Bought the two big titles that came out a week ago. Can't play Mortal Kombat on my PS3 because PSN is down. Can't play Portal 2 on my Xbox360 because it red ringed on me. Isn't the latest technology grand?
With child porn accusations, you'd be lucky to get away with "guilty until proven innocent."
It's more like "Guilty until you got away for lack of proof but we know what you did you dirty pervert because there's no smoke without fire and why would you have been accused unless you'd done it for real?"
As a kid, I have killed both eels by knocking their heads on the countertop and crabs by twisting their legs until their shell popped, as was the traditional way to prepare them. And they were the most delicious I've ever had. I've never bought into the "what if you had to kill your own meat", and have made peace with my meat eating decades ago. Writing this post made me hungry for some seafood!
Within a few years, a synthetic-skins rights activist group forms demanding for the stop to the "abusive treatment of synthetic skin" and demanding for these tests to be done on people instead.
Only if you purchase a computer with a software bundle that provides this. Perform a clean install of Windows 7 and try your Blu-Ray again. You'll find that it's suddenly a whole lot harder than before.
So you get a new laptop with a DVD burner. How do you use it? Insert DVD, autorun starts, you're watching your movie. The same experience with Blu-Ray? Insert Blu-Ray, get error that the disc format isn't valid. Huh-oh. You've run into yet another trade dispute - Microsoft doesn't bundle BR codecs with their software because Sony wants to be paid and MS says "nuh huh." The rest of the experience will be the computer user (assuming he even understands that this is a codec issue and not a defective BR player) searching left and right for a software that allows BR playback. Hopefully he'll get lucky and find the correct PowerDVD version that allows BR playback and not just give yet another error even though the installer promised BR compatibility...
Basically, not letting the copyright lawyers set the "laws" themselves and move the goalposts every single time something happens that they don't like. Sounds like a step in the right direction to me.
It's not about whether or not you should be punished, it's about disproportionate retribution. You should not be given a drug lord's sentence for shoplifting a small item.
This "three strikes and you're out" infantile framing of legislation drives me crazy. Since when have the laws of baseball (or any game) been considered a sensible foundation for a nation's legislation?
When you get arrested and sent to jail for several years for shoplifting a VHS tape from a Wal-Mart because you already have two drug possession convictions on your file, you know something is wrong with the judiciary system.
It's been nice knowing you guys. Write us some snail mail letters to let us know just how bad the RIAA/MPAA abuses of power are getting from time to time.
One, staying dead must not be trivial or else we'll just be expecting the characters to return through cloning, time travel or whatever Deux Ex Machina the writers are inclined to use. Two, the characters must matter to the viewers. What dramatic drive is there in seeing a character die who had little screen time or relevance to the story? A main character's death has massive influence on the story, a red shirt's has none.
Mass Effect games are a good example of character death done right. Most gamers will play Mass Effect 2 multiple times and go out of their way to have a perfect playthrough where everyone survives the suicide mission.
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What's that yellow face in the sky? IT BURNS US!!!
Bought the two big titles that came out a week ago. Can't play Mortal Kombat on my PS3 because PSN is down. Can't play Portal 2 on my Xbox360 because it red ringed on me. Isn't the latest technology grand?
I knew I should have hit "But It Now" when it was still under a hundred!
And thus be the all-governing supreme authority on everything!
With child porn accusations, you'd be lucky to get away with "guilty until proven innocent."
It's more like "Guilty until you got away for lack of proof but we know what you did you dirty pervert because there's no smoke without fire and why would you have been accused unless you'd done it for real?"
As a kid, I have killed both eels by knocking their heads on the countertop and crabs by twisting their legs until their shell popped, as was the traditional way to prepare them. And they were the most delicious I've ever had. I've never bought into the "what if you had to kill your own meat", and have made peace with my meat eating decades ago. Writing this post made me hungry for some seafood!
The future of ALL computer communicati- oh crap my call dropped again, gotta restart my file upload, again.
Within a few years, a synthetic-skins rights activist group forms demanding for the stop to the "abusive treatment of synthetic skin" and demanding for these tests to be done on people instead.
Only if you purchase a computer with a software bundle that provides this. Perform a clean install of Windows 7 and try your Blu-Ray again. You'll find that it's suddenly a whole lot harder than before.
WMDs are only a danger to the united states if they're being soaked in crude oil for storage. It makes them more... explodey or somesuch.
They've never required official american "citizenship" identification for the rest of the world before, is what I'm saying.
The US wants to become the World Police.
So you get a new laptop with a DVD burner. How do you use it? Insert DVD, autorun starts, you're watching your movie. The same experience with Blu-Ray? Insert Blu-Ray, get error that the disc format isn't valid. Huh-oh. You've run into yet another trade dispute - Microsoft doesn't bundle BR codecs with their software because Sony wants to be paid and MS says "nuh huh." The rest of the experience will be the computer user (assuming he even understands that this is a codec issue and not a defective BR player) searching left and right for a software that allows BR playback. Hopefully he'll get lucky and find the correct PowerDVD version that allows BR playback and not just give yet another error even though the installer promised BR compatibility...
Do botnets even use browser attacks anymore? I was under the impression that most of these attacks were done with direct PING requests.
Looks like Luthor reactivated the Heart of Darkness.
So I'm gonna guess mine isn't.
It's a trap!!!
Basically, not letting the copyright lawyers set the "laws" themselves and move the goalposts every single time something happens that they don't like. Sounds like a step in the right direction to me.
When you accidentally drop it down the sink later?
Keanu musn't let the bus go slower than 20 miles per hour!!!
Office Existence:
1. Be presented with new task
2. Have worker harassed repeatedly
3. Fill spreadsheet faster to alleviate harassing
It's not about whether or not you should be punished, it's about disproportionate retribution. You should not be given a drug lord's sentence for shoplifting a small item.
This "three strikes and you're out" infantile framing of legislation drives me crazy. Since when have the laws of baseball (or any game) been considered a sensible foundation for a nation's legislation?
When you get arrested and sent to jail for several years for shoplifting a VHS tape from a Wal-Mart because you already have two drug possession convictions on your file, you know something is wrong with the judiciary system.
It's been nice knowing you guys. Write us some snail mail letters to let us know just how bad the RIAA/MPAA abuses of power are getting from time to time.
One, staying dead must not be trivial or else we'll just be expecting the characters to return through cloning, time travel or whatever Deux Ex Machina the writers are inclined to use. Two, the characters must matter to the viewers. What dramatic drive is there in seeing a character die who had little screen time or relevance to the story? A main character's death has massive influence on the story, a red shirt's has none.
Mass Effect games are a good example of character death done right. Most gamers will play Mass Effect 2 multiple times and go out of their way to have a perfect playthrough where everyone survives the suicide mission.