Open source is communism, not democracy. All are equal, but some are more equal than others:)
I love how a lot of comments are all about this is how decisions should be made, just one person at the top gets the final say - period. Makes it clear, I think. I'll keep on keeping out of F/OSS, thank you very much. I'm not going to waste my time contributing to someone else's dictatorship, benevolent or otherwise.
Open Source is far more like a democracy made up of smaller communisms.
Mine is secured with WPA, broadcasts SSID, and lists my address. (not the full address, for brevity, but certainly enough for anyone on the street to contact me).
Now, what information is actually being exposed here that I wouldn't want out there?
Or that couldn't be traced anyways with greater accuracy.
[...] before you go on about how 'quaint' CDs are, keep in mind how nice it is to own something physical. You have, as a physical object, evidence of your licensing of personal enjoyment of that media.
Though the short life expectancy of CDs appears to have been greatly exaggerated, they do have a finite lifespan while music in a more transient form can happily be saved from one hermetically sealed hard disk to the next. Either way, all the CRC checks in the world can't guarantee immortality of any data.
Speaking of transient... I've lived most of my teens going from one place to the next, often losing or giving away my possessions in the process. Those quaint, physical goods meant bullshit to me sleeping in an alley or at so-and-so's couch for the week.
What did comfort me was recovering collections of music from friends I shared with since the days of Napster, an impossibility if relying solely on CDs, regardless of the legality.
I'm an immaterial girl living in an immaterial world. Well, except for my recent journey into my PS3 and buying up used games for it. At least Blu-rays are a little sturdier than DVDs and CDs.
It actually costs 40 dollars but the labels are so generous they were paying 50% of the cost out of pocket. Their hearts grew even bigger thanks to everyone being so happy with them, so they decided to pay 75%. Soon they'll just start handing them out for free!
I love our music industry, they're so nice to us little, unimportant people!
I figure just write your page in perfect compliance and say fuck any browser that fails to currently render it properly. Should one day browsers become compliant to standards they'll be able to work with the pages then and re-writing won't be necessary and you won't have wasted time supporting multiple browsers.
Of course, this only works on not-important, mission critical web pages.
What I'm suggesting is the "slippery slope". I remembering there being a big fuss when games started to leave out a real ending for a "to be continued", especially with XIII that never was continued. Now it's almost mandatory that every game is broken into a trilogy.
I'm sure Bioshock 2 is awesome and I look forward to playing it sometime, but what I fear here is that this will pave the way for mainstream game developers to go a step further and not only expect to make more money from DLC, but plan the entirety of the experience around it.
I can't say that by agreeing with this event that you're agreeing with handing out every minute of a game 5 dollars at a time, but can you not see the concern I have with this?
Thank God we have finally crossed this hurdle. The baffling complexity of helloworld.c is no longer an obstacle to world domination.
I think we can now finally say once and for all that 2010 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.
No it won't. Do not be foolishly optimistic. Until videogames are readily available on Linux (and I mean commercial games like Call of Duty), no general consumer would be compelled to use Linux on Desktop (may not apply for netbooks).
Well what about when there is a new multiplayer DLC, you need to either segment the user-base (those who have the content update and those who do not), or you force a patch on everyone to keep the user-base unified but only those who have paid for the content can actually use it. The former would annoy users and the latter is basically what they have done here, what's the problem with that?
Whether or not you agree with the DLC concept or it's pricing is not relevant for this discussion.
"Splitting the user base" isn't what I'm complaining about, and I can't even agree or not with the concept of DLC because obviously since there's so much discussion over this event what the concept of DLC is even supposed to be isn't even something we can agree upon!
My problem here is, since you didn't understand the first time, is that developers are learning they can sell you the same thing they used to sell for 60 dollars now for 60 dollars, and 5 dollars, and 2 dollars, and 5 dollars, and 10 dollars, and 10 dollars, and whatever else they want thanks to the perverse incentives of DLC.
At the very, very least, I would hope that I'd have to download downloadable content before I would call it downloadable content.
There's never been a sacred blood-pact or anything between developers and consumers, but the truth is that game developers are dirtying a relatively pristine culture with the same old tricks. If this habit isn't curbed now by people just plain getting pissed off, then it will continue. I suppose, however, if the majority don't care then it won't matter then anyway.
Really? What law school did you go to? You should get your money back.
No matter how many times you try to say it's a licensing issue it won't force it to be one. Of course, it would be wonderful if there were some kind of contract that developers had to sign before distributing to consumers requiring them to be straightforward in their methods.
Though, they were straightforward in their method, they just tried to ignore the fact it was specifically to hit people up before they even get their feet wet.
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Open source is communism, not democracy. All are equal, but some are more equal than others :)
I love how a lot of comments are all about this is how decisions should be made, just one person at the top gets the final say - period.
Makes it clear, I think. I'll keep on keeping out of F/OSS, thank you very much. I'm not going to waste my time contributing to someone else's dictatorship, benevolent or otherwise.
Open Source is far more like a democracy made up of smaller communisms.
[...] then came back a few months later and married Huck.
Now both Huck and Becky are both full Americans. Why? Because they followed the rules.
That's either bullshit or they got extremely lucky.
BULLSHIT
Are you paid to spread this disinformation or are you just a useful idiot?
Well, of course, they've been throwing money at controlling the bill rather than stopping it.
Unbacked? I'm just focusing on the fact of principle -- All the money of government comes from people. There is a huge overhead to government.
Most of the money that comes from the people is immediately spent on the people.
Why should you ever, with all this parallel hardware, ever be waiting for your computer?'
For a lot of problems, for the same reason that some guy who just married 8 brides will still have to wait for his baby.
Of course, he'll be able to get 8 babies at once, assuming none of the processes crash during the computation.
Their soggy, brainless tenderness will surely make everything better.
Quick, someone send Microsoft a 64 bit version of Vista and Windows 7.
BitDefender and Windows Defender are two different things.
Who has the most secure OS now? Take THAT Linux and Mac fanboys!
Ouch. I feel so... insecure now!
[...] Not that my neighbors seem capable of anything remotely sophisticated.
Best to assume that you can never know what to expect from those around you.
Mine is secured with WPA, broadcasts SSID, and lists my address. (not the full address, for brevity, but certainly enough for anyone on the street to contact me).
Now, what information is actually being exposed here that I wouldn't want out there?
Or that couldn't be traced anyways with greater accuracy.
Gehhh, you're dumb.
Well, now I really do grasp how quaint the Wiimote is...
Why are you repeating exactly what I said?
Don't let mommy brush your hair when she's mad at daddy.
[...] before you go on about how 'quaint' CDs are, keep in mind how nice it is to own something physical. You have, as a physical object, evidence of your licensing of personal enjoyment of that media.
Though the short life expectancy of CDs appears to have been greatly exaggerated, they do have a finite lifespan while music in a more transient form can happily be saved from one hermetically sealed hard disk to the next. Either way, all the CRC checks in the world can't guarantee immortality of any data.
Speaking of transient... I've lived most of my teens going from one place to the next, often losing or giving away my possessions in the process. Those quaint, physical goods meant bullshit to me sleeping in an alley or at so-and-so's couch for the week.
What did comfort me was recovering collections of music from friends I shared with since the days of Napster, an impossibility if relying solely on CDs, regardless of the legality.
I'm an immaterial girl living in an immaterial world. Well, except for my recent journey into my PS3 and buying up used games for it. At least Blu-rays are a little sturdier than DVDs and CDs.
It actually costs 40 dollars but the labels are so generous they were paying 50% of the cost out of pocket. Their hearts grew even bigger thanks to everyone being so happy with them, so they decided to pay 75%. Soon they'll just start handing them out for free!
I love our music industry, they're so nice to us little, unimportant people!
I figure just write your page in perfect compliance and say fuck any browser that fails to currently render it properly. Should one day browsers become compliant to standards they'll be able to work with the pages then and re-writing won't be necessary and you won't have wasted time supporting multiple browsers.
Of course, this only works on not-important, mission critical web pages.
Might as well go to Hell and ask the Devil if sinning is bad.
Cute, that almost makes it sound like you added meaningful information to the discussion.
The government does not run the post office, it merely protects its monopoly.
Wii-style controllers are for fun. Not for accuracy. Not for performance. Not for precision.
Is that by necessity or is that just the way it's been so far? Is it impossible to improve on or change the expectations of?
I guess we can compare these results to when the product is actually released for more than piddling around.
What I'm suggesting is the "slippery slope". I remembering there being a big fuss when games started to leave out a real ending for a "to be continued", especially with XIII that never was continued. Now it's almost mandatory that every game is broken into a trilogy.
I'm sure Bioshock 2 is awesome and I look forward to playing it sometime, but what I fear here is that this will pave the way for mainstream game developers to go a step further and not only expect to make more money from DLC, but plan the entirety of the experience around it.
I can't say that by agreeing with this event that you're agreeing with handing out every minute of a game 5 dollars at a time, but can you not see the concern I have with this?
Thank God we have finally crossed this hurdle. The baffling complexity of helloworld.c is no longer an obstacle to world domination.
I think we can now finally say once and for all that 2010 will be the year of Linux on the desktop.
No it won't. Do not be foolishly optimistic. Until videogames are readily available on Linux (and I mean commercial games like Call of Duty), no general consumer would be compelled to use Linux on Desktop (may not apply for netbooks).
*sigh*
Well what about when there is a new multiplayer DLC, you need to either segment the user-base (those who have the content update and those who do not), or you force a patch on everyone to keep the user-base unified but only those who have paid for the content can actually use it. The former would annoy users and the latter is basically what they have done here, what's the problem with that?
Whether or not you agree with the DLC concept or it's pricing is not relevant for this discussion.
"Splitting the user base" isn't what I'm complaining about, and I can't even agree or not with the concept of DLC because obviously since there's so much discussion over this event what the concept of DLC is even supposed to be isn't even something we can agree upon!
My problem here is, since you didn't understand the first time, is that developers are learning they can sell you the same thing they used to sell for 60 dollars now for 60 dollars, and 5 dollars, and 2 dollars, and 5 dollars, and 10 dollars, and 10 dollars, and whatever else they want thanks to the perverse incentives of DLC.
Explain how.
At the very, very least, I would hope that I'd have to download downloadable content before I would call it downloadable content.
There's never been a sacred blood-pact or anything between developers and consumers, but the truth is that game developers are dirtying a relatively pristine culture with the same old tricks. If this habit isn't curbed now by people just plain getting pissed off, then it will continue. I suppose, however, if the majority don't care then it won't matter then anyway.
Really? What law school did you go to?
You should get your money back.
No matter how many times you try to say it's a licensing issue it won't force it to be one. Of course, it would be wonderful if there were some kind of contract that developers had to sign before distributing to consumers requiring them to be straightforward in their methods.
Though, they were straightforward in their method, they just tried to ignore the fact it was specifically to hit people up before they even get their feet wet.