What you and the previous poster are proposing is basically protectionism which is generally considered to be more harmful than beneficial for the local economy in the long run, as France found out way back iirc (I can't remember the name of the minister responsible for introducing it back then and Google only turns up garbage , the Wikipedia article is also "rather" light on historical detail only dealing with the immediate past and then mainly the US, iow it's a pretty crap article)
I hear more and more regularly of bands that quit because they get squished like a citron by their record labels, the latest victim was Oceans of Sadness and their number one tip to newly starting bands was "DON'T sign a record deal EVER" (we actually asked). So no, I don't feel bad at all "pirating" music from the music mafia, I figure stealing from the bad guys isn't stealing.
(note I do still buy loads of music, but I try to make sure the bands at least see a reasonable amount of my cash before I get out my wallet)
Radiation doesn't kill instantly or even short term, ask the Hiroshima/Nagasaki survivors and their descendants about that or the people that lived around Chernobyl.
There's been extensive studies done about power in general in Europe and it has been concluded that we can get around just fine without nuclear power by the time those plants are set to be closed if we put enough effort into the alternatives, the only reason they were going to be kept open longer was lobbying.
Popular opinion or no, no government is going to shut down power plants they desperately need to keep the country running.
Fact is that if shit hits the fan with a nuclear power plant it's real bad, it doesn't matter that it's "safer" than your average coal plant (who, for the record, aren't exactly considered alternatives to nuclear plants in most countries, except, it would appear from comments here, the US), you can't just shut down the plant as Fukushima has proven and we don't have any control over the process if things do go wrong, so if it's possible to do without nuclear power (and without reverting to coal or the likes) then why the hell not?
Indeed, when someone mentions adventures I think of Monkey Island (like everybody here it seems) but also The Longest Journey (classic!), Riven, Myst etc. Half of the games suggested are (action) RPGs.
Should have read the link, they surrendered under terms that were barely any different from those first proposed (the Emperor remained untouched, for one). And it's not revisionist if there's strong evidence supporting those claims, of course it's not exactly popular especially in the US, just like pointing out that bombing a couple of German cities (missing the military targets, which were located outside the cities) into oblivion during WOII isn't exactly popular here, which doesn't make it less true though.
Bullocks, that's the excuse used by the perpetrators of this war crime to justify it. Dropping a bomb over the civil center of a town (the town hall, in fact), military or no is inexcusable. It's like dropping a nuke over Notre Dame because there's arms factories in Paris' suburbs.
On top of that it was widely known that japan was on the verge of capitulation and had been negotiating surrender already (see here for example; google will no doubt turn up way more) so the nukes were just plain unnecessary. Of course, these facts tend to get swiped under the carpet as they don't exactly reflect well on the then US government.
This might be true in CDPR's case but they aren't exactly the norm when it comes to these kinds of things (they've proven to be nice guys that are passionate about their games, let's hope some big publisher doesn't come along and fuck them up *cough* EA *cough*), loads of games require registration and validation to get access to release day "DLCs" (EA/Bioware is starting to get on my nerves with this, for example) requiring varying amounts of personal information on signup and resulting in varying amounts of trouble with the entire kaboodle (as in: bugs, servers not being available, no access to the content in offline mode or there just not being an offline mode at all (because nobody plays from hotel rooms or during a network outage or whatever)).
Which is just another form of DRM and it makes the resell value of your game basically zero (which of course is the entire idea). 0-Day DLCs and forced online activation (so you get access to all the content you already paid for) are even worse than the other crap as they require you to give up personal info (to be able to sign up) to companies that have your privacy as a very high priority (hello Sony)
We already knew that from the previous Witcher, which was notorious for the insane loading times (up to 5minutes in some cases!) and crashes caused by the DRM. Good thing they removed it eventually (and fixed a bunch of other issues with the game). Shame they didn't just release the second installment entirely DRM free through all channels to start with though, guess the publishers still had to have their way.
Which is exactly what make install does, links your old kernel to vmlinuz.old and links the new one to vmlinuz. So you have an "old" entry with a known working kernel, unless you do multiple make installs without rebooting of course, but that would be a bit odd...
Or to summarize suicide terrorism (not all of it, but a lot of it): "A man with only the humblest of means will cling to life like a leech to a pig's ass, but a man with nothing cannot know fear."
I have no idea who the quote is from, nor do I remember where I got it from, but it seems appropriate. How can you fear death if you have nothing? If your family is death (killed, probably) and/or there is just no hope of improving your future in any way?
Why is this ambigious? Afaik division and multiplication have the same precedence and thus are executed from left to right, thus it could also be written as (6/2) * (1+2). Or am I missing something here?
They don't do sneaky attacks. Anonymous breaks in to make a point, denying involvement and trying to hide the breakin as well as possible don't really fit the bill.
Most likely it was a bunch of criminals going after the user data and Sony is just pointing fingers because they have no fucking clue who is responsible and they need to blame someone (or rather, try to redirect all the public outrage) and Anonymous is the popular scapegoat given their history of hacktivism.
The Linux desktop wars never stopped, first there was Gnome 2, then there was KDE 4 etc. each major UI makeover sparked a new battle in the ongoing "war".
Reinventing the wheel and breaking the user experience in the name of usability is a popular pass time it seems. Not quite sure what you switched to though, Microsoft has been ramming it's UI changes down users' throat as well. I guess that only leaves Apple.
After having worked on a stock exchange for some time I consider every market crash a "facepalm". Basing our entire economy on perception just is bound to go wrong time and again.
Certain behaviour is self regulating up to a certain point. If people can get a service they consider important for a price they deem reasonable they will pay for it, not doing so will make the service disappear and in the case of basic needs like food etc that would be a problem, the majority of the people still gets that basic idea.
But trying to enforce unreasonable prices or unreasonable restrictions upon people will lead to them going to a competitor offering better deals, or if you are the sole supplier, stealing.
The latter is the case we're talking about when dealing with copyright. In fact, if the latter case held true for supermarkets there wouldn't be stealing, there would be revolution.
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What you and the previous poster are proposing is basically protectionism which is generally considered to be more harmful than beneficial for the local economy in the long run, as France found out way back iirc (I can't remember the name of the minister responsible for introducing it back then and Google only turns up garbage , the Wikipedia article is also "rather" light on historical detail only dealing with the immediate past and then mainly the US, iow it's a pretty crap article)
I hear more and more regularly of bands that quit because they get squished like a citron by their record labels, the latest victim was Oceans of Sadness and their number one tip to newly starting bands was "DON'T sign a record deal EVER" (we actually asked). So no, I don't feel bad at all "pirating" music from the music mafia, I figure stealing from the bad guys isn't stealing.
(note I do still buy loads of music, but I try to make sure the bands at least see a reasonable amount of my cash before I get out my wallet)
Radiation doesn't kill instantly or even short term, ask the Hiroshima/Nagasaki survivors and their descendants about that or the people that lived around Chernobyl.
There's been extensive studies done about power in general in Europe and it has been concluded that we can get around just fine without nuclear power by the time those plants are set to be closed if we put enough effort into the alternatives, the only reason they were going to be kept open longer was lobbying.
Popular opinion or no, no government is going to shut down power plants they desperately need to keep the country running.
Fact is that if shit hits the fan with a nuclear power plant it's real bad, it doesn't matter that it's "safer" than your average coal plant (who, for the record, aren't exactly considered alternatives to nuclear plants in most countries, except, it would appear from comments here, the US), you can't just shut down the plant as Fukushima has proven and we don't have any control over the process if things do go wrong, so if it's possible to do without nuclear power (and without reverting to coal or the likes) then why the hell not?
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Indeed, when someone mentions adventures I think of Monkey Island (like everybody here it seems) but also The Longest Journey (classic!), Riven, Myst etc. Half of the games suggested are (action) RPGs.
Should have read the link, they surrendered under terms that were barely any different from those first proposed (the Emperor remained untouched, for one). And it's not revisionist if there's strong evidence supporting those claims, of course it's not exactly popular especially in the US, just like pointing out that bombing a couple of German cities (missing the military targets, which were located outside the cities) into oblivion during WOII isn't exactly popular here, which doesn't make it less true though.
KeePassX helps with that. But it obviously doens't help with companies spilling their pwd databases...
Bullocks, that's the excuse used by the perpetrators of this war crime to justify it. Dropping a bomb over the civil center of a town (the town hall, in fact), military or no is inexcusable. It's like dropping a nuke over Notre Dame because there's arms factories in Paris' suburbs.
On top of that it was widely known that japan was on the verge of capitulation and had been negotiating surrender already (see here for example; google will no doubt turn up way more) so the nukes were just plain unnecessary. Of course, these facts tend to get swiped under the carpet as they don't exactly reflect well on the then US government.
Our AS/400 says "Hi" and "welcome to the 70s".
This might be true in CDPR's case but they aren't exactly the norm when it comes to these kinds of things (they've proven to be nice guys that are passionate about their games, let's hope some big publisher doesn't come along and fuck them up *cough* EA *cough*), loads of games require registration and validation to get access to release day "DLCs" (EA/Bioware is starting to get on my nerves with this, for example) requiring varying amounts of personal information on signup and resulting in varying amounts of trouble with the entire kaboodle (as in: bugs, servers not being available, no access to the content in offline mode or there just not being an offline mode at all (because nobody plays from hotel rooms or during a network outage or whatever)).
Which is just another form of DRM and it makes the resell value of your game basically zero (which of course is the entire idea). 0-Day DLCs and forced online activation (so you get access to all the content you already paid for) are even worse than the other crap as they require you to give up personal info (to be able to sign up) to companies that have your privacy as a very high priority (hello Sony)
We already knew that from the previous Witcher, which was notorious for the insane loading times (up to 5minutes in some cases!) and crashes caused by the DRM. Good thing they removed it eventually (and fixed a bunch of other issues with the game). Shame they didn't just release the second installment entirely DRM free through all channels to start with though, guess the publishers still had to have their way.
Which is exactly what make install does, links your old kernel to vmlinuz.old and links the new one to vmlinuz. So you have an "old" entry with a known working kernel, unless you do multiple make installs without rebooting of course, but that would be a bit odd...
Or to summarize suicide terrorism (not all of it, but a lot of it): "A man with only the humblest of means will cling to life like a leech to a pig's ass, but a man with nothing cannot know fear."
I have no idea who the quote is from, nor do I remember where I got it from, but it seems appropriate. How can you fear death if you have nothing? If your family is death (killed, probably) and/or there is just no hope of improving your future in any way?
Why is this ambigious? Afaik division and multiplication have the same precedence and thus are executed from left to right, thus it could also be written as (6/2) * (1+2). Or am I missing something here?
Time to make sudo require a password to get rid of that bad habit.
They got Java, if they figure out they can squeeze money out of something else that will just be an added bonus.
They don't do sneaky attacks. Anonymous breaks in to make a point, denying involvement and trying to hide the breakin as well as possible don't really fit the bill.
Most likely it was a bunch of criminals going after the user data and Sony is just pointing fingers because they have no fucking clue who is responsible and they need to blame someone (or rather, try to redirect all the public outrage) and Anonymous is the popular scapegoat given their history of hacktivism.
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Note that the splitting of the "mumbo jumbo" has never happened and was shrugged off by De Icaza last time he was confronted about it.
The FSFs stance, but since the FSF are just anti MS, Stallman following loonies (right?), here's Groklaw's stance. I'm sure you can find more with your friend.
But don't let the facts presented by people who understand the applicable law and the related issues stop your fanboyism.
The Linux desktop wars never stopped, first there was Gnome 2, then there was KDE 4 etc. each major UI makeover sparked a new battle in the ongoing "war".
Reinventing the wheel and breaking the user experience in the name of usability is a popular pass time it seems. Not quite sure what you switched to though, Microsoft has been ramming it's UI changes down users' throat as well. I guess that only leaves Apple.
After having worked on a stock exchange for some time I consider every market crash a "facepalm". Basing our entire economy on perception just is bound to go wrong time and again.
Certain behaviour is self regulating up to a certain point. If people can get a service they consider important for a price they deem reasonable they will pay for it, not doing so will make the service disappear and in the case of basic needs like food etc that would be a problem, the majority of the people still gets that basic idea.
But trying to enforce unreasonable prices or unreasonable restrictions upon people will lead to them going to a competitor offering better deals, or if you are the sole supplier, stealing.
The latter is the case we're talking about when dealing with copyright. In fact, if the latter case held true for supermarkets there wouldn't be stealing, there would be revolution.
I earn my keep programming Java in NetBeans, terrified doesn't even start to describe it...
;-)
Doesn't beat the program named Pornview though (an image viewer).