I don't think people really care much either way. Of course there will be a small percentage that are concerned about the source of the code, but in general most people just don't care. If they can download it from TPB and it works, they'll use it.
But he's right, the majority of "Anon" ARE btards... thats why this story makes no real sense. The authorities are chasing ghosts. This will change nothing at all.
The one in ten that are "addicted" to video games are the normal one in ten that have mental issues, and the video game addictions are just symptoms of the problems they would have anyway? Before video games there were plenty of other reasons to neglect school and chores... I know I came up with plenty of them as a child.
OK, well maybe I should have pointed out that VIOLENT crime has gone DOWN here every single year since '75 as well. MOST gun deaths by far in the US are accidental BTW, not murders. So either way, less guns, less death. Better?
Where I live there are very strict gun laws, and gun crimes are very low compared to just a couple hours south of me in the US. Even taking the population density difference into account, there is a very distinct difference between our two countries when it comes to gun deaths. I have lived in the US, and in a couple of European countries and I think the major difference is not just the availability of guns (though more guns = more gun deaths is a given) but the attitude towards guns and gun violence in the US is really a scary thing to behold.
My android phone alarm didn't go off this morning either... then I see articles about the iphone alarm bugs... any other android users have issues today?
But you see, that is the point. There is no group, no rules, no boundaries and no organisation. Everyone IS anonymous because all it takes is for ANYONE to decide they are behind any of the causes and they are anonymous. If you arrest a few people, the rest will more likely mock the arrested than actually care. Your "logic" does not have any bearing on this whatsoever. It is not supposed to be "logical" it is supposed to be chaotic and shapeless. That is, in fact the reason they won't stop it. It is like grasping at smoke.
"Because it might hinder linux" is a pretty stupid reason for dumping the chrome OS. I don't know if you realize this or not, but the reasons for not using linux aren't limited to it not being available or known to the masses. At this point most people know what it is, and many people have tried it. I had it on my netbook pre-installed, and I installed windows 7 instead. Why? It saves me a lot of time and effort to run windows over linux. I find applications I need more quickly, never have installation issues or driver issues, all my devices work with it as is, and I have far more options. Linux is a very solid OS, but its really not a good choice for many people who could care less about learning it or spending more than 5 minutes configuring their software. My netbook is a tool I use for work, and I don't particularly enjoy my time using it. I would much rather be doing something else, so spending extra time on it, to me, is just not something I am willing to do. I have very rarely had virus or security issues because I just don't run around clicking on random crap online, so the whole "security" issue is just not there for me.
You see the problem with that statement is that you omit an important fact. Windows is the ONLY PC platform for gaming. Period.
The minority OS's will never see support for SLi or Direct X, making them completely useless to those of us who game and build gaming rigs. Calling people names because they like to game on their PC's is just another reason why these discussions are never of any importance in this particular forum.
I have never seen a serious conversation here about ANY windows products... and still see falsehoods about Vista every day, Now if you want to know how great Linux/Mac are...
Our liveleak friend is looking at 15 yrs for reposting the "swinging baby" video in australia... I hope they stop ARGO before he lands in jail...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=769_1228810670
If he is 2, any sort of laptop is kind of ridiculous. New parent? Go look at the leapfrog toys if you must get something electronic, but honestly this is not the time for it anyway, this is the time when they AREN'T absorbed in electronic toys and a parent is the best toy for his mind. (I have 4 boys and a girl)
I waited awhile to even try Vista because of all the talk, but I got a copy of Home Premium and dual booted it just to check it out, and I haven't had any problems... Its running well, even Aero (2x G280 SLI) and I use it to game all the time. I would agree that XP can run faster but a little, but honestly only like 5-10% with the video cards my desktop runs without using up CPU cycles, and when I jump into a direct X game it turns itself off until I return to the desktop. I have had no crashes, no blue screens, and no issues running all my software. So I just don't get it? Do you people not configure your windows for performance on your systems? Do you just install it and leave it? Maybe I'm just some kind of fluke, but I guess we'll see as I just put it on the rest of the gaming PC's in this house (one more SLI system and one ATI pos) but the kids seem to like it so far... as far as replacing it with a Mac, uh a Mac can't do what I need it to do.
uh, I beg to differ, but FPS games require alot more skill these days then "quake" did. Games like the battlefield games are infinately more complex than player A kills player B, and you absolutely must be able to play as a squads within your team in order to win on any decent server. I tried a few different RPG's and it always ends up with me realizing how much time I am wasting doing the same thing over and over again, and uninstalling the game. There was ONE RPG I got hooked on for a while called Requiem: Bloodymare and it was free, better looking and far more interesting than WOW, but hell its obviously got a following... I just don't get how they get people to shell out for monthly subscriptions when they can play a ton of similar and I dare say BETTER rpgs for free. Is it just the "in" rpg or something?
I think when they do this it is pretty much the same as when they call people up that have warrants, and they tell them they won a contest and they need to come and claim it, its sneaky but gets the job done. If someone who knows they have committed a crime against a foreign country and they are dumb enough to be baited there and arrested I think that is their choices that screwed them... I personally would know better than to walk right into a country that wants to prosecute me, especially these days.
The first time my kids gave me a hard time about what they can play on their XBOX, I warned them, the second time I gave the system to charity, problem solved. Parents are the problem not kids or video games... and I hear all the time how parents don't have time, blah blah, if you have to many bills to have a parent home, then its time to trim the fat so one can.
I'm sorry for those people, but its really an individuals responsibility to live within their means, we all know banks are not to be trusted, I don't ever remember a bank being considered to be a helpful, trusted institution in North America. I could choose to go to a loan shark because they don't do thorough credit checks, but it doesn't mean I should. Anyone that couldn't afford the loan should know they shouldn't take one out, and if they didn't know, I think the onus is on them to educate themselves on the process before diving in, truth be told, many many people took these loans KNOWING they couldn't afford it, and many many more jumped on the "flip this house" bandwagon completely unprepared... I think the bottom line here is that the banks dangled the bait, but you didn't have to bite. I don't by any means believe the banks didn't know what they were doing, and probably KNEW the bailouts would be there for them as usual, but it was peoples greed that allowed them to get away with this. Hopefully this whole mess will serve as a reminder to live within your means.
regardless of how poorly the banks scrutinized the loan applications, PEOPLE took out loans they couldn't afford, so I'm afraid the fault for defaulted mortgages falls directly at the feet of the people who took out the loans... common sense anyone? If you take out a loan you can't afford, its still your responsibility, not the banks because they were stupid enough to assume you would actually pay the loans back...
I reluctantly moved to Vista a couple of months ago for DX10, and expected all kinds of problems because I have read all the FUD on the net about how much trouble it is, and then I find that its actually better than XP, I have almost NO problems and its prettier... %99 of the complaints I read about Vista are due to ignorance rather than fact... now if I could I would probably run a free OS, but until they can play my games I think I'll stick to Vista (2 G280's in Linux would be a waste of good money)I know there is a bias towards anything but MS on slashdot, but honestly if you are a gamer, you need windows, and I'm afraid Vista is just better than XP, it uses my GPU to draw my desktop saving CPU, and makes better use of my memory. Thinking back to when XP first came out, I remember the same types of complaints then as well...
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I don't think people really care much either way. Of course there will be a small percentage that are concerned about the source of the code, but in general most people just don't care. If they can download it from TPB and it works, they'll use it.
But he's right, the majority of "Anon" ARE btards... thats why this story makes no real sense. The authorities are chasing ghosts. This will change nothing at all.
I totally agree, accept for the 4chan part... if I found out my kids were visiting 4chan, I might have to remove their eyeballs...
The one in ten that are "addicted" to video games are the normal one in ten that have mental issues, and the video game addictions are just symptoms of the problems they would have anyway? Before video games there were plenty of other reasons to neglect school and chores... I know I came up with plenty of them as a child.
OK, well maybe I should have pointed out that VIOLENT crime has gone DOWN here every single year since '75 as well. MOST gun deaths by far in the US are accidental BTW, not murders. So either way, less guns, less death. Better?
Where I live there are very strict gun laws, and gun crimes are very low compared to just a couple hours south of me in the US. Even taking the population density difference into account, there is a very distinct difference between our two countries when it comes to gun deaths. I have lived in the US, and in a couple of European countries and I think the major difference is not just the availability of guns (though more guns = more gun deaths is a given) but the attitude towards guns and gun violence in the US is really a scary thing to behold.
My android phone alarm didn't go off this morning either... then I see articles about the iphone alarm bugs... any other android users have issues today?
But you see, that is the point. There is no group, no rules, no boundaries and no organisation. Everyone IS anonymous because all it takes is for ANYONE to decide they are behind any of the causes and they are anonymous. If you arrest a few people, the rest will more likely mock the arrested than actually care. Your "logic" does not have any bearing on this whatsoever. It is not supposed to be "logical" it is supposed to be chaotic and shapeless. That is, in fact the reason they won't stop it. It is like grasping at smoke.
"Because it might hinder linux" is a pretty stupid reason for dumping the chrome OS. I don't know if you realize this or not, but the reasons for not using linux aren't limited to it not being available or known to the masses. At this point most people know what it is, and many people have tried it. I had it on my netbook pre-installed, and I installed windows 7 instead. Why? It saves me a lot of time and effort to run windows over linux. I find applications I need more quickly, never have installation issues or driver issues, all my devices work with it as is, and I have far more options. Linux is a very solid OS, but its really not a good choice for many people who could care less about learning it or spending more than 5 minutes configuring their software. My netbook is a tool I use for work, and I don't particularly enjoy my time using it. I would much rather be doing something else, so spending extra time on it, to me, is just not something I am willing to do. I have very rarely had virus or security issues because I just don't run around clicking on random crap online, so the whole "security" issue is just not there for me.
You see the problem with that statement is that you omit an important fact. Windows is the ONLY PC platform for gaming. Period. The minority OS's will never see support for SLi or Direct X, making them completely useless to those of us who game and build gaming rigs. Calling people names because they like to game on their PC's is just another reason why these discussions are never of any importance in this particular forum.
I have never seen a serious conversation here about ANY windows products... and still see falsehoods about Vista every day, Now if you want to know how great Linux/Mac are...
Its because of directx 10.
Our liveleak friend is looking at 15 yrs for reposting the "swinging baby" video in australia... I hope they stop ARGO before he lands in jail... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=769_1228810670
The consumer IS more important than the seller, I know its easy to forget that recently, but thats how its supposed to be.
If he is 2, any sort of laptop is kind of ridiculous. New parent? Go look at the leapfrog toys if you must get something electronic, but honestly this is not the time for it anyway, this is the time when they AREN'T absorbed in electronic toys and a parent is the best toy for his mind. (I have 4 boys and a girl)
oh you can dual boot XP, but you cannot run my newer games, and does not support SLI, or my physics card.
I waited awhile to even try Vista because of all the talk, but I got a copy of Home Premium and dual booted it just to check it out, and I haven't had any problems... Its running well, even Aero (2x G280 SLI) and I use it to game all the time. I would agree that XP can run faster but a little, but honestly only like 5-10% with the video cards my desktop runs without using up CPU cycles, and when I jump into a direct X game it turns itself off until I return to the desktop. I have had no crashes, no blue screens, and no issues running all my software. So I just don't get it? Do you people not configure your windows for performance on your systems? Do you just install it and leave it? Maybe I'm just some kind of fluke, but I guess we'll see as I just put it on the rest of the gaming PC's in this house (one more SLI system and one ATI pos) but the kids seem to like it so far... as far as replacing it with a Mac, uh a Mac can't do what I need it to do.
uh, I beg to differ, but FPS games require alot more skill these days then "quake" did. Games like the battlefield games are infinately more complex than player A kills player B, and you absolutely must be able to play as a squads within your team in order to win on any decent server. I tried a few different RPG's and it always ends up with me realizing how much time I am wasting doing the same thing over and over again, and uninstalling the game. There was ONE RPG I got hooked on for a while called Requiem: Bloodymare and it was free, better looking and far more interesting than WOW, but hell its obviously got a following... I just don't get how they get people to shell out for monthly subscriptions when they can play a ton of similar and I dare say BETTER rpgs for free. Is it just the "in" rpg or something?
I think when they do this it is pretty much the same as when they call people up that have warrants, and they tell them they won a contest and they need to come and claim it, its sneaky but gets the job done. If someone who knows they have committed a crime against a foreign country and they are dumb enough to be baited there and arrested I think that is their choices that screwed them... I personally would know better than to walk right into a country that wants to prosecute me, especially these days.
The first time my kids gave me a hard time about what they can play on their XBOX, I warned them, the second time I gave the system to charity, problem solved. Parents are the problem not kids or video games... and I hear all the time how parents don't have time, blah blah, if you have to many bills to have a parent home, then its time to trim the fat so one can.
I'm sorry for those people, but its really an individuals responsibility to live within their means, we all know banks are not to be trusted, I don't ever remember a bank being considered to be a helpful, trusted institution in North America. I could choose to go to a loan shark because they don't do thorough credit checks, but it doesn't mean I should. Anyone that couldn't afford the loan should know they shouldn't take one out, and if they didn't know, I think the onus is on them to educate themselves on the process before diving in, truth be told, many many people took these loans KNOWING they couldn't afford it, and many many more jumped on the "flip this house" bandwagon completely unprepared... I think the bottom line here is that the banks dangled the bait, but you didn't have to bite. I don't by any means believe the banks didn't know what they were doing, and probably KNEW the bailouts would be there for them as usual, but it was peoples greed that allowed them to get away with this. Hopefully this whole mess will serve as a reminder to live within your means.
regardless of how poorly the banks scrutinized the loan applications, PEOPLE took out loans they couldn't afford, so I'm afraid the fault for defaulted mortgages falls directly at the feet of the people who took out the loans... common sense anyone? If you take out a loan you can't afford, its still your responsibility, not the banks because they were stupid enough to assume you would actually pay the loans back...
I reluctantly moved to Vista a couple of months ago for DX10, and expected all kinds of problems because I have read all the FUD on the net about how much trouble it is, and then I find that its actually better than XP, I have almost NO problems and its prettier... %99 of the complaints I read about Vista are due to ignorance rather than fact... now if I could I would probably run a free OS, but until they can play my games I think I'll stick to Vista (2 G280's in Linux would be a waste of good money)I know there is a bias towards anything but MS on slashdot, but honestly if you are a gamer, you need windows, and I'm afraid Vista is just better than XP, it uses my GPU to draw my desktop saving CPU, and makes better use of my memory. Thinking back to when XP first came out, I remember the same types of complaints then as well...
lol! Thats exactly what came to mind when I read the article... you beat me too it!