Sure, they want you to believe that, but they could do their jobs just fine. It just might require them doing actual THINKING, which is certainly not going to happen any time soon.
Sweet, I own part of the courthouse?!?! Fine, but you better not complain or act when I start putting up the pentagrams, decorating your tree with penis ornaments, and replacing the star on top with a latex vagina! It'll be a swell time worshiping Isis with you in our public property.
While I agree with the basis of your post, I must point out that they aren't "running afoul" of the law by not making it simple to back up their media. The DMCA, of course, is a big pile of shit, as you pointed out.
> Greeting Cards. You aren't given explicit instructions with your greeting card
Even though they don't tell you this, most greeting card text is copyrighted by the person who wrote it or the company that paid for it to be written. You cannot, for instance, legally make your own greeting cards that use the text from existing cards, just with different pictures.
> adults can see and understand nuances and subtleties and complexities that are often lost on kids
We aren't talking about toddlers, we are talking about teenagers or just below, for the most part. Those old enough to actually play these games. We aren't talking about subtleties and complexities, we are talking about exposing them to the concepts of life and death as viewed through a video game. We weren't talking about the development process of children, that is only where you took the discussion, but since you did... This is about how being overprotective of your children and raising them to believe that the world is candy and peaches all of the time will turn them into disturbed adults who may have very big problems grasping reality. The only reason any teenager (barring mental handicap/deficiency) wouldn't be able to understand that a game is a game, and real death is really REALLY real, is if their parents sheltered them to a dangerous extent or if they have a mental disorder, although the two tend to overlap.
Before you get back up on that high horse of yours, you might want to think a bit more about some things you said and how they apply in the real world. You might as well suggest that I cannot appreciate what it's like to be an astronomer unless I have a degree in astrophysics. Bullshit, that is some extreme arrogance. You basically said that I (and the OP) cannot possibly have any idea what I'm talking about unless I have kids of my own. That is just as invalid as if I had said that "unless you are without kids, you are not able to think rationally about what is best for society because your mind is clouded by personal, greedy desires." I would be wrong, and you ARE wrong. Just because YOU didn't have the ability to understand certain things until you experienced them does not mean that others cannot understand things without that same direct experience.
It's like saying I won't understand what being an abusive parent is about until I beat the tar out of my own kids. It's possible that I was raised in an abusive family, and I WOULD, then, understand what it is all about without the experience of being abusive myself. Well, this case is about overprotecting your kids and I _WAS_ dangerously overprotected as a kid, so in this particular case, I certainly AM more qualified than you -- unless you had similar childhood experiences or you are dangerously overprotective of your own children and teach them that everyone in the world loves them and death couldn't possibly come to them... Are you?
Whether or not he has kids has absolutely NO bearing on whether he is correct or not. In fact, not having kids means he isn't biased by blind emotion, making his opinion MORE valuable to some people.
I haven't followed it closely, but it doesn't look like the iTV has a DVR (or at least a "pause" feature) in it either. Granted, I only referred to the Wikipedia article...
> In the real world, results are what's cared about, not politics.
And making sure your site works in all browsers does nothing but improve your results. If someone won't shop at your online store because they use FireFox, that is a lost sale. If your web designer is competent, however, your store will work in all web browsers, and you would have gotten that sale.
> If the device streams video from the video output and doesn't care about the application that generates it, then it follows that you cannot have a remote control for pauses, jumps, etc
Yeah, because that's exactly as silly as claiming you can pause live video broadcasts from Television!
Just slap a DVR into what you think this thing is, and you will have exactly what you say it can't be.
I know very little about economics, so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. How do you artificially inflate demand? You can artificially limit supply, sure, but isn't "demand" basically how many people want a certain thing? Isn't artificial demand inflation... advertising?
> Their site is going to take a looong time to recover from this one!
BBSpot has had plenty of traffic in the past, I'm sure this is not a big deal for him. It's not like it's some randomhumorsite.com on a fractional T...
So you are saying that you are writing software that depends on some free software and you are mad that you can't use the free software in your non-free software? If you're a good software developer, then you can rewrite it.
Wow, such futility: you need to find the REAL definition of "definition" then. You will find out that it is not "whatever I want a word to mean." Fucking neo-con.
> Someone who chooses to not participate in a process when the participation is trivially easy loses their right to complain when the results are not what they wanted. They voluntarily and knowingly gave it up.
Wow, that is some ignorant stuff... You seem to need to research what the word "right" means. I never gave away anything, it is only your OPINION that I shouldn't complain. Saying I don't have a right to do something is WILDLY different from you being pissed off that I still exercise that right after you don't like what Iam saying with it.
Fair enough. I wasn't necessarily reacting to you, but there are a lot of people who seem to think that the opinions expressed on Slashdot reflect anything WRT the "common person," and that's sort-of what I was responding to.
An uninformed populace is the death of Democracy. But if you aren't, I agree that you shouldn't vote. I just hope the uninformed voters are equal on all sides.
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> they couldn't do their jobs if they didn't
Sure, they want you to believe that, but they could do their jobs just fine. It just might require them doing actual THINKING, which is certainly not going to happen any time soon.
Sweet, I own part of the courthouse?!?! Fine, but you better not complain or act when I start putting up the pentagrams, decorating your tree with penis ornaments, and replacing the star on top with a latex vagina! It'll be a swell time worshiping Isis with you in our public property.
> Not even the few sickos I know.
You need to meet more sickos. I know people that would gladly pay a hundred bucks for Super Baby Massacre 3000.
Dungeon Master, the storyteller of a D&D game.
You need to work a bit more on that whole "reading" thing, it would make you look like less of a moron.
Of course, you can give it to whomever you please. But you cannot sell copies of it.
While I agree with the basis of your post, I must point out that they aren't "running afoul" of the law by not making it simple to back up their media. The DMCA, of course, is a big pile of shit, as you pointed out.
> Anyone who downloads anything without the artists consent is a thief.
Oh no!!! I downloaded some U2 songs off of iTunes without asking Bono's permission! IMA THEEF!!!
Just kidding... U2 sucks, so I'd never download anything by them.
> Greeting Cards. You aren't given explicit instructions with your greeting card
Even though they don't tell you this, most greeting card text is copyrighted by the person who wrote it or the company that paid for it to be written. You cannot, for instance, legally make your own greeting cards that use the text from existing cards, just with different pictures.
> adults can see and understand nuances and subtleties and complexities that are often lost on kids
We aren't talking about toddlers, we are talking about teenagers or just below, for the most part. Those old enough to actually play these games.
We aren't talking about subtleties and complexities, we are talking about exposing them to the concepts of life and death as viewed through a video game.
We weren't talking about the development process of children, that is only where you took the discussion, but since you did... This is about how being overprotective of your children and raising them to believe that the world is candy and peaches all of the time will turn them into disturbed adults who may have very big problems grasping reality. The only reason any teenager (barring mental handicap/deficiency) wouldn't be able to understand that a game is a game, and real death is really REALLY real, is if their parents sheltered them to a dangerous extent or if they have a mental disorder, although the two tend to overlap.
Before you get back up on that high horse of yours, you might want to think a bit more about some things you said and how they apply in the real world. You might as well suggest that I cannot appreciate what it's like to be an astronomer unless I have a degree in astrophysics. Bullshit, that is some extreme arrogance. You basically said that I (and the OP) cannot possibly have any idea what I'm talking about unless I have kids of my own. That is just as invalid as if I had said that "unless you are without kids, you are not able to think rationally about what is best for society because your mind is clouded by personal, greedy desires." I would be wrong, and you ARE wrong. Just because YOU didn't have the ability to understand certain things until you experienced them does not mean that others cannot understand things without that same direct experience.
It's like saying I won't understand what being an abusive parent is about until I beat the tar out of my own kids. It's possible that I was raised in an abusive family, and I WOULD, then, understand what it is all about without the experience of being abusive myself. Well, this case is about overprotecting your kids and I _WAS_ dangerously overprotected as a kid, so in this particular case, I certainly AM more qualified than you -- unless you had similar childhood experiences or you are dangerously overprotective of your own children and teach them that everyone in the world loves them and death couldn't possibly come to them... Are you?
Whether or not he has kids has absolutely NO bearing on whether he is correct or not. In fact, not having kids means he isn't biased by blind emotion, making his opinion MORE valuable to some people.
> won't every user have VGA as a choice to fall back to?
If they have both VGA & DVI outputs on their video card, which is not very likely.
I haven't followed it closely, but it doesn't look like the iTV has a DVR (or at least a "pause" feature) in it either. Granted, I only referred to the Wikipedia article...
Yes, because of course the omission of the word "any" completely changes the meaning of the line and makes it unintelligible babble.
> > the OS still has a 90 percent lock on the PC market
> doesn't constitute 90% of the current machines out there in operation
I don't know the true statistics either, but there is a HUGE difference between "machines in operation" and "machines ready to be sold now."
> In the real world, results are what's cared about, not politics.
And making sure your site works in all browsers does nothing but improve your results. If someone won't shop at your online store because they use FireFox, that is a lost sale. If your web designer is competent, however, your store will work in all web browsers, and you would have gotten that sale.
> If the device streams video from the video output and doesn't care about the application that generates it, then it follows that you cannot have a remote control for pauses, jumps, etc
Yeah, because that's exactly as silly as claiming you can pause live video broadcasts from Television!
Just slap a DVR into what you think this thing is, and you will have exactly what you say it can't be.
Urcornhole sounds innocuous enough.
> artificially inflating demand
I know very little about economics, so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. How do you artificially inflate demand? You can artificially limit supply, sure, but isn't "demand" basically how many people want a certain thing? Isn't artificial demand inflation... advertising?
> Their site is going to take a looong time to recover from this one!
BBSpot has had plenty of traffic in the past, I'm sure this is not a big deal for him. It's not like it's some randomhumorsite.com on a fractional T...
So you are saying that you are writing software that depends on some free software and you are mad that you can't use the free software in your non-free software? If you're a good software developer, then you can rewrite it.
> I gave you a definition.
Wow, such futility: you need to find the REAL definition of "definition" then. You will find out that it is not "whatever I want a word to mean." Fucking neo-con.
> Someone who chooses to not participate in a process when the participation is trivially easy loses their right to complain when the results are not what they wanted. They voluntarily and knowingly gave it up.
Wow, that is some ignorant stuff... You seem to need to research what the word "right" means. I never gave away anything, it is only your OPINION that I shouldn't complain. Saying I don't have a right to do something is WILDLY different from you being pissed off that I still exercise that right after you don't like what Iam saying with it.
I can only assume you are a troll.
Fair enough. I wasn't necessarily reacting to you, but there are a lot of people who seem to think that the opinions expressed on Slashdot reflect anything WRT the "common person," and that's sort-of what I was responding to.
An uninformed populace is the death of Democracy. But if you aren't, I agree that you shouldn't vote. I just hope the uninformed voters are equal on all sides.