Because they said they're slowing down, not backing down. We say "scrap the whole thing, it can't be saved" and they say "we won't force it down your throat until we think we can get away with it." Until they give a little more ground than that, we'll have to keep pointing out that what they're saying and doing are unacceptable.
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I was an avid/.'er for a good decade and change before wandering off for a while. I've been popping by to lurk, but hadn't posted a comment in years. This beta thing is really disturbing. I thought I could always come home to Mother Slashdot. I thought/. was invincible. I thought it would Always Be, that it could not be undone, that the mutual gravity we all create would bind Planet Slashdot together forever. I forgot that there are Stupidity Supernovas that can scatter our electrons far and wide.
It looks like that's probably going to happen, but let's try to coalesce afterwards. We'll create a lot more light as a star than a nebula.
The alternative to Javascript is the absence of client-side scripting, not a different language. I can't speak for everyone who's finicky about JS, but I personally prefer spartan information delivery to a luxurious interface.
Also, I keep like 60 tabs open at a time, and if they're inert documents, we don't have a problem, but if they're all running scripts periodically, it adds up. Where it's possible to not use JS, I prefer to disable JS primarily for performance reasons.
I pay $60/mo for a pretty decent but still only residential-class internet connection, and last night my torrents were coming down at 1.6MB/s sustained, with 30-60 second spikes of 2.3MB/s. I think you need to find better torrents.
Empire: Total War uses online activation (through Steam), so if you buy this and you don't have an Internet connection all the time in your gaming PC, or you upgrade components on it or you upgrade your OS or any other arbitrary condition (which can change at any time at the whim of one of the suits at Creative Assembly) then you've just threw away a nice chunk of your fun money.
Where the hell are you getting this from? Why do you think that activation on Steam precludes you from upgrading your PC, changing your OS, etc? And why do you think that "arbitrary conditions" from Creative Assembly will stop you from playing the game?
FYI, Steam needs you to go online once to download/activate the game, and after that, you're pretty much free and clear. Every few weeks your Steam "ticket" will expire, and you'll have to go back online for all of 5 seconds to log in again. You can install it on a different PC. You can format & reload, and re-install it on the same PC. You can go from XP to Vista to Linux/WINE to the Windows 7 Beta, and Steam will allow you to install your game. (Whether the game itself will run well/at-all under certain environments is a different matter, but also not related to Steam.)
Some Steam games come with third-party DRM. I don't think Empire is one of them, but I haven't checked. Far Cry 2, X3: Terran Conflict, and GTA IV are all examples of this unfair and burdensome "extra DRM" but I don't feel it's fair to blame the store for the decisions of the publishers. I don't blame my local bookstore for, say, the content of an Ann Coulter book they carry.
The reason for copyright is to attach value to the creation of art. Specifically, if anyone is going to make money off of "Snowcrash", it should be Neal Stephenson or someone with his permission. Not a random publisher that decides to just print it and "save" money by not paying Neal a dime.
Copyright exists precisely to limit the public domain, not "enhance" it.
Uh, "wrong." Or more accurately, "staggeringly myopic." Yes, copyright is meant to provide artists with compensation for their work for a limited time in order to enhance the public domain. Copyright exists to make sure there's a reason to contribute to the public domain, and that reason is money. For a limited time. How you failed to take the next logical step in your argument is beyond me.
Well my story is just the opposite. All my life I've heard people "preaching" about evolution because some guy with glasses and a lab coat told them so. Personally I just cannot take "the leap of faith" about the origins of life ; it seems so incredibly unlikely
that one day a cell just "plopped" into existence with the ability to procreate, and then against all odds survived everything the galaxy will throwed at it for 6 billion years.
Here's why I think you turned off your brain long before anyone with a lab coat managed to finish a sentence: EVOLUTION HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THE ORIGINS OF LIFE ON EARTH.
You're criticizing a theory for failing to explain something which it was never intended to address in the first place. It follows naturally from this that you are a tool, and no small one at that.
I find that argument misleading. 1280x1024 = 1310720 pixels. 1440x900 = 1296000 pixels. Difference: about 1%. Wow, you're right, they're screwing us out of 1% of our screen real estate. I'm gonna call the cops.
The UAE "nag" screens are not, in principle, any different from Ubuntu's sudo pop-ups.
Strongly disagree. Asking people to click "cancel" or "allow" is quite different
from asking the user to enter a password. One promotes mindless click-to-get-it-out-of-my-face
behaviour, the other forces a moment of thought. One can be done by any malicious/idiotic passer-by,
the other can only be done by an authorized user. One is an insultingly poor mimicry of security,
the other is a measure that adds a degree of genuine security.
It's not about overall capabilities, or what can or cannot be done. You're quite right that Linux can play any media MacOS can play. It's about perception. A lot of people look at a computer screen and are overwhelmed by the sheer number of things they can click on. They begin to imagine that one of them must be a hidden "delete everything you ever cared about" link, and paralyzed by fear, they declare themselves defeated by the computer, without ever striking a blow in their own defense. The cleanliness of the MacOS is much less intimidating.
Full disclosure: I run Ubuntu on my main computer, and I have a Macbook Pro. I love both systems dearly and would be heartbroken to lose either. I recommend Ubuntu to budget-conscious friends who I'm willing to help, and Macs to friends of friends, who I will not personally help. Both groups will do just fine.
P.S. It's a pretty widely-dispersed flock, but its numbers are legion. It's like human steganography.:P
Lies. Safari, iTunes, QuickTime etc. all work on Windows, which Apple does not manufacture. Also, general-purpose computers are not appliances, they are computers. A little dedicated NAS box is in a bit of a grey area, as is the iPhone, but your toaster is an appliance until it can run OpenOffice, and your computer is a computer until it cannot.
Touché, I suppose I missed the mark there. What I should have said was that support implies something ongoing. If I buy an air conditioner and an extended warranty, I expect them to fix it but I don't expect the repairman to bring me fancy remote control units for the AC.
I'm no fan of copyright as it exists today, but just because I don't believe entertainers should necessarily be fabulously wealthy doesn't mean I want them to die broke and penniless, and that did happen a lot more prior to copyright.
That said, the idea of diverting further police resources to prosecute people who listen to music they're not supposed to listen to is terrifying. Yikes! If I didn't already live in Canada, I'd move to Canada.
It may not have AdBlock(tm) with FilterSet.G(tm) but it does block ads. I don't really care which bit of software blocks my adds, so long as it gets done with minimal hassle to me. Camino does that. If Camino had a semi-convenient way to get at my del.icio.us bookmarks, I'd never use anything but.
And thank goodness for that. The last thing I want in a CoD sequel is innovation. Give me more of the same, but prettier and with new stuff. Innovation is for non-sequels, IMHO.
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A means of mass-ignoring the overwhelming majority of posters who hate the redesign? Based on Dice's attitude so far, they might go for this.
Because they said they're slowing down, not backing down. We say "scrap the whole thing, it can't be saved" and they say "we won't force it down your throat until we think we can get away with it." Until they give a little more ground than that, we'll have to keep pointing out that what they're saying and doing are unacceptable.
I was an avid /.'er for a good decade and change before wandering off for a while. I've been popping by to lurk, but hadn't posted a comment in years. This beta thing is really disturbing. I thought I could always come home to Mother Slashdot. I thought /. was invincible. I thought it would Always Be, that it could not be undone, that the mutual gravity we all create would bind Planet Slashdot together forever. I forgot that there are Stupidity Supernovas that can scatter our electrons far and wide.
It looks like that's probably going to happen, but let's try to coalesce afterwards. We'll create a lot more light as a star than a nebula.
The alternative to Javascript is the absence of client-side scripting, not a different language. I can't speak for everyone who's finicky about JS, but I personally prefer spartan information delivery to a luxurious interface. Also, I keep like 60 tabs open at a time, and if they're inert documents, we don't have a problem, but if they're all running scripts periodically, it adds up. Where it's possible to not use JS, I prefer to disable JS primarily for performance reasons.
I pay $60/mo for a pretty decent but still only residential-class internet connection, and last night my torrents were coming down at 1.6MB/s sustained, with 30-60 second spikes of 2.3MB/s. I think you need to find better torrents.
Empire: Total War uses online activation (through Steam), so if you buy this and you don't have an Internet connection all the time in your gaming PC, or you upgrade components on it or you upgrade your OS or any other arbitrary condition (which can change at any time at the whim of one of the suits at Creative Assembly) then you've just threw away a nice chunk of your fun money.
Where the hell are you getting this from? Why do you think that activation on Steam precludes you from upgrading your PC, changing your OS, etc? And why do you think that "arbitrary conditions" from Creative Assembly will stop you from playing the game?
FYI, Steam needs you to go online once to download/activate the game, and after that, you're pretty much free and clear. Every few weeks your Steam "ticket" will expire, and you'll have to go back online for all of 5 seconds to log in again. You can install it on a different PC. You can format & reload, and re-install it on the same PC. You can go from XP to Vista to Linux/WINE to the Windows 7 Beta, and Steam will allow you to install your game. (Whether the game itself will run well/at-all under certain environments is a different matter, but also not related to Steam.)
Some Steam games come with third-party DRM. I don't think Empire is one of them, but I haven't checked. Far Cry 2, X3: Terran Conflict, and GTA IV are all examples of this unfair and burdensome "extra DRM" but I don't feel it's fair to blame the store for the decisions of the publishers. I don't blame my local bookstore for, say, the content of an Ann Coulter book they carry.
Wrong.
The reason for copyright is to attach value to the creation of art. Specifically, if anyone is going to make money off of "Snowcrash", it should be Neal Stephenson or someone with his permission. Not a random publisher that decides to just print it and "save" money by not paying Neal a dime.
Copyright exists precisely to limit the public domain, not "enhance" it.
Uh, "wrong." Or more accurately, "staggeringly myopic." Yes, copyright is meant to provide artists with compensation for their work for a limited time in order to enhance the public domain. Copyright exists to make sure there's a reason to contribute to the public domain, and that reason is money. For a limited time. How you failed to take the next logical step in your argument is beyond me.
So, you'd rather use 100% of your TV the wrong way than ~70% of it the right way?
It's only considered "ex post facto" if it retroactively criminalizes behaviour which was previously legal.
Oh. Okay, well, that doesn't make much sense to me, but if that's the way it is, I stand corrected. Thanks for the info.
No, it doesn't. Not for court judgments, anyway. If it were any other way, the courts would be toothless and therefore irrelevant.
Here's why I think you turned off your brain long before anyone with a lab coat managed to finish a sentence: EVOLUTION HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THE ORIGINS OF LIFE ON EARTH.
You're criticizing a theory for failing to explain something which it was never intended to address in the first place. It follows naturally from this that you are a tool, and no small one at that.
I find that argument misleading. 1280x1024 = 1310720 pixels. 1440x900 = 1296000 pixels. Difference: about 1%. Wow, you're right, they're screwing us out of 1% of our screen real estate. I'm gonna call the cops.
I hope -- oh, God, how I hope -- you mean "analyzing." If I'm wrong, please do not correct me. I don't want to know. :P
Strongly disagree. Asking people to click "cancel" or "allow" is quite different from asking the user to enter a password. One promotes mindless click-to-get-it-out-of-my-face behaviour, the other forces a moment of thought. One can be done by any malicious/idiotic passer-by, the other can only be done by an authorized user. One is an insultingly poor mimicry of security, the other is a measure that adds a degree of genuine security.
It's not about overall capabilities, or what can or cannot be done. You're quite right that Linux can play any media MacOS can play. It's about perception. A lot of people look at a computer screen and are overwhelmed by the sheer number of things they can click on. They begin to imagine that one of them must be a hidden "delete everything you ever cared about" link, and paralyzed by fear, they declare themselves defeated by the computer, without ever striking a blow in their own defense. The cleanliness of the MacOS is much less intimidating.
:P
Full disclosure: I run Ubuntu on my main computer, and I have a Macbook Pro. I love both systems dearly and would be heartbroken to lose either. I recommend Ubuntu to budget-conscious friends who I'm willing to help, and Macs to friends of friends, who I will not personally help. Both groups will do just fine.
P.S. It's a pretty widely-dispersed flock, but its numbers are legion. It's like human steganography.
Lies. Safari, iTunes, QuickTime etc. all work on Windows, which Apple does not manufacture. Also, general-purpose computers are not appliances, they are computers. A little dedicated NAS box is in a bit of a grey area, as is the iPhone, but your toaster is an appliance until it can run OpenOffice, and your computer is a computer until it cannot.
Did Lynx run on Windows? I remember using NCSA Mosaic with Trumpet Winsock for my 16-bit Windows adventures, and Lynx on my Slackware box.
Touché, I suppose I missed the mark there. What I should have said was that support implies something ongoing. If I buy an air conditioner and an extended warranty, I expect them to fix it but I don't expect the repairman to bring me fancy remote control units for the AC.
I'm no fan of copyright as it exists today, but just because I don't believe entertainers should necessarily be fabulously wealthy doesn't mean I want them to die broke and penniless, and that did happen a lot more prior to copyright.
That said, the idea of diverting further police resources to prosecute people who listen to music they're not supposed to listen to is terrifying. Yikes! If I didn't already live in Canada, I'd move to Canada.
It may not have AdBlock(tm) with FilterSet.G(tm) but it does block ads. I don't really care which bit of software blocks my adds, so long as it gets done with minimal hassle to me. Camino does that. If Camino had a semi-convenient way to get at my del.icio.us bookmarks, I'd never use anything but.
Seconded.
And thank goodness for that. The last thing I want in a CoD sequel is innovation. Give me more of the same, but prettier and with new stuff. Innovation is for non-sequels, IMHO.