Of course even the courts are run by old people who think computers only run Windows and or don't want to use anything else so MS will never be held responsible.
Any more than 3 apps and you'll get a blue screen.
However once you have your anti-virus software which you will need then you're really only left with 2 apps. If you have spyware software too then you're left with one app. Genius!
Agreed, Netbeans is much better than Eclipse these days.
I still have my old install f iles for NB but unfortunately only back to 5. I've used 4 but it seems to be one of the few things I didn't back up. I'd like to archive the all the previous versions but it's near impossible to find them online sadly.
I don't think he's saying that he should be in the top 100 but that there should be at least 1 indie artist there and I think that's a good assumption if TPB users were getting indie music.
He's debunking the old claim that file sharing helps unknown artists so he's not saying that and in fact proving it does little to nothing for the lesser known artist.
It's not so much the different price that's annoying. It's not having the chance to watch some things because of where you live. I can't see how giving everyone the chance to buy something that doesn't exist in their country is a bad thing.
We need to put an end to regional distribution deals for the internet. The internet should, in fact, be considered it's own region and that would allow them to get around existing distribution deals.
Remember Napster? It was only good for people who listened to mainstream chart toppers with crappy sound quality. It was not an option for people really interested in music.
Maybe that's the case with legal Napster but the original "pirate's edition" had MP3s of all levels of quality and everyone was using it so of course you could find rare stuff.
The thing is though they don't watch it for free. It's full of ads. In fact they have more ads not than when compared to even a couple decades ago. Movies now have normal ads before the previews.
That may be fine for some people but quite frankly I rather pay a bit more and not have to sit through so many ads. My time is more valuable than money.
The thing is, intelligent people realise, that being green is good for business. The middle east and a few other select areas own oil
But any place in the US, Europe, etc can become a dominate energy player by inventing new means to generate energy. The green movement, silly or not, creates jobs rather than takes jobs away.
People don't realise that global warming never meant that the whole world turns into the tropics but that weather patterns shift (ie cold places get warmer but other areas could very well get colder) and that it's still a negative thing because everything in those environments depend on certain temperatures.
Not that it really matters. it's fact that pollution has a very negative impact on human beings so we should care even if there is no negative effects on the environment.
So why in the hell would anyone support polluting this planet?
Installing solar panels and using water butts and various other green things can save money so why wouldn't people want to save money?
You can't (shouldn't) drive while intoxicated so increased public transportation makes it better for me when I want to socialise with my friend with alcohol and what not. Riding on buses and trains I can sleep, read or use my laptop while going to work rather than just sitting behind the wheel stressing out. Those who insist on driving get the benefit of less traffic when more people use the train or bus So it's nothing but a benefit all around
My main concern is looking out for number one and looking out for the environment results in nothing but benefits for me as it does for most people. Ignorant people should realise this and stop focusing on just the planet. This isn't about tree huggers. This is about saving money and improving your life. So even if you have a "fuck the planet" attitude making certain change benefits yourself as well as the tree huggers.
I wouldn't say "some privacy issues" is trivial since privacy should be people's top priority.
Despite the fact CCTV already came to the US before I moved out, I was luckily in an area with no cameras, so moving to the UK did freak me out where even villages and small towns could have CCTV cameras through out the area.
Admittedly I don't think about them as much now but I'm glad I've got my citizenship now and will be voting at the next opportunity and I take extra ordinary steps to keep my work life separate from my personal life including leaving things off freelance stuff off my CV that has been too close to my personal life. Which does, I suppose, make it look like I have less experience on paper but what is on there should be enough and it doesn't tie me to some things I don't want future employers to know about.
Part of the reason is because teens will download the games which says they want them and the dev is on the right track. They just need to stop them from thieving and then they'll buy their game over the competitions.
Where as if teens couldn't download games they couldn't afford then devs would have to look to other markets and create new games and try new things. But as it is they don't do that and instead we lose variety as publishers focus more and more on a handful of financially sound genres and sequels to these games.
I have no problem with pirating games you can't legally buy. In fact in that instance it might make developers realise that they need to release games worldwide.
However when people pirate a game that is available there is no reason to make better games. It would appear that the game's quality is good enough but that people are just lazy and cheap. So the money is spent on DRM rather than innovation.
As a result, despite new genres having been invented since the SNES era, we actually have less variety than we did in those days. You can hardly get a 2D fighter (or even 3D fighter) on a console these days and they used to release fighters on the PC even. They don't even dare consider that now and it's because all publishers focus on a handful of genres that seem to make loads of money and even then rather than make the best game in that genre, they save money by sending jobs over seas and paying reviewers to lie. So to say there is no negative effects to piracy is a complete lie.
It's not my fault you're dim enough to buy a game three times.:P
Yes I do remember Kane & Lynch. I also know why that happened and it's in part due to piracy. Any little sign of weakness in a game can result in fewer sales than it would have had a decade ago. That would be fine if it meant no one was playing it. But people are playing the game by stealing it. That says to developers that they don't have to improve games because people are obtaining the game one way or another so it must be good enough. It just means they need to increase DRM and other methods to make people pay because piracy is just implying, quite rightly, that people are cheap.
Because it says to developers that people want their games but they're not willing to pay for them. So rather than putting money towards making games better they put money towards DRM and various methods to stop people from stealing them.
This is why we're left with less variety and very samey games full of shitty DRM. There is no benefit to the community as a whole when people download games.
It has and will continue to lead to companies cutting corners to save money which includes shipping jobs over seas. So all these teens thinking they can get into a job making something they love (games) will lose their opportunity because of their actions.
Then those teens will find themselves with no games to buy anyway. Not because of money but because no one will cater to them anymore.
And it just goes to show how lazy teens are. I was able to afford tons of NES/SNES games. Some that I rarely played even because I just bought them because I might like them. It's not because my parents were rich but because I went out and earned money. When you don't pay taxes or have bills you'd be amazed how far a little money goes and it doesn't kill kids to go out and mow lawns or do various odd jobs to earn cash and as an added bonus maybe obesity wouldn't be a problem in the states.
Thanks to my odd jobs I was able to have the games I want as well as, clothes, cigarettes and alcohol and it feels much better to have more things than your fellow students through hard work than being a thief.
If space is *that* much of an issue then buy games from Steam and various online services.
If you have a CD/DVD drive then do you really need to use a virtual drive when you know what is going to happen?
Look, I don't object completely to people downloading games. What I object to is when they play games they like for free or use their financial situation as justification as if there is some constitutional right that says people must be able to have things they like but can't afford.
It's all well and good to claim you're not hurting anyone because you don't take a physical item but gaming is changing because of piracy and it's not for the good.
Casual gamers don't have a clue how to steal games, most of the time, so companies will continue to chase them and start putting things on systems like steam making it either harder to steal or less desirable to steal and you'll end up in the same situation you would have been, when poor and couldn't afford games, but without the opportunity to buy the sort of games you want once you do have the money. That or all the games you do want will be full of adverts and require online connections.
So yeah it does suck when you see a game you want and can't afford it but when everyone decides they'll just download it then they're just making things worse.
Uh yes it does hurt people. Part of the reason we're getting all sorts of BS DRM is to stop people from thieving. Soon we won't even own out media as it'll all be kept on a server somewhere rather than your local machine to stop thieving and sharing games between friends won't happen.
Used game sales will go away and we'll only be able to play what they want us to play all because cheap twats couldn't be bothered to pay for decent software.
And on the subject of needing to try it first. Why is it no one pirates shitty games? For instance, GTA: China Town has the best meta critic score of any DS game ever yet the sales are exceptionally low and thanks to thieves we probably won't get another GTA game on the DS (thanks!)
It's no wonder why Nintendo prefers causal gamers. They're more likely to buy their software. Where as "core" gamers are spotty teens who think it's their god given right to jeopardise someone's career by no paying for their games because it's not theft it's copyright infringement which some how makes it ok.
All they're doing is killing console gaming. Just like they killed PC gaming. Part of me welcomes this so these twats are left with nothing.
This sort of gamer brings nothing of value to gaming. They shit all over the hand that feeds them, they hate anyone that doesn't think like them and they can hardly talk without using fag or homo in every conversation.
So no they don't deserve any entertainment because they don't appreciate it and they're killing it. They're the reason we have less variety and why companies feel the need to save costs by shipping jobs over seas. Hopefully they'll disappear soon.
It's amazing how socialist people get when it involves them getting free stuff and it only negatively affects others.
It was on this site that numerous people stated that they were glad they lived in the US and not the police state known as the UK. Well now they have their own DNA database. Though, as you stated, finger prints were collected before and that's not much different from DNA.
I do think the UK has some privacy issues but people in the US shouldn't laugh as they always end up following the UK's lead.
First CCTV and now DNA databases. Combine with with the new US passports and it's not looking too good.
What benefit is it to basically advertise to gamers that their game is piss easy to download?
Requiring a server for matchmaking, statistics tracking, player rankings, etc is not DRM. It's building a way to get all the data they require and allow people to find to play with and it's not an excuse to be a complete pikey and steal the game.
It would be dumb to think there is no way a company that has to maintain servers for multi-player won't know how many people are playing online or that they don't know how many titles they shipped.
Nor would they want to advertise how easy it is to pirate their game is no one is doing it.
From one source alone, I can see 4,348 have downloaded the game with 1,350 in the process of getting it. I'm certain if you wanted to spend the time getting, stats from various sources of the game, you can prove their numbers.
But if you're so certain they're full of shit, why don't you gather the numbers and prove them wrong?
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Of course even the courts are run by old people who think computers only run Windows and or don't want to use anything else so MS will never be held responsible.
I think it would be better to be a dumbass than to be a queef stain anal about grammar.
Any more than 3 apps and you'll get a blue screen.
However once you have your anti-virus software which you will need then you're really only left with 2 apps. If you have spyware software too then you're left with one app. Genius!
Agreed, Netbeans is much better than Eclipse these days.
I still have my old install f iles for NB but unfortunately only back to 5. I've used 4 but it seems to be one of the few things I didn't back up. I'd like to archive the all the previous versions but it's near impossible to find them online sadly.
I don't think he's saying that he should be in the top 100 but that there should be at least 1 indie artist there and I think that's a good assumption if TPB users were getting indie music.
He's debunking the old claim that file sharing helps unknown artists so he's not saying that and in fact proving it does little to nothing for the lesser known artist.
True on all accounts but I was on dial-up too so I was only interested in 128kbps MP3s and they were plentiful.
While it wasn't ideal you could figure out the bit rate by the length and size.
It's not so much the different price that's annoying. It's not having the chance to watch some things because of where you live. I can't see how giving everyone the chance to buy something that doesn't exist in their country is a bad thing.
We need to put an end to regional distribution deals for the internet. The internet should, in fact, be considered it's own region and that would allow them to get around existing distribution deals.
Remember Napster? It was only good for people who listened to mainstream chart toppers with crappy sound quality. It was not an option for people really interested in music.
Maybe that's the case with legal Napster but the original "pirate's edition" had MP3s of all levels of quality and everyone was using it so of course you could find rare stuff.
The thing is though they don't watch it for free. It's full of ads. In fact they have more ads not than when compared to even a couple decades ago. Movies now have normal ads before the previews.
That may be fine for some people but quite frankly I rather pay a bit more and not have to sit through so many ads. My time is more valuable than money.
The thing is, intelligent people realise, that being green is good for business. The middle east and a few other select areas own oil
But any place in the US, Europe, etc can become a dominate energy player by inventing new means to generate energy. The green movement, silly or not, creates jobs rather than takes jobs away.
People don't realise that global warming never meant that the whole world turns into the tropics but that weather patterns shift (ie cold places get warmer but other areas could very well get colder) and that it's still a negative thing because everything in those environments depend on certain temperatures.
Not that it really matters. it's fact that pollution has a very negative impact on human beings so we should care even if there is no negative effects on the environment.
Let's pretend that human activity has no effect on the environment.
With that in mind there is still no reason not to be more green.
Pollution shortens your life: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7946838.stm
Pollutionis linked to Pneumonia: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7347065.stm
Pollution affects birth weight: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7988619.stm
Pollution alters brain function: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7288176.stm
So why in the hell would anyone support polluting this planet?
Installing solar panels and using water butts and various other green things can save money so why wouldn't people want to save money?
You can't (shouldn't) drive while intoxicated so increased public transportation makes it better for me when I want to socialise with my friend with alcohol and what not. Riding on buses and trains I can sleep, read or use my laptop while going to work rather than just sitting behind the wheel stressing out. Those who insist on driving get the benefit of less traffic when more people use the train or bus So it's nothing but a benefit all around
My main concern is looking out for number one and looking out for the environment results in nothing but benefits for me as it does for most people. Ignorant people should realise this and stop focusing on just the planet. This isn't about tree huggers. This is about saving money and improving your life. So even if you have a "fuck the planet" attitude making certain change benefits yourself as well as the tree huggers.
I wouldn't say "some privacy issues" is trivial since privacy should be people's top priority.
Despite the fact CCTV already came to the US before I moved out, I was luckily in an area with no cameras, so moving to the UK did freak me out where even villages and small towns could have CCTV cameras through out the area.
Admittedly I don't think about them as much now but I'm glad I've got my citizenship now and will be voting at the next opportunity and I take extra ordinary steps to keep my work life separate from my personal life including leaving things off freelance stuff off my CV that has been too close to my personal life. Which does, I suppose, make it look like I have less experience on paper but what is on there should be enough and it doesn't tie me to some things I don't want future employers to know about.
Yes it is.
Part of the reason is because teens will download the games which says they want them and the dev is on the right track. They just need to stop them from thieving and then they'll buy their game over the competitions.
Where as if teens couldn't download games they couldn't afford then devs would have to look to other markets and create new games and try new things. But as it is they don't do that and instead we lose variety as publishers focus more and more on a handful of financially sound genres and sequels to these games.
I have no problem with pirating games you can't legally buy. In fact in that instance it might make developers realise that they need to release games worldwide.
However when people pirate a game that is available there is no reason to make better games. It would appear that the game's quality is good enough but that people are just lazy and cheap. So the money is spent on DRM rather than innovation.
As a result, despite new genres having been invented since the SNES era, we actually have less variety than we did in those days. You can hardly get a 2D fighter (or even 3D fighter) on a console these days and they used to release fighters on the PC even. They don't even dare consider that now and it's because all publishers focus on a handful of genres that seem to make loads of money and even then rather than make the best game in that genre, they save money by sending jobs over seas and paying reviewers to lie. So to say there is no negative effects to piracy is a complete lie.
It's not my fault you're dim enough to buy a game three times. :P
Yes I do remember Kane & Lynch. I also know why that happened and it's in part due to piracy. Any little sign of weakness in a game can result in fewer sales than it would have had a decade ago. That would be fine if it meant no one was playing it. But people are playing the game by stealing it. That says to developers that they don't have to improve games because people are obtaining the game one way or another so it must be good enough. It just means they need to increase DRM and other methods to make people pay because piracy is just implying, quite rightly, that people are cheap.
Because it says to developers that people want their games but they're not willing to pay for them. So rather than putting money towards making games better they put money towards DRM and various methods to stop people from stealing them.
This is why we're left with less variety and very samey games full of shitty DRM. There is no benefit to the community as a whole when people download games.
It has and will continue to lead to companies cutting corners to save money which includes shipping jobs over seas. So all these teens thinking they can get into a job making something they love (games) will lose their opportunity because of their actions.
As more jobs go to India, then Indians will have more money and buy more games and games sales will continue to grow over there as they have already (by 300%). http://www.edge-online.com/news/scee-india-grew-300-percent-200809
Then those teens will find themselves with no games to buy anyway. Not because of money but because no one will cater to them anymore.
And it just goes to show how lazy teens are. I was able to afford tons of NES/SNES games. Some that I rarely played even because I just bought them because I might like them. It's not because my parents were rich but because I went out and earned money. When you don't pay taxes or have bills you'd be amazed how far a little money goes and it doesn't kill kids to go out and mow lawns or do various odd jobs to earn cash and as an added bonus maybe obesity wouldn't be a problem in the states.
Thanks to my odd jobs I was able to have the games I want as well as, clothes, cigarettes and alcohol and it feels much better to have more things than your fellow students through hard work than being a thief.
If space is *that* much of an issue then buy games from Steam and various online services.
If you have a CD/DVD drive then do you really need to use a virtual drive when you know what is going to happen?
Look, I don't object completely to people downloading games. What I object to is when they play games they like for free or use their financial situation as justification as if there is some constitutional right that says people must be able to have things they like but can't afford.
It's all well and good to claim you're not hurting anyone because you don't take a physical item but gaming is changing because of piracy and it's not for the good.
Casual gamers don't have a clue how to steal games, most of the time, so companies will continue to chase them and start putting things on systems like steam making it either harder to steal or less desirable to steal and you'll end up in the same situation you would have been, when poor and couldn't afford games, but without the opportunity to buy the sort of games you want once you do have the money. That or all the games you do want will be full of adverts and require online connections.
So yeah it does suck when you see a game you want and can't afford it but when everyone decides they'll just download it then they're just making things worse.
Uh yes it does hurt people. Part of the reason we're getting all sorts of BS DRM is to stop people from thieving. Soon we won't even own out media as it'll all be kept on a server somewhere rather than your local machine to stop thieving and sharing games between friends won't happen.
Used game sales will go away and we'll only be able to play what they want us to play all because cheap twats couldn't be bothered to pay for decent software.
And on the subject of needing to try it first. Why is it no one pirates shitty games? For instance, GTA: China Town has the best meta critic score of any DS game ever yet the sales are exceptionally low and thanks to thieves we probably won't get another GTA game on the DS (thanks!)
It's no wonder why Nintendo prefers causal gamers. They're more likely to buy their software. Where as "core" gamers are spotty teens who think it's their god given right to jeopardise someone's career by no paying for their games because it's not theft it's copyright infringement which some how makes it ok.
All they're doing is killing console gaming. Just like they killed PC gaming. Part of me welcomes this so these twats are left with nothing.
This sort of gamer brings nothing of value to gaming. They shit all over the hand that feeds them, they hate anyone that doesn't think like them and they can hardly talk without using fag or homo in every conversation.
So no they don't deserve any entertainment because they don't appreciate it and they're killing it. They're the reason we have less variety and why companies feel the need to save costs by shipping jobs over seas. Hopefully they'll disappear soon.
It's amazing how socialist people get when it involves them getting free stuff and it only negatively affects others.
It was on this site that numerous people stated that they were glad they lived in the US and not the police state known as the UK. Well now they have their own DNA database. Though, as you stated, finger prints were collected before and that's not much different from DNA.
I do think the UK has some privacy issues but people in the US shouldn't laugh as they always end up following the UK's lead.
First CCTV and now DNA databases. Combine with with the new US passports and it's not looking too good.
I'm not a fan of Comic Sans but they want it banned while at the same time using some thing equally lame, myspace. http://www.myspace.com/bancomicsans
I wouldn't take advice on good taste from them.
What benefit is it to basically advertise to gamers that their game is piss easy to download?
Requiring a server for matchmaking, statistics tracking, player rankings, etc is not DRM. It's building a way to get all the data they require and allow people to find to play with and it's not an excuse to be a complete pikey and steal the game.
They would still benefit since their server costs would be much lower.
It would be dumb to think there is no way a company that has to maintain servers for multi-player won't know how many people are playing online or that they don't know how many titles they shipped.
Nor would they want to advertise how easy it is to pirate their game is no one is doing it.
From one source alone, I can see 4,348 have downloaded the game with 1,350 in the process of getting it. I'm certain if you wanted to spend the time getting, stats from various sources of the game, you can prove their numbers.
But if you're so certain they're full of shit, why don't you gather the numbers and prove them wrong?