And Jedi Knight 2, and Jedi Academy, and KOTOR, and KOTOR 2... hell, Empire at War was only released 2 years ago or so. LucasArts makes good PC games all the time.
For a desktop, you don't need more than, say, a week of uptime. Any more is pointless e-peen waving, so you'll have to excuse me if I find it hard to care. Servers are what need massive uptime, not desktop boxes.
Yes, it's your decision to make. As long as you accept the consequences that go with it. I can decide to steal a car. It's my decision. But no one will listen to me whine if I go to jail for it.
Would you rather pay $1,000,000 for merely one car? It's quite fair to spread the cost out amongst many people, considering the cost is out of reach of any one person.
As you've probably seens mentioned lots of times here on slashdot already, there is a big difference between a physical product and something that can be duplicated at nearly no cost.
Tell a lie long enough and it sounds like the truth. People say it again and again on slashdot, but it has no more truth to it than the day it was first said. The only difference between the two things you mentioned is a technicality: if we're discussing the ethics of taking them without consent, they are the same.
I did RTFA. Without RTFA'ing, I would have had no way of knowing that the assertion that the Dell isn't equivalent is bullshit. The Mac has a slightly better processor, the Dell has 50% more RAM (slight benefit to each side). The Dell has more hard drive space. In all the specs that ACTUALLY MATTER (no, looks and power connector and other such bullshit don't matter... just stuff that makes the compy run better), the Dell is equivalent.
None of this makes it OK. When apps are on MY phone, they stay running until *I* say they no longer can run. Period. This article reeks of a fanboy trying to rationalize Google's bad move for them.
Yes it is. People keep trying to rationalize it over and over again, but in the end, it doesn't change the fundamental truth. Piracy is stealing. I'm not saying this in a judgmental way, because I've pirated stuff too. I'm guilty. But I don't try to rationalize away my guilt.
I want to play World Tour. I can't play World Tour without sucking it up and playing shitty music. We have a problem with this scenario, and I hope it gets solved by adding a "turn song off" feature one day.
This is bad, because it reduces exposure of the player to new songs.
No, this is good, because it means you don't have to get songs you hate in order to get songs you like. Rock Band 2 still fails for me by having songs like Chop Suey, Down With The Sickness, Battery, etc. If I could get the game without those noise compositions, I'd be elated.
First of all: there is nothing that isn't "entry-level" about FireWire support (or hell, even PCMCIA support so one could put their own card in). This is basic, basic, shit.
Second: there is no "entitlement" being argued here. What is being said is that Apple is producing a shitty product by making it without FireWire. The only way this qualifies as "entitlement" is if you believe it's entitlement to want companies to make products worth paying for.
And no, you're not trolling, you're just an idiot. And a massive Apple apologist. And again, thank God most consumers have more sense than you.
Common sense my ass. If Apple wants to fuck with the versioning system that everyone uses and is comfortable with, it's fair game to say they charge for point releases, even if they'd rather you not think of it that way. Their own damn fault for trying to redefine commonly-accepted terms.
Uh... 10.5 is obviously a point upgrade from 10.4. See the version number? 10 POINT 5, versus 10 POINT 4. By the definition of point upgrade, it is a point upgrade.
Want firewire (or anything else Apple deems not important enough for YOUR price point), GET SOMETHING ELSE, OR GET A NEW HOBBY.
What a great approach: if a company doesn't offer the goods you want, don't DARE give them feedback on how to improve their goods! Just SUCK IT UP AND DEAL WITH THE SHIT APPLE GIVES YOU!
Thank God most consumers have more sense than you, and try to get companies to sell the products they want.
Stealing is stealing. Rationalize it however you wish, it's just as wrong. Of course, I live in the real world where you can't steal someone's products just because they aren't selling them in the manner you want. If you don't live in the real world, my comments may not apply.
I beg to differ. Doom 3 scared the shit out of me. I could only play it for 15 minutes at a time, tops (I never did finish it because of that). I remember my roommate earning my eternal wrath by startling me while I was playing Doom 3. Far from being "not scary" and "annoying as hell", Doom 3 was an intensely scary game.
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And Jedi Knight 2, and Jedi Academy, and KOTOR, and KOTOR 2... hell, Empire at War was only released 2 years ago or so. LucasArts makes good PC games all the time.
You have fun digging around for and swapping out install discs while I go play any game I want on this newly built PC.
I'll do just that, considering that even on broadband, it's faster to install the game off of discs than to download it from Steam.
months of uptime
For a desktop, you don't need more than, say, a week of uptime. Any more is pointless e-peen waving, so you'll have to excuse me if I find it hard to care. Servers are what need massive uptime, not desktop boxes.
Yes, it's your decision to make. As long as you accept the consequences that go with it. I can decide to steal a car. It's my decision. But no one will listen to me whine if I go to jail for it.
Would you rather pay $1,000,000 for merely one car? It's quite fair to spread the cost out amongst many people, considering the cost is out of reach of any one person.
As you've probably seens mentioned lots of times here on slashdot already, there is a big difference between a physical product and something that can be duplicated at nearly no cost.
Tell a lie long enough and it sounds like the truth. People say it again and again on slashdot, but it has no more truth to it than the day it was first said. The only difference between the two things you mentioned is a technicality: if we're discussing the ethics of taking them without consent, they are the same.
I did RTFA. Without RTFA'ing, I would have had no way of knowing that the assertion that the Dell isn't equivalent is bullshit. The Mac has a slightly better processor, the Dell has 50% more RAM (slight benefit to each side). The Dell has more hard drive space. In all the specs that ACTUALLY MATTER (no, looks and power connector and other such bullshit don't matter... just stuff that makes the compy run better), the Dell is equivalent.
OSX is what userland Linux should be.
God forbid that Linux, which is respectable, should ever become as much a piece of shit as OS X.
That Dell isn't the equivalent of the MacBook only in bizarro world. The specs are damn near the same. And it's $400 cheaper.
Who said it was legitimate in the eyes of the public? bhima seems to me to imply that it's a bad thing, not that it's legitimate.
Pictures? Truly, sir, you are stuck in the dark ages of porn. We have moving porn now.
None of this makes it OK. When apps are on MY phone, they stay running until *I* say they no longer can run. Period. This article reeks of a fanboy trying to rationalize Google's bad move for them.
Piracy is not stealing.
Yes it is. People keep trying to rationalize it over and over again, but in the end, it doesn't change the fundamental truth. Piracy is stealing. I'm not saying this in a judgmental way, because I've pirated stuff too. I'm guilty. But I don't try to rationalize away my guilt.
I want to play World Tour. I can't play World Tour without sucking it up and playing shitty music. We have a problem with this scenario, and I hope it gets solved by adding a "turn song off" feature one day.
This is bad, because it reduces exposure of the player to new songs.
No, this is good, because it means you don't have to get songs you hate in order to get songs you like. Rock Band 2 still fails for me by having songs like Chop Suey, Down With The Sickness, Battery, etc. If I could get the game without those noise compositions, I'd be elated.
If you factor something's popularity into its worth, you're doing it wrong.
First of all: there is nothing that isn't "entry-level" about FireWire support (or hell, even PCMCIA support so one could put their own card in). This is basic, basic, shit.
Second: there is no "entitlement" being argued here. What is being said is that Apple is producing a shitty product by making it without FireWire. The only way this qualifies as "entitlement" is if you believe it's entitlement to want companies to make products worth paying for.
And no, you're not trolling, you're just an idiot. And a massive Apple apologist. And again, thank God most consumers have more sense than you.
Common sense my ass. If Apple wants to fuck with the versioning system that everyone uses and is comfortable with, it's fair game to say they charge for point releases, even if they'd rather you not think of it that way. Their own damn fault for trying to redefine commonly-accepted terms.
Uh... 10.5 is obviously a point upgrade from 10.4. See the version number? 10 POINT 5, versus 10 POINT 4. By the definition of point upgrade, it is a point upgrade.
Uh... Apple charges you for their point upgrades. Microsoft does not.
Want firewire (or anything else Apple deems not important enough for YOUR price point), GET SOMETHING ELSE, OR GET A NEW HOBBY.
What a great approach: if a company doesn't offer the goods you want, don't DARE give them feedback on how to improve their goods! Just SUCK IT UP AND DEAL WITH THE SHIT APPLE GIVES YOU!
Thank God most consumers have more sense than you, and try to get companies to sell the products they want.
Stealing is stealing. Rationalize it however you wish, it's just as wrong. Of course, I live in the real world where you can't steal someone's products just because they aren't selling them in the manner you want. If you don't live in the real world, my comments may not apply.
I'm sure most slashdotters know how painful that is!
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No. No, we do not. I don't know where you got your ideas of the typical slashdotter's sexual activities, but they scare me.
Alright. But don't start complaining if I pirate the game.
You aren't selling cars, just trucks, so don't blame me if I steal your truck and hack it into a car.
That's not scary, it's just annoying as hell.
I beg to differ. Doom 3 scared the shit out of me. I could only play it for 15 minutes at a time, tops (I never did finish it because of that). I remember my roommate earning my eternal wrath by startling me while I was playing Doom 3. Far from being "not scary" and "annoying as hell", Doom 3 was an intensely scary game.