They "don't want to" because they are depressed! They cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel and therefore cannot choose to move towards it. You make it sound like someone is choosing between being depressed and being happy and I can assure you that is not the case.
Depression is largely about the way you think so by definition you can (and have to) "think yourself out of it" in some sense, however that does not mean it is possible to simply choose to do so, the human brain is an imperfect beast.
For me I started to come out of my depression when a co worker who had also suffered from depression actually took me to a doctor to get help, we talked things through and I was prescribed prozac. I do not know (and don't particularly care) whether it was the drug, the fact I had friends looking out for me and with the experience to give me the tools I needed. All three had a role to play. Before I desperately wanted my depression to end but couldn't imagine that happening let alone choose to do it. My treatment was a revelation of sorts, all of a sudden there was some hope, but it wasn't something I could have done all by myself.
You can't even view the bug report without a Mozilla bugzilla account with the proper access - I just logged into my account, and that doesn't include me, so it's not like even the report is generally available
Just because it's locked now doesn't mean it always has been. Perhaps it was locked again after the Opera complaint?
Oh hell, people in the West get all up in arms if someone says something perceived to be blasphemous against Jesus Christ.
I think that for the most part that is rubbish. In much of the "west" using "Jesus Christ" as a curse is rather common. I'm sure there are places (probably in America) where doing that would be seen as a significant transgression but in general it's just something that happens so commonly that people don't pay it much attention.
Thus, perhaps paradoxically, the solution to (some) Muslims getting upset about all this is to do it more and more, publish such images widely and frequently. Do it until they are desensitized, do it until they lose the energy to make a big deal out of it every time it happens.
God is the Creator of all life, and he has created a perfectly good method of creating new individuals
"Perfectly good"? I suppose that's why we have artificial insemination in the first place......
is always to be a violation God's will
The arrogance of these people is astounding. I can never get over the sheer lack of humility that it must take to be willing to proclaim that you can speak for God.
The PS3 is an amazingly open device and you bitch that Sony dare push their own (widely supported) standard for just one aspect? You don't have to buy the device you know.
Where did I "bitch" about anything or even "judge" Sony for "daring" to push Blu Ray?
I merely stated what should be obvious on the face of it, that Sony have (or had) a enormous amount to gain by establishing Blu-Ray as the dominant format and chose to focus on that battle rather than trying to get far less valuable "wins" in other areas where they could have been more restrictive with their own formats.
Clearly their openness with the PS3 would suggest otherwise. (Many formats, HID complant USB and Bluetooth peripherals, etc..)
What it suggests is that they were heavily focused on pushing Blu-Ray.
They probably also saw that they had enough engineering hurdles to overcome with Cell and didn't need to make life more difficult for themselves in other areas just for the sake of it.
What about energy used in the producing, distributing, printing, binding, distributing (and so forth) steps for a paper version?
Things aren't magically "green" just because they are farmed.
I'd be highly surprised if the energy used in viewing the pages you were interested in online (and probably selectively printing specific bits out) were to be more than the energy involved in getting 3000 pages of hardcopy from a seed to your desk.
Of course the extra convenience you have with storing your VC games on console (ie they are easily available just by turning it on) is also an added convenience for a thief!
I agree it could be better, digital goods allow the possibility for a merchant to do all kinds of good things. However I think the OP overstated how "bad" the situation is, the risk of losing a VC product isn't any more than any normal product and therefore isn't worth getting particularly upset about.
A more interesting question might be what happens when Nintendo release their follow up to the Wii. Will my VC titles be transferable then?
If the underlying laws don't make sense the closer we look then perhaps that is evidence suggesting we are part of a simulation. Any simulation would involve algorithms that have optimisations and any simulation would be designed to "look right" and "work" on a macro level but may produce strange results on finer details.
I say "evidence suggesting" because I expect it's something that couldn't be determined with anything approaching proof. I don't think we could ever claim that some wierd effect was a simulation artifact rather than something we just don't understand yet.
In the end it probably doesn't make much difference, I feel what I feel regardless of why. I suppose there might be some real cause for interest if we could communicate outside of the simulation or change the simulations rules.
Did the person copying them have authorization? No.
Fortunately for most of us you don't need authorization for fair use purposes as you have the right to make such copies (depends on the law where you are of course).
However if you are using them for purposes that aren't covered by fair use then the fact they are unauthorized is very relevant as your copying was not permitted by right.
The RIAA aren't being tricky here, they are stating the plain truth.
Spin the dial to set the time you need the wash to be finished by (or don't spin it if you want it started straight away).
Push the dial to lock it in (or start).
I have a (Sony) vcr with a neat dial-based quick timer setting mechanism. You just twiddle the knob to set the start time and then push it in, twiddle it to set the end time and push it in, twiddle it to set the channel and push it in.
There are plenty of examples of mainstream religious doctrine changing to accommodate scientific discovery. It doesn't happen fast but it is more or less inevitable.
Unfortunately it isn't all progress because there are people making up new religious bullshit all the time.
They are useless for comparing pretty much anything as they are "per console". When consoles have been out for different lengths of time it's meaningless to compare attach rates. If xbox owners have had an extra year (or whatever) to buy games then you'd expect it's attach rate to be higher (a more impressive back catalogue that extra time generates will also help). Perhaps there might be some value in comparing the Wii and 360 attach rates x months after launch.
In short the "attach rate" has too much of an historic component to tell you clearly what is going on "now" which is the interesting thing.
Attach rates are only a useful measurement for console manufacturers selling consoles at a loss. In that situation the manufacturer knows that it has to reach a certain attach rate to claw back that loss before it can even think about a profit (though that is changing now they have additional profit streams such as subscriptions, virtual consoles, blu ray etc).
For everyone else you may as well just talk about total games sold. Dividing it by the number of consoles doesn't tell you anything useful.
I don't really understand how that can work for a country that is on the receiving end of an invasion.
If the USA were invaded would the general populace stay out of it because they don't have uniforms or would they pick up whatever arms they had and do what they could in the situation?
Humans are no different, other than perhaps on the scale they operate. There is no real difference between birds building a nest and us building a house.
Nor is our use of tools any more perfect than (other) animals, we do not have mastery over everything (eg HIV, anti-biotic resistant bacteria) and until we do (ie forever) evolution will still have a role.
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Depression is largely about the way you think so by definition you can (and have to) "think yourself out of it" in some sense, however that does not mean it is possible to simply choose to do so, the human brain is an imperfect beast.
For me I started to come out of my depression when a co worker who had also suffered from depression actually took me to a doctor to get help, we talked things through and I was prescribed prozac. I do not know (and don't particularly care) whether it was the drug, the fact I had friends looking out for me and with the experience to give me the tools I needed. All three had a role to play. Before I desperately wanted my depression to end but couldn't imagine that happening let alone choose to do it. My treatment was a revelation of sorts, all of a sudden there was some hope, but it wasn't something I could have done all by myself.
Thus, perhaps paradoxically, the solution to (some) Muslims getting upset about all this is to do it more and more, publish such images widely and frequently. Do it until they are desensitized, do it until they lose the energy to make a big deal out of it every time it happens.
Blu Ray is going to be worth an enormous amount of money to Sony.
They need(ed) to get people to buy Blu Ray rather than HD DVD. To that end making their system more attractive (in any way) clearly helped that aim.
Now it seems Blu Ray has won it will be interesting to see if PS3 development starts to be more tightly focused on directly making money with the PS3.
They probably also saw that they had enough engineering hurdles to overcome with Cell and didn't need to make life more difficult for themselves in other areas just for the sake of it.
What about energy used in the producing, distributing, printing, binding, distributing (and so forth) steps for a paper version?
Things aren't magically "green" just because they are farmed.
I'd be highly surprised if the energy used in viewing the pages you were interested in online (and probably selectively printing specific bits out) were to be more than the energy involved in getting 3000 pages of hardcopy from a seed to your desk.
That's much easier to read.....
Of course the extra convenience you have with storing your VC games on console (ie they are easily available just by turning it on) is also an added convenience for a thief!
I agree it could be better, digital goods allow the possibility for a merchant to do all kinds of good things. However I think the OP overstated how "bad" the situation is, the risk of losing a VC product isn't any more than any normal product and therefore isn't worth getting particularly upset about.
A more interesting question might be what happens when Nintendo release their follow up to the Wii. Will my VC titles be transferable then?
If the underlying laws don't make sense the closer we look then perhaps that is evidence suggesting we are part of a simulation. Any simulation would involve algorithms that have optimisations and any simulation would be designed to "look right" and "work" on a macro level but may produce strange results on finer details.
I say "evidence suggesting" because I expect it's something that couldn't be determined with anything approaching proof. I don't think we could ever claim that some wierd effect was a simulation artifact rather than something we just don't understand yet.
In the end it probably doesn't make much difference, I feel what I feel regardless of why. I suppose there might be some real cause for interest if we could communicate outside of the simulation or change the simulations rules.
Do you refuse to buy normal games because if they are stolen/lost/destroyed you are screwed?
The VC just buys convenience. Sure, perhaps it could be a bit more convenient but it's not that bad.
Did the person copying them have authorization? No.
Fortunately for most of us you don't need authorization for fair use purposes as you have the right to make such copies (depends on the law where you are of course).
However if you are using them for purposes that aren't covered by fair use then the fact they are unauthorized is very relevant as your copying was not permitted by right.
The RIAA aren't being tricky here, they are stating the plain truth.
Spin the dial to set the time you need the wash to be finished by (or don't spin it if you want it started straight away).
Push the dial to lock it in (or start).
I have a (Sony) vcr with a neat dial-based quick timer setting mechanism. You just twiddle the knob to set the start time and then push it in, twiddle it to set the end time and push it in, twiddle it to set the channel and push it in.
I believe the appropriate phrase is "you fail it".
There are plenty of examples of mainstream religious doctrine changing to accommodate scientific discovery. It doesn't happen fast but it is more or less inevitable.
Unfortunately it isn't all progress because there are people making up new religious bullshit all the time.
It explains it all.
and all the wierd quantum behaviours we come across are just untidy artifacts of the simulation algorithm optimisations.
They are useless for comparing pretty much anything as they are "per console". When consoles have been out for different lengths of time it's meaningless to compare attach rates. If xbox owners have had an extra year (or whatever) to buy games then you'd expect it's attach rate to be higher (a more impressive back catalogue that extra time generates will also help). Perhaps there might be some value in comparing the Wii and 360 attach rates x months after launch.
In short the "attach rate" has too much of an historic component to tell you clearly what is going on "now" which is the interesting thing.
Attach rates are only a useful measurement for console manufacturers selling consoles at a loss. In that situation the manufacturer knows that it has to reach a certain attach rate to claw back that loss before it can even think about a profit (though that is changing now they have additional profit streams such as subscriptions, virtual consoles, blu ray etc).
For everyone else you may as well just talk about total games sold. Dividing it by the number of consoles doesn't tell you anything useful.
I don't really understand how that can work for a country that is on the receiving end of an invasion. If the USA were invaded would the general populace stay out of it because they don't have uniforms or would they pick up whatever arms they had and do what they could in the situation?
Humans are no different, other than perhaps on the scale they operate. There is no real difference between birds building a nest and us building a house.
Nor is our use of tools any more perfect than (other) animals, we do not have mastery over everything (eg HIV, anti-biotic resistant bacteria) and until we do (ie forever) evolution will still have a role.
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