the statute that is subject to copyright, much like a textbook or treatise or thesis.

They thought they had a reason, they were worried about a Linux exploit leading to easy piracy. Sure there was only "proof of concept" stuff, but they were worried about what "might" happen and took preventative steps.

There were also issues with trying to keep OtherOS working properly, after they let their maintainer go. There was a video output compatibility issue with Linux in one of firmwares just prior to 3.21 . IIRC it was 3.10. And we mustn't forget that the partition schemes weren't optimal in the first place. Either you have 10GB of OtherOS and the rest for GameOS (which somewhat cripples Linux) or you have 10GB to GameOS and the rest to Linux (which seriously cripples GameOS)

It most certainly was optional. You could keep the older firmware and Linux if you wanted, however since your PS3 was no longer "trusted", you lost access to PSN.

Excellent point.

If you hate Obama because of his policies or politics, I think that you have to concede that a year and a half of Obama is preferable to risking nine and a half years of Biden.

LK