Wow. Last time I went to a Hollywood Video store specifically was some years ago when at the time Blockbuster was costing ~$5 for a video game rental while Hollywood Video was around $3. I don't see prices on their website (of course), but if it really is $9 for a video game for 5 days then that's insane.
Blockbuster has been dead for a while. The only thing they had going for them was their physical presence for those with slow internet or those who like brick and mortar stores. Now they've killed the interaction between the two and alienated those who will now go to Netflix (likely) and those who see themselves as being screwed and will go to Hollywood Video and other rental stores. This wouldn't have been such a shot in the foot if they had given notice to users, but now they haven't and costumers are going to feel like they got the short end of the stick. I haven't been to Blockbuster in years because of their prices alone, but that's just me.
The game delayed The Chinese silenced The Blood Elves bowed The Gnomes didn't mine The Mainland was still And the government hath said The game shall be delayed The Night Elves wept And the world once again Fell to it's knees.
Solving it the American way baby! Can't shoot at it? Aw. Throwing money at it doesn't help? Aw. Wait... revolutionary idea... let's deep fry it!!! *The suits come out of the conference room giving mental pats on the back to themselves*
As you said, "here in the UK...". In the United States almost nobody has the option to change ISPs (much less changing for the 'better'). I'm in a Charter area (on the east coast of the U.S.) and you know what my options are? Dealing with a 100GB cap they implemented without my consent or... changing to dial up. There is no in between for me at all. Do I download songs? Absolutely 3-5MB per song. For video games we are talking 4GB - 50GB per game. Therefore, my chances are good that I can only download 2 games or so (on top of my normal bandwidth) each month. I say chance because there's no telling how big the game I want to download is. One of two things must happen: American ISPs need to get their acts together and lift speed and bandwidth caps like they have not been doing... or video game companies can just stick to shipping my PS3 and 360 discs to Gamestop, Amazon, and the like.
Is not honor reward enough? Doing the right thing is its own reward.
I won't lie; this being Slashdot, I am absolutely shocked! Shocked and appalled that a valid response is such as this is marked informative and not +5 Funny! Outrageous!
was Ubuntu when it first came out. It was nice, user friendly, faster than Windows, and didn't crash. Heaven on a hard drive. I no longer had to worry about what I could and couldn't do (like modifying the shell outside of Microsoft's set boundaries). Deleted Windows and never looked back. Since then I've tried various distros and the one I currently like is Arch. Think of it like slackware, but with an amazing package manager. It starts very minimalist, but that's the beauty of it; you can change it into whatever kind of distro you want and nothing is hidden from you (in regards to text and configuration files) unless you want GUIs. But hey, choices exist for a reason...
What's funny is I'm currently using an internet connection from a U.S. military base and I'm not using proxies or any other outside tool to view their site. So not only are they abusing a system that's existed long before they even considered it's existence, they're liars on top of it.
Sorry for double posting. I failed to mention that their site would NOT let me view it even though I'm using the internet from a U.S. military base.
What's funny is I'm currently using an internet connection from a U.S. military base and I'm not using proxies or any other outside tool to view their site. So not only are they abusing a system that's existed long before they even considered it's existence, they're liars on top of it.
Alright, I've read enough of your comments. The reason you won't get many (if ANY) downloads off of your cheap plugins is because as stated above it is "closed source" (really... plugging in closed source software on Slashdot?) and you're an untrusted source. Put the source code up or shut up... why do you want us to download 'YOUR' software so bad in the first place? Exactly... untrusted source with an untrusted answer. I have a hint: STOP ADVERTISING YOURSELF.
Offhand I can say that the NFL's needs are FAR greater in respect to media needs during the Superbowl as opposed to the World Series, but just in case, I found a link in about 5 seconds on Google.
Yes, which claims a standard United States Government agreement which claims they own the computer, the data, your soul and anything else that may come in contact with it... but it also states "Forge.mil is currently in beta with limited operational availability. General availability for unclassified use is scheduled for Spring 2009." So, one could safely assume (at this point) that with the PKI Certification that's needed and the agreement they expect only DoD computers to be accessing it at the moment. However, at some point everything stated will be changed (or they'll change their mission from being 'open').
The reason for that is, you have to be in the DoD and you receive the cert by CaC (DoD ID cards which double as a smart card with your PKI certs and authentication information). This forces you to obtain the certs physically and in person at a DoD site (ie ID Center on a military base, etc.).
I have Charter and routinely have charges that don't add up. Only those $2 agent fees of course... agents that I never talk to because they don't know anything (although that's every ISP)? And once my Internet went down and after a few phone calls to Charter, they sent over a technician under the understanding that if it was due to a problem on my side of the network (I.e. cables, my LAN, etc.) then I would have a charge, however, if the problem lay on their end, they would not charge me. Turns out they accidentally disabled my connection... and then charged me a $35 dollar technician fee anyway. I was irate to say the least (we didn't have Internet for 3 days and they charged me for it!). I have constant outages, and my bills are routinely in the $75-$85 region, just for Internet. Why can't I go somewhere else? Because they are the only option.
The only solution would be to enable the complete removal of Internet Explorer's GUI. The only reason I don't say to completely remove it is because it is crucial to Windows Update, among other aspects of that OS. However, to force the OS to tell the user, "You must install one of the above to get on the Internet," is ludicrous. The same people claiming that Microsoft's packaging are the ones who have no problem with Firefox being installed by default in Linux distributions. The only difference is that we have the ability to remove Firefox in favor of Opera, Epiphany, or what have you. Therefore the only way to achieve "equality" is for MS to include a way to give the user the option to remove Internet Explorer in favor of a different browser.
If someone has Truecrypt on their hard drive and the police raid your house for some server and they take that encrypted drive, there is nothing stopping you from saying, "I forgot my password... oops." But if you trust the hardware, then what stops the police from going after that hard drive manufacturer and putting the legal pressure on them to provide a back entrance and/or technical help? The idea that the government won't put a legal squeeze on the hard drive manufacturer the second they think they've come upon a child pornography/warez/other horrible illegal things seems absurd to me. I understand that manufacturers of things like flash drives and such have had hardware encryption before, but it hasn't been widespread and mainstream. When you throw in the "average citizen" factor, I think we'll see all kinds of challenges and laws spring up.
Plausible deniabiliity kinda like this? If the RIAA put the lawyers on that case, it could be assumed that a paper thin defense like that wouldn't stand up in court.
They went through the trouble of making fake reviews for their product... and failed because they used their real names... I don't even know what to say to that...
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Wow. Last time I went to a Hollywood Video store specifically was some years ago when at the time Blockbuster was costing ~$5 for a video game rental while Hollywood Video was around $3. I don't see prices on their website (of course), but if it really is $9 for a video game for 5 days then that's insane.
Blockbuster has been dead for a while. The only thing they had going for them was their physical presence for those with slow internet or those who like brick and mortar stores. Now they've killed the interaction between the two and alienated those who will now go to Netflix (likely) and those who see themselves as being screwed and will go to Hollywood Video and other rental stores. This wouldn't have been such a shot in the foot if they had given notice to users, but now they haven't and costumers are going to feel like they got the short end of the stick. I haven't been to Blockbuster in years because of their prices alone, but that's just me.
The game delayed
The Chinese silenced
The Blood Elves bowed
The Gnomes didn't mine
The Mainland was still
And the government hath said
The game shall be delayed
The Night Elves wept
And the world once again
Fell to it's knees.
Solving it the American way baby! Can't shoot at it? Aw. Throwing money at it doesn't help? Aw. Wait... revolutionary idea... let's deep fry it!!! *The suits come out of the conference room giving mental pats on the back to themselves*
Oh noes! Not the Kindle restricting meh puchases!
As you said, "here in the UK...". In the United States almost nobody has the option to change ISPs (much less changing for the 'better'). I'm in a Charter area (on the east coast of the U.S.) and you know what my options are? Dealing with a 100GB cap they implemented without my consent or... changing to dial up. There is no in between for me at all. Do I download songs? Absolutely 3-5MB per song. For video games we are talking 4GB - 50GB per game. Therefore, my chances are good that I can only download 2 games or so (on top of my normal bandwidth) each month. I say chance because there's no telling how big the game I want to download is. One of two things must happen: American ISPs need to get their acts together and lift speed and bandwidth caps like they have not been doing... or video game companies can just stick to shipping my PS3 and 360 discs to Gamestop, Amazon, and the like.
Is not honor reward enough? Doing the right thing is its own reward.
I won't lie; this being Slashdot, I am absolutely shocked! Shocked and appalled that a valid response is such as this is marked informative and not +5 Funny! Outrageous!
was Ubuntu when it first came out. It was nice, user friendly, faster than Windows, and didn't crash. Heaven on a hard drive. I no longer had to worry about what I could and couldn't do (like modifying the shell outside of Microsoft's set boundaries). Deleted Windows and never looked back. Since then I've tried various distros and the one I currently like is Arch. Think of it like slackware, but with an amazing package manager. It starts very minimalist, but that's the beauty of it; you can change it into whatever kind of distro you want and nothing is hidden from you (in regards to text and configuration files) unless you want GUIs. But hey, choices exist for a reason...
That's always bothered me too. It's like DNS (depending on usage on this word though).
What's funny is I'm currently using an internet connection from a U.S. military base and I'm not using proxies or any other outside tool to view their site. So not only are they abusing a system that's existed long before they even considered it's existence, they're liars on top of it.
Sorry for double posting. I failed to mention that their site would NOT let me view it even though I'm using the internet from a U.S. military base.
What's funny is I'm currently using an internet connection from a U.S. military base and I'm not using proxies or any other outside tool to view their site. So not only are they abusing a system that's existed long before they even considered it's existence, they're liars on top of it.
Am I the only one who read the headline and said MIT created a way to see dead people!? Of course it would be MIT...
Alright, I've read enough of your comments. The reason you won't get many (if ANY) downloads off of your cheap plugins is because as stated above it is "closed source" (really... plugging in closed source software on Slashdot?) and you're an untrusted source. Put the source code up or shut up... why do you want us to download 'YOUR' software so bad in the first place? Exactly... untrusted source with an untrusted answer. I have a hint: STOP ADVERTISING YOURSELF.
Realistically, running in a non-admin account is a pain in the ass. ...in Windows. ...on a computer ...turned on.
Offhand I can say that the NFL's needs are FAR greater in respect to media needs during the Superbowl as opposed to the World Series, but just in case, I found a link in about 5 seconds on Google.
Yes, which claims a standard United States Government agreement which claims they own the computer, the data, your soul and anything else that may come in contact with it... but it also states "Forge.mil is currently in beta with limited operational availability. General availability for unclassified use is scheduled for Spring 2009." So, one could safely assume (at this point) that with the PKI Certification that's needed and the agreement they expect only DoD computers to be accessing it at the moment. However, at some point everything stated will be changed (or they'll change their mission from being 'open').
The software is open... not every strategic decision or case use in which the software will be used.
The reason for that is, you have to be in the DoD and you receive the cert by CaC (DoD ID cards which double as a smart card with your PKI certs and authentication information). This forces you to obtain the certs physically and in person at a DoD site (ie ID Center on a military base, etc.).
I love it! Everybody else cracking MS jokes gets modded funny or Insightful, but not you... no you're modded troll.
I have Charter and routinely have charges that don't add up. Only those $2 agent fees of course... agents that I never talk to because they don't know anything (although that's every ISP)? And once my Internet went down and after a few phone calls to Charter, they sent over a technician under the understanding that if it was due to a problem on my side of the network (I.e. cables, my LAN, etc.) then I would have a charge, however, if the problem lay on their end, they would not charge me. Turns out they accidentally disabled my connection... and then charged me a $35 dollar technician fee anyway. I was irate to say the least (we didn't have Internet for 3 days and they charged me for it!). I have constant outages, and my bills are routinely in the $75-$85 region, just for Internet. Why can't I go somewhere else? Because they are the only option.
The only solution would be to enable the complete removal of Internet Explorer's GUI. The only reason I don't say to completely remove it is because it is crucial to Windows Update, among other aspects of that OS. However, to force the OS to tell the user, "You must install one of the above to get on the Internet," is ludicrous. The same people claiming that Microsoft's packaging are the ones who have no problem with Firefox being installed by default in Linux distributions. The only difference is that we have the ability to remove Firefox in favor of Opera, Epiphany, or what have you. Therefore the only way to achieve "equality" is for MS to include a way to give the user the option to remove Internet Explorer in favor of a different browser.
This is probably the saddest/nerdiest conversation I have seen on Slashdot that has run this long... now THAT'S saying something...
If someone has Truecrypt on their hard drive and the police raid your house for some server and they take that encrypted drive, there is nothing stopping you from saying, "I forgot my password... oops." But if you trust the hardware, then what stops the police from going after that hard drive manufacturer and putting the legal pressure on them to provide a back entrance and/or technical help? The idea that the government won't put a legal squeeze on the hard drive manufacturer the second they think they've come upon a child pornography/warez/other horrible illegal things seems absurd to me. I understand that manufacturers of things like flash drives and such have had hardware encryption before, but it hasn't been widespread and mainstream. When you throw in the "average citizen" factor, I think we'll see all kinds of challenges and laws spring up.
-- And as always IANAL, but I do read Slashdot!!
Plausible deniabiliity kinda like this? If the RIAA put the lawyers on that case, it could be assumed that a paper thin defense like that wouldn't stand up in court.
They went through the trouble of making fake reviews for their product... and failed because they used their real names... I don't even know what to say to that...
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