I don't think the franchise is going down the drain just because of the movies. I mean, is there someone out there who can say how many Star Wars games actually got ABOVE average scores?
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As far as I can recall. The court case involved the Glider program interfering with WoW and not the code - which - should be available under that pesky little "free speech" clause.
Personally I hate the botters, but Blizzards lobbying just shows how much of a problem they think Glider is.
A few other problems: I was going to go to this years DEFCON but because of the laptop checks and the registration requirement (notifying the government 3 weeks before coming to the country) I have canceled the trip. (No, I really don't have anything I am secretive about on my laptop).
My story can be seen as a pitiful example. But I heard rumors from former colleagues at a company I used to work for that they have changed their security measures on corporate laptops when traveling to the US. It includes taking the laptop down to the IT department and having them make an image of the HDD, then it is replaced by a new one, the image is downloaded when on US soil. Probably through VPN or similar.
The question that raises is the same that was raised in Sweden over the FRA-legislation: The possiblity of industrial espionage. So when both private and corporate trips might be canceled or postponed, doesn't that hurt the US economy?
I am just wondering: If the internet backbone is already stressed (as alleged) in some countries, wouldn't this put extreme load on it?
There is something else to consider: Signed applications. Are we going to be able to run anything we want or is it going to be a "locked box"? Are we going to have all activity logged? How is the DRM going to work?
I am growing more inclined to switch to Linux everyday now.
Sure, the market might accept a three-to-one failure rate. But what about the 3 guys who get locked up in a DHS holding cell, get waterboarded and then released without any means of setting the record straight just because they were lost in a shopping mall with a cakebox in their hands?
It's not going to index everything. It is going to list "Special Deals" and other crap. Thing is, I am not sure the MPAA even WANTS the site to succeed. Why? Well, because it gives them ample PR-ammunition to then say "Well we tried legal alternatives, they just won't stop!".
The fact that piracy is here to stay doesn't seem to face them and the only thing they are hurting with these piss-poor services is their ever shrinking customer base.
I really wouldn't mind if they crashed and burned right now. And I say that having seen TDK in theaters despite downloading the cam-rip.
Is it just me being paranoid or have I learned my lesson from the whole MediaSentry debacle?
The ability for MPAA to log your IP and your search query gives them a precise target to look for in whatever data they collect from various filesharing networks (with the help of either MediaSentry or someone else).
I know I am sounding paranoid, but at this point I would not be surprised.
It would be great if it was an intentional leak and the press found out about it. When an indie artist does it I don't mind, but when a big movie studio and supporter of MPAA does it... well. You see the juicy scoop right there.
You have to realize that the way these companies think is not how much money they have earned. But rather, how much more they COULD HAVE earned. We know that a shitty cam-recording of the movie isn't going to put a dent in the sales at the box office. But WB is definetely counting that they could have made double that amount if they had delayed it 72 hours more. The bad thing about piracy is that you can't really measure it accurately, so you can pretty much blame everything on it and get away with it.
It's only going to be a matter of time before they start searching every one going into a movie theater. (Unless it has already happened).
I risk getting modded troll here, but what if we are wrong about the Co2? I know this has been discussed here at slashdot before but I am one of those who subscribe to the cosmic rays/sunspots theory. What might go wrong when we start f*cking around with the environment on a truly global scale?
We are not talking about moving a bunch of carnivores to another land to deal with a large population of herbivores, we are talking about actual ATTEMPTS to change the climate. Even if the CO2-theory is correct: Haven't we messed around enough?
This sounds like a fairytale but I work for a very large IT firm which is very well known. Serious company doesn't mean good however. In certain files (not all apparentely) all constant variables have to be declared globally. We are talking C++ here.
Think what you want, but I don't like it. The reason for the variables placements are so "that they will be easy to find".
I think the answer to "Where are the games?" is that there was so long ago (back in the 8-bit days actually) that game designers and companies were interested in a good design as well as the graphics.
Think about it: Most games we see today are just repetitions of the same concept except even shinier. It's like - and I say this knowing there are really good designers out there - the industry has lost it's ability to innovate.
Am I just a bitter veteran gamer or am I right? Please tell me I am not right!
This is the very definition of Irony. I wonder what the press release is going to say about this.
But TBH I have a feeling this was a decision from the higher ups in the organization, there has to have been a programmer that was aware of this but wasn't listened to.
The more I read about these election problems the same quesiton always pops up in the back of my head: What was wrong with paper ballots counted by hand?
But I don't think we are going to survive for another 10.000 years considering that the last 100 years we have destroyed quite a lot. Earth will still be here of course, and it will do just fine.
But us? Please, we are fleas on interstellar cattle.
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I don't think the franchise is going down the drain just because of the movies. I mean, is there someone out there who can say how many Star Wars games actually got ABOVE average scores?
Oh and to be on topic: Streisand Effect.
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You find beauty in normal porn, do not lose this address.
A thrilling DDOS is in your immediate future.
For the lazy: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=233013
As far as I can recall. The court case involved the Glider program interfering with WoW and not the code - which - should be available under that pesky little "free speech" clause.
Personally I hate the botters, but Blizzards lobbying just shows how much of a problem they think Glider is.
A few other problems: I was going to go to this years DEFCON but because of the laptop checks and the registration requirement (notifying the government 3 weeks before coming to the country) I have canceled the trip. (No, I really don't have anything I am secretive about on my laptop).
My story can be seen as a pitiful example. But I heard rumors from former colleagues at a company I used to work for that they have changed their security measures on corporate laptops when traveling to the US.
It includes taking the laptop down to the IT department and having them make an image of the HDD, then it is replaced by a new one, the image is downloaded when on US soil. Probably through VPN or similar.
The question that raises is the same that was raised in Sweden over the FRA-legislation: The possiblity of industrial espionage. So when both private and corporate trips might be canceled or postponed, doesn't that hurt the US economy?
Hey, if you find me a country where the government only do the will of the people and I'll move there.
"Auction giant eBay, which owns PayPal, has prevented consumers from using the Google system."
Am I naive or doesn't that violate some kind of consumer rights?
I am just wondering: If the internet backbone is already stressed (as alleged) in some countries, wouldn't this put extreme load on it?
There is something else to consider: Signed applications. Are we going to be able to run anything we want or is it going to be a "locked box"? Are we going to have all activity logged? How is the DRM going to work?
I am growing more inclined to switch to Linux everyday now.
Sure, the market might accept a three-to-one failure rate. But what about the 3 guys who get locked up in a DHS holding cell, get waterboarded and then released without any means of setting the record straight just because they were lost in a shopping mall with a cakebox in their hands?
It's not going to index everything. It is going to list "Special Deals" and other crap. Thing is, I am not sure the MPAA even WANTS the site to succeed. Why?
Well, because it gives them ample PR-ammunition to then say "Well we tried legal alternatives, they just won't stop!".
The fact that piracy is here to stay doesn't seem to face them and the only thing they are hurting with these piss-poor services is their ever shrinking customer base.
I really wouldn't mind if they crashed and burned right now. And I say that having seen TDK in theaters despite downloading the cam-rip.
Is it just me being paranoid or have I learned my lesson from the whole MediaSentry debacle?
The ability for MPAA to log your IP and your search query gives them a precise target to look for in whatever data they collect from various filesharing networks (with the help of either MediaSentry or someone else).
I know I am sounding paranoid, but at this point I would not be surprised.
It would be great if it was an intentional leak and the press found out about it. When an indie artist does it I don't mind, but when a big movie studio and supporter of MPAA does it... well. You see the juicy scoop right there.
You have to realize that the way these companies think is not how much money they have earned. But rather, how much more they COULD HAVE earned.
We know that a shitty cam-recording of the movie isn't going to put a dent in the sales at the box office. But WB is definetely counting that they could have made double that amount if they had delayed it 72 hours more. The bad thing about piracy is that you can't really measure it accurately, so you can pretty much blame everything on it and get away with it.
It's only going to be a matter of time before they start searching every one going into a movie theater. (Unless it has already happened).
Oh cmon. Even with the "Vista Certified"-bs even MS can't press Vista into the OLPC.
You are a real Joker aren't you?
I risk getting modded troll here, but what if we are wrong about the Co2? I know this has been discussed here at slashdot before but I am one of those who subscribe to the cosmic rays/sunspots theory. What might go wrong when we start f*cking around with the environment on a truly global scale?
We are not talking about moving a bunch of carnivores to another land to deal with a large population of herbivores, we are talking about actual ATTEMPTS to change the climate. Even if the CO2-theory is correct: Haven't we messed around enough?
We built the LHC to look for tits?
This sounds like a fairytale but I work for a very large IT firm which is very well known. Serious company doesn't mean good however.
In certain files (not all apparentely) all constant variables have to be declared globally. We are talking C++ here.
Think what you want, but I don't like it. The reason for the variables placements are so "that they will be easy to find".
I think the answer to "Where are the games?" is that there was so long ago (back in the 8-bit days actually) that game designers and companies were interested in a good design as well as the graphics.
Think about it: Most games we see today are just repetitions of the same concept except even shinier. It's like - and I say this knowing there are really good designers out there - the industry has lost it's ability to innovate.
Am I just a bitter veteran gamer or am I right? Please tell me I am not right!
This is the very definition of Irony. I wonder what the press release is going to say about this.
But TBH I have a feeling this was a decision from the higher ups in the organization, there has to have been a programmer that was aware of this but wasn't listened to.
The more I read about these election problems the same quesiton always pops up in the back of my head: What was wrong with paper ballots counted by hand?
In a digital world it is as safe as can be.
But I don't think we are going to survive for another 10.000 years considering that the last 100 years we have destroyed quite a lot. Earth will still be here of course, and it will do just fine.
But us? Please, we are fleas on interstellar cattle.
Avoiding clogging the tubes with piss? Is someone p2p-ing german porn again?
When will we see spam mails that advertise free GMail invites?
(I know it's open registration nowadays but CMON!)
I liked your input, but I did create a shorter, simpler version:
The first series of lawsuits is to determine who owes who how much money.
The second series of lawsuits is to answer who owns who how much money.
Since companies suing companies is only about money, one can simplify the reasons like above.