mod parent up. for real. I agree 100% (I was going to make my own thread about it, but you already started getting the ball rolling). If I bad mouthed my current job on FB, I could get fired (security all set to friend only+nobody from my work is on my friend's list) also helps. That is a big no-no today. If you have people you work with on your FB, shut your trap about it. It would be like having family on there and calling dead grandpa a "stupid, alcoholic loser". Yeah, that will not go over with the family very well. This is almost always a hidden rule of employment. I say almost because exceptions to the rule do apply, but don't bad mouth your job and let people know it is you in public or on the net. Everybody knows that
Late reply to you bro. I work around 50 hours a week out of choice. That is not counting the freelance job I am working on and my own personal software I am working on. It is rare that I am not programming 10-12 hours a day during the week, and 8-10 hours during the weekend. I guess my views on working at some of these places really show my age (for some reason, everybody can tell I am in my early/mid 20's when I post about my job).
It's me again. The word is not typed out because my work internet filters are weird about me typing out those words (it sends a red flag) and I lose/. at work (may not be a bad thing since I would get more work done, but not a good thing either)
They are incorrect, as the most abused word is f!ck Back in the day, it was to have sex. Now, it is abused to where it can replace any other type of word. You can also add ing or er to it and expand its possibilities even more
Verb: let's f!ck
Noun: That f!ck tried to rip me off.
Pronoun: Jim is suck a jerk. F!cker thinks he is all that and a bad og potato chips.
Adjective: That f!cking jerk thinks he is awesome.
Adverb: That dude f!cking runs fast from the cops.
Interjection: F!ck! He really stole 50 bucks from me.
Conjunction: I will b!tch f!cking slap you sucka!
Preposition: He is right f!cking there.
So I will beg to differ as f!ck is apparently a much more used and abused word than app.
The common "folk" do this with everything, so I think it is odd that it is getting discussed with 'app'. As the subject said, there are still people that call all game systems a Nintendo (I seriously know a person who I have to correct because they will call their PS3 a Nintendo). They will still call all controllers paddles. They will call any system on Atari an Atari. They will call the Genesis a Sega.
There are lots of examples, but I like the paddles one the best. It does not matter what the controller is for or what it does, if it is associated with a video game system, some people, no matter what, call them paddles. The origin of this is from when the Atari 2600 made the paddle controller. Since then, people call all controllers paddles even though many of them have little to nothing to do with Atari 2600 paddles.
Suck it up and get used to the fact that people do this (even if it is a company), or correct them any chance you get and frustrate yourself
While the Cub Scouts are part of the BSA, it is not the Boy Scouts that do Pinewood Derby races, it is the Cub Scouts. There is a pretty big difference between making it through Weblos and making it to Eagle (trust me, I have done both).
I went from one of the biggest players in the telemarketting/call center field as a programmer (they easily had a few hundred programmers) to a company that has less than 10 employees total. You want to talk night and day, my friend. This tiny company is amazing to work at. I have only worked here for 6 months, but it is still hard to adjust. I am still paranoid of that "evil eye" looking over everything I do, but it is not there. We are free to code how we want as long as the end product is up to spec. It is a great place and gives me the ability to branch out and learn new things instead of being confined to specific standards that need to be done for the 100+ employees. I actually make my own personal standards now. I think they are pretty good (then again, I wrote them so programmer's ego means I always think they are good). My personal suggestion for anybody out there, if you are in it for money, stop the comp sci degree, get a business degree, and work in IT for a big company. If you truly love this type of work, the smaller the company is, the better (well, as long as they have a decent track record behind them, of course).
Either that or one of them left for normal business reasons (somebody tried/succeeded in screwing him over) and the oerson working under him pulled a "if he is walking, so am I". It happens all the time in a business. It happens to M$ and everybody flips out.
I am not so sure that I would say the iPhone XL is the leading innovator. I would have to agree that the Kinect is. The simple fact of it is that the hardware itself is amazing.
There is nothing north of the north pole. What is deeper then the center of the Earth? The center of Jupiter's earth. This is inferring that the universe is some type of sphere-shape similar to Earth where once we get to one side, we eventually go around again like being in orbit. I am pretty confident there is an end to the universe, and at the end: Chuck Norris. Yes,. I said it. Welcome to 4 years ago (I am a time traveller and forgot to go back soon enough to hit first post)
I smell a troll, but it is cool, it is fun to feed them.
Hmm, somebody who missed the point. I guess I can explain it. 99% of everything you do on the internet is done and controlled by geeks. This is not specifically going after hackers. You assume that is what I was referring to. Sir, you assumed wrong.
You also skipped over some of the examples I had. Obviously from the example I gave with Jersey Shore and the intro maker and editor, what happens when you piss them off? Somebody who has been working with that show knows the ins and outs of editting the show together. Mess with them, and they will either leave, or F with your crappy show you love so much. Sure there are more options, but if they leave, you need to bring in another person that knows that show as good as the editor to ensure that everything goes smoothly.
The web people are the ones behind the scenes, doing everything for you so that you can sit back and enjoy your stay (hence the reference).
See, I do not know what you do for a living, but it is very apparent that you are either freelance, or not truly in the industry that much. You seem to have a high amount of lacking information about what the people behind the scenes truly do. For us people behind the scenes, it is not a simple click of a button to make everything run for people like you. Sorry, it is not that simple.
You seem to be trying to distance yourself from what us web developers actually do. That is telling me that you either are not a web developer, or are an IT manager thinking he is part of an IT crew, but really just boss the people around thinking that your "iron fist" is the method to use. Sorry sir, but there is a reason why everybody acts nice to you, they don't want to get fired. They are secretly mad at you behind your back. Sorry, but the truth hurts.
Also, you seem to be knew at the way the internet works, so let me be the first to say: Welcome to the Internet, where the IT manager has little to know say out here, and us "lackies" are the ones that program your user experience. Please enjoy your stay, and for technical issues, call 1-976-fuckoff
Yeah, I program all over the board. I do pretty much everything from.Net to PHP to Java and multiple db things (also do front end stuff like jQuery/JS and so on). I made a FB account just so I can stay connected to my family and friends since I moved to a new state. I kept my real name on long enough for everybody to know it is me, then took all personal information off. I check it once a month now if even that. FB games suck. I have a good computer, if I want to play PC games, I will.
As for connecting, yeah, not really. I made myself a blog page to share information with others and that is it
You are on/. saying that, now you are a geek. The ability to jump into your passion and not care about what happens because of it. That is why I gave some of the examples I did. The person that made the intro movie is right there. I mean right there. It is not like there is some definitive line. Yeah, I am video game collector. I don't play D&D, I don't read comics, the movie lore I consider myself expert at is The Matrix. I have never seen Blade Runner. Star Trek is boring as hell to me. I know, all of this is borderline marking this as troll, but hear my out/.'ers. The joy of being a geek is that we are so wide spread to where you do what you want. It is that passion that drives us. We all know what it is. We have all felt it as geeks. You can practically see your future and that is because you don't dream of it happening, you plan on it happening. You can say geek, dork, nerd, it is all the same to me. You can say, "well, I am more of a dork then a geek". Now, you are a geek in my eyes. No difference in the words in my eyes at all.
Yes, I have read the breakdowns of the words, but I don't care. We are the ones willing to sit there and watch the Jersey Shore crew act retarded while they get paid $50k per episode (some really do, google it) while we sit there making sure that the edit job we do is amazing even if nobody notices but us.
We are always there right with the other people, but we are just not quite there. Many of us are the ones that will refuse to assimilate into the culture presented to us, and we will want to be ourselves. When we find out we are not like anybody, it is others that label us.
I got sick of being labelled, so I just labelled myself. I am completely proud of who I am. I would not change myself for the world, but I would change myself for myself.
That tells you how much about Apple products I know. I should have read it better or looked into what the iPod touch was a little better. Touche Sir, and good show
I am a programmer and have a pretty bad programmer's ego (I try to control it at work though, but we all have weaknesses). We are like Tyler Durden during Project Mayhem where he gives the speech to the politician. Everybody uses the internet now. From 90 year old grandma getting pictures of her grand kids up to, well, people like us who eat/sleep/breath the internet (well, not everybody on/. is a web developer, but for those that are, you).
Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not... f#@k with us.
That is how us web developers are. Even how the security people are. Server people, network people, the list goes on and on.
As long as we are around setting things up for the end user, we will always have our culture. There is also this bad "feeling" of the MTV culture becoming a geek. Apparently Jersey Shore is cool to pay attention to, but being a geek is not. I know, I know. I have gotten used to it. But ask yourself this: the Jersey Shore intro, who made that happen? The editting, who made that happen on every episode.
Us geeks are right on the edge of pop culture. I mean we are right there, but the pop culture fear of not being cool keeps the masses from fully accepting all of our quirks. Like people do not understand us geeks that collect. I collect video games. I had some work people over and had my Genesis/Sega CD/32x combo hooked up, and they asked me if I had a Wii. I have a pretty decent computer, and I kid you not, this is almost word for word what a girl said, "Wow! That is a cool computer. Can I check my Facebook on it super quick?"
We are and always will be the last picked for kick ball. We will be the ones right on the outside of cool. Almost, but not quite. You know what, I like it out here.
Uh?!? Really? He is comparing a device specifically built to play music, an iPod (even though it does other things, those are simple "nice to haves") with an Android phone which is a device specifically built to get and send phone calls and text messages (even though it does other things, those are simple "nice to haves"). He compared a music player to a phone and said "you know, I think the music player plays music better than the phone". Why are you bringing a PC into it when this was in response to him comparing a music device to a phone? Come on now kid, if you did not read the context of what my post was about, I am taking a wild stab that you did not read TFA either (well, it is/.) If you think I am a Apple person supporting Apple, then you clearly took everything I said out of context of what it was meant for (you know, when you hit reply, that means you are replying to the parent post and not just randomly blurting out stuff, oh wait, this is/. and some people do that, well, I don't do that)
Yeah, it's an iPod. I hope its music player is much, much better seeing as iPods are built to be music players. There are lots of examples of this, but I am too lazy to think of a good one
This means that I can travel to the other universes, kill off the me from other ones and become stronger? I am pretty sure that the awesome Jet Li movie came out first (seriously, when he is going in regular motion and the sparks are in slow motion at the end, awesome). And yes, this is all 100% on topic since the movie discusses the multi-verse (it is not everyday that I can figure out a way to shove a Jet-Li reference into/.)
You sued them, or you hopped into a class action law suit by purchasing it, as there is a difference there. And who says that EULA may not violate law? Why can't it? Also, my point is not the example the person gave, but the fact that maybe people should start reading EULA's instead of complaining when something is in the EULA that they did not care to read. One of the reasons why the EULA is there is for when people like you think you are too high and mighty to read it thinking "Oh, that does not apply to me, if I don't like anything in there, I will sue instead".
Now, the EULA argument: "Well if I get to the point of reading the EULA, then if it is a physical copy of something, I can't return it if I do not agree". You are on/. and you are telling me you blindly make software purchases without reading into them, without at the very least skimming the EULA, without researching the product itself? Really? And you are a/. user.
Look, if you are not going to research the products you buy, then you should be counter-sued by EA for lawyer fees (and I bet their lawyers are expensive too). You failed to research Spore. You failed to look into the game. You failed to read the EULA fully (I read it and it clearly states in the EULA that it does install DRM). You could have seen that, and did more research to find out what kind of DRM, find out it is a nasty DRM, and not purchase the product at all.
I mean seriously. I am a software developer myself, and people like you need to go away or let somebody else buy software for you. Suing over the EULA when you did not do the research yourself into the product you purchased and just blindly bought it and then try to sue over it (probably just hopped into the class action suit, but even still). You are the reason why even us small time freelance developers need to lawyer up when we make software, because when you do not research the product and I make a really good mp3 player and call it a media player, you will try to sue me since even though it only plays mp3, since I called it an media player, you expected it to do video even though I state that in the EULA that this is strictly made for playing licensed mp3's.
I can also tell from your response that it was either part of a class action or you totally failed in your attempt to sue. I have been arrested. If I leave it at that, it could be very cool. Being arrested does not mean anything. I could get arrested, and then be let go without any charges brought upon me, but it sounds pretty cool, doesn't it. Now, if I give two or three more words explaining it, like "I went to jail for assault and battery" then the cool just went up that much more. To simply say you sued them means class-action, or you lost. Either way you really did not do anything cool, so that is a pretty big fail or your part for even mentioning that. I am 100% confident if somebody personally sued EA and won over it, it would be much easier to find online and I would not have to do some insanely deep digging to find it, especially if it was for something like the DRM in Spore since the DRM in there was pretty big news.
The moral of the story: please stop buying software and let your computer friends do it. I don't feel like dealing with the software tards who can't read EULA's that clearly explain what I am doing with software trying to knock on my door with lawsuits.
LOL, I know about experts-exchange since I have been there, but the other 2 I can't figure out outside of the awesomeness that they are in this context
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mod parent up. for real. I agree 100% (I was going to make my own thread about it, but you already started getting the ball rolling). If I bad mouthed my current job on FB, I could get fired (security all set to friend only+nobody from my work is on my friend's list) also helps. That is a big no-no today. If you have people you work with on your FB, shut your trap about it. It would be like having family on there and calling dead grandpa a "stupid, alcoholic loser". Yeah, that will not go over with the family very well. This is almost always a hidden rule of employment. I say almost because exceptions to the rule do apply, but don't bad mouth your job and let people know it is you in public or on the net. Everybody knows that
But will his ego wear those crappy black turtle necks?
Late reply to you bro. I work around 50 hours a week out of choice. That is not counting the freelance job I am working on and my own personal software I am working on. It is rare that I am not programming 10-12 hours a day during the week, and 8-10 hours during the weekend. I guess my views on working at some of these places really show my age (for some reason, everybody can tell I am in my early/mid 20's when I post about my job).
It's me again. The word is not typed out because my work internet filters are weird about me typing out those words (it sends a red flag) and I lose /. at work (may not be a bad thing since I would get more work done, but not a good thing either)
They are incorrect, as the most abused word is f!ck Back in the day, it was to have sex. Now, it is abused to where it can replace any other type of word. You can also add ing or er to it and expand its possibilities even more
Verb: let's f!ck
Noun: That f!ck tried to rip me off.
Pronoun: Jim is suck a jerk. F!cker thinks he is all that and a bad og potato chips.
Adjective: That f!cking jerk thinks he is awesome.
Adverb: That dude f!cking runs fast from the cops.
Interjection: F!ck! He really stole 50 bucks from me.
Conjunction: I will b!tch f!cking slap you sucka!
Preposition: He is right f!cking there.
So I will beg to differ as f!ck is apparently a much more used and abused word than app.
The common "folk" do this with everything, so I think it is odd that it is getting discussed with 'app'. As the subject said, there are still people that call all game systems a Nintendo (I seriously know a person who I have to correct because they will call their PS3 a Nintendo). They will still call all controllers paddles. They will call any system on Atari an Atari. They will call the Genesis a Sega.
There are lots of examples, but I like the paddles one the best. It does not matter what the controller is for or what it does, if it is associated with a video game system, some people, no matter what, call them paddles. The origin of this is from when the Atari 2600 made the paddle controller. Since then, people call all controllers paddles even though many of them have little to nothing to do with Atari 2600 paddles.
Suck it up and get used to the fact that people do this (even if it is a company), or correct them any chance you get and frustrate yourself
WOOSH! Over your head there guy:
Difference between Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts
The people who actually do Pinewood Derby: Linky Link
While the Cub Scouts are part of the BSA, it is not the Boy Scouts that do Pinewood Derby races, it is the Cub Scouts. There is a pretty big difference between making it through Weblos and making it to Eagle (trust me, I have done both).
Please do not confuse the two.
Actually, it is cub scouts that do pinewood derby. There is a difference between them, but not a big one (mainly age)
I went from one of the biggest players in the telemarketting/call center field as a programmer (they easily had a few hundred programmers) to a company that has less than 10 employees total. You want to talk night and day, my friend. This tiny company is amazing to work at. I have only worked here for 6 months, but it is still hard to adjust. I am still paranoid of that "evil eye" looking over everything I do, but it is not there. We are free to code how we want as long as the end product is up to spec. It is a great place and gives me the ability to branch out and learn new things instead of being confined to specific standards that need to be done for the 100+ employees. I actually make my own personal standards now. I think they are pretty good (then again, I wrote them so programmer's ego means I always think they are good). My personal suggestion for anybody out there, if you are in it for money, stop the comp sci degree, get a business degree, and work in IT for a big company. If you truly love this type of work, the smaller the company is, the better (well, as long as they have a decent track record behind them, of course).
Either that or one of them left for normal business reasons (somebody tried/succeeded in screwing him over) and the oerson working under him pulled a "if he is walking, so am I". It happens all the time in a business. It happens to M$ and everybody flips out.
I am not so sure that I would say the iPhone XL is the leading innovator. I would have to agree that the Kinect is. The simple fact of it is that the hardware itself is amazing.
There is nothing north of the north pole. What is deeper then the center of the Earth? The center of Jupiter's earth. This is inferring that the universe is some type of sphere-shape similar to Earth where once we get to one side, we eventually go around again like being in orbit. I am pretty confident there is an end to the universe, and at the end: Chuck Norris. Yes,. I said it. Welcome to 4 years ago (I am a time traveller and forgot to go back soon enough to hit first post)
I smell a troll, but it is cool, it is fun to feed them.
Hmm, somebody who missed the point. I guess I can explain it. 99% of everything you do on the internet is done and controlled by geeks. This is not specifically going after hackers. You assume that is what I was referring to. Sir, you assumed wrong.
You also skipped over some of the examples I had. Obviously from the example I gave with Jersey Shore and the intro maker and editor, what happens when you piss them off? Somebody who has been working with that show knows the ins and outs of editting the show together. Mess with them, and they will either leave, or F with your crappy show you love so much. Sure there are more options, but if they leave, you need to bring in another person that knows that show as good as the editor to ensure that everything goes smoothly.
The web people are the ones behind the scenes, doing everything for you so that you can sit back and enjoy your stay (hence the reference).
See, I do not know what you do for a living, but it is very apparent that you are either freelance, or not truly in the industry that much. You seem to have a high amount of lacking information about what the people behind the scenes truly do. For us people behind the scenes, it is not a simple click of a button to make everything run for people like you. Sorry, it is not that simple.
You seem to be trying to distance yourself from what us web developers actually do. That is telling me that you either are not a web developer, or are an IT manager thinking he is part of an IT crew, but really just boss the people around thinking that your "iron fist" is the method to use. Sorry sir, but there is a reason why everybody acts nice to you, they don't want to get fired. They are secretly mad at you behind your back. Sorry, but the truth hurts.
Also, you seem to be knew at the way the internet works, so let me be the first to say: Welcome to the Internet, where the IT manager has little to know say out here, and us "lackies" are the ones that program your user experience. Please enjoy your stay, and for technical issues, call 1-976-fuckoff
Yeah, I program all over the board. I do pretty much everything from .Net to PHP to Java and multiple db things (also do front end stuff like jQuery/JS and so on). I made a FB account just so I can stay connected to my family and friends since I moved to a new state. I kept my real name on long enough for everybody to know it is me, then took all personal information off. I check it once a month now if even that. FB games suck. I have a good computer, if I want to play PC games, I will.
As for connecting, yeah, not really. I made myself a blog page to share information with others and that is it
You are on /. saying that, now you are a geek. The ability to jump into your passion and not care about what happens because of it. That is why I gave some of the examples I did. The person that made the intro movie is right there. I mean right there. It is not like there is some definitive line. Yeah, I am video game collector. I don't play D&D, I don't read comics, the movie lore I consider myself expert at is The Matrix. I have never seen Blade Runner. Star Trek is boring as hell to me. I know, all of this is borderline marking this as troll, but hear my out /.'ers. The joy of being a geek is that we are so wide spread to where you do what you want. It is that passion that drives us. We all know what it is. We have all felt it as geeks. You can practically see your future and that is because you don't dream of it happening, you plan on it happening. You can say geek, dork, nerd, it is all the same to me. You can say, "well, I am more of a dork then a geek". Now, you are a geek in my eyes. No difference in the words in my eyes at all.
Yes, I have read the breakdowns of the words, but I don't care. We are the ones willing to sit there and watch the Jersey Shore crew act retarded while they get paid $50k per episode (some really do, google it) while we sit there making sure that the edit job we do is amazing even if nobody notices but us.
We are always there right with the other people, but we are just not quite there. Many of us are the ones that will refuse to assimilate into the culture presented to us, and we will want to be ourselves. When we find out we are not like anybody, it is others that label us.
I got sick of being labelled, so I just labelled myself. I am completely proud of who I am. I would not change myself for the world, but I would change myself for myself.
Time for Egyptians to stand up and fight back, and many already are.
That tells you how much about Apple products I know. I should have read it better or looked into what the iPod touch was a little better. Touche Sir, and good show
Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not... f#@k with us.
That is how us web developers are. Even how the security people are. Server people, network people, the list goes on and on.
As long as we are around setting things up for the end user, we will always have our culture. There is also this bad "feeling" of the MTV culture becoming a geek. Apparently Jersey Shore is cool to pay attention to, but being a geek is not. I know, I know. I have gotten used to it. But ask yourself this: the Jersey Shore intro, who made that happen? The editting, who made that happen on every episode.
Us geeks are right on the edge of pop culture. I mean we are right there, but the pop culture fear of not being cool keeps the masses from fully accepting all of our quirks. Like people do not understand us geeks that collect. I collect video games. I had some work people over and had my Genesis/Sega CD/32x combo hooked up, and they asked me if I had a Wii. I have a pretty decent computer, and I kid you not, this is almost word for word what a girl said, "Wow! That is a cool computer. Can I check my Facebook on it super quick?"
We are and always will be the last picked for kick ball. We will be the ones right on the outside of cool. Almost, but not quite. You know what, I like it out here.
Uh?!? Really? He is comparing a device specifically built to play music, an iPod (even though it does other things, those are simple "nice to haves") with an Android phone which is a device specifically built to get and send phone calls and text messages (even though it does other things, those are simple "nice to haves"). He compared a music player to a phone and said "you know, I think the music player plays music better than the phone". Why are you bringing a PC into it when this was in response to him comparing a music device to a phone? Come on now kid, if you did not read the context of what my post was about, I am taking a wild stab that you did not read TFA either (well, it is /.) If you think I am a Apple person supporting Apple, then you clearly took everything I said out of context of what it was meant for (you know, when you hit reply, that means you are replying to the parent post and not just randomly blurting out stuff, oh wait, this is /. and some people do that, well, I don't do that)
Yeah, it's an iPod. I hope its music player is much, much better seeing as iPods are built to be music players. There are lots of examples of this, but I am too lazy to think of a good one
They expect to see you in real life,.
Well that just kinda spoiled it all for me.
LOL, I love how that is practically a novel and that is the only thing you grasped out of there
This means that I can travel to the other universes, kill off the me from other ones and become stronger? I am pretty sure that the awesome Jet Li movie came out first (seriously, when he is going in regular motion and the sparks are in slow motion at the end, awesome). And yes, this is all 100% on topic since the movie discusses the multi-verse (it is not everyday that I can figure out a way to shove a Jet-Li reference into /.)
You sued them, or you hopped into a class action law suit by purchasing it, as there is a difference there. And who says that EULA may not violate law? Why can't it? Also, my point is not the example the person gave, but the fact that maybe people should start reading EULA's instead of complaining when something is in the EULA that they did not care to read. One of the reasons why the EULA is there is for when people like you think you are too high and mighty to read it thinking "Oh, that does not apply to me, if I don't like anything in there, I will sue instead".
/. and you are telling me you blindly make software purchases without reading into them, without at the very least skimming the EULA, without researching the product itself? Really? And you are a /. user.
Now, the EULA argument: "Well if I get to the point of reading the EULA, then if it is a physical copy of something, I can't return it if I do not agree". You are on
Look, if you are not going to research the products you buy, then you should be counter-sued by EA for lawyer fees (and I bet their lawyers are expensive too). You failed to research Spore. You failed to look into the game. You failed to read the EULA fully (I read it and it clearly states in the EULA that it does install DRM). You could have seen that, and did more research to find out what kind of DRM, find out it is a nasty DRM, and not purchase the product at all.
I mean seriously. I am a software developer myself, and people like you need to go away or let somebody else buy software for you. Suing over the EULA when you did not do the research yourself into the product you purchased and just blindly bought it and then try to sue over it (probably just hopped into the class action suit, but even still). You are the reason why even us small time freelance developers need to lawyer up when we make software, because when you do not research the product and I make a really good mp3 player and call it a media player, you will try to sue me since even though it only plays mp3, since I called it an media player, you expected it to do video even though I state that in the EULA that this is strictly made for playing licensed mp3's.
I can also tell from your response that it was either part of a class action or you totally failed in your attempt to sue. I have been arrested. If I leave it at that, it could be very cool. Being arrested does not mean anything. I could get arrested, and then be let go without any charges brought upon me, but it sounds pretty cool, doesn't it. Now, if I give two or three more words explaining it, like "I went to jail for assault and battery" then the cool just went up that much more. To simply say you sued them means class-action, or you lost. Either way you really did not do anything cool, so that is a pretty big fail or your part for even mentioning that. I am 100% confident if somebody personally sued EA and won over it, it would be much easier to find online and I would not have to do some insanely deep digging to find it, especially if it was for something like the DRM in Spore since the DRM in there was pretty big news.
The moral of the story: please stop buying software and let your computer friends do it. I don't feel like dealing with the software tards who can't read EULA's that clearly explain what I am doing with software trying to knock on my door with lawsuits.
LOL, I know about experts-exchange since I have been there, but the other 2 I can't figure out outside of the awesomeness that they are in this context