We need to submit to them *every single* game on the internet whether it be OSS, Flash, MMOG, Steam / Impulse, Forum based (MySpace & Facebook games) or play by email. Everything. Let them choke on their own stupidity.
Not a developer, but I've turned a metric fuck-ton of normal people onto useful open source projects & fun open source games. When I fix a friend or co-worker's wrecked (inevitably Windows-running) PC & they get that PC back it is loaded down with open source apps like Paint.Net, OpenOffice, Firefox, Miranda & Thunderbird as well as games like Battle for Wesnoth, Alien Arena, Decker, Slash'Em & Frozen Bubble. Without folks like me that will take the time & work with people, one-on-one & usually for free, your Open Source developers will never reach most normal folk. They don't even think to look for it.
Oh, & I do put my money where my mouth is & if I find out a company I deal with is antagonistic to OSS, I stop patronizing that company when at all possible.
For some reason I just don't think the MMORPG junkies will be able to tear themselves away for a whole day. Or the daytraders. China has daytraders, right?
"The real reason is the cost of producing and distributing art has dropped due to new software for creating the art and using the web for distribution"
Listen to your pompous ass. I'm sure you know the "real reason" oh so much more than the social scientists that actually performed & analyzed the study. Would you please, kindly STFU.
Personally, I can't wait till the day he is too old & feeble to do his "job". I'm not saying he needs to go ahead & die already, but he does need to GTFO.
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It sounds like LEGO are being IP bullies. If they can do that to FreeLegoPorn.com, they can probably do it to LEGOSucks.com.
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... if I was her brother or father I'd probably *still* be in jail for assault.
Call the fucking cops or at least call the kids damn parents. They didn't do either.
We need to submit to them *every single* game on the internet whether it be OSS, Flash, MMOG, Steam / Impulse, Forum based (MySpace & Facebook games) or play by email. Everything. Let them choke on their own stupidity.
You'd be pissed too if you had to wear a canvas bag over your head everywhere you went.
Not a developer, but I've turned a metric fuck-ton of normal people onto useful open source projects & fun open source games. When I fix a friend or co-worker's wrecked (inevitably Windows-running) PC & they get that PC back it is loaded down with open source apps like Paint.Net, OpenOffice, Firefox, Miranda & Thunderbird as well as games like Battle for Wesnoth, Alien Arena, Decker, Slash'Em & Frozen Bubble. Without folks like me that will take the time & work with people, one-on-one & usually for free, your Open Source developers will never reach most normal folk. They don't even think to look for it.
Oh, & I do put my money where my mouth is & if I find out a company I deal with is antagonistic to OSS, I stop patronizing that company when at all possible.
You know, you've got a point.
Looks like they might have a bonafide Atari stomping machine.
Nintendo literally hates open source. Guess I'll skip that DSi.
For some reason I just don't think the MMORPG junkies will be able to tear themselves away for a whole day. Or the daytraders. China has daytraders, right?
... how long it will be before we see a civil or criminal suit arising from a competitor, user or law-enforcement looking for a user.
I always thought James Bond was just an urbane sounding code name for whoever was agent 007 at the time.
They are seriously asking for people's passwords? If this some kinda of social engineering test where if you actually put them down you fail?
It's only a matter of time before my submarine patent on trees makes me a rich man.
... games like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooligans:_Storm_Over_Europe
"The real reason is the cost of producing and distributing art has dropped due to new software for creating the art and using the web for distribution"
Listen to your pompous ass. I'm sure you know the "real reason" oh so much more than the social scientists that actually performed & analyzed the study. Would you please, kindly STFU.
...there is a sucker born every minute!
Oh look, I pissed off a nationalistic German with mod points! How cute!!
... Way to take a page out of *China & Iran's* playbook there Germany!!
The second thing is, "Isn't this exactly what Hitler would have done if they had the internet in the 40's?"
You are preaching to the choir, I actually *don't* buy it.
"Why do we pay CEOs these ridiculous salaries again? It sure isn't because they're visionaries."
It's because they are all power hungry sociopaths that are charismatic & good at extracting money from us.
You forgot OffByOne.
http://offbyone.com/offbyone/
... This will only annoy people who *buy* their crap. Problem solved!
Personally, I can't wait till the day he is too old & feeble to do his "job". I'm not saying he needs to go ahead & die already, but he does need to GTFO.