There's also another part of the analogy. Both Bush and clowns are evil.
This act is fucking stupid, and I'm quite sure it'll see as much success as the war on drugs has. In 30 years time we'll have a TV show like "The Wire" but instead of busting the heads of dealers, they'll be busting the heads of those trading music.
Fuck your country in it's stupid braindead ass. Seriously, my closest friend is American. She's awesome. It's also quite clear a lot of American's on here are sensible, rational individuals. I know they are out there and they do exist. But the majority of your country are fucking morons who base their entire vote on Republicans being anti-abortion (which they'll never actually ban because then they can't use it to drum up votes anymore) or some other equally asinine notion! Yes, who cares what this governments does to peoples rights, foreign policy, the debt of the country, so long as we get someone in who is against women having the right to choose.
I know I'm going to get modded as a troll, and I don't fucking care. I am SICK TO DEATH OF FUCKING IDIOT AMERICANS! It wouldn't be so bad if it was any other country. Like if Canada had come up with this PRO-IP crap. Yeah, it'd suck. But it would have no bearing on anything else outside the country. But the US has to wave their fucking cock around like they own the planet, and now they're going to have this Copyright Czar, bought and paid for by the MPAA, RIAA etc... Harassing OTHER SOVEREIGN NATIONS to bring in similarly asinine and uneven laws. But of course despite appointing themselves the world police, nobody outside the godforsaken country gets to vote, because they did, Bush would have been gone four years by this point and you'd all be watching President Kerry run for a second term right now. But no, you rattle your sabres and tell other nations what they can and can't do, but the other nations don't get to stand up and have a say in anything.
America isn't a nation to aspire too. America isn't a nation to admire. All you good people there, and please don't think this is aimed at you because my close friend and you all give me hope that the country isn't completely doomed, but you are clearly not enough to do any good. Your country is nothing more than a bully paid for by corporations and special interests.
Fuck America. You need another civil war and to start again. I would gladly come and fight by your side.
Absolutely. Only thing I used to do to save fuel was slipstream (or "draft" to you uneducated NASCAR fans) trucks. Worked surprisingly well. And of course you can turn off your AC, your heat etc... No ventilation. Keep your windows closed etc... Seriously, there was a Top Gear segment where Jeremy Clarkson drove to Scotland and back on a tank of gas. 800 miles. He details everything you can do to cut down on fuel consumption. You can use your radio and that's about it. Also you need to plan ahead and consider what will happen ahead. Will the car in front slow down? Will you need to overtake etc...
Really, there are SO many things you can do to help fuel consumption.
Why the fuck is this modded as redundant? While it may be a case of "Yes, it's against the law, but..." it IS a safety issue. On several occasions I've had to get the hell out of the way quickly, and had I been coasting in neutral, I'd most likely be dead now.
I'd rather have a dead clutch than a dead me. Besides, with a knackered clutch, going up hills is MUCH more entertaining. Will you make it to the top? YOU JUST DON'T KNOW! It's like an extreme sport. Make it to the top of a particularly steep hill with a slipping clutch and you should really go buy a lottery ticket, as you're clearly one lucky SOB.
Yes, but if you KNOWINGLY enter onto the Motorway with a condition on the car you KNOW could mean you break down, so deliberately driving on with low fuel, THAT is against the law. Regular car problems are unavoidable.
I would always just leave the clutch in rather than put it in neutral in case you have to get out of trouble.
I remember once, on the M27 in England, a friend and I were driving to Portsmouth. We'd be put just over a pounds worth of petrol in. Gauge didn't even register empty. It was below that. There's a long downhill bit heading down into the city. He put the clutch in and we coasted several miles at least. (This was in a really old Saab.) Little disconcerting, especially when venturing onto a Motorway in the knowledge that your car may break down is an offense.
They want to spy more so they can gather more information to lose.
Seriously, lately it seems not a week goes by without some ridiculous data leak in the UK. Whether it be thumbdrives that automatically log into private networks, laptops being stolen, documents being left on a train, confidential information being lost in the post etc...
They won't need the Data Protection Act much longer in the UK because there'll be no data left to protect as it'll all have been leaked.
I said "What, are expansion packs not making your enough money?" I mean we already know multiple game developers remove stuff from their games (latest example: Plant creator in "Spore") so they can put them in the expansion. So yes, I'm fully aware this is done. Marketing three different standalone games is ridiculous. I guarantee there will be some reason, some hook to force folk into buying all 3. Whereas all races are activated for multiplayer supposedly, I would expect each version will have something like skirmish maps exclusive too each version which you can only play if you own said version, or something similar along those lines. Some way to force all but the most ardent resistor to buy all three.
This is just lame. Game companies seem to be coming up with more and more ways to gouge consumers. Now releasing THREE Starcraft titles... Sorry Blizz, you just lost a sale. What? Making an expansion pack doesn't make you enough money any more? Making 75 million plus a month off WOW isn't good enough? Activision must owe some loansharks.
"How can we make more money?" "Well screw it. We pay the writers very little. Just have them write longer stories and VOILA! One game, but three sales for the whole thing!" "Jenkins, you're a genius! You'll find a whore and some gin waiting on your car when you leave."
It's not a BUG at all, it's a deliberate choice. For example Spore's implementation of Securom will NOT allow the game to run if it finds that in the background.
See, this is why people don't take open source and free software seriously. This attitude. Better still, why not go all out and write them down on a piece of paper and hide them in a book? Better still, go put them in a safe somewhere. Better still eat the piece of paper, then store your droppings in a jar and reassemble them when needed. That'd be REALLY secure DUDE! LIKE ULTRAMEGSECURE! I'm sure RMS would approve. (I imagine he has huge shelves of poop in his basement for just this purpose.)
Really, this is asinine. I need a serial number, I hit mail.google.com, login and type the game name. I have them in a text file, I have to find said text file. Given I'd be on a clean system I'd have no text file on there so I'd have to find where I stored it first. Then load whatever it was into the computer. Probably a disk. Then I have to find the contents on said disk, double click the file. Wait for the disk to spin up. Then do ctrl-f, enter the search term. Plus we're assuming the media hadn't failed in the time it had been stored. Plus I buy a lot of software so I'd have to hope it was the up to date file, which means I'd basically be reburning ostensibly the same file to a new disk over and over and over again with just a minor change.
And thumbdrive doesn't work as I've had two of them fail completely, so that's not a reliable backup.
Fail to see how any of this is "easier" than using Gmail.
People like you and the person you're replying too are why free software and the likes of RMS are considered to be a bad joke by a large number of corporations. You have no perspective whatsoever. You live in a dream world where you sacrifice practicality and sanity to follow some maladjusted fantatical dogma.
Which you then have to find when you need it. I've had three new systems this year, which means I'd have to find said file, rather than just search Gmail.
Really, is that the best you can do? +4 Insightful for THAT?!
People DO give out far too much data online these days, that much is certain. However, to dismiss using the likes of Gmail entirely is retarded. It's all very well RMS saying we should not use Gmail etc... I use Gmail for all online stuff. (I have a private email address for actual private communication.) Serial numbers for games etc... I'd have been SCREWED if I followed RMS's advice and just kept stuff locally. Oh yes, it's a fine idea in theory, but in Gmail, if I need to find serial numbes (something I've need to do several times in the last year) I can just search for the game name voila! There's my serial number.
To replicate that functionality I would have to backup my entire email pretty much every time I got any, which is completely impractical. Not to mention tedious. Yeah, shell scripts and all that crap, but why bother when Gmail does it all for me, and really, all they're going to learn is I'm signed up on several very dull mailing lists, have bought several games, get spammed by Apple on a regular basis, and apparently am going to be given a load of money by various Nigerian princes, priests, nuns etc...
Yes, people give up too much privacy online these days, but there is a happy medium between that and locking ourselves into a life of self sufficient tedium.
I think it's probably advertising. Why just expose the reader to 1 advertisement when you can make it 12.
It's asinine. I mean I guess the argument could be made that it's like turning the pages in a book, but to counter that there is the fact that if I flip the page in a book, I don't have to wait for the page to load. Let alone have to look at lots of superfluous junk that has no bearing on what I'm trying to read.
I LOATHE this "all games save in the same place" stuff. When I set my system up I had a small system partition and a main partition so I could reinstall Windows without wiping everything. Now with this I have to remember to back stuff up. Not only that, developers aren't using common sense. Right now I have games:
That set up their own directory in the Documents and Settings directory. That save their games in a directory named after the game in the My Documents directory. That save their games in a directory names after the game in the My Games directory.
It's a mess. Not only that more and more games are eating up my system partition space and in most cases can't be convinced to save elsewhere.
Really, how many people share computers? This is a serious question BTW as we've not shared one here for three years now. I have a desktop and a laptop. Wife has a desktop. Seven year old son has one as well.
*yawn* That was a case of people trying to beat the system, and had the system ultimately beat them. Sorry, have very little sympathy there. To be quite honest I actually found that quite funny when it happened. The Orange Box would have been a bargain at twice the price it sold for, so cheapskates getting pwned makes me laugh.
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There's also another part of the analogy. Both Bush and clowns are evil.
This act is fucking stupid, and I'm quite sure it'll see as much success as the war on drugs has. In 30 years time we'll have a TV show like "The Wire" but instead of busting the heads of dealers, they'll be busting the heads of those trading music.
Fuck your country in it's stupid braindead ass. Seriously, my closest friend is American. She's awesome. It's also quite clear a lot of American's on here are sensible, rational individuals. I know they are out there and they do exist. But the majority of your country are fucking morons who base their entire vote on Republicans being anti-abortion (which they'll never actually ban because then they can't use it to drum up votes anymore) or some other equally asinine notion! Yes, who cares what this governments does to peoples rights, foreign policy, the debt of the country, so long as we get someone in who is against women having the right to choose.
I know I'm going to get modded as a troll, and I don't fucking care. I am SICK TO DEATH OF FUCKING IDIOT AMERICANS! It wouldn't be so bad if it was any other country. Like if Canada had come up with this PRO-IP crap. Yeah, it'd suck. But it would have no bearing on anything else outside the country. But the US has to wave their fucking cock around like they own the planet, and now they're going to have this Copyright Czar, bought and paid for by the MPAA, RIAA etc... Harassing OTHER SOVEREIGN NATIONS to bring in similarly asinine and uneven laws. But of course despite appointing themselves the world police, nobody outside the godforsaken country gets to vote, because they did, Bush would have been gone four years by this point and you'd all be watching President Kerry run for a second term right now. But no, you rattle your sabres and tell other nations what they can and can't do, but the other nations don't get to stand up and have a say in anything.
America isn't a nation to aspire too. America isn't a nation to admire. All you good people there, and please don't think this is aimed at you because my close friend and you all give me hope that the country isn't completely doomed, but you are clearly not enough to do any good. Your country is nothing more than a bully paid for by corporations and special interests.
Fuck America. You need another civil war and to start again. I would gladly come and fight by your side.
Never post when tired. It was a tank of DIESEL he used. Not gas. (Before some smart arse goes karma whoring trying to correct me.)
Absolutely. Only thing I used to do to save fuel was slipstream (or "draft" to you uneducated NASCAR fans) trucks. Worked surprisingly well. And of course you can turn off your AC, your heat etc... No ventilation. Keep your windows closed etc... Seriously, there was a Top Gear segment where Jeremy Clarkson drove to Scotland and back on a tank of gas. 800 miles. He details everything you can do to cut down on fuel consumption. You can use your radio and that's about it. Also you need to plan ahead and consider what will happen ahead. Will the car in front slow down? Will you need to overtake etc...
Really, there are SO many things you can do to help fuel consumption.
Why the fuck is this modded as redundant? While it may be a case of "Yes, it's against the law, but..." it IS a safety issue. On several occasions I've had to get the hell out of the way quickly, and had I been coasting in neutral, I'd most likely be dead now.
I'd rather have a dead clutch than a dead me. Besides, with a knackered clutch, going up hills is MUCH more entertaining. Will you make it to the top? YOU JUST DON'T KNOW! It's like an extreme sport. Make it to the top of a particularly steep hill with a slipping clutch and you should really go buy a lottery ticket, as you're clearly one lucky SOB.
Yes, but if you KNOWINGLY enter onto the Motorway with a condition on the car you KNOW could mean you break down, so deliberately driving on with low fuel, THAT is against the law. Regular car problems are unavoidable.
I would always just leave the clutch in rather than put it in neutral in case you have to get out of trouble.
I remember once, on the M27 in England, a friend and I were driving to Portsmouth. We'd be put just over a pounds worth of petrol in. Gauge didn't even register empty. It was below that. There's a long downhill bit heading down into the city. He put the clutch in and we coasted several miles at least. (This was in a really old Saab.) Little disconcerting, especially when venturing onto a Motorway in the knowledge that your car may break down is an offense.
Maybe, but the ladies do need Penicillin afterwards...
Ever hear of a sense of humour? You may want to look into getting one. They're fun!
They want to spy more so they can gather more information to lose.
Seriously, lately it seems not a week goes by without some ridiculous data leak in the UK. Whether it be thumbdrives that automatically log into private networks, laptops being stolen, documents being left on a train, confidential information being lost in the post etc...
They won't need the Data Protection Act much longer in the UK because there'll be no data left to protect as it'll all have been leaked.
I said "What, are expansion packs not making your enough money?" I mean we already know multiple game developers remove stuff from their games (latest example: Plant creator in "Spore") so they can put them in the expansion. So yes, I'm fully aware this is done. Marketing three different standalone games is ridiculous. I guarantee there will be some reason, some hook to force folk into buying all 3. Whereas all races are activated for multiplayer supposedly, I would expect each version will have something like skirmish maps exclusive too each version which you can only play if you own said version, or something similar along those lines. Some way to force all but the most ardent resistor to buy all three.
This is just lame. Game companies seem to be coming up with more and more ways to gouge consumers. Now releasing THREE Starcraft titles... Sorry Blizz, you just lost a sale. What? Making an expansion pack doesn't make you enough money any more? Making 75 million plus a month off WOW isn't good enough? Activision must owe some loansharks.
"How can we make more money?"
"Well screw it. We pay the writers very little. Just have them write longer stories and VOILA! One game, but three sales for the whole thing!"
"Jenkins, you're a genius! You'll find a whore and some gin waiting on your car when you leave."
Ah well, one less game to buy. Or three actually.
It's not a BUG at all, it's a deliberate choice. For example Spore's implementation of Securom will NOT allow the game to run if it finds that in the background.
Ah, so we're supposed to care because he had money and we've lost someone better than the rest of us.
I get it now.
Still not sure why this is news though. I mean the headline could very easily be "Man presumed dead still dead."
See, this is why people don't take open source and free software seriously. This attitude. Better still, why not go all out and write them down on a piece of paper and hide them in a book? Better still, go put them in a safe somewhere. Better still eat the piece of paper, then store your droppings in a jar and reassemble them when needed. That'd be REALLY secure DUDE! LIKE ULTRAMEGSECURE! I'm sure RMS would approve. (I imagine he has huge shelves of poop in his basement for just this purpose.)
Really, this is asinine. I need a serial number, I hit mail.google.com, login and type the game name. I have them in a text file, I have to find said text file. Given I'd be on a clean system I'd have no text file on there so I'd have to find where I stored it first. Then load whatever it was into the computer. Probably a disk. Then I have to find the contents on said disk, double click the file. Wait for the disk to spin up. Then do ctrl-f, enter the search term. Plus we're assuming the media hadn't failed in the time it had been stored. Plus I buy a lot of software so I'd have to hope it was the up to date file, which means I'd basically be reburning ostensibly the same file to a new disk over and over and over again with just a minor change.
And thumbdrive doesn't work as I've had two of them fail completely, so that's not a reliable backup.
Fail to see how any of this is "easier" than using Gmail.
People like you and the person you're replying too are why free software and the likes of RMS are considered to be a bad joke by a large number of corporations. You have no perspective whatsoever. You live in a dream world where you sacrifice practicality and sanity to follow some maladjusted fantatical dogma.
Which you then have to find when you need it. I've had three new systems this year, which means I'd have to find said file, rather than just search Gmail.
Really, is that the best you can do? +4 Insightful for THAT?!
People DO give out far too much data online these days, that much is certain. However, to dismiss using the likes of Gmail entirely is retarded. It's all very well RMS saying we should not use Gmail etc... I use Gmail for all online stuff. (I have a private email address for actual private communication.) Serial numbers for games etc... I'd have been SCREWED if I followed RMS's advice and just kept stuff locally. Oh yes, it's a fine idea in theory, but in Gmail, if I need to find serial numbes (something I've need to do several times in the last year) I can just search for the game name voila! There's my serial number.
To replicate that functionality I would have to backup my entire email pretty much every time I got any, which is completely impractical. Not to mention tedious. Yeah, shell scripts and all that crap, but why bother when Gmail does it all for me, and really, all they're going to learn is I'm signed up on several very dull mailing lists, have bought several games, get spammed by Apple on a regular basis, and apparently am going to be given a load of money by various Nigerian princes, priests, nuns etc...
Yes, people give up too much privacy online these days, but there is a happy medium between that and locking ourselves into a life of self sufficient tedium.
We love you, we really do. But your delusional and increasingly demented ravings give all supporters of free software a bad name.
And if you're going to represent the opinions of a large group of users like you do, would it kill you to buy a nice shirt and a razor?
Yours
The free software community.
I think it's probably advertising. Why just expose the reader to 1 advertisement when you can make it 12.
It's asinine. I mean I guess the argument could be made that it's like turning the pages in a book, but to counter that there is the fact that if I flip the page in a book, I don't have to wait for the page to load. Let alone have to look at lots of superfluous junk that has no bearing on what I'm trying to read.
No kidding!
I'm sure the article is great and wonderful, but I made a decision a few months ago to no longer bother with any site that splits their
articles
needlessly
across
multiple
pages.
I LOATHE this "all games save in the same place" stuff. When I set my system up I had a small system partition and a main partition so I could reinstall Windows without wiping everything. Now with this I have to remember to back stuff up. Not only that, developers aren't using common sense. Right now I have games:
That set up their own directory in the Documents and Settings directory.
That save their games in a directory named after the game in the My Documents directory.
That save their games in a directory names after the game in the My Games directory.
It's a mess. Not only that more and more games are eating up my system partition space and in most cases can't be convinced to save elsewhere.
Really, how many people share computers? This is a serious question BTW as we've not shared one here for three years now. I have a desktop and a laptop. Wife has a desktop. Seven year old son has one as well.
Yes, Mac games are crap. They only have:
World of Warcraft: Biggest MMORPG in the world.
Spore: The most hyped game in many years.
Football Manager: The top selling game in Europe every year.
No recent releases or big games there, no siree...
You mean an article that was inaccurate or just flat out wrong was massively promoted on DIGG? No, I simply can't believe it.
Digg: It's like Slashdot if concussed monkeys took over.
You mean the one tied up in your basement.
*yawn* That was a case of people trying to beat the system, and had the system ultimately beat them. Sorry, have very little sympathy there. To be quite honest I actually found that quite funny when it happened. The Orange Box would have been a bargain at twice the price it sold for, so cheapskates getting pwned makes me laugh.