GTA4's text was unreadable for me. Sitting 2m away from a 21" screen, unable to read the text or clearly see what the minimap had on it. I've resorted to sitting on my usual computer chair at a normal computer-using distance just to be able to play it properly. (Great game, mind.)
Having succumbed to baser urges, Malik [...] is now stuck dealing with the messy consequences.
I find the messy consequences after succumbing to my baser urges to be quite easily cleaned up, actually. Has this guy not heard of tissues or something?
Funny you say that; IIRC, Skype was founded by some of the guys who worked on Kazaa. Might be wrong, but certainly seem to remember something like that.
ebay just facilitates the sale between teo individuals. eBay does "sell" the item, nor do they "warehouse" or "own" the item.
No, but they have policies in place against the trading of stolen goods, whereas Pirate Bay actively encouraged people to infringe upon copyrights. There is also the point that few, if any, people knowingly go on eBay to purchase stolen goods, whereas the sharing and download of copyrighted materials was/is The Pirate Bay's raison d'etre. It's in their fucking name. The only way that argument would have any cachet is if eBay was called iFence or eConversion or something (stupid) like that, and made it perfectly clear that they wanted to be known as a place for the exchange of stolen goods.
- You have publicly shown there ARE people who don't like MS or take it for granted
Nobody cares. Microsoft are keenly aware of this already, probably - there's no need to be a prick to demonstrate it. At any rate, people will think you're an idiot.
- Shown the other people in the shop there ARE alternatives (maybe even given them an idea, though I am not too optimistic about that)
If they didn't care before, they certainly won't care now that you've acted like a cretin in front of everyone and made a huge fuss for no good reason.
If those shop-monkeys (sp?) used the language you mention they are exposed as dumb, rude shitheads and hopefully prevent some sales to customers not wanting to buy anything in a shop where the employees are rude and dumb:-)
No, being dumb and rude is going into a shop with which you've had no prior business dealings and demand a refund on something they didn't sell to you, making a huge scene and then claiming it as some kind of exceptionally retarded protest. In the circumstances, I think they'd be quite justified in explaining to you it's none of their business.
(But it still would be fun to have a bunch of people pulling this off a few times a day, just to piss off MS!)
"A few times a day"? You grossly overestimate the number of idiots in the world who want to evangelise Linux in what is quite possibly the stupidest, most infantile way ever. It wouldn't even piss off Microsoft - it'd piss off the store clerks, Microsoft the corporation wouldn't know or care.
As aptly demonstrated by most of this thread, sadly.
I mean, what's harrassing workers in a Microsoft store going to do other than piss off near-minimum wage workers who didn't do anything wrong themselves?
I think they'll have enough of that without birthday parties. This whole thing sounds like a store with a big "Kick Me" sign. I think we'll see Microsoft Security improve fast.
You're working under the mistaken assumption that most people hate, or at least dislike, Microsoft. They don't. Most are ambivalent.
I don't care if MS want to set up a store or not. If it works, good for them. They're employing people, at the very least.
Here's an idea: how about just enforcing your ToS instead of bringing some third party into what should be a privileged relationship between you and your client?
Most ISPs have a TOS saying you can't infringe copyrights or break the law using their service. How they find out about the infringement/lawbreaking is not really an issue.
I doubt that valve has a hard time finding investors for it's games these days
They don't need one. Newell is a Microsoft millionaire and the company is private. This, combined with the fact that Half-Life and its successors have been massively successful (hence profitable) means they have pretty much enough cash to do whatever they please.
I don't know why HL2 took so long, maybe there was a reason for that which I would know if I were investing in them, but that's the only thing I could see holding valve up.
Simply because they're very, very into getting a game right rather than getting it on shelves quicker - and their deep pockets allow for that. If HL2 were a rush job it wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it is.
It was, as always with anything involving Muslims in the UK in the press, bollocks. The plan was not to allow Sharia law to take precedence for criminal offences OR replace British courts, merely for civil disputes (i.e. marital disputes etc) to be settled using Sharia arbitration courts. In fact, they already are, quite successfully for the people who want to do things that way by all accounts - both sides of the case have to consent to be able to use it IIRC.
Unfortunately, the press span all this as Sharia law (with all its unpleasant aspects to boot) getting the opportunity to take precedence over British courts, which was never the case (and, fwiw, should never be the case.)
England (or rather, the United Kingdom) is hardly being "overrun" by Muslims, either. The last census put them at 2.7% of the population. Even assuming there's more of them since then, I'd guesstimate the population stands at 3 or 4 percent. Again, hardly "overrun".
The newspapers, however, like to pretend otherwise.
Because higher res is always better to have available. You may as well ask an equally silly question like 'Why do you need to copy all the vowels when reprinting Shakespeare?,' or 'Surely you'd be happy with every other note in that piece by Mozart?'
Having a lower res means you can still see the art, just in slightly lower quality. If you removed all the vowels from a book or every other note from some music then it would make them nigh on impossible to read or listen to. Your argument, good sir, is the work of a douchebag.
So, again - why does Wikimedia need a high res copy? Aside from just "it's better"? Especially when the NPG offers to meet WM halfway and license the pictures in low res?
The museum has every right, I'd imagine, to put the works on their website in the UK. And in the US, the person copying them has every right to do that. It's not like he forced the museum to send him the data
And it's not like the museum forced him to save that data and stick it on a publicly accessible website, either. The harm all occurred in the UK. The downloader is being a cretin. "Information wants to be free" and such is a great idea, but not everyone has to go along with it.
Yeah, I'm sorta holding out for Snow Leopard, considering it's supposed to be the performance upgrade. I didn't notice anything in Leopard be faster, it was actually all just slower and more annoying. That they broke Front Row's handling of the Movies folder was just icing on the cake tbh... fuck that shit.
I switched back down to it because my early-2007 Intel iMac Core 2 Duo runs like shit on Leopard. There was nothing on 10.5's features list that I really cared about all that much, nothing I've missed since switching, and Tiger runs pretty much everything I use anyway. Oh, and it's not a slow piece of shit. That helps.
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It's quite easy, actually - I'd imagine it's the slapping and the police involvement afterwards that's the hard part.
LegalTorrents.com - what you want is in the URL. ;)
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Sarcastic moderation on Slashdot? Fuck yes.
GTA4's text was unreadable for me. Sitting 2m away from a 21" screen, unable to read the text or clearly see what the minimap had on it. I've resorted to sitting on my usual computer chair at a normal computer-using distance just to be able to play it properly. (Great game, mind.)
Or some kind of lolcat. "Im in ur coffin feedin ur wormz".
Having succumbed to baser urges, Malik [...] is now stuck dealing with the messy consequences.
I find the messy consequences after succumbing to my baser urges to be quite easily cleaned up, actually. Has this guy not heard of tissues or something?
Yes, I too associate community with inciting people to commit criminal damage.
For fuck's sake.
Could this be one of the few threads where the Goatse guy is on-topic? After all, numerous strange objects have been seen in his ring.
Why hit him? Hit Phil Collins first - after all, he started it.
No, it wouldn't. Even MS haters have to admit that the chair jokes are wearing incredibly thin. It was funny for a while, now it's just... dull.
Funny you say that; IIRC, Skype was founded by some of the guys who worked on Kazaa. Might be wrong, but certainly seem to remember something like that.
ebay just facilitates the sale between teo individuals. eBay does "sell" the item, nor do they "warehouse" or "own" the item.
No, but they have policies in place against the trading of stolen goods, whereas Pirate Bay actively encouraged people to infringe upon copyrights. There is also the point that few, if any, people knowingly go on eBay to purchase stolen goods, whereas the sharing and download of copyrighted materials was/is The Pirate Bay's raison d'etre. It's in their fucking name. The only way that argument would have any cachet is if eBay was called iFence or eConversion or something (stupid) like that, and made it perfectly clear that they wanted to be known as a place for the exchange of stolen goods.
tl;dr; Intent means a lot.
- You have publicly shown there ARE people who don't like MS or take it for granted
Nobody cares. Microsoft are keenly aware of this already, probably - there's no need to be a prick to demonstrate it. At any rate, people will think you're an idiot.
- Shown the other people in the shop there ARE alternatives (maybe even given them an idea, though I am not too optimistic about that)
If they didn't care before, they certainly won't care now that you've acted like a cretin in front of everyone and made a huge fuss for no good reason.
If those shop-monkeys (sp?) used the language you mention they are exposed as dumb, rude shitheads and hopefully prevent some sales to customers not wanting to buy anything in a shop where the employees are rude and dumb :-)
No, being dumb and rude is going into a shop with which you've had no prior business dealings and demand a refund on something they didn't sell to you, making a huge scene and then claiming it as some kind of exceptionally retarded protest. In the circumstances, I think they'd be quite justified in explaining to you it's none of their business.
(But it still would be fun to have a bunch of people pulling this off a few times a day, just to piss off MS!)
"A few times a day"? You grossly overestimate the number of idiots in the world who want to evangelise Linux in what is quite possibly the stupidest, most infantile way ever. It wouldn't even piss off Microsoft - it'd piss off the store clerks, Microsoft the corporation wouldn't know or care.
As aptly demonstrated by most of this thread, sadly.
I mean, what's harrassing workers in a Microsoft store going to do other than piss off near-minimum wage workers who didn't do anything wrong themselves?
And then they would ask you "What business is it of ours? We didn't sell it to you, [OEM name] did", followed by people calling you an idiot.
(Check the EULA - the refund has to be got from the OEM, not Microsoft directly.)
I think they'll have enough of that without birthday parties. This whole thing sounds like a store with a big "Kick Me" sign. I think we'll see Microsoft Security improve fast.
You're working under the mistaken assumption that most people hate, or at least dislike, Microsoft. They don't. Most are ambivalent.
I don't care if MS want to set up a store or not. If it works, good for them. They're employing people, at the very least.
Here's an idea: how about just enforcing your ToS instead of bringing some third party into what should be a privileged relationship between you and your client?
Most ISPs have a TOS saying you can't infringe copyrights or break the law using their service. How they find out about the infringement/lawbreaking is not really an issue.
I doubt that valve has a hard time finding investors for it's games these days
They don't need one. Newell is a Microsoft millionaire and the company is private. This, combined with the fact that Half-Life and its successors have been massively successful (hence profitable) means they have pretty much enough cash to do whatever they please.
I don't know why HL2 took so long, maybe there was a reason for that which I would know if I were investing in them, but that's the only thing I could see holding valve up.
Simply because they're very, very into getting a game right rather than getting it on shelves quicker - and their deep pockets allow for that. If HL2 were a rush job it wouldn't be anywhere near as good as it is.
It was, as always with anything involving Muslims in the UK in the press, bollocks. The plan was not to allow Sharia law to take precedence for criminal offences OR replace British courts, merely for civil disputes (i.e. marital disputes etc) to be settled using Sharia arbitration courts. In fact, they already are, quite successfully for the people who want to do things that way by all accounts - both sides of the case have to consent to be able to use it IIRC.
Unfortunately, the press span all this as Sharia law (with all its unpleasant aspects to boot) getting the opportunity to take precedence over British courts, which was never the case (and, fwiw, should never be the case.)
England (or rather, the United Kingdom) is hardly being "overrun" by Muslims, either. The last census put them at 2.7% of the population. Even assuming there's more of them since then, I'd guesstimate the population stands at 3 or 4 percent. Again, hardly "overrun".
The newspapers, however, like to pretend otherwise.
Because higher res is always better to have available. You may as well ask an equally silly question like 'Why do you need to copy all the vowels when reprinting Shakespeare?,' or 'Surely you'd be happy with every other note in that piece by Mozart?'
Having a lower res means you can still see the art, just in slightly lower quality. If you removed all the vowels from a book or every other note from some music then it would make them nigh on impossible to read or listen to. Your argument, good sir, is the work of a douchebag.
So, again - why does Wikimedia need a high res copy? Aside from just "it's better"? Especially when the NPG offers to meet WM halfway and license the pictures in low res?
The museum has every right, I'd imagine, to put the works on their website in the UK. And in the US, the person copying them has every right to do that. It's not like he forced the museum to send him the data
And it's not like the museum forced him to save that data and stick it on a publicly accessible website, either. The harm all occurred in the UK. The downloader is being a cretin. "Information wants to be free" and such is a great idea, but not everyone has to go along with it.
Uhh... what? I know of Xenix (which was a full fledged Unix) but are you sure you didn't see this on some pisspoor "geek humour" website?
Yeah, I'm sorta holding out for Snow Leopard, considering it's supposed to be the performance upgrade. I didn't notice anything in Leopard be faster, it was actually all just slower and more annoying. That they broke Front Row's handling of the Movies folder was just icing on the cake tbh... fuck that shit.
You can get the old site back. Help and Preferences > Classic Index > General > tick "Use Classic Index". Pow, begone, shitty JavaScript.
I did this a couple of months ago and haven't looked back. It makes /. tolerable again.
I switched back down to it because my early-2007 Intel iMac Core 2 Duo runs like shit on Leopard. There was nothing on 10.5's features list that I really cared about all that much, nothing I've missed since switching, and Tiger runs pretty much everything I use anyway. Oh, and it's not a slow piece of shit. That helps.