what else goes into publishing for the switch? what kind of content restrictions are there? is it like the app store where you have to be 100% family friendly? what percentage of the sales do you get as a developer? will they be cracking down on asset flipping games?
theres a mad dash for everyone in the world to come to american universities and suck every last drop of credibility from them. for a long time college has been getting worse. we went from college being a selective and prestigious club to what we have now: giant degree mills where actual learning is a fucking foot note. and college has become this way because everyone needs a college degree now because there are no jobs for the ordinary joe who doesnt have a degree or connections. so college has been on this slow decline and now we see a ton of asian students who are coming and getting degrees while they still have some value. so at the end of the day the whole thing just stinks. you walk around and look at all the amazing buildings and amenities that the school spent millions upon millions upon millions of fucking dollars on to attract the rich foreign students and out of state party students and the domestic rich students. meanwhile the quality of the education that students get has plummeted. students dont learn anything anymore. elon musk read his physics text book and showed up to exams. he was able to pass because he learned the material. maybe other people have has a different experience but that has not been possible at my school. i had a single professor who went against the current and taught for understanding and at the start of the class he practically got on his hands and knees and begged the students to read the book. being new, i didnt understand. but soon i realized that it was because students dont actually read the books! every other professor chooses some shit textbook thats filled with irrelevant material and you are forced to only read the equations and game the fucking system and get points. learning has been totally abandoned! and now i see swarms of asian students cheating on every exam and i look at the state of the college and it just depresses me. i was in an algorithms class and we had a quiz. times up, we are walking to the front to turn things in and there was an asian guy standing in front of the desk, looking at other peoples papers and copying the answers. completely brazen. and the nobody did anything. nobody gave a shit. and i go to a well known school. the state of affairs is not good.
whenever i see an article like this, i am reminded that these authors are forced to take into consideration the timing and appearance of their articles. for instance, they would be unwise to release a scoop before or during the super bowl. in other words, in the fight to preserve liberty in the world, they are reduced to the same tactics as sleazy advertising and PR companies. it is so sad that such an important, fundamental and altruistic cause is so fragile.
what a coincidence. just the other day i kind of stumbled across the situation with apple and vulkan and was totally mystified. why would apple, who was a supporter of vulkan, not implement drivers for it, and in effect block the possibility for a universal webvulkan standard and all the glorious benefits of it? lo there was a reason! i have to say that i think apple is being a complete dunce. so they refuse to implement vulkan drivers, or even modern gl drivers, and now their next move is to create yet another graphics api? the success of which would depend on everyone else supporting it when apple wouldnt support stuff? apple has enough money (tax dodgers) to support other standards. they should probably do that and do it well before telling everyone else what to do. /rant
if i am not mistaken, ads used to pay a lot more. for example, a friend of mine used to run a website and was able to pay for the hosting costs with a few adsense ads and modest traffic. apparently that is not possible anymore.
there are problems with ad blockers and malicious ads. i simply dont understand why these things are a problem. why do we not see simple ads, static images with no java script, implemented in such a way that ad blockers cant really block them? i mean, if your ad is some image inserted somewhere in one or all of your web pages, how could an ad blocker know which image it was out of the many which are probably going to be present on any given page? and why are people not willing to pay for such an advertising vector? people visit the website, they will see the ad like a billboard or any other traditional ad, so why is it not possible to charge traditional rates? its very confusing to me so if anyone with experience in the matter could weigh in that would be very nice.
in his book "Doing Time Like A Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison" by John Kiriakou, he tells about the "20 rules" taught to him by the cia to survive in an environment like prison. he briefly discusses these 20 rules in interviews. i dont have the book, does anyone happen to know what these 20 rules are?
the populism craze is just the latest effort of liberal people to de-legitimize trump. its retarded. how is hillary clinton appealing to all the needs and demands of her voters not populism then?