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Bethesda introduced DLCs to the PC gaming world in 2006: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_IV:_Oblivion#...

The first update came as a set of specialized armor for
Oblivion‍ '​s ridable horses; released on April 3, 2006.
Although gamers generally displayed enthusiasm for the
concept of micropayments for downloadable in-game content,
many expressed their dissatisfaction at the price they
had to pay for the relatively minor horse-armor package
on the Internet and elsewhere.[85] Hines assured the
press that Bethesda was not going to respond rashly to
customer criticism.

Valve introduced DRM to the PC gaming world in late 2004: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software)#History

Valve's Half-Life 2 was the first game to require
installation of the Steam client to play, even for retail
copies. This decision was met with concerns about
software ownership, software requirements, and issues
with overloaded servers demonstrated previously by the
Counter-Strike rollout. During this time users faced
multiple issues attempting to play the game.

There are alternatives like GoG, that are DRM/DLC-free.
This is not the first time it has happened that a professor tries to fail a whole class, but it maybe the first time a professor prematurely failed an entire class without any chance of recourse and without letting final performances materialize.
There's a lot more than what acheron linked to support his/her statement that "GMO" opposition is anti-scientific nonsense, the scientific consensus on the matter is equal to that of climate change.

There was a Forbes article[1] last year that linked to a number of studies. If you're looking for a less journalistic take and want to poke around with the data/studies yourself check out GENERA[2] (a database of peer reviewed GMO studies).

FiveThirtyEight did a good piece on the gap between "what the public thinks and what scientists know" and saw the widest margin in the subject of GMO safety[3]. A recent NYT op-ed explains some of the benefits of GMOs and what caused the author to change their stance[4].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/09/17/the-debate-...

[2] http://genera.biofortified.org/

[3] http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/theres-a-gap-between-what...

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/opinion/sunday/how-i-got-c...
> non-waiveable EU consumer rights regulations require 14 days

I don't think this is true in the case of purely digital products. As far as I am aware of the german implementation of this regulation it explicitly allows to waive the rights before the first download. Like many companies steam does this during checkout ("I agree..").
Isn't there a difference though?

If I want to have a Scandinavian child, I just reproduce with someone from Sweden.

If I want my child to be immune to the sun and skin cancer, I just add a gene from the leaf of a tree, inject it into his DNA and see what happens?

I support GMOs but nuance is important.
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"Folding"? It's what customers want. According to the article, the CEO of Chipotle believes GMO ingredients are fine. But I don't think it's the duty of a fast food restaurant to tell the public that they are wrong for wanting one ingredient over another.
I graduated from the college in question - Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG). Off the bat, I don't know that professor or any of those students (I was in a different major, and had great professors).

The problem I have with this story is that someone went to the media with rather than dealing with the school administration. Based on KPRC's online video of the report, it was probably John R Shaw Jr. The video was poorly made. About half of the video is shots of the same empty classroom. Another part is where they stage John walking on the sidewalk. Due to poor editing, you can see him turn around before walking and suppressing a smile.

The only reason that I can surmise that this is in the news rather than being dealt with appropriately, is because John R Shaw Jr probably wanted 15 minutes of fame. He says he has a job offer, but after this, I can't imagine what company is going to want to hire him if he goes to the media instead of the appropriate route every time he feels slighted.
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Did we? I never heard of that approach, though it makes sense. (I studied biology many years ago).
>Some websites already detect ad blocker extensions and instruct users to disable them. //

Indeed but ad blocking and user tracking are different orders of need for the advertisers. Advertisers still want access to FF users even if they can't track them. Currently with browser fingerprinting "don't track" is probably just another high-value data point to make the fingerprinting more successful.

>Probably less than 1% of Firefox users know what a User-Agent string is. //

How many people who've watched a ripped DVD know about DVDCSS. Firefox could just go the IE route and spoof by default (alright they don't quite spoof, just jam everyone else's UA strings in to their own). I see no reason that browser fingerprint spoofing (to coin a phrase) can't be as democratised as adblocking. How many adblock users know how it works?

>Which toolbar button is that?

"Hello" button that kept re-appearing had Telefonica's name with it; perhaps FF didn't view that as advertising but I imagine the market rate for "we'll put a button that links to your name in the browser of every Firefox user and when they remove it we'll put it right back" has got to be in the 10s of millions of USD.
I wish this article reached out to the students and tried to tell their side of the story. Good journalism usually tries to hear from both sides of the story--or at the very least give an explanation as to why they couldn't get comment from the students.
No, and I know that puts me in a bit of a minority, but I carved out time for good food a long time ago, in a bet with myself that I could stay out of the doctor's office for a long time. (Won that bet 6 years in a row, now)
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Some companies like GE will actually buy your unpatented ideas and file patents on them if they like them. You can negotiate how much you get paid for them. Of course, this is in no way as easy as I made it sound, and I've never done it myself.
Isn't GMO usually equivalent to excessive use of herbicides? Isn't the most common genetic modification "roundup readiness?" Adding vitamin A producing genes to rice sounds good, but spraying all of our foods with herbicides not so much.

The interesting part is that wheat is not commonly GMO, but it is still sprayed with roundup in the harvesting process to increase yield.
The Linus profile is mostly a red herring here, because it is 1) a bad benchmark with a bunch of blocking round trips and 2) mostly profiling the gdbus bindings which are just one binding.

For a more in-depth performance discussion of dbus, check out http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2012-March/015024...

Above noted on linux-kernel here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1930358/focus=193...
I assume the context was talking about the police department hiring practices.
If you can stream it, you can also download it. The only thing that is done in protection is obfuscation of the traffic and the playing, f.e. with closed-source clients (like spotify)
TeslaCrypt, the latest-and-greatest ransomware branch off of the CryptoWall family, claims to the unwitting user that his/her documents are encrypted with "a unique public key generated for this computer". This coudn't be farther from truth. In actuality, the developers of this malware appear to have been lazy and implemented encryption using symmetric AES256 with a decryption key generated on the user's machine.

If any of your machines are afflicted, Talos has developed a tool that can be used to generate the user's machine's symmetric key and decrypt all of the ransomed files. (From citpyrc - Slashdot)
So, does enabling an FM chip in your cell phone help in a disaster?

CTRL+F fm

Doesn't seem like it's being used here...
> It's interesting to me that it was apparently better to give modders nothing than to give them 25%.

It's due to perceived "fairness"

This 75/25 split by Valve reminds me of the psychology experiment the Ultimatum Game: "'Inequity aversion' is so strong that people are willing to sacrifice personal gain in order to prevent another person from receiving an inequitably better outcome."
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-work/200911/...
Top tip if you do a lot of 'roaming' (and are UK based), join the Three network: http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Phones/Feel_At_Home

I've not quite figured out why more networks don't have deals like this in place, as a customer it can take like 1 holiday to wipe out price differences between network base prices.
I might be missing something here, but I'd say that you are following exactly Linus' advice :)
It feeds the conspiracy.
On modern architectures the byte swap is effectively free, if it is done at the time the data is read or written. Worry more about code that touches data just to swap bytes, which may have to page data in.
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The idea to sell unofficial third-party add-ons for third-party products sound generally a dangerous concept, and doing so without any quality control or responsibility sound to me as inviting destruction. If you pay for a product, and it randomly breaks at a later date because of a patch, someone is going to have to take responsibility. If its not the game developer (they didn't get paid), and its not the mod developer (its not their fault that the game got patched), its likely going to be the store who pocked 75% of the money. Add to this the infinite ways mods can interact with each other, or mods that depend on other mods, and the legal requirement to sell mods created by private people seems impossible in the best of lights.

Donations, Kickstarter, and Patreon on other hand is currently already working to provide compensation to passionate content providers. Valve could have gone this way and made it easier to donate and support modders.
It is because the industry has done a great job as labeling the critics as anti-science. Yet the source of the controversy for anyone who spends enough time to look into it is other scientist.

It is somewhat ironic, that most everyone agrees the GMO companies are quite evil in nature when it comes to their business practices. Yet the same people say we should absolutely trust the same companies when they make claims about their products benefits or safety.

I think part of this is because progressive science fans see the potential of GMOs and latch on to the possibilities and ignore that we are still quite immature with our understanding and implementation of the technology.
Couldn't you theorize that messing with the natural endocrine system can lead to the rise in feminized men, homosexuality and other gender confusion?
As much as the idea of paid mods pissed me off, I 100% agree with this. Anyone who was getting upset over the 25% to the modder was just using it as an argument point and not serious. If they were serious then they would have come to the same conclusion you did and realized 25% of something is better, monetarily, than 100% of nothing.
This is what happens when you have an above the law police force that preys on entire neighborhoods that feel like they have been cast aside.
Similar, perhaps, but not identical. For example, on comments, flagging has a much more drastic effect than a simple downvote, so keeping the conceptual difference clear is useful.
I support this point especially when I consider companies like Monsanto who genetically engineer crops to resist just their own brand of pesticides.

If you were to genetically engineer products for everyone's good, it would make sense to enter such uncharted territories, but to do it solely for the good of one entity is simply horrific.
There are students everywhere who are graded unfairly. Certainly punishing students who break the ethical rules of the school or terrorize the classroom with a failing grade is not the appropriate response, though many of such students probably do deserve poor grades for the actual academic performance that corresponds to such behaviour.

More interestingly, why should a single grade matter so much? Especially when it can so easily be due to the whims of the professor or to extraordinary personal circumstances of the student? Of course, it does matter in practice, and that's the bigger problem that I think is showcased by stories like these.
If you make a Mickey Mouse sequel using derivative assets, how much of a cut would Disney want? Keeping in mind the assets would be open to competing high-caliber studios (back to the Skyrim example, just allowing for free modding generally precludes competing triple-A's from producing anything, but give them say a "fair" 75% cut of expansions or complete sequels to a competitor's bockbuster game, taking advantage of all their lore, characters, graphical assets, and game engine?).
Sometimes vandalism is faked, created in order to generate propaganda images: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/why-were-police-...
Arbitration requires either an arbitration clause upfront or a mutual post-dispute agreement to arbitrate. The latter rarely never happens as cases are often quite clear or parties don't talk anymore, the former is rare for small claims where my $300 arbitration made sense.

So it turned out I was begging for scraps too. The only way similar services survive is by partnering with marketplaces and handling all their disputes. This leads to kangaroo courts cause the arbitration firm ends up having just a few large clients (the marketplaces) despite having hundreds or thousands of cases (the marketplace users).
Oh so you think Valve has no negotiation power over this kind of things?
Hispania is the Latin name for the Iberian Peninsula (Spain + Portugal).

However, the term Hispanic usually refers to people from Spanish speking countries in the Americas (ie excluding Brazil, Guyana, Belize, etc), regardless of race.
they deserve 0%, for they have created nothing

Not true at all. They created an attractive gaming environment and a mechanism for modding. They should get some percentage, like a royalty, but taking twice as much as the people who write the mods is patently ridiculous.
I'm a customer of Free.fr in France and have been to Portugal and Romania recently and had no roaming charges (though it was limited to 7 days and 3GB). I don't know if this is something all operators do, but it was great.

I was able to use Google Maps and didn't have that 'roaming' feeling associated with it. It was amazing!
Why do you assume that? It could just as easily be someone holding a grudge against the user whose comments to you link to and habitually downvotes him or her. That the comments got upvotes after you linked to them isn't strange either; you drawn attention to that they were unfairly downvoted so people want to correct that.
Money.

When Motorola 68000 was out, it was doing 32bits linear addressing.

The mov operation would load directly from the memory by using a direct addressing.

Wiring 32 wires is expensive.

Wiring 2 overlaping address bus of 16 bits partially ovelapping was less. Intel CPU ASM works big endian because we all prefer to write AND 0xFF, DSI to get the 8 lower bit of a number.

The first register would hit segment, and the second the offset.

Hence you would first need to load the page (that would wire the multiplexing) to get the offset in the page/segment.

The addressing bus would be accessed with a stack. So first you push the lower 16 bits, and then the highest 16 bits. Which would revert since its a FIFO in first loading the segment address, then the offset address.
The cost of this "savings" in terms of CPU cycle was marginal while the gain in money was tremenduous.
> Seems like they didn't think all the way through in both moves.

Yes, it looks pretty bad, and it makes Valve look like a bunch of amateurs. And this is coming from someone who generally likes what they do.
No doubt, I agree with you 100% and think individuals should be allowed to make their own choices based on the information provided. That said, there is some definite marketing wizardry with this along with "organic" ingredients and not-so-subtle suggestions that both are somehow automatically healthy for you.
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That seems like an argument that any percentage is fine as long as it's above zero. But certainly people can debate over what a fair percentage is.
It's unfortunate that it had to come to this, but I believe the rioters were justified in their actions. If the police departments in the United States do not account for their actions, or worse, defend officers that have committed acts that show an indiscriminate disregard for the well being of those they're sworn to protect, they should be prepared to face violent resistance from the people.
I think the context was in order to give space for nonviolent protest, they created a space where some people would act in unproductive/violent ways.

My take was it was meant in a similar spirit as our free speech protections; allowing wide berths for free speech leads to a lot of destructive speech. Preventing nonviolent protests requires militarization a la Ferguson.
The op-ed links directly to the study it's discussing.
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I will have a look at what you've provided above shortly. However, my opposition to GMOs lie in the fact that GMO crops have led to a widespread INCREASE in herbicide use, particularly glyphosate, which is a wide spectrum herbicide to boot. Monsanto owns glyphosate AND RoundUp Ready seeds, so they profit surreptitiously on both ends.
Another great opportunity for effective protest lost.
People are in favor of offering donations and having the modder get the full donation, not being asked to pay for added content. This includes full-fledged mods to a single weapon skin. To make things worse, it seemed that the store became flooded with half-assed content as a means for modders to make a quick buck. Furthermore, some mods required other mods, if the mods that were required started to charge, it became EXTREMELY prohibitive to piggyback.

Most gamers are aware of how Valve became so big and it's through the modding community in HL1 and eventually HL2. Can you imagine how prohibitive it would have been for Counter-Strike to grow if they charged $10 for the mod (obviously when it was till a mod =< v1.6)?

On top of that, some mods were genuine improvements over the original. For instance, there is a huge Skyrim UI mod that is a vast improvement over the vanilla. Some people were actually afraid that game companies would use this pay for mod system as a way to double dip. "Let's release a half-assed UI, let some modder charge for his better UI and take 45-50% of his sales."
>They created an attractive gaming environment and a mechanism for modding

Isn't that what paying the $60 for the game pays for?
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I think you wipe your ass with your hand.
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Justified burning down a brand new senior community center and knocking out a cop with a brick to the head. Really?
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”

-- Noam Chomsky, The Common Good
It is believed that Valve takes 30% from any commercial transaction (google it, although none of the link I found seemed 100% reliable).

IMO, Bethesda should not get any money (see my post)

That leaves 70% for the modder. Seems acceptable to me.
That's just a an evolution of the pronunciation of "Guernsey"[0]. I'm not sure how they say it but it doesn't sound very far from the original to me (and the Irish doesn't seem very different either).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernsey_(clothing)
This is a shame. When I first started college I felt that citations were always a burden. Five years later and two degrees I wouldn't even dream about writing without citing my work. If these kids want to cheat, they shouldn't be rewarded. But hey, the more the kids fluff off the less I have to worry about my field of study being over populated by people that can ACTUALLY do the job..
We have high quality mods now, from people motivated by love of the game. It's not a given that adding money to the equation would create higher quality mods.
The Dwarf Fortress analogy is assuming a single threaded implementation. In other possible architectures, dwarfs might experience latency and among the other things a dwarf might do with all that free time is measure the latency.

Disproving idealism by assuming a god's eye view doesn't warrant a QED. Reality is a black box abstraction.
The initial events in Baltimore, Ferguson, etc. happened independently of journalists. Any “fanning” done by journalists is presumably done because because it’s probably easier to do that than to find other, juicer, stories (where such stories might also be of such a nature to attract government interest).
Iowa gets 5% of its funding from the state, reduced in budget cuts every year for decades. I honestly don't know why they don't cut their ties - 5% isn't worth all the Board of Regents interference.
The core of the issue came down to the effects on the modder community.

1. Modders are hobbyists, not professionals. Many modders came right out and said they would no longer make mods under this system, because the pressure to charge means it becomes a job. They no longer would have the option to just walk away from the mod.
2. Piracy. Modders have explicitly made their mods available for free. Once you have a system where they can be charged for, you have freeloaders putting someone elses mods on steam to make money. Steam provided no protection against this, the only resolution would be filing an individual complaint or invoking DMCA, and Steam was leaving that entirely up to the mod owners to figure out.
3. This was seen as a hostile move towards Nexus, the biggest provider of mods for the games in question. As soon as this was announced, mod makers began removing their products from Nexus out of concern that they would be dishonestly put on the Steam store. As Nexus is an ad-supported service, fewer mods means less income, and it would not be due to a capitalistic business reason.

In the end, most modders don't WANT to be paid for their mods, because it's not a profession. I saw plenty of support for a donation system, however.
Frequently the second problem is exacerbated by cache misses. Every operation becomes (much!) slower, but nothing stands out.

Not a popular opinion here, but excessive modularity like that is practically the definition of bad, hard to follow code though IMO. Ignoring performance issues, everything happens somewhere else, and large changes now take several times longer, since the changes are not local to a function. The code is several times longer than it otherwise would be due to all the function declarations...

Its a nightmare. It tends to be the kind of code you feel productive while writing ("I'm cleaning up this 200 line function"), but is really just making the codebase worse (is there a general term for this kind of false productivity? It's a common problem I see).