Hey, I'm quite proud of the fact I know what Ruby is but haven't the foggiest what Rails is. Clearly whatever marketing train there is didn't stop at my station...
I call bullshit too. I played WOW for 18 months and my wife still plays now, and the torrent patch downloading has always been an absolute joke.
You'd think for a game that pulls in roughly 6,000,000 * $15 a month (that's $90 million dollars a month to save you the math), the cheap bastards would have a decent server to download from rather than have the audacity to use other peoples bandwidth on a game people are paying a monthly fee for.
Yeah, I noticed I got modded a troll. Fucking moderators.
I just get so tired of the hype around Bioshock when several people whose opinion I trust implicitly, after the initial "WOW" factor had worn off actually found it merely average.
TF2... I almost never get hooked on video games, but I find myself firing that up every day. The description I read a while back about it being seven games in one feels about right, as each class is a vastly different experience. The Scout is hilarious. The spy gives a dark sense of satisfaction. The Medic is hugely enjoyable etc... Only class I'm not that keen on is Sniper, but that's because I suck badly at playing them right now.
Was a huge fan of the original TF, and TF2 bests it in every department I think.
I cannot believe I am multiple pages down into this and see NOT ONE MENTION OF TEAM FORTRESS 2! TF2 is one of the best games I've ever played, and for an online game there is a surprisingly low asshat quotient.
The opening music was great, but my favourite was by far the main screen music, the hill with (eventually) the tomestones. I captured my own copy of it in WinUAE (this was about nine years ago.) Awesome stuff.
Sensi did some great stuff. SWOS had an awesome intro song as well. "Goalscoring Superstar Hero".
PA's coverage has been great. What I find amusing is the fact that anyone is remotely surprised by any of this. Perhaps it's my own experience in the industry (I reviewed games for a living for several years, and I too lost my job because of an unfavourable review I gave a particular title. This was five years ago), but the sheer surprise so many people seem to be experiencing over this is just staggering. How could people not see this is the case? In an industry that relies on whoring itself to the games developers and publishers, why is everyone so surprised that someone up and got pimp slapped? Is it just because it was such a notable name this time? Because that I could understand. But if it's shock and surprise at a writer losing his job because he dared upset an advertiser... Then you've clearly been living under a rock.
He was not the first (and I certainly wasn't either) nor will he be the last. The entire reviewing industry is corrupt. Anyone paying attention knows this. Some groups are more corrupt than others, certainly, but this is not news. Certainly no more so than "the sun rose in the east today".
But that leads us down a murky path. If the companies that make the shows say it's okay, does the government have the right to say "Er, no, it isn't."?
Regardless, anyone who thinks this is bullshit, AC a "FUCK COMCAST" under this.
So unsurprisingly it appears Comcast are acting on behalf of other parties who have never actually complained, let alone asked them too Yet another classy Comcast move.
Just like the CRIA shutting down Demonoid, despite the fact that due to the levies we pay up here on media and players, it's been ruled multiples times by the courts that downloading for personal usage is legal. Also that uploading is legal, as obviously to download, someone has to upload.
The recording industry body still shut down the site, which was hosted in Canada, despite the fact that A) really all they SHOULD be allowed to do is demand the removal of music torrents, and B) torrents which, in the host country, were perfectly legal anyway.
Haven't the anime companies pretty much said "It's okay, so long as it hasn't been licensed"? I remember the first season of Ghost in the Shell:SAC. When it got picked up for the US market, the company who owns it politely asked the fansub groups to stop. (And they did if I recall.)
Reznor pimping Apple... Now see, that wouldn't bother me too much, if for no other reason than the fact he's used Apple computers for a long time to make his music. It'd be like... Oh I don't know, Joe Satriani pimping Fender guitars (now I await some geek to tell me he plays a Les Paul or something). It's the tool with which the music is created. That I have no real issue with. Same with athletes selling shoes, if they genuinely use them. That's fine. But when you whore yourself to sell Coke, Pepsi... That's the line.
As for NIN, I've been a fan for 15 years. The Fragile was a bit overblown and I kinda tuned out. The viral marketing for Year Zero did it's trick on me and I became fascinated enough to pay attention, and bought the album. The first RIAA release I had bought in seven years. Downloaded it as well, as ripping it didn't produce a version that didn't distort like hell on my MP3 player.
As for stealing... Now Trent and I disagree on that. Downloading has been ruled LEGAL here in Canada. We pay levies on media and on MP3 players. The CRIA (basically the Canadian division of the RIAA) have tried to get this knocked down, but common sense has prevailed. Their being compensated, so downloading is legal right now. That's just the way it is here. So if I download here, it's not stealing, because it's been ruled legal. However if I cross the border, it IS stealing. Now with other crimes, murder etc... That's illegal in all the civilized world. Just like breaking and entering etc... So while Trent is fully entitled to his opinion, and in his home country it is the correct one, outside the US there are those, like us here in Canada, who can legally download his work without opening ourselves up to criminal charges. Of course the sad thing is, these levies we pay... I guarantee Trent never saw one dime, because from what I gather it's all filtered to Canadian artists. Which means if I rocked out to a downloaded copy of "Survivalism" on my MP3 player, somewhere, Celine Dion's bank account registers a deposit.
I still don't know what happened to my emails. They just never showed on my Gmail account for some reason. Very strange. Clearly whatever system they had this set up on will need tweaking for next time. (Assuming Trent doesn't do something entirely different.)
Yeah. I signed up for that. Far worse experience than Radiohead though. I never got the email with the download link. On NIN's website Trent had posted an address to email if you heard nothing, so I wrote... And heard nothing again. So thought "Fuck it", went to Demonoid, downloaded the torrent. Listened to bits of the album, thought "This is crap" and didn't bother keeping it. (Should have known I wouldn't like it. I thought Saul's NIN remixes were crap.)
So technically I infringed copyright to get something I had legally signed up to receive. Figure the legal ramifications of THAT one out!:)
Infringing copyright? That's not the discussion, at least not in this part of the thread. This is about a rock and roll dinosaur condemning a marketing exercise that netted a band a big chunk of change.
I am not a fan of Radiohead. They've made precisely THREE songs I like. (For the record those are "Just", "Paranoid Android" and "Everything In Its Right Place"). I will never buy a Radiohead CD. However, with "In Rainbows", I slung them a few bucks to A) support the creativity of the new business model, B) Metaphorically give the RIAA the finger, and C) Maybe discover that Radiohead are actually quite good. (In actuality I'd say "In Rainbows" did nothing to make me a fan. However I did get to support a band directly, and for the $4 or so I threw in their direction, there's a couple of songs I really like.)
When Reznor gets around to releasing his next work I'll be supporting that as I am a massive fan of NIN and have been for 15 years now.
Simmons has no credibility anyway. Kiss have licensed their music for toothbrushes for christs sake. I see them advertised on TV. As you clean your teeth, the brush plays music. The advert shows a kid brushing his teeth while a Kiss song plays.
Bill Hicks put it far better than I could. "Here's the deal, folks. You do a commercial - you're off the artistic roll call, forever. End of story. Okay? You're another whore at the captialist gang bang and if you do a commercial, there's a price on your head. Everything you say is suspect and every word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink."
And this is why Gene Simmons ceased being relevant sometime in the mid 70's. Radiohead and Reznor have more creativity in their little fingers than Simmons ever had. "Oh, we'll paint our faces to cover up the fact our music sucks." Radiohead and Reznor have deviated from conventional rock mediocrity and at least been creative. Kiss just upset parents in the 70's and sang the music that now appears on MOR stations everywhere.
The article is absolutely retarded. It never ceases to amuse me when such grandiose claims are made about customers etc... Of the 7 million WOW account holders, I would bet that 6.999 million don't even know about Warden. And I'd bet that same number, if you made them aware, still wouldn't give a toss. He's probably just a disgruntled bot author, dressing up his complaints in the guise of the public service. I can understand being paranoid to a degree, but this is just ridiculous. The author clearly has delusions of grandeur, and ideas far FAR above his station.
This articles headline is INCREDIBLY misleading, and whoever wrote it needs a slap for their melodramatic endeavours.
What's great is Yahoo seems to be going for kudos saying they're providing for "legal assistance". Yeah, assistance they wouldn't need had Yahoo not been capitulating assholes in the first place.
This whole things sickens me. They bang on about other countries human rights violations, but apparently China has enough money to make corporations and governments not care.
Yeah, I know, hardly new, but it's still sickening.
Blockbuster going under would be no sad loss. Any self respecting movie geek would avoid the hell out of that place, given they force studios to edit content in movies so they'll stock them. (Graphic drug use is one area I've seen comparison footage of what the Blockbuster release looks like, compared to the one in the Mom & Pop stores.)
I can't even remember the last time I rented a movie. I've not rented one in well over five years. My only use for the rental stores is to pick up their ex-rental titles for only a few dollars more than it'd cost to rent them. Plus, unlike NEW DVD's which can't be returned for a refund, the used DVD's, I get 14 days to return them if there's any problem.
About the only use for renting is if you deliberately go during busy periods. I know someone who almost never pays for rentals, because of Blockbuster's "If we don't have it, it's free next time". They go for the popular releases, find which ones are out and they have no copies of, and say they wanted it. Free movies galore.
I also get DVD's out of my local library. It's free, and they have a much more interesting selection than the latest PG rated Hollywood dross of Blockbuster and friends. (No rental store I've seen has two thirds of "The Criterion Collection". My library does.)
Or if you've got an nVidia card and the official restricted driver manager doesn't cut it for you, google "envy nvidia", download, and you'll be up and running in no time. It's not like nVidia haven't had their issues in the past. There's the refresh rate bug from days of yore, there's the aspect ratio correction now that doesn't work properly on most cards etc... So your claim that it just "works" has a few caveats my friend.
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Hey, I'm quite proud of the fact I know what Ruby is but haven't the foggiest what Rails is. Clearly whatever marketing train there is didn't stop at my station...
I call bullshit too. I played WOW for 18 months and my wife still plays now, and the torrent patch downloading has always been an absolute joke.
You'd think for a game that pulls in roughly 6,000,000 * $15 a month (that's $90 million dollars a month to save you the math), the cheap bastards would have a decent server to download from rather than have the audacity to use other peoples bandwidth on a game people are paying a monthly fee for.
Yeah, I noticed I got modded a troll. Fucking moderators.
I just get so tired of the hype around Bioshock when several people whose opinion I trust implicitly, after the initial "WOW" factor had worn off actually found it merely average.
TF2... I almost never get hooked on video games, but I find myself firing that up every day. The description I read a while back about it being seven games in one feels about right, as each class is a vastly different experience. The Scout is hilarious. The spy gives a dark sense of satisfaction. The Medic is hugely enjoyable etc... Only class I'm not that keen on is Sniper, but that's because I suck badly at playing them right now.
Was a huge fan of the original TF, and TF2 bests it in every department I think.
I cannot believe I am multiple pages down into this and see NOT ONE MENTION OF TEAM FORTRESS 2! TF2 is one of the best games I've ever played, and for an online game there is a surprisingly low asshat quotient.
Fuck Bioshock into a cocked hat.
Didn't know there were warships in Azeroth...
You sank my battleship.
The opening music was great, but my favourite was by far the main screen music, the hill with (eventually) the tomestones. I captured my own copy of it in WinUAE (this was about nine years ago.) Awesome stuff.
Sensi did some great stuff. SWOS had an awesome intro song as well. "Goalscoring Superstar Hero".
PA's coverage has been great. What I find amusing is the fact that anyone is remotely surprised by any of this. Perhaps it's my own experience in the industry (I reviewed games for a living for several years, and I too lost my job because of an unfavourable review I gave a particular title. This was five years ago), but the sheer surprise so many people seem to be experiencing over this is just staggering. How could people not see this is the case? In an industry that relies on whoring itself to the games developers and publishers, why is everyone so surprised that someone up and got pimp slapped? Is it just because it was such a notable name this time? Because that I could understand. But if it's shock and surprise at a writer losing his job because he dared upset an advertiser... Then you've clearly been living under a rock.
He was not the first (and I certainly wasn't either) nor will he be the last. The entire reviewing industry is corrupt. Anyone paying attention knows this. Some groups are more corrupt than others, certainly, but this is not news. Certainly no more so than "the sun rose in the east today".
Yeah, "FUCK YOU!"
We'll show him!
Oh, forgot to hit "Post Anonymously". Whoops...
But that leads us down a murky path. If the companies that make the shows say it's okay, does the government have the right to say "Er, no, it isn't."?
Regardless, anyone who thinks this is bullshit, AC a "FUCK COMCAST" under this.
So unsurprisingly it appears Comcast are acting on behalf of other parties who have never actually complained, let alone asked them too Yet another classy Comcast move.
Just like the CRIA shutting down Demonoid, despite the fact that due to the levies we pay up here on media and players, it's been ruled multiples times by the courts that downloading for personal usage is legal. Also that uploading is legal, as obviously to download, someone has to upload.
The recording industry body still shut down the site, which was hosted in Canada, despite the fact that A) really all they SHOULD be allowed to do is demand the removal of music torrents, and B) torrents which, in the host country, were perfectly legal anyway.
Haven't the anime companies pretty much said "It's okay, so long as it hasn't been licensed"? I remember the first season of Ghost in the Shell:SAC. When it got picked up for the US market, the company who owns it politely asked the fansub groups to stop. (And they did if I recall.)
Reznor pimping Apple... Now see, that wouldn't bother me too much, if for no other reason than the fact he's used Apple computers for a long time to make his music. It'd be like... Oh I don't know, Joe Satriani pimping Fender guitars (now I await some geek to tell me he plays a Les Paul or something). It's the tool with which the music is created. That I have no real issue with. Same with athletes selling shoes, if they genuinely use them. That's fine. But when you whore yourself to sell Coke, Pepsi... That's the line.
As for NIN, I've been a fan for 15 years. The Fragile was a bit overblown and I kinda tuned out. The viral marketing for Year Zero did it's trick on me and I became fascinated enough to pay attention, and bought the album. The first RIAA release I had bought in seven years. Downloaded it as well, as ripping it didn't produce a version that didn't distort like hell on my MP3 player.
As for stealing... Now Trent and I disagree on that. Downloading has been ruled LEGAL here in Canada. We pay levies on media and on MP3 players. The CRIA (basically the Canadian division of the RIAA) have tried to get this knocked down, but common sense has prevailed. Their being compensated, so downloading is legal right now. That's just the way it is here. So if I download here, it's not stealing, because it's been ruled legal. However if I cross the border, it IS stealing. Now with other crimes, murder etc... That's illegal in all the civilized world. Just like breaking and entering etc... So while Trent is fully entitled to his opinion, and in his home country it is the correct one, outside the US there are those, like us here in Canada, who can legally download his work without opening ourselves up to criminal charges. Of course the sad thing is, these levies we pay... I guarantee Trent never saw one dime, because from what I gather it's all filtered to Canadian artists. Which means if I rocked out to a downloaded copy of "Survivalism" on my MP3 player, somewhere, Celine Dion's bank account registers a deposit.
THAT is the real crime.
I still don't know what happened to my emails. They just never showed on my Gmail account for some reason. Very strange. Clearly whatever system they had this set up on will need tweaking for next time. (Assuming Trent doesn't do something entirely different.)
Yeah. I signed up for that. Far worse experience than Radiohead though. I never got the email with the download link. On NIN's website Trent had posted an address to email if you heard nothing, so I wrote... And heard nothing again. So thought "Fuck it", went to Demonoid, downloaded the torrent. Listened to bits of the album, thought "This is crap" and didn't bother keeping it. (Should have known I wouldn't like it. I thought Saul's NIN remixes were crap.)
So technically I infringed copyright to get something I had legally signed up to receive. Figure the legal ramifications of THAT one out!:)
Infringing copyright? That's not the discussion, at least not in this part of the thread. This is about a rock and roll dinosaur condemning a marketing exercise that netted a band a big chunk of change.
I am not a fan of Radiohead. They've made precisely THREE songs I like. (For the record those are "Just", "Paranoid Android" and "Everything In Its Right Place"). I will never buy a Radiohead CD. However, with "In Rainbows", I slung them a few bucks to A) support the creativity of the new business model, B) Metaphorically give the RIAA the finger, and C) Maybe discover that Radiohead are actually quite good. (In actuality I'd say "In Rainbows" did nothing to make me a fan. However I did get to support a band directly, and for the $4 or so I threw in their direction, there's a couple of songs I really like.)
When Reznor gets around to releasing his next work I'll be supporting that as I am a massive fan of NIN and have been for 15 years now.
Simmons has no credibility anyway. Kiss have licensed their music for toothbrushes for christs sake. I see them advertised on TV. As you clean your teeth, the brush plays music. The advert shows a kid brushing his teeth while a Kiss song plays.
Bill Hicks put it far better than I could. "Here's the deal, folks. You do a commercial - you're off the artistic roll call, forever. End of story. Okay? You're another whore at the captialist gang bang and if you do a commercial, there's a price on your head. Everything you say is suspect and every word that comes out of your mouth is now like a turd falling into my drink."
And this is why Gene Simmons ceased being relevant sometime in the mid 70's. Radiohead and Reznor have more creativity in their little fingers than Simmons ever had. "Oh, we'll paint our faces to cover up the fact our music sucks." Radiohead and Reznor have deviated from conventional rock mediocrity and at least been creative. Kiss just upset parents in the 70's and sang the music that now appears on MOR stations everywhere.
Or, to put it more succinctly, FUCK GENE SIMMONS!
Accept quest? Depends who the quest gets rep with...
The article is absolutely retarded. It never ceases to amuse me when such grandiose claims are made about customers etc... Of the 7 million WOW account holders, I would bet that 6.999 million don't even know about Warden. And I'd bet that same number, if you made them aware, still wouldn't give a toss. He's probably just a disgruntled bot author, dressing up his complaints in the guise of the public service. I can understand being paranoid to a degree, but this is just ridiculous. The author clearly has delusions of grandeur, and ideas far FAR above his station.
This articles headline is INCREDIBLY misleading, and whoever wrote it needs a slap for their melodramatic endeavours.
What's great is Yahoo seems to be going for kudos saying they're providing for "legal assistance". Yeah, assistance they wouldn't need had Yahoo not been capitulating assholes in the first place.
This whole things sickens me. They bang on about other countries human rights violations, but apparently China has enough money to make corporations and governments not care.
Yeah, I know, hardly new, but it's still sickening.
a website for licenses and malware
Oh I've been there. I think it's called "Windows Update".
It's the Homebrew Computer Club all over again. Back to the 80's.
Wonder if he'll warrant a Slashdot story in about 15 years when he homebrews a 3D graphics card?
Blockbuster going under would be no sad loss. Any self respecting movie geek would avoid the hell out of that place, given they force studios to edit content in movies so they'll stock them. (Graphic drug use is one area I've seen comparison footage of what the Blockbuster release looks like, compared to the one in the Mom & Pop stores.)
I can't even remember the last time I rented a movie. I've not rented one in well over five years. My only use for the rental stores is to pick up their ex-rental titles for only a few dollars more than it'd cost to rent them. Plus, unlike NEW DVD's which can't be returned for a refund, the used DVD's, I get 14 days to return them if there's any problem.
About the only use for renting is if you deliberately go during busy periods. I know someone who almost never pays for rentals, because of Blockbuster's "If we don't have it, it's free next time". They go for the popular releases, find which ones are out and they have no copies of, and say they wanted it. Free movies galore.
I also get DVD's out of my local library. It's free, and they have a much more interesting selection than the latest PG rated Hollywood dross of Blockbuster and friends. (No rental store I've seen has two thirds of "The Criterion Collection". My library does.)
Or if you've got an nVidia card and the official restricted driver manager doesn't cut it for you, google "envy nvidia", download, and you'll be up and running in no time. It's not like nVidia haven't had their issues in the past. There's the refresh rate bug from days of yore, there's the aspect ratio correction now that doesn't work properly on most cards etc... So your claim that it just "works" has a few caveats my friend.
On both 7.04 and 7.10 the Ubuntu stuff failed miserably to set up my GF8 card, and I had to rely on Envy (which worked like a champ first time).
This hard drive issue is a concern as I was literally a day or two from throwing Gutsy on mine. Think I'll wait and see how this all pans out.