Err... yeah, if cutting up magazines gave you access to free issues, early issues, and the ability to ruin others' experiences reading magazines. That was a terrible analogy.
If it were a cheaply made levee whose maintenance had been ignored for some time, then it's still pretty stupid. Obviously the average person wouldn't know what kind of state the levee was in, but as someone who lives down south, it's safer to just expect that everything is falling apart.
Web developers will keep supporting non-standards-compliant garbage like IE for as long as IE holds a large chunk of the marketshare. I guess this means it's a vicious circle.
Excellently stated, sir. I don't know if the majority of Americans would consider that theft of another man's work, however. I suppose most people I deal with on a day-to-day feel that way, but I still know some slackers who think they are owed health care, and expect working folks like you and I to pay the bill.
Make a game of the early white settlers murdering millions of native american indians, and you'd probably piss off the indians and the poor rednecks who were never taught about it before they dropped out of school.
I assume you've never heard of Custer's Revenge for the Atari. Not exactly the same situation, but close enough.
Sadly, it would piss off more than just the poor rednecks as they've been taking out America's history with the Native Americans little by little every year. I've met kids these days who know nothing about it. You don't need to drop out of school to avoid learning about American atrocities anymore.
Did you even read either of my posts? My first post stated my understanding that many people are sent to prison undeserving. My second stated that I understand the way the prison reacted was not the best response. And anyways, if you commit a crime that will get you put in prison, even if it shouldn't have that severe of a consequence, you still committed that crime. If you're not willing to accept the punishment, don't do it.
They're in prison, thus they are felons. Granted, many people are sent to prison for undeserving crimes, but the fact remains, and I don't really feel too much pity for them.
If I need help fixing my car, borrowing a tool or watching my kids I have people to call. It all comes around.
This is why I continue to handle tech support for my family, even after spending two afternoons on the phone with my dad helping him set up a wireless router (it only took this long because he failed to follow my directions to a "T" several times, and failed to give me pertinent information that I specifically asked for). My brother in law is an excellent master-tech mechanic, and my father is decent with mechanics and excellent when it comes to woodworking and handy-work. My services as a computer geek are what I barter with for their respective services.
If you ever looked at their legal section, you'd realize they pretty much burned the bridge down for claiming to not be oriented around illegal torrents.
I had this idea in my head that you were saying that the HD Serial # and the XBox were somehow "paired", but that's not what you said at all.
Interesting that you mentioned this, because an original Xbox unit was, in fact, "married" to its HDD. This is also one way MS was able to detect modded units over Xbox Live, though there was a work-around for this, but I cannot recall how it worked anymore.
I've been following it for about a year now, and they've come "pretty close" to releasing it a few times. I'll believe it when the first batch gets shipped.
I think the DSi proves that they have already begun to do so. If any of the three big game companies (Nintendo, Sony & Microsoft) have proven that they can reach the casual/mainstream audience, it's Nintendo. All they really have left to do is cut out their idiotic fear of the internet.
This is also why consoles are stuck with the same copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy games while the real innovation happens on the PC.
Ohhhh.... so that's what all those junky cookie-cutter FPS and RTS games on the PC are, innovation! All this time I thought they were a quick way to make money by tapping into other games' success.
I believe that a cookie-cutter approach is not suitable and instead of a hard-coded age, the decision should be made on a case-by-case basis, should the minor in question prove to be mature enough to make these decisions. After all, assuming that all people automagically gain insight and wisdom precisely on their 18th birthday (or a different one, based on their geographical location) is just silly.
How would you suggest one would legally prove maturity? 18 is not a magic number; it's a reasonable age to assume one is capable of making adult decisions.
I'm fairly certain most kids learn about sex well before they're physically mature enough to have it; I know I did. Understanding it and being able to make the decision to do it are very different. If you would let your 13 year-old children have sex with their peers, let alone adults, then you are the monster, you idiot.
Come on, are we really still stuck on this image of a geek? I'm a self-professed geek who goes to LANs and comic book stores, plays GURPS and D20 RPGs, and I still lift weights and go for runs.
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I really wish I had mod points right now so I could mod that funny.
Err... yeah, if cutting up magazines gave you access to free issues, early issues, and the ability to ruin others' experiences reading magazines. That was a terrible analogy.
Obviously the average person wouldn't know what kind of state the levee was in
Let me repeat that for you.
Obviously the average person wouldn't know what kind of state the levee was in
If it were a cheaply made levee whose maintenance had been ignored for some time, then it's still pretty stupid. Obviously the average person wouldn't know what kind of state the levee was in, but as someone who lives down south, it's safer to just expect that everything is falling apart.
Web developers will keep supporting non-standards-compliant garbage like IE for as long as IE holds a large chunk of the marketshare. I guess this means it's a vicious circle.
Excellently stated, sir. I don't know if the majority of Americans would consider that theft of another man's work, however. I suppose most people I deal with on a day-to-day feel that way, but I still know some slackers who think they are owed health care, and expect working folks like you and I to pay the bill.
Make a game of the early white settlers murdering millions of native american indians, and you'd probably piss off the indians and the poor rednecks who were never taught about it before they dropped out of school.
I assume you've never heard of Custer's Revenge for the Atari. Not exactly the same situation, but close enough.
Sadly, it would piss off more than just the poor rednecks as they've been taking out America's history with the Native Americans little by little every year. I've met kids these days who know nothing about it. You don't need to drop out of school to avoid learning about American atrocities anymore.
Did you even read either of my posts? My first post stated my understanding that many people are sent to prison undeserving. My second stated that I understand the way the prison reacted was not the best response. And anyways, if you commit a crime that will get you put in prison, even if it shouldn't have that severe of a consequence, you still committed that crime. If you're not willing to accept the punishment, don't do it.
I didn't say it was the best response, I just said that I don't feel bad for them.
They're in prison, thus they are felons. Granted, many people are sent to prison for undeserving crimes, but the fact remains, and I don't really feel too much pity for them.
If I need help fixing my car, borrowing a tool or watching my kids I have people to call. It all comes around.
This is why I continue to handle tech support for my family, even after spending two afternoons on the phone with my dad helping him set up a wireless router (it only took this long because he failed to follow my directions to a "T" several times, and failed to give me pertinent information that I specifically asked for). My brother in law is an excellent master-tech mechanic, and my father is decent with mechanics and excellent when it comes to woodworking and handy-work. My services as a computer geek are what I barter with for their respective services.
I'm talking about the cease and desist letters they get and post on their website, along with their replies.
If you ever looked at their legal section, you'd realize they pretty much burned the bridge down for claiming to not be oriented around illegal torrents.
Demonoid's been down for a while now, probably getting close to a month.
I think that's referring to Nintendo's next all-new handheld, rather than the latest version of the DS.
I had this idea in my head that you were saying that the HD Serial # and the XBox were somehow "paired", but that's not what you said at all.
Interesting that you mentioned this, because an original Xbox unit was, in fact, "married" to its HDD. This is also one way MS was able to detect modded units over Xbox Live, though there was a work-around for this, but I cannot recall how it worked anymore.
I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed the overuse of that statement.
I've been following it for about a year now, and they've come "pretty close" to releasing it a few times. I'll believe it when the first batch gets shipped.
Nintendo needs to widen their thinking.
I think the DSi proves that they have already begun to do so. If any of the three big game companies (Nintendo, Sony & Microsoft) have proven that they can reach the casual/mainstream audience, it's Nintendo. All they really have left to do is cut out their idiotic fear of the internet.
If it ever ends up coming out.
This is also why consoles are stuck with the same copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy games while the real innovation happens on the PC.
Ohhhh.... so that's what all those junky cookie-cutter FPS and RTS games on the PC are, innovation! All this time I thought they were a quick way to make money by tapping into other games' success.
I believe that a cookie-cutter approach is not suitable and instead of a hard-coded age, the decision should be made on a case-by-case basis, should the minor in question prove to be mature enough to make these decisions. After all, assuming that all people automagically gain insight and wisdom precisely on their 18th birthday (or a different one, based on their geographical location) is just silly.
How would you suggest one would legally prove maturity? 18 is not a magic number; it's a reasonable age to assume one is capable of making adult decisions.
I'm fairly certain most kids learn about sex well before they're physically mature enough to have it; I know I did. Understanding it and being able to make the decision to do it are very different. If you would let your 13 year-old children have sex with their peers, let alone adults, then you are the monster, you idiot.
This sounds like a solid business plan: repair broken bones and weaken others so that they will break soon too, thus ensuring a returning customer!
Come on, are we really still stuck on this image of a geek? I'm a self-professed geek who goes to LANs and comic book stores, plays GURPS and D20 RPGs, and I still lift weights and go for runs.