Erm... No, they don't. Trent has put the REMIX albums up online mostly, as well as instrumental versions of a lot of Downward Spiral onward material. Also there's FINALLY a good quality version of Butch Vig's remix of "Last" which was only ever available in a fucking nasty sounding recording before.
The actual original albums (Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, Downward Spiral, The Fragile etc...) are NOT on there for download.
The new album is interesting. Downloads were a REAL problem but I finally got my FLAC download. WOO!
You mention flaws, I remember TWO Trinitron's I've had, and they both had a faint line across the middle of the screen. This was, apparently, a "feature". I can't remember the reason, but it was bloody annoying when you had a largely white screen.
Minor flaw aside though, the two I had were bloody good.
LOL! It's just another in the endless stream of attention seeking crybaby malcontents whining about how they've been wronged in some fashion. Christ, I WISH the biggest thing I had to worry about was a clean Xbox 360! I have rent that's spiraling out of control and I can barely afford it, health issues etc... "Wah, wah, someone wiped some ink of my Xbox." Shut the fuck up and get some perspective.:)
And my earlier post is modded as a troll now. HURRAH! You mods are so predictable.
This story was on Digg yesterday and was the final straw in me giving up with that stinking cesspool of a site and deleting the bookmark. This is such a non-story. Does he honestly believe that those who refurbish these things will read letters etc...? It's no doubt a production line type affair, and anyone but this whiny little bitch would say "Wow, they cleaned it as well. Excellent service!" But no, this pissy little bitch had his stupid vandalised console (some of which was derogatory about the 360) cleaned and sees fit to whine and blog about it looking for a free handout from Microsoft.
Get over yourself. I wonder if this guy had a plaster over a broken leg and had it signed if he'd be blogging about how the big nasty doctor removed it?
And sorry, there ARE no notable members of the gaming community outside of Sid Meier, Will Wright and, possibly, Gabe Newell.
It's an electrical device that'll be in the garbage in five years. It's not an autograph book. Honestly, this is one of the most asinine and pathetic "Wah wah, look at me, I've been wronged" stories I've ever read, and that category has a LOT of competition. Honestly, it's times like this I want to be able to reach through the screen, grab this whiny little bitch and shake them violently until they shut the fuck up.
I realise this is going to be modded down as a troll, and I really don't give a shit. Bullshit stories like this make me fucking angry. I hope if he has to send his console back, they piss all over it before sending it back to the ungrateful little shit.
I'm done with Windows at XP. Vista has far to much baggage loaded with it. (The DRM crap. WGA etc...) If I have to go Linux only in the end, so be it. I'd rather do that. I'm still tied to Windows due to my gaming habits. (Sorry, but WINE doesn't remotely get the job done well enough.)
It always amused me how the popular analogy from the other camp was "Oh, so if you want a car, it's okay to steal it is it?" So they can get all high and moral. But when you break it down and say "Okay, I'm going to make an exact duplicate of your car, never once depriving you of the usage of it. It will not inconvenience you in any way." The argument rather falls flat on it's face.
The whole "filesharing = theft" equation is almost entirely down to MPAA, RIAA and other organizations brainwashing people. Saying something a 1000 times doesn't make it true. If it did, downloading WOULD be theft by this point. But it's still copyright violation, which is why these groups, with their large political donations, have made copyright violation are far FAR harsher crime than theft ever was.
I break into your house and nick your Transformers DVD, at worst I'd probably go down for 30 days, unless I'm haibitual. Small fine probably. The charge will be breaking and entering, theft etc... I download Transformers from you instead, we BOTH face tens of thousands of dollars in fines, and many years in jail.
You're better off, from a jailtime perspective, heading into your local WalMart, nicking a few DVD's, then rape the cashier on the way out. You'll serve less time than if you get caught downloading the movie.
The semantic aren't really the issue here, as the powers that be want to have their cake AND eat it too. They want the association in the public eye to be IT'S THEFT! IT'S NO DIFFERENT THAN STEALING A CAR! But in the back rooms they know this is bullshit, and continue to push on with copyright violation punishments being exponentially increased.
The fact they've done it at all is great, even if it about 4 year too late. (When did WC3 come out anyway? The irony is I bought it close to it's release date and don't even remember.)
I shall reinstall WC3 now. Half the reason I don't have it installed for the occasional game is because it needed a CD crack, and I get tired of having to track them down. (Though most of the games I play these days either have no disk (IE. Steam or Elicense), or have no protection (Stardock titles).
It's all very well bitching about "kinda late", but as the saying goes, better late than never. *runs off to find Warcraft III disk.*
Wrong. Also I don't get the iTunes hate. I like it.
2) Doesn't work with Linux.
Wrong again. If you have a jailbroken iPod Touch or iPhone you can use wifi to upload stuff to it apparently. Not tried it myself.
3) Is laden with DRM.
So? Unless you buy stuff from iTunes, you'll most likely use MP3.
4) Doesn't support popular codecs like OGG.
This is obviously some strange new usage of the word "popular" I wasn't previously aware of. Get over this OGG stupidity please. FLAC is more common than OGG. I can't remember the last time I came across an album online in OGG format. In fact in years of downloading music (I'm in Canada, where it's legal despite the CRIA's best efforts) I've come across ONE ALBUM in OGG format. Based on the formats I've seen over the years, OGG ranks BELOW WMA format.
5) ONLY supports iTunes Music Store and not other, cheaper services.
Fair enough. But anyone who buys music online is a fucking mug anyway and deserves to be shafted. (It's like paying a buck for a JPEG of the Mona Lisa.)
6) Doesn't allow simple drag-and-drop access to copy music.
Not yet. It will though.
7) Software is locked down on the device.
Unless you downgrade to 1.1.1 firmware, in which case you visit jailbreakme.com and you're cracked and free in under a minute.
8) Non-removable storage.
Fair enough, but then the same can be said for every other MP3 player I've owned before the iPod Touch.
9) Non-removable battery.
Yep, I'll give you that.
10) Costs $500, much more than cheaper, more open-devices do.
Okay, genius, you show me a device that does all my jailbroken iPod Touch can do for that price. If it doesn't have a touch screen, wifi, web browser, then forget it. Oh yeah, let's not forget YouTube as well. I can think of one other device that comes close, but we'll see if you can backup your claim first.
Well if it's any consolation, you can still use that excuse. After all the "16gb iPod Touch" only has 14.8 gigabytes, so assuming the 32 gig double that, it's only 29.6 gigs, so still under your limit.;)
Well this was after two months of fighting with them. Filing fraud charges and giving the company a case number (I had warned them I was considering the action) had the effect of an almost IMMEDIATE letter from the CEO deeply apologizing for everything and saying unequivocally that I owed them nothing. I seem to recall they sent me a cheque too, but don't remember exactly why...
I remember an ISP I used a few years ago. The local main DSL provider was bringing in a 30 gig a month cap (that's up and down combined. And it was $45 a month). This new service came in offering UNLIMITED, so a ton of people switched. Their response? To retroactively bring in an even lower cap than the main one, and charge people upwards of $200 for "going over". I went so far as to file fraud charges against them.
It's so utterly ridiculous that ISP's can get away with this shit. I am fairly certain if iTunes started getting nerfed on a wide scale, they would incur the Wrath of the Jobs.
My ISP throttles Bit Torrent. Confirmed this myself the other day when I wound up back using the default port. Down and up sucked. Changed the port, reloaded, speeds increased 4000%.
No kidding. I'm a hardcore geek. I am also a sports geek. Won't be watching the Superbowl, though only because I don't have cable. And even if I did, thanks to stupid Canadian broadcasting laws, I get local commercials, not the cool ass new movie trailers and Superbowl commercials the US get.
But I'll probably download the game and check it out if I remember and don't have it spoiled first.
Well server related stuff on release day is universally fucked. I mean look at World of Warcraft. Physical disk, server meltdown. Delivery media makes no difference if any part of the system falls apart.
And you SHOULD be able to gift Portal to someone. I already owned HL2 when I bought the Orange Box and I now have "1 Gift" listed next to HL2, so if you've not got that you should contact them, as you can give away one copy if you have two. There is clearly a glitch in the system, as you DO have two licenses.
I've been using Steam for over two years now and have NEVER had a game fail to start. The only problem I had was with Trackmania, and that was entirely down to the games own servers, not Steam.
Steam's benefits far outweigh it's problems IMO. I can buy a game and be playing it within an hour. Within minutes if it's a small game. ("Gish" for example.) No disks to lose, no serial numbers to lose. If I have to reinstall I can just download all my games again rather than having to find disks, installers, license keys etc...
Curious to see how many developers take Valve up on this.
A great example of the corporate mentality of Japan is the Toyota Formula One team. A budget of half a billion a year so they can get their cars on the back of the grid usually. Simply because the entire organisation is run by committee.
I couldn't help thinking while watching that video "I wonder if this is viral marketing for Cloverfield?"
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Erm... No, they don't. Trent has put the REMIX albums up online mostly, as well as instrumental versions of a lot of Downward Spiral onward material. Also there's FINALLY a good quality version of Butch Vig's remix of "Last" which was only ever available in a fucking nasty sounding recording before.
The actual original albums (Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, Downward Spiral, The Fragile etc...) are NOT on there for download.
The new album is interesting. Downloads were a REAL problem but I finally got my FLAC download. WOO!
Oh man, I'm throwing a flag on that moderation play. Flamebait? C'mon!
Believe me, spending eternity burning in damnation is better than spending eternity with sanctimonious pious assholes.
You mention flaws, I remember TWO Trinitron's I've had, and they both had a faint line across the middle of the screen. This was, apparently, a "feature". I can't remember the reason, but it was bloody annoying when you had a largely white screen.
Minor flaw aside though, the two I had were bloody good.
LOL! It's just another in the endless stream of attention seeking crybaby malcontents whining about how they've been wronged in some fashion. Christ, I WISH the biggest thing I had to worry about was a clean Xbox 360! I have rent that's spiraling out of control and I can barely afford it, health issues etc... "Wah, wah, someone wiped some ink of my Xbox." Shut the fuck up and get some perspective.:)
And my earlier post is modded as a troll now. HURRAH! You mods are so predictable.
This story was on Digg yesterday and was the final straw in me giving up with that stinking cesspool of a site and deleting the bookmark. This is such a non-story. Does he honestly believe that those who refurbish these things will read letters etc...? It's no doubt a production line type affair, and anyone but this whiny little bitch would say "Wow, they cleaned it as well. Excellent service!" But no, this pissy little bitch had his stupid vandalised console (some of which was derogatory about the 360) cleaned and sees fit to whine and blog about it looking for a free handout from Microsoft.
Get over yourself. I wonder if this guy had a plaster over a broken leg and had it signed if he'd be blogging about how the big nasty doctor removed it?
And sorry, there ARE no notable members of the gaming community outside of Sid Meier, Will Wright and, possibly, Gabe Newell.
It's an electrical device that'll be in the garbage in five years. It's not an autograph book. Honestly, this is one of the most asinine and pathetic "Wah wah, look at me, I've been wronged" stories I've ever read, and that category has a LOT of competition. Honestly, it's times like this I want to be able to reach through the screen, grab this whiny little bitch and shake them violently until they shut the fuck up.
I realise this is going to be modded down as a troll, and I really don't give a shit. Bullshit stories like this make me fucking angry. I hope if he has to send his console back, they piss all over it before sending it back to the ungrateful little shit.
I'm done with Windows at XP. Vista has far to much baggage loaded with it. (The DRM crap. WGA etc...) If I have to go Linux only in the end, so be it. I'd rather do that. I'm still tied to Windows due to my gaming habits. (Sorry, but WINE doesn't remotely get the job done well enough.)
No, you're wrong. It's none of those things. It's a cheap attempt to gain karma, and VOILA! It worked.
Ubuntu is not the solution in this case. Going back to XP is. (Since I want to keep my games and all the other cool stuff that Ubuntu just can't do.)
It always amused me how the popular analogy from the other camp was "Oh, so if you want a car, it's okay to steal it is it?" So they can get all high and moral. But when you break it down and say "Okay, I'm going to make an exact duplicate of your car, never once depriving you of the usage of it. It will not inconvenience you in any way." The argument rather falls flat on it's face.
The whole "filesharing = theft" equation is almost entirely down to MPAA, RIAA and other organizations brainwashing people. Saying something a 1000 times doesn't make it true. If it did, downloading WOULD be theft by this point. But it's still copyright violation, which is why these groups, with their large political donations, have made copyright violation are far FAR harsher crime than theft ever was.
I break into your house and nick your Transformers DVD, at worst I'd probably go down for 30 days, unless I'm haibitual. Small fine probably. The charge will be breaking and entering, theft etc... I download Transformers from you instead, we BOTH face tens of thousands of dollars in fines, and many years in jail.
You're better off, from a jailtime perspective, heading into your local WalMart, nicking a few DVD's, then rape the cashier on the way out. You'll serve less time than if you get caught downloading the movie.
The semantic aren't really the issue here, as the powers that be want to have their cake AND eat it too. They want the association in the public eye to be IT'S THEFT! IT'S NO DIFFERENT THAN STEALING A CAR! But in the back rooms they know this is bullshit, and continue to push on with copyright violation punishments being exponentially increased.
What you or I call it is irrelevant.
The fact they've done it at all is great, even if it about 4 year too late. (When did WC3 come out anyway? The irony is I bought it close to it's release date and don't even remember.)
I shall reinstall WC3 now. Half the reason I don't have it installed for the occasional game is because it needed a CD crack, and I get tired of having to track them down. (Though most of the games I play these days either have no disk (IE. Steam or Elicense), or have no protection (Stardock titles).
It's all very well bitching about "kinda late", but as the saying goes, better late than never. *runs off to find Warcraft III disk.*
LOL! True:) But I think it was a refund for my last months internet service or something. Was only for $40 or whatever. Nothing special.
Still have the letter somewhere in case they ever changed their mind and decided to pursue it again.
Let's see here:
1) Requires iTunes.
Wrong. Also I don't get the iTunes hate. I like it.
2) Doesn't work with Linux.
Wrong again. If you have a jailbroken iPod Touch or iPhone you can use wifi to upload stuff to it apparently. Not tried it myself.
3) Is laden with DRM.
So? Unless you buy stuff from iTunes, you'll most likely use MP3.
4) Doesn't support popular codecs like OGG.
This is obviously some strange new usage of the word "popular" I wasn't previously aware of. Get over this OGG stupidity please. FLAC is more common than OGG. I can't remember the last time I came across an album online in OGG format. In fact in years of downloading music (I'm in Canada, where it's legal despite the CRIA's best efforts) I've come across ONE ALBUM in OGG format. Based on the formats I've seen over the years, OGG ranks BELOW WMA format.
5) ONLY supports iTunes Music Store and not other, cheaper services.
Fair enough. But anyone who buys music online is a fucking mug anyway and deserves to be shafted. (It's like paying a buck for a JPEG of the Mona Lisa.)
6) Doesn't allow simple drag-and-drop access to copy music.
Not yet. It will though.
7) Software is locked down on the device.
Unless you downgrade to 1.1.1 firmware, in which case you visit jailbreakme.com and you're cracked and free in under a minute.
8) Non-removable storage.
Fair enough, but then the same can be said for every other MP3 player I've owned before the iPod Touch.
9) Non-removable battery.
Yep, I'll give you that.
10) Costs $500, much more than cheaper, more open-devices do.
Okay, genius, you show me a device that does all my jailbroken iPod Touch can do for that price. If it doesn't have a touch screen, wifi, web browser, then forget it. Oh yeah, let's not forget YouTube as well. I can think of one other device that comes close, but we'll see if you can backup your claim first.
Well if it's any consolation, you can still use that excuse. After all the "16gb iPod Touch" only has 14.8 gigabytes, so assuming the 32 gig double that, it's only 29.6 gigs, so still under your limit.;)
The battery life on the iPod Touch with wifi is pretty pathetic.
Wizards of the Coast are involved, over course they're over priced.
See a post above. (No point typing it twice.)
Well this was after two months of fighting with them. Filing fraud charges and giving the company a case number (I had warned them I was considering the action) had the effect of an almost IMMEDIATE letter from the CEO deeply apologizing for everything and saying unequivocally that I owed them nothing. I seem to recall they sent me a cheque too, but don't remember exactly why...
A team that DOESN'T thank God? Awesome! Gotta cheer them!
God doesn't give a fuck about your petty sports. He's far too busy starving little children to death in Africa to notice you throwing a ball around.
I remember an ISP I used a few years ago. The local main DSL provider was bringing in a 30 gig a month cap (that's up and down combined. And it was $45 a month). This new service came in offering UNLIMITED, so a ton of people switched. Their response? To retroactively bring in an even lower cap than the main one, and charge people upwards of $200 for "going over". I went so far as to file fraud charges against them.
It's so utterly ridiculous that ISP's can get away with this shit. I am fairly certain if iTunes started getting nerfed on a wide scale, they would incur the Wrath of the Jobs.
My ISP throttles Bit Torrent. Confirmed this myself the other day when I wound up back using the default port. Down and up sucked. Changed the port, reloaded, speeds increased 4000%.
No kidding. I'm a hardcore geek. I am also a sports geek. Won't be watching the Superbowl, though only because I don't have cable. And even if I did, thanks to stupid Canadian broadcasting laws, I get local commercials, not the cool ass new movie trailers and Superbowl commercials the US get.
But I'll probably download the game and check it out if I remember and don't have it spoiled first.
HAHAHA! Where is their God NOW?!
Oh man, that sucks! I don't recall reading that. You should still contact them about it. Worst they can say is "piss off".
I've not even finished HL2 yet myself:) Lost my save (too bad Steam doesn't store them remotely) so have to start again.
Well server related stuff on release day is universally fucked. I mean look at World of Warcraft. Physical disk, server meltdown. Delivery media makes no difference if any part of the system falls apart.
And you SHOULD be able to gift Portal to someone. I already owned HL2 when I bought the Orange Box and I now have "1 Gift" listed next to HL2, so if you've not got that you should contact them, as you can give away one copy if you have two. There is clearly a glitch in the system, as you DO have two licenses.
I've been using Steam for over two years now and have NEVER had a game fail to start. The only problem I had was with Trackmania, and that was entirely down to the games own servers, not Steam.
Steam's benefits far outweigh it's problems IMO. I can buy a game and be playing it within an hour. Within minutes if it's a small game. ("Gish" for example.) No disks to lose, no serial numbers to lose. If I have to reinstall I can just download all my games again rather than having to find disks, installers, license keys etc...
Curious to see how many developers take Valve up on this.
A great example of the corporate mentality of Japan is the Toyota Formula One team. A budget of half a billion a year so they can get their cars on the back of the grid usually. Simply because the entire organisation is run by committee.
I couldn't help thinking while watching that video "I wonder if this is viral marketing for Cloverfield?"