I must have missed where I called him a name. I just said don't compare it to Windows or Linux w/ WINE for gaming. If I wanted to call names, I'd have said "Don't compare it to Windows for gaming you pussy!" And it was tongue in cheek anyways.
Got Vista Home Premium on my Gateway FX Series laptop, and haven't had any issues with it that I didn't already have with XP. Most of the horror stories relate to legacy stuff and old hardware.
Let's not forget that MS provided RC versions of Vista to manufacturers well in advance of it's commercial release, and yet most of them could not get reasonable drivers for hardware that was made before Vista in time for the launch. IIRC, the launch was even pushed back due to a lack of a good driver base.
Yeah, including such stellar titles as Wingnuts 2, Jeopardy Deluxe, Drop Point Alaska, a brand new Star Wars adventure titled Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (/endsarcasm), etc. Don't ever dare compare the OS X operating system to windows or even Linux with WINE in terms of gaming ever again. There are some relevant games in that list, but most of those are years old. There's a reason why Mac geeks who also happened to be gamers rejoiced when Boot Camp came out. So they could finally play some good PC Games.
I'm assuming you are responding to the poster I responded to, as I made the case that it wasn't rigged, just that things didn't go as planned. Anyone who's followed such projects as the Comanche, Osprey, and SR-71 should know that military tests often don't have expected results much of the time.
Just because a part of the test didn't work right doesn't mean it was rigged. It means there were errors in the test. Nothing new here. Back in 2001, a radar failed a missile defense test because of a programming error. I'd chalk it up more to someone probably making a mistake than THE MAN rigging the test. More chance of a piece of equipment that failed to operate correctly than some massive conspiracy.
I can understand N. Korea since they can actually reach the Aleutians... but Iran? I'd like to see some propaganda that actually is realistic and Iran coming up with a missile that can reach the US is something of a fairy tale.
Maybe using it to stop a missile from reaching Israel.......
You answered your own question. Iran is a missile threat versus countries such as Israel, Turkey, and Europe, which are allies. Keep in mind that a good bit of the missile defense system will be located in Israel and Eastern Europe.
Best post of this thread of discussion. I love how anyone who points out that stealing these games is wrong no matter what you think of DRM gets modded troll or flamebait, and all the idiots posting how they are somehow doing a civic duty by stealing are getting modded insightful.
I like how when I point out that something is against the law I get modded troll, probably by someone who is reading slashdot while downloading games on limewire.
So your method of protest is to steal the game? Yeah, that will make them take you seriously. That would be like me protesting Wal-Mart's labor practices by walking in and stealing DVDs because I don't want to give my money to a company that is overworking and underpaying their employees. Your logic is epic fail.
Oh yeah, there was eventually a lot of suspicion regarding the intel, and rightly so. It was mostly uncorroborated, and frankly, a lot of it was put together in a very sloppy fashion. I think my argument is that just simply chalking it up as the Bush Administration trying to pull one over on everyone is not only wrong, but frankly it's giving them too much credit. The same people that call him an idiot claim that he has bamboozled the entire world. More likely, I think the CIA was pushed to come up with quick intel and the result of this was sloppy and either inaccurate or outdated information.
Now that being said, Curveball was also deemed an unreliable witness who had an agenda, and had misrepresented his qualifications (such as claiming to be at the top of his class but finishing near or at the bottom). So, like anything else, you gotta look at the whole Curveball incident with a grain of salt.
Mod me flamebait if you want, but even Iraqi Generals believed that there were WMDs. Not saying that there were WMDs, there is no proof to indicate that there ever were WMDs, but it is conceivable that Generals in the Iraqi Army believed that there were WMDs, because this was the info that they were being given by Saddam's regime. This is conjecture, but I believe that many of the higher-ups in the Iraqi Army were probably given a lot of false info to believe that they were better armed than they really were. Most of the grunts knew better, which is why you saw many in the general Iraqi Army (non Republican Guards) give up pretty damn quick when we swept through. They are the ones that would've likely been handling the weapons, and frankly they knew that they had nothing to offer real resistance. I do not believe that the American Government purposely lied about the WMDs, even Clinton's Administration strongly believed at one point that Iraq had the capability of deploying WMDs, and we of course know that they tested such weapons in the 80's and were prepared to use them during the first gulf war. It's likely that most programs were simply canceled and this info was not widely known amongst Saddam's own Generals. The intel was certainly bad, but it was the same intel that many agencies, not just the US CIA, concurred on. The joke was on all of us, because the British, French, and Germans at one point all believed that Saddam possessed WMDs outright or the capability to produce them. The only thing I blame Bush for is being so gung-ho in going in and finishing what his father started that he didn't question the intel, but you can also blame Clinton, Blair, and others for looking at the intel and taking it at face value.
Having worked in two separate call centers in two different fields (bank customer support and ISP technical support) I can verify pretty much everything you said to a T. Although I will say that I do not believe that the situation with the fire alarm would've happened at either place I worked, but then again I probably worked at two of the more civilized call centers in the US.
What company do you work for that uses primarily Macs? I have yet to discover this company, and I've worked in three distinctly different industries. The closest I've come to something non-Windows is when I worked for a retailer that had their register system on top of OS/2. Graphics Artist and News Reporter both do not count, since the size of both fields is relatively small. I'm talking about something that someone as talentless as most of us can do.
Certainly doesn't work in call center environments. When I worked for a major ISP, we used Avaya Softphone, and it knows when you log off your phone, so even if you "leave it on," They still know when you leave and trust me, even though it takes them two weeks to figure out overtime (bullshit, just two weeks to make interest income on money that is rightfully yours), they'll know right away if you try to claim you worked more than you "did."
If you got injured while cleaning up presumably off the clock but on premises, how do you think an injury lawsuit would end? Probably with a quick settlement to avoid the issue of illegal labor practices. You were hosed, pure and simple.
Or if it is a typical McDonald's and you feel like being a really big asshole, contact your local Department of Health. I'm sure there is at least one rat/cockroach/other random rodent/insect around the kitchen.
Well, this is an entirely different issue. But in the end I don't believe that pirate servers really affect them all that much. Cheating in game has a larger impact on the majority of players, and this they do a good job overall of keeping in check. I'd say with all of the heavy queue times in WoW, they aren't having too much of a problem getting people to play on their servers. I had to wait 40 minutes the other day to log into WoW, and my server is not considered crowded enough to qualify me for a free realm transfer. (all of the non-wow people just went "WTF did he say?")
It's illegal because it is an unfair manipulation of the system. When I worked for a major ISP, we always got emails days or weeks before an announcement of earnings statements, new techs we were launching, etc. We were specifically barred from buying or selling stocks until the info was public for 2 days, and this was done to protect the integrity of the information. You do realize that barring insider trading protects not the corporations, but the shareholders, right? The corporate CEOs probably wish they could engage in insider trading, as it would allow them to mitigate a lot of their own risk. You, like the original poster, only think in small terms (boo on the "man," in this case, the corporate big wigs) and fail to grasp the larger picture. If the government just wanted to let the companies run the show, they'd not set any rules in the stock market and uber-corporations would run the show in the financial district. And if you have some fairy tale in your head that makes you think that they run this country, then why did all of the major banks begin collapsing? It's because they are not running the show, they are just along for the ride.
Whether he did it or not is debatable. But if he did what is indicated, it is illegal as well it should be. Here, let me explain this to you in layman's terms. If you have insider knowledge (knowledge that would not be public info to normal stockholders) that earnings either skyrocketed or crashed, and you have this info days in advance of when it will be announced, you are barred from buying or selling stock as a result. If you do it anyways, you are gaining from knowledge that is not available to every stockholder and thus you have engaged in insider trading. This is illegal so that people like Cuban can be kept from unfairly affecting the markets, in an attempt to:
a) tank a company on purpose
b) to artificially inflate or deflate the value of a stock in order to take advantage of either the investors or the company, or
c) To stop from having big losses which you would normally be subject to with normal market rises and falls.
And as a side question, what the fuck did your post have to do with Communism? I must've missed where you explained that.
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I must have missed where I called him a name. I just said don't compare it to Windows or Linux w/ WINE for gaming. If I wanted to call names, I'd have said "Don't compare it to Windows for gaming you pussy!" And it was tongue in cheek anyways.
Got Vista Home Premium on my Gateway FX Series laptop, and haven't had any issues with it that I didn't already have with XP. Most of the horror stories relate to legacy stuff and old hardware.
Let's not forget that MS provided RC versions of Vista to manufacturers well in advance of it's commercial release, and yet most of them could not get reasonable drivers for hardware that was made before Vista in time for the launch. IIRC, the launch was even pushed back due to a lack of a good driver base.
Yeah, including such stellar titles as Wingnuts 2, Jeopardy Deluxe, Drop Point Alaska, a brand new Star Wars adventure titled Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (/endsarcasm), etc. Don't ever dare compare the OS X operating system to windows or even Linux with WINE in terms of gaming ever again. There are some relevant games in that list, but most of those are years old. There's a reason why Mac geeks who also happened to be gamers rejoiced when Boot Camp came out. So they could finally play some good PC Games.
I'm assuming you are responding to the poster I responded to, as I made the case that it wasn't rigged, just that things didn't go as planned. Anyone who's followed such projects as the Comanche, Osprey, and SR-71 should know that military tests often don't have expected results much of the time.
Just because a part of the test didn't work right doesn't mean it was rigged. It means there were errors in the test. Nothing new here. Back in 2001, a radar failed a missile defense test because of a programming error. I'd chalk it up more to someone probably making a mistake than THE MAN rigging the test. More chance of a piece of equipment that failed to operate correctly than some massive conspiracy.
I can understand N. Korea since they can actually reach the Aleutians... but Iran? I'd like to see some propaganda that actually is realistic and Iran coming up with a missile that can reach the US is something of a fairy tale. Maybe using it to stop a missile from reaching Israel.......
You answered your own question. Iran is a missile threat versus countries such as Israel, Turkey, and Europe, which are allies. Keep in mind that a good bit of the missile defense system will be located in Israel and Eastern Europe.
great argument you make there. Just reposting my post, then stealing from my post. I should file a suit against you for pirating my post.
Yeah because stealing games and political protest have a lot in common.
Best post of this thread of discussion. I love how anyone who points out that stealing these games is wrong no matter what you think of DRM gets modded troll or flamebait, and all the idiots posting how they are somehow doing a civic duty by stealing are getting modded insightful.
I like how when I point out that something is against the law I get modded troll, probably by someone who is reading slashdot while downloading games on limewire.
So your method of protest is to steal the game? Yeah, that will make them take you seriously. That would be like me protesting Wal-Mart's labor practices by walking in and stealing DVDs because I don't want to give my money to a company that is overworking and underpaying their employees. Your logic is epic fail.
Oh yeah, there was eventually a lot of suspicion regarding the intel, and rightly so. It was mostly uncorroborated, and frankly, a lot of it was put together in a very sloppy fashion. I think my argument is that just simply chalking it up as the Bush Administration trying to pull one over on everyone is not only wrong, but frankly it's giving them too much credit. The same people that call him an idiot claim that he has bamboozled the entire world. More likely, I think the CIA was pushed to come up with quick intel and the result of this was sloppy and either inaccurate or outdated information.
Now that being said, Curveball was also deemed an unreliable witness who had an agenda, and had misrepresented his qualifications (such as claiming to be at the top of his class but finishing near or at the bottom). So, like anything else, you gotta look at the whole Curveball incident with a grain of salt.
Mod me flamebait if you want, but even Iraqi Generals believed that there were WMDs. Not saying that there were WMDs, there is no proof to indicate that there ever were WMDs, but it is conceivable that Generals in the Iraqi Army believed that there were WMDs, because this was the info that they were being given by Saddam's regime. This is conjecture, but I believe that many of the higher-ups in the Iraqi Army were probably given a lot of false info to believe that they were better armed than they really were. Most of the grunts knew better, which is why you saw many in the general Iraqi Army (non Republican Guards) give up pretty damn quick when we swept through. They are the ones that would've likely been handling the weapons, and frankly they knew that they had nothing to offer real resistance. I do not believe that the American Government purposely lied about the WMDs, even Clinton's Administration strongly believed at one point that Iraq had the capability of deploying WMDs, and we of course know that they tested such weapons in the 80's and were prepared to use them during the first gulf war. It's likely that most programs were simply canceled and this info was not widely known amongst Saddam's own Generals. The intel was certainly bad, but it was the same intel that many agencies, not just the US CIA, concurred on. The joke was on all of us, because the British, French, and Germans at one point all believed that Saddam possessed WMDs outright or the capability to produce them. The only thing I blame Bush for is being so gung-ho in going in and finishing what his father started that he didn't question the intel, but you can also blame Clinton, Blair, and others for looking at the intel and taking it at face value.
Ok, maybe I should've said companies outside of the influence of the reality distortion field. Thanks for correcting me on that.
Having worked in two separate call centers in two different fields (bank customer support and ISP technical support) I can verify pretty much everything you said to a T. Although I will say that I do not believe that the situation with the fire alarm would've happened at either place I worked, but then again I probably worked at two of the more civilized call centers in the US.
What company do you work for that uses primarily Macs? I have yet to discover this company, and I've worked in three distinctly different industries. The closest I've come to something non-Windows is when I worked for a retailer that had their register system on top of OS/2. Graphics Artist and News Reporter both do not count, since the size of both fields is relatively small. I'm talking about something that someone as talentless as most of us can do.
Certainly doesn't work in call center environments. When I worked for a major ISP, we used Avaya Softphone, and it knows when you log off your phone, so even if you "leave it on," They still know when you leave and trust me, even though it takes them two weeks to figure out overtime (bullshit, just two weeks to make interest income on money that is rightfully yours), they'll know right away if you try to claim you worked more than you "did."
If you got injured while cleaning up presumably off the clock but on premises, how do you think an injury lawsuit would end? Probably with a quick settlement to avoid the issue of illegal labor practices. You were hosed, pure and simple.
Or if it is a typical McDonald's and you feel like being a really big asshole, contact your local Department of Health. I'm sure there is at least one rat/cockroach/other random rodent/insect around the kitchen.
Oh I'm sure Blizzard doesn't like it. Why would they? I just think it's less of an issue that it might appear.
Well, this is an entirely different issue. But in the end I don't believe that pirate servers really affect them all that much. Cheating in game has a larger impact on the majority of players, and this they do a good job overall of keeping in check. I'd say with all of the heavy queue times in WoW, they aren't having too much of a problem getting people to play on their servers. I had to wait 40 minutes the other day to log into WoW, and my server is not considered crowded enough to qualify me for a free realm transfer. (all of the non-wow people just went "WTF did he say?")
It's illegal because it is an unfair manipulation of the system. When I worked for a major ISP, we always got emails days or weeks before an announcement of earnings statements, new techs we were launching, etc. We were specifically barred from buying or selling stocks until the info was public for 2 days, and this was done to protect the integrity of the information. You do realize that barring insider trading protects not the corporations, but the shareholders, right? The corporate CEOs probably wish they could engage in insider trading, as it would allow them to mitigate a lot of their own risk. You, like the original poster, only think in small terms (boo on the "man," in this case, the corporate big wigs) and fail to grasp the larger picture. If the government just wanted to let the companies run the show, they'd not set any rules in the stock market and uber-corporations would run the show in the financial district. And if you have some fairy tale in your head that makes you think that they run this country, then why did all of the major banks begin collapsing? It's because they are not running the show, they are just along for the ride.
Whether he did it or not is debatable. But if he did what is indicated, it is illegal as well it should be. Here, let me explain this to you in layman's terms. If you have insider knowledge (knowledge that would not be public info to normal stockholders) that earnings either skyrocketed or crashed, and you have this info days in advance of when it will be announced, you are barred from buying or selling stock as a result. If you do it anyways, you are gaining from knowledge that is not available to every stockholder and thus you have engaged in insider trading. This is illegal so that people like Cuban can be kept from unfairly affecting the markets, in an attempt to:
a) tank a company on purpose
b) to artificially inflate or deflate the value of a stock in order to take advantage of either the investors or the company, or
c) To stop from having big losses which you would normally be subject to with normal market rises and falls.
And as a side question, what the fuck did your post have to do with Communism? I must've missed where you explained that.
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