Are we going to call companies who slap shoplifters with overly large penalties "shoplifting trolls", or call groups who hit car thieves with big punishments "car theft trolls"?
Only once they start suing everyone near the store during the time of the shoplifting, and everyone within two blocks of where the car was stolen.
OK, you're part of some primitive tribe living in the same area as a bunch of giant, flightless, and probably very tasty birds. Wouldn't you prefer hunting those huge birds instead of smaller animals that are more difficult to catch?
Since they didn't have any concept of "sustainability", it's very easy to imagine those humans contributing to the birds' extinction.
In case you don't remember, the more efficient software of the past was also clunky and butt-ugly, and when it crashed it took down your entire system.
I doubt I qualify as part of the "enlightened leftosphere", but I'll give it my best shot:
1) As many posters above you have said, read the goddamn article before screaming about 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. This isn't a policy announcement, and he never implied that things he disagrees with are untruthful. His point was that people need to get their information from multiple sources, to avoid knee-jerk responses to biased stories. Y'know, like your reaction to the Slashdot summary here.
2) Not all politicians are out to control every aspect of your life. A distressingly large percentage of them are, but not enough to immediately discount every political action as a shallow power-grab. Cynicism is great and all, but needs some practical limits.
3) Learn to spell "bureaucracy" before you rant about it. Or at least run it by your spell-checker first.
I am a paying customer. I do not pirate DS games. But I do transfer my legally-purchased games to my CycloDS Evolution because there's no way in hell I'm going to carry around 40 different cartridges when I can just carry one (and the ability to use cheat codes comes in handy occasionally, too). Recently, however, I was tempted to just start pirating games again. Do you know why? Because your God damn copy protection on the latest Zelda game left it unplayable on the CycloDS, while the cracked version available online was fine!
You ridiculous attempt at stopping piracy didn't turn any pirates into customers, it just made your existing customers start considering piracy! Thankfully, the CycloDS team has since released an update to evade your stupid piracy-detecting-game-breaker. But please, Nintendo, don't fall into a situation where the pirated product is better than the legitimate one. Because if you dick me around to the point where I still have to search through the Internet to get the product I bought to actually work, I might just start skipping the step where I buy the game in the first place!
Oh, and I might as well mention that the only reason I haven't bought your DSi is because the CycloDS won't run on it.
Data, garbled or not, is coming in from a satellite 8 billion miles away. Do you really think the people involved in the mission are going to just throw it away?
Actually, that's an interesting question: What would happen if all the big companies got their PC games to fail so badly that they could justify dropping PCs entirely and just develop for consoles?
My theory is that it wouldn't last long. With no big-business competition to obscure them, indie developers would begin making money hand over fist. That would prompt the large videogame company shareholders to take a look and wonder why they weren't getting a slice of the action, forcing the companies back into the PC game market.
The problem isn't simple games, per se, it's the dumbing down of existing games. For example, what I and many other gamers experienced with Supreme Commander 2.
I was incredibly eager for a sequel to Supreme Commander, which itself was the successor to Total Annihilation, which was one of the best strategy games ever. Then, I started hearing the rumors. That it was designed to appeal to a wider audience (red flag), then that maps would be smaller, games faster, and graphics more cartoony (warning!), that it was going to be get rid of the build system and economy of its predecessors (Danger! Danger!), and - the killing blow - that it was going to be simultaneously released for Xbox360 (Crappy console RTS confirmed! Avoid at all costs!).
They took a much-loved, if a bit niche, series and murdered it for the sake of being more "mainstream". That's what pisses off most gamers when they hear the words "casual" and "simple". Imagine if they only started producing pinball machines with one huge flipper, because the majority of people thought that managing multiple flippers was "too hard".
Want to bet it's in the fine print that they reserve the right to fuck you any time they want?
Hell, I doubt they even bother to hide it in lawyerspeak. There's probably a line in the fine print that flat-out says "Comcast reserves the right to bend you over and rape you with a sandpaper condom whensoever they please, for any duration."
You will, when the former employees and stockholders of the company you ran into the ground forcibly board your yacht and perform an impromptu keel-hauling.
We don't have 10 hours a day, 10 days a week. We don't have 10 bits in a byte or 100 degrees in a circle. I'm a huge proponent of the SI system but only in areas where it is appropriate to apply it.
And we don't use terms like decahours, decadays, or megadegrees, either. Hours, days, and degrees are completely divorced from the SI system. But when you start using SI prefixes, you have to go along with what those prefixes actually mean.
Or just do your online banking from your smart phone. Sure, it might have come pre-infected with a botnet, but it still probably doesn't have a keylogger running.
Philistine. I bet you aren't even using $100 Monster-brand premium gold-plated HDMI connectors for optimal signal quality and maximum color-accuracy and sharpness!
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This game is amazing. Seriously, if I had known how good it was, I would've thrown in at least another $10 when I bought the Humble Bundle.
Are we going to call companies who slap shoplifters with overly large penalties "shoplifting trolls", or call groups who hit car thieves with big punishments "car theft trolls"?
Only once they start suing everyone near the store during the time of the shoplifting, and everyone within two blocks of where the car was stolen.
OK, you're part of some primitive tribe living in the same area as a bunch of giant, flightless, and probably very tasty birds. Wouldn't you prefer hunting those huge birds instead of smaller animals that are more difficult to catch?
Since they didn't have any concept of "sustainability", it's very easy to imagine those humans contributing to the birds' extinction.
In case you don't remember, the more efficient software of the past was also clunky and butt-ugly, and when it crashed it took down your entire system.
Does it really count as a donation if they foresee these AHA-branded games generating at least that much in profit?
I doubt I qualify as part of the "enlightened leftosphere", but I'll give it my best shot:
1) As many posters above you have said, read the goddamn article before screaming about 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. This isn't a policy announcement, and he never implied that things he disagrees with are untruthful. His point was that people need to get their information from multiple sources, to avoid knee-jerk responses to biased stories. Y'know, like your reaction to the Slashdot summary here.
2) Not all politicians are out to control every aspect of your life. A distressingly large percentage of them are, but not enough to immediately discount every political action as a shallow power-grab. Cynicism is great and all, but needs some practical limits.
3) Learn to spell "bureaucracy" before you rant about it. Or at least run it by your spell-checker first.
Dear Nintendo,
I am a paying customer. I do not pirate DS games. But I do transfer my legally-purchased games to my CycloDS Evolution because there's no way in hell I'm going to carry around 40 different cartridges when I can just carry one (and the ability to use cheat codes comes in handy occasionally, too). Recently, however, I was tempted to just start pirating games again. Do you know why? Because your God damn copy protection on the latest Zelda game left it unplayable on the CycloDS, while the cracked version available online was fine!
You ridiculous attempt at stopping piracy didn't turn any pirates into customers, it just made your existing customers start considering piracy! Thankfully, the CycloDS team has since released an update to evade your stupid piracy-detecting-game-breaker. But please, Nintendo, don't fall into a situation where the pirated product is better than the legitimate one. Because if you dick me around to the point where I still have to search through the Internet to get the product I bought to actually work, I might just start skipping the step where I buy the game in the first place!
Oh, and I might as well mention that the only reason I haven't bought your DSi is because the CycloDS won't run on it.
Linux has fewer games than Windows, so games would be more highly valued by Linux users than Windows users.
Data, garbled or not, is coming in from a satellite 8 billion miles away. Do you really think the people involved in the mission are going to just throw it away?
Actually, that's an interesting question: What would happen if all the big companies got their PC games to fail so badly that they could justify dropping PCs entirely and just develop for consoles?
My theory is that it wouldn't last long. With no big-business competition to obscure them, indie developers would begin making money hand over fist. That would prompt the large videogame company shareholders to take a look and wonder why they weren't getting a slice of the action, forcing the companies back into the PC game market.
The problem isn't simple games, per se, it's the dumbing down of existing games. For example, what I and many other gamers experienced with Supreme Commander 2.
I was incredibly eager for a sequel to Supreme Commander, which itself was the successor to Total Annihilation, which was one of the best strategy games ever. Then, I started hearing the rumors. That it was designed to appeal to a wider audience (red flag), then that maps would be smaller, games faster, and graphics more cartoony (warning!), that it was going to be get rid of the build system and economy of its predecessors (Danger! Danger!), and - the killing blow - that it was going to be simultaneously released for Xbox360 (Crappy console RTS confirmed! Avoid at all costs!).
They took a much-loved, if a bit niche, series and murdered it for the sake of being more "mainstream". That's what pisses off most gamers when they hear the words "casual" and "simple". Imagine if they only started producing pinball machines with one huge flipper, because the majority of people thought that managing multiple flippers was "too hard".
Sure, the Democrats may not be much better, but the Democrats aren't the ones constantly harping on "traditional values and morality".
How do you secretly buy something that only works, by definition, if the public routing table knows it belongs to you?
Shadowy figure in alley: *Pssst*..... Hey, buddy, wanna buy a billboard ad?
Those damn researchers, trying to study other diseases and discover our true heritage! How dare they?!
Sales of Android phones increased 1000%.
I believe your sarcasm detector may need retuning.
Those might not be mistakes. Maybe it's "hip" in Canada to write sentences partially in Ye Olde English...
Want to bet it's in the fine print that they reserve the right to fuck you any time they want?
Hell, I doubt they even bother to hide it in lawyerspeak. There's probably a line in the fine print that flat-out says "Comcast reserves the right to bend you over and rape you with a sandpaper condom whensoever they please, for any duration."
You will, when the former employees and stockholders of the company you ran into the ground forcibly board your yacht and perform an impromptu keel-hauling.
We don't have 10 hours a day, 10 days a week. We don't have 10 bits in a byte or 100 degrees in a circle. I'm a huge proponent of the SI system but only in areas where it is appropriate to apply it.
And we don't use terms like decahours, decadays, or megadegrees, either. Hours, days, and degrees are completely divorced from the SI system. But when you start using SI prefixes, you have to go along with what those prefixes actually mean.
Or just do your online banking from your smart phone. Sure, it might have come pre-infected with a botnet, but it still probably doesn't have a keylogger running.
Philistine. I bet you aren't even using $100 Monster-brand premium gold-plated HDMI connectors for optimal signal quality and maximum color-accuracy and sharpness!
The idea is to free up space on the right-hand side to make room for some cool stuff coming in the next version of Ubuntu.
And as someone who went camping as a teenager, I can tell you that I still wanted to sleep until noon, wavelengths of natural light be damned.
There are quite a few of my home user clients that would probably prefer something like this to a full blown system.
It still needs a full-blown system around to connect with.