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Yes.

I paid full price for the game and all of the DLC.

Part of the reason I did this was due to the ability of the game to be easily modded. I knew with modding the lifetime of the game was much greater.

Why should they get 40% of mod sales for doing nothing? They already got paid for making the game.

Now, if they are still providing good customer support with timely bug fixes around the mod system, then perhaps I can see a small portion going to them. Otherwise, why do you think they are entitled to a share of the mod revenue?
> But it's a reminder of how fragile the social order is and how close we always are to its collapse.

It makes me wonder if "civilization" really exists, or if we really are just small groups of self-centered "tribes" with sets of overlapping goals...until they aren't.

Fiction writers have made extensive use of this tenuous balance as a plot point. "Under the Dome" by Stephen King comes immediately to mind as one recent example. Once the "boundary" goes up, the town's social order falls apart surprisingly fast (within days, even though power, water, food, and services are still there).
I find it disconcerting that Lancey's comment is down voted. It's the the only post so far that actually addresses the problem directly and honestly. You can wring your hands about how terrible it is that they rioted, looted, vandalized, assaulted, and that an opportune moment for protest was lost, but then you're ignoring the truth of the matter.

The reality is that this happened, because of ongoing police brutality against a minority that is already feeling the pressure of racism, unemployment, incarceration, and other social disadvantages.

You can't pretend those are just all bad people waiting for a chance for thuggery. We, as Americans, have created this by the way we have structured our society to allow for ever growing inequality. And by allowing the police to become para-military in their methods.

It's obviously too late for protests. You've got civil unrest now. Is it even possible to stop it?

edit: fixed a typo
In this case I believe that allocating a dollar value to work done for the love of it, significantly devalues that work in the eyes of its creator.
So this just got dropped from the front page, any idea why? It was #4 then on refresh it was gone.
Let me help you out here. These were not protestors. These were rioters. HuffPo's coverage of the riots has been abhorrent at best. The gathering of people in the video consisted of teenagers organizing after school yesterday to cause mayhem and "create a purge".
Aren't North American cities generally grid based? wouldn't this make it easy for police to for lines, block off several streets, and contain rioters within a block or two?
There are an increasing number of studies listing the harmful effects of glyphosate (Roundup) poisoning. So saying that "nobody ever got ill from GMOs" is patently false.

http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416

http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/04/27/dr-swanson-gmos-and-r...
I find it funny that in all of these critiques of the watch's complexity the comparison is always to an iPhone/iPad.

Compare it to the type of watch the average consumer might buy. "Hold buttons A & C for 8 seconds then press button B 6 times to set the alarm" etc. This thing is lightyears ahead in terms of usability.
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I still fail to see why we need DBUS in kernel, so please correct me and clear my lack of understanding. It is claimed userspace dbus performance is bad, but people want to use it in a much larger scale, so what I deduce from that is there is nobody using dbus on that scale right now, since its performance sucks.

Reason for getting kdbus into kernel, and not a generic ipc but specifically kdbus, is because user space that depends on dbus will continue to work with kdbus.

What I still don't understand is, what is the point of keeping compatibility of currently non-existing userspace, if software that depend on dbus right now doesn't need performance enhancements and can just keep using regular dbus, and software that need high performance bus doesn't even use dbus since it's slow? Under these circumstances, why they insist on making kdbus strictly a dbus implementation but not a more generic ipc mechanism?
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I think the idea is "why use dbus to coordinate creation, rights assignment, ... of local sockets when you can push the data over dbus"?
LOL, exactly.

Hell, why don't musical instrument makers get a share of royalties for music made with their instruments?
> I don't know of a way on Linux or OSX to embed a word processor to work on documents but never show the user

KDE has KParts and GNOME has Bonobo. The latter is apparently deprecated, but it used to be used by the desktop panel for embedding widgets running in separate processes.
I've read so many great things about this game; however, the little bit I played on a friends computer just leaves me wanting more (especially at +20$). I understand that this is relatively cheap in gaming standards I just can't get there.
How does this affect a US user going to an EU country? I am going to the UK and Germany in a month.
yep, they were slashed with knives live on CNN news.
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I know it's so much like 'indirect marketing' things for Mashape.
But, this stuff is pretty helpful for developers to create an API service in minutes.
Thanks so much, Mashape.
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kdbus really addresses a different performance issue than tuning mallocs and locks would. By tuning mallocs/locks/validation/parsing, you can reduce the overhead of each dbus send/receive, but with kdbus you remove half of the send/receives. So however fast your sends/receives are, kdbus will still make things faster by not doing as many of them.
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Yes let's blame poor people. You realise we don't have this problem in countries with even larger welfare systems because our police aren't so heavily militarised and given free reign with no consequences?
So the question is: Why would you want to sell your patent to Google, rather than some other buyer?

In this promotion, Google's answer to that question is that at the very least, you can be sure you're not selling to a patent troll. They may end up using your patent, or they may not, but they are promising that they will not use the slimy tactics associated with patent trolls.

But the thing about patent trolls is that they're looking for a very specific type of patent: an overly broad one that probably should not have been issued in the first place.

If you don't have that kind of patent, but you do have a patent that is clearly valuable otherwise, then the pool of potential buyers probably won't include patent trolls, so the purported benefit of selling to Google (avoiding selling to patent trolls) is moot.

In which case, you might end up getting a good price from Google (the price you yourself set), or you might end up getting a better price from some other buyer.

But the nice thing about this promotion is that, assuming you're confident there are other buyers out there, you can set your price a little bit higher than you think it's worth and see if Google is willing to bite. If not, go sell it elsewhere.
I wonder what kind of infrastructure could fix this. Imagine a official phone store where anyone could upload a app, and no platform API that dictate what the software can do.

In the case that a phone got bricked, can the store owner just shrug it off? If malware was injected, who is to blame? When something suddenly breaks because conflicting apps, is that the customers fault? Does it matter if the app was sold 14 days ago, 30 days ago, 1 year?

It would make for a nice reading for a solution to this problem that would handle all of this, while retaining fully compatibility with consumer laws and customers trust in the market.
> IMO, they deserve 0%, for they have created nothing (and were already paid for the game/tools).

Except, for, you know. Skyrim. A game engine and toolset attractive enough that people want to build in it so badly, they're willing to do it even though there wasn't a way for them to get paid for their efforts. Maybe you've got higher standards, but that's more than I get when I pay $60 for most games. Of course, I only paid $7.50 for it, but.
I think you highly underestimate the influence of the this industry and the pressure it can exert.
"U.S. Government Planned To “Retaliate & Cause Pain” On Countries Refusing GMOs"
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/07/30/wikileaks-cab...
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I've been listening to the iojs technical committee calls and they're moving forward with that in parallel with new development. It sounds like they think the merge is likely, but not guaranteed, and it may be a months long process. So they don't want to stop development for that much time and wait for the merge to complete.
It might be more than just a delay. The new commissioner being more in bed with industry lobbyists than the previous one for example...
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I'd say the person who can rightfully make that argument is the person choosing to sell or not sell their content.
Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that seemingly half the comments here look like they could have been posted on Stormfront, but it's still disappointing.
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"I'll have to continually go back and re-read what I feel like I've just read. "

This happens to me sometimes, but its rare and usually means I'm tired or not interested in the subject matter. If I'm interested I'm glued to the page and won't break concentration for hours.
75% should go to the modders. If people are buying the mod, then the mod developer deserves most of the cash for the mod purchase. Remember, the player needs to buy the original game too. Those funds don't go to the mod developer.
>> There is no justification for this kind of violence. <<

This is what I'm talking about in my previous post. It actually ignores that it happened - regardless of how justified or wrong or morally outraged you might feel about it. The reality is it's going on whether you feel it's justified or not.
Exactly this. Since I switched to Spotify, and then Google Play Music, I haven't downloaded a single song. It's honestly easier to use these services than to go through the process of downloading.

Now what I don't get is the friends that I have that refuse to switch because they like "owning" their own music. I have immediate access to an entire cornucopia of music and they're stuck with what they have downloaded.
I worked on this for about 9 months, well the actual fork (popcorntime.io, not T4P). Was the leading contributor (probably still am). No one on that team was from the US, we did get calls from the MPAA though to try scare us.

I definitely didn't try to keep my contributions secret
When POWER8 came out (ppc64le) the writing was pretty much on the wall. Is there any major or even minor architecture which still defaults to BE? SPARC possibly?
I still have my Apple G5, a rare bigendian only powerpc...
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Does the Three "Feel at home" have any small print?

Is the data capped, or throttled? Is the coverage where the free roaming is included limited?

It is tempting as it does seem to include the 3 countries I split my year between (UK, Norway & Spain), but it is £2 to £4 more per month than my current Giffgaff sim.
Thank you. As many other sticking points GMO tend to be polarizing, and acritically defending them makes a disservice to science same as considering them "evil".

Humans have been genetically modifying food (and animals) long before DNA was known.

Then again, like every other product meant for human consumption it should be subject to scrutiny and monitoring, to ensure saftety.

And even then, most companies will tune food products to maximize profits, and this generally means favoring the looks, yield, consistency and shelf life of a product, as opposed to flavor and texture, with the result of food that looks and feels "artificial".

In general banning all GMO is a fairly stupid political and marketing move, that has little bearing on the final quality of the product: if anything they should guarantee thier customers the freshness and the quality of the ingredients, independently of their origin.
>if we really are just small groups of self-centered "tribes" with sets of overlapping goals...until they aren't.

Look at criminals, especially those who violate moral standards we hold as sacred. Each of us is only a good citizen as long as our goals align, though those goals can be more complex than they first appear (such as altruism).
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I love a well paced but slow film... some of them feel almost dream like, like poetry.
I don't intend to argue, here, in favor of the capital punishment system.

What does offend me is your assertion that what I said had ANYTHING to do with race.
Flag killed probably because of flamewars.
Bioware was doing DLC before it was called DLC and long before Bethesda.

Google Neverwinter Nights premium modules.
I'd say one strong leap at a time...
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You could probably run a cheeky business selling Three data-only sims to US customers, as Feel at home applies to using the data in the US!
> I know that Italy is one of the cheapest countries in Europe for non-monthly deals.

Are you sure? How come your French phone is cheaper then?

It wouldn't surprise me at all if Italian phones were overpriced. A lot of things are there, IME.
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What's being taken out of context here? It seems the conversation is about dbus being slow, and you agree that it is?
Why would making it possible to make money from them make it impossible not to charge for them?
There are some pretty major differences between eating habits in Mexico, and, say, Italy. The people in the former are statistically quite obese, whereas Italians tend to be in pretty good shape.
> Is your brain simply a "bag full of bags of saltwater"?

Also, sugar.
Are you aware that it's not the police or city who own the CVS? It's also not the police or the city who own the 7-11. It's not police or the city who own Binta's African Hair, or the community center, or the stores in the Mondawmin mall, or the McDonalds, or the majority of the other property that was damaged. It's individuals, private citizens, neighbors of those who are looting. Will you please explain how looting and burning down your neighbors private property is justified by civil rights violations that may have been committed by agents of the government?
This little subtopic can't be summed up in a sentence. Valve didn't set the 25% number, and that's the important part. Bethesda opted to take over 40%.
People don't want GMOs because they've been force-fed propaganda by the anti-GMO crowd.. go ahead and place GMO labels on everything, and see how many people still oppose it when they find their favorite food with a GMO label on it.
> Does Unity get a cut from Unity developed games?

That is not unheard of. Afaik the free version of the Unreal engine has a royalty system. It's kind of the same thing with the Source 2 engine, except instead of paying royalty you promise to only publish on Steam.
I'm not sure about the latest version since I rarely use it, but I'm fairly sure that feature existed beyond IE8. But that feature existed for those very people that complained about it, because they were also the types to complain about some setting or another that wasn't doing what they expected even though the browser asked for them to make that setting. It's you either get complaints at the beginning or the end. You will always, always have a percentage of people who not only don't understand how things work, they'll go out of their way to avoid learning how it works. You can't avoid that. The prompt is for people who may actually want to know how the software they are using actually works.

But hey, everybody has their opinion on the matter. I, for one, feel that if the app is going to have settings with defaults then the developers shouldn't be changing them at random times changing the experience of the user without prompting them. But if they are, then the user should be prompted at the beginning with an explanation that "hey! we may change this setting later so this is to make you aware of it" so that they can choose their own default that hopefully should never be changed again. My advocating for the prompt in the beginning isn't because I think it's a good idea, it's because I think changing settings that a user has been operating under without their consent is a bad idea. This is my proposed solution to what I feel is a bad idea.
Though your point about cultivating the discipline is applicable, not all brains process data the same way, and its possible the posters habit is a factor of biology not effort.
> The problem I have with this story is that someone went to the media with rather than dealing with the school administration.

"...he added that the university wasn't responding to his complaints about their behavior, pushing him to take this drastic step."
This is about roaming _within_ the EU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulati...
15/15/70 Valve/Creator/Mod Creator

15% to Valve for merchant fees(this is already crazy high compared to the credit card processors and other payment processor's fees). They shouldn't get the full 30% they charge for game publishing since they already offer Steam Workshop for free and mods don't have the same visibility as games in the store.

15% to the game creator for on-going royalty fees for re-purposing of assets/technology. They would also receive final say in what mods are or are not allowed in Workshop, paid or free. They retain ownership of their original creation and any use or derivation of it.

70% to mod creator.
That's a bit of a leap to say that the cops helped start the riots because there are a couple of incidents of cops throwing something.

From the video on the link you referenced, it looked like the cops were in full retreat from a wild crowd throwing objects. One of the cops half-heartedly tossed something back... inappropriate response on his part, but hardly evidence that he was the instigator in anything.
There is no system in place where this can end with justice. Every time that justice has been called for in cases of police brutality against minorities over the past year, only once was that justice served. Murderers are at large, and richer for, injustices that were defended by the system. Those that are supposed to deliver justice consider themselves all-powerful and above the laws they should be upholding. Justice failed Michael Brown and all the others that died at the hands of police officers on a power trip. When justice doesn't work, what is there to turn to?
I think the main advantage I see in LE architectures is that integral types don't have to relocate. For example, the int32 value 30 is represented in memory as "1E 00 00 00". The int16 value 30 is represented in memory as "1E 00". So casting downwards means that the pointers are the same, and you just ignore the trailing 0s. Contrast this to BE architectures, where you have "00 00 00 1E" vs "00 1E" -- casting from the larger to the smaller type means that you have to move the pointer.
It's nothing. Americans spent "Native American" on their tribes and they don't want to include the other native American tribes under the same label.

"Hispanic" is a useless label because then you subdivide into "non-white hispanic" and "white hispanic" at which point it's just "Native American" and "Caucasian". Not to mention that a person who is "non-white hispanic" has no ties with Spain and all ties with Native Americans.
Be careful of the double-Y axis chart a fourth of the way down. The intersections of the lines and the relative steepness of the lines mean nothing, like all double-Y axis charts.
Wonderful interview. If only he didn't have to charge $995 for each cashmere sweater to be able to provide these things for his workers, and for himself.
Either way, I'm glad he does.
This is the small print for "Feel at Home": http://www.three.co.uk/Privacy_Cookies/Terms_Conditions?cont...

Points of interest:

* Unlimited data in the UK translates to 25GB

* "Three reserves the right to suspend the international roaming when in a selected destination if the customer’s use exceeds any of the above limits for two (2) months within a twelve (12) month period. The service will be reinstated once the customer returns to the UK."

* "This offer is intended to be used by UK residents travelling abroad, and Three reserves the right to suspend the service in the event the UK allowance is used exclusively abroad for three (3) months within a twelve (12) month period."
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I dislike the design of American cities as much as the next guy, but this seems like a huge stretch.
They sold Counterstrike as a retail release when it was still a mod. The donation stuff is a sure way to make sure almost no one ever even considers paying.
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> 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.

So in the end, most modders don't WANT to be paid for their mods, except they do WANT to be paid and call it a donation?
News groups bribe European law-makers, European law-makers put the thumb screws to Google, Google covers the cost of the bribes originally made by the news groups to loosen the screws.

It's a pretty solid business model on the news groups' part.

Edit: Meh, this is clearly an unfounded conspiracy theory, so I won't stand behind it. But the laws are fairly confusing when looking at the facts, which causes me to grab onto any explanation that I can make sense of.
In the end, most modders don't WANT to be paid for their mods, because it's not a profession.

That's an interesting perspective. Sounds like there are some valid criticisms of the system Valve has put in place.

To me it seems that gamers have cut off their nose to spite their own face in this regard. It seems to me that a paid modding ecosystem would be a big win in favor of gamers.

If lone hobbyists can improve a game so much, can you imagine if a studio of 5-10 could make a viable living from modding?
There's a lot of other context to the issue.
-Mods that depend on other mods
-Mod dependencies being removed from Nexus and changed to paid mods on Steam
-Mods stealing work from other mods

If you read Gabe's responses he starts poking at the "Wow wow wow, why is this bad?" and learns a few things.
Regardless of your motivation it's stealing.
Because the police are responsible for protecting that business. If the police fail, then the business owner's faith in the police is shook up.
In a way, this reminds me of the old joke:

> A man asks a woman if she would be willing to sleep with him if he pays her an exorbitant sum. She replies affirmatively. He then names a paltry amount and asks if she would still be willing to sleep with him for the revised fee. The woman is greatly offended and replies as follows:

> She: What kind of woman do you think I am?

> He: We’ve already established that. Now we’re just haggling over the price.

The important bit here is that mod developers can get paid. How much is a matter of negotiation and revising.
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