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Eh, yes. But at this point it had a gigantic following and was no longer considered to be in "beta". That said, if you had HL1, you could still download it for free, whereas if you did not and you just wanted CS, you could buy CS. There is a distinct difference.

As far as donations, there is no way you can assume that. Sure, a vast majority won't pay, but I'm sure there are those out there who are generous enough to throw a dollar or two out there to support the modder. Shit, it works for server admins.

Edit: Donations also work for people who contribute nothing and just stream themselves playing games. Some do very well, so I would venture a guess and say a modder putting out quality content could gather a few bucks.
You've applied for jobs at the big guys. Try someone smaller.
Because breeding is thousands of times slower at producing mutations and it gives researchers (and society in general) enough time to assess the health effects of a crop.
In 2015 we are still learning about crops that has been around for centuries.
That's exactly it, it's the large media companies that pressure the government into bullying Google the ones to blame for the situation we're headed.
When a seed is genetically modified to support wide spectrum herbicide use, does the nuance really matter? A lot of people in this thread are poo pooing the anti GMO movement, when a lot of anti GMO folks are against genetically modifying food to support corporate greed. Monsanto isn't an angel sent from the heavens to feed the starving.
Yes, they are. For example, extend your percentage to 1% instead of 25%. Then it becomes obvious you would be just putting a burden on consumers with actual moders profiting only marginally, and the activity as a whole will tend to decline, since it'1) less attractive as an economical activity, 2) less attractive a hobby, since that might be seen as a low paying job instead, and 3) less attractive for consumers given poor/scant products. The 25% is a milder version of this effect, but I don't find it hard to see why people were upset.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

It also appears to have created quite a feud among moders which were or weren't going to charge for their work, since some mods are quite intertwined.

So it was a combination of effects. I do think the basic idea is worth of discussion, but it's certainly debatable if anything other than pay-what-you-want actually fosters the moding community.
> And it's certainly hard for me to understand why the author would get banned by the island rather than just hated by the guy who brought up his wife's innocent history.

They're all one big family.
I'm not opposed to GMO, but I am certainly opposed to patents on biological organisms. Also, I worry about increased use of pesticides and herbicides.

The most common GMO crops are: canola, corn, cotton, soy and sugar beets.

Canola, soy and sugar beet modification is for roundup readiness (glyphosate).
Corn and cotton are modified to make them resistant to insects without using additional pesticides.

Newer studies have shown potential risks to mammals from excessive intake of roundup:

http://www.nature.com/news/widely-used-herbicide-linked-to-c...
The problem isn't the police. The police are a good target of authority. The real problem is economic.

Even with all the current police injustices, the negative impact from them is less than the impact if they withdrew from the neighborhood. In that sense they are a net good. Of course people want the peace and prosperity reduced crime brings but also want less authority looking down but most of all they want economic opportunity when they know its available to other communities, its the immediate contrast which is most damning. I.e. your neighbors have it good and you don't and society tells you you can have too but for the life of you, it seems like a scam is being played on you.

This however is a long term issue. It's generational. The community has to help itself as much as it needs a helping hand from others. Community organizations which give people support, direction and even punishment. But lots of that is missing and you have disaffected people and opportunists who take these circumstances as an excuse for more violence instead of trying to build something positive.
Probably referring to the link title, which could imply quite a bit more than it simply being slow.
> If you have all-you-can-eat data you can use up to 25GB. If you have all-you-can-eat texts you can send up to 5,000 texts. If you have 3,000 or more minutes included in your allowance you can use up to 3,000 minutes.

It's not small print in as much as it's very clearly stated on their website.

I split my time between the UK and Italy, with some work in Hong Kong & the US - therefore it's perfect for me. I don't run over and pay approx £30 a month regardless of travel on a sim only, month by month plan. I do have one of their old sims though which has unlimited everything.

The only point of note I guess is that the internet is a little slow in Italy but then I'm also comparing that to my Italian 4G phone on Wind. Long story short, it's an excellent deal which has played a major part in keeping me retained as a customer.
So, you are saying that every single extension in existence uses Mozilla's update feature and doesn't have an internal system for updating? Because it seems to me I've seen a few that seem to update themselves with no involvement of the add-on panel of Firefox.
> 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).

This issue is pervasive when Desktop/Web developers try to improve embedded software. I've achieved a thousandfold increase in performance by converting an embedded data logger from using printf to using a dedicated formatting function (most of the time was spent on parsing the format string and performing allocations).
Please do let us know what you think about it! We've worked very hard to open-source it the correct way :)
Superb, more competition for Node.js is a bonus for everyone.
True. There is even a foundation dedicated to helping those falsely accused. The history of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (of which McHugh is a member) is interesting and their board of advisors is impressive. [0]

Looking at corollary memory disorders, I noticed a pattern of conservative diagnosis and general skepticism. For example, WIRED[1] covered a panel looking to scale back PTSD diagnoses in 2013 (McHugh was part of that group).

So, I went on to read a little more about McHugh and came across an essay called "Psychiatric Misadventures"[2]. In this essay, McHugh explains his philosophy in teaching psychiatry to new students as well as taking shots at the profession in general:

>_PSYCHIATRY IS A RUDIMENTARY MEDICAL ART._ It lacks easy access to proof of its proposals even as it deals with disorders of the most complex features of human life--mind and behaviour. Yet, probably because of the earlier examples of Freud and Jung, a belief persists that psychiatrists are entitled to special privileges-that they know the secret of human nature--and thus can venture beyond their clinic-based competencies to instruct on non-medical matters: interpreting literature, counselling the electorate, prescribing for the millennium.

What to say about all of this?

On the one hand the man has a distinguished career with many accolades. On the other, there is an extreme bias and a fairly obvious agenda behind his actions. Some may call this principled activism. No doubt there are other descriptions less charitable.

[0] http://www.fmsfonline.org/?about=EarlyHistory

[1] http://www.wired.com/2012/03/the-ptsd-trap/

[2] http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/mchugh.htm
Thanks for linking to that quote, it's something I've been thinking about recently.
> Yet those folks don't stick their hands into our revenue stream.

Game engines do. And they used to tack on $100,000 up front, to boot.
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Exactly, maybe it will change people's mind and they will accept it more, or it could be just the opposite and people would boycott lots of products. But until there is a label, it's difficult to know. At least with a label, we will see instantly if GMOs are making economic sense.
I didn't mean to say my Python code was the one crashing with a segfault. Apologies if my comment wasn't clear enough.

I just did a search in my bugzilla account at Red Hat (Fedora distro) but I couldn't find a report for that specific crash. The closest I can find is a report on a crash of notification-daemon (could be related though, as it uses DBUS to advertise a service).

I'm surprised I didn't file a bug report, but there you are.
Police do a bad thing: "You can't blame all cops for a few bad apples in isolated incidents."

Protesters do a bad thing: "Pathetic rioters! Ungrateful youths! Sit down and do as you're told!"
Where did I blame poor people? Why do discussions like this on HN have to be so twisted and toxic?

If anything, I would blame the political elitist class that uses shiny beads to buy power and then perpetuates the misery of their constituents by not giving them a good education and the means to improve their lot.
The list itself states ESPN called that one a riot.

Part of the double standard is that even when it gets called a riot, we don't get the same hand-wringing about "where were the fathers", dog-whistle terms like "urban thugs", etc.
As a consumer, I deserve to know the truth about what is in the food that I purchase and feed to my family. If putting a GMO label on the food that has it, leads consumers to still purchase that, it's their right to do that. My question to you is, what harm is there in that label?
That comes down to one question: Do you want to eat food that someone has tampered with genetically, or do you want to eat food that humans have been eating for thousands of years with no recorded negative side effects?

The fact is GMO food may be generally regarded as safe - according to... the studies funded by the companies that promote these GMOs [conflict of interest much?] but I've got thousands of years of human consumption with no recorded negative side effects on the side of non-GMOs and you've got a couple of scientific studies that cover a laughably small "cross section" (if you can call it that) of society with no ability to do any long term studies because you only started down this path in very recent human history. Add to this the fact that when you pump your crops full of herbicides and pesticides there appears to be an alarming degree of correlation between the uptick in food allergies and autism. This is huge cause for concern. Whether this is the actual cause, the jury is out, but there is anecdotal evidence from a number of places including celebrities which suggests that removal of those foods from the diets of their autistic children has brought them back.

If someone can do an actual independent study on GMOs that isn't funded by pharma or agribusiness, doesn't suffer from a conflict of interest and compares in scale to the thousands of years of human history, I'd say the studies don't compare. Even as valid as they may appear on the surface, those of us on the outside have little confidence in them. Especially with information being leaked from inside these studies to suggest corruption and cover-ups to promote the corporate agenda all the way to the highest level to increase profits at all costs - up to and including the collateral damage of a few thousand deaths per million. Deaths that can easily be swept under the rug using underhanded tactics such as smear campaigns, sewing tactical doubt, lied about, gagged by payouts or flat out covered up. There are a number of reports of the FDA aiding and abetting in this behaviour. The F.D.A! If you can't trust the very Government office that is funded with the goal of looking after your best interests as the consumer, then who can you trust?

Nature has nothing to prove. Agri-business and Big-Pharma are run by people. People are fallible and when bound to their responsibility to investor profits, corrupt. Who would you rather trust?

It's no wonder people don't want to eat GMO. It might be the safest thing on earth, but when you add human fallibility and corruption into the equation, which way do you turn?
Very relevant here...

https://xkcd.com/793/
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> Hell, why don't musical instrument makers get a share of royalties for music made with their instruments?

Hell, why don't game engine developers get a share of royalties for games made with their engines?

...oh, right, they do.
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I believe that is currently called kparts. Both gnome and kde had corba models early on and looked to be following the OpenDoc model. I think both orbit and Mico are now orphans. They seemed to scale it all back and pivot. I think people want widgets with behavior, not full blown browsers and word processor components.
My point is independent of who deserves to make that argument. I am merely saying that those who do make that argument are not always doing so with a hidden agenda.
Olivetti ran his company more or less the same way - as a philosopher
I (personally) can almost rationalize rioting if the target of the violence is a symbol of the population that the mob see as their oppressor.

Take for instance, the Los Angeles riots in 1992. If significant mobs of rioters had streamed out of South Los Angeles, marched up La Cienega Blvd., taken a left on Wilshire, and then laid waste to establishments in Beverly Hills, it would make perverse sense.

However, for the most part, this didn't happen. While the violence and looting was geographically widespread across the Los Angeles basin, the neighborhoods where it happened were often the same ones that the rioters lived in. The same neighborhoods that their friends and families shopped in, played in, and ultimately where they continued to live in after the six days of rioting ended.

This represents something else than just a "justification". I'm not a sociologist, but as a person it's pretty clear to me that something else is going on if you decide to, proverbially, "shit where you sleep".
I am curious, could its inhibition of cholinesterase be dangerous, or is it minute enough not to matter?
It should be noted that the police can be used as an economic weapon via tickets/fees/fines.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/26/h...
It reads to me like a complaint about wards of the state but I may have misunderstood.
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Yes, but you cannot judge 25% sufficient (a priori) like that, just as you can't judge any % insufficient a priori. It may very well be too low and damage the community. And clearly the consensus was that it is too low.
You mistake causation for justification. Nobody is challenging the former, we're just disagreeing about the latter.
That comment is mostly by gamers, not modders. Also, the difference is that one assigns a worth, while the other is someone saying 'hey I appreciate what you do'.
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When you buy something you have some expectations. You'll want the mod to be stable, be updated along with the game, play along with other mods.

If you are the seller, and you got paid, that means work. Give support or get shouted at by dozens of angry customers. Reply to emails for months to come when a competitor modder added your mod features to his mod and why the hell are you charging 4.99 if it's worth 1.99 and now you need to refund your costumer.

Donations, on the other hand... explicit intent and different expectations from everyone involved.

Also, it might be neither "most don't want to be paid" nor "most want donation", and both sets might have a very small intersection.
That Steam allows it doesn't make it legally binding or compliant with current regulations which override any TOS/EULA in a given legal region.

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer_affairs/consum...

«In the case of digital content, the cooling-off period expires when the downloading or streaming starts.»

Says you can't waive it; for digital downloads the 14 day period get's annulled once you start downloading/streaming, not at checkout. Since many more things can go wrong with software(games) then compared to linear media (books/music/video) that implementation is still questionable.

Untouched by this, at least in Germany every product sold (including Software) comes with two years of warranty ("Gewährleistung") which is established between the consumer an the reseller (at point of final sale, in this case Valve SARL) which first requires the reseller to provide a working product ("Nacherfüllung") if that's not possible the customer is entitled to a refund. Not that that this is found in many online shops in Germany, but those are the regulations that Valve has to follow by when selling software (games) to German customers.
IBM actually came late to the PC (or microcomputers as they were known then) game, but the world it entered was full of walled gardens. However due to its lateness, it was forced to make architectural decisions that made future cloning easy. But you do know that the "IBM PC compatible" clones that made the PC a standard and commoditized hardware were reverse-engineered, right? As in, without IBM's approval? If IBM wanted a truly open system, people would not have had to reverse the BIOS.

Microsoft's masterstroke was in foregoing exclusive licensing to IBM for lower royalties, and then making the same software available on all computers, thereby creating a standard platform that more software could be written for. The true value of a machine is in the software, and as more and more software is written, more and more value is created (which MS was perfectly positioned to capture a large chunk of), whereas hardware becomes fungible, causing hardware makers to enter a race to the bottom. This made hardware cheaper and more accessible, leading to even more software being created. I doubt any other company drove that shift as much as MS did. Certainly not IBM, which didn't even realize what was happening at the time, and if it did, it certainly would have fought its own commoditization.
On top of the trust issue, one advantage of giving food to a beggar is that he is much less likely to get mugged for food than for cash.
A donation doesn't instill the same level of responsibility to the product. A donation is to support a hobby, a payment is to support a job.
That's a good point. I had been thinking about the "positive" outcomes of those overlapping concerns but you are right to point out that social mores are a very grey area.
Hmm, today I learned America has never had a riot before.

Although I seem to distinctly remember my city of Philadelphia rioting pretty good after the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series...
See New York where protesters could easily avoid cops by creating multiple incidents at once and dispersing in different directions when police resistance arrives. It takes too long for an organized group to move through the city and that can be used to spread police thin.
He was able to run away from the police BEFORE they arrested him. After he was transported to the police station, he was found to be severely injured and the folks at the police station sent him immediately to the hospital.

I'm going to use logic here for a minute. There are only two possibilities for how this happened. Either it happened at the hands of the police, or another force.

Who is this other force, and how were they able to overpower the police? Did they overpower them in public? You know, like in the video we can see? Or did they forcibly stop a police vehicle, beat the man half to death and then let the police vehicle continue on. And how did this arguably criminal act go unreported and un-pursued by the police? The police typically take crimes against their own pretty seriously.

If you find the line of reasoning that some other mysterious force caused these injuries suspect, I would tend to agree with you.
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> It's not "the industry" doing the labeling, scientific consensus isn't so easily bought - if it were oil companies (who have far more money than Monsanto et al) would have made sure the science on climate change was on their side.

You are confusing the complexity and difficulty of bending the truth around climate change VS GM.
It's also not really meant/suited for that level of optimization. At some point it's better to use JNI or something.
Your theory invokes more than it needs to. I see no evidence that the government needs to exert even a tiny bit of effort to feed journalists silly stories. I'd say the evidence suggests it is simply the natural state of the journalism given the current incentives, most of which are coming from the market as it reacts to the Internet. "Real" journalism, or perhaps rather, "effortful" journalism is really hard to sustain right now even before we consider government pushback, because trying to base journalism on "ads" and "page views" is all but actively hostile to such journalism. (We get reporting on Baltimore not because it's "real", but because it's easy; point camera, optionally bloviate and fit into narrative, done.) Until journalism figures out another funding method, the race to the bottom is the only possible economic outcome.
Does this book contain references for the facts he cites? I would like to use several of his arguments in my own work but it's hard without proper references.
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> But for others, it is absolutely a service issue

Absolutely? So if the price was $50 per movie, $100, or $1000?

There has to be the balance in next equation:

Affordability + ease of obtain versus feeling of guilt for pirating.

If there is no feel of guilt, little can be done, example: Russians pirating everything, and they are not as poor as you might perceive.

Ludicrous price? Oh to heck it will be pirated even by Americans.

Ease of obtain - at least we are not arguing over this (now) obvious fact.
Or compare it to a competitor, like Pebble. Pebble has 4 hardware buttons and works very intuitively.
If the population doubles, why do holodecks require 2x as many resources to invent? Alternately, if Keynesian stimulus or welfare reform causes Americans to return to the workforce and raises GDP, why do holodecks require 2x as many resources to invent?

That's the core question which you are ducking.

No one, least of all me, disputes that research is useful - that's all you've actually argued. I'm merely disputing your assertion of a linear scaling law between GDP and the funds needed for research, and you haven't provided an argument why such a law would exist.
Worth reading. I especially love the section about estimates. I have seen all those problems at my clients in real projects. This is what got me interested in #NoEstimates in the first place (http://devteams.at/how_i_got_interested_in_noestimates)...

All other section from the essay are interesting too, and most are still very relevant - 14 years later!
I did not. I probably should have, but there are only so many hours in the day, and I didn't have one for this particular task. Since I still use RabbitMQ in some places I expect I will be dealing with this more, and if the situation doesn't improve I'll contact them then.
My mouse didn't seem to lock to the game window so I could only turn so far before my mouse hit the edge of the screen. Other than that it is a cool game to play around with!