Using Steam is renting not buying.
No, it's more like selling the gamer a DVD. If the DVD gets broken, I can crack the game.
If Steam dies, Gabe Newell wrote that they've tested deactivating Steam authentication, and it works. They can free every Steam game I own before they go under. If they choose not to, I only need to install one crack to free all the games I bought from Steam.
The quickest flaw in your logic: You're talking about 65,000 / Number of employable American citizens. That's far less than 300 million. Practically, you're talking probably into the 120 million range tops. That still only bumps your number up to
Next flaw: assuming visas are issued to 'workers' regardless of industry. H1b visas aren't issues to Cambodian rice farming peasants who want to work the drive-though at a Steubenville, OH McDonalds. There are plenty of people with the skills to work drive through jobs, so we don't 'need' to import people for these jobs.
and, as mentioned in other posts, it's only a hard cap per year. The actual number of people working on an H1b visa would appear to be significantly higher than just 65,000. If you we assume that the IT world has a disproportionate number of H1b visa holders, then the numbers start to get to a point where it becomes worth asking the question "Is the H1b visa program really filling a need, or is it being exploited as a way of paying far below market value for employees?"
My own experience involves hearing management say that people 'just aren't available', when the reality is there are plenty of people available. Just not quality, experienced people who are will to work for less-than-helpdesk wages with no benefits.
It gets to be time consuming and seemingly pointless. I read the article that is linked on the
OF COURSE it's what you said.
The car doesn't actually have to run well. HELL, it can implode at 60K miles. It has a nice paint job and that's all that really matters.
The fact that has a more difficult to use manual transmission doesn't matter either.
This is one of those situations where "engineering by focus group" will just lead to crap.
This is very much like the Masnick presentation on "innovation".
As I said before: it is fortunate that JPEG is an open standard.
It is also fortunate that technically correct tools don't cost $600 on Linux.
I'm still not convinced that the state of the Velveeta image tools is not actively preventing people from doing more to manipulate their images.
I think of our supercomputing systems as primitive in an analogous way as cavemen wouldn't end up with a rocket thruster if they just throw enough logs on a fire.
Without more advanced software designs and some type of revolutionary system architecture, more cores ends up only being slightly better than linear progression. They're primitive in that our supercomputers are seldom more than the sum of their parts.
No matter how many eyes you have, or where they are placed, you still see only surfaces.
That's interesting. As I think about it, I wander over to my aquarium and stare pensively. The water looks clean, the guppies seem as happy as guppies get. The seaweed is wafting gently back and forth. But wait, do I really see my aquarium? Or am I only staring at its surface?
Suddenly seized by philosophical doubts, I hold my hand in front of my face. Can I see my hand? —or only my palm?
Your remark is similar to one made by the British philospher G.E. Moore, in a paper published some time in the 1940s (I think). Can't remember the title at the moment...might have been "A Defence of Common Sense".
The key was "playable frame rate". This rig might be able to support a playable rate for Crysis on a single screen, but six? You gotta be kidding me.
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