Same thing that makes for fanatical Republicans, fanatical Democrats, annoying street preachers, Fred Phelps, anti-religon proselytizers, and so on.
Once you can establish that you are part of a good group, and that other people are part of a bad group who threaten you, you can get all sorts of really happy feelings.
You know, come to think of it, IBM has a compiler too.
Maybe, uhm... A joke?
(That said, stuff like this IS good news for anyone working on gcc professionally, potentially, although it does have the short-term impact of creating a class of apps where gcc isn't going to be as good as the industrial and research compilers for a while.)
You're sort of begging the question, there. You're assuming that a blu-ray player is worth buying at "full price", and looking at this as a discount.
If I open a store called "McDucks" that sells bad hamburgers for $500, and then McDonalds starts selling them for $90, does the fact that they're more than 80% cheaper make them a good deal? No.
Blu-ray isn't worth the money, so getting it for only way too much instead of WTF are you thinking too much is not a big deal.
The fact is, there's a difference between selling someone a thing and a service, and the law has not historically been very supportive of attempts to say things like "I didn't sell him gold, I sold him the service of giving him gold". It's bull and everyone knows it.
BTW, the custom pets that you get for special things, like attending blizzcon, or having a collector's edition? You can regain them if they get lost or destroyed. That's because they have value.:)
If I buy a month of "service when the service is up, which doesn't include Tuesdays", then, at the end of the month, either the service was up or it wasn't -- and Blizzard is very careful to give free days when delays get out of hand.
Now, imagine that I buy a thousand gold. If I lose that thousand gold, it was *worth money*. If all they sell is access to servers, not actual ownership of stuff, then a database error that loses my gold doesn't matter. If they sell stuff, then a database error that loses my gold took away something that had a known economic value. It creates a huge potential for hassles.
There is a HUGE difference between selling Things and selling Services.
These aren't just people who might lie once; they are people whose entire business is built on premeditated and ongoing acceptance of contracts with intent to break them.
That's not the level of "everyone lies sometimes" I'm likely to overlook.
If Blizzard lets you buy gold for money, they have just established gold as having economic value, making them potentially liable for server crashes and so on. They fake hassle if gold has monetary value.
Given that nearly everyone in this industry asks you to agree to some kind of EULA to get access to their servers, you must break promises to be in this business at all.
So why should we trust you? If you're willing to lie to them, how do we know you aren't lying to us, too?
It's not as though goodmail isn't running, right now. Right now, I get the same service I get right now. If I want to pay to certify that I'm sure I'm serious and I meet goodmail's standards, then I can do that.
I see no problem here. An ISP which screwed around with this wouldn't keep customers.
I like the analogy, in that it's spectacularly dishonest. No one's talking about intercepting messages because they're important.
Right now, all mail has a reasonable chance of getting dropped. Spam filters often IMPROVE the chances that your messages will get through, by reducing the chances that mail servers will melt down under load and drop everything.
Goodmail's offering a service promising that particular messages aren't spam. If that works, great.
I have no problem with this, and I am absolutely disgusted by the flagrant dishonesty of the people trying to portray it as blackmail. If you don't pay, you get EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE GETTING NOW. No skin off my nose.
You know, after the number of times people have suggested "why not just watermark it, so people can use it however they want, but if it gets fileshared to hell and back, the company knows who to blame", it seems odd that there'd be such an outcry when someone does it.
I bought the PDF version of Programming Ruby. It is watermarked, WITH MY NAME! OMG! WORLD ENDS! FILM AT 11!
The real problem is that, despite previous front-page stories on this, Slashdot keeps running stories on this as though it were news. It's not. We knew. We even asked for Apple to do this instead of giving us DRMd files.
If they had something to say, they could use content as a reputation system instead of external symbology.
I know that idiots run my world; I'm an American, look who "leads" my country.
I guess, if high dollar opportunities are worth it to you, I'm very sorry for you. You may want to give some thought to the notion that there might be other ways of obtaining happiness that do not require you to put up with empty status games. You can make plenty of money to be happy and still wear jeans, t-shirts, and whichever watch at Target had the most buttons. (I'm dressing like that and making enough money to easily support four people, give stuff away, and still have some money left over to buy toys.)
I have never seen a Zonk story that was good. Often dups, and very very often with additional comments or questions which are painfully insipid. I think people would like him better if, instead of trying to spur discussion, he would STFU. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
There's a sort of metalanguage there; you spend the money to communicate that you're committed to making an impression, which is a way of establishing group membership.
You know what? I never want people like that to talk to me. I will stick with jeans and t-shirts, because that gets me into conversations with people who have something to say, which is much more interesting to me than "a LOT of money".
You seem to be totally unaware that some things are actually better than other things, and some things are purely about status.
Not all status symbols are actually good. Most decent restaurants are actually better than fast food, but what exactly does a Rolex do that a regular watch doesn't?
A good segment of the population are, to put it bluntly, fucking morons who will believe anything they see on TV. That does not exactly bolster your case.
Agreed. For instance, the Gamecube came in third last gen, but still made money.
By contrast, the PSP and PS3 do not appear to be particularly successful.
The video game industry is more susceptible than many to feedback loops and network effects. Lower installed base means fewer games means lower installed base...
Well, in WoW, both buttons + drag is "move forwards using the mouse to steer". Each button has different effects in each context, and some things use two, or three, or four buttons.
Really, it's worth it. Two is the bare minimum; I have been happiest on mice with at least three buttons.
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Same thing that makes for fanatical Republicans, fanatical Democrats, annoying street preachers, Fred Phelps, anti-religon proselytizers, and so on.
Once you can establish that you are part of a good group, and that other people are part of a bad group who threaten you, you can get all sorts of really happy feelings.
You know, come to think of it, IBM has a compiler too.
Maybe, uhm... A joke?
(That said, stuff like this IS good news for anyone working on gcc professionally, potentially, although it does have the short-term impact of creating a class of apps where gcc isn't going to be as good as the industrial and research compilers for a while.)
I think Cell's taught us two important things about heterogeneous multicore:
:) Buy stock in gcc...
1. It's fairly hard to develop for.
2. It's bloody fast.
Looks like Intel's gonna be running with it some; that's good news for anyone making a living selling compilers!
You're sort of begging the question, there. You're assuming that a blu-ray player is worth buying at "full price", and looking at this as a discount.
If I open a store called "McDucks" that sells bad hamburgers for $500, and then McDonalds starts selling them for $90, does the fact that they're more than 80% cheaper make them a good deal? No.
Blu-ray isn't worth the money, so getting it for only way too much instead of WTF are you thinking too much is not a big deal.
Boy, you're really stretching it there.
:)
The fact is, there's a difference between selling someone a thing and a service, and the law has not historically been very supportive of attempts to say things like "I didn't sell him gold, I sold him the service of giving him gold". It's bull and everyone knows it.
BTW, the custom pets that you get for special things, like attending blizzcon, or having a collector's edition? You can regain them if they get lost or destroyed. That's because they have value.
No, it is different. It's a lot different.
If I buy a month of "service when the service is up, which doesn't include Tuesdays", then, at the end of the month, either the service was up or it wasn't -- and Blizzard is very careful to give free days when delays get out of hand.
Now, imagine that I buy a thousand gold. If I lose that thousand gold, it was *worth money*. If all they sell is access to servers, not actual ownership of stuff, then a database error that loses my gold doesn't matter. If they sell stuff, then a database error that loses my gold took away something that had a known economic value. It creates a huge potential for hassles.
There is a HUGE difference between selling Things and selling Services.
True.
:)
Is there honor among thieves?
These aren't just people who might lie once; they are people whose entire business is built on premeditated and ongoing acceptance of contracts with intent to break them.
That's not the level of "everyone lies sometimes" I'm likely to overlook.
It's an interesting notion, but wouldn't an EFFECTIVE scammer start by building reputation until a lot of people bought in?
They're liars. Liars tell lies...
You don't get it!
If Blizzard lets you buy gold for money, they have just established gold as having economic value, making them potentially liable for server crashes and so on. They fake hassle if gold has monetary value.
Given that nearly everyone in this industry asks you to agree to some kind of EULA to get access to their servers, you must break promises to be in this business at all.
So why should we trust you? If you're willing to lie to them, how do we know you aren't lying to us, too?
It's not as though goodmail isn't running, right now. Right now, I get the same service I get right now. If I want to pay to certify that I'm sure I'm serious and I meet goodmail's standards, then I can do that.
I see no problem here. An ISP which screwed around with this wouldn't keep customers.
I like the analogy, in that it's spectacularly dishonest. No one's talking about intercepting messages because they're important.
Right now, all mail has a reasonable chance of getting dropped. Spam filters often IMPROVE the chances that your messages will get through, by reducing the chances that mail servers will melt down under load and drop everything.
Goodmail's offering a service promising that particular messages aren't spam. If that works, great.
I have no problem with this, and I am absolutely disgusted by the flagrant dishonesty of the people trying to portray it as blackmail. If you don't pay, you get EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE GETTING NOW. No skin off my nose.
I wish I could get the recent Sam & Max to run under WINE. But, you know what? They're good enough to justify keeping a Windows image around.
Sony have been control freaks for years. No surprise here, nothing to see.
You have a point. I guess I'm just used to assuming that the thing at the end which makes no sense comes from Zonk. :)
Oh, come on. It's Zonk. Of course the comment at the end of the story is painfully stupid.
He'll eventually die from trying to upgrade to a more modern metabolism instead of this crappy carbon/oxygen system, a system MUCH older than HFS+.
You know, after the number of times people have suggested "why not just watermark it, so people can use it however they want, but if it gets fileshared to hell and back, the company knows who to blame", it seems odd that there'd be such an outcry when someone does it.
I bought the PDF version of Programming Ruby. It is watermarked, WITH MY NAME! OMG! WORLD ENDS! FILM AT 11!
The real problem is that, despite previous front-page stories on this, Slashdot keeps running stories on this as though it were news. It's not. We knew. We even asked for Apple to do this instead of giving us DRMd files.
More like "if you had two kids you really hated, and a burning building, and could only push one in..."
If they had something to say, they could use content as a reputation system instead of external symbology.
I know that idiots run my world; I'm an American, look who "leads" my country.
I guess, if high dollar opportunities are worth it to you, I'm very sorry for you. You may want to give some thought to the notion that there might be other ways of obtaining happiness that do not require you to put up with empty status games. You can make plenty of money to be happy and still wear jeans, t-shirts, and whichever watch at Target had the most buttons. (I'm dressing like that and making enough money to easily support four people, give stuff away, and still have some money left over to buy toys.)
I have never seen a Zonk story that was good. Often dups, and very very often with additional comments or questions which are painfully insipid. I think people would like him better if, instead of trying to spur discussion, he would STFU. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
There's a sort of metalanguage there; you spend the money to communicate that you're committed to making an impression, which is a way of establishing group membership.
You know what? I never want people like that to talk to me. I will stick with jeans and t-shirts, because that gets me into conversations with people who have something to say, which is much more interesting to me than "a LOT of money".
You seem to be totally unaware that some things are actually better than other things, and some things are purely about status.
Not all status symbols are actually good. Most decent restaurants are actually better than fast food, but what exactly does a Rolex do that a regular watch doesn't?
A good segment of the population are, to put it bluntly, fucking morons who will believe anything they see on TV. That does not exactly bolster your case.
Agreed. For instance, the Gamecube came in third last gen, but still made money.
By contrast, the PSP and PS3 do not appear to be particularly successful.
The video game industry is more susceptible than many to feedback loops and network effects. Lower installed base means fewer games means lower installed base...
Well, in WoW, both buttons + drag is "move forwards using the mouse to steer". Each button has different effects in each context, and some things use two, or three, or four buttons.
Really, it's worth it. Two is the bare minimum; I have been happiest on mice with at least three buttons.